Novels like Buried by Fate
Books Chinese readers most often put in the same booklists as Buried by Fate, best match first.
- 1 Yin-Yang Hunters 阴阳猎手 Betrayed by his cheating girlfriend, he fell into a living hell and came close to death time and again. To survive, he had no choice but to walk the line between yin and yang, confronting everything people feared. Why must you never look back when walking at night? Why must you never open an umbrella indoors? Why do the gates of hell swing wide open during the Ghost Festival? To hell with all those taboos of the yin and yang worlds: he’ll break every last one! Terror, passion, justice, and inspi 47Reads6.2Score—Shelves
- 2 The King of the Underworld Clings to Me: My Demon Wife, Doted on to the Heavens 冥王缠身：魔妻，宠上天 In her previous life, she was the unrivaled number-one assassin, who slaughtered her way across the land. But her overwhelming abilities made others fear her, and they hunted her down. She jumped off a cliff to end it all, thinking that in eighteen years she would be a hero all over again. Never in her wildest dreams did she expect to transmigrate to another world and become a good-for-nothing, dubbed “the useless Seventh Young Master Feng.” Though she was a beautiful woman, she was forced to dr 10Reads7.4Score—Shelves
- 3 The Queen of the Underworld's Wild Wife 冥主之妃常狂妻 The granddaughter of a great general lived as a servant from the day she was born, all because of the grudges of the previous generation. In the end, she died. A supernatural assassin, she went to the underworld after her death and spent a hundred years there, only to be kicked back to life by the Ghost Emperor after causing too much of a ruckus. He had once stood at the very pinnacle of power, but boredom drove him to enter the cycle of reincarnation and become the God of War of the Yun Ye King —Reads6.6Score—Shelves
- 4 Return to Life 还魂 The elders often say, “Better to die in the river than be born upon it.” I was born on the river. I should have been doomed to die, but someone lent me their life. 134Reads6.7Score—Shelves
- 5 The House of Corpse Incense 尸香门第 Grandpa said I was “cursed to die young,” and that I had to go home for my birthday every year. One year, it poured, and I didn’t go back... [PS: Updates are a little slow while the book is new. If you don’t mind reading a finished novel, check out my completed work, The Yin-Yang Merchant: http://www.heiyan.com/book/48682 267Reads7.0Score—Shelves
- 6 My Husband Lives in the Underworld 我的老公在冥界 Chu Mo, the Judge of the Underworld, falls in love with Mu Xiaoqiao, a third-year university student. Hei Yao is a sharp-tongued black cat: What seemed to be an accidental bond was actually the beginning of an emotional entanglement spanning a thousand years… Qiao Mu, a princess sent to the Southern Dynasty as a bride to secure an alliance; Chu Mo, a general of the Northern Dynasty; Bai Li, a mutated chicken. In a turbulent age of nations on the brink of collapse and bodies strewn across the 37Reads—Score—Shelves
- 7 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... 41Reads6.5Score—Shelves
- 8 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! 3Reads—Score—Shelves
- 9 The Immortal Hall Beyond the Pass: A Yin-Yang Master Guards Changbai Mountain 关外仙堂：阴阳先生守长白 Have you ever witnessed a weasel asking to be granted a title? What causes people to get trapped in a ghostly maze while walking mountain trails, or suffer from strange ailments that leave them feeling awful but can’t be diagnosed at a hospital? Trained in ancient shamanic arts, versed in the theories of yin-yang masters, and accompanied by an immortal serpent cultivating beneath the streams of Changbai Mountain, become a spirit medium who roams the White Mountains. The rules of Northeast China’ 14Reads—Score—Shelves
- 10 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
- 11 Stay Away, Spirits 阴人勿扰 Someone dug up our family grave and put the newlywed daughter-in-law who’d just died in their family in there. My uncle told me to go get her out in the middle of the night... 496Reads7.1Score—Shelves
- 12 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! 351Reads7.5Score—Shelves
- 13 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... 531Reads6.8Score100Shelves
- 14 A Ghost Husband Has a Date: Vengeful Spirits Keep Trying to Eat Me 鬼夫有约：总有厉鬼想吃我 [Apocalypse + fantasy/supernatural/mystery/tomb raiding/corpse driving/guardians of the dead] This is a world of the supernatural. People travel between the realms of yin and yang, making a living by collecting money from ordinary folk. They deal with all manner of filthy things, and keep little ghosts as pets... Take jobs involving the dead, master the five elements, explore tombs and hunt for treasure. In this line of work, corpse drivers, guardians of the dead, grave robbers, Maoshan Taoists, —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 15 Raising a Fox Brings Disaster 养狐为祸 He went hunting in the mountains and found a white fox, which he brought home. That night, he met a breathtakingly beautiful woman… She was gorgeous and gentle, and said she wanted to marry him and bear his children. He thought it was a stroke of luck, but then came corpse poison, grinning dolls, and women in red, one after another!! 119Reads6.6Score—Shelves
- 16 Yellow Springs Medical Hall 黄泉医馆 On the fifteenth day of the seventh lunar month, ghosts roam at night and the living must keep away. Yet on Linjiang Road, an unremarkable clinic stands with all four doors wide open, inviting every kind of visitor. Above the eaves hangs a gilded plaque bearing four large characters: “Yellow Springs Clinic.” 534Reads8.1Score100Shelves
- 17 The Divine Seer in Hemp Robes 麻衣女神相 Face reading is based on the Book of Ma Yi. Study someone’s face, and you can read them right before their eyes. Wealth and poverty, fortune and misfortune, blessing and calamity: it is all written in a single face. The Divine Physiognomist Ma Yi says: “When the heart is good but the face is not, the face will follow the heart. When the face is good but the heart is not, the face will fade as the heart does.” 2.6kReads8.5Score242Shelves
- 18 The Serpent King's Decree 蛇王令 I was born with a black scale on my body. As I grew older, the scale kept spreading. When I was sixteen, I dreamed that the black scales came to life and turned into a black snake that coiled tightly around me… 42Reads8.8Score—Shelves
- 19 The King of the Underworld Becomes a Live-In Son-in-Law 地府阎王当赘婿 He was the heir of a wealthy family, cast out and reduced to a good-for-nothing live-in son-in-law. But by chance, he became the new King of Hell. From then on, he began an all-around life! 52Reads8.2Score—Shelves
- 20 The Yama King's Wife: Living Sacrifice 阎王妻：活祭 Every five years, the village offers a living person as a sacrifice to the gods. It has to be an unmarried young woman who is still pure. The year I turned seventeen, the Heavenly God chose me as the sacrifice... 60Reads8.6Score—Shelves
- 21 After Leaving Showbiz, the Ancestress Goes Viral with Metaphysics 退圈后，老祖宗靠玄学爆红了 [Mysticism, entertainment industry, ancestral spirit, fortune-telling, adored by everyone] Bai Qingwei, a ghost who had been dead for over a thousand years, was forcibly brought back by her descendants. As soon as she returned, she discovered... her descendants had deceived her. The once-vast Taoist temple now consisted of nothing more than a tiny storefront. The treasures she had painstakingly dug up had all vanished into thin air, and she had even been kicked out of the ranks of the mystic sec 399Reads8.6Score100Shelves
- 22 Heir of the Underworld 地府传人 A rich second-generation heir? You think you're loaded? I'm an inheritor of the Underworld. I can turn hell money into cash and bury you in it! A powerful second-generation heir? You think you've got connections? If the King of Hell says you'll die at the third watch, who dares let you live until the fifth? A genius doctor who can bring the dead back to life? In front of Hua Tuo's successor, you're nothing but trash! 608Reads8.6Score—Shelves
- 23 Having a Son Is Like Having the King of Hell 生个儿子是阎王 Five years ago, I gave birth to a child. Everyone who saw what the child looked like died. Five years later, I met a man who told me he was the child's father. 16.9kReads8.9Score377Shelves
- 24 The Underworld King’s 101st Bride 冥王的第101个新娘 Historical romance, 1v1, devoted to each other, sweet and doting [A Family Banquet in the Underworld] The King of the Underworld raises the corner of his mouth and smiles playfully. “You want to be Queen of the Underworld? What makes you think you can?” Fuguang conceals the pain in her heart. Her pearly teeth glimmer as she smiles like fireworks in the night. “In all the Underworld, I’m the only one worthy of standing beside you!” The women seated below whisper among themselves: “Good heavens, t 23Reads—Score—Shelves
- 25 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... 196Reads8.9Score—Shelves
- 26 Demon Wife, Ghost Concubine 妖妻鬼妾 [Third-Person Narration | Traditional Supernatural | Taoist Arts | Spirit Mediums] My name is Zuo Li. I was different from the moment I was born, carrying the fate of a ghost. To make sure I could grow up safely, my grandfather had me live off two women at once. As it turned out, I could only stay alive by living off women... 259Reads6.9Score—Shelves
- 27 An Unmarked Lonely Grave 无名孤坟 My grandfather buried my mother by our front door. Every night after that, a woman would stand outside our house... 1.2kReads8.8Score101Shelves
- 28 Mr. Ghost, Your Takeout Is Here! 鬼先生，你的外卖到了！ (Note: Bizarre world, yandere, the female lead gradually becomes a deranged yandere, powerful male lead who hides his strength at first, horror, supernatural, ghosts and monsters, superpowers, celestial masters, a touch of comedy.) He delivers late-night snacks and slays a hundred demons and evil spirits. When the city sinks into a night of horrors, the spicy hot pot in his delivery box is still steaming, while the demons beneath his blade have gone cold. "When I twist the throttle all the way, 2Reads—Score—Shelves
- 29 The Demon Wife at Home 家有妖妻 Grandma arranged a marriage for me. Only after the wedding did I learn that the bride I'd brought home was a fox spirit... Chapter preview: …I stole a glance into the pool. A beautiful older girl was standing by the washing platform, washing her hair. She was gorgeous, with snow-white skin, delicate willow-shaped brows, an oval face, and luscious red lips like ripe cherries. Most striking of all were her captivating, tender eyes, deep as a pool of spring water. She was alluring to the very cor 1.9kReads8.2Score130Shelves
- 30 Heir to the Five Arts 五术传人 All the arts of divination under heaven fall into five branches. They are: Mountain, Medicine, Destiny, Divination, and Physiognomy. More specifically, they include magic, talismans and incantations, the Four Pillars of Destiny, Zi Wei Dou Shu, Qi Men Dun Jia, feng shui based on the principles of qi, face reading, bone reading, and more... Our Wei clan is the guiding principle behind all five arts. The five arts encompass everything and seize the workings of Heaven. Thus, only those blessed with 1.7kReads8.3Score171Shelves
- 31 Supernatural Revival: I'm the Only One Who Knows the Plot 灵异复苏：只有我知道剧情 Chen Mu transmigrated into a parallel world where the supernatural was resurging. Terrifying ghosts were everywhere, posing a grave threat to humanity. Humanity's only way to fight back against the resurrected ghosts was to enter the mysterious Tower of Reincarnation. Clear its various instances and earn System rewards, growing stronger in the process! After entering the Tower of Reincarnation, which others described as mysterious and perilous at every turn, Chen Mu discovered something. Mr. Vam 989Reads7.3Score—Shelves
- 32 Divine Inheritance 神传 My mother went up the mountain for three days, and when she came back down, I was born. Ever since then, she has gone up the mountain once every month, on the third. I thought she was going to see my father, until one day I followed her... 1.4kReads8.7Score174Shelves
- 33 The Underworld Has Arrived: Even the King of Hell Has to Step Aside 阴司驾到：冥王也得靠边站 [Strong male lead vs. strong female lead, one-on-one romance, feel-good, supernatural, ghost-hunting, taking down scumbags] Gu Shuhan is the underworld’s only female spirit official. She can travel freely between eight thousand worlds, and in her spare time, she catches a few little ghosts. Life is carefree and pleasant enough. But then she meets Du Qin, a woman with absolutely no emotional intelligence... “Wifey, you’ve ruined my good name! You have to marry me to make it right!” “Get lost.” “W 92Reads8.7Score—Shelves
- 34 Nine Turns Back to the Underworld 九转归幽 The Yuan family has a daughter skilled in controlling paper. Strange mysteries abound as she searches for her father and mother. Exceptionally gifted in spiritual arts and violent by nature... The nine factions of the Mystic Sect each have their own agenda, and the Yuan family is caught in the middle, triggering a string of bizarre events. In the course of it all, Yuan Ling discovers that someone is secretly protecting her. As she follows the clues to her parents’ disappearance, she also searche 151Reads8.3Score—Shelves
- 35 The Fragrance of Corpses for Ten Miles 十里尸香 Most people receive gifts that are heartwarming or romantic. Even if they aren't a surprise, they're at least well-intentioned. But the gift I received when I turned twenty was a very real shock, and a curse. 1.9kReads8.2Score165Shelves
- 36 The Yin Grave 阴坟 A soul on the bed, a grave beneath it. On the fifteenth day of the seventh month, offerings are made to the gods. One ritual burned several people alive. Were they human, or spirits? 16.3kReads8.8Score1.7kShelves
- 37 Tomb of the Yin 镇阴棺 I was always at my grandfather’s side, helping people relocate graves. There was a special burial practice involved in moving graves called a second burial. It required opening the coffin, gathering the bones, and dressing them in new clothes. The first time I encountered a second burial, I dug up a female corpse that looked lifelike... 122Reads8.6Score—Shelves
- 38 The Yin Deliverer 送阴人 A burial master, also known as one who sends the dead into the shadows. When Li Mazi from my village died suddenly, I was drawn into the affair. I thought it was an accident, but later I learned it had been plotted for a long time. To stay alive, I began studying the Burial Scripture my grandfather left behind. The Burial Scripture has three volumes: one on burying people, one on burying ghosts, and a third whose whereabouts are unknown. Blood corpses in the Southern Ridges, ancient monsters in 668Reads8.4Score101Shelves
- 39 The Fox Immortal Beauty 狐仙美人 When I was fourteen, I saved a white fox. To save my life, Grandpa actually made me enter into a contract with it? Fox Immortal: “I would gladly shed all my demonic aura and give up a thousand lifetimes of cultivation, all to spend a lifetime with you, from youth to old age!” Ding Ning: “I thought I’d become a Taoist priest who hunted ghosts and vanquished demons, but in the end I became a heretic condemned by everyone...” As I taught myself Taoist arts, secrets and legends began to emerge one a 1.1kReads8.6Score103Shelves
- 40 I Am a Feng Shui Master 我是风水师 I thought I would follow the three instructions my parents left in their will, but everything changed after I rescued a female classmate… 9.1kReads7.4Score684Shelves
- 41 The Yin-Born Child 阴生子 Before I was even born, someone plotted against me. I was cut from my mother’s womb before I was full-term, born with a congenital defect, and prone to attracting evil spirits. My fate was cursed, and I was destined not to live past a hundred days. To stay alive, I went to live with my maternal grandfather, a medium who could travel between the worlds of the living and the dead. After years of learning from him, I became a medium myself. From then on, I could communicate with the gods, enter the 108Reads8.9Score—Shelves
- 42 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
- 43 My Husband Comes from the Underworld 我的夫君他来自地府 I've been unlucky since I was little. I'm said to bring misfortune to my husband and children, and my father even used me to pay off a debt of yin energy he owed. When I came of age, he showed up to make me honor the contract we made back then. After that, my mother was near death, my father disappeared, and one friend after another ran into trouble... 52Reads8.8Score—Shelves
- 44 The Fox-Fur Wedding Dress 狐皮嫁衣 “My Husband Is the Wolf King” ❤️ In July 1928, my great-grandfather, driven mad by greed, stole a priceless luminous pearl from the Eastern Qing Tombs. Then, when I was five, a white wolf latched onto me. He gouged out my eyes and stole all my other senses as well... [On Qingqiu Hill there lives a fox, its fur a wondrous sight. Skin it alive, then sew it into a rosy bridal cape. If I wear it, we shall share three lifetimes, never parted from you in any of them.] 202Reads8.8Score—Shelves
- 45 A Feng Shui Master Born in the 1990s 90后风水师 One glance tells you who is destined for riches. Two reveal who will live or die. After realizing that the goddess was doomed to disaster, Li Shiyi embarked on a road of death from which there was no turning back. 285Reads8.9Score—Shelves
- 46 Hades Husband, Don't Cause Trouble 冥王老公，别乱来 My name is Li Xiaojiu. When I was twenty, a man in my dreams told me to repay a debt. After that, he haunted me every night, and I couldn’t escape him. With my eyes veiled by a web of blood, I somehow released the greatest evil in the world. From then on, yin and yang fell into chaos, and disaster loomed. The man in my dreams said, “My name is Feng Siming. If you want to live, obediently give me your body.” I asked, “In the end, will you devour me?” Feng Siming: “Yes, from head to toe...” Me: “. 821Reads9.1Score124Shelves
- 47 You Were Supposed to Catch Demons, So Why Are You Dating a Fox Demon? 让你去捉妖，你和狐妖好上了？ When I was born, the King of Hell sent a child, and the Yin Marshal guarded me. Strange things happened one after another. To keep me alive, my grandfather arranged five betrothals for me. On my eighteenth birthday, a bewitchingly beautiful fox spirit came to my door... 289Reads9.0Score—Shelves
- 48 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
- 49 Tales of the Supernatural 灵异怪谈 Yin-yang masters are fated to suffer the Five Evils and Three Deficiencies. Is there any way to escape their fate? A life-and-death romance with a bloodthirsty vampire zombie! After desperately searching for the Strange Records of Yin and Yang, he discovers it is all part of an even bigger conspiracy! The Mausoleum of Qin Shi Huang, bloodthirsty vampire zombies, an inn in the underworld, an ancient Warring States tomb, and the Strange Records of Yin and Yang all feature in Strange Tales of the S 1.6kReads8.8Score137Shelves
- 50 Taking a Fox as My Wife 养狐为妻 When I was eighteen, I accidentally injured a fox. To my shock, my master forced me to marry her... 1.3kReads8.6Score102Shelves
