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- 1 EN Misty Rain Tower 烟雨楼 [The print edition is now available nationwide at all major retailers] "Traditional xuanhuan" "No harem" In the land of Jiuzhou stands a tower called the Misty Rain Tower. Its master, Li Qingzhi, is hailed as a peerless prodigy, holding life and death in his hands beneath the cover of night. Yet what the world doesn’t know is that someone else stands behind the Misty Rain Tower, its true founder. Using the guise of a spoiled young master as cover, he manipulates the winds and clouds and plots ac 868.8kReads9.6Score66.1kShelves
- 2 Midnight Fortune-Teller: Humans Keep Away, Ghosts Come Forward 午夜算命师：人回避，鬼上前 Everyone knows about fortune-telling, but have you ever heard of telling fortunes for ghosts? Just because you've never heard of something doesn't mean it doesn't exist. If you ever come across a fortune-telling shop with its doors still open in the middle of the night, don't go looking for excitement. Because the people waiting in line might not be people… 35.4kReads9.0Score2.6kShelves
- 3 Super Scary Livestream 超级惊悚直播 "Welcome, everyone, to the Supernatural Scary Live Stream. Before we start today's broadcast, I have to tell you that only three kinds of people can watch this stream: those with a heavy aura of yin energy, those who will die within seven days, and the third kind, which I can't discuss in detail. I can only give you one warning: watch your back!" 25.3kReads9.2Score3.3kShelves
- 4 The Language of the Three Corpses 三尸语 You’ve heard of people who died with their eyes open, but have you ever heard of a dead person whose mouth wouldn’t close? His grandfather’s death turns the life of a broke college student upside down. A corpse glares, a soul is hooked; a corpse opens its mouth, and disaster strikes twice. As one bizarre incident after another unfolds, he accidentally discovers that there’s far more to it than ghosts… 69.1kReads9.3Score10.7kShelves
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An S-Rank Horror from the Start, but They Give Me a C-Rank Talent? 开局S级怪谈，但给我C级天赋？
[No Female Lead + Endless Twists + Wild Ideas and Clever Logic + Mild Horror + Protagonist and Villains Are Both Smart] [This is absolutely not a mindless power fantasy. If you don't like the first instance, go ahead and curse me out.] [This isn't a traditional rule-based horror story. The horrors can think and are intelligent, so readers who prefer traditional rule-based horror should steer clear.] Horrors run rampant, and strange tales are everywhere. Beneath every shadow may lurk an unknown t
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Rule Horror: Beware Your Roommate's Girlfriend 规则怪谈：请小心你室友的女友
[No heroine + not wish fulfillment + not invincible + unsettling + horror + suspense + plot-driven] [The livestreaming element is only a tiny part of the story. The focus is on horror and suspense, so feel free to dive in] There are only two people left in your school dorm: you and your roommate. Your roommate suddenly brings home an incredibly attractive person they met online, leaves you some money, then hurries off. Now you're alone in the room with your roommate's gorgeous online date... Wou
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Rule Horror: The Slacker Turns the Nation’s Fate Around 规则怪谈：摆烂人扭转国运
[Mystery, Supernatural, Suspense, National Fortune, Female-Oriented, No Romance] The world of the uncanny descends upon Blue Star. Over three years, national fortune scores rise and fall. After the previous genius chosen player died, Huaguo's score plummeted to 30. No one can bear the consequences of a national fortune score reaching zero. As the score continues to fall, many people start accepting that the world of the uncanny will soon destroy Blue Star, and give up trying. Seventeen-year-old
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- 8 Rule Horror: The Prince Is Always Lusting After Me 规则怪谈：王子总是对我垂涎欲滴 [Volume One of the print edition goes on sale August 7] [Short drama and comic adaptation now available] [No romance + Infinite-flow + Horror game + No national destiny + Dark fairy tales] A young woman weeps softly at midnight. A handsome prince turns into a bloodthirsty “beast” at night. Cinderella dies a gruesome death on the night of the ball. The horror game is wrapped in shiny glassine, disguised as a sweet candy. What lies hidden behind the enchanting fairy-tale world... Weird tales desc 84.3kReads9.3Score9.9kShelves
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The All-Purpose Guide to Rule Horror for the Powerless 无能者的规则怪谈全能指南
(A suspenseful, terrifying mystery with no System or supernatural powers for the protagonist. No brute-force clears. Frequent updates.) Blue Star has been invaded by entities. Humanity is powerless to resist, and the world faces destruction. Those above keep humanity like lambs in a pen, forcibly selecting representatives from every country and livestreaming them for their amusement. And what are they forced to play? Rule-based horror games? From the start, representatives from every country sho
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I Use a Coin to Rule the World 我用一枚硬币玩转规则世界
[Rules-based horror + not a power fantasy + no System + no national survival game + no livestreaming + no tired tropes + horror + deduction and puzzle-solving + suspense + fictional setting + requires some brainpower] (A fairly unusual first-person narrative, but easy to read and more immersive.) The university I’d eagerly looked forward to turned out to be a bizarre academy. It was full of all kinds of strange rules: Dormitory rules, campus rules, competition and event rules, mission rules… You
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Rule Horror: I'm Even More Twisted Than the Supernatural! 规则怪谈：我比诡异还变态！
[Unhinged + rebellious + no female lead + hilarious + bizarre + national destiny] My name is Xu Ye. I was born without the ability to feel pain, and my favorite thing is looking for a thrill. I heard that the Rule-Bound Horror arrived, and every country would randomly select a “Chosen One” to enter a game instance. After waiting a whole month, and watching five Chosen Ones die one after another, I finally got my wish and became the sixth Chosen One, the real wild card representing the Dragon Kin
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Campus Rule Horror 校园规则怪谈
My name is Chen Yi, and I’m a sophomore in the computer science department at C University. During a lab class on Tuesday morning, my computer suddenly went black. Then a strange voice rang out: Welcome to the world of bizarre games. All students must follow these rules: Rule One: You may not speak during class except to answer questions. Rule Two: Do not try to leave the school. All communication devices have been disabled. Rule Three: You must return to your dormitory before ten every night...
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Rules-Based Horror, the Eye of Karma Decides Life and Death 规则怪谈，因果眼定生死
The Ruin Domain descended, and the Prison Ruins opened. While everyone else risked their lives guessing the rules, Shen Yan could see the threads of fate leading to death. Black threads wrapped around someone meant disaster, while a way out was hidden among the gray threads. He thought it was a heaven-defying golden finger. But every time he used his Eye of Fate, another thin strand of gray-white appeared at the nape of his neck. Whenever the bronze key in his pocket grew hot, he would hear an
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Rule Horror: Nightmare City 规则怪谈：梦魇迷城
[Clever deductions + mind-bending suspense + instance challenges + strategic games + logical thinking + knowledge-based puzzles] Rules are both a way to control players and the key to breaking out of a dead end. The protagonist, Chen Mo, is accidentally drawn into a world of rule-based horror. He thinks he only needs to keep taking part in deadly games to escape. Then Chen Mo believes that collecting five keys with different attributes will let him leave the City of Nightmares, but one unexpecte
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Rule Horror: My Family Isn't Normal 规则怪谈：我的家人不正常
[Horror + mystery + livestream + national fate + System] The supernatural returns, and rule-based horror games invade countries around the world. As one chosen by fate, Zhou Bai represents the Great Xia Kingdom in a horror game. The first scenario is a family of four. [You live with your wife and your parents. But remember, there are only three people in your home.] [You can trust your wife, unless she takes off her red hair clip.] [You and your wife have never had a child. If you hear a baby cr
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Rule Horror: She Is Not Sister Yu 规则怪谈：她不是雨姐
Gu Shiqi transmigrates to a world of the uncanny and becomes Old Kuai. From a note, he learns that Northeast Rain Sister has already been corrupted. If he wants to survive, he has no choice but to obey the rules of this eerie world...
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Rule Horror: Unlucky Me and That Damn Talent 规则怪谈：倒霉的我和那该死天赋
Yu Bai has been a lucky young man since childhood. Then one day, in order to treat several grandfathers, he joins a rules-based horror game. His talent... I don’t want to say much about it. Better to die early and be reborn sooner. Rule One: Uncle Tom’s Farm. Rule Two: The Too-Good-to-Be-True Zoo. Rule Three: ... I’m no good at writing a synopsis, so please read the story itself. A note before you start: this is a lighthearted comedy with very little deduction.
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Rule Horror: It Takes Two 规则怪谈：双人成行
[The rating just came out and is rather low, but it will rise] [Two Minds Sharing One Body] [Rules-Based Horror] [Original Scenarios] [Mind-Bending Twists] [Lighthearted Bickering] One moment, Wei Minghua was conquering an S-rank rules-based horror scenario. The next, he woke to find his body gone. His consciousness was trapped in the mind of a nineteen-year-old girl named Mingxi. Mingxi pressed a knife to her throat. "Get out of my body, or we'll both die." Before they could reach an agreement,
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- 19 After Slaying My Way Through Instances, I Raise an Evil God by the Rules 杀穿副本后，我在规则里养大邪神 The print edition is now available under the title: The Fall of the Gods (Not for the faint of heart: nonhuman entities and terrifying monsters.) Yin Xiu has lived in a town governed by rules for six years. Normal players follow the rules and clear instances to stay alive. Yin Xiu, however, stays in town day after day. He doesn’t leave, clear instances, or go near the monsters. He does the bare minimum, takes it easy, and has practically settled into retirement. The town’s monsters have had thei 102.4kReads9.7Score14.2kShelves
- 20 After Retirement, the Big Shot Was Pulled Back into a Horror Game 退休大佬再被拉进恐怖游戏后 [Dual Male Leads, Infinite-Flow, Face-Slapping Power Fantasy] [Please read without overthinking; this is pure wish fulfillment] Three years ago, after completing his mission and clearing every instance, Chou Yan was kicked out of the game by the System. Every monster and boss celebrated across the land. Three years later, betrayed by the so-called family he had left, Chou Yan reentered the game with System 006. The bosses had barely spawned before he was already slaughtering them left and right! 9.3kReads9.1Score1.7kShelves
- 21 Damn! Are You the Uncanny One, or Am I? 摔！你是诡异，还是我是诡异啊 [Male leads] [Urban] [Academy] [Horror] [Supernatural] [Plot-driven] [Monster-slaying and leveling up] Two hundred years ago, the strange and supernatural descended. Monsters and demons ran rampant, and humanity awakened to supernatural powers. They turned the tide and defeated the first S-rank entity that threatened to destroy the world. Two hundred years later, the world is in turmoil once more, and the threat of annihilation has returned. The protagonist of this story is Jing Aotian Bai, who 860Reads9.0Score115Shelves
- 22 EN I'm the Admin of the Death Game 我在死亡副本当管理员 (Main story complete) [Death game + dual male leads + one-on-one romance + a highly moral, clingy instance boss x a rational administrator with questionable morals] Want to exploit bugs in death-game instances and breeze through high-difficulty levels? Want a golden finger that lets you transcend the rules, dominate the instances, and reach the pinnacle of life? Li Qing, head of the Death Instance Maintenance Team, says: No. Absolutely not! Bugs? Patched! Cheats? Banned! No matter how destined y 3.7kReads9.2Score672Shelves
- 23 EN Tricking an Evil God into Being My Husband—That's Fair Game, Right? 开局骗个邪神当老公，不过分吧？ [Infinite-flow + two male leads + strong leads + cool-headed, rational beauty as the bottom x an evil god who rejects it, then comes back for more] 1v1, both pure When he held the blade to his throat, Li Xian wasn’t afraid. When he opened his eyes again in an infinite world where survival was almost impossible, Li Xian wasn’t surprised. When he learned he had to play the role of a bride, Li Xian paused in confusion, then calmly accepted it. But when he heard what his skill was, he finally lost h 30.8kReads9.5Score5.9kShelves
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I Have Plot Armor in Rule Horror 规则怪谈我有主角光环
We step into dangerous scenarios filled with bizarre rules, where teammates each have their own agenda and the rules for clearing the stage trip us up at every turn. A teammate might even kill me to break a sacrificial ritual, while someone else finds a different way out by smashing through the ceiling to reveal a secret room. As for me, I'm useless. I can only rely on my good luck and instinct to find the exit among three branching paths. Thanks to my good luck, I find the clues to clear the
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Rule Horror: I Can Strip Away All Logic 规则怪谈：我能剥离一切逻辑
Blue Star, Ninth District. When the eerie purple moon replaced the sun, rules became the only shackles binding all life. Here, survival isn’t a right. It’s a handout dispensed by rules that toy with you. “Don’t look out the window.” “Don’t look in the mirror at three in the morning.” “If you hear a deceased family member knocking, you must open the door and ‘eat’ them.” As all of humanity trembled in the face of strange tales, abandoning their dignity and hurting themselves or going mad to appea
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Rule Horror: I'm on the Monsters' Side 规则怪谈：我是怪谈那边的
A high-IQ, two-sided battle of wits in a rule-based horror game, where nobody gets stupid. While others transmigrate into rule-based horror games, awaken talents, fight for their country, and risk everything to survive and clear the levels, Wu Jiu transmigrates straight into a horror entity in one of the instances, becoming the night-shift security guard at Fuhua Hospital. With only a few basic abilities, such as walking through walls, seeing through things, and possessing others, his job is t
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Rules of Horror? I'll Just Fire Up Excel 规则怪谈？我反手一个Excel
Mo Fan, a top data analyst who worked so much overtime he went bald, suddenly dies and is thrown into a perilous world of bizarre rules. Here, the supernatural is commonplace and death is the ending. Everyone lives in fear. When others are scared out of their wits by the Slit-Mouthed Woman, Mo Fan calmly opens Excel and marks her threat level red with conditional formatting. When others run in despair through an endless corridor, Mo Fan uses a pivot table to spot the spatial patterns at a glanc
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Rule Horror: I'm a Scholar!! 规则怪谈：我是读书人啊！！
Guan Ziliang had just passed the written portion of the national civil service exam when he got so excited that he keeled over and died. When he woke again, he was in a strange new world. [Welcome to the Haunted Park] [Loading the Game of Despair…] [Ding! Player Guan Ziliang of the Dragon Kingdom, successfully loaded!] “If you can’t understand reason, this monk knows a few moves with his fists.” “Technically, you’re not allowed to hit the supernatural, but he’s the one who makes the rules.” A hi
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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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Rule Horror: I Slaughter My Way Through with Hidden Rules 规则怪谈：我靠隐藏规则杀疯了
How do you escape by the skin of your teeth from a campus horror game where the rules are enforced with lethal force? My name is Chen Yi, and I’m a sophomore in the computer science department at C University. During a lab class on Tuesday morning, the computer suddenly went black. Then a strange voice rang out: Welcome to the eerie game world. All students must follow these rules: Rule One: During class, you may not speak unless answering a question. Rule Two: Do not try to leave the school. Al
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Rule Horror: An Unequal Game 规则怪谈：不平等博弈
An innocent, naive boy misses the fateful choice that could have changed his destiny, and is forced into a world of strange tales. He survives one perilous, baffling situation after another, slowly drawing closer to the truth about the world...
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Rule Horror: I Fight to Survive Between the Lines 规则怪谈我在字缝求生
Jiang Mo is the only contestant in the Dragon Kingdom with an 80% contamination rate. He's thrown into the mental hospital instance, where the rules are in utter chaos. Everyone else: Follow the rules. Jiang Mo: Tear the rules apart and kill the paranormal instead. The paranormal scheme while he breaks their plans; The rules kill people, so he uses the rules to kill. As his contamination level skyrockets, Jiang Mo says softly: “You think you're contaminating me? I'm the one devouring you.” M
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Rule Horror: I Clear the Game by Switching Personalities 规则怪谈：我靠切换人格通关
When strange rules descend upon the world, it becomes a stage for death livestreams. Logic collapses, and terror becomes the only constant. Shen Ye, a multiple-personality patient locked in a psychiatric hospital, is accidentally drawn into this bloody feast. The doctors say he's insane because different "voices" are always arguing in his head: "The Commander," utterly calm: "Turn left. The rules in the third room are a trap. The way out is in the morgue." "The Warrior," savage and violent: "E
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