A Taoist Female Protagonist Who Catches Ghosts, Is Strong, and Has No Romance 女主是道士，捉鬼，不弱，无cp
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My Birth Chart Is Unlucky: Strange Things Have Followed Me Since Childhood 我的八字不太好，从小诡怪跟着跑
Warning, warning! This novel has no romance! Tomato got the tags wrong. The heroine is busy. She has no time for romance! The heroine has it rough. She has no time for romance! Adventure + Mystery + No Romance + Wild Imagination + Mild Horror + Everyone’s Darling No romance. The whole cast is women, adventuring together. Monsters from the Classic of Mountains and Seas; the dead, burdened by resentment and obsessions; resentment and malice inside their bodies; a nonhuman boss at her side; and fiv
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At Ease with Mystic Arts: Fortune-Telling and Ghost-Hunting Are My Specialty 身有玄术自悠闲，算命抓鬼我在行
[No Romance + Metaphysics + Fortune-Telling Livestreams + Ghost Hunting] Before ascending, the grandmaster of metaphysics cast a fortune for the future of her own Taoist temple. Seeing that it was on the verge of ruin, she panicked and sent her beloved disciple, Le Qingxin, flying into the modern world with a wave of her horsetail whisk. Le Qingxin transmigrated into the body of a notorious actress. As soon as she arrived, Le Qingxin saw through the truth behind her best friend Liu Yanyan’s bank
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- 53 Be the Leader of the Ghost-Hunting World 做捉鬼界的领头羊 [Mysticism + Goofy Comedy + Satisfying Revenge + No Romance] Word has it that the youngest daughter of the Du family of Liucheng, who went missing 18 years ago, has been found. After spending 18 years away from home, she learned an impressive range of mystical arts from a master. Fortune-telling, face-reading, ghost-catching, and feng shui are all a piece of cake for her. You could even call her a fairy. But why is this little fairy so unconventional? While others catch ghosts with all kinds of 1.8kReads8.8Score229Shelves
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The Celestial Master Comes Down the Mountain, and She Stands Guard at Funerals and Weddings 天师下山，红白席上她站岗
Yun Lai only wanted to devote herself to studying magic, but fate had other plans. Her master tossed her down the mountain, claiming she should travel the world, when his real intention was for her to reunite with her family. Fine, she could reunite with them. But why did no one in the family value her? Three older brothers and two older sisters, each more difficult than the last. Poverty-stricken Daoist Yun: “Enough! See you around! I can always set up a stall by the road and tell fortunes for
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My Fortune-Telling Livestream Is So Accurate, the State Wants Me to Come Forward 直播算命太准，国家请我出山
[No Romance + Livestreaming + Fortune-Telling + Feng Shui + Ghost Hunting + Satisfying Read] After being ambushed, the metaphysics expert Jiang Yi is reborn and unexpectedly bound to a merit system. System: “If you want to stay alive, you must ward off calamities and drive out ghosts to earn merit points. Otherwise, you'll drop dead immediately.” Jiang Yi: “???” Isn't “drop dead” a little too harsh? To keep herself alive, Jiang Yi decides to become a metaphysics streamer and earn merit by tellin
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I’m a Max-Level Ancestor. What’s Wrong with Raising a Few Hundred Million Kids? 我满级老祖，养亿点崽子怎么了
The short drama adaptation, My Xuanmen Ancestor, Why Do My Kids Spoil Me So Much?, is now streaming. [Spirit monsters + wish fulfillment + wacky comedy + supernatural + absurd humor + a mash-up of everything + no male lead (the heroine shines on her own)] (All the spirit beasts in the main cast have pictures. The full collection is in the book’s featured posts, so feel free to check them out!) After Shi Ruyi, the last heir of the Xuanmen, restores her body and descends the mountain, she discover
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- 57 Spoiled? No Thanks! The Real Heiress Is Obsessed With Immortal Cultivation 宠爱？不稀罕！真千金她沉迷修仙 [Brothers’ redemption arc + romance] [Calculating, sickly-beautiful male lead vs. sweet, bubbly female lead] The sect where Shi Qi had lived for seventeen years was gone, and she was forced to leave the mountain. Leaving was one thing, but why had a wealthy tycoon suddenly appeared, crying and claiming to be her long-lost father? The rich father was one thing, but she also had six handsome older brothers, each with his own style. Was this the start of a everyone-dotes-on-me story? No! Don’t get 16.9kReads8.8Score1.9kShelves
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The Real Heiress from the Underworld Has the Whole Family Listening to Gossip 地府来的真千金，惹得全家听八卦
[Invincible power fantasy + metaphysical mystery-solving + face-slapping + showbiz + male lead as a background character] The title was changed for the short drama adaptation and has little connection to the actual story. Top-tier star Chu Mingze's younger sister, who had been kidnapped years ago, has finally been found. His fans are calling for the two of them to appear as guest stars on a sibling reality show. But when his mysterious sister finally makes her first appearance after all this tim
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I Can See Your Future 我能看到你的未来
[Face-reading to save lives + giving away money to do good = a day in the life of the Big Witch] Wu Yu's memories begin with the first time she opened her eyes in this world. She remembers not only the night she was abandoned at an orphanage the day after she was born, but also can see other people's pasts and futures. She grew up wandering from place to place, able to see the end awaiting everyone she met, yet unable to see her own future or his: Ning Bo, a man who inspires envy, jealousy, and
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- 60 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 8.5kReads9.3Score1.3kShelves
- 61 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 13.2kReads9.4Score1.4kShelves
- 62 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 3.3kReads9.4Score449Shelves
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Don't Mess With Her! The Fortune-Telling Heiress Is a Fearsome Ghost Hunter! 别惹她！神算大小姐捉鬼超凶哒！
[Legitimate daughter + occult arts + feng shui + fortune-telling + satisfying read + ancient setting + a little family drama + strong heroine] Jiang Jiaoyue returned to the capital to reunite with her family and set up a fortune-telling stall to earn merit. “Master, someone chased me in my dream and demanded I give his head back. What’s going on?” “That wine bowl of yours is made from a dead person’s skull. Just give it back to him.” “Master, I dreamed my grandfather pushed open his coffin lid a
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I'm a Grind King, So It's Fine to Grind Both Metaphysics and Science, Right? 我卷王，玄学科学都卷没毛病吧
[Esotericism meets science, livestreams meet variety shows, no romance] Female lead: formidable in a fight, questionable in manners. The wise stay out of love; the strong keep grinding nonstop. Lin Yuan, a lonely grand ancestor of the mystic sect, abandoned by her unworthy disciples and their descendants, finds herself surrounded by so many idiots after returning to life in someone else's body! Seriously! A fake heiress bullies her for no reason, and a rich second-generation heir, a beast in hum
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My Merit Was Stolen from the Start, So I Use Talisman Drawing to Save My Family 开局功德被偷，我靠画符救全家
[No romance, just lighthearted ghost-hunting tales with no angst] Ye Sangzhi has been able to perceive the balance between yin and yang and see ghosts since childhood. At a young age, she mastered a whole range of esoteric arts. After her master passes away, she returns to the capital alone, only to find that her family’s situation has changed completely. Her father is a coward, her mother does nothing but cry, and her older brother is disabled... The second branch of the family has its eyes fix
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- 66 The Daoist Clan’s Legitimate Daughter: She Rules the Court Through Divination 道家嫡女，她靠相术权倾朝野 Noble-born heiress + court intrigue + metaphysics and physiognomy + defying fate Yuan Qing Yi, courtesy name Xi Yi. From birth, she was condemned as “a bringer of misfortune, destined to die before twenty.” She was the eldest legitimate daughter of a preeminent noble clan, yet another girl took her place, a concubine-born daughter masquerading as the legitimate heir. She endured endless torment. Can fate not be defied? Then she'll defy it! With the Nine Forms of Tai Su, she enters the world, j 14.3kReads8.5Score1.8kShelves
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I Have a Judgment Room. Want to Try Messing with Me? 我有一间审判屋，惹我一个试试？
[Satisfying revenge + metaphysics + no romance, female-led story + episodic cases] Zhuang Ling has been able to see ghosts since she was little, and people call her cursed. No matter. If they curse her, she’ll dig up their ancestral graves that night and beat up their ancestors. Even if she gets beaten herself, she’ll still flip them off to show what she thinks. Arrogant and stubborn, she’s famous throughout the county. After becoming an orphan, she makes a living by delivering messages from the
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- 68 A Little Moneybags Arrives in Harbor City to Bring Good Fortune 港城冲喜来了个小财神 [1970s Hong Kong City + adored by all + adorable child + mystical lucky charm + childhood sweethearts] Little Duoyu was switched at birth by the nanny. When she turned two, she began to look more and more like her biological mother. Afraid of being exposed, the nanny sold her to Hong Kong City, where she was sent to bring good luck to the young master of the Ship King family, who suffered from a condition that left his soul wandering. Who could have guessed that the toothless little girl would 59.6kReads8.8Score6.6kShelves
- 69 The Little Master of Physiognomy in Hemp Clothes 麻衣小相师 Li He, founding master of the Linen-Clad School, once left behind a remarkable book recording everything he had learned in his life. It was passed down to the disciples of his school and continued by them until it was eventually brought to perfection. When the nation fell, it was hidden beneath its covers and circulated through the world. At last, someone bound by fate offered it a blood sacrifice. It transformed into spiritual energy, fused with that person’s soul, and was reborn into the world 2.2kReads7.7Score268Shelves
- 70 Chinese-Style Fortune-Telling: You Win 中式算命，你赢了 [Romance pairing][I made it all up][Complete, reviews welcome!][New book out now!] Li Li, a Daoist's descendant, had such poor grades that she was packed off overseas, joining the proud ranks of Chinese international students. At customs, she was immediately inspected. The customs officer pointed to the ritual robes, ceremonial implements, incense, candles, and joss paper in her suitcase. Li Li explained that these were her tools of the trade, so of course she had to bring them along. From the s 5.5kReads8.9Score859Shelves
- 71 Yin-Yang Express Delivery: Dear, Please Leave a Five-Star Review 阴阳快递：亲，要五星好评哟 Yun Shu was once the future leader of the Three Purities Palace. She opened her eyes and found herself transmigrated five hundred years into the future, into the body of an overworked office drone with nothing but bad luck. From the start, it was hell: her cheating ex and his mistress publicly accused her of being the other woman, she was buried in debt, and her landlord was pounding on the door demanding rent! Yun Shu: The city is full of traps. I want to go back to the countryside! When she he —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 72 The Real Heiress Is a Mystical Pro at Taming Ghosts 玄学真千金驭鬼超凶的 [Metaphysics + crime-solving + everyone’s favorite + corpse-driving + wealthy families] The Yanjing Major Crimes Unit “arrested” a four-year-old girl who looked like a doll. When they found her, a rotting female corpse was floating beside her. It was the victim who had gone missing in a murder case. The little girl, being questioned, answered in a childish voice: “Xiaochun is a corpse driver. I can speak to spirits and travel to the underworld, so of course I can find big sister.” In the end, th 42.7kReads9.1Score8.2kShelves
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After Becoming an Underworld Messenger, the True Heiress Became the Internet's Daughter 上任无常后，真千金变全网女鹅
[Switched-at-birth heiresses + doted-on darling everyone loves + Chinese mysticism + livestreaming + no romance] Shi Du was switched at birth and, despite being the Gu family's biological daughter, spent six whole years growing up elsewhere. Only after the grandfather who raised her passed away did she learn the truth and return to claim her place in the family. The Gu family had status to uphold. They would rather keep their adopted daughter than acknowledge their biological one. Shi Du signed
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The Metaphysics Master Eats Her Own Gossip Every Day 玄学大佬每天都在吃自己的瓜
(Metaphysical, no romance, feel-good story, no logic, with showbiz elements, though the heroine won’t enter showbiz) Shen Yu, a great survivalist, was forced into seclusion when a cataclysm struck and the Heavenly Dao perished. By the time she ventures out again, the world has changed. Phones? Surveillance cameras? Airplanes? Cannons? Good heavens, this world is even more dangerous than the cultivation world! No need to panic. She’ll quietly cultivate and keep a low profile until she’s invincibl
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Back in the Capital, the Brilliant Miss Is Famous Across the Land 回京后，神算大小姐名满天下
[No romance + metaphysics + fortune-telling + satisfying read + secret identity + ghost-catching + lighthearted, no angst~] Yun Zhuo of the Xiao family was abandoned as a child. When her relatives come looking for her, she decisively returns to the capital to become a thorn in their side. Her birth mother says she’s uncouth and illiterate? But in the blink of an eye, she’s welcomed into the capital’s circle of master scholars, discussing poetry and prose and interpreting the fate of the world. T
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Wife, Are You Human or Ghost? 娘子你到底是人是鬼？
[Neither ghost nor god, neither human nor demon + no romance + a girl squad + no love stories, just monster-hunting] A delicate young lady and a little maid travel through mountains and rivers. The half-human, half-ghost lady loves to eat ghosts. Her golden, one-eyed gaze sees through spirits and monsters, while her maid is a skilled ghost cook who takes meticulous care of her. The lady wanders the mortal world in search of the missing half-inch of her heart. Without it, she cannot be human. Wh
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- 77 The Ghost-Eating Bride, Part Two 娘子食鬼第二部 [Neither ghost, god, human, nor demon + no romance + a team of girls + no dating, just monster-slaying] [Strong female lead] A grand adventure of their very own! If gods stand in their way, she'll kill the gods. If Buddhas stand in their way, she'll kill the Buddhas! Gu Jiao's adventure begins anew! A delicate young lady and her little maid, joined by a dim-witted fox, a mouse, and a cat... They roam through endless mountains and rivers. The half-human, half-ghost young lady loves to eat ghost 1.4kReads9.4Score344Shelves
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Reborn Nine Times: My Hapless Family Tears Up the Script and Turns Evil 重生九次，冤种全家手撕剧本黑化
(Transmigrate into a Book + Whole Family Can Hear Inner Thoughts + Occult Arts and Ghost-Hunting + Going Off the Rails, Exposing Secrets, and Crushing Villains + Beloved by the Whole Family + Fake and Real Heiresses + Lighthearted Comedy + System + No Romance + Close Family Bonds) Chi Da, princess of the Underworld, is tossed into a novel by her own father. By the time she turns nineteen, she has the misfortune of dying nine times in a row, and every death is utterly unfair. When the novel’s her
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Run! The Fake Heiress's Twin Sister Is Here to Kill! 快跑！假千金胞妹杀来了！
(No romance + strong female lead + comedy + imperfect characters) Shen Qingyu, current head of the Xuanling Temple. "Shishu, how did you go blind again?" San Zheng slapped his forehead and rubbed his temples. How had she managed to blind herself again when he'd only looked away for a moment? He looked in the direction she was facing. Across the way, a little girl stood up in a daze, dusted herself off, and walked away. A car was parked nearby. Its driver stared in horror at the girl, who was bou
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My Twenty Years as a Spirit Medium 我出马的二十年
He cultivated his character deep in the mountains, then left his secluded cave to make a name for himself across the land. Over twenty years, he broke through countless barriers and witnessed countless things. This is the true story of those twenty years, meant both to introduce this industry to those unfamiliar with it and to share experience with fellow professionals.
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- 81 My Three Lives and Three Worlds 我的三生三世啊 A fantastical tale, all beginning with two bowls of expired Meng Po soup. By the time my hair reaches my waist, the soup's effects will have slowly worn off, and love will have quietly found its way to me! But can love really overcome every obstacle? 298Reads8.2Score—Shelves
- 82 A Few Things from the Underworld 地府里的二三事 As a disciple of the Ma family with more than twenty years of experience in spirit-medium work, I've written this book based on what I know. Some of it is true, some of it false, and some lies in between. Whether you can understand it is up to your own fate! 339Reads8.2Score—Shelves
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Hello, Have You Seen My Bones? 你好，请问看见我的骨头了吗？
[No romance + strong female lead + uncanny beings + punishing scumbags with face-slapping and never taking things lying down + overwhelmingly powerful + morally gray heroine who doesn't pretend to be righteous, holds grudges, and always gets even] Que Zhao left the village with her big black dog to collect a debt. Life is hard, and Zhaozhao sighed. Sigh, she could only just about make ends meet by collecting debts. Vengeful ghosts in a remote village; an entire family slaughtered at a sixtieth-b
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- 84 I Am a Female Sorcerer 在下女术师 The night Bai Zhou returned home to inherit the funeral-clothing shop, someone tried to murder her... From the moment she came back from the dead, she was swept up in one eerie, chilling case after another. A dead old woman wandering through a funeral hall; vengeful spirits who died violent deaths scrambling to find substitutes; a sinister temple in the mountains where people are killed; evil spirits crying out for justice during a performance of Judge Bao... Watch Bai Zhou learn the Taoist Five 17.9kReads9.2Score2.6kShelves
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A Mystic Sect Master Transmigrates into a Book as the Real Heiress, and the Whole Family Faces Retribution 玄门大佬穿书真千金，全员火葬场
[Metaphysics + wish-fulfillment + no romance + livestreaming + secret identity + fortune-telling + a touch of ensemble cast + everyone gets their comeuppance, no forgiveness] Xi Jiudu, sect leader of the Mystic School, failed her tribulation and transmigrated into a book as the biological daughter who was doomed to be cannon fodder in a pampered-daughter story. The heroine, meanwhile, was the adopted daughter, Xi Cha. Father Xi: “Xi Jiu, listen carefully. Whatever you do, Cha Cha will always be
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Metaphysics: Don't Mess with This Harbinger of Doom 玄学：别惹这个煞星
[Metaphysics expert + fast-paced crime solving + fortune-telling + amusing and heartwarming gossip + ghost-catching + medical cultivator + major villain] Seventy percent of this book is crime-solving, twenty-five percent is supernatural, three percent is fortune-telling, and two percent is medical cultivation. The cases are brisk and never drag on, so interested readers can take their time enjoying the story. After a thousand years of cultivation, Jiang Yue failed her tribulation and ended up wi
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The Metaphysics Master Shakes the World After Coming Down from the Mountain 玄学大佬下山后轰动全世界
[Mysticism + satisfying read + sweet romance] Everyone in the industry says the newly reunited eldest daughter of the Su family is a menace. One sentence from her can break up a marriage, shatter a family, drive someone into bankruptcy, or land them in jail, so people steer clear of her. What’s more, she has opened a Taoist temple and does fortune-telling, face-reading, feng shui, sells talismans, and catches ghosts. She’s done every sort of scam imaginable! Later, word gets around that the elde
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The Max-Level Metaphysics Master Shakes the World by Taking Disciples and Telling Fortunes 满级玄学大佬靠收徒算命轰动世界
[No Romance + Metaphysics + Fortune-Telling + Ghost-Hunting + Satisfying Read + Absurd Comedy] Cultivation powerhouse Mu Shi is struck dead by a bolt of lightning and reborn in another world. Unfortunately, the original owner was an idiot with not a single coin to her name. No problem! She sets up a fortune-telling stall on the overpass and makes her way to the pinnacle of life. “Master, tell me when my girlfriend and I will get married.” Mu Shi: “Young man, it looks like you’ve been cheated on.
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Luring Ghosts and Catching Criminals: A Low-Ranking County Magistrate 坑鬼捉凶，一品小县令
When Chu Ling opened her eyes, she had become the novel's number-one female side character, a troublemaker who ultimately got herself killed when the heroine shot an arrow through her heart. Knowing how the plot would unfold, Chu Ling spat in disdain, broke free of the story's control, and threw herself into building a career. But being a county magistrate is no easy job. One day, a ghostly maid comes to air her grievances; the next, a ghostly tutor shows up to reprimand her. Even stepping outsi
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Livestream Fortune-Telling: From the Start, I Sponsored Grandpa's Underworld Startup 直播算命：开局赞助爷爷地府创业
[No Romance + Livestreaming + Fortune-Telling + Metaphysics + Showbiz] A metaphysical master fails her tribulation and wakes up in the body of a universally hated, C-list villainess. To pay off her breach-of-contract fees, Ji He starts livestreaming fortune-telling. A viewer with dark circles under his eyes calls in: “Streamer, why do I dream every night that my grandpa is telling me to burn joss paper?” Ji He: “Your grandpa's starting a business down below. He's short on cash.” Viewer: “...” On
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I’m Lin An! Number One Under Heaven! 我！林安！天下第一！
My name is Lin An. My master gave me this name atop the summit of Wanjian Mountain. He said, “A deep forest can hide the sun; wherever you find peace is home.” But I never imagined that one day I would leave that world, where sword energy crisscrossed the skies and spiritual energy fell like rain, and tumble into a strange place called the “modern world.” There were no flying swords, no immortal realms, no tribulation lightning, only rivers of steel and lights that never went out. When I first a
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My Clan Raised Me to Greatness, So I Gifted Them Purple Robes 全族扶我青云志，我赠族人朱紫袍
After dying suddenly from overwork, workaholic Chen Yan is reborn as the only son of a newly born provincial graduate in the Great Liang Dynasty. His father is successful, so Chen Yan promptly decides to lie flat and enjoy the good life, with food brought to him and clothes laid out for him. But when he learns at the age of six that he was switched at birth with a farmer's child, his life takes a turn. The day the fake young master returns to the Chen family, he goes out to work in the fields an
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When the Funeral Dance Begins, the Living Must Flee 丧舞起，活人避
The Red Luan chapter of The Book of a Thousand Autumns, also known as Red Luan Ferry [Folk Professions + Southern Yunnan Mysticism + Paranormal Folklore + Strange Tales] I was supposed to die when I was six, but I joined a sect to prolong my life. A folk sect in southern Yunnan: warding off evil spirits and guiding the dead. There are countless rules and taboos in our line of work. “When the funeral dance begins, the living must stay away.” When the funeral dance is performed, the living must tu
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She Reincarnates into the Modern Era and Makes a Fortune Through Fortune-Telling 魂穿到现代，她靠算命风生水起
[Rise to power + mysticism + fortune-telling + feng shui + comedy + ghost-hunting] A fortune-telling girl’s soul transmigrates into the modern era, just as a crooked old Taoist abandons his prayers for her halfway through her funeral rites. Unable to stand his cutting corners, she suddenly sits up and calls him out. She manages to ruin her own funeral single-handedly, and her mother tries to send her away, thinking she’s a monster. From then on, she has to fend for herself. She returns to her ol
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Uncle Nine: How Many Did You Say? Six Jiangshi?! 九叔：你说夺少？六头僵尸？！
[Complete and ready to binge, set in the Jiangshi movie universe, no romance] An alternate setting focused on the main plot, starring Lin Zhengying, Qiusheng, and Wencai. A junior female disciple will join them later. One day, Uncle Nine and his two disciples take a commission to eliminate six jiangshi. But the road to the job is fraught with danger. They manage to eliminate the jiangshi without incident. But it seems the real excitement is only just beginning... A five-tailed cat demon, a noct
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I’m a Yin-Yang Fate Judge in Qingshi Town 我在青石镇当阴阳裁命人
Metaphysics + yin-yang eyes + the Five Arts of Chinese Tradition + a terrible start from the start There’s an inconspicuous incense and candle shop in Qingshi Town, run by Lin Qiu, a young woman who can see beyond the divide between the living and the dead. She inherited the Lin family’s ancestral Five Arts of “mountain, medicine, fate, physiognomy, and divination.” Her yin-yang eyes can distinguish the golden glow of merit from the bloody aura of ill fortune, and she specializes in resolving st
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My Path Through the Mystic Sect with a Mental Illness 我的精神病玄门道路
Yuan Zeng You transmigrated after death into the past, becoming the junior sister of her own grandfather’s master’s sect?! It was one thing to discover that her grandfather was a Daoist. She’d also gained a domineering, chosen-one older brother! She lived in the past under a fake identity, as an orphan with an impressive background and a senior position in the sect. She was the useless junior grand-uncle of a Daoist temple, with countless grand-nephews and grand-nieces below her, each with their
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The Granny's Infinite Returns: From the Start, She Strikes Back Against Her Demon Son-in-Law 老太无限回归，开局反杀恶魔女婿
[Strong Female Lead + Elderly Woman + No CP + Metaphysical Livestreaming + Face-Slapping and Scum-Bashing] After clearing the Infinite Worlds, Xia Xiulian seals away her memories and returns to the time before her daughter and granddaughter were harmed. This time, she'll make sure they escape the clutches of their abusers. She firmly supports her daughter's divorce, fights back against the demonic son-in-law who comes to harass them, and gets a divorce of her own while she's at it. As she rewrit
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With the City God’s Seal in Hand, Lady Song Dares to Rule on Any Case 手持城隍印，宋大人她啥案都敢断
[Mystery solving + slight horror + ensemble cast + reinforcements later] The Song family scrimped and saved to help Song Zi’an secure an official post, but he disappeared just before taking it up. Song Zheng, who came back from the dead through connections, decides to take his brother’s place. Being an official can’t be that hard. But when she arrives, she discovers that the posting is in a harsh place, full of all kinds of people, where the locals are both poor and unruly. The county office is
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I Crossed Ten Thousand Souls with Yin Mountain 我以阴山渡万魂
[No romance pairing + First person + Mystery and the supernatural] My name is Su Ling. I was born in a yin year, yin month, yin day, and yin hour. I have the yin-yang eyes, and I’m a pure-yin soul lantern, a rarity once in a century. Ever since I was a child, I could see things other people couldn’t. When I was seven, I broke a taboo in a mountain village and was marked for death by a red-clothed hanging ghost. None of the village’s spirit mediums could do anything. Luckily, a reclusive maste
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