Why Is San Shi Yu the Only Good Horror Book? 除了三尸语怎么一本好看的书都没有了！恐怖的！
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The Language of the Three Corpses 三尸语
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…
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- 2 Borrowing Yin Lifespan 借阴寿 Have you ever slept wearing burial clothes? Don’t try it. I did once, and that night... My name is Li Yiliang. I was born with a shortened lifespan, and my birth caused my mother to die in childbirth. But one night when I was eighteen, my mother came back and said she wanted to take me with her... My grandfather told me to sleep in burial clothes, then gave his own life to help me escape that fate. From then on, my life was never free of strange and uncanny things... 4.8kReads8.9Score435Shelves
- 3 EN Terror: I Only Sell Haunted Houses 惊悚：我只卖凶宅 Rooms where unnatural deaths have occurred are collectively known as haunted houses. There are two kinds: “blue houses” and “red houses.” Living people can stay in blue houses without harm, but anyone who lives in a red house is doomed to die. I work as a real estate agent. One day, I accidentally sold a red house, and afterward, I began encountering terrifying things… 27.4kReads9.2Score3.2kShelves
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Born of a Corpse, Carried in a Ghost's Coffin 尸生子，鬼抬棺
In ancient, remote places, all kinds of strange and terrifying things are bound to happen. And these things happen around Hua Jiunan. In fact, Hua Jiunan is part of them. For instance, he was born from a corpse!
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- 5 The Haunted Tomb 诡坟 [This is no ordinary paranormal story. It's all about horror and suspense: no mindless wish fulfillment, forbidden yin-yang lore, no cultivation, and a ghost wife. If it's not good, you can break my legs.] People laugh at my family's poverty and say that all my blood relatives have died, so there must be a ghost in our house. I don't dare argue... because there really is a ghost buried in our ancestral grave! ...My name is Zhang Asi... I was born at four in the morning on the fourteenth day of t 40kReads8.8Score3.8kShelves
- 6 EN The Last Bus on Route 13 13路末班车 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! 13.8kReads9.2Score1.7kShelves
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The Dragon-Suppressing Coffin and the King of Hell's Fate 镇龙棺，阎王命
They severed my tendons and buried me alive in a sealed coffin, but they didn’t know I was born with the fate of the King of Hell! [Folk horror, feng shui and talismans, incense offerings] Feng shui and fortune-telling, painted-skin demons and spirit summoning, walking in the shadows and corpse driving, corpse-raising spells and curses, yin tattoos and talismanic needles, puppets controlled by strings, red doors sealed with wax, Dogs digging graves on Burial Mound Ridge, ghosts feasting in the R
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The Witch Seeks the Veins and Calms the Soul 巫师寻脉镇魂
A man in a red robe isn't necessarily a groom. He might be a shaman, known as a Duangong. The protagonist, Liu Chunqiu, is the youngest shaman in southwestern Hubei. Other people wear red to marry. He wears red to drive out ghosts. Other people pray to Buddha and beseech the gods. He invites the gods to possess him. His master asks him to find and recover the lost lineage of shamanic arts. From then on, the protagonist performs Duangong rites day and night to heal the sick and ward off evil, and
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Soul Reaper 收魂人
To stay alive, I had no choice but to marry a two-headed monster. But I never expected her to be a Rakshasa with two souls. My fate was utterly transformed, and I embarked on a perilous path full of thorns, surrounded by demons and spirits...
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- 10 EN The House of Dread 诡舍 [Infinite-flow + Mild Horror + Survival + One Female Lead] A driverless bus carried a group of cursed people to a strange black lodge… Inside the lodge stood a door stained red with blood. At regular intervals, the cursed were forcibly dragged through the blood-red door and into terrifying worlds, where they had to complete horrifying events… After Ning Qiushui survived one bizarre and terrifying story after another inside the lodge, narrowly escaping death each time, he discovered that none of 714.1kReads9.6Score103.9kShelves
- 11 The Spirit Burying Master 葬灵师 Every year since the year I was born, someone in the village has died. To keep me alive, Grandma arranged a marriage for me, and my betrothed was supposed to come for me when I came of age. On my eighteenth birthday, I discovered that the one who had come for me wasn't human... 155Reads7.9Score253Shelves
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The Midnight Pawnshop: The Living Must Keep Away 午夜当铺，活人回避
[Traditional Supernatural Horror] [Chinese Folk Customs] [Unorthodox Trade] [Tales of Evil Objects] [No Romance] This is a strange pawnshop that deals exclusively in sinister objects with special value! When something goes against the natural order, evil must be at work! Some things simply should not exist in this world! Coins stuffed into the mouths of the dead, an executioner's blade, grave mushrooms, flesh lingzhi, Kunlun fetuses... Evil objects can harm people, but they can also help them! T
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- 13 Terrifying Nightmare: Extreme Survival in a Bizarre World 恐怖噩梦：我在诡异世界极限逃生 [Infinite-flow, mildly scary, no romance] Wang Yan wearily opened his front door. Inside, he saw the woman next door holding and soothing a baby, staring at him in terror. “Sorry, I’ve got the wrong apartment.” He quickly apologized and backed out, then slammed the door shut. Standing in the pitch-black hallway, he found himself unable to decide what was more terrifying: seeing his female neighbor in his home, or seeing the baby who had died long ago… 401.9kReads9.4Score73.5kShelves
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My Years in the Funeral Business 我干殡葬的那些年
People light candles, ghosts blow out the lamps. The dead return at midnight, corpses rise in funeral halls, and ancient relics lie buried for thousands of years. In my years working in the funeral business, I’ve encountered plenty of strange and uncanny things. The living walk the roads of the living world, and the dead walk the roads of the underworld. But sometimes, not everyone on the underworld’s roads is a ghost, and not everyone on the living world’s roads is human…
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I Transmigrated into the World of the Taoist Priest of Zombie 穿越僵尸道长世界
I, Li Zhizhou, transmigrated and became a junior disciple under Uncle Jiu. After awakening the Daoist Cultivation System, I carried all of Maoshan to greatness. Grand Martial Uncle Shi Jian, Martial Uncle Qianhe, and Martial Uncle Simu look at me as if they're about to steal me away as their disciple! Complete all kinds of missions, and you can learn supreme Daoist arts. There are also divine-grade pills, top-tier magic artifacts, and the finest talismans. And so, I became the most gifted discip
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- 16 The House of Deadly Peril 死亡凶间 I work as a specialist crime-scene cleaner, tasked with cleaning up after murders, suicides, and accidental deaths. I’ve seen more than my share of partings and grief, as well as the other side of death. Then, on the Ghost Festival, I encountered something terrifying... 18.4kReads9.2Score1.8kShelves
- 17 I'm a Haunted House Sleep Tester 我在凶宅当试睡员 I worked for a real estate company, but later I was transferred to another department. I never expected to encounter something terrifying on my very first day... 5.8kReads8.8Score619Shelves
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The Yin-Walker 巡阴人
Applying makeup to the dead, reading the winds and assessing the land, preparing bodies for burial, and performing rites on the seventh day after death. Scorched corpses: cleaning the body, applying rouge, painting the features! Bodies cut in half at the waist: removing the organs, filling the cavities, and stitching the body back together! I was born into a family that made its living from the dead, so I grew up dealing with corpses. I’ve seen all sorts of bizarre ways to die and countless inex
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Supreme Ghost and Fiend Tamer 太上御鬼煞
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:
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- 20 The Yin Calamity Brings a Fox 阴祸得狐 On the night I was born, strange celestial signs appeared, and I seemed to glimpse a mythical beast. A fortune-teller said I was born with a noble destiny, that good fortune was at my door, and that I was sure to achieve great things. But when I was twelve, an accident left me plagued by misfortune and illness. Desperate to survive, I went to pay respects to my ancestors and pray for their protection, never expecting to visit the wrong grave... That night, a man with nine tails, as beautiful as 13.2kReads9.2Score2kShelves
- 21 The Dragon King's Bride 龙王聘 That year, I came down with a strange illness that nothing could cure. Then, on the night the blood moon hung high in the sky, my family decorated the house with lanterns and streamers. From that day on, I had a husband no one could see. Around that time, my mother warned me gravely that I must remain faithful to my husband and keep my distance from other men, or disaster would befall me! When I was nineteen, I broke the taboo, and he... appeared. 39.4kReads9.5Score5.5kShelves
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Vivid as Life 栩栩若生
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
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My Years of Ghost Hunting Among the People 我在民间捉鬼的那些年
Chinese-Style Horror, No Female Lead My name is Xu Jian. I’m 26, and I studied Taoist arts under a Maoshan priest for several years. Over the years, I’ve seen all kinds of things. After doing this long enough, I realized that ghosts aren’t scary. What’s truly frightening are the things people can’t get past in their hearts. All I do is help them say what needs to be said and settle their debts once and for all. People call me a Celestial Master of the Taoist sect, but I’m really just an ordin
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36,036 Terrifying Stories You’ll Regret Not Reading 不看后悔的36036个恐怖故事
[Standalone Stories] [Paranormal Events] [Unbelievable] [Forest Spirits] [True Cases] [Rural Ghost Stories] There is no overarching plot. Each chapter tells a self-contained story adapted from the encounters of a shamaness who can see spirits, and the strange, gripping tales surrounding each young friend she meets.
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The Eerie Girlfriend 诡异女友
Can a loser really not find true love? One day, I suddenly discover that my girlfriend has disappeared. Did she dump me? But I’ve asked so many friends, and none of them have seen her. I can’t stop breaking out in a cold sweat... Was I dumped, or is there something “wrong” with her?
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Border-Crossing Envoy: From the Start, I’m Told to Save Chang Wei! 越境使者之开局让我救常威！
[Infinite-Flow] + [Light Horror] + [Survival] + [Golden Finger] Have you ever dozed off in class? High school student Kai Hang had. He stole a nap, then opened his eyes to find himself gone from the world. The classroom was gone too, leaving only a sea of gray mist. This was the “Dreamscape,” a device left behind by the ancient civilization of Laya. It used instances as cages and fed on terror. If you wanted to survive, you had to clear them. Chang Wei attacks Laifu, and the Old Changing Woman e
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- 27 Horror Game: From the Start, the Skin Bride's Bones Terrified the World! 恐怖游戏：开局皮嫁骨吓哭全球！ [Handcrafted with Traditional Techniques, No AI] [No Female Lead] [Mild Horror] The horror game has arrived! Lin Ye transmigrated here and was selected to take part in designing a global horror game. He had planned to bring out the "Ghost Bride" to save Daxia, only to discover that its culture hadn't been lost at all! Traditional Daxia ghost stories had been used to death, and the whole nation was in despair! Daxia had suffered ten straight losses. The supernatural was invading, and the land was 976.9kReads8.5Score211.3kShelves
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The Heavenly Coffin 天棺
Because of a joke, my grandmother’s spirit refused to leave after her death and insisted on taking me with her to the grave. Otherwise, my whole family would die. To save my family, I went into the grave with my grandmother...
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With a Fox Immortal, I Subdue a Hundred Ghosts 我以狐仙镇百鬼
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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Taboo of the Living 活人禁忌
When I was nine, I found myself in mortal danger! To save me, my grandfather made a decision that would change my life forever...
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- 31 No Living People Allowed 活人勿近 [Inspired by real events, but the setting is entirely fictional] [No cultivation] [Supernatural horror only] The countryside is different from the city. Rural areas are vast and sparsely populated, with too little human presence to suppress what lurks beneath the ground. That's why ghost stories and strange legends keep cropping up. Ask anyone from a village in Sichuan, and they'll have plenty to tell you about supernatural happenings in the mountains and fields in years gone by. Some people 92.2kReads9.3Score8.2kShelves
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I Broke Folk Taboos, Yet Became the Strongest Taoist Priest 触碰民间禁忌，我却成为最强道士
It all started when I got drunk and took a leak by a roadside grave. After breaking a rural taboo, one strange thing after another began to haunt me. My grandfather was a well-known spirit medium in the countryside of Yu Province, and our family worshipped fox spirits at a shrine. There are no peerless thunder techniques, no golden finger upgrades. Rural graves, ill omens when red and white festivities collide, spirit mediums making their rounds, the troops serving beneath the Mount Tai Goddess:
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The Horror Realm: Entering the Strange World from a Psychiatric Hospital 惊悚领域：从精神病院进入诡世界
(The hardcover edition has been published!) [Infinite Flow] [Original Horror Instances] [Mild Horror] “Chen Ji murdered his mother a week ago and spent three days with her corpse before he was arrested.” “You have been diagnosed with schizophrenia and are about to be transferred to a psychiatric hospital for supervision.” “Do you have anything to say?” The black-haired boy before them slowly raised his head, his expression calm. “I’ll say it again.” “The thing I killed wasn’t my mother...” “It w
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Midnight Nightmare 深夜噩梦
[Infinite Flow] [Hell Difficulty] [Original Dungeons] [Multiple Twists] Note: The dungeons are extremely difficult, so proceed with caution. The first two are only warm-ups. They say that “Ghost Eyes” can see a person’s “good and evil.” Wang Cheng was born with a pair of Ghost Eyes. But he discovered that this claim didn’t tell the whole story. Because Ghost Eyes can see more than people. They can also see cats, dogs, houses, mountains, and rivers… Or perhaps a strangely lifelike doll, or an old
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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
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...
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- 36 The Peerless Mage 法师无双 A top sorcerer who once led the Heavenly Masters’ Court returns, only to be cast out by his powerful family. As he prepares to leave, he discovers that his younger female cousin has fallen victim to dark magic… 4kReads9.1Score519Shelves
- 37 The Grand Feng Shui Master 大相师 Ten years ago, nine snakes crawled into my bed. Grandpa said someone was trying to steal my life. To keep me alive, he arranged an engagement for me to extend my lifespan... 8.3kReads9.3Score986Shelves
- 38 The Supreme Taoist: Subduing Ten Thousand Ghosts 道门太上：万鬼伏藏 Offer blood to Heaven and slaughter every evil. The Daoist arts are the strongest of all. The protagonist, Li Changsheng, masters the supreme arts of the Daoist sect and makes a solemn vow: he will not ascend until he has eliminated every demon and evil spirit under Heaven. He willingly seals his cultivation between Heaven and Earth, remaining in the mortal realm for thousands of years! 23.6kReads9.4Score1.8kShelves
- 39 Supreme Taoist: A Calamity of Bloodshed 道门太上：血光之灾 Offer blood to Heaven, and slay every evil thing. The Daoist arts are the strongest of all. All the great paths beneath Heaven come from Taishang. The Taishang lineage belongs to my Li family alone. The protagonist, Li Changsheng, makes a solemn vow to eradicate every evil demon beneath Heaven: he will never ascend, but remain in the mortal world for thousands of years. 10.7kReads9.4Score896Shelves
- 40 The Supreme Daoist: Endless Slaughter 道门太上：无尽杀戮 Offer blood to Heaven and slaughter every evil. The arts of the Daoist sect shall be supreme! All the great paths under Heaven come from the Supreme One. The Supreme One has but one lineage: the Li family! (No female lead, no harem, no System, and not a story where the protagonist is completely invincible.) 9.4kReads9.3Score644Shelves
- 41 The Taoist Exorcist 道门驱邪人 Where there is evil under heaven, there are all manner of wicked things, and so there are Daoist exorcists. He travels between heaven and earth, yin and yang. He ventures deep into the hundred thousand mountains of Miao territory and far away to the borders of the southern seas. Head-dropping curses, gu raising, black magic, and all the world's fiends and spirits of darkness. He has exorcised countless demons and ghosts, only to discover in the end that nothing is more evil than the human heart. 2.6kReads9.1Score396Shelves
- 42 The Last Knife Seller 最后一个赊刀人 They are wandering prophets who travel the four corners of the world. Skilled in feng shui, they roam the mortal realm with a bundle of cleavers and scissors on their backs, and wherever they go, they leave behind a prophecy about what they have seen. “Keep this cleaver. If an elder in your family dies of consumption within five years, I'll come back to collect payment.” They are heirs to an ancient Daoist tradition from a distant place, able to pronounce life and death with ironclad certainty a 54.4kReads9.2Score5.2kShelves
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The Southeast Asian Medium 东南亚通灵先生
Under duress, I embedded a woman's corpse inside a Buddha statue in a temple. After I was framed, Master Dad taught me Southeast Asian spirit-medium arts. From that day on, the world I saw was no longer inhabited by the living alone...
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Notes of a Yin Merchant: I Only Buy the Most Cursed Things 阴商笔记：我只收大凶之物
I'm a dealer in occult goods. I had only recently taken over the shop my grandfather left me when I bought a string of human-bone prayer beads from tomb raiders. I never expected a beautiful woman to show up at my door the very next day...
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The Yin-Yang Twin 阴阳双生人
[Mild Horror + The Supernatural] Ming Ye grew up living in a cemetery. Her parents went missing seven years ago and were eventually found dead under bizarre circumstances in the mountains. Seven years later, she became an emergency room doctor. One midnight, she met the Taoist priest Xu Baoyang on a bus as he was out catching ghosts. Later, while tracking clues about his missing master, Xu Baoyang came to the hospital where Ming Ye worked and discovered that a strange hospital orderly had set up
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- 46 Thirteen Years in the Shady Business 我捞偏门十三年 [The rating just came out, but it'll go up later] I entered the business in 2008 and retired in 2021. People usually call those of us in this line of work "readers of the unseen." In thirteen years on the job, only about eighty percent of the strange cases I handled ended well. All I can say is that ghosts aren't the most sinister things out there. Some things don't even have names you can call them by. 46.7kReads8.9Score8.5kShelves
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The Crime-Chasing Detective 追凶神探
Legendary police officer Song Lang is reborn and goes incognito as a driver named Chen Shi. He had hoped to live quietly, but fate had other plans: Chen Shi gets caught up in another murder case... A company that preaches a ruthless corporate culture and slaughters its employees while everyone stays silent; A wayward young man who skins his childhood sweetheart alive, with tears in his eyes, to get “justice”; A middle-aged couple bound together by a dark secret, each raising a blade against the
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- 48 Slay the Dragon 斩龙 Do you really understand this world? The thunderstorm I witnessed at the age of sixteen let me see a giant serpent undergoing its tribulation with my own eyes. It also led me to join the mysterious Dragon-Slaying Team. The six-fingered female corpse opening her eyes in Fuxian Lake; the Spirit Clan entering the sea at Tiemen Bridge; a red coffin soaring into the sky in southern Fujian; the Blood-Drinking Rakshasa of Kunlun Mountain. And could the Dragon-Sealing Nail in the Qinling Mountains reall 14.8kReads8.8Score1.4kShelves
- 49 National Treasure 国家宝藏 [Tomb Raiding + Mystery + Smart Protagonists] There is a group of people armed with black blades and mysterious arts, born to venture into ancient tombs across the land. There is a group of people who fight without end and bleed until they are drained, dying to protect the nation's treasures. They stand before the countless people of the world, shielding them from its darkest corners. They leave the greatest glory of their people behind them, for all to behold. They share one name: Qilin. But I 38.8kReads9.4Score6.4kShelves
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Ten Days to the End 十日终焉
2024 Tomato Novel Annual Peak Rankings TOP 1 | 2024 China Online Literature Influence List | 2024 China Good Novel Award | Over 2 million copies sold (No harem, no formulaic tropes, no invincibility, no System, no mindless antics, no wish fulfillment. Read with caution if these bother you.) Just when I thought it was an ordinary day, I discovered I had been captured and taken to the End. Just when I thought I could escape by continually taking part in death games, people began awakening supernat
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