Besides Slay the Gods and Sword of Coming, What Stories Combine Deduction, Suspense, and Heartwarming Moments? 小说中有推理悬疑温情的除了斩神，剑来还有哪些？
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I Am Not the God of Drama 我不是戏神
The brand-new masterpiece by San Jiu Yin Yu, author of Slay the Gods | Winner of the Best Science-Fiction Web Novel Award at the Macau International Science Fiction Awards | A Chinese grotesque epic that turns the tide of an era After a scarlet meteor streaked across the sky, human civilization ground to a halt. From that day onward, humanity could no longer build a rocket, a nuclear bomb, an airplane, a car... The pyramid of civilization built upon modern science collapsed with a thunderous roa
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The End of Ten Days 十日终焉
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
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Strange Tales Livestream! 怪谈直播间！
Welcome to the Rules of the Strange. This is a battle of blood and fire, a test of wit and courage. The power of words cannot be resisted, and the eerie rules must not be broken. In a seemingly hopeless situation, find the one correct answer, break free of your constraints, and search for a way to survive.
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After Escaping Her Adoptive Parents, Her Life Goes into Easy Mode 逃离养父母家后，她的人生开挂了
[Period drama] + [Mutual devotion] + [Modern romance] + [Two top students] + [Everyone's darling] + [Modern romance with a cute baby] She's the adopted daughter the Su family took in, a beauty and a top student. Her adoptive parents want to keep the family fortune in their own hands, so they force her to quit school and marry their son. When she learns the truth, she runs away in the middle of the night. After escaping, she meets a business tycoon, and her extraordinary life begins. With help fr
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Reborn with a Child, I Married a Cold Military Doctor from a Prestigious Family 重生后，带娃嫁世家高冷军医
[Reborn + adorable child + military marriage + true love + revenge + face-slapping] After being reborn, Su Ying’s first move is to divorce her husband. Her scumbag husband, Du Zhenyong, wants to have the best of both worlds and refuses to let her go. She takes her 38 yuan and chases after him to the military base, where she meets the aloof military doctor Gu Nanchen. With his help, Su Ying gets away from her scumbag husband. But the prestigious Gu family refuses to let Gu Nanchen marry a woman w
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My Husband Faked Infertility to Steal My Family’s Fortune, So I Fought Back 老公假装不孕夺我家产，我绝地反击
My husband pretended to be infertile to steal my family’s fortune. I fought back against all odds.
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I Can Reload Infinitely, and See Through Every Hidden Card 我无限回档，洞悉所有底牌
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
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The Top Player Runs Rampant Through Dungeons and Abducts the Evil God 顶级玩家杀疯副本，拐跑邪神
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
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I Turned the Horror World Into a Raising Game! 我把惊悚世界玩成养成游戏！
A mysterious force descended upon Earth, giving rise to another world of terror. Everyone was forcibly sent into the world of horror games on their eighteenth birthday. While everyone else was immersed in fear, struggling to survive in the cracks between life and death, Qin Nuo discovered that he could earn System rewards by influencing the ghosts’ emotions. And every time he completed a dungeon, he could establish his own business in the world of horror. So he became a food runner at the Yin Sp
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A Battle of Dads? The Evil God and the Lord God Are Both My Fathers 拼爹吗？邪神和主神都是我爸
[Two male leads] [Powerful pairing + one-on-one + horror + character growth + lots of sweetness] [Ruthless, cold-blooded drama queen + quiet, action-oriented big dog] Yin Chao had known since childhood that he was different from other people. He had two dads and a whole crowd of bizarre friends. There was a little girl who lived in a cupboard, pale all over, but loved crunching on potato chips, and a tall, thin shadow who often lingered outside the window and loved listening to rap… The neighbor
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Bureau of Legend Management 传说管理局
(No harem, no formulaic plot, no invincibility, no System, no brainless decisions, and no wish fulfillment. Read with caution if any of that bothers you.) Du Yu dies an untimely death right at the beginning of the story. Hoping to secure a better spot in his next life, he takes a job with the Bureau of Legendary Tales. His job is to return to legends that have gone off course and put their plots back on track. He never expected that the first mission assigned to an ordinary mortal like him would
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A Song for the Burial of China 华葬吟
Period intrigue + national mystery + cultural shadow war + fated revenge + serious, emotionally intense drama A terrifying secret is hidden in the rare, family heirloom copy of the Dream of the Red Chamber, annotated by Zhi Yanzhai: the Dream of the Red Chamber was never a romance novel! Daiyu burying the fallen flowers was never about mourning spring. It was a symbolic tomb, raised three hundred years ago by Han Chinese in tears and blood for Emperor Chongzhen. The Flower-Farewell Festival on t
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They Can Hear My Thoughts, Yet They Still Kill Without Mercy 偷听我心声，照样嘎嘎乱杀
Taking up the turbulent realm of the Qin dynasty, Ziying refuses to follow his ancestors down the old path of conquest. The Xiongnu lurk beyond the borders, while schemers like Zhao Gao sow chaos within and the old powers stir restlessly. Yet Ziying turns his attention to the fields. He repairs canals and tests new crops, making rice from Chu, wheat from Guanzhong, and millet from the lands south of the desert flourish across every inch of the realm. He roots out traitors and secures the border
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The Realm of the Dead 死灵之境
A bizarre game shatters Cao Fan’s once peaceful life. Death, slaughter, betrayal: it all happens every day. Will you be the next to die?
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The Haunted House 诡舍
[Infinite-flow + Mild Horror + Survival + One Female Lead] A driverless bus carried a group of cursed people to a strange black lodge… Inside the lodge stood a door stained red with blood. At regular intervals, the cursed were forcibly dragged through the blood-red door and into terrifying worlds, where they had to complete horrifying events… After Ning Qiushui survived one bizarre and terrifying story after another inside the lodge, narrowly escaping death each time, he discovered that none of
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Apocalypse Rebirth: The Big Shot Starts by Stockpiling a Million Supplies 末世重生：大佬从百万囤货开始
[Apocalypse + ruthless heroine + System storage space + stockpiling supplies + infrastructure building + strong female lead + an outrageously powerful golden finger!] Han Qingxia, a hardened survivor who struggled through ten years of the apocalypse, is betrayed by her base while it’s under siege by zombies. She opens her eyes and finds herself back half a month before the apocalypse! Her deadbeat father, awful grandmother, and stepmother are still trying to force her out of her home so her brot
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The Gods’ Foolish Game 诸神愚戏
I have two principles in life: 1. I never lie. 2. I never believe anything anyone says, including myself. “Sir, I would like to point out that your second statement conflicts with the first.” “How so?” “If you never lie, why don’t you believe what you say?” “Oh, sorry. I forgot to mention that I don’t consider myself human.” “?” Allow me to introduce myself. My name is Cheng Shi, Cheng Shi who never lies. What, you’ve never heard of me? That’s all right. You simply haven’t been deceived by m
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How Did Xiao Ming Die? 小明是怎么死的
I investigated a case. The victim was me. The summer after the college entrance exams. My deskmate invited me back to our old school building to reminisce. By chance, we found a death message left by the victim of a campus fall case that had been hastily closed years ago. From then on, strange things kept happening around me, and I narrowly escaped danger several times. To protect myself, I played along, and hitmen, top agents, mercenaries, and all kinds of giant monsters kept appearing. Then on
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No Hope of Survival 生还无期
[No CP, No Female Lead] + [Infinite Deaths and Resurrections] + [Superpower Awakening] + [Mind Games and Strategy] + [Ensemble Cast] + [Life in Review] The keywords of this book are “human nature,” “death games,” and “setting traps.” The thirteen characters who appear from the start all play important roles! Each has a distinct personality, and every one of them will have a major part to play later in the story. This book also features endless deaths, so if that’s not your thing, please read wit
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The Supernatural Returns, and the Eternal Night Begins 灵异复苏，永夜降临
[Supernatural horrors descend + no System + fresh worldbuilding + survival + semi-infinite-flow + no do-gooder protagonist + not dark + supernatural abilities] In the best years of his life, amid the exuberance of youth, Su Yuan thought his days would remain peaceful and beautiful forever. Then a line of bloody text appeared on the blackboard during evening study. [In the silent night, a terrifying ghost appears outside your dorm room... How long will it take to kill you?] Everyone thought it wa
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Welcome to the New World [Infinite Flow] 欢迎来到新世界【无限流】
[Infinite-flow + Horror Game + BG + Sweet-on-the-outside, dark-on-the-inside sharp-tongued beauty x Cold on the outside, shameless on the inside suit-wearing thug + A touch of ensemble cast] [Do you have an urgent wish? Money, a life, power, health, revenge... Whatever you wish for, the New World can make it come true, as long as you pay an equal price. Welcome to the New World.] On her birthday, illustrator Ding Yi inexplicably enters the New World because of a wish she can't remember making. S
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The Lost City of Exotic Beasts 异兽迷城
[The new book The Maze of Inversion has begun serialization. Updates come at 9 p.m. every evening. Please continue to support it.] Gao Yang was an orphan. At the age of six, he transmigrated to a parallel world and began living in a warm family of five. When he turned eighteen, Gao Yang accidentally discovered the truth about the world: this was not a parallel world at all, but a mysterious realm, and all the relatives and friends around him were terrifying Beasts! Gao Yang nearly lost his life
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The Eerie Apocalypse: Reborn, I Start with Ten Trillion Netherworld Coins 诡异末世：重生开局拥有万亿冥币
[Supernatural horror + apocalypse + tycoon + ghost money + rules + comedy + no heroine + fast-paced power fantasy (buys a supernatural-horror site by chapter 7, keeps buying everything without dragging things out, and buys an entire city in 200,000 words) + mid-story twists + late-game rule deduction] The supernatural apocalypse arrives, and evil ghosts run rampant. Within the rules, ghosts cannot kill people. While countless people struggle to survive the apocalypse, carefully searching for a w
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Deceiving the Gods: A Performance! 欺神演出！
[Satisfying revenge + Mind-bending twists + Slow burn + Strategic battles + Loads of plot twists] “When I thought death was the end, I opened my eyes and discovered that death was only a new beginning.” Lin Yu was killed by a junior schoolmate he thought had come to confess her love, only to discover that he hadn’t truly died. Instead, he had entered a deadly game! Only the winner would earn the chance to “live again.” Fortunately, Lin Yu awakened the “Unique Class: Deceiver.” [Any lie you
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The Autobiography of a Tomb Raider 来自一位盗墓者的自传
[Published in print and available online] [The Beipai Notes horizontal-screen drama is now streaming] [Tomb Raiding + Mystery + Antiques] I'm a poor kid from a mountain village in Northeast China. In the early twenty-first century, hoping to make something of myself, I joined a northern tomb-raiding crew. From south to north, I've seen every side of the underworld and crossed paths with people from all walks of life. Over the years, I went from a young man to a middle-aged one. My drinking got b
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Slay the Gods 我在精神病院学斩神
A must-read hit on Tomato Novel | Original novel of the hit anime Slay the Gods | IP influence on the China Online Literature Influence List | 2023 China Good Novel Have you ever wondered whether monsters from ancient myths lurk beneath the neon-lit city? Have you ever wondered whether gods stand watch over humanity atop the moon hanging high above us? Have you ever wondered whether extraordinary people walk among us in our bustling modern cities, acting in the gods’ stead? In the society ruled
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I Only Plundered a Few Systems, So Why Are You All Panicking? 我就掠夺些系统，你们都慌啥？
Also known as From the Start, I Become a System and Plunder the Myriad Worlds and Host, Wait! You Dropped Your Cheat on the Ground. The three principles of the System: 1. The total amount of the Myriad Worlds' source remains unchanged. Ascension is the System's only rule. 2. Systems are drawn to and compete with one another, and their purpose is to plunder. Any show of kindness will turn you into someone else's source. 3. The Myriad Worlds are a dark forest. Keep yourself hidden, and don't let y
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Rule Horror: I Pulled the Old Man's Oxygen Tube from the Start 规则怪谈：开局拔了老头氧气管
No female lead + national fate + eerie mysteries + comedy + unconventional ideas Lin Yuan transmigrates to Blue Star, a parallel world, and is chosen to take part in a rules-based horror game. From the start, he activates an SSS-rank talent. [SSS-Rank Talent: Ghostbane] [Talent Effect 1: Rules are completely useless against you. When you break the rules of a horror scenario, the corruption of its world has no effect on you.] [Talent Effect 2: When a creature in a horror scenario feels negative e
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This Villain Has a Conscience, Just Not Much of One! 这个反派有点良心，但是不多！
"Lovably awful villain + wish fulfillment + scheming + lighthearted + sly trickster + shameless + not an invincible protagonist" Qin Feng transmigrated into the ancient wilderness as the eldest young master of the Qin family. His twin younger brother was the legendary Chosen One, and possessed a one-in-ten-thousand Supreme Bone. He thought he could ride his brother’s coattails to the peak of life, but then an unprincipled System showed up and told him there was a bright future in being a villain
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A Lifetime of Living 终身为生
I'm also writing a similar story to Ten Days to the End, with lots of horror stories and exciting tales. I hope lots of people will read my book! Let's start writing, then!
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The Story of Fang Ming and the Four Sisters of the Fang Family 方明和方家四个姐妹的故事
The story mainly follows Fang Ming's grandfather, covering his life in the 1850s and events in the palace, then Fang Dong, Fang Ming's father, and finally Fang Ming's story, set forty years later in 1934. It also follows Fang Ming's children and their lives in modern society.
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Folk Mystery Stories 民间悬疑故事会
On the fifteenth day of the first month in the Year of the Snake, a mysterious disappearance stirs up trouble in a once peaceful village. Young Xiao Chen is taking part in the village's traditional ancestor-worship ceremony when he unexpectedly gets caught up in a mystery that spans a hundred years. Hidden in the back courtyard of Old Zhang's mansion is a secret underground chamber, containing not only a vermilion coffin but also a mysterious white snake guarding an ancient secret. As the invest
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Executioner's Blade 刑刀
Those who kill shall die; those who injure others shall be punished. Gu Feilong embarks on the path of cultivation, upholds the principle that crimes and punishments must match, awakens the divine skill Execution Blade, and joins Bureau Zero-One. He raises the banner of justice for humankind, vanquishing demons and defending the Way in the name of Heaven!
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The Wailing Archives 悲鸣档案
[Updated Daily: 9,000+ Characters] The world was killed by "emotions." I, Yin Ji, may be the last person able to "hear" how the world is dying. Right now, I'm curled up behind a sofa in an abandoned psychiatric clinic. Outside, there is no longer the roar of a zombie movie, only a dead, humming silence. But in my ears, the city is playing a symphony of destruction: countless shrill fears, viscous despair, and explosive anger scrape back and forth across my nerves like innumerable rasps. I call t
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Under the Surface: Mysteries of the Old Mansion 暗潮涌动：古馆秘事悬疑
My new work is here! You're welcome to read it on Tomato Novel. I hope you enjoy it. Your support motivates me to write, and I'll do my best to tell every story well!
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Heaven’s Abyss 天渊
(The print edition has been published and is available to buy online) A hundred years ago, Chen Qingyuan entered a forbidden zone called the Heavenly Abyss. His soul lamp went out, and everyone believed he was dead. Today, Chen Qingyuan has emerged from the forbidden zone alive, but his cultivation has been destroyed and his spiritual roots severed. With his beloved breaking off their engagement and the various sects bullying him, what is Chen Qingyuan supposed to do? “Chen Qingyuan, you have tw
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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
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Ten Realms: I Was Ordinary 十界：我本平庸
(We are all ordinary people. Some say they don’t understand what I’m writing! The truth is, I simply want to tell the story of an ordinary person who keeps growing, improving, and learning. He feels lost and helpless, never knowing what to do. His life is full of stumbles, but through repeated setbacks and lessons, he slowly grows! Some people are born in Rome, while he is stuck in the mud. In Rome, it’s easy to cross the finish line. But there’s something all the more inspiring about perseverin
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The Bureau's Twin Years: A Record of Strange Herb Mysteries in the Martial World 局编双年：奇草谜案江湖录
(Not a power fantasy + no System + plot-driven + crime-solving and deduction + mind-bending twists) (The author spent a full year crafting all the murder cases. They’re sure to be gripping and mind-bending, so enjoy!) One year ago, on a dark night, I was a lowly cleaner working in the City Lord’s Hall when I was dragged into a murder targeting the three great families. Everyone said I was the killer! One year later, by day, I’d turned my fortunes around and become deputy director of the Security
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Scorpion’s Tail 蝎尾针
[Contains blood, horror, suspense, mystery, and mind-bending twists. Read with caution.] At Binhai City’s May Day Hospital, Ji Xiao is the night watchman in the morgue. To help the Shen family bring a dead relative back to life, he enters the game as a yin-yang master, putting his own life on the line. An old woman visiting a corpse, the Seven Deadly Sins of Extreme Evil turning on one another, a great yin-yang master who has taken over someone’s body... As he investigates a grisly headless mu
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The Path of the End 诡终道
[Mystery and Mind-Bending Premise] [Mild Horror] [Single Female Lead] [Original Scenarios] Horror returns, and the apocalypse arrives. Can only the supernatural fight the supernatural? No! Lin Chen will show you that brains can fight the supernatural, too. A death cruise, a terrifying old mansion, a horrifying hotel... What stories lie behind these terrifying places? Sit down and let me tell them to you, one at a time.
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Hell Game: The Ten Courts of Yama 地狱游戏：十殿阎罗
Gaming + suspense + ensemble cast. No mindless protagonist, no saintly heroine, and no female lead. When Lu Yu opens his eyes, he finds himself in a world filled with “Lucky Games.” There is no order like in the normal world. To survive, you have to keep playing the games and winning. Lose a game, and death is the only thing waiting for you! But the games aren’t what they seem. Many phenomena Lu Yu can’t understand seem to tell him that he’s fallen into a loop he may never escape. Even if Lu Yu
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Mysteries of the Old House 古宅秘事悬疑故事
The story takes place in an old mansion in a remote mountain region. The mansion once belonged to a prominent local family, but several decades ago the family suddenly fell into ruin. Its members died or vanished one after another under bizarre circumstances, and the mansion was abandoned. Locals came to regard it as an ill-omened place.
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