Female protagonist, the eldest legitimate daughter of the Hou family (Marquis of Longnan). She was reborn after being betrayed in her previous life. In her past life, she poured her heart into helping Xie Jinghong rise to power, only to discover her concubine-born sister Yu Lin and Xie Jinghong were having an affair. They framed her, had her limbs severed, and he beat her to death. After rebirth, she discovered her sister had also been reborn and insisted on swapping marriages. Yu Mu'an pretended ignorance and allowed the swap, successfully switching her fate to marry Xie Jingyan instead. She is intelligent, calculating, and determined to take control of her own destiny this time around.
