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A Chronicle of Debut 出道纪事
[No formulaic tropes, no wish fulfillment, no web-novel conventions, traditional supernatural fiction, based on real events. Read with caution if any of this bothers you.] I graduated from high school in 2014 and became a disciple of my master, Li Jingshan. I spent three years studying the Dao and another three learning the arts. Then I spent five years practicing them in the world, occasionally gaining new insights. I enjoy reading novels, but lament that today's books are all baseless fabricat
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Seven Days of the Dead 七日亡魂
My grandfather used to say that whoever a hanged person sees last is the one they’ll come back to claim. When I was twelve, the village hired a troupe to perform ghost opera. I went to play backstage, never realizing that the troupe’s leading performer was hanging from the beam behind me.
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- 53 Folktales of the Mountains and Wilds 民间山野怪谈 The hidden truths behind ten major unsolved mysteries, revealing a host of terrifying taboos that will send chills down your spine! 14.5kReads9.1Score960Shelves
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The Yellow Springs Pawnshop: No Living Visitors 黄泉典当铺，生人勿近
[Ghost Hunting + Supernatural Horror + Folk Customs + Strange Tales + Taoist Arts + Maoshan] At the end of a street at midnight stands a Yellow Springs Pawnshop. You have no way of knowing whether those who come and go to trade are human or ghost! Lu Guanshan takes over the pawnshop, and on his very first night, he encounters a stunningly beautiful, cold and aloof Ghost Queen hanging from a beam. She latches onto him and stays by his side as they collect yin objects and subdue a hundred ghosts.
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The Taoist Corpse Chaser of Republican-Era China 民国鬼事之追尸道长
In the early years of the Republic of China, the world was in turmoil and monsters ran rampant. Huang Tianyun, a drifter on the Shanghai Bund, accidentally wandered into the Secret Realm of Illusory Truth. He joined the Illusory Truth Daoist Sect to study the Dao, then descended the mountain with a magical sword in hand to exorcise demons and defend the righteous. He faced vengeful ghosts, battled fox demons, hunted spirits, and subdued zombies. Along the way, he met Luo Qiuye, a young woman fro
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The Prophecy of Tui Bei Tu 推背图语
[Historical sci-fi | suspenseful brainteaser | trials across historical worlds] All 998 test subjects died. I'm number 999. These are the experimental memories remaining in my mind: The night the FAST radio telescope was completed, a top-secret project codenamed "Pangu" quietly began. All 998 experiments failed! I'm Kuan Yi, an overworked office drone raising a child after getting divorced. I've been selected in advance as the final test subject. If I fail again, the System will self-destruct, a
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- 57 Secrets of the Qinling Mountains 秦岭秘事 A wild imagination, an infinite-flow adventure, people with special abilities, and thrilling journeys. All things return to their origin. My father found me deep in the Qinling Mountains and raised me. When I was twelve, I discovered I had an innate supernatural ability. In my senior year of high school, I fell gravely ill after encountering ghostly flames. To cure me, my father sent me deep into the Qinling Mountains to study under a Daoist cultivator. That was when my transmigration journey be 61.3kReads8.4Score4.4kShelves
- 58 Forty-Eight Taoist Spells and Techniques 道家咒术四十八法 In Taoism, spellcasting is a form of ritual magic that invokes deities through incantations or curses ghosts and demons. It is believed to establish communication with the Celestial Emperor and command spirits, driving away evil, averting calamities, and turning misfortune into good fortune. 2.3kReads6.6Score619Shelves
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I Transmigrated to Ancient Times with the Fuying Hall's Legacy 我带着伏英馆法脉穿越古代
Ghost hunting, exorcism, wuxia, ensemble cast, no System. The protagonist is a disciple of the Liuren Fuying Hall who has only recently started learning the arts and rarely applies himself. When his teacher takes on a mission, he transmigrates to another world in ancient times, setting off a series of events involving the supernatural, the martial world, and the rise and fall of dynasties. As the saying goes, when a nation is on the brink of collapse, demons and evil spirits are sure to emerge!
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Paranormal Streamer: The Sledgehammer Notes 灵异主播：铁锤笔记
A paranormal livestreamer and a female yin-yang practitioner team up to deal with supernatural incidents. After being ambushed by an evil sorcerer, they fall victim to a curse involving poisonous magic. To break the curse, they descend into the Yuanchen Palace, face off against ghosts in a battle of song, storm a reclusive sect’s warded realm, help underworld officials subdue demons, escort an earth immortal to take up a post, and venture into the underworld to steal a prophecy from a forbidden
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Tales of the Dragon and Tiger Mystic Heroes 龙虎玄侠传
In the Age of Declining Dharma, spiritual qi revives. Evil spirits wreak havoc, and dragons and tigers descend from the heavens. With the Nine Heavens Divine Pill reappearing in the world, orthodox and unorthodox factions alike prepare for battle. The arts of the occult, talismans, soul-binding, poison and witchcraft clash in a contest of skill. Ye Chen and Xiao Jun, two disciples of the Zhengyi Heavenly Masters, are summoned by Heaven's will to exterminate demons and defend the Dao. Bound by th
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Tales of a Paper Effigy Maker 纸人扎匠诡事录
Tales of the Paper Effigy Artisan's Strange Cases
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- 63 Living Sacrifice 活人祭祀 Living Sacrifice 1.8kReads—Score—Shelves
- 64 The Food I Deliver Has a Recipient Who's Been Dead for Three Years 我送的外卖，收货人死了三年 The person who received the food I delivered died three years ago. 1.5kReads—Score—Shelves
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The True Principles of Traditional Body Cultivation 古法养身真解
The True Secrets of Traditional Health Cultivation
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The Perfumer of the Tongyou Fragrance Shop 通幽香铺的调香师
First comes the incense marrow, second the incense skin, third the incense flesh and fourth the incense soul… Fifth, greed; sixth, wrath; seventh, delusion; eighth, gratitude… Ninth, burning away… the anguish of reincarnation… The tenth incense… is the void she wrenched from her own soul… My name is Shen Heng, and I run an incense shop on an old street in Yingkou. I sell incense by day and ferry souls by night. Nine kinds of incense, exchanged for nine kinds of obsession. Greed, anger, delusion
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- 67 Half Farmer, Half Taoist 半农半道 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 350Reads—Score—Shelves
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Who Dares Mess with This Super-Strong Bookstore Owner? 谁敢惹我这力大无穷的书店女老板
Mystery + Mind-Bending Puzzles + Deduction + Horror + Twists After graduating, Jiang Xiaoyu inherited the secondhand bookstore her grandfather had left her. Her once-peaceful life was turned upside down as strange events began happening one after another. The owner of the air-conditioning shop next door bought one of her secondhand books and then vanished without a trace. Everyone who had read that book mysteriously disappeared. What secrets are hidden within it?
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The Message from the People of the Earth's Core 地心人的传话
This is a science fiction novel, inspired by an unusual dream I had and written after I collected some information. Please read it as science fiction. It is purely fictional, so don’t take it seriously. Another reason I wrote it is that I hope human civilization can truly unite, live in harmony, and advance science and technology together until we reach an early-stage civilization and enter the golden age we dream of. Finally, I want to tell everyone that I have never encountered the so-called s
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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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Taiyi of the Daoist Sect: I Should Never Have Descended to the Mortal Realm 道门太乙：本座就不该下凡
Absolutely no AI content, conceived entirely by a human mind. No System, no naive protagonist, pure Taoist tradition. A serious heads-up: This is a traditional, carefully written story with a somewhat slow start. It picks up after eight chapters. Pingdan, a beggar of unknown origins, unexpectedly encounters a member of the Three Purities sect. To repay his master’s kindness, he travels thousands of miles, keeps his promise, and honors the dead. Who could have known his complicated past would co
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The Life of a Spirit Medium's Disciple 顶香出马弟子的人生
The life of a spirit-medium disciple, recounting how I established my altar and became a spirit medium, as well as how I took a Taoist priest as my master! Everything is based on real experiences and factual explanations, with no fantasy or cultivation elements whatsoever!
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Passion's Flame: Wu Song and Pan Jinlian 烈火情人之武松潘金莲
Legendary figures from Water Margin + the 1990s wave of people heading south for work + wealthy-family business wars + devastating romance + fated reincarnation. The four-lifetime love story of Tan Xiao and Fang Fang: Past life: Wu Song kills Pan Jinlian → They meet and fall in love in this life → A misunderstanding drives them apart → They face hardships together → A happy ending at last
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- 74 A Tender Haven on the Night Road 夜途温柔乡 Twenty-two-year-old Lin Wanwan graduated from a music conservatory and, through a twist of fate, became a “trial-singing princess” at a KTV. At a private-room gathering for the wealthy, she was forced to sing for Lu Chenzhou, the crown prince of Beijing’s elite circle. The man rumored to be ruthless and cold, changing women as easily as clothes, stubbed out his cigarette in front of everyone after she finished singing “Courage.” “From now on, she’s the only one this room gets to book.” So began —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 75 In Search of Her Trail 寻觅芳踪 A nostalgic romance about migrant workers in the 1990s! Packed with details from the decade: pagers, IC-card payphones, green passenger trains, letters from factory girls, radios, cassette tapes, VCDs, stickers of Hong Kong and Taiwanese stars, polyester shirts, woven-plastic sacks, assembly lines, overtime pay, temporary residence permits, and running faster than a rabbit when the police came to check them... 20Reads—Score—Shelves
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The Mystic Middleman 玄学中介人
[Folk Customs + Supernatural Mysteries + Light Ensemble Cast + Light Horror] [Metaphysics × Cultivation] There is a kind of person in this world who looks just like anyone else, yet possesses abilities ordinary people do not. Divination and prediction, drawing talismans and chanting spells, catching ghosts and exorcising demons, breaking curses and suppressing evil, locating dragon veins and assessing burial sites... Have you ever yearned for these strange abilities? Have you ever heard of these
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- 77 EN Notes from a Taoist Medicine Clinic 道医馆笔记 [All plotlines in this book are fictional and included solely for the purposes of the story. They do not represent real-life views. Please keep that in mind and don't confuse fiction with reality.] After graduating with a master's degree from an ordinary university of traditional Chinese medicine, the protagonist didn't go to work at a hospital. Instead, they joined a Daoist medical clinic and began recording their encounters with strange and baffling illnesses. 225.5kReads9.5Score81.9kShelves
- 78 An Ordinary Doctor Who Heals the World 济世凡医 Seeing color, hearing sound, and taking a pulse with three fingers: a traditional worldview gives rise to traditional medical principles. This story has no supernatural powers or tycoons throwing money around. It is simply a day-by-day account of an ordinary practitioner of traditional Chinese medicine on his path as a doctor, guided by the heartfelt wish to carry on the teachings of the sages. Throughout the long river of history, traditional medicine has protected generations of Chinese people 20.3kReads9.4Score3.3kShelves
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Yin-Yang Eye Realtor: Selling Haunted Houses in Chongqing 阴阳眼中介：我在重庆卖凶宅
A novel inspired by local Chongqing legends and historical anecdotes. This story is entirely fictional. As a child, the protagonist gained the ability to see yin and yang from a Qing dynasty skeleton. His family’s ancestral ledger is filled with secrets of old Chongqing. The folklore is meticulously researched, with traceable details ranging from place names and historical anecdotes to traditional remedies and feng shui formations. Each haunted house seems like a self-contained case, but in trut
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Tianxuan Paranormal Affairs Office 天玄灵异事务所
- [Infinite Flow + Urban Supernatural + Chinese-Style Horror + Folk Legends and Hauntings + Celestial Master Exorcists + Heirs to the Daoist Tradition + Heterochromatic-Eyed Heroine + Haunted House Tales + Episodic Stories + Folk Taboos] - Hidden deep in the bustling streets is an inconspicuous supernatural affairs office called Tianxuan. - No one dares touch the folk taboos of this world. Haunted houses are plagued by unsolved horrors, abandoned villages and ancient mansions seethe with resentm
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- 81 My Years as a Feng Shui Consultant in the Entertainment Industry 我在娱乐圈当风水顾问的那些年 Corpse-oil lipstick, raising little ghosts, summoning fox spirits, tattooed talismans: some celebrities will stop at nothing to get famous and go viral. My name is Chen Tian. I'm a feng shui consultant who moves in entertainment circles, specializing in handling the aftermath for celebrities who rose to fame through supernatural means. 140.4kReads9.0Score27kShelves
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The Funeral Specialist: Targeted Just Three Days After Posting 白事先生：发书三天，就被盯上了
(This book is entirely fictional. Any resemblance to real people or events is purely coincidental!) The market is sluggish, and funeral shops are no exception. With nothing better to do, I turned the manuscript Guichen Register, written by my grandfather and father together, into a digital edition. I’m addicted to typing, so I decided to write a novel to help make ends meet. But I never expected that just three days after I published it, someone would set their sights on me...
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- 83 My Years in the Funeral Business 我干白事儿那些年 The funeral services provider Gouqie runs a one-stop funeral business on a shoestring. Uncle Yang is attacked, bringing the Chenxing List to light. A perfectly ordinary funeral services provider is drawn onto the path of spirit-mediumship. Gouqie has seen every side of the human world, yet is pulled into another supernatural realm. This isn't transmigration. Funeral shops, funeral homes: Gouqie's business keeps growing, and so does the number of enemies! Meng Qin, the Chenxing List, the Qia 768Reads7.6Score102Shelves
- 84 Strange Tales from the Jianghu Streets 市井江湖异闻录 Qin Bei was an ordinary young man from Northeast China, living a quiet, unremarkable life among the bustle of the city. Then a mysterious package arrived out of the blue, shattering his peaceful routine and dragging him into one bizarre incident after another. Beneath the glittering surface of modern life, undercurrents are stirring. The secretive martial sects passed down for millennia have never vanished, and mysterious powers unknown to the world lie hidden in the everyday rhythms of the cit 56Reads—Score—Shelves
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Heaven's Secrets Forbidden: A Metaphysics Master's Art of Feng Shui and Yin-Yang 天机禁忌：玄门风水相师镇阴阳
Xu Daoyi was born with a pure Yang constitution, a once-in-a-century rarity. The Yang energy within him was so strong it could burn vengeful ghosts to ash. But this gift was also a death sentence. His master told him that unless he found a woman with a pure Yin birth chart before the Summer Solstice and united their Yin and Yang, he would explode and die seven days later. The seven-day deadline drew closer, and the Yang energy in his body surged higher every day. Xu Daoyi had saved countless liv
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Baby Lantern 婴儿灯
When I was five, I fell into the water and my soul left my body. With my own eyes, I saw the legendary baby lantern said to lure away souls. I initially thought it had come to harm me, but that wasn’t the case. As I continued to investigate, a sinister layout targeting me slowly came to light...
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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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Feng Shui: The Master of Supreme Rank 风水之术，超品相师
This book features a wealth of real-life feng shui cases, progressing from the basics to more advanced concepts and combining landform feng shui with qi analysis. It covers the Eight Mansions school, Xuan Kong Flying Stars, the Golden Lock and Jade Gate method, the Twenty-Four Mountains school, Heavenly Doctor feng shui, Liu Yao divination, and more. [Feng Shui]+ [Physiognomy]+ [Fortune-Telling]+ [Eight Trigrams] [Typed by hand]+ [No AI whatsoever] As the eighteenth-generation heir to the Ma Yi
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The Bankrupt Exorcist's Haunted House Livestream 破产天师的凶宅直播间
“Congratulations. You've inherited a mansion worth a fortune, as well as... 200,000 yuan in deadly yin debt.” The lawyer's voice was like a scalpel, cutting through all my beautiful dreams. I'm Wu Suowei, a con artist who edits photos to pass myself off as a master of the occult. I was planning to pack up and run. But when I opened the doors of Jingxin Studio and saw the strange assortment of “family members” inside... I knew there was no escape. This wasn't a haunted house. It was an ancient se
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- 90 The Taoist Priest Descends the Mountain: I Sell My Temple and Become a Young Master 道士下山：卖掉道观做少爷 “I am Wang Shiye, a Taoist!” “King of the Taoists, you say? What an arrogant introduction!” His master was dead, and his sect's fortunes had run out. Wang Shiye sold the temple and took the Four-Eared Temple's ritual implements down the mountain. He may not be the King of the Taoists, but this young Taoist in his early twenties, though no good at magical duels, could tell fortunes and read the flow of qi and divine trigrams like no one else. He could even use divination like GPS. Unfortunately, 148Reads—Score—Shelves
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Here to Eat, Not to Fall in Love: I Wandered the Mortal World and Became an Immortal Along the Way 只吃饭不谈情：游人间我顺便成仙
[Healing feel-good story + Chinese-style intangible cultural heritage + slow-living aesthetic + urban cultivation + food and travel + longevity] After his Taoist temple was confiscated, the young Taoist Qing Yuan was forced to leave the mountain. By chance, he awakened the “Traveling Through Mountains and Rivers” System. His cultivation takes place not in the mountains, but amid the bustle of everyday life: the tears shed by West Lake, the last echoes of Suzhou, the breakdowns at Shanghai's Luji
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A Traveler's Journal of Strange Encounters Around the World 环球异诡走访手记
My name is Lin Du. I do a job that’s not easy to explain to people. Put simply, I help people deal with “trouble.” I know my way around things in China. Exorcisms, warding off evil spirits, breaking curses: most situations can be handled with the methods handed down by our ancestors. But some things are different. Some things aren’t in our ancestors’ books. When my master left, he told me, “Once you leave this land, your methods might not work.”
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- 93 I Read People's Fortunes 我是一个看事的 (No harem, not a power fantasy, slow-paced, fighting monsters and leveling up) My name is Yu Xuanxiao. I was an ordinary person, but I was inexplicably drawn into a conspiracy and had no choice but to enter the Daoist sect and learn the art of talismans. By chance, I discovered that the source of it all was connected to a black fox from a hundred years ago. For the sake of my future, I can only fight alongside a group of like-minded companions, battling demons and monsters to the death time an 11Reads—Score—Shelves
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Folk Horror [The Fake Master Who Shocks a Hundred Demons] 恐怖民俗【冒牌大师震百妖】
The thing Liu Buyi, a fake master, regrets most in his life is learning how to “draw talismans with soy sauce” from a short video. Because the corpse that should be lying quietly in front of him is now using a soy-sauce-dipped finger to write his name on the coffin lid. Meanwhile, his half-baked beauty of a partner, An Xun, is munching on sunflower seeds and enjoying the show. “Didn't you say you had Yin-Yang Eyes?!” Liu Buyi's voice trembles. Seeing how unconcerned she looks, he almost passes o
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Sister Zombie, Help! There's a Ghost Behind Me! 尸姐，救命！我身后有鬼！
[Mild Horror] [Devoted Couple] [Ghost Wife] [Two Female Leads] [Contractual Bond with a Coming-of-Age Dynamic] My name is Ji Ting. I died the day I was born. My grandmother summoned a female ghost, who dragged me back from death. She looked at me as if I were an enemy from a past life. I clung to her leg, and she called me useless. On our wedding day, she asked me, “Jinglan, are you happy?” Her soft lips kissed me until I was dizzy with bliss. I could no longer tell whether I was Ji Ting or Pei
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The Sobbing Maitreya 哽咽的弥勒
A truly thrilling horror fantasy, with a master like Lin Zhenying guiding you through terrifying adventures, slaying demons and monsters, exploring forbidden arts, and cultivating as a demon immortal. Once you start reading, you won't be able to stop. It's pure exhilaration from beginning to end!
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- 97 The Woman in the Closet 柜子里的女人 The Woman in the Cabinet 55Reads—Score—Shelves
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After Passing the Civil Service Exam, a Mage Tricked Me into Catching Ghosts 考编上岸后，我被法师骗去抓鬼
[Supernatural powers + spirit mediums + divination + disciple of a bodhisattva + ghost hunting] This entire novel is told through my personal experiences. I’ve simply recorded all the supernatural events I’ve experienced, witnessed, and encountered over the years. Readers can decide for themselves whether they’re true or not.
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Myriad Lifetimes: A Simulator for the Heavens 万世轮回诸天模拟器
The Myriad Worlds Simulator of Eternal Reincarnation
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The Metaphysics Expert Is Back at Her Street Stall 玄学大佬她又去摆地摊了
Original titles: The Fortune-Telling Street Vendor Is Actually a Mystical Arts Ancestor?! and The Mystical Arts Big Shot Is Back at Her Street Stall [Fortune-telling + ghost-catching + feng shui + powerful protagonist + no romance, thriving solo + gossip + episodic stories] The junior sister of the Zhengyang Sect, sealed away for a thousand years, wakes up reborn in the body of a girl whose parents don't care for her. The girl wants to go to school, so she'll have to earn her own tuition. So We
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