The female protagonist, a young woman from the Nan family who is pale and sickly-looking with exquisite bone structure and dark, moist, startlingly bright eyes. She is a foster daughter of the Nan family, engaged to Pei Liuyu (Seventh Young Master of the Pei family). She appears naive and gentle on the surface but is actually sharp-witted and cunning, as shown when she considers the fortune teller's coin purse might contain poisonous wasps. She owns a black cat named Wangliang. She hides behind a screen on the pleasure boat and discovers Pei Liuyu's conversation with Xiao Lingguang, Helan Ying, and an unnamed fourth person.
