The Underworld, Ghost Hunting, and Ghost Catchers 地府，捉鬼，阴差

1. 101 地 The Underworld’s Pursuit Order 地府追辑令 Ye Ning也宁Modern Romance237k WordsCompleted She turned the Underworld upside down. The King of Hell coaxed and tricked her into going to the mortal world to wreak havoc on wandering ghosts. When she arrived, everything fascinated her, especially the food, which awakened her taste buds. What? That ghost ate the hotpot chicken wings she ordered! Unforgivable. She opened the gates of the Underworld right away and summoned Black and White Impermanence to drag the ghost off in chains. Why did so many people call her beautiful and crowd around 2.3kReads7.2Score171Shelves
2. 102 地 Special Envoy of the Underworld 地府特派专员 Resolutely Never Stop Updating坚决不断更Urban1.1M WordsCompleted “The Worry-Free Pavilion: As long as you have enough money, we'll take care of all your worries.” A drunken underworld bailiff makes a blunder, mistaking Wang Yu, who was trying to help someone in need, for a dead man and dragging him to the underworld for judgment. The Judge discovers that Wang Yu is the reincarnation of a virtuous man from nine lifetimes ago, and that his allotted years are not yet up, so he wants to send him straight back to life. Unfortunately, Wang Yu is a nobody in the 5.4kReads8.5Score349Shelves
3. 103 阴 A Decree from the Underworld 阴司有旨 Horseback Fishing骑马钓鱼Mystery2.9M WordsOngoing Before Grandpa died, he gave me a strange ledger. The first page bore four eerie characters: “Filed with the Underworld.” And the entries weren't sums of money, but “lives.” I used that strange ledger to collect debts and settle accounts on Grandpa's behalf, and it was as if I'd become a living judge of life and death in the human world. Somewhere beyond mortal sight, everything had already been decreed... 22.3kReads9.1Score1.3kShelves

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   Both are very strong. The first two books are incredibly ruthless to themselves, while the fifth book has a female lead (I dropped it after that). Overall, they are very good.

4. 104 九 Uncle Nine: Is This Kid a Yin Messenger? 九叔：这小子是阴差？ Feels Like I'm About to Bite the Dust感觉要凉Mystery576k WordsOngoing (Uncle Jiu’s world + underworld bailiff + no female lead + System!) When King Yama says you’ll die at the third watch, who dares keep you until the fifth? Lin Yi transmigrates into Uncle Jiu’s world and unexpectedly becomes Uncle Jiu’s senior disciple. He binds himself to the strongest Underworld System from the start. All he has to do is earn yin virtue to get promoted and receive a raise! [Ding!] [Congratulations, Host, on successfully capturing a soul. Reward: 300 yin virtue!] [Ding! Congratu 2kReads7.1Score103Shelves

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   Uncle Nine, Underworld Messenger

5. 105 我 I Work as a Ghost Bailiff in the Mortal Realm 我在阳间当阴差 Azure Firmament碧落苍穹Mystery1.5M WordsCompleted After arguing with a Daoist, Han Hui makes a bet with him. They'll each handle the job separately and see who finishes first. The winner gets the money, and the loser can never call himself a Daoist again. They head to a mountain village where people still practice burial in the ground. The atmosphere is a little eerie. Guided by the construction crew, they really do see what people call a zombie. But even when Han Hui touches it, he hears no System notification. He can't help wondering why. The 44Reads—Score—Shelves

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   Han Hui made a bet with Taoist Chen Qingfeng to solve the problem of burying "zombies" in a mountain village. Touching the zombie yielded no sound, fueling Han Hui's suspicions. At midnight, a flurry of footsteps echoed at the construction site. Han Hui rushed in, only to find nothing! His psychic abilities seemed normal? He realized it was a man-made spell! Guided by the spell, they unearthed a massive steel plate covered in hair. The Taoist priest's expression changed: "Someone is obstructing construction!" Even more horrifying: the scheme was connected to the drowning of his girlfriend, Liu Yiyi? Her death was no accident!

6. 106 地 The Underworld Is Real: I Became a Viral Ghostbuster Through Livestreaming 地府有人，我靠直播驱鬼火遍全网 Tian Nanxing Nan天南星南Mystery668k WordsCompleted [Live Streaming + Ghost Hunting + Horror + No Female Lead] After being killed by a ghost, Zhou Yu meets his father in the underworld, where the old man is a senior ghost officer. Since he has connections down there, it looks like he can do whatever he wants without worrying about dying again. There’s a condition for coming back to life: he has to help his father send evil ghosts and vengeful spirits to the underworld. To make ends meet, Zhou Yu starts livestreaming his ghost hunts, and unexpecte 6.5kReads9.3Score706Shelves

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   ① The male protagonist is a White Impermanence (a figure in Chinese mythology associated with death) who livestreams his daily life in the underworld, including soul-collecting and ghost-catching. ② The protagonist, Zhou Yu, livestreams ghost-catching; it's a horror story and is now complete.

7. 107 妖 The Demon Taoist Breaks Through the Underworld Pass 妖道破阴关 Scorpio Water Demon天蝎水妖Mystery2.0M WordsCompleted (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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   I was a child my parents conceived through sorcery, but on the day I was born, they were frightened away by my strange appearance… My third uncle raised me in a cage, barely managing to grow up thanks to borrowed good karma and incense offerings… On my 18th birthday, I was buried alive in the ancestral graveyard, and she saved me… but she wasn't human… Read the main text

8. 108 这 Something's Wrong with How to Start This Urban Novel 这篇都市文的打开方式不对 Garlic Vermicelli Steamed Oysters蒜蓉粉丝蒸生蚝Modern Romance904k WordsCompleted After her parents died, Yan Xia was suddenly claimed by her biological parents. Her new parents seemed pretty wealthy, and her five older brothers were all outstanding men. Though she had no idea why there were five brothers again, maybe that was just the legendary tomato-novel rule for fake and real heiresses. After all, she’d heard she was the real heiress. But according to the “plot” suddenly implanted in her mind, the fake heiress, who had been raised by her new parents for twenty-three year 12.9kReads9.1Score2.1kShelves

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   [Mind-blowing + Female-oriented + With a Couple] 🍄A wildly imaginative and incredibly entertaining story! 🍁She doesn't believe she'll become a real heiress! 🍁The plot is so outrageous, it's almost too much! 🍁Even more absurd, she encounters a ghost upon opening the door. 🍁Let whoever wants to be the villainous female supporting character be, but in the end, it turns out she's just a shared female supporting character! 🍁Fine, fine, if she doesn't learn some real skills, she won't be able to keep the plot from collapsing, right? 🍓🍓🍓

9. 109 我 Me, a Cultivation Big Shot: How Much Stronger Can I Get? 我，修仙大佬强亿点怎么了 Cabbage白菜Mystery1.0M WordsCompleted "Soul Ferryman + No Romance + Story Arc Adventures + Spiritual Qi Revival + Cultivation + Invincible" Yun Miao, a cultivation powerhouse who has lived for thousands of years, sets out to uncover her origins. She volunteers to become a ferryman, guiding vengeful ghosts to the afterlife. The ghosts are full of resentment, hatred, and longing. She works diligently, her heart as firm as stone, yet can never uncover the mystery of her origins. Until one day... The Taoist priests of the Xuanmen 27.4kReads9.2Score5.6kShelves

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   Similar to the story of "The Ferryman," it helps people who don't want to be reincarnated fulfill their wishes, settle their past, and successfully reincarnate. The cases are adapted from real cases. PS: The underworld pays pretty well, 300,000 a year, even after taxes, so you only get 300,000 after taxes. [Laughs][laughs]

10. 110 绑 Bound to the Underworld System, I Become Invincible 绑定地府系统，成就无敌 Little Peak小小的峰Eastern Fantasy252k WordsOngoing I started writing after graduating junior high. I've worked as a food delivery rider, made short dramas, worked on an assembly line, and done sales. How do I put this? I've revised this book's blurb too many times, and the story has gotten completely out of control, so I won't go into detail. Anyone got a shrimp-kernel series? Give my work a makeover!!! 47Reads—Score—Shelves

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    A different kind of underworld – I highly recommend this book and would like to share it with everyone.

11. 111 地 The Underworld: I've Got a Little Background 地府我有亿点背景 Warm Sun on Duckweed暖阳浮萍Urban3.8M WordsOngoing Cultivation? Doesn’t exist! I rode in on a stroke of great fortune, bearing the sun and moon on my shoulders and striding across ten thousand miles of mountains and rivers! When I woke up, I was astonished to discover I was the real deal! … The big shots of the underworld? They’re my ancestors! As the underworld’s number-one rich playboy, I’m completely unfazed. Because spoiling the youngsters runs in my family. The underworld’s ghost officers? They’re my underlings! They can drive me around an 1.5kReads8.9Score140Shelves

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    ①Riding the great fortune, carrying the sun and moon on his shoulders, and treading across thousands of miles of mountains and rivers, he is a big shot from the underworld. He is my ancestor who is protective of his offspring, and it is a tradition of my family.

12. 112 地 A Thousand Years of Sign-In in the Underworld, Then Reincarnating Makes the Empress Cry 地府签到千年，投胎气哭女帝 Invincible Master无敌大神Eastern Fantasy1.2M WordsCompleted After Li Heng died, his soul entered the underworld. He thought he would be reincarnated, but instead he unlocked a sign-in System in the Hall of the King of Hell. And so he became a lowly underworld officer who swept floors, wandering through every corner of the underworld. “Ding! You signed in at the Hall of the King of Hell and received the King of Hell's Sword!” “Ding! You signed in on the Eighteenth Level of Hell and received the Primordial Demon God Spear!” “Ding! You signed in at the Hall 14.6kReads8.6Score67.4kShelves
13. 113 地 Underworld Courier 地府快递员 Loanword Character通假字Urban3.0M WordsCompleted On the surface, I’m an ordinary deliveryman, zipping around on an electric scooter loaded with parcels, come rain or shine. In private, I still work as a deliveryman, but the routes I take are anything but ordinary. They’re the roads of the legendary underworld... 501Reads8.8Score107Shelves
14. 114 恋 The Most Hated Contestant on a Dating Show? I'm a Grim Reaper, Yet I'm a Hit in the Underworld 恋综万人嫌？当鬼差却在阴间爆红 Steamed Bun with Red Bean Paste馒头豆沙包Urban1.1M WordsCompleted If someone offered you a million to join a dating reality show for ordinary people, with a script that required you to play a mean, tactless, universally disliked character, and you knew the public would drag you onto the trending charts to bash you, would you take the job? Lin Xian, who failed at investing in a haunted house, works at a funeral home, and has a gravely ill younger sister to support, replies: “Director, you mean I don’t have to care what people think, I can insult whoever I want 7.1kReads8.6Score883Shelves
15. 115 我 Me, a Yin-Yang Judge? My Verdicts Start at the Death Penalty 我，阴阳判官？本官断案死刑起步 Leisudeng Little Truck雷速登小卡车Eastern Fantasy1.1M WordsCompleted 21kReads8.4Score2.4kShelves

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    🍂① He found himself wrongly arrested as soon as he transmigrated, but his awakened system told him that he would become a judge of Yin and Yang after the seventh day after his death. So he let loose in the hall and changed his exile to the vegetable market.

16. 116 我 I Want to File a Complaint! This Ghost Officer Uses Excessive Force! 我投诉！这个鬼差暴力执法！ Perplexed Muzi纳闷的木子Urban453k WordsCompleted After being framed, underworld kingpin Chen Jiuhua becomes a ghost bailiff in the Netherworld and gains the Ghost Bailiff System. Every soul he captures makes him stronger. Sun Wukong: “Your Majesty, I’m reporting one of your men for using excessive force! He stole my Golden Cudgel and sold it for scrap, and now he wants to crack open my skull and suck out my brains!” Jehovah: “Hey, I’m a Western god. The Netherworld has no jurisdiction over me, right? I was on my way to Heaven when that guy kic 801Reads8.7Score221Shelves
17. 117 半 I Play Rock-Paper-Scissors with the Mirror at Midnight, and I Won't Sleep Until I Win 半夜和镜子猜拳，我赢一把就睡 Mr. Krabs Loves to Eat蟹老板爱吃饭Mystery1.3M WordsCompleted The entire Xie family had a rather spooky air about them. His great-great-grandfather was a mountain wanderer, and his great-great-grandmother sewed up corpses. His great-grandfather was a Maoshan Taoist, and his great-grandmother was a spirit medium from Fengtian. His grandfather made paper offerings, his grandmother prepared bodies for burial, his father drove corpses, and his mother raised poison insects. Some of his ancestors even liked to dig themselves out of their graves… As a result, X 6.2kReads9.0Score559Shelves
18. 118 黄 The Yellow Springs Pawnshop: No Living Visitors 黄泉典当铺，生人勿近 The Moon Bridge Remains桥月仍在Mystery1.3M WordsOngoing [Ghost Hunting + Supernatural Horror + Folk Customs + Strange Tales + Taoist Arts + Maoshan] At the end of a street at midnight stands a Yellow Springs Pawnshop. You have no way of knowing whether those who come and go to trade are human or ghost! Lu Guanshan takes over the pawnshop, and on his very first night, he encounters a stunningly beautiful, cold and aloof Ghost Queen hanging from a beam. She latches onto him and stays by his side as they collect yin objects and subdue a hundred ghosts. 5.3kReads6.5Score472Shelves

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    The combination of folk customs and Taoist folk traditions is simply amazing.

19. 119 白 Selling Clothes by Day, Sewing Corpses by Night 白天卖衣服，晚上缝尸体 Night Shadow夜幽影Mystery2.7M WordsCompleted [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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    Supernatural stories, ghost hunting, and exorcising zombies. These are still the books I need. [Thumbs up][Thumbs up][Thumbs up][Thumbs up]

20. 120 掐 One Quick Calculation, and I Know You’re a Fugitive! 掐指一算，你是逃犯！ Red Flowers and Green Willows花红柳绿Mystery4.2M WordsOngoing Su Chen, a top-tier celestial master, transmigrates to the 1990s and becomes a widower with the same name. His wife has just died, and his five children are crying for food. After searching the entire house, he finds only ten yuan. Without hesitation, Su Chen takes the money to Chunming Street, the busiest street in the city, and puts an ad in the newspaper: “Fortune-telling. If I'm wrong, you don't pay.” “Granny, your daughter didn't go missing. She's in the stove at your son-in-law's house.” A 46.6kReads9.0Score4.6kShelves
21. 121 道 A Daoist Descends the Mountain to Work in a Noodle Shop 道士下山，面馆打杂 Loves Old-Friend Noodles Best最爱老友粉Urban1.1M WordsCompleted [A Taoist Priest Descends the Mountain + Passionate + Has Brothers + Urban Training + Witty + Wish Fulfillment + Ghost Hunting + Zombie Slaying + Organized Group + Cracking Down on Cultivator Crime + Horror] A hostess at a leisure center is sucking people's blood essence. Get rid of her! People keep jumping into the river? A water ghost is harming people. You still want to help it pass on? It harmed people, so get rid of it! A shoddily built tower is haunted... Huh! The ghost lady has earned mer 5.7kReads9.4Score584Shelves

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    Both of these are good; I recommend you take a look.

22. 122 道 The Taoist Exorcist 道门驱邪人 Peeing into the Wind and Soaking Myself迎风尿一身Mystery768k WordsCompleted Where there is evil under heaven, there are all manner of wicked things, and so there are Daoist exorcists. He travels between heaven and earth, yin and yang. He ventures deep into the hundred thousand mountains of Miao territory and far away to the borders of the southern seas. Head-dropping curses, gu raising, black magic, and all the world's fiends and spirits of darkness. He has exorcised countless demons and ghosts, only to discover in the end that nothing is more evil than the human heart. 2.6kReads9.1Score395Shelves
23. 123 我 My Fate Is to Die at the Hands of Black and White Impermanence 我的宿命，就是死在黑白无常手里 Wang Dong of Big Sheep Island大羊屿岛的王董Mystery433k WordsOngoing [Psychological horror taken to its limit + one heroine + an inescapable death that defies logic] My name is Zhao Tuo. The Black and White Impermanence have written my name in the Book of Life and Death. I have seven days left to live. No one can save me. But I’ve discovered that “they” might be able to help me stay alive. The Black and White Impermanence: The time of death written in the Book of Life and Death is fixed. It cannot be defied. The Grim Reaper: The sooner you die, the sooner you 1.7kReads9.4Score157Shelves

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    [Refreshing story + pretending to be weak while actually being strong + big boss + revenge against scum + ghosts + business management] Li Miao, who has terminal cancer, meets a Taoist priest who tells her that the reason she is plagued by bad luck and has no time to live is because her destiny has been switched.

24. 124 捉 My Monster-Hunting Was Exposed, So I Had to Livestream Explanations of Monsters and Ghosts 捉妖被曝光，只好直播科普妖与鬼 Pure and Cute Girl清纯萌妹Urban1.1M WordsCompleted [Livestreaming explanations of monsters from authentic ancient Chinese texts + One female lead + Two incredibly powerful protagonists + The Classic of Mountains and Seas + What the Master Does Not Speak Of + All kinds of folk customs, researched in meticulous detail] As the saying goes: I offer the gods fine incense, and they say it isn't good enough. When a hundred thousand heavenly soldiers came down from the sky wearing sunglasses and smoking Huazi cigarettes, the viewers fell silent. Lin Qin 28.3kReads9.1Score2.7kShelves
25. 125 地 The Underworld's Office in the World of the Living 地府阳间办事处 Pea Pod豌豆荚Urban972k WordsCompleted After losing his job and taking to the streets, he unexpectedly becomes a temporary worker in the Underworld? The King of Hell's Judge's Brush is out of ink? I'll go buy some! The Great Sage Equal to Heaven's peach trees aren't bearing fruit? I'll go buy fertilizer! 71Reads6.0Score—Shelves

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    The Underworld series is a good book with a great plot. The author's writing style is excellent. Thumbs up!

26. 126 地 Hell’s Prison Warden 地府镇狱人 Journey to the Forgotten River途忘川Mystery1.3M WordsCompleted Eighteen years later, I returned to the place where my nightmare had begun. I never expected to encounter the bizarre sight of a weasel asking to be granted a title, and even less did I expect that, through a series of mishaps, I would become an outsourced worker for the Underworld. To keep living among the living, I was forced to become a jailer in the Underworld. 22Reads—Score—Shelves
27. 127 惊 What?! The Paper Effigy Shop Owner Is a Feng Shui Master! 惊！纸扎店老板，竟是玄学大佬！ Bring Me a Yakult来瓶养乐多Modern Romance677k WordsCompleted [Strongest female lead + occult expert + satisfying power fantasy + no romance] Xia Bai's master left her a house. She uses it to get a secure civil-service job in the Underworld. From then on, she spends her days taking on every job she can find, all to help build a new Underworld. Substitute ghosts? Off to reincarnation with you! Borrowed lifespans? That's against Underworld regulations. Go downstairs and face your punishment. Anglers? You want to chum the waters on the Bridge of Helplessness? 8.2kReads8.8Score973Shelves
28. 128 地 Part-Time Worker for the Underworld 地府临时工 Leng Xin冷心Urban1.9M WordsCompleted Wu Di dropped out of college and came from a family so poor it could hardly get any poorer. He sold off the family’s possessions to pay for his father’s treatment, only to lose both his father and his money. With no other choice, he set up a stall telling fortunes, but the city inspectors shut him down. Single, lovesick, and a total loser, he was kicked out by his landlord during the Ghost Festival, only to run into Ma Mian from the underworld, who was hiring. Wu Di became a low-ranking ghost of 110Reads—Score—Shelves
29. 129 都 It’s All the Underworld’s Fault 都是地府惹的祸 Nightfall夜色Mystery806k WordsCompleted [System + leveling up + suspense] After I was hit by a basketball and fell into a lake, Black and White Impermanence brought me some bad news: I should have had another seventy years to live, but the basketball had killed me! To make up for the years I had lost, I became an officially employed member of the Underworld and got a Ghost Recruitment System! It turned out the Underworld was developing, too. As long as I helped recruit ghost talent, I could gain all kinds of abilities: spirit talisman 414Reads6.4Score139Shelves

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    The underworld + mortal life + leveling up + system! It's awesome! [Thumbs up][Thumbs up]

30. 130 阴 The Yin-Yang Melody: Ghost Month 阴阳曲之鬼月 Lingxi Dim Sum灵犀点心Mystery210k WordsOngoing Cultivation, Supernatural, Underworld, Conspiracy, Apocalypse, the Myriad Worlds A family of three turns into dried corpses as soon as they die. A corpse goes to the hospital for treatment. Women vanish from their homes at the same time. A game of spirit summoning ends with someone jumping to their death. When evil bares its fangs, the police are already powerless. Who will save the people? A police officer can find no solution in the world of the living. Then he’ll seek one in the world of the 3Reads—Score—Shelves

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    Lu Xin waved to the little monk. "The reincarnated monk of Lingyin Temple?" Old Meng asked. "Huh?" Lu Xin asked, puzzled. "No, kid, you're just using my eyes for nothing! Look at this little monk for yourself!" Old Meng said. Only then did Lu Xin notice that the little monk Huiming was enveloped in a faint halo of light; he had previously thought it was just the mountain lighting. "Look at that light of merit, it's even better than that old man's back then." Lu Xin felt a hint of sarcasm in Old Meng's tone. "Little Master, did you pass the trial?" Lu Xin asked curiously. "Yes!" The little monk was very happy, his eyes narrowed into slits, eagerly awaiting Lu Xin's praise. "Really impressive! You seem to have done it very easily!" Lu Xin quickly praised. "Actually, I don't know what happened either. After I went in, I didn't see or hear anything. Several other people who went in with me seemed to be in great pain. One of them was about to commit suicide, but I stopped him. Then, I was teleported out. They told me I was the fastest to clear the level, pretty impressive, right?" The little monk looked very happy. Lu Xin knew he was happy because he had saved someone. "Yes, Buddhism says that saving a life is better than building a seven-story pagoda. Little master, this is a great merit!" Lu Xin praised again. "Mr. Lu, you speak so kindly!" The little monk scratched his head happily. After a while, "Mr. Lu, you speak so kindly, could you say a little more?" The little monk said happily. "..." Lu Xin was speechless. "By the way, have you eaten?" Lu Xin quickly changed the subject.

31. 131 我 My Grim Reaper Friend 我的鬼差朋友 w Wu Yulunbi ww吴与伦比wMystery285k WordsOngoing In this fantastical world, Song Ziyuan befriended a ghost messenger named Zhang Xing. He always wore a black trench coat and had a strange smile on his face, but don't be fooled by his appearance: he's actually a very funny guy. As a ghost messenger of the Underworld, Zhang Xing travels between the human world and the Underworld, guiding the dead to where they belong and hunting down evil spirits. Song Ziyuan, his human friend, often gets dragged into these eerie adventures... 2Reads—Score—Shelves

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    The author is a big fan of "The Ferryman," and this novel contains some elements from "The Ferryman." The second male lead is also a ghost messenger from the underworld, and he and the first male lead have many thrilling, humorous, and even somewhat ambiguous stories.

32. 132 我 I Came From the Underworld to Subdue Demons and Ghosts in the Mortal World 我自冥界来，于世间镇妖鬼 Dancing Flames Across the Nine Heavens火舞九天Mystery5.0M WordsOngoing A live-action, high-definition animated series of the same name is now available on Hongguo and Tomato Novel. Search to watch. Witchcraft ☞ Taoist arts ☞ Feng Shui secrets ☞ Mountain spirits and ghosts ☞ Scary enough to make you scream ☞ Funny enough to make you laugh ☞ No harem Mei Wuji was possessed by the Netherworld Emperor. He died and came back to life, defying Heaven’s will. Mei Tianlang mastered Meishan witchcraft and Feng Shui geomancy, understood fate, and divined that his grandson Mei 27.2kReads9.0Score1.8kShelves
33. 133 怪 Urban Legends: Who Let This Taoist Priest In Here? 怪谈：谁放这个道士进这里的？ Mao Erbai毛二百Mystery1.6M WordsCompleted This book has a short drama adaptation. Rules of Terror: This Taoist Priest Is Acting Strange. Now streaming [No Female Lead] [Hilarious] [Hotheaded Hero] [Supernatural] [National Destiny] Rules of Terror descend upon the world, and the Dragon Nation loses five rounds in a row. For the sixth round, Chen Yang is chosen to represent his country. Just as the nation assumes he is an ordinary nobody, Chen Yang takes off his jacket, revealing the yellow robe underneath. Chen Yang: "Yee-hee-hee! Ever s 16.3kReads8.9Score1.6kShelves
34. 134 咱 We've Got People Down Below 咱下面有人 Warm Sun on Duckweed暖阳浮萍Urban1.5M WordsCompleted The big shots of the Underworld? They're my ancestors! As the Underworld's number-one playboy, I stay calm. My family has always been serious about protecting its own! The Underworld's ghost dragons? They're my tattoos! Those guys are a little too wild. If possible, send a few more my way! The Underworld's bailiffs? They're my underlings! They can drive for me and deliver packages, too! Evil spirits causing trouble? I'll kill every last one of them. Well, as the Underworld's Ghost Courier Ju 9.3kReads9.0Score721Shelves
35. 135 太 The Supreme Dao Lord 太上大道君 Long Zijian龙子健Urban1.9M WordsOngoing A meteorite fell onto the snowy plains of the northern lands. No one knew it had brought not a child, but a fragment of the Heavenly Court's great calamity. At sixteen, the orphan Li Yuchen entered Shangqing Zhengyi Palace on Mount Longhu. Three trials, one talisman, nine orphans, and a single promise to stand as fellow disciples made them a family. Snake demons, plague gods, demon kings... One disaster after another struck. When the Jiangxia Nuclear Power Plant was on the verge of meltdown, he 2.1kReads6.7Score226Shelves
36. 136 我 I'm a Lowly Little Ghost Officer 我是小小鬼差 A Mere Mortal's Bookish Servant凡间一书童Urban60k WordsOngoing My new work is now available! You’re welcome to read it on Tomato Novel. I hope you enjoy it. Your follows are what motivate me to write, and I’ll do my best to tell every story well! —Reads—Score—Shelves

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37. 137 人 The Human Realm Soul-Ferrying Office 人间渡魂事务所 Mu Ding San Huo木鼎三火Urban1.0M WordsOngoing [A Soul-Crossing Sword that levels up and transforms] [Urban supernatural tales + detective investigations] [Cool, aloof senior boss and her younger puppy-like partner] [Uncovering the truth behind his mother's disappearance and the Soul-Crosser organization's dark secrets] The Soul-Crossing Sword levels up, with no mindless power fantasy. In a city teeming with vengeful spirits, ghost stories have become reality, and ordinary people can meet bizarre deaths at any moment. Everyone thinks they'r 10Reads7.0Score—Shelves

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    Soul Ferryman, traversing the realms of Yin and Yang! Midnight vengeful spirits, urban legends, a mysterious agency, an aloof and domineering boss, the mystery of a missing mother's pen... It features episodic supernatural events combined with a main mystery plot, making it truly captivating. It's a journey of redeeming souls while simultaneously uncovering the truth—a truly compelling experience!

38. 138 午 The Midnight Pawnshop: The Living Must Keep Away 午夜当铺，活人回避 Chong Xiayueban虫下月半Mystery4.0M WordsOngoing [Traditional Supernatural Horror] [Chinese Folk Customs] [Unorthodox Trade] [Tales of Evil Objects] [No Romance] This is a strange pawnshop that deals exclusively in sinister objects with special value! When something goes against the natural order, evil must be at work! Some things simply should not exist in this world! Coins stuffed into the mouths of the dead, an executioner's blade, grave mushrooms, flesh lingzhi, Kunlun fetuses... Evil objects can harm people, but they can also help them! T 277kReads9.4Score23.7kShelves
39. 139 我 Even Ghost Messengers Say the Hotpot at My Restaurant Is Delicious 我开的火锅店，鬼差吃了都说好 Lone Lord孤爷Mystery1.5M WordsCompleted Low-key version She dropped out of school at thirteen and worked as a chef until she was nineteen. With the savings Lin Ye had scraped together over those six years, he opened a hot pot restaurant. Who could have guessed his venture would get off to such a poor start, with business so slow the place was about to close? Just as he was wondering what to do next, two customers showed up on the restaurant's final night and changed his life... Grim Reaper: “Boss Lin, your hot pot is so spicy. It 31.8kReads9.1Score2.8kShelves
40. 140 了 The Affairs Hall 了事堂 Da Youqi大有七Mystery1.1M WordsCompleted The Hall of Resolution’s motto: Settle the three thousand troubles of the mortal world, and let all people enjoy peace. If you have a problem, go to Tian Qi. As long as you have enough money, he can handle it. Not enough? Then, sorry. I'm a little tired. 5.2kReads8.5Score379Shelves
41. 141 出 True Tales of the Spirit Mediums: My Ten Years Serving at a Ghost Hall 出马仙纪实：我供奉鬼堂的那十年 Four Happiness Pavilion四喜阁Mystery3.1M WordsOngoing My name is Zhou Tie. In this book, I'll tell the true story of my ten years running a spirit hall and serving ghosts. You've heard of spirit mediums... but have you heard of a ghost spirit hall? At eighteen, I established a ghost spirit hall and served ghost immortals! The presiding master was the sister my grandfather said had gone mad and died! This book has no female lead. It's not fantasy, and it's definitely not a cultivation novel! It's the true story of how I, born with an ominous yin con 84.7kReads9.6Score8kShelves
42. 142 午 The Midnight General Store 午夜杂货铺 Sunflower in the Garden园中葵Mystery2.5M WordsCompleted “Welcome to the Underworld General Store. Here, you’ll find merchandise unlike anything else, along with extraordinary service…” I run a midnight general store and work as a professional spirit walker, moving between the worlds of yin and yang. In the pitch-black night, I deal in things that must never be spoken of. Then one day, a strange customer dressed head to toe in red came in, and that was when the real horror began… 7.2kReads8.4Score571Shelves
43. 143 婴 Baby Lantern 婴儿灯 Old He Baba老河灞灞Mystery1.3M WordsCompleted When I was five, I fell into the water and my soul left my body. With my own eyes, I saw the legendary baby lantern said to lure away souls. I initially thought it had come to harm me, but that wasn’t the case. As I continued to investigate, a sinister layout targeting me slowly came to light... 197Reads—Score—Shelves

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    You can try this.

44. 144 我 I Work for the Underworld 我在地府当员工 Fire Leaves, Autumn Soars火离秋高Mystery171k WordsOngoing A new story is here! Your support is what keeps me writing, and I’ll do my best to tell every story well. After graduating from college, Lin Mo somehow lands an offer from the Underworld. From then on, he becomes an intern alongside his fellow team members and sets out on a ghost-hunting adventure~ —Reads—Score—Shelves

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    This book is thought-provoking, humorous, and brilliant.

45. 145 工 The Best Feng Shui Master on the Construction Site 工地最强建筑风水师 Good Fortune Comes to the Good吉人自有天祥Mystery1.8M WordsOngoing [If this caught your eye, it must be fate. Don't scroll away just yet.] This novel (campus opening + wild imagination + an expansive world) combines feng shui and the supernatural (using feng shui to weave the plot together), fantasy, magic, science fiction, parallel worlds, and time travel to the past. The pace picks up dramatically after Chapter 30, and the story strongly promotes traditional Chinese culture. Also known as From the Start with a Treasure Gourd to Help Me Destroy Demons Also kno 2.2kReads8.3Score265Shelves

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    I recommend a thrilling campus-themed novel, a feng shui and supernatural story called "The Strongest Feng Shui Master on the Construction Site." It combines elements of Buddhism, Taoism, Confucianism, feng shui battles, historical time travel, reincarnation, fantasy, science fiction, feng shui and supernatural phenomena, Lu Ban's techniques, Mohist mechanical arts, Gu poison, and corpse-driving. Written from the perspective of architecture students and building engineers, it explores feng shui and supernatural events. It's currently being serialized on Tomato Novels website.

46. 146 接 I Received an Order from My Dead Boyfriend 接到死去男友的订单 Eating Dust from the Hallway吃楼道里面的灰尘Mystery126k WordsCompleted On the Ghost Festival, Su Xixi receives an order from her boyfriend, who has been missing for three years. Her boyfriend, who died a gruesome death, sends Su Xixi a desperate plea for help from beyond the grave. But after she puts his restless spirit to rest, he keeps sending her orders to thank her. From then on, Su Xixi becomes a guide between the worlds of the living and the dead, and a mortal shadow appears beside the River of Forgetfulness. 5Reads—Score—Shelves

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    Ghost,,,,,

47. 147 我 I Opened a Bank in the Underworld 我开了一家地府银行 A Taurus Leo狮子座的牛Urban50k WordsCompleted The day I inherited my family’s funeral shop, Black and White Impermanence came knocking. They knelt and called me the Netherworld King, saying that the Underworld had lost the Netherworld King’s Seal when I was reincarnated. Its financial system had collapsed, plunging the realm of the dead into chaos. I stared at the paper money that glowed whenever I touched it, lost in thought. Meanwhile, the Judge who stole the Netherworld King’s Seal was using his human representative to hunt me down. He d 6Reads—Score—Shelves

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    I opened a bank in the underworld.

48. 148 祸 She Caused Enough Trouble in Life, Now the Underworld Sends Her Off in Style 祸害她死够了，地府全员欢送 Silence Is Best沉默最好Modern Romance114k WordsCompleted Long live science ≧▽≦ (Short story; read at your own risk if that bothers you) Tea steeped in Granny Meng’s soup, underpants stuffed in Ox-Head’s pocket, toads raised in the River of Forgetfulness, Extraordinary spiciness smeared on Impermanence’s tongue… And plenty more besides, all of it the handiwork of A Qi. At last, the underworld celebrated the greatest happy occasion in a hundred years! A Qi had finally died enough times! (Long live science! Leave your brain here~ We’re just here for a l 243Reads8.7Score101Shelves

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    Tea brewed in Meng Po's soup, underwear stuffed in a bull's head pocket, toads raised in the River of Oblivion, and insanely spicy smeared on the tongue of the Impermanent One… all these are the work of Ah Qi. Finally, the Underworld welcomes its greatest joy in thousands of years, and Ah Qi has finally had enough of dying!!

49. 149 地 The Underworld Ancestor Is Five and a Half 地府祖宗五岁半 Pale Smoke and Light Green淡烟浅翠Ancient Romance506k WordsCompleted Yu Ziwei, the foremost female war god in the Celestial Realm, failed her tribulation and fell to the mortal world, where she became an adorable five-year-old. Her sworn enemy, Emperor Fengdu Cui Wei, found her and brought her back to the underworld, where she became the pampered little princess. The King of Hell had his beard pulled out, the Judge's Book of Life and Death became a disaster zone, Black and White Impermanence became her lackeys, and Zhong Kui served as her bodyguard. The ghosts cr 148Reads9.1Score—Shelves

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    Even while working in the underworld, there are moments of leisure, during which time one can occasionally venture into the mortal realm to capture ghosts.

50. 150 绑 After Binding the Underworld System, I Had a Blast Taking Down Scumbags 绑了冥府系统后虐渣爽爆了 Calamity of the Galaxy星河祸Modern Romance3.4M WordsCompleted [Metaphysics, supernatural, mutual healing, strong heroine, sweet romance, satisfying and smart] After Chi Zao is reborn and bound to a System, her daily tasks are to catch ghosts, guide souls, and stop powerful figures from turning evil. Mocked as a scarred beauty with a ruined face? She’ll grab a bottle of scar-removing elixir from the System shop. Born poor, with no power or influence? President Chi, your company has gone public. Feng shui masters chase after her, begging to take her as their 2.5kReads9.2Score523Shelves

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