Novels like The Young Physician
Books Chinese readers most often put in the same booklists as The Young Physician, best match first.
- 1 Pawnshop No. 8 第八号当铺 Legend has it that an ancient, mysterious organization exists in this world: the Eighth Pawnshop. If you can find it, you can obtain anything your heart desires. “Academician Tu, hello. You have three days left to live. Would you like to join our Eighth Pawnshop? Our Eighth Pawnshop is dedicated to world peace, scientific progress, exploring the cosmos, and sailing toward the vast sea of stars. Our Eighth Pawnshop is home to scientists, philosophers, and educators from human history who vanished 311Reads—Score—Shelves
- 2 Mysterious Resurgence: I'm Not the Ghost King 神秘复苏，我不是诡王 [Mild horror, somewhat Lovecraftian, no System, survival and growth, one female lead, not for the fainthearted] "This story is entirely fictional and does not reflect reality. Now, the mysteries begin to return..." Grandpa died with his eyes open. The day we carried his coffin up the mountain, I didn't dare look back, because the people carrying it... weren't human! A daily dose of occult weirdness: One ring of the bell, and all ghosts flee; one talisman stuck on, and evil spirits call you Dad 3Reads—Score—Shelves
- 3 The Strange Dao: From the Start, a Vengeful Spirit in the Marshal's Mansion 诡道，开局大帅府里的怨灵 [Supernatural + Suspense + Adventure] Yin soldiers crossing the border? I’ll draw talismans to trap them, borrow the incense offerings of the living, and force them to crawl back on their knees! Vengeful spirits haunting me? I’ll use copper coins to bind their souls and seal them in the earth’s ley lines. Feng shui curses? I’ll redirect the dragon veins and defy fate itself. In the chaotic Republic of China era, warlords carve up the land, yin soldiers march through, and living corpses roam by n —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 4 Who Is the Person Beside Me? 枕边人是谁 My name is Tan Zihan. I’ve been married to my husband, Ye Tianci, for eight years, and married life has been one mess after another. We still live under the same roof, but now we’re just friends. With the economy in a slump, Ye Tianci is looking for work. Then one day, I suddenly realized that he was different at night than he was during the day. Did he have multiple personalities, or was there someone else in the house? I was terrified. Later, Ye Tianci vanished without a trace, yet I kept seei 2Reads—Score—Shelves
- 5 In This Life, I See My Past Life 我于今生观前世 The protagonist encounters his past lives in a dream. Only after unraveling the mystery of his time in the womb does he discover that he is nothing but an empty shell. Once his three souls return to his body, three powerful spirits press against his own will. He has no choice but to deal with monsters and outside intruders to strengthen himself, all while withstanding the weight of karma and fighting to stay alive! Whether it's a black dragon stirring up trouble, a corpse-nurturing ground in the —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 6 My Profession Is a Little Unorthodox, but There's Nothing Wrong with Me 专业不太正经，人没毛病 Li Tianyu was born into a family of scholars. His grandfather is a renowned Confucian scholar, his father has a doctorate, and his mother has a master's degree. And Li Tianyu is even more impressive: he's a Taoist priest... Although he doesn't quite fit in with his elders, Li Tianyu also attended a legitimate Taoist academy, one recognized by the state and authorized to issue diplomas. 14Reads8.9Score—Shelves
- 7 The Age of Calamity 诡劫时代 [The paranormal descends + supernatural resurgence + no female lead + no System + no saintly protagonist] Vengeful ghosts descend. The living are ants, and the dead become spirits. Those who close their eyes have their souls scattered; travelers who venture out at night leave no bones behind. Everyone lives in fear. Who can restore peace to the human world? 1Reads—Score—Shelves
- 8 My Undying-Bone Ancestor Is Neither Good nor Evil 我的不死骨老祖宗亦正亦邪 My Undying-Bone Ancestor Is Both Righteous and Evil Phoenix blood, the soul of a qilin, an undying bone, the Art of Immortality... A thousand-year-old conspiracy stirs once more, sending the world into turmoil. See how young Master Feng meets every move with a counter of his own! 2Reads—Score—Shelves
- 9 I'm a Merchant in a World of Horror 我在惊悚世界当商人 Some people trade in the living, while others trade in the dead. I deal in the business of the dead, but I don’t sell coffins, joss paper, burial clothes, or paper offerings. I sell things you’ve never seen before, things far stranger… 2.6kReads8.8Score258Shelves
- 10 The Funeral Home Host's Path to Immortality 殡仪馆司仪修仙记 A fortune-teller said Mo Wen was fated to be haunted by five ghosts, and that a disastrous curse would befall his family that very day. Mo Wen didn't believe him. Then his father fell off the roof that same day and broke his leg. To keep his family out of danger, Mo Wen went far away, but the spirits continued to hound him. In a fit of anger, he walked into a funeral home and took a job as an unofficial funeral host, only to attract even more vicious ghosts... A love affair spanning three thousa —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 11 The Feng Shui Mastermind 风水大掌柜 The day I was born, nine dragons came bearing a coffin, and a hundred ghosts wailed in mourning. I was born under a fated star. My name is Bai Ke, a feng shui master delivered to the mortal world in a coffin borne by nine dragons. I guide souls between yin and yang, and was born with an innate gift for the mysteries of heaven and earth. When you run into anything supernatural, just come to me, Bai Ke. I am the chief feng shui master, and there is no mysterious matter in this world that I cannot 594Reads7.1Score101Shelves
- 12 I Became a Master in Another World 我在异世当大师 Shi Zhentian transmigrates to another world, where he becomes a talisman master who draws charms for weddings and funerals. The original owner had gone three days and nights without sleep, drawing talismans and pasting them on the gate of a family living in a haunted house. He collapsed and died right on his workbench. Shi Zhentian looks at the half-finished talisman in front of him and immediately completes it with a few strokes. Don't ask how he knows how to draw these things. It's his special 41Reads5.3Score—Shelves
- 13 In This Life, I Shall Suppress Yin and Yang 这一世，镇压阴阳 [Urban high-martial arts, reincarnation and rebirth, one heroine, a touch of the supernatural, lighthearted and passionate.] In their previous lives, he was an orphan, and she was a ghost. An orphan and a ghost, from meeting and understanding each other to relying on and keeping one another company. Then, their feelings quietly blossomed, and they became lovers... after overcoming countless hardships. But what happy ending has there ever been for a human and a ghost in love? Every union between 15Reads—Score—Shelves
- 14 The Paranormal Investigator 探诡达人 My name is Qi Yue. I was born in the seventh lunar month, so that’s how I got my name. I’m a restaurant reviewer, and I’ve been doing this for five years. I made a little money in the first few years, but after the pandemic, the jobs became fewer and fewer. I wanted to switch to another line of work, but I didn’t know how to do anything else, so I had no choice but to keep struggling. With my pockets nearly empty, I desperately searched online for similar jobs. At last, I found a well-paid posit 8Reads—Score—Shelves
- 15 The Gate of Death 死亡之门 Not every game is meant to be played. The moment the gates of desire opened, our entire class set out on a road with no return. The campus belle and my friends began dying one by one, and that was only the beginning. The moment the phone rang, the gates of death opened too. 156Reads6.0Score—Shelves
- 16 The Seven Gates 七门调 Bai Feifei ruined a recently unearthed serpent-shaped bronze artifact while washing it in the lab. Ever since, on every full-moon night, she dreams of a blood-soaked giant snake chasing her relentlessly, demanding that she compensate him with a brand-new skin. But when she wakes, she discovers to her horror that none of it was a dream... A month ago, Bai Feifei thought she had angered a terrifying beast. She spent every day trembling with fear and begging it to leave her alone. Bai Feifei: I’m 39Reads8.7Score—Shelves
- 17 The Eerie Game: From the Start, I Picked Up a Top-Tier Star 诡异游戏：开局捡个顶流女星 [Horror game + dark tone + unscrupulous tactics + Infinite Flow + one female lead] Could the strange creature Gu Changqing brought out of a haunted villa really be a top-tier star and a high-level player in the horror game? And does she really need to form a "deep connection" with Gu Changqing and devour his "life essence" to maintain her human form...? 7Reads8.0Score—Shelves
- 18 The Seventh Month Shop 七月半商铺 A gentle yet scheming teacher, a handsome instructor at a top university, has actually been alive for ten thousand years. A sweet shopkeeper, as charming as the girl next door, tends an ancient store. Inside, there is nothing you can imagine that the store won't sell. Love, hatred, memories, and the future are all available, either through an equal exchange or at a steep price. The city is crawling with “Mei.” Someone buys a “Mei” from the shopkeeper, only to become entangled in a string of murd 21Reads8.5Score—Shelves
- 19 Highway to Hell 地狱公路 “Only sinners may set foot on this road and face the trials of Hell. Only those who pass the trials can wash away their sins and be reborn.” Class A accidentally enters another world on the way to their autumn outing. There is only one road here, a one-way street known as the Hell Road. It is a world that only sinners can enter. The way back has vanished, and the only way to survive is to walk the length of the road and complete one trial after another along the way. “Have you forgotten already? 34Reads7.1Score—Shelves
- 20 The Evil-Suppressing Man of the Living World 阳间镇邪人 The world is formed from the union of Heaven and Earth. Where there is righteousness, there is evil; where there is yang, there must be yin. This world is full of the strange and the terrifying, and I am part of the strange. My name is Xiao Xie. My grandfather once said that on the day I was born, I tore a vicious asura ghost apart with my bare hands... 1.6kReads7.5Score111Shelves
- 21 The Underworld Retirement Home 冥府养老院 [Mystery + Supernatural Horror + Urban + Deduction + No Do-Gooder Protagonist + Decisive and Ruthless] On the first day of school, I ran into a female ghost! Facing the red-clad upperclassman before me, I raised a chair and brought it crashing down on her! "You think it's funny to dress up like a ghost and scare me, you bastard?" —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 22 Folk Taboos: I Cultivate Merit in the Mortal World 民间禁忌：我在人间修功德 Everyone knows the barber, but few realize that the earliest barbers were actually executioners, and strange adepts who mastered esoteric arts. They walk between life and death, needing only a barber's razor to read the secrets of Heaven and travel between yin and yang. They shave the living, and they shave the dead. Even today, folk wisdom warns: never offend the barbers who roam the land with their poles and packs. 168Reads7.1Score—Shelves
- 23 The Yellow Springs Pawnshop 黄泉当铺 Here, you can get anything you want, whether it’s power, money, or status. If you can imagine it, you can trade for it. But you must pay the appropriate price. That price might be your limbs, your emotions, your senses... or even your soul! 324Reads5.4Score—Shelves
- 24 Opening the Sparrow Gate 开雀门 While my mother was carrying me, I was sitting upright in her womb. The doctors all said the birth would be difficult, but my grandmother traded my life to a spirit messenger. My Xuanwu even went so far as to strip off his skin and bones for me! My relatives sought out one master after another to protect me, but sadly, they all said the good fortune I was born with was nowhere near enough to keep me alive. If I wanted to survive, I had no choice but to embark on the path of cultivation. From Sha 34Reads7.1Score—Shelves
- 25 Jade-Hued Splendor: Ninth Lord’s Wife Is a Max-Level Expert 翡色倾宸九爷娇妻是满级大佬 The seemingly fragile and easy-to-bully heiress of a jade empire is actually a max-level powerhouse with a pocket dimension! When her manipulative green-tea best friend runs into her unconventional face-slapping counterattacks, a high-energy urban drama of thrilling triumphs and crushing defeats begins. Shen Hua, the pampered little princess of a jade dynasty, disguises herself as a naive “reed girl” to experience ordinary life. Everyone thinks she’s a parasitic vine relying on her family and he —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 26 Soul Funeral Director 灵魂殡葬师 My name is Zeng Yao. Yao, as in “beautiful as jade.” I have no father or mother. They say my mother died in childbirth, and no one knows who my father was. My uncle, Old Lei, brought me home. My uncle had an unusual profession: he was an undertaker. He beautified and applied makeup to the dead, then handled their cremation and everything else. Like father, like son, they say, but although I wasn’t my uncle’s child, he made me learn all those things from a young age. But I didn’t like it. I eve 461Reads8.7Score100Shelves
- 27 Songs of the Underworld 冥歌 [Not a wish-fulfillment novel] It’s a tangled, lengthy story, not one about a loser turning his life around by fawning over women. [There is a heroine] I’m new to this, so I don’t understand why novels have to be tagged as having no heroine. To be honest, mine has one, though she doesn’t appear much. [Not necessarily funny] Hard to say. The author has a strange sense of humor. [Neurotic] The author is a little crazy, with a mind that keeps jumping around, so the plot can sometimes feel erratic. 1Reads8.1Score—Shelves
- 28 A Stranger's Path Through the Ghost World 鬼途陌路 Modern setting + horror + suspense + supernatural + strong female lead Hu Ying is a funeral makeup artist who just wants to earn a little money and lie flat. Who would have thought that after an accident, she’d be forced onto a one-way road where she’d have to live among ghosts? From then on, she uncovers conspiracies and fights evil cults, and somehow ends up at the very peak of life... 93Reads—Score—Shelves
- 29 I Own a Pawnshop That Spans Ten Thousand Worlds 我有一座万界当铺 Across the Myriad Worlds stands a mysterious pawnshop where anything can be pawned to complete a deal. The Sword Emperor Ling Tian owes the shop an imperial sword, and repays his debt with a swordsmanship legacy. The Chaos Ancient Sage owes a thousand years of life, and repays it with the Chaos Scripture. The Ten Thousand Poisons Daoist owes a poison manual, and repays his debt by working for the pawnshop for a thousand years. An ordinary cripple becomes the tenth owner of the Myriad Worlds Pawn 588Reads6.3Score104Shelves
- 30 Possessed by an Evil Spirit 撞邪 Grandpa spent his whole life doing good deeds. He never imagined that one night, he would ruin a young girl's life... 290Reads8.4Score—Shelves
- 31 Bai Wuji: The Taboos of a Hundred Ghosts 百无忌之百鬼禁忌 A haunted bus, a murder game in a WeChat group, a celebrity who raises a ghost child, a murder case involving the black magic of Southeast Asia, a young woman tormented by her ghost husband, a European murderous-spirit game passed down for hundreds of years, a century-old haunted house where nothing grows... Bai Wuji wants nothing to do with any of this for the rest of his life. But if they insist on coming after him, he won't be blamed for beating them until their souls are scattered to the win 481Reads7.3Score—Shelves
- 32 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
- 33 Tomb of the Living 活人墓 The village needed a new road, so they had no choice but to demolish a grave. After that, one strange thing after another began happening in the village... 52Reads8.6Score—Shelves
- 34 Living Witness to the Strange 活见异闻 Grandpa had seen a ghost for himself. In the dead of night, he went behind the villagers’ backs to dig up a dead woman’s grave, and even stripped off her... 36Reads6.5Score—Shelves
- 35 Urban: I Built Pawnshop No. 8 都市：我打造了8号当铺 Pawnshop No. 8 is a one-way street. Once you pawn something, you can never get it back. It can grant any wish, but you must pay an equal price. If it were you... what would you pawn? 515Reads6.6Score—Shelves
- 36 Playing Matchmaker in the Underworld 我在冥界牵红线 [Female-Oriented + Minimal Romance + Mild Horror + Plot-Focused + Episodic + Ensemble Cast] My name is You Sheng, and I'm a university student. I should have been enjoying a pleasant summer vacation, but the day before I was due to go home, a rideshare driver dumped me by the roadside. After that, a vengeful ghost latched onto me, and I unexpectedly gained the ability to see spirits... On the high-speed train, I met an old Taoist. To help my grandmother avert a calamity, I accepted the Ghost Eye 2Reads—Score—Shelves
- 37 White Terror 白色恐怖 [Wildly Imaginative Twists] + [Extensive Foreshadowing] + [Social Unrest] + [Mystery and the Supernatural] The campus, bustling by day, is eerily quiet at night... A group of girls playing with a spirit board in their dormitory happen upon the body of a woman who fell to her death. Rumors spread that a ghost is responsible. Then another girl is pushed down the stairs by an evil spirit in the teaching building! Panic grips the campus. Before long, a female teacher is killed by a ghost on camera a —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 38 Strange Tales of a Mountain Village: The Baby’s Eye and Hand 山村诡事之婴眼手 The Strange Events of a Mountain Village: Baby-Eyed Hand —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 39 Ghost Belly 鬼腹 [No brainless protagonist, no System, no harem, exceptionally high intelligence, utterly deranged.] This is an age of a hundred ghosts roaming the night. Countless vengeful ghosts have descended upon the world, and a bizarre giant baby has appeared in the sky, gradually taking the place of the sun and moon. Day and night rot together, and the stars collapse and fall. From this moment on, the world began to crumble. Civilization and order toppled like dominoes, and the evil in human nature surpas 282Reads8.3Score—Shelves
- 40 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
- 41 The Spirit Chaser 赶阴人 Read the stars and moon, and declare life and death with ironclad certainty. A man on the margins of the human world, he sets right the injustices of the underworld. My new book, The City's Strongest Immortal Son-in-Law, is out now. I humbly ask for your support! 450Reads7.1Score—Shelves
- 42 Feng Shui Yin-Yang Master 风水阴阳师 "Born under the Emperor Ziwei's fate, with yin-yang eyes from birth." An extraordinary life is his destiny. He inherits his ancestors' feng shui arts. In the world of the mystic arts, yin flourishes while yang declines. A thousand-year plan awaits just one person. 1.2kReads7.1Score116Shelves
- 43 The Abandoned Disciple's Old Pact 仙门弃徒的旧约 The Old Pact of the Abandoned Disciple of the Immortal Sect 1Reads—Score—Shelves
- 44 Master Coffin 棺爷 My godfather died under mysterious circumstances. His body was cut into more than two thousand pieces. After the burial, Eighth Master took me on as his disciple! I inherited the Coffin Master's legacy! 366Reads7.5Score—Shelves
- 45 Haunted Taoist Temple: I Only Hunt the Most Ominous Things 恐怖道观：我只抓大凶之物 “My good apprentice, you've completed your training. You may leave the mountain now.” “Rest assured, Master. Once I descend the mountain, I will vanquish demons and exorcise evil, restoring the glory of our Daoist tradition!” “To temper your character, I have a small test for you.” “I won't let you down, Master!” “Excellent. There's a young woman down the mountain. Go marry her!” “What?!” … 3.3kReads8.9Score354Shelves
- 46 The Greatest Pawnshop Under Heaven 天字第一當 By day, this pawnshop looks utterly ordinary, but it has one strange rule: anyone who pawns an item or buys an unredeemed one gets a free fortune reading. Stranger still, once midnight comes, the shop welcomes all kinds of bizarre visitors… 3.5kReads8.9Score384Shelves
- 47 Visitor from Hell 狱下来客 A modern supernatural mystery. Not wish fulfillment, not brainless, and no System. In this life, you pass countless people on the street. What makes you so sure they're all human? I never believed in this stuff either, until my landlord tricked me into moving to a place called Happy Community. The people around me didn't seem to be people at all. Footprints on the ceiling, dolls made of human skin, bloated drowned giants, people raising zombies, mother-and-child ghosts... Just how many secrets l 596Reads8.0Score100Shelves
- 48 Strange Feng Shui Affairs 风水异事 My grandfather is a feng shui master. While he was away, a woman came looking for him. After I greeted her, I saw purple-black veins of blood on her face, writhing on their own… 1.7kReads8.8Score520Shelves
- 49 The Daoist Arts Compendium: Flirting with Ghosts in the Underworld 道术灵册我在冥界调戏鬼 Supernatural and bizarre incidents keep happening, along with the use of all kinds of talismans, spells, and Taoist arts. Follow me, Lin Feng, as I promote traditional Chinese Taoism. Lin Feng was raised from childhood by his grandfather, Lin Yousheng, a renowned Taoist priest. The story takes place in a small town in the 1980s and 1990s. Before turning thirteen, Lin Feng had little interest in his grandfather's identity as a Taoist priest, but at thirteen, he began his journey down the Taoist p 2Reads—Score—Shelves
- 50 The Great Master of the Ma Yi School 麻衣大相师 I was born on the fifteenth day of the seventh lunar month. My grandfather, a feng shui master, never let me go outside after dark when I was little. Then one day, he had to leave the house… 234Reads8.6Score—Shelves
