Character from Beware of Chicken by Casualfarmer
The Smaller Blade of Grass — Xiulan's most dedicated student and the informal leader of the Orchid's Petals, quietly proving that the next generation of Azure Hills cultivators will be different.
An Ran is what happens when Xiulan's reformed ideals actually take root in a student. She's earnest, diligent, and leads the Orchid's Petals — the tutored group of young cultivators Xiulan assembled — with quiet competence rather than flashy authority. She competed with Xianghua for Gou Ren's attention, which suggests more romantic boldness than her otherwise reserved demeanor would imply. At the second stage of the Initiate's Realm, she's not powerful by xianxia standards. But power was never the point of Xiulan's teaching, and An Ran understood that assignment.
Smaller in stature than Xiulan, carrying a jade-colored sword that matches her senior sister's. Her bearing suggests someone who takes her training seriously without the sect nobility's performative confidence.
Also known as: Smaller Blade of Grass