Novels like The Ultimate Yin Warden: The 90s-Era City God Is No Pushover
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- 1 After the System Went Bankrupt, I Was Transferred to Customer Service in the Underworld 系统破产后，我被移交冥界客服 After the System Went Bankrupt, I Was Transferred to Underworld Customer Service —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 2 I Got a Permanent Job at the Hotel by Following the Rules 我靠遵守规则，被旅馆永久录取了 I Got a Permanent Job at the Hotel by Following the Rules —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 3 Hey, System, You're Sending Me to a Haunted Restaurant for a Late-Night Snack? 喂，系统你让我去鬼店吃宵夜？ Hey, System, You’re Sending Me to Eat Late-Night Snacks at a Ghost Shop? —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 4 An Underworld Wage Slave, an Overworld Night Owl 阴间打工人，阳间熬夜人 An Underworld Employee, an All-Night Worker in the Living World —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 5 Don't Worry, My System Talks Too Much but It's Useless 别怕，我的系统话痨但很菜 Don’t Worry, My System Talks a Lot but Is Pretty Useless —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 6 Notice: We Really Have Ghosts. We Are Not Responsible If You Get Scared to Death 告示：我们真的有鬼吓死不负责 Notice: We Really Do Have Ghosts. We Are Not Responsible If You Get Scared to Death. —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 7 Please, Someone Come and Try to Kill Me! 求求你们来个人害我吧！ Please, someone come and hurt me! —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 8 Shocking! Is There Really a Ghost Behind the Streamer? 惊！主播身后真有鬼？ Shocking! Is There Really a Ghost Behind the Streamer? —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 9 Scare Delivery 惊吓快递 Scare Delivery —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 10 The Horror Livestream Went Horribly Wrong 恐怖直播翻车了 The Horror Livestream Went Horribly Wrong —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 11 The Rules Administrator Refuses to Work Overtime 规则管理员拒绝加班 The Rules Administrator Refuses to Work Overtime —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 12 Please, I'm Really Not an Unmatched Expert 求求你们，我真不是绝世高人 Please, I’m Really Not an Peerless Expert —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 13 After the Grim Reaper Retired, the System Begged Me to Come to Work 死神退休后，系统求我上班 After the Grim Reaper Retired, the System Begged Me to Go to Work 3Reads—Score—14d adds
- 14 After I Transmigrated, I Started Livestreaming Sales to the Heavenly Demons 穿越后，我给天魔直播带货 After I Transmigrated, I Started Livestreaming Sales to the Heavenly Demon —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 15 Making Cultural Relics at the Crematorium 我在火葬场造文物 On my first night shift at the crematorium, I found a Northern Song copper coin in the ashes. Its patina was peacock blue, the kind that takes eight hundred years underground to form. But the person whose ashes they were had died just three days ago. On the second day, a ring on a girl killed in a car accident held a fragment of a Spring and Autumn bronze artifact. On the third day, half a Warring States jade disc turned up in a retired teacher’s ashes. The old building to the east, sealed shut, —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 16 I’m a Literary Genius in the Underworld, and the Three Realms Can’t Stop Reading 我在地府当文豪，三界追更乱套了 I’m a Literary Master in the Underworld, and the Three Realms are going wild waiting for updates —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 17 The Young Master of the Capital Has Cheats in His Dreams 京圈大少在梦里开挂了 The Young Master of the Capital's Elite Circle Gets Cheats in His Dreams —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 18 King of the Occult Arts: Exorcising Demons in the American Horror Universe 诡术之王：我在美恐世界斩妖除魔 After three years of cultivation, Lin Yan was still at the bottom of the food chain in the American Horror world: kept like livestock by vampires, tormented by vengeful spirits, and ultimately killed on a witch’s sacrificial altar. Then he was reborn and awakened the Lin family’s ancestral legacy of occult arts! In his previous life, he had been ignorant. This time, he wielded talismans as blades, peachwood swords as edges, and soul-subduing bells as his guide, using the thousand-year heritage o 175Reads—Score10014d adds
- 19 I Live in a City with Just One Human in Ten Thousand 我住在只有万分之一人类的城里 I Live in a City Where Only One in Ten Thousand People Is Human 3Reads—Score—14d adds
- 20 From the Start, the System Told Me to Torture the Ghosts. No Way I'm Doing That! 开局系统让我折磨诡，俺不中嘞 [Myths and Legends] [Hilarious] [Unhinged Protagonist] [Tormenting the Supernatural] [Emotion System] As the supernatural resurfaces and evil entities descend, everyone in the world avoids them at all costs. Li Daoxuan awakens the Mythic Emotion System. As long as he can drive an evil entity to an emotional meltdown, he can draw upon the powers of the great gods of ancient mythology! While everyone else flees for their lives when they encounter ghosts, he actively seeks out all kinds of vicious 19Reads—Score—14d adds
- 21 Six Relics to Banish Evil 六器渡邪 On a stormy night, the evil box passed down through my family shattered on its own, and I became a wanted fugitive accused of several murders. My only chance of survival was to recover the six cursed artifacts scattered across the Lin family. But they weren't treasures. They were instruments of torture, each one imprisoning the soul of someone our ancestors had tortured into becoming an artifact. Soul-harvesting rice from the Hungry Ghost Realm, a mending needle used to sew together a hundred —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 22 Better Not to Meet Again 看见不如不见 “You’re not a curse. You’re the key!” “If you don’t want to die, stay away from me.” “Liu Yan, stop licking your lips! You might poison yourself!” “Mind your own business and you’ll live longer!” “Praying to gods? Worshipping Buddha? You’d be better off kowtowing to me.” “I decide whether you stay or go.” Better not to see me than to see me. I’m not talking about myself. I mean all of you. 11Reads—Score—14d adds
- 23 Nothing Is Forbidden: Keep Your Distance from the Living 百无禁忌之生人勿近 The year I graduated from college, I went on a road trip through Yunnan with a few of my dormmates. After we got lost, we stumbled upon a strange little village. The people there looked so bizarre that they didn’t seem human at all… After we returned from that village, one strange thing after another began to happen! 23Reads—Score—14d adds
- 24 I Have a Ghostly Wife 我有鬼娇妻 [Mystery] [Comedy] Have you ever experienced something like this? I mean, asking for a wife at the bottom of a dry well! I live in a small village in the mountains, cut off from the outside world. No outsiders have visited in hundreds of years. Maybe it's because of a curse, but no baby girls have ever been born in our village. 1Reads—Score—14d adds
- 25 The Underworld Decree 阴职令 A wedding invitation, a register of the dead, and a journey as a guide between worlds. Chen Du was an ordinary young man, until the yin-difference title inherited from his ancestors swept him into the conflicts between the worlds of the living and the dead. Old scores beneath the locust tree, lost souls in the paper city, every debt had to be settled by his own hand. This is not a story about becoming an immortal. It is a cycle of repaying debts. —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 26 A Bewildering Labyrinth of Strange Tales 诡谲迷迭 [Infinite Flow] [No Golden Finger] My name is Wang Hong. My younger sister has gone mad. She's been haunted by a ghost. When I started searching for the truth, I was haunted by a ghost too. I should have realized sooner. Now, there's no going back. And ghosts are like a plague. I was the one who brought them into the lives of those around me. Believe me, I didn't mean to. If she comes to find me, it'll be inevitable once she comes to her senses. Anyway, while I was still more or less lucid, I le 2Reads—Score—14d adds
- 27 Don't Burn Any More for Your Good-for-Nothing Grandson, the Underworld Can't Take It 乖孙别烧了，地府扛不住了 Don't Burn Any More, Good Grandson. The Underworld Can't Take It Anymore 3Reads—Score—14d adds
- 28 The Divine Coffin of a Thousand Years: I Become a Disciple in Yin Village 千年神棺：我于阴村拜师 If she was born of the heavens, why was she left to sleep for a thousand years in a secluded mountain wilderness? She began studying the Tao under a master as a child, slaying ghosts and banishing evil. Was this simply her fate, or was an unseen hand tipping the scales? Everyone around her seemed destined to cross her path. It turned out that from beginning to end, we were all just pieces on a chessboard. 86Reads—Score—14d adds
- 29 A Diary of Renting in an Urban Village 城中村租房日记 Goofy comedy + Buddhist and Taoist teammates + episodic mysteries + an overarching mystery. Eat, sleep, and save the world on the side. Shen Wuyou moved from a shabby little apartment with 1,200 yuan rent to an even shabbier, tinier place that cost 600 yuan. He only cared about one thing: it was cheap. People online said the place was unlucky and anyone who moved in would have bad luck. He didn't care. Unemployment, a breakup, and illness? He didn't have a job, a partner, or a weak constitution, 6Reads—Score—14d adds
- 30 The Shroud Tailor 寿衣匠 [Supernatural Horror + Leveling + Supernatural Collecting + No Romance, Healing] It may start slowly, but if you keep reading, you should find something to enjoy. The most obsessive attachments in this world turn into threads. My job is to find them, weave them into a shroud for battle, and uphold my own sense of justice! [Thread of Worry]: A mother’s concern that she never forgot, even in death. I drape it over myself, and it blocks a deadly curse for me. [Thread of Scent]: A stray dog’s longin —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 31 On the Seventh Day of the Seventh Month, I Marry the Mountain God 七月七，嫁山神 [Strong Female Lead + Devoted Husband + Mysticism + Mountain God] My mother-in-law said I was born with one black eye and one white eye, known as Yin-Yang Eyes. I was destined to see the supernatural, and my presence would bring misfortune to ordinary people around me. So my birth parents abandoned me outside the Mountain God Temple on Wutong Mountain. The mountain god took pity on me, rescued me from the monsters, and made a marriage pact with me. From then on, I became the mountain god’s bride 320Reads—Score—14d adds
- 32 Severing the Dragon Vein 断命龙脉 The men of the Gu family never live past forty. After his father, Gu Mingyuan, dies, Gu Chenchuan follows a train ticket to Baihe, a bloodstained compass, and a few unfinished last words into the old trails of the Changbai Mountains. But the deeper he digs, the more he realizes that the Gu family has not simply been haunted or cursed. They have been caught in a living account, buried for many years, that refuses to let go. From Baihe to Tamen Peak, from the Changbai Mountains to an old well in t 1Reads—Score—14d adds
- 33 100 Strange Tales I Know 我所知道的100个诡故事 So, what is this book about? Shadow people, red wedding gowns. Green hair, embroidered shoes. Incense offerings, talismans, yin-yang eyes. Ghost marriages, spirit journeys, ancient fox immortals. Old mansions, deserted villages, ancient wells. Curses, vengeful spirits, taboos… Strange tales, bizarre legends, unsolved mysteries beyond belief, and eerie happenings that make your back go cold and your hair stand on end… I've written down the experiences of my family and friends, as well as things I 1Reads—Score—14d adds
- 34 The Sealed Coffin Opens, and I Stitch the Vengeful Dead Back to Life 绝户棺开，我缝万鬼来复仇 On my twentieth birthday, my fiancée Bai Chuchu smiled like a flower as she personally gouged out my innate spirit eyes, all to steal my fortune and help her family reach the pinnacle of power. She nailed me inside a coffin sealed to leave no descendants, then buried me alive in a cavern of ten thousand ghosts, where I suffered as they devoured me. She mocked my lowly yin fate, saying I was fit only to be a stepping stone on her path to immortality. But she didn't know that my bloodline is a for 3Reads—Score—14d adds
- 35 The Taoist Master's Wife Is a Spirit Medium 天师道长的出马仙儿老婆 Twenty-five years ago, the Kiku School from Japan used every sort of scheme to persecute the various branches of China’s occult world. Xuan De, the Taoist master then leading Maoshan, joined forces with experts from Longhu Mountain, the Northeastern Shamanic sect, and a mysterious organization within the Chinese government. Together, they foiled the Kiku School’s plan to wipe out China’s occult traditions. Twenty-five years later, Zhang Xuanqing, the private disciple of Maoshan’s current master 2Reads—Score—14d adds
- 36 I’m Going to Lure 100 Lost Souls 我要勾满100个亡魂 Sequel to I Guide Souls at Wangxiang Terrace Lin Jiaojiao, 24, an overworked office worker, suddenly dies on the Nth night in a row of staying up all night revising proposals. When she opens her eyes again, she has already completed every step of the underworld’s procedures. But just as she reaches Wangxiang Terrace, the guide Zhou Yi stops her. “Your attachment remains unresolved. You can’t be reincarnated.” Judge Li Muzi offers her a way forward: work as a soul reaper under him, and she can be 9.7kReads—Score3k14d adds
- 37 Tales of the Uncanny 诡话传说 “Hey, everyone, I’m here.” I pointed my phone camera at the abandoned village gate in front of me. The characters on the archway had long since blurred beyond recognition. All that remained was a sinister, rust-red color, splashed irregularly across the stone pillars like blood that had dried long ago. “See that color? Is it a good enough opening for the ‘Blood Axe’?” The comments immediately began to fly. [Sister Xue is charging into a new map!] [Just looking at this place gives me the creeps.] —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 38 The Supernatural Descends! A Female Ghost Teaches Me Maoshan Arts 诡异降临！女鬼教我茅山术 The uncanny descends, and a hundred ghosts roam the night! Li Qiulin was born with his Yin-Yang Eyes fully open. He can see ghosts and gods filling the sky, yet he has pretended to be blind and kept his head down for twenty whole years! That's because he has the rarest constitution of all: pure yang in a body of pure yin. He's the ultimate Yin bait, coveted by every evil spirit. His lifelong dream is to stay home, lie flat, and eat until he dies. But then a bad friend tricks him into exploring a 5Reads—Score—14d adds
- 39 I'm a Bar Owner, Forced to Catch Ghosts 我，酒吧老板，被迫营业捉鬼 [Horror + supernatural + semi-invincible + no System + not brainless + ruthless decisiveness] I’m Heibai, an utterly ordinary bar owner. I only wanted to live a quiet life, but one commission and one problem after another keep landing on my doorstep. Curse magic, a drug-induced dreamless sleep, a yin-yang wedding, a deadly text message... As the Underworld descends, little Jiangcheng becomes a den of danger, and one strange incident after another unfolds. Well, looks like I can’t hide my abiliti 1.2kReads8.8Score11014d adds
- 40 The Pawnshop 典当 [Urban + supernatural + mystery] My name is Mo Linyuan. I run my family’s ancestral pawnshop. Other pawnshops deal in dirty money; mine trades in lives! Grandpa says our family has always had three storerooms: one for Heaven, one for Earth, and one for mortals! Rules: No strange item is ever refused; the redemption price is a hundredfold. Advertisement: Pawn ghosts, take immortals as collateral. We do not pawn past lives or future ones. Deceive Earth and Heaven, and you can redeem a life as old 242Reads7.4Score—14d adds
- 41 Life with a Woman in Red Who's a Ghost 与红衣女鬼同居的日子 My name is Wang Chongyang, and I'm a struggling horror writer who gets by on attendance bonuses. One night, after falling behind on rent, I was kicked out by my landlord. I accidentally wandered into a haunted house and ran into a red-clad vengeful ghost. And that's how a whole series of events began. What the heck? I take Zhong Kui as my master, my wife is a red-clad vengeful ghost who dares to beat up even the Black and White Impermanence, and even the dog I picked up on a whim is the ancient 458Reads7.3Score—14d adds
- 42 Hey, Your Existence Is an Anomaly! 喂，你的存在是异常！ Why is there a Chinese-style ruin buried beneath London? During construction in a park near Elephant and Castle, the eaves of a building pointing underground came to light. Chinese student Li Chengzhen initially thought that joining Professor Jack Cleve on an archaeological dig would mean little more than sorting through records, identifying Chinese characters, and reminding his overexcited mentor to eat on time. Until the explanations identifying the site as a modern garden were overturned one 5Reads6.2Score21014d adds
- 43 Paper Cutting to Prolong Life 剪纸续命 Three days after his master's death, Chen Zhi's name was pressed into a paper-cut figure. Someone cut paper outside his door late at night. A paper figure bearing his name appeared at the doorstep, and from then on, the blue-black mark on his hand began to seep inward along his veins. Paper can ward off evil and bind souls. And the darkest art of the Paper-Cutting Sect is called Name Binding. To stay alive, Chen Zhi can only follow the torn pages his master left behind, the black sand beneath t 12Reads—Score—14d adds
- 44 Urban Ghost-Hunting Livestream: I Slay a Ghost and Become Famous Online from the Start 都市直播捉鬼：开局斩鬼全网封神 Under the gaze of countless people, he slays every demon and fiend. With chaos engulfing the world, he alone stands guard over humanity! In an age crawling with sinister spirits and where yin and yang have fallen into disorder, the protagonist shoulders the burden of saving the world with nothing but his courage! Ghost weddings, snakes coiled around graves, paper effigy makers, corpses weeping bloody tears, red robes claiming lives, rotting corpses devouring hearts, poisonous insects paying homa —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 45 The Nuo Dancer's Ordeal 傩人难 Isolated and misunderstood, two people just alike meet because of fate. What kind of story will unfold? Will it be funny or terrifying? Everything takes place beneath a vast shadow. 2Reads—Score—14d adds
- 46 Little Ghost Doctor 小诡医 Beneath the bustling modern city lies a hidden world of unorthodox medicine: In ordinary people’s understanding, medicine can only treat physical illnesses. But in the shadows, there are unorthodox doctors who possess ancient traditions and can treat “supernatural ailments” that conventional medicine cannot cure, including possession by evil spirits, displaced souls, and curses or poison created through sorcery. These ancient schools of medicine have remained hidden among ordinary people for tho 29Reads7.5Score—14d adds
- 47 My Wife Is a Snake 我的老婆是条蛇 When I was born, nine snakes were coiled around the roof beams. They called it Nine Dragons Sending a Son, and it meant I’d face eighty-one calamities before turning nine. If I could get through them, I’d enjoy great wealth and success. To keep me alive, my grandfather made me marry a snake as my wife. He also had me marry into someone else’s family and take their surname… 20Reads—Score—14d adds
- 48 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 685Reads8.4Score10114d adds
- 49 Living for the Dead: I Devour the Bizarre in the Human World 替死者而活：我在人间吞噬诡异 [This novel is a serious supernatural mystery] Qi Guang died, and I took his place. An inhuman being, surviving in a borrowed body, without warmth or an understanding of humanity. I can devour every supernatural entity. I carry all of his memories, imitate his life, and learn to understand warmth, the bustle of everyday life, and the bonds between people. The human world meant nothing to me, until I met Mu Chen and gained a family I wanted to protect, along with an ordinary daily life. But the 360Reads—Score6414d adds
- 50 Edict: After the Hour of the Dog 敕令：戌时之后 A folk-horror tale: one official dispatch has been held up for three years. The speaker is Shen Yan, a registrar in Bianzhou. The dispatch was held up three months ago, and nobody dared take it on. Of the two who did, one grew a black ring around the back of his neck, while the other lost an eyelid. Three lines were written on the dispatch: Wherever it passes, there will be no rain for three years. After the hour of the Dog, do not enter any place with a threshold. There are only three rules: fi 83Reads—Score44214d adds
