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  1. 1 The Grave Robbers' Chronicles: Northern School 北派盗墓笔记 Mystery4.5M WordsOngoing [Published in print and available online] [The Beipai Notes horizontal-screen drama is now streaming] [Tomb Raiding + Mystery + Antiques] I'm a poor kid from a mountain village in Northeast China. In the early twenty-first century, hoping to make something of myself, I joined a northern tomb-raiding crew. From south to north, I've seen every side of the underworld and crossed paths with people from all walks of life. Over the years, I went from a young man to a middle-aged one. My drinking got b 684.8kReads9.6Score87.8kShelves
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  2. 2 A Tomb Raider's True Account 盗墓者的纪实 Mystery340k WordsCompleted After thinking it over for a long time, I finally decided to write this book. It is told in the first person. I came into contact with ancient tombs when I was very young, and after becoming addicted to gambling, I plunged into the abyss of tomb raiding to pay off my debts. Our crew traveled far and wide, encountering inexplicable things, as well as human indifference and greed. I also experienced the temptations of money, the ferocity of wild beasts, and every side of society. This book covers 3.3kReads6.9Score292Shelves
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  3. 3 Tomb Raider Beyond the Pass 关外盗墓王 Mystery2.5M WordsOngoing [Real tomb-raiding + suspense + treasure appraisal + Master Yao's team + no ghosts or monsters] I'm a spirit medium from Northeast China, and a poor young man hoping to turn my life around and get rich. With nowhere else to turn, I got involved in tomb-raiding. I never imagined my very first shovel would strike the legendary Tai Sui. From then on, the wheels of fate began to turn... I've spent over a decade raiding tombs, traveling far and wide and dealing with deception at every turn. Do you th 106.7kReads9.1Score33.3kShelves
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  4. 4 Tales of Northern Tomb Raiders 北派盗墓往事 Mystery317k WordsOngoing My name is Yao Yuan. I used to be a tomb raider. In December 2014, after the shocking nationwide Red Mountain Case was solved, I was arrested at Tianyi Hotel in Ningcheng, Chifeng. I was ultimately sentenced to six years in prison for crimes including looting ancient cultural sites and tombs and trafficking in cultural relics. Now I have served my sentence and been released, ready to start a new life. If you're interested, why not hear me tell the stories of tomb raiding that happened to me? 472Reads6.8Score—Shelves
  5. 5 The Young Celestial Master of Tomb Raiding 盗墓小天师 Mystery1.5M WordsOngoing (Tomb raiding + exploration + feng shui + folk taboos) Others raid tombs with Luoyang shovels and Soul-Guiding Talismans. I raid tombs with peachwood swords and yellow talisman paper. The last young celestial master of White Water Temple on Longhu Mountain somehow becomes the tomb-raiding world's most sinister “yin-yang master.” Wang Yan carries the bronze bell passed down by his master and a half-volume of the incomplete Yin-Yang Treasure Mirror. He had planned to spend the rest of his days ten 32.5kReads9.0Score2.8kShelves
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  6. 6 Shadowy Tomb Raiders: A Complete History of Chinese Tomb Robbing 古墓贼影:中国盗墓史全记录 Historical400k WordsCompleted Drawing on rich and detailed historical sources, Ancient Tombs, Stolen Shadows: A Complete History of Tomb Raiding in China (Super Value Gold Edition) gives a comprehensive account of tomb robberies throughout thousands of years of Chinese history. It explains why tomb raiding arose, who the grave robbers were and where they came from, the tools and techniques they used, the great waves of tomb raiding and the shocking cases that took place over the centuries. It also reveals the dangerous and b 50Reads9.3Score—Shelves
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  7. 7 Tomb Raiding: Hei Ye, Come Here and Give Me a Kiss! 盗墓:黑爷,来,嘴一个! Mystery556k WordsCompleted [Tomb Raiding + Custom Female Lead Backstory + Comedy + Black Glasses as the Love Interest + The Female Lead Is Seriously Unhinged + Not a Saint + Secondary Couple: Ping Xie, Not Much + Complete] Wu You first met Black Glasses in an ancient tomb. She was suffering from mermaid poison and urgently needed a cure. After looking around, she found Black Glasses, who was badly injured. He was good-looking, had decent teeth, and there was just something wrong with his eyes. He also had something troubl 7.1kReads9.3Score892Shelves
  8. 8 Tomb Raiding: She's the Real Deal, Fearlessly Tackling Every Mechanism 盗墓:这姑娘能处,解机关真敢上 Mystery1.0M WordsCompleted [The Iron Triangle + Scheming Heroine + Lighthearted + Some Original Headcanons + The Heroine and Xiaoge Are a Couple! Not a Power Fantasy!] Wu Xie gets a mysterious box connected to Wu Sansheng. As he opens it, he learns that Zhang Qiling actually has a fiancée! The two brothers turn into spectators eager for the gossip, then get “reluctantly” swept up in a family conspiracy. After extricating himself from the family conspiracy, Wu Xie learns another earth-shattering secret. To uncover the trut 4.4kReads9.2Score585Shelves
  9. 9 Tomb Raiding: Don’t Make Things Hard for a Fortune-Teller Like Me 盗墓:别难为我一个算命的啊 Mystery658k WordsOngoing [Female lead, no romance!!!!] An ordinary high school student ends up in a tomb-raiding world. Miserable enough? Not even close! From the start, she runs into Hei Xiazi and Xie Di, and both of them suspect her. Miserable enough? Still not! Shen Jinqing says there is no such thing as the worst, only worse! Heaven dragged her here, and she can't go back unless she changes the plot. But just look at how completely the plot has gone off the rails! She originally planned to cling to Little Tianzhen, 17.3kReads9.4Score1.5kShelves
  10. 10 Tomb Raiding: The Ninth Gate’s Beloved Mystic 盗墓:九门团宠是神棍 Mystery1.1M WordsCompleted [Tomb Raider fanfiction, young Taoist, disguises herself as a boy, doted on by everyone, starting with The Mystic Nine] Proceed with caution: This is not a wish-fulfillment story! The protagonist grows over time and comes of age after Chapter 79. Qi Baye had a little granddaughter whom he raised by his side from the time she was born. He personally chose her name, deciding that whether the baby was a boy or a girl, she would be called Qi Lechuan. After her father, Qi Yu, disappeared while on the 6.6kReads9.4Score893Shelves
  11. 11 The Hidden Secrets of the World 天下藏局 Urban2.8M WordsCompleted [Wuxia World + Antiques Appraisal + Tomb Raiding] I never went to school as a child. Instead, I spent ten years learning the trade from a beautiful woman. Over those ten years, she forged me a pair of “Ghost Eyes” that could identify every rare treasure in the world. She trained my hands into “Buddha’s Hands,” teaching me to break traps and set schemes with impunity. And she taught me a repertoire of “divine skills” that let me navigate the shifting world of the martial underworld with ease. Dra 117.2kReads9.4Score38.9kShelves
  12. 12 Tomb Hunting in the Wilderness 荒野寻墓 Mystery4.9M WordsOngoing [Tomb Raiding Is Illegal, So Don’t Try It Yourself] [Tomb Raiding + Mystery + Appraisal + Human Nature + Rules] In the 1990s, with nowhere else to turn, I joined a tomb-raiding gang and embarked on a perilous quest to find ancient tombs. We searched the towering mountains for a vanished kingdom that had stood for a thousand years. Could the sacrificial rites of the ancient Shu civilization really grant eternal life? The deceit and scheming in the antiques trade showed me how cold the world could 54kReads9.3Score4.4kShelves
  13. 13 The Chongqing School's Tomb-Raiding Notes 渝派盗墓笔录 Mystery405k WordsCompleted [Tomb raiding + wild mystery twists + horror + the uncanny + treasure appraisal + sci-fi] (Tomb raiding is illegal.) Su Mo, a veteran tomb raider, and his fat cat discover a foreign immortal zombie seeking eternal life in an ancient tomb in Tongliang. A longevity mirror then leads them to the tomb of Ran Yu, sister of the immortal Ran Yi. Thus, the gates to the world beneath the tombs are thrown open: the base of a camel coffin, a coffin formation modeled on the six stars of the Southern Dipper 23Reads—Score—Shelves
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  14. 14 The Grave Digger 挖坟人 Mystery1.8M WordsCompleted My master said: Don’t dig a grave without burying the dead. Don’t break ground on the night of the full moon. Don’t look back after dark. Never answer a voice calling to you at night. I remembered all of that, but in the end I broke the rules because of one moment of greed. That transgression made me pay a price unlike anything I’d ever known... 759Reads—Score—Shelves
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  15. 15 The Tomb Guardian 守墓人 Mystery563k WordsCompleted I always thought my luck couldn’t get any worse. I scored over 670 points and got into funeral services, where everyone else at college spent their days looking at beautiful legs while I looked at burial clothes and coffins. I even became the school’s laughingstock. Little did I know, that was only the beginning of my bad luck. Other graduates were assigned to funeral homes. Whatever else you could say about it, at least those were public institutions. I, on the other hand, was assigned to Yongx 8Reads—Score—Shelves
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  16. 16 Tomb Raiding: From the Start, I Was Kicked Straight into The Grave Robbers' Chronicles 盗墓:开局我直接被踹进盗笔 Mystery595k WordsCompleted [Tomb raiding + System + the Iron Triangle + supernatural + invincible + transmigration + fanfiction] He is the holy infant cast down from his altar, and the Zhang family’s last Qiling. Though he has a mortal body, he bears a god’s burden. If there is a god in this world, it must be Zhang Qiling. Wang Yueban: Xiaoge, if you don’t find yourself a wife soon, the Zhang family bloodline will die out. Wu Xie: Xiaoge, I’ll keep your secret: you don’t sway your hips when you walk, you don’t wear bell-b 10.2kReads8.7Score1kShelves
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  17. 17 Tomb-Raiding Livestream: From the Start, I Awaken the Qilin Tattoo 盗墓直播:开局觉醒麒麟纹身 Mystery2.0M WordsCompleted After transmigrating to a parallel twin-star world, Qin Yu unexpectedly activates the Tomb Raider Bloodline System and begins livestreaming his tomb raids! The closer he gets to an ancient tomb, the more his bloodline awakens, and the stronger the abilities he gains from its characters. At the Seven-Star Coffin, he points with a bloodied hand, making the demoness kneel and beg for mercy. At the Celestial Palace in the Clouds, he enters the Bronze Gate and reveals the ultimate secret once more. A 950Reads5.4Score189Shelves
  18. 18 The Yin-Yang Tomb Raider 阴阳盗墓先生 Mystery1.1M WordsCompleted [Mystery + Tomb Raiding + Treasure Appraisal + Supernatural + Horror] Years ago, to pay for my mother’s medical treatment, I went north alone with the only keepsake my grandfather left me before he died. By chance, I joined a tomb-robbing gang. From then on, I traveled north and south, east and west, crossing the mountains and rivers of my homeland, seeing every side of the martial world and encountering all kinds of strange and wondrous things... Now, having narrowly survived disaster and emerg 2kReads6.7Score101Shelves
  19. 19 National Treasure 国家宝藏 Mystery930k WordsCompleted [Tomb Raiding + Mystery + Smart Protagonists] There is a group of people armed with black blades and mysterious arts, born to venture into ancient tombs across the land. There is a group of people who fight without end and bleed until they are drained, dying to protect the nation's treasures. They stand before the countless people of the world, shielding them from its darkest corners. They leave the greatest glory of their people behind them, for all to behold. They share one name: Qilin. But I 42.3kReads9.5Score4.9kShelves
  20. 20 Northern School Tomb Raiders: Raise the Coffin, Make a Fortune 北派盗墓:升棺发财 Mystery1.1M WordsCompleted [Tomb Raiding and Treasure Appraisal + Jianghu Adventures] I have seen an immortal corpse in the Mausoleum of the First Qin Emperor, encountered a giant moray eel in the South Sea, and witnessed a mysterious ghost city in the desert. Over the past ten years, I have lost everything and found myself in peril time and again, surviving by the skin of my teeth. I have some hard-won experience from making my way through the world of tomb raiders, so I dare to tell you about this dangerous underworld. 5.5kReads8.7Score459Shelves
  21. 21 Tomb Raiding: From the Start, I Obtained the Bloodline of a True Dragon 盗墓:开局获得真龙血脉 Mystery1.0M WordsCompleted People light the candles, ghosts blow them out, and the Mountain-Moving Taoist descends into the tomb. When a mysterious heir appears, one who has mastered the secret arts of all four tomb-raiding schools, the entire tomb-raiding world is turned upside down. Third Uncle: "Ninth Master is the strongest tomb raider I've ever met!" Fatty: "I've never been scared going into a tomb with my senior brother!" Naive: "Ninth Master showed me that tomb raiding can be as easy as sightseeing!" Zhang Qilin: " 33.3kReads9.0Score2.7kShelves
  22. 22 Tomb Raiding: At Eight Years Old, I Take Dilraba on a Rampage 盗墓:八岁的我带着热芭杀疯了 Mystery491k WordsCompleted [Tomb Raiding + Adventure + The Supernatural + Decisive Violence] No one knows when the four forbidden zones came to exist in this world. One day, the crew of the program Secrets of China arrives at one of them. Just as they are about to enter, an eight-year-old boy named Su Luo stops them. “Search a thousand mountains for the dragon’s trail; each winding ridge is another pass.” These words make China’s famous feng shui master fall to his knees in reverence. “Where a gate has a thousand locks, 9.4kReads8.5Score867Shelves
  23. 23 Tomb Raiding: From the Start, I Made Wu Sansheng Call Me Big Sis 盗墓:开局让吴三省叫大姐 Mystery305k WordsCompleted Yin Longjun is kind of annoyed. What annoys her is that her parents are pretty but brainless and unreliable. I was only one year old when you dumped me on two grown men. Did you not even think about how I was supposed to get milk? Luckily, Yin Longjun is tough enough to survive. She even learns martial arts from the two masters who take her in. The first master is a swordsman, and the second is a fortune-teller. It’s not until years later that Yin Longjun finally realizes who these two frighteni 1.4kReads8.4Score252Shelves
  24. 24 Tomb Raiding: The Corpse-Eater King Raised by My Daughter Has Been Exposed 盗墓:女儿养的尸鳖王,被曝光了 Mystery187k WordsOngoing While playing, a five-year-old cutie runs into a group of tomb raiders. Wu Xie: “Little girl, what’s that black thing in your hand?” Xiao Ge: “A corpse beetle.” “Holy crap!” everyone yells, fleeing in panic with their hands over their heads. The little girl says, “It’s a present from my dad.” The whole internet is stunned: “You keep that deadly poison as a pet?” The girl says, “Don’t be scared. It’s really cute and it never bites anyone!” As soon as she says this, Pan Zi instinctively covers his 235Reads6.4Score—Shelves
  25. 25 A Southern School Tomb Raider's Notes 南派盗墓手记 Mystery2.1M WordsCompleted In the late Qing and early Republican eras, the country fell into chaos, sparking the largest and most sensational wave of tomb raiding in history. People of the time called the oracle bones of Yinxu, the Dunhuang manuscripts, and the wooden slips from the sands of Loulan the three great discoveries of the Republic, as they traced the origins of civilization. In the West, a fervent wave of research into Eastern artifacts followed. Then, in the seventeenth year of the Republic, a deafening blast 1.6kReads6.8Score197Shelves
  26. 26 Tomb Raiding: From the Start, I Disguise Myself as a Ghost to Scare People 盗墓:开局扮鬼吓人 Mystery327k WordsCompleted What kind of kid does Fatty bring along? On his first tomb raid, he plays Bai Wuchang. On his second tomb raid, he plays a forbidden woman. On his third, he becomes the tomb owner's very own self. Wu Xie points to the porcelain mural in the underwater tomb. “He's Wang Canghai's twin brother.” Xiao Hua takes out an old photo from the Republic of China era. “He's my second senior brother.” It isn't until the group makes it to Changbai Mountain that they find out the truth. Wang Xiaoying waves a ha 3.5kReads9.0Score529Shelves
  27. 27 Tomb Raiding: To Secure My Grad School Recommendation, I Rolled a Campus Beauty into a Mess in the Tomb 盗墓:为保研,墓里把校花卷麻了 Mystery2.7M WordsCompleted The campus belle posted her dating criteria: “If you want to pursue me, come tomb raiding with me. If you’re afraid to die, don’t bother.” Her schoolmates said, “Pursuing you could cost us our lives!” Ye Fan, meanwhile, was role-playing Zhang Qiling. He decided to raid a tomb in hopes of finding a shortcut to graduate school. Campus belle: A shut-in simp like you thinks you can pursue me? Campus belle: Does this impossibly aloof guy really like me? Campus belle: You save me every time, then say 17kReads8.3Score1.8kShelves
  28. 28 The First Book of This World 本物天下的第1本书 Mystery944k WordsCompleted An ancient book in tatters leads someone by chance onto the path of tomb raiding and treasure hunting. After numerous twists and turns, secrets buried for millennia come to light. Ancient tombs of astonishing scale and mystery, the Mirror of Longing forged by Master Huayang in the Jin dynasty for the Seven Sages of the Bamboo Grove, the eternal bond between Yu Boya and Zhong Ziqi, and the pipa of the courtesan Li Sisi all feature in this thrilling tale, packed with suspense and tangled love and 47Reads6.5Score—Shelves
  29. 29 Old Ninth, the Tomb Raider 盗墓老九 Mystery1.9M WordsCompleted [Tomb raiding + adventure + treasure hunting] A centuries-old mystery ordained by Heaven, the fabled ancient kingdom of Loulan, the secrets behind the ancient Silk Road, and even the Black Mountain, where legend says the rocks, plants, rivers, and soil are all black, shrouded year-round in an air of death... I was just an antique dealer in Panjiayuan, but somehow I got swept up in one strange adventure after another. It all began with my grandfather, a eunuch from the previous dynasty... 359Reads5.4Score—Shelves
  30. 30 Tomb Raiding: My Third Uncle Is No Ordinary Man 盗墓,我的三叔不一般 Mystery409k WordsCompleted A perfect fusion of the tomb-raiding worlds of Candle in the Tomb and The Grave Robbers' Chronicles. Join Hu Bayi and Wang Pangzi as they face off against the second-generation Nine Gates crew. One autumn afternoon… A naive thirty-five-year-old boy sees injustice and leaps to help… What does he see? A grown man beating a woman in the street! How the hell could he stand by and watch? And she’s a beautiful woman, too! Unable to hold back any longer… He charges in, kicks the guy square in th 925Reads6.9Score101Shelves
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  31. 31 Tomb Raiding! My Identity as a Donor Has Been Exposed 盗墓!我捐献者的身份被曝光了 Mystery1.9M WordsCompleted Inside the Xia Kingdom's courtroom. Four men sat calmly before the judge's bench. [Nine Gates, Zhang Tian, Hu Bayi, Wang Kaixuan, Zhang Qiling, do you plead guilty?] [You have looted hundreds of ancient tombs, including the famous Juejue Ancient City, the Han King's Tomb, the Qin King's Tomb, the Yunding Heavenly Palace, and the Kunlun Tomb. Your crimes are utterly heinous!] The judge spoke in a stern voice. When the men on the stand did not answer, the judge gave a cold snort. [Fortunately, Dr. 3.6kReads9.0Score253Shelves
  32. 32 The Dragon Bone's Secret Hoard 龙骨诡藏 Mystery217k WordsOngoing Others raid tombs to find gold and treasure, but I get entangled with a vengeful spirit instead. My grandfather, Chen Xuanli, vanished in the Ailao Mountains. I entered the mountains with a dragon-bone divination disk, only to accidentally awaken a century-old female spirit. From then on, danger closed in at every turn: perilous underground palaces, ruins left by ghost soldiers, and secret Japanese military caches. The Fatty smashes through evil with his shovel, the Yin sisters set up formatio 65Reads—Score—Shelves
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  33. 33 The World Beneath the Soil: A True Record of Tomb Raiding 土里乾坤之盗墓记实录 Mystery356k WordsCompleted My name is Chen Laosan. In 1985, my grandfather died under mysterious circumstances, leaving behind only a notebook on feng shui. I was a timid country boy from rural Hebei, forced into the world of tomb raiding. Over fifteen years, I used feng shui to track dragon veins and the Six Lines to divine fortune and misfortune, sharing life-and-death adventures with three brothers. We explored an underwater tomb in the Yellow River, a tomb guarded by wolves in the Qinling Mountains, hanging coffins in —Reads—Score—Shelves
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  34. 34 Folk Feng Shui: I Made My Name by Moving a Grave 民间堪舆:从迁坟开始扬名 Mystery1.0M WordsCompleted On a midnight road, a ghost encounters a coffin being carried. A blood-seeping black coffin holds calamity at bay. Chen Mo, a boy from a remote mountain village, only wanted to live in peace with half a box of tattered books and a cracked compass left behind by his grandfather. Then the old village chief died mysteriously, and the supposed auspicious burial site turned out to be a place steeped in a century of resentment. The instant the coffin was opened, bloody words appeared alongside claw ma 3Reads—Score—Shelves
  35. 35 The Yin Tombs of the Yellow River: A Feng Shui Master of the Qing Nang 黄河阴坟:青囊风水师 9k WordsCompleted The Yellow River Yin Tomb: A Qing Nang Feng Shui Master 58Reads—Score—Shelves
  36. 36 The Haunted House Cleanup Crew: The Mystery of My Origins 凶宅清理师之我的身世之谜 16k WordsCompleted The Haunted House Cleaner: The Mystery of My Origins 20Reads—Score—Shelves
  37. 37 The Ghost Mirror King's Mausoleum: A Clash Between Heaven and Earth 诡镜王陵之天地对决 Mystery1.2M WordsCompleted [Tomb Raiding + Suspense + Transmigration + Supernatural + Fantasy] Ten years ago, when the vicious Liang Zhongkui killed Xia Bu and Qin Dachuan to claim the sheepskin scroll for himself, the veil of conspiracy behind this strange feud was finally lifted for future generations. It turned out that everything had been done for God's Power Pack. According to unofficial historical accounts, whoever obtained the pack could not only conquer the entire world, but also gain boundless energy when activat 1.2kReads9.5Score132Shelves
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  38. 38 After I Started Slacking Off, All Humanity Begged the God of War to Return 我摆烂后,全人类跪求战神出山 Sci-Fi & Apocalypse115k WordsCompleted High Martial Arts + System + Subverting Expectations + The God of War Returns + Getting Stronger by Slacking Off + Hidden Powerhouse + The Ex-Wife Regrets It Too Late + Global Crisis + Sci-Fi Apocalypse He was once the Dragon Torch God of War who guarded the nation's borders. After retiring, all he wanted was to fix cars and take it easy. His ex-wife thought he was a good-for-nothing and divorced him. Then the beast tide breached the city, and during a global livestream, he shattered countless s —Reads—Score—Shelves
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  39. 39 The Cage of Rules: I Use the Brush of History to Break Every Deadlock 规则囚笼:我以史笔破万局 Mystery74k WordsCompleted High-IQ mind games + infinite-loop survival + rule-based horror + historical research + smart characters + fast-paced plot + battles of human nature + no saintly protagonists + satisfying wish fulfillment + everyday warmth When a higher-dimensional civilization turns Earth into a game board, every rule is a blade aimed at your life, and every scenario is a gamble with death. Zhang Mingyong, a historical document archivist who has spent ten years poring over old records, is thrown headfirst into —Reads—Score—Shelves
  40. 40 Unrivaled Master: From Hauling Bricks at Construction Sites to Urban Kingpin 无双国手:从工地搬砖到都市枭雄 Urban127k WordsCompleted God of War + Divine Physician + Live-in Son-in-Law + Suspense + Emotional Entanglements A double knockout of a God of War and a divine physician! When a battle-hardened soldier living under an assumed name is arrested by his own ex-wife, a bloody trial that will sweep across the entire city begins. The day my ex-wife personally cuffed me and dragged me into the interrogation room, she said through red-rimmed eyes, “Zhang Mingyong, you deserve to rot in the mud for the rest of your life.” I lowe 1Reads—Score—Shelves
  41. 41 The True Record of a Tomb Raider 来至一个盗墓者的纪实录 Mystery1.5M WordsCompleted [Real tomb raiding + suspense + antiques appraisal] Starting in the 1990s, this story follows Wei Yonggang, a young man from the countryside, as he rises swiftly through the tomb-raiding world, going from accidental participant to an underground legend thanks to his “guts, attention to detail, and expertise.” He is sworn brothers with Tian Sanjiu, the last disciple of Silver Fox, and his junior fellow disciple is the sharp-eyed Feng, known as Fengzi. 6Reads—Score—Shelves
  42. 42 The Underground World (Complete in Four Volumes) 地底世界(全四册) Mystery767k WordsCompleted Break through the barriers between reality and illusion, and redefine the limits of human understanding! Deep in a colossal rift lies the City of Four Million Pagodas. Carved by countless storms over ages beyond measure, it has always remained a blind spot beyond human perception. Yet a vast secret lies hidden in that empty darkness. Archaeological teams have ventured there again and again, but not a single person has ever returned alive. But curiosity is human nature, and exploration is instinc 8.7kReads9.4Score1.5kShelves
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  43. 43 Real Tomb Raiding: The Black Ghost Awl 真实的盗墓:黑鬼钎 Mystery809k WordsCompleted To repay the debt of gratitude he owes his late company commander, who saved his life, and help raise the astronomical sum needed for his mother's medical bills, Hu Yutian returns from the Vietnam War carrying his black ghost pick and joined by the brothers who have stood by him through life and death. Together, they embark on the most authentic and thrilling tomb-raiding adventures imaginable. By chance, Hu Yutian discovers the location of the ancient city of Loulan in an old book. Bound by bro 1.1kReads7.2Score120Shelves
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  44. 44 Tomb Raiding: My Life in the Underground Palace Underworld 摸金:我的地宫江湖生涯 Urban427k WordsCompleted Told in the first person, the story follows Chen Chang'an, a down-on-his-luck young man from the suburbs of Xi'an, born into a family of traditional architecture experts. In the early twenty-first century, to pay for a seriously ill family member's medical treatment and restore his family's reputation, he is forced into the unfathomable world of tomb raiding in the Guanzhong region. 84Reads—Score—Shelves
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  45. 45 Feng Shui Master Lai Xuan 风水大师赖玄 Mystery456k WordsCompleted In a bustling city's noisy corner, an antique shop called Xuan Zhai always closes early. Its owner, Lai Xuan, is a laid-back, mild-mannered young man. He usually either turns his old antiques over in his hands or dozes on a reclining chair. Only the few customers who have ventured into the abyss know that when he occasionally opens his eyes, he can see what ordinary people cannot: baleful energy between buildings, people's fortune and misfortune, and even the "qi" flowing deep beneath the earth. 28Reads—Score—Shelves
  46. 46 The Living Must Keep Away 活人回避 Mystery3.7M WordsCompleted Originally titled Living People, Keep Away. An antique set me on a desperate path. From then on, just to stay alive, I became a yin walker who dealt with the dead and the walking corpses. Three years searching for dragon veins, ten years locating acupoints, roaming between yin and yang, dealing in ghosts and spirits. I kept walking, struggling my way to where I am today. 2.9kReads8.9Score311Shelves
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  47. 47 Life-and-Death Gambit in the Snowlands 雪域生死局 Mystery1.4M WordsOngoing [Chinese Folk Horror + Gods and Ghosts + Folk Legends + Secret-Realm Exploration + Mystery and Deduction + Strong Allies] At an antique fair in Lhasa, I stumbled upon an ancient Tibetan stone tablet. Curious about its contents, I accepted an invitation to join a merchant named Lao Gun and the team he had assembled to search for goods. Together, we ventured deep into the barren mountains of northern Tibet to investigate an ancient temple. I never expected the old temple to conceal such mysteries. 4.2kReads8.6Score730Shelves
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  48. 48 The Best Feng Shui Master on the Construction Site 工地最强建筑风水师 Mystery1.8M WordsOngoing [School Campus Opening] [Wildly Imaginative] This novel combines feng shui, the supernatural, fantasy, magic, science fiction, and time travel through history. The pace gets especially fast after chapter thirty, and it vigorously promotes traditional Chinese culture. Although the story mainly focuses on feng shui at construction sites, it's not all about feng shui. Feng shui serves as a thread tying the story together, while the novel delivers plenty of thrills and satisfying moments! The main c 1.7kReads8.3Score260Shelves
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  49. 49 Tianxia Bachang's Tomb-Raiding Legends (Five-Book Set) 天下霸唱摸金传奇(共五册) Mystery977k WordsCompleted This series consists of five books: Tracing the Sacred Spring, The Mysterious Tombs of Xiangxi, The Monster Tombs of the Mountains and Seas, The Poisonous Gu of Fuxian, and The Wild Sands of the Treasure Vault. Tracing the Sacred Spring: The greatest tomb-raiding trio in history, Hu Bayi, Wang Pangzi, and Shirley Yang, are back in full force. They venture deep into the distant Amazon rainforest to begin a new expedition! The Mysterious Tombs of Xiangxi: The greatest trio of gold-touching experts 23.5kReads9.3Score2.5kShelves
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  50. 50 Wang Fengfeng's Ninth Book 王锋锋的第9本书 Mystery217k WordsCompleted A suspense novel based on Ghost Blows Out the Light. It follows the three tomb raiders Hu Bayi, Wang Pangzi, and Shirley Yang as they embark on a series of thrilling and perilous tomb-raiding adventures, guided by a fragment of a family heirloom manuscript. Seeking to lift the curse afflicting them, they explore ancient tombs across the land and encounter countless mysterious dangers. Their journey takes them through the Ancient City of Jingjue, the Longling Labyrinth, the Insect Valley of Yunna 485Reads—Score101Shelves

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