Character from Beware of Chicken by Casualfarmer
The taller Xong brother — a habitual complainer with a monkey bloodline, stone-hard qi, and the quiet reliability of someone who grumbles about everything but never actually lets anyone down.
Gou Ren complains. About the weather, about the work, about cultivation being hard, about his brother being annoying. He complains while doing the thing he's complaining about, on time, correctly. This is his fundamental nature: relentless competence disguised as reluctance. His cultivation manifests as stone — grey qi that wraps around him like armor, earthquake-like ground disruptions through impact. He rebuilt Jin's original shack and became an architect, channeling both his qi nature and his practical skills into construction. Jin declared him a cultivator almost casually, and Gou Ren's response was to grumble about it and then immediately start learning qi control. He had unrequited feelings for Xiulan before falling for Liu Xianghua, who competed with An Ran for his attention. His romantic arc is endearingly clumsy — a guy whose emotional vocabulary consists mostly of complaints trying to express genuine affection.
One of the taller men in the village, with a wide nose and sideburns that create a distinctly monkey-like appearance — fitting for someone with monkey bloodline. Broad-shouldered and solidly built, with the hands of someone who works stone.
Also known as: Gou Ren