Any Books Like Midnight Pawnshop: Keep the Living Away? 有没有类似《午夜当铺，活人回避》的书

1. 1 扎 The Paper Effigy Shop: Everyone Around Me Is a Big Shot 扎纸铺，我身边都是大佬 Jie Yu界玉Mystery1.0M WordsCompleted In our ancient land of China, many professions have their own rules and taboos. The older and more mysterious the craft, the more this is true. For example, when “asking the rice,” you must never ask how someone died; a coffin maker must never make their own coffin; a paper effigy maker must never draw eyes on a paper figure; and a spirit medium must never conduct a ceremony without all the members of their altar present... If any of these rules and taboos are broken, something terrifying will h 26.8kReads9.3Score3kShelves

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   This, this, a supernatural novel, exciting and beautiful

2. 2 黄 The Yellow Springs Pawnshop: No Living Visitors 黄泉典当铺，生人勿近 The Moon Bridge Remains桥月仍在Mystery1.1M WordsOngoing [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. 5kReads6.4Score478Shelves

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   Huangquan pawn shop, keep strangers away. Folk customs are very immersive.

3. 3 午 The Midnight Ghost Market: Living People Keep Out 午夜鬼市，活人回避 The Drinking Monk吃酒和尚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 2.8kReads9.1Score188Shelves

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   I swear this book is definitely the scariest suspenseful supernatural book I have ever read. It makes my scalp numb! [Blowing kiss]

4. 4 恐 Horror's Edge: 100 Absolutely Terrifying Ghost Stories 恐怖边界：100个绝对惊悚的鬼谈 The Out-of-Control Editorial Department失控编辑部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 2.5kReads8.7Score196Shelves

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   It's not that scary. I didn't dare to go to the bathroom in the middle of the night. If I had known, I would have watched it during the day!

5. 5 阴 The One Who Borrows Lives from the Underworld 阴间借命人 The Out-of-Control Editorial Department失控编辑部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 2.4kReads9.1Score275Shelves
6. 6 风 King of Feng Shui 风水之王 Purple Dream Wandering Dragon紫梦游龙Mystery10.1M WordsOngoing 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! 804.6kReads9.4Score41.8kShelves

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   It's interesting and interesting, and it's also like catching ghosts. I've been watching it.

7. 7 午 The Midnight General Store 午夜杂货铺 Sunflower in the Garden园中葵Mystery2.5M WordsCompleted “Welcome to the Underworld General Store. Here, you’ll find merchandise unlike anything else, along with extraordinary service…” I run a midnight general store and work as a professional spirit walker, moving between the worlds of yin and yang. In the pitch-black night, I deal in things that must never be spoken of. Then one day, a strange customer dressed head to toe in red came in, and that was when the real horror began… 5kReads8.4Score442Shelves

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   🎆🎆To be honest, I only listened to this book. When I went to bed at night, I listened to it indifferently, and I fell asleep with ghosts and ghosts. However, this book turned out to be particularly fascinating😻😻. I couldn't sleep until midnight after listening to it🤪🤪🤪. It's very interesting and very close to life. It's suitable for ordinary people to counterattack. I like it very much.

8. 8 午 The Midnight Pawnshop: The Living Must Keep Away 午夜当铺，活人回避 Chong Xiayueban虫下月半Mystery3.9M WordsOngoing [Traditional Supernatural + Chinese Folklore + Unorthodox Trading + Tales of Evil Objects] No romantic pairing This is a strange pawnshop that only accepts sinister objects with special value! Coins placed in the mouths of the dead, executioners' swords, grave-top mushrooms, flesh lingzhi, Kunlun fetuses... Evil objects can harm people, but they can also help them! Once they pass through the pawnshop's hands, being pawned and sold, evil can be transformed into treasure! They can bring promotions 248.5kReads9.4Score20.1kShelves
9. 9 我 I Run a Paper Effigy Shop 我有一间扎纸店 Er Lei二雷Mystery806k WordsCompleted I Have a Paper Effigy Shop tells the story of the protagonist, Liu Dabao, who runs a shop making paper effigies. One day, a guy named Li Xunhuan asked me to burn him a villa and gave me a jade pendant, saying someone would come to collect it later. That evening, a woman came to pick up the pendant and gave me a thousand yuan. But who could have guessed that the next day, the money vanished and turned into a pile of white paper! Was it ghost money for the dead? Were Li Xunhuan and that woman both 134Reads8.7Score—Shelves

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   I didn't even dare to go to the toilet! [Petrochemical][Petrochemical][Petrochemical]

10. 10 阴 The Yin-Yang Hot Pot Restaurant 阴阳火锅店 Yan Huo炎火Mystery806k WordsCompleted I took over a hot pot restaurant from my second uncle. He told me never to serve customers a yuan yang hot pot after midnight! After I took over the place, everything I believed in began to crumble... One night, I wasn't paying attention and served a couple a yuan yang hot pot. The next day, I saw in the newspaper that the couple had died! They'd jumped to their deaths together! After that, every night at midnight, a strange couple would appear in my restaurant and ask me to make them a yuan yan 403Reads7.7Score—Shelves
11. 11 阴 The Netherworld Inn 阴间客栈 Sun Jiu Hutu孙九糊涂Mystery814k WordsCompleted My name is Qin Yu. While on a business trip, I checked into a uniquely styled inn called the Yin Room Inn. It even offered “special services” in the middle of the night. Little did I know it was an inn from the underworld. I began having nightmare after nightmare, and my friends kept getting into trouble... 2.7kReads9.0Score129Shelves
12. 12 我 My Years as a Buddhist Nun 我当师太的那些年 Gold Is Money金子就是钞票Mystery1.6M WordsCompleted I was born a girl with a Pure Yang fate into a family of feng shui masters. For generations, my family had practiced feng shui in the countryside. My grandfather had hoped his eldest grandchild would be a boy, so he could pass down his skills to the eldest son and grandson. But I turned out to be a girl. Grandfather never took a liking to me, so my parents could only take me to live in the city. No one expected that, during the Ghost Festival in the year I turned twenty-five, Grandfather would s 364Reads8.7Score—Shelves
13. 13 我 I Might Have Changed the Wrong Fate 我可能改了个假命 Knife in the Sleeve袖里刀Mystery808k WordsCompleted 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 73Reads8.9Score—Shelves
14. 14 都 It's All the Haunted House's Fault 都是凶宅惹的祸 Nightfall夜色Mystery907k WordsCompleted I'm a mystery writer. In search of inspiration, I moved into a house rumored to be haunted. Every night, a horribly disfigured face appeared in the window, and outside, the rotten corpse of a woman hung from a tree. I realized then that this really was a haunted house! Gradually, my family began acting strangely, and we even found a mummified corpse sealed inside the wall for years! As I investigated further, I came across something even more terrifying… 127Reads8.7Score—Shelves
15. 15 地 The Underworld Calls Me Little Sir 地府叫我小先生 HelinEastern Fantasy803k WordsCompleted [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 546Reads—Score—Shelves
16. 16 这 This Taoist Priest Is a Little Too Cool 这个道士不太冷 Ghost Hunter, Big Brother抓鬼大师兄Mystery802k WordsCompleted My name is Niu Dabao, and I’m the only college graduate in Niu Village. I thought that after graduation, I’d get promoted, earn a bigger salary, marry a beautiful, rich woman, and reach the pinnacle of life. Who knew the company would go under and the boss would kill himself? I didn’t get a single penny of my wages, couldn’t even afford rent, and had to sleep at the train station every night! Then a ragged Taoist priest told me I was dogged by bad luck and possessed by a host of ghosts, and that 602Reads7.8Score—Shelves
17. 17 民 Notes on Folk Spirit Mediums 民间出马仙笔记 Sun Mingyuan孙铭苑Mystery95k WordsCompleted [Spirit Mediums + Chinese-Style Horror + Episodic Stories + Supernatural Mystery + Karma + Mind-Blowing Twists + Feng Shui and the Occult] "Unraveling one strange and unpredictable tale of karmic retribution after another" In a remote suburb of the city lies a cemetery. Few people know that a shop dealing in the supernatural stands there, run by a spirit medium who can communicate with the dead and the living. The owner specializes in paranormal cases beyond ordinary people's understanding, but 474Reads9.3Score—Shelves
18. 18 我 I Live in Fengmen Village 我住在封门村 Naughty Leopard顽皮豹Mystery807k WordsCompleted My hometown shares its name with the legendary number-one haunted village in China: Fengmen Village. What’s more, our village also has a grandmaster’s chair. Whoever sits in it is doomed to die! It was 1997, and I had been accepted into the high school in town. Once summer vacation was over, I would finally be able to leave the place where I’d spent sixteen years. But what I never expected was for one terrifying incident after another to strike the village! Rats that ate human flesh, five-colore 626Reads6.1Score—Shelves
19. 19 夜 Ghost Sightings at the Nightclub 夜场见鬼录 Yu Long玉龙Mystery278k WordsCompleted A Long is a DJ at a bar with a legendary “Stage of Death.” Many people have died there under mysterious circumstances. The cause of death could never be determined, and some bodies were never even found! The strange incidents stopped only after the bar was shut down. As the legend of the deaths gradually faded from memory, someone opened the stage once more! After that, disaster struck again and again! A terrifying ghostly figure appears in the girls’ dormitory, a faceless baby clings to a chand 234Reads8.7Score—Shelves
20. 20 午 The Midnight Gravekeeper 午夜守墓人 Rose蔷薇Mystery802k WordsCompleted A desolate mountain. An ancient tomb. A woman in white. A blood-red moon at midnight. A corpse monk on the move. I’m a high school senior. With the college entrance exam just around the corner, I suddenly came down with a fever that wouldn’t break and missed the test. After recovering at home for more than half a year, I found a job guarding the gate at a cemetery. Seeing how frail I was and how weak my yang energy was, Old Zhang, the gravedigger, found me a protector. But she wasn’t human. She 3.1kReads8.4Score210Shelves
21. 21 迷 The Yin and Yang of the Mist 迷雾阴阳 The Cautious Shixiu兢兢战战的世修Mystery320k WordsCompleted The Municipal Public Security Bureau's Special Cases Investigation Division, or Special Investigations Division for short, specializes in supernatural incidents that defy rational explanation. Shen Yanzhi, an officer in the division who is calm, rational, and skilled in talismans and spells, meets Lin Mo, a descendant of a family of yin-yang masters whose bloodline can suppress evil forces and whose gentle nature conceals a stubborn streak, while investigating a case. Together, they gradually un 26Reads—Score—Shelves

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    A super interesting supernatural novel, not for the faint of heart

22. 22 乡 Tales of Strange Happenings in the Countryside 乡村诡事录 Zhang Xiaohe张小河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 1.9kReads9.0Score133Shelves

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    😱😱😱These horror novels are absolutely stunning. They filled me with the fear of a deserted village. I didn't dare to breathe out when I was reading. I felt a chill on my back, as if I was being dragged into an endless abyss. Don't enter for the faint of heart!

23. 23 噩 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 Xiao Youqian萧有钱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, 1.6kReads8.9Score149Shelves

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    😨😨😨I feel numb, I feel numb, I feel numb immediately after reading these horror novels! That creepy feeling spread from my scalp to the soles of my feet

24. 24 鬼 Ghostly Eyes 鬼灵瞳 Little Master小师傅Mystery931k WordsCompleted A reclusive man known as Little Master, along with several strange people brought together by coincidence but united by their shared interests, gradually uncovers a history buried for many years: the five great clans of the ancient world and the Yin-Yang adepts who could do anything. It seems that fate has long been leading them into one thrilling fantasy adventure after another... 1.4kReads9.1Score106Shelves
25. 25 东 Northeastern China's Forbidden Secrets 东北禁忌手札 Jun Lan君阑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 816Reads8.8Score108Shelves
26. 26 夜 Ghostly Whispers at Midnight 夜半鬼语 Millennium-Old Monster千年老妖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 7.8kReads9.0Score255Shelves
27. 27 我 I'm a Customer Service Agent in the Underworld, and My Clients Were Big Shots in Life 我在阴间当客服，客户是生前大佬 Author Thumb作者拇指Urban100k WordsOngoing Satisfying power fantasy, System story, yin and yang, urban supernatural, comeback, a star-studded cast of powerful figures, unresolved obsessions, protection Programmer Chen Yan dies suddenly from overwork and unexpectedly binds himself to the Netherworld Customer Service System, becoming the only living temp worker in the Underworld Bureau. Just then, the Underworld’s entire System crashes. The ghost officers go missing, and emperors of ages past, business tycoons, battlefield gods of war, and 2Reads—Score—Shelves

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    Others work from 9 to 5, but I work in the underworld accepting customers! The reception is full of thousand-year-old ghosts and immortals, wronged giants, and tragic death bosses. With one hand, they can solve shocking injustices and with the other hand, they can punish the evildoers in the world. The high-energy twists and turns are endless and the feeling of pleasure is full. You can get hooked after reading just one chapter!!???

28. 28 尸 The Corpse Coffin's Ghostly Fragrance 尸棺鬼香 A Jiao阿椒Mystery104k WordsOngoing [The corpse sits in the coffin, the ghost eats incense] [Fate from a past life, continued in this one] A Maoshan Taoist’s path to raising ghosts... After his grandmother dies unexpectedly, Shen Lin happens upon the notes his grandfather left behind. From then on, he begins a ghost-hunting life in which he narrowly escapes death time and time again... 148Reads—Score—Shelves

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    Horrible ceiling, okay?

29. 29 超 Super Scary Livestream 超级惊悚直播 Yuwen Chang Gong宇文长弓Mystery2.2M WordsCompleted "Welcome, everyone, to the Supernatural Scary Live Stream. Before we start today's broadcast, I have to tell you that only three kinds of people can watch this stream: those with a heavy aura of yin energy, those who will die within seven days, and the third kind, which I can't discuss in detail. I can only give you one warning: watch your back!" 29.4kReads9.2Score3.6kShelves
30. 30 山 The Yin-Yang Master of the Mountain Village 山村阴阳先生 The Out-of-Control Editorial Department失控编辑部Mystery589k WordsCompleted My brother came back from the dead, and I learned funeral rites to uncover the truth My name is Chen Xiaojun, and I live in a place in Northeast China called Kaoshan Village. One year, my older brother died under mysterious circumstances. His death was gruesome. Though he was only in his twenties, his corpse was as thin as a skeleton, with hair turned white! Even more bizarre, my brother came back to life in the funeral hall! To find out what had happened, I learned a few tricks from an old mast 12.4kReads9.2Score883Shelves

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    ‼ ️💯💥Although this book is not a traditional horror, it does have a lot of scary elements! Deserted villages, folklore, horror and suspense, etc... There are supernatural horrors and human games. It's super interesting!! Very top!!!!! There are many reversals!!

31. 31 怪 A Record of Strange Encounters 怪异见闻录 Liao Jianwei廖建威Mystery133k WordsCompleted [Folk horror, Taoist exorcists, spirit mediums banishing evil, no romance, intelligent protagonist] My grandmother is a spirit medium. Just tonight, Uncle Bei from our village came to ask her to perform an exorcism. He said Auntie Liu from the village was actually a ghost? But Auntie Liu only came to my shop yesterday to buy paper money! And so began a series of strange encounters… that turned me from an ordinary person into someone with only three souls and six spirits left! 26Reads—Score—Shelves

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    This one is better written.

32. 32 荒 Tales of a Haunted Village 荒村怪谈录 The Out-of-Control Editorial Department失控编辑部Mystery304k WordsCompleted [Rural Mysteries + Folk Customs + Chinese-Style Horror + Feng Shui and the Supernatural + Anthology + Shocking Twists] There is an old well in Jiulitun that has been sealed for thirty years, and one eerie incident after another keeps occurring. Why has a little girl become unbelievably strong and deranged? Why do villagers keep drowning, and why is the village taboo so difficult to speak of? It all goes back thirty years... 319Reads8.7Score—Shelves

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    That's because I'm cowardly!! [Petrochemical][Petrochemical][Petrochemical]

33. 33 灵 The Coffin Walks at Night 灵棺夜行 Watchdog看门狗Mystery1.2M WordsCompleted I was carrying a coffin up the mountain for a burial when they stuffed me inside and buried me alive. Then, in a single night, all three hundred or so people in the village vanished. Only at night was the place alive with voices. I crawled out of the coffin, only to discover... 8.2kReads8.2Score603Shelves
34. 34 黄 Yellow Springs General Store 黄泉杂货铺 Ninth Elder of the Wu Clan巫门老九Mystery2.5M WordsCompleted At the end of a street on a quiet, late-night evening stands a grocery shop with old-fashioned decor. Getting something for nothing is simple: just agree to do a ghost a favor, and it'll make it happen. 10.7kReads8.8Score1.4kShelves
35. 35 白 The Strange Tales of Baize Pawnshop 白泽典当行异闻录 Orange-Flavored Meow Alien橙味咩星人Mystery593k WordsCompleted Bai Ze, under the alias Xuan Xiao, runs a hidden pawnshop in the mortal world. Only those burdened by unfulfilled obsessions can see its vermilion-lacquered gates on the night of a full moon. A boy named A He wanders into the shop and becomes an apprentice, gradually uncovering the secrets of the divine beast who guards the Book of Karma and gathers trials of human nature. The final chapter reveals that Bai Ze was punished with a thousand years of tribulations for secretly altering fate. A He tu —Reads—Score—Shelves

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    I recommend this book. It is similar to the supernatural novel from No. 8 Pawn Shop in the early years. People can pawn anything of value in exchange. The protagonists, Ah He and the mythical beast Bai Ze, revolve around the various strange stories they experienced in the pawn shop. Very attractive.

36. 36 我 I Saved Thousands of Female Prisoners Alone and Won the Empress’s Heart 我一人拯救万千女囚，俘获女帝 The Fold-Eared Cat from the Kite Family风筝家的折耳猫Mystery1.1M WordsCompleted Not a wish-fulfillment novel. No System. Deep in the mountains of Northeast China lies a village where every woman is breathtakingly beautiful, yet none can ever leave. Chen Daming only went on vacation, but wound up wandering into a haunted place, eating two and a half jin of expired immortal pills, and gaining a heap of useless superpowers. The seemingly worthless protagonist takes on the responsibility of protecting patriarchal civilization as the matriarchal civilization that ruled Earth for 1.7kReads8.9Score250Shelves

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    The more I read this book, the more I can't stop reading it. The setting is very interesting.

37. 37 工 The Best Feng Shui Master on the Construction Site 工地最强建筑风水师 Good Fortune Comes to the Good吉人自有天祥Mystery1.8M WordsOngoing [Campus opening · Wild imagination · Feng Shui Mysticism · Supernatural Strange Events · Hu, Huang, Bai, Liu, and Hui (Spirit Mediums) · Bureau 749 · Buddhism, Taoism, Confucianism, Mohism, and Legalism · Gu Poison Duels · Qimen Dunjia · Mohist Mechanisms · Lu Ban Craft · Reincarnated Living Buddha]! Cultivate righteousness to uphold heaven and earth, and keep a touch of bandit spirit to put petty men in their place. Nurture seven parts chivalry to roam the world, and carry three parts roguishne 2.7kReads8.3Score373Shelves

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    Recommend an exciting article to start the campus, a Feng Shui supernatural novel "The Strongest Architectural Feng Shui Master at the Construction Site", which integrates Buddhism, Taoism, Confucianism, Feng Shui fighting, historical time travel, reincarnation, magic, science fiction, Feng Shui supernatural, Lu Ban Shu, Mohist mechanical skills, Gu magic, and corpse exorcism. It writes about Feng Shui supernatural things from the perspective of architecture students and construction engineers. It is being serialized on Tomato Novel Network. .

38. 38 夜 I Quit Pretending at the Nightclub: I'm a Hidden Big Shot 夜店不装了，我是隐藏大佬 Albanian Copper阿尔巴尼铜Urban449k WordsCompleted I’m Lu Jin. By day, I’m an utterly ordinary wage slave. By night, I’m the behind-the-scenes boss of a nightclub. To keep things peaceful, I play the coward, slack off, and keep a low profile. All I want is to quietly watch over the place and enjoy a fruit platter. That is, until some rich kid starts showing off, a two-faced green-tea girl tries to freeload off my membership, and thugs show up demanding protection money. I rub every last one of them into the ground. Everyone thinks I’m just an or 1Reads—Score—Shelves

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    Underworld's hidden boss + pretending to be a pig and eating the tiger + nightclub/city + cool story that doesn't hold you back

39. 39 5 Top Secret File 507: Unknown Space 507绝密档案：未知空间 Albanian Copper阿尔巴尼铜10k WordsCompleted File 507: Top-Secret Dossier: Unknown Space —Reads—Score—Shelves
40. 40 墟 The Ferryman Beneath the Ruined Bridge 墟桥下的摆渡人 Half a Peanut Candy半截花生糖Mystery147k WordsOngoing Some souls are destined never to cross the River of Forgetfulness in peace. He wanders on the border between life and death, neither a dead soul nor a living being. He is Lin Xiaoman, the ferryman beneath the Ruined Bridge, unrecorded by the Underworld and unseen by the living. He runs a “convenience store” that only souls burdened by the deepest obsessions can find. Here, tears can be weighed, memories pawned, and unfinished wishes traded for one last glimpse across the divide between yin and y —Reads—Score—Shelves

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    I have been able to cross thousands of dead souls, but I cannot cross over myself on that day in 1990, when I knelt down and begged. Even though the fireflies are faint, they can illuminate the dark night; even though the ruins bridge is broken, I can cross over the crazy souls.

41. 41 雇 Hiring a Handsome Guy to Guard the House 雇个帅哥来镇宅 Zahari扎哈里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 69Reads—Score—Shelves
42. 42 我 My Final Ten Years as a Taoist 我为道士的最后十年 Crazy Mutton Chops疯狂络腮胡Mystery704k WordsOngoing Wherever there is desire in this world, there are ghosts. I, Jiang Ping, was accidentally caught up in a supernatural incident, leaving me with only ten years to live. Since my fate is sealed, I’ll cultivate the Dao and extend my life. Capture ghosts, slay demons. A sharp mind and a well-laid plan. No cheap melodrama or harem antics, though the plot takes a while to unfold. Also, this is a long novel. What? You don’t like that? Take your time and give it a proper read, or don’t blame me when I 39Reads—Score—Shelves
43. 43 民 Strange Tales from the Civil Affairs Bureau (Complete in 8 Volumes) 民调局异闻录（全8册） Er Dong Shuishou耳东水寿Mystery1.6M WordsCompleted The Strange Tales of the Bureau of Investigation series creates an entirely new world of suspense: a mysterious organization dedicated to uncovering the truth behind bizarre, uncanny, and supernatural events, and the world it faces. The stories are wildly strange and utterly captivating, with a witty, playful style and one suspenseful twist after another. Once you start reading, you won't be able to put them down. Throughout history, strange cases and evil monsters have always been dealt with by 42.6kReads9.6Score7kShelves
44. 44 你 Are You a Spirit Medium? No! I Deliver Takeout 你是出马仙么？不！我是送外卖的 Mi Yu米宇Mystery1.0M WordsCompleted [Humorous comedy] [Traditional supernatural horror] [Spirit-medium tradition] [No System] You’ve got to be a little crazy to write novels. Ever since deliveryman Yang Ergou encountered a ghost for the first time at twenty-four, he’s gradually let loose. When faced with a ghost: “Bro, you’ve hit me and beaten me up, and I found my phone. Just let me go, okay?” Yang Ergou looks down at his phone. “Cut the crap. Help me deliver this order first.” When faced with an immortal spirit: “You reckless sp 23.4kReads9.2Score2.6kShelves

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45. 45 午 Midnight Wonders 午夜惊奇 Qiao Dou Ma Dai QAQ桥豆麻袋QAQUrban171k 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 400Reads8.7Score—Shelves
46. 46 午 Midnight Terror: Human Nature Stories That Will Haunt You 午夜惊魂：让人细思极恐的人性故事 Gold Is Money金子就是钞票Mystery142k WordsCompleted At midnight, let's listen together to the little stories that circulate all around us. Maybe they're true. Maybe you've heard them too, or even experienced them yourself. Those moments that grow more terrifying the more you think about them go perfectly with the pitch-black night beyond the window. Red brick walls are common in many places. But we've never stopped to wonder: why are those bricks so red, so vivid? Rideshares at night aren't necessarily safe. Passengers have their concerns, and dr 432Reads8.8Score—Shelves
47. 47 民 Tales of the Supernatural 民间怪谈录 Qu Gaofeng曲高峰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 1.2kReads8.9Score105Shelves
48. 48 人 A World Out of Balance 人间失衡 Xiao Youqian萧有钱Mystery94k WordsCompleted [Mind-bending suspense + short stories + no overarching plot + crime + criminal investigation + shocking twists + stories of ordinary people] The deepest wounds are often inflicted by those closest to us. A bloody case at an old family home, shrouded in mystery. Who is the real killer? After her father dies of illness, her sister-in-law sells her to northern Myanmar! The body of a baby girl is found in the woods. A kidnapping case turns into a murder investigation. Who would target an innocent i 214Reads8.3Score—Shelves
49. 49 话 There Are Ghosts in These Words 话里有诡 Chen Taiyao陈太瑶Mystery88k WordsCompleted They say everyone has a few little secrets they can't bring themselves to talk about these days. But if you really want to hear something out of the ordinary, go find Old Bu. Old Bu runs a little tavern set inside an abandoned train carriage. From the day it opened, he laid down one rule: One interesting story in exchange for a night's worth of drinks. Sounds like a good deal, doesn't it? Too bad he doesn't give you much to drink, and the stories just keep getting stranger. An intelligent wristb 15Reads7.7Score—Shelves
50. 50 我 My Lady Doesn't Believe in the Supernatural 我家夫人不信邪 Young Master Fuling炥灵公子Mystery276k WordsCompleted I believe in metaphysics, but she doesn’t. We got married just to prove each other wrong. I wanted to hang a portrait of the Three Pure Ones, but she refused, so after a huge argument, I decided to write down all the true events that have happened over the years: my dad got into trouble after eating a snake, my grandma suddenly started eating pork knuckle and cursing, Gao Dabao lost a hand in an elevator accident, Feng Ershuang was grabbed by a ghost, and their cousin mysteriously went mad and d 44Reads—Score—Shelves

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