Novels like The Yellow River Corpse Collector
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- 1 The River Bones That Bind Souls: The Corpse Retriever 河骨锁魂：捞尸人 When the corpse-retrieval hook catches destiny instead of a body, and the river-sealing seal restrains human nature instead of restless spirits, every floating corpse in the murky Yangtze becomes a key to opening the Bone Pagoda. And every corpse retriever is destined to become its eternal gravekeeper. 3Reads—Score—Shelves
- 2 I'm the Director of a Psychiatric Hospital 我在精神病院当院长 “This world is sick, and I’m the only cure.” The mists descend, and the Old Ones awaken. As indescribable ancient gods peer down from the clouds and mad whispers echo through the streets, all of humanity trembles in terror, praying for the gods’ forgiveness. Everyone except Su Yue. As the director of a private psychiatric hospital on the verge of bankruptcy, he looked at the “lunatics” filling the place and fell into deep thought. That homeless man who kept muttering that “the world is going to 5Reads—Score—Shelves
- 3 The Corpse Stitcher 缝尸匠 The coffin keeper, soul guide, ghost painter, and corpse stitcher are said to be ancient professions passed down through the ages. My family has been corpse stitchers for generations, specializing in sewing up the dead. Ever since my girlfriend died, a series of bizarre things has happened to me... 17Reads—Score—Shelves
- 4 Yun Che: Corpse Retriever 云澈：捞尸人 Yun Che: The Corpse Retriever —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 5 The Heaven-Chosen Corpse Retriever 天命捞尸人 A fate bestowed by Heaven: blessed above with three yin qualities, yet cursed below to seek out the Five Flaws. In the world of occult arts and feng shui, there is a peculiar profession: corpse retriever. Corpse retrievers live in places with abundant water. Whenever floods recede, they pull bodies from the water. Water is intensely yin, and those who spend their lives at this work are scarcely different from the dead. My grandfather was a corpse retriever... But his identity seemed far more com 18Reads—Score—Shelves
- 6 The Last Corpse Retriever 最后一个捞尸人 My name is Wang Baichuan. My father was gravely ill, so I started retrieving corpses with my maternal cousin... 3Reads—Score—Shelves
- 7 The Great Zhou Railway Corpse Stitcher 大周轨道缝尸人 In the Great Zhou Dynasty, the Heavenly Dao collapsed, spiritual energy was corrupted, and many cultivators became monsters. Gu Shen transmigrated into this world and became a lowly corpse stitcher at the West Street Funeral Parlor. Here, corpses must not be left overnight, and the dead must not open their eyes. He had a scalpel that could cut through illusions and reveal the “threads” behind all things. “Master Wang's body's falling apart? Don't worry, I'll go stitch him back together.” “The De —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 8 Rejected When I Proposed, I Can No Longer Hide That I’m a Corpse Retriever 提亲被拒，捞尸人身份藏不住了 My family has made its living retrieving corpses for generations. I was born with a rare boy's fate said to come once in a hundred years, and I wouldn't live past six. To save me, my grandfather arranged an engagement to extend my life. Sixteen years later, I went to ask for my bride's hand, but they refused. They thought the matter would be over once my grandfather died, but they had no idea that retribution was just around the corner... 6Reads—Score—Shelves
- 9 The Corpse Retriever: I Started Out by Recovering My Blind Date's Body 捞尸人，从打捞相亲对象出师 A woman in red floated in the middle of the river. She turned out to be my blind date… I'm a corpse retriever. I never imagined that my first lesson on the job would be retrieving the body of my blind date, or that it would lead me straight into a carefully woven trap. An invisible hand was driving me forward. I couldn't stop… 24Reads—Score—Shelves
- 10 The Yellow River Corpse Retriever 黄河捞尸人 Twenty years ago, I was adopted into a family of Yellow River corpse retrievers. My adoptive parents passed away one after the other, leaving me as the family’s sole heir. With no way out, I was forced to learn how to retrieve corpses. Whether it was a decades-old corpse, a skeleton from the Republican era, or an ancient body, I had to carry it out from one of the twelve haunted caverns. I had no other choice. This was the only way I could cling to life! 1.3kReads—Score—Shelves
- 11 I Retrieve Corpses from the River 我是捞尸人 Tomb raiding has its northern and southern schools; corpse retrieval has its old and new traditions... A corpse retriever is just a job, but it's one you risk your life to do for money. As long as the price is right, there's nothing a corpse retriever won't retrieve. Nothing is off-limits. My name is Zhang Yang, and I'm an old-school corpse retriever... Let me tell you what a real corpse retriever is... 133Reads—Score—Shelves
- 12 The Corpse Retriever 捞尸匠 I was born under an ominous sign. After my grandfather died, I took up the trade of retrieving corpses from the water. There were walking corpses, blood corpses, mother-and-child corpses... and a mysterious civilization buried beneath the Yellow River for thousands of years. 99Reads—Score—Shelves
- 13 Sewing Up Corpses: Step Away from That Body and Let Me Handle It 缝尸：放开那具尸体，让我来 A great fire claimed both my parents. My grandfather traded his life for mine, entrusting me to Old Chen. Over the next ten years, I grew up and learned the craft of stitching skin and piecing bones together. A blood baby's spirit, a copper-bell cat, a human-skin drum, a live sacrifice... An accident drew me into a vast conspiracy. Skin is hard enough to stitch, but a soul is harder. Bones can be pieced together, but not a heart. In the end, all the gods, ghosts, resentful spirits, and the like 21Reads—Score—Shelves
- 14 I Am a Corpse Burner, Keeper of the Book of Life and Death 我是焚尸人，手奉生死录 Fang Cun wakes reborn and becomes a corpse burner in the Imperial City's Funeral Bureau. Every day, he earns rewards for burning corpses: the Eight-Nine Arcane Art, the Celestial Stems and Earthly Branches, the Four Swords of Zhu Xian, the Sea-Calming Divine Needle... He summons temple ghosts, painted-skin demons, drought demons, Jiangshi generals, the Black Mountain Old Demon, the Ten Kings of Hell, and all manner of demons, monsters, ghosts, and jiangshi in the world... In times of chaos, the —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 15 Eerie Corpse Retrieval: Beating Up a Thousand-Year-Old Water Ghost from the Start 诡异捞尸：开局暴打千年水鬼 As everyone knows, corpse retrieval has three rules: 1. Don’t retrieve bodies during thunderstorms. 2. Don’t retrieve bodies floating upright. 3. If you can’t retrieve a body after three tries, give up! No matter how much the client offers, corpse retrievers refuse to enter the water if any of these three situations arise! Before retrieving a body, they also perform all kinds of warding-off rituals and offerings. If anything seems amiss, they won’t enter the water either! These are precious less 15Reads—Score—Shelves
- 16 The Deadly Corpse Stitcher 绝命缝尸人 The body, hair, and skin are gifts from one's parents. If any part is missing, one cannot enter the cycle of reincarnation. Let me tell you the story of the trade of stitching corpses... 1Reads—Score—Shelves
- 17 I Was Passing Through on a Corpse-Driving Errand When I Stirred Up Bureau 749! 我赶尸路过，惊动749局！ Lin Bing is a young and promising corpse walker. His job is to bring people who died far from home back to their hometowns, so they can return to their roots. A new episode of Mushroom House has just begun airing. As Lin Bing happens to pass by while escorting a corpse, he discovers strange changes in the skies above Wengcao Village. A deadly calamity will strike soon! Lin Bing: Something bad is about to happen in the village. I've set up a formation here, so don't let anyone near the back mount 117Reads—Score—Shelves
- 18 The Corpse Investigator 探尸人 In the 1980s, a feng shui master was attacked by a zombie in a land of five evils. He lost a leg and an arm, but miraculously survived. Twenty years later, a mysterious woman surnamed Qin sought out the grandson of that master, Sun. She gathered a group of people and went exploring everywhere, capturing zombies to use as ingredients for medicine. Every member of the group was stranger than the last. What secrets were they hiding...? 420Reads—Score—Shelves
- 19 The Corpse Retriever: Hearing Tales of the Supernatural on the Yangtze River 捞尸人：我在长江听诡谈 On the Yangtze, a river that has swallowed countless secrets, Chen Sanshui makes his living retrieving corpses, earning just enough to keep himself alive. One stormy night, he pulls up a strange female corpse dressed in a blood-red wedding gown. Her face looks lifelike, and her hands clutch a battered radio. From that moment on, he is dragged into the deadly maelstrom of Strange Tales. At midnight, the radio turns on by itself despite having no power. A cold AI voice issues its first death-defy 3Reads—Score—Shelves
- 20 After Graduation, I Became a Corpse Retriever, and Zhou Jie Exposed Me 毕业后当捞尸人，被周姐曝光了 With graduation just around the corner, Lin Yu's girlfriend breaks up with him over the harsh realities of life. Just then, Lin Yu activates the Corpse Retriever System and prepares to start recovering bodies. Some expert: No boat can sail on the River of the Dead. Some authority: No one can identify the corpses in the River of the Dead. Some veteran corpse retriever: Anyone who retrieves corpses from the River of the Dead dies within a year. Yet Lin Yu rows his little boat along the River o 37Reads—Score—Shelves
- 21 The Corpse Driver: The Beautiful Campus Belle Insists on Becoming My Apprentice 赶尸人：美女校花非要拜我为师 [No System + No Livestreaming + The Male Lead Is OP] After Zhang Xiaolong showed off his corpse-driving skills, he shattered the worldview of the beautiful campus belle An Siqi. After a fierce inner struggle, An Siqi decided to learn the art of corpse-driving from him. “Xiaolong, I want to take you as my master and learn corpse-driving!” “Not happening! I only pass it down between husband and wife, unless you become my wife.” “...” This book is also known as "Part-Time Corpse Driver: The Ic 32Reads—Score—Shelves
- 22 Corpse Driving 赶尸 I'm a corpse walker. This time, my job is to collect the dead from the battlefield and return the bodies of those who hired me to their hometowns, where they can be laid to rest. As I shook the golden bell in my hand, five corpses missing arms and legs swayed into a line in front of me. They were chatting and laughing along the way. I couldn't help wondering: how could corpses still laugh? 20Reads—Score—Shelves
- 23 The Corpse Stitcher 缝尸匠 Soul-binding nails, threads of karma, green lamps and white candles, a bone-carving knife. When the dead person’s lamp goes out, bury them intact. The living must keep away! 10Reads—Score—Shelves
- 24 A Blind Date Turns into a Ghost Marriage: I Turn the Tables and Livestream the Corpse-Carrying Groom 相亲变冥婚：我反手直播赶尸新郎 [Metaphysics + horror + juicy gossip + comedy + complete] Lin Qingjiu, the disowned daughter of a wealthy family, is schemed against by her relatives and forced into a ghost marriage. Lying in the coffin beside her ghost groom, whose face is deathly pale yet stunningly beautiful, she smiles. Thanks, buddy, for the fresh corpse! She immediately turns around and livestreams herself escorting the groom’s corpse, bringing the whole internet along to feast on the juicy gossip. She exposes the weal 32Reads6.5Score—Shelves
- 25 Dai Xiaomei Faints in Terror During Her Haunted House Livestream, Scared by Me Driving Corpses 呆小妹古宅直播，被赶尸的我吓晕 In the first year after graduation, Ding Hao became a corpse driver. He led a group of ancient corpses brought out of deep-mountain tombs through the empty streets and alleys at midnight. Watching a few people nearby look around nervously, he knew they were searching for their ancestors. “Your ancestors are all right here. Come over and pick one out.” A little streamer named Xiaodaidai filmed the whole thing. She thought to herself, This is it! My follower count is going to skyrocket! 22Reads—Score—Shelves
- 26 The Paper Effigy Maker 扎纸匠 Why can the descendants of the legendary Lu Ban, once famous throughout the land, only make paper offerings for funerals? Why did the once-renowned Li family retreat into the mountains? As the power of his bloodline awakens once more within a young man, is it a curse, or the work of man? Can fate be defied? Li Shuisheng refuses to believe in destiny. He will defy the heavens, change his fate, and fight for a chance to survive... 278Reads—Score—Shelves
- 27 The Mysterious Origami Master: Rising to Power from the Underworld! 诡秘折纸匠：从阴间开始成大佬！ (The protagonist is calm and self-focused, and refuses to be swept along by outside forces. Please understand if that's not to your taste.) After a family upheaval, he awakens as a bizarre paper-folding craftsman. After a paper mansion is burned down, it transforms into a haunted apartment building in the underworld. One paper figure after another becomes a battle-hardened general! With a wave of paper, he summons a river of stars across the heavens. With a drop of paper, the Yellow Springs surg 1kReads6.7Score152Shelves
- 28 The Corpse Stitcher 缝尸人 Feng shui encompasses a great many trades, collectively known as the Eight Outer Schools. Among them, the profession that deals most with the dead and has seen the most terrifying things is that of the corpse tailor! I was born in a village hidden in the mountains. Following the family trade, I began working as a corpse tailor alongside my grandfather, and before long, more than ten years had passed... One day, a man appeared outside my shop, leading a young woman and bringing a coffin. The vill 66Reads—Score—Shelves
- 29 After Failing the Exams, I Became a Corpse Driver, and Dai Xiaomei Exposed Me 落榜后当赶尸人，被呆小妹曝光 After failing the college entrance exam, Yun Tianming felt his future was bleak. Then he unexpectedly got a Corpse-Driving System. “What? I can become the richest person in the world by driving corpses? And I can get supernatural powers, too!” Yun Tianming was absent from the class reunion. The class monitor called him: “If things aren't working out, come to me. I can get you a security guard job.” Yun Tianming: “I'll be right there.” With that, the Soul-Summoning Bell rang, and Yun Tianming dro —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 30 The Urban Yin-Yang Master: Starting with Corpse Driving 都市阴阳先生：从赶尸开始 He was supposed to attend the birthday banquet of a distant relative, but ended up encountering a ghost! 96Reads—Score—Shelves
- 31 My Paper Effigy Shop Is a Hit in the Underworld 我的纸扎店在阴间爆火了 An Ran returns to his hometown to sweep his ancestors’ graves, only to discover that the paper phone he burned can connect the worlds of the living and the dead! A deceased old friend messages him to place an order: “Bro, burn me some roast chicken. I’m starving down here!” Who would have thought the underworld was a trillion-yuan blue ocean market? This business as a middleman between the living and the dead has to take off. And so, Nanshan Village’s bamboo-weaving workshop becomes a bamboo-pro 3.6kReads8.7Score436Shelves
- 32 On Tomb-Sweeping Day, I Opened a Viral Paper Effigy Shop on the Road to the Underworld 清明节，我在黄泉路开网红纸扎铺 Unemployed young man Lin Xiaoman is forced to return to his hometown and take over the family’s traditional paper effigy shop. But he discovers that the paper money, luxury cars, and phones he makes turn into real goods in the underworld when burned! From then on, his customers are no longer just the living... The King of Hell commissions a “paper aircraft carrier.” A vengeful spirit asks him to repair a “torn marriage contract.” Even the Underworld’s Bureau of Industry and Commerce comes knocki 1Reads—Score—Shelves
- 33 I Graduated on a Whim, Secretly Became a Corpse Driver, and Got Livestreamed 任性毕业，偷摸做了赶尸匠还被人直播了 Lin Xu unexpectedly awakens the Corpse-Driving System. A terrible student, he decides to head to western Hunan and drive corpses. On the train, Lin Xu gets a call from his homeroom teacher: “Lin Xu, we're taking graduation photos today! Hurry over and make yourself a nice memory from your senior year!” Lin Xu: “Teacher, I'm on a train to western Hunan right now! I'll have to miss the graduation photos.” Homeroom teacher: “Western Hunan? What are you going there for?” Lin Xu: “To drive corpses, o 135Reads—Score—Shelves
- 34 Street Lie Detection: The Corpse Stitcher’s Identity Can’t Stay Hidden 街头测谎，缝尸匠的身份瞒不住了 Su Chen unexpectedly gets the strongest corpse-stitching System. He can grow stronger just by stitching up corpses. One day, he goes out to stitch a corpse, but a beautiful woman stops him halfway and demands to give him a lie detector test. The result unexpectedly exposes Su Chen's identity as a corpse stitcher, and then one strange event after another begins to unfold… 39Reads5.2Score—Shelves
- 35 I Took Leave to Go Home and Deal with a Corpse, but My Beautiful Boss Insisted on Coming Along 请假回家赶尸，美女上司非要一起 Fu Long, who had left Raojiang, was eating braised chicken rice in the Magic City CBD when he suddenly got a call from the head of his village: "The corpse-driving contest starts soon. Last year, you didn't come back, and we lost to the neighboring village by five cows, two pigs, and more than a dozen chickens. If you dare not come back this year, I'll livestream myself tearing down your house!" 86Reads—Score—Shelves
- 36 The Yellow River Corpse Collector 黄河捞尸人 [Supernatural + Suspense + Folk Tales + Urban] The older generation always says there are things beneath the Yellow River that must never be disturbed, or something terrible will happen. I didn't believe them, not until the day I took a crew underwater to hunt for treasure... 541Reads6.5Score102Shelves
- 37 Gravekeeper, I Have Lived for Eternity 收尸人，我长生万古 Chen Yu transmigrates to the Great Yu dynasty and becomes a corpse collector feared by all. Collecting corpses lets him pick up not only extra years of life, but also cultivation techniques and secret arts. Every year he lives also earns him an attribute point! And so Chen Yu begins his work collecting corpses everywhere, from the Great Yu dynasty to the Myriad Worlds... One day, Chen Yu looks back in amazement and realizes that he has already lived for countless ages! 228Reads5.6Score—Shelves
- 38 You Were Supposed to Salvage Bodies, So What’s with This Nuke? 让你打捞尸体，这核弹什么鬼 Qin Fang transmigrates and gains a Career Experience System, which randomly assigns him a new profession every month. From the start, he becomes a corpse retriever, inheriting the trade and gaining the traits [Innate Strength] (Blue) and [At Home in Water] (Blue). Legend has it corpse retrievers have three rules about what not to retrieve. Rule 1: Don’t retrieve corpses standing upright in the water. Qin Fang doesn’t believe in that superstition and starts by retrieving an upright corpse. He suc 38Reads6.3Score—Shelves
- 39 Livestreaming Corpse-Herding, Hunted by My Blind Date 直播赶尸，被相亲对象追捕 Liu Mang is unexpectedly reborn with a live-streaming corpse-driving System, only for his aunt to call and tell him to go on a blind date! The female ghost Jin Yuanyuan: “Master, big brother, stick with you and I’ll get to eat my fill!” Ye Xueli: “I’m a police officer, and I’m hunting down the person live-streaming corpse driving. Hey, why are you running?!” Junior schoolmate Zhong Feifei: “Senior, could you be the dark horse prince Heaven sent me?” The thousand-year-old zombie Queen of Loul 22Reads5.4Score—Shelves
- 40 Horror Revival: From the Start, I Chose to Become a Corpse Stitcher 恐怖复苏，开局选择成为缝尸人 Zhao Han transmigrates to the Blue Star for no apparent reason, and from the start is recruited by the Spirit Suppression Bureau, an organization devoted to handling supernatural incidents. Thanks to his outstanding talent, he is assigned to the team with the best benefits. But then a System appears, and he has to join the corpse-stitching team to activate it. To activate the System, Zhao Han says, “I don’t want to join Team One. I want to join the corpse-stitching team.” Much later, when people 1Reads7.6Score—Shelves
- 41 The Last Corpse Driver 最后一个赶尸人 The dead march on; the living must keep their distance. If they don't, disaster is sure to follow! I'm a corpse driver, and this is my story! 731Reads8.0Score101Shelves
- 42 This Corpse Burner Has Something Wrong with His Head 这个焚尸匠脑子有点毛病 In another world, monsters and demons run rampant, and the dead can become mutated at any moment. These mutated corpses pose a grave danger, and the only way to keep them from harming the living is to burn them promptly. Corpse burners are responsible for burning these mutated bodies. It’s an extremely dangerous job with little status, and no one would take it unless they had no other choice. Lu Ping’an is different. He inherited the job from his father, and took to it on his very first day. He 327Reads5.9Score—Shelves
- 43 I’m a Renowned Corpse Handler, So How Did I Get Sold Back to Xiangxi as a Zombie? 我堂堂赶尸匠，竟被卖回湘西当僵尸 After I was brought back to the Jiang family, I rose to the top and became a best actress, finding success in both my career and love life. On the day of my engagement, my fiancé's childhood sweetheart went mad with jealousy and sold me off with a bowl of drugged soup, sending me deep into the mountains of western Hunan. Watching me bound to the sacrificial altar, she sneered. “You're always going on about being a lucky star. Let's see if your good fortune can save your own skin!” A corpse walke 118Reads—Score—Shelves
- 44 The Last Paper Effigy Maker 最后一个扎纸匠 Paper effigy crafting is a business of the yin world. Of the many trades, the seventh refers to making paper effigies. My master said our line of paper effigy makers suffers from the Five Banes and Three Deficiencies, and is steeped in bad luck. We can forget about marrying and having children. If a female ghost starts haunting us, that's practically a blessing from our ancestors! “So that's why you told me to marry a paper effigy?” I looked at the paper figure lying beside me and felt a chill r 132Reads—Score—Shelves
- 45 I Failed the Exams and Became a Corpse Driver, and Dai Xiaomei Livestreamed It 落榜赶尸的我，被呆小妹直播了 Xiao Zhang transmigrated to a parallel world, failed the college entrance exam, and unexpectedly awakened the strongest Corpse-Driving System. He had only wanted to quietly make a fortune as a corpse driver, but Dai Xiaomei accidentally livestreamed him, throwing the whole country into an uproar. Dai Xiaomei: “I honestly never thought corpse drivers were real.” From then on, the two began livestreaming their daily corpse-driving adventures. “The heroic spirits of our martyrs must not remain in a —Reads6.4Score—Shelves
- 46 Dumped from the Start, I Become a Corpse Driver and Shock the World 开局被甩，成为赶尸人震惊世界 From the start, Chen Chen is dumped by his girlfriend, who has hooked up with a rich second-generation heir, and falls into despair. Who could have guessed that the very next moment, he would obtain the Ultimate Corpse-Driving System? The entire world is soon left in shock. Female CEO: “I can’t believe corpse drivers are actually real!” Netizen A: “Holy crap, that corpse is hopping toward me! Help!” Netizen B: “Mom asked why I’m watching the livestream on my knees.” “Everyone, believe in scienc 443Reads8.2Score—Shelves
- 47 I Became a Corpse Driver to Lead Our Fallen Heroes Home 成为赶尸人来带领英烈回家 No romance, no female lead, no ambiguous relationships, and no harem. (This is a wild idea, so please don’t compare it to reality. I hadn’t planned to keep writing, but… I can’t let go 😭😭 I really hope someone can bring them back.) Nineteen-year-old Jiang Yan is watching a video of the remains of the Volunteer Army returning home when the lingering will of countless fallen souls who never made it back pierces his spirit. As the cold voice of the System rings out, he resolutely chooses to sacrifi 262Reads—Score—Shelves
- 48 The Corpse-Driving System from Heaven 天降赶尸系统 College student Tian Ye suddenly acquires the Corpse-Driving System and becomes a mysterious corpse driver... 418Reads—Score—Shelves
- 49 After Failing the Exams, I Took Up Corpse Driving and Got Exposed by Xiao Zhouzhou! 落榜后去赶尸，被小周周曝光了！ Li Chen fails the college entrance exam, and his family is buried in loan-shark debt. Just as he thinks he's done for, he suddenly awakens a corpse-driving System. Driving corpses makes him stronger and earns him generous rewards on the side. Just then, a call comes in about his class reunion. “Li Chen, you didn't get into college, did you? How about I get you a job hauling bricks at my family's construction site?” “Sure! You'd better pay the wages of a few people, then!” The call ends. Li Chen 104Reads—Score—Shelves
- 50 The Heaven-Chosen Paper Effigy Maker 天命扎纸人 First comes fate, then fortune, then feng shui; fourth, accumulate virtue, and fifth, study. Sixth, choose a spouse; seventh, choose a career; eighth, make friends with people of influence; ninth, practice good health. Those who work with yin and yang make their living by reading fate, but they are doomed to three deficiencies and five afflictions, with life and death impossible to predict. With nothing but the craft of making paper effigies, they guide countless wandering souls and spirits to t 337Reads—Score—Shelves
