Any Really, Really Terrifying Rule-Based Horror Stories? 有没有特别特别恐怖的规则怪谈
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The All-Purpose Guide to Rule Horror for the Powerless 无能者的规则怪谈全能指南
(A suspenseful, terrifying mystery with no System or supernatural powers for the protagonist. No brute-force clears. Frequent updates.) Blue Star has been invaded by entities. Humanity is powerless to resist, and the world faces destruction. Those above keep humanity like lambs in a pen, forcibly selecting representatives from every country and livestreaming them for their amusement. And what are they forced to play? Rule-based horror games? From the start, representatives from every country sho
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The Midnight Pawnshop: The Living Must Keep Away 午夜当铺，活人回避
[Traditional Supernatural Horror] [Chinese Folk Customs] [Unorthodox Trade] [Tales of Evil Objects] [No Romance] This is a strange pawnshop that deals exclusively in sinister objects with special value! When something goes against the natural order, evil must be at work! Some things simply should not exist in this world! Coins stuffed into the mouths of the dead, an executioner's blade, grave mushrooms, flesh lingzhi, Kunlun fetuses... Evil objects can harm people, but they can also help them! T
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- 3 EN The House of Dread 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 707.4kReads9.6Score103.9kShelves
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Shh, Bet You Didn’t See This Coming: I’m the Supernatural Being 嘘，没想到吧，我就是诡异
[Fake and Real Heiresses, Reborn, Rule Horror, Bizarre World, Wealthy CEO, No Romance, Secret Identity, Horror Game] The full-cast audiobook is available on Fanqie Changting. Search for: The Real Heiress Goes Off the Rails in the Horror Game. Qin Shu is reborn on the day of her eighteenth birthday, with only an hour left before she enters the Rule Horror game. She snatches the jade bangle from the female lead, shuts herself in her room, puts it on, and waits to be pulled into the game. In her pr
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- 5 Sorry, I’m Crazy. Keep Your Weirdness Away 抱歉，我有疯病，诡异勿扰 [Dark Fairy Tales + Horror Game + Livestream + Hilarious + No Romance + Unconventional Ending] My name is Shi Yu, and I'm mentally ill. One moment I was asleep, and the next I had been transported into a horror game called “Little Red Riding Hood.” Black smoke was rising from Mom's head, and the cake meant for Grandma had been mixed with an unidentified kind of minced meat... The game was being livestreamed to the entire world in real time. People watched in astonishment as, while the other p 21.2kReads9.3Score2.8kShelves
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Rules of the Paranormal: The Horrors? They're All Family 规则怪谈，诡异？都是一家人
[Rule-based horror + national destiny + no romance + livestream + original scenarios + mild scares + warm and healing] Three years ago, rule-based horror arrived, launching a game that put the fate of nations on the line. Every month, chosen players are randomly selected from various countries to enter the horror world and clear its challenges. Clear a challenge, and you earn generous rewards. Fail, and the chosen player dies, while the horror descends upon their country. The Xia Kingdom has alr
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- 7 Rule Horror: The Eerie? Just Rations! 规则怪谈：诡异？口粮罢了！ Rule Horror has invaded? [Congratulations, you have become the new Chosen One of the Dragon Kingdom!] Congratulations, my ass! The Dragon Kingdom has lost nine times in a row. One more loss and the nation is wiped out. Sending a mentally ill man in to compete has to be a joke! Splurt! At the thought, Ji Yan suddenly slashed his own neck. Blood gushed like a spring! "I even killed myself, so why am I still in here!!! Oh no, it's dark! Hahaha, it's dark!" Crimson moonlight poured down. Ji Yan's il 86Reads—Score—Shelves
- 8 The Tea-Style Beauty Goes on a Rampage in Rule Horror!! 茶系美人在规则怪谈杀疯了！！ [A touch of mind-reading + supernatural horror + yandere tendencies + comedy + goofy abilities + faux innocent-tea persona + supernatural boyfriend] [The beginning is just like rulebound horror, with a fake protagonist team. Get ready to be blown away.] Supernatural horrors descended upon the world, and a series of rules took precedence over everyone. But the truth Xu Yuan had been searching for turned out to be... Who was the person with experimental test tubes stuck all over their body? Could 232Reads8.7Score—Shelves
- 9 Slacking Off in a Rule Horror 在规则怪谈里摆烂 [Lucky as Can Be & Playing Dumb to Catch the Enemy Off Guard & Horror & National Destiny] Zhao Guanguan, a chosen one from the Great Xia Kingdom, accidentally draws an SSS-rank talent and enters a world of rule-based horror... The monster: (Terrified) Don't come any closer... Zhao Guanguan: What? I'm just catching up on some sleep. ⁽⁽ଘ( ˊᵕˋ )ଓ⁾⁾ [Clown Amusement Park] Little Pick has mysteriously vanished. Which one is the real Little Pick... [The Lin Residence's Hidden Secrets] The Lin family's 149Reads8.4Score—Shelves
- 10 Rule Horror: My Stepson's Filial Piety Nearly Killed Me! 规则怪谈：继子孝亖我了！ [Horror game + wish-fulfillment story] What will Lu Manman do when she learns in advance that a horror game is about to descend upon the world? She digs up someone else's ancestral grave and finds a bank card from Heaven and Earth loaded with 999.99 billion. Then she sets up her own memorial tablet and burns the card for herself. In the Horror Village dungeon, Lu Manman clears the level by smashing ghost coins. In the juvenile detention center dungeon, Lu Manman clears the level with her talent 804Reads8.6Score102Shelves
- 11 Rule Horror: All of You, Turn into Birds 规则怪谈：你们都给我变鸟 [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 14kReads9.3Score1.7kShelves
- 12 Rule Horror: I Heard the Path to Godhood! 规则怪谈：我听到了成神之路！ “You might not believe me, but being chosen by a rules-based horror story isn’t something to be afraid of.” “Then what would you call it?” “A blessing!” Facing a reporter’s questions, Ye Ling says calmly, “Rules-based horror is the grave of the mediocre, the doom of the timid, and the executioner’s blade for the arrogant.” “But more than that, it is…” “The path to godhood for the strong!” … From “A Family of Three” to “The True Immortal of Ancient Jiang,” from an ordinary nobody to ascending to 9.5kReads8.4Score766Shelves
- 13 Surviving on an Ice Floe: Everything I Salvage Comes to Life 浮冰求生：我打捞的物资全成精了 [Sneaky schemer] [Comedy] [Apocalypse] [Survival] [Everyday life] The whole world enters an icy sea survival game. From the start, all you have is a floating chunk of ice, and supplies can only be fished up! [Host detected to be facing an apocalyptic threat!] [System descending!] [System under attack from the game’s firewall!] [System has taken down the game’s firewall!] Chen Mo can’t access the System, but the world has started acting strangely, as if some rule has changed… The chunks of ice in 16.3kReads8.8Score1.8kShelves
- 14 Rule Horror: I Can See Hidden Clues 规则怪谈：我能看到隐藏提示 The world of supernatural tales has arrived, and everyone must follow the rules! After hundreds of years, the world of supernatural tales has appeared once more. Sun Kai accidentally transmigrates into it, becoming one of the first contestants representing his nation’s fate. They carry the fate of Xia Nation on their shoulders! If they win, they survive, Xia Nation’s fortunes rise, and its people all benefit. If they lose, they die, the nation’s fortunes fall, and supernatural tales invade the 4kReads9.0Score518Shelves
- 15 Horror Game: I Max Out Affection and Do Whatever I Want 恐怖游戏：加爆好感，我为所欲为 A horror game descends upon the world! Lin Bei, who has just transmigrated, is unfortunately selected. After entering the horror game, he obtains a System that can raise the affection of every species except humans. And Lin Bei can earn all kinds of rewards from it! Snowfield Phantom instance? [Ding!] [Snow Maiden's affection is maxed out!!] [Golden Treasure Chest's affection is maxed out!!] Blood Sea Evil Spirit Ship instance? [Ding!] [Blood Maiden's affection is maxed out!!] [Blood Sea (one-ki 5.3kReads8.9Score578Shelves
- 16 Rule Horror: The Prince Is Always Lusting After Me 规则怪谈：王子总是对我垂涎欲滴 [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 84.3kReads9.3Score9.9kShelves
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Taking Down the Green Tea Bitch in an Escape Game 在逃生游戏里虐绿茶
[Infinite flow, mild horror, primarily imaginative plot, ensemble cast, the main group aren't good people, romance] Meng Xiaxia has three great enemies in life. First, the green tea type. Second, the green tea type around her. Third, the green tea type who picks a fight with her. Unfortunately, the partner she gets on her journey through death is a veteran green tea type who can't stop calling her "Big Sis." Great. Another day of wanting to punch her partner to death. This is a highway of death.
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- 18 After Slaying My Way Through Instances, I Raise an Evil God by the Rules 杀穿副本后，我在规则里养大邪神 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 102.4kReads9.7Score14.2kShelves
- 19 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 56.3kReads9.5Score11.8kShelves
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Strange Tales of a Mountain Village 山村异事
Mom tied a rope around her mouth and hanged herself over Dad's coffin! Forty-nine days later, Mom came back for me!
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A Sinister Game of Death 恶恐式死亡游戏
This is a supernatural mystery novel. The protagonist has no System, and does not cultivate immortality later on. After Ye Ke graduates from college, he accidentally finds himself in a bizarre club, and his entire worldview is turned upside down. Anyone who enters this club must face one strange mission after another, with terrifying evil spirits appearing alongside them. There is only one way to escape this club… This story is addictive, so don’t blame me if you can’t stop reading.
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Strange Tales from the Teaching Mission 支教诡事
I'm an ordinary teacher at a key secondary school, but after I talked back to the principal, I was “volunteered” for a long-term teaching assignment at a middle school in the countryside. I was furious, but to keep my job, I had no choice but to accept being “volunteered.” What I never expected was that this school would be anything but ordinary. (Note: This book is set in a parallel world. Any resemblance between its place names, characters, or events and those in real life is purely coincident
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- 23 Divine Detective of Huadu: Touch a Corpse and Identify the Killer 花都神探：碰触尸体就能锁定凶手 A distant cousin's story in The Long Night [Crime-Solving + Deduction + Episodic + Not a Power Fantasy] Ten years ago, Lin Er was wrongly convicted of murder and sent to prison. Now that he’s out, is history about to repeat itself? No! I’m not the same person I was ten years ago... Serial murders, family massacres, poisonings, dismemberments, mountain god cases... There’s no case I can’t solve! Wait, how did you become a brilliant detective after ten years in prison? Heh, did you think I wasted 29.7kReads8.2Score2.5kShelves
- 24 No Witnesses to the Murder? Then What Are These Animals? 凶案没目击者？那这些动物是什么 [No System + Animals + Mystery + Crime Solving + Golden Finger + Veterinarian] As an utterly ordinary veterinarian, Chu Chen never imagined he would get caught up in a murder case. Fortunately, at the crucial moment, he used his special ability to talk to animals to clear himself of suspicion. But his peaceful life was shattered as a result, and all kinds of people began coming to him for help: strange disappearances, skinning cases, bloody dogfighting rings... A sparrow, an ant, even a mosquito 11.3kReads7.0Score958Shelves
- 25 Thriller: I Became Excessively Twisted for Fear of Looking Ungraceful 惊悚：因为担心不优雅而过度变态 [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
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[Murder Game] I Want to Survive 【杀人游戏】我想活下去
[Infinite Flow]+ [No Romance]+ [Pure Villainess] High-stakes battles of wits and deadly games; everyone schemes against everyone else just to stay alive. The heroine does every kind of evil, casts aside her conscience, and cares only about profit. Because she knows that only by devouring others can she grow stronger and climb step by step to the pinnacle of power. Watch her fight her way out from the bottom, rising from a mere nobody to stand atop the world. Watch her pull off one dazzling m
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- 27 I Have a Joker Card 我有一张小丑牌 They say that on the day some people turn eighteen, the gods grant them a playing card with a supernatural ability. There are 52 playing cards and 52 different abilities. Those who receive a supernatural playing card are allowed to attend the best ability-user school. The campus belle: “I have the Queen of Spades. I can conjure all kinds of weapons!” The rich kid: “My dad has the Jack of Diamonds. He can get unlimited money!” Meanwhile, somewhere, a boy took his own playing card and used all 52 157.4kReads8.9Score24.5kShelves
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With a Fox Immortal, I Subdue a Hundred Ghosts 我以狐仙镇百鬼
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!
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- 29 Born of a Corpse, Carried in a Ghost's Coffin 尸生子，鬼抬棺 In ancient, remote places, all kinds of strange and terrifying things are bound to happen. And these things happen around Hua Jiunan. In fact, Hua Jiunan is part of them. For instance, he was born from a corpse! 212.8kReads9.6Score25.1kShelves
- 30 Eerie Tattoos 诡纹 My grandfather was a tattoo artist, but the things he tattooed were seriously sinister… 7.5kReads9.1Score783Shelves
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After the Goddess Died Tragically, I Drew My Sword and Slayed Ghosts! 女神惨死后，我拔剑斩鬼！
That day, I received a strange food delivery order. A goddess who had died a tragic death was begging me for help. After that, I became a spirit courier. I clear the way for wronged souls and guide the dead on their final journey!
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- 32 My Livestream Has a Huge Horror 我的直播间有大恐怖 [Hilarious System Story, Survival Livestream] Lin Hao takes a drag on his cigarette, his eyes profound. “I’ve had my picture taken with Sadako, shoulder to shoulder. As for our relationship, don’t ask. Use your imagination! And that Saw guy? I still remember that evening, when we ran together beneath the setting sun, chasing freedom… Think I’m making it up? Heh. You’re too young, kid. Come by Brother Hao’s livestream tonight on Doumao Live. The room number is eight eights. I’ve got a surprise wa 141Reads—Score—Shelves
- 33 Nine Dragons Carry the Coffin 九龙抬棺 The night of my grandfather's funeral, I carried a stone tablet at the front of the procession to lead the way. I didn't dare look back, because the eight evil spirits carrying the coffin were behind me... 9.8kReads9.2Score2.7kShelves
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