Novels like The Grave Robbers' Chronicles: An Autobiography
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- 1 Moving Mountains and Commanding Ridges 搬山御岭 Whether you turn to tomb raiding out of desperation or in the hope of getting rich overnight, once you take it up, you're a thief. A thief is a thief. No matter how you dress it up or how many stories you tell, a thief is still a thief. Once you've done it, you'll never shake that label. I fell in with the wrong crowd by a twist of fate. After all the ups and downs, the trials and tribulations, I managed to make a little something of myself. If you'd like, I'll tell you my story, slowly and from 12Reads7.0Score—Shelves
- 2 Memoirs of a Tomb Raider 盗墓者回忆录 [No System, not fanfiction, entirely original!!!] Tomb raiding is a technical craft. You must open a tomb without damaging it, and open a coffin without breaking it. This story begins in 1998 at Whitehair Mountain, on the southern slopes of the Qinling Mountains. Pagoda of the Buddha, Mound of Ten Thousand Bones: a tomb-raiding adventure with a suspenseful edge. —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 3 Sin 罪 A death-row inmate’s monologue on the eve of his execution. From stealing and robbing, to stumbling into the underworld, going to prison for his lover, then tomb raiding, heading to the Miao borderlands in search of an antidote, and being poisoned with a Gu curse... And the strange adventures that followed. The story moves quickly at first, but gets better and better as it goes on. If you’re interested, please let me tell you the whole tale. 98Reads—Score—Shelves
- 4 The Great Mystery 大迷踪 Does the legendary Nine Dragons Pulling a Coffin really exist? Where did the mysterious organization with snake tattoos on the backs of their necks come from? A strange ancient blade shaped like a serpent, and a life-or-death game spanning a thousand years! Can the young man who stepped out of an antique shop shoulder the heavy, turning wheel of fate? What can the so-called heir to the art of tomb-grabbing really do? 40Reads7.1Score103Shelves
- 5 My Tomb-Raiding Life 我的倒斗生涯 Tomb raiding is said to have originated during the Cao Wei dynasty and continued for a thousand years. It has both official recognition and civilian organizations. A thousand years have made this illicit trade a fully developed profession, with an astonishing number of tricks and secrets. Literary works have told and retold its tales. But what is tomb raiding really like? I entered the trade at fifteen and led my first expedition into a tomb at sixteen. I saw its dangers with my own eyes... 103Reads6.0Score—Shelves
- 6 Recollections of the Tomb-Raiding Years 追忆盗墓年月 In the early years of the Republic, tomb robbing was all the rage. The trade was split between northern and southern factions, each further divided into more than a dozen gangs, with countless complications within every group. The ancient tombs were strange and uncanny, their twists and turns shrouded in mystery, and every one of them perilous! The suspicious tomb of Fengdu will reveal a hidden chapter of human history... 573Reads—Score—Shelves
- 7 Dong Wuhai 东吾海 [Mystery and deduction + tomb-raiding adventures + mysticism + social customs] Chen Jiu increasingly suspected that the Chen family were flawed attempts at immortality. The elders of the Chen family could foresee the time of their own deaths. After dying, they could not be cremated and had to be sealed in iron coffins. The mystery began with a Ming-dynasty expedition to find a dragon-shedding stone coffin. Only fragments of information could be gleaned from a ship’s log. Beneath the East Wu Sea 15Reads—Score—Shelves
- 8 Tomb Raiding: The Secret Realm of Tianshu and the Seven-Star Lamp 北派盗墓：七星灯之天枢秘境 In 2003, northern China stood at a delicate turning point between old and new. The tide of reform and opening up was reshaping traditional industries, while thousand-year-old tombs buried deep underground still concealed secrets and temptations yet to be unearthed. Across this vast region, stretching from the black soil of the Northeast to the grasslands of Inner Mongolia and the Loess Plateau of Shaanxi and Gansu, a special group of “dragon seekers” plied their trade. They inherited the ancient 1Reads—Score—Shelves
- 9 Dragon Seeking 寻龙 Forty years ago, a great flood unearthed an ancient Warring States tomb. Forty years later, a mysterious will from my grandfather leads me back into the tomb. Carve corridors through mountains and hollow them out for tombs! How many secrets lie hidden in the tombs of ancient kings? To find a dragon, seek the mountain's winding folds. Each winding ridge marks another pass; If a gate has a thousand locks, a prince or lord must surely lie within. Only when I opened the coffin did I realize that som 936Reads6.6Score104Shelves
- 10 The Eye Beneath the Earth 入地眼 I was just seven when I crawled out of the tomb. Much later, when I looked back on it, it seemed as if everything had been arranged by fate. Perhaps from that very moment, it was predestined that I, who had crawled out of that tomb, would embark on an adventurous, mysterious, and utterly bizarre legendary journey. The dragon stirs, and the land is shaken! 1.4kReads8.6Score131Shelves
- 11 Bloodline Awakening: The Lost Tomb 血脉觉醒，古墓迷踪 Right after graduation, Fang Yaoyang is drawn into a thousand-year-old mystery and forced to swallow a mysterious pill. His awakened bloodline feels more like a curse. To find an antidote and his missing father, he ventures deep into an ancient tomb, solves a deadly astrological formation, and battles uncanny creatures. But behind the tomb, undercurrents swirl among international organizations, guardian clans, and government forces. And Fang Yaoyang himself turns out to be the most important pie —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 12 The Northern School's Tomb Raider: Searching for Dragons 北派盗墓寻龙记 [Tomb Raiding + Mystery + Adventure + Underworld + History] Adapted from true experiences. That year, I was no master appraiser fresh out of prison. I was just a poor kid who identified soil by smell and felt his way along tomb passages with his fingers. I drifted through a hazy youth and into middle age, enduring hardship and uncertainty all the way. Over half a lifetime, I witnessed all sorts of people from all walks of life, and heard tales of the underworld you have never heard before. If yo 49kReads7.8Score4kShelves
- 13 The Secret Burial Heavenly Tome 秘葬天书 Emperors and ministers relied on the Daoist art of geomancy to find their final resting places. Every imperial tomb is a miniature of its age, embodying the highest craftsmanship of that era. My great-grandfather left behind an ancient book called The Secret Burial. It covers an astonishing range of subjects, with especially detailed explanations of feng shui and mountain terrain, finding dragon veins and auspicious burial sites, locating stars, and secret burial customs. By chance, this ancie 58Reads8.5Score—Shelves
- 14 The Secret Record of Tomb Robbing 摸金秘记 [A premium, exclusive Tomb Raiding novel] [Zhang Jia Sishu's latest masterpiece of 2016, set to become the ultimate Tomb Raiding novel!] The appearance of an exceptionally beautiful female corpse shattered my ordinary life. Armed with a family-inherited secret art of Tomb Raiding, I opened an ancient imperial mausoleum sealed for a thousand years, seeking rare treasures buried underground and unraveling a mystery beyond anyone's reach. 184Reads6.6Score—Shelves
- 15 The Last Tomb Raider 最后的摸金传人 In the 1990s, my family was so poor that my parents abandoned me. By chance, I met a group of tomb raiders. I joined them just to get a meal and became the last inheritor of their craft. They took me all over the country: through primeval forests and snowy plateaus, along rivers and lakes, across dry deserts. Their footprints covered the land. One tomb expedition after another showed me countless bizarre and wondrous things and brought me face-to-face with all manner of demons and monsters. My m 7.1kReads8.7Score432Shelves
- 16 Don't Compare Tomb Raiders! The Guanshan Taibao Have No Taboos! 别拿摸金比！观山太保百无禁忌！ My name is Jiang Jiuhe. My ancestors were the Guanshan Taibao, who built and guarded imperial tombs to keep tomb raiders away. But by the time the duty passed down to me, I'd spent twenty-five years on guard and still couldn't get a decent meal. I looked at our ancestral copy of The Guanshan Guide to Mysteries and spat. To hell with the ancestral rules! In this world, starving to death is no better than gambling everything, even your life. But I never imagined that by tearing it up, I would be r 662Reads—Score106Shelves
- 17 Secret Records of Northern Tomb Raiders 北派盗墓秘录 [Hardcore Tomb Raiding]+ [Suspense at Full Throttle]+ [Utter Terror] Before my master disappeared, he sent me only a stone shard carved with a black dragon coiling around a coffin, along with a bloodstained prophecy: “When the Dragon-Suppressing Coffin stirs, the nine lineages return to their source; when the black dragon opens its eyes, the secret map will emerge.” To find my master, I set out with the black dragon shard and my childhood friend Wu Nianjiu for a suspected Liao-dynasty tomb benea 84Reads—Score—Shelves
- 18 Tomb Raiding: Did Little Yu Annoy His Dad Again Today? 盗墓：小煜爷今天又气爹了吗？ [No CP, lighthearted comedy, the kid carries the New Bull Five; Yuyu only gets more mischievous as the story goes on. His good behavior at first was just an act!] A mischievous brat who gets more infuriating by the day VS five dads whose blood pressure keeps rising After Yuyu transmigrated, he met his dads from a parallel timeline. He planned to act like a good kid at first, but gradually let his true nature show. “Are you trying to get yourself killed?!” He stuffed a wild chicken-necked snake i 2Reads5.2Score—Shelves
- 19 My Life as a Tomb Raider 我盗墓的人生 Don't talk to me about some damn love story. All I want now is to make money! What's the point of envying other people? We need to take action too. Whether it's robbing people or raiding tombs, once the money's in our hands, we'll have everything! Stop worrying all day about who loves you and who cares about you. That's all nonsense. Here's a rule of thumb for you guys: men follow women, women follow money, and money follows men. Keep that cycle going if you want to live like a proper human bein 952Reads6.9Score100Shelves
- 20 The Grave Robbers' Chronicles: Beyond the Pass 关外盗墓笔记 From a “master of antiquing” to the “Divine Eye Beyond the Pass,” one thought is all it takes for Xiao Xu to embark on a dangerous road of no return. In the perilous underground world, friendship and loyalty are cheap, while profit and betrayal are the order of the day. Only by letting go of desire can you make it out unscathed. 1.1kReads8.8Score125Shelves
- 21 Tales of Tomb Raiding in Southern China 南派盗墓往事 [Tomb Raiding + Adventure + Suspense] In the 1990s, I was just a minor antique dealer who traded in bones. Then I mistakenly bought a burial object, and from that moment on, I embarked on a one-way journey across a thousand years... To find the answers, I had no choice but to wander between the worlds of the living and the dead, crossing mountains and seas and traversing deserts and wastelands. At the very source of it all, I finally uncovered the truth behind the baffling mystery... 1kReads7.3Score141Shelves
- 22 Evil Fish 邪鱼 Feng Shui fish are also known as yin-yang fish. Choose the right one, and it can change your luck and bring blessings. Choose the wrong one, and it can bring disaster. 1.4kReads9.0Score140Shelves
- 23 Tomb Raiding Tales from Republican China 民国盗墓往事 A long-lost memory brings a gripping story from the past to light. What I’m about to tell you is a secret from the Republican era… 3.5kReads8.8Score604Shelves
- 24 A Tomb Raider's True Account 盗墓者的纪实 After thinking it over for a long time, I finally decided to write this book. It is told in the first person. I came into contact with ancient tombs when I was very young, and after becoming addicted to gambling, I plunged into the abyss of tomb raiding to pay off my debts. Our crew traveled far and wide, encountering inexplicable things, as well as human indifference and greed. I also experienced the temptations of money, the ferocity of wild beasts, and every side of society. This book covers 2.8kReads6.9Score191Shelves
- 25 The Cage of Rules: I Use the Brush of History to Break Every Deadlock 规则囚笼：我以史笔破万局 High-IQ mind games + infinite-loop survival + rule-based horror + historical research + smart characters + fast-paced plot + battles of human nature + no saintly protagonists + satisfying wish fulfillment + everyday warmth When a higher-dimensional civilization turns Earth into a game board, every rule is a blade aimed at your life, and every scenario is a gamble with death. Zhang Mingyong, a historical document archivist who has spent ten years poring over old records, is thrown headfirst into —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 26 Unrivaled Master: From Hauling Bricks at Construction Sites to Urban Kingpin 无双国手：从工地搬砖到都市枭雄 God of War + Divine Physician + Live-in Son-in-Law + Suspense + Emotional Entanglements A double knockout of a God of War and a divine physician! When a battle-hardened soldier living under an assumed name is arrested by his own ex-wife, a bloody trial that will sweep across the entire city begins. The day my ex-wife personally cuffed me and dragged me into the interrogation room, she said through red-rimmed eyes, “Zhang Mingyong, you deserve to rot in the mud for the rest of your life.” I lowe —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 27 A Tomb Raider's Life 盗墓生涯 In 2013, I unexpectedly went bankrupt, and my girlfriend left me. With no other options, I took this path, and a strange, eerie world opened up before my eyes. Beneath a mysterious thousand-year-old tomb, half were tomb raiders, and the other half were... 561Reads6.8Score—Shelves
- 28 After I Started Slacking Off, All Humanity Begged the God of War to Return 我摆烂后，全人类跪求战神出山 High Martial Arts + System + Subverting Expectations + The God of War Returns + Getting Stronger by Slacking Off + Hidden Powerhouse + The Ex-Wife Regrets It Too Late + Global Crisis + Sci-Fi Apocalypse He was once the Dragon Torch God of War who guarded the nation's borders. After retiring, all he wanted was to fix cars and take it easy. His ex-wife thought he was a good-for-nothing and divorced him. Then the beast tide breached the city, and during a global livestream, he shattered countless s —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 29 The Grave Robbers' Chronicles Fan Fiction: The Fragrant Veil of the Golden Palace 盗墓笔记同人之金宫香障 A mysterious incense recipe sends the protagonist and his friends on a new adventure and into a new story, with every character at the top of their game... 306Reads8.7Score104Shelves
- 30 A Pickpocket’s Notebook 北派小偷笔记 I’m a thief, born in the north. My life has been full of twists and strange turns, and I’ve always felt it deserved to be written down. Along the way, I’ve met all kinds of people and seen all sorts of bizarre things. I’ve lost count of how many luxury villas I’ve broken into and how many museums I’ve robbed. Even the XX Museum, said to have the strongest security in the world, is somewhere I can come and go as I please. If you’re interested in the old Rong’s line of work, why not take a look in 5kReads8.8Score377Shelves
- 31 I'm Zhao Jia. Let Me Tell You About the Ancient Tombs I've Raided 我叫赵甲，讲讲我盗过的古墓 My name is Zhao Jia, an obscure black-market trader in Shancheng. My master, Liu Banchi, spent his whole life hunting with eagles, only to have one peck out his eye in the end. He died at the hands of his own people. Since then, I've been afraid. Not of ghosts, but of people. I washed my hands of the trade, hoping to live in peace, but trouble came looking for me. A map with a sinister secret, a wealthy man with connections everywhere, and a deadly game I can't escape. To stay alive and uncover 25.9kReads8.6Score3.1kShelves
- 32 A Grave Robber's True Records 盗墓贼的真实笔录 No romance. A true account of grave robbing. Follow my perspective and see the most authentic world of tomb raiding. Want to get rich? Rob a tomb. Make ten thousand yuan overnight: that was life back in our day. One trip into a tomb could earn you tens of thousands at the very least, or hundreds of thousands, even over a million. There’s not much startup capital needed for this line of work, and it’s more thrilling than gambling. There are no traps or ghosts in these tombs. The ones you need to 32.5kReads7.6Score2.6kShelves
- 33 Tomb Raiding: The Dark Mystery Mirror 盗墓：玄冥宝鉴 [Tomb raiding + treasure hunting + mystery solving + ensemble cast + history + no mindless plot] An original work, not fan fiction. [Tomb raiding is illegal. Do not try this yourself.] Does the Dust-Repelling Pearl really exist? What secrets lie behind it? What strange and mysterious events are hidden behind the national treasures? What connections link tomb raiding, antique appraisal, the underworld, the martial world, and the protagonist? 161Reads—Score—Shelves
- 34 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
- 35 The Nether Mausoleum 幽陵 A fleeting dream, a glance at passing scenes; eight thousand ghosts emerge from this realm. The Dragon Palace's blue waters are the real world; immortals point out the ancient kings of Shu... With nothing but a treasure-hunting verse, the Xiling Divine Manual, Bai Ze accidentally tore through a veil that had concealed secrets for millennia. The ancient age of slash-and-burn farming, the Three Sovereigns and Five Emperors, Yanzi creating the heavens, Fuxi making humankind: all seem both real and 543Reads8.2Score—Shelves
- 36 The Secret Records of Evil Spirits 邪灵秘录 A healer saves lives, but medicine is divided into “living medicine” and “dead medicine.” A group of young people journey through remote mountain valleys, deserts, and snowy wilderness. They venture along the boundary between life and death, exploring lost techniques. This is a shocking mystery hidden among mountains, rivers, and vast wilderness... 695Reads8.6Score102Shelves
- 37 Old Ninth, the Tomb Raider 盗墓老九 [Tomb raiding + adventure + treasure hunting] A centuries-old mystery ordained by Heaven, the fabled ancient kingdom of Loulan, the secrets behind the ancient Silk Road, and even the Black Mountain, where legend says the rocks, plants, rivers, and soil are all black, shrouded year-round in an air of death... I was just an antique dealer in Panjiayuan, but somehow I got swept up in one strange adventure after another. It all began with my grandfather, a eunuch from the previous dynasty... 317Reads5.4Score—Shelves
- 38 The Eerie Tomb Raider 摸金诡医 Lin Jiu's grandfather, an old tomb raider who had been missing for many years, passed down a bizarre “Thirteen Needles of the Ghost Gate” tomb-raiding talisman to him through a blood curse on his deathbed. This drew him into a terrifying mystery that had endured for a thousand years: every generation of elite tomb raiders eventually became a “substitute” for some mysterious being. Lin Jiu must use extraordinary medical techniques to heal the “substitute” curse afflicting him while solving the my —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 39 The Ancient Tomb Code 古墓密码 I was sentenced to life in prison for tomb raiding. I thought that was bad enough, but then The Dragon Head Maze, the Flying Ancient House, the ghost ship at sea... They all led me to a huge secret. “Open this door. Everything you want to know and everything you want is inside.” 4.9kReads8.1Score758Shelves
- 40 Tales of Strange Northern Tomb Raids 北派盗墓诡事录 In the early twenty-first century, I was just a poor kid from a mountain village in Northeast China. Determined to make something of myself, I threw in my lot with a northern tomb-raiding gang and set out on a road of no return. I traveled far and wide across the north and south, saw ancient tombs where the dead came back to life, and learned just how treacherous people in the underworld could be. From an ignorant boy to a weathered middle-aged man, the strange people and events I've encountered 95Reads—Score—Shelves
- 41 Tomb Raiding: The Tender Five Eavesdrop on My Thoughts from the Start 盗墓：开局被嫩牛五方偷听心声 Yan Xu never dreamed that after using the bathroom at home one morning, he would close the door and open it again to find himself transported by a dumbass System to the Wu family’s old residence! From then on, he had a domineering CEO for a father and a bunch of hapless brothers. In the Lu Palace, Yan Xu stole Zhang Qiling’s moment and dissolved Iron Mask Man with corpse-melting liquid. [Thanks for the support, bro!] In the underwater tomb, Yan Xu sailed a luxury yacht worth hundreds of millions 64Reads6.8Score—Shelves
- 42 Tales of Northern Tomb Raiders 北派盗墓往事 My name is Yao Yuan. I used to be a tomb raider. In December 2014, after the shocking nationwide Red Mountain Case was solved, I was arrested at Tianyi Hotel in Ningcheng, Chifeng. I was ultimately sentenced to six years in prison for crimes including looting ancient cultural sites and tombs and trafficking in cultural relics. Now I have served my sentence and been released, ready to start a new life. If you're interested, why not hear me tell the stories of tomb raiding that happened to me? 556Reads6.8Score—Shelves
- 43 Tomb Raiding: The Zhang Family's Madman Lives Life to the Fullest 盗墓：张家的神经病先享受世界 [Out of character + chaotic + strong female lead + original worldbuilding] Wangyou stared at the Grave-Robbing Finger for a long time. What the heck was this? At least she still had the body's memories. Oh, the Grave-Robbing Finger. Not much use. She woke up in a coffin in the Zhang clan's ancestral grounds. Where to go? Find the clan leader. She had nothing better to do, so why not have some fun? Zhang what? Zhang Wangyou. Was there a Wang generation in the Zhang clan? Zhang Qiling stared at Zh 19Reads7.4Score—Shelves
- 44 The True Record of a Tomb Raider 来至一个盗墓者的纪实录 [Real tomb raiding + suspense + antiques appraisal] Starting in the 1990s, this story follows Wei Yonggang, a young man from the countryside, as he rises swiftly through the tomb-raiding world, going from accidental participant to an underground legend thanks to his “guts, attention to detail, and expertise.” He is sworn brothers with Tian Sanjiu, the last disciple of Silver Fox, and his junior fellow disciple is the sharp-eyed Feng, known as Fengzi. 11Reads—Score—Shelves
- 45 The Grave Robbers' Chronicles of a Loser 屌丝盗墓笔记 [Tomb raiding + suspense. No fantasy, no System, guaranteed to be good! If you don't like it, roast me!!!] Would you dare go tomb raiding for a million yuan in blood money? Who really built Sanxingdui? Did the ancient divine tree Jianmu really exist? Has the bird-bodied, human-headed monster come back to life? Has Genghis Khan become a zombie? What secrets lie inside the Mausoleum of Qin Shi Huang? … Keyboard tomb-raiding king Jiang Xing is getting serious this time! 1.6kReads8.2Score100Shelves
- 46 I Got the Highest Score in the County, Yet Turned to Tomb Raiding to Pay My Tuition 我考了全县第一却去盗墓赚学费 Zhao Yiming came first in the county on the college entrance exam, but his father told him to apply to a junior college. Zhao secretly changed his application and ultimately chose archaeology after seeing his Third Uncle make money selling antiques. When his father found out, he flew into a rage and ordered Zhao to retake the exam. Zhao firmly refused, but with no money for tuition, he could only silently give in to his father’s plans. When Third Uncle heard the news, he recommended Zhao for a s 7.9kReads—Score267Shelves
- 47 Secrets of the Heavenly Coffin 天棺秘藏 [Tomb Raiding + Jianghu + All Walks of Life] I have a sister-in-law of peerless beauty. She gave me an iron fan and a compass, and taught me a whole range of skills. In the 1990s, I rode across the country, searching for dragon veins and auspicious burial sites, appraising antiques, and navigating the grudges of the jianghu... At first, people from every walk of life called me Little Meng. Later, they called me Brother Xun, then Master Meng. In the end, all that remained was a codename in sealed 43.5kReads8.6Score3.3kShelves
- 48 I Told You to Raid Tombs, Not Start a Livestream on the Spot! 让你盗墓，你竟然现场开直播！ In life, we walk many roads. Some are sweet, like the days of youth; others are bitter, like old age and illness. Liu Chuanfeng is walking a road of no return. Yao the Foreman went in, and Wang the Foreman went in too. In the end, even the most cautious, Xiang the Foreman, went in. Liu Chuanfeng seems to be on that road as well. Take care of every step while you can! In 2023, a live broadcast of a tomb-raiding expedition was caught in the act by the cops. Following the clues, they uncovered a ne 6Reads—Score—Shelves
- 49 A Southern School Tomb Raider's Notes 南派盗墓手记 In the late Qing and early Republican eras, the country fell into chaos, sparking the largest and most sensational wave of tomb raiding in history. People of the time called the oracle bones of Yinxu, the Dunhuang manuscripts, and the wooden slips from the sands of Loulan the three great discoveries of the Republic, as they traced the origins of civilization. In the West, a fervent wave of research into Eastern artifacts followed. Then, in the seventeenth year of the Republic, a deafening blast 1.4kReads6.8Score181Shelves
- 50 The Western School's The Grave Robbers' Chronicles 西派盗墓笔记 [Tomb Raiding + Mystery + Supernatural] A child born under an ill omen is one Heaven dares not claim and Earth dares not nurture. When I was born from a corpse’s belly, a yellow immortal fox worshipped the moon and the wild beasts wailed. It was decided then that I would spend my life dealing with the dead, never seeing the light of day. To escape this fate, I joined forces with my taciturn master and a jovial fat man, forming the West Faction’s iron-triangle tomb-raiding team. Over the years, I 1.4kReads8.8Score127Shelves
