Ok I'm an anon who in the past has asked you how to read and watch mdzs, and I recently asked about vinland saga. Now I'm also super curious, and I'm SO sorry if this is getting annoying, but what is tcgf about and where can I read that? It looks so interesting!!
DON’T APOLOGIZE. and sorry for the late response! i was putting together an ebook for you lol… without further ado:
where can you read tgcf aka heaven official’s blessing?
- @ sakhyulations (chapters 1-24)
- @ suika’s translations on a google drive (all the rest)
- AND: READ THE MANHUA PLEASE JUST DO IT THERE ARE ONLY 2 CHAPTERS SO FAR (it started two days ago lol)
what is it?
it’s an epic love story about a fallen god and a demon king written by mxtx. it’s part war story, part murder mystery, part humor, part tragedy (with a happy ending, but man do they earn it). the story is just plain fun to read and genuinely funny, but also deeply moving, while the plot is so tight and intricate that little every detail from the first few pages comes back around by the end. it’s a triumph to read.
the main characters are xie lian and hua cheng. xie lian is a god of rags and misfortune, still known as “the crown prince” though he’s fallen from godhood twice and his nation fell to ruin 800 years previously. he’s technically a god of war, once one of the most powerful in existence, but by the opening of the story he’s known as “the laughing stock of the three realms,” a title he bears with humility, grace, and humor. hua cheng, almost his opposite, is the ghost king, one of the four great calamities, who made his name in a single night after challenging 33 gods, defeating them, destroying their temples, and thus wiping them off the face of the earth. (without temples and devotees, a god will become mortal and die.) hua cheng is feared in the heavens and worshiped on earth. of course, his peerless brutality has one singular exception.
the story starts with xie lian’s third ascension to godhood, an event that shakes the heavens so bad that he gets put in debt to payback all the repair costs and has to start doing missions on earth to earn merits. it’s funny and the story starts a little confusingly until you slowly realize that xie lian is the most extreme case of unreliable narrator ever written and that most of the other gods’ awkwardness toward him is built on 800 years of history that xie lian won’t acknowledge until forced to–and boy, does the plot force him to. it’s one of those stories that you finish and immediately start rereading because the realization of how many subtle hints you missed is earth-shaking. the hat xie lian is wearing, the bandages around his wrist and neck, the white robes, the bead in hua cheng’s hair… all plot points that will leave you staring out the window for hours.
should you read it?
YES. i really want you to more than anything, i even made that ebook up there like a nerd, and if that’s not enough, it’s getting an animation and live action, so you will be fed for years. at its most simple, tgcf is a story about faith and devotion. it’s honest to god REALLY funny so read it for that if for nothing else. come for the humor and stay to rediscover the meaning of love. i’ve read this twice and am reading it a third time, and i enjoy it more and more each time i do. it truly does get dark in places but never without purpose. i can’t really say more because it’ll spoil some of the reveals even in the first few chapters. happy reading if you decide to and i’ll be here to hold you if you need it!
(all art in this post is from the official manhua artist starember so if nothing else, read the manhua!)
