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- 1 The Female Diviner 女相师 I was born during a once-in-a-century flood, and from then on, people believed I was the reincarnation of a bringer of disaster. On my way to register at university, someone drugged me unconscious, and I paid a terrible price for it. A mysterious man, a mysterious totem, and a string of baffling events: it was as if an invisible hand were squeezing my throat... 209Reads—Score—Shelves
- 2 The Case Runs Deep, but the Feelings Run Shallow 应是案深情浅 One is a police captain exiled to an out-of-the-way post; the other is a talented art student at a fine arts academy. A case involving a murder inspired by a dream brings them together. You can't just run away from what comes next, and you can't dream your way into seeing the cases that lie ahead. She has helped him investigate by drawing murder weapons and suspects, been kidnapped, and even suffered an attempted... well, you know. She doesn't want to know what else awaits her. He has been set u 10Reads6.2Score—Shelves
- 3 The Yin-Yang Makeup Master 阴阳点妆匠 A family upheaval changed my worldview, and I became a makeup artisan. From then on, human calamities and ghosts swirled around me. What was the truth? What was genuine affection? It was as if a veil of mist always kept me from seeing clearly. A makeup artisan... The tombs she tends belong to families that did good deeds and whose descendants will enjoy lasting blessings. The faces she adorns are those of people whose humanity still awaits reincarnation. The word “artisan” carries a profound mea 1Reads7.1Score—Shelves
- 4 Her Livestream Fortune-Telling Is Uncannily Accurate: Haters Across the Internet Beg for Her Secrets 直播算命太准，全网黑粉跪求秘籍 [CP + fortune-telling livestreams + mysticism + showbiz] Being a lazy mystic is fun for a while, until I fail my tribulation and get struck by lightning, then banished to the mortal realm with nothing. For the sake of a few coins and a roof over her head, Ouyang Na starts a fortune-telling livestream. She connects with a first-generation rich man. “Streamer, why does my dad keep appearing in my dreams every day to curse me?” Ouyang Na: “Your son’s startup will leave you scraping by on thin porri —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 5 Who Understands? Hated by People for My Powerful Fate, Loved by Ghosts 谁懂？命格太硬遭人厌却讨鬼喜欢 [Past and Present Lives] [Ghost Hunting] [Mild Horror] [Mutual Devotion] [Ghost Wife of the King of the Underworld] [Born Under an Unlucky Star, a True Reincarnated Saintly Mother x Ultimate Simp, a True Gloomy Ghost] A fortune-teller said I was born with a hard fate and would bring misfortune to my parents, so I was orphaned before I was even a month old. I thought I'd be alone for the rest of my life, but who knew a ghost would force me into marriage! From then on, I could see ghosts, and my 3Reads—Score—Shelves
- 6 Wicked Husband, Come at Midnight 邪夫，深夜来 My grandpa found me in a graveyard and brought me home. Everyone says I'm bad luck, a jinx who'll bring death to everyone around me. The day I came out of the graveyard, a man whose whole body was ice-cold followed me home... 125Reads7.2Score—Shelves
- 7 The Noblewoman Coroner 权门女仵作 A forensic medicine doctor accidentally transmigrates into the body of the capital's most famous daughter of an influential family, becoming its foremost female coroner. A skeleton in the lake with an unknown cause of death? A single zither string that kills with its eerie sound? Watch her boil bones to test for poison, solve cases with a keen eye, punish bullies, fight corrupt officials, and expose corrupt clerks to clear the names of the wrongfully accused! But the Duke is not pleased! “Your o 357Reads6.1Score107Shelves
- 8 Kyoto's Big Shot Keeps Seeing His White Moonlight Catch Ghosts Barehanded 京都大佬的白月光又在徒手抓鬼啦 [Fortune-Telling] [Ghost-Hunting] [Punishing Evil and Promoting Good] [Lighthearted] At five years old, Zhi Ying was sent to Xiangyun Temple to learn magic from her master and prolong her life. After eighteen years of study, Zhi Ying followed her master's instructions and went down the mountain to earn merit and extend her lifespan. But after so long away, the dazzling new life was too tempting, and she got carried away having fun. A heart-wrenching palpitation brought her back to reality. She w 37Reads—Score—Shelves
- 9 The Greatest Female Fortuneteller 第一女相师 Qi Nian dies alone on a cold operating table. Before she turns twenty-five, her family exploits her to support her younger brother. After twenty-five, her boyfriend uses her. She struggles for thirty years, yet doesn't own a single decent piece of clothing. Just because she's a woman, anyone can squeeze benefits out of her and take a bite of her flesh. If they don't, they act as though they've lost out. Her whole life was a joke. Back at nineteen, Qi Nian gains a “mystical chat group” and learn 105Reads8.7Score—Shelves
- 10 The Beautiful and Daring Female Yin-Yang Master 女阴阳师她又美又飒 My name is Leng Weining. I was an orphan from the day I was born, and I grew up with my grandmother in the countryside. I've always been different from other people. I can see things that no one else can, and that has brought plenty of trouble into my life. Seeing how much these things tormented me, my grandmother was deeply worried. Then one day, a handsome man in plain clothes appeared at our door. He rubbed my head and said solemnly, “Your granddaughter was born with Yin-Yang Eyes. If she's p 28Reads—Score—Shelves
- 11 The Twin Mystery: My Sister Is a Coroner 双生谜案：我的姐姐是仵作 [A genius coroner sister is murdered, and her kitchen novice sister is forced to step in] [Autopsies ✙ golden finger ✙ twists ✙ bickering partners ✙ swapped identities] Also known as: Lord Shaoqing! There’s another big case! The greatest thing A Wan can do is toss a wok and stir-fry. Her worst nightmare? Having to perform an autopsy on her dead sister! Five days ago, her sister A Qing was murdered while investigating the “Hairpin Flower Case.” She left behind only one word: Live! To uncover the 3Reads—Score—Shelves
- 12 No Responsibility for Scaring You to Tears 吓哭不负责 [Traditional supernatural tales] [Ghost stories] [Chinese-style horror] [Based on true events] [Reader submissions] [Chilling when you think about it] [Bizarre tales] [Beyond the realm of science] [Plainspoken prose, no literary flourishes] [Just stories] Not for the faint of heart! Don’t read late at night! Folklore, haunted houses, eerie village incidents, urban vengeful spirits, supernatural curses, and even non-supernatural stories that are chilling when you think about them... A collection 24.3kReads9.3Score1.9kShelves
- 13 Soul Funeral Director 灵魂殡葬师 My name is Zeng Yao. Yao, as in “beautiful as jade.” I have no father or mother. They say my mother died in childbirth, and no one knows who my father was. My uncle, Old Lei, brought me home. My uncle had an unusual profession: he was an undertaker. He beautified and applied makeup to the dead, then handled their cremation and everything else. Like father, like son, they say, but although I wasn’t my uncle’s child, he made me learn all those things from a young age. But I didn’t like it. I eve 461Reads8.7Score100Shelves
- 14 The Greatest Fortune Teller 第一神算 Many people practice divination, but very few are true masters. Even among the master diviners, there can only be one who ranks first. Others use external tools for divination. I use qi. A girl’s disappearance in 2007 pulled me into a strange psychic crisis. One bizarre incident after another followed, and the death doom hanging over me gradually came to pass. At first, I thought I was just unlucky. Later, I realized the truth: I was the strange one all along... 364Reads8.6Score—Shelves
- 15 The Great Zhen Female Forensic Examiner 大祯女法医 Yan Ziran transmigrates into the body of a wanted criminal who has been on the run from the authorities for over a decade! A palace upheaval years ago not only took her loved ones from her overnight, it also left her burdened with a blood feud against everyone responsible for her family’s slaughter. To evade the authorities, she fled with her wet nurse to Qingjiang County. There, the coroner at the public mortuary adopted her, and from then on she devoted herself to studying forensic examination 1.9kReads8.6Score246Shelves
- 16 The Thirteen Needles of the Ghost Gate 诡门十三针 My ancestors were a family of traditional Chinese medicine practitioners, and I inherited the Thirteen Ghost Gate Needles. After receiving the legacy, I treated someone with acupuncture without my grandfather's permission and caused a disaster. To avoid further trouble, I had no choice but to leave my hometown and open a traditional Chinese medicine clinic in the city. Little did I know that breaking the forbidden rules of the Thirteen Ghost Gate Needles to save someone's life would make me the 1.8kReads9.2Score174Shelves
- 17 I’m a Yin-Yang Fate Judge in Qingshi Town 我在青石镇当阴阳裁命人 Metaphysics + yin-yang eyes + the Five Arts of Chinese Tradition + a terrible start from the start There’s an inconspicuous incense and candle shop in Qingshi Town, run by Lin Qiu, a young woman who can see beyond the divide between the living and the dead. She inherited the Lin family’s ancestral Five Arts of “mountain, medicine, fate, physiognomy, and divination.” Her yin-yang eyes can distinguish the golden glow of merit from the bloody aura of ill fortune, and she specializes in resolving st —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 18 A Medium’s Live Stream of Terrifying Calls 灵媒直播间惊悚连线 In the livestream room late at night, there are no viewers, only pervasive yin energy and a flashing alert: “Paranormal Activity Index: 99%.” Psychic medium Su Qing’s streams are anything but ordinary. The “viewers” she connects with are ghosts wandering between the worlds of the living and the dead. When she accepts a connection request, the person on the other end might be the spirit of someone who died unjustly, weeping as it reveals the truth; a vengeful presence in a haunted house, rasping —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 19 The Bride I Brought Home Was Dead 媳妇领回来的，是个死人 The woman he brought home was a dead person. —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 20 Ghost Soldiers in the Mountains 山间有鬼兵 Ghost Soldiers in the Mountains 1Reads—Score—Shelves
- 21 Guardians of the Lake: Ghost Ship in the Mist, Season One 守湖人雾中鬼船第一季 The Lake Keeper: Ghost Ship in the Fog, Season One 1Reads—Score—Shelves
- 22 Guardians of the Lake: Don't Board the Fog Boat, Season Two 守湖者，莫登雾.船第二季 Guardians of the Lake: Do Not Board the Fog Boat, Season Two —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 23 The Yin-Yang Pharmacy 阴阳药店 When people get sick, there is medicine to treat them. But when ghosts get sick, is there medicine for them? There is, and you can find it right here. What can't you buy at One-of-a-Kind Pharmacy? We have Granny Meng Pills, Regret-Banishing Pills, Worry-Relief Wine, and Resurrection Capsules. Whatever you want, as long as you can pay the price, your wish can come true. 851Reads9.0Score105Shelves
- 24 Heavenly Fragrance 天香引 The land of Chuzhou is rife with witchcraft, and people get carried off at the drop of a hat. Wen Yin was born with a fragrant soul, able to reach ghosts and gods through scent. When she was eight, she rescued a young convict from the clutches of a cat ghost, never realizing she'd saved the person destined to be her nemesis. Lu Jing was born into a family of Imperial Preceptors, but unfortunately, he was a bringer of bad luck. Exiled at ten, he brought death to his entire patrol and became a 26Reads—Score—Shelves
- 25 The Boy in the Hemp Robe 麻衣少年 [Ma Yi Divine Physiognomist, Young Feng Shui Master, Defying Fate] The year I was born, torrential rain fell from the heavens, and hordes of weasels swarmed into my home. To save me, my father leapt into the flood. When I was seven, my grandfather took in five female disciples, and they all became my senior fellow disciples. My bizarre story begins with these five senior sisters. 2.5kReads8.6Score237Shelves
- 26 Ghost Master of the Yellow Springs 黄泉鬼师 A Master of Water Divination, also known among the people as a Ghost Master or Celestial Master, possesses powers that reach from heaven to earth and can speak with ghosts and gods. He treads the Yellow Springs, wields the Yin Lamp, glimpses fate, and cultivates the Great Dao. One day, my grandfather told me that I was actually dead... 159Reads8.3Score—Shelves
- 27 The Girl Who Could See Sounds 看见声音的少女 Serious Synopsis: A young woman who can “see” other people’s voices, a criminal investigator plagued by threatening phone calls, and a series of cases that seem unrelated yet are connected by countless threads gradually uncover a hatred buried for many years. Lighthearted Synopsis: On a certain captain’s wedding night, the police station receives a report. “Hello, 110? Someone here is harassing an innocent young woman.” “Oh, let him. And while you’re at it... wish our captain a pleasant evening! 17Reads6.9Score—Shelves
- 28 Notes from a Haunted House 凶宅笔录 A haunted house is a house where someone once met a violent death. Legend has it that people who die this way haven't yet reached the end of their natural lifespan, so they die with deep resentment. Anyone who moves in will suffer, at best, a life of misery, and at worst, a broken family and ruin. By a twist of fate, I became a dealer in haunted houses. They kept appearing, and one crisis followed another. Behind every haunted house lay a terrifying, secret story... By the time I wanted to turn 10.4kReads8.8Score221Shelves
- 29 The Mystic Sect's Beloved Comes to Survive Her Tribulation, Sending Every Villain Packing 玄门团宠来渡劫，反派全都退一边 [Real and fake heiresses + showbiz + romantic rivals competing for the heroine + the whole family making amends + sharp comebacks and face-slapping + solving cases and exorcising ghosts + subduing demons and guiding souls + surviving tribulations and ascending to immortality] [Set in a fictional world. Please do not compare any part of the story to real life.] On the day Jing Yun turned eighteen, she learned why she had been unable to attain the Dao and ascend: She still had unresolved karmic ti 9Reads—Score—Shelves
- 30 A Century of the Supernatural 百年灵异 This is a truly unusual book, recording the supernatural events that took place in a village over the course of a century. These events are unlike traditional tales of ghosts, fox spirits, demons, and immortals. There is none of the vulgar promotion of superstition or idealism found in popular culture. Instead, the book is filled with the world's strangeness and unknowns, leaving readers baffled. After the shock and terror, you can't help but question and imagine what lies beyond, and find yours 8Reads9.1Score—Shelves
- 31 White Russian Cemetery 白俄公墓 [Supernatural + Mystery + Horror + Forbidden Sites and Zone Exploration + Dark] While traveling, I passed through a small town called Beima and accidentally entered a strange internet cafe. The terrifying legend of a woman ghost hanging upside down, messages from an online friend dating back to 2001, an old school campus regarded as forbidden ground, a mysterious ghost village behind the school, and a cemetery that exists only in people's memories. Somehow, all of it seems connected to me. This 49Reads8.0Score—Shelves
- 32 The Wicked Husband’s Seduction 邪夫撩人 I was born on the night of the Hungry Ghost Festival. From that day on, strange things kept happening in my village, and the people around me died one after another. To stay alive, I fled into the Dragon King Temple. When I came out, I found myself haunted by an invisible man... (Traditional supernatural horror + mind-bending mystery + realism) 164Reads7.4Score—Shelves
- 33 I Came from the Underworld to Deal with Those Who Defy the Rules 我从地府来，专治规则不服 I Came from the Underworld to Make the Rules Behave 1Reads—Score—Shelves
- 34 I'm the New King of Hell, Roaming the Mortal World to Vanquish Demons and Catch Ghosts 我，新阎王，混迹人间降妖捉鬼 Su Nianting, a modern woman, transmigrates and wakes up inside a coffin. She reaches out to push, but the coffin is nailed shut and won't budge. Everything around her is silent, and her shouts are swallowed by endless darkness. Sweat runs down her cheeks. The thin air inside the coffin is mixed with the stench of decay... At this critical moment, Su Nianting summons all her strength and focuses her mind on her hands once more. She pushes hard, and with a bang, the coffin lid blows open. Fresh ai 32Reads—Score214Shelves
- 35 A Snake's Many Pregnancies 蛇孕连连 My ancestors killed countless snakes, and generations of my family have had snake blood on their hands. A passing Taoist priest said we would have to pay for those blood debts. A fire burned my father to death. As I was collecting his remains, a snake on his body bit me. The village chief said it was a subterranean dragon snake from Hell, come to claim my life, and that I had less than three months to live. I refused to believe it, until one day a handsome young man came and insisted on marrying 79Reads8.7Score—Shelves
- 36 Strange Feng Shui Affairs 风水异事 My grandfather is a feng shui master. While he was away, a woman came looking for him. After I greeted her, I saw purple-black veins of blood on her face, writhing on their own… 1.7kReads8.8Score520Shelves
- 37 The Great Master of the Ma Yi School 麻衣大相师 I was born on the fifteenth day of the seventh lunar month. My grandfather, a feng shui master, never let me go outside after dark when I was little. Then one day, he had to leave the house… 234Reads8.6Score—Shelves
- 38 The Divine Seer in Hemp Robes 麻衣女神相 Face reading is based on the Book of Ma Yi. Study someone’s face, and you can read them right before their eyes. Wealth and poverty, fortune and misfortune, blessing and calamity: it is all written in a single face. The Divine Physiognomist Ma Yi says: “When the heart is good but the face is not, the face will follow the heart. When the face is good but the heart is not, the face will fade as the heart does.” 2.7kReads8.5Score253Shelves
- 39 Lone Cop 孤警 He is meticulous when solving cases, but has terribly poor social skills in everyday life. He was once called a “pervert” for following a single woman. A procedural crime series in which every protagonist and supporting character is intelligent and capable. The pacing is brisk, with roughly one case every ten chapters. The twists are unexpected, and behind each case are the joys and sorrows of human life and the darkness of human nature. The male lead was born with a disability. He became a poli 795Reads8.4Score102Shelves
- 40 She Walks Beside the Dark of Night 她与暗夜同行 She's a Chinese professor devoted to educating young minds: cool, sharp-tongued, and single for a thousand years. He's a man who walks the edge of crime, a wealthy bachelor, and a lifelong loner. One day, he cornered her outside the school gates. “Professor Cheng, how would you like to get married and rid the world of a menace?” She said nothing, but a crack appeared in her frozen heart. From then on, her life was like opening Pandora's box. Sweetness and thrills wove together into a bizarre, da 158Reads8.8Score—Shelves
- 41 My Dear Detective Gu 我亲爱的顾神探 A romance wrapped in a case file, offering a fresh perspective on mystery. Who says mysteries are all about mind-bending cases? Sometimes, they need a little sweetness too. Can you imagine Su Bai, a policewoman and criminal investigator who’s tougher than most men, able to catch criminals with her bare hands, break bricks with one hand, and master every kind of grappling and martial arts, yet after falling in love, becoming so delicate around Gu Ying that she can’t even twist open a bottle cap? 75Reads7.5Score—Shelves
- 42 The Record of a Spirit Medium's Disciple 出马弟子进行录 A very real, purely personal account of life as a spirit medium! I’m a real spirit-medium disciple myself! This book has no fantasy elements or cultivation-power fantasies, just true experiences and information! I hope you’ll enjoy it! wlt52121 —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 43 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
- 44 Folk Secrets of Ghost Hunting 民间猎鬼秘术 Practical, hands-on content, focused on feng shui, ghost-hunting techniques, and other useful know-how! [Strictly traditional, no System, no wild fantasy, no saintly heroine! A technical, skills-focused story!] My name is Wang Nan. I’m 31, and I’ve been making a living from yin-yang work since I was 16. Now I want to sort out my love life, so I’ve decided to retire from the business. Everything I describe below comes from my own experiences over the past decade or so, or from things that have ha 402Reads8.0Score103Shelves
- 45 Why Fear the Haunting? 何祟不惊？ What kind of strange tales will unfold when the monsters of folklore, the ghosts of legend, traditional magic, and modern technology mingle in the city? Shen Shi never imagined that a night of fishing to clear his head after losing his job would leave him with a strange fish inside his body, a mysterious stranger hunting him, and a forced recruitment into an organization called the Third-Type Incident Response Department. So-called third-type incidents are events directly involving demons, ghost 5Reads—Score—Shelves
- 46 I’m Going to Lure 100 Lost Souls 我要勾满100个亡魂 Sequel to I Guide Souls at Wangxiang Terrace Lin Jiaojiao, 24, an overworked office worker, suddenly dies on the Nth night in a row of staying up all night revising proposals. When she opens her eyes again, she has already completed every step of the underworld’s procedures. But just as she reaches Wangxiang Terrace, the guide Zhou Yi stops her. “Your attachment remains unresolved. You can’t be reincarnated.” Judge Li Muzi offers her a way forward: work as a soul reaper under him, and she can be 9.7kReads—Score3kShelves
- 47 The Soul Ferryer Between Yin and Yang 阴阳渡魂人 Soul-snatching ghost weddings, bathroom hauntings, the legend of the red-clad senior, Thai black magic, ghost soldiers borrowing the road, man-eating mountain demons, nightmare fiends that enter your dreams, the mystery of the headless woman, a bizarre bride in an escape room, vengeful child spirits, games that summon ghosts, human organ trafficking, a shocking exhibition of human deformities, and long-lost Maoshan secrets... Do these things send a chill down your spine? - The truth is, this wor 186Reads9.2Score102Shelves
- 48 The Metaphysics Master Solves Mysteries 玄学大佬之侦破迷案 [Metaphysics Expert × Poker-Faced Detective] Li Mu is a metaphysics expert who has just entered the human world. During her very first livestream fortune-telling session, she stumbles upon a murder case. Chen Jingci is in charge of the investigation, and the gears of fate begin to turn. From then on, the two team up to solve cases. [Some content is based on real cases] “Dismembered remains at the dump,” “human-meat sausages,” “a barbecue stand in the wilderness,” “a girl in the cellar,” “nursery 191Reads7.1Score—Shelves
- 49 This Is Insane! The Real Heiress Makes a Vicious Ghost Kneel on the Spot 疯球了，真千金现场教猛鬼磕头 [Rich Family + Occultist + Yin-Yang Eyes + Unhinged + Revenge + Comedy] The real heiress the Liang family brought home is not right in the head. She talks to thin air every day, babbles nonsense, and likes stuffing people with talismans. The adopted daughter, Liang Rongrong, sneers in disdain: “My little sister's got a screw loose. She's completely useless.” Liang Jianguo, who'd been saved by a safety talisman while away on a business trip, angrily retorted: “Bullshit! My own daughter is useless 1.6kReads9.0Score138Shelves
- 50 The Mind-Reading Coroner Has Driven the Court into a Frenzy 读心仵作把朝廷卷疯了 [Mind Reading + Comedy + Family Favorite + Secret Identity: A money-obsessed female coroner VS a secretly passionate, melodramatic young marquis] Qin Miaoxi was adopted as a child by her master on Mount Kunlun. While recovering from an illness, she obtained a System that lets her trade merit for more years of life. To stay alive, she specially descends the mountain to do good deeds, clear the names of the dead, and bring peace to the living. Life is hard, so all she can do is fight for every bre 39Reads—Score—Shelves
