Heaven Official's Blessing: Tian Guan Ci Fu (Novel) Vol. 1

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If you continue to read up until the end of the novel, you would somehow feel and understand why the ML (Hua Cheng) harbor such kind of feelings towards the MC. And even though I thought the Wind Master was annoying at first, he eventually grew on me and every time he showed up I was honestly wishing this story was about him and his brother instead. Like every time HC comes around XL completely loses interest in his friends and the people he is supposed to be protecting to fawn all over HC. The romance between the MC and the ML is built throughout the whole story (not only at the very end). For Xie Lian's first assignment of his third ascension, he is tasked with solving the mystery of a number of brides who have disappeared during their wedding processions through Mount Yujun in the mortal world.

Worse, they seemed to wallow in the misery of Xie Lian's past; chapters dragged on as he experienced every pain imaginable - not so that he developed as a character or in his relationships, but solely to see him brought to his knees. Some "emotional" stories are told, literally told by word of mouth, and always fall flat, and you rarely get to see anything with any genuine emotional impact. The other gods have already warned him to be wary of the mysterious stranger with the silver butterflies, but Xie Lian is intrigued by him. The larger cast of character with multiple boring plot lines makes it feel long, slow, detached at the same time. He lets most things slide without a care because he's long stopped caring about what other people think of him and has mostly become numb to his own suffering.You can't tell me one only lives for one person's sake, will do anything for that guy, and has no attachments in the world aside from that guy, is a healthy person. Ling Wen 灵文 (Ling Wen Zhen Jun, 灵文真君) A civil goddess who provides information on assignments through a spiritual communication array. He gave up his own friends and family's well being for his own sense of justice and was stubborn to a fault and refused to listen. Lang Ying, Ban Yue, Pei Su, Lang Qian Qiu - all promising characters that are treated as afterthoughts.

more>> The MC's past is hinted at and slowly unfolds in a series of emotionally devastating flashbacks, revealing his tremulous fall from grace: from his position of coddled crown prince beloved by all, to being able to pick food off the ground and eat it without a care. On his first task as a god, he meets a mysterious demon who rules the ghosts and terrifies the Heavens. It's supposed to provide contrast to the romance but I feel it's so overdone that it's in poor taste.After a nearly-lethal run in with a scorpion-tailed snake leaving a merchant and Xie Lian injured, the group and the merchant's guide head to Banyue for an herbal antidote. With the mish mash of everything from thousands of lanterns to red strings of fate, poetry, butterflies and flowers as romantic themes, it was simply overkill. The 103 third parties who use cookies on this service do so for their purposes of displaying and measuring personalized ads, generating audience insights, and developing and improving products.

And it really doesn't make sense how HC who is the Ghost King and natural enemy of the gods could walk around and hang out with XL without any problems from the other gods. Every plot point is entangled in some other plot point, every person is entangled with another person somehow. Xie Lian's naivete was compounded by a frustrating tendency towards self-righteousness and bullheaded stubbornness that brought about his ruin and also made the flashback portions really not fun. I would honestly like him more if MXTX made him something like a socially awkward character; it would feel much more dimensional and make room for humour too (side note: imagine if his hand was trembling during the ghost groom scene? On August 4th 2021 the official English translation and physical copy was announced by Seven Seas Entertainment.

This is why I say flashbacks are important, while sharing events in the past with XL you slowly unveil the strength of his feelings, how something simple can turn into life-time commitment.

The writing style still flows with the same intensity that the author got us used to, so even though the plot and the MC lack a lot of work, the writing is consistent and I get how it can give a fellow reader the illusion that the book they are reading is of good quality.After his completion of the assignment, bemused by an encounter he describes as "oddly charming to the extreme," Xie Lian learns from heaven that he had encountered Hua Cheng, or Crimson Rain Sought Flower (血雨探花), one of four fearsome ghost kings known as the Four Great Calamities.