Looking for Supernatural Mystery Stories About Ghost Hunting and Fortune-Telling With a Powerful Protagonist! 求主角很强的灵异悬疑捉鬼算命文！
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Northeastern China's Forbidden Secrets 东北禁忌手札
[Extreme horror + a folk-horror story set in the countryside] In a remote mountain village, deep within the forest, countless taboos remain unknown to outsiders. The people here follow ancient rules of life and death: pregnant women must never encounter a coffin, and anyone who dies of old age at a hundred years old is destined to become an evil spirit. But in a single day, the old Yu family breaks both taboos, drawing every kind of demon and ghost to their door! At midnight, someone hears the s
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Midnight Terror: Human Nature Stories That Will Haunt You 午夜惊魂：让人细思极恐的人性故事
At midnight, let's listen together to the little stories that circulate all around us. Maybe they're true. Maybe you've heard them too, or even experienced them yourself. Those moments that grow more terrifying the more you think about them go perfectly with the pitch-black night beyond the window. Red brick walls are common in many places. But we've never stopped to wonder: why are those bricks so red, so vivid? Rideshares at night aren't necessarily safe. Passengers have their concerns, and dr
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Midnight Wonders 午夜惊奇
At the stroke of midnight, amid a terrifying atmosphere, strange ghost stories begin to unfold! A bluish-white hand suddenly appears on the window in the middle of the night. Is it looking for someone to take revenge on? A bus still running in the dead of night: does it lead to the world of the living or to hell? The shapewear hanging in the wardrobe at home is made of human skin! During the Qingming Festival, a figure appears in the glass of the bathhouse. After returning to her room, a beautif
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Ghostly Whispers at Midnight 夜半鬼语
[Rural + Supernatural + Ghost Stories] Back when my grandfather was young, he learned carpentry. As Old Zhao put it, a sixth-grade carpenter these days was worth half a scholar. But things were different back then. Carpenters belonged to one of the lowest trades. They had to carry their tools around every day, get up before dawn and stay out until the middle of the night, traveling from village to village to find work. And because they went so many places, and made coffins and dealt with the dea
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The Supernatural Descends! A Female Ghost Teaches Me Maoshan Arts 诡异降临！女鬼教我茅山术
The uncanny descends, and a hundred ghosts roam the night! Li Qiulin was born with his Yin-Yang Eyes fully open. He can see ghosts and gods filling the sky, yet he has pretended to be blind and kept his head down for twenty whole years! That's because he has the rarest constitution of all: pure yang in a body of pure yin. He's the ultimate Yin bait, coveted by every evil spirit. His lifelong dream is to stay home, lie flat, and eat until he dies. But then a bad friend tricks him into exploring a
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A Soul Jade That Holds Evil Spirits: Will It Help Me Ascend to Immortality? 魂玉纳恶鬼，助我得道成仙？
Supernatural × Mystery × Schrodinger’s Couple × A Little Crime-Solving × Dreams I quit my job and started delivering food, only to become the police’s number-one suspect in a murder case. Because everyone I delivered food to died the next day. Police captain Lu Ming pinned me down in the interrogation room. “Tell me, how did you do it?” I stared blankly back at him, even more confused than he was. He thought I was some criminal mastermind with an astronomical IQ. I thought he was completely out
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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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Edict of the Mystic Eye 玄瞳敕令
[Chinese-Style Horror + Urban Cultivation + Livestream Fame + Ghost-Tormenting Face-Slapping + No Romance + “Easygoing Girl” + Episodic Story] My family runs a shop called the Worry-Free Pavilion, but our business deals with the realms of the living and the dead. One day, after delivering some clothes, I took a shortcut and stepped onto a long street where dawn would never come. A ghost wedding palanquin passed by, and ghosts roamed the night. I blended in, hoping to get home without drawing att
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The Strange Records of Xuanling 玄翎诡录
[Synopsis] [Chinese-Style Horror + Rule-Breaking + Ghost-Tormenting Face-Slapping + Ascension to Immortality + Episodic Story + 1v1 Sweet Romance + Past and Present Lives] Li Lingxi, the top student and campus beauty of Yaoxing University, looks pure and delicate, yet she is the only person who can see another world. The blood-red dormitory curtain that moves without a breeze in the dead of night, the stiff smiles of paper-doll vendors at the old street’s ghost market, the faint sobbing from the
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Lord of the Spirit Realm: From the Start, Bound to a Horror Short-Drama System 灵境主宰：开局绑定恐怖短剧系统
[Soul Transmigration to the Modern World + Cultivation Expert + Unhinged CEO + Demon-Fallen Buddhist Monk + Horror Short-Drama Instances + Yandere Villain + Love Rival Showdown] Li Xinghua, a Mahayana cultivator, was ambushed by a Buddhist monk who had fallen to the demonic path. Her soul transmigrated to the modern world, where she became a freshman at Huaqing University who had died from staying up too late. Stripped of her cultivation and stranded in an unfamiliar world with scarce spiritual
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The Ninth Layer of the Mortal Realm 第九重人间
Synopsis of The Ninth Layer of the Mortal Realm Chi Ying, Kyoto’s most beautiful woman, has a secret no one knows: ever since she was three, she has been dragged once a month into a place of ghosts called the Nether Ruins of Zhan Sha. There, cinnabar fades and paper money flutters through the air. Embroidered shoes walk by themselves down empty corridors, bronze mirrors reflect someone else’s face, and an abandoned opera stage endlessly performs bloody plays no one understands. For nineteen year
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The Immortal World's Top-Tier Star Reborn as the Real Heiress 仙界顶流穿成真千金后
[Top-Tier Star of Metaphysics in the Immortal Realm + Livestream Face-Slapping of Scumbags + Putting Green Tea and White Lotus Types in Their Place + Slight Everyone's Favorite + Exorcising Ghosts and Leveling Up Through Cultivation] Su Qintang, the top-tier star of ghost hunting in the immortal realm and a Golden Immortal of Primordial Chaos, was envied by someone and suddenly reborn as the despised real daughter of a modern wealthy family. On the night of the birthday banquet, facing the fak
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The Nuo Dancer's Ordeal 傩人难
Isolated and misunderstood, two people just alike meet because of fate. What kind of story will unfold? Will it be funny or terrifying? Everything takes place beneath a vast shadow.
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Life-and-Death Gambit in the Snowlands 雪域生死局
[Chinese Folk Horror + Gods and Ghosts + Folk Legends + Secret-Realm Exploration + Mystery and Deduction + Strong Allies] At an antique fair in Lhasa, I stumbled upon an ancient Tibetan stone tablet. Curious about its contents, I accepted an invitation to join a merchant named Lao Gun and the team he had assembled to search for goods. Together, we ventured deep into the barren mountains of northern Tibet to investigate an ancient temple. I never expected the old temple to conceal such mysteries.
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Nine Tribulations Swordmaster: My Core Was Crippled from the Start 九劫剑尊开局被废丹田
Lin Feng possesses a heaven-defying treasure, yet is betrayed by the woman he loves. His cultivation is crippled, and he is cast out of his sect. He thought his life was over, but unexpectedly awakened the memories of his past life as the Nine Tribulations Sword Sovereign. From then on, his left hand commands the pinnacle of alchemy, while his right wields an invincible sword art. Rising from obscurity, he tramples prodigies, destroys ancient sects, and battles primordial beasts. When he stands
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Coffin Shop No. 444 棺材铺444号
In the vast north stands an old town forgotten by time and snow: Qishan Town. At its eastern end is a shop older than the town itself. It has no sign, but everyone knows its address: 444. It is a coffin shop. The Lin family coffin shop has been passed down for 347 years. Its keeper has always been the sole heir of each generation, and every one has obeyed a strict rule: close the doors at sunset; if someone knocks at midnight, do not answer if they are alive. They say answering will awaken thin
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Village Tales of the Chosen One 乡村怪谈之天命人
Programmer Wu Jie possesses the ancestral “Truth-Piercing Eye” and is forced to return to the isolated mountain village of Shoushan to inherit his family home. By day, the village seems perfectly normal, but at night it is shrouded in eerie taboos. Every night beneath the old locust tree at the village entrance, a woman in red appears and asks, “Am I more like a human or a god?” Anyone who answers incorrectly either dies or goes mad. While the villagers tremble and obey rules that have been foll
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A Talentless Mystic? I Maxed Out My Yin-Yang Eyes from the Start 玄学废材？开局点满阴阳眼
Lin Yi, 22, is a recent college graduate. On the surface, he is a “good-for-nothing” who keeps striking out in his job search. In truth, he was born with yin-yang eyes, but his spiritual powers never awakened, so he has been seeing ghosts since childhood. Cowardly yet stubborn, he uses humor as a defense mechanism. His catchphrase is, “I don’t want to be brave either, but ghosts don’t play fair!” This is the story of how unlucky Lin Yi is forced into action, using scientific thinking and an unre
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Merit-Bearing Demon Venerable: My Post-Apocalyptic World Is a Blessed Paradise 功德魔尊：我的末世是福地洞天
Mo Chen is the sole surviving heir of the Tianyue Sect after its destruction. He carries a blood feud on his shoulders, yet his identity as a demonic cultivator leaves him unable to take a single step. Slaughter brings karmic sin, and the Heavenly Dao will not tolerate him. His path forward is cut off. In this desperate moment, he awakens the sect’s supreme treasure, the Wheel of All Worlds, and enters a silent realm of the dead ruled by zombies. To his shock, he discovers that slaughtering zomb
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The Sinful Eye 罪业视界
The people they're hunting aren't the killers, but the dead. There's a rumor at the local police station that no one dares discuss openly: retired veteran detective Yan Mingguo can see the "sins" people carry. Faced with the baffling "Red-Clad Bride Serial Murder Case," rookie officer Lin Fan knocks on Yan Mingguo's battered iron door, having run out of options. After touching the evidence, the old man delivers a chilling verdict: "The killer isn't human..." "But it isn't a ghost, either." He
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Don’t Mess with This Little Demon, She Can Use Magic! 别惹这只魔星，她会法术！
Zombies cannot have offspring. If one does, it must be a Demon Star. Ma Qingling's mother came from an exorcist family, but after being bitten by a zombie in an accident, she became one herself. Forced to part from her beloved, she hid alone in the mountains, where she became pregnant and gave birth to Ma Qingling. Later, she died sealing the Gang Cave. With her dying breath, she told Ma Qingling to find her father and say, “I'm sorry” on her behalf. Ma Qingling left the mountains, only to be ki
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The Strange Gate Subdues the Eight Wastelands 奇门镇八荒
My name is Yang Yufan. I was born with a pair of yin-yang eyes, and my grandfather taught me the arts of the Qimen. I thought that becoming an inheritor of the Qimen tradition would make me a fortune-teller... But who could have guessed that I’d end up as one of the saints guarding the Eight Wastelands? I’ll tell you the story of what happened in my own words!
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Collected Records of the Way 行道集录
I am a descendant of Taigong. The gods need not stand aside. Following his ancestors' teachings, Lü Bugu practices the Dao, destroys demons and evil, and uses his mortal body as a hammer to temper his Daoist heart and refine his arts. The Great Dao is not found in famous mountains and ancient temples. The mortal world tempers the heart, and the Great Dao is never walked alone.
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I Became a Yin-Yang Wanderer 成为了阴阳行者
That day, I went with some classmates to “explore” an abandoned old factory behind the town. To be honest, we were just bored. It was nearly dark by the time we headed back. As we passed an old graveyard, the back of my neck kept feeling cold, as if someone were breathing on me. I slipped and thought I’d stepped on something round. I looked down and, good grief! It was a rusty metal bell, covered in strange symbols. My classmates said it was bad luck and told me to throw it away right away. I do
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The Phoenix of Qishan 岐山凤
[Mystery × Lovecraftian Horror × The Uncanny] When an archaeologist’s trowel uncovers more than yellow earth, it awakens the primordial whispers sealed away by blood sacrifice Zhang Ji, an archaeology student at Huanbei University, encounters a bizarre sacrificial pit during his graduation fieldwork in Mop an Village. Pottery basins, ox bones, red earth, stone slabs, and shells are buried according to a pattern no one can understand. Disturb them, and they awaken an indescribable “presence” dee
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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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The Slippery Slope Fallacy 滑坡谬误
[Ensemble cast + not a power fantasy + a nonhuman survival guide + dying, coming back to life, dying again, and being reborn] Fate depends on what one encounters; its cycles cannot be fathomed. I write whatever line comes to mind. Plenty of things may put you off. The plot is a mess of tired jokes, the narrative is chaotic, and the point of view keeps jumping around. People die, stay dead, die again, and even in death take someone down with them. No couples. None of them are human.
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The Severed Finger Weaves a Sect 断指编门
After losing his sister and brother, the youth Zhao Xiaochuan, one finger severed, takes a Jia Ma talisman into a mine to exact revenge on the evil spirit Lin Hongxiao. Beneath the mine, a fire vein conceals a conspiracy involving seven blood sacrifices. Corpse puppets and bone-tile curses lurk all around him. With the survivors, he uses blood as a guide and bones as a lock to solve the mystery of the Yin-Yang Stele. Can he weave the gates of hell shut, seal away the baleful energy, and bring pe
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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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749 Bureau: From the Start, I Became a Zombie 749局：开局变成僵尸
"Ruthless and decisive" "All monsters deserve to die" "I’m a monster? Then I deserve to die too!" "No female lead" "A slightly slow start" "Takes off later" Li Buguo is an online absurdist streamer who makes a career out of wild antics. On the Ghost Festival, just as he was making his comeback, a strange beast being hunted by Bureau 749 happened to pass by and pierced his chest. It sent him straight through the open Gates of Hell, only for a ghost to kick him back out. He became an exceptionally
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My Years as a Buddhist Nun 我当师太的那些年
I was born a girl with a Pure Yang fate into a family of feng shui masters. For generations, my family had practiced feng shui in the countryside. My grandfather had hoped his eldest grandchild would be a boy, so he could pass down his skills to the eldest son and grandson. But I turned out to be a girl. Grandfather never took a liking to me, so my parents could only take me to live in the city. No one expected that, during the Ghost Festival in the year I turned twenty-five, Grandfather would s
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The Fake Master Walks Between Yin and Yang: Sweet-Talking the Living, Battling Vengeful Ghosts 冒牌大师走阴阳：哄完活人斗厉鬼
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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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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The Woman in the Closet 柜子里的女人
The Woman in the Cabinet
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Gu King Ajie 蛊王阿杰
[Fantasy + Gu Arts + Comedy + Rebirth + Hidden Identity + Mystery + Feuds + First Person] “Reborn to defy fate and slay the Blood Demon, break the curse and ascend to Emperor, unrivaled among the gods!” [Laughing out loud! Can Gu King A Jie cut his way through a fantasy world with this trick?] Miao Awei (roaring): Miao A Jie, prepare to die! He kicked me off a cliff in the Valley of Ten Thousand Demons. When I opened my eyes again, I had been reborn three years in the past. Miao Cuihua (poundi
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The Lady Master of the Yellow Springs Express 黄泉快递的当家女先生
Plot-driven fantasy anthology | Deities undergoing tribulations × ten lifetimes of reincarnation | Spirit communication and fortune-telling | Subverting expectations | The early chapters focus on the heroine's growth. After experiencing supernatural events and schemes, she gradually uncovers more secrets about her past life and origins. Spoiler: the story is told in reverse chronological order. Take your time and enjoy!
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The Best Feng Shui Master on the Construction Site 工地最强建筑风水师
[Campus Opening] [Wild Imagination] [Feng Shui Mysticism] [Paranormal Mysteries] [Huxian, Huangxian, Baixian, Liuxian, and Huixian (Spirit Mediums)] [Bureau 749] [Buddhism, Taoism, Confucianism, Mohism, and Legalism] [Gu Poison Duels] [Qimen Dunjia] [Mohist Mechanisms] [Lu Ban Crafts] [Reincarnated Living Buddha]! Pitched as Marvel's Avengers and DC's Justice League Cultivate a body of righteousness to uphold heaven and earth, and keep a touch of bandit spirit to cow the wicked. Nurture a chival
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The Curse of Sorrowful Love Lake Island 悲恋湖岛的魔咒
A tragic love affair haunts the island on Lake Sorrow, where a century-old curse follows like a shadow. Is David Crane's million-dollar prize a gift from fate, or an invitation to the abyss? An ebony bracelet conceals a mystery, a key of ultraviolet light opens a forbidden door, silicon-based blood algae whisper in the dark, and the shadow of a sacrificial ritual quietly descends. Science and witchcraft clash fiercely, while the line between reality and illusion blurs. To escape their family's f
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Chaos Invades the World, and I Become a God by Mediating Disputes 全球混沌入侵，我靠调解成神
Light is not necessarily pure, and darkness may hold warmth. The answer lies in a truth deeper than the abyss. When the only hope of saving the world points down a dead-end path with no chance of survival, will you still have the courage to wager everything on a faint glimmer of light?
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The Pact of the Ancient Book 古书之契
It all began when Lin Zhiyu picked up a strange book. Then he met the equally strange Yu Zhiyan, who seemed to have a secret connection to the book.
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A Guide to Raising an Evil God 邪神养成指南
The professor is passionately lecturing in class when, in the next moment, the floor caves in and black water floods the classroom. When she opens her eyes again, everything in the classroom is as it was. A ring of purplish bruises has appeared around her wrist. One campus ghost story after another begins to surface: A baby crying by the lake at midnight, bruises crawling across her roommate's body, and a pregnant senior student mysteriously falling to her death. Is it all coincidence, or reveng
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My Years Running a Spirit Hall in Liaoning 我在辽宁领堂口的那些年
When I was three, a Huang spirit knocked my soul loose, and by chance I became sworn brothers with another Huang spirit. A Ghost King let something slip by accident, and following the clues, I learned that this Huang spirit was actually a golden-armored deity. It was only when the Living Buddha of Haitang Mountain appeared that I discovered I had two souls in one body. The arrival of my wife from a past life gradually awakened my sealed memories. Atop Mount Tai, the majestic and magnificent scen
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Tales of Strange Happenings in Snow City 雪城志异
A collection of short tales of the strange and supernatural, including ghost stories and even stories about aliens! Each story is only a few hundred words, so you can finish one in no time. Strange happenings and supernatural tales, demons and ghosts, tree spirits and fox fairies! Let your imagination run wild! Everyone is welcome to read!
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My Girlfriend Wants to Eat Me, So I Joined the Daoist Association Overnight 女友想吃我，我连夜加入道协
[Real-world setting x folk Daoist arts x mild supernatural elements x mind games x not wish fulfillment x anti-cliché] Every man for himself, and let the Dao follow nature and the heart. I’m Yuan Jia, an utterly ordinary college student. I just wanted to have a normal relationship, but I nearly ended up as takeout. My campus-beauty girlfriend is a fox demon, literally. She’s lusting after my body. It turns out the “uncanny” really does exist in this world. They wear human skin and could be your
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