Novels like Bai Wuji: The Taboos of a Hundred Ghosts
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- 1 The Little Yin-Yang Master 阴阳小大人 Other officials look for powerful patrons. Yan Bufan relies on beating up spirits and cursing ghosts to get ahead! Other investigators seek out witnesses and evidence. He simply asks the ghosts, “Hey, how did you die?” When his superior gives him a hard time, he beats up the man’s ancestors until the superior is begging to call him big brother. When a wealthy landowner looks down on him, he makes the man’s property pack itself up and move. Overnight, the landowner is even poorer than he is. Lord —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 2 Horror Taboos 恐怖禁忌 He is the Little Prince of Ghost Stories, a funeral bier carrier, a fortune-teller in hemp robes, a feng shui master, a knife-selling prophet, a yin-spirit collector, and a master healer. He is also the Supreme Mage! He is determined to rid the world of ghosts, but there is far too much evil among humanity... 26Reads6.5Score—Shelves
- 3 Street Ghost Prank Test: Did We Really Summon a Ghost? 街头扮鬼测试：真把鬼招来了？ [Women's Fiction] [Romance] [No Ending, Read at Your Own Risk] A prank show on the short-video platform Chanyin, where people dressed up as ghosts on the street, went viral across the internet. The popular creator dressed up like a ghost in places such as elevators, underground parking garages, the last bus of the night, and subway trains, testing how passersby reacted to seeing a ghost. The test left Bai Siming, who could already see ghosts, at a loss for words. A pair of pale legs covered in r 13Reads—Score—Shelves
- 4 Ninety-Five Percent of the Curse Is Mine, You Know What I Can Do 诅咒分我九十五，我的手段你清楚 In a supernatural apocalypse, vengeful ghosts run rampant. Humanity has lost its homeland. The age of mankind is over, and the world belongs to the ghosts. On the barren wasteland, rotten black arms claw their way out of the earth in a boundless graveyard. In an abandoned city, melodious singing drifts through the streets. The shadow at your feet is no longer still, and a familiar friend hides a bloodied dagger behind their back. Ghost Kings claim lands as their own, while ghost gods occupy huma 1Reads—Score—Shelves
- 5 Don't Mess with This Unemployed Uncle! He's Got an Exclusive Circle of Ghost Friends 别惹失业大叔！他有专属鬼友圈 An unemployed middle-aged man helps a ghost investigate the cause of death and unexpectedly gets a job as an underworld clerk! In the style of the author's previous work, Carrying Both the Living and the Dead, this novel offers mystery, horror, thrills, and positive energy. If you enjoy a thrill, come on in. Also, this isn't a play-the-pig-to-eat-the-tiger kind of novel. The plot is rich and varied, with one twist leading into the next... 6Reads—Score—Shelves
- 6 Come On! Who Needs Cultivation When There's a System? 拜托！有系统了谁还修仙？ [Supernatural + System + cultivation + ghost wife] I transmigrated through countless lifetimes of reincarnation with the System. When I opened my eyes, I found the soul of a thousand-year-old female ghost inside my body! “Little brat, the sun’s been up for ages! Get up and practice!” Ye Lingxing yanked the covers away. “Master, wait! Let your disciple sleep a little longer.” I sat up and pulled the soft, fragrant beauty beside the bed into my arms. “My dear ghost lady, I went to all the trouble 2Reads—Score—Shelves
- 7 I’m a Ghost-Hunting Streamer, and One Comment Scares the Whole Internet 我，驱鬼主播，一条评论吓哭全网 Chen Ye transmigrated to a parallel world with nothing to his name. All he could do was bluff, pretend to be a celestial master, and start livestreaming. After ending a stream, Chen Ye opened a video of a beautiful woman, only for a prompt to suddenly appear before his eyes: “After livestreaming 99 times at midnight, your excessive yin energy will attract a lustful ghost. The right clients can follow you!” Once he got the prompt, Chen Ye immediately left a comment: “Hey, miss, need help warding 689Reads8.1Score—Shelves
- 8 Evil Spirits Revive: This Brute Is More Savage Than the Ghosts! 邪灵复苏：这个莽夫比鬼凶！ In a parallel world, night reigns supreme and daylight never breaks. Evil spirits and ghosts lurk everywhere, killing without a sound. Faced with these monstrous, malevolent beings, ordinary people can only await their deaths, despair written across their faces. Yu Wentuo transmigrates into the body of an unlucky man and finds himself trapped in a deadly predicament: pick up ghost money, and die on the seventh day after your death. In his previous life, Yu Wentuo was known as the “Blood-Handed B 78Reads—Score—Shelves
- 9 The Underworld Retirement Home 冥府养老院 [Mystery + Supernatural Horror + Urban + Deduction + No Do-Gooder Protagonist + Decisive and Ruthless] On the first day of school, I ran into a female ghost! Facing the red-clad upperclassman before me, I raised a chair and brought it crashing down on her! "You think it's funny to dress up like a ghost and scare me, you bastard?" —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 10 I'm a Ghost Officer in the Underworld 姐在地府当鬼差 [Mysticism, ridiculous laughs, mildly spooky supernatural elements, a powerful and devoted couple, episodic stories] Legend has it that there is a city in the Underworld called the City of Unjust Deaths. Those who died unjustly, whether they have grudges left unresolved or wishes yet unfulfilled, can submit their cases to the Bureau. Only after their grievances are settled and their obsessions dispelled can they enter Fengdu in the Underworld and pass through the six paths of reincarnation. Almo 44Reads8.0Score—Shelves
- 11 One Man, Five Ghosts: Want to Run? Pay Five Million First 一个男人五个鬼，想跑先赔五百万 [Completed novel + horror + supernatural + comeback + face-slapping + episodic stories] My name is Cao Dakui, and I just inherited a massive fortune: a four-hundred-square-meter luxury apartment in the capital, plus a storefront. Sounds great, right? Except... The butler in the apartment says he was born during the Wanli era. One of the residents is a beautiful woman who, whenever she's in a good mood, takes off her head and plays with it like a ball. There's also a mysterious person living in t 304Reads—Score102Shelves
- 12 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... 93Reads—Score—Shelves
- 13 Horror Returns, and I Won't Spare Even a Ghost 恐怖复苏，我连鬼都不放过 The crimson moon appears, terror returns, and demons and monsters run rampant. Su Ye, dumped by his girlfriend, obtains the Netherworld System. The more ghosts he kills, the stronger he becomes. Hanging Ghost: “Oh no, this guy doesn't even spare ghosts! I strongly demand a law to protect us!” Door-Knocking Ghost: “Boohoo, all I did was knock on the door, and he tied me up and forced me to learn a trade.” Alliance of Ten Thousand Ghosts: “Humans might put up with this, but ghosts won't! Let's poo 94Reads—Score—Shelves
- 14 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... 33Reads6.9Score—Shelves
- 15 Bride of the Vengeful Ghost: The Haunted Antique Shop 猛鬼新娘：通灵古董屋 I'm the owner of an ordinary antique shop. By a twist of fate, I came into possession of an ancient jade pendant. Ever since then, a beautiful woman has been slipping silently into my dreams every night... 259Reads8.7Score—Shelves
- 16 My Brother Is a Ghost 我的弟弟是个鬼 Does catching ghosts have to be scary? Shen Yufei is a slick-talking, greedy, womanizing young Daoist who cons people with the help of his twin brother, now a little ghost. He takes a trip to the Northeast and gets on the wrong side of all five great immortal clans... He goes to college, catches ghosts as a side job, and becomes a little rich... His career is flourishing, but his love life is not. With his little ghost brother’s help, he subdues demons and exorcises evil spirits... and takes on 79Reads6.2Score—Shelves
- 17 I Conquer Both Worlds of Yin and Yang by Sheer Stubbornness 我靠命硬横行阴阳两界 Everyone has always said I was cursed, an ill-fated star whose hard luck would bring death to my family. I refuse to believe it! After landing a job at a mysterious company, I use my iron constitution and superhuman stamina to earn a fortune! The Ghost Emperor wants to marry me? No way! Nobody’s getting in the way of me making money! 3Reads—Score—Shelves
- 18 Yin-Yang Eyes: Ghostly Tales from a Mountain Village 阴阳眼之山村鬼事 On the night I was born, dark clouds covered the sky, fierce winds and torrential rain raged, and thunder boomed until dawn. Countless ghost soldiers and underworld bailiffs waited outside our home, intent on dragging me back to the underworld. If my grandfather hadn't fought to protect me, I wouldn't have lived to see morning. Dogs barked all night throughout the village. The elders called me a cursed, ill-fated child and an evil omen, and wanted to beat me to death to put an end to the calami 19Reads—Score—Shelves
- 19 Playing Matchmaker in the Underworld 我在冥界牵红线 [Female-Oriented + Minimal Romance + Mild Horror + Plot-Focused + Episodic + Ensemble Cast] My name is You Sheng, and I'm a university student. I should have been enjoying a pleasant summer vacation, but the day before I was due to go home, a rideshare driver dumped me by the roadside. After that, a vengeful ghost latched onto me, and I unexpectedly gained the ability to see spirits... On the high-speed train, I met an old Taoist. To help my grandmother avert a calamity, I accepted the Ghost Eye 2Reads—Score—Shelves
- 20 Huh? Me? I Became the Ghost King? 啊？我？成鬼王了？ Wang Gui always thought she would sooner or later drop dead at her desk. Overtime, takeout, endless messages saying “Received,” and a salary that barely qualified as compensation for emotional distress: that was her entire life. Then, late one night at work, her heart stopped and everything went black. When she opened her eyes again, an iron chain thicker than her wrist was dragging her forward. Ahead of her was a towering, muscular figure with horns on its head, muttering: “Ran a lot of them in —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 21 The Number One Mystic Arts Master 玄门第一相师 A young Taoist is forced to leave his temple. Luckily, he finds a secret manual and slips into the city to begin his cultivation journey. Even the head of a major corporation treats him as an honored guest. 2.1kReads7.7Score289Shelves
- 22 The Farmer Who Catches Ghosts 农妇抓鬼 [Full of twists + transmigration and possession + hilarious antics] A mighty immortal cultivator unexpectedly loses all his powers and ends up possessing a peasant woman! To survive, he has no choice but to take two troublemakers along, exorcising ghosts and vanquishing demons as they search for his true body. A pretty farm girl, a down-and-out scholar, and a lecherous old man: three heads are better than one. Along the way, they trade jokes and insults, experiencing all the dust and bustle of t 75Reads8.4Score—Shelves
- 23 The Orthodox Unity Taoist Acolyte 正一小道爷 My master vanished without a trace. As the sect’s last heir, I have the sect’s treasured spirit sword and a purple-gold spirit talisman brush. One man, one sword, one brush: I descend the mountain to subdue demons and ghosts. Note: Some events in this book are based on real experiences the author has had, and some of the methods are quite authentic. Do not attempt to imitate them! 607Reads6.1Score100Shelves
- 24 The Taoist Who Travels Between the Worlds of Yin and Yang 穿梭在阴阳两界的道士 [No System, no transmigration, supernatural horror, occult arts, hilarious nonsense, a touch of vulgarity, and religious culture] Good is repaid with good, and evil with evil. If it hasn’t happened yet, the time simply hasn’t come. The protagonist was born with yin-yang eyes, allowing him to see ghosts invisible to ordinary people. By chance, when he was young, he met the spirit of a Taoist priest who had died not long before. Impressed by the boy’s extraordinary talent, the ghost priest taught 84Reads—Score—Shelves
- 25 The Ghost-Deceiving Master 骗鬼大师 [Mystery] [Ghost Hunting] [Comedy] [Urban] [Scheming Hero] [Feel-Good Power Fantasy] My master is a real oddball, so naturally, I didn’t turn out innocent or naive either. Armed with a peachwood sword, I roam the world, making a living catching ghosts. But don’t assume I have any profound magical arts. In truth, catching ghosts is all about bluffing! I can scare a timid little ghost into trembling with fear, and I can talk a century-old vengeful ghost into a complete daze. Watch as my peachwood —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 26 Maoshan's Greatest Celestial Master 茅山最强天师 [Supernatural + Urban Fantasy + Maoshan Taoist Arts + One Heroine] “Maoshan disciple Ye Qing travels the world alone, sweeping across the mortal realm with his mastery of Maoshan Taoist arts.” He slays wraiths, battles evil gods, destroys ghosts and monsters, and vanquishes corpse kings. Witness a generation’s Celestial Master of Maoshan wield secret Taoist arts with one hand, shaking the four corners of the world and reigning supreme beneath heaven. 1.4kReads—Score—Shelves
- 27 The Yin-Yang Master of the Living World 阳间阴阳先生 I was an ordinary first-year college student. Then one incident gave me a whole new understanding of the world. From that day onward, I walked between the realms of yin and yang. 3.6kReads—Score110Shelves
- 28 The Yin-Yang Master of the Wilderness 山野阴阳先生 [Yinshan + Maoshan + Folk legends + Supernatural + No saintly protagonist + No womanizing] My grandfather from Yinshan protects my life, and my brothers from Maoshan protect my body. As a Yin-Yang Master who walks among the dead, all I carry is an umbrella and a copper bell. Deep in the mountains, I encountered an old shapeshifter gnawing on a living person's hand. In southern Xinjiang, a demonic carpet sucked people's lifeblood in the middle of the night. In western Yunnan, a one-legged ghost 56.6kReads6.7Score2.4kShelves
- 29 I'm a Homeless Drifter, Spending the Night in an Abandoned House and Cuddling Up to a Female Ghost 我流浪汉，夜宿废弃房和女鬼贴贴 Also known as [Streaming My Vagabond Life: This Streamer Has a Ton of Side Gigs] [Livestreaming, no female lead, travel and daily life, uncanny explorations] After transmigrating to a parallel world, Xie Hua became a vagabond cycling around China and awakened the God-Tier Vagabond System. For every 1,000 kilometers he accumulates on his bicycle, he can claim a reward through a System sign-in! He signs in for the talent of a wandering singer, livestreams a performance of “Blue Lotus,” humiliates 679Reads8.1Score104Shelves
- 30 Making Money in Both the Living and the Dead Worlds 阴阳两界通吃 [Multiple Heroines + Wacky Daily Life + Light Comedy + No System] I'm Guan Du, one of the top wage slaves between the worlds of the living and the dead. I take jobs and make money by day, then work for ghosts at night. Ghost Big Shot: Help me find my killer, and I'll give you a haunted house! Gluttonous Impermanence: You can mooch a meal, but pay protection money first! Tsundere Receptionist: Keep running your mouth, and I'll put you up for auction online! What? You don't scam people for money? 2Reads—Score—Shelves
- 31 The Coffin Bearer 抬棺者 I’m a coffin bearer. After carrying coffins for decades, I’ve seen all kinds of sinister coffins: mother-and-child coffins, coffins without mourners, coffins for those who died violent deaths… And behind these coffins, a shocking secret was hidden… 192Reads6.7Score105Shelves
- 32 The Daoist Arts Compendium: Flirting with Ghosts in the Underworld 道术灵册我在冥界调戏鬼 Supernatural and bizarre incidents keep happening, along with the use of all kinds of talismans, spells, and Taoist arts. Follow me, Lin Feng, as I promote traditional Chinese Taoism. Lin Feng was raised from childhood by his grandfather, Lin Yousheng, a renowned Taoist priest. The story takes place in a small town in the 1980s and 1990s. Before turning thirteen, Lin Feng had little interest in his grandfather's identity as a Taoist priest, but at thirteen, he began his journey down the Taoist p 2Reads—Score—Shelves
- 33 The Paper Effigy Shopkeeper Is Not to Be Messed With 纸扎铺老板不好惹 [A So-Lazy-He’d-Die Bottom (Sheng Qing) × A Green-Tea, Jealous Hades Top (Yan Nanque)] [Two Male Leads + Both Powerful + Fantasy Ghost-Hunting + Sweet Romance] Three thousand years ago, Sheng Qing was a human-world guardian deity who wanted for nothing. Three thousand years later, to make ends meet, he had no choice but to drag his long-neglected, badly atrophied body to open a paper-offering shop near a graveyard in Jingcheng. On the shop’s opening day, restless spirits took turns showing up. T 21Reads6.7Score—Shelves
- 34 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
- 35 The Eerie Coffin in Deep Waters 深水诡棺 When I was ten, I fell into a well. Deep in the water was a coffin. After I saw it, I was plagued by nightmares and fell ill. My grandfather gave me a piece of deadwood to protect my life, and I miraculously recovered! From then on, strange and supernatural events followed one after another, and all kinds of mythical beasts from the Classic of Mountains and Seas came after me! Even stranger, a mysterious neighbor moved in next door. He was fair-skinned, beautiful, and long-legged, with a mastery 192Reads8.8Score—Shelves
- 36 The Eerie Coffin Bearers 诡抬棺 Nine peaks, a sea of blood, mountains of bones... Murderous danger lurks everywhere. Every step is fraught with peril, and I never know how much longer I'll survive. It wasn't until I deciphered the nursery rhyme I'd heard when I became someone's disciple that I uncovered a shocking secret... 63Reads9.0Score—Shelves
- 37 The Calamity Wardens' Apocalypse 压祟默示录 [Mystery and the supernatural + ensemble cast + first-person narration + Eastern mythology + Daoism] The copper coin a strange Daoist casually gave me turned out to be the legendary evil-repelling coin? Are the haunted mansion and the attacks by the walking corpses really because an evil fiend has emerged from seclusion? Or is there some other hidden truth? Is there more to the familiar New Year's Eve story than we know? Can some of the inexplicable things in modern life actually be explained? D 1Reads—Score—Shelves
- 38 The Young Physician 少郎中 All things in this world have their causes and consequences. Good deeds bring blessings, while evil deeds breed sin. Children are too young to know better, so they cannot be the cause. When ill-fated bonds arise, it is usually because their parents have done wrong. We, the Young Doctors, are here to free these innocent children from their suffering… 386Reads8.8Score101Shelves
- 39 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
- 40 Super Ultimate Ghost-Hunting System 超级无敌捉鬼系统 After his girlfriend dumped him, Ou Haochen was so heartbroken that he tried to end his life by jumping into the sea. Instead, he accidentally got an Invincible Ghost-Hunting System. From then on, with a club in hand and a chamber pot at my waist, I shoot one arrow of swagger and summon thousands of gods and ghosts. The Ten Kings of Hell obey my commands; no evil spirit in the world dares defy me. You’re a thousand-year-old Ghost King? I have a System! You’re an ancient demon? I have a System! Y 829Reads5.5Score102Shelves
- 41 Strange Tales from the South 南方灵异事 4Reads—Score—Shelves
- 42 Miss, Wait Up, Little Taoist 女施主：小道长留步 Witty and humorous + grounded in reality and rich in metaphor + ghost hunting and the supernatural A Taoist priest descends the mountain + an utterly doting big brother + a collection of short stories + long-term foreshadowing + guiding souls to the afterlife In 2026, I hunt ghosts and guide souls in the city. Only later did I realize that human hearts are far scarier than ghosts. I have just two kinds of clients: the living and the dead. The living pay me to solve their problems. The dead pay w 26Reads—Score—Shelves
- 43 The Soul Shop: My 49 Deadbeat Clients 生魂店：我的49个死鬼客户 When I was nine, Grandpa used his life to arrange a marriage for me. My fiancée wasn't human. She was a vengeful spirit in red. The marriage was meant to keep me alive. Ever since I learned to walk, I would mysteriously disappear in the middle of the night. When my family found me, I would be in a ravine far from home or on a dead person's grave. The worst thing happened when I was seven… 2Reads—Score—Shelves
- 44 You Were Told to Guard a Village, So Why Did You Make the City God Cry? 让你守个村儿，你把城隍打哭了？ After the old madman died, I always thought I was the only person left in the village. Then one year, two men showed up carrying a camera and said they wanted to film a documentary about walking marriages... 469Reads8.5Score—Shelves
- 45 I’m a Dentist in a Small Town, and I Exorcise Demons on the Side 我在小城当牙医，兼职驱邪 [Mystery + the supernatural + urban legends + team growth] Pull teeth by day, exorcise evil by night: my side gig is way more thrilling than my day job! Chen Mo is an ordinary dentist in Qinglin City. One day, after pulling a mysterious old man's tooth, the man drew a blood talisman on his palm. That night, Chen Mo dreamed of a giant snake that could speak. When he woke up, he discovered he had become a disciple of the Willow Immortal, able to communicate with the realms of the living and the d 2Reads—Score—Shelves
- 46 Eerie: I Am Confucius, and From the Start I Tame a Ghostly Loli 诡异：我孔子，开局收服鬼萝莉 In this world, the extraordinary and the uncanny coexist. As strange forces run rampant and demons wreak havoc, Kong Hao tears open his shirt, revealing the fearsome character for “virtue” on his back. He holds up a fist as big as a cooking pot and declares, “You have to listen to reason or to a fist, right?” 57Reads7.3Score—Shelves
- 47 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
- 48 The Daoheart’s Journey 道心征途 (This novel focuses primarily on horror, the supernatural, and suspense. It isn't mindless, it isn't about cultivating immortality, and the story is tightly connected. The early chapters lay the groundwork, and there are many genuinely frightening scenes. If you don't like it, feel free to say so in the comments!) My master said there are only two principles to being a Taoist priest. First: Never put off revenge until tomorrow. Let it fester in your heart, and it will throw your Daoist mind into 8Reads6.5Score—Shelves
- 49 A Life-and-Death Pact with My Living Corpse Husband 生死契约之我的活死人老公 On the day I was born, my mother nearly died in childbirth. Then my father almost threw me into the river to drown. Later, my mother ran off with a rich man, abandoning me, and my father started a new family. My stepmother never liked me. Then she bore my father a son, my younger brother Su Xiaodong, who was at odds with me every day. After that, my stepmother became pregnant again, but died mysteriously, taking the baby with her. Everyone began to regard me as an ill omen. It was all because I 6Reads—Score—Shelves
- 50 The Ghost-Catching Taoist Master 捉鬼天师 To build a road, the village assigned me and a few others to demolish a grave. Everyone died, but I survived. I’m the only one who knows why... 56Reads—Score—Shelves
