Novels like The Divine Mortician
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- 101 Bureau 749: What's Wrong with a Rogue Cultivator Taking the Civil Service Exam? 749局：我一个邪修考编怎么了 (The rating just came out, and it’ll go up later.) A special new member has joined the 749th Branch Office in Xikai City. Chen Xie, a transmigrator, male, 20 years old, and the only decent person ever to come out of Villain’s Valley in the Ten Thousand Mountains. His three masters are the Ghost-Refining Patriarch, the Gu Poison Ghost Doctor, and the Yin Trade’s Paper Effigy Granny. They taught him: “Be reasonable when dealing with people. If reason doesn’t work, send them off with physical exorc 72.4kReads8.7Score7.1k14d adds
- 102 Fifteen Years Adrift: A Mercenary's Memoir 漂泊十五载：一个佣兵的回忆录 [No System]+ [Not a wish-fulfillment novel]+ [Realistic style]+ [No heroine] There is a group of people in this world whom the regular army despises, dismissing them as bastards who work only for money... Ordinary people fear them, believing they are cold-blooded killers who would do anything for money… But in truth, they are a band of lone wolves who brave the edge of danger. Though they don't fit conventional definitions, they have their own code of conduct. They move through storms of bu 2.1kReads8.2Score29614d adds
- 103 Rule Horror: The Last One to Leave the Classroom After Evening Study 规则怪谈：晚自习最后离开教室的人 Rule Horror: The Last Person to Leave the Classroom After Evening Study 21Reads—Score—14d adds
- 104 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 5Reads—Score114d adds
- 105 In an Old Apartment Building, the Voice-Activated Lights Only Shine on the Dead 独居老楼，声控灯专照亡魂 Alone in an old apartment building, the motion-sensor lights only shine on the dead. 2Reads—Score—14d adds
- 106 The Man Buried Upside Down 倒着埋的人 The Man Buried Upside Down 7Reads—Score—14d adds
- 107 At Bureau 749: I Slay Everything with a Nuo Mask 人在749局：我以傩面杀穿一切 [Decisive and Ruthless + Supernatural Resurgence + Plenty to Read] A bloody urban legend at Cangnan University tears a hole in Yin Hong’s peaceful life. The red sandalwood Nuo mask his parents left behind before disappearing turns out to be a forbidden object connected to the ancient Nether Ruins. As the bronze pattern of a glaring face and bristling beard creeps across his skin, he hears countless shamans chanting war songs inside his skull, while the golden-red blood surging through his veins 5.4kReads7.3Score62514d adds
- 108 The Strange Realm Archives 诡域档案 Six years ago, Comrade Peng Gang, an outstanding investigator in the Ministry of State Security of Huaxia and deputy director of the Seventh Bureau, met a strange death while on a mission. Six years later, several investigators go missing one after another. The case they were investigating is deeply strange and has countless connections to the case from six years ago. In response, the mysterious investigation team, Fifth Bureau, Ninth Division, begins looking into a series of cases in the realm 332Reads9.1Score—14d adds
- 109 Lin Daiyu at Max Level: Reforming the Immortal Dao's Elite Families 满级黛玉：整顿仙道豪门 Lin Shu, a modern prodigy well versed in both the arts and sciences, with knowledge spanning ancient and modern times, died in the prime of her life because of a conspiracy. When she opened her eyes again, she had become the crying infant Lin Daiyu. In this world, the Story of the Stone still existed, but things were far from ordinary! The Jia, Shi, Wang, and Xue families were four immortal cultivation clans that dominated China and monopolized its spiritual ley lines. The Grand View Garden was —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 110 I Sat at the Wrong Table on a Blind Date, and My Date Was the Demon Lord Who Would Destroy the World 相亲走错桌，我的相亲对象是灭世魔主 I Sat at the Wrong Table on a Blind Date, and My Date Was the Demon Lord Who Would Destroy the World 2Reads—Score—14d adds
- 111 The Maltese Falcon 马耳他之鹰 One job, two murders, three groups on his trail, four factions. On a foggy night in San Francisco, private detective Sam Spade is drawn into a deadly con revolving around a priceless black falcon statuette. A beautiful woman, swindlers, hitmen, wealthy businessmen: everyone has an agenda, and danger lurks at every turn. When the truth strips away the disguises, and love collides with principle, he must make the most ruthless choice. No warmth, no redemption, just the truth, hard-boiled to the en 54Reads8.5Score1514d adds
- 112 Hearse 灵车 A hearse is a vehicle used to transport coffins or urns. You could also call it a vehicle exclusively for the dead. I was a bus driver for four years, and for all four years I kept a secret bottled up inside. Now I'll tell you firsthand about the terrifying things that happen on trains, things you don't know about. Maybe you've never heard of hearses being converted into buses, but the buses you've ridden may not have carried only the living... 1.5kReads8.0Score14114d adds
- 113 Case Files of Unusual Investigations 异案调查录 Throughout the vast world, from ancient times to the present, there have always been mysterious events that humans cannot explain. And there is a group of people who endure countless hardships in their pursuit of the truth. The cases they investigate are all considered paranormal… 501Reads7.4Score—14d adds
- 114 The Corpse-Reading Detective 诡案读尸人 The Corpse-Reading Detective 3Reads—Score—14d adds
- 115 The Coffin Bearer 抬棺人 Those who carry coffins are also known as the “Eight Immortals” or the “Eight Vajra Warriors.” Only people with a strong birth chart, courage, and abundant yang energy can do the job. According to folk belief, the living use their own life force to carry the dead on their final journey, inviting yin energy into their bodies. Carry one coffin and you accumulate blessings and virtue; carry ten and misfortune clings to you; carry a hundred and you die an unnatural death. I’m a professional coffin b 3.5kReads8.6Score22214d adds
- 116 The Water-Taming Beast 镇水兽 They say a fish couldn't possibly survive for seventy years, yet this one has been wreaking havoc for just as long! What lies beneath the waters of the Mian River, so shocking that it has dragged so many people down to their deaths? The surface of the rivers you see may seem calm, but you might not know that in those terrifying, eerie depths, a water guardian beast could be lurking, striking at lives as fragile as moths before they even know it's there, like a demon on the hunt... 701Reads8.8Score10214d adds
- 117 365 Nights of Corpse Tales from the Gorge 峡江尸话365夜 The poorer and more desolate the land, the stranger the tales; deep in the gorges along the river, there are stories of the supernatural. My hometown lies in the mountains of the middle reaches of the Yangtze River, in an area where several ethnic minorities live together. Before Liberation, it was a backward wilderness beyond the reach of government control. Over the long course of history, many baffling things happened here. After I was born, I heard plenty of chilling tales of strange happeni 120Reads8.0Score—14d adds
- 118 Major Paranormal Events in China 中国民间灵异大事件 Major Chinese Folk Supernatural Cases is based on real supernatural incidents. Its contents are terrifying, mysterious, eerie, and suspenseful, with no more scientifically reasonable explanation to this day! Each chapter of this book tells a supernatural fantasy tale, with bizarre, chilling, and gripping plots. We hope readers will tune in and enjoy! 301Reads7.2Score22714d adds
- 119 The Nightmare Kingdom, Where the Flesh Mutates 亘梦诡国，肉身畸变 [Supernatural]+ [Sanity Plummets]+ [Fantasy What-If]+ [Cthulhu]+ [Horror Folklore]+ [Transmigration]+ [Feel-Good Power Fantasy]+ [Fresh and Original] I hope more people will stop by and give me the motivation to update with 4,000+ words every day. The first instance may not be that interesting, so I recommend skipping ahead a dozen or so chapters before reading. Give the author a little patience and keep reading. The story won't disappoint you. You may find yourself wondering whether fate really 21Reads—Score—14d adds
- 120 The Rosewood Clock Stopped for Ten Years. Only Then Did I Discover the Secret Grandma Hid Inside 那架红木古钟停摆十年，我才知道外婆藏在钟里的秘密 That redwood grandfather clock had been stopped for ten years. Only then did I learn the secret my grandmother had hidden inside it. 2Reads—Score—14d adds
- 121 The Night I Rented a Tenement Room, a Disconnected Phone Rang All Night 租筒子楼那晚，断线电话响了整夜 The night I rented a room in a tenement block, the disconnected phone rang all night. 1Reads—Score—14d adds
- 122 I Faked Being a Gentle Boyfriend for Ten Years, Until a Woman from the Republic Era Exposed Everything in the Video 我伪造十年温柔男友，录像里民国女人揭穿一切 I faked being a gentle boyfriend for ten years. A woman from the Republican era exposed everything in the footage. 3Reads—Score—14d adds
- 123 Someone Keeps Knocking on My Door in the Hallway Late at Night. After Discovering Who It Is, I Can’t Sleep a Wink 深夜楼道总有人拍我家门，查清来历我整夜难眠 Someone Keeps Knocking on My Door in the Hallway Late at Night. After I Learned Who It Was, I Couldn't Sleep a Wink 9Reads—Score—14d adds
- 124 A Strange Anomaly Appeared on the Overnight Security Feed. The Republic-Era Theater Ticket Had My Seat Number Engraved on It 凌晨值守监控突发异象，民国戏票刻着我的座位号 A Strange Phenomenon Appeared on the Surveillance Monitors During My Night Shift. A Republican-Era Opera Ticket Had My Seat Number Engraved on It 3Reads—Score—14d adds
- 125 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... 23Reads—Score—14d adds
- 126 The Deadly Taboos of Horror 惊悚死人禁忌 [Definitely not ordinary paranormal fiction. Focused on horror and suspense, not mindless wish fulfillment. Folk tales of the supernatural, ghost babies. If you don’t like it after reading, feel free to criticize it.] A mountain village shrouded in mystery is beset by one strange incident after another. A coffin that cannot be lifted at a funeral, children mysteriously drowning, and the question of why a water ghost has appeared. What truth lies behind the deaths? A baby’s anguished cries ring o 144Reads—Score—14d adds
- 127 The Upright Coffin 竖棺 They dug up a coffin buried upright while relocating graves in our village. It brought disaster upon the whole village and claimed the life of the person dearest to me… 1.2kReads7.4Score10414d adds
- 128 The Demon King and the Celestial Master 妖王天师 Have you ever heard of a sinister art that can turn a living person into a human-skin paper effigy overnight? Have you ever seen the bizarre sight of a lifelike human face growing out of a tree trunk? And surely you've never heard of a five-year-old child killing a wolfdog that feeds exclusively on corpses. Yes, there are far too many inexplicable things in this world. I may be young, but the things I've been through are things you may never have heard of. That's right. I'm Luo Tian, a Celestial 3.7kReads8.8Score34914d adds
- 129 To Get a Government Job, I Became a Demon Hunter 为了混编制：我成了猎魔人 Li Chen, a recent college graduate, boards a high-speed train to look for work in another city, hoping to make a living on his own. By a twist of fate, however, he gets caught up in an unusual test... Vampires, the Blood Clan: the monsters that exist only in Western stories are real? Blood Hunters, government agents who specialize in hunting the Blood Clan? That sounds pretty cool! But he’s just an ordinary guy who took a high-speed train. Why is he suddenly fighting for his life against vampire 18.3kReads7.7Score2.3k14d adds
- 130 Bureau 749'S Yu Wuchang: The Stronger the Monsters, the Wilder I Get 749局玉无常，怪物越强我越狂 [Just launched, rating will rise][No pressure][No taking abuse][A ruthless goofball] After transmigrating, Yu Jiu finally encountered his golden finger at the age of nineteen: the Mysterious Records of Yin and Yang. He can gain supernatural abilities by containing monsters, and even level them up. From then on, the 749 Bureau had a new monster-containment intern, one who got more excited the stronger the ghosts and monsters were. "Contained , acquired supernatural ability: Body 249Reads7.7Score—14d adds
- 131 Murder on a Rainy Night: The Playing Card Left at the Scene 雨夜命案：现场遗留的纸牌 Murder on a Rainy Night: The Playing Card Left at the Scene 14Reads—Score—14d adds
- 132 749 Bureau: Strange Case Investigations 749局：奇案调查 Liu Shui experienced a supernatural event as a child, during which his only family member disappeared without a trace. As an adult, Liu Shui is recruited by Bureau 749, an agency dedicated to investigating supernatural events. Under the guidance of his superior, Han Jiu, he begins investigating a string of mysterious cases. A shadowy figure on the last bus, a vampire attacking a zoo, a master craftsman with a thousand faces who sells bizarre artifacts, an alien creature with extraterrestrial tra 2kReads8.9Score16614d adds
- 133 A Strange Tale Every Night 夜夜都有诡故事 [Extreme Supernatural Horror] [Ghosts, Fox Spirits, and Other Strange Creatures] [Not for Women] [Not for the Fainthearted] Based on personal experience and real events. The occult is science we have yet to touch; science is the occult we have already mastered. 22Reads—Score—14d adds
- 134 Searching for the Herb of Immortality: I Nearly Became a Walking Corpse 为寻不死草：差点变行尸 [Tibetan legends + folk tales of the uncanny + suspenseful exploration + tomb raiding, no beauties, not a power fantasy, no formulaic tropes] Legend has it that Tibet is home to an herb of immortality, which comes in yin and yang varieties. If the living eat the yang herb, they can live forever; if the dead consume it, they can be resurrected. But anyone who eats the yin herb turns into a walking corpse. The herb of immortality is said to grow thousands of meters underground, in a place that T 203Reads—Score—14d adds
- 135 I’m Here to Keep the Peace 我来维护世界和平 Has anyone ever wondered what desire itself really is? Could gods exist in the “real” world? Driven by desire, humanity fought the First World War, then the Second! Now that we possess the power to destroy ourselves, how far away is the Third World War? Ever since the strange phenomena appeared... Nuclear weapons were invented, and humans awakened supernatural abilities. What kind of world is “reality”??? 5Reads—Score—14d adds
- 136 A Collection of Folk Ghost Stories 民间鬼怪故事合集 The faint of heart should stay away. This collection of ghost stories is all based on things I’ve seen and heard myself. Ghosts and monsters really do exist in this world. Call it superstition, or call it mysteries science has yet to explain. (Better to believe they exist than to assume they don’t.) 94Reads—Score10414d adds
- 137 Ghost-Hunting Yin-Yang Master 捉鬼阴阳师 On the day I was born, the clear sky suddenly filled with lightning and thunder. A bolt struck a tree in our yard, and everyone in the village decided my birth was an ill omen. They all kept their distance. One villager accidentally offended me, and that night he mysteriously hanged himself. The body could only be taken down if someone knelt before me. On the day of his funeral, his brother died a violent death and the coffin fell to the ground. That was how the whole story began… 214Reads8.8Score10014d adds
- 138 Department of Paranormal Investigations II 神秘事件调查处【贰】 The X-Files Investigation Bureau, Part Two “That's a dragon!” “No, there are no dragons. That's a kite, that's a black plastic bag, that's a bird soaring through a storm. You've read Haiyan, haven't you? Exactly.” In 1968, our country established Institute 507, whose full name was the Institute of Space Medicine and Engineering. Later, as more and more supernatural events were discovered, the institute began handling certain cases. In September 1974, some departments of Institute 507 were split 6.4kReads8.8Score57714d adds
- 139 At the Cemetery, I Find a Pair of Red High Heels 人在公墓，捡到一双红色高跟鞋 Wang Jin finally graduated. He never expected that after studying civil engineering, he'd end up in a tomb, landing a job as a security guard at a high-end cemetery. He figured he'd work there for a few years, save some money, and then leave. But on his very first day, he found a pair of red high heels outside the security office. An ordinary person with no worries might have thrown them away. Someone more cautious might have grown suspicious. But Wang Jin was neither. He looked around, saw no o 1.5kReads8.0Score12814d adds
- 140 749: No Joke, the Intern Is Cultivating Immortality 749：没开玩笑，实习生修仙的 In the height of summer in August, thunder rumbled again and again despite clear skies in a mountainous region in the south. Then two mysterious men arrived at the foot of the mountain, sent from the capital to deal with a centipede spirit about to undergo its tribulation. Just as their mission hit a snag, a young man came down from the mountain. He raised a hand and killed a two-meter-long centipede, then took out the Wind-Calming Pearl on the spot. The incident caused quite a stir at Bureau 74 15.5kReads7.4Score1.4k14d adds
- 141 I Have a Book That Suppresses Ghosts 我有一本镇鬼书 [Wild imagination + ghost taming + fighting ghosts] [Punching Japanese Onmyoji in the face + kicking Satanist exorcists] During the Eastern Jin dynasty, the unorthodox Taoist Song Dingbo sealed more than a hundred evil ghosts that plagued the world inside a notebook. After his death, the notebook was buried with him in a grave on Yunwu Mountain. As the years passed, the grave was damaged one day in 2012, releasing all the ghosts. Li San, who happened to be on a mission nearby, was accidentally p 27Reads—Score—14d adds
- 142 Grandma’s Ghost Stories 听奶奶讲灵异故事 I was raised by my grandmother. The bedtime stories I heard as a child were all supernatural events she had experienced herself. They scared me so badly I was afraid to go to the bathroom, but I could never resist listening to the end. What I didn't know was that the more stories I heard, the more likely they were to come true, and that I had plenty of secrets of my own. 152Reads6.7Score—14d adds
- 143 The Great Wei Inkblade 大魏墨锋 Lin Chen inherited the legacy of the Broken Stele of Mingyue Mountain and opened the door to a whole new world: It turned out calligraphy could be used in martial arts. It turned out every copybook he had ever practiced was a peerless martial art. The bold, powerful Yan style was a fierce, unstoppable palm technique; The strength of the Liu style’s strokes was the force of an iron-fisted punch; The graceful beauty of the Zhao style was a sword intent that soared beyond the mundane. The Great Wei 9Reads7.5Score214d adds
- 144 Living for the Dead: I Devour the Bizarre in the Human World 替死者而活：我在人间吞噬诡异 [This novel is a serious supernatural mystery] Qi Guang died, and I took his place. An inhuman being, surviving in a borrowed body, without warmth or an understanding of humanity. I can devour every supernatural entity. I carry all of his memories, imitate his life, and learn to understand warmth, the bustle of everyday life, and the bonds between people. The human world meant nothing to me, until I met Mu Chen and gained a family I wanted to protect, along with an ordinary daily life. But the 360Reads—Score6414d adds
- 145 Department of Paranormal Investigations 神秘事件调查处 The Secret Incident Investigation Bureau, Book One As a child, Zhuge Yun was struck by lightning and branded with a thunder rune. During an archaeological excavation, he accidentally awakened the thunder element within himself. After joining the Ninth Division, under the Huaxia government’s secret agency, Bureau 749, Zhuge Yun and his teammates handled all kinds of supernatural incidents. The mysterious Poyang Lake Delta, ghost soldiers crossing the land, resurrected terracotta warriors in the M 4.4kReads8.4Score23214d adds
- 146 Horror Game: From the Start, the Skin Bride's Bones Terrified the World! 恐怖游戏：开局皮嫁骨吓哭全球！ [Handcrafted with Traditional Techniques, No AI] [No Female Lead] [Mild Horror] The horror game has arrived! Lin Ye transmigrated here and was selected to take part in designing a global horror game. He had planned to bring out the "Ghost Bride" to save Daxia, only to discover that its culture hadn't been lost at all! Traditional Daxia ghost stories had been used to death, and the whole nation was in despair! Daxia had suffered ten straight losses. The supernatural was invading, and the land was 1MReads8.7Score216.8k14d adds
- 147 Rule Horror: Don't Look Back During 72 Hours in the Dorm 规则怪谈：宿舍72小时不要回头 A word of warning: this is terrifying, so timid readers beware. (No female lead, no cheats, no romance, game instances, infinite flow, horror, mystery) Eight university students who returned to campus early found a mysterious sheet of rules in their empty dormitory building: Rule One: No matter what strange “person” you see, don’t cry out or scream. Rule Two: No matter who calls you from behind, don’t turn around or answer. Rule Three: One of you is an impostor who will eat people in the middle 4.5kReads6.0Score37414d adds
- 148 Thriller Game: Slaughtering the Entire Village from the Start 惊悚游戏：开局屠杀全村村民 [Romance + not overpowered + one female lead] A mysterious cloud suddenly appears at Jinghai City's Central Primary School in Gaojing. Ye Tianming's father, the head of the universe's number one meteorology team, hurries to the scene with the entire team. A man dies mysteriously in the mist. His son, Ye Tianming, arrives at the scene wearing a suit and tie. The boy's consciousness grows hazy. When he wakes again, he finds himself transmigrated to the day of the college entrance exams. A strange —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 149 The Lu Ban Book 鲁班书 "The world knows only about Gongshu Ce, not the Book of Lu Ban. Gongshu Ce originated from the Book of Lu Ban, but only carried on its outward form. My family, however, possesses a peerless edition of the Book of Lu Ban. My ancestors were carpenters for generations. By my time, the craft had fallen into decline, but my family never gave up. Even I took over my father's carpentry business after graduating from university, following the usual path. Outsiders only know that my family works as carpe 1.5kReads8.7Score23414d adds
- 150 Fate of the Yin Realm 阴缘逆命 I was born with an extremely yin fate, making me the fattest piece of meat in the eyes of yin creatures. When I was thirteen, Li Xiaopang’s father, who lived next door, suddenly died away from home. On the night his body was brought back, someone knocked on our front door… A hand covered in livor mortis reached for my throat. Grandpa traded half his life to keep me alive. Before he left, he gave me a note telling me to go to Haizhou City, a hundred li away, and find a female master surnamed Shen 24Reads—Score—14d adds
