Ghost Story Collection 鬼故事合集

1. 1 新 On Our Wedding Night, My Scheming Husband Held Me and Whispered Sweetly 新婚夜，腹黑老公抱着我低声轻哄 Little Cat Demon猫妖小小Modern Romance1.3M WordsCompleted My name is Lu Xiyu, and I come from a family of haunted-house sleep testers. I once took a high-paying job: spend one night sleeping in a hilltop villa, and walk away with a hefty fee. Who could have guessed that testing the bed would turn into being bedded? There really was a ghost in that huge villa bed! It feared neither daylight nor talismans, and kept me entangled with it until dawn! 79Reads6.5Score—Shelves

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   Everything in it is related to ghosts

2. 2 阴 Rice Divination and a Ghostly Wedding 阴看米，鬼哭嫁 Miao Girl苗女Mystery425k WordsCompleted On the day I was born, paper figures came to pay their respects and left behind money to buy my life. To keep me alive, an old woman from Miaojiang made me lie in a paper coffin, pinned me down with bones, and buried me alive at birth. This drew a hundred ghosts to bow before me and severed the heads of nine dragons. The old woman said that a spirit wanted my life. She hid my shadow, and I must not look in a mirror before I turned sixteen. I followed her warning faithfully, but then the old woma 3.6kReads9.0Score391Shelves
3. 3 鬼 My Ghostly Husband, Don’t Be So Bad 鬼神老公，别太坏 A Wild Chrysanthemum一朵野菊花Mystery1.2M WordsCompleted [Devoted Couple + Supernatural Mysteries + Ghost-Hunting + Lots of Fun Tropes + Strong-Willed Heroine + Utterly Devoted Husband] My name is An Ning. I was born on Ghost Festival and carry a demon eye, so everyone thinks I'm cursed. Since childhood, a mysterious man I couldn't see has saved my life again and again. He told me, "If you want me to protect you forever, we have to make a marriage pact when you turn twenty." Then, on my twentieth birthday, my demon eye went out of control. I had a dan 10kReads9.1Score1kShelves
4. 4 我 My Husband Is the King of the Underworld 我的老公是冥王 Songs Heard at Night夜闻笙歌Mystery900k WordsCompleted When I was eighteen, I pushed open a door in a daze. I never imagined that the person behind it would use my entire family’s lives to force me to marry him… 1.3kReads8.0Score138Shelves
5. 5 龙 The Dragon King's Bride 龙王聘 Wangquan Yuechu王权月初Mystery1.4M WordsCompleted That year, I came down with a strange illness that nothing could cure. Then, on the night the blood moon hung high in the sky, my family decorated the house with lanterns and streamers. From that day on, I had a husband no one could see. Around that time, my mother warned me gravely that I must remain faithful to my husband and keep my distance from other men, or disaster would befall me! When I was nineteen, I broke the taboo, and he... appeared. 40.5kReads9.5Score5.7kShelves
6. 6 阴 Bound by a Ghostly Marriage, the Ghost King at Her Side Lures Her into Ruin 阴缘不断，枕边鬼王诱她沉沦 Little Cat Demon猫妖小小Modern Romance1.0M WordsCompleted My surname is Du. Du Xinghe. Fated to be a lonely star, doomed to a life of misery and solitude. One day, a little brat tricked me into his father’s room! “So you’re that eager to climb into my bed?” The man in the lounge was brimming with menace as he stared at me with a cold smile. I knew that despite his beautiful, flirtatious eyes, he was a demon who would devour you without leaving a trace! From then on, he wouldn’t leave me alone. Not only did he keep me by his side day after day, he also 63Reads6.6Score—Shelves
7. 7 东 Northeastern China's Forbidden Secrets 东北禁忌手札 Jun Lan君阑Mystery122k WordsCompleted [Extreme horror + a folk-horror story set in the countryside] In a remote mountain village, deep within the forest, countless taboos remain unknown to outsiders. The people here follow ancient rules of life and death: pregnant women must never encounter a coffin, and anyone who dies of old age at a hundred years old is destined to become an evil spirit. But in a single day, the old Yu family breaks both taboos, drawing every kind of demon and ghost to their door! At midnight, someone hears the s 939Reads8.8Score108Shelves

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   It's not ordinary scary. I didn't dare to go to the toilet in the middle of the night. If I had known better, I would have watched it during the day [Fear]

8. 8 午 The Midnight Ghost Market: Living People Keep Out 午夜鬼市，活人回避 The Drinking Monk吃酒和尚Mystery592k WordsCompleted [Mystery + supernatural + ghost market + narrow escape from death] My name is Tang Chao. I’m a broke young man scraping by in the antiques business, with hundreds of thousands in debt hanging over me. An ordinary porcelain-buying deal led me to pick up a strange Jun ware bowl at an unexpectedly low price. I thought I’d found a bargain. Little did I know, it was the beginning of my nightmare... On a bus, I met a burly man calling himself Jue Mingzi, who warned me that “a calamity is sure to befal 3.9kReads9.1Score230Shelves
9. 9 噩 The Sound of Nightmares: 60 Horror Stories That Wake You from Your Dreams 噩梦之声：60个做梦吓醒的恐怖故事 Xiao Youqian萧有钱Mystery174k WordsCompleted [Standalone Ghost Stories + Supernatural Horror + Not for the Faint of Heart + Rural Tales] When night falls, terrifying ghostly figures emerge. Step into all kinds of bizarre and unbelievable tales, and spend your nights screaming! Haunted houses, ghostly shadows outside the window, a deadly lipstick, someone beneath the mattress, an umbrella that hunts people... Every corner conceals inexplicable phenomena and secrets that will fill you with dread! Every page will make your hair stand on end, 1.9kReads8.9Score211Shelves
10. 10 阴 The One Who Borrows Lives from the Underworld 阴间借命人 The Out-of-Control Editorial Department失控编辑部Mystery1.3M WordsCompleted [Standalone Stories + Supernatural Horror + Suspense + Folk Customs + Playful Tone + Ensemble Cast + Nonstop Ghost-Hunting Thrills!] Ever since I borrowed a life from the underworld, I’ve known no peace. My name is Quan Ning. I’m a lawyer, and one day I was in a car accident on a mountain road. As I lay dying, I saw a ghostly judge from the underworld come to claim my soul. I struck a deal with him and borrowed a sliver of hope for survival. The price of this life I borrowed was becoming 2.9kReads9.1Score294Shelves
11. 11 夜 Ghostly Whispers at Midnight 夜半鬼语 Millennium-Old Monster千年老妖Mystery87k WordsCompleted [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 6.5kReads9.0Score259Shelves
12. 12 乡 Tales of Strange Happenings in the Countryside 乡村诡事录 Zhang Xiaohe张小河Mystery156k WordsCompleted 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 2.3kReads9.0Score163Shelves
13. 13 抬 Carrying the Dragon Coffin 抬龙棺 Slightly Chubby Uncle微胖大叔Mystery7.3M WordsCompleted The First Emperor's coffin was called the Dragon Coffin. By rights, everyone who carried the Dragon Coffin should have been buried alive with him. But my ancestor somehow escaped. Was the elixir of immortality really just a legend? And where did Xu Fu go after sailing east? My ancestor was the only person who knew the secret of Qin Shi Huang's mausoleum... 3.4kReads8.4Score380Shelves

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    🔥The opening chapter of "Carrying the Dragon's Coffin" is high energy! The murderous coffin falls to the ground, and resentment surges to the sky. Do you dare to look at it? Ma Yiming, a coffin bearer in Majiagou, Luoyang, has never seen his mother and grandmother since he was a child, and his family secrets are buried deep in the earth. Grandpa is a well-known coffin bearer, but he has set an iron rule - he will not carry women's coffins! Until Ma Fangfang, a beautiful 18-year-old girl in the village, was hanged mysteriously, her parents were relieved and rushed to bury her... 🌑 **Weird Rules**: The Eight Immortals who carried the coffin refused to carry the head of the coffin. If the coffin has no head, a big disaster will happen! 🌘 **Late Night Taboo**: Please close your eyes when it gets dark. When the soul of the deceased opens his eyes, the coffin... Moves! 🌗 **Family Curse**: Why do all the women of the three generations of Ma family disappear mysteriously? **"The coffin fell to the ground, and the dead asked for debts"** - When the grandfather made an exception and lifted the female coffin, Ma Yiming's fate was completely out of control! There are strange noises in the coffin, ghosts pressing on the bed in the middle of the night, blood oozing from the ancestral graves for no reason... Every page gives people chills down the spine! 💀 **Thriller highlights**: ✅ Folk taboos **As soon as the evil coffin is opened, the evil spirit will come**...

14. 14 民 Notes on Folk Spirit Mediums 民间出马仙笔记 Sun Mingyuan孙铭苑Mystery95k WordsCompleted [Spirit Mediums + Chinese-Style Horror + Episodic Stories + Supernatural Mystery + Karma + Mind-Blowing Twists + Feng Shui and the Occult] "Unraveling one strange and unpredictable tale of karmic retribution after another" In a remote suburb of the city lies a cemetery. Few people know that a shop dealing in the supernatural stands there, run by a spirit medium who can communicate with the dead and the living. The owner specializes in paranormal cases beyond ordinary people's understanding, but 456Reads9.3Score—Shelves

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    You are in trouble, come here, there is something strange here, it is different. The stories are exciting, each one is a small unit, and each story tells the greed and ugliness of human nature. There is a mysterious antique shop in the story. The owner is as shown below. According to the story description, I used AI to make it. This person said that the rabbit in his arms is almost 600 years old and can look after the store. This person is a Chumaxian. The difference from the Chumaxian in my impression is that if you get into trouble, he will give you a priceless antique to help you resolve it. In the wilderness, at nine-thirty in the evening, he was sitting in an antique shop near the cemetery, waiting for you to come to his door. You are sitting in a car, and there is a fog outside the car. The white mist chases the light of the car lights and swirls. You stop the car and open the door of the antique shop. The wind chimes ring. The man in the picture is holding his nearly 600-year-old rabbit and looking at you. What do you think? Incense and candles filled the air, and a shrine was set up in the store to enshrine a fiery red nine-tailed fox. The shopkeeper is very polite, welcomes you, and asks you what you need? Then, he tells you that if you want to do something else, he wants to buy an antique from his store. He means buying it, but there is no charge. Everything will be discussed in detail after the dust has settled. So it's not certain who achieves his goal and who pays a heavy price? But those who do evil will suffer backlash, and those who are greedy will suffer losses. Everything is reincarnated. This is the law of heaven. It's dark, the clock is close to half past nine, and in the mist near the cemetery, an antique shop is brightly lit. The man in the picture below is holding his nearly 600-year-old rabbit in his arms, waiting for you to come to your door. I will read your story and give you an antique. What will be waiting for you... You are in trouble. There is something strange here, different, and the fairy is also different... The story is not scary, suitable for reading at midnight, a bedtime story, waiting for you! Jieyou Antique Shop, whose worries are solved? Let's... Don't tell him!

15. 15 杨 Yang Xiaocao's True Ghost Stories 杨小草的见鬼实录 Fish Swimming Upstream at Xiahe Bridge夏河桥逆流的鱼Fantastical Romance199k WordsOngoing A collection of true stories about Yang Xiaocao's encounters with ghosts. They may not be that scary, but they're absolutely true! The story begins when Yang Xiaocao is in middle school. Born with a yin-attracting constitution, she often encounters unclean things. 5Reads—Score—Shelves

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    💐① First there was the talisman gifted by the mysterious old man, then there was the sudden commission from the senior, and there was also the strange white shadow flashing on the screen of the Internet cafe... Yang Xiaocao stepped on the edge of the fog with every step he took. When the coolness crept up her neck, her hand holding the talisman trembled slightly - was all this a coincidence or a secretly manipulated plot? 🌿

16. 16 惊 Thriller: The Little Ancestor’s Grudge Runs Deep, and a Hundred Ghosts Dote on Her 惊悚：小祖宗怨念大，百鬼手心捧 Rein In at the Cliff’s Edge悬崖勒马Mystery1.1M WordsCompleted [Funny + Dark + Redemption + Strong Heroine] The arrival of the Horror World turns humanity from the top predator into meat for monsters. Everyone fears entering the Horror World and meeting a gruesome death. Then one day, a little girl jumps from a building and enters the Horror World. The terrifying, bloody atmosphere takes a turn... The murderous Death Clown personally makes the little girl the braised chicken drumsticks she loves. The chainsaw-wielding soul butcher, a madman who dismembers p 10.2kReads9.4Score1.4kShelves
17. 17 趁 Before the Ghost King Recovers, I'll Marry Her and Bring Her Home 趁鬼王没有恢复，娶她回家当老婆 Lone Street Wanderer孤街浪客Eastern Fantasy387k WordsCompleted [One female lead + devoted husband + both leads are each other's first love + pure romance + fast-paced + daily life of the leads. The male lead is weak at first but invincible among his peers later on (after Chapter 60). The female lead is cold on the outside but warm inside.] My name is Shen Jingting. I've been single for twenty years and work a dead-end job. On Ghost Festival, I made a wish to my ancestors. “Ancestors, I burn so much money for you every year. Do your best down there and help 1.9kReads8.8Score249Shelves
18. 18 遵 At Your Service, My Lady Ghost 遵命，我的女鬼大人 Autumn Wind Cold秋风寒Mystery2.8M WordsOngoing Wang Lin was an ordinary college student… No, there was one thing about him that was anything but ordinary: his extraordinary bad luck. The unlucky Wang Lin is possessed by a mysterious and beautiful female ghost. Under her tutelage, he masters spirit communication, practices Maoshan Taoist arts, drives out ghosts and demons, and fights evil to uphold the righteous! 1.8kReads8.4Score226Shelves
19. 19 烧 I Burned the Wrong Incense and Worshipped the Wrong Spirit, and Now a Powerful Female Ghost Won’t Leave Me Alone 烧错香，供错魂，女鬼大佬赖上门 Daoist Ji姬道人Mystery2.2M WordsCompleted “Everyone else transmigrates and gets a golden finger that goes ding, ding, ding. I transmigrated, and a female ghost has me screaming my head off!” Lin Mo was one of the countless people who had transmigrated. Aside from a paper effigy shop his grandfather left him, he had no golden finger at all. Pressed by the need to make a living, he went to burn paper offerings at someone's grave on the Ghost Festival, but through a twist of fate, he paid his respects at the wrong grave and disturbed a pow 5.1kReads7.5Score477Shelves
20. 20 鹿 Lu Ling Feng Shui Shop 鹿灵风水铺 Silent Worry不语忧Mystery1.2M WordsCompleted [Lighthearted paranormal suspense + mild horror + one-on-one romance + episodic stories] Lu Ling is forced to take over the feng shui shop her father left her and shoulder the Lu family’s duty as spirit-contractors. Only after she starts taking on cases does she realize that people can be far more terrifying than ghosts. 7.5kReads9.0Score1.2kShelves

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    This is my favorite [Flying Kiss], it's really beautiful

21. 21 深 A Ghost Knocks at Midnight 深夜鬼敲门 Golden Mountain黄金山Mystery73k WordsCompleted A collection of 40 traditional ghost stories, featuring all kinds of folk tales about ghosts and monsters. A rare collection of supernatural legends. 1.2kReads8.9Score—Shelves

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    ①Imagine opening this book under a dim lamp in the quiet night, and strange stories appear on the page one after another. Each story has a unique plot and background. From ancient houses to remote mountains, from mysterious ancient tombs to gloomy temples, various scenes make people feel as if they are actually there. The images of ghosts and ghosts in the book are lifelike. They may be grievances, resentments, or evil. Behind each of them is an unknown story.

22. 22 鬼 A Collection of Ghost Stories: I Tell the Tales 鬼故事合集之我讲故事 Si Dongdong锶东东Mystery389k WordsCompleted When the clock strikes midnight, do you hear fingernails scraping from deep inside your closet? Have you noticed your reflection blinking half a beat after you do? Or perhaps, at the end of an empty hallway, you’ve heard footsteps that don’t belong to this world? This collection brings together countless chilling stories, leading you into forgotten corners: - A night-shift nurse makes her rounds and discovers that every patient's heart monitor has turned into a sinister sine wave; - A phone tha 175Reads—Score—Shelves
23. 23 老 Old Wei’s Supernatural Stories 老魏讲灵异故事 Unrestrained for Ten Thousand Miles万里天纵Mystery2.3M WordsOngoing [Traditional Supernatural Tales] [Chinese-Style Horror] [Based on True Stories] [Reader Submissions] [Chilling on Second Thought] [Bizarre Tales] [Beyond the Realm of Science] [Plain, Simple Writing] [Just Stories] These stories were collected from various places by the author, then adapted and fictionalized, so no sources are listed. They’re all kinds of little ghost stories to listen to before bed: straightforward and easy to follow, perfect for unwinding and relieving stress. To keep reader 1.5kReads9.4Score224Shelves
24. 24 都 A Collection of Urban Ghost Stories 都市鬼怪故事合集 Little Tangerine in Jing District小橘在经区Mystery109k WordsCompleted Have you ever seen a real ghost? If you have, you’ll find something familiar in my book. If you haven’t, come take a look. Ghosts really do exist in this world. One ghost per episode, each one different, enough to leave you too scared to use the bathroom in the middle of the night. 6Reads—Score—Shelves
25. 25 我 With a Fox Immortal, I Subdue a Hundred Ghosts 我以狐仙镇百鬼 Purple Dream Wandering Dragon紫梦游龙Mystery10.2M WordsOngoing The day I was born, nineteen bolts of thunder struck around our family’s courtyard. A fortune-teller said I was born a demon child, fated to suffer eighteen calamities in my life. Either someone else would die, or I would. As it turned out, the fortune-teller met his own calamity on the very day I was born. He carried me out of the village, and suddenly dropped dead! 800.7kReads9.4Score53.9kShelves
26. 26 麻 The Divine Fortune-Teller in the Linen Robe 麻衣神算子 Horseback Fishing骑马钓鱼Mystery7.4M WordsCompleted My grandfather taught me everything he knew about fortune-telling, but after I read three people’s fortunes, he left me. From then on, I didn’t just tell the fortunes of the living... 46.9kReads9.2Score4.3kShelves
27. 27 我 My Years as a Spirit Medium 我当出马仙的这些年 Wu Nianjing吾念静Mystery1.3M WordsCompleted My name is Chen Jiuyang. I began cultivating under my master as a child, and officially became a spirit medium at eleven, carrying the Five Immortals with me as I wandered the world. With a Seven Kills destiny, a beauty who is but a skeleton, and a demon star bringing chaos to the age, the moment I stepped into the martial world, it was already fated that I would never escape unscathed. Leather-Skinned Ghosts, Resentful Corpse Demons, and White Bone Talisman Immortals: every strange case I encou 4.5kReads9.2Score496Shelves
28. 28 我 Those Years I Spent Running with the Wrong Crowd 我混社会那一些年 Summer Loves Meat夏天爱吃肉Urban2.9M WordsCompleted As you wander the martial world, what kind of cunning, scheming, and vision do you need? As a child, I feared ghosts because they were hideous and terrifying. As an adult, I fear people because they look so respectable. This story is a reminder to everyone: Nine out of ten gambling games are rigged. The only way to win is not to gamble! 19kReads8.9Score1.5kShelves

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    It's well written and makes people aware of the dangers of gambling. I look forward to the ending. It's great.

29. 29 我 I Farm Trait Entries in a Strange World 我在诡异世界爆词条 Lord Huanglong荒龙公Mystery1.0M WordsCompleted Xu Bai transmigrates to a paranormal world, where something paranormal comes knocking every single night. At first, Xu Bai can do nothing against these entities, which want to turn him into food and a plaything. Then he kills one of them and discovers that he can get random trait entries. After that, he uses himself as bait and quietly grows stronger. When the big shots of the paranormal world decide there are too many humans and plan to launch another great hunt, they suddenly discover that one 351Reads7.0Score102Shelves
30. 30 拜 I Became Uncle Nine's Disciple, Then Turned Around and Exorcised a Thousand-Year-Old Corpse King! 拜师九叔，我反手超度千年尸王！ Ai Licai艾李财Mystery209k WordsCompleted [Uncle Jiu + System + outrageous tricks + gets stronger by slaying ghosts + invincible protagonist] Bai Xiaofeng transmigrates into a zombie world and, on the very night he becomes Uncle Jiu’s disciple, gets tossed into a mass grave for a trial. The moment a thousand-year-old Corpse King breaks out of the earth, the “Boundless Merit System” activates. While others need talismans and incantations to slay ghosts, he can earn rewards and cheat-like power by helping the dead find peace! “Take this, 31Reads—Score—Shelves
31. 31 行 The Faceless Man of Republican China 行走在民国的无面人 Winter Plum Blossom冬日寒梅Urban918k WordsOngoing Yao Zhendong transmigrated. He didn't have the System that others had, but he brought with him a gift from his previous life: the Fool pathway of a mysterious potion series. He arrived in a world where the line between black and white was impossible to discern. The protagonist is suspicious by nature, quick to swing between joy and anger, neurotic, and somewhat selfish. 90Reads7.8Score116Shelves
32. 32 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
33. 33 诡 The House of Dread 诡舍 The Sound of Wind and Rain at Night,夜来风雨声丶Mystery2.1M WordsCompleted [Infinite-flow + Mild Horror + Survival + One Female Lead] A driverless bus carried a group of cursed people to a strange black lodge… Inside the lodge stood a door stained red with blood. At regular intervals, the cursed were forcibly dragged through the blood-red door and into terrifying worlds, where they had to complete horrifying events… After Ning Qiushui survived one bizarre and terrifying story after another inside the lodge, narrowly escaping death each time, he discovered that none of 758.7kReads9.6Score131.3kShelves
34. 34 赶 Beachcombing: From the Start, One Sand Shovel Wins Me the Whole Beach 赶海：开局一把沙铲承包整个沙滩 Mountain Peak山峰Urban4.6M WordsCompleted (Daily life + lighthearted + beachcombing + tycoon) I dropped out of a top university and spent two years back in my hometown fishing village. Once the village's golden boy, I became a good-for-nothing everyone despised. Then one day, I discovered I could see my own luck stat and exchange points for beachcombing tools through a virtual screen. From then on, my life was like I had cheats enabled. With a sand shovel, I could easily earn thousands in a day. With a spade, I even dug up a whole bucke 125.2kReads9.4Score11.4kShelves
35. 35 年 1960: Transmigrating to Nanluoguxiang 年代1960：穿越南锣鼓巷， Just Got Nothing Better to Do就是闲的Urban4.1M WordsCompleted New novel: Reborn in 1980: The Life I’ve Always Dreamed Of Also known as Li Laifu’s Happy Life in 1960s China. (No angst, comedy, farming, and everyday family life.) A short drama, comedy animations, and AI short dramas are now available. 248.7kReads9.4Score16.3kShelves
36. 36 天 The Heaven-Ordained Fortune Teller 天命神算 Long Life and Prosperity寿比南山Mystery3.5M WordsCompleted When I was thirteen, I fell gravely ill. My fever wouldn't break, and no matter how many famous doctors I saw, none could cure me. My grandfather healed me, but he died mysteriously five years later. Only then did I learn that he had incurred a karmic debt on my behalf. So I inherited his legacy and embarked on the path of a feng shui master. 132.4kReads9.2Score12.9kShelves

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    All weird novels, except "Once upon a time there was a demon town", I clicked by mistake

37. 37 北 The Grave Robbers' Chronicles: Northern School 北派盗墓笔记 Yun Feng云峰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 692.5kReads9.6Score90.2kShelves
38. 38 诡 The Haunted Garden 诡园 Zuo Fei左绯Mystery5.4M WordsCompleted Xi Chen felt that he had already done everything he wanted to do. The world was so boring that he wanted to end it. But even he thought this boring world didn't deserve to be dragged down with him, so he let it be. He didn't just fail to die, though. He was forced to join a game. Impossible to solve? Impossible! Maybe life wasn't quite so dull after all. No CP 21.7kReads8.4Score2.2kShelves
39. 39 诡 Anomaly Containment Facility, You're Containing Me, a Human? 诡异收容所，你收容我一个人类？ Yi Chen逸臣Urban3.2M WordsCompleted [No System]+ [No Heroine]+ [Cthulhu]+ [No Tired Tropes] (Also known as: Sequence: Ascension to Godhood) The Dark Prison has merged with reality, and bizarre creatures are invading the world through the “Gates.” An organization has quietly emerged, calling themselves the Wardens. They keep the bizarre creatures behind the “Gates,” and capture and contain any that make it into the world. Lu Xiao accidentally fell into the Dark Prison and lived there alone for three years. After the Wardens discove 63.3kReads9.2Score6.1kShelves
40. 40 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
41. 41 十 Fourteen Years of Hunting Ghosts (Complete in Five Volumes) 十四年猎诡人（全五册） Li Yifan李诣凡Mystery1.2M WordsCompleted [The full-cast audio drama is now available. Give it a listen!] Li Yifan’s spine-chilling ghost-hunting chronicles! A contemporary Strange Tales from a Chinese Studio! A spine-chilling record of ghost hunts! First posted on Tieba, it topped 100 million views within three months! The acclaimed mystery writer Li Yifan’s breakthrough work, now with the unpublished continuation added! Every ghost was once a living person. I’m a professional ghost hunter. I turn the compass, circle the place with red 14kReads9.6Score3.2kShelves
42. 42 死 Death Game Countdown 死亡游戏倒计时 A City Sharing the Light与光同城Mystery1.5M WordsOngoing Ning Ye was just an ordinary game booster, renting a small room and making money by playing games for other people. So, what’s the highest level a game booster can reach? Dominating high-ranked matches against other boosters? Taking on pro players? Leaving one-trick specialists with nowhere to go? For him, all that was just routine. What he never expected was that one day, he would become a deity’s game booster. … Want to get rich overnight? Want to reach the pinnacle of life? Want all kinds of 3.1kReads8.6Score360Shelves
43. 43 神 Mysterious Creatures Awaken, and I’m Designated No. 001 神秘生物复苏，我被编号001 Zhang the Second Generation张二代Urban488k WordsCompleted [No System] [No Female Lead] [Urban Power Fantasy] [No Hiding His Strength] Chen Xiao pressed the wrong elevator button and was killed by the void a thousand times. After countless rebirths, Chen Xiao transmigrated to another world. Mystical creatures were everywhere. Mythical phoenixes reborn in flames, ancient emperors rising from the earth, tentacled monsters ruling the oceans, ruthless, bloodthirsty straw creatures… And Chen Xiao was branded with the number 001. … When the mystical creatures 10.4kReads8.8Score851Shelves
44. 44 国 National Treasure 国家宝藏 Old Nine of the Daoist Sect道门老九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 42.1kReads9.5Score4.9kShelves
45. 45 从 Once Upon a Time, There Was a Demon-Suppressing Pass 从前有座镇妖关 The Cat from the Xu Family徐二家的猫Urban3.0M WordsCompleted Once, there was a pass like this. Once, there was a group of people like this. Every inch of this pass was stained with blood. These people would not return until they were dead. All so that, amid mountains of corpses and seas of blood, in their final moments, they could turn around and see the lights of countless homes shining behind them, with peace and safety year after year. 194.5kReads9.6Score23.3kShelves

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