Novels like Urban: The Divine Face Reader
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- 101 I'm a Fortune-Teller (The Original Novel of I'm No Master, Starring Li Xian and Li Yitong) 我是个算命先生（李现、李一桐主演《我不是大师》原著） The original novel behind the TV adaptation starring Li Xian and Li Yitong, I'm No Master The highest level of fortune-telling isn't predicting the heavens. It's reading people. During the Republican era, a secretive group called the Jiangxiang Sect operated in the underworld. They called themselves fortune-tellers, but made their living through fraud. From secret agents of the Military Statistics Bureau and bandit chiefs to scholarly households, sheltered women, and children, no one could escap 13.8kReads9.6Score1.9kShelves
- 102 The Yin Tombs of the Yellow River: A Feng Shui Master of the Qing Nang 黄河阴坟：青囊风水师 The Yellow River Yin Tomb: A Qing Nang Feng Shui Master 81Reads—Score—Shelves
- 103 The Yellow Emperor’s Secret 黄帝秘藏 With a blood-written deed on my body, I fought hungry dogs for food. In the bitter cold of winter, I was about to be beaten to death on the frozen ground, until someone stood before me and told me I was a dragon in the art of feng shui... 14.8kReads8.9Score592Shelves
- 104 Fortune-Telling at a Street Stall, One Gold Piece Per Reading 摆摊算命，一卦千金 [Mysticism + Feng Shui + Fortune-Telling + Episodic Stories + All Kinds of Gossip + No Romance] Ever since Song Ci got hit by something thrown from a high-rise, a whole lot of knowledge suddenly appeared in his mind. Fortune-telling, face-reading, avoiding misfortune and attracting good luck, dispelling negative energy and boosting prosperity, attracting wealth, feng shui and geomancy… Everything he’d once thought mysterious and unfathomable came to him as if by instinct. From then on, a little 35.5kReads9.1Score4.9kShelves
- 105 You Can Cultivate Immortality While You Lie Flat 躺平也可以修仙 These are my personal insights and experiences in cultivating the Dao and refining qi, woven into a novel that creates a strange and eerie supernatural world through both dreams and reality. If you enjoy supernatural mysteries and immortal cultivation, give it a read. It’s unlike anything else, and the opportunity is rare. When this old man achieves a perfected Golden Core, you’ll all be disciples of my Qingfeng Sect. 719Reads6.6Score100Shelves
- 106 The Goddess's Roommate, a Divine Conman 女神的合租神棍 A fortune-teller comes down from the mountains, carrying an extraordinary legacy and a host of skills. With a mysterious art of reading the heavens, Qin Ning arrives in the dazzling city. He reads fortunes, makes a little money, and occasionally defies fate to change someone’s fortunes. See how he enjoys life in the city and begins a wonderful life sharing a home... 16.5kReads8.9Score1.8kShelves
- 107 The Master of Ma Yi Divination 麻衣相师 My great-uncle had all kinds of abilities. One day, he told me he’d buried a treasure for me in a feng shui paradise… 28.1kReads9.0Score3.3kShelves
- 108 I'm a Fortune-Telling Streamer, and the Whole Internet Is Fighting for a Spot 我算命主播，一个名额让全网疯抢 Wang Yue transmigrates to a parallel world and inherits a fortune-telling shop on the verge of closing down. His 300-jin landlady is also eyeing him hungrily. Luckily, the System may be late, but it finally arrives, activating the Divine Fortune-Telling System at a crucial moment. From then on, he makes a point of telling fortunes in unconventional ways. Other people read palms, but he tells fortunes by looking at photos. Wang Yue: “You there, kindred spirit. I see a terrible omen hanging over y 23.2kReads8.7Score2.1kShelves
- 109 A Female Feng Shui Master's Work Diary 一个女风水师的工作日志 The author met a feng shui master and exchanged contact information with her. After seeing her work journal, the author found some of its contents worth reading. They also carry on traditional culture, so the author is sharing them here with her permission. 434Reads8.2Score—Shelves
- 110 The Taoist Returns to His Village and Begins His Revenge as a Street Vendor 道士回村，从摆摊开始复仇 [Taoist priest + feng shui + talismans + ghost hunting + demon slaying + folk customs + no System + no livestreaming + no cultivation] When his grandfather was young, he gathered herbs in the mountains and once saved a young Taoist priest who had been badly injured. To repay him for saving his life, the young Taoist chose a feng shui site known as “Golden Rooster Brooding Over an Egg” and told his grandfather to build the family home there. Once the house was complete, the Lin family grew rich a 23.8kReads8.9Score2.2kShelves
- 111 I'm a Traditional Chinese Medicine Doctor, and I'm Also an Expert in the Supernatural 我是中医生，玄学也精通 Physiognomy + the Four Pillars of Destiny + feng shui + Qimen Dunjia + Plum Blossom Numerology + Zi Wei Dou Shu + traditional Chinese medicine + talismans + Zhuyou healing + sorcery... The protagonist is Shen Zhuoran. He was once Shen Shaoxun, a master of metaphysics and renowned practitioner of traditional Chinese medicine during the Jiaqing era of the Qing dynasty. After being reborn through reincarnation, he transmigrated to 1996. In 2016, he enrolled in a university of traditional Chinese me 27.8kReads8.4Score1kShelves
- 112 Dark Face Reading 黑相术 After I lost my sight, a matchmaker set me up on a date, and I met a girl. She wasn’t human… One night, as we slept, I touched her tail. 23.3kReads8.9Score2.8kShelves
- 113 Calculating Fate Through Yin 算阴命 My mother was snatched away by a beast when she gave birth to me. Twelve years later, my father brought home a woman. Three days after that, my father died… 1.8kReads8.9Score257Shelves
- 114 The Ten Heavenly Stems: Cultivation’s Secret Code 修真密码十天干 Here, I will reveal the underlying principles behind the flow of time and space, knowledge passed down only to the worthy. I have two junior sisters. They have heavy workloads every day, and still have to cultivate with me. They said they wished they could study while they worked. So I wrote down the most essential parts of what our master taught us in this book. I thought there must be others like them, enduring the same hardships but never giving up on the pursuit of truth. 1.1kReads8.4Score499Shelves
- 115 Duke Zhou's Dream Interpretation 周公解梦 Everyone dreams, but few people know what their dreams truly mean. Even fewer understand that dreams are actually omens, warning us whether the things about to happen in our lives will bring good fortune or disaster! Just as cats and dogs behave strangely before an earthquake, and ants tirelessly move house in the days before a flood, our dreams guide us whenever a major change is about to take place in our lives… 20.5kReads9.0Score2.1kShelves
- 116 Fortune-Telling at a Street Stall: From the Start, I Was Given a Banner Calling Me the Bane of Evil 摆摊算命，开局被授罪恶克星锦旗 [Fortune-telling + livestreaming + comedy + ghosts and monsters + female lead? (There is romance, so please don’t attack me if it’s not your thing.)] After pretending to be crazy in an asylum for ten years, Xu Lang is finally released and awakens the “Make Your Tall Tales Come True” System. With his mastery of the mystical art in Questions to Heaven, and the System’s support, Xu Lang sets off on an extraordinary life! He’s barely set up his fortune-telling stall when a fugitive who’s been on the 3.1kReads8.9Score333Shelves
- 117 My Three Lives and Three Worlds 我的三生三世啊 A fantastical tale, all beginning with two bowls of expired Meng Po soup. By the time my hair reaches my waist, the soup's effects will have slowly worn off, and love will have quietly found its way to me! But can love really overcome every obstacle? 298Reads8.2Score—Shelves
- 118 A Handy Guide to I Ching Ramblings 易学碎碎念宝典 [A practical guide to the I Ching + fortune-telling + feng shui + luck + arrangement + adjustment + psychology] How can you harness good fortune and make life better with every step? How can the I Ching move beyond ancient books and become an everyday tool for seeing through patterns and solving problems? This is my open-source I Ching project. I'm sharing the underlying principles of Bazi, feng shui, Plum Blossom numerology, and physiognomy with you. Practical and verifiable. No obscure termi 434Reads8.5Score101Shelves
- 119 The Book of Fortune-Telling 算命簿 I am a fortune-teller in real life. I was 83 years old when I wrote this book. No one knows what sort of writing an 83-year-old man might produce, and neither do I. I just want to write a book while I still have time, and finally put one matter to rest... Synopsis: A wandering fortune-teller speaks of hidden mysteries, yet has a past unknown to all. This forbidden volume records a century's worth of secrets about practitioners of the occult. In the instant when dark arts clash with fate, the mys 3.3kReads7.0Score492Shelves
- 120 The Urban Rogue Immortal 都市无赖神仙 [A Guide to Finding New Jobs for Laid-Off Heavenly Court Immortals] He had once been a stubborn stone used as a footrest beneath the Eight Trigrams Furnace of the Supreme Lord Lao. After five thousand years of being roasted by the furnace’s divine flames, he took human form, then spent over three thousand years cultivating in the Heavenly Court before finally joining the ranks of the immortals. He was the most carefree rascal in the Ninth Heaven, yet countless female immortals accused him of har 17.9kReads9.2Score2kShelves
- 121 The Yin-Yang Master of the City 都市阴阳天师 Traditional supernatural horror. The protagonist starts out as a Celestial Master, turns into a purple-eyed zombie midway through, and transforms whenever he can’t win. If that bothers you, please give this a pass. Zhou Yuanqing studied under a purple-robed Celestial Master and chose to join Bureau 749, handling supernatural cases across the country: evil spirits, zombies, mountain demons, Japan’s Kiku School, Nanyang curse practitioners… In places ordinary people cannot see, battles of magic ha 30.9kReads8.1Score2.4kShelves
- 122 Mastering the Book of Changes, Rising to the Heavens in One Leap 易学纵横一步登天 Cultivation, Qi Refining, esoteric arts, feng shui, and sacrifice: everything you’ve heard of and everything you haven’t is in this book. Each technique is clearly explained and effective in practice. By the first few chapters, readers in the know have already realized that people outside would charge hundreds of thousands for this information, if they were willing to share it at all. Some readers even exclaimed that after searching for years, they’d finally found a shortcut to cultivation, only 8.2kReads8.8Score1.7kShelves
- 123 A Few Things from the Underworld 地府里的二三事 As a disciple of the Ma family with more than twenty years of experience in spirit-medium work, I've written this book based on what I know. Some of it is true, some of it false, and some lies in between. Whether you can understand it is up to your own fate! 339Reads8.2Score—Shelves
- 124 My Years Running a Fortune-Telling Shop 我开命理馆的这些年 [Metaphysical divination, esoteric arts, thunder formulae, the Four Pillars of Destiny and feng shui, astrology, ghost hunting, folk sorcery, witchcraft...] This is the true story of a yin-yang master. How much do you know about the metaphysical arts? You may have heard of feng shui, the Four Pillars, Qimen Dunjia, and the Six Yao, but you may never have witnessed the true power of these arts of fate and divination. In the early 1990s, as interest in the Book of Changes surged, I formally took u 27.6kReads9.1Score2.8kShelves
- 125 Journey Across Worlds: Beginning With a Cave Encounter 万界行：从山洞奇遇开始 Journey Across Ten Thousand Worlds: Beginning with an Encounter in a Cave 30Reads—Score—Shelves
- 126 The Little Prodigy of the Northern Ma Clan 北马小神童 A strange story set in a small town ninety years later. The heroine begins her shamanic calling at thirteen. On the day she was born, all the fox, yellow weasel, white weasel, willow, and rat spirits within a ten-kilometer radius knelt to welcome her. Then came a series of miraculous experiences. 10.6kReads9.5Score947Shelves
- 127 Surviving the Ordeal 熬过劫难 First, be certain that you can reach the summit. Then believe this book can rewrite your fate, and believe in the power of belief. By the time you read this book, the identity you have now will already have begun to loosen its grip. The moment you choose to begin, you have already left mediocrity behind. Can my story help you find your own path to salvation? May words reveal the power they truly hold. 60.7kReads9.2Score12.7kShelves
- 128 Folk Feng Shui: I Made My Name by Moving a Grave 民间堪舆：从迁坟开始扬名 On a midnight road, a ghost encounters a coffin being carried. A blood-seeping black coffin holds calamity at bay. Chen Mo, a boy from a remote mountain village, only wanted to live in peace with half a box of tattered books and a cracked compass left behind by his grandfather. Then the old village chief died mysteriously, and the supposed auspicious burial site turned out to be a place steeped in a century of resentment. The instant the coffin was opened, bloody words appeared alongside claw ma 3Reads—Score—Shelves
- 129 Prove the Dao Through Ten Thousand Mines, Open a Path to Immortality Through Mining 万矿证道，矿开仙途 Prove the Dao Through Ten Thousand Mines, Open a Path to Immortality Through Mining 40Reads—Score—Shelves
- 130 The Celestial Master's Dragon-Seeking Secret 天师寻龙诀 Before she died, Grandma gave me three instructions. The most important one was that, on the night I turned eighteen, I must not open the door for anyone. But that night, my dead grandmother came back... 4.7kReads8.0Score1.8kShelves
- 131 Disciple of the Maoshan Sect 茅山门徒 A strange antique shop where the owner uses his ghostly eyes to appraise treasures and spends a fortune buying ghost bones! Think the owner only knows how to appraise antiques? Think again. He can read beautiful women, too! The domineering female CEO, the hottest star, an unconventional beauty, the pure-hearted campus belle, the girl next door… He can see right through you with a single glance! 7.1kReads9.0Score636Shelves
- 132 The Celestial Master Descends the Mountain 天师下山 Back in my day, I had mastered my own school of celestial arts. One punch made the high-ranking martial artists at the nursing home north of the village tremble. One kick sent the young prodigies at the kindergarten south of the village bawling. And when I stood at the mass grave east of the village, not one of those hundreds of Ghost Kings or Ghost Emperors dared even breathe. 13.7kReads9.0Score1.6kShelves
- 133 The Grand Feng Shui Master 大相师 Ten years ago, nine snakes crawled into my bed. Grandpa said someone was trying to steal my life. To keep me alive, he arranged an engagement for me to extend my lifespan... 8kReads9.3Score984Shelves
- 134 A Cave Salamander Awakens to the Dao and Attains Immortality in Desperate Straits 洞螈悟道，绝境证仙 A Cave Salamander Comprehends the Dao and Attains Immortality in Desperate Straits 62Reads—Score—Shelves
- 135 A Tujia Daoist by the Wu River 乌江边的土家道士 A graduate of a top university, unable to pass the civil service exam after years of trying and considering his family circumstances, accepts his family’s legacy and becomes a home-based Taoist priest. This Tao is not that Tao: it’s nothing like the Taoist priests we normally imagine. There are no strict rules and taboos, nor any grand mission to save all humanity. Yet this Tao is also that Tao: he wears the same robes, communicates with the realms of yin and yang, and does what he can to help. 873Reads6.5Score100Shelves
- 136 The Eight Characters of Destiny Are the Ancestors of Science 八字是科学它祖宗 Newly released books tend to get low ratings, but everyone who has read this one gives it five stars. Many readers enjoy it so much that they have to read it twice. Some even ask, "Why isn't a book this good popular? Is there no justice?" Haha, thank you for your support. [This book follows the principle of "observing the Way of Heaven and carrying out its course": understand your own fate, find the bugs in your System, stand at the highest point of the Heavenly Way, and look down on all living 12.1kReads8.8Score3.2kShelves
- 137 The Feng Shui Master in Hemp Clothes 麻衣风水师 I was born with twelve fingers, and my hands have no palm lines. A fortune-teller said I had the rare fate of a heaven-cursed debt collector, doomed to bring death to everyone around me. To save me, Grandpa decided to return to the martial world and defy fate. He arranged three marriages for me, but on the night of the engagement, he died. Eight evil spirits came to take him away! 72.3kReads8.7Score5.1kShelves
- 138 Livestream Fortune-Telling: Miss, You're About to Suffer a Bloody Disaster 直播算命：姑娘你有血光之灾 Ye Chen took over his master's Daoist temple. He should have been content to live as an ordinary young Daoist, but instead he started livestreaming fortune-telling. “Daoist priest, do you think I can land this 50-million-yuan project?” Ye Chen scolded him: “You've committed countless evils and used up all your ancestors' accumulated virtue. You already have the look of a dying man!” “Daoist priest, why am I so unlucky?” Ye Chen replied coolly, “Your fate is cursed with loneliness and calamity. Y 6.2kReads9.2Score542Shelves
- 139 Folk Feng Shui Secrets 民间风水秘术 This story focuses on practical feng shui and fortune-telling. If you're looking for made-up drama, this isn't for you! Feel free to skip the first four chapters and start reading from Chapter Five. The adaptation will also start from Chapter Five, which should make it much easier to adapt. Thank you for understanding! (Traditional, no System, no wild flights of fancy, funny, not saintly! A technical, skill-focused story!) I was born in a poor mountain village. From a young age, I traveled aroun 27.1kReads9.4Score3.7kShelves
- 140 Changhong Funeral Services, One-Stop from Start to Finish 长虹殡葬一条龙 Zhang Fan transmigrates to a parallel world and becomes the owner of a funeral home. One day, while scrolling through short videos, he comes across a martial arts influencer who makes a spectacle of challenging fighting gyms. The influencer stands arrogantly outside a gym, boasting that he’ll go in and knock out the owner’s front teeth. Just then, the Funeral System activates. “After 16 malicious publicity stunts challenging gyms, the chance of getting beaten to a pulp next time is 100%! The cha 14.9kReads8.6Score1.5kShelves
- 141 The Divine Fortune-Teller in the Linen Robe 麻衣神算子 My grandfather taught me everything he knew about fortune-telling, but after I read three people’s fortunes, he left me. From then on, I didn’t just tell the fortunes of the living... 43.7kReads9.2Score3.8kShelves
- 142 The Divine Schemes of Guiguzi 鬼谷神谋 [Historical Fiction Writing Contest] Other people are reborn into wealth and privilege, but I came back as a stalk of rice. No, a stalk of rice growing on a grave! A lovesick woman ate me, and became my mother. I became Guigu Wang Chan, whom later generations called Guiguzi, the founding patriarch of the Vertical and Horizontal School. In this turbulent age, watch me stir up the world once more and make my mark on the battlefields of the Warring States! 554Reads6.6Score102Shelves
- 143 The Last Descendant of Zhong Kui 最后一个钟馗传人 I was cursed by a thousand-year-old fox demon the moment I was born. As a child, I couldn’t see or hear, and everyone said I was born disabled. But when I was five, a master took me in as his disciple. He said I was a reincarnated ghost god, a tempting morsel in the eyes of ghosts and monsters. The fox demon’s revenge, a frozen corpse in a dry well, a water ghost claiming lives, a hundred ghosts roaming by night... Strange events followed one after another. To protect myself, I had no choice but 5.5kReads9.0Score481Shelves
- 144 Calculating Your Fate to the End 算死命 When I was born, I was nursed by a wolf for a few days. I thought of her as my mother, and believed I'd never see her again. Then one day, a woman came looking for me... 22.8kReads8.9Score2.5kShelves
- 145 Fortune-Telling Abroad, Leaving Foreigners in Tears 留学算命，吓哭外国人 [A satisfying supernatural fantasy + a cool, tragic, beautiful, and formidable female lead + fortune-telling for foreigners + slaying demons and vanquishing evil + no romance at first, with a Chinese male lead] Chen Anran goes abroad to study, only to be suddenly told that she is to inherit a Western family. She also gains a blond fiancé and three brothers with completely different personalities. The rebellious fiancé: I won't be conquered by a Chinese international student. The cold military of 5.2kReads9.3Score1kShelves
- 146 The First Notebook of a Feng Shui Master Passed Down Through Generations 第一本祖传风水师笔记 [Adapted into a short drama] [A feng shui novel about the world around you] This novel explores feng shui in homes, shops, offices, graves and burial grounds, and people’s personal lives. There’s nothing mysterious or abstruse here, just feng shui stories from everyday life. By the time you come across this book, the gears of fate may already have started turning. Read carefully, and you may find something unexpected... 238.7kReads9.1Score24.2kShelves
- 147 The Max-Level Metaphysics Master Shakes the World by Taking Disciples and Telling Fortunes 满级玄学大佬靠收徒算命轰动世界 [No Romance + Metaphysics + Fortune-Telling + Ghost-Hunting + Satisfying Read + Absurd Comedy] Cultivation powerhouse Mu Shi is struck dead by a bolt of lightning and reborn in another world. Unfortunately, the original owner was an idiot with not a single coin to her name. No problem! She sets up a fortune-telling stall on the overpass and makes her way to the pinnacle of life. “Master, tell me when my girlfriend and I will get married.” Mu Shi: “Young man, it looks like you’ve been cheated on. 4.3kReads9.3Score639Shelves
- 148 Tales of the Strange in Western Hunan 湘西异闻录 [A friendly warning: This book has no System. It's funny and terrifying, with suspense and clever twists throughout, plus plenty of passion and brains. The more you read, the better it gets.] When I was four, I was kidnapped and taken to a cursed village to be sacrificed alive. A fox spirit risked her life to save me, and secretly pledged herself to me for life. To marry my fox bride, I venture deep into the Miao Valley, tread the Nether River Gorge, and walk the boundary between Yin and Yang. I 6.1kReads9.1Score593Shelves
- 149 Eerie Tattoos 诡纹 My grandfather was a tattoo artist, but the things he tattooed were seriously sinister… 7.5kReads9.1Score783Shelves
- 150 My Twenty Years as a Spirit Medium 我出马的二十年 He cultivated his character deep in the mountains, then left his secluded cave to make a name for himself across the land. Over twenty years, he broke through countless barriers and witnessed countless things. This is the true story of those twenty years, meant both to introduce this industry to those unfamiliar with it and to share experience with fellow professionals. 9kReads9.4Score519Shelves
