Novels like Calculating the Heavens
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- 1 After Clearing the Dungeon, I Was Struck from the Family Tree 通关副本后我被逐出族谱 When I accidentally returned to that night ten years ago, I witnessed the bizarre massacre of my village and my mother's brutal death all over again. It turned out that my mother had sealed away my memories and supernatural abilities to protect me. The nine blank years were restored. This time, I'll use my own strength to take revenge! After personally killing the supernatural creature responsible, I escaped my prison. As the survival instances meant for ordinary people become mere tools, the ma 1Reads—Score—Shelves
- 2 Apocalypse: This Daoist Has Made It! 末世：道爷我成了！ [Apocalypse + Slow-Burn Pace + Special Abilities + Growth...] Modern science shattered Li Dao's dream of cultivating immortality; then zombies appeared and shattered modern science. The dream he couldn't attain in his youth has now appeared before him in another form. “Hahaha! Master Dao! Your Dao is finally within reach!” “Dare to block my path to the Dao? Then you have chosen the path to your death!” (The blurb doesn't do it justice. Please read the story.) 1Reads5.8Score—Shelves
- 3 Grandpa's Ghost-Hunting Tales 爷爷的抓鬼往事 The older generation always had plenty of taboos. They would rather chat about anything else than talk about ghosts and spirits, for fear of inviting trouble and shortening their lives. This was all the more true in the rural villages of western Gansu, where the elderly held such beliefs as sacred rules, engraved in their bones and woven into their every word and deed. When my grandfather was young, he crossed between the worlds of yin and yang and subdued evil spirits. No one in the surrounding 3Reads—Score—Shelves
- 4 The Taoist Master of the Funeral Home 殡仪馆的天师 A Celestial Master’s legacy? No thanks. Slaying demons and exorcising evil? Not interested. Lin Yue lands a government job at a funeral home, using the Three-Flavored True Fire to cremate bodies and Five Thunder Talismans to keep the place under control. His boss praises his efficiency, while evil spirits curse him for fighting dirty. The whole city is haunted? Don’t worry. Master Lin from the funeral home will come right to your door. Overtime costs extra. 23Reads—Score—Shelves
- 5 The Nightmare Tomb 魇冢 “No System + Not Mindless + Not a Power Fantasy + Not Invincible + No Harem + Infinite Flow + Mild Horror + Mystery + Plot-Driven” Cheng Mo’s girlfriend, Ye Yunqi, disappears after attending a funeral. That night, the elderly neighbor who had just been buried knocks on Cheng Mo’s door. From that day on, Cheng Mo is chosen by the Nightmare Realm and trapped in eerie instance worlds. Yet inside one of them, he finds a letter his girlfriend left behind in advance: Never turn your back on a 24Reads7.1Score—Shelves
- 6 Imprisoned 入狱 [Light Horror] [Infinite Flow] [Survival] [Original Instances] [Mystery and Twists] [No Female Lead] A sinister apartment building lays a curse on one group of people after another. None of them ever return. At regular intervals, they must return to a place called “Public Prison,” take the elevator to a terrifying world, and resolve a supernatural incident… Qin Xiu is unexpectedly chosen after nearly being wrongfully killed. He may have escaped death once, but trouble is surely waiting for 13Reads8.0Score—Shelves
- 7 The House Immortal Affairs Office 家仙办事处 Chen Ping'an, a graduate student in folklore, has never believed in ghosts or gods. That is, until he inherited his old family home and caught a fox spirit sitting on his sofa in the middle of the night, playing Honor of Kings. Then it tossed him an employment contract from the “Household Spirits Affairs Office.” From then on, his materialist worldview completely fell apart: Huang Xian works as a delivery driver, gathering intelligence. Bai Xian runs a traditional Chinese medicine clinic and sec 3Reads—Score—Shelves
- 8 Chronicles of the Ashen Earth 烬土录 You can try it, but I wouldn’t recommend it. The book was signed too early, so I can’t change the title anymore. It can only be called Records of the Ashen Earth now. I originally wanted to change it to The Mountain Keeper: I Slay Demons with My Sharp Tongue. Synopsis Deep in the Qinling Mountains lies a town called Ashen Earth, where generations have served as mountain keepers. I, Chen Nian, had kept watch for seventeen years, but on the day the peachwood tablet shattered, my entire clan tre 1Reads—Score—Shelves
- 9 Weeping Evil 哭邪 People watch over a temple for ten years; the temple watches over them for a lifetime. 114Reads6.9Score—Shelves
- 10 On a Moonless Night, the Ghosts Make You Walk in Circles 月黑头鬼打墙 Li Mo was once an ordinary man, until a car accident took his wife and turned him into a “neutrino key.” The strange Ω-7 mark on his chest grants him access to the underlying code of reality. Imprisoned by the mysterious “Foundation,” he navigates between cold-eyed watchers, uncanny “Shadow Dancers,” and ancient “Gravekeepers.” He glimpses what lies beyond the veil: the “Weavers” making a tragic sacrifice, the terrifying whispers of the “Deep-Sea Shadow,” and the revelation that the world is a f 3.4kReads7.6Score—Shelves
- 11 Heir to the Spirit Medium 通灵师传人 Supernatural + ghost marriage + strong female lead power fantasy + horror stories + mystery. There are ghosts in every heart. Have you ever seen anything more terrifying than a ghost? It's not about walking a dark road too often and running into an evil spirit. The deadliest thing isn't knowing that it's a ghost. It's the utterly dark heart hidden beneath that perfect face. Shh... Don't make a sound. She's right behind you. Run. Don't look back. The story is even more terrifying than you ca 20Reads—Score—Shelves
- 12 The Rebirth Shop: I Handle Paranormal Cases at the Funeral Home 往生铺：我在殡仪馆处理灵异事件 My name is Chen Yang, and I run a funeral shop called Passing On in the outskirts of the city. By day, I sell wreaths and make paper effigies. My business is with the dead. At midnight, I burn incense and light candles, dealing with the “unclean things” that the living would rather avoid. 350Reads—Score—Shelves
- 13 One Cursed Letter, and I'm in the Eighteenth Layer of the Ghost Realm? 一封诅咒信，我入诡界十八层？ [Horror + Survival + Infinite Flow + Plot-Heavy + Three Updates a Day + No Fighting Monsters to Level Up + Original Horror Instances] They say that when a white letter mysteriously arrives in your hands, a curse has attached itself to you… Rotting books, an empty bus, a door seeping blood… In bizarre ways, a group of unsuspecting people who receive letters are sent to one eerie world after another. They are called Curse-Bearers, and in the eldritch realm, they must endure their own curses. No 1.3kReads6.4Score111Shelves
- 14 The Man Buried Upside Down 倒着埋的人 The Man Buried Upside Down 7Reads—Score—Shelves
- 15 A Lottery Whiz Goes Undercover, Catching Crooks and Making Money 彩票高手当卧底，既抓坏人又赚钱 He’s an informant. You know what an informant is? Someone who provides the police with information. He roams the underworld and is no slouch in a fight, but to outsiders, he seems like an ordinary guy. He can predict lottery numbers and get into brawls. He can drive all kinds of vehicles, often makes little mistakes, and is frequently hauled into the local police station. But his true identity remains a mystery... 1.8kReads9.2Score324Shelves
- 16 Miss, Wait Up, Little Taoist 女施主：小道长留步 Witty and humorous + grounded in reality and rich in metaphor + ghost hunting and the supernatural A Taoist priest descends the mountain + an utterly doting big brother + a collection of short stories + long-term foreshadowing + guiding souls to the afterlife In 2026, I hunt ghosts and guide souls in the city. Only later did I realize that human hearts are far scarier than ghosts. I have just two kinds of clients: the living and the dead. The living pay me to solve their problems. The dead pay w 26Reads—Score—Shelves
- 17 The Strange Records of Xuanling 玄翎诡录 [Synopsis] [Chinese-Style Horror + Rule-Breaking + Ghost-Tormenting Face-Slapping + Ascension to Immortality + Episodic Story + 1v1 Sweet Romance + Past and Present Lives] Li Lingxi, the top student and campus beauty of Yaoxing University, looks pure and delicate, yet she is the only person who can see another world. The blood-red dormitory curtain that moves without a breeze in the dead of night, the stiff smiles of paper-doll vendors at the old street’s ghost market, the faint sobbing from the 6Reads—Score—Shelves
- 18 Please Don't Give the Dead a Name 请不要替死者取名 Zhou Jin is on night duty in the morgue when a body arrives in freezer nine, registered one minute before it was brought in. The dead man has no facial features, no fingerprints to identify him, and yet the name written on his form is… Zhou Jin. After daybreak, one strange thing after another begins to happen. The security system no longer recognizes him. His coworkers gradually forget what to call him, and even his mother can no longer remember her son’s name. Yet every day at mealtimes, she 3Reads—Score—Shelves
- 19 The Secret Notes of a Feng Shui Master 风水师秘记 My grandfather left me a handwritten ancient manuscript. When I turned eighteen, a dream of mine shook the entire world of feng shui... Liu Bowen severing dragon veins, feng shui guiding a celestial dragon, paper figures controlling one's fortune, plum-blossom tattoos, the dead seeking justice... Everyone knew Yang Qingtian was a legend, but no one knew that I was him! 3.8kReads8.2Score397Shelves
- 20 Supernatural: My Years Hunting Ghosts at Bureau 749 灵异：我在749局打鬼那些年 The appearance of a white coffin and a red coffin at the construction site changed my fate. That night, I saw corpses that could move and a ghost that could steal a person's soul. They were all "deceiving" me, trying to make me die. What should I do... When you think the person behind you is a ghost, the real ghost may be the one standing in front of you... Once it's dark... don't read this!! 211Reads—Score—Shelves
- 21 Rule Horror: Every Rule Is Waiting for Me to Break It 规则怪谈：所有规则都在等我违规 Rule Horror: Every Rule Is Waiting for Me to Break It 2Reads—Score—Shelves
- 22 Livestream Fortune-Telling: Three Readings a Day Somehow Earn Me Boundless Merit 直播算命：一天三卦竟功德无量了 [No Female Lead] [Lighthearted] [Everyday Life] “My name is Su Fan, and I'm a short-lived guy.” He's died twice, and both times he failed to live past twenty. In his third life, Su Fan is struck by a Livestream Fortune-Telling System. A replica of the Book of Life and Death? Take it! Ghost Eyes? Take them! A specialty of the Underworld, the Three-Life Stone? Take it!!! On his first day fortune-telling, Su Fan says, “Want to make up with your wife after a cold war? Brother, take a look at who's i 4.7kReads9.1Score625Shelves
- 23 Nightmare Subway 噩梦地铁 (The rating has only just opened and will rise later.) [Infinite Flow + Survival + No Saintly Heroine] A driverless subway train carries a group of cursed passengers toward unknown, terrifying stations… A subway card is proof of survival, and a ticket to Hell. At each subway station, Jiang Fengye faces one terrifying instance after another, each a brush with death. The starving corpses in the basement; The crawling sounds in the abandoned tunnel; The skinning monster in the old castle; … "The 18.1kReads7.0Score1.9kShelves
- 24 Strange Yin-Yang Tales: A Half-Immortal’s Records 阴阳诡事：半仙诡录 [This is no ordinary supernatural story. It’s all about horror and suspense: no mindless power fantasy, just yin-yang taboos, the Grinning Fiend, the Ghost Bride’s Gown, eerie shadows in an ancient mansion, and the Mandarin Duck Pendant. If it’s not good, you can break my legs!!] There’s no shortage of bizarre happenings between the worlds of yin and yang. The Grinning Fiend: what unknowable resentment lies behind that sinister face? The thousand-year-old fox: what cunning schemes hide beneath h 1.2kReads—Score—Shelves
- 25 One Goal: Stay Alive 唯一目标：活着 (Survival + high intelligence + deduction + no saintly protagonist + mild horror. Read with caution if you’re sensitive to these elements.) A stream of fire pierced the atmosphere and struck the ground. In an instant, the world was plunged into chaotic darkness, and the buildings of civilization people had once taken pride in became lifeless ruins. Yet among the ruins, one building alone remained standing, like a watchtower surveying all the darkness. Beneath the apocalypse, strange phenomena we 6Reads—Score—Shelves
- 26 Belly City 腹城 [Thriller, Cthulhu Mythos, mystery, supernatural powers, System, loops, horror, apocalypse, unraveling secrets, no romance] The rating has just been posted, but it will rise later. In the flawless “Sweet Community,” every fear and suspicion Nuxin feels is gently “corrected” by the System. Until he discovers that his playmate A Dai’s “move” was an elaborate lie; until, beneath the old school building in the dead of night, he meets Mo Li, the girl who warns him to “run.” Black cars glide soundl 16Reads8.7Score—Shelves
- 27 The Deadly Taboos of Horror 惊悚死人禁忌 [Definitely not ordinary paranormal fiction. Focused on horror and suspense, not mindless wish fulfillment. Folk tales of the supernatural, ghost babies. If you don’t like it after reading, feel free to criticize it.] A mountain village shrouded in mystery is beset by one strange incident after another. A coffin that cannot be lifted at a funeral, children mysteriously drowning, and the question of why a water ghost has appeared. What truth lies behind the deaths? A baby’s anguished cries ring o 154Reads—Score—Shelves
- 28 Netherworld Emperor: It All Begins with a Blood Coffin! 幽冥大帝：从血棺开始！ Mystery and the supernatural + horror + mind-bending deduction + wild imagination + Sichuan-Chongqing flavor After a flood, a blood-red coffin drifts down the river into our village... A strange song, eerie bloody handprints, a headless corpse, and somehow, I become the Great Emperor of the Netherworld... An accident reveals the secret of the Nine Fiends Blood Coffin and a grand scheme laid by the Great Emperor of the Netherworld. It all begins with the blood coffin, and everything will ultimate 683Reads—Score—Shelves
- 29 Anomaly Survival Guide 异常求生指南 [The Backrooms X rules-based horror X Cthulhu Mythos X infinite flow X wild imagination] No System, no leveling up, no harem. This handbook is designed to help you deal with all kinds of anomalies. We hope every investigator will survive and provide us with more useful data. Because of the existence of the gods, most life in the universe is subtly influenced by the rulers scattered throughout the galaxy. As the universe grew ever more prosperous, the rulers’ psychic projections created a space 59Reads—Score—Shelves
- 30 Department of Paranormal Investigations II 神秘事件调查处【贰】 The X-Files Investigation Bureau, Part Two “That's a dragon!” “No, there are no dragons. That's a kite, that's a black plastic bag, that's a bird soaring through a storm. You've read Haiyan, haven't you? Exactly.” In 1968, our country established Institute 507, whose full name was the Institute of Space Medicine and Engineering. Later, as more and more supernatural events were discovered, the institute began handling certain cases. In September 1974, some departments of Institute 507 were split 6.4kReads8.8Score569Shelves
- 31 A Dragon's Son, Carried in a Ghost's Coffin 龙生子，鬼抬棺 My name is Ding Lin, and I was born covered in dragon scales. The villagers said my mother wasn’t human. When she died, a hundred ghosts carried her coffin, and the River Earl wept at her funeral. My mother said I was the child of a dragon, born extraordinary, blessed by a hundred ghosts and immune to every taboo... 5.2kReads8.8Score522Shelves
- 32 Ghost Corpse Refining, Bearer of a Deadly Fate 鬼炼尸，背命人 Song Yuanqing is a former soldier. After leaving the military, he turned down a government-assigned job and chose instead to become an adventure tour guide. Because of the dangers of the profession, people like him are also called “edgewalkers,” meaning they are always walking on the brink of death. In just a few short years, Song Yuanqing has guided clients through the Amazon rainforest and into Lop Nur, the “Sea of Death.” He has also traversed the Bewitched Marsh of Wawu Mountain, known as th 2.2kReads9.3Score227Shelves
- 33 Lord of the Spirit Realm: From the Start, Bound to a Horror Short-Drama System 灵境主宰：开局绑定恐怖短剧系统 [Soul Transmigration to the Modern World + Cultivation Expert + Unhinged CEO + Demon-Fallen Buddhist Monk + Horror Short-Drama Instances + Yandere Villain + Love Rival Showdown] Li Xinghua, a Mahayana cultivator, was ambushed by a Buddhist monk who had fallen to the demonic path. Her soul transmigrated to the modern world, where she became a freshman at Huaqing University who had died from staying up too late. Stripped of her cultivation and stranded in an unfamiliar world with scarce spiritual 3Reads—Score—Shelves
- 34 Old Wei’s Supernatural Stories 老魏讲灵异故事 [Traditional Supernatural Tales] [Chinese-Style Horror] [Based on True Stories] [Reader Submissions] [Chilling on Second Thought] [Bizarre Tales] [Beyond the Realm of Science] [Plain, Simple Writing] [Just Stories] These stories were collected from various places by the author, then adapted and fictionalized, so no sources are listed. They’re all kinds of little ghost stories to listen to before bed: straightforward and easy to follow, perfect for unwinding and relieving stress. To keep reader 1.4kReads9.4Score213Shelves
- 35 My Job at the Horror Radio Station 我在恐怖电台任职这件事儿 [Folklore] [Supernatural] [Short Story] [No Superpowers] [No Rule-Based Horror] [Not a Wish-Fulfillment Story] [Not for the Faint of Heart] The author is working hard to make a living. 23Reads—Score—Shelves
- 36 The Scarlet Fountain Pen 血色钢笔 The Blood-Red Fountain Pen —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 37 Fifth Watch 五更 The stories my grandpa used to tell me were probably meant to scare me into staying put, or maybe to lull me to sleep. He always told them with such conviction and vivid detail that I often found myself dreaming of the very scenes he had lived through. I met the old flower-growing woman on Yinshan Mountain, and one villager after another from Sangen Village. Their faces were gloomy and strange, and their deeds served as a warning, reminding us that “the gods are watching from three feet above yo 728Reads7.2Score100Shelves
- 38 The Soul-Summoning Lantern 招魂灯 The Soul-Summoning Lantern 21Reads—Score—Shelves
- 39 The Double Fiend 子母双煞 The Mother-and-Child Fiends —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 40 Carrying the Living and the Dead 载人也载鬼 After losing his job, the protagonist plans to buy a car and drive for a rideshare service. Instead, he ends up buying a Soul-Ring Car and helps a female ghost solve the mystery of her death. He then becomes a rideshare driver who transports ghosts. 11.3kReads8.4Score767Shelves
- 41 They Said Being a Traffic Cop Was Useless, but I Awakened a Daily Intelligence System 嫌我交警没用，可我觉醒每日情报 Deep devotion goes unappreciated, while the halfhearted are always remembered. Gao Ze thought that giving his girlfriend everything and offering her his sincere love would lead to a happy ending. Instead, she looked down on him for being a useless traffic cop and for offering too little in bride price, then forced him into a breakup. After the breakup, Gao Ze was lucky enough to awaken the Daily Intelligence System. [1. Your girlfriend, Liu Yating, has passed the Donghai City Finance Bureau exam 14.7kReads8.4Score1.6kShelves
- 42 The Coffin Debt 棺债 [Infinite-flow + Mild Horror + Survival + One Female Lead] At midnight, a bronze bell rings, luring seven living corpses into a funeral home that never closes... A black coffin carved with human faces hangs in the morgue. Every seven days, it drags them into the underworld: Sing a death song for ghosts in a hanging-corpse theater, Ferry ninety-nine corpses across the Yellow Springs crossing, Bury your own grave in an evil temple teeming with razor-toothed horrors... When Jiang Hui clutches the n —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 43 Maoshan's Strange Immortal: The Ghost-Realm Yama 茅山异仙之鬼道阎罗 [Rural Maoshan Taoism] [Taoist Arts] [Cultivation] [Overwhelming Victories All the Way] [One Female Lead] I was born a stillborn. My grandfather borrowed my life for me. He said I was born from death, destined to become a king of the underworld. Taoists respectfully call me “Peng the Immortal,” while ghosts, demons, and monsters know me as the Ghostly Yama! Weasel: Do I look like a human or a god to you? Me: You look like the Celestial Worthy of Universal Transformation of Thunder of the Nine He 8.5kReads7.6Score660Shelves
- 44 Infinite Nightmares: I Have a Pair of Ghost Ears 无限噩梦：我有一对鬼耳 [Infinite Flow], [Mild Horror], [No Female Lead], [Survive by the Skin of Your Teeth], [Unconventional Turtle Soup Riddles], [Nontraditional Rule-Based Horror], [Not a Wish-Fulfillment Story, Not Invincible] [Slow-paced, packed with details, and full of complex plot twists!] [Read at your own risk if that's not your thing!!!] I sat on a deserted street in the dead of night, listening to them whisper. I was a little confused. Wasn't I the only one here? (Instance 1: Prolonging Life) A bit lon 27kReads7.9Score3.3kShelves
- 45 Edict of the Mystic Eye 玄瞳敕令 [Chinese-Style Horror + Urban Cultivation + Livestream Fame + Ghost-Tormenting Face-Slapping + No Romance + “Easygoing Girl” + Episodic Story] My family runs a shop called the Worry-Free Pavilion, but our business deals with the realms of the living and the dead. One day, after delivering some clothes, I took a shortcut and stepped onto a long street where dawn would never come. A ghost wedding palanquin passed by, and ghosts roamed the night. I blended in, hoping to get home without drawing att 12Reads—Score—Shelves
- 46 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
- 47 Hush! It's Here 嘘！它来了 Stray cats appear on campus, awakening a curse of murder sealed away for fifty years. Long ago, cats protected the school by killing rats, but when their numbers grew too large, they were burned alive. Their resentment coalesced into a nine-lived shadow cat. It uses humans to wreak havoc, draining the vitality of the living in a blood sacrifice to avenge its burning. Strange incidents, gruesome deaths, vengeful spirits demanding lives night after night: the only way to survive is to destroy all 182Reads—Score—Shelves
- 48 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
- 49 Rule Horror: Don't Look Back During 72 Hours in the Dorm 规则怪谈：宿舍72小时不要回头 A word of warning: this is terrifying, so timid readers beware. (No female lead, no cheats, no romance, game instances, infinite flow, horror, mystery) Eight university students who returned to campus early found a mysterious sheet of rules in their empty dormitory building: Rule One: No matter what strange “person” you see, don’t cry out or scream. Rule Two: No matter who calls you from behind, don’t turn around or answer. Rule Three: One of you is an impostor who will eat people in the middle 4.6kReads6.0Score386Shelves
- 50 My Years in the Funeral Business 我干殡葬的那些年 People light candles, ghosts blow out the lamps. The dead return at midnight, corpses rise in funeral halls, and ancient relics lie buried for thousands of years. In my years working in the funeral business, I’ve encountered plenty of strange and uncanny things. The living walk the roads of the living world, and the dead walk the roads of the underworld. But sometimes, not everyone on the underworld’s roads is a ghost, and not everyone on the living world’s roads is human… 51.2kReads9.2Score5.1kShelves
