Xue Qingdai's mother, the most educated woman in the community and a role model. She is the Women's Federation director, clever and diplomatic, but becomes overly sensitive and protective when it comes to her daughter. She dotes on Xue Qingdai deeply and cried herself blind in the original story after her daughter's death. She is over fifty years old and has gray hair from worry. She strongly opposes anyone hurting her daughter and immediately cut off college tuition for Zhao Meiqin.