Novels like I’m Meng Po’s Underling 3
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- 51 Horror Invasion: From the Start, I Ate the Starving Ghost 恐怖入侵，开局吃掉饿死鬼 A simple-minded village guardian, yet born with the nature of a ghost. Chen Huang knows who treats him well, but he doesn't understand himself or the world around him. He doesn't realize that, in this world where terror has returned, people can die at any moment. In the little village, man-eating evil spirits feast in the darkness of despair. In the town, layers of ghostly shadows leave almost everyone with no way out. In the psychiatric hospital, eerie human skins wander the halls at night. Aga 94.8kReads8.1Score8.7kShelves
- 52 Strange Tales from the Start? But I’m Yang Jian! 开局聊斋？但我是杨戬啊 [No System + Chinese-Style Horror + Time-Limited Transformation + Yang Jian + Extreme Contrast and Thrills] After transmigrating into the demon-infested world of Strange Tales from a Chinese Studio, Yang Jian runs straight into a century-old Painted-Skin Ghost that specializes in tearing out human hearts. There is nowhere to run! No System chiming in. No old master living in a ring. His only trump card is the Holy Erlang True Lord sleeping inside him, whose name sounds just like his own: Yang Ji 6.4kReads8.2Score636Shelves
- 53 The Midnight Mantou Shop 午夜馒头铺 Have you ever noticed that some breakfast shops serve food that's delicious most of the time, but for a couple of days each month, it suddenly tastes dry and is hard to swallow? Have you ever wondered if perhaps that breakfast food was never meant for people to eat...? 384Reads7.4Score—Shelves
- 54 With Metaphysics at Her Fingertips, the Heir's Wife Is Unfazed 玄学在手，世子夫人太淡定了 Ping'an's mother was supposed to help the emperor govern the realm, but she fell head over heels in love with Ping'an's father. She had never even met the emperor, yet she broke the rules and forcibly gave her husband some of her own lifespan. Ping'an was left without her parents at a tender age. She grew up all alone in the countryside, guarding a fortune in gold and silver that she didn't dare spend. She was truly pitiful. That was Ping'an as Ji Lu saw her. He had agreed to their marriage hims 2.1kReads8.8Score277Shelves
- 55 The Years of a Spirit Medium's Disciple 出马弟子的时光 Everything that happens in this book is based on my own real experiences, with a touch of fantasy added! There's some popular science in here, too! I hope you enjoy it! 40Reads—Score—Shelves
- 56 The Yin-Yang Courier 阴阳快递员 Parcel delivery has expanded beyond the countryside and reached the underworld. And I am a courier who delivers to both the living and the dead! I've delivered countless packages and encountered countless strange, unknown events. Let me tell you a deathly tale about parcel delivery, based on my own experiences... 10.9kReads8.7Score368Shelves
- 57 The Falling Leaves Have Their Own Intentions 落苏有意 My background is a mystery, and I was born with Yin-Yang Eyes. After coming of age, I was chosen to enter the underworld and became a low-ranking official. All around me, a multitude of baffling, mysterious cases unfold... 7.5kReads9.1Score781Shelves
- 58 The Republic-Era Book of Mysteries 民国诡秘录 Sometimes, the one who takes your life isn’t a person at all, but an evil spirit or demon. And the one controlling those spirits from behind the scenes might well be human... In the chaotic Republican era, foreign powers encircled the nation, eager to invade China, while warlords fought among themselves at home, leaving the land in ruins. On the other side of the jianghu, evil spirits rose everywhere and ghosts ran rampant, while mysterious foreign religions invaded as well. After waking from a 907Reads—Score105Shelves
- 59 My Phone Can Unlock Ancient Martial Arts Legacies 我的手机能解锁古武传承 My Phone Can Unlock Ancient Martial Arts Legacies 4Reads—Score—Shelves
- 60 Prague’s Bloody Countdown 布拉格的血色倒计时 A Bloody Countdown in Prague —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 61 The Ghost-Hunting Qingfeng Lodge 捉鬼清风居 “Clear Breeze Hall” is a shop specializing in exorcising demons and driving away ghosts. A strange couplet hangs by the door: First line: If you’re free of disaster and trouble, don’t come in. Second line: If you’ve got ghosts or demons, come on in. The shop’s owner is a 21-year-old young man named Zhang Qingfeng, the thirty-ninth-generation heir of the Zixiao Sect. Some say the owner is obsessed with money and cares about nothing else. Others say he’s a living bodhisattva who came into the worl 6.2kReads8.8Score519Shelves
- 62 The First-Eye Feng Shui Master 第一天眼风水师 This is not your typical feng shui story. If that bothers you, please move along. Inside you’ll find the most terrifying human demons and ghosts, horrifying infant spirits, bewitching female ghosts, thousand-year-old flood dragons, and even a ghastly face that will make your heart race... There are no tired formulas here, so be patient. The further you read, the better it gets… The story begins on the day I was born. On the day of my birth, every last one of the chickens and ducks my family k 17.7kReads8.9Score1kShelves
- 63 My Husband Is a Retired Official in the Underworld 老公在地府当退休领导 [Two Male Leads + Supernatural and Ghostly Encounters + All Walks of Life + Happy Ending] Shen Yinqing lost both his parents as a child. His uncle and aunt “married” him off to the Heng family, where he entered into a ghost marriage with his deceased husband, Heng Yan. After graduating, he became unemployed. To kill time, he watched fortune-telling livestreams for fun, but through a stroke of ill fortune, he ended up at the Nanyuan City Branch of the Supernatural Incident Management Bureau... 3.4kReads8.6Score463Shelves
- 64 The Heaven-Chosen Horse-Riding Immortal 天命出马仙 The day I was born, a blood moon appeared in the sky. Roosters crowed and dogs barked, foxes bowed to the moon, and all nine stars in the heavens fell. As soon as I came into the world, I caused my mother’s death, then scared my father out of his mind. Everyone said I was a bringer of calamity reborn, but only my grandfather said I was chosen by heaven and destined for great things. When I grew up, I took over a shaman’s altar to investigate the mystery of my birth, only to be dragged into an ev 2.2kReads9.1Score178Shelves
- 65 My Gunplay Is the Way: I Use an M1911 to Exorcise Ghosts 枪法即道法，我用M1911驱鬼 (Just got a rating) (harem) (urban high martial arts, supernatural mysteries, Taoist priest, multiple heroines, daily life, ghost-hunting with firearms, urban supernatural abilities, SCP-like, no System, solving cases, tomboy, childhood friends, tsundere) “Have you made up your mind?” “I have.” Wu Kui picks up the document and signs his name. “A true hero, and so young!” “No. I just don’t want to be kept in the dark.” To protect Wen Wan, an innocent girl with a rare Yin fate who is repeatedly ta 68Reads8.2Score—Shelves
- 66 I Came from the Yellow Springs 我来自黄泉 At the border between yin and yang, at the mouth of the Yellow Springs, the living guard the Thirteen Ghost Gates. The prison governor, the jailers, and the Brocade-Robed Marquis; at the post station for the dead, a mountain dog keeps watch. The door gods, the water nymph, the Confucius Temple; red lanterns and white funeral banners circle the streets. This ghost ballad, missing one line, conceals a world-shaking secret. I was a child my grandfather stole from the Yellow Springs, so before I was 16.7kReads9.0Score1.8kShelves
- 67 Underworld Courier 地府快递员 On the surface, I’m an ordinary deliveryman, zipping around on an electric scooter loaded with parcels, come rain or shine. In private, I still work as a deliveryman, but the routes I take are anything but ordinary. They’re the roads of the legendary underworld... 501Reads8.8Score107Shelves
- 68 The Mystical Art of Spirit Communication 玄之通灵 This is a novel made up of short stories about supernatural events. Some are true, some are false, and some are exaggerated, with humor, comedy, horror, and all manner of paranormal happenings... 6Reads—Score—Shelves
- 69 The Real Heiress Was Reunited with Her Family, Only to Turn Out to Be a Mystical Arts Master? 真千金被认回后竟是玄门大佬？ [The Male Lead Appears Late! Very Late!] Eighteen years ago, twin sisters were switched at the Nan family maternity ward. Nan Zhi, who should have been cherished as the family's darling, grew up in a remote Taoist temple and became the youngest and most mysterious fifth-rank Celestial Master in the mystic world. She has never failed to exorcise evil spirits or suppress sinister forces, and can wield talismans and formations with ease. The cinnabar mark on her palm is proof of her ability to trav 22.1kReads8.8Score3.7kShelves
- 70 Folktales of the Mountains and Wilds 民间山野怪谈 The hidden truths behind ten major unsolved mysteries, revealing a host of terrifying taboos that will send chills down your spine! 14.5kReads9.1Score960Shelves
- 71 The Ghost King Is Sealed Inside Me, Yet I’m a Good-for-Nothing 体内封印鬼王，我却是个废柴 A rainy night in a cemetery, a man-eating black cat, a man searching for his late daughter, a school guard hanged on the stairs, a wedding coffin sealed with red paper, a grotesque face hiding in a mirror... What secrets lie behind it all? What other mysterious events will Wang Shier, the gravekeeper, have to face? As terror and dread slowly close in, those secrets seem to be steering his fate. (The stories in this book are all adapted from real events. If anything sounds familiar, it is pure co 7Reads6.4Score—Shelves
- 72 I Just Want to Be a Slacker, but They Keep Making Me Play Horror Games 我只想当咸鱼，偏偏要我玩惊悚 All I Want Is to Be a Couch Potato, but They Keep Making Me Play Horror Games 41Reads—Score—Shelves
- 73 Belly City 腹城 [Thriller, Cthulhu Mythos, mystery, supernatural powers, System, loops, horror, apocalypse, unraveling secrets, no romance] The rating has just been posted, but it will rise later. In the flawless “Sweet Community,” every fear and suspicion Nuxin feels is gently “corrected” by the System. Until he discovers that his playmate A Dai’s “move” was an elaborate lie; until, beneath the old school building in the dead of night, he meets Mo Li, the girl who warns him to “run.” Black cars glide soundl 16Reads8.7Score—Shelves
- 74 Ghost Stories of the Southwest 西南鬼事 This is a collection of ghost stories from southwest China, made up of a series of medium-length tales. Some may be part of your childhood, some may be stories you've told yourself, and others may be stories you've never heard. Today, let Xiao An tell you these strange and wondrous tales, one by one. 101Reads—Score—Shelves
- 75 I Keep Showing Up at Murder Scenes 我总出现在命案现场 [Shanghai's most shameless man + Underworld Judge + KPI + the Netherworld + supernatural events] I almost ended up in an incinerator, you know? When I came to, I somehow became a Judge of the Underworld in charge of guiding souls. From then on, I was saddled with an enormous burden of performance targets! So I was forced to go to all kinds of murder scenes to collect souls. That's why the public sees me as an omen of death, the police see me as a godsend, and the King of Hell sees me as a model 936Reads8.0Score140Shelves
- 76 The Mountain Wanderer 走山人 Three years after I died, I climbed out of my grave. I set out on the path of a spirit medium and made my name roaming the mountains. Grandpa said I was half-dead, with no taboos to hold me back! 2.3kReads8.7Score200Shelves
- 77 My Years in the Funeral Business 我干殡葬的那些年 People light candles, ghosts blow out the lamps. The dead return at midnight, corpses rise in funeral halls, and ancient relics lie buried for thousands of years. In my years working in the funeral business, I’ve encountered plenty of strange and uncanny things. The living walk the roads of the living world, and the dead walk the roads of the underworld. But sometimes, not everyone on the underworld’s roads is a ghost, and not everyone on the living world’s roads is human… 51.2kReads9.2Score5.1kShelves
- 78 Opening the Road to the Underworld 开冥路 [No romance, no female lead, not much of a power fantasy, first-person narration, a slightly slow start. If you don't mind, please be patient. My new book, "Nine Divinations Out of Ten Are Wrong", is the second installment of this story.] My name is Sui Xiaotian. I'm a guide. But I only guide those who die unnatural deaths. An unnatural death is a bitter consequence brought about by bad karma. After death, the great temples won't accept you, and the small temples won't keep you. You become a lon 13kReads9.0Score1.2kShelves
- 79 Young Feng Shui Master 少年风水师 There are many things in this world that you and I have never encountered. Just because we've never encountered them doesn't mean they don't exist. Legends are often more than mere legends. And traditions must have an unknown reason for becoming traditions. 649Reads9.0Score117Shelves
- 80 The Cursed Girl with a Doomed Fate 诡命煞女 Ever since I was little, I was a child my mother hated. Born with an overwhelming concentration of the Seven Sha, I made every demon and monster flee at the sight of me. It wasn’t until I was twelve that I learned the truth: my birth had been part of a massive conspiracy... 10.2kReads9.2Score1.1kShelves
- 81 The Lord of the Underworld Doesn't Want to Work Today Either 冥主今天也不想上班 [Female-Dominated World + Strong Female Lead + Infinite-Flow + Fantasy + Wild Imagination + Historical Romance + Apocalypse: Cultivation] Doctor: Miss Man, do you ever hear strange voices? Man Tong: Does the Great Emperor of Fengdu constantly nagging in my ear count? The doctor nodded and checked a box on the paper: “Auditory hallucinations!” Doctor: And what do you think makes you different from ordinary people? Man Tong: I am the ruler of the Underworld. The doctor checked another box: “Delusi 337Reads8.1Score—Shelves
- 82 The Ghost Marshal’s Yin-Yang Inn 鬼差之阴阳馆 By day, she transforms into a human; by night, she helps ghosts cross over. Come visit this unassuming little shop, run by a newly hired underworld makeup artist, and make an inquiry. 795Reads9.1Score115Shelves
- 83 The Ghosts Come Out at Night Series 猛鬼出更系列 The Ferocious Ghosts Come Out at Night Series 122Reads—Score—Shelves
- 84 Coffin Shop No. 44 44号棺材铺 Everyone knows what a coffin shop is, but would you dare enter one where someone has died? Ever since I took over a coffin shop, strange things have been happening all around me. Only then did I realize that the people who come to buy coffins aren't necessarily alive… 2.2kReads8.0Score253Shelves
- 85 Major Crimes Unit Three: The Borrowed Corpse 重案三组之借尸还魂 Three bizarre murder cases, each victim wearing a strange smile. Through deep psychological profiling, forensic pathologist Song Ci discovers that each victim’s final actions imitated a tiny habitual gesture their long-deceased relative used to make. Bai Ye’s technical analysis confirms that traces of brain waves that could not belong to the living, already “formatted,” remain at the crime scenes... 2Reads—Score—Shelves
- 86 Stealing a Corpse to Borrow a Life 偷尸借命 The year I was born, strange signs appeared in the sky. That day, many people saw hundreds of ragged prisoners in shackles carrying a huge black coffin toward the forbidden ground behind the mountain. Ten years later, a fortune-telling monk came to our village. He said I had been dead for ten years, and that I was borrowing my life from a corpse. He said I wouldn't live much longer. But before I could die, he suddenly dropped dead. The next day, however, his body, already buried, mysteriously ap 7.5kReads7.8Score915Shelves
- 87 Carrying the Living and the Dead 载人也载鬼 After losing his job, the protagonist plans to buy a car and drive for a rideshare service. Instead, he ends up buying a Soul-Ring Car and helps a female ghost solve the mystery of her death. He then becomes a rideshare driver who transports ghosts. 11.3kReads8.4Score767Shelves
- 88 The Demon Rental Contract 诡契约之恶魔出租 Welcome to the Demon Rental Shop. What wish would you like to have granted? Revenge? Money? Power? Love? Or any other desire? If you want it, the demons will make it happen. Of course, everything comes at a price. 14.5kReads8.4Score1.1kShelves
- 89 There Are Ghosts in Showbiz 娱乐圈有鬼 {Romance + nonhuman male lead + lighthearted + supernatural + short episodic tales} Little white rabbit and big bad wolf: the rabbit isn't really a rabbit, but the wolf really is a wolf! This is a story about ghosts, and a legend about raising a wolf to be your husband! Long Xiaoxiao had a dream since childhood: to become a renowned international makeup artist and stylist... At last, she achieved her dream... She became the entertainment industry's dazzling number-one fraud of a fortune-teller! 3.8kReads9.4Score666Shelves
- 90 The Bride of the Vengeful Ghost 猛鬼新娘 When I was sixteen, I rescued a woman who had been tricked into coming to our village, simply because I wanted to help. I never imagined that my actions would not only get the poor woman killed, but also lead to the deaths of more than a hundred villagers. And so my strange life began. 4.7kReads9.0Score333Shelves
- 91 A Female Ghost Is Clinging to Me? Better Cling to Her! 女鬼缠身？反抱她大腿！ [No System, one heroine, ghost wife, yin-yang master, urban, supernatural, lighthearted comedy] A night spent beside a lonely grave, and the tomb’s occupant latches on. After paying respects to my grandfather tonight, I encountered something utterly absurd: I actually saw a ghost! These days, I’m afraid of being poor, and I’m afraid of dying! On a whim, after we couldn’t agree on anything, I got into a fight with the ghost and even slept on a lonely grave for the whole night. After that, one st 3.4kReads8.2Score327Shelves
- 92 Why Pick on Her? She Can Command Every Ghost! 你惹她干嘛？她能号令百鬼！ [Mysticism + ghost hunting + soul reaping + satisfying read + goofy comedy] Jiang Yu passes the underworld civil service exam and becomes an Impermanence Officer in the capital, responsible for sending ghosts down the Yellow Springs Road. Working hours: midnight to five in the morning. Although Jiang Yu works just five hours a day, she gets busier and busier: reaping souls, catching ghosts, fulfilling last wishes, helping solve cases, catching mice, raising birds… “My father, who died ten years 3kReads8.7Score354Shelves
- 93 The Yellow Springs Pawnshop: No Living Visitors 黄泉典当铺，生人勿近 [Ghost Hunting + Supernatural Horror + Folk Customs + Strange Tales + Taoist Arts + Maoshan] At the end of a street at midnight stands a Yellow Springs Pawnshop. You have no way of knowing whether those who come and go to trade are human or ghost! Lu Guanshan takes over the pawnshop, and on his very first night, he encounters a stunningly beautiful, cold and aloof Ghost Queen hanging from a beam. She latches onto him and stays by his side as they collect yin objects and subdue a hundred ghosts. 5.3kReads6.5Score472Shelves
- 94 Midnight Entry: Clear the Dungeon or Die (Season Two) 午夜入场，副本通关才能活下去（第二季） Midnight Entry: You Can Only Survive by Clearing the Dungeon (Season 2) 2Reads—Score—Shelves
- 95 After College, I Became the Night Watchman at a Funeral Home 大学毕业，在殡仪馆当守夜人 Superpowers + passionate action + supernatural mystery + criminal investigations + an official organization "I'll protect every light in every home!" "At midnight, I'm the one who calls the shots!" After Lin Zhao was injected with zombie genes, his body underwent all kinds of changes. His wounds healed faster, he grew stronger, and he could even see things a hundred meters away at night. There was a side effect, though: he had lost his soul... The story mainly follows Lin Zhao as he assists the 2.1kReads9.2Score126Shelves
- 96 My Master Says I'm Born to Deal with the Dead 师傅说我天生吃阴饭 Born with yin-yang eyes, I always walk down the middle of the road! A quick hand gesture and a single divination, and even the big shots follow me around! What? Money? Hold it right there. I’m not telling your fortune. 810Reads8.9Score102Shelves
- 97 The Wife’s Coffin Smoke 妻棺烟 The Wife's Coffin Smoke 8Reads—Score—Shelves
- 98 Plenty of Stories at the Funeral Home 殡仪馆里故事多 Ever since Lin Yu took a job driving a hearse at a funeral home, his life became anything but ordinary. He and his friends went through all kinds of bizarre, inexplicable events together. Vengeful spirits possessing people, a dead infant in a pot, opera singing in a graveyard... No one knew what would happen next. 13kReads8.7Score978Shelves
- 99 I Just Came Back to Life, and I've Died 21 Times Already. Who Can Top That? 刚还阳，21连死，就问还有谁？ (A silly, wild imagination, everyone's favorite, no romance, lots of twists.) Mi Le has only just returned to life and entered someone else's womb when she loses 21 little lives in a row, only to be blasted right out of her mother's body! The grandmother who adopts her is a mysterious tomb guardian, and she leaves Mi Le to be raised by ghosts from the time she's little. After Grandma passes away peacefully in her sleep, she leaves Mi Le an inheritance of three hundred yuan in large bills... Clut 1.7kReads8.7Score387Shelves
- 100 I Came From the Underworld to Subdue Demons and Ghosts in the Mortal World 我自冥界来，于世间镇妖鬼 A live-action, high-definition animated series of the same name is now available on Hongguo and Tomato Novel. Search to watch. Witchcraft ☞ Taoist arts ☞ Feng Shui secrets ☞ Mountain spirits and ghosts ☞ Scary enough to make you scream ☞ Funny enough to make you laugh ☞ No harem Mei Wuji was possessed by the Netherworld Emperor. He died and came back to life, defying Heaven’s will. Mei Tianlang mastered Meishan witchcraft and Feng Shui geomancy, understood fate, and divined that his grandson Mei 27.2kReads9.0Score1.8kShelves
