I'm in a Reading Drought and Can't Find Good Mystery and Supernatural Novels, Such as The Old Affairs of the Yellow Springs 书荒了，难找好看的悬疑灵异小说，如《黄泉旧事》

1. 1 上 The Strange Tales of Shangguan Zhaorong 上官昭容诡事录 Bamboo Shoot Buns Are So Delicious竹笋包子超好吃Mystery1.6M WordsCompleted [Completed] [Strong female lead, no romance, Chinese-style horror, transmigration through history, numerous foreshadowed clues, coherent plot, no System, not a power fantasy] [The Strange Tales of Shangguan Zhaorong] [Also known as: Old Tales from the Yellow Springs] [Reader’s guide: The main plot and the individual arcs are interconnected, with plenty of clues and foreshadowing. Almost every character who appears has a role to play, though each arc can also be read as a standalone story.] Th 2.1kReads9.3Score370Shelves

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   Two very good novels! [OK][OK][OK]

2. 2 十EN Ten Days to the End 十日终焉 Pest Control Team Member杀虫队队员Mystery3.2M WordsCompleted 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 1.7MReads9.9Score206.4kShelves
3. 3 那 Those Years I Worked Part-Time Down Below 那些年，我在下面兼职的日子 Qi Yi亓宜Mystery2.0M WordsCompleted [Guiding souls, stories, healing, retribution, one heroine] Ox-Head and Horse-Face: “Hey, kid, how about a 300,000-yuan annual salary for a part-time job in the underworld?” Chen Yi, who earns 4,000 yuan a month: “I’m in! I’m in!” Once he started, he was soon drinking and laughing with underworld marshals from all walks of life, and raising cups with the Four Great Judges as if they’d known each other forever. He even passed the civil service exam and landed a coveted government job in the huma 34.8kReads9.1Score2.9kShelves

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   Starting as a worker in the underworld, then rising to work in the heavenly court.

4. 4 全 Global Island Survival: I Can Hear the Thoughts of All Things 全民海岛求生：我能听到万物心声 Old Elephant Smokes老象抽烟Sci-Fi & Apocalypse2.1M WordsCompleted Everyone transmigrates to an island, embarking on a thrilling fight for survival. Han Feng gains the ability to communicate with all things from the start. Any object he speaks with can gain sentience and begin to evolve. The thatched hut devours straw and evolves into its ultimate form: a fortress among the stars. The engineer's shovel devours metal and evolves into its ultimate form: the Chaos Mountain-Cleaving Shovel. The magnifying glass devours glass and evolves into its ultimate form: the 17.2kReads7.9Score1.1kShelves

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   It's so beautiful!

5. 5 唐 When Tang Sanzang Learned Sun Wukong Had Been Killed, He Turned to the Dark Side 唐三藏知道孙悟空被杀后，黑化了 Young Master Who Forgot His Sword忘剑公子Eastern Fantasy1.0M WordsCompleted [Primordial World + Ruthless and Decisive + Schemes + No Female Lead] Everyone believes Sun Wukong became the Victorious Fighting Buddha after completing his pilgrimage. But they don't know that Sun Wukong was killed during the ordeal of the Fake and Real Monkey Kings, and that the Six-Eared Macaque took his place. Sun Xiaokong transmigrates into Sun Wukong, who has just been killed. He's terrified. If the Buddhist sect discovers he is still alive, they will surely kill him. Fortunately, he bind 7.4kReads8.1Score830Shelves
6. 6 诡EN Supernatural Awakening: I Can Become a Demon King 诡异复苏：我能化身大妖 Fallen Leaves Return to the Earth叶落归泥Mystery1.8M WordsCompleted [Ghost Stories + Journey to the West + Hilarious Comedy + Sunny Boy + Mental Illness + Positive-Energy Sayings] As the supernatural revived and the uncanny world fell into chaos, Jiang Chen awakened the Demon Transformation System. By provoking emotional fluctuations in ghosts and monsters, he could absorb ghost energy and use it to draw Demon Transformation Cards, taking on the forms of great demons from Journey to the West. Faced with all kinds of violent, savage, strange, and sinister ghost 169.8kReads9.5Score17.3kShelves

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   It's still okay.

7. 7 我 My Years as a Spirit Medium 我当出马仙的这些年 Wu Nianjing吾念静Mystery1.3M WordsCompleted My name is Chen Jiuyang. I began cultivating under my master as a child, and officially became a spirit medium at eleven, carrying the Five Immortals with me as I wandered the world. With a Seven Kills destiny, a beauty who is but a skeleton, and a demon star bringing chaos to the age, the moment I stepped into the martial world, it was already fated that I would never escape unscathed. Leather-Skinned Ghosts, Resentful Corpse Demons, and White Bone Talisman Immortals: every strange case I encou 3.8kReads9.2Score381Shelves
8. 8 晋 Princess Jinyang: I'm Proud to Have a Big Brother 晋阳公主：我有个锅锅，我骄傲 Goodness Is the Original Aspiration善是初心Historical523k WordsCompleted [Dual transmigration + doting brother + historical transmigration + alternate history] I never would have imagined that the bookcase in my home connected to another world. I’d never opened it before, but on a whim, I decided to clean it out, and that’s how my story with the little princess of Jinyang began. “Gege’s Mingda, Mingda’s still Mingda!” “Gege, hug me!” “Gege, these are the dowry savings I’ve been putting aside for you!” “Gege, I want to eat dew!” “Gege...” What would you do if you had 4.9kReads8.7Score226Shelves

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   - Set in a semi-fictional Tang Dynasty, Princess Jinyang suffers an accident while on a spring outing, subsequently developing heightened sensory sensitivity. She teams up with Fang Xuanling's son to investigate a case, and the two gradually develop feelings for each other. The female lead is calm and composed, while the male lead is cunning and powerful. - Similarities: Both are set in the Tang Dynasty, involve historical figures, and feature the male and female leads experiencing various events together on the stage of the Tang Dynasty, with their feelings deepening gradually through their interactions.

9. 9 我 I Came From the Underworld to Subdue Demons and Ghosts in the Mortal World 我自冥界来，于世间镇妖鬼 Dancing Flames Across the Nine Heavens火舞九天Mystery5.0M WordsOngoing A live-action, high-definition animated series of the same name is now available on Hongguo and Tomato Novel. Search to watch. Witchcraft ☞ Taoist arts ☞ Feng Shui secrets ☞ Mountain spirits and ghosts ☞ Scary enough to make you scream ☞ Funny enough to make you laugh ☞ No harem Mei Wuji was possessed by the Netherworld Emperor. He died and came back to life, defying Heaven’s will. Mei Tianlang mastered Meishan witchcraft and Feng Shui geomancy, understood fate, and divined that his grandson Mei 27.1kReads9.0Score1.8kShelves
10. 10 诡 Eerie Secrets: A Collection of Mystery Stories 诡异秘闻：悬疑故事精选 Flowing WaterOWithout a Trace流水O无痕Mystery247k WordsCompleted Strange Domain Secrets: A Collection of Suspense Stories is a captivating anthology of eerie and suspenseful tales. It features a series of mysterious legends passed down in the countryside, ancient towns, remote mountain regions, and other places. Each story is a gripping mystery that draws readers into the unknown to seek the truth. The tales explore themes such as disappearances, curses, and strange encounters, brimming with mystery, the uncanny, and horror, keeping readers' hearts pounding t —Reads—Score—Shelves

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    This is a captivating collection of numerous eerie and suspenseful stories. The book includes a series of mysterious legends circulating in rural areas, ancient towns, and remote mountainous regions, covering themes such as disappearances, curses, and ghost stories, filled with elements of mystery, the bizarre, and horror.

11. 11 请EN Call Me the Ghost Messenger 请叫我鬼差大人 The Cat from the Xu Family徐二家的猫Mystery2.1M WordsCompleted After the Eternal Night, terror returned. Ten miles of desolate graves, eerie singing. An old man searching for his arms, a headless baby... They kept piecing their bodies back together, unleashing an even more terrifying aura. In the wasteland, even a severed hand could destroy heaven and earth. In this world of darkness and despair, a post office appeared and vanished from view... A mysterious young man, a postal carriage traveling through the void... One blood-red letter after another became 102.2kReads9.5Score9.6kShelves

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    These 6 highly-rated, tightly plotted supernatural novels

12. 12 我 There’s a Ghost Inside Me 我的体内有只鬼 A Black-Inked Blade一柄墨刀Mystery3.5M WordsCompleted Vengeful ghosts awaken, and a hundred ghosts roam the night. Jiang Xiao transmigrates into this world for no apparent reason and finds himself surrounded by demons and monsters. But then he discovers that his shadow can devour ghosts without limit and gain their abilities. [Successfully devoured the White Mist Ghost. Ability acquired: Mist Form] [Successfully devoured the Hanging Ghost. Ability acquired: Shackles] [Successfully devoured the Bronze Ghost. Ability acquired: Copper Skin] [Successfu 20.7kReads9.3Score2.4kShelves
13. 13 我EN I'm Not a God of Theater 我不是戏神 Three Nine Sound Domain三九音域Urban4.0M WordsCompleted The brand-new masterpiece by San Jiu Yin Yu, author of Slay the Gods | Winner of the Best Science-Fiction Web Novel Award at the Macau International Science Fiction Awards | A Chinese grotesque epic that turns the tide of an era After a scarlet meteor streaked across the sky, human civilization ground to a halt. From that day onward, humanity could no longer build a rocket, a nuclear bomb, an airplane, a car... The pyramid of civilization built upon modern science collapsed with a thunderous roa 1.7MReads9.9Score178.8kShelves
14. 14 异EN Another World: My Life Has Cheat Codes! 异世界：我的人生开了挂！ A Salty Fish c一条咸鱼cEastern Fantasy5.9M WordsCompleted [Vampires, werewolves, technology, potions, ghosts, biohumans, divination, puppets, and every terrifying element you can imagine: this world has them all.] Lin En transmigrated into such a bizarre otherworld and became an apprentice at a potion shop. "Something is wrong with that man! He never uses anesthetic when performing surgery!" "That shop is a scam! The moment you go in, they find a pile of illnesses even if you are perfectly healthy!" "But wait, isn't that shop supposed to be the bes 138kReads9.6Score16.9kShelves
15. 15 尸 Born of a Corpse, Carried in a Ghost's Coffin 尸生子，鬼抬棺 Jie Yu界玉Mystery3.3M WordsCompleted In ancient, remote places, all kinds of strange and terrifying things are bound to happen. And these things happen around Hua Jiunan. In fact, Hua Jiunan is part of them. For instance, he was born from a corpse! 212.8kReads9.6Score25.1kShelves
16. 16 规 Rule Horror: I Can See Hidden Clues 规则怪谈：我能看到隐藏提示 Xing Wuchen星无辰Mystery2.3M WordsCompleted The world of supernatural tales has arrived, and everyone must follow the rules! After hundreds of years, the world of supernatural tales has appeared once more. Sun Kai accidentally transmigrates into it, becoming one of the first contestants representing his nation’s fate. They carry the fate of Xia Nation on their shoulders! If they win, they survive, Xia Nation’s fortunes rise, and its people all benefit. If they lose, they die, the nation’s fortunes fall, and supernatural tales invade the 4kReads9.0Score518Shelves
17. 17 烟EN Misty Rain Tower 烟雨楼 A Night of Misty Rain一夕烟雨Eastern Fantasy9.5M WordsOngoing [The print edition is now available nationwide at all major retailers] "Traditional xuanhuan" "No harem" In the land of Jiuzhou stands a tower called the Misty Rain Tower. Its master, Li Qingzhi, is hailed as a peerless prodigy, holding life and death in his hands beneath the cover of night. Yet what the world doesn’t know is that someone else stands behind the Misty Rain Tower, its true founder. Using the guise of a spoiled young master as cover, he manipulates the winds and clouds and plots ac 868.8kReads9.6Score66.1kShelves

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    Awesome Klass

18. 18 重 Reborn in 1993: Dark Sea 重生1993，暗海 The Gods Want to Go Wild神想出去浪Urban1.9M WordsCompleted The physical edition of Wrathful Sea, Calm the Abyss is now available. Presales officially begin at 19:00 on October 11. [Reborn] [Mystery] [Undercover Agent] [Revenge] [Anti-Drug Operations] [Counterespionage] The golden finger is extremely weak, and he relies on his own abilities. This is a battle of wits between highly intelligent opponents, so you need to keep your brain switched on. There is no showing off and face-slapping! Ideal for veteran readers. If you understand it, you'll find it ve 259.5kReads9.6Score30.9kShelves

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    Both books are very well written and logically rigorous, making them difficult to skip around in. (Brainstorming)

19. 19 犯 The Usurper 犯上者 Li Ma李马Urban2.7M WordsCompleted [The print edition has been signed, so read with confidence] (No System, no invincibility, plot-focused, explores human nature, not a formulaic power fantasy) (The protagonist grows and changes as the story unfolds) (An ensemble cast: supporting characters aren't one-dimensional, and respond with genuine emotions to the changes around them) No one knows when this world began to split in two. 221.5kReads9.4Score36.1kShelves
20. 20 恐 Horror Movie NPC Goes on a Killing Spree in a Terror Game 恐怖片NPC在惊悚游戏杀疯了 Snow-Skin Lantern冰皮灯笼Mystery1.0M WordsCompleted [Horror + comedy + power fantasy + no female lead (male protagonist has no romantic pairing)] A horror game swept across the world. Fu Yan, an NPC from a horror movie in a higher plane of existence, was accidentally dragged into the game. Fu Yan: Since you've all gone to the trouble of inviting me, I won't hold back. From then on, the “horror game” was plunged into the shadow of someone named “Fu Yan”... Horror NPCs: Please, don't come any closer! Livestream viewers: Can someone do something abo 66kReads9.6Score8.7kShelves

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    The story is quite good, thrilling enough, and a very interesting infinite flow novel. Especially the orphanage episode. Highly recommended.

21. 21 诡EN The House of Dread 诡舍 The Sound of Wind and Rain at Night,夜来风雨声丶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 705.5kReads9.6Score103.9kShelves
22. 22 异EN City of Beasts 异兽迷城 Peng Pai彭湃Urban3.0M WordsCompleted Gao Yang was an orphan. At the age of six, he transmigrated to a parallel world and began living in a warm family of five. When he turned eighteen, Gao Yang accidentally discovered the truth about the world: this was not a parallel world at all, but a mysterious realm, and all the relatives and friends around him were terrifying Beasts! Gao Yang nearly lost his life 478.1kReads9.7Score66.6kShelves
23. 23 尚 Marry the Princess 尚公主 Wow, That's Funw哇趣wAncient Romance134k WordsOngoing [Coercive romance + love after marriage + regretful pursuit + both leads remain faithful to each other + happy ending] To annex the State of Jiang, the State of Wu plotted to abduct Princess Jiang Yao just as she was about to marry into the State of Qi. Prince Situ Feng of Wu forced Jiang Yao to marry him so he could achieve his ambitions. Meanwhile, Helian Yichen, a prince of Qi who was already betrothed to Jiang Yao, refused to give up searching for her. Situ Feng wanted to keep Jiang Yao unde 1kReads—Score—Shelves

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    The female protagonist was once a princess sent for a political marriage. She later met and fell in love with the male protagonist, who came from a rural background. With her guidance, the male protagonist became the prime minister of the Tang Dynasty. - Similarities: Both stories involve the court and officialdom of the Tang Dynasty. The male and female protagonists have a deep affection for each other and support each other in their careers, growing together.

24. 24 天 The Celestial Master Is Here: Qimen Feng Shui Shakes the World 天师在此，奇门风水震天下 Big Eggplant大茄子Mystery6.3M WordsCompleted [Several short dramas have been adapted from this novel: Feng Shui Heavenly Master, The Grand Master of Qimen Feng Shui, The Heavenly Master Is Here, Qimen Feng Shui Shakes the World, Notes of a Folk Feng Shui Master, and others] Everything in this book is fictional. Just enjoy the story, don’t take it seriously, and don’t get too caught up in it... 248.3kReads9.1Score59.8kShelves

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    A high-scoring suspense thriller is coming!

25. 25 诡EN The Horrors Are Hard to Kill? Sorry, I'm the Truly Immortal One 诡异难杀？抱歉，我才是真正不死 Six Gourds六个葫芦Urban2.0M WordsCompleted This book has been signed for publication, so enjoy it with confidence. [Death Regression + Foreknowledge of the Future + Kill the Saintly One First + Dark Tone + Supernatural Resurgence] After accidentally transmigrating to a world invaded by the supernatural, Fang Xiu awakens the ability to return from death, also known as turning back time. Whenever he dies, time rewinds to just before his death. In this perilous and uncanny world, he could have laid low, but instead he chooses to announce to 232kReads9.5Score28.6kShelves

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    Fang Xiu unexpectedly transmigrates to a post-apocalyptic world invaded by a bizarre force, awakening the incredible ability to rewind time after death. Each time he dies, time reverses, allowing him to re-examine his past mistakes and oversights. 🥰

26. 26 我EN Longevity in the Demon-Slaying Bureau 我在斩妖司长生 Little Tornado小龙卷风Eastern Fantasy3.6M WordsCompleted Eight hundred years ago, Great Zhou’s founding emperor, Taizu, emerged and established the Demon-Slaying Bureau to scour the land of demons and monsters. Eight hundred years later, a soul from another world descends upon the Great Zhou Empire. The court is in turmoil, and the demons and monsters suppressed by the empire for eight hundred years are ready to make their move. Chaos engulfs the land. Zhou Ping’an had planned to lie low in the Demon-Slaying Bureau until the end of time, but the demon 11kReads8.2Score918Shelves
27. 27 义 Sign-In at the Funeral Parlor: I’m Getting Uncle Jiu Drunk 义庄签到：我给九叔弄麻了 Dark August黑暗八月Mystery1.3M WordsCompleted [Uncle Jiu + zombies + Daoist priests + sign-in + invincibility + System + cultivation] Lin Yi transmigrates into the world of Mr. Vampire and spends eighteen years as an ordinary person. Then the Divine Cultivator System activates, and he takes off overnight! The Sky-Penetrating Talisman, Spirit-Gathering Pills! The Golden Light Mantra, Sword Flight! The Five Thunders Orthodox Method! Heavenly Dipper Battle Aura! Uncle Jiu: “I haven’t seen you in a few days. How have you already reached Foundat 1.7kReads8.9Score224Shelves
28. 28 我EN With a Fox Immortal, I Subdue a Hundred Ghosts 我以狐仙镇百鬼 Purple Dream Wandering Dragon紫梦游龙Mystery10.3M 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! 743.2kReads9.4Score41.2kShelves
29. 29 最 The Last Descendant of Zhong Kui 最后一个钟馗传人 Yan Xiaoxiu阎小朽Mystery3.8M WordsOngoing I was cursed by a thousand-year-old fox demon the moment I was born. As a child, I couldn’t see or hear, and everyone said I was born disabled. But when I was five, a master took me in as his disciple. He said I was a reincarnated ghost god, a tempting morsel in the eyes of ghosts and monsters. The fox demon’s revenge, a frozen corpse in a dry well, a water ghost claiming lives, a hundred ghosts roaming by night... Strange events followed one after another. To protect myself, I had no choice but 5.5kReads9.0Score476Shelves
30. 30 茅 Maoshan Disciple 茅山弟子 Qingzi清子Mystery4.2M WordsCompleted Maoshan has divine arts to exterminate evil, gathering ill omens from both the yin and yang worlds. Where is the Seven-Star Dragon Spring now? Ye Shaoyang, the hero of those days, is nowhere to be seen! 1.8kReads8.2Score238Shelves
31. 31 阴 A Genius of Yin and Yang 阴阳鬼才 Yu Wen御文Mystery1.5M WordsCompleted A calamity when I was fourteen changed my whole life. Then, at eighteen, I was set firmly on the path of yin and yang, where I mastered top-tier secret arts and went ever farther along the road of slaying demons and vanquishing evil. 1.7kReads8.8Score112Shelves
32. 32 我 The Year I Was Born, Ghosts Came Looking for a Groom 我出生那年，鬼招婿 Half a Button半颗纽扣Mystery3.2M WordsCompleted The year I was born, ghosts came seeking a bride. To stay alive, I slept in a haunted coffin. When I was twelve, I was forced to marry a ghost bride, bringing disaster upon us all. My grandfather had me take an unclaimed grave as my master. I thought things would finally be peaceful from then on. But the good times didn't last. I discovered by chance that my ghost wife had been by my side all along... 12.2kReads8.2Score1.1kShelves
33. 33 民 Folk Taboos: I Cultivate Merit in the Mortal World 民间禁忌：我在人间修功德 Wu the Half-Immortal吴半仙Mystery1.6M WordsCompleted Everyone knows the barber, but few realize that the earliest barbers were actually executioners, and strange adepts who mastered esoteric arts. They walk between life and death, needing only a barber's razor to read the secrets of Heaven and travel between yin and yang. They shave the living, and they shave the dead. Even today, folk wisdom warns: never offend the barbers who roam the land with their poles and packs. 168Reads7.1Score—Shelves
34. 34 天 The Heavenly Master Descends the Mountain: Others Read Faces, I Read Fate 天师下山：别人看相，我窥天命 Nine-Tailed Heavenly Fox九尾天狐Mystery1.0M WordsCompleted The Netherworld infant Xiang Ling is born, delivered by underworld officials, with Black and White Impermanence guarding the gates and the Ten Great Nether Marshals patrolling the streets! The feng shui Xiang family suffers a devastating calamity and nearly faces extinction! Xiang Ling survives against all odds, finds shelter on Longhu Mountain, and becomes an heir to the Celestial Masters. Twenty years later, having mastered the mystic arts, Xiang Ling descends from Longhu Mountain to break evi 141Reads6.1Score—Shelves
35. 35 茅 Maoshan's Strange Immortal: The Ghost-Realm Yama 茅山异仙之鬼道阎罗 Hanmo Yunqiao翰墨云桥Mystery1.7M WordsCompleted [Rural Maoshan Taoism] [Taoist Arts] [Cultivation] [Overwhelming Victories All the Way] [One Female Lead] I was born a stillborn. My grandfather borrowed my life for me. He said I was born from death, destined to become a king of the underworld. Taoists respectfully call me “Peng the Immortal,” while ghosts, demons, and monsters know me as the Ghostly Yama! Weasel: Do I look like a human or a god to you? Me: You look like the Celestial Worthy of Universal Transformation of Thunder of the Nine He 8.1kReads7.6Score653Shelves
36. 36 我 I Solve Cases at the Special Investigations Bureau by Day and Serve in the Underworld by Night 我白天特案局办案，晚上地府当差 Mr. Youyong幼庸先生Mystery3.6M WordsCompleted I was born with a pure Yang constitution and the fate of Zhong Kui. I can drive out demons, subdue ghosts, and repel evil spirits. The moment I was born, all kinds of factions fought to take me as their disciple. A bunch of monks and Taoist priests said I was destined to become a Celestial Master or a great monk. They even got into a brawl over me, and that’s not all: in the end, both the state and the underworld got involved! When I was one, the state even assigned me a corpse-born child who ha 21.3kReads8.7Score2.1kShelves
37. 37 癫 A Little Crazy, a Little Daoist, Crazy and Daoist All the Same! 癫癫又道道，道道又癫癫！ February Xiangcheng二月相城Urban211k WordsCompleted [Fortune-telling + face reading + feng shui + ghost hunting + lighthearted comedy] Stories and lessons always go hand in hand. Who knows whether young people will understand them. Zhang Jiuyue, a young Taoist from Sanxian Temple, slings his pack over his shoulder and heads down the mountain, with no idea what hardships life has in store for him. But as far as he is concerned, if gods come, he’ll kill the gods; if demons come, he’ll vanquish them. What’s there to be afraid of? Life is only a few 388Reads—Score—Shelves
38. 38 我 My Years in the Funeral Business 我干白事儿这些年 Jin Shiliu金十六Urban5.4M WordsCompleted After his master died, Lin Ran inherited his craft, took over the funeral business, and promised his master he would not leave this small town for three years. Keeping his promise, Lin Ran had to face the world without his master's protection. He saw all the strange sides of human nature that he had never witnessed before! Lin Ran remembered his master's words: “People look down on those of us in this line of work. Compared with ordinary people, we're also missing something. They call it being ‘ 72kReads9.2Score7.8kShelves
39. 39 终 The Taoist of Zhongnan Mountain 终南道士 Little Scallion Blossom小葱花Mystery2.7M WordsCompleted My mother was dead. Half a year later, when they opened her grave, I was born inside the coffin. I am a person born from a ghost. I was born with a yin constitution and destined to become a Taoist priest. Otherwise, I would never have lived past thirteen. My birth set the course of my life, and doomed me to become involved in many things hidden from the world. Don't ask me whether ghosts exist. If you want to see one, burn some joss paper. Write the dead person's name in your blood, and I'll sen 386Reads6.1Score—Shelves
40. 40 通 The Medium 通灵者 A Carefree Idler悠哉一闲人Mystery503k WordsCompleted All ghostly words are human words, and all ghostly happenings are human affairs. The seemingly ordinary young man can always see through the truths hidden in the darkness. And when the truth is revealed, the reasons behind it all are so heartbreaking. —Reads—Score—Shelves

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    The water continued to flow, and the wedding dress swayed with the water in the bathtub. The folds of the dress gathered around the woman, like flower petals, surrounding her. She was breathtakingly beautiful and uniquely independent, giving people a sense of eerie beauty.

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