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The Underworld Detective 阴间神探
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!
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- 2 EN The House of Dread 诡舍 [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
- 3 Sin Hunter Detective 猎罪神探 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 5.9kReads9.4Score819Shelves
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Rising Through the Official Ranks, Starting as a Secretary 官场从秘书开始
When hardship reaches its limit, good fortune follows. With a pure and earnest heart, Zhang Jun gets his lucky break and begins his career on the bench at an institute of traditional Chinese medicine. Skillfully navigating political maneuvering, officialdom, and human relationships, he wins allies at every turn and steadily rises through the ranks.
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- 5 From the Bottom of the Corporate Ladder to the Top: Fighting Corruption to Forge a Path to Promotion 集团底层逆袭，以反腐撕开晋升路 Xu Changqing, an employee of the massive Xingchen Huanyu Group, starts at the grassroots level. After being suppressed and sidelined, he is transferred to an idle department, where he seizes an opportunity to make a name for himself through a corruption case. Later, as he works in various departments across the group, he uses political savvy, social skills, and his own intelligence to turn the tables, steadily rise through the ranks, and ultimately reach the top of the group. —Reads—Score—Shelves
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Livestreaming Fortune-Telling: All My Top Supporters Are in Jail 直播测字：我的榜一全在局子里
A ghost-seeing girl and a genius young detective make the perfect supernatural duo! Jiang Chen: Can you check whether there are any nasty things around us? Su Su: Do you think I'm a ghost-hunting police dog or something?! Ghost: You're the nasty thing! Your whole family is nasty! The supernatural duo always cracks the case!
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The Fierce Heir: This Young Lady Is Mine 世子凶猛：这个小娘子，我抢定了
Original novel of the short drama “The Heir Is Fierce: I’m Claiming This Young Lady” One moment he opens his eyes, and he’s in Great Yan. Yang Shu is quite pleased with his identity: the sole heir of the Prince of Dingguo’s household. The emperor suspects him and the noble families shun him, but that’s no big deal. He’ll just rebel. If you’re going to be a spoiled young master, you have to act like one. First, beat up your future father-in-law... Second, smash up a gambling den... And third, sna
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You Told Me to Loiter in the Streets, So Why Are You Saying There’s a Nuclear Bomb on the Road? 让你当街溜子，你说路上有核弹？
Fast-paced crime-solving + deduction + livestreaming + all kinds of cases + no romance + plot-driven Su Ye awakens the Crime Evidence Livestream System, and everything he sees is evidence! Homemade explosives, dismemberment murders, new drugs, the sex-streaming industry, elaborate pig-butchering scams... Bizarre cases unfold every day. Su Ye: “Miss, let me see your skirt. The victim was wearing it.” Su Ye: “I was just taking a leak, and somehow found a murderer's toilet paper!” Su Ye: “A giveawa
24.9kReads9.3Score3.1kShelves
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The Folk Feng Shui Master 民间风水之王
The Nine Cauldrons Dragon Palace, the Secret Files of the Yellow Springs, the Snow Mountain Corpse Demon, the Yin-Yang Inn... Ever since I borrowed a life from the underworld, I have known no peace. Every time I borrow a life, it becomes a deadly game. After each desperate struggle and narrow escape, I wait for the next secret order from the underworld so I can keep living. Just when I thought I'd escaped the clutches of fate, I discovered that Heaven had prepared a coffin for me too!
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Let's Divorce! You Really Think I'm Some Kind of Toad? 离婚吧！真当我是癞蛤蟆？
Not a power fantasy. Please read with caution if that bothers you. Chu Yuxuan has been married to Xia Zhu for two years. He thought there was no heart in the world that couldn’t be warmed, until her old flame returns and Xia Zhu rushes to him without a second thought… After the divorce, Chu Yuxuan returns to the Chu family and transforms into a wealthy, spoiled playboy. At his family’s arrangement, he marries the icy beauty Zhao Yanan. On the surface, he’s a good-for-nothing wastrel, but behind
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The Peerless Mage 法师无双
A top sorcerer who once led the Heavenly Masters’ Court returns, only to be cast out by his powerful family. As he prepares to leave, he discovers that his younger female cousin has fallen victim to dark magic…
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- 12 The Celestial Master Descends the Mountain 天师下山 Back in my day, I had mastered my own school of celestial arts. One punch made the high-ranking martial artists at the nursing home north of the village tremble. One kick sent the young prodigies at the kindergarten south of the village bawling. And when I stood at the mass grave east of the village, not one of those hundreds of Ghost Kings or Ghost Emperors dared even breathe. 13.7kReads9.0Score1.6kShelves
- 13 The Heavenly Coffin 天棺 Because of a joke, my grandmother’s spirit refused to leave after her death and insisted on taking me with her to the grave. Otherwise, my whole family would die. To save my family, I went into the grave with my grandmother... 22kReads9.0Score1.9kShelves
- 14 The Maoshan Celestial Master's Art 茅山天师诀 [Maoshan Taoist arts] [Urban ghost-hunting] [Folklore and strange tales] [Chinese cosmic horror] Lu Xiaoyang, an heir to the Maoshan tradition, drank blood instead of milk for his first taste of anything after birth. After enduring three calamities and nine tribulations, he was personally appointed “Judge of the Living” by King Yama. To avoid becoming the son-in-law of the Great Emperor of Mount Tai, Lu Xiaoyang heads to the city to find the woman he was betrothed to as a child, only to be dumpe 16.1kReads8.1Score1.6kShelves
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True Tales of the Spirit Mediums: My Ten Years Serving at a Ghost Hall 出马仙纪实：我供奉鬼堂的那十年
My name is Zhou Tie. In this book, I'll tell the true story of my ten years running a spirit hall and serving ghosts. You've heard of spirit mediums... but have you heard of a ghost spirit hall? At eighteen, I established a ghost spirit hall and served ghost immortals! The presiding master was the sister my grandfather said had gone mad and died! This book has no female lead. It's not fantasy, and it's definitely not a cultivation novel! It's the true story of how I, born with an ominous yin con
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The Dragon-Suppressing Coffin and the King of Hell's Fate 镇龙棺，阎王命
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
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Weasel Spirit! Do I Look Like a Human or a God to You? 黄皮子！你看我像人还是像神？
No specialist knowledge here, just a story. [A little horror + a whole lot of comedy + no female lead, no romance] When I was a kid, I took a nighttime shortcut and saw a weasel worshipping the moon. Remembering a story my grandma had told me, I worried it might ask me to grant it a title, so, on a whim, I shouted at it first: “Weasel! Do I look more like a person or a god to you?” The weasel froze for a moment, then said I looked like a dumbass! But from that day on, I really did become an idio
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Fortune-Telling on Livestream, My Predictions Were So Accurate That My Clients Got Depressed 直播算命，算的太准客户抑郁了
[Fortune-Telling Livestream + Oddballs + Supernatural + Cases + No Female Lead + Mythology] After Zhang Kai, a rebel of the Daoist sect, sets a Daoist temple on fire and curses the statue of the Celestial Master, he starts a career fortune-telling on livestream. A billionaire angrily throws off his cuckold’s hat because of him, a woman obsessed with raising ducks has a sudden change of heart because of him, and a wholesome streamer ends up in prison because of him… As one absurd and ridiculous i
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- 19 A Horror Survival Loop? But I'm a Taoist Priest 恐怖轮回？可我是道士啊 A strange talisman, a group of chosen people, and a series of familiar horror movies. Chu Renmei from The House. The Black Bodhisattva from Incantation. The summoning ritual in Room 402 of Gonjiam: Haunted Asylum. The endlessly multiplying Tomie Kawakami from Tomie. No one knew who had brought the terrifying worlds from those movies into reality. And no one knew when this horrifying cycle would end. But when you’re forced to stand before them, how will you find a way out? Will you pray for p 3.6kReads8.1Score588Shelves
- 20 You Asked Me to Livestream a Classic, and I Called Dream of the Red Chamber a Ghost Story 让你直播讲名著，你说红楼是鬼书 “Dream of the Red Chamber was never a classic novel. It's a book specifically about ghosts!” “Compendium of Materia Medica was never a conventional medical text. It's a sacred book containing a wealth of folk magic!” “The Classic of Mountains and Seas isn't a fabricated collection of myths. It's a historical record of civilization after a prehistoric nuclear war!” “...” Qi Luo gave up on traditional publishing, and from the very first second of his livestream, he turned everyone's understanding 51.6kReads8.9Score4.7kShelves
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Master Bo, Your Wife Offered a Trillion to Call Off the Engagement 薄爷，夫人出价一千亿要退婚
Bo Hannian, who had been single for twenty-eight years, gets dumped by his fiancée. And she’s just a country girl, too. “Mr. Bo, Madam is offering five million to call off the engagement.” Bo Hannian raises his narrow eyes slightly. “No.” “Mr. Bo, Madam has raised her offer to twenty million. She wants to call off the engagement!” Bo Hannian smiles. “Give Madam fifty million. The engagement stays.” “Madam is offering a hundred million to call it off!” Bo Hannian: “...” He has a bit of a headache
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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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- 23 EN Ten Days to the End 十日终焉 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 1.7MReads9.9Score207.7kShelves
- 24 Past and Present: A Century of Longing 前世今生：百年相思债 Past and Present: A Century of Longing —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 25 The Fall of the Perfect Bride 完美新娘的坠落 The Fall of the Perfect Bride —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 26 The Embroidering Maiden of the Forbidden Palace 深宫绣女 Embroidering Maiden in the Imperial Palace —Reads—Score—Shelves
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Folklore Horror Tales: Chronicles of Yin-Yang Mysteries 民俗怪谈之阴阳诡事录
Some rules, if broken, can get you killed! My name is Chen Shiyi, and I’m something of a Daoist exorcist. My second granduncle taught me everything I know. While other children spent their childhoods watching cartoons and playing with toys, mine was filled with talisman paper, cinnabar, and the bizarre folk tales my second granduncle told me. Why must you never bring soil home from a grave mound? Why shouldn’t you look in a mirror at night? Why do people say it’s easy to invite a god, but hard t
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- 28 Northeastern Chinese Ghost Stories 东北灵异怪谈 There’s a folk saying that if you come across a black snake blocking your way in the forests of Northeast China, you’ll suffer a bloody calamity within three days. But if you encounter a rat blocking your path on an old bridge, you’ll be dead within three days. 335Reads8.9Score—Shelves
- 29 Modern Strange Tales: 100 True Accounts of Ghost Encounters 现代聊斋：100个撞鬼实录 A delivery worker takes an order and receives a package containing an urn; an exam candidate spots a Huang Daxian in a JK uniform asking to be granted human form. A haunted-house sleep tester screams before the livestream cuts out: “Something under the bed is copying my work log!” This book collects true supernatural incidents that have received over a million likes across the internet: “Don’t read this late at night. The mirror in your home might be recording your expressions.” 10Reads—Score—Shelves
- 30 The Ghost Speaks Not: The Ghost's Lament at Xiandun 鬼不语之仙墩鬼泣 Ghosts Don't Speak: The Ghost Cries at the Immortal Mound is the first book in the latest tomb-raiding series, Ghosts Don't Speak. Taking the mysterious ancient Chinese Nuo religion as its point of departure, it tells a twisting, perilous tale of tomb raiding. The story begins with legends passed down orally by the protagonist's ancestors. The protagonist ventures into the Northeast, travels through the Central Plains, and heads southwest in search of the legendary rare treasures and the secrets 2kReads9.3Score307Shelves
- 31 The Daoist Descends the Mountain: The Revival of Eerie Energy 道爷下山之诡气复苏 The uncanny returns, throwing yin and yang out of balance. Ghosts and monsters roam by night, slaughtering people until the human world becomes a living hell. Everyone lives in constant fear. Only I emerge from a mountain Taoist temple. I cultivate the Great Way of Yin and Yang, wield the art of slaying the uncanny, and shatter all illusions and evil spirits. Evil spirits wreaking havoc? I will suppress them with Taoist arts. The uncanny tide spreading? I will cut it down with a single sword. De 9.6kReads8.3Score694Shelves
- 32 EN The Great Ming's Strongest Imperial Grandson: Asking the Emperor for Death at the Start 大明：最强太孙，开局求老朱赐死 In the twenty-fifth year of Hongwu, Crown Prince Zhu Biao died. Zhu Yuanzhang planned to make Zhu Yunwen the Imperial Grandson. Just then, Zhu Yuntong, who had transmigrated from the future, decided it was worth fighting for the position. Otherwise, after the three fools of the Jianwen era made a mess of things and his fourth uncle, Zhu Di, raised an army to suppress the rebellion, Zhu Yuntong might not even get the chance to live as a carefree prince when the troops reached the capital. So, dur 5.6kReads7.8Score414Shelves
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The Haunted Funeral Home 恐怖殡仪馆
I was born incredibly ugly. My family despised me, society shunned me, and I had no friends. I thought I would spend my whole life like that, but then my parents forced me to marry into the Lu family. I suffered humiliation in the Lu household, and it was only thanks to Lu Yechuan, the younger uncle of the Lu family, that I was saved! He led me out of the darkness and removed the birthmark on my face, until I lost myself in his tender embrace... But one day, the truth came to light, and Lu Yechu
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- 34 True Stories of Folk Horror 真实民间恐怖故事 Real! Real! Real! I'm not after horror, just realism. The stories in this novel come from friends around me and readers across the internet. Anyone with mental health issues can skip it. And whatever you do, don't read it alone at night. I'm mainly worried you'll wet the bed the next day. 71Reads—Score—Shelves
- 35 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 18.1kReads9.2Score1.7kShelves
- 36 Strange Tales of a Mountain Village 山村异事 Mom tied a rope around her mouth and hanged herself over Dad's coffin! Forty-nine days later, Mom came back for me! 340Reads6.7Score103Shelves
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The Horror Livestreamer 恐怖女主播
My name is Yuan Junyao, a name that doesn't suit me at all. I've had a chronic illness since birth, and I'm so hideously deformed that tumors started growing on my face when I was little. My father left me when I was just three months old. At fifteen, I was blamed for my mother's death. Only my grandmother raised me and my stepbrother, who shared neither parent with me. But after an accident, I was offered up to a man who should never have crossed my path. To get revenge and see justice done, I
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Sardo 萨尔多
This book is not suitable for children! As the Sacred Snow Mountain teeters on the brink of collapse, a young boy from the Saldo tribe unexpectedly awakens the “Eye of the Ancestors,” guarded by his people for a thousand years, and inherits the cultivation legacy left behind by the Ice River Immortal. He leads the remnants of the Saldo tribe on a deadly migration, fighting hordes of demon beasts on the Crescent Grassland, standing up to the brutal Wolf-Herding Demon Clan, forging alliances with
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