Novels like Judge of Yin and Yang
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- 1 The Soul Judge 灵魂判官 My name is Xiao Yang. I was born into a family of judges, with three generations devoted to the legal profession. Yet everything has two sides. As a judge, can I always stand on the side of what is right? I often find myself hesitating, caught between moving forward and retreating. In the end, by my generation, I had become an idle person, spending every day eating, drinking, having fun, and doing nothing. An accident came at a heavy price. When my soul arrived in the underworld, the King of 3Reads—Score—Shelves
- 2 The Female Ghost Judge Returns to the Mortal World, and She’s Not to Be Messed With 女鬼判官重返人间不好惹 “...This mortal world’s foul air is so overbearing!” A woman in a dark red robe staggered onto the bustling street, her exquisite face now pale as paper. She was Mu Yan, a famed judge of the Underworld, yet the moment she stepped into the mortal world, she felt weaker than ever before. The Underworld and the mortal world were separated by strict boundaries and governed by different rules. If her spirit didn’t find a suitable Host soon, she would be scattered into oblivion! 3Reads—Score—Shelves
- 3 Reincarnated Judge 转世判官 A despicable little thug, so obnoxious he deserved a beating, accidentally caused a catastrophic disaster. After dying, he entered the Eighteenth Level of Hell and successfully competed for the position of Judge. Just as he was reveling in his success, Zhao Zilong and Ouyang Feng joined forces to suppress him and banish him to the mortal world as an animal, then as a beggar, subjecting him to double torment from both the mortal world and the Underworld. Should he return to the Underworld to take —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 4 My Years as a Judge of the Dead 我当判官那些年 After a strange coincidence, I became the target of a mysterious paper effigy. From then on, my life was anything but peaceful. First, I was tricked into joining the City God’s Office as a night patrol judge. Then I was dragged into a vast, sinister conspiracy involving ghosts. This is a clash between the worlds of yin and yang, and an internal power struggle within the City God’s Office’s twenty-four departments. This is… a legend of gods and demons! 5Reads—Score—Shelves
- 5 The Yin-Yang Realm's Deputy Judge 阴阳界之代理判官 With the Book of Life and Death in my left hand and the Judge's Brush in my right, I command yin and yang and pass judgment on life and death. It all began when my grandfather died for no apparent reason. As I investigated one uncanny incident after another, I learned of his other identity. From then on, I became an acting judge of the underworld and embarked on a journey to find the true culprit who killed my grandfather. 2Reads—Score—Shelves
- 6 Who Put Him in Charge of Judging the Dead? 谁让他当判官的？ After Zhang Shu dies, he hears that immortality really does exist. The clues reveal that it all begins with scooping out slop. Driving a garbage cart, he sets off for Shichahai. “First, let me make this clear: the residents of the Underworld also have a limited lifespan, unless they get a chance to find a bargain in the human world.” “Second, none of you are as lucky as I am. So many people are willing to make a deal with me, giving me the crystallized lifespan they accumulated over their entire 2Reads—Score—Shelves
- 7 I Have a Judge's Brush 我有一支判官笔 A peerless genius falls in a single day. A hidden dragon swims beneath the waters; a tiger loses its place in the sun. Reborn in the underworld, he will reclaim his glory. He drinks deep of the River of the Yellow Springs, strides across the Bridge of Helplessness, grips the Judge's brush, and gazes toward the Gates of Hell. The path of the soul is long and winding. The journey through the mortal world is fraught with endless hardship. Slaying gods and vanquishing demons, what a thrill. When he 6Reads—Score—Shelves
- 8 He’s the Underworld Judge. Why Would You Mess With Him? 他阴间判官，你惹他干嘛？ [No female lead + two male leads with a brotherly bond + demon and ghost hunting + light supernatural elements + original plot] P.S. This isn't a power fantasy, and the characters don't act brainlessly. I'm a judge of the underworld, yet my immediate superior, King Chujiang, has banished me to the mortal realm. [Me: Boss, I didn't do anything wrong, did I? Even if someone has to go through a trial in the human world, it shouldn't be me, right? I'm a judge!] [King Chujiang: Are you trying to thro 171Reads—Score—Shelves
- 9 Judge of Yin and Yang 阴阳判官 My grandmother killed my parents for no apparent reason. It was years before I finally uncovered the truth. The mastermind hiding behind it all: even if you are the highest-ranking judge in the underworld, I will use my abilities to pass judgment on you! 25Reads6.1Score—Shelves
- 10 Urban Judge of the Living: From the Start, I Have the Book of Life and Death! 都市：人间判官，开局一本生死簿！ After his younger sister was kidnapped, Lin Xuan unexpectedly activated his ancestral jade token and traveled to the underworld, where he obtained a miniature Book of Life and Death. From then on, Lin Xuan became a judge of the mortal realm, wielding the Book of Life and Death to pass judgment on matters between yin and yang and rid the world of its troubles... 210Reads—Score—Shelves
- 11 The Ferryman: I Am the Judge of the Living World 摆渡人：我是人间判官 My name is Su Yang, and I’m a handsome crematorium worker. A misleading message from my ex-girlfriend led me to try to end my life, but the attempt failed, and I unexpectedly acquired the Judge System. From then on, I roamed among countless ghosts with the Judge’s Brush in hand. That day, by a twist of fate, I discovered that the campus belle was dead. To get my help, she actually… 221Reads—Score—Shelves
- 12 I Manage the Book of Life and Death for the King of Hell 我替阎王掌管生死簿 After an accident, Ye Xiaofan bluffs the King of Hell into letting him take charge of the Book of Life and Death. He develops an app that lets his software take all three realms by storm. One short-video app, Douyin, leaves the gods of all three realms utterly obsessed. 295Reads8.0Score—Shelves
- 13 With No Judge of the Dead in This World, I Become Yama 世间无判官，我身化阎罗 Half a Book of Life and Death; A Pen of Reincarnation. When they appeared, the world was rife with crime, online abuse, bullying and slander, right and wrong turned upside down, the powerful beyond the reach of the law, resentment filling the skies, and ghosts and monsters multiplying... "I shall set right what Heaven cannot, and judge what black and white cannot." As Mu Yi holds the Book of Life and Death and murmurs in his heart, divine thunder fills the sky, and the entire planet Yan Hua trem 1.2kReads8.4Score100Shelves
- 14 My Years as a Yin-Yang Master 我当阴阳先生那些年 An entanglement of karma inherited from my ancestors and an ancient, wondrous book made me a Yin-Yang Master. From that day on, burdened by the curse of the Yin-Yang Master, I embarked on a path of slaying demons and suppressing ghosts. 3.9kReads8.2Score352Shelves
- 15 The Underworld: I've Got a Little Background 地府我有亿点背景 Cultivation? Doesn’t exist! I rode in on a stroke of great fortune, bearing the sun and moon on my shoulders and striding across ten thousand miles of mountains and rivers! When I woke up, I was astonished to discover I was the real deal! … The big shots of the underworld? They’re my ancestors! As the underworld’s number-one rich playboy, I’m completely unfazed. Because spoiling the youngsters runs in my family. The underworld’s ghost officers? They’re my underlings! They can drive me around an 1.5kReads8.9Score138Shelves
- 16 The Retired Judge Goes on a Rampage in Horror Games 退休判官在惊悚游戏杀疯了 [No heroine, no romance, infinite instances + invincible from the start + urban supernatural + helping ghosts get revenge + occasional livestreaming] Retired Judge Lu Yi is dragged into the Grievance-Quelling System. He’s rehired for overtime as soon as he retires, and he’s more resentful than a ghost! . The female ghost says in a hollow voice, “You can’t leave unless you help me fulfill my wish...” Lu Yi grabs her head and swings her around like a meteor hammer! Lu Yi: “Are you coming with me 821Reads9.0Score103Shelves
- 17 The Game Becomes Reality, and I Build the Underworld in the Real World? 游戏成真，我在现实建造了地府？ At ten past midnight, the Canghai City Criminal Investigation Bureau's emergency dispatch center received a strange phone call. "Hello! I want to report a crime... No... I want to turn myself in!" "I've killed someone. The body is mixed in with the concrete, in Central Park." "Please, come arrest me quickly! A vengeful ghost is after me. If you wait any longer, it'll be too late..." "Beep... beep... beep..." Though everyone was baffled, they still assembled a team and headed to the address given 2kReads7.5Score222Shelves
- 18 Great! It's the Judge of the Dead. We're Saved! 太好了，是判官，我们有救了！ [Supernatural Crime Investigation + High-Stakes Twists + The Nation Works for Me] Sold by her parents for 500,000 yuan to an abusive husband, Chi You leapt off a cliff. But her blood awakened an ancient Judge’s Brush buried underground for a thousand years: “Judge the wicked, and borrow years from Heaven!” From then on, a spine-chilling livestream took the internet by storm: A tycoon calls in for a fortune reading, then suddenly confesses to three murders. A human trafficker livestreams as the 10.9kReads9.2Score1.7kShelves
- 19 Me, a Yin-Yang Judge? My Verdicts Start at the Death Penalty 我，阴阳判官？本官断案死刑起步 22.5kReads8.4Score2.5kShelves
- 20 The Era of Ghost Money: Even Hauntings Must Follow the Rules 冥币时代：诡异杀人也要讲规则 [Weird Invasion + Rules-Based Horror + Post-Apocalyptic Survival + Ghost Money] The weird beings have arrived. They feed on humans, but can’t kill them at will. They have to trick humans into triggering a death rule before they can devour them. Xia Tianqiong returns, reborn, and makes billions in ghost money himself. Using memories from his past life, he turns the rules against the weird beings and forces them into contracts. The weird beings in this world either work for him or are destroyed by 28kReads9.0Score3.1kShelves
- 21 Xuanhuan: I Lead Hundreds of Millions of Yin Soldiers to Rebuild the Underworld 玄幻：我率领亿万阴兵，重建地府 Chen Qiye transmigrated into a fantasy world, only to find it crawling with countless vicious ghosts that preyed on people and stole their lives. Fortunately, the most powerful Underworld Emperor System awakened within him. Summon Heibai Wuchang to seize wandering souls and slay evil ghosts! Summon the Yin soldiers and generals, throw open the gates of the underworld, and set a hundred ghosts roaming by night! Summon judges and City Gods to punish evil, uphold good, and keep the mortal realm i 15.7kReads8.5Score1.3kShelves
- 22 I Chose Corpse Driving as My Profession, and the Police Are Losing It 个人职业填赶尸，警察麻了 During summer break, Jiang Bai boldly ventured into the mountains of Xixiang and became a corpse walker. He rings the soul-summoning bell, strikes the ritual gong, and walks between the realms of yin and yang. Even ghosts and gods give way! As Jiang Bai leads corpse after corpse out of the mountains, a passing streamer happens to capture it on camera. The whole internet goes wild! "Holy crap, that's the first time I've seen someone offer a cigarette to a corpse. I'm impressed! Old Liu from Shang 10.7kReads7.6Score1.1kShelves
- 23 Who Let Him Become a Ghost Constable? 谁让他当鬼差的？ After dying, Su Fan transmigrates into the body of a spirit in the Three Realms and becomes a soul-reaping ghost constable in the Underworld. From then on, the whole culture of the Underworld changes. “First of all, let me make this clear: I’m not the one who corrupted the culture of the Underworld. Ghost constables are supposed to reap souls. I’m just doing my job.” “If you can’t keep up with me, don’t blame me for changing the culture.” With that, Su Fan walks out through the Gate of Hell, car 78.2kReads9.3Score6.1kShelves
- 24 The Last Knife Seller 最后一个赊刀人 They are wandering prophets who travel the four corners of the world. Skilled in feng shui, they roam the mortal realm with a bundle of cleavers and scissors on their backs, and wherever they go, they leave behind a prophecy about what they have seen. “Keep this cleaver. If an elder in your family dies of consumption within five years, I'll come back to collect payment.” They are heirs to an ancient Daoist tradition from a distant place, able to pronounce life and death with ironclad certainty a 53.1kReads9.2Score5.1kShelves
- 25 The Folk Feng Shui Master 民间风水之王 The Nine Cauldrons Dragon Palace, the Secret Files of the Yellow Springs, the Snow Mountain Corpse Demon, the Yin-Yang Inn... Ever since I borrowed a life from the underworld, I have known no peace. Every time I borrow a life, it becomes a deadly game. After each desperate struggle and narrow escape, I wait for the next secret order from the underworld so I can keep living. Just when I thought I'd escaped the clutches of fate, I discovered that Heaven had prepared a coffin for me too! 52.3kReads9.4Score5.9kShelves
- 26 This Spirit Medium Is Pretty Powerful! 这个出马仙有点强！ A piece of red cloth, three feet and three inches long. The old hall's people, the old hall's immortals. One day, when they emerge from the depths of the mountains, their names will spread far and wide! I was born in a rural village in Northeast China in the 1980s. When I was seven, a spirit medium said I was fated to suffer three calamities and eight misfortunes, and would one day become a horse-riding shaman. I didn't believe it, but hardship kept finding me. To make a living, I worked as a wa 150.8kReads9.7Score13.6kShelves
- 27 I, the Ultimate Schemer: The Empress Calls Me a Living Yama 我，最强毒士，女帝直呼活阎王 [Search Tomato to watch the short drama: The Third Greatest Stratagem of All Time] Gao Yang transmigrated to the Great Qian Dynasty just as the Empress ascended the throne and began recruiting talent from across the land. So he volunteered himself as a poison strategist! The Empress: “Suppose you personally wiped out your enemy's entire family. As you looked at the bodies scattered everywhere, you suddenly realized there was still a child in the house. What would you do?” Gao Yang: “I'd say, ‘Re 382.6kReads9.2Score32.3kShelves
- 28 I'm a Frail, True Heiress, So What's Wrong With Knowing a Little Mysticism? 我病弱真千金，会亿点玄学怎么了 [Metaphysics + fortune-telling + satisfying revenge + absurd comedy + no romance] Chi Le had lived for sixteen years before finding out his younger sister had been switched at birth! His parents said, “Your sister is frail and sickly, and can't take care of herself. You have to look after her.” One sleepless night, Chi Le went outside for a walk and saw his frail, sickly sister jump straight down from the third floor without a scratch. Chi Le: ? Then his supposedly helpless sister punched a thou 211.2kReads9.5Score37.1kShelves
- 29 Livestream: Healing the Underworld Day by Day, I'm the White Impermanence 直播：阴间治愈日常，我是白无常 [Live streaming from the underworld + ghost officer + heartwarming everyday life] Jiang Lin is a White Impermanence, guiding the dead to the afterlife and delivering messages in dreams. One day, he obtains an Underworld Live-Streaming System. He can earn rewards by promoting the culture of the Netherworld. From then on, a miraculous livestream appears in the human world, connecting the realms of the living and the dead. A typical day in the livestream: “Ghost: Stay away from me!” “This really is 22.3kReads9.6Score2.6kShelves
- 30 The Dragon-Suppressing Coffin and the King of Hell's Fate 镇龙棺，阎王命 They severed my tendons and buried me alive in a sealed coffin, but they didn’t know I was born with the fate of the King of Hell! [Folk horror, feng shui and talismans, incense offerings] Feng shui and fortune-telling, painted-skin demons and spirit summoning, walking in the shadows and corpse driving, corpse-raising spells and curses, yin tattoos and talismanic needles, puppets controlled by strings, red doors sealed with wax, Dogs digging graves on Burial Mound Ridge, ghosts feasting in the R 308.4kReads9.4Score27.5kShelves
- 31 Born of a Corpse, Carried in a Ghost's Coffin 尸生子，鬼抬棺 In ancient, remote places, all kinds of strange and terrifying things are bound to happen. And these things happen around Hua Jiunan. In fact, Hua Jiunan is part of them. For instance, he was born from a corpse! 212.8kReads9.6Score25.1kShelves
- 32 EN Don't Worry, Senior—I'll Protect You 学姐别怕，我来保护你 [Heart-Pounding Engine 2: Pure White Love Letter has been published] [Lighthearted daily life] + [Single female lead] + [No System] + [Not reborn] + [Sweet romance] In high school, Luo Ye had a secret crush on a girl for three years. He even got into the same university as her, and they agreed to start dating if they both got in. But the girl unexpectedly went back on her word. Heartbroken, Luo Ye became a romance novelist. Unexpectedly, before university even began, the novel he wrote shot to t 312.7kReads9.8Score31.4kShelves
- 33 EN The House of Dread 诡舍 [Infinite-flow + Mild Horror + Survival + One Female Lead] A driverless bus carried a group of cursed people to a strange black lodge… Inside the lodge stood a door stained red with blood. At regular intervals, the cursed were forcibly dragged through the blood-red door and into terrifying worlds, where they had to complete horrifying events… After Ning Qiushui survived one bizarre and terrifying story after another inside the lodge, narrowly escaping death each time, he discovered that none of 707.4kReads9.6Score103.9kShelves
- 34 EN Ten Days to the End 十日终焉 2024 Tomato Novel Annual Peak Rankings TOP 1 | 2024 China Online Literature Influence List | 2024 China Good Novel Award | Over 2 million copies sold (No harem, no formulaic tropes, no invincibility, no System, no mindless antics, no wish fulfillment. Read with caution if these bother you.) Just when I thought it was an ordinary day, I discovered I had been captured and taken to the End. Just when I thought I could escape by continually taking part in death games, people began awakening supernat 1.7MReads9.9Score206.4kShelves
