Novels like The Corpse Carrier
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- 1 The River Bones That Bind Souls: The Corpse Retriever 河骨锁魂：捞尸人 When the corpse-retrieval hook catches destiny instead of a body, and the river-sealing seal restrains human nature instead of restless spirits, every floating corpse in the murky Yangtze becomes a key to opening the Bone Pagoda. And every corpse retriever is destined to become its eternal gravekeeper. 3Reads—Score—Shelves
- 2 Witchcraft of Paper Puppets 巫傀纸术 A person must endure the Five Poisons, Eight Hardships, Seven Tribulations, and Six Desires in this world. Some become ghosts or demons, others gods or Buddhas. Which are right or wrong, righteous or evil? Let us see how he walks his own path through life with the Art of Witchcraft and Paper Puppetry. 7Reads—Score—Shelves
- 3 A Paper Effigy Maker Who Sacrificed His Five Senses from the Start 扎纸匠开局献祭五感 I sacrificed my five senses to make paper effigies, but ended up creating the most terrifying monster in the world. The paper effigy came to life, and from that day on, I could no longer taste whether something was salty or bland. After my sense of taste came my hearing, smell, sight... But little by little, I realized that the senses I’d lost let me “smell” things ordinary people couldn’t see. The Flower Cave Maidens of western Hunan weren’t brides claimed by a mountain god. They were buried al 1Reads—Score—Shelves
- 4 The Yellow River Corpse Retriever 黄河捞尸人 Twenty years ago, I was adopted into a family of Yellow River corpse retrievers. My adoptive parents passed away one after the other, leaving me as the family’s sole heir. With no way out, I was forced to learn how to retrieve corpses. Whether it was a decades-old corpse, a skeleton from the Republican era, or an ancient body, I had to carry it out from one of the twelve haunted caverns. I had no other choice. This was the only way I could cling to life! 1.3kReads—Score—Shelves
- 5 The Corpse Retriever 捞尸匠 I was born under an ominous sign. After my grandfather died, I took up the trade of retrieving corpses from the water. There were walking corpses, blood corpses, mother-and-child corpses... and a mysterious civilization buried beneath the Yellow River for thousands of years. 99Reads—Score—Shelves
- 6 I Have a Date with a Ghost 我和鬼魂有个约会 [Supernatural CEO]+ [Ghost hunting]+ [No romance] My name is Yi Huan. My grandfather was a temple fortune-teller who read fortunes and studied feng shui for people. By a twist of fate, I inherited his mantle. From then on, I made my way through both the realms of yin and yang, profiting from the dead until I became the next Third Master Yi... —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 7 Twenty Years of Recovering Bodies from the Yellow River 黄河捞尸二十年 When it comes to the forbidden legends of the Yellow River, you’d be better off never asking. The corpse mane of the Yellow River, the ghost millstone, the Dragon Bone Temple, the stairway to the underworld… The old river workers of the Yellow River are the most mysterious people along its ancient course. Their families have guarded the river for generations, but what are they protecting it from? And what earth-shattering secrets lie beneath the ancient river, where hidden currents churn? 9Reads7.3Score—Shelves
- 8 The Corpse Investigator 探尸人 In the 1980s, a feng shui master was attacked by a zombie in a land of five evils. He lost a leg and an arm, but miraculously survived. Twenty years later, a mysterious woman surnamed Qin sought out the grandson of that master, Sun. She gathered a group of people and went exploring everywhere, capturing zombies to use as ingredients for medicine. Every member of the group was stranger than the last. What secrets were they hiding...? 420Reads—Score—Shelves
- 9 The Corpse Retriever: Hearing Tales of the Supernatural on the Yangtze River 捞尸人：我在长江听诡谈 On the Yangtze, a river that has swallowed countless secrets, Chen Sanshui makes his living retrieving corpses, earning just enough to keep himself alive. One stormy night, he pulls up a strange female corpse dressed in a blood-red wedding gown. Her face looks lifelike, and her hands clutch a battered radio. From that moment on, he is dragged into the deadly maelstrom of Strange Tales. At midnight, the radio turns on by itself despite having no power. A cold AI voice issues its first death-defy 3Reads—Score—Shelves
- 10 The Corpse Stitcher 缝尸匠 I work at a crematorium. One day, a woman’s corpse arrived, and I stitched her body back together. Ever since then, I’ve dreamed about her every night… 927Reads8.7Score—Shelves
- 11 The Years I Drove for the Dead 我替死人开车那几年 I'm an unlicensed taxi driver, driving through every street in the city, day and night. I've endured the scorching sun burning into my skin and the bone-chilling cold. I've picked up the living, and I've picked up the dead. My name is Gao Yang, but I'm fated to be haunted by yin energy. 1kReads7.2Score—Shelves
- 12 Rejected When I Proposed, I Can No Longer Hide That I’m a Corpse Retriever 提亲被拒，捞尸人身份藏不住了 My family has made its living retrieving corpses for generations. I was born with a rare boy's fate said to come once in a hundred years, and I wouldn't live past six. To save me, my grandfather arranged an engagement to extend my life. Sixteen years later, I went to ask for my bride's hand, but they refused. They thought the matter would be over once my grandfather died, but they had no idea that retribution was just around the corner... 6Reads—Score—Shelves
- 13 The Corpse Carrier 背尸匠 My grandfather was a corpse bearer. He carried countless bodies, and the last person he ever carried turned out to be himself... 549Reads7.1Score—Shelves
- 14 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
- 15 The Corpse Retriever: I Started Out by Recovering My Blind Date's Body 捞尸人，从打捞相亲对象出师 A woman in red floated in the middle of the river. She turned out to be my blind date… I'm a corpse retriever. I never imagined that my first lesson on the job would be retrieving the body of my blind date, or that it would lead me straight into a carefully woven trap. An invisible hand was driving me forward. I couldn't stop… 24Reads—Score—Shelves
- 16 I Sew Corpses, She Makes Paper Effigies, Together We Light the Sky Lantern 我缝尸，她扎纸，咱俩一起点天灯 This is Xiao Qing's first book, and it will absolutely not be abandoned. It's a story set in a brand-new world, blending the supernatural and fantasy with science fiction. Much of it reflects Xiao Qing's own understanding, so feel free to share different opinions. We can all discuss it together. Two people who grew up together find their fates intertwined by destiny. Their lives become even more closely connected, and the road ahead grows more treacherous. Their strange, bizarre, yet utterly mar 8Reads—Score—Shelves
- 17 I Joined a Yangtze River Sand-Dredging Crew and Pulled Up a Ghost Bride with My Own Hands 我在长江捞沙队，亲手捞上鬼新娘 “Folklore,” “ghosts and monsters,” “the supernatural,” “mythology” The sand-dredging crew pulled up a ghost bride who had been offered to the River God. From then on, the bride began haunting them, and strange things kept happening. The River God was furious, too, and demanded that we give him an explanation! With no other choice, I went with the crew to the River God’s lair. There, we came across countless monsters from legend: yuan dragons, flood dragons, corpse-liberation rings... We also unc —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 18 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
- 19 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
- 20 The Yellow River Corpse Collector 黄河捞尸人 My name is Zhao ?, and I’m a corpse retriever on the banks of the Yellow River. In our line of work, there are rules that must never be broken. Cross the line, and you won’t even find peace in death. The rules of the Zhao family are: First, never retrieve the corpse of the River Dragon King. Second, if you see a Bodhisattva, don’t look back. Third, avoid the corpses of young women. Fourth, stay away from ghost ships on the riverbed. I’ve always strictly observed these four ironclad taboos. Unfor 462Reads—Score—Shelves
- 21 Livestreaming Corpse-Herding, Hunted by My Blind Date 直播赶尸，被相亲对象追捕 Liu Mang is unexpectedly reborn with a live-streaming corpse-driving System, only for his aunt to call and tell him to go on a blind date! The female ghost Jin Yuanyuan: “Master, big brother, stick with you and I’ll get to eat my fill!” Ye Xueli: “I’m a police officer, and I’m hunting down the person live-streaming corpse driving. Hey, why are you running?!” Junior schoolmate Zhong Feifei: “Senior, could you be the dark horse prince Heaven sent me?” The thousand-year-old zombie Queen of Loul 17Reads5.4Score—Shelves
- 22 Dai Xiaomei Faints in Terror During Her Haunted House Livestream, Scared by Me Driving Corpses 呆小妹古宅直播，被赶尸的我吓晕 In the first year after graduation, Ding Hao became a corpse driver. He led a group of ancient corpses brought out of deep-mountain tombs through the empty streets and alleys at midnight. Watching a few people nearby look around nervously, he knew they were searching for their ancestors. “Your ancestors are all right here. Come over and pick one out.” A little streamer named Xiaodaidai filmed the whole thing. She thought to herself, This is it! My follower count is going to skyrocket! 22Reads—Score—Shelves
- 23 The Paper Effigy Maker 扎纸匠 Why can the descendants of the legendary Lu Ban, once famous throughout the land, only make paper offerings for funerals? Why did the once-renowned Li family retreat into the mountains? As the power of his bloodline awakens once more within a young man, is it a curse, or the work of man? Can fate be defied? Li Shuisheng refuses to believe in destiny. He will defy the heavens, change his fate, and fight for a chance to survive... 278Reads—Score—Shelves
- 24 The Mysterious Origami Master: Rising to Power from the Underworld! 诡秘折纸匠：从阴间开始成大佬！ (The protagonist is calm and self-focused, and refuses to be swept along by outside forces. Please understand if that's not to your taste.) After a family upheaval, he awakens as a bizarre paper-folding craftsman. After a paper mansion is burned down, it transforms into a haunted apartment building in the underworld. One paper figure after another becomes a battle-hardened general! With a wave of paper, he summons a river of stars across the heavens. With a drop of paper, the Yellow Springs surg 1kReads6.7Score152Shelves
- 25 The One Who Buries the Dead 葬阴人 My name is Li Tianci. I was greedy for money, and at eighteen I dug up a tomb where a woman had been buried. From then on, I was haunted by resentment and could never find peace... 1.3kReads—Score102Shelves
- 26 The Corpse Stitcher 缝尸人 Feng shui encompasses a great many trades, collectively known as the Eight Outer Schools. Among them, the profession that deals most with the dead and has seen the most terrifying things is that of the corpse tailor! I was born in a village hidden in the mountains. Following the family trade, I began working as a corpse tailor alongside my grandfather, and before long, more than ten years had passed... One day, a man appeared outside my shop, leading a young woman and bringing a coffin. The vill 66Reads—Score—Shelves
- 27 Boss, I Need a Day Off to Compete in a Hopping Corpse Contest Back Home 老板请个假，回乡参加赶尸比赛 [Leave Request:] [Dear Manager,] [There will be a corpse-driving and Gu-worm competition in western Hunan in the second half of December. I need to request leave so I can go home and train my Gu worms. Without me, our village will lose.] In his twenties, Chu Yan has already become the undisputed master of corpse-driving. Tired of the dull life, he joined a Fortune 500 company and settled into a leisurely office job. Until one day, the village chief sent him a text: "When are you coming back to c 54Reads5.8Score—Shelves
- 28 The Paper Effigy Maker: Paper Figures Become Gods 扎纸匠：纸人成神 The world underwent a tremendous change, and spiritual qi revival began. All kinds of monsters appeared in the human world and wreaked havoc everywhere. Fortunately, humans also awakened all sorts of supernatural abilities, gaining the power to fight back. Wang Ling was an ordinary paper effigy maker until he awakened an ability called “Spirit-Driving Paper Control.” From then on, all kinds of powerful paper spirits came into being. Ferocious beasts, ghosts, supernatural ability users, even the 6Reads6.9Score—Shelves
- 29 After Failing the Exams, I Became a Corpse Driver, and Dai Xiaomei Exposed Me 落榜后当赶尸人，被呆小妹曝光 After failing the college entrance exam, Yun Tianming felt his future was bleak. Then he unexpectedly got a Corpse-Driving System. “What? I can become the richest person in the world by driving corpses? And I can get supernatural powers, too!” Yun Tianming was absent from the class reunion. The class monitor called him: “If things aren't working out, come to me. I can get you a security guard job.” Yun Tianming: “I'll be right there.” With that, the Soul-Summoning Bell rang, and Yun Tianming dro —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 30 Divine Runes 神纹 He hated soldiers, but was forced to enlist. All he wanted was to find his father and then leave the military, but people kept provoking him. He had always yearned for the warmth of family. Yet when he received his father’s first gift, it marked the beginning of a hellish ordeal... He grew stronger, fought on, and won again and again. Thus began a passionate life of struggle. 6Reads7.4Score—Shelves
- 31 Midnight in the Countryside 午夜乡村 My parents' job transfers sent me to live and study at my grandmother's house. Before bed, she warned me not to go and look, no matter what sounds I heard. From then on, one strange event after another came crashing into my life. Then, one day, my grandmother suddenly told me the secret about who I really was... 553Reads6.8Score—Shelves
- 32 Northeastern Coffin Bearer 东北抬棺匠 Wang Chuyi learned the Book of Changes and the Eight Trigrams, Maoshan magic, swordsmanship, and boxing from his grandfather from an early age. He met Ma Hongmei, a disciple of the Ma family from Northeast China, and became her godson. Before she died, Ma Hongmei passed on to him her shrine, where she had enshrined a hundred immortals. Practicing both the immortal and Daoist paths, Wang Chuyi slays evil ghosts, subdues wicked demons, battles zombies, and guides benevolent spirits onward. He even 400Reads6.8Score111Shelves
- 33 After Graduation, I Became a Corpse Retriever, and Zhou Jie Exposed Me 毕业后当捞尸人，被周姐曝光了 With graduation just around the corner, Lin Yu's girlfriend breaks up with him over the harsh realities of life. Just then, Lin Yu activates the Corpse Retriever System and prepares to start recovering bodies. Some expert: No boat can sail on the River of the Dead. Some authority: No one can identify the corpses in the River of the Dead. Some veteran corpse retriever: Anyone who retrieves corpses from the River of the Dead dies within a year. Yet Lin Yu rows his little boat along the River o 37Reads—Score—Shelves
- 34 The Corpse Walker: My Disciple Goes Viral 赶尸人,我的徒弟爆红全网 “When the yin spirits travel, the living must stand aside.” After failing the college entrance exam, Fan Wushe spent his days drinking away his sorrows. Then one night, he got drunk and slept in a cemetery, and somehow bound himself to a corpse-driving System. Before he knew it, he had become a corpse-driving master who walked the night. His utterly ordinary life driving corpses began. Until that night… Tuantuan: Master, Master, slow down! Old Lady: Um, Master, can I feel your abs? Zhou Jie: Umm 8Reads5.3Score—Shelves
- 35 Strange Goings-On Beneath the Lamp 灯下诡行 I spent my whole life making Kongming lanterns. Even after I died, my lingering obsession remained, trapping me inside a battered lantern. When people send me aloft, they make wishes and offer incense. In return, I light their way and drive away the horrors lurking in the fog. I thought it was a fair bargain, until one late night, a mute girl crookedly wrote a line on my lantern: “Don’t light the lantern. They’re watching you.” I looked down. There wasn’t a single human shadow beneath the lanter —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 36 A Chronicle of Folk Secrets 民间秘闻纪实 The stories I write aren't made up. They're born when the wind beneath the old Chinese hackberry tree carries the earthy scent of Guanzhong into my ears, then slowly simmers in my heart. The “I” in those stories isn't always the same person either. —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 37 On Tomb-Sweeping Day, I Opened a Viral Paper Effigy Shop on the Road to the Underworld 清明节，我在黄泉路开网红纸扎铺 Unemployed young man Lin Xiaoman is forced to return to his hometown and take over the family’s traditional paper effigy shop. But he discovers that the paper money, luxury cars, and phones he makes turn into real goods in the underworld when burned! From then on, his customers are no longer just the living... The King of Hell commissions a “paper aircraft carrier.” A vengeful spirit asks him to repair a “torn marriage contract.” Even the Underworld’s Bureau of Industry and Commerce comes knocki —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 38 Ghost Tattoo Seal, Forbidden Arts of the Yellow Springs 鬼纹印，黄泉禁术 From the start, he was bound in marriage to a ghost. After a series of twists and turns, he met a master. To stay alive, Yin Linchuan followed an old Taoist priest to catch ghosts and ward off evil, slaying demons and vanquishing monsters. From then on, he embarked on the path of catching ghosts and driving away evil... —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 39 The Yellow River Corpse Collector 黄河捞尸人 [Supernatural + Suspense + Folk Tales + Urban] The older generation always says there are things beneath the Yellow River that must never be disturbed, or something terrible will happen. I didn't believe them, not until the day I took a crew underwater to hunt for treasure... 541Reads6.5Score102Shelves
- 40 Strange Tales of the Corpse Retrievers 捞尸诡闻 My grandfather was a corpse retriever. When he died, the waters of the river churned all night. In a single night, every chicken in the village died... 16Reads5.3Score—Shelves
- 41 I Just Started Working in the Underworld, and You're Telling Me It's Gone? 刚入职地府，你跟我说地府亡了？ (Spiritual qi revival + Eastern mythology + urban legends + career advancement and pay raises + rebuilding the Underworld + love between a human and a ghost + urban supernatural powers + apocalypse + ... Everything is fictional. Please don't compare it to the mythology of our world. Any differences are the author's invention!) My name is Chu Nan. As much as I hate to admit it, I'm still a virgin. Dizang once made a grand vow: “I will not become a Buddha until Hell is empty.” But now the Underwor 105Reads6.3Score—Shelves
- 42 Tattoo Awakening in the Apocalypse: I Am the Lord of Calamity 末世纹身觉醒：我是凶神之主 A round, blood-red moon rises into the sky, and the apocalypse begins. The whole world plunges into chaos and panic... People who gaze at the blood moon turn into zombies and devour their fellow humans. Animals become ferocious beasts, plants spread wildly, and the food chain collapses. All living things vie with humanity for dominion over the three realms, and the power over life and death... Yet after the apocalypse begins, those with tattoos keep awakening new powers. The more vicious the tat 2Reads—Score—Shelves
- 43 The Corpse Stitcher 缝尸匠 Soul-binding nails, threads of karma, green lamps and white candles, a bone-carving knife. When the dead person’s lamp goes out, bury them intact. The living must keep away! 10Reads—Score—Shelves
- 44 Eerie Corpse Retrieval: Beating Up a Thousand-Year-Old Water Ghost from the Start 诡异捞尸：开局暴打千年水鬼 As everyone knows, corpse retrieval has three rules: 1. Don’t retrieve bodies during thunderstorms. 2. Don’t retrieve bodies floating upright. 3. If you can’t retrieve a body after three tries, give up! No matter how much the client offers, corpse retrievers refuse to enter the water if any of these three situations arise! Before retrieving a body, they also perform all kinds of warding-off rituals and offerings. If anything seems amiss, they won’t enter the water either! These are precious less 15Reads—Score—Shelves
- 45 A Blind Date Turns into a Ghost Marriage: I Turn the Tables and Livestream the Corpse-Carrying Groom 相亲变冥婚：我反手直播赶尸新郎 [Metaphysics + horror + juicy gossip + comedy + complete] Lin Qingjiu, the disowned daughter of a wealthy family, is schemed against by her relatives and forced into a ghost marriage. Lying in the coffin beside her ghost groom, whose face is deathly pale yet stunningly beautiful, she smiles. Thanks, buddy, for the fresh corpse! She immediately turns around and livestreams herself escorting the groom’s corpse, bringing the whole internet along to feast on the juicy gossip. She exposes the weal 32Reads6.5Score—Shelves
- 46 Do I Look Human or Like a Ghost? 你看我是人还是鬼？ After graduating from high school, I was guarding watermelons in a melon field. One night, a thief came to steal them. I rushed over and fought him, driving him off, but then I came down with a high fever that wouldn't break. The next day, my family went to check the field. All they found were my own chaotic footprints and the watermelons trampled into mush... —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 47 I Was Livestreamed Driving Corpses, So I Took the Streamer as My Disciple! 赶尸被直播，我收主播为徒！ Beneath the moonlight, Xia Yu emerged from the mountains, shaking a soul-summoning bell as he drove seven corpses before him. The eerie ringing, the stiff corpses, the mysterious yellow talismans, the birds startled into flight. New streamer Hei Xiaopang happened to witness the scene. Excited, he stopped the corpse-driving procession. “You must be a professional livestreaming team! Look at those actors, look at those props! I want you to take me on as your apprentice!” Xia Yu looked with satisfa —Reads7.3Score—Shelves
- 48 I Graduated on a Whim, Secretly Became a Corpse Driver, and Got Livestreamed 任性毕业，偷摸做了赶尸匠还被人直播了 Lin Xu unexpectedly awakens the Corpse-Driving System. A terrible student, he decides to head to western Hunan and drive corpses. On the train, Lin Xu gets a call from his homeroom teacher: “Lin Xu, we're taking graduation photos today! Hurry over and make yourself a nice memory from your senior year!” Lin Xu: “Teacher, I'm on a train to western Hunan right now! I'll have to miss the graduation photos.” Homeroom teacher: “Western Hunan? What are you going there for?” Lin Xu: “To drive corpses, o 135Reads—Score—Shelves
- 49 I Became a Pallbearer After Graduation, and Dai Xiaomei Exposed Me 毕业做抬棺匠，被呆小妹曝光了 Graduation day. Parents, relatives, classmates, and teachers ask Feng Chuqi: “Have you found a job?” Feng Chuqi: “I have. No 996, and I work when I want. When I don't, I take the day off.” Parents, relatives, classmates, and teachers: “What?” “Thump, thump.” Feng Chuqi taps the coffin behind him. “Ghosts are carrying a coffin. Living people, stand aside.” Parents, relatives, classmates, and teachers: “Holy crap, coffin bearers really exist?” Feng Chuqi: “Of course not. Believe in science, everyo 156Reads5.4Score—Shelves
- 50 Tomb Raiding: Strange Tales 盗墓诡异实录 In the early 21st century, tomb robbers roam all across China. Their tracks can be found everywhere, from snowy plateaus and forests to lakes and seas, even in forbidden zones where no one is allowed to go. My father was one of them, but after an expedition to a tomb, he never came back. To find out what happened to him, I was forced onto this road of no return, traveling from south to north and east to west. I've seen the dangers of the underworld and every facet of human life, survived countle 157Reads6.8Score—Shelves
