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  1. 1 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 4.1kReads9.2Score594Shelves
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  2. 2 The Eerie Midnight Mirror 子夜诡镜 Mystery559k WordsOngoing The scholar Chou Wuya happened upon a copy of Strange Tales from a Chinese Studio. The stall owner casually included an ancient bronze mirror, named Seeing the Heart. At midnight, Chou Wuya discovered that the mirror could tear apart dreams and reality, drawing him into one eerie, terrifying mirror realm after another. Every mirror realm was a supernatural ordeal with no way out. A woman named Ruoxi was sealed inside the mirror. She told Chou Wuya that every time he entered a dream, he would gai 11Reads—Score—Shelves
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  3. 3 The Haunted House 诡舍 Mystery2.1M WordsCompleted [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 750.3kReads9.6Score91.2kShelves
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  4. 4 Ghostly Whispers at Midnight 夜半鬼语 Mystery87k WordsCompleted [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 8.1kReads9.0Score272Shelves
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  5. 5 Northeastern China's Forbidden Secrets 东北禁忌手札 Mystery122k WordsCompleted [Extreme horror + a folk-horror story set in the countryside] In a remote mountain village, deep within the forest, countless taboos remain unknown to outsiders. The people here follow ancient rules of life and death: pregnant women must never encounter a coffin, and anyone who dies of old age at a hundred years old is destined to become an evil spirit. But in a single day, the old Yu family breaks both taboos, drawing every kind of demon and ghost to their door! At midnight, someone hears the s 835Reads8.8Score108Shelves
  6. 6 Strange Tales from the Deep Mountains: When Vengeful Ghosts Roam, the Whole Village Dies 【深山诡事】厉鬼横行全村都得死 Mystery543k WordsOngoing [This story is entirely fictional] [Horror] [Supernatural Thriller] [Not a power fantasy] [The protagonist is not a Taoist priest] It's the fifteenth day of the seventh lunar month once again, the Ghost Festival, when the gates of hell swing wide open. The full moon overhead spills its pure white light over a large rock by the river, making it gleam. Chen Ergou sits on the rock, holding a blade of grass and gently poking at the paper money still smoldering in front of him. Behind him, "people" f 47Reads8.4Score—Shelves
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  7. 7 The Sound of Nightmares: 60 Horror Stories That Wake You from Your Dreams 噩梦之声:60个做梦吓醒的恐怖故事 Mystery174k WordsCompleted [Standalone Ghost Stories + Supernatural Horror + Not for the Faint of Heart + Rural Tales] When night falls, terrifying ghostly figures emerge. Step into all kinds of bizarre and unbelievable tales, and spend your nights screaming! Haunted houses, ghostly shadows outside the window, a deadly lipstick, someone beneath the mattress, an umbrella that hunts people... Every corner conceals inexplicable phenomena and secrets that will fill you with dread! Every page will make your hair stand on end, 1.7kReads8.9Score167Shelves
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  8. 8 Tales of Strange Happenings in the Countryside 乡村诡事录 Mystery156k WordsCompleted The strange happenings in a mountain village. I was born and raised in the countryside. Deep in the mountains, there are always ghosts and spirits, and my village was no exception. Heaven, earth, black, yellow, the cosmos vast: demons and ghosts send shivers down your spine. One year, the start of spring fell on the fifteenth day of the eighth month. That year, so many strange things happened. Just bringing them up is enough to scare people. Meeting the Black and White Impermanence on a night wa 1.9kReads9.1Score134Shelves
  9. 9 The Midnight Ghost Market: Living People Keep Out 午夜鬼市,活人回避 Mystery592k WordsCompleted [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 2.8kReads9.1Score184Shelves
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  10. 10 The One Who Borrows Lives from the Underworld 阴间借命人 Mystery1.3M WordsCompleted [Standalone Stories + Supernatural Horror + Suspense + Folk Customs + Playful Tone + Ensemble Cast + Nonstop Ghost-Hunting Thrills!] Ever since I borrowed a life from the underworld, I’ve known no peace. My name is Quan Ning. I’m a lawyer, and one day I was in a car accident on a mountain road. As I lay dying, I saw a ghostly judge from the underworld come to claim my soul. I struck a deal with him and borrowed a sliver of hope for survival. The price of this life I borrowed was becoming 2.4kReads9.1Score272Shelves
  11. 11 Horror's Edge: 100 Absolutely Terrifying Ghost Stories 恐怖边界:100个绝对惊悚的鬼谈 Mystery432k WordsCompleted [Standalone Stories + Supernatural Horror + Folk Customs + Feng Shui and Mysticism + Mild Frights + Shocking Twists] Horror tales beyond anything you could imagine. Each story is like a dark door swinging open, drawing you into moments that will make your skin crawl. Listen. A faint whisper, an indescribable shadow creeping closer. Danger by the river, terror in the cemetery, ghost babies in the maternity ward, evil headhunting magic, apparitions at the hot springs, a bloodstained umbrella... On 2.5kReads8.7Score203Shelves
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  12. 12 Midnight Wonders 午夜惊奇 Urban171k WordsCompleted At the stroke of midnight, amid a terrifying atmosphere, strange ghost stories begin to unfold! A bluish-white hand suddenly appears on the window in the middle of the night. Is it looking for someone to take revenge on? A bus still running in the dead of night: does it lead to the world of the living or to hell? The shapewear hanging in the wardrobe at home is made of human skin! During the Qingming Festival, a figure appears in the glass of the bathhouse. After returning to her room, a beautif 437Reads8.7Score—Shelves
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  13. 13 The Years I Spent as a Funeral Mourner 我当哭丧人的那些年 Mystery302k WordsCompleted Some people must be mourned loudly when they are laid to rest. Otherwise, according to old folk customs, it is considered an act of filial impiety. After I was born, everyone in my family except my grandfather died because of me. My grandfather fell gravely ill, and to earn money for his treatment, I had no choice but to join Zhang the Elder, a man from my village, as a professional funeral mourner. From then on, I set out on a path of mourning with no return! 137Reads8.6Score—Shelves
  14. 14 Selling Burial Clothes, Sewing Up Corpses, and Raising a Ghost Wife 卖寿衣,缝尸体,养鬼妻 Mystery2.7M WordsCompleted [Traditional supernatural horror, folk terror, decisive and ruthless] I rented an apartment where someone had died, hoping to save money, only to be plunged into endless darkness... My terrifying girlfriend has a mouth full of sharp teeth and haunts me day and night; A headless vengeful infant on the highway frantically tries to steal people’s heads; A horrifying internet celebrity livestreams herself peeling off people’s faces, while the comments turn eerie; At a Cat Immortal shrine in a strang 65.5kReads9.2Score9.1kShelves
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  15. 15 A Collection of Folk Ghost Stories from Northeast China 东北民间鬼故事集 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! 51.2kReads9.4Score5.6kShelves
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  16. 16 Thriller: I Only Sell Haunted Houses 惊悚:我只卖凶宅 Mystery1.5M WordsCompleted Rooms where unnatural deaths have occurred are collectively known as haunted houses. There are two kinds: “blue houses” and “red houses.” Living people can stay in blue houses without harm, but anyone who lives in a red house is doomed to die. I work as a real estate agent. One day, I accidentally sold a red house, and afterward, I began encountering terrifying things… 46kReads9.2Score4.8kShelves
  17. 17 Tales of the Haunted Mountain Village 山村诡事录 Urban893k WordsCompleted Where the woods are dense, ghosts abound; where the mountains are high, monsters are sure to lurk. After getting drunk, Chen Jianjun of Kaoshan Village encounters a beautiful woman in the mountains. Alone together, the pair spend several days in an intimate embrace. When he returns home, he goes mad for a day and then dies. On the day of his burial, Chen Jianjun suddenly comes back to life... To save his family, Chen Xiaojun becomes the apprentice of Yi, a lame man who was once sent to a work ca 4.3kReads9.1Score472Shelves
  18. 18 The Haunted Teahouse: I Only Sell Objects of Ill Omen 恐怖茶馆:我只卖大凶之物 Mystery1.7M WordsCompleted The world is divided between yin and yang. Some people do business with the living, while others trade with the dead. I deal in the business of the dead, but I don’t sell coffins, paper money, funeral clothes, or paper effigies. What I sell are things you’ve never seen before, things far stranger still… 52.5kReads9.2Score5.7kShelves
  19. 19 The Truth Is Out! I Secretly Had a Baby with That Crazy Jerk 摊牌了!我偷生了疯批冤种的崽 Ancient Romance1.1M WordsCompleted A sickly, unhinged beauty of a male lead + a dramatic white-lotus female lead + a fierce yet adorable green-tea baby + swoony, hilarious, sweet romance A young lady from a prominent family was switched at birth. After her half-sister plots against her, she gives birth to a child out of wedlock. Shen Baiqian transmigrates into this mess, ready to unleash her golden finger, crush scoundrels, make a fortune, and live life to the fullest. The old man she casually picks up turns out to be a divine g 20kReads9.2Score3kShelves
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  20. 20 After Becoming a Marquis's Widow, I Angered a Treacherous Official and Couldn't Escape 穿成侯门寡妇后,误惹奸臣逃不掉 Ancient Romance364k WordsCompleted [Both leads are virgins + traditional historical romance] Shen Yao transmigrates and becomes a young widow from a noble marquis household, whose husband has just died. Her husband was the marquis's second son. He was in poor health, yet loved women and kept concubines and bedchamber maids at home, as well as courtesans outside. He died from overindulgence, in the arms of a woman... After learning what had happened, Shen Yao could only think of waiting until the mourning period was over, then 3.2kReads8.8Score395Shelves
  21. 21 Ghostly Tales: The Guide Between Life and Death 诡谈:生死引路人 Mystery126k WordsOngoing (Horror + suspense + supernatural + mind-bending + live-action game) This is an urban horror novel with no transmigration and no System. After Jia Wen uncovers his wife's long-hidden secret and the mystery buried deep within his own heart, his life is turned upside down, and he becomes a ghost hunter. While investigating a case involving missing ghosts, he and his senior, Zhong Chuqing, use her powerful spiritual detection abilities to identify the mastermind: Young Master Jie. After careful pla 2Reads—Score—Shelves
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  22. 22 Hiring a Handsome Guy to Guard the House 雇个帅哥来镇宅 Mystery1.1M WordsOngoing [Horror, one heroine] What do you do when you’re nearly broke? With no other options, Shang Yi reluctantly took a night-shift job, and it completely upended his worldview! The elevator, hallways, underground parking garage, bathrooms… Those places were already enough to give him a headache. But what troubled him even more was the attention he got from beautiful women… Strange incidents kept happening in the residential complex, yet the residents went on living there as if nothing were wrong. The 57Reads—Score—Shelves
  23. 23 Four Watches: Children's Tales, I'm the Real Calamity 四更童语:我是真正大凶之物 Mystery387k WordsCompleted [Chinese-style horror + not a power fantasy + more terrifying the more you think about it] When I was eight, my maternal grandfather took my two uncles and me to Chang'an Village to help harvest rice. Not long after we arrived, someone died under mysterious circumstances. Worried something might happen to me, my grandfather told my eldest uncle to take me home first. Before we left, he repeatedly warned us not to speak to anyone we met on the road. My eldest uncle agreed, and we hurried back. Ha 1.2kReads8.9Score170Shelves
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  24. 24 Sin Hunter Detective 猎罪神探 Mystery1.1M WordsCompleted What's the most terrifying case you've ever heard of? The Corpse Immortal Madam, the Medical University's Sex Fiend, the Human-Head Planters, the Zombie Baby in Building Seven... There are no ghosts in this world, only wrongs waiting to be righted by a master hand. The legendary coroner Song Yang returns to the scene with his disciples, piercing through layer upon layer of mystery to hunt down the killers lurking in this world. Come face-to-face with the bloodiest, most baffling, and most hair-r 7.6kReads9.4Score888Shelves
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  25. 25 Crime Psychology: Ten Unsolved Cases 心理罪:十宗悬案 Mystery1.1M WordsCompleted A woman drowns in her own toilet... A black cat embarks on a quest to claim lives... A hidden evil lurks in a fog-shrouded town... A madman dreams of becoming an immortal... A beloved pet dog kills out of jealousy... 13.8kReads8.9Score2.2kShelves
  26. 26 The Language of the Three Corpses 三尸语 Mystery1.1M WordsOngoing 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… 74.4kReads9.3Score10.6kShelves
  27. 27 Confessions of a Mentally Ill Person 一个精神病人的自述 Mystery169k WordsCompleted Sometimes I wonder what I am, what the world is, and what my existence means to it. Am I an NPC? Or just a virus that doesn't matter? A virus, yes. I feel like I've caught some kind of virus, or maybe I've always been one. My name is Zhang Shun. I'm an ordinary person, and on an ordinary day, I suddenly saw things no one else could see... 2.1kReads9.3Score581Shelves
  28. 28 A Brief History of Human Torture 人类酷刑简史 Historical151k WordsCompleted For thousands of years, humanity has devised many ingenious and cruel ways to inflict pain on its own kind. This tragic yet seemingly universal trait has corroded the civilization humanity strives to achieve. Though we now seem to detest torture, for more than 3,000 years it was part of the laws of all Europe and much of the Far East. A Brief History of Human Torture explores the many forms of punishment, torture, coercion, and torment. It takes readers into the arenas of ancient Rome, medieval 20.6kReads9.6Score2.4kShelves
  29. 29 Who Is the Killer? 谁是凶手 Mystery243k WordsCompleted The truth behind a series of murders in Baichuan City has been buried for sixteen years, and the killer is still at large. Sixteen years later, the murders begin again. Three people connected to the cold case join forces to uncover the truth, each concealing secrets of their own, as they wait for the truth to come to light... 550Reads9.2Score100Shelves
  30. 30 Spirit-Sending Diary 送灵日记 Mystery1.0M WordsCompleted She died with her eyes open, her body piled among countless corpses, her resentment reaching the heavens. She sings at night in the barren hills, waiting desperately for someone from her past, her devotion unchanged. They haunt an old mansion, their ghostly forms harming the living. There are no evil spirits in this world. They are all people who were hurt. I'm an unconventional spirit guide. I listen to the dead, resolve their lingering grievances, and lay their souls to rest. This is my work d 422Reads7.6Score—Shelves
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  31. 31 Terror in the Haunted Dorm 诡寝惊魂 Mystery3.6M WordsCompleted I got a job as a dorm supervisor in a university women’s residence, but the girls there were a little too friendly… Crying in the middle of the night, dorm rooms catching fire, rooms that don’t exist. Hidden in the deepest corners of memory is a bizarre and fantastical world… The night is deep, the dream unfinished. A mountain spirit blows out the lamp. Where can a lonely soul return? 18.7kReads8.5Score2.6kShelves
  32. 32 The Horror Taxi 恐怖出租车 Mystery833k WordsCompleted There is a kind of vehicle meant for certain people. Its job is to take them to the world they belong in. That is the ghost bus. You may never have heard of a living person boarding one, but if you ever see a vehicle of unknown origin on the road, be careful... 240Reads6.8Score—Shelves
  33. 33 The Last Bus on Route 13 13路末班车 Mystery813k WordsCompleted I'm the driver of the last bus on Route 13. Every night at eleven, I have to make a run to the suburbs. This book is addictive, so don't blame me if you can't put it down! In this novel, even the sharp-tongued readers who always guess the plot right will find themselves repeatedly proven wrong. You might find yourself asking, “What's going on? What's going on?” Don't doubt your sanity. Just keep reading. A story that keeps you on edge, here to save readers suffering from a reading drought! 20.5kReads9.2Score2.6kShelves
  34. 34 Half a Step Beyond 半步多 Mystery570k WordsCompleted Half-Step Pass, the boundary between yin and yang, a place where the living must not go. Grandpa and I escaped from there and lived under assumed names for twenty years, but they still found us... 604Reads8.9Score107Shelves
  35. 35 Coffin Shop No. 44 44号棺材铺 Mystery2.4M WordsCompleted Everyone knows what a coffin shop is, but would you dare enter one where someone has died? Ever since I took over a coffin shop, strange things have been happening all around me. Only then did I realize that the people who come to buy coffins aren't necessarily alive… 2.9kReads8.0Score303Shelves
  36. 36 Tales of the Supernatural 民间怪谈录 Mystery1.0M WordsCompleted [Rural Horror Stories + Anthology + Folk Horror Tales + Chinese Supernatural] Supernatural happenings are most likely to occur in mountain villages, and the stories we've heard may well have really happened. In the eerie night wind, Granny Hao, the midwife who receives the dead, is like a messenger from the underworld, guiding the spirits of helpless mothers and children home. Locust trees commune with spirits, and poplars attract yin energy. Beneath the village's ancient trees lie secrets that 1.1kReads8.9Score105Shelves
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  37. 37 Folk Horror Taboos 民间恐怖禁忌 Mystery476k WordsCompleted Do you know the stories old people tell? Do you know there are many things in folk tradition that people say must not be spoken of? Do you know what the elders say about dreams? The elders say there are things you mustn't talk about at night. Did you know that? 146Reads6.3Score—Shelves
  38. 38 Encountering a Ghost 撞鬼 Mystery3.6M WordsCompleted I'm a truck driver, and I haul freight all over the country. Truck drivers have many taboos. For example, if you encounter a funeral procession, flash your headlights a few times. If a small animal suddenly darts out onto the road, or when driving through a tunnel, especially one with a square entrance, don't whistle or say anything disrespectful. When staying at an inn at night, always point the toes of your shoes toward the door... 1.4kReads6.7Score154Shelves
  39. 39 The Talisman Master 画符天师 Mystery701k WordsCompleted A talisman is the true seal of Heaven and Earth, though people counterfeit it with cinnabar, ink, paper, and brush. I, Ding Mian, possess but a spark of spiritual light, yet I can reach through Heaven and Earth. I can command emptiness, water and fire, tiles and stones, grass and trees, food and drink; I can make things exist or vanish, and pass through and transform them. This is the Way of Heaven! 74Reads—Score—Shelves
  40. 40 Yin-Yang Embroidery: I’m the Last Tattoo Artist 阴阳绣:我是最后一个刺青师 Mystery1.1M WordsCompleted My name is Zhou Yiyang. You probably won't believe this, but I make my living tattooing people, though what I do is nothing like ordinary tattooing. My tattoos come in two kinds: yin embroidery and yang patterns. They can change a person's fate and fortune, and help them avoid misfortune and find good luck. I'm a yin-yang tattoo artist, and I feed myself a bag of salt. 34Reads—Score—Shelves
  41. 41 The Eighteenth Floor Underground 地下十八楼 Mystery164k WordsCompleted [Urban Mystery / Thriller / Puzzle-Solving / Supernatural / No System] Beneath an upscale residential complex lies a mysterious space known as “Underground Level Eighteen.” They say that anyone who goes in either dies or goes mad… Su Chi, a new resident, accidentally gets caught up in it. There are ancient coffin mazes, a blue underground river, savage subterranean creatures, and even mysterious wild men… Danger lurks at every turn, and the mysteries are hair-raising. It feels as if a pair of ey 16Reads—Score—Shelves
  42. 42 The Mystery of the Haunted House 诡屋之谜 Mystery81k WordsCompleted My name is Xiao Wen. I’m a guy who just graduated from college. I went out to seek my fortune with some good friends from my dorm, but when we arrived in Guangzhou to start work, we were immediately confronted with the challenge of finding a place to rent. We spent days searching, but had no luck. Then, just as we were about to give up, we happened to see a rental ad. The place was astonishingly cheap, so we moved in. One strange, eerie incident after another took place in this haunted house, wh —Reads—Score—Shelves
  43. 43 Do You Believe There Are Ghosts in This World? 你相信,这个世界上有鬼吗? Mystery896k WordsOngoing [Mind-bending] + [Slow-paced] + [Not for the faint-hearted] Thirty-six years ago, deep in the Tibetan grasslands, a secret research base studying the paranormal was rocked by a massive explosion. Only one person managed to escape alive. The male survivor not only made it out, but also brought a pair of pitch-black eyes from the secret base. Even after being removed from their body, they seemed alive. After this devastating disaster, the man deliberately avoided a mysterious organization and went 34Reads—Score—Shelves
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  44. 44 The Dead Man's Makeup 死人妆 Mystery1.1M WordsCompleted 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 3.6kReads9.1Score544Shelves
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  45. 45 Fourteen Years of Hunting Ghosts (Complete in Five Volumes) 十四年猎诡人(全五册) Mystery1.2M WordsCompleted [The full-cast audio drama is now available. Give it a listen!] Li Yifan’s spine-chilling ghost-hunting chronicles! A contemporary Strange Tales from a Chinese Studio! A spine-chilling record of ghost hunts! First posted on Tieba, it topped 100 million views within three months! The acclaimed mystery writer Li Yifan’s breakthrough work, now with the unpublished continuation added! Every ghost was once a living person. I’m a professional ghost hunter. I turn the compass, circle the place with red 11.9kReads9.6Score2.1kShelves