Please Recommend Cthulhu-Themed Novels Where the Protagonist Is Already an Old One from the Start 求克苏鲁题材，并且开局主角即是旧日跪求
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Supernatural Affairs Bureau 超凡监管局
(Don't worry about the rating. It only diminishes the author's hard work.) [Urban high martial arts + Chinese fantasy power system + mysterious vibes + Cthulhu Mythos + SCP + one heroine + no characters acting stupidly + no clichés] The war between human civilization and Them has never ended. Peace is merely a fleeting, illusory dream. Only a handful of people know that the ultimate secrets of the world lie hidden behind the dynastic changes and natural and man-made disasters recorded in history
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Kill That Immortal 杀死那个神仙
Warning: The male lead kills the female lead from the start! If that bothers you, turn left! [This really is a very fun novel] [It’s really not that scary] [Trust me] The world says that immortals are noble, compassionate, and kind, that they stand above all things. So kill that immortal!!!
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The Evil God and I Are Heart to Heart, So I Match Wits with Him 邪神和我心连心，我跟邪神玩脑筋
Li Fangzhi, a senior in high school, has had the same nightmare of being slit-throated for fifteen years. Then one day, he erupts in his dream and chokes the murderous shadow to death with his bare hands. The authority of rage surges awake. He should have become a mindless living sacrifice for the indescribable monarch Hegri to descend upon the world, but a mysterious gift he encountered in his dream preserves his sanity. He even turns the tables and receives a special divine ascension permit di
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- 54 What Do You Mean I Became a World-Ending Urban Legend? 什么叫我成了灭世级怪谈？ [No Female Lead] [Mild Horror] [Turns Into a False Person in One Chapter] [The Protagonist Is a Pure Monster] Su Yuan transmigrated to a bizarre world rife with danger. Here, everything from horror legends had become real: false people, vengeful spirits, old gods hidden beneath the ocean... And an official organization lurking in everyday life: the Cleanup Bureau. This was an age of despair. With urban legends becoming reality, ordinary people could hardly fight back, and even the authorities we 270.7kReads8.3Score45.9kShelves
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Above the Gray Fog 灰雾之上
[Lord of the Mysteries]+ [Potions]+ [Races]+ [Civilization] A hundred years from now, I am a hero. My deeds become stories, praised by all. A thousand years from now, I am a legend. Stories become epics, passed down through generations. Ten thousand years from now, I am a faith. Epics become myths, and the incense offered to me never ceases. P.S. This book is also known as Above the Gray Mist. P.S. The development of the human race provides the backdrop. The focus is on an individual's epic, no
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- 56 That Day, the Moon Swallowed the Entire City 那一天，月亮吞下整座城 Illustrations throughout! Illustrations throughout! Illustrations throughout! (An important point, repeated three times: every chapter has gorgeous illustrations.) From the start, I awakened the [Hellwalker] talent and devoured the uncanny across the heavens. Every powerful uncanny becomes one of my organs, transforming me into a monster. My stomach devours heaven and earth: [Black Devour] My brain, a sea of blood and divine consciousness: [Void Sea] My heart, deathless and indestructible: [Lotu 158.8kReads8.2Score21.2kShelves
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Creating the Uncanny: My Creations Throw the World into Chaos 诡异创造，我的造物们霍乱世界
[Superpowers + Supernatural Horror + Lovecraftian + Contamination + No Female Lead + Behind the Scenes + Natural Disasters] Mysterious myths awaken amid natural disasters, while an unknown corruption quietly takes over the world. Abominable creations howl, and contamination continues to spread. Distortion returns alongside the supernatural: eyes that target human nature, domains that twist it, and strange shackles that cannot be broken. Destruction and rebirth intertwine to create a new mytholog
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To Hell with Cthulhu, Give Me Back My Wise Emperor Gaozong of Tang 去你的克苏鲁，还我英明唐高宗
[Plot-driven + character growth + no female lead + light historical flavor + dual transmigration + eerie elements + satisfying action] Evil Outer Gods invade, and the ancient gods of Huaxia fall. Traveling between past and present, a battle over authority and divinity begins. Who will raise the curtain, and who will write the final chapter? I, Chen Zhen, the only history major to graduate with a perfect record, have nothing but a pair of wrecked legs from working overtime. How can I beat up Uncl
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Strange Tales from the World’s Great Classics 世界名著异闻录
[Infinite Flow] + [Occasional Lovecraftian Horror] + [Light Horror] + [World Classics] + [Wild Imagination] Words sprout fangs, and stories become prisons. They hold fast to their pens as fantasy turns against them, writing of the faint glimmers of humanity amid the absurd. A literary fantasy feast spanning time and space, and a radical reappraisal of great writers and their works. Lovecraftian horror in Republican-era China? Sherlock Holmes versus the Great Old Ones? A Taiping Rebellion where s
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Sacrificed to an Unnameable Being? I’ll Take Its Place 被献给不可名状之物？我要取代祂
[Female protagonist, no romance + Chinese-style Lovecraftian horror + Classic of Mountains and Seas mythology + growing heroine] She was offered to the gods as one of a pair of twin sacrifices. She should have died, but the god who toys with mortals dragged her back into the human world. From its lofty perch, the god called her “bride,” “toy,” and “little moth.” Its treatment of her like an insect made her sick. She knew this was nothing but the condescending mockery of those who already held po
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- 61 EN Sequence: God Eater 序列：吃神者 [Tomato 2026 Male-Focused Fiction Most Popular Author, Ranked Number One] Published in print, quality guaranteed. An alternate high-martial world, ensemble cast and political intrigue, no nested plot twists, a slow-paced story with a grand setting. Readers all say it gets better the further you read. Giant birds swallow the sun, and all things undergo dramatic change. Strange, immortal gods, and humanity's superpowered sequences. Everyone wants to become a god in this world, but they have no ide 1MReads9.3Score123.9kShelves
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After Transmigrating, I Paid Protection Money in Another World 穿越后我在异世界交保护费
My new work is here! Welcome to Tomato Novel to read my story. I hope you'll enjoy it. Your support gives me the motivation to write, and I'll do my best to tell every story well!
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The Strange Immortal Judge’s Record 诡仙判官录
[Dark + Unhinged + Lovecraftian Cultivation + Judge of the Underworld] The Heavenly Dao has come alive. The gods feast on incense offerings, while the court runs the human world like a pasture. And I, keeper of the Book of Life and Death, was torn apart, soul and all, and sent back to the Three Realms for declaring the Heavenly Dao unjust a thousand years ago. I have seen: The souls of loyal subjects nailed into ancestral shrines to serve as lamp oil, chaste women turned into frost on the tiles
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The Grand Magician 大奇术师
Rock and roll, Broadway, the city lights coming alive: an age known as golden. Prisoners, con artists, madmen: a bunch of hopeless cases. Reason, madness, writhing shadows: an ancient dream that has never awoken. Guns and cannons set the gears turning, while ancient mysteries stir back to life in blood. In this age on the verge of its end, our very existence is a miracle.
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Demigod 1: Tales of New Shanghai 次神1：新沪怪谈
Praise the Fool, Azathoth | The author promises original ideas and an innovative plot: What you owe isn't money, but “psychic loans” and “existence taxes.” Overdue and unpaid? You automatically become a sacrifice or have your “existence” erased. Debt collector → half-human, half-god “demigod candidate.” New Shanghai → a cyberpunk city infiltrated by the Old Ones.
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- 66 Lord of the Mysteries [Original]: The Crimson Fortress, Prisoner of the Fourth Pillar 诡秘「原创」：赤红要塞·第四支柱囚徒 Lord of the Mysteries: Original Story: Crimson Fortress · Prisoner of the Fourth Pillar 130Reads—Score—Shelves
- 67 Lord of the Mysteries [Original]: The Nine Primordial Essences, River of Eternal Darkness 诡秘「原创」：九大源质·永暗之河 Lord of the Mysteries: Original Story: The Nine Sefirot · River of Eternal Darkness 156Reads—Score—Shelves
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Mysterious: The Door Pathway, A Transcendent Finale 诡秘「原创」：门之途径·非凡终局
Mystery «Original»: The Door Pathway · Extraordinary Finale
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- 69 Lord of the Mysteries [Original]: The Authority of Fate, Sequence 0 诡秘「原创」·序列0的命运权柄 Lord of the Mysteries: Original Story · The Fate Authority of Sequence 0 136Reads—Score—Shelves
- 70 Lord of the Mysteries: Sequence 0, Awakening of the Cocoon, the Fool's First Cry 诡秘：序列0--蚕茧觉醒·愚者初鸣 Lord of the Mysteries: Sequence 0: Awakening from the Cocoon · The Fool’s First Cry 534Reads—Score—Shelves
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There’s Something Strange About the Books He Sells 他卖的书不对劲
"The old bookstore owner doesn't know that the stone slabs in his back courtyard conceal his past, that his former subordinates live in his shadow, and that he himself is becoming the oldest god in the world." "You push open the door and enter the bookstore on Mill Street. You might buy an old book, or you might step into a story and never find your way out." "He only wants to sell books. But the books keep reminding him: who are you?" "Every book is a world. Everyone who enters the bookstore is
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The Banquet: From That Day On, We Became Subjects of Observation 晚宴：自此，我们沦为观测对象
The Banquet: From This Day On, We Became Subjects of Observation
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- 73 The Garden of Sinners: Beyond the Root, Breathing Comes First 空之境界：根源之外，呼吸先行 Beyond the Origin of the Boundary of Emptiness: Breathe First 25Reads—Score—Shelves
- 74 Dragon Raja: Snowbreak Iris, Eternal Prisoner 龙族：断雪鸢尾·永生囚徒 Dragon Raja: Broken Snow Iris · Prisoner of Eternity 13Reads—Score—Shelves
- 75 The Garden of Sinners: The Magician, Have You Ever Seen Nothingness? 空之境界：魔术师·你见过‘无’吗？ The Garden of Sinners: Magician · Have you ever seen “nothingness”? 47Reads—Score—Shelves
- 76 Workplace Release: I Became a KPI Survival Expert 职场放生：我成了KPI生存大师 Workplace Release: I Became a KPI Survival Expert 4Reads—Score—Shelves
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The Evil God Taught Me Math and Science: Bad Grades Make You Mutate 邪神教我数理化，成绩不好就异化
[Knowledge Ascension + Lovecraftian + Mist + Soul Transmigration] Xue Ba, a civil engineer, unexpectedly transmigrates to the Misty Continent and becomes a refugee, scraping by by serving time in prison on someone else's behalf. Then one day, after being framed as a serious criminal, he glimpses a god during an evil ritual. They say that anyone who understands a god's whispers can gain the power it bestows. As it happens, Xue Ba understands the god's cryptic babbling: language, math, physics, ch
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Whisper Code 低语代码
[Infinite Flow | Rule-Based Horror | Heavy Lovecraftian Horror] Strange whispers and a string of garbled characters swirled in the depths of her mind as Ji Cheng awoke in an octagonal death chamber. Eight unlocked doors. Eight trapped people. The red light flashed six times, and a sixty-second countdown began. They had to find the one and only safe exit. Nameless, twisted monsters lurked behind the doors. Flesh-eating worms and warped apparitions were everywhere, and looking directly at them was
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Something’s Not Quite Right in This Cultivation World 这修仙界有点不太对劲
([Chinese-style horror · eerie cultivation · not for the faint of heart] The immortal world is a lie. Beneath it lies a man-eating hell. If you like stories like Dao of the Bizarre Immortal, come on in. If you're looking for a power-fantasy progression story, this isn't for you.) Li Changsheng has a Heavenly Spiritual Root. He is the personal disciple of the Qingyun Sect's leader, the foremost talent of the younger generation, and everyone's envy: the future Daoist heir. His only flaw is that hi
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The Mask Burns at Daybreak 假面燃昼
The entire city has become a blood-red theater for the gods, and everyone is drawing lots to determine their fate. Jiang Zhao draws only a marginal role: a temporary actor. With no protagonist’s aura to protect him, he can only spend the three minutes after someone else exits the stage playing the dead, a hero, or even a god. Through countless acts of throwing himself into a role, he carves a path to survival for humanity, but with every victory, he forgets a little more of himself. “When I’ve b
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- 81 Is My Dead Yandere Childhood Friend the Source of a Meme? 死去的病娇青梅是模因母体？ Red mist spread, and a surreal realm took shape as an invisible prison. A cold case sealed away for ten years remained unresolved, while a hidden phantom quietly emerged, following the trail. A devoted childhood friend who came back from the dead, and a gentle young man on the verge of falling apart. “I love you.” “I love you?” “I love you!” An obsession that transcended life and death brought to light a truth bordering on madness. “Xiaoxi, in the world that belongs only to us, may you find et 78Reads—Score121Shelves
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Horror on the High Seas: I’m Trying Every Way to Get Myself Killed 恐怖大航海：我疯狂作死
[Seafaring] [Survival] [Talents] [Cthulhu] [Decisive Killing] [Shipbuilding] [One Heroine] Two hundred million people around the globe are forcibly dragged into a Cthulhu-themed Age of Sail game. Black fog devours everything, and monsters infest the seas. Lu Yuan, a brain cancer patient, awakens the one and only talent from the start: [Cognitive Anchor]. His sanity floor is locked at 30 points, and the crazier he gets, the stronger he becomes! While other players are lured to their deaths by the
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The Uncanny Returns, So Why Has Cthulhu Returned Too? 诡异复苏，怎么克苏鲁也复苏了？
[Cthulhu Mythos] + [Eldritch Creatures] + [Eerie Revival] + [Eastern and Western Mythologies] + [Semi-Infinite Flow] Eerie phenomena have returned worldwide, and their deadly rules are sweeping across the globe. Either drive the ghosts back to the underworld, or seal them inside your own body. Ghost hunters around the world join forces. B-Rank Phenomenon: Vengeful Ghost A bodiless, invisible ghost that devours people. A-Rank Phenomenon: Ghost Wedding Make your skin the groom and your bones the b
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Deep Blue Corrosion 深蓝锈蚀
[Ensemble cast] [Foreshadowing] [Mind-bending] [Light Lovecraftian elements] Forty years after humanity won the war against intelligent machines, the world has become a fusion of near-future cyberpunk and fantasy. Technology is highly advanced, but society is deeply divided. Magic, arcane arts, holographic technology, and genetic modification all lurk beneath the surface. Hai Feng, a wandering, retired vigilante, stumbles upon a mysterious, strange phenomenon in a neon city and is drawn into a s
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The Phoenix of Qishan 岐山凤
[Mystery × Lovecraftian Horror × The Uncanny] When an archaeologist’s trowel uncovers more than yellow earth, it awakens the primordial whispers sealed away by blood sacrifice Zhang Ji, an archaeology student at Huanbei University, encounters a bizarre sacrificial pit during his graduation fieldwork in Mop an Village. Pottery basins, ox bones, red earth, stone slabs, and shells are buried according to a pattern no one can understand. Disturb them, and they awaken an indescribable “presence” dee
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The Annihilation Record Keeper 湮灭记录人
Everyone forgot him. I was the only one who remembered. Liu Yang was an intern I supervised. One day, he disappeared. His coworkers, friends, and family, no one remembered him. It was as if Liu Yang had never existed in this world. I clearly remembered that he brought me an iced Americano every day. Even his application for a permanent position was still sitting quietly on my desk. Later, I discovered that this world devours people every day. Those who are devoured are completely forgotten by ev
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A Faded World 褪色世界
[Urban Fantasy / Light Sci-Fi / Cthulhu Mythos / Mystery and Growth / Ensemble Cast / Pure Romance] Synopsis: A poker-faced genius high school student with a self-healing cheat ability is swept into the undercurrents of a bloodborne curse, a mysterious record company, and an ancient catastrophe. As he gets beaten down and grows stronger, he is forced to accept that he himself is the one who, in the future, will become the Witch of the Original Land's former... For readers who: Enjoy the vibe o
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Cthulhu, Now a God, and Feeling Great 克苏鲁，已成神，感觉良好
[Cthulhu] [Legendary Investigator] [Bestiary Collection] What? You want to know how a detective can become a legendary investigator? If the cases you investigate bear the hand of Nyarlathotep, your golden key is a Classic of Mountains and Seas capable of collecting every Old One, and you know just how to win their “favor”... Then when the stars come right, your own throne will await you. This is the arduous journey of a returnee, and a story interesting enough to be worth telling.
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A Sixth Deity? No, I'm the Sixth Old One 第六神祇？不，我是第六旧日
I used to think madness existed only in the ravings of the mentally ill. That was until I joined the Mysterious Affairs Bureau, and the sealed truths began to reveal themselves, one corner at a time. The truths deliberately buried in the depths of the universe lie beyond the limits of human understanding. The Old Ones slumbering in the chaos breathe, formless, nameless, indescribable, yet their twisted power seeps into every forgotten corner. The strange legends passed down for thousands of year
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Exploring the Unknown Entity 探明未知体
Modern urban setting + unsolved mysteries + specialized career system + unknown beings and objects (Cthulhu, SCP Foundation) + collection of grim fairy tales + ensemble cast This is an era in which humans and unknown beings coexist peacefully! Tan Zhen sets out with his childhood friend Wan Kun to investigate the disappearance of their loved ones. After passing the warrior assessment, they are assigned to the Third District Containment Center. Along the way, they search for his older brother,
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Eat a Person Raw, and Thank Me for It!!! 生吃个人，请感谢我！！！
[Invincible + Seafaring + From the Perspective of an Indescribable Monster] Aboard Captain Victor’s ship, there are three ironclad rules: First: You must obey Captain Victor’s orders without question. Second: Everything Captain Victor says is absolute truth. Third: You are Captain Victor. When you wake up from your job in the steel jungle, you discover that you have become the new “captain” of this eerie ship. There isn’t a single crew member beside you, and unknown shadows watch from beneath th
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Apocalyptic Sacrifice: The System Wants Me as Its Offering? 末世献祭：系统让我当祭品？
Reborn one hour before the blood sacrifice ritual, Jiang Chen bound himself to the Sacrifice System, only to discover that he was the sacrifice. System rules: Sacrifice your closest kin for power. Sacrifice your soul for eternal life. When his family is infested by an alien race, his parents turn into monsters, and his younger sister is used as a ritual vessel, Jiang Chen discovers a loophole in the System He sacrifices the System itself in reverse, steals authority over its rules, purifies the
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Don't Look Back. She's Eating the Gods 别回头，她在吃神
[No male lead | unhinged heroine | new mythology | dark suspense | Lovecraftian + Classic of Mountains and Seas | everyone is nonhuman | ensemble cast | locals | lots of original worldbuilding] Before she swallowed her first god, Sui Hui always thought she was just an ordinary god who liked to eat. After getting lost once, she wandered into a strange place that devoured hope. There, she learned for the first time that she was special. So she donned the secret identity of the 'God of the Defiled
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- 94 Everyone Invades the Apocalypse, and They Scramble for Gold with Unlimited Carrying Capacity 全民入侵末世，无限负重疯抢黄金 [Cthulhu, plot-driven, not a lone wolf, dystopian] An apocalyptic game descends upon the entire world. Anyone who successfully evacuates can bring out all the gold, luxury cars, and designer watches they find inside! After years of bad luck, wage slave Yang Xun unexpectedly gains a Prism-grade talent: a portable space! It can hold as much as ten Dongfeng heavy trucks, and he can upgrade it to expand the space! He thought it would be a thrilling journey to get rich, but then he discovered that th 2Reads—Score—Shelves
- 95 Divine Vessel: A God Lives Inside Me 神性容器：我体内住着一尊神 “A god lives inside me, but they all want to cut me open and take it.” Chen Mosheng was born a vessel for two divine essences and imprisoned in the God Hunt Society’s laboratory. His mother lies near death, the god within him whispers, and the world sees him as a “resource” to be harvested. Until he tore open his chest, unleashed chaos, and opened the Eye of Life. From that moment on, the laboratory became a tomb, Kunlun became a battlefield, and behind the bronze gates, the Return to Ruins r —Reads—Score—Shelves
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