Novels like The Yin-Walking Incense Master
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- 51 The Ming Dynasty Dream-Eater Chronicles 大明噬梦录 In the tenth year of the Wanli reign, demons and monsters roam behind the lantern-lit streets of Jinling. Tong Yan, a junior official at the Imperial Observatory, finds a strange black cat gravely wounded on a rainy night. With jade-black fur and mismatched eyes, it feeds on nightmares and sees through the demons lurking in people’s hearts. A painted-skin ghost combs her hair night after night, while a seamstress’s fingers are utterly ruined. Hongwu-era coins reappear, and everyone who obtains o —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 52 Luring Her into Sweet Surrender: The CEO's Snake-Husband Bride 诱她沉欢，霸总蛇夫的冲喜新娘 He Huan encountered a spirit snake transforming into a dragon, and that very night, it wrapped itself around her. It took full advantage of her, then shamelessly claimed it was repaying a debt of gratitude. He Huan suffered in silence as the snake clung to her. After her fiancé cheated on her with her despicable stepsister, she married Long Tingye, the notorious playboy of the capital, in a fit of anger. She had heard that Long Tingye had accidentally fallen into the water three years ago and be 46Reads6.2Score—14d adds
- 53 The Fox Tomb’s Fragrant Secret 狐墓生香 [Sweet and angsty] [Mystery] [Supernatural] [Heroine grows stronger] I was born from a corpse. To save me, my grandfather went to our ancestral grave and took an empty spirit tablet. His dying wish was for me to marry the person represented by that empty tablet on my twentieth birthday. Otherwise, he said, he wouldn't rest in peace! But who could have known that someone would claim the tablet, and a handsome white fox would suddenly appear? To stay alive, I was forced onto the path of spirit-med 277Reads—Score—14d adds
- 54 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—14d adds
- 55 A Collection of Bizarre Horror Stories 怪诞恐怖故事集 My stories have magic, blood and tears, the evil side of human nature, and the horror you’re looking for. 1. Mother’s Bottles and Jars: A single drop of blood can turn one grain of rice into a whole pot of rice. A hundred drops can conjure a bicycle... What kind of magic is hidden in the bottles and jars Mother prepared for him? 2. The Toilets in Dreams: If you fall asleep while desperate to pee, you’ve surely dreamed of all kinds of toilets. If you write down the toilets you see in your dreams, 13Reads—Score—14d adds
- 56 Life at a Crossroads 岔路人生 If you could truly live your life over again, would you regret the choices you made? Shen Que never imagined there could be a real answer to that question. That day, the subway stopped at 5:42 p.m. Two people with the same name and the same face, each having lived through twenty-seven years that were almost, but not quite, the same, appeared before him at once. Only then did he learn the truth: Every truly important choice could allow another version of your life to keep going. They weren' —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 57 Foxbound 狐缘 [Fox King + paranormal + funny + sweet romance] After my boyfriend and I made things official, thick black fur suddenly sprouted all over my face. A fox appeared in my dreams and warned me that until I'd paid off my debt, I could forget about dating anyone and getting away from him! To repay what I owed, I became his spirit medium, opened a ritual altar, and helped him attain enlightenment. But he only got more demanding, and even wanted to marry me. “Third Master, I'm cursed and destined to bri 161Reads7.6Score—14d adds
- 58 My Husband Comes from the Netherworld 我的夫君他来自幽冥 I've been unlucky since I was little, bringing misfortune to husbands and children. My father even offered me up to settle the debt he owed to the underworld. When I came of age, he came to claim what was owed under that old contract. From then on, my mother was left on the brink of death, my father disappeared, and one friend after another met with disaster. Evil spirits and demons surrounded me. The man who haunted me night after night chuckled. “Chan'er, you can't escape me.” A bridal process 452Reads7.2Score10014d adds
- 59 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 24.4kReads9.3Score1.9k14d adds
- 60 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—14d adds
- 61 Rift in the Abyss: We Awakened the Old Ones 深渊裂隙：我们唤醒旧日支配者 In 1992, U.S. Army Major Austin takes charge of the top-secret project "Abyss Watch." One hundred and thirty meters beneath the desert, a strange fissure spreads madness into the world above. Five elite soldiers are ordered into the abyss, with Austin directing their investigation remotely. A videotape that appears out of nowhere exposes a horrific secret from the past: To spy on the secrets underground, the military sacrificed living people. A thousand meters below ground, an ancient stone gate —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 62 The Incense of the Underworld 走阴香 [Spirit Medium + Supernatural] The year I turned ten, my grandmother passed away. Not long after, I came down with a strange illness. Days of injections and medicine did no good, and every night I became unusually alert, often babbling incoherently. After five days of continuous fever, my parents had no choice but to take me to the countryside to see a woman they called Auntie, who they said could treat me. Here, “Auntie” didn’t mean a relative on my father’s side. It was the respectful title we 957Reads9.1Score16114d adds
- 63 My Dear Lord of the Underworld 亲爱的阴司大人 In my zodiac year, I followed tradition and wore red underwear. I never expected to break a taboo and get caught up in a mysterious incident. From then on... I became the most sought-after snack for a host of ghosts?! Su Yao: Stick with Brother Yao. Me: So I go hungry nine days out of ten? 81Reads8.9Score—14d adds
- 64 Me, a College Girl: Feasting by Day, Eating Ghosts by Night 我，女大，白天干饭，晚上吃鬼 [Completed] The arrogant Ghost King vs. the forthright college girl, Chinese horror + supernatural + suspense + folk taboos. Have you ever seen an inflated human skin race you? Have you ever encountered a dead person whose mouth gaped wider than a washbasin? Have you ever come across a headless corpse that wanted to hug you? I’ve seen all of them. My name is Qin Sang, a college girl who eats ghosts. But you don’t have to be afraid of me. I’m human, but… the one beside me isn’t. It all began whe 47Reads6.5Score—14d adds
- 65 My Fox Immortal Lord Keeps Blowing His Cover 我家狐仙大人总掉马 One rainy night, office worker Shen Yuyu rescues a badly injured little white fox, unaware that it's actually Jun Linyi, a fox immortal who has cultivated for a thousand years. To repay her kindness, Jun Linyi stays by Shen Yu's side, but mishaps abound as he repeatedly blows his cover. Their peaceful life is shattered by dark forces, and Shen Yu unexpectedly awakens a mysterious power. Together, they delve into the secrets of their past lives, with laughs and danger at every turn... 2Reads—Score—14d adds
- 66 Let Me Say This: You’re Such a Shameless Mystic! 说句母道话：玄学大佬你太流氓！ [Comedy + no manners + ridiculous memes + face-slapping + satisfying read] Shen Li, a sharp-tongued mystic grandmaster from a matriarchal world, transmigrates to a modern patriarchal society and becomes an orphaned, delicate little white flower whose family has been destroyed. The scumbag says, “A good wife helps me achieve my ambitions, and I’ll reward her with a fortune! Can’t you skip the bride price so we can struggle and work hard together first?” Shen Li slaps him across the face. “Your mo —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 67 The Yin Sovereign: The Fox Immortal Arrives 阴天子，狐仙驾到 I was born with an extraordinary destiny, meant to become an emperor. But just after I was born, someone tried to sabotage my fate. To save me, my grandfather gave away the merit accumulated by eighteen generations of our family, and risked his own life to defy the heavens and change my destiny... 5.5kReads7.4Score35114d adds
- 68 I Ferry Souls in the Underworld 我是冥界运魂人 [Standalone Stories + Mild Horror + Folk Legends + Not a Female Powerhouse] When I was born, a fortune-teller said my fate belonged to fire and that I would bring harm to my parents, so they sent me to live with my grandfather in the countryside. Grandfather told me I was someone who wandered between life and death, able to communicate with the living and the dead and guide spirits onward. I suspected the old man had lost his mind, until one day the guardian spirit of our home manifested and tol 42Reads8.9Score—14d adds
- 69 Marry the Phoenix, You! Go Cook Me a Couple of Dishes 嫁凤，你，去给我炒两个菜 [The heroine is clever, neither a saint nor an idiot. The hero isn’t aloof or short-tempered. Lots of jokes, a mutually faithful couple, happy endings for everyone, causes revealed after effects, no substitute trope, a little angst for the hero but none for the heroine, with a touch of past and present lives.] Warnings: The heroine is a strong woman with a feminist outlook, and there are lots of jokes. The romance between the leads has little to do with their past and present lives, but those li 208Reads8.7Score—14d adds
- 70 The Spirit Guide 送灵先生 A madwoman from the neighboring village died, but even in death her eyes wouldn’t close. No matter how many people tried, they couldn’t lift her coffin. The living face trials in life, and the dead face trials in death. An infant who cannot pass the trial between life and death cannot enter the new world. A dead person who cannot pass the trial of death cannot move on, and remains by their loved ones’ side. A sprig of green bamboo summons the spirits; a three-foot spirit banner sends the souls o 16Reads8.9Score—14d adds
- 71 The Brooding Lord Mo’s Cherished Little Wife Is a Mystic 阴郁莫爷霸宠的小娇娇是玄学大佬 [Metaphysics + yandere] Mo Ye of the Imperial Capital is breathtakingly handsome and fabulously wealthy, yet a sinister, obsessive, and violent man. Rumor has it no woman can survive getting within three paces of him. But one day, when Mo Ye returned from an outing, he caused a sensation throughout the entire capital. Because in the arms of that obsessive, sinister, powerful, and domineering man was an adorable, sweet little girl. From then on, he indulged her in every way, granting her every wi 113Reads7.4Score—14d adds
- 72 The Dragon Coffin 龙棺 The day my mother gave birth to me, a dying giant snake frightened her so badly that she started bleeding. In a fit of rage, my father cut off the snake’s head. When I was born, birds and beasts took flight, and countless snakes gathered, surrounding our courtyard so tightly that nothing could get in or out. My grandfather asked a feng shui master to resolve the matter. He buried the giant snake’s remains in our ancestral graveyard, and only then did its resentment subside. Ever since I was old 325Reads8.1Score—14d adds
- 73 The White Dragon Takes a Wife, the Blind Girl Walks by Night 白龙娶妻，盲女夜行 [A quirky, mystical young woman vs. a scheming, black-hearted White Dragon of the East Sea] Ghost hunting and fortune-telling | Supernatural | Suspense | Twists | Fresh premise | Happy ending People said my birth was an ill omen. I couldn't see during the day, but at night I could see things ordinary people couldn't. So when I was three, I left home to live in a temple. Fifteen years later, my family brought me back, and the first thing they told me was that they were going to marry me off. That 40Reads8.5Score—14d adds
- 74 Man-Eating Python 噬人蟒 Man-Eating Python —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 75 The Ghost Fan's Grave: Crossing the Yin-Yang Divide 鬼扇坟之阴阳渡 I saw a ghost for the first time when I was five. Using a ghost fan and a pair of eyes that could see through evil, my grandfather led me into the crack between the worlds of yin and yang. From then on, I became someone who mended fissures, patching up secrets that the living should never see and the dead could never tell. This is a story about eyes that see through evil and a ghost fan, two souls sharing one body and the Six Fiends, sacrifice and protection. From the first ghostly wail in Yinsh 5Reads—Score214d adds
- 76 A Lavish Ghost Marriage: My Husband Is Actually the Great Emperor of Fengdu 冥婚厚爱：我的老公竟是酆都大帝 [Mutual First Love + Sweet Romance + Supernatural] Qiao Nuan was born in a coffin, with pure yin in all four pillars of her birth chart. On the night of her twentieth birthday, a path was cleared by a hundred ghosts, and a bridal sedan chair stopped outside her door. Only then did she learn that the ghost-marriage husband her grandfather had chosen for her at birth, the man in white who had kept her company in her dreams for twenty years and taught her everything she knew, was none other than Fe 2.3kReads6.5Score24314d adds
- 77 Bound by the Snake Husband 蛇夫缠 My life belongs to a snake. From the day I was born, Grandma sold me to a snake. I grew up sleeping in a coffin with snake skin, living as a freak. For the sake of that snake, Grandma taught me to be a shaman healer and save others, though I could never save myself. It wasn’t until I received my first patient on the day I came of age that I finally learned what Grandma and the snake had traded… 660Reads8.5Score10214d adds
- 78 Someone New Appeared in the Footage 录像里多出一个人 The test shoot’s discarded footage was four seconds longer. Everyone in the frame held the same poses they had at the end of filming. No one moved. I counted three times. There were six people every time. But only five people had been there that day. On the hard drive my mother left behind, there was an empty folder with a four-character name: Do Not Fast-Forward. In the recycle bin was a deleted video, four minutes and twenty-five seconds long, which couldn’t be recovered. Our production crew w 2Reads—Score—14d adds
- 79 I Am a Personal Effects Organizer 我是遗物整理师 No one would do the job of sorting through people’s belongings after they died, even for money, but young Chen Jiaren dares to take it on! She earns a living while beating up bad guys and putting evil people in their place. The story is incredibly satisfying! Mystery + deduction + no System + golden finger The heroine is focused on saving money 102Reads7.4Score—14d adds
- 80 Coming for My Life on the Seventh Night? I Can Command the Most Ominous Creatures 头七索命？我能御大凶之物 Anyone who makes money from the dead knows there are three kinds of corpses you must never handle. First, don’t take the bodies of people who died violently or are missing limbs. Such corpses carry baleful energy, damage your fortune, and bind you to karmic debts. Second, don’t take a corpse that has been left unattended for seven days after death. After seven days, the flesh has begun to decay and the soul has nowhere to settle. Disturb it, and you may find yourself haunted by evil things. Thir 226Reads—Score—14d adds
- 81 On Our Wedding Night, My Scheming Husband Held Me and Whispered Sweetly 新婚夜，腹黑老公抱着我低声轻哄 My name is Lu Xiyu, and I come from a family of haunted-house sleep testers. I once took a high-paying job: spend one night sleeping in a hilltop villa, and walk away with a hefty fee. Who could have guessed that testing the bed would turn into being bedded? There really was a ghost in that huge villa bed! It feared neither daylight nor talismans, and kept me entangled with it until dawn! 28Reads6.5Score—14d adds
- 82 Hunting Ghosts and Subduing Demons to Earn Merit: The Metaphysics Expert, Give Me a Hug 捉鬼降妖攒功德玄学大佬抱抱我 [Medium with Yin-Yang Eyes, Spirit-Guide, Supernatural Livestreaming, Episodic Stories, Lifespan-Extension Plot, Fated Couple] Shocking news! The second young master of Nancheng's most powerful family has found a country girl to treat his brother, who is gravely ill! As soon as the news broke, high society waited to see Nancheng turned upside down. No one knew that the country girl was the only spirit-guide in the world. She had come to Nancheng to fulfill her master's dying wish: “Go down the m 23Reads6.6Score—14d adds
- 83 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 9Reads—Score—14d adds
- 84 Is This the Funeral Parlor? 是那间丧葬店吗？ A funeral goods shop that looks completely out of place has suddenly opened on a bustling shopping street. It keeps its doors shut during the day and opens for business by night. Qi Shiwu, born at an hour of yin, accidentally becomes a shop assistant. What connection could she have to this place? Follow Shiwu as she opens the shop’s doors! “Shh! A customer’s here!” 97Reads—Score—14d adds
- 85 The Serpent Lord Has Arrived: Master, Don’t Crave Me 蛇君驾到：爷，别馋我 This novel features the supernatural, an arrogant and calculating male lead, a devoted couple with no other partners, and emotional torment for both leads. I was born beneath a sky filled with rosy clouds, ablaze with every color, and blessed with auspicious signs. My grandmother was a shaman, so she read my fate and cast the divination. The result was astonishing: I was destined to become an empress. When I was seven, I fell seriously ill. A wise master advised that I form a bond with the Snake 202Reads6.8Score—14d adds
- 86 Your Highness, Your Princess Consort Is Reading Fortunes Again 王爷，你家王妃又骗卦了 As a fortune-telling little princess consort, she can not only bring luck to her husband but also take on vicious rivals. She can bend and adapt, yet this scheming prince always seems to keep her on the back foot. One day, the prince learns that his little princess consort has gone out again to tell fortunes with another handsome man... With an air of wicked menace, he grabs her and asks, “Why don’t you tell fortunes for me? Tell me how long I measure...” The little princess consort looks nervou 73Reads—Score—14d adds
- 87 I'm a Little Spirit Medium 我是小神婆 [Mysticism + supernatural + crime-solving + powerful protagonist + resolving mysteries + hidden origins + folk customs] I'm an abandoned baby, picked up from a trash can by my shaman grandmother. Growing up under her influence, I always wanted to become an even more powerful shaman than she was. Because of my unusual fate, strange and bizarre things, sometimes terrifyingly uncanny, are always happening around me... What happened to the female ghost who fell in love with someone else's body? Did 1Reads—Score—14d adds
- 88 All Those Years I Took on Commissions 我做委托的那些年 Mother-and-child temple demons? Jumping corpses from mountain villages? Flying-head demons? Strange monsters and spirits? A ghostly bride? No, they’re all props and actors! An analysis of human nature? A tragic life? A bittersweet romance? No, they’re all just scripts! Is this the male lead’s real-life experience? No, it’s a microfilm! If you don’t understand my Daoist arts, then I happen to know a few moves myself! 4Reads7.6Score—14d adds
- 89 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 26Reads—Score—14d adds
- 90 The Soul Ferryer Between Yin and Yang 阴阳渡魂人 Soul-snatching ghost weddings, bathroom hauntings, the legend of the red-clad senior, Thai black magic, ghost soldiers borrowing the road, man-eating mountain demons, nightmare fiends that enter your dreams, the mystery of the headless woman, a bizarre bride in an escape room, vengeful child spirits, games that summon ghosts, human organ trafficking, a shocking exhibition of human deformities, and long-lost Maoshan secrets... Do these things send a chill down your spine? - The truth is, this wor 180Reads9.2Score10214d adds
- 91 My Spirit Fox Immortal Wife 灵狐仙妻 [Spirit Fox + Immortal Lord Mentor + Spirit Medium + Sweet Romance] [This novel is complete] The day I was born, the sky was thick with dark clouds, and lightning flashed and thunder roared, but not a drop of rain fell. The moment I came into the world, a blood-red moon suddenly appeared in the sky. When the blood moon rises, monsters are born! From then on, my family treated me as a monster. Years later, after I started working, I learned that Grandma didn’t have long to live. Before she died, 159Reads7.5Score—14d adds
- 92 The Dragon King’s Most Yin Bride 龙王大人的至阴新娘 I was born with an extremely yin nature, and the village shaman found me in a graveyard. I was frail and sickly from childhood. To keep me safe, my grandmother, the shaman, made a blood pact with a fox spirit, but the pact backfired and left her gravely injured because of me. Just as I was at a loss for what to do, a man who could transform into a Azure Dragon appeared. He claimed we had been bound by fate for a long time, and he protected me from disaster, calling me his “little bride,” yet he 69Reads—Score—14d adds
- 93 The Bride I Brought Home Was Dead 媳妇领回来的，是个死人 The woman he brought home was a dead person. —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 94 Ghost Soldiers in the Mountains 山间有鬼兵 Ghost Soldiers in the Mountains 1Reads—Score—14d adds
- 95 Guardians of the Lake: Ghost Ship in the Mist, Season One 守湖人雾中鬼船第一季 The Lake Keeper: Ghost Ship in the Fog, Season One 1Reads—Score—14d adds
- 96 Guardians of the Lake: Don't Board the Fog Boat, Season Two 守湖者，莫登雾.船第二季 Guardians of the Lake: Do Not Board the Fog Boat, Season Two —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 97 The Fox Seeks a Wife 狐讨妻 When I was born, I fell gravely ill. To save my life, my father sold me to a white-haired fox. Fifteen years later, the fox came to collect its debt and demanded I repay it by becoming its disciple. From then on, I began encountering all kinds of bizarre things I could never have imagined. I thought the fox and I had nothing more than a simple debt to settle, but later I discovered a shocking secret hidden beneath it all. 415Reads9.0Score10014d adds
- 98 One Hundred Thousand and One Folk Horror Stories 十万零一个民间恐怖故事 A collection of short horror stories in an episodic format, with a new story every chapter. No dragging things out! Haunted houses in the countryside, mountain spirits, urban legends, old customs and taboos... Every kind of Chinese-style horror is covered, with nonstop thrills and no filler. Anti-superstition disclaimer: This story is entirely fictional. Believe in science and read rationally. Please don’t apply it to real life~ 291Reads—Score1014d adds
- 99 Taking My Demon Wife to Guide Spirits Across 带着妖妻去渡灵 The new book, This Enchanting Spirit Takes Me Ghost-Hunting, is now available! In this vast world, there are countless things beyond belief. Over the course of a long life, everyone is bound to encounter something unclean, and even many years later, the memory can remain vivid… When I was ten, I got lost in the mountains with my chubby friend because we were fooling around. That was when my life began to change dramatically. From then on, armed with my thousand-year-old demon wife, an incomplete 14Reads—Score—14d adds
- 100 The Dragon King's Wife 龙王妻 My name is Fu Ling. Everyone in the village calls me a ghost child because my mother is a corpse. On the fifteenth day of the seventh lunar month, when the gates of the underworld opened, I began dreaming of the Black and White Impermanence coming to fetch me in a bridal sedan. I also encountered all kinds of supernatural events: paper effigies that ate people, a cat-faced woman, and a fox demon. I even met a powerful male demon. He said I would only survive if I married him... 26Reads6.5Score—14d adds
