Looking for Rule-Based Horror That Doesn't Dumb Down the Characters 想看规则恐怖而且不降智的
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Strange Tales Livestream! 怪谈直播间!
Welcome to the Rules of the Strange. This is a battle of blood and fire, a test of wit and courage. The power of words cannot be resisted, and the eerie rules must not be broken. In a seemingly hopeless situation, find the one correct answer, break free of your constraints, and search for a way to survive.
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Rule Horror: My Family Isn't Normal 规则怪谈:我的家人不正常
[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
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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
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Urban Legends Invade: She Goes on a Rampage by Exploiting Hidden Rules 怪谈入侵:她靠隐藏规则杀疯了
[Dad is Dad. He’s holding a knife. Mom is Mom. She takes the knife from Dad. Grandma has just reached the doorway, her eyes filled with confusion and worry. The younger sister has only her older sister by her side, the older sister she loves most… And then? What happened? You’ve forgotten…] [Chosen One of the Dragon Kingdom: Welcome to the first rules-based horror scenario.] [Stage cleared! The Chosen One receives a supernatural value reward, while their bound nation receives national fortune an
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Rule Horror: I Can Possess the Supernatural 规则怪谈:我能附身诡异
[Rule-Based Horror + No Romance + Ensemble Cast + Passionate Adventure + National Destiny + Deduction + Original Scenarios] (No characters suddenly becoming stupid. True teammates appear starting with the second scenario, and this really isn't padded! The first four scenarios each have a completely different style.) A year ago, rule-based horror descended on Blue Star in massive numbers, causing countless tragedies and drastically reducing the global population. While everyone else avoided the u
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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
758.7kReads9.6Score131.3kShelves
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I Scared a Ghost to Death Again 我又把鬼吓死了
[No romance + Chinese-style horror + folk beliefs and the occult + first-person narration + ghost-catching prodigy] My great-grandfather, Zhang Tiansheng, was a taboo subject in the Zhang family. He had once been a highly respected exorcist throughout the surrounding villages, able to speak with ghosts and spirits and dispel evil influences. Then, for reasons no one knew, he suddenly went mad. Before he died, he even tried to kill his entire family. After my great-grandfather died, his body was
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Rules of the Strange: She Conquers the Supernatural World and Becomes a Legend 规则怪谈,她在诡异世界通关封神
The story is complete. [Female-Oriented, No Romance, Mystery, Deduction, Power Fantasy, Light Infinite-Loop Elements; the heroine is just an ordinary person] The supernatural returns, and strange tales descend upon the world. Wen Qi is chosen by the supernatural world. As one of the chosen, she bears the hopes of her country. She must do her best to survive in the supernatural world's strange-tale instances and even earn rewards. Watching Wen Qi on the livestream, with her rumpled clothes, bird'
525Reads8.9Score110Shelves
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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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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
1.7MReads9.9Score189.8kShelves
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Eerie Revival: I Tamed the Nightmare Ghost 诡异复苏:我驾驭了噩梦鬼
[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
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There’s a Ghost Inside Me 我的体内有只鬼
Vengeful ghosts awaken, and a hundred ghosts roam the night. Jiang Xiao transmigrates into this world for no apparent reason and finds himself surrounded by demons and monsters. But then he discovers that his shadow can devour ghosts without limit and gain their abilities. [Successfully devoured the White Mist Ghost. Ability acquired: Mist Form] [Successfully devoured the Hanging Ghost. Ability acquired: Shackles] [Successfully devoured the Bronze Ghost. Ability acquired: Copper Skin] [Successfu
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Evil God Moran! 邪神墨然!
Why does the headless ghost in the hospital keep praying at midnight? Why does the skin-stealing ghost in the desolate mountain village wail without stopping? And why does the long-haired female ghost in the studio apartment shriek in the middle of the night? None of this is a distortion of human nature, much less a collapse of morality. It’s just that… someone’s having an episode! In an age when horror has returned and vengeful ghosts run rampant, Bai Yuan, dressed in a hospital gown, smiled ca
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Why Are All the Clansfolk I Summon Such Jokers? 我召唤的族人,怎么全是乐子人?
In the era of the Interstellar Alliance, countless races have united to fight off the invasion of the insectoid race. Among all the races, humanity is the weakest. As the only human to enter the Lord's Academy, he is assigned a remote, desolate planet. Danger lurks everywhere, and the insectoids could discover and devour him at any moment. Unless he can develop his own people and planet, Wei Yuan will not only fail to graduate, he may not survive. Luckily, transmigration comes with a System. Wei
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Horror Camgirl 恐怖女主播
My name is Yuan Junyao, a name that doesn't suit me at all. I've had a chronic illness since birth, and I'm so hideously deformed that tumors started growing on my face when I was little. My father left me when I was just three months old. At fifteen, I was blamed for my mother's death. Only my grandmother raised me and my stepbrother, who shared neither parent with me. But after an accident, I was offered up to a man who should never have crossed my path. To get revenge and see justice done, I
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Invitation from Hell 地狱邀请函
[Ghost Escape + Supernatural Horror + Infinite Flow + A Clever Protagonist] An invitation and an abandoned bus drag a group of people into a haunted realm… Lin Mo barely makes it back to the real world alive, only to discover that the horror has just begun. One invitation after another arrives before him, and one eerie world after another comes calling… The Dusk Spirit Hotel, the Dead Return, Vengeful Ghosts Invade: what is the truth behind it all? Who is a friend? And who is an enemy? Shh… Watc
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What! The Little Princess of Tianji Sect Is Fortune-Telling at Her Stall Again 惊!天机门小公主又在摆摊算命
(No CP, no male lead) Yu Luo, young mistress of the Tianji Sect, was kicked down to the mortal world by her own father to gain experience. He left her with only a tenth of her magic. The moment she landed, a bolt of thunder struck her and gave her an explosive hairstyle. Hard up for money, she had no choice but to set up a fortune-telling stall at the market. Yu Luo: Old sir, have someone smash the furniture in your house and see what happens. Onlookers: Sir, your home renovation cost millions.
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1983: A Weasel Haunts a Reborn Woman 1983黄皮子缠上重生女
No CP… Rebirth… Revenge… Family life… A touch of fantasy… An adorable weasel spirit… Slow-burn plot In his previous life, Gu Hang had a difficult upbringing. From the age of eight, he was beaten by his own father almost every day. A county teacher helped him get into teacher's college, but someone else took his place, and he never knew. At sixteen, he left home to work. Because he was 1.75 meters tall, a friend introduced him to modeling. He was sentenced to two years in prison for beating up a
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You Hired Me to Collect Bodies, So I Dissected My Ex-Girlfriend 让你当收尸人,你直接解刨了前女友
In anatomy class, the corpse turns out to be my ex-girlfriend... After that, I went through all sorts of unbelievable things. A bus that only goes up, never down, and runs straight to a reservoir. An old scholar tree in the hospital, lush with branches and leaves, that swallows people whole. A giant catfish by the Qingshui River, begging people for help every night. And a deadly brothel hung with human skin, open for business without end. It went on and on, as if it would never come to an end...
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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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In a World of Cultivators Who Eat People, I Use Simulations to Flip the Board 吃人修仙界,靠着模拟掀翻棋盘
[Simulator + Cultivation + Fast-Paced + Decisive and Ruthless + No Absurd Deaths] Jiang Chen transmigrated into the world of cultivation, expecting a life of carefree immortality, only to discover that he had entered a demonic den where people preyed on one another! His senior brothers were beasts in human skin, the elders treated people like raw materials, and from top to bottom, there wasn't a single decent soul in the sect or the entire cultivation world! Then, at that very moment, the simula
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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
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
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Only Gods Can Kill the Supernatural? Lucky for You, I’m One! 诡异只有神能杀死?巧了我就是!
[Not pure wish fulfillment + not mindless + a little thought-provoking + vast worldbuilding + all-new setting + divine Sequence system + mysterious cosmic horror + one heroine + slow-paced + passionate] This is the end of humanity, and the end of the gods! As the world collapses and the gods fall, even the divine are wiped out. On the earth, the [Deep Realm], which sees gods as ants, is drawing near. Civilization, human nature, divinity, and Great Xia are all twisted by the approaching chaos. Af
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Two Thousand Years Later, Have I Become an Outer God of the Old Ones? 两千年后,我成旧日外神了?
Xuan Hao was the only immortal in the Age of the Decline of the Dharma. But two thousand years later, he somehow became an Outer God of the Old Days! Two thousand years later, humanity has entered an age of advanced martial arts. Warriors are powerful? Xuan Hao can simply strike from a higher dimension. In a world ravaged by Outer Gods of the Old Days, Xuan Hao had no intention of vying for power. But for some reason, humanity began worshipping him. The Corpse Immortal Path, the Church of Pain,
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Lord of Ten Thousand Nights 万夜之主
Thirteen years ago, a blood-red demon star fell to earth. Was it the end, or a resurgence? The starry sea dimmed, and all things withered. As dusk fell, a ghostly fog once again spread across the land, revealing a mysterious world...
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Dumped from the Start, I Awaken the Ten Yama Kings! 开局被分手,我觉醒十殿阎罗!
[SSS-Rank from the Start, Elegant and Unbeatable, Plenty of Trump Cards, No System] Hey, everyone! My girlfriend, the campus belle, dumped me right from the start. But I didn’t panic. As the reincarnation of the Netherworld Emperor, I immediately awakened the SSS-Rank Ten Halls of the Underworld! What? As a transmigrator, I don’t have a System? Still, no need to panic! I have the innate Forbidden Red Paper Umbrella! Let the invading foreign races come, let the myriad realms descend! Draw the swo
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In Prison: Developing Mechs to Win My Freedom 人在监狱:为了出狱研发机甲
Framed and thrown into prison, Zhou Yang awakened the All-Purpose Technology System at the very moment he was locked up. It took Zhou Yang two years to complete the System's first mission. Who could have guessed the first reward would be the technology to build mechs? The first-generation mech took to the skies, ushering humanity into the age of mechs. Then interstellar warships arrived, taking humanity into the age of space travel. Zhou Yang declared, “My goal is the stars and the sea.”
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