Looking for Mystery Stories with a Highly Intelligent Protagonist and Multiple Cases 求高智商主角，悬疑，多案件的
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Criminal Psychology: The Mind-Reading Detective 罪案心理：读心神探
Also known as The Mind-Reading Detective. Chen Luo is an expert in criminal psychology and body language. After graduating from the academy, he became a consultant for the criminal investigation department. To ordinary people, the motives behind serial murders seem bizarre, twisted, and impossible to fathom. To Chen Luo, they’re clear as day, and the hidden killer is exposed in an instant. The lies and secrets people try so hard to conceal cannot escape Chen Luo’s notice. He sees straight throug
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Buried Crimes of Old Cases 旧案沉凶
Twenty-eight years ago, Su Mei vanished under mysterious circumstances from a plant nursery on the outskirts of Qingchuan City. There was no body and no eyewitness. The task force at the time was divided. After two rounds of screening suspects, everyone was released for lack of evidence. The case was filed away, becoming a cold case no one wanted to touch. Retired veteran detective Zhou Cheng has been haunted by it for half his life. When the city police formed a cold-case task force, he volunte
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Unsolved Case Rankings: Countdown to Solving the Case 悬案榜：清案倒计时
The night his name appeared on the Unsolved Cases List, he received his first case: every time he solved one, he would forget a piece of his memory. The cases on the list grew older with each entry. He couldn't investigate fast enough to keep up with how quickly he was forgetting. Ten years of his life were being erased, case by case. He had to solve every case on the list before he forgot who he was. But the deeper he dug, the more things felt wrong. Some cases seemed to have been prepared espe
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The Detective Who Speaks in Riddles 诡语神探
In his previous life, Zhu Long was betrayed by both the woman he loved most and his best friend. He died a miserable death, unable to let go of his resentment. After a journey through hell, he emerged stronger: not only was he reborn five years in the past, he also gained the blessing of strange words. This time, he will rewrite his fate and clear the names of the dead. Whatever belongs to him, he will take back with his own hands!
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Blood Red: Cold Case 血红：悬案
This story is based on famous real-life cold cases. Its analysis and deductions are adapted primarily from evidence currently available online. Cold cases are unique: from the moment a case goes cold until it is solved, the case files and evidence are already fixed. There can be no steady stream of new evidence to upend the case and turn it into a twist-filled mystery. So this novel has no convoluted, bizarre plot, only logic as calm as still water. The author's analyses of these cases outside t
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Browning Detective Stories 布朗宁探案集
Hard-hitting crime-solving, mysteries, deduction, and multiple cases A new work is here! You're welcome to read my stories on Tomato Novel. I hope you'll enjoy them. Your support inspires me to write, and I'll do my best to tell every story well!
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A Suffocating Marriage: The Mad Wife Strikes Back 窒息的婚姻——疯妻的反杀
A Suffocating Marriage: The Mad Wife Strikes Back
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Netherworld Files: The Ironblood Era 幽冥档案：铁血纪元
My new work is out! You're welcome to read it on Tomato Novel. I hope you'll enjoy it. Your support motivates me to write, and I'll do my best to tell every story well!
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A Survival Guide to the Desperate Supermarket 绝境超市的生存指南
A Survival Guide to the Supermarket at the End of the World
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Mysterious Case on a Deserted Island 孤岛迷案
To find her sister, who has been missing for three years, Lin Jianlu ventures alone onto Wuyu, an isolated island shrouded in mist. A copper clasp her sister left behind, engraved with the character Yu, and a mysterious clue pointing to the forbidden Red Reef Bay pull her into a major smuggling case that has been brewing for a decade. On Wuyu, seemingly ordinary landlord Chen Mo, reporter Jiang Che, who has concealed his identity, and the taciturn old woman who runs a dried-fish stall all have s
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Me, I Arrested My Blind Date from the Start 我，开局逮捕了相亲对象
“Ding!” “System activated...” “Skills are now being issued...” Lin Ran, a newly hired police officer, awakened the System during a raid on a foot massage parlor. From then on, solving major cases became as easy as eating and drinking. Criminals of every stripe trembled at the mere mention of his name...
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Strange Tales from the Min Tiao Bureau: Mian Zhuan 民调局异闻录之勉传
This is the story of an immortal man spanning two thousand years. In every corner of history, he left his name behind. To some, he was a nightmare. To others, he awakened them from the nightmares that haunted them. At the beginning of the story, his name was Wu Mian. By the end, his name was Invincible.
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Secret Prison Cell: Someone Else Was Entwined with Me in the Dead of Night 隐秘囚室：深夜与我缠绵的另有其人
Secret Cell: Someone Else Was Entwined with Me in the Dead of Night
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Where Longevity's Star Falls 长生星落
In the 48th year of the Tianshu era, the Great Su Dynasty worships the Goddess. From the emperor to the nobles, everyone is obsessed with her in hopes of attaining immortality, and all sorts of elixirs promising eternal life have become widespread. At this time, Shen Ke is ordered to return to Qiongsang to establish an official school and advance new policies. Appointed as its headmaster, he recruits students from poor families and sets a precedent by opening a school for girls, causing an uproa
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The Autopsy Files 解剖档案
Authentic crime scenes, conclusive evidence, hidden corners, and the cold autopsy table will take you on a journey into mysteries from a forensic pathologist's perspective, while revealing the day-to-day work of forensic science.
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You Haven't Even Started the Job, and You're Teaching the Criminal Investigation Captain How to Solve Cases? 还没入职，你教刑侦队长办案？
Chu Nan has just started working at Badaoguai Police Station, and he’s completely baffled. Wudang Cloud-Step Technique? Shaolin Iron Shirt??? Ancient martial arts’ Eight Extremes Fist???? Nine-Section Whip of Lightning????? Did the System make a mistake? Isn’t this the kind of story where someone unifies the martial world and becomes the supreme ruler? I mean, I’m just a cop. What am I supposed to do with these rewards? What, am I going to become an unparalleled martial arts master and start wea
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Criminal Investigation Consultant Lin Chen 刑侦顾问林辰
Lin Chen, the youngest criminal psychology professor at the provincial public security department, suffered a fatal setback at the peak of his career. A profile that was supposedly one hundred percent accurate sent an innocent courier to prison, while the real killer struck again ten months later. He tore up the honors he had earned over ten years with his own hands, wrote the words “resigning to take responsibility,” and disappeared for three whole months. When he resurfaced, he had become the
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Secret Case Files of the Tang Court 大唐朝秘案录
Pei Qingluo, daughter of the chancellor, is obsessed with examining corpses in the Dali Temple morgue and solving cases through traces of ink. Qin Zheng, a half-Hu, half-Han head constable, moves between the dark alleys of the marketplaces and the mysteries of the martial world. Beneath the splendid robes of Chang’an’s golden age, corpses begin to seep with strange black ink, while a marionette suspended by threads performs a bloody murder before the emperor. A fragment of a secret edict from a
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Hunting Down the Guilty and Pursuing the Wicked [Criminal Investigation] 猎罪逐凶【刑侦】
A stunning, icy female detective, a rough-around-the-edges but perceptive male team captain, and a plump forensic examiner who can never sit still. They seem like bickering oddballs, but in truth they make a perfectly in-sync team. Faced with one baffling case after another, this ironclad trio joins forces to pierce the layers of mystery. They support one another. They are comrades, and they are family. They trust and redeem one another. Who says truth is as dirty as lies? Beyond the fog, there
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The Cursed Realm: Rules for Surviving the Forbidden Zone 诡境：禁区生存法则
[Survival in Another World, Horror, Mystery, Ruthless Action, High Intelligence, No System or Formulaic Tropes, Just Thrills] Chen Zhao is a genius with extraordinary intelligence. After an inexplicable accident, he is drawn into a bizarre otherworld. There is no System and no formula to follow here, only mortal danger and terrifying presences lurking in the dark... From his initial bewilderment to gradually adapting, Chen Zhao searches for a way to survive in desperate circumstances and carves
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The Age of the Supernatural: Starting with The Dark Pictures Anthology 诡异时代：从黑相集开始
After enduring five years of a dark age, Luo Wuchen returns and is chosen by a Horror System, which lets him travel through different horror movies and games to gain powerful abilities. At last, he has the strength to protect those around him, while also forming friendships with characters from different worlds. He fights for his life in Raccoon City. He makes sure the light of Harlan City never goes out. He helps the young Alex Mercer become a hero instead of being reviled by the world as a dem
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I'm Just a Beat Cop. Is It Really So Strange to Catch a Wanted Criminal? 我一个片警，抓个通缉犯很合理吧
Synopsis: Urban setting + One heroine + System + Crime Solving + Not a comedy Su Jie transmigrates to a parallel world (don’t compare it to reality) and becomes an ordinary patrol officer. He suddenly awakens the Crime Buster System, and from then on sets out to catch criminals and solve cases. On the very day he awakens the System, he happens to run into an A-list fugitive. On his way to the hospital, he casually solves a scumbag’s murder case, too. A human-trafficking gang that has stumped
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A Global Manhunt: The Prodigy Girl Goes on a Killing Spree 全球追凶，天才少女她杀疯了
Mystery and deduction + crime-solving + System + woman disguised as a man + two powerful leads (1v1) + cold, aloof genius girl (a high-IQ prodigy with an IQ of 288, the most gifted member of China's Mensa Club) vs. rich second-generation criminal investigation captain (not dim-witted, with plenty of money; persistent, perceptive, remarkably intelligent, decisive, sharp, and exceptionally observant. The standout heartthrob of the Nanan police force, he raises the overall attractiveness of the Nan
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The Song Dynasty Ministry of Justice Case Files 大宋刑部侦缉档案
In the early years of the Southern Song, the Jin forced the Zhao Song court to retreat to its temporary capital in Lin’an, where it secured a century of peace. Mu Qingyan, an orphan from Xiangyang, had planned to seek out her uncle, a constable in Lin’an Prefecture. But her uncle became entangled in the murder of Huang Shang, tutor to Prince Jia, Zhao Kuo, and has since disappeared. By chance, Mu Qingyan comes into possession of a secret letter her uncle left behind, drawing her into one bafflin
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The Unrivaled Chronicle of the Classic Historian 无双典史传
A thrilling mystery! A young county investigator’s legendary crime-solving career! Chen Xun possesses the secret art of the Heavenly Eye. In just three short years, he rids the region of bandits and thieves, making a name for himself! Just when he thinks everything is finally going well and looks forward to marrying the beauty of his dreams, one murder after another takes place: In full view of everyone, a murder occurs inside the Guanyin Hall. The suspect is the last person anyone would expect.
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You Told Me to Start the Job, So Why Did I Catch a Wanted Criminal? 让你去入职，你咋抓了个通缉犯
[Not a wish-fulfillment story] [No romance] [Two ways to read: follow the clues and think through the plot, or just sit back and enjoy the story] [This work is entirely fictional. Don’t take it as a reference to real people or events.] Wu Zixuan narrowly escaped death and obtained a detective System. From then on, he began catching criminals with cheat-like abilities. On the day of his interview, he caught a wanted criminal on the way there. While grabbing barbecue at a roadside stall, he nabbed
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A Female Cop Solving Cases Can Be This Fierce? 女警破案，也这么猛？
🔥 [No CP + No System + Pure Detective Work and Deduction + Feel-Good Female Lead] 🔥 A rich young woman becomes a police officer, and nobody believes in her. But with one meritorious achievement after another, and by fearlessly charging into danger, she cracks major cases time and again and changes everyone's expectations. It turns out a female criminal investigator can be this fierce! 🔥 Some cases are a little creepy, but they're a real thrill... 🔥 (All names in this book are fictional, so don't
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The Complete Collection of Zhang Haifan's Works (14 Volumes) 张海帆作品大合集（全十四册）
A landmark of Chinese mystery fiction! Ten years after its conclusion, the author's work was still a headline topic on Tianya, with more than 90 million clicks on a single post! This collection includes The Five Great Thieves (Collector's Edition, 8 Volumes), Record of a Deadly Mission (4 Volumes), Qing Mang: The Great Escape, and The Great Magician. The Five Great Thieves is hailed alongside The Grave Robbers' Chronicles, Candle in the Tomb, and Tibetan Code as one of the four great online fict
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The Spirit Medium's Strange Cases 通灵诡事
Parental love? I have none. From the moment I was born, they wanted to strangle me. Sibling affection? I have none. My own brother calls me a country bumpkin. Friendship with my peers? I have none. Everyone in the village says I'm a demon in human form who eats children. Love? What even is that? The first time I saw Qi Yue, I just thought he looked clean-cut and handsome. The next time I saw him, I found out his mother was the woman who had gone looking for Fourth Auntie years ago. Only now, she
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Case Files of the Republic of China 民国诡案手札
In the early years of the Republic of China, warlords carved up the country, people lived in poverty, and hearts were unsettled, creating fertile ground for demons and monsters to thrive. Lin Qingxuan was adopted as a child by a seemingly lazy old Taoist with secret arts, who lived in a remote mountain temple. Bright and gifted, Lin seemed to have no interest in serious pursuits, yet learned all his master's secrets. He was especially skilled in talismans, feng shui, and all sorts of strange fol
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The Yin-Yang Pharmacy 阴阳药店
When people get sick, there is medicine to treat them. But when ghosts get sick, is there medicine for them? There is, and you can find it right here. What can't you buy at One-of-a-Kind Pharmacy? We have Granny Meng Pills, Regret-Banishing Pills, Worry-Relief Wine, and Resurrection Capsules. Whatever you want, as long as you can pay the price, your wish can come true.
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Officer Lu's Journal 小陆警官的手记
Lu Chengwen: I'm a detective. I only believe in evidence. Lin Xiao: I can feel corpses talking. Lu Chengwen: Say that again? Lin Xiao: The corpse says it wants to go home. Lu Chengwen: ...Fine. Lead the way. Author: If you two keep chatting, the readers will all go next door to read romance ◉‿◉
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Traces of Guilt 罪迹
Humans are the world’s most complex tangle of contradictions; lies are the warm womb in which evil is born. A man whose heart was cut out while he was still alive, a woman submerged in a blood-filled bathtub, a corpse chewed beyond recognition... Could these eerie crime scenes be the killer’s arena? What lies behind these baffling cases? A victim who foresaw their own attack, a hacker lurking in the shadows, twisted family bonds and love... Who is the true source of the evil? When night falls, c
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The Tang Dynasty Criminal Case Files 大唐刑官录
Beneath the splendor of the Tang dynasty, treacherous undercurrents swirl. Pei Yan, a military aide in Bianzhou from a family of legal experts, can uncover hidden mechanisms and secret passages with the bronze ruler in his left hand, while his right eye can detect poison and see through the deviousness in people's hearts. He joins forces with Shen Tuo, a young coroner and renegade from the Imperial Medical Bureau, whose silver needles can examine corpses and whose knowledge of poisons is profoun
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Banxia and Qiao An 半夏和乔安
Jiang Banxia won her company a project to renovate a detached villa in the suburbs. She brought her assistant Qin Chao to survey the site. Though the villa was almost abandoned, traces of its former splendor and luxury remained. Jiang Banxia went up to the third floor alone. A room with a broken doorknob inexplicably piqued her curiosity. Just as she was about to push the door open, a cool, unfamiliar male voice sounded behind her: “Who are you?”
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Deep Imprints of Crime 罪案深痕
My new work is out! You're welcome to read it on Tomato Novel. I hope you'll enjoy it. Your support motivates me to write, and I'll do my best to tell every story well!
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Case Files, Delivered Fast 诡案速递
[Two male leads, no female lead, not a wish-fulfillment story] In a city gripped by turmoil, my partner and I run a little café. Every so often, we receive an express package with no return address. Inside is either a sheet of paper or some object. These seemingly pointless gestures turn out to be connected to a series of unsolved cases. Lost in the fog of suspicion and uncertainty, we try to use our wits to piece together what really happened.
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When I Enter Dreams, the Entire Instance Trembles 当我入梦：整个副本都将颤抖
[Infinite Flow, original instances, no System, logic-focused, suspense-focused, mind-bending, mild horror, Cthulhu, sequences, slightly slow-paced] "Su Wu has the special ability to enter dreams. He can freely enter and leave other people's dreams, probing their innermost secrets at will. According to statistics, he has used this ability to discover and kill 7,361 deep-sea corrupters and expose 18,396 evil god cultists. He is currently being held at the Qiantang District Investigation Bureau."
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Killing His Wife 杀死妻子
To deal with scumbag men, use their own tactics against them and leave them with nowhere to turn. Lin Xia is busy uncovering the truth, inheriting a fortune worth over a billion, and helping women hurt by their partners. Her enemies are formidable: a scheming man who marries into a wealthy family to exploit it, a crafty tycoon, a faithless husband who murders his wife for insurance money, a manipulative man who scams women out of money and sex, and an elite lawyer who commits sexual violence…
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Ning Hangyi: The Game Where You Must Break the Rules (Five-Volume Set) 宁航一·必须犯规的游戏（全五册）
Over 200,000 copies sold! Recommended by Nanpai Sanshu! A classic suspense novel by Ning Hangyi, hailed as “China's Hitchcock”! Ranked number one on China's 2013 suspense novel list! A web series adaptation of the same name is coming soon! Fourteen novelists, fourteen days, fourteen terrifying tales. A deadly game has begun. Fourteen suspense writers are “invited” to a mysterious location. Each must improvise a suspense story and tell it to the others. Once the story is over, everyone votes. The
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The Way of Auditing: Lessons from Experience 审计之道：揭示审计经验
Using a fictional audit case in Dongsheng Laizhou, this book shares practical and management experience with auditors. From the perspectives of practice and management, it analyzes how auditors make judgments and manage audits. It presents auditing experience in four areas: tactical auditing skills, strategic auditing thinking, in-depth audit quality, and comprehensive audit management.
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The Last Bus on Route 13 13路末班车
I'm the driver of the last bus on Route 13. Every night at eleven, I have to make a run to the suburbs. This book is addictive, so don't blame me if you can't put it down! In this novel, even the sharp-tongued readers who always guess the plot right will find themselves repeatedly proven wrong. You might find yourself asking, “What's going on? What's going on?” Don't doubt your sanity. Just keep reading. A story that keeps you on edge, here to save readers suffering from a reading drought!
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The Prince of Winter X The Camellia Beauty X Romantic Love Poems 冬之王子X山茶花美人X浪漫情诗
Also known as: The Butterfly on the Hanging Lock This is a light-novel-style story set in a fictional world. In the city of Zhenye, the forces at play are tangled together, with undercurrents churning... The military, the underworld, the church! Poise, elegance, beauty! A meticulously plotted romantic mystery! A villainous, scheming heroine x a cold yet gentle hero. They dwell in darkness, loving and fighting each other, with no need for redemption! Told through a POV narrative style, similar to
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Walking the Dark Path 踏黑
A young, mysterious criminal investigation captain suddenly arrives at the C City Public Security Bureau, while Jiang Tao, who should have been promoted to the position, is made deputy captain instead. Zhou Wuyang's arrival shatters the peace, and the criminal investigation team soon faces one difficult cold case after another. The mysterious captain solves them all with ease. Through the darkness, sunlight is near. The truth will never stay buried and will ultimately come to light. What shockin
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The Reborn Detective Hunts a Killer, Starting With a Gifted Inspector Black Cat 神探重生追凶，开局获赠黑猫警长
Hua Shang is captain of the Criminal Investigation Division at the Mosheng City Police Bureau. She has solved countless major and high-profile cases. A car accident sends her back to when she was eighteen. On her birthday that year, her father, three older brothers, stepmother, and stepsister are all murdered. She is the only survivor. The massacre of the Hua family causes a sensation. Though the killer commits suicide and is brought to justice, Hua Shang knows that person was not the real culpr
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The Genius Tracker 天才之搜捕手
In the deep darkness of night, do you know what lies hidden within? What are those kind faces really like behind closed doors? The Genius Tracker will show you!
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Born of a Corpse, Carried in a Ghost's Coffin 尸生子，鬼抬棺
In ancient, remote places, all kinds of strange and terrifying things are bound to happen. And these things happen around Hua Jiunan. In fact, Hua Jiunan is part of them. For instance, he was born from a corpse!
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I Turned the Horror World Into a Raising Game! 我把惊悚世界玩成养成游戏！
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
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Corpse Ancestor from the Start, Dismembered and Sealed for Ten Thousand Years by the Female Emperor 开局尸祖，被女帝分尸封印万年
(Invincible + wish-fulfillment + empress + ruthless) Unlucky Ye Kui had barely transmigrated into the body of the Corpse Ancestor when the Empress dismembered and sealed him away, plunging him into a deep slumber. Ten thousand years later, Ye Kui awoke to find that only his head remained. He split his soul and reincarnated into the four great human clans to search for the body parts that had been sealed away. What he never expected was to encounter the Empress's reincarnation after his rebirth.
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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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