Male, a scholar who was originally betrothed to Meng Anxian but was forced to marry Meng Yanzhi instead. The Meng family promised him considerable benefits and gifted him two concubines on the wedding day to secure his silence about the previous engagement. In the past life, he rose from an obscure scholar to become an Imperial-decree-bestowed Noble Wife's husband, grew increasingly arrogant, and had an affair with Xu Yunrou. He appeared shabbily dressed and destitute when he encountered Meng Yanzhi halfway.
