Any Good Supernatural Novels with a Powerful, Cold, and Unsentimental Heroine? 灵异的，女主比较冷漠，不圣母，很厉害的小说有嘛
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The Strange Tribulation: The Daoist Shaman's Deadly Fate 诡劫：道巫凶命
[No System] [Mild Horror] [Taoist Priest] [Female Lead] [There have been too many coincidences along the way. It feels like someone has been setting me up.] After losing my memories, life became incredibly difficult... The bizarre and terrifying things I encountered nearly drove me to a breakdown... Every strange, eerie event put me in danger, yet somehow I survived time and time again. Then one day, I met an expert who gave me a new understanding of my own fate... [What kind of conspiracy lies
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My Unhinged Persona Can't Crack [Infinite Flow] 疯批人设不能崩［无限流］
[Infinite quick transmigration + horror, suspense, and mystery-solving + no romance. The heroine acts like a lunatic, but she's absolutely sane! Slow-paced! Slow-paced! Slow-paced!] After the S-rank felon Ye Li is forcibly bound to a Punishment and Rehabilitation System, she's exiled to countless perilous worlds created in virtual reality to serve her sentence and undergo punishment. The more she suffers while serving her time, the more of her sin points are deducted. During her sentence, Ye L
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I Ferry Souls in the Underworld 我是冥界运魂人
[Standalone Stories + Mild Horror + Folk Legends + Not a Female Powerhouse] When I was born, a fortune-teller said my fate belonged to fire and that I would bring harm to my parents, so they sent me to live with my grandfather in the countryside. Grandfather told me I was someone who wandered between life and death, able to communicate with the living and the dead and guide spirits onward. I suspected the old man had lost his mind, until one day the guardian spirit of our home manifested and tol
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Twenty-Seven Eerie Tales: The Water Ghost 廿七诡谈之水鬼
Twenty-Seven Strange Tales: The Water Ghost
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My Spirit-Power Fiancée 我的灵力未婚妻
Zhong Jingye, a descendant of the Zhong family, wakes one day to find a cute, doll-like beauty named Bai Yue by his side. She claims to be his dead mother's fiancee. No, she's the fiancee his dead mother arranged for him. The more he learns about her, the stranger she seems. She can exorcise ghosts, solve cases, and eat like there's no tomorrow! But as the supernatural power in Jingye's bloodline gradually awakens, he realizes that compared to his fiancee Bai Yue, he's not exactly normal either.
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Reborn: The Max-Level Exorcist Returns to Become a God 重生后，满级驱魔师归来封神
[Rebirth] [Supernatural] [Exorcism] [Power Fantasy] [Ensemble Cast] [Episodic] After the war between gods and demons, Feng Youtang slept for a thousand years. When she opened her eyes, she was reborn as the illegitimate daughter of a wealthy family. She should have been the family's hated outcast, but her strength made everyone run the moment they saw her. Favoritist eldest brother: “Why provoke her? She'll play you all like dogs!” Roguish second brother: “She just glared at me. I think I might
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The Metaphysics Master Shakes the World After Coming Down from the Mountain 玄学大佬下山后轰动全世界
[Mysticism + satisfying read + sweet romance] Everyone in the industry says the newly reunited eldest daughter of the Su family is a menace. One sentence from her can break up a marriage, shatter a family, drive someone into bankruptcy, or land them in jail, so people steer clear of her. What’s more, she has opened a Taoist temple and does fortune-telling, face-reading, feng shui, sells talismans, and catches ghosts. She’s done every sort of scam imaginable! Later, word gets around that the elde
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My Heavenly Master Wife 我的天师老婆
Our meeting was no coincidence. Heaven had planned it all along… After the book goes on sale, updates are guaranteed at 6,000 words a day.
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What? That Pretty Young Lady Can Catch Ghosts! 什么？那个漂亮小姐姐会抓鬼！
The animated series "Call Me Lord Wuchang" is now available on 🍎 [Metaphysics + wild imagination + romance + powerful duo + satisfying read] You Zhi is a fair-skinned, beautiful, gentle and obedient college student in public. At night, she becomes the Yang Wuchang, hooking souls and catching ghosts. Other students’ part-time jobs: streamer, online shop clerk, model, writer... You Zhi’s part-time job: hooking souls and catching ghosts... P.S. A strong female lead, and a strong male lead too. A
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The CEO Won't Let His Wife Practice the Supernatural Arts 总裁不准夫人搞玄学
[Metaphysics + powerhouse + adored by the whole family + hilarious chaos + ridiculous antics + unleashing ultimate moves nonstop!] Word has it that the Nan family had a mix-up involving a real and a fake heiress. The real heiress was a metaphysics powerhouse who opened the door to a whole new world for the Nan family. One day, the powerhouse was heading out to “take care of business.” Twin Fifth Brother: Little sis, take me with you! Movie Star Fourth Brother: I wanna go, I wanna go! Doctor Thir
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I Am a Great White Snake 我是一条大白蛇
I'm 30 and still don't have a boyfriend. Every man who confesses to me dies in a bizarre accident. Then one day, I discover that I'm not human at all, but a great white snake...
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The Nation’s Fortune Depends on How Wild Sister Yan Gets! 国运强不强，全看宴姐浪不浪！
[Power Couple + Pure Love + Mysticism + Sweet Female-Focused Romance] Jun Yan never imagined that before she could leave seclusion, someone would dig up her grave! Chu Jinghong never imagined that while filming a tomb-raiding scene, he'd dig up the wrong tomb! Fine, he dug up the wrong tomb, but why is the person in this coffin so fierce?! Moonlight shimmers, cold winds howl, tree shadows sway, and their eyes meet. Furious, Jun Yan summons lightning with a wave of her hand, ready to strike down
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Ten Thousand Ghosts Submit, Welcoming the Metaphysics Master 万鬼臣服，恭迎玄学大佬
[Supernatural + Suspense + Sweet Romance + Overpowered Satisfaction + Ghost-Hunting] Su Wan failed to ascend. A thousand years later, she borrowed a corpse to be reborn, then went down the mountain to tell fortunes and catch ghosts, taking the entire imperial capital by storm as she tried to rebuild her Taoist temple. All the ghosts: “We aren't cackling anymore. Picking a fight with her is like kicking an iron plate.” Her fellow practitioners: “Boss, you're my idol!” Onlookers: “Feng shui, fortu
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What Should I Do After Transmigrating Into a Supernatural Novel? 穿进灵异文了怎么办
[Female lead disguises herself as a man, with a romance; both leads are strong! The story features supernatural incidents and mysterious legends.] Mu Shi is a woman who transmigrates into a novel with a strange, eerie atmosphere and becomes a man in disguise. It takes only one step to go from a vibrant college student to a penniless young adult with no home, car, or savings: clicking on a novel ad. The whole leap from one life to the next takes less than a second. So, for the sake of making a li
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A Collection of Folk Feng Shui Records 民间风水集录
Also known as The Dragon-Seeking Secret: The Five Masters of Jingmen. Main characters: Tao Duoyu and Ren Shiyu; The Five Masters of Zhongzhou: Xiong Lei of the Northeast, Zheng Xuan of western Hunan, and Su Mei of Jiangnan; My name is Tao Duoyu. My master is Tao the Blind, the foremost of the Five Masters of Zhongzhou. Twenty-four years ago, he saved me when I was at death’s door, snatching fate from the heavens to extend my life by more than twenty years. Twenty-four years later, my master myst
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The Yin-Yang Master of the City 都市阴阳天师
Traditional supernatural horror. The protagonist starts out as a Celestial Master, turns into a purple-eyed zombie midway through, and transforms whenever he can’t win. If that bothers you, please give this a pass. Zhou Yuanqing studied under a purple-robed Celestial Master and chose to join Bureau 749, handling supernatural cases across the country: evil spirits, zombies, mountain demons, Japan’s Kiku School, Nanyang curse practitioners… In places ordinary people cannot see, battles of magic ha
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The Paper Effigy Shop: Everyone Around Me Is a Big Shot 扎纸铺，我身边都是大佬
In our ancient land of China, many professions have their own rules and taboos. The older and more mysterious the craft, the more this is true. For example, when “asking the rice,” you must never ask how someone died; a coffin maker must never make their own coffin; a paper effigy maker must never draw eyes on a paper figure; and a spirit medium must never conduct a ceremony without all the members of their altar present... If any of these rules and taboos are broken, something terrifying will h
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Tales of Folk Taboos 民间禁忌杂谈
A pig butcher never slaughters a pig with five toes. The village guardian never guards a village with a temple. A feng shui master never selects a lair of an evil dragon. A midwife must wash her hands in rooster’s blood. There are three hundred and sixty trades in the world, and every one has its rules. Are these ancient, mysterious rules really nothing more than empty formalities? If I told you that some rules must never be broken, because breaking them means death, would you believe me?
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Bone Flute 骨笛
My grandmother was a famous spirit medium throughout the surrounding villages. I was a child she picked up and brought home. People in the village said that on the night she carried me home, flutes sounded throughout the village until dawn. The next day, every peach tree in the village had withered. They called me an ill omen, but my grandmother always treated me well, and life went on quietly like that, until the day I turned sixteen. Then everything changed.
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Tales from Ghost-Hunting Livestreams 直播抓鬼那些事
Romance included + heroine’s growth journey + heroine is amazing but doesn’t know it + hidden identity + heroine is adored by everyone! The ending could be happy or tragic, not decided yet! Maybe two endings! The male lead is nearly invisible + endlessly indulgent toward the heroine + a useful tool + gorgeous What? It only costs ten yuan to have your fortune told these days? The price of a cup of milk tea? The wife is the one who suggests finding a mistress? You’re seriously ill, and nobody in y
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The Underworld Bureau of the Yellow Springs 黄泉阴司
When I was a kid, I went to the back hill of the village to play and pick up human bones. There I stumbled upon a ghost opera and nearly lost my life. Luckily, a green snake saved me, but the snake also began a strange, shadowy romance. Ghost operas, spirit summoning, yellow-skin spirits' yin graves, peachwood seals against evil: the bizarre folk customs of southern Guizhou and chilling, uncanny tales of the worlds of yin and yang are coming your way. Warning: Not for the faint of heart!!!
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The Lady Master of the Yellow Springs Express 黄泉快递的当家女先生
Plot-driven fantasy anthology | Deities undergoing tribulations × ten lifetimes of reincarnation | Spirit communication and fortune-telling | Subverting expectations | The early chapters focus on the heroine's growth. After experiencing supernatural events and schemes, she gradually uncovers more secrets about her past life and origins. Spoiler: the story is told in reverse chronological order. Take your time and enjoy!
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My Haunted House Connects to the Underworld 震撼全球，我的鬼屋通地府
Complete [cathartic power fantasy + play the pig to eat the tiger + powerful protagonist + punishing scum + ghosts and monsters + business management] Terminally ill with cancer, Li Miao meets a Taoist priest who tells her that she’s been plagued by bad luck and is near death because someone stole her fate. The only way to survive and reclaim her fate is to return to her hometown and inherit a haunted house. She assumes it’s just an ordinary haunted house, but when she arrives, she discovers
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The Female Medium of Guandong 关东女先生
[Completed Novel Recommendation] Northeast folk horror and suspense! When the old rules of the Northeast are broken, a hundred ghosts roam the night, and the yin energy can no longer be contained. My name is Ren Xue. I direct supernatural dramas, but fate brought me back to Changbai Mountain, where I became a Guandong woman who understands yin-yang and feng shui. I thought I was simply carrying on my ancestors’ legacy. Who knew I’d be the key to unraveling the “Dragon-Locking Yin Formation” and
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When Sister Shi Goes Wild, Even Ghosts and Gods Kneel and Cry Injustice! 时姐一发癫，鬼神跪地喊冤！
[Absurd comedy + metaphysics + wish-fulfillment + entertainment industry + ghost hunting + livestreamed variety show + true and fake heiresses + strong heroine + one-on-one pure love] Shi Yi transmigrated into a novel about the entertainment industry's true heiress face-slapping the fake one, as the true heiress. Facing her family's contempt, she took a few houses and several million in spending money, then decisively left the wealthy family, whose fortune was running out and which was on the ve
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[Borrowing Evil Bones, I Become a Ghost Immortal and Break the Yin-Yang Divide] 【借邪骨，我以鬼仙破阴阳】
[Supernatural + Revenge + Magical Duels + Folk Horror + Feng Shui + One Heroine] I was born stillborn, but my grandfather brought me back to life with a fiend god's sinister bone! Yet my resurrection turned me into a freak who constantly attracted calamity, bringing about the deaths of my entire family. Only after I became a corpse collector did my fate take a dramatic turn! With a fiend god on my back, I will roam freely between the worlds of yin and yang, fearing no taboo. I bear the corpse co
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Apocalypse Cockroach 末日蟑螂
Zhang Xiaoqiang is an insignificant nobody, a lazy loser who had been content to lounge around and wait to die. Staying at home lets him avoid the first outbreak of the zombie virus. When he sees his neighbors in the same apartment complex turn into zombies, he is overcome with boundless terror. He struggles to survive alone in an Apocalypse where people prey on each other. At last, worn down by loneliness, he picks up his gear and heads out into a world shrouded in smoke and fire. He takes the
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Underworld Girl Meng Yu 地府少女梦屿
[Underworld + short arcs + long arcs + wild imagination + based on true events + no CP for now] Meng Yu had just graduated from college and was ready to make her mark in the world. But her plans were over before they even began. Before she could collect herself, she had already become an employee of the Land Administration Bureau. While everyone else was still working hard to earn money, she could retire at thirty. It's not that Meng Yu is bragging. The Land Administration Bureau simply pays w
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I'm an Inheritance Heir, but the Inheritance Won't Leave Me Alone 我，遗产继承人，被遗产缠上了
Strong female lead, a fragmented(?) male lead, sweet romance, supernatural, mildly scary, gloomy male “ghost” Lu Mian accidentally transmigrates to another world and gets bound to a golden finger System. She lives through the eerie resurgence. Then one day, she receives an inheritance: a person, a sweet and well-behaved little darling with amnesia. Later, Lu Mian realizes that this “little darling” seems to be the one who died young before she transmigrated...
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A Blind Date Turns into a Ghost Hunt: CEO, There’s Someone Hanging in Your Bedroom 相亲变捉鬼：霸总你卧室挂了个人
[Comedy + supernatural + metaphysics + wealthy-family feuds + a sharp-tongued heroine] Lin Qingjiu, a metaphysics expert, is forced to leave the mountain after her unlucky sect is stripped of its Taoist status. She bears the responsibility of clearing her entire sect's name. To save her seriously ill master, she accepts the Lin family's arrangement: a blind date. But the blind date turns into a ghost hunt, her date ends up in the hospital, and Lin Qingjiu ends up at the police station. Lin Q
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The Bell of Grudges 怨结铃
When resentment gathers, the silver bell rings, and the ghosts come. When the red bell appears, all ghosts submit. Even King Yama has to show respect to Yin Wuhui, the holder of the Resentment Bell. “Miss Yin, what do you need us for?” asked White Impermanence. She glanced at the Black and White Impermanences. “Someone here needs to be reincarnated. Could you take care of it?” “No trouble at all,” White Impermanence replied. Black Impermanence tried to say something, but White Impermanence dragg
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I Guide Lost Souls at Wangxiang Terrace 我在望乡台当引路人
Zhou Yi had been dead for three years, and had spent all three as a guide at Wangxiang Terrace. Her job was simple: let the dead take one last look at the human world, offer them a few comforting words, and send them across the Naihe Bridge. Three thousand souls had passed before her, and she had helped three thousand of them let go of their fixations. The girl who jumped from a building, the deliveryman who was a father, the teacher stabbed seven times... Every one of them moved on. Only she c
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Small but Mighty: The Three-Year-Old Ancestor of the Mystic Sect Comes Down from the Mountain 人小鬼大：玄门三岁小师祖出山啦
[Strong heroine, no romance, lighthearted, collection of short stories, timid readers welcome, tiny heroine] Originally titled The Record of Strange Events: Wei Three-Year-Old, the Mystic Ancestress Wei Zhongjun was reborn into the Meng family five hundred years in the past. She lost her memories as soon as she was born, and after living just three years in ancient times, she was framed, sealed in a coffin, and buried alive in a mountain. Five hundred years later, Ye An’an, a foolish bride who h
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Demon's Cry in a Chaotic Age 乱世妖鸣
In an age of war and banditry, the people suffer through hardship, and she is left wandering from place to place. On nights of the full moon, an eerie demon child draws in the moonlight. Lost in hardship, people struggle to survive, while power and wealth leave them adrift. She is the little witch everyone avoids, mischievous yet kind and righteous. As she travels the world, she leaves behind a legend of her own, etched into the passage of time.
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The Torment-Novel Heroine Is Busy Catching Ghosts 虐文女主忙抓鬼
[Comedy + transmigration + ghost hunting] Su Su opens her eyes to find herself in a hospital bed, with someone nearby trying to take her kidney. From the doctors' conversation, she realizes she's transmigrated? Into the very angst novel she had just complained about, and as the abused heroine, no less? Then Su Su discovers that the world of the book is actually supernatural. Isn't that her specialty? They dare abuse her? They have no idea what's coming. How about a female-ghost special, on the h
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The Woman in the Closet 柜子里的女人
The Woman in the Cabinet
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Raising Paper Characters in a Horror Game 在惊悚游戏里养纸片人
[Infinite Flow] [No romance] (A heads-up: The heroine is a regular female college student who has just graduated. She has no System and isn’t reborn. She’s just an ordinary girl. If you want a badass, cool-headed, strongest-in-her-world heroine in a wish-fulfillment power fantasy, please look elsewhere. Don’t make assumptions halfway through and then leave a bad review. The author is sensitive, so please be gentle.) To pay off her loans, Yang Chaoyu unexpectedly joins a livestream debut. She bar
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Secret Art: I Transmigrate and Fight to Survive in a Bizarre World 秘法穿越:我在诡异世界极限逃生
Secret Art Transmigration: My Extreme Escape in a World of the Uncanny
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The Haunted Cabinet Opens by Itself Every Night, Long Hair Drags People Inside 凶柜夜夜自开，青丝缠人拖入柜
The sinister cabinet opens by itself every night, and strands of black hair coil around people and drag them inside.
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The Bankrupt Exorcist's Haunted House Livestream 破产天师的凶宅直播间
“Congratulations. You've inherited a mansion worth a fortune, as well as... 200,000 yuan in deadly yin debt.” The lawyer's voice was like a scalpel, cutting through all my beautiful dreams. I'm Wu Suowei, a con artist who edits photos to pass myself off as a master of the occult. I was planning to pack up and run. But when I opened the doors of Jingxin Studio and saw the strange assortment of “family members” inside... I knew there was no escape. This wasn't a haunted house. It was an ancient se
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The Tale of the Silver Flood Dragon 银蛟传
[Metaphysics + Suspense + Taoist Magic + Historical Relics + Mythical Beasts from the Classic of Mountains and Seas + Folk Mysteries] Legend has it that the Dragon-Locking Well imprisons a wicked dragon guilty of an ancient crime. But when Zhuang Jiang, a junior clerk at the Cultural Relics Protection Institute, finds a piece of a jiao's horn at the bottom of the well, she discovers a silver-white jiao sealed inside it. From then on, the ten thousand ghosts hidden in a calligraphy album, the dea
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Livestreaming Fortune-Telling and Tracking Killers: The Mystic Master Goes on a Rampage 直播算命追凶，玄学大佬杀麻了
A melodramatic, satisfying read. If that bothers you, steer clear. [Metaphysics + true and fake heiresses + strong female lead + livestreaming] Before her coronation, Yan Huan is sent by a cup of poisoned wine into the body of the real Zhou family heiress, who grew up in the mountains. She discovers that the Zhou family used a fortune-draining technique on their real daughter for their own benefit. Madam Liang is cruel to the extreme: “Your sister is elegant and noble, and your three brothers ar
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Twin Fates of Yin and Yang 阴阳命双生
[A defiant, fight-first demon girl heroine VS a henpecked, scheming, dark-hearted, grudge-holding male lead who seems sweet as a glutinous rice ball on the outside] [Career first, romance second] The rating just opened, so it'll go up [The heroine has two fathers. This isn't a BL story, and the two fathers aren't close; there are scenes where they try to kill each other. They are not a couple. The father who gave birth to the heroine only did so after returning to life in another body, acting ou
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The Incense of the Underworld 走阴香
[Spirit Medium + Supernatural] The year I turned ten, my grandmother passed away. Not long after, I came down with a strange illness. Days of injections and medicine did no good, and every night I became unusually alert, often babbling incoherently. After five days of continuous fever, my parents had no choice but to take me to the countryside to see a woman they called Auntie, who they said could treat me. Here, “Auntie” didn’t mean a relative on my father’s side. It was the respectful title we
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The Taoist Nun Who Became a Spirit 成精的道姑
An orphan girl grows up with a Taoist priest who takes her in as a child. Her life is beset by one hardship after another. Who could have imagined that a Taoist nun would become a spirit medium, with her guardian spirits serving as protectors? But life is full of surprises. As the mystery of her origins comes to light, she is forced into the heart of a vast conspiracy... In the end, across the endless snowy expanse of Baishan, all that remains are two foxes bounding and leaping joyfully...
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