The protagonist who traveled through time after saving two drowning children. He was a civil servant in his previous life. He now inhabits the body of a sickly farmer's son from an imaginary dynasty who was born premature with congenital injuries, weak and thin. He passed the Tongsheng examination at fourteen and was studying to become a Xiucai. His parents were killed by wolves while chopping wood. His uncle's family pawned him off as a bought husband to Chen Liejiu using a fabricated debt of ten taels of silver. Xu Huaiqian is not against gers but strongly opposes the forced arranged marriage to a bully. He is described as having no blood or flesh on his veins, coughing up blood, and being on the verge of death.
