Novels like Nothing Is Forbidden: Keep Your Distance from the Living
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- 1 I Have a Fengdu City! 我有一座酆都城！ A hearse ferries the dead, and ghosts roam at night! Fengdu, the City of Ghosts: the living are forbidden to enter! Footsteps sound in the hallway every night at midnight. In an empty hospital room, someone has scratched the paint off the walls with their fingernails. A woman likes to comb her hair in front of the mirror in the middle of the night. A furtive sound comes from beneath the bed. Who is giggling in the girls' dormitory sealed with talismans? And who is sharpening a knife in the room —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 2 The Yin Shrine 殷祠 When Yin Zheng's parents suddenly disappeared, he returned to his hometown to investigate. By chance, he inherited the ancestral hall and became its keeper, and supernatural events began occurring one after another. Every incident is connected, each one pushing Yin Zheng toward some unknown destination. Along the way, he also discovers clues about his parents. Come with us into another world, where you'll uncover the truth about the 747 hearse, hear tales of hauntings at a school, witness the ap 1Reads—Score—Shelves
- 3 I Work as a Ghostly Official in the Human World 我在人间做阴差 Zhong Zhengyue, descendant of the warden of the nineteenth level of hell, unexpectedly dies a sudden death. By a stroke of luck, she returns to the world of the living. From then on, Zhong Zhengyue takes up the mission of serving as a netherworld bailiff among the living. 7Reads—Score—Shelves
- 4 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—Shelves
- 5 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—Shelves
- 6 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—Shelves
- 7 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—Shelves
- 8 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—Shelves
- 9 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—Shelves
- 10 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—Shelves
- 11 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—Shelves
- 12 Scare Delivery 惊吓快递 Scare Delivery —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 13 The Horror Livestream Went Horribly Wrong 恐怖直播翻车了 The Horror Livestream Went Horribly Wrong —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 14 Even the Gods Can Be Destroyed 神亦可灭 It's all made up, it's all made up, it's all made up 666666666666666666666666666666666666666 1Reads—Score—Shelves
- 15 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—Shelves
- 16 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—Shelves
- 17 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—Shelves
- 18 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—Shelves
- 19 Guardian of Youth 青春守护神 With no youth, war rages for ten thousand generations! With youth, ten thousand generations enjoy peace! With Blood Beauty in hand, ten thousand generations know peace! With Whirling Ice in hand, every demon is wiped out! I would give you everything, even if not a bone of me remains!!! —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 20 The Ultimate Yin Warden: The 90s-Era City God Is No Pushover 极品巡阴人：90后城隍不好惹 Ever heard of someone born in the '90s becoming a City God? I, Han Jiuling, was blessed with extraordinary talent and became a City God at twenty, making quite a name for myself in the underworld! Think it's all glory and success? On my patrols through the netherworld, I see countless souls who died miserable deaths, and not one of the shocking tragedies behind them was an accident. The villains are cute? Who said that? How many times have I been one step from death, barely escaping with my life 3Reads6.4Score—Shelves
- 21 I'm Broke, Why Should I Be Afraid of Ghosts? 我穷鬼，岂会怕鬼？ [Goofy] [Funny] [Irreverent] [Mystery] [Supernatural] [Hop in] [No System] [A fish that slipped through nine years of compulsory education] Wang Ling landed a job paying 18,000 yuan a month as a security guard at a private hospital. On his first day, he was left completely stunned! Each floor of the hospital's inpatient wing had a special passage enshrining one of the underworld's yin deities. The morgue even had butcher's knives inexplicably lying around. Wang Ling put up with all of that. Then 4Reads—Score—Shelves
- 22 Midnight in the Countryside 午夜乡村 My parents' job transfers sent me to live and study at my grandmother's house. Before bed, she warned me not to go and look, no matter what sounds I heard. From then on, one strange event after another came crashing into my life. Then, one day, my grandmother suddenly told me the secret about who I really was... 550Reads6.8Score—Shelves
- 23 Horror Revival: I Turned Out to Be an Evil God 恐怖复苏：我竟然是邪神 After transmigrating to a parallel world where horror has returned, Qin Yu, an ordinary man unable to cultivate, is terrified. But he never expected... All kinds of demons and monsters: “Stay away! We're scared!” The powerful people of Blue Star: “You're the Evil God. We have to keep you happy!” The overlord of the universe: “Master! You're awake! Please spare us!” Qin Yu: “???” So I'm the Evil God? 8Reads6.5Score—Shelves
- 24 Eerie Revival: A Hundred Ghosts Roam from the Start 诡异复苏：开局百鬼夜行 [Dark and oppressive + no saintly heroine + Ye Wudi + eerie + urban supernatural + hellish start from the start] This world has been contaminated. The supernatural has returned, and vengeful ghosts are coming for lives. When the eerie returns to the mortal realm, is this world still the realm of the living, or has it become hell? In an endless graveyard, a severed hand bursts from the earth, reaching up to blot out the sky. A dense fog engulfs a city, where faceless ghosts roam and take lives wi —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 25 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—Shelves
- 26 The Half-Baked Feng Shui Master: I Became a Legend Through Hands-On Ghost Hunting 半吊子风水师：撞鬼后靠实操封神 Lin Jingran, nicknamed Dogshit, is the most hopeless half-baked feng shui master in the old district. He has no real skills and is a coward, getting by on the old notes his grandfather left behind. That is, until his childhood friend kneels before him, crying that the secondhand house he bought is haunted and his wife and son are close to dying. For two thousand yuan, Lin Jingran steels himself and goes over. He steps on wet hair as soon as he walks in, hears a woman crying by his ear, and watch 4Reads—Score—Shelves
- 27 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—Shelves
- 28 Do I Look Human or Like a Ghost? 你看我是人还是鬼？ After graduating from high school, I was guarding watermelons in a melon field. One night, a thief came to steal them. I rushed over and fought him, driving him off, but then I came down with a high fever that wouldn't break. The next day, my family went to check the field. All they found were my own chaotic footprints and the watermelons trampled into mush... —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 29 The Yin-Yang Spirit Medium 阴阳出马仙 [Transmigration + Urban + Supernatural Powers] He transmigrated to another world, and from the day he was born, there was nothing special about him. He thought he would live an ordinary life, but then he attended a bizarre and mysterious wedding and began his path of cultivation. Curse magic, sorcery, a hundred evil spirits of the netherworld, a nine-headed serpent, a mysterious stone coffin... One strange event after another came his way, constantly plunging him into danger. 4Reads—Score—Shelves
- 30 Subduing Evil 镇邪 There are always mysterious things in this world, yet people dismiss them as nonsense. Miaojiang gu poison, corpse-driving in western Hunan, Nanyang curses, the Flowerfall Cave Maiden, shamanic sorcery, and yin-yang demons are all forbidden taboos. You don't have to believe in them, but you must remain in awe. Above all, never profane them! When the taboo soul bell rings out in the sky and ancient horrors quietly awaken, the world teeters on the brink of disaster. Will there still be someone who 637Reads6.2Score—Shelves
- 31 Mountain God Festival 山神祭 The Greater Khingan Range. Temperatures below minus twenty, with snow up to a hunter's knees. A weasel spirit crouched in a tree, watching as a hunter in a fox-fur hat crept across the snow with his rifle at the ready. If the hunter died, his flesh would go to the beasts and spirits hiding in the woods, while his soul would belong to the mountain god who commanded the clouds, winds, and rain. From the moment he took his first step into the forest and snow, the hunter's life was no longer his ow 47Reads8.4Score—Shelves
- 32 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—Shelves
- 33 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—Score100Shelves
- 34 The Eerie Game: From the Start, I Picked Up a Top-Tier Star 诡异游戏：开局捡个顶流女星 [Horror game + dark tone + unscrupulous tactics + Infinite Flow + one female lead] Could the strange creature Gu Changqing brought out of a haunted villa really be a top-tier star and a high-level player in the horror game? And does she really need to form a "deep connection" with Gu Changqing and devour his "life essence" to maintain her human form...? 7Reads8.0Score—Shelves
- 35 The Omnicompetent Demon Catcher 全能捉妖师 [Urban Fantasy + Superpowers + System] In a world where demon hunters reign supreme, ability is the best proof of one's worth. But he's just a rookie with barely any spiritual power. Then one day, he gets the most powerful spiritual energy absorption System! You cultivate your way, and I'll absorb spiritual energy to cultivate. From that day on, he begins his rise from the bottom. The strongest demon hunter: who can stand against him? 23Reads5.5Score—Shelves
- 36 Rule Horror: I'm an NPC, and I'm Going Crazy Again Today 规则怪谈：我NPC，今天也发疯 Others enter Rule Horror scenarios to survive. I got sucked in as an NPC, and the System even forces me to go crazy. If I don’t, I die. Fine, then I’ll go crazy for everyone to see. 1Reads—Score—Shelves
- 37 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—Shelves
- 38 Horror Landlord: My Thirty-Eight Female Tenants 恐怖房东：我的三十八位女租客 “Zhuge Ming, if you come study at my kindergarten, I’ll give you five hundred a month, and pick you up and drop you off...” said the headmistress. “I brought you lunch, Zhuge Ming. I made it myself...” said the teacher. “Come here. I’ll marry all three of my daughters to you,” said Priest Lin. Zhuge Ming was born with a peach-blossom fate. He had the looks of a woman despite being a man, and from the moment he was born, every woman had just one wish: to marry him. Zhuge Ming was miserable. Who c —Reads6.8Score—Shelves
- 39 Rule Horror: It Starts With a Family of Six 规则怪谈：从一家六口开始 [Supernatural suspense] [Not overpowered] [No heroine] [Horror fans, come on in!] [Not a pure power fantasy. The focus is suspense and thrills with a little comedy, so read without worry.] The supernatural rules descend, and Jiang Yu is chosen to represent Yan Country in the game of national destiny. He enters the supernatural scenario as one of the six members of a family living in a villa, along with two dogs, one black and one white. Here, he must stay alert, judge calmly, look for patterns i 193Reads—Score—Shelves
- 40 The Underworld Retirement Home 冥府养老院 [Mystery + Supernatural Horror + Urban + Deduction + No Do-Gooder Protagonist + Decisive and Ruthless] On the first day of school, I ran into a female ghost! Facing the red-clad upperclassman before me, I raised a chair and brought it crashing down on her! "You think it's funny to dress up like a ghost and scare me, you bastard?" —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 41 My Best Friend Urged Me to Get a Tattoo, But I Ended Up Tattooing Ghost Skin 闺蜜劝我纹身，可我竟然纹了鬼皮 My best friend urged me to get a tattoo, but somehow I ended up tattooing ghost skin on myself 86Reads—Score—Shelves
- 42 Notes from a Haunted House 凶宅笔录 A haunted house is a house where someone once met a violent death. Legend has it that people who die this way haven't yet reached the end of their natural lifespan, so they die with deep resentment. Anyone who moves in will suffer, at best, a life of misery, and at worst, a broken family and ruin. By a twist of fate, I became a dealer in haunted houses. They kept appearing, and one crisis followed another. Behind every haunted house lay a terrifying, secret story... By the time I wanted to turn 10.4kReads8.8Score221Shelves
- 43 Apocalypse: A Zombie Among Zombies 末世：混在丧尸里的僵尸 [Decisive and ruthless + no harem + not a do-gooder + System + no cultivation or fantasy later on] As a zombie, the protagonist has to act like one, so he certainly isn't a good person. On Waterball Star, mutations struck and zombies came. But Xiang Yangxia stood apart from everyone else and became a jiangshi. My zombie brothers, here I come! Why are you trying to bite me? Aren't we on the same side? Xiang Yangxia ran in front, with a string of zombies chasing after him. Xiang Yangxia led a long 89Reads6.2Score—Shelves
- 44 Songs of the Underworld 冥歌 [Not a wish-fulfillment novel] It’s a tangled, lengthy story, not one about a loser turning his life around by fawning over women. [There is a heroine] I’m new to this, so I don’t understand why novels have to be tagged as having no heroine. To be honest, mine has one, though she doesn’t appear much. [Not necessarily funny] Hard to say. The author has a strange sense of humor. [Neurotic] The author is a little crazy, with a mind that keeps jumping around, so the plot can sometimes feel erratic. 1Reads8.1Score—Shelves
- 45 Back When I Was a Folk Mage 我做民间法师的时候 I entered the trade at fourteen and spent six years as a folk ritual master. In the south, this line of work is called “spirit arts.” I watched it go from thriving to decline. This year marks my sixth year, and I’ve finally left the trade behind. This work isn’t as glamorous as it looks. We’re all rats crawling out of the sewers, and the bar for entry keeps getting lower. I’m writing these stories down now as a way to remember those days. 192Reads—Score104Shelves
- 46 The Age of the Gods: I Rule the Underworld 神祇时代：我执掌地府 This is a realm of high-ranking gods. Deities rule the entire world. Chen Xuan transmigrates to the God Realm with a Super Underworld System. He summons Ox-Head and Horse-Face, Black and White Impermanence, the Ten Yama Kings, the Five Ghost Emperors... And takes on every deity in the God Realm alone. I rule the Underworld! The entire God Realm will one day grovel at my feet! 47Reads8.0Score—Shelves
- 47 It Lies at the Bottom of the Abyss 祂在深渊之底 [You have been selected to enter the Abyssal Corridor. Rules-based horror has arrived, and terror is now part of everyday life.] Lin Mo, a criminal profiler, is dragged into the Abyssal Corridor, an endless realm of terror. Here, every horror instance is born from the resentment of those who died unjustly, and the rules determine life and death. While others tremble under the pursuit of monsters, Lin Mo opens his eyes: the Abyssal Eyes, which can see through the source of fear. The rules of Bloo —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 48 Possessed by an Evil Spirit 撞邪 Grandpa spent his whole life doing good deeds. He never imagined that one night, he would ruin a young girl's life... 290Reads8.4Score—Shelves
- 49 The Seventh Night After Death 头七 My grandfather said that whoever a hanged person sees last is the one they’ll come back to haunt. When I was twelve, the village hired a troupe to perform ghost plays. I went to play with them, never imagining that the troupe’s leading performer was hanging from the beam right behind me. 22Reads7.7Score—Shelves
- 50 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—Shelves
