Horror, Detective Cases, Fantasy, and the Supernatural 恐怖查案玄幻灵异

1. 1 我 I Am Not the God of Drama 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 1.7MReads9.9Score190.9kShelves

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2. 2 异 City of Beasts 异兽迷城 Peng Pai彭湃Urban3.0M WordsCompleted [The new book The Maze of Inversion has begun serialization. Updates come at 9 p.m. every evening. Please continue to support it.] 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 471.9kReads9.7Score74.9kShelves
3. 3 我 Deicide Learning In A Psychiatric Hospital 我在精神病院学斩神 Three Nine Sound Domain三九音域Urban4.3M WordsCompleted A must-read hit on Tomato Novel | Original novel of the hit anime Slay the Gods | IP influence on the China Online Literature Influence List | 2023 China Good Novel Have you ever wondered whether monsters from ancient myths lurk beneath the neon-lit city? Have you ever wondered whether gods stand watch over humanity atop the moon hanging high above us? Have you ever wondered whether extraordinary people walk among us in our bustling modern cities, acting in the gods’ stead? In the society ruled 1.1MReads9.9Score252kShelves
4. 4 十 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 1.7MReads9.9Score233.7kShelves
5. 5 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 34.5kReads9.5Score3.6kShelves
6. 6 仇 Chou Xian'er 仇仙儿 Lady Lu芦美人Mystery113k WordsCompleted Good demons are for Fahai to handle, and bad ghosts need bad people to deal with them. If life is already miserable, who cares if you end up in the frying pan after death! If you won’t let me, Chen Guang, live in peace, then what the hell am I cultivating merit for? One word: fight to the bitter end! 6.4kReads—Score579Shelves

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   The characterization is very vivid, and it is not a routine plot. Everyone has their own characteristics, and everyone has their own pursuits.

7. 7 1 The Last Bus on Route 13 13路末班车 Old Eighty老八零Mystery813k WordsCompleted I'm the driver of the last bus on Route 13. Every night at eleven, I have to make a run to the suburbs. This book is addictive, so don't blame me if you can't put it down! In this novel, even the sharp-tongued readers who always guess the plot right will find themselves repeatedly proven wrong. You might find yourself asking, “What's going on? What's going on?” Don't doubt your sanity. Just keep reading. A story that keeps you on edge, here to save readers suffering from a reading drought! 16.7kReads9.2Score2.1kShelves

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8. 8 黄 No. 81 on the Yellow Springs Road 黄泉路81号 Ye Wusheng夜无声Mystery1.9M WordsCompleted Night blankets the city, and the things lurking in the shadows begin to stir. The raccoon dog granny who eats raw meat, the fitness girl with fish scales growing on her back. The wild foxes who approach people by the roadside, and the little convenience store in the cemetery. I've experienced all of these. And it all began after I witnessed a car accident... 46.4kReads9.2Score4.3kShelves
9. 9 城 A Diary of Renting in an Urban Village 城中村租房日记 Fellow Daoist, Wait Up, I'm Broke道友留步我没钱Urban324k WordsCompleted Goofy comedy + Buddhist and Taoist teammates + episodic mysteries + an overarching mystery. Eat, sleep, and save the world on the side. Shen Wuyou moved from a shabby little apartment with 1,200 yuan rent to an even shabbier, tinier place that cost 600 yuan. He only cared about one thing: it was cheap. People online said the place was unlucky and anyone who moved in would have bad luck. He didn't care. Unemployment, a breakup, and illness? He didn't have a job, a partner, or a weak constitution, 7Reads—Score—Shelves

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   A fresh and unique style, which is my favorite type. I also like the characters very much, and the details are well described.

10. 10 道 The Supreme Taoist: Subduing Ten Thousand Ghosts 道门太上：万鬼伏藏 Peeing Into the Wind, Soaking a Shoe迎风尿一鞋Mystery482k WordsCompleted Offer blood to Heaven and slaughter every evil. The Daoist arts are the strongest of all. The protagonist, Li Changsheng, masters the supreme arts of the Daoist sect and makes a solemn vow: he will not ascend until he has eliminated every demon and evil spirit under Heaven. He willingly seals his cultivation between Heaven and Earth, remaining in the mortal realm for thousands of years! 29.3kReads9.4Score2.3kShelves

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    The protagonist of the novel "The Left Eye Sees Feng Shui, the Right Eye Sees Gods and Ghosts" is a traveling prophet who is proficient in Feng Shui and comes from the ancient Taoist heritage. They carry kitchen knives and scissors with them and leave prophecies. They are famous for accurately predicting life and death and calculating fate. They are called "credit knife people" and are full of mystery and suspense.

11. 11 最 The Last Knife Seller 最后一个赊刀人 Too Sleepy to Sleep困的睡不着Mystery4.9M WordsCompleted They are wandering prophets who travel the four corners of the world. Skilled in feng shui, they roam the mortal realm with a bundle of cleavers and scissors on their backs, and wherever they go, they leave behind a prophecy about what they have seen. “Keep this cleaver. If an elder in your family dies of consumption within five years, I'll come back to collect payment.” They are heirs to an ancient Daoist tradition from a distant place, able to pronounce life and death with ironclad certainty a 66.6kReads9.2Score6.7kShelves
12. 12 妖 The Demon Taoist Breaks Through the Underworld Pass 妖道破阴关 Scorpio Water Demon天蝎水妖Mystery2.0M WordsCompleted (Supernatural horror, feng shui and geomancy, warding off evil and misfortune, one heroine) My parents used forbidden magic to conceive me, but on the day I was born, my strange appearance frightened them away... My third uncle raised me in a cage. I barely managed to grow up on borrowed yin virtue and incense offerings... On my eighteenth birthday, I was buried alive in the ancestral graveyard. She saved me... but she wasn’t human... 6.2kReads9.1Score575Shelves
13. 13 我 My Years with the 037 Special Operations Team 我在037特别行动队的那些年 Yi He易河Mystery1.2M WordsCompleted An accident awakened my supernatural ability, and from then on I joined a mysterious special operations team. The mystery of Qin Shi Huang’s immortality, a vampire uprising, World War II bombers striking a Ming Dynasty arms depot, the hidden history of Huo Qubing fighting giants... One supernatural incident after another unfolds. Could another world of strange beings be hidden beneath the surface of a peaceful, harmonious society? There are countless strange tales in this world, and nothing unde 17.7kReads9.2Score1.9kShelves
14. 14 身 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 Clouds Can Smile云会笑Mystery1.4M WordsCompleted [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 135.1kReads9.5Score12.6kShelves
15. 15 我 I'm a Funeral Officiant, So Summoning Immortals Is Only Natural 我个殡葬司仪，会请仙也很正常吧 Dragon-Taming Pool御龙潭Mystery1.2M WordsCompleted [One heroine + the author conducted on-site research at funeral homes, crematoriums, and cemeteries, striving for realistic details + traditional supernatural tales + professional knowledge of funerals and spirit-medium practices] (The humorous setups and parody scenes in this book, as well as the original Qingfeng spirit-medium altar, where spirits other than ancestors are invited to take up residence, were published with the approval of the author's own guardian spirits. Readers, please believ 31.2kReads9.4Score3.5kShelves
16. 16 扎 The Paper Effigy Shop: Everyone Around Me Is a Big Shot 扎纸铺，我身边都是大佬 Jie Yu界玉Mystery1.0M WordsCompleted In our ancient land of China, many professions have their own rules and taboos. The older and more mysterious the craft, the more this is true. For example, when “asking the rice,” you must never ask how someone died; a coffin maker must never make their own coffin; a paper effigy maker must never draw eyes on a paper figure; and a spirit medium must never conduct a ceremony without all the members of their altar present... If any of these rules and taboos are broken, something terrifying will h 24.4kReads9.3Score2.3kShelves
17. 17 鬼 The Ghost King’s Little Princess Comes from the Mortal Realm 鬼王的小王妃来自人间 Fragrance Remains in Flowing Waters逝水留香Mystery225k WordsCompleted Grandma Wang next door died. I was only six, but I saw her sitting on a tall table, chatting animatedly with another auntie from next door. I told Mom, but she didn’t believe me. The next day, the auntie next door died too. On the seventh day after Grandma Wang’s death, I saw two strange men again. One had a human body and an ox’s head; the other had a human body and a horse’s face. They each took one of Grandma Wang’s arms and led her forward. I followed them, but soon lost sight of them. I cam 50Reads—Score—Shelves
18. 18 镇 Tomb of the Yin 镇阴棺 Five Dou of Rice五斗米Mystery1.6M WordsCompleted I was always at my grandfather’s side, helping people relocate graves. There was a special burial practice involved in moving graves called a second burial. It required opening the coffin, gathering the bones, and dressing them in new clothes. The first time I encountered a second burial, I dug up a female corpse that looked lifelike... 113Reads8.6Score—Shelves
19. 19 老 Old Wei's Ghost Stories 老魏讲鬼故事 Unrestrained for Ten Thousand Miles万里天纵Mystery409k WordsCompleted [Traditional Supernatural Tales] [Chinese-Style Horror] [Based on True Events] [Submitted by Readers] [Chilling on Reflection] [Bizarre Tales] [Beyond the Bounds of Science] The eerie Buddha statue seen when mountaineers are trapped in a ghostly loop, a face appearing on the wall in the middle of the night, a “person” using their own head as a ball during evening study at school... I have always believed that horror stories should be short, sometimes ending on a cliffhanger, sometimes becoming 1.2kReads—Score—Shelves

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    I have read these new books and they are all very interesting. The first one is a short story after a short story.

20. 20 阴 The Underworld Detective 阴间神探 Old Nine of the Daoist Sect道门老九Mystery1.9M WordsCompleted My new work is out! You can read it on Tomato Novel. I hope you'll enjoy it. Your support inspires me to write, and I'll do my best to tell every story well! 79.4kReads9.4Score9.8kShelves

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    In this world, strange cases happen every day. The most prosperous bun shop, its bun fillings are made of human flesh. A mansion in a prosperous area with blood dripping from the walls. The beautiful school belle who dies in the university will take someone away every time she dies. Is the legend of the zombie baby in Building 7 of the hospital true? China's last ghost work uses autopsy techniques that have been passed down for three thousand years to take you to hunt down the murderer: there is no ghost in the world, but a master can eliminate injustice. Serial killers, sex addicts, blood suckers, necromaniacs, people with demon eyes, all the mysterious cases of the Public Security Department

21. 21 阴 Stay Away, Spirits 阴人勿扰 Zhuo Ran卓染Mystery3.1M WordsCompleted Someone dug up our family grave and put the newlywed daughter-in-law who’d just died in their family in there. My uncle told me to go get her out in the middle of the night... 624Reads7.1Score—Shelves

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    Introduction: Someone dug our ancestral grave and put his newly deceased wife in it. My uncle asked me to carry her out in the middle of the night...

22. 22 蛇 The Serpent Coffin 蛇棺 Jiang He江河Mystery3.2M WordsCompleted On the day I was born, my family was moving our ancestral graves. My father killed a huge snake in a coffin that was on the verge of shedding its skin and transforming into a dragon, and nearly got bitten to death. When I was born, snakes surged in from every direction, hissing. Everyone said I was ill-omened. A rice medium from the village gave her life to save my father. She left me a black jade pendant shaped like a snake, but she too was bitten to death. Just after my eighteenth birthday, th 34.8kReads9.0Score2.1kShelves

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    On the day of my birth, when my family was moving the ancestral grave, my father killed a big snake in the coffin that was about to shed its skin and turn into a dragon. He was almost bitten to death by the snake. When I was born, all the snakes swarmed and neighed, saying that I was unlucky. A rice woman in the village saved my father's life and left me a piece of snake-shaped black jade. She was also bitten to death by a snake. Then, a series of things happened.

23. 23 规 Rule Horror: I Can Possess the Supernatural 规则怪谈：我能附身诡异 The Little Cat in the Snow雪中的小猫Mystery1.0M WordsCompleted [Rule-Based Horror + No Romance + Ensemble Cast + Passionate Adventure + National Destiny + Deduction + Original Scenarios] (No characters suddenly becoming stupid. True teammates appear starting with the second scenario, and this really isn't padded! The first four scenarios each have a completely different style.) A year ago, rule-based horror descended on Blue Star in massive numbers, causing countless tragedies and drastically reducing the global population. While everyone else avoided the u 22.2kReads9.3Score3kShelves

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    **Reversal × Defeat × Terrifying if you think about it! ** When the fifth non-existent bed rose from the ground, the wall of rules peeled off, revealing bones - all the terms were carved with the nails of the dead! Jiang Cheng crushed the pen that was tampering with the rules, and suddenly heard his mother's scream behind him: "Run away! This weird story itself is..."

24. 24 黄 Forbidden Secrets of the Yellow Springs 黄泉禁忌 The Top Scholar Who Couldn't Read状元不识字Mystery2.0M WordsCompleted My family runs a coffin shop. For several days in a row, a strange woman came by asking whether we had seven large, unpainted red coffins. And then... I have a book called Yellow Springs. It records the forbidden secrets of this world that no one else knows! 2.9kReads8.8Score261Shelves

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    My family runs a coffin shop. For several days in a row, a strange woman came to ask if there were seven unpainted red coffins. As a result... I have a book called "Yellow Spring", which records unknown taboos in this world.

25. 25 全 All-Round Beast Tamer 全职御兽主 Stars in the Eyes眸中星晨Urban4.8M WordsOngoing [No female lead + no harem + not invincible + gradual power-ups + no System] This is a world of beast taming, with tree monsters that uproot themselves and walk, shadow ghosts that like to hide from people, and wolves that curse and swear nonstop... Beneath the setting sun, a Windsplitter Eagle streaks past, carrying someone who has given up on life. In a vast blue lake lies a once-cursed soul. Its crystal-clear waters conceal a truth no one knows. In an unknown otherworld, a group of abandoned 6.4kReads7.1Score394Shelves

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    Shura Dao will bring catastrophe to the three realms. They want to break the existing balance, unify the entire world, and become the supreme master. Su Xiao was awakened with the mission of saving the Three Realms, from an ignorant girl to finally standing on the top of the world.

26. 26 夜 Nightcry Tower: Eleven Horror and Suspense Stories 夜哭楼：十一个恐怖悬疑故事 Han Shisan韩十三Mystery94k WordsCompleted [Horror | Suspense | Mystery | Folklore | Short story collection] The green lamp, a ghost knocking at the door in the dead of night, the Golden Buddha, a female ghost... As everyone knows, what is truly terrifying isn't seeing a ghost, but the human heart! This collection brings together eleven horror and suspense stories by Han Shisan, originally published in well-known magazines across China. They'll send chills down your spine and turn even the fainthearted into brave souls! 733Reads9.3Score101Shelves

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    Horror can no longer be terrifying

27. 27 超 Super Scary Livestream 超级惊悚直播 Yuwen Chang Gong宇文长弓Mystery2.2M WordsCompleted "Welcome, everyone, to the Supernatural Scary Live Stream. Before we start today's broadcast, I have to tell you that only three kinds of people can watch this stream: those with a heavy aura of yin energy, those who will die within seven days, and the third kind, which I can't discuss in detail. I can only give you one warning: watch your back!" 26.5kReads9.2Score3.3kShelves
28. 28 恐 Horror Arena: From the Start, a Red-and-White Collision Scares the World to Tears 恐怖擂台：开局红白撞煞吓哭全球 I'm Not the Regiment Commander我不是团长Urban1.6M WordsOngoing A horror arena has descended upon Blue Star. Each nation must summon a terrifying entity to fight for it. The winners will see their national fortunes flourish and endure for all eternity. The losers will see their national fortunes decline, their resources and territory plundered, and their dignity stripped away. To claim victory, nations everywhere summon horrors native to their lands. The Sakura Nation has the Slit-Mouthed Woman, the Red Cape, the Four Great Female Ghosts, and the Hundred Gho 14.2kReads9.2Score1.6kShelves
29. 29 麻 The Master of Face Reading in Hemp Robes 麻衣大相师 Golden Toad Spitting Pearls金蟾吐珠Mystery266k WordsCompleted At a countryside funeral, the provincial capital's richest man and the city's aristocratic families all came to pay their respects. The deceased was my grandfather, and before he passed, he left me a pouch and an arranged marriage... 140Reads—Score—Shelves

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    When I was six years old, my grandfather got me a daughter-in-law. She was a yellow-skinned girl... 

30. 30 自 Surrender 自首 Glazed Luanhua琉璃栾华Mystery660k WordsCompleted (Now streaming on iQIYI. Starring Xu Weizhou, Guo Junchen, and Xiao Yan. A criminal police captain, played by Xu Weizhou, teams up with a psychologist, played by Guo Junchen, to solve cases and capture the monsters of the human heart. Mystery + deduction + psychologist + episodic cases + serial murders + high-IQ crimes + revenge plots + strange tales and records + best partners + light horror + suitable for the faint-hearted) “I killed someone.” A girl turns herself in, claiming that she killed 16.2kReads9.4Score2.1kShelves

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    1. Adaptation of nine major unsolved real cases. 2. Seventy-five brain-burning cases, watch the criminal police captain and the psychologist work together to solve the case. 3. One criminal case after another exposes the darkest corners of the human heart. 4. Genius intern vs. Captain Yan Department, the main task is to solve the case, and the relationship is supplemented. 5. This world is not like the Yin-Yang fish, which is always black and white. 6. Ten years of forensic medicine, selected six cases based on his own experience and adapted it. 7. It is composed of dozens of high-energy brain-burning crime-solving collections, written by the same author as The Truth about Murder (Black and White Hole), and is divided into two novels. 8. Two male protagonists, the cases are real and vivid, one case after another, without any exaggeration. 9. The story concept is very good. Watch the legendary work Song Yang hunt the murderer in the world. 10. Written by the same author as "The Detective", this is the last Chinese masterpiece. It uses autopsy techniques that have been passed down for three thousand years to take you directly to the scene of the murder.

31. 31 小 A Little Land of Mountains and Rivers 小山河 Beidou Erniang北斗二娘Mystery937k WordsCompleted When Chi Xia first joins the special investigations team, Luo Xun strongly recommends transferring her elsewhere. The intern is so thin-limbed and wooden, like she can barely keep her eyes open. What makes her suitable for this team? She’d be much better off in Publicity! The thin-limbed intern says nothing, responding to everything with, “Captain Luo, solving the case comes first.” Luo Xun is so frustrated he can barely contain himself. The team is doomed, he thinks. Before long, Captain Luo ge 45kReads9.5Score8.1kShelves
32. 32 谜 The Mystery Case 谜案 Chai Xiaomi柴小迷Mystery183k WordsCompleted A campus romance sparked a bloody massacre. What did the killer mean by leaving seven bloodstained characters on the wall? An urbane psychiatrist repeatedly violates his beautiful patients, while a cold-blooded serial killer conceals deep affection behind his brutal murders. When legal punishment and psychological desire can no longer be brought into balance, must human lives be used to fill the chasm between them? This world is nothing like a yin-yang symbol. It is never simply black and white. 89Reads9.1Score—Shelves
33. 33 炬 Torchlight [Criminal Investigation] 炬火【刑侦】 Glazed Luanhua琉璃栾华Mystery601k WordsCompleted Dozens of high-stakes, mind-bending cases. A detective and a psychologist join forces to solve crimes, uncover the truth, and probe human nature. (Mystery + deduction + psychologist + episodic cases + serial murders + high-IQ crimes + strange tales + revenge plots + perfect partners + light horror + suitable for the easily frightened.) This novel is the second installment in Confession, also known as The Truth About Murder. Once again, it follows detective captain Ti An and psychologist Zhao Yao 6.4kReads9.4Score863Shelves
34. 34 读 The Corpse Reader 读尸人 Tong Xiaoxiao桐筱筱Mystery1.1M WordsCompleted Standalone cases + criminal investigation + two male leads + mind-bending mystery The Linghai Public Security Bureau established a major crimes unit. Just as everyone was wondering which criminal investigation captain would be given the job, they were told that the provincial bureau had parachuted someone in directly. Everyone was curious about the new head of the major crimes unit. Cases piled up, from opening coffins for autopsies and childbirth after death to missing wives. See how a forensic 57.5kReads9.2Score5.7kShelves
35. 35 猎 Sin Hunter Detective 猎罪神探 Old Nine of the Daoist Sect道门老九Mystery1.1M WordsCompleted What's the most terrifying case you've ever heard of? The Corpse Immortal Madam, the Medical University's Sex Fiend, the Human-Head Planters, the Zombie Baby in Building Seven... There are no ghosts in this world, only wrongs waiting to be righted by a master hand. The legendary coroner Song Yang returns to the scene with his disciples, piercing through layer upon layer of mystery to hunt down the killers lurking in this world. Come face-to-face with the bloodiest, most baffling, and most hair-r 6.2kReads9.4Score809Shelves
36. 36 闲 Casual Chats About Strange Happenings in Northeast China 闲聊东北邪乎事 Li Chongba李重八Mystery246k WordsCompleted Every child who grew up in Northeast China has heard adults tell ghost stories and tales of the supernatural. Whether they were true or not, there's no way to know. But perhaps they were simply part of our childhood. We were scared, yet still begged the adults to tell us more. Even now, some things remain vivid when I think back on them. Starting today, I'll share some of the paranormal incidents I experienced and heard about as a child. This story will be updated regularly. 12.4kReads7.3Score484Shelves

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    The ratings are not high, but they are all pretty.

37. 37 有 A Guest Has Arrived: The Marriage Pact Between Yin and Yang 有客到：阴阳通婚书 Little Penguin's Chubby Wings,小企鹅的肥翅膀、1.0M WordsCompleted I grew up in the countryside with my grandparents, then moved back to the city for school. Years later, when I returned to the village, I got lost and ran into a ghost! I’d heard stories about ghost marriages from the villagers when I was little. I never thought one would happen to me... I’ve never done anything to be ashamed of, so why is Heaven treating me this way? For some reason, I blurted out to the ghost, “Can we get divorced?” The ghost stared at me for a moment, disappointment in its ey 67Reads6.5Score—Shelves
38. 38 招 Summoning Spirits 招魂 Fang Sheng方生Mystery1.8M WordsCompleted “Old Liu at the village entrance is dead.” “I heard. He died horribly.” “Yeah. He ate himself.” Everyone in the village was talking about it. When I heard, I was stunned. What did they mean, he ate himself? I only understood after I went with my grandfather, a yin-yang master, to see Old Liu’s body. It looked as if something had ripped open his stomach. At a glance, aside from a stomach about the size of a human head, all his internal organs were gone! In his hand was half a severed intestine, a 495Reads6.4Score—Shelves
39. 39 午 The Midnight Pawnshop: The Living Must Keep Away 午夜当铺，活人回避 Chong Xiayueban虫下月半Mystery4.0M WordsOngoing [Traditional Supernatural + Chinese Folklore + Unorthodox Trading + Tales of Evil Objects] No romantic pairing This is a strange pawnshop that only accepts sinister objects with special value! Coins placed in the mouths of the dead, executioners' swords, grave-top mushrooms, flesh lingzhi, Kunlun fetuses... Evil objects can harm people, but they can also help them! Once they pass through the pawnshop's hands, being pawned and sold, evil can be transformed into treasure! They can bring promotions 256.5kReads9.4Score21.9kShelves
40. 40 活 The Living Must Keep Away 活人回避 Wanderer of the Mortal World风尘散人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. 2.8kReads8.9Score301Shelves

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    Introduction: When I was twenty years old, I took over an antique that I should not have taken away because of my greed for money. From then on, in order to survive, I had to go in and out of forbidden places that were almost lifeless for living people. The tombs in the mountains of the Qinling Mountains, the no-man's land in the northwest Gobi, the lost ruins under the vast deep sea, the death zone on the snowy plateau... Maybe one day, when you take things you shouldn't take because of greed, you will find something standing next to you while you sleep, telling you that it's dark, let's play together.

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