Novels like The Pawnshop
Books Chinese readers most often put in the same booklists as The Pawnshop, best match first.
- 101 A Tale of Heartless Love: Strange Creatures and Oddities 薄情欢之精怪志异 [Fantasy + healing + ancient Chinese tales of the uncanny] Ever since A Tong’s great-aunt, a half-immortal, fed her those strange eyes, a new chapter of her life began. But she wants to make one thing clear: this isn’t a natural gift. She was forced into having this gift, okay? And so the timid girl begins her adventures. Luckily, she has an immortal by her side to lean on. Through those eyes, she sees all manner of spirits and monsters, and all their love, hate, anger, and obsession: birth, old 33Reads—Score—Shelves
- 102 From the Start, the System Told Me to Torture the Ghosts. No Way I'm Doing That! 开局系统让我折磨诡，俺不中嘞 [Myths and Legends] [Hilarious] [Unhinged Protagonist] [Tormenting the Supernatural] [Emotion System] As the supernatural resurfaces and evil entities descend, everyone in the world avoids them at all costs. Li Daoxuan awakens the Mythic Emotion System. As long as he can drive an evil entity to an emotional meltdown, he can draw upon the powers of the great gods of ancient mythology! While everyone else flees for their lives when they encounter ghosts, he actively seeks out all kinds of vicious 19Reads—Score—Shelves
- 103 Wayfarer Between Yin and Yang 阴阳行者 The ultimate truths of heaven and earth are two: death and parting, and the way between yin and yang. I protect the living in the world of light, driving out evil and subduing demons until every specter is vanquished. I guide the dead across the Yellow Springs, and set foot upon the Bridge of Helplessness without hesitation. A traveler between the realms of yin and yang, I bear the balance of life and death on my shoulders. Have you ever seen an old sheep knock at your door, or a paper figure sp 268Reads5.6Score—Shelves
- 104 I’m Going to Lure 100 Lost Souls 我要勾满100个亡魂 Sequel to I Guide Souls at Wangxiang Terrace Lin Jiaojiao, 24, an overworked office worker, suddenly dies on the Nth night in a row of staying up all night revising proposals. When she opens her eyes again, she has already completed every step of the underworld’s procedures. But just as she reaches Wangxiang Terrace, the guide Zhou Yi stops her. “Your attachment remains unresolved. You can’t be reincarnated.” Judge Li Muzi offers her a way forward: work as a soul reaper under him, and she can be 9.7kReads—Score3kShelves
- 105 Songs of the Underworld 冥歌 [Not a wish-fulfillment novel] It’s a tangled, lengthy story, not one about a loser turning his life around by fawning over women. [There is a heroine] I’m new to this, so I don’t understand why novels have to be tagged as having no heroine. To be honest, mine has one, though she doesn’t appear much. [Not necessarily funny] Hard to say. The author has a strange sense of humor. [Neurotic] The author is a little crazy, with a mind that keeps jumping around, so the plot can sometimes feel erratic. 1Reads8.1Score—Shelves
- 106 The Heavenly Official's Edict 天官敕令 When Chen Qi awakens the long-lost “Word Spirit Edict” during a haunted-house livestream, he thinks it’s just a way to earn money to save his father. But when fragments of an antique bronze mirror reveal a thousand-year-old formation, and the technology group “Entropy” uses algorithms to optimize feng shui and kill, he realizes he’s been dragged into an ultimate war between traditional occult arts and modern technology. From malignant spirits in haunted houses to ghost soldiers on the march, and 1Reads—Score—Shelves
- 107 Interdimensional General Store: I Told You to Sell Goods, Not Become a God 位面杂货铺：叫你卖货没让你成神 [System + transmigrate + patriotism + strong heroine] At 28, Shu Han was delighted to receive official retiree status. Then she unexpectedly inherited the Myriad Worlds General Store. Her original plan was to take it easy selling goods while secretly supporting her country. But how did things take such a strange turn? Can someone explain how a general store owner ended up as an S-rank interstellar fugitive? It’s one thing for an ancient crown prince to honor her as an immortal master, but why is 34Reads—Score—Shelves
- 108 Atonement Darwin 赎罪达尔文 What do you mean, I transmigrated, then transmigrated again? (No harem, no formulaic tropes, no wish fulfillment, no System. An ensemble cast with a focus on characters and plot. If that’s not your thing, please don’t read.) “My life ended yesterday, but my story begins today.” Lu Wei was an ordinary second-year college student on Earth, but every night he entered another world of immortal cultivation in his dreams. When he was certain the world in his dreams was fake, he found himself trapped i —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 109 After Being Kicked Out of My Home, I Bound Myself to the Myriad Worlds Exchange 被赶出家门后绑定了万界交易所 #No Romance #Multiverse Trading #Feel-Good Power Fantasy #Get Rich #Trading Supplies My family kicked me out, so my uncle took me in. Then I bound myself to the Multiverse Exchange and got an adorable little System! I got my aunt-in-law a youth-preserving pill to keep her looking younger and younger; scavenged future tech to help my cousin become a tech mogul; and found goods from across the heavens for my uncle, making each new supermarket more popular than the last! My little System turned 7Reads6.5Score—Shelves
- 110 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—Shelves
- 111 The Borrowed Blade 借刀人 As a shooting star streaked across the sun, a young man borrowed a blade. The Guigu Seal was broken, the Chiyou Banner appeared, and war erupted. The five immortals of fox, weasel, hedgehog, rat, and snake traveled by night and day, while the five evils of judges, tribute collectors, insects, corpses, and livestock roamed the land. Earth gods and City Gods, zombies and hanging ghosts, dragon maidens, vengeful spirits and monsters, Thunder Gods and drought demons walked between the realms of yin 16Reads8.3Score—Shelves
- 112 Tomb of Terror: My Haunted Forest Expedition 古墓惊魂，我的恐怖森林探险之旅 Terror in the Ancient Tomb: My Adventure Through a Haunted Forest 1Reads—Score—Shelves
- 113 Is It Too Much for a Fortune Teller Like Me to Know a Little Yin-Yang Magic? 我一个算命的会点阴阳术不过分吧 [Maoshan Arts + Ghost Hunting + Face Reading + Powerful Connections + Walking Between the Yin and Yang Worlds + Team] Zhao Yang's grandfather made him study three books from a young age: the Zhouyi, the Ma Yi Divine Physiognomy, and a third book with no cover, whose contents were handwritten. After his grandfather passed away, Zhao Yang inherited his mantle. But now that cremation was the norm, all he could do was read people's feng shui, barely earning enough to get by. Just as he was thinking 318Reads—Score—Shelves
- 114 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. 447Reads8.4Score—Shelves
- 115 The Yin Deliverer 送阴人 A burial master, also known as one who sends the dead into the shadows. When Li Mazi from my village died suddenly, I was drawn into the affair. I thought it was an accident, but later I learned it had been plotted for a long time. To stay alive, I began studying the Burial Scripture my grandfather left behind. The Burial Scripture has three volumes: one on burying people, one on burying ghosts, and a third whose whereabouts are unknown. Blood corpses in the Southern Ridges, ancient monsters in 668Reads8.4Score101Shelves
- 116 Possessed by an Evil Spirit 撞邪 Grandpa spent his whole life doing good deeds. He never imagined that one night, he would ruin a young girl's life... 290Reads8.4Score—Shelves
- 117 Yin-Yang Paper Effigy Maker 阴阳纸扎匠 The paper effigies my grandfather made could subdue spirits and drive away evil energy. He passed this craft down to me alone. Back in his day, my grandfather was a renowned master in the world of feng shui. I thought I could carry on his legend, but I was set up as soon as I struck out on my own. It turns out there’s another me in this world! (No System, no mindless protagonist, no stale tropes, no cultivation.) 422Reads6.9Score—Shelves
- 118 My Yin-Yang Teahouse 我有一间阴阳茶馆 When the dead come knocking, my work begins. Behind every death lies a story. I will tell these untold stories, one by one... My name is Xia Xingchen. I can see ghosts. I help the souls who come seeking the light embark on their final journey. As I help them find redemption, I am also searching for the truth... 31Reads7.3Score—Shelves
- 119 The Underworld's Sales Rep 地府带货人 He was born under a twin-virgin curse, destined to be widowed, lonely, and die young. But an unexpected visitor set him on a road of no return… 56Reads6.2Score—Shelves
- 120 A Female Ghost Came for My Life, So I Beat It with a Stick 女鬼索命，我直接用棍棒物理驱鬼 [Supernatural] [Leveling Up] [Hot-Blooded] [Lighthearted] [Conquest] The supernatural returns, and a purple moon hangs in the sky. Mo Yu is living in a world of the uncanny when he suddenly encounters the Underworld's Empress, who has wandered into the human world and come to claim his life... Fortunately, Mo Yu awakens the Ultimate Choice System just in time. With the System's help, he gives the female ghost a sound beating. And so, a notorious bandit feared throughout the Underworld is born... 19Reads—Score—Shelves
- 121 Interdimensional General Store: My Shelves Connect to All the Heavens 万界杂货铺，我的货架通诸天 #UrbanFantasy #TimeAndSpaceTrading #Technology #FeelGoodFiction# Jiang Xiaoyu’s life goal is to be a carefree couch potato. To escape being roped into the family business by her several older brothers, she makes a clean getaway and hides out in the countryside, inheriting her grandmother’s shabby old convenience store. The life she dreams of is nothing more than basking in the sun, snacking on sunflower seeds, living off whatever she can get, and enjoying her days in peace. But dreams are one 246Reads6.3Score105Shelves
- 122 Journey to Fengdu 行至酆都 [Mythology Turned Upside Down] [Everyone Is Clever] [Tomb Raiding] [Strong Female Lead] (A little spoiler: the male lead is not Japanese.) The Gate of Hell, the Road to the Underworld: once you enter Fengdu, life and death are beyond prediction. At eleven, Huo Wu enters Fengdu for the first time and leaves both her memories and her clan behind. At twenty-eight, she enters Fengdu again. As her memories return, more than twenty years of everything she thought she knew are overturned in an instant. 146Reads8.3Score—Shelves
- 123 To Save My Life, I Married the Princess of the Underworld 为了活命，我娶了冥界公主 The doctor said, “Prepare for the worst. He only has a day or two left...” Mom pulled out a paper, supposedly a marriage contract from the Three Realms. “Son, let’s try anything we can. You promised to become the Netherworld Princess’s consort. If your illness gets better, you might not have to die...” And so... Ding! Congratulations, you’ve obtained a [Cross-Realm Space]! Ding! Congratulations, you’ve obtained a [Cross-Realm Tea Estate]! Ding! Congratulations, you’ve learned the skill [Bright-E 362Reads5.5Score135Shelves
- 124 Pawnshop No. 7 第7当铺 In the darkest corner of the city stands the Number Seven Pawnshop, which never closes. It doesn’t take physical objects as collateral, but rather the “sinful traits” buried deep in human nature. The owner offers unimaginable wealth, success, or wishes, but the price is your greed, arrogance, lust, envy, gluttony, wrath, and sloth. The rules here are cold but fair: the more “sin” you pawn, the richer the reward. But without your “sins,” are you still truly whole? 4Reads—Score—Shelves
- 125 Old Alley Sound Repair: At Midnight Tonight, Qin Opera Calls the Souls 旧巷声修：今夜子时，秦腔引魂 [One Heroine + Sound Cultivation + Qin Opera + Livestreaming + Supernatural Mystery + Urban + Adventure] In modern society, information explodes across the world, and human negativity is amplified through social media, forming an immense “Tide of Resentment.” If no one guides and dispels it, within three years it will gather into a “Lament of Doomsday,” and the boundary between the worlds of yin and yang will collapse completely. Humanity’s power comes from “the Power of Wishes”: energy formed w —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 126 My Dead Wife Returns on Our Wedding Night 亡妻归来新婚夜 My Late Wife Returns on Our Wedding Night 2Reads—Score—Shelves
- 127 The Tomb-Keeper's Shaman Boy 守陵巫童 My name is Shen Yan, the lowliest tomb-guarding shaman boy on Mount Cangwu. A vengeful spirit in white bit my neck, leaving behind a black, snake-shaped mark. She said I had forty-nine days left to live. I thought that was as bad as things could get. Until my fellow disciples sold me out, and the tomb warden sealed off the mountain to hunt me down. Until the remnant soul of a Martial Emperor, who had slept beneath the earth for a thousand years, began coveting my cinnabar-bloodline body. One w 2Reads—Score—Shelves
- 128 The Conspiracy Behind the Terrifying Calls 恐怖电话背后的阴谋 The conspiracy behind the horror phone 3Reads—Score—Shelves
- 129 Redemption and Rebirth in the Darkness 黑暗中的救赎与新生 Salvation and New Life in the Darkness 1Reads—Score—Shelves
- 130 Terror Underground: My Journey of Adventure and Growth 地道惊魂，我的探险与成长 Terror Underground: My Adventure and Growth —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 131 The Abandoned Wife's Desert Island Adventure 弃妇的荒岛冒险之旅 An Abandoned Wife's Adventure on a Deserted Island 1Reads—Score—Shelves
- 132 The Greatest Pawnshop Under Heaven 天字第一當 By day, this pawnshop looks utterly ordinary, but it has one strange rule: anyone who pawns an item or buys an unredeemed one gets a free fortune reading. Stranger still, once midnight comes, the shop welcomes all kinds of bizarre visitors… 3.5kReads8.9Score384Shelves
- 133 X-Ray Vision in My Left Eye, Yin-Yang Sight in My Right, So Don't Look Around Carelessly 左眼透视右眼阴阳，千万别乱看 [Urban Strange Tales Series 1, Humorous and Funny, Gritty Realism, No AI] With nowhere else to turn, I unexpectedly inherited an adult novelty store! On my very first day opening up, I was bitten by a venomous snake steeped in liquor. I thought I was done for! But instead, my third eye opened. My left eye can see ghosts, and my right eye can see through things! Good heavens, there are beautiful women all over the streets with no clothes on... Ah, no! Ghosts... 7.1kReads8.8Score966Shelves
- 134 Visitor from Hell 狱下来客 A modern supernatural mystery. Not wish fulfillment, not brainless, and no System. In this life, you pass countless people on the street. What makes you so sure they're all human? I never believed in this stuff either, until my landlord tricked me into moving to a place called Happy Community. The people around me didn't seem to be people at all. Footprints on the ceiling, dolls made of human skin, bloated drowned giants, people raising zombies, mother-and-child ghosts... Just how many secrets l 596Reads8.0Score100Shelves
- 135 The Underworld Bureau and the Ghost Teahouse 阴曹司，鬼茶馆 Ba Xian Town, Sifang Street. At the heart of the street stood a small courtyard. A plaque of boxwood hung above the entrance, bearing three characters in wild cursive: Wei Teahouse. This teahouse, built of carved blue stone, had always done good business. Traveling merchants stopping for tea and old men strolling with their birdcages were regulars. It was an age of upheaval, superstition, warlords, and rampant banditry, yet no one dared cause trouble for this little teahouse. For every nightfall 141Reads7.6Score—Shelves
- 136 The Seventh Night After Death 头七 My grandfather said that whoever a hanged person sees last is the one they’ll come back to haunt. When I was twelve, the village hired a troupe to perform ghost plays. I went to play with them, never imagining that the troupe’s leading performer was hanging from the beam right behind me. 22Reads7.7Score—Shelves
- 137 My Interdimensional General Store: Customers Beg Me to Reopen 万界杂货铺：顾客跪求我回去开店 [No romance] [Comedy] [Shopkeeping] In his previous life, he worked himself to death from overtime. He thought he’d be reincarnated into a rich family and become a trust-fund kid in his next life, but instead he ended up bound to a random shop-opening System. Apocalypse: “Boss, do you have any sandwiches left? I’ll take a hundred!” “Who tore down all the flyers? Why didn’t you leave one for me!” “Where’s the boss who sells sticky notes? I fought my way through a horde of zombies to get here, and 137Reads5.8Score—Shelves
- 138 The Third Yin Messenger 第三阴差 He is neither a Taoist priest nor a mage, yet with a raised hand he can banish ghosts, and with a breath he can destroy demons. Heaven may be first, and earth second, but he is the third Yin messenger walking among mortals: Qin Wuming! 1.8kReads7.2Score162Shelves
- 139 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
- 140 Di Ting: I Run a Pawnshop in the Human World 谛听：我在人间开当铺 In the city stands the Di Ji Pawnshop. For a thousand years, its proprietor, Shen Dining, has upheld one ironclad rule: anything can be pawned, every exchange must be equivalent, and everyone bears responsibility for the consequences. She never judges whether anyone is good or evil. One night, Lu Yu stumbled into the shop, covered in blood, offering himself in exchange for a chance to live. Shen Dining saved him, and from then on, Lu Yu stayed at the pawnshop, helping her serve the many customer 1Reads—Score—Shelves
- 141 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
- 142 Guiding Spirits 1 度灵1 When Jiang Xingchen was eight, his friend drowned while saving him, and from that moment on, the world split in two. He became a “freak,” someone who could see ghosts. Fear and avoidance nearly consumed him, until he met Mo Yuan, a mysterious spirit guide. With Mo Yuan’s guidance and the influence of Ling Yan, another spirit guide with a forceful style, Xingchen gradually learned to listen to the voices behind the “horror.” From city apartments to ancient wells in mountain villages, from solving 3Reads—Score—Shelves
- 143 The Twelve Dongling Peaks 十二峒岭 This book has been abandoned. It’s a collection of mystery stories... The moonlight at midnight lay over the quiet town like a veil. I curled up on an old sofa in the attic, flipping through a yellowed diary. The scratch of my pen echoed through the empty room. This was my third month living here, and the thirtieth night I had spent recording the secrets of this old house. —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 144 The Earth Master 地先生 Every title in the occult arts has a special meaning: tomb raiders are called grave diggers, those without a school or sect are called Mr. Bai, and those who sew heads onto corpses are called Old Madam Butian... Our trade calls us Earth Masters. Ghostly incense, the flayed-skin curse, the pecking-eye gu, the Cave of Nine... Every job I take on is full of twists and hidden dangers. Fight your way through, and the spirits and ghosts will fear you, and you’ll reign supreme in the occult world. Fail 81Reads7.0Score—Shelves
- 145 I Opened a Pawnshop in the Great Tang 我在大唐开当铺 I unexpectedly transmigrated to the Tang Dynasty and acquired a pawnshop System. Anything can be pawned, and anything can be exchanged for, even a time machine that lets me go back and take revenge! Princess Changle? She’s my wife. Changsun Chong? He’s my rival in love! 934Reads7.5Score101Shelves
- 146 The Ominous Coffin 凶棺 It all started with a coffin that floated up from the river... I thought it was a fortune dropped from the sky, but it turned out to be a disaster. After I pried open the coffin, I began to feel that something unclean had followed me home. My daughter grew stranger by the day. She was only three, yet she had already started developing! 125Reads—Score—Shelves
- 147 The God in the Cage 笼中之神 This is a requiem for prisoners, echoing between the abyss of reality and illusion. When the prison of consciousness is exposed, will you choose to sink into a sweet lie, or awaken to a cruel truth and be destroyed? The answer was already decided from the very start of the search. 1Reads—Score—Shelves
- 148 The Lure of a Thousand Thoughts 万念引 A fierce wind rose, carrying a sweet, fishy smell. A book appeared beside them, and Nianyue’s red lips moved. “Born in the breeze, evil emerges. Lacking in strength, yet fond of human souls. Once it becomes a menace, it will surely join forces with the evil spirits in the mountains. Name it Taowu. From this day on, it is bound to a good soul.” As she finished speaking, another page appeared in the book. “Which of you will come and seal the pact?” Nianyue looked up. The eldest brother stood and w 12Reads—Score—Shelves
- 149 The King of Face Reading 观相之王 This novel is complex and brainy, not a lightweight read. If that’s not your thing, don’t read it. Ensemble cast + mind games + the supernatural + climbing the ranks and getting rich + foretelling good and bad fortune + solving mysteries through face reading and divination. “I’d like to ask about my health using the character ‘six.’” “Certainly. The character ‘six’ looks like a person dismembered into several pieces, with the head separated from the body.” Why are some people blessed with endle 5Reads—Score—Shelves
- 150 Chaos Invades the World, and I Become a God by Mediating Disputes 全球混沌入侵，我靠调解成神 Light is not necessarily pure, and darkness may hold warmth. The answer lies in a truth deeper than the abyss. When the only hope of saving the world points down a dead-end path with no chance of survival, will you still have the courage to wager everything on a faint glimmer of light? 3Reads—Score—Shelves
