The second male lead, a noble family's legitimate son who was engaged to Jiang Yanyi but broke off the engagement to pursue the female lead. He and the female lead were mutually in love, but his family arranged his engagement to Jiang Yanyi since he could not marry an illegitimate daughter. After the female lead ran away, he insisted on breaking the engagement. The male lead banished him to the frontier out of jealousy. He remained unmarried for life out of love for the female lead.
