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- 101 Ghosts Abroad Tonight 今夜有诡 My name is Cen Ruosi. Ever since I was little, people suspected that I was cursed to bring death to those around me. My master summoned the River of Forgetfulness, built the Bridge of Helplessness, and set up the Three Lives Stone, hoping to undo my fate. But he died suddenly before he could finish, leaving me only a secret manual. From then on, the only ones by my side were wandering spirits... 11Reads—Score—Shelves
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Mysterious Resurgence: I'm Not the Ghost King 神秘复苏，我不是诡王
[Mild horror, somewhat Lovecraftian, no System, survival and growth, one female lead, not for the fainthearted] "This story is entirely fictional and does not reflect reality. Now, the mysteries begin to return..." Grandpa died with his eyes open. The day we carried his coffin up the mountain, I didn't dare look back, because the people carrying it... weren't human! A daily dose of occult weirdness: One ring of the bell, and all ghosts flee; one talisman stuck on, and evil spirits call you Dad
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Super Scary Livestream 超级惊悚直播
"Welcome, everyone, to the Supernatural Scary Live Stream. Before we start today's broadcast, I have to tell you that only three kinds of people can watch this stream: those with a heavy aura of yin energy, those who will die within seven days, and the third kind, which I can't discuss in detail. I can only give you one warning: watch your back!"
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- 104 No More Wage Slavery After Graduation: I'm Becoming a Bounty Hunter 毕业后不做牛马，去当赏金猎人 [Comedy + Alternate setting + A touch of mystery + Adventure + Urban + No female lead] Investigating a murder from more than a decade ago, he pits his wits against a deranged serial killer. He transmigrates into a primeval jungle no one dares enter, searching for the bodies of people lost in a sinkhole. He enters a mysterious village deep in the Hundred Thousand Mountains to find a little girl... What drove a recent college graduate to embark on this one-way journey? It all began with a haunted 79.3kReads9.3Score8kShelves
- 105 After Joining the Folk Customs Bureau, I Run Into Ghosts Every Day 入职民俗司后，我天天撞鬼 [Urban Supernatural] [Smart Protagonist] The Folk Customs Bureau is hiring. Three requirements: be willing to walk at night, have a hardy constitution, and be able to see ghosts. Wu Sheng meets all three. On his first day at work, the captain says the job isn't dangerous. That very night, Wu Sheng pulls two living people out of a fourth-floor wardrobe, then walks downstairs beneath the gaze of a wall covered in memorial portraits. That same day, the ghost of fate in his chest speaks for the firs —Reads—Score—Shelves
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Fourteen Years of Hunting Ghosts (Complete in Five Volumes) 十四年猎诡人（全五册）
Li Yifan’s spine-chilling ghost-hunting chronicles! A contemporary Strange Tales from a Chinese Studio! A spine-chilling record of ghost hunts! First posted on Tieba, it topped 100 million views within three months! The acclaimed mystery writer Li Yifan’s breakthrough work, now with the unpublished continuation added! Every ghost was once a living person. I’m a professional ghost hunter. I turn the compass, circle the place with red
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- 107 The Strange Tales of Min Land 闽地诡闻录 My name is Yan Wu, a true son of southern Fujian. My master said I was born in a year of famine, so I would either be a bringer of good fortune or a harbinger of disaster. All sorts of strange and uncanny things have happened around me. What is so special about the miraculous pills of Young Master Zhao? How can I repay Young Master Zhang for saving my life? How should I deal with the eerie execution ground, the broken vat in the rented apartment, and the mother-and-child fiend sealed beneath the 3Reads—Score—Shelves
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Folktales of the Mountains and Wilds 民间山野怪谈
The hidden truths behind ten major unsolved mysteries, revealing a host of terrifying taboos that will send chills down your spine!
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The First-Eye Feng Shui Master 第一天眼风水师
This is not your typical feng shui story. If that bothers you, please move along. Inside you’ll find the most terrifying human demons and ghosts, horrifying infant spirits, bewitching female ghosts, thousand-year-old flood dragons, and even a ghastly face that will make your heart race... There are no tired formulas here, so be patient. The further you read, the better it gets… The story begins on the day I was born. On the day of my birth, every last one of the chickens and ducks my family k
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The House of Dread 诡舍
[Infinite-flow + Mild Horror + Survival + One Female Lead] A driverless bus carried a group of cursed people to a strange black lodge… Inside the lodge stood a door stained red with blood. At regular intervals, the cursed were forcibly dragged through the blood-red door and into terrifying worlds, where they had to complete horrifying events… After Ning Qiushui survived one bizarre and terrifying story after another inside the lodge, narrowly escaping death each time, he discovered that none of
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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!
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Dorm Survival: I Was Pulled into the Management Chat 宿舍求生，我被拉进了管理群
[Infinite-flow + no saintly heroine + System + survival + satisfying read] When Chen Bei woke up, he found himself in a dormitory survival game, bound to a dorm room. During the day, players had to venture out to gather supplies, grow stronger, and fortify their dorms. When night fell, all kinds of eerie and dangerous creatures appeared. The only way to survive was to hide inside the dorm. People and their dorms lived or died together! Unlike the others, Chen Bei had gained access to the game's
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The Demon Taoist Breaks Through the Underworld Pass 妖道破阴关
(Supernatural horror, feng shui and geomancy, warding off evil and misfortune, one heroine) My parents used forbidden magic to conceive me, but on the day I was born, my strange appearance frightened them away... My third uncle raised me in a cage. I barely managed to grow up on borrowed yin virtue and incense offerings... On my eighteenth birthday, I was buried alive in the ancestral graveyard. She saved me... but she wasn’t human...
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The Maoshan Coffin-Raiser 茅山升棺人
From the moment I was born, someone secretly plotted against me, making my mother give birth prematurely and changing my birth date. My birth chart clashed with my parents' fates, and they both died on the very day I was born. I vowed to find the culprit, and in time became a Maoshan coffin-raiser! Coffin-raising is the practice of relocating graves. After death, people should be buried in a place with good feng shui to protect their descendants. But some ancestors are buried in malevolent place
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The Paper Effigy Shop: Everyone Around Me Is a Big Shot 扎纸铺，我身边都是大佬
In our ancient land of China, many professions have their own rules and taboos. The older and more mysterious the craft, the more this is true. For example, when “asking the rice,” you must never ask how someone died; a coffin maker must never make their own coffin; a paper effigy maker must never draw eyes on a paper figure; and a spirit medium must never conduct a ceremony without all the members of their altar present... If any of these rules and taboos are broken, something terrifying will h
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In Taoist Robes: I Counsel Students, Then Spirits 道袍加身：劝完学生劝鬼神
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.
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Grandpa, I Was Reborn, I Swear I'm Not Possessed 爷爷，我是重生，真不是鬼上身
[Traditional Mystery and Supernatural Fiction] [One Female Lead] [Period Novel] [A Funeral Master’s True Accounts] [Northeastern Chinese Funeral Customs] [Rural Life] Adapted into the short drama Eighties Funeral Master (Disclaimer: The folk techniques in this book, including Zhuyou healing rituals, are entirely fictional. Please do not imitate them. The author bears no responsibility for any problems that may arise.) Good grief, I’ve been reborn in 1986, and from the start Grandpa thinks I’m a
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The Yin-Yang Occult Artisan 阴阳诡匠
As the old saying goes: “Better to offend the King of Hell than a carpenter.” A carpenter isn't someone who puts together a plank to make a door or builds a table. That's just woodworking! A true carpenter understands the yin and yang, knows feng shui, and can bring prosperity to a household or cause someone to die a sudden, violent death. I might have spent my whole life as an ordinary woodworker, if Grandma hadn't given me a mysterious old book...
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- 119 I'm Just a Village Doctor, Is It Really So Strange That I Know the Thirteen Ghost Gate Needles? 我一个村医会鬼门十三针很合理吧 After his grandfather died, Chen Mo returned from the city hospital to his village and became its new barefoot doctor. Who says a barefoot doctor can’t amount to anything? Surrounded by beautiful mountains and rivers, with no nine-to-five grind or mortgage, he can turn his hometown into a paradise. Northeastern customs, everyday stories, and local life: it’s all here. Urban daily life, one heroine, no System, just little stories to enjoy over tea. This book is also known as The Years I Served as 14.9kReads9.1Score1.4kShelves
- 120 Back to 1985: Don't Call Me Comrade, Call Me Husband! 重回85叫什么同志叫老公！ In Northeast China in 1985, an era known as the darkest of times: a young man, a hunting rifle, a heart full of passion, and a jianghu shrouded in gun smoke... In an age when might makes right, a man’s fierce devotion and true-to-life nature are what it takes to get ahead in the Northeast. A period novel, the rise of an ordinary man, one heroine, dual transmigration. 11.1kReads9.1Score807Shelves
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Insomniacs' Forbidden Tales: 444 Midnight Ghost Stories 失眠者禁忌：444个午夜鬼谈
A horror anthology with a bonus at the end of every story. I have 444 folk ghost stories guaranteed to keep you awake until midnight, terrify you, make you break out in a cold sweat, and pull the covers over your head! At the end of every chapter, the “Author’s Note” will include an illustration or bonus! But before you open it, brace yourself. The author accepts no responsibility for what happens next! [Supernatural Horror] [Folk Horror] [Rural Ghost Stories] [True Cases] [Urban Oddities] [L
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Master of Exorcism 镇邪先生
These days, there aren't many people with real skills left. I've been in this line of work for more than ten years, dealing with the dead every day. Carrying corpses, painting faces, stitching skin, keeping watch, probing the water, digging graves, performing rites, guiding spirits, and sealing coffins. My grandfather told me I could retire at thirty. But I cast a fortune for myself, and learned that I only have thirty years to live. With what little time I have left, I'll tell you all about my
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- 123 On My Graduation Internship, I Become the Underworld Emperor Fengdu's Spokesperson 毕业实习：我成了酆都大帝代言人 Just before graduation, Du Feng gets an interview at the Yin-Yang Paper Effigy Shop and unexpectedly becomes the spokesperson for the Great Emperor of Fengdu. From then on, his life takes a dramatic turn. As the young lord of the underworld, he commands the respect of countless ghosts, slays ghosts and demons, drives out evil and binds spirits, and judges the affairs of yin and yang... Du Feng: “Crush their bones and scorch their marrow, gouge out their eyes and flay them, tear out their tendons 1.3kReads8.4Score137Shelves
- 124 Stealing a Corpse to Borrow a Life 偷尸借命 The year I was born, strange signs appeared in the sky. That day, many people saw hundreds of ragged prisoners in shackles carrying a huge black coffin toward the forbidden ground behind the mountain. Ten years later, a fortune-telling monk came to our village. He said I had been dead for ten years, and that I was borrowing my life from a corpse. He said I wouldn't live much longer. But before I could die, he suddenly dropped dead. The next day, however, his body, already buried, mysteriously ap 7.5kReads7.8Score915Shelves
- 125 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… 2.2kReads8.0Score253Shelves
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The Yin-Yang Master of the City 都市阴阳天师
Traditional supernatural horror. The protagonist starts out as a Celestial Master, turns into a purple-eyed zombie midway through, and transforms whenever he can’t win. If that bothers you, please give this a pass. Zhou Yuanqing studied under a purple-robed Celestial Master and chose to join Bureau 749, handling supernatural cases across the country: evil spirits, zombies, mountain demons, Japan’s Kiku School, Nanyang curse practitioners… In places ordinary people cannot see, battles of magic ha
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Ghost-Hunting Yin-Yang Master 捉鬼阴阳师
On the day I was born, the clear sky suddenly filled with lightning and thunder. A bolt struck a tree in our yard, and everyone in the village decided my birth was an ill omen. They all kept their distance. One villager accidentally offended me, and that night he mysteriously hanged himself. The body could only be taken down if someone knelt before me. On the day of his funeral, his brother died a violent death and the coffin fell to the ground. That was how the whole story began…
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- 128 The Last Knife Seller 最后一个赊刀人 They are wandering prophets who travel the four corners of the world. Skilled in feng shui, they roam the mortal realm with a bundle of cleavers and scissors on their backs, and wherever they go, they leave behind a prophecy about what they have seen. “Keep this cleaver. If an elder in your family dies of consumption within five years, I'll come back to collect payment.” They are heirs to an ancient Daoist tradition from a distant place, able to pronounce life and death with ironclad certainty a 53.1kReads9.2Score5.1kShelves
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Protected by My Ghost Wife, I Roam Freely Between the Worlds of Yin and Yang 鬼妻护体，我在阴阳两界横着走
[Multiple Heroines + Supernatural + Ghost Stories + First Person] To stay alive, I was forced into a ghost marriage and wed a female ghost in a coffin. Everyone laughs and says I won’t live long, but they don’t know that my ghost wife is the most terrifying being in both the world of the living and the underworld. The soul-takers come to claim souls? She beats them into submission. Vengeful ghosts harm people? She suppresses them with ease. From then on, protected by my ghost wife, I’m avoided
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The Day I Left My Master, I Banged My Head and Killed My Entire Family 出师当天，我一头磕死满院亲人
A yellow weasel weeps at a grave, a dead woman gives birth. A sinister, uncanny world of curse magic unfolds...
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Working Part-Time at the Morgue, I Carried Out My Ex-Girlfriend? 停尸房兼职，搬出了前女友？
The Dao has both civil and martial paths. The martial path: uphold the law and slay demons. The civil path: read faces and understand the world. I am Jiang Rui, skilled in both. You can call me Handsome, or you can call me Ah Zu. Passerby: “Master Jiang, I think I’ve been haunted. Please, you have to save me!” Jiang Rui smiles calmly. “Come on, there’s no such thing as ghosts.” As he speaks, he discreetly pinches a yellow talisman between his fingers. Passerby: “Master Jiang, can you find a feng
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Paper Figures Knock at the Door: No Living People Allowed 纸人敲门，活人勿进
The father who came back with a corpse died yesterday. The old man who came to report a death was made of paper. My childhood sweetheart, Fang Ting, kept watch with me. At dawn, she was gone too. Suona horns blared outside. Her father held up her memorial portrait and said she had died at eight o'clock last night. So what was the thing in my bed last night? And now, evil beings from a hundred li in every direction are heading for my home.
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Ghostwood 鬼材
Have you ever seen a paper effigy? The kind used in funeral rites, looking almost human but not quite. Have you ever wondered whether these paper figures might actually be alive? Don’t believe me? Then come along and see for yourself. I was just an ordinary worker, supposedly destined for great things, but somehow I ended up on a path I’d never imagined. This book has no masterful prose or fancy language, just the author’s firsthand experiences from over the years. I only want to share what I kn
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Maoshan Ghost-Suppressing Records 茅山镇鬼录
The gates of the underworld shatter, and ten thousand ghosts emerge! Enchanting ghosts steal souls, birth ghosts claim lives, zombies devour people, painted-skin demons steal faces, and water ghosts drag people under... The mortal world has become a living hell. Everyone fears ghosts and monsters. Only the Maoshan priests take up talismans and tread the Big Dipper steps! Talismans subdue the dead, swords cut down vengeful ghosts, incantations slay a hundred evils, and dark spirits are sealed awa
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- 135 Tales of the Strange in Western Hunan 湘西异闻录 [A friendly warning: This book has no System. It's funny and terrifying, with suspense and clever twists throughout, plus plenty of passion and brains. The more you read, the better it gets.] When I was four, I was kidnapped and taken to a cursed village to be sacrificed alive. A fox spirit risked her life to save me, and secretly pledged herself to me for life. To marry my fox bride, I venture deep into the Miao Valley, tread the Nether River Gorge, and walk the boundary between Yin and Yang. I 6.1kReads9.1Score591Shelves
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The Yin-Yang Master of the Wilderness 山野阴阳先生
[Yinshan | Maoshan | Folk traditions | No cultivation to immortality | No saintly heroine | No indiscriminate romance] My grandfather from Yinshan protects my life, and my Maoshan brothers protect my body. As a yin-yang practitioner who walks the shadow paths, all I carry is an umbrella and a copper bell. Deep in the mountains, I came across an old hag chewing on a living person's hand. In southern Xinjiang, a demonic carpet sucked people's life essence in the middle of the night. In western Yu
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A Decree from the Underworld 阴司有旨
Before Grandpa died, he gave me a strange ledger. The first page bore four eerie characters: “Filed with the Underworld.” And the entries weren't sums of money, but “lives.” I used that strange ledger to collect debts and settle accounts on Grandpa's behalf, and it was as if I'd become a living judge of life and death in the human world. Somewhere beyond mortal sight, everything had already been decreed...
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After I Dumped My Jerk Ex, a Powerful Figure from the Underworld Set Their Sights on Me 和渣男分手后，冥界大佬盯上我
Two male leads + mystery and the supernatural + solving cases + powerful leads + satisfying revenge The sweet young love of college couldn't withstand reality. For the sake of a bright future, his boyfriend cheated on him and left without hesitation. Think he's just a college student working a part-time job? That's only because you haven't seen him at night, transformed into the director of the Special Events Investigation Bureau, judging yin and yang, deciding life and death, fighting evil spir
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A Country Bumpkin Comes to the City, Nothing Is Off-Limits 山炮进城，百无禁忌
Dapao guards the village. Evil spirits stay away, and a hundred ghosts give it a wide berth! Chen Dapao was born and his parents died. At four, he sent off all twenty-four members of his clan. Raised on meals provided by the villagers, he leaves for the city after guarding his village for eighteen years... His motto in life: Make money, make money, and make more money; chase women, chase women, and chase more women... Now, please join us in enjoying this rare and refreshingly unconventional nove
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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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The Last Yin-Yang Master 最后一个阴阳师
Twenty-three years ago, my father bought my mother for three hundred yuan. Twenty-three years later, a man claiming to be my second uncle returned to the village. What enormous secret lies behind my grandfather’s mysterious death? See how an ordinary young man navigates one dangerous situation after another, carefully uncovering a truth that should never have come to light. What connects the Ghost City of Fengdu, the divine realm of Kunlun, prehistoric Shennongjia, a mysterious space, vanished r
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The Yin-Walker 巡阴人
Applying makeup to the dead, reading the winds and assessing the land, preparing bodies for burial, and performing rites on the seventh day after death. Scorched corpses: cleaning the body, applying rouge, painting the features! Bodies cut in half at the waist: removing the organs, filling the cavities, and stitching the body back together! I was born into a family that made its living from the dead, so I grew up dealing with corpses. I’ve seen all sorts of bizarre ways to die and countless inex
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- 143 The Grand Feng Shui Master 大相师 Ten years ago, nine snakes crawled into my bed. Grandpa said someone was trying to steal my life. To keep me alive, he arranged an engagement for me to extend my lifespan... 8kReads9.3Score984Shelves
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The Coffin Walks at Night 灵棺夜行
I was carrying a coffin up the mountain for a burial when they stuffed me inside and buried me alive. Then, in a single night, all three hundred or so people in the village vanished. Only at night was the place alive with voices. I crawled out of the coffin, only to discover...
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Uh-Oh, I've Turned a Creepy Game into Reality 坏了，玩到真的诡异养成游戏了
Have you ever played a truly eerie creature-raising game? Have you ever had a heart-pounding life experience? “Red wedding dress, paper shoes for the dead, a ghost in the mirror...” Which of these ghosts would you choose to raise? When Wu Wen clicked the place button and saw the red-clad figure appear before him, only one thought remained in his mind. “Crap, I've actually started playing a real supernatural creature-raising game!” The game Ghost Encounter has been making games for twenty years.
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- 146 The Ninth Secret Bureau 第九守秘局 “If we want the people of this world to live in the sunlight and keep their sanity, then we must keep secret the things they were never meant to know.” “Because the moment they see those terrifying beings that defy all known science and truly discover how horrifying this world is... believe me, Earth will become the biggest asylum in the universe.” Chen Xian, Ninth Secret Bureau 3.2kReads9.2Score470Shelves
- 147 The Master of Face Reading in Hemp Robes 麻衣大相师 At a countryside funeral, the provincial capital's richest man and the city's aristocratic families all came to pay their respects. The deceased was my grandfather, and before he passed, he left me a pouch and an arranged marriage... 133Reads—Score—Shelves
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The Heaven-Mandated Ghost Tamer 天命驭鬼人
[Traditional · Supernatural · Suspense] I was born from a corpse, and the day I was born, my parents died because of me. Yin and yang clash, and my fate is marked by the Seven Killings. An orphan's grave, a green-clad sky lantern, Qin Mao shadow puppets, a portrait of a blood-eyed beauty… All the ghosts bow before me. Clad in a yellow robe, I wield wondrous powers.
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Suppressing Yin and Yang 镇阴阳
[Supernatural The Underworld Comedy No female lead Not human] I used to think I was just an ordinary person. But on the day I was born, Yama sent a child into the world, ten thousand ghosts entered my body, and every ghost within a hundred miles hid in fear. The Underworld’s gods of the dead avoided me like the plague. In this life, I shall command yin and yang and tread the cycle of reincarnation. I only hope this song of sorrow ends in splendor…
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- 150 The Heaven-Mandated Diviner 天命卦师 [Supernatural · Urban · Mysterious] My mother was a shameless woman... Before I was even a month old, she abandoned me. The man who raised me was my adoptive father, who wasn't related to me by blood at all. When I was seven, disaster struck out of nowhere. A woman gave me a burial shroud. My adoptive father said that woman meant to take my life... 2.9kReads8.5Score245Shelves
