Horror Novels About Ghost Brides, No System 恐怖小说,那种鬼新娘的,不要系统
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The Haunted Tomb 诡坟
[This is no ordinary paranormal story. It's all about horror and suspense: no mindless wish fulfillment, forbidden yin-yang lore, no cultivation, and a ghost wife. If it's not good, you can break my legs.] People laugh at my family's poverty and say that all my blood relatives have died, so there must be a ghost in our house. I don't dare argue... because there really is a ghost buried in our ancestral grave! ...My name is Zhang Asi... I was born at four in the morning on the fourteenth day of t
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The Year I Was Born, Ghosts Came Looking for a Groom 我出生那年,鬼招婿
The year I was born, ghosts came seeking a bride. To stay alive, I slept in a haunted coffin. When I was twelve, I was forced to marry a ghost bride, bringing disaster upon us all. My grandfather had me take an unclaimed grave as my master. I thought things would finally be peaceful from then on. But the good times didn't last. I discovered by chance that my ghost wife had been by my side all along...
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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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I Picked Up a Ghost Bride from the Start, and Case 749 Came Knocking 开局捡个鬼新娘,749局找上门
[Ghost Bride + 749 + invincible + lifespan-for-power + hot-blooded + ruthless...] Hong Yao was panicking. He was living in what should have been an ordinary modern city, yet supernatural incidents were becoming more and more frequent. By chance, he found the betrothal letter of a ghost bride, and now he had to marry her! From then on, one strange entity after another came after him, all out to take his life. You brought this on yourselves! System! Take my lifespan! Also known as: “Am I strong? I
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My Thousand-Year-Old Ghost Wife 我的千年女鬼老婆
My name is Zhang Shaobai. Behind our village stands an ancient pagoda that has been guarded for generations. Everyone in the village says it’s cursed. But outsiders refuse to believe it, and for money, I took them to the pagoda. From then on, strange things kept happening around me. It all began with that livestream one night...
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The Ghost Immortal's Underworld Wife 鬼仙冥妻
[Feng shui and geomancy + Five Elements and Eight Trigrams + tomb raiding and treasure hunting + corpse-driving in western Hunan + supernatural folk beliefs + Taoist corpse-transformation immortals + Southeast Asia's three great dark arts] On the day I was born, strange signs appeared: a mouse burned incense, a cat worshipped an immortal, and nine dragons carried a palanquin. My grandfather said I had the destiny of the Jade Emperor and was destined for greatness. Yet from the day I was born, on
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Selling Burial Clothes, Sewing Up Corpses, and Raising a Ghost Wife 卖寿衣,缝尸体,养鬼妻
[Traditional supernatural horror, folk terror, decisive and ruthless] I rented an apartment where someone had died, hoping to save money, only to be plunged into endless darkness... My terrifying girlfriend has a mouth full of sharp teeth and haunts me day and night; A headless vengeful infant on the highway frantically tries to steal people’s heads; A horrifying internet celebrity livestreams herself peeling off people’s faces, while the comments turn eerie; At a Cat Immortal shrine in a strang
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From the Start, I Become a Ghost Groom, and the Red Wedding Dress Goes Wild for Me 开局成为鬼新郎,红嫁衣为我疯狂
[Female Emperor, Eerie Revival, Ghost Taming, Ensemble Cast, No System, Special Powers] Qin Feng was just taking a nap when he was seized and dragged into an eerie world. An SSS-rank female ghost in a red wedding dress took a liking to him, making him her ghostly groom! On the way to the wedding, he even ran into a woman in a white coffin being carried to her funeral! Red and white collide, bringing disaster! Red Wedding Dress: He’s my man! White Coffin Woman: I’m stealing your man! Two gh
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If the Mortal Realm Is Hell, I Shall Become Yama 若人间如狱,我将身化阎罗
[No saintly protagonist] + [No harem] + [Dark tone] + [Death rewind] + [Fusing with evil spirits] + [Near-invincible protagonist] Evil spirits run rampant, and terror resurges; lives are devastated, and the paranormal is everywhere; human life is worth less than grass. If the gods cannot save the world and its people, then I will become the greatest paranormal entity in existence. My name is Yan Luo, and I am also the... King of Hell in this apocalyptic world!
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A Female Ghost Is Clinging to Me? Better Cling to Her! 女鬼缠身?反抱她大腿!
[No System, one heroine, ghost wife, yin-yang master, urban, supernatural, lighthearted comedy] A night spent beside a lonely grave, and the tomb’s occupant latches on. After paying respects to my grandfather tonight, I encountered something utterly absurd: I actually saw a ghost! These days, I’m afraid of being poor, and I’m afraid of dying! On a whim, after we couldn’t agree on anything, I got into a fight with the ghost and even slept on a lonely grave for the whole night. After that, one st
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Matchmaking from the Start, and You Set Me Up with a Ghost Wife? 开局做媒,你给我鬼妻什么意思
[Multiple Heroines + Supernatural + Ghost Stories + First Person] To stay alive, I was forced into a ghost marriage and wed a female ghost in a coffin. Everyone laughs and says I won’t live long, but they don’t know that my ghost wife is the most terrifying being in both the world of the living and the underworld. The soul-takers come to claim souls? She beats them into submission. Vengeful ghosts harm people? She suppresses them with ease. From then on, protected by my ghost wife, I’m avoided
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My Years of Ghost Hunting Among the People 我在民间捉鬼的那些年
Chinese-Style Horror, No Female Lead My name is Xu Jian. I’m 26, and I studied Taoist arts under a Maoshan priest for several years. Over the years, I’ve seen all kinds of things. After doing this long enough, I realized that ghosts aren’t scary. What’s truly frightening are the things people can’t get past in their hearts. All I do is help them say what needs to be said and settle their debts once and for all. People call me a Celestial Master of the Taoist sect, but I’m really just an ordin
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The Eerie Midnight Mirror 子夜诡镜
The scholar Chou Wuya happened upon a copy of Strange Tales from a Chinese Studio. The stall owner casually included an ancient bronze mirror, named Seeing the Heart. At midnight, Chou Wuya discovered that the mirror could tear apart dreams and reality, drawing him into one eerie, terrifying mirror realm after another. Every mirror realm was a supernatural ordeal with no way out. A woman named Ruoxi was sealed inside the mirror. She told Chou Wuya that every time he entered a dream, he would gai
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You Hired Me at a Funeral Home, and I Brought My Wife 让你入职殡仪馆,你把媳妇带来了
I am Xu Ziye, born with a body that is “like Tang Monk’s flesh” to evil spirits: born in a yin year, yin month, and yin hour, with a pure-yin Water destiny. Grandpa said I wouldn’t live past the age of three. To keep my fate in check, he gave me the most yin name of all, “Ziye.” He even arranged an unbelievable “marriage” for me while I was still in swaddling clothes: a ghost marriage to someone in the underworld. Thanks to the protection of this “ghost wife,” I survived into adulthood. But no o
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The Ghost Bride 鬼新娘
On my wedding day, my future mother-in-law had five people carry me out of the car. She told me my feet mustn't touch the ground and wrapped me tightly from head to toe in a huge black cloth. That night, I heard her smugly bragging to someone on the phone: keeping my feet off the ground made me seem like a ghost, and wearing black cloth made me seem like a ghost. Once her son got down there, he wouldn't be short of people to serve him.
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The Ghost Bride 鬼新娘
The Ghost Bride
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The Ghost Bride 鬼新娘
As a timid little Taoist priest with plenty of guts but no fighting skills, I somehow ended up inside the horror game scenario The Ghost Bride, which was completely outside my area of expertise. Luckily, I have a silver tongue that can talk the dead back to life. Even when I had to look after a ghost girl and serve my ghost in-laws from the start, I handled it with ease. I never expected to be thrown into the ancestral hall anyway, where I got a full taste of Chinese-style horror.
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The Ghost Bride... 鬼新娘……
The Ghost Bride...
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The Ghost Bride 鬼新娘
"Players, welcome to the world of rule-based horror." "Your mission this time is to make sure the bride marries into a 'good family.'" I wait quietly in the darkness for the players to arrive, waiting to see what they choose. As far as players are concerned, other players are people they can trust. But are the people you think are players really players?
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The Ghost Bride 鬼新娘
The Ghost Bride
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The Ghost Bride 鬼新娘
The Ghost Bride
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The Bride of the Vengeful Ghost 猛鬼新娘
When I was sixteen, I rescued a woman who had been tricked into coming to our village, simply because I wanted to help. I never imagined that my actions would not only get the poor woman killed, but also lead to the deaths of more than a hundred villagers. And so my strange life began.
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I Only Take on the Most Ominous Cases 我只收大凶之物
[Supernatural] + [Traditional Folk Customs] + [First-Person Narration] + [Chinese-Style Horror] + [Decisive and Ruthless] + [Not a Do-Gooder] + [One Female Lead] I was born in a rural village in the mountains of Southwest China. I'm a third-year university student, and I'm also a yin-yang master. Calling myself a yin-yang master is really just to make myself sound impressive. Back in my hometown, people in the countryside call someone like me a Daoist ritual master. Most people probably know a l
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Lord of the Origin Clan 源族之主
[Mystery and the Supernatural, Ghost Wife and Fox Demon] In my senior year of high school, I became the top scholar in a dream and married a female ghost and a fox demon. After I woke up, one strange thing after another began happening around me. Together with my ghost wife and the fox demon, I embarked on adventures, weathered countless trials, and fought powerful foes. Bizarre and uncanny cases, strange folk customs, Miaojiang sorcery, demon arts, magic, and all manner of oddities await. Let’s
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The Boundary-Breaking Game Changer 跨界破局者
Married women! Ghost wives! Demon wives! (Multiple female leads) (Not a mindless power fantasy) My name is Chu Yi, and I’m a Taoist priest. My religious name is Qing Yi. Originally, I was just like any other university student: doing an internship, writing my graduation thesis, earning my diploma, and then finding a respectable job. But when I rented a place, I realized I’d been living with a female ghost for over a month… That’s when I discovered the world wasn’t as simple as I’d imagined…
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Ten Lifetimes in One Body, Nine Reincarnations: Heaven's Player 十世之身,九世轮回上苍执棋人
(Reincarnation, invincibility, feel-good story, no System, fantasy, mystery, and fun are his hallmarks.) I’m Yu Ming. You can also call me Gu Ming, Wang Ming, Li Ming, Dongfang Ming… A mysterious pagoda? A treacherous Gate of Reincarnation? Or countless possible futures? Who am I, really? Am I still myself? Or are they all me? The vast worlds are full of wonders, and all I do is reincarnate and reign supreme! Reign supreme through reincarnation! The “me” in every world is a legend. Are you all w
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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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Coffin Shop No. 44 44号棺材铺
Everyone knows what a coffin shop is, but would you dare enter one where someone has died? Ever since I took over a coffin shop, strange things have been happening all around me. Only then did I realize that the people who come to buy coffins aren't necessarily alive…
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The Jiang Family's Haunted House and Corpse Marriage Pact 僵家尸宅冥尸婚契
Jiang Si was just there to enjoy the show, but nearly got crushed to death between a woman's breasts. At the brink of death, he was sucked into the core of the Nine-Dragon Feng Shui Formation, where he stumbled upon a pair of divine eyes that could see through things... Then, by another twist of fate, he ended up in another world... In its twisted and terrifying world, he and his two zombie wives began a very different life...
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Do You Believe There Are Ghosts in This World? 你相信,这个世界上有鬼吗?
[Mind-bending] + [Slow-paced] + [Not for the faint-hearted] Thirty-six years ago, deep in the Tibetan grasslands, a secret research base studying the paranormal was rocked by a massive explosion. Only one person managed to escape alive. The male survivor not only made it out, but also brought a pair of pitch-black eyes from the secret base. Even after being removed from their body, they seemed alive. After this devastating disaster, the man deliberately avoided a mysterious organization and went
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You Hired Me to Collect Bodies, So I Dissected My Ex-Girlfriend 让你当收尸人,你直接解刨了前女友
In anatomy class, the corpse turns out to be my ex-girlfriend... After that, I went through all sorts of unbelievable things. A bus that only goes up, never down, and runs straight to a reservoir. An old scholar tree in the hospital, lush with branches and leaves, that swallows people whole. A giant catfish by the Qingshui River, begging people for help every night. And a deadly brothel hung with human skin, open for business without end. It went on and on, as if it would never come to an end...
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Taboo of the Living 2 活人禁忌2
Heaven Official's Blessing, no taboos under heaven. The second installment of Living People’s Taboos!
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Ghost Shop No. 81 81号鬼事铺
Night blankets the city, and the things lurking in the shadows begin to stir. The raccoon dog granny who eats raw meat, the fitness girl with fish scales growing on her back. The wild foxes who approach people by the roadside, and the little convenience store in the cemetery. I've experienced all of these. And it all began after I witnessed a car accident...
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The Yin-Walker 巡阴人
Applying makeup to the dead, reading the winds and assessing the land, preparing bodies for burial, and performing rites on the seventh day after death. Scorched corpses: cleaning the body, applying rouge, painting the features! Bodies cut in half at the waist: removing the organs, filling the cavities, and stitching the body back together! I was born into a family that made its living from the dead, so I grew up dealing with corpses. I’ve seen all sorts of bizarre ways to die and countless inex
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The Peerless Mage 法师无双
A top sorcerer who once led the Heavenly Masters’ Court returns, only to be cast out by his powerful family. As he prepares to leave, he discovers that his younger female cousin has fallen victim to dark magic…
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The Grand Feng Shui Master 大相师
Ten years ago, nine snakes crawled into my bed. Grandpa said someone was trying to steal my life. To keep me alive, he arranged an engagement for me to extend my lifespan...
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The Fox Bride of Qingqiu 青丘狐妻
Liu the Half-Immortal told my mother, “On the night of the full moon, take your child and a chicken to Qingqiu Mountain and wait. Whoever eats your family’s chicken will become your child’s spouse, whether it’s a snake, an insect, an ant, a bird, or a beast...” That night, a little fox and a little white wolf fought fiercely over the chicken, and from then on, the gears of fate began to turn...
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Crimson Pact 深紅契约
[No harem + One heroine + All-new setting + Not reborn + Not mindless + Not a pushover] This story unfolds in an enormous world, with a tense plot and tightly paced action that never lets up. I hope every chapter gives you something to enjoy and explore. The story follows Zhou Mufan, a former detective who is unexpectedly dragged into a terrifying ordeal beyond reality: the Chinese-style horror dungeon “Xi.” To survive, he forms a “Blood Moon Pact” with An Yu, the dungeon’s core, a vengeful ghos
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Night Tales: One Eerie Story Every Night 夜话:每晚一个诡故事
Unravel the chilling logical paradoxes hidden in everyday details. Each story is an artistic reimagining of a real social event from recent years. Every late night conceals secrets unknown to others. Each chapter is a standalone story, with a brisk pace, tight storytelling, and no dull moments.
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The Dark Realm of the Uncanny 谲暗物境
Lin Xue, a classmate of Qin Chuan and Ye Xin, mysteriously vanishes inside an abandoned old school building. Even stranger, everyone around them except Qin Chuan and Ye Xin has forgotten that Lin Xue ever existed. Determined to uncover the truth, Qin Chuan and Ye Xin embark on a strange and unsettling investigation. One inexplicable event after another follows. Yet when the truth finally comes to light, it turns everyone's understanding upside down!
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Bride of the Ghost Gate 替嫁鬼门
In the outside world, a ghost marriage means a living person is wed to a dead one. But the Su family deals in a forbidden trade at the gates of the underworld: we find lonely ghosts living brides. Each ghost marriage buys the Su family ten years of mortal life. Ever since our ancestor violated the laws of Heaven, this fate has been impossible for generation after generation to escape. Our ancestor was once the gatekeeper of the underworld. One thoughtless choice trapped him in the shackles of re
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Bro, You're a Cop, Not a Taoist Priest! 大哥,你是警察啊,不是道士!
[If you dislike cutesy, whimpering heroines, read no further] [Also known as: Me, a humble paper effigy maker, and you want me to crack a major case] When Yue Dong went to a telecom service center to cancel his late grandfather’s phone service, the staff gave him a hard time. “Rules are rules. The account holder has to be here in person!” “You have to follow the rules!” Yue Dong laughed in exasperation, then waved his hand and used his paper effigy-making skills to summon his late grandfather. T
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What the Heck! My Granddaughter Can Send Me Money in the Apocalypse! 见鬼了!孙女能在末世给我烧钱!
Could it be that we're so poor now because no one up there is burning offerings for us? Xu Fan accidentally stumbled into the Bank of Heaven and Earth, where he made contact with his future descendants. He sent his granddaughter a dream, asking her to burn paper offerings for him. But his granddaughter told him, “Grandpa, it's the apocalypse! We can't even afford to eat!” “Don't worry, my precious granddaughter. Hurry up and burn some offerings for me. Once I become a billionaire, you'll be t
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I Told You to Make a Pact with a Ghost, but You Made One with Zhong Kui? 让你契约鬼,你契约钟馗?
[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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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 Paper Effigy Shop: Everyone Around Me Is a Big Shot 扎纸铺,我身边都是大佬
In our ancient land of China, many professions have their own rules and taboos. The older and more mysterious the craft, the more this is true. For example, when “asking the rice,” you must never ask how someone died; a coffin maker must never make their own coffin; a paper effigy maker must never draw eyes on a paper figure; and a spirit medium must never conduct a ceremony without all the members of their altar present... If any of these rules and taboos are broken, something terrifying will h
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A Master of the Mystical Arts Becomes a Stepmother and Hosts a Funeral from the Start 玄门大佬穿后娘开局主持白事儿
The orphan Wen Zhuqing was raised by a Taoist temple from a young age. She had an extraordinary talent for the mystic arts, but was cursed with the Three Disadvantages and Five Deficiencies. Her deficiency was her life itself. The Taoist community tried every method they could to extend her life, but she still kicked the bucket at eighteen. When she wakes again, she has transmigrated to ancient times and become a miserable, unloved country girl. She’s about to marry a paralyzed man who has a who
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When Sister Shi Goes Wild, Even Ghosts and Gods Kneel and Cry Injustice! 时姐一发癫,鬼神跪地喊冤!
[Absurd comedy + metaphysics + wish-fulfillment + entertainment industry + ghost hunting + livestreamed variety show + true and fake heiresses + strong heroine + one-on-one pure love] Shi Yi transmigrated into a novel about the entertainment industry's true heiress face-slapping the fake one, as the true heiress. Facing her family's contempt, she took a few houses and several million in spending money, then decisively left the wealthy family, whose fortune was running out and which was on the ve
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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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The Underworld's Female Judge Is Here 冥界女判官在此
Xie Siyu was kind by nature, sensible from a young age, and beautiful. When she was five, she rescued a little boy and was showered with praise. After that, she couldn't stop herself from doing good deeds whenever the chance came along. She even dared to help elderly people who fell in the street. Though she was swindled so often that she could only afford instant noodles every month, she never learned her lesson. As she put it, "Your big sister has never regretted anything she's done." For all
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