Looking for Thrillers With a Smart Male Lead, With or Without a System 想要惊悚类小说，男主智商在线，系统有无都行
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Thriller Survival: Beating Up a Clown at the Amusement Park from the Start! 惊悚求生：开局游乐场暴揍小丑！
[Wish-Fulfillment]+ [No Simping]+ [System]+ [Hilarious] A mysterious force descended upon Blue Star, periodically choosing lucky people to enter a terrifying survival game! A mysterious livestreaming app let people everywhere watch the livestreams and recordings of those trapped in the game. Li Xiao, a man incapable of fear who looked downright terrifying when he smiled, entered the survival game. The clown was crazy, but he was even crazier! The evil spirits were terrifying, but he was even mor
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The Divine Qilin 麒麟神相
I was born with a Qilin by my side. To save me, my grandfather peeled off his own human skin and gave it to a nine-tailed fox. That day, dead trees bloomed again, and all the beasts came to pay their respects!
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Thriller Game: From the Start, I Take Over the Haunted Clinic 惊悚游戏：开局拿下鬼诊所
The paranormal is on the rise, and horror games are invading reality. The genius doctor Li Fei is accidentally drawn into a game. With the Ghost Doctor System at his side, he devotes himself heart and soul to medicine, gradually building his clinic into a thriving business. The Slit-Mouthed Woman: “I only went in for a checkup for a cold, and he sewed my mouth shut the moment I walked in!” The Red Wedding Dress: “I only turned him down, but he insisted I had a fear of men!” The Ghost Lady: “He t
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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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Nine Dragons Carry the Coffin 九龙抬棺
The night of my grandfather's funeral, I carried a stone tablet at the front of the procession to lead the way. I didn't dare look back, because the eight evil spirits carrying the coffin were behind me...
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Heaven-Seizing Fortune 劫天运
I was schemed against before I was even born. I was born with all five yin traits and naturally attracted vicious ghosts. A knowledgeable fortune-teller said I wouldn’t live past seven, and that after I died, someone would turn me into a blood-clothed child ghost to harm others. To save me, my grandmother arranged for me to marry a child bride, and I was able to live in peace... I’d been scraping by since childhood, and had long since grown used to enduring whatever came my way. But my grandmoth
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Taboo of the Living 活人禁忌
When I was nine, I found myself in mortal danger! To save me, my grandfather made a decision that would change my life forever...
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Tales of the Taoist Sect 道门往事
Cha Wenbin holds the ancestral seal of the Maoshan sect and is the last heir to the position of sect leader in the Orthodox Way. He saves people caught between yin and yang, but brings disaster upon himself and suffers Heaven’s punishment. With a chivalrous heart and a mastery of Taoist arts, he rescues the living from the cracks between worlds and guides the dead through the endless hellish roads! Who are the ancient Di people clad in fish scales, the mysterious king brought back to life, and t
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When Terror Descended, My Insane Social Skills Shocked the World 惊悚降临:社交牛x的我震惊世界
Qin Xiao, a world-class sales trainer and proud holder of a Social Skills Expert certificate, transmigrated into a parallel world where a terrifying game had descended. As it turned out, you could do anything you wanted as long as you had great social skills. Affection: 60 Rakshasa: “From now on, you're my brother, Lao Luo!” Affection: 90 Ghost King: “Big bro, take a look! Take a look at the kingdom your little brother conquered for you!” Affection: 100 Ghost Teacher: “Little brother, stay the n
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I Said There Were No Gods Tonight, So the Gods Fell 我说今夜无神，于是众神陨落
[The print edition, titled A Godless Night, is available to search for on all platforms. The comic adaptation is now online.] [Plot-driven + infinite-flow + mild horror + countless twists] Yan Huang had a terminal illness. He didn't want to die, so he became a player in Instance. The System's evaluation of him read: [Player Yan Huang practices what he preaches and has impeccable morals. Congratulations, you have awakened the talent: Deceiver.] [Deceiver: Each lie you tell has a fifty percent cha
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Horror Game: My Second Personality Is an Evil God 惊悚游戏，我的第二人格是邪神
[No Female Lead] [Madman] [Dark Humor] [Mind Games] [Thriller] A Thriller game descends, and Chen Xie, a patient at a psychiatric hospital, is dragged into it. With an evil god living inside him, he possesses both absolute rationality and absolute madness. Evil God: I’m the absolutely rational one. You’re the absolutely insane one! Mutant Doctor: This guy chopped me to death, then went off to make mutants himself! Ghost Teacher: He doesn’t just break the school rules, he straight-up blows the pr
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Survival Game: My Sanity Meter Is Off the Charts! 生存游戏：我的san值爆表了！
[Story-driven + infinite worlds + horror game + no female lead] This is a survival game. All selected players must take part in terrifying instances. They must fight to survive in the cracks! Ji Bai is a doctor at a psychiatric hospital, and his best friends are his patients. Suddenly, a ghostly face lunges out! “A jumpscare?” Ji Bai looks at his SAN value. It has already shot up to 130. “I’m a doctor. If I say you’re sick, then you’re sick!” He grips his cleaver and swings hard. The ghostly fac
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Thriller Game: Starting with Saw 惊悚游戏:从电锯惊魂开始
Lin Feifan joined a horror game to seek a cure, but stumbled upon the truth of this world... The Cthulhu Mythos turned out to be the ultimate mastermind... The horror game existed to hold back the Great Old Ones! Become an administrator... and purge every mystery in the universe!
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Deceiving the Gods: A Performance! 欺神演出！
[Satisfying revenge + Mind-bending twists + Slow burn + Strategic battles + Loads of plot twists] “When I thought death was the end, I opened my eyes and discovered that death was only a new beginning.” Lin Yu was killed by a junior schoolmate he thought had come to confess her love, only to discover that he hadn’t truly died. Instead, he had entered a deadly game! Only the winner would earn the chance to “live again.” Fortunately, Lin Yu awakened the “Unique Class: Deceiver.” [Any lie you
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I Was Dirt Poor, but After Getting Pulled into a Horror Game, I Escaped Poverty 很穷，被拉进惊悚游戏后，脱贫了
[Horror game dungeons + career-based progression + NPCs caught in a rat race + livestreaming + everyday-life style] Jiang Ye’s daily routine consists of working, studying, working... Then one day, he’s pulled into a horror game during class and awakens an all-career talent. He discovers that all his career skills are a little strange. From the start, he unlocks the career “Small-Town Exam Machine,” with an added skill that lets him make choices for ghosts and monsters. [A difficult choice has ap
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Ghost Tamer: I Contracted a Hundred Million S-Rank Ghosts! 御鬼师：我契约了亿只S级鬼物！
[Looting bamboo shoots + ghostly resurgence + ghost taming + one female lead + comedy = 100,000 new words every week?] The comic of the same name, Global Ghost Tamer: I Have Hundreds of Millions of Ghosts Inside Me, is now available on Fanqie. Lin Mo was playing games in class when he transmigrated to a parallel world overrun by ghosts. With the worst talent of all, he unexpectedly gained the Defense-Breaking System. As long as he could make a ghost lose its composure, he could force it into a c
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Yin-Yang Apartment 阴阳公寓
[No System, No Golden Finger, No Cultivation, No Dumbing Down] Yin-Yang Apartment Su Xun is eighteen and has just graduated from university. He should be in the prime of his youth, with a bright future ahead. But fate cruelly drags him and his classmates into an endless nightmare: a bloody, terrifying game. At regular intervals, they are forced to enter the mysterious Yin-Yang Apartment and struggle to survive on the brink of death. Deadly dangers lurk in its shadows, and every step could be
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Thriller Game: Every NPC Wants to Kill Me 惊悚游戏：全NPC都想干掉我
[Horror Game + Battle Royale + Yandere NPCs + No Female Lead] “This is just an ordinary dating game. In it, I’m being pursued by more than a dozen high-quality human women!” From the start, a little girl NPC’s head falls off. Duan Jun helps the NPC in the beginner village pick it up, getting a head start. At Rose Manor, the maid wields a knife, the chef poisons the food, the butler tries to smash people with an axe, and the gardener wants to use him as fertilizer! He even gets intercepted on the
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Livestreaming in a Horror Game: I Charm a Beauty and Become a Legend 我在惊悚游戏中直播撩美人封神
[Infinite-horror game + livestream] The unhinged Jun Li was successfully tricked by his second personality into entering an infinite-horror game. Jun Li could only protest that he was weak, pitiful, and helpless, and wanted to hug himself. The Main System: There’s a curse I don’t know whether I should say! When “weak” Jun Li entered the infinite-horror world, he suddenly found himself becoming the game’s public enemy by accident. He even topped the list of players everyone most wanted dead. Jun
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Quick Transmigration: The Host Is Ruthless, Feral, and Fierce 快穿：疯批宿主他又凶又野
[Two male leads + sweet with a little angst (not much angst, the comments will make you laugh) + stunning beauty adored by everyone + no fixed couple] A robot without emotions finds a battered System. Lowering his eyes, he gently repairs it... The System wakes from hibernation, delighted to have found a Host. It diligently travels through small worlds to complete missions, only to discover that its Host is a powerful figure in disguise! World One: The pale, sickly young man says, “I don’t love
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Horror Game: I’m Really Just a Doctor 恐怖游戏：我真的只是一名医生
[Long-form campus writing contest entry] [The only one on the entire site] Fu Bai is reborn as an NPC in a horror game. He considers himself an ordinary, normal person, yet players keep calling him the Murderous Ghost Doctor, the Mad Doctor, the Horror Doctor... Come on, he's a refined, cultured doctor with a rather wicked streak. How can people still criticize him like that? Oh? More players have arrived. Fu Bai swirls the blood-red wine in his left hand, toys with a scalpel in his right, and b
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My Unhinged Persona Can't Crack [Infinite Flow] 疯批人设不能崩［无限流］
[Infinite quick transmigration + horror, suspense, and mystery-solving + no romance. The heroine acts like a lunatic, but she's absolutely sane! Slow-paced! Slow-paced! Slow-paced!] After the S-rank felon Ye Li is forcibly bound to a Punishment and Rehabilitation System, she's exiled to countless perilous worlds created in virtual reality to serve her sentence and undergo punishment. The more she suffers while serving her time, the more of her sin points are deducted. During her sentence, Ye L
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Ultraman: Humanity Betrayed Me? I Choose Darkness Instead 奥特:人类背叛？我反手选择黑暗
I never expected this book’s reputation to take such a nosedive three years after it ended, but I still have to say: those brats on that site are making a ridiculous fuss. They don’t read the book, but they always have to follow the latest trend. The saddest ones are those who once spent dozens, even over a hundred hours reading it, only to come back and give it one star. What, you thought it was good back then, but now you think it’s no good? You haven’t grown up. You’ve lost the ability to thi
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The Horror Class Chat 恐怖班群
Alternate title: Terror Game: Born with a Half-Human, Half-Demon Constitution [Campus] + [Mystery Horror] + [Slow Burn] + [No Cultivation] “Remember, you started out at school and grew stronger step by step.” Gu Yi’s expression turned bitter, but all he could do was give a rueful smile and nod in acknowledgment. “There must have been something that really stuck with you, right?” Gu Yi’s expression shifted. He seemed about to say something, but in the end, he only shook his head. “Then let me ask
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A Genius of Yin and Yang 阴阳鬼才
A calamity when I was fourteen changed my whole life. Then, at eighteen, I was set firmly on the path of yin and yang, where I mastered top-tier secret arts and went ever farther along the road of slaying demons and vanquishing evil.
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The Thousand Gates 千门
There's an old saying: nine out of ten gamblers get cheated. Wrong. All ten get cheated. My name is Chen Jiu. I'm a card sharp, and I'll use my own story to show everyone that not gambling is the real win.
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By the Power of the Law 急急如律令
It all began when I took fifty yuan from a blind fortune-teller. Then, in the middle of the night, a woman's voice suddenly sounded behind me.
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A Weasel Demands a Title, So I Reveal My Purple-Robed Celestial Master's True Form 黄皮子讨封，我亮出紫袍天师法身
Humorous and hilarious + traditional supernatural folklore + spirit medium rituals + no System Zhang Tiezhu staggers home drunk one night. He runs into a tailless weasel that asks him for a blessing. The weasel asks, “Do I look more like a human or a god to you?” “Heh... You look like your grandma’s leg!” The weasel says, “...Brother Zhang, cut it out. Give me a proper answer!” Zhang Tiezhu says, “Weasel, let me tell you: these days, you have to believe in science!” The weasel says, “I’m a Yello
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Infinite: Pampered by Ghosts in a Horror Game 无限：在惊悚游戏中被鬼灵团宠
[Not for the Faint of Heart + Terrifying and Thrilling + No CP] Third-year college student Si Mu unexpectedly gets a black watch and becomes a ghost summoner. From the start, he draws the title “Goddess of Luck,” and sure enough, all kinds of resentful ghosts and vengeful spirits come calling. They sit at the foot of your bed in the middle of the night to “keep you company,” and endless ghostly mazes lead you through all kinds of surreal worlds... Being the ghosts' favorite is simply wonderful!
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I Just Joined the Game, and Now I’m a Female Ghost’s Tutor 刚进游戏，我成了女鬼的家教老师
When Qi Feng entered a horror game, he discovered that the clues always helped him find the ghosts' weaknesses. And so, a villain was born in the world of ghosts. Faced with a ghostly young wife who was desperate to improve her son's grades, Qi Feng said, “Madam, I could tutor your son.” The ghostly young wife gave in. She even invited Qi Feng to be her son's private tutor. Faced with a ghost student who was determined to kill him, Qi Feng said, “I know all about you and Lili...” And when he saw
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The Yin Deliverer 送阴人
A burial master, also known as one who sends the dead into the shadows. When Li Mazi from my village died suddenly, I was drawn into the affair. I thought it was an accident, but later I learned it had been plotted for a long time. To stay alive, I began studying the Burial Scripture my grandfather left behind. The Burial Scripture has three volumes: one on burying people, one on burying ghosts, and a third whose whereabouts are unknown. Blood corpses in the Southern Ridges, ancient monsters in
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Honghuang: From the Start, I Livestream and Make Tongtian Take a Quiz 洪荒:开局直播，让通天做选择题
Su Mo transmigrates into the Primordial World and becomes a Jie Sect Disciple. On the eve of the Calamity of the Investiture of the Gods, he activates the Primordial World Live-Stream Q&A System. From the start, he live-streams the battle at Tongguan and Zhao Gongming's death. From that moment on, everyone in the Primordial World panics. Tongtian: My Jie Sect will be destroyed in the Calamity of the Investiture of the Gods? What utter nonsense. Yuanshi: How did they discover my scheme against To
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The Dark Movie Emperor 黑暗影帝
After his parents mysteriously disappeared, Yao Tianjun went looking for them and stumbled into the Yellow Springs Show. It's a bizarre reality show. You have to play one of its characters and improvise. As the plot unfolds, chilling curses and ever-present terrors will descend upon you. Wandering among the dead, I am the movie star of the darkness.
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The Bizarre Company: Starting with Being Forced to Work 996 诡异公司：从被迫996开始
Zhang Yang, an ordinary office worker, wakes up one day to find himself forced into the bizarre Tianwang Corporation, where a terrifying new life as a wage slave begins. A machine supervisor who kills anyone who breaks the rules. Bizarre jobs where your life is always at risk. A horrifying night in the underworld, where failing to finish your work means overtime. Colleagues with their own hidden agendas. The mysterious Six Paths Realm, one world after another in ruin, walking corpses and evil sp
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Xuanhuan: Stealing the Protagonist's Fortune and Saving the Fox-Spirit Empress 玄幻：截胡主角机缘，救妖狐女帝
[Seven Sisters, Douluo Dalu, Battle Through the Heavens, Slaying Gods and Mental Hospitals, Ten Days Until the End, Swear I’m Really Not a Drama God, Covering the Heavens with Ye Fan, Courtyard Life, Naruto, One Piece, Beloved by All, Defying His Master, Swallowed Star Battles, Villain + Empress + Life Script] The male lead transmigrates to a fantasy world and becomes Yun Tian, a sword sect disciple of the Lingyun Sacred Land. From the start, he awakens a System that lets him view life scripts,
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Horror Live Stream Studio 恐怖直播厅
[Horror + Taoist priest + zombies + vengeful ghosts + livestreaming + treasure hunting] One day, I accidentally boarded a terrifying bus and found myself surrounded by zombies and ghosts. After that, I began encountering one paranormal incident after another. So, being the bold person I am, I started a horror livestream…
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Xuanhuan: I Became the Supreme Villain! 玄幻：我成了至尊大反派！
[Seven older sisters, battling Douluo Dalu and Battle Through the Heavens, I'm Not a Troupe Performer, Ten Days Until the End, global freeze in the apocalypse, Dao: The Secret Immortal, Ye Fan from Shrouding the Heavens, rebellious disciple who seduces his master, slaying gods and taking on a mental hospital, empress, great emperor, villain + invincible + leveling up + System + domineering] He transmigrates into a fantasy world and becomes a villainous young noble from another realm. Li Tiandi b
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Thriller: I Only Sell Haunted Houses 惊悚：我只卖凶宅
Rooms where unnatural deaths have occurred are collectively known as haunted houses. There are two kinds: “blue houses” and “red houses.” Living people can stay in blue houses without harm, but anyone who lives in a red house is doomed to die. I work as a real estate agent. One day, I accidentally sold a red house, and afterward, I began encountering terrifying things…
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Coffin Shop No. 44 44号棺材铺
Everyone knows what a coffin shop is, but would you dare enter one where someone has died? Ever since I took over a coffin shop, strange things have been happening all around me. Only then did I realize that the people who come to buy coffins aren't necessarily alive…
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The Corpse Mother 尸母
Every year on the fifteenth day of the seventh month, a lantern made of human skin appears in the mass grave on Shiping Mountain. A little girl carrying a skull follows behind it at a leisurely pace. The girl is named Qiyue. Born with a corpse-bound yin fate, she has spent her life searching for the truth about her Corpse Mother’s past. When all the evidence points to a mysterious ghost village...!
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Super Scary Livestream 超级惊悚直播
"Welcome, everyone, to the Supernatural Scary Live Stream. Before we start today's broadcast, I have to tell you that only three kinds of people can watch this stream: those with a heavy aura of yin energy, those who will die within seven days, and the third kind, which I can't discuss in detail. I can only give you one warning: watch your back!"
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Eerie Tattoos 诡纹
My grandfather was a tattoo artist, but the things he tattooed were seriously sinister…
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