Novels like Haunted by a Female Ghost, I Remove Her Head and Absorb Her Yin Energy
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- 1 After Escaping the Horror Instance, the Female Ghost Followed Me Home 逃出恐怖副本后，女鬼跟着我回家了 After Escaping a Horror Instance, a Female Ghost Followed Me Home 1Reads—Score—Shelves
- 2 Record of Jiangnan's Haunted Towns 江南魇镇录 “My name is Jiang Nan. My former boss paid 250,000 to buy my life. He said my Four Pillars are all Yin, making me the perfect sacrifice for someone with the finest destiny.” He never expected me to survive. And he never expected my old granny to be the last spirit medium for miles around. She gave her life to shield me from my death tribulation, then placed the family heirloom, the Twelve Methods of the Xuan Sect, in my hands. She left me with a prophecy she could have told me sooner: “You can’t 2Reads—Score—Shelves
- 3 On My Wedding Day, My Deceased Sister Texted: You Can't Marry This Man 婚礼当天，亡妹发短信：这人不能嫁 On her wedding day, her deceased younger sister texted her: Don't marry this man. —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 4 The Funeral Bearer of the Desolate Village 荒村送葬人 When the suona sounds, it sends off neither ghosts nor gods. It only buries the player. Nineteen years old, a severed finger, a lonely tower, and a deadly Three Corpses Seal in his belly. Behind him, a skin-flaying demon. Before him, red coffins and mist. Not a single person beside him could be trusted. Driven to the brink, he blew the battered suona he’d found. The tune was off-key, yet it shook the underworld. Since this world insists on making me a sacrifice, I’ll be the corpse-piper who send 3.3kReads8.2Score213Shelves
- 5 Crimson Game: The Second Stigma 猩红游戏：第二圣痕 [If you don’t mind, you can start reading from the fourth instance. I can barely get through the earlier parts myself.] Welcome to register for Crimson Stigmata. What you are about to receive is more than a game. It is a complete, irreversible way of life. The device is free and delivered to your door. Hyper-realistic senses, total immersion. Your eyes will be unable to tell the virtual from the real. Rules: Teams are assigned at random. Progress is not saved. Teammates can harm you. Health cann 1Reads—Score—Shelves
- 6 Hook in the Mist 迷雾之钩 The mist over Qinglan Reservoir never lifts. A pendant and fishhook engraved with the date 1962.7.15 don’t catch fish; they catch the living and the dead. Three years ago, documentary photographer Shen Bozhou’s heart stopped for ten minutes when he jumped into the reservoir to save his partner, who had plunged into the water under mysterious circumstances. Ever since, he has been haunted by visions from beneath the surface. Now he has returned to finish the film he left incomplete, only to find —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 7 Life and Death Together: Redemption in a Century-Old Haunted Realm 浮生同生：百年诡域救赎录 In an instant, on an elevated highway on a rainy night, Lu Ye, a wage earner at the bottom of society, risked his life to save a stranger, Su Wan. The two of them plunged into a deadly crisis. An accident bound them to the only twin symbiosis System on the entire internet: [Shared Life]. Its rules were cruel and impossible to escape: they could not break the bond, survive alone, or clear a stage separately. If one lived, they both lived; if one died, they both died. From then on, two ordinary 3Reads—Score—Shelves
- 8 Shadows in the Daylight 白昼暗影 The criminal he hunts is himself. The shadow he cannot escape is his only protector. Lin Mo, the police department’s star profiler, cracks one extraordinary case after another with his precise criminal psychology analyses. But he doesn’t know that every night, another self awakens: Shen Ye, a “dark vigilante” who fights violence with violence, hunting down criminals who escaped justice through Lin Mo. The massacre that destroyed his family when he was a child split ten-year-old Lin Mo’s mind, cr —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 9 The Longer the Night, the Less You Dream 夜长少做梦 [Original Instances] [Thriller] [Mild Horror] [Eerie] For the first week, he was so frightened by the shadowy figure in his dreams that he didn't dare sleep. After staying awake for two nights, he started seeing ghosts everywhere he looked. Unfortunately, a month of nightmares was only the beginning of his story... 13Reads8.0Score—Shelves
- 10 I Was a Ghost Officer, but Now I Only Want a Promotion 身为鬼差的我，后来只想升官 I wield the Register of the Underworld as a ghost officer, commanding the power to seize souls. Everyone says the King of Hell is the supreme ruler of the netherworld, but to me, he is merely a stepping stone. The underworld is vast, and the Nine Hells are deep. Is that really the limit of my ambition? I want to break the Nine Hells’ shackles, shatter the chains between yin and yang, ascend to the realm of the Great Emperor, and rule the netherworlds of all realms. Only then will my lifelong wis 31Reads6.0Score—Shelves
- 11 This Is a Rule Horror Story, So Why Are You Making Me Dance on a Grave? 这是规则怪谈，你让我坟头蹦迪 [The eerie descends + no saintly do-gooder + survival escape + no System + high IQ] When Chen Mo wakes up with no memories, he finds himself aboard a battered bus with seven strangers, men and women alike. The bus is headed for a tunnel called Yellow Springs, and that is where Chen Mo enters a world of rule-based horrors. Not only must Chen Mo search for clues and fight to survive in this perilous world of bizarre rules, he must also recover every memory he has lost. After enduring countless har —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 12 The Haunted House: The End of the Mist World 2 诡舍：迷雾世界终点2 [Transmigrate into a book + infinite flow + mild horror + instances + single heroine] Fu Jinyue unexpectedly transmigrates into the world of a book. After going through one bizarre, uncanny instance mission after another, Fu Jinyue gradually gets closer to the truth: the secrets of the four great families, and whether rebirth truly exists... 128Reads—Score—Shelves
- 13 Midnight Terror: Tales of the Supernatural 午夜惊魂：民间鬼事录 [Folk Taboos + Rural Ghost Stories + Episodic Tales + Chilling on Second Thought] The village elders say that some things are better believed than dismissed. Liu Er, a bachelor, picked up a red wedding dress. That very night, he heard the sound of a suona, and a faceless bride knocked on his door and said, “Liu Er, I’ve come to marry you.” Before a dead person is buried, the guiding candle at the head of the coffin must never go out. Old Liu Guang died, the candle went out, and a crack appeared 4kReads—Score174Shelves
- 14 Old Tales of Strange Happenings 民间旧诡事 The woman in red who knocks on doors late at night, the soul-binding bones beneath the locust tree, the copper-bell curse in an old house in an abandoned village... These old tales of the uncanny, scattered across the countryside, are the idle chatter of old folks and stories sealed away by time... 39Reads—Score—Shelves
- 15 Come Listen to a Ghost Story! 来听诡故事！ The chime of midnight is the switch that starts each story. Hidden here are 365 eerie legends from every corner of the world. Maybe it's the strange sobbing in the night-shift office during overtime, a stranger's long hair beside your pillow in an old residential complex, or a passenger in a white dress who vanishes in front of a cemetery. One short ghost story every night, tearing through the everyday facade to reveal the chilling truth beneath. Do you dare open this collection of midnight tale 34Reads—Score—Shelves
- 16 One Chilling Story Every Night 每晚一个惊魂故事 [One story per chapter] [Chinese-style horror] [Folk tales] [Urban vengeful spirits] [Haunted houses] [No main plot] Collected and adapted fictional tales of terror from all over, one story per chapter, each one different. No grand lectures, just bone-chilling tales rooted in everyday life. All adapted from strange folk tales passed down for years. They sound true, and the more you think about them, the more unsettling they get. Great for unwinding, but don't try to “unwind” alone in the dead of 1.1kReads—Score103Shelves
- 17 I Came from the Underworld to Deal with Those Who Defy the Rules 我从地府来，专治规则不服 I Came from the Underworld to Make the Rules Behave 1Reads—Score—Shelves
- 18 I Livestream Through My Eyes 我用眼睛来直播 Through my own eyes, I'll show you viewers the most authentic scenes of horror. No complicated streaming equipment, no carefully arranged sets. Everything I see is exactly what the viewers in the livestream can see. Have you ever seen a livestream quite like this? As long as my eyes remain open, this terrifying livestream, which will only end with my death, will never go off the air. 158Reads—Score—Shelves
- 19 The Wooden Beauty Exploits Bugs in Horror Films to Become a Legend 木头美人，惊悚片里卡BUG封神 Lu Yao, the “wooden beauty” mocked across the internet, is blacklisted for her terrible acting and forced to enter the deadly National Fate Cinema. Audiences worldwide bet she won’t last three minutes. Her teammates see her as useless dead weight. The life-taking evil spirit picks her as its first “easy target.” But when mental corruption sweeps the whole place and the actors scream in despair, Lu Yao tilts her expressionless face and asks the ghost, “You’re crying so fake. Haven’t you eaten 1Reads—Score—Shelves
- 20 Medium's Notes: My Left Eye Can See Ghosts 灵媒笔记：我的左眼能见鬼 The Cangye lineage of the Southern Frontier unleashes chaos. The Cherry Blossom Curse, Yin Soil summoning, Ruin Spirits, and malevolent earth veins emerge one after another, leaving the seals protecting the land on the brink of collapse. In a desperate battle, pure Yang Heavenly Energy collides with the turbid qi of Yin Soil inside him, forming a yin-yang vortex whose blessings and dangers are impossible to predict. His old enemies flee into the Hundred Thousand Mountains, seeking a chance to p 12Reads—Score—Shelves
- 21 I Inherited a Funeral Shop During the Hundred Ghosts' Night Parade 百鬼夜行时，我继承了一家冥铺 Lu Ci thought all his grandfather had left him was an old shop on the verge of closing. Then, one rainy night, the first customer walked through the door and bought a stack of spirit money. The next day, that very “ghost currency” appeared in someone else’s account. From then on, the shop, open only at night, began receiving one unusual customer after another: some sought wealth, some wanted to buy a life, and some only wished to exchange something for a long-overdue truth. At the end of the lon 9Reads—Score—Shelves
- 22 Don't Look Back During Evening Study at School 学校晚自习别回头 Don’t Look Back During Evening Study at School 6Reads—Score—Shelves
- 23 The Twilight Line of the Haunted Realm: Conquering It with My Wits 诡界晨昏线：靠脑子制霸诡界 [Mild horror] [No System] [Character growth] [One heroine] Countless “Haunted Realms” suddenly appeared around the world. Like black holes, they devoured ordinary people's mental energy and the real world, pushing reality to the brink of madness. In response to the crisis, all kinds of organizations sprang up. They ventured into the Haunted Realms to explore, seized haunted objects to protect themselves, and sought the truth on the edge of life and death. As their investigations deepened, they d 6Reads—Score—Shelves
- 24 Rules of the Rest Stop on a Stormy Night 暴雨夜服务区规则怪谈 Rules of the Rest Stop on a Stormy Night 4Reads—Score—Shelves
- 25 The Man Buried Upside Down 倒着埋的人 The Man Buried Upside Down 7Reads—Score—Shelves
- 26 The Strange Immortals of Northeast China 东北诡仙录 In the bitterly cold lands of Northeast China, an ancient faith has been passed down since time immemorial. It combines the ancient Chan sect’s traditions with shamanic worship of animal spirits. The animals that cultivate there are known as “Old Immortals,” and their human representatives are called spirit mediums. Among them are a brother and sister who travel the mortal world, punishing evil and upholding justice. Along the way, they encounter a female ghost seeking a husband, a drought demon 2.3kReads9.2Score231Shelves
- 27 My Neighbor Knocks on the Wall at 3 A.M. Every Day 我的邻居每天准时在凌晨3点敲墙 My neighbor knocks on the wall at exactly 3 a.m. every day 7Reads—Score—Shelves
- 28 A Madman's Fate 癫人命 [The uncanny + mind-bending suspense + horror + fictional setting + no System] At the end of that rainy night, Chen Xiu gazes at the unfamiliar world before him. He discovers that the curses have taken everything from him, even himself. Curses and uncanny horrors run rampant before his eyes, while madness and fear relentlessly batter his heart. It says: “Having witnessed what the curse can do, you must also suffer its gifts.” It says: “The death curse descends upon past and present, twisting all 10Reads—Score—Shelves
- 29 Rule-Based Survival: I Can Foresee Death 规则求生：我能预知死亡 [Infinite Flow, mild horror, terrifying dungeons, no romance, survival, not a saintly protagonist] One night, Chen Feng was walking through an abandoned park after finishing his shift at the crematorium when something strange happened. There was clearly no one behind him, yet he heard faint footsteps. At first, he thought he was imagining things, but when he listened closely, the footsteps were still there, gradually drawing nearer. They sounded as though they were deliberately mimicking his own 22.3kReads7.6Score2.2kShelves
- 30 Horror: Death Comes at Midnight 恐怖：夜半索命 I lived a routine life until the death of Old Chen changed everything. Beside his body lay a pile of handmade paper figures. One had been painted blood red and clutched in his stiff, dead hand. Blood-red words began appearing in the mirror: “Get out.” “He’s still in the building.” Then I received an ultimatum: his daughter needed a living substitute. Paper figures weren’t enough. Neither were his belongings. She wanted a living person in the building, someone warm and breathing. Tomorrow, at mid 17Reads—Score110Shelves
- 31 Fierce Netherworld: Starting as a Rainy-Night Killer 凶冥空间：从雨夜杀人魔开始 [Infinite Flow + The Weird Arrives, No Heroine] Could the beautiful new neighbor really be a serial killer who strikes on rainy nights? Gu Li sees through her disguise, only to get dragged into an even stranger space. Black fog rolls in and terror descends. To survive, Gu Li searches for a way to clear each instance, solving puzzles like mad and escaping certain death. But after completing a series of missions, he discovers that the weird has already arrived in the real world, and a supernatural 5.3kReads7.1Score365Shelves
- 32 Rule Horror: Every Rule Is Waiting for Me to Break It 规则怪谈：所有规则都在等我违规 Rule Horror: Every Rule Is Waiting for Me to Break It 2Reads—Score—Shelves
- 33 The Yandere Heroine Goes on a Killing Spree in a Horror Game 病娇女主在恐怖游戏里杀疯了 No romance + infinite-flow + horror games + unhinged powerhouse + invincible + comedy + face-slapping + Jin Bao is crazy and cool Jin Jiu seemed perfectly normal on the surface, but her mental state was a thing of beauty. While rescuing someone, she was pulled into a beginner's instance. Jin Jiu, facing a monster: “I've been so polite. What are you still unhappy about?” The beginner's instance ended. Everyone else cleared it, but Jin Jiu got trapped in instances that kept growing more difficult, 288Reads8.2Score101Shelves
- 34 Rule Horror: All My Teammates Are Crazy 规则怪谈：我的队友全是神经病 [The main CP is a male-male couple] [Romance] [Supernatural horror] [Social satire] [Mystery and deduction] [CPs include both men and women] The God-Sealing Game has descended on this planet for the second time. No one knows who will succeed in becoming a god this time and become a legend for future generations. The mysterious Andrew Card seems like a divine gift, yet something about it feels sinister. Zzzzt A sudden burst of static swept through everyone's minds. [Humanity's God-Sealing Plan in 77Reads—Score—Shelves
- 35 Tales of the Unextinguished Lights 不熄灯异闻录 More chilling than ghost stories, these tales recount the uncanny happenings secretly passed down by our elders! Children will be too scared to walk alone at night after hearing them, and adults will want to pay their respects to their ancestors. This is a book of taboos that the village elders tried to keep from being written! This collection of short stories features folk horror, supernatural mysteries, thrillers, legends, strange tales, and fantasy from across China and around the world. 23Reads—Score—Shelves
- 36 No Hints in the Instance 副本无提示 [The rating just came in, and it will rise later] [Mild horror + varied horror styles + original scenarios + fresh, unconventional scenarios + intelligent characters + no female lead or romantic subplots] Have any of you watching heard of the elevator ghost game? They say that if you follow the instructions, you can reach another world. Chen Feng is a video creator whose content is playing all kinds of horror games found online. He occasionally livestreams, too. During a livestream of the elevat 71.4kReads7.8Score11.5kShelves
- 37 My Master Gave Me a Car for Investigating the Supernatural 师父传我一辆看事儿车 A thousand-year-old van? Built by hand from scratch [Traditional horror]➕ [Even more immersive as an audiobook]➕ [Uncovering the truth about my origins] Greetings, dear readers! [Traditional supernatural horror, primal fear] The original experience of horror is the fear a person feels when experiencing it firsthand. [First person, highly atmospheric] Give me a chance to tell this story from my own point of view. [Uncovering the truth about my origins] Along the way, I met many people. “The gates 17Reads—Score—Shelves
- 38 Another World: Horror Game 异世界：恐怖游戏 [When a horror game descends, a yandere BOSS targets her from the start] Dropped into a disastrous situation right away? Sorry, someone has already talked himself into falling for her. Yu Xinlan was accidentally swept into another world, where she encountered a village of inverted red and white, a “perfect” yet eerie school, a temple where every wish came true... Each dungeon concealed a bloody past and its own rules. She proceeded cautiously, yet the same man kept maliciously raising the diffi 807Reads—Score149Shelves
- 39 Part-Time Underworld Constable: A Taoist Priest Investigates Murders in the City 阴差兼职：贫道在都市查凶 A lazy, penny-pinching, down-and-out Taoist is forced to work off his debts as a part-time underworld officer! A reclusive old man dies mysteriously, ghostly passengers haunt the midnight subway, and vengeful spirits from cold cases return. The entire city turns out to be a giant formation for a fiend to refine evil spirits! Police captain: There are no ghosts or gods in this world! → I take it all back! Master Chen, save me! Black Impermanence: Slacking off costs you underworld merit; shirking 1Reads—Score—Shelves
- 40 The Strange and Supernatural Things I’ve Heard and Seen 那些我所闻所见的灵异事 I’ll tell stories about the strange things that have happened to me over the years, along with the folk secrets and I Ching mysticism I’ve learned. At the start of each story, I’ll say whether I experienced it myself or heard it from someone else. I may not tell them in chronological order. I need to remember and organize everything, so I’ll just talk about whatever comes to mind. Things I experienced myself may be exaggerated, but they’re absolutely true. As for some of the stories I’ve heard, 2.5kReads—Score163Shelves
- 41 The Horror Industrial Park 恐怖工业园 You're a seasoned wage slave. One day, you're dragged into a [Weird and Absurd + Comedic and Witty + Not Brain-Dead + Not a Wish-Fulfillment Story + Exploring Human Nature + Enter at Your Own Risk] strange other world. You think that if you complete the System's tasks, you'll return to the real world. What you don't know is that this other world exists because of you... 16Reads—Score—Shelves
- 42 Ghost Game 鬼游戏 [Infinite-Flow + Horror Mystery + Supernatural + Ensemble Cast + Mild Horror + Strong Female Lead + Plot-Driven] The human heart is more terrifying than the paranormal. Grievances fill the human world, summoning the Grudge God. GQ2026.12.28. After a rain of blood, the Ghost Game appeared out of nowhere and began invading the human 45Reads—Score—Shelves
- 43 Nether Pill 冥丸 [Rule-based horror + fateful mind games + Red Plum Opera Troupe + unmarked waystation] The opera stage's sugar debt, the morning mist scented with locust blossoms, the cold jade, and a line from an opera that was never finished. I took a night watch job with the Red Plum Opera Troupe, only to discover that its members had been dead for thirty years. Every rule in the script exacts a life when broken. This book is a prequel to Records of the Ten Days of Yin Guests. All the foreshadowing for the 4Reads—Score—Shelves
- 44 Infinite Nightmares: I Have a Pair of Ghost Ears 无限噩梦：我有一对鬼耳 [Infinite Flow], [Mild Horror], [No Female Lead], [Survive by the Skin of Your Teeth], [Unconventional Turtle Soup Riddles], [Nontraditional Rule-Based Horror], [Not a Wish-Fulfillment Story, Not Invincible] [Slow-paced, packed with details, and full of complex plot twists!] [Read at your own risk if that's not your thing!!!] I sat on a deserted street in the dead of night, listening to them whisper. I was a little confused. Wasn't I the only one here? (Instance 1: Prolonging Life) A bit lon 27kReads7.9Score3.3kShelves
- 45 My Midnight Livestream Room 我的午夜直播间 An unconventional livestream. A turning point in fate. Welcome to the Midnight Livestream. Here you'll find not only expedition streams unlike anything you've ever seen, but also a place where souls are kept in captivity, beyond anything you could imagine. 1.3kReads8.2Score113Shelves
- 46 Crime Scene 凶案现场 Take a close look at every crime scene. With unconventional investigative methods and a uniquely compelling perspective, you'll feel as if you're right there experiencing each murder. Keep some fast-acting heart medication nearby, just in case. Case one: A 19-year-old high school student is found dumped in a park, with his mouth full of feces. What did the victim do before he died? Case two: A top domestic actress is brutally murdered in her home. The scene is horrifying, and her body has been m 90Reads8.2Score—Shelves
- 47 My Pale Life 我苍白的一生 My name is Zhang Yuan, though my childhood nickname was Ergou. I'm male, born in 1990. Everyone encounters all kinds of strange, inexplicable things in life. By the way, do you believe in ghosts? 473Reads8.4Score101Shelves
- 48 The Skinning Ghost 扒皮鬼 (Traditional supernatural horror + extreme horror + multiple twists + mystery + entirely handcrafted) Lately, I've been having nightmares every night. A fortune-teller said I might have a ghost clinging to me. He told me about a forbidden folk ritual: Put on a pair of worn underwear over your head, and it will block a ghost's sight. That night, I got home and followed his advice, half believing it. My girlfriend came back to the room after washing up and stared blankly at where I was. "Where... 64.7kReads8.3Score7.2kShelves
- 49 Making a Wish to a Ghost 向鬼许愿 A school where everyone has vanished. A company that serves ghosts. A city crawling with vengeful spirits. A mountain of weeping where yin and yang are turned upside down. … In an age when paranormal phenomena run rampant, Gu Shan possesses a terrifying wish-granting machine that can crush any supernatural incident. But each wish also carves an even deeper despair. “After you make your tenth wish, we’ll meet again in a world without pain.” (The original title of this book was The Tenth Wish.) 4.9kReads7.9Score468Shelves
- 50 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
