Looking for Brain-Twisting Mystery Novels with Lots of Foreshadowing 求悬疑类型多伏笔的烧脑小说
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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
1.8MReads9.9Score232.6kShelves
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The Manga Prophecy Murder Case 漫画预言杀人事件
[Comic artist X avenger] A flop comic Chen He had abandoned three years ago suddenly went viral because it had predicted a murder. Netizens trembled in the comic's comments: [Have you seen the news? Why is this scene exactly like what they're showing on TV?!] [Am I seeing things? They only just found the body, but the comic was published three years ago!] [How did the artist come up with a burial site like that? What are the odds?] [I have a pretty wild theory...] [Could the author actually be t
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Becoming Everyone's Beloved in a Horror Game 在恐怖游戏里成为全员白月光
[No CP + Gentle, Alluring White Moonlight Female Lead + Beloved by Every Player and Ghost + One-Sided Crushes All Around + A Massive Contest Among Suitors] After the White Moonlight System leaves, Lin Ling is assigned to a horror game. Her mission is to become the white moonlight of the ghosts and players. Lin Ling has a pair of eyes as gentle as water, and she looks at everyone with deep affection. Every move of hers tugs at people’s hearts. She never says a word about love, yet every kind of c
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You Need Me to Survive? I'm an NPC, Not a Player! 靠我存活？我是NPC不是玩家哦
Wu Le is a murderous NPC in a horror game, rotating through different scenarios to "work"! Wu Le is free-spirited and willful. Deceiving players, playing tricks on them, and terrifying them are all part of her daily routine. Sometimes she likes to disguise herself as a player, getting a close look at the evil in people's hearts. She gives players hope, then crushes it completely, enjoying the look of despair on their faces. Other times, she plays the part of a proper horror NPC, hunting down pla
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College Students Are Naive and Foolish? Watch Me Outsmart Them All 大学生清澈愚蠢？看我智商超群
[No heroine + mystery-solving + brains over brawn + interstellar + livestreaming + national destiny + power fantasy] Rules-based horror descends upon Earth. Those selected are sent into a bizarre world to face challenges on behalf of their respective countries. While every other contestant fights for their country, one gentle young man says his wish is for everyone to get along peacefully. Everyone: "Peaceful my ass! Do you think this is kindergarten?" Then they watch as this mild-mannered young
21.6kReads9.3Score2.8kShelves
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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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Surrender 自首
(Now streaming on iQIYI. Starring Xu Weizhou, Guo Junchen, and Xiao Yan. A criminal police captain, played by Xu Weizhou, teams up with a psychologist, played by Guo Junchen, to solve cases and capture the monsters of the human heart. Mystery + deduction + psychologist + episodic cases + serial murders + high-IQ crimes + revenge plots + strange tales and records + best partners + light horror + suitable for the faint-hearted) “I killed someone.” A girl turns herself in, claiming that she killed
17.9kReads9.4Score2.4kShelves
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Welcome to the New World [Infinite Flow] 欢迎来到新世界【无限流】
[Infinite-flow + Horror Game + BG + Sweet-on-the-outside, dark-on-the-inside sharp-tongued beauty x Cold on the outside, shameless on the inside suit-wearing thug + A touch of ensemble cast] [Do you have an urgent wish? Money, a life, power, health, revenge... Whatever you wish for, the New World can make it come true, as long as you pay an equal price. Welcome to the New World.] On her birthday, illustrator Ding Yi inexplicably enters the New World because of a wish she can't remember making. S
9.3kReads9.1Score1.2kShelves
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The Top Player Runs Rampant Through Dungeons and Abducts the Evil God 顶级玩家杀疯副本，拐跑邪神
The print edition is now available under the title: The Fall of the Gods (Not for the faint of heart: nonhuman entities and terrifying monsters.) Yin Xiu has lived in a town governed by rules for six years. Normal players follow the rules and clear instances to stay alive. Yin Xiu, however, stays in town day after day. He doesn’t leave, clear instances, or go near the monsters. He does the bare minimum, takes it easy, and has practically settled into retirement. The town’s monsters have had thei
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Mystery Hunter of the Haunted City 诡城谜探
In the Republican era, Bai Jiayue graduates from university and arrives in the turbulent city of Haicheng to stay with her older brother. But on a dark street, a strange man follows her. Shen Huai is the newly appointed chief inspector at the police station, young, promising, and skilled in combat. He never imagined the first time he’d be disarmed and forced to surrender would be at the hands of a refined, soft-spoken young woman. Girls vanish one after another, a goddess shines with light, and
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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
1.8MReads9.9Score186.2kShelves
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Ten Days: I Saw the Long-Missed Turmoil 十日：我看到了念念不忘的激荡
[Ten Days to the End fan fiction] + [continuation of the original] + [happy ending] + [making up for regrets] + [completing the autobiographies] [Primarily aimed at male readers, with something for female readers too. There is romance, while the main plot follows the cast’s funny everyday life in the city at the Third Station, alongside bizarre and imaginative adventures.] [Everyone will appear as the main story progresses, and their autobiographies will be completed.] [Brain-teasers + twists +
13.1kReads9.0Score1.8kShelves
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Bureau of Legend Management 传说管理局
(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
207.3kReads9.6Score28.9kShelves
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The Lost City of Exotic Beasts 异兽迷城
[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
496.5kReads9.7Score72.6kShelves
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Apocalypse Rebirth: I Lead My Family to Amass Billions in Supplies 末世重生：我带全家狂卷亿万物资
(Apocalypse + zombies + rebirth + personal space + stockpiling supplies + farming + infrastructure building + powerful heroine + adored by the whole family + teamwork. There is a couple, but the romance comes later.) Wen Qian opens her eyes and finds herself back one month before the apocalypse. Her home has not yet been seized, and her parents and older brother are still alive. She has even gained an invincible preparation space where she can farm and stockpile supplies, and best of all, bind h
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The Gods’ Foolish Game 诸神愚戏
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
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The Mission Starts Over a Hundred Times 任务重来一百次
“You came to save me, so why can’t you look only at me? Why do you have to give your attention to those one, two, three insignificant people?” “You seem so shy. You never take my hand first. Even just now, you only did it because of someone else.” “Now that you have me, you don’t treat me as well as you used to. There wasn’t any strawberry milk today either, was there?”
8.9kReads8.6Score1.6kShelves
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Strange Tales from the Civil Affairs Bureau (Complete in 8 Volumes) 民调局异闻录（全8册）
The Strange Tales of the Bureau of Investigation series creates an entirely new world of suspense: a mysterious organization dedicated to uncovering the truth behind bizarre, uncanny, and supernatural events, and the world it faces. The stories are wildly strange and utterly captivating, with a witty, playful style and one suspenseful twist after another. Once you start reading, you won't be able to put them down. Throughout history, strange cases and evil monsters have always been dealt with by
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Infinite Escape: I Earn Rent Money in Horror Games 无限逃生：我在惊悚游戏里挣房费
[Infinite flow + horror, suspense, and mystery-solving + strong female lead + team + plot-focused] [Ding~ Welcome, player, to the Survival Inn! Please do your best to clear the instances and earn your room fees~ We offer dormitory rooms, guesthouse rooms, hotel rooms, and more, as well as a top-tier luxury VIP club waiting for you to unlock~] A gloomy, blood-soaked compound A school crawling with death A cursed painting that brings death to anyone who looks at it An old village teeming with stra
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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,
10.8kReads9.2Score1.3kShelves
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The Soul Ferry Lantern 渡魂灯
[Supernatural + mildly scary + episodic stories, a fast-paced ghost-hunting romp with all kinds of tricks!] Fire runs in my veins, and I'm cursed to bring bad luck. When I was fifteen, my father kicked me out. To survive, I climbed into a stone tomb. The strange knocking at the door of the funeral home at midnight, The body that mysteriously vanished after a fatal car crash, A headless old man, a talking human skin, and haunted schools and skyscrapers... I guide five-element spirits onward and f
19.7kReads9.2Score1.9kShelves
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The Eerie Case Coroner 诡案女仵作
A lazy salted-fish coroner who just wants to lie flat VS a workaholic commander who knows nothing about romance. They crack bizarre cases and fall in love over time. As religious sects rise to prominence, people commit murder in the name of gods and ghosts, and strange cases erupt throughout the Great Qing Dynasty. After dying from overwork, forensic pathologist Jiang Ning joins the Yuning Guard, an organization of imperial investigators, hoping to lie flat and coast along as a low-ranking nobod
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Infinite Eerie: A Burned-Out Wage Slave Restarts with a Dead Account 诡异无限：废号重启的打工牛马
[Infinite flow + horror and the supernatural] Most stories are adapted from real events, told as a collection of ensemble, episodic tales. No formulaic plots, no invincible characters, no mindless stupidity. Bizarre situations? Soap-opera drama? They all reveal the distortions of the human heart and nature! Every night at midnight, you’ll enter a dream and explore the secrets of a strange otherworld. Featured chapters: The blurb can’t do them justice, so read the story! [Dream-Eating Syndrome -
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Betrayed by My Best Friend: My Rise from Hell to the Top 被闺蜜出卖后：自地狱逆袭至巅峰
Betrayed by Her Best Friend: From Hell to the Top
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My Crush Is Terrified! My Horror Comics Have Come to Life 吓疯Crush！我的恐怖漫画竟成真
Crush is terrified out of his mind! My horror comic has actually come true
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Rule Horror: Zhuge Wuhou Risks His Life to Enter the Game 规则怪谈：诸葛武侯以身入局
When rule-based horrors descend, the entire world is plunged into a brutal contest over national destiny. After repeated defeats, Huaguo teeters on the brink of collapse. Its top talents have suffered devastating losses, the phantom golden dragon has dimmed, and the lifeline of the nation hangs by a thread. Zhuge Ming, a scholar of Three Kingdoms history, is in truth the reincarnation of Zhuge Liang. He knows exactly who he is, and the ambitions and regrets of the campaigns at Mount Qi are etche
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First Day of School: The Teacher Dies Before My Eyes 开学：老师死在面前
[Supernatural + Horror + Ensemble Cast + Smart Characters + Infinite Worlds + Decisive and Ruthless + Teamwork] At the start of their sophomore year, their former homeroom teacher, Mr. Bai, mysteriously commits suicide in their classroom. At that moment, everyone’s understanding of the world is utterly overturned, and fiction becomes reality. Everyone in the class is forced to undertake one deadly mission after another. They can neither refuse nor escape.
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Blood-Tinged Rose 血语玫瑰
Every girl hopes her boyfriend will be young, handsome, rich, and well educated. The Devil ticks all those boxes, yet no one wants to date him. Mu Hanjun was being hounded by a demon from the human world. Her tormentor, Ming Yu, was as handsome and wealthy as the Devil. Ten years ago, he killed four people, then escaped punishment by claiming he had been mentally ill when he committed the crimes. Mu Hanjun accidentally fell into his clutches, and he forced her to date him. Sharing a bed with th
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The Dragon King's Bride 龙王聘
That year, I came down with a strange illness that nothing could cure. Then, on the night the blood moon hung high in the sky, my family decorated the house with lanterns and streamers. From that day on, I had a husband no one could see. Around that time, my mother warned me gravely that I must remain faithful to my husband and keep my distance from other men, or disaster would befall me! When I was nineteen, I broke the taboo, and he... appeared.
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I Use Illusions to Control the World 我用幻术控制全世界
[A rare illusion-based novel featuring a villain protagonist, nightmare invasions, and original instances] Su Mu has the same dream every night. Each time he wakes, his mental strength has increased by one percent. He grows stronger just by sleeping. In the first year, hypnosis. He discovers his mental strength is already powerful enough to hypnotize others, and soon gang bosses, the campus belle, beautiful CEOs, and more have all become his slaves. In the second year, control over the five sens
98.8kReads9.4Score11.8kShelves
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Dreamcore 101 梦核101
A collection of dreams. They're all the weird and random dreams I've had, and most of them are pretty bizarre. In the dreams, I'm usually quite scared, so keep me company, friends.
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