Novels like The Yin-Yang Inn
Books Chinese readers most often put in the same booklists as The Yin-Yang Inn, best match first.
- 51 The Eerie Spirit 诡灵 My name is Yu Fei, and I'm a yin-yang master. There are things all around us that we can't see, and some of them can be deadly. In our line of work, we call these places ghost zones. My story begins in a ghost zone... 62Reads—Score—Shelves
- 52 The Midnight Hearse 午夜灵车 I was just a taxi driver, until an accident dragged me into a war that had nothing to do with me. A woman in red walking the streets at midnight, a mother and child who hanged themselves and now haunt the living... An underground laboratory, the origins of a mysterious organization... 468Reads7.2Score100Shelves
- 53 I Just Became a Taoist Temple Priest, and Dai Xiaomei Came to Ask Me to Exorcise a Ghost 刚成道观观主，呆小妹就找我捉鬼 376Reads6.2Score—Shelves
- 54 Call Me the Great Emperor of Fengdu 请叫我，酆都大帝 An underworld bailiff and a ghostly merchant, with the humor of an underworld bailiff at the heart of it. The protagonist was an ordinary high school student, but on his eighteenth birthday, he uncovered the mystery of his origins and was forced to become a City God’s underworld bailiff. He runs himself ragged to save his girlfriend. Even when the underworld rebels, he has to lend a hand. Have you ever seen Ox-Head and Horse-Face with an arm around a woman each at a business club? Have you ever 459Reads6.6Score—Shelves
- 55 A Taoist Priest’s Guide to Exorcising Evil in the City 道士之都市驱邪 29Reads—Score—Shelves
- 56 Give Me a Billion: The Underworld's Son of Heaven Sees You Off at Your Funeral 给我十亿：葬礼阴天子为你送行 If you're willing to pay ten thousand yuan, I'll give you a funeral fit for a king! A license-free Hongqi sedan. An old man with white hair and a face full of hardship. Thirty men in black, wearing sunglasses, watching in silence! Every guest will wonder whether you had a mysterious and terrifying past. If you're willing to pay ten billion yuan! The sun will set for you! The stars will shine for you! The gods of every realm will chant sutras in your honor! A thousand immortals will fly here on t 8Reads6.6Score—Shelves
- 57 Tales of Yin and Yang Ghosts 阴阳鬼记 A Yin-Yang notebook lets me travel between the worlds of the living and the dead. A single Yin-Yang petition can make even the Judge of the Underworld yield. I have a Yin-Yang notebook filled with such petitions. My name is Ximen Rong, and my fellow practitioners call me Little Ghost. The ghosts all call me Young Master. This is my notebook, the most powerful weapon my master left me. He said only someone with the strongest spiritual intuition was worthy of reading it. But when I opened the note 15Reads8.5Score—Shelves
- 58 The Underworld's Sales Rep 地府带货人 He was born under a twin-virgin curse, destined to be widowed, lonely, and die young. But an unexpected visitor set him on a road of no return… 56Reads6.2Score—Shelves
- 59 The Living Must Keep Away: The Underworld Chef 活人回避：冥厨 “Kill ninety-nine, then stop!” My grandfather was the last executioner in history. He beheaded hundreds of people in his lifetime and was burdened by countless sins. To atone for them, my father opened a restaurant for the living and the dead, cooking for the living by day and the dead by night. Nine-Thread Corpse Cake, Grasshopper-Skin Juice, Blood-Fried Rotten Flesh, Crispy-Bone Human Soup... If I make it and you refuse to eat, my ghost-head executioner's blade will strike down evil men above 130Reads—Score—Shelves
- 60 Spiritual Qi Revival: From the Start, I Activate the Sacrifice System 灵气复苏:开局激活献祭系统 [Old Gentleman + Absurd Comedy + Mischievous and Criminal + High-Martial-Arts System] In a world of spiritual qi revival, Chang Yi loses all his awakened power because of the school's negligence. The school not only refuses to compensate him, but demands compensation from him instead. Just then, a System arrives. Sacrifice an awakened foreign race member and your awakening instantly reaches 100%. You can also gain foreign race talents or improve martial arts and cultivation techniques through sa 74Reads8.2Score—Shelves
- 61 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. 35Reads—Score—Shelves
- 62 The Corpse Keeper of Western Hunan 湘西守尸人 One misguided decision by an ancestor created three hundred years of sin: Nine generations gave their lives to seal it away, atoning for the sins of a single lifetime. With no elders to lean on and no branches of the clan to help, the family dwindled in numbers, their lives cut short. In every generation, the men were fated to die before turning fifty. Each generation put off having children as long as possible, trying to spare their little ones the agony of losing a parent. And in every generat —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 63 I'm Broke, Why Should I Be Afraid of Ghosts? 我穷鬼，岂会怕鬼？ [Goofy] [Funny] [Irreverent] [Mystery] [Supernatural] [Hop in] [No System] [A fish that slipped through nine years of compulsory education] Wang Ling landed a job paying 18,000 yuan a month as a security guard at a private hospital. On his first day, he was left completely stunned! Each floor of the hospital's inpatient wing had a special passage enshrining one of the underworld's yin deities. The morgue even had butcher's knives inexplicably lying around. Wang Ling put up with all of that. Then 4Reads—Score—Shelves
- 64 Night Watchman: Tales from the Underworld 打更人之走阴夜话 People bear five poisons and seven emotions, eight sufferings and nine calamities. Good and evil, life and death, cause and effect, the cycle of reincarnation. Ghosts become human, humans turn into demons, and nothing ever ends. When day and night blur and humans mingle with ghosts, night watchmen walk the world. A Soul-Calming Hammer and a Spirit-Soothing Gong suppress wicked thoughts and demons, and lay good-hearted souls to rest. Their ceaseless passage through the world bears witness to the 463Reads8.2Score—Shelves
- 65 Yin-Yang Embroidery: I’m the Last Tattoo Artist 阴阳绣：我是最后一个刺青师 My name is Zhou Yiyang. You probably won't believe this, but I make my living tattooing people, though what I do is nothing like ordinary tattooing. My tattoos come in two kinds: yin embroidery and yang patterns. They can change a person's fate and fortune, and help them avoid misfortune and find good luck. I'm a yin-yang tattoo artist, and I feed myself a bag of salt. 43Reads—Score—Shelves
- 66 The Underworld Patrolman 阳间巡阴人 Other babies are born crying, weeping over the hardships of the mortal world. He was born laughing, laughing hysterically. Born with demon eyes, burdened by the Five Afflictions and Three Deficiencies, his yin lifespan longer than his yang lifespan. A living person's soul in a dead person's fate: isn't he a natural spirit walker?~ The Ghost King Zhong Kui begs to be his master, while the King of Hell fights to be his godfather. What a background, tsk tsk~ Come meet Li Mufeng, the spirit walker, 71Reads—Score—Shelves
- 67 The Daily Life of a Mystic Cultivator 玄门修士的日常 Hard, hard, hard: the mysteries of the Dao. Seeking immortality, divining the future... What does it truly mean to cultivate the Dao? Refining qi through inner alchemy, or cultivating both body and spirit? What is the true gateway to the Dao? The daily life of a mystic cultivator. 31Reads—Score—Shelves
- 68 The Dragon Raises the Coffin 龙抬棺 There is an ancient stone stele in Qinglong Mountain. Its inscription reads: “The living must not enter; the dead must not be buried.” The local county records state that during the Hongwu era of the Great Ming, a coffin pulled by nine dragons descended from the heavens and landed on Qinglong Mountain. And I am the child of the person in that coffin. 408Reads9.0Score—Shelves
- 69 Stay Away, Spirits 阴人勿扰 Someone dug up our family grave and put the newlywed daughter-in-law who’d just died in their family in there. My uncle told me to go get her out in the middle of the night... 496Reads7.1Score—Shelves
- 70 I Graduated on a Whim, Secretly Became a Corpse Driver, and Got Livestreamed 任性毕业，偷摸做了赶尸匠还被人直播了 Lin Xu unexpectedly awakens the Corpse-Driving System. A terrible student, he decides to head to western Hunan and drive corpses. On the train, Lin Xu gets a call from his homeroom teacher: “Lin Xu, we're taking graduation photos today! Hurry over and make yourself a nice memory from your senior year!” Lin Xu: “Teacher, I'm on a train to western Hunan right now! I'll have to miss the graduation photos.” Homeroom teacher: “Western Hunan? What are you going there for?” Lin Xu: “To drive corpses, o 135Reads—Score—Shelves
- 71 I Became a Pallbearer After Graduation, and Dai Xiaomei Exposed Me 毕业做抬棺匠，被呆小妹曝光了 Graduation day. Parents, relatives, classmates, and teachers ask Feng Chuqi: “Have you found a job?” Feng Chuqi: “I have. No 996, and I work when I want. When I don't, I take the day off.” Parents, relatives, classmates, and teachers: “What?” “Thump, thump.” Feng Chuqi taps the coffin behind him. “Ghosts are carrying a coffin. Living people, stand aside.” Parents, relatives, classmates, and teachers: “Holy crap, coffin bearers really exist?” Feng Chuqi: “Of course not. Believe in science, everyo 156Reads5.4Score—Shelves
- 72 The Evil-Suppressing Man of the Living World 阳间镇邪人 The world is formed from the union of Heaven and Earth. Where there is righteousness, there is evil; where there is yang, there must be yin. This world is full of the strange and the terrifying, and I am part of the strange. My name is Xiao Xie. My grandfather once said that on the day I was born, I tore a vicious asura ghost apart with my bare hands... 1.7kReads7.5Score111Shelves
- 73 Stranded in a Supernatural World, I Have No Choice but to Summon a God to Fight for Me 身处灵异世界，我只好请神代打了 Li Changfeng has just transmigrated when a life-taking ghost latches onto him. No big deal. Toss it into the merit box and let Buddha duke it out with him. What? There are no temples or Taoist shrines?! Don’t panic. No big deal... Wait, this is a huge problem!!! “Ding! The Merit-for-Hire System has been bound. You pay merit, and I’ll call in someone to fight for you...” Li Changfeng: [Clear skies above, sacred earth below, I burn incense and call upon Master Lin. With a peachwood sword, he slays 112Reads5.4Score—Shelves
- 74 Heir to Mount Longhu: Zhang the Celestial Master of the Streets 龙虎山传人：市井张天师 He looks like a rough-and-tumble man, with a sharp tongue, a soft heart, and a penchant for snark. He's also an heir to profound Taoist arts. His peachwood sword slays evil spirits, and his Heavenly Master's seal suppresses dark forces. A vivid and engaging supernatural novel. 111Reads—Score—Shelves
- 75 Underworld Bailiff: You Told Me to Break Up a Fight, and I Got Sentenced to the Eighteenth Level of Hell 鬼差：让你劝架，判我十八层地狱 [Grim Reaper + livestreaming + law education + Underworld = ?] Also known as The Outlaw: They Actually Accused Me of Violent Law Enforcement and Law-Education Livestream: I Speak for the Underworld Zhong Xu’s soul transmigrates into Blue Star, where he unexpectedly awakens the Spooky Law-Education Livestream System! Teach the laws of the Underworld, and grow stronger! Zhong Xu comes across two evil spirits fighting in the mortal world, and his viewers urge him to break it up! Zhong Xu delivers t 2Reads—Score—Shelves
- 76 The Strange Taoist 怪道士 My name is Niu Dabao, and I’m the only college graduate in Niu Village. I thought that after graduating, I’d get promoted, earn a higher salary, marry a beautiful, wealthy woman, and reach the pinnacle of life. Who could have guessed the company would go bankrupt and the boss would kill himself? I didn’t get a single cent of my wages, and I couldn’t even afford rent, so I slept at the train station every day! A shabbily dressed Taoist priest told me I was plagued by bad luck and haunted by a hun 1.9kReads8.4Score136Shelves
- 77 The Bureau of Foreign Affairs' Strange Tales 外事局诡闻录 All the petty affairs of the world are interactions between people. Whether good or bad, they belong to the realm of internal affairs. Anything beyond ordinary human life, anything ordinary people cannot accept, belongs to external affairs. That is the meaning behind the name of the External Affairs Bureau. Skin-Human Ravine, the Five Barbarians' Ghost Cave, a thousand corpses vying to steal fortune, a mother and daughter possessed by yin spirits, a ghostly yang infant... I experienced all kinds 3.3kReads8.6Score262Shelves
- 78 Maoshan Ghostcraft: The Corpse Path 茅山鬼道之尸道 Human hearts are terrifying, and the supernatural is impossible to fathom. The arts of Maoshan rise again, as do the Maoshan sect, Mount Longhu, the ghost path, the demon realm, the ghost realm, and the corpse realm. Every step brings a new fright, with twists and turns at every corner. All manner of demons and evils emerge, and thrilling battles unfold one after another. The clash between good and evil will keep you on the edge of your seat... 299Reads6.5Score—Shelves
- 79 I Was Livestreamed Driving Corpses, So I Took the Streamer as My Disciple! 赶尸被直播，我收主播为徒！ Beneath the moonlight, Xia Yu emerged from the mountains, shaking a soul-summoning bell as he drove seven corpses before him. The eerie ringing, the stiff corpses, the mysterious yellow talismans, the birds startled into flight. New streamer Hei Xiaopang happened to witness the scene. Excited, he stopped the corpse-driving procession. “You must be a professional livestreaming team! Look at those actors, look at those props! I want you to take me on as your apprentice!” Xia Yu looked with satisfa —Reads7.3Score—Shelves
- 80 The Corpse Retriever 捞尸人 Rivers, lakes, and seas, teeming with countless things. Beneath the waves lie countless wronged souls, unable to pass on. Only one kind of person can enter the water and guide the dead onward. They are called corpse divers. 1.1kReads—Score100Shelves
- 81 The Midnight Beauty I Brew into a Potion 深夜艳女，都会被我熬进药罐中 Those old folk remedies are a scam? Chinese medicine is useless? Ye Xuan sneered inwardly. “You’re just missing one medicinal ingredient.” No one knew that every alluring woman who appeared late at night would end up simmering in his medicine pot... A funny urban paranormal power fantasy. If you laugh yourself to death, you’ll be the next medicinal ingredient... 3Reads—Score—Shelves
- 82 Soul Funeral Director 灵魂殡葬师 My name is Zeng Yao. Yao, as in “beautiful as jade.” I have no father or mother. They say my mother died in childbirth, and no one knows who my father was. My uncle, Old Lei, brought me home. My uncle had an unusual profession: he was an undertaker. He beautified and applied makeup to the dead, then handled their cremation and everything else. Like father, like son, they say, but although I wasn’t my uncle’s child, he made me learn all those things from a young age. But I didn’t like it. I eve 476Reads8.7Score100Shelves
- 83 The Spirit Chaser 赶阴人 Read the stars and moon, and declare life and death with ironclad certainty. A man on the margins of the human world, he sets right the injustices of the underworld. My new book, The City's Strongest Immortal Son-in-Law, is out now. I humbly ask for your support! 450Reads7.1Score—Shelves
- 84 You Said You Were a Fake Celestial Master, So Why Do Female Ghosts Run When They See You? 说好假天师，为啥女鬼见你就跑？ In the class group chat, Jiang He’s identity as the sixty-sixth-generation Celestial Master of Longhu Mountain was exposed. But Jiang He had spent years studying Taoism under his grandfather and didn’t know a single spell, so he came clean and admitted he was a fake Celestial Master. When his classmates’ construction site was haunted, they invited Jiang He to perform a ritual. He thought he’d just have to go through the motions, but as soon as he began the ceremony, a woman in red appeared! “Din 4Reads9.5Score—Shelves
- 85 The Deadly Yin-Yang Master 绝命阴阳师 I was born extraordinary. To stop me from being born, Heaven and Earth battled across the void. Half the masters of the feng shui world perished, dying with resentment in the northwest. In the end, only my father could restrain the Nine Dragons Taiji Diagram on my body by giving up his practice. To change my fate, my father arranged several betrothals for me within the feng shui world. Who knew this would only mark the beginning of calamity for the feng shui world... 448Reads8.5Score101Shelves
- 86 After the College Entrance Exams, I Became a Corpse Herder, Exposed by the Campus Goddess 高考后当赶尸人，被校花女神曝光 After the college entrance exams, the campus belle suggested that everyone take a trip to western Hunan and visit her childhood sweetheart. When they arrived at a village in western Hunan, they found a gloomy, mysterious old mansion standing there. The locals stayed well away from it. Campus Belle: Village chief, this old mansion has been abandoned for so long. Why doesn't anyone live there? Village Chief: Miss, don't ask so many questions. Hurry up and leave, or someone might die! Campus Belle: 2Reads6.4Score—Shelves
- 87 Horror Returns: My God-Tier Paper Effigy Maker Brings the Imaginary to Life 恐怖复苏，我神级扎纸匠化虚为实 Zhang Ling is reborn before the resurgence of horror and inherits the coffin shop left behind by his adoptive father. He never expected the ghost bride to keep haunting him, but luckily, he awakens the God-Tier Paper Effigy Craftsman System. Anything he crafts from paper can become real. A vengeful ghost? Watch me craft a Celestial Master Zhong Kui to subdue evil and protect the righteous! A monster? The Great Sage is here to keep me safe! Craft a mansion, and you instantly own a thousand acres 1Reads5.9Score—Shelves
- 88 A Bowl of Meng Po's Soup 一碗孟婆汤 Among strange spirits and monsters, dangers abound. Break bones to uncover secrets and seek the path to immortality. Lin Zemin’s grandmother was a famous village doctor throughout the surrounding countryside. She could not only cure illnesses, but also read the signs. The medicines she used were all folk remedies. They might not have seemed orthodox, but they always worked. Lin Zemin was born late in his parents’ lives, and after his birth, his grandmother declared that he was destined to bear a 115Reads9.0Score—Shelves
- 89 The Age of the Gods: I Rule the Underworld 神祇时代：我执掌地府 This is a realm of high-ranking gods. Deities rule the entire world. Chen Xuan transmigrates to the God Realm with a Super Underworld System. He summons Ox-Head and Horse-Face, Black and White Impermanence, the Ten Yama Kings, the Five Ghost Emperors... And takes on every deity in the God Realm alone. I rule the Underworld! The entire God Realm will one day grovel at my feet! 47Reads8.0Score—Shelves
- 90 It Lies at the Bottom of the Abyss 祂在深渊之底 [You have been selected to enter the Abyssal Corridor. Rules-based horror has arrived, and terror is now part of everyday life.] Lin Mo, a criminal profiler, is dragged into the Abyssal Corridor, an endless realm of terror. Here, every horror instance is born from the resentment of those who died unjustly, and the rules determine life and death. While others tremble under the pursuit of monsters, Lin Mo opens his eyes: the Abyssal Eyes, which can see through the source of fear. The rules of Bloo —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 91 The Northeast Paranormal Investigator 东北灵异先生 Fangshi, spirit mediums, exorcists: these professions are famous, but their abilities are limited. There is one calling that stands above them all: its practitioners are known as paranormal masters. My name is Huo Jie. When I was nine, I encountered a vengeful spirit and nearly died of fright. To survive, I became a paranormal master! From then on, I roamed between the worlds of yin and yang, wielded the art of feng shui, and guided ghosts and gods through their trials! 230Reads8.5Score—Shelves
- 92 I Play the Suona to Send Ghosts Off 我吹着唢呐，为鬼送葬 Demons and monsters have appeared in the world, the bizarre has returned, and humans and ghosts now coexist. The old order has been shattered. “Nurse! Is counting up to 456 for ghosts considered a mental illness?” The Flower-Picking Ghost: “I’m reporting you! Your patient escaped! He brought three burly men and pinned us down in a room! Then he played ‘Chrysanthemums Blooming Across the Mountain’ on our butts!” The Crazy Little Ghost: “That was so babyish! He even ambushed me! Then he made me do 11Reads8.0Score—Shelves
- 93 Possessed by an Evil Spirit 撞邪 Grandpa spent his whole life doing good deeds. He never imagined that one night, he would ruin a young girl's life... 306Reads8.4Score—Shelves
- 94 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.) 422Reads6.9Score—Shelves
- 95 My Yin-Yang Teahouse 我有一间阴阳茶馆 When the dead come knocking, my work begins. Behind every death lies a story. I will tell these untold stories, one by one... My name is Xia Xingchen. I can see ghosts. I help the souls who come seeking the light embark on their final journey. As I help them find redemption, I am also searching for the truth... 34Reads7.3Score—Shelves
- 96 Unlicensed Celestial Master: Selling Talismans at a Street Stall from the Start 无证天师，开局地摊卖符箓 (Supernatural thrills and comedy early on, wish fulfillment, then Primordial Chaos later) The world is overrun with strange phenomena. After transmigrating here, Zhang Chen unexpectedly gains a Celestial Master System. He thought he was finally on his way to the top, but it turned out Celestial Masters in this world had to pass exams. Full of confidence, Zhang Chen went to take the test, only to fail at the very first hurdle: the written exam. With no other choice, he set up a street stall, but 41Reads6.2Score—Shelves
- 97 I Took Leave to Go Home and Deal with a Corpse, but My Beautiful Boss Insisted on Coming Along 请假回家赶尸，美女上司非要一起 Fu Long, who had left Raojiang, was eating braised chicken rice in the Magic City CBD when he suddenly got a call from the head of his village: "The corpse-driving contest starts soon. Last year, you didn't come back, and we lost to the neighboring village by five cows, two pigs, and more than a dozen chickens. If you dare not come back this year, I'll livestream myself tearing down your house!" 86Reads—Score—Shelves
- 98 The Maoshan Taoist 茅山道士 There are many things in this world that are unknown to most people. Five hundred years ago, hordes of ghosts and monsters roamed near the Kunlun Mountains. They fed on the spiritual qi generated by the Kunlun Dragon Vein and grew powerful enough to wreak havoc on the human world. For reasons unknown, the Nine Hells shattered, leaving the souls of humans and other living beings with nowhere to go after death. They gathered at the Kunlun Mountains, where they absorbed the spiritual qi of heaven a 20Reads7.5Score—Shelves
- 99 I Came Down the Mountain as a Corpse Driver and Scared My Online Girlfriend Silly 赶尸下山，我把网恋对象吓傻了 His shima told Zhang Hao to take his marriage contract and go down the mountain to meet his beautiful fiancée. Then the woman he'd been dating online for seven years sent him a message. Liu Shishi: "Let's break up. I don't want to keep staring at my phone." Zhang Hao: "I'm coming down the mountain." "Then... let's meet in person." "Let's meet in person tomorrow night. Don't keep me waiting." Liu Shishi brought her twin sister and showed up at the designated spot as promised. A young man 1Reads7.8Score—Shelves
- 100 Destiny Has Me Guarding Souls at the Funeral Home 天命，让我在殡仪馆做守魂人 [No System, no angst, modern urban fantasy] Have you ever visited a mass grave in the dead of night? Have you ever been to a crematorium after midnight? When the body is shed, does a soul truly remain? Can the soul rest in peace? Is there a guardian of souls in the place where they rest? Guardians of souls are bound by destiny! Guardians of souls serve the living, but their mission lies with the dead! —Reads—Score—Shelves
