Novels like Those Years I Spent Hunting Ghosts in Kunming
Books Chinese readers most often put in the same booklists as Those Years I Spent Hunting Ghosts in Kunming, best match first.
- 51 The Taboos of Moving a Grave: I’m Forced to Be a Dead Man’s Best Man 迁坟禁忌，我被迫给死人当伴郎 Inside a brightly decorated hall, I was serving as best man to a corpse. After that, I went through all kinds of bizarre events... The dead kept sending me gifts I couldn't get rid of. A dried corpse murder case that claimed three lives in a single day. The undead patrolling a wilderness graveyard. A pale child who nailed himself inside a coffin. And the thatched hut that stole people's lifespans. To understand what started this endless string of events, we have to go back to the part-time job I 35Reads8.8Score—Shelves
- 52 Who Gets to Decide Whether You Have a Spiritual Root? 有没有灵根谁说了算 The Qingming Mountains of Xuanzhou were once the supreme ancestral grounds of the ancient Taixu Dao Sect. A Cataclysm of Returning to Dust overturned mountains and rivers, collapsing the ancient paths and severing the immortal veins. The sect’s sacred grounds, once renowned throughout the heavens, fell into ruin and became the home of the second-rate Qingxuan Sect. After the cataclysm, the Immortal Realm buried the truth and rewrote the Dao lineage, leaving later generations with an incomplete a 8Reads—Score—Shelves
- 53 Hong Kong’s Yin Chronicles: The Domino Curse 香江陰錄：骨牌劫 Hong Kong Yin Chronicles: The Bone Tile Calamity —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 54 I'm a Bar Owner, Forced to Catch Ghosts 我，酒吧老板，被迫营业捉鬼 [Horror + supernatural + semi-invincible + no System + not brainless + ruthless decisiveness] I’m Heibai, an utterly ordinary bar owner. I only wanted to live a quiet life, but one commission and one problem after another keep landing on my doorstep. Curse magic, a drug-induced dreamless sleep, a yin-yang wedding, a deadly text message... As the Underworld descends, little Jiangcheng becomes a den of danger, and one strange incident after another unfolds. Well, looks like I can’t hide my abiliti 1.2kReads8.8Score110Shelves
- 55 Grudge-Locked Patterns 怨气锁纹 Dai Xiaochao, the protagonist, is a college graduate in architecture from the 1990s. Under heavy financial pressure, he moves into a tenement building where a locked-room murder took place two years earlier. Surveillance was scarce in those days, so the police had to investigate door to door, and the case made little progress. Then the ancient Taotie jade pendant inherited by Dai Xiaochao’s family, along with its Taotie patterns, begins to react... And that is where the story begins. 7Reads—Score—Shelves
- 56 Strange Tales from the Northeast Paranormal Investigation Bureau 东北民调局异闻录 This is an organization dedicated to investigating and handling all kinds of bizarre supernatural events. To avoid causing public panic, it was established under the name Bureau of Folklore Investigations. The novel reimagines and develops various supernatural legends from Northeast China. Its strange events and compelling stories are presented with a distinctive Northeastern sense of humor. All manner of mysterious incidents, mountain spirits, and ghosts are told here! 415Reads—Score—Shelves
- 57 The Yin-Yang Geomancer’s Legacy 阴阳地师传 At ten years old, I slew a white serpent and subdued a hundred ghosts. The generals of the underworld called me “little brother.” Using feng shui, the art of Qimen, and Taoist magic, I solved one strange murder case after another! It all began with the corpse of a man in a cornfield! 6Reads—Score—Shelves
- 58 Cornered and Surrounded! I Turned Around and Devoured the Ultimate Demon Lord 绝境！围杀！我反手吞了终极魔主 Others guard tombs, but I guard immortals. The ancient mastermind has set its sights on me! Chen Xuan transmigrates into a cultivation world as a cannon-fodder character and awakens the “Tomb Keeper” fate. He is sent to guard the Immortal-Burying Mountain Range, a colossal graveyard containing an ancient immortal sect, the Ark of the Other Shore, and battlefields from across the heavens! Others cultivate with spiritual energy. Chen Xuan cultivates by “looting corpses”! He finds the Earth Emperor 25Reads—Score—Shelves
- 59 Old Alley Sound Repair: At Midnight Tonight, Qin Opera Calls the Souls 旧巷声修：今夜子时，秦腔引魂 [One Heroine + Sound Cultivation + Qin Opera + Livestreaming + Supernatural Mystery + Urban + Adventure] In modern society, information explodes across the world, and human negativity is amplified through social media, forming an immense “Tide of Resentment.” If no one guides and dispels it, within three years it will gather into a “Lament of Doomsday,” and the boundary between the worlds of yin and yang will collapse completely. Humanity’s power comes from “the Power of Wishes”: energy formed w —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 60 A Horror Game? I'm So Scared! 惊悚游戏？我好怕怕啊！ [Comedy + horror game + System + invincible protagonist + escape rooms. Not scary, not scary, NOT scary!] Horror games descend upon Earth, randomly selecting players to take part. With the help of his System, Lin Fangzhou has become invincible in this world, and finally enters the game. Determined to prove his intelligence, Lin Fangzhou embarks on a journey of deduction and puzzle-solving. However, the bosses in the horror games keep interrupting him. To keep them from disrupting his deductions, 661Reads7.0Score100Shelves
- 61 I Was a Taoist Priest in Republican-Era China 我在民国当道士 A man born in a yin year, yin month, and yin day follows his master onto the path of cultivation... 1.2kReads6.7Score101Shelves
- 62 Chronicles of the Otherworldly 异者战纪 (No System, not reborn, no formulaic tropes, one heroine.) Thousands of years ago, Nightmare Beasts descended, and the land of Huaxia teetered on the brink of collapse. The Four Auspicious Beasts made a pact with humanity and the spirits of all living things. Those who inherited the totems of living creatures and gained extraordinary powers came to be known as the Gifted. The Gifted fought bloody battles against the Nightmare Beasts, guarding Huaxia alongside the inheritors of the Four Symbols' 2Reads8.3Score—Shelves
- 63 You Were Supposed to Catch Ghosts, So Why Are You Flirting with Girls Everywhere? 让你捉鬼，你却到处撩妹 “You little brat, I told you to catch ghosts, but you’re out there flirting with women. Last time, the client even complained that you kept staring at her chest and thighs.” “Hehe! She was dressed so skimpy and had such long legs. She was practically asking people to look. I’d be a fool not to!” 363Reads—Score102Shelves
- 64 I Am a Life-Pawn Broker 我是赊命人 [Life on Credit + Past and Present Lives + Destiny + Growth] Past and present lives, the river of fate, and sealed memories on the verge of awakening. He was born under a fate marked by three misfortunes and seven defeats. But after inheriting the Heavenly Soul of King Wu, a twist of fate led him into the Azure Dragon Sect, where he became a Life-Borrower. Life-Borrowers use soul power to wield Daoist arts. Thanks to this unusual profession and the soul of King Wu, Shen Rufeng possesses extraord 12Reads8.9Score—Shelves
- 65 Mr. Ghost, Your Takeout Is Here! 鬼先生，你的外卖到了！ (Note: Bizarre world, yandere, the female lead gradually becomes a deranged yandere, powerful male lead who hides his strength at first, horror, supernatural, ghosts and monsters, superpowers, celestial masters, a touch of comedy.) He delivers late-night snacks and slays a hundred demons and evil spirits. When the city sinks into a night of horrors, the spicy hot pot in his delivery box is still steaming, while the demons beneath his blade have gone cold. "When I twist the throttle all the way, 1Reads—Score—Shelves
- 66 The Twelve Dongling Peaks 十二峒岭 This book has been abandoned. It’s a collection of mystery stories... The moonlight at midnight lay over the quiet town like a veil. I curled up on an old sofa in the attic, flipping through a yellowed diary. The scratch of my pen echoed through the empty room. This was my third month living here, and the thirtieth night I had spent recording the secrets of this old house. —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 67 A Collection of Folk Supernatural Tales, Part One 民间灵异事件合集（上） Collection of Strange Supernatural Tales from the Countryside, Part One 3Reads—Score—Shelves
- 68 Peering into Immortality: The Eye That Sees Through Illusions 窥仙：破妄之眼 Gu Xian, a college student, never imagined that his closest roommate would vanish completely from everyone's memories overnight. His classmates don't remember him, he's missing from the photos, and even their social media history has been erased. Gu Xian is the only person in the world who remembers that he ever existed. At that moment, a pale blue-white light blazed in Gu Xian's eyes. He saw another face of the world: the hidden realm of cultivation, concealed beneath ordinary cities and foreve —Reads—Score182Shelves
- 69 In My Next Life... 下辈子…… In the next life... 4Reads—Score—Shelves
- 70 Is It Too Much for a Fortune Teller Like Me to Know a Little Yin-Yang Magic? 我一个算命的会点阴阳术不过分吧 [Maoshan Arts + Ghost Hunting + Face Reading + Powerful Connections + Walking Between the Yin and Yang Worlds + Team] Zhao Yang's grandfather made him study three books from a young age: the Zhouyi, the Ma Yi Divine Physiognomy, and a third book with no cover, whose contents were handwritten. After his grandfather passed away, Zhao Yang inherited his mantle. But now that cremation was the norm, all he could do was read people's feng shui, barely earning enough to get by. Just as he was thinking 318Reads—Score—Shelves
- 71 A Collection of Spine-Chilling Stories 惊骇故事集 The world is in turmoil, with strange and wondrous things hiding everywhere. Mysteries deep in the starry sky remain unsolved, while shocking cases unfold around a small town. Science fiction and suspense perform a double act, as Lovecraftian murders rise with the tide. The secrets in people’s hearts are hard to fathom. Just wait and see this collection unleash its waves of terror. The horror here is bizarre and grotesque, not some childish little scare. In an abandoned village shrine, a white- 1Reads—Score—Shelves
- 72 Passengers at the Funeral Home 殡仪馆的乘客 Passengers at the Funeral Home —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 73 Feng Shui Master by Fate: Commanding Yin and Yang with the Five Thunder Palm 天命风水师：五雷掌阴阳 [Supernatural Ghost-Hunting | Feng Shui and Taoist Arts | Five-Thunder Righteous Technique | Hardcore Talisman Drawing | The Protagonist Won't Take Things Lying Down] The Lin family was once the world's foremost feng shui clan, able to alter fate and determine fortune, with kings and nobles vying for its favor. As the years passed, the family dwindled. Lin Tiancheng, the last heir of the Lin family, learned the clan's secrets from his grandfather at the age of six. Evil spirits emerge and strang 2.2kReads—Score137Shelves
- 74 I Test-Sleep in Haunted Houses: My True Accounts of Ghostly Encounters! 我做凶宅试睡员，口述撞鬼实录！ [As long as you’re not afraid of ghosts, you can make money even while you sleep.] My name is Ma Jun. Two friends and I run a real estate agency. We make plenty of money, but we keep running into ghosts because all the properties we sell are haunted houses... 468Reads7.0Score—Shelves
- 75 Reborn as Zhao Gou: Who Dares Harm My Yue Family Army? 魂穿赵构，谁敢害我岳家军 Zhao Xu, a modern graduate student in history, is railing against Zhao Gou, the feckless Southern Song emperor who destroyed his own defenses and unjustly killed Yue Fei, when he unexpectedly transmigrates into the body of Emperor Gaozong of Song at the beginning of the eleventh year of the Shaoxing era. At this moment, Chancellor Qin Hui is using “insufficient state funds” and “an exhausted populace” as excuses to join a group of civil officials in petitioning the emperor to recall Yue Fei, who 1.9kReads8.2Score214Shelves
- 76 Yin-Yang Eyes: Ghostly Tales from a Mountain Village 阴阳眼之山村鬼事 On the night I was born, dark clouds covered the sky, fierce winds and torrential rain raged, and thunder boomed until dawn. Countless ghost soldiers and underworld bailiffs waited outside our home, intent on dragging me back to the underworld. If my grandfather hadn't fought to protect me, I wouldn't have lived to see morning. Dogs barked all night throughout the village. The elders called me a cursed, ill-fated child and an evil omen, and wanted to beat me to death to put an end to the calami 19Reads—Score—Shelves
- 77 The Ninth Layer of the Mortal Realm 第九重人间 Synopsis of The Ninth Layer of the Mortal Realm Chi Ying, Kyoto’s most beautiful woman, has a secret no one knows: ever since she was three, she has been dragged once a month into a place of ghosts called the Nether Ruins of Zhan Sha. There, cinnabar fades and paper money flutters through the air. Embroidered shoes walk by themselves down empty corridors, bronze mirrors reflect someone else’s face, and an abandoned opera stage endlessly performs bloody plays no one understands. For nineteen year —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 78 The Village Guardian 守村人 The Village Guardian 2Reads—Score—Shelves
- 79 Strange Tales of a Mountain Village: The Baby’s Eye and Hand 山村诡事之婴眼手 The Strange Events of a Mountain Village: Baby-Eyed Hand —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 80 Chaos Invades the World, and I Become a God by Mediating Disputes 全球混沌入侵，我靠调解成神 Light is not necessarily pure, and darkness may hold warmth. The answer lies in a truth deeper than the abyss. When the only hope of saving the world points down a dead-end path with no chance of survival, will you still have the courage to wager everything on a faint glimmer of light? 3Reads—Score—Shelves
- 81 My Ghostly Roommate 我的阴室友 [Paranormal mystery] [Updates daily, though not on a fixed schedule] [Thanks for your support ❤️] Over the summer after my college entrance exams, I kept having the same dream about my college dorm and roommates. Then I dragged my suitcase into Room 304 and saw those familiar yet unfamiliar faces, along with an empty bed. I was stunned. They were Yaoyao and Xinxin, the girls in the photo from my dream. Was the empty bed Qingqing’s? She hadn’t shown up for months after the school year began, so w 3Reads—Score—Shelves
- 82 The Rouge House 脂楼 The Rouge Tower 1Reads—Score—Shelves
- 83 My Blind Date Fell Through, So My Ancestors Left Me Ten Billion in Ghost Money 相亲不成：祖宗给我存千亿冥币 [First person] [Mystery and the supernatural] [Mild horror] [Traditional fantasy, no cultivation] 1Reads—Score—Shelves
- 84 Ten Thousand Ghost-Slaying Talismans from the Start 开局十万灭鬼符 [Endless twists | a touch of horror | both protagonists and antagonists are clever] [Definitely not a mindless power fantasy] The campus belle was being stalked by a pervert on her way home. Just as she was out of options, her mother came to rescue her. But... her mother had died years ago. So who... was that...? In the blink of an eye, a young man rescued the campus belle from danger. “You... you're actually... Wang Qi?” the campus belle exclaimed in disbelief. (The blurb doesn't do it justice. —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 85 My Hopeless Life Became Even More Desperate 我无望的人生更加绝望 After something happened to her family, Mu Xia could never move on from that day. She went through life in a daze. Until one day, she accidentally entered a world of horror. And so began a fantastical journey. She made new friends, faced all kinds of events, and lived a new life. 1Reads6.4Score—Shelves
- 86 Cherry-Colored Lies 樱桃色的谎言 Cherry-Colored Lies —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 87 All Sweet Romance 全甜宠心 [Everyone’s Darling] + [Another World] + [Adorable Child] + [System] (Note: There’s only a secondary couple. The protagonist is just three years old and can’t fall in love. The tag was added by mistake. Sorry!) Tianxin’s mother, Su Chenxi, disappeared when Tianxin was one year old. After that, her father married a scheming stepmother. The stepmother framed Tianxin and made her kneel in the snow... After her fifth uncle rescued her, Tianxin fell into a dream. Much about it made no sense, but she 17Reads—Score—Shelves
- 88 The Pact of the Ancient Book 古书之契 It all began when Lin Zhiyu picked up a strange book. Then he met the equally strange Yu Zhiyan, who seemed to have a secret connection to the book. —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 89 The Evil-Suppressing Man of the Living World 阳间镇邪人 The world is formed from the union of Heaven and Earth. Where there is righteousness, there is evil; where there is yang, there must be yin. This world is full of the strange and the terrifying, and I am part of the strange. My name is Xiao Xie. My grandfather once said that on the day I was born, I tore a vicious asura ghost apart with my bare hands... 1.6kReads7.5Score111Shelves
- 90 The Rebirth Shop: I Handle Paranormal Cases at the Funeral Home 往生铺：我在殡仪馆处理灵异事件 My name is Chen Yang, and I run a funeral shop called Passing On in the outskirts of the city. By day, I sell wreaths and make paper effigies. My business is with the dead. At midnight, I burn incense and light candles, dealing with the “unclean things” that the living would rather avoid. 359Reads—Score—Shelves
- 91 Folk Tales: A Daily Dose of Horror 民间怪谈：每日恐怖奇说 Which is more terrifying, humans or ghosts, or perhaps something unseen and even more frightening? With its distinctive narrative style, this book brings readers a series of spine-chilling horror stories. In this book, you will follow different protagonists into worlds filled with terror and eerie unease. From mysterious ancient buildings to remote, desolate places, and from ordinary everyday life to bizarre supernatural phenomena, every story is packed with unexpected twists and horrifying mome 338Reads—Score—Shelves
- 92 Miss, Wait Up, Little Taoist 女施主：小道长留步 Witty and humorous + grounded in reality and rich in metaphor + ghost hunting and the supernatural A Taoist priest descends the mountain + an utterly doting big brother + a collection of short stories + long-term foreshadowing + guiding souls to the afterlife In 2026, I hunt ghosts and guide souls in the city. Only later did I realize that human hearts are far scarier than ghosts. I have just two kinds of clients: the living and the dead. The living pay me to solve their problems. The dead pay w 26Reads—Score—Shelves
- 93 The Judge’s Brush: I Use Daoist Arts to Subdue Yin and Yang 判官执笔：我以道法镇阴阳 One case, one solution. Episodic stories, fast pacing, easy to get into. Wang Zhen was born with a fate tied to the Underworld, and holds the Judge’s Brush in his hand. He can see through the boundary between yin and yang, judge wicked spirits, and draw talismans with a fingertip. His strokes make them come alive. Curses that steal lives, girls in red at school, ghostly shadows in hospitals... One eerie, bizarre case after another, one vengeful spirit after another claiming lives. While others g 422Reads8.9Score—Shelves
- 94 My Wife Is Actually a Zombie 我的老婆竟是僵尸 The legends speak of eight kinds of Jiangshi: Purple Jiangshi: slow-moving, wreathed in purple energy. White Jiangshi: entirely white, afraid of light and fire. Green Jiangshi: unafraid of livestock, but afraid of sunlight. Hairy Jiangshi: covered in hair, unafraid of sunlight. Flying Jiangshi: skilled in magic, able to fly through the sky and burrow underground. Wandering Corpse: travels between the worlds of yin and yang, gathering the resentment of heaven and earth. Buried Corpse: imperishabl 48Reads—Score—Shelves
- 95 Midnight Mysteries: 50 Chilling Truths to Think About 午夜诡事：50个细思极恐真相 A mirror at midnight, an empty elevator, a friend who always likes your posts within seconds, a shadow that comes to life... 50 uncanny experiences so real they'll make your scalp tingle. Every one happens in everyday life, and every one exposes the darkest side of human nature. You think they're ghost stories. In truth, they're about the human heart. Volume One The home you live in, the takeout you order, the mirror you look into, the people around you... All of them hide strange things you don —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 96 Copper Coins Devour the Heavens: I Livestream Changing Fates in the Mortal World 铜钱噬天：我在人间直播改命 Set in a modern urban world of metaphysics, fortune-tellers use the Four Pillars of Destiny, face reading, feng shui, and other methods to glimpse the secrets of fate. Su Minghe, the protagonist, is a fortune-telling streamer who inherited his family’s copper-coin divination art. He randomly connects with people seeking help, casts a reading for them with copper coins, and works with them to uncover its meaning. Follow diviner Su Minghe as he livestreams and changes people’s fates! —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 97 Running a Small Business in Silent Hill 我在寂静岭做小生意 [Comedy + humor + no-brainer fun] No System, not invincible When I entered this vast, white place, air raid sirens went off every night, and the walls were always shedding plaster. I'm just an ordinary person who served in the military. I came here to do business because it was cheap. I should have fled this desolate, uninhabited place, but poverty made me overcome my fear. Just when I thought this was a lawless land, someone actually told me to pay taxes. I can't take this anymore, I... 67Reads6.8Score—Shelves
- 98 Why Fear the Haunting? 何祟不惊？ What kind of strange tales will unfold when the monsters of folklore, the ghosts of legend, traditional magic, and modern technology mingle in the city? Shen Shi never imagined that a night of fishing to clear his head after losing his job would leave him with a strange fish inside his body, a mysterious stranger hunting him, and a forced recruitment into an organization called the Third-Type Incident Response Department. So-called third-type incidents are events directly involving demons, ghost 5Reads—Score—Shelves
- 99 Endless Rebirth 无尽回生 [Infinite flow + no harem + wild imagination + healing] Zhang Hua just took an afternoon nap, only to wake up in the world of the dead. Then, for some inexplicable reason, a group of demons started hunting him down. But when he discovered he couldn’t die, he began confronting gods and demons. It might look like a novel about saving your progress and fighting monsters, but this book is really about people, dressed up as an infinite-flow story. Everyone here has a unique story of their own. I hope 1Reads—Score—Shelves
- 100 The Ghost-Catching Taoist Master 捉鬼天师 To build a road, the village assigned me and a few others to demolish a grave. Everyone died, but I survived. I’m the only one who knows why... 56Reads—Score—Shelves
