Looking for Gory Horror Stories That Are Terrifying to Read at Midnight 求血腥恐怖的，适合半夜很吓人的
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Infinite: The Frail Beauty Whips Ghosts with a Pointer 无限：病弱美人拿着教鞭就抽诡
The shou is the main character. Shen Qingtang often dreams that he owns a kindergarten, though the students there are a little unusual. An octopus covered in sharp teeth and tentacles: “Principal, my tentacles are tangled!” A monster whose body can be taken apart: “Teacher, I can’t find my head.” A giant eyeball: “Teacher, my eye hurts. Do I have pinkeye?” … Later, his health grew worse and worse, and he was forced into a death game. All the supernatural horrors inside had come from his kinderg
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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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Doomsday: While Everyone Else Goes Hungry, I Pick Up Girls 末日：别人饿肚子，而我捡妹子
The whole world changed overnight, and more than ninety percent of the population became the walking dead! Plants and animals grew in defiance of nature, and all kinds of mutated monsters appeared one after another! This wasn’t just the end of the world. It was a grand feast celebrating the splendor of life!
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- 4 Doomsday: The Road to Ruin 末日绝途 Blue rain began to fall from the sky. Unknown monsters suddenly descended upon this world. Human society collapsed in an instant. No cheats, no protagonist's halo, no spiritual qi revival! Every step we take leads us closer to despair! To those who died at the very beginning of the apocalypse, I envy you, because you never had to experience a despair more despairing than death. My name is Chen Ge. I will witness the coming of the apocalypse. 60.4kReads8.9Score4kShelves
- 5 My Cultivation Progress Carries Over from a Cultivation Mobile Game? I'll Spend Ten Billion! 修仙手游反馈修为？我氪金十亿！ Also known as I Am a Legend. Lin Yu was killed in a battle against a demon boss, only to be reborn ten years in the past. At that point, the mobile game Misty Immortal Path had yet to start granting players the cultivation they earned in the game! What a lucky break! Lin Yu immediately sold off all his possessions and spent a billion yuan in the game! Lin Yu took first place on every leaderboard. When the game shut down its payment channel and began granting players their cultivation, everyone w 28.7kReads8.9Score2.5kShelves
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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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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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- 8 At University Orientation, the Drill Instructor Sees Me and Snaps to Attention 大学报道，军训教官见我立正敬礼 This book is also known as “The Simp Finally Wakes Up, and the Black-Stocking Campus Beauty Is Extremely Fertile!” After transmigrating, Gu Linfeng awakens a System. But for the System to awaken, he has to leave the army and enroll in college. Otherwise, he’ll be forcibly erased. To save his own life, Gu Linfeng enrolls at the Shanghai Conservatory of Music, where his girlfriend studies. On registration day, he catches his girlfriend cheating. Finally seeing the truth, Gu Linfeng tears into the 29.2kReads8.8Score2.2kShelves
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Thriller Game: From the Start, I Helped Monsters Make Choices 惊悚游戏：开局帮鬼怪做选择
[Horror game dungeons + career-based progression + NPCs caught in a rat race + livestreaming + everyday-life style] Jiang Ye’s daily routine consists of working, studying, working... Then one day, he’s pulled into a horror game during class and awakens an all-career talent. He discovers that all his career skills are a little strange. From the start, he unlocks the career “Small-Town Exam Machine,” with an added skill that lets him make choices for ghosts and monsters. [A difficult choice has ap
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The Psychological Anatomist 心理解剖者
[Signed for publication] Genius Forensic Doctor VS Tough-as-Nails Police Captain [Mystery + deduction + sweet romance + high-IQ crimes + serial murders + criminal profiling + suitable for the timid] Original title: The Psychological Anatomist Schizophrenia, antisocial personality disorder, high-IQ crimes... This is a world overrun by psychopaths. The Cat-Fetus Man case, the Couple Butchers, the Angel of Death... Twisted fantasies of evil always burst into reality alongside violence. A corpse is
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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
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- 12 Rule Horror: I Am the Horror School 规则怪谈：我是恐怖校园 [Not Invincible + No System + Not Wish Fulfillment + Protagonist Suffering + Literary Suspense] Though it has happened countless times, this time I won’t endure it any longer. After I die, I’ll become an evil ghost and search for the answer that will save me. 1Reads—Score—Shelves
- 13 The Super Son-in-Law 超级上门女婿 Ye Fan, a useless live-in son-in-law, accidentally inherits the Taiji Scripture and the Stone of Life and Death, setting him on a very different path in life. He saves beautiful women with his medical skills and slays enemies with his martial arts. Not only does he overcome the scorn and ridicule of others and win his wife's heart, he also rises to the pinnacle of the world, looking down on all creation. 180.1kReads9.1Score8.6kShelves
- 14 Wife, Are You Human or Ghost? 娘子你到底是人是鬼？ [Neither ghost nor god, neither human nor demon + no romance + a girl squad + no love stories, just monster-hunting] A delicate young lady and a little maid travel through mountains and rivers. The half-human, half-ghost lady loves to eat ghosts. Her golden, one-eyed gaze sees through spirits and monsters, while her maid is a skilled ghost cook who takes meticulous care of her. The lady wanders the mortal world in search of the missing half-inch of her heart. Without it, she cannot be human. Wh 4.8kReads9.4Score810Shelves
- 15 Ghosts, Ghosts, Gossip, Gossip: Even Ghosts Love Gossip! 鬼鬼鬼，瓜瓜瓜，鬼吃瓜！ [The Supernatural + Fortune-Telling + Ghost-Hunting + Everyone's Favorite + Livestreaming + No Romance] [Also known as My Home Is the Underworld, and We All Earn Its Keep] The Wen family's biological daughter was finally found. She came from the mountains and spouted nonsense like a little charlatan, so everyone in the business was waiting to laugh at her. Within just a few days, the young tyrant of the Song family was chasing after her, begging to become her underling. The Xiao clan treated her 1.7kReads8.9Score213Shelves
- 16 A Hundred Ghosts Roaming the Night? That’s Just Our Ancestors Hunting Ghosts to Extend Their Lives 百鬼夜行？那是老祖宗捉鬼续命呢 [Supernatural Mysteries + Modern Romance + Imaginative Premise + Rekindled Love] Before ascending, the lazy old ancestor of the mystic sect was reported to the Lord of the Heavenly Dao for constantly playing pranks on a fellow cultivator from the neighboring temple. As she was ascending, 999 bolts of heavenly lightning struck her dead. She was reborn in the body of someone with the same name, then forcibly bound to a “No work, no life” life-extension System. Now she spends every day catching gh 107Reads8.5Score—Shelves
- 17 I Inherited a Joss Stick and Candle Shop 我继承了一家香烛店 Bai Linlin had just graduated when she was involved in a car accident that had been planned long in advance. After being discharged from the hospital, she had to use a wheelchair for a while, so she decided to take over the incense and candle shop her grandmother had left her. The shop served both the living and the dead, and business was far busier than Bai Linlin had expected. Especially business from the underworld. Fortunately, it was right up the alley of Bai Linlin, who came from a family 101Reads8.4Score—Shelves
- 18 The Ghost Ancestor Has Arrived! The Heavenly Dao Retreats, and the Six Realms Kneel 鬼祖降临！天道退！六界齐跪拜 [Main story complete] She was once the Ghost Path Ancestor who shook the Six Realms. She died in a single day and was sealed away for a thousand years. The day she borrowed a corpse to return to life would be the day she reclaimed her place in the Six Realms. Watch as she commands ten thousand beasts, controls all things, and rules over every living being in all the worlds. She swears to overthrow this so-called Heavenly Dao!! "Have you heard? That arrogant Demon Lord has been secretly in lo 5.6kReads8.9Score841Shelves
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Wasn't This a Dating Show? How Did It Turn into a Battle Royale? 不是恋综吗？怎么整上大逃杀了
[Ridiculous comedy + mildly spooky supernatural elements + unhinged antics] [Unhinged queen VS pretentious guy] The good news: Yun Yu transmigrated into a book and became a rich, beautiful heiress! The bad news: her family went bankrupt right before her eyes. Even worse, her husband was about to divorce her, and she wouldn’t get a single cent! She might as well not have transmigrated at all. To pay off her debts, Yun Yu was forced to join a dating reality show that would have the original owner
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The Great Coroner: Xilai, Another One’s Dead 大仵作：喜来，又死一个
She was a posthumous child pulled from a pile of corpses. She spent her days among the dead, playing with skulls and amusing herself by catching maggots. To uncover the truth behind her adoptive father's death, she even took it upon herself to dissect a corpse. Others mocked her as a freak and kept their distance, but the ruthless commander of the realm's forces doted on her beyond measure. Dismemberment and cremation, for love or for money. In this bizarre world, joy comes from seeing clearly f
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- 21 Death Began at School 死亡从学校开始了 Ghosts are the product of an imbalance between yin and yang. In this vast world, people are all different in character, and their souls are just as varied after death. The virtuous return to pure lands and enjoy the blessings of the afterlife; the wicked and violent turn into vengeful spirits, their resentment gathering until it takes the form of a ghost. These specters wander between yin and yang, but most conceal their forms and rarely appear before the living. [No cultivation, no System, no h 307Reads—Score—Shelves
- 22 I’m Terrifying After I Die 我死后超凶的 [Supernatural revival] [Eerie horror] [Mystery and suspense] A young woman made of yellow paper found Lin Yi. “Don’t hurt me. I’m a good person, kindhearted, and I even help old ladies cross the street.” “I want you to help me with something: catch... wraiths!” “Ah, I can’t...” The young woman stared at Lin Yi, her gaze distant. “I wasn’t talking to you.” “Huh?” “I was talking to the ‘him’ inside your body.” Lin Yi: !? 32Reads—Score—Shelves
- 23 Horror 恐怖 A collection of little horror tales, mostly featuring particularly frightening legends, some of them terrifying d(ŐдŐ๑). The protagonist has not been decided upon, and the stories may be told in the third, first, or second person. —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 24 Horror Revival: From the Start, I Obtain a Ghost Puzzle Piece 恐怖复苏：开局获得鬼拼图 Zhou Yu is reborn into a world plagued by supernatural horrors, and from the start he encounters ghostly wailing. At this critical moment, A female homeowner offers her magnificent bosom... He takes control of a ghostly puzzle piece with one hand, subdues the ghostly wailing on the spot, and becomes a powerful ghost handler. From then on, Zhou Yu gains the terrifying power to fight and contain evil spirits. [Ghostly Touch on the Head]: If an evil spirit touches your head, your body is instantly 786Reads—Score—Shelves
- 25 I Own a Horror Experience House 我有一家恐怖体验馆 To preserve his memories with his grandfather, Lin Bang decides to keep the wax museum open and turn it into a horror attraction. He unlocks the warehouse his grandfather had sealed away to create a more terrifying experience, but that very night, all kinds of inexplicable things begin to happen. These wax figures... are alive. 24Reads—Score—Shelves
- 26 Horror Academy: Dormitory 404 恐怖学院：404凶舍 A sensational incident once occurred at the academy. It was later completely covered up. Five years later, the academy opened its doors again. 2kReads—Score182Shelves
- 27 I Created Chinese-Style Horror and Ushered in the Age of the Supernatural 独创中式恐怖，我引领了诡异时代 [Chinese-Style Horror] [Horror Designer] [Eerie Revival] A curtain of blood covered the globe, and the highly anticipated horror show Horror Designer went on air. The production team put out a call for horror works across the internet. Anyone whose submission was accepted could become a Level 1 Horror Designer and gain the power to fight the eerie entities of the Black Fog. And if you were lucky enough to make it through round after round and win the ultimate Fear Prize, you could become a god i 6.7kReads7.4Score550Shelves
- 28 Taming Ghost Pets: Chinese-Style Horror Scares the World! 驾驭鬼宠：中式恐怖吓哭世界！ [Ghost Control + System + Comedy + Passionate Battles + Pure Satisfaction + Overpowered + Absolutely Invincible!] No female lead, though there’ll be just a tiny bit of romance during his time at the academy... After a bizarre transmigration, Zhang Yang obtains the Ghost Control System! In this age of ghost tamers, Zhang Yang has the complete collection of Chinese horror at his fingertips, turning his life into a game with cheats enabled! Mother-and-child evil spirits, and deadly collisions betw 429Reads7.3Score100Shelves
- 29 Horror Highlights: The Ten Most Terrifying Moments 恐怖剪辑：十大惊悚名场面 [Ding! The Top Ten Most Terrifying Iconic Scenes have been revealed.] [Any ‘person’ who makes this ranking must be among the most terrifying, horrifying, fear-spreading masters in the world of ten thousand ghosts.] Pennywise: Tell me, is it scarier to eat people or to scare them!? Heh heh heh… Chor Man: Believe it or not, I’ll come to your house through the toilet! Lin Zhengying: Insolent! You lowly ghost dare to act out in front of me? I’ll make your soul vanish into thin air. Kayako: And how a 1.2kReads—Score—Shelves
- 30 The Hermit Wanyan's First Book 惘然居士的第1本书 Luo Chen was sleeping at home when, without warning, he woke up in an infinite-horror world. It is a dangerous place known as the World of Reincarnation! Here, a glowing orb called the “Main God” throws people from the real world who feel disillusioned, numb, or hopeless about life into a bizarre cycle of reincarnation! Every ten days, the Main God forces them to enter a horror-movie world and take on a series of dangerous missions. They can survive only by completing them. Watch how the protago 202Reads5.8Score—Shelves
- 31 The Haunted Coffin 诡棺 When the coffin opens, the living are doomed to grief! My sister-in-law hanged herself, but no one could take her body down from the white cloth... As it turned out, I had been burdened with a mission from the very beginning, one that would push me down a strange and sinister path! 729Reads—Score101Shelves
- 32 Living in America, I Start with a Chinese-Style Haunted House 人在老美，开局中式鬼屋 American Horror: Five people recklessly enter a haunted house, and none make it out alive; Chinese Horror: Five people recklessly enter a haunted house, and six people make it out; I’ll prove that all Americans are cowards! 616Reads—Score—Shelves
- 33 The Haunted Apartment: I Turn Out to Be the Final Boss 猛鬼公寓，我竟然才是大BOSS Welcome to Happy Apartments: There’s a friendly atmosphere and kind neighbors. Every night, they come out to talk with you about life and share their dreams for the next one. So, looking for a place to rent? The haunted kind. 2.5kReads9.1Score201Shelves
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You Hired Me to Collect Bodies, So I Dissected My Ex-Girlfriend 让你当收尸人，你直接解刨了前女友
In anatomy class, the corpse turns out to be my ex-girlfriend... After that, I went through all sorts of unbelievable things. A bus that only goes up, never down, and runs straight to a reservoir. An old scholar tree in the hospital, lush with branches and leaves, that swallows people whole. A giant catfish by the Qingshui River, begging people for help every night. And a deadly brothel hung with human skin, open for business without end. It went on and on, as if it would never come to an end...
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- 35 EN City of Beasts 异兽迷城 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 478.1kReads9.7Score66.6kShelves
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Super Scary Livestream 超级惊悚直播
"Welcome, everyone, to the Supernatural Scary Live Stream. Before we start today's broadcast, I have to tell you that only three kinds of people can watch this stream: those with a heavy aura of yin energy, those who will die within seven days, and the third kind, which I can't discuss in detail. I can only give you one warning: watch your back!"
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Beast Taming: In the Urban Legend Dungeon, I'm the Lazy King from the Start 御兽：怪谈副本，开局我是懒大王
[Rules-based horror + beast taming + comedy + System + no romance] The protagonist isn't a bleeding heart! (This isn't traditional beast taming or a national-fate rules horror story, so feel free to dive in.) After waking from a night's sleep, Lin Yu found himself transmigrated into a parallel world where people mainly made contracts with the supernatural. He was also a soon-to-be senior in high school, training to become a supernatural beast tamer?! "All I did was stay up late watching Blue Fox
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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
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Horror Arena: From the Start, a Red-and-White Collision Scares the World to Tears 恐怖擂台：开局红白撞煞吓哭全球
A horror arena has descended upon Blue Star. Each nation must summon a terrifying entity to fight for it. The winners will see their national fortunes flourish and endure for all eternity. The losers will see their national fortunes decline, their resources and territory plundered, and their dignity stripped away. To claim victory, nations everywhere summon horrors native to their lands. The Sakura Nation has the Slit-Mouthed Woman, the Red Cape, the Four Great Female Ghosts, and the Hundred Gho
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High Seas Survival: I Start with a Ghost Ship 全民大航海，我开局一条幽灵船
The print edition has been signed with a publisher. [Seafaring] [Survival] [Disasters] [Shipbuilding] [Talents] [Cthulhu] [One Female Lead] Everyone transmigrates, and Yang Yi, as a player, is forced to join a game where everyone must survive at sea. Some lucky players get special ships. Like the Iron Will, armed to the teeth. Like the Gale, which rides the wind and waves so fast it's never in sight. Like the Head-On, with its massive ram, charging fearlessly ahead. But Yang Yi's ship is called
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The Flower Kaleidoscope of Death 《死亡的花筒》
The Kaleidoscope of Death
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The Ancient Tomb in the Desolate Village 荒村古坟
Ancient Tomb in a Desolate Village
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- 43 The Ancient Curse of the Desolate Village 荒村古咒 Ancient Curse of a Desolate Village —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 44 Love and Cruelty in the Desolate Village (Research Institute) 荒村虐爱（研究所） Tortured Love in a Desolate Village (Research Institute) —Reads—Score—Shelves
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The Useless Prince: Why Are You Forcing Me to Become Emperor? 废物皇子：为何要逼我做皇帝？
He is the empire’s useless prince! But his own father, the emperor, wants him dead. The crown prince wants him dead. His brothers all want him dead. Even the most beautiful woman under heaven wants him dead! To survive, he trains an invincible army and builds a hidden paradise. He brings the Hundred Schools of Thought to heel, drawing capable ministers, mighty generals, and reclusive masters from every corner of the land to his side. All the beauties under heaven dream of becoming his bride. Ami
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The Language of the Three Corpses 三尸语
You’ve heard of people who died with their eyes open, but have you ever heard of a dead person whose mouth wouldn’t close? His grandfather’s death turns the life of a broke college student upside down. A corpse glares, a soul is hooked; a corpse opens its mouth, and disaster strikes twice. As one bizarre incident after another unfolds, he accidentally discovers that there’s far more to it than ghosts…
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- 47 The Horror Realm: Entering the Strange World from a Psychiatric Hospital 惊悚领域：从精神病院进入诡世界 (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 335.3kReads9.5Score66.6kShelves
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Infinite Escape: I Earn Rent Money in Horror Games 无限逃生：我在惊悚游戏里挣房费
[Infinite flow + horror, suspense, and mystery-solving + strong female lead + team + plot-focused] [Ding~ Welcome, player, to the Survival Inn! Please do your best to clear the instances and earn your room fees~ We offer dormitory rooms, guesthouse rooms, hotel rooms, and more, as well as a top-tier luxury VIP club waiting for you to unlock~] A gloomy, blood-soaked compound A school crawling with death A cursed painting that brings death to anyone who looks at it An old village teeming with stra
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My Eerie Wife 诡妻
I married my boss's mistress to take over the mess, and every night, she won't let me get a good night's sleep…
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- 50 The Eerie Apocalypse: I Play a Fake Human, and I Am Calamity! 诡异末世：扮演伪人，我即灾厄！ [New premise] [New setting] [Infinite Flow] [Not a power fantasy] “Don't trust him! He died three days ago!” “Ye Kai, are you a fake person or not?” Facing his neighbors' terrified questions, Ye Kai calmly shook his head. “I can't prove that I'm not a fake person, but I can tell you this.” “Your memories have been altered. The fake person... is among you.” [Not invincible] [No System] [The protagonist has no cheat abilities] The uncanny descended, shattering the world into countless fragments. H 8.6kReads8.7Score849Shelves
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