Novels like The Lop Nur Code
Books Chinese readers most often put in the same booklists as The Lop Nur Code, best match first.
- 1 South of Chang'an Lies a Haunted Mountain 长安之南有诡山 Since ancient times, the Qinling Mountains have been the dragon veins of China, where spiritual energy gathers. This has also made them a meeting place between the realms of yin and yang, and between humans, demons, and ghosts. After the Tang dynasty was founded, the “Mountain Wardens Office” was established to govern strange affairs in the mountains. But as time passed, some ancient “beings” began to awaken... 1Reads—Score—Shelves
- 2 The Sequel to Wukong: Breaking Through Realms to Seek the Dao for Eighty Thousand Miles 悟空后传：破界问道八万里 My new work is here! You’re welcome to read it on Fanqie Novel. I hope you’ll enjoy it. Your support is what keeps me writing, and I’ll do my best to tell every story well! 1Reads—Score—Shelves
- 3 Ailao Mountain: The Ninth Dragon 哀牢山：第九龙 Ailao Mountain: The Ninth Dragon —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 4 Qinling Mysteries: The Death of the Mountain Keeper 秦岭诡事：守山人之死 Strange Tales of the Qinling Mountains: Death of the Mountain Keeper —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 5 Chronicles of the Qinling Mysteries 秦岭诡事录 Chronicles of Strange Tales from the Qinling Mountains —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 6 Huaiyin Crossing: The Cursed Pagoda Tree 槐阴渡·阴槐咒 Huaiyin Crossing: The Cursed Yin Locust Tree —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 7 Huaiyin Crossing Extra: Ten Years Later, the Evil Spirit Returns, Ferrying the Dead 槐阴渡番外：十年归煞·渡亡人 Huaiyin Crossing: Bonus Story, A Malignant Spirit Returns After Ten Years, Ferryman of the Dead —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 8 Ancient Divine Beasts: Return to the Netherworld Abyss 上古神兽之幽冥归墟 The Ancient Divine Beasts: Return to the Netherworld Abyss is an epic that weaves together ancient legends, classic detective mysteries, suspense and horror, and the philosophy of life and death. At its heart is the image of the “Return to the Abyss”: all waters flow into one, neither increasing nor diminishing. It is a metaphor for how all human memories will ultimately converge in the same ocean. In this world, every love, every sacrifice, and every choice becomes part of eternity. As Shen Con —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 9 Nine Realms Under Heaven: My Twin Pupils Shatter the Heart-Demon Tribulation 天下九域：我双瞳破尽心魔劫 Her name is Shen Jin. She is thirty-two, a former forensic pathologist, and now a cleaner of the deceased’s belongings. Though deaf in her left ear, she can hear the final seven seconds of a dead person’s memories. The world is divided into nine realms, shrouded by floating ancient towers. The Heart-Demon Disc reflects people’s fears, and those who ascend the towers never return. On the night of the full moon, blood-red steps descend, and no one can escape. After touching a twin-fish jade pendan —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 10 Echo Island: The Twelfth Corpse 回响岛：第十二具尸体 Feng Wan, a criminal profiler, receives a yellowed anonymous letter inviting her to investigate a bizarre case on Echo Island, a place that does not appear on any map. After arriving, she meets eleven other invitees, each with a different background, only to discover in horror that the twelve people named in the invitation have yielded just eleven bodies, each dead in a different way. At midnight, an ancient stone statue turns its head to stare at the living. Every day, bloody words appear on th —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 11 Folk Tales of Ghosts 民间鬼事 Tales of the Supernatural 2Reads—Score—Shelves
- 12 The Woman Across the Hall 对面的女人 The Woman Across the Street —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 13 The Grave Behind Me 身后的那座坟 The Grave Behind Me 1Reads—Score—Shelves
- 14 The Delivery Request 快递委托 Courier Request —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 15 The Ominous Coffin 凶棺 It all started with a coffin that floated up from the river... I thought it was a fortune dropped from the sky, but it turned out to be a disaster. After I pried open the coffin, I began to feel that something unclean had followed me home. My daughter grew stranger by the day. She was only three, yet she had already started developing! 120Reads—Score—Shelves
- 16 The School Cemetery Office at the Medical College 医学院里的校墓处 Supernatural + campus horror + strange tales from a bygone era + folk magic + crime-solving In 1996, I enrolled in medical school. In the campus's northwest corner stood a sealed-off west annex, known among the students as the School Cemetery. Disappearances, madness, hanging... Every tragedy pointed to an anatomy lesson plan from the Republic of China era. I never believed in the supernatural, until a girl came to me: “You’re the only one who can break the curse.” I broke into the building l —Reads6.7Score—Shelves
- 17 The Yin-Yang Master of the Living World 阳间阴阳先生 I was an ordinary first-year college student. Then one incident gave me a whole new understanding of the world. From that day onward, I walked between the realms of yin and yang. 3.6kReads—Score110Shelves
- 18 Strange Tales from the Countryside 农村里的奇异怪谈 [Traditional supernatural horror + third-person narration + one female lead + no immortal cultivation] In a strange, gloomy bamboo forest, evil forces claim people’s lives. A university graduate has just returned to his village when he becomes embroiled in a series of bizarre events. In the end, he takes a master and learns the Dao. Is the mysterious woman good or evil? What other strange events will the protagonist encounter? Find out in the book. 21Reads—Score—Shelves
- 19 A Stranger's Path Through the Ghost World 鬼途陌路 Modern setting + horror + suspense + supernatural + strong female lead Hu Ying is a funeral makeup artist who just wants to earn a little money and lie flat. Who would have thought that after an accident, she’d be forced onto a one-way road where she’d have to live among ghosts? From then on, she uncovers conspiracies and fights evil cults, and somehow ends up at the very peak of life... 93Reads—Score—Shelves
- 20 Horror Stories 恐怖随笔 A newly arrived, laid-back demobilized soldier; a beautiful makeup artist who keeps to herself, cool on the outside but warm inside; a group of colleagues at a funeral home, each with their own agenda; and a twisted, eerie spirit in the crematorium. As singing echoes through the midnight air, the curtain rises on death. They struggle to uncover the truth on the very edge of terror and death... 2.3kReads8.9Score215Shelves
- 21 My Dead Wife Returns on Our Wedding Night 亡妻归来新婚夜 My Late Wife Returns on Our Wedding Night 2Reads—Score—Shelves
- 22 The God in the Cage 笼中之神 This is a requiem for prisoners, echoing between the abyss of reality and illusion. When the prison of consciousness is exposed, will you choose to sink into a sweet lie, or awaken to a cruel truth and be destroyed? The answer was already decided from the very start of the search. 1Reads—Score—Shelves
- 23 The King of Face Reading 观相之王 This novel is complex and brainy, not a lightweight read. If that’s not your thing, don’t read it. Ensemble cast + mind games + the supernatural + climbing the ranks and getting rich + foretelling good and bad fortune + solving mysteries through face reading and divination. “I’d like to ask about my health using the character ‘six.’” “Certainly. The character ‘six’ looks like a person dismembered into several pieces, with the head separated from the body.” Why are some people blessed with endle 5Reads—Score—Shelves
- 24 Miaojiang Yin-Yang Gu 苗疆阴阳蛊 Miaojiang Yin-Yang Gu 3Reads—Score—Shelves
- 25 Slaying Demons and Ghosts Since High School 斩妖灭鬼，从高中开始 [Traditional Supernatural Horror] + [School Life] + [Ensemble Cast] + [Coming of Age] + [Not Overpowered] + [Passionate] It all begins with a student jumping from a school building. Liu Tianyu had expected to spend his student years in peace, but from that day on, his life was never quiet again. Peril at a haunted temple, a school turned into a sacrificial altar, a ghost city beneath the water: one challenge after another awaits. Watch as a group of students turn the tables amid the schemes of g —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 26 The Yin Guardian: The Mysterious Divine Coffin Hidden Beneath the Mountain 守阴人：藏在山底的神秘天棺 After I encountered the Ghost Granny, my dad died. Later, I found my older brother, and then my grandpa died too. Somehow, I became the last Guardian of the Yin. Later, I discovered that it wasn't the Ghost Granny behind it all, but another conspiracy hidden from view. [Entirely written by hand, no AI writing!] 225Reads—Score—Shelves
- 27 It's 2:30 A.M. Let Me Tell You a Story! 凌晨两点半，我来给你讲故事！ Before I knew it, this book had passed 200 chapters. Time flies, and now the story is nearing its conclusion. It will end after just one million words. We’re currently in the rapid-update phase, with three chapters posted every day at 9 a.m. This book is a collection of folk horror stories set in the countryside. Each chapter is a standalone story, and every plot has been carefully crafted by the author. Comments from fellow readers are welcome. If you like it, add it to your bookshelf. 7Reads—Score—Shelves
- 28 The Life-Devouring Ancient Formula 噬命古方 The Life-Devouring Ancient Formula —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 29 The Curse of the Manicure 美甲之咒 The Nail Art Curse —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 30 Return from the Forbidden Zone: I Brought the Missing Back from the Warp 禁地归人之我从亚空间带回失踪者 Every year, a million people mysteriously vanish around the world, and none ever return. Then Zhong Jiale discovered that the window in his bedroom was actually a gateway to forbidden pocket dimensions! Ruined ghost cities, deep-sea prisons, apocalyptic exclusion zones, ancient ruins... Everyone else went in to die, but he went in to save people, seize treasures, and become a god! He rescued billionaires from hell and brought back relatives who had been missing for a century through a rift in ti 5Reads—Score—Shelves
- 31 Chinese-Style Horror Stories 中式恐怖小说 29Reads—Score—Shelves
- 32 The Orthodox Unity Taoist Acolyte 正一小道爷 My master vanished without a trace. As the sect’s last heir, I have the sect’s treasured spirit sword and a purple-gold spirit talisman brush. One man, one sword, one brush: I descend the mountain to subdue demons and ghosts. Note: Some events in this book are based on real experiences the author has had, and some of the methods are quite authentic. Do not attempt to imitate them! 592Reads6.1Score100Shelves
- 33 The Yin-Yang Geomancer’s Legacy 阴阳地师传 At ten years old, I slew a white serpent and subdued a hundred ghosts. The generals of the underworld called me “little brother.” Using feng shui, the art of Qimen, and Taoist magic, I solved one strange murder case after another! It all began with the corpse of a man in a cornfield! 6Reads—Score—Shelves
- 34 Strange Tales from the Countryside 乡村诡故事 Before you start this book, a warning: if you scare easily, don't read it. If you live alone, be careful. Every short ghost story here is based on an ordinary person's real-life experience. Not a single word is made up. From the damp old alleyways of the south to the frozen, deserted villages of the north; from late-night overtime in office buildings to lights-out in university dorms; the taboos our elders forbade us to talk about, and the moments you dare not dwell on in the middle of the night 120Reads—Score—Shelves
- 35 Girls’ Dorm Rule Horror: Survive! 女寝规则怪谈：请活下去！ The Dormitory Girls’ Rules of the Strange: Survive! 116Reads—Score—Shelves
- 36 The Pawnshop 典当 [Urban + supernatural + mystery] My name is Mo Linyuan. I run my family’s ancestral pawnshop. Other pawnshops deal in dirty money; mine trades in lives! Grandpa says our family has always had three storerooms: one for Heaven, one for Earth, and one for mortals! Rules: No strange item is ever refused; the redemption price is a hundredfold. Advertisement: Pawn ghosts, take immortals as collateral. We do not pawn past lives or future ones. Deceive Earth and Heaven, and you can redeem a life as old 242Reads7.4Score—Shelves
- 37 Tales of the Uncanny in Jiangnan 江南诡事录 I was born in an old town in Jiangnan, and from childhood I loved hanging around beneath the eaves of the old teahouse. I would listen as Zhou the Blind sipped his strong tea and spun yarn after yarn, recounting the strange tales he had heard over most of his life. Half of what this book records came from the stories passed by word of mouth beneath the teahouse storyteller’s gavel; the other half came from what I saw and heard as I grew up wandering the streets and alleys of Jiangnan. Now the te 8Reads—Score—Shelves
- 38 The Midnight Restaurant 午夜饭店 I opened a restaurant that can only open in the middle of the night, and it has all sorts of rules. I'm starting to suspect that none of my customers are human. What should I do? Asking online. 46Reads7.7Score—Shelves
- 39 Ghost Stories at Three in the Morning 三更讲鬼 This book recounts some strange events from the 1980s. One place holds far more than a hundred stories. Perhaps it would be more fitting for me to be a bystander, or a listener. I have written down the stories I heard to remember the past. You can simply take the people and events in these pages as a joke, if you like. Or you can read them as stories that invite self-reflection. Who knows... the characters in them might bear a resemblance to you. Or perhaps they reflect someone close to you. Wit 154Reads8.4Score—Shelves
- 40 Chronicles of the Ashen Earth 烬土录 You can try it, but I wouldn’t recommend it. The book was signed too early, so I can’t change the title anymore. It can only be called Records of the Ashen Earth now. I originally wanted to change it to The Mountain Keeper: I Slay Demons with My Sharp Tongue. Synopsis Deep in the Qinling Mountains lies a town called Ashen Earth, where generations have served as mountain keepers. I, Chen Nian, had kept watch for seventeen years, but on the day the peachwood tablet shattered, my entire clan tre 1Reads—Score—Shelves
- 41 Paper Cutting to Prolong Life 剪纸续命 Three days after his master's death, Chen Zhi's name was pressed into a paper-cut figure. Someone cut paper outside his door late at night. A paper figure bearing his name appeared at the doorstep, and from then on, the blue-black mark on his hand began to seep inward along his veins. Paper can ward off evil and bind souls. And the darkest art of the Paper-Cutting Sect is called Name Binding. To stay alive, Chen Zhi can only follow the torn pages his master left behind, the black sand beneath t 12Reads—Score—Shelves
- 42 One Hundred Thousand and One Folk Horror Stories 十万零一个民间恐怖故事 A collection of short horror stories in an episodic format, with a new story every chapter. No dragging things out! Haunted houses in the countryside, mountain spirits, urban legends, old customs and taboos... Every kind of Chinese-style horror is covered, with nonstop thrills and no filler. Anti-superstition disclaimer: This story is entirely fictional. Believe in science and read rationally. Please don’t apply it to real life~ 304Reads—Score101Shelves
- 43 Notes on Strange Folk Tales 民间诡事札记 The countryside hides the strangest legends and lays bare the truest depths of the human heart. A single red embroidered shoe beneath an old pagoda tree holds a grievance and a hatred left unspoken. A strange peddler knocking at the door in the dead of night carries no ordinary goods in his pack, only old stories frosted over with time. A bronze mirror rising from an ancient well can reflect ghosts, but not the depths of the human heart... These curious tales scattered across bustling streets an 66Reads—Score—Shelves
- 44 Daoist Bai Mei, Matchmaker of the Dead 白媒道长 Welcome to the works of Pangtou Yu! The author will do their best to bring you exciting stories. Thank you for your support and for sharing your criticism. Wishing all readers the best of luck. —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 45 I’m Going to Lure 100 Lost Souls 我要勾满100个亡魂 Sequel to I Guide Souls at Wangxiang Terrace Lin Jiaojiao, 24, an overworked office worker, suddenly dies on the Nth night in a row of staying up all night revising proposals. When she opens her eyes again, she has already completed every step of the underworld’s procedures. But just as she reaches Wangxiang Terrace, the guide Zhou Yi stops her. “Your attachment remains unresolved. You can’t be reincarnated.” Judge Li Muzi offers her a way forward: work as a soul reaper under him, and she can be 9.7kReads—Score3kShelves
- 46 The Terrifying School 极度恐怖校园 As the best university in the city, this school admits only outstanding students. But it also has many rules that are hard to understand: no studying after eight o’clock, and no leaving your dorm room after midnight. No matter who calls to you from the corridor, do not answer... The protagonists in this story are all independent, but their countless connections eventually bring them together. What secrets does this school hold? 247Reads—Score—Shelves
- 47 The Yin Deliverer 送阴人 A burial master, also known as one who sends the dead into the shadows. When Li Mazi from my village died suddenly, I was drawn into the affair. I thought it was an accident, but later I learned it had been plotted for a long time. To stay alive, I began studying the Burial Scripture my grandfather left behind. The Burial Scripture has three volumes: one on burying people, one on burying ghosts, and a third whose whereabouts are unknown. Blood corpses in the Southern Ridges, ancient monsters in 668Reads8.4Score101Shelves
- 48 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—Shelves
- 49 Urban Hauntings: My Paper Knife Can Pierce Illusions 都市诡异：我的纸刀能破妄 The rating has just been released, so it may still go up. Zhang Ping, an unemployed advertising copywriter, is attacked by a paper figure with a slit mouth in his shared apartment on a stormy night, at the lowest point in his life. On the verge of death, he desperately throws out an old piece of yellow paper he has carried for years, unexpectedly activating a fragment of the ancestral “Blade of Illusion-Breaking” and a mysterious “Night Watchman System.” The System turns terrifying supernatural 3Reads8.3Score—Shelves
- 50 What Came Back from the Mountains When the Fog Rolled In 浓雾起时，从山里跟回来的东西 The Thing That Followed Me Back from the Mountains When the Fog Rose —Reads—Score—Shelves
