Novels like Great, the Whole Village Is Haunted, and I’m Beyond Saving
Books Chinese readers most often put in the same booklists as Great, the Whole Village Is Haunted, and I’m Beyond Saving, best match first.
- 101 My Wife Is a Snake 我的老婆是条蛇 When I was born, nine snakes were coiled around the roof beams. They called it Nine Dragons Sending a Son, and it meant I’d face eighty-one calamities before turning nine. If I could get through them, I’d enjoy great wealth and success. To keep me alive, my grandfather made me marry a snake as my wife. He also had me marry into someone else’s family and take their surname… 20Reads—Score—14d adds
- 102 I Survived: From the Start, Everyone Was Waiting for the Mystical Princess Consort to Die 没死成，开局所有人等玄学王妃死 [Ghost hunting + fortune-telling + face-reading + heartwarming redemption] A metaphysical master fails to ascend and becomes the mistreated daughter of a fifth-rank official in the capital. Her father doesn’t care for her, her stepmother doesn’t love her, and they even force her to marry Prince Su, the capital’s notorious harbinger of doom. Prince Su is not only said to bring misfortune to his parents, he has also supposedly caused the deaths of three fiancées in a row. On her wedding night, the 2.5kReads8.9Score30414d adds
- 103 The Underworld Descends 阴司降世 The day Han Luoxuan was born, the Underworld sent guardians to protect him, a hundred ghosts surrounded his home, and rogue cultivators came to claim his life. The independent Han clan, the Fox Immortals of the Northeast, and the Buddhists joined forces to save him. Born with unusual bones and naturally gifted with Yin Eyes, he carries his family's karmic burden and is guided by destiny. He becomes the focus of a struggle in this world. Hunted by a hundred ghosts and parted from his loved ones, 16Reads—Score—14d adds
- 104 The Three Months I Was Trapped at My Girlfriend's Best Friend's Home 我被困在女友闺蜜家的那三个月 My girlfriend’s eerie home is the stuff of nightmares. This time, I’ve mysteriously found myself trapped in her best friend’s house, where she makes an utterly baffling demand... Two heroines + well-crafted suspense + scheming characters + sweet romance + twists + written by the author, not AI 1Reads—Score—14d adds
- 105 Don't Ask! I'm an Evil Cultivator Gone Mad Over Appraising Treasures, on My Way to Godhood 别问！问就是邪修鉴宝发癫成神 [Overworked office worker fights back + no romance + strong female lead + livestreamed antiques appraisal + mystery and the paranormal + making money to stay alive + fantastical ideas + lighthearted comedy + sharp-tongued troll] After being reborn, overworked office worker Lu Tianyi is forced to bind herself to a deadly evil-cultivation System! She thought surviving a disaster meant getting a satisfying new life, but it turns out to be a pay-to-survive game! Time left to live: one day! This isn’ 3Reads—Score—14d adds
- 106 The Cursed Spirit-Fetus Journal 灵胎诡札 [Chinese folk customs + supernatural + horror and suspense + historical fantasy + no characters acting stupidly + not an overpowered hero + no System] Before Grandma died, she left these final words: “Burn everything I own. Don’t leave anything behind.” Sixteen-year-old Chu Yi secretly kept a yellowed notebook. He had no idea that this choice would let him see another world. This is a work that “uses the trappings of immortal cultivation to explore the weight of human life, and wraps questions o 1Reads—Score—14d adds
- 107 Burying Yin Bones, Borrowing Yang Life, and Marrying the King of Hell's Younger Sister 埋阴骨，借阳寿，阎王妹妹嫁入门 On the day I was born, the midwife stabbed herself in the throat with a pair of scissors. With yang eyes, I see the rise and fall of the mortal world; with yin eyes, I glimpse the ghosts and monsters of the underworld. I was born with ghost eyes. I can see the secrets of fate, but that also brought down Heaven's retribution upon me. I was destined to die. To keep me alive, my mother borrowed Jiang Hanying's life. From that day on, Jiang Hanying and I were like twin vines, bound together. As 41Reads—Score—14d adds
- 108 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 34Reads8.8Score—14d adds
- 109 The Supernatural Descends! A Female Ghost Teaches Me Maoshan Arts 诡异降临！女鬼教我茅山术 The uncanny descends, and a hundred ghosts roam the night! Li Qiulin was born with his Yin-Yang Eyes fully open. He can see ghosts and gods filling the sky, yet he has pretended to be blind and kept his head down for twenty whole years! That's because he has the rarest constitution of all: pure yang in a body of pure yin. He's the ultimate Yin bait, coveted by every evil spirit. His lifelong dream is to stay home, lie flat, and eat until he dies. But then a bad friend tricks him into exploring a 5Reads—Score—14d adds
- 110 Chronicles of Strange Events 异事簿 When I was eight, I accidentally drowned. The village's mad Taoist came to my house and told my parents to give me a grand seven-day funeral with gongs and drums. After seven days, I would return to life. During the funeral, lightning flashed every day and the rain poured without stopping. Everyone in the village said it was a bad omen. On the seventh day, strange phenomena suddenly appeared in the sky. The mad Taoist returned to my house, told me to take the moon in the sky as my godmother, and 35Reads—Score—14d adds
- 111 Need Your Fortune Told? One Million a Session 算命吗？一次一百万 The early arc is about ghost hunting, the later arc about wealthy families, and the final arc about the underworld. [Showbiz + metaphysics and face-slapping + sweet romance with a wealthy heir] Jiang Nian died, then came back to life. One moment, she was competing with her fellow disciples; the next, she'd transmigrated into the body of a notorious, scandal-plagued actress in the entertainment industry. Netizens accuse her of sleeping around, yet still being unwanted? Jiang Nian counts on her fi 13Reads—Score—14d adds
- 112 Transmigrating to the Modern Era, the Metaphysics Expert Stuns the World 穿越现代，玄学大佬她震惊世界 [Metaphysics + Transmigration + Spatial Realm + Feel-Good Story + Sweet Romance + Power Couple + First Love] Gu Anxi led the entire Tianling Sect to defeat the Demon Sect. As they were clearing the battlefield, she never expected to be ambushed by the Yaomen, a sect of demons that had signed a peace treaty promising not to interfere with each other for three hundred years. "Brothers and sisters, I leave the Tianling Sect in your hands." Those were Gu Anxi's final words. When she opened her eyes, 306Reads7.5Score—14d adds
- 113 From the Start, Exiled to the Northern Frontier: Nine Netherworlds' Record of Delivering Tribulations and Catching Ghosts for You 开局流放北疆九幽为你渡劫捉鬼录 [Supernatural ✷ Ghost Hunting ✷ Mysticism ✷ Power Couple] Amid the wind and snow of the northern frontier, Yan Jiuyou munches on offerings while casually swatting away a vengeful ghost coming to claim someone's life. “Tsk. How dare you lay a hand on someone under this princess's protection?” Tong Jingnian is the exceptionally gifted heir to the Duke of Zhenguo. His family was falsely accused, leaving him shackled and imprisoned. Tong Jingnian once thought his life would end in the bitter cold of 1Reads—Score—14d adds
- 114 The Haunted Inn 凶灵旅店 At Qiyun Inn, tucked deep in the mountains, terrifying ghost stories have been passed down for years. In this isolated place, the shadow of a desperate death looms! Is it the curse of an evil spirit, or a sinister plot by ruthless criminals? In these fog-shrouded, pitch-black mountains and wilderness, a strange dark shape suddenly appears up ahead! Is it a person? An animal? Or... a ghost? Through the dark rain and fog, a solitary, old-fashioned courtyard comes into view. A towering tree with an 159Reads8.9Score—14d adds
- 115 Making Money in Both the Living and the Dead Worlds 阴阳两界通吃 [Multiple Heroines + Wacky Daily Life + Light Comedy + No System] I'm Guan Du, one of the top wage slaves between the worlds of the living and the dead. I take jobs and make money by day, then work for ghosts at night. Ghost Big Shot: Help me find my killer, and I'll give you a haunted house! Gluttonous Impermanence: You can mooch a meal, but pay protection money first! Tsundere Receptionist: Keep running your mouth, and I'll put you up for auction online! What? You don't scam people for money? 2Reads—Score—14d adds
- 116 The Silent Pact 不语契 I thought I would follow in my god-grandfather's footsteps and calmly enter Peking University's archaeology department. Then an unexpected ancient clay tablet, covered in strange runes, changed everything. Its cryptic clues, like hooks of fate, dragged me from the misty rain of Jiangnan to the mysterious, sweltering lands of Dian in Yunnan. Buried beneath the miasma-choked jungle was not only the legendary tomb of the ancient Dian king, lost for a thousand years, but also the start of a breathta —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 117 Star Insignia, Celestial Chart 星勋辰图 A mysterious zodiac medallion passed down from his grandfather becomes the key that plunges an ordinary college student into an endless vortex. As bizarre murders occur one after another around him, he is dragged into a darkness beyond anything he could have imagined. At the end of his painstaking investigation, an ancient and colossal shadow organization emerges: the “Astral Chart.” Using stars as codenames, its influence reaches into every shadowed corner of the world. In a cold safe house, th —Reads7.5Score—14d adds
- 118 Strange Feng Shui Affairs 风水异事 My grandfather is a feng shui master. While he was away, a woman came looking for him. After I greeted her, I saw purple-black veins of blood on her face, writhing on their own… 1.7kReads8.8Score52014d adds
- 119 There’s Someone on My Back 我的背上有个人 I always thought I'd slept wrong. I tried medicated plasters and got X-rays, until I met an old man who said, "Young lady, someone has been riding on your back for nearly half a year. You need to send her on her way, right now..." —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 120 A Little One in the Midst of Revival 复苏中的一小只 An unexpected trip led Lin Qingqing to transmigrate into a world where the supernatural had returned. Here, vengeful ghosts run rampant and the uncanny lurks everywhere. But there are also people who stand against the ghosts: Ghost Controllers! “What? I’m the villain now?” 28Reads7.3Score—14d adds
- 121 The Eight Immortals Bear a Coffin, While the Weasel Bows 八仙抬棺，黄皮子磕头 A filial son's head rolls through the streets. The living die, and their descendants bury them. Sons kneel; daughters become nuns. My dad is the only one in the village who can see and interpret omens. This is the story of the strange and wondrous things I witnessed after taking up his mantle! 243Reads6.4Score10814d adds
- 122 Thirty Years of Strange Tales from the Northeast 东北异事三十年 Forty years ago, the old man ventured into Ghost Mountain at night and negotiated with the ghosts, winning Dongshan Village forty years of peace. Forty years later, a lone grave has thrown the whole village into chaos. A tragedy from forty years ago has claimed nearly a hundred innocent lives! What started it all? Why has a corpse's white hair turned black, and what is the red-clad female ghost trying to point to when she appears at midnight? 178Reads7.3Score—14d adds
- 123 The Missing Pages of History 史阙 Time flows like water, never resting, never stopping. The world's obsessions surge like a tide, throwing the river of time and space into chaos. Some defy the natural order, trying to rewrite the years and throw the world into turmoil; Others hold fast to the rules, facing eerie shadows to defend the source of time and space. Ordinary books conceal countless rifts. Strangers who meet on unfamiliar paths become companions, while obsessions and rules clash without end. The path of order is thorny —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 124 A Record of Funerals in a Small Town 小城丧葬录 In 2020, Rongcheng was battered by torrential rain. At 32, Chen Yan hit rock bottom after falling from a government post. Forced to resign over an air-gun incident, he crashed while hauling freight, went unpaid by an advertising agency, broke his leg at a construction site, and eventually became a food delivery rider, scraping by between his mortgage and daily expenses. One rainy night, he stopped to help someone and stumbled into the Xiao An Funeral Parlor, where he met Old Yang, who secretly c 5Reads—Score—14d adds
- 125 The March Murder Hunt 三月追凶 I’m working hard to create the most boring, lowest-rated, most lackluster mystery novel on the entire internet. Sometimes even the author can’t understand it, but apparently lots of people enjoy novels they can’t understand. —Reads6.6Score—14d adds
- 126 What Movie Star Still Practices Immortality? 谁家影后还修仙啊！ [A powerful patron leads the way, supernatural cultivation, wild metaphysical ideas, punishing scumbags and leveling up, sharp-tongued but soft-hearted domineering CEO x rebellious, proud actress] Hexes? Raising ghosts? Sorcerers battling it out? A haunted village corpse? We’ve got it all. Come uncover the entertainment industry’s secrets... Three years ago, Zhong Ling, a top-tier starlet, was vilified across the internet overnight and publicly announced her retirement from show business. The ni 1Reads—Score—14d adds
- 127 I'm Just a Photographer, So Why Do I Keep Seeing Ghosts?! 我就是个摄影师，为什么总见鬼！ [Original Work] [First Published Here] [Supernatural Horror] [Mystery and Puzzles] [Chinese-Style Horror] [Folk Supernatural] [Light Transmigration] Photographer Lin Shen ventured alone to an abandoned manor in the wilderness, hoping to capture a series of supernatural photographs that could turn his career around. Instead, he was lost in a ravine forever. When he opened his eyes again, he had transmigrated into the body of He Xun, another freelance photographer. Like before, he made a living wi 4Reads—Score—14d adds
- 128 I'm Your Great-Aunt, a Mystic Arts Master. So What If I Have a Bad Temper? 姑奶奶玄学大佬，脾气不好怎么了 Metaphysics + Romance + Feel-Good Power Fantasy + Supernatural + Goofy Comedy Xiao Qi, the fifty-eighth and last surviving head of the Xuantian Temple, decides to descend the mountain and search for her family to fulfill her master's dying wish. What can she do when she's broke? Tell fortunes, catch ghosts, read feng shui: she's good at it all. At long last, she makes it home, only to find her grandnephew haunted by a ghost. This is right up her alley. Don't be scared, your great-aunt is here. L 383Reads8.9Score10514d adds
- 129 Livestreaming Crime Consultations: I Go Viral with the Dead’s Comments 直播问凶，我靠亡魂弹幕爆红全网 Guest appearances welcome! Open indefinitely! Chen Mo is a 22-year-old penniless medium who livestreams. Born with Yin-Yang Eyes, he can see the dead, and his livestream comments are full of ghosts begging for help. During the early days of the spiritual qi revival, ordinary people can't see ghosts, but he goes viral by “fortune-telling.” One comment, “There's a woman in red behind you,” and viewers catch a shadow on camera, setting the entire internet ablaze. Ghosts crowd into his livestream to —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 130 The Slippery Slope Fallacy 滑坡谬误 [Ensemble cast + not a power fantasy + a nonhuman survival guide + dying, coming back to life, dying again, and being reborn] Fate depends on what one encounters; its cycles cannot be fathomed. I write whatever line comes to mind. Plenty of things may put you off. The plot is a mess of tired jokes, the narrative is chaotic, and the point of view keeps jumping around. People die, stay dead, die again, and even in death take someone down with them. No couples. None of them are human. 6Reads—Score—14d adds
- 131 I Give Final Comfort to Bosses in Horror Dungeons 我在恐怖副本给BOSS临终关怀 [Strange Tale Dungeons + Gentle, Healing Vibes + 1v1 Romance + No Angst or Filler] Meng Ling is a palliative care nurse who has spent seven years witnessing life and death. One rainy night, a door that appeared out of nowhere dragged her into the Stagnant Realm, a world frozen from the lingering obsessions of the dead. Living people who venture inside have almost no chance of survival. The moment she arrived, the resentful spirits were more nervous than she was. Two-hundred-year-old ghosts line 8Reads6.6Score10114d adds
- 132 After My Divorce, I Awakened the Merit System 离婚后，我觉醒了功德系统 Do you think all the metaphysics masters on livestreams are just following a script? I used to be one of them. It wasn't until the day I got divorced and went bankrupt that I realized this world was more dangerous than I had imagined. The woman in red in the haunted house, the sound of typing in an office building in the middle of the night, the thousand-year-old monster sealed beneath the city subway... These aren't stories. They're my everyday life. Now I've started livestreaming again, not fo 1Reads—Score—14d adds
- 133 There Are No Such Things as Ghosts 哪有什么鬼 (Urban supernatural, talismans and Taoist arts, yin-yang and feng shui, two male leads, mysterious agency) One of the male leads is a complete novice, forcibly carried to victory by a lecherous old man, a chubby chatterbox, and an internet-addicted loli. Together, they form the ultimate demon-hunting team. The other is a celestial master from Mount Longhu, the first in a century to emerge from seclusion. But after predicting that he will die at 28, he gives up and spends his days playing around. 4Reads—Score—14d adds
- 134 Tales of Feng Shui, Tomb Raiding, and the Supernatural 风水盗墓灵异录 The Grave Robbers' Chronicles, tomb raiding, feng shui, the supernatural, tomb exploration, retrieving corpses from water, suspense, pranks, ghost hunting, coffins, ghosts and monsters, the Eight Trigrams and other esoteric arts, dragon seeking and acupoint locating, sorcery, adventure, warding off evil, metaphysics His grandfather left Li Qing an old tomb-raiding journal, a bronze compass, a soul-suppressing staff, and a jade gourd. At midnight, at the bottom of the corpse-filled valley in Yang 41Reads—Score—14d adds
- 135 The City of the Dead Descends: I'm the Only One in the City Who Hasn't Been Forgotten 冥城降临：全城只有我没被遗忘 A strange knocking suddenly echoed from beneath the Dongzhuang antiques market. The streets cracked open, blood flowed backward, and armored ghosts crawled out from the depths of the city. A Western Regions royal city that had vanished more than two thousand years ago began to overlap with modern skyscrapers beneath the dark clouds. Ordinary young man Gu Chuan was trapped in the sealed-off zone. He joined forces with Wu Taifeng, a mysterious antiques dealer, to survive. They soon discovered that 2Reads—Score—14d adds
- 136 Never Go to the Old House 千万不要去古宅 Na Ling and Bao Datong were looking for a thrill, so they drove around robbing old houses. One day, they came across a photo of Fengmen Village online and went there to steal a Grand Tutor's chair. They sold it to Li Wei, a chamber of commerce boss, but because the chair was haunted, he resold it to the speculator Meng Guozhao. During the handoff, Na Ling secretly kept the jade marrow hidden inside the chair. After leaving Fengmen Village, Na Ling traveled to Anhui, where he stumbled upon the an 8.1kReads8.6Score23514d adds
- 137 Scorpion’s Tail 蝎尾针 [Contains blood, horror, suspense, mystery, and mind-bending twists. Read with caution.] At Binhai City’s May Day Hospital, Ji Xiao is the night watchman in the morgue. To help the Shen family bring a dead relative back to life, he enters the game as a yin-yang master, putting his own life on the line. An old woman visiting a corpse, the Seven Deadly Sins of Extreme Evil turning on one another, a great yin-yang master who has taken over someone’s body... As he investigates a grisly headless mu 4Reads—Score—14d adds
- 138 My Wife Is the Asura King 我的老婆是修罗王 Enter a ghost marriage, command a hundred ghosts, recruit ten thousand immortals, return to Yuxu... A new disciple’s “Madman’s Diary” 41Reads—Score—14d adds
- 139 The Thousand-Year-Old Snake Wife 千年蛇妻 [First-person POV + One Female Lead + Maoshan Disciple + Cultivation Prodigy + No System + No Immortality Cultivation] [A passionate romance between a human and a demon] [A mission passed down across thousands of years] [Wild ideas spanning ancient and modern times] In the rural Northeast, all sorts of eerie stories are always being told. But with my unusual constitution, I refuse to believe in the supernatural, so I insist on going to play in the haunted hills behind the village. There, I run i 15.5kReads8.9Score1.2k14d adds
- 140 Tales of the Uncanny 诡话传说 “Hey, everyone, I’m here.” I pointed my phone camera at the abandoned village gate in front of me. The characters on the archway had long since blurred beyond recognition. All that remained was a sinister, rust-red color, splashed irregularly across the stone pillars like blood that had dried long ago. “See that color? Is it a good enough opening for the ‘Blood Axe’?” The comments immediately began to fly. [Sister Xue is charging into a new map!] [Just looking at this place gives me the creeps.] —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 141 The Strange World Descends! Why Is the Ghost Bride Throwing Herself at Me? 诡世降临！我被诡新娘倒贴？ Strange beings have appeared in the world, and catastrophe is coming. Ordinary life is about to face utter destruction. Song Yu, a recent college graduate, scrambles to make ends meet by delivering food. By chance, he and a friend enter the forbidden Liu Mansion, the subject of rumors in Su City. They stumble into a ghost wedding, and to escape the pursuit of a vicious ghost, he has no choice but to take a risk and pose as the groom. But the bride waiting at the Liu Mansion, Liu Huiniang, is wai 39Reads—Score—14d adds
- 142 Master of Folk Occult Arts: My Livestream Terrifies the Entire Internet 民间秘法大师，直播吓疯全网 [Horror + no romance + comedy + innate spirit body + spirit communication + maximum fear factor] My younger sister drew the death lot, and the whole village demanded she be sacrificed. I turned on a livestream and made a century-old vengeful ghost into sashimi. From then on, haunted houses became my cafeteria, and ghost kings became takeout. The authorities begged me to work with them, the Taoist sects revered me as a master, and the underworld begged me to livestream. When fear returned and a h 70Reads—Score714d adds
- 143 Urban Hauntings: My Paper Knife Can Pierce Illusions 都市诡异：我的纸刀能破妄 The rating has just been released, so it may still go up. Zhang Ping, an unemployed advertising copywriter, is attacked by a paper figure with a slit mouth in his shared apartment on a stormy night, at the lowest point in his life. On the verge of death, he desperately throws out an old piece of yellow paper he has carried for years, unexpectedly activating a fragment of the ancestral “Blade of Illusion-Breaking” and a mysterious “Night Watchman System.” The System turns terrifying supernatural 3Reads8.3Score—14d adds
- 144 A Look at the Fox the Metaphysics Master Found 扒一扒玄学大佬捡到的那只狐狸 [Supernatural Metaphysics + Anthology + Wacky Comedy + Sweet Romance] A metaphysical powerhouse with god-tier abilities and a spring in her step × a fox spirit whose beauty is his greatest weapon As the most gifted head of the Jiang family in centuries, Jiang Qin’an is also astonishingly unlucky. During the trial of entering the underworld before adulthood, she made a pact with a lovesick ghost girl. For a whole year, Jiang Qin’an was left helpless, forced to watch as the ghost girl took over h 4Reads—Score—14d adds
- 145 What Came Back from the Mountains When the Fog Rolled In 浓雾起时，从山里跟回来的东西 The Thing That Followed Me Back from the Mountains When the Fog Rose 1Reads—Score114d adds
- 146 Corpse's Fate 尸命 I have three masters, surnamed Li, Wang, and Xu. But my story begins with someone borrowing thirty years of my lifespan... 841Reads8.8Score10014d adds
- 147 The Haunting One 诡缠人 Demons and monsters, uncanny forces and strange happenings, in a world where the living and the dead are indistinguishable and good and evil are hard to tell apart. No one can save anyone else, and no one can be saved... An epic tale of humans and ghosts: are they evil spirits wearing human skins, or is the human heart itself wicked? The conflict between humans and ghosts begins here. It will stir everything most real deep within you... 1.1kReads5.5Score10314d adds
- 148 Maoshan Taoist Arts: The Way of Heaven 茅山道法之天道 In The Maoshan Daoist Arts: The Heavenly Way, Li Yunfei becomes a Maoshan disciple by a stroke of luck and embarks on a journey to vanquish demons and exorcise evil. Demons, devils, and ghosts across the Three Realms all tremble at the sound of his name... 133Reads—Score—14d adds
- 149 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... 61Reads6.8Score—14d adds
- 150 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 7Reads—Score214d adds
