Liu Yun's father, a fifth-rank assistant director at the Ministry of Works. He rose from humble beginnings as a poor scholar who passed the imperial examination as a jinshi. He served as a county lieutenant, then county magistrate for ten years, and was later promoted to Yanjing. He initially served as a seventh-rank archivist in the Court of Imperial Entertainments before being promoted. He plans to return the Jade Jue to the Crown Prince at court assembly.
