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- 101 Supernatural: My Years Hunting Ghosts at Bureau 749 灵异：我在749局打鬼那些年 The appearance of a white coffin and a red coffin at the construction site changed my fate. That night, I saw corpses that could move and a ghost that could steal a person's soul. They were all "deceiving" me, trying to make me die. What should I do... When you think the person behind you is a ghost, the real ghost may be the one standing in front of you... Once it's dark... don't read this!! 223Reads—Score—14d adds
- 102 You Call Me a Con Artist? I'll Scatter Your Ashes to the Wind! 说我招摇撞骗？骨灰都给你扬了！ [Shameless Celestial Master] [Ghost Hunting and Case Solving] [Fortune-Telling on the Overpass] [Sweet-Talking and Deceiving] After being reborn, Zhang Yang activates the Shameless Celestial Master System and discovers that he seems to have become entangled in a conspiracy spanning a hundred years... The Seven Evils Corpse Vault, a dilapidated City God temple, a haunted apartment building, a living sacrifice to the River Goddess... Every unusual criminal case turns out to have a connection to 4Reads—Score—14d adds
- 103 I Love Your Numbness, I Love Your Spice, I Love You Till My Stomach Gives Out 爱你的麻，爱你的辣，爱得老胃直拉胯 I love your numbing spice, I love your heat, I love you so much my stomach’s a mess 6Reads—Score—14d adds
- 104 Ghosts in Pieces 散装见鬼 Do you believe there are ghosts in this world? I think that question is as impossible to answer as whether there are dragons in this world. The answer you hear most often is: Believe in them, and they exist. Don’t believe in them, and they don’t. But if you ask me, my answer is simple: Yes! Not because I believe, but because I can see them. Of course, I wasn’t able to see them from birth. It all goes back to the strange experience I had when I was six... 20Reads—Score—14d adds
- 105 The Spirit Medium's Road: My Adventures with the Old Immortal 出马仙，我跟老仙的江湖路 A disciple of the spirit mediums of Ghost Street, in his tenth year practicing the art. His greatest wish at first was to become the biggest local thug. He never expected to become a spirit medium, and only after taking it up did he discover that people in this line of work are worse than gangsters. What kind of person you are determines what kind of spirit you get, and the spirits follow their hosts. Zhao Zhengyang’s spirit companions are all like slick socialites in leather shoes. Then he runs 3.5kReads8.2Score39914d adds
- 106 The Spirit-Sealing Corpse Shroud 镇灵尸衣 On the day I was born, ghosts surrounded our home. I only survived because a master gave his life to save me. Only later did I learn the truth: I was born on a yin year, yin month, and yin day, making me a Yin Child. My master said that anyone born under all three yin signs would have a life full of misfortune and spend their days wandering from place to place. 125Reads—Score—14d adds
- 107 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—14d adds
- 108 The Jiang Family's Haunted House and Corpse Marriage Pact 僵家尸宅冥尸婚契 Jiang Si, who was there to watch the show, nearly gets crushed to death. On the brink of life and death, he is sucked into the core of the Nine Dragons Feng Shui Formation and accidentally gains a pair of all-seeing eyes... Before he can even celebrate, a drought demon sets its sights on him... Luckily, at the crucial moment, he is summoned to a bizarre world by an ancient zombie patriarch who has lived for a thousand years... After being welcomed back into the family, he hears, "What! You want 8kReads8.3Score93714d adds
- 109 The Stone That Remembers the Light 会记住光的石头 The Stone That Remembers the Light 2Reads—Score—14d adds
- 110 I Don’t Hunt Ghosts, I Save People 我不捉鬼，我只渡人 [Mostly Slice of Life] [No System] [Feng Shui and Face Reading] [Saving People and Ghosts] [Episodic] [Character Growth] [Not a Mindless Power Fantasy] Ghosts aren’t scary. The human heart is. This is a world with ghosts, but the coldest place isn’t the underworld. It’s the hearts of people in the living world. The male lead walks between the realms of the living and the dead, making his living through feng shui and face reading, guided by his conscience: killing the ghosts that deserve to die, 1kReads8.0Score14014d adds
- 111 I Inherited a Funeral Shop During the Hundred Ghosts' Night Parade 百鬼夜行时，我继承了一家冥铺 Lu Ci thought all his grandfather had left him was an old shop on the verge of closing. Then, one rainy night, the first customer walked through the door and bought a stack of spirit money. The next day, that very “ghost currency” appeared in someone else’s account. From then on, the shop, open only at night, began receiving one unusual customer after another: some sought wealth, some wanted to buy a life, and some only wished to exchange something for a long-overdue truth. At the end of the lon 7Reads—Score214d adds
- 112 Thirty Years of Strange Tales from the Northeast 东北异事三十年 Forty years ago, the old man ventured into Ghost Mountain at night and negotiated with the ghosts, winning Dongshan Village forty years of peace. Forty years later, a lone grave has thrown the whole village into chaos. A tragedy from forty years ago has claimed nearly a hundred innocent lives! What started it all? Why has a corpse's white hair turned black, and what is the red-clad female ghost trying to point to when she appears at midnight? 172Reads7.3Score—14d adds
- 113 Maoshan Ghost-Suppressing Records 茅山镇鬼录 The gates of the underworld shatter, and ten thousand ghosts emerge! Enchanting ghosts steal souls, birth ghosts claim lives, zombies devour people, painted-skin demons steal faces, and water ghosts drag people under... The mortal world has become a living hell. Everyone fears ghosts and monsters. Only the Maoshan priests take up talismans and tread the Big Dipper steps! Talismans subdue the dead, swords cut down vengeful ghosts, incantations slay a hundred evils, and dark spirits are sealed awa 5.7kReads8.4Score49314d adds
- 114 Ghost Catcher of the Underworld 阴司鬼差 The ninety-nine ghost officials appointed by Qin Shi Huang have passed their positions down through the generations. Somehow, this generation’s post has come down to me. This isn’t myth or legend. It’s all real, and it’s happening right now... 674Reads6.2Score—14d adds
- 115 A Record of Strange Encounters 怪异见闻录 [Folk horror, Taoist exorcists, spirit mediums banishing evil, no romance, intelligent protagonist] My grandmother is a spirit medium. Just tonight, Uncle Bei from our village came to ask her to perform an exorcism. He said Auntie Liu from the village was actually a ghost? But Auntie Liu only came to my shop yesterday to buy paper money! And so began a series of strange encounters… that turned me from an ordinary person into someone with only three souls and six spirits left! 13Reads—Score—14d adds
- 116 The Bell Shakes the Mountains and Rivers 铃动山河 Hardcore worldbuilding: the Maoshan Taoist ghost-hunting tradition, the secret Shaolin art of guiding ghosts to the afterlife, Seven Star fate-reading, the Wu people’s shamanic medicine, and their logical integration with modern technology. Urban setting, supernatural mysteries, ghost hunting, schemes, corpse retrievers, corpse-carrying teams, corpse drivers, zombies, curses, and Southeast Asian horror stories. *Modern military life × ancient metaphysics*: Secret lineages and supernatural crises 2Reads—Score—14d adds
- 117 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 2Reads—Score—14d adds
- 118 A Fading Lamp Shines on the Lonely Dead 残灯照孤冥 (Mystery + supernatural + no female lead) (Ghost case files + Taoist arts) (Tomato Original) The male lead is born under the fate of a lone star of calamity, destined to walk alone. A dying lamp lights the lonely darkness, and that darkness lights me in turn. 354Reads—Score—14d adds
- 119 Chinese-Style Horror Stories 中式恐怖小说 30Reads—Score—14d adds
- 120 Mama Haha Won't Fly Anymore 玛玛哈哈不飞了 Mama Haha Won't Fly Anymore 2Reads—Score—14d adds
- 121 I’m Hu Sheng, and I Dare to Take on the Underworld Bailiff 我虎剩，敢干阴差 If you saw money lying on the ground outside a hospital, would you pick it up? Heh. But if you actually did, then congratulations: you've been caught! Once you pick up that money, bad luck will cling to you. At best, you'll come down with a fever or a cold. At worst, it might cost you your life. Don't ask how I know. After I picked up that money, I was plagued by bad luck and nearly lost my life... My name is Shen Yidong, and I'm a bona fide Northeastern guy. As my mom would say, I'm a bit of a 10.4kReads6.7Score20614d adds
- 122 My Years of Ghost Hunting Among the People 我在民间捉鬼的那些年 Chinese-Style Horror, No Female Lead My name is Xu Jian. I’m 26, and I studied Taoist arts under a Maoshan priest for several years. Over the years, I’ve seen all kinds of things. After doing this long enough, I realized that ghosts aren’t scary. What’s truly frightening are the things people can’t get past in their hearts. All I do is help them say what needs to be said and settle their debts once and for all. People call me a Celestial Master of the Taoist sect, but I’m really just an ordin 4.9kReads—Score34714d adds
- 123 I Asked You to Write a Horror Play, So Why Did You Have to Add a Deity? 让你写诡剧，您非要往里加神人？ He Mo has always believed that eerie plays, with their dark, disturbing themes and wall-to-wall negativity, are bound to drive actors to a mental breakdown if they perform in them for too long. So he insists on adding a few absurd characters and comic plotlines to lighten things up. The more the theater objects, the more it proves he's doing the right thing. It shows that he's exposed the theater's intention to torment its actors through eerie plays. The more the actors object, the more it prove 2.2kReads—Score40114d adds
- 124 The Little Fool’s Demon-Hunting Chronicles 瓜娃儿捉妖记 [Mystery and Supernatural] + [Folk Customs] + [Legends] + [Strange Tales] This really is a mystery and supernatural novel about catching demons and ghosts. The author begs the officials who review the categories to show mercy and stop changing this book’s category at random. Could you please? During the Xianfeng era, Gua Wa’er is sent to learn magic from Taoist Li at the Wengong Shrine, having incurred a debt of gratitude for changing his father Niu Yuansheng’s fate. He joins the wondrous Yunmen 40Reads—Score—14d adds
- 125 The Earth Master 地先生 Every title in the occult arts has a special meaning: tomb raiders are called grave diggers, those without a school or sect are called Mr. Bai, and those who sew heads onto corpses are called Old Madam Butian... Our trade calls us Earth Masters. Ghostly incense, the flayed-skin curse, the pecking-eye gu, the Cave of Nine... Every job I take on is full of twists and hidden dangers. Fight your way through, and the spirits and ghosts will fear you, and you’ll reign supreme in the occult world. Fail 86Reads7.0Score—14d adds
- 126 The Daoist Tradition of Northeast China 东北道家 A story about real-life Taoist priests and spirit mediums in Northeast China. The content is based on true events. Any resemblance is purely coincidental. An illiterate author writing a book has it rough. 377Reads—Score—14d adds
- 127 The Man Buried Upside Down 倒着埋的人 The Man Buried Upside Down 7Reads—Score—14d adds
- 128 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 325Reads—Score—14d adds
- 129 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
- 130 Secrets of the Mortuary 殓尸秘录 Chen Mo is the young heir to the Wangsheng Studio funeral home. He thought he would spend his life in quiet company with cold, lifeless bodies. Then he took charge of a strange corpse known as the “Bride in Red,” and everything began to spiral out of control. The body never decays, and its smile is as lovely as a flower. The bronze bell tied around its ankle rings silently in the dead of night. From then on, Chen Mo is swept into one whirlpool after another, woven from local ghost stories and ho 3Reads8.3Score—14d adds
- 131 Insomniacs' Forbidden Tales: 444 Midnight Ghost Stories 失眠者禁忌：444个午夜鬼谈 A horror anthology with a bonus at the end of every story. I have 444 folk ghost stories guaranteed to keep you awake until midnight, terrify you, make you break out in a cold sweat, and pull the covers over your head! At the end of every chapter, the “Author’s Note” will include an illustration or bonus! But before you open it, brace yourself. The author accepts no responsibility for what happens next! [Supernatural Horror] [Folk Horror] [Rural Ghost Stories] [True Cases] [Urban Oddities] [L 4.3kReads—Score37914d adds
- 132 The Calamity Wardens' Apocalypse 压祟默示录 [Mystery and the supernatural + ensemble cast + first-person narration + Eastern mythology + Daoism] The copper coin a strange Daoist casually gave me turned out to be the legendary evil-repelling coin? Are the haunted mansion and the attacks by the walking corpses really because an evil fiend has emerged from seclusion? Or is there some other hidden truth? Is there more to the familiar New Year's Eve story than we know? Can some of the inexplicable things in modern life actually be explained? D 1Reads—Score—14d adds
- 133 Reborn Daoist: I Sweep the City Clean by Catching Ghosts 重生道士：我靠捉鬼横扫都市 [Rebirth + suspense]+ [mysticism and the supernatural]+ [revenge and comeback] In my previous life, I devoted myself to Taoist cultivation, only to be betrayed by my lover and die at the hands of a vengeful ghost. Reborn at twenty, I awaken the memories of a Celestial Master, with Taoist arts powerful enough to reach the heavens! Malevolent spirits in apartment hallways, vengeful ghosts in old houses, urban hauntings, plots from the netherworld... Every evil spirit in the world bows before me! W —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 134 Night Wanderer: Never Look Back at Three in the Morning 夜游神：凌晨三点千万别回头 [Urban supernatural + underworld ranks + survival in two realms + System binding] At three in the morning, never look back. Lu Chen picks up a [Night Patrol God Seal] and accidentally becomes bound to a divine office in the underworld! While everyone else sleeps, he traverses the netherworld, patrols the night, and hunts down ghosts. When the hundred ghosts roam, they bow before him; when dark forces run rampant, he suppresses them with a single gesture! Unsolved cases in the mortal world, secre —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 135 Please Don't Give the Dead a Name 请不要替死者取名 Zhou Jin is on night duty in the morgue when a body arrives in freezer nine, registered one minute before it was brought in. The dead man has no facial features, no fingerprints to identify him, and yet the name written on his form is… Zhou Jin. After daybreak, one strange thing after another begins to happen. The security system no longer recognizes him. His coworkers gradually forget what to call him, and even his mother can no longer remember her son’s name. Yet every day at mealtimes, she 4Reads—Score—14d adds
- 136 Strange Tales, Volume 1 奇闻诡事录1 This is a collection of folk tales about the uncanny, strange accounts from across the land. Each chapter is a complete story, each tale a separate supernatural mystery, revealing the mysteries of yin and yang, folk taboos, and the obsessions of the dead. You never know when a casual remark might draw the attention of spirits lurking in the wilderness; when an old object you pick up might hold the memory of a tragic death; or when an everyday habit might already have crossed a forbidden boundary 20Reads—Score—14d adds
- 137 Celestial Official of the Corpse-Subduing Sect 镇尸天官 The unfathomable mystery of immortality, horrifying strange happenings in a mountain village, a mysterious ancient tomb buried deep beneath the earth, and ancient legends from the barren wilderness... None of it should have had anything to do with me. But after my grandfather's bizarre death, I could no longer escape my fate and was dragged into this endless conspiracy... 441Reads7.3Score10214d adds
- 138 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 70Reads—Score—14d adds
- 139 Maoshan Ghost Arts: Kill, Never Deliver Souls 茅山鬼术，只杀不度 When I was twelve, my father was killed by someone using an evil technique, and my mother took her own life. I was adopted by relatives and suffered endless abuse. In the end, their entire family died horribly, leaving me an orphan. The villagers regarded me as an omen of misfortune. To stay alive, I stole offerings meant for the dead, only to attract an evil ghost, which bought my life with a hell banknote. At the critical moment between life and death, my master, Old Guo, saved me, took me in 241.7kReads8.8Score23.5k14d adds
- 140 The Yin Marriage Thread 阴缘线 Murong thought she was probably just born unlucky. Her master used her to nurture his soul, while her senior brothers and sisters used her to fend off the fate of the Five Bane-and-Deficiency Afflictions. Sometimes, she felt it didn’t really matter whether she lived or died. Then she met her little crew: her sisters, friends, and apprentices. They showed her how wonderful warmth could be! And there was that devoted, puppy-like young man. He was brave, confident, warm, and bright. He seemed like 32Reads—Score—14d adds
- 141 Strange Tales from the South 南方灵异事 6Reads—Score—14d adds
- 142 The Daoheart’s Journey 道心征途 (This novel focuses primarily on horror, the supernatural, and suspense. It isn't mindless, it isn't about cultivating immortality, and the story is tightly connected. The early chapters lay the groundwork, and there are many genuinely frightening scenes. If you don't like it, feel free to say so in the comments!) My master said there are only two principles to being a Taoist priest. First: Never put off revenge until tomorrow. Let it fester in your heart, and it will throw your Daoist mind into 7Reads6.5Score—14d adds
- 143 Yin-Yang Headhunter: I Find Jobs for Ghosts, and They Ask Me Out 阴阳猎头：我给诡找工作，诡问我处不处对象 On the day he was laid off, Jiang Ye received a death notice: in thirty days, someone would throw him off a rooftop. To stay alive, he was forced to take a job at Yin-Yang Headhunting Co., Ltd., a company that specializes in finding jobs for ghosts. Every time he finds a job for a ghost, he unlocks part of the truth behind his own death. Every time he fails, another corpse spot appears on his body. Once they cover him from head to toe, the company will devour his soul. Every high-level order com 2.3kReads8.4Score34314d adds
- 144 Strange Tales of the Northeast 东北鬼事异闻 A collection of strange tales about ghosts and supernatural happenings in Northeast China. Some are hearsay, while others are terrifying paranormal events that happened right before the storyteller's eyes. A weasel spirit gaining human form, a fox stealing an elixir, a corpse crushed beneath a millstone... 1.7kReads—Score10614d adds
- 145 A Ghost Marshal Right After Graduation: I Earn Merit by Capturing Souls 毕业即鬼差，我靠拘魂赚功德 After graduating from college and hitting one dead end after another in his job search, Qi Hao thinks he’ll spend the rest of his life slacking away at the bottom of society. Then, one morning, a wood splinter pricks his finger, and his blood accidentally activates an old token from a secondhand shop. [Ding! Congratulations, Host, you have been appointed a trainee ghost officer!] Dressed in a ghost officer’s robes and armed with soul-locking chains, he can capture evil spirits and guide the dead 4Reads—Score—14d adds
- 146 Unraveling the Strange: Surviving the Second Case 诡事探秘逢生二 An abandoned mining town, missing residents, and dense fog that traps souls. A four-person ghost-hunting team ventures into the forbidden zone to uncover a shocking mystery from 2015. When the truth comes to light, whose spirit has been waiting? A suspenseful thriller that will keep you awake tonight. —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 147 The Sobbing Maitreya 哽咽的弥勒 A truly thrilling horror fantasy, with a master like Lin Zhenying guiding you through terrifying adventures, slaying demons and monsters, exploring forbidden arts, and cultivating as a demon immortal. Once you start reading, you won't be able to stop. It's pure exhilaration from beginning to end! 14Reads—Score—14d adds
- 148 Who'd Have Thought This Guy Was a Ghost-Catching Taoist Master? 这货居然是捉鬼天师 The protagonist, Wang Yang, is a gifted Taoist with a fragment of Emperor Fengdu's soul hidden within him. He has trained in the mountains since childhood, and Black and White Impermanence are his childhood friends. One day, after blowing up his master's alchemy furnace out of sheer boredom, he is kicked off the mountain to gain experience. At the foot of the mountain, he meets his martial uncle. On the way, he hears that the Taoist world is holding a new disciple tournament, so he heads there t 1.5kReads8.2Score—14d adds
- 149 Paranormal Civil Servant 灵异公务员 Wang Xiaotian, a civil servant wielding the "Heaven-Measuring Ruler," transmigrates to a parallel world where the supernatural resurges in the 1990s. Zombies have to meet their KPIs, and ghosts who like people have to follow the proper procedures. Using the bureaucratic wisdom he's gained from writing reports and mediating disputes, he specializes in dealing with every kind of monster and demon that refuses to cooperate. When a red-clad vengeful ghost has to write a work summary, and a thousand- 17Reads—Score—14d adds
- 150 The Folk Ghost Hunter 民间捉鬼人 This novel tells the true story of an old man from our village. His name was Li Zhengyu, and he was an extraordinary practitioner of the occult. Born in a small village in the mountains of Lingnan, he became tainted by yin energy after being haunted by the ghosts of a mother and daughter, and repeatedly encountered supernatural beings. By chance, he met a master of Daoist arts and began his journey of cultivation, changing the course of his life. Evil Maoshan curses, poison and witchcraft, treas 1.3kReads9.0Score—14d adds
