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- I'm Really Not a Charlatan 我真不是神棍 In the Age of Declining Magic, four clans, the demons, ghosts, corpse fiends, and spirits, launch a massive invasion of human cities, intending to live alongside humanity. Yet the human race’s top factions, the Heavenly Inquiry Palace and the Mystic Sect, are embroiled in scheming against each other, while the demon clan underground is also stirring. Beneath this seemingly peaceful world, undercurrents are surging. A war among seven races, one that could change humanity’s fate, is about to begin 867.3kClicks4.5kFavorites67.4kRecs
- Singing at Funerals 唱丧 Chanting funeral songs is a custom, and the songs are meant to send ghosts away. When ghosts come, the chanters can never be sure they'll be able to send them off. If they succeed, they collect their fee and call it a day. But if they fail, then... 251.8kClicks3.7kFavorites287Recs
- The Fated Burial Master 天命葬师 Of the seventy-two funeral rites, the most mysterious and hardest to accept is the "dissection burial." A dissection burial means dividing the body using specialized techniques. Only the facial features and internal organs are buried; the other parts are sealed away. The separated body parts are left to relatives and visitors paying their respects as keepsakes. The first funeral rite I ever witnessed was a dissection burial, and the person being buried was my grandfather. Before he died, my gran 108.3kClicks665Favorites9.2kRecs
- I Went to the Wrong Grave on a Blind Date, and the Ghost Boss Became One of Us 相亲走错坟，女鬼大佬成了自己人 [Classic Supernatural Horror] [Folk Horror] [Smart Protagonist] [Ruthless Protagonist] Before she died, Grandma introduced me to someone for a blind date. The tea she drank tasted both fishy and sweet. Her hands were ice-cold, and the gift she brought was meant for the dead... After that, one bizarre thing after another began to happen. On the bus, a blind, rigid driver sat motionless. In the morgue, a headless corpse twitched its limbs. In an abandoned hospital, a nurse in white stubbornly went 15kClicks34Favorites17Recs
- The Day I Left My Master, I Banged My Head and Killed My Entire Family 出师当天，我一头磕死满院亲人 My grandfather was an expert in the occult art of Yan Sheng, but he had done so many wicked things that my father’s health was ruined, leaving him a living eunuch. To continue the Yu family bloodline and inherit our ancestral Yan Sheng sorcery, my grandfather came up with the idea of having a child through borrowed seed. From then on, I embarked on a sinister and treacherous path. A yellow pelt spirit weeping at a grave, a dead woman giving birth, an immortal corpse... This is a battle of hearts 12.8kClicks31Favorites217Recs
- Buried Alive by My Ex, I Turned Around and Married a Ghost Immortal 被前女友活埋，我反手迎娶鬼仙 When I was fifteen, my father left a blood-written letter, entrusting me to his dearest friend and sworn brother. But three years later, that man stole all of my father's wealth and arranged a most ominous ghost marriage for me, intending to leave me without a grave. That night, the woman in her phoenix crown and red wedding robes tipped up my chin, a wicked smile playing on her lips. “From now on, you belong to me.” 9.4kClicks34Favorites130Recs
- Old Goose of the Ancient Town 古镇老鹅 In the mundane world, two things are talked about far and wide: food and romance. Old Goose of the Ancient Town tells of the evolution of its famous goose dish and the hardships faced by the people who made a living selling it. The grand historical backdrop reflects the ups and downs of life, while small stories reveal the changing fortunes of everyday people. What you savor is a delicacy passed down for a hundred years; what you taste is human nature and the warmth and coldness of the world. T 3.4kClicks2Favorites0Recs
- The Beauty Emerges from the Coffin 美人出棺 [Decisive and Ruthless, Horror and Suspense, Folk Legends, No Saintly Protagonist] As far back as I can remember, my older sister has been a fool. But I've always felt there was something strange about her. Sometimes, I even think she's pretending to be stupid... 3.1kClicks6Favorites0Recs
- The Strange Path of Immortality 仙道诡途 The world falls into chaos, and monsters run rampant. Cultivators revere the bizarre as true immortals. The blissful realms of the immortals and Buddhas are like flytraps, drawing countless people to cultivate for eternal life. Zhang Sanlu, a man with a mental illness, can no longer tell whether this bizarre world is real or an illusion. He has no choice but to cut off his own head, hoping to silence the incessant voice, only to discover that he has gained the ability to travel between two world 2.9kClicks4Favorites1Recs
- The Underworld Courier Station 阴差快递站 After Chen Jiu takes over a courier station on the outskirts of the city, he discovers that every night at two, the System automatically generates a batch of deliveries from the dead, with no sender listed. Some recipients are already dead, some will die tomorrow, and others should never have been born. If he delivers each package on time, he can rewrite an old case. If he refuses, the contents will come looking for him. Paper wedding contracts, headless photographs, and coffin delivery receipts 2.6kClicks0Favorites0Recs
- Paper Sect 纸宗 During the Second Opium War, martial arts schools of all sizes across the land eagerly joined the fight. Among them was a newly founded school called the Paper Sect. It distinguished itself in battle after battle, gradually winning everyone's recognition and becoming widely known. But in the end, the authorities surrendered to the foreigners, and all the schools that had taken part in the resistance faced bloody oppression. The Paper Sect, however, survived in secret and has been passed down to 1.3kClicks5Favorites0Recs
- Those Years I Did Homework at the Funeral Home 我在殡仪馆写作业的那些年 I grew up in a funeral home, so I was used to seeing people part from their loved ones for good. To earn money for tuition, I took a part-time job helping a girl who was buried with the dead do her homework. But then a line of blood-red writing appeared on the page out of nowhere: "You shouldn't have come. She... is watching you." Then the underworld's soul reapers hauled me into service, saying that from now on, my job was to maintain order between the worlds of the living and the dead. I thoug 978Clicks0Favorites0Recs
- Eight Forts, Dragon Pavilion 八堡龙亭 A great drought ravaged the land. Along with all the able-bodied men of Longting Township, Yuan Dingcheng devoutly set out for Dahu Lake to pray to the Dragon King. But bandits kidnapped him along the way, while Ai Banxian, who was supposed to perform the ritual, was not captured and yet mysteriously died in the bandits' den. Swept along by the turbulent times, Yuan Dingcheng eventually finds love and returns to his hometown in glory. But who would have guessed that Clan Chief Yuan Taigong was a 889Clicks2Favorites0Recs
- Good-for-Nothings Don't Deserve Investment: I Use a Hundred Ghosts for Face-Slapping 废才不配被投资我百鬼打脸 Lin Qiu was the Lin family's Yin-Seer, a child prodigy of a century, and had reached the ninth and final level of the Spirit-Seeing realm. Three years ago, merchant guilds fought for the chance to sign contracts with him. His clan prospered through him and revered him as their light. Three years later, his cultivation is completely gone, and he has fallen back to the lowest rank, the Blindfolded. Those who once sought his help now force him to tear up their contracts. Those who rose through his 839Clicks0Favorites0Recs
- Night Patrolman of the Mortal Realm 阳间巡夜人 The Night Watchers are an ancient order that has protected the human world for a thousand years. Ever since Lin Qingfeng took charge, things have suddenly become a little different! 514Clicks2Favorites0Recs
- The Dragon-Locking Well of Dapulai 打牲乌拉之锁龙井 The Dragon-Locking Well 473Clicks0Favorites0Recs
- The Paper Effigy Maker 纸扎匠 Before Grandpa passed away, he shoved an old tobacco pipe into my hand. "There are a few old things beneath the shop. Don't look through them until I'm gone!" Three months later, he was gone. I opened the cellar, and the paper figure in the corner started talking: "Hey, brother, you made this funeral paper offering wrong." I'm not crazy. My grandfather, Chen Fuhai, was the master craftsman behind Fuhai Funeral Services, the best-known funeral business in Wangdu Town and the surrounding area 398Clicks0Favorites0Recs
- The Eerie Mist 诡雾 Walk the path of yin and yang, and travel between the two worlds. This mysterious shop, established in the twenty-fifth year of the Republic of China, draws you into a world of mist the moment you step inside. From the most direct perspective, it will take you across the boundary between the living and the dead, to witness truths that do not belong to this world... 350Clicks0Favorites0Recs
- Horror Awakens 惊悚复苏 When he was a child, Wu Yue came across a bamboo slip in an accident. After reading its contents, he was astonished to discover it was a profound legacy of the Dao. As the blood moon rose, terrifying incidents began happening all around him with increasing frequency... 298Clicks0Favorites0Recs
- Strange Tales: The Tribulation of the Hanging Dragon 异闻录之悬龙劫 In the Daoguang era of the late Qing dynasty, the Hanging Dragon Vein collapses, and evil spirits run rampant across the land. Qinyang, a Maoshan disciple, is ordered by his master to descend the mountain, seek the dragon veins, and stabilize them. But along the way, he encounters one bizarre case after another: corpses rising as fiends in an entire village, ghost soldiers borrowing a road to steal souls, Japanese invaders sacrificing the living and slaughtering a city... The source of these str 291Clicks0Favorites0Recs
- Netherworld Walker: The Tenth Reincarnation 幽冥行者第十世轮回 Beneath the shadows of an apparently ordinary modern city, ancient Netherworld forces are stirring. Emperor Fengdu commands its strict laws, while the Bodhisattva Ksitigarbha vows to save all living beings. Their conflicting ideals split the Netherworld into two opposing factions. 258Clicks0Favorites0Recs
- The Ghost Face of the Classic of Mountains and Seas 山海之鬼面 1 213Clicks0Favorites0Recs
- I Married the Dead Seven Times 我替死人嫁了七回 She was married off in someone else's place six times. The groom for the seventh time was still alive. In the business of stand-in brides, you repay someone else's life with your own. The moment she touched the man's sleeve, she saw nine debts weighing on him. Breaking off the engagement did not mean breaking off a marriage. It meant losing a life. "The ledger does not recognize the living. It only recognizes those who repay the debt." Then she would uncover, one by one, every debt in this world 204Clicks0Favorites0Recs
- Keeper of the Ledger 守簿人 Before his grandfather disappeared, he mailed Shen Guan a charred old ledger: The Register of a Hundred Customs and Taboos. Weddings and funerals, homes, journeys, seasonal observances... Each volume recorded taboos that the ancestors had paid for with their lives. If paper money burns backward, someone on the other side is collecting a debt; if there is one extra person in a funeral procession, it isn't a person who has joined them. Those who break the taboos fall into the inner side, and only 156Clicks0Favorites0Recs
- The Lowest of the Nine Ranks? I’ll Dance the Lion and Slay My Way Through the Ages 下九流？老子舞狮杀穿万古 While others cultivate immortality in pursuit of eternal life, I, Chen Shitou, cultivate the Dao of the lion dance. The immortal sects step on my lion head and call me low-class? Then I'll use a coffin lid as a drum and roar back ten thousand evil spirits! Before my master died, he left me seven battered lion heads and a lightning-struck wooden brush. The White Lion escorts the dead and specializes in killing immortals and Buddhas. The Black Lion suppresses evil and swallows heavenly tribulation 145Clicks1Favorites0Recs
- Neighborhood Register: Erasing Visitors from the Mortal World 街坊簿：抹去人间来客 There is a Neighborhood Register in this world. Only those whose names are recorded in it can be said to be alive among the living. Once someone's name is crossed out, they vanish from everyone's memories. Their photos and traces are erased too, as if they had never existed. I'm an archivist, responsible for guarding this eerie register and investigating one bizarre disappearance after another. The old streets conceal silent rules, and unseen urban legends lurk beneath the bustle of everyday li 31Clicks0Favorites0Recs
- The Foolish Wife Is a Profound Sect Powerhouse 傻子老婆是玄门大佬 My mother died the day I was born. My father cut me alive from her womb. Everyone in the village said I was cursed. Later, my father killed a teacher, and she turned into a vengeful ghost to take revenge, tearing him to pieces. Mr. Wu, who was skilled in Taoist arts, saved me, but paid for it with his life. On his deathbed, he promised his granddaughter to me in marriage. More than ten years later, my grandfather forced me to marry. Only then did I discover that Mr. Wu's granddaughter, Wu Qianqi 22Clicks—Favorites—Recs
- The Ruby Key 红玉密匙 Synopsis: After graduating from Dongjiang Medical University, Zhou Zhihao has a strange experience while staying at home. Not only does he save the life of his first love, Li Jiani, but he also unexpectedly inherits the legacy of the Strange Healer Sect, gaining several extraordinary abilities. From then on, his life takes off. He cures many difficult illnesses in the countryside, then goes on to intern at Fukang Hospital, eventually being recruited by a major hospital. With his exceptional medi 19Clicks1Favorites0Recs
- The Strange Cases of Zhang Wentao 张问陶奇案录 The theft of a treasure during the Mulan autumn hunt, a strange late-night case at Ji Xiaolan's residence, and the string of "ghost book thief" cases in the capital... Zhang Wentao's investigative methods were sharp and astonishingly accurate, while his reasoning was meticulous and flawless. Everyone who witnessed him solve a case was left amazed and impressed by his fresh approach. His fame as a detective spread throughout the land, until everyone knew his name. He rose swiftly through the rank 8Clicks0Favorites0Recs
- Life for a Life 替命 Yin Yijian, captain of the criminal investigation team, has a son named Yin Yifan. One night, while walking home alone after evening study, Yin Yifan mysteriously disappears in a village in the city rumored to be haunted, where the bones of a murdered girl have been unearthed. That same night, on his way home from the hospital, Yin Yijian encounters a Didi driver who threatens to expose confidential details of a girl's murder and disappearance twelve years earlier unless Yin Yijian abuses his po 5Clicks0Favorites0Recs
- Tales of the Strange Patterns 纹之怪谈 Urban legends... 2Clicks0Favorites0Recs
- The Shepherd 牧人倌 From the time I was little, my hometown was always a strange place. Thick fog hung over it all year round, the townspeople were dull-witted, and they clung to this land with a kind of religious devotion, hating everyone who left. I had already decided to leave my hometown for good, but when I went back for one last New Year this year, something strange set everything off. First came a terrifying dream, then my friends' furtive plotting. Passersby, my parents... everyone grew stranger by the da —Clicks0Favorites0Recs
- Zhitian 织天 A thousand years ago, a sudden catastrophe reduced Wu Zetian's Purple Star Imperial City, along with her empress's dream, to ashes. A thousand years later, an archaeological team deciphered the truth behind the disaster from the "lunar phase chart" on an unearthed brocade robe. It turned out to have been a terrifying natural disaster that had never been recorded. —Clicks0Favorites0Recs
- An Examination of Immortals in Haimi Village 海弥村仙人考 In 1991, the Hoffmann couple arrived in a village in China called Haimi Village. They had planned to travel for a month, but in the end, only the husband, Heinz, returned to his homeland. His wife, Petra, spent the rest of her life in Haimi Village. They had once witnessed an "immortal" with their own eyes, and in a sense, they had also destroyed everything themselves. —Clicks0Favorites0Recs
- The Kappa Murder Case 河童杀人案 A fortune-teller in Liushui Town predicted that a river goblin would soon drown someone, then disappeared. His adopted son, Qi Sheng, whom he had raised, searched everywhere for him without success. For decades, the fortune-teller had enjoyed predicting supernatural events. Once, he said a cat demon would appear in town, then dressed up as one to scare people. He was caught in the act, and from then on, no one in town believed a word he said. Not long afterward, someone in town really did drown —Clicks0Favorites0Recs
- Dragon Age: Sky City 龙腾世纪：天空城 In an age when the Imperial Star has fallen, some seek to return the Nine Provinces to the Son of Heaven's grasp. War machines belch clouds of steam, gathering strength to flatten every obstacle in their path in one fell swoop. Yet one lone man is willing to stand in their way, like a mantis trying to stop a chariot. —Clicks0Favorites0Recs
- The Yin Serpent 阴蛇 A house snake brings peace and good feng shui, while a wild snake disrupts the vital energy and invites disaster. Tang Ye witnesses firsthand a tragedy caused by a snake at his aunt's home. As they search for a way to escape what seems like a fated calamity, they discover that it all ultimately stems from the stubborn ignorance and backward thinking in everyone's hearts... —Clicks0Favorites0Recs
- The Old Ferry Crossing 古渡头 Legend has it that an ancient ferry crossing lies along the Yellow River in Dali County, Shaanxi. Only the ferryman Huang Zhong and his apprentice Yang Zhu can successfully cross the river to a sandbar filled with treasures. But Beijing is full of hidden talents, and two opposing factions among the antique dealers have both set their sights on Yang Zhu, the last ferryman. —Clicks0Favorites0Recs
- The Mystery of the Black Goat 黑山羊之谜 My ancestors were all natives of Guizhou. In his early years, my grandfather established a white-goat breeding farm with his friend Chen Jianbing. But Chen Jianbing unexpectedly died after a black goat suddenly appeared. Years later, the black goat returned, and villagers began dying one after another. To find a way to destroy the "evil god," my childhood friends Yang Linzi, Luo Lijun, and I embarked on a thrilling adventure. We eventually discovered strange shrines buried deep in the mountains, —Clicks0Favorites0Recs
- I’m Giving You Back Your Youth 青春还给你 In the name of love, would you still be willing? —Clicks0Favorites0Recs
- Pearl Embryo 珠胎贝 Ji Chong'er went missing during a wingsuit-flying event, leaving Ming Shen utterly devastated. By a twist of fate, he learned that there might be more to his friend's death than met the eye. Just then, two unexpected visitors arrived and invited him to join them on a journey to find Ji Chong'er. Their destination was a mobile island called "Hidden Boat." There, Ming Shen would uncover a shocking secret about his friend's resurrection. —Clicks0Favorites0Recs
- The 109th Secret That Must Not Be Told 不能说的第109个秘密 The 109th Secret That Must Not Be Told —Clicks0Favorites0Recs
- Deadly Pursuit 亡命跟踪 More than a decade ago, my neighbor's child, Zhang Xuannian, and I caught and skinned a nest of weasels. Zhang Xuannian was spotted by accident, and the surviving old weasel took revenge on him in a frenzy, nearly wiping out his entire family. More than a decade later, Zhang Xuannian appeared in my dreams and begged me to help him get revenge. But the old weasel ambushed me, and I fell into a deep pit. Luckily, some villagers passing by rescued me, and I escaped with my life. Zhang Xuannian than —Clicks0Favorites0Recs
- The Strange Tales of Hong Wan 红丸志奇事 On the sixteenth day of the second month in the forty-second year of the Wanli reign, Empress Dowager Li suffered a lung ailment caused by an evil wind. Her grave illness showed no sign of improving. Hou Gongchen, Minister of Rites and concurrently in charge of the Imperial Clan Court, discovered a curse doll beneath the Empress Dowager's bed. The emperor was enraged and ordered Zheng Er, a Jinyiwei officer of the Northern Garrison Branch, to investigate the case in secret. Thus, a palace curse —Clicks0Favorites0Recs
- Keen Eyes, Iron Face 铁面纤微 Zhu, an imperial inspector in Sichuan during an unspecified dynasty, suddenly receives a cryptic secret decree from the emperor. Taking four subordinates with him, Master He, Constable Du, clerk Wenming, and coroner Zhang, he heads north to Datong in Shanxi, where everything seems peaceful. Then, a murder takes place onstage during the Winter Solstice. Believed to be divine punishment, the case is investigated by Zhu, who eventually discovers that behind the stage accident lies a grave crisis th —Clicks0Favorites0Recs
- You're So Beautiful It Hurts 你美死了 Thanks to the Mixiang platform and all the editors for reviewing my work. There’s still room for improvement. I’ll keep at it and come back for another round next time! —Clicks0Favorites0Recs
- Mountain Breeze 过山风 Zero 00 —Clicks0Favorites0Recs
- A Little Less 一会少 Village —Clicks0Favorites0Recs
- The Final Choice 最后一次抉择 It began for no clear reason, and ended for no clear reason. Everyone had a choice, and yet it somehow felt like I was never given one. How many times was the last time? Being forgotten, being abandoned, none of it mattered. I never expected to be remembered in the first place. But if I could start over once more, I would only want to be a butterfly that had never been seen by anyone, never struggling in the mire, with only the courage to be reborn. What I thought was an adventure was no adventu —Clicks0Favorites0Recs
- The Invisible Thing 无形之物 The art of divination by concealed objects has existed since ancient times. Gao Ren invites the feng shui master Tu Liangzi to help him find something, and learns about Tu Liangzi's past with his master, Feng Zhongwen. Yet Tu Liangzi seems to be secretly plotting a scheme... —Clicks0Favorites0Recs
