Looking for Metaphysical Fiction, but Nothing Involving the Entertainment Industry or Livestreaming 求玄学文，拒绝牵扯到娱乐圈、直播这种

1. 1 空 Dropped Into the Trending Topics! I Became a Top-Tier Star by Catching Ghosts on Livestream 空降热搜！全网黑靠直播抓鬼成了顶流 Fu Chuan浮川Two Male Leads578k WordsCompleted [Entertainment Industry + Livestreaming + Lighthearted Supernatural Comedy + Sweet Romance] Chao Ci, the most hated celebrity in the entertainment industry, has actually joined a hit variety show? And she gets to interact with Yu Chen, the movie star the whole internet calls its husband? At first, the haters said: “With Chao Ci on the show, it’s guaranteed to flop. Don’t bother watching.” Netizens said: “Chao Ci is so annoying. Fine, I’ll stick around for Movie Emperor Yu.” Fans said: “Get l 4kReads9.3Score675Shelves

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   It's all metaphysical fiction, featuring live-streamed variety shows with ghost-catching elements, and lots of face-slapping and identity-revealing plots. All of them have two male leads. If you like this type of story, go for it!

2. 2 玄 The Mystic Arts Master Keeps Trying to Become a Pretty Face 玄门大佬总想当花瓶 Jiao Shancha焦山茶Two Male Leads614k WordsCompleted [Dual Male Leads + Receptive Lead + Both Clean and Powerful + Fragmented Attack Personality + Showbiz + Supernatural + Lighthearted Comedy] Chu Yunji, a powerful master of the mystic arts, transmigrated into a universally hated pretty face. Deep in debt and plagued by bad luck, he went back to his old trade and set up as a fortune-teller on an overpass, but business was dismal. In this degenerate age, the mystic arts were in decline, so he had to make a living performing in showbiz! Unfortunatel 3.9kReads9.2Score704Shelves
3. 3 玄 A Mystic Master Catches Ghosts on a Variety Show 玄门大佬在综艺里捉鬼 Farewell to the Deep Sea再见深海Two Male Leads383k WordsCompleted [Two male leads + both devoted to each other + sweet romance + cool beauty bottom VS scheming, unhinged, sharp-tongued top] PS: A sweet little story wrapped in a supernatural mystery. Everyone in the capital knows Yuan Zhe: he’s eccentric, moody, beautiful enough to outshine most women, and a master of eating, drinking, and having fun. He’s a total menace. But there’s one mysterious person he holds dear in his heart. With his twentieth birthday approaching and their son still not having had h 3.3kReads9.3Score518Shelves
4. 4 欲 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 Tower Upon Tower in the Clouds楼楼云上楼Two Male Leads376k WordsCompleted [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 4.5kReads9.3Score688Shelves
5. 5 别 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 Wind, Wine, and Moon风酒月Two Male Leads407k WordsCompleted [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 8.4kReads9.3Score1.2kShelves
6. 6 玄 After a Metaphysics Master Became a Substitute Bride, She Was Held in His Arms and Spoiled 玄学大佬替嫁后，被抱在怀里诱宠 Startled Bird Enters a Dream惊鸟入梦Two Male Leads353k WordsCompleted [The rating has just appeared and will rise] Cool, long-haired, sickly beauty and metaphysical expert bottom x smooth-talking, cunning, cocky beauty top [Past and present lives + Supernatural + Two powerful leads, both devoted and faithful + Loving husband + Seductive type] [1v1, happy ending] The year Shen Tingzhi was born, his biological parents sent him to a small Taoist temple in a remote mountain village. After he had lived there for nineteen years, the biological parents he had never met c 5.2kReads9.1Score952Shelves
7. 7 算EN 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 The Actual Demoness妖精本妖Two Male Leads427k WordsCompleted [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 8.2kReads9.5Score1.4kShelves
8. 8 千 A Thousand-Year-Old Evil Ghost Livestreams Ghost-Hunting 千年恶鬼，在线直播抓鬼 Qu Chuan渠川Modern Romance352k WordsCompleted [Complete] [Entertainment industry + Ghost hunting livestreams + Absurd comedy + Supernatural + Feel-good revenge] In public, Fang Huai was a much-hated, notorious has-been, counting on his haters to boost his resentment. In private, he was known as Master Fang, a fortune-telling, ghost-hunting streamer who’d shot to fame. But Fang Huai wasn’t a Taoist priest. He was a thousand-year-old evil ghost! Being a ghost was hard, and being human was hard too. Pretending to be human while being both a pe 1.1kReads8.9Score178Shelves
9. 9 豪 The Abandoned Heir to a Wealthy Family Keeps Wanting to Become a Monk and Tell Fortunes 豪门弃子总想出家算卦 Xiao Xiaoxiao肖小肖Two Male Leads358k WordsCompleted [Two male leads, Eastern supernatural folklore, powerful families] A deranged, neurotic powerhouse * a lazy, laid-back illegitimate son and fortune-teller Yan Jiu is the illegitimate son of the Bai family, a renowned clan of talisman masters. He is lazy, gluttonous, and content to waste his life away, with barely any spiritual power… The sort of person everyone looks down on most. But one day, Shang Jing, a heaven-blessed prodigy, starts following Yan Jiu everywhere, clinging to him like crazy. 3.2kReads9.4Score413Shelves
10. 10 花 The Vase Actress Reinvents Herself as a Metaphysics Expert! 花瓶女星她转型成玄学大佬了！ Crane Ering鹤儿ingMystery423k WordsCompleted [No CP, no CP, no CP!] Qi Kui, a prodigy of the mystic arts, transmigrated. The original owner was a scandal-ridden, useless actress with nothing going for her but a pretty face. Recently, a scandal involving her high school class reunion had landed her on the trending list. The whole internet was boycotting her, and the comments on her Weibo were all: “Get out of show business, Eighty-Eight!” Qi Kui, who had just transmigrated: ? Then I’ll quit! The company: Then pay your contract terminati 1kReads8.6Score114Shelves
11. 11 满EN Reborn at Max Level: An Obscure Celebrity Becomes a Top Star Through a Horror Variety Show 满级重生：糊咖靠恐怖综艺成顶流 The Mountain Speaks Not, Twelve山不语十二Two Male Leads744k WordsCompleted [Showbiz livestream + lighthearted supernatural thrills + sweet romance] [Two male leads: the bottom is strong and crazy, the top is a clingy, scheming sweetheart] Jiang Nuo is hated across the internet. He has the looks to match his acting skills, and his only fans are antis. The one thing no one can find fault with is his face, so stunning it seems like Nuwa showed off when she made it. After dying, he was thrown into an infinite world of deadly challenges. He endured countless trials, reached 7.9kReads9.4Score1.3kShelves
12. 12 直 Livestream Fortune-Telling: From the Start, I Find a Body Dismembered in a Secondhand Freezer 直播算命：开局遭遇二手冰柜分尸 Scorching Sun赤日炎炎Modern Romance302k WordsOngoing [Livestreaming + fortune-telling + solving cases + ghost hunting + no romance + paranormal invasion] After braving a journey to another world, metaphysics expert Li Shu was struck by heavenly lightning for forty-nine days straight. To earn merit and prolong her life, she had no choice but to start livestreaming fortune-telling. “You want your fortune told about romance? Humans and ghosts can’t be together. Your boyfriend died two weeks ago. Oh, what’s that beside you? Definitely not human.” “A w 164Reads8.7Score—Shelves

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    This is the first book on metaphysics I've ever read, and it's very good.

13. 13 玄 The Mystical Master Plays by Her Own Rules, Bringing Both the Living and the Dead to Tears 玄学大佬路子野，虐哭阴阳两界 Little Ruan阮妹妹Modern Romance1.1M WordsCompleted [Metaphysics + Comedy + Power Couple + Livestream + Sweet Romance] A beautiful, unconventional, carefree powerhouse × a sweet, quiet, lawless cutie Shang Qiuzhi has no birth chart, and her fate is unknown. Abandoned by her birth parents at birth, she was taken in and raised by a woman who guides spirits of the dead. She has a peculiar constitution. No matter how many scriptures or Taoist arts she learns, she can't put them into practice. With no other choice, Shang Qiuzhi gives up and takes life 7.2kReads9.3Score967Shelves

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    The female lead in the live broadcast is an ordinary person; you can give it a try. Personally, I didn't find it particularly silly. The male lead is the Emperor of Fengdu, and both are powerful.

14. 14 直 Livestream Fortune-Telling: From the Start, I Sponsored Grandpa's Underworld Startup 直播算命：开局赞助爷爷地府创业 Osmanthus of August, Gui'an八月桂安Modern Romance1.8M WordsCompleted [No Romance + Livestreaming + Fortune-Telling + Metaphysics + Showbiz] A metaphysical master fails her tribulation and wakes up in the body of a universally hated, C-list villainess. To pay off her breach-of-contract fees, Ji He starts livestreaming fortune-telling. A viewer with dark circles under his eyes calls in: “Streamer, why do I dream every night that my grandpa is telling me to burn joss paper?” Ji He: “Your grandpa's starting a business down below. He's short on cash.” Viewer: “...” On 44.2kReads9.3Score7.9kShelves

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    No romance, just a strong female lead story, it's really good!

15. 15 什 What? The Dog I Raised by Telling Fortunes Turned Into a Human 什么？我靠算命养的狗它变成人了 Yueyue Loves to Take a Look悦悦爱瞅瞅Modern Romance352k WordsCompleted [Metaphysics + Fortune-Telling + Ghost-Hunting + Power Fantasy + Comedy] Li Luo unexpectedly transmigrated into the future. Right after arriving, she fell into a sewer. Luckily, a stray dog found someone to rescue her. From then on, she decided to take good care of her “canine benefactor.” If she had a bowl of instant noodles, then it would definitely get some noodle soup too! But why has this dog gotten more and more “human” since it took a nap? Never mind. She’ll just keep it for now! B 1.2kReads8.9Score203Shelves

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    This has to be the book! 🥰 A true metaphysical novel! 🥰 The metaphysical master, Li Luo, accidentally transmigrates to the future, where she's the strongest! 👍 She can tell fortunes, catch ghosts, and practice traditional Chinese medicine. The plot is fast-paced, there's no mindless female rivalry, and the face-slapping moments are satisfying. A must-read in one go! [Got it!]

16. 16 玄 The Metaphysics Expert Is Back at Her Street Stall 玄学大佬她又去摆地摊了 Tomato洋柿子Modern Romance1.2M WordsCompleted 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 43kReads9.4Score5.9kShelves

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    A highly-rated, high-quality novel focusing on metaphysics, it doesn't involve live streaming or the entertainment industry. The author's writing is excellent. Highly recommended. Super enjoyable!

17. 17 满 The Max-Level Metaphysics Master Shakes the World by Taking Disciples and Telling Fortunes 满级玄学大佬靠收徒算命轰动世界 Mu Fufeng木抚风Modern Romance1.0M WordsCompleted [No Romance + Metaphysics + Fortune-Telling + Ghost-Hunting + Satisfying Read + Absurd Comedy] Cultivation powerhouse Mu Shi is struck dead by a bolt of lightning and reborn in another world. Unfortunately, the original owner was an idiot with not a single coin to her name. No problem! She sets up a fortune-telling stall on the overpass and makes her way to the pinnacle of life. “Master, tell me when my girlfriend and I will get married.” Mu Shi: “Young man, it looks like you’ve been cheated on. 4.3kReads9.3Score639Shelves
18. 18 她 She’s Short on Money in the Five Elements 她五行缺钱【玄学】 Spicy Porridge麻辣粥Modern Romance1.0M WordsCompleted Jiang Yi was kidnapped at the age of five and unexpectedly became the 108th successor of an obscure Daoist temple. The one who raised her and taught her everything was a wisp of the temple’s founding matriarch’s soul, which had remained inside her memorial tablet. Her temple was nothing more than a ramshackle shack made from discarded boards that mountain hunters didn’t want. It had no running water or electricity. Even dog-litter mushrooms grew between the floorboards. After they came down the 931Reads9.4Score198Shelves
19. 19 玄 The Metaphysics Master Shakes the World After Coming Down from the Mountain 玄学大佬下山后轰动全世界 Gathering the Galaxy一揽星河Modern Romance1.2M WordsCompleted [Mysticism + satisfying read + sweet romance] Everyone in the industry says the newly reunited eldest daughter of the Su family is a menace. One sentence from her can break up a marriage, shatter a family, drive someone into bankruptcy, or land them in jail, so people steer clear of her. What’s more, she has opened a Taoist temple and does fortune-telling, face-reading, feng shui, sells talismans, and catches ghosts. She’s done every sort of scam imaginable! Later, word gets around that the elde 82.7kReads9.5Score12.9kShelves

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    On the surface, she appears gentle and cute, but in reality, she's a hidden master of metaphysics. She's proficient in everything from exorcising ghosts and divination to breaking formations. Encountering a thousand-year-old vengeful spirit? A piece of cake, easily dealt with. Facing schemes from all sides, she can counter them with equal skill, outmaneuvering her opponents and consistently achieving a "face-slapping" comeback.

20. 20 古 The Forbidden Grounds of the Ancient Temple 古庙禁地 Ghost King of Western Hunan湘西鬼王Mystery1.7M WordsCompleted The old master was digging a well when he unearthed the corpse of a beautiful woman. From then on, my family was thrown into chaos. A local “expert” told my family that the only way to save my life was for me to enter the temple business, so I became a temple-restoration craftsman. A mass grave in the black pine forests of the Northeast, an airplane crash site on an uninhabited island in the Bohai Sea, a valley of medicinal herbs in the uninhabited zone of Shennongjia, and a haunted village hidd 278Reads8.2Score—Shelves
21. 21 守 The Village Guardian, the Wife in the Coffin 守村人，棺中妻 Big Brother Xuanyi玄一哥哥Rural Life3.2M WordsCompleted [Fox Wife] + [Traditional Supernatural Horror] + [Mystery and Twists] + [Funny Ensemble Cast] + [Interlocking Plotlines] + [First-Ever Nine-Tailed Fox with Nine Clones] I’m the village’s famous idiot. Of course, that’s what people who don’t know any better call me. Those in the know call me… the village guardian! But my half-baked fortune-teller of a grandfather has a very different opinion from everyone else. He says I’m a kept man who lives off women! Still, I never imagined the woman I’d have 19.4kReads8.8Score1.9kShelves
22. 22 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! 748.4kReads9.4Score43kShelves
23. 23 出 Tales of a Spirit Medium 出马仙往事 Cloud Road Faraway云路遥Mystery1.1M WordsCompleted “First, invite Hu; second, invite Huang. Third, invite Mang; fourth, invite Chang. Offer incense in the hall, and let all the immortals come forth.” With an entirely yin birth chart, I suddenly became the village's most despised madman when I was eight years old. Ten years later, I recovered from my madness and took charge of the Hu family's altar, one of the five great immortal clans of Northeast China. From then on, the Five Evils and Three Deficiencies followed me everywhere. I thought I had 32.4kReads9.5Score3.4kShelves
24. 24 民 A Notebook of Folk Taboos 民间禁忌笔记 Green Pepper and Shrimp青椒肉虾Mystery5.0M WordsOngoing I was born with a pair of snake eyes, and everyone at the forest farm said I was a demon child born of a snake. The night I was born, thunder crashed again and again. The next day, a huge, gold-scaled python was found dead from a lightning strike outside Laolingou. Something was squirming inside its belly. Master Sang sliced open the python with a single stroke and carried out a blood-soaked baby. He named me Lin Shisan. From that moment on, my fate was bound to Master Sang’s for life… 19.9kReads9.3Score1.5kShelves
25. 25 活 Taboo of the Living 2 活人禁忌2 Ninth Master of the Thieves' Sect盗门九当家Urban1.7M WordsCompleted Heaven Official's Blessing, no taboos under heaven. The second installment of Living People’s Taboos! 8.1kReads9.1Score1.3kShelves
26. 26 天 The Fated Spirit Medium 2 天命出马仙2 Wu the Half-Immortal吴半仙Mystery2.1M WordsCompleted Shen Nan was an ordinary college student until he accidentally got caught up in a haunting at his school. He also inadvertently learned that he was born in response to fate and was destined to help Chu Yifan fight the immortals and Buddhas who were about to appear. Unexpectedly, they opened the passage ahead of time, and a great battle across the Three Realms is about to begin... Stride across the Three Realms and Six Paths, and continue the legend of the spirit medium! 4.1kReads9.2Score339Shelves
27. 27 活 Taboo of the Living 活人禁忌 Ninth Master of the Thieves' Sect盗门九当家Mystery1.9M WordsCompleted When I was nine, I found myself in mortal danger! To save me, my grandfather made a decision that would change my life forever... 16kReads9.2Score2.1kShelves
28. 28 震 Shocking! The Metaphysics Master Can Hear People's Thoughts 震惊！玄学大佬被读心了 Yellow Peach Tutu黄桃土土Modern Romance1.3M WordsCompleted [Mysticism + ghost hunting + fortune-telling + mind-reading + lighthearted] After graduating with a law degree, Xia Wange, heir to a Daoist sect, sees a wheelchair shimmering with purple energy at a car crash site. Born unable to gather energy, she can’t bring herself to leave the wheelchair alone. [I’ll carry this wheelchair off and borrow the energy on it to draw talismans. Then I’ll be the undisputed goddess of the supernatural world!] Lu Qiu, the CEO still trapped in the wreckage, inexpli 362.7kReads9.5Score73.6kShelves

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    Metaphysics + Silly humor; the female lead is a lawyer and a master of metaphysics.

29. 29 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

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    😎😎😎😎 Just when I thought it was just an ordinary day, I found myself captured and brought to the Land of the End. Just when I thought I could escape by participating in endless death games, I discovered that everyone was beginning to awaken supernatural powers. Just when I thought this was the "Land of Gods," everything was heading towards annihilation. Read the full text.

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