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  1. The Dark Side of Water Margin 恶水浒 Dreaming Hermit凡梦散人Historical246k WordsCompleted No glorifying violence, no covering up wrongdoing, no empty talk of morality. I only hope that every facet of “evil” can serve as a warning that challenges the limits of human nature, a measure for examining the boundaries of the rules, and a mirror that reflects the “evil” within us all... Water Margin was never a hymn to heroes, but a clear-eyed monologue about human nature, power, and desire. 944Reads—Score—Shelves
  2. Dragon-Slaying Ant 弑龙蚁 Dreaming Hermit幻想居士Anime Fanfiction589k WordsCompleted Adapted from the manga Dragon-Slaying Ants. Zheng Lang, heir to the Zheng family style of boxing, accidentally transmigrates to another world, setting off this story. It follows his journey as he rises step by step from a weak little ant. 747Reads—Score—Shelves
  3. Wandering from Village to Village, Hearing Tales of Ghosts 走村串巷听鬼事 Dreaming Hermit凡梦散人Mystery1.4M WordsCompleted The ghosts in the old alley blend in with the bustle of everyday life. Someone is always sitting on the empty stool at the shoe-repair stall. Behind the broken wall, a children’s rhyme counts fingernails. At three in the morning, the bowls and chopsticks at the wonton stall clatter by themselves. The sugar-painting seller, the night watchman, the people sunning themselves, they tell these stories with shining eyes, as if they happened yesterday: The white shirt on the clothesline runs away. T 621Reads—Score—Shelves
  4. One Rural Ghost Story a Day 一天一个乡村鬼故事 Dreaming Hermit凡梦散人Mystery1.3M WordsOngoing My new work is here! You’re welcome to read it on Tomato Novel. I hope you’ll enjoy it. Your support inspires me to write, and I’ll do my best to tell every story well! 352Reads—Score—Shelves
  5. Granny Corpse 尸婆婆 Dreaming Hermit凡梦散人Mystery132k WordsCompleted At the dead of night, never answer a knock at the door. She wears a red jacket and calls you by your childhood nickname, claiming she was an old friend of your mother’s. But you remember: the grass has been green on your mother’s grave for ten years. Strange things have been happening one after another in Lin Family Village. People who return home after dark vanish without a trace. At night, the village hears only the cries of a baby, but no one can find it. Lin Qinghe, the young village guardia 334Reads—Score—Shelves
  6. Tales of the Strange from the Countryside 村野诡事录 Dreaming Hermit凡梦散人Mystery153k WordsCompleted Unearth long-buried secrets of the countryside and venture through the mists shrouding its remote villages in this collection of short stories drawn from vivid folk tales of the supernatural. These stories bring back strange tales and eerie incidents forgotten by time, peel away the trappings of everyday life, and reveal chilling truths where human nature and ghosts intertwine. Each story is like a dim lantern in the dead of night, lighting the murky shadows deep in the countryside. The blend of 229Reads—Score—Shelves
  7. A Rooster Crows at the Graves, and My Dad’s Coffin Lid Can’t Hold On Much Longer 鸡鸣坟头，我爹的棺材板压不住了 Dreaming Hermit凡梦散人Mystery109k WordsCompleted On a chilly night in late autumn, at the third watch, three mournful crows rang out from the ancestral graves of Zhang Ergou's family. The next day, he saw “himself” lying stiffly on the bed, his mouth stuffed with cold, damp grave dirt. From then on, he was plagued by nightmares every night, always seeing his late father, Zhang Laogun, caked in dirt and reaching out to claim his life. Desperate to survive, he was forced to open a coffin. Inside, a black snake lay coiled, a crack in its skull ho 194Reads—Score—Shelves
  8. There’s a Ghost Outside the Door 门外有鬼 Dreaming Hermit凡梦散人Mystery708k WordsCompleted If you dare to read this book, Ghosts Outside the Door, I suggest turning on the lights first... I’m not trying to scare you. What’s recorded in this book isn’t a story, but the “real taboos” that mountain folk wouldn’t dare talk about to outsiders. Don’t look back while reading at night. If you hear footsteps behind you... don’t panic. Maybe “they” want to read it too. 183Reads—Score—Shelves
  9. The Spirit Infant in the Vat 缸中婴灵 Dreaming Hermit凡梦散人Mystery103k WordsCompleted In the summer of 1993, Qiu Guixiang returns with her five-year-old son, Shanwa, to her husband Sang Shigen's hometown, the isolated northern mountain village of Sangjiagelao, to escape the heat. The old family water vat has stood in the courtyard ever since she married into the family. But this time, Shanwa keeps pointing at it and saying, "There's a little boy inside, smiling at me." At first, Guixiang dismisses it as a child's fancy. Then, in the middle of the night, a gurgling sound like so 146Reads—Score—Shelves
  10. Ghost Borrowed Fetus 鬼借胎 Dreaming Hermit凡梦散人Rural Life118k WordsCompleted In 1996, the twenty-seventh day of the twelfth lunar month, it was freezing cold. Wu Gensheng, an old bachelor from Liujiagou, knocked himself to the foot of the stove and died without leaving a word. The funeral was held in the main hall of the old house, and incense was filled with smoke. I took my daughter Yadan to kowtow, but the six-year-old child was staring at the ground in front of the incense burner, trembling all over: "Mom... Grandpa in black clothes, with blood on his face, stood the 143Reads—Score—Shelves
  11. Nine Yin Corpse Fiend 九阴尸煞 Dreaming Hermit凡梦散人Mystery125k WordsCompleted When I was nine, the Wang family held a funeral, and I saw “them” for the first time. Grandpa Wang, dressed in a black burial robe, clung tightly to the coffin. No matter how hard a dozen strong men pushed, it wouldn’t budge. When I described a detail about the robe that only family members could know, the entire funeral procession panicked. Uncle Zhang said it wasn’t an evil ghost, just the last breath of a father who couldn’t bear to leave this world. After that, a bizarre world began to re 125Reads—Score—Shelves
  12. The Haunted Tomb 迷坟 Dreaming Hermit凡梦散人Mystery101k WordsCompleted On that gloomy afternoon, Zhang Xiaoshan and his three friends, as usual, crept into the graveyard behind the village. Li Tiezhu, trying to show off, pulled the yellow paper off a new grave and kicked away the brick that was meant to keep the spirit at bay. In an instant, the heavens changed and a torrential downpour began. They found themselves going around in circles in the graveyard, unable to escape the mountain. They finally made it home, but the nightmare had only just begun. Voices callin 117Reads—Score—Shelves
  13. Midnight Ghost Stories: A Collection of Horror Tales 午夜鬼话：恐怖故事集 Dreaming Hermit凡梦散人Mystery917k WordsOngoing The elders often say, “In the countryside, dark forces gather and filth takes root. Leave others a way out, or you may find your own path cut off.” This collection has no earth-shattering monsters, only the “karma” lurking in field ridges, graveyards, and the corners of old houses: A bachelor digs up a neighboring village’s ancestral graves to pay for a bride. At night, he keeps hearing a coffin being dragged across the floor. In the end, grave grass grows all over his body, and he drops dead on 44Reads—Score—Shelves
  14. The Truth That Never Existed 从未存在的真相 Dreaming Hermit凡梦散人183k WordsCompleted Who are we? Where did we come from? Why are we here? This book takes you into a hidden world overlooked by mainstream science, obscured by history, yet never silent. From the taboo truth behind experiments crossing humans and apes to the solar system as a suspected alien prison; from deadly viruses reawakening deep in Arctic permafrost to nonhuman intelligence hidden in ancient ruins; from the astonishing theory that consciousness originates in alien technology to the ultimate question of wheth 29Reads6.6Score—Shelves
  15. I Am Rome's Most Reckless Emperor 我是罗马最会作死的皇帝 Dreaming Hermit凡梦散人Historical135k WordsCompleted He is the youngest emperor in the Roman Empire’s history, wielding supreme power, yet his spirit of self-destruction makes his life the most absurd legend of all. From ascending the throne at seventeen to the great fire that consumes Rome; from the power struggles of the imperial court to disastrous musical and theatrical performances, both onstage and off; from extravagant spending to his carefree suicide during his final escape, Nero’s many laughable acts of self-destruction turn his imperial 27Reads—Score—Shelves
  16. Soul Catcher 捡魂 Dreaming Hermit凡梦散人Mystery124k WordsCompleted My name is Wang Cuihua. Everyone in Zhaojiagou avoids me because I'm a foul-tempered shrew. I treat my brothers coldly and turn a blind eye to my neighbors. As for my father-in-law, who's been dead for three years, I never burn even a single paper offering for him. Then, one Dragon Boat Festival, I picked up a piece of colorful paper with red borders and gold threads beside his neglected grave. That one act was all it took. That very night, an invisible hand closed around my throat. Auntie Zhao, 19Reads—Score—Shelves
  17. The Man-Eating Pit 吃人坑 Dreaming Hermit凡梦散人Mystery303k WordsCompleted In a northern mining district in the late 1980s, eleven-year-old Tie Jun dies in the “Man-Eating Pit” while trying to catch “delicious pond fish.” His mouth is stuffed with brand-new mining-lamp batteries from a sand-digging crew that vanished ten years ago, and an unbreakable safety rope is wrapped around his wrist. His father, safety officer Tie Jianguo, breaks the “safety code” to investigate the truth. Guilt-ridden Pang Wa suffers frequent sleepwalking fits and mutters in his sleep, while re 17Reads—Score—Shelves
  18. A Chronicle of Earthly Demons 人间恶魔志 Dreaming Hermit凡梦散人Mystery199k WordsCompleted He is a Taoist priest who has roamed the world for decades, known as Qingxu. He travels from village to village, not to seek wealth, but to record the truths about demons and monsters that the world has forgotten. One man brings home a paper effigy of a ghost bride on his wedding night; Another hears a dog barking in the middle of the night and goes outside, only for his corpse to be found with dog hair filling his mouth the next day; Someone lights incense at a graveyard on the edge of a villa 16Reads—Score—Shelves
  19. The Yin-Yang Tailor: I Stitch Ghosts and Gods with Needle and Thread 阴阳裁缝：我用针线缝鬼神 Dreaming Hermit凡梦散人Mystery142k WordsCompleted During a visit to his hometown, Chen Shan opens his eyes and sees his mother-in-law’s “soul” being led toward the old family home by an underworld messenger. He risks his life to save her, only to be branded a “harbinger of evil” and shunned by the entire village. His wife is forced to remarry, his daughter is called a “ghost brat,” and he is falsely accused of theft and beaten until his leg is broken. On a night of despair, the ancestral corpse-stitching needle pierces his palm, and a voice rin 11Reads—Score—Shelves
  20. Evil Water Margin 2 恶水浒2 Dreaming Hermit凡梦散人Historical138k WordsCompleted No glorifying violence, no whitewashing mistakes, no empty talk of morality. I only hope that every facet of "evil" can serve as an alarm bell, challenging the limits of human nature; a measuring stick for examining the boundaries of rules; and a mirror reflecting the "evil" within us all... Water Margin was never a hymn to heroes. It is a clear-eyed monologue about human nature, power, and desire. I hope you'll enjoy my new work. Your support motivates me to write, and I'll do my best to tell 9Reads—Score—Shelves
  21. Midnight Ghost Stories: A Collection of Japanese Horror Tales 午夜鬼话：日本恐怖故事集 Dreaming Hermit凡梦散人Mystery163k WordsCompleted In the darkness of midnight, do you dare uncover the terrifying truths hidden in the shadows? Midnight Ghost Stories: A Collection of Japanese Horror Tales takes you into a world of horror with no escape. Every story will send chills down your spine, from ghostly paper figures that come back to life to the depths of abandoned shrines, where legendary evil spirits are quietly drawing near. Every chapter delivers a fear that strikes straight at the soul, leaving you unable to breathe in the suffoc 7Reads—Score—Shelves
  22. Forbidden Ground for the Living: A Collection of Thai Horror Stories 活人禁地：泰国恐怖故事集 Dreaming Hermit凡梦散人Mystery191k WordsCompleted Some places are meant for the dead. Once the living enter, they never come back out. Welcome to The Forbidden Ground for the Living, an immersive collection of horror stories that takes you deep into Thailand’s shadowy world. You’ll witness how Room 404, sealed off on Phuket Island, imprisons restless spirits; how the drowned souls of Phi Phi Island call for substitutes; how the vengeful spirit of a Kuman Thong turns on its master’s greed; and even hear the curse of black magic slowly take effec 6Reads—Score—Shelves
  23. I Transmigrated to Ancient Times and Became a County Deputy 穿越到古代当县尉 Dreaming Hermit凡梦散人Mystery285k WordsCompleted Modern programmer Yu Lang transmigrates by accident and wakes up as the county lieutenant of Qingyuan County in ancient times. Faced with an unfamiliar identity, a complicated officialdom, and one case after another, he refuses to back down. Instead, he quickly adapts, using modern criminal-investigation methods to solve a series of bizarre murders, cold cases, and wrongful convictions. From tiny footprints in a radish patch to the shocking conspiracy behind a grain warehouse theft, from the co 6Reads—Score—Shelves
  24. Campus Chilling Tales 1 校园诡事录1 Dreaming Hermit凡梦散人Mystery483k WordsOngoing [School bullying + dormitory horror + teacher misconduct + campus disappearances + human traffickers + folk-horror mysteries + family oppression + internet curses] Step by step, the truth is revealed, only to show that this seemingly peaceful campus has long since become a human hell, a den of filth and corruption... 5Reads—Score—Shelves
  25. The Game of Power in Journey to the West 西游的权力游戏 Dreaming Hermit凡梦散人Eastern Fantasy391k WordsOngoing The pilgrimage to fetch the scriptures isn't a spiritual journey. It's a power-themed reality show jointly produced by the Three Realms. The eighty-one tribulations are a script written in advance. Sun Wukong's golden cudgel is workplace injury equipment with KPIs attached. Tang Sanzang's compassion is reserved for demons with powerful connections. Zhu Bajie's greed is listed in the financial statements as “non-recurring losses.” Sha Wujing's skull necklace is a research byproduct outsourced by 5Reads—Score—Shelves
  26. Wukong, Behave! My Dad Is the Azure Bull Demon 悟空别闹，我爹是青牛精 Dreaming Hermit凡梦散人Eastern Fantasy130k WordsOngoing I transmigrated into Journey to the West and became a cannon-fodder little demon in Black Wind Cave. With Brother Monkey about to send me westward with a single blow of his staff, I decisively chose to... lie flat and call for Dad! “Dear nephew, this is a Nine-Turn Golden Pill your great-uncle Taishang Laojun refined. Take it and eat it like candy.” “Good grandson, these are the peaches your aunt sent. Eat as many as you like, and take the rest with you.” From then on, the journey to fetch the s 5Reads—Score—Shelves
  27. Midnight Tales of the Strange and Supernatural 午夜怪谈诡事录 Dreaming Hermit凡梦散人Mystery307k WordsCompleted Across China's vast countryside, many forgotten taboos and eerie tales have been passed down. No one knows whether they really happened, but there are always people who, after midnight, accidentally stumble into those long-buried stories. Someone dreams of returning to an old house and sees a relative who died years ago sitting by the bed, whispering. Someone hears a baby crying from a desolate grave while traveling a road at night. Someone receives a letter sent from their ancestral grave, and 3Reads—Score—Shelves
  28. The Dark Water Margin: Unmasking the Truth Behind ‘Heaven’s Justice’ 恶水浒：撕开替天行道下的真面目 Dreaming Hermit凡梦散人Historical222k WordsCompleted Have you been fooled by Water Margin? When Wu Song drenches Mandarin Duck Tower in blood, it isn’t just the blood of his enemies: the serving girl carrying tea loses her life, and the old stable hand loses his soul. Where’s the “sweet revenge” in that blade’s flash? It’s brutality that spares not even the innocent. When Lu Zhishen burns down Tile Jar Temple, he doesn’t just burn the bandit monks’ den: he also burns the half-sack of grain hidden by an old monk and the tattered cotton coat that ke 3Reads—Score—Shelves
  29. Married in a Flash: Young Master Jing Dotes on His Sweetheart Alone 闪婚蜜宠：景少独宠小娇妻 Dreaming Hermit凡梦散人Modern Romance165k WordsCompleted Su Wanwan was switched at birth and raised as a country bumpkin. Everyone thought she was just a fake heiress, and even her fiancé coldly called off their engagement. But nobody knew she was actually a super-rich woman with a host of hidden identities: a medical genius, an international hacker, a racing champion, and even the secret power behind a mysterious financial empire! By chance, she was rescued by the powerful, cold-faced Young Master Jing, and the two accidentally signed a “contract mar 3Reads—Score—Shelves
  30. The Yin Sheep 阴羊 Dreaming Hermit凡梦散人Mystery109k WordsCompleted A century-old curse in western Hunan has awakened, and I have become the sacrifice it chose. Our ancestral rule in Longkougou is simple: never linger by a grave. The dead may open their eyes, and the living will know no peace. Then Granny Luo from our village died a gruesome death. Her mouth was stuffed with wet grass, and her throat was blocked with sheep dung. Her sheep had all vanished, too. Then one strange thing after another began to happen: On the night we watched over her body, the oil l 2Reads—Score—Shelves
  31. Bones Beneath the Skin 皮下枯骨 Dreaming Hermit凡梦散人Mystery276k WordsCompleted On this ancient land, nothing is thicker than a layer of human skin. It can hide absurd desires and cover up old sins, but it cannot hold back the consequences rising from the earth. This book is a collection of mid-length folk-horror stories about taboos, the price we pay, and fate. The tales travel through deserted villages, ancient towns, dry wells, and remote mountains, stripping away the facade of peaceful lives to expose the tangled, monstrous truths beneath. Here you’ll find resentment 2Reads—Score—Shelves
  32. Case Files: Tracking Down the Truth 迷案寻踪实录 Dreaming Hermit凡梦散人Mystery186k WordsCompleted This book is not a fictional horror story, but a weighty true-crime account. Open its pages, and you are not reading a story; you are staring across the paper at the starkest truth. It forces us to face a sobering question: behind every act of extreme evil lies a complex spectrum woven from society and human nature. This is both a solace for the departed and a warning to the living: only by seeing the roots of darkness can we protect the boundaries of the light. 2Reads—Score—Shelves
  33. The Wronged Spirit in the Pages 笔下冤魂 Dreaming Hermit凡梦散人Mystery302k WordsCompleted Can the dead speak? They can. Shen Yi's brush can give them a voice. During the Jiaqing era, Shen Yi, a clerk in Huanggang County, copied case files, but also watched each case with a discerning eye, uncovering one bloody injustice after another: an innocent woman in red hanging in a well, a statue that claimed lives through the kitchen fire, a wronged spirit with no head beneath the lamplight... Where the brush falls, the wronged are named and the guilty brought to justice. Behind every chil 1Reads—Score—Shelves
  34. Beneath the Peach Tree, I Wed a Ghost 桃树下，我与鬼拜堂 Dreaming Hermit凡梦散人Mystery117k WordsCompleted For six silver dollars, I took a job guarding an orchard at a haunted manor. They said no one who’d worked there before had lasted a month, and that you could hear a female ghost crying at night. I wasn’t afraid. I was so poor even ghosts looked down on me. Then one night, I saw her in a peach tree: dressed in white as bright as snow, with her tongue hanging three feet long. She said her name was Wanqing. Her master had forced her to her death, and her vengeful spirit couldn’t rest. My heart sof 1Reads—Score—Shelves
  35. Tales of Life in the Streets 市井春秋 Dreaming Hermit凡梦散人Historical263k WordsCompleted The truth does not exist only within the halls of power. It also flows through street-corner conversations and the bustle of everyday life. Open this book and listen to the voices forgotten by orthodox historians. Witness a thousand years of Chinese civilization unlike anything you know, a history filled with blood, flesh, feeling, and desire. 1Reads—Score—Shelves
  36. Strange Tales from the Countryside, Volume 1 乡村老邪事儿1 Dreaming Hermit凡梦散人Mystery324k WordsOngoing The old folks in our village have forbidden us to talk about these eerie things, and they’re too afraid to write them down. Tonight, I’ll work up the nerve to tell you a few. If you dare to listen, I dare to tell. But remember: if halfway through, you feel a chill run down your back or glimpse something out of the corner of your eye... don’t turn around. Some secrets, once you know them, won’t let you go. 1Reads—Score—Shelves
  37. The Ghost Tapping My Shoulder 鬼叩肩 Dreaming Hermit凡梦散人Mystery293k WordsOngoing Old folks often say, “In the countryside, yin energy and filth lie hidden. Leave others a way out, or you may leave yourself with none.” This collection has no earth-shattering monsters, only the “karma” lurking in field ridges, graves, and the corners of old houses: A bachelor steals a neighboring village’s ancestral graves to pay for a bride. At night, he hears a coffin scraping across the floor. In the end, grave grass grows all over his body, and he dies suddenly on his own kang bed; A villa 1Reads—Score—Shelves
  38. The Voice of Sin 罪语者 Dreaming Hermit凡梦散人138k WordsOngoing Sin is not an abyss, but a mirror. It reflects the indifference we've come to accept as normal, weighing every moment of silence. When society breaks evil into parcels and delivers one to everyone who obeys the rules, do you sign for it, or refuse the delivery? The answer isn't in the book. It's in that blank moment on your face after you close it. 1Reads—Score—Shelves
  39. Travel to the Tang Dynasty to Solve the Mystery 穿越到唐朝破诡案 Dreaming Hermit凡梦散人Mystery111k WordsOngoing New works are released. Welcome to Tomato Novel to read my works. I hope you all like them. Your attention is the motivation for my writing. I will try my best to tell every story! —Reads—Score—Shelves
  40. Midnight Haunted House Record 午夜凶宅实录 Dreaming Hermit凡梦散人Mystery174k WordsCompleted Li Bufan, a young but invincible Taoist disciple, possesses peerless magic power and has the power to subdue evil spirits and drive away evil spirits. In this foggy city, many haunted houses hidden in dark corners are the stage for him to perfectly interpret justice and power. From dilapidated old buildings, to deserted villages, to luxurious villas full of eerie atmosphere, every time Li Bufan enters these places that are ravaged by evil spirits, it is like a relaxed battle with fate - no matt —Reads—Score—Shelves
  41. Vengeful Spirit in the Mirror 镜中厉魂 Dreaming Hermit凡梦散人Mystery176k WordsCompleted At Dongchuan Girls' High School, one seat is always left empty. Every spring, whoever sits there “mysteriously disappears.” Qin Yan thought it was just a rumor passed around by students, until she happened to take that seat and saw a “smile” in the mirror that wasn't her own. A forgotten girl's soul lies sealed in the mirror. She died on a night when the cherry blossoms were in bloom, and she is still waiting for someone to take her place and finish that class. A curse in the mirror, a rift —Reads—Score—Shelves
  42. Tales of Strange Village Affairs 2 村野诡事录2 Dreaming Hermit凡梦散人Mystery246k WordsCompleted Force open the hidden door of a timeworn old house and step into a bewildering rural mystery. This short story collection gathers strange and uncanny tales from the folk tradition. It faithfully recreates bizarre records buried by time, tearing away the disguise of everyday life to reveal extraordinary stories of human hearts entangled with spirits and monsters. Each tale is like a deep pool reflecting the moon, mirroring secrets hidden in the corners of villages and too sensitive to speak of. T —Reads—Score—Shelves
  43. Is Surrendering the Only Way for Liangshan to Survive? 招安是梁山唯一活路？ Dreaming Hermit凡梦散人Historical182k WordsOngoing Why is Liangshan, despite its immense wealth, actually living off its reserves? Why must Song Jiang, famed for his generosity, sideline Chao Gai? When accepting imperial amnesty becomes the consensus among most of the heroes, how does Song Jiang turn that demand into personal authority? Why is the campaign against Fang La a clever plot by the imperial court, and an act of self-purging by Liangshan? From the mystery of the enormous fortune stolen in the Birthday Gifts case to the power struggles —Reads—Score—Shelves
  44. The Evil Water Ghost 恶水鬼 Dreaming Hermit凡梦散人Mystery145k WordsOngoing To earn our tuition, we jumped into the wild pond in the village’s forbidden grounds. When a waterweed-wrapped corpse turned over, I met its hollow gaze. My companions died one after another, while my skin began to rot like a corpse. A frigid, rasping breath always clung to my back. It turned out that water ghosts who died violent deaths mark anyone who meets their eyes, and I was becoming the next one. —Reads—Score—Shelves
  45. Who Says a Butcher Can't Slay Ghosts? 谁说屠夫不能斩鬼？ Dreaming Hermit凡梦散人Mystery137k WordsCompleted On an ordinary day after closing up shop, butcher Zhang Dadan ventures into a mass graveyard at dusk to celebrate his son's birthday. Eager to get home, he is ensnared by a scale weight he cannot retrieve from the water, and a cold ghostly hand leaves a purplish mark on him. This is not the end, but the beginning of a nightmare. The mark refuses to fade, whispers never cease, and the water ghost's shadow quietly falls over his once peaceful home. To protect his family, Zhang Dadan has no choice —Reads—Score—Shelves
  46. The Strange Boar in the Deep Mountains 深山异豕 Dreaming Hermit凡梦散人Mystery186k WordsOngoing To fulfill his father’s lifelong obsession, atheist Chen Xi persuades his childhood friend Zhou Lei, who knows folk customs, to drive an off-road vehicle into the remote mountains of western Jiangxi. After their navigation system fails, an invisible force draws them onward. Human-shaped shadows flicker through the trees, fresh tire tracks appear on an abandoned mountain road, and the tires pick up strange black-and-red muddy marks. At last, an ancient village huddled in the shadow of the mountai —Reads—Score—Shelves
  47. The Great Song's King of Football 大宋球王 Dreaming Hermit凡梦散人Historical139k WordsOngoing My new story is here! You’re welcome to read it on Tomato Novel. I hope you’ll enjoy it. Your support is what keeps me writing, and I’ll do my best to tell every story well! —Reads—Score—Shelves
  48. Haunted by the Ghost Mirror 鬼镜缠身 Dreaming Hermit凡梦散人Mystery117k WordsCompleted On the first day after we moved into our new home, my mother-in-law proudly told me that she’d gotten the impressive rosewood full-length mirror in the bedroom for free. But ever since it arrived, I’ve kept seeing an old house with damp, whitewashed walls in the mirror. In the middle of the night, a woman in a tattered dark red coat appears, holding a child and giving me a bitter, chilling smile. Then a village medium explained: “Her name is Song Qiumei. Ten years ago, someone killed her and t —Reads—Score—Shelves
  49. I Turned the Entire High Tang Upside Down 我掀翻了整个盛唐 Dreaming Hermit凡梦散人Historical143k WordsCompleted A brand-new story is here! Come read my work on Tomato Novel. I hope you enjoy it. Your support is what keeps me writing, and I’ll do my best to tell every story well! —Reads—Score—Shelves
  50. A Hundred Tales of Strange Things from the Countryside 乡间怪谈百物语 Dreaming Hermit凡梦散人Mystery254k WordsOngoing Beneath a simple smile, there may be scheming; within a gentle country accent, there may be a knife. This is the most chilling truth of rural life. But the earth never forgets. Every secret debt and every open wound will one day be repaid, on an ordinary day, without any earth-shattering drama. Yet every cry of “Karma!” will ring loud and clear. Open this book and watch as life precisely collects the debts people owe one another. The deepest fear comes from the truth, and the most satisfying rel —Reads—Score—Shelves