Female protagonist, a bookkeeper sent by Old Madam Qu to investigate the Jing County shop. She is intelligent, manipulative, and pragmatic. She extorted 800 taels of silver from Sixth Master Chen and Manager Zhu by pretending to be bribable, then used the money to win over the workers. She has a modern background, coming from a capitalist family whose parents ran a renovation business. She currently lives as a humble bookkeeper earning three taels a month. She is described as tall and slender, pale, wearing a wooden hairpin and deep maroon cotton jacket with frayed cuffs.
