Novels like Insect Life: A Journey to the Brink of Death
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- 101 Eerie Tattoos 诡纹 My grandfather was a tattoo artist, but the things he tattooed were seriously sinister… 7.3kReads9.1Score77414d adds
- 102 Secret Art: I Transmigrate and Fight to Survive in a Bizarre World 秘法穿越:我在诡异世界极限逃生 Secret Art Transmigration: My Extreme Escape in a World of the Uncanny 92Reads—Score114d adds
- 103 After the Goddess Died Tragically, I Drew My Sword and Slayed Ghosts! 女神惨死后，我拔剑斩鬼！ That day, I received a strange food delivery order. A goddess who had died a tragic death was begging me for help. After that, I became a spirit courier. I clear the way for wronged souls and guide the dead on their final journey! 40.2kReads9.2Score3.4k14d adds
- 104 Folk Feng Shui Secrets 民间风水秘术 This story focuses on practical feng shui and fortune-telling. If you're looking for made-up drama, this isn't for you! Feel free to skip the first four chapters and start reading from Chapter Five. The adaptation will also start from Chapter Five, which should make it much easier to adapt. Thank you for understanding! (Traditional, no System, no wild flights of fancy, funny, not saintly! A technical, skill-focused story!) I was born in a poor mountain village. From a young age, I traveled aroun 28.8kReads9.4Score4.1k14d adds
- 105 My Years of Ghost Hunting Among the People 我在民间捉鬼的那些年 Chinese-Style Horror, No Female Lead My name is Xu Jian. I’m 26, and I studied Taoist arts under a Maoshan priest for several years. Over the years, I’ve seen all kinds of things. After doing this long enough, I realized that ghosts aren’t scary. What’s truly frightening are the things people can’t get past in their hearts. All I do is help them say what needs to be said and settle their debts once and for all. People call me a Celestial Master of the Taoist sect, but I’m really just an ordin 4.8kReads—Score32414d adds
- 106 Not to Be Trusted 不可信奉 This world is full of the bizarre. Every household worships a god, and the more devout you are, the more power you gain. Everyone longs to become a god. New to this world, Jiang Yuan refuses to worship. His blood-red cleaver tears through the beautiful veil covering the world. Beneath that veil, the real world is mad, violent, and evil. Surrounded by monsters, he realizes that he is the one who doesn't belong. He has to survive. 22.2kReads8.9Score2.1k14d adds
- 107 Terrifying Nightmare: Extreme Survival in a Bizarre World 恐怖噩梦：我在诡异世界极限逃生 [Infinite-flow, mildly scary, no romance] Wang Yan wearily opened his front door. Inside, he saw the woman next door holding and soothing a baby, staring at him in terror. “Sorry, I’ve got the wrong apartment.” He quickly apologized and backed out, then slammed the door shut. Standing in the pitch-black hallway, he found himself unable to decide what was more terrifying: seeing his female neighbor in his home, or seeing the baby who had died long ago… 411.4kReads9.4Score78.3k14d adds
- 108 Sin Hunter Detective 猎罪神探 What's the most terrifying case you've ever heard of? The Corpse Immortal Madam, the Medical University's Sex Fiend, the Human-Head Planters, the Zombie Baby in Building Seven... There are no ghosts in this world, only wrongs waiting to be righted by a master hand. The legendary coroner Song Yang returns to the scene with his disciples, piercing through layer upon layer of mystery to hunt down the killers lurking in this world. Come face-to-face with the bloodiest, most baffling, and most hair-r 5.8kReads9.4Score81514d adds
- 109 The Divine Fortune-Teller in the Linen Robe 麻衣神算子 My grandfather taught me everything he knew about fortune-telling, but after I read three people’s fortunes, he left me. From then on, I didn’t just tell the fortunes of the living... 43.8kReads9.2Score3.8k14d adds
- 110 Strange Tales Livestream 怪谈直播间 The sound of meat being chopped eerily echoes through a bun shop in the dead of night. The passengers on the last bus all have the same face. On a freezing, rainy night, someone wearing funeral clothes wanders the streets... The Strange Tales livestream takes you deep into the hidden side of this world! 13.8kReads8.9Score1.2k14d adds
- 111 I Am a Female Sorcerer 在下女术师 The night Bai Zhou returned home to inherit the funeral-clothing shop, someone tried to murder her... From the moment she came back from the dead, she was swept up in one eerie, chilling case after another. A dead old woman wandering through a funeral hall; vengeful spirits who died violent deaths scrambling to find substitutes; a sinister temple in the mountains where people are killed; evil spirits crying out for justice during a performance of Judge Bao... Watch Bai Zhou learn the Taoist Five 17.6kReads9.2Score2.5k14d adds
- 112 Midnight Fortune-Teller: Humans Keep Away, Ghosts Come Forward 午夜算命师：人回避，鬼上前 Everyone knows about fortune-telling, but have you ever heard of telling fortunes for ghosts? Just because you've never heard of something doesn't mean it doesn't exist. If you ever come across a fortune-telling shop with its doors still open in the middle of the night, don't go looking for excitement. Because the people waiting in line might not be people… 36kReads9.0Score2.7k14d adds
- 113 Stop Running, There Are Monsters Everywhere Here 别跑了，这里到处是怪物 [Coming-of-Age Protagonist, Not a Wish-Fulfillment Story, Plot-Driven] On Lin Yi’s eighteenth birthday, his mother plunged a knife into his heart with her own hands. He thought he would die, but when he came to, Lin Yi discovered he was still alive. He was not only unharmed, but had even returned to the past. At first, Lin Yi thought it was all a hallucination. It was only when his mother picked up the knife on the table again that he finally realized the people sitting before him were not his p 19.9kReads8.9Score2.3k14d adds
- 114 Surrender 自首 (Now streaming on iQIYI. Starring Xu Weizhou, Guo Junchen, and Xiao Yan. A criminal police captain, played by Xu Weizhou, teams up with a psychologist, played by Guo Junchen, to solve cases and capture the monsters of the human heart. Mystery + deduction + psychologist + episodic cases + serial murders + high-IQ crimes + revenge plots + strange tales and records + best partners + light horror + suitable for the faint-hearted) “I killed someone.” A girl turns herself in, claiming that she killed 21.5kReads9.4Score3k14d adds
- 115 The Supreme Taoist: Subduing Ten Thousand Ghosts 道门太上：万鬼伏藏 Offer blood to Heaven and slaughter every evil. The Daoist arts are the strongest of all. The protagonist, Li Changsheng, masters the supreme arts of the Daoist sect and makes a solemn vow: he will not ascend until he has eliminated every demon and evil spirit under Heaven. He willingly seals his cultivation between Heaven and Earth, remaining in the mortal realm for thousands of years! 22.4kReads9.4Score1.8k14d adds
- 116 Nine Dragons Carry the Coffin 九龙抬棺 The night of my grandfather's funeral, I carried a stone tablet at the front of the procession to lead the way. I didn't dare look back, because the eight evil spirits carrying the coffin were behind me... 9.5kReads9.2Score2.6k14d adds
- 117 The Yin-Walker 巡阴人 Applying makeup to the dead, reading the winds and assessing the land, preparing bodies for burial, and performing rites on the seventh day after death. Scorched corpses: cleaning the body, applying rouge, painting the features! Bodies cut in half at the waist: removing the organs, filling the cavities, and stitching the body back together! I was born into a family that made its living from the dead, so I grew up dealing with corpses. I’ve seen all sorts of bizarre ways to die and countless inex 8.1kReads9.1Score1k14d adds
- 118 I Am a Lady Tutor 我是女先生 I'm hard to kill. These were the words I heard from the moment I was born. A blind fortune-teller said I was a White Tiger Sha, a girl born with a boy's fate, innately tough and destined to bring misfortune to my husband, my children, and myself. Everyone in the village said I wouldn't survive. My yang energy was too strong. Even if they managed to keep me alive, I'd grow up to be an idiot. But my grandma, a spirit medium who presided over the altar, refused to give up. Every year, she burned a 3.3kReads9.4Score44914d adds
- 119 Even Ghost Messengers Say the Hotpot at My Restaurant Is Delicious 我开的火锅店，鬼差吃了都说好 Low-key version She dropped out of school at thirteen and worked as a chef until she was nineteen. With the savings Lin Ye had scraped together over those six years, he opened a hot pot restaurant. Who could have guessed his venture would get off to such a poor start, with business so slow the place was about to close? Just as he was wondering what to do next, two customers showed up on the restaurant's final night and changed his life... Grim Reaper: “Boss Lin, your hot pot is so spicy. It 31.6kReads9.1Score2.8k14d adds
- 120 I Am Intersex 我是阴阳人 My mother said that when I was born, her first reaction was to strangle me, because it was impossible to tell whether I was male or female. My grandmother called me a freak and a jinx, saying I would only bring shame on the family. It was then that my maternal grandmother, who had traveled all the way from the countryside to visit my mother, adopted me. So, by chance, I got to enjoy a pure childhood, free from scornful looks. Following my half-immortal grandmother, I unexpectedly discovered how 8.5kReads9.3Score1.3k14d adds
- 121 Strange Tales of Northeast China 东北诡异实录 The comic adaptation of the same name is now available, also known as Mountain Spirit Lost. The comic Northeast Strange Tales is currently being serialized. Across the vast, boundless black earth of Northeast China, one strange and little-known story after another has unfolded. Now, I’ll tell you these long-buried tales of the supernatural, one by one! 31.9kReads9.4Score3.2k14d adds
- 122 I Went to the Wrong Grave and Mistook a Female Ghost for One of My Own 上错坟，不小心把女鬼当成自己人 [One female lead, the male lead isn't invincible, not a wish-fulfillment story, supernatural, metaphysics. If it's not your cup of tea, please don't flame. This story is entirely fictional. The leads practice both Buddhism and Taoism. If you're the type to nitpick, read with caution!] “Year after year, I come to pay respects to my ancestors, yet year after year I'm still stuck working. I'm not happy over here, and you might be going hungry over there. Bless your grandson with a prosperous year, 18.3kReads9.2Score1.9k14d adds
- 123 The Haunted Teahouse: I Only Sell Objects of Ill Omen 恐怖茶馆：我只卖大凶之物 The world is divided between yin and yang. Some people do business with the living, while others trade with the dead. I deal in the business of the dead, but I don’t sell coffins, paper money, funeral clothes, or paper effigies. What I sell are things you’ve never seen before, things far stranger still… 30.7kReads9.2Score2.9k14d adds
- 124 The Taoist Exorcist 道门驱邪人 Where there is evil under heaven, there are all manner of wicked things, and so there are Daoist exorcists. He travels between heaven and earth, yin and yang. He ventures deep into the hundred thousand mountains of Miao territory and far away to the borders of the southern seas. Head-dropping curses, gu raising, black magic, and all the world's fiends and spirits of darkness. He has exorcised countless demons and ghosts, only to discover in the end that nothing is more evil than the human heart. 2.6kReads9.1Score39514d adds
- 125 The Divine Qilin 麒麟神相 I was born with a Qilin by my side. To save me, my grandfather peeled off his own human skin and gave it to a nine-tailed fox. That day, dead trees bloomed again, and all the beasts came to pay their respects! 10.6kReads9.4Score1.2k14d adds
- 126 The Horror Livestreamer 恐怖女主播 My name is Yuan Junyao, a name that doesn't suit me at all. I've had a chronic illness since birth, and I'm so hideously deformed that tumors started growing on my face when I was little. My father left me when I was just three months old. At fifteen, I was blamed for my mother's death. Only my grandmother raised me and my stepbrother, who shared neither parent with me. But after an accident, I was offered up to a man who should never have crossed my path. To get revenge and see justice done, I 18.4kReads9.1Score2.3k14d adds
- 127 Fourteen Years of Hunting Ghosts (Complete in Five Volumes) 十四年猎诡人（全五册） Li Yifan’s spine-chilling ghost-hunting chronicles! A contemporary Strange Tales from a Chinese Studio! A spine-chilling record of ghost hunts! First posted on Tieba, it topped 100 million views within three months! The acclaimed mystery writer Li Yifan’s breakthrough work, now with the unpublished continuation added! Every ghost was once a living person. I’m a professional ghost hunter. I turn the compass, circle the place with red 11.4kReads9.6Score2.1k14d adds
- 128 True Tales of the Spirit Mediums: My Ten Years Serving at a Ghost Hall 出马仙纪实：我供奉鬼堂的那十年 My name is Zhou Tie. In this book, I'll tell the true story of my ten years running a spirit hall and serving ghosts. You've heard of spirit mediums... but have you heard of a ghost spirit hall? At eighteen, I established a ghost spirit hall and served ghost immortals! The presiding master was the sister my grandfather said had gone mad and died! This book has no female lead. It's not fantasy, and it's definitely not a cultivation novel! It's the true story of how I, born with an ominous yin con 87.3kReads9.6Score8.4k14d adds
- 129 The Last Knife Seller 最后一个赊刀人 They are wandering prophets who travel the four corners of the world. Skilled in feng shui, they roam the mortal realm with a bundle of cleavers and scissors on their backs, and wherever they go, they leave behind a prophecy about what they have seen. “Keep this cleaver. If an elder in your family dies of consumption within five years, I'll come back to collect payment.” They are heirs to an ancient Daoist tradition from a distant place, able to pronounce life and death with ironclad certainty a 53kReads9.2Score5.1k14d adds
- 130 The Ninth Secret Bureau 第九守秘局 “If we want the people of this world to live in the sunlight and keep their sanity, then we must keep secret the things they were never meant to know.” “Because the moment they see those terrifying beings that defy all known science and truly discover how horrifying this world is... believe me, Earth will become the biggest asylum in the universe.” Chen Xian, Ninth Secret Bureau 3.2kReads9.2Score47014d adds
- 131 Taboo of the Living 活人禁忌 When I was nine, I found myself in mortal danger! To save me, my grandfather made a decision that would change my life forever... 16kReads9.2Score2.2k14d adds
- 132 Life-and-Death Gambit in the Snowlands 雪域生死局 [Chinese Folk Horror + Gods and Ghosts + Folk Legends + Secret-Realm Exploration + Mystery and Deduction + Strong Allies] At an antique fair in Lhasa, I stumbled upon an ancient Tibetan stone tablet. Curious about its contents, I accepted an invitation to join a merchant named Lao Gun and the team he had assembled to search for goods. Together, we ventured deep into the barren mountains of northern Tibet to investigate an ancient temple. I never expected the old temple to conceal such mysteries. 8.2kReads8.6Score1.2k14d adds
- 133 The Heaven-Ordained Fortune Teller 天命神算 When I was thirteen, I fell gravely ill. My fever wouldn't break, and no matter how many famous doctors I saw, none could cure me. My grandfather healed me, but he died mysteriously five years later. Only then did I learn that he had incurred a karmic debt on my behalf. So I inherited his legacy and embarked on the path of a feng shui master. 148.2kReads9.2Score17.3k14d adds
- 134 Selling Clothes by Day, Sewing Corpses by Night 白天卖衣服，晚上缝尸体 [Traditional supernatural horror, folk terror, decisive and ruthless] I rented an apartment where someone had died, hoping to save money, only to be plunged into endless darkness... My terrifying girlfriend has a mouth full of sharp teeth and haunts me day and night; A headless vengeful infant on the highway frantically tries to steal people’s heads; A horrifying internet celebrity livestreams herself peeling off people’s faces, while the comments turn eerie; At a Cat Immortal shrine in a strang 51.7kReads9.2Score6.2k14d adds
- 135 Folk Horror [The Fake Master Who Shocks a Hundred Demons] 恐怖民俗【冒牌大师震百妖】 The thing Liu Buyi, a fake master, regrets most in his life is learning how to “draw talismans with soy sauce” from a short video. Because the corpse that should be lying quietly in front of him is now using a soy-sauce-dipped finger to write his name on the coffin lid. Meanwhile, his half-baked beauty of a partner, An Xun, is munching on sunflower seeds and enjoying the show. “Didn't you say you had Yin-Yang Eyes?!” Liu Buyi's voice trembles. Seeing how unconcerned she looks, he almost passes o 839Reads—Score10914d adds
- 136 Tianxuan Paranormal Affairs Office 天玄灵异事务所 - [Infinite Flow + Urban Supernatural + Chinese-Style Horror + Folk Legends and Hauntings + Celestial Master Exorcists + Heirs to the Daoist Tradition + Heterochromatic-Eyed Heroine + Haunted House Tales + Episodic Stories + Folk Taboos] - Hidden deep in the bustling streets is an inconspicuous supernatural affairs office called Tianxuan. - No one dares touch the folk taboos of this world. Haunted houses are plagued by unsolved horrors, abandoned villages and ancient mansions seethe with resentm 1.2kReads—Score10414d adds
- 137 The Seventy-Two Earthly Fiends Transformations 地煞七十二变 The seventy-two transformations of the Earthly Fiends each grant a supernatural ability. A mysterious book with a yellow cover sent Li Chang'an back to the ancient world. Every demon he killed earned him a new ability. Painted-skin ghosts, zombie kings, spider demons... one after another fell beneath his sword. Communing with the netherworld, swordsmanship, demon-slaying... one supernatural ability after another emerged from the book. After he wiped out a hundred ghosts and looked around with hi 37.4kReads9.3Score4.4k14d adds
- 138 EN The Last Bus on Route 13 13路末班车 I'm the driver of the last bus on Route 13. Every night at eleven, I have to make a run to the suburbs. This book is addictive, so don't blame me if you can't put it down! In this novel, even the sharp-tongued readers who always guess the plot right will find themselves repeatedly proven wrong. You might find yourself asking, “What's going on? What's going on?” Don't doubt your sanity. Just keep reading. A story that keeps you on edge, here to save readers suffering from a reading drought! 13.1kReads9.2Score1.6k14d adds
- 139 The Strange Tales of Shangguan Zhaorong 上官昭容诡事录 [Completed] [Strong female lead, no romance, Chinese-style horror, transmigration through history, numerous foreshadowed clues, coherent plot, no System, not a power fantasy] [The Strange Tales of Shangguan Zhaorong] [Also known as: Old Tales from the Yellow Springs] [Reader’s guide: The main plot and the individual arcs are interconnected, with plenty of clues and foreshadowing. Almost every character who appears has a role to play, though each arc can also be read as a standalone story.] Th 2.1kReads9.3Score37014d adds
- 140 The Haunted Tomb 诡坟 [This is no ordinary paranormal story. It's all about horror and suspense: no mindless wish fulfillment, forbidden yin-yang lore, no cultivation, and a ghost wife. If it's not good, you can break my legs.] People laugh at my family's poverty and say that all my blood relatives have died, so there must be a ghost in our house. I don't dare argue... because there really is a ghost buried in our ancestral grave! ...My name is Zhang Asi... I was born at four in the morning on the fourteenth day of t 40.1kReads8.8Score3.7k14d adds
- 141 Strange Tales from the Civil Affairs Bureau (Complete in 8 Volumes) 民调局异闻录（全8册） The Strange Tales of the Bureau of Investigation series creates an entirely new world of suspense: a mysterious organization dedicated to uncovering the truth behind bizarre, uncanny, and supernatural events, and the world it faces. The stories are wildly strange and utterly captivating, with a witty, playful style and one suspenseful twist after another. Once you start reading, you won't be able to put them down. Throughout history, strange cases and evil monsters have always been dealt with by 37.3kReads9.6Score5.8k14d adds
- 142 Confessions of a Mentally Ill Person 一个精神病人的自述 Sometimes I wonder what I am, what the world is, and what my existence means to it. Am I an NPC? Or just a virus that doesn't matter? A virus, yes. I feel like I've caught some kind of virus, or maybe I've always been one. My name is Zhang Shun. I'm an ordinary person, and on an ordinary day, I suddenly saw things no one else could see... 1.5kReads9.3Score36714d adds
- 143 This Spirit Medium Is Pretty Powerful! 这个出马仙有点强！ A piece of red cloth, three feet and three inches long. The old hall's people, the old hall's immortals. One day, when they emerge from the depths of the mountains, their names will spread far and wide! I was born in a rural village in Northeast China in the 1980s. When I was seven, a spirit medium said I was fated to suffer three calamities and eight misfortunes, and would one day become a horse-riding shaman. I didn't believe it, but hardship kept finding me. To make a living, I worked as a wa 150.8kReads9.7Score13.6k14d adds
- 144 Thriller Game: From the Start, I Helped Monsters Make Choices 惊悚游戏：开局帮鬼怪做选择 [Horror game dungeons + career-based progression + NPCs caught in a rat race + livestreaming + everyday-life style] Jiang Ye’s daily routine consists of working, studying, working... Then one day, he’s pulled into a horror game during class and awakens an all-career talent. He discovers that all his career skills are a little strange. From the start, he unlocks the career “Small-Town Exam Machine,” with an added skill that lets him make choices for ghosts and monsters. [A difficult choice has ap 69.1kReads9.4Score8k14d adds
- 145 Horror Arena: From the Start, a Red-and-White Collision Scares the World to Tears 恐怖擂台：开局红白撞煞吓哭全球 A horror arena has descended upon Blue Star. Each nation must summon a terrifying entity to fight for it. The winners will see their national fortunes flourish and endure for all eternity. The losers will see their national fortunes decline, their resources and territory plundered, and their dignity stripped away. To claim victory, nations everywhere summon horrors native to their lands. The Sakura Nation has the Slit-Mouthed Woman, the Red Cape, the Four Great Female Ghosts, and the Hundred Gho 19.1kReads9.2Score1.8k14d adds
- 146 The Immortal Food of Mankind 人种仙食 "Weird Cultivation, Behind-the-Scenes Story" The Tang Dynasty: strange things are coming. When Li Qing transmigrated here, he thought Mr. Huayue had kindly taken him in. Little did he know that the man saw him only as livestock to be raised for food. At the brink of life and death, the jade tablet on Li Qing revealed its power, gravely wounding Mr. Huayue and allowing him to escape. But the danger was far from over. The scheme of the Six Paths and Eight Immortals to devour all living beings had 38.1kReads8.8Score3.4k14d adds
- 147 Horror Tavern: I Only Raise the Most Ferocious Creatures 恐怖酒馆：我只养大凶之物 Tucked away in a quiet alley is a strange tavern that can grant your wishes, as long as you’re willing to set up a terrifying idol in your home... 6kReads9.4Score80414d adds
- 148 Learning Feng Shui from Third Grandpa 跟着三爷爷学风水 Born into a family of Feng Shui practitioners, I became someone who defies fate the moment I entered the world of Yin-Yang Feng Shui. As one strange event after another unfolded, I learned to recognize fortune and misfortune, ward off disaster, and handle everything with ease. To all the brothers, sisters, uncles, and aunties passing by, please leave a book review here! Remember to comment, too! Thank you! If you like learning, remember to bring your brain along. There’s plenty of useful informa 34.1kReads8.8Score2.9k14d adds
- 149 EN Terror: I Only Sell Haunted Houses 惊悚：我只卖凶宅 Rooms where unnatural deaths have occurred are collectively known as haunted houses. There are two kinds: “blue houses” and “red houses.” Living people can stay in blue houses without harm, but anyone who lives in a red house is doomed to die. I work as a real estate agent. One day, I accidentally sold a red house, and afterward, I began encountering terrifying things… 25.5kReads9.2Score3k14d adds
- 150 I’m a Dual-Personality Surgeon, Professionally a Ripper 我，双面手术师，职业开膛手 Some call him Miracle Doctor Lu, while others call him Lu the Skinner. Some owe their battlefield dominance to the mechanical limbs he fitted them with; others have breathed their last beneath his surgical knife. He can save someone on the brink of death, or make a corpse disappear without a trace. By day, he is the warmest kindness in the world; by night, he is a terror that makes the whole world tremble. A scalpel rests between his fingers: one side is a demon, the other an angel. His name is 20.4kReads9.4Score2.3k14d adds
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