Novels like The Yin-Yang Courier
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- 1 Folk Tales of the Supernatural: The Paper Effigies I Make Can Enter Ancient Tombs 民间诡闻：我扎的纸人能下大墓 My name is Li Yan, and I'm a paper effigy craftsman who won't live past twenty-five. To extend my life, I have no choice but to seek rare treasures in the most sinister tombs. Other people risk death whenever they enter a tomb. I rely entirely on paper effigies! The Yellow River Ghost Coffin, the Cloudtop Snow Tomb... I sacrifice my lifespan, dot their eyes, and give them life! A red-clad paper bride tears a female demon to shreds, while an armored paper general cleaves a snow monster in two! “B 1.4kReads—Score11014d adds
- 2 Global Horror: I Became a God-Tier Paper Effigy from the Start 全球惊悚：开局成了神级纸扎人 He transmigrates to a world plagued by the resurgence of the supernatural, and from the start finds himself inhabiting a paper effigy. But as long as he harvests fear, he can keep leveling up! “Ding! Detected: 100 fear points from Chu Renmei!” “Ding! Detected: 200 fear points from Sadako!” “Ding! Detected: 300 fear points from Kayako!” He scares people, and even ghosts. He will become a terrifying demon god. 1Reads—Score—14d adds
- 3 The Living Man’s Grave 生人坟 Have you ever heard of a living person’s grave? It’s also called a shengji tomb. A living person chooses a spot with good feng shui and buries some hair and nail clippings there, hoping to steal good fortune. But a person’s fate is fixed. Defying heaven is sure to bring divine punishment… I was born under the influence of a hundred ghosts as a person of the Four Yin. To stay alive, a shengji tomb was planted for me at birth to prolong my life… 1Reads—Score—14d adds
- 4 The Corpse Reader 尸生相人 Adapt to the balance of yin and yang and align with the secrets of the heavens. Read the bones to see the face, and the skin to see the qi. The changes in your palm are but an illusion; the five elements determine your fate. A person's face and destiny reveal only seven parts out of ten. The other three are secrets of heaven, beyond anyone's sight. Only the face of the dead can be seen in its entirety. But after I was born, I somehow displayed all ten parts, just like a dead person! 3Reads—Score—14d adds
- 5 The Flowers and Plants Are Crying for Help Again 花草又在喊救命 The flowers and plants are calling for help again. —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 6 The Coffin Man 棺人 There was an old coffin in our home. On the first and fifteenth day of every month, Grandpa had me paint it with red and black lacquer. This went on for years, but he never told me why. It was only after I turned eighteen and was buried alive inside that old coffin that I gradually uncovered one secret after another. From then on, I embarked on a very different path in life. Three calamities and six tribulations, nine coffins crossing together: ferrying people, demons, and restless souls! The Ye 251Reads5.8Score—14d adds
- 7 My Grandpa Isn't Human! 我爷爷不是人！ The night my grandfather died, rain poured down and thunder rumbled. A black cat climbed across his coffin... That was when I learned my grandfather’s secret. Breaking into a widow’s home, digging up graves of families with no heirs, stealing ice cream from kids, swiping an old lady’s hearing aid... I could let those things slide. But you’ve gone too far: going clubbing with a female ghost, taking a fox spirit to the zoo, and watching Mr. Vampire with a zombie... How am I supposed to clean up af 238Reads6.8Score—14d adds
- 8 Reading Bones, Shocking the Clouds 相骨惊云 I was born on the fifteenth day of the seventh lunar month, a special day known as the Ghost Festival. My grandfather, a feng shui master, never let me go out after dark. Whenever the elders in my family brought it up, their expressions grew grave, as if it concealed some enormous secret. I asked my grandfather why countless times, but he would only pat my head, his eyes full of worry, and say nothing. 1Reads—Score—14d adds
- 9 The Yin-Yang Ghost Hunter 阴阳捉鬼人 Is everything in this world really as simple as people think? What secrets lie behind the things that seem so ordinary? The uncanny Miaojiang Gu sect, the mysterious Sacred Sect, the unfathomable Maoshan Taoist sect, and the ethereal Feng Shui sect… Watch as a boy from a mountain village unravels layer upon layer of mystery, sets out to find his missing parents, and searches for the ultimate Way. 92Reads—Score—14d adds
- 10 Human Prison 人牢 Supernatural fantasy stories often spring from the ugliness of human nature. Only against that ugliness can the light of kindness shine, leading the weary masses to bloom like lotuses in a raging fire. Not everyone has seen a ghost, but some people have unusual constitutions. Under the right conditions, they can truly feel that despair, that chill, that helplessness, that sorrow... —Reads8.1Score—14d adds
- 11 The Overpowered Heir: I Moonlight as a Ferryman in the Yellow Springs 超强继承者：我在黄泉兼职摆渡人 Our school has a famous apartment building. They say it was sealed off after the school was forced to close it because it was haunted. A few roommates and I were curious, so we went inside to investigate. To my dismay, some creature that was neither human nor ghost began following me! It claimed to be an official from the Underworld, commonly known as a ferryman, and had picked me to be its successor. Through schemes, sweet talk, and all kinds of tricks, I began walking the line between good and —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 12 Supernatural: I Change into a Taoist Robe, Then Head Straight into the River 灵异：道袍一换，下河就干 When a dead fish bites, turn around and leave; change into a Taoist robe, and get straight to work in the river. Make it safely to shore, and the whole internet praises you; fail to catch a ghost, and the whole village gets a meal. A century-old corpse in a rural reservoir, a generations-old evil bond that uses a corpse to bear a child, a cunning demon in the mirror, ghostly shadows in an abandoned hospital, terror at an amusement park, and the fog-shrouded Mount Hujun… 60Reads—Score—14d adds
- 13 The Yellow Immortal Worships the Moon: A Dreamt-Up Suicide Note 黄仙拜月：托梦遗书 [Traditional Supernatural Tales, Told by a Practitioner of the Netherworld Arts] A strange book left behind by my grandfather before he died. It records hundreds of uncanny spells: The Nether Soul Spirit-Communication Art, the Scissors Ghost-Sending Method, the Treasure Mirror Circle of Light Technique, the Broom Evil-Breaking Method… These spells may seem rather “homely.” But they brought me all kinds of terrifying experiences: An eerie spirit in a rented apartment, a lost child by the roadside 1Reads—Score—14d adds
- 14 The Five Sages of Destiny 天命五圣 I thought my grandfather and I would spend our whole lives quietly in our little town. Then I unexpectedly helped two older sisters, and my life was turned upside down from that moment on... 1Reads—Score—14d adds
- 15 Yin-Yang Paper Effigy Maker 阴阳纸扎匠 The paper effigies my grandfather made could subdue spirits and drive away evil energy. He passed this craft down to me alone. Back in his day, my grandfather was a renowned master in the world of feng shui. I thought I could carry on his legend, but I was set up as soon as I struck out on my own. It turns out there’s another me in this world! (No System, no mindless protagonist, no stale tropes, no cultivation.) 428Reads6.9Score—14d adds
- 16 The Coffin Bride 棺妻 My name is Li Guan. Li as in the character for plum, and Guan as in coffin. When I was fourteen, I dreamed of a purple coffin. A beautiful woman lay inside. She opened her eyes and told me she was my wife, and that she'd kill me if I married anyone else! She told me to wait for her. On my eighteenth birthday, she really came... When the purple coffin crossed my threshold, the world's shackles broke, revealing the first mysterious glimpse of an entirely new and fantastical world... 362Reads6.3Score—14d adds
- 17 Paper Effigy Maker 扎纸人 My grandfather was a renowned paper effigy maker, a trade associated with the yin world. I never imagined there could be so many mysterious and unfathomable secrets hidden in it... 189Reads—Score—14d adds
- 18 The Corpse Mover 搬尸匠 Mo Xiaoqi, a boy born under the Four Yin signs, has been covered in festering sores since childhood, enduring scorn and humiliation. In the end, he chooses to work at a crematorium far from the crowds. He never imagined that his appearance had been caused by a villain's sinister scheme. By chance, he obtains a bone ring and learns the Five Arts of medicine, divination, destiny, and physiognomy, becoming their inheritor. He takes on his awful relatives and seeks out the culprit who poisoned him, 71Reads6.4Score—14d adds
- 19 The Divine Seer of the Nine Calamities 九劫神相 Nine thunderbolts clear the way, and the Immortal ranks send a child. I am the reincarnation of a lucky rat. On the day I was born, ten thousand rats begged the heavens to grant me a title, and great fortune descended from the skies... 1.4kReads7.1Score10414d adds
- 20 The Haunted Pawnshop: The Living Die in Place of Others, the Evil Dead Live in Their Stead 恐怖当铺：活人替死，恶鬼替生 There’s a pawnshop that sits empty during the day but is packed with customers at night. The living are better off dead, while evil spirits revel until dawn. Maybe from the moment you step into this pawnshop, you’re no longer yourself. 28Reads—Score—14d adds
- 21 I Joined a Yangtze River Sand-Dredging Crew and Pulled Up a Ghost Bride with My Own Hands 我在长江捞沙队，亲手捞上鬼新娘 “Folklore,” “ghosts and monsters,” “the supernatural,” “mythology” The sand-dredging crew pulled up a ghost bride who had been offered to the River God. From then on, the bride began haunting them, and strange things kept happening. The River God was furious, too, and demanded that we give him an explanation! With no other choice, I went with the crew to the River God’s lair. There, we came across countless monsters from legend: yuan dragons, flood dragons, corpse-liberation rings... We also unc —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 22 I Have Yin-Yang Eyes 我有一双阴阳眼 Born with yin-yang eyes, Su Mingye was frail and sickly as a child, easily assailed by ghosts. When he was fifteen, the seal on his yin-yang eyes broke, and a hundred ghosts surrounded his home to steal them. With his life hanging by a thread, he was saved by a practitioner of yin-yang arts. He later became the practitioner’s disciple, learning the arts to protect himself. With his yin-yang eyes open, he can discern the worlds of yin and yang, destroy evil spirits, recognize demons and monsters 105Reads8.2Score—14d adds
- 23 Tales of the Strange 聊斋那些事 Have you ever heard of a plain-language version of Strange Tales from a Chinese Studio? A scholar spends the night in an abandoned house and is welcomed into a beautiful woman's arms, only to discover that her face is a painted skin. A poor young man finds a fox. The fox says, “I’ll marry you, but you must never look at my tail.” At the mass graves outside town, someone tells stories every night. Anyone who listens disappears the next day. Don’t be afraid. These are all stories passed down by ou 3Reads—Score—14d adds
- 24 Dragon-Seeking Feng Shui Master 寻龙风水师 My mother was offered as a living sacrifice to the river god. To everyone's surprise, ten months later, she crawled out of the river. Dragons eat their illegitimate children. As the Dragon King's bastard son, I was supposed to be eaten at birth. Luckily, my master saved me and used eighteen phoenix maidens to deceive the heavens, helping me escape the Dragon King's pursuit. But eighteen years later, the people who had built their fortunes on my dragon blood turned against me. They looked down on 920Reads8.5Score26814d adds
- 25 Tales of the Supernatural in Rural Northeast China 东北农村诡事录 A collection of eerie and terrifying folk tales. Zhang Liang was born in the 1970s and was forced onto the path of exorcism by a curse. Every tale is full of danger and excitement, with an ending no one can predict. If you have the nerve, come take a look and experience a different kind of ghost story. Mildly scary, read with caution. 84Reads—Score—14d adds
- 26 The Ghostly Papercutter 幽冥剪纸人 “You want to make a deal with me? But all I want is your shadow!” Song Xiaohan grinned. 22Reads6.7Score—14d adds
- 27 Northeastern China’s Coffin Bearer 东北抬棺匠 In the old days, evil spirits ran rampant across the Northeast, and immortal beings roamed everywhere. It was common for the dead to lie in their coffins, impossible to carry out. I was the most renowned coffin master for miles around, the last Coffin-Carrying Heavenly King. With half a copy of the Coffin Spirit Register in hand, I had seen every evil coffin under heaven. The coffin of a doomed life, the coffin of a violent death, the coffin of resentment, the coffin of hatred, the coffin of mis 577Reads—Score—14d adds
- 28 Tales from the Corpse Retriever: When Midnight Comes, the Dead Speak 捞尸怪谈：夜半正是尸语时 The great river in my hometown is deeply sinister. Ever since my great-grandfather's time, my family has worked in this area at a job that living people should stay away from: retrieving corpses from the water. After I inherited the family trade, all kinds of strange events began to unfold around me: the mother and child corpses in Qinghe, the soul-snatching female streamer, the uninhabited mountain village... 53Reads7.3Score—14d adds
- 29 Wicked Fate Geomancer 邪命地理师 [Mystery + Supernatural + Comedy + Not a Power Fantasy + Urban + National Fate] The Dragon Veins are gone from the world. The nation's fate now depends entirely on geomancers! Also known as The Geomancer of an Ill-Fated Destiny A friendly warning: This story is almost too realistic… I'm a geomancer. Some people call us feng shui masters, but that's not the whole story. I don't know much, but in my line of work, it's all about cause and effect, and the tides of fortune! In your eyes, a nati 3Reads—Score—14d adds
- 30 A Century of Housebound Echoes, Filled with the Wails of Kin 百年宅响，尽是至亲泣 For a century, the old mansion has echoed with the weeping of kin. —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 31 She Worshipped Her as a Goddess, Then Imprisoned Her Soul 敬她为神，困她为魂 She is revered as a god, yet imprisoned as a soul. —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 32 I’m a Celestial Master, Yet All My Wives Are Terrifying! 身为天师的我，娘子皆为恐怖！ In plain robes, a red bridal veil on his shoulders, he feeds himself to ghosts and commands them at will. Chen Yu is a Taoist priest, yet he’s famous throughout the land for his skill in controlling ghosts. Whether it’s a red-clad vengeful ghost or a thousand-year-old corpse, or a fox demon that devours human essence, Chen Yu takes them all in! While other Taoist priests are still using talismans and thunder magic to exorcise ghosts and capture demons, Chen Yu is already lounging in the arms of 144Reads6.4Score—14d adds
- 33 The Fragrance of a Beauty’s Corpse 美人尸香 I run an inn that takes in no living guests. I only send off ghosts. Corpse spirits haunt the roads, and a hundred ghosts roam the night... 444Reads6.3Score—14d adds
- 34 The Shangqing Celestial Master 上清天师 [Taoist priest + no saintly protagonist + supernatural + two male leads + two female leads] Ever since the great battle between Chinese Taoists and Japanese onmyoji, supernatural incidents have been erupting across the cities, as though ancient forbidden spells have been broken. White-hair vampires, black fiends, vengeful ghosts, grinning corpses... Feuds that began a thousand years ago will finally be settled in this life. With humanity twisted and morality in decline, what other dangers are wa 6Reads—Score—14d adds
- 35 Grandma's Yin-Yang Eyes 奶奶的阴阳眼 When I was little, I didn’t understand anything. I just thought it was fun. I remember when Second Grandma died, even Second Grandpa, who slept beside her, didn’t know. But Grandma woke Dad up and told him to go pay his respects... 672Reads7.8Score10314d adds
- 36 The Haunted House Salesman 凶宅推销员 My name is Wang Hao, and I work at a real estate agency that only opens late at night. The boss is beautiful, but she's rarely around. My coworker is a creepy Taoist who drags me out every night at 2:30 to spy on the apartment across the street. There's also a little girl with purple hair who keeps throwing pink slippers at me. My job is to inspect haunted houses, because I can see those "things." I only wanted to save up enough to put my younger sister through school. That was until a thousa —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 37 A Weasel Came Seeking a Heavenly Title from the Start, but I Turned It into a Pet 开局黄皮子讨封反手被我当做宠物 [No System + ghost stories + comedy + egg-shaped demon + not acting human + sunny young man] One night, after a few drinks, Wang Huo ran into a weasel on the road that was asking him to grant it a human form… “Do I look more like a human or a god?” “You look like a five-foot-tall, white-haired, soft and adorable little beast-girl with fluffy ears and a flat chest!” … From that day on, Wang Huo couldn't stop himself. Beneath the blood moon, all the ghosts howled in despair as one man laughed wild 1Reads—Score—14d adds
- 38 King of Feng Shui: I Roam the World with a Sealed Divine Dragon 风水之王之我与封印神龙闯天下 The day I was born, my father died. A fortune-teller said I was born under an unlucky star and would bring death to my parents! No! I decide my own fate, not Heaven! Watch me defy fate alongside the dragon spirit living inside me! See how Lin Qingfeng rises from an orphan girl to become a renowned feng shui master! 476Reads—Score—14d adds
- 39 Welcome to the Nightmare Livestream!!! 欢迎来到噩梦直播间！！！ My new work is out! Everyone is welcome to read it on Tomato Novel. I hope you enjoy it. Your support is what motivates me to write, and I'll do my best to tell every story well! 5Reads—Score—14d adds
- 40 The Feng Shui Mastermind 风水大掌柜 The day I was born, nine dragons came bearing a coffin, and a hundred ghosts wailed in mourning. I was born under a fated star. My name is Bai Ke, a feng shui master delivered to the mortal world in a coffin borne by nine dragons. I guide souls between yin and yang, and was born with an innate gift for the mysteries of heaven and earth. When you run into anything supernatural, just come to me, Bai Ke. I am the chief feng shui master, and there is no mysterious matter in this world that I cannot 594Reads7.1Score10114d adds
- 41 Strange Tales of the Divine Firmament 神霄诡事 In today’s martial world, the biggest sect is sparing no effort to search far and wide for a precious ancient book of secret techniques. At last, they find the hometown of the protagonist, Zhao Shiba: a quiet, peaceful little village. Faced with the enemy’s threat, Zhao Shiba steps forward without hesitation, determined to protect every villager. But fate has other plans: in the midst of the battle, he accidentally kills eighteen innocent villagers from his own village... 1Reads—Score—14d adds
- 42 Yin-Yang Diviner 阴阳占卜师 My name is Jiang Wuxuan, a yin-yang diviner in Luoyang. Rumor has it that I’m the greatest protector of demons and monsters, but that’s not true. The ones who do evil are always people with unfathomable hearts. I’m just a yin-yang diviner who can’t stand the wickedness of human nature!” Yellow Weasel: Young man... Do I look like a human, or a god? Jiang Wuxuan: Huh! What did you say? Yellow Weasel: Do I look like a human, or a god? Jiang Wuxuan: Who’s there? Yellow Weasel: Me! Do I look like a h 7Reads—Score—14d adds
- 43 Strange Tales of Summoning the Gods 请神异闻录 At his eighteenth-birthday coming-of-age ceremony, a host of immortals came to offer their congratulations! In his dreams, he became a disciple of Jiang Ziya, who studied under the Primeval Lord of Heaven at the Jade Void Palace on Mount Kunlun, and learned the art of summoning gods. I’m powerless against those above the gods, but invincible against those below them. You know Taoist magic? I can summon gods! You know demonic arts? I can summon gods! You can invite an immortal spirit to possess y 38Reads—Score—14d adds
- 44 Forbidden Rules of the Haunted School 恐怖校园禁忌 These words themselves are supernatural. Many of these stories happened to me or to people around me, and the schools are real, too. You may not believe in ghosts, but that doesn’t mean you’ve never encountered one. An old Taoist priest in a tattered robe stroked her head. “A demon child has been born into the world. All living things will suffer. Disciple, go down the mountain now.” 2Reads—Score—14d adds
- 45 Six Relics to Banish Evil 六器渡邪 On a stormy night, the evil box passed down through my family shattered on its own, and I became a wanted fugitive accused of several murders. My only chance of survival was to recover the six cursed artifacts scattered across the Lin family. But they weren't treasures. They were instruments of torture, each one imprisoning the soul of someone our ancestors had tortured into becoming an artifact. Soul-harvesting rice from the Hungry Ghost Realm, a mending needle used to sew together a hundred —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 46 The Greatest Ghost Taoist in the Mortal Realm 阳间第一鬼道 The coffin is raised, the incense still burns, and the grave is moved. The Taoist was once an evil ghost; wicked arts throw the age into chaos. Paper figures harbor murderous intent; living stones imprison evil spirits. Vengeful ghosts don Taoist robes, and the sinister wind never stops blowing. Ning An was a disciple of the Taoist sect, but his master used him as a pawn, while his master’s wife wanted to eat him and turn him into a vengeful ghost. 41Reads—Score—14d adds
- 47 A Red Coffin for the Funeral, a White Sedan for the Wedding 红棺送葬，白轿迎亲 Yin-Yang Eyes + Supernatural Beings + Protectors + Four Divine Beasts + No Romance From the start, he awakens Yin-Yang Eyes, and the Red-and-White Fiends come to claim his soul! That was when I discovered that my grandfather had another identity: he was a Yin-Yang Master and the head of the sect guarding the mountain gate. My peaceful life was turned upside down. The black dog at home began speaking, and the neighbor who had looked after me since childhood was facing death. But the conspiracy be 18Reads—Score—14d adds
- 48 The Paper Horse Shop: Messenger Between Yin and Yang 我有一间纸马铺之阴阳使者 5Reads—Score—14d adds
- 49 I Tamed the Paranormal 我把诡异收服了 Born with ghostly eyes, I share a desk with the City Lord of the Underworld. A vengeful female ghost wants me to kiss her, I take in a powerful underworld enforcer, and a princess from a thousand years ago swears an oath with me. Onstage, they sing of sorrow and grief. Beneath the stage, I capture every kind of evil. My name is Zhang Qiang. Watch me run rampant through the Underworld! —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 50 Celestial Official of the Corpse-Subduing Sect 镇尸天官 The unfathomable mystery of immortality, horrifying strange happenings in a mountain village, a mysterious ancient tomb buried deep beneath the earth, and ancient legends from the barren wilderness... None of it should have had anything to do with me. But after my grandfather's bizarre death, I could no longer escape my fate and was dragged into this endless conspiracy... 441Reads7.3Score10214d adds
