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- 101 Yun Che: A Feng Shui Master's Geomancy Journal 云澈：风水先生看地记 Yun Che: A Feng Shui Master's Notes on Site Selection —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 102 The Super Physiognomist in the City 超级相师在都市 “Right the world's injustices, and understand the many faces of ordinary people.” Ye Feng unexpectedly obtains the Qingtian Legacy, a book left behind by Liu Bowen, the founding strategist of the Ming dynasty. With the book's teachings on feng shui, destiny, medicine, and mystical arts, he makes his way through the modern city. 35Reads7.4Score—14d adds
- 103 I Read Your Fortune, and It Says You're Short on Cash 掐指一算，命里缺点钱 (A lighthearted fantasy and supernatural story, with no tired tropes and nothing too brain-racking) A young girl comes down from the mountains to raise ghosts and make money, while also hitching herself to her past life's big brother, the Black Impermanence. She claims the richest man as her godfather, finds her powerful biological father, and somehow even attracts a sharp-tongued wolf with bad intentions. Sharp-tongued wolf: She can't even get a thousand-year-old ironwood tree to bloom, and —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 104 Little Daoist Priest, Please Wait 小道长，且慢请留步 I use our ancestors' methods to deal with the “unscientific” things of the 1990s. I'm just an itinerant Taoist priest, traveling through the towns and countryside of southern and northern China in the 1990s with A Xuan. We don't beg for alms or pray for blessings. We only deal with one “dirty business” after another, things science can't explain. While others head to Shenzhen to strike it rich, I earn my travel money handling uncanny affairs. Everyone says I'm too young to be a master. Then A Xu 3Reads—Score—14d adds
- 105 The Art of Reading Faces 相字 Chinese characters are the most beautiful writing system in the world, and the most delightful for telling stories. As Chinese people, we’re all familiar with the thousands of characters we use every day. Beyond their literal meanings, have you ever wondered if each character might hold other meanings as well? Whether it’s life or death, poverty or wealth, or even a cold case that has remained unsolved for years, I can find the answers through Chinese characters, one by one. Whether you’re skept 3.9kReads8.8Score56414d adds
- 106 Yuan Tiangang, the Greatest Feng Shui Master 最牛风水大师袁天罡 Synopsis of The Greatest Feng Shui Master Yuan Tiangang Yuan Tiangang, a boy from a poor alley in Yizhou, uses his mystical arts of “reading life and death through bone” and “determining the world through qi” to leave every skeptic speechless! When the gentry laugh that “a poor kid knows nothing about physiognomy,” he tells one man, “Your sunken nose bridge means you'll lose your post within three years.” It comes true. When a charlatan uses talisman water to swindle people, Yuan treats an illne 40Reads7.1Score—14d adds
- 107 Divining Fate from the Eight Characters 八字断命 Your birth date and time are not something you should give out casually. Especially not to people on the street who open with, “You have a terrible fate.” 2.4kReads7.6Score34914d adds
- 108 Residential Feng Shui 住宅风水 Easy-to-understand home feng shui that makes the subject less mysterious. Learn the basics of residential feng shui, the culture of the I Ching, and folk customs, and apply existing knowledge of your surroundings in a practical, scientific way to invite good fortune and avoid misfortune. —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 109 The Ultimate Feng Shui Master 极品风水师 [Feng shui + reborn + Celestial Master + comeback + face-slapping + feel-good + invincible] Similar in content to the animated short drama Feng Shui Celestial Master. In his previous life, he was the direct heir to Guo Pu, the founding patriarch of feng shui! He located the true dragon’s lair, helped Zhu Yuanzhang ascend the throne, and secured centuries of prosperity for the Ming Dynasty. He was unmatched in glory... In this life, he’s just a nobody. After struggling to turn his girlfriend into 365Reads—Score—14d adds
- 110 Six-Line Divination: Hexagram Interpretations 六爻卦象篇 This book explores the origins of the images represented by the hexagrams in Six-Line Divination and explains how to identify those images when interpreting hexagrams in practice. It focuses on a step-by-step explanation of how to derive the various images, along with a guiding interpretation of the principles for doing so found in the ancient Book of Changes. The aim is to help fellow students of the Changes identify images accurately and interpret hexagrams with flexibility. 214Reads—Score—14d adds
- 111 Feng Shui: Strange Tales 风水诡闻 Feng Shui, Qimen Dunjia, Maoshan arts, Gu techniques, witchcraft, and spirit summoning. Feng Shui is no pseudoscience. It constantly affects our families, careers, finances, marriages, and health... Some people face setbacks at every turn, while others have everything go their way. It's not bad luck, it's a Feng Shui problem. Want to change your so-called fate? Want to get rich? Then open this book and keep reading… —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 112 Haunted House Notes: A Shadow in the Mirror 凶宅笔记：镜中影 —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 113 The Fortune-Teller's Stall on Old Street: One Look Reveals Your Fortune and Misfortune 老街摆摊相师，一眼断祸福 Protagonist: Chen Qingxuan, a fortune-teller who lives in seclusion and sets up a stall on the old street of a small town. Calm and steady, he has an uncanny eye for people and understands feng shui, physiognomy, and karmic cause and effect. He is kindhearted and never charges the poor. 385Reads—Score10514d adds
- 114 I Practice Feng Shui in Dongguan 我在东莞做风水相师 Feng Shui and divination, the modern martial world, the 1990s The eight schools of the martial world are Jing, Pi, Piao, Ce, Feng, Huo, Jue, and Yao. The Jing School leads the eight. Its practitioners read people's fortunes, predict blessings and disasters, and show them the way. My grandfather was a successor of the Jing School. And he knew more than just the Jing School's arts: he also mastered the techniques of the Pi and Feng schools. He passed everything he knew down to me. The year I turne 13kReads6.5Score93314d adds
- 115 Tianji Pavilion: A Beginner’s Guide to Feng Shui 天机阁风水入门基础教材 The Heavenly Secrets Pavilion's Introductory Feng Shui Textbook draws on the essence of traditional Chinese divination, breaking down the core principles of feng shui in simple terms. From the basics of qi theory and landforms to the layout of homes and how to assess auspicious and inauspicious directions, every section includes practical methods. Concise and useful, it helps beginners get started quickly and build a solid foundation in feng shui. 619Reads—Score22314d adds
- 116 Feng Shui Master Qiu Yanhan 风水大师丘延翰 Qiu Yanhang, courtesy name Yizhi, was from Wenxi County in the Tang dynasty, in what is now Shanxi. A descendant of the Cao Wei general Mouqiu Jian, he was a renowned Tang-dynasty Feng Shui master and was honored as the second-generation patriarch of Feng Shui. He studied under Fan Yuefeng, inherited Guo Pu's geomantic teachings, and combined them with the Book of Changes and yin-yang divination. After discovering the Haijiao Classic on Mount Tai, he established his own distinctive Feng Shui sys —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 117 A Folk Feng Shui Master 民间风水师 Buddhists guide souls onward, Taoists drive out ghosts, and strange merchants bargain; stone nurtures, wood guards, and practitioners travel between yin and yang. Those who read fates, divine fortunes, and sing for the spirit riders; those who ferry souls and use paper tricks to deceive corpses without staining their hands. Folk feng shui practitioners are divided into twelve lineages, each cultivating its own supernatural arts and observing its own rules. Whenever demons and evil spirits wreak 77Reads—Score—14d adds
- 118 Seeking Freedom and Ease Within and Beyond the Book of Changes 说易里易外寻自由自在 Why has the Book of Changes, a work of metaphysics originally centered on divination, become the foremost of the Six Classics, the source of the Great Way, and a classic of Chinese learning? It is not because its divination is peerlessly accurate, nor because its obscure language is intimidating. Its standing is chiefly thanks to its profound philosophical wisdom and principles of operation. From applying the idea of “harmony between humanity and nature” to ecological governance, to the names an 2Reads—Score—14d adds
- 119 Reborn as the Divination God: I Became a Sensation Online with Fortune-Telling 重生卦神：我靠算命爆红全网 In her previous life, Wen Zhiyu was set up by a scumbag and his mistress. Her family was destroyed, and the person who had silently protected her even died for her. Reborn at eighteen, she awakens the Divination God’s Heavenly Eye, able to read fortune and misfortune, see through people’s hearts, and change destinies. She tears into her enemies, protects her family, and uses her gift for divination to rise from the people around her to become an online sensation. In this life, she defies fate an 1Reads—Score—14d adds
- 120 Divining the Fate of the Mortal World 卦象断红尘 Through stories of worldly passions and human affairs, discover the secret teachings of the Zhouyi and learn the true techniques of the occult. Study this book in depth, and you too can become an expert in the art of divination, sensing the wind before it stirs and the cicadas before they sing! 11Reads—Score—14d adds
- 121 Zhou Yi’s Jianghu Journey 周易江湖行 The reclusive mystic Meng Yihan wields the Book of Changes like a blade, navigating the power struggles of officialdom and the clashes of the underworld. He accurately predicts the downfall of an underworld boss and the deafening upheaval of a new era. Yet at the height of his fame, he is framed as the “mastermind” behind criminal forces. As Bai Ruoxue, a culture bureau official whose faith has crumbled, and a provincial investigation team close in on him, Meng Yihan neither flees nor hides. Usi 4Reads—Score—14d adds
- 122 Nine-Dimensional Heart Studies: A Core Overview 《九维心学》——核心速览 The Nine-Dimensional School of Mind: A Core Overview 7Reads—Score—14d adds
- 123 On the Dao Heart 道心赋 Ode to the Dao Heart 8Reads—Score—14d adds
- 124 The Four Pillars of Destiny Are Real Science 四柱八字才是真的科学 Dispelling the “Mystification” and “Street-Sorcery” of Destiny Analysis Criticizes the flaws of traditional destiny analysis, which may have “texts without formulas” or “formulas without texts,” leading to distorted learning and superficial understanding. Opposes fortune-tellers who deliberately obscure their methods, and advocates studying destiny analysis rationally and systematically. A Scholarly Organization That Unites “Texts and Formulas” Brings scattered formulas and theories together to 50Reads—Score—14d adds
- 125 A Feng Shui Restorer for Gardens, Starting with an Abandoned Building 园林风水修复师，从烂尾楼开始 As crisis sweeps through the real estate industry, more and more properties are left unfinished and unsold. Liu Mingxiu, a landscape architect who lost his job at Hengtai Group, has spent years studying livable gardens. By chance, he discovers that he can hear the voices of the different elements in a garden. From then on, he sets out to renovate one unfinished, unsold property after another. Landscape design is no longer merely about creating something beautiful and luxurious. It becomes a sour 371Reads5.9Score10314d adds
- 126 We Haven't Graduated Yet, but You Dropped Out and Became a War God 我们还没毕业，辍学的你成战神 We haven’t graduated yet, but you dropped out and became a God of War. 194Reads—Score—14d adds
- 127 Record of Returning to the Heart: Enlightenment and Healing 归心录之悟道疗愈 Everyone gets sick. When we do, we take medicine, get injections, and see a doctor. But have you ever wondered why people get sick, or what the underlying logic of illness is? It wasn't until I began reflecting that my years of illness suddenly disappeared. I realized that, in this life, the only things that stay with you are your body and your mind. Yet when we get sick, we keep searching for answers outside ourselves. We forget that humans are emotional creatures, and most illnesses stem from 24Reads6.9Score—14d adds
- 128 The Biography of Zhang Pu 张朴传 Zhang Pu, the protagonist, is ordered to descend the mountain, only to be unexpectedly drawn into a string of serial murders. As he investigates the baffling case, he finds himself pulled helplessly into one unsolved mystery after another. A corpse hidden in a haunted house, battles of wits in the business world, schemes within schemes and traps within traps: amid the tangled situation, the clashes of wits keep coming... 3Reads—Score114d adds
- 129 My Dear Ghost Wife, Hurry and Show Yourself 鬼老婆大人，快快显灵 (Not scary, no System. The male and female leads are decisive killers! One heroine and multiple supporting female characters. The protagonist is neurotic most of the time, but turns into a god of death when he gets serious! If you like riding the subway, give this a try. If you’re looking for a serious, traditional supernatural novel, don’t click on this one. It’s not very serious! Enter at your own risk! Please don’t complain if it’s not to your taste!) I work as a crematory worker, burning cor —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 130 You Sent Me Down the Mountain to Survive My Tribulation, So I Turned My Counselor into a Jiangshi 让你下山渡劫，你把导员炼成僵尸 [Urban + Taoist Priest + Supernatural + Mystery + Power Fantasy + Invincible + Character Growth + Playing the Fool] My counselor is dying. She has terminal cancer. The doctor says she has at most three months. She didn't cry or make a scene. She just called me into her office and handed me a bottle of cola. “Little Taoist, I want to ask you something.” “Can you turn me into a zombie?” “I don't want to die. I want to watch you graduate.” I fell silent. Corpse refinement is a forbidden art. The re 5Reads—Score—14d adds
- 131 Chronicles of the Yin Ruins 【阴墟纪】 Where do people go when they die? Lin Yueheng has wondered about this ever since she was a child. Her family works in the funeral business. She has seen a thousand different ways to die, but never once has she seen a dead person tell her the answer. That is, until she listens to a song performed without an actor in an abandoned theater. The sixth scene of The Peony Pavilion: “Return to Life” “Strange fate, strange fate, a ghost’s dream beneath the Yellow Springs; great fortune, great fortune, fo —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 132 Chinese Feng Shui for Beginners 零基础学习中国风水学 I'll be compiling many books, including The Golden Lock and Jade Pass Classic (Feng Shui for the Dead), the Boshan Treatise, the Treatise on the Subtle Manifestations, and the Treatise on Urging Officials. As long as readers enjoy them, I'll keep working through the books one by one. Feng Shui isn't really hard to learn, and you don't need to be intimidated by those so-called masters who wander around with a compass, scamming people. Don't believe everything you see in online videos where people 101Reads—Score—14d adds
- 133 A Story Sparked by a Feng Shui Charlatan 一个风水神棍引发的故事 An ordinary person stumbles by chance onto the path of studying fate and feng shui. After a life of great ups and downs, he finds a master and becomes a master of the Daoist arts. What kinds of opportunities will he encounter as he walks the path of slaying demons and eliminating evil... [In the early chapters, drawing on the author’s personal experience studying feng shui and fate-reading, this book will show you how to choose books and get started.] 462Reads—Score10414d adds
- 134 You Are the Art of All Things 你就是一切之术数 Nothing can escape the laws of reason, least of all people! [Plum Blossom Numerology]+ [Face Reading]+ [Divination]+ [Transmigration]+ [Mystery]+ [Deduction] What will happen on Li Shu’s fantastical journey through time and space...? 17Reads—Score—14d adds
- 135 Yanshu: A Feng Shui Master of the Three Mirrors 衍枢：三镜风水师 Wu Yanshu is the youngest feng shui master on Tide City’s Divination Lane. Her grandfather, Chu Shouyuan, is a leading authority in the field. What she inherited from him was more than just his sleeve-bound tools: she also inherited his original “Three-Mirror Cross-Check” method. The spatial mirror examines feng shui formations, the temporal mirror examines birth charts and destiny, and the divination mirror examines the Six Lines. Cross-checking all three brings the misdiagnosis rate down from —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 136 Twenty Years of Walking Between Yin and Yang: A Memoir 二十年走阴串阳回忆录 [The Great Six Ren, Qimen Dunjia, Four Pillars of Destiny, Xuan Kong Flying Stars, Jin Suo Yu Guan, folk witchcraft, Southeast Asian black magic...] And much more: an abundance of divination arts and folk culture, all knowledge you can learn at a glance and put into practice right away. A wealth of practical information! Zhao Jun graduated straight into unemployment. Then, reeling from the double blow of losing his job and his girlfriend, he encountered something that even he, a staunch material 56Reads—Score—14d adds
- 137 The Art of Face Reading 相术人生 After we broke up, I was in agony and lost myself in bars and nightclubs. I never expected that one night together would nearly land me in prison for good. After turning over a new leaf, I was once again caught up in romantic entanglements, a classmate’s schemes, and the pressures of everyday life... Just when my life had hit rock bottom, the face-reading skills my grandfather taught me as a child turned everything around. 92Reads8.9Score—14d adds
- 138 Qingluan's Casual Thoughts on Feng Shui 青峦风水杂谈 Introduction to Green Hills Feng Shui: Casual Reflections "The layout of a home shapes the fortunes of its occupants." Within the modest confines of an ordinary home lie key factors that influence a family's fortunes, yet most people are completely unaware of them. As a practical guide to feng shui, Introduction to Green Hills Feng Shui: Casual Reflections confronts the various "inauspicious layouts and harmful positions" lurking in modern homes and reveals the deep connection between one's surr 23Reads—Score—14d adds
- 139 The Divination Master 卜卦天师 Many people think that reading faces, casting hexagrams, and fortune-telling are mysterious and difficult to learn. In fact, that's not true. As long as you understand some basic principles of yin and yang, the Eight Trigrams, and the Five Elements, once you've learned the basics, an ordinary person can master them too. My Seventh Uncle was an expert in this field. I followed him around from childhood, reading people's faces and telling their fortunes, so I learned a little myself. But after I o 51Reads6.5Score—14d adds
- 140 Wrathful Love in Western Hunan: The Bell of the Gu Spirit 怒情湘西之蛊魂铃 [A power fantasy about a strong female lead's growth + metaphysics and destiny + chilling unsolved cases + a fiery heroine + male leads who all know how to flirt] The heroine is a sharp-tongued little firecracker. As the reincarnation of Tanlang, she has incredible luck with men and a maxed-out charisma buff. She fights her way through one challenge after another, growing stronger all the while, and is as cool as she is dashing. Her destiny has been stolen, and all she wants is to get it back. U 1Reads—Score—14d adds
- 141 Learning Plum Blossom Numerology from Scratch 梅花易数零基础学习 A beginner's guide to Plum Blossom Numerology, created especially for newcomers! Forget obscure theory and get straight to the essentials: how to cast a hexagram from scratch, quickly interpret its symbols, and skillfully match the Subject and Object. Every concept comes with hands-on examples, so you can learn by following along. From the basics to simple applications, it's packed with practical information and free of pointless chatter. This guide will help you quickly grasp the fundamentals o 219Reads—Score11114d adds
- 142 Chen the Blind Man's Notes on Blind-School Divination 陈瞎子的盲派笔记 As a boy, Zeng Xiaoxian met Chen the Blind, a blind fortune-teller, and witnessed the uncanny art of "living your life like a divination." He didn't calculate birth charts. Just from the wear on a sleeve or the mud on a shoe sole, he could tell a person's fortune. After becoming Chen the Blind's successor, Zeng Xiaoxian watched his master mysteriously disappear in a heavy snowstorm, leaving behind only three bamboo divination slips. Years later, at a bizarre logistics company, Zeng Xiaoxian dis 389Reads8.0Score10414d adds
- 143 The Heart House: Chen Ping’s Journey to Change His Fate Through Numerology 心宅：陈平的象数改命记 My new work is now available! Please head to Tomato Novel to read it. I hope you enjoy it. Your support inspires me to write, and I'll do my best to tell every story well! 11Reads—Score—14d adds
- 144 Forbidden Folk Feng Shui Secrets 民间风水禁忌秘术 First comes fate, then fortune, then feng shui; fourth, build up good karma, and fifth, study. Sixth, choose a good name; seventh, know your physiognomy; eighth, honor the gods; ninth, seek the help of benefactors; and tenth, nurture your health. The author, Liu Zhihe, is a twenty-first-generation disciple of the Longmen school of Quanzhen Taoism, and explains the secrets of feng shui through stories. The Yin-Wood House-Locking Layout, the Twin Trees at the Gate Curse, the Corpse in the Central 45Reads—Score—14d adds
- 145 The Unscientific Feng Shui Master 不科学风水师 Ji Yan, a top physics student, gains the ability to read the land's feng shui after an unexpected accident in the laboratory. He can find dragon veins and auspicious burial sites, dispel ill fortune and attract prosperity, bring wealth and status, and defy fate itself. With his mastery of feng shui, Ji Yan wins over business tycoons, helps ordinary people, punishes corrupt villains, and becomes a legendary feng shui master. 224Reads9.0Score—14d adds
- 146 The Diviner of the Mortal Realm: I Use Liu Ren to Determine the Nation's Fate 凡人卜王，我以六壬定国运 [Metaphysics + Divination + Fortune-Telling + Reading Heaven’s Secrets + National Destiny + Technical] [A hard-edged epic metaphysical novel: the only contemporary work built on the true Liu Ren system, fueled by power struggles among mortals, and animated by questions of fate] [No transmigration, no golden finger. Just a left hand, a divination board, and a blood-soaked path to uncovering heaven’s secrets as a mortal] At eighteen, Yan Jidao searched for lost cats on the street and helped people 163Reads—Score—14d adds
- 147 The Devious Game of Fate 天机诡局 My master died under mysterious circumstances. Before he passed, he branded the Chen family’s ancestral secrets of heavenly calculations onto my wrist, leaving me with just one warning: “Never use them unless you have no other choice.” With the century-old brass compass he left me, I saw through the soul-locking formation at the haunted spot in the old mansion at a glance. A bronze mirror to suppress the evil, Big Dipper coins to seal the aura: how could ordinary people doubt eighteen years of f 1Reads—Score114d adds
- 148 Forbidden Feng Shui Secrets of the Dead 阴宅风水禁忌秘术 A yin residence is a tomb, the place where the dead live. Since our ancestors rest there after passing away, it is called a yin residence. As an important part of feng shui, it is subject to many rules. A tomb with good feng shui can bring blessings to descendants; a bad one can invite disaster. Anyone unfamiliar with feng shui is bound to feel anxious. The author, Liu Zhihe, a twenty-first-generation disciple of the Longmen school of Quanzhen Taoism, explains the taboos of tomb feng shui throug 29Reads—Score—14d adds
- 149 Merufa 梅鲁法 In Fenghuang, western Hunan, Chen Lu, a master who practices both Maoshan and Meishan arts, finds a copper coin engraved with the character “Lu” in a fresh grave. The dead person’s soul has been taken, and the coin is an invitation left for him. That same night, a woman named Mei Ruosheng arrives through the rain. Her arms are covered in living patterns, and she carries a lost handwritten text, The Lu-Mei Art. Chen Lu has the same markings on his arm. They are something he sealed away ten years 7Reads—Score—14d adds
- 150 Breaking the Deadlock: Inheriting the Feng Shui Arts of a Scruffy Old Man 破局：继承邋遢老头的风水术 On the first day of school, a disheveled old Taoist blocked my way. With a single remark, he revealed the secret of the bronze cauldron my mother had left behind, then warned me to stay away from my roommate, whose birth chart was purely yin. The moment I turned around, I discovered a life-draining thread of yin energy wrapped around my roommate. And the university we attended was nothing less than a geomantic death trap laid two hundred years ago! Born with a purely yang birth chart, I wield a 2Reads—Score—14d adds
