Urban Ghost-Hunting Novels About Taoist Priests, Just the Supernatural Stuff, None of That Random Nonsense 道士都市捉鬼只要灵异的乱七八糟的不要
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The Fox Bride of Qingqiu 青丘狐妻
Liu the Half-Immortal told my mother, “On the night of the full moon, take your child and a chicken to Qingqiu Mountain and wait. Whoever eats your family’s chicken will become your child’s spouse, whether it’s a snake, an insect, an ant, a bird, or a beast...” That night, a little fox and a little white wolf fought fiercely over the chicken, and from then on, the gears of fate began to turn...
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Lu Ling Feng Shui Shop 鹿灵风水铺
[Lighthearted paranormal suspense + mild horror + one-on-one romance + episodic stories] Lu Ling is forced to take over the feng shui shop her father left her and shoulder the Lu family’s duty as spirit-contractors. Only after she starts taking on cases does she realize that people can be far more terrifying than ghosts.
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The Peerless Mage 法师无双
A top sorcerer who once led the Heavenly Masters’ Court returns, only to be cast out by his powerful family. As he prepares to leave, he discovers that his younger female cousin has fallen victim to dark magic…
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- 554 Uncle Nine: Oh No, My System Is Acting Up Again 九叔：糟糕，我的系统又不服了 The successive Grandmasters of Maoshan once said: When roaming the world, what matters most is the strength of your foundations. If you can avoid trouble, do so. The world is in turmoil, and one less problem is better than one more. If you can’t avoid it, make a friend. If you can’t make a friend, negotiate face to face. If negotiations fail, then fight. When following these three rules, always keep three principles in mind. First, never hold back. Call upon the gods, the saints, and the Grandma 23.1kReads9.0Score1.7k14d adds
- 555 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… 28kReads9.0Score3.3k14d adds
- 556 Renjia Town from the Start: A Six-Year-Old Celestial Master 开局任家镇：六岁天师 After transmigrating into Uncle Jiu's world, I gain a heaven-defying System. Born with the bones of a Daoist, blessed with the Six Divine Powers, I take in all the Daoist rhythm of heaven and earth. In the Age of Declining Dharma, I roam the world unhindered. I am the Celestial Master of the Daoist faith. 2.3kReads7.7Score13714d adds
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The Living King of Hell of the Yin-Yang Realm 阴阳界活阎王
Evil spirits: “Hell is empty, and devils walk among us!” Unorthodox cultivators: “Compared to him, I’m just a rookie!” Righteous cultivators: “Who let him cultivate?!” Li Dao: “Ahem, let me clear things up. I did all those things... just kidding.”
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- 558 Jiangshi: Exorcising Evil in Uncle Jiu's World 僵尸：在九叔世界除魔卫道 Chen Jingnian transmigrates to the Republican era. He acquires an equivalent-exchange System, where the things he obtains by killing ghosts and zombies can be traded for other items. He gets a golden Summoning talent from the start. He studies under Daoist He Qianhe and learns the Daoist arts from Uncle Jiu. At first, the story follows the timeline of Uncle Jiu’s world, with other Hong Kong horror stories woven in along the way. Eventually, it reaches My Date with a Vampire. 191Reads6.8Score15914d adds
- 559 Endless Killing Intent: The Grim Reaper's Judgment in a Horror Loop 无尽杀机：死神审判惊悚轮回 [Horror + thrills + wish fulfillment + no female lead] Qin Ye transmigrates to a parallel world teeming with criminals and obtains a miraculous Death God Judgment System. It can pull evildoers into illusory worlds of horror, where they must endure terrifying cycles of judgment! The Death God delivers judgment as a warning to all: make them suffer by their own methods! Good is rewarded with good, and evil with evil. If retribution has not come, its time has simply not yet arrived! Over time, Qin 1.8kReads9.1Score18314d adds
- 560 Yellow Springs Inn 黄泉客栈 One day, a construction crew was blasting a path through a mountain when the explosives engineer suddenly felt an ominous premonition. The mountain collapsed, splitting open to reveal a seal buried for thousands of years deep within its heart. A towering crystal pillar, strange runes, and the seal’s sudden explosion blurred everyone’s vision. When they came to, they no longer knew where they were... Thus began a tale buried for thousands of years! 35Reads7.2Score—14d adds
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Urban Hauntings: My Paper Knife Can Pierce Illusions 都市诡异：我的纸刀能破妄
The rating has just been released, so it may still go up. Zhang Ping, an unemployed advertising copywriter, is attacked by a paper figure with a slit mouth in his shared apartment on a stormy night, at the lowest point in his life. On the verge of death, he desperately throws out an old piece of yellow paper he has carried for years, unexpectedly activating a fragment of the ancestral “Blade of Illusion-Breaking” and a mysterious “Night Watchman System.” The System turns terrifying supernatural
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Tales from Ghost-Hunting Livestreams 直播抓鬼那些事
Romance included + heroine’s growth journey + heroine is amazing but doesn’t know it + hidden identity + heroine is adored by everyone! The ending could be happy or tragic, not decided yet! Maybe two endings! The male lead is nearly invisible + endlessly indulgent toward the heroine + a useful tool + gorgeous What? It only costs ten yuan to have your fortune told these days? The price of a cup of milk tea? The wife is the one who suggests finding a mistress? You’re seriously ill, and nobody in y
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- 563 The Master Comes Down from the Mountain, and My Senior Sister Dotes on Me Too Much 高手下山，我家师姐太宠我了 [An unstoppable power fantasy, every line is satisfying, the plot moves at lightning speed, with no dragging and decisive action] At my graduation banquet, my parents and brothers were brutally killed. Hunted down, I barely escaped with my life. After five years of martial arts training on Mount Kunlun, I've returned in triumph! “You're an elite rich kid, and you think I can't afford to offend you? My master could kill you with a slap!” “You're the king of Chinese medicine? My master is an hei 258.1kReads9.3Score8.1k14d adds
- 564 Sewing Yin Corpses, Suppressing Ghostly Calamities 缝阴尸，镇鬼祸 [Six Lines and Eight Trigrams, Soul Banners and Sacrificial Rites] Humans have three souls and seven spirits; ghosts have obsessions from the Nine Hells and the karmic flames of the Five Aggregates. But ever since I was born, I have been missing my [Earth Soul]. I’ve dealt with corpses since I was little. Other children played with colorful building blocks, fluffy stuffed animals, and little tin cars that could run. My toys were one battered corpse after another. Qimen Dunjia, puppetry that mani 833Reads6.7Score10114d adds
- 565 Supreme Daoist: Master of the Zombies 道门至尊，僵尸道主 Kindle the Daoist fire in your heart and slaughter every demon and fiend in the world! Chen Changsheng, a disciple of Uncle Jiu of Maoshan, descends the mountain on his master’s orders. He slays ghosts and exterminates demons! After fulfilling his master’s command, he uncovers a shocking secret from eighteen years ago... 21Reads8.7Score—14d adds
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A Collection of Folk Feng Shui Records 民间风水集录
Also known as The Dragon-Seeking Secret: The Five Masters of Jingmen. Main characters: Tao Duoyu and Ren Shiyu; The Five Masters of Zhongzhou: Xiong Lei of the Northeast, Zheng Xuan of western Hunan, and Su Mei of Jiangnan; My name is Tao Duoyu. My master is Tao the Blind, the foremost of the Five Masters of Zhongzhou. Twenty-four years ago, he saved me when I was at death’s door, snatching fate from the heavens to extend my life by more than twenty years. Twenty-four years later, my master myst
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- 567 Lu Ban's Secret Art of Feng Shui 鲁班风水秘术 Carpenters revere Lu Ban as their patriarch. He left behind the Lu Ban Book, divided into two parts. The first contains carpentry techniques, while the second is a collection of secret spells, never to be shared with outsiders. The patriarch also left a curse: anyone who learns the spells in the second part must suffer one of the fates of being widowed, orphaned, childless, or disabled. That is why later generations called the second part of the Lu Ban Book the “Missing One.” In the old days, mo 5.7kReads9.1Score78414d adds
- 568 Working Nine to Five in the Underworld 我在地府，朝九晚五 Yang Fan is the only person on Earth who can cross between the worlds of Yin and Yang in the flesh. He finds a part-time job in the underworld. From then on, he proudly becomes an employee of the Underworld Reincarnation Office. “Hey, need to reincarnate? I'll pick a place where you can work hard and get ahead. Just remember to leave me a good review!” Yang Fan is dedicated to his work, but never expected to encounter a once-in-ten-thousand-years upheaval... 7Reads6.3Score—14d adds
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The Xuanpin Teahouse 玄牝茶馆
[The author's profession is unusual; this book is best suited to readers in the field] (This is a mid-length novel, with an upper part, a lower part, and a prequel. I'm typing away as fast as I can!) Feng Cai is a hereditary ritual master in a folk religious sect. After receiving a favor from someone, he opens a teahouse in the capital. Though this quiet teahouse sits in a bustling part of the city, it takes on all sorts of baffling commissions... Young woman: “Hello, could you get me into a top
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My Master Says I'm Born to Deal with the Dead 师傅说我天生吃阴饭
Born with yin-yang eyes, I always walk down the middle of the road! A quick hand gesture and a single divination, and even the big shots follow me around! What? Money? Hold it right there. I’m not telling your fortune.
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- 571 My Idiot Friend Lusts After Sadako, So He Gets Killed from the Start 损友馋贞子身子，开局领盒饭 Little Ghost: “This is bad! Sadako got roughed up by a teenage boy.” Ghost King: “How dare he! Send the Hanged Ghost to deal with him!” Little Ghost: “This is bad! The moment the Hanged Ghost went up there, the boy hung him from a fan and spun him around. He's already been torn limb from limb!” The Ghost King roared with fury: “Where is Nie Xiaoqian? Go cut off that boy's head!” Nie Xiaoqian: “That kid defiled me! I don't want to live anymore!” Ghost King: “Bunch of good-for-nothings! I'll have 8Reads—Score—14d adds
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The Yellow Emperor’s Secret 黄帝秘藏
With a blood-written deed on my body, I fought hungry dogs for food. In the bitter cold of winter, I was about to be beaten to death on the frozen ground, until someone stood before me and told me I was a dragon in the art of feng shui...
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The Feng Shui King of the Underworld 江湖风水之王
On the day I was born, ten thousand demons emerged from the mountains, a hundred ghosts clawed their way out of their graves, and an immortal corpse guarded the way. My master, Daoist Jingxian, took me from a tomb and raised me for twenty years, only to fall under a curse and die a horrible death, skinned alive. Knowing he was going to die, my master left me a letter. First, he warned me not to seek out the killer. Then he urged me to stay away from the world. But I chose a third path, resolute
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The Game Becomes Reality, and I Build the Underworld in the Real World? 游戏成真，我在现实建造了地府？
At ten past midnight, the Canghai City Criminal Investigation Bureau's emergency dispatch center received a strange phone call. "Hello! I want to report a crime... No... I want to turn myself in!" "I've killed someone. The body is mixed in with the concrete, in Central Park." "Please, come arrest me quickly! A vengeful ghost is after me. If you wait any longer, it'll be too late..." "Beep... beep... beep..." Though everyone was baffled, they still assembled a team and headed to the address given
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A Taoist Priest’s Guide to Exorcising Evil in the City 道士之都市驱邪
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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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Fellow Daoist, If You Want to Scam Someone, Find a Living Person 道友，碰瓷请找个阳间的活儿
My name is Dong Qingyun. I’m an ordinary college student, but I somehow ended up with two ridiculous masters. One has such incredible technique that he uses lightning talismans to zap washing machines and save electricity. The other is a shameless clown who catches ghosts while patrolling the streets and delivering takeout. Then, by a stroke of bad luck, a sorcerer came after me and shoved a pair of yin-yang twins into my soul My masters immediately freaked out: “We’re screwed! This ritual’s goi
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They Call Me the Great Master 他们叫我大先生
You surely know about the shamanic horsemen beyond the passes, but have you heard of the Four Great Houses within the passes? In the 1990s, Yang Wanli was born in a village in northern China. A fortune-teller said he was the reincarnation of an evil ghost and was destined to stir up trouble. By a twist of fate, he became a disciple of the Daoist school and got entangled with the Four Great Houses. Strange and sinister things kept happening around him. A fallen dragon, an immortal who has shed th
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The Charlatan Stirs Up Heaven 神棍搅天
Master says disciples of the Way of the Sublime must not marry. But Master has a whole harem of lovers. At just eighteen, this young Taoist is cursed with irresistible charm. Beautiful women of the mortal world, seductive ghosts from the underworld, and celestial maidens keep him constantly occupied. Watch him get face-slapped by reality as he transforms from a simple, honest man into a shameless Taoist. He plays at life, and toys with people, ghosts, and immortals. Have a laugh, and don't take
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- 580 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… 2.2kReads8.0Score25314d adds
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The Heavenly Spirit Ghost Pact: Humans and Ghosts Tame Spirits Together 天灵鬼契：人鬼共御灵途
After turning twenty, Su Yao’s Third Eye suddenly shattered! She became “Tang Monk’s flesh” to a horde of ghosts and monsters, and her supreme spiritual energy drew the covetous attention of evil spirits, gods, and vengeful ghosts alike. Three years before her supernatural abilities awakened at twenty-three, she was prey in the hands of all three realms. The fear of being devoured haunted her constantly, and at any moment she could be possessed and have her soul consumed. She had only wanted
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- 582 Wei Xiaobao Conquers the World 韦小宝争霸天下 Funny, lighthearted, a little System, transmigration, souls returning... Nong di ge dong, xian ren ban ban, Xiao Xuanzi, I didn't rebel, but somehow I became a wanted criminal! What a load of nonsense! For the sake of a thousand generations, Xiao Xuanzi, I'll take your throne, and you can have Tongchi Island back! 10.8kReads8.7Score98914d adds
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The Heavenly Master 一代天师
Forty years ago, a husband and wife ignored their ancestors' warning and died horribly at the entrance to their village. The woman's eyes were gouged out, and her body was hung from the old ginkgo tree in the ancestral hall. A year later, a young man from out of town unearthed a strange clay figure and was plunged into a deadly calamity, only to be saved by an old Daoist. Forty years later, a mysterious letter drew attention back to that village. No one knew that opening it would mean opening th
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- 584 My Midnight Livestream Room 我的午夜直播间 An unconventional livestream. A turning point in fate. Welcome to the Midnight Livestream. Here you'll find not only expedition streams unlike anything you've ever seen, but also a place where souls are kept in captivity, beyond anything you could imagine. 1.3kReads8.2Score11614d adds
- 585 Are You Dead? If Not, Let Me Help You Die 你断气了吗？没事我来帮你咽气 From birth to death, life is just a process. Once you see that, it all comes down to one last breath. But in this world, there are always people who refuse to breathe their last, corpses that refuse to enter their coffins, and ghosts that refuse to go to the underworld. To put it plainly, our line of work is about cutting off the breath the dead couldn’t let go of. Whoever can cut off whose breath depends on their own ability. 182Reads—Score—14d adds
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Strange Tales of Northeast China 东北诡异实录
The comic adaptation of the same name is now available, also known as Mountain Spirit Lost. The comic Northeast Strange Tales is currently being serialized. Across the vast, boundless black earth of Northeast China, one strange and little-known story after another has unfolded. Now, I’ll tell you these long-buried tales of the supernatural, one by one!
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My Sect Has Eleven Graves 我的门派有十一座坟
Fantasy and the supernatural, with a lighthearted, humorous tone and a touch of horror. My name is Zhang Shiyi. I have ten senior brothers, so my name is Zhang Shiyi. But all ten of my senior brothers are dead. They’re lying in the graves outside. What? My master? He’s dead too. The biggest, roundest grave is his. Haha~ Well, congratulations, then~ Get ready to sing: Congratulations, congratulations, congratulations to you, hey! Congratulations, congratulations to you~
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A Bizarre Tale of Feng Shui! 风水奇谭！
Chen Yan, a top student at a 985 university, suffered a devastating blow at just twenty-two: His roommate set him up and framed him, driving him into a dead end; His girlfriend of three years cheated on him; his father was hospitalized with a serious illness, and he couldn't even scrape together the 5,000-yuan deposit. His loan payments were overdue and collectors were after him. He was about to become... Just as he sank into utter despair, a mysterious old Daoist appeared, opened his heavenly e
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I Own a Taoist Temple, and Everyone Who Prays There Meets Misfortune 我有一座道观，祈福之人必遭厄运
[Invincible + Supernatural + Livestreaming + Wild Imagination + One Female Lead + Thirty-Six Heavenly Methods + Summoning + Transmigration] I have a Taoist temple where every prayer is answered, but until your wish comes true, misfortune will come your way! You might get into a car accident, suddenly fall into a sewer, or be plagued by evil spirits. Zhang Deshuai says those are all just minor mishaps. At least your wish came true, didn’t it? Run into a ghost? Don’t worry, don’t worry. Watch me w
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- 590 Rule Horror: Beware Your Roommate's Girlfriend 规则怪谈：请小心你室友的女友 [No heroine + not wish fulfillment + not invincible + unsettling + horror + suspense + plot-driven] [The livestreaming element is only a tiny part of the story. The focus is on horror and suspense, so feel free to dive in] There are only two people left in your school dorm: you and your roommate. Your roommate suddenly brings home an incredibly attractive person they met online, leaves you some money, then hurries off. Now you're alone in the room with your roommate's gorgeous online date... Wou 36.3kReads9.0Score3.3k14d adds
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The Yin-Yang Sect Leader 阴阳掌门人
Corpse retrievers have three rules about bodies they must never retrieve. For the sake of a hundred thousand yuan, my father and I broke all three. As we were pulling a woman's corpse from the water, she suddenly opened her eyes. From then on, she wouldn't leave me alone…
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Nine Dragons Hauling a Coffin 九龙拉棺
The day my grandfather died, all living things on Mount Kunlun paid their respects. Dark clouds churned as nine dragons pulled an emerald divine coffin down from the heavens... People said: When an immortal passes into meditation, heavenly thunder welcomes them back to their place in the celestial court; When nine dragons pull a coffin, a divine coffin buries an immortal's body.
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- 593 Suppressing the Dragon 镇龙 For one person, he dug up an ancient grave, broke into a dragon's tomb, and wielded the Yang Sword to slay yin spirits! An heir to a family of secret arts, he joins a group of men and women bound together by fate. Together, they travel far and wide, fighting monsters in the mountains, slaying evil in the cities, breaking into the underworld, and robbing ghost messengers... To change our fate, we defy the heavens! 2.4kReads8.8Score50714d adds
- 594 The Feng Shui Mastermind 风水大掌柜 The day I was born, nine dragons came bearing a coffin, and a hundred ghosts wailed in mourning. I was born under a fated star. My name is Bai Ke, a feng shui master delivered to the mortal world in a coffin borne by nine dragons. I guide souls between yin and yang, and was born with an innate gift for the mysteries of heaven and earth. When you run into anything supernatural, just come to me, Bai Ke. I am the chief feng shui master, and there is no mysterious matter in this world that I cannot 594Reads7.1Score10114d adds
- 595 My Grim Reaper Friend 我的鬼差朋友 In this fantastical world, Song Ziyuan befriended a ghost messenger named Zhang Xing. He always wore a black trench coat and had a strange smile on his face, but don't be fooled by his appearance: he's actually a very funny guy. As a ghost messenger of the Underworld, Zhang Xing travels between the human world and the Underworld, guiding the dead to where they belong and hunting down evil spirits. Song Ziyuan, his human friend, often gets dragged into these eerie adventures... 3Reads—Score114d adds
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Chen Ergou’s Path to Taoism 陈二狗修道记
In a small mountain village, all sorts of strange things happen to a boy named Chen Ergou. Rumor has it that he is the reincarnation of the Mad Daoist. At a very young age, Chen Ergou bows beneath a great willow tree and takes a ghost as his master. He learns the arts of Heaven, Earth, and the Five Elements, and through a series of chance encounters embarks on a path of cultivation: catching ghosts, telling fortunes, reading feng shui, and discerning yin from yang. The people he helps go on to b
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Help! Since When Did the Translator Moonlight as a Ghost Hunter? 救命！翻译员什么时候兼职抓鬼了
Something extraordinary happened to Ye Luning when she turned twenty-four: she found she could see ghosts, and one of them even latched onto her. With no other choice, Ye Luning, a translator, was forced to take the ghost back to its homeland so it could be laid to rest. While searching for the ghost's family, she unexpectedly met a man. From then on, the two became a very odd pair. She catches ghosts, he lays them to rest. To the head of the Ji family: “Oh, did you pee yourself?” To the crippl
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- 598 On Becoming a Ghost Constable 关于我做鬼差这件事 My name is Zhang Yan, and I’m twenty-three years old. After graduating from college, I hoped to make something of myself in the city, but an unexpected car accident and a strange job interview opened the door to a whole new world. Ghosts and monsters, demons and spirits, the good and evil of human nature, right and wrong. Join me as we explore them all. —Reads—Score—14d adds
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Supernatural: I Exorcise Ghosts with Force and Scare the School Beauty Out of Her Wits 灵异：暴力驱鬼，我把校花吓懵了
[Supernatural + comedy + System. If you read the first 30 chapters and don't laugh, come roast me!] On Zhang Wei’s first day of college, a blood-red sun hung in the sky and his entire class was dragged into a ghost realm. Just then, his Ghost-Teasing System awakened! With the whole class under a ghost’s curse, the campus belle, Lu Lianxue, had no choice but to reveal her hidden identity: a disciple of Longhu Mountain and a member of the Exorcism Bureau. But before she could show off her skills..
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- 600 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! 73.8kReads9.4Score8.8k14d adds
