Novels like Songs of the Underworld
Books Chinese readers most often put in the same booklists as Songs of the Underworld, best match first.
- 1 Heavenly Wife 天妻 I was born burdened by heavy sins. My parents died because of me as soon as I was born. To repay my karmic debt, I was forced to marry that snake and take over Granny Wang’s shrine. But from then on, the demon god Hou Qing hunted me down, while the Lord of War, Chi You, wanted to sacrifice me. Then I discovered a shocking conspiracy... —Reads6.4Score—Shelves
- 2 The Gates of Death 死亡之扉 An original light novel, dedicated to everyone who felt lost during their teenage years. Every city has its own legends. And in Chenghua City, there is a legend about the Door of Death. They say anyone who opens this door will disappear, not simply die. Every trace of their existence will vanish, and everyone who knew them will lose all their memories of them... But this door only opens for those who want to end their lives. Once it opens... that person will truly disappear. Our protagonist, Lan 3Reads—Score—Shelves
- 3 After Her Fiancé Had Her Committed to a Psychiatric Hospital, She Went on a Rampage 被未婚夫送进精神病院后，她杀疯 After Her Fiancé Sends Her to a Psychiatric Hospital, She Goes on a Killing Spree —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 4 Temp Worker at the Civil Affairs Bureau: I Turn Around and Deregister a Ghost God 民政局临时工，反手注销诡神 Chen Zhibai is a temporary employee at the Civil Affairs Bureau, in charge of records for the dead. One day, he saw his own name on a list of people to be deregistered. Applicant: The Ghost God. Reason for deregistration: Occupying a living person's household registration. Result: Return the name within three days. From that day on, vengeful ghosts claiming kinship, evil gods showing up at his door, and ghost gods seeking registration all landed on Chen Zhibai's desk. Other people kill ghost 2Reads—Score198Shelves
- 5 Cultivating Immortality by Contract: I Got Burned by an Interstellar Civilization 协议修仙：我被星际文明坑麻了 Lu Chen transmigrates to a cultivation world and establishes his Foundation in just three years, only to be informed by the System: You have signed the Star Abyss Agreement and become a "consciousness battery." The day the countdown ends is the day you will be harvested. Every cultivation technique is a data interface; Every wisp of spiritual energy is supplied by the agreement; Every ascension turns you into an eternal prisoner. As a cryptographer, he decides to give the System a little taste o 4Reads—Score—Shelves
- 6 I Have a Date with a Ghost 我和鬼魂有个约会 [Supernatural CEO]+ [Ghost hunting]+ [No romance] My name is Yi Huan. My grandfather was a temple fortune-teller who read fortunes and studied feng shui for people. By a twist of fate, I inherited his mantle. From then on, I made my way through both the realms of yin and yang, profiting from the dead until I became the next Third Master Yi... —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 7 I’m at the Golden Core Realm, Yet I’m Avoiding Someone in the Foundation Establishment Realm? 筑基境，我金丹境避他锋芒？ Two thousand years of trials and tribulations, through the long river of reincarnation. He was once the holy son of the Zixiao Sect, but became nothing more than a stepping stone on Ye Chen's path to the top, the chosen son of Heaven. A lifetime of humiliation, a lifetime ending in a gruesome death, forced to watch as his foe seized destiny's favor and ascended to immortality. Reborn at last, with the wheel of fate already decayed, he still possesses two thousand years' worth of foresight, and k 10Reads—Score—Shelves
- 8 Midnight Tales of Terror 午夜惊悚怪谈 Is the world really as you see it? When night falls, the uncanny follows close behind. It’s dark... Come with me into a bizarre and fantastical world, and experience the most spine-chilling sights hidden deep within your heart. This book is haunted. Ordinary mortals, stay away! 24Reads—Score—Shelves
- 9 Trading Lifespan: How Can You Cultivate Immortality Without a Life to Spare? 寿命兑换，没命修什么仙？ [Apocalyptic cultivation] [Cosmic horror science fiction] [A struggle between cosmic civilizations] [Cultivation at a price] “I transmigrated into a cultivation apocalypse, but my golden finger makes me trade away my lifespan. I thought I was a survivor. Later, I learned I was the detonator's fuse in a civilization's ‘bait plan.’ Only after swallowing a fragment of a god and taking my seat in the cosmic court do I lodge a complaint against the void: I demand that the laws of Heaven be rewritten. 2Reads—Score—Shelves
- 10 The Strange Dream Compendium 诡梦收纳册 (Mystery + Sci-fi + Time Loops + Anthology) The world is strange and uncanny, and anything is possible. The Blind Era: When the apocalypse becomes a disguise for salvation, this visual revolution tearing through seven layers of reality will redefine your understanding of “what’s real.” 237 Heartbeats: While investigating the truth behind his father’s death, Lin Yan, an agent in a top-secret department, discovers that his memories are riddled with lies. The Rift Collector: When cracks begin to sp —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 11 The White Jade Mystery 白玉谜团 Jiang Bai, a boss who works from home, is suddenly visited by the police. What will happen next? Cautions: First-person narration, mystery, novella, modern setting, but the police are less capable than in real life. 5Reads—Score—Shelves
- 12 I Inherited a Murder Mystery Game Shop from the Start, and All the Staff Are Vengeful Ghosts 开局继承剧本杀店，员工全是厉鬼 While others inherit family fortunes, Jiang Ye inherited a haunted shop. Freshman Jiang Ye was forced to take over the script murder game shop his second uncle left behind, a business on the verge of bankruptcy. To his surprise, he became bound to the [Register of a Hundred Ghost Employees]. From then on, while others caught ghosts to exorcise evil, he caught them to put them to work. A hanging ghost at the front desk, a water ghost running the air conditioner, and a red-clad vengeful ghost acti —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 13 Shocking! After She Was Reborn, Global Big Shots Helped Hide Her Secret Identity 震惊！重生后全球大佬为她捂马甲 [Secret identities + face-slapping + reborn + ugly girl + sweet romance] Bai Ji was the top hypnotist of the century. After being reborn, she becomes someone everyone despises. Ugly? Good-for-nothing? Jinx? So what? Sister Wen just likes pretending to be innocent. At her professional assessment, her perfect scores in both subjects leave everyone stunned. At graduation, she dazzles the entire crowd in a gown, and she even makes an appearance at an exclusive gala. Her fans confess their love in a 3Reads—Score—Shelves
- 14 Tales of the Demon Trafficker 贩妖记 If I told you all of this was true, would you believe me? A bizarre walking marriage among the Mosuo people set me on an extraordinary path that would shape half my life. A thousand-year-old cosmic box. A river where the dead never die. Inspired by numerous supernatural events that really happened and drawing on little-known local customs and traditions, this story reveals a hidden world of spirits and strange creatures! 111Reads8.0Score—Shelves
- 15 Nirvana Golden Body Art 涅槃金身决 As if fate had already decreed it, as if an unseen force were drawing him onward. Su Ye cultivates martial arts through the Nirvana Golden Body Art and masters divine abilities, vowing to shatter everything ordained by fate and become the one who moves the pieces in this world. 5Reads—Score—Shelves
- 16 My Girlfriend Is a Corpse 我的女友是腐尸 On the day before graduation, my girlfriend turned into a rotting corpse overnight, all because I was responsible for what happened... 131Reads—Score112Shelves
- 17 I Search for Collapse in the Eerie World 我在诡异世界找崩坏 I transmigrated into a world where urban legends can kill and conceptual rules are power. People here fear the paranormal, wield supernatural entities, and struggle to survive under a fixed set of rules. And me? I'm just a passerby looking for a bit of fun. When the “Infinite Corridor” traps and kills everyone who enters, I softly ask the wall, “Do you know what a Klein bottle is?” When the rule of the “Echo of Death” is “understanding means death,” I raise a mirror toward the void. They say I d —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 18 A Modern Narrative of Supernatural Horror 灵恐现叙事 Original horror and paranormal fiction. Horror stories are only meant to help everyone unwind, not to make you more afraid. We welcome discerning readers to come and help answer everyone’s questions... 5Reads—Score—Shelves
- 19 The Sunken Web: The Last Gatekeeper 沉网滩：最后的守门人 I always thought my folklore professor had sent me to “Shenwang Shoal” just to collect fishing songs on the verge of being lost. That was until I discovered, hidden in a secret compartment in the village ancestral hall, the Observation Notes on Shenwang Shoal, a record spanning centuries and compiled by generations of scholars from our own school. There were no fishing songs in the notes, only one horrifying, bloody truth after another: “In the eighth year of the Qianlong reign, we observed that —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 20 I Joined a Yangtze River Sand-Dredging Crew and Pulled Up a Ghost Bride with My Own Hands 我在长江捞沙队，亲手捞上鬼新娘 “Folklore,” “ghosts and monsters,” “the supernatural,” “mythology” The sand-dredging crew pulled up a ghost bride who had been offered to the River God. From then on, the bride began haunting them, and strange things kept happening. The River God was furious, too, and demanded that we give him an explanation! With no other choice, I went with the crew to the River God’s lair. There, we came across countless monsters from legend: yuan dragons, flood dragons, corpse-liberation rings... We also unc —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 21 Who Is the Person Beside Me? 枕边人是谁 My name is Tan Zihan. I’ve been married to my husband, Ye Tianci, for eight years, and married life has been one mess after another. We still live under the same roof, but now we’re just friends. With the economy in a slump, Ye Tianci is looking for work. Then one day, I suddenly realized that he was different at night than he was during the day. Did he have multiple personalities, or was there someone else in the house? I was terrified. Later, Ye Tianci vanished without a trace, yet I kept seei 2Reads—Score—Shelves
- 22 The Lifespan Game: A Cheat-Fueled Life of Extra Points 寿数游戏，可加点的开挂人生 A Lifespan Game: A Cheat-Fueled Life Where You Can Allocate Points —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 23 Tomb Raiding: Strange Tales 盗墓诡异实录 In the early 21st century, tomb robbers roam all across China. Their tracks can be found everywhere, from snowy plateaus and forests to lakes and seas, even in forbidden zones where no one is allowed to go. My father was one of them, but after an expedition to a tomb, he never came back. To find out what happened to him, I was forced onto this road of no return, traveling from south to north and east to west. I've seen the dangers of the underworld and every facet of human life, survived countle 160Reads6.8Score—Shelves
- 24 Subduing Evil 镇邪 There are always mysterious things in this world, yet people dismiss them as nonsense. Miaojiang gu poison, corpse-driving in western Hunan, Nanyang curses, the Flowerfall Cave Maiden, shamanic sorcery, and yin-yang demons are all forbidden taboos. You don't have to believe in them, but you must remain in awe. Above all, never profane them! When the taboo soul bell rings out in the sky and ancient horrors quietly awaken, the world teeters on the brink of disaster. Will there still be someone who 637Reads6.2Score—Shelves
- 25 The Paranormal Investigator 探诡达人 My name is Qi Yue. I was born in the seventh lunar month, so that’s how I got my name. I’m a restaurant reviewer, and I’ve been doing this for five years. I made a little money in the first few years, but after the pandemic, the jobs became fewer and fewer. I wanted to switch to another line of work, but I didn’t know how to do anything else, so I had no choice but to keep struggling. With my pockets nearly empty, I desperately searched online for similar jobs. At last, I found a well-paid posit 8Reads—Score—Shelves
- 26 Forbidden Livestream 禁忌直播间 When you open this book, The Forbidden Livestream, you may not believe that its story is based on real events! An allegedly unsolvable horror forum, a hapless programmer crushed by the 996 work schedule, and a third-rate female student detective who considers herself first-rate. What dazzling sparks will fly when all of them come together? Thriller or mystery? Human or supernatural? Be careful! Because from this point on, every step you take will keep you on the edge of your seat! 33Reads—Score—Shelves
- 27 The Down-and-Out Pet Husband I Picked Up Is Actually a Big Shot 捡的落魄小宠夫竟是真大佬 The day my scumbag ex publicly called off our engagement, I casually picked up a homeless boy and asked, “Want to marry me?” He nodded obediently, his eyes shining like a fallen star. Later, when my ex discovered I was the second princess of Tianqi Group, he knelt outside my villa and begged me to take him back. Wearing the silk pajamas I bought him, the boy leaned against the door and smiled. “If you want to be my little kept husband, you’ll have to get in line, Sis.” At an auction, he casually 1Reads—Score—Shelves
- 28 The Bizarre Trail of the Living Dead 活死人诡迹 A blood-written letter is his only clue, and his origins are a mystery; Seven birthmarks on his back look like people, yet resemble ghosts; A loyal, mysterious yellow dog is always at his side! Blood lingzhi, black ginseng, and a white poplar tree that bleeds; Unrotting bones, a pit of ten thousand corpses, and a ten-thousand-year-old corpse that weeps; Living dead, an immortal body, and people who look exactly alike! It all begins with a blood-written letter containing just a few brief words... 1Reads—Score—Shelves
- 29 The Fifth Judge 第五判官 Fang Zihao owns a small restaurant. After the “kimono incident,” he was subjected to online abuse by forces abroad and tried to take his own life, but survived. An accident revealed that he was a “man of two realms,” able to travel between the worlds of the living and the dead, and even command spirits. He eventually found the enemy who had framed him. Through a series of battles, standing up for the helpless and fighting for justice, he became the “Judge” criminals feared most. —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 30 Codename: Number Seven 代号：第七号 At two in the morning, a young man with a high fever and convulsions was brought to the emergency room at the Third Municipal Hospital. His body was covered in purplish-red, netlike rashes; his pupils had shrunk to thin slits, and his neck was stiff as a board. Lin Shen, an attending neurologist, identified the illness within two hours: anti-NMDA receptor encephalitis. He began treatment. The patient woke up, but the rash vanished completely overnight. Then his fever rebounded, followed by mania —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 31 A Collection of Detective Fiction by Aoyagi Awu: The Risen Tenma Series (4-Book Set) 青崎有吾推理作品集：里染天马系列（全四册） The Mystery of the Gymnasium During a torrential downpour, a murder takes place inside the old gymnasium at Kazenooka High School. The scene is sealed tight, and the table tennis team captain who was there at the time is treated as a suspect. Yuno, a member of the table tennis team, asks the gifted boy Ri Zoran Tenma for help in clearing the captain’s name. But Ri Zoran, hailed as a genius, turns out to be a useless shut-in who lives at school?! How will the campus case and the fates of the seve 2Reads8.8Score—Shelves
- 32 Midnight in the Countryside 午夜乡村 My parents' job transfers sent me to live and study at my grandmother's house. Before bed, she warned me not to go and look, no matter what sounds I heard. From then on, one strange event after another came crashing into my life. Then, one day, my grandmother suddenly told me the secret about who I really was... 550Reads6.8Score—Shelves
- 33 Decoding the Spirits 解灵 Do you believe that souls really exist in this world? Have any of you ever encountered one? If you truly came face to face with a soul one day, would you be afraid? There are many strange and unusual things in this world. If you ever encounter a soul, please believe me: don’t be afraid. All things have a spirit; even grass and trees have feelings. 2Reads—Score—Shelves
- 34 Infinite Horror Game: Who Am I? 无限诡异游戏：我是谁 [Survival games in all kinds of eerie worlds, focused purely on exploration and story. So satisfying! Wait, by the end, you discover they’re all part of the same world?] From the start, I got a little sister, punched my sleazy uncle, and set foot in the pitch-black fog. By the end of day one, I was already at the police station. On day two at the station, ghosts were haunting a nursing home? Turns out the entire nursing home had become a ghost. On day three, a middle school girl mysteriously jum 1Reads—Score—Shelves
- 35 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—Shelves
- 36 Do I Look Human or Like a Ghost? 你看我是人还是鬼？ After graduating from high school, I was guarding watermelons in a melon field. One night, a thief came to steal them. I rushed over and fought him, driving him off, but then I came down with a high fever that wouldn't break. The next day, my family went to check the field. All they found were my own chaotic footprints and the watermelons trampled into mush... —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 37 Double Shadows 双重阴影 Twin Shadows 2Reads—Score—Shelves
- 38 The Ultimate Ghost-Raising Master 极品养鬼师 [Adult] + [Adorable Pets] + [Sharp Tongue] + [Making Money] + [Secret Arts] Do you know how to raise ghosts? No worries, I do! Do you know how to catch ghosts? No worries, I do that too! Do you know where to find ghosts? No worries, I’ll take you there! Watch your step. Get in! —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 39 Mountain God Festival 山神祭 The Greater Khingan Range. Temperatures below minus twenty, with snow up to a hunter's knees. A weasel spirit crouched in a tree, watching as a hunter in a fox-fur hat crept across the snow with his rifle at the ready. If the hunter died, his flesh would go to the beasts and spirits hiding in the woods, while his soul would belong to the mountain god who commanded the clouds, winds, and rain. From the moment he took his first step into the forest and snow, the hunter's life was no longer his ow 47Reads8.4Score—Shelves
- 40 Strange Tales of Tomb Raiding in the Southern School 南派盗墓异事 [Real Tomb Raiding + No AI] My name is Zhou Quan, and I'm from Guangxi. Here I recount the supernatural and bizarre events that really happened during my tomb-raiding adventures. I've read a few web novels in my spare time, and it seems AI-written web novels are everywhere these days. I want to tell this story from the perspective of someone who was actually there, as a record of things past. 4Reads—Score—Shelves
- 41 Subduing Evil 镇邪 [China's first mystery novel to reveal the customs of the ancient Dongnu Kingdom] A mysterious old town, an ancient profession, and a rash of strange events. Friend or foe, it's impossible to tell! A peculiar custom from the ancient Dongnu Kingdom, and the source of sins passed down for thousands of years. Terror at the fifth watch, bizarre murder cases: are they vengeful ghosts, a curse, or the evil in people's hearts? A bloodstained clay pot, bells and drums offered in worship, kindhearted peo 162Reads5.2Score—Shelves
- 42 You Found Me 你找到我了 Modern Supernatural + Female-Led + Fresh Premise + All-Rounder + Wild Imagination + Reincarnation + Spirit Speech + Runes and Formations + Fictional Modern Setting + Pure Wish Fulfillment in the Middle and Later Parts Abandoned and cast out? No. Her god reincarnates for her, life after life. Following the usual formula and old clichés? No. The Heavenly Dao is nothing to her. An ordinary girl dealing with a life that’s a complete mess? No. Other people are the ordinary ones. She is the unique one 6Reads—Score—Shelves
- 43 Strange Tales from the Folk 民间吊诡故事 [An ensemble cast] [Multiple protagonists and storylines] [A wild imagination] [Mystery] [Conspiracies] [Open schemes] [Political machinations] Pangu split the earth with his axe. Fuxi and Nuwa established marriage customs. Chiyou and the Yellow Emperor fought for the throne of the gods, only for the battle to end in defeat at Mount Buzhou. After a century of war between gods and demons, the Yellow Emperor abdicated, taking the blame. Humanity gained gods, then lost them, and so a new tale of cr 20Reads—Score—Shelves
- 44 Why Be a General When Being My Caged Bird Is So Much More Fun? 做将军？哪有当本座的笼中雀快活 [Top] [Not Reborn (I can’t change the tags)] [Slow Burn, leans toward male-oriented fiction, with plenty of combat and power-level details; readers who only like romance, beware] [Angst for the gong] [Villain Gong] [Unhinged, flirtatious, devoted, handsome, powerful, and tragically doomed, with top-tier looks and strength × A stunningly beautiful, aloof yet tender, proud general, with bottom-tier looks and strength] [Two Powerful Leads + Both Pure + Demon God] The demon clan’s strongest and mos 5Reads6.6Score—Shelves
- 45 Life at a Crossroads 岔路人生 If you could truly live your life over again, would you regret the choices you made? Shen Que never imagined there could be a real answer to that question. That day, the subway stopped at 5:42 p.m. Two people with the same name and the same face, each having lived through twenty-seven years that were almost, but not quite, the same, appeared before him at once. Only then did he learn the truth: Every truly important choice could allow another version of your life to keep going. They weren' —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 46 Dream Brook's Record of Strange Investigations 梦溪探异录 During the Northern Song dynasty, a boy named Shen Kuo sets out in pursuit of the truth after a strange calamity known as the Black Apparition. This learned man, hailed by later generations as “a landmark in the history of Chinese science,” led a life filled with mysteries far stranger than those recorded in Dream Pool Essays. From his years as a young scholar in Qiantang, Hangzhou, to the treacherous political currents of the court in Bianjing; from the smoke and flames of war on the northwes —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 47 After Failing 23 Interviews in a Row, I Gained the Heavenly Eye 面试23连跪后，我开了天眼 After 23 Consecutive Job Interview Rejections, I Gained the All-Seeing Eye 3Reads—Score—Shelves
- 48 Allen's Story: Hyperthymesia 艾伦的故事—超忆症 Alan’s Story: Hyperthymesia 1Reads—Score—Shelves
- 49 The Police Are Looking for Someone Whose Portrait Is Identical to Mine 警方要找的人，画像和我一模一样 Seven people went down the mine. Six came back up. I was the seventh. I spent fourteen years living under someone else’s work ID. People without contracts don’t get work IDs. There was one buried in the dirt. I picked it up and called out the name on it. From that day on, I was Zhou Liben. I went to work, paid social insurance, and sent money every month to a tofu stall in the west of the city. For fourteen years, the first thing I did each morning was turn my work ID around when I hung it up. T 3Reads—Score—Shelves
- 50 Late-Night Convenience Store: What Are You Doing, Customer? 深夜便利店：客官你干嘛 Lin Mo thought the worst thing about working the night shift as a cashier at Nan Cheng Huimin Convenience Store was having a teammate go 0–8 in ranked, until he met the old woman in floral pajamas. She clutched a chipped enamel mug and bought only two bags of frozen dumplings and a packet of QQ candy. Her coins were caked with dirt, and she insisted he “cook the dumplings.” Then a hoarse voice called in an identical order, laughing so hard Lin Mo could feel his upper gums go cold. The creepiest 8Reads—Score—Shelves
