Novels like The Night Watcher
Books Chinese readers most often put in the same booklists as The Night Watcher, best match first.
- 1 The Strange Case Files 诡局录 [No System + No Cultivation + No Foolish Protagonist + Traditional Supernatural Horror + Mystery and Suspense] My name is Shang Tian, and I’m a man cursed by an evil spirit. It was a lottery ticket that should never have existed. Its dark, yellow-black background looked soaked in old blood and night; the glaring red lettering wasn’t a set of lucky numbers, but an invitation to hell. When I scratched it off, overjoyed and thinking I’d found a lifeline to a hundred-thousand-yuan jackpot, my finge 8Reads—Score—Shelves
- 2 He Spent a Fortune Building a Pay-to-Fish Pond, and the Female Angler Wept and Begged to Take It Over 巨资打造黑坑，女钓手哭着跪求盘 [Black-pit pond + System fish farm + giant catches + fishing fanatics + multiple heroines + fish pics and pretty pictures + entirely handmade] Chen Guang transmigrated into the body of a hapless guy who’d spent ten million to lease an 800-mu fishpond. It wouldn’t have been so bad if the guy had been rich, but after leasing the pond, he had only a little over a hundred thousand left, not even enough to buy fingerlings. Having inherited an 800-mu fishpond, he had no choice but to stay and raise fi 5.6kReads7.5Score466Shelves
- 3 The Betrayal Plot Beside My Pillow 枕边的背叛阴谋 A Betrayal Plot in Her Bed 93Reads—Score137Shelves
- 4 The Haunted Houses I’ve Experienced 我经历的凶宅 The older generation often says that people who die violent deaths cannot enter the cycle of reincarnation. Their souls endlessly haunt the places where they died, seeking substitutes. Only then can they be reborn. That’s why we often hear in the news about car crashes that keep happening at certain locations. Sometimes the place isn’t even a proper intersection, yet terrible accidents leave cars wrecked and people dead. Some streams aren’t even as deep as a person is tall, yet every year there 2.1kReads8.9Score188Shelves
- 5 Ghosts in Pieces 散装见鬼 Do you believe there are ghosts in this world? I think that question is as impossible to answer as whether there are dragons in this world. The answer you hear most often is: Believe in them, and they exist. Don’t believe in them, and they don’t. But if you ask me, my answer is simple: Yes! Not because I believe, but because I can see them. Of course, I wasn’t able to see them from birth. It all goes back to the strange experience I had when I was six... 32Reads—Score—Shelves
- 6 Strange Happenings on the Lantern Festival: The Dead Man in the Coffin Is Clutching My Name 上元诡事：棺材里的死人攥着我的名 Lantern Festival Mysteries: The Dead Man in the Coffin Clutches My Name —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 7 What?! How Did My Poorly Raised Virtual Boyfriend Become a Big Shot? 惊！穷养的电子男友咋成大佬了？ [Horror game invasion + scheming couple + male and female leads who grow stronger + survival] Jian Li discovers a horror game app called [Death Game] on her phone. With nothing better to do, she occasionally spends a few bucks to buy items, food, and supplies for the pixel character who’s on the verge of dying in the game… Time and again, her quick thinking helps the pixel character escape death and turn defeat into victory. The pixel character is endlessly grateful, but Jian Li doesn’t care. It 124.7kReads9.0Score27.7kShelves
- 8 Who Wore That Blue Robe? 谁穿了那件蓝衫 Who Wore That Blue Shirt? 2Reads—Score—Shelves
- 9 Peach Village Women 桃村女人花 Old Jiang of Divine Dragon Village fished a young man with amnesia out of the river. After getting him registered in the household records, Old Jiang passed away. The local thug Jiang Dalong tricked Jiang Dazhu, only to be knocked unconscious by the village chief. When he woke up, he had gained a mysterious inheritance. He went on to heal the sick, help the poor and the vulnerable, and make his way to glory. 13kReads9.0Score824Shelves
- 10 A Slime from the Start, Surpassing the Gods! 开局史莱姆，超越诸神！ [Simulator + Slime + Slow Burn (Very slow...)] After transmigrating into a cute little slime in a muddy puddle, Su Ke gets a simulator System and thinks he’s about to reach the pinnacle of his slime life. Then he finds out he’s got only three days left to live. To make matters worse, this place is unbearably hot. As a water-element slime, he can barely move, and leaving the puddle means certain death. It’s a hellish start from the get-go. Luckily, he has a System. To squeeze out a little more ti 1.9kReads8.4Score247Shelves
- 11 God of Theater: A Level-Nine Start Without Nerfs? How Is That Fair? 戏神：开局九阶不削能玩？ [God of Theater fanfiction] + [System] + [Invincible] + [Transmigration] + [Infinite Flow] Books, medicine, military arts, yellow, green, clever schemes, chess; theater, puppets, witchcraft, strength, divination, bandits, prostitutes. Chen Ling especially loved I Am Not the God of Theater. After reaching Chapter 39 and getting hit with an emotional gut punch, he couldn’t resist complaining. Then his vision blurred, and he found himself in that familiar rainy night... (A message left behind by Ch 1.2kReads6.7Score125Shelves
- 12 Please Don’t Be Afraid 请不要害怕 [Subverting Tropes + Infinite Flow + No Female Lead + Mild Horror] “Captain Wang, I clearly buried her, but… but I saw her in the backyard again!” “How did she die?” “It had nothing to do with me. She… she killed herself!” “She… she just didn’t want to be cremated…” “Then… what is that thing in the backyard?” “I… I don’t know.” “Can she see us? Can she hear our voices?” “And is she dangerous?” … “As for ghosts, I have only one piece of advice for everyone…” “If you happen to run into one, pleas 31.2kReads8.5Score1.4kShelves
- 13 Horrifying! The Eighth One 惊悚！第八个 Horrifying! The Eighth One 40Reads—Score—Shelves
- 14 Showbiz: The Handsome Extra Has a Book of Beauties 娱乐：清秀群演，他有一本美人录 [Two male leads, entertainment-industry audition show, a hint of everyone-falls-for-him, all songs are original] On the night of the seven stars aligning, Fang Wenzhu accidentally transmigrates into an unfinished audition-show story where readers bet on who will win. Other people who transmigrate into books become protagonists or villains, or at worst named cannon fodder. He, on the other hand, is a nobody in the background who can't even get any screen time. Fortunately, there's always a way o 3.9kReads8.4Score462Shelves
- 15 I Have a Million Skill Points 我有百万技能点 What does it mean to start with a golden opportunity? Even the beginner's gift pack can give you a supreme reward, and you get one million skill points right away. Why bother cultivating techniques? You can max them out in minutes. Even ancient fragments that no one else can cultivate become treasures in my hands. Bloodline requirements, talent restrictions, none of them matter. The System says, “Daddy Host, please hurry up and finish the missions so you can help me level up.” Su Chen says, “We' 5.2kReads8.8Score576Shelves
- 16 Coffin Shop No. 44 44号棺材铺 Everyone knows what a coffin shop is, but would you dare enter one where someone has died? Ever since I took over a coffin shop, strange things have been happening all around me. Only then did I realize that the people who come to buy coffins aren't necessarily alive… 2.2kReads8.0Score253Shelves
- 17 Horrifying! The Haunted House That Claims Lives 惊悚！索命凶宅 After moving into a haunted house, I discovered the secret behind a murder. I'm a suspense writer. After moving into my new home, I discovered it was a murder house! I stumbled upon some hidden clues that seemed to point to rumors of a murder from years ago! At night, beneath the bright moonlight, I stared in shock at a horribly disfigured face! A woman's rotting corpse was hanging from a tree outside the window! A little boy in a black-and-white photograph, a dried corpse sealed inside a wall, 6.1kReads9.1Score453Shelves
- 18 Painting Yin and Yang with a Single Stroke 一笔绘阴阳 As I gazed down the shadowy corridor and across the empty hall, the strange order of light and darkness stirred a fear of the unknown deep inside me. The elders always said, “The ancestral hall is home to spirits that have yet to depart.” “Don’t step on the threshold, don’t touch the ancestral tablets, and don’t whistle in the ancestral hall.” “The names on the tablets weren’t carved there. They moved in.” When the wind blew past the row of wooden windows, the latticework let out a mournful wail 211Reads—Score101Shelves
- 19 Delta Force: From the Start, Facing Off Against a Super-Rabid Old Woman 三角洲行动：开局直面超雄老太 [Decisive and Ruthless] [Building from Nothing] The world's most fun game, Delta Force, has launched! Jiang Ye eagerly queued up for a three-player run with his roommates. Big Bro's elbow strike! One punch sent all three of them crashing into Longbow Valley. He was forced into a struggle between rival factions. The Asara Kingdom, the Hafk Corporation, the GTI Global Emergency Initiative... He went from being a carrier of a genetic recombination agent to a terrifying force. Amid conspiracy and be 6.5kReads9.2Score596Shelves
- 20 Thriller Game: A Journey of Escape Begins in an Ancient Castle 惊悚游戏：从古堡开始的逃生之旅 [Infinite Worlds + Mild Horror + No Female Lead + Escape + Not Wish Fulfillment + No System + Smart Characters + Original Worldbuilding] [This story has plenty of twists and focuses on an ensemble cast. Please read patiently: the characters may not be as simple as they seem, and although this is an infinite-worlds story, each instance is connected in some way.] Yan Changqing has been bedridden and paralyzed for twelve years. Throughout those twelve years, he has repeatedly had the same dream. In 12.1kReads8.8Score1.3kShelves
- 21 Ashtray 烟灰缸 [Mild horror + affair + twists] A stunning woman from the south, a knock at midnight, a silent delivery guy, someone crouching beneath the bed... Qin Song’s life is plunged into a living hell by an affair. 104.1kReads9.5Score19.1kShelves
- 22 Reincarnation's Eerie Station 轮回诡站 A cursed ticket leading to one horrifying incident site after another... A city shrouded in dense fog, obsessed with eradicating the very existence of "horror"... Passengers who vanish one after another, or are cursed for all eternity... Inside a dilapidated train, an amnesiac burdened by three curses awakens in the dim light, as a voice calling out "curse" sounds in his ears... "Welcome to Reincarnation Station! Passengers aboard the train, please pay attention... The next stop is... Corpse Pai 167.9kReads8.8Score17.9kShelves
- 23 Out of Control 失控者 [Anthology stories + supernatural horror + folk customs + feng shui and mysticism + subtle scares + jaw-dropping twists] Open a paper box sealed away for many years, and one terrifying incident after another begins to surface. The massacre that wiped out an entire family in Nanhua Estate, and the deaths of everyone connected to the case! A bride in a red qipao appearing by your side in the dead of night! Strange legends circulate through a dilapidated high-rise, where hands reach out of the dark 35Reads—Score—Shelves
- 24 One Haunting a Day 一日一诡 Like people, supernatural entities can be good or bad, so the author can’t promise that every story will have an off-the-charts scare factor that keeps you up at night. The only guarantee is that all the stories are entirely fictional. If anything seems familiar, you’re on your own! 356Reads—Score101Shelves
- 25 Tales of the Haunted Mountain Village 山村诡事录 Where the woods are dense, ghosts abound; where the mountains are high, monsters are sure to lurk. After getting drunk, Chen Jianjun of Kaoshan Village encounters a beautiful woman in the mountains. Alone together, the pair spend several days in an intimate embrace. When he returns home, he goes mad for a day and then dies. On the day of his burial, Chen Jianjun suddenly comes back to life... To save his family, Chen Xiaojun becomes the apprentice of Yi, a lame man who was once sent to a work ca 4.5kReads9.1Score428Shelves
- 26 There Are Ghosts in These Words 话里有诡 They say everyone has a few little secrets they can't bring themselves to talk about these days. But if you really want to hear something out of the ordinary, go find Old Bu. Old Bu runs a little tavern set inside an abandoned train carriage. From the day it opened, he laid down one rule: One interesting story in exchange for a night's worth of drinks. Sounds like a good deal, doesn't it? Too bad he doesn't give you much to drink, and the stories just keep getting stranger. An intelligent wristb 8Reads7.6Score—Shelves
- 27 My Slacker Niece and Her Five Unlucky Uncles 摆烂外甥女和她的五个大冤种舅舅 After staying up all night reading a novel only to find it ended terribly, she angrily chewed out the author in the middle of the night, then suddenly died the next day and transmigrated into the novel's world. A critical hit right from the start: afraid she'd starve, she went fishing, but instead of catching a fish, she pulled up a corpse. She reunited with her birth family, only to be poisoned by her own grandfather and sent to the hospital. She joined her second uncle on a farming-and-travel 7.1kReads8.8Score678Shelves
- 28 The Top-Tier Tycoon System Teaches Me How to Spend 顶级神豪系统教我来花钱 [Feel-Good Story | Strong Female Lead | Face-Slapping | Multiple Male Leads] Jiang Yiyi was just an ordinary working stiff at the bottom of the ladder. Her parents had died young, leaving only her little sister, who was her one reason to keep going. At work, she was treated like a tool and a pack mule. Her boss squeezed her dry, her colleagues ganged up to exclude and mock her, and every bit of busywork landed on her desk. She could only swallow her grievances. After five years of giving her all 895Reads—Score109Shelves
- 29 The Haunted City of Dreams 诡梦迷城 [Manhua adaptation and high-quality live-action audio drama now available] [Infinite progression + mystery + mind-bending puzzles + supernatural powers + paranormal horror. No System, no harem, no brainless plot. Read with caution if these are deal-breakers.] When I woke up, everything around me had become eerie and terrifying. My dead roommate called me, repeating over and over the struggle of his final moments... A pair of slender, snow-white legs appeared mysteriously on a bed in the boys' do 42.2kReads8.7Score4.7kShelves
- 30 The Yin-Yang Hot Pot Restaurant 阴阳火锅店 I took over a hot pot restaurant from my second uncle. He told me never to serve customers a yuan yang hot pot after midnight! After I took over the place, everything I believed in began to crumble... One night, I wasn't paying attention and served a couple a yuan yang hot pot. The next day, I saw in the newspaper that the couple had died! They'd jumped to their deaths together! After that, every night at midnight, a strange couple would appear in my restaurant and ask me to make them a yuan yan 676Reads7.7Score—Shelves
- 31 I Might Have Changed the Wrong Fate 我可能改了个假命 When I was little, my mom asked a Taoist priest to tell my fortune. He said I'd face a calamity at 26, and that he'd come help me get through it the day before my 26th birthday. When the day finally came, the priest really did show up to change my fate. He even gave me a “Fate-Changing Ruler” and told me I had to change the fates of seven people with different destinies to survive the calamity. Otherwise, I'd only have five years left to live. So much for changing my fate for me! Did he only cha 76Reads8.9Score—Shelves
- 32 The Netherworld Inn 阴间客栈 My name is Qin Yu. While on a business trip, I checked into a uniquely styled inn called the Yin Room Inn. It even offered “special services” in the middle of the night. Little did I know it was an inn from the underworld. I began having nightmare after nightmare, and my friends kept getting into trouble... 2.7kReads9.0Score152Shelves
- 33 The Snake Marriage 蛇婚 Ever since I turned eighteen, I’ve kept having the same dream. Opera songs drift through it, singing, “Snakes bear the palanquin, ghosts escort the bride!” I was born with an ominous fate and a strange destiny, and I have a pair of yin-yang eyes that let me see ghosts from childhood. They say that on the night I was born, snakes swarmed everywhere, pouring into the house from the front and back. Only after I came into the world did they turn toward me, bow their heads three times, and leave. The 7.4kReads9.2Score983Shelves
- 34 Tales of the Supernatural 民间怪谈录 [Rural Horror Stories + Anthology + Folk Horror Tales + Chinese Supernatural] Supernatural happenings are most likely to occur in mountain villages, and the stories we've heard may well have really happened. In the eerie night wind, Granny Hao, the midwife who receives the dead, is like a messenger from the underworld, guiding the spirits of helpless mothers and children home. Locust trees commune with spirits, and poplars attract yin energy. Beneath the village's ancient trees lie secrets that 829Reads8.9Score105Shelves
- 35 Calculating Your Fate to the End 算死命 When I was born, I was nursed by a wolf for a few days. I thought of her as my mother, and believed I'd never see her again. Then one day, a woman came looking for me... 22.8kReads8.9Score2.5kShelves
- 36 The Strongest Man to Emerge from the Heavenly Prison 从天牢走出的强者 Eight years ago, Qin Zimo was the great general who protected the Nanxuan Kingdom, renowned throughout the heavens and feared by every nation. Now, Qin Zimo has emerged from a dark, icy prison, and the winds of change are rising once more. 7.9kReads8.9Score641Shelves
- 37 Yin-Yang Eye Realtor: Selling Haunted Houses in Chongqing 阴阳眼中介：我在重庆卖凶宅 A novel inspired by local Chongqing legends and historical anecdotes. This story is entirely fictional. As a child, the protagonist gained the ability to see yin and yang from a Qing dynasty skeleton. His family’s ancestral ledger is filled with secrets of old Chongqing. The folklore is meticulously researched, with traceable details ranging from place names and historical anecdotes to traditional remedies and feng shui formations. Each haunted house seems like a self-contained case, but in trut 194Reads8.3Score—Shelves
- 38 Sweetheart! Don't Divorce Me! Your Husband Is a Brooding, Obsessive Yandere 妹宝！别离婚！你老公是阴湿病娇 [Short drama adaptation released] [Six-year age gap + spoiler comments + marriage by contract + sweet and steamy + both leads are virgins + secret crush becomes mutual] [Brooding, yandere CEO × catlike, adorably clueless girl] Wen Duo has a strange condition called “skin hunger.” When it flares up, only cuddling can ease it. A year into their arranged marriage, her cold contract husband will only hold her when her condition acts up, and even a kiss has to be initiated by her! Wen Duo feels terri 11.8kReads8.3Score1.5kShelves
- 39 Ghost Sightings at the Nightclub 夜场见鬼录 A Long is a DJ at a bar with a legendary “Stage of Death.” Many people have died there under mysterious circumstances. The cause of death could never be determined, and some bodies were never even found! The strange incidents stopped only after the bar was shut down. As the legend of the deaths gradually faded from memory, someone opened the stage once more! After that, disaster struck again and again! A terrifying ghostly figure appears in the girls’ dormitory, a faceless baby clings to a chand 201Reads8.8Score—Shelves
- 40 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 420Reads8.7Score—Shelves
- 41 I’m Only in the God Transformation Stage. Is It Really Appropriate for Me to Take the College Entrance Exam? 我一个化神期，参加高考合理吧？ [Ding! You killed a mutated wild rabbit. Points +3.] [Ding! You killed a first-rank demon beast, the Boar King. Points +20.] [Ding! You killed a second-rank demon beast, the Hyena Queen. Points +50.] Yang Fan transmigrates into a world where spiritual qi has revived and monsters and demons run rampant. From the start, he is the top student at Mengxi High School, but tests show he has no spiritual root, making him a laughingstock throughout the school. He thinks his life is over, but unexpectedly 26.9kReads8.1Score3.4kShelves
- 42 Thief Game: Starting with Kaito's Card 盗贼游戏：从获得基德卡片开始 [Character cards, gentlemanly, elegant, livestreaming, System, wish fulfillment] If you had the chance to commit theft legally, would you do it? In the year 2050, in a parallel world, peace has spread across the globe. To raise public awareness about crime prevention, China, the United States, Russia, the United Kingdom, and other nations have joined forces to produce a show called The Thieves' Game. Contestants can exchange the items they steal for cash through the production team. In an instan 27.1kReads8.9Score3.8kShelves
- 43 Tales of a Haunted Village 荒村怪谈录 [Rural Mysteries + Folk Customs + Chinese-Style Horror + Feng Shui and the Supernatural + Anthology + Shocking Twists] There is an old well in Jiulitun that has been sealed for thirty years, and one eerie incident after another keeps occurring. Why has a little girl become unbelievably strong and deranged? Why do villagers keep drowning, and why is the village taboo so difficult to speak of? It all goes back thirty years... 243Reads8.7Score—Shelves
- 44 Midnight Wonders 午夜惊奇 At the stroke of midnight, amid a terrifying atmosphere, strange ghost stories begin to unfold! A bluish-white hand suddenly appears on the window in the middle of the night. Is it looking for someone to take revenge on? A bus still running in the dead of night: does it lead to the world of the living or to hell? The shapewear hanging in the wardrobe at home is made of human skin! During the Qingming Festival, a figure appears in the glass of the bathhouse. After returning to her room, a beautif 416Reads8.7Score—Shelves
- 45 Midnight Terror: Human Nature Stories That Will Haunt You 午夜惊魂：让人细思极恐的人性故事 At midnight, let's listen together to the little stories that circulate all around us. Maybe they're true. Maybe you've heard them too, or even experienced them yourself. Those moments that grow more terrifying the more you think about them go perfectly with the pitch-black night beyond the window. Red brick walls are common in many places. But we've never stopped to wonder: why are those bricks so red, so vivid? Rideshares at night aren't necessarily safe. Passengers have their concerns, and dr 537Reads8.8Score—Shelves
- 46 Notes on Folk Spirit Mediums 民间出马仙笔记 [Spirit Mediums + Chinese-Style Horror + Episodic Stories + Supernatural Mystery + Karma + Mind-Blowing Twists + Feng Shui and the Occult] "Unraveling one strange and unpredictable tale of karmic retribution after another" In a remote suburb of the city lies a cemetery. Few people know that a shop dealing in the supernatural stands there, run by a spirit medium who can communicate with the dead and the living. The owner specializes in paranormal cases beyond ordinary people's understanding, but 467Reads9.3Score—Shelves
- 47 Sin Hunter Detective 猎罪神探 What's the most terrifying case you've ever heard of? The Corpse Immortal Madam, the Medical University's Sex Fiend, the Human-Head Planters, the Zombie Baby in Building Seven... There are no ghosts in this world, only wrongs waiting to be righted by a master hand. The legendary coroner Song Yang returns to the scene with his disciples, piercing through layer upon layer of mystery to hunt down the killers lurking in this world. Come face-to-face with the bloodiest, most baffling, and most hair-r 5.9kReads9.4Score819Shelves
- 48 Simulating the Future: At Last, Lord of Time 模拟未来：终为时光之主 [Simulations + extending lifespan and improving aptitude + no artificial limits on combat power + fast-paced + neutral protagonist who does as he pleases] In a world devoted purely to martial arts, Yun Shou thought that with only his weak cheat, he'd live an ordinary life... That is, until he turned fourteen and got a second, flawed simulator. He never expected that when the two cheats combined, he'd become invincible! After the years flew by (though, in truth, not that long), Yun Shou looked ba 53.5kReads8.7Score5.8kShelves
- 49 Tales of the Shanhai Tomb 4 山海惊墓录4 A low, eerie chuckle drifted from deep within the desolate woods. The red cloth that had been offered in worship swayed from a branch. Ancient paper ash and dying incense lay scattered on the ground, and faded red cords hung deep in the forest. It looked up at me, its mouth splitting into a grin. 413Reads—Score229Shelves
- 50 Records of the Shocking Tombs of Shan Hai 3 山海惊墓录3 Some hear breathing but cannot find its source; some see a shadow but cannot tell whether it is their own or some being from the sea. It feels neither anger nor joy. The moment you step inside, it remembers you, and you will never be able to leave. 484Reads—Score249Shelves
