Looking for Horror and Thrillers! The Male Lead Should Be Strong, Not a Doormat! Absolutely No Doormat Leads! 求恐怖惊悚！男主不圣母实力强！一定不要圣母！

1. 251 我 Among the Otherworldly 我在异人间 Young Master Fuling炥灵公子Urban534k WordsCompleted I am descended from the Sage Yangming. When I was born, countless bolts of heavenly thunder circled our old family home and crashed down. Could it be because the last dragon and phoenix in the world died right outside my house, and now they want me to pay with my life? 17Reads6.9Score—Shelves

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   The deserted house exploration scenes are realistic, without deliberately creating sudden frights.

2. 252 第 Day 49: The Whole Internet Watches Me Tear Through the Horse-Shaman World 第49天，全网看我杀穿出马仙 Young Master Fuling炥灵公子Mystery318k WordsCompleted [The first novel online to tackle the “spirit-medium” genre from an opposing perspective] Before my dad died, he left me a blood curse: “If you meet a god, beat it. If you see an immortal, kill it.” Now the whole village is made up of spirit mediums, and I'm the only ordinary person left. They livestream “catching an old immortal,” so I report them and get their accounts banned. They stage “the Tragic King being killed,” so I expose their tricks on the spot. Then I rescue a snow-white fox, and i 13Reads—Score—Shelves
3. 253 我 I Evolved Billions of Curses 我进化了亿万诅咒 Soda Sea Salt Crackers苏打海盐饼干Mystery1.0M WordsCompleted [Chinese-Style Horror + Twists + Humans Scaring Ghosts] The supernatural returned, ferocious ghosts broke loose, and unimaginable horrors appeared in the real world. As night fell over the city, nightmares engulfed everyone. Jiang Fan gained the power to develop abilities by studying ghosts. As long as he kept scaring them, he could become the greatest terror in the darkness. The more terrified they were, the greater the power he gained. Then he discovered that his potential had been unleas 4.3kReads8.6Score450Shelves

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   Not being a saint is a basic requirement for him.

4. 254 神 Detective Di Renjie, Book Five 神探狄仁杰第五部 Northwest Brother Mao西北毛哥Mystery3.8M WordsOngoing In the final years of Emperor Wu of the Tang dynasty, the capital Luoyang had finally begun to settle down. After the brilliant detective Di Renjie exposed the Burning Heaven Fire at the Shanjin Bureau, the rebellion in Youzhou, and the Blood Eagle's chain of murders, he retired from public life and settled in the Southern Market, hoping to enjoy his twilight years in peace. But when all is quiet, trouble is never far away. After a banquet in the Eastern Palace, Crown Prince Li Xian suddenly fa 629Reads8.8Score122Shelves

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   Thriller, suspense, and mystery: Di Renjie

5. 255 朝 Slaying Demons from Nine to Five 朝九晚五斩诡人 Fire's Comedy火之搞笑Mystery127k WordsOngoing By day, he is the slacking chief of Section Seven at the Paranormal Affairs Bureau, nursing goji berries in his thermos and fretting over the “Five Insurances and One Fund for Household Guardians” paperwork. By night, he is the “Suit-Clad Fiend” feared by supernatural entities. With a flick of his baton, he smashes the rotting face of the subway's slit-mouthed woman. With a snap of a thunder talisman, he shatters the gear-shaped heart of the school's entropy nightmare. When the “996 Blessing Bod —Reads—Score—Shelves

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   [A Guide to Getting a Civil Servant Position? No, This is a Death-Defying Manual!] Yi Chen, a typical office worker and head of the Seventh Section of the Paranormal Bureau, appears to be a well-dressed civil servant, but is actually a violent exorcist who deals with anything "unwilling to submit." Encountering a ghost on the subway during rush hour? He teaches a slit-mouthed woman a lesson with a backhand swipe of his baton; a fox spirit from Northeast China demanding social security and housing fund benefits? His funding negotiations rely entirely on deception; when Mingde Middle School, boasting a "100% college entrance rate," transforms into a bloody examination hall, with exam papers devouring people and school badges becoming demons, Yi Chen overturns the school rules only to discover—the so-called "perfect education" is nothing more than the distorted love of millions of families, an evil that has been gnawing at the bottom of a well for centuries, now making a comeback through human greed…

6. 256 让 You Were Supposed to Catch Ghosts, So Why Did You Take Over the Underworld? 让你捉鬼，你把阴间给端了？ Zhu Si朱丝Mystery110k WordsOngoing [Mild horror + no mindless antics + supernatural resurgence + mystery + plot-driven + slow burn] One night, Ye Feng wakes up shivering and discovers a corpse lying in his bed... The supernatural returns, yin and yang fall into chaos, and countless ghosts descend upon the mortal world! Ghost tamers can acquire the powers of ghosts and even awaken a ghost domain. A corpse, a sinister eye, and an unfamiliar text message turn Ye Feng into a ghost tamer. His sinister eye captures a hundred ghost —Reads—Score—Shelves
7. 257 诡 Survival in a World of the Uncanny: My Bloodline Can Slay Ten Thousand Ghosts 诡异求生：我的血脉能克万鬼 Hong Xing鸿猩Mystery118k WordsOngoing (Horror survival + System + bloodline + Taoist ghost control) Zhang Hao transmigrated into a strange world and became a low-ranking tomb raider nicknamed "Rat." He had planned to follow his boss and earn enough to get by, but he accidentally brought a Bagua yin jade out of a deadly tomb, instantly putting his life in danger. A mysterious organization tried to silence him in the night. Ghost controllers sent spirits to surround and kill him. Haunted walls trapped him. An elevator turned into a ni —Reads—Score—Shelves

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   New book, readable!

8. 258 财 God of Wealth System: You Want Me to Marry into a Ghost Bride’s Family? 财神系统：你让我入赘女鬼？ Hong Xing鸿猩Mystery276k WordsOngoing The day he found ten thousand yuan, Ye Wen had only three yuan to his name. A note was tucked beneath the bills: Take the money. I’ll borrow ten years of your life. That night, a female ghost in a red wedding dress appeared at his bedside. She said that by picking up her ghost-marriage dowry, he had become her husband. He would die in seven days, just like the nine men before him. Other people bind themselves to a System to get rich. He bound himself to the God of Wealth System to stay alive. 1Reads—Score—Shelves
9. 259 怨 The Grudge-Bearing Spirit Cinema: The Life-or-Death Exam 怨灵电影院【生死考题】 Midnight深夜十二点Mystery20k WordsOngoing [Light Horror + Exam Questions + Puzzles and Paths to Survival + Fresh New Infinite-Flow Scenarios] The Cursed Cinema is home to the accursed. Whenever a new movie premieres on the silver screen, a group of actors enters the door of death in search of the door to survival... It wasn't until Qi Yuan filmed his first horror movie that he realized acting according to the script was only the beginning, and the exam questions weren't the end. Only the final escape, solving the puzzles and finding the —Reads—Score—Shelves

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   An alternative infinite flow dungeon~~…

10. 260 重 Reborn Daoist: I Sweep the City Clean by Catching Ghosts 重生道士：我靠捉鬼横扫都市 Tsunami Loves Donuts海啸爱吃甜甜圈Urban183k WordsOngoing [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—Shelves

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    You can watch it if you want, but don't listen to it; it might give you bad dreams. [Evil laugh][Evil laugh][Evil laugh]

11. 261 夜 Night Wanderer: Never Look Back at Three in the Morning 夜游神：凌晨三点千万别回头 Tsunami Loves Donuts海啸爱吃甜甜圈Mystery163k WordsOngoing [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—Shelves
12. 262 灵 Punisher of the Spirit Realm 灵界罚恶者 Little Groom小小新郎官Urban330k WordsOngoing The brakes failed, and I plunged into the deep sea with my car. When I opened my eyes again, I had become a supernatural entity in the spirit realm, driving a haunted car steeped in resentment. “Evil-Punishment System bound. Failure to complete a mission: termination.” The cold mechanical voice announced my new life, and my dead end. . I must transmigrate through one resentful parallel world after another, avenge those who died unjustly, and pass judgment on their tormentors. The curse of the we —Reads—Score—Shelves

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    Reborn as a monster, the monster's power breaks all laws, and the unorthodox path leads to immortality!

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