Mo Xiang Tong Xiu
Mo Xiang Tong Xiu is a Chinese writer of fantasy novels in the danmei genre. She began publishing her work on the Chinese online literature platform Jinjiang.
Pseudonym
According to the author, she came up with her pen name based on her mother's words. Mo Xiang Tong Xiu wanted to study literature in college, while her mother insisted that she study economics. Her mother said that she could “smell ink in one hand and the smell of money in the other.” 墨香 means “the fragrance of ink,” and 铜臭 is an expression meaning “the smell of money.”Novels
The Scum Villain’s Self-Saving System was published in 2014. An anime adaptation, announced for summer 2020, began airing in September 2020 on the WeTV channel under the title 穿书自救指南.Grandmaster of Demonic Cultivation was published in 2015. From 2018 to 2021, a three-season animated adaptation was released. In 2019, a live-action television series based on the novel, The Untamed, starring Xiao Zhan and Wang Yibo, was released.Heaven Official’s Blessing was published in 2017. An animated adaptation began airing on October 31, 2020.All of the novels have also been adapted into manhua and Chinese-language audio dramas.
Popularity
According to the All-Russian Book Ranking for the first half of 2022, Mo Xiang Tong Xiu's novel Heaven Official’s Blessing ranked among the top five bestsellers overall and in the fiction category.According to Publishing Perspectives in 2022, the English translation of Heaven Official’s Blessing ranked among the ten most popular books. In 2023, Seven Seas Entertainment released the English translation of the manhua adaptation of Grandmaster of Demonic Cultivation, illustrated by Lodi Chengqiu. In the United Kingdom, in 2024, Mo Xiang Tong Xiu entered the top 25 best-selling authors, with total sales of her books for the year exceeding £997,000.