Female protagonist, reborn after dying in childbirth at age twenty-nine. Originally a concubine's daughter forced to disguise as a boy in childhood, she was later sent to the countryside. When her legitimate elder sister Pu Wange fell ill before a marriage alliance with the Yan Family, Pu Jinyu was brought back to impersonate her as a substitute bride. She endured years of strict discipline from Nanny Wu, who enforced Pu Wange's mannerisms. After her death, her soul witnessed her mother's true feelings and her sister's deception. Reborn in the summer of the third year after her substitute marriage, she resolves not to die again and begins to conceal her turbulent emotions behind a facade of docility.
