Hua Zhiyun's stepmother, the second wife who entered the household six months after the original wife died in childbirth. She was the original wife's paternal cousin. She participated in the poisoning plot against Hua Zhiyun and had the antidote pills ready. She was forced to eat poisoned cakes to save her young son and died along with Master Hua after the tampered antidote failed. She coughed up black blood from rage when Hua Zhiyun dropped the little boy.
