Novels like A World of Fireflies
Books Chinese readers most often put in the same booklists as A World of Fireflies, best match first.
- 101 The Real Heiress Was Reunited with Her Family, Only to Turn Out to Be a Mystical Arts Master? 真千金被认回后竟是玄门大佬？ [The Male Lead Appears Late! Very Late!] Eighteen years ago, twin sisters were switched at the Nan family maternity ward. Nan Zhi, who should have been cherished as the family's darling, grew up in a remote Taoist temple and became the youngest and most mysterious fifth-rank Celestial Master in the mystic world. She has never failed to exorcise evil spirits or suppress sinister forces, and can wield talismans and formations with ease. The cinnabar mark on her palm is proof of her ability to trav 26.9kReads8.8Score5.1k14d adds
- 102 Six Years After Our Engagement, His Fortune-Telling Wife Vanished 订婚后，他的算命妻子失踪了六年 [Strong heroine, mysticism + suspense + supernatural + satisfying revenge + adorable pets and kids] She said she could suppress the baleful energy around him, and he agreed to the marriage their families had arranged. She followed him to the capital, where she exposed one hidden conspiracy after another. But after their engagement, she disappeared. Six years later, she returned with twins, a boy and a girl... * After weathering countless hardships, she became a renowned mystic and opened a feng 2kReads9.3Score33314d adds
- 103 The Life of a Spirit Medium’s Disciple 出马弟子的人生 A novel about real experiences and nothing but facts, centered on the real practice of spirit-mediumship! I hope you enjoy it! No fantasy power trips or immortal cultivation: every bit of it is based on real experiences! 259Reads8.1Score—14d adds
- 104 The Haunted Houses I’ve Experienced 我经历的凶宅 The older generation often says that people who die violent deaths cannot enter the cycle of reincarnation. Their souls endlessly haunt the places where they died, seeking substitutes. Only then can they be reborn. That’s why we often hear in the news about car crashes that keep happening at certain locations. Sometimes the place isn’t even a proper intersection, yet terrible accidents leave cars wrecked and people dead. Some streams aren’t even as deep as a person is tall, yet every year there 2.1kReads8.9Score19514d adds
- 105 The Mountain Wanderer 走山人 Three years after I died, I climbed out of my grave. I set out on the path of a spirit medium and made my name roaming the mountains. Grandpa said I was half-dead, with no taboos to hold me back! 2.2kReads8.7Score19414d adds
- 106 Little Junior Sister's Fortune-Telling Is Divine. What's Wrong with Taking It Easy? 小师妹算命超神，摆烂一点怎么啦 (Livestreaming + mysticism + feel-good story + sweet romance + lighthearted) Shi An'an was a master of the mystic arts, but when a bolt of heavenly lightning struck, she ended up in the body of an obscure celebrity who was hated across the internet. The original owner was plagued by bad luck, had made enemies of rising stars and award-winning actors alike, and was saddled with a huge contract penalty. Having long since embraced life as a lazy immortal, Shi An'an had no choice but to join a varie 1.5kReads9.1Score18814d adds
- 107 My Fortune-Telling and Ghost-Hunting Are Too Brutal, and Now the State Has Its Eye on Me 算命捉鬼太凶残，我被国家盯上了 (A super-cool heroine + both leads are each other’s first and only + sweet romance) Fu Jiuqing transmigrates into the bride brought in to ward off misfortune for an heir of a top-tier wealthy family. The capital’s princely heir is refined and noble, cold-hearted and ruthless. With Buddhist prayer beads around his wrist, he looks like a deity who has strayed into the mortal world. But he is dying. The Fu family sends their eldest daughter to ward off his bad luck. Rumor has it the eldest Miss Fu 4kReads9.3Score43914d adds
- 108 Taoist Priest, Help Me Exorcise a Ghost! 道长！帮忙驱鬼 All things have yin and yang; the seasons turn four times a year, and ghosts and monsters roam the world. Tang Ning only wanted to run the Psychic Pavilion, sell little trinkets, and live an easygoing life as a happy-go-lucky slacker. She never expected the colorful parade of customers and friends coming and going to make her life so complicated. A haunted old mansion shrouded in gloom, children whose souls have been switched, evil masters who keep wicked ghosts... All kinds of bizarre incide 439Reads8.8Score—14d adds
- 109 Ghostbusting with Nothing but a Silver Tongue 抓鬼全靠一张嘴 [Unconventional Ghost-Hunting + Mystery and Deduction + Supernatural + Comedy + Bickering Couple + Suitable for the Fainthearted + Romance!!] Blurb One: Have you ever seen someone perform an exorcism entirely by running their mouth? Have you ever seen someone fight ghosts by spitting at them? Have you ever heard spells that are all tongue twisters? No? Then come on in and take a look. The ultimate trash-talking champion, undefeated in arguments, insulting people when they’re around and gho 4kReads9.0Score59714d adds
- 110 The Coffin Walks at Night 灵棺夜行 I was carrying a coffin up the mountain for a burial when they stuffed me inside and buried me alive. Then, in a single night, all three hundred or so people in the village vanished. Only at night was the place alive with voices. I crawled out of the coffin, only to discover... 5.6kReads8.2Score36614d adds
- 111 Get Up, Nobody Sleep! I'm Holding a Meeting for Ghosts! 起来都别睡，我给鬼开个会！ [Traditional]+ [Supernatural]+ [Comedy]+ [No Female Lead]+ [No CP]+ [No Cultivation] The animated comic Huang Daxian's Odd Jobs: My Host Is All Talk is now online. When Li Zhengyang was little, he went with his father to visit relatives. They were driving home at midnight when their car inexplicably stalled three times as they passed a graveyard. His relatives had plied him with liquor, but Li Zhengyang was fearless as a newborn calf. He got out of the car and yelled curses at the nearby mounds 6.8kReads8.3Score53314d adds
- 112 The First Half of a Female Spirit Medium’s Life! 出马女弟子的前半生！ I’m an ordinary country girl from Northeast China. When I was 18, I learned that I was born with a connection to the immortals. I was often unwell in all sorts of ways, and I sought out many spirit mediums, hoping they could help me escape my predicament. I was cheated, but I also met kind people. This is the story of how I eventually found my way out. I decided to write this book to keep more people from being scammed. I can’t guarantee that everything I say is right, but I can guarantee that I 8.8kReads9.5Score67614d adds
- 113 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. 10.8kReads9.5Score96414d adds
- 114 This Spirit Medium Is No Ordinary One 这个出马仙不一般 [Paranormal tales from Northeast China, adapted from true stories] A three-foot strip of red cloth bears the names of a hundred or so immortals. Incense smoke curls before it, and the disciple is known as a spirit medium. My name is Jin Laimi. A weasel calling itself the Yellow Immortal once possessed me, and from then on, I became a spirit medium. I opened an agency specializing in feng shui and all kinds of “paranormal” cases. A father who guards his daughter with his spirit even after death; 375Reads8.9Score1914d adds
- 115 The Soul Ferry Lantern 渡魂灯 [Supernatural + mildly scary + episodic stories, a fast-paced ghost-hunting romp with all kinds of tricks!] Fire runs in my veins, and I'm cursed to bring bad luck. When I was fifteen, my father kicked me out. To survive, I climbed into a stone tomb. The strange knocking at the door of the funeral home at midnight, The body that mysteriously vanished after a fatal car crash, A headless old man, a talking human skin, and haunted schools and skyscrapers... I guide five-element spirits onward and f 17.3kReads9.2Score1.6k14d adds
- 116 The Spirit Medium's Strange Cases 通灵诡事 Parental love? I have none. From the moment I was born, they wanted to strangle me. Sibling affection? I have none. My own brother calls me a country bumpkin. Friendship with my peers? I have none. Everyone in the village says I'm a demon in human form who eats children. Love? What even is that? The first time I saw Qi Yue, I just thought he looked clean-cut and handsome. The next time I saw him, I found out his mother was the woman who had gone looking for Fourth Auntie years ago. Only now, she 1.9kReads9.2Score38014d adds
- 117 Northeast China Spirit Medium: My Fox Lord Is So Fierce 东北出马仙：我家的胡爷太凶狠 My name is Liu Jin. I'm a boy from an ordinary small town in Northeast China. The only unusual thing about me was that when I was six, my mother suddenly became a spirit medium. As a child, I never understood it. But when I grew up, I started to think it might actually be a pretty good job. For some reason, though, my mother seemed particularly wary of it and never gave me a chance to get involved. Little by little, I learned the secret behind it. 18.8kReads9.2Score1.5k14d adds
- 118 The Max-Level Mystic Is Reborn as a Pitiful Little Girl 满级玄学大佬穿成小可怜 After marrying Su Mo to bring him good luck, Young Master Fu, who had been left disabled and unconscious by a car accident, woke up! Not only that, but his legs, which had been diagnosed as permanently disabled, returned to normal! The socialites of Jiangdu all said, “Su Mo? That illegitimate daughter of the Su family? She’s ugly, useless, and good for nothing. How could she possibly be worthy of Young Master Fu?” But then... The pitiful little nobody everyone thought was useless turned out to b 757Reads8.9Score10114d adds
- 119 After Becoming the Real Heiress, the Metaphysics Master Teaches You How to Behave 穿成真千金后，玄学大佬教你做人 [Transmigration + Metaphysics + Ghost Hunting + Fake and Real Heiresses + Episodic Stories + No Romance] Several story arcs are complete. Feel free to check them out! Please don't wait until there's a huge backlog to read! Please! ▪ When Kui Yin opened her eyes again, she found that she had transmigrated into the body of the real heiress who had been switched at birth with the daughter of Rongcheng's richest family. To earn enough to support herself, she had no choice but to return to her old li 635Reads8.7Score10214d adds
- 120 My Years in the Funeral Business 我干殡葬的那些年 People light candles, ghosts blow out the lamps. The dead return at midnight, corpses rise in funeral halls, and ancient relics lie buried for thousands of years. In my years working in the funeral business, I’ve encountered plenty of strange and uncanny things. The living walk the roads of the living world, and the dead walk the roads of the underworld. But sometimes, not everyone on the underworld’s roads is a ghost, and not everyone on the living world’s roads is human… 50.6kReads9.2Score5k14d adds
- 121 Master Mi Has an Adorable Little Fortune-Teller 觅爷他有只会算命的超甜小可爱 Everyone in Yangcheng knows how cold and ruthless the powerful Master Mi is. And yet, he brings a crazy girl home from a psychiatric hospital and treats her like a treasure. Everyone waits for the girl to make a fool of herself, never expecting that she can ward off evil, catch ghosts, tell fortunes, and wield magic. Before long, influential figures from every walk of life are kneeling at her door, begging her to read their fortunes! Master Mi can't help pinning the girl against a wall. “Sweethe 81Reads8.7Score—14d adds
- 122 Strange Demons at the Teahouse: Tales of a Hundred Flavors 茶肆异妖，百味诡谈 [Mysticism + Satisfying Read + Supernatural + Strange Tales] The Many-Flavored Teahouse in Liuyi Lane is mysterious and uncanny. It only serves tea at night. What’s brewed is fragrant tea; what’s savored is the human heart. The proprietress, Liu Xu’er, and her young sidekick, Qing Cen, hunt ghosts, subdue demons, and catch evildoers. Their only focus is building their business. But one moment of bad judgment leads them to take on a job for an unlucky man. He’s been set up, and one misfortune aft 12Reads—Score—14d adds
- 123 The Double Fiend 子母双煞 The Mother-and-Child Fiends —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 124 Cast Down the Mountain, the Mystic Prodigy Goes on a Rampage 被踹下山后，玄学小祖宗她杀疯了 [Metaphysics + Face-Slapping + Feel-Good Romance + The Chasing-Her-To-The-Crematorium Trope] The little grandmaster of the mystic arts was brought home as the real heiress. Unfortunately, the family already had a fake heiress who was the apple of everyone’s eye. Whenever the fake heiress got upset, everyone blamed her without even asking what had happened. Jiang Li was not about to put up with that kind of treatment! When the fake heiress made trouble and played the victim, Jiang Li could expose 1.8kReads8.9Score24314d adds
- 125 After Going Viral, the Metaphysics Master Only Wants to Be a Slacker 爆火后，玄学大佬只想咸鱼 (Metaphysics + Ghost Hunting + Power Fantasy + Sweet Romance + Comedy) Just as the Lu family was on the verge of bankruptcy, their youngest daughter, who had been missing for years, suddenly came home. Everyone said the Lu family's daughter was tacky and stupid, and would never find a husband, so she'd leech off her parents for the rest of her life. But after Lu Qianqian returned, Father Lu's assets multiplied several times over, and his career soared to new heights. At a lavish banquet, a man a 1.5kReads9.3Score22114d adds
- 126 The Heavenly Coffin Comes to Town: Living Must Keep Away 天棺出巡，活人回避 The year Jiangnan suffered a terrible drought, a coffin was dredged up from the river. From that day on, torrential winds and rain battered the region for a month. Floodwaters surged, swallowing countless towns and cities. I was ten that year. More than a dozen red Hongqi cars with Beijing plates, along with rows of luxury cars, arrived in our little town. I don’t know how many important people knelt outside my home, begging my grandfather to stop the floods... [Folk customs, feng shui. A coffin 8.8kReads8.8Score75814d adds
- 127 The First-Eye Feng Shui Master 第一天眼风水师 This is not your typical feng shui story. If that bothers you, please move along. Inside you’ll find the most terrifying human demons and ghosts, horrifying infant spirits, bewitching female ghosts, thousand-year-old flood dragons, and even a ghastly face that will make your heart race... There are no tired formulas here, so be patient. The further you read, the better it gets… The story begins on the day I was born. On the day of my birth, every last one of the chickens and ducks my family k 18.3kReads8.9Score99314d adds
- 128 The Yin-Yang Exorcist 阴阳摸诡人 I have two mothers, and neither of them is alive. The moment I was born, a heavenly dog swallowed the moon, blood rained from the sky, every beast bowed its head, and ghosts wailed... 781Reads8.7Score10114d adds
- 129 The Spirit Medium: My Days with the Immortals 出马仙：与仙家那些日子 (Slow-paced + light humor) A disciple of the Ma Xian tradition takes you into the mysterious world of Northeast China’s spirit mediums. Just an ordinary person, yet bound by an unbreakable connection to the spirits. Everyday mishaps that make you laugh and cry, thrilling battles of magic, and tender protection. See how an ordinary person and the spirits weave a legend together. 1.7kReads—Score—14d adds
- 130 Northeast Spirit Medium: From the Start, the Hu Family Town Is Haunted by a Hundred Ghosts 东北弟马：开局胡家镇百诡 [Spirit-medium tradition + Northeastern Chinese customs + folk supernatural tales + feng shui secrets] My name is Chen Mo. I had just graduated from college when my grandpa passed away. On the day he died, the portrait in the mourning hall stared at me, someone spoke from inside the coffin, and his corpse even sat up on the day of the funeral. That's when I learned my grandpa hadn't died of an illness. He'd left me a whole spirit retinue: the Hu, Huang, Bai, Liu, and Hui spirits, each with formi 8.1kReads6.4Score44814d adds
- 131 Secrets of the Northern Steed 北马秘闻 After spending seven years in a daze as a fool, I was told by the Yellow Immortal that I had a spirit altar within me, and that my origins were far from ordinary. From then on, I set out on the Northern Ma path. 11.7kReads8.5Score2.2k14d adds
- 132 She's a Deity! Of Course Catching Ghosts and Exorcising Demons Makes Sense 她！神明！抓鬼收妖很合理吧 [Alternate Universe + Goddess Descends to the Mortal World + Real-World Ghost Hunting + A Few Adorable Monster Companions] Luo Sheng is a baby who fell from the sky. She grew up with her master at a Taoist temple, and only came down the mountain when she started university... On her first day of school, she meets an upperclassman plagued by yin energy and pursued by a female ghost. Her roommate is being stalked by a water ghost after saving someone's life. She forms a contract with a thousand-ye 11.2kReads8.8Score96914d adds
- 133 The Fragrance of Corpses for Ten Miles 十里尸香 Most people receive gifts that are heartwarming or romantic. Even if they aren't a surprise, they're at least well-intentioned. But the gift I received when I turned twenty was a very real shock, and a curse. 1.9kReads8.2Score16114d adds
- 134 The Stunning Young Heavenly Master’s Daily Face-Slapping 绝色小天师打脸日常 Tang Yici is the youngest disciple of a mystic sect, born with a Heavenly Eye that lets her see the realms of yin and yang. But when she turns twenty-two, her master reads her fate and tells her she must guide a hundred thousand restless spirits, or she will never set foot on the Road to the Underworld or cross the River of Forgetfulness. With no other choice, she has to embark on the path of a Celestial Master. She discovers that every spirit has a tale of love and hatred behind it. Watch as th 925Reads9.4Score15414d adds
- 135 The Spirit Medium's Stories: Me and My Clients! 出马儿之我和缘主的那些事儿！ A girl who grew up in a small village experiences all kinds of hardships and amusing encounters with the people who come to her for help! Stories about my spirit-medium work and clients getting scammed. I'm looking for stories to use! Anyone with a good story is welcome to share a true one with me! 402Reads—Score—14d adds
- 136 Folk Horror Taboos 民间恐怖禁忌 Do you know the stories old people tell? Do you know there are many things in folk tradition that people say must not be spoken of? Do you know what the elders say about dreams? The elders say there are things you mustn't talk about at night. Did you know that? 126Reads6.3Score—14d adds
- 137 Incense Ashes: I'm a Yin-Yang Medium 香灰：我是阴阳女先生 If someone asks to borrow money from you in a dream, promise me you won’t lend it. Because what you’re lending isn’t money, it’s your life. … Grandma called me a debt-collecting demon, and Mom called me a bringer of bad luck. All because, when I was born, a fire broke out at home for no apparent reason, and the villagers rushed over to help put it out. But no matter what they did, they couldn’t extinguish the flames. The fire only slowly died down after half the village had burned to the ground. 6.8kReads9.1Score84414d adds
- 138 The Heaven-Mandated Diviner 天命卦师 [Supernatural · Urban · Mysterious] My mother was a shameless woman... Before I was even a month old, she abandoned me. The man who raised me was my adoptive father, who wasn't related to me by blood at all. When I was seven, disaster struck out of nowhere. A woman gave me a burial shroud. My adoptive father said that woman meant to take my life... 2.8kReads8.5Score24914d adds
- 139 The Adorable Diviner: Making Money Comes First, Romance Can Wait 卦仙有点萌：搞钱为主，恋爱靠边 The Adorable Diviner: Making Money Comes First, Romance Can Wait 20Reads—Score—14d adds
- 140 The Sweet and Sassy Fortune-Teller Is Too Tempting for the Abstinent Young General 神算美人甜又飒，禁欲战少不经撩 [Modern Fantasy] A stunningly beautiful, hot-tempered little fortune-teller from the Nan family in Jiangcheng has become a sensation. Her values may be a little crooked, but her features are flawless. She can read the stars and tell fortunes, and she can also gather corpses and drive out ghosts. The only problem is that her birth chart is entirely yin, and her fate is plagued by every kind of clash and misfortune. She has a rock-hard destiny that brings disaster to men, and is fated never to hav 3kReads9.4Score43614d adds
- 141 Thirty Years on Maoshan 茅山三十年 ♥ Don’t let the rating fool you, my book is top-notch! A feel-good story about a Taoist priest who descends the mountain to catch ghosts and drive out evil. No romance, no saintly do-gooder. Traveling far and wide to vanquish demons and uphold the Dao. No padding, no rambling, no romance. 9.3kReads8.8Score75714d adds
- 142 The Dead Man's Makeup 死人妆 The old folks often say, “Men shouldn’t be born on the first day of the lunar month, and women shouldn’t be born on the fifteenth.” I was born on the fifteenth day of the first lunar month, with the fate of an iron broom and a destructive bone marrow. The living despise me, and I bring death to my whole family, yet demons and ghosts have their eyes on me! Because of him, I also broke a taboo and became a woman of yin fate... To save me, my mother-in-law taught me the art of applying makeup to th 2.5kReads9.1Score33614d adds
- 143 Folktales of the Mountains and Wilds 民间山野怪谈 The hidden truths behind ten major unsolved mysteries, revealing a host of terrifying taboos that will send chills down your spine! 13.8kReads9.1Score92214d adds
- 144 The Mystic Taoist Nun Gets Rich Catching Ghosts and Marries Mr. Gu 玄学道姑她靠抓鬼暴富迎娶顾总 [Mysticism + Sweet Romance + Hilarious Shenanigans] After twenty years of devoted eating, Yan Jiujiu finally ate her Taoist temple into bankruptcy. Her senior brothers then tricked her into going down the mountain to bring good fortune to the wealthy CEO Gu Yiqin and earn some money. But before she could make a penny, she wound up with nine hundred million in debt. Yan Jiujiu had no choice but to use mystic arts to earn a living, only to accidentally reveal that she was the mighty Netherworld So 1.9kReads9.3Score45014d adds
- 145 The Real Heiress Is a Metaphysics Expert 真千金是玄学大佬 [Two strong leads, satisfying wish fulfillment, occult arts, sweet romance, contrasting personalities] Love at first sight vs. willing prey A heroine who flirts without realizing it vs. a hero who talks himself into falling for her The youngest son of the He family in Jiangcheng suddenly falls gravely ill, and no medicine can cure him. The He family has no choice but to bring back the daughter they abandoned years ago, Yue Qingyan. They expect a crude country girl raised in the mountains, but n 1.1kReads8.9Score19714d adds
- 146 The Ghost King Is Sealed Inside Me, Yet I’m a Good-for-Nothing 体内封印鬼王，我却是个废柴 A rainy night in a cemetery, a man-eating black cat, a man searching for his late daughter, a school guard hanged on the stairs, a wedding coffin sealed with red paper, a grotesque face hiding in a mirror... What secrets lie behind it all? What other mysterious events will Wang Shier, the gravekeeper, have to face? As terror and dread slowly close in, those secrets seem to be steering his fate. (The stories in this book are all adapted from real events. If anything sounds familiar, it is pure co 6Reads6.4Score—14d adds
- 147 After Transmigrating, the Taoist Little Ancestor Only Wants to Find Romance 道家小祖宗穿越后，只想掐桃花 [Ancient Times to Modern Day] [Light Supernatural Fiction in an Alternate Setting] [Mysticism and Ghost Hunting] [Strong Female Lead, Satisfying Revenge] [One-on-One Romance, Both Pure] [Sweet Romance] Rong Jiu's master coaxed her down the mountain, telling her she was destined to face a peach blossom calamity. To avert it, Rong Jiu had to take the person connected to that fated romance as her disciple. After dozing off, she transmigrated to the modern era, and her destined love promptly crashed 1.1kReads9.3Score15314d adds
- 148 After Reaching Max Level, the Metaphysics Master Enters the World and Cheats Her Way to Exorcise Ghosts 满级后，玄学大佬入世开挂虐鬼 After mastering her cultivation, Ran Yun Zhao descended the mountain, crushed vengeful ghosts, and told fortunes, answering people's questions and dispelling their troubles. Seeker 1: Help! My husband suddenly became a cross-dressing pervert and wants to castrate himself. Seeker 2: My dead secretary is haunting me. She insists I killed her, but I'm innocent! Seeker 3: I'm eighteen, but I suddenly turned gray-haired and my whole body is covered in wrinkles. A computer that turns itself on in the 3.8kReads9.3Score53714d adds
- 149 After Coming Down from the Mountain, the Metaphysics Master Turns the Capital Upside Down 下山后，玄学大佬搞疯了全京城 Yaoyao’s new novel, "After Being Reborn, I Make a Living for My Family by Telling Fortunes on Live Streams": Chu Ci transmigrates, apparently to a parallel world. Her new family is bankrupt, her loved ones are dead, and they’re one hundred million in debt. Her mother is in a psychiatric hospital, and her older brother has a broken leg. It’s hell mode from the start, but metaphysical arts powerhouse Chu Ci rolls up her sleeves and gets back to her old trade: telling fortunes on live streams! Come 465Reads9.1Score10714d adds
- 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. 9kReads9.4Score51914d adds
