Male protagonist, 26 years old, one year older than Meiniang. He is a former soldier who served for seven years in Great Zhou's military, assigned to the medical unit where he assisted the army physician and organized medicinal herbs. He saved over fifty taels of silver during service plus ten upon discharge. He returned home to find his mother had passed away two years earlier. He built a house spending twenty taels, owns one mu of farmland, and lives alone at the foot of South Mountain in Wanjia Village. He is a good archer with some martial skills. He fell in love with Meiniang when he saw her in January and plans to marry her. He regrets turning down the army physician's apprenticeship offer.
