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  1. 1 Ghostly Whispers at Midnight 夜半鬼语 Mystery87k WordsCompleted [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 8.1kReads9.0Score272Shelves
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  2. 2 Horror's Edge: 100 Absolutely Terrifying Ghost Stories 恐怖边界:100个绝对惊悚的鬼谈 Mystery432k WordsCompleted [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 2.5kReads8.7Score203Shelves
  3. 3 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 Mystery174k WordsCompleted [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, 1.7kReads8.9Score167Shelves
  4. 4 Northeastern China's Forbidden Secrets 东北禁忌手札 Mystery122k WordsCompleted [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 835Reads8.8Score108Shelves
  5. 5 The Midnight Ghost Market: Living People Keep Out 午夜鬼市,活人回避 Mystery592k WordsCompleted [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 2.8kReads9.1Score184Shelves
  6. 6 Vivid as Life 栩栩若生 Mystery2.3M WordsCompleted A fortune-teller said I was born destined for greatness, the reincarnation of the Flower Goddess, with the power to turn stones into gold and command flower spirits and tree sprites. Once I came of age, my family was sure to prosper. But when I was twelve, I came down with a strange illness. My fever wouldn’t break, and I kept seeing terrifying visions... In a dream, I met an old woman who told me to find an expert with supernatural powers to save my life. Millet to summon souls, altars and form 28.5kReads9.5Score3.9kShelves
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  7. 7 The Language of the Three Corpses 三尸语 Mystery1.1M WordsOngoing You’ve heard of people who died with their eyes open, but have you ever heard of a dead person whose mouth wouldn’t close? His grandfather’s death turns the life of a broke college student upside down. A corpse glares, a soul is hooked; a corpse opens its mouth, and disaster strikes twice. As one bizarre incident after another unfolds, he accidentally discovers that there’s far more to it than ghosts… 74.4kReads9.3Score10.6kShelves
  8. 8 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
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  9. 9 Horror Script: It Begins in the Baby-Crying Dormitory 惊悚剧本:从婴啼寝室开始 Mystery1.1M WordsOngoing (Dark tone) (Escape-room survival) (No System) (Not invincible: the protagonist dies if he is killed) (Not a conventional power fantasy) Chen Xian is pinned against the wall by a female ghost in a bathroom, and finds himself plunged into a terrifying instance! The cries of a baby in the dead of night... Students with eyes as blue as ghostly flames... A wedding dress stained crimson with blood... A mermaid covered in wriggling maggots... And... Teammates dying one after another... To stay alive a 15.5kReads9.2Score1.5kShelves
  10. 10 Super Scary Livestream 超级惊悚直播 Mystery2.2M WordsCompleted "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
  11. 11 The Spirit Medium's Hall: Let's See What This Client's Deal Is 出马鬼堂:我看看这缘主怎么个事 Mystery3.0M WordsOngoing My name is Zhou Tie. In this book, I'll tell the true story of my ten years running a spirit hall and serving ghosts. You've heard of spirit mediums... but have you heard of a ghost spirit hall? At eighteen, I established a ghost spirit hall and served ghost immortals! The presiding master was the sister my grandfather said had gone mad and died! This book has no female lead. It's not fantasy, and it's definitely not a cultivation novel! It's the true story of how I, born with an ominous yin con 45.4kReads9.6Score3.7kShelves
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  12. 12 Chou Xian'er 仇仙儿 Mystery113k WordsCompleted Good demons are for Fahai to handle, and bad ghosts need bad people to deal with them. If life is already miserable, who cares if you end up in the frying pan after death! If you won’t let me, Chen Guang, live in peace, then what the hell am I cultivating merit for? One word: fight to the bitter end! 1.9kReads—Score167Shelves
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  13. 13 The Spirit Medium's Strange Cases 通灵诡事 Mystery2.0M WordsCompleted Parental love? I have none. From the moment I was born, they wanted to strangle me. Sibling affection? I have none. My own brother calls me a country bumpkin. Friendship with my peers? I have none. Everyone in the village says I'm a demon in human form who eats children. Love? What even is that? The first time I saw Qi Yue, I just thought he looked clean-cut and handsome. The next time I saw him, I found out his mother was the woman who had gone looking for Fourth Auntie years ago. Only now, she 2.7kReads9.2Score467Shelves
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  14. 14 Snake Immortal 蛇仙 Mystery2.0M WordsCompleted [The animated series Seven Days of Snake Entanglement is now streaming] My name is An Xin. On the day of the “Azure Dragon Wedding,” my great-grandfather killed a green snake and a white snake. The villagers said they were about to grow horns, transform into flood dragons, ascend, and become snake immortals. The night I was born, my grandfather knelt in the Snake Temple all night before my mother could give birth to me. He died in the temple. Ever since I was little, a snake has appeared in my d 6.6kReads9.3Score1.1kShelves
  15. 15 The Folk Feng Shui Master 民间风水之王 Mystery3.0M WordsCompleted 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! 56kReads9.4Score7.1kShelves
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  16. 16 A Horror Story Lives Next Door 你的隔壁住着恐怖故事 Mystery130k WordsCompleted Have you ever noticed how horror lurks everywhere in your everyday life? Listen. Listen closely... Where does horror come from? Nothing is scarier than reality. The unknown parts of our real lives, and the anxieties and desires we feel about them, are the greatest sources of horror. 11kReads9.4Score1.7kShelves
  17. 17 Strange Tales Livestream 怪谈直播间 Mystery3.1M WordsCompleted The sound of meat being chopped eerily echoes through a bun shop in the dead of night. The passengers on the last bus all have the same face. On a freezing, rainy night, someone wearing funeral clothes wanders the streets... The Strange Tales livestream takes you deep into the hidden side of this world! 16.8kReads8.9Score1.5kShelves
  18. 18 The Age of Terror: Unlucky Me Tests Beds in the Underworld! 惊悚时代:倒霉的我试睡黄泉! Mystery678k WordsCompleted [Thriller Game] [No Female Lead] [Decisive and Ruthless] Thriller Game descends upon the world, and the realm of ghosts intertwines with reality. Humans and ghosts fight to the death, while Li Dao struggles to find a sliver of hope in the cracks between them. Born burdened by misfortune, neither the living nor the ghosts can make him stop. He has only one goal. To survive! He becomes the temporary proprietor of the Yellow Springs Inn, then a warm and kindly landlord at the Happy Apartments. At C 87Reads7.3Score—Shelves
  19. 19 Out of Control 失控者 Mystery100k WordsCompleted [Anthology stories + supernatural horror + folk customs + feng shui and mysticism + subtle scares + jaw-dropping twists] Open a paper box sealed away for many years, and one terrifying incident after another begins to surface. The massacre that wiped out an entire family in Nanhua Estate, and the deaths of everyone connected to the case! A bride in a red qipao appearing by your side in the dead of night! Strange legends circulate through a dilapidated high-rise, where hands reach out of the dark 15Reads—Score—Shelves
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  20. 20 After She Died, She Became the Bewitching Yin Emperor's Beloved 她死后,成了邪魅阴天子的掌心宠 Modern Romance243k WordsOngoing Also known as The Yin Emperor’s Consort [Announcement: This book is undergoing major revisions. In the meantime, please skip straight to Chapter 100. Thanks, curious readers!] Genre: Contemporary Romance [Supernatural + Bizarre + Humor + Episodic Stories] As the saying goes, “I decide my fate, not Heaven!” The King of Hell says you’ll die at the third watch, but Yang Ning wants to be dead before the second! Orphaned and alone since childhood, Yang Ning is framed by someone and ends up on the ope 9Reads—Score—Shelves
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  21. 21 The Dragon Maiden as My Wife 龙女为妻 Mystery214k WordsOngoing My grandfather’s family was originally from Tibet, but he eventually made his way inland. Although his ancestors were shamans, he was also a skilled doctor. From as far back as I can remember, he was a well-known practitioner of traditional Chinese medicine in our area. His medical skills supported Grandma and me, and put me through university. Ever since I was little, Grandma told me I wasn’t her biological granddaughter. Grandpa had found me in a dry well while he was out on an errand. He and —Reads—Score—Shelves
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  22. 22 Ghost Tamer: I Contracted a Hundred Million S-Rank Ghosts! 御鬼师:我契约了亿只S级鬼物! Mystery2.7M WordsCompleted [Looting bamboo shoots + ghostly resurgence + ghost taming + one female lead + comedy = 100,000 new words every week?] The comic of the same name, Global Ghost Tamer: I Have Hundreds of Millions of Ghosts Inside Me, is now available on Fanqie. Lin Mo was playing games in class when he transmigrated to a parallel world overrun by ghosts. With the worst talent of all, he unexpectedly gained the Defense-Breaking System. As long as he could make a ghost lose its composure, he could force it into a c 80.6kReads9.4Score11.1kShelves
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  23. 23 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
  24. 24 Rule Horror: My Family Isn't Normal 规则怪谈:我的家人不正常 Mystery1.2M WordsCompleted [Horror + mystery + livestream + national fate + System] The supernatural returns, and rule-based horror games invade countries around the world. As one chosen by fate, Zhou Bai represents the Great Xia Kingdom in a horror game. The first scenario is a family of four. [You live with your wife and your parents. But remember, there are only three people in your home.] [You can trust your wife, unless she takes off her red hair clip.] [You and your wife have never had a child. If you hear a baby cr 53kReads9.4Score7.5kShelves
  25. 25 The Fake Master Walks Between Yin and Yang: Sweet-Talking the Living, Battling Vengeful Ghosts 冒牌大师走阴阳:哄完活人斗厉鬼 Mystery1.0M WordsCompleted The thing Liu Buyi, a fake master, regrets most in his life is learning how to “draw talismans with soy sauce” from a short video. Because the corpse that should be lying quietly in front of him is now using a soy-sauce-dipped finger to write his name on the coffin lid. Meanwhile, his half-baked beauty of a partner, An Xun, is munching on sunflower seeds and enjoying the show. “Didn't you say you had Yin-Yang Eyes?!” Liu Buyi's voice trembles. Seeing how unconcerned she looks, he almost passes o 607Reads—Score109Shelves
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  26. 26 How to Heal a God 治愈神明的方式 Mystery521k WordsOngoing The Cangshan Sanatorium has only one rule for its caregivers: observe, record, and never understand. Senior caregiver Cheng Jiuyue has followed it for three years, until a new visitor, Zhang Sanfeng, is admitted. His file contains just one line: “Claims to have fully experienced 137 cycles of reincarnation. Classification: undetermined.” From that day on, the sanatorium begins to spiral out of control. A blind old woman's scarf predicts death. A sleepless veteran digs up the bones of the Norse —Reads—Score—Shelves
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  27. 27 The One Who Borrows Lives from the Underworld 阴间借命人 Mystery1.3M WordsCompleted [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 2.4kReads9.1Score272Shelves
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  28. 28 Tales of Strange Happenings in the Countryside 乡村诡事录 Mystery156k WordsCompleted 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 1.9kReads9.1Score134Shelves
  29. 29 After Faking My Death, I Really Became a Ghost 我假死后真的变成了鬼 Mystery9k WordsCompleted After I Faked My Death, I Really Became a Ghost —Reads—Score—Shelves
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  30. 30 The Nation-Guarding Green Satchel 镇国青囊 Mystery120k WordsOngoing My new work is out! You’re welcome to read it on Tomato Novel. I hope you’ll enjoy it. Your support motivates me to write, and I’ll do my best to tell every story well! Lin Changqing is a young inheritor of the occult arts who tends a shabby fortune-telling stall and is dismissed by the neighbors as a “charlatan.” He has never been wrong, yet he abides by three rules: he won’t predict the fate of the nation, reveal the secrets of heaven, or tell the fortune of someone who is about to die. Then o —Reads—Score—Shelves
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  31. 31 The Evil Buried in the Earth: A Record of Strange Folk Tales 大地藏邪之民间诡事录 Mystery215k WordsOngoing [Mystery + supernatural horror + secrets of the Yellow River + folk tales] Travel across the length and breadth of the land, witnessing every kind of evil spirit in the world! Recover corpses from the depths of the Yellow River and ferry lost souls across. A thousand-year-old city sealed beneath the water hides deadly danger; an ancient well in the capital suppresses endless fiends, and a shuddering chain throws the surrounding lands into chaos. Deep in the mountains beyond the passes, the Five 11Reads—Score—Shelves
  32. 32 The Ghost King Is Sealed Inside Me, Yet I’m a Good-for-Nothing 体内封印鬼王,我却是个废柴 Mystery1.1M WordsCompleted A rainy night in a cemetery, a man-eating black cat, a man searching for his late daughter, a school guard hanged on the stairs, a wedding coffin sealed with red paper, a grotesque face hiding in a mirror... What secrets lie behind it all? What other mysterious events will Wang Shier, the gravekeeper, have to face? As terror and dread slowly close in, those secrets seem to be steering his fate. (The stories in this book are all adapted from real events. If anything sounds familiar, it is pure co 11Reads6.4Score—Shelves
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  33. 33 Eerie Tattoos 诡纹 Mystery3.9M WordsCompleted My grandfather was a tattoo artist, but the things he tattooed were seriously sinister… 9.3kReads9.1Score920Shelves
  34. 34 The Living Must Keep Away 活人回避 Mystery3.7M WordsCompleted Originally titled Living People, Keep Away. An antique set me on a desperate path. From then on, just to stay alive, I became a yin walker who dealt with the dead and the walking corpses. Three years searching for dragon veins, ten years locating acupoints, roaming between yin and yang, dealing in ghosts and spirits. I kept walking, struggling my way to where I am today. 3.3kReads8.9Score359Shelves
  35. 35 The Years I Spent as a Funeral Mourner 我当哭丧人的那些年 Mystery302k WordsCompleted Some people must be mourned loudly when they are laid to rest. Otherwise, according to old folk customs, it is considered an act of filial impiety. After I was born, everyone in my family except my grandfather died because of me. My grandfather fell gravely ill, and to earn money for his treatment, I had no choice but to join Zhang the Elder, a man from my village, as a professional funeral mourner. From then on, I set out on a path of mourning with no return! 137Reads8.6Score—Shelves
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  36. 36 I Am Not a Paper Spirit 我不是纸仙 Mystery796k WordsCompleted A paper effigy is made by folding paper into the shape of a person, so it can take on another's sins, endure their punishment, and bear the consequences of their karma. I was an orphan from a young age, adopted by my master. He was a paper effigy maker, and when I was nineteen, I learned his craft. That set me on a road of no return and turned me into a jinx. Before long, I brought about my master's death. Through one mistake, I turned a “Lovers' Fold” into a “Life-Damaging Fold,” creating a pap 43Reads7.6Score—Shelves
  37. 37 The Sealed Coffin Opens, and I Stitch the Vengeful Dead Back to Life 绝户棺开,我缝万鬼来复仇 Mystery200k WordsOngoing On my twentieth birthday, my fiancée Bai Chuchu smiled like a flower as she personally gouged out my innate spirit eyes, all to steal my fortune and help her family reach the pinnacle of power. She nailed me inside a coffin sealed to leave no descendants, then buried me alive in a cavern of ten thousand ghosts, where I suffered as they devoured me. She mocked my lowly yin fate, saying I was fit only to be a stepping stone on her path to immortality. But she didn't know that my bloodline is a for 2Reads—Score—Shelves
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  38. 38 Master DS 大师DS Mystery168k WordsCompleted I, Li Hai, encountered supernatural events while at university. With the help of Shen Muzhi, whom many people call Master Shen, I managed to rid myself of those “filthy things.” Later, when my childhood friend was plagued by supernatural happenings, I took him to seek Master Shen’s help again. These two incidents filled me with curiosity about Master Shen and his work, and somehow I ended up becoming his assistant. From then on, I investigated all kinds of supernatural events alongside Master Sh 5Reads—Score—Shelves
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  39. 39 Severing the Dragon Vein 断命龙脉 Mystery221k WordsOngoing The men of the Gu family never live past forty. After his father, Gu Mingyuan, dies, Gu Chenchuan follows a train ticket to Baihe, a bloodstained compass, and a few unfinished last words into the old trails of the Changbai Mountains. But the deeper he digs, the more he realizes that the Gu family has not simply been haunted or cursed. They have been caught in a living account, buried for many years, that refuses to let go. From Baihe to Tamen Peak, from the Changbai Mountains to an old well in t 1Reads—Score—Shelves
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  40. 40 Autopsy Report: Suspect Zero 尸检报告:零号嫌疑人 Mystery225k WordsOngoing Qin Mo, chief forensic examiner at the Jingang Public Security Bureau, teams up with rookie forensic assistant Lin Wan. Through meticulous autopsies, they dismantle one seemingly airtight murder case after another, identify the overlooked prime suspect through the silent testimony of the dead, and uncover the truth behind concealed deaths. —Reads—Score—Shelves
  41. 41 Tianxuan Paranormal Affairs Office 天玄灵异事务所 Mystery541k WordsCompleted - [Infinite Flow + Urban Supernatural + Chinese-Style Horror + Folk Legends and Hauntings + Celestial Master Exorcists + Heirs to the Daoist Tradition + Heterochromatic-Eyed Heroine + Haunted House Tales + Episodic Stories + Folk Taboos] - Hidden deep in the bustling streets is an inconspicuous supernatural affairs office called Tianxuan. - No one dares touch the folk taboos of this world. Haunted houses are plagued by unsolved horrors, abandoned villages and ancient mansions seethe with resentm 778Reads—Score101Shelves
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  42. 42 Endless Killing Intent: At Midnight, the God of Death Passes Judgment 无尽杀机:午夜12点,死神断罪 Urban354k WordsCompleted [Do-gooders, stay away] [Does not join any organization] [No female lead] [Ruler of the myriad worlds] A mysterious Reaper's Judgment System can drag evil people into illusory worlds and make them face terrifying trials and judgment! “At midnight, the Reaper judges. Justice and fairness prevail. Life and death are left to fate!” [Within China's borders, evil will find no quarter] Whoever you are, don't commit evil, or you'll be the next to face judgment! Illusory worlds: Buried, Wrong Turn, Saw. 964Reads8.7Score107Shelves
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  43. 43 749 Bureau: Strange Case Investigations 749局:奇案调查 Mystery254k WordsCompleted Liu Shui experienced a supernatural event as a child, during which his only family member disappeared without a trace. As an adult, Liu Shui is recruited by Bureau 749, an agency dedicated to investigating supernatural events. Under the guidance of his superior, Han Jiu, he begins investigating a string of mysterious cases. A shadowy figure on the last bus, a vampire attacking a zoo, a master craftsman with a thousand faces who sells bizarre artifacts, an alien creature with extraterrestrial tra 2.6kReads8.9Score219Shelves
  44. 44 The Phoenix of Qishan 岐山凤 Mystery403k WordsOngoing [Mystery × Lovecraftian Horror × The Uncanny] When an archaeologist’s trowel uncovers more than yellow earth, it awakens the primordial whispers sealed away by blood sacrifice Zhang Ji, an archaeology student at Huanbei University, encounters a bizarre sacrificial pit during his graduation fieldwork in Mop an Village. Pottery basins, ox bones, red earth, stone slabs, and shells are buried according to a pattern no one can understand. Disturb them, and they awaken an indescribable “presence” dee 14Reads7.5Score—Shelves
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  45. 45 The Daoist's Notebook 道门笔记 Mystery457k WordsCompleted On a rainy night in Suzhou, a night watchman comes across a barefoot, waterlogged corpse. Its face is blue, its fangs bared, and beneath the black chrysanthemum mark between its brows, something writhes under the flesh, making the skin bulge in terrifying waves. The Thunder Talisman from Longhu Mountain has barely warmed in his hands when the corpse vanishes, leaving only a sickly-sweet black mist curling around an old Daoist at the street corner. Hong Ying, a Miao woman, watches her golden sil 26Reads8.8Score—Shelves
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  46. 46 Hiring a Handsome Guy to Guard the House 雇个帅哥来镇宅 Mystery1.1M WordsOngoing [Horror, one heroine] What do you do when you’re nearly broke? With no other options, Shang Yi reluctantly took a night-shift job, and it completely upended his worldview! The elevator, hallways, underground parking garage, bathrooms… Those places were already enough to give him a headache. But what troubled him even more was the attention he got from beautiful women… Strange incidents kept happening in the residential complex, yet the residents went on living there as if nothing were wrong. The 57Reads—Score—Shelves
  47. 47 The Dark Realm of the Uncanny 谲暗物境 Mystery118k WordsOngoing Lin Xue, a classmate of Qin Chuan and Ye Xin, mysteriously vanishes inside an abandoned old school building. Even stranger, everyone around them except Qin Chuan and Ye Xin has forgotten that Lin Xue ever existed. Determined to uncover the truth, Qin Chuan and Ye Xin embark on a strange and unsettling investigation. One inexplicable event after another follows. Yet when the truth finally comes to light, it turns everyone's understanding upside down! 1Reads—Score—Shelves
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  48. 48 The Celestial Master’s Verdict 天师决 Mystery773k WordsOngoing The living have their police, and the dead have their ghost officials. By a twist of fate, an old ghost who has lost all memories of his previous life joins the nation's paranormal affairs department and begins a journey of capturing ghosts and growing stronger. One battle after another awakens all of his memories. A thousand ghosts, a thousand forms; ghosts roaming the night; Xingluo's voodoo curses; Japanese shikigami; Western demons; rebels from the Underworld. One by one, a conspiracy target 16Reads—Score—Shelves
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  49. 49 The Shelter Goes Out of Control: Everyone's Personality Takes on the Dark Forces! 收容所失控:全员人格硬撼黑手! Mystery751k WordsCompleted [Suspense + Supernatural + Multiple Personality Switching + No Saintly Heroics + Endless Twists + Ruthless and Decisive] [The rating just came out, so it’ll gradually rise] Su Zhe, a teenager framed by psychiatrist Chen Jingxing as a “personality aberration,” harbors seven noisy, bickering negative personalities within him. At the brink of despair, an eighth uninvited guest arrives: the top serial killer known as “Shadow Nightmare,” whom the authorities have officially declared dead. As the rest 94Reads9.3Score—Shelves
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  50. 50 Snowfall: A Record of Strange Tales from China 惊雪:中华异事录 Mystery1.3M WordsOngoing [Two generations, multiple timelines, ghost hunting, Taoist arts, mysteries, wuxia, ensemble cast] *The chief disciple of the Shangqing sect of the Zhengyi school: a peerless martial artist and master of Taoist arts... *A master of the Swallow Sect, known throughout the martial world as Swallow Li San... *A female Nationalist secret agent, clever and icy... During the Republican era, disciples of the Taoist sects are ordered down the mountain. Amid the raging flames of war, they fight the invade 158Reads8.5Score—Shelves