Novels like The Soul Collection Record
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- 151 The Northern School Yin-Yang Master 北派阴阳师 I'm a corpse carrier and a second-rate Taoist. My father refined my mother into a Yin child to bring him wealth, and now he wants to make me disappear for good. The only person I've ever truly been at odds with is my father, the old fraud known as Chen Banxian... 160Reads—Score—Shelves
- 152 No Way Out 求生无路 Ever since someone inexplicably appeared in our class's group chat, the whole world has gone wrong. My classmates have started dying one after another. And I can't escape this fate either... 492Reads6.2Score—Shelves
- 153 The Dragon-Locking Well: Snakebone Town 锁龙井：蛇骨镇 The Dragon-Locking Well: Snakebone Town —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 154 The Red Wedding Gown Demands Your Life 红色嫁衣索命 My new work is here! You're welcome to read it on Tomato Novel. I hope you'll enjoy it. Your support motivates me to write, and I'll do my best to tell every story well! —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 155 Broken Jade, Sunken Palace 碎玉沉宫 [Political intrigue + strong female lead + reborn for revenge + childhood friend] The empress who holds power over the court × the childhood friend and powerful minister who lives only for her × the fourth prince whose fortunes have declined, bound to her across two lifetimes In her previous life, blood stained the Phoenix Palace, her young child perished, and her clan was destroyed. After killing the faithless emperor with her own hands, Ren Lingyi accepted her death without regret. After wakin 3Reads—Score—Shelves
- 156 Strange Happenings on a Country Road at Night 乡间夜路诡事 As you walk along a country road at night, have you ever heard strange footsteps? This book collects a series of rural supernatural tales set in deserted villages and old houses, telling of eerie incidents passed down by word of mouth that no one dares investigate too closely. With no reliance on exaggerated descriptions, it uses details drawn from everyday life to send a bone-deep chill through you. —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 157 When the Supernatural Invaded, Sorry, I Was Already at the Top from the Start 诡异入侵，抱歉，我开局就是巅峰 [Supernatural + Strong Female Lead + No Romance + Ruthless + Dark Tone + Power Struggles] Just 36 hours ago, Shen Yuanye was an ordinary university student studying history, and a broke one at that, unable to afford tuition or even food. Now, after only 36 hours, she has become a bona fide director-general: head of the Paranormal Investigation Bureau. Where on earth did this whole thing come from...? And that’s not all. The working conditions are first-rate: Day one on the job: The previous dire —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 158 Keeper of the Hearth: I Receive the Immortals in Northeast China 守灶人，我在东北领仙 A Northeast Chinese folk-custom tale about inviting celestial spirits. The Hearth Guardians protect homes and drive out evil, delivering hard-hitting tales of spirit warriors. The last Hearth Guardian holds the line in Northeast China! He commands celestial spirit troops, subdues vicious ghosts across the land, handles the strange affairs of spirit mediums, and protects the peace and warmth of the human world. Let no evil draw near! You know about the spirit mediums of Northeast China, but if yo 3Reads7.3Score—Shelves
- 159 Strange Tales from the Tea Pavilion 茶榭诡谈 Chilling events that may have happened right beside you and me. Perhaps you and I could become the protagonists, too. These are accounts of things that happened to people around us, as told by those who experienced them. True and false, false and true, right and wrong, wrong and right. Think it over, then think it over carefully!! —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 160 Dying Star: Standing Amid the Ashes 湮星：立于灰烬 Xue Ling carries a broken past and is given the chance to start her life over. The rules are cruel: she needs to give a romance everything she has, knowing it will ultimately end. She chooses Gu Xiaochen, the idol adored by millions. She thinks Gu Xiaochen is only a pawn in her mission, but step by step, she falls into the abyss. Gu Xiaochen hides traumas buried for half his life, living amid other people’s expectations and lies. Zhao Ji, Xue Jingnian, Gu An, Ye Tong, Lisi… Everyone carries secr —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 161 Grandma's Tales of Strange Happenings in the Village 奶奶讲的乡村诡事 Grandma's Tales of Strange Things in the Countryside 6Reads—Score—Shelves
- 162 The Tracers, the Tracekeepers, and Mortals 溯士，溯使与凡人 [Dual protagonists] [Dark story] [Clever leads] [Slow-paced] [Demon child protagonist] Wu Yetong and Lu Zhaoye were students from China who died and were transmigrated to this world. The people here wield an ability called “Tracing.” Those who possess it are honored as Tracers and Tracecasters. The two rely on each other to survive in this perilous world, striving together to reach the pinnacle of power! —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 163 She Burst into My Youth During My Final Year of High School 高三最后一年，她闯进了我的青春 Senior year, the final year of high school. It should have been a time to study hard and prepare for the college entrance exams, but Lu Qian fell for his classmate Bai An. She was a light that made no sense, piercing his once peaceful life as if it were only natural, barging into his youth with both force and tenderness. That summer of ceaseless cicada calls and autumn of falling leaves, Lu Qian made a decision that defied all reason: Even if the road ahead was uncertain, even if they were desti 136Reads—Score108Shelves
- 164 Working in the Underworld: I'll Go Home Once I Fix the Tragedy 地府打工：改完悲剧我就回家 Mystery and Imagination | Mutual Healing | No Romance | Episodic | Multiple Twists | System | Skills | HE (It’s okay, it’s okay. The journey may be a little heartbreaking, but every ending is HE.) This is not a romance!૮₍ɵ̷﹏ɵ̷̥̥᷅₎ა [The content is entirely fictional. Please don’t read yourself into it. Um, I tend to revise a new chapter late into the night whenever I’ve just posted it and then listen to it myself and feel something’s off. I suggest not reading as soon as it updates. Come back t 2Reads—Score—Shelves
- 165 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—Shelves
- 166 The Paranormal Crimes Investigation Bureau 邪案调查科 Have you ever longed to uncover the mysterious truths hidden in the darkness? The Department of Strange Case Investigations takes you deep into the unfathomable abyss of bizarre cases, embarking on a thrilling adventure. The book presents a series of spine-chilling mysteries and uncanny events. Some are terrifying moments the author experienced firsthand, with a very real fear that clings like a bone-deep curse and leaves you shuddering. Others are bizarre tales heard through the grapevine, wher 2Reads—Score—Shelves
- 167 Terrifying Supernatural Events I Experienced Myself 亲身经历的恐怖灵异事件 Terrifying supernatural encounters I experienced firsthand 8Reads—Score—Shelves
- 168 After Entering a Dream, My Soul Arrived in a Ghost City 入梦后，我的灵魂来到了鬼城 It's late. Time to go to sleep. But the moment you dream, you enter a ghostly realm full of peril. The dream ghosts here are masters of disguise, blending into illusions where truth and falsehood are impossible to tell apart. Never let them discover that you can see them. If they notice your eyes have seen through the truth, they will devour your soul completely and take over your body. An accident took Ye Qiubai's parents and erased his childhood memories. He and Jiang Xue, whom he had known si 31Reads—Score—Shelves
- 169 The Mountains of Terror 恐怖山脉 In 1984, a multinational joint expedition disappeared in the Himalayas. All twenty members vanished without a trace. Twenty years later, an accidentally discovered document revealed the secret behind the expedition’s disappearance, and a new crisis began to emerge... 67Reads7.2Score—Shelves
- 170 Tales of Strange Happenings in the Countryside 乡村奇闻怪谈录 In remote villages, there are countless stories unknown to the outside world. My name is Li Yan, and I was born in a secluded rural village. I grew up by my grandmother’s side. She was the village’s famous spirit medium, and from childhood I heard all sorts of strange tales and strange happenings from her. I’m sharing them with everyone here. 6.7kReads8.7Score148Shelves
- 171 The Spirit of the Pen: Myself 笔仙之我自己 My roommate got me to play the pen-spirit game and asked the spirit what it was. The pen trembled as it wrote three words: “Your dad.” I laughed in anger and told the spirit to say something I didn’t already know. It wrote, “You stayed up all night yesterday, and used a tissue in your left hand to wipe off your sweat.” The dorm fell silent. I was the only one who stayed up all night. That detail was something only I knew. I thought someone was playing a prank, until I recognized the crooked hand 6Reads—Score110Shelves
- 172 The Haunted Hotel 恐怖酒店 I used to be an ordinary hotel sleep tester. Then one day I spent the night at a hotel where someone had died, and my life was never peaceful again. Every night, I have erotic dreams with female ghosts... 177Reads—Score—Shelves
- 173 Obsessive Spirit Master: Muxue 执念师暮雪 I am Mu Xue, a grudge exorcist who walks between the realms of yin and yang. An ancient mirror reveals the demons in people’s hearts; a bronze bell awakens old injustices and buried hatred. A red-clad female ghost combs her hair at midnight. A murderous driver picks up passengers late at night. A ghost in the mirror dies in your place... Every ghost who refuses to be reincarnated hides a life that has been crushed to pieces. I don’t guide the dead to the afterlife. I only help them get justice 1Reads—Score—Shelves
- 174 Wandering in the Mountains 山间游荡 This is a novel in the vein of an “infinite flow” story. The heroine travels through countless folktale horror stories and experiences supernatural events. “What’s wrong with Ma Er? What are you doing?” The steward came to the carriage at the front. He saw Ma Er standing there, pale-faced and motionless, trembling all over. “N-no, we can’t go any farther. That’s Gudang Mountain up ahead, the Mountain of the Dead. No one ever comes out alive. If we go in, we’re dead! Th —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 175 The Ghost Fan's Grave: Crossing the Yin-Yang Divide 鬼扇坟之阴阳渡 I saw a ghost for the first time when I was five. Using a ghost fan and a pair of eyes that could see through evil, my grandfather led me into the crack between the worlds of yin and yang. From then on, I became someone who mended fissures, patching up secrets that the living should never see and the dead could never tell. This is a story about eyes that see through evil and a ghost fan, two souls sharing one body and the Six Fiends, sacrifice and protection. From the first ghostly wail in Yinsh 4Reads—Score—Shelves
- 176 The Moon: Beneath 月亮：之下 A note before you start (Not a wish-fulfillment story. One female lead, no System, no harem. Half action, half everyday life.) This is a world that bears some resemblance to ours, but is not the same. One person with superpowers appears for every few hundred thousand people. They are called Moonbearers, and their abilities are known as Moonforce. The protagonist, Xu Yue, has superpowers, so his parents send him to the Guantie Vocational and Technical College for Moonbearers, a government-run sch —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 177 Six Creation Space 六创空间 Chen Tong inherits the legacy of the Ice-Sealing Great Emperor, and the world shatters. The Lord of the Six Creations remakes the world, and Chen Tong’s life begins anew. The icy tattoo on his back is reborn along with him. Just as Chen Tong becomes capable of surviving in the brutal world of demon beasts, a strange chill appears at night, invading his soul. —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 178 The Paper Effigy Yama 纸扎阎罗 Before Grandpa died, he left me with a warning: a paper effigy maker must never make three kinds of figures. On my very first day taking over the shop, I broke every rule. I made a wedding dress for a girl who died violently, a filial son for a childless widow, and finally... a stand-in for a living person. Now all the paper figures I made come alive at night and gather around me, calling me “Master.” Outside the window, the girl who should have been dead for three years is knocking on the door. 4Reads—Score—Shelves
- 179 Ghostly Tales from Fengdu 丰都鬼事 In her previous life, young artist Lin Wan set out alone for the fabled ghost city of Fengdu to search for her missing older sister, Lin Zhixia. Naively, she trusted the seemingly kind innkeeper and local gentry, unaware that she had stepped into a carefully laid trap. Coveted for her yin constitution, she was ultimately sacrificed in an old mansion behind Fengdu's famous mountain by the so-called “good Samaritans” to a traitor in the underworld who had disguised himself as Black Impermanence. H 4Reads—Score—Shelves
- 180 The Family Guardian Immortal: The Spirit of the Stele 保家仙之碑灵 The Guardian Spirit Tablet —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 181 Guiding Souls Along the Night Road 夜路引魂 Guiding Souls on a Night Road —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 182 The Yin-Yang Twin 阴阳双生人 [Mild Horror + The Supernatural] Ming Ye grew up living in a cemetery. Her parents went missing seven years ago and were eventually found dead under bizarre circumstances in the mountains. Seven years later, she became an emergency room doctor. One midnight, she met the Taoist priest Xu Baoyang on a bus as he was out catching ghosts. Later, while tracking clues about his missing master, Xu Baoyang came to the hospital where Ming Ye worked and discovered that a strange hospital orderly had set up 2Reads—Score—Shelves
- 183 Angel of Iron Wings 铁翼天使 Teenager Qin Tianming was an utterly ordinary middle school student. He was bullied by his classmates and deceived by the person he liked, but he could just about get by like that, until an accident led him to discover a battle between [Divine Gift Bearers]. Then two strange men named Qi Pan and Lang Gou tricked and conned him into learning about the world of [Angels], and the doors of [Tianyu Academy] opened to him. As human civilization surged forward like a tide, the angels who had once been 39Reads—Score—Shelves
- 184 My Spiritual Root Was Destroyed: I Quit Cultivating and Summoned a God 灵根被废：不修仙了，我请神 My spiritual root was crippled, my path to immortality cut off, and everyone laughed at me for wasting my time cultivating. Demons and monsters ran rampant across the mortal world, while cultivators looked on with indifference. Then I bound myself to a Merit-Summoning-Gods System. I slay demons and protect the people to amass merit, then summon ancient gods to suppress evil. If the immortal path is closed to me, then I’ll abandon cultivation and use the merit of all living beings to forge my 3Reads—Score—Shelves
- 185 The Corpse Stitcher: Thread in Place 缝尸匠.引线归位 The Corpse Stitcher: Setting the Thread in Place 1Reads—Score—Shelves
- 186 A Cigarette for the Female Ghost 给女鬼递根烟 Hand a Cigarette to a Female Ghost —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 187 Whispers of the Ghosts 鬼魅低语 [Standalone Stories] [Eerie] [Thriller] [Strange] [Wild Imagination] Worlds full of distortion and absurdity. Whether it's seemingly ordinary snippets of everyday life or strange phenomena that gradually come to light, everything sends a chill down your spine and grows more terrifying the more you think about it. 39Reads—Score—Shelves
- 188 Ghosts in Pieces 散装见鬼 Do you believe there are ghosts in this world? I think that question is as impossible to answer as whether there are dragons in this world. The answer you hear most often is: Believe in them, and they exist. Don’t believe in them, and they don’t. But if you ask me, my answer is simple: Yes! Not because I believe, but because I can see them. Of course, I wasn’t able to see them from birth. It all goes back to the strange experience I had when I was six... 32Reads—Score—Shelves
- 189 The Strange Rural Tales My Aunt Told Me 姑姑给我讲的农村怪事 When I was little, I was timid, but I still loved listening to my aunt tell stories. Today, I'm sharing with you the stories she told me. I'll do my best to keep writing, and I hope you'll support me. 15Reads—Score—Shelves
- 190 Records of Artifact Containment 遗物收容志 Shen You runs an antique shop on the verge of bankruptcy. On the surface, he sells old things; in truth, he deals with “cursed objects.” A carved wooden comb arrives mysteriously in the mail. The instant he touches it, he sees the horrific scene of a woman having her head shaved in public a hundred years ago. Late that night, as if sleepwalking, he picks up the comb and begins to comb his own hair. With every stroke of its teeth, a strand of real hair comes away, while a tearing pain spreads acr 1Reads—Score—Shelves
- 191 Strange Little Tales from the Folk 灵异民间小故事 These are folk tales of the strange and supernatural, some true, some not. Some are quite old and have grown more and more fantastical with each retelling, so don't overanalyze them or take them too seriously. Some may resemble stories you already know, but that's purely coincidental. 171Reads6.5Score—Shelves
- 192 Crossing the Calamity in Seven Days 七日渡厄 My name is Lin Ye. I’m a struggling author who makes a living writing rule-based horror stories. Then I receive an anonymous email. It contains nothing but a yellowed Republican-era theater ticket and a single line: “Come to the Du’e Theater within seven days, or the ‘rules’ you write will become the way you die.” The moment I step into the theater, time across the entire city begins looping in seven-day cycles. I wrote, “Don’t look in the mirror at midnight,” and the next day someone sees th 1Reads—Score—Shelves
- 193 Cold Case Pursuit: The Workplace Abyss and the Silver-Haired Trap 悬案追凶：职场深渊与银发陷阱 The fatal fall from the rooftop wasn't suicide. Workplace bullying was just a cover! I, Lin Yan, a criminal investigation team captain, uncovered the truth: a 500,000-yuan loan, deleted surveillance footage, nursing-home residents, and exploited workers were all pawns in a silver-haired scam syndicate's scheme to rake in money! The mastermind not only controls the fraud network, but also has powerful protectors who can cover the whole sky... I take on the cover-up head-on and tear down those pro —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 194 A Compendium of Strange Events in the Mountain Village 山村诡异事件大全 This book is adapted from true events recounted by Uncle Zhengyu. It comprises a series of separate paranormal stories, recounting the strange, unexplained events that take place in mysterious mountain villages… It has all kinds of unsolved mysteries! —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 195 Afterlife Notes Bonus Story: Rouge Well 还魂笔记番外篇：胭脂井 Afterlife Notes: Bonus Story: The Rouge Well —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 196 Song of the Dark Angel 黑天使之歌 The ancient gods awaken? I just want to fall in love with my mixed-race, beautiful supervisor. [New Take on Myth and History] [Ensemble Cast] [Heiress] [Love and Hate] [Slow Paced] A new job, new colleagues? Wait, where did this Japanese colleague come from? A medieval knight? Where did you come from? Beautiful, you're freezing me. When someone wholeheartedly sets out to do something, the whole world will pray for him and sing him a dirge. Humanity has never needed the gods' mercy. The only ones 2Reads—Score—Shelves
- 197 Nonhuman Signal 非人类信号 In 2037, on the Silent Day, humanity's consciousness was mysteriously "harvested" across the globe overnight. Chen Mo, a 28-year-old from a small town, was one of the few who slipped through the net, thanks to a rare "asynchronous discharge" pattern in his brain's neural structure. He thought he was the last person alive, until the seventh day, when an emergency terminal he'd found on his wrist received a signal from 137 meters underground: nonhuman. —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 198 The Strange and Supernatural Things I’ve Heard and Seen 那些我所闻所见的灵异事 I’ll tell stories about the strange things that have happened to me over the years, along with the folk secrets and I Ching mysticism I’ve learned. At the start of each story, I’ll say whether I experienced it myself or heard it from someone else. I may not tell them in chronological order. I need to remember and organize everything, so I’ll just talk about whatever comes to mind. Things I experienced myself may be exaggerated, but they’re absolutely true. As for some of the stories I’ve heard, 2.4kReads—Score156Shelves
- 199 Old Wei's Ghost Stories 老魏讲鬼故事 [Traditional Supernatural Tales] [Chinese-Style Horror] [Based on True Events] [Submitted by Readers] [Chilling on Reflection] [Bizarre Tales] [Beyond the Bounds of Science] The eerie Buddha statue seen when mountaineers are trapped in a ghostly loop, a face appearing on the wall in the middle of the night, a “person” using their own head as a ball during evening study at school... I have always believed that horror stories should be short, sometimes ending on a cliffhanger, sometimes becoming 1.5kReads—Score108Shelves
- 200 Bureau 749: A Yin Messenger on the Road to the Underworld 749局：黄泉走阴人 There is an organization that exists only in the darkness: Bureau 749. Founded in 1974, with no records and no official status, it is made up of scientists and people with supernatural abilities. It handles the dirtiest, most sinister, most forbidden affairs in the human world. Ghost soldiers march through the night, leaving nothing but empty skins in an entire village. The White God of Wealth kills anyone who worships him, taking their souls to feed evil. An ancient Buddha opens its mouth to de 5Reads—Score—Shelves
