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  1. 101 Tales of My Best Friend's Haunting 闺蜜诡事录 Mystery32k WordsCompleted Tales of Strange Events Among Best Friends 8Reads—Score—Shelves
  2. 102 The Debt Beneath the River, Billed in My Name 河底那笔账,记在我名下 Mystery57k WordsCompleted The debt at the bottom of the river is in my name 18Reads—Score—Shelves
  3. 103 The Blind Woman’s Wedding 盲女的婚礼 32k WordsCompleted The Blind Girl's Wedding 32Reads—Score—Shelves
  4. 104 Records of the Tang Dynasty Zombies 大唐丧尸录 Mystery58k WordsCompleted The Tang Dynasty Zombie Chronicles 6Reads—Score—Shelves
  5. 105 At Midnight, My Best Friend Asked Me to Go Fishing 半夜十二点,闺蜜喊我去钓鱼 Mystery58k WordsCompleted At Midnight, My Best Friend Asked Me to Go Fishing 8Reads—Score—Shelves
  6. 106 The Wife’s Coffin Smoke 妻棺烟 58k WordsCompleted The Wife's Coffin Smoke 8Reads—Score—Shelves
  7. 107 Married Off While Driving Corpses 赶尸上嫁 54k WordsCompleted Marrying into a Corpse-Chasing Family 8Reads—Score—Shelves
  8. 108 The Qingling Rankings 清凌榜 43k WordsCompleted The Qingling Rankings 2Reads—Score—Shelves
  9. 109 The Girlfriend Who Disappeared 我消失的女朋友 Sci-Fi & Apocalypse60k WordsCompleted My Girlfriend Who Disappeared 12Reads—Score—Shelves
  10. 110 The Mysterious Domain City 诡秘域都 99k WordsCompleted The Mysterious Domain City 3Reads—Score—Shelves
  11. 111 The Strange Sword 诡剑 98k WordsCompleted The Ghost Sword 3Reads—Score—Shelves
  12. 112 Chronicles of the Kings 王者战纪 Urban128k WordsOngoing See how Wang Ze, an amnesiac, down-on-his-luck prince transmigrated to another world, saves the apocalypse, and becomes the strongest king. Manchester is a metropolis that can hold several hundred million people. With such a huge population density, it's only natural that there are buildings everywhere. It's a city with a staggering five hundred floors above ground and a hundred below. As for transportation, there are plenty of options: flying cars, airships, subways, brooms, all kinds of flying 1Reads—Score—Shelves
  13. 113 The Sacred Emperor of War 斗战圣帝 Eastern Fantasy161k WordsOngoing A young man who can't find a job after graduating transmigrates to another world by chance. He has no golden finger, but by gathering cultivation resources from the droppings of exotic beasts, he makes a successful comeback and becomes a martial artist. In this other world, where everyone values martial prowess, he relies on his grit and social savvy to fight his way through every obstacle, eventually becoming a great emperor: the Battle Saint Emperor. 3Reads—Score—Shelves
  14. 114 Transmigrated to Another World to Work as a Cleaner 穿越异界干保洁 Urban27k WordsOngoing There isn't just one system of power in the world! Flying cars, lightsabers, talismans, virtual reality, artificial intelligence... Is it science or fantasy? A top game developer transmigrates to another world just to lie flat and take a job as a cleaner?! Is it a distortion of human nature or a collapse of morality...? 1Reads—Score—Shelves
  15. 115 The Nine Tripods Shrouded in Dust 九鼎蒙尘 Mystery644k WordsOngoing History student Chu Ye inherits his grandfather’s bronze compass, only to brush against the buried secrets of Huaxia: Reflections in mirrors begin devouring the living. A hundred-year-old shamanic corpse, wrapped in chains, crawls from the depths of the Yellow River. Ancient gods stir in Chang’an’s ley lines, fed by the dance of a noble consort. The bloodline ability he is forced to awaken, “Empathic Sense,” is both a key to glimpsing the truth and a curse that drives him toward madness: Each ti 14Reads—Score—Shelves
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  16. 116 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 2.5kReads9.1Score236Shelves
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  17. 117 The Forbidden Covenant Stele: Each Rule I Trace Costs Me Something 禁约碑:每拓一条规则,便失一物 Mystery238k WordsOngoing [Folk Horror] [Rule Horror] [No System] [Infinite Flow] For generations, the Yan family has made rubbings of ancient steles. Our ancestral copper seal and purple bamboo brush can reveal the obsessions of the dead beneath the stone, but every forbidden stele we make a rubbing of costs us something forever. My grandfather vanished thirty years ago at the Cizhou Kiln in Hebei, leaving behind only one last warning: Don't touch the stele of commandments carved with lotus patterns. —Reads—Score—Shelves
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  18. 118 Yin-Yang Eye Realtor: Selling Haunted Houses in Chongqing 阴阳眼中介:我在重庆卖凶宅 Mystery632k WordsCompleted A novel inspired by local Chongqing legends and historical anecdotes. This story is entirely fictional. As a child, the protagonist gained the ability to see yin and yang from a Qing dynasty skeleton. His family’s ancestral ledger is filled with secrets of old Chongqing. The folklore is meticulously researched, with traceable details ranging from place names and historical anecdotes to traditional remedies and feng shui formations. Each haunted house seems like a self-contained case, but in trut 194Reads8.3Score—Shelves
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  19. 119 You Hired Me to Collect Bodies, So I Dissected My Ex-Girlfriend 让你当收尸人,你直接解刨了前女友 Mystery4.6M WordsOngoing In anatomy class, the corpse turns out to be my ex-girlfriend... After that, I went through all sorts of unbelievable things. A bus that only goes up, never down, and runs straight to a reservoir. An old scholar tree in the hospital, lush with branches and leaves, that swallows people whole. A giant catfish by the Qingshui River, begging people for help every night. And a deadly brothel hung with human skin, open for business without end. It went on and on, as if it would never come to an end... 62.6kReads9.4Score2.3kShelves
  20. 120 The Celestial Master Is Here: Qimen Feng Shui Shakes the World 天师在此,奇门风水震天下 Mystery6.3M WordsCompleted [Several short dramas have been adapted from this novel: Feng Shui Heavenly Master, The Grand Master of Qimen Feng Shui, The Heavenly Master Is Here, Qimen Feng Shui Shakes the World, Notes of a Folk Feng Shui Master, and others] Everything in this book is fictional. Just enjoy the story, don’t take it seriously, and don’t get too caught up in it... 248.3kReads9.1Score59.8kShelves
  21. 121 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 1.2kReads—Score101Shelves
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  22. 122 Sacrificial Rite 衋祀 Mystery120k WordsOngoing [Chinese Folk Customs] [Lovecraftian Weirdness] [Closed-Loop Fate] [Original Worldbuilding] "Things can undergo mutations, and their behavior is unpredictable." "If you encounter an anomaly, don't let it notice you." "You can trust yourself, but don't trust yourself." "Communications can no longer be trusted. Do not respond to any 'voices' from the unknown." This was a notice from the Red Moon Safety Bureau. In the dead city, Li Yuan had seen crooked signs, headless shadows, and reflections in t —Reads—Score—Shelves
  23. 123 Carrying the Living and the Dead 载人也载鬼 Mystery1.2M WordsCompleted After losing his job, the protagonist plans to buy a car and drive for a rideshare service. Instead, he ends up buying a Soul-Ring Car and helps a female ghost solve the mystery of her death. He then becomes a rideshare driver who transports ghosts. 11.3kReads8.4Score767Shelves
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  24. 124 I Refine the Heavens Through Dungeon Runs 我以副本炼诸天 Mystery265k WordsCompleted (Folk customs and rule-based horror + Lovecraftian demon martial arts in a chaotic age) With a chipped bowl, Chen Wen created the first instance. Humanity entered it, fighting desperately to survive, studying strategies, and competing for supernatural power. They thought they were players. But in Chen Wen's eyes, they were nothing but nourishment. Fear completed the rules, failure gave birth to taboos, death sank into history, and strategies nurtured the world. As the entire world went mad for t 86Reads5.2Score—Shelves
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  25. 125 EN With a Fox Immortal, I Subdue a Hundred Ghosts 我以狐仙镇百鬼 Mystery10.3M WordsOngoing The day I was born, nineteen bolts of thunder struck around our family’s courtyard. A fortune-teller said I was born a demon child, fated to suffer eighteen calamities in my life. Either someone else would die, or I would. As it turned out, the fortune-teller met his own calamity on the very day I was born. He carried me out of the village, and suddenly dropped dead! 748.4kReads9.4Score43kShelves
  26. 126 Supreme Ghost and Fiend Tamer 太上御鬼煞 Mystery2.0M WordsCompleted When heaven and earth first emerged, chaos was divided; demons and monsters each claimed dominion. If anyone masters my Supreme Way, all ghosts and gods in the human realm will bow to them. [No female lead] [Semi-invincible protagonist] [A spectacular start from the very beginning] [Parallel-world supernatural fantasy] [Ensemble cast] The Supreme Taoist Li Changsheng series! Li Changsheng, the younger brother of the Dao Ancestor Laozi, also known as Li Er, makes a solemn vow: 22.8kReads9.2Score1.9kShelves
  27. 127 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 54Reads—Score—Shelves
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  28. 128 The Yin-Yang Hot Pot Restaurant 阴阳火锅店 Mystery806k WordsCompleted I took over a hot pot restaurant from my second uncle. He told me never to serve customers a yuan yang hot pot after midnight! After I took over the place, everything I believed in began to crumble... One night, I wasn't paying attention and served a couple a yuan yang hot pot. The next day, I saw in the newspaper that the couple had died! They'd jumped to their deaths together! After that, every night at midnight, a strange couple would appear in my restaurant and ask me to make them a yuan yan 676Reads7.7Score—Shelves
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  29. 129 The Woman in the Closet 柜子里的女人 Mystery6k WordsCompleted The Woman in the Cabinet 55Reads—Score—Shelves
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  30. 130 Secret Art: I Transmigrate and Fight to Survive in a Bizarre World 秘法穿越:我在诡异世界极限逃生 14k WordsCompleted Secret Art Transmigration: My Extreme Escape in a World of the Uncanny 95Reads—Score—Shelves
  31. 131 The Haunted Cabinet Opens by Itself Every Night, Long Hair Drags People Inside 凶柜夜夜自开,青丝缠人拖入柜 18k WordsCompleted The sinister cabinet opens by itself every night, and strands of black hair coil around people and drag them inside. 33Reads—Score—Shelves
  32. 132 Whispers by the Candlelit Ruins 幽庭烛烬语 Mystery1.3M WordsOngoing In the dead of night, countless eerie secrets lurk in the dark folds of the city. The knocking in an old apartment, known as “Knocking at Midnight,” rings out like clockwork at three in the morning. When a woman living alone peers through the peephole, all she sees is a roiling cloud of scarlet blood mist in the hallway, while a damp scratching comes from the doorknob. In the basement of a century-old apothecary, “Whispers in the Medicine Crock” never cease, day or night. Every night at midnight 3Reads—Score—Shelves
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  33. 133 I Might Have Changed the Wrong Fate 我可能改了个假命 Mystery808k WordsCompleted When I was little, my mom asked a Taoist priest to tell my fortune. He said I'd face a calamity at 26, and that he'd come help me get through it the day before my 26th birthday. When the day finally came, the priest really did show up to change my fate. He even gave me a “Fate-Changing Ruler” and told me I had to change the fates of seven people with different destinies to survive the calamity. Otherwise, I'd only have five years left to live. So much for changing my fate for me! Did he only cha 76Reads8.9Score—Shelves
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  34. 134 My Years as a Buddhist Nun 我当师太的那些年 Mystery1.6M WordsCompleted I was born a girl with a Pure Yang fate into a family of feng shui masters. For generations, my family had practiced feng shui in the countryside. My grandfather had hoped his eldest grandchild would be a boy, so he could pass down his skills to the eldest son and grandson. But I turned out to be a girl. Grandfather never took a liking to me, so my parents could only take me to live in the city. No one expected that, during the Ghost Festival in the year I turned twenty-five, Grandfather would s 420Reads8.7Score—Shelves
  35. 135 I Run a Paper Effigy Shop 我有一间扎纸店 Mystery806k WordsCompleted I Have a Paper Effigy Shop tells the story of the protagonist, Liu Dabao, who runs a shop making paper effigies. One day, a guy named Li Xunhuan asked me to burn him a villa and gave me a jade pendant, saying someone would come to collect it later. That evening, a woman came to pick up the pendant and gave me a thousand yuan. But who could have guessed that the next day, the money vanished and turned into a pile of white paper! Was it ghost money for the dead? Were Li Xunhuan and that woman both 134Reads8.7Score—Shelves
  36. 136 It's All the Haunted House's Fault 都是凶宅惹的祸 Mystery907k WordsCompleted I'm a mystery writer. In search of inspiration, I moved into a house rumored to be haunted. Every night, a horribly disfigured face appeared in the window, and outside, the rotten corpse of a woman hung from a tree. I realized then that this really was a haunted house! Gradually, my family began acting strangely, and we even found a mummified corpse sealed inside the wall for years! As I investigated further, I came across something even more terrifying… 71Reads8.7Score—Shelves
  37. 137 Corpse-Walking Notes 2: The Myriad Forms Celestial Palace 《赶尸笔记2》万象天宫 Mystery112k WordsCompleted Corpses driven along by corpse herders are known in the martial world as "corpses traveling ten thousand miles." It is said that in the Xiangxi region, some people make a living herding corpses. The Corpse Sect is one such group. Qin Shuang runs a funeral business; Brother Jiu has ties to both the underworld and the police; Haozi has just gotten out of prison; Baldy makes his living robbing and relocating tombs; and mute A-Wu is a skilled fighter shrouded in mystery. What kind of extraordinary s 122Reads8.7Score—Shelves
  38. 138 The Best Feng Shui Master on the Construction Site 工地最强建筑风水师 Mystery1.8M WordsOngoing [If this caught your eye, it must be fate. Don't scroll away just yet.] This novel (campus opening + wild imagination + an expansive world) combines feng shui and the supernatural (using feng shui to weave the plot together), fantasy, magic, science fiction, parallel worlds, and time travel to the past. The pace picks up dramatically after Chapter 30, and the story strongly promotes traditional Chinese culture. Also known as From the Start with a Treasure Gourd to Help Me Destroy Demons Also kno 2.2kReads8.3Score265Shelves
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  39. 139 The First Half of a Female Spirit Medium’s Life! 出马女弟子的前半生! Mystery325k WordsCompleted I’m an ordinary country girl from Northeast China. When I was 18, I learned that I was born with a connection to the immortals. I was often unwell in all sorts of ways, and I sought out many spirit mediums, hoping they could help me escape my predicament. I was cheated, but I also met kind people. This is the story of how I eventually found my way out. I decided to write this book to keep more people from being scammed. I can’t guarantee that everything I say is right, but I can guarantee that I 8.8kReads9.4Score692Shelves
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  40. 140 The Five Elements of the Phoenix Crown 凤冠五行 Urban361k WordsCompleted As the name suggests, the “Four Fiends” are four experts. “Bone-Crushing Hand” Xu Haozheng has perfected his iron-body techniques, making him as indestructible as steel from head to toe. He is also incredibly strong, and they say his iron palms can shatter stone tablets and break jade. “Ghostly Hand” Liu Rufeng is a master of hidden weapons. No one knows how many he carries, and his movements are like a specter, fast as lightning! Then there are the “Yin-Yang Poison Corpses,” the Golden Boy and 6Reads8.3Score—Shelves
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  41. 141 Chronicles of Strange Folk Tales 民间怪谈事件录 Mystery351k WordsCompleted Not for the faint of heart! Not for the faint of heart! Not for the faint of heart! The 1980s and 1990s saw one bizarre incident after another in Jubao Village: Zhao Laohei, who rose from the dead at the execution ground... The woman who hanged herself in town, her whole face turned a purplish black... The ghost child encountered during a game of hide-and-seek on the Ghost Festival... The terrifying bamboo fiend in the old bamboo grove... People and ghosts playing cards in a yin-yang card game.. 216Reads—Score—Shelves
  42. 142 Notes from Blackwind Pass 黑风口札记 Mystery705k WordsCompleted An aged, yellowed scroll of sheepskin and half of a broken meteorite jade entwine the fates of Lin Yan, a university history student, and Su Qing, a restorer of ancient jade. The mystery of their ancestors dying together at Heifeng Pass sends the pair into the deserts of the Western Regions, unaware that they are caught in a cycle of fate spanning three generations. Does the bronze compass point to the treacherous mechanisms of a prehistoric ruin, or to a secret their ancestors gave their lives 23Reads7.7Score—Shelves
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  43. 143 Silk Road Jade Chronicles: The Tale of Li Chongan, Jade Keeper 丝路玉鉴:守玉丞李崇安传 38k WordsCompleted Jade Appraisal Along the Silk Road: The Story of Li Chong'an, Keeper of the Jade 31Reads—Score—Shelves
  44. 144 Silk Road Jade Chronicles: The Lin Clan's Joinery Art and the Soul-Hanging Staircase 丝路玉鉴:林氏榫卯诀之悬魂梯 16k WordsCompleted Jade Appraisal Along the Silk Road: The Lin Clan's Mortise-and-Tenon Technique and the Soul-Hanging Ladder 7Reads—Score—Shelves
  45. 145 Silk Road Jade Chronicles: The He Clan's Hydrology and the Shule River Valley 丝路玉鉴:河氏水文之疏勒河谷 15k WordsCompleted Jade Appraisal Along the Silk Road: The He Clan's Hydrology and the Shule River Valley 4Reads—Score—Shelves
  46. 146 Silk Road Jade Chronicles: The Su Clan's Astrology and the Buddhist Caves of Longyou 丝路玉鉴:苏氏星象之陇右佛窟 22k WordsCompleted Jade Appraisal Along the Silk Road: The Su Clan's Astrology and the Buddhist Caves of Longyou 10Reads—Score—Shelves
  47. 147 Wait for Me, Lady Lingbai 灵柏娘子等等我 Mystery450k WordsCompleted That winter night, we sat around the charcoal brazier, the coals crackling as I huddled in a corner and listened to the adults tell a story about the sacred cypress at the village entrance. They said... The person who told me that story has passed away, but the chilling feeling it gave me is still etched in my memory. Now, I’ve adapted the story into a novel. 6Reads—Score—Shelves
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  48. 148 Destined Across Three Lifetimes: A Romantic Legacy of Young Love and Marriage 缘定三生,青春婚约的浪漫传承 Modern Romance710k WordsCompleted A sweet promise spanning their youth, sealed by an engagement. Surrounded by the warmth of family and the passion of youth, they keep their vows and write a romantic story together, full of amusing moments from school and everyday life. From Lin Shimin's admiration for Luo Yimo, to their wondrous chance encounters at all kinds of events, and the hilarious, heartwarming episodes that follow, their story is sure to make you smile. The novel has playful banter between best friends, the warm support 34Reads—Score—Shelves
  49. 149 The Mysteriously Disappearing Pen 神秘消失的书写笔 Mystery7k WordsCompleted The Mysteriously Vanished Writing Brush 13Reads—Score—Shelves
  50. 150 My Girlfriend Wants to Eat Me, So I Joined the Daoist Association Overnight 女友想吃我,我连夜加入道协 Urban203k WordsOngoing [Real-world setting x folk Daoist arts x mild supernatural elements x mind games x not wish fulfillment x anti-cliché] Every man for himself, and let the Dao follow nature and the heart. I’m Yuan Jia, an utterly ordinary college student. I just wanted to have a normal relationship, but I nearly ended up as takeout. My campus-beauty girlfriend is a fox demon, literally. She’s lusting after my body. It turns out the “uncanny” really does exist in this world. They wear human skin and could be your —Reads—Score—Shelves
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