Novels like The Yin-Yang Inn
Books Chinese readers most often put in the same booklists as The Yin-Yang Inn, best match first.
- 1 The Yin-Yang Warden 阴阳巡守使 The Abyss of the Dead, tombs that suppress ghosts, Miaojiang witchcraft and poison, strange tales and weird encounters: none of them could stop me. Neither the underworld nor the living world dares provoke me. Be they beautiful ghosts, evil ghosts, or vengeful spirits, they all take the long way around when they see me. Even the ghost soldiers, ghost officials, and ghost generals have to treat me like a sworn brother. There's only one reason: I'm the Yin Envoy in the world of the living, tasked —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 2 The Ghost Bride 鬼娘娘 A cool-looking, hot-tempered, timid softie vs. a beautiful, scheming, frail powerhouse Plus a gorgeous, gluttonous, lovable female ghost Mu Li needs to make money! Ever since Mu Li took in a gluttonous female ghost, her already tight finances have gone from bad to worse. Now she can find lost cats and dogs, calculate birth charts and gossip, and subdue ghosts and capture souls with ease. In her spare time, Mu Li also has something to think about! Her childhood friend, the "little beauty," i 7Reads—Score—Shelves
- 3 A Promotion Diary from the Underworld: Ox-Head and Horse-Face Get to Work 地府升职记：牛头马面卷起来 Xuanhuan cultivation + underworld civil servant This is the story of a corporate drone who dies from overwork, then works himself to the bone to make his mark in the underworld. On the surface, it's a humorous, hilarious tale of an underworld civil servant's rise through the ranks, packed with satisfying moments. At its heart, it explores life and death, good and evil, order and freedom. Shen Yunfei rises from a temporary ox-headed guard to one of the Ten Kings of Hell. He relies not on a golden —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 4 System: A Ghost Bride Comes to Marry Me from the Start 系统：开局鬼新娘娶亲 [System] [Horror] [Supernatural] [Transmigration] [Comedy] Lu Jun is ambushed and accidentally transmigrates to a parallel world. He wakes up in the wilderness and encounters a terrifying ghost bride procession. When he unexpectedly awakens a System, he thinks his luck is about to turn, only to discover that he has just ten years left to live. In order to survive and return to his original world, Lu Jun relies on rewards from the merit System as he completes all kinds of outrageous tasks. After 3Reads—Score—Shelves
- 5 The Chen Family's Ghost Arts 陈家鬼决 A book passed down through his family sets Chen Xiaofeng on the path of ghost hunting. After facing all kinds of ghosts, zombies, and monsters, he grows ever stronger. This book brings together horror, romance, cultivation, mythology, and more. Let Xiao M lead you all in witnessing Chen Xiaofeng's growth! 293Reads6.1Score—Shelves
- 6 The Paper Effigy Maker 扎纸匠 I was born unlucky. My father didn’t care for me, my mother didn’t love me, and even my grandfather, who had been closest to me when I was little, wanted nothing to do with me. Then one day, I accidentally drank some “mineral water” my cousin had made for an experiment, and my life changed completely. I thought my life was about to end, but my grandfather, who had spent his whole life making funeral wreaths and paper effigies, suddenly came looking for me. He took me to a place only the dead cou 35Reads—Score—Shelves
- 7 The Eerie Craftsman 诡匠 My grandfather and great-grandfather both died at the hands of stone carvings, so a saying took hold in our village: stone carving is a forbidden trade, and anyone who practices it is doomed to an untimely end. When I was sixteen, Wang Mazi from the village bought himself a wife, and my father died as a result. To find out what caused his death, I ignored the consequences and picked up the family carving knife... 26Reads—Score—Shelves
- 8 I Helped My Grandfather Become a God of the Underworld 我助爷爷冥界封神 [Mystery and the Supernatural] [Urban Power Fantasy] [Recruiting in Another World] [I Can See Ghosts] [I Can Communicate with My Grandfather in the Underworld] My grandfather recruits famous generals in the Underworld and carves out new territory. I’m his indispensable logistical support. His ranks are filled with fearsome warriors, who teach me to read, practice martial arts, and master all kinds of skills. Lost classics return to the world of the living. Grandfather earns a reputation, I reap 1Reads—Score—Shelves
- 9 I Joined the Underworld, Working Every Day to Earn More Lifespan 入职地府，每天打工赚阳寿 No System, easygoing story Yi Ming, a broke college student, runs into Chu Nantian, the gravely wounded and dying richest man in the city, on his way home from a night shift. But Chu Nantian has another identity: he is the City God of this city. For twenty thousand yuan, Yi Ming is forced to accept the City God's command and become the new City God. This changes the course of his life, because that was supposed to be the day he died. To stay alive, he has no choice but to accept it all... —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 10 Demon Revival: From the Start, I Fish Up a Red-Clad Female Ghost 妖魔复苏：开局钓鱼红衣女鬼 As demons return and ghosts roam the night, Zhao An obtains a Life Editor. By slaying demons and accumulating edit points, he can change his own life and other people’s lives! To earn edit points, the weak Zhao An has no choice but to go fishing for targets. For example, he lures a red-clad female ghost with his body in the middle of the night, then brutally kills her! Not enough cash? Edit his assets to add a few more billion! Not handsome enough? Edit his charm until it can topple kingdoms! No 8Reads7.2Score—Shelves
- 11 Pawnshop No. 18 十八号当铺 Lin Zheng, who runs a pawnshop alone on Flower Street, receives an invitation from Zhang Xiaorou, the young lady of the Zhang family, and gets caught up in a scheme of intrigue within the family. As they painstakingly unravel it, layer by layer, was the plot the work of human malice, or is there something else behind it? Zhang Xiaorou's betrayal leads Lin Zheng into a world unlike any he has ever known. A silver needle can sew, and it can seal. Number eighteen is also the eighteenth floor. In th 201Reads—Score—Shelves
- 12 I Own a Bank of Heaven and Earth 我有一座天地银行 There are four kinds of debts in this world: debts of love, debts of money, debts of fortune, and debts of life. Borrow, and you must repay. Qin Yang inherits the Bank of Heaven and Earth, and from then on takes charge of all debts in the world. Popular singer Ren Tianyao owes the Bank of Heaven and Earth ten years of her beauty. If she defaults, she must repay with her life, forfeiting sixteen years of her lifespan; Huang Yongming, chairman of the Gale Group, owes the Bank of Heaven and Earth t 36Reads5.6Score—Shelves
- 13 The Corpse Burner 烧尸人 Liu Gen is a designer who complains about life every day. By chance, he gets a job as a cremator, only to discover that the work involves more than simply burning the dead. They aren't demons who burn corpses, but Buddhas who deliver souls. Behind each seemingly eerie incident lies a heartwarming story. Most ghosts are good. People, on the other hand, aren't necessarily good. Want to know what goes on behind the scenes at a crematorium? Come on in and read on. 2Reads—Score—Shelves
- 14 Maoshan Ghostcatchers 茅山捉鬼事务所 As one of the rare and nearly forgotten Maoshan heirs in the modern city, I live with my master at the Orthodox Affairs Bureau. Or rather, it’s a cleaning company, because we can get rid of “dirty things.” If there are no ghosts in this world, then what exactly have I been catching? Here, you’ll discover that the “things” you imagined really do exist... 4Reads6.2Score—Shelves
- 15 There's a Ghost Behind Me 身后有鬼 I told a ghost story in the middle of the night, and then… 50Reads5.5Score—Shelves
- 16 The Second Spirit 二神儿 [Supernatural] [Comedy] [Shamanism] When I was nine, my father was killed by a spirit summoned to possess him. As fate would have it, I inherited the mantle of the royal shaman. Sending off wandering spirits, battling the Chang and Mang serpent spirits, facing the mountain god of Shenxian Mountain, and encountering a dragon in the Wusong River… This is the story of the strange events I witnessed during my years as a shaman. 20Reads6.9Score—Shelves
- 17 The Yin Tattooist 阴纹师 A tattoo shop that opens at midnight. The designs aren’t tigers, dragons, or leopards, but... 28Reads—Score—Shelves
- 18 The Corpse Driver 赶尸匠 Who in western Hunan hasn't heard of corpse-driving? But how many people know about the corpse drivers themselves? They hide by day and travel by night, keeping company with corpses. Using this strange art, they can make the dead walk, guiding them home to be laid to rest. What terrors and hardships do novices face as they learn to drive corpses? How do they grow, step by step, into capable corpse drivers? Come along with my protagonist and embark on a mysterious journey into the art of corpse-d 1Reads—Score—Shelves
- 19 Underworld Temp Worker: Signing In Makes Me Stronger 地府临时工，签到就变强 Overworked office drone Lin Ye stayed up all night working himself to the bone. When he opened his eyes, he had become the most miserable temp worker at the Ghost Gate! Bullied by underworld officers? Sign in at the Ghost Gate and claim the [Yin-Yang Evil-Breaking Eye], enough to scare off any vicious ghost that picks a fight! Sent to fish fragments of the Book of Life and Death out of the River of Forgetfulness? Sign in and get the [Judge’s Brush], so I decide who lives and dies! The otherworld 9Reads—Score—Shelves
- 20 Caught Ghost Hunting in the Library by My Husband 在藏书阁捉鬼被老公曝光 The eldest son of the Chi family wakes up after two years in a coma and suddenly finds a fiancée by his side, one who was married to him to bring him good fortune. This fiancée is strange. She wears patched clothes, carries a battered old bag, sells one sheet of yellow paper after another, and wards off calamity after calamity. Then she gets the sudden idea to go to college. On campus, she flirts with the heartthrob whose looks could keep him fed and plays pranks on the delicate campus belle who 8Reads8.2Score—Shelves
- 21 From the Start, Cemetery Orders: I Awaken the Celestial Master System! 开局墓园订单，我觉醒天师系统！ Zhou Mo delivers takeout at night. One evening, he gets an order from a cemetery, and from then on he's plunged into all kinds of bizarre paranormal events. “Uncle, there's a ghost!” “Male or female? Good-looking?” “A ghost! A ghost who hanged themselves! You're asking about that? Are you starving or something?” A child wants to play a game with him: whoever loses has to hang themselves. A widow ghost ambushes him in the bathroom, then comes to his door to claim his life. A math teacher, driven —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 22 The Yin-Yang Life and Death Command 阴阳生死令 Everyone is born with a Life-and-Death Token on their spiritual platform. What happens when someone sees your Life-and-Death Token…? Did you know that people can actually lose their memories? Yet hidden inside my Life-and-Death Token is a bewitchingly handsome man. The secret of life, death, and reincarnation lies within a death pendant, and a revenge plot, along with love and hatred hidden for three thousand years, is finally coming to light… 1.2kReads8.6Score101Shelves
- 23 The Yin Grave 阴坟 I woke up to find myself lying in a coffin, dressed in an ancient-style wedding gown... 47Reads7.8Score—Shelves
- 24 The Thirteen Needles of the Ghost Gate 诡门十三针 After graduating from college, I spent months looking for a decent job and couldn’t find one. Then Grandpa handed me his herbal medicine stall, saying it was an inheritance passed down through the Xia family and could make a fortune. Grandpa had conned me. He said it would make a fortune, but in more than two months I hadn’t made a single sale. That night, the pretty older sister next door, whom I rarely spoke to, came to see me... 212Reads6.6Score—Shelves
- 25 The Mysterious Origami Master: Rising to Power from the Underworld! 诡秘折纸匠：从阴间开始成大佬！ (The protagonist is calm and self-focused, and refuses to be swept along by outside forces. Please understand if that's not to your taste.) After a family upheaval, he awakens as a bizarre paper-folding craftsman. After a paper mansion is burned down, it transforms into a haunted apartment building in the underworld. One paper figure after another becomes a battle-hardened general! With a wave of paper, he summons a river of stars across the heavens. With a drop of paper, the Yellow Springs surg 1kReads6.7Score152Shelves
- 26 King of Destiny Arts 命术之王 The year I was born, a fire took my parents’ lives. A black-furred weasel rescued me from the flames. My grandfather said I was born under a deadly curse, with three calamities following close behind. So I devoted myself to mastering the arts of fate and divination, overcoming the three calamities, severing the Heavenly Dao, and defying heaven to change my fate. 191Reads6.8Score—Shelves
- 27 I Ferry Souls in the Mortal World 我在人间摆渡灵魂 Some people call me Master, others call me a charlatan. Some even respectfully address me as Grandmaster or Celestial Master. But really, I’m just an “ordinary” guide for the dead. Jiang Cheng, an unremarkable funeral master, awakens a mysterious ability after one particular funeral. He can actually see souls, or ghosts!!! (This story has only one supernatural character, the protagonist. It’s more of an everyday-life story with tearjerking moments, not a horror novel.) 51Reads8.7Score—Shelves
- 28 Corpse Driver: I Dug Up an Undercover Cop from the Start 赶尸人，开局挖出警方卧底 Synopsis: Li Chengchuan is so busy driving corpses that he accidentally stands up his blind date, enraging his older sister! “I’ll go plead your case again, but you’d better behave this time, or I’ll beat you to death!” “I hope you can give me a reasonable explanation.” “Sorry, I had to go on a last-minute business trip and forgot to tell you.” “So what do you do for work?” “If I say I drive corpses, would you believe me?” “I believe you!” Song Qianqian didn’t take him too seriously, because her 15Reads—Score—Shelves
- 29 Make Me a Ghost, and the Three Realms Shall Know No Gods or Buddhas! 让我做鬼，三界至此无神佛！ The Heavenly Dao had its designs. After Tang Yu died, he became a ghost, doomed to never be reincarnated. But he transformed into a ghost constable, capturing souls across the Three Realms. The gods of heaven and the Buddhas of the West trembled at the sight of him! White Bone Demon: “Grandpa Sun, please smash my soul to pieces too! That ghost constable is terrifying. I don’t want him to come for me!” Golden-Winged Great Peng: “The Buddha betrayed me! Why did I become a prisoner in the Underworl 5Reads6.2Score—Shelves
- 30 Cultivating the Dao Amid the Strange: Starting with Corpse Driving 诡异修道：从赶尸开始 Ye Bai woke up one morning to find himself a corpse-driver. The dead should return to their roots. Those who die far from home must be escorted back to their hometown by a corpse-driver, or trouble may follow. In this chaotic dynasty, wars break out constantly, and there are plenty of corpses. However, Ye Bai discovers that he can earn rewards simply by driving corpses. Corpse-Controlling Arts, the Yellow Skin Drum, divine-mask Nuo opera, paper figures brought to life, the Rebirth Eye, Earthly F 34Reads—Score—Shelves
- 31 Banish Evil with My Left Hand, Keep the Martial World in Check with My Right 左手灭邪祟，右手平江湖 I was born with an extra soul, and I can remember everything from the moment I was born. Before I was even a month old, all sorts of people came to my home, and they had only one goal: to take me away. They said I was a rare Tianlu child, seen only once every few centuries, able to perceive the realms of yin and yang at six and attain an invulnerable body by ten. My parents refused. On the day I turned one month old, several groups finally came to blows, and every one of my close relatives fell —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 32 The Yellow Springs Inn 黄泉客栈 Legend has it that at the boundary between the mortal realm and the underworld lies an ancient, mysterious street called Banshijin. On it stands an inn known as the Reincarnation Inn. Any soul, be it human, god, demon, or monster, whose heart is gripped by an overwhelming fixation will come here after death and wander along this street. 1kReads5.8Score—Shelves
- 33 The Last Paper Effigy Maker 最后一个扎纸匠 Paper effigy crafting is a business of the yin world. Of the many trades, the seventh refers to making paper effigies. My master said our line of paper effigy makers suffers from the Five Banes and Three Deficiencies, and is steeped in bad luck. We can forget about marrying and having children. If a female ghost starts haunting us, that's practically a blessing from our ancestors! “So that's why you told me to marry a paper effigy?” I looked at the paper figure lying beside me and felt a chill r 132Reads—Score—Shelves
- 34 The Yin Master of the Living World 阳间葬阴师 I am Shen Xu, born under an ill-starred fate. On the day I was born, ghosts swarmed around me, and I barely survived my first twelve years. The day before I turned twelve, my grandfather used a living corpse hidden in a coffin to conceal my fate, while a nine-lived black cat upset the balance of yin and yang. He put my coffin on a little cart and sent it to the Xuanqing Temple on Mount Taiqing. From that day on, I set out on an uncanny and unpredictable path through the esoteric arts... 374Reads8.9Score100Shelves
- 35 After Graduation, I Became a Corpse Retriever, and Zhou Jie Exposed Me 毕业后当捞尸人，被周姐曝光了 With graduation just around the corner, Lin Yu's girlfriend breaks up with him over the harsh realities of life. Just then, Lin Yu activates the Corpse Retriever System and prepares to start recovering bodies. Some expert: No boat can sail on the River of the Dead. Some authority: No one can identify the corpses in the River of the Dead. Some veteran corpse retriever: Anyone who retrieves corpses from the River of the Dead dies within a year. Yet Lin Yu rows his little boat along the River o 37Reads—Score—Shelves
- 36 Fengdu Affairs Office 酆都事务所 [First-person manhunt and mystery-solving + no System + no transmigration + traditional supernatural fantasy] The King of Hell, ruler of the Fifth Hall of the underworld, opened an agency in the human world to hunt down evil ghosts, wicked beasts, and demons that had escaped into the land of the living. My name is Fu Ming, an orphan born with the Five Deficiencies and Three Shortcomings. By a twist of fate, I interviewed at a company called the Fengdu Agency. Who would have thought that I would 4Reads8.2Score—Shelves
- 37 The Gates of Hell 鬼门关 Synopsis: When people die, they enter the Yellow Springs and cross the Gates of the Underworld. People know of the Road to the Yellow Springs, but not the Gates of the Underworld. The Gates are where the dead are reborn and the living return to the mortal world. But no one knows where the Gates of the Underworld are, not even the Bodhisattvas of the Underworld. They may be a person, or an object... 912Reads8.7Score—Shelves
- 38 The Way of Heaven: Feng Shui Master, I Control the Universe 天道门，风水神师，乾坤由我执掌 The lotus scorched by hellfire is the birthmark on my back. The sins of my past life were too great, and in this life I'm fated to die young. To stay alive, I descend the mountain in search of a way, only to find eighty-one coffins and an underworld wedding waiting for me. A coin hung from a mountain, a cup of water holding the world in check. A demon fetus in a human belly, a woman in a bottle, the witchcraft of Luonan, eight or nine layers of coffins, the underworld's watery halls, a golden co 260Reads7.2Score—Shelves
- 39 Strange Tales of the Corpse Retrievers 捞尸诡闻 My grandfather was a corpse retriever. When he died, the waters of the river churned all night. In a single night, every chicken in the village died... 16Reads5.3Score—Shelves
- 40 Tales of the Strange in China 神州异事录 Ever since I was young, I’ve experienced all sorts of strange things beyond ordinary people’s wildest imagination. In particular, these eyes of mine can see the dead and all manner of yin entities… Now that I’m old, I have plenty of free time, so I’ve decided to look back on the things I’ve experienced. If life were a piece of music, I’d say it’s like the suona. Of all the instruments, the suona reigns supreme: it either sends you to heaven or plays at your wedding. Everyone gets to live a life 166Reads—Score—Shelves
- 41 The Corpse Stitcher 缝尸匠 Soul-binding nails, threads of karma, green lamps and white candles, a bone-carving knife. When the dead person’s lamp goes out, bury them intact. The living must keep away! 10Reads—Score—Shelves
- 42 Eerie Corpse Retrieval: Beating Up a Thousand-Year-Old Water Ghost from the Start 诡异捞尸：开局暴打千年水鬼 As everyone knows, corpse retrieval has three rules: 1. Don’t retrieve bodies during thunderstorms. 2. Don’t retrieve bodies floating upright. 3. If you can’t retrieve a body after three tries, give up! No matter how much the client offers, corpse retrievers refuse to enter the water if any of these three situations arise! Before retrieving a body, they also perform all kinds of warding-off rituals and offerings. If anything seems amiss, they won’t enter the water either! These are precious less 15Reads—Score—Shelves
- 43 A Blind Date Turns into a Ghost Marriage: I Turn the Tables and Livestream the Corpse-Carrying Groom 相亲变冥婚：我反手直播赶尸新郎 [Metaphysics + horror + juicy gossip + comedy + complete] Lin Qingjiu, the disowned daughter of a wealthy family, is schemed against by her relatives and forced into a ghost marriage. Lying in the coffin beside her ghost groom, whose face is deathly pale yet stunningly beautiful, she smiles. Thanks, buddy, for the fresh corpse! She immediately turns around and livestreams herself escorting the groom’s corpse, bringing the whole internet along to feast on the juicy gossip. She exposes the weal 32Reads6.5Score—Shelves
- 44 Watch Out, There's a Ghost 小心有鬼 If you’ve just started this book and aren’t sure whether it’s worth reading, try chapters 32 and 33 first. If you enjoy them, you can dive into the whole story with confidence. This is the first book in the series. It isn’t very long, but it consists of many entertaining standalone stories and is well worth a read. The author’s subtle, in-depth writing draws readers right into the world of the book. Every character’s personality and every event’s distinct details come vividly to life between the 44Reads—Score—Shelves
- 45 From the Start, I Scared a Ghost to Death 开局吓死一只鬼 Su Lang unexpectedly obtains the “Prank System” and scares a female ghost half to death from the start. Once a low-key man, he is now forced down the path of pranking ghosts and showing off! A suspenseful, spine-chilling tale, filled with bizarre legends that will leave you amazed. Unlock divine weapons and gadgets, and turn the ghost world upside down. Su Lang says: “I just want to keep a low profile. I really don't want to prank ghosts!” 14Reads8.5Score—Shelves
- 46 The Underworld Returns: The Truth Is Out, I'm the Boss of the Underworld 地府重临：摊牌了，我是地府老大 Look this way: the entire Underworld is my turf! Jiang Ziya has his Demon-Beating Whip, and I’ve got my Ghost-Beating Club. I don’t care who you are! I can summon an army of a hundred thousand Yin soldiers in seconds and trample you flat! In short, this is the face-slapping story of a young man who died suddenly after an all-nighter and transmigrated to a world overrun by monsters and demons, bringing with him the profound traditions of China’s Underworld. 3Reads6.0Score—Shelves
- 47 From the Start as a Little Demon? I Smash the Hall of King Yama to Defy Fate 开局成小妖？怒砸阎王殿逆天改命 A mildly terrifying journey through branching timelines. Are you ready? “Inside the bridal shop, the once-cozy pink walls began to writhe. Plump mold worms wriggled out through the cracks, one after another. The clerk's smile never changed. It was like a frozen mask, sending chills down your spine. She reached out to grab me. ‘Let... me... help you... shed... your skin.’” [CULT + branching timelines + mild horror + no saintly protagonist + slow start + supernatural + dreamcore + SAN loss + inf —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 48 It's Not My Fault I Can See Ghosts 我能见鬼不是我的错 A girl who can see ghosts saves a little ghost with a drop of blood from her fingertip, and her life is turned upside down from that moment on. Ghosts appear in droves to test the limits of your nerves, jolting every dormant sense awake! Eerie, thrilling, and full of mysteries... Leng Yuhan sobs: “It's not my fault that I can see ghosts. Could every disaster really be because of my jinxed tongue?” 43Reads7.2Score—Shelves
- 49 Even Ghosts Get a System 鬼也会有系统 Ghosts and monsters are divided into different ranks according to how they came into being and the strength of their abilities. The lowest rank is “Wandering Spirits.” They are usually formed from people who died with deep resentment, and their powers are weak. They can only frighten people by causing minor supernatural phenomena, such as making lights flicker or producing strange sounds. The next rank is “Vengeful Ghosts.” These spirits often died violent deaths and harbor profound resentment. 1Reads—Score—Shelves
- 50 Records of Yin-Yang Mysteries 阴阳异闻录 The newly dead have their brows painted and faces made up; those long dead have their skin painted and bones carved. The people around you may not be human, and the stories you've heard for years may be more than just stories. 440Reads8.4Score—Shelves
