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1 十 The End of Ten Days 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 1.9MReads9.9Score234.1kShelves

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A bizarre death loop world was constructed. Ten "participants" with different identities were trapped in an alien space and were forced to solve the puzzle within a ten-day deadline. The protagonist Chen Ling, as a "fraudster" who has lost her memory, walks on the edge of the rules with meticulous logic and acting skills. The connection between her memory fragments and space becomes a hidden thread throughout the entire text. Characters such as the cold-faced female killer Zhang Chen and the paranoid scientist Giovanni each have their own obsessions, revealing the light and darkness of human nature in cooperation and betrayal. Each "End Day" corresponds to a death game with different themes - from the flesh and blood game to the labyrinth of consciousness. The rules of space and the background of the characters are intertwined into a network narrative. As the number of reincarnations stacks up, participants discover that the so-called "managers" are actually survivors of the past, and the ultimate truth of space points directly to the nature of the consciousness cage. The story is driven by high-density battles of wits and psychological games, with equal emphasis on suspense and philosophical speculation. The characters' will to survive and self-salvation burst out in desperate situations constitute the narrative tension.

2 恶 The Devil's Diary 恶魔日记 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... 42.1kReads9.3Score5.3kShelves

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3 高 High-IQ Masterminds of Revenge: They Call Me a Madman 高智商复仇家，他们叫我疯子 Leaves Can't Predict Autumn叶难知秋Mystery525k WordsCompleted [No Female Lead] [Mad Protagonist] [Elegant] [High-IQ Crimes] [No System] Ten years ago, the Shen family was wiped out by a mysterious organization known as the Alliance. Shen Feng was beaten to death and left in the wilderness. Now, Shen Feng’s soul has returned from hell. That day, the criminal investigation squad received a call from a mysterious person claiming he would kill the famous CEO Liu Ruxu at a shareholders’ meeting. The nightmare began at that very moment. Shen Feng planned one per 78kReads9.5Score9.1kShelves

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Ten years ago, the Shen family was wiped out by the mysterious organization "The Alliance", and Shen Feng was beaten to death and abandoned in the wilderness. And now, Shen Feng's soul has returned from hell. That day, the Criminal Police Brigade received a call from a mysterious person, saying that he would kill the well-known female CEO Liu Ruxu at the shareholders' meeting. The nightmare starts from this moment.

4 全 Global Manhunt: You’re Crazy! You Call This an Escape? 全球通缉：疯了！你管这个叫逃亡 Snow at Dusk in the Clouds云中暮雪Urban1.1M WordsCompleted Ten major conglomerates are investing, a hundred billion dollars in prize money is up for grabs, and elites from every field are taking part! Urban parkour, high-altitude skydiving, wingsuit flying. Everything... is for the sake of escape! A global manhunt! This is a show that drives people wild! Its goal is to uncover vulnerabilities in security systems and public safety in today's information age. Su Yu is sent to prison from the start, but no one could have expected what came next. Su Yu brea 74.5kReads9.3Score8.1kShelves

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I read this book a long time ago. The protagonist is very delicately portrayed and the plot has ups and downs that are fascinating. I could read it for three hours without getting bored.

5 法 Outlaw 法外狂徒 Persimmons Can Grow on Trees柿子会上树Mystery1.0M WordsCompleted [Mystery, criminal investigations, detective work, vigilantes, punishing the guilty, ambushes on all sides] I started working cases when I was twenty. To this day, I've solved more than a thousand. Now, I've written up some of the unusual ones in a book. Read on! 459Reads6.4Score100Shelves

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7 怒 Taming the Abyss in a Raging Sea 怒海镇渊 The Gods Want to Go Wild神想出去浪Urban1.9M WordsCompleted [Reborn + suspense + undercover work + revenge + anti-drug operations + counterespionage. The golden finger is very weak; the protagonist relies on his own abilities. High-IQ battles, so bring your thinking cap. No showing off and face-slapping! Best suited to seasoned readers. If you follow along closely, it’s very satisfying. Impatient readers looking for mindless thrills should steer clear; if you skim, you won’t understand it.] Thirty years ago, An Xiaohai was manipulated through one scheme 169.6kReads9.6Score20.7kShelves

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Suspense reasoning, step by step, the author's writing is sophisticated and the plot structure is smooth. I recommend these books.