Xiangzi: eighteen-year-old, tall and strong, a foreign driver. For the soul of this book.

Tigress: The daughter of Si Liu, the owner of a car factory, is thirty-seven and thirty-eight. She is ugly and evil. Become Xiangzi's wife in a planned way.

Joey: About twenty years old. She is very attractive. Father drank heavily and forced him to raise two younger brothers for prostitutes. Be congenial to Xiangzi.

Secondary characters:

Si Liu: Sixty-nine. People and car owners are very demanding. Xiangzi's employer.

Mr. Cao: A university teacher, Xiangzi's employer, a socialist and Xiangzi's "saint".

Minh Nguyen: Mr. Cao's student, a radical socialist youth, defected and became a government official.