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- The Grave Robbers' Chronicles: Northern School 北派盗墓笔记 [Print edition published and available online] [Tomb Raiding] [Mystery] [Antique Appraisal] I'm a poor kid from a mountain village in Northeast China. In the early twenty-first century, hoping to make something of myself, I joined a northern tomb-raiding gang. From south to north, I've seen every kind of person and walked among all sorts of rogues. Over the years, I've gone from a boy to a middle-aged man, gained a bigger drinking capacity, and watched the years pass by. I've encountered all kin 2.5MHeat23.7MPopularity208kReaders
- EN The Fierce Beauty Doctor Takes Down Scumbags—and Accidentally Steals the Commander's Heart 飒美小神医虐渣忙，随军误撩首长被疯宠 [Roguishly Handsome, Devoted Regiment Commander x Cool, Beautiful, and Bossy Doctor] [Two Powerful Leads] [Smart Characters] [Mystery] [Satisfying Read] After a car accident, Song Ning transmigrates to the 1970s, and it's hellish from the start: she's forced into marriage, kidnapped and sold, ambushed by bandits, and has to team up with Gu Zheng, a roguishly handsome leader of an anti-crime unit, to fight the enemy! She thinks it was just a chance encounter, but when they meet again, he's a batt 1.8MHeat1.1MPopularity153kReaders
- The Fragrance of the Coffin's Beauty 棺香美人 When I was born, the river rose and swept a coffin into my home. Fifteen years later, the coffin opened, and inside was a woman... Feng shui, destiny... There are endless folk legends and tales of the bizarre and the fantastic. (Keywords: Corpse Fragrance, Coffin Fragrance Beauty) 1.7MHeat14.1MPopularity141kReaders
- EN When Darkness Falls, Light the Lamp 天黑请点灯 The village chief said, "When it gets dark, lock the doors and windows, light the oil lamp, and don't believe anything anyone outside tells you." This world is full of evil spirits and eerie horrors. The lovely flowers blooming in this barren land are poisonous. Fear and greed nourish sweet fruit. This is a world where "people eat people." Luo Bin said, "Funny, that's the kind of world I came from, too." 757kHeat3MPopularity63kReaders
- Secrets of the Heavenly Coffin 天棺秘藏 [Tomb Raiding + Jianghu + All Walks of Life] I have a sister-in-law of peerless beauty. She gave me an iron fan and a compass, and taught me a whole range of skills. In the 1990s, I rode across the country, searching for dragon veins and auspicious burial sites, appraising antiques, and navigating the grudges of the jianghu... At first, people from every walk of life called me Little Meng. Later, they called me Brother Xun, then Master Meng. In the end, all that remained was a codename in sealed 581kHeat945kPopularity48kReaders
- Master of the Yin Meridians 阴脉先生 They rob people of their lifespans to prolong their own, mutilate victims to make human-animal hybrids, plant delusions to control minds, and bury objects to ward off evil. The thirty-six arts of the heretical path use flesh and blood as materials and life itself as fuel. Every technique is sinister and unfathomable. But after thirty years among the sorcerers of the underworld, I can tell you this: no matter how strange the arts, none is truly evil. Nothing is more evil than the human heart. 571kHeat2.4MPopularity48kReaders
- True Tales of Strange Happenings 民间诡闻实录 Deliver the spirit-baby, avoid the Yang Pass, carry the pregnancy to term, give it a name, offer incense and candles in the twelfth month, and welcome the midwife... I inherited my grandmother's craft and became a male spirit-midwife. Here are the strange and uncanny tales I've encountered over the years... [This story is entirely fictional] 525kHeat28.4MPopularity44kReaders
- The Yin Token 阴当 I was born on the first day of the eighth month in the Yiyou year, with a tuft of white hair on my head. The midwife said I was an orphan destined to bring mourning, and that if my family kept me, someone in the household would die every three years. To save my life, my grandmother sold me to a pawnshop in Wufu Town as a sacrificial offering. After being abandoned so many times and having to live under other people's roofs, I learned from childhood to be obedient and well-behaved. Who would have 500kHeat4.7MPopularity42kReaders
- The Hidden Secrets of the World 天下藏局 [Jianghu] [Antique Appraisal] [Tomb Raiding] I never went to school as a child. Instead, I spent ten years learning a trade from a beautiful woman. Over those ten years, she forged me a pair of "ghost eyes" that could identify the world's rarest treasures. She trained my hands into "Buddha's hands," teaching me to break through schemes and set traps with impunity. She taught me a set of "divine skills," so I could navigate the jianghu and turn the world in my hands with ease. Drawing on my years 492kHeat8.3MPopularity41kReaders
- Back from Hell, She Commands a Hundred Ghosts and Goes on a Rampage After Returning to the Capital 地狱归，驭百鬼，王妃回京后杀疯了 On her wedding day, Jiang Li was forced to drink poisoned wine by the bodyguard her fiance had sent to protect her. Her uncle's family skinned her face, and in the end, nine soul-suppressing nails pinned her to her death beneath a pear tree. By a twist of fate, the mysterious healer's spiritual meridian sealed within her was unblocked. But her body had been destroyed, and her soul entered the body of Jiang Li, the eldest daughter of the Marquis of Zhenxi's household. From that day on, there wa 445kHeat92kPopularity37kReaders
- Notes on Strange Happenings in the Wild 山野诡闻笔记 Strange happenings and uncanny tales from villages and the countryside. Retrieving corpses from the water, spirit possession, drinking talisman water, making paper effigies, the Five Immortals Temple, rice divination and spirit journeys, dragons roaming Yin Mountain... I walk beyond the crowds and the ordinary world, encountering one hidden and eerie mystery after another, things ordinary people could never glimpse! Now, let me tell you about them. 408kHeat5.1MPopularity34kReaders
- You Hired Me to Collect Bodies, So I Dissected My Ex-Girlfriend 让你当收尸人，你直接解刨了前女友 In anatomy class, the corpse turned out to be my ex-girlfriend... After that, I went through one bizarre experience after another. A bus out of service that only went up, never down, and led straight to a reservoir. An old pagoda tree in the hospital, lush with branches and leaves, that swallowed people whole without even spitting out their bones. A bighead carp by the Qingshui River that begged people for help every night. And a deadly brothel draped in human skin, open for business day and nig 404kHeat1.9MPopularity34kReaders
- The Road to Power Begins with a Secondment to the Discipline Inspection Commission 权力巅峰从借调纪委开始 He remains honest in government, dares to speak up for the people, and earns their respect by always putting them first. A good reputation upon retirement is worth more than gold. An overlooked, little-known junior official whose talents go unused catches his girlfriend cheating. Just as he reaches the first dark moment of his life, he receives a notice from the Discipline Inspection Commission asking him to join an investigation. And the first person under investigation turns out to be the man 362kHeat348kPopularity30kReaders
- The Imperial Consort Comes from the Underworld, and a Hundred Ghosts Flee 皇妃来自地府，百鬼退散 [The animated series is now available] She is a wronged spirit who has spent three hundred years in a mass grave, her bones buried beneath an old locust tree, her resentment condensed into a baleful aura. He is a prince, yet he is a fearsome god of death who fought his way back through mountains of corpses and seas of blood. Cold-faced and ruthless, he specializes in the capital's most uncanny supernatural cases. She is a wronged spirit beneath the locust tree; he is a deadly force in the mortal 346kHeat816kPopularity29kReaders
- Calculating Your Fate to the End 算死命 When I was born, I was nursed by a wolf for a few days. I thought of her as my mother, and believed I'd never see her again. Then one day, a woman came looking for me... 327kHeat5MPopularity27kReaders
- The Divine Fortune-Teller in the Linen Robe 麻衣神算子 My grandfather taught me everything he knew about fortune-telling, but after I read people's fortunes three times, he left me. From then on, I didn't just read the fortunes of the living. I also had to read those of the dead, and even... 296kHeat4.4MPopularity25kReaders
- The Yellow Emperor’s Secret 黄帝秘藏 With a blood-written deed on my body, I fought hungry dogs for food. In the bitter cold of winter, I was about to be beaten to death on the frozen ground, until someone stood before me and told me I was a dragon in the art of feng shui... 264kHeat6.4MPopularity22kReaders
- Tomb Raiding 倒斗 [Tomb raiding is illegal. Do not try it yourself.] [Tomb raiding + antique appraisal + mystery + underworld] In the old days, “doul” was underworld slang for the business of robbing tombs. More than twenty years ago, one foolish decision led me to join a small gang at the bottom of the trade. They say that once you enter the underworld, it’s as deep as the sea, and ten years of wandering leave you restless in your dreams. Those years were filled with flashing blades, deceit and betrayal, as well 245kHeat336kPopularity21kReaders
- Strange Tales from the Min Tiao Bureau: Mian Zhuan 民调局异闻录之勉传 This is the story of an immortal man spanning two thousand years. His name has left its mark in the corners of every era. He was once a nightmare to some, and he also awakened those who were tormented by nightmares. At the beginning of the story, his name was Wu Mian. At the end, his name was Wu Di. 243kHeat2.1MPopularity20kReaders
- Rules of the Strange: Welcome to the Sweet Home 规则怪谈，欢迎来到甜蜜的家 [Rules-Based Horror + Horror + Transmigrate into a Book + Golden Finger] Su Qingyu transmigrated into the book Horror Descends. Knowing that the world of the uncanny would arrive in three days, she burned billions in underworld currency and offerings for herself. When the uncanny descended, she became the richest living person on Earth. As instances opened and monsters ran rampant, Su Qingyu had to clear them and uncover the truth about this world. The Sweet Home rules-based horror began: Welcom 230kHeat6.5MPopularity19kReaders
- The Xie Family's Short-Lived Son Has Lived to a Hundred 谢家的短命鬼长命百岁了 When the lid of a dead person's coffin won't close, it means they had an unresolved desire in life. Given enough time, that desire turns into a demon, bringing misfortune to their descendants unless it's dealt with. Yan Sanhe's job is to resolve the demons in the hearts of the dead. One day, Third Master Xie kept pestering her, claiming he had a heart demon. Yan Sanhe said, "I don't deal with the living." Third Master Xie replied, "Everyone says I'm short-lived. Just think of it as booking your 195kHeat8MPopularity17kReaders
- The Fated Guardian of the Village 天命守村人 On the day I was born, strange phenomena filled the skies, and countless animals bowed before me. Everyone said I was destined for greatness, but my grandfather shook his head and said I was born slow-witted, fated to become the village guardian. To defy fate and change my destiny, my grandfather found me a child bride of peerless beauty. But she ran away the very next day, and my grandfather was not long for this world. Before he died, he told me not to leave the village for twelve years, or I 194kHeat4.4MPopularity16kReaders
- Solve Cases, Hunt Killers, and Defend the World with Martial Might! 断案，缉凶，武镇天下！ For eighteen years, Yu Qing has been unable to cultivate even a trace of true qi, and everyone has considered him a useless good-for-nothing with no future. That is, until his father secures him a chance to enter the county yamen, where he becomes a low-ranking assistant constable. To his surprise, his keen powers of observation help him solve a murder case the very first time he takes part in an investigation, awakening the System that is eighteen years late. From then on, solving cases earns h 186kHeat93kPopularity15kReaders
- Terror in the Haunted Dorm 诡寝惊魂 I landed a job as the dorm supervisor in a women's dormitory at a university, but the girls there were acting strangely... Crying in the middle of the night, a dorm room catching fire, a room that doesn't exist. Deep in the darkest recesses of memory, a bizarre and wondrous world lies hidden... The night grows late, but the dream is not yet half over. The mountain spirit snuffs out the lamp. Where can a lone ghost return? 166kHeat1.9MPopularity14kReaders
- Tales of the Supernatural: Master of Feng Shui 民间诡闻实录：堪舆宗师 I am a corpse carrier. I travel north and south, bringing countless bodies to their final resting places, and have seen more than a hundred kinds of death. A violent death is the most ominous; a peaceful death in old age is calm. Those who take their own lives cannot be reincarnated. I am someone rejected by fate, the last surviving bloodline of the Jiang family. Don't light a lamp after dark. Don't blow out the candle. Don't look back as you walk. In every corner, a pair of eyes is watching tho 165kHeat2.9MPopularity14kReaders
- The Art of Curse Magic 厌胜术 The Lu Ban craft is also known as the "Missing One." Its five forms are widower, widow, orphan, childless, and disabled. My name is Xu Dong. I'm an untalented carpenter, and my greatest ambition is to coast through life until I die. That is, until I came across Chen Mazi's shoddily made coffin! A corpse opening its eyes, a body hanging from a roof beam, eerie echoes in a haunted building, shadows in the hospital morgue... Strange events follow one after another, swallowing me like a whirlpool an 162kHeat778kPopularity14kReaders
- The Yin-Yang Exorcist 阴阳诡匠 Have you ever heard of a dead person turning over? I saw it with my own eyes... 160kHeat3.1MPopularity13kReaders
- Secrets of Yin and Yang 阴阳秘事 I was born with a Yin fate. When I was five, everyone in my family was murdered except me. From that day on, my family became neither human nor ghost, yet they remained by my side. To avenge them, I took up the path of a Yin-Yang ghost hunter. The darkness reeked of blood, and it seemed countless pairs of eyes were watching me. Shh. Don't move. The hunt has begun! 148kHeat1.3MPopularity12kReaders
- Tales of the Supernatural: The Yin-Yang Master 民间诡闻实录之阴阳先生 Feng shui and geomancy determine fate; a tongue of iron and a golden abacus reveal fortune and misfortune! Those who die unjustly at birth become malevolent spirits; in the end, Heaven will judge good and evil! I was born in an age of turmoil. In that era, famine and war were not the only things that took lives. There were also ruthless, vicious criminals. Beneath the bowls of rice handed out to disaster victims, someone might be stealing people's lifespans! Beyond a plague-stricken village, a c 139kHeat4.6MPopularity11kReaders
- Reborn as the Marquis's Legitimate Daughter, She Reads Fortunes and Catches Ghosts Like a Pro 穿成侯府嫡女，她算卦抓鬼超厉害 Ying Xiaoxiao failed to ascend and transmigrated into the legitimate daughter of the Pingyang Marquis's household. Her mother died in childbirth. Her father feared her fate as a jinx and wanted her dead, but her grandmother took pity on her and sent her to be raised at the family estate. Her clansmen bullied, humiliated, and sold her, while the clan head locked her up without even bothering to learn the truth. Little did they know she was gifted at divination. The clan head was actually the m 135kHeat38kPopularity11kReaders
- Carrying a Lantern, Guiding Souls Across: The Marquess's Wife Comes from the Underworld 执灯行，引魂渡，侯夫人自地府来 [Solving murder cases / supernatural soul-guiding abilities / powerful partners / love that grows over time] Everyone knows that Ren Fengjue, the young marquis of the Renxuan Marquis Household, is capable. Though still young, he's already a high-ranking court official and a favorite of the emperor. He comes from a prominent family, is handsome, and is both wise and brave. Wherever he goes, he gets along with ease and has never met with failure. One day, a woman claiming to be his "fiancee" shows 135kHeat1MPopularity11kReaders
- A Dashing Hero 绝色生骄 Powerful clans ruled the age, while armies and bandits carved up the land. A young man from the north raised his blade and cracked his whip, riding across the mountains and rivers to carve out a path for the poor and powerless across the land. I never meant to vie for supremacy, but the people suffer. So let us fight until we are unmatched beneath the heavens! 133kHeat528kPopularity12kReaders
- Hunters of the Forbidden Zone 禁区猎人 All things have a spirit. In this world, there are always people and things we have never encountered. Six years ago, a mysterious legend about a giant python undergoing tribulation drew the world's finest hunters to the Kunlun Mountains. In the end, the python died, and Lin Shuo was the only hunter to survive. Afterward, he withdrew from the world and went into hiding in the mountains. Six years later, a huge scale appeared before Lin Shuo. The giant python that had failed its tribulation had s 132kHeat4.8MPopularity11kReaders
- The Living Yin-Breaker 活人阴差 There are people who live in seclusion during peaceful times, then emerge when chaos reigns. They know feng shui and the ways of yin and yang. With a warrant from the Underworld in hand and a spirit-slaying blade at their waist, they destroy evil spirits, deliver wronged souls, open the gates of the Underworld, and guide the dead to the afterlife... "You have done evil without end and lost all conscience. I sentence you to die at the third watch and have your soul destroyed at the fifth. You sha 131kHeat5.9MPopularity11kReaders
- The Misty Sky 迷雾苍穹 Thick fog over the airport, an international flight delayed. A star agent from the Aerospace Investigation Bureau transmigrates through a polar vortex, endures severe turbulence, an invalid passport, and lost luggage, only to watch in horror as his own corpse appears on the baggage carousel, still clutching his ex-girlfriend's pendant. Just one day earlier, the two of them had been making passionate love in New York, thousands of miles away... The tarmac, the control tower, the cockpit, first cl 129kHeat187kPopularity10kReaders
- The Master of Ma Yi Divination 麻衣相师 The woman who just moved in as a tenant kept hearing strange noises in her bedroom and asked me for help. One look at the security footage, and I told her to move out immediately... 128kHeat11.4MPopularity11kReaders
- Rule Horror: Survival Begins in a Haunted Harem 规则怪谈：从诡异后宫开始求生 To find her brother, who vanished three years ago, Xie Nuange enters a legendary SSS-rank multiplayer dungeon with a survival rate close to zero: Harem Battle Royale. [Remember, you are a palace maiden. A concubine who doesn't want to become Empress Dowager is no good palace maiden.] Now, begin your Harem Battle Royale journey. 1: Trespass in a forbidden area, and die. 2: Make a scene in public, and die. 3: Defy the hierarchy, and die. Some use items to stay alive, while others slaughter the 122kHeat201kPopularity9.9kReaders
- Severing Worldly Ties 斩尘缘 A companion novel to The Xie Family's Short-Lived Ghost Lived to a Hundred, the second book in a two-part series about death. Wei Dongjun's uncle left behind a letter of denunciation, then suddenly hanged himself. Because of that letter, the illustrious Wei family fell from the heavens to the depths. Everyone accepted their fate. Only Wei Dongjun refused. She would search the heavens above and the depths below, if that's what it took to ask her uncle one question: Why? On the seventh day after h 120kHeat485kPopularity9.5kReaders
- EN Terror: I Only Sell Haunted Houses 惊悚：我只卖凶宅 Rooms where unnatural deaths have occurred are collectively known as haunted houses. Haunted houses are divided into two types: blue houses and red houses. Living people can stay in a blue house without harm, but anyone who stays in a red house is doomed to die. I work as a real estate agent. Once, I unknowingly sold a red house. After that, I began to experience terrifying things... 119kHeat1.3MPopularity9.6kReaders
- The Divine Craftsman Who Hates Magic 厌术神匠 When I was eight, I caught the village party secretary having an affair with Widow Li at a Taoist temple on the back hill. The next day, I became mute. Ten years later, while our old house was being renovated, we found a dried-up snake nailed to a roof beam, its head pointed straight at my bed. The old carpenter said, "This is Lu Ban cursecraft. Someone wants to keep you silent forever!" Only later did I learn this was just the beginning. Ghostly happenings at construction sites, paper figures w 117kHeat38kPopularity9.2kReaders
- Borrowing Skin from the Yellow Springs 黄泉借皮 The skin I'm wearing isn't my own. It's a fox's skin. The life I'm living isn't my own, either. It's a yin life! Skin can be borrowed, but a life is hard to repay! The laws of heaven, fate, and man all reject me. And I... I only want to stay alive! 116kHeat1.5MPopularity9.2kReaders
- Dark Alley 1: Black and White 暗巷1：黑白 Life is a difficult journey, and we walk along the edge of an abyss. Do we go with the flow or struggle against it? Give in or hold back? Choose darkness or light? He once wandered alone through the dark alley, but someone came bearing a sharp sword and carrying the light. Was it salvation or judgment? Dark Alley 2: Gaze and Dark Alley 3: Through the Flames have both finished serialization! 116kHeat4.2MPopularity9.4kReaders
- The Fated Knife-Lender 天命赊刀人 They are fortune-tellers who travel the land. They understand feng shui and the yin and yang, and wherever they go, they carry a bag of kitchen knives and scissors on their backs. Wherever they pass, the things they witness usually inspire an eerie prophecy. "Keep this kitchen knife. If an elder in your family dies of tuberculosis within five years, I'll come back to collect payment." "Keep these scissors. If a ghost haunts your child when they're born, I'll come back to collect payment." They c 115kHeat6.5MPopularity9.1kReaders
- Secrets of the Northern Steed 北马秘闻 I spent seven years in a daze, living like a fool. Then the Yellow Immortal told me I had a spirit altar inside me, and that my origins were extraordinary. From then on, I embarked on the path of the Northern Tradition. (Keyword: Black Spirit Altar) 111kHeat1.8MPopularity8.7kReaders
- A Marriage Full of Secrets 婚心叵测 I suspect my husband is drugging me. My child isn't really mine, and the nanny in my home is there to spy on me! This is a dead-end game. Only by burning my boats can I save myself! 92kHeat6.2MPopularity6.9kReaders
- Detective: Starting at the Police Academy 神探：从警察学院开始 "Name?" "Luo Rui." "Age?" "Eighteen." "Occupation?" "No, Officer, I swear I didn't do it!" The police officer taking his statement glanced sideways at him. "Go on. I'm listening." Luo Rui was at a loss. There was no way to explain this. Was he supposed to tell the police he had been reborn? Anyone who has been reborn knows you can't let that slip. To make matters worse, there was a girl lying beside him... 91kHeat201kPopularity7.3kReaders
- Horror Revival: After the Divorce, I Stopped Taking Her Place in Disaster 恐怖复苏：离婚后，我不替她挡灾了 For five years, Qin Xu worked himself to the bone for his wife, Jiang Zi, and all he got in return was, "You're useless." On the day they divorced, he pulled a yellowed piece of red paper from behind the mirror and burned it in front of her. "Your fate belongs to you now." That night, a row of wet footprints appeared in the hallway of Jiang Zi's home. And Qin Xu pushed open a dust-covered door that had been shut for five years... "Qin's Vintage Shop is taking jobs again." From that day on, mansi 89kHeat290kPopularity6.9kReaders
- Ethereal: The Lantern-Bearer, Volume 1 缥缈·提灯卷（1） In the flourishing Tang Dynasty, Chang'an is teeming with ghosts at night and swarming with demons. In the market district of the Western Market, where yin and yang meet, stands a mysterious, ethereal pavilion: the Piaomiao Pavilion. It sells rare treasures and the seven emotions and six desires. Humans, demons, ghosts, and gods pass through its doors. Where is the Piaomiao Pavilion? Those without fate may pass right by and never see it; Those with fate may travel a thousand miles to find it. Wh 88kHeat570kPopularity7.1kReaders
- A Weak Affinity Talent? Female Ghosts Are Fighting to Give Me Hints 好感度天赋弱？女鬼抢着送提示 An Lan, who loves playing dating sims, is chosen one day by a horror-game instance and transmigrates into the S-rank instance known as Qing Shan Mental Hospital. In these instances, humans are the lowest form of existence. Humans cannot harm the paranormal; only rules and the paranormal can deal with them. When people transmigrate into an instance, they awaken a talent. An Lan awakens the lowest-ranked, E-rank talent, [Love at First Sight]: every paranormal creature naturally starts with 5% favo 85kHeat511kPopularity7kReaders
- The Sun God's Arrival 出阳神 Those who commit five thousand sins become ghosts in the Five Hells. Those who commit six thousand sins become prisoners in the Twenty-Eight Hells. Ghosts have six palaces within their grotto-heavens. The Dao is preserved in seven thousand talismanic chapters. People cultivate thirty-six thousand spirits! In this world, ghosts don’t act like ghosts, and people don’t act like people. Hell is empty, and the mortal world is a prison. 85kHeat3.3MPopularity6.8kReaders
