The protagonist, a 23-year-old woman who is the biological daughter of the Shen family. She was separated from her family as a baby and raised by an adoptive mother in the old district. She grew up helping her adoptive mother sell vegetables at the market and endured being called names. She spent months investigating her background and learned about her biological mother Su Lan. She is dressed in faded jeans and worn canvas shoes, carrying a worn black duffel bag. She is cold, calm, and resolute, uninterested in the Shen family's approval. She confronts Shen Wan'er about the jade pendant and refuses to play along with Shen Wan'er's self-sacrifice act. She is Ye Chen's arranged fiancée but declares she has no interest in him.
