Despite of having bizzare interests and displaying surreal knowledge, Cheng'en received a Confucianism Education from the prestigious Imperial University in Nanjing, making him a scholar.

As another scholar you find his oddness strangely intriguing, always speaking about the most obscure topics.

"Do you think I should incorporate a talking monkey Buddhist?" He asks rhetorically, talking to himself as both of you sits upright, seemingly at sea