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Books by Sorrow in the Night
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From the Fanqie books we index, matched on the author's name.
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Night Watchman: My Years at the Funeral Home 守夜人：我在殡仪馆那些年
In 1992, I took the night shift at a funeral home to save my wife. I was thirty-two that year, laid off from a state-owned factory. My wife had kidney failure and needed a transplant, and the surgery would cost 32,000 yuan. I borrowed from every relative and saw the harsh side of human nature. In the end, I pulled some strings to get a job at Qing County Funeral Home. The monthly pay was 800 yuan, three times what I’d made at the factory, though the place was a little eerie. On my first day, Old
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The Nanyang Curse: A 1990s Record 九零南洋降头录
In 1995, Tang Nan, a university student from Xiangnan, spends his summer vacation sailing south across the seas with his uncle, who works on a cargo ship. He only wants to earn enough for tuition. One torrential night in the Strait of Malacca, the two accidentally haul up an unidentified woman's corpse, and misfortune clings to them from then on. After returning home, one strange illness follows another. Eerie red marks spread over Tang Nan's body, and every night he hears the ghostly sound of a
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Distorted Rules 规则畸变
Countless strangers are trapped in strange, repeating instances, each with clearly stated rules for survival. Everyone thinks that following the rules will keep them alive. Only after countless people die do they realize the truth: the rules evolve, the truth expires, and their perceptions can be rewritten. The traps you avoid, the mysteries you solve, and the principles you stand by can become the blades that kill you the very next second. I have no supernatural abilities and no memories of pas
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A Game of Go in Guixu: The Cosmic Chessboard Between My Nemesis and Me 归墟对弈：我与宿敌的诸天棋局
[A silent contest between two gods · pieces with free will · villains defying fate] Gu Yuan and Lu Heng were classmates on Earth. After an accident during an experiment, they became trapped in the Myriad Worlds and became two gods who had played the game of fate for ten thousand years. Lu Heng commands Kunlun and upholds the order of Heaven’s Mandate. His pieces are all protagonists blessed with destiny. Gu Yuan commands Guixu, gathering the despairing villains abandoned by the Heavenly Dao and
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Don't Defy Heaven and Change Fate 不许逆天改命
Above Blue Star, beneath the myriad worlds. Some are reborn in high school and use their knowledge of the future to drive their bullies to the brink. Some carry a System as they transmigrate to a cultivation world and forcibly defy fate. Some transmigrate into abuse-filled novels and alter other people's feelings in the name of “saving” them... They think they are changing fate, but in truth, they are smuggling themselves across worlds. Small worlds have established causes and effects, and each
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The Only Two True Gods: Sisters Roam the Three Realms, Beyond Good and Evil 唯二真神：姐妹踏遍三界无正邪
[Two female leads + no CP + hidden godhood + effortless domination + reversal of good and evil] They are the last ancient true gods in this world, forgotten by the gods themselves on Kunlun for thirty thousand years. The younger sister descends the mountain and stirs up the mortal world, while the elder sister follows behind, cleaning up after her all the way. At a martial arts tournament, the righteous alliance leader colludes with bandits? The younger sister exposes him in front of everyone,
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White Night Crossing: This Cafe Only Helps Evil Spirits Move On 白夜渡：这家咖啡店只渡邪祟
By day, she sells coffee. By night, she delivers spirits to the afterlife. Su Yanci is the last spirit ferryman in the human world. His three great loves in life are making money, haggling, and watching Ye Liu slack off. Ye Liu is the “former princess” of the demon realm, who ran away from home a thousand years ago. Her three great loves in life are sleeping, giving people a hard time, and watching Su Yanci count his money. Together, they run the trendy cafe White Night Ferry. By day, they serve
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The Celestial Master and the Cowardly Jiangshi: I’m Really Not a Big Shot 天师与怂僵：我真不是大佬
A half-baked celestial master whose talismans look more like ghostly scrawls takes in a thousand-year-old cowardly jiangshi who’s afraid of the dark, ghosts, and bugs. The two keep trying to swindle each other, but their schemes somehow work out, and they settle into a chaotic daily life of “vanquishing demons” in a run-down Taoist temple. What they don’t know is that a thousand years ago, they fought side by side as partners. Two underdogs from the start, happy accidents, misunderstandings that
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Chronicles of Ash and Frost 烬寒录
Shen Qinghan is the Daoist sect's only direct disciple, entrusted with the Jade Seal of Subjugation and the Peachwood Sword of Evil-Slaying, and honored by Daoist sects across the land. A thousand years ago, she personally slew a red-clad vengeful ghost that had wreaked havoc among the living. Ever since, she has been plagued by nightmares, with the nagging feeling that something is wrong, yet unable to divine the answer. A thousand years later, that figure in red stands once more amid the wind
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Little Zombie Sweetheart: My Exorcist Bestie Knows How to Make Money 僵神小甜妹：我的天师闺蜜超会赚
Su Qingyan is the last orthodox Celestial Master of the Mystic Sect, carrying a bloodline passed down through a single heir for a thousand years. In the eyes of outsiders, she is a vain, money-loving influencer, a walking display case for luxury brands who cares only about expensive things. No one knows that she spends half of everything she earns repairing her crumbling sect and the other half supporting orphaned children of the Mystic Sect, leaving herself only a meager living allowance. She u
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