Novels like The Yin-Walking Incense Master
Books Chinese readers most often put in the same booklists as The Yin-Walking Incense Master, best match first.
- 1 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—14d adds
- 2 A Wedding Invitation Made of Human Skin 人皮婚笺 To escape a violent man, I hid inside a coffin in a mass grave, only to unexpectedly sign a marriage contract with a ghost. From that day on, he appeared in my dreams every night. The birthmark that had suddenly appeared on my neck burned day after day, and I could see the deathly aura surrounding everyone around me. No one can escape the cause and effect that governs life and death, just like that bone-chilling encounter on that night. A lonely girl weeping in the night, nightmares in the women 78Reads8.1Score10014d adds
- 3 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—14d adds
- 4 The Underworld King’s Marriage Pact 冥王婚契 He took her home and raised her, doting on her all the while. As she grew up, he gradually fell for her. In her previous life, she saved his life with the blood from her heart. But on their wedding night, she died in his arms. Afterward, he used the blood from his own heart to sustain her body for thirty thousand years. Once he had made all the arrangements, he went to the mortal world and peacefully stayed by her side until the end of her life. This time, she truly forgot him. - The earlie 3.6kReads8.4Score27614d adds
- 5 Dragon God, Send Your Proposal, and I’ll Take the Sedan Chair 龙神请聘，夫人上轿 [A touch of mystery, the supernatural, and possessiveness. Marriage before love. Plot first, romance second. Sweet and sugary.] Born at noon, fated to yin, a thunderclap shakes the world. My birth was said to herald disaster. The villagers feared me, and my parents hated me. So, when I was just a month old, my father threw me into the mountains to fend for myself. Thankfully, my grandmother saved me. She told me that, to keep me alive, she had promised me in marriage to the Dragon God… 12Reads—Score—14d adds
- 6 Fox-Demon Blood, Corpse Fragrance, and Ghosts Around My Waist 狐妖血，阴尸香，百鬼缠腰 My name is Jiang Li. I’m twenty years old, and I’ve been dead for twenty years. The day I was born, my mother died in childbirth, and after her death, she gave birth to me in a mass grave. The spirit medium said, “A stillborn child of extreme yin, carrying the scent of corpses and drawing every ghost to feed.” Twenty years later, a fox spirit came to take a bride, and the door to the uncanny world swung wide open for me. Fox spirit Luo Baichen: “Be good, my bride. Call me your husband.” Green sn 17Reads—Score—14d adds
- 7 The Yin-Yang Makeup Master 阴阳点妆匠 A family upheaval changed my worldview, and I became a makeup artisan. From then on, human calamities and ghosts swirled around me. What was the truth? What was genuine affection? It was as if a veil of mist always kept me from seeing clearly. A makeup artisan... The tombs she tends belong to families that did good deeds and whose descendants will enjoy lasting blessings. The faces she adorns are those of people whose humanity still awaits reincarnation. The word “artisan” carries a profound mea 1Reads7.1Score—14d adds
- 8 Ancestral Secret Arts: I Alone Subdue a Hundred Ghosts 祖传秘术：我一人镇百鬼 In 1999, on the eve of the new century, a young man named Lu Ming drowned during a bizarre outing to the countryside. Yet his soul did not depart. Instead, it was drawn by a mysterious force back to his old home in a remote mountain village. He discovered that this seemingly ordinary ancestral home was actually a secret base belonging to the Yin-Yang Lu Clan, a family whose secrets had been passed down for generations. The Lu family were reclusive heirs to arts such as divination, exorcism and t —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 9 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—Score18514d adds
- 10 The Snake Wife 阴蛇妻 My name is Su Xue. I was slow to develop as a child, and I’m not very smart. My grandpa was a Yin-Yang Master. Out of a moment of kindness, he saved someone, but a snake spirit tricked him, leading to my grandma’s tragic death. In his fury, he burned every snake on the entire back mountain. To avoid revenge from the Snake Venerable of the serpent clan, he sent me straight to a psychiatric hospital, then vanished with my parents. They say that before the mentally ill, all evil spirits are nothing 227Reads—Score—14d adds
- 11 Forbidden Tales of the Desolate Village: A Midnight Whistle, and a Shrouded Corpse Spirit at the Door 荒村禁忌：夜半吹哨，白布尸魂找上门 Taboos of the Abandoned Village: A Whistle in the Dead of Night, and a White-Cloth Corpse Spirit Comes Calling —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 12 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—14d adds
- 13 The Snake Queen 蛇王女 When I was eighteen, I was offered as a sacrifice to a snake. Only much later did I learn that I held a shocking secret. Because of it, all manner of monsters and demons, practitioners of the mystic arts, and mysterious figures from every corner of the world wanted to get their hands on me… To protect myself, I had no choice but to cling to Lord Snake, who had protected and helped me all along. I thought he truly cared for me, but I never imagined he would be the one to push me into the abyss wi 87Reads—Score—14d adds
- 14 After Divorcing, the Real Heiress Became Famous Through Livestream Fortune-Telling 真千金离婚后，靠直播算命爆火了 Bai Yue, a gifted master of the mystical arts and the Bai family’s rejected biological daughter, was married off to a scumbag as soon as she returned, all because she owed someone a favor. Her fake younger sister, Bai Mengya, caused one disaster after another, wailing and carrying on about wanting to be with the scumbag. Bai Yue refused to put up with them. She divorced him in a flash and left the two of them together for good. Everyone expected her, unloved by either parent, to live a miserable 60Reads7.2Score—14d adds
- 15 Codename: Bone Butterfly 代号骨蝶 A young woman's body is pulled from a cold riverbank. The police's preliminary conclusion: accidental drowning. When the victim's twin sister, the sharp and composed forensic pathologist Ye Shuyun, touches the body that looks so much like her own, professional instinct cuts through her grief in an instant: abnormal fluid in the lungs, a hidden needle mark, a missing kidney... This was no accident! The victim was her younger sister, Ye Shuya, an investigative journalist determined to expose socie 16Reads6.8Score—14d adds
- 16 You Found Me 你找到我了 Modern Supernatural + Female-Led + Fresh Premise + All-Rounder + Wild Imagination + Reincarnation + Spirit Speech + Runes and Formations + Fictional Modern Setting + Pure Wish Fulfillment in the Middle and Later Parts Abandoned and cast out? No. Her god reincarnates for her, life after life. Following the usual formula and old clichés? No. The Heavenly Dao is nothing to her. An ordinary girl dealing with a life that’s a complete mess? No. Other people are the ordinary ones. She is the unique one 5Reads—Score—14d adds
- 17 Pleasure with a Snake 与蛇欢 When I was eight, my father burned a nest of snakes, and the whole Su family suffered retribution. To save my life, I was forced to make a marriage pact with a Fox Immortal. Now that I'm eighteen, a snake has forcibly destroyed my engagement and demanded that I become his wife and spirit medium. Karmic debts must be repaid, and love and resentment are tangled together. Caught between two immortal beings, I have nowhere to turn. Infant spirits come for my life, and people are sacrificed to serve 120Reads9.0Score2214d adds
- 18 The Embroidered Shoes of Death 死亡绣花鞋 I have a friend who dreamed he was getting intimate with a beautiful woman. The next morning, he woke up in a mass grave with a female corpse beside him! My name is Luo Tianlin, and I’m an antiques dealer who specializes in collecting antiques that have “gained a spirit.” The drum used to take the dead as concubines; the bloodsucking jade bracelet; the Book of Life and Death that calls the roll, and more. I want them all! 89Reads—Score—14d adds
- 19 Come One, Come All! The Dragon-Taming Bride Is Taking Students 快来人啊，驯龙小娘子开班啦 At first, Ye Liangyu thought: “I've heard Western dragons love to plunder beautiful women and treasures. Our own dragons surely aren't that vulgar, right? Hmm... yes!” “Who says I don't like those things?” Su Qing said with a knowing smile. Boom! Ye Liangyu's face turned red all the way to her ears. She stamped her foot in anger. “Boss Su! If you use your mind-reading powers on me again, I'm going on strike! Strike!” Later, standing in Su Qing's vast, smoke-like treasure vault, she had to admit 2Reads—Score114d adds
- 20 The Village Yin Ferrywoman 乡村渡阴人 Paranormal + Episodic Stories + Rural Folklore and Strange Tales + Folk Ghost Stories + Chinese-Style Horror + Yin-Yang Eyes + Heartwarming Paranormal Fiction Chen Jiujin, a farmer with a fate that attracts evil spirits, takes his little daughter, who can see ghosts, from village to village to settle the unfinished affairs of wronged souls and wandering ghosts in the world of the living. —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 21 Strange Tales: Paper Money 诡异杂谈之纸钱 Weird Tales: Paper Money 1Reads—Score—14d adds
- 22 Who Understands? Hated by People for My Powerful Fate, Loved by Ghosts 谁懂？命格太硬遭人厌却讨鬼喜欢 [Past and Present Lives] [Ghost Hunting] [Mild Horror] [Mutual Devotion] [Ghost Wife of the King of the Underworld] [Born Under an Unlucky Star, a True Reincarnated Saintly Mother x Ultimate Simp, a True Gloomy Ghost] A fortune-teller said I was born with a hard fate and would bring misfortune to my parents, so I was orphaned before I was even a month old. I thought I'd be alone for the rest of my life, but who knew a ghost would force me into marriage! From then on, I could see ghosts, and my 7Reads—Score—14d adds
- 23 The Snake's Wrath: I Invited the Underworld Lord In 蛇缠鬼怒：我把冥君请进门 My name is Xie Tianyi, and I’m the only girl born in several generations of the Xie family. Snakes often show up around our home, and the villagers all call me the Snake Girl. After I was attacked by a swarm of snakes, my parents forbade me from going out. Even after I got into university, they made me take a leave of absence and stay home. That was how I ended up confined to the house. Two years later, when I turned twenty, strange things began happening one after another. My family members kep 20Reads—Score—14d adds
- 24 The Temple That Eats People 吃人的庙 The Man-Eating Temple 1Reads—Score—14d adds
- 25 Identity Exposed: The Fake Heiress Uses Fortune-Telling to Join the Elite 身份曝光：假千金她靠算命翻身成豪门 A powerful cultivator failed her tribulation and ended up in the body of a fake heiress, cast out by a wealthy family and mocked across the internet. Everyone was waiting for Gu Ci to lose her heiress status and beg for help in despair. Instead, a parade of powerful figures started begging to join her livestream: A real estate tycoon: “Something keeps going wrong with my new development. Master, help!” A top-tier star: “Me, me, me! I feel like my essence is being drained every day! Help!” A bill 2.7kReads8.8Score28314d adds
- 26 I'm a Ghost Officer in the Underworld 姐在地府当鬼差 [Mysticism, ridiculous laughs, mildly spooky supernatural elements, a powerful and devoted couple, episodic stories] Legend has it that there is a city in the Underworld called the City of Unjust Deaths. Those who died unjustly, whether they have grudges left unresolved or wishes yet unfulfilled, can submit their cases to the Bureau. Only after their grievances are settled and their obsessions dispelled can they enter Fengdu in the Underworld and pass through the six paths of reincarnation. Almo 45Reads8.0Score—14d adds
- 27 Opening the Sparrow Gate 开雀门 While my mother was carrying me, I was sitting upright in her womb. The doctors all said the birth would be difficult, but my grandmother traded my life to a spirit messenger. My Xuanwu even went so far as to strip off his skin and bones for me! My relatives sought out one master after another to protect me, but sadly, they all said the good fortune I was born with was nowhere near enough to keep me alive. If I wanted to survive, I had no choice but to embark on the path of cultivation. From Sha 30Reads7.1Score—14d adds
- 28 I Knocked Over an Incense Burner and Got Tangled Up With a Thousand-Year-Old Ghost King! 碰倒香炉后，被千年鬼君缠上了！ The third time she was pinned down by a ghost in the middle of the night, Ma Xuemei threw off the covers. “Keep pretending! It’s the only trick you’ve got!” As the last “unofficial” shrine keeper of the Ma family, she never imagined that the dusty, broken incense burner in her family’s storeroom could actually be home to a living ancestor. Xie Yuan, a thousand-year-old ghost lord who had awakened inside the burner, had one simple wish after being roused: to find some fun. And the young woman in 4.2kReads8.7Score58114d adds
- 29 I Am a Young Master of the Tang Dynasty 我乃大唐公子 A remote ancient town seals away a thousand-year-old ghost. When I set foot in this land, the seal breaks, and a tragic love spanning a thousand years begins. “Hello, young master.” “Goodbye, young master.” 152Reads8.2Score10414d adds
- 30 Shadows in the Mountain Mist 迷山雾影 Have you ever seen a monster? A creature that exists only in legend... Suddenly appearing in the human world, thirsting for blood and slaughter, treating human lives like ants... In ancient times, whenever a "heavenly dog devoured the moon," people would bang drums and gongs, hoping to drive away the dog eating the moon... Today, human satellites roam through space, and humans have even set foot on that bright moon hanging in the sky, going so far as to declare that its surface is unsuitable for 980Reads8.2Score11714d adds
- 31 Grandma's Yin-Yang Eyes 奶奶的阴阳眼 When I was little, I didn’t understand anything. I just thought it was fun. I remember when Second Grandma died, even Second Grandpa, who slept beside her, didn’t know. But Grandma woke Dad up and told him to go pay his respects... 652Reads7.8Score10314d adds
- 32 Welcome to the Global Wonderland of the Bizarre 欢迎来到全球怪诞乐园 [You have never entered a strange-tale realm like this before] [This is an adventure game that spans dimensions] [This is a collection of mind-bending stories beyond the limits of scientific understanding] [This is an unusual and uncanny book unlike any other] [Welcome to: The Global Wonderland of the Bizarre!] 10Reads—Score—14d adds
- 33 Why Mess With Her? The Cultivation Expert Tears Evil Spirits Apart with Her Bare Hands 惹她干嘛？修仙大佬她徒手撕厉鬼 [Two powerful leads + reborn + modern cultivation + supernatural ghost hunting + underdog comeback] Jiang Nian, who had traveled through countless planes in the quick-transmigration worlds, returned to her original first life with her skills maxed out! In that life, she was the wicked fake heiress, a stepping stone for the male and female leads’ romance, and a disposable pawn whose legs were broken before she met her end! Reborn this time, with spiritual energy in her left hand and talismans in 6.4kReads—Score1.6k14d adds
- 34 From the Start, I Took My Colleagues Back to Town 开局带着同事回镇 I grew up in Luoyin Town, but when I was six, I fled the ancient town overnight with my family. The town's baleful energy sealed away all my memories of it, leaving only scattered fragments of terrifying nightmares. My parents vanished mysteriously many years ago, leaving behind just one final warning: Never return to the mountains, and never touch anything red. To uncover the truth behind their disappearance, I follow the clues in a fragmentary ancient text and return to Luoyin Town. I am the o —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 35 The Empty Apartment Next Door 没人住的隔壁 The Unoccupied Apartment Next Door —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 36 Watching People Through a Crack in the Door 《门缝看人》 The Eye at the Door Crack 2Reads—Score—14d adds
- 37 This Is the Age of Ghosts 这是鬼的时代 I'm a complete newcomer, so please be kind! This is a special shop in a special world. And this special shop has a special owner. This is the story of the owner's life in a very special line of work. 9Reads—Score—14d adds
- 38 Grandpa Started the Trouble, Three Generations Must Pay 爷爷闯下的祸，三代来还 The trouble Grandpa caused will take three generations to repay. 3Reads—Score—14d adds
- 39 The Wicked Husband’s Seduction 邪夫撩人 I was born on the night of the Hungry Ghost Festival. From that day on, strange things kept happening in my village, and the people around me died one after another. To stay alive, I fled into the Dragon King Temple. When I came out, I found myself haunted by an invisible man... (Traditional supernatural horror + mind-bending mystery + realism) 167Reads7.4Score—14d adds
- 40 The Beautiful and Daring Female Yin-Yang Master 女阴阳师她又美又飒 My name is Leng Weining. I was an orphan from the day I was born, and I grew up with my grandmother in the countryside. I've always been different from other people. I can see things that no one else can, and that has brought plenty of trouble into my life. Seeing how much these things tormented me, my grandmother was deeply worried. Then one day, a handsome man in plain clothes appeared at our door. He rubbed my head and said solemnly, “Your granddaughter was born with Yin-Yang Eyes. If she's p 26Reads—Score—14d adds
- 41 Living Human Pillar 活人桩 Bridge and road construction inevitably disrupts the local feng shui. If a malign force is encountered, an expert must be called in to counter evil with evil at the site of the incident, driving two living human stakes into the ground. 650Reads8.7Score10014d adds
- 42 Goddess Reborn, Snake Immortal Wife 神女转世，蛇仙妻 An early work, an experiment. A girl born under an ill-starred fate, destined to be a goddess, with two immortals, a snake and a fox, circling around her, while the Ghost King of Kunlun fights to protect her to the death. I was born with a snake-shaped tattoo. It brought me plenty of benefits, but also some unpleasant consequences. My parents never let me get too close to boys, but when I hit puberty, I still broke that rule. Ever since then, a man has appeared in my dreams every single night... 5Reads8.0Score314d adds
- 43 The Ominous Coffin 凶棺 It all started with a coffin that floated up from the river... I thought it was a fortune dropped from the sky, but it turned out to be a disaster. After I pried open the coffin, I began to feel that something unclean had followed me home. My daughter grew stranger by the day. She was only three, yet she had already started developing! 121Reads—Score—14d adds
- 44 After My Face Was Stolen, I Drew the Six Realms of Living Beings 我的脸被夺走后我画出六道众生相 My face was stolen. It wasn’t disfigured. It wasn’t disguised. My face was literally gone. To stay alive, I had no choice but to paint one new face after another onto my own. Human, ghost, demon, beast, god, immortal. Every face I painted gave me a new ability. As I tried to reclaim my original face, I gradually discovered that this world was far more complicated than it seemed. 96Reads—Score12614d adds
- 45 An Unbroken Serpent Marriage: The Snake Lord Is Too Fierce 阴缘不断：蛇夫太凶猛 When I was ten, I hurt a snake. More than a decade later, it came back for revenge, and strange things began happening around me… It all began that night when I caught a ride with the guy of my dreams… 68Reads6.4Score—14d adds
- 46 Subduing Evil 镇邪 There are always mysterious things in this world, yet people dismiss them as nonsense. Miaojiang gu poison, corpse-driving in western Hunan, Nanyang curses, the Flowerfall Cave Maiden, shamanic sorcery, and yin-yang demons are all forbidden taboos. You don't have to believe in them, but you must remain in awe. Above all, never profane them! When the taboo soul bell rings out in the sky and ancient horrors quietly awaken, the world teeters on the brink of disaster. Will there still be someone who 628Reads6.2Score—14d adds
- 47 My Dragon King 我的龙王大人 Every night, I have that kind of dream. Not with a person. That thing presses tightly against me, its long, serpentine tail coiling around me and sliding over every inch of my body! Wherever its scales pass, it feels like an ice blade cutting into my flesh. It hurts, and I can't even scream. All I can do is endure the stabbing pain and shiver in the cold, until at last its icy tail tightens around me and suffocates me to death! Until that day… 80Reads7.0Score—14d adds
- 48 In This Life, I Shall Suppress Yin and Yang 这一世，镇压阴阳 [Urban high-martial arts, reincarnation and rebirth, one heroine, a touch of the supernatural, lighthearted and passionate.] In their previous lives, he was an orphan, and she was a ghost. An orphan and a ghost, from meeting and understanding each other to relying on and keeping one another company. Then, their feelings quietly blossomed, and they became lovers... after overcoming countless hardships. But what happy ending has there ever been for a human and a ghost in love? Every union between 12Reads—Score114d adds
- 49 Strange Tales from the Folk 民间吊诡故事 [An ensemble cast] [Multiple protagonists and storylines] [A wild imagination] [Mystery] [Conspiracies] [Open schemes] [Political machinations] Pangu split the earth with his axe. Fuxi and Nuwa established marriage customs. Chiyou and the Yellow Emperor fought for the throne of the gods, only for the battle to end in defeat at Mount Buzhou. After a century of war between gods and demons, the Yellow Emperor abdicated, taking the blame. Humanity gained gods, then lost them, and so a new tale of cr 17Reads—Score—14d adds
- 50 The Haunting of the New Home 搬家诡事 [Mystery + Thriller + Supernatural + Horror + No Female Lead + Smart Protagonist] His name was Yi Jibo. After he was wrongfully imprisoned, his mother fell ill and died. To pay off his gambling debts, his father sold her ashes to the Japanese through a crematorium driver. To get his mother's ashes back, Yi Jibo went to work at a Japanese funeral home. And so he burned Japanese corpses while searching for his mother's ashes… 19Reads—Score—14d adds
