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- 51 The Republic-Era Book of Mysteries 民国诡秘录 Sometimes, the one who takes your life isn’t a person at all, but an evil spirit or demon. And the one controlling those spirits from behind the scenes might well be human... In the chaotic Republican era, foreign powers encircled the nation, eager to invade China, while warlords fought among themselves at home, leaving the land in ruins. On the other side of the jianghu, evil spirits rose everywhere and ghosts ran rampant, while mysterious foreign religions invaded as well. After waking from a 773Reads—Score10514d adds
- 52 Special Affairs Bureau, Division Nine: The Nanhai Monster Uprising 特殊事物处理九科之南海妖乱 Do you really know the friends around you? The coworkers around you? Your own family? Do you~ know this world? Maybe the people you know, the ones you've met and fallen in love with, aren't human at all~~~ They're demons~! If it weren't for one extraordinary mission, none of this would ever have come to light. And if it weren't for the people who silently stood guard, the Jiuying Sect might already have severed the dragon veins and destroyed our nation's fortune of ten thousand years... 140Reads—Score—14d adds
- 53 AMA: The Archivist AMA：归档者 That year, the gods of this world abandoned humanity. 1968, Spring Offensive: AMA-YN-001 appears in East Asia. 2001, within the Federation: AMA-US-012 appears in Seattle. 2010, Rocky Mountains: AMA-US-117 appears in the mountains. 2021, 1989, … Outsiders invade, anomalies awaken, memetic contamination spreads, zombies besiege cities, ancient gods’ remains surface, and impostors infiltrate. The only thing standing between them and humanity is the AMA (Anomaly Management Agency), and the archivi 39Reads—Score—14d adds
- 54 Adventure Journal 探险手札 The Yellow Springs snake demon in a mysterious ancient village; a mirror that wards off evil amid endless dunes; an ancient corpse buried beneath the snowy mountains, untouched by decay... My name is Xu Kaiyang, and I’ll take you on an unprecedented adventure! 7.8kReads8.6Score67014d adds
- 55 The Ghost Emerges from the Coffin 鬼出棺 Xie Bangui is secretly recruited into the Ghost Yamen and, on his master's orders, serves there, making a living by hunting demons and ghosts. Yet he has no idea that he carries a world-shaking secret. Leading the Ghost Yamen's warriors, Xie Bangui launches a night raid on a prison for evil spirits, fights a bloody battle on the execution platform against a demon, encounters a soul-snatching carriage, and cleverly breaks a skeleton lock. He survives evil spirits' attempts to claim his life, outw 1.6kReads9.1Score14414d adds
- 56 I Asked You to Write a Horror Play, So Why Did You Have to Add a Deity? 让你写诡剧，您非要往里加神人？ He Mo has always believed that eerie plays, with their dark, disturbing themes and wall-to-wall negativity, are bound to drive actors to a mental breakdown if they perform in them for too long. So he insists on adding a few absurd characters and comic plotlines to lighten things up. The more the theater objects, the more it proves he's doing the right thing. It shows that he's exposed the theater's intention to torment its actors through eerie plays. The more the actors object, the more it prove 1.1kReads—Score17014d adds
- 57 The Skinning Ghost 扒皮鬼 (Traditional supernatural horror + extreme horror + multiple twists + mystery + entirely handcrafted) Lately, I've been having nightmares every night. A fortune-teller said I might have a ghost clinging to me. He told me about a forbidden folk ritual: Put on a pair of worn underwear over your head, and it will block a ghost's sight. That night, I got home and followed his advice, half believing it. My girlfriend came back to the room after washing up and stared blankly at where I was. "Where... 64.2kReads8.3Score7k14d adds
- 58 Kunlun Abyss: A Forbidden Land of the Mortal Realm 昆仑深渊：人间禁地 [Over 40 million views for the animated adaptation, 9.6 rating for the audiobook, print edition signed, a hit with readers!] Deep in the Kunlun Mountains, sealed underground for two thousand years, lies an elite army of the Great Qin, thought never to have survived. I’m an active-duty soldier. During a rescue mission in an uninhabited zone, I accidentally stumbled into this forbidden place. At death’s door, I had an extraordinary encounter that saved my life. From then on, I joined a mysteriou 83.6kReads8.9Score7.1k14d adds
- 59 Mama Haha Won't Fly Anymore 玛玛哈哈不飞了 Mama Haha Won't Fly Anymore 2Reads—Score—14d adds
- 60 Imprisoned at Six! Forced to Join Bureau 749 at Eight 六岁入狱！八岁被迫加入749局 The mysterious Bureau 749 + Spirit Binding and Commanding + a ghostly companion + the voice of authority in Hell! There is a young man in this world... who eats human hearts... and raises ghosts and monsters. Lin San was born with a spirit-path body, and a ghostly companion appeared alongside him at birth. When he was six, his parents were murdered. To avenge them, he slaughtered all 673 members of the Zhang family. The Bureau 749 forcibly imprisoned him in the mysterious Ninth Prison. Be as str 6.3kReads6.9Score38214d adds
- 61 Paranormal Encounters: What I Saw and Heard 灵异事件之所见所闻 No System + no transmigration + no power fantasy + no harem + no invincible protagonist + no sweet romance + no clichés + no female lead + no cultivation. Important notice: if this isn’t for you, don’t read it. If this isn’t for you, don’t read it. If this isn’t for you, don’t read it! Do you believe there are things in this world that science cannot explain? Have you ever experienced anything supernatural yourself? Treat the events in this novel as stories, and remember: Fear and respect the sp 129Reads—Score—14d adds
- 62 The Stone That Remembers the Light 会记住光的石头 The Stone That Remembers the Light 2Reads—Score—14d adds
- 63 The Unlucky Heavenly Master Walks the Mortal World 冤种天师走人间 The Maoshan Celestial Master holds yin and yang in check, slays ghosts, banishes demons, and dispels ill omens. A three-foot peachwood sword, a stick of incense for virtue! My fate is unusual: I court death but never die, so my master took me in as a disciple and taught me the secret arts of Maoshan. After descending the mountain, I met a beautiful older girl I knew as a child, and she led me down a road of no return. A beauty in an ice coffin, a snow-mountain witch, a fox spirit beneath the moo 714Reads7.4Score10114d adds
- 64 The Midnight Mantou Shop 午夜馒头铺 Have you ever noticed that some breakfast shops serve food that's delicious most of the time, but for a couple of days each month, it suddenly tastes dry and is hard to swallow? Have you ever wondered if perhaps that breakfast food was never meant for people to eat...? 377Reads7.4Score—14d adds
- 65 Tomb of Spirits 灵墓 The tide of the world is vast and unstoppable. Those who follow it prosper; those who oppose it perish! An ancestral book of paintings gradually unveils the secrets behind Eastern mythology. This twisted, unpredictable myth begins when the production brigade organizes the villagers to repair a river. 3.1kReads8.6Score38614d adds
- 66 My Pale Life 我苍白的一生 My name is Zhang Yuan, though my childhood nickname was Ergou. I'm male, born in 1990. Everyone encounters all kinds of strange, inexplicable things in life. By the way, do you believe in ghosts? 491Reads8.4Score10114d adds
- 67 Ghosts in Pieces 散装见鬼 Do you believe there are ghosts in this world? I think that question is as impossible to answer as whether there are dragons in this world. The answer you hear most often is: Believe in them, and they exist. Don’t believe in them, and they don’t. But if you ask me, my answer is simple: Yes! Not because I believe, but because I can see them. Of course, I wasn’t able to see them from birth. It all goes back to the strange experience I had when I was six... 23Reads—Score—14d adds
- 68 A Feng Shui Master with a Bachelor's Degree, Class of 2000 00后本科风水师 [The rating has just come out and will rise later. Updates are steady, so you can read with confidence, friends!] [Small-town supernatural tales + true experiences + folk legends + ensemble cast + thrilling adventures] I'm Fang Kai, a feng shui practitioner with a bachelor's degree, born in the 2000s. I never dreamed that after graduating from college, I'd end up on the path of catching ghosts. Think ghost-catching is all about fighting and killing? Wrong. It's just as much about dealing with pe 5kReads8.6Score37314d adds
- 69 Have You Ever Seen a Monster? 你，见过妖怪吗？ (The rating just came out, so I don’t know if it’ll go up, but I’m already glad to have a rating. It’s taken a lot to reach over 400,000 characters...) On the surface, this world seems ordinary, but monsters and demons roam in the shadows. You never know whether the security guard you see every day, the convenience store clerk working late at night, or even the courier who’s always smiling at you... is really a demon beneath the skin. Some people try to trade their fellow countrymen’s lives for 325Reads8.0Score—14d adds
- 70 The Demon Taoist Breaks Through the Underworld Pass 妖道破阴关 (Supernatural horror, feng shui and geomancy, warding off evil and misfortune, one heroine) My parents used forbidden magic to conceive me, but on the day I was born, my strange appearance frightened them away... My third uncle raised me in a cage. I barely managed to grow up on borrowed yin virtue and incense offerings... On my eighteenth birthday, I was buried alive in the ancestral graveyard. She saved me... but she wasn’t human... 5.4kReads9.1Score47014d adds
- 71 Haunted Taoist Temple: I Only Hunt the Most Ominous Things 恐怖道观：我只抓大凶之物 “My good apprentice, you've completed your training. You may leave the mountain now.” “Rest assured, Master. Once I descend the mountain, I will vanquish demons and exorcise evil, restoring the glory of our Daoist tradition!” “To temper your character, I have a small test for you.” “I won't let you down, Master!” “Excellent. There's a young woman down the mountain. Go marry her!” “What?!” … 2.6kReads8.9Score30114d adds
- 72 The Fragrance of Corpses for Ten Miles 十里尸香 Most people receive gifts that are heartwarming or romantic. Even if they aren't a surprise, they're at least well-intentioned. But the gift I received when I turned twenty was a very real shock, and a curse. 1.9kReads8.2Score16514d adds
- 73 Insomniacs' Forbidden Tales: 444 Midnight Ghost Stories 失眠者禁忌：444个午夜鬼谈 A horror anthology with a bonus at the end of every story. I have 444 folk ghost stories guaranteed to keep you awake until midnight, terrify you, make you break out in a cold sweat, and pull the covers over your head! At the end of every chapter, the “Author’s Note” will include an illustration or bonus! But before you open it, brace yourself. The author accepts no responsibility for what happens next! [Supernatural Horror] [Folk Horror] [Rural Ghost Stories] [True Cases] [Urban Oddities] [L 4.2kReads—Score36914d adds
- 74 My Gunplay Is the Way: I Use an M1911 to Exorcise Ghosts 枪法即道法，我用M1911驱鬼 (Just got a rating) (harem) (urban high martial arts, supernatural mysteries, Taoist priest, multiple heroines, daily life, ghost-hunting with firearms, urban supernatural abilities, SCP-like, no System, solving cases, tomboy, childhood friends, tsundere) “Have you made up your mind?” “I have.” Wu Kui picks up the document and signs his name. “A true hero, and so young!” “No. I just don’t want to be kept in the dark.” To protect Wen Wan, an innocent girl with a rare Yin fate who is repeatedly ta 72Reads8.2Score—14d adds
- 75 The Ghost Way, Midway Through Life 半路鬼道 Smart male lead + one heroine On the night of the Ghost Festival, the living send off the dead, burn incense, make offerings, and burn joss paper. But that night, I heard a ghost calling for a soul… The gong sounds, the night grows dark, and the road to the Yellow Springs is hard to travel… With talismans to guide the way and the departed to show the path, summon the gods and command the ghosts: only then can one master the Ghost Path between Yin and Yang! 6.8kReads8.9Score49114d adds
- 76 Tales of the Supernatural 灵异怪谈 Yin-yang masters are fated to suffer the Five Evils and Three Deficiencies. Is there any way to escape their fate? A life-and-death romance with a bloodthirsty vampire zombie! After desperately searching for the Strange Records of Yin and Yang, he discovers it is all part of an even bigger conspiracy! The Mausoleum of Qin Shi Huang, bloodthirsty vampire zombies, an inn in the underworld, an ancient Warring States tomb, and the Strange Records of Yin and Yang all feature in Strange Tales of the S 1.6kReads8.8Score13914d adds
- 77 A Debt-Ridden Wage Slave Inherits a Mansion, but the Tenants Aren’t Human 负债牛马继承豪宅，但租客不是人 Chen Mo, a wage slave on the brink of being crushed by loan sharks, receives a mysterious phone call just as he’s losing hope. To his surprise, he inherits a mansion worth 30 million from a distant relative. He moves in overjoyed, only to discover that one of the tenants isn’t even human. The more he learns, the more shocked he becomes. It turns out a huge conspiracy is lurking behind it all... 1Reads—Score—14d adds
- 78 Horror Taboo: Returning the Soul Beneath the Coffin 恐怖禁忌，压棺回魂 The dead open their eyes, ghosts come to claim souls, the living borrow lifespans, and the dead press down on their coffins... One bizarre, uncanny experience after another keeps resurfacing in my mind like a nightmare. The strange tales in this book are mainly based on Yang Jian’s firsthand experiences... A warning: the actions in this book are for entertainment only. Do not imitate them! There are three kinds of people who read this book: thrill-seekers who aren’t easily scared... those who pu 973Reads6.2Score10114d adds
- 79 Reborn in 1989: Building Bureau 749 from Scratch! 重生89年，从零打造749局！ [749 Bureau, folk customs, mysteries, demon hunting, ensemble cast, official backing, military] At the end of 1989, snow blanketed the Shenyang Military Region. With the order to disband, the era of Steel Seventh Company came to an end. Ordinary soldiers were discharged and reassigned, while officers were transferred elsewhere. But Li Jingyang, himself an officer, made an unexpected choice. “Chief, I want to establish the 749 Bureau!” Armed with the Demon-Sealing List, he set out to create China 4kReads9.0Score31714d adds
- 80 The Secret Treasures of Mountains and Seas 山海秘藏 I have stood atop mountains and descended into the vast seas. I have ventured into every mysterious corner of China! Could a distant ancient kingdom in the Western Regions really be home to a stunning queen who lives forever? Could the vast mausoleum of Qin Shi Huang really conceal the greatest sword under heaven? Did hundreds of people really witness a legendary dragon on a misty island in the North Sea? In a dark old coffin in western Hunan, the King of the Undead stirs restlessly. I venture i 3.2kReads8.9Score45414d adds
- 81 The Ghosts Come Out at Night Series 猛鬼出更系列 The Ferocious Ghosts Come Out at Night Series 140Reads—Score—14d adds
- 82 Young Feng Shui Master 少年风水师 There are many things in this world that you and I have never encountered. Just because we've never encountered them doesn't mean they don't exist. Legends are often more than mere legends. And traditions must have an unknown reason for becoming traditions. 632Reads9.0Score11414d adds
- 83 The Cursed Girl with a Doomed Fate 诡命煞女 Ever since I was little, I was a child my mother hated. Born with an overwhelming concentration of the Seven Sha, I made every demon and monster flee at the sight of me. It wasn’t until I was twelve that I learned the truth: my birth had been part of a massive conspiracy... 10.1kReads9.2Score1k14d adds
- 84 The Coffin Walks at Night 灵棺夜行 I was carrying a coffin up the mountain for a burial when they stuffed me inside and buried me alive. Then, in a single night, all three hundred or so people in the village vanished. Only at night was the place alive with voices. I crawled out of the coffin, only to discover... 5.7kReads8.2Score37314d adds
- 85 He Was Eating Noodles at a Roadside Restaurant, When He Found a Human Eyeball in His Bowl! 他在路边餐馆吃面，竟然吃出了人眼珠子！ He was eating noodles at a roadside restaurant when he found a human eyeball in his bowl! 38Reads—Score114d adds
- 86 The Midnight Spirit Shop 深夜灵店 I'm neither a yin-yang master nor an exorcist, but I do have an unusual left eye. I run a shop that opens only at midnight, serving customers who have run into special troubles. A little shop, a cup of tea for a guest, and so my story begins... 1.7kReads8.6Score19414d adds
- 87 From the Start, I Joined Bureau 749, and Now Demons and Monsters Fear Me Like a God! 开局749，妖魔诡怪惧我如神！ [Power Fantasy] [Decisive and Ruthless] [Overwhelming Strength] [No Female Lead] [So Righteous It’s Evil] Su Xiao waited a full twenty years for his golden finger to activate. His patience had long since run out! And so, Bureau 749 gained a legend! The King of Hell calls roll! “Su Xiao, does that mean every supernatural creature deserves to die?” “Obviously. If it doesn’t die, am I supposed to die instead?” “Su Xiao, you’re still young. You need to keep a low profile...” “Wrong is wrong, 21.5kReads7.8Score2k14d adds
- 88 Major Crimes Unit Three: The Borrowed Corpse 重案三组之借尸还魂 Three bizarre murder cases, each victim wearing a strange smile. Through deep psychological profiling, forensic pathologist Song Ci discovers that each victim’s final actions imitated a tiny habitual gesture their long-deceased relative used to make. Bai Ye’s technical analysis confirms that traces of brain waves that could not belong to the living, already “formatted,” remain at the crime scenes... 2Reads—Score—14d adds
- 89 The Heavenly Master 一代天师 Forty years ago, a husband and wife ignored their ancestors' warning and died horribly at the entrance to their village. The woman's eyes were gouged out, and her body was hung from the old ginkgo tree in the ancestral hall. A year later, a young man from out of town unearthed a strange clay figure and was plunged into a deadly calamity, only to be saved by an old Daoist. Forty years later, a mysterious letter drew attention back to that village. No one knew that opening it would mean opening th 6.8kReads9.2Score96314d adds
- 90 The Yin-Yang Shop's Grim Reaper 阴阳店之鬼差 "There is a shop tucked away on a street corner. It has no name, and every nightfall, all sorts of people can be seen coming and going. A tycoon worth hundreds of millions, a madman begging on the street, a gambler with one arm... Here, you can see human nature stripped bare. A wife pawned for money, a zombie who went into hiding in the mountains for love, a ghost imprisoned by the living... The human heart is endlessly varied, and the world is full of every kind of life. Nothing is impossible. 458Reads9.2Score10514d adds
- 91 Strange Tales from the Start? But I’m Yang Jian! 开局聊斋？但我是杨戬啊 [No System + Chinese-Style Horror + Time-Limited Transformation + Yang Jian + Extreme Contrast and Thrills] After transmigrating into the demon-infested world of Strange Tales from a Chinese Studio, Yang Jian runs straight into a century-old Painted-Skin Ghost that specializes in tearing out human hearts. There is nowhere to run! No System chiming in. No old master living in a ring. His only trump card is the Holy Erlang True Lord sleeping inside him, whose name sounds just like his own: Yang Ji 6.4kReads8.2Score62714d adds
- 92 The Young Celestial Master of Tomb Raiding 盗墓小天师 (Tomb raiding + exploration + feng shui + folk taboos) Others raid tombs with Luoyang shovels and Soul-Guiding Talismans. I raid tombs with peachwood swords and yellow talisman paper. The last young celestial master of White Water Temple on Longhu Mountain somehow becomes the tomb-raiding world's most sinister “yin-yang master.” Wang Yan carries the bronze bell passed down by his master and a half-volume of the incomplete Yin-Yang Treasure Mirror. He had planned to spend the rest of his days ten 25.3kReads8.9Score2k14d adds
- 93 My Years in the Funeral Business 我干殡葬的那些年 People light candles, ghosts blow out the lamps. The dead return at midnight, corpses rise in funeral halls, and ancient relics lie buried for thousands of years. In my years working in the funeral business, I’ve encountered plenty of strange and uncanny things. The living walk the roads of the living world, and the dead walk the roads of the underworld. But sometimes, not everyone on the underworld’s roads is a ghost, and not everyone on the living world’s roads is human… 50.4kReads9.2Score5k14d adds
- 94 Folktales of the Mountains and Wilds 民间山野怪谈 The hidden truths behind ten major unsolved mysteries, revealing a host of terrifying taboos that will send chills down your spine! 14.2kReads9.1Score94114d adds
- 95 Senior-Year Internship: How Did You Join the Dragon-Slaying Squad? 大四实习：你怎么加入了斩龙队 [No Female Lead]+ [Monster Codex Unlocks]+ [Kill, Never Save]+ [Overwhelming Domination]+ [Pure Satisfaction]+ [Evil Spirits]… Su Ming transmigrates and inherits a paper effigy shop, binding himself to the [Monster Codex]. Every kill unlocks an entry and grants him an incredible skill on the spot. His innate Yin-Yang Eyes see through illusions, his Yin-Yang Treasure Vase devours all things, and his Seven-Orifices Exquisite Heart is immune to every evil. Sealing? Not a chance. My, Su Ming's, 9.8kReads8.0Score93814d adds
- 96 Kunlun Gatekeeper: Ten Thousand Ghosts at My Back 昆仑守门人：我背后有万鬼 There's a long-standing rumor about the Capital Museum: though it's crowded with visitors by day, the palace is thick with yin energy after midnight. Palace maids carrying lanterns, eunuchs bearing sedan chairs, and guards in yellow robes stroll openly through its halls. For a hundred years, three generations of the Chen family have guarded the Capital Museum, suppressing evil spirits and the Three Fiends and Five Afflictions, and keeping the palace secure on all eight sides so peace can reign. 5.4kReads8.9Score43614d adds
- 97 The Demon Hunter’s Journal 猎魔手记 Have you ever seen a white dog wearing clothes, or a mouse eating a cat? Have you heard of paper effigies putting on an opera, or flying stiff corpses sucking blood? Come, let me tell you... 1kReads8.5Score10214d adds
- 98 Strange Happenings in the Ancient City 古城诡事 A mysterious phone call full of suspense and a childhood friend he hasn't seen in years draw him into a dangerous web of intrigue. Following the clues, he steps into one carefully laid trap after another. His friend, returned from the dead, Qin Zhijie, who clings to him relentlessly and seems neither wholly good nor wholly evil, and Shangguan Wan'er, whose identity is shrouded in mystery, all vanish without a trace at the most crucial moments. Why did Da Kui, who had braved life and death, come 50Reads8.8Score414d adds
- 99 The Ghost King Is Sealed Inside Me, Yet I’m a Good-for-Nothing 体内封印鬼王，我却是个废柴 A rainy night in a cemetery, a man-eating black cat, a man searching for his late daughter, a school guard hanged on the stairs, a wedding coffin sealed with red paper, a grotesque face hiding in a mirror... What secrets lie behind it all? What other mysterious events will Wang Shier, the gravekeeper, have to face? As terror and dread slowly close in, those secrets seem to be steering his fate. (The stories in this book are all adapted from real events. If anything sounds familiar, it is pure co 7Reads6.4Score—14d adds
- 100 I'm Xie, a Yin-Yang Guide, Not a Taoist Priest 阴阳开路人谢邀，不是道士 I've seen too many lonely spirits trapped in corners, unable to move on, and too many people hell-bent on harming others. Sometimes I can't tell whether I'm imagining it in the throes of a psychotic episode or witnessing something real. The truth is far darker than fiction. “Absurd” is the only word for it. 21Reads—Score—14d adds
