Wen Ling
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Ling Wen, also known as Ling Wen Zhen Jun, is the foremost Civil Goddess in the Heavenly Court and one of the notorious Three Tumors.
Ling Wen is a Civil God known for being peerlessly competent and effective in her work. She is noted to be very professional and emotionless when speaking. Despite commonly depicted to be polite and capable of staying calm in any situation, Ling Wen displays a dry, sarcastic sense of humor that shone most visibly when she is with Xie Lian or, more prominently, with Pei Ming and Shi Wudu, her two closest friends. In front of the latter two she could be ruthless, laughing at their harmless misfortunes but would also show affection and worry on their behalf. The Palace of Ling Wen has many temples built in her name but most of these temples revered her as a male god because of the denial and disapproval that a woman can become a good Civil Officer, which is the reason Ling Wen is disliked by other civil gods as female Heavenly Officials are few and are only expected to grind ink, lay out paper and look pretty. Behind her back, they speculated she gained her position through aggressive boot-licking, seducing the higher power, disguising herself as a man or a combination of all three.
It is revealed that Ling Wen can be extremely cunning and merciless. She orchestrated the fall of Jing Wen and thus exact her revenge on him for the abuse she suffered as a subordinate of his. According to the legend of the Brocade Immortal, she was also responsible for convincing a man that had fallen for her to commit suicide. In fact, she used the spiritual device to accelarate the fall of the kingdom that Jing Wen presided over. However, she talks about that man in a soft, kind matter and it is hinted that she planned to give him back a physical body through Tonglu Mountain's trial, thus the cruel legend and the way she speaks of him to do not correlate well. After Jun Wu's true identity was revealed, Ling Wen willingly takes his side and becomes his assistant. Although she thus betrays gods she's had centuries of friendship with, she still offers Pei Ming to join them, indicating that she is most likely not acting out of malicious intent towards the others.
(Source: Heaven Official's Blessing Wiki)
