The youngest daughter of Wei Zhaorong, who fell in love with a newly appointed Tanhua scholar despite him already having a wife. She insisted on becoming his concubine. Wei Zhaorong emptied the remaining fortune of the marquis household for her dowry, yet Xie Wanyi still resented her mother, believing the dowry was only half of what her elder sister received. After Wei Zhaorong's death, she was turned away at the door of the Lin residence where she had married.