A middle-aged man with a small mustache, one of the most trusted strategists of the Crown Prince. He was a poor farmer's son with exceptional talent who passed the highest imperial examination at a young age. His entire family was brutally murdered by bandits when he was young, and he was disfigured while resisting. The Empress killed his family to force him into political allegiance, then appeared as his savior. He is fiercely loyal to the Crown Prince but is being recruited by Xie Wenyuan who reveals that the Empress and Guo Shoufu were the real killers, not Shuguifei.
