The Scarier, the Better, and the Protagonist Must Be a Girl 越恐怖越好，主角是女生。
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Insomniacs' Forbidden Tales: 444 Midnight Ghost Stories 失眠者禁忌：444个午夜鬼谈
A horror anthology with a bonus at the end of every story. I have 444 folk ghost stories guaranteed to keep you awake until midnight, terrify you, make you break out in a cold sweat, and pull the covers over your head! At the end of every chapter, the “Author’s Note” will include an illustration or bonus! But before you open it, brace yourself. The author accepts no responsibility for what happens next! [Supernatural Horror] [Folk Horror] [Rural Ghost Stories] [True Cases] [Urban Oddities] [L
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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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Folk Supernatural: Can't Get Away? Then Fight! 民俗灵异：躲不开怎么办？那就干
[Folk Supernatural Horror + Horror Mystery + No Romance + Growing Female Lead + Slow Pace + Plot-Driven + Episodic] “Everything about me is fake? How could that be?” Jiang Ran scoffed. She was right here, alive and well, and had never entertained such an idea. But on the day she received her university admission letter, the question of whether she was real became a reality... *Please do not imitate the behavior of characters in this book. * This is a traditional folk supernatural novel, not a
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Notes from a Folklore Archaeology Team 民俗考古队手记
The true experiences of Lin Ye, a 24-year-old graduate student in folklore. I went to the countryside with my advisor to survey funeral customs. On my first day in the village, I saw five words carved into the stone tablet at the entrance: “Do not enter the village at dusk.” The village elders taught me: If someone calls your name at night, don’t answer. A funeral basin must be smashed in one blow. When you leave the village, don’t look back. I wrote down each rule in my notebook, treating it as
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Entering the Infinite Flow, the Beloved One Is Crazier Than the Villains 进入无限流，团宠比反派更疯批
(The score is low because there are few ratings; this has nothing to do with the content.) [A power fantasy in disguise. The heroine kills her teammates, no one survives, no saintly do-gooding, no romance.] [Everyone around the heroine is pure, regardless of gender. One-sided crushes, dark themes, a killing game.] [A parallel world, different from reality.] [No tiresome family drama or annoying relatives, no obnoxious side characters who just won't die. The heroine is a lone wolf who wipes out a
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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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The God-Eater Girl Has an Immortal Body 神蚀少女拥有不死之身
[Chinese-Style Horror + Master and Servant + Immortality + Cthulhu + Dual Female Leads] Is having an immortal body really a wonderful thing? Watching your family die, your friends leave, and your beloved pass away: that's the price of immortality. But I refuse to accept that. So I'm going to make my beloved become a god alongside me, and then we'll never have to part. Who could have imagined that after countless hardships, the brutally cruel path to godhood was nothing more than a game the gods
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The Female Medium of Guandong 关东女先生
[The animated drama based on the novel is now a huge hit] A suspenseful supernatural tale rooted in Northeast Chinese folklore! The first season of the animated drama adapted from the original novel is now available on Hongguo, Tomato, and Douyin! When the 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'm a director who makes supernatural dramas. Fate brought me back to Changbai Mountain, where I became a G
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Three Years After Being Cast Out of the Marquis's Household, the Entire Capital Awaits My Autopsy 被逐侯府三年后，全京城等我验尸
Pei Zhaotang was once the brightest jewel in the Marquis’s household. Skilled in music, chess, calligraphy, and painting, she was said to be blessed with good fortune. Then the Marquis’s true-blood daughter was found, and overnight Pei Zhaotang went from treasured child to a sinner accused of stealing another’s place. Her father said nothing, her mother looked on coldly, and her brothers despised her. Even the heir she had been promised to turned around and protected the true heiress. Pei Zhaot
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Ashen-Eyed Wasteland: The Doomsday Ballad of a Disaster-Born Valkyrie 荒世灰瞳：灾变女武神的末日诗篇
[Zombie Apocalypse + Badass Female Lead + No System + Zombie Control Ability + Ensemble Cast + Fiery Revenge + Suspense] Thirty years into the apocalypse, the zombie horde breaks through the gates. I swing my axe to protect a child, and my left eye suddenly bursts into a red glow! I drive an iron rod into a zombie's eye socket, and everyone calls me the “Valkyrie.” But Zhang Ting screams, “Her eye is glowing! She’s a monster!” In the mirror, my pupils are vertical like a corpse’s. My red scarf i
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Northeast of the Silent Woods: The World Beyond Return 哑林东偏北：无回界
[Adventure + Suspense + Light Horror + Two Powerful Leads] There's a saying in Shilin Town: “Enter the No-Return Realm, and even the gods are done for.” Song Zongli is the best “living map” in this forest. She never promises her clients will make it out alive. She only agrees to take them into the central area. After all, none of the teams she's led have ever come back alive. She takes the money and sends people to their deaths. She's done this for seven years, until Liu Song, a forest ranger, c
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The Yuan Family Pawnshop 元家当铺
Supernatural folklore + food + episodic cases + palace intrigue + ancient secrets + emotional growth In an alley deep in the heart of the capital lies a pawnshop. It takes more than gold and silver: it accepts your memories, love and hate, luck, and years of life. The owner appears to be a gentle cook, but she is actually the pawnshop’s guardian, versed in the forces of yin and yang. With a pot and spatula, she can make spiritual dishes that soothe restless souls, or simmer the deepest desires o
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The Real Heiress Was Reunited with Her Family, Only to Turn Out to Be a Mystical Arts Master? 真千金被认回后竟是玄门大佬？
[The Male Lead Appears Late! Very Late!] Eighteen years ago, twin sisters were switched at the Nan family maternity ward. Nan Zhi, who should have been cherished as the family's darling, grew up in a remote Taoist temple and became the youngest and most mysterious fifth-rank Celestial Master in the mystic world. She has never failed to exorcise evil spirits or suppress sinister forces, and can wield talismans and formations with ease. The cinnabar mark on her palm is proof of her ability to trav
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Withered Ginkgo Leaves 干枯的银杏叶
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NPC's Guide to Winning Over Players NPC攻略玩家指南
Nontraditional infinite-flow + subverted tropes + ensemble cast + female awakening. A tool-character underdog story with no golden finger, and a cast full of smart characters. Plot-driven, with a deeply angsty romance that calls for careful deduction. Adult love, with no innocent saints. [Transmigration and Reunion] On a rainy night in 2018, guided by an online stranger, Tao Yanran turns on the CD player given to her by her late friend and reunites with Cang Yuzhou in 2012, a year when they had
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Delusions: The Book of Ghostly Grudges 诡妄：鬼怨书
[Two heroines + Lovecraftian horror + thrills + madness + mutual devotion + smart leads] A meteorite resembling a ball of flesh crashes into Earth, bringing with it a god from another planet: the Mad God Mo Shanshan. The arrival of this uninvited guest awakens supernatural evils that have slumbered for ages, and a bizarre, terrifying feast of “god-making” is about to begin.
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Xu Qinghong, Someone Wants to Kill You 徐青红，有人要杀你
Xu Qinghong is a female painter who specializes in painting the human world. After painting a picture for a marquis's residence, she is inexplicably hunted down. During her flight, she receives help from many people and becomes sworn sisters with two heroic women, Zhao Yuxiang and Wang Cuihua. She also meets He Jingfeng, who seems carefree and frivolous but is actually a devoted, serious young man. Why is she being hunted? With everyone's help, Xu Qinghong searches for the answer. Among those pu
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I’m Using My Golden Finger to Slay My Way Through a Cursed World 我在诡异世界，用金手指杀疯了
[Reborn + sharp-tongued heroine + golden finger from the start + eerie world + delightfully unhinged mindset + unconventional style] Chu Ningtong is reborn, returning to the day she entered the eerie world at eighteen. In her previous life, the Chu family used her, and Chu Mingzhu caused her death. This time, she decisively leaves the Chu family and cuts ties with them of her own accord. After awakening an SR golden finger, she sets out to live a different kind of life. Chu Mingzhu: “Big Sis, I
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What Rules Horror? This Is My Home! 什么规则怪谈？这是我家！
[Infinite flow + mild horror + comedy + no romance + ensemble cast] [The protagonist is neither an anomaly nor a human. Everything revolves around her.] Xie Wanyin was an ordinary college student, until she was so moved by the exchange students’ sincere friendship that, on impulse, she founded Linjiang University’s Detective Club. Case One: Why do the exchange students keep getting injured in the academic buildings? Case Two: Why does the residential community keep replacing its property-managem
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Reborn Daoist: I Sweep the City Clean by Catching Ghosts 重生道士：我靠捉鬼横扫都市
[Rebirth + suspense]+ [mysticism and the supernatural]+ [revenge and comeback] In my previous life, I devoted myself to Taoist cultivation, only to be betrayed by my lover and die at the hands of a vengeful ghost. Reborn at twenty, I awaken the memories of a Celestial Master, with Taoist arts powerful enough to reach the heavens! Malevolent spirits in apartment hallways, vengeful ghosts in old houses, urban hauntings, plots from the netherworld... Every evil spirit in the world bows before me! W
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- 21 Night Wanderer: Never Look Back at Three in the Morning 夜游神：凌晨三点千万别回头 [Urban supernatural + underworld ranks + survival in two realms + System binding] At three in the morning, never look back. Lu Chen picks up a [Night Patrol God Seal] and accidentally becomes bound to a divine office in the underworld! While everyone else sleeps, he traverses the netherworld, patrols the night, and hunts down ghosts. When the hundred ghosts roam, they bow before him; when dark forces run rampant, he suppresses them with a single gesture! Unsolved cases in the mortal world, secre —Reads—Score—14d adds
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Who Wrote His Crime? 谁书其罪
A single imperial decree can decide who lives and dies. A page from an old archive can rewrite the fate of the court. Sixteen years after the new dynasty was founded, the common people praised the fairness of the civil service exams. Yet every high-ranking official in the court owed their position to a rigged cheating scandal. Shen Qingwu is merely the lowliest document-restoration clerk in the Qingjian Bureau, but from the grain of paper, old ink, and forged seals, she can make witnesses “kille
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A Ghostly Match to Banish Evil 阴缘渡煞
In the seventh year of Yonghe, I was sent back to my family's old home in Jiangnan to escape danger. Before long, I encountered the actor who had drowned in the lotus pond: Yun Guan'er. Wearing a bright red opera costume, she stood beneath the water and smiled at me. My grandfather said my birth chart was yin to the core, making me prone to attracting evil spirits. One strange incident after another drew me into a game that crossed the boundary between life and death. And I, Shen Qingxian, was
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The Eternal Night Descends: From the Start, I Contract with the Nine-Story Pagoda to Save the World 永夜降临：开局契约九层塔救世
A delightfully cute, absolutely bonkers supernatural story. Come along for an adventure! I've given up on this work and started a new book, because this one needs its entire outline adjusted and rewritten. I really had no choice but to start over and write a new one.
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