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

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and excuse me but WHAT IS IT with killing off Xiao Ying and calling her "ugly" and all?? it's like these women were made to be subservient to men and i know it probably doesn't relate but OH IT DOES TO ME okay?! even Xie Lian did that - he was like "oh she's ugly but it doesn't matter" and me over here looking like Tian Guan Ci Fu / Heaven Official's Blessing Confirmed for Season 2!". The Geekiary. 2 January 2021.

Overall, this book spent too much time describing the arguments that random characters got into. It was tiring and tedious, and I only got hints of the romance I thought I would enjoy. Together, the heroes fight magical crime, paced in manga-style (manhua-style, in the proper Chinese vocabulary) on-flowing story arcs. With zombies. This author seems rather big on zombies, tho' that's likely a standard genre trope. I can see the appeal -- lots of bad guys available on demand for the good guys to dramatically shred, without the moral complexity of massacring humans, although in these tales the body count among live, well, briefly live, humans is also high. And gruesome. Definitely horror elements. (But there's an afterlife, so it's... kinda ok?) The story so far is getting around to the romance rather gradually.Xie Lian was pensive for a moment, and he smiled softly as he chased his memories. ❝Many, many years ago, there was some who told me they couldn't live on anymore. They asked me for the reason they were alive and what was the meaning of their life.❞ The misogyny in this book is insane. There's an entire chapter dedicated to depicting a woman, Xuan Ji, as "hysterical" because she rightfully got angry that a man used her and then threw her away. I thought this scene was misogynistic in the show, but the book made it worse through Xie Lian's inner commentary. He literally thinks of Xuan Ji as “overdramatic,” and just the way Xuan Ji was written reeks of misogyny.

There are also strange choices of using pinyin/localisations. The locations are have been translated to English. Yet, festivals like Shangyuan has been kept in Pinyin. However, Shangyuan is a widely celebrated festival till this very day and has always been translated to the Lantern Festival worldwide in English text. ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lantern...). Did the translation team know this festival exists? There's actually no need to leave it in pinyin. But one thing that really bothered me was how everyone treated Xiao-Ying. Everyone called her ugly, and nobody but Xie Lian cared when she died. Born the crown prince of a prosperous kingdom, Xie Lian’s years of noble deeds allowed him to ascend to godhood.

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Mu Qing responded coolly, “ Your Highness walked the Mortal Realm for hundreds of years, and yet you are still so ill-informed. I’m really curious to know what you’ve been doing all this time.” The writing—the translation—is majorly what I found difficult. I’ve never really read very many translations before, just a couple here and there. There’s a custom in the Ghost Realm where if a ghost has a special someone, they entrust their ashes to that person.”

Xie Lian might have ascended for the third time, but he can use no magic, has no believers, no temples, no merits to pay for the damages his last ascension caused. All he owns is the same good heart that had caused him so much trouble. Aided by two junior officials who can’t stop bantering, Xie Lian is sent to a little town where brides are disappearing. But brides won’t be the only thing Xie Lian will find there… This epic historical fantasy about a prince and the mysterious man by his side is now in English, for the very first time. It’s already bad to depict one of the only female characters as so obsessed with a man that she gave away her entire life for him, but it’s another level of misogyny to then blame her entirely for the events while the man gets no repercussions.There is nothing wrong with saving people. Why would the heavens condemn me for doing the right thing?”