The current matriarch of the Shen family, who entered the family after the death of Shen Li's biological mother. She is biased against the First Branch, favoring her own sons of the Second and Third Branches. When the scandal with the letters is exposed, she orders all three young ladies to be punished equally, instead of getting to the truth. She is portrayed as cunning, unfair, and willing to suppress the First Branch. She is not Shen Ning's biological grandmother and has a history of conflict with Shen Ning's birth grandmother.