Novels like The Corpse Keeper of Western Hunan
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- 1 Don't Turn Into a Ghost While Chasing Her! Hey! 别在追她的时候变成鬼啊！喂！ [Ensemble Cast] Click in and read a few chapters first. The more you read, the more it draws you in. My identity changes at random every seven days. I might be human, or I might be something else. I have no choice, so I do everything I can to survive in the narrow space between humans and the uncanny. Just as I was settling into life in week-long cycles, I suddenly discovered that there was more to my identity than simply being human or uncanny... —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 2 Urban Tales: I Hunt Demons, but the System Wants To... 都市怪谈：我猎杀妖魔，系统却想 The day I transmigrated, I fell into a funeral hall filled with corpses. The portrait opened its eyes. A vicious ghost came to claim my life! [Ding! The Myriad Demons-Suppressing System has been bound successfully!] [Slay wandering spirits to earn Demon-Suppression Points!] [Unlock Soul-Suppressing Chains, which can transform into a pair of gauntlets!] [Tame the Ink Qilin to obtain a divine mount!] Others fear ghosts and demons. I kill every demon I see and cut down every specter I meet! Hidde 2Reads—Score—14d adds
- 3 The Living Radio Station 活人电台 Su Nian is a woman from the ancient Great Xia Dynasty who was swept up in a strange radio station. Our Su Nian is no saint: she is decisive, intelligent, and a formidable heroine. Watch her resolve one crisis after another and become the most powerful woman in the dynasty. There are radio stations broadcasting live people, and there are sound-transmission talismans. Don't be surprised when strange things appear. This is a world of the uncanny. 3Reads—Score—14d adds
- 4 Darling? Darling! 亲爱的？亲爱的！ Welcome, everyone, to our Loving Family The blurb can't show off my charm, so just read Chapter One. I'm a new author, and the earlier chapters aren't very good. Please bear with me. I'll try to wrap up the instances quickly and just write romance in the real world instead. I'll be making major revisions to the earlier chapters. Updates will probably come gradually, with around 200,000 words in total. The earlier chapters really aren't good. Start reading from Chapter 60 onward. The earlier part 2Reads—Score—14d adds
- 5 From the Start, I Contract a Zombie. I’m Really a Good Person 开局契约一僵尸，我真是好人 Beneath the night sky, a hundred ghosts roam. In the city, humans and beasts live side by side. Just before Wang Ming was about to face something paranormal, he received a strange painting said to ward off evil. Yet the painting depicted a terrifyingly sinister zombie. Could a zombie really ward off evil? But when he came face to face with the paranormal, the zombie in the painting not only came to life, but also helped him drive it away. At the same time, a plea for help arrived in his inbox... 27Reads—Score—14d adds
- 6 Who Says This Evil Path Is Bad? It's Absolutely Wonderful! 谁说这邪魔歪道坏？这可太棒了！ [Folklore and the supernatural + decisive and ruthless + dark and scheming + one heroine] The gates of hell swing wide, plunging the human world into chaos. Cultivators conceal their deeds from Heaven. They eat from the underworld, yet drink the blood of the living. Warring factions of occult practitioners battle one another, while officials and outlaws clash and unorthodox sects wait to profit. Ghosts and gods run rampant, monsters wreak havoc, and even the wicked can ascend to Heaven. Ghost-an —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 7 One Stick of Incense to Worship the Gods, an Outlaw Exorcist: Zhang Wulang! 一香祀神法外狂徒，端公张五郎！ This book is a work of fiction. The rituals, incantations, and water-based magic performed by Duangongs are invented for the story. Do not imitate them. What you read here is a story, not a craft. Cherish life and trust in science. Read the final chapter, and you will see with your own eyes what lies at the end of tearing down altars and temples. I transmigrated to the late Qing dynasty and became an outlaw. In other words, a man beyond the reach of the law. My skills came from ancient times, b 1Reads—Score—14d adds
- 8 Walking Between Yin and Yang: Haunted 行走阴阳：撞邪 My mother was born under the rare fate of a nine-life yin woman, cursed with solitude. A fortune-teller said that women with this fate were destined to bring misfortune to their husbands, children, and parents. I survived only because my mother gave her life for mine. The night I was born, crows called out to summon souls, wild cats wailed like mourners, and a hundred ghosts fought over me... 260Reads8.7Score—14d adds
- 9 I Know a Few Ghost Tricks 我会点鬼术 A hundred years a ghost, ten years a good man. My name is Bai Yaoyao. In this world overrun by vengeful ghosts and monsters, all I want is to tend my little paper funerary shop and live in peace. But my meager ghostcraft seems to keep getting me into enormous trouble. With no other choice, if I want to survive, I’ll have to hone this little bit of ghostcraft to perfection! 2Reads—Score—14d adds
- 10 From the Start in a Mass Grave: I Picked Up a Female Ghost to Be My Bodyguard? 开局乱葬岗：捡了个女鬼当保镖？ [Written on a whim + don't bother reading + AI] [Starting with a ghost girl, I'll rule the ages] Lin Chen was hit by a car and accidentally transmigrated into a modern city where ghosts had returned, with all kinds of spirits roaming about. From the start, he landed in a mass grave. Just as he was about to run, he ran into a stunning female ghost dressed in elegant ancient robes. He planned to take another route, but the ghost parted her red lips, said a few words, and suddenly forced a kiss on 11Reads—Score—14d adds
- 11 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—14d adds
- 12 I Confess! I'm a Ghost Magnet! 我坦白！我是招鬼体质！ I confess! I have a constitution that attracts ghosts! 1Reads—Score—14d adds
- 13 My Wife Is Actually a Zombie 我的老婆竟是僵尸 The legends speak of eight kinds of Jiangshi: Purple Jiangshi: slow-moving, wreathed in purple energy. White Jiangshi: entirely white, afraid of light and fire. Green Jiangshi: unafraid of livestock, but afraid of sunlight. Hairy Jiangshi: covered in hair, unafraid of sunlight. Flying Jiangshi: skilled in magic, able to fly through the sky and burrow underground. Wandering Corpse: travels between the worlds of yin and yang, gathering the resentment of heaven and earth. Buried Corpse: imperishabl 49Reads—Score—14d adds
- 14 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—14d adds
- 15 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—14d adds
- 16 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—14d adds
- 17 From the Start, I Was a Ghost King, Forced to Become Bai Wuchang 开局鬼王，被迫成为白无常 Xie Yan transmigrates into the body of a Ghost King, expecting to throw his weight around. Instead, on his very first day on the job, he is surrounded by the Underworld's special task force for “cracking down on organized crime and evil.” Faced with the “kind invitation” of a hundred ghost-captain-level underworld enforcers, he signs a contract of servitude through tears and becomes the Underworld's number-one wage slave. From then on, he has KPIs in one hand and the Book of Life and Death in th 73Reads—Score—14d adds
- 18 The Celestial Master's Book of Strange Tales 天师诡事录 Twenty years ago, a female ghost from a thousand-year-old tomb came to claim a bride. My grandfather gave his life to protect me from the calamity! Twenty years later, fate led me to rob the tomb of that very female ghost. 198Reads7.7Score10414d adds
- 19 After the College Entrance Exams, I Became a Corpse Herder, Exposed by the Campus Goddess 高考后当赶尸人，被校花女神曝光 After the college entrance exams, the campus belle suggested that everyone take a trip to western Hunan and visit her childhood sweetheart. When they arrived at a village in western Hunan, they found a gloomy, mysterious old mansion standing there. The locals stayed well away from it. Campus Belle: Village chief, this old mansion has been abandoned for so long. Why doesn't anyone live there? Village Chief: Miss, don't ask so many questions. Hurry up and leave, or someone might die! Campus Belle: 3Reads6.4Score—14d adds
- 20 After My Face Was Stolen, I Drew the Six Realms of Living Beings 我的脸被夺走后我画出六道众生相 My face was stolen. It wasn’t disfigured. It wasn’t disguised. My face was literally gone. To stay alive, I had no choice but to paint one new face after another onto my own. Human, ghost, demon, beast, god, immortal. Every face I painted gave me a new ability. As I tried to reclaim my original face, I gradually discovered that this world was far more complicated than it seemed. 96Reads—Score12614d adds
- 21 I’m Not a Character in a Play 我不是戏中人 On his way back to his hometown, 33-year-old writer Xi Chuan is involved in a strange car accident. After falling unconscious, he plunges into a dreamlike version of western Hunan where truth and illusion are impossible to tell apart. His gravely ill grandfather struggles to his feet and takes him to an ancient opera stage plagued by strange events, where he performs a Nuo exorcism opera. Xiao Hei, a loyal dog, transforms into an earth spirit beast to fight the unseen things lurking in the darkn 6Reads—Score—14d adds
- 22 My Ghostly Roommate 我的阴室友 [Paranormal mystery] [Updates daily, though not on a fixed schedule] [Thanks for your support ❤️] Over the summer after my college entrance exams, I kept having the same dream about my college dorm and roommates. Then I dragged my suitcase into Room 304 and saw those familiar yet unfamiliar faces, along with an empty bed. I was stunned. They were Yaoyao and Xinxin, the girls in the photo from my dream. Was the empty bed Qingqing’s? She hadn’t shown up for months after the school year began, so w 5Reads—Score—14d adds
- 23 I Test-Sleep in Haunted Houses: My True Accounts of Ghostly Encounters! 我做凶宅试睡员，口述撞鬼实录！ [As long as you’re not afraid of ghosts, you can make money even while you sleep.] My name is Ma Jun. Two friends and I run a real estate agency. We make plenty of money, but we keep running into ghosts because all the properties we sell are haunted houses... 466Reads7.0Score—14d adds
- 24 The Old Corpse: Strange Happenings in the Mountains 老尸：山中诡事 A thousand skeletons pillow the moonlit stele, their shadows sealed. Autumn tombs wear rosy clouds, blood soaking the steps. The boiling cauldron cooks souls, a thousand years of grievance. A grand feast for ghosts, with every skeleton withered. In the utter silence, corpse oil lights the candle. In a place shrouded from the world, a rotting hand pushes open the door. A lingering soul adorns the dressing table, a spider transformed into a hairpin. A name sinks beneath the mirror, maggots become 155Reads—Score—14d adds
- 25 After Losing My Memory, One Terrifying Ghostly Incident After Another 失忆后恐怖鬼事接连不断 (An alternate world. No tired tropes, no invincible protagonist, no plagiarism, entirely original. Any similarities will be changed immediately. Comedy, deadpan humor, no official pairing, a touch of horror, and characters with sound values.) Accidentally drawn into a paranormal incident: a girl whose mouth has been sealed shut, the walking dead with no eyes to see, monsters covered in tumors that crawl along the ground... Is the world turned upside down, or is this an elaborate hoax carefully s 5Reads—Score—14d adds
- 26 The Southeast Asian Medium 东南亚通灵先生 Under duress, I embedded a woman's corpse inside a Buddha statue in a temple. After I was framed, Master Dad taught me Southeast Asian spirit-medium arts. From that day on, the world I saw was no longer inhabited by the living alone... 3.5kReads8.4Score42414d adds
- 27 A Celestial Master? I'm the Ghost Emperor 天师？我可是鬼帝 He was once one of the supreme Five Ghost Emperors of the Underworld, ruling Mount Luofu in the south and wielding awe-inspiring divine might. But according to the Underworld's structure, the other four regions were each jointly ruled by two emperors. Only his southern domain had long been guarded by him alone, through ten thousand years of solitude unknown to anyone. After one drunken binge, a moment of carelessness allowed a fragment of the sealed Demon Ancestor Luohou's soul to escape, unleas 41Reads—Score—14d adds
- 28 Someone New Appeared in the Footage 录像里多出一个人 The test shoot’s discarded footage was four seconds longer. Everyone in the frame held the same poses they had at the end of filming. No one moved. I counted three times. There were six people every time. But only five people had been there that day. On the hard drive my mother left behind, there was an empty folder with a four-character name: Do Not Fast-Forward. In the recycle bin was a deleted video, four minutes and twenty-five seconds long, which couldn’t be recovered. Our production crew w 3Reads—Score—14d adds
- 29 The Corpse Driver: I Can Copy the Skills of the Dead 赶尸匠：我能复制逝者技能 After graduating from university, Lin Ye gets the God-Tier Corpse-Driving System. He grows stronger by driving corpses and can copy the skills of the deceased. Through corpse-driving, he travels among humans, gods, ghosts, and demons. His mighty army of the undead is invincible, conquering all before it. As a corpse driver, Lin Ye laughs proudly between heaven and earth and becomes the sovereign of all worlds. 4Reads5.5Score—14d adds
- 30 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 301Reads—Score—14d adds
- 31 The Bell Pavilion 铃铛阁 An operation unexpectedly opened my yin-yang eyes. The string of uncanny encounters that followed completely overturned everything I thought I knew. The Four Yin Marshals of the Underworld, Zhong Kui, and the Ten Yama Kings all made their appearances. In the end, I uncovered the mystery of my own origins. I never imagined that in my previous life, I had been... 61Reads—Score—14d adds
- 32 I Brought Terror Back to Life to Write My Book 为了写书，我让恐怖复苏 After transmigrating to a parallel world, Bai Yu becomes a web-novel superstar and binds himself to the Horror Manuscript System! The words he writes become horrors unleashed upon the world. A black cat turns into a monster in Ink Village, and a hopping corpse slaughters its way through the land! A terrifying night at Peaceful Apartments leaves a mountain of corpses beneath an axe! A case involving a red high heel defies the heavens and changes destinies across provincial borders! As scenes from 704Reads5.2Score—14d adds
- 33 I Put on a Mask and Became a God 戴上面具，我成了神 I woke up with amnesia from the start. Did I kill someone? The security footage shows me brutally slaughtering two burly men all by myself? Yan Zhile: That wasn't me. I put on a mask and got possessed by a god. Do you believe me? Police: Why not say you're Ultraman while you're at it? From an ordinary college student to the Host of a forbidden mask. She takes down scumbag dads, slays heavenly fiends, and tames ancient divine beasts. When she has collected every mask, she stands atop the Ea 27Reads—Score—14d adds
- 34 I’m a Reaper: What’s Wrong with Having a Little Money? 身为鬼差：我有亿点点钱怎么了 Extra! Extra! Blue Star’s richest man, Xu Huaizhi, is on his deathbed! He has made a shocking move! He donated half his entire fortune to the nation and spent the other half on funeral goods for himself. Is this a distortion of human nature, or a collapse of morality? As Xu Huaizhi lay dying, a cold smile appeared at the corner of his mouth. I was the richest man in the human world. The underworld will be no exception! (The synopsis doesn’t do it justice. Head to the main story.) 6.9kReads8.4Score54714d adds
- 35 The Unnamable 不可名状者 [Traditional supernatural fiction, no System. Readers who only enjoy fast-paced, wildly imaginative stories should enter with caution.] “Fang Mu, I’m you from the future. I found a way to return to the present. Remember what I say: in the future, everything you have will belong to evil ghosts. If you want to change that, you must do one thing, ” “Kill yourself immediately!” “Kill yourself immediately!” … A vicious disease gradually spreads across the world. People crawling through dark corners t 99Reads8.2Score—14d adds
- 36 After the School Belle Humiliated Me, I Became a Corpse Driver and Now I'm Invincible! 被校花侮辱后成了赶尸人，我无敌了！ At the dinner where he plans to confess to the campus belle, Zhang Bufan, a student who failed his exams, is pranked by his classmates and unexpectedly obtains a god-tier Corpse-Driving System! Classmate: Zhang Bufan, come clean the toilets at my dad's company. I'll give you the friends-and-family rate: 1,000 yuan a month! Zhang Bufan: For 100 yuan, I'll help your dad find his way back to his ancestors. “When the dead are on the move, the living must keep away...” At midnight, the bells ring and 404Reads5.4Score10214d adds
- 37 Spirit Realm Express: Ten Miles of Wedding Finery 灵界专列：十里红妆 Every night at eleven, a last subway train that doesn't exist pulls up right in front of me, always on time. The conductor's deathly pale face leans out. “Going to the underworld? There's a seat.” To find my missing sister, I board this train bound for the spirit realm. The passengers are all silent. The only sound is the rustle of the spirit money in my hands. “A bride shouldn't sit here,” a woman in a red wedding dress suddenly grabs me. “You're in my seat.” Her icy hand presses against my sis —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 38 Didi Rides: The Ferryman of the Underworld 滴滴搭车，地府摆渡人 “Hey, beautiful, where are you headed?” “The Yellow Springs Road. I’m going to be reborn.” Qin Zeyu never imagined he’d become a ferryman for the Underworld, much less a special-contract driver with the number 007! Picking up passengers, fighting ghosts, earning merit, and flirting with Bai Shao, a beautiful ghost officer: his days are... thrilling! But when he meets a female ghost heartbroken by love, he discovers that the netherworld has its own tangled romances and bitter rivalries. 185Reads—Score—14d adds
- 39 Help! The Tragic Novel's Protagonists Are Forcing the Author to Rewrite the Ending as a Power Fantasy 救命！虐文主角逼作者改爽文结局 [Wild imagination + angst + multiple stories set in different worlds + satisfying revenge + mild horror + healing and redemption] Su Xiao currently works as an NPC in an escape room. She used to be a struggling author who loved writing angsty stories. Now, for some reason, the protagonists in all those angsty novels she wrote are awakening one by one, turning every trope on its head in spectacular fashion! Other authors torment their protagonists, but here the protagonists rebel across dimensi 1Reads6.0Score—14d adds
- 40 The Man Buried Upside Down 倒着埋的人 The Man Buried Upside Down 7Reads—Score—14d adds
- 41 My Pale Life 我苍白的一生 My name is Zhang Yuan, though my childhood nickname was Ergou. I'm male, born in 1990. Everyone encounters all kinds of strange, inexplicable things in life. By the way, do you believe in ghosts? 491Reads8.4Score10114d adds
- 42 The Yin-Yang Inn 阴阳旅店 From the day I was born, underworld soldiers came to drag my soul away. At eight, I arrived at the Yin-Yang Inn and began working as a guide for the dead. From then on, I guided both the dead and the living. Every ghost or living person who came to the inn had a secret they couldn't tell. The Yin-Yang Inn has strange rules. Ghosts must sign a contract, while the living must stay the night. Whether or not their request is fulfilled, their payment is never refunded. Even so, guests keep coming one 257Reads8.7Score—14d adds
- 43 A Madman's Fate 癫人命 [The uncanny + mind-bending suspense + horror + fictional setting + no System] At the end of that rainy night, Chen Xiu gazes at the unfamiliar world before him. He discovers that the curses have taken everything from him, even himself. Curses and uncanny horrors run rampant before his eyes, while madness and fear relentlessly batter his heart. It says: “Having witnessed what the curse can do, you must also suffer its gifts.” It says: “The death curse descends upon past and present, twisting all 10Reads—Score—14d adds
- 44 Corpse Driving in Western Hunan: The Soul-Calling Guide on the Night Road 湘西赶尸：夜行引魂人 A sudden disaster at a mass grave! Wu Liangzi is struck on the back of the head and wakes among rotting coffins and bones, clutching a bloodstained piece of yellow paper. It bears the name of the man he has spent three years tracking down for murdering his father! Seven corpses in black robes dance around him all night, their lifeless eyes seeming to “acknowledge their master.” A mysterious corpse driver tosses him a life-and-death contract. “Four of your seven souls have scattered. If you can’t 277Reads—Score—14d adds
- 45 Strange Tales from the Road 行路诡闻 [Folk customs and suspense | Episodic stories | Immersive accounts] There's an old saying: Walk the night road three times, and ghosts and gods will follow you. Writer Lin Sui travels around gathering material, recording the rural ghost stories he hears along the way in the old notebook he carries with him. He has no spirit-seeing eyes and can't draw talismans or chant incantations. Faced with those indescribable horrors, his only weapons are the pen in his hand and his instinct for survival. 2Reads—Score—14d adds
- 46 A Hot Girl Crawled Out of a Lonely Coffin 孤棺里爬出个辣妹子 “Damn it, who the hell dragged me to this godforsaken place?” Su Wan, a special forces soldier nicknamed the Guokui Beauty, wakes up one day to find herself climbing out of a coffin, reincarnated as a discarded empress who died five years ago and was banished to the Cold Palace. Her old nemesis, the former imperial consort, now rules the inner palace? She’ll take her down! The powerful minister who once framed her now has the court in his grip? She’ll slap him silly! She rolls up her sleeves, re —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 47 My Sister Went on a Trip to Nanyang and Disappeared! 我妹妹去南洋旅游，就失踪了！ My Younger Sister Went on a Trip to Nanyang and Disappeared! 25Reads—Score—14d adds
- 48 Horror: Death Comes at Midnight 恐怖：夜半索命 I lived a routine life until the death of Old Chen changed everything. Beside his body lay a pile of handmade paper figures. One had been painted blood red and clutched in his stiff, dead hand. Blood-red words began appearing in the mirror: “Get out.” “He’s still in the building.” Then I received an ultimatum: his daughter needed a living substitute. Paper figures weren’t enough. Neither were his belongings. She wanted a living person in the building, someone warm and breathing. Tomorrow, at mid 17Reads—Score11014d adds
- 49 The Icy Campus Belle Wants a Ghost Marriage? This Celestial Master Is Just the Man for the Job 高冷校花下冥婚？本天师专业对口 [Mystery] [Supernatural] [Horror] [Decisive and Ruthless] [School Beauty] [Invincible] Zhang Jiuxiao, a Celestial Master in a purple robe, perished in a mutual destruction with a fierce ghost one moment, only to be reborn as an ordinary senior high school student the next. After a previous life of bloodshed and turmoil, he considers it the greatest blessing to live an ordinary, peaceful life this time around. That is, until his cool and aloof school beauty deskmate turns deathly pale and tremble 857Reads—Score16314d adds
- 50 The Soul-Suppressing Stele 镇魂碑 Telling the eeriest stories and exposing the most unfathomable human hearts! The final installment in the Evil-Quelling Trilogy! (The first two, Evil-Quelling Notes and Thousand Corpse Town, are both complete.) After the first thirty thousand words, there will be three updates every day! No delays, guaranteed! Thank you all for continuing to support Lao Zhang! 687Reads7.8Score10114d adds
