Looking for Horror Novels, the Scarier the Better 求恐怖小说，越恐怖越好

1. 101 民 Folk Tales: One Chapter, One Horror Story 民间怪谈一章一个恐怖故事 Alone Through the Cold Autumn独过寒秋Mystery845k WordsCompleted [Anthology of stories] [Folklore horror] [Supernatural horror] [Village legends] [Chinese-style horror] [Old-time storytelling] There is no overarching plot. Each chapter is a standalone horror story adapted from folk tales, with eerie, unsettling plots that grow more terrifying the more you think about them. Note: This story discourages superstition and encourages belief in science. It is entirely fictional, so just enjoy it as a bit of fun. 26.1kReads7.5Score1.2kShelves
2. 102 一 One Haunting a Day 一日一诡 Spring Rain in the South, Winter Snow in the North南春雨北冬雪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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   The "designated driver" drove out of the "tunnel" and arrived at the "headless old house." He inadvertently heard "crying outside the fence," pushed open the door, and saw the "ghost entering." It murmured that it needed "twenty substitutes," then suddenly turned around and found "one extra person." He was then "possessed" and entered the "haunted house," where they ate "love dumplings" and talked about the "June Festival"!

3. 103 埋 Burying Yin Bones, Borrowing Yang Life, and Marrying the King of Hell's Younger Sister 埋阴骨，借阳寿，阎王妹妹嫁入门 Fragrance of Rice余米之香Mystery318k WordsOngoing On the day I was born, the midwife stabbed herself in the throat with a pair of scissors. With yang eyes, I see the rise and fall of the mortal world; with yin eyes, I glimpse the ghosts and monsters of the underworld. I was born with ghost eyes. I can see the secrets of fate, but that also brought down Heaven's retribution upon me. I was destined to die. To keep me alive, my mother borrowed Jiang Hanying's life. From that day on, Jiang Hanying and I were like twin vines, bound together. As 42Reads—Score—Shelves

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   Horrible, terrifying, enter at your own risk if you are easily frightened.

4. 104 鬼 The Ghost Bone-Reading 鬼称骨 Brother Liang亮兄Mystery999k WordsCompleted Where I'm from, we call our great-grandfather “Laodie.” In Meihua Village, everyone gives a thumbs-up when they talk about my Laodie, saying he was an extraordinary man. Even the children have surely heard the adults tell stories about how my Laodie dealt with ghosts, monsters, and spirits. In the late Qing dynasty, Laodie passed the xiucai examination at the age of twelve. He was supposed to go on to take the provincial and metropolitan examinations, but an unexpected accident changed everythin 418Reads8.7Score105Shelves
5. 105 笑 The Laughing Underworld Chronicles 笑冥录 Wooden Fish by the Abyss临渊木鱼Fantastical Romance183k WordsOngoing “If an almanac could turn you into a ghost right on schedule, but the price was wearing a dead person’s clothes once a day, would you use it?” Top-voted answer (by the poster “Lord Wuchang Has No More Years of Life Today”): “Thanks for the invite. I’m in the underworld, just got off the night shift.” 1Reads—Score—Shelves

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   When I took the white bone lantern, my fingertips touched the name engraved on the lamp's surface—it was my birth date and time. On the road to the underworld, there is no day or night, but my shadow always outnumbers the ghosts.

6. 106 右 A Ghost Lurks in My Right Eye: A Decade-Old Murder Hidden in the Old Building's Brick Wall 右眼栖鬼：老楼砖墙藏十年命案 Clouds Are Light, Phoenixes Are Small and Gentle云淡凤小轻46k WordsCompleted A Ghost Dwells in Her Right Eye: A Decade-Old Murder Hidden in the Bricks of an Old Building 3Reads—Score—Shelves

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   They are all horror-themed.

7. 107 弟 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 Clouds Are Light, Phoenixes Are Small and Gentle云淡凤小轻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 14Reads—Score—Shelves
8. 108 夜 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 Clouds Are Light, Phoenixes Are Small and Gentle云淡凤小轻13k WordsCompleted Night-Shift Internet Cafe Attendant: The Red-Clad Woman in the Men's Restroom Stall Is Hiding a Decade-Old Case 52Reads—Score—Shelves
9. 109 鬼 Paralyzed by Terror: The Shadow That Smelled of Tobacco 鬼压床惊魂-那具带着烟草味的黑影 Clouds Are Light, Phoenixes Are Small and Gentle云淡凤小轻15k WordsCompleted Terrifying Sleep Paralysis: The Shadow That Smelled of Tobacco 16Reads—Score—Shelves
10. 110 荒 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 Clouds Are Light, Phoenixes Are Small and Gentle云淡凤小轻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
11. 111 厉 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 Clouds Are Light, Phoenixes Are Small and Gentle云淡凤小轻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 3Reads—Score—Shelves
12. 112 皮 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 Clouds Are Light, Phoenixes Are Small and Gentle云淡凤小轻11k WordsCompleted Leather Tiger: Three Years After My Mother Died, Someone Came Knocking at My Door Late at Night 1Reads—Score—Shelves
13. 113 魅 The Hanging Charm 魅巾悬 Clouds Are Light, Phoenixes Are Small and Gentle云淡凤小轻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
14. 114 后 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 Clouds Are Light, Phoenixes Are Small and Gentle云淡凤小轻Mystery600k 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
15. 115 误 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 Clouds Are Light, Phoenixes Are Small and Gentle云淡凤小轻17k WordsCompleted I stumbled into a world of horror, only to find that every BOSS was a lamp. 9Reads—Score—Shelves
16. 116 惊EN Terror: I Only Sell Haunted Houses 惊悚：我只卖凶宅 Nicholas Goudan尼古拉斯狗蛋Mystery1.5M WordsCompleted Rooms where unnatural deaths have occurred are collectively known as haunted houses. There are two kinds: “blue houses” and “red houses.” Living people can stay in blue houses without harm, but anyone who lives in a red house is doomed to die. I work as a real estate agent. One day, I accidentally sold a red house, and afterward, I began encountering terrifying things… 26.5kReads9.2Score3.2kShelves

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    [Fear][Fear][Fear][Fear][Fear][Fear] Not for the faint of heart! Do not watch alone late at night! Otherwise, you might accidentally go to the toilet alone! 📖 [1. You live with your wife and parents. But please remember, there are only three people in your home.] [2. Maintain a good relationship with your wife.] [3. You can trust your wife unless she takes off her red hair clip.] [4. You are currently sleeping in the study. Every night after midnight, please lock the study door tightly and do not open it no matter who knocks.]

17. 117 大 Bro, You're a Cop, Not a Taoist Priest! 大哥，你是警察啊，不是道士！ Mou Zui谋醉Mystery2.1M WordsCompleted [If you dislike cutesy, whimpering heroines, read no further] [Also known as: Me, a humble paper effigy maker, and you want me to crack a major case] When Yue Dong went to a telecom service center to cancel his late grandfather’s phone service, the staff gave him a hard time. “Rules are rules. The account holder has to be here in person!” “You have to follow the rules!” Yue Dong laughed in exasperation, then waved his hand and used his paper effigy-making skills to summon his late grandfather. T 71.6kReads9.2Score7.4kShelves
18. 118 镇 The Dragon-Suppressing Coffin and the King of Hell's Fate 镇龙棺，阎王命 Feiyi匪夷Mystery4.9M 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 310.8kReads9.4Score27.9kShelves
19. 119 白 Selling Clothes by Day, Sewing Corpses by Night 白天卖衣服，晚上缝尸体 Night Shadow夜幽影Mystery2.7M WordsCompleted [Traditional supernatural horror, folk terror, decisive and ruthless] I rented an apartment where someone had died, hoping to save money, only to be plunged into endless darkness... My terrifying girlfriend has a mouth full of sharp teeth and haunts me day and night; A headless vengeful infant on the highway frantically tries to steal people’s heads; A horrifying internet celebrity livestreams herself peeling off people’s faces, while the comments turn eerie; At a Cat Immortal shrine in a strang 51.9kReads9.2Score6.2kShelves
20. 120 夜 I Went Night Fishing and Hooked a Corpse, But Carried Home a Fleeing Female Corpse 夜钓钓浮尸，我却扛回逃跑的女尸 Candy Fishing糖果钓鱼Mystery1.0M WordsCompleted Fishing streamer Wei Kun transmigrated to a parallel world and activated the [Tough Guy System]! As long as he completed the System’s missions, he would receive rewards. But the very first mission was to go night fishing at a graveyard on the Ghost Festival. Viewers: Aren’t you scared, streamer? Wei Kun: Scared? My fishing rod’s made from lightning-struck peachwood, my line’s pulled from an ink line reel, my ground bait’s made from glutinous rice, and my bait’s mixed with black dog blood. Tonigh 15.5kReads8.8Score1.8kShelves
21. 121 山 Tales of the Haunted Mountain Village 山村诡事录 Mu Xue牧雪Urban893k WordsCompleted 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 4.5kReads9.1Score428Shelves

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    I had nightmares for a week after watching it, being chased by pandas [petrified][petrified][petrified]

22. 122 我 I’m an Actor in a Horror World 我在恐怖世界当演员 fh Black and Whitefh黑白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

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    Look at this book I wrote

23. 123 午 The Midnight Ringing Story 午夜凶铃故事 The Weather Forecaster天气的预报员Mystery421k WordsOngoing A new work is here! Welcome to read my stories on Fanqie Novel. I hope you enjoy them. Your support is what motivates me to write, and I’ll do my best to tell every story well! —Reads—Score—Shelves

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    Dude, you absolutely have to read that ghost story novel when you have time, it's absolutely terrifying! After reading it, if a clock strikes at night, you'll be terrified and start thinking about it!

24. 124 我 I’m Filming The Ring and Invited Sadako to Play Herself 我拍午夜凶铃，邀请贞子本色出演 Confined to the Galaxy囿于银河Urban823k WordsCompleted [Filmmaking + raising female ghosts + comedy + supernatural + entertainment + wish fulfillment + Uncle Jiu + one female lead, Sadako] What’s it like to make a horror movie and cast the genre’s classic characters to play themselves? Sadako, Kayako, Chu Renmei, the Pen Fairy, Tomie, Nie Xiaoqian, Jason, Freddy, the Slit-Mouthed Woman, Hachishaku-sama, Hanako, Mimiko, Mary Shaw, Auntie Fu Sang, Alice... Lin Miao transmigrated to a parallel world where horror movies were in decline. He gained the Ve 923Reads8.9Score148Shelves
25. 125 一 A Real Midnight Ring Version (Part One) 一个真实的午夜凶铃版（一） Duan Wujun段武军Fantastical Romance74k WordsCompleted The story revolves around a mysterious telephone ringing. Every night at midnight, the phone rings right on time, and whoever answers is beset by all kinds of eerie, terrifying events. These incidents are not only horrifying, but gradually reveal a shocking secret. 1Reads8.2Score—Shelves
26. 126 让 You Asked Me to Write a Murder Mystery, So I Wrote The Ring? 让你写凶杀案，你写午夜凶铃？ An Old Turtledove一只老斑鸠Urban245k WordsCompleted Yang Fan transmigrates onto the set of a scriptwriting competition. Contestants have to create a story based on a prompt drawn by the production team. The first prompt is “Murder.” The other contestants are writing tightly plotted murder mysteries. But Yang Fan doesn’t know much about murder mysteries. Luckily, he has a sudden stroke of inspiration and comes up with a new solution! The Ring Who’s to say a ghost killing someone doesn’t count as murder?! Yuhua: This is a work that explores human n 19Reads5.1Score—Shelves
27. 127 午 Midnight Ring: Sadako Is Spoiled by a Rugged Man 午夜凶铃：我是贞子之被糙汉强宠 Green Trees, Black Woods绿树黑林Modern Romance121k WordsOngoing [Horror icon Sadako × handsome, rugged country boy] Hi, everyone. I'm Sadako, a female ghost. Something embarrassing happened during my first job as a ghost, when I was full of confidence. A little accident meant I failed to scare anyone! And the human in question was a total heartthrob, so handsome I nearly fainted. Not only did I fail to scare him, I also lost my supernatural powers and broke his TV. I think he's going to kill me. Just when I thought my life as a ghost was about to end, he tol —Reads—Score—Shelves
28. 128 午 Midnight Ringing: A Call from My Girlfriend, Dead for Ten Years 午夜凶铃，死去十年的女友来电 A Bowl of Rice Wine一碗米酒Mystery889k WordsCompleted Li Changshou is a deliveryman. While making a delivery one day, he discovered that he had been forced to join a game called “Guess Who’s the Ghost,” where he met his girlfriend. A few days later, he learned that the people who had played the game before were dying one after another, and that he and his girlfriend were next. Just as Li Changshou began worrying about her safety, he discovered that his girlfriend had been dead for ten years, ever since she was hit by a car… A safety cord that cann 131Reads—Score—Shelves
29. 129 一 A Real Midnight Murder Bell Version (II) 一个真实的午夜凶铃版（二） Duan Wujun段武军Mystery76k WordsCompleted The protagonist is once again drawn into a bizarre case involving a ringing telephone. Every night at midnight, the phone rings right on time, and each time he answers, he experiences a different kind of horror. He begins to wonder whether it all has something to do with the legendary cursed videotape. He tries to find clues and uncover the truth behind the ringing, only to discover that things are far more complicated than he imagined. —Reads7.7Score—Shelves
30. 130 致 Deadly Delivery 致命快递 Grilled Gluten Skewers烤面筋10k WordsCompleted I received a package from an unfamiliar sender. A note inside said I could scan a code to claim a huge cash bonus. But when I scanned it, my phone opened a livestream instead. Even stranger, my face appeared right in the middle of the screen. The comments were flying by: "This girl looks pretty good. What a shame to kill her." "Tsk, tsk, what a beauty. I recommend having some fun with her before killing her." Just then, I suddenly heard someone knocking behind me. "Hello, delivery!" 6Reads—Score—Shelves

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    I feel like there's a pair of eyes watching me. [Petrified][Petrified][Petrified]

31. 131 缝 The Corpse Stitcher 缝尸匠 Ice Cream Pie冰沙馅饼Mystery9k WordsCompleted My family makes its living dealing with the dead, and my father is a renowned corpse seamster in the surrounding area. His skills are superb. No matter how mangled a corpse is, he can restore it to look as good as new. Whenever someone died in an accident and their body was disfigured, wealthy families from hundreds of miles around would ask my father to stitch it back together. But as far as I knew, my father used to be a butcher. He was skilled at dressing pigs, but I had never heard that he w 8Reads—Score—Shelves
32. 132 惊 A Terrifying New Year’s Eve 惊悚除夕夜 On Plain Paper素笺上Mystery11k WordsCompleted A Chilling New Year's Eve 6Reads—Score—Shelves
33. 133 坠 A Woman Fell from the Building at My Feet, Then Begged Me in the Middle of the Night to Avenge Her 坠楼女子落我脚边，半夜她哭着求我替她报仇 Peach and Plum Blossoms in Profusion桃李熳熳Mystery10k WordsCompleted The Evil Spirit in the Talisman On a rainy night, I watched a girl jump from a tall building and die on the spot. Her soul latched onto me and demanded that I avenge her. 3Reads—Score—Shelves
34. 134 我 I Decided to Kill My Lover, Then Got on a Haunted Bus with Her 我决定谋杀情人，和她上了一辆闹鬼的巴士 Two Yuan两元Mystery10k WordsCompleted I think I got on a haunted bus. My girlfriend was sitting beside me, her pretty little face deathly pale with fear. "Th-those two people just carried a corpse onto the bus." 1Reads—Score—Shelves
35. 135 恶 After the Wicked Mother-in-Law Drove Her Son’s Family to Their Deaths, They All Became Ghosts 恶婆婆逼死儿媳妇一家后，全变鬼了 Jun Lan君阑Mystery9k WordsCompleted Back in our village, it was perfectly normal for a mother-in-law to bully her daughter-in-law. Even when the entire husband's family bullied the daughter-in-law, nobody thought there was anything wrong with it. But driving the daughter-in-law's entire family to their deaths? I doubt many people could do something like that. —Reads—Score—Shelves
36. 136 别 Terror at the Villa: Everyone Who Heard the Weeping Died 别墅惊魂：听见哭声的人都死了 Jiang Xiaoyu江晓屿Mystery10k WordsCompleted I'm a feng shui master. One day, I was hired by the tycoon Jia Qing, who said something strange was happening at his villa on Lingzhou Island. Every night, the sounds of a woman and a baby crying could be heard inside the villa. The reward he offered was so generous that I couldn't refuse. Who knew that a string of terrifying events would unfold on the very night I moved in? 4Reads—Score—Shelves
37. 137 学 My Senior Disappeared from a Nursing Home, So I Went Undercover as a Nurse and Uncovered a Shocking Secret 学长在养老院失踪，我去当护士卧底发现惊天秘密 Rabbit兔子Mystery10k WordsCompleted My senior disappeared three months ago. He was working at Paradise Nursing Home at the time. To find him, I applied for a job at the nursing home. I never expected to see an elderly resident jump to his death on my very first day. Then more residents started disappearing, one after another. Until one day, inside the refrigerator, I found the finger of a missing resident... —Reads—Score—Shelves
38. 138 囚 The Spirit-Suppressing Coffin 囚灵棺 Mu Shang沐觞Mystery9k WordsCompleted I was curious about the coffin necklace around my boyfriend's neck. Before I could even touch it, he broke up with me on the spot. I complained about it to the viewers in my livestream, but then a fortune-telling streamer suddenly joined the call and warned me: “Break up with him right now. Your boyfriend is wearing a Spirit-Binding Coffin!” From that day on, eerie nightmares, a mysterious female ghost, and my boyfriend's secrets... One strange event after another began to unfold. Just when I th —Reads—Score—Shelves
39. 139 不 The Child Who Never Existed 不存在的孩子 When the Wind Dies Down风尽起Mystery10k WordsCompleted My son suddenly disappeared. Everyone told me that I had never had a child. The daycare teacher didn't know me. My husband said we'd never wanted a child, and even my best friend urged me to calm down, saying it was all just an hallucination. But I clearly remembered the child I'd risked my life to give birth to. His name was Liu Chaoyang, he was one year and eight months old, and he was a chubby little dumpling! Then I found baby supplies under the bed, along with photographs and traces that ha —Reads—Score—Shelves
40. 140 杀 Killing My Second Personality 杀死第二人格 Transmigrate Across the Galaxy in My Underpants穿越银河的裤衩侠Mystery8k WordsCompleted I killed my second personality. But before he died, he left me a “grand gift”... A list of people to harass at the asylum, with 16 names on it, even though the asylum has only 15 patients in total. “Did you think you were the only one with a second personality?” What is the truth? Who is the real madman? —Reads—Score—Shelves
41. 141 惊 The Haunted Inn 惊魂旅馆 Ye Ling Tianyu夜凌天羽Mystery9k WordsCompleted An unexpected downpour drowned out the sounds of murder. Late at night, in a remote inn, a corpse lay sprawled across a bed, blood pouring from all seven orifices. The killer seemed to be hiding among the guests, none of whom trusted one another: a police officer, a writer, a psychiatrist, a celebrity, a fan, a college student... Every one of them had something to hide. After a second murder, the line between the dead and the living grew increasingly blurred. Everyone was a suspect, and everyone 2Reads—Score—Shelves
42. 142 血 Blood Ties 血缘关系 Yan Nanfei南飞燕Mystery8k WordsCompleted I rushed a thousand miles to mourn my mother, only to discover that she had died under suspicious circumstances. I wanted to uncover the truth and avenge her, but my whole family opposed me! It turned out everything was because there was a “vampire” in the family! 1Reads—Score—Shelves
43. 143 未 My Fiancée Disappeared, and I Became the Killer 未婚妻失踪，我成了凶手 Walking Beef Brisket行走的牛五花Mystery8k WordsCompleted My name is Cheng Yuan. My fiancée has disappeared. The last message I saw before I passed out was from her. “Cheng Yuan, run!” When I woke up, I found myself trapped in a perfect replica of my home, with something sinister lurking everywhere. And it seemed someone was watching me! A madman claimed to be deeply in love with my fiancée. But later, I discovered that the real madman was someone else. —Reads—Score—Shelves
44. 144 宿 There’s a Ghost in the Dorm 宿舍有鬼 Weichao未朝Mystery8k WordsCompleted My roommate is a cosplayer. A month into our sophomore year, she ordered a complete Chinese ghost-bride outfit online to wear to a horror party. She even hung the entire outfit beside her bed the night before. But that night, I woke with a start in the middle of the night and saw with my own eyes a female ghost in a bright red wedding dress pacing back and forth at the foot of her bed. 7Reads—Score—Shelves
45. 145 闺 My Best Friend Disappeared While Picking Up Takeout, and Everyone Says She Never Existed 闺蜜取个外卖就失踪，所有人都说她并不存在 Miao Miao苗淼Mystery8k WordsCompleted My best friend went out to pick up a delivery and never came back. She vanished from my life completely. Nobody remembered her. They all thought I was mentally ill. The truth was, we had been split across two different timelines. 1Reads—Score—Shelves
46. 146 女 Daughter Village 女儿村 Weichao未朝Mystery9k WordsCompleted I was born in Daughter Village. For twenty years in a row, every child born in our village was a girl. Every nightfall, the cries of baby girls echoed through the valley. Once, a Taoist priest came to our village and said the entire village was cursed. During the summer of my first year of graduate school, my advisor ignored my protests and brought me and several other students to the village to conduct research. 11Reads—Score—Shelves
47. 147 丢 The Missing Body 丢失的身体 Fan Xiu梵修12k WordsCompleted Two empty bottles of sleeping pills lay before the grave, and two kidneys lay before his son's grave. With a smile on his face, he leaned against his son's gravestone and slowly closed his eyes. —Reads—Score—Shelves
48. 148 断 Midnight Strangulation Marks on a Severed Hand 断手的午夜掐痕 Chen Taiyao陈太瑶Mystery9k WordsCompleted That night on duty, my junior grabbed my sleeve, his voice trembling. “Senior, the patient who lost a hand in a drunk-driving accident half a year ago… he's dead.” A chill ran down the back of my neck as the memories came flooding back. Two accident victims had been brought to the hospital that day, and both had lost their right hands. Yet only one of them survived. Later, the survivor woke in the middle of the night with red marks where his own hand had choked him. His family sought help from e 3Reads—Score—Shelves
49. 149 职 Workplace Rule Horror: A Desperate Fight to Survive the Grind 职场规则怪谈：玩命打工求生 Transmigrate Across the Galaxy in My Underpants穿越银河的裤衩侠Mystery8k WordsCompleted A job interview turns into a deadly game The printer devours people, the elevator plummets, the boss eats human flesh… Every workplace rule is a lethal trap! Double-sided printing can save your life; pressing the wrong elevator button can cost it. Remember the rules of the workplace, or you'll be the next zombie! Is this workplace bullying, or a death game? Welcome to workplace hell Please do your best to survive. 2Reads—Score—Shelves
50. 150 女 A Female Ghost Is Clinging to Me? Better Cling to Her! 女鬼缠身？反抱她大腿！ Tale of the Strange Star奇星记Mystery1.0M WordsCompleted [No System, one heroine, ghost wife, yin-yang master, urban, supernatural, lighthearted comedy] A night spent beside a lonely grave, and the tomb’s occupant latches on. After paying respects to my grandfather tonight, I encountered something utterly absurd: I actually saw a ghost! These days, I’m afraid of being poor, and I’m afraid of dying! On a whim, after we couldn’t agree on anything, I got into a fight with the ghost and even slept on a lonely grave for the whole night. After that, one st 3.4kReads8.2Score327Shelves

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    I personally recommend starting with the first one.

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