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

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One thing is clear, there's a set of character that will follow thorugh entire story, some will appear, surve their purpose and are never mentioned again. We learn of 4 ghost kings, in particular Hua Cheng who caused the demise of thirty-three heavenly officials.

I also find the repeated emphasis that Hua Cheng considers Xie Lian his god and himself as his most devoted believer just a bit uncomfortable for the romance. The protagonist is portrayed like such a selfless martyr in pretty much the overwhelming majority of the novel that it gets boring after a while, not to mention gives absolutely no depth to his character. More importantly, I never felt like the romance was developed well enough to warrant such sweeping dramatics. yet unbeknownst to Xie Lian, this demon king has been paying attention to him for a very, very long time. HC's apathy does not feel like a coherent part of his character, but an excuse for MXTX to drag out plot lines and make things unnecessarily long and winded.

I lost interest in the story pretty quickly due to the bland characters and their out of place romance and how unlikable they were. I still liked the sweet moments, but the OTT was a bit of a turnoff and there was a lack of any tension or stakes. Many mini arcs come and go, and it feels like an episodic anime where you have 'monster/crime of the week' but you just want to find out the main plot. 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. Well, Xie Lian became an object of worship to Hua Cheng and then we're told Hua Cheng waited for him for over 800 years, while simultaneously sculpting thousands of statues of him, surrounding himself in a creepy Xie Lian stalker hideout and making Xie Lian his sole reason to exist.

It's supposed to provide contrast to the romance but I feel it's so overdone that it's in poor taste. The whole atmosphere of the place made me think like I was in a horror movie and I had a wild mu*derer chasing after me. She uses and abandons great characters throughout the series: Yi Rong becomes comedic commentary after acting out his part in book 1 despite being one of the 4 evils, Feng Xin and Mu Qing become increasingly petting/childish after giving them great background story in book 2, the Black Water Demon becomes s*upid and worthless after acting out his ingenious plot in book 3, and every side arc MC collects random children/other pets etc. The whole thing about spiritual energy revealing who they are, heavenly or ghostly feels confusing when so many characters go undercover – I feel, at times, the spiritual energy thing is deemed important and others it is not. On one hand, he is super overprotective of XL and wants to make sure he won't get hurt a single bit, but on the other hand, he has this advanced ideology of the 21st century that he believes XL is capable so won't constrain him as much.

The few interesting characters will come and go in the blink of the eye, but there are some good moments and the very occasional cool plot line.

Heaven Official's Blessing ( Chinese: 天官赐福, pinyin: Tiān Guān Cì Fú) is a Chinese novel series written by Mo Xiang Tong Xiu ( Chinese: 墨香铜臭). Whenever XL and HC are together they completely ruin whatever scene they are in with their out of place romance. He's definitely a charming character but I was turned off at the thousands of statues he made of Xie Lian.

This third novel is unwieldy with FAR TOO MANY FLASHBACKS, uninteresting central characters, and what feels like. I still don’t know how exactly the heavenly officials ascend and at what point they are no longer mortal and become immortal, because the book never really clearly defines it.