Supernatural Horror, No Power Trip Stories 灵异惊悚，不要爽文
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Calculating Your Fate to the End 算死命
When I was born, I was nursed by a wolf for a few days. I thought of her as my mother, and believed I'd never see her again. Then one day, a woman came looking for me...
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I Have 36,524 Folk Horror Stories 我有36524个民间恐怖故事
[Standalone stories] [Supernatural suspense] [Folk horror] [Mountain spirits and monsters] [Adapted from real cases] [Rural legends] There is no main storyline. Each chapter is a self-contained story adapted from folk rumors, with eerie, gripping plots. Note: This story discourages superstition and encourages belief in science. It is entirely fictional, so just enjoy it as entertainment.
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Ghost Stories From a Mountain Village: One Horror Story Per Chapter 山村鬼事：一章一个恐怖故事
[Anthology of stories] [Folklore horror] [Supernatural horror] [Village legends] [Chinese-style horror] [Old-time storytelling] There is no overarching plot. Each chapter is a standalone horror story adapted from folk tales, with eerie, unsettling plots that grow more terrifying the more you think about them. Note: This story discourages superstition and encourages belief in science. It is entirely fictional, so just enjoy it as a bit of fun.
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The Language of the Three Corpses 三尸语
You’ve heard of people who died with their eyes open, but have you ever heard of a dead person whose mouth wouldn’t close? His grandfather’s death turns the life of a broke college student upside down. A corpse glares, a soul is hooked; a corpse opens its mouth, and disaster strikes twice. As one bizarre incident after another unfolds, he accidentally discovers that there’s far more to it than ghosts…
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The Deadly Neighbor at Midnight 午夜凶邻
The Neighbor from Hell at Midnight
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Office Ghosts: Don't Work Overtime office有鬼之不要加班
There Are Ghosts in the Office: Don’t Work Overtime
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The Secrets of Journey to the West 西游记的秘密
Abyssal Murder Mystery: I Can See the Death Countdown Each scenario is a standalone horror movie, with cruel rules and a barrage of deadly traps. The protagonist gains the one-of-a-kind hidden talent “Performance Notes,” which lets him glimpse death warnings and hidden rules in the scripts. The scenarios draw on real urban legends and folk taboos, steeped in Chinese-style horror. The central mystery deepens layer by layer: Who created the Abyss Theater? Why did the notebook’s previous owner d
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Shop No. 4 on Yellow Springs Street 黄泉街4号店
[No romance] My name is Su Jingze, and I run a peculiar shop on a street lined with funeral businesses. My biggest secret is that I can see things ordinary people can't. A fortune-teller said my fate was too fragile for me to survive, but my parents refused to believe in fate. I didn’t believe in it either, so I made a deal with them...
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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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Vivid as Life 栩栩若生
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
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I Am Intersex 我是阴阳人
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
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I Am a Lady Tutor 我是女先生
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
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I Am a Female Physiognomist 我是女相师
I was born in the twelfth lunar month of 1991, and came into the world with six fingers. The saying that people born in the Year of the Sheep have bad luck somehow became attached to me. Before I could even speak, my family sent me to live with my grandaunt, who ran a shop selling paper offerings and burial clothes. My grandaunt said I had a star spirit in my fate, and the Vermilion Bird would come to my aid. What did it matter if my destiny was cursed? As the saying goes: The Azure Dragon and W
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A World of Fireflies 萤萤众生
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
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The Sixth Line: Initial Nine 六爻之初九
Lu Yao has shared a bond with Zhou Yi since childhood and is well versed in divination. But a college student from a remote mountain village who practices fortune-telling is an oddball in her classmates’ eyes, so she moves off campus and rents a place of her own. One day, she checks her bank statement and sees she’s in the red. She hops on the little scooter she uses to deliver packages. “Dear customer, you have a romantic disaster in store. Please don’t go out today!” Customer: “Are you crazy?”
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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 Fake Master Walks Between Yin and Yang: Sweet-Talking the Living, Battling Vengeful Ghosts 冒牌大师走阴阳：哄完活人斗厉鬼
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
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The Ghost King Is Sealed Inside Me, Yet I’m a Good-for-Nothing 体内封印鬼王，我却是个废柴
A rainy night in a cemetery, a man-eating black cat, a man searching for his late daughter, a school guard hanged on the stairs, a wedding coffin sealed with red paper, a grotesque face hiding in a mirror... What secrets lie behind it all? What other mysterious events will Wang Shier, the gravekeeper, have to face? As terror and dread slowly close in, those secrets seem to be steering his fate. (The stories in this book are all adapted from real events. If anything sounds familiar, it is pure co
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Eerie Tattoos 诡纹
My grandfather was a tattoo artist, but the things he tattooed were seriously sinister…
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My Tsundere Fox Wife 傲娇狐妻
My uncle told me that if I raised a fox well, I'd have no trouble finding a good wife. But before I could even make my fortune, a long-tailed bride came knocking at my door...
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Taking a Fox as My Wife 养狐为妻
When I was eighteen, I accidentally injured a fox. To my shock, my master forced me to marry her...
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My Fox Is My Husband 我的狐狸是夫君
As a seasoned single woman, I once happened to find a white “cat.” I thought I could finally enjoy a happy life with just the two of us, but someone pointed out that what I’d found was a fox! Ever since the fox showed up, I’ve been dreaming every night, and the same man appears in every dream! Then the fox suddenly transformed into a human, and he looked exactly like the man in my dreams! He was also a dark, scheming man who could drive anyone up the wall! I thought I could get rid of this fox s
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Huang Daxian 黄大仙儿
The Huang Daxian of Northeast China, also known as the Huangpizi, are weasels that have cultivated into spirits. This is a terrifying story about the shamanic traditions of Northeast China, told in the region’s authentic style. A supernatural tale rooted in the everyday life of Northeast China.
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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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I Turned the Horror World Into a Raising Game! 我把惊悚世界玩成养成游戏！
A mysterious force descended upon Earth, giving rise to another world of terror. Everyone was forcibly sent into the world of horror games on their eighteenth birthday. While everyone else was immersed in fear, struggling to survive in the cracks between life and death, Qin Nuo discovered that he could earn System rewards by influencing the ghosts’ emotions. And every time he completed a dungeon, he could establish his own business in the world of horror. So he became a food runner at the Yin Sp
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Shocking: My Brother Is the God of Death 震惊：我哥是死神
Also known as My Husband, the Grim Reaper and I Am the Grim Reaper Modern city + System + supernatural powers + spiritual qi revival + doting on his little sister + anime + chaotic daily life Lin Feng accidentally transmigrated to a world where spiritual qi had revived. Who could have guessed that the golden finger he'd waited four years for would turn out to be a part-time job as a Grim Reaper? From then on, by day, he was an utterly ordinary writer. But whenever night fell, he wielded Zangetsu
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After Turning into a Girl, I Make Friends Everywhere in a Horror World 变成女孩子后在惊悚世界知交遍布
[Horror World] [Gender Transformation] [Healing Everyday Life] [Read Before Bed to Cure Your Insomnia] After buying a late-night snack at a convenience store, Tang Xia Bing was on her way home to continue being a shut-in when, at a crossroads, a truck transformed into a robot and sent her to another world with its righteous iron fist. She had transmigrated straight into the body of a white-haired little girl who had taken her own life because her social anxiety made her terrified of dealing with
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Online Game: One Million Skeleton Soldiers from the Start 网游：开局百万骷髅兵
[Summoning + lord + reborn + undead + game descends upon the world + unstoppable from start to finish] This book is also titled "Online Game: One Million Skeleton Soldiers at the Start" and "Could It Be That the God of the Undead Is a Player?" Su Chen returns to the eve of the game's arrival. After being stained by the blood of the God of the Undead on the battlefield, he unlocks the hidden class, God of the Undead. One million skeleton soldiers from the start, with unlimited evolution! Skeleton
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Aren’t You an Evil God? Why Does Seeing Me Lower Your SAN? 不是邪神吗？见我怎么降SAN值
[Vampires, werewolves, technology, potions, ghosts, biohumans, divination, puppets, and every terrifying element you can imagine: this world has them all.] Lin En transmigrated into such a bizarre otherworld and became an apprentice at a potion shop. "Something is wrong with that man! He never uses anesthetic when performing surgery!" "That shop is a scam! The moment you go in, they find a pile of illnesses even if you are perfectly healthy!" "But wait, isn't that shop supposed to be the bes
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Paranormal Case Investigation Bureau 灵异诡案调查局
Who is getting married in the remote wilderness? A terrifying ride turns strange... Bizarre things happen during an overnight hotel stay... A knock sounds at midnight... A smiling man appears at dawn... Who is that person under the bed? A haunted village deep in the mountains... A woman waving in the middle of the night, a scarecrow on campus, a ghostly hand in the hallway... Where is that voice coming from? These paranormal, inexplicable events may be exactly why the Paranormal Investigation Bu
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Strange Cases of the Paranormal Investigation Bureau 诡调局异闻
Is there really an organization that handles mysterious incidents? A lot of people wonder about it. So do I. Tales from the Paranormal Investigation Bureau chronicles a mysterious organization dedicated to investigating all kinds of supernatural phenomena. [Supernatural + mind-bending + terrifying on reflection + suspenseful and thrilling + horror + no heroine] A wealth of subject matter, drawn from real cases! This is why the Paranormal Investigation Bureau exists.
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The Folk Feng Shui Master 民间风水之王
The Nine Cauldrons Dragon Palace, the Secret Files of the Yellow Springs, the Snow Mountain Corpse Demon, the Yin-Yang Inn... Ever since I borrowed a life from the underworld, I have known no peace. Every time I borrow a life, it becomes a deadly game. After each desperate struggle and narrow escape, I wait for the next secret order from the underworld so I can keep living. Just when I thought I'd escaped the clutches of fate, I discovered that Heaven had prepared a coffin for me too!
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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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Terror in the Haunted Dorm 诡寝惊魂
I got a job as a dorm supervisor in a university women’s residence, but the girls there were a little too friendly… Crying in the middle of the night, dorm rooms catching fire, rooms that don’t exist. Hidden in the deepest corners of memory is a bizarre and fantastical world… The night is deep, the dream unfinished. A mountain spirit blows out the lamp. Where can a lonely soul return?
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Horror Night School 恐怖夜校
My promotion was just around the corner, but my lack of a degree was holding me back. Short on money, I went for a cheap night school that nobody had ever heard of. I thought the only problem was that it was in a remote location and had rundown facilities. But I never imagined that from then on, my life would be plagued by one paranormal incident after another... Damn it, someone help me! Can I just quit school already?
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Paranormal Civil Servant 灵异公务员
Wang Xiaotian, a civil servant wielding the "Heaven-Measuring Ruler," transmigrates to a parallel world where the supernatural resurges in the 1990s. Zombies have to meet their KPIs, and ghosts who like people have to follow the proper procedures. Using the bureaucratic wisdom he's gained from writing reports and mediating disputes, he specializes in dealing with every kind of monster and demon that refuses to cooperate. When a red-clad vengeful ghost has to write a work summary, and a thousand-
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Ghost Sightings at the Nightclub 夜场见鬼录
A Long is a DJ at a bar with a legendary “Stage of Death.” Many people have died there under mysterious circumstances. The cause of death could never be determined, and some bodies were never even found! The strange incidents stopped only after the bar was shut down. As the legend of the deaths gradually faded from memory, someone opened the stage once more! After that, disaster struck again and again! A terrifying ghostly figure appears in the girls’ dormitory, a faceless baby clings to a chand
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The Last Soul-Quelling Master 最后一个镇魂师
I grew up at my grandfather's house in the countryside. He was the most respected suona player in our village. One day, Li Dashan, a fellow villager, beat his pregnant wife to death and came to ask my grandfather for help. My grandfather tried everything he could, but still couldn't calm the resentment of Li Dashan's wife. In the end, he had no choice but to play a suona dirge to forcibly pacify her soul. On the night of the Lantern Festival, Li Dashan and his family turned into vengeful ghosts
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Underworld Agent 地府经纪人
I was hit by a basketball at school and fell into a lake, but I survived and became an official employee of the Underworld. I also gained a Ghost Hunter System that helps the Underworld recruit talented ghosts, setting me on the path to turning my life around.
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The Years I Spent as a Funeral Mourner 我当哭丧人的那些年
Some people must be mourned loudly when they are laid to rest. Otherwise, according to old folk customs, it is considered an act of filial impiety. After I was born, everyone in my family except my grandfather died because of me. My grandfather fell gravely ill, and to earn money for his treatment, I had no choice but to join Zhang the Elder, a man from my village, as a professional funeral mourner. From then on, I set out on a path of mourning with no return!
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The Underworld Calls Me Little Sir 地府叫我小先生
[Supernatural + mystery + power progression] Getting hit by a basketball and falling into a lake was bad enough. Even worse, I got killed by a basketball!! The Black and White Impermanence told me I still had seventy years left to live. To make it up to me, they offered me a job in the underworld. So I became an HR officer on the underworld’s permanent staff and even got a ghost recruitment System! As long as I help the underworld recruit talented ghosts, I can earn all kinds of abilities: talis
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This Taoist Priest Is a Little Too Cool 这个道士不太冷
My name is Niu Dabao, and I’m the only college graduate in Niu Village. I thought that after graduation, I’d get promoted, earn a bigger salary, marry a beautiful, rich woman, and reach the pinnacle of life. Who knew the company would go under and the boss would kill himself? I didn’t get a single penny of my wages, couldn’t even afford rent, and had to sleep at the train station every night! Then a ragged Taoist priest told me I was dogged by bad luck and possessed by a host of ghosts, and that
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I Live in Fengmen Village 我住在封门村
My hometown shares its name with the legendary number-one haunted village in China: Fengmen Village. What’s more, our village also has a grandmaster’s chair. Whoever sits in it is doomed to die! It was 1997, and I had been accepted into the high school in town. Once summer vacation was over, I would finally be able to leave the place where I’d spent sixteen years. But what I never expected was for one terrifying incident after another to strike the village! Rats that ate human flesh, five-colore
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The Haunted Grave 诡坟
I think I've been possessed! Right before the college entrance exam, I suddenly came down with a high fever that wouldn't break. I missed the exam and had to spend half a year recovering at home. During those six months, I found a job as a cemetery groundskeeper. My coworker, Old Zhang, saw how frail I was and how weak my yang energy seemed, and insisted on finding me someone to protect me. But he didn't tell me that my protector would be a female ghost!! Not only does she want to marry me, she
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There Are Ghosts in These Words 话里有诡
They say everyone has a few little secrets they can't bring themselves to talk about these days. But if you really want to hear something out of the ordinary, go find Old Bu. Old Bu runs a little tavern set inside an abandoned train carriage. From the day it opened, he laid down one rule: One interesting story in exchange for a night's worth of drinks. Sounds like a good deal, doesn't it? Too bad he doesn't give you much to drink, and the stories just keep getting stranger. An intelligent wristb
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The Midnight Gravekeeper 午夜守墓人
A desolate mountain. An ancient tomb. A woman in white. A blood-red moon at midnight. A corpse monk on the move. I’m a high school senior. With the college entrance exam just around the corner, I suddenly came down with a fever that wouldn’t break and missed the test. After recovering at home for more than half a year, I found a job guarding the gate at a cemetery. Seeing how frail I was and how weak my yang energy was, Old Zhang, the gravedigger, found me a protector. But she wasn’t human. She
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Becoming an Ancestor After Death 死后当祖宗
No heroine + Chinese-style ghosts and gods + history + a contest for national destiny + family clan Wang Laosan is dead. The dead should act like the dead and go obediently to be reincarnated. But which bastard lifted the lid of his coffin and bullied his wife and children?
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A Substitute Bride in a Ghost Marriage: 100 Terrifying Days in an Ancient House 替嫁冥婚我在古宅的惊魂100天
On the twenty-third day of the twelfth lunar month, heavy snow buried Qingwa Town, and the cold cut to the bone. I, Li Wan, the adopted daughter of the Li family, faced a choice in the ancestral hall: take my sister’s place in an arranged marriage. My younger sister, Li Jiaojiao, wept and refused to marry into the ancient Gu family manor, while Father pleaded with me. All that remained of the Gu family was their gloomy old manor and their young master, Gu Yanzhi, who had been dead for three year
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A Medium’s Live Stream of Terrifying Calls 灵媒直播间惊悚连线
In the livestream room late at night, there are no viewers, only pervasive yin energy and a flashing alert: “Paranormal Activity Index: 99%.” Psychic medium Su Qing’s streams are anything but ordinary. The “viewers” she connects with are ghosts wandering between the worlds of the living and the dead. When she accepts a connection request, the person on the other end might be the spirit of someone who died unjustly, weeping as it reveals the truth; a vengeful presence in a haunted house, rasping
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The Female Medium of Guandong 关东女先生
[Completed Novel Recommendation] Northeast folk horror and suspense! When the old rules of the Northeast are broken, a hundred ghosts roam the night, and the yin energy can no longer be contained. My name is Ren Xue. I direct supernatural dramas, but fate brought me back to Changbai Mountain, where I became a Guandong woman who understands yin-yang and feng shui. I thought I was simply carrying on my ancestors’ legacy. Who knew I’d be the key to unraveling the “Dragon-Locking Yin Formation” and
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