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  1. 201 The Coffin of Life and Death 生死棺材 Mystery1.5M WordsCompleted In our line of work, there’s a type known as the miscellaneous school. They follow unorthodox paths, dabbling in everything but mastering nothing. They have no sect above them and no helpers below them, and nobody takes them seriously. I’m an heir to the miscellaneous school, yet I turned their world upside down and left them in chaos. Only when I decided to retire did I discover a shocking mystery hidden within me... 486Reads8.7Score100Shelves
  2. 202 The Living Must Keep Away 活人回避 Mystery3.7M WordsCompleted Originally titled Living People, Keep Away. An antique set me on a desperate path. From then on, just to stay alive, I became a yin walker who dealt with the dead and the walking corpses. Three years searching for dragon veins, ten years locating acupoints, roaming between yin and yang, dealing in ghosts and spirits. I kept walking, struggling my way to where I am today. 2.7kReads8.9Score327Shelves
  3. 203 Sinister Deals in Northern Myanmar: Every Step a Nightmare! 缅北罪恶交易,步步惊魂! Urban1.3M WordsCompleted Tags: urban, northern Myanmar, thriller, horror, romance, special agents, suspense, betrayal in love, ruthless action, gambling city, beautiful female agents, villains, calculating characters. A one-of-a-kind chronicle of northern Myanmar, a brutal dossier on the organ trade, the dangerous years of special agents, and the struggle between good and evil. Enemies become friends, friends become enemies, a warlord's daughter who once seemed impossible to reconcile with becomes a battle-hardened love 756Reads8.5Score101Shelves
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  4. 204 Fellow Daoist, Why Is Your Human Emperor Banner Belching Black Smoke? 道友,你这人皇幡怎么冒黑烟啊? Mystery1.1M WordsCompleted Even unorthodox paths can lead to Heaven! This poor Daoist has always been a bit timid. If I don’t pull up the roots after cutting the grass, I won’t be able to sleep at night! Heh heh heh... I, He An, am your great calamity! 81.3kReads9.3Score7.3kShelves
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  5. 205 Strange Tales of Northeast China 东北诡异实录 Mystery1.1M WordsCompleted The comic adaptation of the same name is now available, also known as Mountain Spirit Lost. The comic Northeast Strange Tales is currently being serialized. Across the vast, boundless black earth of Northeast China, one strange and little-known story after another has unfolded. Now, I’ll tell you these long-buried tales of the supernatural, one by one! 32kReads9.4Score3.3kShelves
  6. 206 Eerie Tattoos 诡纹 Mystery3.9M WordsCompleted My grandfather was a tattoo artist, but the things he tattooed were seriously sinister… 7.5kReads9.1Score783Shelves
  7. 207 I'm a Little Spirit Medium 我是小神婆 Rural Life180k WordsOngoing [Mysticism + supernatural + crime-solving + powerful protagonist + resolving mysteries + hidden origins + folk customs] I'm an abandoned baby, picked up from a trash can by my shaman grandmother. Growing up under her influence, I always wanted to become an even more powerful shaman than she was. Because of my unusual fate, strange and bizarre things, sometimes terrifyingly uncanny, are always happening around me... What happened to the female ghost who fell in love with someone else's body? Did 1Reads—Score—Shelves
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  8. 208 I’m an Actor in a Horror World 我在恐怖世界当演员 Mystery607k WordsCompleted [Infinite Loop + Death Games + Horror Worlds + Original Scenarios + No Female Lead] (The protagonist has limits he won’t cross + System (mostly useless) + Items + The protagonist isn’t superhuman) If you were asked to act in a real horror movie, would you be willing? Guan Long is one lucky guy: he was chosen to take part in one terrifying film after another. There’s the bizarre rest stop on the highway, another “floor” that suddenly appears on a rooftop, and eerie voices calling from elevators, 664Reads6.5Score—Shelves
  9. 209 Anomaly Survival Guide 异常求生指南 Mystery770k WordsOngoing [The Backrooms X rules-based horror X Cthulhu Mythos X infinite flow X wild imagination] No System, no leveling up, no harem. This handbook is designed to help you deal with all kinds of anomalies. We hope every investigator will survive and provide us with more useful data. Because of the existence of the gods, most life in the universe is subtly influenced by the rulers scattered throughout the galaxy. As the universe grew ever more prosperous, the rulers’ psychic projections created a space 59Reads—Score—Shelves
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  10. 210 The Autobiography of a Yin Walker 一位走阴人的自传 Rural Life332k WordsCompleted Adapted into a full-cast audiobook on Tomato Listen. [This story is based on the true account of someone who walks between the worlds of the living and the dead. The horror is off the charts, so timid readers beware!] Have you ever heard of someone who walks between the worlds of the living and the dead? I'm the only son in three generations of the Guo family. My name is Guo Lideng. I've had the yin-yang eyes since I was a child, and can see things ordinary people cannot. As an adult, I stumbled 5.8kReads7.1Score340Shelves
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  11. 211 Bureau 749: A Yin Messenger on the Road to the Underworld 749局:黄泉走阴人 Mystery713k WordsCompleted There is an organization that exists only in the darkness: Bureau 749. Founded in 1974, with no records and no official status, it is made up of scientists and people with supernatural abilities. It handles the dirtiest, most sinister, most forbidden affairs in the human world. Ghost soldiers march through the night, leaving nothing but empty skins in an entire village. The White God of Wealth kills anyone who worships him, taking their souls to feed evil. An ancient Buddha opens its mouth to de 3Reads—Score—Shelves
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  12. 212 Ghostly Tales from Fengdu 丰都鬼事 Mystery441k WordsOngoing In her previous life, young artist Lin Wan set out alone for the fabled ghost city of Fengdu to search for her missing older sister, Lin Zhixia. Naively, she trusted the seemingly kind innkeeper and local gentry, unaware that she had stepped into a carefully laid trap. Coveted for her yin constitution, she was ultimately sacrificed in an old mansion behind Fengdu's famous mountain by the so-called “good Samaritans” to a traitor in the underworld who had disguised himself as Black Impermanence. H 3Reads—Score—Shelves
  13. 213 Seeking Life Amid Lingering Regrets 残念觅生 Mystery318k WordsOngoing [Infinite-flow, rules-based horror, extreme escape, eerie games, no harem, no formula, no invincible protagonist, no System, no mindless plot, not a feel-good power fantasy] I’m a ballet doll, grinning as I watch them kill themselves. I throw people into “my” mindscape and lay out an inescapable path to their doom. But that lunatic Li Yu finds a loophole in every stage. I crank up the difficulty of surviving, but he uses game theory to beat me. I forbid him from speaking, but he has the whole t 237Reads—Score—Shelves
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  14. 214 The Horror Night-Duty Booth 恐怖值班亭 Mystery8k WordsCompleted Back around the 2000s, I worked as a security guard at an apartment complex. The complex had a strange rule: [After midnight, do not leave the security booth.] It made no sense, but I always kept it in mind, until the day one of my coworkers died! That night, a woman in a skirt knocked on the security booth window… 30Reads—Score—Shelves
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  15. 215 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. 1Reads—Score—Shelves
  16. 216 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. 1Reads—Score—Shelves
  17. 217 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
  18. 218 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. 1Reads—Score—Shelves
  19. 219 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 56Reads—Score—Shelves
  20. 220 The Maltese Falcon 马耳他之鹰 120k WordsCompleted One job, two murders, three groups on his trail, four factions. On a foggy night in San Francisco, private detective Sam Spade is drawn into a deadly con revolving around a priceless black falcon statuette. A beautiful woman, swindlers, hitmen, wealthy businessmen: everyone has an agenda, and danger lurks at every turn. When the truth strips away the disguises, and love collides with principle, he must make the most ruthless choice. No warmth, no redemption, just the truth, hard-boiled to the en 35Reads8.5Score—Shelves
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  21. 221 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... —Reads—Score—Shelves
  22. 222 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! 8Reads—Score—Shelves
  23. 223 Detective Jingling, Also Known as Goodbye, My Zombie 净灵探长又名再见我的僵尸 Mystery570k WordsCompleted The eerie strands of hair in the library, the sighs in the girls' dormitory, the lady of the villa, a ghostly figure in the mirror, "What Is an Itch?", a paranormal livestream, a zombie cruise ship, a platform you can't leave, a boy on a video game screen, and more. See how Detective Jingling and the descendants of the Ma family handle all kinds of bizarre incidents. 4Reads—Score—Shelves
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  24. 224 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. 2Reads—Score—Shelves
  25. 225 One Haunting a Day 一日一诡 Mystery1.1M WordsOngoing Like people, supernatural entities can be good or bad, so the author can’t promise that every story will have an off-the-charts scare factor that keeps you up at night. The only guarantee is that all the stories are entirely fictional. If anything seems familiar, you’re on your own! 356Reads—Score101Shelves
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  26. 226 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? 273Reads—Score—Shelves
  27. 227 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. 15Reads—Score—Shelves
  28. 228 Mo Chi Y 墨池Y Mystery1.2M WordsCompleted The inspiration for this novel came from a real supernatural incident involving a residential compound security guard. As cities expand, they inevitably encroach on the homes of the dead. The Dingyuan Estate, where Yao Yan worked as a security guard, had been built on a mass grave abandoned for a thousand years. One late-spring night, deep in the darkness, all was silent beneath a fine drizzle. Suddenly, a girl’s spine-chilling cry for help came from outside the guard booth: “It hurts so much. C 10Reads—Score—Shelves
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  29. 229 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
  30. 230 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
  31. 231 The Soul-Returning Soup 还魂汤 Mystery347k WordsOngoing I was born in a remote village. The day my mother gave birth to me, she died a horrible death! I was born disabled, missing an arm, and with a red birthmark shaped like a coiled snake on my foot. My master said I had been cursed by an evil spirit, and that the curse could only be lifted if I found the one who cast it. Otherwise, I wouldn’t live to see twenty... 83Reads—Score—Shelves
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  32. 232 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
  33. 233 Suppressing the Dragon 镇龙 Mystery2.2M WordsCompleted For one person, he dug up an ancient grave, broke into a dragon's tomb, and wielded the Yang Sword to slay yin spirits! An heir to a family of secret arts, he joins a group of men and women bound together by fate. Together, they travel far and wide, fighting monsters in the mountains, slaying evil in the cities, breaking into the underworld, and robbing ghost messengers... To change our fate, we defy the heavens! 2.5kReads8.8Score532Shelves
  34. 234 A Timid Beauty Is Doted on by Vengeful Ghosts in Horror Movies 怂包美人在恐怖片被厉鬼宠爱 Mystery1.0M WordsCompleted [Infinite Horror Sets + Growing Heroine + Thrills and Chills + Sweet Romance + Multiple Versions of the Male Lead] Shen Biezhi is chosen to be a paranormal actor and must continually enter horror films to play different roles. [The Haunted Hotel] In the 1920s or 1930s, a speculator brings his newly married concubine home to visit his family. Their car breaks down on the way, leaving them stranded at a terrifying hotel… Shen Biezhi plays the beautiful young concubine. She knows that before she wa 10.6kReads9.3Score1.3kShelves
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  35. 235 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. 7Reads—Score—Shelves
  36. 236 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. 1Reads—Score—Shelves
  37. 237 Are There Really Gods in This World? 这个世界真的有神 Mystery315k WordsCompleted [Awakening + supernatural powers + mystery + horror + monsters] Have you ever wondered whether some of the people you see aren’t really human? Have you ever doubted whether this world is real? Evil spirits hide among ordinary people, and every manner of evil prowls day and night. The truth is far more terrifying and despairing than you could imagine. 5Reads—Score—Shelves
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  38. 238 Rule Horror: Don't Look Back During 72 Hours in the Dorm 规则怪谈:宿舍72小时不要回头 Mystery1.1M WordsCompleted A word of warning: this is terrifying, so timid readers beware. (No female lead, no cheats, no romance, game instances, infinite flow, horror, mystery) Eight university students who returned to campus early found a mysterious sheet of rules in their empty dormitory building: Rule One: No matter what strange “person” you see, don’t cry out or scream. Rule Two: No matter who calls you from behind, don’t turn around or answer. Rule Three: One of you is an impostor who will eat people in the middle 4.6kReads6.0Score386Shelves
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  39. 239 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. 13Reads—Score—Shelves
  40. 240 The Corpse Collection Files 收尸档案 Mystery2.1M WordsCompleted Since ancient times, the dead have been left with their bodies. But few people know that corpses hold many secrets that remain hidden from the world. Cursed corpses, living corpses, bodies left where they fell, vengeful corpses, bisected corpses... Every corpse has a story of its own! My name is He Yongheng, and I collect bodies for a funeral home. 3.8kReads9.0Score367Shelves
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  41. 241 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 54Reads—Score—Shelves
  42. 242 The Hidden Secrets of the World 天下藏局 Urban2.8M WordsCompleted [Wuxia World + Antiques Appraisal + Tomb Raiding] I never went to school as a child. Instead, I spent ten years learning the trade from a beautiful woman. Over those ten years, she forged me a pair of “Ghost Eyes” that could identify every rare treasure in the world. She trained my hands into “Buddha’s Hands,” teaching me to break traps and set schemes with impunity. And she taught me a repertoire of “divine skills” that let me navigate the shifting world of the martial underworld with ease. Dra 100kReads9.4Score18.4kShelves
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  43. 243 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
  44. 244 Ghost Stories by Night 鬼话夜谈 Mystery135k WordsOngoing The story follows Chen Xingchen and Jiang Chuyan, who grew up together in a village. They hear tales of the supernatural from the village elders and experience a number of eerie events themselves. —Reads—Score—Shelves
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  45. 245 National Treasure 国家宝藏 Mystery930k WordsCompleted [Tomb Raiding + Mystery + Smart Protagonists] There is a group of people armed with black blades and mysterious arts, born to venture into ancient tombs across the land. There is a group of people who fight without end and bleed until they are drained, dying to protect the nation's treasures. They stand before the countless people of the world, shielding them from its darkest corners. They leave the greatest glory of their people behind them, for all to behold. They share one name: Qilin. But I 38.6kReads9.4Score6.4kShelves
  46. 246 The Heavenly Coffin 天棺 Mystery2.0M WordsCompleted Because of a joke, my grandmother’s spirit refused to leave after her death and insisted on taking me with her to the grave. Otherwise, my whole family would die. To save my family, I went into the grave with my grandmother... 22kReads9.0Score1.9kShelves
  47. 247 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
  48. 248 Fifth Watch 五更 Mystery722k WordsOngoing The stories my grandpa used to tell me were probably meant to scare me into staying put, or maybe to lull me to sleep. He always told them with such conviction and vivid detail that I often found myself dreaming of the very scenes he had lived through. I met the old flower-growing woman on Yinshan Mountain, and one villager after another from Sangen Village. Their faces were gloomy and strange, and their deeds served as a warning, reminding us that “the gods are watching from three feet above yo 728Reads7.2Score100Shelves
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  49. 249 The Conspiracy Behind the Terrifying Calls 恐怖电话背后的阴谋 Mystery15k WordsCompleted The conspiracy behind the horror phone 3Reads—Score—Shelves
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  50. 250 The Grave Relocation Master 迁坟师 Mystery1.5M WordsCompleted You've heard of yin-yang masters, fortune-tellers, and feng shui masters. But have you ever heard of a grave relocation master? Do you know how relocating a grave can affect the deceased's descendants? My name is Chen An, and I'm a grave relocation master. I've spent my whole life dealing with graves and bones. I've seen clients strike it rich after relocating a grave. I've seen clients rise to high office after relocating a grave. I've also seen clients whose entire clan died out after relocati 10.5kReads9.0Score911Shelves

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