Seeking Highly Rated Mystery and Supernatural Novels, the Kind You Stay Up All Night to Finish 求悬疑灵异类高分小说，熬夜都要看完那种
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Midnight Terror: Human Nature Stories That Will Haunt You 午夜惊魂：让人细思极恐的人性故事
At midnight, let's listen together to the little stories that circulate all around us. Maybe they're true. Maybe you've heard them too, or even experienced them yourself. Those moments that grow more terrifying the more you think about them go perfectly with the pitch-black night beyond the window. Red brick walls are common in many places. But we've never stopped to wonder: why are those bricks so red, so vivid? Rideshares at night aren't necessarily safe. Passengers have their concerns, and dr
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Tales of the Supernatural 民间怪谈录
[Rural Horror Stories + Anthology + Folk Horror Tales + Chinese Supernatural] Supernatural happenings are most likely to occur in mountain villages, and the stories we've heard may well have really happened. In the eerie night wind, Granny Hao, the midwife who receives the dead, is like a messenger from the underworld, guiding the spirits of helpless mothers and children home. Locust trees commune with spirits, and poplars attract yin energy. Beneath the village's ancient trees lie secrets that
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Chou Xian'er 仇仙儿
Good demons are for Fahai to handle, and bad ghosts need bad people to deal with them. If life is already miserable, who cares if you end up in the frying pan after death! If you won’t let me, Chen Guang, live in peace, then what the hell am I cultivating merit for? One word: fight to the bitter end!
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With My Heart, I Question Heaven’s Heart 我以己心问天心
His master’s soul lamp is about to go out, but the Underworld Division has already come to claim his soul, and the Directorate of Fate has secretly altered his lifespan. The young Daoist Chen Shaowei travels from Yunzhou to the capital, uncovering the secrets of the Temple of Heaven, the black accounts of the Ghost Market, and old entanglements in Fengdu along the way. Only then does he realize that the ones devouring people are not a single person or one department, but an old web spanning both
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A Record of Supernatural Events in the Countryside 乡村灵异事件薄
My new work is out! You can read it on Tomato Novel. I hope you enjoy it. Your support is what keeps me writing, and I'll do my best to tell every story well!
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A Record of Funerals in a Small Town 小城丧葬录
In 2020, Rongcheng was battered by torrential rain. At 32, Chen Yan hit rock bottom after falling from a government post. Forced to resign over an air-gun incident, he crashed while hauling freight, went unpaid by an advertising agency, broke his leg at a construction site, and eventually became a food delivery rider, scraping by between his mortgage and daily expenses. One rainy night, he stopped to help someone and stumbled into the Xiao An Funeral Parlor, where he met Old Yang, who secretly c
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Yin-Yang Collector 阴阳收敛师
Gu Changan was just an undertaker at a funeral home in Jiangcheng, with the ability to see the deceased’s final day whenever he touched them. He had thought his job was simply to tidy the dead and see them through the last leg of their lives. But a series of old cases made him realize that not every restless spirit was born from resentment. Someone was secretly severing the paths of the dead, altering causes of death, and erasing names, turning the deceased into malevolent ghosts wandering among
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The Funeral Home in a Small Town 小城殡仪馆
Ever since Lin Yu took a job driving a hearse at a funeral home, his life became anything but ordinary. He and his friends went through all kinds of bizarre, inexplicable events together. Vengeful spirits possessing people, a dead infant in a pot, opera singing in a graveyard... No one knew what would happen next.
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The Last Soul-Quelling Master 最后一个镇魂师
I grew up at my grandfather's house in the countryside. He was the most respected suona player in our village. One day, Li Dashan, a fellow villager, beat his pregnant wife to death and came to ask my grandfather for help. My grandfather tried everything he could, but still couldn't calm the resentment of Li Dashan's wife. In the end, he had no choice but to play a suona dirge to forcibly pacify her soul. On the night of the Lantern Festival, Li Dashan and his family turned into vengeful ghosts
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Underworld Agent 地府经纪人
I was hit by a basketball at school and fell into a lake, but I survived and became an official employee of the Underworld. I also gained a Ghost Hunter System that helps the Underworld recruit talented ghosts, setting me on the path to turning my life around.
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The Years I Spent as a Funeral Mourner 我当哭丧人的那些年
Some people must be mourned loudly when they are laid to rest. Otherwise, according to old folk customs, it is considered an act of filial impiety. After I was born, everyone in my family except my grandfather died because of me. My grandfather fell gravely ill, and to earn money for his treatment, I had no choice but to join Zhang the Elder, a man from my village, as a professional funeral mourner. From then on, I set out on a path of mourning with no return!
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The Underworld Calls Me Little Sir 地府叫我小先生
[Supernatural + mystery + power progression] Getting hit by a basketball and falling into a lake was bad enough. Even worse, I got killed by a basketball!! The Black and White Impermanence told me I still had seventy years left to live. To make it up to me, they offered me a job in the underworld. So I became an HR officer on the underworld’s permanent staff and even got a ghost recruitment System! As long as I help the underworld recruit talented ghosts, I can earn all kinds of abilities: talis
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This Taoist Priest Is a Little Too Cool 这个道士不太冷
My name is Niu Dabao, and I’m the only college graduate in Niu Village. I thought that after graduation, I’d get promoted, earn a bigger salary, marry a beautiful, rich woman, and reach the pinnacle of life. Who knew the company would go under and the boss would kill himself? I didn’t get a single penny of my wages, couldn’t even afford rent, and had to sleep at the train station every night! Then a ragged Taoist priest told me I was dogged by bad luck and possessed by a host of ghosts, and that
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I Live in Fengmen Village 我住在封门村
My hometown shares its name with the legendary number-one haunted village in China: Fengmen Village. What’s more, our village also has a grandmaster’s chair. Whoever sits in it is doomed to die! It was 1997, and I had been accepted into the high school in town. Once summer vacation was over, I would finally be able to leave the place where I’d spent sixteen years. But what I never expected was for one terrifying incident after another to strike the village! Rats that ate human flesh, five-colore
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The Haunted Grave 诡坟
I think I've been possessed! Right before the college entrance exam, I suddenly came down with a high fever that wouldn't break. I missed the exam and had to spend half a year recovering at home. During those six months, I found a job as a cemetery groundskeeper. My coworker, Old Zhang, saw how frail I was and how weak my yang energy seemed, and insisted on finding me someone to protect me. But he didn't tell me that my protector would be a female ghost!! Not only does she want to marry me, she
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There Are Ghosts in These Words 话里有诡
They say everyone has a few little secrets they can't bring themselves to talk about these days. But if you really want to hear something out of the ordinary, go find Old Bu. Old Bu runs a little tavern set inside an abandoned train carriage. From the day it opened, he laid down one rule: One interesting story in exchange for a night's worth of drinks. Sounds like a good deal, doesn't it? Too bad he doesn't give you much to drink, and the stories just keep getting stranger. An intelligent wristb
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The Midnight Gravekeeper 午夜守墓人
A desolate mountain. An ancient tomb. A woman in white. A blood-red moon at midnight. A corpse monk on the move. I’m a high school senior. With the college entrance exam just around the corner, I suddenly came down with a fever that wouldn’t break and missed the test. After recovering at home for more than half a year, I found a job guarding the gate at a cemetery. Seeing how frail I was and how weak my yang energy was, Old Zhang, the gravedigger, found me a protector. But she wasn’t human. She
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Pawnshop No. 7 第7当铺
In the darkest corner of the city stands the Number Seven Pawnshop, which never closes. It doesn’t take physical objects as collateral, but rather the “sinful traits” buried deep in human nature. The owner offers unimaginable wealth, success, or wishes, but the price is your greed, arrogance, lust, envy, gluttony, wrath, and sloth. The rules here are cold but fair: the more “sin” you pawn, the richer the reward. But without your “sins,” are you still truly whole?
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Maoshan Taoist Arts: The Way of Heaven 茅山道法之天道
In The Maoshan Daoist Arts: The Heavenly Way, Li Yunfei becomes a Maoshan disciple by a stroke of luck and embarks on a journey to vanquish demons and exorcise evil. Demons, devils, and ghosts across the Three Realms all tremble at the sound of his name...
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After My Divorce, I Awakened the Merit System 离婚后，我觉醒了功德系统
Do you think all the metaphysics masters on livestreams are just following a script? I used to be one of them. It wasn't until the day I got divorced and went bankrupt that I realized this world was more dangerous than I had imagined. The woman in red in the haunted house, the sound of typing in an office building in the middle of the night, the thousand-year-old monster sealed beneath the city subway... These aren't stories. They're my everyday life. Now I've started livestreaming again, not fo
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The Cursed Spirit-Fetus Journal 灵胎诡札
[Chinese folk customs + supernatural + horror and suspense + historical fantasy + no characters acting stupidly + not an overpowered hero + no System] Before Grandma died, she left these final words: “Burn everything I own. Don’t leave anything behind.” Sixteen-year-old Chu Yi secretly kept a yellowed notebook. He had no idea that this choice would let him see another world. This is a work that “uses the trappings of immortal cultivation to explore the weight of human life, and wraps questions o
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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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Strange Demons at the Teahouse: Tales of a Hundred Flavors 茶肆异妖，百味诡谈
[Mysticism + Satisfying Read + Supernatural + Strange Tales] The Many-Flavored Teahouse in Liuyi Lane is mysterious and uncanny. It only serves tea at night. What’s brewed is fragrant tea; what’s savored is the human heart. The proprietress, Liu Xu’er, and her young sidekick, Qing Cen, hunt ghosts, subdue demons, and catch evildoers. Their only focus is building their business. But one moment of bad judgment leads them to take on a job for an unlucky man. He’s been set up, and one misfortune aft
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The Double Fiend 子母双煞
The Mother-and-Child Fiends
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Morgue Notes: I Saw Messages from the Dead 太平间手记：我看见了死者留言
Chen Ye, an ordinary medical school graduate, took a well-paid job as the night-shift attendant in the city hospital morgue. On his very first night, he discovered that the rules here were absurdly strict: the lights had to be turned off at three in the morning, refrigerator number three was never to be used, and he must never respond to even the faintest sound. He thought it was just a prank to scare the new guy, until he found a line of new writing formed in frost on the back of an old autopsy
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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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Feng Shui Sets the Board, a Fated Son-in-Law with an Iron Constitution 风水入局，命硬神婿
At the end of the Ming dynasty, four families discover a terrifying dragon's lair, a feng shui site said to lead to heaven. They divide it into four parts, named Power, Wisdom, Wealth, and Beauty. Those buried within it can ensure their descendants enjoy power, wisdom, wealth, and beauty forever. But the lair defies the natural order. Even its good fortune carries danger, and it invites Heaven's punishment. To preserve their destiny, the families must find a scapegoat to take the blow in their p
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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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Belly City 腹城
[Thriller, Cthulhu Mythos, mystery, supernatural powers, System, loops, horror, apocalypse, unraveling secrets, no romance] The rating has just been posted, but it will rise later. In the flawless “Sweet Community,” every fear and suspicion Nuxin feels is gently “corrected” by the System. Until he discovers that his playmate A Dai’s “move” was an elaborate lie; until, beneath the old school building in the dead of night, he meets Mo Li, the girl who warns him to “run.” Black cars glide soundl
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Lord Guan Guards the Night: From the Start, a Security Guard Gains the Remnant Will of the Martial Sage 关公镇夜：保安开局得武圣残念
[Bickering Couple + Mystery and Deduction + Witty Humor + Leveling Up and Fighting Monsters] Watch an ordinary person from the streets stumble into the business of yin and yang, as his hilarious journey of soul-catching begins! Male Lead: A down-on-his-luck man of humble origins, quick with a joke and fond of snarky remarks. A timid good-for-nothing at first, he grows into a composed and powerful protagonist who makes a comeback. Female Lead / Bickering Partner: Sharp-tongued and always trad
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12:17 A.M., Please Confirm Your Name 零点十七分，请确认你的姓名
In Qiheng City, people don’t simply disappear. First, the city erases their names, then convinces everyone they never existed. At 12:17 a.m., a fire alarm suddenly went off in a residential building in Qiheng City that had only sixteen floors: “Someone is trapped on the seventeenth floor.” Zhou Jiming, an engineer who inspected fire safety systems, checked the building plans, stairwell height, elevator programming, and exterior facade. Every piece of evidence proved that the seventeenth floor di
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The Human Heart Is More Terrifying Than Ghosts, and More Deserving of Death 人心可怖，比鬼当诛
Cause and effect come full circle. Debts from the past must eventually be repaid. Zhang Dong is an intern forensic pathologist at the provincial forensic center, and also the personal disciple of the Grandmaster of the Taiyin Way. On one hand, he's a public servant who speaks for the dead with a scalpel. On the other, people see him as a "charlatan" with an eerie aura. What path should he take? Should he keep speaking for the dead as a "charlatan"? Or should he give up his public-service job to
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Sister Zombie, Help! There's a Ghost Behind Me! 尸姐，救命！我身后有鬼！
[Mild Horror] [Devoted Couple] [Ghost Wife] [Two Female Leads] [Contractual Bond with a Coming-of-Age Dynamic] My name is Ji Ting. I died the day I was born. My grandmother summoned a female ghost, who dragged me back from death. She looked at me as if I were an enemy from a past life. I clung to her leg, and she called me useless. On our wedding day, she asked me, “Jinglan, are you happy?” Her soft lips kissed me until I was dizzy with bliss. I could no longer tell whether I was Ji Ting or Pei
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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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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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The Gods’ Foolish Game 诸神愚戏
I have two principles in life: 1. I never lie. 2. I never believe anything anyone says, including myself. “Sir, I would like to point out that your second statement conflicts with the first.” “How so?” “If you never lie, why don’t you believe what you say?” “Oh, sorry. I forgot to mention that I don’t consider myself human.” “?” Allow me to introduce myself. My name is Cheng Shi, Cheng Shi who never lies. What, you’ve never heard of me? That’s all right. You simply haven’t been deceived by m
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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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The Ghostly Jade Shadow 玉影鬼差
[Underworld Investigator + County Magistrate] One is silver-tongued, the other meticulous... Was their meeting a calculated approach or a fateful encounter? Liang Yu is a ghostly constable in the Nine Netherworlds Office of Judicial Review. A white stone allows her to travel between the realms of the living and the dead. At the request of departed souls, she takes care of matters in the human world, helping them let go of their attachments and enter the cycle of reincarnation. Yet she has a past
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The Fake Master Walks Between Yin and Yang: Sweet-Talking the Living, Battling Vengeful Ghosts 冒牌大师走阴阳：哄完活人斗厉鬼
The thing Liu Buyi, a fake master, regrets most in his life is learning how to “draw talismans with soy sauce” from a short video. Because the corpse that should be lying quietly in front of him is now using a soy-sauce-dipped finger to write his name on the coffin lid. Meanwhile, his half-baked beauty of a partner, An Xun, is munching on sunflower seeds and enjoying the show. “Didn't you say you had Yin-Yang Eyes?!” Liu Buyi's voice trembles. Seeing how unconcerned she looks, he almost passes o
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The Yellow Springs Pawnshop: No Living Visitors 黄泉典当铺，生人勿近
[Ghost Hunting + Supernatural Horror + Folk Customs + Strange Tales + Taoist Arts + Maoshan] At the end of a street at midnight stands a Yellow Springs Pawnshop. You have no way of knowing whether those who come and go to trade are human or ghost! Lu Guanshan takes over the pawnshop, and on his very first night, he encounters a stunningly beautiful, cold and aloof Ghost Queen hanging from a beam. She latches onto him and stays by his side as they collect yin objects and subdue a hundred ghosts.
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749 Bureau: The Forbidden Return 749局之禁忌归来
(Traditional supernatural fiction meets traditional fantasy.) From the day he was born, his destiny was marked as extraordinary enough to shock the world. To protect the everlasting lifeline of Huaxia, he led members of the 749 Bureau across the world, exterminating evil spirits from beyond the borders and vowing to keep the land secure forever. He is both an honored guest of the ghostly realm of Fengdu and the deeply secretive
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The Yin Calamity Brings a Fox 阴祸得狐
On the night I was born, strange celestial signs appeared, and I seemed to glimpse a mythical beast. A fortune-teller said I was born with a noble destiny, that good fortune was at my door, and that I was sure to achieve great things. But when I was twelve, an accident left me plagued by misfortune and illness. Desperate to survive, I went to pay respects to my ancestors and pray for their protection, never expecting to visit the wrong grave... That night, a man with nine tails, as beautiful as
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The Midnight Pawnshop: The Living Must Keep Away 午夜当铺，活人回避
[Traditional Supernatural + Chinese Folklore + Unorthodox Trading + Tales of Evil Objects] No romantic pairing This is a strange pawnshop that only accepts sinister objects with special value! Coins placed in the mouths of the dead, executioners' swords, grave-top mushrooms, flesh lingzhi, Kunlun fetuses... Evil objects can harm people, but they can also help them! Once they pass through the pawnshop's hands, being pawned and sold, evil can be transformed into treasure! They can bring promotions
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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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I Asked You to Turn Around, Not Bring People to Clear My Blockage! 让你回个头，你带人疏通我？
[Martial fantasy + infinite-loop trials + rule-based killing games + ensemble cast + no mindless power fantasy + scheming, trope-subverting hero + themed pocket worlds] Unemployed wage slave Mu Chen's life rules: The later the night, the wilder you get. The more forbidden the fun, the better. Rules are there to test your limits. Teammates are there to take the fall for you. Never trust a warning that says "Do Not Look Back"... unless there's really something behind you. "Kid, you're walking
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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: I'm an NPC, and I'm Going Crazy Again Today 规则怪谈：我NPC，今天也发疯
Others enter Rule Horror scenarios to survive. I got sucked in as an NPC, and the System even forces me to go crazy. If I don’t, I die. Fine, then I’ll go crazy for everyone to see.
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Strange Happenings in the Ancient City 古城诡事
A mysterious phone call full of suspense and a childhood friend he hasn't seen in years draw him into a dangerous web of intrigue. Following the clues, he steps into one carefully laid trap after another. His friend, returned from the dead, Qin Zhijie, who clings to him relentlessly and seems neither wholly good nor wholly evil, and Shangguan Wan'er, whose identity is shrouded in mystery, all vanish without a trace at the most crucial moments. Why did Da Kui, who had braved life and death, come
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Master DS 大师DS
I, Li Hai, encountered supernatural events while at university. With the help of Shen Muzhi, whom many people call Master Shen, I managed to rid myself of those “filthy things.” Later, when my childhood friend was plagued by supernatural happenings, I took him to seek Master Shen’s help again. These two incidents filled me with curiosity about Master Shen and his work, and somehow I ended up becoming his assistant. From then on, I investigated all kinds of supernatural events alongside Master Sh
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Ninety-Nine Criminal Cases 刑侦九十九案
There's only one truth. Follow Shen Rufeng and his colleagues as they piece together the clues and solve each case. The stories are mainly standalone cases. This is a new book by a new author, so please show your support.
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