Looking for Mystery Novels That Are Hard-Core and Have Wild Premises 求推理，硬核，脑洞大的小说
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The End of Ten Days 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
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Nine Purple Li Fire: A Doomed Love Between God and Human 九紫离火，人神绝恋
“I don’t care what kind of deranged serial killer you are. You picked a fight with me, so you’ll pay for every drop of blood you’ve spilled!” Watching the killer step by step into his trap and become the prey, he looked like a pathetic rabbit struggling in vain inside a cage. “You like skinning people, don’t you? Then I’ll let you experience what it’s like to be skinned yourself!” “What is this? AR glasses? These glasses can actually connect to reality! But I don’t want to get stronger. I just w
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The Haunted House 诡舍
[Infinite-flow + Mild Horror + Survival + One Female Lead] A driverless bus carried a group of cursed people to a strange black lodge… Inside the lodge stood a door stained red with blood. At regular intervals, the cursed were forcibly dragged through the blood-red door and into terrifying worlds, where they had to complete horrifying events… After Ning Qiushui survived one bizarre and terrifying story after another inside the lodge, narrowly escaping death each time, he discovered that none of
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From the Start, Selling Muscle-Building Tonics at a Street Stall 开局地摊卖大力
[The Dali anime premieres on July 29. Search the title on Tomato to watch the PV.] Earth enters an era of spiritual qi revival, and humanity begins awakening supernatural abilities! Jiang Nan awakens the strongest street-stall System from the start. Muscle-Boosting Potion? Detoxifying Soybeans? Lucky Cherries? They can't keep them in stock! The world's top tycoons, richest men, popular streamers, and strongest experts all come to buy them. Jiang Nan: "I'm not even a tiny bit interested in money!
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Slay the Gods 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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My Right Eye Is a God-Tier Computer 我的右眼是神级计算机
I am the super artificial intelligence in your eyes. You humans call an IQ of 85 stupid and an IQ of 135 smart, but you will never understand what an IQ of 125,000 means! From now on, I will be your right-hand man!
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The Little Cop Who Makes a Big Difference 小警大用
Du Dayong once hoped to grow up to be a great chef. He never expected to become a low-ranking criminal investigator. This is the story of a young police officer growing up. There is no reborn protagonist showing off and face-slapping people, no System or golden finger making him invincible, and no ridiculous transmigration to another world. Here, you'll find the humor and warmth between comrades, a touch of youthful romance, loving family bonds, mischievous leaders, and absurd coworkers. Young o
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Transmigrating to Great Yan: Starting as the Useless Seventh Prince 穿越大炎，从废物七皇子开始
After transmigrating as a good-for-nothing prince, Qin Zheng puts all kinds of advanced knowledge to clever use as he contends with the various powers. One day, he will rise to the pinnacle of the world, sleep with beauties at his side, and wield all power over the realm!
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The God of Odd Jobs in Tianfu 天府打工神
[Sweet romance + urban crime-solving + reincarnated deity + genius girl + cool, swaggering God of Death + two couples] Who could have guessed that the so-called insane genius girl was actually a deity who had fallen into the mortal world? With a clear goal in mind, she sets her sights on the stern captain of the criminal police and launches her pursuit. The haughty God of Death descends to the mortal realm and lands in a spectacularly embarrassing situation. When an earnest human policewoman te
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Eternal Immortality: A Jailor Hiding Out in the Heavenly Prison 长生万古：苟在天牢做狱卒
[Smart characters, no brainless plotlines]+ [No System]+ [Cautious survival]+ [Immortality]+ [No heroine]+ [A sly schemer]+ [Political intrigue]+ [Prudent and cautious] Zhang Wu transmigrates to a cultivation world and becomes a jailer in the Imperial Prison from the start. For officials, the end of the road is the Imperial Prison. For soldiers, it is dying on the battlefield. For those in the martial world, it is getting killed in a vendetta. None of them meet a good end. If he wants to survive
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I Am Not the God of Drama 我不是戏神
The brand-new masterpiece by San Jiu Yin Yu, author of Slay the Gods | Winner of the Best Science-Fiction Web Novel Award at the Macau International Science Fiction Awards | A Chinese grotesque epic that turns the tide of an era After a scarlet meteor streaked across the sky, human civilization ground to a halt. From that day onward, humanity could no longer build a rocket, a nuclear bomb, an airplane, a car... The pyramid of civilization built upon modern science collapsed with a thunderous roa
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Sequence: God Eater 序列：吃神者
[Tomato 2026 Male-Focused Fiction Most Popular Author, Ranked Number One] Published in print, quality guaranteed. An alternate high-martial world, ensemble cast and political intrigue, no nested plot twists, a slow-paced story with a grand setting. Readers all say it gets better the further you read. Giant birds swallow the sun, and all things undergo dramatic change. Strange, immortal gods, and humanity's superpowered sequences. Everyone wants to become a god in this world, but they have no ide
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Rose Blade 玫瑰利刃
Stern, upright criminal investigation captain VS sweet, capable rookie policewoman Jiang Buhan was a new intern with the criminal investigation squad. Xing Niansheng had assumed that beautiful women were usually lacking in ability. “My squad doesn’t need a pretty face,” Xing Niansheng said sternly. “You have three months. If you can’t cut it, you’re out.” Who could have guessed that this so-called pretty face would be tall, long-legged, and extraordinarily strong, able to knock a burly man down
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Infinite: Welcome to the Dark Fairy Tale World 无限：欢迎来到暗黑童话世界
[Volume One of the print edition goes on sale August 7] [Short drama and comic adaptation now available] [No romance + Infinite-flow + Horror game + No national destiny + Dark fairy tales] A young woman weeps softly at midnight. A handsome prince turns into a bloodthirsty “beast” at night. Cinderella dies a gruesome death on the night of the ball. The horror game is wrapped in shiny glassine, disguised as a sweet candy. What lies hidden behind the enchanting fairy-tale world... Weird tales desc
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The Lost City of Exotic Beasts 异兽迷城
[The new book The Maze of Inversion has begun serialization. Updates come at 9 p.m. every evening. Please continue to support it.] Gao Yang was an orphan. At the age of six, he transmigrated to a parallel world and began living in a warm family of five. When he turned eighteen, Gao Yang accidentally discovered the truth about the world: this was not a parallel world at all, but a mysterious realm, and all the relatives and friends around him were terrifying Beasts! Gao Yang nearly lost his life
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Lord of the Mysteries: I Am Forbidden to the Gods 诡秘：我是神明的禁忌
[Mystery] [Urban Superpowers] [Single Heroine] [Gods] [No System] What secrets lie behind the mysterious Book of the Dead, the seven power sequences, the unknown monsters, and the eerie gods? The Soul-Retrieval Bureau, the Demon-Suppression Office, the Shelter… What have these countless mysterious factions been ordered to hide? What is the boundary between light and darkness? Where were blood and song born? What do the destruction of the old order and the birth of the new one mean? It all begins
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Stranded in Another World: I'll Die If I Don't Date a Corpse 身处异世：我不和尸体约会就会死
[Otherworldly City] [One Female Lead] [Sweet Romance] On June 15, 3022, by the Abyssal Calendar, I had my third date. I specially reserved the most luxurious hotel in the city. She was sure to be delighted. After all, no one could refuse the perfect, head-to-toe service of a top-tier funeral home. Then I would give her the carnations I had carefully picked out. I believe that tonight, I will be the happiest man in the morgue. Because once again, I successfully extended my life.
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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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Superpowers: I Have a Replication Mirror 超能：我有一面复刻镜
[Gods Descend, Calamity Begins] When cultivators from the divine realm invade Earth, superpowers and modern weapons become humanity's last line of defense! Can Gou Chen and Adam, Earth's only two superpower academies, shoulder humanity's future? What kind of hidden strength does Huaxia, hailed as the Chosen Nation, possess? This is a feast for the Godslayers! A young man gains the power to replicate abilities. With a mortal body and the power of the world in his hands, he will ultimately slay th
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My Years of Being Scammed in Northern Myanmar 被骗缅北的这些年
Originally titled “Tricked into Northern Myanmar: What Really Happened” I was unlucky enough to be tricked into going to Northern Myanmar. But I was also lucky enough to make it back alive! I wrote this book to warn more people and help them learn from my experience. Never use unofficial means to go somewhere you shouldn’t, because it isn’t the paradise you imagine. It’s hell.
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The Autobiography of a Tomb Raider 来自一位盗墓者的自传
[Published in print and available online] [The Beipai Notes horizontal-screen drama is now streaming] [Tomb Raiding + Mystery + Antiques] I'm a poor kid from a mountain village in Northeast China. In the early twenty-first century, hoping to make something of myself, I joined a northern tomb-raiding crew. From south to north, I've seen every side of the underworld and crossed paths with people from all walks of life. Over the years, I went from a young man to a middle-aged one. My drinking got b
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Thriller: I Became Excessively Twisted for Fear of Looking Ungraceful 惊悚：因为担心不优雅而过度变态
[Horror + No Female Lead] A bizarre game descended, pulling all of humanity into a strange world to complete terrifying missions. Fail, and you lose life points. When your points hit zero, you die! Zhao Yi, a renowned psychiatrist, was dragged into the game too, but some unknown glitch appeared in his data source code. And so, an abnormal human emerged, one who made every ghost and monster tremble in fear! The Crybaby Ghost: I just wanted to give him a side quest, but he chopped off my head! The
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The First Great Mess in the Cultivation World 修仙界第一混乱
“Sect Master Sun, your sect is now a renowned sword sect in the northern cultivation world. What is your opinion of Dean Xu?” “I often tell people in the know that Dean Xu is my idol. People hunt him down, and he still tries to make friends and strike deals with them. He raises disciples until they reach Foundation Establishment, then stops teaching them and sells them off to other sects. Now his students are everywhere, and his people are all over the place.” “And how do the senior members of
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I’m the Trickster in the Rule-Breaking Horror Tales 我在规则怪谈做老六
[Complete, with a universally praised ending] [Rebellious Oddball + School Oddball + Lin Chen the Oddball + Comedy + Crazy Antics + The Uncanny + National Fortune + Mental Illness] [Readers say it becomes legendary from the third instance onward] He swaps a hen’s eggs for pebbles and lets her sit on them for half a month, hands sandpaper to his roommate while he’s on the toilet, and buys ten steamed buns for a beggar who asks for money to eat, then watches him finish them… Lin Chen is an oddba
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Hardcore Reward System 硬核奖励系统
“Congratulations, BOSS, for completing a food delivery order! You’ve earned a 15% stake in the Imperial Dynasty Group!” “Congratulations, BOSS, for completing a food delivery order! You’ve earned a supercar worth 70 million!” “Congratulations, BOSS, for completing a food delivery order! You’ve earned a villa worth 680 million!” “Congratulations, BOSS, for completing a food delivery order! You’ve earned a commercial street that keeps appreciating in value!” An interview request from an internatio
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Bureau of Demon Affairs: A No-Nonsense Demon Detective Who Stuns Himself from the Start 妖管局：硬核妖探，开局电晕自己
After an explosion, Su Xin transmigrated to a world where humans, demons, and ghosts coexist, and became a demon investigator at the Demon Control Bureau. His job was to handle all kinds of bizarre cases. "Trees felled across a bear demon's territory: A bald lumberjack carrying a chainsaw gets beaten up, yet refuses to admit fault." "Eight-year-old offers a hundred yuan reward to find the town's only clown, hoping to make his depressed friend smile." "Red-haired she-wolf breaks down in tears on
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The Underworld Detective 阴间神探
My new work is out! You can read it on Tomato Novel. I hope you'll enjoy it. Your support inspires me to write, and I'll do my best to tell every story well!
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A Common Man Takes the Stage 匹夫驾到
(Signed for print publication) (One heroine, no System, not a power fantasy, Chinese-style supernatural abilities) Among the infinite parallel worlds, there is a special world called Nanke, and a special group of people known as Calamity Exorcists. They soar through the skies and burrow underground, know the past and present, and travel between parallel worlds in different eras to carry out missions. A young man who calls himself a commoner is chosen by fate to enter Nanke’s mysterious academy,
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Above the Immortals 仙人之上
(No harem, no formulaic plot, no invincible protagonist, no System, no brainless characters, and no wish-fulfillment. Read at your own discretion.) The ancient Immortal Court had crumbled into ruins, and the immortals of old had fallen into slumber. The world changed with every passing day, and seas became fields. All that remained of ancient times existed only in myths. Thousands of years later, the ruins of the Immortal Court once more rose above the nine heavens, and the sleeping immortals be
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This Scholar Comes from the Underworld 这个书生来自幽冥
“Where is this?” “Perhaps... the River of Forgetfulness...” “Who are you?” “Wuchang...” “I've never heard of anyone called Wuchang in this world.” “From now on... that's who I'll be!” The soul crosses the River of Forgetfulness, while its thoughts remain on the other shore. What is gained from all beings must be returned to all beings. When Su Mo woke up, he was no longer in his former life. He went to the capital to sit the imperial examinations, but accidentally stumbled into an immortal schem
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I Have a Safe House 我有一座安全屋
The killer Li Saishang, codename "Sezanne," is one of the top five assassins in the Painters organization. He is a master with knives, and with a pistol, he is God within fifty meters. As for rifles... ahem, let's not go there. It all began with a betrayal and an ambush. In his safe house, Li Saishang resolutely detonated the explosives, taking his enemies down with him. And so began his remarkable life traveling between two worlds...
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Thriller Game: From the Start, I Urge the Ghost Courtesan to Reform! 惊悚游戏：开局劝鬼花魁从良！
[Horror game + comedic mild horror + infinite-flow + livestream + no heroine + the protagonist doesn’t act human + everyone is clever + everyone lies + original game scenarios] [The only novel online to tell the story of what happened before the horror game invaded!] [Horror scenario “Ghost Brothel” fully loaded. Players, please get ready!] Lin Xun, a hack screenwriter, is transported into a horror game. Unblockable horror livestreams spread across the internet, turning this into a terrifying sp
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The Underworld Calls Me Little Master 地府叫我小先生
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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Pleasant Goat: This World Has the Wrong Art Style 喜羊羊：这个世界画风不对
[Sheep Boy pairing + original female character + a touch of everyone’s favorite + slow-burn romance] The moment Zhanzhan opened her eyes, she saw a boy wearing a bell around his neck and an old man with grass growing on his head. So she closed her eyes again. She must have opened them the wrong way. After learning she had transmigrated into an animated world, Zhanzhan decided to make the best of it. She befriended the little sheep and even managed to snag herself a boyfriend. Her boyfriend was h
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National Destiny Game: Only I Can Sign In! 国运游戏：只有我能签到！
[National destiny + livestreaming + island survival in the early stages + island lords and residents + no strong female lead + incredible luck + sign-in golden finger + cooperation + online-game setting + cultivation survival in the later stages + fewer sign-in rewards later] Bai Qian was seriously ill in her previous life and chose to stop treatment. After dying, she was reborn on Blue Star in a parallel world and selected to take part in a national-destiny survival game. Raised by her country
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Back to Field: I Became the Mushroom House’s Favorite 向往：我成了蘑菇屋团宠
Reborn, Lin Yun not only becomes the son of a powerful entertainment-industry mogul, but also awakens the Human Potential System! As long as he collects enough popularity points, he can unlock humanity's max-level talents! So, under his father's threats and tempting offers, Lin Yun joins the eighth season of Back to Field, one of the top three most popular outdoor variety shows in the country! From the start, Lin Yun chooses the max-level hunter talent. He hunts in the mountains, catches fish in
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Live from the Interstellar League! I Smash Mechs with a Wok 星际联赛直播！我拎炒锅砸穿机甲
[Interstellar + mecha + military academy + league + level-up progression + strongest heroine + goofy and lighthearted + passionate ensemble cast + a little cooking] !! Important note: This book has just received its first rating, so the score looks low right now. It'll go up later, everyone!!! [Roasting starbeasts on an electric stove, smacking mechs with a frying pan] Global cooking champion Si Yun opens her eyes to find herself at the bottom of the Federation Military Academy rankings. Othe
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A Little Zombie Went Looking for Brains, Ended Up in the 1970s, and Joined the Army 小丧尸找脑子找到七零后，随军了
[Island military romance + transmigration + super-brain genius + special abilities + real and fake heiresses] Zhou Shi is a zombie with brains. She pushes a shopping cart around looking for supplies. Because humans say that if you have food, you have nothing to fear. She uses her brain as a mouth to talk, because she’s heard that if you don’t use your brain, it’ll rust. Her goal in zombie life is to become the most high-class Zombie Queen. High-class means pretty and smart. So this little zombie
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Lu Ling Feng Shui Shop 鹿灵风水铺
[Lighthearted paranormal suspense + mild horror + one-on-one romance + episodic stories] Lu Ling is forced to take over the feng shui shop her father left her and shoulder the Lu family’s duty as spirit-contractors. Only after she starts taking on cases does she realize that people can be far more terrifying than ghosts.
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High Martial: From the Start, I Awakened S-Rank Indestructible Diamond Body 高武：开局觉醒S级金刚不坏
(Four chapters every day. An explosive, cathartic power fantasy!) A nuclear war ushers humanity into an age of evolution! The higher your bloodline rank, the stronger you are! From the start, the young Mo Tian awakens an S-rank Indestructible Vajra Bloodline, becomes a hulking mass of muscle, and kills his way forward! You want to talk reason? Fine. If you refuse to listen, I’ll beat you to a pulp! The Indestructible Vajra Bloodline’s first ancestral awakening… The second ancestral awakening… Th
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Absolute Zero (Complete in 12 Volumes) 绝对零度(全12册)
Several people have fallen to their deaths in a bustling international metropolis within a short period of time. In addition to their bodies being twisted in bizarre ways, each victim wears an eerie smile. Were these suicides or murders? Detective Guan Hu of the Major Crimes Unit begins investigating. During the inquiry, he meets Zhang Yanduo, the mysterious owner of a bar near the police station, whose memory and analytical abilities are exceptional. With Zhang's help, Guan Hu discovers that th
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Sunlight Through the Cracks 裂缝里的阳光
From childhood onward, Zhuang Zi'ang was the kind of kid everyone called “the child other parents wish they had”: a model student every year and always first in his class. But after his parents divorced and his father started a new family, he became a child neither parent loved. At just eighteen, Zhuang Zi'ang is diagnosed with a terminal illness and given only three months to live. With his final three months, he decides to let out his rebellious, wild side and be truly himself for once. While
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The Unbalanced Abyss 失衡归墟
[Original | Not a power fantasy | Not mindless | Golden finger | Suspense and horror game | Self-redemption] “Let’s play hide-and-seek. You be It, and I’ll hide. Can you find me?” A text from an unknown number dragged Liu Xu into a deadly game set in the world of a novel. When he woke, he was inside an ancient theater governed by bizarre rules. Its master delighted in watching people die, and anyone who lost the game would vanish into a wisp of green smoke beneath the stage. As the other players
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After I Changed Majors, Five Senior Students Begged Me to Take Them Along 换专业后，五位学长哭着求带
In her previous life, Shu Lanzhou and Lin Muyao fought from school all the way into the workplace as they both tried to join the country's most prestigious research team. In the end, Shu Lanzhou became a disgrace to the medical field, and the mentor she respected personally sent her to prison. Reborn, she gives up the popular major she'd studied for four years, determined to sever her ties with her former mentor and senior colleagues. But the very senior colleagues who had driven her out of the
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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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The True Story of a Haunted House Sleep Tester 我，一名凶宅试睡员的真实经历
If there were a job where you didn’t have to do anything, but could charge by the minute and make a fortune just by sleeping, would you be interested in trying it? There’s just one catch: you can’t be afraid of ghosts. If you’re curious about what kind of job this is, I’m a veteran in the field, and I’ll tell you about my own experiences…
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Criminal Investigation: I Can See Crime Records 刑侦：我能看见犯罪记录
Cen Lian was a junior-college general education teacher who did just enough to get by, and always thought he would keep coasting through life. Then a cheat ability fell into his lap: every criminal revealed their crimes in front of him. Driven by a simple sense of justice, Cen Lian began matching wits with criminals, both smart and stupid. He became a specially appointed consultant and, alongside a group of like-minded partners, embarked on a career solving criminal cases.
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The Master of Disguise (Complete in Two Volumes) 变脸师爷（全两册）
Shen Bai, a famous young gentleman from the capital, is sent to the obscure little city of Bian to serve as a low-ranking county magistrate. To keep life from getting too dull, he hires a strange young man who has piqued his curiosity, Lu Yuanqing, as his assistant at the county office. With Lu Yuanqing’s help, Shen Bai solves one strange case after another: a naked female corpse leads to two unsolved cases from years ago; a wildly popular book turns out to be linked to a series of murders; a re
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Ye Mumu's First Book 叶苜苜的第一本书
[Modern fallen goddess × ancient young general × ancient rising scholar, past meets present × years of famine × officialdom] I sent food to an ancient general and a scholar. Pei He was a down-on-her-luck goddess. One day, people suddenly began burning incense and praying at her temple! Delighted to have regained her divine powers, she heard one of her worshippers say he wanted to solve the food shortage. With a grand wave of her hand, she gave him several hundred loaves of bread and several hund
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The Horror Game Is Too Hard? Huohuo, I Only Want Joy! 惊悚游戏太难？花火我只要欢愉！
[Mind games + fireworks + madness + infinite flow] I am Sparkle, but I am not Sparkle. I am in a world of despair. When the heavens and earth are torn open by an indescribable, mysterious force and countless “abominations from beyond” descend, humanity’s fate is forced into a horror game. Slaughter, monsters, abyssal dungeons, illusions, eerie towers... Every time someone clears a game, a new Cthulhu entity may step into reality. Everyone is fighting to survive. But amid all this despair, I’m l
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