Any High-Quality Rules-Horror Stories? I’m Out of Books to Read Lately 有没有高质量的规则怪谈书，最近书荒了
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- 51 After She Died, Spring Never Returned to My Empire 她死后，朕的江山再无春风 After She Died, Spring Winds Never Again Swept Through My Empire 9Reads—Score—14d adds
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Urban Legends Aren't Urban Legends 怪谈不是怪谈
[No Romance + Rules Horror + Game] After waking from a nightmare, Yan Muning discovers that all her memories are gone. Now she must face rules horror that devours people whole! She is framed by her roommate from the start and targeted by an anomaly! But the anomaly gives her a strange look, then lets her go. While exploring the rules of an unfamiliar school building, she meets someone identical to herself who claims she is a Chosen One? A little boy anomaly even clings to her, begging her to tak
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Rules Descend: I Break the Deadlock Through Reincarnation 规则降临：我靠轮回破局
Rules Descend: I Break the Deadlock Through Reincarnation
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- 54 Glitch Entity: I Rule Two Worlds with Bugs 故障体：我靠BUG统治两界 Glitch Entity: I Rule Two Worlds with Bugs —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 55 72 Hours: I Hacked God 72小时·我黑入了神 72 Hours: I Hacked God —Reads—Score—14d adds
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Rule Horror: My Inspiration Is Overloaded Again! 规则怪谈：我的灵感又过载了！
(Completed, so read with confidence) [Anomaly Rules + Horror Game + Mutual Devotion!] The anomaly rules have descended, and ordinary people are trembling in fear. But Song Weisheng has just been fired. On the day she loses her job, she accidentally wanders into the C-rank contaminated zone known as the "Academy in the Mirror." While everyone else desperately avoids mirrors, holds their breath, and is terrified to the point of breaking down, she pulls a whole series of silly faces at the mirror,
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Weird Tale Photographer: Tokyo Demon Hunter 怪谈摄影师：东京猎魔人
(Japanese-style light novel + classic urban legends + plot-driven + tokusatsu battles) "Don't trust the photos you've taken. They might not be real." Kirisaki Ren, a young photographer living in Tokyo, is possessed by a demon in an accident and dragged into the world of urban legends. Behind Tokyo's brightly lit streets, urban legends flourish too. In this world, where strange tales surge beneath the surface, demon hunters are active on the front lines. Kirisaki Ren picks up his camera and point
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Infinite Instances: I've Survived by Hitching My Wagon to the Strong 无限副本：我靠抱大腿苟活至今
(The rating has just come in, so it’ll rise later) [A male lead who grows over time but has plenty of ideas from the start] + [A little live-stream chat here and there] + [The male lead has no love interest; he belongs to the readers] + [The author takes suggestions to heart] + [A survival guide for each instance] Lu Li, a fragile college student, is chosen to enter a world of horror games, where he must struggle to survive an endless succession of instances. Quick-witted Lu Li grabs onto the le
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Rule Horror: The Haunted House Sleep Tester Awakens a System 规则怪谈凶宅试睡员觉醒系统
After delivery driver Chen Du was swindled out of 1.2 million yuan, he unexpectedly awakened a System. Clearing rules lets him cash out. With his one particular skill, Chen Du searches the world for rule-based instances and makes a fortune!
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The Celestial Master and Corpse Master Descend the Mountain, While the War God Joins Them to Protect the Nation’s Fortune 天师天尸双下山，军神联手镇国运
CP + two men and one woman + apocalyptic survival + Rule Horror + national destiny battle + team-ups + strategic mind games and power struggles + ensemble cast + powerful allies joining forces The apocalyptic disaster arrived, the supernatural revived, and rule-based instances swept across the globe. The fate of all humanity became tightly bound to the national fortunes of each country. Zhang Xinyu, a sword-wielding Heavenly Master, sees through illusions and probes every mystery; Ling Chengyou,
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I Run a Lifestyle Channel in a Horror Game 我在惊悚游戏里当生活区UP主
With 1.2 million yuan in debt, Lin Bei gets dragged into a horror game. While others flee, I film; while others scream, I livestream. The head nurse is chasing me with a knife? Perfect footage! Zombies are closing in? Let's dance together. I edit terrifying scenarios into comedy shows, pay off my debts with tips, and clear stages by putting on a show. The ghosts become my cast, and the audience becomes my backup.
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Tales of the Bizarre Amusement Park: I’m the Chosen One Who Breaks the Game and Overturns the Supernatural 怪谈乐园：我天选破局者颠覆诡异
[The uncanny descends + mild horror + semi-infinite survival game + death game + survival + random trait draws] No System, no mindless protagonist, plot-driven A casual summer vacation at an amusement park turns in the blink of an eye from laughter and cheer into a bizarre theme park crawling with the uncanny. Xu Yu unexpectedly becomes one of the chosen, awakening as a [Puzzle Breaker]. White traits appear before his eyes. Every special mission is a chance to survive an unwinnable game against
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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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Seven-Day Horror: My University Is a Horror Game 七日怪谈：我的大学是恐怖游戏
[First Person], [Rule Horror], [Ensemble Cast], [Coming-of-Age Protagonist], [No Romance], [Not a Power Fantasy], [Hardest Beginner Instance in History] This school has become a ghost-story game arena. Lin Xia, Ye Yan’s roommate, dies for no apparent reason in their dorm. The announcement sounds, declaring that the [Ghost-Story Game] has officially begun. Ye Yan, Chen Mo, and Zhou Yuan discover that Lin Xia died because she unknowingly broke a rule. For the next seven days, every place may hide
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Rule Horror: I Can See Echoes of the Old Days 规则怪谈：我能看到旧日余响
[Linked Instances + No Romance + Tracing the Origins of the Rules + Unconventional Rule-Based Horror] (If rules have a past, they must have left behind truths that were forgotten.) The bizarre has invaded reality, and the Chosen Ones are sent into an old world that has already been destroyed. Shen Yan gains the talent [Witness], which lets him see echoes of the past connected to the rules. When others face a strange tale, all they can do is guess which rule is false. Shen Yan discovers that the
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Cave Prison: The Twelve Zodiac Signs Hunt the Gods 溶洞囚笼：十二生肖逐神
[Ensemble cast, no fixed protagonist.] This is a real game, a game in which the Twelve Zodiac Signs hunt one another. Hundreds of rounds have been played over thousands of years. Each round has a zodiac victor. The victors become emperors or powerful figures in their own right. Liu Bang, Emperor Gaozu of Han: victor of the Snake; Li Shimin, Emperor Taizong of Tang: victor of the Horse; Zhao Ji, Emperor Huizong of Song: victor of the Dog; Qianlong of the Qing dynasty: victor of the Rabbit; Ther
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When the Zombies Come: I Can See the Red Rules 丧尸来临：我能看见红色规则
[Zombies + rule-based horror] My name is Lin Shen. When the zombie outbreak began, I was brushing my teeth in Room 401 on the fourth floor. Four in the morning. The entire dormitory suddenly lost power. A sheet of paper appeared out of nowhere behind the dorm room door.
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Rule Horror: I Dismantle the World at a Wellness Center 规则怪谈：我在康养中心拆解世界
At four in the morning, three black cars stopped outside the convalescent center. They took away Subject 047, a “madman” who had lived there for five years and never taken medication. Qingshan City was swallowed by the rules. All three squads sent to break the deadlock had gone missing. The Bureau dug out the last page of his file: “This subject’s thought patterns are unconventional and unsuitable for standard treatment.” Others use their wits to break the rules. He does it by going mad. Because
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Rule Horror: I Can See the Deleted Rules 规则怪谈，我能看见被删除的规则
Rules horror descends upon the world. The Midnight Convenience Store, Happy Apartments, Red Umbrella School, and Abandoned Subway appear one after another. All survivors must follow the rules to stay alive. Break them, and you die. But Lu Chen, a night-shift clerk, discovers he can see the deleted Rule Zero. From then on, he stops passively struggling to survive. He analyzes the rules, turns them to his advantage, and strikes back against the horrors. Until one day, he discovers that every horro
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I’m a Real Man, but I’m a Sissy Boy in a Horror Story Livestream 我，纯爷们，怪谈直播当男娘
[No romance + rule-based horror + logical deduction + Infinite Flow + mild horror + humorous references] 1. A female ghost sews her parents together and keeps them in the refrigerator. You threaten her pathological devotion to her family. 2. Your “other self” hates you. Kill them? Are you sure you won't die too? He Ling's talent is Simulation and Deduction. But he was strangled to death by a female ghost from the start, before he could even use his talent. His only chance to revive was gone. The
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- 71 Rule Horror: Starting with Ascending to Godhood Through the Supernatural 规则怪谈：从诡异封神开始 [Rule Horror] [Investiture of the Gods] [National Fate] [Utterly Insane] [Cthulhu] The will of Blue Star descends. Nations are wiped out, and the National Fate of the Dragon Nation hangs by a thread! Shen Ce, a patient at the Third Mental Hospital, enters the Rule Horror instance, Investiture of the Gods. King Zhou is a writhing mass of flesh that cannot be looked at directly. Daji is a faceless, nine-tailed reaper of flesh. The heart Bi Gan cut out is whispering the words of an ancient god. Whi 2Reads—Score—14d adds
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Dorm Survival: I Was Pulled into the Management Chat 宿舍求生，我被拉进了管理群
[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
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- 73 Rule Horror: I Conquered the Myriad Realms Dungeon 规则怪谈：我闯过万相副本 On his first day at work, Chen Mo is thrown into an endless series of rule-based horror scenarios, trapped in one uncanny death trap after another. The red-clad female ghost of Mistveil Town, a blood-red wedding banquet that never ends, a deep-sea monster aboard a sunken ship, a world of fractured reflections, a cannibal village, a station where time twists, a vampire castle gripped by a blood curse, a cyber asylum that rewrites human nature, and a divine arena of unending slaughter... Ten scena —Reads—Score—14d adds
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The Purple Rain Descends 紫雨来袭
Also known as "Grief Rises from Within" (Infinite flow + educational themes + no special abilities + not a wish-fulfillment story + twists all the way through) Li Ze, the protagonist, has the ability to empathize. Wherever suffering ignored by society takes place, purple rain falls. It rebuilds that suffering in the victims' minds in distorted, terrifying forms. The monsters, evil spirits, and strange phenomena that emerge from the purple rain retain the defining features of the harm inflicted o
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A Guide to Performing in Horror Films 恐怖片演绎指南
Infinite Flow + Supernatural A horror-film role-playing show has quietly become a hit. Anyone desperate to have a wish granted will receive an invitation. The Very Horror Show cordially invites anyone interested to take part in its horror-film performances.
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Rule Horror: My Modifier Can Change Anything 规则怪谈：我的修改器能改万物
[Half rules-based horror (?), half infinite-flow, business management, mystery-solving, no heroine] The horror tales descend, and every instance is a death trap. While everyone else is being chased around the “Eternal Night Mall” by mirror ghosts, Chu Yuan stands at the checkout counter with a smile and asks, “Would you like a membership card? Top up 1,000 and get the ‘Come Back for More’ BUFF. The ghosts won't chase you, guaranteed.” That's because he awakened the SSS-rank talent [Rule Modifier
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Death Save-Scumming: I'm Really Not a Big Shot 死亡回档：我真的不是大佬啊
[Rule-Based Horror + Not Overpowered + No Female Lead + Supernatural + National Fate] Rule-based horror has descended upon Earth. The supernatural has entered reality. Those who are chosen will enter the world of horror scenarios and represent their respective countries in challenges governed by strange rules. Su Ming has now been chosen by the world of horror scenarios. He will represent the Dragon Kingdom in the challenge.
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Night Walk Without a Gate 无门夜行
Shen Zhao, a folk-custom archive restoration specialist, receives a “Death Certificate in His Own Name” and is forced into the Midnight Name-Claiming Game. He discovers that the city’s old customs demand names, identity documents, memories of family members, and social identities from the living, and that he can hear the typos that have been tampered with in the rules.
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Apocalypse: The Whole Company Denies the Existence of the 18th Floor 末世：全公司否认18楼存在
[Apocalypse + No System + Reborn + Mystery + One Female Lead + Zombies + Hard Sci-Fi + No Mindless Decisions + Revenge] Reborn six hours before the apocalypse, Chu Yan has not only retained his memories of the future, but also mastered the ultimate secret of genetic evolution! He can become the most powerful god in the apocalypse! He frantically stockpiles supplies, builds weapons, modifies vehicles, and saves his parents, racing against time! He will kill his enemies with his own hands and turn
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Rules-Based Horror for All: Sun Wukong Lives Inside Me 全民规则怪谈：我体内住着孙悟空
[Mystery and imagination]+ [Urban supernatural powers]+ [Rule Horror]+ [Journey to the West mythology]+ [Apocalypse]+ [Infinite Flow] At midnight one day, the Heavenly Dao collapsed. Eighty-one rifts in the rules tore open the mortal world. Each was an independent horror scenario: follow the rules to survive, break them and die, and clear a scenario to obtain a fragment of divine power. College student Sun Xing was sent flying by a truck. As he hovered on the brink of death, a wisp of a remnant
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I’m Socially Anxious, Yet I Became a God in the Haunting 社恐的我，在怪谈里封神
This isn’t cookie-cutter or fast-paced. If you like quick reads, this isn’t for you. This is real rule-based horror. I’ve worked on the ideas until my brain was smoking and sparking, so please add it to your bookshelf. It’s a great novel, written with care. _ At first, no one knew what it was. It was like a silent tide, quietly spilling across the borders of the world. There was no earth-shattering roar, no vision blotting out the sky. It was just that, after some ordinary evening, the “rules”
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Rule Horror: Deduction and Strategy 规则怪谈：推演与博弈
(Rule Horror + One Female Lead + Infinite Flow + Deduction + Brainy Mystery + Light Comedy + Power Fantasy) A real brain-burner. The first two arcs are a warm-up, then the hospital arc cranks up the difficulty. In Rule Horror, you either get controlled and tortured to death by the rules, or get erased for breaking them. Chen Yan awakens an ability, but using it costs him his lifespan. Will he clear the horror scenarios, or run out of time first... Cheng Xingwan, a hero of Xia Kingdom, came withi
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I Turned the World of Ghost Stories into a Harem Dating Sim 我把怪谈世界改成了后宫养成
Eerie phenomena return, and rule-based horror games descend upon the entire world. The chosen “Chosen Ones” are sent into certain-death instances, livestreamed to the whole world from start to finish! In a world where “rules are god,” even the slightest contact means death. That is, until Su Ming is dragged into the S-rank instance [Ghost Wedding] and awakens the one and only SSS-rank talent: [Rule Modifier]! Looking at the rule on the wall that guarantees death: “At midnight, you must not look
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When the Strange Tales Arrive: I Win by Exploiting Loopholes 怪谈降临：我靠漏洞躺赢到无敌
While others follow the rules to survive, Lin Chen deciphers them and tears through every challenge! Global paranormal phenomena erupt, and uncanny rules are everywhere. Break them, and you’ll suffer anything from mutation to being devoured by the ruler of the domain! Lin Chen is cool-headed and fiercely protective, without a trace of saintly self-righteousness. After binding himself to the [Rule Analysis System], he begins a life of unstoppable power: Red rules? Find the loophole and turn them
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The Long Night Turns West 长夜向西
At the end of the hospital corridor, Wen Xiao knelt before the Bodhisattva and bowed three times. The Bodhisattva did not answer. Then the System came. She could travel to other worlds to fulfill people's wishes. If she died, she alone would die; if she lived, she and her mother would live together. She would wager her life for one chance to keep her mother alive. No matter how long the night, if you keep heading west, dawn will come. Mom, wait for me to come back.
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- 86 The Restricted Zone Rules Fail: I Become the Top Night Watchman 禁区守则失效：我成巡夜头名 Rule One for the Restricted Zone: Get out before dark. It’s an ironclad rule bought with hundreds of thousands of lives. Lu Yan didn’t follow it. Not because he didn’t want to. He was trapped inside. That night, the Restricted Zone changed. Every situation left out of the rules came to pass. Lu Yan ran through the ruins all night. He evaded three beast tides. He detoured around two spatial rifts. And along the way, he rescued fifteen people who were trapped just like him. At daybreak, the rescue 1Reads—Score—14d adds
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The Silent Theater: Weaving Illusions in a Cage of Rules 缄默剧场：我在规则囚笼里编织幻
The Silent Theater, where all living souls are pieces on a board. There is no freedom here, only layers of nested cages made of rules; no salvation, only an endless cycle of death and reset. In the upper-level Divine Curtain District, the Twelve Curtain Masters wield the rules, feeding on the mental energy of those below to nourish the ultimate illusion; In the middle-level Curtain District, the privileged abet the wicked, using their fellows' despair as a ladder to advancement; In the lower-l
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Why Mess with Him? The Dungeon Boss Is Super Protective 惹他干什么，副本BOSS超护短
[Ensemble Cast, Strong Female Lead, Two Powerful Leads, Devoted Husband, Comedy, Lighthearted, 1v1, Horror Game, Sweet Romance, Face-Slapping, Plot-Driven, Protective] Alternate title: Why Pick a Fight with Him? The Dungeon Boss Is Extremely Protective The supernatural has descended upon the world, forcing humanity to take part in horror games. Those who survive gain power, status, fame, fortune, and all kinds of resources to fight the supernatural. Those who fail become sustenance for the hor
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Rule Horror: The Seventh Wedding Witness Burned the Century-Old Banquet 规则怪谈：第七任证婚人，烧了百年婚宴
Rule Horror: The Seventh Wedding Witness Sets a Century-Old Wedding Banquet Ablaze
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I Set the Rules in the Horror Story 我在怪谈里立规矩
While others cower in corners of Rule Horrors, kneeling and scraping by for a chance to survive, I face the filth lurking in the shadows, gripping the Seal of Rules and establishing order in the human world with nothing but a mortal's body. I suppress the evil spirits of the world and protect the everyday lives and lamplights of every household.
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Guiyuan: Hong Kong Under Siege 归元HK围城
Lin Zhao woke up in a morgue's refrigerated drawer with only one number on his wristband: LY-0001. He didn't know who he was. All he knew was that his right hand could transform into a black jade bone blade, and that devouring the infected let him read their memories. In the post-apocalyptic city of HK, the infected weren't mindless zombies. They shared a hive mind, and each one was a tendril of some ancient entity.
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Help! The Horror NPCs Are Lining Up for Me to Do Their Makeup 救命！惊悚NPC都排队找我化妆
[Horror game + NPCs + horror survival + no System] Su Qing, a workaholic makeup artist, was just working overtime. When she opened her eyes again, she had been sucked into a horror game with a 99% death rate! As she watched her teammates panic and wet themselves, the bottom-performing Slit-Mouthed Woman approached her with a pair of scissors. Su Qing despaired. But wait... This woman’s makeup is way too crude! Her professional instincts kicked in, and she blurted out, “Your makeup isn’t working.
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Rule Horror: Every Infinite Dungeon Is a Trap 规则怪谈：无限副本全是陷阱
Rule Horror: Every Infinite Dungeon Is a Trap
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After I Escaped, the World Erased Me Forever 我逃出来后，被世界永久删除
After I escaped, the world permanently deleted me.
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- 95 After Our Whirlwind Marriage, My Billionaire Husband's Secret Is Exposed 闪婚后，千亿老公掉马了 After Our Flash Marriage, My Billionaire Husband's Cover Is Blown 4Reads—Score—14d adds
- 96 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 The Day I Broke Off the Engagement, Snow Blanketed the Door. Three Years Later, I Had the Entire Marquis's Estate Executed 74Reads—Score—14d adds
- 97 Your Place in Your In-Laws’ Home Is Earned 在婆家的地位是靠自己挣的 Your place in your husband's family is something you have to earn yourself. 17Reads—Score—14d adds
- 98 With a Business Opportunity in Hand, I Set Up a Stall and Made a Fortune Through the Decades 手握商机，摆摊赚翻整个年代 With Business Opportunities in Hand, I Make a Fortune Selling Goods on the Streets 1Reads—Score—14d adds
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Rule Horror: I Call the Paranormal Entities “Dad” from the Start 规则怪谈：开局我喊诡异爸爸
Cui Fei enters a rule-based horror scenario and gets a Relationship System. Other people's systems are for showing off and getting stronger, but Cui Fei's System makes him call the supernatural entities "Daddy," turns him into their beloved first love, and makes him their love rival!
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Rule Horror: One Wrong Step in Correcting History Means Instant Death 规则怪谈：修正历史错一步就抹杀
Office drone Zheng Jie hadn’t even finished slurping his instant noodles when he was yanked straight into the Titanic! [Time-Space Correction Mission activated: Save 3 deviants. One wrong move and you’re erased!] A faceless female attendant in a white dress, a strange knocking sound at the door, a killer crewman with no features… This cursed ship is full of rule-based traps, and the Titanic still has to sink on schedule. In 30 minutes, time and space will collapse and everyone will be wiped out!
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