Qi Feijun sits at the center of two very different moments in Where Winds Meet. One is a playful Wandering Tale about a mischievous horse and a missing family document. The other is a much darker story about captivity, experiments, and a woman waiting for a husband who will never come home.
Who Qi Feijun is in Where Winds Meet
Qi Feijun is the master of Finesteed Hamlet, a horse ranch in Qinghe. He is often seen surrounded by horses, talking to them in a way that looks eccentric at first but is rooted in a deeper plot thread. His capture and forced exposure to a purple drug allowed him to communicate with horses, a talent he then uses to build up the hamlet’s thriving business.
Within the game’s structure, he appears in multiple side activities. In one thread, he is simply a ranch master who misplaced an important family text. In another, he is a survivor of human experimentation who carries guilt over a companion he did not save.
Qi Family's Precepts Wandering Tale (Finesteed Hamlet)
Qi Family's Precepts is a Wandering Tale side story that takes place at Finesteed Hamlet. The premise is small and domestic: Qi Feijun has lost his family precepts, and a horse is to blame.
To move through it smoothly, it helps to follow the story beats in order.
Step 1: Travel to Finesteed Hamlet in Qinghe and talk to Qi Feijun near the cluster of horses. He explains that the Qi Family's Precepts, a set of written family rules or teachings, have gone missing.
Step 2: Interact with the horse named Qi Xiaoguai. The dialogue makes clear that this horse has hidden the document and will only reveal the hiding place after being fed.
Step 3: Go to the nearby field marker where fresh radishes grow and pick one up. The in-world hint mentions carrots, but the actual item that works for the horse here is a radish.
Step 4: Return to Qi Xiaoguai and feed the horse the radish. If the horse and Qi Feijun are not at their usual spot, advance the in-game time to the next day; both owner and animal rest at night and do not stay in position around the clock.
Step 5: Follow Qi Xiaoguai. The horse will walk to a stable area and stop near a feeding trough. Inside or just above the food container, you can pick up a small journal-like item, the Qi Family's Precepts.
Step 6: Take the recovered document back to Qi Feijun. Handing it over resolves the Wandering Tale and triggers the rewards: Echo Jade, Qinghe exploration points, character experience, and coin.
Although this questline is mechanically simple, it quietly introduces two ideas that matter later: Qi Feijun’s unusual rapport with horses and Finesteed Hamlet’s prosperity under his management.
Why Qi Feijun Talks to Horses
Qi Feijun’s connection to horses is not a natural gift. It comes from being taken and used in experiments at Mercyheart Monastery. During that time, he was drugged with a purple substance, a concoction that appears elsewhere in the game as a dangerous material you are tasked with destroying at an outpost.
Those experiments left him with the ability to understand and communicate with horses. This power becomes the basis of his professional success: he can manage his herd more effectively, and Finesteed Hamlet becomes a bustling ranch. Yet this same event is tied to a grave personal failure for him, because he escaped captivity alone.
That failure becomes the emotional core of another Wandering Tale: Why He Hasn't Returned.
Wandering Tales: Why He Hasn't Returned and Qi Feijun’s Role
The Wandering Tale titled Why He Hasn't Returned begins with Liu Wuniang, a woman searching for her missing husband Wulang, also called Qi Awu. She says Wulang left with Master Qi and never came back. The trail eventually leads to Mercyheart Temple, where Qi Awu has been turned into a puppet jiangshi and confined in a locked room marked with signposts that reference a zombie and warn against killing.
Progressing the quest requires defeating the puppet form of Qi Awu and taking a pouch that drops from his body. The game then presents a quiet but significant choice: who should receive that pouch?
One obvious option is Liu Wuniang herself. The other is Qi Feijun, the ranch master who returned from Mercyheart without Wulang and has been evasive about what happened.
Quest choice: give the pouch to Liu Wuniang or Qi Feijun
The decision over who receives Qi Awu’s pouch creates two distinct outcomes. Neither changes the main story, but each reframes Qi Feijun and Liu Wuniang in a different light.
| Recipient | What happens | Implication |
|---|---|---|
| Liu Wuniang | She learns the truth directly, goes to the site of Qi Awu’s death, mourns, sinks into grief, and becomes infected. | She gets closure at the cost of her life. |
| Qi Feijun | He explains that he and Qi Awu were captured and experimented on with the purple drug; he escaped alone and regrets it. He promises to let the maids break the news to Liu Wuniang slowly. | He carries the burden of truth and guilt, while Liu Wuniang lives on in hope. |
If you hand the pouch to Liu Wuniang, the story leans into raw honesty and the consequences of letting grief run unchecked. If you choose Qi Feijun, the story foregrounds his guilt over Mercyheart and his attempt to protect Liu Wuniang from a shock that could destroy her.
Players who killed the puppet long before picking up the quest can place themselves in an inadvertent “third” outcome, where the pouch is gone or was never given to anyone. In that case, the explicit branching resolution is lost, which fits the game’s willingness to let actions taken out of sequence quietly rewrite side stories.
How Qi Feijun's backstory fits together
Piecing these events together shows how the lighthearted horse story and the darker Wandering Tale share a single spine.
- Qi Feijun and Qi Awu were taken to Mercyheart Monastery and used as test subjects for a purple drug.
- The drug gave Qi Feijun the ability to talk to horses, which later fuels Finesteed Hamlet’s success.
- Qi Feijun saw an opening and escaped, leaving Qi Awu behind; he expresses regret but also clear self-interest in that choice.
- Liu Wuniang continues to wait for her husband at the ranch, while Qi Feijun dodges her questions.
- The player confronts the puppet form of Qi Awu, acquires the pouch, and becomes the pivot for how the truth reaches Liu Wuniang, if at all.
Qi Family's Precepts turns that background into something mundane and almost comedic: the ranch master bickering with a horse that hid his cherished text. Why He Hasn't Returned pulls the curtain back, revealing that the same man’s prosperity comes from trauma and a split-second decision that doomed another person.
Finding Qi Feijun when you need him
Several players run into a simple issue: Qi Feijun is not always standing in the same spot. When looking for him, keep a few patterns in mind.
Step 1: For the horse-related Wandering Tale, go to Finesteed Hamlet in Qinghe during the day. Qi Feijun is typically near a group of horses in the hamlet, often at the front of the herd.
Step 2: If he is not visible outdoors, check nearby buildings in the hamlet. Some players encounter him inside a house.
Step 3: Make sure you are visiting during “working hours” in the in-game day–night cycle. At night, he and his horse rest, mirroring the behavior seen in the Qi Family's Precepts story. Advance time if necessary.
For the Why He Hasn't Returned resolution, Qi Feijun remains associated with the hamlet area. Liu Wuniang, by contrast, is tied to the Wildmane Ranch teleport and the shed by the lake, which is where she stands at the start of her search for Qi Awu.
Why these Qi Feijun quests stand out
Qi Feijun’s quests showcase a design philosophy that runs through Where Winds Meet: seemingly minor activities can hide strong emotional stakes and meaningful player choice.
The playful rhythm of feeding Qi Xiaoguai, following a small horse across the yard, and fishing a journal from a trough looks like a throwaway diversion. Yet in the same area, with the same NPC, the game asks whether sparing someone from truth is kindness or cruelty. One option leads to death by grief; the other to survival in denial and a ranch master carrying guilt for both his escape and his decision to manage the truth through others.
None of these outcomes change the main plot, but they leave a mark on how the world feels. Finesteed Hamlet’s prosperity stops being just a scenic backdrop and becomes the material proof of a compromise. Qi Feijun stops being just the eccentric who mutters to horses and becomes a man whose success rests on what he did, and did not do, at Mercyheart.
