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  1. 51 The Doll Grows Cold 人偶失温 Mystery9k WordsCompleted Everyone says I must have done something virtuous in a past life for Qin Chuan to choose me. Only I know that's not the case. He married me because he wanted me dead. 2Reads—Score—Shelves
  2. 52 An Unremarkable Jumping Death Case 不起眼的跳楼案 Mystery8k WordsCompleted My fiancé, who had been overseas for three years, called to tell me he was coming back the day after tomorrow. I went to meet him at the airport. On the way home, he proposed, and I said yes. But this morning, he disappeared again, because I had once more returned to the day he called me. I've already relived these three days seven times. —Reads—Score—Shelves
  3. 53 The People Around Me and I Had the Same Dream 我和周围人做了一样的梦 Mystery13k WordsCompleted I knew I was dreaming, but everything in the dream was strange. When I woke up, I discovered that my coworkers and I had all shared the same dream. It turned out to be a monster's trap. 2Reads—Score—Shelves
  4. 54 The One-Yuan Villa 一元别墅 Mystery9k WordsCompleted Never believe that a windfall will fall from the sky. At 28, I was “hit” by a villa, but I don't have much time left. Now I have to find my next heir. —Reads—Score—Shelves
  5. 55 Fish Woman 鱼女 Mystery8k WordsCompleted My father was a famous fisherman in the villages around us. Whenever he went out to sea, he always caught more fish than anyone else. He gutted countless live fish, scraped off their scales, and chopped off their heads. Then one day, he brought home a sea fish as tall as a person, and the entire village came to gawk. He turned down a merchant's offer to buy it, killed the fish himself, and put on a feast for the villagers, serving every part of it. The banquet lasted all night. The next day, the 62Reads—Score—Shelves
  6. 56 The Secret of Dad's Death 爸爸死亡的秘密 Mystery9k WordsCompleted When I was seven, my dad died. An accident sent me back to the 24 hours before his death. I did everything I could to save him. But I never could have imagined it. This time, the one who killed my dad was... 1Reads—Score—Shelves
  7. 57 After I Lost My Memory, a Woman Just Like Me Appeared at Home 失忆后,家里出现和我一模一样的女人 11k WordsCompleted I've lost my memory. Since then, people have kept showing me all kinds of evidence and implanting all sorts of memories in my mind. But I feel like an outsider looking in on my own past, unable to relate to any of it. One day, I came home and found a woman fast asleep on the sofa. What terrified me was that she looked exactly like me! 13Reads—Score—Shelves
  8. 58 The Real Lunatic and the Fake Patient 真疯子假病人 Mystery9k WordsCompleted In my dream, I thought it was nothing more than a dream. But when I woke up, someone beside me was lying on the ground, clutching their arm and crying out in pain. Now, I've dreamed of the crime scene once again. 3Reads—Score—Shelves
  9. 59 The Life-Extending Money 借寿钱 Mystery11k WordsCompleted After a friend dies in a bizarre car accident, could a hundred-yuan bill inscribed with “Borrow your years to buy my life” really be a deadly curse? At the funeral home, he uses “life-borrowing money” to buy an urn, only to be haunted by the dead man's mother in a strange way. A talisman hides a sinister plot, and three life-borrowing bills appear out of nowhere at midnight! A locked kitchen, boiling water, knives falling for no reason... Who is controlling this deadly game? 235Reads—Score—Shelves
  10. 60 Paper Bride 纸新娘 Mystery10k WordsCompleted Rumor has it that I tried to seduce the Lin family's young master, failed, and then killed him in the village's paper-offering shop. To save my life, I agreed to marry Master Lin, who had raised me for ten years. On our wedding day, Master Lin laid his hands on me. "Darling, did you know I've wanted you for many years?" Of course I knew. I'd been looking forward to this day even longer than he had. 22Reads—Score—Shelves
  11. 61 Lover in a False World 虚假世界的爱人 Mystery9k WordsCompleted My wife has been acting strangely lately. She keeps pestering me, saying she wants me to stay by her side forever. I can't help finding it a little funny. "Of course I'll stay by your side forever and ever, honey." But whenever she hears me say that, her body stiffens noticeably. Then she goes back to her room alone and locks the door. No matter how I try to coax her from outside, she refuses to open it. —Reads—Score—Shelves
  12. 62 Crimson Wish 绯红之愿 Mystery12k WordsCompleted I bought a cursed object, hoping to summon a ghost and make a pact with her so I could go to the Ghost City and find out what happened to my missing master. The summoning went unusually smoothly, but the moment she appeared, the powerful yin energy pouring out of the magic circle sent me flying several meters and knocked me to the ground. She stood quietly in the middle of the circle, dressed in a bright red bridal gown and phoenix crown, with her red veil neatly covering her head and her hands —Reads—Score—Shelves
  13. 63 Summer Vacation of Terror 暑假惊魂记 Mystery4k WordsCompleted I can see things other people can't. I've never let it show. I didn't want anyone to think I was a freak. Until that summer vacation... Two classmates and I made plans to go swimming. I saw something in the water. I was terrified. But they insisted on going in, and I couldn't stop them... —Reads—Score—Shelves
  14. 64 The Secret of Chaoxiao 朝校的秘密 Mystery11k WordsCompleted In the village where my family lives, every household's first child has to be a girl. The day after their tenth birthday, these girls are sent to a place called Chaoxiao on the other side of the mountain. They say it's a paradise for girls. That is, until a black cat appeared in the village. —Reads—Score—Shelves
  15. 65 The Secret of Chongcao Village 虫草村的秘密 Mystery10k WordsCompleted “The cordyceps we raise are so fast, you can’t even catch them.” I was watching this funny video on a certain short-video app. Comments flew across the screen. Some people said the joke was hilarious, while others earnestly explained that cordyceps couldn’t possibly run fast. But I knew the joke wasn’t funny at all, because I had seen fast-running cordyceps myself. Perhaps “rabbit cordyceps” would be a more fitting name. —Reads—Score—Shelves
  16. 66 Longevity Soup 长寿汤 Mystery8k WordsCompleted When I was little, Liu Laoer’s family in the village made a living selling goat-horn powder. The powder came from the horns of female goats. Though those horns were short and slender, Liu Laoer would skin and butcher female goats alive right after they gave birth. Then he would cut off their horns and grind them into powder. He would add the powder to soup made with freshly slaughtered lamb. They said drinking it regularly could help you live a long life. 1Reads—Score—Shelves
  17. 67 The Silent Echo 沉默的回声 Mystery17k WordsCompleted Five years ago, in Room 601 of Ningchuan High School, a girl was found hanged from a bathroom pipe. Her eyes bulged, her tongue was missing, and strange words had been written in blood on the mirror: “He… is back.” Five years later, the sealed cold case was suddenly reopened. Trainee criminal investigator Qin Chuan took over the investigation, never expecting that this bizarre murder would also uncover another buried case: the “South Campus Disappearance.” A deadly game of hunting, lying dormant 53Reads—Score—Shelves
  18. 68 Huizhu Village 慧猪村 Mystery10k WordsCompleted My college roommate claimed she came from an ancient village called Huizhu Village. She said the village got its name because, from ancient times to the present, it had produced many high-ranking officials and top scholars, as if its villagers were born with pearls of wisdom. It wasn’t until she talked the rest of us in the dorm into visiting her village around the Qingming Festival that I learned it was actually called “Wise Pig Village.” 1Reads—Score—Shelves
  19. 69 The Death Inn 死亡民宿 Mystery10k WordsCompleted On the first night after checking into the guesthouse, the owner died. But at midnight that same night, Lu Shou actually received a text from the owner. “Please be sure to follow the rules of the Deerhorn Guesthouse. Find the landlady’s dowry box before five tomorrow morning, and you can leave with the deputy manager, an orange cat.” “Otherwise, you’ll be stuck here forever.” Lu Shou broke out in a cold sweat, utterly baffled. “I clearly took his phone. How can he still text me?” —Reads—Score—Shelves
  20. 70 The Yellow Springs Pawnshop: No Living Visitors 黄泉典当铺,生人勿近 Mystery1.2M WordsOngoing [Ghost Hunting + Supernatural Horror + Folk Customs + Strange Tales + Taoist Arts + Maoshan] At the end of a street at midnight stands a Yellow Springs Pawnshop. You have no way of knowing whether those who come and go to trade are human or ghost! Lu Guanshan takes over the pawnshop, and on his very first night, he encounters a stunningly beautiful, cold and aloof Ghost Queen hanging from a beam. She latches onto him and stays by his side as they collect yin objects and subdue a hundred ghosts. 4.3kReads6.5Score357Shelves
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  21. 71 The Dragon-Suppressing Coffin and the King of Hell's Fate 镇龙棺,阎王命 Mystery4.8M WordsOngoing 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 328.3kReads9.4Score30.6kShelves
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  22. 72 The Day I Was Born, a Hundred Ghosts Fled and a Soul Reaper Came Calling 我出生当天,百鬼退避,阴差上门 Mystery4.1M WordsOngoing My mother was crazy, but after I was born, she miraculously got better. Before my birth, Granny Liu in the village had divined that I was born under the Ziwei Star, destined to be blessed with benefactors and an exalted fate beyond words. But after I was born, a blood moon hung in the sky and black clouds blanketed the heavens. Only then did Granny Liu realize... [Taboos of Yin and Yang, Folk Horror] King Yama seals the coffin, and no one can rise again for a hundred years. The Poor Ghost crouch 18.7kReads8.7Score1.7kShelves
  23. 73 This Spirit Medium Is Pretty Powerful! 这个出马仙有点强! Mystery3.8M WordsOngoing A piece of red cloth, three feet and three inches long. The old hall's people, the old hall's immortals. One day, when they emerge from the depths of the mountains, their names will spread far and wide! I was born in a rural village in Northeast China in the 1980s. When I was seven, a spirit medium said I was fated to suffer three calamities and eight misfortunes, and would one day become a horse-riding shaman. I didn't believe it, but hardship kept finding me. To make a living, I worked as a wa 147.4kReads9.7Score14.2kShelves
  24. 74 I Turned the Horror World Into a Raising Game! 我把惊悚世界玩成养成游戏! Mystery2.3M WordsCompleted A mysterious force descended upon Earth, giving rise to another world of terror. Everyone was forcibly sent into the world of horror games on their eighteenth birthday. While everyone else was immersed in fear, struggling to survive in the cracks between life and death, Qin Nuo discovered that he could earn System rewards by influencing the ghosts’ emotions. And every time he completed a dungeon, he could establish his own business in the world of horror. So he became a food runner at the Yin Sp 150.2kReads9.5Score17.3kShelves
  25. 75 Strange Tales Livestream! 怪谈直播间! Mystery1.3M WordsCompleted Welcome to the Rules of the Strange. This is a battle of blood and fire, a test of wit and courage. The power of words cannot be resisted, and the eerie rules must not be broken. In a seemingly hopeless situation, find the one correct answer, break free of your constraints, and search for a way to survive. 173.1kReads9.7Score17.9kShelves
  26. 76 A Record of Supernatural Events in the Countryside 乡村灵异事件薄 Mystery241k WordsCompleted My new work is out! You can read it on Tomato Novel. I hope you enjoy it. Your support is what keeps me writing, and I'll do my best to tell every story well! 400Reads—Score—Shelves
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  27. 77 Night-Shift Internet Cafe Attendant: The Woman in Red in the Men's Room Stall Hides a Ten-Year-Old Case 夜班网管:男厕隔间的红衣女,竟藏着十年旧案 13k WordsCompleted Night-Shift Internet Cafe Attendant: The Red-Clad Woman in the Men's Restroom Stall Is Hiding a Decade-Old Case 11Reads—Score—Shelves
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  28. 78 After My Brother Was Crushed by a Tycoon Family, I Summoned the Ten Kings of Hell to Claim Their Lives 弟遭豪门碾杀,我引十殿阎罗索命 13k WordsCompleted After his younger brother is crushed to death by a powerful family, he summons the Ten Kings of Hell to claim their lives 13Reads—Score—Shelves
  29. 79 The Sealed Cave Behind the Mountain: I Became the Village's Soul Guardian 后山囚洞:我成了全村守魂人 Mystery551k WordsOngoing After accidentally entering a century-old forbidden site in the back mountains, Jiang Ningyue unexpectedly inherits a fated duty and becomes the village’s only soul guardian. A deep, secluded prison cave suppresses countless wrongfully dead spirits. Ancient village rules conceal secrets unknown to outsiders, while turmoil erupts along the boundary between Yin and Yang, and one eerie calamity follows another. Generations of cave guardians have borne endless suffering, and a century of tangled gru 7Reads—Score—Shelves
  30. 80 I Blundered into a Horror World, Only to Find That All the Bosses Were Lamps 误入恐怖世界,没想到BOSS全是灯 17k WordsCompleted I stumbled into a world of horror, only to find that every BOSS was a lamp. 4Reads—Score—Shelves
  31. 81 Paralyzed by Terror: The Shadow That Smelled of Tobacco 鬼压床惊魂-那具带着烟草味的黑影 15k WordsCompleted Terrifying Sleep Paralysis: The Shadow That Smelled of Tobacco 7Reads—Score—Shelves
  32. 82 Calling Spirits in the Ruined House: My Seven-Year-Old Brother Mysteriously Fell from a Building, and a Shadow in White Came After Him 荒坯房叫魂:7岁小弟莫名坠楼,白衣黑影缠上了他 15k WordsCompleted A Spirit-Calling Ritual in a Derelict House: My Seven-Year-Old Brother Mysteriously Fell from the Building, and a Shadow in White Is Haunting Him 7Reads—Score—Shelves
  33. 83 The Tiger Skin: Three Years After My Mother Died, Someone Knocked at My Door in the Dead of Night 皮打虎:我娘死后三年,深夜来敲我家门 11k WordsCompleted Leather Tiger: Three Years After My Mother Died, Someone Came Knocking at My Door Late at Night 3Reads—Score—Shelves
  34. 84 The Vengeful Ghost Great-Grandma Wants to Kill My Daughter, but My Pure Yang Infant Shatters a Century-Old Blood Pact 厉鬼太奶想杀我女,我纯阳婴镇碎百年血契 9k WordsCompleted A Vengeful Ghost of a Great-Grandmother Wants to Kill My Daughter, but My Pure-Yang Baby Shatters a Century-Old Blood Pact 1Reads—Score—Shelves
  35. 85 The Hanging Charm 魅巾悬 Mystery341k WordsOngoing No romance + fantasy and the supernatural + mild horror + modern-day imaginative premise + episodic plot + feel-good power fantasy Liu Yixian, with a high forehead and a broad, square face, was taken in as an apprentice by Daoist Wu in the twelfth year of his life, setting him on an extraordinary path. A thousand-year-old fox or a century-old ginkgo: which one will win Yixian’s heart? A blood-red sickle stabbed the ghost seventeen, eighteen, nineteen, maybe twenty times. The ghost couldn’t take 1Reads—Score—Shelves
  36. 86 Tianxuan Paranormal Affairs Office 天玄灵异事务所 Mystery541k WordsCompleted - [Infinite Flow + Urban Supernatural + Chinese-Style Horror + Folk Legends and Hauntings + Celestial Master Exorcists + Heirs to the Daoist Tradition + Heterochromatic-Eyed Heroine + Haunted House Tales + Episodic Stories + Folk Taboos] - Hidden deep in the bustling streets is an inconspicuous supernatural affairs office called Tianxuan. - No one dares touch the folk taboos of this world. Haunted houses are plagued by unsolved horrors, abandoned villages and ancient mansions seethe with resentm 1.1kReads—Score101Shelves
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  37. 87 Ghosts: They Exist If You Believe 鬼魂:信则有,不信则无 Mystery293k WordsCompleted [Supernatural + Thriller + The Bizarre + Horror] Do ghosts really exist in this world? Some say they’re hallucinations; others call it delusion. Yet all kinds of bizarre, inexplicable events remain shrouded in mystery, their truth impossible to discern. If you insist on believing there are no ghosts, some things become impossible to explain. That’s why many old folks tell us: Believe, and they exist; don’t believe, and they don’t! 6Reads—Score—Shelves
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  38. 88 Strange Little Tales from the Urban-Rural Fringe 城乡结合灵异小故事 Mystery713k WordsOngoing This collection of little supernatural tales is drawn from stories told by elderly villagers and young people. It's hard to tell what's true and what's not, so just enjoy them as little stories to pass the time over tea. 4Reads—Score—Shelves
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  39. 89 I Get Stronger Whenever I Encounter a Ghost 我,遇鬼就变强 Mystery1.5M WordsCompleted [Standalone Stories + Supernatural Horror + Thriller + Folk Customs + Comedy + Mind-Blowing Twists] Why was a finger missing from a corpse in a coffin, right before everyone’s eyes? Why were ghostly wails heard in the flower shop at midnight? Why did the figures in the shopping center elevator twist out of shape? The secret beneath the mandrake flowers, the bizarre death of a boy who livestreamed, a maze with no way out... Vengeful spirits are wreaking havoc. There’s no peace to be found! In the 134Reads—Score—Shelves
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  40. 90 Midnight Terror: Human Nature Stories That Will Haunt You 午夜惊魂:让人细思极恐的人性故事 Mystery142k WordsCompleted At midnight, let's listen together to the little stories that circulate all around us. Maybe they're true. Maybe you've heard them too, or even experienced them yourself. Those moments that grow more terrifying the more you think about them go perfectly with the pitch-black night beyond the window. Red brick walls are common in many places. But we've never stopped to wonder: why are those bricks so red, so vivid? Rideshares at night aren't necessarily safe. Passengers have their concerns, and dr 599Reads8.8Score—Shelves
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  41. 91 Tales of the Supernatural 民间怪谈录 Mystery1.0M WordsCompleted [Rural Horror Stories + Anthology + Folk Horror Tales + Chinese Supernatural] Supernatural happenings are most likely to occur in mountain villages, and the stories we've heard may well have really happened. In the eerie night wind, Granny Hao, the midwife who receives the dead, is like a messenger from the underworld, guiding the spirits of helpless mothers and children home. Locust trees commune with spirits, and poplars attract yin energy. Beneath the village's ancient trees lie secrets that 1.1kReads8.9Score105Shelves
  42. 92 Three Partners in Crime 黄雀三人行 11k WordsCompleted I went to the bathroom to take a shower. When I came out, I found my client lying dead on the floor. —Reads—Score—Shelves
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  43. 93 Trapped in a Horror Script World, Fighting to Escape 穿到鬼怪剧本世界,拼命逃生 Mystery11k WordsCompleted I was inexplicably pulled into the world of a script. The System told me that the only way to return to reality was to break the curse. How is someone as weak as me supposed to survive in a world full of ghosts and monsters?! 9Reads—Score—Shelves
  44. 94 The Death Camera 死亡相机 Mystery9k WordsCompleted I don't like digital cameras. I like old-fashioned film cameras. After my grandfather's funeral, I inherited one of his belongings: an unused roll of film. My grandfather once said, "Don't touch the future, or you'll be caught up in an unknown disaster." I didn't understand what he meant then, not until a short while later, when I used that roll of film to photograph a murder. A murder that had yet to happen. 6Reads—Score—Shelves
  45. 95 Sisters of Vengeance 怨鬼姐妹 Mystery10k WordsCompleted Chunlan became pregnant before marriage and was driven out of her home. Everyone despised her and kept their distance. The vicious, hard-hearted Old Madam Zhao unexpectedly gave Chunlan a bowl of meat today. Chunlan died, and Zhao Er panicked. "Mother, the child in Chunlan's belly is mine." "Hmph. I never intended to spare the baby in your wife Xifeng's belly, either." 3Reads—Score—Shelves
  46. 96 The Curse of the Graveyard 坟地咒怨 Mystery13k WordsCompleted Zhang Fushan was the village's great benefactor. Every household in the village had received his help. His pregnant daughter-in-law died. The villagers wanted to notify his son, who lived in the city, but he refused and had the body burned instead. Zhang Fushan stared at his pregnant daughter-in-law's corpse in the flames. "Heh heh, let's see what you can do to me." The next day, someone found that eight women's graves in the cemetery behind the mountain had split open. 353Reads—Score—Shelves
  47. 97 A Dead Man Fathers a Child 死人生子 Mystery8k WordsCompleted Zhang Ni was the prettiest girl for miles around. Yet even though she was old enough to marry, not a single matchmaker came to ask for her hand. Some said she willingly sneaked off into the fields with the village chief's son. Others said the village chief followed right behind his son as soon as he went in. Smack! A slap landed on Zhang Ni's rosy cheek. "I've nearly settled the bride price, and now you're telling me you don't want to marry him?" Marry whom? This was going to be the death of the 1Reads—Score—Shelves
  48. 98 A Fetus in a Living Corpse 活尸孕胎 Mystery10k WordsCompleted As she ran, Widow Sun shouted, "Oh my! This is terrible! There's a child's bones by the river at the village entrance!" Widow Sun raced ahead without looking and crashed straight into Lin Dong as he came around the corner. "Auntie Sun, what's wrong?" Widow Sun didn't dare look back. She pointed to a spot not far behind her, off to one side, but was so terrified she couldn't get another word out. She was in a hurry to get back to the village and report what she'd seen. She ran so fast that she ne 5Reads—Score—Shelves
  49. 99 A Sheet of Human Skin 一张人皮 Mystery8k WordsCompleted When beads of blood seeped from the claw marks on Li Jun's back, I recognized their shape: they were fingernail marks, exactly like the ones on the female corpse at the crematorium thirty years ago. Three days earlier, when he tremblingly handed me that faded pellet drum, the smiling faces of the boy and girl painted on its surface had suddenly split open, revealing locust-wood grain writhing beneath the skin. Now the lights above the emergency room flickered, and black blood was flowing through 6Reads—Score—Shelves
  50. 100 Rule Horror: Escaping Death in a Haunted Hospital 规则怪谈:我在诡异医院死里逃生 Mystery8k WordsCompleted On my first day trapped in the hospital, I realized: The rules here can kill! The smell of disinfectant mingled with blood filled my nostrils. The eyeless doctor made rounds every day, while bloodstained nurses roamed the halls with knives. Two of the eight rules contained fatal errors. I had to figure them out to survive: I watched a fellow patient get stabbed through the heart by a nurse, and I personally sent a traitor off on a death stretcher. The traitor’s dying words were: “Pet, Rule Four. 9Reads—Score—Shelves

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