A Book That Scares You Yet Keeps You Reading. Highly Recommended! 一本让你又怕又忍不住要看的书。强烈推荐！

1. 1 重 Reborn as a Shy Little Introvert with a Lovable Romantic Streak 重生小自闭，呆萌恋爱脑 Eating Beans Makes You Chubby吃豆豆长肉肉Two Male Leads559k WordsCompleted [Romance between two men] [Sweet romance] [Devoted to each other] [Reborn] [A reclusive genius, emotionally clueless bottom] VS [A gentle, doting, fiercely protective top] Yu Duo is a beautiful boy who has put every skill point he has into intelligence ever since birth. His mathematical talent is astonishing, but when it comes to emotional intelligence, he is a complete idiot. Yes, our Yu Duo is a little autistic. But even our little autistic boy has someone he likes. Though he cannot express it 15.2kReads9.5Score2.1kShelves

   Reader note

   💕💕💕

2. 2 诡EN The House of Dread 诡舍 The Sound of Wind and Rain at Night,夜来风雨声丶Mystery2.1M WordsCompleted [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 707.4kReads9.6Score103.9kShelves

   Reader note

   A group of people are driven into the Blood Gate by a large bus to complete their mission. The protagonist is quite clever; most of the foreshadowing he planted comes to light later on, and seeing these foreshadowing elements is truly chilling. However, later on, it turns out that the Ghost House wasn't actually a curse...

3. 3 救 Ladies Who Would Save the World, I’m Really Not an Evil God 救世主小姐们，我真不是邪神 After Midnight It's Breakfast, Not a Late-Night Snack过凌晨是早餐不是宵夜Mystery847k WordsOngoing He transmigrates into a horror game with themes like the grotesque, cosmic horror, steam, punk, depression, beautiful girls, and dress-up, and nearly kills the heroine, his little sister, from the start. With its cosmic horror setting, the game is destined to end in despair. To survive, Andy decides to unlock the hidden happy ending! But little by little, the so-called perfect ending is no longer enough for him. In this world, nothingness and existence coexist. Human reason twists fate, and trut 38.9kReads9.2Score4.1kShelves

   Reader note

   It looks good.

4. 4 知 Knowledge Entered My Brain in the Most Underhanded Way 知识以卑鄙的方式进入了我的脑子 Xiang Yue Bai湘月白Two Male Leads355k WordsCompleted [Two male leads + infinite-flow + top students + character-growth romance] Cold, calculating, scheming top x carefree, goofy, energetic bottom After an accident, freshman Ge Lishi was swept into a strange world. As the saying goes, books hold golden houses, and books hold beautiful women. “Ding~ Welcome, player, to the Golden House~” What? If he didn't solve problems and earn points, he'd be trapped here forever, and might even lose his life? Listen, I, Ge Lishi, would rather die, die outsi 286Reads—Score—Shelves

   Reader note

   The icebreaker began in room 402. The moment the key was inserted into the lock, a smile already played on Ge Lishi's lips. Pushing open the door, the cicadas' chirping of late August was shut out by the glass window, and the cold air from the air conditioner, carrying an unfamiliar scent, rushed in—his new roommate was facing away from the door, stuffing the last copy of "Introduction to Quantum Physics" into the bookshelf, his movements so gentle as if afraid to disturb the air. "Hi! I'm Ge Lishi, nice to meet you!" He dragged his suitcase, making a cheerful thud, the wheels drawing sharp arcs on the tile floor. The boy opposite him visibly stiffened, turning around with a bookmark still clutched in his fingers, looking like a forest deer that had strayed into the human world. The double desks in the center of the room drew a clear dividing line between the two. Ge Lishi slammed his notebook, covered in band posters, onto the desk, noticing out of the corner of his eye that the other boy's books were all covered with plain covers, even the markers were the most ordinary black ones. The sounds of textbooks being packed up rose and fell, yet it was as if there was a vacuum between them; the only communication was a hurried apology when their fingertips occasionally touched. "Want some oranges? I brought some super sweet ones!" Ge Lishi suddenly raised a fruit knife, the blade flashing coldly. His roommate abruptly took a half step back, bumping into the chair behind him. This realization made him feel a pang of bitterness—it turned out that his enthusiasm could sometimes be a burden to others. As the afterglow of the setting sun climbed onto the windowsill, the two neatly arranged bookshelves finally stood facing each other. Ge Lishi secretly observed the figure who always kept his eyes down, and suddenly remembered the principal's words at the opening ceremony: "Every soul is a unique star." He silently made a new goal in his phone's notes: first, be the gentlest moonlight in his roommate's night sky, and then shine brightly when his roommate was willing to look up.

5. 5 B Backrooms Exploration Notes Backrooms后室探索笔记 Words Among the Clouds l云中语lMystery2.0M WordsCompleted [Exploration across levels] + [Rigorous and realistic] + [Plausible plot] + [Easy to get into] + [No brainless characters] A meticulously researched Backrooms survival and exploration story, based on the Wikidot version of the Backrooms, featuring images from the original documents as well as original artwork. “If you noclip out of reality in the wrong place by accident, you’ll end up in the Backrooms. There’s nothing but the stench of damp carpet, the maddening monotony of yellow, the endless 39.5kReads9.5Score5.4kShelves
6. 6 婆 When the Mother-in-Law Takes Charge, Her Son Returns to a Shocking Sight 婆婆当家，儿子归来傻眼了 A Mushroom一枝蘑菇Modern Romance571k WordsCompleted For the two years since her son got married, Yang Yufen never showed up. Everyone said she was a mean mother-in-law who looked down on her daughter-in-law, Qin Nian: she didn’t help when Qin Nian was pregnant, and she was nowhere to be seen when her grandson became seriously ill. It wasn’t until Qin Nian had an accident and the child died that Yang Yufen finally came to her senses. At the hospital, she saw her missing son with a homewrecker. She slapped him, only for the woman to shove her down 15.4kReads9.2Score1.8kShelves
7. 7 惊EN Terror: I Only Sell Haunted Houses 惊悚：我只卖凶宅 Nicholas Goudan尼古拉斯狗蛋Mystery1.5M WordsCompleted 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… 26.5kReads9.2Score3.2kShelves
8. 8 十EN Ten Days to the End 十日终焉 Pest Control Team Member杀虫队队员Mystery3.2M WordsCompleted 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 1.7MReads9.9Score206.4kShelves

   Reader note

   "Ten Days to the End"—When death begins its countdown, how many days can you live? —"Since the rules require us to die, then I will rewrite the rules!" Suspenseful and mind-bending, full of high-energy plot twists, every second is a life-or-death struggle!

9. 9 午 The Midnight Pawnshop: The Living Must Keep Away 午夜当铺，活人回避 Chong Xiayueban虫下月半Mystery4.0M WordsOngoing [Traditional Supernatural Horror] [Chinese Folk Customs] [Unorthodox Trade] [Tales of Evil Objects] [No Romance] This is a strange pawnshop that deals exclusively in sinister objects with special value! When something goes against the natural order, evil must be at work! Some things simply should not exist in this world! Coins stuffed into the mouths of the dead, an executioner's blade, grave mushrooms, flesh lingzhi, Kunlun fetuses... Evil objects can harm people, but they can also help them! T 278.4kReads9.4Score23.6kShelves

   Reader note

   Tweet | Who understands! "Midnight Pawnshop, Living People Avoid" takes Chinese supernatural to a whole new level! I've unearthed a treasure of a supernatural novel, "Midnight Pawnshop, Living People Avoid," which immediately sets the tone for a chilling Chinese atmosphere from the very beginning—Lu Fei runs a strange pawnshop left by his grandfather, specializing in collecting malevolent items: money for grieving, executioner's knives, grave mushrooms… These evil items can harm or help people; after passing through the pawnshop, they can even lead to promotions, wealth, or defying fate. His grandfather has vanished, and while cleaning the pawnshop hoping for customers, he secretly investigates clues. However, the pawnshop's remote location means he hasn't had a customer for half a month, making the task of collecting three malevolent items a daunting challenge! Author Chongxia Yueban takes traditional supernatural elements and unorthodox business to a whole new level, creating a chilling yet captivating tale of malevolent objects. Lu Fei's struggle between perseverance and exploration weaves the unpredictability of the human heart and the mysteries of the supernatural into a captivating mystery. If you love Chinese horror and folk tales, come and immerse yourself in the eerie business of a midnight pawnshop. Watch as Lu Fei uncovers the truth and finds his grandfather in a world of ghosts. The plot is so captivating that you won't be able to stop watching!

10. 10 尸 Born of a Corpse, Carried in a Ghost's Coffin 尸生子，鬼抬棺 Jie Yu界玉Mystery3.3M WordsCompleted 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! 212.8kReads9.6Score25.1kShelves
11. 11 吞 The Heaven-Devouring Furnace 吞天炉 Snow at Dusk, Cold Mist暮雪寒烟Eastern Fantasy975k WordsCompleted Zhang Feng is an antiques dealer in Panjiayuan who makes a living swindling people. He unwittingly acquires an incense burner of unknown origin, then is killed by a powerful being from another world who came looking for it. As he lies dying, the burner carries Zhang Feng's soul to the Xuanwu Continent, where he possesses a beggar who froze to death and becomes a cultivator. With the help of the miraculous incense burner, Zhang Feng's cultivation advances by leaps and bounds. He braves perilous l 5.5kReads8.5Score662Shelves
12. 12 人 Perhaps This Is Just How Life Goes 人生或许这样了吧 Goodnight, Tomorrow, Future晚安明天未来Urban586k WordsCompleted Maybe This Is Just How Life Goes Life was never fair. That is not merely a sigh of resignation, but a moment of clarity. This book is satirical, but never sentimental; it is angry, but never loses its warmth. It tells stories you may have heard but never had the chance to think through, and realities you may have lived through but had no power to change. It records the people struggling in the cracks of the system, the voices pushed to the margins despite following every “legal procedure,” and 27Reads—Score—Shelves

    Reader note

    You've tried different methods, changed your direction, and even humbled yourself, but you still haven't made it out. What the book says isn't that you failed, but that reality was never meant to be a winning hand for you.

13. 13 B Backrooms Escape Backroons后室逃脱 Water from a Deep Well深井之水Mystery484k WordsCompleted [The Backrooms]+ [Smart Protagonist]+ [Exploration]+ [Creative Levels]+ [Plot]+ [Not Overpowered] A dim yellow light spills across an empty room. The damp, old carpet reeks, and everywhere you look there’s the same maddeningly monotonous yellow... If you’re unlucky enough to slip out of reality in the wrong place, you’ll end up somewhere like this: the Backrooms. Here, if you hear something wandering nearby, may God protect you, because it has definitely heard you. This was how a foreign forum d 21.7kReads9.5Score2.4kShelves

    Reader note

    🔥 *The Haunted House*: 9.7 high score, suspenseful and imaginative + no harem, 1.052 million readers, a haunted house hides secrets, the more you read, the colder it gets, yet you can't help but want to find out the truth. 🔥 *Backrooms Notes*: The backroom theme is super exciting, the supernatural atmosphere is full of energy, currently being serialized with 100,000 readers, escape from a strange space, thrilling to the point of being suffocating. 🔥 *Fearful Traveler, My Yandere Sister Begs Me Not to Kill Her at the Beginning*: Cthulhu + fearful travel setting, the yandere reversal is amazing, currently being serialized with 87,000 readers, heart-pounding moments. 🔥 *Supernatural: I Have a Journey to the West (Great Demon Slayer)*: Journey to the West + ghost-catching imaginative concept, 278,000 readers, using a classic to solve a supernatural mystery, novel and thrilling. Also available are *Backroons Escape*, *Tomb Raider Notes: Yin Yang Twins*, etc., Suspense, supernatural, Cthulhu thrills, scared to the point of covering your eyes yet crazy to read, for the brave and thrill-loving. My precious child, hurry up!

14. 14 盗 The Grave Robbers' Chronicles: Yin-Yang Twins 盗墓笔记之阴阳双生 Playing with the Setting Sun戏残阳Mystery223k WordsCompleted (Pure angst. Some characters may be out of character. This is a story about redemption; please don’t read if that bothers you. Apologies for the OOC.) “Thud.” The knife slipped from his hand and fell into the bathtub. A smile of relief spread across his face as his consciousness gradually faded from this world. When he opened his eyes again, he was in a completely different world. Hearing people call a name stirred memories of a hugely popular novel from his previous life: The Grave Robbers' Chr 8.4kReads9.3Score1.5kShelves
15. 15 异 Strange Tales: Notes from a Supernatural Investigation 异闻：诡事调查笔记 Lazy Huanglong懒煌龙Mystery1.4M WordsCompleted Enough talk. The show is about to begin. If you want to know what 1999 and the confidentiality agreement are about, turn to Volume Six, Revelation. If you’re interested in a genius’s downfall, Volume Five, The Twelve Movements of the Abyss, is a requiem. If you want to know what lies behind Midnight FM, read Volume Four, Leviathan of the Upside-Down City, and uncover its secrets. If you’ve been having trouble sleeping, or can’t fall asleep, take a look at Volume Three, The Sleepless Prison. It m 110Reads9.4Score130Shelves
16. 16 诡EN Supernatural Awakening: I Can Become a Demon King 诡异复苏：我能化身大妖 Fallen Leaves Return to the Earth叶落归泥Mystery1.8M WordsCompleted [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 169.8kReads9.5Score17.3kShelves
17. 17 首 Commander, Your Kid’s Charged to the Front Lines Again! 首长，你家崽崽又冲上前线了！ Yuanzi Cat媛子猫Modern Romance1.9M WordsOngoing After blowing herself up, 5188 landed in the 1970s. She carefully hid the System still running in her mind and pretended to be a human toddler. To get Grandma to take her home, 5188 volunteered that her parents were dead. Once she learned that changing the fate of a member of the old Jiang family would let her retrieve things from her apocalyptic storage space, 5188 became all the more eager to help. Big Brother wants to improve his physical fitness? Easy! “Granny Jiang, something terrible has h 7.9kReads9.3Score481Shelves

    Reader note

    This book, "Commander, Your Little One's Off to the Front Lines Again," is a system-based transmigration novel, and it's my first time reading one. It feels quite different from other transmigration stories, and I recommend it to everyone.

18. 18 惊 Spine-Chilling Mysteries: This Beautiful Female Celestial Master Plays by Her Own Rules 惊悚诡事，这个女天师人美路子野 The Cabbage Bun Isn't Cabbage菜包子不菜Mystery1.1M WordsCompleted My name is Zhao Jiayi. I was born in 1996. Because my life force was weak, ghosts haunted me from childhood, and everyone in the village thought I was an idiot. They poured dirty water on me, called me a jinx, and swore I wouldn’t live past eighteen. But I believe in gods and ghosts. The one thing I don’t believe in is fate. To stay alive, I became a disciple of a spiritual master. I fought to change my fate, with talismans in one hand and a peachwood sword in the other. From then on Vengef 13.9kReads9.1Score1.8kShelves

    Reader note

    These two are worth checking out; they're female-oriented supernatural novels with a fast pace. Highly recommended.

19. 19 诡 The Cursed Girl with a Doomed Fate 诡命煞女 Not Drunk不醉Mystery2.2M WordsCompleted Ever since I was little, I was a child my mother hated. Born with an overwhelming concentration of the Seven Sha, I made every demon and monster flee at the sight of me. It wasn’t until I was twelve that I learned the truth: my birth had been part of a massive conspiracy... 10.2kReads9.2Score1.1kShelves
20. 20 乱 The Chaotic Divine Cauldron 乱神鼎 Xiao Mao小毣Eastern Fantasy4.8M WordsOngoing [Mortal’s Journey style, no System, traditional xianxia, decisive and ruthless, one female lead, frequent updates.] Zhao Wuji, a herdsman, dreams only of getting a full meal. His grander ambition is to have meat to eat... One day, while herding cattle, someone falls from the sky. Before dying, that person is concealed in Zhao Wuji’s palm by a mysterious cauldron! Yet on that very day, the entire village is inexplicably crushed and razed to the ground! He must survive. He must take revenge. By a 22.1kReads8.2Score2.4kShelves
21. 21 穿 I Transmigrated and Got the Cauldron of Creation, Yet It Devours Everything 穿越获造化万物鼎，却吞噬万物 Thousand-Year-Old Tree Spirit千年树神Eastern Fantasy1.3M WordsCompleted [Fast-paced wish fulfillment] Chen Yong transmigrates into a cultivation world with a small cauldron and becomes a menial disciple at the Xuanyin Sacred Land. The cauldron's powers are astonishing: it can devour spiritual materials and forcibly raise his cultivation realm! But it also saddles him with a tremendous karmic burden. “So what if I have to bear a karmic burden? I’ve already come out ahead...” To quickly gather resources and improve his cultivation, he resolutely takes up the path of a 8.2kReads8.2Score938Shelves
22. 22 万 A Ten-Thousandfold Rebate: When My Disciple Builds His Foundation, I Ascend Straight to Immortality 万倍返还：徒弟筑基我直接成仙 Feng Lingbei风凌北Eastern Fantasy5.0M WordsOngoing [Invincible + System + Funny + Easygoing + Ruthless + No Saintly Hero] Zhong Qing transmigrates into a minor peak master of one of Pingjiang Sect's seven peaks. He plans to coast through life and take it easy, but then he activates the strongest Bond System. Take in two useless disciples: Activate the Useless Duo Bond. His disciples go from dead weight to geniuses, and their cultivation is returned to the protagonist a thousandfold. Take in a catgirl and a foxgirl: Activate the Allure Bond. The 28.1kReads8.8Score4.9kShelves
23. 23 大 Senior Brother, How Many Sects Do We Still Have Left to Rob? 大师兄，账上还有几个宗门没抢？ Three Jin and Eight Liang三斤八两Eastern Fantasy1.5M WordsCompleted “Invincible, hilarious, and more satisfying with every chapter.” A little boy, barely two or three years old, asked timidly, “Eldest Senior Brother, which sect are we robbing next?” Zhang Bufan flicked the boy on the forehead and said crossly, “You don't know what you're talking about, so don't go saying stupid things. We're not robbing anyone. We're taking back what belongs to us. Got it?” With that, Zhang Bufan pulled out a thick ledger and flipped through it, muttering, “This one, this one, a 1.4kReads8.4Score144Shelves
24. 24 吾 I Have a Pagoda That Buries Immortals, Gods, and All the Myriad Worlds 吾有一塔，葬仙，葬神，葬诸天 The Eternal Night, the Moon Alone永夜月同孤Eastern Fantasy7.0M WordsOngoing [Work by a renowned author + invincible protagonist + thrilling power fantasy + highly recommended] In the eternal river of time stood the supreme treasure, the Heaven-Burying Tower. It had once buried the heavens of ages past and imprisoned the strongest beings of every era. Among them was the Sword Demon, whose swordsmanship had dominated an entire age. The Taixu Alchemy Saint, the greatest alchemist of all time. The Emperor of Refining, who could temper all things in heaven and earth into art 103.8kReads8.8Score9kShelves
25. 25 照 Dressed in Red: The Maid's Rise to Power 照红妆：通房丫鬟上位记 Sweet, Sweet Milk Candy奶糖甜甜Ancient Romance1.1M WordsCompleted (New book updating) Haitang's rules for fighting in the inner household as a maidservant: First, be flexible. Second, don't let love cloud your judgment. Third, if a woman isn't ruthless, her position won't be secure. Haitang was breathtakingly beautiful but born into a lowly family. In her previous life, proud and unwilling to become a bedchamber maid, she was tortured to death by the principal wife. Reborn, she decided to live differently. Everyone thought she was reaching above her station ju 13.8kReads9.3Score1.9kShelves

    Reader note

    A super strong female lead!! Highly recommended!! A story of rising step by step to the top.

26. 26 恐 Horror Academy: Dormitory 404 恐怖学院：404凶舍 There Are Fusu Mountains山有扶苏Mystery1.5M WordsCompleted A sensational incident once occurred at the academy. It was later completely covered up. Five years later, the academy opened its doors again. 2kReads—Score181Shelves

    Reader note

    I was both scared and couldn't help but want to watch.

27. 27 真 True Stories of Folk Horror 真实民间恐怖故事 The Way Without the Wind无风自道Mystery219k WordsCompleted Real! Real! Real! I'm not after horror, just realism. The stories in this novel come from friends around me and readers across the internet. Anyone with mental health issues can skip it. And whatever you do, don't read it alone at night. I'm mainly worried you'll wet the bed the next day. 76Reads—Score—Shelves
28. 28 恐 Short True Horror Stories 恐怖真实小故事 Mo Hei默黑Mystery154k WordsCompleted Don't read this if you're easily scared! Don't read this if you're easily scared! This collection of stories is all based on things I've seen and heard. Better to believe they're true than risk finding out they're not. Now, let me tell them to you one by one, haha! 1kReads—Score—Shelves
29. 29 恐 Horror Stories 恐怖小说 Ye Banju叶半居4k WordsCompleted Horror novel 241Reads—Score—Shelves
30. 30 好 Such a Good Girl 好一个乖乖女 I Took Great Pains我煞费苦心Modern Romance361k WordsCompleted [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 30.9kReads9.5Score4.1kShelves

    Reader note

    ## What a Good Girl: After the clamor of her high-status wedding, who is sneering in the dead silence? As the last wedding car adorned with flowers drove away from the Lu family mansion, the lingering noise in the air seemed to be instantly sucked away. Lu Qian, the eldest daughter of the Lu family, dressed in a magnificent gown, was carried into the wedding car by Qin Lian, the eldest son of the Qin family from Xizi City, amidst blessings and envy—a meticulously planned "high-status wedding" came to a perfect end. The red silk ribbons remained, and the double happiness characters were still fresh. However, when the clamor completely subsided, the splendid dowry and the colorful decorations scattered on the ground suddenly revealed a cold meaning. Was the clamor of the high-status wedding the glory of the Lu family, or a silent footnote in the eyes of a certain "good girl"? As everyone's eyes followed the dazzling bride away, who noticed the silent figure in the corner? She was Lu Mingyu, another daughter of the Lu family. This silence was her stage. In that dead silence, one could almost hear a soft, unnoticed sneer. Behind every grand wedding lies an unseen corner. As her cousin married into a glamorous family, what remained in the empty Lu family mansion—was it blessing? Mockery? Or… the deathly stillness before the storm?

31. 31 百 Ghosts in the Apocalypse: I Became the Strongest Ghost Tamer 百鬼末世：我成了最强御鬼师 Yi People's Firelight彝人烟火Mystery2.9M WordsOngoing [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 115kReads9.5Score9.8kShelves

    Reader note

    The mysterious email arrived at three in the morning. The hum of the air conditioner's outdoor unit suddenly stopped, and in the silence, the blue light from the phone screen stung my eyes. The unsigned email lay in my inbox like a time bomb waiting to explode. Trembling, I clicked on the attachment. The dense text and hand-drawn illustrations in the PDF document rushed towards me, as if an invisible hand was lifting the curtain on the real world. The yellowed paper texture leaped off the screen, and the clothing section boldly stated: "Be sure to wear pure cotton; synthetic fibers will melt and burn your skin at high temperatures." The weapon recommendation section showed a rusty fire axe, with the annotation: "When encountering 'entities,' aim for the joints; their pain receptors are different from humans." The most bizarre part was the first survival step: "When you smell the damp carpet and hear the never-ending hum of the fluorescent lights, congratulations, you've successfully entered the 'back room'—but don't be too happy yet." My gaze swept across the malfunctioning chair on the windowsill, slowly oozing black liquid. The twisted metal frame of the chair back resembled the "spatial dislocation warning sign" marked in the guidebook. The night wind rattled the glass, and in a daze, I seemed to hear countless faint footsteps surging from all directions. Those absurd descriptions that I had initially thought were pranks were now piecing together a chilling truth in my mind: beyond the cracks of reality, perhaps there really was another unknown world that devoured humanity. As the clock struck four in the morning, I found my fingers unconsciously tracing the last warning in the guidebook: "Remember, never look back." Cold sweat soaked my back, and I suddenly realized that I might have stepped into an abyss from which there was no return.

32. 32 为 Searching for the Herb of Immortality: I Nearly Became a Walking Corpse 为寻不死草：差点变行尸 Luo Wushen洛无神Mystery1.3M WordsCompleted [Tibetan legends + folk tales of the uncanny + suspenseful exploration + tomb raiding, no beauties, not a power fantasy, no formulaic tropes] Legend has it that Tibet is home to an herb of immortality, which comes in yin and yang varieties. If the living eat the yang herb, they can live forever; if the dead consume it, they can be resurrected. But anyone who eats the yin herb turns into a walking corpse. The herb of immortality is said to grow thousands of meters underground, in a place that T 205Reads—Score—Shelves

    Reader note

    Hello fellow book lovers! I've compiled a list of 19 books in various genres to provide you with a wide selection and help you choose the books you like. These include genres such as [suspense/supernatural, high-quality novels, urban martial arts, contemporary romance, slice-of-life urban life, science fiction/apocalyptic, fantasy romance, short stories, historical romance, and female-oriented derivative works], among others. My loyal fans are welcome to recommend this list to their friends and colleagues! I will also be updating it irregularly every day!

33. 33 西 Tibet's Demon-Suppressing Map 西藏镇魔图 Flying to the Heavens飞天Mystery200k WordsCompleted At the Jokhang Temple, the wandering swordsman Chen Feng saves Yan Qi from an assassination attempt by a fat man. His diary records an encounter with a mirage, where he met a woman named Shaladuoli in a golden valley. His camera contains images of a golden treasure and a statue of a witch. Master Boladuojie of Nechung Monastery and Fang Dongxiao, a master of mind reading, also make their appearances one after another. When Chen Feng plunges the knife into the witch’s head and chest, he finally o 12Reads—Score—Shelves
34. 34 化 I Became a Tentacle Witch and Now I’m the Enemy of Magical Girls 化身触手魔女的我与魔法少女为敌 Keqing Is My Wife, Meow刻晴喵我老婆Urban715k WordsCompleted [Magical Girl]➕ [Villainous Witch]➕ [Plot-driven]➕ [Transformation (gender swap)]➕ [Secret identity revealed] To cure her younger sister's strange illness, Chen Xi had no choice but to become the witch “Bianan” and oppose the magical girl organization that stood for justice. Unfortunately, the girls were so weak that Chen Xi treated them like playthings, repeatedly triggering their defeat CGs as they fought. Then one day, Chen Xi encountered a magical girl who had appeared out of nowhere and act 7.2kReads9.0Score850Shelves
35. 35 西 Tibet Adventure: The Secret of Mount Kailash 西藏探险故事：冈仁波齐的秘密 Lone Wanderer of Ten Miles十里独行Mystery1.9M WordsCompleted Mount Kailash, standing on the Tibetan Plateau, is considered the center of the universe by four major religions. A group of young people happen upon a monk in black at its foot and receive three uniquely styled figurines. Little do they know that this will draw them into a shocking secret. A mysterious underground world, an unknown prehistoric civilization, the struggle between good and evil, tangled love and hatred, and a battle for survival or destruction: the story unfolds piece by piece. 336Reads7.0Score—Shelves
36. 36 十 The Twelve Witches 十二魔女 Only Fei Will Do菲我莫属Modern Romance740k WordsOngoing [Ensemble cast of women + women supporting women + women saving women + no female rivalry!] Twelve gods, twelve witches, and a deadly game spanning time and fate. In the endless void, twelve supreme gods watch over mortal life. To test an ancient hypothesis, they choose twelve women from different lands and eras and send them to a desolate desert kingdom. The winner will receive the gods’ blessing and have any wish granted. The losers will vanish forever into the dust of time. “Time never tu 40Reads—Score100Shelves
37. 37 走 Wandering the Back Corners of Tibet 走在西藏的犄角旮旯 Little Sprite Beneath the Bodhi Tree菩提树下的小妖精Urban307k WordsCompleted After living in Tibet for eleven years, I’ve come to love not only its famous sights, but also its most remote corners. I enjoy measuring every inch of the plateau with my own steps, and I love gazing at its picture-perfect blue skies and white clouds. Prayer flags and lungta, the prayer flags that carry blessings. Stones piled up in the mountains, by crossroads, and beside streams and rivers: the Tibetan people’s guardian, the mani stone cairn. The Tibet Autonomous Region has six prefecture-lev 295Reads—Score—Shelves
38. 38 西 The Witch of the Western Sea 西海魔女 Noisy Celluloid无路赛璐璐Fantastical Romance669k WordsCompleted [Magic + Western Fantasy + Potion Brewing + Apocalypse + No Romance, Just Comradeship + No Transmigration + Slow-Burn, Not a Power Fantasy] Anse grew up deep in the mountains and forests, learning magic and alchemy from her grandparents. But after the last of her family passed away from illness, she had no choice but to leave the forest and continue studying magic and alchemy in a different way among human society. Though she was poor at socializing, Anse made money brewing potions while teachin 448Reads8.1Score102Shelves
39. 39 魔 Magical Girls Won’t Become the Playthings of Their Witch Sisters 魔法少女不会沦为魔女姐姐的玩物 Nervous Little Bai神经小白Urban294k WordsOngoing [Magical Girls + Pure Yuri + Everyone’s Queen] A magical prodigy, a top student, and the youngest graduate in White Rose’s history. As this legendary genius approaches graduation, the entire magical world waits to see which path she will choose. And her decision is... “I choose to go back to my hometown and become a magical girl!” Faced with the uproar from the judging panel, the black-haired girl cradles her teacup and offers a camera-ready smile. “Using my magic to protect my hometown has alwa 233Reads8.6Score—Shelves
40. 40 魔 Witch, 魔女， Oh, Duck!哎鸭呀Ancient Romance201k WordsCompleted Zhou Xuan stared straight at Chu Lingfeng and shouted, "So you're the hero! Now that you've exposed my identity, what are you going to do?" Chu Lingfeng replied with righteous conviction, "What am I going to do? Demons are vermin everyone wants dead." "As a hero, of course I'm going to rid the world of evil. I can't let people like you ruin this world, can I?" Zhou Xuan sneered and asked, "So demons are supposed to be the bad guys, and heroes are supposed to be the good guys?" Raising her voice, 27Reads—Score—Shelves
41. 41 雪 The Snowfield Chronicles of Demon Suppression 雪域镇魔录 Purple Qi Comes from the East, Yellow Pixiu紫气东来黄貔貅Eastern Fantasy391k WordsCompleted During the prosperous Qianlong era, turmoil brewed on the remote Qinghai-Tibet frontier. Han secret arts and sinister Western Regions sorcery ran rampant, threatening to overthrow the order of Tibetan Buddhism! Luosang Jiacuo, a Gelug monk burdened by the past, swore to subdue demons and banish evil. Tenzin Luobu, a senior Nyingma monk, carried an ancient scripture and understood secrets spanning ten thousand years. Zhuoma Lamu, a gifted young Tibetan woman, could sense evil energy. Together, th —Reads—Score—Shelves
42. 42 西 A Journey to Tibet 西藏之旅 Wei Wei韦惟Completed Along the Sichuan-Tibet Highway, you’ll often see women traveling on a shoestring holding up signs asking for a ride. Some don’t want to pay the fare, so they offer to pay in kind instead. A thousand miles to Jiangling, there and back in a single day. That’s how the saying came about. —Reads—Score—Shelves
43. 43 人 The Fox-Human Witch 人狐魔女 Suo La Cuo索拉措Ancient Romance371k WordsCompleted A baby girl from the immortal realm miraculously fell into the human world. Because of the karma from her previous life, she was a human by day and a fox by midnight. Her family mistook her for a demon and abandoned her. Rescued by an immortal who was cultivating in a cave, she was raised to adulthood and stepped into the mortal world. There, she endured a series of calamities: her lover’s betrayal, becoming an Asura assassin after turning into a Demon King, courtly intrigues, a search for Ksiti —Reads—Score—Shelves
44. 44 魔 The Witch's Secret Diary 魔女的秘密手记 Geng Du庚都Modern Romance266k WordsOngoing Have you seen the new-concept witch? Ladies and gentlemen! Step right up! Don’t pass by! Don’t miss out! Buy one little witch here and get one free! Raise her, dress her up, or keep her company! Buy one and get a cute pet: a dragon, elf, fairy, demon... When she grows into her talent stage, she can gain [Divine Attention] or [Demonic Charm]. What are you waiting for? Come raise a little witch today! —Reads—Score—Shelves
45. 45 魔 Witch Hunt: Thank Goodness, She's a Female Inquisitor! 魔女狩猎：太好了，是女审判官！ Weiweinian未未念Ancient Romance515k WordsOngoing [Medieval witch-hunt setting + female inquisitor + goofy System + collecting famous women from history + witches getting cozy] Gu Huan, a history major about to graduate, passes out while writing her thesis. When she wakes up, she discovers she’s transmigrated to the Middle Ages. Even worse, the townsfolk are about to drag her out and burn her as a witch! As a modern woman, Gu Huan draws on her knowledge of history, her silver tongue, and a tiny bit of help from the System to successfully scr 12Reads—Score—Shelves
46. 46 佛 The Buddha Bell’s Calamity 佛铃劫 A Million-Dollar Diary百万日记Ancient Romance115k WordsOngoing [Historical Romance] [BE] [Angst] The Buddha Bell Calamity Xiao Mingluan first meets the Buddhist monk Jialuo at Yanmen Pass, where a broken Buddhist bell becomes the beginning of their bond. She teases him with a silver bell and sweet pastries. Though Jialuo keeps the precepts, he cannot hide the stirrings of his heart, and feelings begin to grow between them. They meet again in Chang’an. Jialuo’s prayer beads shatter as he protects Mingluan, and their emotions collide fiercely in the meditat 2Reads—Score—Shelves
47. 47 太 The Primordial Divine Ruins 太古神墟 Longren Jiuyong龙人玖庸Eastern Fantasy3.2M WordsCompleted A mysterious boy’s memories were sealed by his master. He emerged from the Primordial Divine Ruins. He starts by farming spirit fields, but this lowly servant is actually terrifying beyond belief. With a kitchen knife in hand, the world is his. Leading a pack of great demons, he is invincible. Bound by fate to chaos, who in the Myriad Worlds could possibly stand against him? A leaky spirit body? Wrong! My dantian has three hundred and sixty-one chambers. A mixed spirit root? Wrong! My spirit roo 79.4kReads8.9Score8.8kShelves
48. 48 噬 God-Eater Tower 噬神塔 Afterglow Chronicle残阳纪Eastern Fantasy5.1M WordsOngoing [The short drama Tower of God-Eating is available on Hongguo] I have a tower that devours every god in the world. The young Qin Yi is framed, his Heavenly Meridian ripped out, and treated with contempt by everyone. Fortunately, he obtains an unparalleled divine tower, awakens the ancient bloodline that devours gods, reforges his divine meridians, tempers the Supreme Laws, and cultivates the ultimate Great Dao. Watch as he rises from obscurity, subdues heaven and earth, tramples across the Ten De 45.7kReads9.0Score3.7kShelves
49. 49 紫EN Purple Cauldron Immortal Fate 紫鼎仙缘 Ma Dafugui马大富贵Eastern Fantasy8.1M WordsCompleted Ye Han, a poor cowherd, accidentally loses his cattle, but what seems like a misfortune turns out to be a blessing: he obtains a mysterious purple cauldron that devours the heavens. Watch as he rises against fate with nothing but an ordinary talent, enters the ranks of the top cultivators, and makes the name Ye Han resound across countless worlds. He looks down upon the Five Elements and roams freely through the Nine Heavens! Cultivation realms: Qi Refining, Foundation Establishment, Golden Core 56.3kReads8.7Score6.1kShelves
50. 50 凡EN Mortal Bones, Immortal Destiny 凡骨 Master of One Update壹更大师Eastern Fantasy8.3M WordsCompleted (The print edition is now available to buy online) The world's spiritual bones are divided into four grades. First grade: Heavenly Spiritual Bones. Second grade: Golden Spiritual Bones. Third grade: Mystic Spiritual Bones. Fourth grade: White Spiritual Bones. All the rest are ordinary bones, unfit for cultivation. Xu Taiping is an ordinary man with ordinary bones, yet he swears to prove to the cultivation world that ordinary bones can slay demons, ordinary bones can vanquish evil, and ordinary b 557.8kReads9.3Score70.2kShelves

Other lists with Reborn as a Shy Little Introvert with a Lovable Romantic Streak