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  1. 1 The Old Residential Compound: The Loop 老小区：循环 What Should I Have for a Late-Night Snack?夜宵吃啥啊6k WordsCompleted Old Residential Complex: Loop —Reads—Score—14d adds
  2. 2 The Eastern Wei Crown Prince's Tomb 东魏太子墓 Geothermal Park地热公园27k WordsCompleted The Eastern Wei Crown Prince’s Tomb —Reads—Score—14d adds
  3. 3 Old Apartment Complex: The Strange Dream 老小区：诡异梦境 What Should I Have for a Late-Night Snack?夜宵吃啥啊15k WordsCompleted The Old Residential Compound: Eerie Dreams —Reads—Score—14d adds
  4. 4 Terror in the Desolate Village 荒村惊魂 Tiger Leaping the Ravine跳涧虎Mystery1.0M WordsCompleted I entered a village inhabited entirely by women. I thought I’d found a man’s paradise, but after a series of bizarre events, I realized things weren’t so simple… 158Reads5.8Score—14d adds
  5. 5 The Strange Happenings of Shazao Village 沙枣村诡事 The Man with a Spear at His Side枕戈的人Mystery161k WordsOngoing Adili is assigned to take up residence in Shazao Village. Before him, seven village cadres had mysteriously met their ends in this remote Gobi settlement. His own uncle had “died in the line of duty” there, but the case file gave no more than a cursory mention of the cause of death, with no evidence to be found. At midnight, donkey hooves sound across the sand, pausing after every seven steps. A red-eyed evil donkey crouches before a grave and calls softly: “Climb on. I’ll take you to find your —Reads—Score—14d adds
  6. 6 Infinite Flow: Surviving the Game by Eating Fetal Dumplings 无限流：从吃胎婴饺开始求生游戏 Zhang Yu章余Two Male Leads110k WordsOngoing [Two male leads + horror + hilarious comedy + mind-bending puzzles + lots of sweetness] My name is Jiang Yunyin, and I'm an apprentice mortician. I never thought I'd die one day by “freezing to death in a bathroom.” After I died, I came to the Horror World. To be reborn, I began taking on the horror trials the System told me about. It was supposed to be just a survival game, but it was far more difficult than I imagined. A maternal and child health hospital where women's wails and babies' cries 2Reads—Score—14d adds
  7. 7 Hell Hospital 地狱医院 Xuan'er璇儿Mystery258k WordsCompleted The mysterious hospital is running again. Eighteen floors underground, each one a separate hell. After a major accident that no one knows about, all research at the secret experimental base, Yunzhong Hospital, was halted. The place was abandoned for years... This evening, Xiao Mo takes an empty cable car up a mist-shrouded mountain. The cable car station suddenly loses power, leaving him stranded on the mountain for the night. The only place to go is the strange, brightly colored building ahead, 158Reads7.9Score—14d adds
  8. 8 The Uncanny Path: Invasion of the Aliens 诡道：异形入侵 Sato Kishi Loves Tea-Scented Tofu爱吃茶香豆腐的佐藤岸Mystery156k WordsOngoing Aliens + ghosts + demons + parasites + lurking horrors. Maximum terror! The protagonist comes down from the mountain to investigate aliens and ghosts, honing his Daoist arts in real combat. Chapters 1–12 focus on aliens. From Chapter 13 onward, the story combines evil ghosts and aliens. Later, certain aliens will transform into demons, but the sense of oppression and the level of danger will stay just as high. The sect is the Hidden Immortal Sect, founded by Laozi’s disciple. Its history can be 1Reads—Score—14d adds
  9. 9 Horror and Terror 恐怖，惊悚 Treading on the Princess's Snow踩着公主的白雪Mystery1.0M WordsCompleted A classmate by the bed calls out softly. A cat's cries echo through the woods. Shadows flicker at the edge of the street. A piercing scream comes from inside the restroom. Are all the things you see and hear real? And are they all human? 696Reads—Score—14d adds
  10. 10 Driver of the Underworld 幽冥司机 Three Stones' Ambition三石志Mystery1.7M WordsCompleted Bus Route 206 is hiring a night-shift driver. Liu Hao eagerly applies, only to discover that the job not only pays well but also has short hours. It’s only after he signs the contract that he realizes there’s something wrong with the bus… Strange passengers and eerie lost property leave Liu Hao wondering if he’s driving the last bus of the underworld! 395Reads6.3Score—14d adds
  11. 11 Midnight Stories 深夜故事 Mu Dong木东Mystery374k WordsCompleted “Zzz... It's midnight. Welcome to our late-night story program. I'm your host, Qin Yong.” Qin Yong was a recent college graduate. Since he had studied fine arts, he found a job at a radio station after graduation. Every night, he told a horror story, all of them provided by a stranger on WeChat using the account name “Midnight Caller.” At first, they were just stories. But as time went on, Qin Yong found that they were becoming increasingly real, and increasingly connected to his own life... 523Reads—Score10014d adds
  12. 12 I'm Broke, Why Should I Be Afraid of Ghosts? 我穷鬼，岂会怕鬼？ Ten-Year Veteran Woman Driver十年女司机Urban150k WordsOngoing [Goofy] [Funny] [Irreverent] [Mystery] [Supernatural] [Hop in] [No System] [A fish that slipped through nine years of compulsory education] Wang Ling landed a job paying 18,000 yuan a month as a security guard at a private hospital. On his first day, he was left completely stunned! Each floor of the hospital's inpatient wing had a special passage enshrining one of the underworld's yin deities. The morgue even had butcher's knives inexplicably lying around. Wang Ling put up with all of that. Then 3Reads—Score—14d adds
  13. 13 Tomb of the Living 活人墓 I Am Buddha我本佛Mystery1.3M WordsCompleted The village needed a new road, so they had no choice but to demolish a grave. After that, one strange thing after another began happening in the village... 52Reads8.6Score—14d adds
  14. 14 The Strange Case Files 诡局录 The Open Door打开的门Mystery133k WordsOngoing [No System + No Cultivation + No Foolish Protagonist + Traditional Supernatural Horror + Mystery and Suspense] My name is Shang Tian, and I’m a man cursed by an evil spirit. It was a lottery ticket that should never have existed. Its dark, yellow-black background looked soaked in old blood and night; the glaring red lettering wasn’t a set of lucky numbers, but an invitation to hell. When I scratched it off, overjoyed and thinking I’d found a lifeline to a hundred-thousand-yuan jackpot, my finge 8Reads—Score—14d adds
  15. 15 Ghostly Tales from Fengdu 丰都鬼事 Patriarch Xuan Yi玄一老祖Mystery441k WordsOngoing In her previous life, young artist Lin Wan set out alone for the fabled ghost city of Fengdu to search for her missing older sister, Lin Zhixia. Naively, she trusted the seemingly kind innkeeper and local gentry, unaware that she had stepped into a carefully laid trap. Coveted for her yin constitution, she was ultimately sacrificed in an old mansion behind Fengdu's famous mountain by the so-called “good Samaritans” to a traitor in the underworld who had disguised himself as Black Impermanence. H 4Reads—Score—14d adds
  16. 16 Afterlife Notes Bonus Story: Rouge Well 还魂笔记番外篇：胭脂井 The Monk Who Rings the Bell at Dawn黎明敲钟的佛僧12k WordsCompleted Afterlife Notes: Bonus Story: The Rouge Well —Reads—Score—14d adds
  17. 17 Bureau 749: A Yin Messenger on the Road to the Underworld 749局：黄泉走阴人 Patriarch Xuan Yi玄一老祖Mystery713k WordsCompleted There is an organization that exists only in the darkness: Bureau 749. Founded in 1974, with no records and no official status, it is made up of scientists and people with supernatural abilities. It handles the dirtiest, most sinister, most forbidden affairs in the human world. Ghost soldiers march through the night, leaving nothing but empty skins in an entire village. The White God of Wealth kills anyone who worships him, taking their souls to feed evil. An ancient Buddha opens its mouth to de 5Reads—Score—14d adds
  18. 18 Reincarnation Notes: An Extra Story, The Painted-Skin Debt 还魂笔记番外篇：画皮债 The Monk Who Rings the Bell at Dawn黎明敲钟的佛僧6k WordsCompleted The Reincarnation Notebook: Extra Story: The Painted Skin Debt —Reads—Score—14d adds
  19. 19 You Want Me to Catch Ghosts? 你让我去抓鬼？ Xiao Luo肖罗Mystery304k WordsOngoing My name is Lin Fan. I'm twenty-two, and I graduated with a college diploma in marketing. While other graduates had job offers in hand and were charging ahead, I graduated straight into a pit of misery. I was two months behind on rent, my pockets were emptier than my face was clean, and my only possession was a beat-up electric scooter that clanked at the slightest touch and looked ready to fall apart at any moment. Five yuan per delivery. I raced around in the wind and sun, but I couldn't plug t 37Reads—Score114d adds
  20. 20 Horror Stories 恐怖随笔 Cold Rain, Calm Sea冷雨静海Mystery209k WordsCompleted A newly arrived, laid-back demobilized soldier; a beautiful makeup artist who keeps to herself, cool on the outside but warm inside; a group of colleagues at a funeral home, each with their own agenda; and a twisted, eerie spirit in the crematorium. As singing echoes through the midnight air, the curtain rises on death. They struggle to uncover the truth on the very edge of terror and death... 2.3kReads8.9Score21514d adds
  21. 21 Afterlife Notes Bonus Story: Secrets of the Haunted House 还魂笔记番外篇：凶宅秘录 The Monk Who Rings the Bell at Dawn黎明敲钟的佛僧8k WordsCompleted Afterlife Notes: Bonus Story: The Haunted House’s Secret Records —Reads—Score—14d adds
  22. 22 The Ghost Banquet 鬼禁食 Xuan Xiaozang玄小奘Mystery917k WordsCompleted A glutton's feast: can it really eat anything at all? Open wide, and nothing is off-limits? When you're indulging in wild game, have you ever felt a hint of murderous intent behind you... 29Reads—Score—14d adds
  23. 23 Afterlife Notes: Blood Silkworms Raised on Babies 还魂笔记之血蚕饲婴 The Monk Who Rings the Bell at Dawn黎明敲钟的佛僧6k WordsCompleted The Soul-Returning Notes: Blood Silkworms Feeding a Baby —Reads—Score—14d adds
  24. 24 Afterlife Notes Bonus Story: The Hundred Ghosts' Night Parade 还魂笔记番外篇：百鬼夜行 The Monk Who Rings the Bell at Dawn黎明敲钟的佛僧10k WordsCompleted The Soul-Returning Notes: A Hundred Ghosts Roaming by Night —Reads—Score—14d adds
  25. 25 Afterlife Notes: The Eyeless Locust Tree Maiden Bonus Story: Blood Silkworm Thread 还魂笔记之无眼槐娘番外：血蚕丝 The Monk Who Rings the Bell at Dawn黎明敲钟的佛僧7k WordsCompleted Afterlife Notes: The Eyeless Locust Tree Maiden Bonus Story: Blood Cocoon Silk 5Reads—Score—14d adds
  26. 26 Afterlife Notes Bonus Story: The Corpse Stitcher 还魂笔记番外篇：缝尸匠 The Monk Who Rings the Bell at Dawn黎明敲钟的佛僧9k WordsCompleted Afterlife Notes: Bonus Story: The Corpse Stitcher 1Reads—Score—14d adds
  27. 27 The Feng Shui King of the Underworld 江湖风水之王 Half a Button半颗纽扣Mystery658k WordsCompleted On the day I was born, ten thousand demons emerged from the mountains, a hundred ghosts clawed their way out of their graves, and an immortal corpse guarded the way. My master, Daoist Jingxian, took me from a tomb and raised me for twenty years, only to fall under a curse and die a horrible death, skinned alive. Knowing he was going to die, my master left me a letter. First, he warned me not to seek out the killer. Then he urged me to stay away from the world. But I chose a third path, resolute 125Reads7.1Score—14d adds
  28. 28 Notes on Returning Souls: The Eyeless Huai Tree Maiden 还魂笔记之无眼槐娘 The Monk Who Rings the Bell at Dawn黎明敲钟的佛僧Mystery205k WordsCompleted The plum rains have swollen every brick in Green Tile Alley. When Lin Yan grips her grandmother’s death notice and opens the door to the old house, the sixty-year-old locust tree in the courtyard seems to be watching her through its cracked bark. The year her great-great-grandmother planted it, three children went missing from the alley. During all the years her grandmother kept watch over it, she would bury bloodstained silver locks beneath its roots in the dead of night. The last page of her g 3Reads—Score—14d adds
  29. 29 Walking Marriage 走婚 Kang Jiu康九Mystery1.9M WordsCompleted A friend took me out to clear my head, and we ended up in a village. Not only was the whole village full of women, it even had a custom called “walking marriages”… 115Reads7.8Score—14d adds
  30. 30 Grandpa Started the Trouble, Three Generations Must Pay 爷爷闯下的祸，三代来还 The Rainy-Night Postman雨夜邮递员9k WordsCompleted The trouble Grandpa caused will take three generations to repay. 3Reads—Score—14d adds
  31. 31 Ancestor Worship in Lingnan: Great-Grandpa, Great-Grandma, We've Come to Visit You 岭南拜山祭祖：太公太婆我们来看你们了 The 300-Million-Rich Lady Is Here 4133亿富婆来了41331k WordsCompleted Ancestor Worship in Lingnan: Great-Grandpa, Great-Grandma, We’ve Come to Visit You 1Reads—Score—14d adds
  32. 32 The Eerie Realm: It Starts with an Elevator 诡界：从电梯开始 Xie Chazi屑茶子Mystery79k WordsOngoing [No System]+ [No Heroine]+ [Dungeon Progression]+ [No Saintly Protagonist]+ [Eerie]+ [Original Dungeons] Have you ever wondered? Beneath the neon lights and atmosphere of this city, things lurk that defy all reason. They were chosen by the Eerie [Elevator] and marked by a terrifying curse. Again and again, they must take part in death games, until death claims them. 54Reads—Score—14d adds
  33. 33 A Horror Story Lives Next Door 你的隔壁住着恐怖故事 Zhou Dedong周德东Mystery130k WordsCompleted Have you ever noticed how horror lurks everywhere in your everyday life? Listen. Listen closely... Where does horror come from? Nothing is scarier than reality. The unknown parts of our real lives, and the anxieties and desires we feel about them, are the greatest sources of horror. 11.6kReads9.4Score1.8k14d adds
  34. 34 Midnight Terror: Tales of the Supernatural 午夜惊魂：民间鬼事录 Feng Heng, Who Loves Ginger and Jujube Winter Tea爱吃姜枣暖冬茶的凤横Mystery564k WordsOngoing [Folk Taboos + Rural Ghost Stories + Episodic Tales + Chilling on Second Thought] The village elders say that some things are better believed than dismissed. Liu Er, a bachelor, picked up a red wedding dress. That very night, he heard the sound of a suona, and a faceless bride knocked on his door and said, “Liu Er, I’ve come to marry you.” Before a dead person is buried, the guiding candle at the head of the coffin must never go out. Old Liu Guang died, the candle went out, and a crack appeared 4kReads—Score16814d adds
  35. 35 From the Start, I Received a Letter from a Dead Man 开局收到一封死人来信 Muggle on the Run from the Magic Academy魔法学院在逃麻瓜Mystery212k WordsCompleted No romance, no harem, no cultivation The year he graduated from university, Ji Yao received a letter from his grandmother, who had been dead for six years. Five kinds of insurance and a housing fund, twenty thousand a month, and just six hours of work a day. Could there really be a job like that? What he didn’t expect was that, after the letter arrived, one misfortune after another would befall him… A train hijacked by ghosts, an old woman made of candle wax crawling out of a flame, a bizarre 7Reads—Score—14d adds
  36. 36 The Temple That Eats People 吃人的庙 The Rainy-Night Postman雨夜邮递员16k WordsCompleted The Man-Eating Temple 1Reads—Score—14d adds
  37. 37 After My Shadow Disappeared, the Evil Thoughts in the Mirror Forced Me to Deliver Takeout to the Underworld 影子消失后，镜子里的恶念逼我给地府送外卖 The 300-Million-Rich Lady Is Here 4133亿富婆来了41315k WordsCompleted After My Shadow Vanished, the Evil Thoughts in the Mirror Forced Me to Deliver Takeout to the Underworld 1Reads—Score—14d adds
  38. 38 The School of Terror 恐怖艺校 Sweet and Sour Cauliflower糖醋菜花Mystery272k WordsCompleted Also known as "The Horror Art School: I Fell in Love with a Taoist Priest" [Supernatural + Romance + Transmigration + Wild Imagination] During those three years at school, many strange and terrifying things happened. At midnight, a sinister atmosphere would descend over the school... The year Ye Xue'er attended art school, she fell in love with him at first sight and decided to follow him, staying by his side as they worked together to spread the art of Taoism far and wide... 4Reads—Score—14d adds
  39. 39 One Chilling Story Every Night 每晚一个惊魂故事 Feng Heng, Who Loves Ginger and Jujube Winter Tea爱吃姜枣暖冬茶的凤横Mystery732k WordsOngoing [One story per chapter] [Chinese-style horror] [Folk tales] [Urban vengeful spirits] [Haunted houses] [No main plot] Collected and adapted fictional tales of terror from all over, one story per chapter, each one different. No grand lectures, just bone-chilling tales rooted in everyday life. All adapted from strange folk tales passed down for years. They sound true, and the more you think about them, the more unsettling they get. Great for unwinding, but don't try to “unwind” alone in the dead of 1.1kReads—Score10314d adds
  40. 40 Tales of the Strange 怪谈 Chao An晁安Mystery480k WordsCompleted [A Born Ghost-Busting Saint vs. A Bewitching Beauty Bound by a Sinister Fate] [Case-by-Case Stories + Criminal Investigation + Folk Legends + Ghost Hunting + An Overarching Plot + Horror + Two Powerful Leads + Fighting Side by Side] "Corpses become curses, souls become gu; strange cases arise, and every road is hard to tread." Zhang Miao was short of water in his five elements, and before he was even born, he was given a "water ghost" as his godmother. As a result, he awakened a special constit 1.9kReads8.5Score12014d adds
  41. 41 Something Wicked Lurks Behind Me 背后有诡 Bai Shuyu白舒雨Mystery284k WordsCompleted A game I played because I couldn’t sleep late at night somehow led me to experience paranormal events. Were these incidents one by one the work of people, or something supernatural? From then on, the paranormal seemed bound to me. Wherever I went, strange events followed. Survive. 139Reads—Score—14d adds
  42. 42 The Black Dog of Misty Mountain 雾山黑犬 Passing Through October路过十月13k WordsCompleted Black Dog of Mist Mountain 11Reads—Score—14d adds
  43. 43 Twelve Ghosts 十二鬼魂 Passing Through October路过十月34k WordsCompleted Twelve Ghosts 17Reads—Score214d adds
  44. 44 Notes on Strange Folk Tales 民间诡事札记 Ein Shutan爱因舒坦Mystery402k WordsCompleted The countryside hides the strangest legends and lays bare the truest depths of the human heart. A single red embroidered shoe beneath an old pagoda tree holds a grievance and a hatred left unspoken. A strange peddler knocking at the door in the dead of night carries no ordinary goods in his pack, only old stories frosted over with time. A bronze mirror rising from an ancient well can reflect ghosts, but not the depths of the human heart... These curious tales scattered across bustling streets an 67Reads—Score—14d adds
  45. 45 I Entered a Horror Story 我进入了恐怖故事 Dragon-Slaying Girl屠龙少女Mystery2.1M WordsCompleted When Shen Yu opens his eyes, a villa shrouded in darkness comes into view. This is where the game begins. When staying up late becomes forbidden, going to the bathroom alone brings misfortune, and your roommate turns into a monster, the unknown conditions for death have yet to be unlocked. What will you choose? 431Reads6.6Score10614d adds
  46. 46 The Bizarre Paintings of Bianjing: Corpses Hidden in Ink 汴京诡画录：墨色藏尸 Eighth Master of Dou City斗城八爷30k WordsCompleted Records of Strange Paintings in Bianjing: A Corpse Hidden in Ink —Reads—Score—14d adds
  47. 47 As a God, I Expose Every Mystery in the World 身为神的我揭露世间一切神秘 It's Lanying, You Know是岚鹰捏Mystery314k WordsOngoing (Mysterious creatures + livestreaming + episodic stories + gore + mild horror) Above countless universes lies the boundless Realm of Void. They say only beings that have broken through the limits of the universe are qualified to enter. Ye Qingchi served as a divine official, maintaining the Realm of Void for 97.14 million years. But disaster struck without warning, and she was wanted by the new city lord. Outmatched, she had no choice but to flee with her best friend Mu Tianrou to a remote unive —Reads7.2Score—14d adds
  48. 48 Spirit Village 灵村 Gan Zhen甘臻Mystery502k WordsCompleted Thrills and the supernatural! There's an ancient village called Lingzhuang, also known as Bagua Village. I was born there. Lingzhuang is always shrouded in an atmosphere of terror: Enormous pythons, centipedes, black spiders, strange birds, and ferocious beasts roam about, attacking people... Lingzhuang is also rife with strange tales and bizarre happenings: A female ghost haunts the village; a cave in Longmian Mountain holds an arsenal from the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom; a mysterious master live 69Reads—Score—14d adds
  49. 49 The Water-Taming Beast 镇水兽 Pi Huang皮簧Mystery1.4M WordsCompleted They say a fish couldn't possibly survive for seventy years, yet this one has been wreaking havoc for just as long! What lies beneath the waters of the Mian River, so shocking that it has dragged so many people down to their deaths? The surface of the rivers you see may seem calm, but you might not know that in those terrifying, eerie depths, a water guardian beast could be lurking, striking at lives as fragile as moths before they even know it's there, like a demon on the hunt... 701Reads8.8Score10214d adds
  50. 50 365 Nights of Corpse Tales from the Gorge 峡江尸话365夜 Fished for Nothing钓了个寂寞Mystery747k WordsCompleted The poorer and more desolate the land, the stranger the tales; deep in the gorges along the river, there are stories of the supernatural. My hometown lies in the mountains of the middle reaches of the Yangtze River, in an area where several ethnic minorities live together. Before Liberation, it was a backward wilderness beyond the reach of government control. Over the long course of history, many baffling things happened here. After I was born, I heard plenty of chilling tales of strange happeni 120Reads8.0Score—14d adds

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