Novels like Forbidden Feng Shui Arts
Books Chinese readers most often put in the same booklists as Forbidden Feng Shui Arts, best match first.
- 1 Heavenly Wife 天妻 I was born burdened by heavy sins. My parents died because of me as soon as I was born. To repay my karmic debt, I was forced to marry that snake and take over Granny Wang’s shrine. But from then on, the demon god Hou Qing hunted me down, while the Lord of War, Chi You, wanted to sacrifice me. Then I discovered a shocking conspiracy... —Reads6.4Score—Shelves
- 2 Have You Played These Childhood Nightmare Games? 童年噩梦级游戏，你玩过吗？ Have you ever played one of those games that gave you nightmares as a kid? —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 3 Death Loop: Who Killed My Dad? 死亡循环：谁杀死了我爸？ Death Loop: Who Killed My Dad? 1Reads—Score—Shelves
- 4 Global Paranormal: Mastering the Seventy-Two Earth Fiend Transformations from the Start 全球灵异：开局学会地煞七十二变 [Overpowered protagonist + supernatural horror + urban powers] A bronze mirror whose reflection can never be seen, a black cat that crazily devours its own kind, a willow tree with human skin hanging from its branches and white bones showing through... That day, supernatural horrors descended upon the world. Humanity thought modern weapons would make victory easy, until they saw a scarlet ghostly figure swallow a nuclear bomb... “Damn it, this woman in white is terrifying! We’re going to die her 7Reads—Score—Shelves
- 5 Folk Mystical Arts 民间奇术 I’ve been blind since childhood. My grandfather told me that we carvers are different from those people cursed with the Five Afflictions and Three Shortcomings. I didn’t believe him, not until... 87Reads7.4Score—Shelves
- 6 Bound by a Ghostly Marriage: Strange Tales from City and Countryside 阴缘缠身：城乡闻异录 Bound by a Ghostly Marriage: Strange Tales from City and Country —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 7 The Midnight Corner Store 午夜小卖部 The vast world is full of wonders, with all kinds of people and all kinds of professions. Perhaps one day, in some corner of the world, you’ll meet me... My name is Ling Yi. I was born with a pair of Yin-Yang Eyes, and my family owns a little shop passed down through the generations. When I took it over, I turned it into a convenience store, but it only opens at midnight... One paranormal incident after another takes place during business hours. Then, one day, the convenience store suddenly disa 359Reads6.8Score—Shelves
- 8 Notes from Another Realm 异境手记 Every story is a prism of twilight. When the collector turns to the final page, silhouettes of every story’s protagonists suddenly appear on the blank paper. The instant their fingertips touch, the embossed gold pattern on the handbook’s cover reverses into flowing dusk, drawing the reader into this endless twilight narrative as well. —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 9 Heir to the Mystical Arts: Treading the Yin and Yang to Subdue All Evils 玄门传人：踏遍阴阳镇万邪 A Heir of the Arcane Sect: Taming Evil Across Yin and Yang —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 10 Record of Returning to the Heart: Enlightenment and Healing 归心录之悟道疗愈 Everyone gets sick. When we do, we take medicine, get injections, and see a doctor. But have you ever wondered why people get sick, or what the underlying logic of illness is? It wasn't until I began reflecting that my years of illness suddenly disappeared. I realized that, in this life, the only things that stay with you are your body and your mind. Yet when we get sick, we keep searching for answers outside ourselves. We forget that humans are emotional creatures, and most illnesses stem from 24Reads6.9Score—Shelves
- 11 My Dear Ghost Wife, Hurry and Show Yourself 鬼老婆大人，快快显灵 (Not scary, no System. The male and female leads are decisive killers! One heroine and multiple supporting female characters. The protagonist is neurotic most of the time, but turns into a god of death when he gets serious! If you like riding the subway, give this a try. If you’re looking for a serious, traditional supernatural novel, don’t click on this one. It’s not very serious! Enter at your own risk! Please don’t complain if it’s not to your taste!) I work as a crematory worker, burning cor —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 12 Chronicles of the Yin Ruins 【阴墟纪】 Where do people go when they die? Lin Yueheng has wondered about this ever since she was a child. Her family works in the funeral business. She has seen a thousand different ways to die, but never once has she seen a dead person tell her the answer. That is, until she listens to a song performed without an actor in an abandoned theater. The sixth scene of The Peony Pavilion: “Return to Life” “Strange fate, strange fate, a ghost’s dream beneath the Yellow Springs; great fortune, great fortune, fo —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 13 The Book of Go for All Under Heaven 天下弈书 This book contains profound wisdom drawn from metaphysics and Chinese classical learning, and should be read with an open heart. [It is recommended that you read Nine Li Demon Lord first, as the stories connect. Of course, you can still enjoy this book without reading it.] The Dharma-ending Age. Morality has fallen into decline, men and women are at odds, and faith has collapsed. Following prophecies left behind by the ancients, people today await the birth of a sage who will save the people fro 1Reads—Score—Shelves
- 14 The Feng Shui Master of Showbiz 娱乐圈风水天师 To raise one million yuan for my mother's medical bills, I meet a B-list star named Liu Ying through a twist of fate and enter the entertainment industry. I help celebrities read feng shui, ward off evil spirits, and hunt ghosts, becoming the hottest feng shui master in show business. Stars big and small, mature beauties and cute young girls alike, all come knocking at my door... 593Reads5.4Score—Shelves
- 15 A True Record of Walking the Mountains 走山实记 [This book is entirely fictional and not recommended. It’s the first book I’ve written, and also the worst. Check out my new book, A Feng Shui Apprentice’s Diary: Everything I Tell You Really Happened] Practical studies of the I Ching + strange tales from Gui Province + feng shui and folk customs + folk stories. Of all the strange things in this world, half are determined by feng shui, and half by the workings of the human heart. The tales passed from mouth to mouth conceal the most authentic si 2Reads—Score—Shelves
- 16 My Years as a Fortune-Teller 我做算命先生那些年 My name is Li Nanfang. In the first half of my life, I schemed endlessly, laying countless feng shui traps and amassing a fortune. Even now, many people are still fooled by me. When they see me, they respectfully call me “Minister” and regard me as their savior. But in the end, I gave away everything I owned. If I don’t tell the truth, I feel I’ll have wronged the world! I firmly believe that charlatans never meet a good end! I’m writing this book to warn people to stay alert and avoid being dec 125Reads—Score—Shelves
- 17 A Ghost at the Interview: The System Makes Me Play Chu Renmei 面试撞诡，系统让我扮演楚人美 [Supernatural resurgence + no female lead + System + role-playing + horror + decisive and ruthless + urban] Fresh out of college and already unemployed, Lin Ye receives a high-paying job offer from the Afterlife Funeral Home. It turns out to be a death warrant leading straight to hell! The interviewer is a faceless ghost, and HR is a painted-skin demon! The moment a ghostly claw pierces his heart, Lin Ye thinks he’s done for! [Ding! Host’s life is in imminent danger. Critical condition at 100% c 3Reads—Score—Shelves
- 18 My HR Career Makes No Sense 我的HR生涯不科学 [A practical novel about feng shui and Chinese fortune-telling] Chen Guan never imagined that the profound teachings of Wang Yangming’s doctrine of the unity of knowledge and action concealed mystical techniques for communicating with heaven and earth. Feng shui, geomancy, fate-reading, and physiognomy all become weapons in his hands. Beneath the calm surface of campus life, undercurrents surge: a lost “Imprint of Mental Strength,” a secret water-control plan spanning the Ming and Qing dynasties 2Reads—Score—Shelves
- 19 Feng Shui Master Guan Lu 风水大师管辂 Amid the chaos of the Three Kingdoms, a geomancy master who was “ugly in appearance yet versed in the ways of Heaven and Earth” emerged! Guan Lu was born with a “mystic eye” that could read the flow of qi and discern spirits. At eight, he read the stars to predict wind and rain; at twelve, he became a disciple and mastered the Book of Changes. With his skills in “reading the stars to choose a home and divining to dispel misfortune,” he rose from a boy in Pingyuan to become revered by later gene 4Reads—Score—Shelves
- 20 The Day I Was Born, a Qilin Devoured the Sun and the Five Immortals Bowed 我出生当天，麒麟吞日，五仙磕头 When I was born, a qilin swallowed the sun and the Five Immortals bowed their heads. To save me, my grandfather replaced my heart with one belonging to a demon. All these years, I have subdued evil with the qilin and had the Five Immortals at my side, slaying ghosts and gods in the mortal world! 751Reads6.8Score101Shelves
- 21 Wrathful Love in Western Hunan: The Bell of the Gu Spirit 怒情湘西之蛊魂铃 [A power fantasy about a strong female lead's growth + metaphysics and destiny + chilling unsolved cases + a fiery heroine + male leads who all know how to flirt] The heroine is a sharp-tongued little firecracker. As the reincarnation of Tanlang, she has incredible luck with men and a maxed-out charisma buff. She fights her way through one challenge after another, growing stronger all the while, and is as cool as she is dashing. Her destiny has been stolen, and all she wants is to get it back. U 1Reads—Score—Shelves
- 22 Serpent Fetus 蛇胎 My parents died when I was three, and I grew up with my elderly grandmother. So I learned early on that I could never be as carefree as other children, because I had no one to back me up. Perhaps because I wasn't good at hiding it, the air of timidity about me was always sniffed out by wicked people like wolves. Every step of my life, I had to tread carefully. To survive in safety, I could endure anything ordinary people couldn't bear. I thought enduring was my fate, until one year I suddenly be 450Reads—Score—Shelves
- 23 There Were No Immortals in This World, Until Too Many People Feared Death 世上本无仙，怕死的多了也就有了 Everyone else seeks immortality with their lives, but I think cultivating immortality is less appealing than dipping ingredients in hot pot. Eternal life? Just an obsession of a bunch of lunatics. Why seek immortality? It'd be more realistic to just ask not to go bald. This is a colossal lie: immortals don't exist. They're all just frauds pretending to have supernatural powers! 1Reads—Score—Shelves
- 24 The Celestial Observatory: Reborn as the Changing Line 观天局：重生之爻 Five people returned from the Republic of China era, but only one was reborn! One of them has two people hidden inside their body: one in the open, one in the shadows; one wants to live, one is waiting. Lu Zhiwei opened his eyes inside the Suolong Well, his mind full of memories from the Republic of China era. He went down the mountain to attend university and found a feng shui shop called Guantian Studio behind the campus. Its owner was an old man who brewed Pu’er tea that nobody ever drank. L 37Reads—Score—Shelves
- 25 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
- 26 Bound by a Blood Pact, Desired by Two Female Demons 血契缠身，被两个女妖精馋上了 My name is Chen Beiming. I’m a half-baked yin-yang practitioner from the old town. My main job is playing the suona; my side gig is laying restless spirits to rest. I thought I’d spend the rest of my life scraping by until I died, but then I took a job at a haunted house. That day, I ran into an evil spirit, and it was so scared that its soul nearly scattered. That night, the grave-robbing Taoist Luo Qinghan climbed over the wall and broke in. The next day, the tomb raider Qin Luo kicked the doo 1Reads—Score—Shelves
- 27 The Feng Shui Master 风水相师 Look up to observe the celestial signs, look down to study the lay of the land, and read the fortunes of heaven, earth, and beautiful women! My name is Tang Dabao. I studied feng shui and occult arts in the tradition of the “Celestial Aspect” school from childhood. After my grandfather suddenly passed away, one scheme after another was set against me. I take on the feuds between powerful families and the blood vendettas of the occult world all by myself. Dancing with a coffin on my back, strolli 2.2kReads8.4Score194Shelves
- 28 Folk Tales of Feng Shui and the Supernatural 民间风水怪谈 Curse Arts + Maoshan Arts + Qimen Dunjia + Plum Blossom Numerology + Folk Arcane Arts + Gu Techniques Feng shui affects everyone’s health, fortune, romance, family, and career. Want great fortune and riches? Want to become the richest person around? Want your children and grandchildren gathered around you? Want to become famous overnight? Want a beautiful companion by your side? If so, open to the first page and keep reading… 17.3kReads7.7Score1.2kShelves
- 29 The Feng Shui Master of Strange Arts 奇门风水师 Yin-Yang Feng Shui masters are the most terrifying kind of Feng Shui master. For thousands of years, the art has been passed down through a single lineage, never changing. I am fortunate enough to become this generation's Yin-Yang Feng Shui master. I walk among the strange and explore the secrets of Feng Shui, growing stronger through every hardship. 497Reads5.8Score101Shelves
- 30 Driver of the Underworld 幽冥司机 Bus Route 206 is hiring a night-shift driver. Liu Hao eagerly applies, only to discover that the job not only pays well but also has short hours. It’s only after he signs the contract that he realizes there’s something wrong with the bus… Strange passengers and eerie lost property leave Liu Hao wondering if he’s driving the last bus of the underworld! 391Reads6.3Score—Shelves
- 31 The Strange Seal of the Celestial Officials 天官诡印 The world knows about the Gold-Touching Captains, but not the Faqiu Zhonglang Generals who command them. And I am the last Faqiu Zhonglang General in the world, known as the Faqiu Celestial Official. Heaven Official's Blessing, may all taboos be lifted! 453Reads8.4Score—Shelves
- 32 Feng Shui Master Liao Wenzheng, China’s Only Feng Shui Top Scholar 风水大师廖文政中国唯一风水状元 [Feng Shui + sacred geomantic sites + geomantic arts + Feng Shui masters + Feng Shui taboos and how to overcome them + metaphysics, mystical arts, fortune-telling, divination, geomancy, changing your fate and fortune + no transmigration, no livestreaming, no female lead] During the Jiajing reign of the Ming dynasty, the imperial tombs at Tianshou Mountain were nearing completion, and Emperor Jiajing issued an edict calling for the realm’s finest geomancy masters. Liao Wenzheng, a Feng Shui heir 1Reads—Score—Shelves
- 33 The Rogue Little Taoist 无赖小道士 A young Taoist priest comes down from the mountains. He can subdue demons, tell fortunes, and read feng shui. Making his way in the City of Flowers, he lives life as he pleases... 589Reads6.8Score104Shelves
- 34 The Dragon-Locking Well: Snakebone Town 锁龙井：蛇骨镇 The Dragon-Locking Well: Snakebone Town —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 35 The Paper Horse Shop: Messenger Between Yin and Yang 我有一间纸马铺之阴阳使者 5Reads—Score—Shelves
- 36 The Great Yin-Yang Edict 太阴阳令 A rural Taoist whom people often overlook can always master other people's secret techniques, from the souls of demon spirits to the deadly strikes of ancient martial arts. He learns them in an instant, and when he uses them, his opponents are done for. In a dark world, he also learns of the thousand-year tragic romance that binds him. 12Reads—Score—Shelves
- 37 Grand Feng Shui Master Yang Yunsong 风水大宗师杨筠松 [Feng Shui + geomancy + geomantic arts + Feng Shui masters + Feng Shui taboos and how to overcome them + metaphysics, mystical arts, fortune-telling, divination, geomancy, changing your fate and fortune + no transmigration, no livestreaming, no female lead] From a powerful Imperial Preceptor who could command the wind and rain to an immortal who helped the poor, Yang Yunsong, also known as Yang Jiupin and Yang Yi, and honored by later generations as Master Yang, was a true “rule-breaker” in the 4Reads—Score—Shelves
- 38 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 10.4kReads8.8Score233Shelves
- 39 Grimm's Fairy Tales, Reimagined as Horror 诡异格林童话 Lin En, a folklore graduate student, wakes up in another world only to be swallowed by a tide of rats from the start! At the brink of despair, his research notes on Grimm’s Fairy Tales, which he’d brought along, transform into a golden finger: the [Book of Truth]! [Warning! The fairy-tale incident “The Pied Piper” is about to occur!] [Truth erosion initiated... “Piper” erased! New entries revealed: “Astral Worm,” “Sonic Neural Control”!] When the whole town hails the Pied Piper as their savior, 20Reads8.2Score—Shelves
- 40 Don’t Study Feng Shui, It’ll Make You Rich 别学风水，会赚 [Science x Mysticism; Folk Feng Shui; Practical Geomancy; Secrets of Yin-Yang Businesses] I used to be a software developer. My father was nothing more than a third-rate feng shui master, and hardly anyone had heard of him. For years, I thought he was just pulling a few tricks to fool people. As someone who had received nine years of compulsory education, I looked down on this “feudal superstition.” Then I got involved in the trade, and my worldview was changed forever... 32Reads—Score—Shelves
- 41 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
- 42 Strange Tales from Guangxi: Geomancy Notes with My Partner 桂地异闻实录：与搭档的堪舆笔记 (The author has abandoned this book. Please check out the new book, A Feng Shui Apprentice’s Real-Life Journal: Everything I Tell Is True.) [This story is fictional. Please do not take it as fact!] Practical feng shui field notes + local sights and stories from Guangxi + folk beliefs and taboos + the warmth and harshness of everyday life. This book does not chase the bizarre or play up the terrifying. It records only authentic local customs. As an apprentice, I walk the streets and countryside w 1Reads—Score—Shelves
- 43 Feng Shui Master Lai Buyi 风水大师赖布衣 Lai Wenjun passed the imperial examinations at the age of nine and rose to the rank of Imperial Preceptor. But after exposing Qin Hui’s plot to sever the dragon vein and usurp the throne, he was stripped of his position and exiled, reduced to a commoner begging in the streets. Then Heaven bestowed upon him an awakened Celestial Star Feng Shui Compass, while a fragment of the Green Crow Classic entered his soul. With a bowl of clear water, he could identify a venomous dragon; with three copper co 1Reads—Score—Shelves
- 44 Feng Shui Master Liu Bowen 风水大师刘伯温 When Yuan soldiers massacre his village, eighteen-year-old Liu Bowen escapes with his family's ancestral compass in his arms. His father's dying words still ring in his ears: "Protect the surviving pages of the Qingwu Classic, and break the Yuan court's Dragon Vein Severing Curse!" On the run, he comes upon a mountain village plagued by the deadly "White Tiger Carrying a Corpse" formation. Five people have died in three days, and a fraudulent Feng Shui master has set up a formation that instead 6Reads—Score—Shelves
- 45 Supernatural Tales: Twenty Years as a Spirit Medium 灵异怪谈：出马二十年 The Great Immortal takes his place, and sinister forces lurk in haunted lands! When I was 19, my parents laid out a banquet for ghosts, inviting a living corpse and the Eight Great Immortal Clans. For the next twenty years, I relied on my craft of raising ghosts and posing as a Great Immortal to make my way in the spirit-medium trade. I kept company with ghosts and monsters, consorted with wild immortals, and crossed blades with strange and dangerous people, always with my life on the line. 79Reads9.1Score—Shelves
- 46 The Collection of Qing Wu 青乌集 [Life + Everyday Knowledge + Feng Shui and Divination + Society and Culture] Since ancient times, human life has been inseparable from the home. A residence is where family members gather, where people rest after returning from work, and a haven for carrying on the family line, raising children, and sharing the joys of family life. A home's orientation, shape, layout, colors, and surroundings all affect the physical health, mental state, character, and psychology of its residents. Therefore, whe 6Reads—Score—Shelves
- 47 The Final Celestial Master in the Age of Declining Magic 末法时代，最后一位天师 The Maoshan Sect Leader, impeached and driven down the mountain; a wet-behind-the-ears young upstart; a frost-cold ghost bride; an evil cultivation sect that stops at nothing; a master of Gu poison from Miaojiang; and the Shen family, Asia's richest. The Daoist sects of the realm are in turmoil. Watch as Ye Chen takes up his sword and roams the world! 13.2kReads7.4Score1.1kShelves
- 48 The Evil-Suppressing Man of the Living World 阳间镇邪人 The world is formed from the union of Heaven and Earth. Where there is righteousness, there is evil; where there is yang, there must be yin. This world is full of the strange and the terrifying, and I am part of the strange. My name is Xiao Xie. My grandfather once said that on the day I was born, I tore a vicious asura ghost apart with my bare hands... 1.7kReads7.5Score111Shelves
- 49 Strange Tales from the Teaching Mission 支教诡事 I'm an ordinary teacher at a key secondary school, but after I talked back to the principal, I was “volunteered” for a long-term teaching assignment at a middle school in the countryside. I was furious, but to keep my job, I had no choice but to accept being “volunteered.” What I never expected was that this school would be anything but ordinary. (Note: This book is set in a parallel world. Any resemblance between its place names, characters, or events and those in real life is purely coincident 3.6kReads8.2Score353Shelves
- 50 The Heavenly Eye Coffin: Tales of Tomb Raiding in Tibet 天眼棺材：西藏盗墓惊奇录 [Mystery] + [Supernatural] + [Horror] + [Tomb Raiding] Two tomb-raiding enthusiasts meet online. After receiving an invitation from a mysterious stranger, they head to Tibet in search of an ancient tomb containing a coffin with a celestial eye. After enduring countless dangers, they uncover a shocking secret and treasure, and encounter both allies and enemies, along with a web of intrigue. Hidden inside the celestial-eye coffin is a crystal ball that can see through everything. It will change 2Reads—Score—Shelves
