Looking for Books Like Midnight Pawnshop: Keep the Living Away 求求有没有和午夜当铺活人回避差不多的书
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The Netherworld Inn 阴间客栈
My name is Qin Yu. While on a business trip, I checked into a uniquely styled inn called the Yin Room Inn. It even offered “special services” in the middle of the night. Little did I know it was an inn from the underworld. I began having nightmare after nightmare, and my friends kept getting into trouble...
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Tales of Strange Happenings in the Countryside 乡村诡事录
The strange happenings in a mountain village. I was born and raised in the countryside. Deep in the mountains, there are always ghosts and spirits, and my village was no exception. Heaven, earth, black, yellow, the cosmos vast: demons and ghosts send shivers down your spine. One year, the start of spring fell on the fifteenth day of the eighth month. That year, so many strange things happened. Just bringing them up is enough to scare people. Meeting the Black and White Impermanence on a night wa
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The Yellow Springs Pawnshop: No Living Visitors 黄泉典当铺,生人勿近
[Ghost Hunting + Supernatural Horror + Folk Customs + Strange Tales + Taoist Arts + Maoshan] At the end of a street at midnight stands a Yellow Springs Pawnshop. You have no way of knowing whether those who come and go to trade are human or ghost! Lu Guanshan takes over the pawnshop, and on his very first night, he encounters a stunningly beautiful, cold and aloof Ghost Queen hanging from a beam. She latches onto him and stays by his side as they collect yin objects and subdue a hundred ghosts.
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Ghostly Whispers at Midnight 夜半鬼语
[Rural + Supernatural + Ghost Stories] Back when my grandfather was young, he learned carpentry. As Old Zhao put it, a sixth-grade carpenter these days was worth half a scholar. But things were different back then. Carpenters belonged to one of the lowest trades. They had to carry their tools around every day, get up before dawn and stay out until the middle of the night, traveling from village to village to find work. And because they went so many places, and made coffins and dealt with the dea
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My Sect Has Eleven Graves 我的门派有十一座坟
Fantasy and the supernatural, with a lighthearted, humorous tone and a touch of horror. My name is Zhang Shiyi. I have ten senior brothers, so my name is Zhang Shiyi. But all ten of my senior brothers are dead. They’re lying in the graves outside. What? My master? He’s dead too. The biggest, roundest grave is his. Haha~ Well, congratulations, then~ Get ready to sing: Congratulations, congratulations, congratulations to you, hey! Congratulations, congratulations to you~
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- 56 Ghost Stories from the Coffin Shop 棺材铺灵异故事 By fate's design, I went from being a truck driver to a shop assistant at a coffin shop. Little did I know that this one decision would send me down a completely unconventional path, making me earn my living from what people call the business of the underworld! 7.3kReads7.8Score32714d adds
- 57 The Yin Tattooist 阴纹师 May you be blessed with wealth and long life, and travel safely in and out. I’m the heir to a special kind of embroidery, commonly known as “tattooing.” You’d think this craft would be quite profitable in a modern city, but before my master died, he forbade me from using it to make money. I always did as he said, but recently, something happened, and I had no choice but to go against his dying words. From then on, all kinds of strange things began happening around me. 951Reads8.8Score12114d adds
- 58 The Miaojiang Gu Chronicles 苗疆蛊事 The calamity of witchcraft and poison is spoken of only by people in the countryside. Many people who are unknowingly caught up in it have no idea it exists. Friends, do you really think there are no extraordinary people in this vast land of China? You do? No! No! No! Do you want me to tell you that I’m a poison-raising practitioner from the Miao borderlands? All right, come on in and let’s dish… 13.8kReads9.3Score2k14d adds
- 59 Yin-Yang Tattoo Artist 阴阳纹身师 I’m a tattoo artist. The last tattoo my master taught me before he died was Nine Dragons Hauling a Coffin... 852Reads—Score—14d adds
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Tales of a Haunted Village 荒村怪谈录
[Rural Mysteries + Folk Customs + Chinese-Style Horror + Feng Shui and the Supernatural + Anthology + Shocking Twists] There is an old well in Jiulitun that has been sealed for thirty years, and one eerie incident after another keeps occurring. Why has a little girl become unbelievably strong and deranged? Why do villagers keep drowning, and why is the village taboo so difficult to speak of? It all goes back thirty years...
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Ghostly Eyes 鬼灵瞳
A reclusive man known as Little Master, along with several strange people brought together by coincidence but united by their shared interests, gradually uncovers a history buried for many years: the five great clans of the ancient world and the Yin-Yang adepts who could do anything. It seems that fate has long been leading them into one thrilling fantasy adventure after another...
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- 62 Crime Scene 诡案现场 When he was twenty, a blank painting was enshrined in the ancestral hall at a crime scene. Why were two male corpses embracing beneath an ancient tree? Was the shadow inside the house a person or a ghost? After all the confusing clues, was the killer human or ghost? 370Reads8.6Score4314d adds
- 63 Strange Happenings in the Ancient City 古城诡事 A mysterious phone call full of suspense and a childhood friend he hasn't seen in years draw him into a dangerous web of intrigue. Following the clues, he steps into one carefully laid trap after another. His friend, returned from the dead, Qin Zhijie, who clings to him relentlessly and seems neither wholly good nor wholly evil, and Shangguan Wan'er, whose identity is shrouded in mystery, all vanish without a trace at the most crucial moments. Why did Da Kui, who had braved life and death, come 50Reads8.8Score414d adds
- 64 The Loop 循环 From losing everything to striking it rich overnight, Wang Hao wins at the gambling table for five days straight. But there are no free lunches, and in the end, his greed will make him pay a terrible price! In a single night, Wang Hao vanishes without a trace. Awei, Wang Hao's friend, reports him missing to the police, then secretly investigates his whereabouts. Unexpectedly, one eerie incident after another follows! Someone who died more than twenty years ago reappears! As he digs deeper, he di 255Reads8.3Score1714d adds
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Horrifying! The Haunted House That Claims Lives 惊悚!索命凶宅
After moving into a haunted house, I discovered the secret behind a murder. I'm a suspense writer. After moving into my new home, I discovered it was a murder house! I stumbled upon some hidden clues that seemed to point to rumors of a murder from years ago! At night, beneath the bright moonlight, I stared in shock at a horribly disfigured face! A woman's rotting corpse was hanging from a tree outside the window! A little boy in a black-and-white photograph, a dried corpse sealed inside a wall,
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- 66 The Heavenly Pawnshop: Shopkeeper, I've Come to Redeem My Life 天字当铺:掌柜的,我来赎命 Legend has it that there is such a place in this world... Anyone who finds the Second Watch Pawnshop can bridge the worlds of the living and the dead. Whether it’s a dead person’s unfulfilled wish or a living person’s lingering regret, there’s nothing that can’t be done, as long as you pay a sufficient “price.” But few people ever manage to find the Second Watch Pawnshop, and whether it truly exists has long been a matter of debate. Zhan Qingfeng is the chief appraiser of the Second Watch Pawnsh 36Reads—Score—14d adds
- 67 I Own a Pawnshop That Holds Heaven and Earth 我有一座天地当铺 Chang'e, you owe the Heaven and Earth Pawnshop a peerless beauty. Repay the principal and interest within five thousand years, or become our servant and accept whatever fate awaits you! Lord Laozi, you owe the Heaven and Earth Pawnshop a top-grade immortal artifact. Return two artifacts within three thousand years, or we’ll seize Doushuai Palace and the artifact you pledged! And you, Monkey, the Golden Cudgel in your hands belongs to the pawnshop too. Hurry up and send over your fruits from 4kReads7.4Score51114d adds
- 68 Ghost Sightings at the Nightclub 夜场见鬼录 A Long is a DJ at a bar with a legendary “Stage of Death.” Many people have died there under mysterious circumstances. The cause of death could never be determined, and some bodies were never even found! The strange incidents stopped only after the bar was shut down. As the legend of the deaths gradually faded from memory, someone opened the stage once more! After that, disaster struck again and again! A terrifying ghostly figure appears in the girls’ dormitory, a faceless baby clings to a chand 242Reads8.8Score—14d adds
- 69 The Parallel World I Transmigrated to Is Actually Haunted 我穿越的平行世界居然有诡 Also known as "The Strange Assimilation" [Infinite flow + supernatural horror + mild scares + no romance] Su Ze finds a book called "The Strange Assimilation" in the library. Because of this book, his body is controlled. Then he is crushed to death by a bookshelf. When he wakes up, he has become himself in a parallel world. He is even chosen by the strange world to become a player! From then on, he dances on the edge of a blade, surviving one near-death experience after another. 52.6kReads8.5Score4.8k14d adds
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The Metaphysics Expert Is Back at Her Street Stall 玄学大佬她又去摆地摊了
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
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- 71 I Set a Stool by the Grave and Overheard the Wrong Gossip, Then Slapped Him Across the Face 坟前摆凳吃错瓜,反手给他一嘴巴 [No Romance + Metaphysics + Supernatural + Satisfying Revenge + Lighthearted + Playing the Fool to Catch the Enemy Off Guard] Jiang Nanshu, the only child at Changqing Temple, went down the mountain to earn a living after the college entrance exams. Penniless, she discovered that a funeral home was hiring night watchmen for 800 yuan a night. The only requirement was an exceptionally strong birth chart. Jiang Nanshu eagerly raised her hand. “Me, me, me!” Even if a corpse rose in the middle of 24.7kReads9.3Score2.7k14d adds
- 72 I Am a Feng Shui Diviner 我是风水女相师 [Hilarious supernatural comedy + feel-good power fantasy + no romance + adored by all] My name is Zhao Xin. I was born in 2000, the Year of the Dragon. I've dealt with ghosts since I was little, and strange things are always around me. People think I'm a weirdo. They say I'm a crackpot, call me a fraud, and insist that sooner or later the ghosts will drag me away. But I refuse to believe in bad omens. To stay alive, I wandered from place to place with my family, visited sects and sought out m 5kReads8.9Score64414d adds
- 73 I Must Be Seeing Things: My Best Friend Turned into a Vengeful Ghost 起猛了,看到闺蜜变厉鬼了 [Just started, so the rating will rise. Feel free to dive in!] [Strong female lead + comedy + modern fantasy + multiple versions of the male lead] When she woke up, Yun Jian Yue discovered that her best friend had croaked and become a headless vengeful ghost. Yun Jian Yue: I must've woken up too early. I'll go back to sleep. Best friend: … Yun Jian Yue took her friend to get revenge on the scumbag, but a more powerful vengeful ghost showed up halfway through and stole the target. Yun Jian Yue ra 26.5kReads9.4Score4k14d adds
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Folk Horror [The Fake Master Who Shocks a Hundred Demons] 恐怖民俗【冒牌大师震百妖】
The thing Liu Buyi, a fake master, regrets most in his life is learning how to “draw talismans with soy sauce” from a short video. Because the corpse that should be lying quietly in front of him is now using a soy-sauce-dipped finger to write his name on the coffin lid. Meanwhile, his half-baked beauty of a partner, An Xun, is munching on sunflower seeds and enjoying the show. “Didn't you say you had Yin-Yang Eyes?!” Liu Buyi's voice trembles. Seeing how unconcerned she looks, he almost passes o
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- 75 Tianxuan Paranormal Affairs Office 天玄灵异事务所 - [Infinite Flow + Urban Supernatural + Chinese-Style Horror + Folk Legends and Hauntings + Celestial Master Exorcists + Heirs to the Daoist Tradition + Heterochromatic-Eyed Heroine + Haunted House Tales + Episodic Stories + Folk Taboos] - Hidden deep in the bustling streets is an inconspicuous supernatural affairs office called Tianxuan. - No one dares touch the folk taboos of this world. Haunted houses are plagued by unsolved horrors, abandoned villages and ancient mansions seethe with resentm 1.2kReads—Score10414d adds
- 76 The Sobbing Maitreya 哽咽的弥勒 A truly thrilling horror fantasy, with a master like Lin Zhenying guiding you through terrifying adventures, slaying demons and monsters, exploring forbidden arts, and cultivating as a demon immortal. Once you start reading, you won't be able to stop. It's pure exhilaration from beginning to end! 14Reads—Score—14d adds
- 77 The Woman in the Closet 柜子里的女人 The Woman in the Cabinet 49Reads—Score—14d adds
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A Mortal's Quest for the Dao: Defying Heaven to Change My Fate 凡人问道之逆天改命
After his spirit root is crippled and he is cast out by his family, Chu Yang is humiliated by his fiancée at his mother’s grave. But on a stormy night, he awakens the power to devour and uncovers the secret of the Coffin of Sky Burial. Clinging to the conviction that “I decide my own fate, not the heavens,” he rises from a crushed, insignificant ant and embarks on a path to defy destiny. He devours spirit roots, slays Golden Core cultivators, and withstands heavenly retribution, unleashing blood
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- 79 The Blind Seer 盲眼天机 As a child, the protagonist was caught stealing money and severely punished by his father, who cut off three of his fingers. He wandered the streets from then on, until he stumbled upon fortune-telling by chance. After secretly reading The Deep Sea and the Flat Earth, he tried to imitate a fortune-teller, but faced one setback after another and was exposed by a fellow practitioner. On a rainy night at the City God Temple, he met a benefactor who taught him the art of divination. After getting hi 2Reads—Score—14d adds
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Painting Yin and Yang with a Single Stroke 一笔绘阴阳
As I gazed down the shadowy corridor and across the empty hall, the strange order of light and darkness stirred a fear of the unknown deep inside me. The elders always said, “The ancestral hall is home to spirits that have yet to depart.” “Don’t step on the threshold, don’t touch the ancestral tablets, and don’t whistle in the ancestral hall.” “The names on the tablets weren’t carved there. They moved in.” When the wind blew past the row of wooden windows, the latticework let out a mournful wail
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The Yin-Yang Hot Pot Restaurant 阴阳火锅店
I took over a hot pot restaurant from my second uncle. He told me never to serve customers a yuan yang hot pot after midnight! After I took over the place, everything I believed in began to crumble... One night, I wasn't paying attention and served a couple a yuan yang hot pot. The next day, I saw in the newspaper that the couple had died! They'd jumped to their deaths together! After that, every night at midnight, a strange couple would appear in my restaurant and ask me to make them a yuan yan
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- 82 I Might Have Changed the Wrong Fate 我可能改了个假命 When I was little, my mom asked a Taoist priest to tell my fortune. He said I'd face a calamity at 26, and that he'd come help me get through it the day before my 26th birthday. When the day finally came, the priest really did show up to change my fate. He even gave me a “Fate-Changing Ruler” and told me I had to change the fates of seven people with different destinies to survive the calamity. Otherwise, I'd only have five years left to live. So much for changing my fate for me! Did he only cha 71Reads8.9Score—14d adds
- 83 My Years as a Buddhist Nun 我当师太的那些年 I was born a girl with a Pure Yang fate into a family of feng shui masters. For generations, my family had practiced feng shui in the countryside. My grandfather had hoped his eldest grandchild would be a boy, so he could pass down his skills to the eldest son and grandson. But I turned out to be a girl. Grandfather never took a liking to me, so my parents could only take me to live in the city. No one expected that, during the Ghost Festival in the year I turned twenty-five, Grandfather would s 425Reads8.7Score—14d adds
- 84 Midnight Terror: Human Nature Stories That Will Haunt You 午夜惊魂:让人细思极恐的人性故事 At midnight, let's listen together to the little stories that circulate all around us. Maybe they're true. Maybe you've heard them too, or even experienced them yourself. Those moments that grow more terrifying the more you think about them go perfectly with the pitch-black night beyond the window. Red brick walls are common in many places. But we've never stopped to wonder: why are those bricks so red, so vivid? Rideshares at night aren't necessarily safe. Passengers have their concerns, and dr 537Reads8.8Score—14d adds
- 85 Tales of the Supernatural 民间怪谈录 [Rural Horror Stories + Anthology + Folk Horror Tales + Chinese Supernatural] Supernatural happenings are most likely to occur in mountain villages, and the stories we've heard may well have really happened. In the eerie night wind, Granny Hao, the midwife who receives the dead, is like a messenger from the underworld, guiding the spirits of helpless mothers and children home. Locust trees commune with spirits, and poplars attract yin energy. Beneath the village's ancient trees lie secrets that 810Reads8.9Score6014d adds
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The Gods' Foolish Game 诸神愚戏
I have two principles in life: 1. I never lie. 2. I never believe anything anyone says, including myself. “Sir, I would like to point out that your second statement conflicts with the first.” “How so?” “If you never lie, why don’t you believe what you say?” “Oh, sorry. I forgot to mention that I don’t consider myself human.” “?” Allow me to introduce myself. My name is Cheng Shi, Cheng Shi who never lies. What, you’ve never heard of me? That’s all right. You simply haven’t been deceived by m
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- 87 I Went to the Wrong Grave and Mistook a Female Ghost for One of My Own 上错坟,不小心把女鬼当成自己人 [One female lead, the male lead isn't invincible, not a wish-fulfillment story, supernatural, metaphysics. If it's not your cup of tea, please don't flame. This story is entirely fictional. The leads practice both Buddhism and Taoism. If you're the type to nitpick, read with caution!] “Year after year, I come to pay respects to my ancestors, yet year after year I'm still stuck working. I'm not happy over here, and you might be going hungry over there. Bless your grandson with a prosperous year, 18.3kReads9.2Score1.9k14d adds
- 88 Eerie Tattoos 诡纹 My grandfather was a tattoo artist, but the things he tattooed were seriously sinister… 7.3kReads9.1Score78314d adds
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A Drunken Nighttime Kiss! One Flirt from Her, and the Arrogant Big Shot’s Heart Races 醉吻夜!她一撩,桀骜大佬心狂跳
[The print edition of Climbing the Capital’s Family Tree is now available on all platforms.] [Top Capital City Tycoon · Rebellious, Devoted Suit-Wearing Bad Boy vs. Ballet Princess · Radiant, Proud Little Swan] Li Zhi and Fu Yanze grew up together, but Li Zhi turned out to be the fake heiress. For the sake of his own interests, Fu Yanze chose to get engaged to the real heiress, a leading actress in the entertainment industry. He hoped Li Zhi would understand and said he would come back to marr
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- 90 The Southern School's Corpse Retriever 南派捞尸人 I make my living retrieving corpses. But after I broke a taboo and hauled up a corpse standing upright in red, I could no longer sleep at night. Vengeful water ghosts now stand on both sides of my bed, waiting to claim my life... 12Reads—Score—14d adds
- 91 The Yin-Yang Inn 阴阳客栈 As the name suggests, a Yin-Yang Inn serves as a medium between the living and the dead. In reality, it is a matchmaking agency for ghost marriages. Many people in rural areas still believe in arranging marriages between the dead, so this is where the two sides meet to make their deals. To keep up appearances, the business uses an inn as a front. The character for “exam” is written upside down on the sign, so anyone in the know can recognize the place. It usually opens at night. If a male corps 8Reads—Score—14d adds
- 92 The Death and Life Inn 生死客栈 (Don’t read this. Go away.)… 240Reads8.7Score—14d adds
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Evil God Moran! 邪神墨然!
Why does the headless ghost in the hospital keep praying at midnight? Why does the skin-stealing ghost in the desolate mountain village wail without stopping? And why does the long-haired female ghost in the studio apartment shriek in the middle of the night? None of this is a distortion of human nature, much less a collapse of morality. It’s just that… someone’s having an episode! In an age when horror has returned and vengeful ghosts run rampant, Bai Yuan, dressed in a hospital gown, smiled ca
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- 94 EN I'm Not a God of Theater 我不是戏神 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 1.7MReads9.9Score178.8k14d adds
- 95 EN With a Fox Immortal, I Subdue a Hundred Ghosts 我以狐仙镇百鬼 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! 743.2kReads9.4Score41.2k14d adds
- 96 At Seven Years Old, I Was Chosen to Take Part in the Rules Horror Game 七岁的我,被选中参加规则怪谈 No female lead + national fate + eerie mysteries + comedy + unconventional ideas Lin Yuan transmigrates to Blue Star, a parallel world, and is chosen to take part in a rules-based horror game. From the start, he activates an SSS-rank talent. [SSS-Rank Talent: Ghostbane] [Talent Effect 1: Rules are completely useless against you. When you break the rules of a horror scenario, the corruption of its world has no effect on you.] [Talent Effect 2: When a creature in a horror scenario feels negative e 56.9kReads9.6Score6.3k14d adds
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The Soul Ferry Lantern 渡魂灯
[Supernatural + mildly scary + episodic stories, a fast-paced ghost-hunting romp with all kinds of tricks!] Fire runs in my veins, and I'm cursed to bring bad luck. When I was fifteen, my father kicked me out. To survive, I climbed into a stone tomb. The strange knocking at the door of the funeral home at midnight, The body that mysteriously vanished after a fatal car crash, A headless old man, a talking human skin, and haunted schools and skyscrapers... I guide five-element spirits onward and f
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- 98 Underworld Courier 地府快递员 On the surface, I’m an ordinary deliveryman, zipping around on an electric scooter loaded with parcels, come rain or shine. In private, I still work as a deliveryman, but the routes I take are anything but ordinary. They’re the roads of the legendary underworld... 499Reads8.8Score9814d adds
- 99 Summon Ghosts! Draw Talismans! The General’s Eldest Daughter Came from the Underworld 捏鬼!画符!将军嫡长女地府来的 Meng Po, the goddess of the underworld, transmigrates into the body of the foolish eldest daughter of the Meng family, bringing with her the ability to see ghosts. [Household intrigue + occultism + zany comedy + funny female ghost + episodic ghost-catching stories + doted-on heroine + sweet romance + cultivation fantasy] A cheating stepmother? Time for you to leave! A willful, brainless younger sister? Time for you to leave! The Third Prince who broke off his engagement with her wants to marr 30.3kReads9.3Score2.3k14d adds
- 100 My Soul-Guarding Wife 镇魂妻 When I was six, a beautiful woman gave me a hand drum. From that moment on, I was plunged into a devastating calamity. To avert it, my grandfather forced me to marry Cui Gu, the village girl who was both foolish and ugly. He said that if Cui Gu and I truly loved each other, one day she'd become the beautiful wife of my dreams... 1.1kReads8.8Score14614d adds























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