Female Educated Youth, five years senior to Cheng Hui. She was among the first batch sent to the countryside and also among the last to leave. She has been in the countryside for five years. Coming from an ordinary working-class family with little money, she is 24 years old and desperate to escape the countryside with an urban job and status so she can earn a salary and find a partner. In Cheng Hui's previous life, Liu Di helped care for her daughter when she couldn't. She is described as having been scolded by her grandmother since childhood for being a jinx.
