Tian Guan Cifu
Heaven Official's Blessing: Tian Guan Ci Fu
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Tian Guan Cifu

Alternative Titles

Synonyms: TGCF
Japanese: 天官赐福
English: Heaven Official's Blessing: Tian Guan Ci Fu
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Information

Type: Novel
Volumes: 6
Chapters: Unknown
Status: Finished
Published: Feb 4, 2021 to Mar 31, 2022
Genres: Action Action, Adventure Adventure, Boys Love Boys Love, Supernatural Supernatural
Theme: Historical Historical
Serialization: None
Authors: Mo Xiang Tong Xiu (Story)

Statistics

Score: 9.051 (scored by 61206,120 users)
1 indicates a weighted score.
Ranked: #82
2 based on the top manga page. Please note that 'R18+' titles are excluded.
Popularity: #1558
Members: 13,505
Favorites: 1,323

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Synopsis

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.

Eight hundred years after his mortal life, Xie Lian has ascended to godhood for the third time. Now only a lowly scrap collector, he is dispatched to wander the earthly realm to take on tasks appointed by the heavens to pay back debts and maintain his divinity. Aided by old friends and foes alike, and graced with the company of a mysterious young man with whom he feels an instant connection, Xie Lian must confront the horrors of his past in order to dispel the curse of his present.

(Source: Seven Seas Entertainment)

Background

Tian Guan Cifu was a web novel released on Jinjiang Wenxue Cheng from June 16, 2017, to February 25, 2018, and published in print in Taiwan by Pinsin Publishing from February 4, 2021, to March 31, 2022.

The series has been published in English as Heaven Official's Blessing: Tian Guan Ci Fu by Seven Seas Entertainment under the Danmei imprint from December 14, 2021, to November 28, 2023, and in a new deluxe hardcover edition since December 3, 2024.

Characters

Hua, Cheng
Main
Xie, Lian
Main
Shi, Qingxuan
Supporting
Mu, Qing
Supporting
Ling, Wen
Supporting
Fu, Yao
Supporting
Ming, Yi
Supporting
Qi, Rong
Supporting
Pei, Ming
Supporting
Nan, Feng
Supporting

Reviews

Jul 21, 2022
Spoiler free review (besides mentioning arcs if that counts for you)
Preface: Before I start, I read this book in my first year of having chronic pain and it really helped me with the hardest months. So it’s going to be a fairly rose tinted review.

Story:
It’s a character focused story, which I do have a liking for. But even I could see in retrospect, worldbuilding was lacking. I funnily liked the lack of any character development (maybe if you count the flashback arcs). Because it reads like you’re being put at the end of their whole life journeys even though they’re immortals. Romance takes a BIG ...
Nov 18, 2022
Mixed Feelings
Spoiler
This book is long. Very long. It clocks in at around 1,000,000 words in the English translation, including all of the extras. It is formatted a lot more like a road or adventure novel, or even a narrative within a narrative akin to the Mahābhārata than a stereotypical romance novel, and while it's core IS about the romantic relationship between the protagonist Xie Lian and the love interest Hua Cheng, the romance serves a thematic function that carries through the novel: the love of one person, the belief of one person, the care of one person is enough to make life worth living. In a ...
Jun 2, 2022
Spoiler
I really wanted to like this book.

As a bisexual man starved for representation where a gay romance is the focus, and the gay characters aren't the sexless parents of a side character or an issue episode, when I saw the author of MDZS and SVSSS had made another story, I was cautiously optimistic, is the thing. BL anime and manga had been letting me down pretty bad at the time, and I kept hearing people talking online about how good TGCF was. That it was a sweet and pure romantic epic, with a deep, twisty core mystery like MDZS. I want to be clear. I ...

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