Main Characters: Wei Wuxian | Lan Wangji
Five Great Clans: Lan Clan of Gusu | Jiang Clan of Yunmeng (Jiang Cheng) | Jin Clan of Lanling (Jin Guangyao) | Nie Clan of Qinghe | Wen Clan of Qishan
Other Characters: Other Clans | Yi City Group | Miscellaneous Characters
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Su Clan of Moling | 秣陵苏氏
General Tropes
- Adaptational Villainy: In the novel, only Su She helps out with Jin Guangyao's plans, while his disciples have no idea about the true purpose of the songs they were learning or that they would be used as fodder in the Second Siege. In the donghua, all the disciples assist Su She in keeping anyone from piecing Nie Mingjue's dismembered corpse back together.
- Malevolent Masked Men: In the donghua, the disciples cover their faces while spying on others or making sure the pieces of Nie Mingjue's body don't get unearthed. Their masks don't make them look any less sketchy.
- Musical Assassin: Many accuse the Su Clan of being a copycat of the Lan Clan since the leader was formerly a disciple of the Lan Clan and wields a guqin, which is also used by some members of the Lan Clan (notably Lan Wangji). The Su Clan takes it up a notch by practicing melodies from the Collection of Turmoil, a book of songs that induce adverse and/or fatal effects, but only Su She is aware of the song's real effects and lets everyone believe that he's playing an inferior version of the Lan Clan's music.
Su She (苏涉) - Minshan (悯善)
Voiced by: Sun Lulu [animation], Wang Chenguang [audio drama], Liu Beichen [web series] (Mandarin) Click here for other languages
Played by: Feng Cong [web series]
Weapon: Nanping | 难平 (jian)
"If Lan Wangji weren’t born with such a good background, what right does he have to be so arrogant? Why do they always say I imitate him?!"
A former disciple of the Lan Clan, who eventually formed his own clan with the assistance of Jin Guangyao. In spite of his newfound status, he is mostly infamous for copying various teachings of the Lan Clan, and more specifically, for copying Lan Wangji himself.
Tropes that apply to Su She in general
Click here to see Su She as a Lan disciple
- Adaptational Villainy: The donghua shows a glimpse of half of his face when Wei Wuxian sees flashes of Wen Ning's memory while he was being experimented on by the Jin Clan, hinting that Su She was more complicit in the clan's schemes here than in the novel.
- Bad Boss: Su She ditches all his disciples and (attempts to) leave them for dead along with the other cultivators when his true allegiances are exposed at the Burial Mounds, making him a questionable clan leader.
- Because You Were Nice to Me: Su She is loyal to Jin Guangyao because he was the only one who remembered his name and acknowledged him.
- Dirty Coward: Demonstrates a few times that he'd rather save his own skin than show any sense of dignity and help others.
- At Xuanwu Cave, Wen Chao threatened the lives of all the cultivators held hostage if they didn't give Mianmian up to be sacrificed. In contrast to the more noble Lan Wangji and Jin Zixuan (who refused to budge when she hid behind them), Su She attempted to turn her in to appease Wen Chao, but he was quickly stopped by Lan Wangji.
- At Burial Mounds, he's quick to teleport himself out of the cave after he ruins the array and lets the fierce corpses in, leaving not just his own clan but also the rest of the cultivators to fend for themselves.
- Driven by Envy: He has always compared himself to Lan Wangji but is never able to match up to him. He's preoccupied with besting Lan Wangji and belittling him when possible, but he's barely a blip on the protagonists' radars.
- Evil Is Petty: Part of what makes him a villain is his unwillingness to let go of any grudge, some of which are unfounded.
- Green-Eyed Monster: Su She's resentment towards Lan Wangji obviously stems from being envious of everything about him. But there are hints that this is also a result of Su She's extreme self-deprecation.
- Hair-Trigger Temper: It's very easy to set him off, which is part of why he's the vengeful type.
- Hidden Depths: In spite of his bitterness about being considered inferior to Lan Wangji, who is an extremely powerful cultivator, Su She has shown to be capable of casting spells or using talismans that require a high amount of spiritual energy and still have more than enough to spare to fight and stand his ground. Had he not been so preoccupied with his resentment towards Lan Wangji, there was a chance that he could have stood out on his own as a cultivator with great potential.
- Hypocrite: He deliberately copies Lan Wangji in almost every aspect out of envy, yet he gets offended whenever others point it out.
- Inferiority Superiority Complex: Self-esteem issues are implied to be one of the reasons Su She copies Lan Wangji. While he envies Lan Wangji, there are hints (especially in the original draft of the novel) that he secretly looks up to Lan Wangji and aspires to be like him, and his low opinion of himself leads him to project his self-hatred as resentment towards the other man.
- Irrational Hatred: Inferiority complex aside, he loathes Lan Wangji to the core even though the latter has done nothing against him. While Lan Wangji did strike Su She in the past, it was because the latter attempted to sacrifice Mianmian's life to the Wen Clan in an act of self-preservation and Lan Wangji was having none of it.
- Mook Lieutenant: A fairly unremarkable but competent subordinate to the Big Bad Jin Guangyao.
- Moral Myopia: He only makes a big deal about issues where he feels that he was the wronged party, and will never consider on whether it was because he offended others first. He even accuses the Lan Clan's low opinion of him originating from self-centered pride and Irrational Hatred, when he's the one who's actually guilty of that.
- Never My Fault: He'll never admit to being at fault for his wrongdoings.
- Small Name, Big Ego: Su She has a tendency to overestimate his strength (which had cost him more than one of his swords), and he has proven multiple times to have more bark than bite.
- Took a Level in Jerkass: While he wasn't a saint in the past, at worst he was just someone who had the worst luck of either screwing up or taking the worst actions in his attempt to be helpful. However, he undeniably grew more bitter and less moral over the years.
- Undying Loyalty: Fiercely loyal to Jin Guangyao, to the point that he would even give his life for him. Which he does.
- Ungrateful Bastard:
- Even though both had saved him from getting devoured by the Waterborne Abyss in the past, Su She holds nothing but scorn towards Wei Wuxian and Lan Wangji, especially the latter.
- The Lan disciples accuse Su She of biting the hand that fed him, since he was under the Lan Clan's care as a guest disciple but still lacks any appreciation towards them.
- Unwitting Instigator of Doom: Despite having no business with either Wei Wuxian or the Jiang Clan in the past, it's his animosity towards Jin Zixun that led to Jin Zixuan's death, which kickstarted Wei Wuxian's downward spiral.
Tropes that apply to Su She in The Untamed only
- Adaptational Backstory Change: In this adaptation, he was still a guest disciple of the Lan Clan who eventually "defected" and formed his own clan. But unlike in the novel (where he left on his own terms), he was kicked out after he nearly got the entire clan killed when Wen Xu threatened and tortured him into revealing where they were hiding.
- Adaptational Villainy: While him casting the Hundred Holes Curse led to Jin Zixuan's and eventually Wei Wuxian's deaths, these two instances were not planned in any way on his or anyone else's part in the novel. This was not the case in the adaptation, where he still cursed Jin Zixun, and then helped Jin Guangyao string things along so that Jin Zixun and Jin Zixuan would die and Wei Wuxian would take the fall for both deaths. He's also the reason why Wei Wuxian lost control of his powers in the Nightless Immortal Capital attack.
- Demoted to Extra: Downplayed. While he's still present and plays a role in the plot, he's absent at Xuanwu Cave where he played a vital role in trying to hand Mianmian over to the Wens as a sacrifice in the novel.
- Hypocrite: In the finale, Su She goes on a rant about how society looks down on those who aren't of noble birth and won't give those people a second thought or a moment of sympathy. And yet, Su She helped plot against someone who qualifies under that description.
- Necromancer: He dabbles in some demonic cultivation to make Wen Ning kill Jin Zixuan and cause the corpses in the Nightless Immortal Capital massacre to go berserk (as opposed to Wei Wuxian inadvertently making both happen in the novel due to Power Incontinence).
Ouyang Clan of Baling | 巴陵欧阳氏
Clan Leader Ouyang (欧阳宗主)
Voiced by (Mandarin): Li Lu [audio drama]
Played by: Pu Changcheng [web series]
Click here to see Clan Leader Ouyang in The Untamed
"You're really listening to me less and less! Are you coming over or not?! I'll go get you if you don't!"
The leader of the Ouyang Clan and Ouyang Zizhen's father.
- Adaptational Jerkass: In the Live-Action Adaptation, he's a much more vocal detractor of Wei Wuxian than he is in the novel, and in the Nightless Immortal Capital bloodbath he showed interest in acquiring the Yin Tiger Tally.
- Adaptational Nice Guy: Downplayed in the Animated Adaptation. He is introduced as one of the many cultivators crusading against Wei Wuxian when the cultivators first show up in the Burial Mounds and doesn't heed his son's words about how Wei Wuxian is not the villain that everyone says he is. But once the fierce corpses are dealt with, he is the first to verbally acknowledge that it's only thanks to Wei Wuxian's help that they are still alive, whereas in the novel he's still wary of him and doesn't show nearly as much appreciation.
- Depending on the Artist: He lacks a consistent design between his manhua and donghua designs due to the limited description of him in the novel, with the green robe colours being the only common feature. In the manhua he's clean-shaven and wears his hair in a half bun. In the donghua, he wears a jacket in addition to his robes, has a mustache, and wears his hair in a full bun.
- Karma Houdini: In The Untamed. Other than his son defying him and siding with Wei Wuxian, he doesn't get any comeuppance from Wei Wuxian or Lan Wangji for slandering the former out of envy and self-interest and for his participation in the Nightless Immortal Capital bloodbath.
- No Full Name Given: His birth and courtesy names aren't given.
- Papa Wolf: Majority of his dialogue has him worrying over his son or scolding him.
- Unnamed Parent: He is Ouyang Zizhen's father, but he's only ever refered to as "Dad" by his son or by his title from everyone else.
Ouyang Zizhen (欧阳子真)
Voiced by: Xing Chao [animation], Ding Dang [audio drama, Season 1], Li Qingyang [audio drama, Seasons 2-3], Qian Wenqing [web series] (Mandarin) Click here for other languages
Played by: Cao Junxiang [web series]
Click here to see Ouyang Zizhen in The Untamed
"He [Wei Wuxian] was the one who saved us back at Yi City, and he seems to be here to save us this time too..."
The heir to the Ouyang Clan, and one of the junior cultivators that investigates Yi City. Wei Wuxian pegs him as a romantic. He's one of the juniors that have a hard time following their parents' hatred of Wei Wuxian.
- Adaptational Personality Change: Downplayed. He's still a kind-hearted and understanding Nice Guy like in the novel, but in the web series he is bolder and more defiant when calling out the older cultivators for their treatment of Wei Wuxian.
- Bit Character: His main role is to be another named junior disciple outside of the main trio that talks/reacts on the other boys' behalf and sometimes shows his support for Wei Wuxian. He otherwise lacks plot significance and is not mentioned/shown often compared to his peers, but is nevertheless a respected acquaintance in the group.
- Depending on the Artist: He has the most inconsistent designs between the donghua and manhua out of the major cast, since he's not described in the novel and there was no official artwork of him beforehand. The only thing both designs have in common is the green robe colours; in the manhua his hair is styled in a bun and has a fringe, while in the donghua he wears his hair in a ponytail and his robes have a few different details (with the biggest addition being his cape).
- Like Father, Unlike Son: In the web series, while his father is a self-serving hypocrite who's one of the most vocal detractors of Wei Wuxian, Ouyang Zizhen is a kind-hearted romantic who immediately sees the good in Wei Wuxian and doesn't hesitate to defend him from the older cultivators.
- Kid Has a Point: Most of the junior cultivators present in the Second Siege are part of the mature party, but Ouyang Zizhen takes the cake. Given that most of the adult cultivators (who make up the immature party) are too prideful or biased to listen to any sensible thing Wei Wuxian has to say or show gratitude to him after he saved their lives, Ouyang Zizhen has to spell out to said adults that they all would have died in the Burial Mounds if Wei Wuxian really intended to hurt them. No one can speak up against him, since they know that he's right even if they don't want to admit it out loud.
- Nice Guy: His defining trait is his kind and friendly attitude, which he extends to all the other junior cultivators (even the Hot-Blooded Lan Jingyi and the resident Tsundere Jin Ling). He's also one of the few who's not afraid of Wei Wuxian and completely trusts him even after the latter's real identity gets exposed.
- Thinks Like a Romance Novel: Implied. When Wei Wuxian asks him to describe A-Qing, the boy goes into detail about the girl's features and notes how she would have grown up into a fine lady if she were still alive. The others tease him about this.
Qin Clan of Laoling | 乐陵秦氏
Qin Cangye (秦苍业)
Qin Su's father, and the leader of the Qin Clan.
- Mama's Baby, Papa's Maybe: Qin Su is actually not Qin Cangye's daughter but Jin Guangshan's, as a result of the latter forcing himself on Madam Qin. Due to the potential political backlash, neither she nor Jin Guangyao (who she told prior to the wedding) were willing to tell anyone, let alone him. The information is only leaked after Qin Su's handmaid Bicao told her in a letter and later told the cultivators at Lotus Pier, but it's never known how Qin Cangye reacts to it.
- Undying Loyalty: He's loyal enough to Jin Guangshan that his wife was deathly afraid of telling him about who Qin Su's real father is. This was also why Jin Guangyao couldn't easily back out of his engagement with Qin Su even after learning about how they're half-siblings, because the political backlash that would occur would be too grave.
- What Happened to the Mouse?: The novel never revealed whether he learned of his daughter's suicide, and how he responded if he did.
Madam Qin (秦夫人)
Qin Su's mother and Qin Cangye's wife.
- No Full Name Given: She is only known as Madam Qin.
- So Beautiful, It's a Curse: She was pretty enough to attract Jin Guangshan's attention, resulting in him taking advantage of her against her wishes.
- Unwitting Instigator of Doom: While her action of informing Jin Guangyao about the Awful Truth was done for completely understandable reasons, she ends up causing more trouble than she wished.
Bicao (碧草)
Voiced by (Mandarin): Xu Jing note [audio drama]
Played by: Fan Huawei [web series]
Click here to see Bicao in The Untamed
"After Maiden Su was married, Madam was still extremely depressed. She was sick in her heart, and her sickness worsened by day. Before she passed away, she couldn't hold it in any longer, and told me everything."
Qin Su's handmaid, and previously Madam Qin's handmaid.
- Early-Bird Cameo: While she and Sisi appear in Episode 45 of the drama, it is easy to forget that Bicao had actually appeared five episodes earlier during the Golden Carp Tower arc as the maid accompanying Qin Su, albeit in a completely different get-up.
- Only in It for the Money: Wei Wuxian suspects that Bicao disobeyed Madam Qin's orders to never tell anyone the truth about Qin Su's birth because she was offered a hefty sum of money. The fact that Bicao quickly hides her expensive jade bracelet when Wei Wuxian points it out further supports the possibility.
- Secret-Keeper: For years, she was the only one who knew about how Qin Su is yet another of Jin Guangshan's illegitimate children. At least, until a good bribe loosened her tongue.
Wang Clan of Yingchuan | 颍川王氏
Wang Lingjiao (王灵娇)
Voiced by: Qiu Qiu [animation, web series], Yan Mengmeng [audio drama] (Mandarin) Click here for other languages
Played by: Lu Enjie [web series]
Click here to see Wang Lingjiao in The Untamed
"The heirarchy within a prominent clan must be clear enough to ensure no confusion! Servants ought to act like servants."
A servant of Wen Chao's wife and also Wen Chao's latest mistress. Her association with him resulted in the creation of the Yingchuan Wang Clan. She shared Wen Chao's arrogance, sadism, and disdain for anyone who crosses her.
- Affectionate Nickname: Wen Chao would affectionately call her Jiaojiao.
- Book Dumb: She never received proper education given that she was a servant, and so didn't know how to correctly pronounce big words nor read well. She could be cunning in her own way, however, such as being responsible for the burning of Lotus Pier.
- Buxom Beauty Standard: In the manhua and donghua she was very chesty and considered glamorous as a result, making it easy to see why Wen Chao took a liking to her.
- Dirty Coward: The moment something didn't go her way or she finds herself in danger, she'll drop her previously haughty attitude and call for help if Wen Chao or Wen Zhuliu are nearby.
- Driven by Envy: The fiasco at the Xuanwu Cave started all because Wang Lingjiao was jealous of Mianmian's looks and wanted her dead once she noticed Wen Chao took a liking to her.
- Green-Eyed Monster: She attacked Mianmian because she was jealous that Wen Chao made (unwanted) advances on her.
- Properly Paranoid: She wasn't completely wrong when she thought that Wei Wuxian, as he previously vowed, had come back to get revenge on the Wen Clan, but everyone else including Wen Chao wrote her off as crazy. Everyone paid the price for it, but her suspicion didn't get her spared either.
- Sadist: One of the reasons she got along with Wen Chao was because she also took pleasure in humiliating others.
- Sleeping Their Way to the Top: The only reason she had as much power as she did was because she was sleeping with Wen Chao.
- Smug Snake: She acted condescending to everyone she met, knowing full well that her relationship with Wen Chao gave her authority over the others. Should the other party not care about that and attack her, she was immediately reduced to a cowardly state. Her ego is what triggered the Lotus Pier massacre, and that itself is what eventually lead to Wei Wuxian becoming the Yiling Patriarch and killing Wang Lingjiao himself.
- Spanner in the Works: Her petty actions out of jealousy for Mianmian was what kickstarted the Xuanwu Cave debacle and the events that followed, including Wei Wuxian discovering demonic cultivation — which caused him to become a thorn in the Wens' side and also gave him the means to kill her.
- Sticky Fingers: She stole a lot of treasures and jewelry during her time as Wen Chao's lover.
- Would Hurt a Child: In The Untamed, she's explicitly shown murdering a child.
Yao Clan | 姚氏
Sect Leader Yao (姚宗主)
Voiced by: Zhang Lei [animation], Hao Xianghai [audio drama] (Mandarin) Click here for other languages
Played by: Niu Zhiqiang [web series]
Click here to see Sect Leader Yao in The Untamed
"No matter what despicable methods you use, or how many times you crawl out of your tomb, we will send you back for no reason other than the pursuit of righteous justice!"
A leader of a cultivational clan, location unknown. His most prominent trait is his penchant for gossip-mongering, brown-nosing those who hold higher authority than him, and siding with the majority.
- Demoted to Extra: While there are a few scenes of him being notably obnoxious and obstructive in the donghua, he is not given as much screentime during the Second Siege and the arcs that follow, which leaves him with less opportunities to act as the face of mob mentality in the story.
- Fat Bastard: In contrast to his Lean and Mean appearance in the novel, he's rather large in the live-action series. He's more paunchy than obese, but he still fits the "bastard" part more than perfectly.
- He-Man Woman Hater: A few lines show that he doesn't think highly of women. When he tells Jin Ling to stop mourning Jin Guangyao's death, he says that crying is something reserved for the "fairer sex".
- Hypocrite:
- He's the perfect representative of the mass hypocrisy that exists in the cultivation world. For all their claims about righteousness and justice, they're no better — sometimes even worse — than the "evil" they vow to bring down. When faced with the truth, they deliberately ignore it and fail to learn their lesson and continue acting like they have always been right, otherwise they'd be left with bruised egos.
- He fervently claims that Sisi and Bicao couldn't be lying about what they said even when all they had were words to back up their claim — a sentiment that he didn't share towards Wei Wuxian.
- Karma Houdini: Although he's not going in any of the major clans' good books any time soon and does elicit a few Shut Up, Hannibal! responses from others, he never gets punished for his gossip-mongering nor his vitriol against Wei Wuxian.
- Lean and Mean: He's described to have a lean figure in the novel, and he's also not a pleasant character.
- Meaningful Name:
- His family name translates to "rumor", which fits his gossip-mongering nature and his tendency to believe baseless hearsay over hard facts.
- Although the character for beast/yao (妖) is written differently his surname (姚), both have the same word in romanized form. This emphasizes one of the novel's morals — that sometimes it's the humans who are just as, if not more, likely to cause conflict than any supernatural beast is capable of doing.
- No Full Name Given: His birth and courtesy names aren't given.
- Small Name, Big Ego: He's only a leader of a minor clan, but he loves talking as if he's the most important person in the room with the mistaken belief that everything he says is correct and full of meaning. He also loves to boast in a way that he comes across as the advocate of the crowd, and clearly enjoys the praise he gets from said boasts.
- Ungrateful Bastard: He stands out as the most contemptible and irksome characters of the story, as most of his screen time has him running his mouth and being an egotistical bootlicker. He never shows any genuine gratitude towards anyone who saves his hide, even though he would have been dead otherwise.
Chang Clan of Yueyang | 栎阳常氏
Chang Ping (常平)
"Many thanks, Daozhang, but... please don't help me anymore. If you help me again now, you would be harming me. I don't want the Chang Clan of Yueyang to end just yet."
Chang Cian's son, and the final leader of the Chang Clan. Chang Ping and a handful of other members of the Chang Clan survived the initial massacre instigated by Xue Yang since they were out on a night-hunt at a time, but years later every single survivor was killed.
- The Ghost: Downplayed. He's a minor driving force in the Yi City backstory and is mentioned in a handful of chapters, but he's never featured in a flashback in the novel. Averted in the manhua (which shows him in one small shot) and donghua (where he's present in the Inquiry flashbacks), however.
- Sins of Our Fathers: Xue Yang targeted the Chang Clan purely as revenge for what Chang Ping's father did to him. Chang Ping was fortunately away on a night hunt during the first massacre with a few other members, but Xue Yang later went back to kill him and the rest. Wei Wuxian speculates that the second incident wasn't due to this trope this time, however, and theorises that it actually happened because Xue Yang wanted to punish Chang Ping for indirectly (albeit unintentionally) smearing Xiao Xingchen's reputation, in order to deflect his self-blame onto someone else.
- Unwitting Instigator of Doom: His seemingly harmless and diplomatic decision to drop his accusations against Xue Yang to protect his clan and avoid any conflict with the Jin Clan is what made the latter come back to murder him and the other surviving clan members, theorised by Wei Wuxian to be punishment for unintentionally tarnishing Xiao Xingchen's name.
Chang Cian (常慈安)
The former leader of the Chang Clan, and Chang Ping's father.
- Dirty Coward: He had some "business" with another man but couldn't personally confront the man himself, so he had a child deliver an extremely offensive message to him, without any regard for the fact that the child would take the brunt of the entire fiasco.
- Jerkass: He had an innocent kid play messenger to one of his enemies and let the kid suffer for it without any remorse, then reneged out of his promise with the child before brutalizing him. Yeah, he definitely wasn't a nice guy.
- Karma Houdini: Xue Yang never directly got back at him for costing him his pinky finger, since Chang Cian was already dead when Xue Yang had grown up and acquired the means to take his revenge. It's only unfortunate that he viewed the rest of the Chang Clan as a good substitute target and went to massacre them most of them and later killed the remaining members.
- Unwitting Instigator of Doom: He might had given the young child his pastries if he knew that his actions would create a murderer that would eliminate his entire clan.
- Would Hurt a Child: If shoving off a kid wasn't bad enough, he drove the carriage over the same kid's pinky finger, causing it to get pulverized into a bloody mess. And it's strongly implied he actually intended to kill the kid by running him over.
Cultivators from Unnamed Clans
Yi Weichun (易为春)
Played by: Zhang Ye [web series]
"What comes around goes around. You'll get your just deserts!"
One of the many who participated in the Second Siege in an attempt to kill Wei Wuxian. He seeks revenge on Wei Wuxian for costing him a leg.
- Laser-Guided Karma: He lost a leg years ago in the Nightless Immortal Capital bloodbath. While he doesn't get any legal karma nor does he get any soul-shattering realizations about his actions, he still lost a limb for his willing involvement in the acts of libel and genocide.
- Revenge Before Reason: While losing a limb is not a good experience, the narrative hints that, like the majority of the cultivation mob, he also wants in on the glory of taking down the Yiling Patriarch. During the Second Siege, he acts as stubborn as a mule and it only takes either Nie Huaisang agreeing with Wei Wuxian or the fight with the fierce corpses exhausting him until he faints for him to stop squawking.
- Skewed Priorities: Even though they're all cornered in a cave and there's a horde of murderous zombies outside waiting to tear them apart, Yi Weichun still attempts to attack Wei Wuxian and refuses to believe anything he says.
- Small Name, Big Ego: His entire boast to Wei Wuxian about how he seeks revenge against him and that the latter cannot escape justice with him around implies that Yi Weichun thinks too highly of himself, despite the fact that Wei Wuxian doesn't even remember him, let alone know him.
Fang Mengchen (方梦臣)
Played by: Xu Xiaowen [web series]
"Wei Wuxian killed my parents. That is the truth. But why is it that now it seems like he's become a hero?! He does a few good deeds, and you can forget about all the things he did? Then what about my parents?!"
A cultivator who joined the Second Siege to get revenge on Wei Wuxian for the deaths of his parents.
- Adapted Out: He doesn't show up in the Animated Adaptation. Instead, it's Jin Ling who takes over his role in venting out his rage over his parents' deaths after the corpses in the Burial Mounds are dealt with.
- Demoted to Extra: He still appears in The Untamed and curses Wei Wuxian for his parents' deaths, but the scene where he confronts Wei Wuxian a second time after the fierce corpses around the Burial Mounds are dealt with is omitted from the series and he does nothing else of significance.
- Revenge Before Reason: Downplayed. Even after Wei Wuxian proves that he's not responsible for the many crimes he was accused of (besides the Nightless Immortal Capital massacre), Fang Mengchen continues to hold him in contempt for his parents' deaths.
- Ungrateful Bastard: Wei Wuxian saves Fang Mengchen and all the other cultivators from dying to a horde of fierce corpses, and he returns the favor by trying to kill him.
- You Killed My Father: The death of his parents is the primary reason for his hatred towards Wei Wuxian.
