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- 1 My Years as a Fortune-Teller 我当算命先生的那些年 [A True Account of the Secrets of Fate Reading] Ordinary people have all sorts of names for what I do. Some call me a master, some a fortune-teller, and others a charlatan or a con artist. My line of work is both respected and despised. Over time, I've grown a thicker skin. In the end, it's just how I make a living. But the longer I've been in this business, the more I've come to feel that things aren't so simple... First comes fate, then fortune, then feng shui; fourth, good deeds and virtue; f 189Reads—Score—Shelves
- 2 The Super Physiognomist in the City 超级相师在都市 “Right the world's injustices, and understand the many faces of ordinary people.” Ye Feng unexpectedly obtains the Qingtian Legacy, a book left behind by Liu Bowen, the founding strategist of the Ming dynasty. With the book's teachings on feng shui, destiny, medicine, and mystical arts, he makes his way through the modern city. 35Reads7.4Score—Shelves
- 3 Forced to Become a Feng Shui Master 被迫成为风水大师 Twenty years ago, the feng shui secret manual The Green Satchel Compendium was stolen and destroyed, drawing the Lin family into a deadly Seven-Star Fate-Seizing Formation stretching across Hangzhou's seven mountains. Lin Mu, a prodigy in Zhejiang University's architecture department, was born with yin-yang eyes and can see both the living and spirit worlds. His grandmother kept his feng shui abilities hidden from him since childhood. He had hoped to live an ordinary life, but after his uncle m 12Reads—Score—Shelves
- 4 A Book From Beyond Yanmen Pass 雁门关外的一本书 Lin Luo came to university from the countryside and had to live under someone else's roof. On a campus full of beautiful women, the campus belle constantly made things difficult for him and looked down on him. At last, one day, he unexpectedly inherited the true teachings of the ancient sage Yuan Tiangang and became a master diviner, able to read everything from the heavens and the earth to the most trivial details of everyday life. From then on, campus life was like having cheats enabled. The l 24Reads8.4Score—Shelves
- 5 A World of Myriad Forms 万相天下 [Feng Shui + Face Reading + Urban + Power Fantasy + Treasure Appraisal] Zhao Zheng accidentally inherited the teachings of Liu Bowen, a renowned master from a bygone era. He not only mastered feng shui and the art of locating auspicious sites, but was also well versed in formations and the Five Elements, with a particular talent for reading people and objects. From then on, Zhao Zheng embarked on an extraordinary life in the city. 1.9kReads8.7Score217Shelves
- 6 A Ghost Crashes the Funeral Hall from the Start, and I Become the Greatest Feng Shui Master 开局灵堂撞诡，我成最强相师 After escaping death, college student Lu Junbao obtained a mysterious tortoise shell from a sinkhole and mastered the secrets of fortune-telling. With uncanny, profound powers, he could see the future, vanquish evil spirits, and exact revenge. His comeback began! 2.8kReads8.9Score359Shelves
- 7 Zeng Wenchuan, Feng Shui Master 风水大师曾文辿 Zeng Wenchuan was one of the four great masters of the Jiangxi school of feng shui and the foremost disciple of Yang Junsong, the grandmaster of feng shui. Together, they founded the legendary village of Sanliao in Xingguo, Jiangxi, the first village of Chinese feng shui, whose history spans a thousand years. After failing the imperial examinations, Zeng Wenchuan encounters Yang Junsong, a court feng shui master being hunted by the imperial court, in a ruined temple. A mysterious fragment of the —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 8 The Ultimate Feng Shui Master 极品风水师 I'm a master of feng shui and esoteric arts, able to divine the secrets of fate. There's nothing I don't know, nothing I'm not good at! Smoking, drinking, eating, drinking, and having fun: it's not that I don't want to quit. Sigh, a person in this world has no choice but to go with the flow! 80Reads8.9Score—Shelves
- 9 Feng Shui Master Liao Wenzheng, China’s Only Feng Shui Top Scholar 风水大师廖文政中国唯一风水状元 [Feng Shui + sacred geomantic sites + geomantic arts + Feng Shui masters + Feng Shui taboos and how to overcome them + metaphysics, mystical arts, fortune-telling, divination, geomancy, changing your fate and fortune + no transmigration, no livestreaming, no female lead] During the Jiajing reign of the Ming dynasty, the imperial tombs at Tianshou Mountain were nearing completion, and Emperor Jiajing issued an edict calling for the realm’s finest geomancy masters. Liao Wenzheng, a Feng Shui heir 1Reads—Score—Shelves
- 10 The All-Round Physiognomist 全才相师 Read people, read situations, read feng shui; observe the heavens, the earth, and the mortal world! Zhou Xuan, a master strategist from the Three Kingdoms era, travels through time and space to modern society and embarks on a brilliant urban adventure. Female reporter: “Chairman Zhou, according to the information we've gathered, you're not only a business leader, but also a master of Chinese studies, a leading authority on the I Ching, a master of physiognomy and feng shui, a calligrapher, an 1.7kReads8.1Score265Shelves
- 11 Grand Feng Shui Master Yang Yunsong 风水大宗师杨筠松 [Feng Shui + geomancy + geomantic arts + Feng Shui masters + Feng Shui taboos and how to overcome them + metaphysics, mystical arts, fortune-telling, divination, geomancy, changing your fate and fortune + no transmigration, no livestreaming, no female lead] From a powerful Imperial Preceptor who could command the wind and rain to an immortal who helped the poor, Yang Yunsong, also known as Yang Jiupin and Yang Yi, and honored by later generations as Master Yang, was a true “rule-breaker” in the 4Reads—Score—Shelves
- 12 Feng Shui Master Zeng Bangmin 风水大师曾邦旻 During the Jiajing reign, in Sanliao Village, Jiangxi, a “sacred Feng Shui site” personally chosen by Yang Yunsong, a young man named Zeng Bangmin began to make a name for himself. At fifteen, he brought out his ancestral compass and helped Old Li survey a plot of land for a home. In front of everyone, he refuted the old Feng Shui master Liu Laosan’s fallacy that “the White Tiger protects the home.” Citing The Green Satchel Classic, he exposed the hidden water hazard to the west and used concret 1Reads—Score—Shelves
- 13 Feng Shui Master Lai Buyi 风水大师赖布衣 Lai Wenjun passed the imperial examinations at the age of nine and rose to the rank of Imperial Preceptor. But after exposing Qin Hui’s plot to sever the dragon vein and usurp the throne, he was stripped of his position and exiled, reduced to a commoner begging in the streets. Then Heaven bestowed upon him an awakened Celestial Star Feng Shui Compass, while a fragment of the Green Crow Classic entered his soul. With a bowl of clear water, he could identify a venomous dragon; with three copper co 1Reads—Score—Shelves
- 14 Feng Shui Master Liu Jiangdong 风水大师刘江东 The thrilling, overpowered comeback story of Feng Shui master Lai Buyi! He was once the Imperial Preceptor, but a treacherous minister framed him, and he was shackled and exiled to Lingnan. But he had real skills to back him up! Right after setting out, he casually broke the local bully’s “barren grave site.” A withered tree instantly sprouted, humiliating the villain and stunning everyone! And so began a string of satisfying victories: the Crown Prince’s curse? Broken! The Jin kingdom’s evil f 9Reads—Score—Shelves
- 15 Feng Shui Master Liu Bowen 风水大师刘伯温 When Yuan soldiers massacre his village, eighteen-year-old Liu Bowen escapes with his family's ancestral compass in his arms. His father's dying words still ring in his ears: "Protect the surviving pages of the Qingwu Classic, and break the Yuan court's Dragon Vein Severing Curse!" On the run, he comes upon a mountain village plagued by the deadly "White Tiger Carrying a Corpse" formation. Five people have died in three days, and a fraudulent Feng Shui master has set up a formation that instead 6Reads—Score—Shelves
- 16 The Mystic Arts Feng Shui Master 玄门风水师 The contemporary heir to the Guigu Sect emerges from seclusion and enters the world, taking on the role of a feng shui master. He knows astronomy, understands geography, grasps yin and yang, and distinguishes heaven and earth. See how he uses his mastery of feng shui and the occult to stir up the world and make a name for himself... 10.4kReads7.7Score461Shelves
- 17 The All-Around Master of Physiognomy 全职相师 The hottest fortune-telling novel of 2020: you deserve it! See beauties amid a riot of color; behold the world on a journey through wind and dust! After mastering the art of face reading, master diviner Ding Fan returns home, accidentally enters the business world, and becomes the ultimate protector of women, beginning an extraordinary new life. With his superb divination skills and flamboyant charm, Ding Fan makes bullies bow their heads and powerful figures submit. Surrounded by admirers, he s 2.7kReads8.9Score328Shelves
- 18 Heaven's Mandate: Yin and Yang 天命阴阳 The Pixiu feeds on wealth from every corner of the world. It swallows all things but never excretes, attracting riches and gathering treasures, taking in but never giving out. On my eighteenth birthday, I met a girl who completely bewitched me. But I never expected that she would actually… 1.4kReads8.4Score189Shelves
- 19 A Story Sparked by a Feng Shui Charlatan 一个风水神棍引发的故事 An ordinary person stumbles by chance onto the path of studying fate and feng shui. After a life of great ups and downs, he finds a master and becomes a master of the Daoist arts. What kinds of opportunities will he encounter as he walks the path of slaying demons and eliminating evil... [In the early chapters, drawing on the author’s personal experience studying feng shui and fate-reading, this book will show you how to choose books and get started.] 461Reads—Score104Shelves
- 20 Guo Pu, the Feng Shui Master 风水大师郭璞 In the chaos of the Eastern Jin dynasty, the fangshi Guo Pu was once found drunk and asleep in the street, mocked by aristocratic youths as a “street-corner charlatan.” No one knew that this hard-drinking, free-spirited man carried a fragment of the Book of the Azure Satchel, or that he had bound himself to the Feng Shui inheritance System. When he buried his mother by the river, thousands condemned him as an “unfilial son,” but he declared that “in half a month, the silt will turn into farmland 14Reads6.5Score—Shelves
- 21 Feng Shui Master Liao Junqing 风水大师廖均卿 # Synopsis: The Greatest Feng Shui Master, Liao Junqing Liao Junqing, a young man from Sanliao Village in Jiangxi, fishes a fragment of the Mountain-Driving Whip, passed down by Yang Junsong, from the Seven-Star Pool. His early talent for predicting disaster first brings him to prominence. He foretells a bloody conflict at Tiger-Shaped Mountain and uses seven camphor trees to set up a Seven-Star Formation and drive off bandits, winning fame in a single battle. During the Yongle era, he is summon 1Reads—Score—Shelves
- 22 Yuan Tiangang, the Greatest Feng Shui Master 最牛风水大师袁天罡 Synopsis of The Greatest Feng Shui Master Yuan Tiangang Yuan Tiangang, a boy from a poor alley in Yizhou, uses his mystical arts of “reading life and death through bone” and “determining the world through qi” to leave every skeptic speechless! When the gentry laugh that “a poor kid knows nothing about physiognomy,” he tells one man, “Your sunken nose bridge means you'll lose your post within three years.” It comes true. When a charlatan uses talisman water to swindle people, Yuan treats an illne 40Reads7.1Score—Shelves
- 23 The Unscientific Feng Shui Master 不科学风水师 Ji Yan, a top physics student, gains the ability to read the land's feng shui after an unexpected accident in the laboratory. He can find dragon veins and auspicious burial sites, dispel ill fortune and attract prosperity, bring wealth and status, and defy fate itself. With his mastery of feng shui, Ji Yan wins over business tycoons, helps ordinary people, punishes corrupt villains, and becomes a legendary feng shui master. 220Reads9.0Score—Shelves
- 24 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… 243Reads8.6Score—Shelves
- 25 City Feng Shui Master: My Compass Can Slay Dragons 都市风水师：我的罗盘能斩龙 [System + decisive and ruthless + slaying demons, driving out evil, and killing the supernatural] Lin Yan thought that after his grandfather passed away, he would be left all alone, eventually worn down by making ends meet until he died. Then one day, an evil spirit appeared before him, and the Heaven-Appraising System lit up! The evil spirit was gone, and a wealthy CEO showered him with money. From then on, Lin Yan stepped into a strange and sinister world invisible to ordinary people. Nightmar 7Reads—Score—Shelves
- 26 The Strange Arts of a Feng Shui Master 奇门相师 When the Nine Stars align, a supreme fiend descends from Heaven. A beggar raises an orphan; humanity nurtures Heaven’s fate. Also known as The Nine Stars Ascend to Dragonhood. The Mysterious Maiden of the Nine Heavens gave birth to the Green Satchel, while Fu Xi, the Great Bright One, created the Eight Trigrams. One is feng shui, the other the Book of Changes; together, they form the art of physiognomy. Shennong, the Flame Emperor, tasted a hundred herbs, and the Yellow Emperor, Xuanyuan, compil 54Reads8.8Score—Shelves
- 27 The Northern School's Tomb Raider: Searching for Dragons 北派盗墓寻龙记 [Tomb Raiding + Mystery + Adventure + Underworld + History] Adapted from true experiences. That year, I was no master appraiser fresh out of prison. I was just a poor kid who identified soil by smell and felt his way along tomb passages with his fingers. I drifted through a hazy youth and into middle age, enduring hardship and uncertainty all the way. Over half a lifetime, I witnessed all sorts of people from all walks of life, and heard tales of the underworld you have never heard before. If yo 49kReads7.8Score4kShelves
- 28 Breaking the Deadlock: Inheriting the Feng Shui Arts of a Scruffy Old Man 破局：继承邋遢老头的风水术 On the first day of school, a disheveled old Taoist blocked my way. With a single remark, he revealed the secret of the bronze cauldron my mother had left behind, then warned me to stay away from my roommate, whose birth chart was purely yin. The moment I turned around, I discovered a life-draining thread of yin energy wrapped around my roommate. And the university we attended was nothing less than a geomantic death trap laid two hundred years ago! Born with a purely yang birth chart, I wield a 2Reads—Score—Shelves
- 29 Sanliao: China's Number One Feng Shui Village, a Thousand Years in the Making 千年三僚：中国风水第一村 [Feng shui + sacred sites of geomancy + geomantic arts + feng shui masters + feng shui knowledge, taboos, and ways to overcome them + mysticism, occult arts, fortune-telling, divination, and geomancy that can change both fate and fortune + no transmigration, no livestreaming, no female lead] In the chaotic final years of the Tang dynasty, Yang Junsong, also known as Yang Jiupin and Yang Yi, and later honored as Master Yang, carried a compass and led two boys into the mountains of Xingguo Sanliao 4Reads—Score—Shelves
- 30 Five-Year-Old Cutie Ye Xiaoman: Blows Up the Yin-Yang Realm 五岁萌宝叶小满：炸翻阴阳界 Five-year-old Su Xiaoman was born with yin-yang eyes and destined to be short of money... After her parents are tragically killed, a Daoist priest saves her, takes her in, and teaches her his skills. She eats the mountain temple out of house and home, so her master sends her down the mountain, saying, “Your family is in trouble.” With osmanthus candies in her pocket, she sets off to find her relatives. Gazing at a grand villa, she sobs, “Waaah... I've finally found a meal ticket for life...!” Sh —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 31 The Feng Shui Master 风水相师 Look up to observe the celestial signs, look down to study the lay of the land, and read the fortunes of heaven, earth, and beautiful women! My name is Tang Dabao. I studied feng shui and occult arts in the tradition of the “Celestial Aspect” school from childhood. After my grandfather suddenly passed away, one scheme after another was set against me. I take on the feuds between powerful families and the blood vendettas of the occult world all by myself. Dancing with a coffin on my back, strolli 2.2kReads8.4Score194Shelves
- 32 I'm Just a Real Estate Agent, Not a Feng Shui Master 我只是房产经纪，真不是风水大师 That year, a mysterious coffin was unearthed by the Yellow River. From that moment on, my life took an unexpected turn… Sweet dew cannot nourish grass without roots, and wondrous teachings can only guide those destined to receive them! Never meddle lightly in another person’s karma! This is a fast-paced urban feng shui novel, the kind that gets more satisfying the further you read. Urban business rivalries, feng shui formations, warding off evil with feng shui, feuds among the wealthy, and the f 9Reads—Score—Shelves
- 33 The Extraordinary Physiognomist of the City 都市之超品相师 Shen Ke inherits a mysterious art and learns secret techniques for reading the heavens and the earth. He wanders through the mortal world, caught up in tangled affairs of the heart. He vows to escape the five afflictions and three deficiencies that plague fortune-tellers and set out on a path beyond fate, yet unwittingly forges a legend of his own. 1.4kReads8.2Score160Shelves
- 34 Turning the Wheels of Fate: My Years as a Fortune-Teller 运转乾坤，我算命的那几年 My new work is out! You can read it on Tomato Novel. I hope you enjoy it. Your support is what keeps me writing, and I’ll do my best to tell every story well! 564Reads8.8Score101Shelves
- 35 The City's Supreme Wizard Immortal 都市极品巫仙 [Four Pillars of Destiny + Feng Shui + I Ching + Family Witchcraft + Confucianism, Taoism, and Buddhism] Qian Yi was born with a perfectly Yang Four Pillars chart, with the Heavenly Stems and Earthly Branches identical in his year, month, day, and hour pillars. A one-in-ten-thousand rarity. He bears the mission of carrying on an ancient tradition of witchcraft, and must find a girl with a perfectly Yin chart whose four pillars are all identical so he can find a partner. Only by joining Yin and Y 480Reads8.4Score—Shelves
- 36 Dragon-Subduing Art 镇龙术 When I was born, my grandfather foresaw that I would face four great calamities in my life. To change my fate, he traded his life for mine. That day, a thousand white cranes circled overhead, escorting my grandfather to his final rest... 24Reads7.6Score—Shelves
- 37 The Premier Feng Shui Master 超品风水师 “You rich brats, tremble! I, Zuo Feibai, am back!” Cast out by his powerful family, Zuo Feibai spent ten years cultivating the Dao before returning to his old home. Thus begins a grand adventure, with romantic encounters following him everywhere. From feng shui and divination to the Eight Trigrams, the Five Elements and escape techniques, traditional Chinese medicine, and cooking, there’s nothing he can’t do. Smooth and capable in every situation, he ultimately becomes a master of the occult art 3.9kReads8.9Score410Shelves
- 38 The Book of Changing Fate: I Defy Heaven by Manipulating All Things 改运天书：我靠拨弄万物逆天改命 Traditional fortune-telling relies on a person’s birth date and hour, but the incomplete scroll of the Book of Guicang inherited by the protagonist, Su Zhe, teaches the Plum Blossom Numerology: “All things are hexagrams.” In his eyes, the entire world is made up of the sixty-four hexagrams. A falling leaf, a bird’s cry, even the color of a passerby’s clothes, will automatically combine in his vision to form a floating “hexagram.” 18Reads7.2Score—Shelves
- 39 The Day AI Laid Me Off, the Half-Immortal Came Online AI裁我那天，半仙上线了 (No harem, no formulaic tropes, no invincibility, no System, no brainless plot. Read with care if any of that bothers you.) My name is Su Yan. I’m a wage slave who was laid off by AI. On the first day of my fortune-telling livestream, someone hacked my prediction System. Using my voice, someone “predicted” the death of a powerful tycoon with uncanny accuracy. To find the real culprit, I snuck into the dead man’s mansion, only to get caught up in a 72-hour deadly inheritance game. Every deat 1Reads—Score—Shelves
- 40 The Genius Girl Face Reader 天才少女相师 Li Xiruo, a powerful master of the mystic arts who had lived for over a thousand years and could determine a person's fate with a single word, refused to die of old age. Defying Heaven to borrow another life, she possessed a corpse and was reborn in the body of an eighteen-year-old girl. But the moment she opened her eyes, a mistress showed up at her door with a nun, claiming that Li Xiruo and her adoptive mother were born under a deadly curse that would bring ruin to their husbands and fathers. 83Reads7.9Score—Shelves
- 41 A Taoist Prodigy in Feng Shui 道家天才风水师 [Feng Shui and Geomancy, Eight Characters and Destiny, Physiognomy, Folk Secret Arts, Qimen Dunjia, Zhuyou Healing, Daoist Magic] First comes fate, then luck, then feng shui; fourth, accumulate good deeds in secret; fifth, study; sixth, choose a name; seventh, read faces; eighth, honor the gods; ninth, befriend benefactors; tenth, nourish the body. This book has a lighthearted, humorous style, similar to the Happy Ghost and Uncle Nine film series. It features Daoist magic, physiognomy, Zhuyou he 2.9kReads6.7Score290Shelves
- 42 Beneath the Mystic Eyes: The Fake Heiress's Livestream Revenge 玄瞳之下：假千金的直播复仇录 [Fortune-Telling Livestream + Strange Folk Tales + Occult Arts Run Amok + The Dark Side of Human Nature + Traditional Feng Shui and Physiognomy Showdowns] “Everyone thought Chen Mo was just a lawyer. Then he brought home a battered fake heiress who'd been thrown out by her family, a girl with a mystical pupil in one eye, and his life was thrust into an entirely different supernatural world, teeming with danger and strange phenomena. A real estate developer asks her to inspect a plot of land. She 2Reads—Score—Shelves
- 43 A Record of Funerals in a Small Town 小城丧葬录 In 2020, Rongcheng was battered by torrential rain. At 32, Chen Yan hit rock bottom after falling from a government post. Forced to resign over an air-gun incident, he crashed while hauling freight, went unpaid by an advertising agency, broke his leg at a construction site, and eventually became a food delivery rider, scraping by between his mortgage and daily expenses. One rainy night, he stopped to help someone and stumbled into the Xiao An Funeral Parlor, where he met Old Yang, who secretly c 5Reads—Score—Shelves
- 44 The Master Feng Shui Practitioner 顶级风水师 Heaven and Earth are dark and yellow; the universe vast and primordial. The sun and moon wax and wane; the stars are arrayed across the sky… 1.7kReads8.8Score341Shelves
- 45 Livestream Fortune-Telling: Your Boyfriend Has a Boyfriend Too 直播算命：你男朋友还有个男朋友 [No Female Lead] + [Twists] + [Comedy] + [Metaphysics] Li Junyao is a psychologist with the ability to tell fortunes using the Ma Yi divination method. After he starts livestreaming consultations online, he goes viral. During one call, he speaks with a viewer who claims to be very much in love with her boyfriend. "My patient, you're depressed. Don't believe me? I'll say one thing and you'll be miserable: your boyfriend has another boyfriend." Not long afterward, the viewer confirms it. "Waaah, I 79Reads8.5Score—Shelves
- 46 The Mystic Arts Face Reader 玄门相师 A young master of metaphysics, he knows every secret of heaven's design. In everything, he turns danger into fortune, and in every crisis, he finds a way through. He reads people, ghosts, and fate itself! The ways of humans and ghosts are unfathomable, and heaven's secrets must not be revealed! 8.8kReads8.7Score867Shelves
- 47 The Feng Shui Mystery Bureau 风水解密局 The Feng Shui master Zhou Qian Kun’s ancestral grave was tampered with, causing his family to fall into decline until he was the only survivor. By a stroke of luck, Zhou Qian Kun acquired the Twelve Divine Beast Fortune Beads. It is said that anyone who obtains the Twelve Divine Beast Fortune Beads can read fate and change their fortune. To avenge her mother’s murder, An Yixi used a palace beauty pageant as cover, assuming the name Jian Cao and sneaking into the imperial palace. With the power o 20Reads6.3Score—Shelves
- 48 The Five Elements and the Art of Physiognomy 五行相术 Rumor has it that centuries from now, the Five Elements Art of Physiognomy will reappear in the martial world, sparking a scramble among heroes from every corner. Strange events from the decade of calamity, the Qinling Demon Tower, the ancient city of Fuxian, the Tianshan Blood Tomb, the ghost city of Miaojiang, and the haunted lake of Qinghai: after his grandfather mysteriously vanishes, Yuan Yuan must uncover a series of secrets. 121Reads9.0Score—Shelves
- 49 I Am a Feng Shui Master 我是风水师 I thought I would follow the three instructions my parents left in their will, but everything changed after I rescued a female classmate… 9.1kReads7.4Score684Shelves
- 50 The Young Feng Shui Master 少年风水师 When I was ten, my grandfather built a coffin for himself with his own hands... From that moment on, the heavens shattered and all realms fell into chaos. [The 2021 feng shui and fantasy masterpiece!] 633Reads8.1Score136Shelves
