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- 1 The Executioner’s Heart 刽子手的心脏 Special profession, a heroine who grows stronger, a strong female lead, no romance, no mindless power fantasy, no immortal cultivation, purely supernatural horror and suspense! My name is Chen Siman. Grandpa says the Chen family has been executioners for generations. But in this day and age, the four old trades that dealt with the supernatural world, executioners, coroners, paper effigy makers, and corpse stitchers, have had to change professions and live in hiding to preserve their traditions. 9Reads—Score—14d adds
- 2 The Fate Script Murder Mystery 命运剧本杀 [Mild Horror + Livestreaming + Comedy] When comedian Jiang Ming pushed open that blood-red door, he accidentally signed a contract with death. Playing horror games and getting flamed by viewers until he trended online? Livestreaming real cases and being chased down by a psychopathic killer? It was all part of Jiang Ming’s carefully planned script! If you haven’t had enough yet, welcome to my murder mystery game shop! A mysterious ghost ship, a university rumored to be forbidden, secrets beyond t 1Reads—Score—14d adds
- 3 Astonishing! The Unfavored Second Daughter Is a Ghost-Hunting Prodigy 惊！不受宠的二姑娘竟是捉鬼天才 [Mysticism + Mild Horror + Exorcising Ghosts and Demons + A Little Romance + Growth-Oriented Heroine] Luo Xiaochu was disliked by her mother from the moment she was born. No, that’s not right! Her mother had already disliked her while she was still in the womb. She grew up in the countryside with her grandmother, and only moved to the city to live with her unfamiliar parents and older sister after her grandmother passed away. Moving out and earning enough to buy a place of her own was Luo Xiaoch 2Reads—Score—14d adds
- 4 Midnight Tales of Terror 午夜惊悚怪谈 Is the world really as you see it? When night falls, the uncanny follows close behind. It’s dark... Come with me into a bizarre and fantastical world, and experience the most spine-chilling sights hidden deep within your heart. This book is haunted. Ordinary mortals, stay away! 24Reads—Score—14d adds
- 5 A Bloody Night in Jiling Village 寂岭村血夜 This novel contains depictions of human nature and graphic violence. Readers under 18 should read with a parent or guardian. On December 4, 1994, a small mountain village in eastern Shenzhong City, near the border with Huizhou City, was the site of an unprecedented major crime. It later became known as “Shenzhong’s Sealed Village.” “Help me! Everyone’s been killed!” “Hello, this is Danao Police Station. What happened?” “There’s a ghost! A ghost is here! N-no, don’t come any closer! P-please, hel 17Reads—Score—14d adds
- 6 The Midnight Corner Store 午夜小卖部 The vast world is full of wonders, with all kinds of people and all kinds of professions. Perhaps one day, in some corner of the world, you’ll meet me... My name is Ling Yi. I was born with a pair of Yin-Yang Eyes, and my family owns a little shop passed down through the generations. When I took it over, I turned it into a convenience store, but it only opens at midnight... One paranormal incident after another takes place during business hours. Then, one day, the convenience store suddenly disa 354Reads6.8Score—14d adds
- 7 A Fox Borrows Her Womb to Bear a Child 狐借腹，人生子 When Bai Xi was born, she had a human body and a fox’s tail. The old woman who delivered her went mad, and her mother died in childbirth. The villagers said she was a monster born of her mother’s affair with a fox spirit in the mountains, and they wanted to burn her alive. On the night of the execution, a heavy rain fell from the sky. An old man with a face covered in scars walked through the rain, cut off her fox tail in front of everyone, and took her into the mountains, vowing never to return 1Reads—Score—14d adds
- 8 Shark Clip 鲨鱼夹 Shark Clip 4Reads—Score—14d adds
- 9 Tales of the Strange Beyond the Pass: The Madam Reads the Fate of All Things 关外诡事录：夫人卦卦算乾坤 [Romance + two powerful leads + divination + ghost hunting + gold prospecting] An Luoling is the only daughter of a renowned fortune-telling family beyond the Pass. She watches over the land around Mocheng, making her living by reading fortunes and catching ghosts. Duan Zongye is the last heir of an eastern Lu gold-prospecting family. He comes beyond the Pass to search for his father, who disappeared fifteen years ago, and to uncover the feud between the An and Duan families that began thirty ye 1.5kReads8.4Score19514d adds
- 10 The Underworld Tycoon’s Darling Wife: Don’t Mess With Me 冥府大佬的小娇妻：你别惹 [Modern City Girl × Underworld Big Shot] [Sweet Romance] [Healing Everyday Life] [Supernatural Mysteries] At 24, Qian Qianjiu works by day at a design institute in a major city and by night as a female enforcer of the dead in the underworld. Working two jobs, she guides spirits to the afterlife and saves up for a home as she levels up. Life in the city is tough. Watch Qian Qianjiu guide spirits, catch ghosts, tell fortunes, and grow stronger. The toughest assignment? Find Qian Qianjiu. Want a go 24Reads6.9Score—14d adds
- 11 Bone Flute: The Yin-Yang Soul 骨笛之阴阳魄 When Xuan Niantao was born, she was a phoenix egg with no arms or legs. Her father, Xuan Yan, and her mother, Tao Yaor, later sent her to Bai Ting, the leader of the Nine-Tailed Fox clan, for treatment. Bai Ting took her to Lovers' Valley and went into seclusion to heal her. Unfortunately, just as she was about to grow a pair of arms, Peach Blossom Valley suddenly collapsed. Bai Ting died, and by a twist of fate, Niantao ended up in the Yellow Springs. From then on, a little sidekick appeared on 12Reads7.4Score—14d adds
- 12 Everyone in the Psychiatric Hospital Is an Evil Ghost. What a Coincidence, So Am I 全精神病院都是恶鬼，巧了我也是 [Supernatural horror + two male leads + an occult master + an evil ghost heroine] There is an evil ghost inside my body. Everyone says I’m crazy. My parents locked me away in a psychiatric hospital for ten whole years. On my birthday, the most powerful family in Beijing’s elite circles barged in and took me away, forcing me to use my body to save their comatose heir. I discovered the heir’s secret. After that, vengeful spirits and evil ghosts, demons and monsters all came after me. 2Reads—Score—14d adds
- 13 Police Academy Cadet from the Start: Bridging the Worlds of Yin and Yang 开局警校生，阳执阴渡 [Police Academy] [Mystery and Supernatural] I thought my life would follow the usual path: graduate, pass the joint recruitment exam, and start working. But an accident let me glimpse the divide between Yin and Yang and awakened my Yin-Yang Eyes. With mortal eyes, I could pierce the veil between worlds and face ghosts and evil spirits head-on. I inherited the secret art of thunder, and can summon lightning with my bare hands. Yin creatures flee at the sight of me. I glimpsed the secrets of fate —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 14 Lure of the Fiend 诱煞 "Heaven reveals its signs, foretelling good and ill." As time passed and dynasties rose and fell, tales of blood moons and evil spirits were gradually buried in dusty old books, and few people knew of them anymore. Only the prophecy, "When the moon turns blood-red, yin reaches its extreme and gives birth to baleful forces," remained to warn each generation of inheritors: evil spirits had never vanished. They were only waiting for the next chance to return. When the celestial omen of a blood moon 1Reads—Score—14d adds
- 15 I'm the Only Normal Person in the Harem 后宫就我一个是正常人 I’m the Only Normal One in the Harem 3Reads—Score—14d adds
- 16 Strange Tales of Southeast Asia 东南亚诡事 (The author has opened a coffee shop in the ancient city of Dali and is busy with renovations. Please wait a little while for updates.) My name is Ning. During college, I went alone to Thailand to intern at a hotel, where a series of bizarre and inexplicable things happened. Why was there a temple built inside the hotel? What secrets did this temple hide? 8Reads—Score—14d adds
- 17 Haunted 撞邪 Can you guarantee that the people around you are really human? A lowly office worker had always kept his head down and worked in silence, until one day he accidentally discovered that his coworkers weren’t human at all… To stay alive, he has to pretend everything is normal, struggling to survive in the narrow cracks of this place day after day… 4.2kReads8.4Score30414d adds
- 18 I Knocked Over an Incense Burner and Got Tangled Up With a Thousand-Year-Old Ghost King! 碰倒香炉后，被千年鬼君缠上了！ The third time she was pinned down by a ghost in the middle of the night, Ma Xuemei threw off the covers. “Keep pretending! It’s the only trick you’ve got!” As the last “unofficial” shrine keeper of the Ma family, she never imagined that the dusty, broken incense burner in her family’s storeroom could actually be home to a living ancestor. Xie Yuan, a thousand-year-old ghost lord who had awakened inside the burner, had one simple wish after being roused: to find some fun. And the young woman in 4.3kReads8.7Score58214d adds
- 19 The Forbidden Zone of the Living 活人禁地 My dad forced me to eat something I shouldn’t have. On the seventh day after he died, I saw him outside, playing a suona… 63Reads6.6Score—14d adds
- 20 The Hauntings of the Paper Effigy Shop 纸扎店诡事 The mysterious shopkeeper Su Damei can communicate with the worlds of the living and the dead and ward off evil spirits. She runs an inconspicuous paper-offering shop, yet keeps getting caught up in bizarre incidents. Her adorable pet, Big Black Cat, is no ordinary cat! It can see ghosts and make snarky comments, and it’s Su Damei’s ghost-hunting partner. Cat lovers, rejoice! With Northeastern Chinese folk customs and a collection of short, episodic stories, each chapter brings a self-contained 36Reads—Score—14d adds
- 21 The Movie Emperor's Darling Became a Viral Sensation by Exorcising Ghosts 影帝的小娇娇靠虐鬼火遍全网 [Metaphysics, sweet romance + supernatural short stories, livestreaming, everyone’s favorite] Metaphysics expert Ye Qingmian replenishes her spiritual power by absorbing yang energy, which means finding a man to kiss now and then. The catch is that she’s a total looks-obsessed. In a cramped storage room, Ye Qingmian runs into top-tier star Chu Ci, who’s hiding from danger there too. Their lips barely touch, but the man’s pure yang energy delights her. This fresh-faced, tender-looking hunk, as de 7Reads6.3Score—14d adds
- 22 After Failing the Miss Hong Kong Pageant, I Became a Fortune-Teller in Hong Kong 落选港姐后我在香江当神算 After working diligently in the underworld for 500 years, Xia Heyan returned to the mortal world because of unfinished ties from her past life. She was reborn in the body of another woman named Xia Heyan. The original owner was an 18-year-old student at Shenghua High School, preparing to apply to the University of Hong Kong. With a bright future ahead of her, she was talked into entering that year's Miss Hong Kong pageant by her classmates. She was later eliminated over a scandal, which ruined h 309Reads—Score11414d adds
- 23 The Haunting of the New Home 搬家诡事 [Mystery + Thriller + Supernatural + Horror + No Female Lead + Smart Protagonist] His name was Yi Jibo. After he was wrongfully imprisoned, his mother fell ill and died. To pay off his gambling debts, his father sold her ashes to the Japanese through a crematorium driver. To get his mother's ashes back, Yi Jibo went to work at a Japanese funeral home. And so he burned Japanese corpses while searching for his mother's ashes… 19Reads—Score—14d adds
- 24 Meng Po Won’t Ferry Anyone but One Man 孟婆不渡，只为一人 On the banks of the River of Forgetfulness, brewing soup and guiding souls across has been Meng Po’s unchanging duty since time immemorial. The laws of the underworld are a line she must never cross. But when that familiar soul, Xiao Jinghan, steps across the Bridge of Helplessness, she is willing to break every restraint. After a thousand years of reincarnation, she may forget everyone in the world, but never him. He is the one she has held close in the depths of time, the one she would give ev 18Reads—Score—14d adds
- 25 Folklore and the Supernatural: My Campus Crush Is a Fox Demon 民俗灵异：我的校花学姐是狐妖 [First-person narration + talking to myself + pure romance + supernatural + beast-girl] My name is Lin Mu, an utterly ordinary sophomore in high school. My only hobby is studying folk legends, and I dream of becoming a novelist. I thought my life would consist of skipping class to play video games and documenting weird internet stories, until one day, at an internet cafe, I saw Su Yu Jue, the aloof upperclasswoman who had everyone at school talking, with a pair of fluffy fox ears sprouting from 4Reads—Score—14d adds
- 26 I Keep My Dormmates Fed by Catching Ghosts 我靠捉鬼养活全宿舍 Do you believe there are ghosts in the world? The truth is, they're everywhere. "Don't look back. Now, slowly count to three. One. It's behind you. Two. It's in your breath. Three... It knows you can see it now. And now it's coming for you!!! 2Reads—Score—14d adds
- 27 A Dream of Brocade, A Heart of Rippling Waters 锦梦澜心 Life is like the pages of a book, turning gently. Sometimes it overflows with sunshine, and sometimes dark clouds gather. But that is what makes the good things all the more precious. Pay attention, and you’ll find surprises hidden everywhere in life. —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 28 There Are No Evil Dogs on Evil Dog Ridge 恶狗岭没有恶狗 There Are No Vicious Dogs on Evil Dog Ridge 3Reads—Score—14d adds
- 29 Strange Tales: Once Upon a Time, There Was a Peach Blossom Spring 怪谈：从前有座桃花源 [Supernatural + One True Female Lead + Sequences + Sci-Fi Style + Not a Power Fantasy + Not Mindless + Games + Some Urban Legends] Urban legends are appearing all over the world. As spiritual qi revival begins, humanity is feeling its way toward an entirely different path to immortality. Have you ever memorized “The Peach Blossom Spring”? If so, do you really understand it? Why is the town surrounded by endless peach blossoms? Peach wood wards off evil. Look at those falling petals: don’t they r 3Reads6.7Score—14d adds
- 30 The Campus Curse: A Register of Corpse-Subduing Spells 校园诡咒镇尸簿 (No romance + an unusual team-up to catch ghosts) On what seemed like an ordinary night, four girls in a dormitory started playing with a spirit board. But that very night, horror quietly descended... Was it a collapse of morality, or a distortion of human nature? Follow this unusual team as they solve the mystery. —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 31 She Can Suppress a Hundred Ghosts on Her Own, and You Still Dare to Act Arrogant? 她一人便镇压百鬼，你还敢猖狂？ [No Romance + Horror Mystery + Paranormal + Ghost Hunting + Yin-Yang Eyes + No Saintly Heroine + Always Gets Revenge] [Hundred Ghosts Hotel] [Death Amusement Park] [Mother-and-Son Evil Spirits] [Human-Faced Spider] [Snake Head, Human Body] [Blood Coffin Maze] Late at night, in a pitch-black dormitory, the sound of a ball repeatedly bouncing against the door came from outside. It was sticky and distinct, making everyone’s scalp prickle. Everyone in the room trembled with fear. Li Youqing told Fu 213Reads—Score—14d adds
- 32 The Heavenly Eye Coffin: Tales of Tomb Raiding in Tibet 天眼棺材：西藏盗墓惊奇录 [Mystery] + [Supernatural] + [Horror] + [Tomb Raiding] Two tomb-raiding enthusiasts meet online. After receiving an invitation from a mysterious stranger, they head to Tibet in search of an ancient tomb containing a coffin with a celestial eye. After enduring countless dangers, they uncover a shocking secret and treasure, and encounter both allies and enemies, along with a web of intrigue. Hidden inside the celestial-eye coffin is a crystal ball that can see through everything. It will change 2Reads—Score—14d adds
- 33 Wrong Spirit Summoned! The Living Corpse Girl Punches Evil Away 招错魂了！活尸少女铁拳物理驱邪 [Folklore and supernatural tales + soul transmigration + everyday life of a Daoist priest + a touch of ensemble cast + healing] [Heroine: soft-hearted inside, fists of steel] VS [Hero: people-pleaser, devoted and beautiful] Not long after Luo Yan was born, his mother took him to Luoyang. There, she saw peonies as brilliant as rouge and gave him that name. When he was a little older, he saw peonies in full bloom like those. But when he leaned close to smell them, he found a stench of decay hidd 9.3kReads8.8Score1.8k14d adds
- 34 The Granny's Infinite Returns: From the Start, She Strikes Back Against Her Demon Son-in-Law 老太无限回归，开局反杀恶魔女婿 [Strong Female Lead + Elderly Woman + No CP + Metaphysical Livestreaming + Face-Slapping and Scum-Bashing] After clearing the Infinite Worlds, Xia Xiulian seals away her memories and returns to the time before her daughter and granddaughter were harmed. This time, she'll make sure they escape the clutches of their abusers. She firmly supports her daughter's divorce, fights back against the demonic son-in-law who comes to harass them, and gets a divorce of her own while she's at it. As she rewrit —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 35 The Ultimate Ghost-Raising Master 极品养鬼师 [Adult] + [Adorable Pets] + [Sharp Tongue] + [Making Money] + [Secret Arts] Do you know how to raise ghosts? No worries, I do! Do you know how to catch ghosts? No worries, I do that too! Do you know where to find ghosts? No worries, I’ll take you there! Watch your step. Get in! —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 36 Strange Tales from the Countryside 乡村诡故事 Before you start this book, a warning: if you scare easily, don't read it. If you live alone, be careful. Every short ghost story here is based on an ordinary person's real-life experience. Not a single word is made up. From the damp old alleyways of the south to the frozen, deserted villages of the north; from late-night overtime in office buildings to lights-out in university dorms; the taboos our elders forbade us to talk about, and the moments you dare not dwell on in the middle of the night 119Reads—Score—14d adds
- 37 The Metaphysics Big Shot Sets Up a Stall and Solves Case After Case! 玄学大佬摆摊，破了一案又一案！ [Feng shui and the supernatural + fortune-telling + ghost hunting + gossip + feel-good wish fulfillment + episodic mysteries + no romance] With the grand sum of five yuan, collected through a united fundraising effort by everyone in her sect, and a beggar's bowl full of hundred-yuan bills in view, supernatural expert Chu Ling'er fell silent. As if things weren't bad enough, misfortune soon followed. She had barely come down from the mountain when she got caught up in a random murder case... To g 4.3kReads8.8Score45114d adds
- 38 A Stranger's Path Through the Ghost World 鬼途陌路 Modern setting + horror + suspense + supernatural + strong female lead Hu Ying is a funeral makeup artist who just wants to earn a little money and lie flat. Who would have thought that after an accident, she’d be forced onto a one-way road where she’d have to live among ghosts? From then on, she uncovers conspiracies and fights evil cults, and somehow ends up at the very peak of life... 82Reads—Score—14d adds
- 39 Tomb of Terror: My Haunted Forest Expedition 古墓惊魂，我的恐怖森林探险之旅 Terror in the Ancient Tomb: My Adventure Through a Haunted Forest 1Reads—Score—14d adds
- 40 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—14d adds
- 41 The Living Burial Mound 活人坟 Never let an unfamiliar woman into your car! Especially at night! Because the person you meet... might not be alive! 63Reads8.0Score—14d adds
- 42 The Forbidden Grounds of the Ancient Temple 古庙禁地 The old master was digging a well when he unearthed the corpse of a beautiful woman. From then on, my family was thrown into chaos. A local “expert” told my family that the only way to save my life was for me to enter the temple business, so I became a temple-restoration craftsman. A mass grave in the black pine forests of the Northeast, an airplane crash site on an uninhabited island in the Bohai Sea, a valley of medicinal herbs in the uninhabited zone of Shennongjia, and a haunted village hidd 288Reads8.2Score—14d adds
- 43 Taboo of the Living 活人禁忌 There are many taboos passed down in everyday life. For example, never stick your chopsticks upright in a bowl of rice, and never look back when walking alone at night... But some people refuse to believe in them. The consequences? Death, or something worse than death! One taboo passed down by word of mouth in our village was never to touch the stone tablet beside the well. Then the village’s Eighth Master touched it, and terrifying events began happening one after another... 28Reads6.9Score—14d adds
- 44 A Ghost Lurks in My Right Eye: A Decade-Old Murder Hidden in the Old Building's Brick Wall 右眼栖鬼：老楼砖墙藏十年命案 A Ghost Dwells in Her Right Eye: A Decade-Old Murder Hidden in the Bricks of an Old Building 3Reads—Score—14d adds
- 45 The Conspiracy Behind the Terrifying Calls 恐怖电话背后的阴谋 The conspiracy behind the horror phone 3Reads—Score—14d adds
- 46 Redemption and Rebirth in the Darkness 黑暗中的救赎与新生 Salvation and New Life in the Darkness 1Reads—Score—14d adds
- 47 Terror Underground: My Journey of Adventure and Growth 地道惊魂，我的探险与成长 Terror Underground: My Adventure and Growth —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 48 The Abandoned Wife's Desert Island Adventure 弃妇的荒岛冒险之旅 An Abandoned Wife's Adventure on a Deserted Island 1Reads—Score—14d adds
- 49 The Bride in the Red Coffin 红棺里的新娘 The first book: horror, terror, and the uncanny. The sequel: comedy and humor! Two stories: The Bride in the Red Coffin + its sequel, also known as My Ghost Wife Keeps Trying to Scare Me to Tears. When crimson ripples spread across the deep pool, I finally saw the bone comb in the hands of the bride in the sunken coffin. Carved into it were my birth details, even though I had been missing for three years. Xu Xiaomo was drawn home by tales of the Sunk 182Reads—Score—14d adds
- 50 The Ghost Banquet 鬼禁食 A glutton's feast: can it really eat anything at all? Open wide, and nothing is off-limits? When you're indulging in wild game, have you ever felt a hint of murderous intent behind you... 29Reads—Score—14d adds
