Any Books That’ll Leave Readers Mentally Unhinged? 有什么可以让读者看了之后精神不正常的书吗
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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...
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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.
2.3kReads8.1Score284Shelves
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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...
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Who Touched My Novel? 我的小说谁动的
Xue Mo sat at his computer, typing away with great concentration. “Knock, knock, knock!” A series of urgent knocks sounded at the door. “Who is it?” Xue Mo asked, puzzled, as he went to the door. “The police.” Through the peephole, he saw two people in police uniforms standing outside. One of them held up his police identification. “Does Xue Mo live here?” “Yes, that’s me.” Xue Mo hurriedly opened the door. “We’ve found that several recent murder cases closely match your novel. We need you to as
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I Don’t Have a System, but I Do Have a Hammer 我没有系统，但我有榔头
Fifteen years ago, the “God of Gambling System” abandoned me. Along with it went my luck, gambling skills, wealth, women... and every memory my family and friends had of me! As if the whole world had cast me aside, I angrily grabbed everything I owned, rushed into a hardware store, and spent 38 yuan on a hammer. From that day on, I decided I would kill every System with nothing but my mortal body! (Author’s note: No transmigration, no System, no cheats, no female lead, no brothers, no faction, n
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Xuanhuan: Blind, I Wander the Martial World 玄幻：成为瞎子，我游历江湖
(The short drama is now streaming: Fantasy: Beginning with Two Springs Reflect the Moon) [Spending Life + Grinding and Lying Low] "Once a song breaks the heart, where in all the world can one find a kindred soul?" From the start, he transmigrated as a blind man and became a street musician. [Two Springs Reflect the Moon: LV2 (1/10000) Effect: Unblocks qi and blood, opens the meridians, dispels dampness, and warms the body] He is a blind street musician who wipes out an entire gang for
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King of Feng Shui 风水之王
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!
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Quick Transmigration: Shh! Be Good! The Yandere Has Chains 快穿：嘘！要乖！疯批手里有锁链
[Two male leads + flirtatious seduction + sweet, swoony romance + the pursuer's road to redemption] Jiang Nonglian was originally the System of the Main God. After finally winning his freedom and obtaining a body, he was dragged off by the Main God to get married. Then the Main God blew himself up, shattering his divine soul into pieces. Main God: “Lianlian, if you don't go down to the mortal world and find my soul fragments, you'll be a widow.” Jiang Nonglian: “???” With no other choice, Jian
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Malicious Seduction 恶意引诱
[One-on-one romance, two male leads, both reborn, unhinged × obsessive] In the twelfth year of being imprisoned by Gu Linxian, Chen Qingchi is reborn. Chen Qingchi decides to strike first. The night Gu Linxian comes to see him, he shoves him into his family’s basement. “Brother Linxian, you like me so much. Surely you don’t mind being locked up by me?”
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The Mad Beauty Is Trampling the Shura Arena Again 疯批美人又在踏平修罗场
#The four targets are either yanderes or complete lunatics# Lu Jinnian: Pfft! Compared to Nian Nian, you guys are just little kids when it comes to being crazy or yandere! One-line summary: There are many ways to clear a battlefield of romantic rivals. For example, blow it up. Synopsis: Lu Jinnian was a top assassin. After transmigrating, he was forced to start pursuing a set of targets. He thought this mission would be easy. But nobody told him that every target was a total freak. The violent c
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Quick Transmigration: The Sickly Host Is Driving the Bigwigs Crazy 快穿：病娇宿主在线逼疯大佬
[No Female Lead + Two Yanderes + Sweet, Flirtatious Romance] The System sends Qiao Jue to approach powerful figures afflicted with strange illnesses, earn their trust, and complete a compendium of bizarre diseases. But once again, he drives the big shots insane. The three personalities form a united front: "Even if you die, your ashes are going in my belly." His corrupted disciple gives him a dangerous look: "Master, you are not allowed to run away." A top-tier celebrity, possessive and twisted:
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This Host Is Something Else: Told to Die for the Villain, He Actually Did 这宿主绝了，让他替反派死他真死
(Complete) Villain + Corruption + Master and Disciple + Mutual Devotion + One-on-One (the villains are all souls of the Main God) To come back to life, movie star Yu Tang binds himself to a quick transmigration System. His mission is to show the villains care and warmth, then die for them, driving them completely over the edge. But when he has finally earned enough points and wants to be revived, the System tells him: The worlds he visited have all collapsed. Yu Tang: ??? System: So you need to
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The Last Paper Effigy Maker 最后一个扎纸人
The art of paper effigies can bridge the worlds of yin and yang, perform rites for the dead, and summon the King of Hell. Cut yellow paper, weave bamboo strips: paper horses travel a thousand miles, and paper figures summon spirits. With one stroke to paint their eyes, the King of Hell appears, striking terror into all directions and sending ten thousand ghosts into hiding! By the time the art of paper effigies reaches Chen Mo, he is its last practitioner. He assumes this ancient, mysterious cra
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Traces of Bound Spirits 缚灵迹
Mystery + supernatural + no harem. This is NOT a wish-fulfillment novel!!! The protagonist has no sect or powerful backer. He's just an ordinary man who sells animal feed. He thought driving a hearse would guarantee him a comfortable life, but he never imagined that everything had been arranged by someone else. Who deserves more trust, humans or ghosts? This is a question the protagonist must think through carefully. The villains aren't idiots who simply throw themselves to their deaths, and the
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Borrowed Corpse, Stolen Life 借尸命
When a plague swept through my mother’s village, she was the only one who escaped alive and made it to Chen Village. My mother was graceful and beautiful, but after arriving in the village, she went mad. There’s something wrong with this village. Every night, we hear strange noises. My father’s name is Chen Jiu, and mine is Chen Lintian. I suspect he isn’t my real father...
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Apocalypse: Why Should a Necromancer Like Me Put Points into Intelligence? 末世：我一个亡灵法师加什么智力
The apocalypse descends. The world turns into a game, and everyone can choose a class and level up to grow stronger. Lu Zhan returns to the very beginning of the apocalypse and unlocks the hidden class: Necromancer. When an army of a million monsters from beyond the realms descends upon Earth, Lu Zhan simply waves a hand. An undead army of hundreds of millions claws its way out of the ground. I hear you want to destroy this world? No female lead. No saintly do-gooder.
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Yin-Yang Ghost Arts Master 阴阳鬼术师
Some bargains are too tempting to take; accepting them might cost you your life. After Old Wang downstairs died, people around me kept inexplicably trying to give me money, and these offers of money were often followed by death. To stay alive, I had no choice but to learn the secret arts Old Wang left behind, stepping into a mysterious underworld...
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My Years Selling Coffins 我卖棺材那些年
I'm a coffin seller. I only wanted to live out an ordinary life, but I never expected that a single glass coffin would change my life...
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There’s No Match I Can’t Make! 就没有我撮合不成的！
In my previous life, I was a ruthless female tycoon who dominated the business world. After a scumbag schemed to marry me for my inheritance, I sent him and his mistress's whole family straight to hell. With my revenge complete, I sat in a pool of blood and looked up the detention center's menu: boiled cabbage with steamed corn bread. “The food's so bad even dogs won't eat it.” Unwilling to suffer in prison, I promptly took my own life. When I opened my eyes again, I'd transmigrated back to the
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Step Aside, Keyboard Warrior: She’s Going Wild in the ’80s 退后，键盘女侠要在八零年发癫了
A seasoned keyboard warrior, a master of starting fights on Weibo, an Xianyu photo-editing scammer, and an expert in top-tier online sophistry, from “setting the facts aside” to “he only lost a leg, but you lost love.” She sold secondhand bags with edited photos on Xianyu, swearing, “If I'm lying, may I be sent back to the days before liberation and forced to chew tree bark.” Then, of all things, the God of Thunder answered her prayer and struck her back to 1980. After transmigrating, she vowed
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The Ninth Technician’s Revenge 第9号技师的复仇
“In this city’s deepest den of vice, people are weighed and priced like livestock. If you can leave with all your limbs intact, you’re lucky. Most people rot in that golden mire.” Three months ago, my brother, who was about to graduate from police academy, vanished under mysterious circumstances. Three days ago, his body was found beneath the cross-river bridge. The police ruled it an “accidental fall into the river,” and our family had no choice but to accept it. No one knows what I saw when I
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Humanity Has Read: The X Anthology from the Future 人类已读：来自未来的艾克斯文集
Humanity has read: The Aikesi Collection from the Future. Do not read unless you have already gone mad. Have you ever suspected that the future isn’t evolution, but a collective breakdown? This book collects samples of mental contamination from the future. Each story reads like a forbidden file leaked from an asylum server: Someone offers his wife as a sacrifice to a mechanical deity to ascend, successfully uploading his soul while failing to preserve his corpse. Someone is so chuunibyou that he
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After I Came Back from That Dinner, I Was No Longer Human 从那个饭局回来后，我不再是人
People often say the entertainment industry is a giant dye vat. They’re wrong. At least a dye vat lets you keep your shape, even if it changes your color. This place is a meat grinder, and an altar. My name is Shen Li. Now I’m a newly crowned top-tier star, standing at the center of the spotlight and adored by millions. My face is flawless, and the way my eyes shimmer has been praised by the media as “a clear spring that can cleanse the soul.” But I know that beneath this skin, nothing remains.
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A Brief History of Human Torture 人类酷刑简史
For thousands of years, humanity has devised many ingenious and cruel ways to inflict pain on its own kind. This tragic yet seemingly universal trait has corroded the civilization humanity strives to achieve. Though we now seem to detest torture, for more than 3,000 years it was part of the laws of all Europe and much of the Far East. A Brief History of Human Torture explores the many forms of punishment, torture, coercion, and torment. It takes readers into the arenas of ancient Rome, medieval
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The Long Night’s Journey 长夜行
The eyes are the angle observers most often scrutinize, so you must learn to disguise your own., Li Mu. From making up his mind to carrying out his plan, he spent a full three years. His first murder, his second, his third... Even when he was teetering on the brink of death, he would take a gamble if it meant he might escape. To everyone else, he was merely a weakling, not even as capable as an ordinary person...
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A Chain of Crimes: A Twisted Mind 连环罪：心理有诡
A string of celebrity deaths leads the police to conclude, after a thorough investigation, that they were suicides! The truth is hard to conceal, and faint connections draw the police into a discreet investigation. Were they suicides or murders? Did they take their own lives, or were they killed? What lies behind the series of suicides? A conspiracy? A lure of profit? Or a cruel reality that left them powerless? Join us as we lift the veil of mystery and step into their twisted inner worlds...
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Livestream: Proving the Existence of an Infinite Multiverse from the Start 直播：开局证明无限多元宇宙
[Livestreaming: I’m leading the evolution of civilization] After transmigrating, Jiang Zhe becomes the host of a science education program. He gets bound to a System. To his surprise, he discovers that all he has to do is explain science to earn an endless stream of rewards. Using scientific theories from his previous life, he proves from the start that the world is fake and that infinitely many multiverses exist. “...” “Nuwa mended the sky by repairing the moon and the earth.” “Ancient civiliza
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My Life Is Yours (Cheng Haifeng × Ji Mingshuo) 我的命，都给你（程海丰×季明硕）
My Life Is Yours (Cheng Haifeng × Ji Mingshuo)
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I’d Give You Everything but My Life 我的命，都不给你
The author got rained on, tore up the umbrella, and still kicked everyone into a filthy ditch. This story features all kinds of medical miracles. The male lead is lovesick and possessive, the female lead is hard to describe, and the supporting men and women are all outstanding. If you don't think the author's writing is exciting enough, head to the comments section! Surely something there will strike a chord. But enough of that. Here's the not-so-serious synopsis: Ji Mingshuo loved Xu Lingling w
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In a Text-Based Game, I Just Matched the Gods! 人在文字游戏，刚刚比肩神明！
Tang Hui stumbles into a mysterious world, encounters strange phenomena, and meets some peculiar people. He doesn't like the place, but he wants to stay, so he works hard to overcome his difficulties.
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A Failed Author Becomes a System and Tricks the Myriad Worlds 扑街作者化身系统，坑骗诸天万界
As a self-proclaimed full-time hack author, Li Hao couldn't stomach his readers' abuse. After trading insults with the only few readers he had for three days and nights, he worked himself into a rage, his resentment soaring. In the end, the Great Dao intervened, turning him into a System so he could experience the worlds of various web novels. P.S. The author is trying out a new kind of novel. The story takes place across many worlds, and the writing style changes from one world to the next. Som
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You Kicked Me Out and Still Want Me Back? Dream On! 退队后还想追夫火葬场？给爷爬！
[Western Fantasy] [The protagonist has a breakdown now and then] “Charles, we’re through.” Charles, an all-around alchemist with ten different specialties. After the young ladies he’d painstakingly looked after (and fawned over) for two years dumped him, people finally realized... What the heck? This non-combat profession is insanely powerful! Only after Charles reached the summit of the long road to godhood did his former teammates begin to regret their choice. When they tried to win him back,
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Heaven Has Mandated It, So I Must Be the Protagonist, Right? 授命于天，我应该是主角吧
The Master said nothing of the strange, the powerful, or the supernatural, yet people often say that our fate is ordained by Heaven. The world is full of extraordinary people and strange happenings; the whereabouts of the mythical beasts from the Classic of Mountains and Seas are unknown, while myths pass from mouth to mouth and urban legends spill into reality.
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