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  1. 1 Northeastern China's Forbidden Secrets 东北禁忌手札 Mystery122k WordsCompleted [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 835Reads8.8Score108Shelves
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  2. 2 The Sound of Nightmares: 60 Horror Stories That Wake You from Your Dreams 噩梦之声:60个做梦吓醒的恐怖故事 Mystery174k WordsCompleted [Standalone Ghost Stories + Supernatural Horror + Not for the Faint of Heart + Rural Tales] When night falls, terrifying ghostly figures emerge. Step into all kinds of bizarre and unbelievable tales, and spend your nights screaming! Haunted houses, ghostly shadows outside the window, a deadly lipstick, someone beneath the mattress, an umbrella that hunts people... Every corner conceals inexplicable phenomena and secrets that will fill you with dread! Every page will make your hair stand on end, 1.7kReads8.9Score167Shelves
  3. 3 The Little Taoist of Green Mountain 青山小道士 Mystery1.6M WordsCompleted [Taoist priest + supernatural mysteries + technically detailed + magic arts + urban + no power fantasy + slow growth + no heroine] (The central idea of the first book: Heaven and humanity) This novel is told in the first person and explores knowledge and experiences from many perspectives, including Taoist culture, astronomy, feng shui, Qimen Dunjia, physiognomy, palmistry, humanities, society, and science. Everything unknown in the world is like a vast darkness. Science is like a flashlight ill 4.1kReads9.2Score594Shelves
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  4. 4 Tales of the Haunted Mountain Village 山村诡事录 Urban893k WordsCompleted Where the woods are dense, ghosts abound; where the mountains are high, monsters are sure to lurk. After getting drunk, Chen Jianjun of Kaoshan Village encounters a beautiful woman in the mountains. Alone together, the pair spend several days in an intimate embrace. When he returns home, he goes mad for a day and then dies. On the day of his burial, Chen Jianjun suddenly comes back to life... To save his family, Chen Xiaojun becomes the apprentice of Yi, a lame man who was once sent to a work ca 4.3kReads9.1Score472Shelves
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  5. 5 The Midnight Ghost Market: Living People Keep Out 午夜鬼市,活人回避 Mystery592k WordsCompleted [Mystery + supernatural + ghost market + narrow escape from death] My name is Tang Chao. I’m a broke young man scraping by in the antiques business, with hundreds of thousands in debt hanging over me. An ordinary porcelain-buying deal led me to pick up a strange Jun ware bowl at an unexpectedly low price. I thought I’d found a bargain. Little did I know, it was the beginning of my nightmare... On a bus, I met a burly man calling himself Jue Mingzi, who warned me that “a calamity is sure to befal 2.8kReads9.1Score184Shelves
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  6. 6 Tales of Strange Happenings in the Countryside 乡村诡事录 Mystery156k WordsCompleted The strange happenings in a mountain village. I was born and raised in the countryside. Deep in the mountains, there are always ghosts and spirits, and my village was no exception. Heaven, earth, black, yellow, the cosmos vast: demons and ghosts send shivers down your spine. One year, the start of spring fell on the fifteenth day of the eighth month. That year, so many strange things happened. Just bringing them up is enough to scare people. Meeting the Black and White Impermanence on a night wa 1.9kReads9.1Score134Shelves
  7. 7 In a Parallel World: My Strange Encounters with the Weasel Spirit 平行世界,我与黄皮子的那些事 Mystery337k WordsOngoing (Supernatural, humorous, ridiculous. Take your time reading; the best parts come later.) A shortsighted weasel was undergoing a tribulation and asking humans to confer a title upon it when Tu Laosan, a greedy man who smiled while hiding a knife, knocked it unconscious with a brick. Yu Mu Leng Qiu happened to come across it while feeling unusually kindhearted. He bought the weasel for fifty yuan and put it in the hollow of a dead tree. Before leaving, he placed some of the bean cakes his grandpa 5Reads8.2Score—Shelves
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  8. 8 I'm a Haunted House Sleep Tester 我在凶宅当试睡员 Mystery2.0M WordsCompleted 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... 7.6kReads8.8Score817Shelves
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  9. 9 Thriller: I Only Sell Haunted Houses 惊悚:我只卖凶宅 Mystery1.5M WordsCompleted 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… 46kReads9.2Score4.8kShelves
  10. 10 The Haunted Houses I’ve Experienced 我经历的凶宅 Mystery1.9M WordsCompleted The older generation often says that people who die violent deaths cannot enter the cycle of reincarnation. Their souls endlessly haunt the places where they died, seeking substitutes. Only then can they be reborn. That’s why we often hear in the news about car crashes that keep happening at certain locations. Sometimes the place isn’t even a proper intersection, yet terrible accidents leave cars wrecked and people dead. Some streams aren’t even as deep as a person is tall, yet every year there 2.3kReads8.9Score207Shelves
  11. 11 I Test-Sleep in Haunted Houses: My True Accounts of Ghostly Encounters! 我做凶宅试睡员,口述撞鬼实录! Mystery455k WordsCompleted [As long as you’re not afraid of ghosts, you can make money even while you sleep.] My name is Ma Jun. Two friends and I run a real estate agency. We make plenty of money, but we keep running into ghosts because all the properties we sell are haunted houses... 434Reads7.0Score—Shelves
  12. 12 My Days at Bureau 749 我在749局的那些日子 Mystery1.6M WordsCompleted My name is Lin Bai, and I’m a sophomore at Diannan University. I have a secret I’ve kept buried deep inside for a long time. I feel like I might not be an ordinary person, or maybe… I don’t know if I can even be considered human. I can easily do many things ordinary people can’t. At first, I thought it would earn me admiring looks from others. But gradually, I realized it didn’t make me stand out from the crowd. Instead, it made me feel like I didn’t belong in this world. The way they looked at 4kReads8.8Score432Shelves
  13. 13 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 Mystery1.0M WordsCompleted 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 607Reads—Score109Shelves
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  14. 14 The Man Who Grew Young Again 返老还童的男人 Urban1.1M WordsOngoing A baby adopted by a widow was born looking seventy years old. Then he began to age backward, slowly growing younger. At eighteen, he looked like he was in his fifties. In the end, he became a baby and died in the arms of the person he loved most. 4.2kReads7.9Score196Shelves
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  15. 15 Lao Wang from Chongqing 重庆老王 Urban1.6M WordsOngoing My new work is out! You can read it on Tomato Novel. I hope you enjoy it. Your support is what motivates me to write, and I'll do my best to tell every story well! 2kReads8.3Score131Shelves
  16. 16 All Paths Lead to the Netherworld 万法归宗幽冥路 Urban441k WordsCompleted The male lead regains his youth and cultivates immortality while working as a gatekeeper at an art school. He has eight immortal senior sisters from the Maoshan School’s Zhengyi Sect, an adorable little fox from Qingqiu Mountain, and Jiegeng, a thousand-year-old demoness. The capital’s number-one Grand Princess comes looking for a hug from him every night. 241Reads—Score106Shelves
  17. 17 Shanghai Auntie’s AI Male Model 沪上阿姨AI男模 Urban857k WordsCompleted The protagonist, Wang Chen, struggles to survive in an apocalyptic world during the Great Depression, then unexpectedly transmigrates to an alternate-world Shanghai in the 1990s. And so Wang Chen’s happy life begins! 4.9kReads7.1Score275Shelves
  18. 18 The Irresistible Playboy 极品桃花男 Urban611k WordsCompleted [Urban feel-good story] [Slice of life] [Set in the 2020s] [Realistic everyday life] [Multiple female leads] [Dongguan Prince Hotel] [Transmigration to the apocalypse] [Genetically enhanced super soldiers] 700Reads8.5Score105Shelves
  19. 19 The Man Adopted by a Widow 寡妇收养的男人 Urban767k WordsCompleted [Urban Imagination] [Surreal] [Multiple Female Leads] [Beijing-Circle Heiresses] [Beautiful Women Around the World] [Entertainment Industry Stars] [Web-Novel Heroines] [Most Beautiful Heroines on Screen] 5.8kReads6.9Score387Shelves
  20. 20 My Sixteen-Year-Old White Moonlight 我的16岁白月光 Urban198k WordsCompleted Modern city romance, pure love, slice of life, feel-good male-oriented fiction, campus romance, campus belle, first love, mother-in-law, fiancée, heiresses from Beijing's elite families. Contemporary romance, the husband-chasing crematorium trope. 897Reads—Score—Shelves
  21. 21 The Feng Family’s Treasured Mother and Daughter 风家的宝贝母女 Two Male Leads232k WordsCompleted A novel about love, marriage, and redemption. If I don’t wear the golden headband, how can I save you? If I put on the golden headband, how can I still love you? A love story about the mother and daughter of the Feng family! 1.1kReads6.5Score—Shelves
  22. 22 The Live-Action Anime World 真人日漫界 Sports252k WordsCompleted In the future, global attitudes toward marriage and relationships have become warped, and nobody gets married or has children. As a result, the population has plummeted, leaving only 120 million people worldwide. Eastland has 38 million survivors, its cities lie in decline, and human civilization stands on the brink of extinction. 467Reads—Score—Shelves
  23. 23 A Poor Scholar's Tribulation of Great Tang's Beauties 寒门状元大唐红颜劫 Historical356k WordsCompleted Li Guo’er, the Tang Dynasty’s most beautiful woman, is Princess Anning and the youngest, most beloved daughter of Emperor Zhongzong, Li Xian. The most seductive princess in the Tang Dynasty, she is strikingly similar to the protagonist’s wife. After the male lead transmigrates to the Tang Dynasty, he discovers that Li Guo’er looks exactly like his wife. Determined to save the only person in this world who reminds him of family, he works tirelessly and vows to save Li Guo’er, who was killed at ju 429Reads—Score—Shelves
  24. 24 Bureau 747: The Paranormal Incident Investigation Unit 747局之妖怪事件处理科 Urban770k WordsCompleted Do you really know the colleagues around you? What about your classmates and family? The person you've lived with for years, the one you know best, might not even be human! In this world, humans and demons coexist. Demons can live among you in all sorts of ways. “They” might be the man selling jianbing on the street, or they might be your boss! If a top special forces soldier hadn't awakened his family's bloodline in a panic while carrying out a highly classified special mission, and then joined 478Reads7.1Score—Shelves
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  25. 25 Route 44 Ticket Seller 44路售票员 Mystery997k WordsCompleted In 2005, an 18-year-old bus conductor mysteriously dropped dead on the bus. The cause of death was unknown. In 2009, a last bus hit and killed a pregnant woman at an intersection, even though its brakes had not failed. In 2014, a woman suddenly pulled out a sanitary pad on the bus and slapped the driver in the face with it, despite showing no signs of mental illness. On the last Route 44 bus, I've seen far too many strange and bizarre things, and heard all kinds of spine-chilling rumors. Unless 53Reads6.3Score—Shelves
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  26. 26 Horror Script: It Begins in the Baby-Crying Dormitory 惊悚剧本:从婴啼寝室开始 Mystery1.1M WordsOngoing (Dark tone) (Escape-room survival) (No System) (Not invincible: the protagonist dies if he is killed) (Not a conventional power fantasy) Chen Xian is pinned against the wall by a female ghost in a bathroom, and finds himself plunged into a terrifying instance! The cries of a baby in the dead of night... Students with eyes as blue as ghostly flames... A wedding dress stained crimson with blood... A mermaid covered in wriggling maggots... And... Teammates dying one after another... To stay alive a 15.5kReads9.2Score1.5kShelves
  27. 27 Classroom of Despair 绝望教室 Mystery2.6M WordsCompleted What began as a prank voting game set off a string of tragedies. One classmate after another died, yet the voting continued. I knew that maybe I would be the next one to die… 697Reads8.2Score—Shelves
  28. 28 Special Operations Bureau 特事行动科 Mystery1.4M WordsCompleted One thousand three hundred and ninety years ago, under the emperor’s direction, human adepts gained control of the “Void” and used it to create the “Wall,” which separated the real world from the anomalous one. After more than six centuries of effort by adepts from various schools, the anomalous remnants in the real world were finally purged, leaving humanity with a world of its own. Anomalous creatures became demons, ghosts, gods, and monsters in tales of the strange. As time passed, the adepts 1.2kReads7.0Score125Shelves
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  29. 29 Paranormal Encounters: What I Saw and Heard 灵异事件之所见所闻 Mystery356k WordsCompleted No System + no transmigration + no power fantasy + no harem + no invincible protagonist + no sweet romance + no clichés + no female lead + no cultivation. Important notice: if this isn’t for you, don’t read it. If this isn’t for you, don’t read it. If this isn’t for you, don’t read it! Do you believe there are things in this world that science cannot explain? Have you ever experienced anything supernatural yourself? Treat the events in this novel as stories, and remember: Fear and respect the sp 162Reads—Score—Shelves
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  30. 30 The Biggest Scoundrel in Bureau 749 749局第一流氓 Urban710k WordsCompleted Liu Mang, a street punk, unexpectedly awakens ghost eyes and gets dragged into the 749 Paranormal Investigation Bureau. There, he discovers that he carries the bloodline of an ancient shamanic clan and is a key target of the Chrysanthemum School of Japan’s “Human Pillar Project.” From a corpse-reanimation case at a funeral home to an international conspiracy involving corpse-refining, he uses the Taixu Spirit-Taming Art to refine evil spirits and break through sinister schemes involving ghost so 500Reads6.7Score101Shelves
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  31. 31 Urban Legends: Werewolves 狼人都市怪谈 6k WordsCompleted Werewolf Urban Legends 5Reads—Score—Shelves
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  32. 32 Have You Heard of the Cat-Faced Granny? 你听说过猫脸老太太吗? 7k WordsCompleted Have you heard of the Cat-Faced Granny? 6Reads—Score—Shelves
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  33. 33 Have You Heard of the Ghostly Face Beside Your Pillow? 你听说过枕边鬼脸吗? 7k WordsCompleted Have you heard of the Ghost Face Beside Your Pillow? 1Reads—Score—Shelves
  34. 34 Urban Legends: Vampires 吸血鬼都市怪谈 10k WordsCompleted Vampire Urban Legends 3Reads—Score—Shelves
  35. 35 The Faced Bear: Urban Legends 人面熊都市怪谈 9k WordsCompleted Urban Legends of the Man-Faced Bear 23Reads—Score—Shelves
  36. 36 The Eaten Dog Appeared at Home Again 被吃掉的狗又出现在家里 7k WordsCompleted The Dog That Was Eaten Reappeared at Home 5Reads—Score—Shelves
  37. 37 The Brokenhearted Paranormal Investigator 失心灵探 Mystery314k WordsOngoing [Horror + mystery + comedy + supernatural + mildly gruesome] [Original title: How I Got Tangled Up with a God of Slaughter] After losing both his parents, Xuan Wen has given up on life. He plans to find a secluded corner where he can scrape by until he dies. But by chance, he meets a God of Slaughter who has likewise exiled himself from the world. From then on, a man and a god travel together, venturing into the strange and dangerous dark side of the world… 1Reads—Score—Shelves
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  38. 38 The Heavenly Spirit Ghost Pact: Humans and Ghosts Tame Spirits Together 天灵鬼契:人鬼共御灵途 Mystery592k WordsOngoing After turning twenty, Su Yao’s Third Eye suddenly shattered! She became “Tang Monk’s flesh” to a horde of ghosts and monsters, and her supreme spiritual energy drew the covetous attention of evil spirits, gods, and vengeful ghosts alike. Three years before her supernatural abilities awakened at twenty-three, she was prey in the hands of all three realms. The fear of being devoured haunted her constantly, and at any moment she could be possessed and have her soul consumed. She had only wanted 9Reads—Score—Shelves
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  39. 39 Tales of a Desolate Village 荒村物语 Mystery5.2M WordsOngoing A deserted village, a ghostly realm. Shao Qiu studies there, poring over his books. A murderer on the run suddenly hears someone call his name. He looks all around, but under the bleak moonlight, no one is there. “Have you ever seen a god?” The voice from earlier speaks again. “W-what? No, I haven’t.” The murderer trembles with fear. “I am one. Kill Shao Qiu!” The god’s voice echoes across the sky. “Otherwise, I’ll turn you in!” 40Reads—Score—Shelves
  40. 40 My Hopeless Life Became Even More Desperate 我无望的人生更加绝望 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. —Reads6.4Score—Shelves
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  41. 41 The Eerie Game 幽诡游戏 Mystery506k WordsOngoing My name is Wu Cangming. I thought that landing a high-paying job during graduation season would mean I’d never have to worry about food or clothes again. If I weren’t risking my life fighting ghosts every day since I started, I might have believed it. 3Reads—Score—Shelves
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  42. 42 Hiring a Handsome Guy to Guard the House 雇个帅哥来镇宅 Mystery1.1M WordsOngoing [Horror, one heroine] What do you do when you’re nearly broke? With no other options, Shang Yi reluctantly took a night-shift job, and it completely upended his worldview! The elevator, hallways, underground parking garage, bathrooms… Those places were already enough to give him a headache. But what troubled him even more was the attention he got from beautiful women… Strange incidents kept happening in the residential complex, yet the residents went on living there as if nothing were wrong. The 57Reads—Score—Shelves
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  43. 43 Wait for Me, Lady Lingbai 灵柏娘子等等我 Mystery450k WordsCompleted That winter night, we sat around the charcoal brazier, the coals crackling as I huddled in a corner and listened to the adults tell a story about the sacred cypress at the village entrance. They said... The person who told me that story has passed away, but the chilling feeling it gave me is still etched in my memory. Now, I’ve adapted the story into a novel. 3Reads—Score—Shelves
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  44. 44 Destined Across Three Lifetimes: A Romantic Legacy of Young Love and Marriage 缘定三生,青春婚约的浪漫传承 Modern Romance710k WordsCompleted A sweet promise spanning their youth, sealed by an engagement. Surrounded by the warmth of family and the passion of youth, they keep their vows and write a romantic story together, full of amusing moments from school and everyday life. From Lin Shimin's admiration for Luo Yimo, to their wondrous chance encounters at all kinds of events, and the hilarious, heartwarming episodes that follow, their story is sure to make you smile. The novel has playful banter between best friends, the warm support 11Reads—Score—Shelves
  45. 45 The Mysteriously Disappearing Pen 神秘消失的书写笔 Mystery7k WordsCompleted The Mysteriously Vanished Writing Brush —Reads—Score—Shelves
  46. 46 Tales of Strange Happenings in Snow City 雪城志异 Mystery833k WordsOngoing 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! 26Reads—Score—Shelves
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  47. 47 Tales of the Ghostly Dao 鬼道异闻录 Mystery50k WordsOngoing [No Female Lead + Mystery and Twists + Based on a True Story] I came from the abyss, accompanied by countless vengeful spirits. I will descend into darkness and lead countless evil ghosts into the abyss. A modern-day Strange Tales from a Chinese Studio, exploring the dark side of human nature that lurks deep within us... A side story from the National Bureau of Religious Affairs, revealing the strange and still-unknown past of Gui Fuzi. —Reads—Score—Shelves
  48. 48 An Unacceptable Game 不能接受的游戏 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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