Also known as Li Yuanzhou, he is a general who led fifty thousand elite soldiers south from Liangcheng to crush the invading Nan Chu army. On his wedding night he had ridden to war and was gone for five years. He persistently pursued Zhao Qinghuan and they moved out to live together. He sent the old Madam Li back to the family estate and arranged a proper marriage for his younger sister to restore household peace.