Novels like The Northern School's Tomb Raider: Searching for Dragons
Books Chinese readers most often put in the same booklists as The Northern School's Tomb Raider: Searching for Dragons, best match first.
- 1 Memoirs of a Tomb Raider 盗墓者回忆录 [No System, not fanfiction, entirely original!!!] Tomb raiding is a technical craft. You must open a tomb without damaging it, and open a coffin without breaking it. This story begins in 1998 at Whitehair Mountain, on the southern slopes of the Qinling Mountains. Pagoda of the Buddha, Mound of Ten Thousand Bones: a tomb-raiding adventure with a suspenseful edge. —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 2 Caves Beneath the Sea of Sand 沙海地窟 To find his brother, who mysteriously vanished six months ago, Xiao Rui sets off on an adventure to the underground caves of the Sand Sea. 20Reads7.3Score614d adds
- 3 Tales of Tomb-Raiding Mysteries 盗墓诡事录 A series of stories that really happened, presented to readers as the autobiography of a man released from prison after serving his sentence, revealing little-known tales from the world of tomb raiding... 13Reads5.5Score—14d adds
- 4 The Golden-Splitting Formula: The Hidden Treasure Map 分金诀：盗藏天图 Tomb raiders plunder the secrets of immortality, robbing the dead in the Ninefold Underworld. When the sky lantern shines and the ghost-blowing lantern is lit, the master geomancer uses gold to locate the tomb. A qilin map showing a corpse on its back draws Meng Kai into a world of intrigue and tomb raiding. He enters ancient tombs, takes on zombies, battles evil corpses, and hunts ghosts. But gradually, he discovers that what lies buried in the mausoleums isn't human at all... Tomb raiding is d 12Reads—Score—14d adds
- 5 Records of the Northern Fiend’s Tomb Raids 北煞盗陵录 In the bitter winter of 2002, Xiang Feng, a boy from a mountain village in the Northeast, cuts off a finger and swears an oath to join the northern tomb-raiding gang Silver Fox in hopes of saving his sick mother. On his first expedition, to a blood-soaked Western Zhou tomb, his teammates are poisoned and undergo corpse transformation. Only he is spared, after touching the bizarre markings on a bronze tripod. A black line appears on his right arm and spreads toward his heart. The line turns out t —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 6 After Several Reincarnations, I Revived My Beloved from a Past Life in a Tomb 几世轮回我在盗墓中复活前世爱人 A brand-new tomb-raiding universe! New settings, new battles, and a new style! It’s definitely unlike any tomb-raiding story you’ve read before. Blending tomb raiding, the supernatural, transmigration, immortality, Taoist magic, and more, the protagonist Xu Ran leads his two apprentices, Yi Shiyi and Hua Yang, through ancient tombs, uncovering the stories behind them and gradually solving a host of mysteries, including their own origins and Xu Ran’s most important mission: bringing his beloved b —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 7 The Tang Dynasty Code 大唐密码 Along the way, I saw ancient beast spirits buried deep in the underground palace of an old temple, the legendary Weimolongren, and the sacred Kunlun Mountains hidden in myth. Along the way, I saw a Buddha who had attained nirvana in the snowy region, a sage who had transformed into a rainbow on a sacred mountain, and a Daoist master who had ascended from Kunlun. Along the way, I saw debts of gratitude left unpaid in a past life, karmic ties left unfinished, and promises that had never been fulfi 6Reads—Score—14d adds
- 8 The Lamp Blower 吹灯者 Deep in a ravine on the Loess Plateau lie the secrets of a dynasty, sealed away when Cao Cao established the Gold-Touching Captains. Sixteen-year-old Qin Xiao accidentally awakens the yin-yang eyes inherited through the Qin bloodline when he touches a bronze compass in a collapsed Dragon King Temple. Those gray-white eyes can pierce the earth and glimpse the flow of qi meridians, revealing the ancient tomb complex known as the “Nine-Bend Linked Citadels,” formed when the Yellow River changed cou 1Reads—Score—14d adds
- 9 The Dragon-Seeking Mystery 寻龙诡藏 It all began in 1999, when Chen Yuan traveled from Shaanxi to Beijing's Panjiayuan to trade antique bronze fragments and met Liu the Fatty. “Boss, how much for this thing?” a deep voice called from above. Chen Yuan looked up and saw a burly, fat man squatting across from him. The man wore a wrinkled white undershirt, a gold chain around his neck, and held a handful of melon seeds, crunching away with relish. A funny tomb-raiding adventure novel —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 10 Tomb Raiding: I Get Stronger by Touching Corpses After Burying the First Emperor Alive 盗墓，活埋始皇陵我摸尸就变强 Gao Yong was an ordinary tomb raider who only wanted to find riches in a mysterious ancient tomb. He never expected to be buried alive. But that was when the wheels of fate began to turn: at the brink of death, he unexpectedly activated the Corpse-Touching Power-Up System. Every time he touched an ancient corpse, his strength skyrocketed. Power, agility, swordsmanship, and all kinds of other formidable abilities came flooding in. Deep beneath the earth, the Mausoleum of the First Emperor was pac 21Reads—Score—14d adds
- 11 Tomb Raiding: Strange Encounters in the Tomb 盗墓风云之墓室奇遇 —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 12 Legend of the Gold-Touching Captain 摸金校尉传奇 Li Yi, an antiques shop owner and heir to a line of Mojin Captains, embarks on a thrilling adventure after discovering a mysterious ancient scroll. He forms a team with an archaeologist, an adventurer, and a computer hacker, then ventures into a mysterious ancient tomb, where they face peril after peril. After breaking an ancient seal, confronting guardian spirits, and escaping a collapsing tomb, they follow a new lead into a mysterious valley, where they uncover more astonishing secrets and hid —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 13 The Dragon Vein of Cangshan 苍山龙脉 A bronze coffin unearthed beneath the Qinling Mountains reveals a secret buried for a thousand years. Shen Ling, a retired soldier and heir to a line of tomb raiders, is forced back into the trade after finding half of a dragon-patterned jade pendant left behind by his uncle before he disappeared. He turns to his childhood friend Jiang Kui, who made his fortune dealing in grave goods at Babaoshan, and meets Gu Qingyan, an archaeologist willing to do anything to find her father. More terrifying s 1Reads—Score—14d adds
- 14 Yin-Yang Talisman 阴阳符 In 1996, the Xia, Shang, and Zhou Chronology Project got underway. The veils shrouding the most obscure era in history began to lift, while a conspiracy that had started around the same time slowly unfolded. Having just graduated and entered the working world, he accidentally took one step onto a road with no end and no return, and into the answers to the endless mysteries buried in the river of history... 170Reads6.2Score—14d adds
- 15 Moving Mountains and Commanding Ridges 搬山御岭 Whether you turn to tomb raiding out of desperation or in the hope of getting rich overnight, once you take it up, you're a thief. A thief is a thief. No matter how you dress it up or how many stories you tell, a thief is still a thief. Once you've done it, you'll never shake that label. I fell in with the wrong crowd by a twist of fate. After all the ups and downs, the trials and tribulations, I managed to make a little something of myself. If you'd like, I'll tell you my story, slowly and from 9Reads7.0Score—14d adds
- 16 Tomb Raiding: The Divine Tomb of Nanling 盗墓之南陵神墓 My name is Qin Hao. I was born into a family of tomb raiders, and my grandfather was a legendary successor of the Mojin tradition, famous throughout the trade. On the day I was born, my grandfather made a rule: from then on, he'd quit the trade for good. My father was to leave it behind as well, and the Qin family donated all its wealth and moved to a remote mountain village to make a living. My father said it was all for my sake! When I was born, I had a strange birthmark on my back. They say i 615Reads—Score—14d adds
- 17 Tomb Raiding: That’s It? These Are Your Gods? 盗墓：就这？这就是你们的神明？ [Tomb-Raiding Adventure + No Female Lead + No System + Fast-Paced] It wasn’t voluntary. You can’t convict me for that, right? I didn’t take the golden swallow, the Tang sancai figurine, or the moon-ascending pearl! I was only hiding from the rain. Ending up in the tomb was an accident! The biggest tomb raider in the northwest met his downfall in the Tomb of the King of Shanshan, while I was forced to take part in a tomb-raiding expedition because of a torrential downpour. It all began with a cat 134Reads—Score—14d adds
- 18 The Ghost City of Jingjue 精绝鬼城 Legend has it that in ancient times, a meteorite fell from the heavens in the far west of Huaxia. The mysterious energy within it was forged into three "Twin Fish Jade Pendants" by an ancient deity known as the "Queen Mother of the West." These pendants were no mere ornaments. They were ultimate devices capable of "mirroring and copying" living beings and even, to a certain extent, "reversing time and space." The Queen Mother of the West used them to create the powerful guardian known as the "Sn 10Reads—Score614d adds
- 19 With Spiritual Energy Depleted, How Can I Improve My Cultivation? 灵气枯竭，如何提升修为？ (Tomb raiding + supernatural horrors + ominous places of great danger + cultivation + flirting) A slow-paced urban cultivation story set in a world where spiritual energy is drying up. On his way to breaking through to the next cultivation level, the protagonist encounters one bizarre event after another. He explores mysterious ancient tombs and ventures into eerie places of deadly danger… As his cultivation improves, his body begins to show some unusual changes. Whenever he meets a pure, belove —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 20 Northern School: Murder in the Tomb Passage 北派：墓道追凶 [Tomb Raiding + Mystery + Jianghu + Treasure Appraisal + Deduction] I was just a low-ranking police officer in a remote county town. An accident changed my life: my mentor was murdered, and my friend was in danger. To avenge them, I quit my job and joined a northern tomb-raiding crew, fighting fire with fire. But things only grew stranger: mysterious writing, the origins of dragon veins, underground palaces… After more than a decade of tomb raiding, I came to understand one thing: the jianghu i 21Reads—Score—14d adds
- 21 The Shan Hai Mystery 山海谜踪 A series of bizarre and extraordinary events unfolds around the search for the legendary Eight Mirrors of the Qin King. Why do those behind the scenes need the mirrors? What secrets are they hiding? What dangers will Lin Jian and Nian Yao face? The story that follows will reveal all. 5Reads—Score—14d adds
- 22 The Legendary Master of Chishui Spirit Wine 赤水灵酿之传世酒宗 The Chishui River has flowed for a thousand years, giving birth to world-famous liquor and nourishing secret brewing arts unknown to the world. In 1988, Du Shaokang, the thirty-year-old young heir to Zuixianfang, a century-old distillery on the riverbank, returns home as a brewer bearing the scars of city life. The inheritance was interrupted during a turbulent era, and he is unexpectedly drawn into a thousand-year struggle over the “Secret Treasure of the Liquor Ancestor.” One strange event fol 4Reads—Score—14d adds
- 23 The Tomb-Seeker's Chronicle 寻墓探迹录 [Tomb Raiding + Adventure + Underworld] What if the life you seek does not exist, and the regrets in your heart can never be soothed... The unprecedented ice disaster of 2008 led to me, a seventeen-year-old, joining a tomb-raiding crew by a twist of fate. From then on, I entered the underground world and the treacherous world of human hearts, never to live an ordinary life again. After returning from the Kunlun Mountains, I thought I could leave the scene behind for good. But, to my surprise, I —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 24 Northern and Southern Tomb Raiders 南北派盗墓贼 [Tomb Raiding, Suspense, Jianghu, First Person] In the mysterious underground world, ancient tombs are riddles no one can solve, and a source of treasure in the hearts of countless people. Some raid tombs for money, but I am a tomb raider willing to do whatever it takes to escape my family's curse. In the dark underground world, I embark on a life-or-death race against time. I spent more than eight years in the military. To escape my family's curse, I had no choice but to take this thorn-strewn 5Reads—Score—14d adds
- 25 The Grave Robbers' Chronicles: An Autobiography 盗墓笔记：自传 [Tomb Raiding + Mystery + Early Growth + Later Power Fantasy] My name is Wang Yifan, and I’m a college student. One day, I saw my girlfriend, “Meng Yao.” Not just one, but two identical Meng Yaos. I wanted to investigate the matter, so I sought out the Faqiu Sect. Then one day, after making thorough preparations, I ventured deep into the uninhabited wilderness of Lop Nur and witnessed one strange event after another: “Snow monsters?” “The Demon Tomb of Cancong?” “Instant teleportation?” “The Twi 6Reads—Score—14d adds
- 26 A Tomb Raider’s Notes from Guanzhong 关中盗墓手记 [Tomb raiding is illegal. This book is intended only to prompt reflection.] I used to be a tomb raider. Now I’m an adviser at the Archaeological Research Institute of the National Cultural Heritage Administration. After turning back from the wrong path, I was given a chance to atone through meritorious service. Everything in this book comes from my own experience. It records my entire journey, from being a farmer on the Xianyang Plateau to straying onto the path of tomb raiding. Here you’ll find 294Reads7.2Score—14d adds
- 27 Even Thieves Have Principles: Wu Lao'er's Tomb-Raiding World 盗亦有道：吴老二的盗墓江湖 (Tomb Raiding + Jianghu) (Fictional story, please do not imitate) (Tomb raiding is illegal. Do not try it yourself.) Times are tough, and my pockets are empty. With nowhere else to turn, I shoulder a Luoyang shovel and venture into a remote mountain tomb. Evil spirits in the tomb, unscrupulous fellow tomb raiders, patrolling militia: danger after danger closes in. Everyone says tombs conceal riches, but I know all too well that making money underground usually means gambling with your life. 18.1kReads—Score84214d adds
- 28 Tomb Raiding: The Secret Realm of Tianshu and the Seven-Star Lamp 北派盗墓：七星灯之天枢秘境 In 2003, northern China stood at a delicate turning point between old and new. The tide of reform and opening up was reshaping traditional industries, while thousand-year-old tombs buried deep underground still concealed secrets and temptations yet to be unearthed. Across this vast region, stretching from the black soil of the Northeast to the grasslands of Inner Mongolia and the Loess Plateau of Shaanxi and Gansu, a special group of “dragon seekers” plied their trade. They inherited the ancient 1Reads—Score—14d adds
- 29 Tales of Tomb Robbing 盗掘轶事 To find our missing informant, we broke into the “Nine-Orifice Jade Shroud” tomb of a Liao Dynasty imperial consort. Dunzi was poisoned by corpse venom as soon as he touched the coffin. His body began to rot, and he started babbling. Hu Anna searched through ancient texts and cried out, “This isn’t burial jade. It’s soul-locking jade!” Just then, blood began seeping from every jade plug, and a seductive woman’s voice came from inside the coffin: “Three hundred years... At last, a man has come to 6Reads—Score—14d adds
- 30 A Tomb Raider's Jianghu Memoir 一个盗墓者的江湖自传 A tomb raider with a background in geology uses his knowledge to unravel mechanisms that have baffled people for millennia, yet becomes increasingly ensnared in the labyrinth of human nature. This is his true account of life in the underworld: no ghosts or gods, only greed, honor, and betrayal governed by the laws beneath the earth. When the light reveals the treasure, it also casts the shadows of the soul. After crossing the line between life and death, where does true redemption lie: in the to 138Reads—Score—14d adds
- 31 Tomb Raiding Prophecy: Secrets of a Parallel World 盗墓预言：平行世界的秘密 Lin Feng, an online writer with dreams of striking it rich, plagiarized tomb-raiding novels to make ends meet. But he unexpectedly transmigrated to a parallel world much like Earth. To his delight, he discovered that none of the novels he'd plagiarized existed there. Armed with the “Tomb-Raiding Compendium” in his mind, he set off a tomb-raiding craze in the online fiction world. The ancient tombs he wrote about, from the mysterious Mausoleum of Qin Shi Huang to the perilous City of Jings jue, w —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 32 Ten Years Beneath the Northern School's Lantern 北派江湖十年灯 Tomb raiding is illegal. Do not try it yourself. “A band of tomb raiders spend ten years digging through seven haunted tombs, only to discover that the deepest ‘tomb’ is themselves: a fate buried together with the times, greed, and the code of the underworld.” 16Reads—Score—14d adds
- 33 Northern School Tomb Appraiser: The First Tomb I Robbed Wasn't Right 北派掌眼：我盗的第一座墓就不对 Grave robbers never see the light of day, and never meet a good end. Their lives are tied to three feet of yellow earth, and their fortunes are stained with blood debts. That is the business of the yin trade. Once you get into this line of work, there's no turning back. On my very first dig, I encountered three strange things. The Luoyang shovel went seventeen meters down. The soil it brought up dated to the Warring States period, but the tomb on the surface was clearly from the Ming dynasty. My 26kReads—Score1.5k14d adds
- 34 The Tomb of Eternal Life 永生墓 “Beneath the Tomb of Eternal Life, none shall pass into the Yellow Springs. The living suffer; the dead ascend to immortality.” The mysterious dragon shadow in the Sanxingdui sinkhole, the undying demon flower in the Three Thousand Mirage Seas, the golden evil bones in Helan’s Coffin Mountain, the reincarnation demon pagoda in the ancient Jialan Temple. They search for the cause and effect behind immortality and reincarnation, and uncover mysterious events buried for ages… 293Reads6.1Score—14d adds
- 35 I’m Just a Tomb Raider 我就是个盗墓的 [Tomb Raiding + Suspense + True Story + Antiques] Based on real events, this is an oral account of a tomb raider's life, lifting the veil on the truth behind traditional tomb raiding. At the end of the passage, is it civilization's gift, or a tombstone for humanity? 404Reads6.3Score—14d adds
- 36 Tomb Raiding: Assembling the Ultimate Expedition Team 盗墓：组建最强下斗天团 Chu Feng transmigrates into a world where tomb-raiding settings have merged. He originally planned to make a fortune with his “Treasure-Appraising Eye,” but then discovers that antiques in this world come with “supernatural attributes” of their own! To find more [magical artifacts] and [celestial artifacts] in grand tombs, Chu Feng sets his sights on Hu Bayi and Wang Pangzi, who have just shown up to pick a fight. With the line, “Faqiu seals, Mojin talismans, the Banshan and Xiling clans seek th 56.4kReads8.0Score5.2k14d adds
- 37 The Rural Tomb-Raiding Gang 乡村盗墓团伙 Lao Zhang, Pin Yu, Wang Youcai, Yi Xiaoling, and Wang Jiabei are drawn into the secret of an ancient tomb sealed away for years deep in Baishan after a chance discovery. Ghost soldiers marching along hidden paths, eerie wormholes, lost tombs, and events from thirty years ago emerge one after another. As the group ventures deeper into Telmo Mountain, they gradually discover that the real danger on this adventure has never been limited to what lies inside the tomb. It also comes from the secrets e 3.1kReads—Score12714d adds
- 38 The Tombs Beneath the Heavens 天下墓藏 (Tomb raiding + mystery, the most authentic tomb-raiding experience) Sometimes life tells us without warning that the things we care about and yearn for aren’t really important. Because before we came into this world, we were already given a special mission... Ninety-nine lives, all to make a single remedy. My name is Xu Chuyi, and I’m a “herb gatherer.” I know the blue sky and the white clouds, understand Grain Rain, trek through forests and scale cliffs, and revere the ancient and mysterious m 4Reads—Score—14d adds
- 39 The Delivery Guy's Tomb-Raiding Journal: From Good-for-Nothing to Immortal Venerable 外卖小哥盗墓记：从废柴到仙尊 Liu Santuo pedaled his battered electric scooter into the downpour. “Bad review? Deliver food in a storm? Forget that!” The next second, an out-of-control luxury car sent him and his scooter flying. When he opened his eyes again, he was in a celestial sect wreathed in clouds and mist, in the body of Ling Santu, the sect’s number-one good-for-nothing. “Jumping off a cliff? Come on, man, that’s too much. Even a bad review wouldn’t be this harsh!” He’d barely finished complaining when three young m —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 40 A Record of the Four Arts of Tomb Raiding 摸金四诀纪实 In the secretive world of tomb raiding, the inheritance of the Mojin Xiaowei is no fantastical legend, but a contest of practical skills. With rigorous realism, The Four Mojin Principles: A Factual Account lays bare the true face of folk tomb raiding in China. It begins with family precepts passed down through generations, while bronze compasses and silk maps trace the fate of the Mojin clans. Uncle Three’s four-part method of “observing, listening, questioning, and examining,” Uncle Two’s centi —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 41 The Eye Beneath the Earth 入地眼 I was just seven when I crawled out of the tomb. Much later, when I looked back on it, it seemed as if everything had been arranged by fate. Perhaps from that very moment, it was predestined that I, who had crawled out of that tomb, would embark on an adventurous, mysterious, and utterly bizarre legendary journey. The dragon stirs, and the land is shaken! 1.3kReads8.6Score13614d adds
- 42 Dragon Seeking 寻龙 Forty years ago, a great flood unearthed an ancient Warring States tomb. Forty years later, a mysterious will from my grandfather leads me back into the tomb. Carve corridors through mountains and hollow them out for tombs! How many secrets lie hidden in the tombs of ancient kings? To find a dragon, seek the mountain's winding folds. Each winding ridge marks another pass; If a gate has a thousand locks, a prince or lord must surely lie within. Only when I opened the coffin did I realize that som 930Reads6.6Score10414d adds
- 43 Strange Tales of Tomb Raiding in the Southern School 南派盗墓异事 [Real Tomb Raiding + No AI] My name is Zhou Quan, and I'm from Guangxi. Here I recount the supernatural and bizarre events that really happened during my tomb-raiding adventures. I've read a few web novels in my spare time, and it seems AI-written web novels are everywhere these days. I want to tell this story from the perspective of someone who was actually there, as a record of things past. 4Reads—Score—14d adds
- 44 Secret Records of Northern Tomb Raiders 北派盗墓秘录 [Hardcore Tomb Raiding]+ [Suspense at Full Throttle]+ [Utter Terror] Before my master disappeared, he sent me only a stone shard carved with a black dragon coiling around a coffin, along with a bloodstained prophecy: “When the Dragon-Suppressing Coffin stirs, the nine lineages return to their source; when the black dragon opens its eyes, the secret map will emerge.” To find my master, I set out with the black dragon shard and my childhood friend Wu Nianjiu for a suspected Liao-dynasty tomb benea 79Reads—Score—14d adds
- 45 Sin 罪 A death-row inmate’s monologue on the eve of his execution. From stealing and robbing, to stumbling into the underworld, going to prison for his lover, then tomb raiding, heading to the Miao borderlands in search of an antidote, and being poisoned with a Gu curse... And the strange adventures that followed. The story moves quickly at first, but gets better and better as it goes on. If you’re interested, please let me tell you the whole tale. 92Reads—Score—14d adds
- 46 The Great Mystery 大迷踪 Does the legendary Nine Dragons Pulling a Coffin really exist? Where did the mysterious organization with snake tattoos on the backs of their necks come from? A strange ancient blade shaped like a serpent, and a life-or-death game spanning a thousand years! Can the young man who stepped out of an antique shop shoulder the heavy, turning wheel of fate? What can the so-called heir to the art of tomb-grabbing really do? 40Reads7.1Score10314d adds
- 47 My Tomb-Raiding Diary 我的倒斗日记 At eighteen, Zhang Tianniu gets caught up in a mysterious tomb-raiding crew with his childhood friend Gou Dazhi while trying to raise money for his critically ill mother. From an ancient tomb in Yinshan Hall to a Ming dynasty underwater tomb, they face sinister creatures such as black-haired stiff corpses, six-tentacled abyssal octopuses, and thousand-faced corpse centipedes. They also discover that the rumors about his father meeting his end at Yinshan Hall twenty years ago were true. As the cr 141Reads—Score—14d adds
- 48 The Secret Forbidden Lands 幽秘禁地 College student Liu Minghui has recently been dreaming again and again of an ancient, mysterious altar. In his dreams, he is trapped deep in the Ailao Mountains, where he encounters extinct creatures, eerie rituals, and piles of corpses in armor. Each time he wakes, the terror lingers... He was going to dismiss it as a mere hallucination, but then Liu Hui happened to learn that ruins had been discovered in the primeval forest of the Ailao Mountains, and that they eerily matched the scenes in his 1Reads—Score—14d adds
- 49 The Feng Shui Master of the Nine Netherworlds 九幽风水师 “Place cinnabar on the acupoint, bury the corpse at the hour of the Tiger, seal the coffin with Xu earth. Wherever the Zi-Wu meridian is shifted by three inches, blood fiends will arise.” On the yellowed rice paper, the characters my grandfather had written in cinnabar bled a rusty dark red. I traced the crack along the edge of the bronze compass. Beneath it lay a book titled The Record of Geomancy in the Nine Hells. At midnight last night, the book, which should have been buried with my grandfa 1Reads—Score—14d adds
- 50 The Secret Records of the Mountain Movers 搬山秘录 During Beijing's damp plum-rain season, Zhang Tian, a history graduate obsessed with antiques, happens upon a mysterious old man in Panjiayuan. Along with an ancient bronze mirror, he unexpectedly acquires a book called The Secret Records of the Mountain Shifters, its pages steeped in an eerie aura. Tucked between the yellowed sheets is half a jade pendant engraved with the Big Dipper. Phrases hidden in the notes, such as “Mountain Shifters specialize in breaking mechanisms,” seem to open a door —Reads—Score—14d adds
