Cheng Lihua
Names: Cheng LihuaRepresentative ChengCheng
First appears in Book 1: The Three-Body Problem, chapter 2 (2)
Appearances
B1
B2
B3
What you know
Book 1: The Three-Body Problem
- Ch 2Cheng is a gentle-seeming woman in her forties, a military representative from the Intermediate People's Court, who uses kindness and then cruelty to pressure Ye.
- Ch 2Cheng claims that in her youth, as an art troupe singer, she once proposed China join the USSR as a member republic.
- Ch 2After Ye refuses to sign, Cheng calmly pours a bucket of water over Ye and her blanket in the freezing cell and calls her a stubborn little bitch.
- Ch 3Cheng Lihua advocated sentencing Ye severely; Ye might otherwise get about ten years.
Connections
- member ofIntermediate People's Courtmilitary representative
- enemy ofYe Wenjie
Key moments
- Book 1 · Ch 2Cheng Lihua pressures Ye to sign
Cheng visits Ye's cell, offers leniency and shows a document about Ye's father based on Wenxue's reports, asking Ye to sign as witness. Ye refuses.
- Book 1 · Ch 2Ye punished with freezing water
Cheng douses Ye and her blanket with water and leaves her in the freezing cell; Ye hallucinates a flag-waving figure that changes between people in her life, and loses consciousness.