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I, a Criminal Mastermind, Became the Nightmare of London's Criminals 犯罪天才的我成为伦敦罪犯的梦魇
[Dual Male Leads + High Intelligence + Handsome Men + Victorian England Setting] Ewan Montague, the youngest professor in Cambridge's criminology department, is hired as a special consultant to Scotland Yard. He solves countless cold cases and mysteries, but at the same time, a brilliant criminal known as the Jubilee Line Butcher begins his activities. The two seem to be locked in a fierce rivalry. Or perhaps they are simply two identities belonging to the same person.
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I Search for Collapse in the Eerie World 我在诡异世界找崩坏
I transmigrated into a world where urban legends can kill and conceptual rules are power. People here fear the paranormal, wield supernatural entities, and struggle to survive under a fixed set of rules. And me? I'm just a passerby looking for a bit of fun. When the “Infinite Corridor” traps and kills everyone who enters, I softly ask the wall, “Do you know what a Klein bottle is?” When the rule of the “Echo of Death” is “understanding means death,” I raise a mirror toward the void. They say I d
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- 153 Tales of a Haunted Village 荒村怪谈录 [Rural Mysteries + Folk Customs + Chinese-Style Horror + Feng Shui and the Supernatural + Anthology + Shocking Twists] There is an old well in Jiulitun that has been sealed for thirty years, and one eerie incident after another keeps occurring. Why has a little girl become unbelievably strong and deranged? Why do villagers keep drowning, and why is the village taboo so difficult to speak of? It all goes back thirty years... 243Reads8.7Score—Shelves
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Fog over Jinyang Town 雾锁金阳镇
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- 155 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 912Reads8.8Score108Shelves
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The Strange Tales of Shangguan Zhaorong 上官昭容诡事录
[Completed] [Strong female lead, no romance, Chinese-style horror, transmigration through history, numerous foreshadowed clues, coherent plot, no System, not a power fantasy] [The Strange Tales of Shangguan Zhaorong] [Also known as: Old Tales from the Yellow Springs] [Reader’s guide: The main plot and the individual arcs are interconnected, with plenty of clues and foreshadowing. Almost every character who appears has a role to play, though each arc can also be read as a standalone story.] Th
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Plenty of Stories at the Funeral Home 殡仪馆里故事多
Ever since Lin Yu took a job driving a hearse at a funeral home, his life became anything but ordinary. He and his friends went through all kinds of bizarre, inexplicable events together. Vengeful spirits possessing people, a dead infant in a pot, opera singing in a graveyard... No one knew what would happen next.
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- 158 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 522Reads8.8Score—Shelves
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My Girlfriend's DNA Was Found at the Crime Scene 案发现场居然有我女友的DNA
My Girlfriend's DNA Was Found at the Crime Scene
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The Deduction Contest: National Strategists Vs. the Mysterious Mole 推理大赛：诸国智囊VS神秘内鬼
[Mystery] [Humor] [Comedy and Deduction] In 2046, a globally televised “Deduction Tournament” kicks off. Twelve players from ten countries across six continents are “invited” to compete. All twelve are young masterminds with exceptional deductive skills. They’ll put their talents to the test, engage in battles of wits, and vie for the one and only title of champion. The events include Turtle Soup, Werewolf, murder-mystery roleplaying games, and more. However, two of the twelve competitors are un
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- 161 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 416Reads8.7Score—Shelves
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Fish for Bait: Eerie Martial Mecha Girls Are Ready to Turn the Tables 厄饵的鱼：诡武机娘要掀桌子啦
Mom: the ultimate embodiment of favoring sons over daughters. Younger brother: B+ spiritual energy affinity, which basically makes him a genius. The heroine: C-grade spiritual energy affinity, a martial cultivator and mecha pilot. Yu Hongjiao never expected that even after she'd handed over her entire 200,000 yuan severance pay, her mother would still try to “sell” her to a demonic cultivator, squeezing out the last of her worth to use the bride price to buy cultivation resources for her younger
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- 163 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 5kReads9.0Score204Shelves
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Severing the Dragon Vein 断命龙脉
The men of the Gu family never live past forty. After his father, Gu Mingyuan, dies, Gu Chenchuan follows a train ticket to Baihe, a bloodstained compass, and a few unfinished last words into the old trails of the Changbai Mountains. But the deeper he digs, the more he realizes that the Gu family has not simply been haunted or cursed. They have been caught in a living account, buried for many years, that refuses to let go. From Baihe to Tamen Peak, from the Changbai Mountains to an old well in t
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- 165 Tales of the Supernatural 民间怪谈录 [Rural Horror Stories + Anthology + Folk Horror Tales + Chinese Supernatural] Supernatural happenings are most likely to occur in mountain villages, and the stories we've heard may well have really happened. In the eerie night wind, Granny Hao, the midwife who receives the dead, is like a messenger from the underworld, guiding the spirits of helpless mothers and children home. Locust trees commune with spirits, and poplars attract yin energy. Beneath the village's ancient trees lie secrets that 829Reads8.9Score105Shelves
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What Kind of Cop Is a Fatso Like You? 你一个胖子当什么警察
[Reborn + no System + crime-solving + comedy + tough cop] Tian Ping'an, a fat man, dies unexpectedly during a competitive eating contest, only to be mysteriously reborn in a parallel world more than thirty years in the past. Here, he is still a trainee in the criminal investigation unit, while his beautiful partner, Liu Tingting, is destined to be assassinated by a notorious thief king. His parents, too, are about to meet with misfortune. Faced with such peril, how can Tian Ping'an, a devoted fo
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She Judges the Dead in Hell and Kills for a Living 她在地狱当判官，在人间当杀手
Misheng, the judge of the First Hall of the Underworld, altered the Book of Life and Death and was banished to the mortal realm to atone for her crime. Heaven's punishment: within one year, she must personally kill seven heinous criminals. When she opens her eyes again, she is Wang Fang, a judge at the Jiangcheng People's Court. By day, she presides over court and judges cases according to the law; by night, she commands the Underworld and punishes the guilty. The Mirror of Retribution settles a
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Hell Game: The Ten Courts of Yama 地狱游戏：十殿阎罗
Gaming + suspense + ensemble cast. No mindless protagonist, no saintly heroine, and no female lead. When Lu Yu opens his eyes, he finds himself in a world filled with “Lucky Games.” There is no order like in the normal world. To survive, you have to keep playing the games and winning. Lose a game, and death is the only thing waiting for you! But the games aren’t what they seem. Many phenomena Lu Yu can’t understand seem to tell him that he’s fallen into a loop he may never escape. Even if Lu Yu
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Prove That You Were Once Human 请证明你曾是人
After Chen Zhou woke up, he was thrown into a “test of human worth” spanning the ancient past, the modern era, and the future. Plague cities, royal courts, trials, shipwrecks, stock market crashes, nuclear crises, space colonization… Each world had its own bizarre rules, and every choice demanded a sacrifice. Yet the same name appeared on every death record: Chen Zhou. Before the rules devoured everyone, he had to prove one thing: Humanity’s true worth has never been obedience.
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Crime-Solving Group Chat: From the Start, Hannibal Taught Me How to Find Bodies 破案群聊：开局汉尼拔教我找尸体
Shen Ting transmigrates to a parallel world, where he activates the Detective System and becomes the owner of a crime-solving chat group. Hacker Kiko, Tang Tan's Qin Feng, forensic examiner Qin Ming, White Night detective Guan Hongfeng, and even chef Hannibal and educator Jigsaw are all in the group. As long as he solves cases, the group can bring in more detectives and deranged killers. Shen Ting can also earn skill coins to redeem all kinds of crime-solving skills: Anthropometry! Criminal
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Infinite Performance Reviews 无限绩效
The day Lin Mo was laid off, his severance pay was zero yuan. Then he received an offer: Position: Performance Hunter. Salary: No upper limit. Company: Main God Human Resources Department. He clicked Decline. Then the screen went black. When he opened his eyes again, HR smiled and said, “Your onboarding is complete.” The rules were simple: one death dungeon every month. Survive, and you earn performance points that can be exchanged for money or another life. Fail, and you disappear from reality
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- 172 Criminal Investigation: I Can See Crime Records 刑侦：我能看见犯罪记录 Cen Lian was a junior-college general education teacher who did just enough to get by, and always thought he would keep coasting through life. Then a cheat ability fell into his lap: every criminal revealed their crimes in front of him. Driven by a simple sense of justice, Cen Lian began matching wits with criminals, both smart and stupid. He became a specially appointed consultant and, alongside a group of like-minded partners, embarked on a career solving criminal cases. 27.5kReads9.2Score1.7kShelves
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Seven-Day Captivity: The Prison of Consciousness 七日囚：意识牢笼
Under financial pressure from rent, repairs to the old family home, and more, Su Jin accidentally discovers a new substance. Under its influence, his roommate Lin Xiaoxiao gradually becomes a stranger, and the world begins to change. A series of journeys of exploration, survival, and resistance unfolds…
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Mysterious Revival: My Memories Bury Vengeful Ghosts 神秘复苏我的记忆埋葬着厉鬼
Warning: It gets more and more brain-bending as you read! Extremely high intelligence and logical reasoning as the characters solve paranormal mysteries! Don't read if you dislike mind games! Everyone gradually awakens to their powers or takes the abilities of ghosts! High intelligence + aesthetics of despair Scenarios: Dreams, zombies, myths and legends, Cthulhu, and more Difficulty: “Despair!” (No harem, no System, no invincible protagonist, no formulas, no power fantasy, no brainless characte
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The Spinning Wheel Game 转盘游戏
The Spinning Wheel Game
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Reading Memories 窥视记忆
Chen Yuan’s life followed a routine precise to the minute: he woke at the same time every morning, every object was placed with millimeter accuracy, and everything had adhered to the same order for five years. Until one morning, the routine began to go wrong. His cup was two centimeters out of place, the coffee machine’s settings had been altered, and the familiar cityscape was completely askew. In his orderly world, these tiny anomalies were cracks hinting at a far deeper collapse. At the cent
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- 177 I Woke Up with 40 Murder Cases on My Hands 一觉醒来：我背上了40起命案 Chen Xiao wakes up to find everything around him strangely unfamiliar. The only thing beside him is a diary. He thinks it might explain his current predicament, but as he reads, he begins to doubt whether its contents are real. It is clearly a record of crimes committed by “himself.” Just as Chen Xiao is about to read on, the piercing wail of police sirens downstairs jolts him awake, and he can't help imagining the worst... 29.8kReads9.3Score3.2kShelves
- 178 My 99 Perfect Hunts 我的99次完美狩猎 [Realism] [High-IQ crime] [Masterful mind games] [No female lead] [For readers who love logic] The police in Xikang City received a phone call from someone calling himself Ghost, who claimed he would kill a certain person in three days. More than that, he wanted the police to rush out and protect the target. He intended to carry out the killing under the police's tight security. The police took the threat extremely seriously and made careful preparations. When the three days were up, the result 39.6kReads9.3Score4.1kShelves
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When the Nursery Rhyme Begins, Close Your Eyes 童谣响起，请闭眼
At 12:17 a.m., audio restoration specialist Mo Feiyue hears his own name on a children's recording from 1998. On the tape, the children are singing "Drop the Handkerchief." But at the very end, a girl's voice suddenly joins in. "Mo Feiyue, why haven't you come yet?" The next second, his phone lights up on its own. [First Nursery Rhyme Realm: Drop the Handkerchief] [Before dawn, find the person who wasn't mentioned in the nursery rhyme.] From that day on, Mo Feiyue discovers that the familiar nur
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One Day, I Became the Underworld’s Beloved 有一天，我成了冥界团宠
I’m pregnant, but the father of my child isn’t human. As if that weren’t enough, my grandmother, the only family I have, dies around the same time. To my surprise, with her dying breath, she entrusts me to the very creature that defiled me. I always thought he was a worthless ghost. Then I discovered that he eats like there’s no tomorrow and doesn’t feed on incense offerings. I thought I’d married a pig. Married to a pig? He might as well have been a ghost! After finally accepting the reality th
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Dreaming Through Empathy 共感入梦
[Reborn + mystery + wild imagination + redemption + 1v1] She spends the entire night having nightmares. In her dreams, her mother dies in a sea of flames. When she wakes, her whole body burns with pain. Then she hears the devastating news: her mother has died. She goes from grief-stricken and dazed to unable to believe it. Could everything her mother said in the dream really be true? Later, someone approaches her, claiming to know the mystery of her birth and offering sincere help. She clings to
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- 182 Rule Horror: Who Taught You to Study Like That? 规则怪谈：谁教你这样读书的 [Strong Female Lead, No Romance, Rule-Based Horror, Infinite Realms, Chinese-Style Horror] Traditional culture has been distorted on a massive scale in modern society. Altered pronunciations, words smeared with stigma, and ancient sayings twisted out of shape are gnawing away at the human soul. Su Muyu, the thirtieth-generation descendant of Su Shi and the sole inheritor of the Soulcrafter lineage, joins Li Guazi, a girl whose past is a mystery, and Mr. Dongli, a word spirit from the handwritt 50Reads9.4Score—Shelves
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Collapse Warning! How Does This Boss Get Stronger the More Hated He Is? 塌房警告！这老板怎么越黑越强啊
In a parallel world, bizarre rules run rampant through the entertainment industry! “Never sing love songs at midnight,” “The top trending topic means certain death”... Lin Yuan, an entertainment company boss who transmigrated into this world, is faced from the start with the impending doom of his girl group, which is about to break a taboo and be wiped out! Fortunately, he awakens the [Scumbag Self-Destruct System]. As long as he has enough haters across the internet, their negative emotions can
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A Suffocating Fog of Mystery 窒息迷云
While investigating an illegal gambling ring operating in an abandoned mansion, police officer Chu Xiaonian accidentally discovers a secret passage beneath the building. Searching inside, he finds a skeleton and eventually confirms that it belongs to his sister, Chu Yang, who disappeared twenty years ago. The discovery reopens a notorious cold case and makes headlines once more. Meanwhile, the victim’s only son, Chu Ming, is a successful urban professional who has spent years convinced that his
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Late-Night Convenience Store: What Are You Doing, Customer? 深夜便利店：客官你干嘛
Lin Mo thought the worst thing about working the night shift as a cashier at Nan Cheng Huimin Convenience Store was having a teammate go 0–8 in ranked, until he met the old woman in floral pajamas. She clutched a chipped enamel mug and bought only two bags of frozen dumplings and a packet of QQ candy. Her coins were caked with dirt, and she insisted he “cook the dumplings.” Then a hoarse voice called in an identical order, laughing so hard Lin Mo could feel his upper gums go cold. The creepiest
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Red Maple Street: The Gu Merchant 红枫街：蛊商
After her father is brutally killed, a strange man enters her life. He is either a young businessman or an old man on the verge of death. From then on, she loses all her family. A calamity born of witchcraft and curses will engulf everyone. She has no choice. As she painstakingly unravels the mystery, one terrifying truth after another comes to light. Everything has been calculated and manipulated by someone, who has perfectly erased almost every clue. He says: “Madmen go to hell, while petty me
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After Slacking Off in the Eerie Realm, I Became the Escape Game’s Lucky Charm 在诡界摆烂后，我成了逃生吉祥物
When the blood moon shrouded the city, crimson alerts appeared on every electronic device: “Welcome to the Abyssal Corridor. Survive for 72 hours to return.” Food delivery rider Su Li looked at the countdown on his delivery order and calmly scanned the code on a street overrun with monsters. “Hello, your food has arrived.” While other players nervously searched for clues in the morgue, he napped on the autopsy table. While survivors struggled with ghosts in the mirror world, he fixed his hair in
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After Awakening Super-Senses, I Could Hear Everyone's Thoughts Across the City 觉醒超感后我听见了全城心声
After a car accident, Lu Chen wakes up to find that the world has changed: he can hear the thoughts of everyone in the city. On the subway, office workers pray for their bosses to go bankrupt; a neighbor’s wife has a crush on the delivery guy; even the beggar on the street is calculating how much money he can scam today... As thoughts surge into his mind like a flood, he realizes that the most terrifying thing isn’t lies, but the malice hidden behind people’s smiles. The only person who can hear
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Time to Put My Acting Skills to the Test 考验演技的时候到了
“Congratulations, player. You’ve triggered a keyword.” “Surviving players detected.” “Please play your role well.” Welcome to Limbo. We don’t provide character profiles, so you’ll have to figure out your character’s background for yourself. The NPCs you encounter will grow increasingly intelligent, so make sure you don’t break character in front of them.
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Record of Injustice: The Cycle of Malice 沉冤录之恶念轮回
In a bandit stronghold, a woman has had her tongue cut out and been nailed to a wall. Outside a temple, beneath a dead tree, a seeker lies dead with his eyes still open. And there are good people whose entire families were executed by slow slicing three hundred years ago. Behind every injustice is a villain who refuses to admit their wrongdoing, even on the brink of death. Li Daniu and Wang Xuan repeatedly venture into the past, steeped in resentment, using the truth to set tormented souls free.
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Nine-Pearl Powder 九珠散
During the Republican era, my great-grandfather was lured by members of the Fu family into exploring the Song Dynasty tomb in Luoyang and an underground ancient tomb beneath a temple on Mount Jiuhua. There, he accidentally discovered a mysterious Buddhist bead. Years later, in 2002, the same kind of bead appeared again in a Six Dynasties tomb beneath an abandoned chemical plant in Nanjing. In 2003, I found my great-grandfather's notes and two Buddhist beads back in my hometown. Gradually, I real
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One Haunting a Day 一日一诡
Like people, supernatural entities can be good or bad, so the author can’t promise that every story will have an off-the-charts scare factor that keeps you up at night. The only guarantee is that all the stories are entirely fictional. If anything seems familiar, you’re on your own!
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Welcome Back to the Nightmare's Beginning 欢迎回到噩梦起点
(Infinite survival, puzzle-solving, mild horror) Late at night, Shao Jie stumbled sleepily toward the bathroom. The instant he opened the door, the whole world spun upside down! When he came to, he found himself in a gloomy, terrifying otherworld. There, he was forced to take part in a horrifying survival game: eerie footsteps sounded outside the door during the midnight room inspections, villagers mysteriously vanished from a remote village every night, and worst of all... the woman who had onc
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- 194 The Returnee from Hell 地狱归客 He once fell into the Inferno, enduring nine near-death trials amid mountains of corpses and seas of blood. At last, he returned to the human world bearing the brands of Hell and the power to devour souls. That power can see through the hidden sins of sinners and turn their past misdeeds into pain they must suffer themselves. It is a “gift” Hell bestows upon its judges. The human world is no paradise. Evil lurks in the shadows of neon lights: a hypocritical principal who abused children is still 1Reads—Score—Shelves
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I Run a Mental Health Clinic in a Horror Game 我在惊悚游戏里开心理诊所
[No romance, comradeship] Wen Yanxin was a top-tier psychologist. She was forcibly dragged into a horror game. She immediately opened a mental health clinic in the beginner’s zone. Her specialty was treating all kinds of dungeon NPCs. Vengeful spirits weep, evil ghosts brood, rules kill people? Sit down, let’s talk through your troubles for five minutes. By healing NPCs, she rose to godhood in the horror game. Later, she gradually realized that this endless horror game had never been designed fo
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Forensic Examiner of Relics: Every Cursed Object I Autopsy Weeps 遗物法医：我解剖的凶物都在哭
Forensic pathologist specializing in haunted relics, rule-based horror, relics taking human form, two powerful male leads, criminal investigations, mystery and horror, supernatural tragic romance, episodic wish fulfillment, fated entanglements, the unattainable first love, unresolved regrets, a tragedy from ten years ago, life-and-death protection, heartbreaking angst, every character gets a moment to shine
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The Days I Spent Filling in Story Plot Holes 给故事填坑的那些日子
[Quick transmigration + no romance + not a power fantasy + ordinary female protagonist’s perspective] (See the comments for content warnings.) Half-conscious, Qin Changwu wakes up in an unfamiliar place. Her memories are fragmented, leaving her unable to piece together her past. The System tells her that if she wants to go “home,” she must travel through books and rewrite the fated deaths of her mission targets. The stories in each small world are shrouded in mystery: What is the truth behind th
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All Are Villains: You're the Next Victim 全员恶人之：你，就是下一个被害者
All Are Villains: You’re the Next Victim
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I Am the Suspect 我就是嫌疑人
A high-IQ suspect versus a criminal investigator [Mystery and deduction, ensemble cast, no CP or romance, slow-paced. Please don’t read if that’s not your thing.] Ten years ago, the head of Guangyang Orphanage was found dead in a gruesome state. A twelve-year-old child named “A Lang” became the prime suspect, but has never been brought to justice. Ten years later, A Lang reappears. After killing three people, he takes an entire junior high school class hostage and calls the police himself. In fr
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- 200 The Boyfriend Hidden in the Suitcase 藏在行李箱里的男友 The Boyfriend Hidden in a Suitcase —Reads—Score—Shelves
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