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- 101 My Mom Is a Spirit Medium 我妈是神婆 My mom is a famous spirit medium for miles around. She never charges anyone for “treating” their illnesses, but this time she insisted on taking a billion yuan in incense offerings. She even used my life to save someone else for the money! A car haunted by ghosts, a hanged ghost, a walking fox, a house of the dead, a temple of evildoers, a ghostly maze... No one would believe what I went through that summer! (This story is completely made up for entertainment. If it sounds familiar, don't ask me 30Reads—Score—14d adds
- 102 I Work as a Mortuary Makeup Artist 我在殡仪馆做化妆师 I used to be a stylist on film and television sets. After reality put me through the wringer, I stumbled into a job as a mortuary makeup artist. Every day, I face all kinds of bizarre corpses, and they have shown me another world... 717Reads8.2Score10014d adds
- 103 Republic-Era Notes on Summoning Evil 民国招邪笔记 Chinese-Style Horror + Episodic Mysteries + Ancestral Taboos + Republican-Era Suspense + Cursed Objects That Claim Lives Each supernatural case wraps up in three to five chapters. The pace is breakneck, with no dragging things out! Folk-horror elements: red wedding gowns, ancestral halls, midnight opera troupes... If you’re a scaredy-cat, read during the day. If you’re brave, listen to the audiobook at night for the full dose of terror. 78Reads—Score—14d adds
- 104 I Left With Nothing but My Daughter, and Got a Dumpling Shop as a Reward 带女儿净身出户，奖励一家饺子铺 [Urban life + doting dad + farming + tycoon + System + everyday life] [The author humbly begs all you kind readers not to let this novel pile up in your reading list, or it’ll be doomed! Your support means a lot to me. Thanks for reading along!] After five years of marriage, they reached the end of the road. To win custody of his daughter, Ye Chen chose to walk away with nothing. But just after receiving his divorce certificate, a strange, mechanical voice suddenly rang out in his mind. “Ding! H 531Reads8.5Score10114d adds
- 105 A Yin Corpse Brought Me to the Mortal World: The Living, Keep Away 阴尸送我来人间，生人退避 My name is Luo Ansheng. I was delivered by a Yin Corpse. A Yin Corpse brought me into the world, and a hundred ghosts fought over their food. All manner of fearsome beings gathered, eager to devour my flesh and essence. After I gave them a good beating, they settled down and began competing to protect me. 4.2kReads8.8Score38614d adds
- 106 Horror Game: The Succubus Escaped from the Game 惊悚游戏，魅魔从游戏里跑出来了 This is a bizarre and unpredictable world where supernatural horrors have returned, and all kinds of monsters appear one after another. The entire world is facing an unprecedented crisis! But it's also an opportunity! Yang Jian unexpectedly gets a horror (cultivation) simulator. Simulating makes him stronger! At first, Yang Jian plans to lie low and keep using the simulator to get stronger. There's no need for us to go out and stir up trouble. Who could have guessed that this succubus would esca 113Reads8.3Score—14d adds
- 107 Rules of the Rest Stop on a Stormy Night 暴雨夜服务区规则怪谈 Rules of the Rest Stop on a Stormy Night 5Reads—Score—14d adds
- 108 Horror Revival: Kissing Sadako from the Start 恐怖复苏：开局和贞子热吻 [Mystery + Horror Resurgence + System + Supernatural] Horror resurges, and nightmares descend. Lin Han has only just transmigrated when the urban legend Sadako shows up at his door to claim his life. As an ordinary person, he has to... Option One: Turn and run, call the emergency number on the wall, and summon a nearby ghost handler to save him. Option Two: Fight back and get strangled to death by Sadako’s hair. Option Three: Hesitate and you lose; act decisively and you still lose. Don’t say a 351Reads6.1Score—14d adds
- 109 Horror House: All My Employees Are Deadly Monsters 恐怖屋：我的员工都是大凶之物 Li Zhou transmigrates to a parallel world and inherits the haunted house left behind by its previous owner. Business is bad? On the verge of closing down? After awakening the Haunted House Employee System, Li Zhou says none of that is a problem. From the start, he recruits a real zombie as an employee, scaring an outdoor adventure streamer unconscious and making a name for himself overnight. Then... one terrifying employee after another joins Li Zhou's team. Grow bigger and stronger, and make it 1.7kReads7.9Score21214d adds
- 110 The Eerie Coffin Bearers 诡抬棺 Nine peaks, a sea of blood, mountains of bones... Murderous danger lurks everywhere. Every step is fraught with peril, and I never know how much longer I'll survive. It wasn't until I deciphered the nursery rhyme I'd heard when I became someone's disciple that I uncovered a shocking secret... 63Reads9.0Score—14d adds
- 111 Classmate, Stop Pretending Already 同学你不要再装了 The sun went out, ushering in an age of darkness. Sunlight became an indispensable resource for cultivation. Yan Qing transmigrates to this world with a broken sword as his Life Soul and an innate life-force of zero. But he unexpectedly discovers that he possesses a world with a sun of its own, and can freely travel between the two worlds. It is an unimaginably immense fortune. And that's not all. Yan Qing also awakens a second Life Soul: black mist. He even comprehends Life Skills beyond the gr 373Reads7.6Score10414d adds
- 112 The Weird Realm II: Room 414 Hospital 诡界II：414医院 [Infinite Flow + Supernatural Horror + Mystery + Paranormal + Survival + Dungeons] A hospital said to be impossible to escape, and a group of survivors who've narrowly escaped death time and again. What bizarre and uncanny tales await them as they open the doors to one patient room after another? Dear readers, follow the protagonist Lu Bai as he uncovers one hidden truth after another. Welcome to Hospital 414... 62Reads8.0Score—14d adds
- 113 The Spirit-Sealing Corpse Shroud 镇灵尸衣 On the day I was born, ghosts surrounded our home. I only survived because a master gave his life to save me. Only later did I learn the truth: I was born on a yin year, yin month, and yin day, making me a Yin Child. My master said that anyone born under all three yin signs would have a life full of misfortune and spend their days wandering from place to place. 133Reads—Score—14d adds
- 114 Mystery Revival: I Wield the Ghostly Phone Call and Guard Three Provinces 神秘复苏：驾驭鬼来电，镇守三省 The supernatural returns, and the human world becomes a living hell. In this age of paranormal horrors, Zhao Lai is working overtime at midnight when he is attacked by a ghost call. Luckily, the call is answered by Xiao Ai, causing the supernatural entity to crash. From then on, Zhao Lai relies on the paranormal phone to struggle through one terrifying paranormal incident after another. Understand the paranormal! Harness the paranormal! Put an end to the paranormal! Protect the last patch of lan 12.2kReads5.7Score1.1k14d adds
- 115 One Horror a Day 一天一个惊悚 One terrifying tale every day, and a different world each time. Just because you haven't seen it from in front of your phone doesn't mean it doesn't exist. Enough chatter. See you in the book, everyone. 7Reads6.6Score—14d adds
- 116 Eerie: The Strange Play Ends in Oblivion 诡异：诡剧终湮 [Suspenseful What-If] [Rule Horror] [Infinite Flow Supernatural Horror] [Horror and the Paranormal] Apocalypse... One month before monsters from another world invaded, Jiang Qiubai unexpectedly obtained a strange play that could take him to other worlds. Only by gathering the powers of the twelve Chinese zodiac signs through these plays could there be any hope of defeating the invasion from another world. Shen Wanqing had been an ordinary college student. Could the two of them successfully tempe —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 117 Classroom of Despair 绝望教室 One day, a classmate who had been dead for a long time dragged everyone in our class into a bizarre QQ group and forced us to take part in a death vote. After I managed to escape the Desperate Classroom, one massive conspiracy after another unfolded. To survive, I sold my soul… 141Reads5.7Score—14d adds
- 118 Don't Panic, the Hot Pot's Still Hot 莫慌，火锅趁热 Don't Panic, Eat Your Hotpot While It's Hot —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 119 The Fragrance of Corpses for Ten Miles 十里尸香 Most people receive gifts that are heartwarming or romantic. Even if they aren't a surprise, they're at least well-intentioned. But the gift I received when I turned twenty was a very real shock, and a curse. 1.9kReads8.2Score16514d adds
- 120 Thriller Game: I Can Eavesdrop on Ghosts 惊悚游戏：我能偷听鬼话 [Infinite Flow] [No Female Lead] [Light Horror] [Multiple Twists] Six months ago, a blood mist sealed off Nandu City, trapping its ten million residents inside. Strange beings invaded the fog, and one abnormal incident after another unfolded. Lin Xu has no idea why he appeared in this city. A strange game appeared at the same time, forcing him to enter a horror instance every seven days, where death was all but certain. But the items he obtained in the game could be used against the strange enti 21.4kReads7.0Score2.2k14d adds
- 121 Fired, I Opened a Restaurant 被辞退，开了一家美食店 [System + Everyday Life + Taking Care of a Girl + Sweet Romance + Food] Xu Ziqi refuses to work overtime and gets fired. He plans to return to his hometown, but unexpectedly binds himself to a God of Food System and opens a restaurant there. From the start, he gets the [Divine Steamed Bun Skills], making passersby drool and even attracting the campus belle to work for him for free. He unlocks [Magical Congee], which cures patients who have suffered from anorexia for years. He unlocks [Divine Sna 832Reads8.5Score10014d adds
- 122 The Chewing Sounds in the Abyss 深渊里的咀嚼声 The Sound of Chewing in the Abyss 2Reads—Score—14d adds
- 123 The Xiangxi Corpse-Driving Chronicles: Human Hearts and Ghostly Schemes 湘西赶尸录：人心鬼蜮 The Xiangxi Corpse-Driving Records: The Human Heart's Haunted Maze 11Reads—Score—14d adds
- 124 A Night of Terror at the Rest Stop 休息站惊魂夜 A Terrifying Night at the Rest Stop 6Reads—Score—14d adds
- 125 Global Terror 全球惊悚 The world is falling apart, and the supernatural is returning. Life and death, partings and loss play out every day, but this has also given rise to a special group of people: Ghost Tamers! By a twist of fate, Yu Sheng becomes a member of the Paranormal Association. Then an old photograph leads him to a clue left behind by his father. Every clue points to Dongcheng, but the city is now shrouded by the Shuddering Ghost Domain… [Scare Level: Uneasy - Frightening - Terrifying - Bone-Rattling - Hair 17Reads7.5Score—14d adds
- 126 The Man Buried Upside Down 倒着埋的人 The Man Buried Upside Down 7Reads—Score—14d adds
- 127 The Ghostly Wedding: Yinshui Town 冥婚诡事：阴水镇 Ghostly Wedding: Yinshui Town 3Reads—Score—14d adds
- 128 Strange Tales from the Countryside 乡野诡事 There is a saying among the common folk: those who keep an "immortal patron" may earn fortunes and receive countless favors from them, but when death comes, the patron takes it all back. The village elders say that Bu Gui was not born to his parents, but was sent to them by Seventh Granny with the help of an "immortal patron." Seventh Granny is a renowned spirit medium from far and wide, and now she is close to death. A series of strange events befalls Bu Gui. To stay alive, he has no choice but 3.7kReads8.9Score23414d adds
- 129 My Pale Life 我苍白的一生 My name is Zhang Yuan, though my childhood nickname was Ergou. I'm male, born in 1990. Everyone encounters all kinds of strange, inexplicable things in life. By the way, do you believe in ghosts? 491Reads8.4Score10114d adds
- 130 Thriller Game: Slaughtering the Entire Village from the Start 惊悚游戏：开局屠杀全村村民 [Romance + not overpowered + one female lead] A mysterious cloud suddenly appears at Jinghai City's Central Primary School in Gaojing. Ye Tianming's father, the head of the universe's number one meteorology team, hurries to the scene with the entire team. A man dies mysteriously in the mist. His son, Ye Tianming, arrives at the scene wearing a suit and tie. The boy's consciousness grows hazy. When he wakes again, he finds himself transmigrated to the day of the college entrance exams. A strange —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 131 My Neighbor Knocks on the Wall at 3 A.M. Every Day 我的邻居每天准时在凌晨3点敲墙 My neighbor knocks on the wall at exactly 3 a.m. every day 8Reads—Score—14d adds
- 132 The Skinning Ghost 扒皮鬼 (Traditional supernatural horror + extreme horror + multiple twists + mystery + entirely handcrafted) Lately, I've been having nightmares every night. A fortune-teller said I might have a ghost clinging to me. He told me about a forbidden folk ritual: Put on a pair of worn underwear over your head, and it will block a ghost's sight. That night, I got home and followed his advice, half believing it. My girlfriend came back to the room after washing up and stared blankly at where I was. "Where... 64.2kReads8.3Score7k14d adds
- 133 Thriller: There's a Ghost in My Phone 惊悚：我的手机里有鬼 A month ago, my younger sister vanished under mysterious circumstances at a subway station. A day ago, the police pulled a headless woman's body from the river. DNA testing confirmed it was my sister, Xu Yuan. A minute ago, my dead sister walked in carrying a head-shaped cake. A white ghost candle was stuck into the top of the skull, and she had made longevity noodles from her own entrails to celebrate my birthday. A minute later, I was chosen by a supernatural app's blood pact and plunged into 3.1kReads—Score42714d adds
- 134 Rule Horror: The Haunted Dormitory 规则怪谈：诡异寝室 [System + Horror + Loops + Mind-Bending] The supernatural returns, and tales of the uncanny descend upon the world. Asleep, Ye Nanxi is pulled into a world of eerie stories by a piercing shriek. Here, winning earns you a million in cash. Losing costs you your life. The first scenario is a dormitory. [Please read the rules carefully.] [Wang Niannian, Wen Bai, Zhou Ke, Jiang Ning, Pei Zhaoyue, and you share a dorm room. But there are only five people in the room.] [You can trust Wang Niannian unco 483Reads6.3Score—14d adds
- 135 The Corpse Keeper 守尸人 The morgue is where life and death meet. At this boundary, there are many taboos to heed. I grew up beside a hospital morgue, and I'll tell you about the hospital's taboos from a different perspective. Taboo 1: If you see a patient being resuscitated, don't gather around to watch. Taboo 2: If a patient's family throws away something the deceased used while alive, don't toss your own trash on top of it. Taboo 3: If you hear a cat meowing at night, don't go outside to look, whether you're a patien 891Reads6.3Score10214d adds
- 136 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
- 137 Hearse 灵车 A hearse is a vehicle used to transport coffins or urns. You could also call it a vehicle exclusively for the dead. I was a bus driver for four years, and for all four years I kept a secret bottled up inside. Now I'll tell you firsthand about the terrifying things that happen on trains, things you don't know about. Maybe you've never heard of hearses being converted into buses, but the buses you've ridden may not have carried only the living... 1.5kReads8.0Score14114d adds
- 138 EN Anime Crossover: Raising Homelander from Childhood, So Righteous It's Twisted 综漫：从小养大祖国人，正得发邪 [Growing-up story + redemption + no female lead + no System + Harry Potter + The Outcast + primarily based on The Boys universe] After transmigrating into The Boys universe, where superheroes are everywhere and even dogs have more decency than the twisted capitalists, Lin En starts out as a low-level researcher in a Vought basement. Before him is the six-year-old boy who will grow up to become the indiscriminate killer known as Homelander. To stay alive, Lin En targets the boy's weakest point. H 18.3kReads8.6Score1.3k14d adds
- 139 Strange Tales from the Road 行路诡闻 [Folk customs and suspense | Episodic stories | Immersive accounts] There's an old saying: Walk the night road three times, and ghosts and gods will follow you. Writer Lin Sui travels around gathering material, recording the rural ghost stories he hears along the way in the old notebook he carries with him. He has no spirit-seeing eyes and can't draw talismans or chant incantations. Faced with those indescribable horrors, his only weapons are the pen in his hand and his instinct for survival. 2Reads—Score—14d adds
- 140 Mysterious Curse 1 神秘诅咒1 [Supernatural Mystery + Urban Cultivation + Folk Taboos + A Passionate Coming-of-Age Story] Enter a sinister world concealed beneath the bustle of the modern city! I have no control over life or death. My name is Zhang Wen. I thought getting into college would let me escape that bleak village in the southwest. Then my grandfather died suddenly, with these words written in cinnabar on his palm: "Dig three feet down at the southeast corner of the wall." I unearthed a bloodstained notebook. Its fir 6Reads—Score—14d adds
- 141 The Glutton’s Last Bite 大胃王的最后一口 The Glutton's Last Bite 6Reads—Score—14d adds
- 142 A Chinese-Style Haunted House from the Start: Streamers Across the Internet Are All Screaming 开局中式鬼屋：全网主播都被吓哭 [No female lead + comedy + healing + perfect mealtime reading] Jiang Zhe transmigrates to a parallel world and awakens the Myriad Worlds Horror System. As he learns more about this world, he discovers that Chinese-style haunted houses are still very traditional. Western-style horror is what's popular. Well, that's just perfect. Let's start with a pair of embroidered shoes to whet their appetites. And throw in a doll, too. Want to experience a wedding? Sure! Let's prepare a ghost marriag 2.3kReads8.0Score22614d adds
- 143 The Night-Sealed Door 夜封门 Seven months pregnant, the woman was brutally hounded to death, and her seven-month-old baby was thrown into a well. Her wronged soul is cut off from the road ahead, and evil spirits come to claim their due. The gates of hell swing open, and the underworld seals its doors in the dead of night. 2kReads8.3Score15914d adds
- 144 The Village of Terrifying Women 恐怖女人村 The women were so beautiful they were a feast for the eyes, yet they would not even let the men touch their hands. At first, I thought it was a feudal custom. As it turned out, it was part of a terrifying conspiracy. In this dark chapter of history, human nature erupted and was snuffed out again and again, without end. 412Reads8.5Score10714d adds
- 145 The Nightmare Kingdom, Where the Flesh Mutates 亘梦诡国，肉身畸变 [Supernatural]+ [Sanity Plummets]+ [Fantasy What-If]+ [Cthulhu]+ [Horror Folklore]+ [Transmigration]+ [Feel-Good Power Fantasy]+ [Fresh and Original] I hope more people will stop by and give me the motivation to update with 4,000+ words every day. The first instance may not be that interesting, so I recommend skipping ahead a dozen or so chapters before reading. Give the author a little patience and keep reading. The story won't disappoint you. You may find yourself wondering whether fate really 21Reads—Score—14d adds
- 146 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—14d adds
- 147 I’m the Protagonist, So How Could I Lose? 我都是主角了还怎么输 Fu Ci's biggest regret was choosing to save money instead of spending it. If he'd paid for a taxi, he wouldn't have gotten on the bus and ended up inside a supernatural instance. At least this trip hadn't been a complete loss. [Ding-dong~ Your System is now online! From now on, every time you spend a set amount of currency, you'll receive an exclusive skill~] Fu Ci's eyes lit up. From then on, he began spending freely, without a care in the world. While others saved, he spent. Seeing the confusi 158Reads8.4Score10014d adds
- 148 Diary of a Crematorium Worker 火葬场女工日记 [Unsolved Case + Death Notes + Female Perspective] Through the eyes of a woman who works at a crematorium, this story clearly and thoroughly explains the final place people go, and what they experience along the way. Read it, and you'll learn everything a person goes through after death, before their soul leaves their body. The author delves into the crematorium to lay out a cross-section for readers, making it easier to understand and see everything clearly. This is the story of a woman who wor 6.7kReads9.1Score31814d adds
- 149 The Ghost Emerges from the Coffin 鬼出棺 Xie Bangui is secretly recruited into the Ghost Yamen and, on his master's orders, serves there, making a living by hunting demons and ghosts. Yet he has no idea that he carries a world-shaking secret. Leading the Ghost Yamen's warriors, Xie Bangui launches a night raid on a prison for evil spirits, fights a bloody battle on the execution platform against a demon, encounters a soul-snatching carriage, and cleverly breaks a skeleton lock. He survives evil spirits' attempts to claim his life, outw 1.6kReads9.1Score14414d adds
- 150 Ghosts in Pieces 散装见鬼 Do you believe there are ghosts in this world? I think that question is as impossible to answer as whether there are dragons in this world. The answer you hear most often is: Believe in them, and they exist. Don’t believe in them, and they don’t. But if you ask me, my answer is simple: Yes! Not because I believe, but because I can see them. Of course, I wasn’t able to see them from birth. It all goes back to the strange experience I had when I was six... 23Reads—Score—14d adds
