Madam Xie, wife of General Chen Rao and mother of Xie Daojian. She is not yet forty, well preserved, fair-skinned, and full-figured. She feels a strong sense of closeness to Ling Zhenli, as Ling Zhenli would have been her daughter-in-law had the Ling family not fallen. She suspects Chancellor Xue's schemes in having Ling Zhenli replace Xue Run.
