Mystery and Supernatural, Highly Intelligent Protagonists 悬疑灵异，主角高智商
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Jin Xing’s Strange Casebook 瑾行诡簿
The world longs for a hidden paradise, but beneath its trees, he sees nothing but bones. Xia Qingyan, the sword immortal's son who has no sword, possesses only a pair of "spirit-seeing eyes" that can pierce the veil of strange energy. Forced into a bizarre case of "peach blossoms turning into people," he discovers that behind such horrors as a soul-devouring snake demon and a bloodthirsty embroidery shop, every thread leads to a royal temple overflowing with incense. This is no demon hunt, but a
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- 2 The Strange Affairs of Green Mountain 青山诡事簿 I was caught up in the strange happenings back in my hometown right after graduating from college. I just want to find my mom. Why are you making me stay behind to guard the village? What does Mom's disappearance have to do with the secret from sixty years ago? 2Reads—Score—Shelves
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The Age of Declining Spirituality: The Last Taoist of the Mystic Sect 末法时代，玄门最后一个道士
Following his master’s dying wish, Chen Bufan leaves the Daoist temple where he has lived for twenty years and steps into the modern city below the mountain for the first time. Amid the overwhelming culture shock, he keenly senses the first hint of an “ill omen” belonging to this age.
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The Haunted Paintbrush 诡画笔
Unemployed straight out of college, Chen Feng spends eighty yuan on a battered brush from a street stall in Luyuan. "This brush once belonged to Zhong Kui, the demon vanquisher. Draw talismans to ward off evil, or sketch weapons to slay ghosts!" From then on, Chen Feng roams between the worlds of yin and yang with brush in hand. Eastern occultists want to sever our dragon veins? One stroke paints a landscape stretching ten thousand li. Suppress them! A thousand-year-old tomb overflows with murde
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- 5 The Ghost-Suppressing Handbook 镇诡手札 My grandfather died behind the shadow-puppet stage, leaving behind nothing but a fragmentary manuscript stained with ink. On the night we kept vigil, joyful music drifted from an empty house in Qingshi Alley, and a paper bride led a procession to our door. She handed the children in the alley a red invitation. It read: “Those who receive this invitation must take their seats.” My left eye stung, and I saw the [Rules] floating in the air: “Those who leave their seats must wear the actor's skin.” 1Reads—Score—Shelves
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749 Bureau: From the Start, I Became a Zombie 749局：开局变成僵尸
"Ruthless and decisive" "All monsters deserve to die" "I’m a monster? Then I deserve to die too!" "No female lead" "A slightly slow start" "Takes off later" Li Buguo is an online absurdist streamer who makes a career out of wild antics. On the Ghost Festival, just as he was making his comeback, a strange beast being hunted by Bureau 749 happened to pass by and pierced his chest. It sent him straight through the open Gates of Hell, only for a ghost to kick him back out. He became an exceptionally
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- 7 The Strange Tales of Shangguan Zhaorong 上官昭容诡事录 [Completed] [Strong female lead, no romance, Chinese-style horror, transmigration through history, numerous foreshadowed clues, coherent plot, no System, not a power fantasy] [The Strange Tales of Shangguan Zhaorong] [Also known as: Old Tales from the Yellow Springs] [Reader’s guide: The main plot and the individual arcs are interconnected, with plenty of clues and foreshadowing. Almost every character who appears has a role to play, though each arc can also be read as a standalone story.] Th 2.1kReads9.3Score347Shelves
- 8 EN Ten Days to the End 十日终焉 2024 Tomato Novel Annual Peak Rankings TOP 1 | 2024 China Online Literature Influence List | 2024 China Good Novel Award | Over 2 million copies sold (No harem, no formulaic tropes, no invincibility, no System, no mindless antics, no wish fulfillment. Read with caution if these bother you.) Just when I thought it was an ordinary day, I discovered I had been captured and taken to the End. Just when I thought I could escape by continually taking part in death games, people began awakening supernat 1.7MReads9.9Score207.7kShelves
- 9 Rule Horror: Who Taught You to Study Like That? 规则怪谈：谁教你这样读书的 [Strong Female Lead, No Romance, Rule-Based Horror, Infinite Realms, Chinese-Style Horror] Traditional culture has been distorted on a massive scale in modern society. Altered pronunciations, words smeared with stigma, and ancient sayings twisted out of shape are gnawing away at the human soul. Su Muyu, the thirtieth-generation descendant of Su Shi and the sole inheritor of the Soulcrafter lineage, joins Li Guazi, a girl whose past is a mystery, and Mr. Dongli, a word spirit from the handwritt 50Reads9.4Score—Shelves
- 10 The Willow by the Palace Wall 宫墙柳 Why must the imperial consorts compete for the emperor’s favor? A smash-hit, heart-wrenching historical romance that burst onto the scene in 2019! Recommended by countless tearful readers, this unconventional palace-intrigue novel will stay with you long after you finish. In the lightest of styles, it captures everyone’s deepest regrets. In May of the year I turned fourteen, with the pagoda trees in fragrant bloom, I sat in Yong’an Palace, propping up my head as I dozed. The man’s laughter held 48.6kReads9.7Score7.1kShelves
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The Endless Dream Corridor 无间梦廊
[Mystery x Wild Imagination x Daoist Occult Records] A deadly contest that slips between reality and dreams. Behind every numbered door lies a truth more terrifying than death. The moment a jade earring falls into a drain on the autopsy table at a funeral home, Chen Shu's nightmare awakens. A bloody case from a rainy night seventeen years ago plays out again: his mother's bloodstained white qipao, a jade bangle shattered into three pieces, a twisted corpse in the gap of a wardrobe... On Chen Shu
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The Sound of an Axe 斧声
I work at a state-owned factory. The coworker who had lived next door for three years had been silent for three days. The moment I opened the door, I saw an axe embedded in her head...
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Netherworld Divine Constable 幽冥神捕
Yang Fan transmigrates into the lowest-ranking officer in the Demon Suppression Bureau of the Da Li Dynasty, carrying on his father's legacy. In a world overrun by supernatural entities and ruled by a weakening emperor, he uses criminal psychology to profile their obsessions and outsmart his enemies. From a ninth-rank martial artist to the Judge of the Underworld, he forges his own order between the netherworld and the human heart.
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Crow-Eater Academy 鸦食学院
Am I a bomb-disposal expert at a sinister school? Thrown into a church school that devours its students, Lin Mo discovers that its "Holy Communion" turns people into experimental subjects. While the other students swallow it numbly, he flips the table: "This batch of students is no good. We need to blow up the school and get a new one!" But he soon discovers that the school isn't the only thing he has to dismantle. It's the whole world.
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Mysterious Revival: My Memories Bury Vengeful Ghosts 神秘复苏我的记忆埋葬着厉鬼
Warning: It gets more and more brain-bending as you read! Extremely high intelligence and logical reasoning as the characters solve paranormal mysteries! Don't read if you dislike mind games! Everyone gradually awakens to their powers or takes the abilities of ghosts! High intelligence + aesthetics of despair Scenarios: Dreams, zombies, myths and legends, Cthulhu, and more Difficulty: “Despair!” (No harem, no System, no invincible protagonist, no formulas, no power fantasy, no brainless characte
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Tales of the Haunted Youling Mausoleum 幽陵诡录
Protagonists: 1. Chen Jiu: An heir to the Northern School of tomb raiding, well-versed in feng shui and secret arts. Calm and composed, he excels at breaking through ancient tomb mechanisms. 2. Lin Xiaoqi: A genius archaeologist, knowledgeable about history and artifact appraisal. Agile and lively, she complements Chen Jiu perfectly. Antagonists: 1. Master Hei: A ruthless underworld boss in the tomb-raiding world who covets the Chen family's Secret Scroll of Heaven. 2. Bai Wuchang: A mysterious
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Fate of Life and Death 生死命定
Mystery and the supernatural + horror-driven story + death games + no System + not invincible + ensemble cast + no romance + thrilling, satisfying read + battles of wits A group of ordinary high school seniors are drawn into a curse through an urban legend game. To survive, they have no choice but to keep taking part in voting missions and death games set by the dead... (All the students in Senior Class 3, Grade 7, are adults.)
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The Upside-Down Gate 倒悬门
[Rules-Based Horror, Chinese-Style Horror, Folk Mystery, Mind-Bending] After his grandfather disappears, Qin Du is left a notebook full of bizarre taboos. On his first night in Huisha Village, his phone automatically connects to a Wi-Fi network called "Huisha," and seven blood-red rules appear. Footprints mark the wood ash, their toes pointing straight at him. In his eyes, his grandfather's notebook reveals the danger level of each rule through its colors. While everyone else sees only black tex
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12:17 A.M., Please Confirm Your Name 零点十七分，请确认你的姓名
In Qiheng City, people don’t simply disappear. First, the city erases their names, then convinces everyone they never existed. At 12:17 a.m., a fire alarm suddenly went off in a residential building in Qiheng City that had only sixteen floors: “Someone is trapped on the seventeenth floor.” Zhou Jiming, an engineer who inspected fire safety systems, checked the building plans, stairwell height, elevator programming, and exterior facade. Every piece of evidence proved that the seventeenth floor di
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- 20 The Spirit Burial on the Road to Death 死途灵殓 If the dead could speak, the first words forensic pathologist Su Nian heard would be the "Don't touch it" her mother said before disappearing eighteen years ago. Police detective Gu Yan investigates an old unsolved case with a faceless victim, only to find bloodstained words left by his father fifteen years ago in an abandoned cinema. His father may still be alive. A female corpse with the corners of her mouth slashed into a smile brings two people with nothing in common face-to-face with the sa —Reads—Score—Shelves
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My Ghostly Husband, Don’t Be So Bad 鬼神老公，别太坏
[Devoted Couple + Supernatural Mysteries + Ghost-Hunting + Lots of Fun Tropes + Strong-Willed Heroine + Utterly Devoted Husband] My name is An Ning. I was born on Ghost Festival and carry a demon eye, so everyone thinks I'm cursed. Since childhood, a mysterious man I couldn't see has saved my life again and again. He told me, "If you want me to protect you forever, we have to make a marriage pact when you turn twenty." Then, on my twentieth birthday, my demon eye went out of control. I had a dan
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- 22 Lost on the Mudflats 滩涂迷失 [Mystery and wild ideas] + [Fortune-telling] + [Ghost-hunting] + [Fantasy romance] Su Huaixin is enjoying a happy holiday with Zhang Zhengheng and Tang Xia when an unexpected accident shatters their peaceful time together. She is bitten by a venomous snake hidden in the grass. The poison quickly spreads through her body, and despite her companions' desperate efforts to save her, they are ultimately helpless. Su Huaixin dies of the venom. Yet, as if in a twist of fate, when Su Huaixin opens her 1Reads—Score—Shelves
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In Another World, I Use Taoist Arts to Empty My Enemy's Warehouse 到了异世，我用道术搬空仇人仓库
An alternate history setting. Please do not compare this story with real history! Gou Yunshu, a modern Daoist exorcist, was betrayed by her best friend during an exorcism. She was struck down by heavenly retribution, killed by a bolt of lightning. She transmigrated into the body of a young girl in the Great Xia Kingdom of the Republican era and discovered that her grandfather had been captured by the Japanese army. To rescue him, she took her younger siblings, bought a house, and left Laolongtan
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- 24 The Dragon-Suppressing Coffin and the King of Hell's Fate 镇龙棺，阎王命 They severed my tendons and buried me alive in a sealed coffin, but they didn’t know I was born with the fate of the King of Hell! [Folk horror, feng shui and talismans, incense offerings] Feng shui and fortune-telling, painted-skin demons and spirit summoning, walking in the shadows and corpse driving, corpse-raising spells and curses, yin tattoos and talismanic needles, puppets controlled by strings, red doors sealed with wax, Dogs digging graves on Burial Mound Ridge, ghosts feasting in the R 310.8kReads9.4Score27.9kShelves
- 25 Night Watchman at the Funeral Home: I Can See the Dead One Last Time 殡仪馆守夜人：我能看见死者最后一眼 Funeral Home Night Watchman: I Can See the Dead One Last Time 33Reads—Score—Shelves
- 26 A Half-Baked Fortune-Telling Streamer: I Talked My Way Through a Haunted Livestream 半吊子算命主播：我靠忽悠摆平了"闹鬼"直播间 A Half-Baked Fortune-Telling Streamer: I Bluffed My Way Through a “Haunted” Livestream 6Reads—Score—Shelves
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Folk Horror [The Fake Master Who Shocks a Hundred Demons] 恐怖民俗【冒牌大师震百妖】
The thing Liu Buyi, a fake master, regrets most in his life is learning how to “draw talismans with soy sauce” from a short video. Because the corpse that should be lying quietly in front of him is now using a soy-sauce-dipped finger to write his name on the coffin lid. Meanwhile, his half-baked beauty of a partner, An Xun, is munching on sunflower seeds and enjoying the show. “Didn't you say you had Yin-Yang Eyes?!” Liu Buyi's voice trembles. Seeing how unconcerned she looks, he almost passes o
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Cold Case Executioner 旧案行刑官
Police Captain Ji Xiao launches a livestreamed investigation to restore public trust, but the scene of a series of murders bears a secret code shared only by him and his older brother, Ji Lin, in childhood. As the whole internet calls for the “Shadowblade Killer” to be executed, forensic pathologist Chen Yan’s abnormal autopsy report, policewoman Zhou Yutang’s encrypted notes, and editor-in-chief Lin Zhao’s manipulation of public opinion gradually peel back the truth buried for ten years. The ki
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Ghost Lantern: The Blue Lantern's Strange Records 鬼点灯：青灯诡簿
Ghost Lantern: The Strange Register of the Blue Lamp
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- 30 The Uncanny Trails of Nanyang 南洋诡途 Three years ago, Tao Zhengxuan and five close friends set off on the long-awaited New-Malaysia-Thailand graduation trip. They had no idea that the moment they stepped into a century-old house in Penang, the compass of fate had quietly turned. Love curses, black magic, flying-head curses, life-prolonging rituals... One after another, taboos of Southeast Asia came true, and each of their companions was dragged into the abyss. A faceless woman in white on the Chao Phraya River, an ancient curse tha —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 31 Shadows on the Trail: Xu Yanzhen's Hunt for the Killer 侦途谜影：徐延真的追凶之旅 On the Trail of Clues: Xu Yanzhen's Hunt for the Killer —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 32 The Fat-Eating Gu 噬脂蛊 Fat-Eating Gu —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 33 Ghost Blows Out the Light: The Cave’s Eerie Shadow 鬼吹灯：溶洞诡影 Ghost Blows Out the Light: The Cave's Eerie Shadow 5Reads—Score—Shelves
- 34 Ghostly Wall: The 3:33 Looping Dead Zone 鬼打墙：3:33循环禁区 Ghostly Labyrinth: The 3:33 Looping Forbidden Zone 1Reads—Score—Shelves
- 35 Midnight Bus, Netherworld Banknotes 夜车冥钞 Ghostly Banknotes on the Night Bus —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 36 Shadow Lady 影娘 Shadow Maiden —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 37 The Three-Year Calamity of the Banana Grove 芭蕉三年劫 The Banana Plantain’s Three-Year Tribulation —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 38 An Embrace I Can’t Reach 触不到的拥抱 An Embrace Beyond Reach 1Reads—Score—Shelves
- 39 The Blue-Eyed Case Files 蓝瞳诡案录 The Blue-Eyed Files of Strange Cases —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 40 The Mirage Realm Almanac 蜃境年鉴 Mirage Realm Almanac —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 41 Scrap Exchange System 废品兑换系统 Scrap Exchange System —Reads—Score—Shelves
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Reborn in Northeast China: The Spirit Medium Among the Educated Youth 重生东北：知青出马仙
Buddhas in the south, immortals in the north: a reborn young intellectual becomes a spirit medium! Back in the 1970s, he encounters folk tales and legends, one small story after another. With an eighteen-foot Serpent Spear in hand, truth in his left and magic in his right, he knows that good people are always bullied, while evil spirits meet their match in evil men.
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- 43 The Dreamless Nightmare Weaver's Record 无梦织魇录 In the Kingdom of Yelan, dreams are held in the highest regard, and the Floating Dreams Pavilion in the capital, Evernight City, is a gathering place for wonders. At the top-tier dream auction held once every ten years, dazzling lights shimmer as guests lose themselves in the joys and sorrows of all kinds of dreams. Only the court historian Lu Xiaomeng, a "Dreamless One," feels nothing at all. She only hopes to trade her meager salary for a little "peaceful sleep" to comfort her grandmother at h —Reads—Score—Shelves
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Tales of Strange Happenings in the Countryside 乡村诡事录
The strange happenings in a mountain village. I was born and raised in the countryside. Deep in the mountains, there are always ghosts and spirits, and my village was no exception. Heaven, earth, black, yellow, the cosmos vast: demons and ghosts send shivers down your spine. One year, the start of spring fell on the fifteenth day of the eighth month. That year, so many strange things happened. Just bringing them up is enough to scare people. Meeting the Black and White Impermanence on a night wa
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My Gunplay Is the Way: I Use an M1911 to Exorcise Ghosts 枪法即道法，我用M1911驱鬼
(Just got a rating) (harem) (urban high martial arts, supernatural mysteries, Taoist priest, multiple heroines, daily life, ghost-hunting with firearms, urban supernatural abilities, SCP-like, no System, solving cases, tomboy, childhood friends, tsundere) “Have you made up your mind?” “I have.” Wu Kui picks up the document and signs his name. “A true hero, and so young!” “No. I just don’t want to be kept in the dark.” To protect Wen Wan, an innocent girl with a rare Yin fate who is repeatedly ta
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Collected Records of the Way 行道集录
I am a descendant of Taigong. The gods need not stand aside. Following his ancestors' teachings, Lü Bugu practices the Dao, destroys demons and evil, and uses his mortal body as a hammer to temper his Daoist heart and refine his arts. The Great Dao is not found in famous mountains and ancient temples. The mortal world tempers the heart, and the Great Dao is never walked alone.
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749 Bureau Paranormal Archives 749局灵异档案
Do you know about Bureau 749? Some say it was a secret organization directly overseen by the Commission of Science, Technology and Industry for National Defense, specializing in research on defense technology and the human body. Others say it was actually responsible for all sorts of cutting-edge technology, including alien technology and mysterious powers. Still others say it was a mysterious organization devoted to researching supernatural phenomena. I never knew which of these rumors were tru
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Bureau 747: Special Affairs Division Nine 747局之特殊事物处理九科
Do you really know the colleagues around you? What about your classmates and family? The person you've lived with for years, the one you know best, might not even be human! In this world, humans and demons coexist. Demons can live among you in all sorts of ways. “They” might be the man selling jianbing on the street, or they might be your boss! If a top special forces soldier hadn't awakened his family's bloodline in a panic while carrying out a highly classified special mission, and then joined
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- 49 Receipt from the Yin Tower 阴楼回执 Twenty-four-year-old Lin Yan is an ordinary copy editor. While searching for his older sister, who has been missing for three years, he rents a room on the cheap in an old apartment block by the river in Jiangcheng, a place no one dares live. The sinister building has registered him... His dead sister knocks at midnight. A black-paper receipt demands his life, and a seven-day countdown begins. The cage of rules seals off every path to survival, while infighting among the tenants rots their hum —Reads—Score—Shelves
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Baby Lantern 婴儿灯
When I was five, I fell into the water and my soul left my body. With my own eyes, I saw the legendary baby lantern said to lure away souls. I initially thought it had come to harm me, but that wasn’t the case. As I continued to investigate, a sinister layout targeting me slowly came to light...
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