My Family Told Me to Toughen Up, and Now No Horror Novel Can Scare Me 家里人让练胆,已经没有恐怖小说能吓到我了
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Horror's Edge: 100 Absolutely Terrifying Ghost Stories 恐怖边界:100个绝对惊悚的鬼谈
[Standalone Stories + Supernatural Horror + Folk Customs + Feng Shui and Mysticism + Mild Frights + Shocking Twists] Horror tales beyond anything you could imagine. Each story is like a dark door swinging open, drawing you into moments that will make your skin crawl. Listen. A faint whisper, an indescribable shadow creeping closer. Danger by the river, terror in the cemetery, ghost babies in the maternity ward, evil headhunting magic, apparitions at the hot springs, a bloodstained umbrella... On
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Northeastern China's Forbidden Secrets 东北禁忌手札
[Extreme horror + a folk-horror story set in the countryside] In a remote mountain village, deep within the forest, countless taboos remain unknown to outsiders. The people here follow ancient rules of life and death: pregnant women must never encounter a coffin, and anyone who dies of old age at a hundred years old is destined to become an evil spirit. But in a single day, the old Yu family breaks both taboos, drawing every kind of demon and ghost to their door! At midnight, someone hears the s
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The Sound of Nightmares: 60 Horror Stories That Wake You from Your Dreams 噩梦之声:60个做梦吓醒的恐怖故事
[Standalone Ghost Stories + Supernatural Horror + Not for the Faint of Heart + Rural Tales] When night falls, terrifying ghostly figures emerge. Step into all kinds of bizarre and unbelievable tales, and spend your nights screaming! Haunted houses, ghostly shadows outside the window, a deadly lipstick, someone beneath the mattress, an umbrella that hunts people... Every corner conceals inexplicable phenomena and secrets that will fill you with dread! Every page will make your hair stand on end,
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Ghostly Whispers at Midnight 夜半鬼语
[Rural + Supernatural + Ghost Stories] Back when my grandfather was young, he learned carpentry. As Old Zhao put it, a sixth-grade carpenter these days was worth half a scholar. But things were different back then. Carpenters belonged to one of the lowest trades. They had to carry their tools around every day, get up before dawn and stay out until the middle of the night, traveling from village to village to find work. And because they went so many places, and made coffins and dealt with the dea
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One Horror a Day 一天一个惊悚
One terrifying tale every day, and a different world each time. Just because you haven't seen it from in front of your phone doesn't mean it doesn't exist. Enough chatter. See you in the book, everyone.
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The Midnight Ghost Market: Living People Keep Out 午夜鬼市,活人回避
[Mystery + supernatural + ghost market + narrow escape from death] My name is Tang Chao. I’m a broke young man scraping by in the antiques business, with hundreds of thousands in debt hanging over me. An ordinary porcelain-buying deal led me to pick up a strange Jun ware bowl at an unexpectedly low price. I thought I’d found a bargain. Little did I know, it was the beginning of my nightmare... On a bus, I met a burly man calling himself Jue Mingzi, who warned me that “a calamity is sure to befal
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The One Who Borrows Lives from the Underworld 阴间借命人
[Standalone Stories + Supernatural Horror + Suspense + Folk Customs + Playful Tone + Ensemble Cast + Nonstop Ghost-Hunting Thrills!] Ever since I borrowed a life from the underworld, I’ve known no peace. My name is Quan Ning. I’m a lawyer, and one day I was in a car accident on a mountain road. As I lay dying, I saw a ghostly judge from the underworld come to claim my soul. I struck a deal with him and borrowed a sliver of hope for survival. The price of this life I borrowed was becoming
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Tales of Strange Happenings in the Countryside 乡村诡事录
The strange happenings in a mountain village. I was born and raised in the countryside. Deep in the mountains, there are always ghosts and spirits, and my village was no exception. Heaven, earth, black, yellow, the cosmos vast: demons and ghosts send shivers down your spine. One year, the start of spring fell on the fifteenth day of the eighth month. That year, so many strange things happened. Just bringing them up is enough to scare people. Meeting the Black and White Impermanence on a night wa
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Ghost Sightings at the Nightclub 夜场见鬼录
A Long is a DJ at a bar with a legendary “Stage of Death.” Many people have died there under mysterious circumstances. The cause of death could never be determined, and some bodies were never even found! The strange incidents stopped only after the bar was shut down. As the legend of the deaths gradually faded from memory, someone opened the stage once more! After that, disaster struck again and again! A terrifying ghostly figure appears in the girls’ dormitory, a faceless baby clings to a chand
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Tales of a Haunted Village 荒村怪谈录
[Rural Mysteries + Folk Customs + Chinese-Style Horror + Feng Shui and the Supernatural + Anthology + Shocking Twists] There is an old well in Jiulitun that has been sealed for thirty years, and one eerie incident after another keeps occurring. Why has a little girl become unbelievably strong and deranged? Why do villagers keep drowning, and why is the village taboo so difficult to speak of? It all goes back thirty years...
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The Netherworld Inn 阴间客栈
My name is Qin Yu. While on a business trip, I checked into a uniquely styled inn called the Yin Room Inn. It even offered “special services” in the middle of the night. Little did I know it was an inn from the underworld. I began having nightmare after nightmare, and my friends kept getting into trouble...
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Horror Descends: The Ghost Gate 恐怖降临【鬼门】
Horror + supernatural + suspense + survival + infinite worlds + twists A world of horror descends, and countless Gates of the Dead suddenly appear. Those selected must enter the gates and make a desperate escape. Some gates are formed from horror novels. Some are formed from horror movies. Some are formed from tales of evil spirits. Some are formed from bizarre imaginings. Entering a Gate of the Dead means your life has started counting down. Who can make it out alive? “If you're curious abo
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Tales of Strange and Unusual Events: Supernatural Happenings in Everyday Life 奇闻异事录之生活中的灵异事件
This place has it all: remarkable people living ordinary lives, paranormal oddities happening right beside us, deadly places explored by thrill-seekers desperate to make a living, startling customs and secret tales from every corner of the land, mythical beasts and evil creatures found only in legend, and eerie coincidences so uncanny they make your scalp crawl. It's no exaggeration to say I've experienced every kind of paranormal event you can imagine, and plenty you can't. I used to be an adve
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A Record of Supernatural Events in the Countryside 乡村灵异事件薄
My new work is out! You can read it on Tomato Novel. I hope you enjoy it. Your support is what keeps me writing, and I'll do my best to tell every story well!
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What Kind of Security Guard Is Responsible for Catching Ghosts? 谁家保安还负责抓鬼啊?
Baiyun Residential Complex is an upscale neighborhood, but the countless strange tales and ghost stories surrounding it have made many people wary of the place. The story begins when Li Si applies for a job as a security guard there...
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The Yin-Yang Hot Pot Restaurant 阴阳火锅店
I took over a hot pot restaurant from my second uncle. He told me never to serve customers a yuan yang hot pot after midnight! After I took over the place, everything I believed in began to crumble... One night, I wasn't paying attention and served a couple a yuan yang hot pot. The next day, I saw in the newspaper that the couple had died! They'd jumped to their deaths together! After that, every night at midnight, a strange couple would appear in my restaurant and ask me to make them a yuan yan
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The Last Soul-Quelling Master 最后一个镇魂师
I grew up at my grandfather's house in the countryside. He was the most respected suona player in our village. One day, Li Dashan, a fellow villager, beat his pregnant wife to death and came to ask my grandfather for help. My grandfather tried everything he could, but still couldn't calm the resentment of Li Dashan's wife. In the end, he had no choice but to play a suona dirge to forcibly pacify her soul. On the night of the Lantern Festival, Li Dashan and his family turned into vengeful ghosts
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The Haunted House My Father Left Me 父亲留给我的恐怖屋
An inheritance to claim? A mysterious visitor? A dangerous choice and a turning point in fate. This opening installment follows Chen Ge's first exploration after inheriting the Haunted House, as he uncovers the secret clues his father left behind, setting the whole story in motion...
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I Might Have Changed the Wrong Fate 我可能改了个假命
When I was little, my mom asked a Taoist priest to tell my fortune. He said I'd face a calamity at 26, and that he'd come help me get through it the day before my 26th birthday. When the day finally came, the priest really did show up to change my fate. He even gave me a “Fate-Changing Ruler” and told me I had to change the fates of seven people with different destinies to survive the calamity. Otherwise, I'd only have five years left to live. So much for changing my fate for me! Did he only cha
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I’m Really Not Blind 我真的不是瞎子
As the old saying goes: Dogs can see things people can't. I'm not a dog, but I can see things normal people can't.
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Yang Xiaocao's True Ghost Stories 杨小草的见鬼实录
A collection of true stories about Yang Xiaocao's encounters with ghosts. They may not be that scary, but they're absolutely true! The story begins when Yang Xiaocao is in middle school. Born with a yin-attracting constitution, she often encounters unclean things.
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The Horror Exam 恐怖考试
One exam, one cycle of rebirth, a battle between life and death, all for a brilliant tomorrow! Do you have the courage to face this endless nightmare? The Horror Exam awaits your challenge!
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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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Horror Night School 恐怖夜校
My promotion was just around the corner, but my lack of a degree was holding me back. Short on money, I went for a cheap night school that nobody had ever heard of. I thought the only problem was that it was in a remote location and had rundown facilities. But I never imagined that from then on, my life would be plagued by one paranormal incident after another... Damn it, someone help me! Can I just quit school already?
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Strange Tales of the Supernatural 灵异怪谈
Yin-yang masters are fated to suffer the Five Evils and Three Deficiencies. Is there any way to escape their fate? A life-and-death romance with a bloodthirsty vampire zombie! After desperately searching for the Strange Records of Yin and Yang, he discovers it is all part of an even bigger conspiracy! The Mausoleum of Qin Shi Huang, bloodthirsty vampire zombies, an inn in the underworld, an ancient Warring States tomb, and the Strange Records of Yin and Yang all feature in Strange Tales of the S
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The Strange Case Squad 诡案组
Though he worked tirelessly to make a name for himself, he could never forget the case from three years ago. The pain of losing a loved one drove him to investigate, and a series of seemingly nonsensical cases unexpectedly led him to a little-known, earth-shattering secret. He presses steadily onward until, at last, the truth comes to light and he catches the person who truly committed the crime all those years ago.
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I Built a Haunted Hotel 我养成了一座恐怖旅馆
My inn caters to the dead! Want a room as a living person? That depends on whether your life is tough enough! I don't want money. I want haunted objects, and the more vicious, the better! And no matter what kind of deity you are, take my advice: don't go near Room 207! Otherwise... you'll have to deal with the consequences!
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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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Strange Tales Livestream 怪谈直播间
The sound of meat being chopped eerily echoes through a bun shop in the dead of night. The passengers on the last bus all have the same face. On a freezing, rainy night, someone wearing funeral clothes wanders the streets... The Strange Tales livestream takes you deep into the hidden side of this world!
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The Underworld Calls Me Little Master 地府叫我小先生
In ancient, remote places, all kinds of strange and terrifying things are bound to happen. And these things happen around Hua Jiunan. In fact, Hua Jiunan is part of them. For instance, he was born from a corpse!
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Midnight Wonders 午夜惊奇
At the stroke of midnight, amid a terrifying atmosphere, strange ghost stories begin to unfold! A bluish-white hand suddenly appears on the window in the middle of the night. Is it looking for someone to take revenge on? A bus still running in the dead of night: does it lead to the world of the living or to hell? The shapewear hanging in the wardrobe at home is made of human skin! During the Qingming Festival, a figure appears in the glass of the bathhouse. After returning to her room, a beautif
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I Turned the Horror World Into a Raising Game! 我把惊悚世界玩成养成游戏!
A mysterious force descended upon Earth, giving rise to another world of terror. Everyone was forcibly sent into the world of horror games on their eighteenth birthday. While everyone else was immersed in fear, struggling to survive in the cracks between life and death, Qin Nuo discovered that he could earn System rewards by influencing the ghosts’ emotions. And every time he completed a dungeon, he could establish his own business in the world of horror. So he became a food runner at the Yin Sp
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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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Rule Horror: A Brain Is a Wonderful Thing 规则怪谈:脑子是个好东西
[Nuclear wastewater aftermath + world mutation + original instances + horror + mystery + livestreaming + national destiny + System] [Come on in and read, you'll get smarter, I tell you!] After the nuclear wastewater disaster, the world's energy field mutated, and rule-based horror descended upon the world. Every country was striving to overcome the side effects of the nuclear wastewater through the horror instances. Fang Ze began a life of roaming the world with a System, though the useless thi
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The Horror Cinema 恐怖电影院
After I transmigrated to this perilous spirit world, crawling with ghosts and monsters, I was attacked by a ghost right from the start. In my despair, an emotionless System prompt suddenly rang out! [System binding successful!] [Grudge points from the little ghost A Li +10. Redeem them for one basic ghost-repelling talisman!] But just after I drove the ghost away, a mysterious force suddenly descended and assigned me the role of a supporting character, ordering me to go to my death! Frustrated b
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The Autobiography of a Tomb Raider 来自一位盗墓者的自传
[Published in print and available online] [The Beipai Notes horizontal-screen drama is now streaming] [Tomb Raiding + Mystery + Antiques] I'm a poor kid from a mountain village in Northeast China. In the early twenty-first century, hoping to make something of myself, I joined a northern tomb-raiding crew. From south to north, I've seen every side of the underworld and crossed paths with people from all walks of life. Over the years, I went from a young man to a middle-aged one. My drinking got b
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Becoming the Livestream: Welcome to the Fairy-Tale World 化身直播间:欢迎来到童话世界
[Live Streaming + Urban Life + System + Transmigration + Dark Fantasy + Xuanhuan] Zhong Moli, who died in an accident, unexpectedly becomes a livestreamer traveling through fairy-tale worlds. Anything can happen here! The Little Match Girl turns out to be a witch reborn! The evil queen who envies Snow White turns out to be Cinderella! The Seven Dwarfs actually want to take advantage of her! Snow White, killed by the poisoned apple, transforms into a magic lamp, while Ali Baba, hunted by the Fort
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Archaeology Tips: My Sister Leaked My Notebook 指点考古:我的笔记本被妹妹曝光
A Western Zhou tomb belonging to King Mu is discovered in Changsha, and a livestream is launched. Before setting out, host Wu Bingbing accidentally picks up her older brother's diary instead of her own. October 20: The Fat Guy says he found a new clue. It's at Golden Sparrow Mountain. October 21: They're after us again. We've finally figured out what's wrong. “Ugh, my brother's making stuff up again. Boring.” But once the ancient tomb expedition begins, Wu Bingbing starts frantically sendin
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The Underworld Detective 阴间神探
My new work is out! You can read it on Tomato Novel. I hope you'll enjoy it. Your support inspires me to write, and I'll do my best to tell every story well!
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The Horror Heir: My Queen, It's Time to Go Live 恐怖继承人:我的女王,该直播了
The main story is complete. [One-on-one romance + strong female lead, even stronger male lead + absurd comedy + hilarious read that even timid readers can enjoy] They thought she was weak and easy to bully. Only a few people knew she had inherited a terrifying garden. The garden’s horrifying man-eating flowers, bewitching mandrakes, and corpse-scented voodoo lilies were all at her command. In short, she was not someone to mess with. Anyone who crossed her would find her inheriting their estate.
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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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The Hell Handbook 地狱手册
A handbook said to have come from hell. The moment you open it, you are already trapped in horror. Life and death... are no longer yours to decide! The Town of the Dead, Horror Fairy Tales, The Hospital of Terror... Behind these repeated, terrifying cycles of hell, what spine-chilling truth is hidden? Su Jin, I want to live, even if...
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Thriller Game: From the Start, I Advised the Female Ghost to Study Hard! 惊悚游戏:开局劝女鬼好好学习!
[Supernatural instance dungeon: Class 3, Year 1 has finished loading. Players, get ready.] What happens when a hot-tempered young man enters a horror game? Xie Yao: “Why aren't you studying? What are you doing here!” Ghost student: “Big bro, I was wrong! Ah, don't hit my face!” Xie Yao: “Why is your mouth open? Have you finished your homework?” Slit-Mouthed Woman: “Please, I'll do it right now! Don't hit me!” Xie Yao turned around. “What are you doing?” All the ghosts: “Uh... we're being friendl
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Making My Debut in the Horror Livestream 在惊悚直播中c位出道
[Mid-to-Short Campus Novel Writing Contest] Accidentally caught up in a horror livestream, Chu Yu chooses to live as boldly as she can. Her teammates: ...Yeah, she’s definitely bold enough. Once selected to become a horror streamer, you have to complete an endless variety of terrifying livestream challenges. To the viewers, the only difference is between dying and waiting to die. Somehow, Chu Yu manages to bring something new to the table. In a hotel where dawn will never come, she wields a bloo
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Horror Survival: I Livestream Fortune-Telling for the Supernatural 恐怖求生:我直播给诡异算命
The Black Sun appeared, bringing a bizarre and terrifying fight for survival, along with a hundred survival livestreams. Every day, people die horribly while struggling to survive! For three years, Li Changsheng prayed every single day, hoping to be chosen for the terrifying survival game as soon as possible! At last, his happy survival adventure is about to begin! From then on, the whole tone of the terrifying survival game changes. He tells the Slit-Mouthed Woman’s fortune in love! He warns th
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The Ghost King Is Sealed Inside Me, Yet I’m a Good-for-Nothing 体内封印鬼王,我却是个废柴
A rainy night in a cemetery, a man-eating black cat, a man searching for his late daughter, a school guard hanged on the stairs, a wedding coffin sealed with red paper, a grotesque face hiding in a mirror... What secrets lie behind it all? What other mysterious events will Wang Shier, the gravekeeper, have to face? As terror and dread slowly close in, those secrets seem to be steering his fate. (The stories in this book are all adapted from real events. If anything sounds familiar, it is pure co
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Records of Yin and Yang Mysteries 阴阳诡录
Ji Rendong was born with Yin-Yang Eyes and brought misfortune to her father, her mother, and her entire family. Since childhood, she has been able to see a girl who looks exactly like her, following her everywhere. At the age of five, her grandmother abandoned her, and a mysterious man took her away. She thought she would finally have a home, but it turned out the man only wanted her extremely yang blood. Her blood could save his son, in exchange for her life. Should she save him or not? That is
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Vivid as Life 栩栩若生
A fortune-teller said I was born destined for greatness, the reincarnation of the Flower Goddess, with the power to turn stones into gold and command flower spirits and tree sprites. Once I came of age, my family was sure to prosper. But when I was twelve, I came down with a strange illness. My fever wouldn’t break, and I kept seeing terrifying visions... In a dream, I met an old woman who told me to find an expert with supernatural powers to save my life. Millet to summon souls, altars and form
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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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