Novels like The Little Fortune-Teller
Books Chinese readers most often put in the same booklists as The Little Fortune-Teller, best match first.
- 51 The Yin-Yang Ghost Hunter 阴阳捉鬼道神 (Supernatural + suspense + urban + wildly satisfying power fantasy) Heaven and earth shatter as one man, like a demon god, cleaves the sky and splits the land. In the age of declining magic, Ye Yi, an orphan, is taken in by Tianjizi. He steps into the bustling city carrying a jade pendant as his token. Spiritual qi revives like a rising tide, and fortune gathers like a raging flood. He seizes opportunities, battles the demons and monsters of the mortal world, subdues the fiends of the immortal r 33Reads—Score—Shelves
- 52 Strange Tales of Houqiu 厚邱怪谈 This is a novel only those who have truly seen ghosts can understand. When water reaches the brim, it spills; when the moon is full, it wanes. If you learn too many of the world’s secrets, the only person you’ll hurt in the end is yourself. Some people are born able to see strange things, or to experience what ordinary people never do. Such people are either born with a defect or destined for a difficult life. So, would you be willing to have a pair of Yin-Yang Eyes? 1Reads—Score—Shelves
- 53 The Heaven-Chosen Daoist Maiden 天命女道 [Supernatural horror, no romance, mystery and imagination] The tags are wrong and I can't change them. Sorry, everyone!! What could the Chief God of the Underworld be planning by reincarnating as a village girl in a remote mountain valley? Lin Qinghe has been able to see all kinds of spirits since she was little. A Taoist who roamed the land placed a seal on her, but fate cannot be denied. After more than a decade of ordinary life, the seal is unexpectedly broken while Lin Qinghe is in high scho 163Reads—Score—Shelves
- 54 After I Dug Up a Grave, the Whole Village Begged for My Forgiveness! 挖坟后，全村人跪求我原谅！ After I dug up the grave, the entire village begged me to forgive them! 2Reads—Score—Shelves
- 55 My Days at the Funeral Parlor 我在白事铺的那些事 I'm the owner of a funeral supplies shop. On the surface, the name says it all: I run a funeral business. But my real job is helping the government eliminate every kind of paranormal phenomenon. Ghost kings, great demons, zombies: that's all child's play. There are far too many strange and bizarre phenomena that ordinary people have never even heard of. Let's explore this future full of the unknown together. —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 56 The Celestial Observatory: Reborn as the Changing Line 观天局：重生之爻 Five people returned from the Republic of China era, but only one was reborn! One of them has two people hidden inside their body: one in the open, one in the shadows; one wants to live, one is waiting. Lu Zhiwei opened his eyes inside the Suolong Well, his mind full of memories from the Republic of China era. He went down the mountain to attend university and found a feng shui shop called Guantian Studio behind the campus. Its owner was an old man who brewed Pu’er tea that nobody ever drank. L 37Reads—Score—Shelves
- 57 The Metaphysical Mom of the '90s: Reborn to Protect Her Child, a Spirit Fox Guards the Home 九零玄学妈：重生护崽灵狐守家 Period, metaphysics, main plot plus standalone stories, Northeast China, folk customs, healing Zhang Xiuying is reborn on a snowy night in 1990. In her arms is her youngest daughter, burning with fever. Behind her are three children, thin as skeletons. In her previous life, she was timid and submissive, and her family was ultimately destroyed. In this life, she kicks open the bully’s door and rushes into the blizzard with her children. Four kids, one fox, one family. In this life, no one will la 2Reads—Score—Shelves
- 58 The Ninefold Celestial Master 九转天师 Maoshan is another name for the Shangqing School. Since it is based on Mount Mao, it is also called the Maoshan School. Maoshan arts are fierce and domineering, renowned for the Three Mao traditions: Upper, Middle, and Lower. They are considered the foremost of the Daoist methods, and flourished from the Southern Liang dynasty through the Northern Song. After the Northern Song, many lineages spread among the common people, with the Luofu Maoshan School becoming the most famous. Also known as Sou 143Reads—Score—Shelves
- 59 Heaven’s Secrets Must Not Be Revealed, Unless You Pay Extra 天机不可泄露，除非加钱 [Master comes down from the mountain + fortune-telling + making money + hiding his strength while acting harmless + urban comedy] I came down from the mountain to tell fortunes. My fees are over a hundred million yuan, and every secret of fate I reveal doubles the price! Other people trade money for their lives. I trade heavenly secrets for money. My name is Chen Ping'an. I studied on Mount Zhongnan for ten years, and before my master died, he warned me again and again: Reveal the secrets of fat 7Reads—Score—Shelves
- 60 A Story Sparked by a Feng Shui Charlatan 一个风水神棍引发的故事 An ordinary person stumbles by chance onto the path of studying fate and feng shui. After a life of great ups and downs, he finds a master and becomes a master of the Daoist arts. What kinds of opportunities will he encounter as he walks the path of slaying demons and eliminating evil... [In the early chapters, drawing on the author’s personal experience studying feng shui and fate-reading, this book will show you how to choose books and get started.] 461Reads—Score104Shelves
- 61 The Yin Corpse Ghost Physiognomist 阴尸鬼相 I never imagined that simply returning to my village to attend a strange funeral would somehow get me stuffed into a coffin... From then on, my life changed completely, and I became what people call a “yin corpse ghost visage”! 2Reads—Score—Shelves
- 62 You Are the Art of All Things 你就是一切之术数 Nothing can escape the laws of reason, least of all people! [Plum Blossom Numerology]+ [Face Reading]+ [Divination]+ [Transmigration]+ [Mystery]+ [Deduction] What will happen on Li Shu’s fantastical journey through time and space...? 18Reads—Score—Shelves
- 63 The Underworld Longevity Bureau 黄泉长生局 [Mystery + Tomb Raiding + Adventure + Ghost Hunting] They say the Yellow Springs are crawling with ghosts and demons. Once I raise my yellow talisman and form a hand seal, I'll wipe them all out. From three-eyed ghost lice and the Fish Kingdom tomb to the Ten-Thousand-Pearl Snake Woman... Li Que, a little nobody of the Daoist sect, and Fatty get caught up in a vast scheme for immortality. As the saying goes: “In paper shoes, I tread into the Yellow Springs; through the gloom of life and death, I 224Reads7.1Score—Shelves
- 64 The Huaxia Taoist Physician 华夏道医 Set in the Central Plains during the Republican era, this novel tells the legendary story of Chen Jing'an, heir to the Daoist medical tradition, as he heals the sick amid the turmoil, passes down Daoist medicine, and promotes China's traditional healing arts. Blending Daoist medical theory, traditional Chinese medicine's diagnostic methods, Daoist philosophy, and the upheavals of modern history, the novel uses a series of dramatic tales of healing to showcase the core principles of Daoist medici 6Reads—Score—Shelves
- 65 Residential Feng Shui 住宅风水 Easy-to-understand home feng shui that makes the subject less mysterious. Learn the basics of residential feng shui, the culture of the I Ching, and folk customs, and apply existing knowledge of your surroundings in a practical, scientific way to invite good fortune and avoid misfortune. —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 66 Tales of Yin and Yang Ghosts 阴阳鬼记 A Yin-Yang notebook lets me travel between the worlds of the living and the dead. A single Yin-Yang petition can make even the Judge of the Underworld yield. I have a Yin-Yang notebook filled with such petitions. My name is Ximen Rong, and my fellow practitioners call me Little Ghost. The ghosts all call me Young Master. This is my notebook, the most powerful weapon my master left me. He said only someone with the strongest spiritual intuition was worthy of reading it. But when I opened the note 15Reads8.5Score—Shelves
- 67 The Secret Art of Fortune-Telling 算卦秘笈 This is a guide to divination with the I Ching, presented through stories. The author weaves the meanings of the sixty-four hexagrams and the deeper significance of their line texts into vivid tales drawn from everyday life. There are no empty lectures divorced from reality, nor piles of obscure theory. Instead, abstract ideas like yin and yang and the principles of the hexagrams emerge naturally through real-life situations and the choices people make. The I Ching is a treasured source of wisd 102Reads6.9Score—Shelves
- 68 Transmigrating! I Started a Ghost-Hunting Business at School 穿越！我在学校开展捉鬼业务 Xu Xiao was supposed to be catching ghosts, but let her guard down for a moment and ended up in someone else’s body. The original owner was a college student with a terrible reputation and a bad public image, someone the other students avoided. She also had a bizarre mother who was actually willing to make her drop out and come home to get married for the sake of two hundred thousand yuan. Xu Xiao couldn’t stand for that, so she gave her a thorough lesson. After dealing with the crazy mother, —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 69 A Handbook of Feng Shui, Destiny, and Fortune 风水命理运势手册 [A beginner's guide to feng shui, requiring no prior knowledge]. After reading it, life will no longer feel so confusing. How can you put feng shui's energy to work for yourself? What are the principles and rules behind feng shui? How can you tell a genuine master from a fraud? Can feng shui really change your luck and bring you good fortune? What is each person's destiny? 2.3kReads7.1Score259Shelves
- 70 Southern Mao, Northern Ma 南茅北马 With one sweep of my staff, I’ll wipe out every demon under heaven! I take life and death in stride, and if you won’t submit, I’ll fight! I’ll prove my Dao through killing, endless yet never extinguished! Yang Wujin is a man with no past life, only this one! The day he was born, the Azure Dragon offered a sacrifice, and a hundred ghosts were put to rout! 147Reads8.4Score—Shelves
- 71 After Years of Playing the Charlatan, I Specialize in Treating Beautiful Female Ghosts 做神棍这些年，我专治漂亮女鬼 On the day I was born, my mother had a difficult labor. To save his eldest grandson, my grandfather tore down the family’s front door and found a bloodstained kitchen knife hidden in the doorframe! As the knife came down with a clang, I was born… P.S. This is no run-of-the-mill supernatural story. Expect all kinds of mystery and twists, with a lighthearted, funny take on catching ghosts! 38Reads—Score—Shelves
- 72 The Paranormal Master of Xuan Zong Feng Shui 玄宗风水术师之灵异先生 City life, celestial masters, the supernatural, feng shui, talismans, witchcraft, dark arts, ghost hunting, exorcisms, monster slaying, evil-spirit banishment, demon subjugation, battling zombies, living with a policewoman. No cultivation. 734Reads6.1Score107Shelves
- 73 The Art of Reading Faces 相字 Chinese characters are the most beautiful writing system in the world, and the most delightful for telling stories. As Chinese people, we’re all familiar with the thousands of characters we use every day. Beyond their literal meanings, have you ever wondered if each character might hold other meanings as well? Whether it’s life or death, poverty or wealth, or even a cold case that has remained unsolved for years, I can find the answers through Chinese characters, one by one. Whether you’re skept 3.9kReads8.8Score564Shelves
- 74 The Unremarkable Little Taoist 平平无奇小道士 Half a bowl of clear water reflects the universe; a single spirit talisman commands ghosts and gods. Reborn in a supernatural world, he studies magic and Taoist teachings under an old Taoist priest. He saves all living beings, slays evil and subdues demons, cleansing the world until not a blemish remains. 74Reads8.2Score—Shelves
- 75 Yuanhai Ziping 渊海子平 Xu Ziping, a fortune-teller also known as Xu Ziyi, was from the Northern Song dynasty. Little is known about his life, though legend says he lived in seclusion on Mount Hua with Chen Tuan at the end of the Five Dynasties period. The Abyssal Sea of Zi Ping is the first relatively complete and systematic work on Four Pillars astrology. It was compiled by Xu Sheng in the Song dynasty, based on the methods used by Xu Ziping, the foremost master of destiny studies at the time. The work is considered 66Reads—Score—Shelves
- 76 You Were Supposed to Catch Ghosts, So Why Are You Flirting with Girls Everywhere? 让你捉鬼，你却到处撩妹 “You little brat, I told you to catch ghosts, but you’re out there flirting with women. Last time, the client even complained that you kept staring at her chest and thighs.” “Hehe! She was dressed so skimpy and had such long legs. She was practically asking people to look. I’d be a fool not to!” 357Reads—Score102Shelves
- 77 The Taoist Priest Took Me Ghost Hunting 道士带我抓鬼啦 [Folk mysteries + Taoist ghost hunting + urban paranormal + supernatural tales] The headless little ghost at the amusement park The eerie singing in the morgue An elevator leading to a paranormal dimension... Are these bizarre events mere coincidence, or were they destined to happen? 29Reads—Score—Shelves
- 78 Come On! Who Needs Cultivation When There's a System? 拜托！有系统了谁还修仙？ [Supernatural + System + cultivation + ghost wife] I transmigrated through countless lifetimes of reincarnation with the System. When I opened my eyes, I found the soul of a thousand-year-old female ghost inside my body! “Little brat, the sun’s been up for ages! Get up and practice!” Ye Lingxing yanked the covers away. “Master, wait! Let your disciple sleep a little longer.” I sat up and pulled the soft, fragrant beauty beside the bed into my arms. “My dear ghost lady, I went to all the trouble 2Reads—Score—Shelves
- 79 The Maoshan Celestial Master 茅山天师 Maoshan secret arts, supreme beneath the heavens; a sacred mountain paradise, the orthodox school of Daoism! The Emperor Zhezong of the Northern Song bestowed eight treasures upon Maoshan to protect the region, banish demons, uphold the Dao, and bring blessings to the people. Yet the internal power struggles within the Daoist sects, including the Maoshan School, have continued for centuries. This story unfolds through the strange tales of spirits and the supernatural that happen all around me. D 35Reads7.6Score—Shelves
- 80 Strange Tales from the Tea Pavilion 茶榭诡谈 Chilling events that may have happened right beside you and me. Perhaps you and I could become the protagonists, too. These are accounts of things that happened to people around us, as told by those who experienced them. True and false, false and true, right and wrong, wrong and right. Think it over, then think it over carefully!! —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 81 Grand Feng Shui Master Yang Yunsong 风水大宗师杨筠松 [Feng Shui + geomancy + geomantic arts + Feng Shui masters + Feng Shui taboos and how to overcome them + metaphysics, mystical arts, fortune-telling, divination, geomancy, changing your fate and fortune + no transmigration, no livestreaming, no female lead] From a powerful Imperial Preceptor who could command the wind and rain to an immortal who helped the poor, Yang Yunsong, also known as Yang Jiupin and Yang Yi, and honored by later generations as Master Yang, was a true “rule-breaker” in the 4Reads—Score—Shelves
- 82 A Direct Heir of the Daoist Sect, Dragged Off to Get a Marriage License Right After Coming Down the Mountain? 道门嫡系，刚下山就被拉去领证？ The Celestial Master’s arts... They really exist?! After fifteen years of cultivating at a temple, Daoist Chen Ping came down from the mountain. In his Daoist robes, he found himself at a matchmaking setup! “Mom... I’m a Daoist, a direct disciple of the Celestial Master. I can’t get married.” Chen Ping was at a loss. “If you don’t bring someone home today, you’re no son of mine!” He’d only meant to go through the motions, but on the street, a stunning woman in black stockings blocked his way. Sh 689Reads—Score—Shelves
- 83 The Little Master of Physiognomy in Hemp Clothes 麻衣小相师 Li He, founding master of the Linen-Clad School, once left behind a remarkable book recording everything he had learned in his life. It was passed down to the disciples of his school and continued by them until it was eventually brought to perfection. When the nation fell, it was hidden beneath its covers and circulated through the world. At last, someone bound by fate offered it a blood sacrifice. It transformed into spiritual energy, fused with that person’s soul, and was reborn into the world 2.2kReads7.7Score288Shelves
- 84 The Ninth-Rank Geomancer 九品地师 Eighteen years ago, Yang Buyi nearly died in his mother’s womb before he was even born. His grandfather used a piece of tortoiseshell to break the death curse hanging over him, allowing him to be born safely in a fire. Eighteen years later, Yang Buyi finally learns that a borrowed life must eventually be repaid. 754Reads8.8Score100Shelves
- 85 The Treasure Hunter with a Lucky Touch 桃运摸宝师 I left home when I was young and stumbled into the world of treasure hunting and spirit-reading. From Kunlun’s Hell to the South Sea Dragon Ruins, the Netherworld Ghostwood, and the Sea of Sand’s hidden nest... I traveled far and wide in search of secret treasures. Just as I thought I could take control of my own fate, Heaven played a cruel joke on me. I tried to escape, but only sank deeper and deeper... 38Reads—Score—Shelves
- 86 The Underworld Shop 阴间铺子 [No System + traditional story + male and female leads + supernatural tales] After losing my job, I took over this funeral parlor, but all sorts of supernatural incidents started happening at night. Burned-to-death ghosts, drowned ghosts... After the parlor, a yellow weasel spirit that had become an adult made a bone-chilling discovery... Challenges faced together with my childhood sweetheart from elementary school. 40Reads—Score—Shelves
- 87 I Am a Heavenly Master of the Taoist Sect: From the Start, I Capture and Enfeoff Demons 我，道门天师，开局收妖敕封 [Celestial Master + nearly invincible from the start + little girls + supernatural revival] The supernatural returns, and demons run rampant. Vengeful ghosts wreak havoc, and evil gods invade. Lin Qingyang transmigrated and was reborn in the body of a mighty Celestial Master in this world overrun by the supernatural. With power that reached the heavens from the start, already at his peak from day one, how could he face this unfamiliar world? Of course… He'd descend the mountain to exorcise demon 1Reads—Score—Shelves
- 88 The Netherworld's Yellow Earth 幽冥黄土地 The Underworld’s Yellow Earth —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 89 Feng Shui Master Lai Buyi 风水大师赖布衣 Lai Wenjun passed the imperial examinations at the age of nine and rose to the rank of Imperial Preceptor. But after exposing Qin Hui’s plot to sever the dragon vein and usurp the throne, he was stripped of his position and exiled, reduced to a commoner begging in the streets. Then Heaven bestowed upon him an awakened Celestial Star Feng Shui Compass, while a fragment of the Green Crow Classic entered his soul. With a bowl of clear water, he could identify a venomous dragon; with three copper co 1Reads—Score—Shelves
- 90 I Became a Ghost and Took a Job in Another World 变成鬼，我在异时空打工 Supernatural + fantasy + ambitious heroine + comedy Lin Weiwei is killed by noise, but her soul forms a pact with Ning Zhiguang, who can see ghosts, thanks to an ancient jade pendant. Ning Zhiguang comes from a family of Taoist priests and specializes in guiding spirits to the afterlife. Lin Weiwei is thus forced to start working to help ghosts find their way home. This human-and-ghost duo never runs out of laughs: one is a reckless rookie, the other a helpless expert. But there may be hidden d —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 91 Feng Shui Master Liu Bowen 风水大师刘伯温 When Yuan soldiers massacre his village, eighteen-year-old Liu Bowen escapes with his family's ancestral compass in his arms. His father's dying words still ring in his ears: "Protect the surviving pages of the Qingwu Classic, and break the Yuan court's Dragon Vein Severing Curse!" On the run, he comes upon a mountain village plagued by the deadly "White Tiger Carrying a Corpse" formation. Five people have died in three days, and a fraudulent Feng Shui master has set up a formation that instead 6Reads—Score—Shelves
- 92 Nine Trigrams Reveal Heaven's Secrets (Heaven's Secrets Must Not Be Defied) 九爻断天机（天机不可违） Nine Divinations Reveal Heaven's Secrets (Heaven's Secrets Must Not Be Defied) 4Reads—Score—Shelves
- 93 Yin-Yang Eyes: Ghostly Tales from a Mountain Village 阴阳眼之山村鬼事 On the night I was born, dark clouds covered the sky, fierce winds and torrential rain raged, and thunder boomed until dawn. Countless ghost soldiers and underworld bailiffs waited outside our home, intent on dragging me back to the underworld. If my grandfather hadn't fought to protect me, I wouldn't have lived to see morning. Dogs barked all night throughout the village. The elders called me a cursed, ill-fated child and an evil omen, and wanted to beat me to death to put an end to the calami 19Reads—Score—Shelves
- 94 Twenty Years of Walking Between Yin and Yang: A Memoir 二十年走阴串阳回忆录 [The Great Six Ren, Qimen Dunjia, Four Pillars of Destiny, Xuan Kong Flying Stars, Jin Suo Yu Guan, folk witchcraft, Southeast Asian black magic...] And much more: an abundance of divination arts and folk culture, all knowledge you can learn at a glance and put into practice right away. A wealth of practical information! Zhao Jun graduated straight into unemployment. Then, reeling from the double blow of losing his job and his girlfriend, he encountered something that even he, a staunch material 59Reads—Score—Shelves
- 95 Divining Fate from the Eight Characters 八字断命 Your birth date and time are not something you should give out casually. Especially not to people on the street who open with, “You have a terrible fate.” 2.4kReads7.6Score349Shelves
- 96 Heavenly Fragrance 天香引 The land of Chuzhou is rife with witchcraft, and people get carried off at the drop of a hat. Wen Yin was born with a fragrant soul, able to reach ghosts and gods through scent. When she was eight, she rescued a young convict from the clutches of a cat ghost, never realizing she'd saved the person destined to be her nemesis. Lu Jing was born into a family of Imperial Preceptors, but unfortunately, he was a bringer of bad luck. Exiled at ten, he brought death to his entire patrol and became a 22Reads—Score—Shelves
- 97 The Evil-Suppressing Man of the Living World 阳间镇邪人 The world is formed from the union of Heaven and Earth. Where there is righteousness, there is evil; where there is yang, there must be yin. This world is full of the strange and the terrifying, and I am part of the strange. My name is Xiao Xie. My grandfather once said that on the day I was born, I tore a vicious asura ghost apart with my bare hands... 1.6kReads7.5Score111Shelves
- 98 The Way of Heaven: Feng Shui Master, I Control the Universe 天道门，风水神师，乾坤由我执掌 The lotus scorched by hellfire is the birthmark on my back. The sins of my past life were too great, and in this life I'm fated to die young. To stay alive, I descend the mountain in search of a way, only to find eighty-one coffins and an underworld wedding waiting for me. A coin hung from a mountain, a cup of water holding the world in check. A demon fetus in a human belly, a woman in a bottle, the witchcraft of Luonan, eight or nine layers of coffins, the underworld's watery halls, a golden co 260Reads7.2Score—Shelves
- 99 Livestreaming Ghostly Lore: The Whole Internet Begs Me to Come Out of Seclusion 直播科普鬼怪，全网跪求出山 Su Xiaochen transmigrated. In this parallel world, demons and monsters don't exist, and people have no concept of zombies or vampires. Yet ruins filled with ghosts and monsters keep appearing all over the world. The Ren Family Town ruins, the Jiuquan Town ruins, the Lanruo Temple ruins... All kinds of vicious demons and monsters lurk inside, inflicting heavy losses on the authorities! So Su Xiaochen becomes a popular science expert, giving the authorities advice on their livestream! Zombies: Bor 501Reads5.4Score—Shelves
- 100 The Maoshan Celestial Master's Chronicles 茅山天师录 Maoshan is famous for its Taoist arts. I learned Maoshan Taoist magic and came down from the mountain to exorcise ghosts. My whole life has been filled with confusion. Is this really how my life is supposed to go? What is the meaning of what I protect? And who is behind the eerie doll and everything else? 89Reads—Score—Shelves
