Novels like Thriller: From the Start, I Got a Ghost Marriage and a Stunning Ghost Bride
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- 1 A Thousand Crossings of the Soul 千渡灵魂 [Modern urban setting, mystery-solving, suspenseful crime investigation, no male lead, eerie horror] Zhang Ling was born in Huaxia and has had the ability to see things others cannot since birth: the Yin-Yang Eyes. Zhang Ling can see spirits, and spirits can see her. She can speak with them, and they can touch her. Guide those who have not yet crossed into the underworld. Guide those burdened by regret and resentment. Guide those who have become vengeful ghosts. A Thousand Spirits Guided Every s 1Reads—Score—Shelves
- 2 I’m the Big, Big, Big Demon King 我是大大大魔王 As the late Eastern Han fractured into the Three Kingdoms, war raged without end, and love was at the mercy of the times. The story takes place in Fengxiang, Bishan. With fine wine in a deep cup, all you need to do is be gentle; I'll protect that gentleness of yours. —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 3 Rule Horror: From the Start, I Married a Ghost Wife 规则怪谈：开局迎娶鬼妻 Rules-based supernatural games have descended upon the world, forcing each country's chosen players to enter eerie instances and fight to survive. Failure means the supernatural rules will descend upon their home country. Success earns resource rewards. Gu Qingchen, a young man from the Dragon Kingdom with no parents, is chosen by accident. From the start, he is thrown into an S-rank solo instance called “Ghost Wedding,” said to have a 99 percent death rate. While everyone else is trembling in f 33Reads—Score—Shelves
- 4 True Crime Records 罪案实录 The Nanda dismemberment case, the psychological experiments, the Eight Immortals Restaurant family massacre, the bombing cases: one horrifying, unbelievable case after another. This book focuses on unsolved cold cases dating back to the founding of the People's Republic of China, retracing the investigations from the perspective of a special task force. There is no paranormal activity and no sensational action, only the real process of solving cases. You can take part and enjoy the search for th 30Reads7.1Score—Shelves
- 5 Come on, Master, a Ghost Is Blackmailing Me. Aren't You Going to Do Something? 不是吧大师，我被鬼勒索你不管？ When I was twenty-two, that night, a bowl of luosifen got me haunted by a female ghost... This book is addictive. Don't say I didn't warn you! 124Reads5.4Score—Shelves
- 6 I Have a Wife Who's Also My Master 我有个老婆师傅 He was an ordinary college student. On the day classes began, he found a jade pendant dropped by a beautiful woman. But when he got home, he somehow transmigrated into the body of an abandoned baby. He thought he’d starve to death in the wilderness as soon as he transmigrated, but luckily, a woman as beautiful as a fairy found him and took him in as her disciple. He, however, wants to marry her. 61Reads6.6Score—Shelves
- 7 The Great Yin-Yang Edict 太阴阳令 A rural Taoist whom people often overlook can always master other people's secret techniques, from the souls of demon spirits to the deadly strikes of ancient martial arts. He learns them in an instant, and when he uses them, his opponents are done for. In a dark world, he also learns of the thousand-year tragic romance that binds him. 12Reads—Score—Shelves
- 8 An Angel Bearing the Burden 负重前行的天使 Book tags: Brain-teasers, deduction, mystery, supernatural, crime-solving, fresh, plot, mansion, unsolved cases, bizarre, mountain village, criminal investigation, police, strange events, disappearances, conspiracies, horror, urban legends, suspense, intelligence, online, passionate, serious, urban, novel, drug trafficking, undercover Book description: 99 grisly crime scenes that push the limits of the mind. 108 classified police files from the Public Security Department, never before mad —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 9 Zhu Yuanzhang's Iron-Fisted War on Corruption 朱元璋铁腕反腐 Born into a farming family, Zhu Chongba was left without money to bury his parents when famine struck. Zhu Liujiu’s father, a fellow villager, paid for the land and helped build a grave and erect a headstone for them. To survive, Zhu Chongba became a monk. Later, he joined Guo Zixing’s forces, became a soldier, and fought against the Yuan dynasty. Gradually, he rose to become a regional warlord and eventually united the country. In the early Hongwu era of the Ming dynasty, Zhu Yuanzhang, the fou 1.7kReads7.2Score102Shelves
- 10 The Yin-Yang Medium 通灵阴阳师 This is a world teeming with ghosts and monsters, where strange and inexplicable events happen every day. After transmigrating, Wang Tian gained the ability to see through things and communicate with spirits and all living beings. He thought he could live a carefree life, but the System nearly drained his lifespan. By an unexpected turn of events, he became a yin-yang master. With little time left to live, Wang Tian had no choice but to exorcise demons and avenge the wronged dead to extend his 7Reads—Score—Shelves
- 11 My Lazy Senior Brother 我的懒惰大师兄 In a world steeped in the mystic arts, a young man awakens to memories of another world. With a dream-based cheat, he shifts from a domineering protagonist template to a lazy, laid-back way of life. Behind it all, is this the loss of humanity or the collapse of morality? Find out in this book. Bonus Scene: Li Shiyi held a sword in one hand and glared at the women in front of him. “You strange women, get away from me! Don’t come near my senior brother!!!” After a pause, he added indignantly: “I t 138Reads5.3Score—Shelves
- 12 Haunted House Sleep Tester: From the Start, I Scare the Ghost Bride to Tears 凶宅试睡员：开局吓哭鬼新娘 As a veteran haunted-house sleep tester, Jiang Han decides to venture deep into the old Zhou family mansion! Huh? Wasn’t it supposed to be an evil spirit? It’s actually a ghost bride! Seeing the ghost bride about to take his life, a famous quote pops into Jiang Han’s head, and he shouts it out on the spot! ...Who would’ve thought he’d scare the female ghost into tears?! ┌(. Д)┐ 352Reads5.3Score—Shelves
- 13 Match-Three Apocalypse: I Predict the End of the World Through Tile-Matching 消了个消：我靠消消乐末日预言 [Infinite Flow] [Rule Horror] [Mystery and Mind-Bending] [Supernatural] [No Female Lead] [Not a Saint] [Transmigrating Between Worlds] [Gods] “Your world is on the verge of collapse.” Qiao Yi, who called himself a gaming genius, opened the wildly popular match-three game and cleared a level. Just as he finished the first one, these words suddenly appeared before his eyes. Qiao Yi thought nothing of it, until “Are you talking about someone like me?” The middle-aged man before him gave an eerie sm 5Reads8.8Score—Shelves
- 14 I Married a Ghost Bride, but They Told Me It Wasn’t a Script 和鬼新娘成婚，却告诉我不是剧本 Chu Fangyuan is a livestream script actor in a parallel world on Blue Star. The day before the supernatural energy returned, his assistant wrote him a livestream script about spending his wedding night with a ghost bride. Just as Chu Fangyuan headed to the agreed location the following evening and started the livestream, a world-changing upheaval quietly began. The blood moon rose, and countless ghosts returned. The once-normal world was instantly overrun by monsters. As people panicked, unsure 60Reads6.6Score—Shelves
- 15 White Russian Cemetery 白俄公墓 [Supernatural + Mystery + Horror + Forbidden Sites and Zone Exploration + Dark] While traveling, I passed through a small town called Beima and accidentally entered a strange internet cafe. The terrifying legend of a woman ghost hanging upside down, messages from an online friend dating back to 2001, an old school campus regarded as forbidden ground, a mysterious ghost village behind the school, and a cemetery that exists only in people's memories. Somehow, all of it seems connected to me. This 49Reads8.0Score—Shelves
- 16 My Beloved Ghost Wife 冥妻挚爱 Straight version: I never believed in ghosts or gods, until the day I met a beautiful woman... Literary version: Along the bluestone road and over the bluestone bridge, beneath an oil-paper umbrella, that blue-robed figure remains as before! At the Bridge of Reincarnation, I’ll wait through a lifetime of rebirth. I’d trade a hundred years of my life for one lifetime of your beauty! I bow three times before the Buddha, wishing for love across three lifetimes. The Buddha says: Why seek it in this 4.3kReads7.7Score359Shelves
- 17 Criminal Cases 刑案 Is the Major Crimes Unit a witness to death, or a savior of humanity? Bringing criminals to justice is their only mission. Demons and monsters are nothing compared to the terror of the human heart. Unsolved cases keep cropping up, each beset by countless obstacles, while difficult and bizarre cases emerge one after another. How will the Major Crimes Unit resolve them? What they reveal is a dark world you never knew existed, along with the twisted depths of the human heart you dare not face. 373Reads7.2Score105Shelves
- 18 A Ghost Called Me, So I Took on the Ten Deadly Grounds and Fought Them to the Death 遭遇鬼来电，十绝地自杀跟祂干 [Rule-Based Horror + No Saintly Protagonist + Fighting Back Head-On] At midnight, Zhou Xuan was working overtime when he suddenly received a call from “himself,” the voice on the line sounding utterly miserable. The next day, a colleague who had received the same call three days earlier found two bluish-black arms inside his phone. The colleague was brutally killed, and his entire family soon met the same fate. Realizing that in three days he wouldn’t be the only one to die, and that his whole f 31Reads6.9Score—Shelves
- 19 The Encryption Mystery 加密疑案 A master detective from the Republic of China era; a detective’s notebook whose records begin in 1931; a special cipher tailored for detectives of the future; and an intellectual duel that forcibly draws in the Queen of Crime… A conspiracy passed down through generations, inherited schemes, an endless cycle of revenge, and a detective who cannot rest in peace. Only by cracking the double cipher hidden in the notebook can one reach the truth buried in the distant past. The detectives’ wordplay be 51Reads8.7Score—Shelves
- 20 The Ghost's Prophecy 鬼无谶 Half a bowl of clear water reflects the universe; a single spirit talisman commands ghosts and gods. I tread the Eight Trigrams path of yin and yang, wielding a wooden sword to slay demonic spirits. Once every three thousand years, the appointed day arrives. Three years before it, spring begins. Since ancient times, those bound by fate have met, and beyond the nine heavens stands the Three Pure Ones. The heavenly altar resounds with the melody of the horn, welcoming the sacred presence as it des 12Reads—Score—Shelves
- 21 The Dragon Raises the Coffin 龙抬棺 There is an ancient stone stele in Qinglong Mountain. Its inscription reads: “The living must not enter; the dead must not be buried.” The local county records state that during the Hongwu era of the Great Ming, a coffin pulled by nine dragons descended from the heavens and landed on Qinglong Mountain. And I am the child of the person in that coffin. 408Reads9.0Score—Shelves
- 22 Eerie Revival: It's Pretty Awkward When You Possess Me Like This 诡异复苏：你这样附身我很尴尬的 [Urban, supernatural, ghost control, lighthearted, Chinese-style horror, sensible characters] Do you believe there are ghosts in this world? My world is quietly changing! It all began when I saw a ghost hand eating a person... Ghost buses, ghost hands, blood-red ghost weddings, a bride in painted skin, terrifying flyers, scarlet blood coffins, ghost paper effigies, vengeful infants, ghostly yin-yang fish, half-bodied wraiths, the Corpse Ancestor... I can't believe these things actually exist! "H 3Reads—Score—Shelves
- 23 Outlaw 法外狂徒 [Mystery, criminal investigations, detective work, vigilantes, punishing the guilty, ambushes on all sides] I started working cases when I was twenty. To this day, I've solved more than a thousand. Now, I've written up some of the unusual ones in a book. Read on! 482Reads6.4Score104Shelves
- 24 The Amnesiac Detective 失忆神探 A murder within a murder case, a body hidden inside a concrete pillar, killings by a porcelain cat brought to life, murders by a bloodsucking zombie, killings by a magic mirror... You can't unravel the secrets behind these cases with ordinary reasoning. A psychology professor suffering from anterograde amnesia offers a unique perspective, taking you deep into the minds of terrifying criminals and exposing the shocking truths behind their crimes. 715Reads6.5Score—Shelves
- 25 The Strongest Little Divine Farmer 最强小神农 Lintian went up the mountain to gather herbs for his mother and found a mysterious pearl, gaining a portable dimension. At first, all he wanted was a simple life: farm, earn money, give his family a better life, and find a pretty girl to marry. But events kept taking unexpected turns, and one mystery after another began to unfold… 1.6kReads8.2Score171Shelves
- 26 I Kept My Head Down for Nineteen Years, Only to Find the World Outside Was Peaceful 苟了十九年发现外面很和谐 Fantasy [Genius + comedy + semi-invincible + harmonious] There’s no hostility in this book. Give yourself a break and read something lighthearted. When he’s in a good mood, he beats up his junior brother. When he’s in a bad mood, he beats up his junior brother even more. There’s no trouble that beating up his junior brother can’t solve. If there is, two beatings will do it! At ten, he was forced into an arranged childhood engagement! He’d just started learning swordsmanship when he comprehended 1.2kReads6.9Score106Shelves
- 27 My Yin-Yang Road 我的阴阳路 (Pure supernatural horror + no cultivation + one heroine (master-disciple romance) + powerful heroine + no national fortune system) My name is Zhang Ling. I have no special fate or extraordinary talent, but an accident when I was nine set me on the path between yin and yang... 40Reads—Score—Shelves
- 28 Wilderness: I Met a Ghost Sister While Trying to Survive 荒野：我在求生时遇到个女鬼姐姐 [Good news: I have a girlfriend! Bad news: She's a ghost…] After accidentally transmigrating to a parallel world, Lin Hansheng enters a wilderness survival competition, hoping to make a fortune and change his fate. Only after arriving at the venue does he realize this is nothing like a proper wilderness survival show. Who puts coffins all over the wilderness?! And there's a lifelike girl lying inside one! Hey, hey, holy crap! She's moving! She's moving! She's alive! “Big Sis, I'll kowtow to you 53Reads6.4Score—Shelves
- 29 Senior Brother, Don't Panic 师兄，别慌 Liu Yun was discovered to be a peerless genius during the Hunyuan Sect’s entrance examination, and everyone in the sect had high hopes for his future. Only Liu Yun knew the truth: he had caused heaven and earth to manifest strange phenomena during the exam thanks entirely to the special ability of his eccentric System: Whatever abilities other people imagined he had, he could use! Fortunately, he had a group of fellow disciples who were good at imagining things. During the contest between the ge 6Reads6.2Score—Shelves
- 30 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… 1.4kReads8.4Score189Shelves
- 31 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 141Reads6.1Score—Shelves
- 32 I Became a Heavenly Master of the Dao 我成了道门天师 My name is Li Changqing. When my mother gave birth to me, ghosts roamed the night, and a wandering Daoist saved my life. He said my fate was far too harsh, bringing calamity to my closest relatives. My parents might not die peacefully… and I still had three disasters to survive. My only chance of survival was to join the Daoist sect. 11Reads—Score—Shelves
- 33 Crime Solving: From the Start, I Was Examining My Ex-Girlfriend’s Body, and I Lost It! 破案：开局验尸前女友，我怒了！ Domestic abuse, murder... This is the first case Lin Mu encounters after he transmigrates! Faced with such a start, Lin Mu doesn’t back down. He’s determined to catch the culprit and speak for the dead... 177Reads—Score—Shelves
- 34 A Laid-Back Country Livestream with a Stay-at-Home Dad 奶爸悠闲乡村直播间 [Live Streaming] [System] [Dad] [Rural Farming] Leaving behind the bustling city, Cheng Ming, a programmer at a major company, returned to his rural hometown with his four-year-old daughter, Susu. By chance, he obtained a livestreaming System that not only cured his terminal illness, but also gave him generous rewards every day for livestreaming and playing with his little girl! From then on, he lived a leisurely life, taking his precious daughter up the mountain to hunt game, into the water to 332Reads7.1Score—Shelves
- 35 Records of Yin-Yang Mysteries 阴阳异闻录 The newly dead have their brows painted and faces made up; those long dead have their skin painted and bones carved. The people around you may not be human, and the stories you've heard for years may be more than just stories. 440Reads8.4Score—Shelves
- 36 The Princess Consort Is Ruthless, and Her Cruel Prince Fears His Wife 王妃人狠心更狠，病娇王爷都惧内 [Green tea + unhinged + yandere + drama queen + sweet romance + 1v1, both pure] When a beauty-obsessed heroine meets the impossibly handsome male lead, she kisses him, hugs him, and lifts him up, only to discover that he's a yandere! And so… she runs, he chases, and she can't escape even if she grows wings… 28Reads—Score—Shelves
- 37 Paranormal Case Investigation Bureau 灵异诡案调查局 Who is getting married in the remote wilderness? A terrifying ride turns strange... Bizarre things happen during an overnight hotel stay... A knock sounds at midnight... A smiling man appears at dawn... Who is that person under the bed? A haunted village deep in the mountains... A woman waving in the middle of the night, a scarecrow on campus, a ghostly hand in the hallway... Where is that voice coming from? These paranormal, inexplicable events may be exactly why the Paranormal Investigation Bu 105Reads—Score—Shelves
- 38 Supernatural Tales: Twenty Years as a Spirit Medium 灵异怪谈：出马二十年 The Great Immortal takes his place, and sinister forces lurk in haunted lands! When I was 19, my parents laid out a banquet for ghosts, inviting a living corpse and the Eight Great Immortal Clans. For the next twenty years, I relied on my craft of raising ghosts and posing as a Great Immortal to make my way in the spirit-medium trade. I kept company with ghosts and monsters, consorted with wild immortals, and crossed blades with strange and dangerous people, always with my life on the line. 79Reads9.1Score—Shelves
- 39 Traces of Guilt 罪迹 Humans are the world’s most complex tangle of contradictions; lies are the warm womb in which evil is born. A man whose heart was cut out while he was still alive, a woman submerged in a blood-filled bathtub, a corpse chewed beyond recognition... Could these eerie crime scenes be the killer’s arena? What lies behind these baffling cases? A victim who foresaw their own attack, a hacker lurking in the shadows, twisted family bonds and love... Who is the true source of the evil? When night falls, c 148Reads8.7Score—Shelves
- 40 Murdering Eric 谋杀Eric On Monday morning, a murder took place in a bustling CBD. A partner at a globally renowned accounting firm was bludgeoned to death with a heavy object. The police questioned everyone connected to the case, only to uncover a suicide from many years ago... 59Reads—Score—Shelves
- 41 Mysteries Resurface: More Children, More Blessings in a World of Terror 诡秘复苏：我在恐怖世界多子多福 I’m a new author, so please be gentle if the writing isn’t great. [More Children, More Blessings] + [Supernatural Revival] + [Apocalypse] Ning Hao transmigrates into a world where the supernatural has returned, thinking he’ll become an Esper and rise above the common crowd. But fate plays a cruel joke on him: his ability talent is the worst of all. Unexpectedly, he gains a More Children, More Blessings System. Every new descendant extends his lifespan and improves his abilities. As his descendan 81Reads—Score—Shelves
- 42 An Unmarked Lonely Grave 无名孤坟 My grandfather buried my mother by our front door. Every night after that, a woman would stand outside our house... 1.2kReads8.8Score101Shelves
- 43 I Am a Personal Effects Organizer 我是遗物整理师 No one would do the job of sorting through people’s belongings after they died, even for money, but young Chen Jiaren dares to take it on! She earns a living while beating up bad guys and putting evil people in their place. The story is incredibly satisfying! Mystery + deduction + no System + golden finger The heroine is focused on saving money 103Reads7.4Score—Shelves
- 44 Dead City 死城 In this book, I’ll take you in search of the eerie things hidden in the city, and the terrifying taboos lurking in everyday life. 1.7kReads8.4Score259Shelves
- 45 The Feng Shui King of the Underworld 江湖风水之王 On the day I was born, ten thousand demons emerged from the mountains, a hundred ghosts clawed their way out of their graves, and an immortal corpse guarded the way. My master, Daoist Jingxian, took me from a tomb and raised me for twenty years, only to fall under a curse and die a horrible death, skinned alive. Knowing he was going to die, my master left me a letter. First, he warned me not to seek out the killer. Then he urged me to stay away from the world. But I chose a third path, resolute 129Reads7.1Score—Shelves
- 46 The Little Immortal Farmer Livestreams from Peach Spring 桃源直播小仙农 (System + medical skills + rural farming + livestreaming) “Ding! Congratulations, Host. You have obtained the Life-and-Death Medicine of Heaven and Earth!” “Ding! Congratulations, Host. You have obtained the Nine-Star Divine Farming Art!” “Ding! Congratulations, Host. You have received a beginner's gift pack. Would you like to open it?” … This is a leisurely tale about a little farmer in a fishing village who has a System. The protagonist's medical and martial arts skills are astounding, and he 286Reads7.8Score—Shelves
- 47 The Soul-Returning Soup 还魂汤 I was born in a remote village. The day my mother gave birth to me, she died a horrible death! I was born disabled, missing an arm, and with a red birthmark shaped like a coiled snake on my foot. My master said I had been cursed by an evil spirit, and that the curse could only be lifted if I found the one who cast it. Otherwise, I wouldn’t live to see twenty... 83Reads—Score—Shelves
- 48 The Outcast: One Iron Mountain Lean, and I Smash the Eight Extraordinary Skills! 一人：一手铁山靠，干碎八奇技！ Su Chen transmigrates into the world of The Outcast, where his second uncle forces him to join the declining Kun Sect and learn its signature technique: Iron Mountain Lean! After practicing Iron Mountain Lean for two and a half years, Su Chen awakens a Super Training System. [Shrug your shoulders: Iron Mountain Lean power +1, intricacy +1] [Do a lunge stretch: Iron Mountain Lean power +5, intricacy +5] [Hit an otherworldly being with Iron Mountain Lean: Iron Mountain Lean power +100, intricacy + 20Reads—Score—Shelves
- 49 I'm Getting Married, But Is My Bride Even Human? 我要结婚了，新娘不是人？ Also known as "I'm a Taoist Priest at Taizhou University". One female lead + mystery + comedy + the supernatural, no System. Montage storytelling, with the principles of an infinite-flow novel. I bet you won't guess the ending. "Hey, hey, who are you? Why are you in my house?" "Your dad's dead. He asked me to look after you." "Bullshit! Get him out here to tell me himself. I want to see my lawyer!" That night, Dad appeared in my dream and slapped me. "Hurry up and burn some joss paper for me. I' 9Reads—Score—Shelves
- 50 Fatal Deduction 致命推理 On a quiet street stands a strange shop called the Worry Relief Agency. Whenever someone burdened by sorrow and swallowed by despair steps inside, Huang Liang, who runs the agency, does everything in his power to rekindle their hope for life. Huang Liang himself has fallen into the abyss and knows true despair. As he solves one bizarre murder after another, he is saving others and seeking redemption for himself... 651Reads6.8Score102Shelves
