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  1. 151 Heir to the Spirit Medium 通灵师传人 Mystery478k WordsCompleted Supernatural + ghost marriage + strong female lead power fantasy + horror stories + mystery. There are ghosts in every heart. Have you ever seen anything more terrifying than a ghost? It's not about walking a dark road too often and running into an evil spirit. The deadliest thing isn't knowing that it's a ghost. It's the utterly dark heart hidden beneath that perfect face. Shh... Don't make a sound. She's right behind you. Run. Don't look back. The story is even more terrifying than you ca 22Reads—Score—14d adds
  2. 152 Young Feng Shui Master 少年风水师 Mystery3.4M WordsCompleted When Grandpa died, the whole city was in an uproar... 9.7kReads9.0Score1.1k14d adds
  3. 153 The Book of Feng Shui and the Mystical Arts 玄学风水录 Mystery1.0M WordsCompleted Adventures in Modern Feng Shui is adapted from the true experiences of Li Chengxuan, a modern feng shui master. It offers the most up-to-date and down-to-earth account of feng shui in the city, reflecting people's contemporary fascination with the subject. Through varied settings and feng shui incidents, it answers people's questions about the practice. It also records practical methods and techniques, letting readers learn more about feng shui through gripping stories. This is truly an account 172Reads—Score—14d adds
  4. 154 I Scared a Ghost to Death Again 我又把鬼吓死了 Mystery222k WordsCompleted [No romance + Chinese-style horror + folk beliefs and the occult + first-person narration + ghost-catching prodigy] My great-grandfather, Zhang Tiansheng, was a taboo subject in the Zhang family. He had once been a highly respected exorcist throughout the surrounding villages, able to speak with ghosts and spirits and dispel evil influences. Then, for reasons no one knew, he suddenly went mad. Before he died, he even tried to kill his entire family. After my great-grandfather died, his body was 568Reads9.1Score—14d adds
  5. 155 The Night-Sealed Door 夜封门 Mystery2.3M WordsCompleted Seven months pregnant, the woman was brutally hounded to death, and her seven-month-old baby was thrown into a well. Her wronged soul is cut off from the road ahead, and evil spirits come to claim their due. The gates of hell swing open, and the underworld seals its doors in the dead of night. 2.1kReads8.3Score16114d adds
  6. 156 Livestream Fortune-Telling: Your Boyfriend Has a Boyfriend Too 直播算命:你男朋友还有个男朋友 Urban351k WordsCompleted [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 89Reads8.5Score—14d adds
  7. 157 The Demon Taoist Breaks Through the Underworld Pass 妖道破阴关 Mystery2.0M WordsCompleted (Supernatural horror, feng shui and geomancy, warding off evil and misfortune, one heroine) My parents used forbidden magic to conceive me, but on the day I was born, my strange appearance frightened them away... My third uncle raised me in a cage. I barely managed to grow up on borrowed yin virtue and incense offerings... On my eighteenth birthday, I was buried alive in the ancestral graveyard. She saved me... but she wasn’t human... 5.4kReads9.1Score46614d adds
  8. 158 The Coffin of Life and Death 生死棺材 Mystery1.5M WordsCompleted In our line of work, there’s a type known as the miscellaneous school. They follow unorthodox paths, dabbling in everything but mastering nothing. They have no sect above them and no helpers below them, and nobody takes them seriously. I’m an heir to the miscellaneous school, yet I turned their world upside down and left them in chaos. Only when I decided to retire did I discover a shocking mystery hidden within me... 494Reads8.7Score10014d adds
  9. 159 Yin and Yang: The Book of Life and Death 阴阳:生死簿 Mystery1.5M WordsOngoing Lin Zhao spent ten years as an outer disciple Taoist at Longhu Mountain and learned only one spell: the Soul Summoning Art. > Until one night, the voice of Heaven rang out in his mind: “Ten zhang ahead, a wronged spirit seeks help.” > Following the voice, he found an old woman clutching a black cat and sobbing that her son had gone missing. > He formed a hand seal to investigate and discovered that the cat's eyes reflected the scene of her son's death: the neighbor butcher's hideous face. > When —Reads—Score—14d adds
  10. 160 Paranormal Encounters: What I Saw and Heard 灵异事件之所见所闻 Mystery356k WordsCompleted No System + no transmigration + no power fantasy + no harem + no invincible protagonist + no sweet romance + no clichés + no female lead + no cultivation. Important notice: if this isn’t for you, don’t read it. If this isn’t for you, don’t read it. If this isn’t for you, don’t read it! Do you believe there are things in this world that science cannot explain? Have you ever experienced anything supernatural yourself? Treat the events in this novel as stories, and remember: Fear and respect the sp 129Reads—Score—14d adds
  11. 161 The Coffin Walks at Night 灵棺夜行 Mystery1.2M WordsCompleted I was carrying a coffin up the mountain for a burial when they stuffed me inside and buried me alive. Then, in a single night, all three hundred or so people in the village vanished. Only at night was the place alive with voices. I crawled out of the coffin, only to discover... 5.6kReads8.2Score36614d adds
  12. 162 A Taoist Priest in the Mortal World 阳间道士 Mystery1.8M WordsCompleted I was an ordinary person, never knowing that a hundred-yuan bill on the ground would completely change my life. 785Reads8.2Score10114d adds
  13. 163 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 Urban246k WordsCompleted 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 23Reads—Score—14d adds
  14. 164 The Yin-Yang Occult Artisan 阴阳诡匠 Mystery4.2M WordsCompleted 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... 4.6kReads7.0Score49014d adds
  15. 165 Lu Ban's Secret Art of Feng Shui 鲁班风水秘术 Mystery1.7M WordsCompleted Carpenters revere Lu Ban as their patriarch. He left behind the Lu Ban Book, divided into two parts. The first contains carpentry techniques, while the second is a collection of secret spells, never to be shared with outsiders. The patriarch also left a curse: anyone who learns the spells in the second part must suffer one of the fates of being widowed, orphaned, childless, or disabled. That is why later generations called the second part of the Lu Ban Book the “Missing One.” In the old days, mo 5.6kReads9.1Score75714d adds
  16. 166 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 Mystery809k WordsCompleted 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… 6kReads9.2Score54414d adds
  17. 167 Decoding Life's Dilemmas: A Guide to Feng Shui and Destiny 破译众生困局:风水命理指南 Urban202k WordsCompleted 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 261Reads—Score12614d adds
  18. 168 The Nuo Dancer's Ordeal 傩人难 Mystery129k WordsOngoing 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
  19. 169 A Taoist Prodigy in Feng Shui 道家天才风水师 Mystery320k WordsCompleted [Feng Shui and Geomancy, Eight Characters and Destiny, Physiognomy, Folk Secret Arts, Qimen Dunjia, Zhuyou Healing, Daoist Magic] First comes fate, then luck, then feng shui; fourth, accumulate good deeds in secret; fifth, study; sixth, choose a name; seventh, read faces; eighth, honor the gods; ninth, befriend benefactors; tenth, nourish the body. This book has a lighthearted, humorous style, similar to the Happy Ghost and Uncle Nine film series. It features Daoist magic, physiognomy, Zhuyou he 2.7kReads6.7Score29114d adds
  20. 170 The Premier Feng Shui Master 超品风水师 Urban2.0M WordsCompleted “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 4kReads8.9Score42814d adds
  21. 171 The Sixth Man's Strange Tales 老六诡事 Mystery171k WordsCompleted A collection of true stories about all kinds of inexplicable, supernatural events personally experienced by people around me. Just think of it as my attempt to pass off some tales as Strange Tales from a Chinese Studio! Not for the faint of heart! Not for the faint of heart! Not for the faint of heart! I’m repeating it three times because it’s important! I don’t make up stories. I’m simply passing them along! 66Reads—Score—14d adds
  22. 172 Born of a Corpse: I Landed a Government Job by Catching Ghosts 尸生子:我靠抓鬼混上编制 Modern Romance208k WordsOngoing My new work is out! You can read it on Tomato Novel. I hope you’ll enjoy it. Your support motivates me to write, and I’ll do my best to tell every story well! 77Reads—Score—14d adds
  23. 173 A Feng Shui Master with a Bachelor's Degree, Class of 2000 00后本科风水师 Mystery680k WordsOngoing [The rating has just come out and will rise later. Updates are steady, so you can read with confidence, friends!] [Small-town supernatural tales + true experiences + folk legends + ensemble cast + thrilling adventures] I'm Fang Kai, a feng shui practitioner with a bachelor's degree, born in the 2000s. I never dreamed that after graduating from college, I'd end up on the path of catching ghosts. Think ghost-catching is all about fighting and killing? Wrong. It's just as much about dealing with pe 4.8kReads8.6Score36214d adds
  24. 174 The Maoshan Occultist 茅山诡术师 Mystery4.4M WordsCompleted My name is Fang Gang. I was stolen the moment I was born. From then on, my life unfolded into an epic tale, as turbulent as it was mysterious. 379Reads8.6Score5814d adds
  25. 175 Folk Horror Taboos 民间恐怖禁忌 Mystery476k WordsCompleted Do you know the stories old people tell? Do you know there are many things in folk tradition that people say must not be spoken of? Do you know what the elders say about dreams? The elders say there are things you mustn't talk about at night. Did you know that? 126Reads6.3Score—14d adds
  26. 176 The Yin Tattooist 阴纹师 Mystery4.1M WordsCompleted 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. 951Reads8.8Score12114d adds
  27. 177 Ghost-Hunting Yin-Yang Master 捉鬼阴阳师 Mystery1.1M WordsCompleted On the day I was born, the clear sky suddenly filled with lightning and thunder. A bolt struck a tree in our yard, and everyone in the village decided my birth was an ill omen. They all kept their distance. One villager accidentally offended me, and that night he mysteriously hanged himself. The body could only be taken down if someone knelt before me. On the day of his funeral, his brother died a violent death and the coffin fell to the ground. That was how the whole story began… 214Reads8.8Score10014d adds
  28. 178 The Grand Feng Shui Master 大风水师 Mystery4.8M WordsCompleted The living are coffined, the dead are entombed; yin and yang are reversed to establish the four pillars. A mirror that repels yang, cloth that draws in yin, and money trees lined up outside the door. A beautiful woman, plenty of money, yet worldly pleasures are not to be enjoyed. Walk between yin and yang, uncover Heaven’s secrets; every feng shui master is doomed to a short life! 14.1kReads8.6Score1.4k14d adds
  29. 179 The Forbidden Island of Human Nature 人性禁岛 Mystery2.3M WordsCompleted I couldn’t get a ticket for the Spring Festival, so I took an unlicensed car home. I never expected the woman in the car to keep staring at me. I wanted to call the police... [Deep Dive] The horrifying truth behind going missing after getting into the wrong car during the Spring Festival. Don’t ride in unlicensed cars carelessly, because it’s not just your money that disappears, but your life! 994Reads8.6Score10014d adds
  30. 180 The Book of Buried Ghosts 葬诡经 Mystery2.6M WordsCompleted Most people know about Thailand's black magic, but few realize that China's own Jiangmen tradition is the true source of all such sorcery. As the saying goes: “A master of sorcery has no ancestors in the Southern Seas; reverence for the Three Teachings is the true tradition.” Let me tell you all about the Chinese sorcerers and their craft… 3.3kReads8.4Score42614d adds
  31. 181 My Wife Is a Snake 我的老婆是条蛇 Mystery428k WordsCompleted 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… 23Reads—Score—14d adds
  32. 182 The Soul Ferryer Between Yin and Yang 阴阳渡魂人 Mystery693k WordsCompleted Soul-snatching ghost weddings, bathroom hauntings, the legend of the red-clad senior, Thai black magic, ghost soldiers borrowing the road, man-eating mountain demons, nightmare fiends that enter your dreams, the mystery of the headless woman, a bizarre bride in an escape room, vengeful child spirits, games that summon ghosts, human organ trafficking, a shocking exhibition of human deformities, and long-lost Maoshan secrets... Do these things send a chill down your spine? - The truth is, this wor 180Reads9.2Score10214d adds
  33. 183 Dragon-Seeking Feng Shui Master 寻龙风水师 Mystery1.7M WordsCompleted My mother was offered as a living sacrifice to the river god. To everyone's surprise, ten months later, she crawled out of the river. Dragons eat their illegitimate children. As the Dragon King's bastard son, I was supposed to be eaten at birth. Luckily, my master saved me and used eighteen phoenix maidens to deceive the heavens, helping me escape the Dragon King's pursuit. But eighteen years later, the people who had built their fortunes on my dragon blood turned against me. They looked down on 896Reads8.5Score28414d adds
  34. 184 I Am a Life-Pawn Broker 我是赊命人 Mystery310k WordsCompleted [Life on Credit + Past and Present Lives + Destiny + Growth] Past and present lives, the river of fate, and sealed memories on the verge of awakening. He was born under a fate marked by three misfortunes and seven defeats. But after inheriting the Heavenly Soul of King Wu, a twist of fate led him into the Azure Dragon Sect, where he became a Life-Borrower. Life-Borrowers use soul power to wield Daoist arts. Thanks to this unusual profession and the soul of King Wu, Shen Rufeng possesses extraord 12Reads8.9Score—14d adds
  35. 185 A Yin Corpse Brought Me to the Mortal World: The Living, Keep Away 阴尸送我来人间,生人退避 Mystery1.6M WordsCompleted My name is Luo Ansheng. I was delivered by a Yin Corpse. A Yin Corpse brought me into the world, and a hundred ghosts fought over their food. All manner of fearsome beings gathered, eager to devour my flesh and essence. After I gave them a good beating, they settled down and began competing to protect me. 4.2kReads8.8Score38614d adds
  36. 186 Little Dongbei 小东北 Mystery1.0M WordsCompleted Nature has yin and yang, and society has good and evil. An imbalance between yin and yang brings chaos, but so does drawing too sharp a line between good and evil. When righteousness dwells within, evil cannot intrude. When yin is balanced and yang is secure, the spirit is at peace. Your path is yours to choose: follow your nature, let go of judgment, and wisdom will shine. The Dao moves by returning to its source. In a word, avoid extremes and don't make the same mistake twice... 406Reads7.1Score—14d adds
  37. 187 The Yin-Yang Wicked Son-in-Law 阴阳恶婿 Mystery934k WordsCompleted At the end of the Ming dynasty, four families discover a terrifying dragon's lair, a feng shui site said to lead to heaven. They divide it into four parts, named Power, Wisdom, Wealth, and Beauty. Those buried within it can ensure their descendants enjoy power, wisdom, wealth, and beauty forever. But the lair defies the natural order. Even its good fortune carries danger, and it invites Heaven's punishment. To preserve their destiny, the families must find a scapegoat to take the blow in their p 17.5kReads9.3Score1.4k14d adds
  38. 188 As the Whole Village Called Back the Soul of His Missing Son, He Came Home Through the Door 全村替失踪的儿子收魂时,他从门外回来了 17k WordsCompleted As the whole village performs a soul-summoning ritual for their missing son, he comes home through the front door. 2Reads—Score—14d adds
  39. 189 The Life of a Spirit Medium's Disciple 顶香出马弟子的人生 Urban87k WordsOngoing The life of a spirit-medium disciple, recounting how I established my altar and became a spirit medium, as well as how I took a Taoist priest as my master! Everything is based on real experiences and factual explanations, with no fantasy or cultivation elements whatsoever! 32Reads—Score—14d adds
  40. 190 The Witch Seeks the Veins and Calms the Soul 巫师寻脉镇魂 Mystery164k WordsOngoing A man in a red robe isn't necessarily a groom. He might be a shaman, known as a Duangong. The protagonist, Liu Chunqiu, is the youngest shaman in southwestern Hubei. Other people wear red to marry. He wears red to drive out ghosts. Other people pray to Buddha and beseech the gods. He invites the gods to possess him. His master asks him to find and recover the lost lineage of shamanic arts. From then on, the protagonist performs Duangong rites day and night to heal the sick and ward off evil, and 122Reads—Score1114d adds
  41. 191 Supernatural: My Years Hunting Ghosts at Bureau 749 灵异:我在749局打鬼那些年 Mystery1.6M WordsCompleted The appearance of a white coffin and a red coffin at the construction site changed my fate. That night, I saw corpses that could move and a ghost that could steal a person's soul. They were all "deceiving" me, trying to make me die. What should I do... When you think the person behind you is a ghost, the real ghost may be the one standing in front of you... Once it's dark... don't read this!! 223Reads—Score—14d adds
  42. 192 The Yin-Born Child 阴生子 Mystery3.5M WordsCompleted Before I was even born, someone plotted against me. I was cut from my mother’s womb before I was full-term, born with a congenital defect, and prone to attracting evil spirits. My fate was cursed, and I was destined not to live past a hundred days. To stay alive, I went to live with my maternal grandfather, a medium who could travel between the worlds of the living and the dead. After years of learning from him, I became a medium myself. From then on, I could communicate with the gods, enter the 110Reads8.9Score—14d adds
  43. 193 My Years in the Funeral Business 我干白事儿那些年 Mystery1.3M WordsCompleted The funeral services provider Gouqie runs a one-stop funeral business on a shoestring. Uncle Yang is attacked, bringing the Chenxing List to light. A perfectly ordinary funeral services provider is drawn onto the path of spirit-mediumship. Gouqie has seen every side of the human world, yet is pulled into another supernatural realm. This isn't transmigration. Funeral shops, funeral homes: Gouqie's business keeps growing, and so does the number of enemies! Meng Qin, the Chenxing List, the Qia 756Reads7.6Score10214d adds
  44. 194 I Have the Body of a Ghost King, Yet Became the Strongest Exorcist 我,鬼王之体,却成了最强术士 Mystery573k WordsOngoing [Traditional supernatural horror, folk horror, strange tales and bizarre encounters, taboos of yin and yang] On the third day of the third lunar month, ghosts go mad. Chen Sansan was born on just such a day. Because of him, his father was buried alive by his master in the old house in Heilong Village. For his sake, his master was trapped in a tiny room. As for Chen Sansan, he has no choice but to keep signing contracts between yin and yang with ghosts to prolong his life. Otherwise, he won't sur 36Reads6.8Score—14d adds
  45. 195 Stay Away, Spirits 阴人勿扰 Mystery3.1M WordsCompleted Someone dug up our family grave and put the newlywed daughter-in-law who’d just died in their family in there. My uncle told me to go get her out in the middle of the night... 477Reads7.1Score—14d adds
  46. 196 Half Farmer, Half Taoist 半农半道 Mystery484k WordsCompleted A record of life’s fleeting moments, a modern-day Strange Tales from a Chinese Studio! In the Age of Declining Dharma, beneath the White Lotus, the greatest hermits hide in plain sight. The truly gifted master Suan Potian and his young apprentice Liu Yi, with help from Captain Liu of the J Team, travel through all kinds of strange tales. They fish drowned souls from the water, battle spirit mediums, drive out evil, escort ghosts and capture monsters; they read the veins of yin energy, set the ea 308Reads—Score—14d adds
  47. 197 A Blind Date Turns into a Ghost Hunt: CEO, There’s Someone Hanging in Your Bedroom 相亲变捉鬼:霸总你卧室挂了个人 Modern Romance266k WordsCompleted [Comedy + supernatural + metaphysics + wealthy-family feuds + a sharp-tongued heroine] Lin Qingjiu, a metaphysics expert, is forced to leave the mountain after her unlucky sect is stripped of its Taoist status. She bears the responsibility of clearing her entire sect's name. To save her seriously ill master, she accepts the Lin family's arrangement: a blind date. But the blind date turns into a ghost hunt, her date ends up in the hospital, and Lin Qingjiu ends up at the police station. Lin Q 312Reads8.6Score—14d adds
  48. 198 I Only Take on the Most Ominous Cases 我只收大凶之物 Mystery404k WordsCompleted [Supernatural] + [Traditional Folk Customs] + [First-Person Narration] + [Chinese-Style Horror] + [Decisive and Ruthless] + [Not a Do-Gooder] + [One Female Lead] I was born in a rural village in the mountains of Southwest China. I'm a third-year university student, and I'm also a yin-yang master. Calling myself a yin-yang master is really just to make myself sound impressive. Back in my hometown, people in the countryside call someone like me a Daoist ritual master. Most people probably know a l 57Reads8.2Score314d adds
  49. 199 True Stories of Spirit Mediums in Northern Liaoning 辽北出马仙实录 Mystery706k WordsCompleted A true story about a man who cultivated his mind and spirit deep in the mountains, then emerged from an ancient cave to make a name for himself across the land. It follows his transformation from an ordinary college student into a bona fide shamanic disciple, and offers some guidance to fellow cultivators still grappling with this destined path. I hope this lamp of mine will light the way ahead for everyone fate has brought here! A true story about shamans from Northeast China. Any resemblance t 556Reads7.6Score—14d adds
  50. 200 I Guard the Realm with My Dao 吾以吾道守山河 Urban349k WordsCompleted [Taoist Priest + Spells + National Destiny + Supernatural + Taoist Arts] Disciples of the Taoist sect command spirits and generals, exterminate evil and vanquish demons, all because the Tao endures! Has the ghost army deep in the Taihang Mountains really seized control of China's dragon vein? Could the lost Heavenly Master's sword really be on the roof of the Peace Hotel? As the Heavenly Master's representative, he actually destroys a temple with thunder and fire at the slightest provocation! He 143Reads8.7Score—14d adds

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