Mind-Bending, Suspenseful, Chilling on Reflection, Ideally with Some Heartbreak. Quick! 烧脑，悬疑，细思极恐，最好有点刀，快！

1. 1 烟 Ashtray 烟灰缸 Little Sister-in-Law Huahua花花小嫂子Mystery323k WordsCompleted [Mild horror + affair + twists] A stunning woman from the south, a knock at midnight, a silent delivery guy, someone crouching beneath the bed... Qin Song’s life is plunged into a living hell by an affair. 126.8kReads9.5Score20.7kShelves

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   Give this novel a two-word evaluation: Awesome! This is one of the top novels with the most twists, the most fascinating, and the most logic that I have ever read. It is simply brilliant. In fact, there is a section in the middle and late stages that is quite boring, because it will feel a bit boring for people who have been watching the real thing all the time. However, after getting through that section, it even reverses until the last chapter, and the people who watch it get goosebumps. It is really amazing. It is a novel that embodies group portraits. Each character is deeply rooted in people's hearts and has his or her own characteristics. They are not stupid but not overly smart. They feel very real. There is nothing supernatural in the article, and the micro-horror content is basically hallucinations caused by mental illness, but it still creates a strong sense of immersion. This author's writing style is very strong, and the reader is completely led step by step by the article. The logic is so tight that it is difficult for the reader to have his own thoughts to check for omissions and find doubts. Each puzzle is well disguised, and it is not until the secret is revealed that he suddenly realizes it. Worth recommending!

2. 2 禁 Forbidden Game 禁忌游戏 Flowers Long for Beauty花想容Mystery111k WordsCompleted On Christmas Eve, a girl dressed in a white coat was murdered. The next day, the white coat, a cashmere garment serving as evidence, turned up brazenly at a laundromat. Was the person who brought it in the killer? The possibilities stirred the curiosity of Lin Hua, an employee at the laundromat. As the truth was pieced together, a string of white-coat murders occurred. Was this a logical continuation of the first case, or was someone taking advantage of the chaos to build a double life of their 85Reads8.3Score—Shelves

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   A selection of suspense novels, the plots are all great, the protagonists all have super high IQs, and there are a lot of twists and turns.

3. 3 一 I Woke Up with 40 Murder Cases on My Hands 一觉醒来：我背上了40起命案 No Joy无喜Mystery1.0M WordsCompleted 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... 37.3kReads9.3Score4.2kShelves
4. 4 我 With a Fox Immortal, I Subdue a Hundred Ghosts 我以狐仙镇百鬼 Purple Dream Wandering Dragon紫梦游龙Mystery10.2M WordsOngoing The day I was born, nineteen bolts of thunder struck around our family’s courtyard. A fortune-teller said I was born a demon child, fated to suffer eighteen calamities in my life. Either someone else would die, or I would. As it turned out, the fortune-teller met his own calamity on the very day I was born. He carried me out of the village, and suddenly dropped dead! 804.8kReads9.4Score53.5kShelves
5. 5 怪 Monster App: You’ve Ordered a Human 怪物APP：您已下单一个人类 God, Let Me Go Viral神啊让我火吧Urban304k WordsCompleted [Suspenseful mind-bender + no female lead + Cthulhu Mythos + no System + slow-paced + urban + loops + monsters + farming + plot] The Monster App is live! Shopping platforms like “BuyTogether” and “Taobao” remind you that humans are now hot sellers! A host of food delivery platforms, including “Hungry Gator,” “MeatTogether,” and “Honeyblood,” are open for business 24 hours a day! “Didi Slaughter” will do the stabbing for you! “Quick Claw” and “Echo” will livestream it all! “Learn-It-All” offers a 578Reads8.3Score105Shelves

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   Have you ever thought about it? The software you use every day has another name in front of them: "Crocodile", "Pinhaorou", "Pinrenren", "Taobao", "Honey Blood", "Didi Slaughter", "Kuaizhao", "Xuerentong"... Everywhere, there are "eyes" they use to monitor humans.

6. 6 十 Ten Days to the End 十日终焉 Pest Control Team Member杀虫队队员Mystery3.2M WordsCompleted 2024 Tomato Novel Annual Peak Rankings TOP 1 | 2024 China Online Literature Influence List | 2024 China Good Novel Award | Over 2 million copies sold (No harem, no formulaic tropes, no invincibility, no System, no mindless antics, no wish fulfillment. Read with caution if these bother you.) Just when I thought it was an ordinary day, I discovered I had been captured and taken to the End. Just when I thought I could escape by continually taking part in death games, people began awakening supernat 1.7MReads9.9Score231.4kShelves

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   Must try it, trust me

7. 7 方 Fang Xiaoxiao 方晓晓 Don't Turn Off the Light不关灯Mystery134k WordsCompleted After an impulsive moment, Fang Xiaoxiao, a girl still in eighth grade, accidentally killed a classmate who had bullied her. Terrified, she decided to hide the body. To evade the investigation, Fang Xiaoxiao was forced to cover up the traces of her crime and convince herself that it was all an accident, just a coincidence. People can choose to believe lies, but they can never escape reality. The mind can pretend nothing happened, but the rotting body is real. On the seventh day after the deat 584Reads9.2Score—Shelves

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   Push [send heart][send heart][send heart][send heart]

8. 8 自 Surrender 自首 Glazed Luanhua琉璃栾华Mystery660k WordsCompleted (Now streaming on iQIYI. Starring Xu Weizhou, Guo Junchen, and Xiao Yan. A criminal police captain, played by Xu Weizhou, teams up with a psychologist, played by Guo Junchen, to solve cases and capture the monsters of the human heart. Mystery + deduction + psychologist + episodic cases + serial murders + high-IQ crimes + revenge plots + strange tales and records + best partners + light horror + suitable for the faint-hearted) “I killed someone.” A girl turns herself in, claiming that she killed 16.4kReads9.4Score2.1kShelves
9. 9 诡 The Horrors Are Hard to Kill? Sorry, I'm the Truly Immortal One 诡异难杀？抱歉，我才是真正不死 Six Gourds六个葫芦Urban2.0M WordsCompleted This book has been signed for publication, so enjoy it with confidence. [Death Regression + Foreknowledge of the Future + Kill the Saintly One First + Dark Tone + Supernatural Resurgence] After accidentally transmigrating to a world invaded by the supernatural, Fang Xiu awakens the ability to return from death, also known as turning back time. Whenever he dies, time rewinds to just before his death. In this perilous and uncanny world, he could have laid low, but instead he chooses to announce to 319.1kReads9.5Score38.4kShelves
10. 10 巡 The Yin-Walker 巡阴人 Feiyi匪夷Mystery1.7M WordsCompleted Applying makeup to the dead, reading the winds and assessing the land, preparing bodies for burial, and performing rites on the seventh day after death. Scorched corpses: cleaning the body, applying rouge, painting the features! Bodies cut in half at the waist: removing the organs, filling the cavities, and stitching the body back together! I was born into a family that made its living from the dead, so I grew up dealing with corpses. I’ve seen all sorts of bizarre ways to die and countless inex 9.5kReads9.1Score1.1kShelves
11. 11 男 Pretty Boy 男娇 Clear Hawthorn Tea Flower清楂茶花Ancient Romance223k WordsCompleted The heroine transmigrates to ancient times, to a matriarchal kingdom, and becomes a female delinquent who can barely support herself, living from one meal to the next. The fiancé she tricked into marrying her later, for some reason, is joined by a general’s son who wants to marry her, and the only son of the empire’s foremost merchant family who wants to marry her too. Her fiancé clutches her sleeve, eyes brimming with tears... 10Reads—Score—Shelves

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    Men's charming men's charming look at men's charming

12. 12 重 Reborn in Republican China: The Powerful Man's Second Wife 重生民国之大佬的继室 Clear Hawthorn Tea Flower清楂茶花Urban324k WordsCompleted Cui Xin lay on the ground, mouthfuls of filthy blood pouring from her lips. She knew she was going to die. She could feel her life slipping away as the faces of her loved ones flashed through her mind. She regretted ever abandoning her family for that heartless man, becoming a prostitute and a spy, being passed around and kicked about as a plaything, then killed without hesitation once she was no longer useful... Even reborn, the heroine cannot turn back the tide of that blood-soaked age. In an 154Reads—Score—Shelves
13. 13 长 The Long Night’s Journey 长夜行 Ge Zhao格照Mystery299k WordsCompleted The eyes are the angle observers most often scrutinize, so you must learn to disguise your own., Li Mu. From making up his mind to carrying out his plan, he spent a full three years. His first murder, his second, his third... Even when he was teetering on the brink of death, he would take a gamble if it meant he might escape. To everyone else, he was merely a weakling, not even as capable as an ordinary person... 288Reads9.4Score—Shelves

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