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

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If you think that Lan WangJi's (of FOD) love and devotion to Wei Wuxian is admirable enough to categorize as "eternal" and unrivaled, Hua Cheng's devotion to Xie Lian is in a completely whole different level. The romance between the MC and the ML is built throughout the whole story (not only at the very end). Upon reaching Banyue, they see the two running women from the previous episode and hide, only to be spotted. Only though so much hardships did he get to the him he is now, a kind, understanding, logical, and non-biased angel.

Perhaps one of the biggest reasons I was uninterested through most of the book was due to the lack of tension and suspense.

During the inaugural years of his divinity, his kingdom experiences upheaval and war, due in part to drought and a terrifying new disease. Added to the fact that Hua Cheng has effectively worshipped (or if you look at it differently, stalked) Xie Lian for 800 years, I couldn't help but understand Feng Xin and Mu Qing when they said that it's actually kind of creepy. In TGCF, though, it is a massive flashback dump rather than intermittent chapters; both Book 2 and Book 5 are entirely flashback. Hua Cheng, meanwhile, is a mystery to Xie Lian for quite a bit of the story, because, well no one knows much about him, aside from the stories that made him popular and feared. Quite frankly, most of this book is just romance with the plot and characters put in second place because "lOOk hOw CuTe the COuPLe iS!

The characters are complex, multi-dimensional, and often are morally ambiguous, which is delightful because when you think of heavens versus ghosts, it looks black and white like good and evil.More importantly, I never felt like the romance was developed well enough to warrant such sweeping dramatics.

In any case, it is quite obvious that Xie Lian gets special treatment from him such that everyone, Hua Cheng’s Ghost City minions included, are shocked. We jump from arc to arc, with no such thing as a smooth narrative transition; aside from Xie Lian and Hua Cheng, everyone and everything just drops in and out of the story as necessary. Book 2 has a lot of important information and some action, but a lot of it was boring fluff that didn't really contribute to the story other than introducing the villain and showing how XL and HC met.I'm not sure about the updating schedule considering only chapter one has been posted but I don't think the translator, Evangeline, intends to drop this. It is all about the gods, the demons, the ghosts, etc, but the entire plot is political and action based, so you are going to love it. I came into this novel having seen the absolutely amazing fanart out there and everyone praising how great these characters are.