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Books by Gu Chengwu
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The Graveyard's Ghostly Wails 鬼哭坟
On the seventh night after Grandma's death, I was forced to keep vigil beside her grave. Half asleep, I heard scratching against the coffin from beneath the earth. Terrified, I ran home, only to find Grandma sitting on the kang, smiling at me. “Good grandson, Grandma forgot to put on her shoes. My feet are cold.”
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When the Ghost Calls, Don’t Look Back 鬼叫别回头
There's a rule back in my hometown: If you're walking at night and hear someone call your name from behind, never turn around. My Third Uncle just wouldn't believe it. That night, he had been drinking on his way home when someone called out to him beneath the locust tree at the village entrance. He answered, and had just turned his head halfway...
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The Old Graveyard 老坟地
South of the city lies a thousand-year-old cemetery said to be a “corpse-nurturing ground.” Its resentment never fades, and its yin energy is overwhelming. Its terror doesn’t come from snarling monsters, but from an all-pervasive “corruption.” Anyone who becomes connected to it will have their fate quietly twisted, trapped in a cycle they can never escape.
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The Grand Tattoo Yin Master 大纹阴师
On the seventh night after Grandma's death, the tattoo needle she left behind suddenly stabbed into my palm. As blood dripped, I saw the whole room filled with underworld bailiffs, fastening chains around my family's necks. To save myself, I was forced to tattoo a scene of a hundred ghosts roaming the night across my back. When the final incantation was complete, the entire underworld shook violently: “Who dares tattoo the Ten Kings of Hell onto their own body?”
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The Nameless, Lonely Village 无名孤村
Traveler Lin Mo loses his way, or perhaps is fleeing some disaster, and accidentally stumbles into a remote village that appears on no map. The village seems peaceful, yet an air of death and unease hangs over everything.
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Corpse Driving in Western Hunan: Vengeful Spirits Come for Your Life 湘西赶尸之阴魂索命
Before he died, my master warned me: “There are three things you must never do when driving corpses: never drive a blood corpse, never travel in a thunderstorm, and never let the living come near.” But the very first job I took on broke every single taboo.
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The Ancient Corpse of the Yellow River 黄河古尸
The collision of modern science and ancient taboos; humanity's survival and the awakening of a terrifying presence sealed beneath the Yellow River; secretive factions vying for the river's hidden secrets; reverence for nature and history: the Yellow River's majesty and unfathomable depths, and how little humanity understands it. Beneath the dust of history lie cruel truths and a terrible price.
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Born of a Corpse, Wept Over by Ghosts 尸生子，鬼哭棺
The night my mother was buried, a baby cried out from her grave. When we opened the coffin, I saw that her belly had split open, and I crawled out covered in blood. The villagers thought I was a demon and abandoned me in a mass grave for wild dogs to devour. Seven days later, every dog lay dead, and I sat among the corpses, laughing and playing. A barefoot Taoist in a black robe passed by and fell to his knees in shock: “An Yin-born child of Heaven's will, master of all ghosts... This child is t
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A Fox Demon’s Autobiography 狐妖自传
The story opens with a surprise attack by the human Xuantian Sect, revealing the Qingqiu Fox Clan's desperate defense. To protect her people, Su Qinghan forces herself to draw on her immature nine-tailed power. She drives back the enemy, but damages her foundation and is forced to take her true form before falling into the mortal world.
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Madman Bro Quits His Job to Sell Soy Milk 狂魔哥改行卖豆浆
Madman Bro Switches Careers to Sell Soy Milk
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Ghost Affairs at No. 84 84号鬼事铺
A shop that opens only from midnight until four in the morning. It does no business with the living, dealing only with matters of the underworld. Its owner, Chen Jiu, is the last heir to this trade and carries the mysterious bloodline of a Spirit Warden.
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Spirit Medium: Tales from the Old Altar 出马仙：堂口旧事
In the winter of 2003, in Baishan Town on the banks of the Songhua River in Northeast China, 23-year-old Lin Xiaomei returns to her hometown after graduating from a teachers' university in the provincial capital, as her mother is seriously ill. Every night at midnight, strange footsteps and whispers echo through the old family home. A neighbor hints that it has something to do with the Lin family's ancestors and their “offerings.”
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The Professional Corpse Stitcher 职业缝尸人
Ke Shouye is the last of the traditional corpse seamsters. After working at a funeral home for more than twenty years, he has mastered his craft, but faces the prospect of having no successor, until he meets Qin Wang, a forensic medicine intern with a unique perspective on death…
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I Am a Yin-Walking Medium 吾乃走阴人
In an ancient dynasty, humans and ghosts lived side by side, and the boundary between the worlds of yin and yang grew blurred at certain times and in certain places. There was a secret tradition known as the Yin Walkers. They traveled between the two worlds, dealing with strange incidents caused by ghosts and spirits, and maintaining a fragile balance.
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The Corpse Retriever’s Resolve 捞尸人的坚守
Cui Hong inherited his family’s generations-old profession of retrieving bodies from the Yellow River. Following the rule of “never retrieve three kinds of bodies,” he lived by the river in the company of death, until the appearance of a very unusual female corpse shattered the peace...
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Northeast Yu Jie Falls for Me 东北雨姐爱上我
Northeast Rain Sister Falls in Love with Me
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Professional Corpse Carrier 职业背尸人
Qi Yongnian, a corpse bearer at a funeral home, desperately needed money because his daughter was seriously ill. He accepted a high-paying job from a mysterious client to smuggle a special corpse out of an abandoned psychiatric hospital, unaware that he was walking straight into a carefully laid terror trap...
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Zhu Chongba’s Hilarious Ghost-Hunting Adventures 朱重八的爆笑捉鬼生活
- Zhu Chongba jolts awake from a nightmare in his shabby apartment and realizes he's wet the bed again. He jokes to himself, “The ghost-hunting master is afraid of nightmares,” revealing his straitened circumstances and self-mocking nature. - At work at the “Paranormal Consultation Office,” he uses his silver tongue to persuade an old woman to buy a useless “ghost-repelling talisman,” though he secretly feels guilty. - On his way home, he witnesses a red-clad female ghost killing someone in an a
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Second Master’s Funeral Parlor 二爷白事铺
Second Master Chen is nearly sixty and runs a family-owned funeral shop called Second Master’s Funeral Shop. It sells incense, candles, joss paper, burial clothes, and funeral wreaths, and also provides services such as preparing bodies for burial, performing rituals, and inspecting burial sites. Second Master appears to be an ordinary funeral business owner, but he carries on a secret inheritance and can deal with “the other side,”
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The Village Veterinarian Who Cures Every Ailment 乡村兽医包治百病
On the day I failed the college entrance exam, my parents slapped a veterinary license down in front of me. “Come home and take over the family business!” Everyone in the village praises my skills. I deliver piglets more deftly than the county hospital. Nobody knows that the emergency kit I take on late-night house calls contains a compass and talismans. …
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The Eighteenth-Generation Heir of Maoshan 第十八代茅山传人
A world of occult arts lies hidden within the modern city, while the Maoshan Taoist tradition faces the threat of dying out. Five years ago, a mysterious massacre wiped out an entire family, and Chen Xuanqing, the seventeenth-generation head of Maoshan, vanished without a trace. As Chen Jiuqing, the eighteenth-generation heir, investigates the truth behind his master's disappearance, he discovers that Maoshan's treasured artifact, the Seven-Star Tiangang Sword, conceals a thousand-year-old curse
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My Home Is on a Mass Grave 我家住在乱坟岗
After his parents passed away, Shen Yuan returned to his remote hometown to inherit the only ancestral home he had. When he finally reached his destination after great hardship, he discovered in horror that the old house stood all alone in the middle of an endless mass grave.
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Why Are You Messing with Him? He's a Knife-on-Credit Seller 你惹他干嘛，他是赊刀人
On a stormy night, reporter Qi Xiaoyu encounters the mysterious knife seller Zhang Jiugge, who leaves behind an eerie prophecy: “When the city's locust trees bloom, I'll come to collect the debt.” He also leaves a kitchen knife, sparking Qi Xiaoyu's professional curiosity about urban legends...
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The Many Affairs of the City God 城隍爷的那些事儿
As a yin-yang agent, I was forced to take over the City God's mess. On a stormy night, I went to collect a body. When I lifted the white sheet, I found the same living person I'd seen three days earlier, a cinnabar mark on his forehead burning bright. A headless statue in a ruined temple seeped blood day and night. Scratching sounds came from inside the morgue drawer. Following the dirt on the dead man's shoes, I dug up a mass murder from thirty years ago.
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The King of Hell’s Notice, the Soul-Chasing Lock 阎王贴，追命锁
I inherited my grandfather’s old bookstore, only to discover a strange old book that couldn’t be sold. Its pages were bound in human skin, its ink looked like dried blood, and the title page read, “Anyone who finishes reading this will die within seven days.” The first customer dropped dead that very night, with paper offerings from the book scattered beside the body. I tried to burn it, but countless tormented souls wailed from within the flames.
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The Mountain Runner of Northeast China 东北跑山客
An apparently ordinary mountain expedition, hiding a mystery beneath the surface, uncovers a shocking secret sealed away by time: one involving a mountain god’s curse, an ancient pact of protection, and a mission passed down through generations of mountain runners.
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The Third Tear in Meng Po’s Soup 孟婆汤里的第三滴泪
I work at a funeral home, where I prepare the faces of the dead. That night, while handling an unidentified woman's body, her icy hand suddenly clamped around my wrist. “Find... the third tear...” Black blood seeped from her hollow eye sockets. From then on, my world began to fall apart.
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The Scent of Corpses for Ten Miles 十里尸香
“Ten Miles of Corpse Fragrance” is not the smell of decay, but a mysterious force. It is an intangible, invisible “field” formed over thousands of years by the mingling of ancient corpses, the earth’s spiritual energy, and the resentment of the living.
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Feng Shui Divination: Turmoil in the City 风水神算之都市风云
Lu Li is a down-on-his-luck fortune-teller who runs an ignored feng shui shop on a street corner. Then one day, Zhang Yang, a rich second-generation heir, pulls up in a sports car to provoke him. “If your reading’s wrong, I’ll tear your shop down!” Lu Li can’t even be bothered to look up. “Water’s seeped into your family’s ancestral grave. You’ll lose money within three days.” That very night, Zhang Yang’s family investment went bust, costing them a billion yuan.
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When the Otherworldly Flowers Bloom, the Coffin Has Yet to Close 彼岸花开时，棺木未阖
I am the 28th-generation heir to the guardians of the coffins. Our ancestral rule strictly forbids opening them. But after a torrential rain, a gap has appeared beneath every coffin lid. A girl in red who appeared in the storm tells me, “When the flowers of the other shore bloom, the coffin lid is no longer shut.”
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Tales of Southern Bian: Ruling with an Iron Fist 边南往事，一手遮天
Shen Wei, an undercover cop in Bian Nan City, is badly wounded and loses his memory. Rescued by the crime syndicate’s leader, Mr. Wu, he is mistaken for his adopted son. Over the next three years, a top student from Qingbei University becomes the drug trafficking network’s most trusted enforcer.
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My Zombie Wife Makes Me Live Off Her, and I Love It 僵尸老婆让我软饭硬吃
In the nighttime city, down-and-out online novelist Qi Lin stays up late working on a deadline in his cheap rental apartment, his haggard face reflected on the computer screen. - The power suddenly goes out on the night before his manuscript is due. Qi Lin ventures into an old basement rumored to be haunted to check the circuit breaker. - In the basement, he finds an ancient coffin covered in runes. Curiosity gets the better of him, and when he opens it, a female corpse dressed in bridal robes s
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Ancestor of the Daoist Corpse Sect 道门尸祖
Daoist disciples are divided into four ranks: Heaven, Earth, Mystical, and Yellow. Zombies have four grades: purple-haired, white-haired, blue-eyed, and crimson-eyed. Lin Jiuxuan is bitten while suppressing a thousand-year-old Corpse King, and the forces of good and evil inside him clash. Forced to hide his identity while investigating the conspiracy behind the Corpse King's resurrection, he gradually uncovers a thousand-year-old secret of the Daoist sect...
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The Corpse Driver of Western Hunan 湘西赶尸匠
Xiangxi Corpse Driver
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Reborn, I Became Tang Sanzang’s Mount 重生后我给唐僧当坐骑
Jin Chanzi’s reincarnation memories were altered, throwing the tribulations he was destined to face into uncertainty. Each tribulation is tied to a power struggle among the forces of the Three Realms. Meanwhile, I, Ao Lie, am reborn in Eagle Sorrow Ravine and discover that my bloodline has mutated, marking me as a wild card who can cultivate both Buddhist and demonic arts.
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Yin-Yang Town: Town of Yin and Yang 阴阳镇，镇阴阳
Yinyang Town lies in the Yinyangjie Mountains on the empire’s frontier. It is the only passage connecting the world of the living to the underworld. Built against the mountains and divided by the ancient “Yinyang Stone,” the town consists of the sunlit district and the shadowy lanes. The town is protected by an ancient pact. The living go about their business by day, while ghosts roam by night, and the two coexist according to strict rules. Anyone who disrupts the balance will incur Heaven’s wra
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The Netherworld Makeup Artist 幽冥化妆师
I've worked as a mortuary cosmetologist for ten years, painting the faces of the living onto the dead. One night, an influencer hands me a photo. “Paint this face on my dead boyfriend.” The face in the photo is my own. Seven days later, the corpse I worked on vanishes from the funeral home, and my face begins to rot.
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You’re Using a Ghost-Catching Manual to Pick Up Women? 你拿捉鬼秘籍来泡妞
In a modern city, Zhang Xian is an ordinary college student who works part-time as an online streamer, specializing in visits to “haunted places.” He’s never actually seen a real ghost, though, and has very few followers. - During a late-night livestream at an abandoned hospital, he accidentally activates an ancestral jade pendant and inherits the “Mysterious Yin Scripture.” He sees a real ghost for the first time and is scared out of his wits. - In his panic, he flees the hospital and runs into
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When a Ghost Borrows the Road, the Living Must Keep Away 阴人借路，生人回避
The corpse driver Qin Jiuli inherited his family’s craft of making Chenzhou talismans. While escorting an unidentified female corpse, he is obstructed by a Black Miao witch and discovers that the mysterious silver bell on the body is connected to his mother’s disappearance eighteen years ago...
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A Wanderer on the Jianghu's Lonely Roads 陌路江湖客
Amid the tides of the times, what does the true jianghu mean? Is it the lonely pride of clinging to the old ways, or the transformation that comes with adapting to the times? A fallen hero’s redemption, and an ultimate struggle between honor and survival.
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Secrets of a Paper Effigy Maker 扎纸匠秘辛
Chen Xiaochuan was an ordinary office worker in a modern city, completely ignorant of and uninterested in his hometown’s generations-old paper effigy craft. Then one day, he received devastating news from home: his grandfather, Chen Laoguan, who had raised him and was the last orthodox paper effigy maker, had suddenly died under bizarre circumstances...
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The Common Folk's Tomb Keeper 民间守墓人
A family that has guarded tombs for a thousand years possesses a special ability to communicate with spirits. Every twenty years, a bizarre phenomenon known as “the tomb gates opening” occurs, and the tomb guardians must perform a special ritual to suppress the sinister energy rising from the earth's veins.
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Living Human Pillars: Coffin Suppression 活人桩：镇棺
In the remote mountain village of Duanlong Ridge, an ancient and sinister rite is said to require burying living people as foundation sacrifices. Whenever a major construction project breaks ground, a “living pillar” must be chosen and buried beneath the foundations to pacify the earth’s veins and appease its resentful spirits...
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The Yin-Yang Tailor in Human-Skin Burial Robes 人皮寿衣之阴阳裁缝
There are two realms, yin and yang, and life and death each follow their own order. Yet the souls of those who die with profound obsessions, terrible grievances, or grave sins cannot rest, and their resentment gathers in their skin. Only a “yin-yang tailor,” heir to an ancient forbidden tradition, can use secret techniques to remove that skin and sew it into a special burial shroud. It may soothe the dead and help them pass on, bear their last wishes and settle their karma, or imprison evil spir
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