Supernatural Folklore and Strange Tales: No Classical Chinese 志怪 聊斋 灵异小说 文言文滴不要

1 青 The Little Taoist of Green Mountain 青山小道士 Yan Xinyu严鑫宇Mystery1.6M WordsCompleted [Taoist priest + supernatural mysteries + technically detailed + magic arts + urban + no power fantasy + slow growth + no heroine] (The central idea of the first book: Heaven and humanity) This novel is told in the first person and explores knowledge and experiences from many perspectives, including Taoist culture, astronomy, feng shui, Qimen Dunjia, physiognomy, palmistry, humanities, society, and science. Everything unknown in the world is like a vast darkness. Science is like a flashlight ill 4.1kReads9.2Score594Shelves

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The autobiography of a Taoist priest from Qingcheng Mountain tells the story of how he and his three brothers went to solve supernatural events, spirits, monsters, ghosts, etc. There is no heroine, no emotional line, the storyline is too detailed, the spells, and the techniques are quite professional. It also involves some consecration, ordinary people practicing, spell teaching, etc. You can judge the authenticity of the story by yourself.

2 娶 Marry a Fox, Cultivate the Sword Dao, Then Paint This World Red Again 娶狐妻修剑道再给这世道一抹赤潮 Ding Ding Is a Coward丁丁是个胆小鬼Eastern Fantasy793k WordsOngoing Transmigrated into the world of Liaozhai, with a destitute household from the start and a little cousin who still needs to be fed. Take the imperial exams? Not a chance. Only a fool would sit them. They're just a way to deliver food to female ghosts! I planned to make a living teaching and selling paintings, then scrape by for the rest of my life, until one day a delicate young woman braved the rain to return a treasured keepsake of my family... 638Reads6.1Score101Shelves

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Personally I think it looks great.

4 云 Yunsheng's Collection of Strange Tales 云生渡志怪故事合集 Flowers and Fortune花儿与富贵Mystery359k WordsOngoing Episodic stories: Each installment is a relatively self-contained tale of the strange and supernatural, with a complete plot. Yun Wuchen travels from place to place, resolving bizarre incidents caused by local spirits, demons, vengeful ghosts, or unusual objects. Each story has its own distinctive atmosphere, horror, tragic beauty, absurdity, suspense, or warmth, as well as its own central monster or evil object and the ordinary people caught up in its effects. 2Reads—Score—Shelves

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Unit storyline

5 唐 Strange Tales of Tang 唐妖奇谭 Hong Jian Yu Ling鸿渐于陵Ancient Romance291k WordsOngoing Merchant’s daughter Tang Xuewei not only gets stuck with Cui Yan, a man who lives off women, but also accidentally takes in a demon flower. On her way home from the Imperial College, she loses her head for a moment and accepts a peony from a young Taoist priest at Qinglong Temple. The young priest says it can bless students with miraculous inspiration at the brush. Who knew it would speak in such a sultry, vulgar way? “Woman, you’re playing with fire.” “Want to know who I am? Get on your knees 2Reads—Score—Shelves

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Would it be okay to adapt a story based on the Legend of the Six Dynasties? The historical background has been considered for you, so there is no reading difficulty.

6 五 Crossing the Five Images 五象渡 Yue Jiu悅玖Mystery300k WordsOngoing [Folklore and the Supernatural]+ [Red-and-White Case Files]+ [The Five Elements in Harmony] [Five Signs]: Metal (Wen), Wood (Ruan), Water (Xin), Fire (Bai), Earth (Su) A red wedding sedan collided with a white coffin, turning a joyous occasion into a funeral. The Du'e Hall, a grassroots outfit that took money to handle weddings and funerals, was framed overnight and ruined by scandal. Members Xin You and Su Chenyuan were ordered to investigate. Along the way, they were forced into a team with: A 2kReads—Score641Shelves

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Jianghu martial arts + folk customs | red and white affairs unit case + group portrait redemption + Chinese fate, delegation of the five elements of metal, wood, water, fire, and earth!!

7 妖 The Monster Gift Shop 妖怪礼物店 Ordinary Qichi普通的栖迟Urban168k WordsCompleted [Urban + fantasy + monsters + healing + romance] Jian Xing is a monster, and she was once a member of the Association for Managing Monsters in the Human World. To find her fiancé, who suddenly disappeared a hundred years ago, she quit her job and came to the human world, where she opened this monster gift shop. Later, a werewolf security guard joined the shop, followed by a vampire working part-time and a puppy mascot... Together, they welcomed many customers looking for special gifts. Behind ev 1.8kReads9.6Score332Shelves

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9 鬼 Chronicles of Ghosts and Foxes 鬼狐志怪录 Red Plaid Bai Bai红格白白Mystery680k WordsCompleted A collection of all kinds of strange tales: stories of talented scholars and beautiful maidens, ghosts and spirits, flower demons and fox spirits, and other fantastical beings. Treat them as a little pastime to while away your spare hours, and a way to indulge your interests. 39Reads—Score—Shelves

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Use modern writing style to continue writing the classic legend of ghosts and monsters. This novel skillfully weaves the treacherous outer layer of ghosts, foxes, and monsters, but at its core is a poetic gaze into the abyss of human nature. A scholar meets a painted-skinned enchantress at night, and a fox girl hangs upside down under the moon and ties a rope to record events. Each story contains a hidden meaning of destiny. The author outlines the intersection of yin and yang with ink and painting strokes: the lanterns in the Huangquan Inn will swallow up memories, the remaining souls in the ancient mirror make wine with tears, and the seemingly bizarre stories contain contemporary annotations of greed, anger, and resentment. Especially the chapter "Bone China Bride" combines ghost marriage customs with porcelain aesthetics to create a spine-chilling poignancy - when a living person's fingertips trace the golden thread of the ghost wedding dress, the boundary between life and death quietly dissolves in the tears of red candles. Recommended to all readers who yearn for soul tremors late at night, this is not a simple compilation of ghost stories, but a magic mirror that allows modern people to glimpse the untamed beast in their hearts in stories about evil spirits.

10 聊 Strange Tales from Liaozhai 聊斋奇谭 Bai Ze白泽Eastern Fantasy653k WordsCompleted Pu Liuxian's greatest wish was once to explore the world's most wondrous and mysterious places and phenomena. Then one day, he found himself in a world overrun by ghosts and monsters. Here there were immortals, demons, ghosts, and monsters. At first, he traveled everywhere in search of the world's ghost stories, hoping to make a fortune from them. Later, he met more people and more ghosts, and glimpsed hidden truths about the world through his own stories. It turned out that the ghost realm was 136Reads9.1Score—Shelves

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Some have listened to some, some have read, this is the book that has been in my heart recently😻😻😻, the male protagonist is a big boss, very hidden, super easy to read😋😋 Each story is a short story, this humorous little language, the story is always new, believe me, it's worth it🍀🍀🍀

11 妖 The Demonic and Supernatural Records 妖诡簿 Deep-Fried Chinese Yam油炸山药Eastern Fantasy159k WordsOngoing The Book of All Spirits is shattered, and the Daoist sects are in decline. My sharp-tongued master drags me down the mountain: “Come on. We’re finding homes for those homeless ‘beings.’” In the Qingzhou case, a spider demon everyone wants dead winds a silver thread around my palm: “Little Daoist, do you believe me?” On the banks of the Yuan River, a destitute river god on the verge of vanishing seals a vow with me in a high five: “Lend me your wind and rain, and I’ll protect my mountains and riv 2Reads—Score—Shelves

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I recommend this fantasy novel! Each unit has a monster, independent yet connected stories! Each unit has 3-5 chapters, the pace is fast but not procrastinating, there are suspense and twists, and it ends with warmth. Set the core "contract way": no suppression or slavery, but understanding and win-win. Monsters are not all evil, people have their abominations, and rules can be communicated. The author's writing style is excellent, with a full atmosphere of strange things and a strong visual sense. The key is not water! Each unit advances the main line, and the foreshadowing is buried deep.

12 转 I Became a CEO and Started a New Life 转魂为总裁后，开启新人生 Mr. Tang Li唐李先生Urban150k WordsCompleted A poor man and a tycoon switch bodies and begin new lives, encountering all sorts of beautiful women along the way. This story is not for serious-minded readers. Its half-classical writing style adds to the parody, humor, and sense of contrast. 16Reads—Score—Shelves

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There are many classical Chinese novels written about ancient times. Have you ever seen classical Chinese novels written about modern people? This is it

13 我 I Am a Monster 我是怪物 Snail Goes to Heaven蜗牛上天Eastern Fantasy465k WordsCompleted [The author has a completed work of over one million words, so read with confidence!] The new novel, Strange Tales of Cultivation, is now available. Please give it a look. [So far, the first two volumes are complete, covering two incidents.] [Not a beginner's novel] [Witty and humorous] [Imaginative fantasy] This book is about becoming an immortal by eating people. It's not Lovecraftian, and it has no so-called simple human nature. If you want mindless, carefree cultivation and harmonious friend 540Reads8.7Score—Shelves

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You can take a look, Chinese people don't lie to Chinese people, it's really beautiful

15 长 Chang’an Moon, Frost-Colored 长安月如霜 Honey-Sweet White Tea Cat蜜糖白茶猫Fantastical Romance222k WordsCompleted [Fox Demon ♥ Rabbit Demon]|Love and hate|Everyone's favorite|Late Tang supernatural mysteries|Suspense and horror|Battles between good and evil Foxfire lights the long night; frost falls upon Chang'an. In the waning years of the Tang dynasty, the world is in turmoil and demons run rampant. Monsters lurk in the alleys, harming people. A solitary lamp flickers in the dead of night; ghostly shadows drift through deserted lanes, and eerie cries ring out. Beneath the bustle of human life lie count 13Reads—Score—Shelves

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Demons and monsters.

16 聊 New Tales from Strange Tales: Demons and Immortals in Another World 聊斋新传：异世妖仙 Kulu JiuKu噜九Eastern Fantasy1.0M WordsCompleted Lu Mingxuan, a modern programmer well versed in folklore, is accidentally summoned while restoring his family's heirloom, Strange Tales from a Chinese Studio. He transmigrates into the body of a scholar traveling to take the imperial exams. In this world of Strange Tales, where demons run rampant, he is forced to face painted-skin demons and the haunted temple at Lanruo, but in the process he also activates the mysterious Otherworldly Demon Immortal System. The System is actually the ancient su 180Reads—Score—Shelves

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A new biography of Liaozhai, a fantasy chapter about cultivating immortals. Welcome to read and leave comments~

17 请 Call Me Lord Ghost Messenger 请叫我鬼差大人 The Cat from the Xu Family徐二家的猫Mystery2.1M WordsCompleted After the Eternal Night, terror returned. Ten miles of desolate graves, eerie singing. An old man searching for his arms, a headless baby... They kept piecing their bodies back together, unleashing an even more terrifying aura. In the wasteland, even a severed hand could destroy heaven and earth. In this world of darkness and despair, a post office appeared and vanished from view... A mysterious young man, a postal carriage traveling through the void... One blood-red letter after another became 170.8kReads9.5Score19.2kShelves

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How can you write a workplace article in the underworld like this! The ghost policeman handles the case and fights the demon with wit, the laws of underworld and the complexity of human nature are thoroughly written, and the logical foreshadowing is online, making old bookworms ecstatic.

20 来 The Autobiography of a Tomb Raider 来自一位盗墓者的自传 Yun Feng云峰Mystery4.5M WordsOngoing [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 513.4kReads9.6Score34.1kShelves

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Character characteristics: Synopsis of the story: The author of the Northern School's Notes on Grave Robbery was a real participant in the tomb robbery who wrote the book after being sentenced to 7 years in prison. The second one is more funny. The third book is also funny, I laughed to death in the middle of the night.

23 清 The Hardship of Taking It Easy 清闲难享 A Pot of Spinach Soup一锅菠菜汤11k WordsCompleted No Peace in Leisure —Reads—Score—Shelves

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Highly recommended, super good-looking, miraculous stories, strange stories

27 杀 The Truth Behind the Murders 2 [Criminal Investigation] 杀人真相2【刑侦】 Glazed Luanhua琉璃栾华Mystery601k WordsCompleted Dozens of high-stakes, mind-bending cases. A detective and a psychologist join forces to solve crimes, uncover the truth, and probe human nature. (Mystery + deduction + psychologist + episodic cases + serial murders + high-IQ crimes + strange tales + revenge plots + perfect partners + light horror + suitable for the easily frightened.) This novel is the second installment in Confession, also known as The Truth About Murder. Once again, it follows detective captain Ti An and psychologist Zhao Yao 6kReads9.4Score1kShelves

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I have read many criminal investigation novels, and this author's work is my favorite. The male protagonist does not show off or pick up girls, he is dedicated to solving the case, and the plot is compact and not procrastinating. He is truly a rare talent. Let's read new books together.

29 阴 A Yin-Bodied Man Meets a Ghost 阴身撞诡 Big Hoof大蹄子Mystery1.1M WordsCompleted Drive out evil spirits, suppress demons and fiends, and every kind of magic appears within the Shanhai Tower! Hateful corpses, undying bones: when the Three Corpses are complete, the body becomes a vessel of yin meridians! After his uncle was killed by an evil spirit and nearly everyone in the village lost their lives, he realized that only by cultivating magic could he protect himself. Again and again, he found himself caught up in mysterious incidents and trapped in desperate situations. As an 26Reads—Score—Shelves

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Eliminate evil spirits, suppress evil spirits, and all kinds of Dharma appear in the Shanhai Tower!

30 我 I Am Intersex 我是阴阳人 Xiao Xu小叙Mystery2.2M WordsCompleted My mother said that when I was born, her first reaction was to strangle me, because it was impossible to tell whether I was male or female. My grandmother called me a freak and a jinx, saying I would only bring shame on the family. It was then that my maternal grandmother, who had traveled all the way from the countryside to visit my mother, adopted me. So, by chance, I got to enjoy a pure childhood, free from scornful looks. Following my half-immortal grandmother, I unexpectedly discovered how 14.1kReads9.3Score1.7kShelves

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The classic supernatural and ghost stories are all okay, highly recommended~

32 妖 The Demon Husband Is Here 妖夫在上 The Rising Leaf奋起的叶子Mystery3.7M WordsCompleted I have a birthmark, and I covered it with a tattoo to make it look better. Who could have guessed the tattoo shop I chose would be so unreliable? They actually tattooed a demon on me. From then on, my life was never peaceful again. 3.4kReads8.9Score356Shelves

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These books are all very good, especially "The Demon Husband and the Magic Stick"

37 无 Invincible! Even Demons and Monsters Keep Their Distance from Her 无敌！妖魔鬼怪见了她都得躲远点 Dandruff头皮屑Modern Romance633k WordsCompleted [Invincible heroine] [Feel-good] [Healing] [Wild imagination] [Monsters, demons, ghosts, and gods] Jiang Yunmiao, blessed with extraordinary abilities, moved into a mansion in the Imperial Capital with a black cat, a rose, a fox, the divine bird Jiang Yu, and a Hanfu spirit. She lives alongside the unusual friends she meets along the way. In this technologically advanced age, all sorts of things happen in all sorts of places, and many unusual “people” live in cities and villages. A crayfish spir 103Reads—Score—Shelves

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[Fantasy Romance] [Fantasy City] [Current Imagination] [Powerful] [Demons, Devils, Gods] The heroine is powerful and can be invisible or flash. In this modern era, family members are either demon cultivators or weird things that open their minds, such as mysterious cats, roses, foxes, Hanfu spirits, birds, etc. The rich and beautiful Jiang Yunmiao has more and more friends. Friends, they are getting busier and busier, destroying evil spirits, breaking illusions, entering the space, slaying evil demons and inner demons, never showing mercy, not being a holy mother, not giving green tea, the female protagonist is not procrastinating, and the male protagonist is not an annoying type, the male protagonist does not have many roles, but the main character takes away from the plot, the female protagonist is a god, her memory is not there at the beginning, but her ability is there, she regains her memory later, and returns to the status of a god after this life. The heroine opens a bar, a new Chinese-style teahouse, etc. In the human world, and she also opens a restaurant with others, and a demon opens a coffee bookstore, etc. The NPCs in the haunted house opened by the heroine include ghosts and zombies, etc. Even the front desk employees are young people and spirits who accidentally quit the management agency. Many minor characters or the people, monsters, and ghosts they meet will also have their own stories and lives! The cursed person reincarnates in ten lives, the kind-hearted little white snake, the innocent snow butterfly demon... There are demons and ghosts, good and evil in the world! . . . !

38 落 Sold to a Demon Foster Father Who Trades in Human Meat, a Choking Girl Fights Back 落到贩卖“菜人”的恶魔养父手上后，窒息女孩开始反杀 Honey-Sweet White Tea Cat蜜糖白茶猫8k WordsCompleted After falling into the hands of her adoptive father, a devil who sells people as "vegetables," the suffocated girl begins fighting back. 3Reads—Score—Shelves

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But not scary

39 饕 The Gluttonous Lady (3-Volume Set) 饕餮娘子（全三册） Tong Jie佟婕Ancient Romance527k WordsCompleted In the late Ming dynasty, on Liuqing Street in the ancient city of Jiangcheng, the alluring proprietress Tao Sanniang is a Taotie in human form. Her mysterious restaurant, Huanxiang Hall, can cook every delicacy people could ever desire. The girl Tao Yue'er works as a kitchen hand at Huanxiang Hall. By chance, she stumbles upon the secrets behind its delicacies: Immortal Vinegar is brewed from the obsession of two ill-fated lovers, one living and one dead; Rose Cakes are the deliberate revenge o 1.5kReads9.4Score266Shelves

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I highly recommend it. Without further ado, just start watching.

41 与 May We Never Part 与君莫相离 Fang Zhichu方之初Mystery41k WordsOngoing [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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This, this, is okay [laughing][laughing]

42 我 My Years Working the Night Shift at the Crematorium 我在火葬场上夜班的那几年 Ice River冰河Mystery1.1M WordsCompleted My name is Li Binghe. To make money, I took a night-shift job driving for a crematorium. I thought it was just an ordinary job, until one day I came across the beautiful corpse of a woman. From then on, my life was never peaceful again... 558Reads7.9Score104Shelves

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These books are pretty good

50 九 Nine Dragons Carry the Coffin 九龙抬棺 Ninth Master九当家Mystery3.5M WordsOngoing The night of my grandfather's funeral, I carried a stone tablet at the front of the procession to lead the way. I didn't dare look back, because the eight evil spirits carrying the coffin were behind me... 13.4kReads9.2Score2.9kShelves

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These are okay.