Heaven Official’s Blessing’s Xie Lian and Hua Cheng have captured the public’s attention with their presence in a stunning new illustration.
Illustrated by STARember, the artist behind the manhua adaptation of Heaven Official’s Blessing, new artwork for the volume cover is out to celebrate the return of manhua after a four-month hiatus. The illustration shows the couple Ta Lien and Hoa Thanh leaving the palace. Huacheng gently held Xie Lien’s hand, the red thread on his finger was clearly visible, his eyes did not leave his beloved Highness. Xie Lian was a little stunned when he was dragged away by Huacheng, holding a lantern in his other hand. STARember’s attention to detail is evident in the way they illustrated the folds and decorations on Hoa Thanh and Ta Lien’s clothes. While the couple captures most of the fans’ eyes, the background is equally beautiful, with aurora-like effects stretching across the sky, an opaque image of a dragon towering over the palace and Brilliant silver butterflies surrounded the two of them. Heaven Official’s Blessing has released Chapter 90 on its Bilibili platform, right on Hoa Thanh’s birthday on June 10.
Various adaptations of Heaven Official’s Blessing
Heaven Official’s Blessing, the third novel by the famous knitting beauty author Mo Xiang Tong Xiu, has four adaptations. In addition to the manhua adaptation, which has been compiled into two volumes, Heaven Official’s Blessing also received a donghua adaptation. Animated by Haoliners Animation League (Link Click, The Daily Life of the Immortal King and To Be Hero), donghua premiered in October 2020 with 11 episodes and a special episode. Heaven Official’s Blessing becomes Funimation’s first donghua on the platform. Jiang Guangtao voices Xie Lian in the first season, with Ma Zhengyang as Hua Cheng. However, the former was replaced by Deng Youxi in the second for “personal reasons”.
The popular BL series was also adapted into an audio drama in July 2022 on the MaoerFM audio streaming platform. However, although the series was given the green light for 19 episodes, but only released one episode, it was taken down for “technical reasons”. A live-action adaptation, Eternal Faith, begins production in 2021, with Zhai Xiaowen playing Xie Lian and Zhang Linghe as Hua Cheng. No release date has been announced.
800 years ago, Xie Lian was the lovable, kind and sometimes spoiled Crown Prince of the Xianle Kingdom. At the age of 17, he was first ascended to heaven, but Xie Lian found himself banished after a chain of unfortunate and tragic events. After hundreds of years of wandering, Xie Lien once again ascended to heaven, to the amazement of the rest of the gods. He didn’t spend much time in the heavenly realm for too long before he descended again to investigate something in the human realm. He meets a charismatic man dressed all in red, whose past is closely tied to Xie Lian.
While fans will be saddened to learn there is no official English license for manhua, they can feel comfortable reading the novel, published by Seven Seas. Season 1 of Heaven Official’s Blessing is available now on Crunchyroll, with Season 2 in development.
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