She is a young lady who manages the parlor's operations. Despite her position, she's an amiable person who puts on no airs. Her antics are as plentiful as the sand on the desert strait. She never ceases to shock people with her countless bizarre ideas.

She may seem like all play and no work, spending every free moment on leisure and being widely considered a laissez-faire business owner. It is only during funeral ceremonies, when she personally leads her undertakers through lamp-lit alleys, that she shows her dignified and solemn side.

Trivia

• She had to spend an entire day and night to modify her hat with her own hands such that its dimensions would fit hers. She greatly cherishes the hat, and no matter the rain or storm, or if Hu Tao returns late covered in muck, that hat will remain spotless and clean.
• She often accosciates herself with and uses the motifs of butterflies, in reference to how Chinese traditions commonly associate them with life and death, and the dead.
• The plum blossom that adorns the side of her hat is plucked from a plum tree that Hu Tao planted and grew herself. This is associated with her title, Fragrance in Thaw, which refers to winter transitioning into spring.