Novels like Forbidden Secrets of the Yellow Springs
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- 151 The Icy Campus Belle Wants a Ghost Marriage? This Celestial Master Is Just the Man for the Job 高冷校花下冥婚？本天师专业对口 [Mystery] [Supernatural] [Horror] [Decisive and Ruthless] [School Beauty] [Invincible] Zhang Jiuxiao, a Celestial Master in a purple robe, perished in a mutual destruction with a fierce ghost one moment, only to be reborn as an ordinary senior high school student the next. After a previous life of bloodshed and turmoil, he considers it the greatest blessing to live an ordinary, peaceful life this time around. That is, until his cool and aloof school beauty deskmate turns deathly pale and tremble 857Reads—Score16314d adds
- 152 Death on Delivery 死亡外卖 Never try to save money when ordering takeout! After ordering a meal that wasn't clean, strange events keep happening, and his coworkers begin dying one by one. Some takeout costs you money. Some takeout costs you your life. My other completed novel, The Hell Company, is over a million words long. Come check it out, dear readers~~ 2.4kReads8.7Score22614d adds
- 153 The Forbidden Island of Human Nature 人性禁岛 I couldn’t get a ticket for the Spring Festival, so I took an unlicensed car home. I never expected the woman in the car to keep staring at me. I wanted to call the police... [Deep Dive] The horrifying truth behind going missing after getting into the wrong car during the Spring Festival. Don’t ride in unlicensed cars carelessly, because it’s not just your money that disappears, but your life! 994Reads8.6Score10014d adds
- 154 Benefactor, This Little Taoist Knows a Few Fist Techniques 施主，小道也略懂一些拳法 This book is mainly about fighting, with flirting as a side dish. The protagonist is either fighting or on his way to flirt with a girl. He's rather passive. The girls are always the ones who make the first move and pin him down! The most obscure star in the Big Dipper is called the Tiansha Star. It brings misfortune to one's closest relatives, a life of hardship, no companion in old age, and a lifetime of loneliness. This is the fate of the Tiansha Lone Star. “Amitabha. This humble Daoist is th 10Reads—Score—14d adds
- 155 Someone New Appeared in the Footage 录像里多出一个人 The test shoot’s discarded footage was four seconds longer. Everyone in the frame held the same poses they had at the end of filming. No one moved. I counted three times. There were six people every time. But only five people had been there that day. On the hard drive my mother left behind, there was an empty folder with a four-character name: Do Not Fast-Forward. In the recycle bin was a deleted video, four minutes and twenty-five seconds long, which couldn’t be recovered. Our production crew w 3Reads—Score—14d adds
- 156 I Work as a Mortuary Makeup Artist 我在殡仪馆做化妆师 I used to be a stylist on film and television sets. After reality put me through the wringer, I stumbled into a job as a mortuary makeup artist. Every day, I face all kinds of bizarre corpses, and they have shown me another world... 717Reads8.2Score10014d adds
- 157 Republic-Era Notes on Summoning Evil 民国招邪笔记 Chinese-Style Horror + Episodic Mysteries + Ancestral Taboos + Republican-Era Suspense + Cursed Objects That Claim Lives Each supernatural case wraps up in three to five chapters. The pace is breakneck, with no dragging things out! Folk-horror elements: red wedding gowns, ancestral halls, midnight opera troupes... If you’re a scaredy-cat, read during the day. If you’re brave, listen to the audiobook at night for the full dose of terror. 78Reads—Score—14d adds
- 158 Folk Horror Taboos 民间恐怖禁忌 Do you know the stories old people tell? Do you know there are many things in folk tradition that people say must not be spoken of? Do you know what the elders say about dreams? The elders say there are things you mustn't talk about at night. Did you know that? 121Reads6.3Score—14d adds
- 159 I Love Your Numbness, I Love Your Spice, I Love You Till My Stomach Gives Out 爱你的麻，爱你的辣，爱得老胃直拉胯 I love your numbing spice, I love your heat, I love you so much my stomach’s a mess 6Reads—Score—14d adds
- 160 Mama Haha Won't Fly Anymore 玛玛哈哈不飞了 Mama Haha Won't Fly Anymore 2Reads—Score—14d adds
- 161 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... 5.4kReads9.1Score47014d adds
- 162 Paranormal Encounters: What I Saw and Heard 灵异事件之所见所闻 No System + no transmigration + no power fantasy + no harem + no invincible protagonist + no sweet romance + no clichés + no female lead + no cultivation. Important notice: if this isn’t for you, don’t read it. If this isn’t for you, don’t read it. If this isn’t for you, don’t read it! Do you believe there are things in this world that science cannot explain? Have you ever experienced anything supernatural yourself? Treat the events in this novel as stories, and remember: Fear and respect the sp 130Reads—Score—14d adds
- 163 The Stone That Remembers the Light 会记住光的石头 The Stone That Remembers the Light 2Reads—Score—14d adds
- 164 Dancing Sword of Xiaoxiang 潇湘剑舞 [Traditional Xianxia + Tragic Human-Demon Romance + Classical Fantasy (The first few dozen chapters are a little melodramatic, but it gets better later. Not for readers who can't handle that.)] Qian Liuyin is entrusted by Li Yiqiu, the greatest swordsman under heaven, with delivering a letter to Yuhengzi, the head of Tianzhui Sect. On the way, he gets bitten by Qing Xue, a snow fox spirit. Furious, he chases her all night, but eventually lets her go. He even saves her life later, only to find hi 151Reads8.1Score—14d adds
- 165 Heavenly Revelation Divine Diagram 天启神图 The Great Sun fell, and the Great Night withdrew from the world, allowing the demonic path to run rampant and plunging the realm into chaos. The young Jiang Chen stumbles upon a Divine Revelation Map. Accompanied by a talking rabbit, he sets out to exterminate demons and banish evil, saving the people from dire straits. 249Reads5.6Score—14d adds
- 166 The Dragon's Journey: The Purple Spirit Saint 龙游记：紫灵圣尊 Traditional fantasy + immortals, demons, and magical beasts + no System + passionate battles + decisive killing + no tearjerker scenes [Before you read: The main story is driven by its plot and does not revolve entirely around the protagonist. This is not a wish-fulfillment novel focused solely on a male lead. There is a female lead but no harem, and every important character gets plenty of screen time. There are many foreshadowed clues, and they will all be resolved. The fight scenes are freque 4Reads8.6Score—14d adds
- 167 The Mortal's Path to Immortality 凡人化仙传 [Invincible power fantasy] [Decisive and ruthless] [Ordinary man defying the heavens] [No System] [Passionate struggle for supremacy] Young Su Fan happens upon a mysterious spirit pearl. By a stroke of luck, he steps onto the path of cultivation and the search for immortality, despite being no more than an ordinary mortal. Demons and spirits have returned, suppressing humanity and slaughtering all living things. The human race is on the brink of ruin... In this vast world of upheaval, where evil 37Reads—Score—14d adds
- 168 I Command the Ghost King and Become the Mastermind Pulling the Strings 我驾驭鬼王，化身幕后执棋者 [Slow-paced + ghost control + satisfying read + invincible protagonist + daily life] This story follows Mo Bai, who accidentally falls into a supernatural realm while out in the suburbs. After meeting a teammate, he successfully gains control of the Ghost King and returns to the real world. He gradually grows stronger through one supernatural incident after another, eventually becoming the mastermind pulling the strings. This is an invincible-protagonist type of novel, so please don't nitpick th 17Reads—Score—14d adds
- 169 The Corpse of a Mountain Village Woman 山村女尸 [Feel-Good Read + Urban + Suspense + Supernatural] He Xi is an ordinary security guard. One day, the west gate of Chaoxi Psychiatric Hospital desperately needs a guard. The pay is 30,000 yuan a month, but nobody dares take the job! Nobody else dares, but He Xi does! Only after arriving does he realize something is wrong. The west gate isn’t meant for people to pass through at all. It’s a gate for ghosts! 7.7kReads7.7Score35314d adds
- 170 This Ghost Catcher Is Not That Cold 这个鬼差不太冷 [Completed] [Eerie Revival] [Playing Card Elements] [The Protagonist Isn’t an Idiot] [Government Organization] [Absurd, Light Comedy] Also known as: Eerie Revival: Contracting an Ancient Great Ghost from the Start! Midnight is nigh, and a hundred ghosts roam the streets! “What! The only thing my family has left is a box of playing cards?” “What! The monthly salary is 100,000?” “Forget ghost hunting. I’d even sell my body if you asked me to!” Armed with nothing but a box of playing cards, one yo 2.5kReads8.1Score22614d adds
- 171 I'm a Bar Owner, Forced to Catch Ghosts 我，酒吧老板，被迫营业捉鬼 [Horror + supernatural + semi-invincible + no System + not brainless + ruthless decisiveness] I’m Heibai, an utterly ordinary bar owner. I only wanted to live a quiet life, but one commission and one problem after another keep landing on my doorstep. Curse magic, a drug-induced dreamless sleep, a yin-yang wedding, a deadly text message... As the Underworld descends, little Jiangcheng becomes a den of danger, and one strange incident after another unfolds. Well, looks like I can’t hide my abiliti 1.2kReads8.8Score11014d adds
- 172 Old Tales of the Dead Village 死人村旧事 Chen Ergou holds a stalk of grass and gently pokes at the paper money still smoldering in front of him. Behind him, a dense crowd of “people” from the village and beyond stands packed together... Hanwa, his belly slit open and his tongue hanging down to his chest; Sufen, naked, with raw flesh exposed; the Fat Taoist, whose limbs and head are covered with tightly packed stitches at the joints; Tian Da, his body stiff, a walking stick jutting from his wide-open mouth; Xiao Zhao, pale-faced and dri 185Reads8.4Score10914d adds
- 173 The Puppet Master's World 天下傀门 They say trouble follows a widow wherever she goes. That year, the villagers drove Zhang Wenqing's mother to hang herself. To avenge her, Zhang Wenqing gave up thirty years of his life and mastered the secret arts of the Puppet Sect. In the martial world, among all walks of life, men are ruthless and women beguiling. Zhang Wenqing sees men fighting like vicious dogs over food and women competing to outshine one another. Witchcraft, spirit mediums, corpse walkers, the Thieves' Sect, ancient marti 13kReads8.8Score1.3k14d adds
- 174 The Daoist Descends the Mountain: The Revival of Eerie Energy 道爷下山之诡气复苏 The uncanny returns, throwing yin and yang out of balance. Ghosts and monsters roam by night, slaughtering people until the human world becomes a living hell. Everyone lives in constant fear. Only I emerge from a mountain Taoist temple. I cultivate the Great Way of Yin and Yang, wield the art of slaying the uncanny, and shatter all illusions and evil spirits. Evil spirits wreaking havoc? I will suppress them with Taoist arts. The uncanny tide spreading? I will cut it down with a single sword. De 9.6kReads8.3Score68114d adds
- 175 When All the Immortals Forget Me 当所有神仙遗忘我 [Saving the Primordial World] [Primordial Heaven, Investiture of the Gods, and Journey to the West] [Not a power fantasy] [Cthulhu] [One heroine] [No immortality cultivation or training] If salvation is destined to bring destruction, would you still dare to be a hero? Lu Shouming discovers that the so-called perfect Heavenly Court is merely an illusion, bought at the cost of billions upon billions of reincarnations by Patriarch Bodhi... Must Nezha’s three heads and six arms be set against the wa 122Reads8.9Score—14d adds
- 176 The Clan's Curse: Hidden Mountain Scroll 族咒：山隐卷 [Traditional fantasy + the age of bloodlines + vivid writing + a slow-burn masterpiece] In a world where everyone of mixed blood is hunted down and killed, the boy Wang Pan, heir to the bloodlines of three races, bursts onto the scene! Cross the mountain ridges, bridge the seas, soar through the sky! Climb the steps, knock at the gates, ascend the towers! Part the clouds to see the sun, reach for the moon and pluck the stars! Can the boy climb step by step to the top of the world and uncover the 144Reads8.2Score—14d adds
- 177 The Dream of the True Page Tao: A World Made Real from Illusions 真页道之梦化虚界 The supernatural returns, alongside alchemical arts, thunder magic, talismans, the 749 Bureau, and battles between Chinese and foreign practitioners. This is a secret chronicle of cultivation, ghost slaying, demon-smiting, and god-killing. Mysteries are gradually awakening. Where do ghosts, monsters, spirits, and demons come from? Immortals have attained the Dao, but the gods are hard to summon. The world is mired in desire. How can anyone cross over to safety? With the power of the Dream Realm, 227Reads8.0Score10014d adds
- 178 A Mortal’s Path to Immortality: The Art of Chaos Creation 凡人修仙之混沌造化诀 In the cultivation world, the strong prey on the weak. Only those with overwhelming strength have the power to decide who lives and dies, while the weak are doomed to become cannon fodder. “I won’t accept this! I won’t accept this!” one disciple suddenly shouted, almost hysterical. “Why should we have to die like cowards?” Better to die on your feet than live on your knees. “Exactly! That mysterious person was the one trying to take our things, so why are we the ones suffering?” another disciple 104Reads—Score—14d adds
- 179 Death Began at School 死亡从学校开始了 Ghosts are the product of an imbalance between yin and yang. In this vast world, people are all different in character, and their souls are just as varied after death. The virtuous return to pure lands and enjoy the blessings of the afterlife; the wicked and violent turn into vengeful spirits, their resentment gathering until it takes the form of a ghost. These specters wander between yin and yang, but most conceal their forms and rarely appear before the living. [No cultivation, no System, no h 310Reads—Score—14d adds
- 180 Midnight Terror: The Strange Radio Broadcast 午夜惊魂之电波诡事 In the winter of 1998, Liu Siyang, a broadcasting college graduate, was assigned to Shengjing Radio. He took over a long-dormant late-night program, named it Midnight Frights, and set out to tell the insomniacs of this old industrial city some unusual stories over the midnight airwaves. He unearthed three bizarre cases from the radio station’s archives and old police files: the sweeping sounds that never ceased after the death of “Big Black Tooth,” the library’s caretaker; the green powder stuff 37Reads—Score—14d adds
- 181 Living Next Door to Ghosts 与鬼为邻 After losing his job, he rented an apartment and thought he was starting a new life. He never expected ghosts to knock on his door in the middle of the night, only to discover that all his neighbors were ghosts. He wanted to leave, but faced a hefty penalty for breaking his lease. With no other choice, he decided to make the best of it. 13.9kReads8.6Score1k14d adds
- 182 From Bald Spirit to Ascending the Dragon and Climbing the Heavens 从秃灵开始登龙攀天 [Passionate and thrilling + traditional fantasy + leveling and growth + no transmigration] “You bald spirit, if you dare sneak in to learn again, I’ll break your legs!” Qin Tianci swears by one ironclad rule: before he turns fifteen, he will never become a Spirit Official! To escape the massacre that wiped out his family, he was reborn in another world, only to become a bald spirit with a sealed spiritual aperture and suffer endless humiliation. The old man who raised him told him he must keep 4Reads—Score—14d adds
- 183 The Skinning Ghost 扒皮鬼 (Traditional supernatural horror + extreme horror + multiple twists + mystery + entirely handcrafted) Lately, I've been having nightmares every night. A fortune-teller said I might have a ghost clinging to me. He told me about a forbidden folk ritual: Put on a pair of worn underwear over your head, and it will block a ghost's sight. That night, I got home and followed his advice, half believing it. My girlfriend came back to the room after washing up and stared blankly at where I was. "Where... 64.2kReads8.3Score7k14d adds
- 184 Lighting the Sky Lantern 点天灯 Just how terrifying is corpse-driving in western Hunan? After failing the college entrance exam, I stumbled into the corpse-driving trade. Who could have guessed that on my very first job, I would run into... 712Reads8.3Score10314d adds
- 185 A Very Detailed Guide to Cultivation 很细的修仙 This is a cultivation novel about proving the Dao, and it is unlike other books! A world of cultivation, fantasy cultivation This is cultivation, but more than that, it is the cultivation of the heart… This book blazes a distinctive new trail for cultivation novels. After it, a whole new kind of cultivation story focused on cultivating the heart and attaining enlightenment will emerge. (The names of the cultivation stages in this book remain unchanged: Qi Refining, Foundation Establishment, 302Reads8.1Score—14d adds
- 186 12:17 A.M., Please Confirm Your Name 零点十七分，请确认你的姓名 In Qiheng City, people don’t simply disappear. First, the city erases their names, then convinces everyone they never existed. At 12:17 a.m., a fire alarm suddenly went off in a residential building in Qiheng City that had only sixteen floors: “Someone is trapped on the seventeenth floor.” Zhou Jiming, an engineer who inspected fire safety systems, checked the building plans, stairwell height, elevator programming, and exterior facade. Every piece of evidence proved that the seventeenth floor di 17Reads—Score17014d adds
- 187 A Debt-Ridden Wage Slave Inherits a Mansion, but the Tenants Aren’t Human 负债牛马继承豪宅，但租客不是人 Chen Mo, a wage slave on the brink of being crushed by loan sharks, receives a mysterious phone call just as he’s losing hope. To his surprise, he inherits a mansion worth 30 million from a distant relative. He moves in overjoyed, only to discover that one of the tenants isn’t even human. The more he learns, the more shocked he becomes. It turns out a huge conspiracy is lurking behind it all... 1Reads—Score—14d adds
- 188 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...? 373Reads7.4Score—14d adds
- 189 Stealing a Corpse to Borrow a Life 偷尸借命 The year I was born, strange signs appeared in the sky. That day, many people saw hundreds of ragged prisoners in shackles carrying a huge black coffin toward the forbidden ground behind the mountain. Ten years later, a fortune-telling monk came to our village. He said I had been dead for ten years, and that I was borrowing my life from a corpse. He said I wouldn't live much longer. But before I could die, he suddenly dropped dead. The next day, however, his body, already buried, mysteriously ap 6.6kReads7.8Score78214d adds
- 190 Uncle Nine: To Earn Merit, I'm Going All In! 九叔：为了赚功德，我豁出去了！ [Zombies + Uncle Jiu + comedy + scheming protagonist + flirting] Li Chongyang, a delivery guy, suffered a severe blow to the head. When he woke up, he had somehow transmigrated into the world of a zombie movie series. In this chaotic warlord era, the dangers included not only human disasters but also zombies and all manner of monsters and demons! Having transmigrated into such a dangerous world, Li Chongyang could only weep in despair! Just as he was gripped by endless fear, helplessness, terror 629Reads5.6Score10314d adds
- 191 Part-Time Underworld Constable: A Taoist Priest Investigates Murders in the City 阴差兼职：贫道在都市查凶 A lazy, penny-pinching, down-and-out Taoist is forced to work off his debts as a part-time underworld officer! A reclusive old man dies mysteriously, ghostly passengers haunt the midnight subway, and vengeful spirits from cold cases return. The entire city turns out to be a giant formation for a fiend to refine evil spirits! Police captain: There are no ghosts or gods in this world! → I take it all back! Master Chen, save me! Black Impermanence: Slacking off costs you underworld merit; shirking 1Reads—Score—14d adds
- 192 The Haunted Houses I’ve Experienced 我经历的凶宅 The older generation often says that people who die violent deaths cannot enter the cycle of reincarnation. Their souls endlessly haunt the places where they died, seeking substitutes. Only then can they be reborn. That’s why we often hear in the news about car crashes that keep happening at certain locations. Sometimes the place isn’t even a proper intersection, yet terrible accidents leave cars wrecked and people dead. Some streams aren’t even as deep as a person is tall, yet every year there 2.1kReads8.9Score19914d adds
- 193 Ghosts in Pieces 散装见鬼 Do you believe there are ghosts in this world? I think that question is as impossible to answer as whether there are dragons in this world. The answer you hear most often is: Believe in them, and they exist. Don’t believe in them, and they don’t. But if you ask me, my answer is simple: Yes! Not because I believe, but because I can see them. Of course, I wasn’t able to see them from birth. It all goes back to the strange experience I had when I was six... 32Reads—Score—14d adds
- 194 The Dead Souls Just Shake Their Heads at Me 亡魂看我直摇头 (No CP. Strong female lead, decisive and ruthless, no saintly behavior. The King of Hell gives her a cheat, and Heaven itself steps in to fight for her later on. This story’s power ceiling is off the charts.) P.S. Please don’t hate on it. If you do, I’ll roast myself and leave the haters with nothing to say. Fighting people is great fun; fighting Heaven is just plain stupid. What? You think Heaven’s chosen one is trash? What gave you the nerve? Even Liang Jingru is cheering you on. Xu Fuqing ste 42Reads—Score—14d adds
- 195 The Fragrance of Corpses for Ten Miles 十里尸香 Most people receive gifts that are heartwarming or romantic. Even if they aren't a surprise, they're at least well-intentioned. But the gift I received when I turned twenty was a very real shock, and a curse. 1.9kReads8.2Score16514d adds
- 196 You Got Rich, and Now You're Telling Me This Is a Cultivation World? 发家后，你告诉我这是修仙世界 (No CP) Qian Duoduo transmigrates as the youngest daughter of a farming family. Seeing that their home is so poor all they have left are its earthen walls, she rolls up her sleeves and sets out to make a fortune. A year later, Qian Duoduo has finally built up a modest fortune. Then the immortal sects begin their once-every-fifty-years recruitment, and she learns that this is a world of cultivation. From then on, the cultivation world has one more cultivator who loves money. 1.1kReads8.8Score11514d adds
- 197 A Young Feng Shui Master Betrothed to a White Tiger at Birth 少年风水师，出生就和白虎定亲 At the Human Skin Inn, a hundred ghosts carry a coffin. A yin corpse borrows a life. A demon child lies hidden in a Buddhist womb… From the moment I was born, my father pledged his life to arrange my engagement to a White Tiger. Because of that, I embarked on a little-known path… 5.9kReads9.2Score51814d adds
- 198 Shattered Yin-Yang Jade 阴阳玉碎 [Supernatural + horror + suspense + first person + no idiots in the story + clever protagonist + a touch of angst] "I'm turning eighteen soon. I should die, too." Yu Yue and I are twin sisters, born eighteen years ago on Ghost Festival. A fortune-teller gave us each a jade pendant and said that on our eighteenth birthday, whoever's pendant broke would die. We're seventeen now, and suddenly both pendants have shattered. How can we possibly survive? 39Reads—Score—14d adds
- 199 Spirit-Devouring Body 噬灵躯 (The protagonist is a little slow + no System + humor + mortal cultivation) A mortal's struggle to survive. He obtains an Immortal Artifact that accompanied the Demon Emperor, but his spiritual root gets blown to pieces. From then on, he can only temper his body and become a crude martial brute. With no complicated spells or techniques, Yang Shen has nothing but his iron fists to struggle through a cruel world! The blurb doesn't do it justice, so give the story a try! 4Reads—Score—14d adds
- 200 A Tribute of Spicy Strips Brings a Rare Pull, and My Gold-Digging Ex Regrets It in Tears 献祭辣条出红光，拜金前任悔哭了 Global altars have descended. Others rely on guesswork when making sacrifices, risking their entire fortunes for a flash of white light. But Su Ming can see the altars' hidden information! [Altar 666]: A mysterious giant beast craves an extreme flavor sensation! Su Ming (pulling out a Reaper spicy snack): What a coincidence! [Altar 4444]: A tragic heroine longs to experience the taste of real betrayal! Su Ming (tearing up a photo of his ex-girlfriend without changing expression): Is this flavor 136.6kReads7.5Score30k14d adds
