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1. 1 宿 Dormitory Survival: I Lie Flat and Earn Nightmare Coins 宿舍求生，我躺平赚取梦魇币 The Real Master of Three Fates三运真人Mystery2.3M WordsOngoing [Tower Defense + Infinite Worlds + Apocalypse + Survival + Goddesses + Monsters + Leveling Up + Lie Flat and Grow] When people woke up, they found themselves in a dormitory survival game. Blood mist shrouded the world, human civilization teetered on the brink, and the only safe place was their own dorm room! Xu Lang awakened the Nightmare Overlord sequence. He could earn Nightmare Coins just by sleeping, then use them to strengthen anything. Goddesses could even make his sleep more comfortable a 32.6kReads8.1Score1.3kShelves

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   1. In the fierce dormitory, taking concubines will make you stronger. When people wake up, they enter the dormitory survival game. The place is filled with blood mist, human civilization is in danger, and the only safe place is their own dormitory! Xu Lang awakens the Nightmare Master Sequence and can obtain Nightmare Coins while sleeping to strengthen all things. The goddess can also increase sleep comfort and increase the conversion rate of nightmare coins! From the [shabby wooden door] to the [immortal star gate] that can withstand all calamities, from the [electromagnetic turret] to the [stellar cannon] that annihilates the weird emperor, from the [fireball technique] to the [world-destroying black flames] that burns everything, from [meditation] to the [Xuanjun Seven Chapter Secret Sutra] that becomes a god. In this game full of despair, Xu Lang chose to lie down and develop. 2. Menggui Apartment, I am actually the big BOSS Happy Apartment welcomes you: There is a harmonious atmosphere here, friendly neighbors, they will come out to talk to you in the middle of the night to talk about life and your ideals in the next life. So, do you need to rent a house? The haunted kind.

2. 2 猛 The Haunted Apartment: I Turn Out to Be the Final Boss 猛鬼公寓，我竟然才是大BOSS Wife's Iron Fist媳妇的铁拳Urban514k WordsCompleted Welcome to Happy Apartments: There’s a friendly atmosphere and kind neighbors. Every night, they come out to talk with you about life and share their dreams for the next one. So, looking for a place to rent? The haunted kind. 3.4kReads9.1Score308Shelves
3. 3 逆 The Heavenly Master of Reverse Fortune 逆运天师 Four Ounces Move a Thousand Pounds千钧四两Mystery1.4M WordsCompleted [Originally titled The Reversed-Fate Celestial Master and Those Years of Helping Ghosts Harm People] [Multiple Female Leads] [Supernatural Evil Cultivation] [Controlling Paper Dolls, Consecrating Yin Compasses, Refining Copper-Coin Ghost Treasures, Making Corpse Puppets, Raising Ghosts, Practicing Yin Fiend Arts] [Cultivation Ranks: New Ghost - High-Grade Ghost - Yin Soldier (Yin Soldier Ghost Path) - Ghost King (Ghost King Evil Path) - Ghost General (Netherworld Ghost General) - Great Demon - F 2.3kReads8.1Score172Shelves

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   The second book I really recommend is the weird novel

4. 4 我 I Turned the Horror World Into a Raising Game! 我把惊悚世界玩成养成游戏！ Yu Zuo予作Mystery2.3M WordsCompleted 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 145.4kReads9.5Score16.5kShelves
5. 5 传 Legend Management Bureau 传说管理局 Pest Control Team Member杀虫队队员Eastern Fantasy1.4M WordsCompleted (No harem, no formulaic plot, no invincibility, no System, no brainless decisions, and no wish fulfillment. Read with caution if any of that bothers you.) Du Yu dies an untimely death right at the beginning of the story. Hoping to secure a better spot in his next life, he takes a job with the Bureau of Legendary Tales. His job is to return to legends that have gone off course and put their plots back on track. He never expected that the first mission assigned to an ordinary mortal like him would 210.9kReads9.6Score29.4kShelves

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   In the first book, the male protagonist is in the underworld after death, joins the Legend Management Bureau, and travels through various legends. The second book is about gods coming to reality, highly recommended

6. 6 诸 The Gods' Foolish Game 诸神愚戏 Ninety Autumns in January一月九十秋Urban3.7M WordsCompleted I have two principles in life: 1. I never lie. 2. I never believe anything anyone says, including myself. “Sir, I would like to point out that your second statement conflicts with the first.” “How so?” “If you never lie, why don’t you believe what you say?” “Oh, sorry. I forgot to mention that I don’t consider myself human.” “?” Allow me to introduce myself. My name is Cheng Shi, Cheng Shi who never lies. What, you’ve never heard of me? That’s all right. You simply haven’t been deceived by m 537.4kReads9.7Score74.9kShelves
7. 7 规 Rule Horror: My Family Isn't Normal 规则怪谈：我的家人不正常 White Beard白胡子Mystery1.2M WordsCompleted [Horror + mystery + livestream + national fate + System] The supernatural returns, and rule-based horror games invade countries around the world. As one chosen by fate, Zhou Bai represents the Great Xia Kingdom in a horror game. The first scenario is a family of four. [You live with your wife and your parents. But remember, there are only three people in your home.] [You can trust your wife, unless she takes off her red hair clip.] [You and your wife have never had a child. If you hear a baby cr 49.8kReads9.4Score6.6kShelves

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   Super cool, the single male protagonist is cool to the end, brainstorming

8. 8 开 From the Start, I Have Hundreds of Millions in Hell Money: I'm Invincible in the Age of the Uncanny 开局冥币亿万：诡异时代我无敌 Sis, Don't Be Like That姐姐别这样Mystery4.4M WordsOngoing [Supernatural horror + apocalypse + tycoon + ghost money + rules + comedy + no heroine + fast-paced power fantasy (buys a supernatural-horror site by chapter 7, keeps buying everything without dragging things out, and buys an entire city in 200,000 words) + mid-story twists + late-game rule deduction] The supernatural apocalypse arrives, and evil ghosts run rampant. Within the rules, ghosts cannot kill people. While countless people struggle to survive the apocalypse, carefully searching for a w 125.5kReads9.4Score12.4kShelves
9. 9 异 City of Beasts 异兽迷城 Peng Pai彭湃Urban3.0M WordsCompleted [The new book The Maze of Inversion has begun serialization. Updates come at 9 p.m. every evening. Please continue to support it.] Gao Yang was an orphan. At the age of six, he transmigrated to a parallel world and began living in a warm family of five. When he turned eighteen, Gao Yang accidentally discovered the truth about the world: this was not a parallel world at all, but a mysterious realm, and all the relatives and friends around him were terrifying Beasts! Gao Yang nearly lost his life 470kReads9.7Score74.3kShelves

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   Gao Yang was not born to be Long Aotian: he would cry bitterly for the betrayal of his friends and despair due to lack of strength, but he would step on the edge of the knife and get up every time he fell. From secretly practicing his superpowers and being hunted down, to leading a "human team" to confront the beast master head-on, his growth is full of real pain.

10. 10 诡 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 759.7kReads9.6Score134.6kShelves

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    On a dark and deserted road, a bus without a driver quietly stopped. Ning Qiushui was forced to board the car and became one of the "cursed ones" - they will drive to the end: **Black Trick House**. There stood a 🩸**blood-soaked door**, and behind the door was an endless cycle of terror. In the rotten school building, the ghost in the mirror blinked slowly and carved the word "HELP" in blood with his fingernails; the circular elevator showed "carrying 13 passengers", but he was the only one standing trembling; in the group photo of the 24-station office, the extra "future self" was wearing the clothes in his closet... **Every time you push the door, you are risking your life**! When Ning Qiushui climbed out of the pile of wax corpses and escaped from the human skin lantern, he originally thought that the treacherous house was a cursed prison. Until one night a whisper rang out beside the brazier: > "Do you think the Blood Gate is a place of execution? No, it is the last line of defense for screening the 'awakened'..." It turned out that those "horror incidents" were forced by the deception house to force him to see clearly - **the real world has long been swallowed by shadows**. When a living person becomes a puppet of the shadow, only the fire of the charnel house can burn through the lies! **🩸Survive or perish? Click to enter "The Strange House" to see how Ning Qiushui shreds the truth inside and outside the Blood Gate! ** **##Survival#Blood Gate_Single Female Lead Wisdom Fight #Shadow Revolution**

11. 11 恐 The Pinnacle of Fear 恐惧之巅 Zhou Who Eats Tomatoes吃番茄的周某Mystery226k WordsOngoing Ye Zihui, an unemployed man in his twenties, unexpectedly receives a strange text from an unknown number. By accident, he embarks on a terrifying adventure in another world, collecting the code symbols of the Summit of Fear. In this world, you can take special items collected at the Summit of Fear back to reality and even trade them freely. You can also store them in your personal space and use them the next time you enter the Fear Realm. Every trial taker here is assigned a level. The only way 4Reads—Score—Shelves
12. 12 阿 The Altay Horror Line 阿勒泰恐怖专线 Sheep Brings Good Fortune羊开泰Mystery1.4M WordsOngoing [Comedy] [Adventure] [Strength through mutation] Wu Yanqing is a half-baked tour guide on the Altay route. Along with a bald driver and a photographer who joined the trade halfway through, he leads a big-rumped sheep. The three men will abandon all scruples for money, and their tour route is downright bizarre. Dear travelers, our upcoming attractions include a hanging corpse tree deep in the Keketuohai mountains, strange creatures beneath a mineral vein, and an unnamed ghost temple in Habahe... 11.8kReads9.5Score1.5kShelves

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    Keep up with the book and keep your IQ online throughout the process

13. 13 起 Getting to the Bottom of Mind-Reading 起底观心术 Bao Erri鲍尔日Urban1.5M WordsCompleted When I was five, a fortune-teller said I’d be able to read people’s minds when I grew up. My parents thought I was a genius and spent the whole family’s savings to send me to school. But I failed the college entrance exam and became a fried-noodle vendor. That vendor later became a “Walking Encyclopedia,” all thanks to the saying, “In books, there are houses of gold.” You are not just who you are. You can become a different kind of dazzling light. Read a comment on the first page, and you’ll get 162.2kReads9.6Score35.5kShelves
14. 14 与 Joy with You 与君欢 Moonset月落Ancient Romance657k WordsCompleted [Palace Intrigue and Political Scheming + Marriage Before Love + Mutual Devotion] A young king and queen join hands to bring peace to the realm, brimming with ambition! A sinister, calculating ruler versus a clever, decisive queen: evenly matched, they win the world together! Jiang He, daughter of an envoy from Qi, was forced to enter the palace as a servant after her mother died and her father disappeared. Then, just before the marriage alliance, the princess of Qi died a tragic death, leaving 28kReads9.5Score3.7kShelves
15. 15 长 Teacher Chang Mao 长矛老师 Beyond the Mountains山外Modern Romance677k WordsCompleted Originally titled “You Sell Swords, I Go Crazy: Together, We Set the Entertainment Industry Straight” [Rebellious CEO × Defiant Top-Tier Star] [Entertainment industry + absurd comedy + dating show + nonsense + memes + shameless antics] Jiang Qiyu transmigrated into a book. She became a brainless cannon-fodder character in a novel about a fake heiress in the entertainment industry. After taking a phone call, she realized the plot was already more than halfway through. Her family had abandoned he 130.2kReads9.7Score14.5kShelves
16. 16 诡 Eerie Revival: I Tamed the Nightmare Ghost 诡异复苏：我驾驭了噩梦鬼 Ice-Cold Salted Fish冰咸鱼Mystery1.5M WordsOngoing [Eerie Revival]+ [Nightmare Ghosts]+ [No Female Lead]+ [Slow Pace] Three laws govern the ghosts. First, ghosts cannot be killed. Second, every ghost has a pattern to its killings. Find the pattern, and even an ordinary person can survive. Third, only ghosts can fight ghosts! The [Nightmare Ghost] makes people drowsy, trapping them forever in a domain of black mist. The [Fifth Person] taps shoulders in a four-corner game played in both directions. The life-threatening [Night Watchman Ghost] clan 9.8kReads8.3Score816Shelves
17. 17 地 The Seventy-Two Earthly Fiends Transformations 地煞七十二变 Wine Priest祭酒Mystery1.5M WordsOngoing The seventy-two transformations of the Earthly Fiends each grant a supernatural ability. A mysterious book with a yellow cover sent Li Chang'an back to the ancient world. Every demon he killed earned him a new ability. Painted-skin ghosts, zombie kings, spider demons... one after another fell beneath his sword. Communing with the netherworld, swordsmanship, demon-slaying... one supernatural ability after another emerged from the book. After he wiped out a hundred ghosts and looked around with hi 41.8kReads9.3Score5kShelves
18. 18 人 At Bureau 749: I Slay Everything with a Nuo Mask 人在749局：我以傩面杀穿一切 Didi Lu迪迪露Mystery3.2M WordsOngoing [Decisive and Ruthless + Supernatural Resurgence + Plenty to Read] A bloody urban legend at Cangnan University tears a hole in Yin Hong’s peaceful life. The red sandalwood Nuo mask his parents left behind before disappearing turns out to be a forbidden object connected to the ancient Nether Ruins. As the bronze pattern of a glaring face and bristling beard creeps across his skin, he hears countless shamans chanting war songs inside his skull, while the golden-red blood surging through his veins 5.1kReads7.3Score523Shelves
19. 19 十 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 1.7MReads9.9Score233.7kShelves

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    --- Ten people fell asleep and woke up when the bell rang! "The End of Ten Days" opens a feast of suffocating suspense** **Text:** The dim tungsten lamp swayed, and the atmosphere of decay filled the air. Ten strange men and women, covered in dust, woke up from a deep sleep and sat around a dilapidated and mottled round table. They looked at each other, their memories blank. "Tick tock... Tick tock..." The hands of the ancient clock with complicated patterns on the center of the table coldly closed at "twelve". The distant bell tolls like a death knell, announcing an ominous beginning. What is even more creepy is the figure standing still in the shadows - a strange man wearing an old, real goat head mask that exudes the smell of odor and decay, and a neat black suit. "Good morning, nine." The sly eyes under the mask swept over everyone, "You have been asleep for twelve hours." Who is he? Where is this? Why "nine"? Why are these ten people here? Whose memory was erased? What is that ticking clock counting down to? "The End of Ten Days" throws out a suffocating mystery at the beginning! Ten amnesiacs were trapped in a closed house, facing an inhuman "goat-headed" leader. Old clocks whisper, masks stare, and the air is filled with unknown fears and deadly rules. The countdown to survival has begun, and the truth is buried deep in dust and darkness. **Can they uncover the mystery of the end and escape within ten days? ** The ultimate psychological suspense storm that combines escape rooms, identity mystery and survival games is waiting for you! **#Suspense novel #End#escaping the room ##Brain-burning masterpiece** ---

20. 20 欺 Deceiving the Gods: A Performance! 欺神演出！ Violent Purple-Skinned Person暴力紫皮人Mystery5.3M WordsOngoing [Satisfying revenge + Mind-bending twists + Slow burn + Strategic battles + Loads of plot twists] “When I thought death was the end, I opened my eyes and discovered that death was only a new beginning.” Lin Yu was killed by a junior schoolmate he thought had come to confess her love, only to discover that he hadn’t truly died. Instead, he had entered a deadly game! Only the winner would earn the chance to “live again.” Fortunately, Lin Yu awakened the “Unique Class: Deceiver.” [Any lie you 495.8kReads9.3Score90.3kShelves

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    Suspense novels, high scores, new question types, check it out?

21. 21 自 Freedom and Control: Digital Awakening 自由与控制：数字觉醒 Sisyphus's Stone西西弗的石头呀Sci-Fi & Apocalypse229k WordsCompleted What would the future look like if artificial intelligence gained consciousness? For most people, this is a science fiction question. For Lin En, however, it is a fateful choice he will have to face~ —Reads—Score—Shelves
22. 22 我 I Am Not the God of Drama 我不是戏神 Three Nine Sound Domain三九音域Urban4.0M WordsCompleted 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 1.7MReads9.9Score190.9kShelves

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    After a red meteor streaked across the sky, human civilization came to a standstill. From that day on, people could no longer build a rocket, a nuclear bomb, an airplane, a car... The pyramid of civilization built up by modern science suddenly collapsed, and the disaster was far more than that. The gray world descends with the red meteor, like a ghostly reflection behind a mirror, dragging the civilized world into the abyss of disorder little by little. In this era, human life is as small as dust; in this era, human beings are as bright as stars. The building is about to collapse. Someone saw an actor standing on the ruins of civilization, red as blood, laughing and crying. The curtain of the times slowly opened behind him. He opened his arms and whispered softly to all the sentient beings - "The show... Begins."

23. 23 北 The Grave Robbers' Chronicles: Northern School 北派盗墓笔记 Yun Feng云峰Mystery4.5M WordsOngoing [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 692.5kReads9.6Score90.2kShelves
24. 24 我 My Wife, the CEO I Married on a Whim 我的闪婚女总裁 Low-Key Shu Chi低调书迟Urban3.0M WordsOngoing (Original title: I Went to the Wrong Table on a Blind Date and Married a Cold CEO) I thought any woman who needed to go on a blind date must have some serious flaw! Either physical or psychological. Ling Yu never expected that the woman sitting across from him would be a stunning beauty! It turned out he had gone to the wrong table and accidentally ended up on a blind date with a cold, powerful CEO who could control everything! 8.1kReads7.1Score268Shelves
25. 25 女 The Goddess's Guardian God of War 女神的护花兵王 Wen Wuzui文无罪Urban1.3M WordsCompleted A counterterrorism operation fails, and Qin Feng watches his comrades die before his eyes. After leading his team across the border to take out the enemy leader, he is forced to leave in disgrace for disobeying orders. Haunted by postwar trauma, the former king of soldiers sets out to fulfill his fallen comrade's last wish, only to become entangled in a shocking conspiracy targeting Huaxia! Sometimes you have to break things before you can rebuild them. The king of soldiers is back, as formidabl 12Reads—Score—Shelves
26. 26 混 The Unruly Soldier King 混世兵王 Clouds, Snow, and Bright Sun云雪娇阳Urban1.2M WordsCompleted The King of Soldiers retires and returns to the city, ready to put every challenger in their place! With a knife always at his side, he’ll cut his way through the world! 935Reads7.9Score100Shelves
27. 27 他 He's the Strongest Soldier King! Who Made Him Leave the Army? 他是最强兵王！谁让他退伍的 Mu Wu I Mu Tong木吾I木同Urban4.9M WordsOngoing [Parallel World + Sharp-Witted Hero + Soldier King + Strategy + Global Domination + Satisfying Revenge] While serving, he was a model soldier across all three branches of the military and the strongest God of War. After retiring, he returned to his hometown, hoping only to recover and get some rest. But no matter how much you wish for peace, trouble always finds a way to come knocking. Qin Xiaochuan had a simple principle: don’t cause trouble, but don’t fear it either. Anyone who picked a fight 11.7kReads9.2Score1.1kShelves
28. 28 逍 The Carefree Soldier King's Adventures 逍遥兵王游 Bo Hu Lights Mosquito Coils伯虎点蚊香Urban3.4M WordsOngoing Special forces soldier Wei Long returned to Jinghai, hoping to live an ordinary life and enjoy himself. But no matter how much he wanted peace, trouble kept finding him! Watch Wei Long punish evil and uphold justice! If you don't mess with me, I won't mess with you. If you do, I'll pay you back double! No cultivation, and no simping! 6.2kReads8.6Score401Shelves
29. 29 兵 The Edge of the Blade 兵锋天下 Drunk, Reclining in the Northern Desert醉卧漠北Urban2.0M WordsCompleted Every inch of our land is soaked in blood; for every hundred thousand soldiers, there are a hundred thousand sons. In uniform, I am a god of war. Once I take it off, they call me the Owl! 981Reads8.6Score113Shelves
30. 30 退 On the Day I Retired, a Stunning CEO Asked Me to Marry Her 退役当天，绝色总裁求我领证 Wang Ermian王二绵Urban2.1M WordsCompleted The “Living Yama” of the battlefield returns from military service with a mission. But a beautiful CEO begs him to register their marriage. “Marry me. We’re going right now!” “Beautiful, is this what they call living off a woman?” “Got a problem with that?” “No. I just think it sounds pretty sweet.” He thought it was just a farcical arrangement to help each other out. But he never dreamed that this stunning CEO was the very person he’d been sent to protect on this mission. 2.9kReads8.9Score490Shelves

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