Female antagonist, the wife of Master Hu who lives next door to the Qiao family. She gave birth to two girls in a row before finally having a son, and endured severe mistreatment from her late mother-in-law who called her a hen that could not lay eggs. She resigned from the factory after years of obsessively trying to have a son. She is deeply jealous of He Yingying, who gave birth to only a girl but lives comfortably with a considerate husband and affectionate mother-in-law. She confronts He Yingying with veiled criticism about her work attitude.
