The protagonist who transmigrated from the Republican era into the body of a woman known as the Scourge of the Compound. In her past life, she was a young lady from a prestigious Century-Old Scholarly Family in Jinling City, raised as the family successor. She was elegant, dignified, multi-talented, and skilled in painting Beauty Portraits blending Western and Traditional Chinese techniques. She secretly converted family wealth into scarce supplies for revolutionaries. In the current body, she is married to Lin Shaoxun and has a son Lin Siyi. She decides to divorce him and return to Jinling.