Novels like Infinite: Starting with a Wrong Turn into a Rules-Horror Bar
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- 1 Zhong Xie's Third Book 种邪的第3本书 Shen Lang wakes up in a convenience store in the middle of the night… Only to realize it isn’t his dorm room! Thinking he must be dreaming, he lets himself go, and finally… successfully becomes the owner of a bizarre convenience store… —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 2 Dao Dao's First Book 导刀的第1本书 After a car accident, Wang Ping transmigrated to a parallel world and gained the ability to create horror games. So he created the first one: Rules Amusement Park. —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 3 I'm Not Jiu Lou's First Book 我不是九漏的第1本书 A strange and fantastical world, teeming with eerie tales... Du Ren, a freshman at a university on Blue Star, goes home for winter break. After encountering a strange hotel, he gradually grows stronger. Having witnessed the world's many dangers, will he choose to save others, or save himself? —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 4 Rule-Based Horror: I Am the Anomaly 规则类怪谈：吾即异常 The carnival born of strange tales has begun. How will two people who escaped from different tales face what comes next? Dreams intertwine, and a hunt unfolds on the mountaintop. Lu Xungui wields an “ordinary” pen and tears through the rules. Now, he is the anomaly! 6Reads—Score—Shelves
- 5 Rule Horror: What Do I Do When My Teammates Are Too Good at Slacking Off? 规则怪谈：队友太会摆烂了怎么办 [Infinite Flow + Thriller + Memes + Romance + Brain-Burning Mysteries + Gets Better as It Goes] On a night when the stars crossed paths, the gates to the world of mists swung open. Mo Xun became the tour guide on a ghost-story train, leading passengers on a sightseeing tour of hell. A blood-soaked school ruled by cruel regulations, a deadly banquet from which no one survives, a wish-granting machine that fulfills every desire... Survival became an impossibly distant hope. Gods and heroes, demons 2Reads6.6Score—Shelves
- 6 The Fear Game 恐惧游戏 [Infinite Flow + the Myriad Worlds + Urban Supernatural Powers] Psychologist Liu Tao is dragged into a series of bizarre game worlds, where he must complete the missions to make it back alive. A gloomy, eerie ancient tomb; a castle hiding werewolves, vampires, and witches; a terrifying city where everyone turns into a monster after nightfall. What’s even stranger is that he gradually discovers his own identity may not be as simple as he imagined... 21Reads7.0Score—Shelves
- 7 Horror Livestream: The Big Shot Goes Wild 恐怖直播之大佬她野翻了 [Strong heroine + Infinite Flow + high technology + livestreaming + lucky-charm feel-good story] After Lin Xi died, she accidentally ended up in a parallel world tens of millions of years in the future. A massive live-action survival game called Eden is all the rage there, and its participants are all people deemed harmful to society. A deadly hunt on an isolated island, a boarding school, a murderous hotel… Lin Xi survives one peril after another and becomes famous overnight, only to discover a 4Reads6.8Score—Shelves
- 8 Good-for-Nothing from the Start, I Evade Ghosts Unscathed, Leaving Everyone Stunned and Calling Me Big Sis 废柴开局无伤遛诡，全员震惊叫姐 [Uncanny apocalypse + strong female lead + no saintly do-gooder] When the supernatural descends, Yun Lanyue, dressed in a pile of rags, is dragged into the highest-difficulty hell-level instance, where she unexpectedly reunites with her younger siblings, lost for many years. But she discovers that her genius younger sister has become an idiot, while her lively, cheerful younger brother has turned into an icy, single-dad type. To make matters worse, a two-faced woman whom her family once helped t 177Reads—Score—Shelves
- 9 Rules-Based Strange Tales: The Mountain God Wants Me to Host a Wedding and a Funeral 规则类怪谈：山神让办红白事 Jin Shou, a sophomore in college, received an invitation from his rural hometown to take part in a local folk custom: a wedding celebration. With nothing better to do, he reluctantly took on the task to support his hometown. But after returning to the village… he found a host of unspeakable, eerie rules. The entire mountain was sealed off… a forbidden place where living things could enter but never leave. The uncanny “helpers” in yellow… the bride with her hair hanging over her face… the ominous 62Reads8.4Score—Shelves
- 10 Dream Trial 梦境试炼 No romance! No romance! No romance! Infinite-world adventure + light horror + strong female lead + survival The heroine is perfectly happy on her own! She becomes invincible later on! There are pets! In every dream trial, she’ll lead the trial’s staff astray and take them along! She’ll keep doing it until the System is hopping mad! What should you do if you’re dragged into a bizarre dream world? Play it safe? Or charge right in? Come see all the ways the heroine fights to survive! 1Reads—Score—Shelves
- 11 Horror Invades Reality? If I Can't Die, What Have I Got to Fear? 惊悚侵入现实？反正不死我怕啥 [Horror] [Slightly supernatural] [Ensemble cast] [No romance] [Strong female lead] [Overachiever] [Special Abilities Bureau] Qiu Tingyu is a third-year university student, living day and night for a chance to get into graduate school. But one day, as she was studying in the library as usual, everything changed! Countless demons, ghosts, terrifying anomalies, and indescribable entities suddenly filled the world. Black and red became the world's final palette. The horror world and the real world c 72Reads8.1Score—Shelves
- 12 Zoo Horror Stories: I’m the Rulebreaker! 动物园怪谈：我，规则破坏者！ [Jiang Kai: My rules are the rules!] [This zoo is not that zoo + the more you think about it, the scarier it gets + absolutely no ginkgo + firepower galore!] When Jiang Kai opened his eyes, he found himself inside the mist-shrouded world of his first game instance: “Zoo Rules.” This place was full of all kinds of rules and dangers! [Remember! Before entering the zoo, everyone except minors must buy a ticket at the blue ticket booth on the right!] [Remember! After entering the zoo, read the visit 2Reads7.4Score—Shelves
- 13 Infinite: She Becomes a God in the Escape Game 无限：她在逃生游戏里称神 [Infinite Flow] [No Romance] [Teamwork] [Livestream] [Escape Game] [Main-Plot Focus] [System] [Rules-Based Horror] Jiang Zhi is suddenly dragged into an escape game, and starts off by threatening an NPC with a kitchen knife? She pulls one wild stunt after another, even cursing out the game, only to get targeted in retaliation! And what the heck does it mean that the System’s development is incomplete? She forms the first guild and adopts a secret identity, blithely fooling tens of millions of pl 18Reads8.9Score—Shelves
- 14 Chinese Weird Tales: The Big Shot Goes on a Killing Spree in Infinite Worlds 华夏怪诞，大佬在无限杀疯了 [No CP + strong female lead + System + rules-based horror...] Good grief! She’d only just gotten ready for bed when she found herself barefoot in the middle of a mission. There was no time to wipe the dust off her feet before a smiling nurse with an IV pole came toward her. If the nurse’s head weren’t rotating a full 360 degrees, she’d almost be a beauty... Ding! At the Horror Hospital, the mission-takers are dead or maimed. Shen Xin stares blankly at the backpack full of essence-blood pearls. 22Reads8.0Score—Shelves
- 15 I’m Vacationing in an Infinite Game 我在无限游戏里度假 [BG + Two Madmen + Love and Kill + Infinite Flow] When Mo Shuyao, being escorted to the execution ground, opened her eyes again, she had entered a game where players wagered their lives. Everyone else saw Mo Shuyao as kind and pure. Song Bozhou saw her as a lunatic just like himself. These two evenly matched madmen spent most of every day not thinking about how to survive the game, but how to kill each other. Until Song Bozhou, who had been at odds with Mo Shuyao for years, suddenly realized tha 8Reads7.4Score—Shelves
- 16 A Dating Show Livestream Turns into a Horror Game: Escape from the Deserted Island 直播恋综变恐怖游戏：荒岛大逃生 Qiao Xiyan, a minor celebrity, somehow ends up taking a gig on a big-budget, lavishly produced dating show. But the show’s location turns out to be a deserted island, one where two separate serial murder cases once took place. As the show’s contestants suffer one accident after another, Qiao Xiyan has no choice but to lead them on a desperate escape. Before long, Qiao Xiyan realizes that every one of them has secrets they’re hiding. It seems no coincidence that they were all brought together on 13Reads8.4Score—Shelves
- 17 Rule Horror: Survive with Caution 规则怪谈：谨慎求生 [No Female Lead + Mystery + National Security + No System + No Special Talents] With university graduation just around the corner, Ji Qing discovers that his world is full of rules! Following the rules doesn’t necessarily mean you’ll die, but breaking them definitely does!! As his dormmates are infected one after another and turned into puppets, will Ji Qing bow to fate? Ji Qing: My fate is mine to control. Anyone who tries to take it from me can go to hell! First Dungeon: [Campus Urban Leg 17Reads—Score—Shelves
- 18 The Big Shot Finally Made a Move on Me 大佬终于对我下手了 On the day of Li Xiaoxian's birthday, dark clouds swallowed the sun and the world underwent a strange transformation. She secretly consoled herself: It's fine, the whole world is celebrating my birthday… And then, Everyone grew a data cable at the back of their necks, and she too was forcibly dragged into one game instance after another… She was stunned. Now that the world has turned into a collection of game zones, everyone spends each day playing a different role… One day, in the middle of 31Reads8.4Score—Shelves
- 19 The Big Shot Plays the Pig to Eat the Tiger in a Horror Game 大佬在恐怖游戏里扮猪吃虎 Complete. Infinite flow + no romance + horror + supernatural + absurd comedy She accidentally enters a world of terror. Monsters chase her relentlessly. There’s an empty village, a giant rat with blood-red eyes and fangs, corpses buried underground, and companions with ulterior motives. Chi Tao: Help! I just want to quietly be a corporate drone. In Cat Village, she kicks open a locked door, calmly pulls a foul-smelling skull from a hole, and stabs her teammates with a look of excitement. Chi Tao 76Reads8.7Score—Shelves
- 20 Rouge of Ashes: Shadows Return to the City 烬色胭脂：谍影归城 Ashen Rouge: The Spy Returns to the City —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 21 Escape: After Coming Back to Life, I Only Play on SSS Difficulty 逃生：复活后我只玩SSS难度 [Infinite flow + no CP + survival game + heroine's growth + horror and suspense] (Chapters 26–51 can be skipped without affecting the rest of the story. Each stage is about 25 chapters long.) Ruoling, a second-year college student, was pulled into a horror dimension while playing The Final Escape. She was killed by the plot right from the start! After being revived, she obtained a mysterious black book and became a tech geek. She meets all kinds of god-tier teammates, fights her way to escape, s 22Reads—Score—Shelves
- 22 Thriller: I Dominate the Instances with Bugs 惊悚：我靠bug制霸副本 No romance / dual female leads / top-tier strength and intelligence / infinite-flow In the 24th century, the global population is dwindling. Every day, people die for bizarre reasons, and no one knows who will be next. Society is on the verge of paralysis, and humanity faces an immense catastrophe. Jiang Zitong, an “ordinary” college student, is invited by the government to investigate the truth. The eerie and terrifying events are only just beginning. She thought she was the game's biggest glit 9Reads8.1Score—Shelves
- 23 Horror Livestream 恐怖直播间 In the gloomy forest, a lone figure swayed slowly. Not far away, a rotting corpse dangled from a tree, rocking gently in the night breeze. Elsewhere, an old man on a grave silently picked up his own arm. He put it back, and it fell off; he put it back, and it fell off again. In the grass, Li Bing secretly livestreamed with his phone held up. 189Reads5.5Score—Shelves
- 24 Demons, Begone: The Female Celestial Master Is Bold and Powerful 邪魔退散：女天师又飒又强 Half a bowl of clear water reflects heaven and earth; a single spirit talisman subdues ghosts and evil. There are no gods three feet above your head, and seven hesitant steps take you back to the human world. Lin Qiaoqiao is reborn in another world as a bold, powerful female celestial master. 81Reads8.3Score—Shelves
- 25 The Apocalypse Boss Makes a Fortune in the Modern World with Her Alchemy 末世大佬靠炼药在现代财源滚滚 [Strong Female Lead] [No Romance!!!] She was a top alchemist in the apocalypse, but the System brought her along when she transmigrated into a book. Transmigrating into a book was no big deal, but becoming a doomed side character made things difficult. Not only was she destined to be cannon fodder, her entire family was fated to be stepping stones for the male and female leads' romance. Faced with a plot like this, Qiao Shang remained utterly unmoved. What did being cannon fodder matter? Would 431Reads9.0Score100Shelves
- 26 Unlimited Cheats in a Survival Game 在生存游戏里无限开挂 Welcome to "Absolute Domain". To give players a truly immersive experience, this game has introduced a new set of rules: First, injuries sustained in the game cause the same injuries to your real body. Second, dying in the game means your real body loses all signs of life, too. Third, clearing the game earns you an item reward for that round. Qiu Huarong, however, says she couldn’t care less about any of that. While other players are being hunted by werewolves, she’s the one hunting them. Qiu Hu 61Reads7.1Score—Shelves
- 27 On the Brink of Death, I Was Chosen by an Infinite-Flow Dungeon 濒死前，无限流副本选中了我 [Infinite Flow] + [No CP] + [Leveling Up] + [Taking Down Scumbags] + [Strong Female Lead]! (The story focuses on the instance worlds, while the real-world plot develops slowly. Slow burn! Slow burn! Slow burn! A long novel! I know the first three chapters are frustrating. Even I found them infuriating when I read them, but I can't spoil anything, sob. There are other reasons for the heroine's behavior in the first three chapters! There are! Other! Reasons! She's not lovesick, and she doesn't hav 509Reads8.6Score—Shelves
- 28 Two Personalities Go on a Rampage in a Survival Game 双重人格在求生游戏里杀疯了 [No romance, a woman with no man in her heart is a god with a blade] Some lunatic has a game-breaking golden finger and is on a rampage in a survival game?! A long-planned conspiracy sweeps across Blue Star. Humanity is held captive by unknown, lofty beings and made into a flock of lambs awaiting slaughter. Jiang Ye, whose family has a history of mental illness, enters the game and turns into a max-level powerhouse, slaughtering her way through the beginner village. Her blade flashes, monsters c 210Reads9.4Score—Shelves
- 29 Horror Crossover: Rewriting the Script in Eerie Films 综恐：我在诡异电影里修改剧本 A horror crossover: Truth or Dare, Girls' Dormitory, The Bridge Curse, Eden Lake, The Substitute... Chu Peipei is accidentally transported into a strange movie theater. To survive, she must struggle through one eerie film after another. Fortunately, she has the talent to rewrite scripts, allowing her to steer the stories in bizarre new directions within these strange worlds. Gradually, she realizes that the System is starting to act strangely. Has she somehow broken it by messing around too much 592Reads8.2Score—Shelves
- 30 Thriller Game: I Have a Passive Ghost-Catching System 惊悚游戏：我有被动捉鬼系统 Su Yan transmigrates. This is a parallel world where horror has returned. While everyone else nervously tackles dungeon missions, Su Yan stares at his passive ghost-catching System in silence. Respect: 30 Drunk Ghost: This kid's tough. I'll protect him! Respect: 80 Two-Headed Ghost: Let me introduce you. This is my big brother. Respect: 100 Rich Kid Ghost: Big brother, my courtyard house is yours from now on! The other players: What on earth did you do? Su Yan: I told you I'm catching ghosts. Do 11Reads8.8Score—Shelves
- 31 Run! It's the Concubine Who's Calm and Unruffled 快跑，是人淡如菊的娘娘 Run! The consort is as indifferent as a chrysanthemum. —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 32 Esports: Even a Genius Prodigy Works Hard 电竞：天才少年也很努力 Esports: Even the Genius Prodigy Works Hard 2Reads—Score—Shelves
- 33 The Mystical Arts Master Runs a Coffin Shop 玄学大佬，她开了间棺材铺 [Infinite-flow, mission-based, no romance, strong female lead, ghost hunting!] (The heroine is ruthless and emotionally clueless, but gradually changes. She isn't a do-gooder, and readers who have very upright values should beware! This isn't just an infinite-flow story about completing missions; it's also made up of several little ghost-hunting tales.) Everyone thinks that those who enter horror games will become players. But no one knows that a small number of them become NPCs in the horror ga 21Reads7.4Score—Shelves
- 34 When I Go Crazy, Even Ghosts Are Afraid 我疯起来连鬼都怕 [No CP + livestreaming + System + strong female lead power fantasy + ghost hunting] “The boy bends down, the baby cries. On Sha Ling Slope, ghosts crawl through the sand.” Fresh out of the psychiatric hospital, Jian Yao is thrown by the System into a place like this. She looks at the ramshackle wooden hut in front of her, her face expressionless. It is far too dilapidated for anyone to live in, yet dim, faint lights can be seen inside, along with the occasional sound of crying. The livestream vi 120Reads7.6Score—Shelves
- 35 Horror Exam: My Talent Can Fuse Without Limit 惊悚考试：我的天赋能无限融合 In the Horror Exam, every student who turns eighteen must enter the Horror Space and take an exam to awaken their abilities. The Horror Space is full of all kinds of ghosts and monsters: ordinary ghosts, zombies, demons, the undead, vampires, and more. It puts their mental fortitude and practical combat skills to the ultimate test. Lin Xiao, an average student at school, awakens an F-rank talent. But this talent lets him fuse other people's skills without limit. This heaven-defying talent helps 625Reads7.7Score113Shelves
- 36 Livestreaming Myself Eating Ghosts in a Survival Game 我在逃生游戏中直播吃鬼 [Infinite-flow + no romance + horror and the supernatural + goofy livestreams] When an escape-game storm swept across the globe, Nuo-jie, who had just been kicked down the mountain by her master, caught a ride to an escape trial. And so began her journey of eating ghosts. Other people's escape games: “There's a ghost! Run!” “Mom, I want to go home! I'll never play this game again!” “Ghost grandpa, please, let me go...” Our Nuo-jie: “Come here, ghost sister. How do you like the smell of this shoe 44Reads8.8Score—Shelves
- 37 An Unmarked Lonely Grave 无名孤坟 My grandfather buried my mother by our front door. Every night after that, a woman would stand outside our house... 1.2kReads8.8Score101Shelves
- 38 Infinite: Fools Lead the Way, Turning the World Upside Down 无限：沙雕开路，天翻地覆 [No romance + standalone instances + goofy humor + dual Systems + teammates, but the heroine is absolutely the strongest. She only gives her teammates supplies she can't use herself + friendly relationship with the System + the heroine is incredibly lucky] Just as the Weakling Improvement System is about to bind to Ling Du, who died in a car accident, both of them are selected by the central AI of the Infinite Instance worlds. The Weakling Improvement System takes the form of a toad and falls in 2.2kReads7.1Score227Shelves
- 39 My Boyfriend Is a Sword (Infinite Flow) 我的男友是把剑（无限流） [Coming of age, mild horror, corruption, tragic pairing, strong female lead] An eighteen-year-old girl is thrown into a hell-level dungeon from the start. It is filled with countless divine artifacts and high-level skills, but no player has ever made it out alive. Struggling, confusion, despair? Your thoughtful little sword spirit will point you in the “right” direction. Following the sword spirit's guidance, Bai Yue clears the dungeon, only to realize that she has somehow become one of the peak 20Reads8.7Score—Shelves
- 40 The Horror Face Mask 恐怖面膜 Never buy cosmetics from social-media resellers without thinking twice. Some of them can cost you your life! Soap made from human fat, face masks made from human skin: let me expose the horrors lurking among online resellers... 68Reads6.4Score—Shelves
- 41 Rule-Based Horror Stories: Starting with Halloween 规则类怪谈，从万圣节开始 (Also known as: Rule-Based Horror, Starting with Halloween) My name is Bai Ze, and I’m an ordinary high school sophomore. Even though it was Halloween, I saw a Christmas tree in my residential compound. Only later did I learn that the tree didn’t exist. The fifteen rules in the residents’ chat group, the timid older girl next door, the strange white-haired little girl, the patrol team’s eerie regulations, my beautiful deskmate, the ghost in the thick fog... The residential compound, the school.. 761Reads8.8Score101Shelves
- 42 The Purple Rain Descends 紫雨来袭 Also known as "Grief Rises from Within" (Infinite flow + educational themes + no special abilities + not a wish-fulfillment story + twists all the way through) Li Ze, the protagonist, has the ability to empathize. Wherever suffering ignored by society takes place, purple rain falls. It rebuilds that suffering in the victims' minds in distorted, terrifying forms. The monsters, evil spirits, and strange phenomena that emerge from the purple rain retain the defining features of the harm inflicted o 11Reads—Score—Shelves
- 43 I Inherited a Joss Stick and Candle Shop 我继承了一家香烛店 Bai Linlin had just graduated when she was involved in a car accident that had been planned long in advance. After being discharged from the hospital, she had to use a wheelchair for a while, so she decided to take over the incense and candle shop her grandmother had left her. The shop served both the living and the dead, and business was far busier than Bai Linlin had expected. Especially business from the underworld. Fortunately, it was right up the alley of Bai Linlin, who came from a family 105Reads8.4Score—Shelves
- 44 Infinite Quick Transmigration: The Big Shots Use Me as Their Tool 无限快穿：大佬们是我工具人 (Quick Transmigration + Infinite Flow + Game + Strong Female Lead Power Fantasy + Brain-Twisting) She, Xing Zhanyue, is practically a BUG in the game world! From the start, she earns the highest rating. Even the gods can't solve these riddles, so she shows everyone how it's done. While other players are suffering, she's savoring wine. While they're getting beaten up, she's out shopping. In these perilous games, everyone else proceeds with extreme caution, but she acts boldly and wins time after 5Reads9.0Score—Shelves
- 45 Infinite Horror: The Top-Tier Maniac Is Beautiful and Brutal 无限惊悚：顶级疯批她又美又凶 [Infinite-game adventure + mystery and deduction + no romance + ruthless heroine + plot-focused + strong female lead + fictional setting] Her father didn’t care about her, her mother didn’t love her, her brother was gone, and she’d been sent to a strange psychologist for treatment for fourteen years. Just as Mo Changsheng was planning to deal with the whole mess, she was suddenly transported into a horror game. Mo Changsheng: “Well, this is interesting.” In a perilous hunting game, she wiped out 225Reads7.8Score—Shelves
- 46 Thriller: Socially Awkward? No, I'm a Social Menace 惊悚：社恐？不，我社交恐怖分子 Horror has descended! People all over the world are forced to struggle for survival in one paranormal instance after another. But one man is a social phobia patient, not because he fears socializing, but because he’s a social menace! At three, he became the king of the children in his compound. At five, he ruled his kindergarten. In middle school, he was the Hao Nan of the boys’ eyes; in high school, he was the prince charming of the girls’ dreams. He dared to slip advertisements into his gradua 20Reads8.3Score—Shelves
- 47 Raising Paper Characters in a Horror Game 在惊悚游戏里养纸片人 [Infinite Flow] [No romance] (A heads-up: The heroine is a regular female college student who has just graduated. She has no System and isn’t reborn. She’s just an ordinary girl. If you want a badass, cool-headed, strongest-in-her-world heroine in a wish-fulfillment power fantasy, please look elsewhere. Don’t make assumptions halfway through and then leave a bad review. The author is sensitive, so please be gentle.) To pay off her loans, Yang Chaoyu unexpectedly joins a livestream debut. She bar 303Reads8.8Score105Shelves
- 48 Rule Horror: Doraemon and the End of Ten Days 规则怪谈：哆啦A梦与十日终焉 A world combining Doraemon and The End of Ten Days, with the added element of rules-based horror. Duanmu Yan accidentally transmigrates into the world of Doraemon and becomes Nobita Nobi. He has been playing the role of Nobita Nobi and surviving in this world for two and a half years. Until… a giant clock appears in the city center. Whenever it chimes, words appear on its display. “I heard the echo of ‘deduction’!” The world begins to grow uncanny. The people around him start becoming infec 11Reads—Score—Shelves
- 49 Eerie Revival: I Befriend Ghosts and Monsters 诡异复苏:我和鬼怪做朋友 A game of horrors descended upon the world. Everyone over the age of eighteen would be randomly pulled into its supernatural game space. Those who survived received extraordinary rewards. Young Lin Yuze was astonished to discover that he could raise the favorability of ghosts and monsters. Then a miraculous scene unfolded. Little ghost: “This is my dad.” Female ghost: “This is my husband.” Demon god: “This is my brother.” Lin Yuze was a protagonist dedicated to turning the terrifying game into a 35Reads9.1Score—Shelves
- 50 Death Novel: Judgment 死亡小说:审判 Death Novel: Judgment 4Reads—Score—Shelves
