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  1. 1 The Celestial Master Is Here: Qimen Feng Shui Shakes the World 天师在此,奇门风水震天下 Mystery6.3M WordsCompleted [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... 248.3kReads9.1Score59.8kShelves
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  2. 2 No Living People Allowed 活人勿近 Rural Life2.3M WordsCompleted [Inspired by real events, but the setting is entirely fictional] [No cultivation] [Supernatural horror only] The countryside is different from the city. Rural areas are vast and sparsely populated, with too little human presence to suppress what lurks beneath the ground. That's why ghost stories and strange legends keep cropping up. Ask anyone from a village in Sichuan, and they'll have plenty to tell you about supernatural happenings in the mountains and fields in years gone by. Some people 96.7kReads9.3Score8.8kShelves
  3. 3 Summoning Spirits 招魂 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 428Reads6.4Score—Shelves
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  4. 4 EN The House of Dread 诡舍 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 707.4kReads9.6Score103.9kShelves
  5. 5 The First Female Taoist Priest 第一女道士 Mystery1.0M WordsCompleted My name is Lai Xiaoman. One foot in the world of the living, the other in the underworld: I make my living dealing with yin and yang! I thought inheriting my grandfather’s legacy would make me a renowned female feng shui master, but when I was eight, someone took over my body and stole my soul. A powerful expert extended my life by fifteen years and calculated that my destiny had been violently altered when I was only one. My once-fortunate Vermilion Bird destiny had been reduced to an empty she 7.9kReads8.4Score730Shelves
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  6. 6 EN With a Fox Immortal, I Subdue a Hundred Ghosts 我以狐仙镇百鬼 Mystery10.3M 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! 748.4kReads9.4Score43kShelves
  7. 7 Vivid as Life 栩栩若生 Mystery2.3M WordsCompleted A fortune-teller said I was born destined for greatness, the reincarnation of the Flower Goddess, with the power to turn stones into gold and command flower spirits and tree sprites. Once I came of age, my family was sure to prosper. But when I was twelve, I came down with a strange illness. My fever wouldn’t break, and I kept seeing terrifying visions... In a dream, I met an old woman who told me to find an expert with supernatural powers to save my life. Millet to summon souls, altars and form 19.7kReads9.5Score3.4kShelves
  8. 8 Folktales of the Mountains and Wilds 民间山野怪谈 Mystery959k WordsCompleted The hidden truths behind ten major unsolved mysteries, revealing a host of terrifying taboos that will send chills down your spine! 14.5kReads9.1Score960Shelves
  9. 9 Incense Ashes: I'm a Yin-Yang Medium 香灰:我是阴阳女先生 Mystery1.5M WordsCompleted If someone asks to borrow money from you in a dream, promise me you won’t lend it. Because what you’re lending isn’t money, it’s your life. … Grandma called me a debt-collecting demon, and Mom called me a bringer of bad luck. All because, when I was born, a fire broke out at home for no apparent reason, and the villagers rushed over to help put it out. But no matter what they did, they couldn’t extinguish the flames. The fire only slowly died down after half the village had burned to the ground. 6.9kReads9.1Score841Shelves
  10. 10 The Underground Palace of Mount Lao 崂山地宫 199k WordsCompleted The three children of an archaeologist set out to uncover the secret of immortality. Their tomb-raiding expedition leads them to the eerie, mysterious underground palace of Laoshan, while an ancient temple beyond Yanmen Pass reveals a thousand-year-old bronze corpse... 1.7kReads7.2Score201Shelves
  11. 11 My Beloved, Through Every Dawn and Dusk 卿是朝朝暮暮 Ancient Romance332k WordsCompleted Shen Yunshu studied archaeology and had been working for just two years. She loved history, and her favorite dynasty was the Rong Dynasty. A few days ago, she had read an unofficial history of the Rong Dynasty's royal family. Little did she expect that after falling asleep, she would wake up in the Rong Dynasty, sent there by the heavens, as Shen Yunshu, the legitimate daughter of the Shen family of Prince Zhenbei's residence. She had transmigrated to her favorite dynasty and become a descendant 24.4kReads9.4Score3kShelves
  12. 12 On the Second Day of the Second Month, I Marry the Dragon King 二月初二,嫁龙王 Mystery1.0M WordsCompleted Ever since I turned eighteen, I’ve had shameful erotic dreams every night. In them, I spend day and night entwined with a man dressed in black, with dark hair. My grandmother, the last shaman in the village, said I was the reincarnation of a deer spirit. In my previous life, I sealed an evil river dragon with a virgin’s blood; in this life, I was destined to live alone, and must never break my vow of chastity! On the second day of the second lunar month that year, as the dragon raised its head, 8.2kReads9.2Score1.1kShelves
  13. 13 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 Mystery1.1M WordsCompleted 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 13.9kReads9.1Score1.8kShelves
  14. 14 The Grand Feng Shui Master 大相师 Mystery2.4M WordsCompleted Ten years ago, nine snakes crawled into my bed. Grandpa said someone was trying to steal my life. To keep me alive, he arranged an engagement for me to extend my lifespan... 8kReads9.3Score984Shelves
  15. 15 I Am a Female Physiognomist 我是女相师 Mystery893k WordsCompleted I was born in the twelfth lunar month of 1991, and came into the world with six fingers. The saying that people born in the Year of the Sheep have bad luck somehow became attached to me. Before I could even speak, my family sent me to live with my grandaunt, who ran a shop selling paper offerings and burial clothes. My grandaunt said I had a star spirit in my fate, and the Vermilion Bird would come to my aid. What did it matter if my destiny was cursed? As the saying goes: The Azure Dragon and W 13.2kReads9.4Score1.4kShelves
  16. 16 Snake Eyes 蛇瞳 Mystery1.0M WordsCompleted When I was eight, my father burned a snake that had been dug up back home. The entire Su family suffered retribution, and our descendants dwindled until I was the only one of our branch to live to eighteen. My grandmother took me to a spirit medium to ask how I could stay alive, but a white snake coiled around me and made me its spirit medium. A child spirit came to claim my life; my fellow practitioners framed me and made me bury a living person to ward off evil and protect their territory. A w 8.4kReads9.2Score1.2kShelves
  17. 17 Evil God Moran! 邪神墨然! Mystery3.1M WordsCompleted 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 155.2kReads9.3Score16.3kShelves
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  18. 18 EN Ten Days to the End 十日终焉 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 1.7MReads9.9Score206.4kShelves
  19. 19 Born of a Corpse, Carried in a Ghost's Coffin 尸生子,鬼抬棺 Mystery3.3M WordsCompleted In ancient, remote places, all kinds of strange and terrifying things are bound to happen. And these things happen around Hua Jiunan. In fact, Hua Jiunan is part of them. For instance, he was born from a corpse! 212.8kReads9.6Score25.1kShelves
  20. 20 Rule Horror: Beware Your Roommate's Girlfriend 规则怪谈:请小心你室友的女友 Mystery1.2M WordsCompleted [No heroine + not wish fulfillment + not invincible + unsettling + horror + suspense + plot-driven] [The livestreaming element is only a tiny part of the story. The focus is on horror and suspense, so feel free to dive in] There are only two people left in your school dorm: you and your roommate. Your roommate suddenly brings home an incredibly attractive person they met online, leaves you some money, then hurries off. Now you're alone in the room with your roommate's gorgeous online date... Wou 35.9kReads9.0Score3.3kShelves
  21. 21 Strange Tales Livestream! 怪谈直播间! Mystery1.3M WordsCompleted Welcome to the Rules of the Strange. This is a battle of blood and fire, a test of wit and courage. The power of words cannot be resisted, and the eerie rules must not be broken. In a seemingly hopeless situation, find the one correct answer, break free of your constraints, and search for a way to survive. 173.8kReads9.7Score17.7kShelves
  22. 22 Super Scary Livestream 超级惊悚直播 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!" 25.3kReads9.2Score3.3kShelves
  23. 23 The Language of the Three Corpses 三尸语 Mystery1.1M WordsOngoing You’ve heard of people who died with their eyes open, but have you ever heard of a dead person whose mouth wouldn’t close? His grandfather’s death turns the life of a broke college student upside down. A corpse glares, a soul is hooked; a corpse opens its mouth, and disaster strikes twice. As one bizarre incident after another unfolds, he accidentally discovers that there’s far more to it than ghosts… 69.1kReads9.3Score10.7kShelves
  24. 24 The Paper Effigy Shop: Everyone Around Me Is a Big Shot 扎纸铺,我身边都是大佬 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 22.1kReads9.3Score2kShelves
  25. 25 Horror Tavern: I Only Raise the Most Ferocious Creatures 恐怖酒馆:我只养大凶之物 Mystery1.6M WordsCompleted Tucked away in a quiet alley is a strange tavern that can grant your wishes, as long as you’re willing to set up a terrifying idol in your home... 6kReads9.4Score804Shelves
  26. 26 The Underworld Detective 阴间神探 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! 73.7kReads9.4Score8.8kShelves
  27. 27 The Divine Qilin 麒麟神相 Rural Life3.8M WordsCompleted I was born with a Qilin by my side. To save me, my grandfather peeled off his own human skin and gave it to a nine-tailed fox. That day, dead trees bloomed again, and all the beasts came to pay their respects! 10.8kReads9.4Score1.2kShelves
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  28. 28 The Yellow Emperor’s Secret 黄帝秘藏 Mystery6.0M WordsOngoing With a blood-written deed on my body, I fought hungry dogs for food. In the bitter cold of winter, I was about to be beaten to death on the frozen ground, until someone stood before me and told me I was a dragon in the art of feng shui... 14.8kReads8.9Score592Shelves
  29. 29 The Heaven-Ordained Spirit Medium 天命出马仙 Mystery2.6M WordsCompleted When I was five, an old beggar showed up at our door and insisted that one day I would marry a snake as my wife... 11.9kReads8.8Score1.2kShelves
  30. 30 The Heaven-Mandated Diviner 天命卦师 Mystery3.1M WordsCompleted [Supernatural · Urban · Mysterious] My mother was a shameless woman... Before I was even a month old, she abandoned me. The man who raised me was my adoptive father, who wasn't related to me by blood at all. When I was seven, disaster struck out of nowhere. A woman gave me a burial shroud. My adoptive father said that woman meant to take my life... 2.9kReads8.5Score245Shelves
  31. 31 EN The Last Bus on Route 13 13路末班车 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! 13.5kReads9.2Score1.7kShelves
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  32. 32 Eerie Revival: I Can Contact the Past 诡异复苏:我能联系过去 Mystery1.1M WordsCompleted The Hungry Ghost Festival of 2025. A super red moon appeared, and as it lingered in the sky, the supernatural returned. Left Yang was shocked to discover that he could use his phone to contact himself in the past. In the stairwell, the Knock-at-the-Door Ghost killed anyone who opened the door. But someone discovered that it skipped the first floor and started knocking there. So Left Yang contacted his past self. [Please have your one-month-younger self rent an apartment on the first floor!] The 43.3kReads9.1Score4.9kShelves
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  33. 33 My Husband Comes Knocking at Midnight 老公夜半来敲门 Mystery1.1M WordsCompleted Out of curiosity, I picked up a banknote in a cemetery where people were paying respects to their ancestors. From then on, strange things began to happen... 53Reads6.4Score—Shelves
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  34. 34 Ghosts in the Apocalypse: I Became the Strongest Ghost Tamer 百鬼末世:我成了最强御鬼师 Mystery2.9M WordsOngoing [A Full 1,000 Types of Ghosts] Mysterious ghosts include Jin Buhuan, the White Bone Bodhisattva, the Earthly Branches War Lord, and the Blood-Drop Plum Blossom. The powerful ones include Asura, Rakshasa, the Butcher, the Martial Champion, and the Emperor. The eerie ones include Painted Skin, the Red Robe, the Chubby Baby, the Coroner, the Flower-Waisted Bride, the Embalmer, and the Ever-Burning Lamp. Every type has its own evolution path: Drowned Ghost → Water Monkey → Kappa → ? (There’s more af 115kReads9.5Score9.8kShelves
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  35. 35 My Body Merged with a Vengeful Ghost, Making Me the Chief of the Ten Halls of Hell 身体融合厉鬼,我成十殿阎罗之首 Mystery680k WordsCompleted Chu Jiang transmigrates by chance to a world where the supernatural has returned and vengeful ghosts run rampant. A deep bell tolls from a towering ghost temple, sending ripples across the lake. On the elusive No. 7 subway train, are the passengers human or ghost? Paper Doll Ghost, Buddha Statue Ghost, Starving Ghost, Half a Corpse... Danger draws ever closer, but fortunately Chu Jiang has a game interface that lets him use vengeful ghosts to strengthen himself. Ding! Your mouth has fused with t 2.7kReads6.6Score225Shelves
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  36. 36 EN Terror: I Only Sell Haunted Houses 惊悚:我只卖凶宅 Mystery1.5M WordsCompleted Rooms where unnatural deaths have occurred are collectively known as haunted houses. There are two kinds: “blue houses” and “red houses.” Living people can stay in blue houses without harm, but anyone who lives in a red house is doomed to die. I work as a real estate agent. One day, I accidentally sold a red house, and afterward, I began encountering terrifying things… 26.5kReads9.2Score3.2kShelves
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  37. 37 A Collection of 1,000 Folk Ghost Stories 民间鬼故事合集1000篇 Mystery344k WordsCompleted The Secret of the Ancient Village In an era when roads were poor and information traveled slowly, a small village called Qingping lay hidden among encircling mountains, so quiet it seemed forgotten by time. Its houses stood in orderly clusters, built of wood and earth, with thatched roofs and the occasional wisp of smoke rising from their chimneys. A winding dirt road ran through the village, beside a burbling stream so clear that fish and stones on the riverbed were plainly visible. The village 193Reads—Score—Shelves
  38. 38 On My First Night Back in the Village, I Was Tied to a Red Coffin 回村第一夜,我被绑在红棺上 Mystery21k WordsCompleted On my first night back in the village, I was tied to a red coffin. —Reads—Score—Shelves
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  39. 39 Nightmare Mirror Livestream 镜魇直播 Fantastical Romance111k WordsCompleted During her first livestream, Mu Yanzhi thought she was just exploring an ordinary haunted house. Then the candle in her hand went out for no reason, and the comments flooded with warnings: “Behind you! Turn around!” She turned stiffly, only to find that the figure reflected in the battered bronze mirror wasn't her. An icy breath curled around her ear. “The contract is sealed.” From then on, every livestream brought her within a hair's breadth of death, yet viewers flocked to the chillingly reali —Reads—Score—Shelves
  40. 40 The Woman in Red in the Basement 地下室的红衣女 Mystery11k WordsCompleted The Woman in Red in the Basement —Reads—Score—Shelves
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  41. 41 The Feng Shui Master in Hemp Clothes 麻衣风水师 Mystery2.2M WordsCompleted I was born with twelve fingers, and my hands have no palm lines. A fortune-teller said I had the rare fate of a heaven-cursed debt collector, doomed to bring death to everyone around me. To save me, Grandpa decided to return to the martial world and defy fate. He arranged three marriages for me, but on the night of the engagement, he died. Eight evil spirits came to take him away! 72.3kReads8.7Score5.1kShelves
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  42. 42 Folk Feng Shui Secrets 民间风水秘术 Mystery248k WordsCompleted This story focuses on practical feng shui and fortune-telling. If you're looking for made-up drama, this isn't for you! Feel free to skip the first four chapters and start reading from Chapter Five. The adaptation will also start from Chapter Five, which should make it much easier to adapt. Thank you for understanding! (Traditional, no System, no wild flights of fancy, funny, not saintly! A technical, skill-focused story!) I was born in a poor mountain village. From a young age, I traveled aroun 27.1kReads9.4Score3.7kShelves
  43. 43 The Dragon-Suppressing Coffin and the King of Hell's Fate 镇龙棺,阎王命 Mystery4.9M WordsOngoing They severed my tendons and buried me alive in a sealed coffin, but they didn’t know I was born with the fate of the King of Hell! [Folk horror, feng shui and talismans, incense offerings] Feng shui and fortune-telling, painted-skin demons and spirit summoning, walking in the shadows and corpse driving, corpse-raising spells and curses, yin tattoos and talismanic needles, puppets controlled by strings, red doors sealed with wax, Dogs digging graves on Burial Mound Ridge, ghosts feasting in the R 310.8kReads9.4Score27.9kShelves
  44. 44 The Divine Fortune-Teller in the Linen Robe 麻衣神算子 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... 43.7kReads9.2Score3.8kShelves
  45. 45 Me, a College Girl: Feasting by Day, Eating Ghosts by Night 我,女大,白天干饭,晚上吃鬼 Fantastical Romance240k WordsCompleted [Completed] The arrogant Ghost King vs. the forthright college girl, Chinese horror + supernatural + suspense + folk taboos. Have you ever seen an inflated human skin race you? Have you ever encountered a dead person whose mouth gaped wider than a washbasin? Have you ever come across a headless corpse that wanted to hug you? I’ve seen all of them. My name is Qin Sang, a college girl who eats ghosts. But you don’t have to be afraid of me. I’m human, but… the one beside me isn’t. It all began whe 57Reads6.5Score—Shelves
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  46. 46 The Last Paper Effigy Maker 最后一个扎纸人 Mystery2.7M WordsCompleted The art of paper effigies can bridge the worlds of yin and yang, perform rites for the dead, and summon the King of Hell. Cut yellow paper, weave bamboo strips: paper horses travel a thousand miles, and paper figures summon spirits. With one stroke to paint their eyes, the King of Hell appears, striking terror into all directions and sending ten thousand ghosts into hiding! By the time the art of paper effigies reaches Chen Mo, he is its last practitioner. He assumes this ancient, mysterious cra 16.7kReads8.5Score1.7kShelves
  47. 47 Selling Clothes by Day, Sewing Corpses by Night 白天卖衣服,晚上缝尸体 Mystery2.7M WordsCompleted [Traditional supernatural horror, folk terror, decisive and ruthless] I rented an apartment where someone had died, hoping to save money, only to be plunged into endless darkness... My terrifying girlfriend has a mouth full of sharp teeth and haunts me day and night; A headless vengeful infant on the highway frantically tries to steal people’s heads; A horrifying internet celebrity livestreams herself peeling off people’s faces, while the comments turn eerie; At a Cat Immortal shrine in a strang 51.9kReads9.2Score6.2kShelves
  48. 48 The Haunted Tomb 诡坟 Mystery2.2M WordsCompleted [This is no ordinary paranormal story. It's all about horror and suspense: no mindless wish fulfillment, forbidden yin-yang lore, no cultivation, and a ghost wife. If it's not good, you can break my legs.] People laugh at my family's poverty and say that all my blood relatives have died, so there must be a ghost in our house. I don't dare argue... because there really is a ghost buried in our ancestral grave! ...My name is Zhang Asi... I was born at four in the morning on the fourteenth day of t 40.2kReads8.8Score3.7kShelves
  49. 49 Tales of the Taoist Sect 道门往事 Mystery2.2M WordsCompleted Cha Wenbin holds the ancestral seal of the Maoshan sect and is the last heir to the position of sect leader in the Orthodox Way. He saves people caught between yin and yang, but brings disaster upon himself and suffers Heaven’s punishment. With a chivalrous heart and a mastery of Taoist arts, he rescues the living from the cracks between worlds and guides the dead through the endless hellish roads! Who are the ancient Di people clad in fish scales, the mysterious king brought back to life, and t 23.9kReads9.1Score4.4kShelves
  50. 50 Forbidden Bindings of the Spirit Corpse 灵骸禁缚 Mystery95k WordsOngoing [No CP + Supernatural + Strong Female Lead] At five years old, Chen Nianli witnessed her father's gruesome death with her own eyes. Fifteen years later, in an apocalypse plagued by strange phenomena, can the script be rewritten with nothing but the keepsakes her father left behind and a mysterious mirror? —Reads—Score—Shelves

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