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

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White No-Face’s mask is off, and the final conflict has begun. Deep in the ancient caverns and lava flows of Mount Tonglu, Xie Lian must face the one whose hatred has plagued him for centuries—but this time, he won’t have to do it alone. His beloved, Hua Cheng, has spent his long existence amassing the power to protect him, and now with their feelings for each other out in the open, they have all the more reason to fight for survival.

did I really just see somewhere that this is around 750k words I just - [spits out tea, passes out and ghost ascends from body] Yi Nian Bridge has a lot of meanings. Yi = One, while Nian could mean thought, memory, longing, yearning. I kept it in pinyin because I wasn’t sure which meaning it was trying to convey.”

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Sigh. How am I supposed to objectively rate this one? Can I in good conscience give it 5 stars? The translation was simply atrocious in some places, and the flow suffered a great deal because of it. As I know firsthand that translating Chinese texts can be a massive pain in the ass, imagining the effort involved in translating 244 chapters is enough to make me sweat. 😱 The text desperately needs a good editor - there’s waaay too much literal translation, and some fragments are just straight up awkward. BUT, taking into consideration the fact that they were not professionals, the translators did a great job. I’d still like to read the cleaned-up version sometime, though. If I could, I would have you use me as your stepping stone, the bridge you take apart after crossing, the corpse bones you need to trample to climb up, the sinner who deserved the butchering of a million knives.”

The donghua is being produced by Bilibili and Haoliners Animation League. The first season debuted on the 31st of October 2020 and concluded on the 2nd of January 2021. The second season is currently in the works.

This is a story for the readers to make their own judgement about the characters, rather than being groomed to think a certain way. This humility is so rare in protagonists, because all you see now are authors creating long strands of excuses for their character’s actions with multiple explanations and expositions of how their character is “multi-layered” and just add to how their protagonist is really powerful at the end of the day. This is not to say that every story is like that. It’s just that it’s rare to find ones that don’t. Born the crown prince of a prosperous kingdom, Xie Lian was renowned for his beauty, strength, and purity. His years of dedication and noble deeds allowed him to ascend to godhood. But those who rise, can also fall...and fall he does, cast from the Heavens again and again and banished to the mortal realm. MXTX is a master at plotting. The story’s plot is incredibly incredibly intricate and complex. Yet, I don’t want to write too much because this is just a re-read review and you can’t really review a masterpiece. Yes... quarantine got so tough I re-read this 700k+ beast. But it was worth every second. Even if I had to willingly submit myself to quite a lot of sadness and torture. The logic is so flawed here. The reason that HC started loving XL is literally because Xie Lian saved him once as a child and therefore he will devote his entire life to XL, not caring about literally anything else. The reason that XL started loving HC is even more so. The thing is someone like say Shi Qingxuan has done every bit as much for XL as HC has, but we don’t see XL fall in love with SQX, do we? HC literally listens to him talk and XL falls in love with him, and although it does make sense due to XL being lonely for 800 years, how low the bar is set really bothers me.