During his investigation, he is unexpectedly greeted by a ghost whose form resembles that of a young man wearing maple-red robes and silver vambraces, with black boots and attached silver chains. 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. In TGCF, though, it is a massive flashback dump rather than intermittent chapters; both Book 2 and Book 5 are entirely flashback.

On August 4th 2021 the official English translation and physical copy was announced by Seven Seas Entertainment. But the Heavenly Officials are not all virtuous, and being good is not exactly a prerequisite to get into the heavens. Like Lan Wangji, they don't have to say long and corny and cheesy words to express how they feel for the other. I also find the repeated emphasis that Hua Cheng considers Xie Lian his god and himself as his most devoted believer just a bit uncomfortable for the romance. Poor Shi Wu Du and Shi Qing Xuan, though at least they had a proper storyline (even if it fizzles out rather than having adequate closure).Like the ML obsesses over the MC for 800 years, isolating himself from the world and not taking any side of the story besides MC's is supposed to be romantic, but it really isn't. I would honestly like him more if MXTX made him something like a socially awkward character; it would feel much more dimensional and make room for humour too (side note: imagine if his hand was trembling during the ghost groom scene? It doesn't help that he's an insufferable Mary Sue with an endless array of powers, intelligent as hell and knows literally everything, really good at painting, sculpting, woodworking, and on top of that the richest, most powerful, most handsome, and most charismatic man in the book. While I love MXTX's devoted MLs (like Lan Wangji) and Hua Cheng has a similar appeal, I'm of two minds on whether this was taken a bit too far sometimes here.

They are all three dimensional and have their own thoughts, emotions, and feelings as well as a believable backstory, but so many of them are quickly offed to make way for the main couple, some of them not only not becoming better, but actually getting quite a whole lot worse. And even though I thought the Wind Master was annoying at first, he eventually grew on me and every time he showed up I was honestly wishing this story was about him and his brother instead. So rather than getting a nice, bitter-sweet, heart squeeze you just read about making out every now and then. Thought it was super interesting that a lot of characters had to make difficult decisions or face situations where there really was no easy answer, or much less, a "right" answer. This xianxia fantasy tale built around the romanticized love between two men (danmei) has spawned an ongoing multimedia franchise that's beloved across the world.

The other novels trick you into thinking there's hate instead of love, which is why the singular perspective works. We don’t share your credit card details with third-party sellers, and we don’t sell your information to others. MC on the surface seems like a soft, innocent angel, but in reality that's all because he's been worn down by 800 years of struggling to climb his way out of the mud. But the MC has a steadfast nature and an unbending will and he's shaken out of this numbness by the ML.