Behind-the-Scenes Stories About Creating Rules-Based Urban Legends 幕后流，创造规则类怪谈的小说。

1. 1 让 I Asked You to Write an Essay, Not a Rule Horror Story! 让你写作文，你写规则怪谈？ Mu Youqingyao木又清遥Mystery622k WordsCompleted [Behind the Scenes]+ [Creating Rules Horror]+ [No System]+ [No Saintly Hero] Lin Chen wrote nothing more than a school essay, yet it plunged all of Longguo into panic. Because the rules horror he wrote had become real! The night before, wanting revenge on the gangsters who bullied him, Lin Chen had used one of their birthday parties as the template for a rules horror scenario. The next day, he was astonished to discover that several classmates who had attended the gangsters' birthday party the p 3.3kReads8.2Score518Shelves

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   🍀🍀Behind the scenes + no system + no virgin + decisive killing 🍀One day the protagonist discovers that the strange rules he created have come true. Those who have bullied him will be in bad luck. One or two more and more strange rules appear, shocking the world. The protagonist just watched everything silently in the dark.

2. 2 怪 Strange Tales Livestream! 怪谈直播间！ Stone Giant Monster石头巨怪Mystery1.3M WordsCompleted Welcome to the Rules of the Strange. This is a battle of blood and fire, a test of wit and courage. The power of words cannot be resisted, and the eerie rules must not be broken. In a seemingly hopeless situation, find the one correct answer, break free of your constraints, and search for a way to survive. 184.1kReads9.7Score19.9kShelves

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   The books that meet the requirements are here! Follow me and stop reading! The protagonist travels through a parallel world. Although the space for ghost stories is a bit collapsed at the beginning, he gains the ability to infinitely deduce, so the protagonist deduce the future, and finally changes the future of the Dragon Kingdom. The protagonist accidentally discovers that he has gained the ability to create strange stories based on rules, and then the protagonist creates many strange stories behind the scenes, and finally returns home and is free.

3. 3 规 Rule Horror: I Write the Rules 规则怪谈：我来书写规则 A Rainbow Cloud一份彩虹云Mystery1.1M WordsCompleted [Doomsday Arrives + Livestream + National Fate + Supernatural Rules + Parallel World] The supernatural descended upon Blue Star, and rules became humanity’s final point of contention with the unspeakable. The unspeakable would randomly select “chosen ones” from every country and send them into a supernatural world. If they successfully solved its mystery, that round’s haunting would disappear from their country. If they failed the challenge within the allotted time, the haunting would descend up 1.8kReads8.9Score210Shelves
4. 4 你 Your Anomaly Has Been Created. Please Set Its Killing Rules 你的诡异已创建，请设置杀人规则 Doesn't Like Sausages不爱吃香肠Mystery1.7M WordsCompleted [Behind the scenes + urban setting + ensemble cast + dark themes + revenge + creating the uncanny + rules for killing] Vengeful spirits, urban legends, and evil ghosts: terrifying beings once confined to supernatural horror films had crossed into reality, shrouding the world in fear. Each had its own rules for killing, and they especially favored the lives of evil people. Once they marked you, if you didn’t know how to break their rules, you were sure to die by their hands. Governments around th 34.6kReads7.0Score4.3kShelves
5. 5 在 Becoming a Heavenly Principles Sustainer Behind the Scenes in an Anime Crossover World 在综漫世界幕后当天理维系者 The Treasure Tathagata of Splendid Island锦绣岛的宝藏如来Anime Fanfiction672k WordsOngoing The Heavenly Principle says: “Child of man! Cross the darkness! Child of man! Leave your home behind!” A story about a transmigrator who becomes Earth's Heavenly Principle, leads humanity into the mysterious unknown, and then launches it once more into the sea of stars! Slow burn! Anime crossover! The protagonist disappears from the spotlight! Told from the anime characters' perspectives! If that's not your thing, don't read! 1.8kReads6.5Score109Shelves

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   Comprehensive comics need not be [thinking]

6. 6 写 I Was Just Writing a Horror Story, So How Did I Become a God? 写个怪谈而已，我怎么成神了 Youth Isn't Afraid of Pants Exploding青春不怕裤子爆炸Mystery264k WordsCompleted [Pseudo-Behind-the-Scenes Mastermind + Light Horror + Creating Rules + No Female Lead + Horror Game] [Some angst early on, proceed with caution if you're sensitive to that] Lu Ze, a weak high school boy, happens to find a mysterious diary titled “Investigate Things to Gain Knowledge.” It grants him the ability to create urban legends and accidentally draws him into an even more terrifying, darker world. A group of vicious criminals corners the boy in a locked room. Lu Ze turns and writes in the 3.1kReads9.0Score546Shelves

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   Personally I think it looks pretty good.

7. 7 规 Rule Horror: I’m the Final Villain in This Horror Story 规则怪谈：我，恐怖里的最终反派 Autumn Wind Enters Dreams秋风入梦Mystery306k WordsCompleted The supernatural returned, and rulebound horror descended upon the world. Lin Mu was chosen by chance and brought to this perilous world of urban legends. He thought he was just like most of the other players. If he failed to solve the mystery within the allotted time, his mind would descend into chaos, and he would become one of them. Until today: [Rulebound horror has finally begun!] [Wait! This handsome guy looks kind of familiar. Holy crap, isn't he the final villain who created the urban le 1.6kReads8.5Score186Shelves
8. 8 十 The End of Ten Days 十日终焉 Pest Control Team Member杀虫队队员Mystery3.2M WordsCompleted 2024 Tomato Novel Annual Peak Rankings TOP 1 | 2024 China Online Literature Influence List | 2024 China Good Novel Award | Over 2 million copies sold (No harem, no formulaic tropes, no invincibility, no System, no mindless antics, no wish fulfillment. Read with caution if these bother you.) Just when I thought it was an ordinary day, I discovered I had been captured and taken to the End. Just when I thought I could escape by continually taking part in death games, people began awakening supernat 1.8MReads9.9Score232.6kShelves

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   Suspenseful Imagination ~ Brainy ~ Reasoning ~ Infinite Flow ~ Super Burning When I thought it was an ordinary day, I was caught in the end. Just when I thought I could save myself by continuing to participate in the death game, I discovered that everyone else was awakening to supernatural powers!!! I, Qi Xia, want to reset the rules, change my fate against the will of heaven, and start a war!

9. 9 怪 Ghost Story: I Created the Backrooms 怪谈：我创造了后室 Zhonggong's Yuebei Star中宫的月孛星Mystery213k WordsCompleted “Did I transmigrate?” “Ding! Congratulations, you’ve obtained the Backrooms System. This System is dedicated to creating Rule Horror using Backrooms levels.” “Create Level 1.” “Chief, there’s a new horror story.” “Damn, these Backrooms horror stories reproduce faster than pigs!” “I’m a wanderer.” Behind it all, it seems as if a pair of giant hands is controlling everything. To read the full story, click on the book. 671Reads6.6Score140Shelves

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   6. Interesting,

10. 10 全 What Do I Do When Everything Is Supreme Divinity? Contain It! 全是至高神性怎么办？收容它！ Rat-a-tat-tat Squad突突突寄队Urban906k WordsOngoing [Livestream]+ [Building an Organization]+ [No Female Lead]+ [Containing Monsters]+ [Behind-the-Scenes Story] When Fang Xiu woke up, he had transmigrated to a world full of danger and anomalies. Here, indescribable phantoms occupied the sky, spiders wove webs beneath the mountains in people's dreams, a new humanity was born underground, and the Children of the Sun and Children of the Night had switched places once more. Amid all sorts of eerie phenomena, a giant clock was slowly approaching from 7.5kReads8.7Score592Shelves
11. 11 规 Rule Horror: Who Taught You to Study Like That? 规则怪谈：谁教你这样读书的 Bamboo Shoot Buns Are So Delicious竹笋包子超好吃Mystery426k WordsCompleted [Strong Female Lead, No Romance, Rule-Based Horror, Infinite Realms, Chinese-Style Horror] Traditional culture has been distorted on a massive scale in modern society. Altered pronunciations, words smeared with stigma, and ancient sayings twisted out of shape are gnawing away at the human soul. Su Muyu, the thirtieth-generation descendant of Su Shi and the sole inheritor of the Soulcrafter lineage, joins Li Guazi, a girl whose past is a mystery, and Mr. Dongli, a word spirit from the handwritt 53Reads9.4Score—Shelves

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12. 12 上 The Strange Tales of Shangguan Zhaorong 上官昭容诡事录 Bamboo Shoot Buns Are So Delicious竹笋包子超好吃Mystery1.6M WordsCompleted [Completed] [Strong female lead, no romance, Chinese-style horror, transmigration through history, numerous foreshadowed clues, coherent plot, no System, not a power fantasy] [The Strange Tales of Shangguan Zhaorong] [Also known as: Old Tales from the Yellow Springs] [Reader’s guide: The main plot and the individual arcs are interconnected, with plenty of clues and foreshadowing. Almost every character who appears has a role to play, though each arc can also be read as a standalone story.] Th 1.6kReads9.3Score294Shelves
13. 13 惊 Thriller: I Built the Anomalous Track Containment Society 惊悚：我打造了异轨收容会 Chi Yisheng赤亦生Mystery2.7M WordsOngoing [Horror + Satisfying Power Fantasy + Director’s Tall-Tale Style] Horror games descended upon Blue Star, turning into one eerie dungeon after another. The monsters inside stepped into the real world, and from then on, the world was overrun with the uncanny. Only by conquering every dungeon could humanity stop the supernatural from consuming the world. Otherwise, the eerie realms would merge with reality and turn the human world into a living hell! Shen Yu bound himself to an Anomaly Containmen 56.1kReads9.1Score5.3kShelves

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    A novel similar to Rules for Monster Containment. Everyone who read Weird said it was very interesting.

14. 14 大 My Freshman Internship: You Went to Site 749 to Contain Monsters 大一实习，你跑去749收容怪物 Gaara's Sand我爱罗的沙Urban3.9M WordsOngoing [Decisive killing] [How could any monster be good?] [All monsters deserve to die] [Ruthless] During his sophomore summer vacation, Lu Ding had planned to use the time to take an internship and earn some living expenses. Who could have expected that the construction site where he interned would excavate a bleeding stone? The workers fled one after another, but Lu Ding charged in with a rotary hammer. After transmigrating to this world nearly twenty years ago, Lu Ding’s golden finger, the Monster 645.9kReads9.5Score52kShelves
15. 15 我 I Am Uncontainable 我，无法收容 May Season五月时期Urban3.2M WordsOngoing [Lighthearted] [Everyday life] [Managing containment facilities] (Peaked at 600,000 active readers and has updated steadily for over a year.) The sun burned beneath the deep sea, while roots spread across the sky. Gears grew from people’s bodies, and upside-down cities fell like meteorites. Fang Jiu once thought that these things, which existed only in fantasy, had nothing to do with an ordinary man like him. That was until his head was chopped off one night... (The pace is slower from the start 135.8kReads9.3Score13.6kShelves
16. 16 邪 The Evil God’s Ranch 邪神牧场 Yi Chen逸臣Urban3.2M WordsCompleted [No System]+ [No Heroine]+ [Cthulhu]+ [No Tired Tropes] (Also known as: Sequence: Ascension to Godhood) The Dark Prison has merged with reality, and bizarre creatures are invading the world through the “Gates.” An organization has quietly emerged, calling themselves the Wardens. They keep the bizarre creatures behind the “Gates,” and capture and contain any that make it into the world. Lu Xiao accidentally fell into the Dark Prison and lived there alone for three years. After the Wardens discove 68.7kReads9.2Score7.2kShelves
17. 17 末 The Strange Apocalypse: I’m Containment Object No. 1, So What If I’m a Little Too Strong? 末世诡异：我一号收容物，强亿点怎么了 I Want Milk Tea我要喝奶茶Sci-Fi & Apocalypse1.6M WordsCompleted [Apocalypse] [Anomaly Containment] [Cthulhu] [Eerie] When the Apocalypse descended, Ye Lan was contained by humanity as Anomaly No. 1. They say I destroyed the world, but the truth is, I was asleep the whole time… Have you ever seen a living city stretching for dozens of miles? Have you ever seen a sun that scatters sunlight according to its mood? Ye Lan is a little flustered, but not all that much. After all, he is 001, the most “experienced” anomaly in the world. A terrifying Eerie that can cr 7.9kReads8.5Score908Shelves
18. 18 人 In the Apocalypse, I Contain Anomalies 人在末世，收容异常 Shang Jian尚简Mystery767k WordsOngoing Inspired by Lobotomy Corporation, apocalypse, mind games, recruiting players, containing anomalies Congratulations on joining the greatest game in the world! Sure, the world is full of bizarre “anomalous entities,” terrifying and crazy extreme weather, and a blood moon that makes monsters go berserk every week. But that’s okay. We’re invincible players. We can conquer the wasteland, rebuild civilization, and reshape the world! As long as you remember the following rules, you should survive your 2kReads9.1Score193Shelves
19. 19 我 I Contain Hauntings in the Dark World 我在暗世界里收容诡物 I Am Different我则异於是Mystery1.5M WordsCompleted [Infinite Flow + Hypnotically Charming Male Lead With a Harem of Admirers + No Female Lead + Ensemble Cast + Overwhelming Combat Power + Recklessly Courting Death] After Xie Wudao dies, he finds himself in a dark world full of filth and strange creatures. Here, the only hope of staying alive is himself. Every instance contains a strange creature. Contain one, and he gains its supernatural ability, allowing him to command it in battle. The more strange creatures a player has, the more limitless t 28.1kReads9.3Score5.9kShelves
20. 20 基 Foundation: A Typical Workday of Containing Anomalies Gone Rogue 基金会：收容物常规失控工作日常 Uncle Tang汤大叔Urban696k WordsCompleted My new work is out! You can read it on Tomato Novel. I hope you’ll enjoy it. Your support is what motivates me to write, and I’ll do my best to tell every story well! 1.2kReads6.7Score108Shelves
21. 21 刚 I Just Came Out of Ailao Mountain, and 749 Took Me in as a Monster 刚出哀牢山，被749当怪物收容 Clear Ink on White Paper清墨白纸Urban168k WordsOngoing [Ruthless and decisive] [Wild man] [Wipe out the roots] Su Yang is an experienced traveler. After transmigrating to this world twenty years ago with a monster compendium as his golden finger, he hasn’t encountered a single monster. He’s ended up living like a wild man. On the verge of starving to death as a penniless pauper, he places his last hope in the mysterious Ailao Mountain. On their first night in the mountains, his fellow travelers spot a monster. Su Yang grabs his Luoyang shovel and st 113Reads—Score—Shelves
22. 22 我 I Hand Out Systems from Behind the Scenes 我在幕后发系统 A Pack of Toilet Paper一包卫生纸Urban976k WordsOngoing [Behind-the-scenes] [Infinite Flow] [System] Lin Hang is forced to merge with most of Earth’s authority as its planetary will. Together with the planetary will, Blue Star, he develops countless planes and guides civilization toward advancement. Historical worlds, anime worlds, game worlds, war-torn worlds... As the one pulling the strings from behind the scenes, he grants Systems to those onstage and uses them to control the entire situation remotely. “We’ll stay behind the scenes. There’s no ne 13kReads9.1Score1.1kShelves

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    Check out everything. No, I can't find it. There are too many books.

23. 23 第 The Fourth Calamity: Seat of the God of Order 第四天灾：秩序神座 Yingge Yeyuehua应歌夜月华Two Male Leads3.2M WordsCompleted [Female-audience novel, two male leads + apocalyptic MMORPG + ensemble cast + BL!! No female lead + strong leads + innocent-looking schemer + cunning lord + another world + farming and development + magic world + Call of Cthulhu-inspired elements, including original additions + mystery-solving dungeons + plenty of logical foreshadowing + a touch of mistaken deification + lots of worldbuilding early on, slow start, please be patient~ Not your typical mastermind-player story] A lighthearted, cheer 13.2kReads9.5Score2.1kShelves
24. 24 第 The Fourth Calamity: Infinite Conquest 第四天灾：无限征服 I Want to Become a God with One Book我要一书封神Eastern Fantasy1.6M WordsCompleted The animated series "The Stars Descend: I Summon Players to Conquer the Wilderness" is now streaming on Hongguo. If you enjoy animated series, please go check it out and show your support. The Wilds Continent is home to countless races, where the strong prey on the weak. After transmigrating to the Wilds Continent, Lin Feng discovers that the human race is one of the weakest species there. Though they have many people, other races keep them penned up and enslaved. At this critical moment, Lin Fe 43.7kReads9.1Score4.4kShelves
25. 25 沉 I Created a Myriad Worlds Chat Group After Sleeping for Eight Years 沉睡八年的我创建了万界聊天群 Down the Mountain to Catch Cats下山抓猫Anime Fanfiction896k WordsOngoing After sleeping for eight years and living for thousands of years in a world of his own imagination, Chen Rui suddenly wakes up. Eight years have passed, and everything has changed. The Earth he once knew is now utterly different from the world he remembered before falling into that long sleep. Humanity is no longer the master of the planet and faces the threat of extinction at any moment. Fortunately, Chen Rui has unlocked his golden finger: a chat group. Ding! Tony Stark has joined the Fantasy 1.8kReads9.0Score121Shelves
26. 26 我 I Create Urban Legends in America! 我在美利坚合成怪谈！ Sun Wukong槂悟空Urban603k WordsOngoing [No Heroines, Creator's Conquest, Creator God Behind the Scenes, Ultimate Villain] Fang Xiu transmigrated into the body of an impoverished illegal immigrant who had crossed the border into America. Just as he thought he would have to spend his days begging, the arrival of an [Infinite Alchemy] System completely changed his life. The gods have perished, and demons are about to appear. This is a joyous anthem of evolution. Those chosen will lead humanity into the future! Cockroach Man, Undying, Lo 67Reads6.1Score—Shelves

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    This one is good!

27. 27 诡 Creating the Uncanny: My Creations Throw the World into Chaos 诡异创造，我的造物们霍乱世界 January Wind and Snow一月风雪Mystery631k WordsCompleted [Superpowers + Supernatural Horror + Lovecraftian + Contamination + No Female Lead + Behind the Scenes + Natural Disasters] Mysterious myths awaken amid natural disasters, while an unknown corruption quietly takes over the world. Abominable creations howl, and contamination continues to spread. Distortion returns alongside the supernatural: eyes that target human nature, domains that twist it, and strange shackles that cannot be broken. Destruction and rebirth intertwine to create a new mytholog 2kReads—Score135Shelves

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    [Bookshelf plus one][Bookshelf plus one]

28. 28 我 I Became the Global Administrator of Hell's Games 我成了全球地狱游戏管理员 Ancient Ferry古渡Mystery1.2M WordsOngoing “From the moment the game begins, inferior, weak humans will be stripped of the right to breathe.” This world has no nations. It is ruled by five top conglomerates, and the gap between rich and poor is enormous. The wealthy feast behind their red gates while the poor freeze to death in the streets. The rich districts blaze with light and bustle with people, while the slums are shrouded in darkness and rife with violence and crime. This is an age of capitalist revelry, an age of splendor built up 1.6kReads9.2Score252Shelves

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    ✨The Master looked at the blood-stained earth indifferently, witnessing with his own eyes countless lives falling into the abyss called hell——[Mr. Zero is destined to be you, and you are the only Mr. Zero]✨ 🎉No CP🎉

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