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- 51 The Funeral Home Host's Path to Immortality 殡仪馆司仪修仙记 A fortune-teller said Mo Wen was fated to be haunted by five ghosts, and that a disastrous curse would befall his family that very day. Mo Wen didn't believe him. Then his father fell off the roof that same day and broke his leg. To keep his family out of danger, Mo Wen went far away, but the spirits continued to hound him. In a fit of anger, he walked into a funeral home and took a job as an unofficial funeral host, only to attract even more vicious ghosts... A love affair spanning three thousa —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 52 The Corpse-Scent Beside My Pillow 枕边尸香 Ever since I was little, I had a wife-to-be I'd never met. When I was fifteen, my grandfather died, and I married into her family... 2.4kReads8.3Score19014d adds
- 53 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 4.1kReads7.7Score35414d adds
- 54 I Only Take on the Most Ominous Cases 我只收大凶之物 [Supernatural] + [Traditional Folk Customs] + [First-Person Narration] + [Chinese-Style Horror] + [Decisive and Ruthless] + [Not a Do-Gooder] + [One Female Lead] I was born in a rural village in the mountains of Southwest China. I'm a third-year university student, and I'm also a yin-yang master. Calling myself a yin-yang master is really just to make myself sound impressive. Back in my hometown, people in the countryside call someone like me a Daoist ritual master. Most people probably know a l 61Reads8.2Score314d adds
- 55 Seeking a Blessing? I'll Get a Fox Immortal for a Wife! 讨封？讨个狐仙当老婆！ [Supernatural] [One Heroine] [Lighthearted Daily Life] [Comedy] That day, an eerie blood-red coffin was unearthed at a construction site, along with a dried-up female corpse with a swollen belly, a white fox with five tails, and an ancient bronze mirror... The next day, that very white fox latched onto me and asked me to grant her a human form... A nontraditional supernatural story 70Reads—Score—14d adds
- 56 Underworld: My Ghost Bride and I, Bound Forever by Yin Fate 冥域：我和鬼媳，阴缘永合 [Paranormal + Ghost Wife + Horror + Superpowers + Reincarnation] Li Xiaoshi is the reincarnation of a judge from the underworld. He was born nearly transparent, with his internal organs clearly visible. Later, he meets a female ghost named Gu Pannan, and the two become husband and wife in a union of yin and yang. His life is beset by misfortune. He eventually learns that his ghost wife came from the Nether Realm, but their pact between human and ghost has bound their minds together, making separ 52Reads—Score—14d adds
- 57 A Book by the Speed-Loving Snail 爱飙车的蜗牛的一本书 My new work is out! You can read it on Tomato Novel. I hope you’ll enjoy it. Your support motivates me to write, and I’ll do my best to tell every story well! 873Reads7.9Score10314d adds
- 58 Crimson Pact 深紅契约 [No harem + One heroine + All-new setting + Not reborn + Not mindless + Not a pushover] This story unfolds in an enormous world, with a tense plot and tightly paced action that never lets up. I hope every chapter gives you something to enjoy and explore. The story follows Zhou Mufan, a former detective who is unexpectedly dragged into a terrifying ordeal beyond reality: the Chinese-style horror dungeon “Xi.” To survive, he forms a “Blood Moon Pact” with An Yu, the dungeon’s core, a vengeful ghos 536Reads5.8Score10114d adds
- 59 My Fated Little Fox Immortal 我的天命小狐仙 Born with all eight characters of my birth chart belonging to yin, every ninth year brings disaster. That is my fate. To save my life, my grandfather arranged a marriage for me when I was nine. But when I was nearly eighteen, he personally called it off. Because of that, I embarked on a path unlike that of any other feng shui master! I said, “Our marriage was fated. You’re written in my destiny, and we’ll be together for three lifetimes!” She said, “Cut it out. If you don’t wash the dishes today 310Reads7.2Score—14d adds
- 60 The Forbidden Grounds of the Ancient Temple 古庙禁地 The old master was digging a well when he unearthed the corpse of a beautiful woman. From then on, my family was thrown into chaos. A local “expert” told my family that the only way to save my life was for me to enter the temple business, so I became a temple-restoration craftsman. A mass grave in the black pine forests of the Northeast, an airplane crash site on an uninhabited island in the Bohai Sea, a valley of medicinal herbs in the uninhabited zone of Shennongjia, and a haunted village hidd 288Reads8.2Score—14d adds
- 61 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... 34Reads—Score—14d adds
- 62 I Just Became a Taoist Temple Priest, and Dai Xiaomei Came to Ask Me to Exorcise a Ghost 刚成道观观主，呆小妹就找我捉鬼 361Reads6.2Score—14d adds
- 63 The Strange Seal of the Celestial Officials 天官诡印 The world knows about the Gold-Touching Captains, but not the Faqiu Zhonglang Generals who command them. And I am the last Faqiu Zhonglang General in the world, known as the Faqiu Celestial Official. Heaven Official's Blessing, may all taboos be lifted! 437Reads8.4Score—14d adds
- 64 In This Life, I Shall Suppress Yin and Yang 这一世，镇压阴阳 [Urban high-martial arts, reincarnation and rebirth, one heroine, a touch of the supernatural, lighthearted and passionate.] In their previous lives, he was an orphan, and she was a ghost. An orphan and a ghost, from meeting and understanding each other to relying on and keeping one another company. Then, their feelings quietly blossomed, and they became lovers... after overcoming countless hardships. But what happy ending has there ever been for a human and a ghost in love? Every union between 12Reads—Score114d adds
- 65 World Fusion: The Harbinger of the End 界融：终焉预知者 AI test Welcome to read my work on Tomato Novel. I hope you enjoy it! Your support motivates me to write, and I'll do my best to tell every story well! 2Reads—Score—14d adds
- 66 I Have a Fox Immortal Wife 我有一个狐仙老婆 As the old saying goes, when a fox comes asking for your hand, it’s either deeply in love or out to harm you. When Gu Ning was five, a white fox with magical powers tricked him into a wedding ceremony, making him take the heavenly tribulation in her place. To stay alive, Gu Ning opens a café that only operates after midnight and caters exclusively to wandering spirits... 2Reads6.1Score—14d adds
- 67 The Ghost Clerk's Laughing Fit: I Make Ghosts Laugh in the Human World 逗笑鬼差：我在人间逗鬼笑 [Folk tales + legends + supernatural + mystery + comedy + horror + ghost hunting] Mistaken for a ghost and captured by the underworld, Mo Kuang is ordered by the King of Hell to go to the human world and entertain ghosts?! What the hell! Who’d take a ghost of a job like this? If ghosts won’t do it, I will! Most people hunt ghosts with talismans, magical treasures, and thunder-based Taoist arts, suppressing evil spirits by force. Mo Kuang alone refuses to follow the usual path. He eases their obs —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 68 Night of the Returning Soul: A Ghost Marriage and the Resurrection of My Coldhearted Ghost Husband 回魂夜，配阴婚，“复活”高冷鬼夫 On the Night of the Returned Soul, I Was Wed to a Ghost and “Revived” My Aloof Ghost Husband 13Reads—Score—14d adds
- 69 The Peerlessly Beautiful Ghost Wife 绝美冥妻 I’m from a mountain village. My parents never let me go to the back hills when I was little, but eventually I couldn’t resist and went there. That was when I found out that it was... 3kReads8.4Score29314d adds
- 70 Demon Wife, Ghost Concubine 妖妻鬼妾 [Third-Person Narration | Traditional Supernatural | Taoist Arts | Spirit Mediums] My name is Zuo Li. I was different from the moment I was born, carrying the fate of a ghost. To make sure I could grow up safely, my grandfather had me live off two women at once. As it turned out, I could only stay alive by living off women... 260Reads6.9Score—14d adds
- 71 Bride of the Vengeful Ghost: The Haunted Antique Shop 猛鬼新娘：通灵古董屋 I'm the owner of an ordinary antique shop. By a twist of fate, I came into possession of an ancient jade pendant. Ever since then, a beautiful woman has been slipping silently into my dreams every night... 263Reads8.7Score—14d adds
- 72 A Fox’s Dream, Traveling by Your Side 狐梦伴君行 Also known as: Down on My Luck, I’m Forced to Marry the Fox Family’s Eldest Daughter My name is Xu Rong. I was born in a remote mountain village. My mother left when I was little, and my father passed away when I was twelve. I thought I would spend my whole life alone, until the night I came of age at eighteen, when I had a dream that completely turned my life upside down. In the dream, a young woman caressed my face, calling me her husband. But I never expected her hand to be a furry animal paw 14Reads—Score—14d adds
- 73 Part-Time Ghost Tamer in Another World 我在异界做兼职御鬼师 [Transmigration + ancient setting + xianxia + supernatural + ghost taming + System + multiple heroines] My name is Chen An. I died. But then I came back to life. When I woke up, I discovered that I was no longer in my original world. Here, there are not only martial artists beyond ordinary human limits, but also people who can control ghosts. At first, all I wanted was to survive in this world. Then I met a ghost bride who called me her husband, and everything began heading in an unpredict 174Reads5.9Score—14d adds
- 74 Life with a Woman in Red Who's a Ghost 与红衣女鬼同居的日子 My name is Wang Chongyang, and I'm a struggling horror writer who gets by on attendance bonuses. One night, after falling behind on rent, I was kicked out by my landlord. I accidentally wandered into a haunted house and ran into a red-clad vengeful ghost. And that's how a whole series of events began. What the heck? I take Zhong Kui as my master, my wife is a red-clad vengeful ghost who dares to beat up even the Black and White Impermanence, and even the dog I picked up on a whim is the ancient 458Reads7.3Score—14d adds
- 75 The Yin-Yang Scissors 阴阳剪 A black dragon coils around me, skeletons block the door, fox spirits form ranks, and a white snake possesses me... All I have is a pair of scissors and a sheet of red paper. I cut down demons and sever the boundary between life and death... The Yin-Yang Scissors cut through the forces of yin and yang. I am the heir to the Yin-Yang Scissors. With them in my hands, one snip decides life or death. All the thrilling, eerie, and mysterious tales are found in The Yin-Yang Scissors... 120Reads8.0Score—14d adds
- 76 Fox Girl 狐娘 In the 1980s, our village was redeveloped, and my family's ancestral grave was dug up. The coffins they unearthed held no human remains, only foxes that bled… The author's previous three-million-character novel is complete. Give it a read while waiting for updates: The Difficult Love of a Ghostly Marriage Link: http://w.heiyan.com/book/62824 246Reads7.0Score—14d adds
- 77 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 59Reads6.6Score—14d adds
- 78 My Wife Is a Dragon Maiden 我的老婆是龙女 When my mother was giving birth to me, she had a difficult labor. In a dream, she found herself in the Dragon Palace, where a fairy handed her a cup of tea. She drank it without thinking, then miraculously survived. Little did she know, that was the tea a bride serves her mother-in-law at the wedding. And somehow, I ended up with a Dragon Princess for a wife... 578Reads8.9Score11214d adds
- 79 You Expect a High Schooler Like Me to Marry a Thousand-Year-Old Female Ghost? 你让我一个高中生娶千年女鬼？ The white cat my classmate casually picked up during evening study turned out to be a Huang Xian spirit that had cultivated its way to enlightenment. After I so much as glanced at it, it wanted to take my internal organs. To stay alive, I had no choice but to enter a ghost marriage and wed a ghost bride... 25Reads—Score—14d adds
- 80 Underworld 007 地府007 The mortal realm calls me Mo Changxin, the underworld calls me 007, and the divine realm calls me Mo Qilin. The Yellow Springs’ greatest God of War, summoned but never commanded. My fate is mine to decide, not Heaven’s. This book is all about absurd comedy, guaranteed to make you laugh out loud! Wishing all readers a happy 2026, with every worry swept away! 4Reads—Score—14d adds
- 81 A Funeral Procession From the Start, Then I Married a Ghost Bride 开局红白撞煞，娶个女鬼回家 [Spiritual Qi Revival + Superhuman Martial Arts + Not Pure Wish Fulfillment + No System + Lighthearted and Fun + Multiple Well-Developed Heroines + Plenty of Romance + Positive Values, Not Dark and Gritty + Nuanced, Thoughtful Writing] What on earth has happened to this world? I just saw a wild monkey holding a stick and claiming to be Sun Wukong, and a chicken pluck someone's head off and use it as a ball... The world changed drastically, and spiritual qi revived! Monsters, demons, and ghosts a 42Reads8.2Score—14d adds
- 82 The Paper Effigy Yama 纸扎阎罗 Before Grandpa died, he left me with a warning: a paper effigy maker must never make three kinds of figures. On my very first day taking over the shop, I broke every rule. I made a wedding dress for a girl who died violently, a filial son for a childless widow, and finally... a stand-in for a living person. Now all the paper figures I made come alive at night and gather around me, calling me “Master.” Outside the window, the girl who should have been dead for three years is knocking on the door. 4Reads—Score—14d adds
- 83 The Yin-Yang Twin 阴阳双生人 [Mild Horror + The Supernatural] Ming Ye grew up living in a cemetery. Her parents went missing seven years ago and were eventually found dead under bizarre circumstances in the mountains. Seven years later, she became an emergency room doctor. One midnight, she met the Taoist priest Xu Baoyang on a bus as he was out catching ghosts. Later, while tracking clues about his missing master, Xu Baoyang came to the hospital where Ming Ye worked and discovered that a strange hospital orderly had set up —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 84 The Enchantress Is Alluring, and the Ghost Girl Knows How to Flirt 妖女很妩媚，女鬼太会撩 It's not that a wife is too expensive to marry. It's that female ghosts and demons offer better value. No house, no car required. And they'll even help you make a comeback! It's not that my Daoist heart is unsteady. It's just that demonesses are bewitching, and female ghosts know exactly how to flirt. My name is Chen Zhou. I'm a highly educated shut-in. My main job is gone, and my side hustle is matchmaking. It all began when I helped my beautiful landlady rent out a building that was warm in wi 1.2kReads8.5Score11714d adds
- 85 Sleep Paralysis from the Start? I Confessed to the Female Ghost and Made Her My Wife! 开局鬼压床？表白女鬼当老婆！ What? Sleeping paralysis can’t be cured with medicine? Is there an easier way to treat it? Lin Cheng: There is, bro! There is! I’ll just kiss her and confess! Won’t the ghost girl explode? 22Reads6.9Score—14d adds
- 86 The Soul Shop: My 49 Deadbeat Clients 生魂店：我的49个死鬼客户 When I was nine, Grandpa used his life to arrange a marriage for me. My fiancée wasn't human. She was a vengeful spirit in red. The marriage was meant to keep me alive. Ever since I learned to walk, I would mysteriously disappear in the middle of the night. When my family found me, I would be in a ravine far from home or on a dead person's grave. The worst thing happened when I was seven… 2Reads—Score—14d adds
- 87 Walking Between Yin and Yang: Haunted 行走阴阳：撞邪 My mother was born under the rare fate of a nine-life yin woman, cursed with solitude. A fortune-teller said that women with this fate were destined to bring misfortune to their husbands, children, and parents. I survived only because my mother gave her life for mine. The night I was born, crows called out to summon souls, wild cats wailed like mourners, and a hundred ghosts fought over me... 260Reads8.7Score—14d adds
- 88 My Zombie Bride Is Fierce, and She Protects Me Day and Night! 我的女尸老婆猛猛哒，贴身护我！ [Zhengyi Taoist + Corpse Wife + Folk Tales of the Supernatural + Bizarre Encounters + Divine Firmament Thunder Arts] [Urgent as a Command! Five-Thunder Righteous Technique, Palm Thunder] [Supernatural Mystery] My whole family consists of Taoists. Ever since I was born, my abundant yang energy could burn ghosts alive. But I’m a leaky vessel, and if I can’t produce yang energy fast enough to keep up with the loss, I’ll die. So my family found a lid to plug the leak: a female corpse. Unexpectedly, 588Reads8.2Score—14d adds
- 89 Ghost Wife: Bro, Please Take Your Sister-in-Law Back 鬼妻：哥，求你把嫂子收回去吧 [Married from the start + ghost wife + one heroine + not a wish-fulfillment novel (plot-focused) + fast-paced growth (nearly invincible) + exorcising ghosts and banishing evil] Born under yin, he is also a child born of a corpse. He has the body of the living, but the fate of the dead. He is doomed to be cursed! Liu Cheng was dug from his dead mother's womb by an old gravedigger, and grew up in a cemetery. The old man said that those born under yin are extremely yin from birth, making them a cho 233Reads7.6Score10014d adds
- 90 A Ghost Knocks at the Door 鬼敲门 A child born of a ghost, a fox worshipping the moon, a hundred ghosts roaming at night, ghost soldiers taking the road. I was born under the sign of ten calamities, and the Ghost Knocking Calamity came right to my door! To stay alive, I made a pact with a ghost when I was ten, setting out on a road of no return... 6.4kReads6.4Score24614d adds
- 91 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. 639Reads8.1Score10514d adds
- 92 My Fox-Wife Protects Me on the Yin-Yang Road 狐妻护我阴阳路 My father once saved a nine-tailed fox immortal who was undergoing tribulation. She would later become my wife. The night I was born, the heavens showed strange signs, and seven-colored auspicious clouds appeared over my home! From childhood, I was raised to be a “child bridegroom”! Because of my unusual fate, by the age of ten I had caused everyone around me in the prince's residence to die. That's because I'm the “Black Qilin,” a once-in-a-thousand-years omen! The embodiment of evil, I could f 310Reads6.0Score—14d adds
- 93 The Underworld Retirement Home 冥府养老院 [Mystery + Supernatural Horror + Urban + Deduction + No Do-Gooder Protagonist + Decisive and Ruthless] On the first day of school, I ran into a female ghost! Facing the red-clad upperclassman before me, I raised a chair and brought it crashing down on her! "You think it's funny to dress up like a ghost and scare me, you bastard?" —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 94 The Yin-Yang Upheaval: All Cultivate the Dao, and I Become the Primordial Dao Ancestor 阴阳逆乱全民修道，我为混元道祖 My name is Xu Tianshuo. I’m a Daoist. I thought I would live an ordinary life to the end, but when I set foot on the path of the martial world, I realized that everything seemed predestined. It was as if every step I took had already been anticipated by someone else. Should I go with the flow, or risk everything to break out of this trap? A nontraditional supernatural novel. One heroine, no brainless decisions, no wish fulfillment, no harem, and no saintly do-gooders. 22Reads—Score—14d adds
- 95 The Suona's Song Beneath the Coffin Lid 棺材板下的唢呐声 Suona Music Beneath the Coffin Lid —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 96 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—14d adds
- 97 My Cute and Fierce Undead Bride Protects Me as She Slaughters Her Way Through! 我的女尸老婆萌凶甜，护我杀疯！ [A Taoist priest becomes a demon king, protected by his corpse bride][Ghost hunting, traditional supernatural fiction] [By the command of the heavens, I’ll take your life!][Strange tales from the folk tradition] I slept in a pigsty and drank sow’s milk. Later, I shared a bed with a female corpse. After our wedding ceremony, she awoke. I rely on her to keep me alive, while she relies on me to grow stronger. Our fates are intertwined. My fate is unusual. An old man’s guidance helped me survive, an 1.7kReads7.6Score12714d adds
- 98 The Ghost Wife, Yu Niang 鬼妻玉娘 This novel takes inspiration from the case of Yang Ji, eldest son of the Ming dynasty's high-ranking official Yang Shiqi. Yang Ji tyrannized the local people for years before finally being exposed. The story follows Jiang Han, whose chance encounter with the female ghost Zhong Yuniang sets the two of them off from Jiangxi on a journey north to Beijing to petition the emperor directly. The story is set against real events, but I made up the causes and course of what happened. I think I did a pret 42Reads—Score—14d adds
- 99 Mo Chi Y 墨池Y The inspiration for this novel came from a real supernatural incident involving a residential compound security guard. As cities expand, they inevitably encroach on the homes of the dead. The Dingyuan Estate, where Yao Yan worked as a security guard, had been built on a mass grave abandoned for a thousand years. One late-spring night, deep in the darkness, all was silent beneath a fine drizzle. Suddenly, a girl’s spine-chilling cry for help came from outside the guard booth: “It hurts so much. C 9Reads—Score—14d adds
- 100 A Hundred-Year-Old Villager’s Tales of Ghosts and the Supernatural 农村百岁老人口述鬼怪奇谈 I grew up in the countryside, and whenever I had free time, I liked listening to centenarians in the village tell strange tales of ghosts and other uncanny events from days gone by. I have collected, recorded, and adapted these folk stories. There is no overarching plot. Each chapter is a standalone horror story. Not for the faint of heart!!! 32Reads—Score—14d adds
