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The Village Guardian, the Wife in the Coffin 守村人，棺中妻
[Fox Wife] + [Traditional Supernatural Horror] + [Mystery and Twists] + [Funny Ensemble Cast] + [Interlocking Plotlines] + [First-Ever Nine-Tailed Fox with Nine Clones] I’m the village’s famous idiot. Of course, that’s what people who don’t know any better call me. Those in the know call me… the village guardian! But my half-baked fortune-teller of a grandfather has a very different opinion from everyone else. He says I’m a kept man who lives off women! Still, I never imagined the woman I’d have
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- 2 The Haunted Tomb 诡坟 [This is no ordinary paranormal story. It's all about horror and suspense: no mindless wish fulfillment, forbidden yin-yang lore, no cultivation, and a ghost wife. If it's not good, you can break my legs.] People laugh at my family's poverty and say that all my blood relatives have died, so there must be a ghost in our house. I don't dare argue... because there really is a ghost buried in our ancestral grave! ...My name is Zhang Asi... I was born at four in the morning on the fourteenth day of t 40.2kReads8.8Score3.7kShelves
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My Years of Ghost Hunting Among the People 我在民间捉鬼的那些年
Chinese-Style Horror, No Female Lead My name is Xu Jian. I’m 26, and I studied Taoist arts under a Maoshan priest for several years. Over the years, I’ve seen all kinds of things. After doing this long enough, I realized that ghosts aren’t scary. What’s truly frightening are the things people can’t get past in their hearts. All I do is help them say what needs to be said and settle their debts once and for all. People call me a Celestial Master of the Taoist sect, but I’m really just an ordin
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Eerie: After Dying a Hundred Times, I Turn the Tables and Sacrifice My Ghostly Wife 诡异：连死百次，反手献祭鬼娇妻
The author’s new novel: “Reincarnation and Immortality: My Lifespan Limit Doubles with Every Life” [Supernatural Resurgence + System + Ghost Bride + One Heroine!] (A motion-comic adaptation of this book is now available.) After being killed by something hurled from a heavy truck that swerved to save someone on the road, he transmigrates, only to find a blood-clad vengeful ghost invading his dreams. What should he do? Looking at the abilities in his System, Jiang Wuyang sees “Dream Corridor” + “M
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- 5 Before the Ghost King Recovers, I'll Marry Her and Bring Her Home 趁鬼王没有恢复，娶她回家当老婆 [One female lead + devoted husband + both leads are each other's first love + pure romance + fast-paced + daily life of the leads. The male lead is weak at first but invincible among his peers later on (after Chapter 60). The female lead is cold on the outside but warm inside.] My name is Shen Jingting. I've been single for twenty years and work a dead-end job. On Ghost Festival, I made a wish to my ancestors. “Ancestors, I burn so much money for you every year. Do your best down there and help 2.1kReads8.8Score226Shelves
- 6 Eerie: My Wife Is a Vengeful Ghost 诡异：我家娘子是厉鬼 [Eerie] [Single heroine] [Pure love] [Mischief-maker] Chen Yu, an ordinary university student, transmigrates into an Eerie world and meets the wife from his dreams. But unlike in his dreams, his gentle, virtuous wife is an Eerie creature who kills without blinking… Faced with countless grotesque and terrifying Eerie beings, Chen Yu calmly holds his rice bowl and says, “Wifey! It’s yelling at me!” “Wifey! Get it!” Today, I, Chen Yu, am going to eat this bowl of rice standing up! I have a wife 222Reads6.6Score—Shelves
- 7 Horror Apocalypse: From the Start, I Married a Ghost and Took the Bride by Force 恐怖末世：开局冥婚，强娶鬼新娘 [Supernatural phenomena return + unconventional stockpiling + comedy + reborn + one female lead + mental illness] Lu Yuan is unexpectedly reborn and remembers what will happen on May 20: when a girl confesses to him, his dead ex-girlfriend will turn into a vengeful ghost and hunt him down! To stay alive, Lu Yuan comes up with a great idea. Only ghosts can hold back ghosts. If he can gather an embroidered shoe, a bridal gown, a red bridal veil, a phoenix hairpin, and a jade bangle, he can assembl 8.4kReads8.7Score785Shelves
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Spending the Night in a Lonely Coffin, the Cold Beauty Ghost Breaks Down and Begs Me Not to Die 夜宿孤棺，高冷女鬼崩溃求我别死
[Horror Tales + One Heroine + Pure Love + Power Fantasy + Infinite-Flow + Card Draws] Shen Yuan transmigrates into a world where everyone has to face supernatural horror stories. From the start, he's thrown into Hell difficulty and forced to sleep in the same coffin as a stunning female ghost! But Shen Yuan isn't afraid. He's awakened the Death-Draw System: every time a ghost kills him, he gets to draw a card and grow stronger! Killed for the first time [Ding! Card draw successful! You received
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- 9 Paranormal Invasion: I Win the Heart of a Female Ghost with Hints 诡异入侵：我靠提示赢得女诡芳心 [Ghost wife protects her husband + horror + livestreaming + survival + national fate + fast-paced + one female lead] The whole world is pulled into a bizarre game. If a player dies, their country’s fortune collapses! Lin Ye is chosen to represent the Dragon Nation, and from the start he draws the deadliest boss in the instance: the [Red-Clothed Female Ghost]. He should have no chance of survival, but a System prompt lets him see the “hopeless romantic” passive skill hidden in the ghost’s skill l 43kReads8.8Score6.3kShelves
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Taboo of the Living 活人禁忌
When I was nine, I found myself in mortal danger! To save me, my grandfather made a decision that would change my life forever...
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A Guide to the Supernatural in the New Era 新时代灵异指南
Qin An ended up becoming the very yin-yang master he hated most, on the night he was forced to marry a female ghost. Why did getting married mean signing a ghost marriage contract, too?! A fellow disciple who could summon spirits, a frosty female Taoist priest: even looking at either of them counted as cheating! Speechless, Qin An shielded the flame as he lit a cigarette for the mountain spirit beside him, then raised his glass in a respectful toast to the river ghost across from him, keeping it
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With So Many Female Ghosts Around, I Might as Well Stop Being Human 这么多女鬼，那我就不当人了
[No System]+ [Multiple Heroines (Most Aren't Human)]+ [Hunting Ghosts to Prove the Dao]+ [Comedy] After picking up a female ghost as a passenger from the start, Qin Tian's extraordinary life begins. (The audiobook version is even better.) A long-legged, adorably ditzy little ghost girl A domineering, blunt-talking Ghost Queen A mischievous cat-eared girl A sexy, bewitching fox spirit Cultivation, power, money… All kinds of strange and wonderful stories begin to unfold around him…
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Taboo of the Living 2 活人禁忌2
Heaven Official's Blessing, no taboos under heaven. The second installment of Living People’s Taboos!
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I Went to the Wrong Grave and Mistook a Female Ghost for One of My Own 上错坟，不小心把女鬼当成自己人
[One female lead, the male lead isn't invincible, not a wish-fulfillment story, supernatural, metaphysics. If it's not your cup of tea, please don't flame. This story is entirely fictional. The leads practice both Buddhism and Taoism. If you're the type to nitpick, read with caution!] “Year after year, I come to pay respects to my ancestors, yet year after year I'm still stuck working. I'm not happy over here, and you might be going hungry over there. Bless your grandson with a prosperous year,
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- 15 Selling Clothes by Day, Sewing Corpses by Night 白天卖衣服，晚上缝尸体 [Traditional supernatural horror, folk terror, decisive and ruthless] I rented an apartment where someone had died, hoping to save money, only to be plunged into endless darkness... My terrifying girlfriend has a mouth full of sharp teeth and haunts me day and night; A headless vengeful infant on the highway frantically tries to steal people’s heads; A horrifying internet celebrity livestreams herself peeling off people’s faces, while the comments turn eerie; At a Cat Immortal shrine in a strang 51.9kReads9.2Score6.2kShelves
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Global Class Change: Contracting an SSS-Rank Ghost Bride from the Start 全民转职：开局契约SSS鬼新娘
[One Heroine + Class Advancement for All + Supernatural Horror + Dungeons + High Martial Arts + Myriad Races + Romance + Tycoon + Pay-to-Win + Invincible + Big Shot] I became the world's only SSS-rank talent, the [Occultist]. I also got a System that lets me farm gold at a 90% discount. Killing monsters and people can earn me a hundred times more gold! And everything in the System shop is 90% off! An S-rank phoenix crown worth 1 billion? I get it for 100 million! An SS-rank bridal robe worth 8 b
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On Our Wedding Night, My Bride Turned into a Female Ghost, and I Got Even More Excited 新婚夜，新娘变女鬼，我更兴奋了
Before he died, my grandfather arranged a marriage for me. My bride was a rich heiress, and so beautiful she could put every other woman to shame. But on our wedding night, the bride turned into a female ghost. Everyone was terrified, but I was even more excited. “Ding! The ghost bride is bashful. Ghost Qi +20.” “Ding! The ghost bride is acting coy. Ghost Qi +30.” The Underworld has fallen into chaos, and ghosts roam the night. Su Zhe farms Ghost Qi from ghosts, then exchanges it for superna
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- 18 You Blush Eight Times in Five Minutes, and You're an SSS-Rank Female Ghost? 五分钟脸红八次，还SSS女诡？ This is supposed to be a terrifying survival game, yet while all the other contestants are struggling to stay alive, you’re falling into a sweet romance with an SSS-ranked eerie school beauty? The eerie game descended upon Blue Star, and one lucky person was randomly chosen from each country to represent it and survive in the eerie realm. Xu Fei was chosen against his will, but he could see hidden hints. His first dungeon was “Horror University.” To survive all 44 days, contestants from other co 25.1kReads8.6Score3.6kShelves
- 19 Thriller: The Death Knight Is Actually Me? 惊悚：亡灵骑士竟是我自己？ [Horror Game + Survival + Brother Cheng] The horror game arrived. Yin Cheng, known as Brother Cheng. He awakened a special talent that raised monsters' favorability toward him. Then Yin Cheng realized that his horror game... seemed to be going completely off the rails! A towering ghost nurse begged Yin Cheng to give her an IV, holding out her drip bag; a graceful, aristocratic vampire countess refused to drink anyone's blood but Yin Cheng's; a shapeshifting painted-skin ghost chased him, begging 42.1kReads9.1Score4.3kShelves
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High Martial: A Matchup? I Can Beat Even the Empress! 高武：对比？女帝我也包赢的！
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The Language of the Three Corpses 三尸语
You’ve heard of people who died with their eyes open, but have you ever heard of a dead person whose mouth wouldn’t close? His grandfather’s death turns the life of a broke college student upside down. A corpse glares, a soul is hooked; a corpse opens its mouth, and disaster strikes twice. As one bizarre incident after another unfolds, he accidentally discovers that there’s far more to it than ghosts…
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When Grandpa Died, Dragons Lifted His Coffin and Ghosts Wept at His Grave 爷爷死时，龙抬棺，鬼哭坟
My grandfather was tragically caught up in a thousand-year-old feng shui plot. When he died, a dragon lifted his coffin and ghosts wailed at his grave. As for me, I was born wrapped in snake scales. They all called me a monster, but the Five Immortals willingly became my babysitters. They secretly sent me to Dragon Pool, where eight old men took me on as their disciple. When I grew up, I punched demons and monsters and kicked spirits and fiends aside. Practicing both Buddhist and Daoist arts, I
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The Fragrance of the Coffin's Beauty 棺香美人
When I was born, the river swelled and washed a coffin right into my home. Fifteen years later, the coffin opened, and inside was a woman... Feng shui, fate and destiny... There are endless folk legends to tell, and more bizarre wonders than words can describe.
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Tales of the Strange in Western Hunan 湘西异闻录
[A friendly warning: This book has no System. It's funny and terrifying, with suspense and clever twists throughout, plus plenty of passion and brains. The more you read, the better it gets.] When I was four, I was kidnapped and taken to a cursed village to be sacrificed alive. A fox spirit risked her life to save me, and secretly pledged herself to me for life. To marry my fox bride, I venture deep into the Miao Valley, tread the Nether River Gorge, and walk the boundary between Yin and Yang. I
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The Yin-Walker 巡阴人
Applying makeup to the dead, reading the winds and assessing the land, preparing bodies for burial, and performing rites on the seventh day after death. Scorched corpses: cleaning the body, applying rouge, painting the features! Bodies cut in half at the waist: removing the organs, filling the cavities, and stitching the body back together! I was born into a family that made its living from the dead, so I grew up dealing with corpses. I’ve seen all sorts of bizarre ways to die and countless inex
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- 26 The Beautiful Demon Wife 妖妻美人 I've slept in a coffin since I was little. When I was six, a snake slipped inside and stayed with me in the coffin for six years… 3.7kReads8.9Score424Shelves
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My Thousand-Year-Old Ghost Wife 我的千年女鬼老婆
My name is Zhang Shaobai. Behind our village stands an ancient pagoda that has been guarded for generations. Everyone in the village says it’s cursed. But outsiders refuse to believe it, and for money, I took them to the pagoda. From then on, strange things kept happening around me. It all began with that livestream one night...
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A Female Ghost Is Clinging to Me? Better Cling to Her! 女鬼缠身？反抱她大腿！
[No System, one heroine, ghost wife, yin-yang master, urban, supernatural, lighthearted comedy] A night spent beside a lonely grave, and the tomb’s occupant latches on. After paying respects to my grandfather tonight, I encountered something utterly absurd: I actually saw a ghost! These days, I’m afraid of being poor, and I’m afraid of dying! On a whim, after we couldn’t agree on anything, I got into a fight with the ghost and even slept on a lonely grave for the whole night. After that, one st
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- 29 My Life Living with a Female Ghost 我和女鬼同居的日子 As Yu Bing raised his hand to bring a cigarette to his lips, the sunlight outside the window cast two shadows onto his raised arm. Their shape looked just like a woman’s breasts. Lei Xiaoyu stared wide-eyed. Yu Bing’s shadow looked like a woman’s! 103Reads—Score—Shelves
- 30 My Beautiful Ghost Wife 我的绝美鬼妻 When I was five, on Ghost Festival, I got lost in a graveyard on the mountain and somehow ended up married to a thousand-year-old female ghost. Cursed and doomed to a short life, I learned Taoist arts from my grandfather. From then on, I became an inheritor of yin-yang magic. I fought zombies and vanquished evil spirits, discussed the meaning of life with a thousand-year-old fox, and searched for the origins of humanity with my ghost-wife. Seductive fox demons, vicious corpse fiends: a childhood 174Reads—Score—Shelves
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You Hired Me to Collect Bodies, So I Dissected My Ex-Girlfriend 让你当收尸人，你直接解刨了前女友
In anatomy class, the corpse turns out to be my ex-girlfriend... After that, I went through all sorts of unbelievable things. A bus that only goes up, never down, and runs straight to a reservoir. An old scholar tree in the hospital, lush with branches and leaves, that swallows people whole. A giant catfish by the Qingshui River, begging people for help every night. And a deadly brothel hung with human skin, open for business without end. It went on and on, as if it would never come to an end...
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Night Fishing for Ghosts: I Ask Her Where the Fish Are Underwater 夜钓钓女鬼，我问她水下哪里有鱼
Fishing master Cao Kun transmigrates to a parallel world, joins a live-streamed fishing competition, and makes it all the way to the finals. Out of luck in the decisive round, he hooks a female ghost. With defeat looming, Cao Kun panics and bluntly asks her where the fish are underwater. The production crew is stunned, and the whole internet goes wild. “I can’t believe it. This guy’s a real fishing fanatic!” “He’d be casting a line even at the Bridge of Helplessness!” “That damn competitive spir
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- 33 Ghost Wife: Bro, Please Take Your Sister-in-Law Back 鬼妻：哥，求你把嫂子收回去吧 [Married from the start + ghost wife + one heroine + not a wish-fulfillment novel (plot-focused) + fast-paced growth (nearly invincible) + exorcising ghosts and banishing evil] Born under yin, he is also a child born of a corpse. He has the body of the living, but the fate of the dead. He is doomed to be cursed! Liu Cheng was dug from his dead mother's womb by an old gravedigger, and grew up in a cemetery. The old man said that those born under yin are extremely yin from birth, making them a cho 241Reads7.6Score100Shelves
- 34 The Year I Was Born, Ghosts Came Looking for a Groom 我出生那年，鬼招婿 The year I was born, ghosts came seeking a bride. To stay alive, I slept in a haunted coffin. When I was twelve, I was forced to marry a ghost bride, bringing disaster upon us all. My grandfather had me take an unclaimed grave as my master. I thought things would finally be peaceful from then on. But the good times didn't last. I discovered by chance that my ghost wife had been by my side all along... 12.1kReads8.2Score1.1kShelves
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From the Start, I Married a Ghost Immortal 开局娶鬼仙做老婆
This work is being kept on the list despite its low rating. [Traditional Supernatural Fiction, Metaphysics, Multiple Female Leads, Folk Horror Stories, Half Power Fantasy, Alternate World, Folk Legends] My name is Lin Hao. I haven’t seen my parents since I was seven. The authorities said they were dead. But my grandfather said someone had scattered their three souls and seven spirits. After that, I lived with him in a small county in southern China. Then, after an accident, I somehow performed a
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- 36 Taking a Fox as My Wife 养狐为妻 When I was eighteen, I accidentally injured a fox. To my shock, my master forced me to marry her... 1.3kReads8.6Score102Shelves
- 37 Snake Wife 蛇妻 I was born under the baleful star of the Celestial Solitary, destined to live alone and die a miserable death. But on one terrifying night in my childhood, deep in the barren mountains, I met her, and the course of my life changed forever. From then on, I became a spirit medium, traveling everywhere to right wrongs. 68Reads—Score—Shelves
- 38 The Jade Dust of Daoist Fate 道缘琼末 [Traditional supernatural horror + ghost wife + first-person POV + one heroine + ghost hunting] Ever since I was born, I’ve worn a strange necklace around my neck. Every year on my birthday, Grandpa makes me bow to it. When I asked him why, he always said it could protect me. Only later did I learn that a female ghost was hidden inside the necklace. Offer three sticks of incense to the gods and four to the ghosts. If someone calls to you at night, never turn around. Otherwise, your yang fire wil 149Reads—Score—Shelves
- 39 The Secret Notes of a Feng Shui Master 风水师秘记 My grandfather left me a handwritten ancient manuscript. When I turned eighteen, a dream of mine shook the entire world of feng shui... Liu Bowen severing dragon veins, feng shui guiding a celestial dragon, paper figures controlling one's fortune, plum-blossom tattoos, the dead seeking justice... Everyone knew Yang Qingtian was a legend, but no one knew that I was him! 3.8kReads8.2Score397Shelves
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Tales of the Supernatural: Ghost-Hunting Venerable 怪谈之捉鬼天尊
Eight severed-head mountains form a Nine Palaces Eight Trigrams Formation, imprisoning Song An’s first eight incarnations. To ensure that Song An can grow up safely in his ninth life, a mysterious eminent monk comes to the mortal world. Unfortunately, this time Song An is born on the night of the Ghost Festival, and is also a child of extreme yin, with all eight characters of his birth chart belonging to yin. Even stranger, nine days and nine nights of blood rain fall before Song An’s birth. For
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The Ghost Wedding on the Fifteenth Day of the Seventh Month 七月半，鬼娶亲
[Strong Female Lead + Mysticism + Devoted Husband + Ensemble Cast + Revenge] A short drama of the same name, July Half: The Ghost's Wedding, is now available. Its companion story, Marrying a Ghost Husband, Subduing a Hundred Demons, is currently being serialized. My mother said that the year I was born, strange signs appeared in the village: thunder and torrential rain, while all the ghosts wailed. Grandpa invited Seventh Granny, who delivered me herself. Only then was I born. Seventh Granny rea
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- 42 The Beautiful Ghost Wife 阴妻美人 I was born with the “Four Calamities and Nine Tribulations.” A fortune-teller said I had to marry a widow who had kept her chastity in order to survive them. After searching for years, I finally won the beauty's heart. But on our wedding night, when I lifted the red veil from my gorgeous bride, I realized that my tribulations were only just beginning… 746Reads8.6Score102Shelves
- 43 Chengwen Master's 11th Book 成稳大师第11本书 375Reads8.0Score—Shelves
- 44 My Ghostly Wife 冥妻 To save my life, I followed my family's instructions and hid inside a coffin. But after midnight, someone with long, disheveled hair came in tiptoe, opened the coffin, and climbed in beside me! 77Reads—Score—Shelves
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No. 81 on the Yellow Springs Road 黄泉路81号
Night blankets the city, and the things lurking in the shadows begin to stir. The raccoon dog granny who eats raw meat, the fitness girl with fish scales growing on her back. The wild foxes who approach people by the roadside, and the little convenience store in the cemetery. I've experienced all of these. And it all began after I witnessed a car accident...
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The House of Dread 诡舍
[Infinite-flow + Mild Horror + Survival + One Female Lead] A driverless bus carried a group of cursed people to a strange black lodge… Inside the lodge stood a door stained red with blood. At regular intervals, the cursed were forcibly dragged through the blood-red door and into terrifying worlds, where they had to complete horrifying events… After Ning Qiushui survived one bizarre and terrifying story after another inside the lodge, narrowly escaping death each time, he discovered that none of
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You Hired Me at a Funeral Home, and I Brought My Wife 让你入职殡仪馆，你把媳妇带来了
I am Xu Ziye, born with a body that is “like Tang Monk’s flesh” to evil spirits: born in a yin year, yin month, and yin hour, with a pure-yin Water destiny. Grandpa said I wouldn’t live past the age of three. To keep my fate in check, he gave me the most yin name of all, “Ziye.” He even arranged an unbelievable “marriage” for me while I was still in swaddling clothes: a ghost marriage to someone in the underworld. Thanks to the protection of this “ghost wife,” I survived into adulthood. But no o
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The Corpse-Scent Beside My Pillow 枕边尸香
Ever since I was little, I had a wife-to-be I'd never met. When I was fifteen, my grandfather died, and I married into her family...
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The Dragon-Suppressing Coffin and the King of Hell's Fate 镇龙棺，阎王命
They severed my tendons and buried me alive in a sealed coffin, but they didn’t know I was born with the fate of the King of Hell! [Folk horror, feng shui and talismans, incense offerings] Feng shui and fortune-telling, painted-skin demons and spirit summoning, walking in the shadows and corpse driving, corpse-raising spells and curses, yin tattoos and talismanic needles, puppets controlled by strings, red doors sealed with wax, Dogs digging graves on Burial Mound Ridge, ghosts feasting in the R
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- 50 The Demon Taoist Breaks Through the Underworld Pass 妖道破阴关 (Supernatural horror, feng shui and geomancy, warding off evil and misfortune, one heroine) My parents used forbidden magic to conceive me, but on the day I was born, my strange appearance frightened them away... My third uncle raised me in a cage. I barely managed to grow up on borrowed yin virtue and incense offerings... On my eighteenth birthday, I was buried alive in the ancestral graveyard. She saved me... but she wasn’t human... 5.5kReads9.1Score496Shelves
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