Novels like Four-House Village
Books Chinese readers most often put in the same booklists as Four-House Village, best match first.
- 101 Yin-Yang Eyes: Ghostly Tales from a Mountain Village 阴阳眼之山村鬼事 On the night I was born, dark clouds covered the sky, fierce winds and torrential rain raged, and thunder boomed until dawn. Countless ghost soldiers and underworld bailiffs waited outside our home, intent on dragging me back to the underworld. If my grandfather hadn't fought to protect me, I wouldn't have lived to see morning. Dogs barked all night throughout the village. The elders called me a cursed, ill-fated child and an evil omen, and wanted to beat me to death to put an end to the calami 19Reads—Score—Shelves
- 102 The Delivery Guy's Guide to Changing His Fate 外卖小哥改命指南 By day, he’s a lowly delivery rider. By night, he reads fortunes. Amid the everyday hustle and bustle of the city, he helps gods, monsters, and ordinary citizens defy fate and rewrite their destinies, all while turning himself into a legend. —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 103 Welcome to the Nightmare Livestream!!! 欢迎来到噩梦直播间！！！ My new work is out! Everyone is welcome to read it on Tomato Novel. I hope you enjoy it. Your support is what motivates me to write, and I'll do my best to tell every story well! 5Reads—Score—Shelves
- 104 The Unrivaled Heavenly Master 天师无双 The nine stars align, and good and evil are turned upside down. A great war between the Underworld and the Nether Capital is imminent. The Corpse Clan is rising, the Heavenly Ghosts seek to invade, the Heavenly Demons circle overhead, and great monsters descend. The Demon Buddha Sect, the Corpse Immortal Cult, and the Immortal Alliance are all stirring. Ghosts roam by day, demons hide among humanity, little ghosts are hard to deal with, corpse-driving and zombie-exorcising arts abound, the Five 29Reads8.4Score—Shelves
- 105 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 107Reads—Score121Shelves
- 106 Cultivation: Proving the Dao Through Corpses 修仙：以尸证道 “The world misunderstands me far too much. I’m actually a righteous cultivator.” An excerpt from Liu Qing’s collected sayings. Liu Qing was an ordinary rogue cultivator who knew that, with his poor natural aptitude, he had no chance of successfully establishing his foundation. Fortunately, after transmigrating, he got a golden finger. It was mostly broken, but it could still produce corpses. Armed with a demonic cultivation manual, he began his path to immortality. “Blood Devouring Art: absorb v 471Reads6.3Score—Shelves
- 107 The Spirit Guide 送灵先生 A madwoman from the neighboring village died, but even in death her eyes wouldn’t close. No matter how many people tried, they couldn’t lift her coffin. The living face trials in life, and the dead face trials in death. An infant who cannot pass the trial between life and death cannot enter the new world. A dead person who cannot pass the trial of death cannot move on, and remains by their loved ones’ side. A sprig of green bamboo summons the spirits; a three-foot spirit banner sends the souls o 16Reads8.9Score—Shelves
- 108 Fellow Daoist, Stay Alive, or This Poor Priest Won’t Be Able to Sleep 道友不死，贫道睡不着啊 Unorthodox paths have existed since ancient times! The righteous despise them, and the heretical sects reject them. Gu Xiu, proprietor of Zero Affairs, is an unorthodox cultivator registered with Bureau 749. Those in the mystic arts who want to show him respect call him the Celestial Evil Daoist. Those who don’t will kindly call him Old Demon Gu in their dying moments. “Our grudges are settled. Now, fellow cultivator, please go and die. Otherwise, I won’t be able to sleep!” 67Reads6.4Score—Shelves
- 109 The Mountain Ghost Laughs 山鬼笑兮 If there is someone on the mountain’s flank, wearing ivy and trailing creeping vines. Such beautiful words, so why is the truth so cruel? How much karma must be repaid in this lifetime? 9Reads—Score—Shelves
- 110 The Cunning Yin-Yang Doctor 阴人诡医 [Supernatural + Feng Shui + Fortune-Telling + Doctor + Witchcraft + Ghosts + Mystery + Wild Imagination + Qimen Bagua + Professions] To repay a debt of gratitude, I went against my grandfather’s dying wish. From then on, there was a strange doctor in the world, and I encountered countless extraordinary people. A human face that appears on your back at night, man-eating Gu insects, evil spirits with human faces and snake bodies. The wandering knife peddlers who sell their wares on credit, and the 169Reads7.1Score—Shelves
- 111 Living with a Fairy Who Descended to Earth 带着仙女下凡同居 There is a room in a side chamber of the main hall of the Taoist temple that Chen Jiugong has never entered. One day, he accidentally wanders inside and discovers a transparent ice coffin. A breathtakingly beautiful woman in exquisite clothing lies motionless within, her eyes closed... —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 112 Sanliao: China's Number One Feng Shui Village, a Thousand Years in the Making 千年三僚：中国风水第一村 [Feng shui + sacred sites of geomancy + geomantic arts + feng shui masters + feng shui knowledge, taboos, and ways to overcome them + mysticism, occult arts, fortune-telling, divination, and geomancy that can change both fate and fortune + no transmigration, no livestreaming, no female lead] In the chaotic final years of the Tang dynasty, Yang Junsong, also known as Yang Jiupin and Yang Yi, and later honored as Master Yang, carried a compass and led two boys into the mountains of Xingguo Sanliao 4Reads—Score—Shelves
- 113 The Divine Mortician 神葬师 I am the peerless Divine Burial Master. I use heaven and earth as my coffin to bury every ghost and god in the world, and feng shui formations to safeguard the nation’s fortune for generations to come. The world honors me as the National Feng Shui Master. Bureau 749 regards me as its pillar of support, and I trounced the Kiku Sect. Yet in the ultimate battle ten years ago, I won but still lost everything. With my cultivation gone, all I could do was return to my hometown and wait to die. Then, o 28Reads—Score—Shelves
- 114 Dragon-Subduing Art 镇龙术 When I was born, my grandfather foresaw that I would face four great calamities in my life. To change my fate, he traded his life for mine. That day, a thousand white cranes circled overhead, escorting my grandfather to his final rest... 24Reads7.6Score—Shelves
- 115 Dark Arts: The Ten Courts of Hell 邪术：十殿阎罗 (No System, no heroine, crooked and sinister methods, ruthless and decisive) In this world where good and evil have been turned upside down, is it really so wrong for me to use a little dark magic? And if I use dark magic without suffering heavenly punishment, is that really so wrong? Mount Mao offended me, so I’ll wipe out Mount Mao. China’s Special Affairs Department offended me, so I’ll wipe out your entire family. Japan offended me, so I’ll wipe out the whole country! If the world offends me 1.4kReads6.6Score100Shelves
- 116 Great, the Whole Village Is Haunted, and I’m Beyond Saving 太好啦，全村都是诡，我没救了 [Horror + Body Collection + Comedy + Plot Twists] On the day I graduated from college, I got a call saying my dad had skinned himself and died. My mother said she had to meet her daughter-in-law before my dad was buried, so I had no choice but to pay a fortune to hire the campus belle to pretend to be my girlfriend. But when I returned to the village, I discovered that no one there was human! They were all corpses... After narrowly escaping death, I became a corpse collector. The first one I col 982Reads5.6Score107Shelves
- 117 A Blood-Fed Path to the Ghost Realm 血饲鬼途 At a mass grave, I raised a ghost. It was nothing but a tool to help me survive. The essence blood of my clansmen, the flesh and blood of geniuses, the souls of the entire clan... All became fuel for refining ghosts! The stronger the ghost, the fiercer its backlash? Then I’ll use stronger restrictions and deeper schemes to keep it my slave forever! I’ll rob cultivators, slaughter cities, go undercover, kill my master, and refine ghost children... I’ll stop at nothing. With demonic arts that reac 168Reads8.0Score—Shelves
- 118 My Years as a Tomb Raider 我盗墓的那些年 Years ago, my father injured himself falling while gathering medicinal herbs in the mountains to pay for my tuition. With the mounting medical bills, I had no choice but to go tomb-raiding with someone. I thought I was just going to make a quick buck, never imagining I’d fall into an abyss so deep I could never climb back out. Over the years, the things I experienced while raiding tombs have often come back to me when I least expect it: a Peach Blossom Spring unlike any other, a tomb afflicted b 582Reads7.0Score107Shelves
- 119 The Spirit Chaser 赶阴人 Read the stars and moon, and declare life and death with ironclad certainty. A man on the margins of the human world, he sets right the injustices of the underworld. My new book, The City's Strongest Immortal Son-in-Law, is out now. I humbly ask for your support! 450Reads7.1Score—Shelves
- 120 The Yin-Duiner 度阴人 [One heroine] [No harem] [No System] [Fantasy world] Do you know what yin entities are? In this world, there are four kinds of yin entities: ghosts, monsters, demons, and fiends. The woman in white drifting through an unfinished building, the bloodthirsty zombie in an ancient mountain tomb, the man-eating beast in a scenic lake... When these yin entities appear in the world of the living, a yin guide must step in to deal with them. And I’m the current yin guide. 639Reads8.1Score105Shelves
- 121 From the Start, I Received a Letter from a Dead Man 开局收到一封死人来信 No romance, no harem, no cultivation The year he graduated from university, Ji Yao received a letter from his grandmother, who had been dead for six years. Five kinds of insurance and a housing fund, twenty thousand a month, and just six hours of work a day. Could there really be a job like that? What he didn’t expect was that, after the letter arrived, one misfortune after another would befall him… A train hijacked by ghosts, an old woman made of candle wax crawling out of a flame, a bizarre 10Reads—Score—Shelves
- 122 The Yin-Yang Geomancer’s Legacy 阴阳地师传 At ten years old, I slew a white serpent and subdued a hundred ghosts. The generals of the underworld called me “little brother.” Using feng shui, the art of Qimen, and Taoist magic, I solved one strange murder case after another! It all began with the corpse of a man in a cornfield! 6Reads—Score—Shelves
- 123 I Took the Wang Surname in Langya, but I’m a True Wang 冒姓琅琊王我是真王氏 I’m a True Wang, Though I Took the Surname of the Langya Wangs 1Reads—Score—Shelves
- 124 The Last Bus.. 公交末班车.. The Last Bus of the Night... 3Reads—Score—Shelves
- 125 I Got Pregnant by a Scumbag, Then Turned Around and Married His Uncle 我怀了渣男的孩子，转身嫁给了他小叔 I Got Pregnant by a Jerk, Then Turned Around and Married His Uncle 1Reads—Score—Shelves
- 126 The Eerie Immortal’s Box 诡仙魔盒 [Mystery] + [Eerie] + [Xuanhuan] + [Thriller] + [Mind-Bending] + [One Female Lead] Chen Tong, a young man struggling to make a living in the city, returns to his hometown to attend his grandfather's funeral... But he unexpectedly discovers that his grandfather's death was shrouded in mystery. He comes into possession of a mysterious golden-thread nanmu box, and everything begins to turn Eerie... The grandfather of a female classmate from his village also dies. The monks and Taoist priests hired —Reads8.3Score—Shelves
- 127 Ghost-Hunting Yin-Yang Master 捉鬼阴阳师 On the day I was born, the clear sky suddenly filled with lightning and thunder. A bolt struck a tree in our yard, and everyone in the village decided my birth was an ill omen. They all kept their distance. One villager accidentally offended me, and that night he mysteriously hanged himself. The body could only be taken down if someone knelt before me. On the day of his funeral, his brother died a violent death and the coffin fell to the ground. That was how the whole story began… 205Reads8.8Score100Shelves
- 128 You Were Told to Guard a Village, So Why Did You Make the City God Cry? 让你守个村儿，你把城隍打哭了？ After the old madman died, I always thought I was the only person left in the village. Then one year, two men showed up carrying a camera and said they wanted to film a documentary about walking marriages... 458Reads8.5Score—Shelves
- 129 The Celestial Master's Book of Strange Tales 天师诡事录 Twenty years ago, a female ghost from a thousand-year-old tomb came to claim a bride. My grandfather gave his life to protect me from the calamity! Twenty years later, fate led me to rob the tomb of that very female ghost. 198Reads7.7Score104Shelves
- 130 Maoshan's Greatest Celestial Master 茅山最强天师 [Supernatural + Urban Fantasy + Maoshan Taoist Arts + One Heroine] “Maoshan disciple Ye Qing travels the world alone, sweeping across the mortal realm with his mastery of Maoshan Taoist arts.” He slays wraiths, battles evil gods, destroys ghosts and monsters, and vanquishes corpse kings. Witness a generation’s Celestial Master of Maoshan wield secret Taoist arts with one hand, shaking the four corners of the world and reigning supreme beneath heaven. 1.4kReads—Score—Shelves
- 131 The Underworld Descends 阴司降世 The day Han Luoxuan was born, the Underworld sent guardians to protect him, a hundred ghosts surrounded his home, and rogue cultivators came to claim his life. The independent Han clan, the Fox Immortals of the Northeast, and the Buddhists joined forces to save him. Born with unusual bones and naturally gifted with Yin Eyes, he carries his family's karmic burden and is guided by destiny. He becomes the focus of a struggle in this world. Hunted by a hundred ghosts and parted from his loved ones, 16Reads—Score—Shelves
- 132 I'm Just a Real Estate Agent, Not a Feng Shui Master 我只是房产经纪，真不是风水大师 That year, a mysterious coffin was unearthed by the Yellow River. From that moment on, my life took an unexpected turn… Sweet dew cannot nourish grass without roots, and wondrous teachings can only guide those destined to receive them! Never meddle lightly in another person’s karma! This is a fast-paced urban feng shui novel, the kind that gets more satisfying the further you read. Urban business rivalries, feng shui formations, warding off evil with feng shui, feuds among the wealthy, and the f 9Reads—Score—Shelves
- 133 Paper Effigy Celestial Master: I Use Paper Dolls to Guard the Nine Hells 纸扎天师：我以纸人镇九幽 “Other people burn paper offerings for the dead. The paper figures I make... all came to life!” Yun Sheng, a poor young man working on Funeral Street, one day discovers that the paper figures he folds can move on their own. ✔ Delivering takeout to the underworld? Paper-figure delivery, guaranteed arrival! ✔ Helping vengeful ghosts pass on? Merit earned, unlocking super-evolution for paper figures! ✔ Taking the underworld civil service exam? The King of Hell personally sends you an offer! But whe 2Reads—Score—Shelves
- 134 I Just Became the Ghost Emperor, and a Psychic Show Made Me Its Sacrifice 刚成鬼帝，被通灵节目当成牺牲品 Lin Yuan transmigrates to a parallel world where ghostly energy is resurging. To save his younger sister, he joins a paranormal reality show called Land of Death. The show’s challenge sends hundreds of ordinary people, accompanied by exorcists and elite special forces, into a quarantine zone overrun by evil ghosts to survive. But Lin Yuan soon discovers the show’s sinister plot: the ordinary people are all expendable pawns chosen by the producers. At the same time, Lin Yuan’s Ghost Emperor Syste 4Reads7.9Score—Shelves
- 135 Exorcist: From the Start, I Encounter the Great Black Buddha Mother 除魔人：开局遇到大黑佛母 Original title: Exorcist: Starting Out by Encountering the Great Black Buddha Mother [Supernatural] + [System] + [Narrow Escapes] + [Film, Animation, Books, and TV] + [the Myriad Worlds] + [Not a Power Fantasy] + [Thriller] + [Horror] The male lead, born under an ill-fated destiny, faces a life-and-death calamity but is unexpectedly chosen by the System. He transmigrates through various parallel worlds to carry out missions to exorcise demons and uphold justice. When you transmigrate and encount 169Reads6.2Score—Shelves
- 136 This Daoist Strikes, He Pulls Up the Roots 贫道出手，斩草必除根 Feng Shui and the Supernatural ☞ Daoist Arts and Witchcraft ☞ If it can be killed, leave no survivors ☞ Ghosts and monsters ☞ No female lead I am Tian Jiu, a Daoist priest nicknamed the Heretic... Ageless and undying, beyond the cycle of reincarnation, I walk beneath the sun, driving out ghosts and subduing demons... Whether you’re a demon, monster, ghost, or fiend, I’ll reduce you to ashes... If I, Tian Jiu, cannot ascend among the immortals, then I’ll protect the mortal world... Countless immo 1.3kReads7.1Score105Shelves
- 137 The Daoheart’s Journey 道心征途 (This novel focuses primarily on horror, the supernatural, and suspense. It isn't mindless, it isn't about cultivating immortality, and the story is tightly connected. The early chapters lay the groundwork, and there are many genuinely frightening scenes. If you don't like it, feel free to say so in the comments!) My master said there are only two principles to being a Taoist priest. First: Never put off revenge until tomorrow. Let it fester in your heart, and it will throw your Daoist mind into 7Reads6.5Score—Shelves
- 138 Tales of Feng Shui and Tombs 风水墓事 My name is Gu Xiaochuan! I went to move a woman’s grave, and then… 8.6kReads8.7Score809Shelves
- 139 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
- 140 Raising a Fox Brings Disaster 养狐为祸 He went hunting in the mountains and found a white fox, which he brought home. That night, he met a breathtakingly beautiful woman… She was gorgeous and gentle, and said she wanted to marry him and bear his children. He thought it was a stroke of luck, but then came corpse poison, grinning dolls, and women in red, one after another!! 119Reads6.6Score—Shelves
- 141 The Archaeological Diviner 考古神算 The Archaeological Diviner is being adapted into a web drama. It's based on an IP novel. (Search for it and you'll see.) A professor in the archaeological world of Huaxia has a grandson named Li Bagua. Following his grandfather's wishes, Li Bagua goes into archaeology, but encounters all sorts of strange things during his work... Each archaeological expedition helps him grow more mature! 2Reads—Score—Shelves
- 142 The Strange Tribulation: The Daoist Shaman's Deadly Fate 诡劫：道巫凶命 [No System] [Mild Horror] [Taoist Priest] [Female Lead] [There have been too many coincidences along the way. It feels like someone has been setting me up.] After losing my memories, life became incredibly difficult... The bizarre and terrifying things I encountered nearly drove me to a breakdown... Every strange, eerie event put me in danger, yet somehow I survived time and time again. Then one day, I met an expert who gave me a new understanding of my own fate... [What kind of conspiracy lies 2Reads—Score—Shelves
- 143 Reborn, I Switched My Wife’s Birth Control Pills 重生的我换妻子的避孕药 Reborn, I Switched My Wife’s Birth Control Pills —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 144 The Yellow River Corpse Retriever 黄河捞尸人 There is always more to the Yellow River than you know! You’d be better off never asking about the forbidden legends of the Yellow River! The Yellow River’s ghost soldiers, the Fish-Bone Divine Temple, the Iron-Headed Dragon King, deadly venomous insects, ghost wedding processions... The strangest objects of the Yellow River, and the oldest, most mysterious profession: Yellow River corpse divers! Their families have guarded the ancient river route for generations. But what are they really protec 27Reads7.4Score—Shelves
- 145 The Low-Key Taoist 低调术士 The distinction between good and evil in this world lies not in the art, but in the person. For millennia, Su Chunfeng was the most gifted occult practitioner in the world of mystic arts, and the one most likely to reach the realm of “Returning to Truth.” After being ambushed and gravely wounded, he received the devastating news that both his parents had died. He went mad, met his end, and, by a twist of fate, his powerful soul crossed through time and space, and he was reborn in the past. In th 58Reads8.9Score—Shelves
- 146 Record of Folk Traditions 民俗传承录 My knowledge is limited! I’ve organized the memories of my working life into a memoir and written down some of them. If you’re interested in feng shui, geomancy, or the arts of fate and divination, take a look. It’s all practical information. If you’d rather hear stories, you can read the memoir. —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 147 You Call Me a Con Artist? I'll Scatter Your Ashes to the Wind! 说我招摇撞骗？骨灰都给你扬了！ [Shameless Celestial Master] [Ghost Hunting and Case Solving] [Fortune-Telling on the Overpass] [Sweet-Talking and Deceiving] After being reborn, Zhang Yang activates the Shameless Celestial Master System and discovers that he seems to have become entangled in a conspiracy spanning a hundred years... The Seven Evils Corpse Vault, a dilapidated City God temple, a haunted apartment building, a living sacrifice to the River Goddess... Every unusual criminal case turns out to have a connection to 4Reads—Score—Shelves
- 148 The Boundless Way 道法无边 From the moment I met my godfather, my life was destined to be extraordinary! Strange things are just part of everyday life for me, and all my friends are unusual too! There's the handsome, aloof cat demon, the seductive fox spirit, and the honorable Ghost King! Watch as I lead my powerful companions to slay evil demons and crush every wicked path! When the talisman rises, demons fall; when it descends, heaven and earth are set in order! 88Reads8.3Score—Shelves
- 149 Forbidden Ground for the Living 活人禁地 Seek out the world's rare treasures, and plunder its hidden relics. The living should stay away from these places... 1.5kReads7.2Score131Shelves
- 150 I’m a Yin-Yang Fate Judge in Qingshi Town 我在青石镇当阴阳裁命人 Metaphysics + yin-yang eyes + the Five Arts of Chinese Tradition + a terrible start from the start There’s an inconspicuous incense and candle shop in Qingshi Town, run by Lin Qiu, a young woman who can see beyond the divide between the living and the dead. She inherited the Lin family’s ancestral Five Arts of “mountain, medicine, fate, physiognomy, and divination.” Her yin-yang eyes can distinguish the golden glow of merit from the bloody aura of ill fortune, and she specializes in resolving st —Reads—Score—Shelves
