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- 101 I Ferry Souls in the Mortal World 我在人间摆渡灵魂 Some people call me Master, others call me a charlatan. Some even respectfully address me as Grandmaster or Celestial Master. But really, I’m just an “ordinary” guide for the dead. Jiang Cheng, an unremarkable funeral master, awakens a mysterious ability after one particular funeral. He can actually see souls, or ghosts!!! (This story has only one supernatural character, the protagonist. It’s more of an everyday-life story with tearjerking moments, not a horror novel.) 50Reads8.7Score—14d adds
- 102 The Ferryman of the Yellow Springs 黄泉摆渡人 One day, I found a pile of money outside my door. Then, for seven days in a row, someone left money there at the same time each day. I took some and spent it, but later someone told me it was all money paid to buy my life. Someone wanted me dead. To stay alive, I went to the City God Temple and became a night watchman. 1.8kReads—Score—14d adds
- 103 The Corpse Stitcher 缝尸人 Feng shui encompasses a great many trades, collectively known as the Eight Outer Schools. Among them, the profession that deals most with the dead and has seen the most terrifying things is that of the corpse tailor! I was born in a village hidden in the mountains. Following the family trade, I began working as a corpse tailor alongside my grandfather, and before long, more than ten years had passed... One day, a man appeared outside my shop, leading a young woman and bringing a coffin. The vill 65Reads—Score—14d adds
- 104 Make Me a Ghost, and the Three Realms Shall Know No Gods or Buddhas! 让我做鬼，三界至此无神佛！ The Heavenly Dao had its designs. After Tang Yu died, he became a ghost, doomed to never be reincarnated. But he transformed into a ghost constable, capturing souls across the Three Realms. The gods of heaven and the Buddhas of the West trembled at the sight of him! White Bone Demon: “Grandpa Sun, please smash my soul to pieces too! That ghost constable is terrifying. I don’t want him to come for me!” Golden-Winged Great Peng: “The Buddha betrayed me! Why did I become a prisoner in the Underworl 5Reads6.2Score—14d adds
- 105 Cultivating the Dao Amid the Strange: Starting with Corpse Driving 诡异修道：从赶尸开始 Ye Bai woke up one morning to find himself a corpse-driver. The dead should return to their roots. Those who die far from home must be escorted back to their hometown by a corpse-driver, or trouble may follow. In this chaotic dynasty, wars break out constantly, and there are plenty of corpses. However, Ye Bai discovers that he can earn rewards simply by driving corpses. Corpse-Controlling Arts, the Yellow Skin Drum, divine-mask Nuo opera, paper figures brought to life, the Rebirth Eye, Earthly F 43Reads—Score—14d adds
- 106 Jiangcheng General Store 江城杂货铺 Rules of the Jiangcheng General Store: 1. The store opens at the hour of the Rat and closes at the hour of the Rabbit. We serve no customers at any other time! 2. Every visitor is a customer. Anyone who enters must follow the store’s rules, or bear the consequences! 3. All transactions must be honest. Payment is due upon delivery. Break the deal, and bear the consequences! 4. No pets allowed! —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 107 The Paper Effigy Maker: Paper Figures Become Gods 扎纸匠：纸人成神 The world underwent a tremendous change, and spiritual qi revival began. All kinds of monsters appeared in the human world and wreaked havoc everywhere. Fortunately, humans also awakened all sorts of supernatural abilities, gaining the power to fight back. Wang Ling was an ordinary paper effigy maker until he awakened an ability called “Spirit-Driving Paper Control.” From then on, all kinds of powerful paper spirits came into being. Ferocious beasts, ghosts, supernatural ability users, even the 6Reads6.9Score—14d adds
- 108 A Female Streamer Goes on an Outdoor Adventure and Is Scared Unconscious by Me, the Corpse Driver 女主播户外探险，被赶尸的我吓晕 [System + Corpse-Driving + Urban Suspense] Gu Liang transmigrates to a parallel world and, after failing the college entrance exams, binds himself to a God-Tier Corpse-Driving System! A female streamer goes exploring outdoors, only to be scared unconscious by me driving a corpse! The blood moon hangs overhead, and ghostly energy resurges! First, a drought demon emerges and wreaks havoc across the land! Then an unrotting corpse seeks the Dao and gathers the corpse demons of the world! The human w —Reads6.6Score—14d adds
- 109 I’m a Corpse-Driving Empress from the Start, and the School Belle Found Out 开局赶尸女帝，被校花发现了 Chen Tianxiu transmigrates into a world where spiritual qi has been revived for a thousand years. Everyone in this world can cultivate and become a warrior. The strongest can even fly through the skies, tunnel beneath the earth, move mountains, and overturn seas, becoming like gods! Then he awakens the Divine Corpse-Wrangling System. Every successful corpse-wrangling earns him various rewards. He can even abandon martial arts and pursue immortality! His first target is the Empress Qianqiu, who v 3.3kReads8.7Score23614d adds
- 110 The Living Must Keep Away: The Underworld Chef 活人回避：冥厨 “Kill ninety-nine, then stop!” My grandfather was the last executioner in history. He beheaded hundreds of people in his lifetime and was burdened by countless sins. To atone for them, my father opened a restaurant for the living and the dead, cooking for the living by day and the dead by night. Nine-Thread Corpse Cake, Grasshopper-Skin Juice, Blood-Fried Rotten Flesh, Crispy-Bone Human Soup... If I make it and you refuse to eat, my ghost-head executioner's blade will strike down evil men above 133Reads—Score—14d adds
- 111 Corpse Driver: From the Start, I Take My Mother-in-Law to a Blind Date 赶尸人，开局赶着丈母娘去相亲 While Zhang Tianyi is driving corpses, his godmother calls and arranges a blind date for him. “Hello, I’m Liu Sisi. Let’s set a time and place to meet for our blind date.” “How about midnight? Meet me at the Magpie Bridge.” “Can’t we pick another time?” “I’m driving corpses these days, so I can only go out at night.” Liu Sisi doesn’t take him seriously and shows up at the Magpie Bridge at midnight as agreed. From the thick fog come eerie bells and a strange voice. “Jingle, jingle...” “The dead a 7Reads8.7Score514d adds
- 112 The Ghostly Papercutter 幽冥剪纸人 “You want to make a deal with me? But all I want is your shadow!” Song Xiaohan grinned. 22Reads6.7Score—14d adds
- 113 Northeastern Coffin Bearer 东北抬棺匠 Wang Chuyi learned the Book of Changes and the Eight Trigrams, Maoshan magic, swordsmanship, and boxing from his grandfather from an early age. He met Ma Hongmei, a disciple of the Ma family from Northeast China, and became her godson. Before she died, Ma Hongmei passed on to him her shrine, where she had enshrined a hundred immortals. Practicing both the immortal and Daoist paths, Wang Chuyi slays evil ghosts, subdues wicked demons, battles zombies, and guides benevolent spirits onward. He even 404Reads6.8Score11114d adds
- 114 The Soul Ferryman 灵魂摆渡人 Behind ghosts and monsters, is it the soul? Or... science? Behind the Daoist arts, is it sleight of hand? Or... delusion? Grandpa warned me not to reveal that I was a Yin ferryman. I could only say I was a Daoist priest. Keeping my identity as a Yin ferryman secret is a rule of the trade. No one can really explain why, but later I met someone who broke that rule, and he met a truly horrific end. 44Reads—Score—14d adds
- 115 Tomb Guardian: My Summer Job Scared the Campus Belle Who Came to Loot the Tomb 守陵人：暑假守陵吓哭来盗墓校花 [Alternate universe + tomb guardian + school belle] After his confession is accepted, he gets cheated on right in front of him. He then activates the Strongest Tomb Guardian System: all he has to do to grow stronger is collect resentment! Jiang Xiaoyu heads to the Ancient City of Jingjue. He goes out to pee in the middle of the night and discovers the school belle next door. You cheat on me, I scare you. Good for good, revenge for a grudge! The Ghost Bride, Corpse King, Corpse Beetle King, fire 1Reads—Score114d adds
- 116 The Yellow River Corpse Retriever 黄河捞尸人 Grandpa once told me that after I die, the Yellow River will run dry, ghost soldiers will march across the land, and nine flood dragons will pull my coffin... 11Reads—Score114d adds
- 117 I Spent Summer Vacation as a Corpse Driver, and the Stunning Campus Belle Exposed Me 暑假当赶尸人，被绝美校花曝光了 Is there a future in corpse-driving over summer break? (Also known as: My Ghost Constable Roommates) Ye Chen transmigrates to a parallel world. To save up for tuition during his summer break from college, he becomes a corpse driver. At a class reunion, Lin Xue reveals that Ye Chen is her boyfriend, leaving their classmates stunned. When they hear Ye Chen works as a corpse driver, they start making fun of him. “How can corpse drivers still exist these days? Are evil spirits actually real?” “Ye Ch —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 118 The Corpse Carrier 背尸匠 My grandfather was a corpse bearer. He carried countless bodies, and the last person he ever carried turned out to be himself... 549Reads7.1Score—14d adds
- 119 Three Years as a Corpse Driver, and My Empress Wife Breaks Out of Her Coffin 赶尸三年，女帝老婆破棺而出 [Corpse Driver + Livestream System + One Heroine + Spiritual Qi Revival + Comedy] After paying respects at his ancestors’ graves every year for eighteen years, Ye Ran obtains a livestream corpse-driving System. As long as he livestreams himself driving corpses, he can win random rewards. His first mission unlocks right away: drive corpses for three years, and he’ll get an Empress for a wife! With winter break approaching, his classmates ask Ye Ran what he plans to do during the holidays. He tell —Reads6.9Score114d adds
- 120 I Became a Pallbearer After Graduation, and Dai Xiaomei Exposed Me 毕业做抬棺匠，被呆小妹曝光了 Graduation day. Parents, relatives, classmates, and teachers ask Feng Chuqi: “Have you found a job?” Feng Chuqi: “I have. No 996, and I work when I want. When I don't, I take the day off.” Parents, relatives, classmates, and teachers: “What?” “Thump, thump.” Feng Chuqi taps the coffin behind him. “Ghosts are carrying a coffin. Living people, stand aside.” Parents, relatives, classmates, and teachers: “Holy crap, coffin bearers really exist?” Feng Chuqi: “Of course not. Believe in science, everyo 162Reads5.4Score—14d adds
- 121 The Yellow River Corpse Retriever 黄河捞尸人 There is always more to the Yellow River than you know! You’d be better off never asking about the forbidden legends of the Yellow River! The Yellow River’s ghost soldiers, the Fish-Bone Divine Temple, the Iron-Headed Dragon King, deadly venomous insects, ghost wedding processions... The strangest objects of the Yellow River, and the oldest, most mysterious profession: Yellow River corpse divers! Their families have guarded the ancient river route for generations. But what are they really protec 27Reads7.4Score—14d adds
- 122 A Corpse Driver Seeks Justice for the Dead, Then Gets Exposed by a Streamer! 赶尸人为亡者申冤！被主播曝光！ Zuo Qian becomes a corpse driver and takes on commissioned jobs “Thirty years ago, a magnitude-nine earthquake struck Zhongnan City. Aid poured in from every direction! But the supply truck driven by volunteer Zeng Xiao vanished without a trace!” The livestream camera focuses on an elderly couple. Reporter: “What do you think about your son selling off life-saving supplies?” The old man says angrily, “He didn't! He never sold them!” The reporter sneers, “Really? Then let's hear it from him i 397Reads6.5Score—14d adds
- 123 I Asked You to Make Paper Effigies, Not Control the Yin Soldiers 让你做扎纸匠，没让你控制阴兵 Ye Xuan is a paper effigy maker who unexpectedly gets the strongest Paper Effigy System. The more effigies he makes, the stronger he becomes. Then one day, a popular celebrity on a film set draws eyes on one of his paper effigies. Who could have guessed it would come to life and snap the celebrity’s neck? Ye Xuan is accused of using someone else to do his dirty work. From then on, his name becomes a trending topic, and everyone learns he’s a paper effigy maker. A string of bizarre incidents foll 185Reads6.0Score—14d adds
- 124 The Corpse Stitcher 缝尸匠 Soul-binding nails, threads of karma, green lamps and white candles, a bone-carving knife. When the dead person’s lamp goes out, bury them intact. The living must keep away! 11Reads—Score—14d adds
- 125 The Corpse Herder: Taking the Campus Belle to School from the Start 赶尸人，开局赶着校花去上学 Yang Yan's fiancée, Dai Ziwei, nicknamed the Three Seas Campus Belle, Daisymeme, is ambushed and afflicted with a Corpse Soul Curse. To save her, Yang Yan, a corpse driver, leaves the mountains. Daisymeme: “Yang Yan, I can't move my limbs, and my body feels stiff. I don't think I can move at all. Since it's like this, why don't you do something to me? (Looking expectantly)” Yang Yan: “Heaven and earth, take command of the myriad heavens. Move.” And so, on his first day of school, Yang Yan the co 9Reads—Score—14d adds
- 126 Corpse Driving in Western Hunan: The Soul-Calling Guide on the Night Road 湘西赶尸：夜行引魂人 A sudden disaster at a mass grave! Wu Liangzi is struck on the back of the head and wakes among rotting coffins and bones, clutching a bloodstained piece of yellow paper. It bears the name of the man he has spent three years tracking down for murdering his father! Seven corpses in black robes dance around him all night, their lifeless eyes seeming to “acknowledge their master.” A mysterious corpse driver tosses him a life-and-death contract. “Four of your seven souls have scattered. If you can’t 277Reads—Score—14d adds
- 127 The Last Paper-Cutting Artist 最后一位剪纸人 My name is Song Xiaohan. I’m a living corpse with no heartbeat, and a paper-cutting artist of the underworld. On the surface, I cut paper decorations for a funeral shop, but behind closed doors, I trade with humans and ghosts. My master passed away two months ago and left me the family craft, along with this modest little shop and my tools of the trade: a pair of scissors and a carving knife. “You want to make a deal with me? But all I want is your shadow!” Song Xiaohan grinned. 186Reads8.5Score3114d adds
- 128 Recruit the Iron Triangle from the Start and Open a Corpse-Driving Inn 开局招募铁三角，成立赶尸客栈 Su Xiao transmigrates into a tomb-raiding world and, from the start, recruits the Iron Triangle and establishes a corpse-driving inn. Xiao Ge, Wu Xie, Pangzi, and Su Xiao learn Maoshan corpse-driving arts. Gradually, they also master corpse retrieval, spirit communication, and demon exorcism... Su Xiao, meanwhile, stays behind the scenes, with knowledge of the gods above and the underworld below. 19Reads6.7Score—14d adds
- 129 I Became Haunted by Evil Spirits After Starting Out as a Corpse Burner 从当烧尸匠开始恶鬼缠身 To escape an arranged marriage, I took a job burning corpses at a funeral home. Old Li, who handled the bodies, actually brought a prostitute to the funeral home. That woman later died, leaving a red high heel at the entrance... The next day, Old Li died. A red high heel had pierced through the center of his forehead... With my father's help, I learned that before she died, the woman had been pregnant. Someone had cut the baby out of her and turned them into a Mother-Child Demon. After that, t 5.5kReads8.3Score44214d adds
- 130 The Spirit Chaser 赶阴人 Read the stars and moon, and declare life and death with ironclad certainty. A man on the margins of the human world, he sets right the injustices of the underworld. My new book, The City's Strongest Immortal Son-in-Law, is out now. I humbly ask for your support! 455Reads7.1Score—14d adds
- 131 Yin-Yang Paper Effigy Maker 阴阳纸扎匠 The paper effigies my grandfather made could subdue spirits and drive away evil energy. He passed this craft down to me alone. Back in his day, my grandfather was a renowned master in the world of feng shui. I thought I could carry on his legend, but I was set up as soon as I struck out on my own. It turns out there’s another me in this world! (No System, no mindless protagonist, no stale tropes, no cultivation.) 428Reads6.9Score—14d adds
- 132 Street Lie Detection: The Corpse Stitcher’s Identity Can’t Stay Hidden 街头测谎，缝尸匠的身份瞒不住了 Su Chen unexpectedly gets the strongest corpse-stitching System. He can grow stronger just by stitching up corpses. One day, he goes out to stitch a corpse, but a beautiful woman stops him halfway and demands to give him a lie detector test. The result unexpectedly exposes Su Chen's identity as a corpse stitcher, and then one strange event after another begins to unfold… 39Reads5.2Score—14d adds
- 133 I Took a Summer Job as a Corpse Driver! 我，暑假去兼职赶尸！ High-paying part-time job: 1,100 a night. Must be a strong, healthy young man! Jiang Han said, “There's actually a job like that?” But after starting work, he realized things weren't quite so simple. He was actually going to have to drive corpses... “Promise me, after I die, never ask Jiang Han to drive my corpse. I'm afraid he'll sneakily eat all my offerings.” “Yikes, is that thing he's driving behind him the Drought Demon? They count that thing as a corpse?” “I can understand pretty much anyt —Reads6.6Score—14d adds
- 134 The Last Paper Effigy Maker 最后一个扎纸匠 Paper effigy crafting is a business of the yin world. Of the many trades, the seventh refers to making paper effigies. My master said our line of paper effigy makers suffers from the Five Banes and Three Deficiencies, and is steeped in bad luck. We can forget about marrying and having children. If a female ghost starts haunting us, that's practically a blessing from our ancestors! “So that's why you told me to marry a paper effigy?” I looked at the paper figure lying beside me and felt a chill r 146Reads—Score—14d adds
- 135 The Corpse Driver: I Can Copy the Skills of the Dead 赶尸匠：我能复制逝者技能 After graduating from university, Lin Ye gets the God-Tier Corpse-Driving System. He grows stronger by driving corpses and can copy the skills of the deceased. Through corpse-driving, he travels among humans, gods, ghosts, and demons. His mighty army of the undead is invincible, conquering all before it. As a corpse driver, Lin Ye laughs proudly between heaven and earth and becomes the sovereign of all worlds. 4Reads5.5Score—14d adds
- 136 Lighting the Sky Lantern 点天灯 Just how terrifying is corpse-driving in western Hunan? After failing the college entrance exam, I stumbled into the corpse-driving trade. Who could have guessed that on my very first job, I would run into... 712Reads8.3Score10314d adds
- 137 The Campus Belle Exposes Me Catching Ghosts at the Funeral Home 校花曝光我在殡仪馆抓鬼现场 Ghost King: This guy is a complete freak. Demon King: H-he can actually make lightning with his bare hands? Devil King: He’s way too freakish. I can’t afford to mess with him!!!!!! 625Reads6.2Score—14d adds
- 138 Gain Lifespan by Collecting Corpses? I’ll Become Invincible and Immortal at the Funeral Parlor 收尸加寿命？从义庄开始长生无敌 [Burial complete. You have received 1,000 years of life and the recipe for the Tribulation-Deliverance Golden Pill.] [Spend 600 years of life to simplify the Tribulation-Deliverance Golden Pill.] [Tribulation-Deliverance Golden Pill → alchemy → refining → warming yourself by a fire] Zhang Yi transmigrates to a cultivation world and becomes the corpse keeper at a funeral home. Collecting, preparing, stitching, and burying corpses all earn him rewards. This rule applies to everyone, whether mortal 208Reads5.9Score—14d adds
- 139 Tales of Western Hunan 湘西往事录 Strike the gong to announce the spirits, ring the bell to summon their souls. Dressed in Taoist robes, the corpse driver of western Hunan. The dead are on the move. The living, stand aside. A crescent moon shines on blue robes, a river of stars stretches across the low sky. The mournful gong clears the way, ghostly shadows speak of western Hunan. Silver bells softly summon souls, coins pave the road and drive the spirits away. Every household shuts its doors tight, the living keep away as deathl 4Reads—Score—14d adds
- 140 Six-Year-Old Corpse Driver Wanders Onto a Show Set and Makes Boss Yang Cry 六岁赶尸误入节目组，吓哭杨老板 The new season of The Life We Long For premieres in a small border town in western Hunan. By the time the guests arrive, dusk has fallen. Yang Mi and the others sit leisurely in the courtyard, enjoying the evening breeze, while the regular guests, including Teacher Huang, are busy making dinner. Everything is so peaceful, until a sudden burst of ringing bells shatters the calm. As the livestream camera turns, the millions of viewers in the chat are stunned. “Holy crap!! Corpse-driving in western 2.7kReads6.8Score42914d adds
- 141 Jiangshi World: From the Start, I Become the Disciple of the Thunderbolt Taoist 僵尸世界：开局拜师雷电法王 Lin Bei was reborn in the Republic of China and spent fifteen years there, always thinking it was an ordinary world. Then he saw a Taoist conjure lightning with his bare hands and blast a zombie into a charred corpse. Lin Bei immediately dropped to his knees. The Taoist couldn't get rid of him, so he had no choice but to take him as a disciple. “I am Shi Jian, eldest senior disciple of the inner sect of the Maoshan Sect.” Lin Bei was dumbfounded. Shi Jian? The Thunder Lord from "Mr. Vampire"? Un 76.9kReads7.6Score5.8k14d adds
- 142 Stranded in a Supernatural World, I Have No Choice but to Summon a God to Fight for Me 身处灵异世界，我只好请神代打了 Li Changfeng has just transmigrated when a life-taking ghost latches onto him. No big deal. Toss it into the merit box and let Buddha duke it out with him. What? There are no temples or Taoist shrines?! Don’t panic. No big deal... Wait, this is a huge problem!!! “Ding! The Merit-for-Hire System has been bound. You pay merit, and I’ll call in someone to fight for you...” Li Changfeng: [Clear skies above, sacred earth below, I burn incense and call upon Master Lin. With a peachwood sword, he slays 107Reads5.4Score—14d adds
- 143 Corpse-Driving Taboos 赶尸禁忌 Grandpa died, but then he came back to life. He said I was destined to face a terrible calamity... If I couldn’t survive it, my whole family would suffer! 153Reads6.0Score—14d adds
- 144 After Getting Dumped, I Became a Corpse Driver and Got Exposed by Dai Xiaomei 被甩后当赶尸人：被呆小妹曝光了 After Jiang Chen gets cheated on, he awakens the God-Tier Corpse-Driving System! The class group chat instantly erupts: Donkey Qiao: “Bro! Is being a simp not good enough for you anymore? Now you’re driving corpses?” Guangu: “Sugoi! This guy’s lost his mind!” Piggy Xian: “That corpse-driving outfit looks pretty decent! Cosplay?” Tang Youyou: “Your acting’s not bad either. You’ve got potential as an extra!” Hu Yifei: “People above, believe in science! There’s no such thing as a corpse driver!” Am 7Reads8.7Score—14d adds
- 145 Report! This Online Funeral Director Is Livestreaming a Mysterious Funeral 举报！这个网葬师在直播神秘葬礼 Cloudside Online Funeral Livestream, 8K HD, god's-eye view: An old man with white hair and one arm stands proudly on an icy lake, saluting 129 ice statues frozen in battle poses. Then he raises his gun and shouts: “Defend our home and country! Charge!” Suddenly, dark clouds gather, thunder cracks, a streak of white soars through the sky, and ink flies across the air. “Blood seals the battle-scarred mountains, while tears fall for the land; loyal bones in ice endure through the ages.” The cold wi —Reads6.5Score—14d adds
- 146 Horror Revival: From the Start, I Chose to Become a Corpse Stitcher 恐怖复苏，开局选择成为缝尸人 Zhao Han transmigrates to the Blue Star for no apparent reason, and from the start is recruited by the Spirit Suppression Bureau, an organization devoted to handling supernatural incidents. Thanks to his outstanding talent, he is assigned to the team with the best benefits. But then a System appears, and he has to join the corpse-stitching team to activate it. To activate the System, Zhao Han says, “I don’t want to join Team One. I want to join the corpse-stitching team.” Much later, when people 1Reads7.6Score—14d adds
- 147 After Failing the Exams, I Became a Corpse Herder, and Dango Exposed Me 落榜后当赶尸人，被团子曝光了 Shh, the corpse is rising! Keep quiet. The dead are on the move, so the living must stay clear! In ancient Xixiang, strange and terrifying things happen whenever night falls: white coffins, thousand-year-old corpses, and more! Under the moonlight, Jiang Chen shakes a soul-snaring bell in his left hand and holds a talisman to suppress evil in his right, controlling a stiff figure that hops along... 1.2kReads8.3Score10514d adds
- 148 The Corpse-Retrieving Ghost, I Founded a Secret Organization in the City 捞尸女鬼，我在都市成立诡秘组织 (Mysterious Revival + Urban Life + Live-Streamed Corpse Retrieval) One night, a teenage boy wakes up and discovers he has awakened the Corpse Retrieval System. He must venture to the River of the Underworld to retrieve the corpse of a female ghost. The tragic beauty Qiao Ji, the quirky Luohua Cave Maiden, the fox spirit Tamamo-no-Mae, the fiendish Banruo... As the mysterious returns to life, the boy loses his memory before a bronze gate on a rainy night. The gates of the underworld swing wide op 116Reads8.9Score—14d adds
- 149 I Treat Ghosts, and I Never Use Anesthesia 我给鬼看病，从不打麻药 I pull teeth for old ghosts, give female ghosts makeovers, deliver ghost babies, treat little ghosts for being short, get rid of dampness for water ghosts, treat burn injuries for fire ghosts, treat stiff necks for hanged ghosts, sew heads onto headless ghosts, whiten Black Impermanence, fit zombies with porcelain crowns, and help brothel ghosts put on airs. While treating ghosts, I've run into all sorts of problems. The question I hear most often is: “Excuse me, can I have anesthesia?” 157Reads7.0Score—14d adds
- 150 A Bowl of Meng Po's Soup 一碗孟婆汤 Among strange spirits and monsters, dangers abound. Break bones to uncover secrets and seek the path to immortality. Lin Zemin’s grandmother was a famous village doctor throughout the surrounding countryside. She could not only cure illnesses, but also read the signs. The medicines she used were all folk remedies. They might not have seemed orthodox, but they always worked. Lin Zemin was born late in his parents’ lives, and after his birth, his grandmother declared that he was destined to bear a 116Reads9.0Score—14d adds
