Father of Mi Niang, husband of Second Madam Ding. A scholar who passed county and prefectural exams at fifteen, earning the title of tong sheng. Burdened by his father's gambling debts, he mortgaged and sold his inherited hundred mu of farmland to redeem the ancestral home. He now teaches children at a community school after abandoning his studies due to poverty. He is away at the academy and expected to return for the New Year.
