Novels like You Were Supposed to Guard the Coffin, Not Marry the Person Inside
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- 101 The Soul Ferry Lantern 渡魂灯 [Supernatural + mildly scary + episodic stories, a fast-paced ghost-hunting romp with all kinds of tricks!] Fire runs in my veins, and I'm cursed to bring bad luck. When I was fifteen, my father kicked me out. To survive, I climbed into a stone tomb. The strange knocking at the door of the funeral home at midnight, The body that mysteriously vanished after a fatal car crash, A headless old man, a talking human skin, and haunted schools and skyscrapers... I guide five-element spirits onward and f 17.7kReads9.2Score1.6k14d adds
- 102 The Female Medium of Guandong 关东女先生 [The animated drama based on the novel is now a huge hit] A suspenseful supernatural tale rooted in Northeast Chinese folklore! The first season of the animated drama adapted from the original novel is now available on Hongguo, Tomato, and Douyin! When the rules of the Northeast are broken, a hundred ghosts roam the night, and the yin energy can no longer be contained. My name is Ren Xue. I'm a director who makes supernatural dramas. Fate brought me back to Changbai Mountain, where I became a G 601Reads—Score11714d adds
- 103 The Scary CEO Really Is a Great Monster 凶巴巴的总裁果然是大妖怪 Yu Luo is a little monster. By day, she works as the CEO's secretary; by night, she attends monster school to learn magic. But the CEO is anything but human: he bullies and exploits her every day! At her wits' end, Yu Luo decides to reveal her true form and give him a scare. Instead, the CEO calmly reaches out and toys with her. As he rubs her horns, he asks, “Where did this little black dragon come from?” Yu Luo has only herself to blame. His rubbing leaves her flushed and burning all over, and 2.2kReads9.1Score28914d adds
- 104 I Am a Lady Tutor 我是女先生 I'm hard to kill. These were the words I heard from the moment I was born. A blind fortune-teller said I was a White Tiger Sha, a girl born with a boy's fate, innately tough and destined to bring misfortune to my husband, my children, and myself. Everyone in the village said I wouldn't survive. My yang energy was too strong. Even if they managed to keep me alive, I'd grow up to be an idiot. But my grandma, a spirit medium who presided over the altar, refused to give up. Every year, she burned a 3.2kReads9.4Score45514d adds
- 105 Calculating Fate Through Yin 算阴命 My mother was snatched away by a beast when she gave birth to me. Twelve years later, my father brought home a woman. Three days after that, my father died… 1.8kReads8.9Score25514d adds
- 106 The Tribulation of the Forgotten River 忘川劫 [“Cold and ruthless God of War” Moxi VS “Heartless Stone Spirit” Sansheng] “If you can catch me, I’ll be yours!” She is the Three-Life Spirit Stone by the River of Forgetfulness, beside the other shore’s flowers, guiding souls through the consequences of their deeds. He is the renowned God of War of the Nine Heavens, with no room for personal feelings, devoted only to all living beings. A stone has no heart, and a warrior no tenderness. Though they are worlds apart, a casual remark binds them to 28.4kReads9.6Score3.7k14d adds
- 107 The Villain in My Story Is Carrying Out a Forced Happy Ending 我笔下的反派正在执行强制HE [Dark healing + mild horror and thrills + suspenseful romance that's easy to follow + chaste male lead] Lu Zhaozhao, a suspense novelist, created an extraordinarily cruel villain with her own hands. He's handsome and elegant, exceptionally intelligent, and obsessed with cruelly hunting his victims and turning them into specimens that will last forever. She used to complain that the scenes she wrote weren't bloody or terrifying enough. Until... The dark, damp basement, hundreds of jars filled wit 5.7kReads9.1Score82714d adds
- 108 The Ultimate Prank System: My Enemies Are Driven Mad 最强整蛊系统，敌人都被整疯了 [Pranks] [Comedy] [Sneaky Trickster] [Villain] [Xuanhuan Cultivation] After transmigrating to a world of immortal cultivation, Su Xiaoxiao awakens the strongest Prank System. With a System like that, there's nothing to be done. This guy slowly becomes the enemy of the entire world! What's it like to be hunted by a million cultivators? Su Xiaoxiao says, “Don't worry. The more, the merrier. We're not afraid of a thing! Besides, we can earn grudge points.” Driving enemies crazy is the least of it. 17.3kReads8.7Score1.3k14d adds
- 109 My Sect Has Eleven Graves 我的门派有十一座坟 Fantasy and the supernatural, with a lighthearted, humorous tone and a touch of horror. My name is Zhang Shiyi. I have ten senior brothers, so my name is Zhang Shiyi. But all ten of my senior brothers are dead. They’re lying in the graves outside. What? My master? He’s dead too. The biggest, roundest grave is his. Haha~ Well, congratulations, then~ Get ready to sing: Congratulations, congratulations, congratulations to you, hey! Congratulations, congratulations to you~ 23.6kReads9.1Score1.9k14d adds
- 110 I Am a Female Sorcerer 在下女术师 The night Bai Zhou returned home to inherit the funeral-clothing shop, someone tried to murder her... From the moment she came back from the dead, she was swept up in one eerie, chilling case after another. A dead old woman wandering through a funeral hall; vengeful spirits who died violent deaths scrambling to find substitutes; a sinister temple in the mountains where people are killed; evil spirits crying out for justice during a performance of Judge Bao... Watch Bai Zhou learn the Taoist Five 17.3kReads9.2Score2.5k14d adds
- 111 No. 81 on the Yellow Springs Road 黄泉路81号 Night blankets the city, and the things lurking in the shadows begin to stir. The raccoon dog granny who eats raw meat, the fitness girl with fish scales growing on her back. The wild foxes who approach people by the roadside, and the little convenience store in the cemetery. I've experienced all of these. And it all began after I witnessed a car accident... 42.4kReads9.2Score3.4k14d adds
- 112 From Goblin to Goblin God 从哥布林到哥布林神 [Simulation + Dark + Nonhuman + No Female Lead + Men Who Like Peachy Guys Stay Away] Lin Tian is reborn as the weakest monster, a goblin, and is slaughtered by humans right from the start. He activates the Life Simulation System, along with a divine blessing unique to goblins. Through endless simulations, consumption, and evolution, he rises step by step from the weakest goblin to the pinnacle beyond all things. The once lofty Sword Saintess, Mother of Dragons, and angelic deities all bow before 9.8kReads8.7Score94114d adds
- 113 The Qingling Rankings 清凌榜 The Qingling Rankings 3Reads—Score—14d adds
- 114 The Girlfriend Who Disappeared 我消失的女朋友 My Girlfriend Who Disappeared 12Reads—Score—14d adds
- 115 The Mysterious Domain City 诡秘域都 The Mysterious Domain City 3Reads—Score114d adds
- 116 The Strange Sword 诡剑 The Ghost Sword 4Reads—Score—14d adds
- 117 My Years as a Buddhist Nun 我当师太的那些年 I was born a girl with a Pure Yang fate into a family of feng shui masters. For generations, my family had practiced feng shui in the countryside. My grandfather had hoped his eldest grandchild would be a boy, so he could pass down his skills to the eldest son and grandson. But I turned out to be a girl. Grandfather never took a liking to me, so my parents could only take me to live in the city. No one expected that, during the Ghost Festival in the year I turned twenty-five, Grandfather would s 425Reads8.7Score—14d adds
- 118 The Lu Family’s Eldest Daughter Is Back After Ten Years in Prison 坐了10年牢的陆家大姑娘回来了 Lu Xiaoxia, who is serving a prison sentence, is reborn at the age of 19, on the very day her stepmother gives her to a scumbag as a present. Having killed, done time, and fought for her life against prison bullies, Lu Xiaoxia starts dishing out payback from the start. The scumbag is right outside the door? She cripples him right from the start. Her stepmother schemes to squeeze every last bit of value out of her? She makes her pay back every cent, with interest. The house is crawling with monst 36.8kReads9.1Score4.9k14d adds
- 119 The Blind Woman’s Wedding 盲女的婚礼 The Blind Girl's Wedding 27Reads—Score—14d adds
- 120 The Grand Feng Shui Master 大相师 Ten years ago, nine snakes crawled into my bed. Grandpa said someone was trying to steal my life. To keep me alive, he arranged an engagement for me to extend my lifespan... 7.7kReads9.3Score92014d adds
- 121 The Debt Beneath the River, Billed in My Name 河底那笔账，记在我名下 The debt at the bottom of the river is in my name 18Reads—Score—14d adds
- 122 Terror at the Luxury Estate 豪苑惊魂 Terror at the Grand Estate 16Reads—Score—14d adds
- 123 Tales of Folk Taboos 民间禁忌杂谈 A pig butcher never slaughters a pig with five toes. The village guardian never guards a village with a temple. A feng shui master never selects a lair of an evil dragon. A midwife must wash her hands in rooster’s blood. There are three hundred and sixty trades in the world, and every one has its rules. Are these ancient, mysterious rules really nothing more than empty formalities? If I told you that some rules must never be broken, because breaking them means death, would you believe me? 9kReads8.0Score1.2k14d adds
- 124 The Era of Ghost Money: Even Hauntings Must Follow the Rules 冥币时代：诡异杀人也要讲规则 [Weird Invasion + Rules-Based Horror + Post-Apocalyptic Survival + Ghost Money] The weird beings have arrived. They feed on humans, but can’t kill them at will. They have to trick humans into triggering a death rule before they can devour them. Xia Tianqiong returns, reborn, and makes billions in ghost money himself. Using memories from his past life, he turns the rules against the weird beings and forces them into contracts. The weird beings in this world either work for him or are destroyed by 27.6kReads9.0Score3.1k14d adds
- 125 The Corpse Collection Files 收尸档案 Since ancient times, the dead have been left with their bodies. But few people know that corpses hold many secrets that remain hidden from the world. Cursed corpses, living corpses, bodies left where they fell, vengeful corpses, bisected corpses... Every corpse has a story of its own! My name is He Yongheng, and I collect bodies for a funeral home. 3.7kReads9.0Score38414d adds
- 126 The Secret of the Buddha Mother 佛母的秘密 The Buddha Mother's Secret 38Reads—Score514d adds
- 127 Bad Girl 坏女孩 Six years ago, she was abducted and taken to a remote village. Six years later, she nearly found herself forced into marriage. With her life on the line, she risked everything to escape the countryside and make it back to the city. But waiting for her were the cold-blooded parents who had sent her away with their own hands, and an adopted younger sister with no blood ties to the family. After enduring six years of captivity and being abandoned by her own parents, she fights alone to reclaim ever 19.7kReads9.4Score2.8k14d adds
- 128 Excuse Me, Do You Have a Corpse at Home? 请问你家有尸体吗 [A laugh-out-loud story, don't let the title fool you] A sorceress from another world was hit by a rock and landed in ours. She spent two hundred years stuck inside it. At last, she borrowed the body of a woman in a vegetative state to get out and stretch her legs, but she was born with Conan's knack for stumbling into mysteries. What? The beautiful female ghost's body was chopped to pieces! The pure, innocent college student's body was soaked and bloated! This world is out to get me! But I can' 1.2kReads9.3Score19114d adds
- 129 I Must Be Seeing Things: My Best Friend Turned into a Vengeful Ghost 起猛了，看到闺蜜变厉鬼了 [Just started, so the rating will rise. Feel free to dive in!] [Strong female lead + comedy + modern fantasy + multiple versions of the male lead] When she woke up, Yun Jian Yue discovered that her best friend had croaked and become a headless vengeful ghost. Yun Jian Yue: I must've woken up too early. I'll go back to sleep. Best friend: … Yun Jian Yue took her friend to get revenge on the scumbag, but a more powerful vengeful ghost showed up halfway through and stole the target. Yun Jian Yue ra 24.7kReads9.4Score3.8k14d adds
- 130 True Tales of the Spirit Mediums: My Ten Years Serving at a Ghost Hall 出马仙纪实：我供奉鬼堂的那十年 My name is Zhou Tie. In this book, I'll tell the true story of my ten years running a spirit hall and serving ghosts. You've heard of spirit mediums... but have you heard of a ghost spirit hall? At eighteen, I established a ghost spirit hall and served ghost immortals! The presiding master was the sister my grandfather said had gone mad and died! This book has no female lead. It's not fantasy, and it's definitely not a cultivation novel! It's the true story of how I, born with an ominous yin con 87.3kReads9.6Score8.4k14d adds
- 131 My Lady Doesn't Believe in the Supernatural 我家夫人不信邪 I believe in metaphysics, but she doesn’t. We got married just to prove each other wrong. I wanted to hang a portrait of the Three Pure Ones, but she refused, so after a huge argument, I decided to write down all the true events that have happened over the years: my dad got into trouble after eating a snake, my grandma suddenly started eating pork knuckle and cursing, Gao Dabao lost a hand in an elevator accident, Feng Ershuang was grabbed by a ghost, and their cousin mysteriously went mad and d 103Reads—Score1114d adds
- 132 Conquering the Cold Beauty in the Horror World 我在惊悚世界中征服高岭之花 [Infinite-level game + horror + heroine pursues hero, but no groveling after a breakup] ❗Warning: This is not a power fantasy with a strong female lead! The heroine is pretty useless at first! Please read the blurb carefully and make sure you’re okay with the heroine’s personality before starting. [Plot] He Zhi’s journey from a rookie in a horror game to a true god of the Purple Star took a very, very long time. [Romance] After being discharged from the hospital, Huo Xunjing mysteriously disap 28.9kReads9.3Score4.2k14d adds
- 133 My Husband Faked Infertility to Steal My Family’s Fortune, So I Fought Back 老公假装不孕夺我家产，我绝地反击 My husband pretended to be infertile to steal my family’s fortune. I fought back against all odds. 1.5kReads—Score—14d adds
- 134 The Abnormal Female Celestial Master 非正常女天师 Everyone says foreigners are superstitious. If they bully you, all you have to do is mutter strange things and wave your hands at them, and you can scare them off. After Wan Sui was set up by her own family and stranded abroad, she faced a gang of thugs. She copied Uncle Jiu from the movies and made a few hand seals. To her surprise, they really did run away in terror. Someone looking for a bit of excitement recorded the scene and posted it back home. Wan Sui became an overnight sensation online 9.3kReads8.9Score86514d adds
- 135 Beast Taming: I Brought Earth’s Divine Beasts Back to the Otherworld 御兽：我让地球神兽重现异界 [Beast taming + no System + fantasy + transmigration + power fantasy] After transmigrating to a world where everyone tames beasts, Lin Mo awakens the talent [God-Tier Beast-Taming Space] from the start. Other beast tamers' spaces are merely places for their pets to rest. But Lin Mo's beast-taming space has all kinds of special properties. Instant Summoning: You need to draw a magic circle to summon your pet? Sorry, I can summon mine instantly! Potential Enhancement: Your pet's level is a little 153.8kReads8.5Score18.8k14d adds
- 136 Livestream Fortune-Telling: President Shi, Your Wife Is Urging You to Get a Divorce 直播算命：时总，夫人催您去离婚 [Metaphysics + livestream fortune-telling + wealthy CEO + devoted couple] Love story: A powerful mystic's soul drifted into another world. To stay alive, she had to bind her marriage fate to a man with purple qi. So the first time they met was at the civil affairs bureau. He said, “Marrying you was my grandmother's decision. We have no feelings for each other, so there won't be a wedding, and we won't live together after we marry.” She said, “No problem.” He said, “As agreed, we'll divorce in a 22.6kReads9.2Score3.8k14d adds
- 137 The Mystical Master Plays by Her Own Rules, Bringing Both the Living and the Dead to Tears 玄学大佬路子野，虐哭阴阳两界 [Metaphysics + Comedy + Power Couple + Livestream + Sweet Romance] A beautiful, unconventional, carefree powerhouse × a sweet, quiet, lawless cutie Shang Qiuzhi has no birth chart, and her fate is unknown. Abandoned by her birth parents at birth, she was taken in and raised by a woman who guides spirits of the dead. She has a peculiar constitution. No matter how many scriptures or Taoist arts she learns, she can't put them into practice. With no other choice, Shang Qiuzhi gives up and takes life 7.5kReads9.3Score1.1k14d adds
- 138 Lu Ling Feng Shui Shop 鹿灵风水铺 [Lighthearted paranormal suspense + mild horror + one-on-one romance + episodic stories] Lu Ling is forced to take over the feng shui shop her father left her and shoulder the Lu family’s duty as spirit-contractors. Only after she starts taking on cases does she realize that people can be far more terrifying than ghosts. 7.3kReads9.0Score1.1k14d adds
- 139 Right After My Divorce, a Powerful Woman Called Me Her Husband 刚离婚，女大佬就叫我老公 I'm a massage therapist, and one of my clients is a bewitchingly beautiful woman. She asks for me every time she comes in, until one day I finally learn that she's the legendary woman… 9.8kReads9.0Score96014d adds
- 140 The Dragon King's Bride 龙王聘 That year, I came down with a strange illness that nothing could cure. Then, on the night the blood moon hung high in the sky, my family decorated the house with lanterns and streamers. From that day on, I had a husband no one could see. Around that time, my mother warned me gravely that I must remain faithful to my husband and keep my distance from other men, or disaster would befall me! When I was nineteen, I broke the taboo, and he... appeared. 39.7kReads9.5Score5.8k14d adds
- 141 Reborn with a Child, I Married a Cold Military Doctor from a Prestigious Family 重生后，带娃嫁世家高冷军医 [Reborn + adorable child + military marriage + true love + revenge + face-slapping] After being reborn, Su Ying’s first move is to divorce her husband. Her scumbag husband, Du Zhenyong, wants to have the best of both worlds and refuses to let her go. She takes her 38 yuan and chases after him to the military base, where she meets the aloof military doctor Gu Nanchen. With his help, Su Ying gets away from her scumbag husband. But the prestigious Gu family refuses to let Gu Nanchen marry a woman w 22.5kReads8.9Score1.7k14d adds
- 142 The Ghost Wedding on the Fifteenth Day of the Seventh Month 七月半，鬼娶亲 [Strong Female Lead + Mysticism + Devoted Husband + Ensemble Cast + Revenge] A short drama of the same name, July Half: The Ghost's Wedding, is now available. Its companion story, Marrying a Ghost Husband, Subduing a Hundred Demons, is currently being serialized. My mother said that the year I was born, strange signs appeared in the village: thunder and torrential rain, while all the ghosts wailed. Grandpa invited Seventh Granny, who delivered me herself. Only then was I born. Seventh Granny rea 13.4kReads9.2Score1.5k14d adds
- 143 The Horror Livestreamer 恐怖女主播 My name is Yuan Junyao, a name that doesn't suit me at all. I've had a chronic illness since birth, and I'm so hideously deformed that tumors started growing on my face when I was little. My father left me when I was just three months old. At fifteen, I was blamed for my mother's death. Only my grandmother raised me and my stepbrother, who shared neither parent with me. But after an accident, I was offered up to a man who should never have crossed my path. To get revenge and see justice done, I 18.6kReads9.1Score2.3k14d adds
- 144 The Poisonous Consort 一品毒妃 Su Ziyu is a poison-medicine doctoral expert from the twenty-second century, undefeated in the art of poison and unmatched among poison doctors. But fate had other plans. In an instant, she transmigrated thousands of years into the past, to the Eastern Zhou dynasty, becoming Su Ziyu, the cowardly, weak-willed, foolish concubine-born daughter of the prime minister’s household. Imprisoned, with her birth mother dead, her stepmother persecuting her, and her sisters poisoning her, she faces a brutal 4.7kReads9.3Score1.8k14d adds
- 145 The Hundred Demon Manual 百妖谱 A man, a monk, and a fox wander the world, laughing and arguing along the way. White demons, countless affairs, and every kind of human emotion: a world of strange wonders and the warmth and hardships of human life. 10kReads9.5Score2.1k14d adds
- 146 After the Goddess Died Tragically, I Drew My Sword and Slayed Ghosts! 女神惨死后，我拔剑斩鬼！ That day, I received a strange food delivery order. A goddess who had died a tragic death was begging me for help. After that, I became a spirit courier. I clear the way for wronged souls and guide the dead on their final journey! 39.5kReads9.2Score3.3k14d adds
- 147 Urban Legends: Who Let This Taoist Priest In Here? 怪谈：谁放这个道士进这里的？ This book has a short drama adaptation. Rules of Terror: This Taoist Priest Is Acting Strange. Now streaming [No Female Lead] [Hilarious] [Hotheaded Hero] [Supernatural] [National Destiny] Rules of Terror descend upon the world, and the Dragon Nation loses five rounds in a row. For the sixth round, Chen Yang is chosen to represent his country. Just as the nation assumes he is an ordinary nobody, Chen Yang takes off his jacket, revealing the yellow robe underneath. Chen Yang: "Yee-hee-hee! Ever s 16.2kReads8.9Score1.6k14d adds
- 148 Minecraft: From Zombie to Demon King HIM 我的世界：从僵尸到魔王HIM After years away from Minecraft, veteran block-game player Xu Yuanshi finally opens it again, only to run into HIM in a mine. He thinks his eyes are playing tricks on him, but then everything goes black. When Xu Yuan wakes up, he discovers he has transmigrated into the hottest full-dive game of the moment, Minecraft. He has also become the “white-eyed monster” players talk about. At the same time, the Demon King System activates. He now looks like HIM, and the Demon King System has awakened. It 10.3kReads9.5Score1.4k14d adds
- 149 Supernatural: I Exorcise Ghosts with Force and Scare the School Beauty Out of Her Wits 灵异：暴力驱鬼，我把校花吓懵了 [Supernatural + comedy + System. If you read the first 30 chapters and don't laugh, come roast me!] On Zhang Wei’s first day of college, a blood-red sun hung in the sky and his entire class was dragged into a ghost realm. Just then, his Ghost-Teasing System awakened! With the whole class under a ghost’s curse, the campus belle, Lu Lianxue, had no choice but to reveal her hidden identity: a disciple of Longhu Mountain and a member of the Exorcism Bureau. But before she could show off her skills.. 30.5kReads9.1Score2.7k14d adds
- 150 The Spirit Medium Who Eases Worries 解忧通灵师 [Metaphysics · reborn · sweet romance · mutual salvation] When people die, they leave behind thoughts and resentment. If fate grants them the chance, they can become ghosts and monsters. Ghosts and monsters cannot enter the underworld or be reincarnated. Gu Yousheng inherited a bloodline legacy and was born a spirit medium. Before she turned six, she cried and tried every way she could to get rid of her gift. After she turned six, she worked diligently to resolve grievances and troubles, becomin 24.9kReads9.5Score5.7k14d adds
