Novels like The Yin-Yang Pharmacy
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- 1 Master of Folk Customs: I Make Paper Effigies in Eerie Instances 民俗大师：我在诡异副本扎纸人 [Mystery + Rule-Based Instances + Mind-Bending Puzzles + Traditional Supernatural Horror + Paper Effigy Making + A Clever Protagonist] Supernatural horrors descend upon the world, and people are randomly pulled into "Taboo Instances." Morgues, ancient temples in mountain villages, abandoned opera houses, underwater tombs... Every instance has a set of bizarre rules. Break them, and you die. Everyone else awakens combat talents like fire, lightning, and swordsmanship. Chen Jiu, however, awakens [ 31Reads—Score101Shelves
- 2 Infinite Terror: Bone Reflection 无限恐怖：骨照 Some people die and leave behind a grave. Some people die and leave behind a name. Lin Jin has died six times, and what he left behind was something buried inside his bones. At first, he thought he had merely been caught up in a bizarre game of rules. Then, in Returning Name Alley, he saw his bones reflecting someone else; then, in Shadow Gate, he heard someone say, “The Seventh Bone is hidden inside your bones”; and finally, he understood that the face, shadow, name, and life he had lost since 1Reads—Score—Shelves
- 3 The Murderous Demoness General Is Creating Dreams in the Modern Age 杀人魔女将军竟在现代造梦 [Urban fantasy] [Episodic stories] [Crossovers with Hotel Del Luna and The Eighth Pawnshop; read with caution if that bothers you] Su Xiaoxiao, an undefeated female general, was tricked and coaxed by Meng Po into becoming the owner of the Dreamweaver Time Hall. She is the master of human dreams. For a thousand years, she has crafted dreams for the living, using a dream of Nanke to make up for the regrets her customers carry in this life. The Dreamweaver Hall’s owner serves for a thousand years a —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 4 The Claims and Compensation Bureau 万物索赔局 People always think that when something breaks, gets lost, or is thrown away, the relationship is over. But in this world, objects retain “debt marks.” Using an object, relying on it, or mistreating it can all create a debt. Usually, the mark is faint and fades away naturally once the object is no longer usable. Only when the debt is too great, or an object has borne emotions and costs far beyond its intended purpose, will it submit a claim to the Bureau of Claims for All Things. The Bureau does —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 5 Thirty Years of Cultivation: I Slay Evil Ghosts, Never Save the Living 修道三十年，只杀恶鬼不度众生 Stars hang over the plains, illuminating yin and yang; good and evil are always weighed in the balance. Do not say the netherworld has no justice. I urge you to do good and avoid bringing calamity upon yourself. Black Summoning is an ancient shamanic art for those who walk between yin and yang. Ordinary mages and sorcerers mostly worship spirits, hoping they will show mercy, offer protection and blessings, and ward off disaster. Those who learn Black Summoning stand as equals to the spirits. The 5Reads—Score—Shelves
- 6 The World Above the Well 井上人间 My name is Chen Xiaoman. I run a joss stick and candle shop called "A Single Lamp" in Suzhou's old town. My grandfather, Ninth Master Chen, was a well-known guardian of the wells around here. Three years ago, on Tomb-Sweeping Day, he sat in his wicker chair and passed away as if he'd simply nodded off. Before he left, he taught me just one sentence: "The incense is about to go out." Then, late one night, my childhood friend's cousin rode the last subway to the end of the line and got trapped at —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 7 The Coffin Haunted by a Ghost 鬼缠棺 When roots grow across a grave and wrap around the coffin, the descendants will never know peace. I snapped off a branch growing on my grandfather's grave. It began to bleed, strangely. Seven days later, my parents and three older sisters all died suddenly. My family's deaths were only the beginning of my nightmare. 73Reads6.8Score—Shelves
- 8 Xuanhuan: A Myriad Worlds Pawnshop from the Start 玄幻：开局一座万界当铺 After waking up, Qin Yi found that he had transmigrated to the Tian Du Realm and become the tenth Host of the Myriad Worlds Pawnshop. Inside the pawnshop, Qin Yi was invincible. The pawnshop had everything imaginable. Heavenly treasures, ancient artifacts and secret books, even bodies, memories, and souls, could all be pawned for equivalent value. Qin Yi took ten percent of the profit from every transaction. “There are bad debts too?” “And once I collect them, the profits are all mine?” Looking 130Reads5.9Score—Shelves
- 9 Please Keep Listening 请保持收听 My name is Lin Yi. I'm twenty-five, and the most forgettable late-night host at the Qijiang City radio station. For the paycheck, I took over a show called “The 504 Horror Files,” where I listen every night as callers recount strange things they've experienced firsthand. The dead knocking at the door, calls from empty rooms, news reports foretold in advance, extra people appearing in photographs... I thought they were all carefully made-up stories, until submissions from different eras began poi 3Reads—Score—Shelves
- 10 The Last Exorcist Taoist 最后一个镇魂道士 Shen Yanchen inherited an ancient trade: uncovering the buried past of the dead whom no one remembers, and helping them resolve their unfinished business. But the work comes at a cruel price. Every time he lays an old regret to rest, he permanently forgets someone still alive in his life. After a mining disaster in the eastern hills of Baishi Town, thirty-six empty coffins quietly appeared, and one buried story after another began to surface. When every last regret of the dead has been resolved, 2Reads—Score—Shelves
- 11 The Yin Craftsman: Beginning with Coexistence with the Supernatural 阴匠：从与阴物共生开始 Let’s start with the facts: I haven’t even graduated, and I’ve already inherited my grandfather’s shop. The good news: I personally sent the murderer who killed my senior to the executioner’s block! The bad news: My senior now lives in the pocket over my chest, and we share life and death. Random passerby: “That student looks so frail. He’s definitely been drained dry.” Liu Changqing: “Could it be a side effect of yin energy entering my body?” (expressionless) Black-clad bodyguard: “Kid, how dar 1Reads—Score—Shelves
- 12 Night-Shift Funeral Director: I Can Hear the Dead Speak 夜班殡葬师，我能听见死者说话 [Late-night paranormal mysteries + episodic investigations + accumulating karmic merit, plenty to read, updated daily without fail] My name is Lin Chen. I'm twenty-four, unemployed and in debt. I returned to my hometown to inherit the funeral home my great-uncle left behind. On my first night at work, the corpse of a woman in the morgue spoke: “I wasn't drinking. I'm allergic to alcohol...” “My fiancé pushed me down the stairs. He bought two million yuan in insurance on me.” “Please, don't let h 6.7kReads6.7Score489Shelves
- 13 The Yin-Yang Realm: The Wish-Granting General Store 阴阳界：圆梦杂货铺 If you had to pay the price yourself, would you come to this little shop on the boundary between yin and yang and trade for the fulfillment of a wish? There is a folk rhyme: "On the border between yin and yang, there's a shop that grants dreams. Whatever you ask for, you shall receive. When midnight comes, by the locust tree, burn incense, and the shop will appear." Shopkeeper Xiao Yan runs the Dream-Granter General Store alongside Huang, a "feifei," and Little Peach, helping customers make thei 595Reads—Score—Shelves
- 14 Born of a Corpse, I Became a Spirit Medium 尸生子，我成了接阴婆 The day I was born, lightning flashed and thunder roared beneath a sky thick with dark clouds. Ninety-nine divine bolts of lightning struck all around our house. My mother cried out and died on the spot, while I was still trapped inside her womb... My grandmother immediately grabbed a kitchen knife, cut open my mother's belly, and lifted me out. From then on, a string of strange events began to unfold!!! 229Reads6.7Score—Shelves
- 15 Pawnshop No. 8 第八号当铺 Legend has it that an ancient, mysterious organization exists in this world: the Eighth Pawnshop. If you can find it, you can obtain anything your heart desires. “Academician Tu, hello. You have three days left to live. Would you like to join our Eighth Pawnshop? Our Eighth Pawnshop is dedicated to world peace, scientific progress, exploring the cosmos, and sailing toward the vast sea of stars. Our Eighth Pawnshop is home to scientists, philosophers, and educators from human history who vanished 362Reads—Score—Shelves
- 16 The Recipient After Death 死后收件人 I'm a courier for a residential complex. Since last month, I've been receiving packages addressed to the dead. An empty apartment building, recipients whose accounts were closed long ago, parcels that no one ever claims. The property manager says I'm seeing things. My coworkers say I've been cursed. The police checked every security camera, but say everything looks normal. That is, until I opened the first package for a dead person. Inside was only a note: [You're next.] 2Reads—Score—Shelves
- 17 Tales of the Strange in Bluestone Alley 青石巷诡事录 [Supernatural] [Light Horror] [Episodic Stories] [Chinese Folk Customs] Deep in Qingzhou’s Qingshi Alley lies a ferry inn unknown to anyone. Its owner, Shen Du, exists beyond life and death. He has survived for a hundred years, all to dispel the obsessions of the departed. Behind every strange and uncanny event that comes to light are debts of humanity buried for a hundred years. A headsman’s rusty blade, a performer’s jade, salt smugglers bringing disaster, a canal guild’s water tokens, a night 3Reads—Score—Shelves
- 18 The Soul-Returning Ledger 还魂帐 On the seventh day after death, the dead return to settle their debts. Funeral director Shen Yantian was born with the ability to see accounts. He audits, weighs, and settles accounts for the dead, at the cost of pawning a memory each time. Until he discovers that the account for the fire that should have killed him three years ago is blank. Someone died in his place. This is my first novel, so the plot moves a little quickly at the beginning. It gets better later on. Thank you for your understa 10Reads—Score185Shelves
- 19 Bone Flute: The Yin-Yang Soul 骨笛之阴阳魄 When Xuan Niantao was born, she was a phoenix egg with no arms or legs. Her father, Xuan Yan, and her mother, Tao Yaor, later sent her to Bai Ting, the leader of the Nine-Tailed Fox clan, for treatment. Bai Ting took her to Lovers' Valley and went into seclusion to heal her. Unfortunately, just as she was about to grow a pair of arms, Peach Blossom Valley suddenly collapsed. Bai Ting died, and by a twist of fate, Niantao ended up in the Yellow Springs. From then on, a little sidekick appeared on 11Reads7.4Score—Shelves
- 20 Chronicles of Wangchuan City 忘川城记 Wangchuan City has three iron laws: The living cannot leave, the dead do not decay, and once the faceless statue in the City God's temple calls out a name, someone will die within three days. Shen Du, an eighteen-year-old corpse collector, has to check his arms every morning when he wakes. They are covered in warnings he carved into his own skin. Some have scabbed over, while others look as if they were carved only moments ago. He can't remember what happened the night before, why he can always 1Reads—Score—Shelves
- 21 Ye Qingyu: The Curse of Yin Birth 夜轻语：阴生诅咒 Ten years ago, things beyond human understanding appeared in this world. They fed on fear and toyed with human souls! No one ever knew what these things really were. They were collectively called the Uncanny. Yet even stranger, one day they suddenly vanished all at once, and no one remembered the disaster. Even fewer remembered that it all began when two girls suddenly went mad on the streets of Chaoyun City… Ten years later, her life began. It might not be perfect, but she still lived with 1Reads—Score—Shelves
- 22 Tales of the Strange 聊斋那些事 Have you ever heard of a plain-language version of Strange Tales from a Chinese Studio? A scholar spends the night in an abandoned house and is welcomed into a beautiful woman's arms, only to discover that her face is a painted skin. A poor young man finds a fox. The fox says, “I’ll marry you, but you must never look at my tail.” At the mass graves outside town, someone tells stories every night. Anyone who listens disappears the next day. Don’t be afraid. These are all stories passed down by ou 3Reads—Score—Shelves
- 23 Exchange No. 9 九号交易所 Chen Xiping inherited a pawnshop that could do anything, and in doing so, discovered the other side of the world. The underworld and the human realm have overlapped. Evil ghosts are invading, and the human world is about to become a living hell… With a pawnshop that grows stronger through trades, he moves between the world of the living and the underworld, gradually uncovering the great secrets lurking beneath a series of hidden schemes, secrets powerful enough to bring down the world at any mom 61Reads8.0Score—Shelves
- 24 A Century of Housebound Echoes, Filled with the Wails of Kin 百年宅响，尽是至亲泣 For a century, the old mansion has echoed with the weeping of kin. —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 25 She Worshipped Her as a Goddess, Then Imprisoned Her Soul 敬她为神，困她为魂 She is revered as a god, yet imprisoned as a soul. —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 26 Strange Tales: Paper Money 诡异杂谈之纸钱 Weird Tales: Paper Money 1Reads—Score—Shelves
- 27 Ghost Ship in the Deep Sea: Witness to the Dead's Obsessions 深海幽灵邮轮：我见证死者的执念 Even kind ghosts can lie, and evil humans can be worse than demons. A luxury cruise ship that vanished without a trace more than twenty years ago drifts across an otherworldly sea, cut off from the rest of the world. Aboard are pitiful ghosts who cannot let go of the people they loved, and evil spirits willing to descend into darkness in pursuit of eternal life. Travel between the world of the living and the ghost ship, fulfill the dead’s final wishes, and search for a missing father. Disappeara 5Reads—Score—Shelves
- 28 The Great Yong's Number One Thief Catcher 大雍第一贼捕 In the Great Yong Dynasty, he had the most valuable pair of hands. There was nothing he couldn't steal: secret palace artifacts, masterpieces by renowned artists, even sealed chambers. That is, until a female constable caught him red-handed at a crime scene one night. The day after the shackles went on, the authorities offered him a way out: solve cases to atone for his crimes. The merit-and-penalty ring on his wrist recorded each case he solved. Every time he used his borrowed authority, anothe 39Reads—Score—Shelves
- 29 The Underworld Taobao Merchant 地府淘宝商 He is the underworld's number-one Taobao merchant. Even the Ten Yama Kings have to call him Boss. 91Reads7.4Score—Shelves
- 30 After the Gods Die, They Ask Me to Carve Their Tombstones 神明死后，请我替祂刻碑 The laws of Great Zhao state: Gods do not die. They merely return to their rightful place. But after Qin Sheng joined the Divine Sealing Bureau, every god he heard was begging him to grant them death. For three hundred years, Qingyang County had worshipped the Green Lantern Lady. Legend said that as long as her lamp stayed lit, disease would never enter. But when Qin Sheng split open the statue, he saw a woman pinned inside its clay body with copper nails. She was not the Green Lantern Lady. Her 1Reads—Score—Shelves
- 31 The Empty Apartment Next Door 没人住的隔壁 The Unoccupied Apartment Next Door 2Reads—Score—Shelves
- 32 Watching People Through a Crack in the Door 《门缝看人》 The Eye at the Door Crack 2Reads—Score—Shelves
- 33 Yin-Yang Collector 阴阳收敛师 Gu Changan was just an undertaker at a funeral home in Jiangcheng, with the ability to see the deceased’s final day whenever he touched them. He had thought his job was simply to tidy the dead and see them through the last leg of their lives. But a series of old cases made him realize that not every restless spirit was born from resentment. Someone was secretly severing the paths of the dead, altering causes of death, and erasing names, turning the deceased into malevolent ghosts wandering among 1Reads—Score—Shelves
- 34 The Last Sand Diver 最后一个淘沙官 [Tomb Raiding]+ [Mystery]+ [Supernatural] There is a group of people in this world who understand the balance of yin and yang, know the past and present, and brave deadly dangers in search of secret treasures buried with dragons, lost cities, and ancient palaces said to house immortals. With their own hands, they piece together fragments of the unknown world. They are the Sand-Seeking Celestial Officials. I am the last inheritor of the Sand-Seeking Celestial Officials, and I have decided to reco 3Reads—Score—Shelves
- 35 Darling? Darling! 亲爱的？亲爱的！ Welcome, everyone, to our Loving Family The blurb can't show off my charm, so just read Chapter One. I'm a new author, and the earlier chapters aren't very good. Please bear with me. I'll try to wrap up the instances quickly and just write romance in the real world instead. I'll be making major revisions to the earlier chapters. Updates will probably come gradually, with around 200,000 words in total. The earlier chapters really aren't good. Start reading from Chapter 60 onward. The earlier part 2Reads—Score—Shelves
- 36 The System Can’t Delete His Last Words 系统删不掉他的遗言 The System Can't Erase His Last Words —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 37 Knocking on the Deep Space, With No Turning Back 叩响深空，从此再无回头路 Knock on the deep reaches of space, and there is no turning back —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 38 Goodnight, My Perfect Doll 晚安，我的完美人偶 Goodnight, My Perfect Doll —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 39 The Pawnshop of the Dead 冥物典当行 Netherworld objects are the belongings of the dead. They carry the habits their owners had in life, along with the resentment and malice they harbored after death. Such objects can accompany ordinary people, causing anything from mental instability to the destruction of entire families. Pawnshops are terrified of getting involved with them. But our shop is different. We specialize in buying this sort of thing, and we even offer a handsome price... 174Reads8.2Score—Shelves
- 40 King of the Occult Arts: Exorcising Demons in the American Horror Universe 诡术之王：我在美恐世界斩妖除魔 After three years of cultivation, Lin Yan was still at the bottom of the food chain in the American Horror world: kept like livestock by vampires, tormented by vengeful spirits, and ultimately killed on a witch’s sacrificial altar. Then he was reborn and awakened the Lin family’s ancestral legacy of occult arts! In his previous life, he had been ignorant. This time, he wielded talismans as blades, peachwood swords as edges, and soul-subduing bells as his guide, using the thousand-year heritage o 174Reads—Score100Shelves
- 41 The Bullied Intern Slaughters Every Villain with Their Own Hands 被霸凌的实习生，亲手屠尽所有恶人 A bullied intern takes it upon himself to slaughter every villain. 1Reads—Score—Shelves
- 42 I Tamed the Paranormal 我把诡异收服了 Born with ghostly eyes, I share a desk with the City Lord of the Underworld. A vengeful female ghost wants me to kiss her, I take in a powerful underworld enforcer, and a princess from a thousand years ago swears an oath with me. Onstage, they sing of sorrow and grief. Beneath the stage, I capture every kind of evil. My name is Zhang Qiang. Watch me run rampant through the Underworld! —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 43 The Yin-Yang Hotel: Waiting for My Bride to Return 阴阳酒店之等我的新娘回来 This is a suspenseful supernatural mystery. Keep reading boldly, and surprises abound! “Where is this place? How did I get here?” Mu Jiuchi walked forward one step at a time. She had no idea what had happened to her or how she had ended up in this unfamiliar place. The darkness all around her made her walk in fear. Then a light appeared ahead, and she headed toward it. The distant light turned out to be coming from a hotel. Mu Jiuchi made her way to the hotel. At the entrance, she saw four 20Reads—Score—Shelves
- 44 Peering into Immortality: The Eye That Sees Through Illusions 窥仙：破妄之眼 Gu Xian, a college student, never imagined that his closest roommate would vanish completely from everyone's memories overnight. His classmates don't remember him, he's missing from the photos, and even their social media history has been erased. Gu Xian is the only person in the world who remembers that he ever existed. At that moment, a pale blue-white light blazed in Gu Xian's eyes. He saw another face of the world: the hidden realm of cultivation, concealed beneath ordinary cities and foreve —Reads—Score182Shelves
- 45 He Hid in a Book and Ate My Secrets 他藏在书里，吃掉了我的秘密 He was hiding in a book, eating my secrets. —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 46 At Twenty, My Sister Sent Me a Photo of a Coffin: Don’t Worry, You’re Next 二十岁，姐姐寄来棺材照：别急，很快就轮到你了 At twenty, a photo of a coffin arrived from my sister: “Don't worry, you'll be next soon.” —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 47 The Germaphobic Detective Is Dragged into a Mechanical Killing Trap by His Mad-Dog Deputy 洁癖探长被疯狗副手拽入机械杀阵 A fastidious detective is dragged into a mechanical killing trap by his rabid deputy. 1Reads—Score—Shelves
- 48 The Midnight Photo Studio: I Take Portraits of the Dead 丑时照相馆：我拍亡魂照 [Use the living soul as a lure, and capture the lingering image of the dead] Hidden in the shadows of the city, the photo studio opens only during the Yin hours. Its owner wields a Republic-era camera, taking portraits of the dead’s fading silhouettes, but the price is a sliver of a living person’s soul. Every photograph is a prison for a departed soul’s obsession: if the obsession remains, the soul is trapped in the photo; if it is resolved, the lamp of rebirth is lit. When a young girl enters —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 49 The Uncanny Cinema: I Can't Even Die, So What Do I Have to Fear? 诡异影院：我都死不了，还怕什么 Wu Xu entered the Curtain Prison World expecting to tread carefully, as if walking on thin ice. He was terrified he might lose his life at any moment. But then, suddenly, he discovered that he was, damn it, actually immortal! And he could even devour the abilities of the uncanny. Friend: Wait, why are you so hard to kill? Colleague: Brother Xu, are you free tonight? No one's home, and I'd like to ask you how to survive in the Curtain Prison. Actress: Wu Xu, where are you? I want to give you my p 67Reads—Score—Shelves
- 50 No Responsibility for Scaring You to Tears 吓哭不负责 [Traditional supernatural tales] [Ghost stories] [Chinese-style horror] [Based on true events] [Reader submissions] [Chilling when you think about it] [Bizarre tales] [Beyond the realm of science] [Plainspoken prose, no literary flourishes] [Just stories] Not for the faint of heart! Don’t read late at night! Folklore, haunted houses, eerie village incidents, urban vengeful spirits, supernatural curses, and even non-supernatural stories that are chilling when you think about them... A collection 24.1kReads9.3Score1.9kShelves
