Female protagonist, eighteen years old, married to Fang Shubai for nearly three years. She is the adopted daughter of Master Ruan, an old village teacher who passed away years earlier. Beautiful and gentle, she deeply loves her husband and desperately wants to bear him a child. She was nearly drowned as a child at age four while trying to save a little boy, which damaged her body and caused her to be unable to conceive. She is naive about intimacy between husband and wife due to her conservative upbringing.