The younger brother who orchestrated the switch of veils and husbands. He had a past life where he married Yuan Mu and suffered greatly—his husband broke his leg hunting, the family went bankrupt, and he lived in poverty while his brother Zhao Jingqing lived luxuriously as an official's wife. Reborn, he swapped places to marry Pei Xi'an instead. He is resentful, jealous, and manipulative.
