Heaven Official’s Blessing
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244 Chapters + 8 Extras (Complete)
5 Volumes (Complete)
5 Volumes (Complete)
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Links are NOT allowed. Format your description nicely so people can easily read them. Please use proper spacing and paragraphs.Eight hundred years ago, Xie Lian was the Crown Prince of the Xian Le kingdom. He was loved by his citizens and was considered the darling of the world. He ascended to the Heavens at a young age; however, due to unfortunate circumstances, was quickly banished back to the mortal realm. Years later, he ascends again–only to be banished again a few minutes after his ascension.
Now, eight hundred years later, Xie Lian ascends to the Heavens for the third time as the laughing stock among all three realms. On his first task as a god thrice ascended, he meets a mysterious ghost who rules over the ghosts and terrifies the Heavens, yet, unbeknownst to Xie Lian, this ghost king has been paying attention to him for a very, very long time.
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One entry per lineLa bendición del Oficial del Cielo
TGCF
Thiên Quan Tứ Phúc
Tian Guan Ci Fu
Благословение Небожителей
สวรรค์ประทานพร
天官賜福
天官赐福
천관사복
TGCF
Thiên Quan Tứ Phúc
Tian Guan Ci Fu
Благословение Небожителей
สวรรค์ประทานพร
天官賜福
天官赐福
천관사복
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Thousand Autumns (10)
The Reader and Protagonist Definitely Have to Be in True Love (7)
The Legendary Master’s Wife (7)
The Husky and His White Cat Shizun (7)
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- virg*n ML and MC/ first time interc**rse BL novels
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11/29/20 | Deep Dream Translations | c40 |
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07/18/20 | Deep Dream Translations | c38 |
06/08/20 | Deep Dream Translations | c37 |
05/17/20 | Deep Dream Translations | c36 part2 |
05/06/20 | Deep Dream Translations | c36 part1 |
04/19/20 | Deep Dream Translations | c35 part2 |
04/13/20 | Deep Dream Translations | c35 part1 |
04/06/20 | Deep Dream Translations | c34 |
03/26/20 | Deep Dream Translations | c33 |
03/09/20 | Deep Dream Translations | c32 |
03/01/20 | Deep Dream Translations | c31 |
02/23/20 | Deep Dream Translations | c30 |
02/15/20 | Deep Dream Translations | c29 part4 |
12/08/19 | Deep Dream Translations | c29 part3 |
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- Past XL is quite realistic (as much as someone who is a white lotus Mary Sue in the present can be anyways), and he has flaws. When reviewers talk about XL's lack of flaws, I believe they are talking about present XL, who we are stuck with for the majority of the novel, in contrast to the past XL. Yes, he is annoying and the flaws are poorly presented and addressed, but they are there and I think they're at least acceptable.
- The wind and water brothers, and really most of the side characters are amazing. They may have no character development, but their stories and personalities are interesting and distinct, and among the side characters, there are some of my all time favorite MXTX side characters.
- The themes it tries to present are good enough. Maybe they're not well fleshed out enough nor are they well presented, but they are thought provoking. The most obvious theme is the question of good and evil, along with other themes about humanity and etc.
- Some of the Hualian moments are powerful and dare I say adorable. MXTX may not be great at writing romance all the time, but some individual moments in the book are great.
- The writing, while clunky and bad at times, there are some great moments and sometimes the writing is really descriptive and beautiful, as well as being engaging and laid back at the same time.
Now let's get on to the things I didn't like:- The most glaring and obvious thing I did not like was the protagonist. Xie Lian could only be described as an adorable, naive, bland Mary Sue. Him in the present has barely any personality, and it felt like MXTX really didn't know how to write him until late in book 3 and early book 5. He was spineless and pathetic during most of the book, and really did not contribute much to the story. He really was not interesting in the slightest and by the time book 4, the most emotional book rolled around, no matter what the author did to try to make me feel for him, I was completely unmoved. For the previous 180 chapters, we had been following around a bland caricature with no personality, so no matter how much you tried to make me feel for him in book 4, it was too late.
- In the past, XL's stubbornness and refusal to listen to anyone else, as well as being so self righteous, was what led to his downfall. People say that they admire him for sticking to kindness, even after all that he went through, but what I think is that he is stubborn, refuses to listen to people, and doesn't ever learn his lesson, even after going through so much. He wallows in self pity and misery shown by his constant emphasis of his bad luck, and it gets really grating after a while.
- Hua Cheng started off likable.... until book 3. In book 1, he was mysterious, and even funny and charming at points. But later in book 3-5, he stopped being funny, charming, and likable, and instead turned into trying too hard to be charming, overly arrogant, and being so condescending, hypocritical, and annoying as f*ck. Listen, I don't hate rude characters, but with HC, we never see how he became so arrogant, and we are forced to accept it, just like most things in this novel
- Character flaws are... very minimal. Xie Lian's flaws are "being insecure" and "being too nice". Like, would anyone say "ah I hate him for being so insecure" or "ah I hate him for being too nice". Like no, that would never happen! That's why I say his flaws are... not great. He had flaws in the past timeline, but those flaws all disappeared, and created this Mary Sue. With HC, he has flaws, but they are either a) played off for laughs, b) supposed to be charming and badass or c) supposed to be romantic. HC's creepiness and how annoying he is is never addressed, just like how the book never calls XL out for literally
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- The two characters have no weaknesses. The combination of them are essentially the most powerful couple in the world, and that makes the story really not fun. HC has an endless array of powers that are never foreshadowed and he can just pull out of his ass, he is endlessly rich, and has tons of resources. Xie Lian has these unexplained Mary Sue superpowers that are supposedly from his 800 years of training as a hobo, and also has a sentient ribbon that does more work for him than he does.
- The entire story is basically this: some mystery appears, XL tags along, does nothing, solves the mystery in 2 seconds with his Mary Sue big brain, another mystery occurs, XL goes home and romances more with HC and forgets about the people he should be protecting/helping.
- What was that ending for the black water arc? Like XL literally just went "bye b*tch" to his best friend and FORGOT ABOUT HIM and went back to romance with HC while his friend could just be dying. And XL doesn't even call HC out for
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- Can we talk about that final battle because what the actual f*ck. Like XL pulls some Mary Sue power of friendship and love out of his ass, and then he proceeds to slam the big boss, someone who has gone through just as much if not more than him, into a wall, and that's it? Like XL is suddenly way too overpowered, and combined with the overpowered mess that is HC, the final battle is a complete mess.
- There is way too much of a focus on romance in this novel. I don't have a problem with that if I actually enjoyed the characters, but because I didn't, it was so obvious that the novel was trying to be romantic with all the symbolism and such. The red string, lanterns, butterflies, flowers, poems, and all that stuff, and it just felt like it was trying too hard.
- Hua Cheng was creepy as f*ck.
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- The flashbacks were oddly stuffed in and I just did not care about anything that happened. They were not nicely woven in and were just there for aNgSt.
- Past XL was so s*upidly unaware of his own flaws and was so idiotically stubborn and self righteous that it was so aggravating to read. In the present he is bland, unbelievably naive, and a Mary Sue, but in the past, he is so annoying that it is painful to read
- The romance was so cheesy. It felt like the author couldn't decide whether Hua Cheng placed XL up on an impossible pedestal or is the only one who accepts him for who he is, so she does both, which makes no sense. If anything, HC accepting XL for who he is feels dumb and out of place, because they haven't interacted enough to form a deep connection, and as his savior, XL should be on a pedestal and appear perfect to HC, but I guess MXTX just wanted the 21st Century relatability points ig.
Overall a bland read and really nothing special, but if you're into cheesy shoujo romance and bland Mary Sue main characters, you would really enjoy this. I suggest you check out miichan1202's review and the reddit threads she linked because those are so well written and I agreed with every single wordkilling people and being a dumbass in books 2 and 4, and not considering any consequences to his actions and not listening to people
BEING IN f*ckING KAHOOTS WITH HIS BEST FRIEND'S TRAUMA AND ANOTHER GOD'S mu*derER WTF
like he carved thousands of statues of XL, and obsessed over him for 800 years, so I couldn't help but agree with FX and MQ when they talked about how creepy it was. I wouldn't mind it so much if he had a better reason to obsess over XL, but no, they interacted about twice, and HC obsesses over him for 800 years and becomes a super demon to protect him
As a whole, I enjoyed this book. It's written by Mo Xiang Tong Xiu, and I read all her previous novels too. My favorite being Mo Dao Zu Shi. Of course, this novel did not disappoint, it just has something that sometimes makes me wince my eye. 2 star: Writing and Translation.
Amazing. No other words, just amazing. The writing's very very good and the translator managed to convey the story *thumbs up*. 3 star: Characters.
Very nice, the characters are fleshed out in their backstory. Xie Lian in the past was 3 dimensional, his feelings were very understandable and his relationships with other characters can only be said as *chef's kiss*.
Let's start the problem, yes Xie Lian in the past was 3 dimensional, but in the present his character fall flat. Even at the end when HC was disappearing, XL's grieve didn't strike me hard. Somehow, his strong 3 dimensional personality in the past became a better-than-all, good-to-the-extreme 2 dimensional character. You can maybe list his personality in the main timeline with a few words. And you may think after all his suffering and hard life XL would have no problem with romance and maybe disregard it completely, but no, he somehow become a pure boy who is always teased by HC. And HC, I like him, I really do. He's cool and great and so on, but one thing I can't accept in this whole entire novel is just this: Why the heck did HC fell in love with XL?
Now, obviously this is a different take from Founder of Diabolism. This novel is more alike with Scum Villain's Self Saving System, they way it's both a Master/Follower kind of thing. This thing take it far, SVSSS also took it far. Ngl, everytime the romantic aspect came, I kind of winced. HC treats XL like he's a god, he outright said that XL is his everything, he only lives for XL, he is XL most devoted follower. And yes, it may seem romantic, in fact it's supposed to be romantic.
But imagine you have a lover who only cares about you 100%, said he is your follower, treats you like a god (problem is not this cause XL is a god, problem is that he's stalker-ish and obsessive), realistically how would you feel? Would you feel "Oh, I'm so happy!" or "Get a life man!"? Honestly, their relationship makes me uncomfortable.
And I still can't accept why HC feel in love with XL. Yes, he was saved by XL, yes XL is super handsome, yes he used to have no reason living before meeting XL, but at that time, he was still a child. Why can't his admiration to XL be like other people's admiration for XL? Why must he fall in love with XL? Somehow, in his life when he was still alive, he could fell in love with someone he hardly talks to, didn't even really know who he is, and persevere for 800 years. Am I supposed to believe this? All of this sum up to one this, they don't feel like equal.
They don't feel like equal lovers, HC obviously worships XL to an unbelievably amazing degree while XL only knew he existed from only a while ago (Is this obsession? Stalker-ish? I know his stalker-ish tendencies are usually played for laugh, but realistically?) HC very very very rarely calls XL by his given name but with GeGe or CrownPrince, dude has a name you know. I know you feel lower than XL, but seriously man, the guy's your life partner. HC would destroy the world if XL said to. He'd probably try to talk to XL first, confirm things, but if at the end XL really does want it, HC would do it. He lives for XL, he has no other reason to do something aside for XL. No reason to say NO for himself. They're not equals in which one wanna do something bad, the other would stop him because they have their own convictions. 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. It may seem romantic, but when you actually think about it, it becomes uncomfortable.