What's the Scariest Supernatural Horror Novel Ever? 史上最恐怖的灵异小说有没有？

1. 51 灵 The Cursed Spirit-Fetus Journal 灵胎诡札 Withered Wood Seeks Sheep朽木寻羊Mystery451k WordsOngoing [Chinese folk customs + supernatural + horror and suspense + historical fantasy + no characters acting stupidly + not an overpowered hero + no System] Before Grandma died, she left these final words: “Burn everything I own. Don’t leave anything behind.” Sixteen-year-old Chu Yi secretly kept a yellowed notebook. He had no idea that this choice would let him see another world. This is a work that “uses the trappings of immortal cultivation to explore the weight of human life, and wraps questions o 5Reads—Score—Shelves

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   A folkloric fantasy novel with a rigorous setting

2. 52 一 One Haunting a Day 一日一诡 Spring Rain in the South, Winter Snow in the North南春雨北冬雪Mystery1.1M WordsOngoing Like people, supernatural entities can be good or bad, so the author can’t promise that every story will have an off-the-charts scare factor that keeps you up at night. The only guarantee is that all the stories are entirely fictional. If anything seems familiar, you’re on your own! 424Reads—Score101Shelves

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   The thriller and horror atmosphere are described in detail. If you watch it alone at night, you will not dare to go to the toilet!!! [Fear][Fear][Fear][Fear][Fear][Fear], pure horror factor, no need to think, just need to deeply experience the terrifying atmosphere depicted in the story!!

3. 53 冒 The Fake Master Walks Between Yin and Yang: Sweet-Talking the Living, Battling Vengeful Ghosts 冒牌大师走阴阳：哄完活人斗厉鬼 Lantern-Bearing Wuchang提灯无常Mystery1.0M WordsCompleted The thing Liu Buyi, a fake master, regrets most in his life is learning how to “draw talismans with soy sauce” from a short video. Because the corpse that should be lying quietly in front of him is now using a soy-sauce-dipped finger to write his name on the coffin lid. Meanwhile, his half-baked beauty of a partner, An Xun, is munching on sunflower seeds and enjoying the show. “Didn't you say you had Yin-Yang Eyes?!” Liu Buyi's voice trembles. Seeing how unconcerned she looks, he almost passes o 641Reads—Score109Shelves

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   The clock at home suddenly stopped, and in the silence, slow and heavy breathing sounded in my ears! Unit drama! Not stuck! No worries about word count! Worth a look!

4. 54 哽 The Sobbing Maitreya 哽咽的弥勒 Lantern-Bearing Wuchang提灯无常Mystery408k WordsCompleted A truly thrilling horror fantasy, with a master like Lin Zhenying guiding you through terrifying adventures, slaying demons and monsters, exploring forbidden arts, and cultivating as a demon immortal. Once you start reading, you won't be able to stop. It's pure exhilaration from beginning to end! 12Reads—Score—Shelves
5. 55 柜 The Woman in the Closet 柜子里的女人 Lantern-Bearing Wuchang提灯无常Mystery6k WordsCompleted The Woman in the Cabinet 54Reads—Score—Shelves
6. 56 后 The Sealed Cave Behind the Mountain: I Became the Village's Soul Guardian 后山囚洞：我成了全村守魂人 Clouds Are Light, Phoenixes Are Small and Gentle云淡凤小轻Mystery535k WordsOngoing After accidentally entering a century-old forbidden site in the back mountains, Jiang Ningyue unexpectedly inherits a fated duty and becomes the village’s only soul guardian. A deep, secluded prison cave suppresses countless wrongfully dead spirits. Ancient village rules conceal secrets unknown to outsiders, while turmoil erupts along the boundary between Yin and Yang, and one eerie calamity follows another. Generations of cave guardians have borne endless suffering, and a century of tangled gru 5Reads—Score—Shelves

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   Would you like to try it? I think it's okay

7. 57 弟 After My Brother Was Crushed by a Tycoon Family, I Summoned the Ten Kings of Hell to Claim Their Lives 弟遭豪门碾杀，我引十殿阎罗索命 Clouds Are Light, Phoenixes Are Small and Gentle云淡凤小轻13k WordsCompleted After his younger brother is crushed to death by a powerful family, he summons the Ten Kings of Hell to claim their lives 7Reads—Score—Shelves
8. 58 夜 Night-Shift Internet Cafe Attendant: The Woman in Red in the Men's Room Stall Hides a Ten-Year-Old Case 夜班网管：男厕隔间的红衣女，竟藏着十年旧案 Clouds Are Light, Phoenixes Are Small and Gentle云淡凤小轻13k WordsCompleted Night-Shift Internet Cafe Attendant: The Red-Clad Woman in the Men's Restroom Stall Is Hiding a Decade-Old Case 5Reads—Score—Shelves
9. 59 魅 The Hanging Charm 魅巾悬 Clouds Are Light, Phoenixes Are Small and Gentle云淡凤小轻Mystery341k WordsOngoing No romance + fantasy and the supernatural + mild horror + modern-day imaginative premise + episodic plot + feel-good power fantasy Liu Yixian, with a high forehead and a broad, square face, was taken in as an apprentice by Daoist Wu in the twelfth year of his life, setting him on an extraordinary path. A thousand-year-old fox or a century-old ginkgo: which one will win Yixian’s heart? A blood-red sickle stabbed the ghost seventeen, eighteen, nineteen, maybe twenty times. The ghost couldn’t take —Reads—Score—Shelves
10. 60 鬼 Paralyzed by Terror: The Shadow That Smelled of Tobacco 鬼压床惊魂-那具带着烟草味的黑影 Clouds Are Light, Phoenixes Are Small and Gentle云淡凤小轻15k WordsCompleted Terrifying Sleep Paralysis: The Shadow That Smelled of Tobacco 4Reads—Score—Shelves
11. 61 荒 Calling Spirits in the Ruined House: My Seven-Year-Old Brother Mysteriously Fell from a Building, and a Shadow in White Came After Him 荒坯房叫魂：7岁小弟莫名坠楼，白衣黑影缠上了他 Clouds Are Light, Phoenixes Are Small and Gentle云淡凤小轻15k WordsCompleted A Spirit-Calling Ritual in a Derelict House: My Seven-Year-Old Brother Mysteriously Fell from the Building, and a Shadow in White Is Haunting Him 2Reads—Score—Shelves
12. 62 厉 The Vengeful Ghost Great-Grandma Wants to Kill My Daughter, but My Pure Yang Infant Shatters a Century-Old Blood Pact 厉鬼太奶想杀我女，我纯阳婴镇碎百年血契 Clouds Are Light, Phoenixes Are Small and Gentle云淡凤小轻9k WordsCompleted A Vengeful Ghost of a Great-Grandmother Wants to Kill My Daughter, but My Pure-Yang Baby Shatters a Century-Old Blood Pact 1Reads—Score—Shelves
13. 63 误 I Blundered into a Horror World, Only to Find That All the Bosses Were Lamps 误入恐怖世界，没想到BOSS全是灯 Clouds Are Light, Phoenixes Are Small and Gentle云淡凤小轻17k WordsCompleted I stumbled into a world of horror, only to find that every BOSS was a lamp. 3Reads—Score—Shelves
14. 64 皮 The Tiger Skin: Three Years After My Mother Died, Someone Knocked at My Door in the Dead of Night 皮打虎：我娘死后三年，深夜来敲我家门 Clouds Are Light, Phoenixes Are Small and Gentle云淡凤小轻11k WordsCompleted Leather Tiger: Three Years After My Mother Died, Someone Came Knocking at My Door Late at Night 3Reads—Score—Shelves
15. 65 关 The Female Medium of Guandong 关东女先生 Sun Xian'er孙仙儿Mystery407k WordsCompleted [Completed Novel Recommendation] Northeast folk horror and suspense! When the old rules of the Northeast are broken, a hundred ghosts roam the night, and the yin energy can no longer be contained. My name is Ren Xue. I direct supernatural dramas, but fate brought me back to Changbai Mountain, where I became a Guandong woman who understands yin-yang and feng shui. I thought I was simply carrying on my ancestors’ legacy. Who knew I’d be the key to unraveling the “Dragon-Locking Yin Formation” and 320Reads—Score101Shelves

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    "Mr. Kanto"🔥Single female protagonist without CP|Northeastern folklore suspense and supernatural. Chinese Cthulhu|Feng Shui metaphysics|Exploring ancient tombs|Game of wits|Character growth. No immortality, no tricks, a steady pace, and refreshing foreshadowing. Suitable for suspense reasoning/folklore adventure parties, it has been tied up without any unfinished content.

16. 66 我 My Years of Ghost Hunting Among the People 我在民间捉鬼的那些年 Releasing a Hydrogen Balloon放氢气球Mystery275k WordsCompleted Chinese-Style Horror, No Female Lead My name is Xu Jian. I’m 26, and I studied Taoist arts under a Maoshan priest for several years. Over the years, I’ve seen all kinds of things. After doing this long enough, I realized that ghosts aren’t scary. What’s truly frightening are the things people can’t get past in their hearts. All I do is help them say what needs to be said and settle their debts once and for all. People call me a Celestial Master of the Taoist sect, but I’m really just an ordin 3.2kReads—Score291Shelves

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    It's nice to watch, really good, and very scary and exciting.

17. 67 诡 Night Tales from the Haunted House: 1,000 Folk Ghost Stories 诡舍夜话：1000个民间鬼故事 Listening at Seven Places七处倾听Mystery461k WordsCompleted [Changting 9.0 Rating] [A Must-Read for Women Late at Night] [Urban Horror] Don't read this late at night! A thousand standalone tales of the eerie, guaranteed to make you afraid to walk alone after dark! This collection features sinister events passed down through generations in rural lanes and villages, as well as bizarre tales widely shared online. Each chapter is a story of its own, so there's no need to wait for updates. Just open it and start reading! The faint sobbing from a corner of an 8.5kReads—Score292Shelves

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    Think carefully about whether to use the horror genre

18. 68 恐 A Collection of Terrifying Tales 恐怖惊魂故事录 Listening at Seven Places七处倾听Mystery306k WordsCompleted [Traditional supernatural tales] [Strange happenings late at night] [Whispers of the uncanny in your ear] [Based on true events] [Urban horror] [Thrilling and chilling] One ghost story for every chapter, all set in the dead of night. Come and read... 393Reads—Score—Shelves
19. 69 7 Bureau 747: The Paranormal Incident Investigation Unit 747局之妖怪事件处理科 Brother Elbow肘子师兄Urban770k WordsCompleted Do you really know the colleagues around you? What about your classmates and family? The person you've lived with for years, the one you know best, might not even be human! In this world, humans and demons coexist. Demons can live among you in all sorts of ways. “They” might be the man selling jianbing on the street, or they might be your boss! If a top special forces soldier hadn't awakened his family's bloodline in a panic while carrying out a highly classified special mission, and then joined 538Reads7.1Score—Shelves

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    Do you really know your relatives and friends around you? Maybe, they are not human at all, maybe they are demons! If a special soldier had not participated in a highly confidential mission, all this would not have been known to the world...

20. 70 午 The Deadly Neighbor at Midnight 午夜凶邻 Plucking Plum Blossoms, Drunk in Luoyang且插梅花醉洛阳7k WordsCompleted The Neighbor from Hell at Midnight 99Reads—Score—Shelves

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    The first two are a collection of creepy horror stories, and the third is a new-style urban suspense and cultivation novel that is horrifying, funny, and a little bit borderline [Original Party]

21. 71 o Office Ghosts: Don't Work Overtime office有鬼之不要加班 Plucking Plum Blossoms, Drunk in Luoyang且插梅花醉洛阳6k WordsCompleted There Are Ghosts in the Office: Don’t Work Overtime 72Reads—Score—Shelves
22. 72 西 The Secrets of Journey to the West 西游记的秘密 Plucking Plum Blossoms, Drunk in Luoyang且插梅花醉洛阳Mystery551k WordsCompleted Abyssal Murder Mystery: I Can See the Death Countdown Each scenario is a standalone horror movie, with cruel rules and a barrage of deadly traps. The protagonist gains the one-of-a-kind hidden talent “Performance Notes,” which lets him glimpse death warnings and hidden rules in the scripts. The scenarios draw on real urban legends and folk taboos, steeped in Chinese-style horror. The central mystery deepens layer by layer: Who created the Abyss Theater? Why did the notebook’s previous owner d 31Reads—Score—Shelves
23. 73 夜 Ghost Sightings at the Nightclub 夜场见鬼录 Yu Long玉龙Mystery278k WordsCompleted A Long is a DJ at a bar with a legendary “Stage of Death.” Many people have died there under mysterious circumstances. The cause of death could never be determined, and some bodies were never even found! The strange incidents stopped only after the bar was shut down. As the legend of the deaths gradually faded from memory, someone opened the stage once more! After that, disaster struck again and again! A terrifying ghostly figure appears in the girls’ dormitory, a faceless baby clings to a chand 249Reads8.8Score—Shelves

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    If you are brave, please read here. If you are brave, go directly to [Petrochemical][Petrochemical][Petrochemical]

24. 74 最 The Last Soul-Quelling Master 最后一个镇魂师 The One in Charge话事人Mystery813k WordsCompleted I grew up at my grandfather's house in the countryside. He was the most respected suona player in our village. One day, Li Dashan, a fellow villager, beat his pregnant wife to death and came to ask my grandfather for help. My grandfather tried everything he could, but still couldn't calm the resentment of Li Dashan's wife. In the end, he had no choice but to play a suona dirge to forcibly pacify her soul. On the night of the Lantern Festival, Li Dashan and his family turned into vengeful ghosts 146Reads8.4Score—Shelves
25. 75 地 Underworld Agent 地府经纪人 Stars星辰Mystery810k WordsCompleted I was hit by a basketball at school and fell into a lake, but I survived and became an official employee of the Underworld. I also gained a Ghost Hunter System that helps the Underworld recruit talented ghosts, setting me on the path to turning my life around. 28Reads6.1Score—Shelves
26. 76 地 The Underworld Calls Me Little Sir 地府叫我小先生 HelinEastern Fantasy803k WordsCompleted [Supernatural + mystery + power progression] Getting hit by a basketball and falling into a lake was bad enough. Even worse, I got killed by a basketball!! The Black and White Impermanence told me I still had seventy years left to live. To make it up to me, they offered me a job in the underworld. So I became an HR officer on the underworld’s permanent staff and even got a ghost recruitment System! As long as I help the underworld recruit talented ghosts, I can earn all kinds of abilities: talis 571Reads—Score—Shelves
27. 77 这 This Taoist Priest Is a Little Too Cool 这个道士不太冷 Ghost Hunter, Big Brother抓鬼大师兄Mystery802k WordsCompleted My name is Niu Dabao, and I’m the only college graduate in Niu Village. I thought that after graduation, I’d get promoted, earn a bigger salary, marry a beautiful, rich woman, and reach the pinnacle of life. Who knew the company would go under and the boss would kill himself? I didn’t get a single penny of my wages, couldn’t even afford rent, and had to sleep at the train station every night! Then a ragged Taoist priest told me I was dogged by bad luck and possessed by a host of ghosts, and that 609Reads7.8Score—Shelves
28. 78 我 I Live in Fengmen Village 我住在封门村 Naughty Leopard顽皮豹Mystery807k WordsCompleted My hometown shares its name with the legendary number-one haunted village in China: Fengmen Village. What’s more, our village also has a grandmaster’s chair. Whoever sits in it is doomed to die! It was 1997, and I had been accepted into the high school in town. Once summer vacation was over, I would finally be able to leave the place where I’d spent sixteen years. But what I never expected was for one terrifying incident after another to strike the village! Rats that ate human flesh, five-colore 715Reads6.1Score—Shelves
29. 79 诡 The Haunted Grave 诡坟 A Single Ink Blade墨刀一柄Mystery802k WordsCompleted I think I've been possessed! Right before the college entrance exam, I suddenly came down with a high fever that wouldn't break. I missed the exam and had to spend half a year recovering at home. During those six months, I found a job as a cemetery groundskeeper. My coworker, Old Zhang, saw how frail I was and how weak my yang energy seemed, and insisted on finding me someone to protect me. But he didn't tell me that my protector would be a female ghost!! Not only does she want to marry me, she 76Reads7.0Score—Shelves
30. 80 话 There Are Ghosts in These Words 话里有诡 Chen Taiyao陈太瑶Mystery88k WordsCompleted They say everyone has a few little secrets they can't bring themselves to talk about these days. But if you really want to hear something out of the ordinary, go find Old Bu. Old Bu runs a little tavern set inside an abandoned train carriage. From the day it opened, he laid down one rule: One interesting story in exchange for a night's worth of drinks. Sounds like a good deal, doesn't it? Too bad he doesn't give you much to drink, and the stories just keep getting stranger. An intelligent wristb 10Reads7.7Score—Shelves
31. 81 午 Midnight Terror: Human Nature Stories That Will Haunt You 午夜惊魂：让人细思极恐的人性故事 Gold Is Money金子就是钞票Mystery142k WordsCompleted At midnight, let's listen together to the little stories that circulate all around us. Maybe they're true. Maybe you've heard them too, or even experienced them yourself. Those moments that grow more terrifying the more you think about them go perfectly with the pitch-black night beyond the window. Red brick walls are common in many places. But we've never stopped to wonder: why are those bricks so red, so vivid? Rideshares at night aren't necessarily safe. Passengers have their concerns, and dr 495Reads8.8Score—Shelves

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    Don't miss it if you are passing by, don't enter if you are timid [Petrochemical][Petrochemical][Petrochemical]

32. 82 民 Tales of the Supernatural 民间怪谈录 Qu Gaofeng曲高峰Mystery1.0M WordsCompleted [Rural Horror Stories + Anthology + Folk Horror Tales + Chinese Supernatural] Supernatural happenings are most likely to occur in mountain villages, and the stories we've heard may well have really happened. In the eerie night wind, Granny Hao, the midwife who receives the dead, is like a messenger from the underworld, guiding the spirits of helpless mothers and children home. Locust trees commune with spirits, and poplars attract yin energy. Beneath the village's ancient trees lie secrets that 1.3kReads8.9Score105Shelves
33. 83 惊 Terror: I Only Sell Haunted Houses 惊悚：我只卖凶宅 Nicholas Goudan尼古拉斯狗蛋Mystery1.5M WordsCompleted Rooms where unnatural deaths have occurred are collectively known as haunted houses. There are two kinds: “blue houses” and “red houses.” Living people can stay in blue houses without harm, but anyone who lives in a red house is doomed to die. I work as a real estate agent. One day, I accidentally sold a red house, and afterward, I began encountering terrifying things… 37.6kReads9.2Score4.1kShelves

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    The girl who couldn't be captured by the surveillance camera At two o'clock in the morning, the surveillance picture suddenly showed something strange - Meng Yifan was furious at the empty entrance, pointing his finger in the air and raging wildly into the air, as if he was mad at the air. But I could see clearly that a girl in a white dress knocked on the door last night and said she was looking for Li Xiumei. Meng Yifan and I both talked to her! "Boss, who are you talking to?" Xie Peng and Li Xingyang's exclamations broke the dead silence. Only Meng Yifan's trembling figure was in the surveillance camera, and not even an afterimage of the girl was left. We retrieved all the videos like crazy, including the entrance, corridor, and doorway. In every frame, there were only shadows of Meng Yifan and me. It was as if the girl had never existed. Li Xingyang hurriedly opened the curtains, but the sunlight seemed to be blocked out, and the living room was still dark and penetrating. "The surveillance cameras have captured you, how come they can't capture her?" These words pierced my heart like an ice pick - the girl who knocked on the door the day before yesterday, who was Li Xiumei looking for? Why can only we see her? Is what is hidden in this haunted house unresolved resentment, or is it a more terrifying shadowless shadow? People who buy haunted houses think they are betting on courage, but they don't know that there are some things that they don't even dare to record on surveillance...

34. 84 死 The House of Deadly Peril 死亡凶间 Nicholas Goudan尼古拉斯狗蛋Mystery1.6M WordsCompleted I work as a specialist crime-scene cleaner, tasked with cleaning up after murders, suicides, and accidental deaths. I’ve seen more than my share of partings and grief, as well as the other side of death. Then, on the Ghost Festival, I encountered something terrifying... 24kReads9.2Score2.7kShelves

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    I advise you not to read these books at night. They are too scary. After reading them, you will feel like there are people everywhere in the empty room.

35. 85 午 Midnight Fortune-Teller: Humans Keep Away, Ghosts Come Forward 午夜算命师：人回避，鬼上前 West of the Clouds云间之右Mystery1.7M WordsCompleted Everyone knows about fortune-telling, but have you ever heard of telling fortunes for ghosts? Just because you've never heard of something doesn't mean it doesn't exist. If you ever come across a fortune-telling shop with its doors still open in the middle of the night, don't go looking for excitement. Because the people waiting in line might not be people… 45.9kReads9.0Score3.3kShelves
36. 86 烟 Misty Rain Tower 烟雨楼 A Night of Misty Rain一夕烟雨Eastern Fantasy9.4M WordsOngoing [The print edition is now available nationwide at all major retailers] "Traditional xuanhuan" "No harem" In the land of Jiuzhou stands a tower called the Misty Rain Tower. Its master, Li Qingzhi, is hailed as a peerless prodigy, holding life and death in his hands beneath the cover of night. Yet what the world doesn’t know is that someone else stands behind the Misty Rain Tower, its true founder. Using the guise of a spoiled young master as cover, he manipulates the winds and clouds and plots ac 907.3kReads9.6Score237.1kShelves
37. 87 黄 The Yellow Springs Pawnshop: No Living Visitors 黄泉典当铺，生人勿近 The Moon Bridge Remains桥月仍在Mystery1.2M WordsOngoing [Ghost Hunting + Supernatural Horror + Folk Customs + Strange Tales + Taoist Arts + Maoshan] At the end of a street at midnight stands a Yellow Springs Pawnshop. You have no way of knowing whether those who come and go to trade are human or ghost! Lu Guanshan takes over the pawnshop, and on his very first night, he encounters a stunningly beautiful, cold and aloof Ghost Queen hanging from a beam. She latches onto him and stays by his side as they collect yin objects and subdue a hundred ghosts. 4.6kReads6.4Score414Shelves

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    I don't know if it's the scariest one. It scared me so much that I didn't dare to go to the toilet before going to bed.

38. 88 工 The Best Feng Shui Master on the Construction Site 工地最强建筑风水师 Good Fortune Comes to the Good吉人自有天祥Mystery1.8M WordsOngoing [Campus Opening + Wild Imagination + Feng Shui Mysticism + Supernatural Oddities + Hu, Huang, Bai, Liu, and Hui (Spirit Mediums) + Bureau 749 + Buddhism, Taoism, Confucianism, Mohism, and Legalism + Gu-Fighting + Qimen Dunjia + Mohist Mechanisms + Lu Ban's Craft + Reincarnated Living Buddha]! This novel blends the supernatural, fantasy, magic, science fiction, and historical military fiction, aiming to create a Chinese version of The Avengers and Justice League. This is a fast-paced novel, espec 2.2kReads8.3Score307Shelves

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    Recommend an exciting article to start the campus, a Feng Shui supernatural novel "The Strongest Architectural Feng Shui Master on the Construction Site", which integrates Buddhism, Taoism, Confucianism, Feng Shui fighting, historical time travel, reincarnation, magic, science fiction, Feng Shui supernatural, Lu Ban Shu, Mohist mechanical skills, Gu magic, and corpse exorcism. It writes about Feng Shui supernatural things from the perspective of architecture students and construction engineers. It is being serialized on Tomato Novel Network. . . ?

39. 89 我 I Work as a Mortuary Makeup Artist 我在殡仪馆做化妆师 Bai Baoqian百宝嵌Mystery1.2M WordsCompleted I used to be a stylist on film and television sets. After reality put me through the wringer, I stumbled into a job as a mortuary makeup artist. Every day, I face all kinds of bizarre corpses, and they have shown me another world... 776Reads8.2Score100Shelves
40. 90 诸 The Myriad Worlds Cultivation System 诸天游戏修仙系统 Bamboo Shoot Buns Are So Delicious竹笋包子超好吃11k WordsCompleted The Heavens and Worlds Game Cultivation System 1Reads—Score—Shelves

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    "The Strange Story of Rules: Who taught you to read like this" is scary and supernatural, exciting and informative [exploration][exploration][exploration]

41. 91 阴 The Yin-Yang Hot Pot Restaurant 阴阳火锅店 Yan Huo炎火Mystery806k WordsCompleted I took over a hot pot restaurant from my second uncle. He told me never to serve customers a yuan yang hot pot after midnight! After I took over the place, everything I believed in began to crumble... One night, I wasn't paying attention and served a couple a yuan yang hot pot. The next day, I saw in the newspaper that the couple had died! They'd jumped to their deaths together! After that, every night at midnight, a strange couple would appear in my restaurant and ask me to make them a yuan yan 1.1kReads7.7Score—Shelves

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    Blame me for not having a strong heart [Petrochemical][Petrochemical][Petrochemical]

42. 92 我 I Might Have Changed the Wrong Fate 我可能改了个假命 Knife in the Sleeve袖里刀Mystery808k WordsCompleted When I was little, my mom asked a Taoist priest to tell my fortune. He said I'd face a calamity at 26, and that he'd come help me get through it the day before my 26th birthday. When the day finally came, the priest really did show up to change my fate. He even gave me a “Fate-Changing Ruler” and told me I had to change the fates of seven people with different destinies to survive the calamity. Otherwise, I'd only have five years left to live. So much for changing my fate for me! Did he only cha 78Reads8.9Score—Shelves
43. 93 阴 The Netherworld Inn 阴间客栈 Sun Jiu Hutu孙九糊涂Mystery814k WordsCompleted My name is Qin Yu. While on a business trip, I checked into a uniquely styled inn called the Yin Room Inn. It even offered “special services” in the middle of the night. Little did I know it was an inn from the underworld. I began having nightmare after nightmare, and my friends kept getting into trouble... 2.7kReads9.0Score145Shelves
44. 94 我 My Years as a Buddhist Nun 我当师太的那些年 Gold Is Money金子就是钞票Mystery1.6M WordsCompleted I was born a girl with a Pure Yang fate into a family of feng shui masters. For generations, my family had practiced feng shui in the countryside. My grandfather had hoped his eldest grandchild would be a boy, so he could pass down his skills to the eldest son and grandson. But I turned out to be a girl. Grandfather never took a liking to me, so my parents could only take me to live in the city. No one expected that, during the Ghost Festival in the year I turned twenty-five, Grandfather would s 376Reads8.7Score—Shelves
45. 95 我 I Run a Paper Effigy Shop 我有一间扎纸店 Er Lei二雷Mystery806k WordsCompleted I Have a Paper Effigy Shop tells the story of the protagonist, Liu Dabao, who runs a shop making paper effigies. One day, a guy named Li Xunhuan asked me to burn him a villa and gave me a jade pendant, saying someone would come to collect it later. That evening, a woman came to pick up the pendant and gave me a thousand yuan. But who could have guessed that the next day, the money vanished and turned into a pile of white paper! Was it ghost money for the dead? Were Li Xunhuan and that woman both 138Reads8.7Score—Shelves
46. 96 都 It's All the Haunted House's Fault 都是凶宅惹的祸 Nightfall夜色Mystery907k WordsCompleted I'm a mystery writer. In search of inspiration, I moved into a house rumored to be haunted. Every night, a horribly disfigured face appeared in the window, and outside, the rotten corpse of a woman hung from a tree. I realized then that this really was a haunted house! Gradually, my family began acting strangely, and we even found a mummified corpse sealed inside the wall for years! As I investigated further, I came across something even more terrifying… 124Reads8.7Score—Shelves
47. 97 猛 The Ghosts Come Out at Night Series 猛鬼出更系列 Plucking Plum Blossoms, Drunk in Luoyang且插梅花醉洛阳7k WordsCompleted The Ferocious Ghosts Come Out at Night Series 141Reads—Score—Shelves

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    The first three are a collection of creepy horror stories, and the fourth is a new-style urban suspense and fantasy novel that is thrilling, funny, and a little bit borderline.

48. 98 我 I Collected 99 Horror Stories 我收集了99个恐怖故事 Wangwang Little Zhen旺旺小小甄Mystery421k WordsCompleted [Short Story Collection] [Chinese-Style Horror] [Based on True Cases] [Uncanny Reality] [Horror Adventures] [Chilling] The stories of this world are half true and half false; the warmth and coldness of human nature make good and evil hard to tell apart. Light and shadow coexist, as do kindness and malice. If you’ve done nothing wrong, you have nothing to fear when ghosts knock at midnight. But if ghosts and spirits really came calling, could you face them calmly? This book is a collection of 5.5kReads8.7Score579Shelves

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    One horror story after another, supernatural horror (I advise you not to read it while eating) [awkward laugh][awkward laugh][awkward laugh]

49. 99 通 Heir to the Spirit Medium 通灵师传人 Snow White Beauty白雪伊人Mystery478k WordsCompleted Supernatural + ghost marriage + strong female lead power fantasy + horror stories + mystery. There are ghosts in every heart. Have you ever seen anything more terrifying than a ghost? It's not about walking a dark road too often and running into an evil spirit. The deadliest thing isn't knowing that it's a ghost. It's the utterly dark heart hidden beneath that perfect face. Shh... Don't make a sound. She's right behind you. Run. Don't look back. The story is even more terrifying than you ca 13Reads—Score—Shelves

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    New book recommendations.

50. 100 秘 Secret Art: I Transmigrate and Fight to Survive in a Bizarre World 秘法穿越:我在诡异世界极限逃生 Lantern-Bearing Wuchang提灯无常14k WordsCompleted Secret Art Transmigration: My Extreme Escape in a World of the Uncanny 92Reads—Score—Shelves

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