Zhao Qianqian's mother. She is stingy and has been skimming ten yuan a month from the living allowance for years. She built up a good reputation over ten years and now feels she can treat stepchildren harshly without consequence. She spent 600 yuan through a contact to buy her daughter a job. She oversaw the wedding banquet cooking, bartering for chickens and ducks at lower prices. She is described as resentful and calculating.
