Novels like I Escape the Mental Hospital from the Start, and the Whole World Goes Mad
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- 1 Rules of the Paranormal: Please Don't Touch the Red Ones 规则怪谈,请不要触碰那些红色 Rules of the Strange: Please Do Not Touch Anything Red 2Reads—Score—14d adds
- 2 The Two-Legged Sheep Factory That Never Produces Mutton 两脚羊工厂,竟然从不生产羊肉 The Two-Legged Sheep Factory Somehow Never Produces Mutton —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 3 Rule Horror: A Psychotic Patient Charges into the Eerie World 规则怪谈:精神病勇闯诡异世界 [No Female Lead] [Comedy] [Eerie] [Mental Illness] On the boundary where reality and the Eerie intertwine, Gong Luelei, a clueless idiot obsessed with exploring the realm of rule-based horror, embarks on an unprecedented journey by sheer coincidence. “These are no empty myths, but real challenges waiting for the brave to uncover them.” Despite the doubts all around him, he believes that only by bravely crossing the rifts in time and space can he reach the heart of a forgotten world. And so begin 5Reads—Score—14d adds
- 4 The Singing in the Tomb 墓室里面的歌声 The Singing in the Tomb —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 5 The Woman Who Crawled Out of the Dry Well 枯井里爬上来的女人 The Woman Who Climbed Out of the Dry Well —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 6 Delivering Takeout to Ghosts: The Cure for Cyberpsychos 外卖送诡单:专治赛博癫佬 Lu Chen was a delivery driver ground down by algorithms. Ever since taking a mysterious order, I’ve become the most unhinged cyber-reaper on the entire internet I burn a paper-mache coffee machine for an overworked programmer who died on the job, and the ghost sobs as he fixes bugs. “The King of Hell optimized me before I could even enjoy my benefits!” I deliver chilled poisoned wine to Qin Shi Huang, and he gives me five stars in return: “Bold Qin folk, work yourselves to death and crush those —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 7 The Red Shoes 红舞鞋 A woman in red dancing on campus late at night, a mysterious prophecy of death, deaths occurring one after another, and the red dancing shoes that repeatedly send chills down people’s spines… Is it all a coincidence, or a carefully laid conspiracy? The god of death descends into the night. Who will die next? —Reads8.5Score—14d adds
- 8 Strange Tales of the Maze City: Spirit Detective 迷城诡事之灵探 Mysteries of the Haunted City: Spirit Investigator —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 9 The Dragon-Locking Coffin 锁龙棺 I have all five yin aspects, yet my allotted years are cut short. Every day, I wear burial clothes. The moment I take them off, one strange and eerie thing after another begins to happen... 133Reads7.0Score—14d adds
- 10 I Tour the World to Offer Sacrifices, and All the Gods Bow 我巡天下祀,诸神皆叩首 [Chinese Folk Customs + Supernatural Cultivation + Eerie Mystery Cases + A Cast of Human Characters + Mutual Redemption + One Female Lead] A bowl of hot rice suddenly appears in the General’s Shrine, which has been sealed for sixty years. Pei Zhaoye is ordered to open the shrine and inspect it. To his surprise, the statue that has never opened its eyes steps down from the altar and bows before him. “Your sinful god welcomes... Mr. Lu.” But Pei Zhaoye’s surname is not Lu, and he remembers nothing 1Reads—Score—14d adds
- 11 A Psychiatric Patient Saves the World. This Is Freaking Awesome! 精神病拯救全世界,实在泰酷辣! A world where ghosts have returned. Chen Zhuo is a patient at Qingshan Psychiatric Hospital. The System failed to cure him successfully. System: Let him do whatever he wants. I just provide technical support. Ghost Realm Bounty Board: Chen Zhuo, male, severe mental illness. Whoever takes his life will receive a tenfold increase in ghost energy, several mansions, and endless comforts. 408Reads—Score11314d adds
- 12 I Get Rich Every Time I Make a Choice 我完成选择就能变富 Other people transmigrate into immortal cultivation worlds, but I transmigrated into a world of the uncanny. They keep getting stronger, while I keep getting richer! Sigh! Fine, I’ll stop pretending. I’m Xue Fan, the most handsome ghoul in the world. Wait, no, the richest ghoul in the world!!! —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 13 I Became a Terror in the World of Horror 我在惊悚世界成为惊悚 [Story-Driven Plot] [No Female Lead] [Smart Protagonist] The collision of three dimensions, humans, ghosts, and games, causes the order of the real world to gradually collapse. Evil spirits run rampant in the human world, while players struggle to survive in the world of ghosts. The horror game is a "gate" born between the two. What connection do they have to each other...? After Bai Yu, a nobody, goes through one dungeon after another and encounters one ghost after another, he discovers that he —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 14 A Bloody Night in Jiling Village 寂岭村血夜 This novel contains depictions of human nature and graphic violence. Readers under 18 should read with a parent or guardian. On December 4, 1994, a small mountain village in eastern Shenzhong City, near the border with Huizhou City, was the site of an unprecedented major crime. It later became known as “Shenzhong’s Sealed Village.” “Help me! Everyone’s been killed!” “Hello, this is Danao Police Station. What happened?” “There’s a ghost! A ghost is here! N-no, don’t come any closer! P-please, hel 17Reads—Score—14d adds
- 15 Surviving Death High: I Fear Nothing 死亡高校求生:我无视恐惧 He pushed open the classroom door, only to find himself in a different classroom at a different university. One student, a sealed-off school, a string of terrifying incidents, and a horde of ghosts growing stronger by the day. Escape, division, conflict, and human nature. While everyone else was caught up in this ever-changing spectacle, Ling Chen yawned and found himself standing atop the terrifying university. Because he was a man who knew no fear. 14Reads—Score—14d adds
- 16 Infinite: Madness Isn't a Disease, Losing Is 无限:疯不是病,打不赢才是 Tired of cookie-cutter power fantasies? Sick of amateur stories that all feel exactly the same? [Infinite worlds + phenomenal plot + transmigration + a touch of horror + ancient times + comedy] No System, no power fantasy, no brainless antics, no padding. A treat for veteran readers. This is the world of the mentally ill. Normal people... evacuate! Evacuate! Evacuate! Schizophrenia, delusions, bipolar disorder... After witnessing his friend being murdered at Qingshan Psychiatric Hospital, a 2Reads8.2Score—14d adds
- 17 Building 1 1号楼 Horrifying incidents keep piling up: bizarre disappearances, a string of deaths, and the question of who the mysterious person really is. Can Zishuo, usually so calm and collected, unravel the secret behind the four sentences in a notebook? What secret is hidden in Building No. 1? 648Reads7.2Score10614d adds
- 18 Marching Against the Yellow Springs: The Book of the Impermanent 黄泉逆行:无常簿 Have you ever narrowly escaped death? A car crash, a fire, or even a sudden slip beneath your feet... In that moment, you were grateful to be alive. But you don't know that from the instant you "accidentally" survived, your name was written in an invisible Book of Impermanence. It is no ghost or curse. It is a rule, the coldest correction program in the universe. From then on, the everyday things you rely on will become your tomb. The floor beneath your feet, the chandelier overhead, the cup in —Reads—Score214d adds
- 19 Ever Since I Became Mentally Ill, Demons and Monsters Keep Their Distance 自从成了精神病,妖魔鬼怪绕我走 In a world where ghostly energy has returned, countless ghosts and monsters thought they could rule the world. But none of them ever imagined they would ultimately fall at the hands of a lunatic... 266Reads—Score—14d adds
- 20 Haunted 撞邪 Can you guarantee that the people around you are really human? A lowly office worker had always kept his head down and worked in silence, until one day he accidentally discovered that his coworkers weren’t human at all… To stay alive, he has to pretend everything is normal, struggling to survive in the narrow cracks of this place day after day… 4.2kReads8.4Score30414d adds
- 21 Forbidden Tales of the Desolate Village: A Midnight Whistle, and a Shrouded Corpse Spirit at the Door 荒村禁忌:夜半吹哨,白布尸魂找上门 Taboos of the Abandoned Village: A Whistle in the Dead of Night, and a White-Cloth Corpse Spirit Comes Calling —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 22 Tales of the Strange 聊斋那些事 Have you ever heard of a plain-language version of Strange Tales from a Chinese Studio? A scholar spends the night in an abandoned house and is welcomed into a beautiful woman's arms, only to discover that her face is a painted skin. A poor young man finds a fox. The fox says, “I’ll marry you, but you must never look at my tail.” At the mass graves outside town, someone tells stories every night. Anyone who listens disappears the next day. Don’t be afraid. These are all stories passed down by ou 3Reads—Score—14d adds
- 23 On My Wedding Day, My Deceased Sister Texted: You Can't Marry This Man 婚礼当天,亡妹发短信:这人不能嫁 On her wedding day, her deceased younger sister texted her: Don't marry this man. —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 24 Rift in the Abyss: We Awakened the Old Ones 深渊裂隙:我们唤醒旧日支配者 In 1992, U.S. Army Major Austin takes charge of the top-secret project "Abyss Watch." One hundred and thirty meters beneath the desert, a strange fissure spreads madness into the world above. Five elite soldiers are ordered into the abyss, with Austin directing their investigation remotely. A videotape that appears out of nowhere exposes a horrific secret from the past: To spy on the secrets underground, the military sacrificed living people. A thousand meters below ground, an ancient stone gate —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 25 Tomb of the Living 活人墓 My mother said I was short on Metal in the Five Elements, so she named me Du Jin. But I realized I wasn't just short on Metal. I was born without a fate, and all five elements were broken! When I was two or three, my baby brother, who had only just been born, died. When I was twelve or thirteen, my father left this world along with the little brother still in my mother's womb. Not long after my father died, my mother also passed away, taking with her the baby who had died shortly after birth. An 2.2kReads7.4Score11014d adds
- 26 A Strange World: I Draw the Clown as My Identity 诡异世界:抽取身份为小丑 [Supernatural World, Split Personality, Horror, Thriller, Comedy Elements, Survival and Escape, Slaughter, A Gradual Descent into Darkness] Note: The early plot moves rather slowly! “What makes you think you’ll get out alive?” “What makes you think they’ll spare you?” “If you don’t strike first, you’re the one who dies!” “When you meet a few kind people, you start thinking the whole world is full of angels. So when you meet evil people, do you decide the whole world is full of demons?” “Don’t go 223Reads—Score—14d adds
- 27 A Ghost at the Interview: The System Makes Me Play Chu Renmei 面试撞诡,系统让我扮演楚人美 [Supernatural resurgence + no female lead + System + role-playing + horror + decisive and ruthless + urban] Fresh out of college and already unemployed, Lin Ye receives a high-paying job offer from the Afterlife Funeral Home. It turns out to be a death warrant leading straight to hell! The interviewer is a faceless ghost, and HR is a painted-skin demon! The moment a ghostly claw pierces his heart, Lin Ye thinks he’s done for! [Ding! Host’s life is in imminent danger. Critical condition at 100% c 3Reads—Score—14d adds
- 28 Tales of the Countryside: My Grandma Was a Midwife 乡野怪谈之我的姥姥是稳婆 At the foot of Mount Maqi, midwife Zhang Guilan spent her life delivering babies on nighttime roads. Other midwives delivered human babies. The ones she delivered were ghosts, demons, and wronged spirits from the wilderness. Road-blocking skin-sellers, water ghosts demanding souls, Pixihuzi repaying a debt of gratitude, and Li the Bald-Tailed Dragon making his presence known. She didn't believe in the supernatural when she was young. Only after surviving countless dangers did she understand t 147Reads—Score—14d adds
- 29 Don't Read If You're a Coward! One Ghost Story Every Day! 胆小勿进!每天一个鬼故事! A series of urban ghost stories Every chapter tells a different tale There’s sure to be one you’ll enjoy When the novels you’re following haven’t updated yet Read some urban ghost stories in the meantime 4Reads—Score—14d adds
- 30 How Does One Become a Demon, How Does One Become a Buddha? 何以成魔,何以成佛 A holy maiden rises in the East, her merit enduring through the ages. In 2023, a savior maiden awakens to save all living beings. This is not a feel-good story, but a work of documentary fiction that weaves together philosophy, theology, biotechnology, AI, the metaverse, space exploration, and more. It examines the potential dangers and crises facing humanity and seeks a new future for human development! —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 31 The Eerie End 诡异终焉 Do you believe there are monsters in this world above? Amid the surging sea of humanity, the strange invade reality, and you and I will eventually become something inhuman.-----Here are story after story of inhuman beings struggling to survive. 4Reads—Score—14d adds
- 32 This Is How You Use Mental Illness 精神病是这么用的 I’m Lu Changnian, a high school student afflicted with five rare mental disorders. Fregoli syndrome makes me see the same pair of demonic eyes on everyone’s face. Cotard’s syndrome tells me I’m already a rotting corpse, and that studying is just a hallucination before death. Then one day, my alien hand wrote perfect answers for me in the exam hall, and Stendhal syndrome made the scene of a massacre so beautiful that I trembled. That’s when it hit me: this is how you use mental illness. A more at 3Reads—Score—14d adds
- 33 Strange Tales: Paper Money 诡异杂谈之纸钱 Weird Tales: Paper Money 1Reads—Score—14d adds
- 34 Strange Tales from the Teaching Mission 支教诡事 I'm an ordinary teacher at a key secondary school, but after I talked back to the principal, I was “volunteered” for a long-term teaching assignment at a middle school in the countryside. I was furious, but to keep my job, I had no choice but to accept being “volunteered.” What I never expected was that this school would be anything but ordinary. (Note: This book is set in a parallel world. Any resemblance between its place names, characters, or events and those in real life is purely coincident 3.6kReads8.2Score37314d adds
- 35 Rule Horror: I Do It My Way and Gain an Invincible Talent 规则怪谈:我直接,获得无敌天赋 [Horror + invincible protagonist + deduction + comedy] Ye Wudi is a psychiatric patient selected for the Rule Horror game. He is chosen to represent the Dragon Kingdom and receives an SSS-rank invincibility talent from the start. Ye Wudi then appears in a dim room, with dust gathered around him. He opens his eyes with an air of absolute confidence, like a peerless master. Just like his name, Ye Wudi: invincible. But his hands seem to be bound together, and his clothes are unusual, mostly white w 1Reads—Score—14d adds
- 36 The Forbidden Zone of the Living 活人禁地 My dad forced me to eat something I shouldn’t have. On the seventh day after he died, I saw him outside, playing a suona… 63Reads6.6Score—14d adds
- 37 Death WeChat 死亡微信 One death after another closes in around the protagonist. Will they find a way to survive these hardships, or fall into hell… 149Reads5.2Score—14d adds
- 38 I'm the Orphanage Director with a Split Personality 人格分裂的我是孤儿院院长 P.S. Journey to the West + spiritual qi revival + golden finger + Western gods! No female lead! Holy light blankets the earth. Some say this is a sign that the gods are about to descend upon the mortal world. Humanity is destined to become the gods’ slaves. Seizing this opportunity, countless people awaken their talents: superhuman strength, control over wind, rain, thunder, and lightning... But Ren Xiaoyuan, who has multiple personalities, ends up with an orphanage... 11Reads—Score—14d adds
- 39 You Were Supposed to Tell the Fortune-Teller’s Fortune, Not Calculate Her into a Coffin 让你给女神算命,你把她算进棺材 [Horror] [Hilarious] [Exorcism by Physical Force] [Occult Prayers] Our peaceful world hides strange, terrifying things that few people know about. At the request of his lovesick buddy, Feng Zi “accidentally” runs into a beautiful fortune-teller on an overpass, only to get slapped silly by the murderous aura rushing off her. “We were never meant to meet. It’s all because you paid extra.” After the goddess lavishly showers him with money, he takes his first-generation weapon, “Big Baby,” and charg —Reads7.2Score—14d adds
- 40 Monster Servants: Three Little Demons Beneath the Stove 精怪仆役-灶台下的三只小妖 Spirit Servants: Three Little Imps Under the Stove —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 41 Monster Servants: The Gray Porcelain Bowl with Legs 精怪仆役-长脚的灰瓷碗 Spirit Servants: The Gray Porcelain Bowl with Legs —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 42 A Madman with a Pen, Slaying Gods in a Single Act 疯人一杆笔,屠神一场戏 9Reads8.2Score—14d adds
- 43 Thriller Game: I'm a Summoner 惊悚游戏:我是召唤师 [System + Summoner + Infinite Flow + Horror + Pets + Decisive and ruthless] Ling Fan, a transmigrator, was forced to take part in a horror game. The horror game chose me? You sure you won't regret it? With a System at my side, I summon the void and adopt evil gods as daughters. I know you're in a hurry, but take a breath. This place will be mine to manage soon! Ling Fan treated the terrifying, mysterious world as his own backyard, messing with the game's characters to gain energy. He summoned al —Reads—Score114d adds
- 44 You Found Me 你找到我了 Modern Supernatural + Female-Led + Fresh Premise + All-Rounder + Wild Imagination + Reincarnation + Spirit Speech + Runes and Formations + Fictional Modern Setting + Pure Wish Fulfillment in the Middle and Later Parts Abandoned and cast out? No. Her god reincarnates for her, life after life. Following the usual formula and old clichés? No. The Heavenly Dao is nothing to her. An ordinary girl dealing with a life that’s a complete mess? No. Other people are the ordinary ones. She is the unique one 6Reads—Score—14d adds
- 45 The Haunting of the New Home 搬家诡事 [Mystery + Thriller + Supernatural + Horror + No Female Lead + Smart Protagonist] His name was Yi Jibo. After he was wrongfully imprisoned, his mother fell ill and died. To pay off his gambling debts, his father sold her ashes to the Japanese through a crematorium driver. To get his mother's ashes back, Yi Jibo went to work at a Japanese funeral home. And so he burned Japanese corpses while searching for his mother's ashes… 18Reads—Score—14d adds
- 46 Darling? Darling! 亲爱的?亲爱的! Welcome, everyone, to our Loving Family The blurb can't show off my charm, so just read Chapter One. I'm a new author, and the earlier chapters aren't very good. Please bear with me. I'll try to wrap up the instances quickly and just write romance in the real world instead. I'll be making major revisions to the earlier chapters. Updates will probably come gradually, with around 200,000 words in total. The earlier chapters really aren't good. Start reading from Chapter 60 onward. The earlier part 2Reads—Score—14d adds
- 47 A Collection of Bizarre Horror Stories 怪诞恐怖故事集 My stories have magic, blood and tears, the evil side of human nature, and the horror you’re looking for. 1. Mother’s Bottles and Jars: A single drop of blood can turn one grain of rice into a whole pot of rice. A hundred drops can conjure a bicycle... What kind of magic is hidden in the bottles and jars Mother prepared for him? 2. The Toilets in Dreams: If you fall asleep while desperate to pee, you’ve surely dreamed of all kinds of toilets. If you write down the toilets you see in your dreams, 13Reads—Score—14d adds
- 48 Cultivating Buddhism and Taoism, I Befriend the Paranormal 佛道双修我与诡异为伍 No System, no harem, no goody-two-shoes protagonist, and either one or two heroines. Fresh out of college, Chen Xiao scraped by delivering takeout in his spare time. One night, he accidentally crossed paths with something unclean, and from then on, evil spirits clung to him relentlessly. Strange events kept happening, and misfortune followed him everywhere. On the road, he ran into a ragged wandering monk. Unable to turn a blind eye, Chen Xiao gave him a little help. He never imagined that this 5Reads—Score—14d adds
- 49 A Dream of Brocade, A Heart of Rippling Waters 锦梦澜心 Life is like the pages of a book, turning gently. Sometimes it overflows with sunshine, and sometimes dark clouds gather. But that is what makes the good things all the more precious. Pay attention, and you’ll find surprises hidden everywhere in life. —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 50 Grandpa Started the Trouble, Three Generations Must Pay 爷爷闯下的祸,三代来还 The trouble Grandpa caused will take three generations to repay. 3Reads—Score—14d adds

















































