I’m in a Reading Slump. Recommend Scary Horror Novels That Are Impossible to Put Down, Like Old Tales from the Yellow Springs 书荒，求看的恐怖吓人，但爱不释手如《黄泉旧事》
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- 51 The Seven Kings Reunite, and Judgment Descends 七王重聚，审判降临 [Decisive and ruthless + high martial arts + comedy + King of Slaughter + plot-driven power fantasy] Distant bells toll! The horns of war spiral through the air! Eagles survey the earth! Vultures feast on all living things! The Sword of Judgment hangs high! An ancient king descends! Slaughter! The prologue to an absurd apocalypse! Slaughter! The finale of a false golden age! At the end of the last century, the vast and devastating War of the Gods, sparked by the Radiant Army and the Eternal Nigh 96.8kReads8.6Score6kShelves
- 52 Ghosts in the Apocalypse: I Became the Strongest Ghost Tamer 百鬼末世：我成了最强御鬼师 [A Full 1,000 Types of Ghosts] Mysterious ghosts include Jin Buhuan, the White Bone Bodhisattva, the Earthly Branches War Lord, and the Blood-Drop Plum Blossom. The powerful ones include Asura, Rakshasa, the Butcher, the Martial Champion, and the Emperor. The eerie ones include Painted Skin, the Red Robe, the Chubby Baby, the Coroner, the Flower-Waisted Bride, the Embalmer, and the Ever-Burning Lamp. Every type has its own evolution path: Drowned Ghost → Water Monkey → Kappa → ? (There’s more af 114.4kReads9.5Score9.9kShelves
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The Ultimate Tycoon 顶级神豪
Lin Yun's girlfriend thought he was too poor and ran off with a rich second-generation heir. Then, out of nowhere, his billionaire grandfather showed up to claim him. “Why are you only claiming me now? I would rather starve to death or die out there than acknowledge you!” “Ding! One hundred million yuan has been deposited into your bank account!” “Well, now that you mention it...” After becoming a third-generation rich heir, Lin Yun gradually learned one simple truth: when you're rich, you reall
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- 54 The Art of the Steal 捡漏 One glance spans a hundred years, and I am reborn in the modern city. A golden age of art, a world of antique collecting. Qin Dynasty steles and Zhou Dynasty ritual vessels, ancient inscriptions and paintings. Bronze and blue-and-white porcelain, jadeite and precious gems. Every rare treasure under heaven is in my hands. Reborn in the modern city, Jin Feng relies on his peerless eye for antiques to rise, step by step, to the top. He will carry forward the nation’s most time-honored culture and p 16.7kReads9.1Score1.7kShelves
- 55 EN Spending Money Makes Me Stronger: The Hundredfold Cashback System 花钱就变强：百倍返现系统 After Ye Feng got dumped, he awakened a hundredfold cashback System. Buy a bottle of mineral water for 2 yuan, get 200 yuan back. Buy a pack of Huazi cigarettes for 50 yuan, get 5,000 yuan back. 13.7kReads8.5Score1.5kShelves
- 56 My WeChat Connects to the Three Realms 我的微信连三界 Lin Hai was an ordinary college student, but after a WeChat update, he was added to the Heavenly Court's Moments. From then on, his life became colorful and exciting. The Queen Mother has run out of face masks? Ten Peaches of Immortality for a replacement, no haggling. The Grand Supreme Elderly Lord wants a pack of Soft China cigarettes? Ten Heaven-and-Earth Creation Pills, no credit. Red Boy wants some Wahaha? Hand over your Samadhi True Fire, and make it quick. Chang'e wants to wear this? Oh d 18.7kReads9.0Score2.2kShelves
- 57 Back on Earth as a Con Artist 回到地球当神棍 He vanished for eight years. No one imagined he'd transmigrated to another world and cultivated for eight thousand years! He eloped with a rich heiress. No one imagined that, while taking her away, he'd also wiped out her rotten fiancé. He's looking for his younger sister. No one imagined that, while searching for her, he'd also taken down every major power on Earth. He can make pills and fight. If anyone dares to provoke him... 13.9kReads8.9Score1.5kShelves
- 58 Tycoon: A Cashback System from the Start, with Critical Hits 神豪：开局返现系统，还能暴击 [Urban]+ [Tycoon]+ [Power fantasy]+ [Campus beauty]+ [System] Fired from his company from the start, Ye Ning is also abandoned by his gold-digging girlfriend. Drowning his sorrows in a bar, Ye Ning gets swept up in a passionate night with a stunning woman. Neither asks the other's name or where they come from. Could their fate really end there? [Ding! The Tycoon Cashback System is now bound to you!] [A Vacheron Constantin watch costs 200,000. Tenfold cashback: 2 million!] [Spend 200,000 on a wom 179Reads9.1Score105Shelves
- 59 I Get Stronger Whenever I'm Called On 我被点名就变强 [Comedy + scheming + tycoon] One day, the rebellious Fang Qimai got a special System. Whenever someone called on him, he could receive a reward from them. Ding! Your math teacher called on you. Reward: Skill Book, Mastering Olympiad Math. Ding! Your rich classmate called on you. Character unlocked: Billionaire Dad. Ding! Your PE teacher called on you. Reward: Skill Book, Mastering English Grammar. Wait a minute... Did something weird just sneak in there...? 15.8kReads9.2Score1.5kShelves
- 60 Beachcombing: From the Start, One Sand Shovel Wins Me the Whole Beach 赶海：开局一把沙铲承包整个沙滩 (Daily life + lighthearted + beachcombing + tycoon) I dropped out of a top university and spent two years back in my hometown fishing village. Once the village's golden boy, I became a good-for-nothing everyone despised. Then one day, I discovered I could see my own luck stat and exchange points for beachcombing tools through a virtual screen. From then on, my life was like I had cheats enabled. With a sand shovel, I could easily earn thousands in a day. With a spade, I even dug up a whole bucke 126.7kReads9.4Score11.8kShelves
- 61 Just Came Down the Mountain, and a Fertile Goddess Dragged Me Off to Get Married 刚下山，被幸孕女神拉去领证 [Complete and highly recommended] [X-ray vision] [Ruthless action] [A goddess shows up with a child] Five years after that night, the goddess Luo Xuejing brings a child along to meet Li Feng on a blind date! Li Feng thinks a beautiful woman bringing a child to a blind date is a bad sign, only to discover that she’s the very woman he spent that wild night with five years ago! Daughter: “Dad, I want the stars!” Luo Xuejing: “Honey, I want them too!” Li Feng: “Wait a moment. I’ll knock the stars do 18.1kReads9.3Score1.3kShelves
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Rule Horror: An SSS-Rank with No Talent? 规则怪谈：SSS级没有天赋？
When rules-based horror descends, Lin X, who thought it would never happen to him, is finally lucky enough to be chosen on his birthday. He checks his talent and finds an SSS-rank "￥%#~/"! Lin X: ? The talent’s all garbled. You’re not going to act as an NPC in someone else’s game, are you? And it’s not too much to ask for the dungeon’s story to be a little different from everyone else’s, right? Wait, you call that thing your best friend?
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- 63 You Absolute Menace! You Ate All the Horrors! 活爹！诡异都被你吃完了！ [Horror game + crafty schemer + comedy + invincible protagonist + no romance] Ji Liu, from another world, is accidentally pulled into a horror game that arrived on Blue Star a year ago. Other players: Burn through their brain cells, test the rules, and struggle to survive. Ji Liu: All-you-can-eat buffet! Taotie feast! Time to inhale! Why are these (munch munch) creepy things (munch munch) so delicious? Creepy Thing 1: Aaaah! My arm! My leg! My head! Creepy Thing 2: Ah... (dies) Creepy Thing 3: W 4.3kReads8.9Score575Shelves
- 64 Rule Horror: You Want Me, Zhang San, to Follow the Rules? 规则怪谈：要求我张三遵守规则？ [Horror + eerie + hilarious + satisfying + national fortune = a serious novel] The Supreme Rules descend, selecting multiple people at random from each country to become Ascenders and take part in the Ascension Exam! Those who perform well earn high scores and even extra rewards. They can improve their own abilities and bring unexpected ascension to their country. But fail the exam, and death may be waiting for you, along with endless torment. Even your country may be beset by supernatural event 6.8kReads9.0Score821Shelves
- 65 Ghost Stories: Daoist Priest, Spare Us Some Dignity! 怪谈：道长，给咱们留点面子吧！ (The arcs are already plentiful, so dive right in!) [Rules-based horror + no female lead + original scenarios + national destiny + livestreaming + lighthearted comedy + mild horror and brainteasers] A rules-based horror game descended upon the real world, dragging every country into a deadly game. In this calamity, the great nation of Dragon Country, which had stood for a thousand years, failed to show its true strength because of the game's mechanics. As one horror scenario after another struck 2kReads7.1Score227Shelves
- 66 My Fortune-Telling Livestream Is So Accurate, the State Wants Me to Come Forward 直播算命太准，国家请我出山 [No Romance + Livestreaming + Fortune-Telling + Feng Shui + Ghost Hunting + Satisfying Read] After being ambushed, the metaphysics expert Jiang Yi is reborn and unexpectedly bound to a merit system. System: “If you want to stay alive, you must ward off calamities and drive out ghosts to earn merit points. Otherwise, you'll drop dead immediately.” Jiang Yi: “???” Isn't “drop dead” a little too harsh? To keep herself alive, Jiang Yi decides to become a metaphysics streamer and earn merit by tellin 27.8kReads9.2Score2.5kShelves
- 67 From the Start, I Was Divided Up for Food, So I Swallowed the Evil Spirit Whole 开局被分食，我直接生吞邪崇 "A Must-Read in 2026" [Eerie Revival]+ [Revenge before the day is out]+ [Saintly do-gooders must die]+ [The protagonist is crazy, not stupid]+ [No female lead]+ [This is actually a food story] The red moon rises, and the eerie returns. After transmigrating to a world where the eerie has returned and evil spirits roam the earth, Ye Kui opens his eyes to see himself being devoured by monsters! But if monsters can eat people, there’s no reason people can’t eat monsters! After three years of plottin 8.6kReads8.9Score848Shelves
- 68 I Finally Slept Well in a Horror Live-Stream Game 失眠的我在恐怖直播游戏里睡饱了 [Infinite flow + two male leads + livestreaming + powerful duo + little lunatic and sweet on the outside, dark within + happy ending] (The other male lead won’t appear until the third instance, and it gets a little angsty.) Also known as: "Bound to an Achievement System in a Horror Game" When He Feng, who suffers from insomnia, was dragged into a horror game and forced to livestream, he was surprised to discover that his insomnia seemed to be cured. Hey! He Feng, who normally had to rely on luck 3.1kReads9.4Score575Shelves
- 69 Evil God Moran! 邪神墨然！ Why does the headless ghost in the hospital keep praying at midnight? Why does the skin-stealing ghost in the desolate mountain village wail without stopping? And why does the long-haired female ghost in the studio apartment shriek in the middle of the night? None of this is a distortion of human nature, much less a collapse of morality. It’s just that… someone’s having an episode! In an age when horror has returned and vengeful ghosts run rampant, Bai Yuan, dressed in a hospital gown, smiled ca 156.7kReads9.3Score16.5kShelves
- 70 A Horror Invasion? Aren’t They All My Minions? 惊悚入侵？这不全是我小弟吗 [Horror world + underlings + goofy comedy + hilarious + powerful big shot] (The Horror World wishes you an early death and a quick rebirth. If you don't die, you'll go crazy.) You might not believe this, but while everyone else was struggling desperately in the Horror World, trying to find a sliver of hope for survival, I had already taken control of every shady deal in the Horror World. The Horror World's supernatural alliance. "I'm reporting Chen Qishi by my real name!" Chen Qi, seated at the 101kReads9.2Score9.3kShelves
- 71 Thriller: I Became Excessively Twisted for Fear of Looking Ungraceful 惊悚：因为担心不优雅而过度变态 [Horror + No Female Lead] A bizarre game descended, pulling all of humanity into a strange world to complete terrifying missions. Fail, and you lose life points. When your points hit zero, you die! Zhao Yi, a renowned psychiatrist, was dragged into the game too, but some unknown glitch appeared in his data source code. And so, an abnormal human emerged, one who made every ghost and monster tremble in fear! The Crybaby Ghost: I just wanted to give him a side quest, but he chopped off my head! The 73.9kReads9.5Score8.4kShelves
- 72 The Little Taoist Boy Who Catches Ghosts Is Spoiled by His Whole Family 小道童会捉鬼，下山被全家宠上天 [Beloved Little Boy + Ghost Hunting + Family Bonds + Slow-Paced] The young master of the Jiang family, who had been missing for three years, has returned to Jiangcheng. But he's a chubby little Taoist boy in a tiny robe, with a peachwood sword on his back and a little gourd in his hand. As soon as he comes home, the Li family is ruined, the Lin family is torn apart, and the Liu family descends into chaos. All the wealthy families of Jiangcheng steer clear of him. But then they discover that the 1kReads9.1Score115Shelves
- 73 The Little Celestial Master Takes the Internet by Storm 小天师火爆全网 [Two male leads + two powerful leads + entertainment industry + mysticism + sweet romance] [Shen Qing, a gorgeous, flamboyant Master Celestial with a knack for outrageous stunts, as the bottom × Gu Zechuan, a mature, gentle top with a head full of purple aura and an unconventional way of thinking] Shen Qing is a great celestial master who says that if he calls himself second best, no one would dare claim to be number one. Ten million years ago, he sacrificed himself to seal away his senior broth 1.1kReads9.1Score144Shelves
- 74 My Actor Ex-Boyfriend Begs to Get Back Together During a Horror Livestream 恐怖直播中，影帝前男友求复合 [No female lead, supernatural horror, cool on the outside and warm within x fiery, tsundere little tough guy] This large-scale horror livestream brings together eighteen celebrities from the Chinese entertainment industry. Ye Muyan, a singer who was once suppressed for his overly strange musical style, sits atop a coffin during the broadcast and plays the erhu. His bizarre music frightens all the ghosts into scattering, while the other players are too afraid to approach. The film emperor Chu Fen 94Reads9.3Score—Shelves
- 75 Tempting the Bigshots: I Catch Ghosts on a Dating Show and Rack Up Points 欲诱大佬，我在恋综捉鬼上大分 [BL romance + dating show livestream + metaphysics and the supernatural + equally matched leads and sweet romance + underdog comeback and putting scumbags in their place] Good news: I'm still alive. Bad news: I've transmigrated into the role of a cannon-fodder male supporting character, and I'm both a lovesick simp and a substitute! A double whammy? No way am I putting up with this. But my wallet's empty, so I'll just have to throw away my pride and keep playing along. They say you should love w 4.5kReads9.3Score705Shelves
- 76 EN I Said Explain the Occult, Not Catch Ghosts on Livestream! 让你科普玄学，没让你直播捉鬼！ [Dual male leads, not a male-oriented novel. Take note!] To revive the Taoist temple his master had left behind, Qi Gu entered show business and worked hard to promote himself. But his manager turned on him, smearing him from head to toe. After quitting show business, Qi Gu felt that the harder he tried, the more unlucky he got, so he decided to lie flat and give up. By chance, he was invited by a client to take part in a paranormal reality show. On the show, he stopped trying to promote him 19.7kReads9.5Score3.9kShelves
- 77 The Beloved Little One Takes Ghost Hunting Seriously 团宠崽崽，捉鬼我是认真的 [Boy] The An family of Shangdu has a young master who is frail and sickly. He gasps after one step and coughs after three, yet his family dotes on him like he’s the most precious thing in the world. Wealthy parents: “Sweetie, Mommy and Daddy will take you to work with us.” Mischievous grandfather: “My dear grandson, this is the empire your grandpa won for you.” Overbearing CEO eldest brother: “Sweetie, take this card and spend whatever you like.” Laid-back second brother: “Kiddo, want to play vi 1kReads9.4Score109Shelves
- 78 The Family's Beloved: Qiao Bao Can Choose His Next Life, and Everyone Spoils Him 团宠：桥宝会投胎，全家都宠他 [Beloved by everyone + raising a child + little boy + ancient setting + fantasy + no romance] A little qilin from the heavens came down to the mortal world to undergo tribulation, but there were many people coveting him. He planned to find himself a decent set of parents, but everything had already been arranged for him. So he could only lie flat and accept it. What's it like to be born with a princess for a mother, a chancellor for a father, an emperor for an uncle, two older brothers, two olde 3.3kReads9.2Score262Shelves
- 79 The Occult Master Awoke, and Every Ghost in the District Moved Away 玄学大佬觉醒后，全区的鬼都搬了 [No female lead + everyone dotes on the protagonist + one-on-one romance + two male leads] Qin Feng thought that after dying alongside an evil ghost, he would fall into hell. He never expected to be given a chance to be reborn. In this world, demons and ghosts run rampant. He had originally planned to spend the rest of his life growing old in peace, but because of the curse on him, he has no choice but to return to his old line of work... 119Reads7.5Score—Shelves
- 80 Shocking! The Internet's Most Hated Star Becomes a Top-Tier Star by Catching Ghosts 惊！全网黑靠捉鬼成了疯批顶流 (Completed) [Two Male Leads + Showbiz + Supernatural + Equally Matched Leads + Unconventional Madmen] ● My lord, the flowers you left at my grave became the faith I live by. Bai Qingxu, the biggest deadbeat and disgrace in the ghost-hunting world, transmigrates and becomes an obscure, bottom-tier celebrity in the entertainment industry, the kind who's blacklisted and despised. With his ghost-hunting welfare gone, he has no choice but to work hard and scrape together a living. Variety Show Livest 1.1kReads9.1Score179Shelves
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