Horror Novels with a Smart Male Lead, No Female Lead, and Decisive, Ruthless Characters 恐怖小说，男主智商在线，无女主，杀伐果断
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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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Thriller Game: This Big Shot Is a Little Too Yandere 惊悚游戏：这位大佬有亿点病娇
[Infinite Flow + 1v1, Two Powerful Leads + Yandere + Absolute Trust] Mu Chenghan is suddenly swept into a horror game while riding the elevator home from work. There are no hospitals, schools, orphanages, fairy tales, or castles here! But the terror is every bit as intense. And there's a beautiful love story, too. Yet after leaving the game, Mu Chenghan discovers that his lover is no ordinary person. Who is he, really, and what does he have to do with this game? The game has begun. The only way
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Thriller Game: Bro, You’re Scarier Than the Ghosts! 惊悚游戏：大哥你比鬼还凶！
A year ago, a supernatural force descended upon Blue Star and swept across the globe in an instant through live death broadcasts! Lin Zhi, born under the star of misfortune and destined to be alone, enters the game. While others are tormented by D-rank flesh demons, he awakens his Calamity-Born Physique. While others flee for their lives, he makes the long-haired female ghost dance herself to sleep. In his battle with the Ghost Mother, he burns the entire instance to ashes, accidentally discover
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Thriller: I Became Excessively Twisted for Fear of Looking Ungraceful 惊悚：因为担心不优雅而过度变态
[Horror + No Female Lead] A bizarre game descended, pulling all of humanity into a strange world to complete terrifying missions. Fail, and you lose life points. When your points hit zero, you die! Zhao Yi, a renowned psychiatrist, was dragged into the game too, but some unknown glitch appeared in his data source code. And so, an abnormal human emerged, one who made every ghost and monster tremble in fear! The Crybaby Ghost: I just wanted to give him a side quest, but he chopped off my head! The
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The Ultimate Evil Demon Cultivator: Me and My Ten Demon Puppets 极恶魔道：我与我的十个魔偶
This is a world with a hundred-tier ladder. Every tier is filled with countless secret realms waiting to be conquered. And I, Su Xie, am a friendly outsider who transmigrated here and loves dolls. Burdened with the Villain System, I often do good deeds. The unscrupulous media outside have given me plenty of names, too. The Brutal King, scumbag, pervert, chuunibyou, menace to society. As for whether any of those names are true... When he cut off the first tier ruler's head, Su Xie laughed wildly,
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Call Me Lord Ghost Messenger 请叫我鬼差大人
After the Eternal Night, terror returned. Ten miles of desolate graves, eerie singing. An old man searching for his arms, a headless baby... They kept piecing their bodies back together, unleashing an even more terrifying aura. In the wasteland, even a severed hand could destroy heaven and earth. In this world of darkness and despair, a post office appeared and vanished from view... A mysterious young man, a postal carriage traveling through the void... One blood-red letter after another became
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Doomsday Descends: A Hundredfold Drop Rate, Loot with Every Strike 末日降临：百倍爆率刀刀爆物资
[Game Stats] [No Romance] [Decisive and Ruthless] [Invincible Protagonist] [Absolute Egoism] [Pure Wish Fulfillment] No saintly heroes allowed!!! After surviving ten years of the apocalypse, Lin Ziluo was reborn on the day the apocalypse game arrived. When he came to, the first thing he did was kill his campus crush, the girlfriend who had betrayed him and ruined his life for ten years. Unexpectedly, he activated a System that could grant him countless golden fingers. His first golden finger: Ab
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The Underworld Calls Me Little Master 地府叫我小先生
In ancient, remote places, all kinds of strange and terrifying things are bound to happen. And these things happen around Hua Jiunan. In fact, Hua Jiunan is part of them. For instance, he was born from a corpse!
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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 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 Language of the Three Corpses 三尸语
You’ve heard of people who died with their eyes open, but have you ever heard of a dead person whose mouth wouldn’t close? His grandfather’s death turns the life of a broke college student upside down. A corpse glares, a soul is hooked; a corpse opens its mouth, and disaster strikes twice. As one bizarre incident after another unfolds, he accidentally discovers that there’s far more to it than ghosts…
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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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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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Cultivation? I’m Already an Immortal! 修仙？贫道本身就是仙！
Lin Han transmigrated into the body of a Taoist priest. From the start, all he had was a rundown temple, until he obtained a live-streaming System for spreading Taoism. Revitalize Taoism and help more people appreciate its wonders to earn all kinds of rewards. He keeps a panda as a pet, tigers act as docile as kittens in his presence, and he sends an eight-hundred-jin wild boar flying with a single palm strike! With a casual wave of his hand, he summons thunder and lightning. Netizens exclai
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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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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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The Demon Hunter’s Journal 猎魔手记
Have you ever seen a white dog wearing clothes, or a mouse eating a cat? Have you heard of paper effigies putting on an opera, or flying stiff corpses sucking blood? Come, let me tell you...
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Borrowed Corpse, Stolen Life 借尸命
When a plague swept through my mother’s village, she was the only one who escaped alive and made it to Chen Village. My mother was graceful and beautiful, but after arriving in the village, she went mad. There’s something wrong with this village. Every night, we hear strange noises. My father’s name is Chen Jiu, and mine is Chen Lintian. I suspect he isn’t my real father...
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The Taoist Exorcist 道门驱邪人
Where there is evil under heaven, there are all manner of wicked things, and so there are Daoist exorcists. He travels between heaven and earth, yin and yang. He ventures deep into the hundred thousand mountains of Miao territory and far away to the borders of the southern seas. Head-dropping curses, gu raising, black magic, and all the world's fiends and spirits of darkness. He has exorcised countless demons and ghosts, only to discover in the end that nothing is more evil than the human heart.
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Ferryman of the Underworld 黄泉摆渡客
My sister was abused to death by her husband. Even after she died, her resentment kept her from resting in peace. To help her find peace, I became a ferryman traveling between the worlds of the living and the dead. From then on, I strode between yin and yang as if walking atop a hanging coffin. The strong live, the weak die. I will be the one to decide who lives and who dies!
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Extreme Body Tempering: Crushing Every Demon and Monster 极道淬体，横推一切妖魔鬼怪
[Otherworld + Weird Immortals + Extreme Path + Invincible + Steamrolling + No Female Lead + Power Fantasy] There's nothing a single body-tempering session can't solve. If there is, then temper your body twice, ten times, a hundred times, ten thousand times... Zhang You stumbles into a bizarre cultivation world and nearly gets carved up to serve as bar snacks. Luckily, he awakens a special constitution that lets him temper his body without limit, setting him on the legendary path of extreme marti
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The Mysterious Returns: The Ten Kings of Hell Are at My Side! 诡秘复苏：我身边跟着十殿阎王！
Chen Xuanbei, nicknamed Dizang, accidentally transmigrates to a parallel universe where the supernatural has descended. With the Ten Yama Kings tattooed across his body and a massive reaper’s scythe slung over his shoulder, Chen Xuanbei declares, “Sorry, everyone. I’m claiming this territory!” The Slit-Mouthed Woman: “Hello, police? Someone sewed my mouth shut! Yes, they threw away my scissors too!” Sadako: “Hello, city management? Someone blocked up my well with concrete. I can’t get home!” Han
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The Haunted Garden 诡园
Xi Chen felt that he had already done everything he wanted to do. The world was so boring that he wanted to end it. But even he thought this boring world didn't deserve to be dragged down with him, so he let it be. He didn't just fail to die, though. He was forced to join a game. Impossible to solve? Impossible! Maybe life wasn't quite so dull after all. No CP
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The Most Connected Person in the Supernatural World 灵异界最强关系户
“What, you think a pen fairy, zombies, Chu Renmei, Sadako, werewolves, and vampires can just show up at the parent-teacher meeting? Your kids are such underachievers. How are they ever going to graduate?” This is a university for the supernatural. The toughest man in the supernatural world is the vice principal, Black and White Impermanence head the admissions office, a weasel demon runs the monster studies department, and exorcists and Taoist priests teach classes... Every student here is the d
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God of War Against the Heavens 逆天战神
A hundred years ago, Ye Qingyun, a peerless God of War, burst onto the scene, crushing every young prodigy in his path and striking terror into his enemies. Yet he was betrayed by his wife, Luo Ling, and his sworn brother, Lang Shisan, and fell in the Abyss of the Ten Demons! A hundred years later, the worlds entered a golden age, with monstrous talents emerging everywhere! Ye Qingyun is reborn in the Eight Desolations Continent as a useless disciple of the small Ye family. His fate takes a turn
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Online Game: Ruling the World 网游之纵横天下
I was just an unremarkable player, but after I happened to save a beautiful woman, my life changed beyond recognition. In the game and in real life, I'm a top expert. From then on, I can dominate the world!
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Online Game: Unrivaled Across the World 网游之天下无双
With the Hell Demon Sword in hand, clad in the Ghostlight Divine Armor, wearing the Soul-Devouring Purple Gold Helm, and striding in Cloud-Treading Wave-Riding Boots, he holds the Goddess of Death in his left arm and a beautiful angel in his right. Ruling over the frigid Land of Death, a mighty Asura King rises from nowhere. You rookies, tremble!
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Heaven-Defying War God 逆天战神
Ling Pingfan is a fresh recruit who gets looked down on and despised at every turn. Then one day, the new recruit rises to prominence…
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Online Gaming: Ruling the World 网游之横行天下
In his new life, Chu Jing had only three goals. 1. Settle old scores and make his enemies weep with regret. 2. Be a devoted son and bring his family happiness and good health. 3. Make the Phantom Assassin class famous, until players around the world grovel beneath his shadow!
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War God of the Warcraft 魔兽战神
Zhan Wuming, the God of Fate, was framed and cast down into the mortal world, losing all his divinity. To return to the Heavenly Dao, he must start cultivating as a mortal: survive a hundred battles to become an emperor, a thousand battles to become a god, reach the pinnacle of the God of War, enter the Immortal Realm, overcome tribulations to become an emperor, ascend to the Divine Realm, perfect the Five Elements, master the Nine Paths, control the laws of heaven and earth, and shatter the voi
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War God Against Heaven 逆天战神
When heaven and earth unite, the fierce wind in his chest becomes a force strong enough to support the sky. Standing tall between heaven and earth, a boy embarks on a defiant path to power, with hardship and humiliation beneath his feet...
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