Novels like The Knife Seller
Books Chinese readers most often put in the same booklists as The Knife Seller, best match first.
- 1 Ghost Executioner, Coffin Bearer 铡鬼人，抬棺匠 I'm an ill-starred man who brings death to everyone in my family. I see the dead off and grant the living their wishes. A single dragon pole can hoist countless ghosts and fiends; a single executioner's blade can cut down thousands of evil spirits. A coffin maker, a ghost slayer, walking the road of the living with the gate of reincarnation on my shoulders. The dead are passing through, the living stand aside 197Reads6.3Score—Shelves
- 2 I Stride Between Yin and Yang, Wiping Out Every Monster in the World 我！脚踏阴阳，除尽世间魍魉 [Ghosts in the Story + Mystery and Deduction + Unheard-of Bizarre Events] A food delivery order at midnight, a high heel piercing through the back of someone’s head... After his wife becomes pregnant, the shadow of a man walks out of their bedroom in the middle of the night. Is it a ghost fetus, or...? A forest ranger in a primeval forest catches a monster that can take human form... Three security guards die in a row at a construction site, yet someone still wants to take the job. What could be 37Reads6.5Score—Shelves
- 3 The Ferryman of the Yellow Springs 黄泉摆渡人 One day, I found a pile of money outside my door. Then, for seven days in a row, someone left money there at the same time each day. I took some and spent it, but later someone told me it was all money paid to buy my life. Someone wanted me dead. To stay alive, I went to the City God Temple and became a night watchman. 1.7kReads—Score—Shelves
- 4 The Soul Ferryman 灵魂摆渡人 Behind ghosts and monsters, is it the soul? Or... science? Behind the Daoist arts, is it sleight of hand? Or... delusion? Grandpa warned me not to reveal that I was a Yin ferryman. I could only say I was a Daoist priest. Keeping my identity as a Yin ferryman secret is a rule of the trade. No one can really explain why, but later I met someone who broke that rule, and he met a truly horrific end. 44Reads—Score—Shelves
- 5 The Corpse-Eater Inn 尸人饭店 Driven by greed, I took a job at a restaurant that paid 50,000 yuan a month. I rested during the day and worked between midnight and 2 a.m. On my very first day, the chef told me I had only seven days left to live... 517Reads8.4Score102Shelves
- 6 Five Years Later, Three Adorable Kids Help Her Blow Up Their Dad’s Company 五年后，三个萌宝带她炸翻爹地公司 Five years ago, by a twist of fate, she gave herself to a certain man. She lost her virginity and her identity, and her place as the eldest daughter of the Jiang family was taken by someone else. Overnight, she went from a phoenix to a crow. Five years later, she returned with three little ones, only for her own child to bundle her up and sell her to that man as a maid. All she wanted was to work and raise her kids, but a certain man, Gu Tingchen, kept making things difficult for her. “Have we m 235Reads7.7Score141Shelves
- 7 Dumped from the Start and Left to Drive Corpses, Now I'm Invincible 开局被甩成为赶尸人，我无敌了 At a dinner where he was supposed to confess to the campus belle, Zhang Bufan, a college entrance exam failure, is pranked and teased by his classmates. By sheer chance, he obtains a god-tier Corpse-Driving System! Classmate: “Zhang Bufan, come sweep the toilets at my dad’s company. I’ll give you the friends-and-family rate of 1,000 yuan a month!” Zhang Bufan: “For 100 yuan, I’ll help your dad find his roots.” “When the dead travel, the living must keep their distance…” At midnight, bells ring t —Reads5.3Score—Shelves
- 8 Yin-Yang Paper Effigy Maker 阴阳纸扎匠 The paper effigies my grandfather made could subdue spirits and drive away evil energy. He passed this craft down to me alone. Back in his day, my grandfather was a renowned master in the world of feng shui. I thought I could carry on his legend, but I was set up as soon as I struck out on my own. It turns out there’s another me in this world! (No System, no mindless protagonist, no stale tropes, no cultivation.) 422Reads6.9Score—Shelves
- 9 I Hosted a Show, and My Identity as a Corpse-Driving Taoist Was Exposed 主持节目，我赶尸人身份被曝光了 A campus interview show. Host Zhou Xiaoyi asked, “Have you ever seen a ghost?” “Heh. What era are we living in? We should believe in science. Of course I've never seen a ghost!” Ye An replied. Beep! Beep! Beep! The lie detector went off like crazy! “Then what did you do after you encountered a ghost?” “Obviously, I ran! It was a ghost. Wouldn't I have to be an idiot not to run?” Beep! Beep! Beep! The lie detector went off like crazy! From that day on, Ye An's identity as a corpse-drivin 31Reads5.9Score—Shelves
- 10 The Keeper of Fate 守命人 Five years ago, my brother became addicted to gambling and racked up 700,000 yuan in debt. To pay it off, he went to Xiangxi’s Corpse-Hiding Cave to carry corpses and gamble with his life. 844Reads7.2Score149Shelves
- 11 The Live-In Dragon Son-in-Law 上门龙婿 Also known as My Haughty Little Wife He was once the young master of the Dragon Sect, with a fortune worth trillions. For four years, he hid his identity as a live-in son-in-law, enduring contempt and humiliation while everyone walked all over him. For his daughter and his wife, he had no choice but to return to the Dragon Sect and inherit it all! He once promised her a lifetime of splendor. Now, he will give her the whole world! 170Reads8.5Score107Shelves
- 12 The Walking Corpse Files 走尸档案 I knew a group of people like this, and accidentally became one of them. They knew ancient secret arts for finding people through corpse refinement. With a person's birth date and time and an item belonging to someone who had gone missing, they used divination, the Eight Gates and Hidden Armor, and the arts of ghosts and spirits to make nowhere safe for the missing, whether living or dead! 658Reads8.1Score103Shelves
- 13 After Failing the Exams, I Took Up Corpse Driving and Got Exposed by Xiao Zhouzhou! 落榜后去赶尸，被小周周曝光了！ Li Chen fails the college entrance exam, and his family is buried in loan-shark debt. Just as he thinks he's done for, he suddenly awakens a corpse-driving System. Driving corpses makes him stronger and earns him generous rewards on the side. Just then, a call comes in about his class reunion. “Li Chen, you didn't get into college, did you? How about I get you a job hauling bricks at my family's construction site?” “Sure! You'd better pay the wages of a few people, then!” The call ends. Li Chen 104Reads—Score—Shelves
- 14 Xuanhuan: A Thousand Years of Sign-In at the Tomb of the Gods 玄幻：我在神墓签到千年 After transmigrating into the Chu Feng of a family of tomb guardians, he antagonized the heir of a noble house and was sent to guard the tombs in the forbidden Divine and Demon Mausoleum. He awakened the sign-in System, earning rewards for signing in at different locations! Sign in at the Divine and Demon Mausoleum to obtain the Hell-Suppressing Divine Body! Sign in before the Ancient Sword Stele to obtain the Supreme Sword Bones! Sign in before the Heaven-Devouring Demon Stele to obtain the Hea 17Reads6.1Score—Shelves
- 15 Horror Livestream: I Craft a Sky Full of Gods from Paper 恐怖直播：我用纸扎出满天神佛 Sheng Feihong transmigrates into a world where horror is on the rise and becomes a paper effigy maker. Then he encounters a vengeful ghost, but fortunately awakens the Divine Paper Effigy Livestream System. He crafts a Celestial Master Zhong Kui to fight ghosts and exorcise evil, winning every battle... He crafts ghost soldiers and generals, bringing peace for thousands of miles and leaving no evil spirits alive... Watching Sheng Feihong command a host of ghost generals in the livestream, the vi 159Reads6.2Score—Shelves
- 16 The Corpse-Driving System from Heaven 天降赶尸系统 College student Tian Ye suddenly acquires the Corpse-Driving System and becomes a mysterious corpse driver... 418Reads—Score—Shelves
- 17 365 Nights of Corpse Tales from the Gorge 峡江尸话365夜 The poorer and more desolate the land, the stranger the tales; deep in the gorges along the river, there are stories of the supernatural. My hometown lies in the mountains of the middle reaches of the Yangtze River, in an area where several ethnic minorities live together. Before Liberation, it was a backward wilderness beyond the reach of government control. Over the long course of history, many baffling things happened here. After I was born, I heard plenty of chilling tales of strange happeni 117Reads8.0Score—Shelves
- 18 Nailed into a Coffin for Ten Years, and You Still Expect Me to Fight the Supernatural? 被钉棺中十年，还想让我对抗灵异 Supernatural forces have returned worldwide! After resolving the most powerful supernatural incident, Jiang Chen, known as the “Ghost King,” was forcibly sealed inside the Heaven-Suppressing Coffin by his former comrades and the top experts of various countries. Ten years passed! Supernatural incidents began occurring frequently once more! The sealed files on the Ghost King were suddenly unsealed. Jiang Chen, the Ghost King who had been gone from the world for ten years, returned! Would he destr 372Reads5.9Score—Shelves
- 19 The Last Paper-Cutting Artist 最后一位剪纸人 My name is Song Xiaohan. I’m a living corpse with no heartbeat, and a paper-cutting artist of the underworld. On the surface, I cut paper decorations for a funeral shop, but behind closed doors, I trade with humans and ghosts. My master passed away two months ago and left me the family craft, along with this modest little shop and my tools of the trade: a pair of scissors and a carving knife. “You want to make a deal with me? But all I want is your shadow!” Song Xiaohan grinned. 210Reads8.5Score—Shelves
- 20 The Girl Born of a Corpse with a Yin Fate 尸生阴命女 On the fifteenth day of the seventh month, a human-skin lantern appears at the mass grave on Shiping Mountain. A little girl cradles a skull and slowly follows behind the lantern. The girl is called Qiyue. Born from a corpse and destined to live among the dead, she grows up determined to uncover the truth about her corpse-mother’s origins. When all the clues point to a mysterious ghost village...! 1.6kReads8.6Score189Shelves
- 21 The Knife Seller 赊刀人 Have you ever met a man who carries a shoulder pole through the streets, selling kitchen knives? People come to buy, but he refuses to sell to anyone except you. When you offer him money, he won't take it. He just smiles and says, “Come back to settle the bill when two steamed buns can buy you a wife.” If you meet him, don't think you've gotten a bargain. What you'll end up paying will be far more than the price of a kitchen knife... 5.8kReads9.1Score363Shelves
- 22 After the School Belle Humiliated Me, I Became a Corpse Driver and Now I'm Invincible! 被校花侮辱后成了赶尸人，我无敌了！ At the dinner where he plans to confess to the campus belle, Zhang Bufan, a student who failed his exams, is pranked by his classmates and unexpectedly obtains a god-tier Corpse-Driving System! Classmate: Zhang Bufan, come clean the toilets at my dad's company. I'll give you the friends-and-family rate: 1,000 yuan a month! Zhang Bufan: For 100 yuan, I'll help your dad find his way back to his ancestors. “When the dead are on the move, the living must keep away...” At midnight, the bells ring and 393Reads5.4Score102Shelves
- 23 The Yin-Yang Courier 阴阳快递员 After graduating from college, I became a delivery courier to make ends meet. Who knew I'd have to work nights, and that none of the people coming to collect their packages would be human… 153Reads8.1Score146Shelves
- 24 Global Prices Are Soaring, and My Dad Tricked Me into Becoming the World's Biggest Loser 全球物价暴涨，我爹坑我成首负 Bad news: My dad died, and his billions are all mine! What a rush! Good news: The backfiring scam-dad System is gone, and prices have returned to normal. I'm instantly “bankrupt.” Prices worldwide have soared ten thousandfold overnight! Little do people know, this is only the beginning of the nightmare! Back then, a ten-yuan tip was enough to make a server drop to their knees in excitement! Now, even a hundred-yuan bill can't buy a meal! I'm stunned! The “Everything Backfire System” activates: e —Reads6.9Score—Shelves
- 25 The Dragon and Phoenix Dual Arts 龙凤双诀 Zhu Yuanzhang claims the throne, the Demon Cult is destroyed, and the rise of the Zhang Clan heralds a world of profit and slaughter. A single manual sparks a bloody massacre. The orphan Chu Feng is taken in by the former leader of the Demon Cult, who teaches him martial arts. As he sets out to discover his origins, he is drawn into the martial world. With a monkey for a companion, a martial arts manual in hand, and love and longing in his heart, can Chu Feng become the overlord of the martial w 3.3kReads8.4Score435Shelves
- 26 The Second Book of Saving the World 拯救世界1的第2本书 My new work is out! You can read it on Tomato Novel. I hope you’ll enjoy it. Your support is what motivates me to write, and I’ll do my best to tell every story well! 7Reads8.8Score—Shelves
- 27 Strange Tales of a Mountain Village 山村异事 Mom tied a rope around her mouth and hanged herself over Dad's coffin! Forty-nine days later, Mom came back for me! 340Reads6.7Score103Shelves
- 28 The Soul-Suppressing Stele 镇魂碑 Telling the eeriest stories and exposing the most unfathomable human hearts! The final installment in the Evil-Quelling Trilogy! (The first two, Evil-Quelling Notes and Thousand Corpse Town, are both complete.) After the first thirty thousand words, there will be three updates every day! No delays, guaranteed! Thank you all for continuing to support Lao Zhang! 687Reads7.8Score101Shelves
- 29 Grandma’s Ghost Stories 听奶奶讲灵异故事 I was raised by my grandmother. The bedtime stories I heard as a child were all supernatural events she had experienced herself. They scared me so badly I was afraid to go to the bathroom, but I could never resist listening to the end. What I didn't know was that the more stories I heard, the more likely they were to come true, and that I had plenty of secrets of my own. 159Reads6.7Score—Shelves
- 30 The Divine Doctor Mother Comes to Sign In 神医娘亲来签到 Master physician + adorable babies + sign-in System + hilarious wish-fulfillment story + powerful hero and heroine The renowned physician Lin Ruoxuan awakens in the middle of an enemy attack, only to discover that her soul has crossed into another world. She gets a pair of twins, a boy and a girl, and awakens a god-tier sign-in System. Ding! Congratulations, Host, your sign-in was successful. You have obtained a Chaos Saintly Physique. Ding! Congratulations, Host, your sign-in was successful. Yo 653Reads9.1Score100Shelves
- 31 The Corpse Walker: I Brought Your Ancestors Back 赶尸人：我把你们祖宗找回来了 Han Tian was a killer who bound himself to the [Corpse-Driving System] at the brink of life and death. From then on, he embarked on a very different path. A Fourth Master who turns to people's ancestors whenever he can't make up his mind? A Black Panther who can draw talismans? A corpse driver who uses brute force to deal with ghosts? He brought back a group of ancient corpses from a tomb deep in the mountains. Going from house to house, he said, “Come on, I've brought your ancestor back.” Now t 1kReads8.2Score106Shelves
- 32 The House of the Dead 空亡屋 There is a kind of house in this world whose door is always half open and half closed. The open half is for the living to enter. The closed half is for the dead. This kind of house is called a House of the Lost. As it happens, I'm the owner of one. In three years, I've encountered both clingy ghosts and evil people who cling to ghosts. 802Reads8.7Score126Shelves
- 33 The Corpse of a Mountain Village Woman 山村女尸 [Feel-Good Read + Urban + Suspense + Supernatural] He Xi is an ordinary security guard. One day, the west gate of Chaoxi Psychiatric Hospital desperately needs a guard. The pay is 30,000 yuan a month, but nobody dares take the job! Nobody else dares, but He Xi does! Only after arriving does he realize something is wrong. The west gate isn’t meant for people to pass through at all. It’s a gate for ghosts! 7.4kReads7.7Score341Shelves
- 34 My Years Selling Buddhist Amulets in Thailand 我在泰国卖佛牌的那几年 A lot of people believe in ghosts, and a lot of people don't. Before I went to Thailand, I was just a broke nobody. But then I somehow started selling Buddhist amulets... You didn't know there were ghosts inside them? 10.4kReads9.0Score1.6kShelves
- 35 The Ultimate Son-in-Law 最强女婿 Ye Chen's soul transmigrates into a body on Earth, making him the live-in son-in-law everyone in the Su family looks down on. His wife is a cold, beautiful CEO. Then one day, his mother-in-law discovers that he is actually... The whole family is stunned!!! 75.4kReads8.9Score1.7kShelves
- 36 Chen Ergou’s Path to Taoism 陈二狗修道记 In a small mountain village, all sorts of strange things happen to a boy named Chen Ergou. Rumor has it that he is the reincarnation of the Mad Daoist. At a very young age, Chen Ergou bows beneath a great willow tree and takes a ghost as his master. He learns the arts of Heaven, Earth, and the Five Elements, and through a series of chance encounters embarks on a path of cultivation: catching ghosts, telling fortunes, reading feng shui, and discerning yin from yang. The people he helps go on to b 3.5kReads8.5Score371Shelves
- 37 Eerie Descent: Nobody on the Subway Is Human 诡异降临：地铁里都不是人 [!!! NOT A POWER FANTASY !!!] [No golden finger + No Romance + No Leveling Up + No Items + No System] [Infinite Flow + Mystery and Horror + Every Character Is Smart] Important warning: If you are riding the subway right now, be sure to check underneath your seat and make sure there isn’t a corpse lying there! A mysterious subway train, with eighteen stops along its route. At every stop, the passengers must face a bizarre instance! A cruise ship sailing alone across the sea, with nowhere to dock 3.5kReads7.3Score600Shelves
- 38 I Study Music, So Why Am I Making Funeral Music? 我学音乐，让我搞阴乐 (System + supernatural + eerie + no romantic pairing) (Many settings in this story are fictional. Please don't connect them to real life. This is not a pure power fantasy.) Jiang Chen was a music student who couldn't find a job after graduating. Hoping to make money through livestreaming, he streamed for half a year without gaining any traction. One day, his mother suddenly dragged him to a funeral to play the suona for someone, and he unexpectedly activated the Yin-Yang System. At the funeral, 2.7kReads8.6Score198Shelves
- 39 The Beggar Son-in-Law 丐婿 So what if I’m a beggar? You may look down on me today, but tomorrow you won’t be able to reach my level. So what if my wife is mute? The weed you see is the treasure I’ll protect for the rest of my life. A young entrepreneur was murdered, and his soul fused with that of the beggar Wu Ergou. Seeking revenge, repaying kindness, honoring family, protecting the love of his life, and pursuing his ideals, Wu Ergou and his mute wife embarked on a fiery path to rise to the top! 31.5kReads9.1Score2.7kShelves
- 40 The Richest Son-in-Law 最豪赘婿 [Twenty thousand words updated daily] In the eyes of others, I'm a useless live-in son-in-law, good for nothing. But being a live-in son-in-law doesn't mean I can't soar through the heavens! 5kReads8.6Score391Shelves
- 41 I’m a Corpse-Driving Empress from the Start, and the School Belle Found Out 开局赶尸女帝，被校花发现了 Chen Tianxiu transmigrates into a world where spiritual qi has been revived for a thousand years. Everyone in this world can cultivate and become a warrior. The strongest can even fly through the skies, tunnel beneath the earth, move mountains, and overturn seas, becoming like gods! Then he awakens the Divine Corpse-Wrangling System. Every successful corpse-wrangling earns him various rewards. He can even abandon martial arts and pursue immortality! His first target is the Empress Qianqiu, who v 3.2kReads8.7Score233Shelves
- 42 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
- 43 A Corpse Driver Seeks Justice for the Dead, Then Gets Exposed by a Streamer! 赶尸人为亡者申冤！被主播曝光！ Zuo Qian becomes a corpse driver and takes on commissioned jobs “Thirty years ago, a magnitude-nine earthquake struck Zhongnan City. Aid poured in from every direction! But the supply truck driven by volunteer Zeng Xiao vanished without a trace!” The livestream camera focuses on an elderly couple. Reporter: “What do you think about your son selling off life-saving supplies?” The old man says angrily, “He didn't! He never sold them!” The reporter sneers, “Really? Then let's hear it from him i 378Reads6.5Score—Shelves
- 44 My First Day Out of Prison, and I Destroyed My Fiancée 出狱第一天，手撕未婚妻 Five years ago, he was framed and sent to prison. Five years later, he walked out of prison and returned in force. He would settle every grudge, one by one. I'm invincible. Do whatever you like! 47.4kReads8.8Score1.8kShelves
- 45 The Corpse Retriever 捞尸人 Twenty-three years ago, his father died under mysterious circumstances. His skin was hung from the old locust tree at the entrance to the village. Twenty-three years later, the eldest brother who had been given away as a child returned. His banner read: Corpse Retriever. 3.3kReads8.3Score484Shelves
- 46 The First-Eye Feng Shui Master 第一天眼风水师 This is not your typical feng shui story. If that bothers you, please move along. Inside you’ll find the most terrifying human demons and ghosts, horrifying infant spirits, bewitching female ghosts, thousand-year-old flood dragons, and even a ghastly face that will make your heart race... There are no tired formulas here, so be patient. The further you read, the better it gets… The story begins on the day I was born. On the day of my birth, every last one of the chickens and ducks my family k 17.7kReads8.9Score1kShelves
- 47 Sashimi Celestial Master: They Mistook Me for the Ultimate Villain 刺身天师：我被错认成究极大反派 Don't get a dragon tattoo above your shoulders, and don't get a tiger tattoo below your waist. With her eyes closed, Guanyin cannot save the world. With his eyes open, Guan Gong will surely kill! A tattoo marks a new beginning, but if you violate the taboos associated with its design, you will suffer the backlash. And one more thing: if your fate isn't strong enough, never get a tattoo by force. Otherwise, disaster is sure to follow! After Gu Xing fused with the System, he successfully advanced 1.5kReads7.7Score101Shelves
- 48 My Soul-Guarding Wife 镇魂妻 When I was six, a beautiful woman gave me a hand drum. From that moment on, I was plunged into a devastating calamity. To avert it, my grandfather forced me to marry Cui Gu, the village girl who was both foolish and ugly. He said that if Cui Gu and I truly loved each other, one day she'd become the beautiful wife of my dreams... 1.1kReads8.8Score146Shelves
- 49 The Night-Sealed Door 夜封门 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. 2kReads8.3Score159Shelves
- 50 The Maoshan Coffin-Raiser 茅山升棺人 From the moment I was born, someone secretly plotted against me, making my mother give birth prematurely and changing my birth date. My birth chart clashed with my parents' fates, and they both died on the very day I was born. I vowed to find the culprit, and in time became a Maoshan coffin-raiser! Coffin-raising is the practice of relocating graves. After death, people should be buried in a place with good feng shui to protect their descendants. But some ancestors are buried in malevolent place 1.2kReads9.0Score101Shelves
