Looking for Horror Novels That Are Too Scary to Sleep After 求恐怖小说,吓的不敢睡的那种
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I Went to the Wrong Grave and Mistook a Female Ghost for One of My Own 上错坟,不小心把女鬼当成自己人
[One female lead, the male lead isn't invincible, not a wish-fulfillment story, supernatural, metaphysics. If it's not your cup of tea, please don't flame. This story is entirely fictional. The leads practice both Buddhism and Taoism. If you're the type to nitpick, read with caution!] “Year after year, I come to pay respects to my ancestors, yet year after year I'm still stuck working. I'm not happy over here, and you might be going hungry over there. Bless your grandson with a prosperous year,
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Strange Tales of Northeast China 东北诡异实录
The comic adaptation of the same name is now available, also known as Mountain Spirit Lost. The comic Northeast Strange Tales is currently being serialized. Across the vast, boundless black earth of Northeast China, one strange and little-known story after another has unfolded. Now, I’ll tell you these long-buried tales of the supernatural, one by one!
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The Haunted Apartment: I Turn Out to Be the Final Boss 猛鬼公寓,我竟然才是大BOSS
Welcome to Happy Apartments: There’s a friendly atmosphere and kind neighbors. Every night, they come out to talk with you about life and share their dreams for the next one. So, looking for a place to rent? The haunted kind.
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The System Arrived a Year Early, but the Paranormal Never Actually Happened 系统提前一年,可诡异真没降临
[Host narrowly escaped the Cat-Faced Granny's pursuit. Host, you're awesome!] [Reward: 20 survival points!] Walking past the elderly neighbor's door, Xiang Nan looks utterly bewildered. [Host successfully escaped the Death Bus. Host, what courage!] [Reward: 30 survival points!] After getting on the bus and then getting off again, Xiang Nan is still utterly bewildered. [Host successfully killed a Corpse Demon for the first time since the supernatural descended. Host, you're like a god!] After cre
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Eerie Revival: I Can Contact the Past 诡异复苏:我能联系过去
The Hungry Ghost Festival of 2025. A super red moon appeared, and as it lingered in the sky, the supernatural returned. Left Yang was shocked to discover that he could use his phone to contact himself in the past. In the stairwell, the Knock-at-the-Door Ghost killed anyone who opened the door. But someone discovered that it skipped the first floor and started knocking there. So Left Yang contacted his past self. [Please have your one-month-younger self rent an apartment on the first floor!] The
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Eerie Revival: I Can Observe the Future 诡异复苏:我能观测未来
[Supernatural resurgence + observing supernatural traits + extracting ability traits + upgrading traits + observing the future + observing other people's past] [Seventh day of the supernatural resurgence] [Big-Headed Ghost Infant: The size of a baby, its entire body bluish-purple. It moves by crawling, but can scuttle up walls as fast as a gecko. It attacks by stabbing with its tongue. What triggers it to start following someone is still unknown!] [High-Heel Footsteps: Footsteps that always soun
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Carrying the Living and the Dead 载人也载鬼
After losing his job, the protagonist plans to buy a car and drive for a rideshare service. Instead, he ends up buying a Soul-Ring Car and helps a female ghost solve the mystery of her death. He then becomes a rideshare driver who transports ghosts.
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Don't Mess with This Unemployed Uncle! He's Got an Exclusive Circle of Ghost Friends 别惹失业大叔!他有专属鬼友圈
An unemployed middle-aged man helps a ghost investigate the cause of death and unexpectedly gets a job as an underworld clerk! In the style of the author's previous work, Carrying Both the Living and the Dead, this novel offers mystery, horror, thrills, and positive energy. If you enjoy a thrill, come on in. Also, this isn't a play-the-pig-to-eat-the-tiger kind of novel. The plot is rich and varied, with one twist leading into the next...
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Studying Neutrinos at the Funeral Home 我在殡仪馆研究中微子
❎ Not for the faint of heart! Five-star horror rating. I’m a college student. To ease the burden on my family, I decided to find a part-time job near campus. By chance, I spotted a faded advertisement on a utility pole nearby. The job was keeping night watch at a funeral home, and the pay was great, so I took it. On my first day, the manager told me three bizarre rules for the funeral home’s night shift: I’d be the only one working overnight; never open the door for strangers; and never get invo
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Death Sacrifice 死祭
True Experiences ✖️ Traditional Supernatural Tales ✖️ Horror Late one night, I got a call from an unknown number. A hoarse voice whispered, “There's someone under your bed.” I looked in terror, but there was nothing there. After that, the phone rang at the same time every night, repeating the same words. Then, on the third night, I found a trail of footprints under the bed that weren't mine. And from the other end of the phone, I heard my own voice...
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Ghostly Eyes 鬼灵瞳
A reclusive man known as Little Master, along with several strange people brought together by coincidence but united by their shared interests, gradually uncovers a history buried for many years: the five great clans of the ancient world and the Yin-Yang adepts who could do anything. It seems that fate has long been leading them into one thrilling fantasy adventure after another...
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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 Netherworld Inn 阴间客栈
My name is Qin Yu. While on a business trip, I checked into a uniquely styled inn called the Yin Room Inn. It even offered “special services” in the middle of the night. Little did I know it was an inn from the underworld. I began having nightmare after nightmare, and my friends kept getting into trouble...
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The Delusion of the Final Sequence 终序之妄
[Dual heroines + mental illness + supernatural] Mo Shanshan has a pair of unusual crimson eyes. She can see ghosts, yet she’s been sent to a psychiatric hospital and diagnosed with delusional disorder. Ringing in your ears? That’s because people can’t understand what ghosts are saying! The Heavenly God Path, the Water Corpse Curse, corpse infants, a haunted lake, the collapse of the Six Paths of Reincarnation: is it all the plot of the Entropy God? No. This time, Luo Shisan absolutely will not d
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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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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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My Nightmares Were Written into a Novel 我的噩梦写进小说里
Strange tales from folk tradition, and eerie stories from dreams brought to life in fiction. Horror, mystery, and suspense that come as close to reality as possible, with a chilling eeriness that makes your skin crawl. Ghosts are an unknown terror. They have no feelings, neither good nor evil. Sometimes, you just happen to cross paths with one.
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The Weird Realm II: Room 414 Hospital 诡界II:414医院
[Infinite Flow + Supernatural Horror + Mystery + Paranormal + Survival + Dungeons] A hospital said to be impossible to escape, and a group of survivors who've narrowly escaped death time and again. What bizarre and uncanny tales await them as they open the doors to one patient room after another? Dear readers, follow the protagonist Lu Bai as he uncovers one hidden truth after another. Welcome to Hospital 414...
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The Grave Robbers' Chronicles: Northern School 北派盗墓笔记
[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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National Treasure 国家宝藏
[Tomb Raiding + Mystery + Smart Protagonists] There is a group of people armed with black blades and mysterious arts, born to venture into ancient tombs across the land. There is a group of people who fight without end and bleed until they are drained, dying to protect the nation's treasures. They stand before the countless people of the world, shielding them from its darkest corners. They leave the greatest glory of their people behind them, for all to behold. They share one name: Qilin. But I
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Tomb Raiding: I Tore Down the Golmud Sanatorium 盗墓:我拆了格尔木疗养院
[No Female Lead + Cheerful Protagonist + Comedy] Wu Mo transmigrates into the ultimate tomb-raiding world and becomes Wu Xie’s younger brother, gaining a tomb-raiding sign-in System. Ding! Sign-in successful. Reward granted. 1: Azure Dragon bloodline 2: Tomb-trap mechanisms 3: Corpse control With these skills at his disposal, Wu Mo starts running wild in the tomb-raiding world. He blows up the Golmud Sanatorium, beats up Hei Xiazi, and tests his strength against Xiaoge. He saves A Ning in the S
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Help, I Transmigrated into the Grave Robbers' Chronicles World 救我,我穿越盗笔世界了
[The Iron Triangle + Slow Burn + No Heroine + Not Mindless + Original Plot Follows the Source Closely + Both Heartbreak and Sweetness + Panzi + CP] (P.S. There are livestreams, but they're entirely from another world, and the livestream itself is a huge plot hook. There are no livestreams in Volume Two.) On the fifteenth day of the eighth month, five planets align. A fantastical transmigration journey begins. Lian Qian carries something closely connected to the tomb-raiding world, searching in t
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Tomb Raiding: Blackie Got Hooked Again Today 盗墓:黑爷今天又被钓了
[Tomb Raider fanfiction + no female lead + no System + two male leads + Hei Hua focus + a definite happy ending + some author-created details] If we could just go back to the past, we would still be as we were at the beginning, innocent and carefree. Hei Xiazi is reborn and returns to the day he first met Xie Yuchen. The story begins anew. As the mist clears, the obsession buried deep in his heart rises to the surface. This time, looking at Xie Yuchen, Hei Xiazi finds himself launching a “Flower
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Tomb Raiding: I Awakened Four Bloodlines from the Start 盗墓:开局激活四系血脉。
[No Female Lead + Don't Read If You Dislike This] This is not a blood-pumping wish-fulfillment novel! If that's not your thing, please leave now! Seriously, don't complain. Thank you. The era and historical setting are both fictional! Please don't apply the story to modern society! After the amnesiac youth Su Qingchen transmigrated, he became another amnesiac young man in a different world: Blue Star. When Su Qingchen saw himself on a film set, dressed in costume, he thought he was on a showbiz
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Tomb Hunting in the Wilderness 荒野寻墓
[Tomb Raiding Is Illegal, So Don’t Try It Yourself] [Tomb Raiding + Mystery + Appraisal + Human Nature + Rules] In the 1990s, with nowhere else to turn, I joined a tomb-raiding gang and embarked on a perilous quest to find ancient tombs. We searched the towering mountains for a vanished kingdom that had stood for a thousand years. Could the sacrificial rites of the ancient Shu civilization really grant eternal life? The deceit and scheming in the antiques trade showed me how cold the world could
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Super Scary: Spine-Chilling Horror Stories 超级恐怖:耸人听闻的恐怖故事
[Traditional Supernatural Tales] [Chinese-Style Horror] [Reader Submissions] [Chilling on Second Thought] [Strange Stories] [Plainspoken Storytelling] [No Fancy Prose] [A New Protagonist Every Chapter to Keep You Immersed] I pieced these stories together bit by bit from old folks around the country, private messages from netizens, and country gossip. They're all little ghost stories I heard before bed. I've rewritten them in plain, easy-to-follow language without beating around the bush. I just
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After Grandma Died, Resentment Raised Her Corpse 奶奶死后被怨气养尸
After Grandma Died, Her Resentment Raised Her Corpse
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Something Sinister Lurks After Dark 深夜有诡
Strange Things Happen Late at Night
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The Nine-Layered Supernatural Realm 九层灵异空间
“Welcome to the Ninth Supernatural Realm.” A black-clad bull-headed figure walked over. “Are you human or a ghost?” Ling Yun was caught up in a once-in-a-century “Heavenly Dog” swallowing the sun, plunging Earth into three days of darkness. When eight people awoke on the third day, the dimensions of space had changed, and they found themselves in the Ninth Supernatural Realm. Ling Yun was among them... “Escape. We have to get out. This is a world unlike Earth...”
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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 Creepy National Fortune Game: My Chinese-Style Horror Terrified the World 诡异国运:我的中式恐怖吓哭全球
The supernatural invades the real world. Every country on Blue Star must design supernatural dungeons. Conquering another country’s dungeon lets you seize some of its national fortune, while a country whose dungeon is conquered will face all kinds of supernatural events, which may eventually lead to its destruction. For special reasons, the Dragon Kingdom has lost much of its supernatural culture and is at a disadvantage now that the supernatural has returned. Then Su Yi transmigrates here with
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The Haunted Teahouse: I Only Sell Objects of Ill Omen 恐怖茶馆:我只卖大凶之物
The world is divided between yin and yang. Some people do business with the living, while others trade with the dead. I deal in the business of the dead, but I don’t sell coffins, paper money, funeral clothes, or paper effigies. What I sell are things you’ve never seen before, things far stranger still…
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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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The 28th Book by Longbi Writes the World 龙笔写天下第28本书
My new work is here! Come read it on Tomato Novel. I hope you'll enjoy it. Your support is what motivates me to write, and I'll do my best to tell every story well!
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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 Living Must Keep Away 活人回避
Originally titled Living People, Keep Away. An antique set me on a desperate path. From then on, just to stay alive, I became a yin walker who dealt with the dead and the walking corpses. Three years searching for dragon veins, ten years locating acupoints, roaming between yin and yang, dealing in ghosts and spirits. I kept walking, struggling my way to where I am today.
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My Mockumentary Came True 我的伪纪录片成真了
Luo Luo thinks he's just one “good ghost” away from becoming famous. As a struggling paranormal content creator, he throws himself into digging up a sealed videotape. Hidden inside is an urban legend called the Mirror Palace Puppet, said to appear only between two mirrors facing each other. His followers skyrocket and his popularity soars. Luo Luo brags to the camera, “Guys, I'm totally cashing in on this wave of traffic!” Then he realizes that all the strange footage is starting to invade reali
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Terror at the Villa: Everyone Who Heard the Weeping Died 别墅惊魂:听见哭声的人都死了
I'm a feng shui master. One day, I was hired by the tycoon Jia Qing, who said something strange was happening at his villa on Lingzhou Island. Every night, the sounds of a woman and a baby crying could be heard inside the villa. The reward he offered was so generous that I couldn't refuse. Who knew that a string of terrifying events would unfold on the very night I moved in?
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Deadly Delivery 致命快递
I received a package from an unfamiliar sender. A note inside said I could scan a code to claim a huge cash bonus. But when I scanned it, my phone opened a livestream instead. Even stranger, my face appeared right in the middle of the screen. The comments were flying by: "This girl looks pretty good. What a shame to kill her." "Tsk, tsk, what a beauty. I recommend having some fun with her before killing her." Just then, I suddenly heard someone knocking behind me. "Hello, delivery!"
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The Corpse Stitcher 缝尸匠
My family makes its living dealing with the dead, and my father is a renowned corpse seamster in the surrounding area. His skills are superb. No matter how mangled a corpse is, he can restore it to look as good as new. Whenever someone died in an accident and their body was disfigured, wealthy families from hundreds of miles around would ask my father to stitch it back together. But as far as I knew, my father used to be a butcher. He was skilled at dressing pigs, but I had never heard that he w
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A Terrifying New Year’s Eve 惊悚除夕夜
A Chilling New Year's Eve
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A Woman Fell from the Building at My Feet, Then Begged Me in the Middle of the Night to Avenge Her 坠楼女子落我脚边,半夜她哭着求我替她报仇
The Evil Spirit in the Talisman On a rainy night, I watched a girl jump from a tall building and die on the spot. Her soul latched onto me and demanded that I avenge her.
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I Decided to Kill My Lover, Then Got on a Haunted Bus with Her 我决定谋杀情人,和她上了一辆闹鬼的巴士
I think I got on a haunted bus. My girlfriend was sitting beside me, her pretty little face deathly pale with fear. "Th-those two people just carried a corpse onto the bus."
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After the Wicked Mother-in-Law Drove Her Son’s Family to Their Deaths, They All Became Ghosts 恶婆婆逼死儿媳妇一家后,全变鬼了
Back in our village, it was perfectly normal for a mother-in-law to bully her daughter-in-law. Even when the entire husband's family bullied the daughter-in-law, nobody thought there was anything wrong with it. But driving the daughter-in-law's entire family to their deaths? I doubt many people could do something like that.
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My Senior Disappeared from a Nursing Home, So I Went Undercover as a Nurse and Uncovered a Shocking Secret 学长在养老院失踪,我去当护士卧底发现惊天秘密
My senior disappeared three months ago. He was working at Paradise Nursing Home at the time. To find him, I applied for a job at the nursing home. I never expected to see an elderly resident jump to his death on my very first day. Then more residents started disappearing, one after another. Until one day, inside the refrigerator, I found the finger of a missing resident...
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The Spirit-Suppressing Coffin 囚灵棺
I was curious about the coffin necklace around my boyfriend's neck. Before I could even touch it, he broke up with me on the spot. I complained about it to the viewers in my livestream, but then a fortune-telling streamer suddenly joined the call and warned me: “Break up with him right now. Your boyfriend is wearing a Spirit-Binding Coffin!” From that day on, eerie nightmares, a mysterious female ghost, and my boyfriend's secrets... One strange event after another began to unfold. Just when I th
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The Child Who Never Existed 不存在的孩子
My son suddenly disappeared. Everyone told me that I had never had a child. The daycare teacher didn't know me. My husband said we'd never wanted a child, and even my best friend urged me to calm down, saying it was all just an hallucination. But I clearly remembered the child I'd risked my life to give birth to. His name was Liu Chaoyang, he was one year and eight months old, and he was a chubby little dumpling! Then I found baby supplies under the bed, along with photographs and traces that ha
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Killing My Second Personality 杀死第二人格
I killed my second personality. But before he died, he left me a “grand gift”... A list of people to harass at the asylum, with 16 names on it, even though the asylum has only 15 patients in total. “Did you think you were the only one with a second personality?” What is the truth? Who is the real madman?
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The Haunted Inn 惊魂旅馆
An unexpected downpour drowned out the sounds of murder. Late at night, in a remote inn, a corpse lay sprawled across a bed, blood pouring from all seven orifices. The killer seemed to be hiding among the guests, none of whom trusted one another: a police officer, a writer, a psychiatrist, a celebrity, a fan, a college student... Every one of them had something to hide. After a second murder, the line between the dead and the living grew increasingly blurred. Everyone was a suspect, and everyone
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Blood Ties 血缘关系
I rushed a thousand miles to mourn my mother, only to discover that she had died under suspicious circumstances. I wanted to uncover the truth and avenge her, but my whole family opposed me! It turned out everything was because there was a “vampire” in the family!
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