A royal merchant from the capital, described as ruthless and a wolf in sheep's clothing. His aunt is Consort Min, a concubine of the current emperor. He was attracted to the original Ye Yaming and proposed to take her as a concubine, but was rejected by Old Master Ye. He bears a grudge against the Ye family and is scheming to set a trap for them, using them as scapegoats in the private tea case. He brought his relative Meng Liang to Jiangnan as his right-hand man. He appeared at the Ye family after supposedly rescuing Ye Jiaxing from a startled horse.
