Novels like The Yin-Yang Scissors
Books Chinese readers most often put in the same booklists as The Yin-Yang Scissors, best match first.
- 101 The Night-Sealed Door 夜封门 Seven months pregnant, the woman was brutally hounded to death, and her seven-month-old baby was thrown into a well. Her wronged soul is cut off from the road ahead, and evil spirits come to claim their due. The gates of hell swing open, and the underworld seals its doors in the dead of night. 2kReads8.3Score159Shelves
- 102 I Have a Mysterious Cemetery 我有一座神秘墓园 (I've been on the front lines of the pandemic, so updates have been suspended for a while. I'm sorry.) As spiritual qi revives, evil spirit incidents break out everywhere: Demons commit murder, Ghost Buddha, the Origin Virus, Strange Threads, terrifying puppets... Yet science is the end point of every mystery. This is where the dead find rest. It is forbidden ground for the living, and it is also a treasure trove. Chen Shu is a fallen genius with a terrifying demon imprisoned inside his body, so 1.6kReads7.7Score213Shelves
- 103 My Years Slaying Demons at the Vegetable Market 我在菜市口斩妖除魔那些年 Li Changsheng woke up to find himself an executioner at the vegetable market in the Great Ming Dynasty! As demons ran rampant across the eight-hundred-year-old Ming Dynasty and heaven and earth underwent a tremendous upheaval, he discovered that executing death-row prisoners earned him all kinds of rewards! Qi-reading, qi cultivation, divination, death substitution, paper effigy creation, concealment, face-changing, puppetry, medicine, mechanical arts... Across tens of thousands of years and the 1.4kReads7.1Score120Shelves
- 104 Tomb Raiding: I Became a Corpse-Driving Master 盗墓：我成了赶尸匠 Ye Yun discovers that he has been chosen by the Corpse-Driving System. He starts out at an ancestral hall in western Hunan, travels through one world after another, and wins great renown for the corpse-driving tradition. “The six-winged centipede in western Hunan? I already killed it, and now its corpse is my mount!” “I’ve already opened the Bronze Gate. The ultimate secret is about to be revealed.” “These nine dragon corpses, and that bronze coffin: once I claim them, I should become even stron 23Reads7.7Score—Shelves
- 105 Zombie World: Starting with a Maxed-Out Golden Light Spell 僵尸世界之开局满级金光咒 He transmigrates into the zombie-ridden world of Lin Zhengying. From the start, he draws a max-level Golden Light Mantra. The max-level Golden Light Mantra is incredibly powerful: it can conjure countless sword auras to slay ghosts and gods, and forge a body as tough as steel that no magic can penetrate. A god-tier gacha System containing everything under heaven. “Ding! Congratulations, you’ve drawn a divine skill: Fenghou Qimen!” “Ding! Congratulations, you’ve drawn a magical treasure: Taiyi Ho 173Reads6.3Score122Shelves
- 106 The Double Fiend 子母双煞 The Mother-and-Child Fiends —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 107 The Yin-Yang Exorcist 阴阳摸诡人 I have two mothers, and neither of them is alive. The moment I was born, a heavenly dog swallowed the moon, blood rained from the sky, every beast bowed its head, and ghosts wailed... 812Reads8.7Score101Shelves
- 108 Forbidden in the Mortal World 人间禁忌 When rules are twisted and order corrupted, when the Three Realms become a chessboard and all living beings its pieces, there will always be pioneers who raise their sickles and question the immortals, gods, and Buddhas enthroned above. Then they overturned the board, pulled down the beings who stood high above, and built a new board from scratch. And so, I appeared. 1.3kReads8.7Score109Shelves
- 109 I Couldn't Afford College, So I Inherited My Grandpa's Underworld 没钱上大学的我，继承了爷爷的地府 Ghostly energy returns, and evil spirits rule the land! Chen Qing transmigrates into this world, studies hard, and hopes knowledge will change his fate. But just when he finally gets into a top university, his grandfather tells him the family has run out of money. With no other choice, he has to inherit the family business. Who would have thought that the family business his grandfather mentioned was an underworld government? Left with no choice, he gradually unseals the underworld. He oversees 643Reads8.1Score102Shelves
- 110 The Yin-Yang Cheat 阴阳挂 “Have you ever had your fortune told? The kind where you die after the reading. “I tell fortunes for a living. I don’t get many customers, but they’re all normal people. “Then that man showed up. After that, my customers were either about to die or already dead. “A dismembered female ghost chased me for a thread. A toothless male ghost chased me to buy teeth. A billionaire insisted on keeping a ghost, and an ugly woman wanted to change her fate. “An urn that suddenly appeared on my bed, a vase t 130Reads9.1Score102Shelves
- 111 Haunted Taoist Temple: I Only Hunt the Most Ominous Things 恐怖道观：我只抓大凶之物 “My good apprentice, you've completed your training. You may leave the mountain now.” “Rest assured, Master. Once I descend the mountain, I will vanquish demons and exorcise evil, restoring the glory of our Daoist tradition!” “To temper your character, I have a small test for you.” “I won't let you down, Master!” “Excellent. There's a young woman down the mountain. Go marry her!” “What?!” … 3.3kReads8.9Score354Shelves
- 112 Strange Demons at the Teahouse: Tales of a Hundred Flavors 茶肆异妖，百味诡谈 [Mysticism + Satisfying Read + Supernatural + Strange Tales] The Many-Flavored Teahouse in Liuyi Lane is mysterious and uncanny. It only serves tea at night. What’s brewed is fragrant tea; what’s savored is the human heart. The proprietress, Liu Xu’er, and her young sidekick, Qing Cen, hunt ghosts, subdue demons, and catch evildoers. Their only focus is building their business. But one moment of bad judgment leads them to take on a job for an unlucky man. He’s been set up, and one misfortune aft 12Reads—Score—Shelves
- 113 Playing the Old Celestial Master, I Scare Off the Black and White Impermanence from the Start 扮演老天师，开局吓退黑白无常 The supernatural world awakens, and ghosts roam the night. Zhang Chen inherited a feng shui and fortune-telling shop. He spent his days reading fortunes and checking feng shui for clients, getting by well enough. But he never expected that one day he’d be haunted by a vengeful ghost. Fortunately, the System awakened, and from the start he was playing the role of the sixty-fifth-generation Celestial Master of Mount Longhu! His reward: the Golden Light Divine Spell! “Ding! Role-play proficiency in 1.7kReads8.2Score111Shelves
- 114 My Midnight Livestream Room 我的午夜直播间 An unconventional livestream. A turning point in fate. Welcome to the Midnight Livestream. Here you'll find not only expedition streams unlike anything you've ever seen, but also a place where souls are kept in captivity, beyond anything you could imagine. 1.3kReads8.2Score113Shelves
- 115 The Fated Divine Seer 天命神相 This world began from nothing. It all started at the very beginning! As Laozi said: “The Dao gives birth to one, one gives birth to two, two gives birth to three, and three gives birth to all things!” From the moment I was named Jiang Yi, my fate was already sealed! Especially after I used my family’s ancestral fortune-telling art to read a classmate’s fortune on my eighteenth birthday. It completely changed the way I saw the world... 25.4kReads8.4Score2.3kShelves
- 116 A New Life for an Obsession 执念新生 By day, he is a math teacher who keeps everyone at arm’s length; by night, he becomes an exorcist who punishes vengeful spirits. Gifted yet constantly in danger, he carries on until he meets her. She is clever and sweet, thoughtful and understanding, and willing to accompany him on the path to redemption. Along the way, she also fulfills the wish she has always held dear. Their love is a mutual choice, and neither of them ever backs down. With so many dear friends by their side, the senior and j 385Reads8.8Score—Shelves
- 117 Tales of the Shangqing Sect 上清宗往事 After accidentally stumbling into the Four Fiends Soul-Suppressing Formation, he finds his life ticking down to its end in seven years. He joins the Daoist sect in pursuit of immortality, grows stronger as he encounters zombies, ghosts, demons, and monsters, travels the human world and seeks out hidden realms, slays demons and monsters to prove the Dao, and searches through the Six Paths of Reincarnation for true immortality. Only today does he finally realize who he truly is. 5.9kReads8.8Score563Shelves
- 118 The Patriarch of Taoism 道家祖师 As the old saying goes, one person shouldn’t enter a temple, and two people shouldn’t peer into a well. One rainy night, I went into a ruined temple all by myself. —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 119 The Midnight Spirit Shop 深夜灵店 I'm neither a yin-yang master nor an exorcist, but I do have an unusual left eye. I run a shop that opens only at midnight, serving customers who have run into special troubles. A little shop, a cup of tea for a guest, and so my story begins... 1.8kReads8.6Score194Shelves
- 120 The Demon Taoist Breaks Through the Underworld Pass 妖道破阴关 (Supernatural horror, feng shui and geomancy, warding off evil and misfortune, one heroine) My parents used forbidden magic to conceive me, but on the day I was born, my strange appearance frightened them away... My third uncle raised me in a cage. I barely managed to grow up on borrowed yin virtue and incense offerings... On my eighteenth birthday, I was buried alive in the ancestral graveyard. She saved me... but she wasn’t human... 5.5kReads9.1Score496Shelves
- 121 The Heavenly Coffin Comes to Town: Living Must Keep Away 天棺出巡，活人回避 The year Jiangnan suffered a terrible drought, a coffin was dredged up from the river. From that day on, torrential winds and rain battered the region for a month. Floodwaters surged, swallowing countless towns and cities. I was ten that year. More than a dozen red Hongqi cars with Beijing plates, along with rows of luxury cars, arrived in our little town. I don’t know how many important people knelt outside my home, begging my grandfather to stop the floods... [Folk customs, feng shui. A coffin 8.6kReads8.8Score792Shelves
- 122 My Pale Life 我苍白的一生 My name is Zhang Yuan, though my childhood nickname was Ergou. I'm male, born in 1990. Everyone encounters all kinds of strange, inexplicable things in life. By the way, do you believe in ghosts? 473Reads8.4Score101Shelves
- 123 The Six-Fingered Forensic Doctor 六指法医 Heaven’s justice shines bright; the wronged shall be cleared of their names. Lin Ran, heir to a family of coroners and a top student at a forensic medicine college. Guided by his family’s eight-character ancestral motto and armed with a remarkable ability, Lin Ran joins the police force to clear the names of countless dead. Along the way, he embarks on one terrifying investigation after another. “The dead can’t speak, but their bodies can tell me who the killer is!” The world has lost a doctor, 3.3kReads8.4Score372Shelves
- 124 The Supreme Taoist: Peerless Daoist Master 道门太上：绝世道长 Clad in a Daoist robe, I walk among the people, driving out every evil under heaven... Humans, ghosts, demons, monsters, gods, immortals, and strange beings: no matter how many I eliminate, I cannot purge the evil thoughts in my heart. Meet kindness with kindness, meet evil and become a demon. The arts of the Daoist tradition shall be the strongest! (Not an invincible protagonist story. Read with caution. No female lead!) 99Reads7.0Score—Shelves
- 125 The Cursed Girl with a Doomed Fate 诡命煞女 Ever since I was little, I was a child my mother hated. Born with an overwhelming concentration of the Seven Sha, I made every demon and monster flee at the sight of me. It wasn’t until I was twelve that I learned the truth: my birth had been part of a massive conspiracy... 10.2kReads9.2Score1.1kShelves
- 126 As the Supernatural Returns Worldwide, I Cultivate Immortality Alone 全球诡异复苏，我一人修仙 [Supernatural Resurgence, Survival, The Only Cultivator, Invincible] When Lin Zhu opened his eyes, he found himself in a world of corruption and filth. The nine layers of the ghost domain devoured everything, while all living beings struggled in despair to survive among the evil spirits of hell. Life was wiped out, and the mortal world became a prison. Then a stick of spirit incense was lit in a forbidden zone for the living. Within the ghost domain, the Scripture of Salvation from the Supreme 2.1kReads7.9Score134Shelves
- 127 I Asked You to Read the Feng Shui, Not Dig Up Their Ancestral Grave! 让你看风水，你刨人家祖坟？ Also known as "The Folk Feng Shui Secrets". [Supernatural + Feng Shui Master + Unmatched Skills + No System + No Saintly Hero] An old man dies full of resentment and is buried in a dangerously inauspicious ancestral grave. Disasters strike one after another on the day of the burial. Wang Nan, a yin-yang master, spots the problem and immediately tells the descendants to dig up the ancestral grave and choose a new feng shui site for a deep burial, only to discover that this was all part of a plot 317Reads8.9Score100Shelves
- 128 Tales of the Supernatural 灵异怪谈 Yin-yang masters are fated to suffer the Five Evils and Three Deficiencies. Is there any way to escape their fate? A life-and-death romance with a bloodthirsty vampire zombie! After desperately searching for the Strange Records of Yin and Yang, he discovers it is all part of an even bigger conspiracy! The Mausoleum of Qin Shi Huang, bloodthirsty vampire zombies, an inn in the underworld, an ancient Warring States tomb, and the Strange Records of Yin and Yang all feature in Strange Tales of the S 1.6kReads8.8Score137Shelves
- 129 The Midnight Mantou Shop 午夜馒头铺 Have you ever noticed that some breakfast shops serve food that's delicious most of the time, but for a couple of days each month, it suddenly tastes dry and is hard to swallow? Have you ever wondered if perhaps that breakfast food was never meant for people to eat...? 384Reads7.4Score—Shelves
- 130 Ghost Catcher of the Underworld 阴司鬼差 The ninety-nine ghost officials appointed by Qin Shi Huang have passed their positions down through the generations. Somehow, this generation’s post has come down to me. This isn’t myth or legend. It’s all real, and it’s happening right now... 646Reads6.2Score—Shelves
- 131 The Heavenly Master of Reverse Fortune 逆运天师 [Originally titled The Reversed-Fate Celestial Master and Those Years of Helping Ghosts Harm People] [Multiple Female Leads] [Supernatural Evil Cultivation] [Controlling Paper Dolls, Consecrating Yin Compasses, Refining Copper-Coin Ghost Treasures, Making Corpse Puppets, Raising Ghosts, Practicing Yin Fiend Arts] [Cultivation Ranks: New Ghost - High-Grade Ghost - Yin Soldier (Yin Soldier Ghost Path) - Ghost King (Ghost King Evil Path) - Ghost General (Netherworld Ghost General) - Great Demon - F 2.5kReads8.1Score206Shelves
- 132 I'm Xie, a Yin-Yang Guide, Not a Taoist Priest 阴阳开路人谢邀，不是道士 I've seen too many lonely spirits trapped in corners, unable to move on, and too many people hell-bent on harming others. Sometimes I can't tell whether I'm imagining it in the throes of a psychotic episode or witnessing something real. The truth is far darker than fiction. “Absurd” is the only word for it. 17Reads—Score—Shelves
- 133 The Yin and Yang of the Mist 迷雾阴阳 The Municipal Public Security Bureau's Special Cases Investigation Division, or Special Investigations Division for short, specializes in supernatural incidents that defy rational explanation. Shen Yanzhi, an officer in the division who is calm, rational, and skilled in talismans and spells, meets Lin Mo, a descendant of a family of yin-yang masters whose bloodline can suppress evil forces and whose gentle nature conceals a stubborn streak, while investigating a case. Together, they gradually un 33Reads—Score—Shelves
- 134 What, You Used Ghost Money to Restart the Mythic Age? 什么，你用冥币重启了神话 [Slow-burn start, fiery later on] [Golden finger] [Invincible protagonist] [Supernatural Revival] [One heroine] Everyone says money makes the world go round. Zhang Xuanling believed that wholeheartedly when he was delivering takeout. Then one day, ghosts and gods suddenly appeared before him, and he could no longer believe it. But when he learned the truth about how he had restarted mythology with ghost money, he believed again: money can make ghosts work for you, and it can even reach the gods! 9Reads—Score—Shelves
- 135 The Unlucky Heavenly Master Walks the Mortal World 冤种天师走人间 The Maoshan Celestial Master holds yin and yang in check, slays ghosts, banishes demons, and dispels ill omens. A three-foot peachwood sword, a stick of incense for virtue! My fate is unusual: I court death but never die, so my master took me in as a disciple and taught me the secret arts of Maoshan. After descending the mountain, I met a beautiful older girl I knew as a child, and she led me down a road of no return. A beauty in an ice coffin, a snow-mountain witch, a fox spirit beneath the moo 729Reads7.4Score101Shelves
- 136 The Yin-Yang Shop's Grim Reaper 阴阳店之鬼差 "There is a shop tucked away on a street corner. It has no name, and every nightfall, all sorts of people can be seen coming and going. A tycoon worth hundreds of millions, a madman begging on the street, a gambler with one arm... Here, you can see human nature stripped bare. A wife pawned for money, a zombie who went into hiding in the mountains for love, a ghost imprisoned by the living... The human heart is endlessly varied, and the world is full of every kind of life. Nothing is impossible. 471Reads9.2Score105Shelves
- 137 My Wife Is an Untransformable Corpse 我老婆是不化骨 Jianghu + the Eight Outer Sects + spirit mediums + corpse herders + witchcraft and poison arts + traditional martial arts In the jianghu of Huaxia, men are ruthless and women alluring. To save me, my grandmother made me share a bed with a thousand-year-old female corpse. I never expected that one day, the corpse would come to life. 48.4kReads8.7Score6.2kShelves
- 138 Paper Effigy Maker: From the Start, I Summoned a Hundred Ghosts! 扎纸匠：开局扎出百鬼夜行！ Su Changsheng transmigrates to Blue Star, where horror is on the rise, inherits a funeral shop, and obtains a divine paper effigy System. With only an illustrated guide, Su Changsheng can craft the corresponding ghosts and gods of the underworld. Craft ghost soldiers and ghost generals: a procession of a hundred ghosts, ghost troops crossing the land! Craft Black and White Impermanence: seize souls and punish evil spirits! Craft the Ten Great Judges: distinguish good from evil and decide who liv 8Reads8.3Score—Shelves
- 139 The Yin-Yang Sect Leader 阴阳掌门人 Corpse retrievers have three rules about bodies they must never retrieve. For the sake of a hundred thousand yuan, my father and I broke all three. As we were pulling a woman's corpse from the water, she suddenly opened her eyes. From then on, she wouldn't leave me alone… 7.7kReads8.6Score739Shelves
- 140 The Underworld Bureau of the Yellow Springs 黄泉阴司 When I was a kid, I went to the back hill of the village to play and pick up human bones. There I stumbled upon a ghost opera and nearly lost my life. Luckily, a green snake saved me, but the snake also began a strange, shadowy romance. Ghost operas, spirit summoning, yellow-skin spirits' yin graves, peachwood seals against evil: the bizarre folk customs of southern Guizhou and chilling, uncanny tales of the worlds of yin and yang are coming your way. Warning: Not for the faint of heart!!! 5.8kReads8.4Score586Shelves
- 141 Jiangshi: A Wandering Taoist in Uncle Jiu’s World 僵尸：在九叔世界做游方道人 [Coming-of-age + comedy + mild horror + satisfying + scheming + decisive and ruthless] After transmigrating into Uncle Jiu's world, Gu Feng had no idea what was going on when he unexpectedly encountered his first zombie. Thanks to all the Uncle Jiu movies he'd watched, Gu Feng put his long-preserved virginity to use. As the zombie approached, Gu Feng grinned, holding a handful of virgin boy's urine. “Heh heh heh, little zombie, heh heh!” After binding himself to the “Wonderful Sign-in System,” c 9.3kReads7.0Score514Shelves
- 142 I Own a Longevity Temple 我有一座长生观 I have a Longevity Temple, where one person and one temple keep an entire prison suppressed! But Li Changsheng is in a hurry. Before dying, his master somehow managed to rack up a huge debt. If he doesn't pay it back soon, even the Longevity Temple will be repossessed! Fortunately, the temple suppresses many great demons: a seductive bride ghost, a bewitchingly beautiful six-tailed fox demon, a hulking tiger demon... To pay off the debt as quickly as possible, Li Changsheng has no choice but to 12.6kReads8.4Score1.2kShelves
- 143 Reviewing Horror Movies on Livestream, and It Turns Out It's All Real? 直播点评鬼片，竟然一切都是真的？ Jiang Yuan wakes up after a night of heavy drinking and discovers that he’s joined the wave of transmigrators, ended up in another world, inherited a shop, and awakened a System! But what gives him a headache is that he awakened a supernatural System! And yet! Just as he’s fretting over it while watching a livestream, his System unexpectedly awakens! With his System awakened, Jiang Yuan becomes a keyboard warrior who pontificates about the world, giving live advice on how to deal with zombies! B 312Reads5.2Score144Shelves
- 144 Taoist Priest, Help Me Exorcise a Ghost! 道长！帮忙驱鬼 All things have yin and yang; the seasons turn four times a year, and ghosts and monsters roam the world. Tang Ning only wanted to run the Psychic Pavilion, sell little trinkets, and live an easygoing life as a happy-go-lucky slacker. She never expected the colorful parade of customers and friends coming and going to make her life so complicated. A haunted old mansion shrouded in gloom, children whose souls have been switched, evil masters who keep wicked ghosts... All kinds of bizarre incide 435Reads8.8Score—Shelves
- 145 A Feng Shui Master with a Bachelor's Degree, Class of 2000 00后本科风水师 [The rating has just come out and will rise later. Updates are steady, so you can read with confidence, friends!] [Small-town supernatural tales + true experiences + folk legends + ensemble cast + thrilling adventures] I'm Fang Kai, a feng shui practitioner with a bachelor's degree, born in the 2000s. I never dreamed that after graduating from college, I'd end up on the path of catching ghosts. Think ghost-catching is all about fighting and killing? Wrong. It's just as much about dealing with pe 5.1kReads8.6Score377Shelves
- 146 Strange Tales from the Bureau: The Final Chapter 民调局异闻录之最终篇章 A strange past, a mysterious department, an eccentric white-haired man, and a fat man who can see through everything: the final chapter in the history of the Folk Affairs Investigation and Research Bureau. 16.6kReads9.3Score1.8kShelves
- 147 I Came from the Yellow Springs 我来自黄泉 At the border between yin and yang, at the mouth of the Yellow Springs, the living guard the Thirteen Ghost Gates. The prison governor, the jailers, and the Brocade-Robed Marquis; at the post station for the dead, a mountain dog keeps watch. The door gods, the water nymph, the Confucius Temple; red lanterns and white funeral banners circle the streets. This ghost ballad, missing one line, conceals a world-shaking secret. I was a child my grandfather stole from the Yellow Springs, so before I was 16.7kReads9.0Score1.8kShelves
- 148 Kunlun Gatekeeper: Ten Thousand Ghosts at My Back 昆仑守门人：我背后有万鬼 There's a long-standing rumor about the Capital Museum: though it's crowded with visitors by day, the palace is thick with yin energy after midnight. Palace maids carrying lanterns, eunuchs bearing sedan chairs, and guards in yellow robes stroll openly through its halls. For a hundred years, three generations of the Chen family have guarded the Capital Museum, suppressing evil spirits and the Three Fiends and Five Afflictions, and keeping the palace secure on all eight sides so peace can reign. 6.3kReads8.9Score493Shelves
- 149 Suppressing Yin and Yang 镇阴阳 [Supernatural The Underworld Comedy No female lead Not human] I used to think I was just an ordinary person. But on the day I was born, Yama sent a child into the world, ten thousand ghosts entered my body, and every ghost within a hundred miles hid in fear. The Underworld’s gods of the dead avoided me like the plague. In this life, I shall command yin and yang and tread the cycle of reincarnation. I only hope this song of sorrow ends in splendor… 4.1kReads9.0Score377Shelves
- 150 Nine Dragons Hauling a Coffin 九龙拉棺 The day my grandfather died, all living things on Mount Kunlun paid their respects. Dark clouds churned as nine dragons pulled an emerald divine coffin down from the heavens... People said: When an immortal passes into meditation, heavenly thunder welcomes them back to their place in the celestial court; When nine dragons pull a coffin, a divine coffin buries an immortal's body. 4.5kReads7.9Score404Shelves
