The mother and stepmother, a little over thirty years old, elegant and neat with a plain fair face and almond-shaped eyes. She sold herself into servitude as a child to feed her three younger brothers and younger sister after their parents died. She worked as a head maid for a noble lady in Fucheng before buying her freedom in her twenties. She married Gu Dapeng despite the challenges of being a stepmother to two resentful teenagers. She is strict, proud, independent, and deeply protective of her own children. She has saved over a hundred taels of silver privately and cares deeply for Gu Yuzhu and her twin son.
