This paper analyzes Li-Uan by the constructive princple of characters in narratology. It shows that Tz'ao, on the one hand, gives Li-Uan a general image of ‘living corpse’ through the technique of repeating and accumulating the depictions of her characteristics, on the other hand , also dialectically presents her as a three-dimensional character by strategies of contrasts and tranforssmation. Thus, Li-Uan is not merely a near-flat minor role in The Dream of Red Chamber as it appears. First, the dwelling place of Li-Uan, where ‘green mountains obliquely resist’ and ‘hundreds of apricots prosper’, is the symbol of both the oppression of Confucianism and the breaking-out of life instinct. Note that this pattern is homomorphous to that of the dwelling place of Miao-Yu where ‘mountains lonely embrace’ and ‘more than ten red plum flower sprays appear in white snow’. This homomorphism suggests the homogenous aspect between Li-Uan and Miao-Yu. Second, Li-Uan's life instinct, which is usually obscurely present, reveals itself in some special events, as this paper fully analyzes. Third, the contradiction unity in the pair white-plum-flower/red-apricot-flower (Confucianism/nature) further reinforces the opposition homogeneity of old-plum-flower/red-plum-flower (Li-Uan/Miao-Yu). And Tz'au's values of personality development reveals itself through Chia Pao-Yu's criticism of Li-Uan and Miao-Yu.