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1. 301 雇 Hiring a Handsome Guy to Guard the House 雇个帅哥来镇宅 Zahari扎哈里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 80Reads—Score—Shelves

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   Urban Horror Suspense

2. 302 豪 Terror at the Luxury Estate 豪苑惊魂 Eighth Master of Dou City斗城八爷57k WordsCompleted Terror at the Grand Estate 22Reads—Score—Shelves
3. 303 穿 Transmigrated to Another World to Work as a Cleaner 穿越异界干保洁 Eighth Master of Dou City斗城八爷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...? —Reads—Score—Shelves
4. 304 清 The Qingling Rankings 清凌榜 Eighth Master of Dou City斗城八爷43k WordsCompleted The Qingling Rankings 3Reads—Score—Shelves
5. 305 诡 The Strange Sword 诡剑 Eighth Master of Dou City斗城八爷98k WordsCompleted The Ghost Sword 2Reads—Score—Shelves
6. 306 诡 The Mysterious Domain City 诡秘域都 Eighth Master of Dou City斗城八爷99k WordsCompleted The Mysterious Domain City 3Reads—Score—Shelves
7. 307 我 The Girlfriend Who Disappeared 我消失的女朋友 Eighth Master of Dou City斗城八爷Sci-Fi & Apocalypse14k WordsCompleted My Girlfriend Who Disappeared 6Reads—Score—Shelves
8. 308 灵 The Fox Spirit's Secret Curse: From the Imperial Exams to a Yin-Yang Crisis 灵狐秘咒：从科考路到阴阳危机 Literary Fiend文煞Mystery15k WordsCompleted The Fox Spirit’s Secret Curse: From the Imperial Examination Road to a Yin-Yang Crisis —Reads—Score—Shelves

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   The sky is spirited, the earth is spirited, Lord Taishan is about to appear! Come…

9. 309 守 The Village Guardian 守村人 Shen Tianhao沈天浩Mystery8k WordsCompleted The Village Guardian 4Reads—Score—Shelves

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   Human hearts are scarier than stories

10. 310 禁 The Forbidden Covenant Stele: Each Rule I Trace Costs Me Something 禁约碑：每拓一条规则，便失一物 Drifting Far Away飘了飘远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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    Have!!!!

11. 311 灵 Wait for Me, Lady Lingbai 灵柏娘子等等我 Little Lotus Among the Stars繁星小荷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. 3Reads—Score—Shelves

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    The breeze blew gently, and the clouds seemed to be slowly pushed away by an invisible hand. Immediately afterwards, the cypress tree that I admired and feared slowly transformed into a beautiful girl. She was wearing a light green dress with fluttering skirts. She looked like an otherworldly fairy, exuding an otherworldly temperament. Her face is as delicate as a work of art carefully carved by God, her skin is as beautiful as snow, and her eyes are like the twinkling stars in the night sky.

12. 312 阴 Yin-Yang Eye Realtor: Selling Haunted Houses in Chongqing 阴阳眼中介：我在重庆卖凶宅 Listening to the Wind in the Wilds山野聆风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 196Reads8.3Score—Shelves

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    Very interesting, including Feng Shui, urban luck, weirdness, and geographical monuments. Written based on true rumors. [Shy]

13. 313 让 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 Ye Wusheng夜无声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... 73.8kReads9.4Score3.6kShelves
14. 314 天 The Celestial Master Is Here: Qimen Feng Shui Shakes the World 天师在此，奇门风水震天下 Big Eggplant大茄子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... 202.8kReads9.1Score28.8kShelves
15. 315 铜 The Bronze Coffin Seals the Soul: The Yin Corpse 铜棺封魂·阴尸 My Name Is Liang Sheng我叫良生26k WordsCompleted The Bronze Coffin Seals the Soul: The Yin Corpse 3Reads—Score—Shelves

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    This work is a horror short story adapted from real events. You can check it out

16. 316 我 I Run a Stall Selling Ghost Money at the Vegetable Market Entrance 我在菜市口摆摊卖冥钱 Halfway to Buddhahood半若浮屠Mystery121k WordsOngoing [Folk taboos + ghost hunting + no romance] After accidentally violating a mysterious folk taboo, Xu Xuanzhi has only three days left to live. It is then that Xu Xuanzhi finds his family and successfully inherits the ancestral incense shop, beginning a new life selling ghost money at a stall in Caishikou. He slays the Dragon Turtle and battles evil spirits, becoming the most revered person in the Gelug school. He makes ghost money and saves those lost to suffering, becoming the president of the U 3Reads—Score—Shelves

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    Ordinary ghost money can connect to the sky and the netherworld.

17. 317 永 Being Immortal Forever Doesn't Seem So Great 永远不死好像也不是啥好事 Li Cuo李错Eastern Fantasy187k WordsOngoing [Alternate World + Aesthetic Violence + Fantasy + Wild Imagination + Mild Horror + Folk Customs + Immortality + Doctor + Guaranteed Not to End Badly] Li Cuo seems to have transmigrated, arriving in an era he doesn't recognize at all. He discovers that no matter what happens, he cannot die. Only a sword spirit understands the loneliness and isolation of an immortal. Fortunately, he manages to survive until the dawn of cultivation. How will Li Cuo forge a path in the cultivation world and become a 5Reads6.6Score—Shelves

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    This novel is really good-looking. The plot is not monotonous. The more you read it, the more interesting it becomes. Please feel free to read it.

18. 318 出 The First Half of a Female Spirit Medium’s Life! 出马女弟子的前半生！ Brother Zhang弟马张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 9kReads9.4Score656Shelves

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    A northeastern girl who was destined to be a horse by an immortal at birth. When she was six years old, she saw the soul of her grandfather after his death. When she was ten years old, she dreamed of her ancestors saying something to her on a monument in the hall. Her natural constitution allowed her to glimpse another world that ordinary people could not see since she was a child.

19. 319 江 Old Tales of Jiangyang: The Evil Dragon of Sanjiang 江阳旧事之三江孽龙 Rabbit 87兔87Mystery206k WordsCompleted Luzhou, in central Sichuan, was known in ancient times as Jiangyang Commandery and is also called the City of Liquor. The Yangtze, Tuo, and Chishui rivers surround the city, which also borders Yunnan, Guizhou, and Sichuan, making it an important transportation hub for the three provinces since ancient times. The constant streams of mule caravans within the city, cargo boats on the rivers, and merchants lining the streets, along with the local brotherhood halls where sworn brothers trained with f 74Reads—Score—Shelves

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    Guys, what do you think of me? It's not frivolous, it's not a bloody plot, it's just some weird stories about Sichuan during the Republic of China, mixed with Sichuan food and old news about Brother Pao. If you think it's barely enough, thank you guys for your recommendation and support. Thank you very much. [Laughing]

20. 320 民 Strange Tales from Republican-Era Sanjiang 民国三江诡事集 Rabbit 87兔87Mystery220k WordsCompleted Whenever Eunuch Li from the teahouse downstairs told stories about the many strange and uncanny things he had encountered in his youth, a crowd would always gather around him. Whenever I was bored as a child, I would run over to listen. A corpse that had been dead for days was pulled from the Yangtze River, yet bled when its relatives came to see it. The owner of Second Brother’s restaurant had a brother who was a sworn brother of the underworld. One night, he followed the gang’s leader to an ab 118Reads—Score—Shelves
21. 321 我 I Refine the Heavens Through Dungeon Runs 我以副本炼诸天 Night Rain White Whale夜雨白鲸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 91Reads5.2Score—Shelves

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    This is a local astronomical story. The protagonist is tired of the busy life and stays alone in an old country house. The old yellow paper is paired with a porcelain bowl to awaken special power to create an initial copy. It is simple and attractive and worth reading.

22. 322 太 Supreme Ghost and Fiend Tamer 太上御鬼煞 Peeing Into the Wind, Soaking a Shoe迎风尿一鞋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: 25kReads9.2Score2.3kShelves
23. 323 幽 Whispers by the Candlelit Ruins 幽庭烛烬语 A Zan Kuna阿赞坤娜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 2Reads—Score—Shelves

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    6. Today's updated horror story, Bone Flute in a Deserted Village. Zhao Ye, Su Qing and Zhou Hang broke into Yaquan Village in search of ancient tombs from the Liao Dynasty, but were attracted by bone flutes. Zhao Ye and Su Qing died, and Zhou Hang was charged as a "gravekeeper". Five years later, Wang Yan came to Yaquan Village with his father's relic Lu Liuli based on an anonymous letter. He met the tombkeeper who was controlled by bone nails. He used a bronze mirror to fight off the evil objects, and learned that his father died here early. Later, he accompanied Su Qing's grandma to the village again, and saw that Su Qing's remnant soul was entangled with "living things" in the clay pot. He used green glass to suppress the evil and let Su Qing's soul return. The final protection standing monument is inlaid with colored glaze, and the bluestone on the mountain envelope glows warmly at night. There was no evil in the bone flute, it was all caused by greed. From then on, the deserted village became peaceful, and the warm light protected every soul that wanted to go home.

24. 324 人 A World Out of Balance 人间失衡 Xiao Youqian萧有钱Mystery94k WordsCompleted [Mind-bending suspense + short stories + no overarching plot + crime + criminal investigation + shocking twists + stories of ordinary people] The deepest wounds are often inflicted by those closest to us. A bloody case at an old family home, shrouded in mystery. Who is the real killer? After her father dies of illness, her sister-in-law sells her to northern Myanmar! The body of a baby girl is found in the woods. A kidnapping case turns into a murder investigation. Who would target an innocent i 218Reads9.0Score—Shelves

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    Blame me for being cowardly!! [Petrochemical][Petrochemical][Petrochemical]

25. 325 东 Paranormal Tales from the Northeast Countryside 东北农村灵异小故事 0An Ordinary Person00一个平凡的人0Modern Romance9k WordsCompleted Spooky Little Stories from the Northeastern Countryside 8Reads—Score—Shelves

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    Short folk supernatural stories.

26. 326 诡 The Mysterious God-Slayer 诡秘斩神官 Three Lives, Starry Radiance三生星烨Eastern Fantasy561k WordsOngoing A genre-blending novel that combines mystery and adventure, cultivation fantasy, and elements of Cthulhu mythos. Set in a modern city, the story unfolds beneath the shadow of an indescribable, secret threat. Lu Jianyuan, a folklorist, is drawn into a series of abnormal events by a compass left behind by his missing father. He discovers that he is heir to the bloodline of the “Calamity Bearers,” able to perceive and cleanse “conceptual contamination” originating from otherworldly realms. At a mys 3Reads—Score—Shelves

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    A folklorist inherited his father's compass and unexpectedly awakened the bloodline of the Duer people. He joined forces with the former slayer priest to fight against the spread of conceptual pollution and the conspiracy of alien gods to come to the city.

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