Horror, Thrillers, Supernatural, and Mystery 恐怖,惊悚,灵异,悬疑。
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Horror Script: It Begins in the Baby-Crying Dormitory 惊悚剧本:从婴啼寝室开始
(Dark tone) (Escape-room survival) (No System) (Not invincible: the protagonist dies if he is killed) (Not a conventional power fantasy) Chen Xian is pinned against the wall by a female ghost in a bathroom, and finds himself plunged into a terrifying instance! The cries of a baby in the dead of night... Students with eyes as blue as ghostly flames... A wedding dress stained crimson with blood... A mermaid covered in wriggling maggots... And... Teammates dying one after another... To stay alive a
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Rice Divination and a Ghostly Wedding 阴看米,鬼哭嫁
On the day I was born, paper figures came to pay their respects and left behind money to buy my life. To keep me alive, an old woman from Miaojiang made me lie in a paper coffin, pinned me down with bones, and buried me alive at birth. This drew a hundred ghosts to bow before me and severed the heads of nine dragons. The old woman said that a spirit wanted my life. She hid my shadow, and I must not look in a mirror before I turned sixteen. I followed her warning faithfully, but then the old woma
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Nightcry Tower: Eleven Horror and Suspense Stories 夜哭楼:十一个恐怖悬疑故事
[Horror | Suspense | Mystery | Folklore | Short story collection] The green lamp, a ghost knocking at the door in the dead of night, the Golden Buddha, a female ghost... As everyone knows, what is truly terrifying isn't seeing a ghost, but the human heart! This collection brings together eleven horror and suspense stories by Han Shisan, originally published in well-known magazines across China. They'll send chills down your spine and turn even the fainthearted into brave souls!
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The Deduction Contest: National Strategists Vs. the Mysterious Mole 推理大赛:诸国智囊VS神秘内鬼
[Mystery] [Humor] [Comedy and Deduction] In 2046, a globally televised “Deduction Tournament” kicks off. Twelve players from ten countries across six continents are “invited” to compete. All twelve are young masterminds with exceptional deductive skills. They’ll put their talents to the test, engage in battles of wits, and vie for the one and only title of champion. The events include Turtle Soup, Werewolf, murder-mystery roleplaying games, and more. However, two of the twelve competitors are un
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A Tujia Daoist by the Wu River 乌江边的土家道士
A graduate of a top university, unable to pass the civil service exam after years of trying and considering his family circumstances, accepts his family’s legacy and becomes a home-based Taoist priest. This Tao is not that Tao: it’s nothing like the Taoist priests we normally imagine. There are no strict rules and taboos, nor any grand mission to save all humanity. Yet this Tao is also that Tao: he wears the same robes, communicates with the realms of yin and yang, and does what he can to help.
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The Woman Across the Hall 对面的女人
The Woman Across the Street
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So What If I'm Out of a Job as a Male Model? I Can Exorcise Demons! 男模下岗咋了?老子会驱魔!
[Paranormal + Exorcism + Episodic Stories + No Female Lead + No Romance + No Harem + Brotherhood + Growing Up] Male model and drinking companion Sun Yu gets plied with drinks and groped by rich women in private rooms every night. He curses under his breath but still has to smile, thinking he’s doomed to spend his whole life trapped in drinking parties. Then he finds a busted piece of wood hidden by his adoptive father, and a big brother from an exorcist family suddenly shows up! Now the winegla
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The Delivery Request 快递委托
Courier Request
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The Seventh Roommate 第七个室友
The Seventh Roommate
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Folk Tales of Ghosts 民间鬼事
Tales of the Supernatural
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The Blackwater Coffin 黑水棺
The Blackwater Coffin
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Special Operations Bureau 特事行动科
One thousand three hundred and ninety years ago, under the emperor’s direction, human adepts gained control of the “Void” and used it to create the “Wall,” which separated the real world from the anomalous one. After more than six centuries of effort by adepts from various schools, the anomalous remnants in the real world were finally purged, leaving humanity with a world of its own. Anomalous creatures became demons, ghosts, gods, and monsters in tales of the strange. As time passed, the adepts
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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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The Mortician: The Truth Behind the Stolen Souls 入殓师:灵魂失窃真相
Me, an Embalmer: My Job Is to “Piece Together” the Dead I’m an embalmer. I put makeup on corpses so they can make their final journey with dignity. But starting last month, I noticed that something was missing from my “clients.” Not organs, not skin, but some kind of… invisible “part.” The beautiful forensic pathologist says I’m making things up, and the head of the criminal investigation team says I’m obstructing their work. Until they discover that no high-tech instrument can explain why the s
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The Funeral Home Host's Path to Immortality 殡仪馆司仪修仙记
A fortune-teller said Mo Wen was fated to be haunted by five ghosts, and that a disastrous curse would befall his family that very day. Mo Wen didn't believe him. Then his father fell off the roof that same day and broke his leg. To keep his family out of danger, Mo Wen went far away, but the spirits continued to hound him. In a fit of anger, he walked into a funeral home and took a job as an unofficial funeral host, only to attract even more vicious ghosts... A love affair spanning three thousa
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The First Half of a Female Spirit Medium’s Life! 出马女弟子的前半生!
I’m an ordinary country girl from Northeast China. When I was 18, I learned that I was born with a connection to the immortals. I was often unwell in all sorts of ways, and I sought out many spirit mediums, hoping they could help me escape my predicament. I was cheated, but I also met kind people. This is the story of how I eventually found my way out. I decided to write this book to keep more people from being scammed. I can’t guarantee that everything I say is right, but I can guarantee that I
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The Spirit Medium's Stories: Me and My Clients! 出马儿之我和缘主的那些事儿!
A girl who grew up in a small village experiences all kinds of hardships and amusing encounters with the people who come to her for help! Stories about my spirit-medium work and clients getting scammed. I'm looking for stories to use! Anyone with a good story is welcome to share a true one with me!
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Strange Tales from the Countryside 乡村诡故事
Before you start this book, a warning: if you scare easily, don't read it. If you live alone, be careful. Every short ghost story here is based on an ordinary person's real-life experience. Not a single word is made up. From the damp old alleyways of the south to the frozen, deserted villages of the north; from late-night overtime in office buildings to lights-out in university dorms; the taboos our elders forbade us to talk about, and the moments you dare not dwell on in the middle of the night
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I Hear Snakes Speak and Walk Between Yin and Yang 听蛇语,行阴阳
Supernatural + feng shui + ghost-hunting + Bureau 749 + magic arts + demon-hunting + raising Gu + no System. My father's fate was that of a White Tiger Devouring Its Child. Of my mother's twelve pregnancies, eleven ended in miscarriage when the babies were five or six months along. Only one child was born alive, but that child didn't live to see the age of three. To ensure the Bai family had an heir, my grandfather had no choice but to seek out the White Python Embracing an Egg, a site of three
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The Six-Fingered Exorcist 六指诡医
Born with six fingers on his left hand, he was called a jinx by his family. His father died the day he was born, and misfortune followed him everywhere as he grew up. He endured discrimination and contempt. When he turned eighteen and suffered his third half-cycle tribulation, even his beloved grandparents died. From then on, the protagonist was forced to wander. While struggling to stay alive, he investigated the truth behind the mysteries. Caught in an endless struggle between life and death,
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The Feng Shui King of the Underworld 江湖风水之王
On the day I was born, ten thousand demons emerged from the mountains, a hundred ghosts clawed their way out of their graves, and an immortal corpse guarded the way. My master, Daoist Jingxian, took me from a tomb and raised me for twenty years, only to fall under a curse and die a horrible death, skinned alive. Knowing he was going to die, my master left me a letter. First, he warned me not to seek out the killer. Then he urged me to stay away from the world. But I chose a third path, resolute
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Strange Tales of Tomb Raiding in the Southern School 南派盗墓异事
[Real Tomb Raiding + No AI] My name is Zhou Quan, and I'm from Guangxi. Here I recount the supernatural and bizarre events that really happened during my tomb-raiding adventures. I've read a few web novels in my spare time, and it seems AI-written web novels are everywhere these days. I want to tell this story from the perspective of someone who was actually there, as a record of things past.
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The Daoheart’s Journey 道心征途
(This novel focuses primarily on horror, the supernatural, and suspense. It isn't mindless, it isn't about cultivating immortality, and the story is tightly connected. The early chapters lay the groundwork, and there are many genuinely frightening scenes. If you don't like it, feel free to say so in the comments!) My master said there are only two principles to being a Taoist priest. First: Never put off revenge until tomorrow. Let it fester in your heart, and it will throw your Daoist mind into
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The Paper Effigy Yama 纸扎阎罗
Before Grandpa died, he left me with a warning: a paper effigy maker must never make three kinds of figures. On my very first day taking over the shop, I broke every rule. I made a wedding dress for a girl who died violently, a filial son for a childless widow, and finally... a stand-in for a living person. Now all the paper figures I made come alive at night and gather around me, calling me “Master.” Outside the window, the girl who should have been dead for three years is knocking on the door.
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The Strange World: Luckily, I'm Good at Exorcising Demons with Physics 诡异世界:正好本人擅长物理驱魔
[Infinite worlds + no System + horror + no national destiny competition + no livestreaming + bloodline + get stronger by fighting monsters] A mysterious door. A group of people forced to enter. Countless worlds overrun by the uncanny. Five years ago, his younger sister was taken by the Gray Realm. Wang Anle, who bears a Taotie tattoo, spent five years searching for her. He made his living exorcising spirits, until a chance opportunity finally let him enter the Gray Realm. Only then did he disc
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Secrets of the Northern Steed 北马秘闻
After spending seven years in a daze as a fool, I was told by the Yellow Immortal that I had a spirit altar within me, and that my origins were far from ordinary. From then on, I set out on the Northern Ma path.
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Red and White Wedding 红白囍
[Republican-era nostalgia + supernatural + two male leads + equally matched powerhouses + pure-hearted madmen] [Brilliant and passionate young diviner Tian Suanzi, Mu Geshen X cold-on-the-outside, warm-on-the-inside heir to a family of physicians, the saintly doctor Chai Shuxin] A funeral is mournful, a wedding joyful, I travel from the world of the living to the Yellow Springs, Prepare incense, candles, paper horses, and a bridal sedan, Lady Meng offers us the nuptial wine. White paper, red rob
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Zhang Laosan Tells Stories 张老三讲故事
Long, long ago, a strange calamity struck Kaoshan Village, deep in the old forests of Northeast China. Hunter Li Dashan kept watch over a coffin on a snowy night and encountered a weasel spirit that spoke like a human, asking him to give it a title. One careless remark from him exposed a bloody secret from twenty years earlier. When the statue of the Yellow Immortal on the ancestral hall’s altar split with bloody cracks on the night of a lunar eclipse, when a golden-haired weasel burst from a pe
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Ghosts in the Apocalypse: I Became the Strongest Ghost Tamer 百鬼末世:我成了最强御鬼师
[A Full 1,000 Types of Ghosts] Mysterious ghosts include Jin Buhuan, the White Bone Bodhisattva, the Earthly Branches War Lord, and the Blood-Drop Plum Blossom. The powerful ones include Asura, Rakshasa, the Butcher, the Martial Champion, and the Emperor. The eerie ones include Painted Skin, the Red Robe, the Chubby Baby, the Coroner, the Flower-Waisted Bride, the Embalmer, and the Ever-Burning Lamp. Every type has its own evolution path: Drowned Ghost → Water Monkey → Kappa → ? (There’s more af
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There’s a Ghost Inside Me 我的体内有只鬼
Vengeful ghosts awaken, and a hundred ghosts roam the night. Jiang Xiao transmigrates into this world for no apparent reason and finds himself surrounded by demons and monsters. But then he discovers that his shadow can devour ghosts without limit and gain their abilities. [Successfully devoured the White Mist Ghost. Ability acquired: Mist Form] [Successfully devoured the Hanging Ghost. Ability acquired: Shackles] [Successfully devoured the Bronze Ghost. Ability acquired: Copper Skin] [Successfu
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Ghostly Jigsaw Puzzle 厉鬼拼图
[Eerie]+ [High Martial] In the Eerie Martial World, a myriad of ghosts return. In this era of resurgent evil spirits, Ye Xiu is not only a genius, but has also awakened a Substitute Ghost by accident. It lets him see everyone’s remaining lifespan, and he can even choose specific people to bear the injuries and loss of lifespan caused by controlling evil spirits in his place. From then on, Ye Xiu embarks on an invincible path, controlling evil spirits without suffering any side effects. The Hellf
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Supernatural Revival: It All Began When I Married a Ghost Bride 灵异复苏:从娶了鬼新娘开始
Title: Supernatural Resurgence: It Began When I Married a Ghost Bride My name is Zao Chen. I had a dream, a very, very long dream. In it, I married a ghost bride, and after that, she wouldn't leave me alone. When I woke up, I realized it hadn't been a dream at all. I really had married a ghost bride, and the two of us had a child. The ghost bride was called Zhou Li, and our daughter was named Zao You. The day Zao You was born, the supernatural descended, and ghosts roamed the night. We call the
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In Search of Gold, Part One: The Curse of Gold 寻金记第一部:黄金之咒
“Gold chooses its master, and the price is paid in blood!” Is it the curse of gold demanding a life, or the cycle of war crimes coming around again? The mountain remembers everything, and the secret buried beneath the permafrost is still waiting for the next visitor to knock.
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The Darkest Forest: My Criminal Investigation Notes 至暗森林:我的刑侦笔记
Eighteen people who had never existed are found dead together in a minibus. Stranger still, it seems they had all been dead for twenty years…
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I Buy Antiques at the Ghost Market 我在鬼市收古董
I opened an antique shop. One day, a customer told me about a temple that was said to have a way of getting hold of fine goods. The temple had strange rules: it only opened at midnight, and everyone had to leave before three. I found a treasured bronze mirror there, and from then on, one bizarre event followed another. I nearly got crushed to death by my own shop sign; the golden retriever at home suddenly went berserk and chased me, snapping at my heels; and my health kept getting worse by the
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Tomb Raiding: My Years with the Northern School 盗墓:我在北派那些年
[Tomb raiding + adventure + treasure appraisal] I'm a poor kid from the countryside in Henan. I dropped out of middle school, and after an accident, I joined a tomb-raiding gang. That was when the gears of fate began to turn. Over the years, I've faced countless dangers, seen countless treasures, and learned just how hard it is to read people's hearts. Geese leave their calls behind as they fly by; people leave their names behind as they pass through life. I've written down my story in the hope
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The Last Paper Effigy Maker 最后一个扎纸人
The art of paper effigies can bridge the worlds of yin and yang, perform rites for the dead, and summon the King of Hell. Cut yellow paper, weave bamboo strips: paper horses travel a thousand miles, and paper figures summon spirits. With one stroke to paint their eyes, the King of Hell appears, striking terror into all directions and sending ten thousand ghosts into hiding! By the time the art of paper effigies reaches Chen Mo, he is its last practitioner. He assumes this ancient, mysterious cra
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Grudge-Locked Patterns 怨气锁纹
Dai Xiaochao, the protagonist, is a college graduate in architecture from the 1990s. Under heavy financial pressure, he moves into a tenement building where a locked-room murder took place two years earlier. Surveillance was scarce in those days, so the police had to investigate door to door, and the case made little progress. Then the ancient Taotie jade pendant inherited by Dai Xiaochao’s family, along with its Taotie patterns, begins to react... And that is where the story begins.
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Shattering the Starry River with Martial Might 武碎星河
Gods gaze down from the stars, while demons roar in hell. This is a fantastical world where countless races vie for supremacy and gods and demons wreak havoc. A poor young man wields a blade and fights against the current. He will become the king of this world! [The animated adaptation of this novel, Shattering the Starry River with Martial Might, is now airing]
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Good Grief! The Alpha Has Teased the Top E into Losing Control 天!Alpha把顶级E撩失控了
[Two male leads] [Rivals] [Romantic tension] [Comedy] Composed, reserved, roguish Enigma X talkative, easily riled Alpha Fake rivals, real love. * Everyone in Beijing’s social circles knows that Ji Sui, eldest son of the Ji family, and Chu Chen, head of the Chu family, have never gotten along. Rumor has it they can’t stand the sight of each other. Ji Sui invites people to race, and Chu Chen brings men to block off the road; When news breaks that Chu Chen is pursuing an Omega, Ji Sui immediately
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Countdown in a Dream? 我在梦里倒计时?
[Infinite Worlds + Character Growth + Ensemble Cast + Lighthearted + No Harem] “Welcome to FM404. Today is August 23, 2024. There are three minutes left until the countdown reaches the 24th. Nothing major has happened… static… around the world… static… some people have… static… collapsed and fallen into a deep sleep… static…” “Sorry, we just lost the control tower signal. Let’s continue…” Some people have luck on their side, while others… have been blacklisted by the Goddess of Fortune. Those wh
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Haunted by Old Grudges 旧怨缠身
Grandpa told me that our ancestors were once a prominent and powerful family, and even plotted a rebellion to seize the throne. But over time, our family fell into decline, and our numbers dwindled. When we consulted a yin-yang master, we learned the problem stemmed from this longstanding grudge. We had to find our family genealogy and trace it back generation by generation to our ancestor’s hometown, then search from there for the emperor our ancestors had forced to his death in their rebellion
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Records of Artifact Containment 遗物收容志
Shen You runs an antique shop on the verge of bankruptcy. On the surface, he sells old things; in truth, he deals with “cursed objects.” A carved wooden comb arrives mysteriously in the mail. The instant he touches it, he sees the horrific scene of a woman having her head shaved in public a hundred years ago. Late that night, as if sleepwalking, he picks up the comb and begins to comb his own hair. With every stroke of its teeth, a strand of real hair comes away, while a tearing pain spreads acr
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Lost on the Mudflats 滩涂迷失
[Mystery and wild ideas] + [Fortune-telling] + [Ghost-hunting] + [Fantasy romance] Su Huaixin is enjoying a happy holiday with Zhang Zhengheng and Tang Xia when an unexpected accident shatters their peaceful time together. She is bitten by a venomous snake hidden in the grass. The poison quickly spreads through her body, and despite her companions' desperate efforts to save her, they are ultimately helpless. Su Huaixin dies of the venom. Yet, as if in a twist of fate, when Su Huaixin opens her
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The Yin-Life Pawnshop 阴寿当铺
The Underworld Pawnshop: I Sell Ghostly Goods to Stay Alive Lu You's funeral shop stands at the coldest, most shadowy corner of the old street in the west of the city. For generations, the Lu family has dealt with the dead, but by Lu You's generation, they are cursed to die before turning thirty. By day, he sells incense, candles, and paper money for the dead. By night, he helps vengeful spirits who died unnatural deaths fulfill their wishes in exchange for extra days of life. On the first night
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Crime Scene 诡案现场
When he was twenty, a blank painting was enshrined in the ancestral hall at a crime scene. Why were two male corpses embracing beneath an ancient tree? Was the shadow inside the house a person or a ghost? After all the confusing clues, was the killer human or ghost?
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The Yellow Springs Grievance Office 黄泉申冤司
Top forensic pathologist Lu Pan was silenced after exposing a series of bloody murders orchestrated by the powerful. His soul entered the Underworld, only to find the cycle of reincarnation in ruins: evil ghosts bribed the ghost guards and roamed free in new lives, while innocent souls were falsely condemned and sank into the Blood River! He himself was cast into the Purgatory of Unjust Deaths for “disrespect.” At the end of his rope, the [Mirror of Justice System] awakened: “If the Underworld h
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Strange Tales from Zangdi: The Snowland Corpse Buddha 臧地诡闻录,雪域尸佛
On a night of blizzard, Langda is bound to a skull altar and watches as his sister is sacrificed to the Nine-Headed Corpse Mountain God. With no way out, he bites into a priest's eyeball and awakens the Netherworld Eye, glimpsing a frozen corpse of a Witch King. He pulls free a blood-fed bone flute and calls forth a tide of corpses! He devours the mountain god and rips out his enemy's spine to make a human sinew rope, but inherits the blood curse of “devouring kin and killing those he loves.” T
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The Bishop Murders 主教杀人事件
A string of chilling, bizarre murders takes place in New York, and every crime matches a Mother Goose nursery rhyme perfectly! In an instant, the shadow of death falls over all of New York! The “Bishop” behind the strange murders has an intellect far beyond ordinary people and an uncanny talent for meticulous planning. Why does this ghostly figure commit murders while leaving clues, appearing and disappearing like a phantom? What earth-shattering conspiracy lies behind it all?
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God Gave You the Power of Deception, and You Turn Around and Trick Me? 神:赐你欺诈,你反过来骗我?
[A satisfying power fantasy + mind-bending twists + reversals + slow burn + battles of wits + nonstop thrills] When people all over the world were “kidnapped” and locked in a prison, they were forced to take part in a game of death. In this game, only the winners had the right to survive. Su Yang received the talent “Call Your Enemy Dad” from the start. [Call Your Enemy Dad: After activation, if you make another “player” call Su Yang “Dad,” you can control their actions.] But when the talent fai
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