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The Heretical, Eerie Immortal 异道诡仙
The heavens and earth stretch on without end, the azure sky lies in ordered ranks. The bitter west wind cuts through the cold. The words cease, the Dao turns crooked, and evil spirits rage with lotus-like fury. Heading west, why can I no longer see those who came before? A strange Heavenly Dao, peculiar immortals! A man set up the Myriad Immortals Locking Demons Formation, commanding myriads of immortals to wage war on the Heavenly Dao and sealing myriads of demons to command the azure sky. The
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Thriller Domain: From Asylum to the Eerie World 域河
(The hardcover edition has been published!) [Infinite Flow] [Original Horror Instances] [Mild Horror] “Chen Ji murdered his mother a week ago and spent three days with her corpse before he was arrested.” “You have been diagnosed with schizophrenia and are about to be transferred to a psychiatric hospital for supervision.” “Do you have anything to say?” The black-haired boy before them slowly raised his head, his expression calm. “I’ll say it again.” “The thing I killed wasn’t my mother...” “It w
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The House of Dread 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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Ten Days to the End 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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The Mystical Heiress Can Read Fortunes and Predict the Future 玄学千金能掐会算
[Mysticism + satisfying read + sweet romance] Everyone in the industry says the newly reunited eldest daughter of the Su family is a menace. One sentence from her can break up a marriage, shatter a family, drive someone into bankruptcy, or land them in jail, so people steer clear of her. What’s more, she has opened a Taoist temple and does fortune-telling, face-reading, feng shui, sells talismans, and catches ghosts. She’s done every sort of scam imaginable! Later, word gets around that the elde
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A Strange Honkai: Star Rail: The Road to Salvation Begins From Zero! 诡异崩铁，从零开始的救世之路！
[Over one million words, rated 9.2. Quality guaranteed] [An eerie world invasion + plot-driven story, original storyline with no filler based on existing plots + developing a territory and rebuilding civilization + monsters from the Classic of Mountains and Seas] This world has been polluted. The twisted, deranged Nous; the “Abundance” covered in tentacles; Fuli, chanting strange incantations; Nanook, pounding the planet with a shattered skull... The Aeons have been corrupted by the eerie forces
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In This Eerie Game, Daughter, Stop Hyping Me Up! I’m Unbeatable! 诡异游戏，女儿别吹了我无敌了！
Reborn in another world, he can earn sign-in rewards by collecting corpses. He's been signing in for eight years, and his daughter is now eight years old too. One day, a bizarre game descends, and the entire world falls under its control. Just then, his daughter is chosen to represent the Xia Kingdom. Everyone is stunned that Xia's representative is a little girl, until she says something that leaves them speechless. Ning Yinyin: My dad can command a hundred ghosts to roam the night! Ning Yinyin
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Rule Horror: They Say I Have Multiple Personalities 规则怪谈：他们说我有多重人格
[Comedy, lighthearted, invincible, bizarre, ever-changing personality] This is the second year of the showdown between humanity and bizarre creatures, and the situation is growing increasingly tense... Bi Yi transmigrates into the body of a man who had jumped to his death. The moment he opens his eyes, he is chosen as a contestant. But his head was damaged in the fall, so he is always getting into trouble. Every day, he loses his memory, goes crazy, then turns around and becomes incredibly obedi
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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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Rules of the Paranormal: The Horrors? They're All Family 规则怪谈，诡异？都是一家人
[Rule-based horror + national destiny + no romance + livestream + original scenarios + mild scares + warm and healing] Three years ago, rule-based horror arrived, launching a game that put the fate of nations on the line. Every month, chosen players are randomly selected from various countries to enter the horror world and clear its challenges. Clear a challenge, and you earn generous rewards. Fail, and the chosen player dies, while the horror descends upon their country. The Xia Kingdom has alr
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Supernatural: I Have a Copy of Journey to the West 灵异：我有一本西游记
[Ghost Stories + Journey to the West + Hilarious Comedy + Sunny Boy + Mental Illness + Positive-Energy Sayings] As the supernatural revived and the uncanny world fell into chaos, Jiang Chen awakened the Demon Transformation System. By provoking emotional fluctuations in ghosts and monsters, he could absorb ghost energy and use it to draw Demon Transformation Cards, taking on the forms of great demons from Journey to the West. Faced with all kinds of violent, savage, strange, and sinister ghost
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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 Becoming a Grim Reaper, I Raised Evil Spirits into Well-Behaved Little Darlings 变成阴差后，我把恶鬼养成小乖乖
[Metaphysics, supernatural, mutual healing, strong heroine, sweet romance, satisfying and smart] After Chi Zao is reborn and bound to a System, her daily tasks are to catch ghosts, guide souls, and stop powerful figures from turning evil. Mocked as a scarred beauty with a ruined face? She’ll grab a bottle of scar-removing elixir from the System shop. Born poor, with no power or influence? President Chi, your company has gone public. Feng shui masters chase after her, begging to take her as their
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Reborn in the Apocalypse: I Start with a Snake 末世重生，开局一条蛇
A stingy, selfish, grudge-holding giant snake VS a smart, beautiful, forceful heroine After turning human, the white snake becomes a clingy white-haired sweetheart (proud and aloof at first, a devoted husband later). Reborn into a new life, Chen Yao acquires a serpent-carved relic and awakens dual abilities. Using a secret art, she refines a petty, grudge-holding, cold-blooded snake. Raising a snake is no easy task. You have to hold it, feed it, and coax it. You serve it dinner, and it smashes
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Extreme Weather, Mysterious Forces Awaken 极端天气，诡秘复苏
[Natural disasters and post-apocalyptic world + pocket dimension + fantasy supernatural powers + heroine is not reborn + powerful hero and heroine + free shopping] Qin Ran is just a game environment artist who keeps dreaming about the future. With help from her golden finger pocket dimension, she can get ahead of everyone else. But when disaster strikes, extreme weather isn’t the only threat. Mysterious creatures found only in myths and legends are attacking people all over the world. Qin Ran on
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[Apocalypse Superpowers] Raising a Giant Cat in the Wasteland 【末世异能】我在废土养大猫
[Post-apocalyptic wasteland] [Superpowered battles] [Spatial powers] [Strong female lead] [Pet training] [Multi-male love triangle] The apocalypse arrives, monsters run rampant, and when Luo Nian wakes up, the whole world has changed! The skyscrapers have become a wasteland, and her friends and family have all vanished. Could she have transmigrated? With her memories hazy, she discovers that she has spatial powers, and that a dangerous, deranged "pet" has appeared by her side. He can transform i
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Reborn as Cannon Fodder in an Apocalypse Novel, I Get Harassed by Creepy Tentacles 穿成末世文炮灰，被诡异触手碰瓷
[Apocalypse + transmigrate into a book + two powerful leads + zombies + supernatural powers + no saintly heroine + sweet romance] Orphan Qi Moran died of an illness, only to wake up as a beautiful, golden-haired, blue-eyed girl whose parents were dead and whose net worth exceeded a hundred million. Before she could spend her money and buy herself some happiness, an accidental car crash revealed that she had transmigrated into a doomsday-game fanfic as a pretty little cannon-fodder character w
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Midnight Surveillance 午夜监控
Midnight Surveillance
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The Perfect Girl 完美女孩
The Perfect Girl
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The Red-Dressed Ghost Returns for Revenge 红衣成煞，复仇者归来
A Red Dress Turns into a Curse, and the Avenger Returns
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Night of Terror at the Lantern Festival 花灯惊魂夜
A Night of Terror at the Lantern Festival
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Who Is the Killer? 谁是凶手
Who Is the Killer?
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My Godfather Is a Bull 我的干爹是头牛
That year, I crossed paths with something unclean. My grandpa led over the old yellow ox from the pen and told me to take it as my godfather, saying it could shield me from disaster. He stroked the ox’s head. “Old friend, help my grandson, and I’ll look after you in your old age.” But before long, the old ox started eating people.
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Evil Spirits Come Calling Tonight 今晚邪祟上门
Evil spirits come knocking tonight
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Midnight Mystery Calls: I Seek Justice for the Dead 午夜诡单：我替亡者讨公道
My name is Yun Xi. I make a living taking bizarre midnight cases. The good news: I was born with an ancient artifact for guiding souls. Seven copper coins can identify people, objects, and the dead, while a red cord can bind ghosts and capture spirits. The bad news: it doesn’t level up by killing. I have to investigate a case’s karmic ties and guide the dead onward. It also stops working when the truth behind the karma is unclear, and its power is halved during the day. I thought this case wo
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Global Hauntings: My Profession Lets Me Rewrite the Rules 全球诡异：我的职业能修改规则
Bizarre phenomena descend across the globe, and dungeon rules invade reality. On the day of the college entrance exam, the exam hall where Lin Ye is taking his test turns into a deadly dungeon. Everyone awakens a combat class, but he gets a useless one: Rule Proofreader. While others kill the bizarre creatures with knives, he edits the rules with a red pen. The blackboard reads: “Find the classmate who isn’t human within ten minutes.” Lin Ye raises his hand and changes “find” to “fail to find.”
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The Underworld Detective 阴间神探 My new work is out! You can read it on Tomato Novel. I hope you'll enjoy it. Your support inspires me to write, and I'll do my best to tell every story well! 86kReads9.4Score10.6kShelves
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I Said There Were No Gods Tonight, So the Gods Fell 我说今夜无神，于是众神陨落
[The print edition, titled A Godless Night, is available to search for on all platforms. The comic adaptation is now online.] [Plot-driven + infinite-flow + mild horror + countless twists] Yan Huang had a terminal illness. He didn't want to die, so he became a player in Instance. The System's evaluation of him read: [Player Yan Huang practices what he preaches and has impeccable morals. Congratulations, you have awakened the talent: Deceiver.] [Deceiver: Each lie you tell has a fifty percent cha
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After Cross-Dressing, I Became the Top Streamer 女装后我成了第一主播
[No female lead + livestreaming + horror game world + a beloved streamer with multiple endings] Song Yu becomes an online sensation after livestreaming in women's clothing, then gets poached by Mingye Live to livestream a virtual game test of "Song of the Night." [Livestream chat before entering the game] Wifey, you're so gorgeous you've made a home in my heart Brother Yu, you're so handsome, I want to be your dog [Livestream chat after entering the game] Help! Brother Yu is chasing after the gh
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A Vengeful Ghost's Fetal Curse: Born from a Corpse 鬼煞凶胎，尸生子
Where there are people, there are ghosts! Strange things often happen in ancient, remote places. Some are eerie. Others are downright terrifying! And these things tend to happen around Chang Huan, because he was born from a corpse.
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Yin-Yang Eye Realtor: Selling Haunted Houses in Chongqing 阴阳眼中介：我在重庆卖凶宅
A novel inspired by local Chongqing legends and historical anecdotes. This story is entirely fictional. As a child, the protagonist gained the ability to see yin and yang from a Qing dynasty skeleton. His family’s ancestral ledger is filled with secrets of old Chongqing. The folklore is meticulously researched, with traceable details ranging from place names and historical anecdotes to traditional remedies and feng shui formations. Each haunted house seems like a self-contained case, but in trut
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Guide to the Yellow Springs 黄泉路引
[Fantasy xianxia + strange tales + past and present lives] At the border between the human realm and the underworld, there is more than just the Bridge of Helplessness and Lady Meng. There is also me, the first guardian on the Yellow Springs Road. My name is Quanyin. I know not when I was born, nor where my road will end. I only guard the boundary between yin and yang, ever present at the moment between life and death. I hold two lamps. One lights the souls’ path westward; the other helps them h
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The Last Bus on Route 13 13路末班车
I'm the driver of the last bus on Route 13. Every night at eleven, I have to make a run to the suburbs. This book is addictive, so don't blame me if you can't put it down! In this novel, even the sharp-tongued readers who always guess the plot right will find themselves repeatedly proven wrong. You might find yourself asking, “What's going on? What's going on?” Don't doubt your sanity. Just keep reading. A story that keeps you on edge, here to save readers suffering from a reading drought!
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Folk Feng Shui Secrets 民间风水秘术
This story focuses on practical feng shui and fortune-telling. If you're looking for made-up drama, this isn't for you! Feel free to skip the first four chapters and start reading from Chapter Five. The adaptation will also start from Chapter Five, which should make it much easier to adapt. Thank you for understanding! (Traditional, no System, no wild flights of fancy, funny, not saintly! A technical, skill-focused story!) I was born in a poor mountain village. From a young age, I traveled aroun
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The Underworld Calls Me Little Master 地府叫我小先生
In ancient, remote places, all kinds of strange and terrifying things are bound to happen. And these things happen around Hua Jiunan. In fact, Hua Jiunan is part of them. For instance, he was born from a corpse!
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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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A Collection of Folk Ghost Stories from Northeast China 东北民间鬼故事集
The comic adaptation of the same name is now available, also known as Mountain Spirit Lost. The comic Northeast Strange Tales is currently being serialized. Across the vast, boundless black earth of Northeast China, one strange and little-known story after another has unfolded. Now, I’ll tell you these long-buried tales of the supernatural, one by one!
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The Folk Feng Shui Master 民间风水之王
The Nine Cauldrons Dragon Palace, the Secret Files of the Yellow Springs, the Snow Mountain Corpse Demon, the Yin-Yang Inn... Ever since I borrowed a life from the underworld, I have known no peace. Every time I borrow a life, it becomes a deadly game. After each desperate struggle and narrow escape, I wait for the next secret order from the underworld so I can keep living. Just when I thought I'd escaped the clutches of fate, I discovered that Heaven had prepared a coffin for me too!
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Spiritual Qi Revival: I Kissed the Slit-Mouthed Woman from the Start 灵气复苏：开局强吻裂口女
In a world overrun by ghosts and monsters, Lin Que encounters a breathtakingly beautiful young woman in red. She smiles, showing all 28 of her teeth. “Little brother, do you think I’m pretty?” Ding! The System has activated! Choice One: Don’t answer. Run for your life and shout for help to alert the nearby spirit tamers, so they can slay the Slit-Mouthed Woman. Quest reward: One Great Restoration Pill, granting thirty years of cultivation. Choice Two: Say she’s pretty and let the Slit-Mouthed Wo
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First-Year Internship—And You Went to Site 749 to Contain Monsters?! 大一实习，你跑去749收容怪物
[Decisive killing] [How could any monster be good?] [All monsters deserve to die] [Ruthless] During his sophomore summer vacation, Lu Ding had planned to use the time to take an internship and earn some living expenses. Who could have expected that the construction site where he interned would excavate a bleeding stone? The workers fled one after another, but Lu Ding charged in with a rotary hammer. After transmigrating to this world nearly twenty years ago, Lu Ding’s golden finger, the Monster
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He Kills, Never Saves: This Taoist Is Wickedly Righteous! 只杀不渡，这个道士正到发邪！
[Supernatural + Mazu + folk customs + deity processions + Guanjian Shou + yin-yang taboos] People in Fujian often say, “If the powers above won't agree, just ask Mazu.” Born with an extremely weighty fate, Lin Haien was conceived on Qingming and born on the Winter Solstice. He has a yin-yang constitution and a spirit-sensitive body. Lost souls and wandering ghosts torment him, all hoping to take over his body and replace him. To give him even the slimmest chance of survival, his midwife grandmot
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I Told You to Make a Pact with a Ghost, but You Made One with Zhong Kui? 让你契约鬼，你契约钟馗？
[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
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The Cursed Abyss Cannot Be Crossed 诡渊不度
[Supernatural resurgence + nonhuman protagonist + no female lead + evil gods] Note: This is not a livestream story, a wish-fulfillment power fantasy, or a brainless invincible-protagonist story. Feel free to ship any pairings, though (doge). It leans a little toward two male leads, but not much, and has an everyone-loves-the-protagonist vibe. If that bothers you, please move along. The worlds of ghosts and humans were once clearly divided, yin and yang keeping each other in balance. But as t
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The Mysterious Returns: The Ten Kings of Hell Are at My Side! 诡秘复苏：我身边跟着十殿阎王！
Chen Xuanbei, nicknamed Dizang, accidentally transmigrates to a parallel universe where the supernatural has descended. With the Ten Yama Kings tattooed across his body and a massive reaper’s scythe slung over his shoulder, Chen Xuanbei declares, “Sorry, everyone. I’m claiming this territory!” The Slit-Mouthed Woman: “Hello, police? Someone sewed my mouth shut! Yes, they threw away my scissors too!” Sadako: “Hello, city management? Someone blocked up my well with concrete. I can’t get home!” Han
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I Have Countless Secret Identities 我有无数人格马甲
The uncanny descends, and alien horrors invade! This is a mad age, overrun by the uncanny and the mysterious. Unknown mists, scarecrows, birds of ill omen, flesh-eating wedding gowns... One bizarre, unknowable event after another unfolds. Humanity cannot fight back and can only struggle to survive! Then an ancient secret society slowly emerges from the shadows. Mysterious superhumans? Saviors? Beacons of light in the darkness? No! It is all because Shen Li created the most powerful and uncan
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Eerie Descent: I Am Immortal 诡异降临：我不死不灭
Evil spirits descend, and the supernatural runs rampant. From the start, a female ghost is chasing you down. What do you do? The answer: Find her in the wilderness and passionately bite each other! As long as you eat the ghost first, it can’t eat you! Ye Yan, blessed with an immortal body and the ability to devour evil spirits, searches for his own path in a world overrun by the supernatural. Then one day, the formation shatters, and evil spirits invade in force. At last, humanity remembers the
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I Own a Haunted World 我有一座诡异世界
No romance + infinite worlds + everyone awakens + heroine's power-up journey + heroine's growth story. Content warning: This isn't a dark story. Although the heroine's talent is tied to a strange world, she has her own principles and won't go on a killing spree or slaughter people just to level up. Please don't read if that bothers you. Content warning: In the first world, the heroine has only just entered the infinite worlds, so she may act a little immature. She'll be better in the second worl
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The City Is Overrun by the Supernatural, and She Treats Gods as Food 全城诡异，她把神明当口粮
[No CP + strong heroine + ruthless and decisive + post-apocalyptic survival] “Shh, don’t make a sound. That eyeless lump of flesh outside the door kills by sound.” She woke to a world where the uncanny had arrived, and cities had become hunting grounds for monstrous creatures. Everyone trembled beneath the monsters’ claws. But Luo Ran, an overbearing corporate executive, would do anything to survive. She swallowed an uncanny core whole and began transforming into something inhuman! Superhuman he
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Urban Night Terrors: Stories from Close to Home 都市夜惊魂：身边的故事
Private detective Chen Wei takes on a difficult case: finding a young woman who vanished after going to paint at Cangyun Mountain. Deep in the mountains, an isolated village and an abandoned settlement are both steeped in an eerie atmosphere. Hares are dying under strange circumstances, and a mysterious jade pendant has appeared. When the hunter Old Zhou reveals the barbaric sacrificial rites practiced twenty years ago, long-buried events come to light. Vengeful spirits roam, and a plot involvin
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100 Short Horror Stories 100篇恐怖小故事
Beneath ordinary everyday life lies an abyss of fear unknown to most. Short Horror Stories will take you on a series of heart-pounding, spine-chilling journeys. There are eerie old houses, every corner reeking of decay and concealing forgotten secrets and resentful spirits; dim, abandoned hospitals, where footsteps of unknown origin and faint, distant moans echo through silent corridors; and mysterious forests, where countless eyes seem to watch intruders through the mist. Each story is carefull
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