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Rule Horror: An Unequal Game 规则怪谈：不平等博弈
An innocent, naive boy misses the fateful choice that could have changed his destiny, and is forced into a world of strange tales. He survives one perilous, baffling situation after another, slowly drawing closer to the truth about the world...
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Rules of the Paranormal: The Horrors? They're All Family 规则怪谈，诡异？都是一家人
[Rule-based horror + national destiny + no romance + livestream + original scenarios + mild scares + warm and healing] Three years ago, rule-based horror arrived, launching a game that put the fate of nations on the line. Every month, chosen players are randomly selected from various countries to enter the horror world and clear its challenges. Clear a challenge, and you earn generous rewards. Fail, and the chosen player dies, while the horror descends upon their country. The Xia Kingdom has alr
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Strange Tales Livestream! 怪谈直播间！
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.
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Rule Horror: Mistaken for a Big Shot from the Start! 规则怪谈：开局被误认为是大佬！
[Rule-based horror + delusions of grandeur + wild speculation + livestream + wish fulfillment + comedy + no romance] Chen Han dies right from the start. The moment he opens his eyes, he is thrown into a deadly rule-based horror game. While everyone else is still poring over the rules to find a way out, he panics and blunders around, somehow avoiding every deadly trap and stumbling his way to a perfect clear. The whole internet's livestream chat explodes. “Holy crap! That prediction was godlike!
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The All-Purpose Guide to Rule Horror for the Powerless 无能者的规则怪谈全能指南
(A suspenseful, terrifying mystery with no System or supernatural powers for the protagonist. No brute-force clears. Frequent updates.) Blue Star has been invaded by entities. Humanity is powerless to resist, and the world faces destruction. Those above keep humanity like lambs in a pen, forcibly selecting representatives from every country and livestreaming them for their amusement. And what are they forced to play? Rule-based horror games? From the start, representatives from every country sho
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Rule Horror: I Write the Rules 规则怪谈：我来书写规则
[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
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Rule Horror? The Paranormal Doesn't Stand a Chance Against Me, the Killer 规则怪谈？遇到我诡异杀手不炸了
[Rule-based horror + wish fulfillment + no romance + suspense + cooperative team] In 2030, rule-based horror descended upon Earth, and the Dragon Nation suffered one defeat after another. Then an ordinary person was chosen as the Dragon Nation’s Chosen One. [Chosen One, congratulations on awakening the SSS-rank talent: “Weird Killer”] [“Weird Killer” talent description: A merciless killer who despises the weird. Talent effect: You will gain the immense power to kill the weird, but lose some of y
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Rule Horror: I'm Wu Ban, Don't Mess with Me 规则怪谈：我叫伍半，别惹我
[Two Male Leads + Pervert + Hero + Cold on the Outside, Warm on the Inside + Sees Everything as Five Halves + Comedy + Too Much Insane CP Shipping, Might Make You Swear…] [Blood-drinking pervert Wu Ban \ Clever, money-loving flirt Wu De.] My name is Wu Ban. Um… why am I called Wu Ban? The moment I started thinking about it, I already knew the answer. You see, whenever someone gets on my nerves, I want to split them into five halves. Strange entity or human, don’t mess with me, okay? My name is W
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Rule Horror: They Say I Have Multiple Personalities 规则怪谈：他们说我有多重人格
[Comedy, lighthearted, invincible, bizarre, ever-changing personality] This is the second year of the showdown between humanity and bizarre creatures, and the situation is growing increasingly tense... Bi Yi transmigrates into the body of a man who had jumped to his death. The moment he opens his eyes, he is chosen as a contestant. But his head was damaged in the fall, so he is always getting into trouble. Every day, he loses his memory, goes crazy, then turns around and becomes incredibly obedi
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I'm Really, Really Terrifying After I Die 我死后真的真的巨凶
[The protagonist is a ghost] [Slightly dark] Chen Xi confessed his feelings to the class beauty and was rejected. Then someone murdered him, but she assumed he had killed himself over her. Fortunately, the supernatural revival had just begun, and Chen Xi transformed straight into a vengeful ghost. Who could have guessed that the class beauty would come to his home, take his things without permission, and even damage his mother's keepsake? At last, Chen Xi couldn't hold back any longer and struck
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Reborn as a Black Cat: They All Call Me the Lord of the Supernatural 重生黑猫，他们都叫我诡异之主
[Beast Evolution] [Never Human] [No Romance] Lin Ye is reborn as a stray black kitten on a university campus. Fortunately, he gains a stat-boosting panel. As long as he eats and accumulates energy, he can evolve and gain all kinds of extraordinary abilities. Shadow Manipulation: Control every shadow in the world. Lord of the Night: Combat power increases by 100% at night. Devourer of Energy and Spirits: A dimensional space forms in his stomach, allowing him to devour anything. Gaze of Fear: Awak
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Deicide Learning In A Psychiatric Hospital 我在精神病院学斩神
A must-read hit on Tomato Novel | Original novel of the hit anime Slay the Gods | IP influence on the China Online Literature Influence List | 2023 China Good Novel Have you ever wondered whether monsters from ancient myths lurk beneath the neon-lit city? Have you ever wondered whether gods stand watch over humanity atop the moon hanging high above us? Have you ever wondered whether extraordinary people walk among us in our bustling modern cities, acting in the gods’ stead? In the society ruled
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The Strange Tales of Shangguan Zhaorong 上官昭容诡事录
[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
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Rule Horror: Who Taught You to Study Like That? 规则怪谈：谁教你这样读书的
[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
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Ten Days to the End 十日终焉
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
1.7MReads9.9Score226.7kShelves
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Rule Horror: I Am the Horror Story 规则怪谈：我即怪谈
In 2017, supernatural tales descended upon Earth. Conventional weapons couldn't harm them, and humanity struggled to survive. Rule-based supernatural tales became humanity's last lifeline. Tens of thousands of chosen ones around the world were selected. If they won, the supernatural tales would vanish from reality. If they lost, the rule-based tales would descend upon the world. This was a war between humanity and the supernatural. Chen Shao, a patient suffering from bone cancer, became one of t
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Rule Horror: I Sign-In to Become a God, and Even the Horrors Fear Me 规则怪谈：签到成神，诡异都怕我
[Redemption + sign-in + national destiny + no female lead + comedy + original story + a tiny bit of touching moments] Over-the-top blurb: Rule-based horror games invade the world. Those chosen are bound to their nations and forced to take part in the games! Victory brings countless resources. Failure means death, and the horror game descends on the city! The games are terrifying? Almost impossible to survive? Participants have to tread on eggshells? Jiang Fan says, this is way too easy! He activ
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Rule Horror: Ghost-Hunting Livestream 规则怪谈：直播捉鬼
Rule Horror: Live-Streaming Ghost Hunts
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My Fair Princess: The Whole Cast Turns Evil and Falls Apart 还珠格格：全员恶人崩坏中
My Fair Princess: The Entire Cast Turns Evil and Goes Off the Rails
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Rule Horror: Zhen Huan’s Reminder, Never Look into the Bronze Mirror 规则怪谈：甄嬛谨记勿照铜镜
Rule Horror: Zhen Huan, Remember Never to Look in the Bronze Mirror
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Rule Horror: No One at That School Is Allowed to Open Their Eyes at Midnight 规则怪谈：那所学校禁止在午夜睁眼
Rule Horror: That School Forbids You to Open Your Eyes at Midnight
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When the Red Light Turns On, Please Die 红灯亮，请去死
The light is red. Go die.
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Shocking! I'm the Only Human in the Class 震惊！全班只有我是人
Shocking! I’m the Only Human in the Whole Class
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Strange Tales: The Master of Role-Playing 怪谈游戏：角色扮演大师
[Urban legends, role-playing, suspense, horror…] The next roles to be played are An emperor inside a brick, a governor who has endured in silence for years; A missionary devoted to exorcism, an exorcist who hunts vampires… … The finest performer of all these roles to date is one person. Now, let us welcome The one who walks between darkness and light, dedicated to eradicating urban legends. The undying white sun of the human world, the savior of legend. Nan Gui.
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Beast Taming: In the Urban Legend Dungeon, I'm the Lazy King from the Start 御兽：怪谈副本，开局我是懒大王
[Rules-based horror + beast taming + comedy + System + no romance] The protagonist isn't a bleeding heart! (This isn't traditional beast taming or a national-fate rules horror story, so feel free to dive in.) After waking from a night's sleep, Lin Yu found himself transmigrated into a parallel world where people mainly made contracts with the supernatural. He was also a soon-to-be senior in high school, training to become a supernatural beast tamer?! "All I did was stay up late watching Blue Fox
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Help! The Horror NPCs Are Lining Up for Me to Do Their Makeup 救命！惊悚NPC都排队找我化妆
[Horror game + NPCs + horror survival + no System] Su Qing, a workaholic makeup artist, was just working overtime. When she opened her eyes again, she had been sucked into a horror game with a 99% death rate! As she watched her teammates panic and wet themselves, the bottom-performing Slit-Mouthed Woman approached her with a pair of scissors. Su Qing despaired. But wait... This woman’s makeup is way too crude! Her professional instincts kicked in, and she blurted out, “Your makeup isn’t working.
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The Unhinged Male Lead: An Unsolvable Bug in a Ghostly World 疯批男主：鬼怪世界的无解bug
[Infinite Flow + Rule-Based Horror + Hilarious + No Romance + Invincible] A bizarre world invades, the Divine Realm falls, and the gods and Buddhas retreat into hiding. To cut off their offerings, rule-based horror sweeps across Blue Star, leaving all living beings struggling in fear. When things reach an extreme, they turn around, and Blue Star enters a golden age. Some control time and take on ghosts head-on; Some draw a line around themselves and imprison vengeful spirits; Some are peerless f
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Rule Horror: I'm a Scholar!! 规则怪谈：我是读书人啊！！
Guan Ziliang had just passed the written portion of the national civil service exam when he got so excited that he keeled over and died. When he woke again, he was in a strange new world. [Welcome to the Haunted Park] [Loading the Game of Despair…] [Ding! Player Guan Ziliang of the Dragon Kingdom, successfully loaded!] “If you can’t understand reason, this monk knows a few moves with his fists.” “Technically, you’re not allowed to hit the supernatural, but he’s the one who makes the rules.” A hi
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Pawnshop No. 14 十四号当铺
I’m Chen Gui, a folklore graduate student who researches urban legends. It wasn’t until I inherited the Number Fourteen Pawnshop left behind by my missing uncle that I learned the truth: the shop doesn’t take gold or silver. It only accepts rule-based ghost stories that “eat people.” The third step from the bottom on the midnight staircase, the Mirror Immortal’s invitation to comb your hair, the ticket to an empty screening at the Blood-Red Cinema… All the taboos from urban legends have become
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The Pill Mirror: A Good-for-Nothing Apothecary's Reversal 丹镜：废柴药师逆袭记
Humiliated in front of everyone when his engagement is called off, Shen Yan, a cultivator with an incomplete four-element spiritual root, becomes the laughingstock of the entire town. Li Rong tramples the betrothal gifts and sneers, “A worthless loser could never measure up to a genius!” She has no idea that the bronze alchemy mirror hidden in Shen Yan’s sleeve can see through the very foundations of alchemy. A pharmacy apprentice armed with a fragmentary recipe, he will refine divine pills. Tho
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The Hundred Arts of Qingyun 青云百艺录
The Record of a Hundred Arts in Qingyun: Lin Yan, a handyman disciple of the Qingyun Sect, is stuck at the third layer of Body Tempering and has become a laughingstock. His only companion is a small bronze cauldron. When the secrets of a hundred arts emerge from within it, he joins forces with a green-patterned fox spirit beast and allies skilled in alchemy, formations, beast taming, and more, using strange arts to thwart the schemes of evil cultivators. Thirty years east of the river, thirty ye
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Live Restoration: Old Heraldic Treasures Hold Clues to My Parents 直播修复：纹章旧物藏爹娘
Two treasures are hidden inside Gu's Antique Restoration Shop in Qingguo Alley: a pearwood carving knife engraved with hibiscus flowers, and a copper thimble engraved with the character “Man” on its inner rim. Twenty-six-year-old Gu Ci has run the shop for three years, daring to restore only ordinary old objects. Ever since her parents vanished without a trace, taking the Gu family crest with them, she has made one rule: never touch anything bearing the crest. Then one day, an old man leaning on
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Reborn in the Apocalypse, Stocking My Space to the Brim 重生末日，囤满空间
Reborn at the End of the World, Stocking My Space to the Brim
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Your Place in Your In-Laws’ Home Is Earned 在婆家的地位是靠自己挣的
Your place in your husband's family is something you have to earn yourself.
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The Day I Miscarried, He Was Discussing a Project with Someone Else 流产那天，他在和别人谈项目
The day I miscarried, he was discussing a business deal with someone else
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I Never Knew I Was Supposed to Pay for Team-Building Dinners, Until I Got the Year-End Bill 团建聚餐我从来不知道，年底却收到AA账单
I Never Knew About the Team-Building Dinners, Yet at Year-End I Got the Bill to Split the Cost
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Follow-Up Appointment on the Seventh Day of the New Year: The Brat’s Parents Wept as They Presented Me with a Banner 大年初七复诊，熊孩子家长哭着送我锦旗
On the seventh day of the Lunar New Year, a follow-up appointment ended with the parents of a little terror tearfully presenting me with a thank-you banner.
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After She Died, Spring Never Returned to My Empire 她死后，朕的江山再无春风
After She Died, Spring Winds Never Again Swept Through My Empire
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Missing Each Other Can Be Beautiful, Too 互相错过，也是一种美好
Even missing each other can be a kind of beauty
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The Sinner's Daughter Becomes a Miracle Healer, Clears Her Name in the Palace, and Slays Her Enemies 罪臣之女成医仙，金殿翻案诛仇家
The Minister’s Wronged Daughter Becomes a Medical Immortal, Clears Her Family’s Name in the Golden Hall, and Slays Her Enemies
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My Legitimate Daughter Was Framed for Treason, So I Wiped Out His Entire Clan 嫡女被构陷通敌，我反手诛他九族
The legitimate daughter was framed for treason. I struck back and wiped out his entire clan.
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After Our Whirlwind Marriage, My Billionaire Husband's Secret Is Exposed 闪婚后，千亿老公掉马了
After Our Flash Marriage, My Billionaire Husband's Cover Is Blown
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The Day She Broke Off Our Engagement, Snow Buried My Door. Three Years Later, I Had the Entire Marquis's Household Executed 退婚那日雪满门，三年后我让侯府满门抄斩
The Day I Broke Off the Engagement, Snow Blanketed the Door. Three Years Later, I Had the Entire Marquis's Estate Executed
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