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- 101 Special Affairs Bureau, Division Nine: The Nanhai Monster Uprising 特殊事物处理九科之南海妖乱 Do you really know the friends around you? The coworkers around you? Your own family? Do you~ know this world? Maybe the people you know, the ones you've met and fallen in love with, aren't human at all~~~ They're demons~! If it weren't for one extraordinary mission, none of this would ever have come to light. And if it weren't for the people who silently stood guard, the Jiuying Sect might already have severed the dragon veins and destroyed our nation's fortune of ten thousand years... 143Reads—Score—Shelves
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Getting to the Bottom of Mind-Reading 起底观心术
When I was five, a fortune-teller said I’d be able to read people’s minds when I grew up. My parents thought I was a genius and spent the whole family’s savings to send me to school. But I failed the college entrance exam and became a fried-noodle vendor. That vendor later became a “Walking Encyclopedia,” all thanks to the saying, “In books, there are houses of gold.” You are not just who you are. You can become a different kind of dazzling light. Read a comment on the first page, and you’ll get
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From the Start, I Was a Ghost King, Forced to Become Bai Wuchang 开局鬼王，被迫成为白无常
Xie Yan transmigrates into the body of a Ghost King, expecting to throw his weight around. Instead, on his very first day on the job, he is surrounded by the Underworld's special task force for “cracking down on organized crime and evil.” Faced with the “kind invitation” of a hundred ghost-captain-level underworld enforcers, he signs a contract of servitude through tears and becomes the Underworld's number-one wage slave. From then on, he has KPIs in one hand and the Book of Life and Death in th
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The Seventy-Two Earthly Fiends Transformations 地煞七十二变
The seventy-two transformations of the Earthly Fiends each grant a supernatural ability. A mysterious book with a yellow cover sent Li Chang'an back to the ancient world. Every demon he killed earned him a new ability. Painted-skin ghosts, zombie kings, spider demons... one after another fell beneath his sword. Communing with the netherworld, swordsmanship, demon-slaying... one supernatural ability after another emerged from the book. After he wiped out a hundred ghosts and looked around with hi
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I Drive a Taxi, but I Don’t Pick Up Passengers, Only Female Ghosts and Models 我开出租不拉客，只拉女鬼和模特
Pan Mudan kept her lips pressed tightly together, not daring to make a sound in case her husband heard... I used to be a company driver at a steel mill. Then the company laid people off. I spent eight thousand yuan on an almost-decommissioned commercial vehicle and started driving a taxi. My friends all said I'd struck gold! Even without the air conditioning on in summer, the car was chilly inside!
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This Spirit Medium Is Pretty Powerful! 这个出马仙有点强！
A piece of red cloth, three feet and three inches long. The old hall's people, the old hall's immortals. One day, when they emerge from the depths of the mountains, their names will spread far and wide! I was born in a rural village in Northeast China in the 1980s. When I was seven, a spirit medium said I was fated to suffer three calamities and eight misfortunes, and would one day become a horse-riding shaman. I didn't believe it, but hardship kept finding me. To make a living, I worked as a wa
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- 107 The Third Yin Messenger 第三阴差 He is neither a Taoist priest nor a mage, yet with a raised hand he can banish ghosts, and with a breath he can destroy demons. Heaven may be first, and earth second, but he is the third Yin messenger walking among mortals: Qin Wuming! 1.8kReads7.2Score162Shelves
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The Yin Marriage Thread 阴缘线
Murong thought she was probably just born unlucky. Her master used her to nurture his soul, while her senior brothers and sisters used her to fend off the fate of the Five Bane-and-Deficiency Afflictions. Sometimes, she felt it didn’t really matter whether she lived or died. Then she met her little crew: her sisters, friends, and apprentices. They showed her how wonderful warmth could be! And there was that devoted, puppy-like young man. He was brave, confident, warm, and bright. He seemed like
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My Years of Ghost Hunting Among the People 我在民间捉鬼的那些年
Chinese-Style Horror, No Female Lead My name is Xu Jian. I’m 26, and I studied Taoist arts under a Maoshan priest for several years. Over the years, I’ve seen all kinds of things. After doing this long enough, I realized that ghosts aren’t scary. What’s truly frightening are the things people can’t get past in their hearts. All I do is help them say what needs to be said and settle their debts once and for all. People call me a Celestial Master of the Taoist sect, but I’m really just an ordin
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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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- 111 Strange Tales from a Chinese Studio: I Asked You to Repay Your Debt, Not Paint Skins and Ghosts 聊斋：让你还债，没让你画皮画鬼 [Strange Tales from a Chinese Studio + Bizarre Cultivation + No System + Subverting Expectations + Folk Supernatural Tales + Becoming a God Through Painting + Dark Tone + Lovecraftian Horror + Clever Protagonist + Decisive and Ruthless + Not Mindless Wish Fulfillment] Transmigrating into Strange Tales from a Chinese Studio, I find myself trapped in the deadly predicament of The Painted Skin from the start, and saddled with an unpayable debt to the dead? Don't panic. I have a White Bone Brush tha 817Reads—Score—Shelves
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The Best Feng Shui Master on the Construction Site 工地最强建筑风水师
[If this caught your eye, it must be fate. Don't scroll away just yet.] This novel (campus opening + wild imagination + an expansive world) combines feng shui and the supernatural (using feng shui to weave the plot together), fantasy, magic, science fiction, parallel worlds, and time travel to the past. The pace picks up dramatically after Chapter 30, and the story strongly promotes traditional Chinese culture. Also known as From the Start with a Treasure Gourd to Help Me Destroy Demons Also kno
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Night Fishing, When a Weasel Begs for a Title and Says She Looks Like a Beast-Eared Girl 夜钓遇黄皮子讨封，说她像兽耳娘
Fishing enthusiast Wang Kun transmigrates to a parallel world and decides to become a fishing streamer. Who could have guessed that supernatural forces would be returning in this world? On a night-fishing trip, he runs into a spirit: a weasel seeking a divine title. Weasel: “Hey, you there. Do I look more like a person or a god?” For the sake of his own happiness, Wang Kun replies, “You look like a golden-haired, beast-eared beauty who’ll do whatever I say, has boundless magical powers, and is s
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- 114 The Supreme Taoist: Subduing Ten Thousand Ghosts 道门太上：万鬼伏藏 Offer blood to Heaven and slaughter every evil. The Daoist arts are the strongest of all. The protagonist, Li Changsheng, masters the supreme arts of the Daoist sect and makes a solemn vow: he will not ascend until he has eliminated every demon and evil spirit under Heaven. He willingly seals his cultivation between Heaven and Earth, remaining in the mortal realm for thousands of years! 22.2kReads9.4Score1.7kShelves
- 115 The Taoist Exorcist 道门驱邪人 Where there is evil under heaven, there are all manner of wicked things, and so there are Daoist exorcists. He travels between heaven and earth, yin and yang. He ventures deep into the hundred thousand mountains of Miao territory and far away to the borders of the southern seas. Head-dropping curses, gu raising, black magic, and all the world's fiends and spirits of darkness. He has exorcised countless demons and ghosts, only to discover in the end that nothing is more evil than the human heart. 2.6kReads9.1Score395Shelves
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Don’t You Feel Guilty Making a Living Selling Ghosts? 你当鬼贩子良心不会痛吗
[Ghost peddler + no female lead + bluffing + ghost summoner] Ghostly energy surges, and terror descends. Lu Jing inherits the funeral goods shop his grandfather left behind and becomes the best business partner the Spirit Guard Bureau could ask for. “Captain Fang, 30,000 for this B-rank evil spirit. That's fair, right?” “Fair enough...” “Captain Fang, 500,000 for this A-rank evil spirit. That's fair, right?” “Fair enough...” “Captain Fang, this Ghost King...” Watching Lu Jing remove
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Underworld Messenger: I Slay the Yama Kings Among the Living 阳差执令：我在人间斩阎罗
The Yang-Realm Marshal’s Command: I Slay the Kings of Hell in the Human World
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I Turned the Horror World Into a Raising Game! 我把惊悚世界玩成养成游戏！
A mysterious force descended upon Earth, giving rise to another world of terror. Everyone was forcibly sent into the world of horror games on their eighteenth birthday. While everyone else was immersed in fear, struggling to survive in the cracks between life and death, Qin Nuo discovered that he could earn System rewards by influencing the ghosts’ emotions. And every time he completed a dungeon, he could establish his own business in the world of horror. So he became a food runner at the Yin Sp
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Strange Tales of the City 都市聊斋
In bustling Jiangcheng, the police chief brings together a not-quite-serious university professor, a gutsy and beautiful detective, and a clueless yet forthright programmer to form the Soul-Link Squad, which specializes in handling supernatural cases. Each member dreams of fairness and justice, and each has a past they keep hidden.
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- 120 After Failing the Exams, I Became a Corpse Herder, and Dango Exposed Me 落榜后当赶尸人，被团子曝光了 Shh, the corpse is rising! Keep quiet. The dead are on the move, so the living must stay clear! In ancient Xixiang, strange and terrifying things happen whenever night falls: white coffins, thousand-year-old corpses, and more! Under the moonlight, Jiang Chen shakes a soul-snaring bell in his left hand and holds a talisman to suppress evil in his right, controlling a stiff figure that hops along... 1.2kReads8.3Score105Shelves
- 121 Ghostly Whispers at Midnight 夜半鬼语 [Rural + Supernatural + Ghost Stories] Back when my grandfather was young, he learned carpentry. As Old Zhao put it, a sixth-grade carpenter these days was worth half a scholar. But things were different back then. Carpenters belonged to one of the lowest trades. They had to carry their tools around every day, get up before dawn and stay out until the middle of the night, traveling from village to village to find work. And because they went so many places, and made coffins and dealt with the dea 5kReads9.0Score204Shelves
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The Underworld Calls Me Little Sir 地府叫我小先生
[Supernatural + mystery + power progression] Getting hit by a basketball and falling into a lake was bad enough. Even worse, I got killed by a basketball!! The Black and White Impermanence told me I still had seventy years left to live. To make it up to me, they offered me a job in the underworld. So I became an HR officer on the underworld’s permanent staff and even got a ghost recruitment System! As long as I help the underworld recruit talented ghosts, I can earn all kinds of abilities: talis
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I Might Have Changed the Wrong Fate 我可能改了个假命
When I was little, my mom asked a Taoist priest to tell my fortune. He said I'd face a calamity at 26, and that he'd come help me get through it the day before my 26th birthday. When the day finally came, the priest really did show up to change my fate. He even gave me a “Fate-Changing Ruler” and told me I had to change the fates of seven people with different destinies to survive the calamity. Otherwise, I'd only have five years left to live. So much for changing my fate for me! Did he only cha
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- 124 The Midnight Ghost Market: Living People Keep Out 午夜鬼市，活人回避 [Mystery + supernatural + ghost market + narrow escape from death] My name is Tang Chao. I’m a broke young man scraping by in the antiques business, with hundreds of thousands in debt hanging over me. An ordinary porcelain-buying deal led me to pick up a strange Jun ware bowl at an unexpectedly low price. I thought I’d found a bargain. Little did I know, it was the beginning of my nightmare... On a bus, I met a burly man calling himself Jue Mingzi, who warned me that “a calamity is sure to befal 3.5kReads9.1Score217Shelves
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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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- 126 Born with an Evil Bone, the Yin-Calling Girl from the Northeast Is Forced to Become a Medium 天生邪骨，东北招阴女被迫出马 Have you ever eaten the ashes left after burning paper offerings for the dead? Do you love the smell of paper offerings burning? Are you like me, never finding the smoke irritating whenever you catch the smell of burning paper? Instead, I find an indescribable charred fragrance hidden in the burnt paper money, mixed with the earthy smell of soil. Then the night breeze carries it past… Whenever I come across that scent, I can’t help taking a few extra sniffs. In fact, every time I smell it, I fee 2Reads—Score—Shelves
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The Horror Night-Duty Booth 恐怖值班亭
Back around the 2000s, I worked as a security guard at an apartment complex. The complex had a strange rule: [After midnight, do not leave the security booth.] It made no sense, but I always kept it in mind, until the day one of my coworkers died! That night, a woman in a skirt knocked on the security booth window…
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- 128 The Doll Grows Cold 人偶失温 Everyone says I must have done something virtuous in a past life for Qin Chuan to choose me. Only I know that's not the case. He married me because he wanted me dead. 2Reads—Score—Shelves
- 129 An Unremarkable Jumping Death Case 不起眼的跳楼案 My fiancé, who had been overseas for three years, called to tell me he was coming back the day after tomorrow. I went to meet him at the airport. On the way home, he proposed, and I said yes. But this morning, he disappeared again, because I had once more returned to the day he called me. I've already relived these three days seven times. 1Reads—Score—Shelves
- 130 The People Around Me and I Had the Same Dream 我和周围人做了一样的梦 I knew I was dreaming, but everything in the dream was strange. When I woke up, I discovered that my coworkers and I had all shared the same dream. It turned out to be a monster's trap. 2Reads—Score—Shelves
- 131 The One-Yuan Villa 一元别墅 Never believe that a windfall will fall from the sky. At 28, I was “hit” by a villa, but I don't have much time left. Now I have to find my next heir. 1Reads—Score—Shelves
- 132 Fish Woman 鱼女 My father was a famous fisherman in the villages around us. Whenever he went out to sea, he always caught more fish than anyone else. He gutted countless live fish, scraped off their scales, and chopped off their heads. Then one day, he brought home a sea fish as tall as a person, and the entire village came to gawk. He turned down a merchant's offer to buy it, killed the fish himself, and put on a feast for the villagers, serving every part of it. The banquet lasted all night. The next day, the 51Reads—Score—Shelves
- 133 The Secret of Dad's Death 爸爸死亡的秘密 When I was seven, my dad died. An accident sent me back to the 24 hours before his death. I did everything I could to save him. But I never could have imagined it. This time, the one who killed my dad was... —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 134 After I Lost My Memory, a Woman Just Like Me Appeared at Home 失忆后，家里出现和我一模一样的女人 I've lost my memory. Since then, people have kept showing me all kinds of evidence and implanting all sorts of memories in my mind. But I feel like an outsider looking in on my own past, unable to relate to any of it. One day, I came home and found a woman fast asleep on the sofa. What terrified me was that she looked exactly like me! 8Reads—Score—Shelves
- 135 The Real Lunatic and the Fake Patient 真疯子假病人 In my dream, I thought it was nothing more than a dream. But when I woke up, someone beside me was lying on the ground, clutching their arm and crying out in pain. Now, I've dreamed of the crime scene once again. 1Reads—Score—Shelves
- 136 The Life-Extending Money 借寿钱 After a friend dies in a bizarre car accident, could a hundred-yuan bill inscribed with “Borrow your years to buy my life” really be a deadly curse? At the funeral home, he uses “life-borrowing money” to buy an urn, only to be haunted by the dead man's mother in a strange way. A talisman hides a sinister plot, and three life-borrowing bills appear out of nowhere at midnight! A locked kitchen, boiling water, knives falling for no reason... Who is controlling this deadly game? 273Reads—Score—Shelves
- 137 Paper Bride 纸新娘 Rumor has it that I tried to seduce the Lin family's young master, failed, and then killed him in the village's paper-offering shop. To save my life, I agreed to marry Master Lin, who had raised me for ten years. On our wedding day, Master Lin laid his hands on me. "Darling, did you know I've wanted you for many years?" Of course I knew. I'd been looking forward to this day even longer than he had. 15Reads—Score—Shelves
- 138 Lover in a False World 虚假世界的爱人 My wife has been acting strangely lately. She keeps pestering me, saying she wants me to stay by her side forever. I can't help finding it a little funny. "Of course I'll stay by your side forever and ever, honey." But whenever she hears me say that, her body stiffens noticeably. Then she goes back to her room alone and locks the door. No matter how I try to coax her from outside, she refuses to open it. —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 139 Crimson Wish 绯红之愿 I bought a cursed object, hoping to summon a ghost and make a pact with her so I could go to the Ghost City and find out what happened to my missing master. The summoning went unusually smoothly, but the moment she appeared, the powerful yin energy pouring out of the magic circle sent me flying several meters and knocked me to the ground. She stood quietly in the middle of the circle, dressed in a bright red bridal gown and phoenix crown, with her red veil neatly covering her head and her hands —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 140 Summer Vacation of Terror 暑假惊魂记 I can see things other people can't. I've never let it show. I didn't want anyone to think I was a freak. Until that summer vacation... Two classmates and I made plans to go swimming. I saw something in the water. I was terrified. But they insisted on going in, and I couldn't stop them... —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 141 The Secret of Chaoxiao 朝校的秘密 In the village where my family lives, every household's first child has to be a girl. The day after their tenth birthday, these girls are sent to a place called Chaoxiao on the other side of the mountain. They say it's a paradise for girls. That is, until a black cat appeared in the village. 7Reads—Score—Shelves
- 142 The Secret of Chongcao Village 虫草村的秘密 “The cordyceps we raise are so fast, you can’t even catch them.” I was watching this funny video on a certain short-video app. Comments flew across the screen. Some people said the joke was hilarious, while others earnestly explained that cordyceps couldn’t possibly run fast. But I knew the joke wasn’t funny at all, because I had seen fast-running cordyceps myself. Perhaps “rabbit cordyceps” would be a more fitting name. 1Reads—Score—Shelves
- 143 Longevity Soup 长寿汤 When I was little, Liu Laoer’s family in the village made a living selling goat-horn powder. The powder came from the horns of female goats. Though those horns were short and slender, Liu Laoer would skin and butcher female goats alive right after they gave birth. Then he would cut off their horns and grind them into powder. He would add the powder to soup made with freshly slaughtered lamb. They said drinking it regularly could help you live a long life. 16Reads—Score—Shelves
- 144 The Silent Echo 沉默的回声 Five years ago, in Room 601 of Ningchuan High School, a girl was found hanged from a bathroom pipe. Her eyes bulged, her tongue was missing, and strange words had been written in blood on the mirror: “He… is back.” Five years later, the sealed cold case was suddenly reopened. Trainee criminal investigator Qin Chuan took over the investigation, never expecting that this bizarre murder would also uncover another buried case: the “South Campus Disappearance.” A deadly game of hunting, lying dormant 57Reads—Score—Shelves
- 145 Huizhu Village 慧猪村 My college roommate claimed she came from an ancient village called Huizhu Village. She said the village got its name because, from ancient times to the present, it had produced many high-ranking officials and top scholars, as if its villagers were born with pearls of wisdom. It wasn’t until she talked the rest of us in the dorm into visiting her village around the Qingming Festival that I learned it was actually called “Wise Pig Village.” 1Reads—Score—Shelves
- 146 The Death Inn 死亡民宿 On the first night after checking into the guesthouse, the owner died. But at midnight that same night, Lu Shou actually received a text from the owner. “Please be sure to follow the rules of the Deerhorn Guesthouse. Find the landlady’s dowry box before five tomorrow morning, and you can leave with the deputy manager, an orange cat.” “Otherwise, you’ll be stuck here forever.” Lu Shou broke out in a cold sweat, utterly baffled. “I clearly took his phone. How can he still text me?” —Reads—Score—Shelves
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With a Fox Immortal, I Subdue a Hundred Ghosts 我以狐仙镇百鬼
The day I was born, nineteen bolts of thunder struck around our family’s courtyard. A fortune-teller said I was born a demon child, fated to suffer eighteen calamities in my life. Either someone else would die, or I would. As it turned out, the fortune-teller met his own calamity on the very day I was born. He carried me out of the village, and suddenly dropped dead!
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- 148 I'm a Ghost Catcher, and You Want Me to Fight Feudal Superstition? 我一个鬼差，你让我反封建迷信？ [Livestreaming + Ghost Hunting + Lighthearted] After Lu Hai dies, he transmigrates into the body of a spirit in a parallel world. He uses the merits earned by the spirit’s three lifetimes of good deeds to become a ghost official. To quickly capture wandering spirits in the wild, he has no choice but to livestream activities aimed at combating superstition. At the Ghost Middle School, inside an abandoned dormitory building... When the red-clad senior who has terrorized the school for years appear 23Reads—Score—Shelves
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Grim Reaper 鬼差
Grim Reaper's Envoy
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- 150 Ghost Warden! 鬼差！ Ghost Constable! 3Reads—Score—Shelves
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