Novels like There's a Ghost Behind Me
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- 1 The Gates of Hell 鬼门关 Synopsis: When people die, they enter the Yellow Springs and cross the Gates of the Underworld. People know of the Road to the Yellow Springs, but not the Gates of the Underworld. The Gates are where the dead are reborn and the living return to the mortal world. But no one knows where the Gates of the Underworld are, not even the Bodhisattvas of the Underworld. They may be a person, or an object... 912Reads8.7Score—Shelves
- 2 I Cultivate the Ghost Path in the City 我在都市修鬼道 When Shi Yaoyang opened the secret door in his ancestral home, the bronze demon mask swallowed the last ray of sunlight. The boy whom the girls jokingly called a “bad-boy heartthrob” was now pressing a bloodstained peachwood sword to his own throat. A fierce ghost leered from the mirror, his childhood sweetheart Teng Shiyun lay unconscious in the middle of a blood-red talisman array, and the faint sobs of twin sisters drifted from the shadows. The neon lights of the modern city collided with a t 3Reads—Score—Shelves
- 3 The Haunted House Awakens 复苏的恐怖屋 Transmigrating into a haunted house was bad enough, but then it nearly got demolished. Think that's the worst of it? No. The worst part is that the supernatural really exists in this world, and those things have come inside me... 97Reads7.2Score—Shelves
- 4 The Yin-Yang Inn 阴阳旅店 From the day I was born, underworld soldiers came to drag my soul away. At eight, I arrived at the Yin-Yang Inn and began working as a guide for the dead. From then on, I guided both the dead and the living. Every ghost or living person who came to the inn had a secret they couldn't tell. The Yin-Yang Inn has strange rules. Ghosts must sign a contract, while the living must stay the night. Whether or not their request is fulfilled, their payment is never refunded. Even so, guests keep coming one 269Reads8.7Score—Shelves
- 5 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
- 6 A Funeral Procession From the Start, Then I Married a Ghost Bride 开局红白撞煞，娶个女鬼回家 [Spiritual Qi Revival + Superhuman Martial Arts + Not Pure Wish Fulfillment + No System + Lighthearted and Fun + Multiple Well-Developed Heroines + Plenty of Romance + Positive Values, Not Dark and Gritty + Nuanced, Thoughtful Writing] What on earth has happened to this world? I just saw a wild monkey holding a stick and claiming to be Sun Wukong, and a chicken pluck someone's head off and use it as a ball... The world changed drastically, and spiritual qi revived! Monsters, demons, and ghosts a 43Reads8.2Score—Shelves
- 7 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
- 8 Resurrection of Evil Spirits in the City 都市之厉鬼复苏 This is the worst of times, but not the best of times. This is an age of idealism, when the ideal triumphs over the material. Evil spirits return, vengeful ghosts emerge, and the world is overrun by demons. There are no Maoshan Taoists, nor are there immortals, gods, Buddhas, or demons. Only ghosts can fight ghosts. Live with ghosts, and dance with them. 142Reads5.4Score—Shelves
- 9 The King of Hell Returns: Not to Become an Immortal, but to Cultivate the Ghostly Way 阎君归来，不为成仙，只修鬼道 A hundred years ago, the Lord of the Netherworld disassembled his body and passed away. The laws of the underworld collapsed, and reincarnation fell into chaos. A hundred years later, the Nine Stars aligned and the Big Dipper hung upside down. Yan Chuan, a good-for-nothing young clan lord who had been humiliated and jilted, had his spiritual platform shattered by a tribulation of lightning, and memories of his past life came flooding back! He had once been the Netherworld Yama who held power ove 2Reads—Score—Shelves
- 10 My Thousand-Year-Old Ghost Wife 我的千年女鬼老婆 My name is Zhang Shaobai. Behind our village stands an ancient pagoda that has been guarded for generations. Everyone in the village says it’s cursed. But outsiders refuse to believe it, and for money, I took them to the pagoda. From then on, strange things kept happening around me. It all began with that livestream one night... 220Reads5.4Score—Shelves
- 11 The Supernatural General Store 妖妖灵杂货铺 A dilapidated grocery store goes by another name: Yaoyao Ling. Think that sounds strange? The owner of this shop is stranger still. Other people hunt ghosts, but he eats them. You’re afraid of going to hell, but he was born there. After thousands of years, he can no longer tell whether he is human or ghost. But he knows exactly why he is still alive. Everything begins in this little grocery store, where funny, thrilling, and fascinating supernatural tales await. It’s all here at the Yaoyao Ling 118Reads7.0Score—Shelves
- 12 Day Ghost, Night Husband 昼鬼夜夫 Falling in love with two souls sharing the same body: by day, he is cruel and domineering; at night, he is gentle and devoted. And could his secret really have everything to do with me? Through a series of mishaps, I became betrothed to a simple-minded man as a child. At first, I could barely hide my dislike. But little by little, I came to understand him, discovering tenderness and kindness in someone who didn’t seem particularly bright. When we reunited years later, the simple-minded boy had c 1.8kReads9.0Score153Shelves
- 13 The King of the Underworld Becomes a Live-In Son-in-Law 地府阎王当赘婿 He was the heir of a wealthy family, cast out and reduced to a good-for-nothing live-in son-in-law. But by chance, he became the new King of Hell. From then on, he began an all-around life! 52Reads8.2Score—Shelves
- 14 The Yama King's Wife: Living Sacrifice 阎王妻：活祭 Every five years, the village offers a living person as a sacrifice to the gods. It has to be an unmarried young woman who is still pure. The year I turned seventeen, the Heavenly God chose me as the sacrifice... 60Reads8.6Score—Shelves
- 15 The Yin Grave 阴坟 A soul on the bed, a grave beneath it. On the fifteenth day of the seventh month, offerings are made to the gods. One ritual burned several people alive. Were they human, or spirits? 16.3kReads8.8Score1.7kShelves
- 16 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
- 17 Blood Wedding 血嫁 Ever since I received a strange hundred-yuan bill, every wedding I attend ends in bloodshed. The grooms have their throats slit, their blood splattering across the brides’ white gowns. Ten couples have died for no apparent reason, and I’m the only one who has seen the killer: the Grim Reaper, holding a scythe... A cold and aloof fiancé appears out of nowhere. A mysterious exorcist hides in a coffee shop. Strange supernatural incidents pull me into a terrifying, thrilling spiral. At last, the da 961Reads8.6Score121Shelves
- 18 Horror Descends: I Bind Myself to a Red-Clad Female Ghost from the Start 恐怖降临：开局绑定红衣女鬼 [Supernatural] + [System] + [Single female lead] A year ago, terror descended upon the world, reducing the global population by 90 percent. Only China, protected by its dragon veins, avoided complete collapse. The Maoshan Celestial Master set out to exorcise demons and uphold the Dao, taking his disciples down the mountain to slay monsters and demons. They never returned. By then, Lin Tian had spent ten years sweeping the grounds of Maoshan and had been signing in for ten years straight. “Ding! 1.7kReads7.7Score129Shelves
- 19 The Spirit Burying Master 葬灵师 Every year since the year I was born, someone in the village has died. To keep me alive, Grandma arranged a marriage for me, and my betrothed was supposed to come for me when I came of age. On my eighteenth birthday, I discovered that the one who had come for me wasn't human... 146Reads7.9Score244Shelves
- 20 Taking a Fox as My Wife 养狐为妻 When I was eighteen, I accidentally injured a fox. To my shock, my master forced me to marry her... 1.3kReads8.6Score102Shelves
- 21 The Demon Lord Is Here 妖君在上 In the thirteenth year of the Republic, with the country in turmoil, Shen Lingyin was born in an isolated village surrounded by strange legends. When she came of age, the villagers chose her as a sacrifice, but she unexpectedly uncovered a secret buried for a thousand years... Born at midnight on the second day of the second lunar month in the Year of the Tiger, she was chosen by fate, yet doomed to bring disaster. To survive, she forms an alliance with a mysterious man and walks the razor's edg 889Reads9.0Score141Shelves
- 22 Classroom of Despair 绝望教室 One day, a classmate who had been dead for a long time dragged everyone in our class into a bizarre QQ group and forced us to take part in a death vote. After I managed to escape the Desperate Classroom, one massive conspiracy after another unfolded. To survive, I sold my soul… 143Reads5.7Score—Shelves
- 23 The Eighth Book of the Apocalypse's Superpowers 末世的异能的第8本书 My new work is out! You can read it on Tomato Novel. I hope you’ll enjoy it. Your support is what motivates me to write, and I’ll do my best to tell every story well! 346Reads6.1Score—Shelves
- 24 The Ghost Physiognomist in Hemp Robes 麻衣鬼相 Some say it's difficult to understand another person, but to a face reader, understanding someone is easy. Others say you can't judge a person by appearances. I think it depends on who's doing the judging. My grandfather was a famous face reader of ghosts. He could read disaster and fortune, life and death, heaven and earth, and even uncover a person's past lives and future incarnations. When I was little, egged on by a group of friends, I kicked over the mound of an old grave. Luckily, my grand 1.4kReads8.5Score177Shelves
- 25 The Demon Returns 魔归 Mortal + No System + No Golden Finger + No Female Lead (but there are women) + Corpse Refining + Ghost Commanding + Demonic Cultivation … How does human nature change, and how is it preserved, in a cruel environment? Does the distinction between good and evil lie in power itself, or in the purpose of those who wield it? The conflict between survival and morality, and the choices it demands; the journey of revenge and the struggle to move beyond hatred. … All to recreate the cultivation world i 103Reads—Score—Shelves
- 26 I, the White Ghost Emperor, Cultivate the Unorthodox Path. So What? 我，白鬼帝，修的诡道又如何 Shen Qingyu was once a true gentleman, but because he possessed the Jade of the Ghost Emperor, he spent years hated and hunted by the people of the Shen Kingdom. Others insulted him, hurt him, and abandoned him, but he always let it go with a smile, never holding it against them. Then one day, Shen Qingyu's temperament changed completely, and he began practicing forbidden arts to fight back. “White Ghost Emperor, help me...” “Heh. After all these years, you've finally remembered me? If you want 71Reads8.4Score—Shelves
- 27 Eerie Revival: I Fused with Black Impermanence from the Start 诡异复苏：开局融合黑无常 Su Yuan transmigrates to a parallel world and obtains a horror livestream System. The more viewers his stream attracts, the stronger he becomes! To draw in viewers, Su Yuan throws caution to the wind. From the start, he passionately kisses a woman in white who’s a ghost! The livestream chat goes wild! He spends his popularity points in the System’s shop to trade for a Black Impermanence outfit and reap evil spirits! “Congratulations, Host. You have obtained a Black Impermanence robe!” “Congratul 400Reads8.4Score—Shelves
- 28 Ghost Cultivator in Another World 异世鬼修 What the hell? Other people transmigrate and become emperors or crown princes, or else useless princes. At worst, their souls transmigrate into someone else's body! But me? My soul transmigrated all by itself. It didn't even enter a person's body. If I'd at least ended up in a dog's body, I'd have had something! Instead, all I've got is a soul, and it could disappear at any moment. I even have to worry about being captured. How pitiful! What a wretched soul! I'd better work hard, or I'll really 24Reads—Score—Shelves
- 29 The Corpse Leaps Over the Wall 尸跳墙 I’ve been blind since childhood, so I work as a massage therapist for the blind. Then one day, I met a terrifying woman who said she could restore my sight. The price was... 140Reads7.8Score—Shelves
- 30 One Hundred Ways to Encounter a Ghost 见诡一百法 The day my eldest uncle died, all our relatives and friends went to his funeral. My cousins wailed as they finished burning the joss paper. When it was my turn, I just couldn't cry. I could have faked it, but no tears would come, and my aunt's family looked displeased. That wasn't really a big deal. The problem was that when I tossed paper money into the brazier, the flames, which had been burning fiercely, went out in an instant! I tried several times, and it happened every time. It was creepy, 1.8kReads8.5Score122Shelves
- 31 I Visited the Wrong Grave, and Now the Female Ghost Wants to Come Home with Me 上错坟，女鬼竟要跟着我回家 My new work is out! Come read it on Tomato Novel. I hope you’ll enjoy it. Your support is what keeps me writing, and I’ll do my best to tell every story well! 6Reads7.1Score—Shelves
- 32 Having a Son Is Like Having the King of Hell 生个儿子是阎王 Five years ago, I gave birth to a child. Everyone who saw what the child looked like died. Five years later, I met a man who told me he was the child's father. 16.9kReads8.9Score377Shelves
- 33 The Beautiful Snake Wife 蛇妻美人 I slept in a coffin from the time I was little. When I was six, a snake slithered in and kept me company in the coffin for six years… He had never slept in a bed as a child, only in a very ancient coffin. When he was six, a snake slithered in and kept him company in the coffin for six years. Later, a graceful fairy came and said she would marry him when he turned eighteen. 123Reads9.1Score—Shelves
- 34 A Mortal’s Path of Demonic Cultivation 凡人修邪传 [Mortal Cultivation] [Unorthodox Path] [Corpse Cultivation] [No Female Lead] [Careful Planning] Can't cultivate without a spiritual root? The protagonist turns himself into a half-corpse, then cultivates techniques meant for corpse refiners and becomes an unorthodox cultivator. From then on, he refines corpses, drives ghosts, commands beasts, raises poisonous insects, and controls souls, doing whatever it takes to cultivate. [This isn't a story built around wild ideas. The early chapters take th 97Reads6.4Score—Shelves
- 35 The Demon Wife at Home 家有妖妻 Grandma arranged a marriage for me. Only after the wedding did I learn that the bride I'd brought home was a fox spirit... Chapter preview: …I stole a glance into the pool. A beautiful older girl was standing by the washing platform, washing her hair. She was gorgeous, with snow-white skin, delicate willow-shaped brows, an oval face, and luscious red lips like ripe cherries. Most striking of all were her captivating, tender eyes, deep as a pool of spring water. She was alluring to the very cor 1.9kReads8.2Score130Shelves
- 36 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
- 37 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
- 38 The Grave Relocation Master 迁坟师 You've heard of yin-yang masters, fortune-tellers, and feng shui masters. But have you ever heard of a grave relocation master? Do you know how relocating a grave can affect the deceased's descendants? My name is Chen An, and I'm a grave relocation master. I've spent my whole life dealing with graves and bones. I've seen clients strike it rich after relocating a grave. I've seen clients rise to high office after relocating a grave. I've also seen clients whose entire clan died out after relocati 10.5kReads9.0Score911Shelves
- 39 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? 130Reads6.3Score—Shelves
- 40 Supernatural Revival: It All Began When I Married a Ghost Bride 灵异复苏：从娶了鬼新娘开始 Title: Supernatural Resurgence: It Began When I Married a Ghost Bride My name is Zao Chen. I had a dream, a very, very long dream. In it, I married a ghost bride, and after that, she wouldn't leave me alone. When I woke up, I realized it hadn't been a dream at all. I really had married a ghost bride, and the two of us had a child. The ghost bride was called Zhou Li, and our daughter was named Zao You. The day Zao You was born, the supernatural descended, and ghosts roamed the night. We call the —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 41 Hades Husband, Don't Cause Trouble 冥王老公，别乱来 My name is Li Xiaojiu. When I was twenty, a man in my dreams told me to repay a debt. After that, he haunted me every night, and I couldn’t escape him. With my eyes veiled by a web of blood, I somehow released the greatest evil in the world. From then on, yin and yang fell into chaos, and disaster loomed. The man in my dreams said, “My name is Feng Siming. If you want to live, obediently give me your body.” I asked, “In the end, will you devour me?” Feng Siming: “Yes, from head to toe...” Me: “. 821Reads9.1Score124Shelves
- 42 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
- 43 The Immortal’s Path of a Funeral Garment Shop Owner 寿衣店老板的修仙路 An Accidental Ghost Cultivator Begins His Path to Immortality Luo Ze is an art teacher at an art training school. After 30 years of teaching, he has become a renowned teacher with students all over the place. After a car accident, he unexpectedly transmigrates 20 years into the past, only to find himself possessing the body of a 19-year-old who runs a funeral clothing shop. While providing someone with a complete funeral service, he unexpectedly acquires an ancient bronze mirror of unknown origi 21Reads—Score—Shelves
- 44 A Female Ghost Comes to Be My Bride 女鬼嫁到 Cao Susu’s shoulders shook as she wept pitifully. Zhao Cao couldn’t help putting an arm around her shoulders and drawing her closer. With his arm around her, Cao Susu simply let herself fall into his embrace, sobbing softly. … A loser with the extraordinary fate of having lived ten lives makes an invincible comeback as a Taoist master. He mixes it up with female ghosts and the underworld, then, with the help of female ghosts and demons, takes back ownership of the Hongyuan Group… 466Reads8.2Score101Shelves
- 45 I'm a Psychiatric Patient, and Beating Ghosts Makes Perfect Sense 我一个精神病吊打鬼很合理吧 Synopsis: [One heroine + patriotism + inspirational + sweet romance + tearjerker] Ye Fan is a kind, innocent, naive, patriotic fool who gets lucky and obtains a System. Mistaking a woman introduced to him by a nurse for a wife assigned to him by the country, he spends the rest of his life protecting her. Later, after hearing stories about heroes, he resolves to become the guardian deity of Huaxia. “Big Sis, can I take these snacks home for my wife?” “If I get home this late, will my wife make me 2.5kReads8.3Score105Shelves
- 46 You Tame Beasts, I Command Ghosts; You Go God-Tier, I Go Ghost-Tier 你们御兽我驭鬼，你们超神我超鬼 (Beast-taming world + ghost-repelling expert + ghost-taming + villain + author with intermittent insanity) Su Laomo, the last Taoist priest of Maoshan, transmigrates into a beast-taming world and continues his cultivation of the ghost path. From then on, the entire beast-taming world's style takes a sudden turn! The fake beast tamer: frail body, slender limbs, and vicious monsters as their beasts. During battle, the tamer hides behind and gives orders while the beasts fight up front, constantly 184Reads9.1Score—Shelves
- 47 The Bride of the Vengeful Ghost 猛鬼新娘 When I was sixteen, I rescued a woman who had been tricked into coming to our village, simply because I wanted to help. I never imagined that my actions would not only get the poor woman killed, but also lead to the deaths of more than a hundred villagers. And so my strange life began. 4.7kReads9.0Score333Shelves
- 48 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
- 49 Calling on the Immortals 请仙儿 In our village, every adult child in the family has to visit the graves during the Qingming Festival and weigh down paper offerings on the graves. But when I went to pay my respects at Grandma's grave, I put the paper on the wrong one... 526Reads8.7Score111Shelves
- 50 The Jiang Family's Haunted House and Corpse Marriage Pact 僵家尸宅冥尸婚契 Jiang Si, who was there to watch the show, nearly gets crushed to death. On the brink of life and death, he is sucked into the core of the Nine Dragons Feng Shui Formation and accidentally gains a pair of all-seeing eyes... Before he can even celebrate, a drought demon sets its sights on him... Luckily, at the crucial moment, he is summoned to a bizarre world by an ancient zombie patriarch who has lived for a thousand years... After being welcomed back into the family, he hears, "What! You want 7.5kReads8.3Score908Shelves
