Are Supernatural Novels Still Worth Reading? 现在的灵异小说还能看吗?
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Notes of a Folk Feng Shui Master 民间风水师笔记
[Several short dramas have been adapted from this novel: Feng Shui Heavenly Master, The Grand Master of Qimen Feng Shui, The Heavenly Master Is Here, Qimen Feng Shui Shakes the World, Notes of a Folk Feng Shui Master, and others] Everything in this book is fictional. Just enjoy the story, don’t take it seriously, and don’t get too caught up in it...
215.6kReads9.1Score29.9kShelves
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King of Feng Shui 风水之王
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!
804.6kReads9.4Score41.8kShelves
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Spine-Chilling Mysteries: This Beautiful Female Celestial Master Plays by Her Own Rules 惊悚诡事,这个女天师人美路子野
My name is Zhao Jiayi. I was born in 1996. Because my life force was weak, ghosts haunted me from childhood, and everyone in the village thought I was an idiot. They poured dirty water on me, called me a jinx, and swore I wouldn’t live past eighteen. But I believe in gods and ghosts. The one thing I don’t believe in is fate. To stay alive, I became a disciple of a spiritual master. I fought to change my fate, with talismans in one hand and a peachwood sword in the other. From then on Vengef
13.4kReads9.1Score2.1kShelves
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Strange Phenomena Run Rampant: I Investiture the Gods in Another World 诡异横行:我在异世敕封神明
[No System] [No Female Lead] [Relatively Slow-Burn] [Character Growth] Zhang Xuan is from Jibei Province. According to his grandfather, their family is a direct descendant of the Jiangxi Longhu Mountain lineage. His grandfather named him Zhang Xuan, saying he had the talent to attain the Dao. He hoped Zhang Xuan would become a figure like the Celestial Master Zhang Daoling, and that future generations would call him Zhang Daoxuan. But Zhang Xuan scoffed at the idea and didn’t believe a word of i
19.7kReads8.3Score1.7kShelves
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I Get Stronger by Eating Ghosts 我,吃鬼就变强
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
157.6kReads9.3Score16.9kShelves
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Oh No! I’m One of the Seven Deadly Sins, and I Got MVP! 哎呀!我七原罪,得了MVP!
[Dark comedy + hilarious + ruthless action + global setting + unconventional ideas + one heroine + near-invincible protagonist + power fantasy with a brain (or without one)] Horror games descend upon the world. Those chosen to participate must face challenges of inhuman difficulty. Though the games are full of torment, they also offer people a chance to gain supernatural powers. Life or death. A meteoric rise, or losing everything. But Lu Ce, who has been unable to feel pain since childhood, fee
152.3kReads9.3Score18.5kShelves
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The Autobiography of a Tomb Raider 来自一位盗墓者的自传
[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
523kReads9.6Score35.4kShelves
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The Haunted Teahouse: I Only Sell Objects of Ill Omen 恐怖茶馆:我只卖大凶之物
The world is divided between yin and yang. Some people do business with the living, while others trade with the dead. I deal in the business of the dead, but I don’t sell coffins, paper money, funeral clothes, or paper effigies. What I sell are things you’ve never seen before, things far stranger still…
50.5kReads9.2Score5.3kShelves
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The Yin-Walker 巡阴人
Applying makeup to the dead, reading the winds and assessing the land, preparing bodies for burial, and performing rites on the seventh day after death. Scorched corpses: cleaning the body, applying rouge, painting the features! Bodies cut in half at the waist: removing the organs, filling the cavities, and stitching the body back together! I was born into a family that made its living from the dead, so I grew up dealing with corpses. I’ve seen all sorts of bizarre ways to die and countless inex
10.9kReads9.1Score1.3kShelves
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Strange Demons at the Teahouse: Tales of a Hundred Flavors 茶肆异妖,百味诡谈
[Mysticism + Satisfying Read + Supernatural + Strange Tales] The Many-Flavored Teahouse in Liuyi Lane is mysterious and uncanny. It only serves tea at night. What’s brewed is fragrant tea; what’s savored is the human heart. The proprietress, Liu Xu’er, and her young sidekick, Qing Cen, hunt ghosts, subdue demons, and catch evildoers. Their only focus is building their business. But one moment of bad judgment leads them to take on a job for an unlucky man. He’s been set up, and one misfortune aft
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The Double Fiend 子母双煞
The Mother-and-Child Fiends
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The Midnight Pawnshop: The Living Must Keep Away 午夜当铺,活人回避
[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
248.5kReads9.4Score20.1kShelves
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Reincarnation: Which World Is the Real One? 轮回:万界哪里才是真实世界
[Reincarnation + Myriad Worlds + System + Multiple Heroines + Apocalypse + Zombies + Mystery, and more] [Committed to an original storyline, with crossovers from myriad worlds beginning later] Read one book, and it feels like you’ve read countless novels Xu Huan was an ordinary wage slave, working twelve-hour days from nine to nine. In his free time, he loved playing games and reading novels, always imagining himself inside their stories. Until one day...
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My Freshman Internship: You Went to Site 749 to Contain Monsters 大一实习,你跑去749收容怪物
[Decisive killing] [How could any monster be good?] [All monsters deserve to die] [Ruthless] During his sophomore summer vacation, Lu Ding had planned to use the time to take an internship and earn some living expenses. Who could have expected that the construction site where he interned would excavate a bleeding stone? The workers fled one after another, but Lu Ding charged in with a rotary hammer. After transmigrating to this world nearly twenty years ago, Lu Ding’s golden finger, the Monster
679.1kReads9.5Score51.3kShelves
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The Serpent Coffin 蛇棺
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
36kReads9.0Score2.4kShelves
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