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- 51 I Picked Up a Republic-Era Ghost Wife 捡个民国鬼妻当老婆 Lin Mo, a greedy, lecherous relationship counselor, takes a bride price of a hundred thousand yuan to go on a matchmaking visit to a remote village. In a daze, he signs a marriage pact with the dead and marries a ghost bride from the Republic of China era who has been dead for eighty years! His left hand awakens as a Yin Hand: touch a ghost and it can be destroyed, touch a living woman and she suffers searing pain. Only a female ghost can approach him without harm. A cool, beautiful policewoman 157Reads—Score—Shelves
- 52 The Ninth Investigation Bureau (Complete in Two Volumes) 第九调查局(全二册) (I) Shen Xisheng, 19, a genius teenage detective with perfect looks, perfect observation skills, and perfect reasoning abilities. Yin Chenxia, 29, a bestselling novelist with off-the-charts homebody tendencies, off-the-charts coldness, and detective skills that are... unfathomable. The genius teenager Shen Xisheng has been a huge fan of his paternal half-brother, Yin Chenxia, since childhood. Hoping to get his brother's attention, Shen became a minor celebrity detective while attending high sch 58Reads9.2Score—Shelves
- 53 The Tomb Raider Legends Series: All Six Books 盗墓者传奇系列：全六册 A six-book set, including The Tomb Raider's Legend 1: The Tomb of King Chu You, The Tomb Raider's Legend 2: The Misty Marshes of Yunmeng, The Tomb Raider's Legend 3: The Divine Turkic Coffin, The Tomb Raider's Legend 4: The Sacred Bones of Kunlun, The Tomb Raider's Legend 5: The Ancient Tomb at the Earth's Core, and The Tomb Raider's Legend 6: The Border Town of Tomb Raiders. 202Reads8.8Score—Shelves
- 54 Tomb Raiding Tales from Republican China 民国盗墓往事 A long-lost memory brings a gripping story from the past to light. What I’m about to tell you is a secret from the Republican era… 3.5kReads8.8Score604Shelves
- 55 The Grave Robbers' Chronicles: Northern Shaanxi 陕北盗墓笔记 [Tomb raiding, daily life, hardship, growth] This is a story about tomb raiding, feng shui, and the underworld. These are people who once lived ordinary lives but were forced by hardship to take up tomb raiding. They have no experience, only their miserable lives. Watch how they use those wretched lives to forge a legendary future. In 1999, a shocking incident took place in Suiping City, in northern Shaanxi. The tomb of Meng Tian, located right in the heart of the city, was completely emptied 551Reads—Score—Shelves
- 56 Live from the Wilderness 荒野直播 I've killed tigers and wolves, traveled with Bear Grylls, stood atop Mount Everest, and left my footprints across the Sahara., Lu Qing “Freedom and the simple beauty of life are things you should never miss.”, From I Am in the Wild, My Name Is Xingguo Duoge Qing 134Reads7.0Score—Shelves
- 57 Live Adventure: Discovering The Truman Show from the Start 直播探险：开局发现楚门的世界 [Live-streamed Exploration + Wilderness Survival + Fantasy Adventure + No Female Lead + No Movie-World Crossovers] Lin Chuan transmigrates to a parallel world where live-streamed exploration has fallen into decline. From the start, he binds himself to the Global Mystery Exploration System. After claiming the beginner’s gift pack, he can’t sit still any longer. He strengthens his physique, unlocks wilderness survival skills, and joins the Feisha platform. He live-streams a trek across the Hen 9.9kReads8.1Score751Shelves
- 58 The Escort of the Mountains and Seas: The Langyin Garment Tomb 山海押镖人之琅音衣冢 (Fantasy adventure!! If you love adventure, come along.) Escort work isn't like hosting a banquet, writing an essay, or drawing and embroidering flowers. There's nothing refined or genteel about it, and certainly no room for being mild-mannered, respectful, frugal, and yielding. Escorting cargo is a skill for surviving in the martial world, a matter of life and death, and a contest of intrigue and deception. Bandits, robbers, crooked inns, charlatans, and all sorts of factions will stop at nothi 37Reads7.2Score—Shelves
- 59 In Search of the Loulan Treasure 寻找楼兰宝藏 In the ancient legends of the Western Regions, Loulan, the mysterious ancient city, has always been shrouded in mystery. It is said that the King of Loulan amassed a vast hoard of treasures. When the ancient kingdom mysteriously vanished, the whereabouts of those riches became an age-old mystery. 3Reads—Score—Shelves
- 60 The Mysterious Department Jiuding: The Power of the Five Elements 神秘部门九鼎：五行之力 (This story is entirely fictional. If anything seems familiar, trust in science.) By chance, I joined Jiuding, a mysterious national agency. There, I met a group of old monsters: Qin Shi Huang Ying Zheng, Zuo Ci, Yuan Tiangang, Li Chunfeng, and Zhang Sanfeng. I also learned that other countries have their own mysterious agencies. For example, America’s S.H.I.E.L.D., Britain’s Knights of the Round Table, Russia’s Society of Nature, Japan’s Onmyoryo, and so on. I thought my future would be spent d 221Reads6.8Score—Shelves
- 61 The Lightbearer 递光者 Why is the backdrop of the starry sky black? What lies at the edge of the universe? One stormy night, a man claiming to carry on the light of the universe got into Zhou Yu's ride-hailing car. The next second, a Ferris wheel collapsed, the sky tore open, and indescribable monsters poured down. Only then did Zhou Yu realize he had been drawn into a war of corruption beyond reality. One conspiracy after another swept him along, forcing him ever onward. Until the day he gained the power to flip the 2Reads—Score—Shelves
- 62 A Tomb Raider's Life 盗墓生涯 In 2013, I unexpectedly went bankrupt, and my girlfriend left me. With no other options, I took this path, and a strange, eerie world opened up before my eyes. Beneath a mysterious thousand-year-old tomb, half were tomb raiders, and the other half were... 561Reads6.8Score—Shelves
- 63 Bureau 749: Classified Files 749局绝密档案 Bureau 749: Do you want to know its secrets? The dead returning to life? Vampiric zombies? Clones? All will be revealed here. 826Reads7.4Score112Shelves
- 64 Strange Tales from the Northeast Paranormal Investigation Bureau 东北民调局异闻录 This is an organization dedicated to investigating and handling all kinds of bizarre supernatural events. To avoid causing public panic, it was established under the name Bureau of Folklore Investigations. The novel reimagines and develops various supernatural legends from Northeast China. Its strange events and compelling stories are presented with a distinctive Northeastern sense of humor. All manner of mysterious incidents, mountain spirits, and ghosts are told here! 415Reads—Score—Shelves
- 65 Starting at Mount Huangshan, I Set Out Across a Thousand Miles to Solve the Mysteries of Ancient Texts 从黄山开始赴万里山河解古籍谜团 Twenty years ago, Gu Jingzhi, a researcher of ancient books at the National Library and an inheritor of heritage geography, mysteriously disappeared while investigating the source of the Yellow River. All he left behind was an incomplete manuscript, Notes on Mountains and Rivers, and the words, “As long as the mountains and rivers endure, our cultural legacy will live on.” Twenty years later, his grandson Gu Yanzhou has become the curator of Notes on Mountains and Rivers, a Douyin account with 8Reads—Score—Shelves
- 66 Case Files of Unusual Investigations 异案调查录 Throughout the vast world, from ancient times to the present, there have always been mysterious events that humans cannot explain. And there is a group of people who endure countless hardships in their pursuit of the truth. The cases they investigate are all considered paranormal… 522Reads7.4Score—Shelves
- 67 Top Secret: Paranormal Investigation Bureau 绝密：灵异事件调查局 To investigate and handle supernatural incidents, the nation established a special task force. All files, mission reports, and research are classified as the highest level of national secrecy. As a field operative, I was fortunate enough to take part in handling all kinds of cases: the madness of thousand-year-old corpses, the wonders of supernatural abilities, and incidents involving hybrids of spirits, demons, and monsters... 152Reads—Score—Shelves
- 68 I Dropped Out of College, Then Turned Around and Wreaked Havoc on Bureau 749 大一退学，我反手祸害749局 [Pure wish fulfillment + ruthless action + comedy + endless memes + cunning protagonist] “Li Xuan, you’ve been expelled from school.” “Why? All I did was ruin the freshman welcoming ceremony, sneak into the girls’ dorm twice, blow up a few toilets, and break a couple of windows.” The principal clutched his chest. “Go! Disappear! Get the hell out of here!” As Li Xuan stood bewildered at the school gates, a bald man approached with a young man. “Li Xuan, we’re investigators from Bureau 749. Join u 459Reads—Score—Shelves
- 69 I Just Came Out of Ailao Mountain, and 749 Took Me in as a Monster 刚出哀牢山，被749当怪物收容 [Ruthless and decisive] [Wild man] [Wipe out the roots] Su Yang is an experienced traveler. After transmigrating to this world twenty years ago with a monster compendium as his golden finger, he hasn’t encountered a single monster. He’s ended up living like a wild man. On the verge of starving to death as a penniless pauper, he places his last hope in the mysterious Ailao Mountain. On their first night in the mountains, his fellow travelers spot a monster. Su Yang grabs his Luoyang shovel and st 138Reads—Score—Shelves
- 70 The Divine Son-in-Law Who Sells Knives on Credit 赊刀神婿 When I was born, my grandfather gouged out one of his own eyes! My grandfather is the one they mean when they talk about borrowing a knife from fate and never missing a single fortune-telling. But in doing so, he revealed the secrets of heaven and brought divine retribution upon himself... 266Reads8.1Score—Shelves
- 71 Tales of Tomb Raiding in Southern China 南派盗墓往事 [Tomb Raiding + Adventure + Suspense] In the 1990s, I was just a minor antique dealer who traded in bones. Then I mistakenly bought a burial object, and from that moment on, I embarked on a one-way journey across a thousand years... To find the answers, I had no choice but to wander between the worlds of the living and the dead, crossing mountains and seas and traversing deserts and wastelands. At the very source of it all, I finally uncovered the truth behind the baffling mystery... 1kReads7.3Score141Shelves
- 72 Tomb Raiding: The Dark Mystery Mirror 盗墓：玄冥宝鉴 [Tomb raiding + treasure hunting + mystery solving + ensemble cast + history + no mindless plot] An original work, not fan fiction. [Tomb raiding is illegal. Do not try this yourself.] Does the Dust-Repelling Pearl really exist? What secrets lie behind it? What strange and mysterious events are hidden behind the national treasures? What connections link tomb raiding, antique appraisal, the underworld, the martial world, and the protagonist? 161Reads—Score—Shelves
- 73 The Sisters in the Backyard 后院的姐妹 The Sisters in the Backyard 2Reads—Score—Shelves
- 74 The Unusual Case Investigation Bureau 异案调查局 In 2008, the body of a drowned woman was discovered in the Kaiyuan Reservoir. Yet every clue in the case pointed to suicide. The officers assigned to investigate began having frequent nightmares, and in the end, each of them drowned. “Bus 303,” “Crying Beneath the Old Grave,” “Hair in the Forbidden City Corridor,” “Chongqing's Headless Taxi Driver.” Zhang Yao, a member of the Anomalous Cases Investigation Bureau, tells you about the inexplicable paranormal cases he personally encountered over th 155Reads5.3Score127Shelves
- 75 Bureau 749, Section 13 749局13科 Bureau 749 is a mysterious department dedicated to handling supernatural phenomena and incidents. Psychics are peculiar, unknown beings with special abilities that defy explanation. To maintain social stability, Bureau 749's main task is to control and monitor psychics and prevent them from committing crimes. But the darkest things in society aren't psychics or criminal acts. They're the human heart, and the incomprehensibly mysterious, unfathomable force known as fate... A top agent forced into 3.2kReads7.7Score399Shelves
- 76 Notes from a Folklore Archaeology Team 民俗考古队手记 The true experiences of Lin Ye, a 24-year-old graduate student in folklore. I went to the countryside with my advisor to survey funeral customs. On my first day in the village, I saw five words carved into the stone tablet at the entrance: “Do not enter the village at dusk.” The village elders taught me: If someone calls your name at night, don’t answer. A funeral basin must be smashed in one blow. When you leave the village, don’t look back. I wrote down each rule in my notebook, treating it as 15Reads—Score—Shelves
- 77 749 Special Incident Investigation Bureau 749特殊事件调查局 [Based on real experiences. Just listen for fun, and I hope you enjoy it.] [No superpowers + first person + in the style of Strange Tales from the Ministry of Culture. If you like Strange Tales from the Ministry of Culture, jump right in.] At last, I have the chance to write a story about this mysterious department. I don't know how many people have heard of Bureau 749, let alone how many know anything about it, but Bureau 749 has always been shrouded in mystery. Its full name is the Bureau of S 7.5kReads7.5Score493Shelves
- 78 The Strange Realm Archives 诡域档案 Six years ago, Comrade Peng Gang, an outstanding investigator in the Ministry of State Security of Huaxia and deputy director of the Seventh Bureau, met a strange death while on a mission. Six years later, several investigators go missing one after another. The case they were investigating is deeply strange and has countless connections to the case from six years ago. In response, the mysterious investigation team, Fifth Bureau, Ninth Division, begins looking into a series of cases in the realm 332Reads9.1Score—Shelves
- 79 Adventure Livestream: My Discoveries Shock the World 直播探险：我的发现震惊全球 (My new book, "Live-Streaming an Expedition into the Deep Mountains, I Was Kidnapped into a Human Experiment Facility", is now available! A different kind of livestream adventure. Come check it out!) [No Romance + No Cultivation + Mysterious Creatures + Unsolved Mysteries + Global Livestream] After retiring from the military, Lin Feng became a small-time streamer. Then he bound himself to the [Global Exploration Livestream System]. In Shennongjia, he livestreamed a hunt for a giant wildman, caus 4.1kReads6.5Score252Shelves
- 80 The Water-Taming Beast 镇水兽 They say a fish couldn't possibly survive for seventy years, yet this one has been wreaking havoc for just as long! What lies beneath the waters of the Mian River, so shocking that it has dragged so many people down to their deaths? The surface of the rivers you see may seem calm, but you might not know that in those terrifying, eerie depths, a water guardian beast could be lurking, striking at lives as fragile as moths before they even know it's there, like a demon on the hunt... 719Reads8.8Score102Shelves
- 81 The Virus Strikes: I’m the Only Man Left in the World 病毒来袭：我是全世界唯一的男人 A virus that affects men sweeps across the globe, and overnight, every man disappears! Zhang Xiaohu wakes up to discover that he has become the only man left in the entire world! Humanity is on the brink of extinction, and countries everywhere are gripped by panic. Only by finding men can human civilization continue! Zhang San is now humanity’s only hope of carrying on the family line! 271Reads—Score—Shelves
- 82 The Divine Mortician 神葬师 I am the peerless Divine Burial Master. I use heaven and earth as my coffin to bury every ghost and god in the world, and feng shui formations to safeguard the nation’s fortune for generations to come. The world honors me as the National Feng Shui Master. Bureau 749 regards me as its pillar of support, and I trounced the Kiku Sect. Yet in the ultimate battle ten years ago, I won but still lost everything. With my cultivation gone, all I could do was return to my hometown and wait to die. Then, o 28Reads—Score—Shelves
- 83 You Asked Me to Tell Fortunes, but You Turned a Warlord into the Living Yama 让你算命，你把军阀投资成活阎王 In a chaotic Republic-era world, evil spirits run rampant, the Daoist sects are hidebound, and foreign occult forces are invading. After Chen Changsheng, a man blinded in both eyes, unexpectedly unlocks the Republic-era Fortune Venture Capital System, he can glimpse the fortune charts of all things and invest in down-and-out beings at rock-bottom prices. Once they survive their death trials, he reaps tenfold returns in fortune, cultivation, and magical treasures. He rejects the traditional path 1Reads—Score—Shelves
- 84 749 Bureau: Strange Case Investigations 749局：奇案调查 Liu Shui experienced a supernatural event as a child, during which his only family member disappeared without a trace. As an adult, Liu Shui is recruited by Bureau 749, an agency dedicated to investigating supernatural events. Under the guidance of his superior, Han Jiu, he begins investigating a string of mysterious cases. A shadowy figure on the last bus, a vampire attacking a zoo, a master craftsman with a thousand faces who sells bizarre artifacts, an alien creature with extraterrestrial tra 2kReads8.9Score181Shelves
- 85 A Century-Old Mystery, a Millennium-Old Secret, and a Fated Legend 百年之疑，千年之秘，传说的宿命 [No System] [Hardcore Exploration] [Mind-Bending Puzzles] [Tightly Woven Logic] Everyone in this book is smart, every mystery gets an answer, and every strange phenomenon has a scientific explanation. If you're tired of mindless power fantasies, welcome to the world of hardcore exploration! To uncover the truth lost among the lines of longitude and latitude, I led my team across forbidden zones around the globe, setting foot in taboo places untouched by sunlight. From Solomon's Temple, silent f 319Reads8.6Score—Shelves
- 86 The Yellow River Demon Suppression Bureau 黄河镇妖司 The mighty Yellow River rolls on without end, nurturing countless civilizations and burying countless secrets. Iron oxen that hold back the river, nine tortoises carrying a snake, corpse bristles from the Yellow River, ghost-bride processions... Beneath the mysterious ancient waterways of the Yellow River, there is so much you don’t know. The legendary Nine Gates of the Yellow River, the vanished Jiuli of Chiyou, the thirty-six sects of Huaxia: a different Yellow River, a different world of mart 2.7kReads8.2Score182Shelves
- 87 Case Files of the Unusual: New Century 异案调查录2：新世纪 A century marks one hundred years. In this new century, technology and information are advancing at breakneck speed, and all kinds of bizarre cases are springing up everywhere. News of them spreads faster than ever before. A boy who can only walk by hopping, another person's face appearing in the village well, a human shadow appearing on a factory warehouse wall in the middle of the night, and more... Only the Unusual Cases Investigation Bureau can handle this series of bizarre incidents... 53Reads—Score—Shelves
- 88 Chronicles of the Supernatural 异灵实录 At three in the morning, check the list of the dead; let the ferryman guide your soul. Chinese horror stories, spirit-summoning, death notes. Some things can be explained, while other feelings defy description. A terror that makes you shudder as you think it over rises from the depths of your heart. After reading these 99 stories, you'll find yourself questioning your own life. There's a rumor that you should never stay in the last room on the ground floor of a hotel. The author once traveled ou 24Reads9.2Score—Shelves
- 89 The Years I Spent Locked Up at Xishan Base 我被关在西山基地的那些年 [Xishan Base, Book Two] [Containment fiction, no female lead] From the moment Chen Jiangwen set foot in Xishan Base, he was no longer an ordinary person. He left his mundane life behind, and from then on, he would face the deepest mysteries of the world. Terrifying, uncanny monsters; concepts that kill without a trace; supreme beings from beyond; or rebellion and strife within humanity itself. None of it had anything to do with Chen Jiangwen, because no anomaly could affect him. And yet it all h 2.7kReads7.7Score427Shelves
- 90 Supernatural: My Years Hunting Ghosts at Bureau 749 灵异：我在749局打鬼那些年 The appearance of a white coffin and a red coffin at the construction site changed my fate. That night, I saw corpses that could move and a ghost that could steal a person's soul. They were all "deceiving" me, trying to make me die. What should I do... When you think the person behind you is a ghost, the real ghost may be the one standing in front of you... Once it's dark... don't read this!! 211Reads—Score—Shelves
- 91 Department of Paranormal Investigations 神秘事件调查处 The Secret Incident Investigation Bureau, Book One As a child, Zhuge Yun was struck by lightning and branded with a thunder rune. During an archaeological excavation, he accidentally awakened the thunder element within himself. After joining the Ninth Division, under the Huaxia government’s secret agency, Bureau 749, Zhuge Yun and his teammates handled all kinds of supernatural incidents. The mysterious Poyang Lake Delta, ghost soldiers crossing the land, resurrected terracotta warriors in the M 4.4kReads8.4Score250Shelves
- 92 A Grave Robber's True Records 盗墓贼的真实笔录 No romance. A true account of grave robbing. Follow my perspective and see the most authentic world of tomb raiding. Want to get rich? Rob a tomb. Make ten thousand yuan overnight: that was life back in our day. One trip into a tomb could earn you tens of thousands at the very least, or hundreds of thousands, even over a million. There’s not much startup capital needed for this line of work, and it’s more thrilling than gambling. There are no traps or ghosts in these tombs. The ones you need to 32.5kReads7.6Score2.6kShelves
- 93 Bureau of Anomalous Biology Investigations 异常生物调查局 The day after my grandpa died, everyone in town showed up… 529Reads8.2Score102Shelves
- 94 Tomb King of the Imperial Capital 帝都墓王 The Mo family tomb-raiding syndicate is the only force descended from the Faqiu Zhonglang tradition. Beneath the capital's turbulent surface, the family battles over the clan head's position, while tomb raiding brings thrills and danger and tangled relationships grow ever more complicated. Can Mo Xunhun, the Mo family's illegitimate son, fight his way through every obstacle? 275Reads8.2Score—Shelves
- 95 The Strange and Secret Treasures: Chronicles of the Eight Wastelands 神诡秘宝之八荒踏墟志 Madmen, can you really withstand the truth of this world? No System, no fast-food thrills. This is a rare, hardcore slow-burn adventure novel on Tomato this year, with every expedition grounded in real historical documents. No piling on cheap thrills, no padding out the word count. This is written for readers who can settle in for a long-running story. The trilogy is fully planned. The road ahead is long, every step is hardcore, and the secret realm has only just been opened. 82Reads—Score—Shelves
- 96 The Kitchen Maid of the Minister's Household 尚书府的烧火丫鬟 The Ministry of Rites' Kitchen Maid 34kReads—Score2.9kShelves
- 97 Memoirs of the Kunlun Mountains, 1978 1978年昆仑山回忆录 In the autumn of 1978, Professor Zhang Wenli and his party arrived from Beijing in Yingdudaban to carry out a routine site survey lasting fifteen days. As a local assistant, I was honored to work alongside the professors from Beijing. But this ordinary survey was soon plagued by one unexpected incident after another... 5.2kReads8.8Score425Shelves
- 98 Shan Hai Hunter: Hou Yi Possesses Me from the Start, and I Slay the Great Serpent 山海猎人：开局后羿附身斩大蛇 [New book: Shanhai Sequence: My Kunpeng Can Transform, a new story with a new system.] [Classic of Mountains and Seas] + [Forbidden Zones] + [Hunter x Hunter] + [giant beasts] + [Spiritual Qi Revival] + [invincible power fantasy] In June 2013, the head of the Qin family of the Northwest led a group of elite Hunters into the Death Valley forbidden zone in the Kunlun Mountains to stop a Golden-Winged Great Roc from undergoing tribulation. Not one of them made it out alive. In November 2016, rumo 1.2kReads6.3Score104Shelves
- 99 Snatching Immortality 抢仙 [Mystery and adventure + occult battles + a nontraditional path to immortality + ruins around the world] I've practiced Daoism for twenty years and watched my master ascend with my own eyes. Becoming an immortal has become an obsession. But the Heavenly Dao has run out of opportunities for me. I'm just one step away, yet the gap is as vast as heaven and earth. The chance to become an immortal should be somewhere between the highest heavens and the deepest underworld, but I can find it nowhere. I 50Reads8.5Score—Shelves
- 100 Hunting Notes from the Greater Khingan Range 大兴安岭狩猎笔记 Folk Horror / Period Fiction / Hunting Legend / Supernatural Northeast 1993, deep in the Greater Khingan Mountains. Snow seals off the mountains, and an endless sea of forest stretches in every direction. This is a blank spot on the map, a forbidden zone beyond the reach of the law. In a world of nothing but black and white, survival depends not on the law, but on the rules. Chen Ye, an abandoned baby raised by wolves, is known as “Wolf Boy.” Ten years ago, on a stormy winter night, the old hunt 1.1kReads7.5Score107Shelves
