Fenshen used to be a high ranking courtesan in Verdigris Hall. With a flinty and hard personality, she was unmatched at strategy board games. She fell in love with a man who could challenge her at those, but was later abandoned after bedding him.

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Her mental condition degraded heavily and she mistreated her baby to the point the other courtesans took Maomao to raise her themselves. Ultimately she contracted syphilis and got bedridden in a backroom of Verdigris.