Supernatural Horror Novels with a Female Lead Who Grows Stronger Step by Step 灵异恐怖小说,女主一步步成长
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My Ghostly Husband, Don’t Be So Bad 鬼神老公,别太坏
[Devoted Couple + Supernatural Mysteries + Ghost-Hunting + Lots of Fun Tropes + Strong-Willed Heroine + Utterly Devoted Husband] My name is An Ning. I was born on Ghost Festival and carry a demon eye, so everyone thinks I'm cursed. Since childhood, a mysterious man I couldn't see has saved my life again and again. He told me, "If you want me to protect you forever, we have to make a marriage pact when you turn twenty." Then, on my twentieth birthday, my demon eye went out of control. I had a dan
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Transcendence and Redemption 超度与救赎
[Original title: The First Spirit Exorcist] [Supernatural, horror, tomb raiding, feng shui, gu poison, campus romance.] Twenty years ago, more than twenty members of a feng shui family mysteriously died in a single night. Twenty years later, a ghost-raiser has returned to the world, slaughtering people, raising evil spirits, and stealing souls wherever he goes. I am a spirit exorcist. I understand feng shui and know how to catch ghosts. By day, I’m a top student of traditional Chinese medicine.
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The Dragon King Sends a Betrothal Gift, and Nine Foxes Escort the Bride 龙王下聘,九狐送嫁
My name is Wen Shiqi. I'm an orphan, but on my wedding day, nine foxes escort the bridal sedan, a hundred pythons march in formation, and ten thousand birds welcome me home. When I was ten, I fell into the Changning River and accidentally broke his seal, becoming the bride promised to him. From then on, the pupil of my right eye was shattered, and I could see every demon and evil spirit in this world. Ten years later, he came to find me. He said he would save me and lead me onto the right path.
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My Demon Husband 我的妖夫大人
My name is Li Xiaojiu. When I was twenty, a man in my dreams told me to repay a debt. After that, he haunted me every night, and I couldn’t escape him. With my eyes veiled by a web of blood, I somehow released the greatest evil in the world. From then on, yin and yang fell into chaos, and disaster loomed. The man in my dreams said, “My name is Feng Siming. If you want to live, obediently give me your body.” I asked, “In the end, will you devour me?” Feng Siming: “Yes, from head to toe...” Me: “.
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Walking with the Fox 遇狐行
I was born with a fate blessed by the heavens, but one of my seven souls was stolen at birth. Countless lonely ghosts coveted my destiny. When I was nine, I unexpectedly gained a pair of eyes that could see through ghosts and gods. But those coveted eyes plunged me into an endless hell. Someone told me that if I wanted to survive, I had to go to Qingyun Mountain and seek divine protection. If I succeeded, I would be safe for the rest of my life. If I failed, misfortune would follow me wherever I
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Meeting You at the Yin Hour 阴时逢君
Beneath the hazy moon, ghostly shadows sway as a bright red bridal sedan chair rocks its way into the mountains. Just because a feng shui master said I was a cursed, ill-fated loner, I was forced to marry the Mountain God as a sacrificial offering. To escape the fate others had wrongly assigned me and break off my engagement to the Mountain God, I went to great lengths. “Who are you, really?” “Our marriage pact is already sealed. Naturally, I’m your husband.” Alone in the world, I nonetheles
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Raising Paper Characters in a Horror Game 在惊悚游戏里养纸片人
[Infinite Flow] [No romance] (A heads-up: The heroine is a regular female college student who has just graduated. She has no System and isn’t reborn. She’s just an ordinary girl. If you want a badass, cool-headed, strongest-in-her-world heroine in a wish-fulfillment power fantasy, please look elsewhere. Don’t make assumptions halfway through and then leave a bad review. The author is sensitive, so please be gentle.) To pay off her loans, Yang Chaoyu unexpectedly joins a livestream debut. She bar
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Infinite Escape: I Earn Rent Money in Horror Games 无限逃生:我在惊悚游戏里挣房费
[Infinite flow + horror, suspense, and mystery-solving + strong female lead + team + plot-focused] [Ding~ Welcome, player, to the Survival Inn! Please do your best to clear the instances and earn your room fees~ We offer dormitory rooms, guesthouse rooms, hotel rooms, and more, as well as a top-tier luxury VIP club waiting for you to unlock~] A gloomy, blood-soaked compound A school crawling with death A cursed painting that brings death to anyone who looks at it An old village teeming with stra
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My Unhinged Persona Can't Crack [Infinite Flow] 疯批人设不能崩[无限流]
[Infinite quick transmigration + horror, suspense, and mystery-solving + no romance. The heroine acts like a lunatic, but she's absolutely sane! Slow-paced! Slow-paced! Slow-paced!] After the S-rank felon Ye Li is forcibly bound to a Punishment and Rehabilitation System, she's exiled to countless perilous worlds created in virtual reality to serve her sentence and undergo punishment. The more she suffers while serving her time, the more of her sin points are deducted. During her sentence, Ye L
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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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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 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 Underworld Calls Me Little Master 地府叫我小先生
In ancient, remote places, all kinds of strange and terrifying things are bound to happen. And these things happen around Hua Jiunan. In fact, Hua Jiunan is part of them. For instance, he was born from a corpse!
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My Years with the 037 Special Operations Team 我在037特别行动队的那些年
An accident awakened my supernatural ability, and from then on I joined a mysterious special operations team. The mystery of Qin Shi Huang’s immortality, a vampire uprising, World War II bombers striking a Ming Dynasty arms depot, the hidden history of Huo Qubing fighting giants... One supernatural incident after another unfolds. Could another world of strange beings be hidden beneath the surface of a peaceful, harmonious society? There are countless strange tales in this world, and nothing unde
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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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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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Blood Sin 血孽
Ever since I was little, I was a child my mother hated. Born with an overwhelming concentration of the Seven Sha, I made every demon and monster flee at the sight of me. It wasn’t until I was twelve that I learned the truth: my birth had been part of a massive conspiracy...
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After Divorcing, the Metaphysics Master Had Everyone Begging Her to Save Them 玄学大佬离婚后,全员跪求我救命
[Reborn + fortune-telling + ghost-catching + crime-solving + satisfying female-led story] In her previous life, Qiao Yuan married into a wealthy family out of gratitude for a lifesaving favor. Her mother-in-law made things difficult for her, her sister-in-law humiliated her, and her husband refused to share her bed for the entire two years of their marriage. Given another chance, she tossed down the divorce papers and went home to inherit her grandfather’s legacy. She read faces, told fortunes,
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Junior Sister, You're in Deep Trouble 小师妹你摊上大事了
In the countryside, every village has someone who isn’t quite right in the head. People call them the village guardians. The fool in our village was me. A master saw potential in me, took me in as a disciple, and pinned great hopes on me. He expected me to inherit his legacy and make White Stone Taoist Temple flourish. Only after joining the sect did I realize just how heavy my mission was. The temple roof leaked and the walls let in the wind. That would have been bad enough, but my master was c
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The Ghost Marshal’s Yin-Yang Inn 鬼差之阴阳馆
By day, she transforms into a human; by night, she helps ghosts cross over. Come visit this unassuming little shop, run by a newly hired underworld makeup artist, and make an inquiry.
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The Yin-Yang Shop's Grim Reaper 阴阳店之鬼差
"There is a shop tucked away on a street corner. It has no name, and every nightfall, all sorts of people can be seen coming and going. A tycoon worth hundreds of millions, a madman begging on the street, a gambler with one arm... Here, you can see human nature stripped bare. A wife pawned for money, a zombie who went into hiding in the mountains for love, a ghost imprisoned by the living... The human heart is endlessly varied, and the world is full of every kind of life. Nothing is impossible.
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The Yin-Yang Cheat 阴阳挂
“Have you ever had your fortune told? The kind where you die after the reading. “I tell fortunes for a living. I don’t get many customers, but they’re all normal people. “Then that man showed up. After that, my customers were either about to die or already dead. “A dismembered female ghost chased me for a thread. A toothless male ghost chased me to buy teeth. A billionaire insisted on keeping a ghost, and an ugly woman wanted to change her fate. “An urn that suddenly appeared on my bed, a vase t
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Opening the Sparrow Gate 开雀门
While my mother was carrying me, I was sitting upright in her womb. The doctors all said the birth would be difficult, but my grandmother traded my life to a spirit messenger. My Xuanwu even went so far as to strip off his skin and bones for me! My relatives sought out one master after another to protect me, but sadly, they all said the good fortune I was born with was nowhere near enough to keep me alive. If I wanted to survive, I had no choice but to embark on the path of cultivation. From Sha
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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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Rejected by a Tech Giant, I Became the Underworld’s White Impermanence Secretary 被大厂拒绝后,我成了白无常秘书
[Metaphysics + Sweet Romance + Feel-Good Power Fantasy + Light Comedy] So what if her boyfriend dumped her? And what if all the top companies turned her down one after another? The jade talisman that had protected Nan Yanchu for twenty-one years shattered, bringing a series of bizarre events in its wake. That was what truly turned her materialist worldview upside down. What? Even the artifacts and evil spirits that escaped from the Underworld are trying to use her body as a vessel?! Catching gho
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After I Became a Ghost Warden, the Chaste Ghost King Fell for Me 我成鬼差后,禁欲鬼王沦陷了
[Grim Reaper + Supernatural + Daily life in the underworld + Sweet romance + New story just launched: Max-Level Expert Online to Win Over the Dark Moonlight + Please follow] {Over-the-top sweetness + Come join the story now!} Fresh out of college, Chi Xiaomu unexpectedly became a beleaguered intern grim reaper in the underworld, tasked with guiding the dead to their next destination. But it turned out that everything had been planned by a certain King of Ghosts. Chi Xiaomu: “Xxx, is that you? Yo
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A Female Ghost Is Clinging to Me? Better Cling to Her! 女鬼缠身?反抱她大腿!
[No System, one heroine, ghost wife, yin-yang master, urban, supernatural, lighthearted comedy] A night spent beside a lonely grave, and the tomb’s occupant latches on. After paying respects to my grandfather tonight, I encountered something utterly absurd: I actually saw a ghost! These days, I’m afraid of being poor, and I’m afraid of dying! On a whim, after we couldn’t agree on anything, I got into a fight with the ghost and even slept on a lonely grave for the whole night. After that, one st
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Heaven and Earth Dote on Me as I Cultivate the Dao 天地宠我来修道
This story is entirely fictional. Any resemblance to actual events or people is purely coincidental! Li Feiran, a cultivator chosen and favored by Heaven and Earth, is actually a coward? She's just a little weak. We can simply open a few more meridians for her! But what if opening her meridians turns her into a walking feast? Well, that's up to her! Who am I? Where am I? What am I cultivating? Master, please take a good look at my face, form a party for me, and protect me for another eighty or a
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Tomb Raiding: The Little Brother, Black Glasses, and I Became a Love Triangle 盗墓:和小哥与黑瞎子成了纸三角
Tomb Raiding + Strong Leads + Female Protagonist and Two Male Leads + Original Plot + Ghost Blows Out the Light and The Grave Robbers' Chronicles Crossover, Tomb-Raiding Plot A descendant of a tomb raider claims to know a way to cure Hei Xiazi's eyes. This brings the three together, and they gradually unravel the secrets behind the curse on his eyes. The mystery of the hidden altar in the no-man's-land, the history buried beneath the sand's shadows... The trio solve the riddles one by one. A "mu
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Underworld Paper 冥纸通幽
Underworld Paper
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The Haunted House Broker 凶宅中介
Selling a house? The kind with ghosts in it! When they first met, she asked, “Are you human or a ghost?” He replied, “Does it make a difference?” She was a naive, barely competent exorcist and junior real estate agent. He was an aloof, mighty Ghost Emperor who had ruled his domain for a thousand years, and her boss in name only. She loved him wholeheartedly while he kept her at arm’s length. She grew disillusioned, and he pursued her relentlessly... It turned out that from beginning to end, she
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The Dragon King's Bride 龙王聘
That year, I came down with a strange illness that nothing could cure. Then, on the night the blood moon hung high in the sky, my family decorated the house with lanterns and streamers. From that day on, I had a husband no one could see. Around that time, my mother warned me gravely that I must remain faithful to my husband and keep my distance from other men, or disaster would befall me! When I was nineteen, I broke the taboo, and he... appeared.
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The Dead Man's Makeup 死人妆
The old folks often say, “Men shouldn’t be born on the first day of the lunar month, and women shouldn’t be born on the fifteenth.” I was born on the fifteenth day of the first lunar month, with the fate of an iron broom and a destructive bone marrow. The living despise me, and I bring death to my whole family, yet demons and ghosts have their eyes on me! Because of him, I also broke a taboo and became a woman of yin fate... To save me, my mother-in-law taught me the art of applying makeup to th
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Incense Ashes: I'm a Yin-Yang Medium 香灰:我是阴阳女先生
If someone asks to borrow money from you in a dream, promise me you won’t lend it. Because what you’re lending isn’t money, it’s your life. … Grandma called me a debt-collecting demon, and Mom called me a bringer of bad luck. All because, when I was born, a fire broke out at home for no apparent reason, and the villagers rushed over to help put it out. But no matter what they did, they couldn’t extinguish the flames. The fire only slowly died down after half the village had burned to the ground.
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Strange Tales: The Red Wish Bottle 诡奇故事之红色许愿瓶
Strange Tales: The Red Wishing Bottle
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The Terrifying Online Celebrity 恐怖女网红
Ning Ruoyu is bullied and framed by the people closest to her. To stay alive, she has no choice but to catch ghosts for money. She never expected to become an online sensation with tens of millions of followers... I’ve started a new book and hope you’ll show it some love. Please recommend it and send me some diamonds. Don’t forget to tap “Follow”! During the new-book period, there will be one update a day until the story reaches 30,000 words, posted at noon. After that, there will be two updates
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Cheat-Powered Livestream: Making It Big in the Fox Den 开挂直播:我在狐狸洞搞事业
[Livestreaming + Cheats + Fantasy + Supernatural + Everyone's Favorite] Hu Tutu has trouble finding a job after graduating from college, so she resolutely returns to her fox den, planning to live off her parents. An unexpected livestream leads her fox immortal father to open the door to supernatural livestreaming for her. From then on, she becomes famous throughout the metaphysics livestreaming world. You ask how someone so young can know everything: interpreting dreams, choosing names, reading
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The Witch Clan's Hunt for Pleasure 巫门狩乐
The world within the book is strange and wondrous, with everything imaginable. There are witch spells to banish evil and exorcise ghosts, as well as pine-flower wine simmering and snow falling beyond a quiet cottage. Jing Meng, who cultivates in the netherworld, is a powerful witch from the Peach Blossom Haven of the Ghost Gate. Defiant and untamed, she always takes revenge on those who wrong her. Her fellow witches all call her a demoness. Bai Ya, lord of the Mugu Glacier, is a divine dragon be
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The Mysterious Corpse Retriever 诡秘捞尸人
The Mysterious Corpse Retriever
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Terror at the Luxury Estate 豪苑惊魂
Terror at the Grand Estate
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The Blind Woman’s Wedding 盲女的婚礼
The Blind Girl's Wedding
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The Secret of the Buddha Mother 佛母的秘密
The Buddha Mother's Secret
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The Qingling Rankings 清凌榜
The Qingling Rankings
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The Strange Sword 诡剑
The Ghost Sword
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The Mysterious Domain City 诡秘域都
The Mysterious Domain City
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The Girlfriend Who Disappeared 我消失的女朋友
My Girlfriend Who Disappeared
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Is the Celestial Master Still Alive Today? 天师今天健在吗
[Supernatural * Fantasy * Smart Protagonist] Boss Li’s daughter was possessed by an evil spirit, so the self-taught exorcist Lin Qi was summoned in an emergency to perform a ritual in Lame Village. The strange, dilapidated village was silent and eerie. Every man in the village was a cripple, and they were all hideous to look at. Strangely, though, every one of them had married a beautiful woman. After that, strange incidents happened one after another, and Lin Qi’s heart was gripped by extreme t
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Meng Po's Brothless Soup 孟婆无汤
[Supernatural + Coming of Age + Guiding Ghosts to the Afterlife + Mild Horror + Romance as a Supporting Plot] "A coming-of-age story! Not a power fantasy! Slow-paced!" "The heroine is a teenage girl from the countryside. She has little education and no one to teach or guide her. She grows from weak to strong, and is kind at heart. Please keep this in mind before reading. If that sounds good to you, welcome!" She is a netherworld official who has come to the mortal world. Before she was born, evi
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My Lord Snake, I Don't Want to Practice Dual Cultivation 蛇君大人我不要双修
“Are you a python? But your true form is a lot bigger than the pythons we know.” He glared at me angrily. “I'll say it again: I am a snake dragon, not the python you call me.” I looked at his face in confusion and rolled my eyes. “What's the difference? Aren't they both snakes? Reptiles with spines running through their whole bodies. Ugh, just thinking about it makes me sick.” He advanced on me step by step, a fierce glint appearing in his eyes, as if he were about to devour me. “Say that again.
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