Shi Wen

Biodata

Power Progression

Background / History

Family and Ranch Inheritance

Shi Wen lived with his grandfather, Shi Jingbo, when he was young. His parents divorced during his high-school years, remarried, and had other children. He subsequently stopped returning home, spending university holidays in his dormitory and later remaining in his rented apartment. His grandfather died after a fall three years before the story begins; Shi Wen attended the funeral but did not expect an inheritance 1 3.

An email about the ranch prompts him to investigate his eligibility. A hospital examination confirms his Qilin Bloodline, allowing him to inherit a 3,000-mu mountain ranch in J Province. The inheritance is tax-free and includes financial assistance; qualifying bloodline holders receive a forty-year term of use that can be renewed indefinitely 2.

He returns to an overgrown property with neglected vegetable plots and livestock sheds. Fu Meng, a neighbor from the nearby village, becomes one of his first local contacts. Shi Wen later admits that dissatisfaction with city life helped drive his decision to leave, though such an impulsive change was unusual for him 3 98.

Establishing the Shi Family Ranch

Shi Wen begins with sheep, drawing on books, physical examination, and an instinctive sense of an animal’s quality. He purchases a frail sheepdog puppy despite warnings to choose a stronger working animal, restores the backyard vegetable garden, and gradually adds cattle and other livestock 5 11 14 18.

Early expansion strains his finances: he has just over 70,000 yuan left after receiving that month’s bureau subsidy. A later 300,000-yuan Mid-Level subsidy relieves his immediate funding needs. His livestock’s exceptional condition subsequently attracts veterinarians, buyers, and local herders 17 73 164.

The business develops premium sales channels and paid memberships. Fourteen wealthy elders sign ranch membership contracts after meeting him, and he later adds two mountains behind the ranch to the property 269 323.

Animal Rescue and Wildlife Work

The ranch also becomes a place for rescued and displaced animals. Shi Wen takes in a starving Belgian Malinois, adopts the wolf-dog puppy Langwa with Yan Kexing, and receives authorization to raise a rejected snow leopard cub with a monthly subsidy of 3,000 yuan 62 119 287.

His relationships with wildlife continue beyond their immediate rescue. When a familiar tigress wanders into a neighboring county, he retrieves her after she recognizes him and rushes to nuzzle him. Later, the tigress hands over an injured wolverine, which he and Yan Kexing bring back for veterinary treatment 307 432.

The little snow leopard eventually has a territory at Sanjiangyuan. During a visit, it greets Shi Wen affectionately and brings him a bird; Shi Wen frees the bird rather than accepting it as food 582.

Veterinary Outreach and Community Service

Sikewell invites Shi Wen on an annual weeklong trip providing free livestock care in remote summer pastures. He initially joins after arranging ranch coverage, then later becomes the outreach team’s leader 224 486 491.

During a later trip, he suggests that an unexplained human illness might warrant testing for Brucella infection. The resulting praise earns him the informal title “Doctor Shi,” although he repeatedly states that he lacks proper credentials and does not treat human illnesses. He resolves to study and seek relevant qualifications 491 492.

He also helps fight a mountain wildfire, carrying heavy equipment and identifying useful animal trails. After recovering, he joins Yan Kexing’s research team to assess the fire’s effects on mountain plants and animals 250 251.

Regional Breeding Projects

Improving local livestock quality is one of Shi Wen’s long-term goals. He rents out breeding rams to herders and, with Sikewell, confirms the successful conception of Zhang Zhouli’s flock 335.

Experiments also reveal a limitation: his exceptional sheep are not fundamentally a different breed. Their advantages depend heavily on his daily care and the ranch’s feeding environment, and diminish after they leave. Rather than abandoning regional improvement, he develops cooperative breeding arrangements and makes his sales channels available to participating herders 464 548 590.

Marriage and Later Work

Shi Wen’s friendship with Yan Kexing develops into a romantic partnership and shared household. When discussing his estranged family, he tells Yan Kexing that he is now his only family; Yan Kexing reciprocates 98 141 495.

After his proposal is accepted, they choose May 1 for their wedding. Their lawn wedding draws numerous local herders, including people Shi Wen previously helped, whose gifts demonstrate how fully the couple has joined the community 602 606.

After gaining complete Qilin transformation, Shi Wen continues practical animal-care work. He accepts a rescue-dog training contract, selects five puppies from thirty-seven candidates, and recruits Heiwa and the other ranch dogs to help train them 610.

Appearance

• Face and eyes: Exceptionally fine bone structure, long eyelashes, and eyes with a gray-blue tint 33.
• Build: Tall and lean, with long legs, a narrow waist, low body fat, and well-defined muscles rather than a bulky physique 69 81 347.
• Complexion: Remains fair despite daily outdoor herding, possibly because of his Qilin Bloodline 81.
• Usual clothing: Practical ranch clothing, including T-shirts, jeans, work gloves, jackets, and tall boots 33 69 140.
• Bloodline-related changes: His features become more refined as his awakening deepens, without making him unrecognizable to acquaintances 456.
• Partial beast form: Furry, pointed ears; retractable wings; and a long-furred tail 286 373 527.
• Qilin form: A furry body larger than his human form, with thick, soft ears and a gently rising belly. A faint white light accompanies his first complete transformation 597.

Personality

Shi Wen is affectionate, patient, and attentive toward animals. He routinely soothes frightened or jealous newcomers, shares attention among competing animals, and treats their emotional needs as part of their care. His sympathy also draws on childhood memories of wanting an adult’s help for vulnerable creatures 62 85 406 409.

His kindness is paired with responsibility rather than indulgence. He follows quarantine procedures even with a small herd, disciplines the dogs for stealing wild bird eggs, and deliberately restrains his strength to avoid permanently injuring attacking wolves 18 118 206.

He is usually easygoing but becomes stubborn about selecting breeding stock. He also bargains carefully and refuses unreasonable prices, distinguishing assistance to genuinely poor households from unnecessary concessions to wealthy sellers 47 66.

Shi Wen views his bloodline’s benefits as a reason to contribute. He helps neighbors with difficult work and remembers assistance given to him, whether by thanking students with generous New Year red envelopes or reciprocating community labor. Despite extraordinary growth, he often measures himself against stronger ability users rather than celebrating his own readings 36 165 268 347.

Abilities & Skills

Qilin Bloodline and Animal Affinity

His bloodline is identified as that of the king of all beasts, giving him a natural advantage in animal husbandry 2.

• Calms animals that resist other handlers, including a notoriously bad-tempered dairy cow 18.
• Earns the trust of frightened strays through patient feeding and touch 62.
• Builds lasting bonds with dangerous wildlife, including a tigress and snow leopards 132 307 582.
• Can sense some animals’ thoughts after achieving complete Qilin transformation; this is not described as universal mind-reading 602.

Livestock Appraisal and Health Observation

Shi Wen combines learned husbandry knowledge with instinctive perception.

• Examines teeth, limbs, musculature, fat cover, and bone structure when choosing livestock and working dogs 5 11.
• Notices illness through subtle differences in an animal’s appearance and behavior, sometimes before experienced neighbors do 27.
• Recognizes potential in animals others dismiss, including a scrawny dairy cow sold for meat 18.
• Develops an instinctive impression of the greater nutritional quality of Dolan sheep 182.
• Easily selects suitable rescue-dog candidates after becoming a God-Level Qilin 610.

Exceptional Animal Husbandry

Animals raised under his care show unusually strong growth and condition.

• His early sheep grow faster than ordinary sheep of the same breed and remain free of illness during the observed period 10.
• Local herders report annual gains of forty to fifty jin for his sheep, compared with twenty to thirty jin for theirs 97.
• Sikewell praises his newborn calves and the unusually healthy postpartum condition of their mothers 164.
• His Qilin transformation and the ranch’s Variant Ingredients help accelerate the growth of his animal companions 540.
• Limit: The livestock’s advantages are not automatically permanent or transferable; sheep lose much of their edge outside the ranch’s environment 464.

Enhanced Physique and Combat

His increasing Divinity and Abilities improve strength, endurance, speed, and reaction time.

• Repeatedly carries heavy hay bales without the fatigue shown by ordinary workers 59.
• Gives a snow leopard a concussion with a blow, prompting him to test his increased strength 105.
• Perceives attacking wolves as moving in slow motion and knocks them away with controlled punches 117 118.
• Can potentially outrun the two young tigers during training 217.
• Carries the heaviest firefighting equipment while moving quickly over mountain terrain 250.
• Limit: Enhanced strength does not make him invulnerable; a struggling pike splits his knuckles against the ice 122.

Enhanced Senses and Tracking

His senses become increasingly beast-like as his bloodline awakens.

• Detects subtle differences between ability users and ordinary humans 106.
• Becomes sensitive to living creatures’ pheromones 205.
• Uses beast ears to hear sounds several kilometers away and assist with mountain searches 286.
• Identifies animal trails while navigating wildfire terrain 250.

Beast Transformation

His transformation develops through separate bodily changes before becoming complete.

• Ears: Provide exceptional hearing 286.
• Wings: Initially permit only brief hovering and limited movement; treatment later allows him to retract and manifest them 371 373.
• Tail: Movable but initially difficult to control, highly sensitive, and not immediately retractable 527 597.
• Full Qilin form: Retains human speech after adjusting his voice and experiences a dramatically lighter, more powerful body 598.
• Flight potential: Yan Kexing confirms that his true form can fly before Shi Wen achieves complete transformation 541.

Practical Ranching and Animal Training

• Trains herding dogs to move livestock out to pasture and bring them back with minimal supervision 174.
• Conducts special training for the young tigers, assisted by the Wolf King and other animals 217.
• Becomes proficient enough at sheep and goat castration to handle more than ninety goats in a morning 478.
• Prunes fruit trees, applies fermented fertilizer, and harvests honey using smoke to calm the bees 350 483.
• Organizes personnel and ranch operations, experience that supports his appointment as outreach team leader 486.
• Develops enough familiarity with the local language to understand much of it, though rapid speech can still be difficult 488.

Equipment / Weapons / Items

• Abilities-testing device — Bureau-issued blood-testing equipment used with fingertip samples and test strips to monitor Divinity and Abilities 10.
• Motorcycle — Regular transport for village visits, animal rescues, and ranch work 62 535 556.
• Surveillance system — Used to monitor the ranch, review animal disputes, and notice visitors waiting outside 224 287.
• Animal tracking chips — Help him keep track of the ranch’s animals 224.
• Medicine box and emergency supplies — Used for animal injuries and carried on remote veterinary trips 225 379.
• Ranch machinery and tools — Includes a spreader, fodder cutter, and axe for pasture work, feed preparation, and tree removal 140 347 517.
• Variant Ingredients — Ranch-produced foods support his awakening and his companions’ growth; suitable nourishment is crucial to his transformation 373 540 598.

Relationships

• Yan Kexing — Husband, fellow caretaker, and principal source of guidance about his awakening. Secretly provides blood for the medicine that stabilizes Shi Wen’s wings; later marries him at the ranch 373 495 602 606.
• Shi Jingbo — Late grandfather. Shi Wen lived with him as a child and inherits his ranch after confirming his bloodline 1 2 3.
• Fu Meng — Neighbor and close local friend who helps him buy livestock, introduces community contacts, and cooperates in breeding projects 3 5 79 535.
• Sikewell — Veterinarian, adviser, and outreach colleague. Praises his livestock, helps with treatment and breeding, and brings him into the free-clinic team 164 224 335 486.
• Zhu Ji — Bureau contact and friend who monitors his progress, assists with official arrangements, and encourages him to consider a wedding 73 105 323 592.
• Zhou Hongzhong — Wildlife official who coordinates rescues and authorized care, including the snow leopard cub’s placement and the tigress’s retrieval 287 307 432.
• Gong Jiang, Lin Chengqian, and Ge Yue — Yan Kexing’s students and frequent ranch helpers. Shi Wen remembers their assistance and treats them as friends 165 251 483.
• Yang Yiqing — Helps with feeding, household tasks, and ranch work 158 206.
• Heiwa — Early sheepdog and trusted working companion. Deeply attached to Shi Wen, protective of his place in the household, and later recruited to help train rescue puppies 32 85 174 610.
• Wolf King — Close animal companion who assists with training and ranch work; sometimes competes with Heiwa for Shi Wen’s attention 217 409 610.
• Langwa — Wolf-dog puppy adopted and raised jointly with Yan Kexing 119.
• Cong Zai — Cat companion closely involved with the rescued young animals. Later awakens the White Tiger Bloodline 287 346 389.
• Yan Shi and Shi Suo — His horses. Yan Shi is the platinum-colored Akhal-Teke filly given to him by Yan Kexing; Shi Suo carries him on veterinary outreach 177 224.
• Little snow leopard — Rejected cub he raises with official approval. Remains affectionate toward him after establishing a territory at Sanjiangyuan 287 582.
• Changfeng — White tiger who seeks affection from Shi Wen and competes with the little snow leopard for his attention 408 506.

Notable Quotes

“I'll work hard. One day, I'll raise animals that can serve as food for divine beasts.” 124

“You're my family now, my only family.” 495

“There's no rushing livestock breeding. We have to take it slowly. Things will definitely keep getting better.” 590