Any Supernatural Novels That Make You Think? 有不有灵异，烧脑的文？
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The Occult Master Awoke, and Every Ghost in the District Moved Away 玄学大佬觉醒后，全区的鬼都搬了
[No female lead + everyone dotes on the protagonist + one-on-one romance + two male leads] Qin Feng thought that after dying alongside an evil ghost, he would fall into hell. He never expected to be given a chance to be reborn. In this world, demons and ghosts run rampant. He had originally planned to spend the rest of his life growing old in peace, but because of the curse on him, he has no choice but to return to his old line of work...
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Livestream Fortune-Telling: The Fox King Is My Sweet Little Husband 直播算命：狐王他是小娇夫
[Two male leads + livestreaming + fortune-telling + metaphysics + showbiz + both leads are each other's only one] Ji Xin made a deal with the Ghost King to become the Fox King, but later regretted it. By then, it was too late. He was conned into the body of a washed-up top-tier star in the Age of the End of Dharma. The former star had also been tricked into marrying a fake gay man, and had a bunch of unreasonable, doting older sisters who were hopelessly devoted to their younger brother. All he
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Apocalypse Rebirth: Doting Only on My Little Mystic 末世重生：独宠我家小神棍
The main story is complete! He keeps coming back, all for the sake of surviving the apocalypse alongside the one he loves. [Alternate Apocalypse + Two Male Leads + One True Pairing, 1v1 + Equally Matched Leads + Mutual Devotion + Multiple Rebirths + No System, Superpowers, or Golden Finger] For five years, Mo Yanshu gave everything he had to build Bright City. Now, all he wants is to walk beyond the city gates and bury himself in the endless sea of corpses outside. He only wants to see that pers
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After Coming Down the Mountain, the Powerhouse Gets Tangled Up with a Possessive CEO 大佬下山后，被病娇霸总缠上了
[Power couple, satisfying read, devoted to each other, both romantically inexperienced, secret identities revealed] The Su family, a wealthy clan in the northern kingdom, has a handsome son named Su Bai. When he was five, his father sent him to a Taoist temple because he was supposedly a bad omen for his stepmother. He returned as an adult. They say he's so stunningly beautiful, he's almost otherworldly. As soon as he returned, he smashed up the Su family villa and turned the whole household ups
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The Mystic’s Milk-Candy Stick Helps the CEO Get Rich Overnight 玄学奶棍他带着总裁一夜暴富
[Adorable little koi-fish fortune teller × unlucky, stubborn yet gentle CEO, sweet romance] Rong Ni doesn't believe in fate, but bad luck follows him everywhere. One day, he meets a little fortune teller who warns him not to turn right on his way home. He ignores the advice and gets hit by a car, breaking his leg. And that's not all. His company goes under, his fiancée leaves him, and his mother generously gives away every cent in his bank account to someone else. He shuts himself off from the w
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Tempting the Bigshots: I Catch Ghosts on a Dating Show and Rack Up Points 欲诱大佬，我在恋综捉鬼上大分
[BL romance + dating show livestream + metaphysics and the supernatural + equally matched leads and sweet romance + underdog comeback and putting scumbags in their place] Good news: I'm still alive. Bad news: I've transmigrated into the role of a cannon-fodder male supporting character, and I'm both a lovesick simp and a substitute! A double whammy? No way am I putting up with this. But my wallet's empty, so I'll just have to throw away my pride and keep playing along. They say you should love w
4.5kReads9.3Score671Shelves
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Fortune-Telling? My Life Is Yours! The Aloof, Alluring Best Actor's Sweet Pampering and Clinging Coaxing 算命？命给你！冷欲影帝甜宠缠哄
[Two Powerful Leads + Male-Male Romance + Yandere + Metaphysics + Showbiz + Comedy + Sweet Romance] After dying in a car accident, the deranged top-tier star and metaphysics master Jian Ran is bound to a System, and transmigrates into a melodramatic romance novel as a disposable stand-in. So... CEO A: “He's back. I suggest you pack your bags and leave tonight. Fill in whatever amount you want on the check.” Jian Ran: “?” I've been catching ghosts and protecting houses for ages. Is he finally pay
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This Is Ridiculous! After Eight Years as a Stand-In, I Find Out I Entered the Wrong Book 别太离谱！替身八年告诉我穿错书
[Male-male leads + possessive, lovesick seme + occult master + fortune-telling + sweet romance with no angst + equally powerful leads + supernatural atmosphere + ghosts in the book] Shi Yin, the top master of a secluded occult sect, is short on money. He even has to sew his own underwear, stitch by stitch. Furious, he curses the heavens, and a bolt of lightning immediately strikes him. He transmigrates into a novel’s world and becomes a disabled tycoon’s substitute. From then on, he lives a comf
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The Midnight Pawnshop: The Living Must Keep Away 午夜当铺，活人回避
[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
257.3kReads9.4Score22kShelves
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The Haunted Tomb 诡坟
[This is no ordinary paranormal story. It's all about horror and suspense: no mindless wish fulfillment, forbidden yin-yang lore, no cultivation, and a ghost wife. If it's not good, you can break my legs.] People laugh at my family's poverty and say that all my blood relatives have died, so there must be a ghost in our house. I don't dare argue... because there really is a ghost buried in our ancestral grave! ...My name is Zhang Asi... I was born at four in the morning on the fourteenth day of t
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The Dragon-Suppressing Coffin and the King of Hell's Fate 镇龙棺，阎王命
They severed my tendons and buried me alive in a sealed coffin, but they didn’t know I was born with the fate of the King of Hell! [Folk horror, feng shui and talismans, incense offerings] Feng shui and fortune-telling, painted-skin demons and spirit summoning, walking in the shadows and corpse driving, corpse-raising spells and curses, yin tattoos and talismanic needles, puppets controlled by strings, red doors sealed with wax, Dogs digging graves on Burial Mound Ridge, ghosts feasting in the R
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Opening the Road to the Underworld 开冥路
[No romance, no female lead, not much of a power fantasy, first-person narration, a slightly slow start. If you don't mind, please be patient. My new book, "Nine Divinations Out of Ten Are Wrong", is the second installment of this story.] My name is Sui Xiaotian. I'm a guide. But I only guide those who die unnatural deaths. An unnatural death is a bitter consequence brought about by bad karma. After death, the great temples won't accept you, and the small temples won't keep you. You become a lon
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The House of Dread 诡舍
[Infinite-flow + Mild Horror + Survival + One Female Lead] A driverless bus carried a group of cursed people to a strange black lodge… Inside the lodge stood a door stained red with blood. At regular intervals, the cursed were forcibly dragged through the blood-red door and into terrifying worlds, where they had to complete horrifying events… After Ning Qiushui survived one bizarre and terrifying story after another inside the lodge, narrowly escaping death each time, he discovered that none of
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Ten Days to the End 十日终焉
2024 Tomato Novel Annual Peak Rankings TOP 1 | 2024 China Online Literature Influence List | 2024 China Good Novel Award | Over 2 million copies sold (No harem, no formulaic tropes, no invincibility, no System, no mindless antics, no wish fulfillment. Read with caution if these bother you.) Just when I thought it was an ordinary day, I discovered I had been captured and taken to the End. Just when I thought I could escape by continually taking part in death games, people began awakening supernat
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Strange Tales Livestream 怪谈直播间
The sound of meat being chopped eerily echoes through a bun shop in the dead of night. The passengers on the last bus all have the same face. On a freezing, rainy night, someone wearing funeral clothes wanders the streets... The Strange Tales livestream takes you deep into the hidden side of this world!
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The Supernatural Returns, and the Eternal Night Begins 灵异复苏，永夜降临
[Supernatural horrors descend + no System + fresh worldbuilding + survival + semi-infinite-flow + no do-gooder protagonist + not dark + supernatural abilities] In the best years of his life, amid the exuberance of youth, Su Yuan thought his days would remain peaceful and beautiful forever. Then a line of bloody text appeared on the blackboard during evening study. [In the silent night, a terrifying ghost appears outside your dorm room... How long will it take to kill you?] Everyone thought it wa
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The Last Paper Effigy Maker 最后一个扎纸人
The art of paper effigies can bridge the worlds of yin and yang, perform rites for the dead, and summon the King of Hell. Cut yellow paper, weave bamboo strips: paper horses travel a thousand miles, and paper figures summon spirits. With one stroke to paint their eyes, the King of Hell appears, striking terror into all directions and sending ten thousand ghosts into hiding! By the time the art of paper effigies reaches Chen Mo, he is its last practitioner. He assumes this ancient, mysterious cra
20.8kReads8.5Score2.9kShelves
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The Campus Belle Had an Abortion, and I Was Born a Ghost Baby in Her Womb 校花堕胎，我胎死腹中成诡婴
In a world of the sinister Dao, everyone can form contracts with sinister spirits. The campus belle Lin Yao was born with a Pure Yin body and destined to become an unparalleled prodigy. But she was defiled by the son of a wealthy family, and her constitution was ruined. Two months later, Lin Ye transmigrated into her womb as her unborn child. “I hate you!” When Lin Yao went to the hospital to get an abortion, her resentment surged to the heavens. Lin Ye died in the womb. Absorbing the campus bel
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Legend of the Bronze Gate 青铜门传奇
“At first, I only realized that I couldn’t stop yet. I still had to keep going, because there was another ten years ahead of me. But now I realize that everyone else has kept moving too. The plans and schemes are still unfolding! I have to act! Fatty, Little Brother, A Ning, Pan Zi, Xiao Hua, Xiao Hei, Third Uncle, the Ultimate, here I come!” “The Ultimate”?! Bottle, you were willing to let Chen Wenjin and the others from the Old Nine Gates go in, so why wouldn’t you let me, the person who most
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This Spirit Medium Is Pretty Powerful! 这个出马仙有点强！
A piece of red cloth, three feet and three inches long. The old hall's people, the old hall's immortals. One day, when they emerge from the depths of the mountains, their names will spread far and wide! I was born in a rural village in Northeast China in the 1980s. When I was seven, a spirit medium said I was fated to suffer three calamities and eight misfortunes, and would one day become a horse-riding shaman. I didn't believe it, but hardship kept finding me. To make a living, I worked as a wa
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This Scholar Comes from the Underworld 这个书生来自幽冥
“Where is this?” “Perhaps... the River of Forgetfulness...” “Who are you?” “Wuchang...” “I've never heard of anyone called Wuchang in this world.” “From now on... that's who I'll be!” The soul crosses the River of Forgetfulness, while its thoughts remain on the other shore. What is gained from all beings must be returned to all beings. When Su Mo woke up, he was no longer in his former life. He went to the capital to sit the imperial examinations, but accidentally stumbled into an immortal schem
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The Day I Was Born, a Hundred Ghosts Fled and a Soul Reaper Came Calling 我出生当天，百鬼退避，阴差上门
My mother was crazy, but after I was born, she miraculously got better. Before my birth, Granny Liu in the village had divined that I was born under the Ziwei Star, destined to be blessed with benefactors and an exalted fate beyond words. But after I was born, a blood moon hung in the sky and black clouds blanketed the heavens. Only then did Granny Liu realize... [Taboos of Yin and Yang, Folk Horror] King Yama seals the coffin, and no one can rise again for a hundred years. The Poor Ghost crouch
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Yellow Springs Medical Hall 黄泉医馆
On the fifteenth day of the seventh lunar month, ghosts roam at night and the living must keep away. Yet on Linjiang Road, an unremarkable clinic stands with all four doors wide open, inviting every kind of visitor. Above the eaves hangs a gilded plaque bearing four large characters: “Yellow Springs Clinic.”
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A Decree from the Underworld 阴司有旨
Before Grandpa died, he gave me a strange ledger. The first page bore four eerie characters: “Filed with the Underworld.” And the entries weren't sums of money, but “lives.” I used that strange ledger to collect debts and settle accounts on Grandpa's behalf, and it was as if I'd become a living judge of life and death in the human world. Somewhere beyond mortal sight, everything had already been decreed...
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The Heavenly Coffin Comes to Town: Living Must Keep Away 天棺出巡，活人回避
The year Jiangnan suffered a terrible drought, a coffin was dredged up from the river. From that day on, torrential winds and rain battered the region for a month. Floodwaters surged, swallowing countless towns and cities. I was ten that year. More than a dozen red Hongqi cars with Beijing plates, along with rows of luxury cars, arrived in our little town. I don’t know how many important people knelt outside my home, begging my grandfather to stop the floods... [Folk customs, feng shui. A coffin
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I Manage the Book of Life and Death for the King of Hell 我替阎王掌管生死簿
After an accident, Ye Xiaofan bluffs the King of Hell into letting him take charge of the Book of Life and Death. He develops an app that lets his software take all three realms by storm. One short-video app, Douyin, leaves the gods of all three realms utterly obsessed.
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When Grandpa Died, Dragons Lifted His Coffin and Ghosts Wept at His Grave 爷爷死时，龙抬棺，鬼哭坟
My grandfather was tragically caught up in a thousand-year-old feng shui plot. When he died, a dragon lifted his coffin and ghosts wailed at his grave. As for me, I was born wrapped in snake scales. They all called me a monster, but the Five Immortals willingly became my babysitters. They secretly sent me to Dragon Pool, where eight old men took me on as their disciple. When I grew up, I punched demons and monsters and kicked spirits and fiends aside. Practicing both Buddhist and Daoist arts, I
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I Command Countless Vengeful Ghosts, and Return as the Strongest in the World 身具万千厉鬼，我归来即人间最强
[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
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You Hired Me to Collect Bodies, So I Dissected My Ex-Girlfriend 让你当收尸人，你直接解刨了前女友
In anatomy class, the corpse turns out to be my ex-girlfriend... After that, I went through all sorts of unbelievable things. A bus that only goes up, never down, and runs straight to a reservoir. An old scholar tree in the hospital, lush with branches and leaves, that swallows people whole. A giant catfish by the Qingshui River, begging people for help every night. And a deadly brothel hung with human skin, open for business without end. It went on and on, as if it would never come to an end...
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Heir to the Five Arts 五术传人
All the arts of divination under heaven fall into five branches. They are: Mountain, Medicine, Destiny, Divination, and Physiognomy. More specifically, they include magic, talismans and incantations, the Four Pillars of Destiny, Zi Wei Dou Shu, Qi Men Dun Jia, feng shui based on the principles of qi, face reading, bone reading, and more... Our Wei clan is the guiding principle behind all five arts. The five arts encompass everything and seize the workings of Heaven. Thus, only those blessed with
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Paper Effigy Craftsman 纸扎匠
Paper effigies connect the worlds of yin and yang, reaching across all three realms! When I was a child, I found the book my master had hidden away: The True Scripture of Paper Effigies. By day, I made paper figures, opera stages, and houses at the funeral supply shop. But beyond what ordinary people could see, I crafted divine artifacts, summoned deities, and communicated between the worlds of yin and yang. All the sects bowed before me! Little did I know that someone else had already arranged
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The Greatest Ghost Taoist in the Mortal Realm 阳间第一鬼道
The coffin is raised, the incense still burns, and the grave is moved. The Taoist was once an evil ghost; wicked arts throw the age into chaos. Paper figures harbor murderous intent; living stones imprison evil spirits. Vengeful ghosts don Taoist robes, and the sinister wind never stops blowing. Ning An was a disciple of the Taoist sect, but his master used him as a pawn, while his master’s wife wanted to eat him and turn him into a vengeful ghost.
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Bro, You're a Cop, Not a Taoist Priest! 大哥，你是警察啊，不是道士！
[If you dislike cutesy, whimpering heroines, read no further] [Also known as: Me, a humble paper effigy maker, and you want me to crack a major case] When Yue Dong went to a telecom service center to cancel his late grandfather’s phone service, the staff gave him a hard time. “Rules are rules. The account holder has to be here in person!” “You have to follow the rules!” Yue Dong laughed in exasperation, then waved his hand and used his paper effigy-making skills to summon his late grandfather. T
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Selling Burial Clothes, Sewing Up Corpses, and Raising a Ghost Wife 卖寿衣，缝尸体，养鬼妻
[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
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The Amulet Shop 佛牌专事店
[No female lead + two male leads] My name is Zhou Yi. I’m a broke loser who just graduated from college and can’t even find a decent job. Then a shop owner called and asked me to interview for a sales clerk position. At last, I found a job that could keep food on the table. But the things sold in this shop were nothing like ordinary merchandise. They even seemed a little sinister. Still, I needed to make a living, so I gritted my teeth and stuck with it. I never imagined that this job would plun
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I’m Really Not Blind 我真的不是瞎子
As the old saying goes: Dogs can see things people can't. I'm not a dog, but I can see things normal people can't.
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Terror: I Only Sell Haunted Houses 惊悚：我只卖凶宅
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…
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