Novels like After My Master Left, the Funeral Shop Became Connected to the Underworld
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- 1 What! You Became a Taoist Priest? 什么！你当道士去了？ After spending several years studying the Dao, I came down from the mountain and went home, only to find that my childhood friend had taken up spirit-medium work! He even claimed I had a ghost on me! I nearly beat him half to death. In the end, after I attacked him physically, he admitted he'd been fooled too... Then the two of us set off on a series of adventures, helping people deal with their problems. 22Reads—Score—Shelves
- 2 Legends of Funiu Mountain: Body Snatching 伏牛山异闻之夺舍 Strange Tales of Funiu Mountain: Body Snatching 3Reads—Score—Shelves
- 3 Legends of Funiu Mountain: Mother's Wedding Robe 伏牛山异闻之娘的嫁衣 Strange Tales of Funiu Mountain: Mother’s Wedding Dress 2Reads—Score—Shelves
- 4 I Turned My In-Laws' Home into a Joyful Tomb 我把婆家变喜坟 I Turned My In-Laws’ Home into a Joyful Tomb —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 5 Legends of Funiu Mountain: Strange Whispers Beyond the Door 伏牛山异闻之门外的诡语 Strange Tales of Funiu Mountain: The Eerie Words Outside the Door —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 6 I Stride Between Yin and Yang, Wiping Out Every Monster in the World 我！脚踏阴阳，除尽世间魍魉 [Ghosts in the Story + Mystery and Deduction + Unheard-of Bizarre Events] A food delivery order at midnight, a high heel piercing through the back of someone’s head... After his wife becomes pregnant, the shadow of a man walks out of their bedroom in the middle of the night. Is it a ghost fetus, or...? A forest ranger in a primeval forest catches a monster that can take human form... Three security guards die in a row at a construction site, yet someone still wants to take the job. What could be 37Reads6.5Score—Shelves
- 7 A Daoist Priest with a Contract in the Underworld 地府签约道士 Hidden deep in Wuxian Mountain stands a dilapidated Taoist temple, shabby and abandoned by worshippers. Few know that it is tightly enclosed by three layers of feng shui formations, whose cores lie buried at the foot of the mountain, suppressing four zombie patriarchs powerful enough to overturn the balance of yin and yang. For a hundred years, only three masters and disciples have guarded the temple and its deadly secret: the master maintains the formation, the senior disciple protects the temp 20Reads6.5Score—Shelves
- 8 I Joined a Yangtze River Sand-Dredging Crew and Pulled Up a Ghost Bride with My Own Hands 我在长江捞沙队，亲手捞上鬼新娘 “Folklore,” “ghosts and monsters,” “the supernatural,” “mythology” The sand-dredging crew pulled up a ghost bride who had been offered to the River God. From then on, the bride began haunting them, and strange things kept happening. The River God was furious, too, and demanded that we give him an explanation! With no other choice, I went with the crew to the River God’s lair. There, we came across countless monsters from legend: yuan dragons, flood dragons, corpse-liberation rings... We also unc —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 9 Haunted by a Hundred Ghosts, Hunted by Paper Dolls: I Open a Shop Selling Divine Talismans 百鬼缠身，纸人索命，我开店卖神符 They say there’s an office on the street, run by a young man. Want to know what fortune has in store for you? Want to know if someone secretly gazes at you in the dead of night? Want to satisfy your desires? He’s right there. Come on in. Who will the next customer be? 100Reads—Score—Shelves
- 10 Cheongdam Supernatural Affairs Office 清潭灵异事务所 Legend has it that vengeful ghosts haunt Longhua Wetland Park. After sending one final photo, my cousin Chu Rui’an vanished without a trace here. … My name is Chu Yan’an. I used to be just an ordinary photographer. I ventured into Longhua Park at night to find Chu Rui’an and nearly lost my life. There, I met Qin Shu, the head of the Qingtan Paranormal Affairs Office, with phoenix-like eyes and an otherworldly beauty that defied gender. The female ghost on Red Bridge, the swarms of water ghosts 3.4kReads8.9Score754Shelves
- 11 A Red Coffin for the Funeral, a White Sedan for the Wedding 红棺送葬，白轿迎亲 Yin-Yang Eyes + Supernatural Beings + Protectors + Four Divine Beasts + No Romance From the start, he awakens Yin-Yang Eyes, and the Red-and-White Fiends come to claim his soul! That was when I discovered that my grandfather had another identity: he was a Yin-Yang Master and the head of the sect guarding the mountain gate. My peaceful life was turned upside down. The black dog at home began speaking, and the neighbor who had looked after me since childhood was facing death. But the conspiracy be 17Reads—Score—Shelves
- 12 My Paranormal Memoirs 我的灵异自传经历 The story follows the male protagonist through a series of supernatural and terrifying events he personally experienced as a boy and later as an adult. Each chapter is a new story, beginning with memories from his childhood, as the paranormal incidents grow steadily more frightening. 2Reads—Score—Shelves
- 13 Fellow Daoist, Stay Alive, or This Poor Priest Won’t Be Able to Sleep 道友不死，贫道睡不着啊 Unorthodox paths have existed since ancient times! The righteous despise them, and the heretical sects reject them. Gu Xiu, proprietor of Zero Affairs, is an unorthodox cultivator registered with Bureau 749. Those in the mystic arts who want to show him respect call him the Celestial Evil Daoist. Those who don’t will kindly call him Old Demon Gu in their dying moments. “Our grudges are settled. Now, fellow cultivator, please go and die. Otherwise, I won’t be able to sleep!” 67Reads6.4Score—Shelves
- 14 Paranormal Investigation Bureau 2: Miracle 诡事调查局2：奇迹 [Urban] + [two male leads] + [supernatural mystery] After wrapping up a series of bizarre cases, Chu Zhetian and Jing Chen face a new challenge. How will they handle it this time? 24Reads—Score—Shelves
- 15 I Have a General Store in a Strange World 诡异世界我有一间杂货铺 (Wild premise + suspense + strong heroine + unhinged + no romance) Lin Ke worked herself to the bone to finally live in the eerie world in human form. Not only that, she also brought humanity into this world, where the rules forbid humans from existing. Along the way, she went from being a shopkeeper running a general store to the lord of a ghost city, and eventually became the ruler of the eerie world. But the adventures never stopped. She broke through one obstacle after another, all for the a 3Reads8.0Score—Shelves
- 16 The Spirit Realm Tycoon's Daily Pursuit of His Husband: The Aloof Captain Is Too Hard to Woo 灵界大佬追夫日常高冷队长太难撩 When spirit pets run wild and the rules are broken, what kind of story will the two of them share? Su Yichen is a cool-headed team leader who has solved countless cases. Then, during an incident involving a spirit pet running amok, he meets a mysterious man. Mo Yuan, the enigmatic owner of a spirit-pet shop, can control countless spirit pets with a mere touch of his fingertips. He approached Su Yichen to investigate the unusual aura surrounding him, but as they spent time together, he was draw 24Reads—Score—Shelves
- 17 Agent of the Supernatural 诡怪代理人 Comic artist Lin You suddenly gets a phone call informing him that he’s inherited an estate. In the blink of an eye, he becomes a rich second-generation heir. Grateful, he burns paper offerings and prays to the gods, never expecting to summon a ferocious ghost... 82Reads9.1Score—Shelves
- 18 Apocalypse Descends: So I’m the Leader of the Mutants 末世降临：原来我是异种老大 In 2056, a solar storm swept across the globe, plunging the world into darkness for seven days and seven nights. Earth's ozone layer was destroyed, and solar radiation reached the ground. After that, the whole world changed. Then the crisis arrived, officially ushering in the Age of Death. A hundred years later, Fang Duonan, a boy from an ordinary border city, was supposed to go out and complete a task as required. But someone tried to kill him. When he woke up, he had a strange ghost hand attac 145Reads8.4Score—Shelves
- 19 The Engineer's Strange Case Files 工程诡录 Please note: This story has no harem, no brainless characters, no overpowered cheat, and uses science instead of mysticism. If that's not your thing, please don't read. A staunch atheist with a PhD in control engineering is unexpectedly sent as a technical consultant to a new factory plagued by strange incidents. One bizarre equipment failure follows another, yet every scientific method he knows proves useless. With only three days left to finish the project, Dr. Qi decides to use scientific ins 1Reads8.0Score—Shelves
- 20 The Impermanence Handbook 无常手札 This is an utterly ordinary workday diary. Forced to impersonate an immortal, assist the City God, transferred to serve as a deathless messenger, and travel between the worlds of the living and the dead. It all begins with a fortune-teller’s prophecy... 15Reads—Score—Shelves
- 21 I Sign Contracts with Demonic Beasts to Extend Their Lives in Strange Cases 我在诡案里签妖兽续命 [Unsolved Mysteries + Demonic Beasts + Mild Horror + Episodic Stories + No Romance] When I was on the brink of death after a car accident, I unexpectedly activated the Demon Beast-Seeking System. To stay alive, I was forced to travel around making contracts with demonic beasts. From then on, I could see the lingering memories of the dead, as well as the [qi] surrounding the living. Police officers were wreathed in gray qi around the chest, while black qi churned above celebrities' brows... I kep 355Reads8.3Score100Shelves
- 22 The Soul-Caller at Midnight 夜半叫魂人 My grandfather was the last soul-caller in the village. Before he died, he warned me: no matter whose voice I heard calling my name in the middle of the night, I must never answer. Then, late one night, I heard my mother calling anxiously from outside the door. I was just about to respond when a cold hand clamped over my mouth from behind. When I turned around, I saw my grandfather, who had been buried three days earlier. —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 23 The Spirit Medium’s Journal: Strange Encounters on the Job 出马实录：我出马遇到的邪乎事儿 [Feng Shui and the Eight Trigrams + folk arcane arts + sorcery + Qimen Dunjia] I was born in a small county in Northeast China. My ancestors hunted fox spirits, killed yellow spirits, and soaked snakes in liquor. Our family also had a whole spirit retinue, so I was born destined to make my living this way. It was fate, so I went along with it and became a spiritual medium. Along the way, I encountered all kinds of bizarre, horrifying, and downright eerie events. [This story is adapted from real 32.4kReads8.8Score2.8kShelves
- 24 Thirteen Years in the Shady Business 我捞偏门十三年 [The rating just came out, but it'll go up later] I entered the business in 2008 and retired in 2021. People usually call those of us in this line of work "readers of the unseen." In thirteen years on the job, only about eighty percent of the strange cases I handled ended well. All I can say is that ghosts aren't the most sinister things out there. Some things don't even have names you can call them by. 56.8kReads8.9Score10kShelves
- 25 I Prove Longevity Alongside the Azure Wolf 我与青狼证长生 The bad news: I egged my buddy on to climb a mountain, and it made him transmigrate! The worse news: My buddy transmigrated into a beast demon?! To stay alive, I made a life-bound pact with my buddy, who's now a blue wolf! And so the Beast Taming Sect gained one very oddball duo! Me, a brawny body cultivator, charging into close combat! Him, a top student of a beast demon, wielding every technique under the sun! Other people charge into battle with their spirit beasts leading the way. With mine, 4.2kReads7.1Score436Shelves
- 26 I Ran into Ghosts on the First Day of School and Became the Paranormal World's Ceiling 开学撞鬼后，我成了灵异天花板 [Campus supernatural mysteries, suspense and horror, male lead's growth, gradually becoming decisive and ruthless, power fantasy, mystery] The Gate of the Underworld lies hidden on campus. Its gatekeeper vanished years ago, and the place has become a gathering ground for evil spirits. Lin Ye was an ordinary student, but was forced onto the path of exorcising evil and guiding souls to their next lives. He dispels resentment, suppresses malice, purifies filth, drives out evil spirits, and guides l 72Reads—Score—Shelves
- 27 Tales of Ghosts and Soul-Soothing 安魂鬼事录 [Two male leads + fated reincarnation + supernatural suspense + tragic romance + mind-blowing twists] I'm just a soul-soother, yet the Tianxing Leixiao Sect saddled me with a “hot potato”: Chen Wushe, a man with countless secrets. And every one of Chen Wushe's secrets is tied to me. To solve the mystery, I have no choice but to take Chen Wushe on a journey to find the Pojun Blade. The soul of the Demon Lord Chongxiao is hidden in the strangely restored Pojun Blade! And the Tianxing Leixiao Sect 90Reads—Score—Shelves
- 28 The Longevity Project 长生计划 A handsome young man has turned up at my house, mooching food and lodging without paying, all under the excuse that he’s lost his memory. Every sign points to the fact that he has been alive for a very long time... 465Reads8.3Score106Shelves
- 29 Nine Out of Ten Divinations Are Wrong 【十卦九不准】 [No heroine, not a power fantasy, no tired tropes. A sequel to The Nether Road, also known as Strange Tales of the Spirit Road.] Read people's fortunes when you meet them; divine the dead's paths when you encounter ghosts. Use yarrow stalks to cast hexagrams, and pluck gold to change fate. Walk among the corpses without fear, and never lose your way in the underworld. The practitioners of yin and yang arts investigate strange cases, while ancient mystic traditions probe the hearts of humankind. 533Reads8.7Score107Shelves
- 30 A Stranger's Path Through the Ghost World 鬼途陌路 Modern setting + horror + suspense + supernatural + strong female lead Hu Ying is a funeral makeup artist who just wants to earn a little money and lie flat. Who would have thought that after an accident, she’d be forced onto a one-way road where she’d have to live among ghosts? From then on, she uncovers conspiracies and fights evil cults, and somehow ends up at the very peak of life... 93Reads—Score—Shelves
- 31 Yin-Yang Paper Effigy Maker 阴阳纸扎匠 The paper effigies my grandfather made could subdue spirits and drive away evil energy. He passed this craft down to me alone. Back in his day, my grandfather was a renowned master in the world of feng shui. I thought I could carry on his legend, but I was set up as soon as I struck out on my own. It turns out there’s another me in this world! (No System, no mindless protagonist, no stale tropes, no cultivation.) 422Reads6.9Score—Shelves
- 32 Ghost Curse 鬼咒 Stars are people too. Let me tell you about the times I followed my master and helped some Chinese celebrities change their fate. Changing someone's fate, of course, starts with raising a little ghost. 3kReads—Score637Shelves
- 33 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
- 34 The Yin Master of the Living World 阳间葬阴师 I am Shen Xu, born under an ill-starred fate. On the day I was born, ghosts swarmed around me, and I barely survived my first twelve years. The day before I turned twelve, my grandfather used a living corpse hidden in a coffin to conceal my fate, while a nine-lived black cat upset the balance of yin and yang. He put my coffin on a little cart and sent it to the Xuanqing Temple on Mount Taiqing. From that day on, I set out on an uncanny and unpredictable path through the esoteric arts... 374Reads8.9Score100Shelves
- 35 My Brother Is a Ghost 我的弟弟是个鬼 Does catching ghosts have to be scary? Shen Yufei is a slick-talking, greedy, womanizing young Daoist who cons people with the help of his twin brother, now a little ghost. He takes a trip to the Northeast and gets on the wrong side of all five great immortal clans... He goes to college, catches ghosts as a side job, and becomes a little rich... His career is flourishing, but his love life is not. With his little ghost brother’s help, he subdues demons and exorcises evil spirits... and takes on 79Reads6.2Score—Shelves
- 36 Word Game 文字游戏 Nan Xiaolou, a university lecturer with a mysterious past, receives a photograph after class. It evokes the Tang dynasty poem “A Face Like Peach Blossoms, Glowing in Each Other’s Reflection” and bears an uncanny resemblance to the back of her missing friend, Yue Wuhua. Nan Xiaolou travels to the place where Cui Hu’s “Written at the Southern Villa of the Capital” was set. Following clues hidden in the poem, she finds Yue Wuhua in grave danger and uncovers a treasure from the Northern Qi dynasty, 331Reads8.6Score101Shelves
- 37 I Am the King of Hell Among Men, and No Ghost May Pass! 我，人间阎王，百鬼禁行！ [Traditional folk customs + no romance + slow burn + character growth + not a wish-fulfillment story + proceed with caution if that bothers you!] The night I was born, underworld messengers came to claim my life, and vengeful ghosts tried to seize my soul. But they didn’t know I was destined to be the Yin Emperor... I was born with the fate of the Ziwei Star! On the Cold Clothes Festival, a hundred ghosts surrounded our home, hoping to steal my fate and take over my body. To keep me alive, my 3.3kReads7.9Score187Shelves
- 38 It's 2:30 A.M. Let Me Tell You a Story! 凌晨两点半，我来给你讲故事！ Before I knew it, this book had passed 200 chapters. Time flies, and now the story is nearing its conclusion. It will end after just one million words. We’re currently in the rapid-update phase, with three chapters posted every day at 9 a.m. This book is a collection of folk horror stories set in the countryside. Each chapter is a standalone story, and every plot has been carefully crafted by the author. Comments from fellow readers are welcome. If you like it, add it to your bookshelf. 7Reads—Score—Shelves
- 39 Yellow Springs Agency 黄泉事务所 Two handsome guys solving all kinds of ghostly troubles~~ There are happy affairs and sad affairs, but in the end, they’re all affairs of the heart~~ As for the two handsome guys themselves~ Heh~ heh! Here’s the proper blurb: Crossing between the worlds of yin and yang, resolving affairs of the living and the dead. The Yellow Springs Affairs Office is at your service! Yin Yuchen looked at the young man who had interrupted his fun by suddenly appearing. Fine, whatever you can do for me... Take ca 79Reads6.8Score—Shelves
- 40 Searching for Dragon Pearls 寻龙藏珠 [First person + Suspense and exploration + Supernatural arts + Ensemble adventure + Ancient civilizations + No romance] To find my missing childhood friend, I accidentally wander into an underground cave, where a thousand-year-old drought demon bites me and leaves me afflicted with an ancient curse. The only way to suppress the curse and stay alive is to cultivate using Dragon Pearls. Thus begins my perilous and unpredictable quest to find dra 234Reads8.9Score—Shelves
- 41 What Do You Mean the Corpses I Sew Together Are All Cursed? 什么叫我缝的尸体都是大凶之物？ [Chinese folk customs] [Corpse seamster] [Traditional supernatural horror] [A clever protagonist who isn’t an idiot] My name is Chen Yang. I’m a mortician, or rather... a corpse seamster. I can sew up corpses no one else can. I can take jobs no one else dares to accept. I’ve handled all sorts of bizarre cases: people who jumped from buildings in red clothes, corpses missing arms and legs, and even one person who was holding their own head... Everyone says the corpses I sew up are all terribly un 215.9kReads9.1Score28.8kShelves
- 42 The Keeper of Fate 守命人 Five years ago, my brother became addicted to gambling and racked up 700,000 yuan in debt. To pay it off, he went to Xiangxi’s Corpse-Hiding Cave to carry corpses and gamble with his life. 844Reads7.2Score149Shelves
- 43 A Swing's Shadow Cast Over the Wall 隔墙送过秋千影 [Two Male Leads + Supernatural Horror + Amnesia + Redemption + Happy Ending] Huaihua South Road Private Psychiatric Hospital is on the verge of closing, but with so many patients inside and such a complicated mix of conditions, it has yet to officially shut its doors. There are all sorts of rumors about the hospital. When Bai Su first arrived as an intern, he was absolutely certain that he was a materialist. But the door of the hospital restroom never stays shut, and the sound of dripping water 4Reads—Score—Shelves
- 44 Clan Cultivation: From the Start, I Transmigrate into a Demonic Rope 家族修仙：开局穿越成了魔绳 #Cultivation Clan#Slow-Burn Ordinary-Mortal Story#No Female Lead#Decisive and Ruthless... Shen Mo transmigrates into a demon god sealed by a rope of Immortal King rank. A cultivation clan on the brink of destruction finds him. He can communicate with its members and lend them his power for a short time, but the price is their lives, essentially a sacrificial possession. He can also briefly possess outsiders, grow stronger, and clear away obstacles. From then on, he dwells within the demonic rope —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 45 Ghost Hunting: My Baton Is Made of Thunderstruck Wood! 捉鬼：我的警棍可是雷击木做的！ The protagonist, Chen Mo, starts out as an ordinary criminal police officer. After stumbling upon a supernatural incident, he is recruited by the Special Security Department to join its Seventh Squad, which specializes in handling paranormal cases. The Seventh Squad is a unit stationed in the field that deals with supernatural criminal cases. Hidden within the police station, its members work with beings the public knows nothing about. 234Reads—Score—Shelves
- 46 After My Face Was Stolen, I Drew the Six Realms of Living Beings 我的脸被夺走后我画出六道众生相 My face was stolen. It wasn’t disfigured. It wasn’t disguised. My face was literally gone. To stay alive, I had no choice but to paint one new face after another onto my own. Human, ghost, demon, beast, god, immortal. Every face I painted gave me a new ability. As I tried to reclaim my original face, I gradually discovered that this world was far more complicated than it seemed. 96Reads—Score126Shelves
- 47 The Yin-Yang Master of the Wilderness 山野阴阳先生 [Yinshan + Maoshan + Folk legends + Supernatural + No saintly protagonist + No womanizing] My grandfather from Yinshan protects my life, and my brothers from Maoshan protect my body. As a Yin-Yang Master who walks among the dead, all I carry is an umbrella and a copper bell. Deep in the mountains, I encountered an old shapeshifter gnawing on a living person's hand. In southern Xinjiang, a demonic carpet sucked people's lifeblood in the middle of the night. In western Yunnan, a one-legged ghost 56.6kReads6.7Score2.4kShelves
- 48 Jade Curse 玉咒 My family has a blood curse passed down through the generations. None of the men in our family live past the age of fifty. The source of the curse turns out to be a living piece of ancient jade. 1.6kReads8.8Score290Shelves
- 49 The Spirit Medium Qing Xuan 出马仙清玄 A strip of red cloth, three feet and three inches long. The old hall's people and horses, the old hall's immortal. Whip the horse down the mountain, and make your name known throughout the land. I was born in 1990 in an ordinary village in a northeastern province. When I was three, a great deity said I would one day take up the incense and become a spirit medium. I didn't believe in fate, but in the end, I did become one. Over the years, I've worked as a chef, served as a leader, and entered the 1.1kReads7.2Score103Shelves
- 50 The Walking Corpse Files 走尸档案 I knew a group of people like this, and accidentally became one of them. They knew ancient secret arts for finding people through corpse refinement. With a person's birth date and time and an item belonging to someone who had gone missing, they used divination, the Eight Gates and Hidden Armor, and the arts of ghosts and spirits to make nowhere safe for the missing, whether living or dead! 658Reads8.1Score103Shelves
