A 23-year-old unmarried male intellectual who spent over ten years in the countryside. He is tanned and familiar with the black market from his time there. After Fang Zhengguo left, he started working tirelessly, initially displaying clothes at a black-market stall. Su Jinyan advised him to sell at factory gates to female workers instead, which proved far more profitable. He realized his previous narrow-minded approach and worked hard under the same pricing agreement as others.