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Thriller: I Only Sell Haunted Houses 惊悚:我只卖凶宅
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…
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Rule Horror: I Am Above the Rules 规则怪谈:吾即规则之上
[Two male leads + equally matched powerhouses + seme POV + nonhuman + each other's only one + happy ending + lighthearted, overpowered story + unapologetically indulgent fun + overflowing sweetness + multiple side couples + final boss + rule-based horror] [Pure-hearted, scheming seme x cold-faced, easily flustered uke] Shi Mo had lived for tens of thousands of years. He was bored. He had created the rule-based horror stories, and the Abyssal Corridor belonged to him. Day after day, he had reigne
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When Grandpa Died, Dragons Lifted His Coffin and Ghosts Wept at His Grave 爷爷死时,龙抬棺,鬼哭坟
My grandfather was tragically caught up in a thousand-year-old feng shui plot. When he died, a dragon lifted his coffin and ghosts wailed at his grave. As for me, I was born wrapped in snake scales. They all called me a monster, but the Five Immortals willingly became my babysitters. They secretly sent me to Dragon Pool, where eight old men took me on as their disciple. When I grew up, I punched demons and monsters and kicked spirits and fiends aside. Practicing both Buddhist and Daoist arts, I
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This Spirit Medium Is Pretty Powerful! 这个出马仙有点强!
A piece of red cloth, three feet and three inches long. The old hall's people, the old hall's immortals. One day, when they emerge from the depths of the mountains, their names will spread far and wide! I was born in a rural village in Northeast China in the 1980s. When I was seven, a spirit medium said I was fated to suffer three calamities and eight misfortunes, and would one day become a horse-riding shaman. I didn't believe it, but hardship kept finding me. To make a living, I worked as a wa
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Notes of a Folk Feng Shui Master 民间风水师笔记
[Several short dramas have been adapted from this novel: Feng Shui Heavenly Master, The Grand Master of Qimen Feng Shui, The Heavenly Master Is Here, Qimen Feng Shui Shakes the World, Notes of a Folk Feng Shui Master, and others] Everything in this book is fictional. Just enjoy the story, don’t take it seriously, and don’t get too caught up in it...
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Ghost Ship in the Deep Sea: Witness to the Dead's Obsessions 深海幽灵邮轮:我见证死者的执念
Even kind ghosts can lie, and evil humans can be worse than demons. A luxury cruise ship that vanished without a trace more than twenty years ago drifts across an otherworldly sea, cut off from the rest of the world. Aboard are pitiful ghosts who cannot let go of the people they loved, and evil spirits willing to descend into darkness in pursuit of eternal life. Travel between the world of the living and the ghost ship, fulfill the dead’s final wishes, and search for a missing father. Disappeara
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Death Began at School 死亡从学校开始了
Ghosts are the product of an imbalance between yin and yang. In this vast world, people are all different in character, and their souls are just as varied after death. The virtuous return to pure lands and enjoy the blessings of the afterlife; the wicked and violent turn into vengeful spirits, their resentment gathering until it takes the form of a ghost. These specters wander between yin and yang, but most conceal their forms and rarely appear before the living. [No cultivation, no System, no h
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The Gallery of Gods 神明陈列馆
My sister's life hangs on my cursed one. To save his terminally ill sister, Chen Gu steps into a dark world that collects human obsessions and “tokens.” During an expedition, he embeds “Destruction” in his right arm and seals “Order” inside his chest. From then on, his body becomes a battlefield between two colliding stars. He becomes a monster, and every time he suffers, his sister's soul is torn apart from a thousand miles away in her hospital room. In his darkest hour, he discovers the mark
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Thriller Game: I Became a Ghost Hunter After Escaping 惊悚游戏:逃生后我成为了驱鬼师
At eighteen, having escaped the misery of high school, An Ran and Guan Qi decide to take some time to relax. By chance, they discover a treasure of an immersive story-driven escape room: Yuanxi Manor. Armed with a useless identity card and a synopsis of the scenario, the two girls set off on an exciting adventure. A sprawling European-style manor, handsome and beautiful NPCs, and four days and nights to explore... But when they finally arrive at the manor, one strange thing after another begins
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Ghost Stories of the Southwest 西南鬼事
This is a collection of ghost stories from southwest China, made up of a series of medium-length tales. Some may be part of your childhood, some may be stories you've told yourself, and others may be stories you've never heard. Today, let Xiao An tell you these strange and wondrous tales, one by one.
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The Horror Game Is Too Hard? Huohuo, I Only Want Joy! 惊悚游戏太难?花火我只要欢愉!
[Mind games + fireworks + madness + infinite flow] I am Sparkle, but I am not Sparkle. I am in a world of despair. When the heavens and earth are torn open by an indescribable, mysterious force and countless “abominations from beyond” descend, humanity’s fate is forced into a horror game. Slaughter, monsters, abyssal dungeons, illusions, eerie towers... Every time someone clears a game, a new Cthulhu entity may step into reality. Everyone is fighting to survive. But amid all this despair, I’m l
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Ghostly Whispers at Midnight 夜半鬼语
[Rural + Supernatural + Ghost Stories] Back when my grandfather was young, he learned carpentry. As Old Zhao put it, a sixth-grade carpenter these days was worth half a scholar. But things were different back then. Carpenters belonged to one of the lowest trades. They had to carry their tools around every day, get up before dawn and stay out until the middle of the night, traveling from village to village to find work. And because they went so many places, and made coffins and dealt with the dea
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Horror's Edge: 100 Absolutely Terrifying Ghost Stories 恐怖边界:100个绝对惊悚的鬼谈
[Standalone Stories + Supernatural Horror + Folk Customs + Feng Shui and Mysticism + Mild Frights + Shocking Twists] Horror tales beyond anything you could imagine. Each story is like a dark door swinging open, drawing you into moments that will make your skin crawl. Listen. A faint whisper, an indescribable shadow creeping closer. Danger by the river, terror in the cemetery, ghost babies in the maternity ward, evil headhunting magic, apparitions at the hot springs, a bloodstained umbrella... On
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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
[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,
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Northeastern China's Forbidden Secrets 东北禁忌手札
[Extreme horror + a folk-horror story set in the countryside] In a remote mountain village, deep within the forest, countless taboos remain unknown to outsiders. The people here follow ancient rules of life and death: pregnant women must never encounter a coffin, and anyone who dies of old age at a hundred years old is destined to become an evil spirit. But in a single day, the old Yu family breaks both taboos, drawing every kind of demon and ghost to their door! At midnight, someone hears the s
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The Midnight Ghost Market: Living People Keep Out 午夜鬼市,活人回避
[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
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Reconstructing the Crime Scene: I Can See the Erased Traces 重构现场:我能看见被擦掉的痕迹
[Criminal investigations + trace evidence deduction + cold case pursuit + episodic cases + master-apprentice legacy] Seven years after leaving frontline work, trace examiner Lu Chuan is called back to the scene by a suspicious case on a rainy night. Everyone thinks it is just an ordinary accident. But Lu Chuan crouches down, takes one look at the gray marks on the soles of the shoes, and realizes something is wrong. The trail of mud on the ground is broken, the scuff marks by the window are
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Horror Tavern: I Only Raise the Most Ferocious Creatures 恐怖酒馆:我只养大凶之物
Tucked away in a quiet alley is a strange tavern that can grant your wishes, as long as you’re willing to set up a terrifying idol in your home...
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The Heavenly Coffin Comes to Town: Living Must Keep Away 天棺出巡,活人回避
The year Jiangnan suffered a terrible drought, a coffin was dredged up from the river. From that day on, torrential winds and rain battered the region for a month. Floodwaters surged, swallowing countless towns and cities. I was ten that year. More than a dozen red Hongqi cars with Beijing plates, along with rows of luxury cars, arrived in our little town. I don’t know how many important people knelt outside my home, begging my grandfather to stop the floods... [Folk customs, feng shui. A coffin
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Lin Ye, the Loser 废物林野
My name is Lin Ye. I’m an ordinary sophomore in the history department at Jiangcheng University, and also the sole orthodox heir of my generation to a spirit-guarding sect. I thought my spirit-guarding arts could protect the people I wanted to protect, but it was all a joke. It all started with a livestream.
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I Refuse to Perform! 拒演!
Jiang Che, a lowly bit player, struggled for three years in Hengdian. With no connections or resources, he was on the brink of despair when he was unexpectedly pulled into the mysterious Fatebound Film Set. This is a live-streamed fight for survival, controlled by high-ranking deities. The real world and the inner world are completely bound together: injuries in the inner world are mirrored in reality, and death means the soul is truly annihilated. Everyone who enters is an actor, and must stri
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The Fake Master Walks Between Yin and Yang: Sweet-Talking the Living, Battling Vengeful Ghosts 冒牌大师走阴阳:哄完活人斗厉鬼
The thing Liu Buyi, a fake master, regrets most in his life is learning how to “draw talismans with soy sauce” from a short video. Because the corpse that should be lying quietly in front of him is now using a soy-sauce-dipped finger to write his name on the coffin lid. Meanwhile, his half-baked beauty of a partner, An Xun, is munching on sunflower seeds and enjoying the show. “Didn't you say you had Yin-Yang Eyes?!” Liu Buyi's voice trembles. Seeing how unconcerned she looks, he almost passes o
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Folk Feng Shui Taboos: I Can Expose Life-or-Death Traps 民间风水禁忌:我能点破生死局
He can see at a glance the deadly traps hidden in homes and burial grounds, but he never dares speak up. Every taboo he exposes costs someone a life. Until the night he revealed the “blood coffin crushing the pulse” to save an orphan girl. Seven people in the village died violent deaths, and with their dying breath, they all pointed at him: “It was you... You should have died long ago.” The truth was, he wasn’t a feng shui master at all. He was the “Life-Substitution Judge,” chosen by the ancien
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The Farewell Inn 辞缘客栈
Serving the living by day and the dead by night. What college student working a part-time job doesn't go crazy? Deep in the old alleys of a bustling city is a private restaurant that's packed with customers by day, but doesn't exist at all by night. When midnight strikes and white mist rises, the sign above the door quietly changes beneath the ghostly blue lanterns: the Fate's End Inn. The inn has three rules: No guests during the day, no payment, and no one stays past dawn. Whether living or de
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The Lost Pool in the Mirror 镜中迷潭
That night, I stepped into the elevator. The doors opened four times. Each time, it was the fourth floor. The fifth time they opened, there was a hall of mirrors outside. In countless mirrors stood countless versions of me. Only one of them was smiling.
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Guys, Who Gets It? All My Employees Are Ghosts 家人们,谁懂啊!我的员工全是鬼
Reborn + No CP There's something seriously wrong with this amusement park. I suspect there are real ghosts inside. Actually, scratch the word “suspect.” To be bolder still, it's full of ghosts… Are these ghosts nice? Uh… Each ghost has its own quirks. Some are deranged, some are yandere, some are greedy, some are obsessed with games, some spend all day trying to turn people gay, and some play with poisonous insects… In short, not a single one is normal. What? You want to know where these gh
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Vivid as Life 栩栩若生
A fortune-teller said I was born destined for greatness, the reincarnation of the Flower Goddess, with the power to turn stones into gold and command flower spirits and tree sprites. Once I came of age, my family was sure to prosper. But when I was twelve, I came down with a strange illness. My fever wouldn’t break, and I kept seeing terrifying visions... In a dream, I met an old woman who told me to find an expert with supernatural powers to save my life. Millet to summon souls, altars and form
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Baby Lantern 婴儿灯
When I was five, I fell into the water and my soul left my body. With my own eyes, I saw the legendary baby lantern said to lure away souls. I initially thought it had come to harm me, but that wasn’t the case. As I continued to investigate, a sinister layout targeting me slowly came to light...
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The Sealed Coffin Opens, and I Stitch the Vengeful Dead Back to Life 绝户棺开,我缝万鬼来复仇
On my twentieth birthday, my fiancée Bai Chuchu smiled like a flower as she personally gouged out my innate spirit eyes, all to steal my fortune and help her family reach the pinnacle of power. She nailed me inside a coffin sealed to leave no descendants, then buried me alive in a cavern of ten thousand ghosts, where I suffered as they devoured me. She mocked my lowly yin fate, saying I was fit only to be a stepping stone on her path to immortality. But she didn't know that my bloodline is a for
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The Scalding Gold Bracelet 烫手的金镯
Five boys set out to rob a tomb, but their greed awakened something even more terrifying beneath it. Could the ancestral gold bracelet actually be the lock on a seal? Forced to become a “living target,” Wang Erwa must uncover the truth behind a silversmith’s violent death and the sins of an old debt before the evil spirit fully awakens.
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Possession 上身
Ghosts: ethereal, elusive beings! Ghosts: a certainty that exists for those who believe, and not for those who don't! Are ghosts really only around at night? What do they actually look like? The truth is, they're right beside you!
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The Female Medium of Guandong 关东女先生
[Completed Novel Recommendation] Northeast folk horror and suspense! When the old rules of the Northeast are broken, a hundred ghosts roam the night, and the yin energy can no longer be contained. My name is Ren Xue. I direct supernatural dramas, but fate brought me back to Changbai Mountain, where I became a Guandong woman who understands yin-yang and feng shui. I thought I was simply carrying on my ancestors’ legacy. Who knew I’d be the key to unraveling the “Dragon-Locking Yin Formation” and
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Bureau 747: The Paranormal Incident Investigation Unit 747局之妖怪事件处理科
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
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With My Heart, I Question Heaven’s Heart 我以己心问天心
His master’s soul lamp is about to go out, but the Underworld Division has already come to claim his soul, and the Directorate of Fate has secretly altered his lifespan. The young Daoist Chen Shaowei travels from Yunzhou to the capital, uncovering the secrets of the Temple of Heaven, the black accounts of the Ghost Market, and old entanglements in Fengdu along the way. Only then does he realize that the ones devouring people are not a single person or one department, but an old web spanning both
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Forbidden 违禁
When rules become a prison, obeying means death and breaking them means death too. The only way out is to realize that the rules are lying. The protagonist enters a series of sealed spaces bound by uncanny rules and must find a way to survive by obeying some rules, exposing false ones, and uncovering hidden ones. In the end, they reveal the truth and conspiracy behind the rules.
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Little Ghost Doctor 小诡医
Beneath the bustling modern city lies a hidden world of unorthodox medicine: In ordinary people’s understanding, medicine can only treat physical illnesses. But in the shadows, there are unorthodox doctors who possess ancient traditions and can treat “supernatural ailments” that conventional medicine cannot cure, including possession by evil spirits, displaced souls, and curses or poison created through sorcery. These ancient schools of medicine have remained hidden among ordinary people for tho
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Ghost-Taming Son-in-Law: All My Beloved Ghost Servants Are Goddesses 御鬼赘婿:我的团宠鬼仆全是女神
[Ghost Taming➕Invincible Protagonist➕Rags-to-Riches Son-in-Law➕Anti-Trope] [System➕Multiple Heroines➕Supernatural Mystery➕Immortality] [Dark Revenge➕Ruthless Action➕Mastermind➕Devouring Evolution] [Underworld Intrigue➕Netherworld Business Wars➕Reincarnated Ghost Emperor➕Unhinged Farming] Transmigrate into the body of a useless son-in-law who's just been dumped? Lu Yunxiao laughs. He binds himself to a ghost-taming System: vengeful ghosts grant cultivation, while fierce ghosts become divine weapo
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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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Autopsy Report: Suspect Zero 尸检报告:零号嫌疑人
Qin Mo, chief forensic examiner at the Jingang Public Security Bureau, teams up with rookie forensic assistant Lin Wan. Through meticulous autopsies, they dismantle one seemingly airtight murder case after another, identify the overlooked prime suspect through the silent testimony of the dead, and uncover the truth behind concealed deaths.
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0713: Black Screen Record 0713:黑屏记录
In 2010, in Plaburg, a small town in northern New York State, A Country, campus and town surveillance cameras always go black for seven minutes and thirteen seconds at critical moments after an accident on a snowy night. During one of those missing intervals, Tu Yaoyang, an international student in the physics department, sees something for the first time: a transparent spirit, and another figure who looks like him, yet is colder and more familiar. He is forced to join forces with Leslie, a Chi
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I'm Pregnant, but I Don't Know Who the Father Is 怀孕了,确不知孩子父亲是谁
I'm Pregnant, But I Don't Know Who the Father Is
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The Scales Tip: The Truth About a Family That Favors Sons over Daughters 天平倾斜:重男轻女的家庭真相
The Scales Tip: The Truth About a Family That Favors Sons Over Daughters
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People Are More Terrifying Than Ghosts 人比鬼可怕
People Are Scarier Than Ghosts
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Tianxuan Paranormal Affairs Office 天玄灵异事务所
- [Infinite Flow + Urban Supernatural + Chinese-Style Horror + Folk Legends and Hauntings + Celestial Master Exorcists + Heirs to the Daoist Tradition + Heterochromatic-Eyed Heroine + Haunted House Tales + Episodic Stories + Folk Taboos] - Hidden deep in the bustling streets is an inconspicuous supernatural affairs office called Tianxuan. - No one dares touch the folk taboos of this world. Haunted houses are plagued by unsolved horrors, abandoned villages and ancient mansions seethe with resentm
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The Perfect Nanny 完美月嫂
The Perfect Nanny
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Night Watchman at the Funeral Home: I Can See the Dead One Last Time 殡仪馆守夜人:我能看见死者最后一眼
Funeral Home Night Watchman: I Can See the Dead One Last Time
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I Was Scrubbing Pans When I Landed in Cooking Master Boy, and Now the Dark Cooking Society Has Its Eye on My Pan 刷锅刷进小当家,我的锅被黑暗料理界盯上了
I Scrubbed My Way into The Little Chef, and Now the Dark Cuisine World Has Its Eyes on My Wok
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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
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Old Tales of the Yellow Springs 黄泉旧事
[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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Reborn in the Graveyard, I Go on a Rampage with the “Am I Dead?” System 墓地重生,我靠死了吗系统杀疯了
[Reborn in a graveyard + Death System + mystery and crime-solving + powerful heroine seeking revenge] [Nonstop thrills + a badass heroine + lots of twists + crushing scumbags every step of the way] ⊗ Orphan Qin Mo is kidnapped and thrown into a mass grave. After crawling out of a coffin, she unexpectedly binds herself to the [Are You Dead Yet] System. ⊗ Fail six missions in a row, and the System will erase you! ⊗ Watch Qin Mo plan each move carefully, turn the tables against all odds, and make h
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