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

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Now known as a peculiar, peripatetic scrap-collector with perennially bad luck, Xie Lian is ridiculed or ignored by most other heavenly officials. Being a huge fan of mxtx’s novels I’m so sad to see the series I love and treasure the most come to an end but it’s bittersweet! And for that, I'll draw some comparisons to The Founder of Diabolism, which everyone reading this has probably read already. The English fandom for this work is sadly minute at the moment, especially compared to the author's other works (ahem GDC I'm looking at you) I assume due to the dearth of translated chapters.

Although I'm a newbie when it comes to reading shounen-ai/yaoi novels, but I think that should've happened at least, right. Beautifully described locations, it's easy to imagine where things are happening and it creates unique atmosphere for each grand scene/arc. Even though Hua Cheng sticks by him sometimes in the form of disguises, they are really poor disguises if you think about it, so like is he really trying. He could've been such a great character, a ghost king who rules over hell and is morally grey, but instead he is dumbed down to a Xie Lian fanboy.

I was also in a reading slump at the time, so reading something different for a change really perked me up. 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.

Instead the ML is so OP that he breaks the spells binding MC's powers, and MC becomes so overpowered and slams the big boss into the wall with the power of love while his two friends just stand there doing nothing.However, capturing the ghost only brings up more questions than answers as a disease is found which should have died out centuries ago. While I love MXTX's devoted MLs (like Lan Wangji) and Hua Cheng has a similar appeal, I'm of two minds on whether this was taken a bit too far sometimes here. If you're acquainted with her previous novels you may notice common traits and those include ghost/scary stories. Rating this a one star is poor judgement on whoever that casted that vote so these five stars is in hopes to counter that.

If you are able, I would recommend that you read the work in the original Chinese it was written in- to preserve as much of the hilarity and heartbreak that the author managed to skilfully convey as possible.You can change your choices at any time by visiting Cookie preferences, as described in the Cookie notice. Perhaps my greatest mistake was allowing myself to be swept away by the excessive hype and build overly-lofty expectations based on the author's other works. This was to pay off the debt incurred by his quite dramatic entrance to the heavens that causes some, uh, structural damages.