The Paper Bride is a lifelike paper figure that appears as the bride in a wedding procession within the dream ancestral hall. She has a pale paper body, a red gold-thread wedding dress, and painted facial features. After all the other paper figures are mysteriously burned to ash, she emerges from the ashes with burn marks and follows Lin Wang persistently, gesturing wildly to indicate that he is her husband. She appears timid and terrified of Lin Wang, retreating whenever he moves. She is a central figure linking Lin Wang to the dream realm and seems to possess a will of her own, though she cannot speak.
