Horror Novels That Are Genuinely Frightening to Readers 恐怖小说（真正让读者感到惊悚恐怖的）
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The Corpse Carrier 背尸工
My name is Chen Feng, and I work as a corpse bearer at a funeral home. After a class reunion, I spent the night with Jiang Lixin, the school beauty. I never expected to see her corpse at work the very next day, or that I'd have to carry her on her final journey...
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One Hundred Thousand and One Folk Horror Stories 十万零一个民间恐怖故事
A collection of short horror stories in an episodic format, with a new story every chapter. No dragging things out! Haunted houses in the countryside, mountain spirits, urban legends, old customs and taboos... Every kind of Chinese-style horror is covered, with nonstop thrills and no filler. Anti-superstition disclaimer: This story is entirely fictional. Believe in science and read rationally. Please don’t apply it to real life~
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The Peter Pan Game 彼得潘游戏
Earth’s resources are gradually running out... Boring people will be replaced by digital replicas... So keep your soul interesting... or hold on to a powerful obsession... Welcome to the Peter Pan Game... Provide emotional value to earn a ticket back to the real world. Female protagonist | Ensemble cast | No romance | Infinite-flow | Instances | Rule-based horror Fifty people lie in a huge room... This batch is pretty good... Three people are slowly waking up...
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- 804 What Do You Mean I Became a World-Ending Urban Legend? 什么叫我成了灭世级怪谈？ [No Female Lead] [Mild Horror] [Turns Into a False Person in One Chapter] [The Protagonist Is a Pure Monster] Su Yuan transmigrated to a bizarre world rife with danger. Here, everything from horror legends had become real: false people, vengeful spirits, old gods hidden beneath the ocean... And an official organization lurking in everyday life: the Cleanup Bureau. This was an age of despair. With urban legends becoming reality, ordinary people could hardly fight back, and even the authorities we 280.2kReads8.3Score47.5k14d adds
- 805 EN The Evil God Is Stunned: Are These Players Even Stranger Than Me? 邪神懵了：这群玩家比我还诡异？ After transmigrating to a world overrun by the uncanny, Lin En discovers that he has become a backwater fake god, his divine power depleted and his existence about to fade away. Outside the church, indescribable monsters are pounding on the door. The desperate countdown has begun. To save himself, Lin En grits his teeth and fabricates a full-dive VR game called Ancient Gods Awaken, summoning a group of hardcore players from Blue Star to serve as his followers. He thought the players would cower 762.2kReads9.0Score136.8k14d adds
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Chilling Horror Stories 惊悚恐怖故事
New thrilling horror stories every day, featuring suspense, frights, and the supernatural. I hope you enjoy them. Your support motivates me to write, and I’ll do my best to tell each story well!
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- 807 Warning! The Evil God's Followers Are Storming the Horror Instance 警告！邪神眷属正在杀入诡异副本 Weird dungeons + livestreaming + lighthearted + no pressure (no couples, no romantic tension). Successfully adapted into a live-action series and a comic, so enjoy with confidence. Weird dungeons descend upon the world, randomly selecting players and leaving everyone in a state of panic. Then Qi Xie, a follower of an Evil God, enters a dungeon and immediately breaks down sobbing! Heavens above! Who knows how many haunted houses he’s slept in and how many mass graves he’s dug up just to keep that 223.9kReads8.9Score31.7k14d adds
- 808 The Organization I Founded Was Exposed by Someone Reborn! 我创立的组织，被重生者曝光了！ My name is Luo Qingyan. I was reborn, back on the eve of the supernatural apocalypse. In my previous life, the Dragon Kingdom became a blood-soaked hell. Only that mysterious organization hidden from the world could save it from ruin. In this life, I will change the fate of the Dragon Kingdom. I will change everything. I will find that organization... [Dawn]! My name is Su Yu. I am staying at Luo Qingyan's home. On this day, I awakened a Savior System, but the System demanded that I es 42.6kReads6.9Score2.3k14d adds
- 809 The Maoshan Taoist-Buddhist Master 茅山道释 [Maoshan] + [Supernatural] + [Urban Cultivation] + [Stunning Beauties] The mighty Heavenly Emperor is reborn, only to be driven to the brink by a predatory loan contract?! In my previous life, I was Shiti Huan Yindiluo, the Heavenly Emperor. My merits complete, I should have ascended beyond the heavens, but I was ambushed by petty villains, and my divine soul fell into the mortal world! Fortunately, the power of the Sumeru Realm protected me, and I was reborn alongside a Maoshan Celestial Maste 798Reads—Score10214d adds
- 810 Supernatural Revival: I Tamed a Cowardly Ghost from the Start 灵异复苏：开局我驾驭了胆小鬼 "If you could completely control the first evil spirit you encountered at no cost, then transmigrate to a mysterious world overrun by resurgent evil spirits, would you do it?" yes or no Of course, yes! Sun Lin was lying on his side in bed, scrolling through short videos, when he instinctively tapped yes. He saw choices like this countless times a day, but the next second, a vortex appeared on his phone and pulled him into this bizarre world. Ghosts cannot be killed. Only ghosts can deal with gho 162.5kReads7.0Score17.3k14d adds
- 811 Maitreya Heavenly Emperor 弥勒天帝 [Mortal cultivation + creation of the heavens and myriad worlds + fantasy + beauties galore] Citi Tianxing has already reached the peak of the Heavenly Emperor realm, yet he resolutely gives up his position as sovereign over all worlds and ventures toward an even higher, unknown realm. He seeks to question the heavens: What is the meaning of cultivation? What is the purpose of creation? Follow him as he battles across the Myriad Worlds, comprehending the great mysteries of darkness, light, life, 139Reads6.2Score—14d adds
- 812 Ghost Eyes from the Start: Which Yang Jian Is This?! 开局鬼眼，这是哪个杨戬？！ (Just released, so the rating is new.) Bad news: I’ve run into one of those enemies who suddenly got incredibly powerful. He says he’s going to torture and kill me. Good news: The System is here. But it insists I’m just like Yang Jian, destined to become a god, and even bound me to a Yang Jian template. The Eight-Nine Arcane Art, Heaven’s Warrior God, True Lord of the Pure Source and Wondrous Way: it all sounds pretty good. Yu Cheng eagerly took a closer look, only to see the panel clearly list: 42.7kReads8.5Score4.2k14d adds
- 813 Slay the Gods: Cangnan City's Chief, Codename Ghost Umbrella 斩神：沧南市负责人，代号鬼伞 My name is Li Miao. By the time you read this, I will already be dead. There are no ghosts in this world, but the people here are far more terrifying than ghosts. Yang Jian is here. He wants me to put an end to this chaotic era... 30.8kReads7.7Score2.9k14d adds
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Nightmare Realm 噩梦诡境
[Infinite-flow + horror + survival + one female lead] Liu Xiao woke up in a long-abandoned hospital, with several others beside him who had arrived there just like he had. He thought he had been kidnapped, but never imagined it was the start of an endless nightmare! Once you are chosen by a haunted realm, death is your only possible ending!
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- 815 Mystery Revival: I Wield the Ghostly Phone Call and Guard Three Provinces 神秘复苏：驾驭鬼来电，镇守三省 The supernatural returns, and the human world becomes a living hell. In this age of paranormal horrors, Zhao Lai is working overtime at midnight when he is attacked by a ghost call. Luckily, the call is answered by Xiao Ai, causing the supernatural entity to crash. From then on, Zhao Lai relies on the paranormal phone to struggle through one terrifying paranormal incident after another. Understand the paranormal! Harness the paranormal! Put an end to the paranormal! Protect the last patch of lan 12.2kReads5.7Score1.1k14d adds
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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 Don't Give the Dead a Name 请不要替死者取名
Zhou Jin is on night duty in the morgue when a body arrives in freezer nine, registered one minute before it was brought in. The dead man has no facial features, no fingerprints to identify him, and yet the name written on his form is… Zhou Jin. After daybreak, one strange thing after another begins to happen. The security system no longer recognizes him. His coworkers gradually forget what to call him, and even his mother can no longer remember her son’s name. Yet every day at mealtimes, she
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- 818 Eerie Revival: Three Ghosts Knock at the Door? What Kind of Joke Is This? 诡异复苏：三鬼拍门，开什么玩笑 Alternate title: I Got Ghost Eyes and a Coffin Nail from the Start, and Swept Through the Supernatural Age. The supernatural is returning, and the human world has become a living hell... Evil ghosts are invading reality! Meanwhile, Lin Yu is lying in his dorm room, trying to talk Li Yang into picking up his food delivery. Didn't you just knock twice? Why are you knocking again? Just leave the food outside the door, thanks. Lin Yu: “Only people with kidney deficiency can see ghosts.” Li Yang: “?? 1.9kReads6.5Score15714d adds
- 819 The Supernatural Has Returned? Sorry, I’m the Supernatural 诡异复苏？不好意思我就是诡异 Not an invincible power fantasy, not a dark story. Read with caution if these aren't your thing. [No Female Lead] [Wasteland Horror] [Infinite Fusion] [Doomsday] [Not a Dark Story] The whole world fears the supernatural. I'm the only one who sees it as a puzzle piece in my evolution. Thirty years after the Great Rift, supernatural tales run rampant, folk customs are revived, and indescribable calamities roam the wasteland. Gu Yi wakes up to find himself the lowest-ranking pollution cleaner outsi 69.5kReads8.6Score7.6k14d adds
- 820 Zombies Descend Across the World, and You Say the Taoist Class Is Useless? 全球僵尸降临，你说道士序列没用 Purple-hair zombies, white-hair zombies, black-hair zombies, green-hair zombies, fur-covered zombies, flying zombies, wandering zombies, lurking zombies, unrotting-bone zombies, and drought demons… This is a world overrun by zombies across the globe! Xu Yi arrives in this world and awakens the Taoist path. But people accuse him of being inferior to those on the fire-element path. Xu Yi scratches his head and looks at his Dragon-Tiger Evil-Slaying Talismans, Golden Light Incantation, corpse-dr 255kReads8.8Score29.9k14d adds
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Countdown: The Zero Gate 倒计时，归零之门
Countdown: The Zero Gate
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- 822 Demons and Evil Spirits? They’re Clearly All Auspicious Omens! 妖魔邪祟？明明都是祥瑞！ [Evil spirit from the start] [Eerie cultivation] [Recruiting demons] [Sheltering humanity] [Believers’ delusions] [No female lead] Chen Zhou transmigrated to a bizarre world teeming with demons and rampant evil spirits. Demons slaughtered humans, specters preyed on them, immortals devoured them. Monsters ran amok, evil spirits wreaked havoc, gods and Buddhas had fallen, and humanity was in decline. Fortunately, Chen Zhou hadn’t transmigrated as a human either. He started out as an evil spirit 88.8kReads8.8Score9.7k14d adds
- 823 Bound by Sin 罪缚 Bound by Sin 4Reads—Score—14d adds
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The Sea Without Eyes 无瞳之海
This story follows Elena Shaw’s horrifying discoveries in the remote fishing town of Arkham. After she is invited to study a strange statue unearthed in the basement of a local church, a series of supernatural events unfolds: fishermen mutter deliriously about dreams beneath the sea, the tides bring in the remains of indescribable creatures, and ancient families guard dark secrets. As her investigation deepens, Elena gradually realizes that the town lies atop a fissure between reality and nightm
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Notes on Folk Spirit Mediums 民间出马仙笔记
[Spirit Mediums + Chinese-Style Horror + Episodic Stories + Supernatural Mystery + Karma + Mind-Blowing Twists + Feng Shui and the Occult] "Unraveling one strange and unpredictable tale of karmic retribution after another" In a remote suburb of the city lies a cemetery. Few people know that a shop dealing in the supernatural stands there, run by a spirit medium who can communicate with the dead and the living. The owner specializes in paranormal cases beyond ordinary people's understanding, but
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- 826 The Spirit Pact of Sinister Schemes 诡谋之灵契 People often say that a person’s fate is decided by Heaven, but that is not entirely true. Mu Fan was born into a vast conspiracy. With a body of four yin and an utterly yin fate, his perilous destiny made an ordinary life impossible. A female ghost in the park tries to seize his soul, while a stunning ghost bride enters into a marriage pact with him. Corpses dance in the funeral home; teachers and students at a school haunted by vicious ghosts leap from buildings in eerie circumstances; deep in —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 827 The Yin-Yang Hot Pot Restaurant 阴阳火锅店 I took over a hot pot restaurant from my second uncle. He told me never to serve customers a yuan yang hot pot after midnight! After I took over the place, everything I believed in began to crumble... One night, I wasn't paying attention and served a couple a yuan yang hot pot. The next day, I saw in the newspaper that the couple had died! They'd jumped to their deaths together! After that, every night at midnight, a strange couple would appear in my restaurant and ask me to make them a yuan yan 587Reads7.7Score2214d adds
- 828 I Might Have Changed the Wrong Fate 我可能改了个假命 When I was little, my mom asked a Taoist priest to tell my fortune. He said I'd face a calamity at 26, and that he'd come help me get through it the day before my 26th birthday. When the day finally came, the priest really did show up to change my fate. He even gave me a “Fate-Changing Ruler” and told me I had to change the fates of seven people with different destinies to survive the calamity. Otherwise, I'd only have five years left to live. So much for changing my fate for me! Did he only cha 71Reads8.9Score—14d adds
- 829 The Netherworld Inn 阴间客栈 My name is Qin Yu. While on a business trip, I checked into a uniquely styled inn called the Yin Room Inn. It even offered “special services” in the middle of the night. Little did I know it was an inn from the underworld. I began having nightmare after nightmare, and my friends kept getting into trouble... 2.9kReads9.0Score16814d adds
- 830 My Years as a Buddhist Nun 我当师太的那些年 I was born a girl with a Pure Yang fate into a family of feng shui masters. For generations, my family had practiced feng shui in the countryside. My grandfather had hoped his eldest grandchild would be a boy, so he could pass down his skills to the eldest son and grandson. But I turned out to be a girl. Grandfather never took a liking to me, so my parents could only take me to live in the city. No one expected that, during the Ghost Festival in the year I turned twenty-five, Grandfather would s 425Reads8.7Score—14d adds
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Unraveling the Strange: Surviving the Second Case 诡事探秘逢生二
An abandoned mining town, missing residents, and dense fog that traps souls. A four-person ghost-hunting team ventures into the forbidden zone to uncover a shocking mystery from 2015. When the truth comes to light, whose spirit has been waiting? A suspenseful thriller that will keep you awake tonight.
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- 832 I Run a Paper Effigy Shop 我有一间扎纸店 I Have a Paper Effigy Shop tells the story of the protagonist, Liu Dabao, who runs a shop making paper effigies. One day, a guy named Li Xunhuan asked me to burn him a villa and gave me a jade pendant, saying someone would come to collect it later. That evening, a woman came to pick up the pendant and gave me a thousand yuan. But who could have guessed that the next day, the money vanished and turned into a pile of white paper! Was it ghost money for the dead? Were Li Xunhuan and that woman both 124Reads8.7Score1314d adds
- 833 It's All the Haunted House's Fault 都是凶宅惹的祸 I'm a mystery writer. In search of inspiration, I moved into a house rumored to be haunted. Every night, a horribly disfigured face appeared in the window, and outside, the rotten corpse of a woman hung from a tree. I realized then that this really was a haunted house! Gradually, my family began acting strangely, and we even found a mummified corpse sealed inside the wall for years! As I investigated further, I came across something even more terrifying… 62Reads8.7Score814d adds
- 834 Corpse-Walking Notes 2: The Myriad Forms Celestial Palace 《赶尸笔记2》万象天宫 Corpses driven along by corpse herders are known in the martial world as "corpses traveling ten thousand miles." It is said that in the Xiangxi region, some people make a living herding corpses. The Corpse Sect is one such group. Qin Shuang runs a funeral business; Brother Jiu has ties to both the underworld and the police; Haozi has just gotten out of prison; Baldy makes his living robbing and relocating tombs; and mute A-Wu is a skilled fighter shrouded in mystery. What kind of extraordinary s 122Reads8.7Score—14d adds
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The Feathered Deep 羽化深渊
The story takes place in the modern East Asian coastal city of Linyuan. Linyuan is a port city plagued by year-round rain, industrial decline, and a mix of religions. It is home to: * Abandoned Taoist temples * An underground black market * A seaside altar * A sealed-off mountainous region * Folk villages * An old, quarantined psychiatric hospital * A secret religious sect left over from the Republican era Ordinary people believe the world is normal. But in truth, the world has been infiltrated
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Cultivating Buddhism and Taoism, I Befriend the Paranormal 佛道双修我与诡异为伍
No System, no harem, no goody-two-shoes protagonist, and either one or two heroines. Fresh out of college, Chen Xiao scraped by delivering takeout in his spare time. One night, he accidentally crossed paths with something unclean, and from then on, evil spirits clung to him relentlessly. Strange events kept happening, and misfortune followed him everywhere. On the road, he ran into a ragged wandering monk. Unable to turn a blind eye, Chen Xiao gave him a little help. He never imagined that this
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In Another World, I Use Taoist Arts to Empty My Enemy's Warehouse 到了异世，我用道术搬空仇人仓库
An alternate history setting. Please do not compare this story with real history! Gou Yunshu, a modern Daoist exorcist, was betrayed by her best friend during an exorcism. She was struck down by heavenly retribution, killed by a bolt of lightning. She transmigrated into the body of a young girl in the Great Xia Kingdom of the Republican era and discovered that her grandfather had been captured by the Japanese army. To rescue him, she took her younger siblings, bought a house, and left Laolongtan
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Paranormal Tales from the Northeast Countryside 东北农村灵异小故事
Spooky Little Stories from the Northeastern Countryside
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Twisted Dreams: A Ghost Emerged from My Split Personality 扭曲梦境：我人格分裂出一只鬼
[Infinite Flow] [Light Horror] [Light Despair] [No Female Lead] Have you ever wondered why people dream? Dreams have weavers, and they have finishers. But now, the one who weaves dreams has gone mad?! Overthinking, sensitivity, and anxiety never solve anything. I know that, yet I still go over everything in my head again and again, tormenting myself. Then, on the day I was diagnosed with dissociative identity disorder, a voice rang out in my mind. Was it an angel come to save me? No. Something u
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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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- 841 The Haunted Cabinet Opens by Itself Every Night, Long Hair Drags People Inside 凶柜夜夜自开，青丝缠人拖入柜 The sinister cabinet opens by itself every night, and strands of black hair coil around people and drag them inside. 33Reads—Score—14d adds
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Breaking Hell: The Celestial Master Returns 破狱：天师归来
After ten years in prison, the day he gets out, he discovers he’s completely out of step with the world. There are no bustling streets or lights in every window. The streets lie abandoned, the cities are dead, and the air reeks of rot and blood. Monsters that are neither human nor ghost roam everywhere: stiff bodies, fangs and claws, and a thirst for blood. The military can’t defeat them, the police can’t hold them back, and human civilization is on the brink of collapse. Even more absurdly, peo
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March of a Hundred Ghosts: I Take the Hungry Ghosts to War 百诡行军：我带饿鬼上战场
[Comedy] [Adventure] Bilige was a half-baked shaman who had somehow ended up in the army. His companions included a Shaanbei fat man who'd eaten himself up to two hundred jin during a famine, a long-legged Northeastern squad leader who would grab a cleaver at the slightest provocation, and a Sichuan opera actor who never told the truth. Together with Wang Laihe, a hotheaded young man who couldn't read a single character, and a little hungry ghost who did nothing but bare its teeth and shout “Hun
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- 844 The Cursed Coffin 阴棺抬煞 Deep in Bai Street stands a yin-yang coffin shop that never makes coffins and never receives customers. Chen Ye grew up accompanying his grandfather on spirit-walking rites and coffin-bearing, learning all manner of evil spirits. He thought he would spend his life in the peaceful funeral trade, taking payment to guide souls onward and living in safety. Then, in a single night, three coffins arrived at the Ding family’s home, and one bizarre incident after another erupted throughout the househol 1Reads—Score—14d adds
- 845 Crown of Frost and Ash 霜与烬之冠 At her engagement ceremony, the man she loved pushed her into an abyss. Three years later, she returned wearing a silver-frost mask. This time, she would crown his empire with her own hands, then stain that crown red with his blood. —Reads—Score—14d adds
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A Hellish Start: Higher-Dimensional Bigwigs Watch Me Wipe Out the Competition 地狱开局高维大佬围观我反杀全场
Wealthy families, revenge on villains, transmigrate into a book, power couples From the start, Jiang Mian appears in handcuffs on a livestream after transmigrating into the body of a castoff from a wealthy family. She lowers her eyes and smiles coldly, using forensic logic to tear everything apart. A crystal chandelier murder, antique poison bait, a tea party trap: all become evidence she can use to turn the tables. Pei Yuyan, a higher-dimensional observer, shuts off billions of screens for her
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The Creator's Taboo 造物主的禁忌
(This book has been years in the making and revised over a hundred times. From the first volume to the last, it will tell one complete, expansive story, with a large cast, suspense, and a touch of brain-teasing mystery. From time to time, the author will offer summaries or hints in the author's notes.) A creator's greatest taboo is making a life more perfect than their own! The gods created humanity and shackled it with birth, aging, sickness, death, memories that slip away like sand, and endles
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The Strange Gate Subdues the Eight Wastelands 奇门镇八荒
My name is Yang Yufan. I was born with a pair of yin-yang eyes, and my grandfather taught me the arts of the Qimen. I thought that becoming an inheritor of the Qimen tradition would make me a fortune-teller... But who could have guessed that I’d end up as one of the saints guarding the Eight Wastelands? I’ll tell you the story of what happened in my own words!
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Hook in the Mist 迷雾之钩
The mist over Qinglan Reservoir never lifts. A pendant and fishhook engraved with the date 1962.7.15 don’t catch fish; they catch the living and the dead. Three years ago, documentary photographer Shen Bozhou’s heart stopped for ten minutes when he jumped into the reservoir to save his partner, who had plunged into the water under mysterious circumstances. Ever since, he has been haunted by visions from beneath the surface. Now he has returned to finish the film he left incomplete, only to find
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- 850 The Harem Emperor 后宫大帝 A harem novel with multiple female leads and a System. If you like beautiful women, come take a look. A naturally lecherous nouveau riche gets sent to the cultivation world after sexually harassing a waitress and being hit by a computer, bringing along a hundredfold experience System. He levels up at breakneck speed, is lecherous by nature, gathers a harem, and gets revenge on his enemies. He's a coward who fears death and never goes anywhere dangerous. I've never liked challenging people above 757Reads6.4Score—14d adds
