Please Recommend Period-Era Stories About Paranormal Mysteries and Ghost Hunting 跪求年代文，玄学抓鬼的

1. 1 知 The Educated Youth's Shaman Daughter-in-Law Moves to the City 知青的神婆媳妇进城了 Huan Duhuai患独槐Modern Romance1.0M WordsCompleted Ying Baili is the village’s young spirit medium. Born with the ability to see both the living and the dead, she has never been wrong about people, ghosts, or feng shui. Unfortunately, with the campaign to eliminate the Four Olds underway, she still has to work in the fields alongside everyone else to earn work points. Less than two years later, a tall, handsome educated youth arrived in the village. Word was that his family background was impeccable, and all the village girls stared at him in aw 6.8kReads8.5Score820Shelves

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   Both are period fantasy novels. The first one features a shaman from a bygone era who follows cases wherever she goes, essentially an unofficial police officer. The second one is packed with knowledge; the author likely has their own insights into metaphysics and feng shui, or is perhaps a professional in the field. The plot is quite good.

2. 2 八 A Tough Mystic in the 1980s, With a Handsome Husband Waiting at Home 八零玄学悍妻，家有娇夫待签收 Liu Zhiyi柳之易Modern Romance1.6M WordsCompleted A story set in a bygone era + Chinese metaphysics + mild supernatural elements + ghost-hunting + romance + strong heroine. No transmigration or rebirth; both leads are natives of the setting. [Brilliant, aloof genius with a goofy side, and no interest in men VS. A sharp-tongued, scheming, tsundere man with a poisonous-sweet manner] Tian Shiling, nicknamed Tianbao, is known in Qiantang Village as the coffin girl. Her mother died in childbirth, her father is unknown, and she was raised by the vill 46.4kReads9.2Score6.9kShelves
3. 3 尸 Born of a Corpse, Carried in a Ghost's Coffin 尸生子，鬼抬棺 Jie Yu界玉Mystery3.3M WordsCompleted 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! 212.8kReads9.6Score25.1kShelves

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   I found this quite interesting; it's full of fun facts and a little bit funny. 😘

4. 4 七 The Seventies: A Half-Immortal's Everyday Life 七十年代，半仙日常 My Teeth Aren't White牙不白Modern Romance503k WordsCompleted [1970s + mysticism + cute pets + food + strong heroine + heroine-focused; she never takes any abuse and always gets even, neither wholly good nor wholly evil] Ming Yi was born in July of 1957, right at the tail end of the Great Famine. She was a tiny, shivering baby, and everyone said she wouldn't survive. But she proved everyone wrong. Not only did she thrive, she also mastered uncanny skills that seemed to command ghosts and gods. Some people respected her, some feared her, and some loved her. 4.2kReads8.8Score492Shelves

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   The female protagonist is physically weak and accidentally transmigrates to the modern world, where she learns many skills. After returning to her own body, she is healthy and possesses mystical abilities. It's not scary, there's no male lead, and it's quite good.

5. 5 满 The Max-Level Master of Metaphysics Restores a Taoist Temple in the 1980s 满级玄学大佬在八零修道观 I Am Zhu Kongyang我朱孔阳Modern Romance1.0M WordsCompleted Xuan Sujiu was a peerless genius whose name shook the Daoist world. She sacrificed her life and cultivation to save all living beings, then opened her eyes three hundred years later in her sect. After escaping death, she goes from being an honored ancestor to a disciple, and even has to call her Nth-generation descendant “Dad”! Since her seniority is no longer an advantage, she'll just have to build a career. She takes on the mission of rebuilding the Daoist temple all by herself. But first, can 307Reads7.3Score—Shelves
6. 6 穿 After I Transmigrated, I Became an Outsider in a Special Affairs Department 穿越后我成了特殊部门的编外人员 The Vast Sea Is the Sea沧海是海Modern Romance449k WordsCompleted Shen Li was struck dead by lightning! She was reborn in the 1970s in the body of a young girl with the same name. Well, all right! With a loving father and mother in this life, she plans to study hard, get into college, then go into business and make a fortune, buy lots of houses, and wait for property prices to soar so she can become a landlady and lie flat by the time she turns thirty. But why did she have to crack her head open twice just to unlock her Heavenly Eye Space? Go fishing, and end 455Reads8.9Score—Shelves
7. 7 玄 After Mastering the Mystic Arts, I Take Down Scumbags in the 1970s 玄术满级后，我在70年代虐渣 ASINModern Romance594k WordsCompleted [Mysticism, transmigration, daily life, with a System and no romance. Slow burn, read at your own discretion.] Wen Mo, the notorious fiend everyone feared, transmigrates. She had spent her life doing evil and harming countless people. She already knew she didn't have long to live, but never expected to end up in 1979 in the blink of an eye. To support her younger siblings, she resolves to turn over a new leaf. Exorcisms, summoning souls, funerary rites, spirit control... Anyone from the mystical 45Reads6.6Score—Shelves
8. 8 玄 The Metaphysics Prodigy Was Reborn in the Eighties 玄学小福宝重生在八零 Tu Shishi兔柿柿Modern Romance346k WordsCompleted [Metaphysics + reborn + feel-good story + period setting] The metaphysical master of days gone by opened her eyes to find that the world had changed completely. Ruan Jiaojiao saw the words “Believe in science” painted on the village wall and listened to her teacher warn them against feudal superstition. It felt as if the sky had fallen. In this era of dwindling spiritual energy and declining metaphysics, was all her hard-earned skill really going to waste? One day, a peace talisman suddenly set 40Reads8.1Score—Shelves
9. 9 深 The Midnight Spirit Shop 深夜灵店 Lone Lord孤爷Mystery1.9M WordsCompleted I'm neither a yin-yang master nor an exorcist, but I do have an unusual left eye. I run a shop that opens only at midnight, serving customers who have run into special troubles. A little shop, a cup of tea for a guest, and so my story begins... 1.8kReads8.6Score194Shelves

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10. 10 八 Marrying a Roughneck in the 1980s: The Scheming Medium Heroine Is Wild and Unhinged 八零嫁糙汉，神棍女配又疯又颠 Little Tabby Cat狸花小猫Modern Romance366k WordsCompleted Transmigrate into a book + period setting + pocket dimension + supernatural + villainess Su Xiaowan had just gotten her driver’s license when she hit the road and died in a car accident. Then she transmigrated into an 1980s novel, becoming a tragic villainess about to be sold to human traffickers by her grandparents. Su Xiaowan discovers that the stone pendant her mother left behind is a pocket dimension. Inside, her mother also gives her three spells: an attack spell, a healing spell, and one t 3.5kReads8.8Score368Shelves

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    It's set in a bygone era, and it's not exactly about capturing or killing. The female lead can see ghosts and has a spatial ability, leading to various ghost-related events.

11. 11 女 The Female Psychic's Daily Life in the 1970s 女神棍的七零日常 Little Fox Isn't a Demon小狐不是妖Modern Romance591k WordsCompleted (No CP, no CP, no CP) Zhao Jiu is an older woman who’s lazy and good-for-nothing. At her master’s funeral, one slap sends her straight into a sweet romance novel set in a bygone era, where she becomes a nameless passerby. So what if she’s just a passerby? She doesn’t care. But it’s bad enough that food and supplies are scarce in this era. She’s also expected to work in the fields. Um, no way she can manage that. Luckily, the ability to see spirits that she’s had since childhood comes with her, t 3kReads8.7Score314Shelves

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    Completed. A transmigration novel set in a historical period. The protagonist, a 21st-century charlatan, is transported into a sweet and romantic historical romance novel by her master, becoming a 1970s goddess detective…

12. 12 签 Sign-In in the 1970s: The Female Supporting Character and Educated Youth Is Doted on by a Powerful Man 签到七零：女配知青被大佬娇宠了 Watching Fish from the Pavilion亭上观鱼Modern Romance1.0M WordsCompleted (Complete) [Sign-in System + Educated Youth Sent to the Countryside + Past and Present Lives + Supporting Female Character Enjoys the Gossip + Highly Educated Couple + Clear-Headed, Independent Heroine + No Character Assassination of the Original Heroine] Yi Qingqing died young. When she arrived in the underworld, she was told she had earned great merit and should have enjoyed a life of wealth and a destined marriage in one of her lifetimes, but illness had robbed her of that. As compensation, s 55.6kReads9.4Score6kShelves

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    The female protagonist, Yi Qingqing, is a transmigrator who has been reborn and has a cheat ability to get things by signing in daily. The male protagonist, Yun Guyuan, is a ghost in the mortal realm who leaves his body at night to help catch ghosts.

13. 13 大 The Grand Feng Shui Master 大相师 Feiyi匪夷Mystery2.4M WordsCompleted Ten years ago, nine snakes crawled into my bed. Grandpa said someone was trying to steal my life. To keep me alive, he arranged an engagement for me to extend my lifespan... 8kReads9.3Score984Shelves

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    They're all period dramas, mostly fantasy-themed, and quite good. Ugh, they strain my eyes; I had to stay up all night reading them. 🤦

14. 14 栩 Vivid as Life 栩栩若生 Xiao Xu小叙Mystery2.3M WordsCompleted 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 19.7kReads9.5Score3.4kShelves
15. 15 天 The Destined Immortal-Boned Female Face Reader 天命仙骨女相师 Two Little Oil Bottles两个小油瓶Mystery1.0M WordsCompleted I was born with the bones of a phoenix. Chen the Half-Immortal, who had spent half his life telling fortunes in the village, said I was the reincarnation of the living Bodhisattva worshipped in the village shrine. That was why I had a natural gift for discerning yin from yang and driving out ghosts and spirits. But before I turned six, I was an idiot, because someone had stolen my spiritual root with a forbidden art that defied heaven. Only after a master who came to ask my adoptive mother for h 254Reads9.3Score205Shelves
16. 16 萤 A World of Fireflies 萤萤众生 Xiao Xu小叙Rural Life3.8M WordsCompleted 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 8.1kReads9.2Score779Shelves
17. 17 在 I Am a Female Sorcerer 在下女术师 The Girl Who Swallows Ghosts吞鬼的女孩Mystery2.5M WordsCompleted 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
18. 18 诡 The Eerie Spirit Medium: My Doll Can Really Manifest Spirits 诡异降神师：我的娃娃真能显灵 Clouds Can Smile云会笑Mystery1.4M WordsCompleted [Ghosts in the Book!] [Dark Tone!] [Villain Protagonist!] [Urban Supernatural!] [Horror Aesthetic!] [Invincible from the Start!] A sinister doll saws someone to pieces, a red-clad vengeful ghost claims lives at the airport, a hundred ghosts hunt people down along a ten-mile street, the dead rise again in a crematorium, and corpses dance wildly in an abandoned hospital... None of these things happened to me. They are all stories I wrote. My name is Yang Ning. I am an heir to the Ling Men, a profe 131.2kReads9.5Score11.5kShelves

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    Very good, the protagonist walks on a crucial path, once you start reading you can't put it down. The second book's protagonist is the child of a corpse, who has been able to see ghosts since childhood, the plot is good and makes you smile.

19. 19 穿 Put on Your Secret Identity! The Cannon-Fodder Young Intellectual Has a Powerful System 穿上马甲！炮灰小知青手握大系统 Distant Stars遥星辰Modern Romance492k WordsCompleted The pampered young heiress has money and power to spare, but after being reborn, she finds herself a pitiful girl forced to move to the countryside, despised by her wicked stepmother and bullied by her stepsister. Can she put up with that? Absolutely not. So, on the night before she leaves for the countryside, she reports her own father. Money? She takes it all. Clothes? All packed. Bedding? Gone. Kitchen? Cleared out. Furniture? Taken too. She doesn’t leave so much as a hair behind. After swag 3.8kReads9.1Score357Shelves

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    The female lead is reborn and has to work for the underworld as a ghost messenger. The only downside is that she becomes infatuated with the male lead, loses her IQ, and is somewhat love-struck. I don't understand how a male lead who has endured over five years of hardship in the lower realms can become a domineering CEO? Can't he learn to disguise himself? Even carrying manure is incredibly handsome and exudes domineering charisma? He can even radiate coolness and aloofness.

20. 20 这 This Spirit Medium Is Pretty Powerful! 这个出马仙有点强！ Wu the Half-Immortal吴半仙Mystery3.8M WordsOngoing 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 148.7kReads9.7Score13.6kShelves

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    In Northeast China, you can be broke, but you absolutely can't be ignorant of shamanic practices 🤦 After a trip to Harbin, I fell in love with Northeast metaphysics. These are some of the books I think are pretty good, and I'm even more amazing—all the comments are asking me to read their stories 🤭

21. 21 东 Northeast China Spirit Medium: My Fox Lord Is So Fierce 东北出马仙：我家的胡爷太凶狠 Rabbit Lord Changxi兔爷长喜Mystery1.3M WordsCompleted My name is Liu Jin. I'm a boy from an ordinary small town in Northeast China. The only unusual thing about me was that when I was six, my mother suddenly became a spirit medium. As a child, I never understood it. But when I grew up, I started to think it might actually be a pretty good job. For some reason, though, my mother seemed particularly wary of it and never gave me a chance to get involved. Little by little, I learned the secret behind it. 19.5kReads9.2Score1.5kShelves
22. 22 民 Folktales of the Northeast: The Household Guardian Immortal 民间故事之东北保家仙 Little Digger Tank掘土小坦克Mystery1.6M WordsCompleted In folk tradition in Northeast China, people believe in household guardian spirits. Those who worship them receive blessings, and my job is to help people invite these spirits into their homes… 341Reads8.2Score100Shelves
23. 23 东 Strange Tales of Northeast China 东北诡异实录 Asking the Cold Wind in a Light Rain微雨问冷风Mystery1.1M WordsCompleted The comic adaptation of the same name is now available, also known as Mountain Spirit Lost. The comic Northeast Strange Tales is currently being serialized. Across the vast, boundless black earth of Northeast China, one strange and little-known story after another has unfolded. Now, I’ll tell you these long-buried tales of the supernatural, one by one! 32kReads9.4Score3.3kShelves
24. 24 一 I Transmigrated Into Cannon Fodder, Then Used Metaphysics to Conquer the 1980s 一朝穿越变炮灰，靠玄学勇闯八零 The Rabbit Loves Buns兔子很爱吃包子Modern Romance847k WordsCompleted [Metaphysics Master + True and Fake Heiresses + Crime Solving + Past and Present Lives + Clear-Headed, Independent Heroine] The metaphysics master Jiang Shi transmigrates into the body of an idiot, only to appear at a murder scene and be arrested on the spot as the prime suspect. Worse still, she turns out to be the real heiress in a true-and-fake heiress story: the daughter of a textile mill director who has been abused for years. Her father doesn’t care for her, and her mother doesn’t love her 1.4kReads8.9Score162Shelves

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    A period drama where the female protagonist solves cases using metaphysics; episodic format! 1️⃣ A master of metaphysics transmigrates into the body of a mentally challenged person, at a murder scene, and even more absurdly, she's actually a wealthy heiress?! Unloved by her parents, she has no choice but to join the police force to survive in this era, and then…

25. 25 玄 The Mystic Girl Transmigrates to the 1970s: Fortune-Telling and Ghost Hunting Are Her Forte 玄学少女穿七零，算命捉鬼她最行 Little Maruko Sunbathing晒太阳的小丸子Modern Romance1.0M WordsCompleted When Lu Qing opened her eyes, she found herself lying beside a stream. Her ears were filled with noisy shouting, and her head throbbed painfully. She raised a hand to touch the back of her head, and it immediately came away sticky and wet. “The monster’s awake! The monster’s awake!” “Ah! The monster’s looking this way! Run!” As she listened to the terrified cries around her, fragments of images flashed through her mind. Ugh, her head hurt even more. Lu Qing closed her eyes. The five short years 4.1kReads9.3Score552Shelves
26. 26 六 Military Marriage in the Sixties: I Thrive with Metaphysics 六零军婚，我靠玄学混得风生水起 It's Kong Youya是空有呀Modern Romance720k WordsCompleted The heroine isn’t a self-sacrificing saint and won’t bankroll anyone. Any awful characters get dealt with quickly. (Only devoted to each other, personal growth, metaphysics!) If you like instant gratification from the very first chapter, this one may not be for you! Su Xiaoqi, the queen of slacking off, was struck by lightning while livestreaming ghost-hunting on a platform and transmigrated to the 1960s. With no desire to work and a strong commitment to slacking off, she clung to the handsome s 10.8kReads9.3Score1.5kShelves
27. 27 震 Shocking! This Little Village Girl from the 1970s Is Actually a Metaphysics Master 震惊！七零小村姑竟是玄学大佬 Mist Flow雾流Modern Romance2.0M WordsCompleted [Transmigration + sweet romance + farming + fortune through metaphysics] Fu Yan was in a car accident on her way home from work. When she opened her eyes, she had transmigrated into a young country girl in the 1970s. She thought she'd spend the rest of her life taking things easy, but she had a mystical third eye, a pocket dimension to rely on, and the legacy of a metaphysical master. From then on, she sold ginseng, drew talismans, collected antiques, and gambled on jade. Before she knew it, her 8.1kReads9.0Score1kShelves
28. 28 七 The 1970s: I Became the Short-Lived Wife of a Male Supporting Character 七零：穿成年代男配的短命亡妻 Mu Yao'er木幺儿Modern Romance1.1M WordsCompleted What’s it like to become the short-lived wife of a tool-man male side character in a period novel? She originally just wanted to be an insignificant character in the book, sitting beside the male side character on a little stool with a huge watermelon, quietly watching the protagonists thrive in the spring breeze of reform and make a fortune... Who knew the heroine who’d been sent to the countryside would go crazy and try to steal her male lead, take her luck, and kill her? Side characters aren’ 1.8kReads9.3Score242Shelves
29. 29 穿 Transmigrate to the 1970s: The Lucky Star Sets the World Ablaze 穿越七零：福运大佬燃翻天 Beef with Green Peppers尖椒牛柳Modern Romance1.2M WordsCompleted Synopsis: Futuristic high technology, strengthening the country and enriching its people, the whole family’s darling, a lucky charm, power fantasy Gu Jinxiu arrives in the 1970s with a pocket dimension full of future technology. After getting revenge on her scumbag father, who married into her mother’s family, and her wicked stepmother, making their lives worse than death, she takes her younger brother and heads to the countryside in style. Out in the countryside, she builds a career and runs bu 10kReads9.1Score1kShelves
30. 30 知 Educated Youth, Stop Staring! I Only Pretended to Denounce Superstition 知青别瞅了！我骂迷信是演的 What Am I Thinking?何所思Modern Romance358k WordsOngoing [Period setting + mysticism + family + one-on-one romance] Mo Jingchun's days are spent following the commune members around to harvest wheat, nodding along whenever the loudspeaker calls for the abolition of superstition, and throwing in a few remarks about how feudal dross must be rejected. At night, though, she sneaks into the hills behind the village with a flashlight and teaches her clanspeople to draw formation arrays on stone slabs. A few days ago, Auntie Wang from the neighboring villag 290Reads5.3Score—Shelves
31. 31 玄 The Metaphysical Heiress Comes Down the Mountain, and the Cold Military Officer Regrets It 玄学真千金下山，高冷军官后悔了 Lotus Root Starch藕粉Modern Romance1.0M WordsCompleted Period setting + metaphysics + everyday family life + light supernatural elements + native heroine [After coming down from the mountain, she makes a fortune through metaphysics, but her biological brothers and fiancé collectively lose it?] When Fu Shaoting heard that his “little nun” fiancée, who had gone missing at the age of three, was coming down from the mountain, the upright and principled young marshal declared, “We must resolutely reject feudal remnants! An arranged marriage? Break it off 7kReads9.0Score954Shelves

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    Disappeared at the age of three and forced to become a nun, Su Xiaoluo uses metaphysical divination to break free from difficult situations and become a sought-after figure in Beijing's elite circles. After descending the mountain, she discovers that her original family already has a "replacement" and decisively gives up on acknowledging her relatives. When the Su family searches for her relatives, her brothers are shocked to discover that the Fu family's nanny is actually the real heiress, and military officer Fu Shaoting also pursues her with a marriage contract. Watch as she uses metaphysical methods to turn the tables, humiliate the scumbags, and manipulate everyone!

32. 32 麻 The Divine Fortune-Teller in the Linen Robe 麻衣神算子 Horseback Fishing骑马钓鱼Mystery7.4M WordsCompleted My grandfather taught me everything he knew about fortune-telling, but after I read three people’s fortunes, he left me. From then on, I didn’t just tell the fortunes of the living... 43.7kReads9.2Score3.8kShelves
33. 33 从EN Once Upon a Time, There Was a Demon-Suppressing Pass 从前有座镇妖关 The Cat from the Xu Family徐二家的猫Urban3.0M WordsCompleted Once, there was a pass like this. Once, there was a group of people like this. Every inch of this pass was stained with blood. These people would not return until they were dead. All so that, amid mountains of corpses and seas of blood, in their final moments, they could turn around and see the lights of countless homes shining behind them, with peace and safety year after year. 160.1kReads9.6Score18.1kShelves

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    🍉 Not bad

34. 34 我 I Turned the Horror World Into a Raising Game! 我把惊悚世界玩成养成游戏！ Yu Zuo予作Mystery2.3M WordsCompleted 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 112.4kReads9.5Score12.2kShelves
35. 35 规 Rule Horror: A Maoshan Descendant Requests Deployment 规则怪谈：茅山后裔申请出战 Su Dan Chun苏单纯Mystery621k WordsCompleted [National destiny + deduction + livestream + Maoshan] An unspeakable force descended upon Blue Star. Li Xian, from Earth, was selected to represent the Great Xia Kingdom in a supernatural horror game. His first challenge was a morgue. [You are responsible for the night shift at a morgue. Your coworker, Xiao Wang, loves sharing good things with his friends. Please don’t turn down his generosity.] [Make your rounds through the morgue once every hour and keep it clean, or the guests will get angry. 802Reads8.2Score100Shelves
36. 36 惊 Thriller Game: My Entire Family of Loyal Martyrs Became Top-Tier Monsters 惊悚游戏：满门忠烈皆成顶级诡物 Ling Jiu San Yao零九三妖Mystery581k WordsCompleted The Qin family has served their country with unwavering loyalty for generations. Every one of Qin Changkong’s ancestors gave their lives for the nation. Just as supernatural phenomena began to rise, a terrifying game descended upon the world. Chosen to join the game, he was bound to his nation’s fate and would fight on its behalf. But he discovered that his elders had all become top-tier supernatural beings. His mother, who died suddenly in the operating room, had underlings who were the boss of 3.1kReads8.7Score444Shelves
37. 37 地 The Seventy-Two Earthly Fiends Transformations 地煞七十二变 Wine Priest祭酒Mystery1.5M WordsOngoing 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 37.7kReads9.3Score4.5kShelves
38. 38 下 The Days I Went to the Countryside to Catch Ghosts 下乡抓鬼的日子 Hao Yi Luo Shen皓衣洛神Modern Romance1.4M WordsCompleted Reborn in the 1970s? No problem! She’s the eighteenth-generation heir to a Taoist lineage, skilled in all five arts of metaphysics! She just didn’t expect to get hit and killed after helping a rich man find the perfect burial site, all because she hadn’t checked the almanac. When she opened her eyes again, she was a high school girl, and her family was arguing over who would be sent to the countryside. The System bound itself to her and demanded that she spread Taoist teachings in an era opposed 15.4kReads8.3Score2.4kShelves
39. 39 恐 The Terrifying Online Celebrity 恐怖女网红 The Girl Who Swallows Ghosts吞鬼的女孩Mystery2.5M WordsCompleted 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... 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 3.2kReads9.1Score360Shelves

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    Both are about live streaming, and both involve ghost hunting; I quite enjoyed them. In the first book, the female protagonist, Ning Ruoyu, starts live streaming ghost hunting to escape being framed by her relatives, eventually becoming an internet celebrity. The second book features a female protagonist named Yuan Junyao, who is very unattractive and deformed. Later, due to various events and for revenge, she embarks on a path of live streaming…

40. 40 恐 The Horror Livestreamer 恐怖女主播 The Girl Who Swallows Ghosts吞鬼的女孩Mystery2.3M WordsCompleted My name is Yuan Junyao, a name that doesn't suit me at all. I've had a chronic illness since birth, and I'm so hideously deformed that tumors started growing on my face when I was little. My father left me when I was just three months old. At fifteen, I was blamed for my mother's death. Only my grandmother raised me and my stepbrother, who shared neither parent with me. But after an accident, I was offered up to a man who should never have crossed my path. To get revenge and see justice done, I 18.3kReads9.1Score2.3kShelves
41. 41 娇 The Alluring Villainess Wants to Turn Over a New Leaf? The Chaste Commander Can’t Resist Her Teasing 娇媚恶女要从良？禁欲首长撩破防 Seventy-Three and a Half Degrees七十三度半Modern Romance100k WordsOngoing [Historical setting + supernatural occultism + military marriage + medicine + pocket dimension + wish fulfillment + joining the army spouse + devoted sweet romance + punishing scumbags and making them eat their words] Xu Shuyao was a wicked woman from the Hehuan Sect, but a stinking Taoist priest wouldn’t leave her alone. While fleeing him, she had the misfortune of running into a tribulation, and nine bolts of heavenly lightning struck her straight into the late 1970s. When she opened her eyes, 1Reads—Score—Shelves

    Reader note

    This historical fiction is really interesting, funny and enjoyable, and the interactions between the male and female leads are also very fun. Highly recommended!

42. 42 民 Folk Feng Shui: I Made My Name by Moving a Grave 民间堪舆：从迁坟开始扬名 Tufuzi Adu土夫子阿渡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 3Reads—Score—Shelves

    Reader note

    A good novel about feng shui, geomancy, divination, and fortune telling.

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