A researcher in his nearly fifties who appears much younger, carrying an elegant mature charm. He married Ning Xiaoman twenty years ago not out of love but because his first love Su Nuan was unable to have children. He maintained an affair with Su Nuan throughout his marriage while treating Ning Xiaoman as merely an uneducated woman. After Ning Xiaoman's death attempt, he was reborn to 1980 as well, and in this timeline he shows a more calculating and cold demeanor when the marriage arrangement falls through.