Survival, Survival, and More Survival, Whether in Fiction or Real Life 求生、求生、还是求生，小说也好，现实也罢

1. 1 盖 Build Towers to Survive, and All the Women at My Company Beg Me to Carry Them 盖楼求生，全公司女同事求我带飞 Little Green Tangerine小青柑Sci-Fi & Apocalypse1.3M WordsOngoing [Global Survival] [Infinite Flow] [No do-gooder protagonist] [Daily Card Draws] [No poison] [9S talent] [Lots of blessings, not lots of children] The Great Flood is here! Huang Tang and all the women from his company arrive together in a game called [Tower-Building Survival]. To survive, they have to keep building higher! Luckily, Huang Tang awakens the [Daily Card Draw System], drawing conceptual god-tier cards every day until his hands are sore. Draw [Good Luck]: Get possessed by the Goddess o 68.7kReads7.0Score8.1kShelves

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   A massive flood struck! My 24 female colleagues and I built a shelter to survive, but they didn't tell me that they had all awakened the [Hehuan System]! Even the once high and mighty female CEO changed on this day...?

2. 2 矿 Cave Survival: So Many Chests, I’m Running Out of Room 矿洞求生：宝箱多到快要放不下了 A Salty Fish87一条咸鱼87Sports184k WordsOngoing When they woke up, everyone discovered they had entered an unfamiliar world where they had to survive in a mine. From the start, all you had was a shovel. Dig for every last resource. The survivors faced scarce supplies, harsh surroundings, monsters everywhere, traps, poisonous fog... and countless other dangers. In this grueling struggle for survival, Su Bai awakened a powerful talent that let him break through enhancement limits and push every item beyond its limits. An ordinary shovel, after 388Reads—Score278Shelves
3. 3 公 Highway Survival: Should I Pick a Special-Occupation Female Companion at the Start? 公路求生，开局选特殊职业女伴？ Fat Saintly Physique肥胖圣体Urban710k WordsCompleted "Players, welcome to the Age of Global Survival. Your only mission is to stay alive." Mu Fan stared blankly at everything before him. If he remembered correctly, one minute ago his vision had suddenly gone black for no reason, and then he found himself on this desolate, godforsaken highway... "Ding! Good fortune has arrived. You may choose one companion to join you in your vehicle. They will be transported to your vehicle before disaster strikes." "A companion?" Mu Fan didn't remember seeing any 8.7kReads7.0Score826Shelves
4. 4 序EN Sequence: Ascension 序列：升华 Listening to Peacocks听孔雀Sports3.6M WordsOngoing [Train Survival + Lone Wolf + Always One Step Ahead + Ascension and Evolution + No Saintly Heroine + No Spineless Hero] The moment Ye Qiyan opened his eyes, he found himself in a world of train survival. Everyone had to get off at a series of stations and explore to stay alive. The lucky found treasure; the unlucky lost their lives. Opportunity and danger went hand in hand. Gather supplies, upgrade your train, and build a train world of your own. As for Ye Qiyan, he possessed a one-of-a-kind asc 248.6kReads8.3Score22.8kShelves

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   It's a great game, a card game, but two updates a day is a bit too few 🤭

5. 5 全 Global Survival: Starting in a Little Cabin During a Blizzard 全民求生：从暴风雪小木屋开始 Deep White深白Sci-Fi & Apocalypse1.1M WordsOngoing [Global Survival] [Upgrading the Shelter] [Farming] [System] [Disasters] [Scavenging Supplies] [Growing Stronger] A slow-paced survival story. The early chapters focus more on explaining the System. When their home planet is destroyed, everyone is sent to a new world to fight for survival. This is a world newly formed from heaven and earth, where all things have begun again. Shrouded in fog and full of dangers, Xia Yan wakes up in a dilapidated little cabin in the wilderness. A blizzard is about 32.8kReads6.8Score2.1kShelves
6. 6 海 Ocean Survival: Matched with a Cool Beauty from My University from the Start 海洋求生：开局匹配冷艳校花 Jiangnan Flies江南飞Sci-Fi & Apocalypse514k WordsCompleted [Raft upgrades + worldwide ocean survival + romance develops + campus beauty + developing a mobile base + decisive protagonist who isn’t a bleeding heart] In a worldwide ocean survival game, Qin Xuan and the campus beauty next door are assigned to the same raft. While everyone else struggles to survive at sea, never knowing where their next meal will come from, Qin Xuan is aboard a luxurious nuclear-powered cruise ship, eating barbecue and singing. “R 4.6kReads5.7Score319Shelves

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   A thrilling ocean survival story featuring ruthless action without any overly sentimental characters, multiple female leads (not just decorative; each has a distinct role), and a portable planting space. Upgrade your raft and create a mobile survival base! 🥰🥰🥰

7. 7 迷 Foggy Survival: God-Tier Talents Enhance Everything 迷雾求生：神级天赋强化万物 Yan Lin延林Sports4.2M WordsCompleted [Fog Survival] [Shelters] [Eldritch Cthulhu] [Farming] [Stockpiling Supplies] [No Goody-Two-Shoes] [Collecting Women] Everyone transmigrates to a world shrouded in fog, a place full of dangers and deadly traps, where all kinds of natural disasters strike. There is contamination from the eerie fog, mutated angels, twisted evil gods, invisible immortals and Buddhas, and parasites lurking in food and water. But danger comes with opportunity! Su Lie awakens an enhancement talent that lets him enhanc 11.9kReads6.5Score1.1kShelves
8. 8 全 Global Road Survival: My Loot Boxes Can Crit for a Hundredfold 全民公路求生：我的开箱奖励可亿倍暴击 A Dream of Three Thousand梦若三千Sports896k WordsCompleted (Road Survival + Extreme Challenges + Jackpot Box Rewards + Built-In Scanner + System + Power Fantasy) Everyone transmigrates into a road survival game. One car, one person, and a wide road with no visible end. Here, everyone is equal. No one knows whether opportunity or death will arrive first. To stay alive, they have no choice but to risk their lives searching for supply crates and gathering everything they need to survive. Su Chen unexpectedly discovers that he has awakened a jackpot loot S 5.1kReads7.0Score417Shelves
9. 9 诡 Lost in the Eerie Fog: Until the Ends of the Haunted Sea 诡雾迷航：直到诡海尽头 Yun Zhou Qing Wu云舟青梧Sci-Fi & Apocalypse1.2M WordsOngoing [Apocalyptic survival + seafaring adventure + Cthulhu + sci-fi civilizations + awakened superpowers + mystery solving + strategy and intrigue]. A hard-core survival tale combining awakened superpowers and mystery solving, set in a strange world where the laws of physics have collapsed and the ocean is swallowing the land. It follows a group of survivors as they sail through a sea of fog, where despair and hope intertwine, seeking the truth behind the destruction and the future of civilization. 2.2kReads—Score198Shelves

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   Survival at sea, give it a try.

10. 10 离 Get a Divorce, Escape a Disaster 离个婚逃个难 A Solitary Sojourn on Lonely Mountain, Walking Alone at Sunset孤山信游与斜阳独步Urban213k WordsCompleted On an ordinary night, an ordinary passenger plane carried an ordinary Chinese man on his way home... Everything seemed perfectly ordinary, but the flight he was on was a one-way ticket to death. The plane crashed in mere seconds, killing more than 150 people instantly. Yet this Chinese man and two other foreigners somehow survived. Their brief reprieve was only the beginning of a far greater nightmare and torment. The outside world believed them dead, so the three of them had only one another to 1kReads8.1Score—Shelves

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    This is a very good book, highly recommended for friends who like survival novels.

11. 11 公 Highway Survival: From the Start, I Have a Refrigerated Truck and Every Crate Is a Jackpot 公路求生：开局冷藏车，箱箱暴击 Shiluomu失落姆Sports1.0M WordsCompleted [Power growth] [Beautiful women] [Insectoid] [Zombies] When Tang Yun woke up, he discovered that he had been chosen by the Cursed Land to take part in a road-survival game. From the start, he got the golden finger [Critical Loot Boxes]. Critical hits on white loot boxes! They have a chance of yielding double rewards, and there's even a chance of upgrading the box's quality. But the boxes might also explode! Tang Yun: “Holy crap! An MP5 submachine gun! I got two!” While everyone else was still be 3kReads5.9Score248Shelves

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    Rich in content

12. 12 全 Everyone’s Surviving on the Highway, So Why Are You Living Such a Healthy Life? 全民公路求生，为啥你在养生？ Young Master Qibai栖白公子Sports1.0M WordsCompleted The moment Shen Jiangfan opened his eyes, he found himself in a game world where everyone had to survive on the road. To stay alive, he had to keep moving and search for supply crates, with danger always close behind. While everyone else was lying in their cars, groaning in despair, Shen Jiangfan had already bound himself to a Wellness System and begun living a health-conscious life. Much, much later, when people asked Shen Jiangfan how he had amassed so many resources, he merely smiled and took 278Reads5.8Score—Shelves
13. 13 废 Wasteland Survival: Starting in the Mines, I Grind My Way Through Another World 废土求生：从矿山开始，肝穿异界 Decent Honest Man正经老实人Sports1.0M WordsCompleted Everyone transmigrates to a wasteland world. The land here has lost all life and become a barren wasteland. There is no water or woodland, the area is shrouded in fog, and natural disasters keep changing. All that remains is an endless mine. The surviving humans face food shortages, harsh conditions, terrifying zombies, mutated beasts... and all kinds of deadly threats. Liu Ming happens to awaken the Grindmaster System. As long as he keeps exercising with discipline, he can strengthen his attrib 1.5kReads6.4Score178Shelves
14. 14 荒 Survival in the Wilderness: Resources Yield a Hundredfold Return in Real Life 荒野求生，资源万倍返利现实 Chu Ci Jiu Ge楚辞九歌Urban703k WordsCompleted Lu Fan transmigrated to a parallel world where Earth's resources were running dry. At this critical moment, the Heavenly Dao Wilderness Survival System arrived. Each country would select three representatives to take part in a wilderness survival challenge, and all the supplies they obtained would be returned to the real world a thousandfold. Lu Fan received prompts from the Heavenly Dao, making survival a breeze. “Ding! Walk straight ahead for 300 meters and you'll find a water source.” “Ding! 6.8kReads8.1Score390Shelves
15. 15 全 Global Survival: From the Start, I Fused with My Shelter 全民求生：我开局肉身融合庇护所 Looks Good, No Brains好看没脑袋Sports1.1M WordsCompleted Everyone around the world transmigrates to a world teeming with eerie creatures. From the start, each player is bound to a shelter, and if the shelter is destroyed, the player dies. To keep surviving, they must brave the dangers outside their shelters and enter a world crawling with eerie creatures to gather supplies and strengthen their shelters. But Shen Hui, who transmigrated along with everyone else, discovers that he has become a walking, human-shaped shelter. Every shelter function has bee 1.8kReads6.4Score227Shelves
16. 16 宝 Treasure Chest Survival: You Said It Was a Blind Box, So How Can You See the Hints? 宝箱求生：说好的盲盒，你怎么能看到提示 Silver Traces Everywhere银色满迹Sci-Fi & Apocalypse997k WordsCompleted Everyone woke up to find themselves transmigrated into an age of ice. As temperatures kept dropping, the only way to survive was to risk your life gathering supplies and upgrading your shelter to withstand the cold. Su Bai was forced to take part too, but he could see hints. [Treasure Chest] [This chest contains water and food] [High danger level] […] While everyone else was still searching for treasure chests in padded coats, Su Bai was already fully equipped, roaming the icy world at nigh 413Reads5.4Score—Shelves
17. 17 公 Highway Survival: Hundredfold Rewards 公路求生：百倍奖励 Smiling Orange爱笑的橙子Sports2.7M WordsOngoing After waking from a car accident, Song Ci discovers that everyone in the world has entered a highway survival game. Each person gets one beat-up van and must drive along an endless highway, searching for supplies and upgrading their vehicle. This place is full of danger. To survive, you have to keep searching for supply crates. After opening a treasure chest, Song Ci discovers that he has awakened a hundredfold reward System. Choose a hundredfold reward: One: 100 bottles of mineral water Two: 1 16.7kReads6.8Score1.1kShelves
18. 18 公 Highway Survival: Every Loot Box Brings Good Luck 公路求生：开箱必定幸运 Stars of the Arctic北极的繁星Urban1.0M WordsCompleted [Global Survival]+ [Upgrading and Crafting]+ [Farming]+ [Extreme Weather]+ [No Harem] Overnight, everyone transmigrates to an unknown world to play a road-survival game. One person, one battered car. To stay alive, everyone must venture into the wilderness to search for supply crates and hunt. Extreme weather, poisonous insects and wild beasts in the wilderness, and unknown enemies lurking in the dark become everyone's trials. And this is just an ordinary day here. 1.5kReads5.8Score116Shelves
19. 19 全 Survival in a Vehicle-Borne World: I Have Unlimited Bestowal Powers 全民载具求生，我有无限赋予能力 Mo Ran, Who Loves Sesame Seed Pastries爱吃瓜子仁酥的墨染Sports683k WordsCompleted (Infinite worlds + invincible protagonist + no female lead + mechs + multiple worlds and timelines + vehicles) Mo Ran transmigrated to the parallel world of Blue Star, where he and all of humanity were dragged into a so-called survival game. Just as Mo Ran was utterly despairing, the golden finger he’d been granted as a transmigrator finally arrived. Once a day, he could give any object the ability to have an infinite number of properties. And he was incredibly lucky, even managing to get a M 4.1kReads7.9Score263Shelves
20. 20 公 Highway Survival: My Talent Is Double the Fun 公路求生：我的天赋是双倍快乐 Dugu Ying418独孤影418Sports467k WordsCompleted Zhang Dahai steps into the void and finds himself in a world where you have to ride a bicycle every day to survive. In this world, some lucky people gain supernatural abilities: breathing fire, recovering at incredible speed, drawing water from thin air… Zhang Dahai discovers that he's not only gained an ability, but also awakened a talent that doubles the fun. Using his talent and ability, Zhang Dahai gathers supplies, clears land for farming, and upgrades his bicycle… While everyone else is st 1.1kReads5.6Score—Shelves
21. 21 极 Surviving the Extreme Cold: I Can Multiply Everything a Hundredfold 极寒求生：我能百倍增幅 Not a Normie非现充Sports1.1M WordsCompleted Everyone wakes up to find they’ve transmigrated to a world of extreme cold! The survivors struggle desperately to stay alive. Simply making it through each day is a luxury. Ye Xiao is lucky enough to gain a hundredfold enhancement. While everyone else is still putting up tents, he’s already living in a wooden cabin. While everyone else still has no fire, he’s already enjoying roast meat. Years later, the survivors are still barely scraping by, forced to endure the extreme cold. But Ye Xiao has a 924Reads5.4Score—Shelves
22. 22 公 Highway Survival: I Can Draw Vehicles Without Limit 公路求生：我能无限抽取载具 Eating Watermelon Gua Gua Gua吃西呱呱呱Sports1.5M WordsOngoing [No Goody-Two-Shoes] [Decisive and Ruthless] [Never Lets a Grudge Go Unsettled] When Chen Anzhi woke up, he discovered that everyone on Earth had transmigrated into a highway survival game. He started with a bicycle and kept upgrading it. As luck would have it, Chen Anzhi awakened the “I Want It All” System! Resources, food, upgrade blueprints: hand them over! While everyone else was worrying about what to eat tomorrow, Chen Anzhi had already achieved total material freedom. Later, when an apoca 3.4kReads7.6Score221Shelves
23. 23 荒 Desert Island Survival: My Items Have Attributes 荒岛求生：我的物品有属性 Panda Fanda熊猫胖达Sports1.0M WordsCompleted [Urban track + wild island imagination + March track support] Lin Qing and all of humanity are suddenly transported to a world of survival! Everyone starts with a thatched hut. It is the only way to survive in this world! Build houses! Summon farmers! Craft equipment! Form alliances with others! Just as Lin Qing is preparing to survive, he suddenly becomes bound to the Golden Touch System! Anything that passes through Lin Qing's hands gains additional attributes! When he summons farmers, Lin Qin 162Reads5.5Score—Shelves
24. 24 全 Everyone's Fighting to Survive, and You're Getting Free Stuff at the Supermarket? 全民求生，你在超市零元购？ This Username Is Already Taken该用户名已存在Sci-Fi & Apocalypse826k WordsCompleted [Survival + all kinds of natural disasters + a two-way portal between worlds + no level suppression] After waking up, over ten billion people around the world found themselves transmigrated to a mysterious continent shrouded in white mist. In this world, where everything had been reset, humanity had lost everything. Even the most basic food had to be fought for with their lives. Just as Ye Qiu thought he would have to struggle to survive like everyone else, a miracle happened to him. He could ac 4.6kReads8.6Score300Shelves
25. 25 全 Everyone Chops Wood to Survive: I Have a Hundred Million Times Critical Hit 全民伐木求生：我有亿万倍暴击 My Name Is Zhang Fei吾名张飞Eastern Fantasy1.6M WordsCompleted [Chopping trees + cultivation + strength unknown, grows stronger against stronger foes + pets + stats] Everyone transmigrates to a world of logging and cultivation. From the start, each person has only one tree. Chopping it can yield food, equipment, cultivation manuals, and building materials. Lu Yao receives Heaven’s blessing: every ten swings of his axe are guaranteed to produce a critical hit. While everyone else is still going hungry, Lu Yao already has more feasts than he can count, with a 17.3kReads7.5Score1.7kShelves
26. 26 木 Raft Survival: Send Supplies to Goddesses and Get a Thousandfold Return 木筏求生：送女神物资，万倍返现 Little Frog Walking on Thin Ice如履薄冰小青蛙Sports1.4M WordsCompleted [Everyone + Survival + Natural Disasters + Myriad Races + Power Fantasy + Unlimited Supplies + No Saintly Hero] Everyone wakes up to find they’ve transmigrated into a raft-survival game. From the start, each player gets one raft and one fishing rod. All supplies must be fished up. While everyone else is scrambling for supplies and struggling to survive, Lin Bei already has more food and drink than he needs, and his raft keeps leveling up at a ridiculous pace. That’s because he awakened a System: 14.1kReads7.8Score1.2kShelves
27. 27 国 National Fate Survival: My Whole Family Transmigrates Together! 国运求生：我全家一起穿越！ Peaceful and at Ease舒心自在Urban1.4M WordsOngoing [An original all-family national-fortune survival story. The rating just came in and will rise!] In a national-fortune survival game, Dragon Kingdom draws the “Death List”: Lin Chen’s family of seven, with the old and young, men and women all thrown into the fight! Blue Star is certain Dragon Kingdom is doomed, and the country is filled with despairing cries. Only Lin Chen grins wildly as he looks at the awakened [Strongest Family Survival System]. “You think my grandma’s too old? One word from 5.9kReads7.5Score388Shelves
28. 28 诸EN 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 519.6kReads9.7Score67.5kShelves

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    The gods have descended, and the real world has been transformed into an absurd game of faith. Everyone must choose a path of destiny and worship a particular deity, living a life of mere survival in this broken and unreal world, blessed by the gods… Whether in fiction or reality, it's all about living, just with different ways of living.

29. 29 宿 Dorm Survival: I Was Pulled into the Management Chat 宿舍求生，我被拉进了管理群 Rolling Eggs翻滚的蛋蛋Mystery4.8M WordsOngoing [Infinite-flow + no saintly heroine + System + survival + satisfying read] When Chen Bei woke up, he found himself in a dormitory survival game, bound to a dorm room. During the day, players had to venture out to gather supplies, grow stronger, and fortify their dorms. When night fell, all kinds of eerie and dangerous creatures appeared. The only way to survive was to hide inside the dorm. People and their dorms lived or died together! Unlike the others, Chen Bei had gained access to the game's 107.1kReads8.9Score8.7kShelves

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    Personally, I think they're all quite good, with high intelligence and meticulous logic. The original works by Ghost Society are quite classic. Rules of the Strange and Tales are probably also original, as I saw them several years ago; they're slightly scary. Because I was worried about them not being elegant enough, I made the protagonist, Zhao Yi, overly perverted—just like the title suggests, he really is a pervert. Listening to the audiobooks with real people is very immersive.

30. 30 欺EN Deceiving the Gods: A Performance! 欺神演出！ Violent Purple-Skinned Person暴力紫皮人Mystery5.4M 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 535.6kReads9.3Score87.5kShelves
31. 31 惊 Thriller: I Became Excessively Twisted for Fear of Looking Ungraceful 惊悚：因为担心不优雅而过度变态 The Sound of Wind and Rain at Night,夜来风雨声丶Mystery2.0M WordsCompleted [Horror + No Female Lead] A bizarre game descended, pulling all of humanity into a strange world to complete terrifying missions. Fail, and you lose life points. When your points hit zero, you die! Zhao Yi, a renowned psychiatrist, was dragged into the game too, but some unknown glitch appeared in his data source code. And so, an abnormal human emerged, one who made every ghost and monster tremble in fear! The Crybaby Ghost: I just wanted to give him a side quest, but he chopped off my head! The 73.9kReads9.5Score8.4kShelves
32. 32 诡EN The Horrors Are Hard to Kill? Sorry, I'm the Truly Immortal One 诡异难杀？抱歉，我才是真正不死 Six Gourds六个葫芦Urban2.0M WordsCompleted This book has been signed for publication, so enjoy it with confidence. [Death Regression + Foreknowledge of the Future + Kill the Saintly One First + Dark Tone + Supernatural Resurgence] After accidentally transmigrating to a world invaded by the supernatural, Fang Xiu awakens the ability to return from death, also known as turning back time. Whenever he dies, time rewinds to just before his death. In this perilous and uncanny world, he could have laid low, but instead he chooses to announce to 231.9kReads9.5Score28.4kShelves
33. 33 规 Rule Horror: Beware Your Roommate's Girlfriend 规则怪谈：请小心你室友的女友 Half a Liang of Salt盐巴半两Mystery1.2M WordsCompleted [No heroine + not wish fulfillment + not invincible + unsettling + horror + suspense + plot-driven] [The livestreaming element is only a tiny part of the story. The focus is on horror and suspense, so feel free to dive in] There are only two people left in your school dorm: you and your roommate. Your roommate suddenly brings home an incredibly attractive person they met online, leaves you some money, then hurries off. Now you're alone in the room with your roommate's gorgeous online date... Wou 35.9kReads9.0Score3.3kShelves
34. 34 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 46.1kReads9.4Score5.7kShelves
35. 35 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

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