Novels like My Yin-Yang Teahouse
Books Chinese readers most often put in the same booklists as My Yin-Yang Teahouse, best match first.
- 51 A Sequel to Yashe 哑舍自续 I'm no great literary master or veteran writer. I'm just a guy who likes reading and has a passion for history. I've been fortunate enough to visit many museums. To me, the antiques in their display cases are conversations across centuries, echoes across millennia. I also really like Xuan Se, but I don't know why Ya She suddenly ended. There were still so many stories waiting to unfold in that antique shop. I couldn't bear to see that shop disappear, so I thought I'd continue the story in my own 224Reads6.6Score102Shelves
- 52 Nightmare Game: I Can Rewind Time by Dying 噩梦游戏：我能死亡回档 [Nightmare Game + Infinite Worlds + Mild Horror + Death Rewind] Ye Feng moved into the Xingfu Huayuan residential complex. The scenery was nice, and the neighbors were friendly enough. The only fly in the ointment was that the person living upstairs kept making noise in the middle of the night. He once tried going over to talk, but they never opened the door. Then, one day, just as he was about to put on his headphones as usual to block out the annoying noise, two people showed up at his door, c 1Reads—Score—Shelves
- 53 The Spirit-Sealing Corpse Shroud 镇灵尸衣 On the day I was born, ghosts surrounded our home. I only survived because a master gave his life to save me. Only later did I learn the truth: I was born on a yin year, yin month, and yin day, making me a Yin Child. My master said that anyone born under all three yin signs would have a life full of misfortune and spend their days wandering from place to place. 140Reads—Score—Shelves
- 54 The Supernatural General Store 妖妖灵杂货铺 A dilapidated grocery store goes by another name: Yaoyao Ling. Think that sounds strange? The owner of this shop is stranger still. Other people hunt ghosts, but he eats them. You’re afraid of going to hell, but he was born there. After thousands of years, he can no longer tell whether he is human or ghost. But he knows exactly why he is still alive. Everything begins in this little grocery store, where funny, thrilling, and fascinating supernatural tales await. It’s all here at the Yaoyao Ling 118Reads7.0Score—Shelves
- 55 The Paranormal Master of Xuan Zong Feng Shui 玄宗风水术师之灵异先生 City life, celestial masters, the supernatural, feng shui, talismans, witchcraft, dark arts, ghost hunting, exorcisms, monster slaying, evil-spirit banishment, demon subjugation, battling zombies, living with a policewoman. No cultivation. 764Reads6.1Score107Shelves
- 56 A Thousand Years of Ghost Stories 千年鬼话 A Thousand Years of Ghost Stories: One Thousand and One Nights of Chinese Folk Ghost Tales is a spine-chilling collection steeped in folk tradition. This book brings together ancient folk legends and ghost stories from across China, featuring mysteries and uncanny events from different historical periods and regions. From eerie mountain forests and desolate old villages to bizarre corners of modern cities, every story holds little-known horrors and shocking revelations. The plots are mysterious 3Reads—Score—Shelves
- 57 The Vein Agreement 矿脉协议 What lies buried deep underground is not ore, but a forbidden secret no living person should ever touch. In the mountains of the middle and lower Yangtze River region, Qingyan Phosphate Mine in Y City, H Province, is a flagship provincial mine owned by one of the area’s pillar industries. It has comprehensive procedures and advanced equipment, and in more than twenty years of operation, it has never had an accident. During the War of Resistance, a Japanese geological survey team entered an old 35Reads—Score—Shelves
- 58 The Delusion of the Final Sequence 终序之妄 [Dual heroines + mental illness + supernatural] Mo Shanshan has a pair of unusual crimson eyes. She can see ghosts, yet she’s been sent to a psychiatric hospital and diagnosed with delusional disorder. Ringing in your ears? That’s because people can’t understand what ghosts are saying! The Heavenly God Path, the Water Corpse Curse, corpse infants, a haunted lake, the collapse of the Six Paths of Reincarnation: is it all the plot of the Entropy God? No. This time, Luo Shisan absolutely will not d 21Reads—Score—Shelves
- 59 I'm Just a Photographer, So Why Do I Keep Seeing Ghosts?! 我就是个摄影师，为什么总见鬼！ [Original Work, First Release] [Supernatural Horror] [Mystery and Puzzles] [Chinese-Style Horror] [Folk Supernatural Tales] [Light Transmigration] Photographer Lin Shen set off alone for an abandoned old house in the wilderness, hoping to capture a supernatural series that could turn his career around. But he never made it out of the ravine. When he opened his eyes again, he had transmigrated into the body of another freelance photographer, He Xun. He made a living with a camera just the same, a 3Reads—Score—Shelves
- 60 The Young Physician 少郎中 All things in this world have their causes and consequences. Good deeds bring blessings, while evil deeds breed sin. Children are too young to know better, so they cannot be the cause. When ill-fated bonds arise, it is usually because their parents have done wrong. We, the Young Doctors, are here to free these innocent children from their suffering… 386Reads8.8Score101Shelves
- 61 The Yin-Yang Affairs Office 阴阳事务所 The Yin-Yang Affairs Office is closed during the day and open at night. We don't take cases from the living, only from ghosts. I'm a man of principles. What? A pretty young lady wants to come visit? Yo, I might consider it! A bewitchingly beautiful, sultry red-robed female ghost; a headless ghost whose head was chopped off with an axe; the Black and White Impermanence from the underworld... They're all regulars here. To tell you the truth, even the King of Hell was raised by me! 354Reads7.8Score101Shelves
- 62 Snake Scales 蛇纹 When I was six, I came down with a strange illness. Dark red snake scales covered my body. They looked horrifying and revolting, and whenever it rained, they became unbearably itchy and painful. Everyone said it was payback for my father catching and killing snakes, and that he deserved to have a snake girl for a daughter. My family paid no mind to the gossip, but that night, a white snake suddenly coiled around me and demanded that I repay my blood debt… 111Reads7.0Score—Shelves
- 63 I Test-Sleep in Haunted Houses: My True Accounts of Ghostly Encounters! 我做凶宅试睡员，口述撞鬼实录！ [As long as you’re not afraid of ghosts, you can make money even while you sleep.] My name is Ma Jun. Two friends and I run a real estate agency. We make plenty of money, but we keep running into ghosts because all the properties we sell are haunted houses... 468Reads7.0Score—Shelves
- 64 Secrets of the Mortuary 殓尸秘录 Chen Mo is the young heir to the Wangsheng Studio funeral home. He thought he would spend his life in quiet company with cold, lifeless bodies. Then he took charge of a strange corpse known as the “Bride in Red,” and everything began to spiral out of control. The body never decays, and its smile is as lovely as a flower. The bronze bell tied around its ankle rings silently in the dead of night. From then on, Chen Mo is swept into one whirlpool after another, woven from local ghost stories and ho 3Reads8.3Score—Shelves
- 65 The Eerie Tooth 诡牙 I already had teeth when I was born. They could hold a pacifier and crush a steel blade. Even a thousand-year-old demoness would have to drop to her knees and beg for mercy if I bit down on her. 83Reads7.4Score—Shelves
- 66 Strange Tales from the South 南方灵异事 4Reads—Score—Shelves
- 67 Ethereal: The Ranxizhuan Volume 缥缈·燃犀卷 In the prosperous Tang dynasty, Chang'an is beset by ghosts roaming the night and demons gathering in their thousands. In the West Market district, where yin and yang meet, stands a mysterious, ethereal pavilion: the Piaomiao Pavilion. The Piaomiao Pavilion trades in rare treasures and the seven emotions and six desires. Humans, demons, ghosts, and gods all pass through its doors. Where is the Piaomiao Pavilion? Those without fate may pass right by and never see it; Those with fate will seek it 346Reads9.5Score109Shelves
- 68 Republic-Era Notes on Summoning Evil 民国招邪笔记 Chinese-Style Horror + Episodic Mysteries + Ancestral Taboos + Republican-Era Suspense + Cursed Objects That Claim Lives Each supernatural case wraps up in three to five chapters. The pace is breakneck, with no dragging things out! Folk-horror elements: red wedding gowns, ancestral halls, midnight opera troupes... If you’re a scaredy-cat, read during the day. If you’re brave, listen to the audiobook at night for the full dose of terror. 87Reads—Score—Shelves
- 69 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. 210Reads8.5Score—Shelves
- 70 Ethereal: The Yanfuzhuan Volume 缥缈·阎浮卷 In the prosperous Tang dynasty, Chang'an is beset by ghosts roaming the night and demons gathering in their thousands. In the West Market district, where yin and yang meet, stands a mysterious, ethereal pavilion: the Piaomiao Pavilion. It trades in rare treasures and the seven emotions and six desires. Humans, demons, ghosts, and gods all pass through its doors. Where is the Piaomiao Pavilion? Those without fate may pass right by and never see it; Those with fate will seek it out, even from a th 721Reads9.8Score103Shelves
- 71 The Pawnshop 典当 [Urban + supernatural + mystery] My name is Mo Linyuan. I run my family’s ancestral pawnshop. Other pawnshops deal in dirty money; mine trades in lives! Grandpa says our family has always had three storerooms: one for Heaven, one for Earth, and one for mortals! Rules: No strange item is ever refused; the redemption price is a hundredfold. Advertisement: Pawn ghosts, take immortals as collateral. We do not pawn past lives or future ones. Deceive Earth and Heaven, and you can redeem a life as old 251Reads7.4Score—Shelves
- 72 Records of Yin and Yang Mysteries 阴阳诡录 Ji Rendong was born with Yin-Yang Eyes and brought misfortune to her father, her mother, and her entire family. Since childhood, she has been able to see a girl who looks exactly like her, following her everywhere. At the age of five, her grandmother abandoned her, and a mysterious man took her away. She thought she would finally have a home, but it turned out the man only wanted her extremely yang blood. Her blood could save his son, in exchange for her life. Should she save him or not? That is 241Reads8.5Score102Shelves
- 73 Death Trip 死亡旅行 Before graduation, everyone wanted to take a graduation trip that was a little different, so one of my rich classmates rented an old, rundown cruise ship. On the first night aboard, the rich kid posted a raffle in the group chat: “I’ve prepared a grand prize for everyone. Entries close at midnight. We’ll reveal the luckiest winner tomorrow morning!” I was just about to open the link when an anonymous text came in. “Open it and you die.” 1Reads—Score—Shelves
- 74 Grudge-Locked Patterns 怨气锁纹 Dai Xiaochao, the protagonist, is a college graduate in architecture from the 1990s. Under heavy financial pressure, he moves into a tenement building where a locked-room murder took place two years earlier. Surveillance was scarce in those days, so the police had to investigate door to door, and the case made little progress. Then the ancient Taotie jade pendant inherited by Dai Xiaochao’s family, along with its Taotie patterns, begins to react... And that is where the story begins. 7Reads—Score—Shelves
- 75 Ethereal: The Tianchizhuan Volume 缥缈·天咫卷 In the prosperous Tang dynasty, Chang'an is beset by ghosts roaming the night and demons gathering in their thousands. In the West Market district, where yin and yang meet, stands a mysterious, ethereal pavilion: the Piaomiao Pavilion. It trades in rare treasures and the seven emotions and six desires. Humans, demons, ghosts, and gods all pass through its doors. Where is the Piaomiao Pavilion? Those without fate may pass right by and never see it; Those with fate will seek it out, even from a th 559Reads9.5Score113Shelves
- 76 The Horror Face Mask 恐怖面膜 Never buy cosmetics from social-media resellers without thinking twice. Some of them can cost you your life! Soap made from human fat, face masks made from human skin: let me expose the horrors lurking among online resellers... 64Reads6.4Score—Shelves
- 77 The Yin-Yang Courier 阴阳快递员 After graduating from college, I became a delivery courier to make ends meet. Who knew I'd have to work nights, and that none of the people coming to collect their packages would be human… 153Reads8.1Score146Shelves
- 78 The Carefree Teahouse (Complete in Two Volumes) 无忧茶馆（全二册） A richly atmospheric, fantastical and romantic tale where the fates of humans and demons converge amid the bustle of everyday life. Rumors of demons often emerge from the Wuyou Teahouse by the Qutan River in Wuyou City, Zhaoguo. People say that after nightfall, mournful sobs and whispered conversations drift out of the teahouse. As a result, business is poor and it barely stays afloat. Five hundred years ago, Gao He unwittingly made a wager with the demon-hunting sorcerer Qiu Guan. Ever since, 1.1kReads9.0Score219Shelves
- 79 I Inherited a Joss Stick and Candle Shop 我继承了一家香烛店 Bai Linlin had just graduated when she was involved in a car accident that had been planned long in advance. After being discharged from the hospital, she had to use a wheelchair for a while, so she decided to take over the incense and candle shop her grandmother had left her. The shop served both the living and the dead, and business was far busier than Bai Linlin had expected. Especially business from the underworld. Fortunately, it was right up the alley of Bai Linlin, who came from a family 101Reads8.4Score—Shelves
- 80 The Yellow Springs Pawnshop 黄泉典当行 The Underworld Pawnshop has existed since time immemorial, with a long and storied history. It can travel between the worlds of the living and the dead, reaching the far shores of the Yellow Springs to trade with ghosts and gods. It stands somewhere in the modern city. Find the Underworld Pawnshop, and any wish can be granted, but only at an equal price. You can pawn anything you own: organs, years of your life, ancestral treasures, even your soul. In exchange, you can get whatever you desire: m 123Reads7.4Score—Shelves
- 81 Misty Tales: The Ghost Mask Scroll 缥缈·鬼面卷 In the prosperous Tang dynasty, Chang’an is filled with ghosts roaming by night and demons gathering in droves. In the western market, at the boundary between yin and yang, stands a mysterious, ethereal pavilion: the Misty Pavilion. It sells rare treasures and the full range of human passions. People, demons, ghosts, and gods all come and go within. Where is the Misty Pavilion? Those without fate to find it pass by without seeing it; Those destined to find it will seek it from a thousand miles a 585Reads9.5Score110Shelves
- 82 Paper Cutting to Prolong Life 剪纸续命 Three days after his master's death, Chen Zhi's name was pressed into a paper-cut figure. Someone cut paper outside his door late at night. A paper figure bearing his name appeared at the doorstep, and from then on, the blue-black mark on his hand began to seep inward along his veins. Paper can ward off evil and bind souls. And the darkest art of the Paper-Cutting Sect is called Name Binding. To stay alive, Chen Zhi can only follow the torn pages his master left behind, the black sand beneath t 10Reads—Score—Shelves
- 83 The Haunted House of Resentment: A Bizarre Murder Case 怨气凶宅·诡异的凶杀案 The Haunted House of Resentful Spirits: A Bizarre Murder 6Reads—Score—Shelves
- 84 The Death and Life Inn 生死客栈 (Don’t read this. Go away.)… 245Reads8.7Score—Shelves
- 85 Horror Descends: From the Start, I Awaken the Black-and-White Impermanence Immortal 恐怖降临，开局觉醒黑白无常仙 Jiang Nan transmigrates to another parallel world, only to find terror descending. A rift to hell opens, unleashing hordes of monsters and ghosts. As his companion ghost spirit awakens, his System binds to him as well. Ding! Congratulations, Host, on awakening the twin ghost spirits, Black and White Impermanence! Ding! Congratulations, Host, on obtaining the Yiyang Finger technique. Ding! Congratulations, Host, on obtaining the Lightfoot technique. Ding! Congratulations, Host, on obtaining the s 31Reads7.2Score—Shelves
- 86 The Yin-Yang Inn 阴阳旅店 From the day I was born, underworld soldiers came to drag my soul away. At eight, I arrived at the Yin-Yang Inn and began working as a guide for the dead. From then on, I guided both the dead and the living. Every ghost or living person who came to the inn had a secret they couldn't tell. The Yin-Yang Inn has strange rules. Ghosts must sign a contract, while the living must stay the night. Whether or not their request is fulfilled, their payment is never refunded. Even so, guests keep coming one 269Reads8.7Score—Shelves
- 87 The Bronze Coffin Seals the Soul: The Yin Corpse 铜棺封魂·阴尸 The Bronze Coffin Seals the Soul: The Yin Corpse 2Reads—Score—Shelves
- 88 The Number One Yin Messenger 第一阴差 Wandering souls, where will you linger? Three souls, come back at once; seven spirits, return! Lost soul, the gates of heaven open, the gates of earth open. A thousand-mile journey, let the child bring the soul home! The day I was born, strange signs appeared in the heavens. Misfortune plagued me from childhood, and it’s a miracle I survived this long. After I came of age, something happened that shattered everything I thought I knew. My dad told me he was the underworld’s bailiff in Spring City 142Reads—Score—Shelves
- 89 The Misty Ailao Mountains 迷雾哀牢山 [Just started getting ratings, so they’re still a little low. Please bear with us.] Every afternoon at three, thick fog blankets Mount Ailao, making it impossible to see even your own hand. What exactly is hidden in the fog? Monsters? Or…? I’m a tour guide in the Mount Ailao scenic area. When I started the job, I thought my future was bright, but I was unexpectedly caught up in a feud between two powerful families. Will I live or die? It’s all beyond my control. Fate is a chain of interlocking l 473Reads8.4Score104Shelves
- 90 My Years in the Funeral Business 我干白事儿那些年 The funeral services provider Gouqie runs a one-stop funeral business on a shoestring. Uncle Yang is attacked, bringing the Chenxing List to light. A perfectly ordinary funeral services provider is drawn onto the path of spirit-mediumship. Gouqie has seen every side of the human world, yet is pulled into another supernatural realm. This isn't transmigration. Funeral shops, funeral homes: Gouqie's business keeps growing, and so does the number of enemies! Meng Qin, the Chenxing List, the Qia 793Reads7.6Score102Shelves
- 91 I Have the Body of a Ghost King, Yet Became the Strongest Exorcist 我，鬼王之体，却成了最强术士 [Traditional supernatural horror, folk horror, strange tales and bizarre encounters, taboos of yin and yang] On the third day of the third lunar month, ghosts go mad. Chen Sansan was born on just such a day. Because of him, his father was buried alive by his master in the old house in Heilong Village. For his sake, his master was trapped in a tiny room. As for Chen Sansan, he has no choice but to keep signing contracts between yin and yang with ghosts to prolong his life. Otherwise, he won't sur 40Reads6.8Score—Shelves
- 92 Scorpion’s Tail 蝎尾针 [Contains blood, horror, suspense, mystery, and mind-bending twists. Read with caution.] At Binhai City’s May Day Hospital, Ji Xiao is the night watchman in the morgue. To help the Shen family bring a dead relative back to life, he enters the game as a yin-yang master, putting his own life on the line. An old woman visiting a corpse, the Seven Deadly Sins of Extreme Evil turning on one another, a great yin-yang master who has taken over someone’s body... As he investigates a grisly headless mu 4Reads—Score—Shelves
- 93 Special Envoy of the Underworld 地府特派专员 “The Worry-Free Pavilion: As long as you have enough money, we'll take care of all your worries.” A drunken underworld bailiff makes a blunder, mistaking Wang Yu, who was trying to help someone in need, for a dead man and dragging him to the underworld for judgment. The Judge discovers that Wang Yu is the reincarnation of a virtuous man from nine lifetimes ago, and that his allotted years are not yet up, so he wants to send him straight back to life. Unfortunately, Wang Yu is a nobody in the 5.4kReads8.5Score349Shelves
- 94 I Am Not a Paper Spirit 我不是纸仙 A paper effigy is made by folding paper into the shape of a person, so it can take on another's sins, endure their punishment, and bear the consequences of their karma. I was an orphan from a young age, adopted by my master. He was a paper effigy maker, and when I was nineteen, I learned his craft. That set me on a road of no return and turned me into a jinx. Before long, I brought about my master's death. Through one mistake, I turned a “Lovers' Fold” into a “Life-Damaging Fold,” creating a pap 43Reads7.6Score—Shelves
- 95 The Greatest Pawnshop Under Heaven 天字第一當 By day, this pawnshop looks utterly ordinary, but it has one strange rule: anyone who pawns an item or buys an unredeemed one gets a free fortune reading. Stranger still, once midnight comes, the shop welcomes all kinds of bizarre visitors… 3.6kReads8.9Score415Shelves
- 96 I Work as a Mortuary Makeup Artist 我在殡仪馆做化妆师 I used to be a stylist on film and television sets. After reality put me through the wringer, I stumbled into a job as a mortuary makeup artist. Every day, I face all kinds of bizarre corpses, and they have shown me another world... 724Reads8.2Score100Shelves
- 97 The Pawnshop of Obsessions 执念当铺 [Mystery and the supernatural + urban legends + all beings of the three realms + pawning obsessions] I took over my grandfather’s midnight pawnshop. This pawnshop has no boundaries, and accepts anything. The living must stay away; we only take obsessions. In some corner of the city lies an unremarkable shop called the Obsession Pawnshop. It takes no gold or silver, only the obsessions people cannot let go of deep in their hearts: a memory of regret, a false mask, an unrequited longing. All can b 7Reads—Score—Shelves
- 98 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... 1.8kReads8.6Score194Shelves
- 99 Black Cat General Store 黑猫杂货铺 The Black Cat General Store trades one item for another. Whatever you desire, it can provide... My friend, have you heard of the Black Cat General Store? It is a place of trade in another world, where desire is exchanged for desire. Whatever you want can be found here. Money, power, beauty, luck... As long as you are willing, anything is possible... 147Reads8.4Score—Shelves
- 100 The Human Realm Soul-Ferrying Office 人间渡魂事务所 [A Soul-Crossing Sword that levels up and transforms] [Urban supernatural tales + detective investigations] [Cool, aloof senior boss and her younger puppy-like partner] [Uncovering the truth behind his mother's disappearance and the Soul-Crosser organization's dark secrets] The Soul-Crossing Sword levels up, with no mindless power fantasy. In a city teeming with vengeful spirits, ghost stories have become reality, and ordinary people can meet bizarre deaths at any moment. Everyone thinks they'r 10Reads7.0Score—Shelves
