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  1. 601 A Ghost Knocks at the Door 鬼敲门 Mystery288k WordsOngoing A child born of a ghost, a fox worshipping the moon, a hundred ghosts roaming at night, ghost soldiers taking the road. I was born under the sign of ten calamities, and the Ghost Knocking Calamity came right to my door! To stay alive, I made a pact with a ghost when I was ten, setting out on a road of no return... 5.9kReads6.4Score223Shelves
  2. 602 Horror Academy: Dormitory 404 恐怖学院:404凶舍 Mystery1.5M WordsCompleted A sensational incident once occurred at the academy. It was later completely covered up. Five years later, the academy opened its doors again. 1.9kReads—Score183Shelves
  3. 603 The Lost Tomb: A Play About the Human World 老九门:唱一出人间戏 465k WordsOngoing [Continuing with original characters + ensemble growth + 1-v-n? + there are probably other one-sided crushes? + no secondary couples + a little voyeurism] Adrift in troubled times, rootless and scattered, A handful of rouge, a handful of dust. Mistaking a powerful patron for a place to belong, Mistaking the flash of blades for true love. I am a guest onstage, singing of endless romance. You are a ghost among the living, demanding blood for blood. 5.1kReads8.9Score544Shelves
  4. 604 The Forbidden Island of Human Nature 人性禁岛 Mystery2.3M WordsCompleted I couldn’t get a ticket for the Spring Festival, so I took an unlicensed car home. I never expected the woman in the car to keep staring at me. I wanted to call the police... [Deep Dive] The horrifying truth behind going missing after getting into the wrong car during the Spring Festival. Don’t ride in unlicensed cars carelessly, because it’s not just your money that disappears, but your life! 1kReads8.6Score100Shelves
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  5. 605 Midnight Supernatural Stories to Hear Before Bed Every Night 每晚睡前必听的午夜灵异故事 Mystery335k WordsOngoing A huge collection of short horror, suspense, Cthulhu Mythos, and detective stories. Remember to listen to one every night before bed, and I guarantee you’ll be too scared to sleep! Ahahaha! The stories come in every imaginable form, from ancient times to the present, from all over the world! 4Reads—Score—Shelves
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  6. 606 The Half-Baked Feng Shui Master: I Became a Legend Through Hands-On Ghost Hunting 半吊子风水师:撞鬼后靠实操封神 Mystery166k WordsCompleted Lin Jingran, nicknamed Dogshit, is the most hopeless half-baked feng shui master in the old district. He has no real skills and is a coward, getting by on the old notes his grandfather left behind. That is, until his childhood friend kneels before him, crying that the secondhand house he bought is haunted and his wife and son are close to dying. For two thousand yuan, Lin Jingran steels himself and goes over. He steps on wet hair as soon as he walks in, hears a woman crying by his ear, and watch 3Reads—Score—Shelves
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  7. 607 I Won’t Survive the Night 活不过今夜 Mystery624k WordsCompleted At some point, a strange old beggar showed up in our neighborhood. The strange thing was, he never spent the money people gave him. He’d burn it or destroy it instead. Then one day, the woman downstairs was burned to death, and the butcher was brutally murdered. That was when I finally realized the truth. He wasn’t begging for money. He was begging for lives! 1.1kReads8.2Score102Shelves
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  8. 608 The Ghost Speaks Not: The Ghost's Lament at Xiandun 鬼不语之仙墩鬼泣 Mystery201k WordsCompleted Ghosts Don't Speak: The Ghost Cries at the Immortal Mound is the first book in the latest tomb-raiding series, Ghosts Don't Speak. Taking the mysterious ancient Chinese Nuo religion as its point of departure, it tells a twisting, perilous tale of tomb raiding. The story begins with legends passed down orally by the protagonist's ancestors. The protagonist ventures into the Northeast, travels through the Central Plains, and heads southwest in search of the legendary rare treasures and the secrets 2kReads9.3Score307Shelves
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  9. 609 365 Nights of Strange Tales 三百六十五夜诡故事 Mystery626k WordsCompleted I’m just an ordinary person. I can’t tell tales of ghosts and strange happenings, of exorcising demons and subduing monsters, and I don’t know much about the astonishing secrets of occult arts and mysterious sects. I can only tell you some stories from my own life. Because these stories are so trivial, I may ramble a little and keep things plain. But they’re all about the joys and sorrows, the warmth and coldness of a glittering, bustling world. Most stories don’t have a clear ending, so readers 100Reads8.4Score—Shelves
  10. 610 The Yin-Yang Paper-Cutting Artisan 阴阳剪纸匠 Urban402k WordsCompleted They say the Yin trade has thirty-six branches: [Yellow River Corpse Divers], [Feng Shui Geomancy], [Northeastern Shamanism], [Pallbearers], [Longhu Orthodox Unity Sect], [Xiangxi Corpse Drivers], [Hundred-Faced Nuo Performers], [Yin-Yang Paper Cutters], and more... Let me take you into this underworld of warriors, a world of passion and honor, yet full of mystery, where life and death intertwine! My name is Chen Jin, and I’m the seventeenth-generation heir to the Yin-Yang Paper-Cutting trade. 106Reads—Score—Shelves
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  11. 611 Infinite: The Strange Realm 【无限】诡异境界 Mystery503k WordsOngoing (Note: Infinite-world story, no female lead, no System, not invincible, not stupid, not a wish-fulfillment novel) Welcome, everyone, to the Cycle of the Haunted Realm. Here, you’ll be thrown into an unexpected “death trap.” The only thing you can do is solve it and escape with your life. When I regained consciousness, I found myself in a terrifying cemetery! It was pitch-black, so dark I couldn’t see my hand in front of my face. Only a faint light fell on the graves. I was holding a shovel, and 18Reads6.4Score—Shelves
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  12. 612 The Person Under the Bed, the Eye on the Wall, the Peeping Tom Outside the Door 床下的人,墙上的眼,门外的窥 9k WordsCompleted The person beneath the bed, the eye on the wall, the peeping outside the door 3Reads—Score—Shelves
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  13. 613 Lost in a Haunted Village 误入恐怖村 Mystery483k WordsCompleted An original story. Hope you enjoy it! Lu Chao stumbled into this village by chance, and in doing so, stepped onto a road with no return. Only those chosen by it can see it and enter it. Once chosen to become a resident of the village, there is no going back. The only way to leave is to be cursed by it and killed. To escape, Lu Chao has no choice but to embark on one adventure after another… 305Reads8.1Score—Shelves
  14. 614 Five Horror Stories That Will Keep You Up at Night 五个让你不敢熬夜的恐怖故事 8k WordsCompleted Five Horror Stories That Will Make You Afraid to Stay Up Late 2Reads—Score—Shelves
  15. 615 Midnight in the Countryside 午夜乡村 Mystery482k WordsCompleted My parents' job transfers sent me to live and study at my grandmother's house. Before bed, she warned me not to go and look, no matter what sounds I heard. From then on, one strange event after another came crashing into my life. Then, one day, my grandmother suddenly told me the secret about who I really was... 528Reads6.8Score—Shelves
  16. 616 Fate of the Yin Realm 阴缘逆命 Mystery668k WordsOngoing I was born with an extremely yin fate, making me the fattest piece of meat in the eyes of yin creatures. When I was thirteen, Li Xiaopang’s father, who lived next door, suddenly died away from home. On the night his body was brought back, someone knocked on our front door… A hand covered in livor mortis reached for my throat. Grandpa traded half his life to keep me alive. Before he left, he gave me a note telling me to go to Haizhou City, a hundred li away, and find a female master surnamed Shen 21Reads—Score—Shelves
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  17. 617 I Transmigrated into the Horror Novel I Wrote in Middle School 我穿进初中写的恐怖小说 8k WordsCompleted I Was Transported Into the Horror Novel I Wrote in Middle School —Reads—Score—Shelves
  18. 618 The Haunted Record of the Three Towns Villas 三镇别墅灵异簿 Mystery545k WordsOngoing A gathering place for Jiangcheng urban legends, devoted to strange folk tales from the three towns of Wuhan. Night fog on the Yangtze, the fading shadows of old towers, secrets of ancient streets, and strange happenings beneath bridges: every curious tale, urban legend, and folk mystery from Wuchang, Hankou, and Hanyang is collected here. We preserve the uncanny in writing and bring kindred spirits together through stories, exploring the hidden secrets of Jiangcheng after dark and retelling the —Reads—Score—Shelves
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  19. 619 60 Chilling Stories from Real Life 来自现实的60个惊悚故事 Mystery509k WordsCompleted (Purely written by hand, not AI) Schemes! Poisoning! Possession! Framing... evil spirits! Returning from the dead! Ghosts! Curses... Terrifying and chilling stories based on real events, showing you the things that lurk in the dark world! Every story is a horror short drama! 21kReads8.9Score2kShelves
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  20. 620 The Uncanny One 邪门儿 Mystery1.1M WordsCompleted In the old days, bandit gangs had four pillars and eight posts. The foremost pillar was called the Heaven-Supporting Pillar, and its holder served as the gang's strategist. Since strategists tattooed goshawks on their chests, they were also known as Mountain-Circling Eagles. A Mountain-Circling Eagle is neither monk nor Daoist, yet can discern yin and yang, communicate with spirits, and foretell fortune and misfortune. Neither immortal nor shaman, yet can cast talismans, drive out evil spirits, 1.4kReads8.6Score149Shelves
  21. 621 Strange Tales of Youzhou 幽州诡事 Xianxia193k WordsCompleted After transmigrating into the lowest-ranking demon-slaying guard in the Youzhou Demon Suppression Bureau, Su Mu runs into a bizarre incident at the Drunken Immortal Tower from the start. On the verge of death, he awakens the Records of Demons and Monsters! Slay a Qi-Devouring Ghost and unlock the divine art of spirit sight, seeing through any demon's disguise with a single glance! Kill a Painted-Skin Demon and gain control over blood fiends. Evil cultivation techniques are useless against me! Fo 1Reads—Score—Shelves
  22. 622 More Than Just Rules-Based Horror 不只是规则怪谈 Mystery282k WordsOngoing “After careful deliberation, the school leadership has decided that classes will officially resume on the eighth day of the first lunar month. All teachers and students, please make preparations and return to school on time.” “Reminder: Returning to school tomorrow is voluntary. No one will be forced to come back.” A strange app appears on his phone. A notice about the start of term arrives in his high school class group chat, even though he graduated three or four years ago. His old classmates 19Reads8.8Score—Shelves
  23. 623 Rule Horror: The Haunted School 规则怪谈:诡异学校 Mystery580k WordsCompleted [System + Mystery + Deduction] I grew up in an ordinary family. To broaden my horizons in another city, I deliberately applied to a university far from home. But then strange things began happening one after another: bizarre campus rules, a mysterious countdown, and the secrets hidden behind the school slowly coming to light... 40.4kReads9.3Score4kShelves
  24. 624 No Talking to the Dead 尸人勿语 Mystery2.1M WordsCompleted I used to believe there were no ghosts in the world. Then I rode in a hearse once, and my mind changed... 35Reads—Score—Shelves
  25. 625 My Mom Suddenly Became a Different Person 我妈突然变了个人 9k WordsCompleted My Mom Suddenly Became a Different Person —Reads—Score—Shelves
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  26. 626 Rule Exploration: Break the Rules and Die! 规则探索:犯规者死! Mystery554k WordsOngoing The Myriad Worlds are all governed by rules. [Welcome, prospective player.] [You have entered the Exploration Foundation. Your soul will be stored here.] [You will represent the Foundation as you enter endless worlds and fragments, excavating their rules and claiming them for the Foundation. Your rewards will depend entirely on your performance.] [Every world or fragment contains several rules. Upon entering, players automatically obtain one of them.] [The supreme rules of the void: One, anyone —Reads—Score—Shelves
  27. 627 The Hospital's Unsolved Loop 医院的循环未解之谜 9k WordsCompleted The Unsolved Mystery of the Hospital's Endless Loop 1Reads—Score—Shelves
  28. 628 Are You Crazy? Who Let This Zombie Into the Eerie World? 疯了吧,谁把这僵尸拉进诡异圈的 Mystery119k WordsCompleted [Rule Horror + Underworld Invasion + No Hiding His Strength] These are the only tags for now. I'll add more if I think of any… "The point between life and death isn't a door. It's a tombstone." The hem of his purple robe hung motionless in the wind of the void. Gego was the last great purple-robed Celestial Master of the human race to touch the laws of life and death. He willingly buried his undying corpse deep in the earth, inside that madly distorted point: the only passage connecting the mort 10Reads—Score—Shelves
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  29. 629 The Personality Deception 人格骗局 Mystery107k WordsCompleted Late at night on August 19, 2018, psychologist Tang Xin was murdered in her study at home. On the night of the murder, two people had visited Tang Xin’s home, one after the other: her ex-boyfriend, Ye Qingcheng, captain of the S City Criminal Police Unit, and her patient, Su Ming. Su Ming used to be a police officer under Ye Qingcheng. After suffering physical and psychological trauma in a hostage-taking case, he left the criminal police unit. He was being treated at Tang Xin’s clinic for dissoc 2.3kReads9.2Score496Shelves
  30. 630 Shattered Yin-Yang Jade 阴阳玉碎 Mystery55k WordsOngoing [Supernatural + horror + suspense + first person + no idiots in the story + clever protagonist + a touch of angst] "I'm turning eighteen soon. I should die, too." Yu Yue and I are twin sisters, born eighteen years ago on Ghost Festival. A fortune-teller gave us each a jade pendant and said that on our eighteenth birthday, whoever's pendant broke would die. We're seventeen now, and suddenly both pendants have shattered. How can we possibly survive? 44Reads—Score—Shelves
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  31. 631 The Ghost Clerk's Laughing Fit: I Make Ghosts Laugh in the Human World 逗笑鬼差:我在人间逗鬼笑 Mystery221k WordsCompleted [Folk tales + legends + supernatural + mystery + comedy + horror + ghost hunting] Mistaken for a ghost and captured by the underworld, Mo Kuang is ordered by the King of Hell to go to the human world and entertain ghosts?! What the hell! Who’d take a ghost of a job like this? If ghosts won’t do it, I will! Most people hunt ghosts with talismans, magical treasures, and thunder-based Taoist arts, suppressing evil spirits by force. Mo Kuang alone refuses to follow the usual path. He eases their obs —Reads—Score—Shelves
  32. 632 No Hope of Survival 生还无期 Mystery1.3M WordsCompleted [No CP, No Female Lead] + [Infinite Deaths and Resurrections] + [Superpower Awakening] + [Mind Games and Strategy] + [Ensemble Cast] + [Life in Review] The keywords of this book are “human nature,” “death games,” and “setting traps.” The thirteen characters who appear from the start all play important roles! Each has a distinct personality, and every one of them will have a major part to play later in the story. This book also features endless deaths, so if that’s not your thing, please read wit 8kReads9.3Score813Shelves
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  33. 633 The Most Connected Person in the Supernatural World 灵异界最强关系户 Mystery660k WordsCompleted “What, you think a pen fairy, zombies, Chu Renmei, Sadako, werewolves, and vampires can just show up at the parent-teacher meeting? Your kids are such underachievers. How are they ever going to graduate?” This is a university for the supernatural. The toughest man in the supernatural world is the vice principal, Black and White Impermanence head the admissions office, a weasel demon runs the monster studies department, and exorcists and Taoist priests teach classes... Every student here is the d 8.2kReads9.1Score869Shelves
  34. 634 Forensic Files: The Skin Tailor 法医档案:人皮裁缝 Mystery122k WordsCompleted Warning: graphic content! For mature readers only! A perfectly skinned female corpse lay before forensic pathologist Lin Wei. As she made the incision, she discovered the word “Perfect” carved into the victim’s tongue. The stitches were immaculate, and the human skin had been treated like a work of art. This was the tenth case. But the number on the latest victim’s tongue pointed straight to the childhood home she had long since forgotten. The sealed basement opened, revealing hundreds of human 1.9kReads6.3Score311Shelves
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  35. 635 Belly City 腹城 Mystery325k WordsCompleted [Thriller, Cthulhu Mythos, mystery, supernatural powers, System, loops, horror, apocalypse, unraveling secrets, no romance] The rating has just been posted, but it will rise later. In the flawless “Sweet Community,” every fear and suspicion Nuxin feels is gently “corrected” by the System. Until he discovers that his playmate A Dai’s “move” was an elaborate lie; until, beneath the old school building in the dead of night, he meets Mo Li, the girl who warns him to “run.” Black cars glide soundl 18Reads8.7Score—Shelves
  36. 636 Nurture an Yin Bone, Marry a Snake Immortal 养阴骨,嫁蛇仙 Mystery1.3M WordsCompleted [Feng shui, fortune-telling, ghost marriage, adventure, tomb raiding, devoted to each other] I slept inside a clay statue of the Bodhisattva from childhood, growing up on the incense offerings. But the Bodhisattva at home began to look more and more like me. Grandfather said I had to cultivate into a living Bodhisattva, transform into a prostitute, and save all living beings before I could wash away my sins. Then one night, a strange man arrived with a pair of spirits, one dressed in red and one 4.3kReads9.3Score690Shelves
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  37. 637 I’m the Trickster in the Rule-Breaking Horror Tales 我在规则怪谈做老六 Mystery652k WordsCompleted [Complete, with a universally praised ending] [Rebellious Oddball + School Oddball + Lin Chen the Oddball + Comedy + Crazy Antics + The Uncanny + National Fortune + Mental Illness] [Readers say it becomes legendary from the third instance onward] He swaps a hen’s eggs for pebbles and lets her sit on them for half a month, hands sandpaper to his roommate while he’s on the toilet, and buys ten steamed buns for a beggar who asks for money to eat, then watches him finish them… Lin Chen is an oddba 9.1kReads9.4Score1kShelves
  38. 638 Chronicles of the Qinling Mysteries 秦岭诡事录 10k WordsCompleted Chronicles of Strange Tales from the Qinling Mountains —Reads—Score—Shelves
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  39. 639 All My Personalities Transformed into Professions 我的人格全部转化为职业 Mystery1.4M WordsCompleted [Infinite-flow + one female lead] The app “Dreamscape,” connected to countless worlds, appears on everyone’s phones without warning. Anyone who awakens a “Class” can use Dreamscape to enter dungeons in other worlds. Mu Yu, who has dissociative identity disorder, transmigrates into this world and awakens the “Player” Class. All of his personalities are transformed into different Classes. “Soul Peddler,” “Mastermind,” “Mist Assassin,” “Fearless Vanguard,” “Genius Clown,” “Winner”... It all leads t 4.9kReads9.2Score747Shelves
  40. 640 The Paper Effigy Yama 纸扎阎罗 Mystery231k WordsCompleted Before Grandpa died, he left me with a warning: a paper effigy maker must never make three kinds of figures. On my very first day taking over the shop, I broke every rule. I made a wedding dress for a girl who died violently, a filial son for a childless widow, and finally... a stand-in for a living person. Now all the paper figures I made come alive at night and gather around me, calling me “Master.” Outside the window, the girl who should have been dead for three years is knocking on the door. 6Reads—Score—Shelves
  41. 641 Ancient Divine Beasts: Return to the Netherworld Abyss 上古神兽之幽冥归墟 Mystery312k WordsCompleted The Ancient Divine Beasts: Return to the Netherworld Abyss is an epic that weaves together ancient legends, classic detective mysteries, suspense and horror, and the philosophy of life and death. At its heart is the image of the “Return to the Abyss”: all waters flow into one, neither increasing nor diminishing. It is a metaphor for how all human memories will ultimately converge in the same ocean. In this world, every love, every sacrifice, and every choice becomes part of eternity. As Shen Con —Reads—Score—Shelves
  42. 642 The Solar Eclipse Apocalypse 日蚀启示录 Mystery115k WordsOngoing [Rules Horror + Mind Games + Terror + The Supernatural] Strange regulations, an eerie head of security You must follow the rules on the night shift, or you'll die Visitors must not ask anyone's name Do not look in mirrors without a reason If a child cries, give them candy At first, Wu Ming thought the old man was just playing a prank on the newcomers Until one day, he saw a dark figure standing behind him in the mirror Even more terrifying, the candy in his pocket kept multiplying every day And —Reads—Score—Shelves
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  43. 643 South of Chang'an Lies a Haunted Mountain 长安之南有诡山 Mystery330k WordsOngoing Since ancient times, the Qinling Mountains have been the dragon veins of China, where spiritual energy gathers. This has also made them a meeting place between the realms of yin and yang, and between humans, demons, and ghosts. After the Tang dynasty was founded, the “Mountain Wardens Office” was established to govern strange affairs in the mountains. But as time passed, some ancient “beings” began to awaken... 1Reads—Score—Shelves
  44. 644 Rule Horror: My Taoist Name Is Zhang Tianshi! 规则怪谈,我的道号张天师! Mystery500k WordsCompleted 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
  45. 645 Ailao Mountain: The Ninth Dragon 哀牢山:第九龙 28k WordsCompleted Ailao Mountain: The Ninth Dragon —Reads—Score—Shelves
  46. 646 Humans for Sale: The Monster App Is Delivering 人类售卖中:怪物APP正在配送 Urban304k WordsCompleted [Suspenseful mind-bender + no female lead + Cthulhu Mythos + no System + slow-paced + urban + loops + monsters + farming + plot] The Monster App is live! Shopping platforms like “BuyTogether” and “Taobao” remind you that humans are now hot sellers! A host of food delivery platforms, including “Hungry Gator,” “MeatTogether,” and “Honeyblood,” are open for business 24 hours a day! “Didi Slaughter” will do the stabbing for you! “Quick Claw” and “Echo” will livestream it all! “Learn-It-All” offers a 403Reads8.3Score102Shelves
  47. 647 The Sequel to Wukong: Breaking Through Realms to Seek the Dao for Eighty Thousand Miles 悟空后传:破界问道八万里 Eastern Fantasy263k WordsCompleted My new work is here! You’re welcome to read it on Fanqie Novel. I hope you’ll enjoy it. Your support is what keeps me writing, and I’ll do my best to tell every story well! 1Reads—Score—Shelves
  48. 648 The House of the Dead 空亡屋 Mystery3.4M WordsCompleted There is a kind of house in this world whose door is always half open and half closed. The open half is for the living to enter. The closed half is for the dead. This kind of house is called a House of the Lost. As it happens, I'm the owner of one. In three years, I've encountered both clingy ghosts and evil people who cling to ghosts. 817Reads8.7Score128Shelves
  49. 649 The Lop Nur Code 罗布泊密码 Mystery819k WordsCompleted Following a series of clues, an archaeological expedition sets out to investigate. Along the way, the team faces one terrifying predicament after another, using their knowledge, intelligence, and Feng Shui techniques to overcome each one. They uncover many long-hidden secrets as the mystery of Lop Nur slowly begins to unravel. 116Reads—Score100Shelves
  50. 650 Qinling Mysteries: The Death of the Mountain Keeper 秦岭诡事:守山人之死 9k WordsCompleted Strange Tales of the Qinling Mountains: Death of the Mountain Keeper —Reads—Score—Shelves

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