Looking for Horror Novels That'll Scare You So Bad You Lose Control of Your Bladder and Bowels 求恐怖小说，最好是吓得屁滚尿流，大小便失禁那种
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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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Strange Happenings in the Ancient City 古城诡事
A mysterious phone call full of suspense and a childhood friend he hasn't seen in years draw him into a dangerous web of intrigue. Following the clues, he steps into one carefully laid trap after another. His friend, returned from the dead, Qin Zhijie, who clings to him relentlessly and seems neither wholly good nor wholly evil, and Shangguan Wan'er, whose identity is shrouded in mystery, all vanish without a trace at the most crucial moments. Why did Da Kui, who had braved life and death, come
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Thriller: I Refuse to Play by the Rules! 惊悚：我就是不按套路出牌！
[Horror world] [Unhinged] [Urban legend collector] [No female lead] Qin Feng was once a dedicated haunted-house NPC. His service received no bad reviews, only complaints. Some customers even called the police on the spot. Forced out of work, Qin Feng enters a horror world and obtains the Horror Roleplay System. Chainsaw Killer, Jason, Pyramid Head, the Joker... He plays every role to perfection, with no technique, just pure feeling! From then on, he discovers the right way to play the horror wor
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Thriller Game: My Hints Are More Terrifying Than the Game 惊悚游戏：我的提示比游戏恐怖
[Ridiculous comedy + power fantasy. Not scary. If that's not your thing, move along!] A mysterious dimension descends upon Earth, randomly selecting humans to take part in a horror game. Uncensorable horror livestreams spread across the internet, allowing all of humanity to witness one terrifying spectacle after another. Gu Yi is unlucky enough to be chosen as an adventurer. Fortunately, he can see mysterious hints. Following the hints, Gu Yi gradually seeks out the truth, only to discover that
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Thank Goodness I'm Seriously Ill 还好我病得不轻
[No romance + entertainment industry top-tier star + powerful female lead and satisfying triumphs + all kinds of art and craft] A dark story about a sociopathic, psychopathic personality in the entertainment industry, featuring a beautiful, fragile, sickly girl with a crazed persona! Li Yao transmigrates into the body of a minor celebrity named Li Yao in a parallel world. Facing a company-imposed blacklist and bullying from her seniors, the notorious Li Yao promptly terminates her contract. Feng
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Midnight Terror: Human Nature Stories That Will Haunt You 午夜惊魂：让人细思极恐的人性故事
At midnight, let's listen together to the little stories that circulate all around us. Maybe they're true. Maybe you've heard them too, or even experienced them yourself. Those moments that grow more terrifying the more you think about them go perfectly with the pitch-black night beyond the window. Red brick walls are common in many places. But we've never stopped to wonder: why are those bricks so red, so vivid? Rideshares at night aren't necessarily safe. Passengers have their concerns, and dr
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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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A Coffin Soaked in Blood, a Ghost Comes to Claim Your Soul 血浸棺，鬼勾魂
The dead open their eyes, ghosts come to claim souls, the living borrow lifespans, and the dead press down on their coffins... One bizarre, uncanny experience after another keeps resurfacing in my mind like a nightmare. The strange tales in this book are mainly based on Yang Jian’s firsthand experiences... A warning: the actions in this book are for entertainment only. Do not imitate them! There are three kinds of people who read this book: thrill-seekers who aren’t easily scared... those who pu
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The One Who Borrows Lives from the Underworld 阴间借命人
[Standalone Stories + Supernatural Horror + Suspense + Folk Customs + Playful Tone + Ensemble Cast + Nonstop Ghost-Hunting Thrills!] Ever since I borrowed a life from the underworld, I’ve known no peace. My name is Quan Ning. I’m a lawyer, and one day I was in a car accident on a mountain road. As I lay dying, I saw a ghostly judge from the underworld come to claim my soul. I struck a deal with him and borrowed a sliver of hope for survival. The price of this life I borrowed was becoming
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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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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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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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Tales of a Haunted Village 荒村怪谈录
[Rural Mysteries + Folk Customs + Chinese-Style Horror + Feng Shui and the Supernatural + Anthology + Shocking Twists] There is an old well in Jiulitun that has been sealed for thirty years, and one eerie incident after another keeps occurring. Why has a little girl become unbelievably strong and deranged? Why do villagers keep drowning, and why is the village taboo so difficult to speak of? It all goes back thirty years...
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Tales of the Haunted Mountain Village 山村诡事录
Where the woods are dense, ghosts abound; where the mountains are high, monsters are sure to lurk. After getting drunk, Chen Jianjun of Kaoshan Village encounters a beautiful woman in the mountains. Alone together, the pair spend several days in an intimate embrace. When he returns home, he goes mad for a day and then dies. On the day of his burial, Chen Jianjun suddenly comes back to life... To save his family, Chen Xiaojun becomes the apprentice of Yi, a lame man who was once sent to a work ca
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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 Yin-Yang Master of the Living World 阳间阴阳先生
I was an ordinary first-year college student. Then one incident gave me a whole new understanding of the world. From that day onward, I walked between the realms of yin and yang.
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Folk Horror Taboos 民间恐怖禁忌
Do you know the stories old people tell? Do you know there are many things in folk tradition that people say must not be spoken of? Do you know what the elders say about dreams? The elders say there are things you mustn't talk about at night. Did you know that?
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The Laughing Underworld Chronicles 笑冥录
“If an almanac could turn you into a ghost right on schedule, but the price was wearing a dead person’s clothes once a day, would you use it?” Top-voted answer (by the poster “Lord Wuchang Has No More Years of Life Today”): “Thanks for the invite. I’m in the underworld, just got off the night shift.”
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The Devil's Diary 恶魔日记
Chen Xiao wakes up to find everything around him strangely unfamiliar. The only thing beside him is a diary. He thinks it might explain his current predicament, but as he reads, he begins to doubt whether its contents are real. It is clearly a record of crimes committed by “himself.” Just as Chen Xiao is about to read on, the piercing wail of police sirens downstairs jolts him awake, and he can't help imagining the worst...
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Tales of Strange Creatures in a Northeastern Mountain Village 东北山村野怪谈
Deep in the mountains of the Northeast, evil lurks in the old forests, and strange things abound in deserted villages. The elders say, “Every mountain has a mountain god, every forest a forest spirit. You can’t fight them, and you can’t escape them.” One eerie Northeast folk tale after another, one terrifying night in the mountain villages after another. It all begins with a heavy snowfall.
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You Won’t Find This During the Day: One Ghost Story Every Day 白天刷不到：每天一个诡故事
I’m a horror writer who publishes online. I have no fame and no income, so I can only grab people’s attention by writing the most sinister, unsettling, and realistic stories. To make them feel “real,” I’m used to grounding my characters in details from the real world: real streets, real neighborhoods, real outfits, and real little gestures. I always thought a novel was just a novel. That is, until the serial killer I wrote stepped out of my story and found me in the real world.
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Horrifying Hauntings: Ghost Stories 恐怖灵异诡：鬼故事
Do you really think stories are just stories? In fact, behind every story lies a real event! In this book, I wrote a story about the last bus on Route 24. To experience what it would really feel like, I set myself a goal: for seven days straight, I'd ride the last Route 24 bus from its starting point to its final stop, then ride it all the way back. And that's where the story begins...!
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My Job at the Horror Radio Station 我在恐怖电台任职这件事儿
[Folklore] [Supernatural] [Short Story] [No Superpowers] [No Rule-Based Horror] [Not a Wish-Fulfillment Story] [Not for the Faint of Heart] The author is working hard to make a living. If you enjoy the story, please show your support and help it climb the rankings.
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Midnight Wonders 午夜惊奇
At the stroke of midnight, amid a terrifying atmosphere, strange ghost stories begin to unfold! A bluish-white hand suddenly appears on the window in the middle of the night. Is it looking for someone to take revenge on? A bus still running in the dead of night: does it lead to the world of the living or to hell? The shapewear hanging in the wardrobe at home is made of human skin! During the Qingming Festival, a figure appears in the glass of the bathhouse. After returning to her room, a beautif
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Tales of the Supernatural 民间怪谈录
[Rural Horror Stories + Anthology + Folk Horror Tales + Chinese Supernatural] Supernatural happenings are most likely to occur in mountain villages, and the stories we've heard may well have really happened. In the eerie night wind, Granny Hao, the midwife who receives the dead, is like a messenger from the underworld, guiding the spirits of helpless mothers and children home. Locust trees commune with spirits, and poplars attract yin energy. Beneath the village's ancient trees lie secrets that
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Horror Descends: The Ghost Gate 恐怖降临【鬼门】
Horror + supernatural + suspense + survival + infinite worlds + twists A world of horror descends, and countless Gates of the Dead suddenly appear. Those selected must enter the gates and make a desperate escape. Some gates are formed from horror novels. Some are formed from horror movies. Some are formed from tales of evil spirits. Some are formed from bizarre imaginings. Entering a Gate of the Dead means your life has started counting down. Who can make it out alive? “If you're curious abo
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Night Talks at the Threshing Ground 打谷场夜话
Long ago, in the countryside, there were no phones, televisions, air conditioners, or fans. When darkness fell in summer, people would head to the threshing ground to cool off, sit in a circle, chat, and start telling strange and terrifying ghost stories…
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I Failed to Quit Lust Before I Died, and I'm Still Trying After Death 生前戒色失败，死后仍在戒色
[Bizarre Game + Wearing Human Skins and Becoming Bizarre (Single Heroine) + Dungeon Escape] Every bit of power you gain is a pledge of your soul to the abyss Late at night, a blood-red vortex icon appears as an app on your phone, installed without your permission. A deadly game called “Bizarre Theater” quietly begins to encroach on reality. Here, bloodstained supernatural objects can ward off evil, but they gnaw at your flesh; coexisting with a ghost can turn a hopeless situation around, but lea
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The Netherworld Inn 阴间客栈
My name is Qin Yu. While on a business trip, I checked into a uniquely styled inn called the Yin Room Inn. It even offered “special services” in the middle of the night. Little did I know it was an inn from the underworld. I began having nightmare after nightmare, and my friends kept getting into trouble...
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The Midnight Gravekeeper 午夜守墓人
A desolate mountain. An ancient tomb. A woman in white. A blood-red moon at midnight. A corpse monk on the move. I’m a high school senior. With the college entrance exam just around the corner, I suddenly came down with a fever that wouldn’t break and missed the test. After recovering at home for more than half a year, I found a job guarding the gate at a cemetery. Seeing how frail I was and how weak my yang energy was, Old Zhang, the gravedigger, found me a protector. But she wasn’t human. She
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Crime Scene 诡案现场
When he was twenty, a blank painting was enshrined in the ancestral hall at a crime scene. Why were two male corpses embracing beneath an ancient tree? Was the shadow inside the house a person or a ghost? After all the confusing clues, was the killer human or ghost?
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The Loop 循环
From losing everything to striking it rich overnight, Wang Hao wins at the gambling table for five days straight. But there are no free lunches, and in the end, his greed will make him pay a terrible price! In a single night, Wang Hao vanishes without a trace. Awei, Wang Hao's friend, reports him missing to the police, then secretly investigates his whereabouts. Unexpectedly, one eerie incident after another follows! Someone who died more than twenty years ago reappears! As he digs deeper, he di
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Ghostly Eyes 鬼灵瞳
A reclusive man known as Little Master, along with several strange people brought together by coincidence but united by their shared interests, gradually uncovers a history buried for many years: the five great clans of the ancient world and the Yin-Yang adepts who could do anything. It seems that fate has long been leading them into one thrilling fantasy adventure after another...
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Deadly Delivery 致命快递
I received a package from an unfamiliar sender. A note inside said I could scan a code to claim a huge cash bonus. But when I scanned it, my phone opened a livestream instead. Even stranger, my face appeared right in the middle of the screen. The comments were flying by: "This girl looks pretty good. What a shame to kill her." "Tsk, tsk, what a beauty. I recommend having some fun with her before killing her." Just then, I suddenly heard someone knocking behind me. "Hello, delivery!"
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The Corpse Stitcher 缝尸匠
My family makes its living dealing with the dead, and my father is a renowned corpse seamster in the surrounding area. His skills are superb. No matter how mangled a corpse is, he can restore it to look as good as new. Whenever someone died in an accident and their body was disfigured, wealthy families from hundreds of miles around would ask my father to stitch it back together. But as far as I knew, my father used to be a butcher. He was skilled at dressing pigs, but I had never heard that he w
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A Terrifying New Year’s Eve 惊悚除夕夜
A Chilling New Year's Eve
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A Woman Fell from the Building at My Feet, Then Begged Me in the Middle of the Night to Avenge Her 坠楼女子落我脚边，半夜她哭着求我替她报仇
The Evil Spirit in the Talisman On a rainy night, I watched a girl jump from a tall building and die on the spot. Her soul latched onto me and demanded that I avenge her.
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I Decided to Kill My Lover, Then Got on a Haunted Bus with Her 我决定谋杀情人，和她上了一辆闹鬼的巴士
I think I got on a haunted bus. My girlfriend was sitting beside me, her pretty little face deathly pale with fear. "Th-those two people just carried a corpse onto the bus."
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After the Wicked Mother-in-Law Drove Her Son’s Family to Their Deaths, They All Became Ghosts 恶婆婆逼死儿媳妇一家后，全变鬼了
Back in our village, it was perfectly normal for a mother-in-law to bully her daughter-in-law. Even when the entire husband's family bullied the daughter-in-law, nobody thought there was anything wrong with it. But driving the daughter-in-law's entire family to their deaths? I doubt many people could do something like that.
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Terror at the Villa: Everyone Who Heard the Weeping Died 别墅惊魂：听见哭声的人都死了
I'm a feng shui master. One day, I was hired by the tycoon Jia Qing, who said something strange was happening at his villa on Lingzhou Island. Every night, the sounds of a woman and a baby crying could be heard inside the villa. The reward he offered was so generous that I couldn't refuse. Who knew that a string of terrifying events would unfold on the very night I moved in?
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My Senior Disappeared from a Nursing Home, So I Went Undercover as a Nurse and Uncovered a Shocking Secret 学长在养老院失踪，我去当护士卧底发现惊天秘密
My senior disappeared three months ago. He was working at Paradise Nursing Home at the time. To find him, I applied for a job at the nursing home. I never expected to see an elderly resident jump to his death on my very first day. Then more residents started disappearing, one after another. Until one day, inside the refrigerator, I found the finger of a missing resident...
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The Spirit-Suppressing Coffin 囚灵棺
I was curious about the coffin necklace around my boyfriend's neck. Before I could even touch it, he broke up with me on the spot. I complained about it to the viewers in my livestream, but then a fortune-telling streamer suddenly joined the call and warned me: “Break up with him right now. Your boyfriend is wearing a Spirit-Binding Coffin!” From that day on, eerie nightmares, a mysterious female ghost, and my boyfriend's secrets... One strange event after another began to unfold. Just when I th
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The Child Who Never Existed 不存在的孩子
My son suddenly disappeared. Everyone told me that I had never had a child. The daycare teacher didn't know me. My husband said we'd never wanted a child, and even my best friend urged me to calm down, saying it was all just an hallucination. But I clearly remembered the child I'd risked my life to give birth to. His name was Liu Chaoyang, he was one year and eight months old, and he was a chubby little dumpling! Then I found baby supplies under the bed, along with photographs and traces that ha
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Killing My Second Personality 杀死第二人格
I killed my second personality. But before he died, he left me a “grand gift”... A list of people to harass at the asylum, with 16 names on it, even though the asylum has only 15 patients in total. “Did you think you were the only one with a second personality?” What is the truth? Who is the real madman?
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The Haunted Inn 惊魂旅馆
An unexpected downpour drowned out the sounds of murder. Late at night, in a remote inn, a corpse lay sprawled across a bed, blood pouring from all seven orifices. The killer seemed to be hiding among the guests, none of whom trusted one another: a police officer, a writer, a psychiatrist, a celebrity, a fan, a college student... Every one of them had something to hide. After a second murder, the line between the dead and the living grew increasingly blurred. Everyone was a suspect, and everyone
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Blood Ties 血缘关系
I rushed a thousand miles to mourn my mother, only to discover that she had died under suspicious circumstances. I wanted to uncover the truth and avenge her, but my whole family opposed me! It turned out everything was because there was a “vampire” in the family!
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My Fiancée Disappeared, and I Became the Killer 未婚妻失踪，我成了凶手
My name is Cheng Yuan. My fiancée has disappeared. The last message I saw before I passed out was from her. “Cheng Yuan, run!” When I woke up, I found myself trapped in a perfect replica of my home, with something sinister lurking everywhere. And it seemed someone was watching me! A madman claimed to be deeply in love with my fiancée. But later, I discovered that the real madman was someone else.
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There’s a Ghost in the Dorm 宿舍有鬼
My roommate is a cosplayer. A month into our sophomore year, she ordered a complete Chinese ghost-bride outfit online to wear to a horror party. She even hung the entire outfit beside her bed the night before. But that night, I woke with a start in the middle of the night and saw with my own eyes a female ghost in a bright red wedding dress pacing back and forth at the foot of her bed.
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My Best Friend Disappeared While Picking Up Takeout, and Everyone Says She Never Existed 闺蜜取个外卖就失踪，所有人都说她并不存在
My best friend went out to pick up a delivery and never came back. She vanished from my life completely. Nobody remembered her. They all thought I was mentally ill. The truth was, we had been split across two different timelines.
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Daughter Village 女儿村
I was born in Daughter Village. For twenty years in a row, every child born in our village was a girl. Every nightfall, the cries of baby girls echoed through the valley. Once, a Taoist priest came to our village and said the entire village was cursed. During the summer of my first year of graduate school, my advisor ignored my protests and brought me and several other students to the village to conduct research.
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