Also referred to as Li Gaoyi in some parts of the text. He is the father of Ling Haojun and Ling Haoxuan. He is a cigarette smoker with a rough, hoarse voice that sounds gritty and unpleasant. He desperately wants to be promoted to deputy factory director at the machinery factory. He came to the Shen family with pastries to ask for favors, growing impatient with his wife's dawdling. He is described as having no real capability besides sucking up to others.
