Looking for Supernatural Stories With a Growing Heroine: The Scarier, the Better 求灵异文，女主成长型越吓人越好
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My Ghostly Husband, Don’t Be So Bad 鬼神老公，别太坏
[Devoted Couple + Supernatural Mysteries + Ghost-Hunting + Lots of Fun Tropes + Strong-Willed Heroine + Utterly Devoted Husband] My name is An Ning. I was born on Ghost Festival and carry a demon eye, so everyone thinks I'm cursed. Since childhood, a mysterious man I couldn't see has saved my life again and again. He told me, "If you want me to protect you forever, we have to make a marriage pact when you turn twenty." Then, on my twentieth birthday, my demon eye went out of control. I had a dan
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Strange Tales of Cultural Relics 文物异闻录
[Mystery and Horror + Historical Secrets + Relic Realms + Infinite Flow + No Romance] The dust of history stirred with eerie whispers, and a deadly game centered on “cultural relics” quietly began. The drums of Yongning Temple echoed with the wails of flayed skin. Phantom whispers rose from Dunhuang's murals. A Tang dynasty bronze mirror reflected a mermaid's curse... This is a relic dungeon crawling with haunted objects. "In this game, your only goal isn't just... to survive."
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- 3 Infinite Escape: I Earn Rent Money in Horror Games 无限逃生：我在惊悚游戏里挣房费 [Infinite flow + horror, suspense, and mystery-solving + strong female lead + team + plot-focused] [Ding~ Welcome, player, to the Survival Inn! Please do your best to clear the instances and earn your room fees~ We offer dormitory rooms, guesthouse rooms, hotel rooms, and more, as well as a top-tier luxury VIP club waiting for you to unlock~] A gloomy, blood-soaked compound A school crawling with death A cursed painting that brings death to anyone who looks at it An old village teeming with stra 20.3kReads9.3Score2.3k14d adds
- 4 [Murder Game] I Want to Survive 【杀人游戏】我想活下去 [Infinite Flow]+ [No Romance]+ [Pure Villainess] High-stakes battles of wits and deadly games; everyone schemes against everyone else just to stay alive. The heroine does every kind of evil, casts aside her conscience, and cares only about profit. Because she knows that only by devouring others can she grow stronger and climb step by step to the pinnacle of power. Watch her fight her way out from the bottom, rising from a mere nobody to stand atop the world. Watch her pull off one dazzling m 34.8kReads9.0Score4.1k14d adds
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Painting Yin and Yang with a Single Stroke 一笔绘阴阳
As I gazed down the shadowy corridor and across the empty hall, the strange order of light and darkness stirred a fear of the unknown deep inside me. The elders always said, “The ancestral hall is home to spirits that have yet to depart.” “Don’t step on the threshold, don’t touch the ancestral tablets, and don’t whistle in the ancestral hall.” “The names on the tablets weren’t carved there. They moved in.” When the wind blew past the row of wooden windows, the latticework let out a mournful wail
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The Ninety-Ninth Bride 第九十九位新娘
"Ninety-eight brides. Every last one of them rotted here. You won't escape." All 98 brides were screwed, and I'm unlucky number 99! I wandered into a cursed place while scouting locations and landed myself a crazy, white-haired husband. The first time we met, he grabbed me by the throat and threatened to burn my whole family if I didn't obey! Later, he stole offerings from other people, snatched my milk tea pearls, knocked on my window in the middle of the night to keep me company, and held me w
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The Yin and Yang Overlap 阴阳重叠
Freshman Lin Xiaoxue arrives at Room 304 in the old campus dormitory of Nanguang University. She carries an unknown “boundary-attracting constitution,” and the moment she steps into the building, steeped in eerie rumors, she is swept into a string of inexplicable events: sobbing from Room 307, a shadow in Classroom 404, and campus secrets that grow clearer with every passing night. As midnight becomes the meeting point of the worlds of the living and the dead, small overlaps begin occurring afte
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The Nine Yin Woman and the Demon Husband’s Sacrifice 九阴女，妖夫祭
[Both virgins, metaphysics, sweet romance, heroine's growth] When my mother was pregnant with me, my grandfather forced her to drink a bowl of foul brew. She went into premature labor, and I was born on an extremely inauspicious day. Born with the Nine Yin constitution, I became a coveted offering for demons and evil spirits. An expert gave my family a jade pendant to keep me safe as I grew up, and promised that when I turned eighteen, he would come with a new token to exchange for it. If we exc
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I Have a Pure Yang Fate 我是纯阳命
When other people encounter ghosts, they run. I head straight for the grave mound. With a pure Yang fate, I’m a walking ghost repellent. But Grandma says that in a girl, this fate is a punishment from Heaven: it’s too strong. It drove my father away, chased off my mother, and left me with only her, an old woman. Once, I took on a job that was practically a death sentence. The client was frantic. “Master, the young apprentice hasn’t come out yet!” My greedy master said, “Don’t worry. Her fate is
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The Lotus Heart Blossoms 莲心成华
[Supernatural + Ghost Hunting + Episodic Stories + Growth + Cultivation + Mythical Beast Support + Investiture of the Gods Spin-off] The main storyline follows the heroine, Lin Miao, and the hero, Nezha, who goes by the alias Li Lianhua, as they fight monsters, level up, and accumulate merit to help the hero reclaim his divine status. The subplots are short, standalone stories. The hero and heroine grow through their trials and challenges. A story centered on great love.
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Tianxuan Paranormal Affairs Office 天玄灵异事务所
- [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
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The Real Heiress Was Reunited with Her Family, Only to Turn Out to Be a Mystical Arts Master? 真千金被认回后竟是玄门大佬？
[The Male Lead Appears Late! Very Late!] Eighteen years ago, twin sisters were switched at the Nan family maternity ward. Nan Zhi, who should have been cherished as the family's darling, grew up in a remote Taoist temple and became the youngest and most mysterious fifth-rank Celestial Master in the mystic world. She has never failed to exorcise evil spirits or suppress sinister forces, and can wield talismans and formations with ease. The cinnabar mark on her palm is proof of her ability to trav
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Reborn in the Graveyard, I Go on a Rampage with the “Am I Dead?” System 墓地重生，我靠死了吗系统杀疯了
[Reborn in a graveyard + Death System + mystery and crime-solving + powerful heroine seeking revenge] [Nonstop thrills + a badass heroine + lots of twists + crushing scumbags every step of the way] ⊗ Orphan Qin Mo is kidnapped and thrown into a mass grave. After crawling out of a coffin, she unexpectedly binds herself to the [Are You Dead Yet] System. ⊗ Fail six missions in a row, and the System will erase you! ⊗ Watch Qin Mo plan each move carefully, turn the tables against all odds, and make h
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The Bankrupt Exorcist's Haunted House Livestream 破产天师的凶宅直播间
“Congratulations. You've inherited a mansion worth a fortune, as well as... 200,000 yuan in deadly yin debt.” The lawyer's voice was like a scalpel, cutting through all my beautiful dreams. I'm Wu Suowei, a con artist who edits photos to pass myself off as a master of the occult. I was planning to pack up and run. But when I opened the doors of Jingxin Studio and saw the strange assortment of “family members” inside... I knew there was no escape. This wasn't a haunted house. It was an ancient se
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Meng Po's Assistant: Transmigrating Through Time and Space to Be Reborn 孟婆助手：穿越时空为重生
[Quick Transmigration] [Xuanhuan] [No Romance] [Character Growth] [Strong Female Lead] [Multiple Worlds] [Awakening] [Tragedy] [Reborn] After Xu Xiaomei dies unexpectedly, she becomes Meng Po's assistant in hopes of being reborn. She transmigrates through the three realms of Heaven, Earth, and the Human World, traveling across multiple worlds to help the dead resolve their lingering obsessions. Along the way, she keeps learning and improving, growing stronger step by step while uncovering an eve
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The Female Medium of Guandong 关东女先生
[The animated drama based on the novel is now a huge hit] A suspenseful supernatural tale rooted in Northeast Chinese folklore! The first season of the animated drama adapted from the original novel is now available on Hongguo, Tomato, and Douyin! When the rules of the Northeast are broken, a hundred ghosts roam the night, and the yin energy can no longer be contained. My name is Ren Xue. I'm a director who makes supernatural dramas. Fate brought me back to Changbai Mountain, where I became a G
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The Ghost Wedding Dress: The Daoist Son-in-Law Is an Evil God 鬼嫁衣：玄门赘婿是邪神
The Ghost Wedding Robe: The Daoist Sect Son-in-Law Is an Evil God A cursed heiress of the occult arts × an evil god disguised as an ordinary mortal, in a story of mutual redemption and a battle of hidden identities Central conflict: The heroine is an outcast of the occult arts, born with a Yin Fiend Body. On her wedding day, her bridal sedan mistakenly enters a ghost market, forcing her to form a bond with a mysterious groom. She later discovers that he is an ancient evil god sealed beneath her
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Folk Horror [The Fake Master Who Shocks a Hundred Demons] 恐怖民俗【冒牌大师震百妖】
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
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The First Half of a Female Spirit Medium’s Life! 出马女弟子的前半生！
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
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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
Secret Art Transmigration: My Extreme Escape in a World of the Uncanny
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- 21 The Woman in the Closet 柜子里的女人 The Woman in the Cabinet 49Reads—Score—14d adds
- 22 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 The sinister cabinet opens by itself every night, and strands of black hair coil around people and drag them inside. 33Reads—Score—14d adds
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The Best Feng Shui Master on the Construction Site 工地最强建筑风水师
[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
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A Survival Guide to Strange Tales: The Headless Girl's Evolution 【怪谈生存指南】无头少女进化论
[Main Plot] [Mild Horror] [Eerie Otherworld] [Urban Legends] [Beloved Girl, Everyone's Favorite] [Content Warning: The female lead is an aloof, low-energy type with a gravity-like personality, and this is a reverse harem.] What do you do when you accidentally end up in the Otherworld? This awful place is full of bizarre rules and monsters. One wrong move, and your whole team gets wiped out! There's the woman in red in the stairwell, the headless monster in the classroom, the cat-faced monster th
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Captive Sparrow in the Ember Palace: I Hide My Edge Beside the Tyrant 烬宫囚雀：我在暴君身边藏锋芒
The System forces her to compete for favor, while the tyrant expects her to flatter him. Yin Que, however, focuses on martial prowess and triggers the SSS-grade [Proof of Defying Fate], which requires her to take an item from Chu Jie. She also gets saddled with the [Reality Invasion] protocol: she must get him to say "I love you" of his own free will. If she succeeds, she gains reality and the power to rewrite it; if she fails, her consciousness will be erased. She sneers. She might as well kill
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- 26 Paper Doll Prison: On the First Day of School, I Discovered My Entire Class Was Made of Paper 纸偶囚笼：开学第一天，我发现了全班都是纸人 Paper Puppet Cage: On the First Day of School, I Discovered That My Entire Class Was Made of Paper People 12Reads—Score—14d adds
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Paranormal Streamer: The Sledgehammer Notes 灵异主播：铁锤笔记
A paranormal livestreamer and a female yin-yang practitioner team up to deal with supernatural incidents. After being ambushed by an evil sorcerer, they fall victim to a curse involving poisonous magic. To break the curse, they descend into the Yuanchen Palace, face off against ghosts in a battle of song, storm a reclusive sect’s warded realm, help underworld officials subdue demons, escort an earth immortal to take up a post, and venture into the underworld to steal a prophecy from a forbidden
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After the Founding of the Nation, I Became a Spirit: Catching Ghosts Is My Duty, and I’m Good at It 建国后成精，抓鬼没有不强的义务
Strong female lead, no romance, ghost hunting, with a mildly supernatural variety show. Please don’t take it as reality. The heroine doesn’t grow stronger over time: she inherits the memories of the demon clan, giving her a cheat, and is powerful from beginning to end. There’s no angst. As one of the demons who slipped through the cracks of the rule that no one could become a spirit after the founding of the country, newborn demon Shi Jia leapt into Qiongqi’s pocket with a thunderous force. “Bos
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Lord Ghost Emperor, Your Wife Was Struck by Lightning Again 鬼帝大人，夫人又被雷劈死了
[Underworld Civil Servant] × [Unhinged Ghost Emperor VS Quirky Girl] × [Hilarious + Suspense + Devoted Love + Past and Present Lives] [Before You Read] Unhinged Ghost Emperor × Sarcastic Female Lead, past and present lives, love-triangle drama ahead A day in the life of an underworld civil servant: dealing with eccentric ghosts, investigating cold cases, and eating Granny Meng’s special dark cuisine Everyone’s got a punchline: Bai Shijiu, the chatterbox ghost official: “Xiaoman! I’ve got fanfict
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Playing Matchmaker in the Underworld 我在冥界牵红线
[Female-Oriented + Minimal Romance + Mild Horror + Plot-Focused + Episodic + Ensemble Cast] My name is You Sheng, and I'm a university student. I should have been enjoying a pleasant summer vacation, but the day before I was due to go home, a rideshare driver dumped me by the roadside. After that, a vengeful ghost latched onto me, and I unexpectedly gained the ability to see spirits... On the high-speed train, I met an old Taoist. To help my grandmother avert a calamity, I accepted the Ghost Eye
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Tales of the Supernatural: The Horror Livestreamer 灵异怪谈之恐怖女主播
[System + Supernatural Livestreaming + Past and Present Lives + Two Powerful Leads + Light Humor] After an accident, Xi Jiujiu becomes bound to a System for catching ghosts and mastering the supernatural arts. From then on, she spends every day completing the tasks assigned by the System. Drawing talismans, warding off evil, dispelling sinister forces, reading faces, assessing feng shui: she can do it all. Every day, viewers come to her livestream to make wishes: “Streamer! Please give me a tali
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The Demon Lord's Adorable Little Wife 魔尊的可爱小娇妻
Modern romance + sweet pampering + supernatural + a Demon Venerable who spoils his wife rotten + love at first sight + amnesia + reincarnation + … After an accident, Wu Xue'er enters into a contract. Demon Venerable: “Be a good girl. Your husband likes you. Give me your… Well, that's a good girl, Xue'er. Your husband will take good care of you.” Wu Xue'er: “You lecher!”
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Northeast of the Silent Woods: The World Beyond Return 哑林东偏北：无回界
[Adventure + Suspense + Light Horror + Two Powerful Leads] There's a saying in Shilin Town: “Enter the No-Return Realm, and even the gods are done for.” Song Zongli is the best “living map” in this forest. She never promises her clients will make it out alive. She only agrees to take them into the central area. After all, none of the teams she's led have ever come back alive. She takes the money and sends people to their deaths. She's done this for seven years, until Liu Song, a forest ranger, c
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In Another World, I Use Taoist Arts to Empty My Enemy's Warehouse 到了异世，我用道术搬空仇人仓库
An alternate history setting. Please do not compare this story with real history! Gou Yunshu, a modern Daoist exorcist, was betrayed by her best friend during an exorcism. She was struck down by heavenly retribution, killed by a bolt of lightning. She transmigrated into the body of a young girl in the Great Xia Kingdom of the Republican era and discovered that her grandfather had been captured by the Japanese army. To rescue him, she took her younger siblings, bought a house, and left Laolongtan
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I Just Want to Be a Slacker, but They Keep Making Me Play Horror Games 我只想当咸鱼，偏偏要我玩惊悚
All I Want Is to Be a Couch Potato, but They Keep Making Me Play Horror Games
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I'm in Malaysia, and I'm Going to Slay Ghosts and Demons 人在大马，我要斩鬼除魔
Moonlight flows like water, while daylight cuts like a blade. On the path to immortality, I slay the heavens' chosen ones. Clad in black, I grip the Tiger Soul blade, scale the heights of Cangwu, and stride across emerald waves. On the fifteenth day of the seventh month, the gates of the underworld open. When migrant workers venture abroad, they discover how dangerous the outside world can be. They encounter ghosts at ten thousand meters in the air, while the hot lands of Southeast Asia conceal
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The Age of the Supernatural: Starting with the Zombie Apocalypse 世间诡异时代：从丧尸末日开始
[Multiple Protagonists, Original Story, Ensemble Cast, Sequences, Reborn, Mystery, System, Adventure, The Uncanny, Survival, Imaginative Premise, Yuri, Strong Female Lead] What is the occult? What is the First Sequence? What is this uncanny age of the world? Beyond the superhuman, what are you? Where does your legacy come from? Have you ever faced gods and demons? Amid endless chaos and distortion, can we cross ruin and turmoil to find a haven? This is the cruelest era. This is the most terrifyi
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I’m Using My Golden Finger to Slay My Way Through a Cursed World 我在诡异世界，用金手指杀疯了
[Reborn + sharp-tongued heroine + golden finger from the start + eerie world + delightfully unhinged mindset + unconventional style] Chu Ningtong is reborn, returning to the day she entered the eerie world at eighteen. In her previous life, the Chu family used her, and Chu Mingzhu caused her death. This time, she decisively leaves the Chu family and cuts ties with them of her own accord. After awakening an SR golden finger, she sets out to live a different kind of life. Chu Mingzhu: “Big Sis, I
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After the Parallel Shift 平行之后
This is no simple manhunt. It is a final letter addressed to the truth. Three years ago, the best friend of a close friend fell to her death from a cliff on Cuiwei Mountain. Everyone believed it was an accident. Only Shi Yi and Ai Min refused to accept that. They returned to the scene and used one tiny technical detail after another to overturn what had seemed like a flawless conclusion. But they never expected that this would drag Shi Yi into an international web of mysteries known as “Twin Lo
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Unraveling the Strange: Surviving the Second Case 诡事探秘逢生二
An abandoned mining town, missing residents, and dense fog that traps souls. A four-person ghost-hunting team ventures into the forbidden zone to uncover a shocking mystery from 2015. When the truth comes to light, whose spirit has been waiting? A suspenseful thriller that will keep you awake tonight.
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A Little One in the Midst of Revival 复苏中的一小只
An unexpected trip led Lin Qingqing to transmigrate into a world where the supernatural had returned. Here, vengeful ghosts run rampant and the uncanny lurks everywhere. But there are also people who stand against the ghosts: Ghost Controllers! “What? I’m the villain now?”
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Who Wrote His Crime? 谁书其罪
A single imperial decree can decide who lives and dies. A page from an old archive can rewrite the fate of the court. Sixteen years after the new dynasty was founded, the common people praised the fairness of the civil service exams. Yet every high-ranking official in the court owed their position to a rigged cheating scandal. Shen Qingwu is merely the lowliest document-restoration clerk in the Qingjian Bureau, but from the grain of paper, old ink, and forged seals, she can make witnesses “kille
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Uncovering Strange Mysteries and Finding a Way Out 诡事探秘逢生
In Lichong City, four childhood friends who grew up together were enlightened by a Taoist priest when they were young, and each possesses a supernatural ability. After Yang Zhuang got into an online argument, the four were drawn into a supernatural incident at an abandoned hospital in the neighboring city of Huidong.
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