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On My Deathbed, I Sat Bolt Upright: The Old Ones Were Me All Along 垂死病中惊坐起，旧日竟是我自己
[Not an invincible protagonist + progression novel + no System + Lovecraftian horror + not fast-paced wish fulfillment + follows the official route] Lu Ning wandered through the fog for two thousand years. When he finally emerged, he found that the world seemed to be sick. The sun was covered in tentacles, planets were blanketed in flesh, the moon had sprouted countless eyes, and even Earth was groaning and crying for help. The diseased, disaster beasts, and followers of evil gods ran rampant, w
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Terror Descends: This Big Brother Is a Little Too Powerful! 惊悚降临：这个大哥有亿点猛！
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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Mysterious Revival: My Memories Bury Vengeful Ghosts 神秘复苏我的记忆埋葬着厉鬼
Warning: It gets more and more brain-bending as you read! Extremely high intelligence and logical reasoning as the characters solve paranormal mysteries! Don't read if you dislike mind games! Everyone gradually awakens to their powers or takes the abilities of ghosts! High intelligence + aesthetics of despair Scenarios: Dreams, zombies, myths and legends, Cthulhu, and more Difficulty: “Despair!” (No harem, no System, no invincible protagonist, no formulas, no power fantasy, no brainless characte
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Eerie Revival: I Can Contact the Past 诡异复苏：我能联系过去
The Hungry Ghost Festival of 2025. A super red moon appeared, and as it lingered in the sky, the supernatural returned. Left Yang was shocked to discover that he could use his phone to contact himself in the past. In the stairwell, the Knock-at-the-Door Ghost killed anyone who opened the door. But someone discovered that it skipped the first floor and started knocking there. So Left Yang contacted his past self. [Please have your one-month-younger self rent an apartment on the first floor!] The
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- 5 EN 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 705.5kReads9.6Score103.9k14d adds
- 6 EN 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 1.7MReads9.9Score206.4k14d adds
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Anomaly Containment Facility, You're Containing Me, a Human? 诡异收容所，你收容我一个人类？
[No System]+ [No Heroine]+ [Cthulhu]+ [No Tired Tropes] (Also known as: Sequence: Ascension to Godhood) The Dark Prison has merged with reality, and bizarre creatures are invading the world through the “Gates.” An organization has quietly emerged, calling themselves the Wardens. They keep the bizarre creatures behind the “Gates,” and capture and contain any that make it into the world. Lu Xiao accidentally fell into the Dark Prison and lived there alone for three years. After the Wardens discove
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- 8 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 114.4kReads9.5Score9.9k14d adds
- 9 EN Another World: My Life Has Cheat Codes! 异世界：我的人生开了挂！ [Vampires, werewolves, technology, potions, ghosts, biohumans, divination, puppets, and every terrifying element you can imagine: this world has them all.] Lin En transmigrated into such a bizarre otherworld and became an apprentice at a potion shop. "Something is wrong with that man! He never uses anesthetic when performing surgery!" "That shop is a scam! The moment you go in, they find a pile of illnesses even if you are perfectly healthy!" "But wait, isn't that shop supposed to be the bes 138.3kReads9.6Score16.9k14d adds
- 10 Thriller: The Death Knight Is Actually Me? 惊悚：亡灵骑士竟是我自己？ [Horror Game + Survival + Brother Cheng] The horror game arrived. Yin Cheng, known as Brother Cheng. He awakened a special talent that raised monsters' favorability toward him. Then Yin Cheng realized that his horror game... seemed to be going completely off the rails! A towering ghost nurse begged Yin Cheng to give her an IV, holding out her drip bag; a graceful, aristocratic vampire countess refused to drink anyone's blood but Yin Cheng's; a shapeshifting painted-skin ghost chased him, begging 42.6kReads9.1Score4.3k14d adds
- 11 EN Call Me the Ghost Messenger 请叫我鬼差大人 After the Eternal Night, terror returned. Ten miles of desolate graves, eerie singing. An old man searching for his arms, a headless baby... They kept piecing their bodies back together, unleashing an even more terrifying aura. In the wasteland, even a severed hand could destroy heaven and earth. In this world of darkness and despair, a post office appeared and vanished from view... A mysterious young man, a postal carriage traveling through the void... One blood-red letter after another became 102.2kReads9.5Score9.6k14d adds
- 12 EN I'm Not a God of Theater 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 1.7MReads9.9Score178.8k14d adds
- 13 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 113kReads9.5Score12.3k14d adds
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Eerie Revival: I’m Covered in Taboos and Slaughter My Way Through the Haunted Realm 诡异复苏：我满身禁忌杀穿诡域
“Since Heaven took pity on me and let me be reborn, I’ll fight my way through this terminally ill world in this life!” The occult returns. Monsters and demons roam, mountains of corpses and seas of blood spread, and screams fill the land. Only Divine Mark Masters are a light in this diseased world. Anyone with a pattern on their body has a chance of becoming a Divine Mark Master. One person has leukemia and transforms into a white-winged angel who metes out judgment in every direction. Another h
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- 15 Eerie Revival: I Can Avoid the Side Effects 诡异复苏：我能豁免副作用 Note: The motion comic adaptation of the same name is now available!!! [Heh heh heh, this System has met its performance targets. From here on, you're on your own, Host. Bye-bye!] Su Che had just transmigrated into a high school student's body when the System's AI core ran off. To make matters worse, everyone on campus went berserk after being infested by strange creatures. Relying on the immunity trait the System left behind, Su Che embarks on a journey to grow stronger in this world of the 8kReads7.1Score1.3k14d adds
- 16 The Ninth-Rank Demon Exorcist 九品驱魔人 When the sun sets, every door in the city is shut! Evil spirits open their eyes, and monsters run rampant! The Wei Constables mount the city walls, while exorcists draw their swords. An apprentice from a martial arts school stands proudly amid the demons, determined to protect one last sanctuary. 70.7kReads9.1Score7.7k14d adds
- 17 The Supernatural Revival: Every Vengeful Ghost I Control Crashes 诡异复苏，被我驾驭的厉鬼都死机 (The rating has just come out and is fairly low. It'll rise later.) (Mysterious revival setting + power fantasy + fast-paced + original dungeons + no female lead) In an age of the Five Turbidities, hell lies empty, evil spirits revive, and the human world becomes a living hell. My name is Xiao Yi. From the start, I face a mysterious old man from the Republican era and gain control of a ghostly mouth. I will devour every evil spirit in the world Become the one and only god, and bring this paranor 8.2kReads6.1Score53614d adds
- 18 Thriller Game: I Get a Ghost Every Day from the Sign-In 惊悚游戏：每天签到一只鬼 When Zhao Jing wakes up, he finds himself chosen to enter a horror game. Forced into a dead end from the start, Zhao Jing struggles to survive under the threat of vengeful ghosts. Then his System awakens, granting him one ghost as a sign-in reward every day. Little by little, countless ghosts accumulate inside him. If he can’t see the ghosts, he’ll replace his eyes with a pair of ghost eyes. If he can’t hear them, he’ll replace his ears with a pair of ghost ears... Even he doesn’t know whether h 279Reads5.7Score—14d adds
- 19 While Others Cultivate Immortality, I Wander at Leisure; Roaming the Three Realms, I Attain Eternal Life 别人修仙我闲逛，游历三界终长生 [Traveling through the cultivation world] [Not a traditional level-up story] [A Laanke-style beginning] [No heroine] [No angst] [Not brainless] The protagonist transmigrates into the Three Realms, hoping to cling to a powerful patron and seek immortality, only to discover a book called the Record of All Spirits of the Mountains and Seas deep in his mind. The book has one flaw: meditating and cultivating doesn’t increase his progress, and secluding himself to cultivate is guaranteed to get him no 80kReads8.5Score7.4k14d adds
- 20 Frozen Apocalypse: I’ll Survive to the End 末世冰封：我要活到最后 [Post-apocalypse + rebirth + stockpiling supplies + zero-dollar shopping + revenge + multiple female leads] “Sir, you haven’t paid for your purchases.” “What? Money? The old master already paid.” With that, Chen Nian pulled out a pistol and fired, ending the Black man’s life. Then he rode off on his motorcycle, cool as could be. After living through the apocalypse, Chen Nian was reborn with the flames of vengeance burning in his eyes. He would make everyone who had hurt him pay: his cheating gi 2Reads—Score—14d adds
- 21 EN The Black Fog Descends: I Am the Taboo 黑雾降临：我为禁忌 [Sequences] [Cthulhu] [Slow burn] [No female lead] Sixteen years ago, a blood-red meteor tore across the dawn and descended upon the world. No one knew how terrifyingly strange the world humans knew would become because of its arrival. From that day on, a black fog that engulfed the entire world descended. Among humanity, people with immensely powerful abilities known as Sequence holders began to appear. With a wave of their hands, they could destroy cities and mountains, but the world had alrea 5.9kReads8.9Score79914d adds
- 22 Me, a Cultivation Big Shot: How Much Stronger Can I Get? 我，修仙大佬强亿点怎么了 "Soul Ferryman + No Romance + Story Arc Adventures + Spiritual Qi Revival + Cultivation + Invincible" Yun Miao, a cultivation powerhouse who has lived for thousands of years, sets out to uncover her origins. She volunteers to become a ferryman, guiding vengeful ghosts to the afterlife. The ghosts are full of resentment, hatred, and longing. She works diligently, her heart as firm as stone, yet can never uncover the mystery of her origins. Until one day... The Taoist priests of the Xuanmen 27.1kReads9.2Score5.5k14d adds
- 23 The Boy Who Rules the Apocalypse 末世少年掌控者 [Reborn + Invincible + No holier-than-thou heroine + Spatial abilities + Beast taming + Stockpiling supplies] When the apocalypse arrived, everyone else hid and struggled to survive, while Chen Tian had a blast killing monsters wherever he went. He evolved billions of steps ahead of everyone else and never missed a single opportunity. (Evolution ranks: Evolver, Awakened, Controller) 33.5kReads7.9Score2.8k14d adds
- 24 Disaster Apocalypse: Scavenging Global Supplies from the Start 天灾末世：开局搜刮全球物资 Apocalypse + rebirth + spatial ability + stockpiling supplies + shelter + revenge In 2035, the Cambrian Storm erupted across the globe, and nine out of ten people on Blue Star died in the apocalypse. Ning Fei was brutally murdered by his wife's family. He was reborn before doomsday struck and also gained a mysterious space capable of storing countless supplies. With his precise knowledge of the future timeline, he amassed hundreds of billions in funds. Using his spatial ability, he scavenged 2.6kReads6.8Score17114d adds
- 25 Unable to Evolve, I Have No Choice but to Fuse with the Sharingan! 无法进化的我，只好融合写轮眼！ Your name is Chen Nian! One day, an accident made you transmigrate. You arrived in an apocalyptic world overrun by countless monsters and exotic beasts, where humanity was evolving and mutating. When you opened your eyes, you realized you were in trouble. Someone had set up your father, leaving him deep in debt. The men responsible were arrogant: they brought their underlings to your home, smashed everything, and terrified your sick mother and young sister until they huddled trembling in a corne 490Reads6.1Score—14d adds
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The Original The Grave Robbers' Chronicles 原著盗墓笔记
The Grave Robbers' Chronicles is an immensely popular Chinese novel by Nanpai Sanshu. It follows Wu Xie and his companions on a series of adventures as they explore and raid tombs. The original work, The Grave Robbers' Chronicles, is also known as Nanpai's Grave Robbers' Chronicles. It starts slowly, but the later chapters are packed with danger, desperate escapes, and one thrilling moment after another.
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I've Already Ascended, Yet You're Telling Me to Take the College Entrance Exam? 我都飞升了，你叫我去高考？
Ning Wangshu transmigrates to the cultivation world and spends nearly ten thousand years becoming the greatest cultivator in the immortal path, before finally ascending to immortality. But after ascending, he discovers that he hasn't entered the Immortal Realm at all. He's returned to Earth, where only a little over three months have passed, and the college entrance exams are just around the corner... And so, this year's graduating class gains an invincible immortal who has ascended to the highe
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Supernatural Awakening: I Can Become a Demon King 诡异复苏：我能化身大妖
[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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- 29 EN 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 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 232kReads9.5Score28.6k14d adds
- 30 Horror Games Invade: I Spent Ten Billion to Become the Ghost King 诡异游戏入侵，氪金十亿当鬼王 The protagonist, Lin En, was reborn and returned to ten days before the horror game invaded reality! The only way to fight back was a real-world anime-style horror game called Ghost Raising! The ghosts raised in the game would appear beside Lin En and protect him when the supernatural game invaded reality! So, before the invasion, Lin En began frantically spending money on gacha pulls and raising ghosts. Red wedding dresses, snow maidens, gothic lolitas, little demons… He raised them all! Te 13.8kReads9.3Score2.7k14d adds
- 31 The Eerie Spirit Medium: My Doll Can Really Manifest Spirits 诡异降神师：我的娃娃真能显灵 [Ghosts in the Book!] [Dark Tone!] [Villain Protagonist!] [Urban Supernatural!] [Horror Aesthetic!] [Invincible from the Start!] A sinister doll saws someone to pieces, a red-clad vengeful ghost claims lives at the airport, a hundred ghosts hunt people down along a ten-mile street, the dead rise again in a crematorium, and corpses dance wildly in an abandoned hospital... None of these things happened to me. They are all stories I wrote. My name is Yang Ning. I am an heir to the Ling Men, a profe 135.6kReads9.5Score11.8k14d adds
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