Recommend Strange Tales, Especially Stories With a Strange Tales from a Chinese Studio Vibe and Ghosts or Monsters 求志怪类的，有聊斋风的，有鬼怪的小说
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- 51 Qingqiu's Farewell: Reborn, I Buried the Faithless Man with My Own Hands 青丘辞：重生后我亲手埋葬负心人 Qingqiu’s Farewell: Reborn, I Buried the Faithless Man with My Own Hands 1Reads—Score—Shelves
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The Dream-Stealing Mouse 偷梦鼠
The Dream-Stealing Mouse
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Xu Xiake's Travelogue: Strange Tales from Guizhou 徐霞客游记，黔中异闻录
Xu Xiake's Travel Notes, Strange Tales from the Heart of Guizhou
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The Immortal Shopkeeper and His Cat-Demon Lady 长生掌柜与他的猫妖姑娘
The Longevity Innkeeper and His Cat-Demon Girl
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Restoring Haunted Artifacts: Starting by Painting Eyes on Lord Guan 诡物修复：从关公点睛开始
[Intangible Cultural Heritage Crafts + Urban Mysteries + Episodic Stories + Golden Finger] In the old district of Jiangcheng, there’s an antique shop called Hidden Retreat, and it only opens on rainy nights. The proprietor, Lu Yan, is young, yet his skills are almost divine. He repairs more than just broken porcelain and yellowed paintings. He also restores “cursed objects” tainted by karmic ties and burdened with resentment. A statue of Guan Yu without painted eyes claims lives in the dead of n
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Tales of the Embroidered Shoe's Spirit 绣鞋魂记
The Embroidered Shoe's Spirit
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- 57 The Hardship of Taking It Easy 清闲难享 No Peace in Leisure —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 58 The Skeleton's Revenge 骷髅的复仇 The Skeleton’s Revenge —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 59 Lord Guan's Descent to Exorcise Demons 关帝君降魔 Lord Guan Subdues Demons 2Reads—Score—Shelves
- 60 Reborn in Another's Body: Dalang, Let's Go Home 借尸还魂之大郎，我们回家吧 Reborn in Another's Body: Dalang, Let's Go Home 2Reads—Score—Shelves
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My Blind Date Is a Snake Immortal 相亲对象是蛇仙
My Blind Date Is a Snake Immortal
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Tales of the Strange 众生奇谈录
A collection of strange tales from a parallel world. There is no single protagonist running through the book, only fleeting glimpses of lives from the mortal world. Here, you will encounter all kinds of people and events. Each tale is a light of its own, illuminating a hidden chapter from the past. These stories do not seek to build an epic world of immortals, demons, and monsters. They simply want to use the shell of strange tales to hold stories of ordinary people, and to reflect the many face
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New Strange Tales from a Chinese Studio: Bureau of Affairs Across the Three Realms 新聊斋志异：三界事务所
If you’ve ever imagined the fox spirits and ghosts from Strange Tales from a Chinese Studio transmigrating to 2025, wondered what the underworld would be like with KPIs, or suspected that our universe might be nothing more than a story, welcome to the Office of the Three Realms. The tea is ready, and there are always more stories to hear.
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Beauty in the Abandoned Garden 荒园丽影
A Beauty in the Desolate Garden
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The Exorcist 驱魔者
Exorcist
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Verify My Identity: The Customs Office Has a Classic of Mountains and Seas 验明正身：海关有本山海经
At Zhangzhou Port, a container from Penang declared a load of sixty tons of coir pith, but weighed 190 kilograms over on the scales. When the doors were pulled open, a pig that could curse was sprawled beneath the coir pith. Shiqi squatted down and looked for two seconds. “First grade, mixed stock, worthless.” In this city, every living thing that comes in from the sea has to be inspected, graded, and entered into the System. There are seven grades. Anyone can take away first-grade mixed stock,
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Entwined Red and White Threads 缠绕的红白丝线
It Is Love That Moves the Sun and Shifts the Stars [Dual heroines + nonhuman love interest + happy ending + two powerful leads; a scrappy pup and a gentle mommy] Horror, mystery, Strange Tales, and Lovecraftian elements [Taciturn sword-bearing knight Yuliu / gentle, proud, radically selfless Fenghe] Two people whose hearts are set on the future Two people determined to save others Two people destined to be together Two people... who can hardly be called human At the center of the vast web fo
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After I Transmigrated into Strange Tales from a Chinese Studio, My Teammates Were Harder to Handle Than Ghosts 穿越聊斋后，我的队友比鬼还难带
[Liaozhai Fanfiction + Hilarious Nonsense + Healing Each Other + Bound to the Original Author + A Wild Rewrite of Liaozhai] Yuan Man never imagined that ranting could make her transmigrate. Even more absurdly, she landed in Liaozhai, a book world overrun with demons and monsters. “Damn System, what's with this Pu Songling?” “I brought him along on a whim. He has superpowers!” “And what about this Xi Fangping? A tank immune to all damage? Is this really what they mean by having an iron backbone?”
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Listening to Ghost Stories Over Half a Cup of Tea 半盏清茶听鬼话
With positions in the Celestial Court in short supply, Ji Xuan is sent to a City God temple that has stood abandoned for two hundred years. His partner is a five-hundred-year-old weasel. He cannot exorcise demons or banish evil. All he can do is brew tea. But once the tea is finished, the ghosts stop making trouble. The solar terms form the chapters, and the four seasons make up the volumes. A small-town City God who cannot remember his past life slowly begins to recall a few things amid the
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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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Apocalypse: The Whole Company Denies the Existence of the 18th Floor 末世：全公司否认18楼存在
[Apocalypse + No System + Reborn + Mystery + One Female Lead + Zombies + Hard Sci-Fi + No Mindless Decisions + Revenge] Reborn six hours before the apocalypse, Chu Yan has not only retained his memories of the future, but also mastered the ultimate secret of genetic evolution! He can become the most powerful god in the apocalypse! He frantically stockpiles supplies, builds weapons, modifies vehicles, and saves his parents, racing against time! He will kill his enemies with his own hands and turn
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With My Heart, I Question Heaven’s Heart 我以己心问天心
His master’s soul lamp is about to go out, but the Underworld Division has already come to claim his soul, and the Directorate of Fate has secretly altered his lifespan. The young Daoist Chen Shaowei travels from Yunzhou to the capital, uncovering the secrets of the Temple of Heaven, the black accounts of the Ghost Market, and old entanglements in Fengdu along the way. Only then does he realize that the ones devouring people are not a single person or one department, but an old web spanning both
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Di Ting: I Run a Pawnshop in the Human World 谛听：我在人间开当铺
In the city stands the Di Ji Pawnshop. For a thousand years, its proprietor, Shen Dining, has upheld one ironclad rule: anything can be pawned, every exchange must be equivalent, and everyone bears responsibility for the consequences. She never judges whether anyone is good or evil. One night, Lu Yu stumbled into the shop, covered in blood, offering himself in exchange for a chance to live. Shen Dining saved him, and from then on, Lu Yu stayed at the pawnshop, helping her serve the many customer
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- 74 The Ninth-Rank Demon Exorcist 九品驱魔人 When the sun sets, every door in the city is shut! Evil spirits open their eyes, and monsters run rampant! The Wei Constables mount the city walls, while exorcists draw their swords. An apprentice from a martial arts school stands proudly amid the demons, determined to protect one last sanctuary. 70.1kReads9.1Score7.6kShelves
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The Myriad Phenomena Restoration Bureau 万象修复局
[Urban Mystery + Folk Horror + Unusual Profession + Conceptual Restoration + Ensemble Cast + No System] When a city begins to forget “fire,” when the names of the dead appear on paper effigies, when streets vanish from the map overnight... Some things can be fixed when they break. But what if what's broken is a “concept” shared by all humanity? Shen Yan is an antique restorer and a member of the Bureau of Universal Restoration. He can restore the things this world is forgetting.
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Records of Strange Affairs Across the Heavens 诸天诡事录
My new work is out! You’re welcome to read it on Tomato Novel. I hope you’ll enjoy it. Your support motivates me to write, and I’ll do my best to tell every story well!
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Heir to the Great Sage, Here to Settle Every Score in Strange Tales from a Chinese Studio 大圣传人，专治聊斋各种不服
An ancient book that fell from the sky changed the life of an eighteen-year-old from Northeast China. The moment Wang You’an opened it, he instantly mastered the Seventy-Two Transformations of the Earthly Fiends. The Somersault Cloud, the Golden Cudgel, and the Great Sage’s divine armor all returned to him. At the same time, another side of the human world slowly unfolded. A woman’s sobs drift from an ancient temple in the dead of night. Foxfire flickers in an abandoned mansion. Paper figures at
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Back to 2008: This World Is All Wrong 重回2008：这个世界不对劲
The day he is laid off at thirty-five, Lin Ye is hit by a car and sent back to June 6, 2008, the night before the college entrance exams. He gains access to the “Future Sight” System, which can predict the next thirty years: the toughest exam questions, the four trillion yuan stimulus, Yanjiao housing prices. The future is in his hands. But he gradually realizes that this world isn't quite like the 2008 he remembers. On a rooftop in the dead of night stands a figure in a long robe. In the sunlig
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The Little Fool’s Demon-Hunting Chronicles 瓜娃儿捉妖记
[Mystery and Supernatural] + [Folk Customs] + [Legends] + [Strange Tales] This really is a mystery and supernatural novel about catching demons and ghosts. The author begs the officials who review the categories to show mercy and stop changing this book’s category at random. Could you please? During the Xianfeng era, Gua Wa’er is sent to learn magic from Taoist Li at the Wengong Shrine, having incurred a debt of gratitude for changing his father Niu Yuansheng’s fate. He joins the wondrous Yunmen
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Records of All Things 万象纪实录
My name is Hu Jiu. I’m an architect who quit the job, and a monk gave me my name. Then an app called “Short Sound” appeared on my phone. It said, “Come find us.” Following its directions, I walked into the Hongxing Textile Mill in the west of the city. Deep among the rusted machinery and faded slogans, I saw something that shouldn’t exist: a “Karma Rules” System built upon the entire city, running for a thousand years and now on the verge of collapse. And I was the only “key” that could change e
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Becoming a Golden Crow, Starting with Strange Tales from a Chinese Studio 从聊斋开始做金乌
[Strange Tales from a Chinese Studio]+ [Journey to the West]+ [The Magic Lotus Lantern]+ [A fictional world] Dongfang Yao transmigrated. He arrived in a world of mythology. Here were all the familiar monsters and spirits. Nie Xiaoqian, Huaguzi, Yingning, Xin Shisiniang... Dongfang Yao thought he had landed in the world of Strange Tales from a Chinese Studio. But then he heard that in a neighboring country there was a mountain called Five Fingers Mountain, with a monkey trapped beneath it. Only t
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I’m a Descendant of the Zhang Family 我是张家后人
[Mysterious Inheritance + Spiritual Qi Revival + Folk Legends + Mr. Vampire + Homage to the Classics + Classic of Mountains and Seas] The world has gone mad. Zhang Su was just trying to unwind with a drink after work when he encountered a supernatural incident in an underground parking garage. A decorative sword he had bought online somehow got him tangled up with the paranormal. The Cat-Faced Granny, monsters from the Classic of Mountains and Seas, village guardians from folk legends, and pre-Q
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Strange Tales from the Chatting House: Whose Ghost Story Is This Comforting? 聊宅志异：哪家的鬼故事这么治愈
If the first two stories don’t make you cry and leave you feeling comforted, you can stop reading. Supernatural suspense + urban mysteries + heartwarming healing + female-oriented supernatural fiction At three in the morning, someone knocks on the door! A girl in a red dress begs me through tears to hear her story, a strange rusty smell drifts from the kitchen, and the ghost of a ten-year-old boy leaves bloody writing on the fridge... I, Pu Lingling, a struggling supernatural fiction writer, was
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- 84 Rejected Manuscript Hell: Starting in the Alluring Hell 退稿地狱：从魅惑地狱开始 Hell-dungeon power fantasy + live-streamed writing and counterattacks + seamless shifts between genres + literary genius made real + rapid-fire twists + emotional tension at its peak After death, Gu Jinfei is thrown into “Hell of Rejected Manuscripts” and bound to the Short-Form Writing Champion livestream System. Forced to livestream his way through challenges in hell, he faces a place where one substandard story means his soul is obliterated and the rules are so harsh they make people kneel. B 12Reads—Score—Shelves
- 85 Literary Giant, 1936: A Book from the Future Blows Apart the War Against Japan 文豪1936：未来之书炸穿抗日 On the Ten Crimes of Traitors, A Proclamation Against Surrender, A Letter to Our Chinese Compatriots, The Book of Hope, The Flower of Despair, The Yellow Millet Dream, and The Astonishment of Our Friendly Nations A true literary genius does not plagiarize + blazing passion + fervor for resistance against Japan + saving the nation through the power of the written word + words as weapons + one thrilling payoff after another + love for home and country Transported into the chaos of Beijing in 1936, 46Reads6.0Score—Shelves
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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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A Gathering of Folk Tales and Strange Tales 民间志怪故事会
Built on stories passed down by word of mouth, fleshed out with strange tales, and given a soul by taboos. We gather up the folk stories scattered across villages, old houses, graveyards, and mountain hamlets. They are not myths or legends, but the rules and reverence earned through a lifetime of experience by the elders who came before us.
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Three Kingdoms: I Hold the Registers and Suppress the Ghostly Path 三国：我，执箓镇鬼道
Gender: Male Species: Human Specialty: Uneducated and unskilled, though he occasionally recalls fragmented bits of knowledge from the future. Evaluation: C- aptitude, lazy and content with the status quo Ghost Records Name: Huang Liao, courtesy name Boju Gender: Male Species: Ghost Specialty: His body has long since been ruined by drink and lust. Prospect rating: D-. A complete failure, bottom of the barrel, with a bleak future.
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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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The Strange Gate Subdues the Eight Wastelands 奇门镇八荒
My name is Yang Yufan. I was born with a pair of yin-yang eyes, and my grandfather taught me the arts of the Qimen. I thought that becoming an inheritor of the Qimen tradition would make me a fortune-teller... But who could have guessed that I’d end up as one of the saints guarding the Eight Wastelands? I’ll tell you the story of what happened in my own words!
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- 91 May We Never Part 与君莫相离 [Mutual Devotion + Metaphysics + Romance + Strange Tales + Growth-Oriented Female Lead] I met many people. The one who left the deepest impression on me was Qing Moli. He always gave me a mysterious, unfathomable feeling. When I thought I could finally stand by his side, I realized there was always one step between us. I tugged at Qing Moli's sleeve and cautiously asked, "Will we always be together?" Qing Moli replied, "Of course." I used every ounce of my strength to shield him from the shockwa —Reads—Score—Shelves
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