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  1. 51 Rule Horror: From Breaking the Rules to Making Words Become Law 规则怪谈:从践踏规则到言出法随 Mystery264k WordsCompleted [National Destiny + Supernatural Horror + Satisfying + Comedy + Invincible + Trickster + No Romance] The world of urban legends descends, and Longguo suffers defeat after defeat, leaving the nation on the brink of disaster. Jiang Mu is chosen as Longguo's next contestant and awakens the god-tier talent No Laws, No Limits from the start. While all the other contestants are being tormented by the supernatural and its rules, barely able to stay alive, Jiang Mu has already pinned the rules to the gr 1.5kReads8.9Score210Shelves
  2. 52 I Work Odd Jobs at Paranormal Accident Sites for Quick Cash 我在灵异事故现场打工挣快钱 Mystery118k WordsOngoing No System # Cunning male lead, big shot from the start # Female lead with a contrasting personality, girlfriend from the start The book has officially been renamed The Paranormal Becomes Immortal. This is a world where evil spirits and supernatural abilities coexist. People are no longer helpless against evil spirits: through genetic modification, they can fight them head-on. The Huaxia headquarters is extremely powerful, but holding back to protect civilians greatly limits how much of its stren —Reads—Score—Shelves
  3. 53 I Told You to Judge the NPCs, Not Blow Up the Tribunal! 叫你审判NPC,你炸了审判庭? Mystery149k WordsOngoing [Two male leads + unhinged heartthrob adored by all + powerful yet tragic + horror game + falling from grace from the start + invincible + villain fragments + multiple foreshadowed twists] In the year 89 million of the Ruai Star Calendar, the Trial Game swept across the universe. Every criminal on the planet was dragged into it. Prisons emptied in the blink of an eye, the public crime rate plummeted to zero, and the Interstellar Tribunal shut down overnight. Lou Fan, once Ruai Star’s top adjudic 195Reads—Score—Shelves
  4. 54 When I Became a Capitalist in a Rules-Horror Story 当我在规则怪谈里做资本家 Mystery231k WordsOngoing [PUA Exploitation of Capitalists] + [No Romance] + [National Fate] + [Comedy] + [Eerie] + [Lighthearted] + [Livestream] + [Mystery] The red moon rises, Eerie creatures run rampant, ghost stories invade, the dead return, and people are trapped in an endless cycle… With the Dragon Kingdom on the brink of destruction, Su Fan steps forward. The talent Su Fan draws is to become a capitalist, using PUA tactics to exploit the Eerie. Even the Eerie can only shake their heads in disbelief. The first worl 46Reads—Score—Shelves
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  5. 55 I Turned the Horror World Into a Raising Game! 我把惊悚世界玩成养成游戏! Mystery2.3M WordsCompleted 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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  6. 56 I Just Joined the Game, and Now I’m a Female Ghost’s Tutor 刚进游戏,我成了女鬼的家教老师 Mystery1.4M WordsOngoing When Qi Feng entered a horror game, he discovered that the clues always helped him find the ghosts' weaknesses. And so, a villain was born in the world of ghosts. Faced with a ghostly young wife who was desperate to improve her son's grades, Qi Feng said, “Madam, I could tutor your son.” The ghostly young wife gave in. She even invited Qi Feng to be her son's private tutor. Faced with a ghost student who was determined to kill him, Qi Feng said, “I know all about you and Lili...” And when he saw 8.3kReads9.2Score922Shelves
  7. 57 Rule Horror: I Am Above the Rules 规则怪谈:吾即规则之上 Mystery763k WordsOngoing [Two male leads + equally matched powerhouses + seme POV + nonhuman + each other's only one + happy ending + lighthearted, overpowered story + unapologetically indulgent fun + overflowing sweetness + multiple side couples + final boss + rule-based horror] [Pure-hearted, scheming seme x cold-faced, easily flustered uke] Shi Mo had lived for tens of thousands of years. He was bored. He had created the rule-based horror stories, and the Abyssal Corridor belonged to him. Day after day, he had reigne 25kReads9.5Score7.4kShelves
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  8. 58 Global Ghost Stories: Every Tale I've Played Has Fallen Apart 全球怪谈,我玩过的怪谈都崩坏了 Mystery1.2M WordsCompleted Global Tales of Terror descend upon the world, and people who are chosen must enter the world of the uncanny and solve its unsolved mysteries. Ye Yuchen is selected to enter the world of the uncanny. Watch him use his ability to foresee death to play the world’s terrifying tales like a fiddle! Sadako: That beast Ye Yuchen has played me to pieces! Jack the Ripper: That Ye Yuchen is practically more of a demon than I am! Zombie: I just want to have a nice, peaceful drink of blood. Is that so hard? 106Reads6.0Score—Shelves
  9. 59 Guiyuan: Hong Kong Under Siege 归元HK围城 Sci-Fi & Apocalypse856k WordsOngoing Lin Zhao woke up in a morgue's refrigerated drawer with only one number on his wristband: LY-0001. He didn't know who he was. All he knew was that his right hand could transform into a black jade bone blade, and that devouring the infected let him read their memories. In the post-apocalyptic city of HK, the infected weren't mindless zombies. They shared a hive mind, and each one was a tendril of some ancient entity. —Reads—Score—Shelves
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  10. 60 A Countdown in My Dreams? 我在梦里倒计时? Mystery1.0M WordsOngoing [Infinite Worlds + Character Growth + Ensemble Cast + Lighthearted + No Harem] “Welcome to FM404. Today is August 23, 2024. There are three minutes left until the countdown reaches the 24th. Nothing major has happened… static… around the world… static… some people have… static… collapsed and fallen into a deep sleep… static…” “Sorry, we just lost the control tower signal. Let’s continue…” Some people have luck on their side, while others… have been blacklisted by the Goddess of Fortune. Those wh 90Reads—Score—Shelves
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  11. 61 The Great Detective's Fight for Survival in the World of Rule-Based Horror 大侦探在规则怪谈世界求生 Mystery1.2M WordsOngoing No female lead + horror + livestreaming + high-IQ protagonist + character growth + System Su Qin transmigrated into a world polluted by Rule-Based Horror. Here, anyone might be selected by the horror livestream to become a Chosen One and clear a horror scenario. If they succeeded, the pollution in their country would be cleansed. If they failed, the horror would descend, causing the pollution to randomly worsen or contaminate something new. To stay alive, and to stop Blue Star from being pollute 65Reads8.9Score—Shelves
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  12. 62 Baiyang No. 1 High School: Strange Tales 白羊一中怪谈 Mystery211k WordsCompleted (School Urban Legends + Uncovering the Truth of the Past) Wang Xiaotian has just finished the college entrance exams when he suddenly transmigrates to Baiyang Middle School to take an entrance exam. This eerie school is full of students just like him. Why have they all ended up here? Their secrets gradually come to light. Rule-based horror, no female lead, no System, all mind games. Keep reading; the best parts are still to come. In short: twist after twist. There aren't many comments yet, but y 14Reads—Score—Shelves
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  13. 63 I Am a Female Sorcerer 在下女术师 Mystery2.5M WordsCompleted The night Bai Zhou returned home to inherit the funeral-clothing shop, someone tried to murder her... From the moment she came back from the dead, she was swept up in one eerie, chilling case after another. A dead old woman wandering through a funeral hall; vengeful spirits who died violent deaths scrambling to find substitutes; a sinister temple in the mountains where people are killed; evil spirits crying out for justice during a performance of Judge Bao... Watch Bai Zhou learn the Taoist Five 27.2kReads9.2Score4.6kShelves
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  14. 64 I Am a Feng Shui Diviner 我是风水女相师 Mystery1.0M WordsCompleted [Hilarious supernatural comedy + feel-good power fantasy + no romance + adored by all] My name is Zhao Xin. I was born in 2000, the Year of the Dragon. I've dealt with ghosts since I was little, and strange things are always around me. People think I'm a weirdo. They say I'm a crackpot, call me a fraud, and insist that sooner or later the ghosts will drag me away. But I refuse to believe in bad omens. To stay alive, I wandered from place to place with my family, visited sects and sought out m 2.8kReads8.9Score536Shelves
  15. 65 The Destined Immortal-Boned Female Face Reader 天命仙骨女相师 Mystery1.0M WordsCompleted I was born with the bones of a phoenix. Chen the Half-Immortal, who had spent half his life telling fortunes in the village, said I was the reincarnation of the living Bodhisattva worshipped in the village shrine. That was why I had a natural gift for discerning yin from yang and driving out ghosts and spirits. But before I turned six, I was an idiot, because someone had stolen my spiritual root with a forbidden art that defied heaven. Only after a master who came to ask my adoptive mother for h 294Reads9.3Score172Shelves
  16. 66 The Dragon King's Bride 龙王聘 Mystery1.4M WordsCompleted That year, I came down with a strange illness that nothing could cure. Then, on the night the blood moon hung high in the sky, my family decorated the house with lanterns and streamers. From that day on, I had a husband no one could see. Around that time, my mother warned me gravely that I must remain faithful to my husband and keep my distance from other men, or disaster would befall me! When I was nineteen, I broke the taboo, and he... appeared. 44.1kReads9.5Score6.3kShelves
  17. 67 The Soul Ferry Lantern 渡魂灯 Mystery1.0M WordsCompleted [Supernatural + mildly scary + episodic stories, a fast-paced ghost-hunting romp with all kinds of tricks!] Fire runs in my veins, and I'm cursed to bring bad luck. When I was fifteen, my father kicked me out. To survive, I climbed into a stone tomb. The strange knocking at the door of the funeral home at midnight, The body that mysteriously vanished after a fatal car crash, A headless old man, a talking human skin, and haunted schools and skyscrapers... I guide five-element spirits onward and f 21.6kReads9.2Score2.1kShelves
  18. 68 Supernatural: This Shop Only Opens at Midnight 灵异:这个店只在深夜开门 Mystery1.9M WordsCompleted I'm neither a yin-yang master nor an exorcist, but I do have an unusual left eye. I run a shop that opens only at midnight, serving customers who have run into special troubles. A little shop, a cup of tea for a guest, and so my story begins... 1.8kReads8.6Score208Shelves
  19. 69 Ghost Shop No. 81 81号鬼事铺 Mystery1.9M WordsCompleted Night blankets the city, and the things lurking in the shadows begin to stir. The raccoon dog granny who eats raw meat, the fitness girl with fish scales growing on her back. The wild foxes who approach people by the roadside, and the little convenience store in the cemetery. I've experienced all of these. And it all began after I witnessed a car accident... 51.3kReads9.2Score4.4kShelves
  20. 70 Thriller Game: From the Start, I Advised the Female Ghost to Study Hard! 惊悚游戏:开局劝女鬼好好学习! Mystery1.1M WordsCompleted [Supernatural instance dungeon: Class 3, Year 1 has finished loading. Players, get ready.] What happens when a hot-tempered young man enters a horror game? Xie Yao: “Why aren't you studying? What are you doing here!” Ghost student: “Big bro, I was wrong! Ah, don't hit my face!” Xie Yao: “Why is your mouth open? Have you finished your homework?” Slit-Mouthed Woman: “Please, I'll do it right now! Don't hit me!” Xie Yao turned around. “What are you doing?” All the ghosts: “Uh... we're being friendl 3.1kReads9.2Score356Shelves
  21. 71 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 Urban1.9M WordsCompleted [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
  22. 72 The Peter Pan Game 彼得潘游戏 Mystery259k WordsOngoing Earth’s resources are gradually running out... Boring people will be replaced by digital replicas... So keep your soul interesting... or hold on to a powerful obsession... Welcome to the Peter Pan Game... Provide emotional value to earn a ticket back to the real world. Female protagonist | Ensemble cast | No romance | Infinite-flow | Instances | Rule-based horror Fifty people lie in a huge room... This batch is pretty good... Three people are slowly waking up... 22Reads—Score—Shelves
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  23. 73 The Corpse-Talking Train 尸语列车 Mystery223k WordsOngoing Trapped aboard an infinite horror train with a 99% death rate, he has no System and no supernatural abilities. From the start, he’s thrown into the “Flesh Carriage,” where the rules spell certain death. But as a forensic pathologist with hyperthymesia, he remains exceptionally calm. With his perfect memory and mind palace, he mentally simulates his death ten thousand times, dissecting every loophole in the rules and every weakness of the strange creatures. While the other players are still despe —Reads—Score—Shelves
  24. 74 The Deadly Game 致命游戏 Mystery2.3M WordsCompleted A rich guy in the WeChat group is sending out red envelopes, and he wants the luckiest person to play a game with him. It turns out he wants the class beauty to... 2.7kReads9.0Score276Shelves
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  25. 75 Cold Case Unit 悬案组 Mystery2.2M WordsCompleted Behind many major and unsolved cases lies a truth no one knows. There’s no such thing as the worst, only worse. Read at your own risk if you’re fainthearted. 40Reads8.7Score—Shelves
  26. 76 Tales of the Haunted Mountain Village 山村诡事录 Urban893k WordsCompleted 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 4.3kReads9.1Score472Shelves
  27. 77 The Empty Grave 空坟 Mystery1.0M WordsCompleted Don't mess with the mirror in the house! After my favorite mirror disappeared, I began to fear the light. The doctor said I was allergic to sunlight, and I thought I was just sick. Until one day... I saw... my own grave! 1.6kReads9.0Score202Shelves
  28. 78 Tales of Folk Taboos 民间禁忌杂谈 Urban2.7M WordsCompleted A pig butcher never slaughters a pig with five toes. The village guardian never guards a village with a temple. A feng shui master never selects a lair of an evil dragon. A midwife must wash her hands in rooster’s blood. There are three hundred and sixty trades in the world, and every one has its rules. Are these ancient, mysterious rules really nothing more than empty formalities? If I told you that some rules must never be broken, because breaking them means death, would you believe me? 7.4kReads8.0Score1.1kShelves
  29. 79 The Night-Sealed Door 夜封门 Mystery2.3M WordsCompleted Seven months pregnant, the woman was brutally hounded to death, and her seven-month-old baby was thrown into a well. Her wronged soul is cut off from the road ahead, and evil spirits come to claim their due. The gates of hell swing open, and the underworld seals its doors in the dead of night. 2.2kReads8.3Score188Shelves
  30. 80 Blood Wedding 血嫁 Mystery442k WordsCompleted Ever since I received a strange hundred-yuan bill, every wedding I attend ends in bloodshed. The grooms have their throats slit, their blood splattering across the brides’ white gowns. Ten couples have died for no apparent reason, and I’m the only one who has seen the killer: the Grim Reaper, holding a scythe... A cold and aloof fiancé appears out of nowhere. A mysterious exorcist hides in a coffee shop. Strange supernatural incidents pull me into a terrifying, thrilling spiral. At last, the da 537Reads8.6Score—Shelves
  31. 81 The Last Bus on Route 13 13路末班车 Mystery813k WordsCompleted I'm the driver of the last bus on Route 13. Every night at eleven, I have to make a run to the suburbs. This book is addictive, so don't blame me if you can't put it down! In this novel, even the sharp-tongued readers who always guess the plot right will find themselves repeatedly proven wrong. You might find yourself asking, “What's going on? What's going on?” Don't doubt your sanity. Just keep reading. A story that keeps you on edge, here to save readers suffering from a reading drought! 20.5kReads9.2Score2.6kShelves
  32. 82 The Midnight Mantou Shop 午夜馒头铺 Mystery804k WordsCompleted Have you ever noticed that some breakfast shops serve food that's delicious most of the time, but for a couple of days each month, it suddenly tastes dry and is hard to swallow? Have you ever wondered if perhaps that breakfast food was never meant for people to eat...? 340Reads7.4Score—Shelves
  33. 83 Suppressing the Dragon 镇龙 Mystery2.2M WordsCompleted For one person, he dug up an ancient grave, broke into a dragon's tomb, and wielded the Yang Sword to slay yin spirits! An heir to a family of secret arts, he joins a group of men and women bound together by fate. Together, they travel far and wide, fighting monsters in the mountains, slaying evil in the cities, breaking into the underworld, and robbing ghost messengers... To change our fate, we defy the heavens! 3.6kReads8.8Score593Shelves
  34. 84 Thriller: Don't Blink! The Horror Is Just Beginning! 惊悚:别眨眼!恐怖才刚开始! Mystery213k WordsOngoing No heroine, no dragging things out, no holier-than-thou protagonist, and everyone has their wits about them Let’s play a game. The truth is right there the moment you open your eyes... Midnight... You’re suddenly pulled into a horror game. As you walk down a dilapidated hallway, an old man asks you for help. But instead, you smack him around a few times and make him tell you everything he knows... If this seems similar to something else, please don’t complain. Feel free to give my story a tr —Reads—Score—Shelves
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  35. 85 The City Is Overrun by the Supernatural, and She Treats Gods as Food 全城诡异,她把神明当口粮 Mystery146k WordsOngoing [No CP + strong heroine + ruthless and decisive + post-apocalyptic survival] “Shh, don’t make a sound. That eyeless lump of flesh outside the door kills by sound.” She woke to a world where the uncanny had arrived, and cities had become hunting grounds for monstrous creatures. Everyone trembled beneath the monsters’ claws. But Luo Ran, an overbearing corporate executive, would do anything to survive. She swallowed an uncanny core whole and began transforming into something inhuman! Superhuman he —Reads—Score—Shelves
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  36. 86 Do You Believe There Are Ghosts in This World? 你相信,这个世界上有鬼吗? Mystery896k WordsOngoing [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 32Reads—Score—Shelves
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  37. 87 Rule Horror: I Have a Strange Heart 规则怪谈:我有一颗诡异心 Mystery106k WordsOngoing [Rules Horror + Livestream + No Romance + National Fate + Original Scenarios + Cozy Horror] Rules horror descends upon Blue Star. Just as Feng Tuo is on the brink of death, he is pulled into a bizarre world and chosen to represent the Dragon Kingdom. To save his life, people in the real world give Feng Tuo a heart transplant, unaware that the heart is itself a horror. Xishan Cemetery is the best place to settle down after you die. We offer the finest service, so please make yourself at home and —Reads—Score—Shelves
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