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The Bone Painter 白骨画师
He is a painter, and she is the work he is most proud of. He is also a collector, using artifacts as his medium and white bones as his guide. Shanghai, in an old alley. An ancient woman, and a qipao shop called Ling Gu Zhai. Every antique in the shop holds the record of a story from the past. So, did you know that the things of legend really do exist... (A collection of strange tales and supernatural mysteries, beginning in the Republican era.)
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I Just Cleared a Terrifying Hell, and Now I’m in Another Horror Game? 刚打通惊悚烈狱，又进惊悚游戏？
Li Chang was the only one among a trillion trial participants across the universe to clear the Horror Purgatory Trial, a challenge where death was all but certain. In the end, he even turned around and beat Horror Purgatory to pieces before returning to Blue Star. But he had barely returned when... The Horror Game came looking for him again. Li Chang approached it with the same attitude he’d had toward Horror Purgatory. But then he discovered that this Horror Game seemed a little too easy. A bea
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His First Book, As Told by Rumor 道听途说的他的第1本书
A mysterious force has awakened, and a world of the uncanny has descended. Here, you can encounter demons from strange tales, ghosts from horror stories, and even ancient gods from myths and legends! Everyone in this uncanny world lives in fear and trepidation. But Jiang Che discovers that he can see strange prompts. And so... He works as a caregiver at the Yellow Springs Hospital, a waiter at an underworld hotel, and a network administrator at a reincarnation internet cafe... He even builds a p
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My Celestial Master Husband Is Getting Too Handsy 天师夫君欺上身
Greedy for money, I enter the household of Lu, Suzhou’s richest family, and marry Lu Beichen, the eldest son, who is in a vegetative state. I thought I could wait for the sickly man to die, take the money, and leave. Instead, all kinds of eerie and terrifying things happen at the Lu residence! Then Lu Beichen suddenly wakes up! It turns out he has another identity, one no one knows about. As events unfold, the secrets hidden between him and me are gradually revealed...
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Global Terror 全球惊悚
The world is falling apart, and the supernatural is returning. Life and death, partings and loss play out every day, but this has also given rise to a special group of people: Ghost Tamers! By a twist of fate, Yu Sheng becomes a member of the Paranormal Association. Then an old photograph leads him to a clue left behind by his father. Every clue points to Dongcheng, but the city is now shrouded by the Shuddering Ghost Domain… [Scare Level: Uneasy - Frightening - Terrifying - Bone-Rattling - Hair
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Back-to-School Season: Night of Terror 开学季之惊魂夜
Opening Night of the New School Year: A Night of Terror
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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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Thriller Game: My Hints Are More Terrifying Than the Game 惊悚游戏：我的提示比游戏恐怖
[Ridiculous comedy + power fantasy. Not scary. If that's not your thing, move along!] A mysterious dimension descends upon Earth, randomly selecting humans to take part in a horror game. Uncensorable horror livestreams spread across the internet, allowing all of humanity to witness one terrifying spectacle after another. Gu Yi is unlucky enough to be chosen as an adventurer. Fortunately, he can see mysterious hints. Following the hints, Gu Yi gradually seeks out the truth, only to discover that
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Thriller Game: Streaming Myself Sleeping from the Start 惊悚游戏：开局直播睡觉
Dark + System-powered wish fulfillment + Infinite Flow + decisive and ruthless Supernatural phenomena affect the entire world, and players are randomly chosen to take part in terrifying games! Unstoppable livestream videos appear online, vividly showing the players' perilous experiences. Tang Ping is a modern young man who likes to lie flat. His lack of ambition awakens the Insulator Talent. From then on, while everyone else struggles to survive in the games, he sleeps on livestream! Because the
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My Affection Scores Keep Rising, and Now the Dungeon's Collapsing. Is That My Fault? 好感无限提升，副本崩了怪我喽！
A horror game descends upon the world! Lin Bei, who has just transmigrated, is unfortunately selected. After entering the horror game, he obtains a System that can raise the affection of every species except humans. And Lin Bei can earn all kinds of rewards from it! Snowfield Phantom instance? [Ding!] [Snow Maiden's affection is maxed out!!] [Golden Treasure Chest's affection is maxed out!!] Blood Sea Evil Spirit Ship instance? [Ding!] [Blood Maiden's affection is maxed out!!] [Blood Sea (one-ki
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Serving Poisonous Chicken Soup on Livestream from the Start, I Almost Made the Audience Die Laughing 开局直播毒鸡汤，差点笑死观众
[Lighthearted + Comedy + Everyday Life + “Healing” + Wild Card + Reclusive Oddball] Wang Shifeng transmigrated to a world where depression was rampant under relentless pressure. Naturally kind-hearted, he decided to heal this miserable world with his own optimism and humor. To a fan who was frustrated with life, he offered this heartfelt advice: “Hang in there. Once you're done suffering in this life, you can start suffering in the next!” To fans afraid of being crushed by the rat race, he eager
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The Lavish Daily Life of a Max-Level High Schooler 满级高中生的豪横日常
[Comedy + scheming + tycoon] One day, the rebellious Fang Qimai got a special System. Whenever someone called on him, he could receive a reward from them. Ding! Your math teacher called on you. Reward: Skill Book, Mastering Olympiad Math. Ding! Your rich classmate called on you. Character unlocked: Billionaire Dad. Ding! Your PE teacher called on you. Reward: Skill Book, Mastering English Grammar. Wait a minute... Did something weird just sneak in there...?
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I'm a Goofball, So Being a Little Invincible Is Totally Reasonable 我一个沙雕无敌亿点很合理吧
Top rich kid Lin Bei becomes intellectually disabled after a car accident, commonly known as an idiot. At the same time, the world undergoes a global upheaval: demons and monsters return, and danger keeps closing in. Lin Bei: You don’t actually think I’m a moron, do you? [Ding! System warning: Host, please don’t use your mental impairment as an excuse to do whatever you want…]
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Psycho Horror: In Front of Scumbags, What’s a Little Supernatural Weirdness? 鬼畜：人渣面前，诡异算个毛！
Synopsis: From the start, he blew up the Nogi Demon Shrine and burned down the Yasukuni Demon Shrine. Reborn in a world filled with the supernatural, where gates were scattered across the land, and behind them lay endless horrors and madness. System successfully activated. Binding to the Justice System... Confess your love to a supernatural being? A supernatural being comes asking you to name its true form? “Young master, what do I look like to you?” Chen Si: “You look like a little blonde, blue
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The Human Heart Is More Terrifying Than Ghosts 人心比鬼可怕
People fear, despise, and dread ghosts, calling them the filthiest and most terrifying things in the world. But in my eyes, what’s more terrifying than ghosts is the human heart!!!!!!
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Thriller Game: I Kissed the Ghost Princess from the Start 惊悚游戏：开局强吻鬼公主
[Horror game + ridiculous comedy + mystery + supernatural, not scary.] Even capitalists would weep, and financial tycoons would look at this and cry out that it's a crime. In the horror world, Ye Chen does only two things: make money and flirt with female ghosts. A female ghost tries to pull a honey trap? He takes all her ghost coins. He operates on a male ghost, who refuses to pay extra halfway through? Congratulations, sir. Your wife has one fewer husband from now on, but one more sister. He e
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Thriller Game: I Feel Dragon Scales on the Bride on Our Wedding Night 惊悚游戏：新婚夜，摸到新娘龙鳞
A mysterious horror game descends upon the world, and a psychiatric patient is chosen by accident. Dungeon: The Mansion of Death Danger Level: 3 (player death rate below 30%) Mode: Solo Main Mission: Play the groom, marry the bride, enter the bridal chamber, lift the bride's red veil, and stroke her long hair. Bridal Chamber: High Danger Mission Rating: Pending On his wedding night, before lifting the red veil, Yu Changye accidentally felt the dragon scales on the bride's back…
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Trainee Captain of the Criminal Police 见习刑警队长
[Cool, aloof rookie beauty x spoiled rich playboy] Xia Ying, a cool and aloof beauty on the force, is forced to join the Haicheng Police Division, where she meets Xin Yi, a captain newly transferred from Beicheng. One is an icy beauty who is hard to get along with and only wants to solve cases; the other is a carefree playboy who repeatedly cracks bizarre cases. A knight straight out of a painting, a ghost singing in a theater at midnight, an isolated island, a castle concealing the truth... Beh
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The Forensic Doctor Is Addicted to Obsession 法医小姐她偏执成瘾
The first time Chen Xi saw Qin Yu, she knew he would belong to her. She was a romantic, so she wanted to preserve him in formaldehyde. That way, Qin Yu could belong to her alone. Someone once described Chen Xi this way: all that stood between her and becoming a criminal was Qin Yu. “I walk toward the sun, unafraid of the long, dark night.” [Obsessive forensic doctor Chen vs. upright police officer Qin]
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Always on My Mind 悬悬在念
(A suspenseful romance) Three years ago, the “9/12 Horrifying Livestream Case” took place in Jincheng. The criminal gang had numerous members. They dressed up the young women they had abducted as “streamers” and forced them to eat rats and endure abuse on camera. If someone offered enough money, they could even buy the women and take them home... The police force’s most in-sync couple: Bu Qingyan, a criminal investigation team captain skilled in analyzing criminal psychology and trace evidence,
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On the Brink of Death 死亡濒临
On the very first day of the newly formed Nanjing City investigation team, a murder case breaks out. Gu Xiyi, a key figure in the case, is an expert at slacking off and sneaking in flirtatious jabs at the team captain. At first, Xian Wei tries every trick in the book to lock Gu Xiyi up, convinced that his very existence is a menace to society. Later, he never imagines that Gu Xiyi will end up being a menace to him alone... If you don't know death, how can you understand life? If the dead cannot
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She Knows Everything 她知道一切
A meeting at a crime scene set Jin Haiyang and Shen Liubai on the path to one another. As the youngest captain of the Haidu City criminal investigation team, he met the youngest forensic science professor at the police academy. Born into a distinguished family, capable and forceful, he saw only her among the countless people around him. Cool and quiet, brilliant beyond compare, she was nevertheless oblivious to the surging feelings between men and women. Fire and ice, the two stumbled into a rel
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Keep Your Secrets Hidden 要把心事藏好
Viral internet celebrity policewoman VS psychological surgeon. Jiang Miyi is a criminal investigator skilled in crime deduction, while Tan Jiyan is a doctor who helps people heal from psychological trauma. They meet through the “Drowned Cartoonist Case” and go on to investigate the “Woman’s Corpse in a Suitcase Case,” the “Qingshi Town Family Massacre,” and the “Eye-Gouging, Ear-Cutting Maniac Case,” among others. A vast conspiracy lurks behind these cases. What happens when someone spies on the
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My Forensic Pathologist Wife Is a Little Cold 法医老婆有点冷
Framed by someone, she ended her career with a single stab. From then on, the only thing she could cut into was a corpse on the autopsy table. Bloody crime scenes, cruel criminals, cold examination tables, victims whose bodies were horribly mutilated... These were just a glimpse of her everyday life. After being kidnapped again and again, a twisted killer even wanted to date her?! Luckily, the swoon-worthy detective came to her rescue. “Qiao Luo, congratulations. Your kidnapping skills have reac
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The Society Heiress and Forensic Doctor: Dancing in the Heart of the Cold Detective 名媛女法医：在高冷探长心尖起舞
[Fictional Republican-Era Setting + Episodic Mystery Cases + Happy Ending] In Republican-era Haicheng, one baffling and dangerous case after another unfolds. Are they the work of ghosts and curses, or the schemes of men? A sharp-witted, sharp-tongued, aloof detective and a witty, daring beauty of a forensic examiner join forces to cut through layer upon layer of mystery. Yet whenever the truth comes to light, a faint fragrance always lingers in the air. When the glittering extravagance fades, th
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Reborn: I Became a God in a Horror Livestream Game 重生：我在恐怖直播游戏中成神了
Wen Yu is forced to take part in a game that can never be stopped. In this game, called “Becoming a God,” all sorts of terrifying and horrifying challenges await. Players must clear different games to earn the right to survive. The game tells all players that whoever lasts until the end will become the world's supreme god. So they cooperate, deceive, fight, and die... Wen Yu dies because a friend betrays her. Just as she thinks the game is about to erase her, a flash of white light appears, and
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Infinite Escape: I Earn Rent Money in Horror Games 无限逃生：我在惊悚游戏里挣房费
[Infinite flow + horror, suspense, and mystery-solving + strong female lead + team + plot-focused] [Ding~ Welcome, player, to the Survival Inn! Please do your best to clear the instances and earn your room fees~ We offer dormitory rooms, guesthouse rooms, hotel rooms, and more, as well as a top-tier luxury VIP club waiting for you to unlock~] A gloomy, blood-soaked compound A school crawling with death A cursed painting that brings death to anyone who looks at it An old village teeming with stra
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Turning the World Upside Down: Playing the Villain from the Start 颠覆全球：开局扮演反派大佬
Shen Yan transmigrates to a parallel world. As soon as he arrives, he falls into a strange dimension. Everyone who falls in here is slaughtered by alien creatures, dying in despair! Luckily, at this moment, Shen Yan obtains the Super Big Shot Role-Playing System. “Ding! Randomly drawing a big shot template. Big Shot Role-Playing Mode activated. The closer you are to the character, the more abilities you can unlock.” Make people believe the character is real, and you’ll earn Subversion Points. Th
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Endless Killing Intent 无尽杀机
The groundbreaking online game Endless Killing appeared out of nowhere, dragging the entire world into an abyss of terror. Bai Qiong opened his eyes and discovered that he had been reborn at the time the game first launched. Looking at the familiar game and its new players, Bai Qiong recalled the killing techniques and gaming experience stored in his mind, then laughed aloud. (A game-world novel in the style of Dead by Daylight and Identity V, bringing you an experience unlike anything you've
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I’m an Actor in a Horror Movie World 我在惊悚电影世界当影帝
A horrifying civilization descends upon Earth, and every adult on the planet is forced to sign a contract to become an actor in the Scream Theater. Lu Xingchen becomes the rare profession most despised by the actors: a Summoner. Summoners often summon demons and monsters, raising the difficulty of horror movies. They're practically public enemies among the actors! And the requirements for becoming one are downright insane! While everyone else is still paralyzed with fear, Lu Xingchen, still a ne
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Mysterious Space 神秘空间
Qin Mu is a big name in the Mysterious Space. His surname is Qin, his given name is Mu, his courtesy name is Half-Mad, his title is the Black-Hearted Recluse, and his codename is Raven. People call him the Immortal Black Market Dealer. Wherever he goes, he leaves nothing behind, like a swarm of locusts passing through. With a strange mask on his head and a black robe on his back, he cheats women and children alike, and swindles young and old. Welcome to the Mysterious Space. Join Qin Mu as he tr
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Lost in a Game World 误入游戏世界
The world is a living hell. Evil spirits run rampant, and all living things howl in despair. I scream into the darkness, but the only answer is the iron fist I swung in my youth! … Extreme martial arts + muscles + attributes + martial cultivation + showing off in public
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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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Everyone, Stand Up and Give the Research Big Shot a Seat 全体起立，给研究员大佬让座
Imprisoned here are a gluttonous rabbit that can chew through anything, a monkey that can talk, a lizard that can speak English... Wu Fan, an ordinary college student, accidentally stumbled into this world and became a researcher. It was originally considered a very low-ranking job, but... SCP-173, Little Peanut: Who, Wu Fan? That’s my big brother, my real brother. SCP-682, the Immortal Lizard: Wu Fan’s here? Oh crap, run for your lives... Everybody up, give the researcher boss your seat!
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Ocean Hunter 海洋猎人
Poor young Lu Xiaolv makes a living catching eels, until an accident gives him a remote-controlled metal crayfish. Find schools of fish and haul up treasures. From then on, Lu Xiaolv is on top of the world. “Ocean, here I come.”
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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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The Con Artist 老千
The short drama adaptation of the Old Cheater series is now streaming on Red Fruit and Tomato. Come check it out! I'm a professional gambler. At the table, I can turn the odds on their head. But I want to use my own experience to tell you a simple truth: stay away from gambling. Because nine out of ten games are rigged, and you lose every time!
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Vivid as Life 栩栩若生
A fortune-teller said I was born destined for greatness, the reincarnation of the Flower Goddess, with the power to turn stones into gold and command flower spirits and tree sprites. Once I came of age, my family was sure to prosper. But when I was twelve, I came down with a strange illness. My fever wouldn’t break, and I kept seeing terrifying visions... In a dream, I met an old woman who told me to find an expert with supernatural powers to save my life. Millet to summon souls, altars and form
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