Stories Connected to the Underworld, Where the Male Lead Runs a Shop in the Human World 跟地府有关，男主在人间开店，
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Even Ghost Messengers Say the Hotpot at My Restaurant Is Delicious 我开的火锅店，鬼差吃了都说好
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
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The Midnight Pawnshop: The Living Must Keep Away 午夜当铺，活人回避
[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
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- 3 The Last Paper Effigy Maker 最后一个扎纸人 The art of paper effigies can bridge the worlds of yin and yang, perform rites for the dead, and summon the King of Hell. Cut yellow paper, weave bamboo strips: paper horses travel a thousand miles, and paper figures summon spirits. With one stroke to paint their eyes, the King of Hell appears, striking terror into all directions and sending ten thousand ghosts into hiding! By the time the art of paper effigies reaches Chen Mo, he is its last practitioner. He assumes this ancient, mysterious cra 16.7kReads8.5Score1.7k14d adds
- 4 Rising Through the Ranks as a Ghost Official, Starting as Meng Po's Errand Boy 鬼差上位，从给孟婆当小弟开始 Xu Le died! His soul returned to his body, and he became the representative of Meng Po, taking charge of a soul station that connects the worlds of the living and the dead. Everything begins here. Why is a terrifying ghost sealed inside an abandoned girls' dormitory? Who broke the seal and released it? Is the terrifying ghost bride who emerged from the barren mountains trying to steal Meng Po's man? As Meng Po's representative and boyfriend, Xu Le is in a panic. When none of this seems like a th 4Reads—Score—14d adds
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The Yellow Springs Pawnshop: No Living Visitors 黄泉典当铺，生人勿近
[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.
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After Encountering the Black and White Impermanence, I Became a Spirit Walker 撞见黑白无常后，我成了走阴人
Everyone fears General Xie Fan's temple, but Lin Che isn't afraid. Not only is he unafraid, he even went into the temple and gave the statue a spa treatment! That night, Black and White Impermanence appeared in his dream: "Young man, fate has bound you to us." Lin Che: "Bro, I just want a few hundred more yuan in my account right now." Black and White Impermanence: "Have some ambition! We'll make sure you earn a million yuan a year!" From that day on, Lin Che officially became a spirit walker. H
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The Head Ghost Catcher 头号鬼差
[Urban supernatural + ghost officer leveling up + mildly scary + folk customs + no System] After a car accident, Su Jie became a ghost officer in the world of the living and opened a little teahouse in Meicheng. By day, he welcomes three thousand guests from the mortal world. By night, he uses tea to ferry ghosts and spirits across. He's no good at fighting, and when he encounters evil spirits, all he can do is light up a protective golden aura. Luckily, every one of his employees has a special
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The Three Realms Supermarket 三界超市
The Three Realms Supermarket: I Sell Goods and Become Invincible! A young man with only three months left to live inherits a supermarket. It can connect the Three Realms, but that makes him a thorn in Heaven’s side. He improves Granny Meng’s soup recipe, recommends dog food to Erlang Shen’s dog, and discusses red-thread business with the Matchmaker. As gods and ghosts become hooked on shopping, his daily routine is to earn merit to extend his life while matching wits with the Jade Emperor. He
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Corpse Driving in Western Hunan: The Soul-Calling Guide on the Night Road 湘西赶尸：夜行引魂人
A sudden disaster at a mass grave! Wu Liangzi is struck on the back of the head and wakes among rotting coffins and bones, clutching a bloodstained piece of yellow paper. It bears the name of the man he has spent three years tracking down for murdering his father! Seven corpses in black robes dance around him all night, their lifeless eyes seeming to “acknowledge their master.” A mysterious corpse driver tosses him a life-and-death contract. “Four of your seven souls have scattered. If you can’t
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- 10 I'm a Customer Service Agent in the Underworld, and My Clients Were Big Shots in Life 我在阴间当客服，客户是生前大佬 Satisfying power fantasy, System story, yin and yang, urban supernatural, comeback, a star-studded cast of powerful figures, unresolved obsessions, protection Programmer Chen Yan dies suddenly from overwork and unexpectedly binds himself to the Netherworld Customer Service System, becoming the only living temp worker in the Underworld Bureau. Just then, the Underworld’s entire System crashes. The ghost officers go missing, and emperors of ages past, business tycoons, battlefield gods of war, and 7Reads—Score—14d adds
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The Underworld Opened a Convenience Store in the Human World 地府在人间开了家便利店
Unemployed young man Jiang Lin lands a job at a 24-hour convenience store, thinking he’ll just be pulling all-nighters to stock shelves. Little does he know, every employee is a top-tier star from the underworld. Judge Uncle Cui is busy fixing his cracked-screen iPad and on the verge of a breakdown because he can’t solve a high school calculus problem. Auntie Meng, who cooks the oden, is hard at work developing a “fresh coconut” version of Granny Meng’s Soup. Delivery rider Bai Xiaoxiao zips aro
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- 12 AI Made Him a Cyber Heavenly Master Ai封他做了赛博天师 AI crowned him a cyber-era Celestial Master. —Reads—Score—14d adds
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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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- 14 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 308.4kReads9.4Score27.5k14d adds
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Chen Buqi, the Little Taoist 小道士陈不欺
Hello, everyone. My name is Chen Buqi. My professions include Taoist priest, locksmith, cook, phone repairman, driver, and tomb-raiding consultant…. I have too many to list them all. I was raised by my master and martial uncle! They were both incredible! I only learned that after coming back from my first year out in the world. Because I liked to play around, I also squandered a lot of techniques that people would have envied! Fortunately, I devoted myself to physiognomy and mastered two special
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From the Start, I Was a Ghost King, Forced to Become Bai Wuchang 开局鬼王，被迫成为白无常
Xie Yan transmigrates into the body of a Ghost King, expecting to throw his weight around. Instead, on his very first day on the job, he is surrounded by the Underworld's special task force for “cracking down on organized crime and evil.” Faced with the “kind invitation” of a hundred ghost-captain-level underworld enforcers, he signs a contract of servitude through tears and becomes the Underworld's number-one wage slave. From then on, he has KPIs in one hand and the Book of Life and Death in th
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Don't Burn Any More for Your Good-for-Nothing Grandson, the Underworld Can't Take It 乖孙别烧了，地府扛不住了
Don't Burn Any More, Good Grandson. The Underworld Can't Take It Anymore
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I Solve Cases at the Special Investigations Bureau by Day and Serve in the Underworld by Night 我白天特案局办案，晚上地府当差
I was born with a pure Yang constitution and the fate of Zhong Kui. I can drive out demons, subdue ghosts, and repel evil spirits. The moment I was born, all kinds of factions fought to take me as their disciple. A bunch of monks and Taoist priests said I was destined to become a Celestial Master or a great monk. They even got into a brawl over me, and that’s not all: in the end, both the state and the underworld got involved! When I was one, the state even assigned me a corpse-born child who ha
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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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I’m Just a Deliveryman, but the Underworld Called Me in for Help 我一个送外卖的地府叫我来帮忙
I’m Mu Bei, a delivery rider earning 3,000 yuan a month. I was delivering kung pao chicken when a hungry ghost shoved me into the road. Just as my soul was about to be scattered, Di Ting showed up at my door. “You are the chosen one selected by King Ksitigarbha, the Underworld’s spokesperson!” Only 72 hours of lifespan left? Merit points can extend it? Mu Bei: Got it. So my delivery business is expanding into the Underworld? From then on, he delivers food to people by day and takes orders to
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The Soul Ferry Paper-Offering Shop 渡魂纸扎铺
On a rainy night in Jiangcheng, Lin Mo's proposal turns into a complete joke. Betrayed, humiliated, and left with nothing, he returns to Qingxi Town after many years away and inherits the Lin family's funeral-paper shop, left behind by his grandfather. He means to end his life there, but discovers that this seemingly ordinary shop is the only waystation for the Underworld in the realm of the living. At midnight, the doors open and the dead come and go. Paper effigies become real, and Taoist arts
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Tianxuan Paranormal Affairs Office 天玄灵异事务所
- [Infinite Flow + Urban Supernatural + Chinese-Style Horror + Folk Legends and Hauntings + Celestial Master Exorcists + Heirs to the Daoist Tradition + Heterochromatic-Eyed Heroine + Haunted House Tales + Episodic Stories + Folk Taboos] - Hidden deep in the bustling streets is an inconspicuous supernatural affairs office called Tianxuan. - No one dares touch the folk taboos of this world. Haunted houses are plagued by unsolved horrors, abandoned villages and ancient mansions seethe with resentm
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- 23 Folk Horror [The Fake Master Who Shocks a Hundred Demons] 恐怖民俗【冒牌大师震百妖】 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 839Reads—Score10914d adds
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The Underworld Has a Shop That Sells Only Obsessions 地府有一店，只卖执念
By the banks of the River of Forgetfulness, beside the Bridge of Helplessness, stands a place called the Pavilion of No Return. It sells no gold or silver from the mortal world, only memories and obsessions. The proprietor, Shen Qingci, sees the past lives and present lives people cannot let go of in every item...
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My Lady Doesn't Believe in the Supernatural 我家夫人不信邪
I believe in metaphysics, but she doesn’t. We got married just to prove each other wrong. I wanted to hang a portrait of the Three Pure Ones, but she refused, so after a huge argument, I decided to write down all the true events that have happened over the years: my dad got into trouble after eating a snake, my grandma suddenly started eating pork knuckle and cursing, Gao Dabao lost a hand in an elevator accident, Feng Ershuang was grabbed by a ghost, and their cousin mysteriously went mad and d
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- 26 Among the Otherworldly 我在异人间 I am descended from the Sage Yangming. When I was born, countless bolts of heavenly thunder circled our old family home and crashed down. Could it be because the last dragon and phoenix in the world died right outside my house, and now they want me to pay with my life? 17Reads6.9Score—14d adds
- 27 Day 49: The Whole Internet Watches Me Tear Through the Horse-Shaman World 第49天，全网看我杀穿出马仙 [The first novel online to tackle the “spirit-medium” genre from an opposing perspective] Before my dad died, he left me a blood curse: “If you meet a god, beat it. If you see an immortal, kill it.” Now the whole village is made up of spirit mediums, and I'm the only ordinary person left. They livestream “catching an old immortal,” so I report them and get their accounts banned. They stage “the Tragic King being killed,” so I expose their tricks on the spot. Then I rescue a snow-white fox, and i 15Reads—Score—14d adds
- 28 EN With a Fox Immortal, I Subdue a Hundred Ghosts 我以狐仙镇百鬼 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! 743.2kReads9.4Score41.2k14d adds
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I Opened a Convenience Store in the Underworld 我在阴间开家便利店
Gu Yan is dead, but not entirely. A car accident leaves him in a vegetative state, and his soul becomes bound to the Yin-Yang Convenience Store System his father left behind. He owes 20 million yuan, and has only 365 days left to live. Want to stay alive? Open a store in the underworld! He sells Granny Meng’s Soup, Forget-Me Water, and good luck in love, while offering all kinds of bizarre services to ghosts. From a little convenience store to a chain empire, from 20 million yuan in debt to earn
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- 30 I Transmigrated to the Western Jin Dynasty, and My Foresight Can Rewrite History 穿越西晋我的预知能改写历史 The first year of Yongjia, in the final years of the Western Jin dynasty. Pei Ziyu never imagined he would go from being a PhD in history to the legitimate eldest son of the Pei family. The moment he opened his eyes, his father was under house arrest in Chang'an, and the family was on the brink of collapse. Colleagues were being murdered, assassins lurked everywhere, and the Xiongnu were poised to strike. Worse still, in three months Liu Yuan would raise an army in rebellion. The Five Barbarians —Reads—Score—14d adds
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Strange Tales from a Chinese Studio: I Asked You to Repay Your Debt, Not Paint Skins and Ghosts 聊斋：让你还债，没让你画皮画鬼
[Strange Tales from a Chinese Studio + Bizarre Cultivation + No System + Subverting Expectations + Folk Supernatural Tales + Becoming a God Through Painting + Dark Tone + Lovecraftian Horror + Clever Protagonist + Decisive and Ruthless + Not Mindless Wish Fulfillment] Transmigrating into Strange Tales from a Chinese Studio, I find myself trapped in the deadly predicament of The Painted Skin from the start, and saddled with an unpayable debt to the dead? Don't panic. I have a White Bone Brush tha
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I’m Really Not a Yin Messenger 我真不是阴差啊
Lin Xiao found a glowing contract and, on a whim, signed it. The next day, an app appeared on his phone: [Underworld Grassroots Civil Servant (Temporary) Law Enforcement Assistance System]. From then on, his life became a balancing act: By day, he was a corporate drone; by night, he worked as a temp for the Underworld. His salary was ghost money, his KPI was capturing souls, and his benefits included priority reincarnation. When faced with a vengeful ghost, he pulled out a handbook on the Core S
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I Open a Clinic in the Underworld, and the King of Hell Comes Knocking from the Start 我在冥界开诊所，开局阎王找上门
This is my understanding of the past and present, at home and abroad. #Comedy #ModernDeconstruction #EmotionalCounseling #ShortStoryCollection "Your depression is what we call an excess of yin energy." I pushed up my nonexistent glasses and explained this to the illustrious client sitting across from me. After I died unexpectedly, my psychology license became a rare commodity in the underworld. When the King of Hell came to me in person, seeking help for occupational burnout among the underworld
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The Underworld Hired Me to Restore Artifacts, and the King of Hell Begged Me to Stop Taking His Place 地府聘我修文物，阎王跪求别拆台
I’m an archaeologist with social anxiety, hired by the Underworld to restore cultural relics. On my first day, the King of Hell gave me 72 hours to repair the shattered Mirror of Sin. I quietly picked up my tool kit. Social anxiety may be an illness, but even ghosts and gods have to kneel before my craftsmanship. I repaired Meng Po’s ladle and discovered that the soup of forgetfulness had been tampered with; I repaired the Judge’s brush and discovered that the Heavenly Dao was controlling the
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The Bell Shakes the Mountains and Rivers 铃动山河
Hardcore worldbuilding: the Maoshan Taoist ghost-hunting tradition, the secret Shaolin art of guiding ghosts to the afterlife, Seven Star fate-reading, the Wu people’s shamanic medicine, and their logical integration with modern technology. Urban setting, supernatural mysteries, ghost hunting, schemes, corpse retrievers, corpse-carrying teams, corpse drivers, zombies, curses, and Southeast Asian horror stories. *Modern military life × ancient metaphysics*: Secret lineages and supernatural crises
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I Open an Entertainment Company in the Underworld 我在地府开娱乐公司
I'm a third-rate agent, buried under thirty million in debt, and every entertainer I manage is a total flop. My creditors said, "Tomorrow is your final deadline." Then something went wrong with my left eye I could see ghosts. A songstress from the Republic of China era, her voice poisoned away, wanted to sing one more song. A Southern Song poet, poor all his life, wanted people to hear his poem. A cave guardian from Dunhuang, waiting for eighty years, wanted to say, "The scriptures were never lo
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Stirring Up Trouble in Soul Ferry 我在灵魂摆渡里搅风搅雨
[A Soul Ferry Fanfiction + Transmigration Across Film and TV Worlds + Comedy + Healing + Warmth + Everyday Life + Episodic Story + Power Ceiling] A Zhen appears to be an ordinary clerk at Convenience Store No. 444, but he is actually an ancient true god who has lost his memories. After an ancient calamity shattered his divine soul and scattered its fragments across three thousand small worlds, he can only transmigrate through them in mortal form, searching for each fragment one by one. Every tim
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The Midnight Ferry Office 午夜摆渡事务所
The story is set in a modern metropolis of the 21st century. On the surface, it is a technologically advanced, orderly human society, with skyscrapers everywhere, busy streets, internet access across the board, and the rule of law operating as usual. But beneath it lies a hidden realm between yin and yang, glimpsed by only a tiny handful of people. Lingering spirits, unresolved obsessions, wronged souls who died unjustly, and wandering ghosts who perished in accidents, murders, depression, or ot
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Tales of Strange Happenings in Snow City 雪城志异
A collection of short tales of the strange and supernatural, including ghost stories and even stories about aliens! Each story is only a few hundred words, so you can finish one in no time. Strange happenings and supernatural tales, demons and ghosts, tree spirits and fox fairies! Let your imagination run wild! Everyone is welcome to read!
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