Novels like I’m Going to Lure 100 Lost Souls
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- 1 Tales of the Strange in Bluestone Alley 青石巷诡事录 [Supernatural] [Light Horror] [Episodic Stories] [Chinese Folk Customs] Deep in Qingzhou’s Qingshi Alley lies a ferry inn unknown to anyone. Its owner, Shen Du, exists beyond life and death. He has survived for a hundred years, all to dispel the obsessions of the departed. Behind every strange and uncanny event that comes to light are debts of humanity buried for a hundred years. A headsman’s rusty blade, a performer’s jade, salt smugglers bringing disaster, a canal guild’s water tokens, a night 3Reads—Score—14d adds
- 2 The Soul-Returning Ledger 还魂帐 On the seventh day after death, the dead return to settle their debts. Funeral director Shen Yantian was born with the ability to see accounts. He audits, weighs, and settles accounts for the dead, at the cost of pawning a memory each time. Until he discovers that the account for the fire that should have killed him three years ago is blank. Someone died in his place. This is my first novel, so the plot moves a little quickly at the beginning. It gets better later on. Thank you for your understa 10Reads—Score18514d adds
- 3 Repaying Yin Debts: The Living Must Not Pass 还阴债：活人禁行 From the day I was born, my whole family wore shrouds. The day my parents took theirs off, they died under mysterious circumstances. To keep me alive, my grandfather sacrificed himself... 1Reads—Score—14d adds
- 4 The World Above the Well 井上人间 My name is Chen Xiaoman. I run a joss stick and candle shop called "A Single Lamp" in Suzhou's old town. My grandfather, Ninth Master Chen, was a well-known guardian of the wells around here. Three years ago, on Tomb-Sweeping Day, he sat in his wicker chair and passed away as if he'd simply nodded off. Before he left, he taught me just one sentence: "The incense is about to go out." Then, late one night, my childhood friend's cousin rode the last subway to the end of the line and got trapped at —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 5 Uncle Nine's World: Exorcising Demons in America 九叔世界：在美利坚驱魔 Lin Zhengmiao, the nephew of Uncle Jiu, went to the United States to study large-scale shipbuilding in hopes of helping Longguo prosper. The United States was rife with undercurrents and gunfire. When he returned to Hong Kong Island for summer break, he became a disciple of Daoist Priest Qianhe and studied Eastern magic to protect himself. With his skills, Lin Zhengmiao rescued foreign residents from the torment of evil spirits, while making a fortune in the process. Like gifts sent home by over 31Reads—Score—14d adds
- 6 Master of Folk Customs: I Make Paper Effigies in Eerie Instances 民俗大师：我在诡异副本扎纸人 [Mystery + Rule-Based Instances + Mind-Bending Puzzles + Traditional Supernatural Horror + Paper Effigy Making + A Clever Protagonist] Supernatural horrors descend upon the world, and people are randomly pulled into "Taboo Instances." Morgues, ancient temples in mountain villages, abandoned opera houses, underwater tombs... Every instance has a set of bizarre rules. Break them, and you die. Everyone else awakens combat talents like fire, lightning, and swordsmanship. Chen Jiu, however, awakens [ 30Reads—Score10114d adds
- 7 The Reincarnated Ghost Tamer 轮回驭鬼师 (An intelligent male lead + one female lead + no saintly do-gooding + both leads are ruthless + first-person narration) The underworld grants a general amnesty, and evil ghosts pour forth. Yin spirits are reborn into the Ghost Path, controlling ghosts to prolong their lives and worshipping reincarnation! If there are no ghosts in this world, I will die. If there are ghosts in this world, others will die. So I choose to stay alive. I don’t know who I am. I only know that I suffer from a strange i 257Reads6.5Score—14d adds
- 8 Infinite Terror: Bone Reflection 无限恐怖：骨照 Some people die and leave behind a grave. Some people die and leave behind a name. Lin Jin has died six times, and what he left behind was something buried inside his bones. At first, he thought he had merely been caught up in a bizarre game of rules. Then, in Returning Name Alley, he saw his bones reflecting someone else; then, in Shadow Gate, he heard someone say, “The Seventh Bone is hidden inside your bones”; and finally, he understood that the face, shadow, name, and life he had lost since 1Reads—Score—14d adds
- 9 The Millennium Town Exorcist 千禧镇煞人 Drawing on the folk customs of China’s provinces and the landscapes of the nation, this story weaves a vast network to suppress evil spirits across the Nine Provinces. It is a modern Chinese fantasy about bloodlines, legacy, sacrifice, and protection. —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 10 Half a Life, Half a Heartless Soul 无心半命人 When I was born, I had no heart, yet I could live normally. I could also see ghosts, so everyone called me a “Half-Life Person.” As I investigated one bizarre haunting after another, I discovered that every vengeful ghost had a chilling story from its past. It gave me a new understanding of human nature. There are no ghosts in this world; evil comes from human nature. As my investigation continued, I discovered that my parents' disappearance and my birth were both unusual. A vast secret seemed t —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 11 Ghosts Blocked My Door from the Start, So I Made a Pact with Zhong Kui and Devoured Them to Become a Saint 开局鬼堵门，我契约钟馗吞鬼成圣 [Age of Turbidity] [Supernatural Revival] [Three Great Laws] [Collect Every Puzzle Piece] Ghosts cannot be killed! Only ghosts can fight ghosts! Uncover the rules that govern them! A pact between human and ghost, a Judge’s brush, a Yin-Yang Mirror, a Ghost-Slaying Sword, a red robe, and a Universe Fan! People light candles; ghosts carry lanterns... Drive out every demon and monster, devour ghosts, and become a saint. Seven saints swear brotherhood and roam the four seas! Storm the underworld —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 12 Homecoming in a Bountiful Year 丰年归家 Qingshi Town was small. To the north stood Niuer Mountain, hunched like the back of a bull. To the south flowed Baixia River, known for its white shrimp. The townsfolk went to market, farmed, and did business. Year after year, life went on without anything unusual. Sixteen-year-old Ning Chuan had always thought so, too. Until someone ate every last bite of a bowl of noodles left beneath Qingshi Bridge as an offering for the dead. After that, he began to notice that the mountain paths, riverbanks —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 13 Night-Shift Funeral Director: I Can Hear the Dead Speak 夜班殡葬师，我能听见死者说话 [Late-night paranormal mysteries + episodic investigations + accumulating karmic merit, plenty to read, updated daily without fail] My name is Lin Chen. I'm twenty-four, unemployed and in debt. I returned to my hometown to inherit the funeral home my great-uncle left behind. On my first night at work, the corpse of a woman in the morgue spoke: “I wasn't drinking. I'm allergic to alcohol...” “My fiancé pushed me down the stairs. He bought two million yuan in insurance on me.” “Please, don't let h 5.9kReads6.8Score44014d adds
- 14 Chronicles of Wangchuan City 忘川城记 Wangchuan City has three iron laws: The living cannot leave, the dead do not decay, and once the faceless statue in the City God's temple calls out a name, someone will die within three days. Shen Du, an eighteen-year-old corpse collector, has to check his arms every morning when he wakes. They are covered in warnings he carved into his own skin. Some have scabbed over, while others look as if they were carved only moments ago. He can't remember what happened the night before, why he can always 1Reads—Score—14d adds
- 15 Tales of the Strange 聊斋那些事 Have you ever heard of a plain-language version of Strange Tales from a Chinese Studio? A scholar spends the night in an abandoned house and is welcomed into a beautiful woman's arms, only to discover that her face is a painted skin. A poor young man finds a fox. The fox says, “I’ll marry you, but you must never look at my tail.” At the mass graves outside town, someone tells stories every night. Anyone who listens disappears the next day. Don’t be afraid. These are all stories passed down by ou 3Reads—Score—14d adds
- 16 My Boyfriend Can See Ghosts 我的见鬼男友 [A sharp-witted, courageous witch × a frail, timid male lead] Mu Tianyang has been frail and sickly since childhood. His family took him everywhere for doctors and medicine, but no one could find anything wrong with him. Lately, he has been growing weaker and often having nightmares. Evil ghosts run rampant in his dreams, and they feel so real that he’s terrified and gets chills down his back. One day, someone tells him that if the hospital can’t find the cause, he could try finding a witch to d 121Reads—Score—14d adds
- 17 The Yin Shrine 殷祠 When Yin Zheng's parents suddenly disappeared, he returned to his hometown to investigate. By chance, he inherited the ancestral hall and became its keeper, and supernatural events began occurring one after another. Every incident is connected, each one pushing Yin Zheng toward some unknown destination. Along the way, he also discovers clues about his parents. Come with us into another world, where you'll uncover the truth about the 747 hearse, hear tales of hauntings at a school, witness the ap 1Reads—Score—14d adds
- 18 Strange Happenings After Returning to the Village 回村后诡事 You’ve probably seen someone die with their eyes open, but have you ever seen a dead person standing in their own grave? What happened back then that wiped out the entire generation of my father and his brothers? Rats held a funeral for the dead, the blood moon hung overhead, and entire households were sealed off. One eerie event after another unfolded. Come and hear my story. 943Reads—Score10514d adds
- 19 The Underworld Calls Me Little Ancestor 地府叫我小祖宗 This book is also known as: “After I Saved Humanity, the Heavenly Dao’s Great Powers Cast Me into the Eighteenth Level of Hell” Fahai, justice, swagger, face-slapping, decisive killing, play the pig to eat the tiger, supernatural horror. Fahai relied on the mighty Heavenly Dragon to subdue demons and exorcise evil, earning the rank of Arhat, yet he never reached the Land of Ultimate Bliss. Instead, the power of the Heavenly Dao cast him into the Eighteenth Level of Hell. After fighting his way o 10Reads—Score—14d adds
- 20 I Tamed the Paranormal 我把诡异收服了 Born with ghostly eyes, I share a desk with the City Lord of the Underworld. A vengeful female ghost wants me to kiss her, I take in a powerful underworld enforcer, and a princess from a thousand years ago swears an oath with me. Onstage, they sing of sorrow and grief. Beneath the stage, I capture every kind of evil. My name is Zhang Qiang. Watch me run rampant through the Underworld! —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 21 A Handbook for Exorcism by Physics 物理超度手册 The life of Zhou Xingxing, an ordinary college student, is turned upside down at three in the morning on the fifteenth day of the seventh lunar month in 2024. A devastatingly handsome man in ancient costume appears out of nowhere in her bedroom, and takes a solid slap from her. The handsome ghost claims to be from 2025, a year in the future. After an accident on a film set, his soul left his body and he somehow transmigrated through time. Worse, he is “bound” to Zhou Xingxing, unable to stray mo —Reads7.8Score—14d adds
- 22 The Recipient After Death 死后收件人 I'm a courier for a residential complex. Since last month, I've been receiving packages addressed to the dead. An empty apartment building, recipients whose accounts were closed long ago, parcels that no one ever claims. The property manager says I'm seeing things. My coworkers say I've been cursed. The police checked every security camera, but say everything looks normal. That is, until I opened the first package for a dead person. Inside was only a note: [You're next.] 4Reads—Score—14d adds
- 23 The Deadbeat of Both the Living and Spirit Worlds 我在阴阳两界当老赖 [One female lead] + [temporary underworld worker] + [traditional supernatural mysteries] + [underworld turned into a state-owned enterprise] + [sharp-tongued and tough] + [reliably updated daily] My name is Lin Wan. I'm an embalmer at a funeral home and a part-time temporary worker in the underworld. Day job: putting makeup on the dead and listening to their stories. Side jobs: owing the underworld money, being hunted by a foundation, and getting sabotaged by the System. They all say I'm inve —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 24 In This Life, I See My Past Life 我于今生观前世 The protagonist encounters his past lives in a dream. Only after unraveling the mystery of his time in the womb does he discover that he is nothing but an empty shell. Once his three souls return to his body, three powerful spirits press against his own will. He has no choice but to deal with monsters and outside intruders to strengthen himself, all while withstanding the weight of karma and fighting to stay alive! Whether it's a black dragon stirring up trouble, a corpse-nurturing ground in the —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 25 After the Founding of the Nation, I Became a Spirit: Catching Ghosts Is My Duty, and I’m Good at It 建国后成精，抓鬼没有不强的义务 Strong female lead, no romance, ghost hunting, with a mildly supernatural variety show. Please don’t take it as reality. The heroine doesn’t grow stronger over time: she inherits the memories of the demon clan, giving her a cheat, and is powerful from beginning to end. There’s no angst. As one of the demons who slipped through the cracks of the rule that no one could become a spirit after the founding of the country, newborn demon Shi Jia leapt into Qiongqi’s pocket with a thunderous force. “Bos 3Reads—Score—14d adds
- 26 Lord Guan Guards the Night: From the Start, a Security Guard Gains the Remnant Will of the Martial Sage 关公镇夜：保安开局得武圣残念 [Bickering Couple + Mystery and Deduction + Witty Humor + Leveling Up and Fighting Monsters] Watch an ordinary person from the streets stumble into the business of yin and yang, as his hilarious journey of soul-catching begins! Male Lead: A down-on-his-luck man of humble origins, quick with a joke and fond of snarky remarks. A timid good-for-nothing at first, he grows into a composed and powerful protagonist who makes a comeback. Female Lead / Bickering Partner: Sharp-tongued and always trad —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 27 Life at a Crossroads 岔路人生 If you could truly live your life over again, would you regret the choices you made? Shen Que never imagined there could be a real answer to that question. That day, the subway stopped at 5:42 p.m. Two people with the same name and the same face, each having lived through twenty-seven years that were almost, but not quite, the same, appeared before him at once. Only then did he learn the truth: Every truly important choice could allow another version of your life to keep going. They weren' —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 28 This Is the Age of Ghosts 这是鬼的时代 I'm a complete newcomer, so please be kind! This is a special shop in a special world. And this special shop has a special owner. This is the story of the owner's life in a very special line of work. 9Reads—Score—14d adds
- 29 Human Prison 人牢 Supernatural fantasy stories often spring from the ugliness of human nature. Only against that ugliness can the light of kindness shine, leading the weary masses to bloom like lotuses in a raging fire. Not everyone has seen a ghost, but some people have unusual constitutions. Under the right conditions, they can truly feel that despair, that chill, that helplessness, that sorrow... —Reads8.1Score—14d adds
- 30 Little Brother, Dad Was Taken by Demons 弟弟，爸爸被妖魔抓走了 [Mild horror + solving cases and exorcising ghosts + episodic stories with an overarching plot] The story of the TV series Supernatural, reimagined in a Chinese setting. Zhang Jiuyou had left the supernatural world behind, but after his brother tells him, “Father went missing while hunting ghosts!” he sets out once more on a road of no return. A driver vanishes without a trace. Hikers are attacked deep in the mountains. A young woman drowns in a reservoir. A plane mysteriously crashes. As cases 5Reads—Score—14d adds
- 31 I Have a Ghostly Wife 我有鬼娇妻 [Mystery] [Comedy] Have you ever experienced something like this? I mean, asking for a wife at the bottom of a dry well! I live in a small village in the mountains, cut off from the outside world. No outsiders have visited in hundreds of years. Maybe it's because of a curse, but no baby girls have ever been born in our village. 1Reads—Score—14d adds
- 32 Morgue Notes: I Saw Messages from the Dead 太平间手记：我看见了死者留言 Chen Ye, an ordinary medical school graduate, took a well-paid job as the night-shift attendant in the city hospital morgue. On his very first night, he discovered that the rules here were absurdly strict: the lights had to be turned off at three in the morning, refrigerator number three was never to be used, and he must never respond to even the faintest sound. He thought it was just a prank to scare the new guy, until he found a line of new writing formed in frost on the back of an old autopsy 3Reads—Score—14d adds
- 33 Ghost Ship in the Deep Sea: Witness to the Dead's Obsessions 深海幽灵邮轮：我见证死者的执念 Even kind ghosts can lie, and evil humans can be worse than demons. A luxury cruise ship that vanished without a trace more than twenty years ago drifts across an otherworldly sea, cut off from the rest of the world. Aboard are pitiful ghosts who cannot let go of the people they loved, and evil spirits willing to descend into darkness in pursuit of eternal life. Travel between the world of the living and the ghost ship, fulfill the dead’s final wishes, and search for a missing father. Disappeara 5Reads—Score—14d adds
- 34 You Found Me 你找到我了 Modern Supernatural + Female-Led + Fresh Premise + All-Rounder + Wild Imagination + Reincarnation + Spirit Speech + Runes and Formations + Fictional Modern Setting + Pure Wish Fulfillment in the Middle and Later Parts Abandoned and cast out? No. Her god reincarnates for her, life after life. Following the usual formula and old clichés? No. The Heavenly Dao is nothing to her. An ordinary girl dealing with a life that’s a complete mess? No. Other people are the ordinary ones. She is the unique one 5Reads—Score—14d adds
- 35 Six Relics to Banish Evil 六器渡邪 On a stormy night, the evil box passed down through my family shattered on its own, and I became a wanted fugitive accused of several murders. My only chance of survival was to recover the six cursed artifacts scattered across the Lin family. But they weren't treasures. They were instruments of torture, each one imprisoning the soul of someone our ancestors had tortured into becoming an artifact. Soul-harvesting rice from the Hungry Ghost Realm, a mending needle used to sew together a hundred —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 36 Midnight in the Countryside 午夜乡村 My parents' job transfers sent me to live and study at my grandmother's house. Before bed, she warned me not to go and look, no matter what sounds I heard. From then on, one strange event after another came crashing into my life. Then, one day, my grandmother suddenly told me the secret about who I really was... 527Reads6.8Score—14d adds
- 37 Spirit Investigation Society No. 97 探灵社97号 Mo Xiaoxin must be one of the poorest people in the city. Saddled with a two-million-yuan debt, she moves into a haunted house to save money, and from then on, walks the same path as ghosts. Or was it fate all along? He Yao: a Taoist priest? A rich heir? A police officer? Whatever his identity, from then on, he walks the same path as her. —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 38 A Century of Housebound Echoes, Filled with the Wails of Kin 百年宅响，尽是至亲泣 For a century, the old mansion has echoed with the weeping of kin. —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 39 She Worshipped Her as a Goddess, Then Imprisoned Her Soul 敬她为神，困她为魂 She is revered as a god, yet imprisoned as a soul. —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 40 Eerie Revival: A Hundred Ghosts Roam from the Start 诡异复苏：开局百鬼夜行 [Dark and oppressive + no saintly heroine + Ye Wudi + eerie + urban supernatural + hellish start from the start] This world has been contaminated. The supernatural has returned, and vengeful ghosts are coming for lives. When the eerie returns to the mortal realm, is this world still the realm of the living, or has it become hell? In an endless graveyard, a severed hand bursts from the earth, reaching up to blot out the sky. A dense fog engulfs a city, where faceless ghosts roam and take lives wi —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 41 A Chronicle of Folk Secrets 民间秘闻纪实 The stories I write aren't made up. They're born when the wind beneath the old Chinese hackberry tree carries the earthy scent of Guanzhong into my ears, then slowly simmers in my heart. The “I” in those stories isn't always the same person either. —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 42 Who Understands? Hated by People for My Powerful Fate, Loved by Ghosts 谁懂？命格太硬遭人厌却讨鬼喜欢 [Past and Present Lives] [Ghost Hunting] [Mild Horror] [Mutual Devotion] [Ghost Wife of the King of the Underworld] [Born Under an Unlucky Star, a True Reincarnated Saintly Mother x Ultimate Simp, a True Gloomy Ghost] A fortune-teller said I was born with a hard fate and would bring misfortune to my parents, so I was orphaned before I was even a month old. I thought I'd be alone for the rest of my life, but who knew a ghost would force me into marriage! From then on, I could see ghosts, and my 7Reads—Score—14d adds
- 43 The Great Yong's Number One Thief Catcher 大雍第一贼捕 In the Great Yong Dynasty, he had the most valuable pair of hands. There was nothing he couldn't steal: secret palace artifacts, masterpieces by renowned artists, even sealed chambers. That is, until a female constable caught him red-handed at a crime scene one night. The day after the shackles went on, the authorities offered him a way out: solve cases to atone for his crimes. The merit-and-penalty ring on his wrist recorded each case he solved. Every time he used his borrowed authority, anothe 26Reads—Score—14d adds
- 44 The Underworld Decree 阴职令 A wedding invitation, a register of the dead, and a journey as a guide between worlds. Chen Du was an ordinary young man, until the yin-difference title inherited from his ancestors swept him into the conflicts between the worlds of the living and the dead. Old scores beneath the locust tree, lost souls in the paper city, every debt had to be settled by his own hand. This is not a story about becoming an immortal. It is a cycle of repaying debts. —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 45 My True-Life Paranormal Encounters: The Bizarre Things I've Experienced 亲身灵异实录：我经历的邪门事儿 Based on true events, firsthand accounts. Over the course of my life, I’ve encountered far too many bizarre things that science can’t explain. On a stormy night, a nightclub hostess was pinned down by a ghost in her sleep. Something furry crouched on her chest, and a seductive moan like a fox’s cry sounded beside her ear. She began to walk with a sway, her eyes shining like a fox’s, and the men around her started meeting with strange accidents one after another: the boss’s brakes failed in a c 1.1kReads6.8Score10614d adds
- 46 King of the Occult Arts: Exorcising Demons in the American Horror Universe 诡术之王：我在美恐世界斩妖除魔 After three years of cultivation, Lin Yan was still at the bottom of the food chain in the American Horror world: kept like livestock by vampires, tormented by vengeful spirits, and ultimately killed on a witch’s sacrificial altar. Then he was reborn and awakened the Lin family’s ancestral legacy of occult arts! In his previous life, he had been ignorant. This time, he wielded talismans as blades, peachwood swords as edges, and soul-subduing bells as his guide, using the thousand-year heritage o 186Reads—Score10014d adds
- 47 I'm Broke, Why Should I Be Afraid of Ghosts? 我穷鬼，岂会怕鬼？ [Goofy] [Funny] [Irreverent] [Mystery] [Supernatural] [Hop in] [No System] [A fish that slipped through nine years of compulsory education] Wang Ling landed a job paying 18,000 yuan a month as a security guard at a private hospital. On his first day, he was left completely stunned! Each floor of the hospital's inpatient wing had a special passage enshrining one of the underworld's yin deities. The morgue even had butcher's knives inexplicably lying around. Wang Ling put up with all of that. Then 3Reads—Score—14d adds
- 48 Rules of the Gods: I Have Only Six Months to Live 神明规则：我只剩半年生命 [The Old World Ends, a New Covenant Begins] The mysterious realm and reality are colliding again and again. The mysterious has begun invading the world, and the residents of the old world are locked in fierce battle with the entities of the New Covenant. Who truly deserves to rule the world? Ye Ze, terminally ill and driven by a fierce will to survive, was invited by the [God] to the [Amusement Park]. Countless people came here to take part in all kinds of scenarios, driven by desires for money, 75Reads8.2Score—14d adds
- 49 Yin-Yang Collector 阴阳收敛师 Gu Changan was just an undertaker at a funeral home in Jiangcheng, with the ability to see the deceased’s final day whenever he touched them. He had thought his job was simply to tidy the dead and see them through the last leg of their lives. But a series of old cases made him realize that not every restless spirit was born from resentment. Someone was secretly severing the paths of the dead, altering causes of death, and erasing names, turning the deceased into malevolent ghosts wandering among 1Reads—Score—14d adds
- 50 The Yin-Yang Hotel: Waiting for My Bride to Return 阴阳酒店之等我的新娘回来 This is a suspenseful supernatural mystery. Keep reading boldly, and surprises abound! “Where is this place? How did I get here?” Mu Jiuchi walked forward one step at a time. She had no idea what had happened to her or how she had ended up in this unfamiliar place. The darkness all around her made her walk in fear. Then a light appeared ahead, and she headed toward it. The distant light turned out to be coming from a hotel. Mu Jiuchi made her way to the hotel. At the entrance, she saw four 9Reads—Score—14d adds
