Novels like You Were Told to Guard a Village, So Why Did You Make the City God Cry?
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- 1 Tales of the Strange in Bluestone Alley 青石巷诡事录 [Supernatural] [Light Horror] [Episodic Stories] [Chinese Folk Customs] Deep in Qingzhou’s Qingshi Alley lies a ferry inn unknown to anyone. Its owner, Shen Du, exists beyond life and death. He has survived for a hundred years, all to dispel the obsessions of the departed. Behind every strange and uncanny event that comes to light are debts of humanity buried for a hundred years. A headsman’s rusty blade, a performer’s jade, salt smugglers bringing disaster, a canal guild’s water tokens, a night 3Reads—Score—14d adds
- 2 Archive of Anomalous Cases 异常项目档案 [Engineering Mystery + Folk Customs and Tomb Raiding + Anomalous Projects] Duan Zhiyuan had spent seven years working on IT projects and had dealt with all kinds of unreasonable clients. Then one day, a client came to him with a bizarre request: Install an access control system at an abandoned well. The well had been sealed for years. There was no passage at its mouth, and nobody went in or out. But every night at 3:03 a.m., the old System generated a card-swipe record. The cardholder was 1Reads—Score—14d adds
- 3 A Modern Narrative of Supernatural Horror 灵恐现叙事 Original horror and paranormal fiction. Horror stories are only meant to help everyone unwind, not to make you more afraid. We welcome discerning readers to come and help answer everyone’s questions... 6Reads—Score—14d adds
- 4 Ancestral Secret Arts: I Alone Subdue a Hundred Ghosts 祖传秘术：我一人镇百鬼 In 1999, on the eve of the new century, a young man named Lu Ming drowned during a bizarre outing to the countryside. Yet his soul did not depart. Instead, it was drawn by a mysterious force back to his old home in a remote mountain village. He discovered that this seemingly ordinary ancestral home was actually a secret base belonging to the Yin-Yang Lu Clan, a family whose secrets had been passed down for generations. The Lu family were reclusive heirs to arts such as divination, exorcism and t —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 5 Marching Against the Yellow Springs: The Book of the Impermanent 黄泉逆行：无常簿 Have you ever narrowly escaped death? A car crash, a fire, or even a sudden slip beneath your feet... In that moment, you were grateful to be alive. But you don't know that from the instant you "accidentally" survived, your name was written in an invisible Book of Impermanence. It is no ghost or curse. It is a rule, the coldest correction program in the universe. From then on, the everyday things you rely on will become your tomb. The floor beneath your feet, the chandelier overhead, the cup in —Reads—Score214d adds
- 6 The Soul-Returning Ledger 还魂帐 On the seventh day after death, the dead return to settle their debts. Funeral director Shen Yantian was born with the ability to see accounts. He audits, weighs, and settles accounts for the dead, at the cost of pawning a memory each time. Until he discovers that the account for the fire that should have killed him three years ago is blank. Someone died in his place. This is my first novel, so the plot moves a little quickly at the beginning. It gets better later on. Thank you for your understa 10Reads—Score18514d adds
- 7 Urban Mountain Guides: The Mystery of the Wu Clan 都市赶山人之巫族谜团 After a hundred years cut off from the world, Guan Zhaoming is forced to descend from the mountains when his master passes away. But China has changed beyond recognition in the century since he left. The mystery of his own bloodline, a string of serial murders, a woman found dead in a refrigerator, a mummified corpse in an apartment... A series of vicious crimes targeting Chinese women, shikigami from Japan, a crisis threatening China's dragon veins! These bizarre cases all conceal a shocking co —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 8 Chronicles of Wangchuan City 忘川城记 Wangchuan City has three iron laws: The living cannot leave, the dead do not decay, and once the faceless statue in the City God's temple calls out a name, someone will die within three days. Shen Du, an eighteen-year-old corpse collector, has to check his arms every morning when he wakes. They are covered in warnings he carved into his own skin. Some have scabbed over, while others look as if they were carved only moments ago. He can't remember what happened the night before, why he can always 1Reads—Score—14d adds
- 9 Tales of the Strange 聊斋那些事 Have you ever heard of a plain-language version of Strange Tales from a Chinese Studio? A scholar spends the night in an abandoned house and is welcomed into a beautiful woman's arms, only to discover that her face is a painted skin. A poor young man finds a fox. The fox says, “I’ll marry you, but you must never look at my tail.” At the mass graves outside town, someone tells stories every night. Anyone who listens disappears the next day. Don’t be afraid. These are all stories passed down by ou 3Reads—Score—14d adds
- 10 After My Face Was Stolen, I Drew the Six Realms of Living Beings 我的脸被夺走后我画出六道众生相 My face was stolen. It wasn’t disfigured. It wasn’t disguised. My face was literally gone. To stay alive, I had no choice but to paint one new face after another onto my own. Human, ghost, demon, beast, god, immortal. Every face I painted gave me a new ability. As I tried to reclaim my original face, I gradually discovered that this world was far more complicated than it seemed. 96Reads—Score12614d adds
- 11 The Coffin Shop on West Street 西街棺材铺 The world is vast, and full of wonders. Chinese culture is profound and rich. How many of those bizarre, spine-chilling tales have you heard? In a small town in Guizhou, there is a coffin shop known as the West Street Coffin Shop. Its owner is a young man who couldn't even get into college. But how much do you know about this coffin-shop owner who couldn't even get into college? 4Reads—Score—14d adds
- 12 Forbidden Tales of the Desolate Village: A Midnight Whistle, and a Shrouded Corpse Spirit at the Door 荒村禁忌：夜半吹哨，白布尸魂找上门 Taboos of the Abandoned Village: A Whistle in the Dead of Night, and a White-Cloth Corpse Spirit Comes Calling —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 13 The Great Yong's Number One Thief Catcher 大雍第一贼捕 In the Great Yong Dynasty, he had the most valuable pair of hands. There was nothing he couldn't steal: secret palace artifacts, masterpieces by renowned artists, even sealed chambers. That is, until a female constable caught him red-handed at a crime scene one night. The day after the shackles went on, the authorities offered him a way out: solve cases to atone for his crimes. The merit-and-penalty ring on his wrist recorded each case he solved. Every time he used his borrowed authority, anothe 26Reads—Score—14d adds
- 14 I Tamed the Paranormal 我把诡异收服了 Born with ghostly eyes, I share a desk with the City Lord of the Underworld. A vengeful female ghost wants me to kiss her, I take in a powerful underworld enforcer, and a princess from a thousand years ago swears an oath with me. Onstage, they sing of sorrow and grief. Beneath the stage, I capture every kind of evil. My name is Zhang Qiang. Watch me run rampant through the Underworld! —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 15 Nightmare of Terror: Entering the Haunted World on the Red-Eyed Bus 惊悚噩梦：从红眼巴士进入诡世界 [Infinite flow + ghost survival + mild suspense + horror instances + no romance] “Ghosts cannot be killed. Only ghosts can deal with ghosts. Learn their patterns.” Lin Xi unexpectedly boarded a bus with no driver. The passengers here disappeared at regular intervals, and as more and more vanished, the survivors gradually uncovered the secret to escaping... Possessing a Nightmare Invitation means setting foot on a one-way road. At regular intervals, you are forced into the nightmare world to comp 52Reads—Score—14d adds
- 16 Grandma's Yin-Yang Eyes 奶奶的阴阳眼 When I was little, I didn’t understand anything. I just thought it was fun. I remember when Second Grandma died, even Second Grandpa, who slept beside her, didn’t know. But Grandma woke Dad up and told him to go pay his respects... 652Reads7.8Score10314d adds
- 17 From the Start, I Took My Colleagues Back to Town 开局带着同事回镇 I grew up in Luoyin Town, but when I was six, I fled the ancient town overnight with my family. The town's baleful energy sealed away all my memories of it, leaving only scattered fragments of terrifying nightmares. My parents vanished mysteriously many years ago, leaving behind just one final warning: Never return to the mountains, and never touch anything red. To uncover the truth behind their disappearance, I follow the clues in a fragmentary ancient text and return to Luoyin Town. I am the o —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 18 Ten Lifetimes of Reincarnation: The Bottom-Ranked Outer Disciple Strikes Back 十世轮回，外门倒数的我杀回来了 Shen Zhuye’s family owned the last incense and candle shop in Qingxi Town. One day, he opened the account book and found three words on the final page that hadn’t been there before: One Question Owed. The words in the account book could ask questions on their own. That night, someone knocked at the door. The food delivery was half a bag of pond mud. As a chill crept in through the crack beneath the door, a man in white shielded him from disaster and spoke eight words: You have one year left to 190Reads—Score14314d adds
- 19 The House Immortal Affairs Office 家仙办事处 Chen Ping'an, a graduate student in folklore, has never believed in ghosts or gods. That is, until he inherited his old family home and caught a fox spirit sitting on his sofa in the middle of the night, playing Honor of Kings. Then it tossed him an employment contract from the “Household Spirits Affairs Office.” From then on, his materialist worldview completely fell apart: Huang Xian works as a delivery driver, gathering intelligence. Bai Xian runs a traditional Chinese medicine clinic and sec 5Reads—Score—14d adds
- 20 Six Relics to Banish Evil 六器渡邪 On a stormy night, the evil box passed down through my family shattered on its own, and I became a wanted fugitive accused of several murders. My only chance of survival was to recover the six cursed artifacts scattered across the Lin family. But they weren't treasures. They were instruments of torture, each one imprisoning the soul of someone our ancestors had tortured into becoming an artifact. Soul-harvesting rice from the Hungry Ghost Realm, a mending needle used to sew together a hundred —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 21 The Feng Shui Mastermind 风水大掌柜 The day I was born, nine dragons came bearing a coffin, and a hundred ghosts wailed in mourning. I was born under a fated star. My name is Bai Ke, a feng shui master delivered to the mortal world in a coffin borne by nine dragons. I guide souls between yin and yang, and was born with an innate gift for the mysteries of heaven and earth. When you run into anything supernatural, just come to me, Bai Ke. I am the chief feng shui master, and there is no mysterious matter in this world that I cannot 594Reads7.1Score10114d adds
- 22 In This Life, I Shall Suppress Yin and Yang 这一世，镇压阴阳 [Urban high-martial arts, reincarnation and rebirth, one heroine, a touch of the supernatural, lighthearted and passionate.] In their previous lives, he was an orphan, and she was a ghost. An orphan and a ghost, from meeting and understanding each other to relying on and keeping one another company. Then, their feelings quietly blossomed, and they became lovers... after overcoming countless hardships. But what happy ending has there ever been for a human and a ghost in love? Every union between 12Reads—Score114d adds
- 23 Life at a Crossroads 岔路人生 If you could truly live your life over again, would you regret the choices you made? Shen Que never imagined there could be a real answer to that question. That day, the subway stopped at 5:42 p.m. Two people with the same name and the same face, each having lived through twenty-seven years that were almost, but not quite, the same, appeared before him at once. Only then did he learn the truth: Every truly important choice could allow another version of your life to keep going. They weren' —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 24 The Gluttonous Taoist Nun 饕餮道姑 Wuwang is an “ordinary” female Daoist. While her fellow cultivators banish demons with talismans and peachwood swords, she wields an iron spatula. To earn merit and prolong the life of her gravely wounded master, she ventures into a world overrun by evil spirits, while adding to her Guide to Appraising Ghosts: pan-fried two-timing scoundrels, crisp and fragrant; stir-fried shrews, bursting with satisfying resentment; steamed wicked children, so tender they melt in your mouth; boiled abusers, sof 29Reads—Score—14d adds
- 25 The Yin-Yang Hotel: Waiting for My Bride to Return 阴阳酒店之等我的新娘回来 This is a suspenseful supernatural mystery. Keep reading boldly, and surprises abound! “Where is this place? How did I get here?” Mu Jiuchi walked forward one step at a time. She had no idea what had happened to her or how she had ended up in this unfamiliar place. The darkness all around her made her walk in fear. Then a light appeared ahead, and she headed toward it. The distant light turned out to be coming from a hotel. Mu Jiuchi made her way to the hotel. At the entrance, she saw four 9Reads—Score—14d adds
- 26 Yin-Yang Collector 阴阳收敛师 Gu Changan was just an undertaker at a funeral home in Jiangcheng, with the ability to see the deceased’s final day whenever he touched them. He had thought his job was simply to tidy the dead and see them through the last leg of their lives. But a series of old cases made him realize that not every restless spirit was born from resentment. Someone was secretly severing the paths of the dead, altering causes of death, and erasing names, turning the deceased into malevolent ghosts wandering among 1Reads—Score—14d adds
- 27 Rift in the Abyss: We Awakened the Old Ones 深渊裂隙：我们唤醒旧日支配者 In 1992, U.S. Army Major Austin takes charge of the top-secret project "Abyss Watch." One hundred and thirty meters beneath the desert, a strange fissure spreads madness into the world above. Five elite soldiers are ordered into the abyss, with Austin directing their investigation remotely. A videotape that appears out of nowhere exposes a horrific secret from the past: To spy on the secrets underground, the military sacrificed living people. A thousand meters below ground, an ancient stone gate —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 28 The Temple That Eats People 吃人的庙 The Man-Eating Temple 1Reads—Score—14d adds
- 29 The Bride I Brought Home Was Dead 媳妇领回来的，是个死人 The woman he brought home was a dead person. —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 30 Ghost Soldiers in the Mountains 山间有鬼兵 Ghost Soldiers in the Mountains 1Reads—Score—14d adds
- 31 Guardians of the Lake: Ghost Ship in the Mist, Season One 守湖人雾中鬼船第一季 The Lake Keeper: Ghost Ship in the Fog, Season One 1Reads—Score—14d adds
- 32 Guardians of the Lake: Don't Board the Fog Boat, Season Two 守湖者，莫登雾.船第二季 Guardians of the Lake: Do Not Board the Fog Boat, Season Two —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 33 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... 77Reads—Score—14d adds
- 34 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? 7Reads—Score—14d adds
- 35 The Dragon Coffin 龙棺 The day my mother gave birth to me, a dying giant snake frightened her so badly that she started bleeding. In a fit of rage, my father cut off the snake’s head. When I was born, birds and beasts took flight, and countless snakes gathered, surrounding our courtyard so tightly that nothing could get in or out. My grandfather asked a feng shui master to resolve the matter. He buried the giant snake’s remains in our ancestral graveyard, and only then did its resentment subside. Ever since I was old 325Reads8.1Score—14d adds
- 36 Ghost Ship in the Deep Sea: Witness to the Dead's Obsessions 深海幽灵邮轮：我见证死者的执念 Even kind ghosts can lie, and evil humans can be worse than demons. A luxury cruise ship that vanished without a trace more than twenty years ago drifts across an otherworldly sea, cut off from the rest of the world. Aboard are pitiful ghosts who cannot let go of the people they loved, and evil spirits willing to descend into darkness in pursuit of eternal life. Travel between the world of the living and the ghost ship, fulfill the dead’s final wishes, and search for a missing father. Disappeara 5Reads—Score—14d adds
- 37 Taoist, Spare Us! Zombies, Ghosts, and Monsters Are Freaking Out! 道士请饶命，僵尸鬼妖慌麻了！ [Supernatural] [Feng Shui and Folk Customs] [Ghost Hunting and Corpse Suppression] [Transmigration] [No System] Chen Yang, a Taoist who used to sweep temple floors, transmigrates to a world without Taoist priests and discovers that he has become the village idiot tasked with guarding the village. The village chief says, "My dead father is causing too much trouble. You have to get in the coffin and keep him company!" Chen Yang replies, "Trouble? That's right up my alley. I'll have your dad settle 109Reads—Score914d adds
- 38 Grandpa Started the Trouble, Three Generations Must Pay 爷爷闯下的祸，三代来还 The trouble Grandpa caused will take three generations to repay. 3Reads—Score—14d adds
- 39 A Guide to Raising an Evil God 邪神养成指南 The professor is passionately lecturing in class when, in the next moment, the floor caves in and black water floods the classroom. When she opens her eyes again, everything in the classroom is as it was. A ring of purplish bruises has appeared around her wrist. One campus ghost story after another begins to surface: A baby crying by the lake at midnight, bruises crawling across her roommate's body, and a pregnant senior student mysteriously falling to her death. Is it all coincidence, or reveng —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 40 The Ghostly Deliveryman 鬼怪外卖员 “Hello, this is Jiang Sheng, a delivery rider for the Midnight Takeout app. Here’s your order. Please check it!” Wearing a black delivery uniform, Jiang Sheng smiled at the rotting corpse before him. He even remembered to take the corpse’s hand as he said, “Hey, don’t forget to leave me a five-star review!” This is the story of an ordinary man delivering takeout to vengeful ghosts... 243Reads7.1Score—14d adds
- 41 The Ghost Hand Blinds the Eye 鬼手遮眼 Walk the roads at night often enough, and you’re bound to run into something. Like a hand reaching from behind to gently cover your eyes. Think it’s a ghost? Maybe. But it could also be something far more sinister than a ghost... 1Reads—Score—14d adds
- 42 Supernatural Affairs Receiver 灵异接收员 It all began with a dark story. If my special abilities can save others, then I'll do whatever it takes. And so the strange tale begins. The most terrifying thing isn't ghosts. It's the human heart. The world doesn't have that many chosen ones with plot armor. After all, we're all human, not immortals. —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 43 The Mystic Arts Curse Master 玄门咒神 On the day Yang Xuan was supposed to get engaged, a blood-red coffin inexplicably appeared in his home. Inside lay a beautiful woman with skin like jade. On the first day, his father died. On the second day, a yin-yang master told Yang Xuan: If he wanted to survive this calamity, he had to consummate his marriage with her... 114Reads—Score—14d adds
- 44 The Underworld Decree 阴职令 A wedding invitation, a register of the dead, and a journey as a guide between worlds. Chen Du was an ordinary young man, until the yin-difference title inherited from his ancestors swept him into the conflicts between the worlds of the living and the dead. Old scores beneath the locust tree, lost souls in the paper city, every debt had to be settled by his own hand. This is not a story about becoming an immortal. It is a cycle of repaying debts. —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 45 One Hundred Thousand and One Folk Horror Stories 十万零一个民间恐怖故事 A collection of short horror stories in an episodic format, with a new story every chapter. No dragging things out! Haunted houses in the countryside, mountain spirits, urban legends, old customs and taboos... Every kind of Chinese-style horror is covered, with nonstop thrills and no filler. Anti-superstition disclaimer: This story is entirely fictional. Believe in science and read rationally. Please don’t apply it to real life~ 291Reads—Score1014d adds
- 46 Heaven's Mandate: Yin and Yang 天命阴阳 The Pixiu feeds on wealth from every corner of the world. It swallows all things but never excretes, attracting riches and gathering treasures, taking in but never giving out. On my eighteenth birthday, I met a girl who completely bewitched me. But I never expected that she would actually… 1.5kReads8.4Score19514d adds
- 47 The Heavenly Master Descends the Mountain: Others Read Faces, I Read Fate 天师下山：别人看相，我窥天命 The Netherworld infant Xiang Ling is born, delivered by underworld officials, with Black and White Impermanence guarding the gates and the Ten Great Nether Marshals patrolling the streets! The feng shui Xiang family suffers a devastating calamity and nearly faces extinction! Xiang Ling survives against all odds, finds shelter on Longhu Mountain, and becomes an heir to the Celestial Masters. Twenty years later, having mastered the mystic arts, Xiang Ling descends from Longhu Mountain to break evi 149Reads6.1Score—14d adds
- 48 No Responsibility for Scaring You to Tears 吓哭不负责 [Traditional supernatural tales] [Ghost stories] [Chinese-style horror] [Based on true events] [Reader submissions] [Chilling when you think about it] [Bizarre tales] [Beyond the realm of science] [Plainspoken prose, no literary flourishes] [Just stories] Not for the faint of heart! Don’t read late at night! Folklore, haunted houses, eerie village incidents, urban vengeful spirits, supernatural curses, and even non-supernatural stories that are chilling when you think about them... A collection 24.4kReads9.3Score1.9k14d adds
- 49 The Yin Corpse Ghost Physiognomist 阴尸鬼相 I never imagined that simply returning to my village to attend a strange funeral would somehow get me stuffed into a coffin... From then on, my life changed completely, and I became what people call a “yin corpse ghost visage”! 2Reads—Score—14d adds
- 50 Opening the Sparrow Gate 开雀门 While my mother was carrying me, I was sitting upright in her womb. The doctors all said the birth would be difficult, but my grandmother traded my life to a spirit messenger. My Xuanwu even went so far as to strip off his skin and bones for me! My relatives sought out one master after another to protect me, but sadly, they all said the good fortune I was born with was nowhere near enough to keep me alive. If I wanted to survive, I had no choice but to embark on the path of cultivation. From Sha 30Reads7.1Score—14d adds
