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- 1 I Owe Nine Lifetimes of Yin Virtue, So I Opened an Online Coffin Shop 欠九世阴德，我开网店卖棺材 [No cultivation, horror, no female lead, folk customs, mystery] Li Tianyang witnesses the Impermanence Envoy coming to claim a life. Thinking it’s someone in cosplay picking on an old man, he steps in to save him, only to accidentally obtain the Book of Lives. From then on, he can see the life stories of the dead and spirits. After a car accident pulls him into a bizarre series of events, he has no choice but to flee to the ancestral home he’s never visited. There he discovers that his grandfath 2Reads—Score—Shelves
- 2 The Divine Son-in-Law in a Ma Yi Robe 麻衣神婿 My father is a dog, an old dog with a mottled coat. I called him Father for ten years… 390Reads8.8Score—Shelves
- 3 My Ancestor Was a Drought Demon 我的祖先是旱魃 The underworld is in chaos, and they want to kill me. The cultivation world is in chaos, and they want to kill me too. Good grief, both the living and the dead want me gone. I had no choice. To uncover the truth about my damn family, I dug up my own ancestral grave. I never expected my ancestor to be a drought demon. 3Reads—Score—Shelves
- 4 Living Sacrifice 活人祭祀 Also known as Soul of Porcelain A new bridge was being built in the village, but no matter what they tried, the final pier simply wouldn’t stand. So the village chief invited a feng shui master. As soon as he entered the village, he said that a white tiger was raising its head in their midst. If they wanted to get the pier standing, they would have to sacrifice a living person... Legend has it that a master potter’s final piece was made with his own blood instead of water. Its patterns resembled 53Reads7.2Score—Shelves
- 5 Urban: A Demon Has Possessed Me, So Don't Bother Saving Me Yet 都市：有妖上身先不用救我 [From the start + humor + invincible protagonist] Beneath the bustle of towering skyscrapers and on streets teeming with traffic, there is not only the intoxicating neon-lit nightlife, but also a brutal darkness hidden from view! When humans kill, it's usually over old grudges and grievances. But far more often, people are killed by demons, zombies, and evil spirits... That's why every region has established a Demon Control Bureau, dedicated to hunting down these monsters and evil spirits that w 4Reads—Score—Shelves
- 6 Taboos of the Yin Coffin 阴棺禁忌 I was only looking for a part-time job keeping watch over a warehouse, but on my very first night, I encountered something utterly baffling. A visitor tricked me into lying in a coffin, and the coworker who stayed up chatting with me that night turned out to have died the day before... 79Reads5.7Score—Shelves
- 7 Livestreaming Adventures: Uncovering a Bizarre Case from the Start 直播探险，开局揭秘逆天悬案 [Urban + Sci-Fi + Supernatural Powers] A treasure-hunting trip sent me down a road with no way back. To stay alive, I had no choice but to keep going. Little-known mysterious plants and animals, magnetic fields that trap people in hallucinations, extraordinary supernatural phenomena, traps lurking at every turn, and challenges that push beyond the limits of both ability and imagination. One perilous situation after another, with bizarre twists unfolding nonstop... 1Reads—Score—Shelves
- 8 Yin-Yang Occult Arts 阴阳诡术 [Urban + Transmigration + Alternate World] In a parallel world, an utterly ordinary transaction triggered a series of disasters. There are lurking figures in the swirling fog, and strange, hoarse whispers everywhere... After being drawn into an unfathomably deep conspiracy, can he uncover the truth and deal with one bizarre incident after another? No one knows!!! 7Reads—Score—Shelves
- 9 The Secret Records of Yin and Yang 阴阳秘录 Mountain spirits summon immortals; water spirits summon dragons. Do immortals really exist in this world? I don't know, but I do know that dragons are real. From the day the roar of machinery rang out across Miaoling Valley, everything began to slide toward an unknowable abyss. And from that abyss, a pair of eyes watched those involved, their gaze carrying an emotion impossible to decipher... 188Reads6.6Score—Shelves
- 10 The Young Celestial Master of the Daoist Sect 道门小天师 On the year of his master's eightieth birthday, his master arranged a funeral for himself. Everyone in the city came... 101Reads5.9Score—Shelves
- 11 Corpse Driver: I Dug Up an Undercover Cop from the Start 赶尸人，开局挖出警方卧底 Synopsis: Li Chengchuan is so busy driving corpses that he accidentally stands up his blind date, enraging his older sister! “I’ll go plead your case again, but you’d better behave this time, or I’ll beat you to death!” “I hope you can give me a reasonable explanation.” “Sorry, I had to go on a last-minute business trip and forgot to tell you.” “So what do you do for work?” “If I say I drive corpses, would you believe me?” “I believe you!” Song Qianqian didn’t take him too seriously, because her 15Reads—Score—Shelves
- 12 The Ghosts of Linjiang Middle School 临江鬼中 Through a twist of fate, Li Qingfan became one of the 24th batch of pathfinders sent into the horror game River City Ghost School. A faceless girl, a secret letter by the bed, a blood moon falling from the sky... Every one of these things threatened the players’ lives. With the System’s help, Li Qingfan battled his way through, using cutting-edge technology to challenge the supernatural. In the end, he escaped with his life and destroyed River City Ghost School. Note: The author will not explain —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 13 The Maoshan Celestial Master's Chronicles 茅山天师录 Maoshan is famous for its Taoist arts. I learned Maoshan Taoist magic and came down from the mountain to exorcise ghosts. My whole life has been filled with confusion. Is this really how my life is supposed to go? What is the meaning of what I protect? And who is behind the eerie doll and everything else? 89Reads—Score—Shelves
- 14 The Yin-Yang Master's Secret Records 阴阳师秘记 Where trees grow tall, immortals gather; where locust trees grow, ghosts gather. The village built an elementary school, tearing down the village temple and cutting down a centuries-old locust tree. Then the strange things began... 105Reads6.5Score—Shelves
- 15 The Yin-Fated Green Coffin 阴命青棺 [Horror novel with a bound System + one heroine + satisfying action + wild imagination] Enter at your own risk When calamity struck, no one in the village was spared. At his grandfather's request, a feng shui master saved me. From then on, I apprenticed myself to him and learned his arts. To save the person I love, I traveled the world, possessed by ghosts, corpses, and evil spirits, killing ghost kings, storming the underworld, and standing firm against the will of Heaven... I changed my fate, —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 16 The Yin-Yang Spirit Medium 阴阳出马仙 [Transmigration + Urban + Supernatural Powers] He transmigrated to another world, and from the day he was born, there was nothing special about him. He thought he would live an ordinary life, but then he attended a bizarre and mysterious wedding and began his path of cultivation. Curse magic, sorcery, a hundred evil spirits of the netherworld, a nine-headed serpent, a mysterious stone coffin... One strange event after another came his way, constantly plunging him into danger. 4Reads—Score—Shelves
- 17 Reborn: The Demon Monkey’s Urban Training 重生之历练妖猴在都市 [Uncle Nine] + [Jiangshi] + [Journey to the West] + [Ghosts] "Has Journey to the West... reached its finale?" "Well, so be it..." After struggling in vain, Sun Wukong watched his body slowly turn to bones and closed his heavy eyelids. "Fools! Who told you to kill him!" Just as the four ghosts, Tang Sanzang, Sha Wujin, Zhu Bajie, and the White Bone Horse, had eaten Sun Wukong down to his bones and were burping with full bellies, an angry roar rang out. "Huh?" The four ghosts looked up and saw Xia 10Reads—Score—Shelves
- 18 Drifting into the Haunted Room 漂移凶间 Mild Horror + No Stupid Decisions + Narrative-Driven + Slow Pacing + Large Cast In her previous life, Shen Qingyue was a brilliant but ill-fated rising forensic pathologist. Just as she was about to expose a shocking conspiracy, her life was cut short by a murder disguised as an accident. As her consciousness faded, she saw the killer's blurred, cold smile. When she opened her eyes again, she had returned to three years earlier, to the crossroads of her fate. She had just joined the Municipal P 1Reads—Score—Shelves
- 19 That Day, I Got a Call from a Classmate Who Had Died 那天，我接到了死去同学的电话 Months after a female classmate died in an accident, Su Mu unexpectedly received a phone call from her. In the midst of his terror, he had no idea this was the beginning of a series of bizarre and horrifying events. 7Reads—Score—Shelves
- 20 Strange Little Tales from the Folk 灵异民间小故事 These are folk tales of the strange and supernatural, some true, some not. Some are quite old and have grown more and more fantastical with each retelling, so don't overanalyze them or take them too seriously. Some may resemble stories you already know, but that's purely coincidental. 171Reads6.5Score—Shelves
- 21 The Bus at 4 A.M. 凌晨4点的公交车 At dawn in the university town, there’s a bus with no listed schedule. The passengers aboard have all been dead for a long time~! That day, I boarded that bus. This is where the story began... 1Reads—Score—Shelves
- 22 A Life Borrowed from the Yin Realm 借阴命 To keep me alive, my grandfather borrowed someone else’s life for me. Years later, that person’s descendants came seeking revenge... 190Reads7.2Score—Shelves
- 23 A Bowl of Meng Po's Soup 一碗孟婆汤 Among strange spirits and monsters, dangers abound. Break bones to uncover secrets and seek the path to immortality. Lin Zemin’s grandmother was a famous village doctor throughout the surrounding countryside. She could not only cure illnesses, but also read the signs. The medicines she used were all folk remedies. They might not have seemed orthodox, but they always worked. Lin Zemin was born late in his parents’ lives, and after his birth, his grandmother declared that he was destined to bear a 116Reads9.0Score—Shelves
- 24 Nine Out of Ten Divinations Are Wrong 【十卦九不准】 [No heroine, not a power fantasy, no tired tropes. A sequel to The Nether Road, also known as Strange Tales of the Spirit Road.] Read people's fortunes when you meet them; divine the dead's paths when you encounter ghosts. Use yarrow stalks to cast hexagrams, and pluck gold to change fate. Walk among the corpses without fear, and never lose your way in the underworld. The practitioners of yin and yang arts investigate strange cases, while ancient mystic traditions probe the hearts of humankind. 533Reads8.7Score107Shelves
- 25 Beware of the Red Envelopes 红包请小心 We were just a group of ordinary students, but after claiming a red envelope, we were dragged into a terrifying game. As we struggle to survive, we keep searching for a way out and trying to understand why we were chosen. Little do we know that an even deeper mystery is waiting for us, and more horrors are closing in... 636Reads6.6Score—Shelves
- 26 Corpse Driver: From the Start, I Take My Mother-in-Law to a Blind Date 赶尸人，开局赶着丈母娘去相亲 While Zhang Tianyi is driving corpses, his godmother calls and arranges a blind date for him. “Hello, I’m Liu Sisi. Let’s set a time and place to meet for our blind date.” “How about midnight? Meet me at the Magpie Bridge.” “Can’t we pick another time?” “I’m driving corpses these days, so I can only go out at night.” Liu Sisi doesn’t take him seriously and shows up at the Magpie Bridge at midnight as agreed. From the thick fog come eerie bells and a strange voice. “Jingle, jingle...” “The dead a 7Reads8.7Score—Shelves
- 27 Believe in Science! School Beauty, What Are You Doing? 要相信科学，校花你在干啥？ Take a look at this man. His name is Xiaoshuai! He’s sitting cross-legged on his bed, with his palms facing up and resting on his knees. That’s right, he’s meditating. You could also call it sitting in meditation. It’s ten minutes until the Ghost Festival. The time is 11:50 p.m. He’s just curious, that’s all. He wants to know if ghosts and gods really exist in this world. Legend says the gates of the underworld swing wide open on this day. If you want to see ghosts and gods, this is the perfect 736Reads8.2Score—Shelves
- 28 My Yin-Yang Teahouse 我有一间阴阳茶馆 When the dead come knocking, my work begins. Behind every death lies a story. I will tell these untold stories, one by one... My name is Xia Xingchen. I can see ghosts. I help the souls who come seeking the light embark on their final journey. As I help them find redemption, I am also searching for the truth... 31Reads7.3Score—Shelves
- 29 The Haunted Son of Heaven 诡天子 I can hear the dead speak and tell yin from yang. A serious illness in childhood gave me the ability to hear the last words of the dead and see the shackles on the living! My name is Zhao Changsheng. I was born among piles of corpses, and my life is fated to be bound to death. I won’t live past eighteen. To keep me alive, my adoptive father revealed the secrets of fate before he died, divining thirteen corpses that could defy heaven and change destiny… 216Reads6.6Score—Shelves
- 30 The Omnicompetent Demon Catcher 全能捉妖师 [Urban Fantasy + Superpowers + System] In a world where demon hunters reign supreme, ability is the best proof of one's worth. But he's just a rookie with barely any spiritual power. Then one day, he gets the most powerful spiritual energy absorption System! You cultivate your way, and I'll absorb spiritual energy to cultivate. From that day on, he begins his rise from the bottom. The strongest demon hunter: who can stand against him? 23Reads5.5Score—Shelves
- 31 Route 14 Night Bus 14路夜班公交车 My name is Li Long. For triple pay, I took the night shift on Bus Route 14, the one everyone else avoids. It starts at the old depot in the west of the city and ends at the back gate of the crematorium. Departure time: exactly eleven at night. The passengers have no body heat, no breath, and no faces. They are the souls of those who drowned in the river three years ago. A chilling aura hangs over the route, ghosts follow in its wake, and every stop hides a curse that claims lives. Three rules ar 1Reads—Score—Shelves
- 32 EN Otherworldly Merchant 阴间商人 I’m a merchant who specializes in collecting sinister, supernatural objects. Anything that belonged to the dead is valuable! In the hands of ordinary people, these things can bring anything from a haunting to the ruin of an entire family. But in my hands, they can help you get promoted, make a fortune, defy fate, and meet every need a client could have. Want to know why? Shh. If you’re brave enough, come hear about the first terrifying deal I took after entering the business... 188Reads8.9Score—Shelves
- 33 The Yin Master of the Living World 阳间葬阴师 I am Shen Xu, born under an ill-starred fate. On the day I was born, ghosts swarmed around me, and I barely survived my first twelve years. The day before I turned twelve, my grandfather used a living corpse hidden in a coffin to conceal my fate, while a nine-lived black cat upset the balance of yin and yang. He put my coffin on a little cart and sent it to the Xuanqing Temple on Mount Taiqing. From that day on, I set out on an uncanny and unpredictable path through the esoteric arts... 365Reads8.9Score100Shelves
- 34 Witchcraft 蛊术 To save me, Grandpa dug up the poisonous gu worm buried for ten years… From then on, I was swept into the bizarre world of gu insects! The ten most fearsome insects of Miaojiang, ancient and mysterious gu arts, all enough to take your breath away. This novel strives to portray gu arts in their purest form and is well worth a read. 702Reads8.4Score101Shelves
- 35 I Was a Paper Effigy Maker, Now I Rule the Underworld 扎纸匠的我，成了地府大佬 Xu Bannian transmigrates to Nanqing, a land ravaged by war and ruled by eerie gods, and becomes a paper effigy maker in the Soul-Calming Bureau. By crafting paper figures, he repairs the souls of the dead. In these chaotic times, Xu Bannian wants nothing more than to make paper figures in peace, listen to songs at the pleasure quarters, walk his dog, play with his birds, and freeload... Who would have thought he’d end up crafting the Black and White Impermanence, the Ten Kings of Hell, City God 46Reads6.3Score—Shelves
- 36 I Hosted a Show, and My Identity as a Corpse-Driving Taoist Was Exposed 主持节目，我赶尸人身份被曝光了 A campus interview show. Host Zhou Xiaoyi asked, “Have you ever seen a ghost?” “Heh. What era are we living in? We should believe in science. Of course I've never seen a ghost!” Ye An replied. Beep! Beep! Beep! The lie detector went off like crazy! “Then what did you do after you encountered a ghost?” “Obviously, I ran! It was a ghost. Wouldn't I have to be an idiot not to run?” Beep! Beep! Beep! The lie detector went off like crazy! From that day on, Ye An's identity as a corpse-drivin 31Reads5.9Score—Shelves
- 37 Welcome to the Nightmare Livestream!!! 欢迎来到噩梦直播间！！！ My new work is out! Everyone is welcome to read it on Tomato Novel. I hope you enjoy it. Your support is what motivates me to write, and I'll do my best to tell every story well! 5Reads—Score—Shelves
- 38 The Yin-Yang Affairs Office 阴阳事务所 The Yin-Yang Affairs Office is closed during the day and open at night. We don't take cases from the living, only from ghosts. I'm a man of principles. What? A pretty young lady wants to come visit? Yo, I might consider it! A bewitchingly beautiful, sultry red-robed female ghost; a headless ghost whose head was chopped off with an axe; the Black and White Impermanence from the underworld... They're all regulars here. To tell you the truth, even the King of Hell was raised by me! 354Reads7.8Score101Shelves
- 39 Maoshan 茅山 When I was little, my parents abandoned me in a mass grave. My master found me and raised me to adulthood. He was a Taoist priest who knew how to subdue demons and exorcise evil spirits, and he taught me everything he had learned in his life. I signed an agreement with the underworld to work as a ghost constable in the mortal world, trading my service as a ghost for extra years of life… 981Reads6.5Score—Shelves
- 40 A Collection of Folk Tales 民间故事会合集 Open this book, and you’ll find that its folk legends and tales are unlike any you’ve read before. These stories are full of fantasy: some are terrifying, some suspenseful, some explore the ugliness of human nature, and others deal with karmic retribution. In this vast world, what hidden folk tales and legends do you know? Step into an ancient, mysterious world and join the author in discovering and experiencing these extraordinary folk stories! 21Reads—Score—Shelves
- 41 The Feng Shui Master of Qingwu 青乌风水师 My grandfather tells the fortunes of the living. I tell the fortunes of the dead. One day, my grandfather forced me to read his fortune... 1.2kReads8.8Score132Shelves
- 42 The Boy in the Hemp Robe 麻衣少年 [Ma Yi Divine Physiognomist, Young Feng Shui Master, Defying Fate] The year I was born, torrential rain fell from the heavens, and hordes of weasels swarmed into my home. To save me, my father leapt into the flood. When I was seven, my grandfather took in five female disciples, and they all became my senior fellow disciples. My bizarre story begins with these five senior sisters. 2.5kReads8.6Score237Shelves
- 43 The Cunning Yin-Yang Doctor 阴人诡医 [Supernatural + Feng Shui + Fortune-Telling + Doctor + Witchcraft + Ghosts + Mystery + Wild Imagination + Qimen Bagua + Professions] To repay a debt of gratitude, I went against my grandfather’s dying wish. From then on, there was a strange doctor in the world, and I encountered countless extraordinary people. A human face that appears on your back at night, man-eating Gu insects, evil spirits with human faces and snake bodies. The wandering knife peddlers who sell their wares on credit, and the 169Reads7.1Score—Shelves
- 44 The Escort of the Mountains and Seas: The Langyin Garment Tomb 山海押镖人之琅音衣冢 (Fantasy adventure!! If you love adventure, come along.) Escort work isn't like hosting a banquet, writing an essay, or drawing and embroidering flowers. There's nothing refined or genteel about it, and certainly no room for being mild-mannered, respectful, frugal, and yielding. Escorting cargo is a skill for surviving in the martial world, a matter of life and death, and a contest of intrigue and deception. Bandits, robbers, crooked inns, charlatans, and all sorts of factions will stop at nothi 37Reads7.2Score—Shelves
- 45 Everyone Has a Ghost City, but I Created the Underworld 全民鬼城而我创建地府 In a parallel world, the ghost race invades and seizes vast swaths of human territory. Everyone receives a ghost city when they turn eighteen, then enters the regions occupied by ghosts! They search the ghost realms for ghosts to recruit, bring them into their cities, and raise ghost armies to fight ghosts with ghosts! Lin Mu, who transmigrates into this world, is thrilled to discover that he can not only see detailed information about ghosts, but has also gained the ability to multiply their po 194Reads8.6Score—Shelves
- 46 Dragon-Subduing Art 镇龙术 When I was born, my grandfather foresaw that I would face four great calamities in my life. To change my fate, he traded his life for mine. That day, a thousand white cranes circled overhead, escorting my grandfather to his final rest... 24Reads7.6Score—Shelves
- 47 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
- 48 The Hundred-Ghost Storyteller 百诡传人 To solve the mystery of the Seventy-Two Ghost Mounds, Yang Tianming descends the mountain with the Hundred Ghosts Register, ventures into the city, and meets beautiful women. He rescues a Corpse Sister, practices forbidden arts, and guides wandering spirits to the afterlife. With the Soul-Whipping Whip in hand and the Hundred Ghosts Register at his side, when the Dragon Soul returns to his body, he won’t be alone! 74Reads8.6Score—Shelves
- 49 The Eerie Immortal’s Box 诡仙魔盒 [Mystery] + [Eerie] + [Xuanhuan] + [Thriller] + [Mind-Bending] + [One Female Lead] Chen Tong, a young man struggling to make a living in the city, returns to his hometown to attend his grandfather's funeral... But he unexpectedly discovers that his grandfather's death was shrouded in mystery. He comes into possession of a mysterious golden-thread nanmu box, and everything begins to turn Eerie... The grandfather of a female classmate from his village also dies. The monks and Taoist priests hired —Reads8.3Score—Shelves
- 50 The Last Disciple of the Daoist Sect 最后一个道门弟子 When I was born, all the ghosts bowed to the ancestral shrine. My family was burdened by a curse that weighed heavily on me. Then, when I was sixteen, my grandfather died under mysterious circumstances, and my uncle vanished without a trace. It all began with that curse... 517Reads6.8Score100Shelves
