Looking for High-Quality Horror and Thriller Novels 求高质量恐怖惊悚小说
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Ghostly Whispers at Midnight 夜半鬼语
[Rural + Supernatural + Ghost Stories] Back when my grandfather was young, he learned carpentry. As Old Zhao put it, a sixth-grade carpenter these days was worth half a scholar. But things were different back then. Carpenters belonged to one of the lowest trades. They had to carry their tools around every day, get up before dawn and stay out until the middle of the night, traveling from village to village to find work. And because they went so many places, and made coffins and dealt with the dea
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Horror's Edge: 100 Absolutely Terrifying Ghost Stories 恐怖边界：100个绝对惊悚的鬼谈
[Standalone Stories + Supernatural Horror + Folk Customs + Feng Shui and Mysticism + Mild Frights + Shocking Twists] Horror tales beyond anything you could imagine. Each story is like a dark door swinging open, drawing you into moments that will make your skin crawl. Listen. A faint whisper, an indescribable shadow creeping closer. Danger by the river, terror in the cemetery, ghost babies in the maternity ward, evil headhunting magic, apparitions at the hot springs, a bloodstained umbrella... On
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The Sound of Nightmares: 60 Horror Stories That Wake You from Your Dreams 噩梦之声：60个做梦吓醒的恐怖故事
[Standalone Ghost Stories + Supernatural Horror + Not for the Faint of Heart + Rural Tales] When night falls, terrifying ghostly figures emerge. Step into all kinds of bizarre and unbelievable tales, and spend your nights screaming! Haunted houses, ghostly shadows outside the window, a deadly lipstick, someone beneath the mattress, an umbrella that hunts people... Every corner conceals inexplicable phenomena and secrets that will fill you with dread! Every page will make your hair stand on end,
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Northeastern China's Forbidden Secrets 东北禁忌手札
[Extreme horror + a folk-horror story set in the countryside] In a remote mountain village, deep within the forest, countless taboos remain unknown to outsiders. The people here follow ancient rules of life and death: pregnant women must never encounter a coffin, and anyone who dies of old age at a hundred years old is destined to become an evil spirit. But in a single day, the old Yu family breaks both taboos, drawing every kind of demon and ghost to their door! At midnight, someone hears the s
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The Midnight Ghost Market: Living People Keep Out 午夜鬼市，活人回避
[Mystery + supernatural + ghost market + narrow escape from death] My name is Tang Chao. I’m a broke young man scraping by in the antiques business, with hundreds of thousands in debt hanging over me. An ordinary porcelain-buying deal led me to pick up a strange Jun ware bowl at an unexpectedly low price. I thought I’d found a bargain. Little did I know, it was the beginning of my nightmare... On a bus, I met a burly man calling himself Jue Mingzi, who warned me that “a calamity is sure to befal
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Terrifying Nightmare: Extreme Survival in a Bizarre World 恐怖噩梦：我在诡异世界极限逃生
[Infinite-flow, mildly scary, no romance] Wang Yan wearily opened his front door. Inside, he saw the woman next door holding and soothing a baby, staring at him in terror. “Sorry, I’ve got the wrong apartment.” He quickly apologized and backed out, then slammed the door shut. Standing in the pitch-black hallway, he found himself unable to decide what was more terrifying: seeing his female neighbor in his home, or seeing the baby who had died long ago…
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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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Tales of Strange Happenings in the Countryside 乡村诡事录
The strange happenings in a mountain village. I was born and raised in the countryside. Deep in the mountains, there are always ghosts and spirits, and my village was no exception. Heaven, earth, black, yellow, the cosmos vast: demons and ghosts send shivers down your spine. One year, the start of spring fell on the fifteenth day of the eighth month. That year, so many strange things happened. Just bringing them up is enough to scare people. Meeting the Black and White Impermanence on a night wa
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Folk Horror [The Fake Master Who Shocks a Hundred Demons] 恐怖民俗【冒牌大师震百妖】
The thing Liu Buyi, a fake master, regrets most in his life is learning how to “draw talismans with soy sauce” from a short video. Because the corpse that should be lying quietly in front of him is now using a soy-sauce-dipped finger to write his name on the coffin lid. Meanwhile, his half-baked beauty of a partner, An Xun, is munching on sunflower seeds and enjoying the show. “Didn't you say you had Yin-Yang Eyes?!” Liu Buyi's voice trembles. Seeing how unconcerned she looks, he almost passes o
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Horror! Terror! Zombies! Monsters and Maniacs! 恐怖！惊悚！丧尸！怪物和变态！
You think ghosts are frightening, but what you picture is a person turning into a ghost! What about animals? You think biochemistry is just something you think about! But what if it happened by accident? What do you think is the strangest thing of all? Seeing a ghost? No, seeing someone exactly like yourself! Is forbidden love something to pity? Same-sex forbidden love can make you cry just the same!
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My Neighbor Knocks on the Wall at 3 A.M. Every Day 我的邻居每天准时在凌晨3点敲墙
My neighbor knocks on the wall at exactly 3 a.m. every day
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Rules of the Rest Stop on a Stormy Night 暴雨夜服务区规则怪谈
Rules of the Rest Stop on a Stormy Night
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Don't Look Back During Evening Study at School 学校晚自习别回头
Don’t Look Back During Evening Study at School
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The Peace Banquet 平安宴
The Peace Banquet
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On the Seventh Day After My Death, My Whole Family Received an Invitation from Me 我死后第7天，全家都收到我发来的请柬
On the Seventh Day After My Death, My Whole Family Received an Invitation from Me
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The Students of the Literature Department at Dingxiang University 丁香大学文学院的学生们
This novel tells of the terrifying events experienced by students at Dingxiang University’s School of Literature in different places, as well as the past experiences and memories that set each protagonist on the path to tragedy. I hope you’ll give it a read. Thank you so much.
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12:17 A.M., Please Confirm Your Name 零点十七分，请确认你的姓名
In Qiheng City, people don’t simply disappear. First, the city erases their names, then convinces everyone they never existed. At 12:17 a.m., a fire alarm suddenly went off in a residential building in Qiheng City that had only sixteen floors: “Someone is trapped on the seventeenth floor.” Zhou Jiming, an engineer who inspected fire safety systems, checked the building plans, stairwell height, elevator programming, and exterior facade. Every piece of evidence proved that the seventeenth floor di
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Time Stop from the Start, Even Evil Gods Have to Kneel Before Me! 时停起手，邪神也得给我跪下！
[Time Stop + Apocalypse + Superpowers + Arrogance + Forgetting Your Roots + Rejecting Inner Turmoil] Bai Ye transmigrated to the age of the Great Cataclysm, two hundred years in the future. This world was full of danger, its people were honest and simple, and mutated beasts ran rampant. But he wasn't worried. Because he could stop time for one minute every day. If he didn't use it today, he could save it up for tomorrow. When time across the world hit zero, he would be the only one who could mov
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Folk Longevity Rituals: The Art of Extending Life 民间搭寿：续命之法。
Folk Longevity Rituals: A method for extending one's life.
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Grandpa's Dream: An Exact Prediction of My Death Date 爷爷托梦：精准预计我的死期。
Grandpa Visited Me in a Dream: He Predicted Exactly When I’d Die.
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I Was Surgically Transformed into a Pig 我被整容成了一头猪
I Was Made to Look Like a Pig Through Plastic Surgery
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Terror: I Only Sell Haunted Houses 惊悚：我只卖凶宅
Rooms where unnatural deaths have occurred are collectively known as haunted houses. There are two kinds: “blue houses” and “red houses.” Living people can stay in blue houses without harm, but anyone who lives in a red house is doomed to die. I work as a real estate agent. One day, I accidentally sold a red house, and afterward, I began encountering terrifying things…
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Tianxuan Paranormal Affairs Office 天玄灵异事务所
- [Infinite Flow + Urban Supernatural + Chinese-Style Horror + Folk Legends and Hauntings + Celestial Master Exorcists + Heirs to the Daoist Tradition + Heterochromatic-Eyed Heroine + Haunted House Tales + Episodic Stories + Folk Taboos] - Hidden deep in the bustling streets is an inconspicuous supernatural affairs office called Tianxuan. - No one dares touch the folk taboos of this world. Haunted houses are plagued by unsolved horrors, abandoned villages and ancient mansions seethe with resentm
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Short Stories of Strange and Curious Events 短篇小说之怪事奇闻
My new novel is here! You're welcome to read it on Tomato Novel. I hope you'll enjoy it. Your support motivates me to write, and I'll do my best to tell every story well!
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On the Day Grandpa Was Buried, a Woman Lay in His Coffin 爷爷下葬那天，棺材里躺了个女人
The day my grandfather was buried, the person lying in the coffin wasn't him. It was a woman wearing his burial clothes. She held a copper coin in her mouth, engraved with the character "Chen," my family's surname. My grandfather left me a handwritten copy of The Nightmare Woman's Ledger. It records more than a hundred "unsettled wishes" from the past century in western Hunan. He said, "Keep writing them down, and keep repaying them. Only when they're all paid can I leave in peace." After that,
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A New Groom Every Night 夜夜当新郎
Cang Tian Jie Lan was twenty-eight, a hardcore shut-in whose proudest achievement in life was having a hundred thousand pictures of anime wives on his hard drive. But when he woke up, he found himself in a terrifying academy overrun by ghosts, on the verge of becoming a vengeful spirit’s appetizer. At the brink of despair, he pulled out his only “spiritual sustenance”: a battered laptop packed with pictures of his waifus. The moment it booted up, the images of a hundred thousand beauties fused i
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Sold to a Demon Foster Father Who Trades in Human Meat, a Choking Girl Fights Back 落到贩卖“菜人”的恶魔养父手上后，窒息女孩开始反杀
After falling into the hands of her adoptive father, a devil who sells people as "vegetables," the suffocated girl begins fighting back.
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No Day in Jiangcheng: The Guixu Pawnshop 江城无日：归墟典当行
On the third day after my father died, I inherited a pawnshop that opened at midnight. I thought it only took old things nobody dared to keep. That was until a man with no shadow stumbled through the door. He said he had traded his shadow for his life thirteen years ago. Now the thing that had come to collect had a face exactly like his. At dawn, the sun did not rise over Jiangcheng. Only after I opened the black ledger my father left behind did I learn that what this city owed was never money.
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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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Starting with a Street Stall Selling Super Strength Potions 开局地摊卖大力
[Qingfeng's new novel, This Player Has a Problem in the Head, is currently serializing and has plenty of chapters ready to binge] Earth enters an era of spiritual qi revival, and humanity begins awakening supernatural abilities! Jiang Nan awakens the strongest street-stall System from the start. Potions of Strength? Detoxifying Yellow Beans? Lucky Cherries? They're flying off the shelves! The world's top tycoons, richest man, popular streamers, and peak powerhouses all come to buy them. Jiang Na
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The Profound Heaven Cultivation Chronicle 玄天修仙录
Zhang Yuanjing, an early Foundation Establishment cultivator of the Xuantian Sect, only wants to keep his head down in the cultivation world and live a quiet, stable life. Even when people call him “Rat Daoist” and his peers mock him, he never goes to dangerous places or gets caught up in perilous situations. But without immortality, everything ultimately comes to nothing. With his lifespan nearly at its end and death close at hand, he has no choice but to take a gamble. By luck, he breaks throu
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The Apocalypse Is Coming? I’ll Arrive First! 末日降临？我先降临！
[The print edition of I'm a Supplier of Survival Plans for the End Times is now available on major platforms] [Character growth · Multi-theme stages · Ensemble cast · Occasional brutal takedowns · No cookie-cutter plot · No mindless wish fulfillment] After facing repeated layoffs and betrayals, Su Jin was at the lowest point of his life when he was accidentally hired by a mysterious company. Countless worlds are on the brink of destruction. Only by saving their clients can the sparks of civiliza
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I Really Run an Orphanage, Not an Assassin's Den 我开的真是孤儿院，不是杀手堂
[Physical book edition now available] [Short drama of the same name is now streaming! Watch it on Hongguo!] [The only martial arts ensemble novel on the entire site with such a wild premise!] [At its peak, 1.5 million readers were following it, ranking seventh across all of Tomato Novel. Readers, come on in and take a look!] [Ensemble cast + System + traits + martial arts] Chen Ye transmigrates to the Great Wu Dynasty and binds himself to an Orphan Training System. As long as he raises orphans,
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From the Start, Immortal for Eternity, Laying Low Until the End of Time 开局长生万古，苟到天荒地老
[Published in print] [Not a wish-fulfillment story + tranquil daily life + lighthearted humor + no female lead + no tragedy + survival expert] Enter with caution. A longevity story told from the perspective of an immortal, spanning several great eras of cultivation. It begins in an ordinary mountain village, moves into a small domain, and then enters the vast world of cultivation, passing through the eras of flourishing development, golden prosperity, the collapse of the rules, the great dark up
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The Biggest Playboy in the Starry Sky 星空第一纨绔
[Three-star mission issued: Go to Glimmer Star and mine ten thousand tons of starlight ore] Lu Xiaobai: “Dad, Mr. Councilor, give me some funding. I want to hire ten thousand professional miners for a project!” [Five-star mission issued: Capture the leader of the Bloodsky Star Pirates, who are operating throughout the Radiant Starfield. His crew is said to number over a hundred, so proceed with caution] Lu Xiaobai: “Dad, Mr. Councilor, lend me the hundred thousand soldiers of the Lu family army!
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Heaven Does Not Answer 天不应
Three myriad mounds of yellow earth and white bones, a sword's light like a shadow, the moon like wine. The spring breeze cuts through all the world's troubles. Tell me, peach blossoms, will you turn white-haired too? In the year 547 of the Yong'an era, a pitch-dark snowstorm fell over Kuhai County, a border county in southern Qi. In a dilapidated temple outside the county, Wen Chaoshen found a crippled woman, gravely injured and on the verge of death. He thought she was merely a refugee in dist
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Delusional Feast 臆宴
[Ensemble Cast] + [One Female Lead] + [Eerie] When the rules begin to crumble and the common sense you know is no longer the iron law of this world, everything that exists, and everything that shouldn't exist, will descend upon this world. And the disaster that terrifies the entire world is hidden inside Li Mu... Within the rules, she is the strongest. Beyond them, that is Li Mu's domain.
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Waiting for You Amid Wind, Flowers, Snow, and Moonlight 我在风花雪月里等你
The short drama of the same name, I Wait for You in Wind, Flowers, Snow, and Moon, is now available on Hongguo. We all pretend to be sad, comforting someone else who is sad. It isn't until one day, when we go to another city, that we finally understand: there's no such thing as pretend sadness. Shanghai or Dali, it doesn't matter. The cities shine with lights, but loneliness lives only in people's hearts! This is a story about a disillusioned man fleeing the city, only to find love in Dali.
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Ten Days to the End 十日终焉
2024 Tomato Novel Annual Peak Rankings TOP 1 | 2024 China Online Literature Influence List | 2024 China Good Novel Award | Over 2 million copies sold (No harem, no formulaic tropes, no invincibility, no System, no mindless antics, no wish fulfillment. Read with caution if these bother you.) Just when I thought it was an ordinary day, I discovered I had been captured and taken to the End. Just when I thought I could escape by continually taking part in death games, people began awakening supernat
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Learning to Slay Gods in the Psychiatric Hospital 我在精神病院学斩神
A must-read hit on Tomato Novel | Original novel of the hit anime Slay the Gods | IP influence on the China Online Literature Influence List | 2023 China Good Novel Have you ever wondered whether monsters from ancient myths lurk beneath the neon-lit city? Have you ever wondered whether gods stand watch over humanity atop the moon hanging high above us? Have you ever wondered whether extraordinary people walk among us in our bustling modern cities, acting in the gods’ stead? In the society ruled
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I'm Not a God of Theater 我不是戏神
The brand-new masterpiece by San Jiu Yin Yu, author of Slay the Gods | Winner of the Best Science-Fiction Web Novel Award at the Macau International Science Fiction Awards | A Chinese grotesque epic that turns the tide of an era After a scarlet meteor streaked across the sky, human civilization ground to a halt. From that day onward, humanity could no longer build a rocket, a nuclear bomb, an airplane, a car... The pyramid of civilization built upon modern science collapsed with a thunderous roa
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Don't Call Me a Demon 别叫我恶魔
[Qing Feng's new novel, This Player Has Something Wrong with His Head, is now serializing and has plenty of chapters ready to binge] The sacred heavenly gates stand across the sky, while the demonic abyss of time and space lays waste to the human world. When twelve spirit springs burst from the earth, when the moon no longer belongs to humanity... Where will we go from here? A world of gods? A world of demons? No. This is a world that belongs to humanity! I will take up the crown no one else wou
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Great Ming: The Imperial Grandson Slanders Me, So I, Zhu Quan, Am Rebelling! 大明：皇孙污蔑，那我朱权反了！
Zhu Quan transmigrates to the twenty-eighth year of Hongwu and becomes the Ning Prince Zhu Quan, a man with the same name as himself. Knowing how history will unfold, Zhu Quan hasn't even had time to build up his army and plot a rebellion before an imperial decree arrives from his good nephew, Zhu Yunwen. It orders him to surrender all his military authority and settle down as a wealthy, carefree prince! Zhu Quan laughs. "Anyone who's read Water Margin knows there's no such thing as surrendering
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Boonie Bears: Fighting Zombies in a Post-Apocalyptic Bear Ridge! 熊出没：我在末日狗熊岭打丧尸！
[Apocalypse + Zombies + Comedy + Building a Shelter + Bear Ridge] Chen Mo transmigrates to Bear Ridge in the apocalypse. [Ding! Host detected successfully transmigrating to the post-apocalyptic Boonie Bears world. The God-Tier Shelter System has been activated!] [Congratulations, Host, on arriving at post-apocalyptic Bear Ridge!] [This System is dedicated to helping the Host survive the apocalypse and ultimately purify all of Bear Ridge, restoring life to the world!] [Please work hard to expand
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Every Member Is an Emperor: We’ve Left the Cultivation World Stunned 全员皇帝：把修仙界给整不会了
[Ensemble cast]+ [Every character is an emperor]+ [Comedic cultivation]+ [Loving fathers and dutiful sons] All the emperors of China’s orthodox dynasties descend upon the cultivation world at the same time. Scattered across the land, each has an assistant System called “Little Emperor.” Their first task is to find and recognize one another. Qin Shi Huang is the first to run into Liu Bang. “Hu Hai! You’d better pray I don’t find you too soon.” Wang Mang’s eyes fill with tears. “I finally have a S
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Once Upon a Time, There Was a Demon-Suppressing Pass 从前有座镇妖关
Once, there was a pass like this. Once, there was a group of people like this. Every inch of this pass was stained with blood. These people would not return until they were dead. All so that, amid mountains of corpses and seas of blood, in their final moments, they could turn around and see the lights of countless homes shining behind them, with peace and safety year after year.
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The Eerie Spirit Medium: My Doll Can Really Manifest Spirits 诡异降神师：我的娃娃真能显灵
[Ghosts in the Book!] [Dark Tone!] [Villain Protagonist!] [Urban Supernatural!] [Horror Aesthetic!] [Invincible from the Start!] A sinister doll saws someone to pieces, a red-clad vengeful ghost claims lives at the airport, a hundred ghosts hunt people down along a ten-mile street, the dead rise again in a crematorium, and corpses dance wildly in an abandoned hospital... None of these things happened to me. They are all stories I wrote. My name is Yang Ning. I am an heir to the Ling Men, a profe
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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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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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