Looking for Supernatural Novels with a Calm, Intelligent Main Character 求主角冷静，智商在线，灵异文
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The Folk Feng Shui Master 民间风水之王
The Nine Cauldrons Dragon Palace, the Secret Files of the Yellow Springs, the Snow Mountain Corpse Demon, the Yin-Yang Inn... Ever since I borrowed a life from the underworld, I have known no peace. Every time I borrow a life, it becomes a deadly game. After each desperate struggle and narrow escape, I wait for the next secret order from the underworld so I can keep living. Just when I thought I'd escaped the clutches of fate, I discovered that Heaven had prepared a coffin for me too!
54.8kReads9.4Score6.8kShelves
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A Hundred Ghosts Sealed Within Me 我的体内封百鬼
When a plague swept through my mother’s village, she was the only one who escaped alive and made it to Chen Village. My mother was graceful and beautiful, but after arriving in the village, she went mad. There’s something wrong with this village. Every night, we hear strange noises. My father’s name is Chen Jiu, and mine is Chen Lintian. I suspect he isn’t my real father...
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Why Does a Map Company Have to Deal with the Uncanny, Too? 一个地图公司也要让我处理诡异？
The abandoned old district has long since become a breeding ground for the uncanny. An occurrence known as a “contaminated zone” appears from time to time in the old district, centered around individual buildings. Rumor has it that a contaminated zone is another world, filled with the absurd and the uncanny. As the number of missing people increased, the authorities had no choice but to close the routes between the old and new districts. By a stroke of luck, people discovered that the cores of c
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Ghost Orchid 鬼兰
The Ghost Orchid in the Mirror Is His Missing Wife: The academic world regards the Ghost Orchid as an evil thing, but Zhou Chen and his wife, Lin Xiao, swore to protect it, convinced it was a spiritual treasure of heaven and earth. Their steadfastness brought Zhou Chen rejection from the entire internet, while his wife Lin Xiao suddenly vanished during an expedition. Just as he was on the verge of collapse, the arrival of a strange young woman broke the deadlock. In the Ghost Orchid blooming
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Devouring Hope 吞噬希望
This is a world steeped in despair. No System lays out the rules at a leisurely pace, and there are no hints about how to survive. You can only search for a way out using scattered clues, with no room for error when testing the rules. One wrong step means utter ruin. An endless night, black as ink, wraps the world in its grip. The killing game never stops, like a tightening net of blood that leaves everyone caught in its strands struggling to breathe. And Lu Jin is the only anomaly in this bo
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Peerless Among Ten Thousand Spirits 万灵无双
A teahouse from the start, yet the Heavenly Dao claims I'm harboring divine beasts. Mysterious supernatural cases keep finding me, and now I've been diagnosed with a terminal illness! But I've discovered there are things in this world that can extend my life The last breath a spirit refuses to surrender A star shifted by someone's hand on a compass A lost art that the sages pursued with their lives A scheme passed down by emperors for a thousand years... Among the three teachings and nine schoo
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Nightmare Game: This Hunter Is Way Too Terrifying 梦魇游戏：这个狩猎者也太吓人了
[1v4 Mode + Horror Worlds + Fusion with Dangerous Personalities + No Female Lead (Though if there has to be one, it's the Evil God Cthulhu)] The mysterious online game Midnight Nightmare was released. Players could enter horror worlds and tackle dungeons, or choose between the Hunter and Runner factions for an asymmetric 1v4 showdown. Ling Yichuan awakened the Character Template Fusion System. From then on, he fused with one terrifying boss after another, becoming the nightmare of every player!
1.7kReads9.4Score196Shelves
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Infinite Horror: The Top-Tier Maniac Is Beautiful and Brutal 无限惊悚：顶级疯批她又美又凶
[Infinite-game adventure + mystery and deduction + no romance + ruthless heroine + plot-focused + strong female lead + fictional setting] Her father didn’t care about her, her mother didn’t love her, her brother was gone, and she’d been sent to a strange psychologist for treatment for fourteen years. Just as Mo Changsheng was planning to deal with the whole mess, she was suddenly transported into a horror game. Mo Changsheng: “Well, this is interesting.” In a perilous hunting game, she wiped out
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The Landlord of the Haunted House 凶宅房东
[Supernatural + taking disciples + no romance] I witnessed my parents' deaths with my own eyes, but the police told me they had died long ago. I lost my memory and became the landlord of a haunted house, where every tenant might be the one who killed my parents. And when night falls, the real danger begins. Countless vengeful ghosts swarm toward me, eager to devour me. In this world where reality and illusion intertwine, and ghosts and humans coexist, I rule the roost with the help of seven veng
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Rule-Based Urban Legends: It Begins at the Death Hotel 规则类怪谈之从死亡旅馆开始
[No female lead] [No saintly protagonist] [Slow burn] What would you do if you became a Rule-Bound Horror? Kill people? Do whatever you wanted? “I want to drive out every Rule-Bound Horror…” That was Wen Changqing's answer. In the dimly lit hotel, two identical owners beckon me… In a wilderness village, every house is draped in ghastly white mourning banners… A farm grows man-eating mushrooms and scarecrows that want to take the place of the dead…
102Reads6.8Score—Shelves
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I’m an Actor in Horror Movies 我在恐怖电影中做演员
A bizarre horror movie poster transports Wang Yan into the world of the film. Playing a bit-part character who could die at any moment, he struggles to survive in a terrifying movie that feels all too real. By making clever use of the rules, he eventually sets out on the path to becoming an award-winning actor. (Horror infinite survival + suspense + serious tone + characters with brains + possible romance. There is no System, to be clear, no System!)
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Worldwide Creation: I Build a World of Weird Tales 全民创世：我打造怪谈世界
Shen Hui transmigrated to a planet where people could awaken the world's origin, create their own worlds, and become creators. Some built cultivation civilizations, while others built technological ones… But Shen Hui awakened a world of death, filled with negative energy. Nothing living could be created there, so it was considered a useless wasteland of a world. However, as someone familiar with all kinds of ghosts and urban legends, Shen Hui set out to create a world of eerie tales that needed
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Thriller: I Became the Person in the Mirror 惊悚：我成为了镜中人
Yang Feng, who has no idea how he died, opens his eyes and finds himself in a world inside the mirrors. He can travel freely from one mirror to another. Whenever someone looks in a mirror, he appears and flashes them an eerie smile. This is a world already rotting away, doomed to destruction. And Yang Feng thinks he should hasten its end. So he chooses slaughter! Be destroyed! You ruined world! Humanity trembles before the being in the mirror!
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Life-and-Death Gambit in the Snowlands 雪域生死局
[Chinese Folk Horror + Gods and Ghosts + Folk Legends + Secret-Realm Exploration + Mystery and Deduction + Strong Allies] At an antique fair in Lhasa, I stumbled upon an ancient Tibetan stone tablet. Curious about its contents, I accepted an invitation to join a merchant named Lao Gun and the team he had assembled to search for goods. Together, we ventured deep into the barren mountains of northern Tibet to investigate an ancient temple. I never expected the old temple to conceal such mysteries.
5.1kReads8.6Score805Shelves
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Tomb Raiding: The Ninth Gate’s Beloved Mystic 盗墓：九门团宠是神棍
[Tomb Raider fanfiction, young Taoist, disguises herself as a boy, doted on by everyone, starting with The Mystic Nine] Proceed with caution: This is not a wish-fulfillment story! The protagonist grows over time and comes of age after Chapter 79. Qi Baye had a little granddaughter whom he raised by his side from the time she was born. He personally chose her name, deciding that whether the baby was a boy or a girl, she would be called Qi Lechuan. After her father, Qi Yu, disappeared while on the
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Tomb Raiding: I Woke Up as the White Qiao Saintess? 盗墓：一睁眼我成了白乔圣女？
The second installment is on my homepage under the title Grave Robbing: Code Name, Miao Maiden. A love-interest selection story, with a universally adored protagonist and a strong career focus. Long Piaopiao, a top-tier task agent from Blue Star working for the People-Manipulating Quick Transmigration System, finally completed nine quick transmigration worlds and earned a reward: the chance to choose any world and retire there. She decisively picked an ordinary little world, ready to settle down
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The Ghost's Knocking Was So Loud, the Neighbors Came Over to Beat Me Up 鬼敲门声音太大竟引来邻居毒打
Hear a ghost knocking on your door at night? Don't panic. Call the neighbors and ask them to come claim the “takeout.” Run into a vengeful ghost demanding blood money at a crossroads? Just drop the cash into the Buddha's merit box. A Ghost King disguises himself as a delivery guy and kills people at random. Who knew the delivery would be to the place where the patriarch of Longhu Mountain was in seclusion? After transmigrating to a supernatural world, Li Yi awakened the Unconventional Celestial
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I Just Cleared a Terrifying Hell, and Now I’m in Another Horror Game? 刚打通惊悚烈狱，又进惊悚游戏？
Li Chang was the only one among a trillion trial participants across the universe to clear the Horror Purgatory Trial, a challenge where death was all but certain. In the end, he even turned around and beat Horror Purgatory to pieces before returning to Blue Star. But he had barely returned when... The Horror Game came looking for him again. Li Chang approached it with the same attitude he’d had toward Horror Purgatory. But then he discovered that this Horror Game seemed a little too easy. A bea
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Thriller Descends: I Become the Demon King in a World of Terror 惊悚降临：我在惊悚世界当魔王
[No female lead] [Hilarious] [Absolutely shameless] [Doesn't act human] “Congratulations, you've been hit by the System jackpot! The Horror System is activating!” A car accident. Su Li was accidentally transported into the game Horror World. While other players were still fighting to survive, Su Li was already happily raking in ghost coins. With the System, Su Li easily trounced all kinds of powerful ghosts. The ghosts wailed for their mothers: “Mom, I want to go home! This demon king is totally
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So This Is How You Clear a Horror Game 原来惊悚游戏还能这样通关
[Horror Game + Goofy Laughs + Mystery + Supernatural + Expect the Unexpected] Horror Game is a live-action, horror-themed challenge game. Players must gather clues while terrified, contend with all kinds of ghosts and monsters, and ultimately clear the game by surviving in the cracks. The zombie in front of you is furious because your dish contains no blood. What do you do... [Option One: Take your own blood. Losing too much blood will make you go into shock.] [Option Two: Take your teammate’s b
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Superpowers: The Favorability System Forces Me to Become a Social Butterfly 异能：好感度系统逼我社交变强
Suddenly, countless entrances to the Abyss and hostile creatures appeared across the world, and humanity was granted Sacred Marks to fight them. In his previous life, Ying Ji was a peerless assassin who believed socializing was pointless. But a favorability System forced him to interact with people, sending him down a path of frantically raising their favorability to grow stronger. [Favorability with the campus belle: +1. Social score: +10.] [Favorability with the hidden expert has reached 90. S
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The Mystic Game 玄门游戏
Beneath the azure sky, the Gate of the Mysteries stands tall. Twelve enormous, wondrous gates randomly select humans to take part in the gods’ games. Are we playing the game, or are we being played? Why is all of this happening? Is it the gods’ entertainment? Or their salvation? Will these games of the gods lead to evolution or extinction? How will a mentally unstable protagonist use his extraordinary intelligence and terrifying abilities to outwit his opponents in the games?
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I Descended into the Matrix Universe 我降临在矩阵宇宙
A young man arrives in this Matrix Universe, carrying a lantern. Inside it are his twelve manifested personalities. They weep, and they shine. He sets the lantern on the ground, lighting a small space around him. Before him, the continent falls, flames soar into the sky, and sixty million people plunge into the abyss. I am both the destroyer of this universe and its savior.
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What?! I Coughed Up Blood and Got Bound to the Escape Boss 惊！我靠吐血绑上了逃生boss
[Coughing Blood ✚ Sickly ✚ Slightly Wacky ✚ Poker-Faced ✚ Male-Led, No Female Lead ✚ Mild Horror and Supernatural Elements ✚ Everyone’s Favorite ✚ 1v1] What would you do if you woke up locked inside a huge iron cage? Xiao Sheng, who died of an illness and then came back to life, immediately put on a spectacular performance: he shot upright like a dying man suddenly jolted awake, then stared wide-eyed at the thousands of crazed fanatics outside the cage! Not only had he ended up alive inside some
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The Supreme Feng Shui Master 超品相师
Chen Hancheng, direct heir to the Yanluo lineage, has just begun to master the esoteric arts. Seeking the secrets of Dunjia, he enters the world to hone his skills, never expecting to be drawn into a fated romantic tribulation. His divine eyes can see the paths between yin and yang, and his hands can calculate the affairs of the world. Watch as the heir to the Yanluo legacy navigates the mortal world of the city, using heaven-defying physiognomy to reshape the world. With beautiful companions at
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Master Geomancer 超品地师
A bug crawled out of our ancestor's coffin and into someone's eye. Then something strange happened... Using the Five Elements and the art of Feng Shui to locate dragon veins and find buried treasures, wielding the mysterious arts of the occult to defy fate, this story takes you into a world that is both mysterious and wondrous!
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The Path of the Wizard 巫师之途
[Traditional Wizard Fantasy] [Planar Warfare] [No Romance] [Slow Burn] An accident sent Ryan to a mysterious wizarding world of endless expanses, where the supernatural was reawakening. It was an era when wizards conquered countless worlds, slaughtered the gods, and reigned supreme over all creation. Wondrous and dazzling multiverses, peerless powerhouses, and mysterious, miraculous spells and arcane arts all vied to shine. Transmigrated while on his way to study at a wizard academy, Ryan relied
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The Immortal Healer in the City 医仙在都市
With my X-ray vision, I can see through anything, discern ghosts and gods, and distinguish yin from yang! A city-dwelling homebody stumbles upon an ancient inheritance. He picks up medicine and Daoist arts as easily as breathing, then rises to the top and makes the city his playground!
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The Extraordinary Divine Seer 超品神相
A physiognomist observes the heavens above, studies the earth below, and understands the Five Elements! After disappearing for nine years, he returns with a commanding presence and a trove of peerless secret arts, stirring up the world and reshaping the very order of things!
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The Master Face Reader 超品相师
There's no way I'm going to stop reading feng shui for people and hunting for antiques at bargain prices. I couldn't give that up in this life! I don't know how to get rich any other way, so this is the only way I can keep up appearances. And when I find a treasure, the rich people talk so nicely to me. I love that feeling. It's like I owe them millions, and they're the ones begging me to pay them back.
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Superstring Wizard 超弦巫师
Li Cha, the young master of a baron's castle, is used to looking at all sorts of things in this magical medieval world through the lens of science. Werewolf transformations just don't seem to obey the law of conservation of mass. At this rate, old man Lomonosov is going to turn over in his grave. Li Cha thought it was time to catch a werewolf and study it...
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After Entering an Escape Game, My Archrival Started Flirting with Me 进入逃生游戏后我被死对头撩了
[A bizarre practice-writing project] [One-on-one romance] [Infinite-loop death-escape game, mildly scary] Lu Ye, an upright, ambitious, rebellious boy who's innocent on the outside but calculating within x Jiang Yan, an utterly twisted psychiatrist who's old as dirt. Lu Ye accidentally enters a dimensional escape game and ends up sharing a room with his nemesis, Jiang Yan. Who knew Jiang Yan would get more and more lecherous? [If you don't like it, leave. Don't ruin the guys' mood. You're right
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Livestreaming in a Horror Game: I Charm a Beauty and Become a Legend 我在惊悚游戏中直播撩美人封神
[Infinite-horror game + livestream] The unhinged Jun Li was successfully tricked by his second personality into entering an infinite-horror game. Jun Li could only protest that he was weak, pitiful, and helpless, and wanted to hug himself. The Main System: There’s a curse I don’t know whether I should say! When “weak” Jun Li entered the infinite-horror world, he suddenly found himself becoming the game’s public enemy by accident. He even topped the list of players everyone most wanted dead. Jun
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Infinite Flow: Taming Gods in Dark Fairy Tales 无限流：在暗黑童话里驭神
[Infinite Flow + Two Male Leads + Power Couple 1v1 + Mild Horror] He is the wicked “dark wizard” who tears the prince and princess apart in Sleeping Beauty. He is the evil “brother” who tries to take Cinderella’s place. He is the scheming “beauty” who lures the mermaid princess to her death. He is the top con artist everyone knows in the fairy-tale world. “I’ll never let you down when it comes to speaking ill of me.” The young man sits high upon his throne, facing the lights. Red thread winds ar
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Is It Quieter After the Rain? 下雨后是否更寂静
After the rain came endless helplessness. Late at night, notes of silence tapped against the tightly closed blinds as Wu Qian sank into quiet contemplation. “My friend's death has come back to haunt me like a ringing bell.” “Is this Wu Qian? It's Xiao Ling. We haven't been in touch for ages. I've been so busy with work lately. Are you free this weekend? Let's meet. There's something I need to tell you. Let's meet outside the Chongguang Huan Center!” Xiao Ling's soft, halting voice pierced Wu Qia
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I Was a Test Subject, and Nightmares Are My Lifeline 实验体的我靠噩梦救命
[Dungeon] [Infinite Flow] [Eerie Revival] [Rule Horror] [Mystery] [Two Male Leads] Note: This is not a tragic tale about a beautiful, strong character! As an experimental subject assigned a number at birth, K-04 had always wanted to see what the outside world looked like. As he gradually grew older, his body began to grow weaker. The doctor who had raised him told K-04 that his body could not withstand the rapid growth of his mental powers. If this problem couldn't be cured, he would never be ab
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