Novels like The Day I Was Born, Ghosts Guarded My Cradle
Books Chinese readers most often put in the same booklists as The Day I Was Born, Ghosts Guarded My Cradle, best match first.
- 1 Mr. Ghost 鬼先生 On one summer vacation, I went home and experienced a bizarre event that changed my life. Afterward, I learned that I was special: I could see things ordinary people couldn’t. Later, my grandfather told me I was a stillborn child! A stillborn who had survived only after spending a full eighty-one days steeped in medicinal herbs mixed with his own mother’s flesh and blood! That was why I was born with the fate of a ghost, surrounded by countless spirits. This was no accident. It was a thousand-ye 321Reads—Score—Shelves
- 2 I’m a Taoist Zombie 贫道是僵尸 A blood moon hung overhead, and the night was shrouded in mist. It was a strange night. I met a Taoist priest, and I met a zombie. The priest was old; the zombie was beautiful. Later… I can’t remember… I only vaguely recall that the priest died. I was bitten by the zombie, whose white robes were as pure as snow… From then on, I became both a Taoist priest and a zombie. A zombie who sought to vanquish demons and evil, yet was shunned by the living… 55Reads5.4Score—Shelves
- 3 Who Says This Evil Path Is Bad? It's Absolutely Wonderful! 谁说这邪魔歪道坏？这可太棒了！ [Folklore and the supernatural + decisive and ruthless + dark and scheming + one heroine] The gates of hell swing wide, plunging the human world into chaos. Cultivators conceal their deeds from Heaven. They eat from the underworld, yet drink the blood of the living. Warring factions of occult practitioners battle one another, while officials and outlaws clash and unorthodox sects wait to profit. Ghosts and gods run rampant, monsters wreak havoc, and even the wicked can ascend to Heaven. Ghost-an —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 4 Flowers Bloom from Withered Bones 枯骨生花 This story is also known as The Spirit Medium’s Diary. Little Hu Rong holds incense in her hands, born to take her place in the main hall. Though it was shortly after five on a June morning, the moment she was born, darkness swallowed everything. At seven, she made a mistake that cost the life of a Willow Immortal. Like oil catching fire, it set off a disaster that had been building for years. At eighteen, she fell ill, and a fortune-teller declared: “You were born to make your living as a spiri 69Reads8.2Score—Shelves
- 5 Eerie: Strange Folk Tales from Henan 诡异：从河南民间邪事开始 My name is Huang Biao. My family says a wandering Daoist priest gave me that name. Not only did he refuse payment, he knelt and kowtowed to me three times. Then my entire family of six died tragically. Searching for the truth, I fell into one mystery after another and endured one bizarre experience after the next. 197Reads7.5Score—Shelves
- 6 They Call Me the Great Master 他们叫我大先生 You surely know about the shamanic horsemen beyond the passes, but have you heard of the Four Great Houses within the passes? In the 1990s, Yang Wanli was born in a village in northern China. A fortune-teller said he was the reincarnation of an evil ghost and was destined to stir up trouble. By a twist of fate, he became a disciple of the Daoist school and got entangled with the Four Great Houses. Strange and sinister things kept happening around him. A fallen dragon, an immortal who has shed th 801Reads7.3Score—Shelves
- 7 I Cultivate the True Five Thunder Method and Crush the Evil Ghosts of the Spirit Realm 我修五雷正法，力压鬼界恶鬼 Xu Fan was born different. His natural Yin-Yang Eyes could suppress every evil spirit and demon. After Old Xu died, Xu Fan inherited the family’s ancestral spirit hall and became a shamanic medium. He battles Japanese invaders and evil spirits! Beats up the island nation’s Yin-Yang masters! Bullies the shikigami You Chizi! And marries a thousand-year-old White Snake Immortal! 609Reads7.1Score—Shelves
- 8 Luring Ghosts 招诡 A lot of the time, there are secrets and things hidden inside you that even you don't know about. For instance, what happens after you fall asleep... 350Reads8.0Score—Shelves
- 9 The Fragrance of Serpent’s Desire 蛇色生香 Everyone considered me an ill omen, but my grandmother said I was born noble: I must never kneel to anyone in this life. Others should kneel to me, and everyone I helped must enshrine my spirit tablet at home and address me as Her Ladyship. Yet I spread blessings far and wide, driving away evil and averting disasters for the people, only to end up infamous as the reincarnation of a snake woman who brought misery to all. In this life, I’ve slain ghosts, vanquished demons, raised monuments, an 272Reads8.7Score—Shelves
- 10 I Confess! I'm a Ghost Magnet! 我坦白！我是招鬼体质！ I confess! I have a constitution that attracts ghosts! 3Reads—Score—Shelves
- 11 Weeping Evil 哭邪 People watch over a temple for ten years; the temple watches over them for a lifetime. 114Reads6.9Score—Shelves
- 12 The Deadly Yin-Yang Master 绝命阴阳师 I was born extraordinary. To stop me from being born, Heaven and Earth battled across the void. Half the masters of the feng shui world perished, dying with resentment in the northwest. In the end, only my father could restrain the Nine Dragons Taiji Diagram on my body by giving up his practice. To change my fate, my father arranged several betrothals for me within the feng shui world. Who knew this would only mark the beginning of calamity for the feng shui world... 448Reads8.5Score101Shelves
- 13 Married to a Ghost on My Wedding Night: My Ghost Husband's Beloved 冥婚夜嫁，鬼夫心尖宠 My name is Liu Yueli. I was born in a remote mountain village. When I was little, my grandmother would often sit in front of our house, staring blankly toward the place where I was born and murmuring... “On a night when a hundred ghosts roam, red candles will light the way. Paper figures will carry the coffin, and a hundred ghosts will serve as matchmakers. The worlds of yin and yang shall not be divided; the paths of humans and ghosts shall not be separate. With heaven and earth as witnesses, o 1.2kReads8.7Score173Shelves
- 14 The March Murder Hunt 三月追凶 I’m working hard to create the most boring, lowest-rated, most lackluster mystery novel on the entire internet. Sometimes even the author can’t understand it, but apparently lots of people enjoy novels they can’t understand. —Reads6.6Score—Shelves
- 15 The Ghost-Eyed Diviner 鬼瞳女卦师 [Supernatural + mildly scary + ghost hunting + fortune-telling + strong female lead’s growth + supporting romance] When I was seven, an evil sorcerer attacked me. I lost my eyes, and my family was destroyed. Just as I’d reached a dead end, my master came to my rescue and taught me how to tell fortunes. To cure my eyes, my master took me every night to keep watch at the entrance to the road of the dead. Whenever a ghost set off on its journey, my master would shake a white banner and chant loudly 815Reads9.2Score109Shelves
- 16 The Ghost-Eyed Yin Child 鬼眼阴童 I was born with ghost eyes, and my entire family was slaughtered. To survive, I had no choice but to become the disciple of a Rat Immortal and absorb the aura of a thousand-year-old Ghost King! The Judge of the Underworld appointed me a Yin Official in the mortal realm! I command the underworld’s ghost soldiers and generals, rule both the worlds of yin and yang, and restore the former glory of the Yan family! You kids! Want to know more about me? Heh, meet me in your dreams tonight! [Not an over 98Reads—Score—Shelves
- 17 The Mountain Village Bestiary 山村妖怪录 A series of novels brimming with mystery and fantasy. The story takes place in a remote mountain village that conceals a world of monsters unknown to most. Ancient legends intertwine with strange encounters in the real world. Travelers venturing alone beneath the night sky must be especially cautious, for every corner of the mountains and forests may hide an unimaginable creature. 4Reads—Score—Shelves
- 18 The Lu Ban Book 鲁班书 "The world knows only about Gongshu Ce, not the Book of Lu Ban. Gongshu Ce originated from the Book of Lu Ban, but only carried on its outward form. My family, however, possesses a peerless edition of the Book of Lu Ban. My ancestors were carpenters for generations. By my time, the craft had fallen into decline, but my family never gave up. Even I took over my father's carpentry business after graduating from university, following the usual path. Outsiders only know that my family works as carpe 1.5kReads8.7Score233Shelves
- 19 Lighting the Sky Lantern 点天灯 Just how terrifying is corpse-driving in western Hunan? After failing the college entrance exam, I stumbled into the corpse-driving trade. Who could have guessed that on my very first job, I would run into... 715Reads8.3Score103Shelves
- 20 Devouring Zombies in Another World 吞噬僵尸异界行 The Divine Land is vast and boundless. Above, imperial power reigns supreme; below, a hundred schools contend. There are also immortals seeking eternal life, and demons wreaking havoc. In this age of fierce contention, the soul of an ancient cultivator crosses into another world and becomes the heir of the Prince of Northern Yan. This heir has just been turned into a zombie by someone. Cultivators temper their acupoints with the stars, thread the Great Dao through their meridians, and refine the 7.9kReads8.6Score616Shelves
- 21 I'm the Daoist World's Peak, So Being a Little Stronger Is Only Natural 我道门天花板，强亿点很合理啊 [Urban fantasy + Taoist arts + Chinese-style horror + no female lead + invincible powerhouse] A child cries on a rainy night, and he attains the Dao during the Southern Song dynasty. For eight hundred years, he alone has guarded the mortal realm. No ghosts or monsters dare take him lightly. Yu Wuye attained the Dao during the Southern Song dynasty. On Zhenyang Mountain stands Zhenyang Hall, and beneath it lies Zhenyang Pass. Zhenyang Pass is where the underworld and the mortal realm meet. 1.8kReads7.4Score103Shelves
- 22 The Incense of the Underworld 走阴香 [Spirit Medium + Supernatural] The year I turned ten, my grandmother passed away. Not long after, I came down with a strange illness. Days of injections and medicine did no good, and every night I became unusually alert, often babbling incoherently. After five days of continuous fever, my parents had no choice but to take me to the countryside to see a woman they called Auntie, who they said could treat me. Here, “Auntie” didn’t mean a relative on my father’s side. It was the respectful title we 1kReads9.1Score170Shelves
- 23 The Haunted Shroud 诡寿衣 My family sells burial clothes. Every seven days, a woman comes to order a set. Only at the end did I discover she had been ordering burial clothes for all four members of my family. 1.1kReads8.8Score117Shelves
- 24 The Underworld Has Arrived: Even the King of Hell Has to Step Aside 阴司驾到：冥王也得靠边站 [Strong male lead vs. strong female lead, one-on-one romance, feel-good, supernatural, ghost-hunting, taking down scumbags] Gu Shuhan is the underworld’s only female spirit official. She can travel freely between eight thousand worlds, and in her spare time, she catches a few little ghosts. Life is carefree and pleasant enough. But then she meets Du Qin, a woman with absolutely no emotional intelligence... “Wifey, you’ve ruined my good name! You have to marry me to make it right!” “Get lost.” “W 92Reads8.7Score—Shelves
- 25 The Snake-Skin Wedding Dress 蛇皮嫁衣 When I was three, burns covered my body and my life hung by a thread. My grandmother saved me by peeling off a snake’s skin. From then on, I had an invisible ghost husband by my side... He said he had given me my life, and that since I had worn his snakeskin wedding dress, I belonged to him. If I dared so much as interact with another man, he would punish me harshly and kill my entire family. I carefully made it to the age of twenty, but still broke the taboo! An old Taoist priest came to the vi 599Reads8.9Score102Shelves
- 26 The Corpse Retriever 捞尸人 Twenty-three years ago, his father died under mysterious circumstances. His skin was hung from the old locust tree at the entrance to the village. Twenty-three years later, the eldest brother who had been given away as a child returned. His banner read: Corpse Retriever. 3.3kReads8.3Score484Shelves
- 27 Transmigrated as an Old Lady: Ghost Hunting and Solving Cases 穿越成老太太的抓鬼破案日常 (Transmigration with a CP pairing, but not much romance. The focus is on solving mysteries and catching ghosts. No System and no golden finger: the heroine grows stronger through her bloodline and learning.) With her useless teammate dragging her along, Zhou An'an joined the transmigration crowd. When she opened her eyes, she found herself more than ten years older, with an old man by her side and a whole brood of children and granddaughters. What could she do? Roll up her sleeves and get to wo 2.7kReads9.2Score318Shelves
- 28 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? 130Reads6.3Score—Shelves
- 29 A Chinese-Style Haunted House from the Start: Streamers Across the Internet Are All Screaming 开局中式鬼屋：全网主播都被吓哭 [No female lead + comedy + healing + perfect mealtime reading] Jiang Zhe transmigrates to a parallel world and awakens the Myriad Worlds Horror System. As he learns more about this world, he discovers that Chinese-style haunted houses are still very traditional. Western-style horror is what's popular. Well, that's just perfect. Let's start with a pair of embroidered shoes to whet their appetites. And throw in a doll, too. Want to experience a wedding? Sure! Let's prepare a ghost marriag 2.4kReads8.0Score228Shelves
- 30 The Yellow Weasel Asked Me to Grant It a Title, So I Wore the Old Immortal as a Scarf 黄狼讨封，我把老仙当围脖系上了 [Traditional supernatural] + [No System] + [Drunkard] + [Comedy] “Kid, do I look like a human or a god to you?” “Uh... well... you look like a fur scarf to me! Hand it over!” “Yow!” A drunkard who read only half a web novel before daring to open a spirit altar; A weasel who cultivated powers by blindly practicing on its own and loves to brag; A wild fox that trains hard to attain enlightenment, but has to sneak down the mountain every so often to steal a chicken and whet its appetite; And a 1.6kReads8.7Score120Shelves
- 31 The Security Chief's Final Shift 保安队长的最后一班岗 The Security Captain's Final Shift 4Reads—Score—Shelves
- 32 The Master Feng Shui Practitioner 顶级风水师 Heaven and Earth are dark and yellow; the universe vast and primordial. The sun and moon wax and wane; the stars are arrayed across the sky… 1.7kReads8.8Score341Shelves
- 33 Major Paranormal Events in China 中国民间灵异大事件 Major Chinese Folk Supernatural Cases is based on real supernatural incidents. Its contents are terrifying, mysterious, eerie, and suspenseful, with no more scientifically reasonable explanation to this day! Each chapter of this book tells a supernatural fantasy tale, with bizarre, chilling, and gripping plots. We hope readers will tune in and enjoy! 301Reads7.2Score227Shelves
- 34 Uh-Oh, I've Turned a Creepy Game into Reality 坏了，玩到真的诡异养成游戏了 Have you ever played a truly eerie creature-raising game? Have you ever had a heart-pounding life experience? “Red wedding dress, paper shoes for the dead, a ghost in the mirror...” Which of these ghosts would you choose to raise? When Wu Wen clicked the place button and saw the red-clad figure appear before him, only one thought remained in his mind. “Crap, I've actually started playing a real supernatural creature-raising game!” The game Ghost Encounter has been making games for twenty years. 3.7kReads8.6Score309Shelves
- 35 Global Horror: A Red-and-White Collision Scares the World to Tears from the Start 全民恐怖：开局红白撞煞吓哭全球 [Qin Shi Huang Ying Zheng + Chinese gods + Chinese-style horror + no saintly protagonist + no heroine + exhilarating, unstoppable power fantasy.] The world's mythological systems have collapsed. Western mythology now dominates, while Eastern mythology has been forgotten and mocked, and Chinese civilization has become a laughingstock. Wang Feng transmigrates with the entire Chinese pantheon... The Sakura Country and American Eagle mock China for having no gods! The people of China cry out in desp 2.7kReads8.5Score298Shelves
- 36 Married to a Dragon 嫁龙作夫 The year I was born, a dragon fell from the sky and landed in the mountains behind our village. Eighteen years later, my grandmother hanged herself from the crooked locust tree at the village entrance with a length of rope. The villagers all said the Dragon King was taking a bride, and that my grandmother had defied him and suffered retribution. After the entire village nailed me into a black coffin and buried me alive, that thing violated me. Only then did I realize that things were far more co 1.7kReads9.0Score191Shelves
- 37 Reborn in Northeast China: The Spirit Medium Among the Educated Youth 重生东北：知青出马仙 Buddhas in the south, immortals in the north: a reborn young intellectual becomes a spirit medium! Back in the 1970s, he encounters folk tales and legends, one small story after another. With an eighteen-foot Serpent Spear in hand, truth in his left and magic in his right, he knows that good people are always bullied, while evil spirits meet their match in evil men. 147Reads—Score—Shelves
- 38 [Borrowing Evil Bones, I Become a Ghost Immortal and Break the Yin-Yang Divide] 【借邪骨，我以鬼仙破阴阳】 [Supernatural + Revenge + Magical Duels + Folk Horror + Feng Shui + One Heroine] I was born stillborn, but my grandfather brought me back to life with a fiend god's sinister bone! Yet my resurrection turned me into a freak who constantly attracted calamity, bringing about the deaths of my entire family. Only after I became a corpse collector did my fate take a dramatic turn! With a fiend god on my back, I will roam freely between the worlds of yin and yang, fearing no taboo. I bear the corpse co 7.6kReads7.6Score1.1kShelves
- 39 Snake Spirit 蛇灵 When I was three, I came down with a strange illness. My whole body felt as if it had no bones. The rice-reading granny said something was at work, occupying my body and borrowing my lifespan. After she splashed a basin of blood toward the northeast corner, a black snake with red markings and a long beard burrowed out of the earth. Sixteen years later, the snake spirit returned. “Xiao Yu, you were the one who came after me first. If we don't get married, this is going to end badly...” [Snake Hus 1.8kReads9.3Score219Shelves
- 40 Strange Happenings on the Lantern Festival: The Dead Man in the Coffin Is Clutching My Name 上元诡事：棺材里的死人攥着我的名 Lantern Festival Mysteries: The Dead Man in the Coffin Clutches My Name —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 41 A Rogue of the Mortal World 俗世妖人 Xiu Xu from Bazhong is in the mountain city, where he owns an offline murder mystery game shop. He was once a top-tier Werewolf player, comes from a family of feng shui masters, and is suffering from end-stage pancreatic cancer. When his grandfather died, he left behind a peerless beauty with no sign of life. To stay alive, Xiu Xu had no choice but to bring his whole family along, leading a group of elderly, weak, sick, and disabled relatives as they punched their way through the South Heaven Ga 6.8kReads8.7Score666Shelves
- 42 The Demon Lord Is Here 妖君在上 In the thirteenth year of the Republic, with the country in turmoil, Shen Lingyin was born in an isolated village surrounded by strange legends. When she came of age, the villagers chose her as a sacrifice, but she unexpectedly uncovered a secret buried for a thousand years... Born at midnight on the second day of the second lunar month in the Year of the Tiger, she was chosen by fate, yet doomed to bring disaster. To survive, she forms an alliance with a mysterious man and walks the razor's edg 889Reads9.0Score141Shelves
- 43 The Ghost-Hunting Qingfeng Lodge 捉鬼清风居 “Clear Breeze Hall” is a shop specializing in exorcising demons and driving away ghosts. A strange couplet hangs by the door: First line: If you’re free of disaster and trouble, don’t come in. Second line: If you’ve got ghosts or demons, come on in. The shop’s owner is a 21-year-old young man named Zhang Qingfeng, the thirty-ninth-generation heir of the Zixiao Sect. Some say the owner is obsessed with money and cares about nothing else. Others say he’s a living bodhisattva who came into the worl 6.2kReads8.8Score519Shelves
- 44 Ten Years of Vicissitudes 沧桑十年 This book is a memoir of the author’s experiences and observations during the ten years of the Cultural Revolution. From the start of the Cultural Revolution, the author was inexplicably branded a “counterrevolutionary” and a “capitalist roader,” then denounced and imprisoned, plunging into the misery of a shattered family and ruined life. As rebel factions rose across the country, the author even fell into the hands of a faction of Red Guards in Chengdu. Fortunately, drawing on experience worki 8.7kReads9.5Score1.3kShelves
- 45 Midnight Terror: The Strange Radio Broadcast 午夜惊魂之电波诡事 In the winter of 1998, Liu Siyang, a broadcasting college graduate, was assigned to Shengjing Radio. He took over a long-dormant late-night program, named it Midnight Frights, and set out to tell the insomniacs of this old industrial city some unusual stories over the midnight airwaves. He unearthed three bizarre cases from the radio station’s archives and old police files: the sweeping sounds that never ceased after the death of “Big Black Tooth,” the library’s caretaker; the green powder stuff 37Reads—Score—Shelves
- 46 The Heaven-Chosen Horse-Riding Immortal 天命出马仙 The day I was born, a blood moon appeared in the sky. Roosters crowed and dogs barked, foxes bowed to the moon, and all nine stars in the heavens fell. As soon as I came into the world, I caused my mother’s death, then scared my father out of his mind. Everyone said I was a bringer of calamity reborn, but only my grandfather said I was chosen by heaven and destined for great things. When I grew up, I took over a shaman’s altar to investigate the mystery of my birth, only to be dragged into an ev 2.2kReads9.1Score178Shelves
- 47 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! 271Reads8.1Score—Shelves
- 48 The Destined Immortal-Boned Female Face Reader 天命仙骨女相师 I was born with the bones of a phoenix. Chen the Half-Immortal, who had spent half his life telling fortunes in the village, said I was the reincarnation of the living Bodhisattva worshipped in the village shrine. That was why I had a natural gift for discerning yin from yang and driving out ghosts and spirits. But before I turned six, I was an idiot, because someone had stolen my spiritual root with a forbidden art that defied heaven. Only after a master who came to ask my adoptive mother for h 245Reads9.3Score206Shelves
- 49 A Collection of Folk Feng Shui Records 民间风水集录 Also known as The Dragon-Seeking Secret: The Five Masters of Jingmen. Main characters: Tao Duoyu and Ren Shiyu; The Five Masters of Zhongzhou: Xiong Lei of the Northeast, Zheng Xuan of western Hunan, and Su Mei of Jiangnan; My name is Tao Duoyu. My master is Tao the Blind, the foremost of the Five Masters of Zhongzhou. Twenty-four years ago, he saved me when I was at death’s door, snatching fate from the heavens to extend my life by more than twenty years. Twenty-four years later, my master myst 2.5kReads9.1Score390Shelves
- 50 Mr. Xiao Wang 小王先生 My mother held on for several extra hours while giving birth to me, just so I wouldn’t be born on the date the fortune-teller had predicted. Haunted by evil spirits! Delivering winter clothes to the dead! Wandering ghosts! Why does everyone come to me for everything? Incense roots? Fate? Five-colored cloth? These mysterious trades all depend on intuition! Granny Bai says I have a spiritual gift and a knack for opening the senses. Aunt Yang says I have all three kinds of affinity. But I never tho 13.5kReads9.4Score1.4kShelves
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