The King of Heaven is an urban supernatural novel serialized from March to November 2009 by Dancing (real name Chen Bin), a top-tier author on Qidian Chinese Network. The complete work runs approximately 1.6 million Chinese characters, and in 2010 Taibai Literature and Art Publishing House released a print edition. The story begins on Chen Xiao's eighteenth birthday: he is an orphan whose parents, once cutting-edge researchers, died two years earlier in a scientific accident. On his birthday, a mysterious phone call comes from someone claiming to be a friend of his parents, and soon afterward a large freezer is delivered to his home—inside sleeps a beautiful blue-blooded girl named Yaya. From then on Chen Xiao is drawn into a jianghu of superpowered individuals far more complicated than the everyday world: a shadow order built around organizations such as the Service Agency and the Club, and a hierarchy of power ranked by S-class and X-class designations. His ability is to copy, devour, and purify—he can seize others' DNA-based powers and also neutralize their abilities with his own blood, which makes him both a weapon and a threat in the eyes of every faction. From acting manager of a coffee shop to Kidd Academy, from Homeland Island, Champagne Inn, and the Unfinished Street to a journey to Japan to trade blows with sword-clan and royal-associated forces, and finally to a showdown with an American superpower organization in New York, Chen Xiao is pushed along the path of growth between "luck" and "cost." Influenced by the American TV series Heroes and American comics, the author attempts to construct an Eastern modern hero system: there is passionate combat, but also inquiries into fairness, fate, and the secrets of the older generation; the narrative is interspersed with abundant banter and humor, with pacing that is slow at first and fast later on.
Taibai Literature and Art Publishing House is a professional publisher focused on literature and art. Its publishing areas cover classics, foreign literature, essays and miscellaneous writings, modern poetry, philosophical reading, and social novels. Judging from the books in the database, the press introduces foreign literary classics such as John Steinbeck's The Grapes of Wrath, Dostoevsky's The Insulted and Humiliated, Murasaki Shikibu's The Tale of Genji, and the complete novels of Jane Austen, while also publishing essay works such as Xiang Xing Za Ji: Huang Yongyu Illustrated Edition, modern poetry such as Zha Lie Zhi, and philosophical reading such as On the Art of Choice. Its translators and authors include Hu Zhongchi, Shao Quanlin, Feng Zikai, and Li Jihong, reflecting a publishing profile that combines classic translation with domestic literary creation. Due to limited public information, its complete publishing scope and features require further supplementation.
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