Novels like The Yin-Yang Artisan
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- 1 My Fate Is Pure Yin, Even Ghosts Fear Me as I Cultivate the Dao 我命格全阴，鬼都怕我修道 I was born on the fifteenth day of the seventh month, when the gates of hell opened. All four pillars of my birth chart were yin, and my fate was full of holes. My grandmother called my soul back three times before I could be born without becoming a ghost. My father kept a butcher's knife under my pillow. With its blade facing outward, it kept ghosts outside away; tucked beneath my pillow, it held my own soul in place. At three, a drowned ghost knelt at the foot of my bed and begged to borrow my 1Reads—Score—Shelves
- 2 The Forbidden Burial Ground 葬灵禁地 I was born in a village that didn't exist, and no one who entered ever came back out. Raising ghosts, driving corpses, communicating with the dead, severing souls... They made money off the dead. At last, one day, with no other choice, my father broke a forbidden spell and took me away so I could live a normal life. He told me we'd never come back. But the curse had only just begun. Anyone who left the village would pay a terrible price... One night, I picked up a fare while driving a private 21Reads5.9Score—Shelves
- 3 Thirteen Taboos 十三禁忌 Thirteen folk taboos: the first is killing cats; the second, walking close to walls at night; the third, killing beneath a tree; the fourth... They say cats have nine lives, but most people don't know what that means and simply assume it refers to cats' strong vitality. There are many ancient texts that discuss the origins of the nine-lived cat. In the East, for example, the Buddhist text Sayings Above explains it this way: a cat has nine lives, corresponding to insight, spirituality, stillness, 5Reads8.0Score—Shelves
- 4 Mysteries of the Yellow River 黄河诡事 Grandpa said I was swept downstream from the upper reaches of the Yellow River inside a coffin. My fate was fragile, and I was never to go near the Yellow River again. But by a strange twist of fate, I ended up entangled with a stunning female corpse in the river... From then on, I embarked on an extraordinary path. Strange events came one after another: three trips to the Underworld, four visits to the Dragon Palace, an underground city of the dead, an abandoned village, and more. 16Reads6.5Score—Shelves
- 5 Ghosts Are So Scary! Learning to Slay Them in a Supernatural World 有鬼好怕怕，我在灵异世界学斩鬼 [Horror novel. Not for the faint of heart.] Do you believe there are ghosts in this world? If not, where did the word “ghost” come from? Have you ever experienced despair? The world I live in is filled with it. My name is Li You'an. If you’d like to hear my story, come take a look at my world. Twenty kilometers beyond the cemetery, countless hands clawed their way out of the earth. The world changed, becoming strange and unfamiliar. Ghosts ran rampant, the gates of the underworld swung wide ope —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 6 Record of Jiangnan's Haunted Towns 江南魇镇录 “My name is Jiang Nan. My former boss paid 250,000 to buy my life. He said my Four Pillars are all Yin, making me the perfect sacrifice for someone with the finest destiny.” He never expected me to survive. And he never expected my old granny to be the last spirit medium for miles around. She gave her life to shield me from my death tribulation, then placed the family heirloom, the Twelve Methods of the Xuan Sect, in my hands. She left me with a prophecy she could have told me sooner: “You can’t 1Reads—Score—Shelves
- 7 The Yin-Yang Clinic 阴阳医馆 A new clinic has recently opened in Hangzhou. The physician, Dongfang Liuli, is handsome and skilled, and everything about the place is nearly perfect, except for its rather unsettling name: the Yin-Yang Clinic. Strangely enough, ever since it opened, one calamity after another has struck the small city of Hangzhou: a woman found poisoned, a woman with only half her soul, a string of murders... Every case is chilling. Physician Dongfang Liuli throws himself into solving them, determined to unrav 5Reads—Score—Shelves
- 8 Painted Walls 画垣 When my village was demolished, I returned to sort through the belongings left behind by my grandfather, a painter, and took away a cigarette case decorated with mysterious patterns. The old house had long since been razed, but every nightfall, the entire village reappeared among the ruins. Maybe what my grandfather painted back then wasn’t a painting at all… 2Reads—Score—Shelves
- 9 Don't Look Toward the Dead of Night 别看向深夜 This is a bizarre parallel world, where people wear human skin, eat carrion, and pass along messages through corpses... Decline and prosperity, the absurd and the solemn, death and survival: within a vast web spanning the human world and purgatory, fate quietly comes and goes, unseen by anyone. (You can think of it as an encyclopedia of dorm life!) 2Reads—Score—Shelves
- 10 The Haunted Peach Blossom Stove 灵异桃花灶 There’s an old man in the village named Uncle Xing. He had been practicing as a yin-yang ritual master for over twenty years, ever since he was sixteen. At forty, he encountered a supernatural event so terrifying that he buried his magical arts and withdrew to the countryside, as if fleeing from something. He changed careers and became an ordinary auspicious-date consultant. But the truth can’t stay hidden forever. One day, he showed off and used magic to create a stove that would boost the roma —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 11 Afraid of Ghosts? I Just Scare Them Instead! What About It? 怕鬼！我直接吓鬼！如何呢？ Su Zhen transmigrated to a parallel world overrun by ghosts and awakened a Fear Points System. As long as he made ghosts afraid, he could earn Fear Points and exchange them for magical artifacts and skills. And so, the whole style of things changed. Others ran when they saw ghosts. He smiled. Others risked their lives to exorcise ghosts. He killed them for points. Wandering spirits? Scare them to tears before sending them on their way, for five times the reward. Evil ghosts? Break their lim 16Reads—Score122Shelves
- 12 Speak No Words of the Three Corpses 三尸勿语 When someone dies far from home and a practitioner uses magic to make the corpse rise, it is called corpse-driving. People have three hun and seven po souls; corpses have three corpse spirits and nine worms. To drive a corpse that died unjustly, one must first subdue the spirits of its three corpses. When the dead pass by, the living must keep away! 52Reads—Score—Shelves
- 13 Midnight Tales of Terror 午夜惊悚怪谈 Is the world really as you see it? When night falls, the uncanny follows close behind. It’s dark... Come with me into a bizarre and fantastical world, and experience the most spine-chilling sights hidden deep within your heart. This book is haunted. Ordinary mortals, stay away! 24Reads—Score—Shelves
- 14 Welcome to the Game of Sin and Desire 欢迎来到罪欲游戏 [Infinite Flow + two male leads, 1v1, both pure] Sunflowers die beneath the scorching sun; the selfish die of greed. Because of his heart condition, Chen Yi is filled with a desperate will to survive and is forced into the Sin and Desire Game. Here, desire is the only master. "Ding! Please honor your desires, for it is your privilege." Beneath beautiful appearances lie bloodshed and filth. Beneath trust lie betrayal and suspicion. In a realm of desire, no one can stay untouched. But what's going —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 15 The Mysterious Flower Shop of Yin-Yang Spirit Eyes 阴阳灵眸之神秘花店 The protagonist, Fan Nana, grew up in a gloomy orphanage. She has Yin-Yang Spirit Eyes that let her see ghosts. At the request of the old director, who appears in a painting, she sets out to uncover the orphanage's secrets. After overcoming countless dangers, she finally exposes the conspiracy behind the disappearances. With help from a caregiver, she brings the culprit to justice. Later, she arrives in an unfamiliar city and happens upon a mysterious flower shop, embarking on a new journey thro —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 16 The Strongest Spirit Medium in Qianzhou, the Land of Wu and Nuo 巫傩黔州最强走阴人 #SpiritWalkers #Folklore #UnusualTales #StrangeCaseFiles #TheYinYangRoad Chen Xuan, a ritual master from Qianzhou, is neither Buddhist nor Daoist. He commands the Five Chang troops and roams between the worlds of yin and yang. Just after solving a bizarre case involving stolen skins and body possession, he takes on a high-priced supernatural job in the Northeast. A wealthy child is plagued by a strange illness that has left famous doctors and immortals alike helpless. Joining forces with Ma Xiao —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 17 Going Home for Lunar New Year: Your Mom Says It’s Time to Go on a Blind Date 过年回家，你妈喊你去相亲 You go home for the New Year, and your mom tells you to go on a blind date —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 18 Supernatural: After My Best Friend Died, She Began Turning into Me to Take Revenge 灵异:闺蜜死后，报复我开始变成她 Supernatural: After my best friend died, she began to take revenge on me by turning into her —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 19 Rule Horror: The Corpse on the Bridge Sways in the Live Stream 规则怪谈：直播桥上的尸体晃呀晃 Rule Horror: The corpse on the bridge sways back and forth on the livestream —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 20 Horror Judgment: The Cat Is Purifying Me 恐怖审判：猫在净化我 Horror Judgment: The Cat Is Purifying Me —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 21 Pregnant with an Insect Egg, I Became the Mother of All Insects 怀上虫胎后，我成了万虫之母 After Conceiving an Insect Egg, I Became the Mother of All Insects 126Reads—Score—Shelves
- 22 What Should I Do When the Ghost Bride Calls While I’m Chatting with My Senior and Girlfriend? 和学姐女友聊天鬼娘子来电怎么办 [Chinese-Style Horror + Supernatural Mystery + Unhinged Male Lead + Vengeance to the Death] There is a taboo in the Li Zhaiye family. Li Zhaiye must never enter the locked ancestral shrine at home. Even getting a little too close would earn him a harsh beating on the palms from his parents. Then, just before his nineteenth birthday, while discussing plans with his senior girlfriend, he suddenly noticed that the door to the shrine, always kept locked, was open. So he went inside. But the figure e —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 23 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—Shelves
- 24 Before the Strange Things Begin 在一切诡异之前 [Supernatural resurgence + horror + no System + semi-infinite survival + no saintly protagonist + not dark + no female lead] When ghosts invaded reality, a group of survivors gained the protection of the “Rules.” They became employees of the “Rules,” and to keep enjoying their protection, they had to complete tasks. But the power of the “Rules” was limited... I didn't really care about any of that. I didn't want to bother figuring out what was the cause and what was the effect. So what if this w 11Reads—Score—Shelves
- 25 A Ghost at the Interview: The System Makes Me Play Chu Renmei 面试撞诡，系统让我扮演楚人美 [Supernatural resurgence + no female lead + System + role-playing + horror + decisive and ruthless + urban] Fresh out of college and already unemployed, Lin Ye receives a high-paying job offer from the Afterlife Funeral Home. It turns out to be a death warrant leading straight to hell! The interviewer is a faceless ghost, and HR is a painted-skin demon! The moment a ghostly claw pierces his heart, Lin Ye thinks he’s done for! [Ding! Host’s life is in imminent danger. Critical condition at 100% c 3Reads—Score—Shelves
- 26 The Train I Drive Leads to the Abyss 我开的火车通往深渊 My name is Lin Muhai. I'm twenty-one and a trainee train driver at the Ancheng Locomotive Depot. Before my first run, I heard a woman's voice in the crew waiting room. "One sleeper, two sleepers, three sleepers..." She counted to six, then paused. "Lin Muhai, it's your turn to count." 29Reads—Score—Shelves
- 27 May Vengeful Ghosts Protect You 厉鬼保佑 [Horror + Supernatural + Mystery + Survival + No System + No Female Lead] In this deranged world overrun by vengeful ghosts, Xu Feng obtains the key to Shelter 21. Why not pray to the ghosts? Beg them for a quick, clean death!!! 13Reads7.2Score—Shelves
- 28 This Shop Sells Only Netherworld Goods 本店只卖阴间物 A friend recommended a high-paying job. It wasn't until my first day that I realized I was selling offerings for the dead. Then all kinds of strange things started happening. The money a woman in red paid me turned into hell banknotes, and I began seeing "people" no ordinary person could see... 70Reads8.0Score—Shelves
- 29 There’s a Library 有个图书馆 A job ad that appeared out of nowhere gave recently unemployed Wu Hao a glimmer of hope that life might get better. But that same job ad led him to the boundary between the human world and hell. 3Reads—Score—Shelves
- 30 Eerie Artifacts 诡器 The supernatural is reviving!!! Evil spirits are invading the human world, and ghosts cannot be killed!!! Evil spirits run rampant across the world, plunging it into a massive catastrophe. The human world has become a living hell. Where can humanity find hope? 2Reads—Score—Shelves
- 31 Married to an Evil Spirit: The Red Veil of Huaian Village 嫁煞：槐安村的红盖头 Married to a Malevolent Spirit: The Red Veil of Huaian Village —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 32 Terror in the Countryside: True Horror Stories 乡野惊魂：恐怖实录 Remote mountains and harsh lands are full of ghostly tales, and deep in the mountains lurk all kinds of strange legends… Here you’ll find eerie stories that make your scalp tingle and send chills down your back. I’ve had a few experiences of my own that I can’t explain, too! Want to hear them? Come on in and I’ll tell you all about them…! This book contains plenty of horror and suspense, so please read with caution. 3Reads—Score—Shelves
- 33 I Was Horrified to Discover That My Neighbors Were Disappearing One by One 我惊恐的发现！邻居们陆续失踪 I discovered to my horror that my neighbors were disappearing one after another —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 34 Old Shen 旧沉 My name is Chen Lingqi. I live in a remote little village, where my master told me that a calamity is written in my fate. But what exactly is this calamity? Will I be able to get through it? And if I do, how should I live the rest of my life... 3Reads—Score—Shelves
- 35 My Master Is a Maoshan Taoist 我师父是茅山道士 No System, no cultivation of immortality. Chinese-style horror, traditional supernatural tales, rule-based horror, Taoist culture, and traditional culture. Have you ever seen a water ghost take revenge? Heard that a threaded needle can be used to identify a ghost? Eaten barbecue cooked upstairs at a barbecue restaurant? Seen the “Three Evils of Western Hunan”? Do you know how many kinds of zombies there are?... The sacrificial rites of the insect burial... My name is Lin Fusheng, and I’m a Maosh —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 36 The Borrowed-Life Formation in the Wilds 山野借命局 While working away from home, I get the news that my grandfather has passed away, so I return to the mountain village I left many years ago. I thought I was just coming back to clean out the ancestral home and take care of the funeral. But the moment I stepped into the village, I realized that something strange was going on everywhere. Footsteps circle endlessly outside the wall in the middle of the night. Gray-white hems quietly peek through cracks in the earthen walls. Behind the window pape —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 37 After Ten Years as a Psychiatrist, I Finally Began to Doubt My Entire Worldview 当了十年精神科医生，第一次彻底怀疑世界观 After ten years as a psychiatrist, I finally began to seriously doubt my view of the world for the first time. 1Reads—Score—Shelves
- 38 Don't Be Afraid, She's the Person Closest to Me 别怕，她是我最亲密的人 [Handcrafted from Scratch] [Flesh-and-Blood Vengeful Ghosts] [Chinese Horror] [Character Growth] [Not Mindless Wish Fulfillment] [Tightly Plotted] [Absolutely Ruthless] [50,000-Word Outline] If you were given the chance to change your fate, would you rather keep working hard as a delivery driver, or suddenly become a 182-centimeter-tall, golden-haired older man who never has to worry about food or clothing? Yu Fa had no choice. He was forced to transmigrate into the latter. But before he could e —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 39 The Yin-Yang Twin 阴阳双生人 [Mild Horror + The Supernatural] Ming Ye grew up living in a cemetery. Her parents went missing seven years ago and were eventually found dead under bizarre circumstances in the mountains. Seven years later, she became an emergency room doctor. One midnight, she met the Taoist priest Xu Baoyang on a bus as he was out catching ghosts. Later, while tracking clues about his missing master, Xu Baoyang came to the hospital where Ming Ye worked and discovered that a strange hospital orderly had set up 2Reads—Score—Shelves
- 40 Multiple Fears 多重恐惧 An invitation to a party brings together nine writers, each with a very different style. At the party, the novelist who invited them traps everyone inside and demands that each guest tell a story. With no other choice, they comply. One story after another unfolds at the party: will they reveal the clash of human nature or unleash ghostly terrors? Everything will come to light here. "This is my debut work. I hope you'll show it plenty of support." 9Reads—Score—Shelves
- 41 Old Lu's Lone Edge 老箓孤锋 The family has fallen into ruin, and its legacy lies in disgrace. As a descendant of Celestial Master Xu Xun, Xu Xuan has spent half his life in grief and partings. His father and elder brother died, his relatives and friends passed away, and the world mocked him as dull-witted and unworthy of carrying on the family tradition. Yet no one knows that an ancient power lies sealed in his blood. When the enemy of old comes to his door in the twilight of life, kneeling to beg forgiveness, is it genu 8Reads—Score—Shelves
- 42 I Raise Her in the Morgue 我在停尸间养她 After my girlfriend died, her reflection became trapped in a sink at the funeral home. For three years, I fed the writhing patch of black shadow with my blood every night, until my flirtatious coworker slapped a wedding invitation against my face. “You should’ve forgotten that dead girlfriend of yours long ago!” The instant I tore the invitation to shreds, a rotten hand shot out of the pool of blood and grabbed for her. A strawberry hair tie I’d given my girlfriend was caught beneath its fingern 1Reads—Score—Shelves
- 43 Horror and Terror 恐怖惊魂 My girlfriend suddenly left me. Heartbroken, I went to a mountain village to teach, where I met a Miao girl who looked exactly like her. We were both plagued by an inexplicable mystery: being haunted by ghosts. With no other choice, we went to the terrifying Coffin Cave... 5Reads—Score—Shelves
- 44 On My Wedding Day, My Deceased Sister Texted: You Can't Marry This Man 婚礼当天，亡妹发短信：这人不能嫁 On her wedding day, her deceased younger sister texted her: Don't marry this man. —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 45 Strange Tales: Once Upon a Time, There Was a Peach Blossom Spring 怪谈：从前有座桃花源 [Supernatural + One True Female Lead + Sequences + Sci-Fi Style + Not a Power Fantasy + Not Mindless + Games + Some Urban Legends] Urban legends are appearing all over the world. As spiritual qi revival begins, humanity is feeling its way toward an entirely different path to immortality. Have you ever memorized “The Peach Blossom Spring”? If so, do you really understand it? Why is the town surrounded by endless peach blossoms? Peach wood wards off evil. Look at those falling petals: don’t they r 3Reads6.7Score—Shelves
- 46 The Funeral Bearer of the Desolate Village 荒村送葬人 When the suona sounds, it sends off neither ghosts nor gods. It only buries the player. Nineteen years old, a severed finger, a lonely tower, and a deadly Three Corpses Seal in his belly. Behind him, a skin-flaying demon. Before him, red coffins and mist. Not a single person beside him could be trusted. Driven to the brink, he blew the battered suona he’d found. The tune was off-key, yet it shook the underworld. Since this world insists on making me a sacrifice, I’ll be the corpse-piper who send 3.2kReads8.2Score206Shelves
- 47 The Grave-Nailing Craftsman 钉坟匠 A centenarian’s body must not be buried carelessly. My master hanged himself at his own front door because he mishandled one such burial. To let him rest in peace, I performed an Earth Immortal burial again, only to discover that my dead master was watching me... 235Reads6.9Score—Shelves
- 48 Underworld Reaper: I Tell the Japanese Devils Chinese Horror Stories 地府勾魂使，我给鬼子讲中式恐怖 [National Fate] [Thriller Game] [Chinese-style horror] [No heroine] [Mild horror, not for the faint-hearted] [Global livestream] Xie Bi'an, a soul-reaping emissary, transmigrated into a parallel world where paranormal entities had arrived, taking the place of a history student named Xie An. Every country in this world had to create paranormal instances for others to challenge. The winners earned National Fate rewards, while the losers were punished. But because the Dragon Kingdom had lost touch 4.3kReads8.1Score473Shelves
- 49 The Terrifying Asylum 恐怖疯人院 [Traditional supernatural fiction] + [Traditional mystery] + [Twists] + [Deduction] A tribute to The Last Bus on Route 13. My girlfriend, Tian Wenjing, was an intern doctor at a psychiatric hospital, but she died mysteriously while working there. To investigate what happened, I somehow ended up at the same hospital. After experiencing all kinds of bizarre events, I discovered a tremendous conspiracy lurking behind it. And somehow, this conspiracy was closely connected to me... 656Reads8.0Score—Shelves
- 50 Wicked Fate Geomancer 邪命地理师 [Mystery + Supernatural + Comedy + Not a Power Fantasy + Urban + National Fate] The Dragon Veins are gone from the world. The nation's fate now depends entirely on geomancers! Also known as The Geomancer of an Ill-Fated Destiny A friendly warning: This story is almost too realistic… I'm a geomancer. Some people call us feng shui masters, but that's not the whole story. I don't know much, but in my line of work, it's all about cause and effect, and the tides of fortune! In your eyes, a nati 3Reads—Score—Shelves
