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  1. 51 Record of the Spirit Seekers 2: Farewell to the Mortal World 访灵笔录2：入世辞 Mr. Tipsy酩酊和先生Mystery196k WordsCompleted [Mystery + supernatural + powerful partners + lively humor + episodic stories + ghostly tales + an ensemble cast hunting ghosts] “Nothing brings greater joy than meeting a new friend; nothing brings greater sorrow than parting from a loved one.” A chance encounter with a beauty on Ghost Wasteland Mountain turns out to be a deadly ghost's attempt to claim a soul! Karmic ties from a past life and entanglements in this one: whose mistake is it, and whose fate? Quan Ning and Yin Cangyi are accidenta 31Reads7.9Score—Shelves
  2. 52 I Just Want to Be a Slacker, but They Keep Making Me Play Horror Games 我只想当咸鱼，偏偏要我玩惊悚 Mu Xi Fanyin沐溪梵音25k WordsCompleted All I Want Is to Be a Couch Potato, but They Keep Making Me Play Horror Games 50Reads—Score—Shelves
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  3. 53 Born Toward Death 生而向死 Zhou Jun, Who Loves Red Beauties喜欢红美人的周俊Sci-Fi & Apocalypse145k WordsCompleted I was born to face death, seeking a sliver of life in that fleeting moment. Every wrong choice forges my life pattern into an ark leading to a new world, or sends me into eternal ruin. To live by facing death: it means carving a path beyond the rules, one you never knew existed. 1Reads—Score—Shelves
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  4. 54 Tales of the Supernatural in Xiangnan 湘南鬼事录 Xiaoxiang Lady Traveler潇湘女客Mystery289k WordsCompleted My family is truly from southern Hunan, with ancestral expertise in feng shui and geomancy, spirit-summoning and calming, demon-subduing and exorcism, funeral music, and rites to guide the dead onward. Let me begin with my great-grandfather’s generation. My great-grandfather and his brother were born in the early Guangxu era of the Qing Dynasty. By the late Guangxu and Xuantong eras, they had raised five cousins in all, including my grandfather. They all knew our family’s inherited arts. My gran 382Reads—Score—Shelves
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  5. 55 My Master Is Uncle Jiu: From the Start, I Slay an Awakened Corpse 我的师傅九叔：开局就斩醒尸 Long Ling龙翎11k WordsCompleted My Master, Uncle Jiu: From the Start, I Slay a Reanimated Corpse —Reads—Score—Shelves
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  6. 56 Real Footage of a Ghost Encounter on a Thai Livestream: I Just Want to Make It Home Alive 泰国直播撞鬼实录，我只想活着回国 Long Ling龙翎16k WordsCompleted A True Account of a Thai Livestream Ghost Encounter: I Just Want to Make It Back Home Alive —Reads—Score—Shelves
  7. 57 Reborn as a Funeral Shroud Tailor: Scumbags, Lie Down and Behave 重生寿衣师：渣男贱女都给我躺好 Long Ling龙翎8k WordsCompleted Reborn as a Shroud Tailor: Scumbag Men and Vile Women, Lie Down and Behave —Reads—Score—Shelves
  8. 58 Relic Appraiser: Searching for the Reason My Mother Abandoned Me All Those Years Ago 遗物整理师，为了寻找当年母亲抛弃自己的原因 Long Ling龙翎15k WordsCompleted An estate-cleanout specialist seeks the reason her mother abandoned her all those years ago. —Reads—Score—Shelves
  9. 59 My Mom Suddenly Became a Different Person 我妈突然变了个人 Long Ling龙翎9k WordsCompleted My Mom Suddenly Became a Different Person 3Reads—Score—Shelves
  10. 60 I Suddenly Realized Something Was Wrong in the Dorm 我突然发现宿舍里不干净 Long Ling龙翎8k WordsCompleted I Suddenly Realized There Was Something Evil in the Dorm —Reads—Score—Shelves
  11. 61 The Hospital's Unsolved Loop 医院的循环未解之谜 Long Ling龙翎9k WordsCompleted The Unsolved Mystery of the Hospital's Endless Loop —Reads—Score—Shelves
  12. 62 The Ghost Candle Craftsman 诡烛匠人 Ge Minmin Elaine歌旻敏ElaineMystery148k WordsCompleted In a narrow alley in the old part of town stands a candle shop that has been in the same family for three generations. No one knows that it only takes on business involving the cursed. Those driven to despair by ghosts, possession, or paranormal hauntings all come knocking on its door late at night. Zhong Ling, the third-generation heir, doesn't burn talismans or summon deities. He simply hands them a candle. “Light it. Before it burns out, either you die, or the truth comes to life.” Ghostly 5Reads—Score—Shelves
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  13. 63 The Bankrupt Exorcist's Haunted House Livestream 破产天师的凶宅直播间 Fengyuan砜元Mystery356k WordsCompleted “Congratulations. You've inherited a mansion worth a fortune, as well as... 200,000 yuan in deadly yin debt.” The lawyer's voice was like a scalpel, cutting through all my beautiful dreams. I'm Wu Suowei, a con artist who edits photos to pass myself off as a master of the occult. I was planning to pack up and run. But when I opened the doors of Jingxin Studio and saw the strange assortment of “family members” inside... I knew there was no escape. This wasn't a haunted house. It was an ancient se 75Reads—Score—Shelves
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  14. 64 Notes on Folk Spirit Mediums 民间出马仙笔记 Sun Mingyuan孙铭苑Mystery95k WordsCompleted [Spirit Mediums + Chinese-Style Horror + Episodic Stories + Supernatural Mystery + Karma + Mind-Blowing Twists + Feng Shui and the Occult] "Unraveling one strange and unpredictable tale of karmic retribution after another" In a remote suburb of the city lies a cemetery. Few people know that a shop dealing in the supernatural stands there, run by a spirit medium who can communicate with the dead and the living. The owner specializes in paranormal cases beyond ordinary people's understanding, but 499Reads9.3Score—Shelves
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  15. 65 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 364Reads7.7Score—Shelves
  16. 66 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 74Reads8.9Score—Shelves
  17. 67 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... 2.8kReads9.0Score145Shelves
  18. 68 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 368Reads8.7Score—Shelves
  19. 69 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 143Reads8.7Score—Shelves
  20. 70 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… 129Reads8.7Score—Shelves
  21. 71 After the College Entrance Exam, I Received an Acceptance Letter from the Underworld 高考结束，我收到阴间录取通知 Nomi Is Not Lonely诺米不孤单Mystery162k WordsOngoing Opening… I went back to my hometown, and when I returned, I found that my ID card had somehow become demagnetized. My household registration had no record of me, and my contacts were slowly disappearing. The game account I used every day showed “not registered.” Even my college entrance exam results said “no record found,” as if the world were erasing me bit by bit. I never received a college admission notice, but I did receive an acceptance letter from the underworld. Even the fortune-teller sa 49Reads—Score—Shelves
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  22. 72 Legend of the Demon-Slaying War 平魔传 Dugu Zilong独孤紫龙Urban1.5M WordsOngoing This is a work I wrote many years ago, now revised and presented to you! Its original title was The Demon-Slaying War. If you've read it before, feel free to keep reading! No System, no evolution, no being reborn. It's been restored to the fantasy world of old! 484Reads—Score—Shelves
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  23. 73 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 105Reads—Score—Shelves
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  24. 74 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 46Reads—Score—Shelves
  25. 75 In This World, Who Do You Think You Are? 天地间老子在你算老几？ At Sunset Beneath the Moon, I Am Sanhe日落月下吾为三禾Mystery536k WordsOngoing On a pitch-black night, I dreamed of countless stars rushing toward me. By chance, I became a haunted-house tester, and all sorts of supernatural phenomena began appearing out of nowhere. The strange and bizarre things in the city, the mysterious forces deep in the mountains, and the gods people worship: do they really exist? Where can I find the key to a new world? Is this a responsibility, a mission, or a chance to become the next scapegoat? What unsolved mysteries lie in the world I inhabit, 111Reads—Score—Shelves
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  26. 76 Cultivating Immortality, Lucky Star Style 幸运星式修仙 Snail's Little Revision蜗牛小改Urban329k WordsOngoing [Plenty of Immortal Maidens + High-Martial World + Absurd Cultivation + Cultivation, Lucky Star Style] The Lucky Star asked, “What wish would you like to make?” Zhou Xingyun smiled. “I want to become the master of the Heavenly Dao!” The Lucky Star: “...” I shall claim dominion over all under heaven! Who can stand against me? Now is the time to seize the world! I'm only taking an exam. Examiner, why are you asking me to be your master? I'm only increasing my cultivation. School, why did you explo 1Reads—Score—Shelves
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  27. 77 A Woman's Tears: The Pain of Finding a New Man 女人泪：寻找新的男人是痛苦的 Snail's Little Revision蜗牛小改Marriage & Romance6k WordsCompleted A Woman’s Tears: Finding a New Man Is Painful 1Reads—Score—Shelves
  28. 78 King of Men in a World of Men! 在只有男人的世界做男人的王！ Snail's Little Revision蜗牛小改6k WordsCompleted Become the king of men in a world with only men! 4Reads—Score—Shelves
  29. 79 My Five Best Friends: Heaven, Please Save Me! 我的五个好朋友:老天爷快救救我 Snail's Little Revision蜗牛小改Modern Romance6k WordsCompleted My Five Best Friends: Heaven, Please Save Me —Reads—Score—Shelves
  30. 80 My Husband Abused Me. After I Was Reborn, I Made Him Beg on the Streets 老公家暴：重生后我让他沿街乞讨 Snail's Little Revision蜗牛小改6k WordsCompleted My Husband Abused Me: After Being Reborn, I Made Him Beg on the Streets —Reads—Score—Shelves
  31. 81 In Another World, I Use Taoist Arts to Empty My Enemy's Warehouse 到了异世，我用道术搬空仇人仓库 Ling Ling Qi Xuan泠泠七炫Modern Romance913k WordsCompleted An alternate history setting. Please do not compare this story with real history! Gou Yunshu, a modern Daoist exorcist, was betrayed by her best friend during an exorcism. She was struck down by heavenly retribution, killed by a bolt of lightning. She transmigrated into the body of a young girl in the Great Xia Kingdom of the Republican era and discovered that her grandfather had been captured by the Japanese army. To rescue him, she took her younger siblings, bought a house, and left Laolongtan 601Reads—Score—Shelves
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  32. 82 March of a Hundred Ghosts: I Take the Hungry Ghosts to War 百诡行军：我带饿鬼上战场 Bai Suzhen白素针儿Mystery308k WordsCompleted [Comedy] [Adventure] Bilige was a half-baked shaman who had somehow ended up in the army. His companions included a Shaanbei fat man who'd eaten himself up to two hundred jin during a famine, a long-legged Northeastern squad leader who would grab a cleaver at the slightest provocation, and a Sichuan opera actor who never told the truth. Together with Wang Laihe, a hotheaded young man who couldn't read a single character, and a little hungry ghost who did nothing but bare its teeth and shout “Hun 457Reads—Score—Shelves
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  33. 83 Hiring a Handsome Guy to Guard the House 雇个帅哥来镇宅 Zahari扎哈里Mystery1.1M WordsOngoing [Horror, one heroine] What do you do when you’re nearly broke? With no other options, Shang Yi reluctantly took a night-shift job, and it completely upended his worldview! The elevator, hallways, underground parking garage, bathrooms… Those places were already enough to give him a headache. But what troubled him even more was the attention he got from beautiful women… Strange incidents kept happening in the residential complex, yet the residents went on living there as if nothing were wrong. The 57Reads—Score—Shelves
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  34. 84 Northeastern Folk Taboos 东北民间禁忌 Sleeves That Cover the Sky大袖遮天Mystery5.0M WordsOngoing The black soil of the Northeast holds too many stories, and hides too many rules. If you hear someone call your name in the middle of the night, never look back. On New Year’s Eve, if a dumpling wrapper breaks, it’s for the “good brothers” to eat. If you meet a woman in red while walking at night, remember to pull your hat down low... These taboos passed down by the older generation are superstition if you don’t believe in them. But if you break them, they become a ghostly gateway that leads str 1.5kReads—Score103Shelves
  35. 85 Memoirs of a Folk Taoist 民间道士回忆录 Lu Huazhen陆化真Mystery570k WordsOngoing Everyone has a different path to walk at every stage of life. Just as people have periods of misfortune and prosperity, they also have ten-year cycles of good fortune. When your next cycle begins, it will mark a new starting point in your life. A folk Taoist priest is here with his memoirs, offering you a glimpse into authentic folk Taoism. 3.9kReads9.3Score753Shelves
  36. 86 My Days Working at a Funeral Home 我在殡仪馆工作的那些事儿 Farewell, Xiao Lang再见萧郎Mystery1.5M WordsCompleted My name is Ling Yu. I work at a funeral home with Big Fatty. One day, a beautiful corpse wearing Chanel arrived at the funeral home. I stole the Chanel outfit and gave it to my girlfriend. Then a string of sinister things began to happen... Deaths kept piling up, closing in on Big Fatty and me step by step. How can we escape Death's pursuit? 3.2kReads5.9Score106Shelves
  37. 87 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... 820Reads8.2Score100Shelves
  38. 88 My Years in the Funeral Business 我干殡葬的那些年 Dongfang Goudan东方狗蛋Mystery1.7M WordsCompleted People light candles, ghosts blow out the lamps. The dead return at midnight, corpses rise in funeral halls, and ancient relics lie buried for thousands of years. In my years working in the funeral business, I’ve encountered plenty of strange and uncanny things. The living walk the roads of the living world, and the dead walk the roads of the underworld. But sometimes, not everyone on the underworld’s roads is a ghost, and not everyone on the living world’s roads is human… 56kReads9.2Score5.9kShelves
  39. 89 Professional Funeral Watcher 职业守灵人 Deep Love Always Ends in Heartbreak深情总被殇Mystery962k WordsOngoing At funerals, there is a ritual called “keeping vigil.” I am a professional vigil keeper. People pay me to keep watch over their dead. Over the course of my career, I have witnessed far too many touching stories and tragic circumstances. But most of all, I have encountered strange and terrifying events. And it all began the first time I saw a ghost while keeping vigil... 197Reads6.8Score137Shelves
  40. 90 My Lady Doesn't Believe in the Supernatural 我家夫人不信邪 Young Master Fuling炥灵公子Mystery276k WordsCompleted I believe in metaphysics, but she doesn’t. We got married just to prove each other wrong. I wanted to hang a portrait of the Three Pure Ones, but she refused, so after a huge argument, I decided to write down all the true events that have happened over the years: my dad got into trouble after eating a snake, my grandma suddenly started eating pork knuckle and cursing, Gao Dabao lost a hand in an elevator accident, Feng Ershuang was grabbed by a ghost, and their cousin mysteriously went mad and d 63Reads—Score—Shelves
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  41. 91 Beijing Drifter Xiuxiu 北漂修修 White-Browed Eagle Who Likes Mucuna Beans喜欢牛蹄豆的白眉鹰Urban589k WordsCompleted I’m Wu Qi, an utterly ordinary poor kid. After graduating from high school, I ended up in Yanbei at a third-rate diploma mill where you could earn a degree through self-study exams. Then, in one night, I unexpectedly inherited a legacy, completed the Foundation Establishment stage, and reached the Golden Core stage in a month... From then on, I cultivated my mind, character, and practice in the mortal world... I started working part-time in Yanbei, selling things at street stalls, looking for jo 61Reads—Score—Shelves
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  42. 92 Is Your Life Worth Enough to Pay? 你的命，够付么？ Not Autumn Zhang不秋张Urban500k WordsOngoing I crave madness, so what do I fear from Heaven's punishment? I have cast off all worldly attachments, so what do I fear? Above all dominance, I am the one who rules! Watch as the protagonist, Wu Tian, cultivates step by step, challenges Heaven, and fights his way from modern society, the Human Realm, into other worlds, ultimately reaching the pinnacle! 513Reads—Score—Shelves
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  43. 93 Midnight Terror: The Strange Radio Broadcast 午夜惊魂之电波诡事 Half a Feather半面羽毛Mystery349k WordsOngoing In the winter of 1998, Liu Siyang, a broadcasting college graduate, was assigned to Shengjing Radio. He took over a long-dormant late-night program, named it Midnight Frights, and set out to tell the insomniacs of this old industrial city some unusual stories over the midnight airwaves. He unearthed three bizarre cases from the radio station’s archives and old police files: the sweeping sounds that never ceased after the death of “Big Black Tooth,” the library’s caretaker; the green powder stuff 62Reads—Score—Shelves
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  44. 94 The Immortal’s Path of a Funeral Garment Shop Owner 寿衣店老板的修仙路 Half a Feather半面羽毛Mystery680k WordsOngoing An Accidental Ghost Cultivator Begins His Path to Immortality Luo Ze is an art teacher at an art training school. After 30 years of teaching, he has become a renowned teacher with students all over the place. After a car accident, he unexpectedly transmigrates 20 years into the past, only to find himself possessing the body of a 19-year-old who runs a funeral clothing shop. While providing someone with a complete funeral service, he unexpectedly acquires an ancient bronze mirror of unknown origi 62Reads—Score—Shelves
  45. 95 I Love Your Numbness, I Love Your Spice, I Love You Till My Stomach Gives Out 爱你的麻，爱你的辣，爱得老胃直拉胯 Half a Feather半面羽毛Marriage & Romance24k WordsCompleted I love your numbing spice, I love your heat, I love you so much my stomach’s a mess 7Reads—Score—Shelves
  46. 96 Funeral Garment Shop Owner: A Reborn Man's Nightmare 寿衣店老板：重生者的噩梦 Lao Ku唠枯21k WordsCompleted The Shroud Shop Owner: A Reborn Person’s Nightmare —Reads—Score—Shelves
  47. 97 The Stone That Remembers the Light 会记住光的石头 Half a Feather半面羽毛28k WordsCompleted The Stone That Remembers the Light 3Reads—Score—Shelves
  48. 98 The Poorest County Magistrate's Wife in History Leads the Whole County to Prosperity 史上最穷县令夫人带全县百姓赚钱 Ling Ling Qi Xuan泠泠七炫Ancient Romance993k WordsCompleted Hang Ying, head of a reclusive modern-day clan, dies during an expedition and transmigrates into Yingzi, the wife of Xu Mengran, a penniless county magistrate in the Great Chu Empire. Who ever heard of a county magistrate being poor? Well, this one wears a patched robe, and his wife earns money washing and mending clothes to help him pursue a career in the imperial examinations. They have no maids or guards, the yamen runners look down on them, and a rich young lady even comes to their door to b 507Reads7.0Score—Shelves
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  49. 99 What a Shock! After Transmigrating to a Famine Year and Starving to Death, I Somehow Got a Cheat! 惊！穿到荒年饿死后居然开挂了？ Ying Jinchuan, Who Loves He Tang Red Cranes喜欢鹤塘红的应金川Modern Romance1.0M WordsCompleted Keywords: Strong Female Lead, Feel-Good Revenge, Rise to Success in the 1960s After a starship explosion sent her from a monster-infested interstellar world, Jiang Sidong opened her eyes in the body of a young girl in 1959. Her original self had been literally tormented to death by her paternal aunt’s family, and the three years of famine had only just begun. She looked at the cracked earth, and at people driven to sell their sons and daughters for a piece of tree bark... As she cultivated her p 9.2kReads8.4Score1kShelves
  50. 100 Day 49: The Whole Internet Watches Me Tear Through the Horse-Shaman World 第49天，全网看我杀穿出马仙 Young Master Fuling炥灵公子Mystery318k WordsCompleted [The first novel online to tackle the “spirit-medium” genre from an opposing perspective] Before my dad died, he left me a blood curse: “If you meet a god, beat it. If you see an immortal, kill it.” Now the whole village is made up of spirit mediums, and I'm the only ordinary person left. They livestream “catching an old immortal,” so I report them and get their accounts banned. They stage “the Tragic King being killed,” so I expose their tricks on the spot. Then I rescue a snow-white fox, and i 11Reads—Score—Shelves
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