Hong Wen Li, warrior brother

This is one of the characters in one of my latest story ideas... He's the brother of the main character, Hong Wen De (in Chinese the last names go first). Wen Li, or Li as I'll call him, went off to battle two years prior to the story's beginning, and died a year after. So he's been dead for a year, and the parents are still coping with the loss, and so won't let Wen De out of their sight, because she has always looked up to Li and wanted to be a warrior like him. Of course, her being a girl and all, her parents have a different life set up for her... this story is starting to seem vaguely like Mulan, but hey, people like that kind of stuff!