Spring of the Blade cast and characters

• Xie Qingyuan (Zhou Ye): raised as Chen Yunya by a tea-house keeper after her mother's death. She plays fragile and sweet in the mansion and plans everything, with help from her maid Baoxian, Dong Fangchun and a Taoist named Xinzhen.
• Shen Run (Xu Kai): known in Hengtang as Yan Rui, an imperial envoy who looks corrupt and is actually investigating stolen relief grain. Ruthless in public, and the only person who sees through Qingyuan from the start.
• Shen Che (Bai Shu): Shen Run's brother, who survived the same massacre and cares about revenge above everything, including his brother's feelings.
• Li Congxin (Xu Zhenxuan): the Marquis of Danyang's heir, open-hearted and persistent, who proposes to Qingyuan more than once against his family's wishes.
• Xie Shu (Fu Dalong): head of the Xie family, a polished man who weeps over his lost love for Qingyuan's mother.
• Old Madam Xie (Huang Xiaojuan): the matriarch, who cares about the family's standing above any one member of it.
• Madam Hu (Miao Pu) and Concubine Mei (Zhang Yao): the two women who have run the household, and Qingyuan's first suspects.
• The Xie daughters: Qinghe (Tian Ai), gentle and dutiful; Qingru (Ke Ying), the jealous legitimate daughter; and Qingrong (Chen Yihan), who blames Qingyuan's mother for her own mother's death.

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