Looking for Extremely Terrifying Horror, the Kind That Really Scares You: Thrillers, Mysteries, and Supernatural Stories 求极度恐惧，很吓人的那种恐怖，惊悚，悬疑，灵异
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- 101 The Sea Without Eyes 无瞳之海 This story follows Elena Shaw’s horrifying discoveries in the remote fishing town of Arkham. After she is invited to study a strange statue unearthed in the basement of a local church, a series of supernatural events unfolds: fishermen mutter deliriously about dreams beneath the sea, the tides bring in the remains of indescribable creatures, and ancient families guard dark secrets. As her investigation deepens, Elena gradually realizes that the town lies atop a fissure between reality and nightm 2Reads—Score—Shelves
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You Call That a Rule? And You’re Using It? 这是你规则吗你就用
Paranormal phenomena, rules, transferring rule punishments Who can relate? One moment, overworked office drone Lin Ze opened his eyes, and the next he had fallen straight into a rule-based horror apartment! Open the door at midnight and die? Something paranormal pounds on the door, shouting, “Open up!” Lin Ze activates his talent in response: “Transfer Punishment! Let this thing find out what it feels like!” The next second, a bloodcurdling scream comes from outside, and the paranormal thing dro
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- 103 Atonement Darwin 赎罪达尔文 What do you mean, I transmigrated, then transmigrated again? (No harem, no formulaic tropes, no wish fulfillment, no System. An ensemble cast with a focus on characters and plot. If that’s not your thing, please don’t read.) “My life ended yesterday, but my story begins today.” Lu Wei was an ordinary second-year college student on Earth, but every night he entered another world of immortal cultivation in his dreams. When he was certain the world in his dreams was fake, he found himself trapped i —Reads—Score—Shelves
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Edict: After the Hour of the Dog 敕令：戌时之后
A folk-horror tale: one official dispatch has been held up for three years. The speaker is Shen Yan, a registrar in Bianzhou. The dispatch was held up three months ago, and nobody dared take it on. Of the two who did, one grew a black ring around the back of his neck, while the other lost an eyelid. Three lines were written on the dispatch: Wherever it passes, there will be no rain for three years. After the hour of the Dog, do not enter any place with a threshold. There are only three rules: fi
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- 105 The Death Register 死亡登记簿 The Death Register 1Reads—Score—Shelves
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Help! The Horror NPCs Are Lining Up for Me to Do Their Makeup 救命！惊悚NPC都排队找我化妆
[Horror game + NPCs + horror survival + no System] Su Qing, a workaholic makeup artist, was just working overtime. When she opened her eyes again, she had been sucked into a horror game with a 99% death rate! As she watched her teammates panic and wet themselves, the bottom-performing Slit-Mouthed Woman approached her with a pair of scissors. Su Qing despaired. But wait... This woman’s makeup is way too crude! Her professional instincts kicked in, and she blurted out, “Your makeup isn’t working.
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One Haunting a Day 一日一诡
Like people, supernatural entities can be good or bad, so the author can’t promise that every story will have an off-the-charts scare factor that keeps you up at night. The only guarantee is that all the stories are entirely fictional. If anything seems familiar, you’re on your own!
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The Horror Game Is Too Hard? Huohuo, I Only Want Joy! 惊悚游戏太难？花火我只要欢愉！
[Mind games + fireworks + madness + infinite flow] I am Sparkle, but I am not Sparkle. I am in a world of despair. When the heavens and earth are torn open by an indescribable, mysterious force and countless “abominations from beyond” descend, humanity’s fate is forced into a horror game. Slaughter, monsters, abyssal dungeons, illusions, eerie towers... Every time someone clears a game, a new Cthulhu entity may step into reality. Everyone is fighting to survive. But amid all this despair, I’m l
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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 Underworld's Manager 黄泉主理人
“Do you know why the lights at Haishi University never go out? Because monsters lurk in the dark, gnawing away at the light.” Lin Chen tosses his milk tea, frozen into an ice sculpture, into the microwave to thaw, then sighs at the red-clad woman flickering in and out of view in the mirror. His life is like an absurd horror movie: vending machines sell carbonated drinks flavored with Meng Po’s soup, corpses in the dissection room tap-dance on full-moon nights, and worst of all, he’s started eyei
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Paper Cutting to Prolong Life 剪纸续命
Three days after his master's death, Chen Zhi's name was pressed into a paper-cut figure. Someone cut paper outside his door late at night. A paper figure bearing his name appeared at the doorstep, and from then on, the blue-black mark on his hand began to seep inward along his veins. Paper can ward off evil and bind souls. And the darkest art of the Paper-Cutting Sect is called Name Binding. To stay alive, Chen Zhi can only follow the torn pages his master left behind, the black sand beneath t
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My Date with a Vampire: Future and Past 我和僵尸有个约会之未来昔日
Jiang Tianyou, the Zombie God, and Ma Xiaoling, the exorcist Celestial Master, both vanished without a trace after the world-ending crisis several decades ago, leaving behind only an urban legend about their demon-slaying exploits. Years later, the winds of change rise again, and the gears of fate begin turning once more! Kuang Tianya, an exorcist girl bearing her family's mission, unexpectedly encounters Kuang Wuming, a mysterious young man who keeps his true abilities hidden, in a city seeth
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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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The Retired Judge Goes on a Rampage in Horror Games 退休判官在惊悚游戏杀疯了
[No heroine, no romance, infinite instances + invincible from the start + urban supernatural + helping ghosts get revenge + occasional livestreaming] Retired Judge Lu Yi is dragged into the Grievance-Quelling System. He’s rehired for overtime as soon as he retires, and he’s more resentful than a ghost! . The female ghost says in a hollow voice, “You can’t leave unless you help me fulfill my wish...” Lu Yi grabs her head and swings her around like a meteor hammer! Lu Yi: “Are you coming with me
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- 115 I’m the Only One in the World Who Can’t See the Supernatural 全世界只有我看不见诡异 That day, the heavens showed strange signs, and terrifying entities beyond human understanding descended upon the world en masse. They took all sorts of forms and each followed different rules for killing. They were collectively known as the Strange Entities. “You all keep telling me the strange things have invaded, but where are the ghosts?” “Isn't this just an ordinary Barbie doll?” “What? It attacks anyone who brushes its hair?” “I plucked out every strand and nothing happened. How do you exp 11.4kReads8.0Score922Shelves
- 116 I Became the Global Administrator of Hell's Games 我成了全球地狱游戏管理员 “From the moment the game begins, inferior, weak humans will be stripped of the right to breathe.” This world has no nations. It is ruled by five top conglomerates, and the gap between rich and poor is enormous. The wealthy feast behind their red gates while the poor freeze to death in the streets. The rich districts blaze with light and bustle with people, while the slums are shrouded in darkness and rife with violence and crime. This is an age of capitalist revelry, an age of splendor built up 1.2kReads9.2Score196Shelves
- 117 Dorm Survival: I Was Pulled into the Management Chat 宿舍求生，我被拉进了管理群 [Infinite-flow + no saintly heroine + System + survival + satisfying read] When Chen Bei woke up, he found himself in a dormitory survival game, bound to a dorm room. During the day, players had to venture out to gather supplies, grow stronger, and fortify their dorms. When night fell, all kinds of eerie and dangerous creatures appeared. The only way to survive was to hide inside the dorm. People and their dorms lived or died together! Unlike the others, Chen Bei had gained access to the game's 107.1kReads8.9Score8.7kShelves
- 118 Rule Horror: I Can Foresee Death 规则怪谈：我能预见死亡 [Original Scenarios + Foreknowledge of Death + Deduction + National Fortune + Live Broadcast + Suspense + Horror] Supernatural tales descend, and the bizarre invades. One person in each country will be chosen as the lucky contestant, entering countless Rule Horror worlds where all manner of horrors lurk. Clear the scenario, and your country will earn a brief respite! Fail, and the rules descend upon a city, bringing disaster and leaving countless people dead or grieving! This time, Su Li is chos 17kReads9.0Score1.7kShelves
- 119 Rule Horror: My Taoist Name Is Zhang Tianshi! 规则怪谈，我的道号张天师！ Wild imagination + Invincible + Rule Horror + No female lead + Mystery + Horror This isn't mindless wish fulfillment. There's a plot, so don't read if that's not your thing. The Horrors descended across the globe. After being battered by one eerie disaster after another, the Dragon Kingdom steadily declined, and its standing on the world stage plummeted! Another eerie trial was looming, and the Dragon Kingdom was on the verge of total ruin! But then, a famous figure from the Dragon Kingdom was d 10.4kReads9.2Score1.2kShelves
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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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- 121 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... 16kReads9.2Score2.1kShelves
- 122 The Underworld Detective 阴间神探 My new work is out! You can read it on Tomato Novel. I hope you'll enjoy it. Your support inspires me to write, and I'll do my best to tell every story well! 73.7kReads9.4Score8.8kShelves
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The Empty Lot in the Haunted House: I’m the Landlord of the Ghost Market 阴宅空盘：我在鬼市当楼霸
Empty Feng Shui Plot: I Run the Haunted Market’s Most Popular Building
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Notes from Half the City 半城手札
I'm Su Lin, and I run a funeral shop. That summer, I paid off some debts. That summer, I met a shamanic medium who livestreamed her rituals. That summer, it all began with a woman dressed in a red wedding gown.
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Great, the Whole Village Is Haunted, and I’m Beyond Saving 太好啦，全村都是诡，我没救了
[Horror + Body Collection + Comedy + Plot Twists] On the day I graduated from college, I got a call saying my dad had skinned himself and died. My mother said she had to meet her daughter-in-law before my dad was buried, so I had no choice but to pay a fortune to hire the campus belle to pretend to be my girlfriend. But when I returned to the village, I discovered that no one there was human! They were all corpses... After narrowly escaping death, I became a corpse collector. The first one I col
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The Barren Heavens and Defiled Earth 荒天垢土
My name is Mu Yang. They call me the shepherd of humanity. It seems humanity has gone extinct once before. I have seen many stories that do not belong to this world: [Black and White Impermanence] [Heavenly Wolf] [Celestial Palace] [Underworld] [Human Emperor] [Ancient Ruins] These came from my father, but now I can’t find any trace of him. He merely tossed a few riddles into my world. The great power of Earth swept this now-filthy land clean. Under Earth’s law of survival of the fittest, humani
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Tracking the Unsolved Case 迷案追踪
Twenty years ago, a brutal murder took place in Jiangcheng. Song Xiaotian, captain of the city’s criminal investigation squad, was murdered at home. His pregnant wife, Yao Yao, was not only brutally killed but also had her abdomen cut open to take the baby. Their eldest son, Song Yunran, was five years old at the time. Traumatized by the ordeal, he lost his memory and could recall nothing about what had happened that night. Fearing the killer would come after him, Yao Yun, Song Yunran’s aunt, se
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- 128 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 1Reads—Score—Shelves
- 129 Mystery: The Fallen God 悬疑：堕落之神 People who were once kind and honest suddenly turn vicious, yet they have no connection to one another. What could be behind it all? Two detectives start paying attention after the first case. The cases seem unrelated, but they appear to share something in common. Why are all these bizarre crimes taking place in this one city... The main plot unfolds through several stories, each told from the perspective of the protagonist in a different case. 94Reads—Score—Shelves
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Tomb-Raiding Chronicles: I Fended Off Evil with Fake Artifacts 盗墓实录：我靠假货撞邪了
[No Female Lead] [The Three Musketeers] I’m an antiques peddler in Panjiayuan, and all I want is to make a little money in peace. That was until I took in a blood-red Warring States jade with a bizarre history. From then on, everything spiraled out of control. Nightmares haunted me every night. A dark figure always stood in the bronze mirror. Business kept going downhill, and bad luck followed me everywhere. I thought I’d merely crossed paths with a wandering spirit. Who knew the strange happeni
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The Sealed Coffin Opens, and I Stitch the Vengeful Dead Back to Life 绝户棺开，我缝万鬼来复仇
On my twentieth birthday, my fiancée Bai Chuchu smiled like a flower as she personally gouged out my innate spirit eyes, all to steal my fortune and help her family reach the pinnacle of power. She nailed me inside a coffin sealed to leave no descendants, then buried me alive in a cavern of ten thousand ghosts, where I suffered as they devoured me. She mocked my lowly yin fate, saying I was fit only to be a stepping stone on her path to immortality. But she didn't know that my bloodline is a for
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Hey, Your Existence Is an Anomaly! 喂，你的存在是异常！
Why is there a Chinese-style ruin buried beneath London? During construction in a park near Elephant and Castle, the eaves of a building pointing underground came to light. Chinese student Li Chengzhen initially thought that joining Professor Jack Cleve on an archaeological dig would mean little more than sorting through records, identifying Chinese characters, and reminding his overexcited mentor to eat on time. Until the explanations identifying the site as a modern garden were overturned one
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The Scalding Gold Bracelet 烫手的金镯
Five boys set out to rob a tomb, but their greed awakened something even more terrifying beneath it. Could the ancestral gold bracelet actually be the lock on a seal? Forced to become a “living target,” Wang Erwa must uncover the truth behind a silversmith’s violent death and the sins of an old debt before the evil spirit fully awakens.
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I Cultivate the Ghost Path in the City 我在都市修鬼道
When Shi Yaoyang opened the secret door in his ancestral home, the bronze demon mask swallowed the last ray of sunlight. The boy whom the girls jokingly called a “bad-boy heartthrob” was now pressing a bloodstained peachwood sword to his own throat. A fierce ghost leered from the mirror, his childhood sweetheart Teng Shiyun lay unconscious in the middle of a blood-red talisman array, and the faint sobs of twin sisters drifted from the shadows. The neon lights of the modern city collided with a t
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Eerie Descent: I Am Immortal 诡异降临：我不死不灭
Evil spirits descend, and the supernatural runs rampant. From the start, a female ghost is chasing you down. What do you do? The answer: Find her in the wilderness and passionately bite each other! As long as you eat the ghost first, it can’t eat you! Ye Yan, blessed with an immortal body and the ability to devour evil spirits, searches for his own path in a world overrun by the supernatural. Then one day, the formation shatters, and evil spirits invade in force. At last, humanity remembers the
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Playing the Horror Lady in the Dungeon 在副本里当恐怖小姐
[Mutual Salvation] [1v1] [Both Pure] [Asexual Egg-Bearing] [Daddy-Type Crybaby] [Infinite Flow] [Adventure] [Daddy Rivalry] [Ensemble Cast] [Dark Humor] The young Ye Jiu enters an “escape instance” but doesn't run. Instead, she goes straight after Si Ye, the top-ranked terrifying boss… and dates him, marries him, and has a child with him. Two worlds, the System ascends to godhood, and the instances merge with reality. The macro world is the real world, while the micro worlds are the instance wor
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The White Jade Prison 白玉牢
Xu Congcong’s best friend from the barbecue restaurant has gone missing. In her search for the truth, she gets caught up in a shocking conspiracy: the Bliss Group has developed a “human-transformation agent” that turns living women into rubber dolls, gives them to high-ranking officials, and sells the antidote to control people’s minds. There has always been a pair of eyes watching her. Zhang Hansheng, founder of the Hansheng Group, was already tracking the same target under the pretext of inve
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The Serial Killer Turned Out to Have a Split Personality 连环杀手竟是双重人格
While sorting through my father's belongings, I found an old camera from twenty years ago. When I turned it on, the screen lit up with photos of strangers being beaten. In the last photo, my father held up a piece of paper that said “Save me,” his eyes filled with despair. An anonymous message suddenly appeared: “Your father sent me three photos before he died.” “This is the first. The second is in your attic.” Trembling, I climbed up to the attic and found the second photo at the bottom of an o
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Master DS 大师DS
I, Li Hai, encountered supernatural events while at university. With the help of Shen Muzhi, whom many people call Master Shen, I managed to rid myself of those “filthy things.” Later, when my childhood friend was plagued by supernatural happenings, I took him to seek Master Shen’s help again. These two incidents filled me with curiosity about Master Shen and his work, and somehow I ended up becoming his assistant. From then on, I investigated all kinds of supernatural events alongside Master Sh
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Hidden Haunted Paths: Yunnan's Forbidden Land 幽藏诡径之云南禁地
A thousand-year-old mystery lies buried in the wilderness, hidden along ancient roads. Those who venture in never return. Hou Zirui was an expert in the antique trade around Panjiayuan. Though raised in an archaeological family, he had always kept his distance from the secrets buried beneath the dust. But a sudden incident dragged him into a mystery stranger than any legend. An ancient tomb forgotten by time, a black mark he could not escape, and a dynasty whose dead still lingered... The las
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Haunted House Mysteries 鬼宅诡事
Haunted House Mysteries
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The Spirit Medium's Strange Cases 通灵诡事
Parental love? I have none. From the moment I was born, they wanted to strangle me. Sibling affection? I have none. My own brother calls me a country bumpkin. Friendship with my peers? I have none. Everyone in the village says I'm a demon in human form who eats children. Love? What even is that? The first time I saw Qi Yue, I just thought he looked clean-cut and handsome. The next time I saw him, I found out his mother was the woman who had gone looking for Fourth Auntie years ago. Only now, she
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Yellow Springs General Store 黄泉杂货铺
At the end of a street on a quiet, late-night evening stands a grocery shop with old-fashioned decor. Getting something for nothing is simple: just agree to do a ghost a favor, and it'll make it happen.
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Strange Clouds over Beijing and Hong Kong: Special Case Squad 京港奇云：特殊专案组
Beneath the sunlit skyscrapers of Jingang City, the prosperous yet dazzlingly chaotic capital of Yangguo, lurk currents of evil unknown to the public. When the bizarre case of Luo Ke, a top-tier star who falls to his death, comes to light, the scene is riddled with clues that go far beyond an ordinary suicide: a deadly new drug is found in his body, yet the scene bears signs of an impossible suicide. The baffling case is swiftly handed over to a mysterious, elite department: the Special Cases Ta
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I Opened a Pawnshop at 33, and the Midnight Visitors Aren't Human 33岁开寄卖行，半夜来的不是人
Dongji Pawnshop has three rules: First, after midnight, we accept anything, no matter who knocks. Second, we don't give change in spirit money. Third, never ask customers where they came from. Han Haodong had survived for three years on this old street by following these three rules. Until he found a fourth rule among his grandfather's belongings: “Never let the scales tip out of balance.” He didn't know what it meant. But he would soon find out.
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The Biggest Scoundrel in Bureau 749 749局第一流氓
Liu Mang, a street punk, unexpectedly awakens ghost eyes and gets dragged into the 749 Paranormal Investigation Bureau. There, he discovers that he carries the bloodline of an ancient shamanic clan and is a key target of the Chrysanthemum School of Japan’s “Human Pillar Project.” From a corpse-reanimation case at a funeral home to an international conspiracy involving corpse-refining, he uses the Taixu Spirit-Taming Art to refine evil spirits and break through sinister schemes involving ghost so
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My Emotions Can Confer Godhood 我的情绪能封神
[Strong female lead + growth-focused + Cthulhu horror + ship any couple you like] I’m Xu Quan, the only BUG left after reality’s folds invaded. My System sounds the alarm every day, either because an S-rank obsession has formed or because the real world is collapsing. I’m so sick of it. All I want is to quietly collect my obsession encyclopedia. The head of the Stability Bureau can’t stand me? [Ding! Their permissions have been changed to “backyard husky.”] A green-tea rival shows up to stir up
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Records of Supernatural Investigations 诡事调查录
A world full of familiar events: the No. 375 bus, the haunted cha chaan teng... Caught off guard by these supernatural incidents, how will the protagonist handle them? How will he solve them? Magic, vampires, werewolves, Taoist priests, supernatural abilities, the uncanny, monsters and demons... What would happen if all of these existed in one world? In this world full of familiar things, what will Su You encounter?
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The Daoist's Notebook 道门笔记
On a rainy night in Suzhou, a night watchman comes across a barefoot, waterlogged corpse. Its face is blue, its fangs bared, and beneath the black chrysanthemum mark between its brows, something writhes under the flesh, making the skin bulge in terrifying waves. The Thunder Talisman from Longhu Mountain has barely warmed in his hands when the corpse vanishes, leaving only a sickly-sweet black mist curling around an old Daoist at the street corner. Hong Ying, a Miao woman, watches her golden sil
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Lan the Demon Hunter 捉妖人蓝
This world is home to demons, ghosts, and true cultivators. A top cultivator died at the hands of a tree demon that should never have been able to kill him. The bodies of seven drowned students all pointed with their right hands toward the same spot beneath the water. In a desolate mountain, the powers of the Earth God, Mountain God, River Goddess, and City God all answered to the same woman. Lan Yifang had seen plenty of things like these. Before dealing with anything strange, he always made
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