The male antagonist. In the 20th century, he was married to Lu Wanqing but despised her, calling her boring and like a block of wood. He had an affair with Jiang Xiaowei and fathered five children with her. He accepted Lu Wanqing's family's support grudgingly. In the 1969 timeline, he is engaged to Lu Wanqing but desperately wants to break it off to marry Jiang Xiaowei, a city educated youth, hoping to return to the city and escape his peasant label. He is ambitious and vain.
