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1. 201 奶 Grandma's Notes on Yin and Yang 奶奶的阴阳笔记 Gu Yue詁月Mystery407k WordsCompleted Supernatural mystery + first person + calls from the underworld On the day my grandmother, Granny Wang, died, I received a call from the underworld, number 444: “Did Granny Wang bring them back to life? If she did, we won’t be coming up.” While sorting through her belongings, I found a reddish-brown notebook beneath the household shrine. It recorded how my grandmother used our great-grandfather’s Maoshan techniques to exorcise evil spirits: “Paper Figures Eavesdrop on the Yin” means cutting out 86Reads9.4Score—Shelves

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2. 202 仙 The Enigmatic Records of Immortal Bonds 仙缘诡秘录 Bei Jiajia北佳佳Mystery503k WordsCompleted In northeastern China in the 1990s, anyone who wanted to become a spirit medium had to establish an altar and gain the approval of the spirits. “I'm just a girl. I don't want to become a spirit medium or set up an altar. Everyone else is approved by one spirit, but why have I got 108 spirits? Sob... There's a ghost. I'm scared...” —Reads7.3Score—Shelves

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   With Tangkou imminent, lurking in the shadows, a young girl is chosen by the immortals; the truth awaits to be revealed.

3. 203 刷 I Was Scrubbing Pans When I Landed in Cooking Master Boy, and Now the Dark Cooking Society Has Its Eye on My Pan 刷锅刷进小当家，我的锅被黑暗料理界盯上了 Bamboo Shoot Buns Are So Delicious竹笋包子超好吃Male-Channel Fanfiction14k WordsCompleted I Scrubbed My Way into The Little Chef, and Now the Dark Cuisine World Has Its Eyes on My Wok 5Reads—Score—Shelves

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4. 204 甄 Empresses in the Palace: A Concubine's Scheme 甄嬛传-庶女谋 Bamboo Shoot Buns Are So Delicious竹笋包子超好吃Female-Channel Fanfiction21k WordsCompleted Empresses in the Palace: The Concubine’s Scheme 13Reads—Score—Shelves
5. 205 半 A Half-Baked Fortune-Telling Streamer: I Talked My Way Through a Haunted Livestream 半吊子算命主播：我靠忽悠摆平了"闹鬼"直播间 Bamboo Shoot Buns Are So Delicious竹笋包子超好吃17k WordsCompleted A Half-Baked Fortune-Telling Streamer: I Bluffed My Way Through a “Haunted” Livestream 4Reads—Score—Shelves
6. 206 团 I Never Knew I Was Supposed to Pay for Team-Building Dinners, Until I Got the Year-End Bill 团建聚餐我从来不知道，年底却收到AA账单 Bamboo Shoot Buns Are So Delicious竹笋包子超好吃8k WordsCompleted I Never Knew About the Team-Building Dinners, Yet at Year-End I Got the Bill to Split the Cost 7Reads—Score—Shelves
7. 207 退 The Day She Broke Off Our Engagement, Snow Buried My Door. Three Years Later, I Had the Entire Marquis's Household Executed 退婚那日雪满门，三年后我让侯府满门抄斩 Bamboo Shoot Buns Are So Delicious竹笋包子超好吃Ancient Romance12k WordsCompleted The Day I Broke Off the Engagement, Snow Blanketed the Door. Three Years Later, I Had the Entire Marquis's Estate Executed 74Reads—Score—Shelves
8. 208 她 After She Died, Spring Never Returned to My Empire 她死后，朕的江山再无春风 Bamboo Shoot Buns Are So Delicious竹笋包子超好吃13k WordsCompleted After She Died, Spring Winds Never Again Swept Through My Empire 9Reads—Score—Shelves
9. 209 乱 A Duckweed Adrift in Troubled Times [Light Supernatural Elements] 乱世浮萍【微灵异】 Zhou Wan舟妧Mystery88k WordsOngoing [Fresh premise + supernatural + smart characters + ensemble cast + character growth + romance] When the Yin-Yang Double Pupils appear, ghosts and demons plunge the world into chaos. What? Those with the Yin-Yang Double Pupils have a duty of their own? Shu Luo has little interest in being a savior. But her future is bound up with humanity's future, so she has no choice but to do everything in her power to protect it. It begins with a handful of cases of people turning into ghosts and demons, then —Reads—Score—Shelves

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   Newbie here, please check it out QAQ. The setting is novel, no eerie elements, but there are ghosts and demons, a touch of supernatural horror, not a mindless wish-fulfillment story. I think my writing is alright, updates are currently slow, so it's worth reading gradually. Daily updates after the first post. A protagonist who grows through development, with a side couple, mostly ensemble pieces. The female lead is bright and intelligent, the male lead is refined and handsome. The female lead accidentally possesses [Yin-Yang Double Pupils], thus witnessing a side of this world rarely known to others. Partial synopsis: From a few initial incidents of demonization, to later changes on the ancient road, the dancer's invitation, the secrets hidden in the deep sea, the founder of the "Zhu" organization surfacing... In this chaotic world, no one can remain unscathed; we have all been caught in this vortex. * In this chaotic world, we are all like duckweed, yet we are also like the sun and moon, shaking the heavens and earth!

10. 210 世 Chronicles of Strange Happenings in an Aristocratic Clan 世家诡事录 Lazy, Leisurely Landscape Wanderer懒慢的山水郎Mystery221k WordsOngoing Why do all the bones in a person’s body disappear after they die? Why can a corpse with no bones still stand like a living person? Why are young women in the city being drained of blood one after another? Why do their bodies become as hard as steel after all their blood is gone? Why do the places where these bodies are found always carry the rich scent of osmanthus? A horde of vengeful ghosts attacks, and their figures are behind it all. Why would they do such a thing? … So many mysteries await —Reads—Score—Shelves

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    Everything you need is in this book. Cases include: boneless corpses, urban girls' blood-drinking incidents, and Japanese army murders during World War II.

11. 211 我 My Hopeless Life Became Even More Desperate 我无望的人生更加绝望 Jiu Ai玖哎Mystery199k WordsOngoing After something happened to her family, Mu Xia could never move on from that day. She went through life in a daze. Until one day, she accidentally entered a world of horror. And so began a fantastical journey. She made new friends, faced all kinds of events, and lived a new life. 1Reads6.4Score—Shelves

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    Mu Xia downloaded a gacha game to try it out, and a flash of white light streaked across her face. Little did she know that this simple attempt would become an unexpected key to the underworld.

12. 212 人 Human Nature Uncanny: The Rebellious One in the Secret, Strange Labyrinth 人狌吊诡：秘异迷笼叛逆者 Heartwarming Pear沁心梨Mystery270k WordsCompleted [Mystery + Suspense + Apocalypse + Labyrinth of Enigmas, no System + No saintly heroine] The Classic of Mountains and Seas records a mysterious creature called the Xing. Jiang Yan transmigrated to a strange, enigmatic world trapped in a labyrinth, where she encountered eight kinds of Xing that could manipulate people’s hearts: Advantage Xing, Misfortune Xing, Destruction Xing, Praise Xing, Honor Xing, Ridicule Xing, Suffering Xing, and Joy Xing. At the same time, her extremely yin constitution d —Reads—Score—Shelves

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    Good books shouldn't be missed, very good! (*๓´╰╯`๓)♡

13. 213 神 The Seven Ghost-Slaying Orders: When Winter’s Chill Has Passed 神鬼七杀令之凛冬散尽 Beiming Chi北冥啻Mystery206k WordsCompleted [The Truman Show] [God ✖️ Manager of a Reincarnation Cinema] It’s hard to tell the living from the dead, but among all people, the human heart is the most frightening. The story will be told in several parts. The gods pity all living things. The truth about ghosts and gods is impossible to pin down. In the end, the human heart is the most frightening of all. 6Reads—Score—Shelves

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    The plot of this book is very fast-paced and suspenseful; my heart was pounding. I was a little scared but also wanted to keep reading—it was both thrilling and exciting. Looking forward to the next update…

14. 214 九 The Nine Heavens Spirit Dragon 九霄灵龙 Ziqingzi自清子Mystery349k WordsOngoing I was an abandoned baby, and I never knew who my parents were. Fortunately, an old man found me and took me in as his disciple. Eighteen years later, I descended the mountain alone to gain experience. I traveled far and wide, venturing into the underworld and slaying hundreds of ghosts, and witnessed all kinds of strange and wondrous things. I made a band of brothers who would live and die alongside me. Of course, some of them weren't human... —Reads—Score—Shelves

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    The writing is solid, the content is easy to understand, and the stories described in the book are so realistic that I once thought they were real events. I couldn't help but wonder if there are other worlds that exist outside of ours.

15. 215 规 Rule Horror: You Want Me, Zhang San, to Follow the Rules? 规则怪谈：要求我张三遵守规则？ The Luo in Luo Xiu罗修的罗Mystery3.1M WordsCompleted [Horror + eerie + hilarious + satisfying + national fortune = a serious novel] The Supreme Rules descend, selecting multiple people at random from each country to become Ascenders and take part in the Ascension Exam! Those who perform well earn high scores and even extra rewards. They can improve their own abilities and bring unexpected ascension to their country. But fail the exam, and death may be waiting for you, along with endless torment. Even your country may be beset by supernatural event 6.8kReads9.0Score821Shelves

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    Everything's great, bookmark this now! 🥰

16. 216 开 From the Start, I Have Hundreds of Millions in Hell Money: I'm Invincible in the Age of the Uncanny 开局冥币亿万：诡异时代我无敌 Sis, Don't Be Like That姐姐别这样Mystery4.5M WordsOngoing [Supernatural horror + apocalypse + tycoon + ghost money + rules + comedy + no heroine + fast-paced power fantasy (buys a supernatural-horror site by chapter 7, keeps buying everything without dragging things out, and buys an entire city in 200,000 words) + mid-story twists + late-game rule deduction] The supernatural apocalypse arrives, and evil ghosts run rampant. Within the rules, ghosts cannot kill people. While countless people struggle to survive the apocalypse, carefully searching for a w 144.3kReads9.4Score15.5kShelves
17. 217 宿 Dorm Survival: I Was Pulled into the Management Chat 宿舍求生，我被拉进了管理群 Rolling Eggs翻滚的蛋蛋Mystery4.8M WordsOngoing [Infinite-flow + no saintly heroine + System + survival + satisfying read] When Chen Bei woke up, he found himself in a dormitory survival game, bound to a dorm room. During the day, players had to venture out to gather supplies, grow stronger, and fortify their dorms. When night fell, all kinds of eerie and dangerous creatures appeared. The only way to survive was to hide inside the dorm. People and their dorms lived or died together! Unlike the others, Chen Bei had gained access to the game's 107.3kReads8.9Score8.6kShelves
18. 218 谍 Espionage: 2,000 Deaths from the Start 谍战：开局死亡两千次 Jin Daye金大涯Urban958k WordsOngoing Xie Shu, male, formerly an Olympic shooting champion in the twenty-first century. One day, he kills himself and wakes up in 1940. Reason: Unknown. Identity: Unknown. Status: Being buried alive. Xie Shu: ...What a disastrous start! The good news: He gains the ability to rewind time whenever he dies. The bad news: He wakes up at a live burial site and has to die two thousand times before he escapes. While helping a passing guerrilla unit complete its mission, he somehow ends up as the illegitimat 40kReads9.3Score6kShelves
19. 219 他 While Others Command Ghosts, I Cultivate Immortality; While Others Fear, I Covet 他人驭鬼我修仙，他人恐惧我贪婪 Soda Sea Salt Crackers苏打海盐饼干Urban1.5M WordsCompleted [Highly recommend this divine novel: The Strange Resurgence: I Can Transform into a Great Demon] [Not invincible, clever protagonist, focused on leveling up, horror, hilarious, dark worldview, a high-dimensional golden finger crushing a lower-dimensional world] Nightmares erode reality. Cities and skyscrapers that once disappeared return, now filled with terrifying high-level supernatural beings. When the final day arrives, the whole world falls into darkness, and one strange god after another 32.5kReads7.7Score2.7kShelves
20. 220 我 I Evolved Billions of Curses 我进化了亿万诅咒 Soda Sea Salt Crackers苏打海盐饼干Mystery1.0M WordsCompleted [Chinese-Style Horror + Twists + Humans Scaring Ghosts] The supernatural returned, ferocious ghosts broke loose, and unimaginable horrors appeared in the real world. As night fell over the city, nightmares engulfed everyone. Jiang Fan gained the power to develop abilities by studying ghosts. As long as he kept scaring them, he could become the greatest terror in the darkness. The more terrified they were, the greater the power he gained. Then he discovered that his potential had been unleas 4.3kReads8.6Score450Shelves
21. 221 诡 Eerie Revival: I Can Contact the Past 诡异复苏：我能联系过去 Young Master Yanque燕雀大公子Mystery1.1M WordsCompleted The Hungry Ghost Festival of 2025. A super red moon appeared, and as it lingered in the sky, the supernatural returned. Left Yang was shocked to discover that he could use his phone to contact himself in the past. In the stairwell, the Knock-at-the-Door Ghost killed anyone who opened the door. But someone discovered that it skipped the first floor and started knocking there. So Left Yang contacted his past self. [Please have your one-month-younger self rent an apartment on the first floor!] The 43kReads9.1Score4.9kShelves
22. 222 我 My Years as a Spirit Medium's Apprentice 我当出马弟子那几年 The Number One Horse Who Writes Books写书的第马Mystery453k WordsOngoing Hello, everyone. I'm a spirit medium from Shandong. The main reason I'm writing this book is, first, to record my experiences. Whether it becomes popular or not, I want to preserve my memories and my life story! Second, I hope the book will help people understand spirit mediumship. In recent years, certain people with bad intentions have given it a terrible reputation. So I'm writing about my own experiences to help clear its name! —Reads—Score—Shelves

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    I highly recommend this book on shamanic practices. It's not a fictional novel, but rather based on the author's personal experiences. And here's the important part: the author himself is a shamanic practitioner from Shandong!

23. 223 惊 A Collection of Folk Tales of Horror and Suspense 惊悚悬疑民间故事录 Tomato and Egg Braise, Lover of Daydreams番茄卤蛋爱幻想Mystery274k WordsCompleted Whether it's the mysterious wonders of ancient legends or the simple, heartfelt truths of rural folklore, Tales from the People brings them all to you. Like a mirror reflecting the many facets of the world, it takes you across different eras to experience life's many flavors. —Reads—Score—Shelves

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    A collection of folk tales, this novel vividly depicts various thrilling and suspenseful plots, making it highly recommended.

24. 224 生 The Cycle of Life 生命轮回 Little River Shrimp河小虾Mystery43k WordsCompleted My new work is out! Come read it on Tomato Novel. I hope you'll enjoy it. Your support motivates me to write, and I'll do my best to tell every story well! —Reads—Score—Shelves

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    Recommended by a seasoned bookworm who has listened to audiobooks for over 10,000 hours

25. 225 异 The King of Crazy Ideas: My Outlandish Notions Save the World 异常点子王：我离谱脑洞拯救世界 Willing to Topple a Kingdom for One Person为一人倾国Urban234k WordsCompleted (Wild supernatural powers + modern suspense + infinite-loop crises + a male lead full of ingenious ideas) Failed novelist Lin Mo faces rejection after rejection, day in and day out, until his life becomes utterly miserable! An invitation to join a group called the “World Anomaly Mutual Aid Center” completely upends his painfully ordinary life. When a group member gets trapped in a seven-day time loop, Lin Mo casually suggests the absurd solution of “drinking water upside down, then jumping out t —Reads—Score—Shelves

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    The author's writing is excellent, the plot is well-structured, the logic and worldview are clear, and the story is very engaging.

26. 226 不 An Unacceptable Game 不能接受的游戏 Lin Xiyi林汐翼Mystery151k WordsOngoing [Chinese-style supernatural horror + infinite flow + mystery-solving and deduction + comedy] All I could do was play games, and I was a complete failure at everything else. Just before that fateful choice, I was sure I pressed Close, but instead I opened a game I couldn't accept. —Reads—Score—Shelves

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    Hope this meets your requirements 🥺

27. 227 绝 The Game of Despair 绝望游戏 Ning Caichen宁采臣Mystery2.3M WordsCompleted A rich guy in the group chat is handing out red envelopes and demanding that the luckiest winner play a game with him. It turns out he wants the class belle to… 63Reads7.5Score—Shelves

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    This book combines elements of the supernatural, thriller, horror, suspense, and human nature into one book, and there are several passages that depict the protagonist in a state of utter despair.

28. 228 出 The Record of a Spirit Medium's Disciple 出马弟子进行录 The Number One Horse Who Writes Books写书的第马Mystery125k WordsOngoing A very real, purely personal account of life as a spirit medium! I’m a real spirit-medium disciple myself! This book has no fantasy elements or cultivation-power fantasies, just true experiences and information! I hope you’ll enjoy it! wlt52121 —Reads—Score—Shelves

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    I highly recommend these two books. They are written by authors from the Northern School of shamanism, offering a more professional perspective and more detailed analysis. They combine personal experience with professional books, and the writing style is simple yet the content is authentic!

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