The Prime Minister and Qiao Shilian's father. He returned from the palace after being summoned about the scandal. He refused to believe his daughter's innocence, calling her explanations utter nonsense. He forcibly bound Qiao Shilian to a chair with a sash from the window curtain, pinched her jaw open, and violently poured poisoned wine down her throat. He later ordered her body to be disposed of in barren wilderness rather than buried in the ancestral graves.
