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  1. 601 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 Eastern Fantasy125k WordsOngoing [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 817Reads—Score—Shelves
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  2. 602 That Guy Is Both a Northern Shaman and a Southern Taoist 那家伙既是北马又是南茅 Mystery962k WordsOngoing Join the Old Immortal in gathering merit and spreading blessings across the land! Anyone with a “little circle” on them is there to help others. This is a little master who is both rather laid-back and a bit of a slacker, “part Taoist, part Marxist,” and specializes in helping people solve their problems and helping the Old Immortal accumulate merit! He’s also an expert at exposing fakes! Ha, take that, take that, take that, take that, take that, take that! 725Reads9.4Score—Shelves
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  3. 603 Haunted University: I’m the Only Living Person on Campus 诡大学:全校就我一个活人 Mystery225k WordsCompleted [Supernatural + one female lead] He scored 320 on the college entrance exam and just wanted to find a decent university to attend. He never expected to meet a ghostly version of Zhang Xuefeng, who recommended a ghost university 😭 His classmates and teachers are all ghosts 👻 —Reads—Score—Shelves
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  4. 604 I Heard of Strange Things That Year: Never Read This Late at Night 那年听闻怪事,千万别深夜翻看 Mystery261k WordsCompleted These stories are adapted and fictionalized from various experiences shared by friends. They are written in an accessible style and make for a good way to unwind. A reminder: reject superstition. This is all imaginative fiction. Any similarities to real events are purely coincidental, so don't take it seriously! 12Reads—Score—Shelves
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  5. 605 This Female Spirit Medium Is Wearing Down Her Immortal Patron 这个女出马弟子磨仙家 Mystery395k WordsCompleted Amid wind and snow, she takes up the calling while still a child. With a compassionate heart, she protects her old street for a hundred years. In the Bingwu year, heavy snow seals off the city. Dark forces stir throughout an old Northeastern neighborhood, and twelve-year-old Wang Er’ya awakens her spiritual calling through an ancestral boxwood token. She establishes her spirit hall and protects the people with a righteous heart. She clears the names of restless souls and solves the people’s tro 3Reads—Score—Shelves
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  6. 606 Northeastern Ghost Doctor: I Cure Every Kind of Defiance! 东北鬼医:专治各种不服! Mystery1.9M WordsOngoing [Mystery and wild ideas] [Hilarious power fantasy] [Folk horror] [Invincible protagonist] [No female lead] (The short drama adaptation, Northeast Ghost Doctor: Five Ghosts Carry Me on My Journey from the Start, is now available on Tomato Short Drama.) Chen Shian, a ghost doctor from Northeast China born under the "Tenfold Peace" destiny, descends the mountain at his master's command to heal the world. With silver needles in his left hand, he cures ailments caused by ghosts; with his right fist, 27.3kReads9.2Score2.8kShelves
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  7. 607 The Faded Red Wedding Dress 褪色的红嫁衣 Mystery6k WordsCompleted The Faded Red Wedding Dress —Reads—Score—Shelves
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  8. 608 The Wet Hand Beneath the Fifth-Floor Mirror 五楼镜底的湿手 Mystery6k WordsCompleted The Wet Hand Beneath the Fifth-Floor Mirror —Reads—Score—Shelves
  9. 609 Summoning Spirits with Yellow Paper 黄纸问灵 11k WordsCompleted Yellow Paper, Asking the Spirits —Reads—Score—Shelves
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  10. 610 365 Nights of Corpse Tales from the Gorge 峡江尸话365夜 Mystery747k WordsCompleted The poorer and more desolate the land, the stranger the tales; deep in the gorges along the river, there are stories of the supernatural. My hometown lies in the mountains of the middle reaches of the Yangtze River, in an area where several ethnic minorities live together. Before Liberation, it was a backward wilderness beyond the reach of government control. Over the long course of history, many baffling things happened here. After I was born, I heard plenty of chilling tales of strange happeni 117Reads8.0Score—Shelves
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  11. 611 The Profound Prison Spirit-Subduing Canon 玄狱镇灵典 Mystery115k WordsCompleted My name is Jiang Yuan, and I'm just an ordinary high school student. Until... one evening during self-study, my deskmate invited me to go exploring... I'm really not a genius. I just work pretty hard! —Reads—Score—Shelves
  12. 612 I Inherited a Funeral Shop During the Hundred Ghosts' Night Parade 百鬼夜行时,我继承了一家冥铺 Urban1.2M WordsOngoing Lu Ci thought all his grandfather had left him was an old shop on the verge of closing. Then, one rainy night, the first customer walked through the door and bought a stack of spirit money. The next day, that very “ghost currency” appeared in someone else’s account. From then on, the shop, open only at night, began receiving one unusual customer after another: some sought wealth, some wanted to buy a life, and some only wished to exchange something for a long-overdue truth. At the end of the lon 9Reads—Score—Shelves
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  13. 613 Vivid as Life 栩栩若生 Mystery2.3M WordsCompleted 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 19.7kReads9.5Score3.4kShelves
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  14. 614 The Haunted House Realtor 凶宅中介 Mystery250k WordsCompleted [Clever Female Realtor vs. Handsome Rich Heir] [Naturally Gifted Yin-Yang Eyes and a Special Constitution vs. A Stunningly Handsome Ghost Soul With No Body to Return To] [Horror and Suspense] [Standalone Stories] [Heartwarming Healing] [Romance] "Hello, you've reached Haunted House Realty. Looking to sell a house? No problem. Are you the owner... What, you're the deceased?" Yun Lingdang had a special constitution and discovered she could see ghosts when she was little. Her ghost-talk made people 14Reads7.6Score—Shelves
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  15. 615 36,036 Terrifying Stories You’ll Regret Not Reading 不看后悔的36036个恐怖故事 Mystery2.1M WordsCompleted [Standalone Stories] [Paranormal Events] [Unbelievable] [Forest Spirits] [True Cases] [Rural Ghost Stories] There is no overarching plot. Each chapter tells a self-contained story adapted from the encounters of a shamaness who can see spirits, and the strange, gripping tales surrounding each young friend she meets. 314Reads—Score—Shelves
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  16. 616 I Am a Lady Tutor 我是女先生 Mystery2.2M WordsCompleted I'm hard to kill. These were the words I heard from the moment I was born. A blind fortune-teller said I was a White Tiger Sha, a girl born with a boy's fate, innately tough and destined to bring misfortune to my husband, my children, and myself. Everyone in the village said I wouldn't survive. My yang energy was too strong. Even if they managed to keep me alive, I'd grow up to be an idiot. But my grandma, a spirit medium who presided over the altar, refused to give up. Every year, she burned a 3.3kReads9.4Score449Shelves
  17. 617 I Am Intersex 我是阴阳人 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 8.5kReads9.3Score1.3kShelves
  18. 618 The Yin Guardian: The Mysterious Divine Coffin Hidden Beneath the Mountain 守阴人:藏在山底的神秘天棺 Mystery134k WordsOngoing After I encountered the Ghost Granny, my dad died. Later, I found my older brother, and then my grandpa died too. Somehow, I became the last Guardian of the Yin. Later, I discovered that it wasn't the Ghost Granny behind it all, but another conspiracy hidden from view. [Entirely written by hand, no AI writing!] 225Reads—Score—Shelves
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  19. 619 Ghost Pact: Forgotten Village 幽灵契约:忘归村 Mystery120k WordsOngoing A fictional novel. A real curse. Short on inspiration, online novelist Qiao Jian follows the fictional map from his own novel, Ghost Contract, into the fog-shrouded city of Z. On the night he checks in, an anonymous text signed "Nian" arrives out of the blue: "You shouldn't have come here." Before the warning can even settle, his adventurous old friend Lu Xun follows his trail, insisting on visiting the forbidden place from the novel called Forgotten Return Village. Lu Xun's bizarre disappearanc —Reads—Score—Shelves
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  20. 620 Paranormal Tales from the Northeast Countryside 东北农村灵异小故事 Modern Romance9k WordsCompleted Spooky Little Stories from the Northeastern Countryside 12Reads—Score—Shelves
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  21. 621 The First Half of a Female Spirit Medium’s Life! 出马女弟子的前半生! Mystery325k WordsCompleted I’m an ordinary country girl from Northeast China. When I was 18, I learned that I was born with a connection to the immortals. I was often unwell in all sorts of ways, and I sought out many spirit mediums, hoping they could help me escape my predicament. I was cheated, but I also met kind people. This is the story of how I eventually found my way out. I decided to write this book to keep more people from being scammed. I can’t guarantee that everything I say is right, but I can guarantee that I 8.8kReads9.4Score692Shelves
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  22. 622 Crime Scene 诡案现场 Mystery2.0M WordsCompleted When he was twenty, a blank painting was enshrined in the ancestral hall at a crime scene. Why were two male corpses embracing beneath an ancient tree? Was the shadow inside the house a person or a ghost? After all the confusing clues, was the killer human or ghost? 374Reads8.6Score—Shelves
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  23. 623 In Taoist Robes: I Counsel Students, Then Spirits 道袍加身:劝完学生劝鬼神 Mystery155k WordsCompleted An art teacher unexpectedly becomes a Taoist exorcist. The colors in the classroom give way to the cinnabar of talismans, and one supernatural incident after another, once dismissed as impossible, begins to unfold. All the ghost stories he had heard were never mere fabrications. Beyond the mist where yin and yang meet lies a truth far more terrifying than anything on canvas. —Reads—Score—Shelves
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  24. 624 Paranormal Musings: My Life as a Yin-Yang Master 灵异闲谈我的阴阳先生生涯 Mystery242k WordsCompleted When my mother was pregnant with me, she was haunted by a vicious ghost. Because of that, I was born with Yin-Yang Eyes. My master took me under his wing, and I embarked on the path of a Yin-Yang practitioner. With my master possibly being the head of the villains, and the person I love beyond my reach, what am I supposed to do...? 207Reads—Score—Shelves
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  25. 625 The Amulet Shop 佛牌专事店 Mystery390k WordsCompleted [No female lead + two male leads] My name is Zhou Yi. I’m a broke loser who just graduated from college and can’t even find a decent job. Then a shop owner called and asked me to interview for a sales clerk position. At last, I found a job that could keep food on the table. But the things sold in this shop were nothing like ordinary merchandise. They even seemed a little sinister. Still, I needed to make a living, so I gritted my teeth and stuck with it. I never imagined that this job would plun 11.3kReads9.0Score1.5kShelves
  26. 626 The Silk Road's Haunted Trail: A Gansu Paranormal Journal 丝路诡途:甘肃探灵笔记 Mystery423k WordsCompleted Murong Che, a folklorist, travels to Gansu and is drawn into a tragic tale of tangled lives between the living and the dead. At a ferry crossing haunted by wronged souls, vengeful ghosts cling to him, and misfortune never lets up! [Ding! A request for help has arrived from the Haunted Ferry Crossing!] To soothe the restless spirits, he struggles to survive at every turn. In a village of colorful houses, a wronged female ghost appears night after night, beautiful and sorrowful, but not malicious. —Reads—Score—Shelves
  27. 627 The Yin-Yang Courier 阴阳快递员 Mystery1.6M WordsCompleted Parcel delivery has expanded beyond the countryside and reached the underworld. And I am a courier who delivers to both the living and the dead! I've delivered countless packages and encountered countless strange, unknown events. Let me tell you a deathly tale about parcel delivery, based on my own experiences... 10.9kReads8.7Score368Shelves
  28. 628 A World of Fireflies 萤萤众生 Rural Life3.8M WordsCompleted When I was thirteen, I had an accident and nearly died. Everything I saw and felt was horrifying, and I could only keep company with bad luck. But I swore a solemn oath: I would not fail Heaven and Earth or my parents, nor harm my friends and family. I would hurt only myself, devote myself to goodness, and hold fast to sincerity! From then on, I walked between the realms of yin and yang, sought a master and learned the Dao, awakened my spiritual senses, and slew demons and evil spirits... I fear 8.1kReads9.2Score779Shelves
  29. 629 Folk Horror Stories You’ve Definitely Heard 你一定听过的民间恐怖故事 Mystery239k WordsOngoing This story is entirely fictional and has nothing to do with the real world. Any resemblance is purely coincidental. At his sixth birthday banquet, evil spirits devoured his entire family in their dreams. Gu Chen, the young heir of a wealthy family, had his memories forcibly erased by men in black. All that remained were fragments of nightmares: a diamond-shaped badge, red-eyed guests who devoured dreams, and a gun that erased memories. Ten years later, he tracks down the city’s supernatural inci 2Reads—Score—Shelves
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  30. 630 Tales of the Strange from Yutai 渔台志异 Mystery378k WordsCompleted Some things are better believed than dismissed. Some people are better left unoffended. Some roads are better avoided, even if it means taking the long way around. That's what the old folks tell you. And that's what this book wants to tell you, too. 22Reads—Score—Shelves
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  31. 631 Folk Feng Shui: I Made My Name by Moving a Grave 民间堪舆:从迁坟开始扬名 Mystery1.0M WordsCompleted On a midnight road, a ghost encounters a coffin being carried. A blood-seeping black coffin holds calamity at bay. Chen Mo, a boy from a remote mountain village, only wanted to live in peace with half a box of tattered books and a cracked compass left behind by his grandfather. Then the old village chief died mysteriously, and the supposed auspicious burial site turned out to be a place steeped in a century of resentment. The instant the coffin was opened, bloody words appeared alongside claw ma 3Reads—Score—Shelves
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