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Heaven Official's Blessing: Tian Guan Ci Fu, Vol. 6 by 墨香铜臭, Mo Xiang Tong Xiu

14 reviews

nefariousbee's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional funny sad tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

5.0

the cutest, funniest stuff so far + psychological torture. 5 stars

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Murder, Blood, Cursing, Death, Stalking, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide attempt, Toxic friendship, Violence, Xenophobia, Grief, Injury/Injury detail, Pandemic/Epidemic, Physical abuse, Self harm, Death of parent, Gore, Suicide, Torture, and Toxic relationship

emisreads's review against another edition

dark emotional sad medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

5.0

I cried, I sobbed, I hurt. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death of parent, Injury/Injury detail, Physical abuse, Torture, Violence, and Body horror

Moderate: Emotional abuse, Self harm, Mental illness, Death, Gore, and Pandemic/Epidemic

Minor: Abandonment and Bullying

predawns's review against another edition

dark emotional sad tense fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

5.0

In all honesty... This is the only volume, ever. The only one I need to give trigger warnings to as well.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Torture, Stalking, Emotional abuse, Suicide, Suicide attempt, Self harm, War, Gore, and Alcohol

bookish_manatee's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

5.0

This book was incredible, but gosh, was it painful. I think I underestimated how triggering and brutal certain parts of this book would be. It hurt so much to see everything Xie Lian went through, but I’m also glad he was able to pull through and become the kind and wonderful person he is. I can only hope that he gets the happy ending he deserves.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Suicide, Body horror, Injury/Injury detail, Death of parent, Suicide attempt, Torture, Violence, and Blood

Moderate: Self harm, Stalking, and Abandonment

Minor: Alcohol

keddy4306's review against another edition

dark emotional sad tense slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

5.0

The book starts off with stalker-thriller energy.

Hua Cheng's pottery barn is unveiled by Mu Qing and Feng Xing. Xie Lian is just blushing and going "ooooh I have a fan." the whole time hehe.

The later 2/3 of the book goes over

The white-clothed Calamity, White No-Face, Wuming, and Xie Lian's second ascension.

Help me
Help me, help me, help me.
Help me, help me, help, help, help, help, help, help, help, help, help, help, help, help, help, help me!
It hurts, it hurts, it hurts, it hurts, it hurts, it hurts...it hurts, it hurts, it hurts, it hurts, it hurts, it hurts, it hurts, it hurts, it hurts, it hurts, IT HURTS, IT HURTS, IT HURTS, IT HURTS, IT HURTS, IT HURTS, IT HURTS, IT HURTS, IT HURTS, IT HURTS, IT HURTS, IT HURTS, IT HURTS, IT HURTS, IT HURTS!
Why can't I die?
WHY CAN'T I DIE?!

page 256

The book concludes with the

creation of Ruoye

,

rise of the white-clothed Calamity

and the

death of Wuming.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death of parent, Gore, Grief, Mental illness, Pandemic/Epidemic, Suicide, Suicide attempt, War, Torture, Blood, Self harm, Body horror, Murder, Suicidal thoughts, Death, Injury/Injury detail, and Violence

Minor: Alcoholism, Alcohol, Cursing, and Stalking

merc_birb's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional mysterious sad tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Suicidal thoughts, Gore, Body horror, Torture, Suicide attempt, Murder, and Suicide

Moderate: Death of parent, Emotional abuse, Gaslighting, Pandemic/Epidemic, Physical abuse, Self harm, Grief, Injury/Injury detail, Death, Panic attacks/disorders, and Mental illness

dragon_s_hoard's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional hopeful sad tense medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Self harm, Suicide, Torture, Toxic friendship, Death of parent, Eating disorder, Cursing, Mental illness, Pandemic/Epidemic, Physical abuse, Abandonment, Panic attacks/disorders, Violence, Classism, Blood, Body horror, Chronic illness, Grief, Fire/Fire injury, Genocide, Injury/Injury detail, Murder, War, Vomit, Death, Gore, and Stalking

octavia_m8's review against another edition

dark emotional tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Self harm, Body horror, Suicide, Gore, and Vomit

Minor: Alcohol

iellv's review against another edition

dark emotional hopeful inspiring mysterious sad tense medium-paced

4.75

EDIT: I only ever lower my ratings after letting the first rating sit, but the more time passes the more I realize how much I loved this volume so I’m giving it a 4.8 now. 

Warning: this is the most violent volume in the series thus far? Oh my god? I just wanted Hua Cheng back man it got so dark

XIE LIAN. 

Easily the best volume so far in terms of structure, theme, and writing! I know it’s not fair to assess each volume as is considering this is rlly just one book that publishers divided into equal parts, but this was just so clean compared to all the others that I think it should be praised for it. Anyway, this was quite good. I am such a sucker for stories where receiving one (1) single act of genuine human kindness and compassion can change someone else for the better!!!! Fair warning that this is 70% flashback but at this point…. I can forgive flashbacks if it’s TGCF.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Suicide attempt, Torture, Suicide, Violence, Death of parent, and Murder

Moderate: Self harm

cammaleahh's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional sad tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Gore, Violence, and Torture

Moderate: Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, and Bullying

Minor: Grief and Self harm