Novels like The Phoenix of Qishan
Books Chinese readers most often put in the same booklists as The Phoenix of Qishan, best match first.
- 1 The Forbidden Records of Mist City 雾城禁录 Gray mist descends, splitting the city into a patchwork of night-time forbidden zones. Monsters roam. Those who open the door live; those who hesitate die. Lin Zhou has no special bloodline or cheat. His only advantage is that he can see the rules on the other side of the door. Yet every time he opens a door, the city loses a little more time. The Seventh City isn’t growing stronger. It’s mortgaging its future. When the forbidden zones stop disappearing, the records begin to shift, and time n —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 2 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
- 3 Night Voyage on the Yellow River 黄河夜行船 Before he died, Grandpa told me something strange: “Whatever's in the river, never fish it out.” I didn't listen. The next day, I fished a corpse out of the Yellow River. It smiled at me. Only then did I learn that the Shen family had been retrieving bodies for generations, not to recover the dead, but to guard something far more terrifying in the Yellow River. The River Crossing Register listed every rule the Shen family had to follow, but the more I read, the less sense they made: Why had no R —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 4 From the Start, I Explored Dreams for Three Hundred Years, and the Ascetic Imperial Preceptor Lost Control 开局探梦三百年，禁欲国师他失控 I woke up as a good-for-nothing female tutor, and from the start I was expected to bring good fortune through marriage to a seventy-year-old man. At my most desperate, I bound myself to the [Dream Tracing System]. Enter other people's dreams, uncover secrets from their past lives, solve a strange case, and earn three more days to live. I thought I was just solving cases to stay alive, until I entered the mute bodyguard's dream for the first time... A mountain of corpses and a sea of blood, with 4Reads—Score—14d adds
- 5 The Soul-Returning Ledger 还魂帐 On the seventh day after death, the dead return to settle their debts. Funeral director Shen Yantian was born with the ability to see accounts. He audits, weighs, and settles accounts for the dead, at the cost of pawning a memory each time. Until he discovers that the account for the fire that should have killed him three years ago is blank. Someone died in his place. This is my first novel, so the plot moves a little quickly at the beginning. It gets better later on. Thank you for your understa 10Reads—Score18514d adds
- 6 The Seventh Layer of Fiction 第七重虚构 My father disappeared twenty years ago, leaving me only half of a bronze mirror. Everyone said he had run away and abandoned me. I believed them for twenty years. Until the day the mirror cracked, when I saw someone kneeling in the darkness. Six hundred years had passed, and he was still alive. Blue-green patterns began to grow across the back of my hand, creeping upward a little farther each day. When they cover my whole body, I will vanish from this world completely. Not die. Be erased, as i —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 7 The Mirror-Crossing Record 渡镜录 [Historical political intrigue + mystery] The entire army was wiped out. I alone survived, only to be condemned for all eternity as a traitor who colluded with the enemy! Behind the Canglang Valley massacre lay a monstrous plot by the Marquis of Jing'an, who falsified military intelligence and trafficked in weapons. He goes undercover at the marquis’s manor under an assumed name, tearing apart, layer by layer, the outrageous lies woven by the powerful. Undercover agents, forensic examiners, vete —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 8 Everyone Transmigrates! Where Are the Ghosts We Were Promised? Why Are They All Cases? 全员穿越！说好的鬼呢咋都是案子 Everyone Transmigrates: Where Are the Ghosts We Were Promised? Why Are They All Murder Cases? I had barely transmigrated before bandits dragged me up a mountain and demanded I become their captive bride? Top forensic pathologist Lin Qingge says: No problem. First, let's use science to humiliate you all. [Ding! Golden finger “Voices of All Things” activated. Three uses per day. Hear the final words of all things!] The bandit chief raised his blade. “You little brat, prepare to die!” I looked up a 7Reads—Score—14d adds
- 9 I Built a Life-Swap Machine! 我打造了人生交换器！ Two people who both want to die meet on the brink of life and death. Through a mysterious box, they exchange lives and begin living in each other’s bodies. In Su Nian’s body, Lin Shen faces a mother with hair half turned gray, a dead father, a comatose person who “had an accident” on the night of the engagement, and an ex-boyfriend who is still searching for her. A huge photograph of her hangs on the wall, yet no one can explain exactly what happened that day. In Lin Shen’s body, Su Nian moves —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 10 Making Cultural Relics at the Crematorium 我在火葬场造文物 On my first night shift at the crematorium, I found a Northern Song copper coin in the ashes. Its patina was peacock blue, the kind that takes eight hundred years underground to form. But the person whose ashes they were had died just three days ago. On the second day, a ring on a girl killed in a car accident held a fragment of a Spring and Autumn bronze artifact. On the third day, half a Warring States jade disc turned up in a retired teacher’s ashes. The old building to the east, sealed shut, —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 11 Drowning a Child to Steal a Womb 溺童抢胎 Stealing a Child's Reincarnation 1Reads—Score—14d adds
- 12 At the Crime Scene, a Prompt Appears Above the Victim’s Head 命案现场，死者头顶飘出提示框 [System-focused] [Crime solving] [Urban] Three months into the job, Gu Bei, a trainee forensic technician, was examining a hanging scene when a line of blood-red words appeared out of thin air above the victim’s head: [She didn’t tie the knot]. Using the bizarre clue, Gu Bei applied his forensic knowledge to reconstruct the scene and expose the truth behind the staged suicide. Then came [It fell twice] on the face of a car-crash victim, and [Died before the fire] on a charred body at a fire scen 2Reads—Score—14d adds
- 13 The Last Sand Diver 最后一个淘沙官 [Tomb Raiding]+ [Mystery]+ [Supernatural] There is a group of people in this world who understand the balance of yin and yang, know the past and present, and brave deadly dangers in search of secret treasures buried with dragons, lost cities, and ancient palaces said to house immortals. With their own hands, they piece together fragments of the unknown world. They are the Sand-Seeking Celestial Officials. I am the last inheritor of the Sand-Seeking Celestial Officials, and I have decided to reco 3Reads—Score—14d adds
- 14 Lord Guan Guards the Night: From the Start, a Security Guard Gains the Remnant Will of the Martial Sage 关公镇夜：保安开局得武圣残念 [Bickering Couple + Mystery and Deduction + Witty Humor + Leveling Up and Fighting Monsters] Watch an ordinary person from the streets stumble into the business of yin and yang, as his hilarious journey of soul-catching begins! Male Lead: A down-on-his-luck man of humble origins, quick with a joke and fond of snarky remarks. A timid good-for-nothing at first, he grows into a composed and powerful protagonist who makes a comeback. Female Lead / Bickering Partner: Sharp-tongued and always trad —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 15 Heartbeat Concerto 心跳协奏 There are two kinds of people heart surgeon nurse Lin Xue wants nothing to do with in this life: police officers, and people even more stubborn than police officers. When Lu Jun, deputy captain of the criminal investigation squad, bursts into her emergency room with a gunshot wound, the two become one. He investigates cases with decisive efficiency, yet cannot understand why she resents the badge. She stitches wounds with calm professionalism, yet cannot escape the truth closing in as he reopens —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 16 Ghost Ship in the Deep Sea: Witness to the Dead's Obsessions 深海幽灵邮轮：我见证死者的执念 Even kind ghosts can lie, and evil humans can be worse than demons. A luxury cruise ship that vanished without a trace more than twenty years ago drifts across an otherworldly sea, cut off from the rest of the world. Aboard are pitiful ghosts who cannot let go of the people they loved, and evil spirits willing to descend into darkness in pursuit of eternal life. Travel between the world of the living and the ghost ship, fulfill the dead’s final wishes, and search for a missing father. Disappeara 5Reads—Score—14d adds
- 17 I Used a Criminal Investigation System to Clear My Mother's Name 我用刑侦系统为母翻案 Twelve years after my mother was wrongly killed, I received the pocket watch she had mailed me. It lets me see every lie, and has made me the number-one target of an entire criminal organization. —Reads6.5Score—14d adds
- 18 The Great Yong's Number One Thief Catcher 大雍第一贼捕 In the Great Yong Dynasty, he had the most valuable pair of hands. There was nothing he couldn't steal: secret palace artifacts, masterpieces by renowned artists, even sealed chambers. That is, until a female constable caught him red-handed at a crime scene one night. The day after the shackles went on, the authorities offered him a way out: solve cases to atone for his crimes. The merit-and-penalty ring on his wrist recorded each case he solved. Every time he used his borrowed authority, anothe 33Reads—Score—14d adds
- 19 The Night Shift Big Shot 夜班大佬 My mother died of a strange illness, leaving behind nothing but debt and an old bronze mirror. That night, Su Yue's eyes were opened. Beneath the city's neon lights, he could see the uncanny, and the "rules" each of them followed. He was terrified of dying, terrified to the point of trembling. Yet every time he solved a crisis, he did it too cleanly and too decisively. Survivors fell to their knees and worshipped him on the spot. Fake masters went out of their way to avoid him. Even the official —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 20 Records of an Archaeological Bureau Temp 考古司编外人员记事录 My name is Wang Xuanyi. That's what my father, whom I never met in my whole life, named me. Of course, that's not important. When I was twenty, I was on the Huhketu Grassland in Inner Mongolia, helping a friend buy sheep from local herders to sell in the inland provinces and Hebei. How should I put it? I guess my life really began in Huhketu. On the grasslands, I encountered wolves. We stumbled into a tomb with no way out. On the snowy mountains, we saw the last glow of the Bon god. In the Qinl 17Reads—Score—14d adds
- 21 After the Gods Die, They Ask Me to Carve Their Tombstones 神明死后，请我替祂刻碑 The laws of Great Zhao state: Gods do not die. They merely return to their rightful place. But after Qin Sheng joined the Divine Sealing Bureau, every god he heard was begging him to grant them death. For three hundred years, Qingyang County had worshipped the Green Lantern Lady. Legend said that as long as her lamp stayed lit, disease would never enter. But when Qin Sheng split open the statue, he saw a woman pinned inside its clay body with copper nails. She was not the Green Lantern Lady. Her 1Reads—Score—14d adds
- 22 The Pinnacle of Prediction: A Genius of Urban Forecasting 预测之巅：都市预测学奇人 The male lead, Li Qi, comes from a reclusive family with generations of expertise in the I Ching. Raised in the tradition from childhood, he immerses himself in classical methods of prediction before taking the initiative to study modern forecasting, achieving a perfect fusion of the traditional and the modern. He grows from an inexperienced successor into a master predictor capable of accurately forecasting stock movements and lottery numbers. Along the way, the story features urban power strug 2Reads—Score—14d adds
- 23 The Housewife Detective Case Files 名侦探主妇事件簿 After her husband cheats, a housewife unexpectedly discovers she has a talent for detective work? Join a famous Japanese high school detective and a certain compensated-dating girl detective to crack a baffling cold case!! Watch me turn my life around and rewrite my destiny against all odds! —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 24 A Bloody Marriage: The Transformation of a Life 血色婚姻人生蜕变 3Reads—Score—14d adds
- 25 Nine-Pearl Powder 九珠散 During the Republican era, my great-grandfather was lured by members of the Fu family into exploring the Song Dynasty tomb in Luoyang and an underground ancient tomb beneath a temple on Mount Jiuhua. There, he accidentally discovered a mysterious Buddhist bead. Years later, in 2002, the same kind of bead appeared again in a Six Dynasties tomb beneath an abandoned chemical plant in Nanjing. In 2003, I found my great-grandfather's notes and two Buddhist beads back in my hometown. Gradually, I real —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 26 Haunted Cellblock: I Am Thailand's Chao Fa 监舍诡事：我是泰国昭法 A strange female resident arrives at a drug rehabilitation center. She comes from a remote town and has never left the country, yet insists she is a Thai Chao Fa, a princess. Dressed in the coarse clothes of a rehab patient, she carries herself with the poise of royalty. In a two-second news clip, she instinctively performs a deep-palace court ritual. She casually reveals long-buried royal secrets, and with a few strokes, sketches the layout of a palace. She can’t remember her ordinary life, yet —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 27 The Book Behind the Veil 帷后之书 I hope to tell this story slowly to every listener. But when you hear it, the curtain will hear you too. I hope you enjoy my new work. I’m new to this, so please be kind. 1Reads—Score114d adds
- 28 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
- 29 Six Relics to Banish Evil 六器渡邪 On a stormy night, the evil box passed down through my family shattered on its own, and I became a wanted fugitive accused of several murders. My only chance of survival was to recover the six cursed artifacts scattered across the Lin family. But they weren't treasures. They were instruments of torture, each one imprisoning the soul of someone our ancestors had tortured into becoming an artifact. Soul-harvesting rice from the Hungry Ghost Realm, a mending needle used to sew together a hundred —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 30 To Reduce My Sentence, I Became an Archaeology Expert 为了减刑，我成了考古专家 [Tomb Raiding Adventure] [No System] Chen Tao, an Earth adventurer, transmigrates into the body of a captured tomb raider and finds himself facing eighteen years of hard labor from the start! Luckily, the Archaeological Institute comes to recruit him, asking him to guide their excavation team! Hoping to reduce his sentence, Chen Tao transforms from a captured tomb raider into a renowned archaeological master! Under his guidance, the mysterious tomb of Cao Cao, the tomb of Emperor Jianwen Zhu Yun 436Reads5.9Score—14d adds
- 31 The Curse of Sorrowful Love Lake Island 悲恋湖岛的魔咒 A tragic love affair haunts the island on Lake Sorrow, where a century-old curse follows like a shadow. Is David Crane's million-dollar prize a gift from fate, or an invitation to the abyss? An ebony bracelet conceals a mystery, a key of ultraviolet light opens a forbidden door, silicon-based blood algae whisper in the dark, and the shadow of a sacrificial ritual quietly descends. Science and witchcraft clash fiercely, while the line between reality and illusion blurs. To escape their family's f 2Reads7.7Score—14d adds
- 32 The Midnight Photo Studio: I Take Portraits of the Dead 丑时照相馆：我拍亡魂照 [Use the living soul as a lure, and capture the lingering image of the dead] Hidden in the shadows of the city, the photo studio opens only during the Yin hours. Its owner wields a Republic-era camera, taking portraits of the dead’s fading silhouettes, but the price is a sliver of a living person’s soul. Every photograph is a prison for a departed soul’s obsession: if the obsession remains, the soul is trapped in the photo; if it is resolved, the lamp of rebirth is lit. When a young girl enters —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 33 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
- 34 The Underworld Decree 阴职令 A wedding invitation, a register of the dead, and a journey as a guide between worlds. Chen Du was an ordinary young man, until the yin-difference title inherited from his ancestors swept him into the conflicts between the worlds of the living and the dead. Old scores beneath the locust tree, lost souls in the paper city, every debt had to be settled by his own hand. This is not a story about becoming an immortal. It is a cycle of repaying debts. —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 35 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
- 36 The Lu Palace Is a Tourist Attraction Now, and You Want Me to Raid Its Tomb? 鲁王宫都成景区了，让我去盗墓？ Zheng Qian transmigrates to a parallel world and becomes an archaeology graduate. He originally thinks that, with his knowledge of all the major ancient tombs, he can lead an archaeological team in conquering dangerous tombs and win both fame and fortune. But who could have guessed that the government would move first! There's a blood corpse in the Tomb of King Lu? No problem. A corpse-catching net made from aerospace materials can withstand a force of a hundred tons without breaking. One year l 48Reads—Score—14d adds
- 37 The Underworld's Manager 黄泉主理人 “Do you know why the lights at Haishi University never go out? Because monsters lurk in the dark, gnawing away at the light.” Lin Chen tosses his milk tea, frozen into an ice sculpture, into the microwave to thaw, then sighs at the red-clad woman flickering in and out of view in the mirror. His life is like an absurd horror movie: vending machines sell carbonated drinks flavored with Meng Po’s soup, corpses in the dissection room tap-dance on full-moon nights, and worst of all, he’s started eyei 1Reads—Score—14d adds
- 38 The Nightmare Frontier 噩梦边境 Late at night, five people in a subway car were all plunged to the edge of a dream, trapped between life and death. And someone was already waiting for them there: a bizarre creature… 27Reads—Score—14d adds
- 39 King of the Occult Arts: Exorcising Demons in the American Horror Universe 诡术之王：我在美恐世界斩妖除魔 After three years of cultivation, Lin Yan was still at the bottom of the food chain in the American Horror world: kept like livestock by vampires, tormented by vengeful spirits, and ultimately killed on a witch’s sacrificial altar. Then he was reborn and awakened the Lin family’s ancestral legacy of occult arts! In his previous life, he had been ignorant. This time, he wielded talismans as blades, peachwood swords as edges, and soul-subduing bells as his guide, using the thousand-year heritage o 175Reads—Score10014d adds
- 40 The Transmigrators' Alliance: Dedicated to Tearing Apart Twisted Plots 穿越者联盟，专拆变态剧本 After waking from a deep sleep, Qin Weiwei, an information architect at the Ministry of State Security, finds herself the frail, dying legitimate daughter of the Minister of Personnel. But she is horrified to discover this is no transmigration. It is a cage. After entering the palace, she discovers she is not alone. Chu Huaiyu, a widow who carves silverware with shards of broken porcelain; Su Jingyao, an orphan who arranges flowers with the precision of a chemistry experiment; and Lu Zhaoyue, a —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 41 Tomb Raiding: From Traditional Martial Arts to Martial Saint Across the Heavens 盗墓：从国术开始到诸天武圣 [The rating has just come in. It’ll rise as more chapters are released.] Kill and plunder, and you’ll strike it rich. Build bridges and roads, and leave no corpses behind! Gu Yuan transmigrates into the Republican-era world of the tomb-raiding franchise. As he passes through the space-time tunnel, not only does his body grow younger, he also awakens the Calamity-Relief System. Take people’s money and solve their troubles! As long as you can pay, whether it’s murder and arson or robbing tombs, I, 91.7kReads8.1Score9.7k14d adds
- 42 The Identity of the Dead 亡者身份 Introduction “R.I.P. A Hao (1995-2025)” A pop-up notification. A 24-hour countdown. His bank card is frozen, his kidney donor match is canceled, and the criminal underworld offers 500,000 for him. He has one day to bring himself back to life. Or his mother will be buried alongside the truth. —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 43 The World Turned Upside Down: You Think I'm Really an NPC? 倒反天罡：你以为我真的是NPC In 2045, the full-dive game Endless Epoch takes the world by storm. Players embark on thrilling adventures in a game world concealing enormous secrets. Gu Yan, a former game designer, uploads his consciousness after an unexpected car accident and becomes the NPC “Corrupt Town Mayor” in a beginner village, a stereotypical villain players are meant to defeat early on. To avoid being trapped in a daily “death loop” at the hands of respawning players, he must exploit loopholes in the game’s rules an —Reads6.7Score—14d adds
- 44 Going Out? 出门？ [Get out and take a walk. It's time to step outside. Maybe the world beyond the door is wider?] Death is the only way out. Resurrection is a deeper cage. They fall from the void into a prison, each bearing fragments of their own lives: the exhaustion and madness of being worked to the bone, shackles woven from money and morality, the self suffocating beneath marriage, the crushing weight of a perfect education, and repression hidden behind a gentle facade. The only remaining lighthouse points to 1Reads7.2Score—14d adds
- 45 The Gallery of Gods 神明陈列馆 My sister's life hangs on my cursed one. To save his terminally ill sister, Chen Gu steps into a dark world that collects human obsessions and “tokens.” During an expedition, he embeds “Destruction” in his right arm and seals “Order” inside his chest. From then on, his body becomes a battlefield between two colliding stars. He becomes a monster, and every time he suffers, his sister's soul is torn apart from a thousand miles away in her hospital room. In his darkest hour, he discovers the mark 1Reads—Score114d adds
- 46 Armor Hero: After Signing the Overlord Contract, I No Longer Believe in the Light 铠甲：签完霸王合同后，我不信光 [Armor Hero 1 + Behind-the-scenes power plays + Mystery and the supernatural] Lin Yu transmigrates as the son of D City's richest man. He doesn't wear armor or fight supernatural beasts. He sets the rules, draws the game board, and manages the ledgers. Relying on connections, information asymmetry, and analytical skill, he turns the battlefield into a chessboard. Someone in the morgue's cold storage refuses to wake. Something in the depths of an abandoned well has been painted over and concealed 65Reads—Score314d adds
- 47 My Embalming Notes with the Agent 我和代行者的入殓手记 [Thrills + Heartwarming Moments + Redemption + Past and Present Lives] Do you believe someone could wait a hundred years for you? Bai Yan doesn’t. She’s just a junior makeup artist at a funeral home. Her only real skill is pretending she can’t see ghosts. But one early morning, she personally transfers a man’s seal onto herself. He lived to be 129, owes a life, and demands she repay him by doing ten things. This isn’t an evil spirit haunting her. It’s a madman who waited a hundred years for the —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 48 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
- 49 I Play an Extra in Eerie Movies 我在诡异电影里跑龙套 [Also known as: Quitting KFC to Brave the Supernatural Scenarios] Yan Jin worked like a dog at a fried chicken shop for three years, always conscientious and hardworking. At last, he finally stood up for himself and fired his boss. But right after quitting, he transmigrated into an Infinite Flow scenario where death was all but certain. Since he’d transmigrated, he might as well show the supernatural what his incredible golden finger could do: a psychiatric hospital for gods, an echo that never 1.5kReads6.3Score11514d adds
- 50 Tomb Raiding: The Zhang Family Monster Who Emerged from the Bronze Gate 盗墓：从青铜门走出的张家老怪物 [Nine Gates] [Republican Era] [Uncle Nine] [Pangu Zombie] [Tomb Raiding] [Little Brother Qilin] [Old Nine Gates] [Ma Xiaoling] “Name?” “I seem to have had a lot of names. Which one are you asking about?” “What’s your identity in the Zhang family, and what’s your name?” “Oh, I vaguely remember that when I first woke up, I was called Zhang Xianzong. My memories are a little hazy. I remember that in the past, I was called Zhang Daoling, Zhang Heng, and Zhang Guo. Oh, and one time, it seemed everyon 441Reads8.0Score10214d adds
