Bai Qingqing's husband and Lu Zhiyao's father, who is never physically present in the text. He sent word that he had remarried. Bai Qingqing was obsessively infatuated with him and treated their son as a substitute for him. He abandoned his family without pity according to Bai Qingqing's accusations. He reportedly looked somewhat like Lu Zhiyao, which is why Bai Qingqing remarried a man who resembled him.
