Looking for Horror and Suspense Novels with No Cultivation 求恐怖悬疑类小说，不修仙的
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Apocalypse: The Whole Company Denies the Existence of the 18th Floor 末世：全公司否认18楼存在
[Apocalypse + No System + Reborn + Mystery + One Female Lead + Zombies + Hard Sci-Fi + No Mindless Decisions + Revenge] Reborn six hours before the apocalypse, Chu Yan has not only retained his memories of the future, but also mastered the ultimate secret of genetic evolution! He can become the most powerful god in the apocalypse! He frantically stockpiles supplies, builds weapons, modifies vehicles, and saves his parents, racing against time! He will kill his enemies with his own hands and turn
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Apocalypse Cockroach 末日蟑螂
Zhang Xiaoqiang is an insignificant nobody, a lazy loser who had been content to lounge around and wait to die. Staying at home lets him avoid the first outbreak of the zombie virus. When he sees his neighbors in the same apartment complex turn into zombies, he is overcome with boundless terror. He struggles to survive alone in an Apocalypse where people prey on each other. At last, worn down by loneliness, he picks up his gear and heads out into a world shrouded in smoke and fire. He takes the
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Secret Art: I Transmigrate and Fight to Survive in a Bizarre World 秘法穿越:我在诡异世界极限逃生
Secret Art Transmigration: My Extreme Escape in a World of the Uncanny
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The Woman in the Closet 柜子里的女人
The Woman in the Cabinet
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Eerie Wuxia: My Life Simulator 诡异武侠：我的人生模拟器
[Transmigration + Wuxia + Simulator + The Supernatural + One Female Lead (or No Female Lead) + Dark World + Passion] Shi Qing transmigrated to a wuxia world, where his life was in constant danger! Ahead of him, evil spirits killed and claimed lives. Behind him, bloodthirsty zombies ran amok! And lurking in the shadows were man-eating demons! Just as Shi Qing was lamenting his miserable fate, the Life Simulator System activated! As long as he killed these supernatural beings, he could start a lif
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Great Qin: Emperor Qin Shi Huang, I Really Don't Want to Live Off You! 大秦：始皇帝，我真不吃软饭啊！
[The Analects + Hilarious + Cunning + Lighthearted + His Majesty Zheng + Shamelessly Stealing + Absolutely Outrageous] Qin Feng inexplicably transmigrates to the Qin dynasty before Qin unifies the six states, and the First Emperor overhears his thoughts. The two then embark on a hilarious daily battle of wits. “Qin Feng, tell me, what does ‘The Master does not speak of prodigies, force, disorder, or spirits’ mean?” “It means the Master doesn’t want to talk to you, and will use brute force to bea
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Three Kingdoms: From the Start, I Fuse with Li Yuanba 三国：开局融合李元霸
Transmigrated to the late Eastern Han dynasty, where warlords fought for supremacy and the people suffered terribly. Jiang Nan awakened a fusion System and fused with Li Yuanba from the start, gaining boundless strength. After witnessing a land battered by war and the people mired in misery, he decided to join Cao Cao and bring this chaotic age to an end. Battle the heroes of the age and fight for supremacy over the Central Plains! Drive out foreign invaders and prevent the chaos of the Five Bar
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When the Strange Arrived, I Had a Doomsday Simulator 诡异降临，我有末日模拟器
On New Year’s Day in 2028, the sun mutates and never sets. Its crimson light blankets the entire world. As time passes, more and more strange events occur around the globe. The eerie invade reality. Balloons float in midair, each with a human head dangling beneath it. A suona plays from nowhere, claiming lives and souls, wiping out an entire city. At midnight, shadows crawl through the streets and evil spirits run rampant. The whole world sinks deeper into the panic and despair of the apoca
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Global High Martial: I Conquer the Universe by Rewriting Lifespans 全球高武:我靠修改年限横推宇宙
His martial arts cultivation, modified to ten years in the future, breaks through to the eighth level of Martial Disciple! The Body-Tempering Pill, modified to a hundred thousand years in the future, becomes a Marrow-Cleansing Golden Pill! The Immortal Profound Body, modified to hundreds of millions of years in the future, becomes the Eight-Nine Mysterious Art! The Cloud-Turning Hand, modified to hundreds of millions of years in the future, becomes the Primordial Heaven-Flipping Seal! In a w
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Are You Crazy? You Call This Magic? 疯了吧，你管这叫魔术？
Xia Huo transmigrates to a parallel world and gains a Card Magician System. One dazzling magic show after another leaves audiences wide-eyed. “This guy definitely graduated from Hogwarts!” “What wizard? He's obviously a cultivator from the Pre-Qin era!” “We asked you to perform magic, not make it real!” [Ding! Congratulations, Host, your popularity has exceeded five million. You have received the ‘Time-Stop Magic Card’!] “You've probably seen rain-stopping magic in movies. Next, I'll do somethin
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My Court Is Full of Treacherous Officials, and You Want Me to Become an Eternal Emperor? 满朝奸臣，你让我做千古一帝？
Reborn in another world in ancient times, Zhou Qian woke up as the Son of Heaven of Great Zhou. He thought a life of pleasure was finally within reach. But then he took a look at the assembled court. On his left was Grand Chancellor Yan Song, on his right Grand Chancellor Qin Hui, Grand Marshal Gao Qiu, Imperial Tutor Sima Yi, Chief Eunuch He Shen, and Minister of Works Cai Jing... There were Wei Zhongxian of the Eastern Depot, Yu Huatian of the Western Depot, Attendant Zhang Rang, and Zhao Gao,
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Great Han: From the Start, I Wield the Wheel and Summon Gods and Demons 大汉:开局掌轮 召唤神魔
After transmigrating to the otherworldly realm of Cangyuan, he becomes the city lord's son. His father dies, his uncle seizes power, and with a blade hanging over his head, he teeters on the brink of death! Just then, the Reincarnation Xuanhuang Tower activates. One peerless hero after another, whose names will shine through the ages and shake their era, emerges to wage war in every direction...
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Thriller Game: I Am the Truth 惊悚游戏:我，即是真理
[Mind games + no female lead + infinite-flow] A supernatural game run by a supreme being descends upon Blue Star. Its many instance worlds come together to form fragments of larger worlds. An unremarkable undertaker with a tiny little bit less emotion than most is selected as a beta tester. He is infected by anomalous data from the start. The Genetic Ascension faction: “This guy packed up and took all our side-effect-free drugs!” The Technological Ascension faction: “This guy made off with a cop
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The Eerie Amusement Park 渗人乐园
A mysterious game, terrifying trials, and a journey between reality and the game that brings you face-to-face with the truth of the world. Confront strange phenomena, break down the boundaries between good and evil, and experience the two sides of human nature. Is Eden Park truly a paradise for humanity, or a breeding ground for darkness...? Welcome to the Creepy Park.
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Tales of the Haunted Mountain Village 山村诡事录
Where the woods are dense, ghosts abound; where the mountains are high, monsters are sure to lurk. After getting drunk, Chen Jianjun of Kaoshan Village encounters a beautiful woman in the mountains. Alone together, the pair spend several days in an intimate embrace. When he returns home, he goes mad for a day and then dies. On the day of his burial, Chen Jianjun suddenly comes back to life... To save his family, Chen Xiaojun becomes the apprentice of Yi, a lame man who was once sent to a work ca
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Secret Folk Arts for Exorcising Ghosts 民间捉鬼秘术
A calamity when I was fourteen changed my whole life. Then, at eighteen, I was set firmly on the path of yin and yang, where I mastered top-tier secret arts and went ever farther along the road of slaying demons and vanquishing evil.
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Borrowing Yin Lifespan 借阴寿
Have you ever slept wearing burial clothes? Don’t try it. I did once, and that night... My name is Li Yiliang. I was born with a shortened lifespan, and my birth caused my mother to die in childbirth. But one night when I was eighteen, my mother came back and said she wanted to take me with her... My grandfather told me to sleep in burial clothes, then gave his own life to help me escape that fate. From then on, my life was never free of strange and uncanny things...
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The Maoshan Coffin-Raiser 茅山升棺人
From the moment I was born, someone secretly plotted against me, making my mother give birth prematurely and changing my birth date. My birth chart clashed with my parents' fates, and they both died on the very day I was born. I vowed to find the culprit, and in time became a Maoshan coffin-raiser! Coffin-raising is the practice of relocating graves. After death, people should be buried in a place with good feng shui to protect their descendants. But some ancestors are buried in malevolent place
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Lin Shisan, Heir to the Ma Yi Tradition 麻衣传人林十三
I was born with a pair of snake eyes, and everyone at the forest farm said I was a demon child born of a snake. The night I was born, thunder crashed again and again. The next day, a huge, gold-scaled python was found dead from a lightning strike outside Laolingou. Something was squirming inside its belly. Master Sang sliced open the python with a single stroke and carried out a blood-soaked baby. He named me Lin Shisan. From that moment on, my fate was bound to Master Sang’s for life…
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By the Power of the Law 急急如律令
It all began when I took fifty yuan from a blind fortune-teller. Then, in the middle of the night, a woman's voice suddenly sounded behind me.
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The Grave Relocation Master 迁坟师
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
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The Divine Fortune-Teller in the Linen Robe 麻衣神算子
My grandfather taught me everything he knew about fortune-telling, but after I read three people’s fortunes, he left me. From then on, I didn’t just tell the fortunes of the living...
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The Real-Life Escape Club 真实逃杀俱乐部
This world is dead. But I want to live. This is an age where the supernatural is paradise, and humanity is in hell. I saw the club as the only [Beacon of Hope], blind to the schemes and betrayal behind it. Resurrected supernatural creatures, blood-soaked death zones, slaughter experiments that defy human understanding. The boundary between life and death began to blur, until people and the supernatural could no longer be told apart. Standing atop a mountain of corpses, I faced the weeping, despa
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The Ninth Special Zone 第九特区
After the catastrophe, the land was scarred beyond recognition. Food was scarce, resources were in short supply, and the situation was chaotic... A young man who had fought his way out of an undeveloped zone, with endless yellow sand at his back, came alone to District Nine to make a living. Yet he never expected to meet a few good friends by chance, rise to prominence in the chaotic era over a single thought, and embark on a legendary journey...
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Secret Tales of Treasure Hunting (An Explorer's Strange Past) 憋宝秘闻（探险者的诡异往事）
My name is Zhang Yang... I’m a mysterious treasure hunter. This book will take you into the folk legends of the deep forests in Northeast China, tales that defy explanation. The Bone Bodhisattva deep in the Greater Khingan Range. The astonishing treasure left behind by the Jiuyi people. The ancient city of ghost soldiers beneath Mount Beimang... The Corpse-Locking Well, the Cave of Ten Thousand Bones, the centipede with a hundred legs, the fox with a human face, the ghostly immortal fetus, the f
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Tales of the Tomb Gate Hunt 墓门狩记
Xu Changsheng is cursed with the fate of a lone star. At seventeen, he brings death to all thirteen members of his family, leaving only his distant granduncle, Zhang Facai, alive. Zhang Facai encounters a sinister supernatural affair at the Liu family estate in Changbai Mountain and is rescued by Linghu Shou, a mysterious tomb-raiding officer from the Northern School. Linghu Shou chooses Xu Changsheng and takes him to Harbin, where he joins a band of extraordinary people on an expedition into th
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Secrets of the Hidden Labyrinth 藏迷探秘
An accident ten years ago led me down the path of tomb raiding. On my first tomb expedition, I gained the ability to live forever, but it came at a terrible cost. Is immortality truly a blessing, or a curse? To uncover the secret of immortality, I traveled far and wide, exploring countless famous mountains and ancient tombs, and experiencing more bizarre events than I could count: the sinister Daji hidden in a tree in the Stone-Born Haunted Tomb, a blue elf that had survived for a thousand years
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My Horror Game Is Far Too Healing 我的惊悚游戏实在太治愈了
Lin Xiu was chosen to become a trial participant in a horror game. Born without the ability to feel fear, he gained the SSS-rank Evil God talent, Extreme Terror, from the start and began a life of unstoppable power-ups! When Lin Xiu’s trial was livestreamed across the internet, the viewers were stunned. “Oh my god, he’s stitching up the slit-mouthed woman’s wounds one stitch at a time. Who knew she was so beautiful?” “In Butcher Alley, where no living person dares enter, all the demons and monst
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Survival Game: My Sanity Meter Is Off the Charts! 生存游戏：我的san值爆表了！
[Story-driven + infinite worlds + horror game + no female lead] This is a survival game. All selected players must take part in terrifying instances. They must fight to survive in the cracks! Ji Bai is a doctor at a psychiatric hospital, and his best friends are his patients. Suddenly, a ghostly face lunges out! “A jumpscare?” Ji Bai looks at his SAN value. It has already shot up to 130. “I’m a doctor. If I say you’re sick, then you’re sick!” He grips his cleaver and swings hard. The ghostly fac
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My Affection Scores Keep Rising, and Now the Dungeon's Collapsing. Is That My Fault? 好感无限提升，副本崩了怪我喽！
A horror game descends upon the world! Lin Bei, who has just transmigrated, is unfortunately selected. After entering the horror game, he obtains a System that can raise the affection of every species except humans. And Lin Bei can earn all kinds of rewards from it! Snowfield Phantom instance? [Ding!] [Snow Maiden's affection is maxed out!!] [Golden Treasure Chest's affection is maxed out!!] Blood Sea Evil Spirit Ship instance? [Ding!] [Blood Maiden's affection is maxed out!!] [Blood Sea (one-ki
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After I Was Reborn, My Late Husband and Ex-Husband Started Fighting 重生后，亡夫与前夫打起来了
[Rebirth, a scheming male lead, ruthless pursuit, a love triangle, and rekindled love after a breakup] [A foolish beauty in her past life and not much smarter in this one VS a reserved, self-disciplined beauty on a lofty pedestal VS a hedonistic young lord who takes what he wants] In her past life, Gan Caier managed to squander a winning hand through her own sheer incompetence. In the end, she died alone in the snow on New Year’s Eve. She couldn’t blame anyone else, but she still died with regre
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Ninefold Brocade 九重锦
Household and palace intrigue, with the leads not both being each other's first. A fictional setting, with all ranks and titles made up. A heroine who grows over time and isn't blinded by love. After being suppressed for more than a decade, a concubine-born daughter has her fate rearranged overnight. Entering the prince's manor only fuels her ambition. Her birth father ignores her, allowing her stepmother to torment her and her mother for half their lives without ever offering them the slightest
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Cherishing Flowers 惜花芷
[The original novel behind the TV adaptation starring Hu Yitian and Zhang Jingyi] After keeping her talents hidden for fifteen years, Hua Zhi thought she could spend her life as a proper aristocratic young lady, living in peace. But when the Hua family’s fortunes collapse, she has no choice but to reveal her sharp edge and hold the storm-tossed household together. Being out in public becomes the norm, and so does galloping through the streets. When all else fails, she even carries a coffin on he
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Muddy Waters 泥泞
Lin Ruan is Jiangcheng’s most notorious cripple. People trample on her and look down on her, until she rises in status through her child, wins Gu Minxing’s favor, and becomes the envy of everyone as Mrs. Gu. Only later does Lin Ruan realize that he was never her refuge. He is the harbinger of her doom. He wants her to submit willingly, to beg at his feet.
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Life-and-Death Gambit in the Snowlands 雪域生死局
[Chinese Folk Horror + Gods and Ghosts + Folk Legends + Secret-Realm Exploration + Mystery and Deduction + Strong Allies] At an antique fair in Lhasa, I stumbled upon an ancient Tibetan stone tablet. Curious about its contents, I accepted an invitation to join a merchant named Lao Gun and the team he had assembled to search for goods. Together, we ventured deep into the barren mountains of northern Tibet to investigate an ancient temple. I never expected the old temple to conceal such mysteries.
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The Ten Deadly Sins 4 十宗罪4
This book is adapted from real cases. The place names and names of the people involved have been changed. It introduces ten terrifying murders that took place close to home, each a bizarre major case that the media once carefully suppressed and the authorities refused to discuss. These include the Body-Part Snowman, the Ghost of the Rainy Night, the Dungeon Prisoner, the Human-Skin Scarecrow, and the Perverted Sex Fiend... as well as the horrifying, internet-shaking dismemberment case of Diao Ai
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I’m an Actor in a Horror Movie World 我在惊悚电影世界当影帝
A horrifying civilization descends upon Earth, and every adult on the planet is forced to sign a contract to become an actor in the Scream Theater. Lu Xingchen becomes the rare profession most despised by the actors: a Summoner. Summoners often summon demons and monsters, raising the difficulty of horror movies. They're practically public enemies among the actors! And the requirements for becoming one are downright insane! While everyone else is still paralyzed with fear, Lu Xingchen, still a ne
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Horror Revival: I Marry the Female Ghost Emperor from the Start 恐怖复苏：开局和女鬼帝成亲
[Transmigration + comedy + System] The supernatural is back, and ghosts roam the night. They say female ghosts often lure men to their deaths, so what’s it like to marry a ghost empress from the very start? My name is Roger. There’s a female ghost empress one meter in front of me, eyeing me hungrily. Please tell me how to escape her clutches...
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Thriller Game: I Kissed the Ghost Princess from the Start 惊悚游戏：开局强吻鬼公主
[Horror game + ridiculous comedy + mystery + supernatural, not scary.] Even capitalists would weep, and financial tycoons would look at this and cry out that it's a crime. In the horror world, Ye Chen does only two things: make money and flirt with female ghosts. A female ghost tries to pull a honey trap? He takes all her ghost coins. He operates on a male ghost, who refuses to pay extra halfway through? Congratulations, sir. Your wife has one fewer husband from now on, but one more sister. He e
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My Emotions Can Confer Godhood 我的情绪能封神
[Strong female lead + growth-focused + Cthulhu horror + ship any couple you like] I’m Xu Quan, the only BUG left after reality’s folds invaded. My System sounds the alarm every day, either because an S-rank obsession has formed or because the real world is collapsing. I’m so sick of it. All I want is to quietly collect my obsession encyclopedia. The head of the Stability Bureau can’t stand me? [Ding! Their permissions have been changed to “backyard husky.”] A green-tea rival shows up to stir up
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Please Kill Me Before I Wither 请在我凋零前杀了我
A series of bloody cases unfolds around the struggles of three women from the lowest rungs of society. Poverty-stricken families are like a curse, twisting into a cold, terrifying chain that follows them like a shadow and weighs heavily on the whole family. Will fate offer them a key to break the code? Can Shu Yunyan, Chen Xuanlan, and Chen Jingyun break the chain that passes misfortune down through generations, find redemption, and escape the tragic paths laid out for them? “Officer Peng, this
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