Female protagonist. Extremely beautiful with fair soft skin and clear pure eyes, but her heart is dark. Orphaned at eight when her father disappeared, and at ten her mother remarried and was never heard from again. Traveled from Forty-Nine City to her uncle and aunt's rural home. Previously tried to please her relatives but was betrayed. At sixteen, married off to the village idiot for a bride price of five hundred yuan. Has been married three times and all three husbands died mysteriously on their wedding night, earning her rumors of being a fox spirit. She faked a stomachache to escape being sold to Old Shui, and with help from her cousin Lu Zhaohu, escaped through the night. She is resourceful, courageous, and not afraid of danger.
