Original host: Seventeen years old, a high school student at a provincial secondary school. Vain and shallow, lazy and obsessed with currying favor with the powerful young master Guo Chun, he shamelessly exploits his father. He is a notorious wastrel in the neighborhood. In the original story, he achieves nothing and causes his father to die in despair.
After being reborn: He has a mature modern outlook, understands the fate laid out in the original story, and is filled with guilt and a desire to make amends. Clear-headed, rational, patient, and driven, at first he is focused solely on supporting his family, saving his father, and changing his reputation. Later, he dedicates himself to the nation, determined to make a name for himself in a time of chaos and revitalize domestic industry.
