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- 101 I Am a Lady Tutor 我是女先生 I'm hard to kill. These were the words I heard from the moment I was born. A blind fortune-teller said I was a White Tiger Sha, a girl born with a boy's fate, innately tough and destined to bring misfortune to my husband, my children, and myself. Everyone in the village said I wouldn't survive. My yang energy was too strong. Even if they managed to keep me alive, I'd grow up to be an idiot. But my grandma, a spirit medium who presided over the altar, refused to give up. Every year, she burned a 3.3kReads9.4Score44914d adds
- 102 I Am Intersex 我是阴阳人 My mother said that when I was born, her first reaction was to strangle me, because it was impossible to tell whether I was male or female. My grandmother called me a freak and a jinx, saying I would only bring shame on the family. It was then that my maternal grandmother, who had traveled all the way from the countryside to visit my mother, adopted me. So, by chance, I got to enjoy a pure childhood, free from scornful looks. Following my half-immortal grandmother, I unexpectedly discovered how 8.5kReads9.3Score1.3k14d adds
- 103 Strange Tales of Northeast China 东北诡异实录 The comic adaptation of the same name is now available, also known as Mountain Spirit Lost. The comic Northeast Strange Tales is currently being serialized. Across the vast, boundless black earth of Northeast China, one strange and little-known story after another has unfolded. Now, I’ll tell you these long-buried tales of the supernatural, one by one! 31.9kReads9.4Score3.2k14d adds
- 104 The Divine Qilin 麒麟神相 I was born with a Qilin by my side. To save me, my grandfather peeled off his own human skin and gave it to a nine-tailed fox. That day, dead trees bloomed again, and all the beasts came to pay their respects! 10.6kReads9.4Score1.2k14d adds
- 105 Folk Feng Shui Secrets 民间风水秘术 This story focuses on practical feng shui and fortune-telling. If you're looking for made-up drama, this isn't for you! Feel free to skip the first four chapters and start reading from Chapter Five. The adaptation will also start from Chapter Five, which should make it much easier to adapt. Thank you for understanding! (Traditional, no System, no wild flights of fancy, funny, not saintly! A technical, skill-focused story!) I was born in a poor mountain village. From a young age, I traveled aroun 28.8kReads9.4Score4.1k14d adds
- 106 The Divine Fortune-Teller in the Linen Robe 麻衣神算子 My grandfather taught me everything he knew about fortune-telling, but after I read three people’s fortunes, he left me. From then on, I didn’t just tell the fortunes of the living... 43.8kReads9.2Score3.8k14d adds
- 107 A Female Doctor’s Murder Diary 女医生谋杀日记 The print edition has been published. Search for A Female Doctor's Diary. I'm a doctor, an obstetrician and gynecologist. I have only two goals: Make someone disappear, And have a child. But he reeks of medicine And stands in my way! 13.3kReads9.5Score2k14d adds
- 108 My Years in the Funeral Business 我干白事儿这些年 After his master died, Lin Ran inherited his craft, took over the funeral business, and promised his master he would not leave this small town for three years. Keeping his promise, Lin Ran had to face the world without his master's protection. He saw all the strange sides of human nature that he had never witnessed before! Lin Ran remembered his master's words: “People look down on those of us in this line of work. Compared with ordinary people, we're also missing something. They call it being ‘ 72kReads9.2Score7.8k14d adds
- 109 Weasel Spirit! Do I Look Like a Human or a God to You? 黄皮子！你看我像人还是像神？ No specialist knowledge here, just a story. [A little horror + a whole lot of comedy + no female lead, no romance] When I was a kid, I took a nighttime shortcut and saw a weasel worshipping the moon. Remembering a story my grandma had told me, I worried it might ask me to grant it a title, so, on a whim, I shouted at it first: “Weasel! Do I look more like a person or a god to you?” The weasel froze for a moment, then said I looked like a dumbass! But from that day on, I really did become an idio 31.2kReads9.1Score2.7k14d adds
- 110 This Spirit Medium Is Pretty Powerful! 这个出马仙有点强！ A piece of red cloth, three feet and three inches long. The old hall's people, the old hall's immortals. One day, when they emerge from the depths of the mountains, their names will spread far and wide! I was born in a rural village in Northeast China in the 1980s. When I was seven, a spirit medium said I was fated to suffer three calamities and eight misfortunes, and would one day become a horse-riding shaman. I didn't believe it, but hardship kept finding me. To make a living, I worked as a wa 150.8kReads9.7Score13.6k14d adds
- 111 Nine Dragons Carry the Coffin 九龙抬棺 The night of my grandfather's funeral, I carried a stone tablet at the front of the procession to lead the way. I didn't dare look back, because the eight evil spirits carrying the coffin were behind me... 9.5kReads9.2Score2.6k14d adds
- 112 Exhausted! My Sickly Disciple Wants to Turn Evil, and I Have to Comfort Him Every Day 累！病娇徒弟要黑化，每天都要哄 [Both leads are inexperienced + female teacher and male student + sweet and angsty + happy ending + dark, obsessive male lead] Luo Chu transmigrates into the body of the vicious master who tormented the villain, Liu Chengzhi, to the brink of death. To make matters worse, she personally witnesses Liu Chengzhi smiling madly as he slaughters most of the cultivation world! Good grief! Who is this murderous lunatic? Where’s my kind, righteous boy? Liu Chengzhi turns around and sees her. His smile sud 8.2kReads9.0Score91014d adds
- 113 Fourteen Years of Hunting Ghosts (Complete in Five Volumes) 十四年猎诡人（全五册） Li Yifan’s spine-chilling ghost-hunting chronicles! A contemporary Strange Tales from a Chinese Studio! A spine-chilling record of ghost hunts! First posted on Tieba, it topped 100 million views within three months! The acclaimed mystery writer Li Yifan’s breakthrough work, now with the unpublished continuation added! Every ghost was once a living person. I’m a professional ghost hunter. I turn the compass, circle the place with red 11.4kReads9.6Score2.1k14d adds
- 114 True Tales of the Spirit Mediums: My Ten Years Serving at a Ghost Hall 出马仙纪实：我供奉鬼堂的那十年 My name is Zhou Tie. In this book, I'll tell the true story of my ten years running a spirit hall and serving ghosts. You've heard of spirit mediums... but have you heard of a ghost spirit hall? At eighteen, I established a ghost spirit hall and served ghost immortals! The presiding master was the sister my grandfather said had gone mad and died! This book has no female lead. It's not fantasy, and it's definitely not a cultivation novel! It's the true story of how I, born with an ominous yin con 86.4kReads9.6Score8.2k14d adds
- 115 The Earth God of Great Zhou 大周土地公 [Quality guaranteed across 5 million characters. Feel free to bookmark and enjoy!] He transmigrates into the world of Sword and Fairy and becomes the lowest-ranking Earth God. Relying on the incense offerings of the spirits in the wilderness, such as weasels, foxes, rats, hedgehogs, and snakes, he grows stronger step by step and establishes a clan of immortals. He teaches weasels to lay bricks, foxes to tell stories, rats to mint coins, and pythons to sail the seas... Starting out as an Earth Go 27.3kReads9.0Score3.2k14d adds
- 116 The Heaven-Ordained Fortune Teller 天命神算 When I was thirteen, I fell gravely ill. My fever wouldn't break, and no matter how many famous doctors I saw, none could cure me. My grandfather healed me, but he died mysteriously five years later. Only then did I learn that he had incurred a karmic debt on my behalf. So I inherited his legacy and embarked on the path of a feng shui master. 148.2kReads9.2Score17.3k14d adds
- 117 The Best Feng Shui Master on the Construction Site 工地最强建筑风水师 [If this caught your eye, it must be fate. Don't scroll away just yet.] This novel (campus opening + wild imagination + an expansive world) combines feng shui and the supernatural (using feng shui to weave the plot together), fantasy, magic, science fiction, parallel worlds, and time travel to the past. The pace picks up dramatically after Chapter 30, and the story strongly promotes traditional Chinese culture. Also known as From the Start with a Treasure Gourd to Help Me Destroy Demons Also kno 2.3kReads8.3Score26814d adds
- 118 Learning Feng Shui from Third Grandpa 跟着三爷爷学风水 Born into a family of Feng Shui practitioners, I became someone who defies fate the moment I entered the world of Yin-Yang Feng Shui. As one strange event after another unfolded, I learned to recognize fortune and misfortune, ward off disaster, and handle everything with ease. To all the brothers, sisters, uncles, and aunties passing by, please leave a book review here! Remember to comment, too! Thank you! If you like learning, remember to bring your brain along. There’s plenty of useful informa 34.1kReads8.8Score2.9k14d adds
- 119 Tianxuan Paranormal Affairs Office 天玄灵异事务所 - [Infinite Flow + Urban Supernatural + Chinese-Style Horror + Folk Legends and Hauntings + Celestial Master Exorcists + Heirs to the Daoist Tradition + Heterochromatic-Eyed Heroine + Haunted House Tales + Episodic Stories + Folk Taboos] - Hidden deep in the bustling streets is an inconspicuous supernatural affairs office called Tianxuan. - No one dares touch the folk taboos of this world. Haunted houses are plagued by unsolved horrors, abandoned villages and ancient mansions seethe with resentm 1.2kReads—Score10414d adds
- 120 The Haunted Tomb 诡坟 [This is no ordinary paranormal story. It's all about horror and suspense: no mindless wish fulfillment, forbidden yin-yang lore, no cultivation, and a ghost wife. If it's not good, you can break my legs.] People laugh at my family's poverty and say that all my blood relatives have died, so there must be a ghost in our house. I don't dare argue... because there really is a ghost buried in our ancestral grave! ...My name is Zhang Asi... I was born at four in the morning on the fourteenth day of t 40.1kReads8.8Score3.7k14d adds
- 121 Horror Tavern: I Only Raise the Most Ferocious Creatures 恐怖酒馆：我只养大凶之物 Tucked away in a quiet alley is a strange tavern that can grant your wishes, as long as you’re willing to set up a terrifying idol in your home... 6kReads9.4Score80414d adds
- 122 Born of a Corpse, Carried in a Ghost's Coffin 尸生子，鬼抬棺 In ancient, remote places, all kinds of strange and terrifying things are bound to happen. And these things happen around Hua Jiunan. In fact, Hua Jiunan is part of them. For instance, he was born from a corpse! 213.6kReads9.6Score25.4k14d adds
- 123 The Underworld Detective 阴间神探 My new work is out! You can read it on Tomato Novel. I hope you'll enjoy it. Your support inspires me to write, and I'll do my best to tell every story well! 73.8kReads9.4Score8.8k14d adds
- 124 Vivid as Life 栩栩若生 A fortune-teller said I was born destined for greatness, the reincarnation of the Flower Goddess, with the power to turn stones into gold and command flower spirits and tree sprites. Once I came of age, my family was sure to prosper. But when I was twelve, I came down with a strange illness. My fever wouldn’t break, and I kept seeing terrifying visions... In a dream, I met an old woman who told me to find an expert with supernatural powers to save my life. Millet to summon souls, altars and form 19.4kReads9.5Score3.5k14d adds
- 125 EN With a Fox Immortal, I Subdue a Hundred Ghosts 我以狐仙镇百鬼 The day I was born, nineteen bolts of thunder struck around our family’s courtyard. A fortune-teller said I was born a demon child, fated to suffer eighteen calamities in my life. Either someone else would die, or I would. As it turned out, the fortune-teller met his own calamity on the very day I was born. He carried me out of the village, and suddenly dropped dead! 743.2kReads9.4Score41.2k14d adds
- 126 The Dragon-Suppressing Coffin and the King of Hell's Fate 镇龙棺，阎王命 They severed my tendons and buried me alive in a sealed coffin, but they didn’t know I was born with the fate of the King of Hell! [Folk horror, feng shui and talismans, incense offerings] Feng shui and fortune-telling, painted-skin demons and spirit summoning, walking in the shadows and corpse driving, corpse-raising spells and curses, yin tattoos and talismanic needles, puppets controlled by strings, red doors sealed with wax, Dogs digging graves on Burial Mound Ridge, ghosts feasting in the R 308.4kReads9.4Score27.5k14d adds
- 127 The Language of the Three Corpses 三尸语 You’ve heard of people who died with their eyes open, but have you ever heard of a dead person whose mouth wouldn’t close? His grandfather’s death turns the life of a broke college student upside down. A corpse glares, a soul is hooked; a corpse opens its mouth, and disaster strikes twice. As one bizarre incident after another unfolds, he accidentally discovers that there’s far more to it than ghosts… 68.4kReads9.3Score10.6k14d adds
- 128 In Another World, I Use Taoist Arts to Empty My Enemy's Warehouse 到了异世，我用道术搬空仇人仓库 An alternate history setting. Please do not compare this story with real history! Gou Yunshu, a modern Daoist exorcist, was betrayed by her best friend during an exorcism. She was struck down by heavenly retribution, killed by a bolt of lightning. She transmigrated into the body of a young girl in the Great Xia Kingdom of the Republican era and discovered that her grandfather had been captured by the Japanese army. To rescue him, she took her younger siblings, bought a house, and left Laolongtan 1.3kReads—Score10714d adds
- 129 The Grave Robbers' Chronicles: Northern School 北派盗墓笔记 [Published in print and available online] [The Beipai Notes horizontal-screen drama is now streaming] [Tomb Raiding + Mystery + Antiques] I'm a poor kid from a mountain village in Northeast China. In the early twenty-first century, hoping to make something of myself, I joined a northern tomb-raiding crew. From south to north, I've seen every side of the underworld and crossed paths with people from all walks of life. Over the years, I went from a young man to a middle-aged one. My drinking got b 948.8kReads9.6Score117.8k14d adds
- 130 Heavenly Abyss 天渊 (The print edition has been published and is available to buy online) A hundred years ago, Chen Qingyuan entered a forbidden zone called the Heavenly Abyss. His soul lamp went out, and everyone believed he was dead. Today, Chen Qingyuan has emerged from the forbidden zone alive, but his cultivation has been destroyed and his spiritual roots severed. With his beloved breaking off their engagement and the various sects bullying him, what is Chen Qingyuan supposed to do? “Chen Qingyuan, you have tw 974.8kReads9.4Score97.1k14d adds
- 131 EN Learning to Slay Gods in the Psychiatric Hospital 我在精神病院学斩神 A must-read hit on Tomato Novel | Original novel of the hit anime Slay the Gods | IP influence on the China Online Literature Influence List | 2023 China Good Novel Have you ever wondered whether monsters from ancient myths lurk beneath the neon-lit city? Have you ever wondered whether gods stand watch over humanity atop the moon hanging high above us? Have you ever wondered whether extraordinary people walk among us in our bustling modern cities, acting in the gods’ stead? In the society ruled 992.2kReads9.9Score158.5k14d adds
