Gu Zhen Ren
I seriously can’t take reading any other novel anymore, why must you do this ahahaha 🤣, there’s literally no MC like Fang Yuan anywhere else. Whenever he schemes, it hits his enemies where it hurts most and he feels zero sympathy. Moreover, his enemies aren’t idiots! Also, I was rereading the Legends of Ren Zu, and I realized that the author actually did leave a clue for what FY has to do next - in the section where Verdant Sun is about to be refined by the Hairy Men, they’re creating Eternal Gu! Meaning, what FY has to do in the future is find out the recipe for eternal gu, get stronger enough to refine it and protect himself obviously, and uh... gather the ingredients and actually refine it! There’s an actual path forward, sort of!