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Urban Novels About Setting Up a Fortune-Telling Stall and the Like 摆摊算命之类的都市小说

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  1. 1 My Years as a Fortune-Teller 我当算命先生的那些年 Urban110k WordsOngoing [A True Account of the Secrets of Fate Reading] Ordinary people have all sorts of names for what I do. Some call me a master, some a fortune-teller, and others a charlatan or a con artist. My line of work is both respected and despised. Over time, I've grown a thicker skin. In the end, it's just how I make a living. But the longer I've been in this business, the more I've come to feel that things aren't so simple... First comes fate, then fortune, then feng shui; fourth, good deeds and virtue; f 102Reads—Score—Shelves
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  2. 2 The Book of Changing Fate: I Defy Heaven by Manipulating All Things 改运天书:我靠拨弄万物逆天改命 Urban328k WordsCompleted Traditional fortune-telling relies on a person’s birth date and hour, but the incomplete scroll of the Book of Guicang inherited by the protagonist, Su Zhe, teaches the Plum Blossom Numerology: “All things are hexagrams.” In his eyes, the entire world is made up of the sixty-four hexagrams. A falling leaf, a bird’s cry, even the color of a passerby’s clothes, will automatically combine in his vision to form a floating “hexagram.” 21Reads7.2Score—Shelves
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  3. 3 The City's Supreme Wizard Immortal 都市极品巫仙 Urban438k WordsCompleted [Four Pillars of Destiny + Feng Shui + I Ching + Family Witchcraft + Confucianism, Taoism, and Buddhism] Qian Yi was born with a perfectly Yang Four Pillars chart, with the Heavenly Stems and Earthly Branches identical in his year, month, day, and hour pillars. A one-in-ten-thousand rarity. He bears the mission of carrying on an ancient tradition of witchcraft, and must find a girl with a perfectly Yin chart whose four pillars are all identical so he can find a partner. Only by joining Yin and Y 233Reads8.4Score—Shelves
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  4. 4 The Art of Reading People 观人有道 Urban2.1M WordsCompleted The Daoist Five Arts are Mountain, Medicine, Destiny, Physiognomy, and Divination, representing Heaven, Earth, Humanity, Ghosts, and Immortals respectively. The Immortal Way is Mountain: focusing on cultivation, talismans, martial arts, geography, and feng shui. The Human Way is Medicine: focusing on healing, Daoist medicine, Chinese medicine, acupuncture, pulse diagnosis, and prescriptions. The Divine Way is Destiny: focusing on fortune-telling, the Eight Characters, Zi Wei astrology, and more. 16.7kReads9.0Score2.6kShelves
  5. 5 The Mystic Girl Says You’ll Die at Three in the Morning. Pay Up to Change Your Fate 玄学少女说你三更死,打钱改命 Modern Romance540k WordsCompleted [Metaphysics + fortune-telling + ghost-catching + satisfying read + lighthearted + sweet romance + CEO + wealthy family + no angst] After enduring a tribulation, Wu Yin is struck by lightning and sent back to the twenty-first century. With no money to her name, she can only set up a fortune-telling stall online. She tells fortunes, catches ghosts, and treats illnesses. If you can pay, she’ll take the job. “Master, if you’re really any good, tell me where my daughter, who was kidnapped years ago, 64.4kReads9.4Score60.6kShelves
  6. 6 How Could This Silly Fake Heiress Possibly Be the Villain? 假千金如此沙雕,怎么可能是反派 Modern Romance500k WordsCompleted [No romance + mysticism + a cast of lovable goofballs + spiritual qi revival + a little wish fulfillment + secret identities + transmigrate into a book + everyone’s favorite] Gu Juanyan transmigrates into a novel about secret identities as a fake heiress side character with her brain in her backside. All she does is court death and give the heroine chances to face-slap her. After learning her situation, Gu Juanyan decides to keep out of trouble and live like a lazy fish. She had hoped to coast t 19.5kReads9.5Score2.6kShelves
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  7. 7 Fortune-Telling and Feng Shui by Day, Ghost-Hunting as a Part-Time Reaper by Night 看相算命测风水,兼职阴差要捉鬼 Mystery1.3M WordsCompleted [Fortune-telling, face-reading, and feng shui | Ghost hunting, exorcism, and mastery of the yin and yang] The story is one thing, the principles behind it another. Young readers may not understand, so please go easy on me. Thank you. Han Dongzhi was born with the fate of the Five Defects and Three Shortcomings, and anyone who came into contact with him was doomed to bad luck. His parents died after he was born, and he grew up relying on the villagers' sporadic handouts. After finally working har 201Reads—Score—Shelves
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  8. 8 The Little Fortune-Teller 小半仙 Urban593k WordsCompleted A young half-immortal from Mount Qingcheng descends the mountain to gain experience. He tells fortunes, reads feng shui, explores ancient tombs, and battles venomous insects. He helps people avert disasters, eliminate evil, and uphold justice, all to broaden his horizons, improve his cultivation, and enjoy this wonderful world to the fullest. But as his fame grows, so do the troubles he faces... 92Reads6.9Score—Shelves
  9. 9 The Little Taoist of Green Mountain 青山小道士 Mystery1.6M WordsCompleted [Taoist priest + supernatural mysteries + technically detailed + magic arts + urban + no power fantasy + slow growth + no heroine] (The central idea of the first book: Heaven and humanity) This novel is told in the first person and explores knowledge and experiences from many perspectives, including Taoist culture, astronomy, feng shui, Qimen Dunjia, physiognomy, palmistry, humanities, society, and science. Everything unknown in the world is like a vast darkness. Science is like a flashlight ill 4kReads9.2Score600Shelves
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  10. 10 My Years as a Fortune-Teller 我做算命先生那些年 Mystery356k WordsCompleted My name is Li Nanfang. In the first half of my life, I schemed endlessly, laying countless feng shui traps and amassing a fortune. Even now, many people are still fooled by me. When they see me, they respectfully call me “Minister” and regard me as their savior. But in the end, I gave away everything I owned. If I don’t tell the truth, I feel I’ll have wronged the world! I firmly believe that charlatans never meet a good end! I’m writing this book to warn people to stay alert and avoid being dec 171Reads—Score—Shelves
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  11. 11 I Practice Feng Shui in Dongguan 我在东莞做风水相师 Urban271k WordsOngoing Feng Shui and divination, the modern martial world, the 1990s The eight schools of the martial world are Jing, Pi, Piao, Ce, Feng, Huo, Jue, and Yao. The Jing School leads the eight. Its practitioners read people's fortunes, predict blessings and disasters, and show them the way. My grandfather was a successor of the Jing School. And he knew more than just the Jing School's arts: he also mastered the techniques of the Pi and Feng schools. He passed everything he knew down to me. The year I turne 6.4kReads—Score566Shelves
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  12. 12 What's a Great Emperor? Even My Mount Is an Immortal Beast 大帝算什么?我连坐骑都是仙兽 Eastern Fantasy1.3M WordsCompleted [Invincible from the start + taking disciples + building a faction] Qin Mu transmigrates into a fantasy world and lands in the dilapidated forbidden zone of life, the Heavenly Forbidden Zone. He assumes he will have to lie low there for the rest of his life. But the System suddenly activates, immediately rewarding him with an Emperor's cultivation and the Emperor-realm immortal beast, the Primordial Divine Bull! It also orders him to recruit disciples, strengthen the forbidden zone, and make it 14.9kReads8.6Score1.3kShelves
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  13. 13 A Cultivation Expert in the City 修真强者在都市 Urban5.6M WordsCompleted After his gold-digging girlfriend cheated on him, an ordinary young man from the city unexpectedly inherited the legacy of a mighty cultivator. From then on, he could summon wind and rain, becoming an immortal among mortals. A renowned traditional medicine doctor? My disciple. A gang boss? My underling. A top power player? My subordinate… With one hand, I turn the clouds and bring in endless wealth; with the other, I summon rain and slap faces. Life is this exhilarating, this satisfying! I leave 24.3kReads8.3Score2.3kShelves
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  14. 14 The Diviner of the Mortal Realm: I Use Liu Ren to Determine the Nation's Fate 凡人卜王,我以六壬定国运 Urban1.2M WordsCompleted [Metaphysics + Divination + Fortune-Telling + Reading Heaven’s Secrets + National Destiny + Technical] [A hard-edged epic metaphysical novel: the only contemporary work built on the true Liu Ren system, fueled by power struggles among mortals, and animated by questions of fate] [No transmigration, no golden finger. Just a left hand, a divination board, and a blood-soaked path to uncovering heaven’s secrets as a mortal] At eighteen, Yan Jidao searched for lost cats on the street and helped people 83Reads—Score—Shelves
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  15. 15 The Feng Shui Master Who Can See Ghosts Only Through Livestreams 靠直播才能见鬼的风水大师 Mystery110k WordsCompleted In another parallel world, ghosts and monsters can't turn invisible. Whenever light shines on them, their true forms are revealed. So when Chen Yang, a famous feng shui master from that world, somehow ended up in ours, he couldn't see ghosts anymore. Then an accident led him to start livestreaming, and Chen Yang discovered that he could see ghosts through the stream. Thus began his journey of livestreaming encounters with the dead… 2Reads—Score—Shelves
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  16. 16 The Mad Dragon Gets Out of Prison 狂龙出狱 Urban6.1M WordsCompleted Five years ago, Ye Feng was framed by his stepmother and thrown into the most terrifying prison in the world. She meant to have him killed by the prisoners there. The prison held a Grand Preceptor with power over the realm, a tycoon richer than a nation, a fallen God of War, a top hacker, a doctor who killed people, a Celestial Master who raised ghosts, cultivators who had failed their tribulations... Ye Feng should have had no chance of surviving in a place like that. But the prisoners didn’t h 49.4kReads9.1Score6.6kShelves
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  17. 17 The Black Blade Ghost Slayer 黑刀斩鬼人 Mystery1.2M WordsCompleted No System, no clichés, not a naive protagonist, and no livestreaming. Mysticism, the Hetu and Luoshu, yin-yang, the five elements, the eight trigrams, and the nine palaces. Fantasy and supernatural events include a ghostly flood dragon in Changbai Mountain’s Heavenly Lake, a water spirit in the Peach Blossom Spring, a black dragon in Heilongjiang, a serpent transformed in the bamboo forests of southern Sichuan, an ancient tomb in the Qinling Mountains, a wormhole in Ailao Mountain, an underwater 189Reads—Score—Shelves
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  18. 18 The Charlatan 神棍 Mystery1.8M WordsCompleted A fortune-teller, one of the oldest professions. An ancient name for a fortune-teller or feng shui master. Knowing the stars above and the earth below; the five elements of yin and yang, the eight trigrams and nine palaces. Physiognomy and feng shui, defying fate and changing one’s destiny: nothing is beyond their power! Huang Zheng, a modern-day fortune-teller. Born under the influence of yin and yang, with the canopy star at his back. With extraordinary skills in reading fortunes and feng shui 1.5kReads8.7Score217Shelves
  19. 19 The Divine Schemes of Guiguzi 鬼谷神谋 Historical4.6M WordsCompleted [Historical Fiction Writing Contest] Other people are reborn into wealth and privilege, but I came back as a stalk of rice. No, a stalk of rice growing on a grave! A lovesick woman ate me, and became my mother. I became Guigu Wang Chan, whom later generations called Guiguzi, the founding patriarch of the Vertical and Horizontal School. In this turbulent age, watch me stir up the world once more and make my mark on the battlefields of the Warring States! 660Reads6.6Score104Shelves
  20. 20 Believe in Science! School Beauty, What Are You Doing? 要相信科学,校花你在干啥? Mystery420k WordsCompleted Take a look at this man. His name is Xiaoshuai! He’s sitting cross-legged on his bed, with his palms facing up and resting on his knees. That’s right, he’s meditating. You could also call it sitting in meditation. It’s ten minutes until the Ghost Festival. The time is 11:50 p.m. He’s just curious, that’s all. He wants to know if ghosts and gods really exist in this world. Legend says the gates of the underworld swing wide open on this day. If you want to see ghosts and gods, this is the perfect 520Reads6.9Score—Shelves
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  21. 21 I Just Read the Feng Shui, So Why Is the Whole World Watching? 我看个风水,怎么全世界都在关注 Urban106k WordsCompleted [Feng Shui and divination + mystical cultivation + contests of national destiny + livestreaming + entertainment industry + no System] An accident takes Li Yi to a parallel world. As far as he’s concerned, he’s just an ordinary Feng Shui master, with perhaps a little knowledge of reading the stars and changing fate against the heavens. So why are so many powerful officials and famous people rushing to give him money? Even more baffling, he’s simply reading Feng Shui, yet somehow he’s drawn the at 97Reads—Score—Shelves
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  22. 22 Half Farmer, Half Taoist 半农半道 Mystery484k WordsCompleted A record of life’s fleeting moments, a modern-day Strange Tales from a Chinese Studio! In the Age of Declining Dharma, beneath the White Lotus, the greatest hermits hide in plain sight. The truly gifted master Suan Potian and his young apprentice Liu Yi, with help from Captain Liu of the J Team, travel through all kinds of strange tales. They fish drowned souls from the water, battle spirit mediums, drive out evil, escort ghosts and capture monsters; they read the veins of yin energy, set the ea 409Reads—Score—Shelves
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  23. 23 The Feng Shui Mystery Bureau 风水解密局 Mystery695k WordsOngoing The Feng Shui master Zhou Qian Kun’s ancestral grave was tampered with, causing his family to fall into decline until he was the only survivor. By a stroke of luck, Zhou Qian Kun acquired the Twelve Divine Beast Fortune Beads. It is said that anyone who obtains the Twelve Divine Beast Fortune Beads can read fate and change their fortune. To avenge her mother’s murder, An Yixi used a palace beauty pageant as cover, assuming the name Jian Cao and sneaking into the imperial palace. With the power o 23Reads6.3Score—Shelves
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  24. 24 Solomon's Perjury (Complete in Three Volumes) 所罗门的伪证(全三册) 984k WordsCompleted A timeless classic of Japanese mystery fiction! The wounds hidden by lies will never heal. Only the truth can bring healing. A group of ordinary teenagers face a bizarre death at their school during the summer they turn fourteen. Fearlessly, they challenge the rules of the adult world. In that summer, malice twists human nature, but the truth the teenagers unearth together will ultimately heal their hearts. Part One: The Incident A boy's death is a mirror, reflecting good and evil, falsehood and —Reads8.6Score—Shelves
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  25. 25 Plum Blossoms Bloom Beyond the Great Wall 易路梅花塞北开 Eastern Fantasy393k WordsCompleted The book is now complete. Thank you all for your support. This is my first novel. Philosophical topics are niche by nature. I’m not looking for traffic; I only hope to offer something to readers who are passionate about the profound and extensive culture of the I Ching. The book consists of three volumes, progressing logically from specific details to the bigger picture. My abilities are limited, my knowledge shallow, and I published in haste, so there are bound to be many shortcomings and error 6Reads—Score—Shelves
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  26. 26 Folk Feng Shui: I Made My Name by Moving a Grave 民间堪舆:从迁坟开始扬名 Mystery1.0M WordsCompleted On a midnight road, a ghost encounters a coffin being carried. A blood-seeping black coffin holds calamity at bay. Chen Mo, a boy from a remote mountain village, only wanted to live in peace with half a box of tattered books and a cracked compass left behind by his grandfather. Then the old village chief died mysteriously, and the supposed auspicious burial site turned out to be a place steeped in a century of resentment. The instant the coffin was opened, bloody words appeared alongside claw ma 2Reads—Score—Shelves
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  27. 27 Record of Folk Traditions 民俗传承录 Mystery343k WordsOngoing My knowledge is limited! I’ve organized the memories of my working life into a memoir and written down some of them. If you’re interested in feng shui, geomancy, or the arts of fate and divination, take a look. It’s all practical information. If you’d rather hear stories, you can read the memoir. —Reads—Score—Shelves
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