tgcf is literally the best thing ever t___t i knew about it for years bc of twitter mutuals talking about it (and i had read mdzs so i knew of mxtx) but never read the books. then donghua s1 was released and i became so obsessed with it and read all the novels in less than a week LMAOO. hualian is everything
Omg I also found it through Netflix and it changed the trajectory of my life 😫 I mainly watch the dub and watch the sub when I have time to sit down for it. James cheek does absolutely amazing with hua cheng . Season 2 has killed me especially ep6. I'm still waiting for vol 6&7 to come in but I'm so excited to finish reading. Hualian literly invented love ong
I just finished TGCF and I already redecorated my entire apartment with Hualian art. Now that I finished reading I could start crying right this instant about the fact that it's over. Somebody send help pls, I love these guys too much 😭❤️
SAAAAAAME tgcf has become my entire personality now. My motivation. My inspiration. I almost gave up on being an artist/writer - and then mxtx said fukk that lookie here. And now my life goal is literally to write something that makes me feel even a tenth of what tgcf made me feel. Just knowing that a story like this exists in the world gives me a ridiculous amount of hope and joy. I stumbled across one of the first unofficial English translations on a google docs document like 4 years ago - and I will never be the same.
I started tgcf like a month ago and im OBSESSED with it. I have a whole tiktok collection of them and a Pinterest board of them. My math papers FULL of tiny doodles of them, My phone is themed abt them and theres still more. TGCF is just so awesome😭❤
I found TGCF around 2 years ago when the 2nd physical novel came out. I found it through ColeyDoesThings, then saw it at a book store. I was like "oh yeah, I've heard this is good, let me grab it." AND THEN I WAS HOOKED!! I've been buying and reading the physical copies ever since and the last book just got released. A wonderful, wonderful journey finally comes to an end... at least for the books. But now there's a donghua and a manhua and a live action all coming out! I love seeing every single version of the same story, and I'm so glad you found it too!! :)
I think one of the most fascinating things about Hualian's relationship, in my understanding, is when Xie Lian caught Hua Cheng from falling their fortunes were switched. Xie Lian was lucky and beloved and just the best thing ever and Hua Cheng was, let's say, in a really bad place. And when they meet again their places are completely reversed. And I feel like, maybe even if it's my own head canon, but part of Hua Cheng's devotion is I owe you everything. Like, anything he has , money, palaces, power, life, he feels like Xie Lian is the reason for it and so he's willing to give anything he has to Xie Lian because to him it's because of Xie Lian that he has it to begin with. And I think he's opposite to Jun Wu (obviously, what a crazy prick) in that he's in awe of the fact that Xie Lian can come out the otherside of all that horrible shit basically a good person, that really bad wobble in becoming the white clothed calamity not withstanding. Because when Hua Cheng jumped off the wall he wasn't just trying to kill himself, he was trying to curse the whole country for how badly he'd been treated and even in the present storyline he only likes Xie Lian, everyone else he has no time for. But Xie Lian still cares about people and the world and Hua Cheng's just like how? and you're really amazing :)
Heeey I found it on Netflix on a total whim too! I figured it sounded interesting, BUT THEN it just overtook everything. Then I found out there were books and it was all over for me. It's been a couple months and I'm still riding that wave of obsession. 🥰 It has NO right being this good.
GOSH the way i can relate to your reaction!! i myself found out about tgcf from a friend that was obsessed with them herself haha, but stupid me decided to POSTPONE READING IT .... and so fast forward a couple of months, i picked up and binge read mdzs(my first ever danmei)- absolutely LOVED IT and felt compelled to read the author's other works. thus, my obsession with tgcf began .... and never ended 😭 i had no freaking idea what i would get myself into when i first saw the first season of the donghua, then read the entire series from some dubious translation found some place even more dubious, but god damn was it the best choice i ever made in my entire life. hualian literally and historically are the inventors of love. they are the epitome of devotion in the romantical sense. they are THE standard. i swear, as much as i love them (and OH BOY, DO I LOVE THEM), they ruined romance books for me. they consume my every thought. i can't even enjoy other media anymore without SOMEHOW associating something with tgcf ITS INSANEEEEEE; my existance is a struggle at this point. all i do is wake up, tolerate life, enjoy tgcf content, sleep. genuinely think my obsession could rival hua cheng's 😩 dude's been living like this for over 800 christ, i barely function anymore after less than a year like this ahahah okay but in all seriousness, mxtx is a genius beyond my human comprehansion for having created the masterpiece that is tgcf. your reaction was very enjoyable to watch and i found myself laughing out loud so many times!! thank you for sharing it with us (as well as the rest of your videos; i watched a couple more after this and loved them all!) and for spreading the hualian agenda 💞 if anybody that hasn't read tgcf yet is reading this comment, all i can say to you is STOP. STOP READING MY BS RANT AND GO READ THIS ONCE IN A LIFETIME MIRACLE OF A STORY YOURSELF
I found Mdzs randomly on one of the worst days of my life about 2 years ago, so I read the novel, and then later learned about Tgcf and Svsss. Mdzs and Tgcf have become my comfort series now since they helped me through many days. Currently planning on cosplaying Wei Ying and San Lang. I loved how you explained everything honestly
I randomly found the series on Netflix one day, thought it sounded interesting, and now I’m obsessed!! And as a cosplayer, I’m feeling more and more inclined to to do a Heaven officials blessing cosplay😂
Girl I am loving your obsessive borderline feral energy here at 18:00 i felt that, been going crazy about lanwangji x wei wuxian from MDZS and gotta say MXTX has sure that knack to cultivate our fangirl thirstiness to write beautiful smut fiction about a ride to die simp, honestly we earnestly crave for such a wholesome romance deep down in our real lives could never fault you for your devotion on unable to move on past that. I have been re reading mdzs comics so obsessively wash rinse repeat that I could relate when u said why even read other novels when u got a good one, probably just gonna watch Heaven's official on crunchy and return back to mdzs rabbithole like the loyal lonewolf 😅 we clearly are. I didn't think you were crazy collecting merchandise been there done that with Naruto's uchiha Itachi and lang wangji rn lol. Although I don't enjoy fanfictions , I agreed with another video where you said the MXTX original cannon content is swell enough , I like the way you are so blunt and in your face not even hiding the fact that you're in it not for the plot but just the gay romances lol keep it up love watching your adorable fangirl mode keep em coming, look forward to future reviews and intensely fixated ravings xx
it's so funny how our experiences reading tgcf were so different XD i actually only became obsessed with hualian on the last book (yes, i am as feral for them as you are!! my parents!!!) but while i was reading i just loved all the characters and the plots and the backstories! hua cheng and xie lian are absolutely my favorite characters of the series, but i also have he xuan and shi wudu as my favorites (i loved black water arc so much lol yeh it's sad but it was so fkn good???! if i was a little less shy i would create a yt channel just to scream for HOURS about how much i love this book series. peak literature. i was smiling so much throughout this entire video, i love to see more people as in love with hualian and tgcf as i am XD
I don’t know if you’ll ever read this. But I feel so happy to find new danmei fans and their reactions to danmeis. I’ve been a danmei fan since 2018; randomly I was scrolling through social media and found a Binghe x Shen Qingqiu art (Characters from the danmei SVSSS) and from there on.. since December 2018, my danmei journey began and it’s still not over. I’m so happy you enjoyed this series, MXTX is gonna release a new series again, I hope you’ll enjoy that one too. I really like the way you expressed yourself throughout the video, and as a mandarin speaker, don’t worry, your pronunciation is fine) don’t worry, plus Chinese is difficult.
You know what i have a major exams in just one month , so earlier i decided to read the book after my exams but thanks to you and your expression on this book and series ..... Now i can't wait for my exams tooo.... You are so mean .... How could you do this to me.😢 ,... I am going to watch it now😅 By the way in case you didn't read the grandmaster of demonic cultivation till now ,then its a suggestion from me just watch The Untamed. Chinese bl drama first ,so that you will have a good imagination of the characters and their faces in the novel , i will assure you that will give a complete satisfaction .. guaranteed ☺️
I had a very similar path to MXTX. Scrolling Netflix and thinking it would be funny. But hands down, the funniest thing in the whole series is that Rain Master NEVER wins the lantern contest because she wants her followers to prioritize their own food over her clout. 😅
Me: **has read the series and is just as obsessed** Also me watching this with intense attention and cheeks full of nuggets: omg Hua Cheng is so slay. Go get ur God queen💅🏻✨ Haha I liked your rendition of the story! And your little silent hand gestures bc you just couldn't express your ✨feelings✨ were such a mood. This whole video was such a mood honestly. Hualian really have all of us in a chokehold. I also just started reading MDZS (on book 3 currently) and I gotta say, there's a reason MXTX is the queen of Danmei in this day and age. Anyways, really enjoyed the video. And also, the bit where you said "and Hua Cheng said BET." killed me. Lmao
I relate so much to everything you're saying!! TGCF (and by extension the other two series) is my latest and honestly most powerful obsession!! 🤩My sister introduced to be to the cartoon sometime after she introduced me to Sasaki and Miyano. She informed me it was a Chinese BL and I was excited to see what the romance would be like... I was absolutely hooked! All the precious fluffy moments between HuaLian, the cool moments when there was fighting (romantic dance-like fighting in the Sinner's Pit anyone? 🥰) I was utterly lost. I watched the series three times (English dub, Chinese dub, someones reaction) and just devoured fanfiction after fanfiction of HuaLian goodness! Some included crossovers with Grandmaster, with my favorite being that one way or another they become the adoptive fathers to Wei Ying 😊! I've even started an MXTX corner in my room!! Love Season 2 so far, and as for the books, I've actually only read the first two volumes (though I have the entire set along with the other series). I finished Scum Villain a while back, loved it there were so many comedic moments, and I am working on Grandmaster. Love James Cheek as Hua Cheng!! 😍😍
I learned of SVSSS first, but after seeing clips on youtube I wasnt interested in the 3D. Then I stumbled on a react video of tgcf and was like, oh neat, one of MXTX's books and it's 2D? Watched a few mins of the youtube vid, then watched the whole Season 1 (S2 wasnt out yet). Was immediately captured after the first episode. Was obsessed during and after finishing the season. Brain was screaming about it while I tried to focus on the finals exam in front of me. Read the books, read fanfiction, looked at art, drew fanart, downloaded songs in the donghua to listen to offline, started learning chinese with the goal of someday reading its chinese version, convinced my friend to watch it together and he loved it too. Years of me being in different fandoms, and this is actually only the second time I got obsessed with a pair! i love them so muchh
So I've found it randomly on some dubious page were I watch anime (sadly polish netflix doesn't have tgcf 😢) and I loved it so I decided to watch something similar and I came across mdzs and I liked it even more because I could feel in it much more that there was supposed to be romance. At 2nd sezon I found out in the coments that there is a novel and it has romance and even spice so I dropped the series , same as you read it on wattpad and became obsessed. After that I couldn't find tgcf anywhere. Finaly I found the translation, started reading it and then when i was in the middle of it it was dalated. Couple months later I became desperate, found a page to buy physical version, I didn't mind enymore that it was expensive and in my second language and i bought 6 volumes (at that time it was all). Now that I finished it I'm obsessed. It has the best description of love I've ever encounter on, the dialogues, quotes and acts, i'm speachles. Now I don't know if I ever find love 'cause my standarts ar so high thanks to Hua Chang. Also Xie Lian backstory is so tragic and heartbraking and even after all that he's been through he still is so kind. I think we all should try to be like him. So that's how I've fallen into the rabbit hole called danmei and the only thing that I regret is lack of money.
AGREE I have the same reaction as you througout the journey to finish this entire series! 😂I also randomly found tgcf on netflix and start to watch it without any expectation of what coming up... and I progressed to devour the entire book in about a week I really love the entire interaction between hua cheng and xie lian (I can't stop screaming everytime the scene come out in the book). How pure hua cheng love to xie lian makes me wanna smile and cry in the same time 😢
Thank you for introducing me to this story!! ❤❤ I watched a third of your vid and knew I had to go and read it. After finishing the first volume, I'm honestly only semi-interested in the plot and really just want soooo much more of Xie Lian and Hua Chen
Omg your story is so similar to mine, I discovered it through Netflix when it first came out in April 2021 and read the book in three weeks even if I had to study for finals. I'm still obssesed to this day
I found it through the AMV crowd. It looked interesting enough, I think it had him fighting the demon on the bridge. Started the series, found the main character endearing, and was almost immediately bulldozed by the domestic fluff. After that it was, "Yeah, I'm gonna need more of this." and proceeded to binge the rest of the book series through fan made audio books and fan translations since it wasn't officially out yet. One thing that I really love about them is that their care for one another goes both ways. HC might might be able to light up 3000 lanterns as both a romantic gesture and a middle finger to the rest of heaven but XL tries to return those gestures whenever he can. Theres the part further into the books where Heavens Eye shows up and HC is like "Don't worry, I'll lead them away since I'm not in a state to fight them. And XL puts his foot down and forces HC to allow him to protect him too.
So my intro to MXTX was actually watching the Untamed and then reading Grandmaster of Demonic Cultivation. I read Heaven Officials Blessing after that. I’m not really normal about either of those series. Those two and Husky and His White Cat Shizun are the ones I am not normal about. And Word of Honor. I recommend all these things if you’re in it for the romance. I also totally relate to the wattpad thing. I started it when 4 volumes were out and read the other half on wattpad. Thankfully I found a decent translation. I have all the physical copies now though :)
This was exactly how i fell into the danmei rabbit hole back in 2021 when i came across tgcf on netflix. I have not crawled out of the rabbit hole since. 😂😂😂
Me tooooo it was a wimm to watch Netflix but knew it was BL💖 but it is dounghua meaning it is in Mandarin😱.... and I love watching animes in japanese with eng-subs. Ou ou you are giving me the idea for Pinterest bord for them ❤️🔥 you are absolutely the best!!! Yes yes, murch is tricky....I have the vinyl od the hole season 1 soundtrack 😎 . Ah woman, it is sooo hearthwarming to be understood 😘.
girl I’m mentally ill like for real and I’ve been obsessed with TGCF for 6 months since i finished the books and the season 2 of the donghua came out😂 I have a pinterest board with Hualian and more than 500 artworks of them saved on my ipad. And i’m crazy about fanfiction about them on ao3. At this point my danmei obsession is at its peak 😅 by the way, Grandmaster of demonic cultivation is really great you will love it! and there’s a mantua and a donghua of it too
if you like fanfiction, and don't mind LONG stories try No Paths Are Bound by cataclysmic calamity on AO3 it gives a lot more time to hua cheng's, but it also realy dives into other characters' backstories. so if you're not into that it's probably not for you. it's over a milion words long and i swallowed that thing in 2 weeks i just love it
TGCF and MDZS got me by a chokehold. I was hesitant at first to deep dive in all of well.. T h i s. But tbh I have no regrets now These series took over my life and I binge watched both Donghuas and bought the first TGCF book Now everytime I see a butterfly I want to scream "HUA CHENG!!!!!!!!!!!" LMAO
I found it on Netflix’s too. Then I read it all. Then I brought the last volume for special edition cuz I wanted some merch. It was to pricy to buy it all. Loved it. Then I read scum villain. Watch it too. Then watched mdzs nd the untamed. Nd will prob start too read it tomorrow. I love fanfics on them tooooo.
Omg you simply MUST read MDZS. It grabbed me even harder than you're describing TGCF grabbing you. Tho I'm a hypocrite, I keep reading MDZS fanfic instead of getting any further in my TGCF books, so. Maybe we can make a pact and each read the other one. XD
Girlies 😭 meanwhile me who has MDZS TGCF and SVSS series which are FINISHED but is obsessed over Guardian by priest and waiting for the volume 2 desperately 😭😭
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How quickly did you realise it was a romance if you did not know going in? I’ve seen some who took ages to buy a clue (one person took to the end of season 1!), and others who got it immediately.
When San Lang showed up in the ox cart I was like “this is gay” and then when he painted Xie Lian’s portrait I was like “oh my god it’s INTENTIONALLY gay”
@@Manninglicious Yes, it was the difference between me thinking I was just reading some "fanon" into it and realising - "oh, this is canon!". I can no longer remember what I knew going in, so it's difficult to picture how long it would take for it to click for someone who knew nothing, given the censorship.
![[English Cover] One Flower, One Sword (一花一劍) / TGCF Heaven Official's Blessing ED](http://i.ytimg.com/vi/JFA0_YaPiHw/mqdefault.jpg)
tgcf is literally the best thing ever t___t i knew about it for years bc of twitter mutuals talking about it (and i had read mdzs so i knew of mxtx) but never read the books. then donghua s1 was released and i became so obsessed with it and read all the novels in less than a week LMAOO. hualian is everything
Lmao same I read those books QUICK
Omg I also found it through Netflix and it changed the trajectory of my life 😫 I mainly watch the dub and watch the sub when I have time to sit down for it. James cheek does absolutely amazing with hua cheng . Season 2 has killed me especially ep6. I'm still waiting for vol 6&7 to come in but I'm so excited to finish reading. Hualian literly invented love ong
Literallyyyy 😭💜 and James Cheek is GIVING
I just finished TGCF and I already redecorated my entire apartment with Hualian art.
Now that I finished reading I could start crying right this instant about the fact that it's over.
Somebody send help pls, I love these guys too much 😭❤️
Ugh so real 😭💜
SAAAAAAME tgcf has become my entire personality now. My motivation. My inspiration. I almost gave up on being an artist/writer - and then mxtx said fukk that lookie here. And now my life goal is literally to write something that makes me feel even a tenth of what tgcf made me feel. Just knowing that a story like this exists in the world gives me a ridiculous amount of hope and joy. I stumbled across one of the first unofficial English translations on a google docs document like 4 years ago - and I will never be the same.
I started tgcf like a month ago and im OBSESSED with it. I have a whole tiktok collection of them and a Pinterest board of them. My math papers FULL of tiny doodles of them, My phone is themed abt them and theres still more. TGCF is just so awesome😭❤
The way that we’re all Hua Cheng level devoted to TGCF 😭
I found TGCF around 2 years ago when the 2nd physical novel came out. I found it through ColeyDoesThings, then saw it at a book store. I was like "oh yeah, I've heard this is good, let me grab it." AND THEN I WAS HOOKED!! I've been buying and reading the physical copies ever since and the last book just got released. A wonderful, wonderful journey finally comes to an end... at least for the books. But now there's a donghua and a manhua and a live action all coming out! I love seeing every single version of the same story, and I'm so glad you found it too!! :)
I think one of the most fascinating things about Hualian's relationship, in my understanding, is when Xie Lian caught Hua Cheng from falling their fortunes were switched. Xie Lian was lucky and beloved and just the best thing ever and Hua Cheng was, let's say, in a really bad place. And when they meet again their places are completely reversed. And I feel like, maybe even if it's my own head canon, but part of Hua Cheng's devotion is I owe you everything. Like, anything he has , money, palaces, power, life, he feels like Xie Lian is the reason for it and so he's willing to give anything he has to Xie Lian because to him it's because of Xie Lian that he has it to begin with. And I think he's opposite to Jun Wu (obviously, what a crazy prick) in that he's in awe of the fact that Xie Lian can come out the otherside of all that horrible shit basically a good person, that really bad wobble in becoming the white clothed calamity not withstanding. Because when Hua Cheng jumped off the wall he wasn't just trying to kill himself, he was trying to curse the whole country for how badly he'd been treated and even in the present storyline he only likes Xie Lian, everyone else he has no time for. But Xie Lian still cares about people and the world and Hua Cheng's just like how? and you're really amazing :)
Thanks! I literally think about that all the time like their history and the dynamic of their relationship makes me SOB I love them so much
Heeey I found it on Netflix on a total whim too! I figured it sounded interesting, BUT THEN it just overtook everything. Then I found out there were books and it was all over for me. It's been a couple months and I'm still riding that wave of obsession. 🥰 It has NO right being this good.
For reallll
GOSH the way i can relate to your reaction!! i myself found out about tgcf from a friend that was obsessed with them herself haha, but stupid me decided to POSTPONE READING IT .... and so fast forward a couple of months, i picked up and binge read mdzs(my first ever danmei)- absolutely LOVED IT and felt compelled to read the author's other works. thus, my obsession with tgcf began .... and never ended 😭 i had no freaking idea what i would get myself into when i first saw the first season of the donghua, then read the entire series from some dubious translation found some place even more dubious, but god damn was it the best choice i ever made in my entire life.
hualian literally and historically are the inventors of love. they are the epitome of devotion in the romantical sense. they are THE standard. i swear, as much as i love them (and OH BOY, DO I LOVE THEM), they ruined romance books for me. they consume my every thought. i can't even enjoy other media anymore without SOMEHOW associating something with tgcf ITS INSANEEEEEE; my existance is a struggle at this point. all i do is wake up, tolerate life, enjoy tgcf content, sleep. genuinely think my obsession could rival hua cheng's 😩 dude's been living like this for over 800 christ, i barely function anymore after less than a year like this ahahah
okay but in all seriousness, mxtx is a genius beyond my human comprehansion for having created the masterpiece that is tgcf. your reaction was very enjoyable to watch and i found myself laughing out loud so many times!! thank you for sharing it with us (as well as the rest of your videos; i watched a couple more after this and loved them all!) and for spreading the hualian agenda 💞 if anybody that hasn't read tgcf yet is reading this comment, all i can say to you is STOP. STOP READING MY BS RANT AND GO READ THIS ONCE IN A LIFETIME MIRACLE OF A STORY YOURSELF
Thank you!! Literally same lmao it’s impossible to be normal about hualian😭
I also didn’t know it was CANON gay when I started watching it!!! When I found out it was a BL I screamed SO LOUD
I found Mdzs randomly on one of the worst days of my life about 2 years ago, so I read the novel, and then later learned about Tgcf and Svsss. Mdzs and Tgcf have become my comfort series now since they helped me through many days. Currently planning on cosplaying Wei Ying and San Lang. I loved how you explained everything honestly
Thanks! I’m all about a San Lang cosplay
I randomly found the series on Netflix one day, thought it sounded interesting, and now I’m obsessed!! And as a cosplayer, I’m feeling more and more inclined to to do a Heaven officials blessing cosplay😂
Omg yesss you should!
Girl I am loving your obsessive borderline feral energy here at 18:00 i felt that, been going crazy about lanwangji x wei wuxian from MDZS and gotta say MXTX has sure that knack to cultivate our fangirl thirstiness to write beautiful smut fiction about a ride to die simp, honestly we earnestly crave for such a wholesome romance deep down in our real lives could never fault you for your devotion on unable to move on past that. I have been re reading mdzs comics so obsessively wash rinse repeat that I could relate when u said why even read other novels when u got a good one, probably just gonna watch Heaven's official on crunchy and return back to mdzs rabbithole like the loyal lonewolf 😅 we clearly are. I didn't think you were crazy collecting merchandise been there done that with Naruto's uchiha Itachi and lang wangji rn lol. Although I don't enjoy fanfictions , I agreed with another video where you said the MXTX original cannon content is swell enough , I like the way you are so blunt and in your face not even hiding the fact that you're in it not for the plot but just the gay romances lol keep it up love watching your adorable fangirl mode keep em coming, look forward to future reviews and intensely fixated ravings xx
Thank you! I’m glad you understand 😂👌🏼
it's so funny how our experiences reading tgcf were so different XD i actually only became obsessed with hualian on the last book (yes, i am as feral for them as you are!! my parents!!!) but while i was reading i just loved all the characters and the plots and the backstories!
hua cheng and xie lian are absolutely my favorite characters of the series, but i also have he xuan and shi wudu as my favorites (i loved black water arc so much lol yeh it's sad but it was so fkn good???!
if i was a little less shy i would create a yt channel just to scream for HOURS about how much i love this book series. peak literature.
i was smiling so much throughout this entire video, i love to see more people as in love with hualian and tgcf as i am XD
I don’t know if you’ll ever read this. But I feel so happy to find new danmei fans and their reactions to danmeis. I’ve been a danmei fan since 2018; randomly I was scrolling through social media and found a Binghe x Shen Qingqiu art (Characters from the danmei SVSSS) and from there on.. since December 2018, my danmei journey began and it’s still not over. I’m so happy you enjoyed this series, MXTX is gonna release a new series again, I hope you’ll enjoy that one too. I really like the way you expressed yourself throughout the video, and as a mandarin speaker, don’t worry, your pronunciation is fine) don’t worry, plus Chinese is difficult.
Thanks!!
You know what i have a major exams in just one month , so earlier i decided to read the book after my exams but thanks to you and your expression on this book and series ..... Now i can't wait for my exams tooo.... You are so mean .... How could you do this to me.😢 ,... I am going to watch it now😅
By the way in case you didn't read the grandmaster of demonic cultivation till now ,then its a suggestion from me just watch The Untamed. Chinese bl drama first ,so that you will have a good imagination of the characters and their faces in the novel , i will assure you that will give a complete satisfaction .. guaranteed ☺️
I had a very similar path to MXTX. Scrolling Netflix and thinking it would be funny. But hands down, the funniest thing in the whole series is that Rain Master NEVER wins the lantern contest because she wants her followers to prioritize their own food over her clout. 😅
I love her for that
I started with MDZS (the donghua and then the live action series) and I think you’re also going to go feral over them, trust me!!
I love Heaven official blessing
Me: **has read the series and is just as obsessed**
Also me watching this with intense attention and cheeks full of nuggets: omg Hua Cheng is so slay. Go get ur God queen💅🏻✨
Haha I liked your rendition of the story! And your little silent hand gestures bc you just couldn't express your ✨feelings✨ were such a mood. This whole video was such a mood honestly. Hualian really have all of us in a chokehold.
I also just started reading MDZS (on book 3 currently) and I gotta say, there's a reason MXTX is the queen of Danmei in this day and age.
Anyways, really enjoyed the video. And also, the bit where you said "and Hua Cheng said BET." killed me. Lmao
Thanks! 😂 MXTX snatched out wigs and left us bald
I relate so much to everything you're saying!! TGCF (and by extension the other two series) is my latest and honestly most powerful obsession!! 🤩My sister introduced to be to the cartoon sometime after she introduced me to Sasaki and Miyano. She informed me it was a Chinese BL and I was excited to see what the romance would be like... I was absolutely hooked! All the precious fluffy moments between HuaLian, the cool moments when there was fighting (romantic dance-like fighting in the Sinner's Pit anyone? 🥰) I was utterly lost. I watched the series three times (English dub, Chinese dub, someones reaction) and just devoured fanfiction after fanfiction of HuaLian goodness! Some included crossovers with Grandmaster, with my favorite being that one way or another they become the adoptive fathers to Wei Ying 😊! I've even started an MXTX corner in my room!! Love Season 2 so far, and as for the books, I've actually only read the first two volumes (though I have the entire set along with the other series). I finished Scum Villain a while back, loved it there were so many comedic moments, and I am working on Grandmaster. Love James Cheek as Hua Cheng!! 😍😍
Yesss omg get ready the obsession only gets worse when you finish the series
excellent video
Thanks!
I learned of SVSSS first, but after seeing clips on youtube I wasnt interested in the 3D. Then I stumbled on a react video of tgcf and was like, oh neat, one of MXTX's books and it's 2D? Watched a few mins of the youtube vid, then watched the whole Season 1 (S2 wasnt out yet).
Was immediately captured after the first episode. Was obsessed during and after finishing the season. Brain was screaming about it while I tried to focus on the finals exam in front of me.
Read the books, read fanfiction, looked at art, drew fanart, downloaded songs in the donghua to listen to offline, started learning chinese with the goal of someday reading its chinese version, convinced my friend to watch it together and he loved it too.
Years of me being in different fandoms, and this is actually only the second time I got obsessed with a pair! i love them so muchh
Omg the way I just posted a video obsessing over HOB as well😍
I also have the same poster from your wall😭 ahh I love this
Welcome to the fandom!!
So I've found it randomly on some dubious page were I watch anime (sadly polish netflix doesn't have tgcf 😢) and I loved it so I decided to watch something similar and I came across mdzs and I liked it even more because I could feel in it much more that there was supposed to be romance. At 2nd sezon I found out in the coments that there is a novel and it has romance and even spice so I dropped the series , same as you read it on wattpad and became obsessed. After that I couldn't find tgcf anywhere. Finaly I found the translation, started reading it and then when i was in the middle of it it was dalated. Couple months later I became desperate, found a page to buy physical version, I didn't mind enymore that it was expensive and in my second language and i bought 6 volumes (at that time it was all). Now that I finished it I'm obsessed. It has the best description of love I've ever encounter on, the dialogues, quotes and acts, i'm speachles. Now I don't know if I ever find love 'cause my standarts ar so high thanks to Hua Chang. Also Xie Lian backstory is so tragic and heartbraking and even after all that he's been through he still is so kind. I think we all should try to be like him. So that's how I've fallen into the rabbit hole called danmei and the only thing that I regret is lack of money.
I completely relate to the danmei desperation 😂 it’s just too good
AGREE I have the same reaction as you througout the journey to finish this entire series! 😂I also randomly found tgcf on netflix and start to watch it without any expectation of what coming up... and I progressed to devour the entire book in about a week
I really love the entire interaction between hua cheng and xie lian (I can't stop screaming everytime the scene come out in the book). How pure hua cheng love to xie lian makes me wanna smile and cry in the same time 😢
I love your explanation
Thanks!
YAAAAAS, I"M SO HAPPY THAT DANMEI IS GETTING MORE COVERAGGEE! HAHAH~
Thank you for introducing me to this story!! ❤❤ I watched a third of your vid and knew I had to go and read it. After finishing the first volume, I'm honestly only semi-interested in the plot and really just want soooo much more of Xie Lian and Hua Chen
Omg yes!!! I’m so glad you like it! We’re all just here for the romance between Xie Lian and Hua Cheng
Omg your story is so similar to mine, I discovered it through Netflix when it first came out in April 2021 and read the book in three weeks even if I had to study for finals. I'm still obssesed to this day
I found it through the AMV crowd. It looked interesting enough, I think it had him fighting the demon on the bridge. Started the series, found the main character endearing, and was almost immediately bulldozed by the domestic fluff. After that it was, "Yeah, I'm gonna need more of this." and proceeded to binge the rest of the book series through fan made audio books and fan translations since it wasn't officially out yet.
One thing that I really love about them is that their care for one another goes both ways. HC might might be able to light up 3000 lanterns as both a romantic gesture and a middle finger to the rest of heaven but XL tries to return those gestures whenever he can. Theres the part further into the books where Heavens Eye shows up and HC is like "Don't worry, I'll lead them away since I'm not in a state to fight them. And XL puts his foot down and forces HC to allow him to protect him too.
YES I love that 😭💜
So my intro to MXTX was actually watching the Untamed and then reading Grandmaster of Demonic Cultivation. I read Heaven Officials Blessing after that. I’m not really normal about either of those series. Those two and Husky and His White Cat Shizun are the ones I am not normal about. And Word of Honor. I recommend all these things if you’re in it for the romance. I also totally relate to the wattpad thing. I started it when 4 volumes were out and read the other half on wattpad. Thankfully I found a decent translation. I have all the physical copies now though :)
I just started Grandmaster of Cultivation and I can’t wait to be Not Normal™️ about another series!
This was exactly how i fell into the danmei rabbit hole back in 2021 when i came across tgcf on netflix. I have not crawled out of the rabbit hole since. 😂😂😂
Once you find danmei there’s no going back 😂
okay so....now I have to read it (probably gonna finish SVSSS first tho)
Me tooooo it was a wimm to watch Netflix but knew it was BL💖 but it is dounghua meaning it is in Mandarin😱.... and I love watching animes in japanese with eng-subs.
Ou ou you are giving me the idea for Pinterest bord for them ❤️🔥 you are absolutely the best!!!
Yes yes, murch is tricky....I have the vinyl od the hole season 1 soundtrack 😎 .
Ah woman, it is sooo hearthwarming to be understood 😘.
girl I’m mentally ill like for real and I’ve been obsessed with TGCF for 6 months since i finished the books and the season 2 of the donghua came out😂 I have a pinterest board with Hualian and more than 500 artworks of them saved on my ipad. And i’m crazy about fanfiction about them on ao3. At this point my danmei obsession is at its peak 😅 by the way, Grandmaster of demonic cultivation is really great you will love it! and there’s a mantua and a donghua of it too
SAME 😂 I just finished the first MDZS book and it was really good!
@@ManningliciousTry MDZS donghua, which is really really good! Very emotional and had huge impact on me.
if you like fanfiction, and don't mind LONG stories try No Paths Are Bound by cataclysmic calamity on AO3 it gives a lot more time to hua cheng's, but it also realy dives into other characters' backstories. so if you're not into that it's probably not for you. it's over a milion words long and i swallowed that thing in 2 weeks i just love it
Thanks! I’ll check it out!
TGCF and MDZS got me by a chokehold. I was hesitant at first to deep dive in all of well.. T h i s. But tbh I have no regrets now
These series took over my life and I binge watched both Donghuas and bought the first TGCF book
Now everytime I see a butterfly I want to scream "HUA CHENG!!!!!!!!!!!" LMAO
Same lmao I’m obsessed but I regret nothing
I found it on Netflix’s too. Then I read it all. Then I brought the last volume for special edition cuz I wanted some merch. It was to pricy to buy it all. Loved it. Then I read scum villain. Watch it too. Then watched mdzs nd the untamed. Nd will prob start too read it tomorrow. I love fanfics on them tooooo.
Same lmao I can’t get physical copies the full series but you know I had to buy the special edition!
@@Manninglicious the 8volume here if I orderd from a book shop here was charging 85 dollars same on amazon
Omg you simply MUST read MDZS. It grabbed me even harder than you're describing TGCF grabbing you. Tho I'm a hypocrite, I keep reading MDZS fanfic instead of getting any further in my TGCF books, so. Maybe we can make a pact and each read the other one. XD
Omg yes let’s get this pact going so I finally stop reading TGCF fanfic for long enough to read MDZS 😂
@@Manninglicious Let's do it. I'll go get my TGCF book right now. Report back in a week? XD
Girlies 😭 meanwhile me who has MDZS TGCF and SVSS series which are FINISHED but is obsessed over Guardian by priest and waiting for the volume 2 desperately 😭😭
Sek sek ....I have a short recommendation that has no book to it but the visuals are great...sek
ONMYOJI: TAISHAKUTEN AND ASURA'S STORY a 12 chaper a la 10 min story on youtube taken out of a game 🙀❤ the Brocken Hero song...make it on repeat
I’ll have to check it out!
@@miyayume_eclectic_dream asutai
Yea this series is my personality… and yea u called me out we are a part of that mentally ill gang 😂
I am extremely mentally ill about tgcf and have been for years now
Dear Samantha Manning,
I am KKKK, a follower of your UA-cam channel. I recently watched your video titled "Screaming Over HEAVEN OFFICIAL’S BLESSING" and found it to be incredibly valuable, especially in relation to the spreading of Heaven's Blessings. I would like to share this video on Bilibili to reach a wider audience.
Before doing so, I want to ensure that I respect your copyright and have your permission. If you agree, I will make sure to credit you as the original creator, including a link to your UA-cam channel at the reposted location.
Of course, if you have any concerns or do not agree, I completely understand and will respect your decision.
Thank you for taking the time to read my message, and I look forward to your response.
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Sure!
How quickly did you realise it was a romance if you did not know going in? I’ve seen some who took ages to buy a clue (one person took to the end of season 1!), and others who got it immediately.
When San Lang showed up in the ox cart I was like “this is gay” and then when he painted Xie Lian’s portrait I was like “oh my god it’s INTENTIONALLY gay”
@@Manninglicious Yes, it was the difference between me thinking I was just reading some "fanon" into it and realising - "oh, this is canon!". I can no longer remember what I knew going in, so it's difficult to picture how long it would take for it to click for someone who knew nothing, given the censorship.