Novels like I Guard Maoshan's Grotto-Heaven and Subdue Ten Thousand Ghosts
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- 101 The Bell Shakes the Mountains and Rivers 铃动山河 Hardcore worldbuilding: the Maoshan Taoist ghost-hunting tradition, the secret Shaolin art of guiding ghosts to the afterlife, Seven Star fate-reading, the Wu people’s shamanic medicine, and their logical integration with modern technology. Urban setting, supernatural mysteries, ghost hunting, schemes, corpse retrievers, corpse-carrying teams, corpse drivers, zombies, curses, and Southeast Asian horror stories. *Modern military life × ancient metaphysics*: Secret lineages and supernatural crises 2Reads—Score—Shelves
- 102 Everyone's Gossiping: The General's Little Cotton Jacket Has a Leak 全员吃瓜：将军的小棉袄漏风了 [Mind Reading + Gossip + Everyone's Favorite + No Romance + Lighthearted + Hilarious] Gossiping got me killed, so the underworld compensated me with a giant loudspeaker that broadcasts my thoughts! My name is Gu Niannian, a veteran gossip lover. I died at twenty-two after watching a wife and her husband's mistress tear into each other, when a flying high heel hit me squarely in the head. A rookie Grim Reaper fumbled and took the wrong soul. To make amends, the scheming King of Hell handed me the 6.1kReads8.8Score659Shelves
- 103 The Deadly Treasure Hunter 绝命大藏家 [Entirely handcrafted, with no AI involved + adapted from industry secrets + authentic antique appraisals with photos and text + a mogul’s redemption] After more than forty years in the antique trade, twenty-eight years robbing tombs, and fifteen years faking antiques, sixty-year-old Ma Wangye had finally washed his hands of the business and planned to enjoy his retirement. Who could have guessed that on New Year’s Eve, someone would kill him with a pickaxe in front of Old Wangye’s grave? His li 51.3kReads8.8Score5.7kShelves
- 104 The Physician Consort Wants No Responsibility, but the Chaste Prince Coaxes Her to Have His Baby 医妃不想负责禁欲王爷诱她生崽 Already adapted into a short drama. Search for the heroine’s name to watch it. Two more versions are waiting to premiere. (Unhinged + hilarious + both leads are chaste + wins hearts and bodies + magic space + satisfying revenge + rival suitors sent to the doghouse) She transmigrates and immediately has to bring a groom good luck? And she’s supposed to wed a chicken? She stabs the ceremonial chicken right through and throws up her arms, shouting, “Get on my nerves and I’ll damn well turn this ent 11.9kReads9.2Score1.3kShelves
- 105 Reborn, I Dumped the Scumbag and Clung to My Officer Husband 重生后，我踹掉渣男抱紧军官老公 Reborn to punish scoundrels and serve up some face-slapping, with a devoted military marriage and love after marriage. In her previous life, Situ Lanzhi trusted the scumbag He Ziwen, only to be killed by him and his mistress working together. To her dying day, she never knew that Yan Zhenshan, the military officer husband she had neglected all her life, was actually deeply in love with her. Reborn on her wedding night in 1978, she looks at the restrained, distant man before her and summons all 1Reads—Score—Shelves
- 106 The General Came Back to Divorce Me, and Everyone Went Crazy 将军回来要休我，全员发疯 The General Comes Home to Divorce Me, and Everyone Goes Mad 163Reads—Score—Shelves
- 107 I Find Treasures at the Junkyard, and One Glance Tells Me Their Past and Future 废品站捡宝，我一眼断古今 I Find Treasures at the Scrap Yard, and Can Tell an Antique's Age at a Glance 49Reads—Score—Shelves
- 108 I Am Daoist Lin Jiu. I Invite You All to Your Deaths 贫道林九请诸位赴死 [System] [the Myriad Worlds] [Daoist Arts] [Uncle Nine] The red string and glutinous rice remain to this day, but the Daoist Lin of old is no more. Uncle Nine of the Myriad Worlds introduced countless transmigrators to the world, yet they always treated him as a stepping stone. Few remembered his kindness or helped him rise to greatness. When the "Supreme Dao Ancestor System" descends upon Uncle Nine, what sparks will fly between an unreliable System and an upright, slightly cunning Uncle Nine? 11.2kReads7.3Score1.1kShelves
- 109 Cooking Snow Beneath the Pines, Listening to the Years Flow By 松间煮雪听流年 (Invincible protagonist, satisfying contrast, everyone gets a happy ending, absolutely no angst) Deep in Mount Taixu stands a nameless little temple. The old Taoist who lives there does little each day beyond sweeping snow, brewing tea, and listening to the wind. Then one day, a badly wounded nine-tailed fox tumbles through the temple gate. The old Taoist sighs, pulls a sword sealed away for a thousand years from his sleeve, then turns around, chops some firewood, and brews the fox a cup of tea. 148Reads—Score—Shelves
- 110 This Hilarious Power Fantasy Has Pissed Off That Crazy Fish Again 爆笑爽文又惹到那条癫鱼了 You can offend anyone in this world, just don’t provoke that crazy fish. When she flies into a rage, she doesn’t care who you are. The law, good manners, filial piety? All worthless. Her one rule is simple: if you bully me, I’ll beat you up; if you don’t like it, I’ll beat you up; if I don’t like the look of you, I’ll beat you up. If you try to seduce my man, I’ll beat you up and then sell you off. Why do I like throwing punches? Because I’ve got the strength to back it up. I’d like to keep a lo 24kReads9.2Score1.8kShelves
- 111 After I Transmigrated into a Book, I Plucked the Male Lead’s Halo Bare 穿书后，我把男主光环薅秃了 [1V1 ultra-sweet + goofy humor and meme references + showbiz + variety shows + face-slapping + career growth] [Unhinged, laid-back showbiz CEO VS upright, brooding law lecturer] Wen Muyun transmigrates into a book. She becomes the brainless, vicious female side character in a domineering CEO novel, obsessed with the male lead and scheming against the heroine. In the end, her father dies, she goes mad, and her company goes bankrupt. Wen Muyun: I’m checking out and doing nothing. Let the cap 6.5kReads—Score736Shelves
- 112 The Discarded Prince Is Granted a Marriage and Uses Technology to Strengthen the Nation 废物皇子被赐婚，用科技强国 For male readers: Top scientist Li Xiaoyun is brutally assassinated. In an instant, he transmigrates into the body of a useless prince, despised by the court and bullied by everyone. His start is a death sentence: Lin Wan'er, his beloved and future crown princess, runs away from their wedding in front of everyone. His birth mother, a former dynasty's princess, gives her life to protect him. The furious emperor exiles him to the freezing, desolate province of Huangzhou. He is called a vassal prin 6.5kReads9.3Score720Shelves
- 113 This Is Hilarious! Everyone Wants This Guy Dead 笑疯了！这哥们人人喊打 [Funny + lighthearted + wicked + absurd + at war with the whole world + come in for a laugh] Ling Chen is a born troublemaker whom everyone naturally dislikes. A fortune-teller said his fate was so harsh that his father would die when he was three, his mother would be doomed when he was seven, and he would never have a complete family. So his father ran away, and his mother cut ties with him too. After finally making it into college, Ling Chen is hated by the entire school and sent to the fronti 35.8kReads7.8Score3kShelves
- 114 An Old Lady Reborn in the 1970s: Every Strike Against My Adopted Daughter Is Fatal 老太太重生七零：刀刀刀养女的命 In her previous life, Yu Mingxiang had cancer. The moment she transferred her assets to her daughter, the girl turned on her and threw her out. Only then did Yu Mingxiang learn that the girl wasn't her biological child at all. Her wicked adopted daughter had killed her entire family! After dying a miserable death in the street, Yu Mingxiang opened her eyes and found herself thirty years in the past, half a month before her whole family was sent to the countryside. Her adopted daughter was stand 59.5kReads8.7Score6.7kShelves
- 115 The Defeated General 败将 A chef has come to Liangxi County, his skills so astonishing that he draws food lovers from far and wide. A scholar has come to Liangxi County, writing letters and painting pictures while cursing people to die soon and be reborn. They have only one thing in common: they are both handsome, with perfect figures, and together they have become the county’s most striking sight. The young ladies of every household are practically tearing their handkerchiefs apart, only to learn that the two men are a 2.2kReads9.7Score378Shelves
- 116 The Cat-Paw Martial Heroine: Fleeing Her Way to the Top 三脚猫女侠，逃命成为天下第一 The Three-Legged Cat Swordswoman: Fleeing for Her Life to Become the Greatest Under Heaven 256Reads—Score—Shelves
- 117 No More Meetings at the Magpie Bridge: The Cowherd and the Weaver Girl Are Selling Riverside Apartments in Heaven 鹊桥别相会了，牛郎织女去天庭卖银河江景房 No more meeting at the Magpie Bridge: The Cowherd and the Weaver Girl head to Heaven to sell Milky Way-view apartments 1Reads—Score—Shelves
- 118 Love Makes a Home 有爱才有家 Where There Is Love, There Is a Home —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 119 On the Day I Was Reborn, I Tore Up the Family Inheritance Agreement 重生之日，我撕毁全家的遗产协议 On the Day I Was Reborn, I Tore Up My Family's Inheritance Agreement 2Reads—Score—Shelves
- 120 The Heiress Returns to Her Family 千金回归一家亲 The Heiress Returns, Reuniting the Family 19Reads—Score—Shelves
- 121 One Man, One Donkey, One Dog: The Path to Immortality 一人一驴一狗去修仙 [Sneaky and shameless + outrageously crafty + scheming + satisfying power fantasy + master of dirty tricks + lighthearted + no shame] When fighting people: “Dahei, go be the bait! Er Lyuzi, kick him in the butt while I smack the back of his head!” When fighting ghosts: “Dahei, spit blood at it! Er Lyuzi, blast it with your farts while I blow it up with a Divine Fire Thunderbolt Pill!” When fighting demons: “Dahei, use triple the dose of Five-Step Drop! Er Lyuzi, get the demon-binding rope and th 18kReads9.2Score1.6kShelves
- 122 Zhu Bajie Takes on Journey to the West: I’ve Attained Enlightenment, Now I’m Going Back to Gao Village to Slack Off 八戒闯西游：修成正果，俺回高老庄摆烂 Bajie Charges Into the Journey to the West: After attaining enlightenment, I’m heading back to Gao Village to slack off —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 123 The Immortal's Appearance 仙人状 [Historical romance + mystery solving + male lead with a secret identity + lovers who fight as fiercely as they love] A dazzling, outspoken heroine and a seemingly gentle but secretly ruthless physician, locked in a battle of equals as they fall in love! A celebrated romance author's popular historical mystery! A relationship between equals, full of tension; heart-stopping court intrigue; and the shocking truth behind bizarre murders! A celestial being appears in a dream to help solve a case and 16.2kReads9.6Score2.7kShelves
- 124 Reborn in the 1980s! No Regrets!!! 重生八零！不留遗憾！！！ Reborn in 1980! No regrets!!! 336Reads—Score—Shelves
- 125 The Three-and-a-Half-Year-Old Little Ancestor Comes Down the Mountain to Save Her Mother 三岁半小祖宗下山救娘 [Adorable Kid + Powerful Figures + Play the Pig to Eat the Tiger + Beloved by All + Face-Slapping + System + Transmigrate + Scumbag Father Gets His Comeuppance + Mother-Daughter Bond + God of War Uncle Prince + Daily Dose of Satisfaction] (The story has only just received its rating. Some chapters are being revised and replaced, and the rating will rise later.) Thrown into the wilderness by her own father the moment she was born? Little Yu’er will remember that score. At three and a half, she co 7.8kReads7.4Score1.1kShelves
- 126 The Ultimate Village Doctor 极品村神医 [Rural miracle doctor + get rich + farming] Ye Xiaofan has terminal cancer and thinks he doesn’t have long to live. By a twist of fate, he recovers and gains peerless medical skills and an immortal cultivation art. He can cure any rare or difficult illness with ease, and he’s not afraid to take on anyone, face-slapping expert after expert. Watch as this ordinary man climbs, step by step, to the peak of life... 2kReads8.9Score343Shelves
- 127 Innkeeper, Don't Think You Can Escape: The CEO's Runaway Pregnancy 民宿老板别想逃：女总裁的“带球跑” The B&B Owner Can't Get Away: The CEO's "Pregnant and on the Run" Romance 183Reads—Score—Shelves
- 128 Don't Lie Flat on the Path to Buddhahood! Zhu Bajie Helps the Great Sage Open a Huaguoshan Tourism Company 成佛别躺平！猪八戒帮大圣开个花果山旅游公司 Don't Lie Flat on the Road to Buddhahood! Zhu Bajie Helps the Great Sage Start a Huaguo Mountain Tourism Company 4Reads—Score—Shelves
- 129 After Three Years as a Widow, I Took Grandma to Join My Officer Husband 守寡三年我带奶奶投奔军官老公啦 The short drama is now streaming: The Lucky Wife of the 1970s: Her Tomb Raider Secret Identity Is Out! [Cold, tough military officer × female tomb raider, who later joins a research institute to serve her country] [Alternate-history military marriage + tomb-raiding System + married first, love later + raising kids + mind-reading + one-on-one, both leads inexperienced in love + nine-year age gap] [Reader's guide: The early chapters have a few plot holes, and the story is a silly comedy with no lo 11.2kReads8.6Score1.2kShelves
- 130 Oh No, the Immortal Venerable Really Came to Repay His Debt 不好，仙尊真是来报恩的 Oh no, the Immortal Venerable really did come to repay his debt of gratitude 43Reads—Score—Shelves
- 131 A Gentle Breeze, an Old Dream 清风别旧梦 A Gentle Breeze Leaves Old Dreams Behind 3Reads—Score—Shelves
- 132 After My Scumbag Dad Married His White Moonlight, He Lost All His Descendants 渣爹娶了白月光后，断子绝孙了 [Period] [The 1960s] [Transmigration] [Ensemble Cast] [Feel-Good Story] [Little One, Big Impact] Original title: After My Scumbag Father Married His One True Love, His Family Line Came to an End Su Moqian, head of a prestigious hidden medical clan, was ambushed by her enemies. She used her last breath to take them down with her, only for her soul to drift into the 1960s of a parallel world. Lack of clothes and food was bad enough, but she had also been reborn as a four-and-a-half-year-old toddle 96.7kReads9.0Score5.8kShelves
- 133 Dragon Cub in the Heavenly Prison: I’m Emperor Wu of Han’s Great-Grandson 天牢龙崽：我是汉武帝的皇曾孙 Little Dragon in the Celestial Prison: I’m Emperor Wu of Han’s great-grandson 19Reads—Score—Shelves
- 134 I'm Dead! Bajie Works with His Old Flame at Huaguoshan Tourism 笑死！八戒在花果山文旅和旧情人上班 I’m dead! Bajie is working at Huaguoshan Tourist Resort with his old flame. 9Reads—Score—Shelves
- 135 Zhu Bajie Takes on Journey to the West: I Tear the Scumbag Bull Demon King Apart 八戒闯西游：手撕渣男牛魔王 Bajie Charges Into the Journey to the West: I Tear the Scumbag Bull Demon King to Pieces 11Reads—Score—Shelves
- 136 Hilarious! I Mistook an Evil God's Curse for an Ultimate Move and Trained with It 搞笑！我把邪神诅咒误当大招练了 [Trope Subversion]+ [Invincible Unhinged Comedy]+ [Absolutely Hilarious]+ [A Mentally Ill Author’s Wild Imagination] What the heck? Zhang Yi'ang feels like the heavens are messing with him. He tried practicing a cultivation technique, only to accidentally learn an Evil God’s curse. First ultimate move: The Zhang family is stronger than the Li family, so you can only attack people surnamed Li. But how many people in the world are actually named Li? Second ultimate move: Stay completely still, but 5kReads8.2Score431Shelves
- 137 The Foolish Lad’s Country Romance 傻小子的乡村情缘 A new work is out! You can read my stories on Tomato Novel. I hope you enjoy them. Your support motivates me to write, and I'll do my best to tell every story well! 5.2kReads9.0Score443Shelves
- 138 A Miserable Life for Villainous Spouses: Where Should We Cause Trouble Today? 反派夫妻百事哀，今天在哪搞破坏 [Troublemaking drama queen heroine vs. villainous big shot who cleans up after her] Su Zhi became the newlywed wife of the villainous big shot Huo Wujiao. In the story, she was a wealthy family's fake heiress who had done every kind of evil. One day, she was thrown out of the house, and on the street she found the “fallen and powerless” villain Huo Wujiao. Each had something the other wanted, so they got married. To earn enough life points to survive, she joined forces with the big shot and they 30.6kReads9.1Score3.9kShelves
- 139 Han Caiyi’s Journey of Ten Thousand Miles 韩彩依万里路 Han Caiyi's Journey of Ten Thousand Miles 71Reads—Score—Shelves
- 140 My Scrap Recycling System: It Turns Out to Be a Mouth 我的废品回收系统：竟然是一张嘴 [Comedy + Dumpster Diving + Everyday Life + System + Urban + Wild Imagination + Realistic + Hilarious + Tycoon + Scrap Collecting + Recycling + Getting Rich + Multiple Heroines] Everyone else's Systems are lifeless, but my System, Li Ran's, is alive: a pair of bright red lips. Ever since she came into my life, things have gradually started getting better. Comedy, a System, everyday life, dumpster diving, and meeting all sorts of women: that's Li Ran's daily life. I'm a handsome 32-year-old guy w 600Reads—Score102Shelves
- 141 The Pig Who Couldn’t Escape Gao Laozhuang: Bajie Works Like a Beast at Gao Laozhuang 逃不出高老庄的猪，八戒在高老庄当牛马 The pig who can't escape Gao Laozhuang: Bajie works like a beast of burden at Gao Laozhuang 1Reads—Score—Shelves
- 142 I’ve Transmigrated to a Famine Year. If You Need Me, Burn Some Paper Offerings 本人已穿荒年，有事记得烧纸 Chen Dongyue transmigrated. The good news: She gained access to a strange pocket dimension. The catch was that the unreliable space only worked if her old friend You Sijia made daily “offerings” to it. The bad news: She had transmigrated into the body of a woman as burly as a mountain and as fierce as a tigress. Her family was poor, and on top of that, she had to deal with the “mess” her missing husband had left behind, as well as support her mother-in-law, brother-in-law, and sister-in-law. Luc 7.6kReads9.3Score809Shelves
- 143 Online Romance Turns Real: Is the Rich Lady Actually a Male Streamer? 网恋奔现：富婆竟是男主播？ Qin Fei, a male college student majoring in broadcasting, eagerly went to meet the “rich older sister” he'd been dating online. But waiting at the bus stop was the washed-up, sleazy streamer Ju Huatai, driving a Ferrari and holding a bouquet. “I've already booked a room. Since we're here...” “Get lost, you disgusting pervert!!!” A chaotic, disastrous meet-up brought together two people who had nothing to do with each other. It also led Qin Fei into the world of livestreaming, where one hilarious 2.7kReads8.2Score179Shelves
- 144 While Others Build Careers, She Chases Handsome Men: Princess Taiping Turns All of Tang China Into Her Playground 别人搞事业她搞帅哥，太平公主渣翻全大唐 Everyone else builds careers, but she goes after handsome men: Princess Taiping wreaks havoc across the Tang Empire 17Reads—Score—Shelves
- 145 My Three-Year-Old Son Is a Little Comedian Who Drives Away Every Woman Who Takes an Interest in My Husband 我儿子三岁，是个笑话精，专克老公桃花 My Three-Year-Old Son Is a Little Comedian Who Keeps My Husband's Admirers at Bay 2kReads—Score—Shelves
- 146 Paper Effigies and the Yin Shop (Part One) 纸扎阴铺(一) Paper Effigies and the Yin Shop (1) 18Reads—Score—Shelves
- 147 The Commandery Princess Is Reborn and Back for Revenge 郡主重生杀回来了 Zhang Jiayue, the Princess of Yufang, was talked into visiting the Sure-Win Gambling House by her half-brother and the Third Prince. She brought along her childhood friend Jiang Yunzhao. After winning at first, she began to lose and got hopelessly hooked, borrowing a million taels of silver. The gambling house came after her to collect, bringing down both the Prince’s and Marquis’s households. She was killed, too. Unable to let go, she was reborn on the road as the gambling house’s collectors cl 391Reads8.1Score100Shelves
- 148 Biting Xiatang 咬夏棠 The print edition of Biting Summer Begonia is now available. A short drama and a comic drama are also online. [Possessive top scholar and campus heartthrob vs. gorgeous, flirtatious ray of sunshine] [Super sweet, no angst, with secrets between the leads to be revealed] On the first day of her junior year, Yu Tang hears that the pharmacy school has a graduate student so handsome he could steal the spotlight from the horizon. She skips class to sneak a peek at the hottie. Inside a half-open changi 24.4kReads9.0Score2.9kShelves
- 149 I Became a Millionaire Overnight After My Divorce 离婚后我一夜暴富 My husband held up our property settlement agreement and said, “You’re not good enough for me anymore.” I calmly signed, then used all my savings to buy a lottery ticket. The next day, he clutched his new lover on TV and screamed, “Who stole my jackpot?!” I linked arms with his business rival and waved the lottery ticket at the camera: “Let me introduce you to my new husband.” 86Reads—Score—Shelves
- 150 Bound to a Gossip System, I Was Made a County Princess by the Emperor 绑定吃瓜系统后，我被皇帝封郡主 On Gu Yunshu's sixteenth birthday, she was bound to the “Gossip System.” At a palace banquet, the System suddenly delivered a shocking piece of gossip: the children born to the Noble Consort were actually fathered by the head of the Imperial Medical Academy! The words slipped out of her thoughts: “The emperor's been cuckolded!” The entire court heard her, and the emperor immediately ordered a blood test to confirm their parentage. The Noble Consort fell from power, the chancellor turned out 18Reads—Score—Shelves
