Novels like Reading Faces
Books Chinese readers most often put in the same booklists as Reading Faces, best match first.
- 151 Shocking! The Real Heiress Is Feared by Ten Thousand Ghosts 惊了！真千金竟然令万鬼惧怕 [Mysticism + ghost hunting + strong heroine + light supernatural power fantasy] Everyone in the capital knows that the eldest daughter of the Luo family came from the mountains, and that her family has an adopted elder daughter who is doted on and cherished. Everyone in the capital knows that the young master of the Shen family is a living King of Hell. Anyone who gets within three feet of him feels a chill. Lu Ange is a mystic arts master and the 143rd-generation successor of Tianqing Templ 502Reads8.8Score—Shelves
- 152 Hearse 灵车 A hearse is a vehicle used to transport coffins or urns. You could also call it a vehicle exclusively for the dead. I was a bus driver for four years, and for all four years I kept a secret bottled up inside. Now I'll tell you firsthand about the terrifying things that happen on trains, things you don't know about. Maybe you've never heard of hearses being converted into buses, but the buses you've ridden may not have carried only the living... 1.5kReads8.0Score131Shelves
- 153 The Fortune-Teller's Stall on Old Street: One Look Reveals Your Fortune and Misfortune 老街摆摊相师，一眼断祸福 Protagonist: Chen Qingxuan, a fortune-teller who lives in seclusion and sets up a stall on the old street of a small town. Calm and steady, he has an uncanny eye for people and understands feng shui, physiognomy, and karmic cause and effect. He is kindhearted and never charges the poor. 404Reads—Score105Shelves
- 154 One Reading to Decide Life or Death, and the Whole Internet Begs Me to Livestream 一卦断生死，全网跪求我开播 Chen Bufan was a mysticism streamer who was called a fraud by the entire internet. When his livestream had only seventeen viewers, top-tier star Shen Qingyue suddenly joined him to call him out. She smiled and asked, “Aren't you supposed to be good at fortune-telling? Then tell me, when will I get married?” Chen Bufan glanced at her and replied calmly: “You won't be able to get married.” Shen Qingyue sneered. “Why not?” Chen Bufan: “Because your fiancé died three years ago.” The whole internet b 38.7kReads8.3Score19.2kShelves
- 155 The Young Feng Shui Master 少年风水师 When I was ten, my grandfather built a coffin for himself with his own hands... From that moment on, the heavens shattered and all realms fell into chaos. [The 2021 feng shui and fantasy masterpiece!] 633Reads8.1Score136Shelves
- 156 The Lu Ban Book 鲁班书 "The world knows only about Gongshu Ce, not the Book of Lu Ban. Gongshu Ce originated from the Book of Lu Ban, but only carried on its outward form. My family, however, possesses a peerless edition of the Book of Lu Ban. My ancestors were carpenters for generations. By my time, the craft had fallen into decline, but my family never gave up. Even I took over my father's carpentry business after graduating from university, following the usual path. Outsiders only know that my family works as carpe 1.5kReads8.7Score233Shelves
- 157 Secrets from the Womb: Blind and Mute, I Force My Whole Family to Become Gods! 娘胎瞒天：我瞎眼断喉，硬喂全家成神！ Concealed in the Womb: Blind and Mute, I Force My Whole Family to Become Gods! 1Reads—Score—Shelves
- 158 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
- 159 The Master Feng Shui Practitioner 顶级风水师 Heaven and Earth are dark and yellow; the universe vast and primordial. The sun and moon wax and wane; the stars are arrayed across the sky… 1.7kReads8.8Score341Shelves
- 160 Notes of a Northern School Feng Shui Master 北派风水师笔记 I'm a poor kid from a mountain village in Northeast China. To get enough to eat, I teamed up with Third Uncle to help people bury their dead and find burial sites as a yin-yang master. Some people call us feng shui masters. From south to north, I've met all kinds of people: scheming, treacherous, and ready to risk everything for money! I've also been dragged into one predicament after another... Looking back on everything I've been through over the years, one question has begun to haunt me day a 4.1kReads6.8Score333Shelves
- 161 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! 7.4kReads7.7Score341Shelves
- 162 The Magical Footbath 神奇洗脚盆 This story is entirely fictional. Any resemblance to real events is purely coincidental. Stop right there. Yes, you. Now that you've opened the blurb, don't close it! Keep scrolling! This foot-washing basin is absolutely not lame! The story begins: Grandma passes away, leaving behind a foot-washing basin that belonged to my great-great-grandfather. Come on, what can a foot-washing basin do? Cure athlete's foot or something? Who could've guessed that once you add water, it turns into a 3D treasur 201Reads8.4Score—Shelves
- 163 The Greatest Marquis in History 史上最强侯爷 Wang Qi is reborn in the body of a spoiled young master. With his cunning nature, he plays the pig to eat the tiger, thrashes anyone who dares defy him, and builds the mightiest dynasty in history. 3.4kReads8.5Score263Shelves
- 164 Face Reading Is This Simple 相法就是这么简单 This is a new book, and a good one that was let down by its rating. The heavens reveal signs of fortune and misfortune, and everything can be read through its outward appearance. This book describes the art of reading the appearances of all things. There’s no need to cast a divination: observe an object, discern its signs, and judge its fortune or misfortune at once. The Creator is a painter, and every joy and sorrow in her heart takes shape as an image. So once you understand how to read appear 200Reads7.5Score—Shelves
- 165 Cyber Feng Shui Master: From the Start, I Calculated a Top-Tier Star's Death and Drove Trillion-Dollar Capital Mad 赛博风水师：开局算死顶流，逼疯千亿资本 Cyber Feng Shui Master: From the Start, I Foretell a Top-Tier Star's Death and Drive Trillion-Dollar Capital Mad —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 166 The Ghost Wedding Palanquin, Carried by the Living 阴婚轿，活人抬 The Ghost Wedding Sedan, Carried by the Living —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 167 The First-Eye Feng Shui Master 第一天眼风水师 This is not your typical feng shui story. If that bothers you, please move along. Inside you’ll find the most terrifying human demons and ghosts, horrifying infant spirits, bewitching female ghosts, thousand-year-old flood dragons, and even a ghastly face that will make your heart race... There are no tired formulas here, so be patient. The further you read, the better it gets… The story begins on the day I was born. On the day of my birth, every last one of the chickens and ducks my family k 17.7kReads8.9Score1kShelves
- 168 Forced to Become the Ancestor’s Loyal Hound 被迫成为老祖宗的忠犬 [Strong Female Lead + Strong Male Lead + Everyone’s Favorite + Metaphysics + Reborn + Secret Identity + Face-Slapping the Villains + Redemption + School Life + Showbiz] As a top student, she’s forced to obey the Chu family’s outdated rules. She’s had more than enough of being the heir! But who could have guessed that casually stepping in to save a beauty would mean saving her own ancestor? Now she can’t escape the family rules, and she’s become her ancestor’s little shadow, forced to follow her 1Reads8.5Score—Shelves
- 169 Abyss for All: The Old God Wants to Eat My Sister? I'll Command a Living Battleship and Devour the Heavens! 全民深渊：古神要吃我妹？我驾驭活体巨舰反吞诸天！ Abyss for All: The Old Gods Want to Eat My Sister? I Command a Living Battleship and Devour the Heavens! 1Reads—Score—Shelves
- 170 Chang’an Night Walks: The Black Death Flower 长安夜行录：黑死花 Chang’an Night Walk: Black Death Flower —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 171 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. 14.8kReads8.6Score1.1kShelves
- 172 Antique Appraisal: From the Start, I Smashed Ten-Million-Yuan Fakes and Awakened the War God's 8,000-Year-Old Divinity 鉴宝：开局砸碎千万赝品，我觉醒八千年战神神格 Antique Appraisal: From the Start, I Smash Counterfeits Worth Tens of Millions and Awaken the Divine God of War's Eight-Thousand-Year-Old Godhood —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 173 The Ghostly Wedding: Yinshui Town 冥婚诡事：阴水镇 Ghostly Wedding: Yinshui Town 3Reads—Score—Shelves
- 174 The Art of White Sorcery 白相术 Thieves Have Their Code Three tales: "The Art of White Magic," "A Thousand Killings," and "The Ultimate Thief" Two stories retold: "Bajie" and "Wukong" "The Art of White Magic": Even underhanded methods can save lives, and even righteous justice can kill. "A Thousand Killings": In old Shanghai, there were once four master pickpockets. Some speculate they may all have been aliases of the same person. "The Ultimate Thief": The pinnacle of thievery, and a game of wits between people. "Bajie": D 1.3kReads9.3Score267Shelves
- 175 My Master Gave Me a Car for Investigating the Supernatural 师父传我一辆看事儿车 A thousand-year-old van? Built by hand from scratch [Traditional horror]➕ [Even more immersive as an audiobook]➕ [Uncovering the truth about my origins] Greetings, dear readers! [Traditional supernatural horror, primal fear] The original experience of horror is the fear a person feels when experiencing it firsthand. [First person, highly atmospheric] Give me a chance to tell this story from my own point of view. [Uncovering the truth about my origins] Along the way, I met many people. “The gates 17Reads—Score—Shelves
- 176 The Sixth Line: Initial Nine 六爻之初九 Lu Yao has shared a bond with Zhou Yi since childhood and is well versed in divination. But a college student from a remote mountain village who practices fortune-telling is an oddball in her classmates’ eyes, so she moves off campus and rents a place of her own. One day, she checks her bank statement and sees she’s in the red. She hops on the little scooter she uses to deliver packages. “Dear customer, you have a romantic disaster in store. Please don’t go out today!” Customer: “Are you crazy?” 1.6kReads8.5Score187Shelves
- 177 The Coffin Bearer 抬棺匠 My family has dealt with the dead for generations. Following in my father’s footsteps, I became a coffin bearer. Before carrying a coffin, I always offer the deceased five incense sticks. When offering incense to the living, three long sticks and two short ones are taboo. When offering incense to the dead, three short sticks and two long ones are taboo. That day, I carried a coffin, and the dead pregnant woman inside gave birth to a pair of twins, a boy and a girl! [Shh, keep quiet! We’re settin 2.9kReads8.3Score194Shelves
- 178 Paper Doll Hauntings: A Living Person's Funeral 纸人诡事：活人出殡 Paper Figures and Strange Happenings: The Living Hold a Funeral 1Reads—Score—Shelves
- 179 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
- 180 Water Margin: The Mind-Reading Forensic Doctor Executes Li Kui and Splits from Song Jiang with Wu Song and Lin Chong, Driving Song Jiang Mad 水浒：读心法医处死李逵，带武松林冲分家，宋江急疯了 Water Margin: The Mind-Reading Forensic Doctor Executes Li Kui and Helps Wu Song and Lin Chong Split Off, Driving Song Jiang Crazy 2Reads—Score—Shelves
- 181 A Cold-Blooded Emperor's Lifelong Love 冷血帝王之一世情长 [Two powerful leads, satisfying revenge, sweet romance, special agent transmigration, no pocket dimension] The modern-day “Ghost Doctor” and “Living King of Hell” somehow transmigrated. Upon opening her eyes, she found: One white-lotus younger sister, One scumbag father, One evil stepmother, One scumbag fiancé, And wait, Are you sure this is the kind of setup the great Ghost Doctor should have? Fine, throw in one icy-faced King of Hell too. Oh, this one seems like a better match for me... 954Reads8.6Score102Shelves
- 182 Quick Divination Secrets of Yin Pan Qi Men 阴盘奇门速断诀 Yin Pan formulas, techniques, methods of cultivation, and real-world case studies, all personally tested. A heartfelt offering from 30 years of studying the Yi, shared widely to help you get started quickly. To understand this book, you will need some foundational knowledge. Nothing is more essential than cultivating virtue and wisdom. Enough talk, let's get straight to the useful material. 817Reads7.2Score217Shelves
- 183 The Divine Feng Shui Master 神级风水师 Houses are divided into yin and yang: yin dwellings gather the qi of the dead, while yang dwellings foster prosperity. This is the art of feng shui. A scion of a feng shui family accidentally inherits a Celestial Master’s legacy, mastering the yin-yang arts and feng shui techniques of past and present. He can discern qi and communicate with the yin and yang realms, pass on the secrets of feng shui, understand how to dispel evil and invite prosperity, and collect precious magical artifacts. Thus 773Reads8.2Score126Shelves
- 184 The Ninth Trial of Tribulation 第九世历劫 When Li Yuwei wakes from a coma, she discovers that she has transmigrated into the body of a notorious young farm wife. With winter approaching, all the family has left to eat is coarse bran and wild greens, and death seems to be closing in on them all. Faced with such desperate circumstances, she has no choice but to revive the skills she learned in her previous life. She farms and sets up a fortune-telling stall on the street to earn money for the family, while accumulating merit to avert the 3.5kReads8.7Score431Shelves
- 185 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
- 186 The Underworld’s Temporary Overseas Worker 地府驻外临时工 [Mysticism + Ghost Hunting + Demon Hunting + No Romance + Powerful Female Lead + Set Abroad] Qin Sulan is an Underworld temp stationed overseas. Her main job is to escort the souls of Chinese people who die abroad back to the Underworld in China. Her secondary job is helping handle certain paranormal incidents overseas. The work is easy and leaves plenty of time to slack off, but it does carry a bit of risk. If you kick the bucket, don’t worry. Have a bowl of Meng Po Soup, then get right back to 103Reads—Score—Shelves
- 187 The Seer in Hemp Robes 麻衣天相 Feng shui techniques can kill without spilling blood or save lives without anyone noticing. Fortune-telling and divination can reveal one's fate, but no reading should reveal everything, for the ways of Heaven are unpredictable. My name is Jiang Sheng. I was born with a yang body but an yin fate, destined for a life of hardship. My grandfather named me “Sheng,” hoping I could win half a move against Heaven and live a good life. My grandfather arranged nine marriages for me so I could overcome th 11kReads8.6Score2.4kShelves
- 188 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
- 189 The Ghost King Spoils His Sickly Beloved, Shaking Both the Yin and Yang Worlds 鬼王强宠病娇夫，轰动阴阳两界 [Supernatural arts + seducing her husband + one-on-one, both leads are virgins + sweet romance + episodic ghost stories and cases + secret identities + multiple twists] [A psychotic, ruthless, Chinese-style little ghost king vs. a domineering, calculating, ruthless business tycoon] Si Jiu had roamed the underworld of Fengdu for a thousand years, unable to enter the cycle of reincarnation. She watched one generation after another of ghost kings pass away, until she finally rose to the throne h 243Reads8.9Score—Shelves
- 190 The Haunted Shroud 诡寿衣 My family sells burial clothes. Every seven days, a woman comes to order a set. Only at the end did I discover she had been ordering burial clothes for all four members of my family. 1.1kReads8.8Score117Shelves
- 191 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? 43Reads—Score—Shelves
- 192 Famine, Parents Trading Children for Food? I Rewrite Fate, Turning Certain Doom into Eternal Good Fortune! 荒年易子而食？我提笔篡改，把大凶死局写成万世大吉！ In a Famine Year, Will People Really Eat Their Own Children? I Take Up My Brush and Rewrite Fate, Turning a Dire, Deadly Impasse into Eternal Good Fortune! 4Reads—Score—Shelves
- 193 The Bloodied Hole Beneath the Red Veil 红盖头下的血洞 A Bloodied Hole Beneath the Red Bridal Veil —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 194 The Face Reader Comes Down From the Mountain 相师下山 A country boy receives the true teachings of a Taoist master, then heads down the mountain and makes his way in the city. What can a rough country boy like him do? Qin Hai smiles faintly. “I can read faces and bones, appraise antiques, cast the Six Yao, and tell your fortune from your birth chart!” 38.2kReads9.1Score2.9kShelves
- 195 Riches and Splendor 富贵芳华 When it came to Ning Fang’s idol, there was only one: Xia Zhenzhen, the Xia family’s legendary great-aunt, whose glory peaked more than a century ago! Renowned for her “exceptional intelligence,” she was chosen at just fifteen by a family of scholars and married into a prestigious household as the legitimate wife, despite being a merchant’s daughter. After the wedding, she and her husband were “deeply devoted to each other,” and even her mother-in-law praised her: “She is as good as my own daugh 4.8kReads9.3Score545Shelves
- 196 The Yin Tattooist 阴纹师 May you be blessed with wealth and long life, and travel safely in and out. I’m the heir to a special kind of embroidery, commonly known as “tattooing.” You’d think this craft would be quite profitable in a modern city, but before my master died, he forbade me from using it to make money. I always did as he said, but recently, something happened, and I had no choice but to go against his dying words. From then on, all kinds of strange things began happening around me. 968Reads8.8Score116Shelves
- 197 The Bandit's Glory 悍匪的巅峰 Hu Fei is the descendant of an old Northeast Chinese bandit, living in a modern city. At home, he has a great-grandfather so brilliant he seems almost supernatural, who often quotes, “Growing old without dying makes you a thief!” He also has an old retainer who holds the title of chief of the Thousand Gates and commands its eight branches, mastering all kinds of strange and ingenious techniques. After being taught for twenty years by these two antique-level eccentrics, Hu Fei has become incredib 5kReads9.0Score488Shelves
- 198 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
- 199 My Years as a Spirit Medium's Apprentice 我当出马弟子那几年 Hello, everyone. I'm a spirit medium from Shandong. The main reason I'm writing this book is, first, to record my experiences. Whether it becomes popular or not, I want to preserve my memories and my life story! Second, I hope the book will help people understand spirit mediumship. In recent years, certain people with bad intentions have given it a terrible reputation. So I'm writing about my own experiences to help clear its name! —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 200 You Asked Me to Fix Scrap Metal, So I Built a Lithography Machine and Etched the Gods Onto Chips? 让你修废铁，你手搓光刻机，把诸神当芯片刻了？ I Asked You to Fix Scrap Metal, So Why Did You Hand-Build a Lithography Machine and Etch the Gods into Chips? —Reads—Score—Shelves
