I'm Out of Books to Read. Give Me Something Brainy. 书荒，要烧脑
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The End of Ten Days 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
1.8MReads9.9Score227.2kShelves
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I Can Reload Infinitely, and See Through Every Hidden Card 我无限回档，洞悉所有底牌
This book has been signed for publication, so enjoy it with confidence. [Death Regression + Foreknowledge of the Future + Kill the Saintly One First + Dark Tone + Supernatural Resurgence] After accidentally transmigrating to a world invaded by the supernatural, Fang Xiu awakens the ability to return from death, also known as turning back time. Whenever he dies, time rewinds to just before his death. In this perilous and uncanny world, he could have laid low, but instead he chooses to announce to
370.8kReads9.5Score48.4kShelves
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One Goal: Stay Alive 唯一目标：活着
(Survival + high intelligence + deduction + no saintly protagonist + mild horror. Read with caution if you’re sensitive to these elements.) A stream of fire pierced the atmosphere and struck the ground. In an instant, the world was plunged into chaotic darkness, and the buildings of civilization people had once taken pride in became lifeless ruins. Yet among the ruins, one building alone remained standing, like a watchtower surveying all the darkness. Beneath the apocalypse, strange phenomena we
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The Cultivation World’s Sickly Number One 修真界第一病秧子
The complete print edition of A Double Crossing is now available on all platforms. Relationship blogger Lin Du died of a broken heart after being driven crazy by hopeless romantics. After death, she transmigrated into a tragic romance cultivation novel, becoming the beautiful, powerful, yet doomed junior uncle who paved the way for the protagonists' great love with her own ashes. After reading the script, she slowly typed a question mark. “Have they dug up every wild vegetable on this sect's mou
309.8kReads9.7Score29.9kShelves
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Strange Tales Livestream! 怪谈直播间！
Welcome to the Rules of the Strange. This is a battle of blood and fire, a test of wit and courage. The power of words cannot be resisted, and the eerie rules must not be broken. In a seemingly hopeless situation, find the one correct answer, break free of your constraints, and search for a way to survive.
184.7kReads9.7Score20kShelves
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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...
42.6kReads9.3Score5.2kShelves
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Call Me Lord Ghost Messenger 请叫我鬼差大人
After the Eternal Night, terror returned. Ten miles of desolate graves, eerie singing. An old man searching for his arms, a headless baby... They kept piecing their bodies back together, unleashing an even more terrifying aura. In the wasteland, even a severed hand could destroy heaven and earth. In this world of darkness and despair, a post office appeared and vanished from view... A mysterious young man, a postal carriage traveling through the void... One blood-red letter after another became
170.8kReads9.5Score19.2kShelves
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I Turned the Horror World Into a Raising Game! 我把惊悚世界玩成养成游戏！
A mysterious force descended upon Earth, giving rise to another world of terror. Everyone was forcibly sent into the world of horror games on their eighteenth birthday. While everyone else was immersed in fear, struggling to survive in the cracks between life and death, Qin Nuo discovered that he could earn System rewards by influencing the ghosts’ emotions. And every time he completed a dungeon, he could establish his own business in the world of horror. So he became a food runner at the Yin Sp
195.8kReads9.6Score24.7kShelves
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Tales of the Arabian Nights 天方夜谈
Why is Shennongjia a forbidden zone? Is the Kunlun Mountains really a dragon vein? How did the ancient kingdom of Loulan disappear? After the Upheaval of the Five Barbarians, were there really no pure-blooded Han Chinese left? The questions you want to ask are ones I’ve been pondering too. I think my experiences can clear up all your doubts!
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Confessions of a Mentally Ill Person 一个精神病人的自述
Sometimes I wonder what I am, what the world is, and what my existence means to it. Am I an NPC? Or just a virus that doesn't matter? A virus, yes. I feel like I've caught some kind of virus, or maybe I've always been one. My name is Zhang Shun. I'm an ordinary person, and on an ordinary day, I suddenly saw things no one else could see...
2.1kReads9.3Score581Shelves
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Is It Really So Strange for a Delivery Driver to Show Up at a Crime Scene? 外卖员出现在案发现场很合理吧？
[System + crime-solving mystery + one heroine] Food delivery driver Su He accidentally gets caught up in a murder case and binds to a God-Tier Choice System! Every choice he makes earns him a reward! With the System's help, his life starts taking some unexpected turns. “Hello, I need to report a murder. Mingjia Community, Building 1, Unit 2, Apartment 603. Someone's been killed... Yes, I'm safe right now... Two people are dead... The killer? Well, I locked him outside... I had nothing to do with
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I'm Zhang San, and I Want a Word with the Rules of the Paranormal! 我张三，要和规则怪谈谈谈！
[Horror + eerie + hilarious + satisfying + national fortune = a serious novel] The Supreme Rules descend, selecting multiple people at random from each country to become Ascenders and take part in the Ascension Exam! Those who perform well earn high scores and even extra rewards. They can improve their own abilities and bring unexpected ascension to their country. But fail the exam, and death may be waiting for you, along with endless torment. Even your country may be beset by supernatural event
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Survival Game: I’m Really Just a Noob 求生游戏：我真的是个菜鸡啊
[Misunderstandings + Livestreaming + Adventure + Puzzles] Bai Qiusheng, who died unexpectedly, is recruited into a survival game and becomes a player. As long as he keeps winning games and accumulates enough points, he can be resurrected. But Bai Qiusheng knows full well that he’s a cowardly rookie. To keep his teammates from finding out, he has to act calm and collected. He never expected everyone else to mistake him for an expert. They overanalyze every move he makes, and before he knows it, e
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Super Scary Livestream 超级惊悚直播
"Welcome, everyone, to the Supernatural Scary Live Stream. Before we start today's broadcast, I have to tell you that only three kinds of people can watch this stream: those with a heavy aura of yin energy, those who will die within seven days, and the third kind, which I can't discuss in detail. I can only give you one warning: watch your back!"
30.3kReads9.2Score3.6kShelves
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From the Start, Livestreaming the Underworld: Who Would Dare Enter This Stream? 开局直播地府：这直播间谁敢上啊
[Live streaming from the underworld + ghost officer + heartwarming everyday life] Jiang Lin is a White Impermanence, guiding the dead to the afterlife and delivering messages in dreams. One day, he obtains an Underworld Live-Streaming System. He can earn rewards by promoting the culture of the Netherworld. From then on, a miraculous livestream appears in the human world, connecting the realms of the living and the dead. A typical day in the livestream: “Ghost: Stay away from me!” “This really is
32.1kReads9.6Score4kShelves
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Urban Legend: Rewinding Time 都市传说：时光回溯
[The earlier chapters lay the groundwork. If that is not to your taste, you can start from Chapter 9, where the first case begins. Thanks for reading!] At the turn of the millennium, three boys make a vow: they will transmigrate through time, return to the past, and change themselves. Twenty years later, several strange cases all point to an organization called Sù. Turning back time and defying fate: is it a blessing or a curse? A string of bizarre murders begins with an urban legend. The met
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A Little Land of Mountains and Rivers 小山河
When Chi Xia first joins the special investigations team, Luo Xun strongly recommends transferring her elsewhere. The intern is so thin-limbed and wooden, like she can barely keep her eyes open. What makes her suitable for this team? She’d be much better off in Publicity! The thin-limbed intern says nothing, responding to everything with, “Captain Luo, solving the case comes first.” Luo Xun is so frustrated he can barely contain himself. The team is doomed, he thinks. Before long, Captain Luo ge
36.8kReads9.5Score5.7kShelves
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Surrender 自首
(Now streaming on iQIYI. Starring Xu Weizhou, Guo Junchen, and Xiao Yan. A criminal police captain, played by Xu Weizhou, teams up with a psychologist, played by Guo Junchen, to solve cases and capture the monsters of the human heart. Mystery + deduction + psychologist + episodic cases + serial murders + high-IQ crimes + revenge plots + strange tales and records + best partners + light horror + suitable for the faint-hearted) “I killed someone.” A girl turns herself in, claiming that she killed
19.7kReads9.4Score2.7kShelves
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Case Files of Crime: The Punisher 猎罪档案：惩罚主
[Detective and police procedural + pure deduction + no romance! + no female lead + standalone cases + criminal investigation + realistic crime-solving] “Zhou Qi, an obscure detective who quit his job to start a business, teams up with his police friend Li Wushang to crack one bizarre case after another.” P.S. This book has no romance. If you like stories about two male leads with a romantic subplot, try another book: Hunting Crime Files: Bloodied Angel (also known as Nameless Detective Agency) "
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Nameless Detective Agency 无名侦探事务所
[Two male leads + true couple + both pure + no angst + secret crush + lots of romance from the middle onward!!] [Mystery and deduction. Police officer He Wei x Bai Jian'an, a morally ambiguous, two-faced “detective.” Working together to solve cases, no System, high intelligence, and all kinds of unhinged characters gathered in one place] Two years ago, an “ordinary” murder took place in Yue'an City. The killer’s method was nothing unusual, but the strange thing was that no clues were found at th
2.7kReads8.8Score509Shelves
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The Killer Hidden in the Novel 隐藏在小说里的凶手
Writer Wang Yichuan wrote a serialized horror novel whose plot mirrors a real-life disappearance. As the case is investigated, so few clues turn up that the only way to find them is to follow hints in the novel. For this reason, the story becomes an online sensation, and its readers join the investigation. How can they reconstruct the case step by step and find the killer hiding within the novel?
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Reborn in 1998: Rising from the Township 重生1998：从乡镇逆袭
He had slogged away in a grassroots post until retirement in his previous life, only to end up with nothing. Reborn in 1998, he returned to the starting point with forty years of experience in officialdom. This time, he would build his own sphere of power with his own hands.
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The Pinnacle of Wisdom 巅峰之智
A pure battle of wits, with no superpowers and no System. Born from the Human Genome Project, the protagonist possesses absolute intelligence, putting him at the very pinnacle, like a god. His endless battle of wits begins the moment he enters the Domain of Fate. Genius is merely the entry ticket to this gamble. What does true peak intelligence look like? What is the truth about this world? And it turns out the final opponent is… [Some readers may worry that the protagonist’s zero personality a
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The Bureau's Twin Years: A Record of Strange Herb Mysteries in the Martial World 局编双年：奇草谜案江湖录
(Not a power fantasy + no System + plot-driven + crime-solving and deduction + mind-bending twists) (The author spent a full year crafting all the murder cases. They’re sure to be gripping and mind-bending, so enjoy!) One year ago, on a dark night, I was a lowly cleaner working in the City Lord’s Hall when I was dragged into a murder targeting the three great families. Everyone said I was the killer! One year later, by day, I’d turned my fortunes around and become deputy director of the Security
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A Pair of Siblings Who Seem Weak but Are Absurdly Strong 有对兄妹看似很弱却过分超强
[Esports] [Ensemble Cast] [Protagonist Siblings] [League of Legends] [League of Legends] Have you heard of WIN? It was a legend, an era... “If they think victory is assured, then let's disappoint them.” “Come on! Let the game begin!” A bottom lane of orphans, a jungle-mid duo from a fixed match, a disabled top laner... This team, pieced together from a group of broken people, brought light to the LPL. Lin Qing'er: Hey, idiot. When the dawn of our third consecutive championship shines through you
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The Ghostly Voyage 神诡迷航
[Not a power fantasy] [Mystery-solving] [Suspense] [Fantasy] [A touch of cosmic horror] [Conceptual skills] [Mind-bending] Read with care if these aren't your thing. You need to pay close attention; skim a few lines at a time and you won't understand it. The author has gone mad, so please bear with them. Chen Miao, better known as San Shui Ge. A bizarre parallel world? Multiple personalities of his own? ... A [Curse Caster]? A [Gifted One]? A [Mechanic]? Is everything around him strange and
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My Life Is Yours 我的命，都给你
Ji Mingshu hated Xu Meiling with all his heart and tormented her until she died. But when she was really gone, Ji Mingshu realized... he had fallen in love with her.
2.8kReads8.1Score345Shelves
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Letting the Wolf In: An Uninvited Guest Turned My Life Upside Down 引狼入室之被不速之客扰乱了生活
[Angsty romance + sweet pampering + winning back his wife after she leaves + schemes and power struggles + domineering CEO] Bai Su, adrift and with nowhere to turn, meets the most important person in her life, Lu Jin’an, through a chance encounter. All Bai Su wants is to spend her life by his side. But she never imagined their beautiful meeting had been an elaborate scheme all along. Deception, exploitation, betrayal, death… Their hearts are destined never to be together again. “Bai Su, please!
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