Heaven Official's Blessing Quotes

Quote 7

Book 1, Page 156, Chapter 5: Red-Clad Ghost, the Burning of the Martial and Civil Temples

The name Hua Cheng was very obviously fake, and his appearance was most likely fake too. In the rumors, he was sometimes a twisted boy given to capricious mood changes, sometimes a gentle and mannered handsome young man, sometimes a gorgeous seductress with a venomous heart, anything goes! As for his true self, the only thing that one could be sure of was that he dressed in red and often appeared alongside a bloodbath with silver butterflies flitting between his sleeves. And when it came to Hua Cheng's backstory, there were endless different versions. Some say he was born without a right eye and was bullied and humiliated for it since birth, so he was filled with hatred for the world. Some say he was a young soldier who died in a lost battle for his country and later came to walk the earth in resentment. Some say he was a fool who was tormented by the death of his lover; some even say he was a monster. In the most outrageous version, supposedly---only supposedly!---Hua Cheng ascended and became a God but immediately jumped back down on his own and became a ghost. But that version wasn't widespread. No one knew if it was true or false, and not many beloved it. It had to be false, though; even if it were true, it'd be a complete embarrassment for the heavens if someone ditched a heavenly official role to become a ghost.