Edwin Young is LuLing’s second husband and Ruth’s father. He and his younger brother, Edmund, agree to marry GaoLing and LuLing, enabling LuLing to emigrate to the U.S. and helping both sisters attain U.S. citizenship. Edwin dies in a hit-and-run accident when LuLing is just two years old. LuLing believes Edwin would have been more successful than Edmund, had he lived long enough to become a doctor. Edwin is the second of LuLing’s husbands to die, and she sees his death as evidence of the family curse.