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- 51 You Think College Makes Life Easy? 上了大学就轻松了？ Infinite-loop horror + slow burn + no golden finger + challenges + rule-based horror + the supernatural + instances + conflict An ordinary school suddenly turns into a “meat grinder”! All kinds of deadly rules: ignore the “teachers,” don't run, follow the schedule to the letter... All kinds of bizarre instances, movie scenes, teamwork, and going it alone... Ten universities compete online. Staying alive is the only hope! When you graduate from your senior year of high school and take the college 3Reads—Score—14d adds
- 52 How Terrifying! I Founded the Secret Mystery Society 惊悚，我打造了密诡协会 [Horror + power fantasy + secret identities + a director who bluffs his way through] Eerie plants and mutated animals Strange domains appear across the land The world is transformed beyond recognition Ye Mo, an ordinary university student who loves writing worldbuilding guides, accidentally discovers that the strange phenomena come from the mysterious worldbuilding guide he wrote. Panic and fear linger in his heart. At the same time, a secret identity System finds him and merges with that worldb 15Reads6.4Score—14d adds
- 53 Rule Horror: The Infinite Loop's Haunted Campus, Don't Trust Any Rule 规则怪谈：无限流诡异校园，别相信任何一条规则 Rule Horror: An Infinite-Flow, Supernatural School. Don't Trust a Single Rule 1Reads—Score—14d adds
- 54 Doomsday Mechanic! 末日机械师！ [Apocalypse + Sequence-Based Superpowers + Upgrades and Modifications + No Goody-Two-Shoes + Multiple Heroines!] The apocalypse has just arrived! With a cool head, Wang Lin stockpiles supplies and drives onto the highway to get away from the city ahead of everyone else. But he still ends up as one of the sheep herded into a pen! Endless roads stretch through the world, past mountains, snowy peaks, deserts, tsunamis, and monsters, all under brutal conditions for survival. Sequence Awakeners emerg 22.7kReads5.4Score1.8k14d adds
- 55 Lord of the Deathly Slumber 死眠之主 In a world besieged by monsters, humans take spirit medicines and step into the supernatural; heretics lie hidden among ordinary folk, while Outer Gods gaze upon the mortal realm and their whispers never cease. Potions, psychics, alchemy, astrological prophecies, church hunters, the occult… But none of that has anything to do with me. Because when I woke up, cultists were turning me into a puppet! In a cauldron full of potions, there was not only me, bound hand and foot, but also a bone… [The st 506Reads6.9Score10214d adds
- 56 Horror Survival: It Begins When I Move Into a Hotel for the Dead 恐怖求生：从住进死人旅馆开始 My inn caters to the dead! Want a room as a living person? That depends on whether your life is tough enough! I don't want money. I want haunted objects, and the more vicious, the better! And no matter what kind of deity you are, take my advice: don't go near Room 207! Otherwise... you'll have to deal with the consequences! 50Reads6.7Score—14d adds
- 57 Night Watchman: Tales from the Underworld 打更人之走阴夜话 People bear five poisons and seven emotions, eight sufferings and nine calamities. Good and evil, life and death, cause and effect, the cycle of reincarnation. Ghosts become human, humans turn into demons, and nothing ever ends. When day and night blur and humans mingle with ghosts, night watchmen walk the world. A Soul-Calming Hammer and a Spirit-Soothing Gong suppress wicked thoughts and demons, and lay good-hearted souls to rest. Their ceaseless passage through the world bears witness to the 462Reads8.2Score—14d adds
- 58 Death Train 死亡列车 Alice, Iron Tyrannosaurus, the Living Dead, Bloodcurdling Terror... A black train rolls through the wreckage! It carries passengers, lucky or unlucky, into one blood-soaked world after another. 64Reads8.0Score—14d adds
- 59 Visitor from Hell 狱下来客 A modern supernatural mystery. Not wish fulfillment, not brainless, and no System. In this life, you pass countless people on the street. What makes you so sure they're all human? I never believed in this stuff either, until my landlord tricked me into moving to a place called Happy Community. The people around me didn't seem to be people at all. Footprints on the ceiling, dolls made of human skin, bloated drowned giants, people raising zombies, mother-and-child ghosts... Just how many secrets l 596Reads8.0Score10014d adds
- 60 Surviving in a Strange World, I Became a Pawnshop Owner 诡异世界求生，我成了典当铺老板 [Rules-Based Horror + Lovecraftian Horror + Business-Building + Progression System] When you gaze into the abyss, the abyss gazes back at you. You there, get in here! I’m an internet-addicted teenager. I was planning to stay up all night and finish a horror novel when I was unexpectedly dragged into a bizarre survival world. There was a mysterious pawnshop, an abacus that could talk, and on my very first deal, I got swindled by a Level One supernatural item: the Ghost Bride... 53Reads—Score—14d adds
- 61 Strange Feng Shui Affairs 风水异事 My grandfather is a feng shui master. While he was away, a woman came looking for him. After I greeted her, I saw purple-black veins of blood on her face, writhing on their own… 1.7kReads8.8Score52014d adds
- 62 The Eerie Sanatorium [Infinite-Flow Dungeon] 诡噩疗养院【无限流副本】 [High Risk + No System + Desperate Survival + Mystery and Puzzles + Hell Difficulty] [Fast-paced, entering the instance in Chapter 2] [Skyscraper + School + Village + Hotel + Bus + Temple + Island + Skyscraper] In the city stands a sanatorium called “Laifu,” home to a group of patients suffering from terminal illnesses. “Ghostly horrors, ghostly horrors.” “‘Ghostly’ means ever-changing schemes; ‘horrors’ means supernatural powers. The only thing capable of restraining ghosts is a set of insignif —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 63 Supernatural Horror: Someone Behind the Wall Is Calling My Name 惊悚灵异：墙里有人叫我的名字 Horror and the Supernatural: Someone in the Wall Is Calling My Name 3Reads—Score—14d adds
- 64 Eerie: After Completing the Puzzle, I Somehow Ended Myself 诡异：凑完拼图莫名把自己终结了 [Mystery + Eerie + Deduction + Infinite Flow + Ensemble Cast + Flawless Logic] Have you ever felt despair? Lu Bai wakes up in a dim room, where a mysterious force orders him and several other poor souls to go on missions in one strange place after another. Complete a mission and live. Fail, and die. Black Dragon Pool, the old elm tree, the ancient well at the village entrance, the strange funeral home. After Lu Bai and his companions rack their brains, endure countless hardships, and narrowly es 142Reads8.2Score—14d adds
- 65 The Corpse Carrier 背尸匠 My name is Fang Youde, and I was born in 1990. I enlisted in 2009. After two years of mandatory service, I volunteered to stay in the army for another three years. During that time, I received two third-class merits and one second-class merit, so I had quite a record of service. In 2014, for some reason, I left the military. Under the regulations on resettling discharged soldiers, the local government assigned me a job at a funeral home. That was where my career as a corpse carrier began. Corpse 8.4kReads8.3Score46614d adds
- 66 I’m an Actor in Horror Movies 我在恐怖电影中做演员 A bizarre horror movie poster transports Wang Yan into the world of the film. Playing a bit-part character who could die at any moment, he struggles to survive in a terrifying movie that feels all too real. By making clever use of the rules, he eventually sets out on the path to becoming an award-winning actor. (Horror infinite survival + suspense + serious tone + characters with brains + possible romance. There is no System, to be clear, no System!) 17Reads6.9Score—14d adds
- 67 Thriller Game: The Paper Dolls I Make Can Slay Gods 惊悚游戏：我扎的纸人可斩神 [Supernatural Revival + Infinite Flow + A Somewhat Mind-Bending Plot] Supernatural phenomena returned, and plants and animals underwent massive evolution. To train a new generation of superpowered individuals, people in the future created countless horror-game instances, hoping players would awaken their powers between life and death and save the world of the future. Ye Qianfan entered the world of horror after choosing to take revenge. He never expected to awaken a superpower in the game, or 172Reads8.5Score—14d adds
- 68 Terrifying Folklore: It Begins with the Weasel Spirit 恐怖民俗：从黄皮子开始 The day I was born, I bore the burden of the Five Ghosts, and my soul was bound. I was destined to die, but my grandfather used an evil folk ritual to borrow a life for me. When I was twelve, weasels surrounded the village. They told me the life I'd borrowed had to be repaid... 102Reads9.0Score—14d adds
- 69 Ghost Stories at Three in the Morning 三更讲鬼 This book recounts some strange events from the 1980s. One place holds far more than a hundred stories. Perhaps it would be more fitting for me to be a bystander, or a listener. I have written down the stories I heard to remember the past. You can simply take the people and events in these pages as a joke, if you like. Or you can read them as stories that invite self-reflection. Who knows... the characters in them might bear a resemblance to you. Or perhaps they reflect someone close to you. Wit 156Reads8.4Score—14d adds
- 70 Surviving in a Haunted Mountain Village 在恐怖山村里活下去 Gu Xi enters a real-game scenario called “Horror Mountain Village,” where she's cast as a young bride sold into a remote mountain village to bring good luck to her sick husband. In just a few days in the village, the System's missions have her beating up her brother-in-law, smashing a family heirloom, and even catching her husband in bed with her maid... She's managed to offend every member of the family. She thought this was the limit of reckless behavior, but the missions that follow only get 699Reads8.2Score10114d adds
- 71 The Mystic Game 玄门游戏 Beneath the azure sky, the Gate of the Mysteries stands tall. Twelve enormous, wondrous gates randomly select humans to take part in the gods’ games. Are we playing the game, or are we being played? Why is all of this happening? Is it the gods’ entertainment? Or their salvation? Will these games of the gods lead to evolution or extinction? How will a mentally unstable protagonist use his extraordinary intelligence and terrifying abilities to outwit his opponents in the games? 5Reads—Score—14d adds
- 72 Don’t Call My Name at Midnight 半夜不要喊我名字 Believe it or not, this is a true story. She is Yang Xiaofan, dumped by a man who had been using her for her money, then left with nothing. With almost no savings left, she had no choice but to move into a deserted house. The mysterious landlord disappeared without a trace after his first appearance. After midnight, terrifying knocks and calls to summon spirits put her life in danger. A black cat that comes and goes appears at strange moments, then vanishes without a trace. Again and again, I wa 1.2kReads8.3Score—14d adds
- 73 I Volunteered to Join the Hell Cinema 我是自愿加入地狱影院的 Mystery Infinite Flow + a passionate, hilarious ensemble cast + a story about intangible cultural heritage in every script + a protagonist who dreams their way through the trials. Watch as five ordinary young men who don’t know one another write countless adventurous tales, full of laughter and tears, as they face one perilous folk-culture script after another~ 26Reads—Score—14d adds
- 74 Rule Horror: After Lights Out, Follow the Dormitory Rules 规则怪谈：熄灯后，请遵守宿舍守则 Rule Horror: After Lights Out, Please Follow the Dormitory Rules 34Reads—Score—14d adds
- 75 Thriller Game: I’ve Been Pulled into the Admin Group 惊悚游戏：我被拉进了管理群 [Infinite-flow + classic detective mysteries + play the pig to eat the tiger + suspense and the supernatural + high-level urban martial arts] Chen Mo inherited the escape room business his parents left behind, but business was terrible. Everything changed when he was selected as a beta tester and entered a horror game. This was a game that transcended dimensions. And within it lay the truth about humanity. Hospital No. 18, Strange Tales: Afterword, The Wax Museum... Determined to make his shop a 412Reads6.8Score10014d adds
- 76 EN Escape from the Eldritch Sea: Shipwright of the Apocalypse 诡海逃亡：我在末世当船匠 [Survival at sea] [Eerie] [Supernatural Sequences] [Shipbuilding] [Cthulhu] [No heroine] [Not invincible] The Eerie descend, and the land falls! Under the guidance of the supernatural Sequences, the surviving humans are forced to flee into a Sea of Death filled with endless whispers. Their only lifeline is a battered ship or a raft. During the escape, Qin Mao awakens the [Upgrade System]. By upgrading supplies and repairing ships for others, he gradually becomes a renowned master shipwright on t 3.7kReads6.1Score29514d adds
- 77 The Young Physician 少郎中 All things in this world have their causes and consequences. Good deeds bring blessings, while evil deeds breed sin. Children are too young to know better, so they cannot be the cause. When ill-fated bonds arise, it is usually because their parents have done wrong. We, the Young Doctors, are here to free these innocent children from their suffering… 381Reads8.8Score10114d adds
- 78 My Skills Come With a Few Too Many Side Effects 我的技能有亿点点后遗症 [Funny] [Irreverent] [Insane] [Ridiculous] [Spiritual Qi Revival] [System] [Urban Superpowers] Humans in this world awaken supernatural abilities and fight. Yun Shu awakened a broken healing ability. But he wasn’t worried: he had a skill-upgrade System. For some reason, though, the upgraded skills came with a few tiny side effects. An ordinary healing spell would make people release poison nonstop. The Mind-Clearing spell would make them reveal their innermost secrets. The Vitality-Boosting spel 780Reads8.9Score11214d adds
- 79 Nightmare Subway 噩梦地铁 (The rating has only just opened and will rise later.) [Infinite Flow + Survival + No Saintly Heroine] A driverless subway train carries a group of cursed passengers toward unknown, terrifying stations… A subway card is proof of survival, and a ticket to Hell. At each subway station, Jiang Fengye faces one terrifying instance after another, each a brush with death. The starving corpses in the basement; The crawling sounds in the abandoned tunnel; The skinning monster in the old castle; … "The 18.5kReads7.1Score2k14d adds
- 80 Supernatural Revival: Assembling the Ultimate Ghost 灵异复苏：拼凑最强鬼体 [Ruthless Protagonist + Supernatural Resurgence + No Female Lead + No System] A long night shrouds all life, while unknown vengeful ghosts roam the mortal world. Su Ye, reborn through supernatural power, relies on the ghost inside him to survive one terrifying incident after another. Simply staying alive is his greatest hope. In a silent room, he plays rock-paper-scissors with his reflection in the mirror. Who do you think wins? In a village deep in the wilderness, he searches for the sixth fing 185Reads—Score—14d adds
- 81 Daoist Bai Mei, Matchmaker of the Dead 白媒道长 Welcome to the works of Pangtou Yu! The author will do their best to bring you exciting stories. Thank you for your support and for sharing your criticism. Wishing all readers the best of luck. —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 82 I’m Going to Lure 100 Lost Souls 我要勾满100个亡魂 Sequel to I Guide Souls at Wangxiang Terrace Lin Jiaojiao, 24, an overworked office worker, suddenly dies on the Nth night in a row of staying up all night revising proposals. When she opens her eyes again, she has already completed every step of the underworld’s procedures. But just as she reaches Wangxiang Terrace, the guide Zhou Yi stops her. “Your attachment remains unresolved. You can’t be reincarnated.” Judge Li Muzi offers her a way forward: work as a soul reaper under him, and she can be 9.7kReads—Score3k14d adds
- 83 Death on Delivery 死亡外卖 Never try to save money when ordering takeout! After ordering a meal that wasn't clean, strange events keep happening, and his coworkers begin dying one by one. Some takeout costs you money. Some takeout costs you your life. My other completed novel, The Hell Company, is over a million words long. Come check it out, dear readers~~ 2.4kReads8.7Score22614d adds
- 84 The Corpse-Reading Detective 诡案读尸人 The Corpse-Reading Detective 3Reads—Score—14d adds
- 85 Supernatural: I Bring Home an Old Immortal in Inner Mongolia 灵异：我在内蒙领老仙儿 My name is Li Tianshu. I was originally called Li Chengcai. I was sickly from childhood and plagued by hardship. I was so familiar with the gates of death that even the King of Hell knew my face. My grandparents said I had been cursed just like my great-grandfather, and planned to abandon me in the mountains to be raised by wolves. It was my maternal grandfather who gave me back my humanity and renamed me Li Tianshu, hoping Heaven would forgive me and free me from the curse. From then on, my fat 322Reads8.6Score—14d adds
- 86 I'm an Administrator in a Horror Game 我在恐怖游戏当管理员 [No Romance] + [Horror Game] + [Unhinged] + [Comedy] A horror game unexpectedly descends upon the world. All the chosen players struggle to survive inside it, unaware that Yuan Tong became a game administrator long ago. Other players enter the game and cling to powerful allies. Yuan Tong scurries over and clings to them too, but when those allies die, she survives. Other players enter the game and pretend to be newbies. Yuan Tong quietly pretends to be one too, but even when all the newbies die, 102Reads8.2Score—14d adds
- 87 Secrets of the Mortuary 殓尸秘录 Chen Mo is the young heir to the Wangsheng Studio funeral home. He thought he would spend his life in quiet company with cold, lifeless bodies. Then he took charge of a strange corpse known as the “Bride in Red,” and everything began to spiral out of control. The body never decays, and its smile is as lovely as a flower. The bronze bell tied around its ankle rings silently in the dead of night. From then on, Chen Mo is swept into one whirlpool after another, woven from local ghost stories and ho 3Reads8.3Score—14d adds
- 88 Eternal Damnation 永世沉沦 When I was little, my family was very poor. My father made me a kite out of paper, but when it came down from the sky, it was covered in blood... After that, all kinds of strange, inexplicable troubles began to descend upon me. To deal with them, I traveled across the country and ventured into one forbidden zone after another, places where no one knew there was life. It took me years to understand that what is truly terrifying is the human heart. When raging desire intertwines with the ugliness 735Reads7.9Score10414d adds
- 89 The Terrifying School 极度恐怖校园 As the best university in the city, this school admits only outstanding students. But it also has many rules that are hard to understand: no studying after eight o’clock, and no leaving your dorm room after midnight. No matter who calls to you from the corridor, do not answer... The protagonists in this story are all independent, but their countless connections eventually bring them together. What secrets does this school hold? 293Reads—Score—14d adds
- 90 The Ninth Heavenly Eye 第九重瞳 [Thrilling Puzzles + Horror Mystery + Supernatural Legends + Urban Superpowers + Intelligent Leads] A thousand years ago, on a stormy night, Xu Fu led over a thousand people eastward across the sea for the second time in nine years, seeking the immortal isle of Penglai. Along the way, towering waves swamped their ships and put them in peril. No one knew what had ultimately become of them. Yet after Xu Fu sailed east, reports of commoners being plagued by ghosts and evil spirits fell sharply over 319Reads8.3Score10314d adds
- 91 A Horror Story Lives Next Door 你的隔壁住着恐怖故事 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
- 92 The Eerie Tooth 诡牙 I already had teeth when I was born. They could hold a pacifier and crush a steel blade. Even a thousand-year-old demoness would have to drop to her knees and beg for mercy if I bit down on her. 83Reads7.4Score—14d adds
- 93 Thriller Game: I Got a Sign-In Reward at a Haunted Hotel From the Start 惊悚游戏：开局签到恐怖旅馆 This is a supernatural game run by a supreme god. Every instance is a terrifying place... Here, you can do whatever you want. You can have anything... But... You need to be careful... Because... You could be snatched away by a ghost at any moment! 165Reads8.3Score—14d adds
- 94 The Yin Tattooist 纹阴师 Tattoos are said to be mysterious totems carried on one’s back. I’m a traditional tattoo artist. Over the years, strange things have happened while I tattooed my clients. The terrifying secrets weighing on my heart have kept me tossing and turning, unable to sleep. Now I’ll tell you, bit by bit, what I experienced firsthand. Some tattoo designs inked on the body might actually be living things that can move. 531Reads8.4Score—14d adds
- 95 Medium's Notes: My Left Eye Can See Ghosts 灵媒笔记：我的左眼能见鬼 The Cangye lineage of the Southern Frontier unleashes chaos. The Cherry Blossom Curse, Yin Soil summoning, Ruin Spirits, and malevolent earth veins emerge one after another, leaving the seals protecting the land on the brink of collapse. In a desperate battle, pure Yang Heavenly Energy collides with the turbid qi of Yin Soil inside him, forming a yin-yang vortex whose blessings and dangers are impossible to predict. His old enemies flee into the Hundred Thousand Mountains, seeking a chance to p 12Reads—Score—14d adds
- 96 Shh, Please Be Quiet 嘘，请噤声 [Infinite Flow + Suspense + Horror, Not a Wish-Fulfillment Story] Chen Heng was going to die. Suffering from brain cancer, he had only three months left to live. But just as he gave up on treatment, he was unexpectedly swept into the so-called [Gods' Game], a game that promised to grant anyone's wish. It was an endless slaughter, and each round of the game could have only one winner. Why am I called a [Contender] when this is clearly a [Game]? Whose game is this? And who is watching us from behi 505Reads8.4Score—14d adds
- 97 Starting with a Game, I Slaughter My Way Through Another World 从游戏开始，杀穿异世界 High-octane from the start! Games! Mind games! High martial arts! Plot-driven! Golden finger! Welcome to the world of the Spirit Realm. “Any wish can come true, as long as you can pay the price.” For some reason, Tang Yu gained the power to make his wishes come true. He never looked too closely into where his ability came from, but it had rules of its own: The bigger the wish, the greater the price. When he wished to win ten million in the lottery, the price was... the lives of his parents, his 4Reads6.5Score—14d adds
- 98 A Fated Yin Bond Must Not Be Betrayed 天命阴缘不可负 My dream man suddenly confessed his love for me. I thought a romantic love story was about to begin, but it turned out the scumbag only wanted to trade my life for his girlfriend’s. They sacrificed me to a disgusting Huang Xian, never realizing that I had already pledged myself to someone else. I, Shi Yuwei, am not someone just anyone can mess with. I don’t care what kind of monster or demon you are, or how high your status or how great your abilities may be. Anyone who dares bully me will pay a 5Reads—Score—14d adds
- 99 Rulebound Illusion Realm: I Have a Recycling Bin 规则幻域：我有一个回收箱 [Genius] [Mind-bending] [Plot twists] [No heroine] [Mystery] [Suspense] Mu Chuan unexpectedly obtains a magical box that he can never get rid of, no matter how hard he tries. By a twist of fate, he enters a rule-bound illusion domain and becomes an emissary who walks between the domain and reality. The illusion domains have the highest death rates, and there’s too little information? No problem. I have a recycling box. Give me something good, and I’ll trade you information. Skills are too rare, 117Reads8.2Score—14d adds
- 100 Rule Horror: Every Rule Is Waiting for Me to Break It 规则怪谈：所有规则都在等我违规 Rule Horror: Every Rule Is Waiting for Me to Break It 5Reads—Score—14d adds
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