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The Republic-Era Book of Mysteries 民国诡秘录
Sometimes, the one who takes your life isn’t a person at all, but an evil spirit or demon. And the one controlling those spirits from behind the scenes might well be human... In the chaotic Republican era, foreign powers encircled the nation, eager to invade China, while warlords fought among themselves at home, leaving the land in ruins. On the other side of the jianghu, evil spirits rose everywhere and ghosts ran rampant, while mysterious foreign religions invaded as well. After waking from a
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Northeast Spirit Medium: From the Start, the Hu Family Town Is Haunted by a Hundred Ghosts 东北弟马：开局胡家镇百诡
[Spirit-medium tradition + Northeastern Chinese customs + folk supernatural tales + feng shui secrets] My name is Chen Mo. I had just graduated from college when my grandpa passed away. On the day he died, the portrait in the mourning hall stared at me, someone spoke from inside the coffin, and his corpse even sat up on the day of the funeral. That's when I learned my grandpa hadn't died of an illness. He'd left me a whole spirit retinue: the Hu, Huang, Bai, Liu, and Hui spirits, each with formi
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Zombie Scammers: Celestial Master, You’re a Dad Now 僵尸碰瓷：天师你当爹了
During a nighttime patrol, Celestial Master Ye Tian comes across a female zombie who refuses to leave his home. She declares, without a hint of shame, “I’m pregnant. The baby is yours, so you have to take responsibility.” Ye Tian: “I didn’t do anything!?”
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March of a Hundred Ghosts: I Take the Hungry Ghosts to War 百诡行军：我带饿鬼上战场
[Comedy] [Adventure] Bilige was a half-baked shaman who had somehow ended up in the army. His companions included a Shaanbei fat man who'd eaten himself up to two hundred jin during a famine, a long-legged Northeastern squad leader who would grab a cleaver at the slightest provocation, and a Sichuan opera actor who never told the truth. Together with Wang Laihe, a hotheaded young man who couldn't read a single character, and a little hungry ghost who did nothing but bare its teeth and shout “Hun
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City Supernatural Shelter: I Balance the Books and Vanquish Ghosts Across the Land 都市收容所：我靠查账平了天下鬼
On the third day after passing the civil service exam and starting my new job, I finally learned that my department was a containment facility specializing in urban anomalies. The section chief slapped a stack of old case files onto my desk. "Xiao Shen, settle the mess this building left behind thirty years ago." I opened the first page. It read: "The last person who investigated these accounts is buried behind the hill."
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The Great Immortal's Record of Sealing Tombs 锁冢大仙录
The moment the Nuo mask swept across my right eye, the world changed. I saw underground waterways deep beneath the earth. I saw ancient Shu script carved into the stone walls three thousand years ago. And in the deepest place, I saw a crack with two words carved inside: Buzhou! And then there was Shangguan Wanyu, a forensic pathologist with a doctorate. The first time I saw her, the bone needles at her waist were all ringing, as if twelve tuning forks had been struck at once. She said my right e
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A Bewildering Labyrinth of Strange Tales 诡谲迷迭
[Infinite Flow] [No Golden Finger] My name is Wang Hong. My younger sister has gone mad. She's been haunted by a ghost. When I started searching for the truth, I was haunted by a ghost too. I should have realized sooner. Now, there's no going back. And ghosts are like a plague. I was the one who brought them into the lives of those around me. Believe me, I didn't mean to. If she comes to find me, it'll be inevitable once she comes to her senses. Anyway, while I was still more or less lucid, I le
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The Haunted House 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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Domain River 域河
(The hardcover edition has been published!) [Infinite Flow] [Original Horror Instances] [Mild Horror] “Chen Ji murdered his mother a week ago and spent three days with her corpse before he was arrested.” “You have been diagnosed with schizophrenia and are about to be transferred to a psychiatric hospital for supervision.” “Do you have anything to say?” The black-haired boy before them slowly raised his head, his expression calm. “I’ll say it again.” “The thing I killed wasn’t my mother...” “It w
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The End of Ten Days 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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Infinite: Welcome to the Dark Fairy Tale World 无限：欢迎来到暗黑童话世界
[Volume One of the print edition goes on sale August 7] [Short drama and comic adaptation now available] [No romance + Infinite-flow + Horror game + No national destiny + Dark fairy tales] A young woman weeps softly at midnight. A handsome prince turns into a bloodthirsty “beast” at night. Cinderella dies a gruesome death on the night of the ball. The horror game is wrapped in shiny glassine, disguised as a sweet candy. What lies hidden behind the enchanting fairy-tale world... Weird tales desc
109.2kReads9.3Score14.7kShelves
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The Midnight Pawnshop: The Living Must Keep Away 午夜当铺，活人回避
[Traditional Supernatural + Chinese Folklore + Unorthodox Trading + Tales of Evil Objects] No romantic pairing This is a strange pawnshop that only accepts sinister objects with special value! Coins placed in the mouths of the dead, executioners' swords, grave-top mushrooms, flesh lingzhi, Kunlun fetuses... Evil objects can harm people, but they can also help them! Once they pass through the pawnshop's hands, being pawned and sold, evil can be transformed into treasure! They can bring promotions
259.1kReads9.4Score21.5kShelves
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The Greatest Taboo Among the People 民间第一禁忌
They severed my tendons and buried me alive in a sealed coffin, but they didn’t know I was born with the fate of the King of Hell! [Folk horror, feng shui and talismans, incense offerings] Feng shui and fortune-telling, painted-skin demons and spirit summoning, walking in the shadows and corpse driving, corpse-raising spells and curses, yin tattoos and talismanic needles, puppets controlled by strings, red doors sealed with wax, Dogs digging graves on Burial Mound Ridge, ghosts feasting in the R
335.3kReads9.4Score29.7kShelves
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The Horror Game Is Too Hard? Huohuo, I Only Want Joy! 惊悚游戏太难？花火我只要欢愉！
[Mind games + fireworks + madness + infinite flow] I am Sparkle, but I am not Sparkle. I am in a world of despair. When the heavens and earth are torn open by an indescribable, mysterious force and countless “abominations from beyond” descend, humanity’s fate is forced into a horror game. Slaughter, monsters, abyssal dungeons, illusions, eerie towers... Every time someone clears a game, a new Cthulhu entity may step into reality. Everyone is fighting to survive. But amid all this despair, I’m l
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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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The Underworld Calls Me Little Master 地府叫我小先生
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!
249.6kReads9.6Score31.4kShelves
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After Death, My Wife Preserved My Corpse, and I Evolved from a Zombie 死后被妻子养尸，我从僵尸进化
[Zombies + Corpse-Raising + Corpse-Driving + Body Retrieval + Folk Customs + Romance + Ancient Mythology + Classic of Mountains and Seas] (Volumes 1–7: After I died, my wife raised my corpse, transforming me from a zombie into the Ancestral Corpse.) (Volume 8: After my wife died, I raised her corpse, transforming her from a zombie into a female drought demon.) In my previous life, my wife was the Yellow Emperor's daughter. She died after being sacrificed to the gods, and I raised her corpse unti
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The Nine Gates Mysteries: The Immortality Tribulation 【九门诡事：长生劫】
My grandfather died a gruesome death in his study, his soul locked in a sinister state. Strange black patterns crawled all over him, and his corpse sat upright in a chair, cold as jade. Before he died, he left a final letter, every word an uncompromising warning: Never go into tomb raiding. Never set foot in the corpse-raising grounds of western Hunan. Never touch a single part of the Shen family's ancestral estate! Young Shen Changsheng is the last heir to the Shen family's forbidden Yin-Yang
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Just Because You Can't See It Doesn't Mean It Doesn't Exist 你看不见不代表不存在
There are many strange events involving spirits, ghosts, and monsters in this world. To most ordinary people, they're just jokes or stories. Science explains them as changes caused by magnetic fields. But science ends where the occult begins. Just because you can't see something doesn't mean it doesn't exist. Ji Shisan grows from a novice who has just entered the spirit world into a powerful figure who shapes it. Alongside his companions, he safeguards order throughout China, gathers ancient div
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With My Heart, I Question Heaven’s Heart 我以己心问天心
His master’s soul lamp is about to go out, but the Underworld Division has already come to claim his soul, and the Directorate of Fate has secretly altered his lifespan. The young Daoist Chen Shaowei travels from Yunzhou to the capital, uncovering the secrets of the Temple of Heaven, the black accounts of the Ghost Market, and old entanglements in Fengdu along the way. Only then does he realize that the ones devouring people are not a single person or one department, but an old web spanning both
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King of Feng Shui 风水之王
The day I was born, nineteen bolts of thunder struck around our family’s courtyard. A fortune-teller said I was born a demon child, fated to suffer eighteen calamities in my life. Either someone else would die, or I would. As it turned out, the fortune-teller met his own calamity on the very day I was born. He carried me out of the village, and suddenly dropped dead!
817.1kReads9.4Score49kShelves
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The Autobiography of a Tomb Raider 来自一位盗墓者的自传
[Published in print and available online] [The Beipai Notes horizontal-screen drama is now streaming] [Tomb Raiding + Mystery + Antiques] I'm a poor kid from a mountain village in Northeast China. In the early twenty-first century, hoping to make something of myself, I joined a northern tomb-raiding crew. From south to north, I've seen every side of the underworld and crossed paths with people from all walks of life. Over the years, I went from a young man to a middle-aged one. My drinking got b
627.8kReads9.6Score70.1kShelves
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Death Game 死亡游戏
Su Yi was supposed to enjoy a peaceful high school life, but a bizarre mobile game turned everything upside down. Murders, accidents... What is the purpose of the person pulling the strings? Or is it simply for the thrill of bloodshed? The game has begun. Are you ready?
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I Am a Lady Tutor 我是女先生
I'm hard to kill. These were the words I heard from the moment I was born. A blind fortune-teller said I was a White Tiger Sha, a girl born with a boy's fate, innately tough and destined to bring misfortune to my husband, my children, and myself. Everyone in the village said I wouldn't survive. My yang energy was too strong. Even if they managed to keep me alive, I'd grow up to be an idiot. But my grandma, a spirit medium who presided over the altar, refused to give up. Every year, she burned a
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I Give Final Comfort to Bosses in Horror Dungeons 我在恐怖副本给BOSS临终关怀
[Strange Tale Dungeons + Gentle, Healing Vibes + 1v1 Romance + No Angst or Filler] Meng Ling is a palliative care nurse who has spent seven years witnessing life and death. One rainy night, a door that appeared out of nowhere dragged her into the Stagnant Realm, a world frozen from the lingering obsessions of the dead. Living people who venture inside have almost no chance of survival. The moment she arrived, the resentful spirits were more nervous than she was. Two-hundred-year-old ghosts line
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Notebook No. 9 第九号笔记本
An unsigned letter leads Lu Jing, a special police instructor, to a deserted village that has been erased from the map. At the bottom of a well, he finds records of Japanese military experiments from 1939. That same night, he encounters something that should not exist: mutated people who move sluggishly and have black blood. He escapes by sheer luck, but an undying black pattern remains on his left arm. The hexagonal particles in his blood sample match the investigation notes of Li Zhiwei's late
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The Underworld Detective 阴间神探
My new work is out! You can read it on Tomato Novel. I hope you'll enjoy it. Your support inspires me to write, and I'll do my best to tell every story well!
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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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The House of Deadly Peril 死亡凶间
I work as a specialist crime-scene cleaner, tasked with cleaning up after murders, suicides, and accidental deaths. I’ve seen more than my share of partings and grief, as well as the other side of death. Then, on the Ghost Festival, I encountered something terrifying...
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On the Second Day of the Second Month, I Marry the Dragon King 二月初二，嫁龙王
Ever since I turned eighteen, I’ve had shameful erotic dreams every night. In them, I spend day and night entwined with a man dressed in black, with dark hair. My grandmother, the last shaman in the village, said I was the reincarnation of a deer spirit. In my previous life, I sealed an evil river dragon with a virgin’s blood; in this life, I was destined to live alone, and must never break my vow of chastity! On the second day of the second lunar month that year, as the dragon raised its head,
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Vivid as Life 栩栩若生
A fortune-teller said I was born destined for greatness, the reincarnation of the Flower Goddess, with the power to turn stones into gold and command flower spirits and tree sprites. Once I came of age, my family was sure to prosper. But when I was twelve, I came down with a strange illness. My fever wouldn’t break, and I kept seeing terrifying visions... In a dream, I met an old woman who told me to find an expert with supernatural powers to save my life. Millet to summon souls, altars and form
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The Xie Family's Short-Lived Son Has Lived to a Hundred 谢家的短命鬼长命百岁了
[Screen adaptation rights sold] The lid of a dead person's coffin won't lie flat because they had an unresolved longing in life. Given time, that longing turns into a demonic obsession, and unless it is resolved, their descendants will suffer. Yan Sanhe's job is to release the dead from their obsessions. One day, she gets hounded by Third Master Xie, who claims to have one. Yan Sanhe says she doesn't deal with the living. Third Master Xie replies, “Everyone says I won't live long. Just think of
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My Fiancé Broke My Fingers for His First Love, Not Knowing I'm a Mafia Heiress 未婚夫为白月光断我手指，却不知我是黑道千金
At my birthday banquet, my fiancé's old flame lost the amulet she'd worn for years. Everyone searched, but no one could find it. His old flame cried as if her heart would break. Just as I stood up to help, the ruined amulet fell out of my pocket. I froze in place. Ruan Jiajia cried out, "Miss Sang, this amulet was a keepsake my mother left me. Even if you hate me, you shouldn't take it out on this!" She clutched the broken scraps and sobbed until she could barely catch her breath. Hearing this,
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The Corpse on the Autopsy Table Was Me, and My Forensic Pathologist Husband Went Mad 发现验尸床上的尸体是我，法医老公他疯了
The day I was kidnapped, Gu Yan was celebrating his new lover’s birthday. The kidnappers called him to demand a ransom, threatening to kill me if he didn’t pay. But he said, “Too bad she’s not worth spending money on. I should thank you for helping me get rid of that troublesome woman.” Three days later, I lay on the autopsy table. Even though Gu Yan was the finest forensic pathologist, he didn’t realize that the body he was examining was that of his most hated wife.
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Lan the Demon Hunter 捉妖人蓝
This world is home to demons, ghosts, and true cultivators. A top cultivator died at the hands of a tree demon that should never have been able to kill him. The bodies of seven drowned students all pointed with their right hands toward the same spot beneath the water. In a desolate mountain, the powers of the Earth God, Mountain God, River Goddess, and City God all answered to the same woman. Lan Yifang had seen plenty of things like these. Before dealing with anything strange, he always made
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Hey, Your Existence Is an Anomaly! 喂，你的存在是异常！
Why is there a Chinese-style ruin buried beneath London? During construction in a park near Elephant and Castle, the eaves of a building pointing underground came to light. Chinese student Li Chengzhen initially thought that joining Professor Jack Cleve on an archaeological dig would mean little more than sorting through records, identifying Chinese characters, and reminding his overexcited mentor to eat on time. Until the explanations identifying the site as a modern garden were overturned one
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Collected Records of the Way 行道集录
I am a descendant of Taigong. The gods need not stand aside. Following his ancestors' teachings, Lü Bugu practices the Dao, destroys demons and evil, and uses his mortal body as a hammer to temper his Daoist heart and refine his arts. The Great Dao is not found in famous mountains and ancient temples. The mortal world tempers the heart, and the Great Dao is never walked alone.
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The Celestial Master Is Here, and I Am the Evil God 天师在此，我为邪神
[Folklore Supernatural + Underdog's Rise + Mystery and Twists + Cool Exterior, Contrasting Side] When I was twelve, my father ran away. Now that I'm seventeen, my sister is close to death. The village's old blind man said someone in the Liu family had died. If I sneaked into their home and stole a carpenter's ink line, I could save my sister. So I went. In the end, I discovered that the thing lying in the coffin wasn't human. After my sister was saved, I thought that surviving a great cala
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The Daoist's Notebook 道门笔记
On a rainy night in Suzhou, a night watchman comes across a barefoot, waterlogged corpse. Its face is blue, its fangs bared, and beneath the black chrysanthemum mark between its brows, something writhes under the flesh, making the skin bulge in terrifying waves. The Thunder Talisman from Longhu Mountain has barely warmed in his hands when the corpse vanishes, leaving only a sickly-sweet black mist curling around an old Daoist at the street corner. Hong Ying, a Miao woman, watches her golden sil
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I Opened a Pawnshop at 33, and the Midnight Visitors Aren't Human 33岁开寄卖行，半夜来的不是人
Dongji Pawnshop has three rules: First, after midnight, we accept anything, no matter who knocks. Second, we don't give change in spirit money. Third, never ask customers where they came from. Han Haodong had survived for three years on this old street by following these three rules. Until he found a fourth rule among his grandfather's belongings: “Never let the scales tip out of balance.” He didn't know what it meant. But he would soon find out.
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Slay the Gods 我在精神病院学斩神
A must-read hit on Tomato Novel | Original novel of the hit anime Slay the Gods | IP influence on the China Online Literature Influence List | 2023 China Good Novel Have you ever wondered whether monsters from ancient myths lurk beneath the neon-lit city? Have you ever wondered whether gods stand watch over humanity atop the moon hanging high above us? Have you ever wondered whether extraordinary people walk among us in our bustling modern cities, acting in the gods’ stead? In the society ruled
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749 Bureau: Strange Case Investigations 749局：奇案调查
Liu Shui experienced a supernatural event as a child, during which his only family member disappeared without a trace. As an adult, Liu Shui is recruited by Bureau 749, an agency dedicated to investigating supernatural events. Under the guidance of his superior, Han Jiu, he begins investigating a string of mysterious cases. A shadowy figure on the last bus, a vampire attacking a zoo, a master craftsman with a thousand faces who sells bizarre artifacts, an alien creature with extraterrestrial tra
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The Corpse Collection Files 收尸档案
Since ancient times, the dead have been left with their bodies. But few people know that corpses hold many secrets that remain hidden from the world. Cursed corpses, living corpses, bodies left where they fell, vengeful corpses, bisected corpses... Every corpse has a story of its own! My name is He Yongheng, and I collect bodies for a funeral home.
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The Wilds’ Ninth Squad 荒野九队
In the Qinghai Yadan badlands, local police discover a burned corpse. Hanging around its neck is the ID tag of Cang Yunfeng, a member of Wilderness Team Nine. But at that very moment, Cang Yunfeng is lounging on his sofa at home, watching TV. Only when a policewoman calls does he suddenly realize... he seems to have been missing for a very long time...
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The Last Bus on Route 13 13路末班车
I'm the driver of the last bus on Route 13. Every night at eleven, I have to make a run to the suburbs. This book is addictive, so don't blame me if you can't put it down! In this novel, even the sharp-tongued readers who always guess the plot right will find themselves repeatedly proven wrong. You might find yourself asking, “What's going on? What's going on?” Don't doubt your sanity. Just keep reading. A story that keeps you on edge, here to save readers suffering from a reading drought!
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