The seventeen-year-old second daughter of Xue Shen, a compiler in the Hanlin Academy. Her birthday is the ninth day of the fourth month, the same as Gu Zhuo. She was betrothed to the eldest son of the Marquis of Wuding but fell into the spring river on her wedding day after her sedan chair was struck by lightning. After being rejected by the Xu family and cast out by her legal mother Madam Xue, she offers herself as a concubine to Gu Zhuo to repay his life-saving grace. Her biological mother was a concubine, and she had always hoped to become a proper primary wife, but now must settle for being a common concubine.
