Novels like The Ninth Secret Bureau
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- 1 Department of Paranormal Investigations II 神秘事件调查处【贰】 The X-Files Investigation Bureau, Part Two “That's a dragon!” “No, there are no dragons. That's a kite, that's a black plastic bag, that's a bird soaring through a storm. You've read Haiyan, haven't you? Exactly.” In 1968, our country established Institute 507, whose full name was the Institute of Space Medicine and Engineering. Later, as more and more supernatural events were discovered, the institute began handling certain cases. In September 1974, some departments of Institute 507 were split 6.4kReads8.8Score569Shelves
- 2 Young Feng Shui Master 少年风水师 There are many things in this world that you and I have never encountered. Just because we've never encountered them doesn't mean they don't exist. Legends are often more than mere legends. And traditions must have an unknown reason for becoming traditions. 649Reads9.0Score117Shelves
- 3 My Years with the 037 Special Operations Team 我在037特别行动队的那些年 An accident awakened my supernatural ability, and from then on I joined a mysterious special operations team. The mystery of Qin Shi Huang’s immortality, a vampire uprising, World War II bombers striking a Ming Dynasty arms depot, the hidden history of Huo Qubing fighting giants... One supernatural incident after another unfolds. Could another world of strange beings be hidden beneath the surface of a peaceful, harmonious society? There are countless strange tales in this world, and nothing unde 15kReads9.2Score1.4kShelves
- 4 Ten Realms of the Mortal World 凡尘十阶 At sixteen, Lin Jiu was a boy minding a stall on Old Goods Street, officially ranked at the lowest level, Tier 1: Dust. No one knew he could “devour”: swallow iron and his bones would harden, swallow fire and flames would spring forth, swallow an anomalous person's powers and they became his own. His father vanished ten years ago, leaving behind only a pocket watch and the words, “As long as you have the watch, you can trust I'll be there.” On a rainy night, he swallowed the watch and awakened t 305Reads—Score—Shelves
- 5 Stepping Into the Divine Ruins 踏神墟 You’re all so powerful, armed to the teeth with money and influence. And I’m just a broke student. I don’t even have any friends, just a few sworn brothers from years past who’d lay down their lives for me. You call them the Ten Kings of Hell. I also have a childhood friend, whom you call Lady Meng. That road between life and death, that gate of reincarnation, I walk through them like they’re nothing. Getting tired of an opponent who can revive endlessly on the spot? 2kReads8.4Score179Shelves
- 6 I Asked You to Read the Feng Shui, Not Dig Up Their Ancestral Grave! 让你看风水，你刨人家祖坟？ Also known as "The Folk Feng Shui Secrets". [Supernatural + Feng Shui Master + Unmatched Skills + No System + No Saintly Hero] An old man dies full of resentment and is buried in a dangerously inauspicious ancestral grave. Disasters strike one after another on the day of the burial. Wang Nan, a yin-yang master, spots the problem and immediately tells the descendants to dig up the ancestral grave and choose a new feng shui site for a deep burial, only to discover that this was all part of a plot 317Reads8.9Score100Shelves
- 7 Bearing the Five Turbidities, I Walk Through a Wicked Age 身负五浊，行于恶世 [Xuanhuan] [Superpowers] [Single Heroine] [Two Powerful Leads] [Pseudo-Ensemble Cast] [No System] [Slow Burn] “When you look back on your life, how would you define yourself?” In 2050, alien species invaded Blue Star. Led by the “Dream Masters” who had awakened their “Strange Eyes,” humanity raised the banner of resistance against the all-consuming tide. The Five Turbidities: the turbidity of kalpas, views, sentient beings, afflictions, and life. As you journey through this evil world of the Fiv 2.3kReads—Score230Shelves
- 8 A Body Bearing Two Souls 身负双魂 Read the synopsis before you start!!! Urban supernatural powers, spiritual qi revival, mythology revival 1. The author likes setting up mysteries, and many plot points won’t be explained until later! 2. One female lead. The supporting characters all get plenty of attention. This is not a power fantasy about an invincible hero! No brainless villains! 3. A spiritual qi revival novel! A mythology revival novel! With supernatural and mysterious plotlines woven in! 4. The writing may not be great, bu 7.4kReads8.5Score694Shelves
- 9 The Last Daoist Lord 最后的道君 Ever since my mother got pregnant with me, strange things kept happening at home. First, a hedgehog came into the house, a long snake coiled around the beams, and a weasel dug a burrow in the vegetable patch out back. Then foxes from the mountains joined in, showing up at our doorstep every few days to peer inside. Now the five immortals were all gathered: Hu, Huang, Liu, Bai, and Hui. Anyone in the know would recognize this as the Five Immortals entering a home. Any one of the five entering 10.9kReads9.1Score1kShelves
- 10 Ferryman of the Underworld 黄泉摆渡客 My sister was abused to death by her husband. Even after she died, her resentment kept her from resting in peace. To help her find peace, I became a ferryman traveling between the worlds of the living and the dead. From then on, I strode between yin and yang as if walking atop a hanging coffin. The strong live, the weak die. I will be the one to decide who lives and who dies! 908Reads8.6Score118Shelves
- 11 After College, I Became the Night Watchman at a Funeral Home 大学毕业，在殡仪馆当守夜人 Superpowers + passionate action + supernatural mystery + criminal investigations + an official organization "I'll protect every light in every home!" "At midnight, I'm the one who calls the shots!" After Lin Zhao was injected with zombie genes, his body underwent all kinds of changes. His wounds healed faster, he grew stronger, and he could even see things a hundred meters away at night. There was a side effect, though: he had lost his soul... The story mainly follows Lin Zhao as he assists the 2.1kReads9.2Score126Shelves
- 12 Anomalies: Destroying the World Is Surprisingly Easy 异常：灭世还蛮简单的 Lin Zheng transmigrated to a world rife with danger. The uncanny was spreading, anomalies were running rampant, and indescribable things were taking root in the darkness. It seemed human civilization could come to an end at any moment. The good news was that Lin Zheng wasn’t human. He was an anomaly, a world-ending anomaly. Even if the world were destroyed, he would remain immortal forever. [Female lead] [One female lead] 10.4kReads9.3Score862Shelves
- 13 EN Mysteries: I Slay Gods with One Slash 诡秘：我一刀斩神 [Mystery] [Urban Superpowers] [Single Heroine] [Gods] [No System] What secrets lie behind the mysterious Book of the Dead, the seven power sequences, the unknown monsters, and the eerie gods? The Soul-Retrieval Bureau, the Demon-Suppression Office, the Shelter… What have these countless mysterious factions been ordered to hide? What is the boundary between light and darkness? Where were blood and song born? What do the destruction of the old order and the birth of the new one mean? It all begins 2.8kReads9.0Score268Shelves
- 14 The Darkest Hour Before Dawn 至暗凌晨 Set in an alternate world. Everything in this story is fictional. One female lead. No one remembers who was the first person to question whether this world was real. To the humans still living on Earth, the world is made up of nothing more than a vast expanse of water called the ocean and stretches of solid ground called continents. When creatures of legend force their way into the familiar yet unfamiliar world of humankind, terrifying the foolish, when beings from another world stain the azure 2kReads9.0Score186Shelves
- 15 The Perfect Awakened One 完美觉醒者 In a post-apocalyptic world overrun by monsters, a special group of humans emerged: the “Awakened.” Some could shatter boulders with their right hands. Some could travel thousands of miles in a day on foot. Some could control metal. Some could breathe fire. Beneath the wasteland stood a city that preserved the embers of the old world’s morality and rule of law. A boy in the city became a “Perfect Awakened” at the age of twelve. Every part of his body awakened and grew stronger. He had no weaknes 1.4kReads9.0Score239Shelves
- 16 I Traded Seven Lives with the Gods 我与神明一换七 [A protagonist who grows over time, slow burn, plot-driven, passionate, not mindless, not invincible, no System] No one knew that every year, there were actually two kinds of exam papers at the college entrance exams. The first kind was visible to everyone. Most people couldn’t see the second. If you did well on the first, you could be selected for a happy life, becoming a social elite like a doctor or lawyer and marrying a refined, accomplished wife. You could live happily ever after. You could 3kReads8.7Score253Shelves
- 17 Folktales of the Mountains and Wilds 民间山野怪谈 The hidden truths behind ten major unsolved mysteries, revealing a host of terrifying taboos that will send chills down your spine! 14.5kReads9.1Score960Shelves
- 18 Special Affairs Bureau, Division Nine: The Nanhai Monster Uprising 特殊事物处理九科之南海妖乱 Do you really know the friends around you? The coworkers around you? Your own family? Do you~ know this world? Maybe the people you know, the ones you've met and fallen in love with, aren't human at all~~~ They're demons~! If it weren't for one extraordinary mission, none of this would ever have come to light. And if it weren't for the people who silently stood guard, the Jiuying Sect might already have severed the dragon veins and destroyed our nation's fortune of ten thousand years... 143Reads—Score—Shelves
- 19 The One Who Never Returns at Midnight 子夜不归人 [Transmigrate to change history + supernatural ability rankings + passionate defense of the nation + slay gods + 39 will make you cry + quality certified by Deng Deng] Return to the Great Xia of history and rewrite its regrets: Yue Fei, Yu Qian, 81192, and more. Hey, everyone, want to see Sanjiu Yinyu transmigrate back in time to steal national treasures? Want to see a black-bladed sword atop the roof of the Sihang Warehouse, killing the enemy? Want to see Xu Er’s cat slay Qin Hui and bring the 1.4kReads9.3Score189Shelves
- 20 Evil Spirit Catcher 恶灵捕手 A horror game appeared on my phone, so I tried it… Only it wasn’t a game. It was a key to another world. The women’s restroom is clearly empty, so why is someone speaking from the last stall? Every night, why does elevator number one descend on its own? The chef at the second-floor restaurant works late every day, but what kind of meat is he always chopping? Is the person in the mirror really you? When you turn away, have you ever wondered whether your reflection stayed behind, quietly watching 761Reads8.2Score109Shelves
- 21 The Lone Wanderer in Another World 异世界的独行者 Black Jiu, an introverted high school student who secretly works in the underworld, gets into a car accident during a school-organized spring outing. The entire group transmigrates to another world crawling with monsters. There, he meets his younger sister, whom their parents sold when she was little. Now a slave of the demon race, she is trying to kill herself... “If justice has its heroes, then darkness deserves its own savior, too. But saviors always like to keep clean. So people like us, the 2.1kReads9.0Score203Shelves
- 22 From the Start, I Ate the Campus Beauty 开局我吃了校花 Everyone has imagined that there might be something mysterious in this world, right? Have you imagined taking a train to Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry? Have you imagined a beautiful senior pulling up in a Ferrari to hand you an acceptance letter from Cassell College at the school gates? Have you imagined that when you feel lost and alone, a swordsman from an ancient sect will descend from the sky and tell you, “You’ve been chosen!”? Congratulations. Your fantasies have come true. Th 13.4kReads9.1Score1.3kShelves
- 23 I Cut Off Obsession on Livestream and Gained Countless Admirers 我斩痴被人直播，收获万千迷妹 [Also known as: I Have a Divine Mausoleum Within Me] (One heroine. Don't judge it by the title.) Night falls, monsters awaken. After the brilliance of night fades, are the beings walking the earth monsters or gods? This is a battle among the gods, and I am the weapon in their hands. Will China endure forever, or will darkness engulf the world? Three months ago, Qin Guanqi awakened the divine powers of Yeming, God of Time, and Zhurong, God of Fire. He discovered that a divine mausoleum had appear 1.5kReads8.9Score132Shelves
- 24 Ten Years of Slaying Ghosts: Beginning with Jingzhe 斩鬼十年：从惊蛰开始 In 2046, on the day Jingzhe began, twelve stone pillars erupted from the earth. With a snap of the fingers, the first unnatural flame flickered above a thumb. From that moment on, humanity entered a new era: the Age of Awakening. 12.9kReads8.4Score1.3kShelves
- 25 Taboo of the Living 2 活人禁忌2 Heaven Official's Blessing, no taboos under heaven. The second installment of Living People’s Taboos! 8.1kReads9.1Score1.3kShelves
- 26 Borrowing Yin Lifespan 借阴寿 Have you ever slept wearing burial clothes? Don’t try it. I did once, and that night... My name is Li Yiliang. I was born with a shortened lifespan, and my birth caused my mother to die in childbirth. But one night when I was eighteen, my mother came back and said she wanted to take me with her... My grandfather told me to sleep in burial clothes, then gave his own life to help me escape that fate. From then on, my life was never free of strange and uncanny things... 4.7kReads8.9Score411Shelves
- 27 I Came from the Abyss: Slaying Demons in the Mortal World 我自深渊来:于人间斩鬼神 This novel is also known as "So Overpowered That I Have No Choice but to Be a Slacker" In a world overrun by ghosts, gods, demons, and monsters, Qin Yuan appears in the mortal realm alongside the only Soul Abyss in existence, a twelve-holed blade that has accompanied him for a thousand years inside an ancient bronze coffin. After wandering the world for a thousand years and slaying countless demons and gods, he discovers that no matter how powerful they are, not a single god, ghost, demon, or mo 2.5kReads9.2Score216Shelves
- 28 I Escaped That Cannibalistic Old Street with Nothing but a Skewer of Candied Hawthorn? 我逃出那条吃人的老街，只靠手里的一串冰糖葫芦？ I escaped that man-eating old street with nothing but a skewer of candied hawthorn berries in my hand? 2Reads—Score—Shelves
- 29 Dragon-Suppressing Coffin 镇龙棺 The day Grandpa died, all the beasts paid their respects, and nine dragons carried his coffin... 2.5kReads8.9Score466Shelves
- 30 My Father Pretended to Be Mute, and My Boyfriend Lied to Me 装哑的父亲和骗我的男友 A father who pretends to be mute and a boyfriend who deceives me 3Reads—Score—Shelves
- 31 The Ghost Way, Midway Through Life 半路鬼道 Smart male lead + one heroine On the night of the Ghost Festival, the living send off the dead, burn incense, make offerings, and burn joss paper. But that night, I heard a ghost calling for a soul… The gong sounds, the night grows dark, and the road to the Yellow Springs is hard to travel… With talismans to guide the way and the departed to show the path, summon the gods and command the ghosts: only then can one master the Ghost Path between Yin and Yang! 6.6kReads8.9Score486Shelves
- 32 My Ten Years Working at the Xishan Base 我在西山基地工作的那十年 Anomaly containment, an overpowered protagonist? No. High IQ. One heroine. Some heartbreaking plot twists. Beijing, Xishan, 3,000 meters underground: hundreds of anomalous objects. A digital Earth that drifted through space for ten thousand years; a woman who transmigrated a thousand years into the past and died during the Shang dynasty; a colossal stone pillar that appeared on the North China Plain; Yan Emperor and Yellow Emperor, who have survived for four eras; a pen that can improve people’s 18.8kReads9.2Score2.6kShelves
- 33 I'm Just Schizophrenic, That's All 我只是精神分裂而已 Everyone thinks I’m crazy, but I know I’m not crazy. I just have a split personality. Don’t get the wrong idea or overthink it. I mean exactly what you understand by… split personality. 2.7kReads8.9Score227Shelves
- 34 Coffin Shop No. 44 44号棺材铺 Everyone knows what a coffin shop is, but would you dare enter one where someone has died? Ever since I took over a coffin shop, strange things have been happening all around me. Only then did I realize that the people who come to buy coffins aren't necessarily alive… 2.2kReads8.0Score253Shelves
- 35 EN Monarch of Evernight 永夜君王 Qian Ye rises from hardship, then falls through betrayal. From that moment on, with only a man and a gun for company, he walks between eternal night and dawn, carving out a legend. If eternal night is the fate he is destined for, then he will become the king who rules it. 906Reads9.3Score—Shelves
- 36 The Hell Handbook 地狱手册 A handbook said to have come from hell. The moment you open it, you are already trapped in horror. Life and death... are no longer yours to decide! The Town of the Dead, Horror Fairy Tales, The Hospital of Terror... Behind these repeated, terrifying cycles of hell, what spine-chilling truth is hidden? Su Jin, I want to live, even if... 2.9kReads8.5Score256Shelves
- 37 The Haunted House 2 诡舍2 The eternal night has come, and absurdity runs rampant. A thick pollution blankets the sky, while pitch-black eyes look down upon the world. Carrying a flame, we press slowly onward. Humanity's sun will be kindled by human hands. 317.9kReads8.8Score35.3kShelves
- 38 Hunters of the Forbidden Zone 禁区猎人 All things have a spirit. In this world, there are always people and things we have never encountered. Six years ago, a mysterious legend about a giant python undergoing tribulation drew the world's finest hunters to the Kunlun Mountains. In the end, the python died, and Lin Shuo was the only hunter to survive. Afterward, he withdrew from the world and went into hiding in the mountains. Six years later, a huge scale appeared before Lin Shuo. The giant python that had failed its tribulation had s 4.9kReads8.7Score514Shelves
- 39 The Peerless Mage 法师无双 A top sorcerer who once led the Heavenly Masters’ Court returns, only to be cast out by his powerful family. As he prepares to leave, he discovers that his younger female cousin has fallen victim to dark magic… 3.9kReads9.1Score483Shelves
- 40 The Living Must Keep Away 活人回避 Originally titled Living People, Keep Away. An antique set me on a desperate path. From then on, just to stay alive, I became a yin walker who dealt with the dead and the walking corpses. Three years searching for dragon veins, ten years locating acupoints, roaming between yin and yang, dealing in ghosts and spirits. I kept walking, struggling my way to where I am today. 2.7kReads8.9Score327Shelves
- 41 The Card Game of a Ghost Slayer 斩鬼者的卡牌游戏 Original title: The Card Game of the Ghost Slayer [No System] At dawn, Qiu Xiaoye obtained a card called [Sword God] and gained the power to wield the sword. Then he suddenly discovered that his younger sister, Qiu Xiaolu, was a ghoul. His sister bared her fangs and lunged at him, so Qiu Xiaoye had no choice but to draw his sword and hack away. The restaurant was instantly transformed into a heartwarming scene of deep sibling love. 22.4kReads8.3Score2.9kShelves
- 42 The Secret Treasures of Mountains and Seas 山海秘藏 I have stood atop mountains and descended into the vast seas. I have ventured into every mysterious corner of China! Could a distant ancient kingdom in the Western Regions really be home to a stunning queen who lives forever? Could the vast mausoleum of Qin Shi Huang really conceal the greatest sword under heaven? Did hundreds of people really witness a legendary dragon on a misty island in the North Sea? In a dark old coffin in western Hunan, the King of the Undead stirs restlessly. I venture i 3.2kReads8.9Score459Shelves
- 43 What If the World Had Sequence Games? 假如世有序列游戏 [Light novel, chuunibyou, takes off in Chapter 91, becomes the top-ranked player] Beneath the blue and purple neon lights that stained the night, in a bustling city teeming with people, the System granted players the abilities of their fantasies. Immortal arts and martial disciplines, yin-yang sorcery, supernatural technology, curse seals and spirit summoning... Players from different systems began fighting for supremacy in the sequence rankings... My name is Bai Yu. By the time you read this me 7.9kReads9.1Score637Shelves
- 44 2052: Thirty Years Asleep 2052，沉眠三十载 (Original title: 2052: Thirty Years of Slumber) An accident left Yan Muyun in a deep sleep for thirty years. When he woke again, his parents had passed away, and the children of the younger brother he remembered as a newly grown adult were now adults themselves. The Dark Curtain, aberrant species, shadowy organizations, vigilantes... These once-unheard-of things had become commonplace in the modern world. A “god” who appeared out of nowhere issued a prophecy: Earth's civilization would face a de 12.4kReads9.0Score1.2kShelves
- 45 C-Rank Appraiser? I Command the Supreme Treasures of All Ages c级鉴宝？我执掌万代至尊 In the year 2012, a dark star hung in the sky, and dimensional rifts of every size tore open around the world, unleashing countless monsters. Human firearms barely harmed them. But Source Crystals began to grow all over the world, and people who came into contact with them started awakening special talents, giving humanity a way to fight back. Even so, humanity endured sixty years of darkness. It was only when the Twelve Kings of Mankind had fully come into their own that humans could stand toe 178Reads—Score—Shelves
- 46 Borrowed Corpse, Stolen Life 借尸命 When a plague swept through my mother’s village, she was the only one who escaped alive and made it to Chen Village. My mother was graceful and beautiful, but after arriving in the village, she went mad. There’s something wrong with this village. Every night, we hear strange noises. My father’s name is Chen Jiu, and mine is Chen Lintian. I suspect he isn’t my real father... 1.8kReads9.0Score130Shelves
- 47 Disciple of the Maoshan Sect 茅山门徒 A strange antique shop where the owner uses his ghostly eyes to appraise treasures and spends a fortune buying ghost bones! Think the owner only knows how to appraise antiques? Think again. He can read beautiful women, too! The domineering female CEO, the hottest star, an unconventional beauty, the pure-hearted campus belle, the girl next door… He can see right through you with a single glance! 7.1kReads9.0Score636Shelves
- 48 Plenty of Stories at the Funeral Home 殡仪馆里故事多 Ever since Lin Yu took a job driving a hearse at a funeral home, his life became anything but ordinary. He and his friends went through all kinds of bizarre, inexplicable events together. Vengeful spirits possessing people, a dead infant in a pot, opera singing in a graveyard... No one knew what would happen next. 13kReads8.7Score978Shelves
- 49 Death Club 死亡俱乐部 There are bizarre events, horrifying hellscapes, and the ugliness of human nature. People dwell among ghosts; there are hell trains, death academies… One terrifying incident after another, open only to members of the Death Club. The Death Club welcomes you to join! Zhang Chen was slowly growing drowsy. He had no idea how long it had been since night fell. Just as he was about to drift off, a series of thuds suddenly came from upstairs, the sound of wooden clogs striking the stairs. The clacking 3.9kReads8.6Score496Shelves
- 50 The Clue System: No Criminal Can Escape 提示线索系统之犯罪分子无处可逃 (Urban crime investigation + System + mystery and deduction + team investigations.) The protagonist, Song Mozhou, unexpectedly awakens a System that provides clues to criminal cases. Follow along as he solves one baffling case after another with the System’s help. This is a pure crime-solving novel, with no romance, featuring a series of standalone cases. All cases and characters in this book are fictional. Any resemblance to real people or events is purely coincidental. Here’s hoping you’ll enj 264Reads—Score—Shelves
