Horror and Supernatural at First, Cultivation Later 前期恐怖灵异后期修仙那种
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King of Feng Shui 风水之王
The day I was born, nineteen bolts of thunder struck around our family’s courtyard. A fortune-teller said I was born a demon child, fated to suffer eighteen calamities in my life. Either someone else would die, or I would. As it turned out, the fortune-teller met his own calamity on the very day I was born. He carried me out of the village, and suddenly dropped dead!
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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…
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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 Immortal Emperor Returns: The Villainous Empress Becomes My Mother-in-Law 仙帝归来：反派女帝变岳母
The arrogant Emperor Xuan is reborn on Earth and vows to keep a low profile while cultivating with Moutai. He is even forced to learn how to woo women. But what he never expected was that his mother-in-law would be the female emperor who wiped out his entire family in his previous life and died with him...
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I'm Really Not a Charlatan 我真不是神棍
“Goddess, I told you, when a cat slips on a coffin, the corpse climbs right out. You just had to put a cat inside. Well, now your mother’s risen from the dead!” “How has she risen from the dead? You charlatan, stop trying to scare me. Look, my mother hasn’t moved at all. She just looks a little scary.” “You want her to move? Fine. Come see me tonight, and I’ll show you something amazing.”
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The Yin Grave 阴坟
A soul on the bed, a grave beneath it. On the fifteenth day of the seventh month, offerings are made to the gods. One ritual burned several people alive. Were they human, or spirits?
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The Ghosts Come Out at Night Series 猛鬼出更系列
The Ferocious Ghosts Come Out at Night Series
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The Deadly Neighbor at Midnight 午夜凶邻
The Neighbor from Hell at Midnight
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Office Ghosts: Don't Work Overtime office有鬼之不要加班
There Are Ghosts in the Office: Don’t Work Overtime
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Major Crimes Unit Three: The Borrowed Corpse 重案三组之借尸还魂
Three bizarre murder cases, each victim wearing a strange smile. Through deep psychological profiling, forensic pathologist Song Ci discovers that each victim’s final actions imitated a tiny habitual gesture their long-deceased relative used to make. Bai Ye’s technical analysis confirms that traces of brain waves that could not belong to the living, already “formatted,” remain at the crime scenes...
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Strange Tales from Western Henan 豫西诡事
You may think I’m telling a story, but these are things I’ve experienced firsthand over the past ten-odd years. You don’t have to believe me, but are you sure everyone you’ve met was human? Science can’t explain everything…
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The 90s-Era Celestial Master 九零后天师
Everyone knows the Book of Lu Ban, but few have heard of the Gongshu Manual. The art of creation has been passed down through the generations. A Celestial Master descends into the mortal world, stirring up storms across the land!
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Reverend, Stop Pretending. I Know You Can Use Immortal Arts 道长别装了，我知道你会仙术
At Zhongnan Mountain, people knew only that it was home to the Quanzhen Sect. Few knew that at its foot stood a dilapidated Taoist temple. That day, the people of Gujing Temple burst onto the scene. From then on, their name would resound throughout the land!
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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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The Divine Fortune-Teller in the Linen Robe 麻衣神算子
My grandfather taught me everything he knew about fortune-telling, but after I read three people’s fortunes, he left me. From then on, I didn’t just tell the fortunes of the living...
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Borrowing Yin Lifespan 借阴寿
Have you ever slept wearing burial clothes? Don’t try it. I did once, and that night... My name is Li Yiliang. I was born with a shortened lifespan, and my birth caused my mother to die in childbirth. But one night when I was eighteen, my mother came back and said she wanted to take me with her... My grandfather told me to sleep in burial clothes, then gave his own life to help me escape that fate. From then on, my life was never free of strange and uncanny things...
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Tomb of the Yin 镇阴棺
I was always at my grandfather’s side, helping people relocate graves. There was a special burial practice involved in moving graves called a second burial. It required opening the coffin, gathering the bones, and dressing them in new clothes. The first time I encountered a second burial, I dug up a female corpse that looked lifelike...
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The Master of Ma Yi Divination 麻衣相师
My great-uncle had all kinds of abilities. One day, he told me he’d buried a treasure for me in a feng shui paradise…
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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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Funeral Services for the Living 活人殡葬
Workers at funeral homes have always belonged to one of the most mysterious and terrifying professions. I'm one of them. For years, I've been unable to sleep, weighed down by the terrifying secrets I've kept buried inside. Now I'll tell you about my own experiences: the truth about working at a funeral home, and some of the taboos known only to those on the inside. You may not realize it, but not everyone working at the funeral home you see is alive.
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Who'd Have Thought This Guy Was a Ghost-Catching Taoist Master? 这货居然是捉鬼天师
The protagonist, Wang Yang, is a gifted Taoist with a fragment of Emperor Fengdu's soul hidden within him. He has trained in the mountains since childhood, and Black and White Impermanence are his childhood friends. One day, after blowing up his master's alchemy furnace out of sheer boredom, he is kicked off the mountain to gain experience. At the foot of the mountain, he meets his martial uncle. On the way, he hears that the Taoist world is holding a new disciple tournament, so he heads there t
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The Last Female Mystic 最后一个女玄术师
When Ye Simei was five, a fortune-teller told her she was born with a bewitching beauty and destined to become a canary in some powerful man's cage. Ye Simei: Have the powerful gotten too cocky, or do you think I, Ye Simei, can't wield a blade anymore?
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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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Coffin Shop No. 44 44号棺材铺
Everyone knows what a coffin shop is, but would you dare enter one where someone has died? Ever since I took over a coffin shop, strange things have been happening all around me. Only then did I realize that the people who come to buy coffins aren't necessarily alive…
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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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Super Scary Livestream 超级惊悚直播
"Welcome, everyone, to the Supernatural Scary Live Stream. Before we start today's broadcast, I have to tell you that only three kinds of people can watch this stream: those with a heavy aura of yin energy, those who will die within seven days, and the third kind, which I can't discuss in detail. I can only give you one warning: watch your back!"
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The Terrifying Online Celebrity 恐怖女网红
Ning Ruoyu is bullied and framed by the people closest to her. To stay alive, she has no choice but to catch ghosts for money. She never expected to become an online sensation with tens of millions of followers... I’ve started a new book and hope you’ll show it some love. Please recommend it and send me some diamonds. Don’t forget to tap “Follow”! During the new-book period, there will be one update a day until the story reaches 30,000 words, posted at noon. After that, there will be two updates
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The Horror Livestreamer 恐怖女主播
My name is Yuan Junyao, a name that doesn't suit me at all. I've had a chronic illness since birth, and I'm so hideously deformed that tumors started growing on my face when I was little. My father left me when I was just three months old. At fifteen, I was blamed for my mother's death. Only my grandmother raised me and my stepbrother, who shared neither parent with me. But after an accident, I was offered up to a man who should never have crossed my path. To get revenge and see justice done, I
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The Fake Master Walks Between Yin and Yang: Sweet-Talking the Living, Battling Vengeful Ghosts 冒牌大师走阴阳：哄完活人斗厉鬼
The thing Liu Buyi, a fake master, regrets most in his life is learning how to “draw talismans with soy sauce” from a short video. Because the corpse that should be lying quietly in front of him is now using a soy-sauce-dipped finger to write his name on the coffin lid. Meanwhile, his half-baked beauty of a partner, An Xun, is munching on sunflower seeds and enjoying the show. “Didn't you say you had Yin-Yang Eyes?!” Liu Buyi's voice trembles. Seeing how unconcerned she looks, he almost passes o
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Peach Blossom Madness Beneath the Peach Tree 桃花树下桃花癫
Official synopsis: A strange nightmare leaves her waking up in another world. Other people come with a golden finger. She comes with a competitive System. She picks up a master from a funeral home, then gets a coffin-loving senior brother. When all kinds of coincidences come her way, her motto is simple: dodge whenever possible! Protecting all life and upholding justice? None of that has anything to do with her! But there’s nothing she can do about it. An invisible hand seems to be guiding Yunsh
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The Immortal Maiden of the Hanging River 悬河仙女
The surging tide of the Mother River. No transmigration into a book, no romance, no jealousy, and no cultivation in this xianxia drama. No green tea characters. It won't frustrate you, and it breaks away from familiar writing styles. The story feels fresh. It won't make you angry, and it offers a refreshing change. It's deeply healing.
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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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Villain: I'm the Scum of the Cultivation World, and I Have No Humanity 反派：我是修真界败类且毫无人性
[Spiritual qi revival + invincible protagonist + ruthless decisiveness + horror invasion + dark, thrilling action + sinister cultivation] A bizarre apocalypse descends, and the whole world enters a terrifying age of awakening... Those with colds and fevers awaken to Qi Refining cultivation! Those with difficult-to-treat illnesses awaken to Foundation Establishment cultivation! Those with kidney stones awaken to Golden Core cultivation! Pregnant women awaken to Nascent Soul cultivation! Those wit
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The Immortal Fate of the Uncanny Way 诡道仙缘
“The world is a sea of suffering. The mighty look upon it and see three thousand fish-dragons in its depths. Some lurk in the abyss, some soar to the Ninth Heaven, and others drift with the waves. If one of them catches the attention of the mighty and is fished up, it may gain an immortal opportunity. One day, it may escape the sea of suffering and attain a great destiny!” Jiang Ning stood on the shore of the sea of suffering. He set down the bamboo scroll in his hand and smiled bitterly. Countl
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The Last Knife Seller 最后一个赊刀人
They are wandering prophets who travel the four corners of the world. Skilled in feng shui, they roam the mortal realm with a bundle of cleavers and scissors on their backs, and wherever they go, they leave behind a prophecy about what they have seen. “Keep this cleaver. If an elder in your family dies of consumption within five years, I'll come back to collect payment.” They are heirs to an ancient Daoist tradition from a distant place, able to pronounce life and death with ironclad certainty a
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Ghost Shop No. 81 81号鬼事铺
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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In Another World, I Use Taoist Arts to Empty My Enemy's Warehouse 到了异世，我用道术搬空仇人仓库
An alternate history setting. Please do not compare this story with real history! Gou Yunshu, a modern Daoist exorcist, was betrayed by her best friend during an exorcism. She was struck down by heavenly retribution, killed by a bolt of lightning. She transmigrated into the body of a young girl in the Great Xia Kingdom of the Republican era and discovered that her grandfather had been captured by the Japanese army. To rescue him, she took her younger siblings, bought a house, and left Laolongtan
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The Greatest Taboo Among the People 民间第一禁忌
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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The Living Must Keep Away 活人回避
Originally titled Living People, Keep Away. An antique set me on a desperate path. From then on, just to stay alive, I became a yin walker who dealt with the dead and the walking corpses. Three years searching for dragon veins, ten years locating acupoints, roaming between yin and yang, dealing in ghosts and spirits. I kept walking, struggling my way to where I am today.
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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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The Last Daoist Lord 最后的道君
Ever since my mother got pregnant with me, strange things kept happening at home. First, a hedgehog came into the house, a long snake coiled around the beams, and a weasel dug a burrow in the vegetable patch out back. Then foxes from the mountains joined in, showing up at our doorstep every few days to peer inside. Now the five immortals were all gathered: Hu, Huang, Liu, Bai, and Hui. Anyone in the know would recognize this as the Five Immortals entering a home. Any one of the five entering
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Eternal Damnation 永世沉沦
When I was little, my family was very poor. My father made me a kite out of paper, but when it came down from the sky, it was covered in blood... After that, all kinds of strange, inexplicable troubles began to descend upon me. To deal with them, I traveled across the country and ventured into one forbidden zone after another, places where no one knew there was life. It took me years to understand that what is truly terrifying is the human heart. When raging desire intertwines with the ugliness
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The First-Rank Sword God 一品剑神
A modern young man transmigrates to a world overrun by demons, monsters, ghosts, and spirits, and becomes a ninth-rank patrol inspector. With a single long sword, he slays demons and monsters and fights to restore justice across the land. He is both a high-ranking official and an unrivaled sword god.
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There’s a Ghost Inside Me 我的体内有只鬼
Vengeful ghosts awaken, and a hundred ghosts roam the night. Jiang Xiao transmigrates into this world for no apparent reason and finds himself surrounded by demons and monsters. But then he discovers that his shadow can devour ghosts without limit and gain their abilities. [Successfully devoured the White Mist Ghost. Ability acquired: Mist Form] [Successfully devoured the Hanging Ghost. Ability acquired: Shackles] [Successfully devoured the Bronze Ghost. Ability acquired: Copper Skin] [Successfu
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The Cursed Coffin 阴棺抬煞
Deep in Bai Street stands a yin-yang coffin shop that never makes coffins and never receives customers. Chen Ye grew up accompanying his grandfather on spirit-walking rites and coffin-bearing, learning all manner of evil spirits. He thought he would spend his life in the peaceful funeral trade, taking payment to guide souls onward and living in safety. Then, in a single night, three coffins arrived at the Ding family’s home, and one bizarre incident after another erupted throughout the househol
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Breaking Hell: The Celestial Master Returns 破狱：天师归来
After ten years in prison, the day he gets out, he discovers he’s completely out of step with the world. There are no bustling streets or lights in every window. The streets lie abandoned, the cities are dead, and the air reeks of rot and blood. Monsters that are neither human nor ghost roam everywhere: stiff bodies, fangs and claws, and a thirst for blood. The military can’t defeat them, the police can’t hold them back, and human civilization is on the brink of collapse. Even more absurdly, peo
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Crown of Frost and Ash 霜与烬之冠
At her engagement ceremony, the man she loved pushed her into an abyss. Three years later, she returned wearing a silver-frost mask. This time, she would crown his empire with her own hands, then stain that crown red with his blood.
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The Demon Husband Comes Knocking 妖夫找上门
After what happened with Tang Qingfeng, I learned a painful lesson. Never casually agree to anything someone asks of you in a dream, because it’s all too easy to accidentally get yourself dragged into it.
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Terror in the Haunted Dorm 诡寝惊魂
I got a job as a dorm supervisor in a university women’s residence, but the girls there were a little too friendly… Crying in the middle of the night, dorm rooms catching fire, rooms that don’t exist. Hidden in the deepest corners of memory is a bizarre and fantastical world… The night is deep, the dream unfinished. A mountain spirit blows out the lamp. Where can a lonely soul return?
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The Mountain Spirit Seeks Immortality 山鬼问仙
“They used my blood to sacrifice to the mountain god, never knowing that I am the true god.” “Humanity is written with two strokes: one writes your fate, the other your fortune.” “I’ll carve out my own fate.” In Qingyan Village, in the Realm of the Nine Provinces, Lu Ziqing is an orphan whom the villagers regard as an ill omen. But hidden within him is a shocking bloodline: that of a mountain demon. His life was supposed to be a tragedy arranged in advance. The lowest of the low in the entire vi
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