Looking for Dark Stories with a Highly Intelligent, Completely Calm Madman as the Main Character 求黑暗文，主角疯子，智商高，绝对冷静

1. 1 高 High-IQ Masterminds of Revenge: They Call Me a Madman 高智商复仇家，他们叫我疯子 Leaves Can't Predict Autumn叶难知秋Mystery525k WordsCompleted [No Female Lead] [Mad Protagonist] [Elegant] [High-IQ Crimes] [No System] Ten years ago, the Shen family was wiped out by a mysterious organization known as the Alliance. Shen Feng was beaten to death and left in the wilderness. Now, Shen Feng’s soul has returned from hell. That day, the criminal investigation squad received a call from a mysterious person claiming he would kill the famous CEO Liu Ruxu at a shareholders’ meeting. The nightmare began at that very moment. Shen Feng planned one per 42.4kReads9.5Score4.4kShelves

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   It's so good, and I think the ending is perfect, whether it's the ending of the extra episode or the ending that's not the ending, it's perfect.

2. 2 你 Could You Play It Safe? Your Readers Are All Going In With You 你守点法吧，读者都跟你进去了 Li Ju Loves Potatoes An李巨爱吃土豆安Urban331k WordsCompleted [Prison Break arc complete; Scam arc in progress] "Officer, you said some prison buddy read that book I wrote, Prison Break, and broke out of prison????" Li Junsheng is a struggling writer whose novels have flopped one after another. Just as he’s preparing to head to a factory and tighten screws, he finally gets his golden finger: the Life Creation System. The System randomly selects a genre and generates a world for a novel. Li Junsheng’s consciousness enters that world, where he lives through 781Reads7.5Score—Shelves

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   [Laughs] The protagonist is a madman, and the author is also a madman! [Fear][Fear] "My past was torn apart by them. Now, I return from hell and give them despair" - high IQ revenge, they call me crazy!

3. 3 复 Revenge Begins With the Perfect Accident 复仇，从制造完美意外开始 George Talks a Big Game乔治侃大山Urban521k WordsCompleted [High-IQ plots involving accidental killings and locked-room murders] [A logical, high-IQ power fantasy] To prevent crime and reduce the likelihood of criminal acts, a brand-new variety show, Simulated Crime, takes the world by storm. The guests enter a space capsule, where their brain waves connect to a fully simulated metaverse. Studying the crimes committed by guests during their revenge plots can provide criminal investigation with valuable experience and improve the efficiency of solving ca 2.6kReads8.9Score217Shelves
4. 4 狩 Hunting the Bride 狩猎新娘 Fifty-Year-Old Immortal五十老仙Sci-Fi & Apocalypse275k WordsCompleted I'm Alice, a supermodel famous across Europe. I gave up my career for love and married into a powerful family in Country A. The night before the wedding, I saw a photograph in my fiancé's secret room: the girl he held tenderly looked exactly like me at twenty. Then the Justice Department of Country A declassified the Epstein files, and every guest's name was on the list. My fiancé smiled at me. “Don't worry, darling. You'll always be the most special one.” On the last page of the files, my photo 4Reads—Score—Shelves
5. 5 我 My Demonic Path Has No Mercy Option 我的魔道没有慈悲选项 I'm Not a Hotchpotch我不是大杂烩Eastern Fantasy1.1M WordsOngoing (New book setting sail!) [Dark story] [Demonic cultivation] [No saintly heroics] [No female lead] [Women appear, but he kills them after using them, without exception] [Self-serving] [Ruthless and decisive] • I broke through to Nascent Soul, killed my benefactor-master, and stole the Immortal Key. The entire cultivation world once called me the “Blood Demon Child.” • On the banks of Eagle Sorrow Gorge, the sects joined forces to hunt me down. Everyone said my soul had been utterly destroyed. • B 4.8kReads5.5Score363Shelves
6. 6 异 Anomaly Descends, and My Right Hand Can Strip Away All Things 异常降临，我右手剥离万物 I Don't Eat Sashimi我不吃鱼生Urban1.0M WordsOngoing [Pure villain] [Anomaly containment] [Ensemble cast] [No heroine] [Not brainless] [Cautious protagonist] It all begins with a dream of a god's fall. Anomalous creatures and objects start appearing all over the world. He obtains the god's right hand, which can randomly strip anything of its properties. Endless experiments, a growing number of anomalies, and others who possess the god's body parts: the world is going mad! Whether to become an omniscient, omnipotent god or to crush his hidden enemi 50Reads7.3Score—Shelves

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   Countless experiments, increasing anomalies, and other corpse holders, the world is going crazy! Whether it is to become an omniscient and omnipotent god, or to trample the enemy in the dark under his feet, he will make the world his enemy!

7. 7 厄 The Patient of Ill Fate 厄命病人 Thirty, Cleansed of Filth垢净三十Mystery535k WordsCompleted Greed, deceit, sophistry, argument, a need to perform: I possess every weakness in the world. The self-serving man who crawled out of a heap of corpses is using a hundred people’s bodies to piece together a Mother Goddess of his own. | Ensemble cast | Infinite-flow | Performative villain protagonist | Dark and twisted instances | Some manipulative, heavy material | | The protagonist’s values!!! His values are messed up!! Proceed with caution! | “Hello, my name is Zhou Ni.” As green trees wither 545Reads8.2Score135Shelves
8. 8 颠 Turning the World Upside Down: Playing the Villain from the Start 颠覆全球：开局扮演反派大佬 Blazing Heavenly Inquiry炽生天问Eastern Fantasy1.2M WordsCompleted Shen Yan transmigrates to a parallel world. As soon as he arrives, he falls into a strange dimension. Everyone who falls in here is slaughtered by alien creatures, dying in despair! Luckily, at this moment, Shen Yan obtains the Super Big Shot Role-Playing System. “Ding! Randomly drawing a big shot template. Big Shot Role-Playing Mode activated. The closer you are to the character, the more abilities you can unlock.” Make people believe the character is real, and you’ll earn Subversion Points. Th 29.3kReads9.4Score3kShelves
9. 9 人 I'm in a Rule Horror Game, and I'm the Chosen Villain 人在规则怪谈，我是天命大反派 Duanmu Kuai Zi端木筷子Mystery284k WordsCompleted [Subverting expectations + horror administrator + creating rules + no romance, no female lead + invincible] Chen Fan woke up inside a rule-based horror scenario and discovered that everyone else had drawn powerful SSS-rank talents. He alone had no talent and no System. And wasn’t this task a little strange? “Kill the Chosen Ones in the scenario? Am I supposed to kill myself?” “Wait, I’m not a Chosen One. I’m the horror administrator?” “So I don’t have a talent or a System, but I do have all kind 7kReads9.0Score943Shelves
10. 10 从 From the Desolate Realm, I Begin My Rise to Godhood 从天荒界开始成神做祖 Mr. One Leaf一叶先生Eastern Fantasy686k WordsCompleted A single general's success is built on the bones of countless fallen soldiers. The road to an immortal throne must be paved with the flesh and blood of the masses. Yang Yue transmigrates to the Tianhuang Realm and rises from a mere gang disciple, sweeping across the world to attain immortality. (An overpowered, easy-to-read power fantasy with decisive, ruthless action.) 313Reads—Score—Shelves

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    Dark flow, the protagonist is ruthless

11. 11 横 I Conquer Another World with Nothing but My Own Talent 横推异界，我全靠自身天赋 Mr. One Leaf一叶先生Eastern Fantasy395k WordsOngoing [Decisive and ruthless, multiple women, invincible protagonist, self-interest above all] In a high-martial world, prodigies rise everywhere. Yang Feng transmigrates here, relying solely on his own talent. One day, he throws a punch, and the sky is stained with blood. Only then do people realize in terror that he has long since become the highest peak in the world. Yang Feng’s life story: sweeping aside all challengers and, before he knows it, becoming the supreme ruler. 279Reads—Score—Shelves
12. 12 疯 Madcap Fantasia 疯批家的狂想曲 Black and White Images黑白画映Fantastical Romance467k WordsCompleted Modern Arc: This world’s fate was decided long ago. Every choice we make leads to an ending already written. And I, Shu Yue, was the one who tore open every prelude with my own hands. Ji Hua’s ten years on the run began because of me; Chen Songhan’s two thousand years of waiting were for me; My older sister, Shu Wen, fell into the time of the Qin Dynasty because I got her involved; Ancient divine beasts, underworld generals, and a phoenix’s true form all gathered in the same storm because of me. 3Reads—Score—Shelves

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    When the world is unfair, where are the boundaries of resistance? How far will we go to protect what we hold dear? In an order destined to be incomplete, what is the meaning of insisting on "reform"? What does a person live for and why does he die? If you're looking for a hearty adventure where the good guys win, please steer clear. But if you are willing to calm down and enter a gray world full of moral thorns, human labyrinths and philosophical tortures, and witness the collision and choice of a group of complex souls in a desperate situation - then, welcome. Please prepare your thinking and your courage. Because here, there are no bystanders. The dilemma of each character may become a mirror that reflects your heart. !

13. 13 诸 The Bloodwing Cult Master of the Myriad Worlds 诸天万界之血翼教主 Lü Bu Battles Li Yuanba吕布大战李元霸Male-Channel Fanfiction542k WordsOngoing The protagonist, Zhou Yuan, binds himself to the Myriad Worlds Cult Leader System. He had planned to transmigrate into a famous wish-fulfillment novel and rise to the top, but instead he accidentally lands in Zhongzhou and inherits the legacy of the Immortal Venerable's first life: the Bloodwing Demon Cult. Joining forces with Wuji, he breaks through the barriers between worlds and explores the Myriad Worlds! (Three new arcs have since been added: the Cangwu Cultivation Realm, the One Piece worl 3.7kReads—Score141Shelves
14. 14 黑 Dark Academia Life 黑暗系的校园生活 White Night BatX白夜蝙蝠XMystery252k WordsCompleted [Dark Campus] Dark themes + bizarre horror + everyday terror + mystery and deduction In a chaotic neighborhood stands a school unlike any other. Its students don't fight, commit crimes, or rape people like students at other schools... The students here are polite and law-abiding, making it a model school for the community. And yet this school is known as Crime High School. Beneath the white surface may lurk an unfathomably deep darkness... Bai Yeyu and Yuetsumori Megumi are students here, two co 9Reads—Score—Shelves

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    Highly recommend this book, Dark Campus! All the characters are evil, the characters in it are very morbid, the male protagonist is a manipulative type, and the female protagonist is a simple type (not kind), there is no cp, the content is a bit curious, you can check it out [shocked][shocked][shocked][shocked]

15. 15 越 The More Off-Roading, the More Addictive It Gets 越野越上瘾 A Passing Guest in the Flow of Time往事流年稍作客Ancient Romance137k WordsOngoing ◆ Powerful leads tame each other ◆ Obsessive Emperor × Proud, Defiant Princess ◆ Explosive revenge plot ◆ A tragic romance that lasts until death ◆ “You once shackled me. Now I’ll repay you by turning your empire into a cage.” “Ye Huang, the wilder you get, the more addictive it becomes. This time, I’ll play along with you all the way to the depths of hell.” She was Liang’s most bewitching and unruly Ninth Princess, Helian Ye Huang. Three hundred li beyond the capital stood the royal hunting gro —Reads6.4Score—Shelves

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    [Fear][fear][fear]

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