Novels like The Yellow Springs Inn
Books Chinese readers most often put in the same booklists as The Yellow Springs Inn, best match first.
- 1 Zongwu: Xuanwu Equipment General Store 宗武：玄武装备杂货店 Wang Aoran transmigrated into a wuxia world and inherited the last remaining family business: an equipment shop, where he became the manager. Like the countless other transmigrators, he obtained an equipment store and could sell weapons, pills, and martial arts manuals through a System, earning cultivation and techniques in return. From then on, he rose to the pinnacle of life. 32Reads5.7Score—Shelves
- 2 The Haunted Pawnshop 诡当 There are many strange and sinister objects in this world, known as cursed artifacts. Everyone is afraid to go near them. Ancient relics from underground tombs, bloodstained objects from murder scenes, and ominous heirlooms passed down among the people: in the eyes of the world, they are steeped in resentment and shrouded in mysterious curses, bringing those who encounter them a death they cannot escape. Wu Chang, born into a family of pawnbrokers, discovered an unknown side of this peculiar tra 244Reads—Score—Shelves
- 3 A Food Courier's Path to Exorcism 外卖员的驱邪之路 Can you believe that Yu, the legendary Great Yu who tamed the floods, has become a delivery driver thousands of years later? And his time-crossing encounter with Nüjiao, daughter of the Tushan clan, is all the more heartbreaking! Follow the growth of a delivery driver across a thousand years! Was it fate, or a plan four thousand years in the making?! 2Reads—Score—Shelves
- 4 The Ghostly Papercutter 幽冥剪纸人 “You want to make a deal with me? But all I want is your shadow!” Song Xiaohan grinned. 26Reads6.7Score—Shelves
- 5 Love on Route 11 情迷11路 While other people are born with jade in their mouths, I was born with a stone in mine. After my first love dumped me, the little stone around my neck went missing too, and I became a walking jinx. Dogs chased me whenever I went out, I got rear-ended on my bike, and even my chances at love disappeared. I became an unwanted old maid, so I gritted my teeth, stamped my foot, and went to the city to work as a bus driver. By a twist of fate, though, I ended up driving the number 11 night route. And t 11Reads—Score—Shelves
- 6 Old He's Collection of Strange Tales (Complete in Two Volumes) 老贺的诡事辑录（全两册） The Strange Cases of Old He is a horror mystery novel based on the real-life experiences of Yang He, a retired soldier. In 1982, while serving in the army, the protagonist Yang He made a mistake. After returning home, he encountered a series of bizarre events. Though he had never believed in fate, he began to believe the words of an old fortune-teller. He wanted to change his destiny, but was drawn into a vast conspiracy as a result. One strange and eerie event after another took place, and one —Reads8.6Score—Shelves
- 7 I Opened a Nostalgia Shop in the Apocalypse 我在末世开怀旧小卖铺 On her way home from work, Luo Fan was playing on her phone when she accidentally fell into a sewer and transmigrated to an alternate disaster-stricken world a thousand years in the future. She inherited a shabby little convenience store and gained a System. [Dear Luo Fan, we're sorry to inform you that your store is opening today.] [For your own safety, please sell one carcinogenic... ahem, delicious snack within a week.] Luo Fan: Sell one in a week? That's easy! On the first day, nobody came t 13Reads6.2Score—Shelves
- 8 Tales of the Strange: A Joke 诡话连篇：玩笑 A deadly joke, with a truth far more terrifying than it seems. Behind the chills, there are no ghosts or spirits at work, only greed, jealousy, selfishness, or rage… 309Reads8.6Score—Shelves
- 9 Transmigrating Across Dimensions with an Invincible Hotel 带着无敌酒店穿越位面 [Invincible + management + no romance + multiple worlds] [Hope you'll support this book. I'd love to hear your reviews.] This isn't purely about running a business; it also has fights and everyday-life chapters. The protagonist has no romantic pairing. Multiple worlds, multiple worlds, multiple worlds. The important things bear repeating three times! Liu Feng worked himself to death staying up late, then transmigrated to an apocalypse world, where he was chosen by the System Jiujiu and given an 151Reads5.8Score—Shelves
- 10 It Was Supposed to Be a Tomb-Guarding Show, but You Awakened a Qilin Tattoo 说好守墓节目，你竟觉醒麒麟纹身 After Ye Qiu transmigrates, he obtains a god-tier legacy System and is selected for a wildly popular online program dedicated to promoting and passing down China's ancient professions, many of which are gradually disappearing! Tomb guardians, pearl divers, corpse drivers, knife lenders, feng shui masters... They all reappear in the world, one after another. From the start, Ye Qiu guards the tomb of Qin Shi Huang. He awakens a qilin tattoo and wields a black-gold ancient saber as he protects the 2Reads5.4Score—Shelves
- 11 The Yin Master of the Living World 阳间葬阴师 I am Shen Xu, born under an ill-starred fate. On the day I was born, ghosts swarmed around me, and I barely survived my first twelve years. The day before I turned twelve, my grandfather used a living corpse hidden in a coffin to conceal my fate, while a nine-lived black cat upset the balance of yin and yang. He put my coffin on a little cart and sent it to the Xuanqing Temple on Mount Taiqing. From that day on, I set out on an uncanny and unpredictable path through the esoteric arts... 374Reads8.9Score100Shelves
- 12 The King of Face Reading 观相之王 This novel is complex and brainy, not a lightweight read. If that’s not your thing, don’t read it. Ensemble cast + mind games + the supernatural + climbing the ranks and getting rich + foretelling good and bad fortune + solving mysteries through face reading and divination. “I’d like to ask about my health using the character ‘six.’” “Certainly. The character ‘six’ looks like a person dismembered into several pieces, with the head separated from the body.” Why are some people blessed with endle 5Reads—Score—Shelves
- 13 Coming for My Life on the Seventh Night? I Can Command the Most Ominous Creatures 头七索命？我能御大凶之物 Anyone who makes money from the dead knows there are three kinds of corpses you must never handle. First, don’t take the bodies of people who died violently or are missing limbs. Such corpses carry baleful energy, damage your fortune, and bind you to karmic debts. Second, don’t take a corpse that has been left unattended for seven days after death. After seven days, the flesh has begun to decay and the soul has nowhere to settle. Disturb it, and you may find yourself haunted by evil things. Thir 262Reads—Score—Shelves
- 14 I Opened a Shop in Another World 我在异界开店铺 On the first level of the Stairway Continent stands a general store known to everyone. It has countless rules, yet not a single person complains. In fact, they’re always begging the owner to hurry up and open the doors. Is it a distortion of human nature, or the collapse of morality? Find out in Opening a Shop in Another World. The Stairway Continent has the following cultivation realms: Warrior, Heroic Warrior, Title, Profession, Grandmaster, Imperial Lord, Hero, Great Power, and Heavenbreaker. 169Reads5.3Score—Shelves
- 15 Reincarnated as the Shadow, I Call the Shots at Pawnshop No. 8 身为黑影转世，八号当铺我说了算 After the great battle between light and shadow, the Shadow was reincarnated and the Bai family passed into the Dao. Shen Yinuo, the Shadow’s tenth reincarnation, awakens once more and takes over Pawnshop No. 8, an establishment that has existed since ancient times. Thus, the legends begin anew. Shen Yinuo: “Nine times out of ten, life doesn’t go as you wish. Come to Pawnshop No. 8! Every wish you have will be granted.” Pawnshop No. 8 accepts anything of value. Intelligence, luck, emotions, year 640Reads6.8Score—Shelves
- 16 Night Watchman: Tales from the Underworld 打更人之走阴夜话 People bear five poisons and seven emotions, eight sufferings and nine calamities. Good and evil, life and death, cause and effect, the cycle of reincarnation. Ghosts become human, humans turn into demons, and nothing ever ends. When day and night blur and humans mingle with ghosts, night watchmen walk the world. A Soul-Calming Hammer and a Spirit-Soothing Gong suppress wicked thoughts and demons, and lay good-hearted souls to rest. Their ceaseless passage through the world bears witness to the 463Reads8.2Score—Shelves
- 17 Strange Feng Shui Affairs 风水异事 My grandfather is a feng shui master. While he was away, a woman came looking for him. After I greeted her, I saw purple-black veins of blood on her face, writhing on their own… 1.5kReads8.8Score484Shelves
- 18 Yellow Springs Inn 黄泉客栈 One day, a construction crew was blasting a path through a mountain when the explosives engineer suddenly felt an ominous premonition. The mountain collapsed, splitting open to reveal a seal buried for thousands of years deep within its heart. A towering crystal pillar, strange runes, and the seal’s sudden explosion blurred everyone’s vision. When they came to, they no longer knew where they were... Thus began a tale buried for thousands of years! 35Reads7.2Score—Shelves
- 19 Xuanhuan: I Open a Supermarket in Another World 玄幻：我在异界开超市 On the wondrous Tianxing Continent stood a wondrous supermarket. A bottle of honey green tea could help someone break through a bottleneck that had troubled them for ages. The snacks here could instantly restore a person's energy and help them comprehend the martial way. The arcade games had special effects: beat a game and you could win a wondrous reward. Even a random bag of pet food could give a spirit beast a chance to awaken its divine beast bloodline. The store stocked all kinds of goods. 203Reads7.9Score—Shelves
- 20 The Yin-Yang Inn 阴阳旅店 From the day I was born, underworld soldiers came to drag my soul away. At eight, I arrived at the Yin-Yang Inn and began working as a guide for the dead. From then on, I guided both the dead and the living. Every ghost or living person who came to the inn had a secret they couldn't tell. The Yin-Yang Inn has strange rules. Ghosts must sign a contract, while the living must stay the night. Whether or not their request is fulfilled, their payment is never refunded. Even so, guests keep coming one 269Reads8.7Score—Shelves
- 21 Daoist Bai Mei, Matchmaker of the Dead 白媒道长 Welcome to the works of Pangtou Yu! The author will do their best to bring you exciting stories. Thank you for your support and for sharing your criticism. Wishing all readers the best of luck. —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 22 The Eerie Game 幽诡游戏 My name is Wu Cangming. I thought that landing a high-paying job during graduation season would mean I’d never have to worry about food or clothes again. If I weren’t risking my life fighting ghosts every day since I started, I might have believed it. 4Reads—Score—Shelves
- 23 The Demon King and the Celestial Master 妖王天师 Have you ever heard of a sinister art that can turn a living person into a human-skin paper effigy overnight? Have you ever seen the bizarre sight of a lifelike human face growing out of a tree trunk? And surely you've never heard of a five-year-old child killing a wolfdog that feeds exclusively on corpses. Yes, there are far too many inexplicable things in this world. I may be young, but the things I've been through are things you may never have heard of. That's right. I'm Luo Tian, a Celestial 3.8kReads8.8Score355Shelves
- 24 Supplier to the Immortal Realm 仙界供应商 [Complete and free, a must-read power fantasy!] Betel nut and cigarettes, boundless magic power. Betel nut and liquor, the world is mine. This is a general store in the cultivation world. Want to advance to the Golden Core Realm and crush every prodigy out there? Betel nut and cigarettes, one million spirit stones! Want to beat your Nascent Soul Realm fiance to death? Betel nut and liquor, ten million spirit stones! Want to survive the tribulation and become an immortal? Sure, as long as you can 880Reads7.7Score100Shelves
- 25 Tales of Spirit-Binding and Ghost-Fighting 扎灵斗阴传 My name is Yun Bo, and I make paper offerings. My master said there was one taboo every paper-offering maker had to observe: never paint the eyes on a paper figure. Because once you do, it might come to life. That year, during a deadly night at a haunted house, I broke the taboo. I thought I had only brought a pair of guides to life, never dreaming they would become weapons of murder. It was only when the government’s shackles closed around my wrists that I understood: I had never been the one c 3Reads—Score—Shelves
- 26 The Death and Life Inn 生死客栈 (Don’t read this. Go away.)… 245Reads8.7Score—Shelves
- 27 I'm Invincible, Yet I Open a Shop in Another World and Live Out My Retirement 无敌的我却在异界开店养老 [Everyday Life] [Lighthearted] [System] [A Little Comedy] [A Little Action] [Overpowered] [Laid-Back] [One Heroine] After a sudden bout of unconsciousness, Lu Yan transmigrates to a place called the Myriad Tribulations Continent. Following the System's instructions, he opens a shop there. The Coke inside can actually remove every negative status effect?! A tiny packet of fish tofu can restore all your stamina?! A simple bottle of iced tea can heal any nonfatal injury?! And these items, practical 158Reads7.2Score—Shelves
- 28 I Want the Underworld to Return to the Mortal Realm 我要地府重临阳间 "Dad, my allotted years are up. Go to the underworld and have them change that for me." "Father, my third son is about to die. Please notify the City God in the underworld and have him extend my son's life by another three thousand years." "Lord of the Underworld, bring me the Book of Life and Death. Extend my grandson's life by five hundred years!" In this realm, the world of the living flourishes while the underworld has fallen into decline, powerless to oversee the lifespans of all living be 278Reads7.1Score—Shelves
- 29 The Mystic Arts Curse Master 玄门咒神 On the day Yang Xuan was supposed to get engaged, a blood-red coffin inexplicably appeared in his home. Inside lay a beautiful woman with skin like jade. On the first day, his father died. On the second day, a yin-yang master told Yang Xuan: If he wanted to survive this calamity, he had to consummate his marriage with her... 115Reads—Score—Shelves
- 30 Records of Yin and Yang Mysteries 阴阳诡录 Ji Rendong was born with Yin-Yang Eyes and brought misfortune to her father, her mother, and her entire family. Since childhood, she has been able to see a girl who looks exactly like her, following her everywhere. At the age of five, her grandmother abandoned her, and a mysterious man took her away. She thought she would finally have a home, but it turned out the man only wanted her extremely yang blood. Her blood could save his son, in exchange for her life. Should she save him or not? That is 241Reads8.5Score102Shelves
- 31 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
- 32 The Weird Realm II: Room 414 Hospital 诡界II：414医院 [Infinite Flow + Supernatural Horror + Mystery + Paranormal + Survival + Dungeons] A hospital said to be impossible to escape, and a group of survivors who've narrowly escaped death time and again. What bizarre and uncanny tales await them as they open the doors to one patient room after another? Dear readers, follow the protagonist Lu Bai as he uncovers one hidden truth after another. Welcome to Hospital 414... 65Reads8.0Score—Shelves
- 33 The Unnamable 不可名状者 [Traditional supernatural fiction, no System. Readers who only enjoy fast-paced, wildly imaginative stories should enter with caution.] “Fang Mu, I’m you from the future. I found a way to return to the present. Remember what I say: in the future, everything you have will belong to evil ghosts. If you want to change that, you must do one thing, ” “Kill yourself immediately!” “Kill yourself immediately!” … A vicious disease gradually spreads across the world. People crawling through dark corners t 100Reads8.2Score—Shelves
- 34 Half a Step Beyond 半步多 Half-Step Pass, the boundary between yin and yang, a place where the living must not go. Grandpa and I escaped from there and lived under assumed names for twenty years, but they still found us... 528Reads8.9Score107Shelves
- 35 I Inherited a Joss Stick and Candle Shop 我继承了一家香烛店 Bai Linlin had just graduated when she was involved in a car accident that had been planned long in advance. After being discharged from the hospital, she had to use a wheelchair for a while, so she decided to take over the incense and candle shop her grandmother had left her. The shop served both the living and the dead, and business was far busier than Bai Linlin had expected. Especially business from the underworld. Fortunately, it was right up the alley of Bai Linlin, who came from a family 101Reads8.4Score—Shelves
- 36 The Yin-Yang Occult Artisan 阴阳诡匠 As the old saying goes: “Better to offend the King of Hell than a carpenter.” A carpenter isn't someone who puts together a plank to make a door or builds a table. That's just woodworking! A true carpenter understands the yin and yang, knows feng shui, and can bring prosperity to a household or cause someone to die a sudden, violent death. I might have spent my whole life as an ordinary woodworker, if Grandma hadn't given me a mysterious old book... 4.7kReads7.0Score494Shelves
- 37 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
- 38 The Pawnshop of Obsessions 执念当铺 [Mystery and the supernatural + urban legends + all beings of the three realms + pawning obsessions] I took over my grandfather’s midnight pawnshop. This pawnshop has no boundaries, and accepts anything. The living must stay away; we only take obsessions. In some corner of the city lies an unremarkable shop called the Obsession Pawnshop. It takes no gold or silver, only the obsessions people cannot let go of deep in their hearts: a memory of regret, a false mask, an unrequited longing. All can b 7Reads—Score—Shelves
- 39 The Corpse Walker: I Brought Your Ancestors Back 赶尸人：我把你们祖宗找回来了 Han Tian was a killer who bound himself to the [Corpse-Driving System] at the brink of life and death. From then on, he embarked on a very different path. A Fourth Master who turns to people's ancestors whenever he can't make up his mind? A Black Panther who can draw talismans? A corpse driver who uses brute force to deal with ghosts? He brought back a group of ancient corpses from a tomb deep in the mountains. Going from house to house, he said, “Come on, I've brought your ancestor back.” Now t 1kReads8.2Score106Shelves
- 40 Old Tales of the Dead Village 死人村旧事 Chen Ergou holds a stalk of grass and gently pokes at the paper money still smoldering in front of him. Behind him, a dense crowd of “people” from the village and beyond stands packed together... Hanwa, his belly slit open and his tongue hanging down to his chest; Sufen, naked, with raw flesh exposed; the Fat Taoist, whose limbs and head are covered with tightly packed stitches at the joints; Tian Da, his body stiff, a walking stick jutting from his wide-open mouth; Xiao Zhao, pale-faced and dri 185Reads8.4Score109Shelves
- 41 I Married a Dragon, and I Was Born to Eat Yin Energy! 嫁给了龙，我天生吃阴饭！ I was born amid a blazing fire on a yin year, yin month, and yin hour, right at the witching hour. A fortune-teller said I had a "demon-encountering fate and must never leave my hometown." On the day I turned sixteen, I went with the other girls from my village and accidentally stepped onto land belonging to the neighboring village. When the witching hour came, I gained the ability to see spirits. The first thing I saw was the sweetheart of a girl from the village. He smiled at me, then flicked 826Reads9.2Score100Shelves
- 42 The Taoist Landlord, Open the Door! 道士房东，快开门 Her boyfriend left her stranded on the highway, but a handsome Taoist priest picked her up. She never expected that, besides seeing ghosts all day, she'd also have to keep begging the priest, who was always trying to take advantage of her, to open the door and save her... 2.5kReads8.8Score338Shelves
- 43 The Immortal World's Top-Tier Star Reborn as the Real Heiress 仙界顶流穿成真千金后 [Top-Tier Star of Metaphysics in the Immortal Realm + Livestream Face-Slapping of Scumbags + Putting Green Tea and White Lotus Types in Their Place + Slight Everyone's Favorite + Exorcising Ghosts and Leveling Up Through Cultivation] Su Qintang, the top-tier star of ghost hunting in the immortal realm and a Golden Immortal of Primordial Chaos, was envied by someone and suddenly reborn as the despised real daughter of a modern wealthy family. On the night of the birthday banquet, facing the fak 3Reads—Score—Shelves
- 44 I Deliver Takeout to Evil Spirits 我给恶灵送外卖 [Psychopathic serial killer] [Pig's head on a human body] [Human jerky] [Split personality] [Locked-room murder] [Heart removal and skinning] [Time loop] I'm just a novice at solving mysteries, but I get unwillingly swept up in a food delivery fiasco. Every time I deliver food to an evil spirit, I narrowly escape disaster. This story is absolutely tense and thrilling. Come check it out! 18Reads—Score—Shelves
- 45 I Quit School to Hunt Ghosts, and Eventually Became the Origin God of Wuji 不当学生去猎鬼，终修成无极源神 This story is entirely fictional and wholly original. It is a true cultivation adventure, with no political, military, or religious content. Its defining feature is its sheer, sheer, sheer, sheer, sheer, sheer, sheer, sheer… weirdness. 13Reads—Score—Shelves
- 46 I Get 50 Million a Day to Spend, But Can Only Buy Fertilizer? 日抛5000万，我只能买化肥？ [The Rating Just Came Out, and It'll Rise Later] In 2026, Cheng Shi'an is laid off, with only 23.6 yuan in his pocket. He binds to a System that gives him 50 million yuan a day, but he can't spend a single cent on himself. He can't even buy a bottle of water that costs two yuan. The money can only be spent at the supply-and-marketing cooperative in his hometown, a shop that's on the verge of collapse. Before long, its back door connects to the Myriad Worlds. He drives off hungry spirits from 98Reads6.6Score138Shelves
- 47 The Midnight Spirit Shop 深夜灵店 I'm neither a yin-yang master nor an exorcist, but I do have an unusual left eye. I run a shop that opens only at midnight, serving customers who have run into special troubles. A little shop, a cup of tea for a guest, and so my story begins... 1.8kReads8.6Score194Shelves
- 48 A Corpse Driver Seeks Justice for the Dead, Then Gets Exposed by a Streamer! 赶尸人为亡者申冤！被主播曝光！ Zuo Qian becomes a corpse driver and takes on commissioned jobs “Thirty years ago, a magnitude-nine earthquake struck Zhongnan City. Aid poured in from every direction! But the supply truck driven by volunteer Zeng Xiao vanished without a trace!” The livestream camera focuses on an elderly couple. Reporter: “What do you think about your son selling off life-saving supplies?” The old man says angrily, “He didn't! He never sold them!” The reporter sneers, “Really? Then let's hear it from him i 378Reads6.5Score—Shelves
- 49 The Yin Tattooist 阴纹师 May you be blessed with wealth and long life, and travel safely in and out. I’m the heir to a special kind of embroidery, commonly known as “tattooing.” You’d think this craft would be quite profitable in a modern city, but before my master died, he forbade me from using it to make money. I always did as he said, but recently, something happened, and I had no choice but to go against his dying words. From then on, all kinds of strange things began happening around me. 968Reads8.8Score116Shelves
- 50 Lord of the Spirit Realm: From the Start, Bound to a Horror Short-Drama System 灵境主宰：开局绑定恐怖短剧系统 [Soul Transmigration to the Modern World + Cultivation Expert + Unhinged CEO + Demon-Fallen Buddhist Monk + Horror Short-Drama Instances + Yandere Villain + Love Rival Showdown] Li Xinghua, a Mahayana cultivator, was ambushed by a Buddhist monk who had fallen to the demonic path. Her soul transmigrated to the modern world, where she became a freshman at Huaqing University who had died from staying up too late. Stripped of her cultivation and stranded in an unfamiliar world with scarce spiritual 3Reads—Score—Shelves
