Eerie Stories with a Knife-Wielding Protagonist, No Romance 诡异,主角使刀,不要情情爱爱
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I’ve Caught the Eye of Someone at a Noble Academy Full of Villains 在全员恶人的贵族学院,被盯上了
[Two Male Leads + Transmigrate into a Book + Harem Magnet + F4 Love Triangle] Jimo transmigrated into a book, becoming an ordinary person in a melodramatic, Mary Sue school romance set among the wealthy. To keep the plot on track and finish his mission, Jimo diligently played the part of a perfectly ordinary background character. So when the delicate, sweet male protagonist was bullied, Jimo sneaked in to rescue him. When the sweet boy showed off his body on social media, Jimo reported the post
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The Aloof Beauty Becomes the Most Hated Student at an Elite Academy 清冷美人穿成贵族学院万人嫌
[Dual Male Leads + Irresistible Male Lead + Rivalry for His Attention + Aristocratic Academy Life + Forum Posts + Everyone’s Regret] Shen Qingchuan woke up to find he’d become a universally hated cannon-fodder character at an elite academy. The universally despised character was not only vain, but also wore a mask at all times. Rumor had it that beneath it was a hideous face, so everyone avoided him. Others had heard that Shen Qingchuan used to be the young master of the Shen family and should h
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Fellow Daoist, Who Are You Talking To? 道友,你在和谁说话?
Also known as The Whole Cast Are Evil Immortals and The Whole Cast Are Evil Immortals: I Have a Temple for Cultivating Immortals [No Angst] [Unhinged] [High Stakes from Start to Finish] There is a rumor of a temple somewhere in the world, with a patch of magical soil inside. Just treat a person as a "seed" and plant them in the soil, and they can become an immortal. Li Shiwu has spent ten years seeking immortality. At last, he finds the temple and plants himself in the soil, but he never expecte
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I Transmigrated as the Crown Prince, So I Defied My Father the Emperor 穿越成太子,我跟父皇对着干
“I was afraid of you, Li Shimin, because I wanted to live. Now I don’t even want to live anymore, so why should I be afraid of you?” “I am the eldest grandson of Emperor Gaozu and the eldest legitimate son of Empress Wende. I have occupied the Eastern Palace for seventeen years! Who else in this realm could claim the position of crown prince? How can you say I’m unworthy just because the emperor says so? Can you depose me just because you say so?” “With the court historian here, my words shall s
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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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Oh No! The Little Zombie Accidentally Became a Big Shot 糟糕!小丧尸一不小心就成了大佬
[Apocalypse x food hoarding x devoted couple x sweet romance x little zombie heroine x super badass, high-output hero] Torrential rain, typhoons, tsunamis, thunderstorms, the disappearance of Earth's magnetic field, zombies, monsters, supernatural abilities, and more... Congratulations, you've entered the main storyline of the apocalypse. The whole world is about to be reshuffled. From here on, survival depends on your life, your luck, and yourself. - While everyone else is still screaming in a
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Road Wardens: I Am the Lantern Bearer 镇路司:我是提灯人
New book recommendation: Wasteland Rules: The Dead Man Who Betrayed Me from the Start Wasteland, the supernatural, survival. After two months of sleeping, dreaming, and polishing it over and over, the book is finally here for you all. If you're interested, click on the author's pen name to find the new book. I'm serializing both books at the same time, and they're very different~~ This story has a slow start, so take your time. You'll find it really interesting as you read on. Whether there's a
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Forbidden Gu 禁蛊
[Eerie] [Gu cultivation] [A completely revamped power system] The blind Lin Hun is a corpse collector, a white-clad servant in his ninth life at the Demon Suppression Bureau. Born ill-fated, he cultivates the eerie path with his crippled body. He spends his days collecting, stitching, and refining corpses, surrounded by the Eerie. Then he unexpectedly awakens the divine Eerie art, "The Lifespan-Boiling Gu Cultivation Method": Use lifespan as fuel, boil up supernatural abilities, and cultivate Gu
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The Brutal Vajra, One Slash to Blow Your Ghastly Head Apart 莽金刚,一刀斩爆你的诡头
[Body That Reaches the Divine] + [Overwhelming Force] + [Ultimate Path] + [Invincible] The monster in the painting, the bloodthirsty pig, the money paid to buy a life, the paper figures escorting a bride, the pit of the dead, the White Bone Temple... I traveled from south to north, I traveled from white to black, With a butcher's knife in hand, I hacked my way from the Southern Heavenly Gate to Penglai East Road and back again for three days and three nights without blinking. If you want to ask
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The Paranormal Begins With Training Through Sheer Strength 诡异,从力大无穷开始修炼
[High Martial Arts, Supernatural Horror] Li Liang arrives in this world with a Talent Orb, which lets him level up continuously and acquire powerful talents. To survive here, he has no choice but to embark on a path to invincibility.
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I Gain Points for Killing, and Now I'm Forced to Livestream a Death Game 杀人加点的我,被迫直播死亡游戏
My new work is out! You can read it on Tomato Novel. I hope you enjoy it. Your support motivates me to write, and I'll do my best to tell every story well!
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I Am Not the God of Drama 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
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The Underworld: Ruling the World 黑社会:雄霸天下
The campus beauty he'd loved for three years was brutalized and killed! Chen Xuewen, who had done nothing, was framed and sent to prison! His honest, hardworking parents both died horribly while seeking justice for him! After nineteen years of living by the rules and obeying the law, Chen Xuewen finally saw the true face of the world. “Those who kill and burn their way to riches wear golden belts, while those who build bridges and roads leave no bones behind!” “If others can kill and burn, why
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Frozen Apocalypse: My Infinite Synthesis Is Seriously Overpowered 冰封末世:我无限合成有亿点强
This novel has been adapted into the short drama Infinite Synthesis: Reborn in the Apocalypse to Become a Survival Champion. Multiple apocalypses + rebirth + synthesis System + extreme hiding + massive stockpiles + revenge without mercy or saintly compassion The world is in the grip of extreme heat, and people can't bear the temperatures? That's not the real disaster. No one could have imagined that after a brief heatwave, the frozen Apocalypse would become the true hell. In his previous life, L
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Canceled Star Goes Live, Draining Academicians' Pensions 塌房艺人开直播,掏空院士养老金
“Thanks to [If You're This Capable, Why Not Join the Chinese Academy of Sciences?] for sending a hundred Carnival gifts. Boss, you're invulnerable to bullets and blades.” After turning down yet another visit from the Chinese Academy of Sciences, Gu Ran turned around and explained the three ways to achieve controlled nuclear fusion to his fans. Other streamers' fans have an average education level of middle school. Gu Ran's fans average a PhD.
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A Hundred-Year-Old Menial Servant Retires One Day and Becomes a Great Emperor 百年老杂役,一朝退休成大帝
“Congratulations, Host. You have retired normally and awakened the Retirement Is Invincible System!” “Your cultivation at the Great Emperor realm is ready. Would you like to claim it?” … “Dong!” The Bell of Heaven's Will rang throughout the cosmos, shaking the myriad races. The powerful experts of the great sacred lands awoke. The ancestors of supreme sects emerged from seclusion, while the ancestors of divine dynasties and ancient families looked up, and the forbidden zones trembled with fear.
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You're a Police Officer! Do You Even Know What That Means? You're Not a Criminal! 你是警察,警察懂吗!不是罪犯!
Jiang Yang transmigrates to a parallel world and becomes a police officer. But his overwhelming sense of justice awakens the [Hate-Evil-to-the-Core Tough Cop System]. From then on, Jiang Yang’s approach to solving cases becomes the stuff of nightmares! Criminal 1: “Please, let me go! I know I was wrong.” Jiang Yang: “You just realized you were going to get caught!” Criminal 2: “Do criminals deserve to die?” Jiang Yang: “Isn’t that obvious? If you don’t die, am I supposed to?” Colleague 1: “I’
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I Went AFK for a Million Years, and Became the Human Emperor 挂机托管百万年,我是人族圣皇
[Invincible hero + taking disciples + lighthearted + mainly character growth + ensemble cast + three heroines] Honghong: "Master, what level are you?" Gu Changsheng: "I have no level." Li Beifei: "Gu Changsheng, just wait. Once my swordsmanship is perfected, I'll make you kneel and sing 'I Surrender.'" Gu Changsheng: "You insolent disciple, come here and die!" After 9,999 years of idle cultivation, your cultivation had reached the peak of the ninth level of Quasi-Emperor, enough to shake hea
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Call Me Lord 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
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I Get Stronger by Eating Ghosts 我,吃鬼就变强
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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Death Game from the Start: I Executed God 开局死亡游戏,我处决了上帝
[Not a wish-fulfillment novel, no mindless protagonist, no clichés, no System, high-octane later on] Do you know what happens after people die? It is said that the consciousness of the dead does not vanish, but is instead transported to the world of the departed. There, people must continually take part in bloody to earn the chance to prolong their lives. After dying unexpectedly, a young man arrives in this place. The first game is called . The boy draws the <Blank Ident
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I Have a Joker Card 我有一张小丑牌
They say that on the day some people turn eighteen, the gods grant them a playing card with a supernatural ability. There are 52 playing cards and 52 different abilities. Those who receive a supernatural playing card are allowed to attend the best ability-user school. The campus belle: “I have the Queen of Spades. I can conjure all kinds of weapons!” The rich kid: “My dad has the Jack of Diamonds. He can get unlimited money!” Meanwhile, somewhere, a boy took his own playing card and used all 52
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So What If I Have Five Spiritual Roots? I’ll Still Eat Pills Until I Burst 五灵根咋了?不影响我丹药吃到吐
[Transmigration + immortal cultivation + level-up progression + career-building + no romance] Ye Ziqing, a fourth-year student of traditional Chinese medicine, died while saving someone in a car accident. Unexpectedly, she transmigrated and was reborn in a world of immortal cultivation as Ye Ziqing, an illegitimate daughter of the Fourth Branch of a prominent worldly family. She thought she would spend an ordinary life in the inner quarters of another world, but during the once-in-a-decade spiri
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I'm a Monster, So How Did I Become the Chosen One?! 我一个诡异,竟然成了天选者!
[National Destiny + The Supernatural + No Heroine + Invincible + Livestream] Wei Jisheng was a powerful supernatural being. Because he was unrestricted by the rules of the supernatural world, he did as he pleased, looked down on everyone, and thought himself untouchable. This got him on the wrong side of a big shot, who framed him and somehow sent him to the human world. He had planned to take it easy and wait for death, then look for a chance to return to the supernatural world. He never expect
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Immortal Cultivation for Eternal Life: I Keep a Low Profile, but I Still Have a Temper 长生修仙:我苟,不代表我没脾气
[No System + No Heroine + No Angst + Not a Slice-of-Life Story!] Read at your own risk. Su Bai transmigrates to a world of immortal cultivation and gains an immortal physique. Though he can live forever, that does not mean he cannot die. He knows this world is cruel. To survive, he must grow stronger. Simply keeping his head down will not be enough; he has to get his hands on resources. So, after spending a century honing his alchemy skills, Su Bai leaves his original sect and joins Wangyue Sec
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When the Senior Brother Becomes the Sacrificial Pawn in Everyone’s Story 当大师兄成为所有人故事里的炮灰
[No female lead + no romance + spiritual qi revival (apocalypse) + spatial leaps + not a wish-fulfillment story + interstellar + parallel worlds] They say the senior brother of Pinghe Sect is as gentle as jade, handsome and graceful, and has the bearing of an immortal. In the eyes of young cultivators across the cultivation world, he is the perfect partner. Qi Yan himself: ? Qi Yan suffered a calamity in childhood that left him plagued by inner demons. To save his life, his master sealed away hi
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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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The Silent Blade 刀不语
Someone once asked me, “What is the jianghu?” I thought for a moment. I thought of a jug of rough wine on the table, a distant figure walking away beneath the setting sun, a grave beneath the moon, and the cigarette burning down to ash in my hand right now. That person asked again, “Where is the jianghu?” I smiled and looked out the window. There were countless jianghus out there. One person is a story. Two people make a jianghu.
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I Have a Blade 我有一刀
I am Ye Feng, born with an ordinary mortal body to a woodcutter, and I began my life in the army. I have no immortal roots, no treasured physique, no Dao weapon, and no supernatural powers. All I have is a saber, straight and unbending, advancing without retreat. Its blade points forward, slashing immortal roots, destroying treasured physiques, cleaving Dao weapons, and breaking supernatural powers.
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Blind From the Start With Only a Blade, I Master Martial Arts in My Dreams 瞎子开局一把刀,梦中学招武艺高
The age’s turmoil belongs to my generation; once I enter the martial world, the years rush by. Empires and ambitions are the stuff of idle talk; nothing compares to getting drunk beneath the human sky. Chen Sheng accidentally transmigrates to another world and becomes a blind boy. He thinks he’ll spend his life playing the erhu and singing for alms to scrape together enough to eat, wasting away ten years. But then he unexpectedly figures out how to use his golden finger. All he has to do is defe
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A Blade for a Blade 以彼刀
[Traditional Fantasy] [Angst] Looking back, I realized that the road stretching for thousands of miles had indeed been long, bitter, and difficult to travel. Looking ahead, I still had no idea how many more thousands of miles I would have to walk. It was just a pity that, after witnessing so many romantic scenes and all the rises and falls of human life along the way, life didn't seem to have become any better. But it didn't seem likely to get any worse, either. For a long time, I have pursued t
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Buried Blade 葬刀
There are two knives in my family, one for skinning and one for cutting bones. Grandpa always treasured those battered old knives, burning incense and worshipping them every day. I never understood why. Then one day, I used them to slaughter a fox. Only after disaster struck did I understand what those knives represented...
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