Any Rule-Based Horror Stories That Really Stand Out? No Special Abilities, Please 有没有眼前一亮的规则怪谈无天赋不要来
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Break the Rules and Die? I Can Predict Every Death 触犯规则必死？我可预判一切死亡
A sheet of human-skin paper fuses with Chen Ming’s left hand and grants him an ability. Death Premonitions! For anyone he knows, any living being within his sight, and even himself, if they are destined to die soon, a warning will appear. [Death countdown: Chen Ming, 3 minutes 18 seconds] Like this. The Spirit Realm also descends at the same time! The Spirit Realm is full of all kinds of bizarre dungeons. Any player drawn into it faces an extremely high chance of dying while clearing them. Chen
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The Emperor and Empress Fight Every Day to See Who Dies First 帝后每天互殴，看谁先死
Feng Xing is the daughter of Chu Xi’s Grand Marshal, who commands an army of four hundred thousand. Shen Feng has been emperor for just two years. Shen Feng is utterly depraved, ruthless, and cruel. To secure his throne, he decides to marry Feng Xing and make her empress. First, he will fake her death to lure her father to the capital for the funeral. Then he will wipe out her entire family and take control of the Chu Xi army. Feng Xing is a fierce, accomplished warrior who takes whatever she wa
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Rule Horror: I Can Hear the Weird Things Complaining 规则怪谈：我能听到诡异的吐槽
(The dungeon arc is well underway, so enjoy without worry. There’s a main cast, and it isn’t horror. If that bothers you, you’ve been warned!) [Rules-Based Horror + Mind Reading + No Female Lead + Original Dungeons + National Fortune + Livestreaming + Lighthearted Comedy + No Romance] Why haven’t they picked me yet?! Su Bei woke up one day to find his dream had come true. After eight consecutive failures by Xia Country, Su Bei carried the hopes of its entire population. Seeing him greet them in
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Rule Horror: From the Start, I Slapped a Supernatural Being 规则怪谈：开局给诡异一巴掌
[No female lead, no CP + Beloved by everyone + Brainless, feel-good wish fulfillment + Fictional world + “Daily life”] [Is the protagonist some kind of pervert?] [Includes character secrets. For details, see the author's notes, starting from Chapter 52.] Ever since he was old enough to remember, Lin Jiu had always seen a blue-and-red box, something like a System, in front of him. The text inside changed depending on what he looked at or touched. Then one day, something called Rule Horror descen
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Rule Horror: I'm Even More Twisted Than the Supernatural! 规则怪谈：我比诡异还变态！
[Unhinged + rebellious + no female lead + hilarious + bizarre + national destiny] My name is Xu Ye. I was born without the ability to feel pain, and my favorite thing is looking for a thrill. I heard that the Rule-Bound Horror arrived, and every country would randomly select a “Chosen One” to enter a game instance. After waiting a whole month, and watching five Chosen Ones die one after another, I finally got my wish and became the sixth Chosen One, the real wild card representing the Dragon Kin
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Rule Horror: Klee Wants to Blow Up Fish in the Horror World Too 规则怪谈：可莉也想在怪谈里炸鱼
[Transformation + lighthearted comedy + not scary, suitable for readers of all ages + half power fantasy, half mystery + gradually becomes more like Klee + male-to-female] Rule Horror descended upon Blue Star. Every country would randomly select a Chosen One to enter the horror world. The chosen person bears the fate of their country. If they die, their country falls. When Chu Bai woke up, he discovered that he had turned into Klee and was representing the Dragon Country in the horror world. And
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Rules of the Strange: My Companions Are All Anime Characters 规则怪谈，我的伙伴全是动漫人物
[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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My Freshman Internship: 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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College Students Are Naive and Foolish? Watch Me Outsmart Them All 大学生清澈愚蠢？看我智商超群
[No heroine + mystery-solving + brains over brawn + interstellar + livestreaming + national destiny + power fantasy] Rules-based horror descends upon Earth. Those selected are sent into a bizarre world to face challenges on behalf of their respective countries. While every other contestant fights for their country, one gentle young man says his wish is for everyone to get along peacefully. Everyone: "Peaceful my ass! Do you think this is kindergarten?" Then they watch as this mild-mannered young
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Spy Code Name: I’m the Useless Barbed Wire 谍战代号我是废物铁丝网
He is the lowest-ranking undercover agent in the Military Statistics Bureau, yet he can spot Japanese spies in a vast crowd. He is also an expert operative, infiltrating enemy-occupied territory to assassinate traitors who sell out their country and vanish without a trace. Because: “Scanning Eye” in operation...
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Late-Night Hot Pot Shop: Serving Only the Ghost Messengers 深夜火锅店：只为鬼差服务
Low-key version She dropped out of school at thirteen and worked as a chef until she was nineteen. With the savings Lin Ye had scraped together over those six years, he opened a hot pot restaurant. Who could have guessed his venture would get off to such a poor start, with business so slow the place was about to close? Just as he was wondering what to do next, two customers showed up on the restaurant's final night and changed his life... Grim Reaper: “Boss Lin, your hot pot is so spicy. It
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Rule Horror: I Pulled the Old Man's Oxygen Tube from the Start 规则怪谈：开局拔了老头氧气管
No female lead + national fate + eerie mysteries + comedy + unconventional ideas Lin Yuan transmigrates to Blue Star, a parallel world, and is chosen to take part in a rules-based horror game. From the start, he activates an SSS-rank talent. [SSS-Rank Talent: Ghostbane] [Talent Effect 1: Rules are completely useless against you. When you break the rules of a horror scenario, the corruption of its world has no effect on you.] [Talent Effect 2: When a creature in a horror scenario feels negative e
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Rule Horror: I’m Crazy, So How Can You Say I’m Cheating? 规则怪谈：我一疯子你说我开挂？
[Rule-Based Horror + Deduction + Lunatic + Male-Male Romance + Wild Ride] A friendly warning: to repeat, the love between two men is just seasoning. The main focus is still clearing the rule-based horror scenarios! The rule-based horror game begins, and uncanny livestreams descend! Each country randomly picks one player to enter the game, and an uncanny livestream begins! If a player fails, the rule-based horror descends upon their country! What kind of shock will Meng Fei, a genuine lunatic, b
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His First Book, As Told by Rumor 道听途说的他的第1本书
A mysterious force has awakened, and a world of the uncanny has descended. Here, you can encounter demons from strange tales, ghosts from horror stories, and even ancient gods from myths and legends! Everyone in this uncanny world lives in fear and trepidation. But Jiang Che discovers that he can see strange prompts. And so... He works as a caregiver at the Yellow Springs Hospital, a waiter at an underworld hotel, and a network administrator at a reincarnation internet cafe... He even builds a p
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The Era of Ghost Money: Even Hauntings Must Follow the Rules 冥币时代：诡异杀人也要讲规则
[Weird Invasion + Rules-Based Horror + Post-Apocalyptic Survival + Ghost Money] The weird beings have arrived. They feed on humans, but can’t kill them at will. They have to trick humans into triggering a death rule before they can devour them. Xia Tianqiong returns, reborn, and makes billions in ghost money himself. Using memories from his past life, he turns the rules against the weird beings and forces them into contracts. The weird beings in this world either work for him or are destroyed by
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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
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After I Deceived the Amnesiac Male Lead in the Apocalypse, He Spoiled Me Rotten 骗了末世失忆男主后我被宠上天
[Post-Apocalypse + Transmigrates into a Book as a Villainous Supporting Character + Male Lead with Amnesia + Spatial Power + Sweet, Delicate Beauty + Unhinged Male Lead] Qi Jinnuo transmigrates into a book and becomes the unhinged male lead’s gold-digging, villainous first love in a post-apocalyptic novel. She dumped him back when he was poor. After he became a wealthy young master in the capital, she shamelessly begged him to get back together. When he rejected her, she drugged him. He fought b
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Back to 1985: My Self-Serve Porridge Stall Is a Hit 重回八五，自助粥摊火爆了
(Her Own Woman) To escape her stepfather's clutches, Su Miao falls from the 13th floor and travels back to the day her parents divorced when she was a child. She sees through her mother's cold, indifferent nature and her habit of endlessly spoiling her younger brother. This time, she chooses without hesitation to go with her father. When her uncle tries to secure a permanent job, he blocks the door and raises a huge ruckus. Su Miao leans close to her father's ear and whispers a few words. Her fa
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I Must Be Seeing Things: My Best Friend Turned into a Vengeful Ghost 起猛了，看到闺蜜变厉鬼了
[Just started, so the rating will rise. Feel free to dive in!] [Strong female lead + comedy + modern fantasy + multiple versions of the male lead] When she woke up, Yun Jian Yue discovered that her best friend had croaked and become a headless vengeful ghost. Yun Jian Yue: I must've woken up too early. I'll go back to sleep. Best friend: … Yun Jian Yue took her friend to get revenge on the scumbag, but a more powerful vengeful ghost showed up halfway through and stole the target. Yun Jian Yue ra
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Impossible to Win Over: The Love-Struck Young Master Is Twisted, Scheming, and Flirtatious 难哄，恋爱脑癫公少爷他又茶又撩
[Absurd comedy + livestreaming + going crazy anywhere, anytime] Qiao Xi takes on a mission from the Space-Time Administration, transmigrating into a tragic romance novel to fix its plot. She becomes a nobody with barely any fame and is bound to a Truth-Telling System. From then on, the tragic romance takes a bizarre turn... During a variety show livestream, she is asked why she works so hard. Guest 1: “I thought of the hardworking farmers.” Guest 2: “My grandma was a farmer. I miss her so much.”
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The Villainess Gives Up, but the Flirtatious Mogul Pulls Her Close and Kisses Her 恶毒女配摆烂，被撩精大佬揽腰吻
[Sweet Romance + Transmigrate into a Book + Flirting + Push and Pull + Both Pure] A playfully scheming, hilarious girl × a gentle, flirtatious, cunning man Su Bei, a stand-in actress, transmigrates into an unfinished business-war novel as the vicious fourth female character. When she wakes up, she finds the most powerful pawn in the protagonist group, the top-tier star she feared and hated most, keeping watch by her bed. Remembering that her original character hired people to drug the heroine, S
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Rule Horror 规则怪谈
I was an NPC in a rules-horror story. I died because I couldn't remember the rules. After being reborn, I ended up in another rules-horror story. So. Right now, I'm frantically writing down the rules with a pen and paper.
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Do Not Tempt the Beautiful Doll NPC 请勿招惹貌美人偶npc
(Completed, with a full-cast audiobook now available) [Male rivals competing for her + Shura-field love triangle + everyone’s favorite + infinite-level flow + sweet, ditzy beauty + yandere male leads in fragments] Qiao Jiu is a classical doll displayed in a glass case. She’s good for nothing but her face and knows nothing about the world. After bonding with the System and awakening her soul, she enters horror instances disguised as an NPC. Her mission is simple: play a horror-instance NPC, fo
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My 26-Year-Old Female Tenant 我的26岁女房客
After a wild night at a bar, a beautiful woman pinned him with a paternity claim, and the down-and-out young man suddenly became a father. As if things weren't bad enough, the owner of his rented home changed, and he was about to be kicked out. But his new landlady was beautiful! Should he ask to share the place? She coolly gave him a single word: “Get out!” A romantic entanglement sparked by a housing problem.
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Extreme Heat Apocalypse: I Cleared Out the Icebergs at Both Poles 极热末世：我搬空了两极冰山
[Stockpiling supplies + dark revenge + storage space + no saintly heroine] The sun went haywire, temperatures on Earth soared, and countless lakes evaporated. The sunlight also carried terrifying radiation, and humanity entered the apocalypse. A bottle of clean water or a piece of bread could make people fight to the death. Wei Ming was brutally murdered by his girlfriend and her family, who treated her like a walking ATM for her younger brother. But he was reborn six months before the apocalyps
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Mr. Bo, Your Wife Is on Another Date Again 薄总，太太又跟人去约会了
On the day Shen Wanci divorced, their divorce agreement suddenly leaked online and became a top trending topic in minutes. The reason for the divorce was marked in red: The husband was impotent and unable to fulfill his basic marital obligations. That evening, a man cornered her in the stairwell. His voice was low. “Let me prove whether I have a problem.” After her divorce, Shen Wanci went from being a humble clerk to the youngest leading expert in the field of cultural relic restoration. Then s
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The First Chapter of Doomsday 末日第一章
The Scarlet Plague spread, and the world collapsed. Two years later, Lin Zhou lives alone in a wooden cabin deep in the mountains, with zombies and mutated beasts for neighbors, struggling to survive in the merciless apocalypse. He thought he was the last survivor, until one day, while searching the ruins for supplies, he heard a long-missed human voice: “Don’t shoot, I’m human.” From that moment on, a crack quietly opened in his lonely world, and a different kind of hope slowly seeped in. But h
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To a Lunatic, What’s a Ghost Anyway? 精神病面前，鬼东西算个球
[Hilarious + mentally ill protagonist + invincible + System] A world where ghostly energy has returned. Chen Zhuo is a patient at Qingshan Psychiatric Hospital. The System fails to cure him. System: Let him do whatever he wants. I only provide technical support. Ghost Realm Bounty Board: Chen Zhuo, male, severe mental illness. Whoever takes his life will receive a billionfold increase in ghostly energy, several mansions, and endless luxuries.
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