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

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This review is purely subjective, and if you want to read this go ahead, but I'll be seeing myself out. The two have a long discussion about gods and ghosts, before being interrupted by ghosts along the forest path. Eight hundred years ago, Xie Lian was a Prince of the Kingdom of Xian Le; a prince who is loved by his people and the whole world. Born the crown prince of a prosperous kingdom, Xie Lian was renowned for his beauty, strength, and purity. He is presented as the kindest, purest, most selfless person in the world, but really he was just a bland white .

The larger cast of character with multiple boring plot lines makes it feel long, slow, detached at the same time. If you're acquainted with her previous novels you may notice common traits and those include ghost/scary stories. More importantly, I never felt like the romance was developed well enough to warrant such sweeping dramatics. This seems like an flaw inherent to how the story refuses to leave the protagonist, even though he does the bare minimum in most arcs.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.

On the other hand, the ML starts out appearing like the perfect boyfriend: ultra smooth, ultra powerful, and always like he's in control of the situation. I can't say the same for the side characters though because other than Nan Feng and Fu Yao you don't get much.

On his first task as a god, he meets a mysterious demon who rules the ghosts and terrifies the Heavens.

Same with the MC of FoD's Wei WuXian, Heaven Official's Blessing's MC (Xie Lian) is very likeable, as they are both witty, caring, lovable and. But please we warned of the looong flashbacks and sad stories along the way as their bitter history unfolds. All it did, though, was make me think that XL is a stubborn idiot who could have avoided major disasters if he just listened to people.Hua Cheng's main flaw was insecurity about his appearance but he's confident and self assured 99% of the time (not to mention, this is a baseless insecurity because he looks fine). Even Qi Rong, who hangs around being a pest for most of the story, just disappears from sight and mind as soon as he's no longer needed narratively. Lang Ying, Ban Yue, Pei Su, Lang Qian Qiu - all promising characters that are treated as afterthoughts. Even though he is shown to be really horrible and detestable, he is really funny and after a while, I was starting to agree with some of the stuff he was saying about XL. On his first task as a god thrice ascended, he meets a mysterious demon who rules the ghosts and terrifies the Heavens, yet, unbeknownst to Xie Lian, this demon king has been paying attention to him for a very, very long time.

There was never any misunderstanding with Hua Cheng for the audience, so there's no need to narrate from Xie Lian's perspective.How I wish, at the later chap, their long-awaited reunion should have ended with a kiss, coupled with whispers of sweet-nothings or something. His acceptance and resignation to his current state of life is something that hurts both me and the ML. Yes there were great scenes which got to me, but most of it was really boring and descriptions and dialogue dragged on and on with no end, and with the bland MC, it wasn't even interesting such as the dialogue in MDZS was. This is what I like with the author's way of writing—you don't have to read straight from the ML's mind.