Novels like The Master Face Reader
Books Chinese readers most often put in the same booklists as The Master Face Reader, best match first.
- 1 The City’s Supreme Feng Shui Master 都市超品相师 After seven years of training, Li Chongyun returns to the city, only to be tricked by his master, who faked his death, and trapped within its bounds. Li Chongyun unexpectedly gets caught up in trouble. He has no idea why beautiful women keep appearing before him, one after another, like moths to a flame. The shy and charming village beauty, the quirky little girl, the proud and icy older woman. Li Chongyun is exhausted. All he wants is to be an ordinary man with nothing to do. —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 2 The Supreme Feng Shui Master 超品相师 Chen Hancheng, direct heir to the Yanluo lineage, has just begun to master the esoteric arts. Seeking the secrets of Dunjia, he enters the world to hone his skills, never expecting to be drawn into a fated romantic tribulation. His divine eyes can see the paths between yin and yang, and his hands can calculate the affairs of the world. Watch as the heir to the Yanluo legacy navigates the mortal world of the city, using heaven-defying physiognomy to reshape the world. With beautiful companions at 3Reads—Score—Shelves
- 3 Peerless Feng Shui Master 超品风水相师 An ordinary person’s journey to an extraordinary life! A man who runs into trouble wherever he goes~ Who’s to blame? Blame the world for being full of strange things. How can Luo Xuan stay out of it? 595Reads8.7Score103Shelves
- 4 A Feng Shui Master's Guide to the Human Condition 风水师之人间百态 Wei Yuan's name is like the most mysterious star in the night sky of the feng shui world. He is a traveler between the realms of yin and yang. With a compass in hand, he can determine the forces of the world, and his piercing gaze can discern good from evil. Behind the glittering cityscape, Wei Yuan searches for feng shui secrets buried by time. From the luxurious villas of the wealthy, hiding deadly curses, to the tangled grudges and fated tragedies passed down through ordinary families, he ha —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 5 The Extraordinary Physiognomist of the City 都市之超品相师 Shen Ke inherits a mysterious art and learns secret techniques for reading the heavens and the earth. He wanders through the mortal world, caught up in tangled affairs of the heart. He vows to escape the five afflictions and three deficiencies that plague fortune-tellers and set out on a path beyond fate, yet unwittingly forges a legend of his own. 1.4kReads8.2Score160Shelves
- 6 The First Son-in-Law 第一龙婿 “Dad, Xiaoxiao hurts. Xiaoxiao doesn’t want to die. Dad, please save Xiaoxiao…” Ye Wutian was receiving a medal aboard an aircraft carrier when he got a desperate call: his daughter was being abused, and his wife was being forced into marriage! Furious, he led the Twelve Heavenly Generals of the Dragon King Hall and three hundred thousand elite troops back in triumph! “Dragon Lord, what should we do with the person abusing the young mistress?” “Kill them. Leave no one alive!” “Dragon Lord, what 224Reads8.5Score—Shelves
- 7 In a Fit of Rage, I Summoned a Hundred Thousand Dragon Guards 一怒之下，我召唤了十万龙卫 ☾Urban + War God + Live-in Son-in-Law + Divine Doctor + Heart-Pounding Power Fantasy + Comeback and Face-Slapping☽ Once the War God of “Longyuan,” he was betrayed by his closest friend and reduced to a useless live-in son-in-law, looked down on by everyone. Three years later, to protect his wife, who has endured one humiliation after another, he stops holding back! Armed with heaven-defying medical skills and immense power, the former king returns in triumph! This time, he’ll make every enemy kn 144Reads7.2Score—Shelves
- 8 The Live-In Son-in-Law: A Powerful Comeback 上门女婿：强势逆袭 Before the divorce, I was a poor live-in son-in-law, a broke loser whose wife’s family treated me like a dog. After the divorce, I became a super-rich tycoon. Taking down rich pretty boys and winning over wealthy beauties was a piece of cake! 9Reads6.7Score—Shelves
- 9 The City Legend of the Greatest Son-in-Law 最牛赘婿都市传说 Su Yang was cast out by one of the capital’s elite families and sent to marry into the Shen family, a minor family in a third-tier city. The Shens didn’t bring him in because they knew who he was. They did it to bring good fortune to Old Madam Shen, who was gravely ill. But after he “married” into the family, she still passed away, and the Shens blamed Su Yang for everything. For three years, he endured their contempt in silence while carefully laying his plans... 10.7kReads9.0Score563Shelves
- 10 The Super Little People's Doctor 超级小民医 “Just trying to show off! You’re nothing but a country doctor, and you didn’t even finish middle school. You have no medical ethics whatsoever,” the revered physician sneered. “Let me go, you country doctor! Just try laying a finger on me, and I’ll make you regret ever being born,” the world-famous songstress snarled. “Bastard, why don’t you kill me? Otherwise, I’ll make you wish you were dead,” the world’s top assassin groaned in pain, silver needles stuck in his body. Ma Chuan smiled faintly. 256Reads9.0Score—Shelves
- 11 The True Account of a Feng Shui Master 一个玄门风水师的真实记录 Lin Yan comes from a family steeped in metaphysics, whose home holds a vast collection of ancient texts on feng shui, fate reading, physiognomy, exorcism, and more. Growing up surrounded by these traditions, he reads every book in the family collection and watches his grandfather and father analyze situations, adjust feng shui, and deal with evil spirits. Through quiet observation and practice, he gradually masters all kinds of metaphysical techniques. As an adult, he officially ventures out int 3Reads—Score—Shelves
- 12 The Rise of the Live-In Son-in-Law 霸婿崛起 Ye Chen, a live-in son-in-law, had been married into the family for three years. His wife called him useless, his mother-in-law looked down on him, and his relatives treated him with contempt. He got up earlier than a chicken and went to bed later than a dog. He had to watch everyone’s mood at every turn. So what if I’m a live-in son-in-law? So what if I married into the family? Thirty years east of the river, thirty years west of the river! How could a golden-scaled carp be content to remain in 2.8kReads8.7Score401Shelves
- 13 City Feng Shui Master: My Compass Can Slay Dragons 都市风水师：我的罗盘能斩龙 [System + decisive and ruthless + slaying demons, driving out evil, and killing the supernatural] Lin Yan thought that after his grandfather passed away, he would be left all alone, eventually worn down by making ends meet until he died. Then one day, an evil spirit appeared before him, and the Heaven-Appraising System lit up! The evil spirit was gone, and a wealthy CEO showered him with money. From then on, Lin Yan stepped into a strange and sinister world invisible to ordinary people. Nightmar 7Reads—Score—Shelves
- 14 The Bold Live-In Son-in-Law 上门狂婿 After fifteen years of trials through life and death, a wealthy young heir left home in fury after his family tried to force him into submission. He became the live-in son-in-law of the most beautiful woman in the small city. Do they think a live-in son-in-law has no rights? I’ll reclaim my world and turn it upside down! 506Reads7.6Score102Shelves
- 15 I Refuse to Be a Doormat 绝不做舔狗 This is a fresh take on the live-in son-in-law genre, entirely original and free of the usual brainless wish-fulfillment tropes. Beneath its son-in-law premise, you'll find a God of War story, a true villain protagonist, and a divine doctor descending from the mountains. The protagonist won't be indecisive, fall blindly in love, or grovel mindlessly. The story strives for sound logic, with no sudden lapses in intelligence or inexplicable power-ups. To be clear, this is a feel-good novel with one 17Reads—Score—Shelves
- 16 The Tycoon's Son-in-Law 豪门女婿 Ye Chen is a live-in son-in-law whom everyone looks down on. No one knows that he is actually the heir to a top family. Those who scorn him will eventually kneel before him, trembling with fear as they call him Master! 255Reads8.7Score100Shelves
- 17 The Face Reader Comes Down From the Mountain 相师下山 A country boy receives the true teachings of a Taoist master, then heads down the mountain and makes his way in the city. What can a rough country boy like him do? Qin Hai smiles faintly. “I can read faces and bones, appraise antiques, cast the Six Yao, and tell your fortune from your birth chart!” 38.2kReads9.1Score2.9kShelves
- 18 Live-In Son-in-Law 上门女婿 My family is poor, so I’ve ended up living under someone else’s roof as the live-in son-in-law of a beautiful model… 107Reads—Score—Shelves
- 19 The Live-In Son-in-Law 上门女婿 Being a live-in son-in-law is hard, but being one who doesn't live with his wife's family isn't easy either. Zhao Yizhou is a low-paid office worker who faces setback after setback. His wife looks down on him, her family treats him with contempt, and even his own child acts the same way. Determined to reclaim his dignity as a man and escape this predicament once and for all, he begins to fight back against all odds… 324Reads—Score—Shelves
- 20 The Devious Game of Fate 天机诡局 My master died under mysterious circumstances. Before he passed, he branded the Chen family’s ancestral secrets of heavenly calculations onto my wrist, leaving me with just one warning: “Never use them unless you have no other choice.” With the century-old brass compass he left me, I saw through the soul-locking formation at the haunted spot in the old mansion at a glance. A bronze mirror to suppress the evil, Big Dipper coins to seal the aura: how could ordinary people doubt eighteen years of f 1Reads—Score—Shelves
- 21 The Dragon Emerges from Prison: Ye Chen 强龙出狱叶辰 Six years ago, Ye Chen’s parents were both murdered, and the Ye family fell into ruin. It was all because of the Tang family of the capital. The Tangs even sent Ye Chen to Shenzhou Prison, a place so feared that both the living and the dead turned pale at its name. Inside were people the world called devils: top assassins, miracle doctors, the Medicine King, the God of War of the Northern Frontier, and others. Yet these thirty-six masters of extraordinary skills not only left Ye Chen alone, they 9.6kReads8.7Score872Shelves
- 22 The Live-In Son-in-Law 上门女婿 He was born into a powerful reclusive family, but his father abandoned him. For years, his mother raised him and the little girl she had taken in, and the three of them relied on one another through endless scorn and abuse. To pay for his sister’s medical treatment, he was forced to sign a three-year marriage contract. Everyone saw him as a useless live-in son-in-law. His sister has vanished, his mother is seriously ill, and members of his family have come calling. What will he do? Yang Hao rise 6.3kReads8.7Score454Shelves
- 23 The Premier Feng Shui Master 超品风水师 “You rich brats, tremble! I, Zuo Feibai, am back!” Cast out by his powerful family, Zuo Feibai spent ten years cultivating the Dao before returning to his old home. Thus begins a grand adventure, with romantic encounters following him everywhere. From feng shui and divination to the Eight Trigrams, the Five Elements and escape techniques, traditional Chinese medicine, and cooking, there’s nothing he can’t do. Smooth and capable in every situation, he ultimately becomes a master of the occult art 3.9kReads8.9Score410Shelves
- 24 The Rural Son-in-Law 农村女婿 To save his father, Wu Fan has no choice but to become a live-in son-in-law in the city. But the city folk look down on him, and everyone in the family gives him a hard time except his wife's younger sister. His wife is the worst of all: she disregards his feelings and dignity and has an inappropriate relationship with another man. Furious, Wu Fan heads straight back to the countryside, determined to revitalize rural life and make the city people see him in a new light. In the end, his father-in 17.5kReads8.8Score1.8kShelves
- 25 The Strongest Live-In Son-in-Law: Ye Chen 最强赘婿叶辰 The Strongest Live-In Son-in-Law: Ye Chen 5Reads—Score—Shelves
- 26 The Live-In Son-in-Law 上门女婿 The number one man of the Immortal Sect is reborn, only to become a live-in son-in-law… The great families and powerful clans are dogs at my feet, and the world's wealth and power are my vanguard! 2.2kReads—Score100Shelves
- 27 I Practice Feng Shui in Dongguan 我在东莞做风水相师 Feng Shui and divination, the modern martial world, the 1990s The eight schools of the martial world are Jing, Pi, Piao, Ce, Feng, Huo, Jue, and Yao. The Jing School leads the eight. Its practitioners read people's fortunes, predict blessings and disasters, and show them the way. My grandfather was a successor of the Jing School. And he knew more than just the Jing School's arts: he also mastered the techniques of the Pi and Feng schools. He passed everything he knew down to me. The year I turne 14.8kReads6.5Score1.1kShelves
- 28 The God-Tier Ultimate Son-in-Law 神级极品赘婿 [Explosive feel-good story ✚ Humor ✚ Invincible protagonist ✚ King of memes] Jiang Hao was a good-for-nothing live-in son-in-law of the powerful Situ family in Binhai City. By chance, he learned peerless medical skills and martial arts from an old Taoist. From then on, his life was like having a cheat code. He heals the world with medicine and defeats his enemies with martial arts. Those who looked down on him will keep getting their faces slapped, until they respectfully call him Brother Hao! 62Reads—Score—Shelves
- 29 Beneath the Mystic Eyes: The Fake Heiress's Livestream Revenge 玄瞳之下：假千金的直播复仇录 [Fortune-Telling Livestream + Strange Folk Tales + Occult Arts Run Amok + The Dark Side of Human Nature + Traditional Feng Shui and Physiognomy Showdowns] “Everyone thought Chen Mo was just a lawyer. Then he brought home a battered fake heiress who'd been thrown out by her family, a girl with a mystical pupil in one eye, and his life was thrust into an entirely different supernatural world, teeming with danger and strange phenomena. A real estate developer asks her to inspect a plot of land. She 3Reads—Score—Shelves
- 30 A Record of Funerals in a Small Town 小城丧葬录 In 2020, Rongcheng was battered by torrential rain. At 32, Chen Yan hit rock bottom after falling from a government post. Forced to resign over an air-gun incident, he crashed while hauling freight, went unpaid by an advertising agency, broke his leg at a construction site, and eventually became a food delivery rider, scraping by between his mortgage and daily expenses. One rainy night, he stopped to help someone and stumbled into the Xiao An Funeral Parlor, where he met Old Yang, who secretly c 5Reads—Score—Shelves
- 31 Livestream Fortune-Telling: Your Boyfriend Has a Boyfriend Too 直播算命：你男朋友还有个男朋友 [No Female Lead] + [Twists] + [Comedy] + [Metaphysics] Li Junyao is a psychologist with the ability to tell fortunes using the Ma Yi divination method. After he starts livestreaming consultations online, he goes viral. During one call, he speaks with a viewer who claims to be very much in love with her boyfriend. "My patient, you're depressed. Don't believe me? I'll say one thing and you'll be miserable: your boyfriend has another boyfriend." Not long afterward, the viewer confirms it. "Waaah, I 79Reads8.5Score—Shelves
- 32 The Code to Breaking the Deadlock: Feng Shui Taboos You Should Never Violate 破局密码：那些被触犯的风水禁忌 The seventh day of the seventh month, at the Wuyu Pavilion teahouse. “Master Yunwu, every night we hear a baby crying in our home, but there isn't a single baby in the entire building.” When Zhao Mingcheng and his wife said this, Yunwu laid out their birth charts on rice paper and asked just one question: “Does your front door face the balcony?” Behind every strange occurrence lies a feng shui taboo that has been violated. Yunwu, owner of the Wuyu Pavilion, was born into a family of metaphysics 20Reads—Score—Shelves
- 33 Decoding Life's Dilemmas: A Guide to Feng Shui and Destiny 破译众生困局：风水命理指南 This is an “alternative guide to life,” forged from 20 years of hands-on experience. It explores the ancient system of the Book of Changes and destiny, and how it can be applied in the modern city. In a quiet corner of a bustling metropolis stands an inconspicuous teahouse called Wuyu Pavilion. Its owner, Yun Wu, brews excellent tea and has inherited a family tradition: reading fate from the Eight Characters, divining subtle signs with the Six Lines, and using feng shui to adjust the balance of 221Reads—Score110Shelves
- 34 I Use Feng Shui to Set the Entertainment Industry Straight 我靠风水整顿娱乐圈 [Feng Shui Master Extra × Supernatural Entertainment Industry Power Fantasy] Lin Jiuxiao has spent three years as an extra in Hengdian. Three years! Do you know what those three years were like? I was so broke I could only afford to live in a haunted house. Only after activating his ancestral Feng Shui Celestial Master System does he discover that behind the entertainment industry's glamorous facade lies a battlefield where celebrities and directors will do anything to get famous, including wagi 117Reads—Score—Shelves
- 35 A Farewell Letter Reveals the Deep Love Shared by Two Taoist Priests 一纸绝笔信，道尽两位道士的半生情深 A final letter reveals the deep bond shared by two Taoist priests over half a lifetime 3Reads—Score—Shelves
- 36 My Super God Academy 我的超神学院 I really like the story of Super God Academy, but the later plot didn’t quite live up to my expectations. So I decided to write the story I wanted to read myself. The main goal is to bring the stories and settings from the earlier installments together smoothly, then give them the ending I have in mind. The main characters will all come from the Alliance and Super God Academy. So, let’s begin with the appearance of that “big chrysanthemum” in the sky... 5Reads—Score—Shelves
- 37 The Ultimate Live-In Son-in-Law Doctor 超级上门医婿 Ten years learning the arts, eight years lying low. I have peerless medical skills and unmatched martial prowess, yet in everyone else’s eyes, I’m nothing but a useless kept man! I may have married into your family, but you have no right to look down on me! Today, the seal is broken and the enraged dragon opens its eyes. The whole world trembles! 3.5kReads8.8Score441Shelves
- 38 The Doorstep Son-in-Law 上门狂婿 Ye Feng was an ordinary country boy. To pay for his mother’s treatment, he spent three years as a live-in son-in-law, enduring scorn and humiliation, yet still failed to save her. But after his mother passed away, she left him a letter that changed his life forever. From then on, he defied fate and rose to the top. 180Reads8.8Score141Shelves
- 39 She Conquers the Business World with Qimen Dunjia 她靠奇门横扫商界 Shen Jinghong is the business world's most mysterious female CEO. Born with the ill-fated Lone Phoenix fate, she is said to bring disaster to her husband and children. Afraid to fall in love, she nonetheless has a face capable of bringing a kingdom to ruin. A master of the Eight Gates and Qimen Dunjia, she makes her way through the business world using feng shui formations and divination, specializing in getting top tycoons out of business deadlocks. “Three million, and I'll bring your betting a 12Reads—Score—Shelves
- 40 The Live-In Son-in-Law's Reign 上门霸婿 Who says a live-in son-in-law has to grovel and act like a doormat? If my father-in-law looks down on me, I’ll kick him aside! If my mother-in-law looks down on me, she can get on her knees! If my stunning wife looks down on me... Uh, let me get you a glass of water. We can talk this through, no need to tire yourself out! 20.6kReads8.5Score1.5kShelves
- 41 Ye Fan, the Live-In Son-in-Law 上门女婿叶凡 Ye Fan, an ordinary dockworker, marries into the Tang family as a live-in son-in-law. Little does he know that his fiancée's family looks down on him, especially his fiancée, Tang Ruxue, who often insults and beats him. During the Qingming Festival, when he returns home to pay respects to his ancestors, his parents give him a jade pendant wrapped in a piece of rag and a book with blank pages. They tell him that a middle-aged Taoist left them when Ye Fan was born, instructing them to hand them ov 15.4kReads8.7Score1.2kShelves
- 42 Vengeful Ghost: Preaching with My Life, the Whole Internet Begs Me Not to Die 厉鬼：拿命传道，全网哭求我别死 Bai Xuan transmigrated to a parallel world. He discovered that he had transmigrated into the body of a Taoist priest who had been crippled by a succubus. He was also bound to the Preach-at-the-Cost-of-Your-Life System. Successfully spreading the faith and slaying a vengeful ghost would earn him more time to live. He taught the policewoman the Dragon-Tiger Art, slew a succubus, and earned ten days of life. He taught the nurse the Golden Light Mantra, slew a vengeful ghost, and earned twenty days 115Reads6.7Score—Shelves
- 43 The Invincible Live-In Son-in-Law 上门狂婿 After three years as a live-in son-in-law, he has endured endless humiliation. When he returns from visiting the family graves, he stops keeping a low profile! 3.8kReads8.7Score366Shelves
- 44 Super God Academy: I Have a Romance Bundle 超神学院：我有情缘大礼包 These days, even taking a bath can make you transmigrate. Lu Chen was speechless. Fortunately, Mother Earth had given him a golden finger: a romance bundle! Telekinesis! Teleportation! The Phoenix Force! Chaos magic! Heavenly Manifestation! Control over space and time! Kesha: “I'm a queen, but I'm a woman too. Why can't I be selfish? You were willing to face the Heavenly Blade Judgment for Liang Bing. You can face a supernova for me too, can't you?” He Xi: “I've waited so many years. I can wait 172Reads5.4Score—Shelves
- 45 The Divine Feng Shui Master 神级风水师 Houses are divided into yin and yang: yin dwellings gather the qi of the dead, while yang dwellings foster prosperity. This is the art of feng shui. A scion of a feng shui family accidentally inherits a Celestial Master’s legacy, mastering the yin-yang arts and feng shui techniques of past and present. He can discern qi and communicate with the yin and yang realms, pass on the secrets of feng shui, understand how to dispel evil and invite prosperity, and collect precious magical artifacts. Thus 773Reads8.2Score126Shelves
- 46 A Celestial Master from the Future, Drifting Around the Entertainment Industry Until I Lose Contact 未来天师，人在华娱飘到失联 (A semi-alternate-universe entertainment-industry story + multiple heroines + feng shui geomancy and yin-yang mystic arts) My name is Chen Tianfan, a handsome fortune-teller who runs a photo studio by the entrance to Beijing Film Academy. I know a little kung fu, and I’m best at performing rituals and inscribing charms for female celebrities in the entertainment circle, improving their feng shui and luck, and solving all kinds of difficult ailments. People call me Chen Mayi, or Old Chen the Sixt 51.9kReads8.6Score5kShelves
- 47 The Mystic Arts Face Reader 玄门相师 A young master of metaphysics, he knows every secret of heaven's design. In everything, he turns danger into fortune, and in every crisis, he finds a way through. He reads people, ghosts, and fate itself! The ways of humans and ghosts are unfathomable, and heaven's secrets must not be revealed! 8.8kReads8.7Score867Shelves
- 48 A Young Feng Shui Master Betrothed to a White Tiger at Birth 少年风水师，出生就和白虎定亲 At the Human Skin Inn, a hundred ghosts carry a coffin. A yin corpse borrows a life. A demon child lies hidden in a Buddhist womb… From the moment I was born, my father pledged his life to arrange my engagement to a White Tiger. Because of that, I embarked on a little-known path… 5.9kReads9.2Score541Shelves
- 49 The Haunted Shroud 诡寿衣 My family sells burial clothes. Every seven days, a woman comes to order a set. Only at the end did I discover she had been ordering burial clothes for all four members of my family. 1.1kReads8.8Score117Shelves
- 50 The Azure Heavens’ Path of Medicine 青冥药途 The Path of Qingming Medicine 1Reads—Score—Shelves
