A traveling cook well-known in the surrounding countryside. He helps at banquets, weddings, and funerals across villages. He once had a wife who died of illness within two years of marriage, leaving him and his old father to live alone. Described as cold-tempered, taciturn, and fierce-looking with a stern face. He has a reputation of bringing misfortune to his wife and has never remarried. He is physically strong with tanned forearms and defined muscles. After overhearing Lin Suier's sounds through the wall, he becomes increasingly obsessed with her.
