The protagonist and true heiress of the wealthy Ye family of Shanghai. At nineteen years old, she was left in Yulin Village in the Northeast after a child swap orchestrated by Ye Yingyao's father. She worked as a farm girl from age two or three, enduring constant beatings and starvation. After transmigrating from modern times into this period novel, she fights back against her abusive family, stomping on Chen Yumei and Ye Yingyao's feet, and later making a public scene to expose the family's cruelty. She is determined to sever ties with the Ye family and transfer her household registration.