Looking for a Book: An Infinite Survival Horror Novel Where All the Main Characters Are Students 寻找一本书,无限生存惊悚小说,主角都是学生
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Horror Descends: The Ghost Gate 恐怖降临【鬼门】
Horror + supernatural + suspense + survival + infinite worlds + twists A world of horror descends, and countless Gates of the Dead suddenly appear. Those selected must enter the gates and make a desperate escape. Some gates are formed from horror novels. Some are formed from horror movies. Some are formed from tales of evil spirits. Some are formed from bizarre imaginings. Entering a Gate of the Dead means your life has started counting down. Who can make it out alive? “If you're curious abo
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Rule Horror: The Haunted School 规则怪谈:诡异学校
[System + Mystery + Deduction] I grew up in an ordinary family. To broaden my horizons in another city, I deliberately applied to a university far from home. But then strange things began happening one after another: bizarre campus rules, a mysterious countdown, and the secrets hidden behind the school slowly coming to light...
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The Supernatural Returns, and the Eternal Night Begins 灵异复苏,永夜降临
[Supernatural horrors descend + no System + fresh worldbuilding + survival + semi-infinite-flow + no do-gooder protagonist + not dark + supernatural abilities] In the best years of his life, amid the exuberance of youth, Su Yuan thought his days would remain peaceful and beautiful forever. Then a line of bloody text appeared on the blackboard during evening study. [In the silent night, a terrifying ghost appears outside your dorm room... How long will it take to kill you?] Everyone thought it wa
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A Zombie Apocalypse from the Start, and I Awaken a God-Tier Card Talent 开局丧尸末世,觉醒神级卡牌天赋
[No rebirth] [No cheating] [No cliches] [No revenge] [But it's absurd] [I witnessed the end of the world. I watched the gods fall. I am the harbinger of the apocalypse.] Jiang Chen was chosen by the Apocalypse System and had no choice but to enter one apocalyptic world after another. Bioengineered zombies, torrential floods, scorching heat, an ice age, nuclear wastelands, uncanny forces awakening... Every apocalypse was incredibly dangerous, but Jiang Chen gained one conceptual godlike abili
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Surviving in a Doomsday Apartment, While I Have Infinite Clones! 末日公寓求生,而我无限分身!
Everyone across the globe is transported to a series of apocalyptic apartments! Everyone awakens a talent and struggles to survive in their apartment. Jiang Ye and his classmates are transported to the same beginner apartment! Classmate A: Listen up, I awakened an S-rank talent! Classmate B: That’s great! With an S-rank talent, we’re saved! Classmate C: We’re all classmates. We should help one another! Classmate D: Big shot with an S-rank talent, carry us to victory! Jiang Ye awakens an X-rank t
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The Odd-Even Mirror 奇偶镜
A seasoned reader of infinite-loop novels versus a big shot from the Odd-Even Mirror An innocent, sunny heiress versus a cold, heartless young master. Childhood friends, neighbors, two years apart in age. After an accident, Shen Xiyan enters the world of the Odd-Even Mirror. She must pass through six mirrors, though she has to find out how many she needs to get through. The worlds inside the mirrors are inverted. There, she meets Bai Jingyi, who is trapped in the same mirror as her, and the two
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Getting to the Bottom of Mind-Reading 起底观心术
When I was five, a fortune-teller said I’d be able to read people’s minds when I grew up. My parents thought I was a genius and spent the whole family’s savings to send me to school. But I failed the college entrance exam and became a fried-noodle vendor. That vendor later became a “Walking Encyclopedia,” all thanks to the saying, “In books, there are houses of gold.” You are not just who you are. You can become a different kind of dazzling light. Read a comment on the first page, and you’ll get
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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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The Ice-Cold Giant Fish 冰冰巨鱼
[No System + no heroine + a touch of golden finger + farming + raising and developing + slow-burn survival + not a saint, but still compassionate] All of humanity transmigrates to a strange ocean world, where they must survive inside the stomach of a giant fish called the Illusory Leviathan. Humans must help the Illusory Leviathan clear harmful creatures from its stomach. In return, the Illusory Leviathan finds supply crates for them and helps them develop. The creatures in this ocean world are
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A City Under Siege by Zombies, Yet the Protagonist Is a Hopeless Romantic? 丧尸围城:主角却是个恋爱脑?
The apocalypse arrives, but this is no feel-good story, and there are no superpowers or chosen ones. Without warning, a zombie crisis sweeps through Yun City, turning the entire city into a living hell. The male lead is just an ordinary college student. He has neither money nor influence, and no special abilities or physique. In this desperate situation, what keeps him struggling to survive on campus is his deep love for his long-distance girlfriend and his constant concern for his family. He is
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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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God Gave You the Power of Deception, and You Turn Around and Trick Me? 神:赐你欺诈,你反过来骗我?
[A satisfying power fantasy + mind-bending twists + reversals + slow burn + battles of wits + nonstop thrills] When people all over the world were “kidnapped” and locked in a prison, they were forced to take part in a game of death. In this game, only the winners had the right to survive. Su Yang received the talent “Call Your Enemy Dad” from the start. [Call Your Enemy Dad: After activation, if you make another “player” call Su Yang “Dad,” you can control their actions.] But when the talent fai
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The Gods' Foolish Game 诸神愚戏
I have two principles in life: 1. I never lie. 2. I never believe anything anyone says, including myself. “Sir, I would like to point out that your second statement conflicts with the first.” “How so?” “If you never lie, why don’t you believe what you say?” “Oh, sorry. I forgot to mention that I don’t consider myself human.” “?” Allow me to introduce myself. My name is Cheng Shi, Cheng Shi who never lies. What, you’ve never heard of me? That’s all right. You simply haven’t been deceived by m
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I Am the Evil God, and This World Will Treat Me as a Forbidden Taboo for All Eternity 吾为邪神,此世当做万古禁忌
“I want you to cast aside every last bit of kindness and sink completely into the swamp of evil!” Amid a field of ruins, a boy reborn from death, a coffin bearer above the stars, a supreme body of gods and demons! A strange mask of gods and demons, a mysterious broken black sword, a person reborn with a burden of sin! Only after enduring every evil the world has to offer does one realize how many sinners there are! After countless trials, the boy takes up his sword, sees through the mortal world
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Terror: I Only Sell Haunted Houses 惊悚:我只卖凶宅
Rooms where unnatural deaths have occurred are collectively known as haunted houses. There are two kinds: “blue houses” and “red houses.” Living people can stay in blue houses without harm, but anyone who lives in a red house is doomed to die. I work as a real estate agent. One day, I accidentally sold a red house, and afterward, I began encountering terrifying things…
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Who Let Him Awaken His Talent? 谁让他觉醒天赋的?
[Everyone Changes Class + Mythology Awakens + Overpowered Leveling + Lighthearted Comedy + No System + No Female Lead] Su Yu transmigrates to a world where everyone changes class and awakens a talent. Monsters run rampant, and other races invade! Danger and opportunity go hand in hand! Only by becoming a class-changer, leveling up, and growing stronger can you stand at the top of the world! On the day of his class change, Su Yu becomes a mysterious hidden class: the Fate Jester. He gains the D-r
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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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Endless Killing Intent: The Grim Reaper's Judgment in a Horror Loop 无尽杀机:死神审判惊悚轮回
[Horror + thrills + wish fulfillment + no female lead] Qin Ye transmigrates to a parallel world teeming with criminals and obtains a miraculous Death God Judgment System. It can pull evildoers into illusory worlds of horror, where they must endure terrifying cycles of judgment! The Death God delivers judgment as a warning to all: make them suffer by their own methods! Good is rewarded with good, and evil with evil. If retribution has not come, its time has simply not yet arrived! Over time, Qin
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The Whole Dorm Was Reborn: The Apocalypse's First Girl Group Goes on a Rampage 全寝重生,末世第一女团杀疯了
Reborn in the apocalypse + quick transmigration with the whole group + a truly powerful heroine and a thrilling read + no romance, everyone is ruthless + overwhelming combat power + conquering the globe multiple times + stockpiling supplies amid the zombies + passionate action with no rivalry between women + reigning as two emperors at the height of her power Luo Jiu and her roommates fought desperately to survive the apocalypse for half a month, only to die together in an utterly unbelievable
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The Age of Dawn 黎明纪元
After the war, humanity rebuilt civilization on the wasteland. Water, food, and even a place to stand had to be fought for ruthlessly. When Qin Mu, whose genetic chain had shattered, accidentally obtained an ancient inheritance, he set out to bring this dark age to an end…
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Apocalypse: The Sixth Era 末世:第六纪元
[Don't read this one. Back then, the old man was lovesick, stopped updating, and never finished writing it.] Li Ming, who spent ten years in the apocalypse, is unexpectedly reborn in his days at Cambridge University. He rushes back to Longguo to stockpile supplies, kill zombies, and seek the truth. Given another chance at life, he vows to put his regrets to rest, understand the gaps in history, and find out who lies in the coffin. But he never expected the cruel apocalypse to deal him such a
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The Haunted City of Dreams 诡梦迷城
[Manhua adaptation and high-quality live-action audio drama now available] [Infinite progression + mystery + mind-bending puzzles + supernatural powers + paranormal horror. No System, no harem, no brainless plot. Read with caution if these are deal-breakers.] When I woke up, everything around me had become eerie and terrifying. My dead roommate called me, repeating over and over the struggle of his final moments... A pair of slender, snow-white legs appeared mysteriously on a bed in the boys' do
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Remember! Never Go to Sleep After Midnight! 记住!千万不要在0点后睡觉!
[All-New Original Setting + High Martial Arts + No System] When language is restricted. Desperate people like them roar warnings to others, but in everyone else’s ears, their words become a string of gibberish. They are labeled mentally ill, rabid, and accused of spouting incomprehensible nonsense. But hidden in that nonsense is the danger that this world is about to be destroyed. Can you figure out what they’re saying?
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Lights Out at 10:30, Anyone Who Makes a Sound Dies 十点半熄灯,出声者死
The one and only piece of advice. Do not! Break! The rules! [No System; One Female Lead; Global Anomalies; Awakened Powers; A Touch of Horror] Also known as “I Told You Not to Break the Rules,” “Breaking the Rules Really Does Get You Killed,” and “You Die If You Talk After Lights Out, Where’s the Justice?” Rule-based incidents descend upon the entire world. This is a world where rules can kill. From household rules to the laws of the land, rules are gradually taking on physical form. Whenever a
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The Deadly Game: A Rendezvous with the Devil 绝杀游戏:我和魔鬼有个幽会
[Original scenarios + infinite-flow + no System + no formulaic tropes + no invincible protagonist. This book is about storytelling, not wish fulfillment! And it’s not padded!] Have you ever been in love with the devil? Cao Xian was an ordinary office worker. He should have married an ordinary woman and lived an ordinary, uneventful life. But fate played a cruel joke on him. An incredibly beautiful woman suddenly entered his life and started pursuing him. Even though he couldn’t believe it, he co
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Rule Horror: I Can See Hidden Clues 规则怪谈:我能看到隐藏提示
The world of supernatural tales has arrived, and everyone must follow the rules! After hundreds of years, the world of supernatural tales has appeared once more. Sun Kai accidentally transmigrates into it, becoming one of the first contestants representing his nation’s fate. They carry the fate of Xia Nation on their shoulders! If they win, they survive, Xia Nation’s fortunes rise, and its people all benefit. If they lose, they die, the nation’s fortunes fall, and supernatural tales invade the
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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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Horror Revival: The Haunted Amusement Park 恐怖复苏:惊悚乐园
Demons and monsters have returned, and countless evil spirits have appeared all over the world! In a school dormitory, the vengeful spirit of a girl in a red wedding dress, who hanged herself years ago, slowly opens her scarlet eyes! At a construction site, a corpse bricked up inside a wall bursts through it, glaring at the world with bitter hatred! From dry wells and rivers to crematoriums, evil spirits descend upon the world in droves!
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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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Even the Heavenly Court Fears the Ghosts I Raise 我养的鬼连天庭都忌惮
[Overpowered protagonist] [Satisfying story] [The strongest Celestial Master] Twenty years ago, five-year-old Zhang Ze was taken away by a mysterious old man. When he returned, he brought a host of ghosts with him. He was the strongest Celestial Master, and the only living earthly immortal in the world today. “Zhang Ze, just how strong are you now?” When an elderly Celestial Master from Longhu Mountain asked out of curiosity, Zhang Ze was about to answer when the ghost infant perched on his shou
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Tales of Folk Taboos 民间禁忌杂谈
A pig butcher never slaughters a pig with five toes. The village guardian never guards a village with a temple. A feng shui master never selects a lair of an evil dragon. A midwife must wash her hands in rooster’s blood. There are three hundred and sixty trades in the world, and every one has its rules. Are these ancient, mysterious rules really nothing more than empty formalities? If I told you that some rules must never be broken, because breaking them means death, would you believe me?
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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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Born of a Corpse, Carried in a Ghost's Coffin 尸生子,鬼抬棺
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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Terror in the Haunted Dorm 诡寝惊魂
I got a job as a dorm supervisor in a university women’s residence, but the girls there were a little too friendly… Crying in the middle of the night, dorm rooms catching fire, rooms that don’t exist. Hidden in the deepest corners of memory is a bizarre and fantastical world… The night is deep, the dream unfinished. A mountain spirit blows out the lamp. Where can a lonely soul return?
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Heavenly Abyss 天渊
(The print edition has been published and is available to buy online) A hundred years ago, Chen Qingyuan entered a forbidden zone called the Heavenly Abyss. His soul lamp went out, and everyone believed he was dead. Today, Chen Qingyuan has emerged from the forbidden zone alive, but his cultivation has been destroyed and his spiritual roots severed. With his beloved breaking off their engagement and the various sects bullying him, what is Chen Qingyuan supposed to do? “Chen Qingyuan, you have tw
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Such a Good Girl 好一个乖乖女
[Print edition signed] [Short drama now streaming] [Sweet romance with a touch of angst] [Fake-good, scheming heroine x domineering wealthy tyrant] [Both leads are each other’s only one] Duan Xiuming first met Lu Mingyu at a wedding. She was stunningly beautiful, yet looked like a well-behaved good girl, sitting off to the side and painting because someone had told her to. “Boring woman,” he judged. But in the blink of an eye, Lu Mingyu gave him a huge surprise! She destroyed her painting and co
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My Left Eye Can See Through Everything 我的左眼可以看穿一切
[A nobody's rise to prominence + Myanmar + x-ray vision + antique appraisal + stone gambling + feel-good wish fulfillment + finding hidden treasures + spatial storage + supernatural abilities] Zhou Yang was a miserable apprentice at an antique shop, a low-income nobody, yet also a vigorous young man radiating a flamboyant, lascivious energy. Unable to pay the rent, he could only help his beautiful landlady clean out the storeroom. As a result, he accidentally got hit in the left eye by a small t
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Nightcry Tower: Eleven Horror and Suspense Stories 夜哭楼:十一个恐怖悬疑故事
[Horror | Suspense | Mystery | Folklore | Short story collection] The green lamp, a ghost knocking at the door in the dead of night, the Golden Buddha, a female ghost... As everyone knows, what is truly terrifying isn't seeing a ghost, but the human heart! This collection brings together eleven horror and suspense stories by Han Shisan, originally published in well-known magazines across China. They'll send chills down your spine and turn even the fainthearted into brave souls!
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She’s Destined to Lack Ghosts, the Ghost King’s Ghosts 她命中缺鬼,鬼王的鬼
[Metaphysics · reborn · sweet romance · mutual salvation] When people die, they leave behind thoughts and resentment. If fate grants them the chance, they can become ghosts and monsters. Ghosts and monsters cannot enter the underworld or be reincarnated. Gu Yousheng inherited a bloodline legacy and was born a spirit medium. Before she turned six, she cried and tried every way she could to get rid of her gift. After she turned six, she worked diligently to resolve grievances and troubles, becomin
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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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Kunlun Abyss: A Forbidden Land of the Mortal Realm 昆仑深渊:人间禁地
[Over 40 million views for the animated adaptation, 9.6 rating for the audiobook, print edition signed, a hit with readers!] Deep in the Kunlun Mountains, sealed underground for two thousand years, lies an elite army of the Great Qin, thought never to have survived. I’m an active-duty soldier. During a rescue mission in an uninhabited zone, I accidentally stumbled into this forbidden place. At death’s door, I had an extraordinary encounter that saved my life. From then on, I joined a mysteriou
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No More Wage Slavery After Graduation: I'm Becoming a Bounty Hunter 毕业后不做牛马,去当赏金猎人
[Comedy + Alternate setting + A touch of mystery + Adventure + Urban + No female lead] Investigating a murder from more than a decade ago, he pits his wits against a deranged serial killer. He transmigrates into a primeval jungle no one dares enter, searching for the bodies of people lost in a sinkhole. He enters a mysterious village deep in the Hundred Thousand Mountains to find a little girl... What drove a recent college graduate to embark on this one-way journey? It all began with a haunted
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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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