Also known as Ruo Lan or the Second Miss, she was eleven years old, the younger sister of Ruolian. Her mother Madam Ning died when Lan was barely four years old from lung disease. She was deeply attached to her elder sister Ruolian, who raised her. After Ruolian's marriage, Lan became inconsolable and locked herself in her room crying. She had a stubborn and capricious temperament, wore her heart on her sleeve, and was influenced by Jiao Jiao's negative views about stepmothers. In the original story, she would secretly marry a worthless scholar and suffer greatly.
