Novels like I Escape the Mental Hospital from the Start, and the Whole World Goes Mad
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- 51 The Temple That Eats People 吃人的庙 The Man-Eating Temple 1Reads—Score—14d adds
- 52 The Eerie Immortal’s Box 诡仙魔盒 [Mystery] + [Eerie] + [Xuanhuan] + [Thriller] + [Mind-Bending] + [One Female Lead] Chen Tong, a young man struggling to make a living in the city, returns to his hometown to attend his grandfather's funeral... But he unexpectedly discovers that his grandfather's death was shrouded in mystery. He comes into possession of a mysterious golden-thread nanmu box, and everything begins to turn Eerie... The grandfather of a female classmate from his village also dies. The monks and Taoist priests hired —Reads8.3Score—14d adds
- 53 Thriller: I Have 12 Personalities, and I Terrify the Supernatural 惊悚：我12种精神病，吓懵诡异 [No Heroines + Decisive and Ruthless + Romance Route Sealed Shut + Smart Protagonist + Eliminate the Fake Saints First] Years ago, a horror game descended upon Blue Star. Lu Ming, a severely mentally ill patient with more than a dozen conditions, including manic disorder and autism, was “luckily” chosen to take part… The No. 4 subway line, the City of Slaughter, the Horror Zoo, the Kitchen of Longing, and other dungeons appeared one after another… Lu Ming also discovered that every time one of h 129Reads—Score—14d adds
- 54 I’m an S-Rank Aberration, Contracted by a Psychic School Beauty S级诡异的我，被通灵体校花契约 [Supernatural + Mysterious Revival + Suspense + Horror + Terror + Adrenaline Rush + Not for the Faint of Heart] My name is Zhang Jian. I transmigrated into a world where the supernatural had returned and was reborn as an S-rank supernatural entity, the Taotie Ghost. I can devour other supernatural beings and take their powers, earning me the title of nightmare to countless spirits. Unfortunately, my strength was low from the start. I planned to lie low and devour a few weak spirits to grow stron 206Reads6.0Score14014d adds
- 55 I'm Broke, Why Should I Be Afraid of Ghosts? 我穷鬼，岂会怕鬼？ [Goofy] [Funny] [Irreverent] [Mystery] [Supernatural] [Hop in] [No System] [A fish that slipped through nine years of compulsory education] Wang Ling landed a job paying 18,000 yuan a month as a security guard at a private hospital. On his first day, he was left completely stunned! Each floor of the hospital's inpatient wing had a special passage enshrining one of the underworld's yin deities. The morgue even had butcher's knives inexplicably lying around. Wang Ling put up with all of that. Then 3Reads—Score—14d adds
- 56 The Haunting Broadcast 诡异广播 This is my first novel, and my writing still needs work. I’ve put a lot of thought into the plot, and I definitely won’t use AI. Read it if you like, and thank you! Updates will be irregular. I’m Little Black Umbrella. 1Reads—Score—14d adds
- 57 You Alt Girls Can Fall Apart, I’ll Be the One Who Loses It! 精神小妹你们崩，我崩神经小妹！ [Timeline Reset] + [System] + [Inner Worlds] Chen Mo’s soul transmigrates into the body of the director of a psychiatric hospital, where he takes in twelve female patients. Each one has her own inner world, and Chen Mo must win his way through them to obtain the corresponding abilities. —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 58 This World Feels So Unreal 这个世界太不真实了 Also known as The Most Miserable Male Lead in History Two black-and-white doors, a strange journey across different times and worlds, and a terrifying conspiracy hidden behind it all. Will he save the world or destroy it? Wang Chunan, an utterly ordinary college sophomore, unexpectedly acquired two black-and-white doors capable of transporting him to other worlds during a baffling shooting incident. Through them, he glimpsed strange realms beyond the present world. Gradually, he seemed to become 4Reads—Score—14d adds
- 59 Strange Tales of the Countryside: A Battle of Yin and Yang 乡野诡事阴阳斗 My grandfather died a gruesome death after being struck by an evil spirit. In the dead of night, a vicious ghost came to the mourning hall to claim my life. At the brink of despair, I awakened the divine power to create dreams. In dreams, I can glimpse the thoughts of ghosts and gods. By creating dreams, I can shatter evil spirits and their souls! Yet the feng shui world branded me an aberration! Thus began a century-long struggle between good and evil, linking me to the feng shui masters! T 2Reads—Score—14d adds
- 60 I Tamed the Paranormal 我把诡异收服了 Born with ghostly eyes, I share a desk with the City Lord of the Underworld. A vengeful female ghost wants me to kiss her, I take in a powerful underworld enforcer, and a princess from a thousand years ago swears an oath with me. Onstage, they sing of sorrow and grief. Beneath the stage, I capture every kind of evil. My name is Zhang Qiang. Watch me run rampant through the Underworld! —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 61 Monster Servant: The City Is Filled with Yellow Butterflies 精怪仆役-满城尽是黄蝴蝶 Supernatural Servants: The City Is Filled with Yellow Butterflies —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 62 After My Face Was Stolen, I Drew the Six Realms of Living Beings 我的脸被夺走后我画出六道众生相 My face was stolen. It wasn’t disfigured. It wasn’t disguised. My face was literally gone. To stay alive, I had no choice but to paint one new face after another onto my own. Human, ghost, demon, beast, god, immortal. Every face I painted gave me a new ability. As I tried to reclaim my original face, I gradually discovered that this world was far more complicated than it seemed. 96Reads—Score12614d adds
- 63 Strange Tales of the World 世奇怪谈 [One Thousand and One Nights of Terror] A deranged pregnant woman, abnormal growth, a horrifying circus, money paid to buy a life, a bizarre matchmaking gathering, an endless staircase, a rule-based horror story at a nursing school, a haunted snow mountain, a human-faced badger, strange happenings in a rented apartment, dog-headed men... Bizarre tales you’ve never heard before, wildly imaginative premises, plot twists layered upon plot twists, and endings you’ll never guess. A cup of tea, a cig 2.4kReads8.5Score36114d adds
- 64 The Midnight Last Train 午夜末班车 He was on the last bus home late at night when a beautiful woman got on. He was about to confess his feelings, but then he noticed how sinister her reflection looked in the window. He got off the Route 155 bus and instinctively looked up, meeting her gaze... 727Reads6.7Score—14d adds
- 65 Grimm's Fairy Tales, Reimagined as Horror 诡异格林童话 Lin En, a folklore graduate student, wakes up in another world only to be swallowed by a tide of rats from the start! At the brink of despair, his research notes on Grimm’s Fairy Tales, which he’d brought along, transform into a golden finger: the [Book of Truth]! [Warning! The fairy-tale incident “The Pied Piper” is about to occur!] [Truth erosion initiated... “Piper” erased! New entries revealed: “Astral Worm,” “Sonic Neural Control”!] When the whole town hails the Pied Piper as their savior, 19Reads8.2Score—14d adds
- 66 Strange Tales of Southeast Asia 东南亚诡事 (The author has opened a coffee shop in the ancient city of Dali and is busy with renovations. Please wait a little while for updates.) My name is Ning. During college, I went alone to Thailand to intern at a hotel, where a series of bizarre and inexplicable things happened. Why was there a temple built inside the hotel? What secrets did this temple hide? 7Reads—Score—14d adds
- 67 The Campus Curse: A Register of Corpse-Subduing Spells 校园诡咒镇尸簿 (No romance + an unusual team-up to catch ghosts) On what seemed like an ordinary night, four girls in a dormitory started playing with a spirit board. But that very night, horror quietly descended... Was it a collapse of morality, or a distortion of human nature? Follow this unusual team as they solve the mystery. —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 68 Rule Horror: Abyss Metro 规则怪谈：深渊地铁 [Rules-Based Horror + Infinite Flow + Suspenseful Mysteries + Deduction and Puzzles + Character Growth] The ticket gate spat out a blood-red ticket. It read: Welcome aboard the Abyss Metro. This train is bound for Level 18. That was the first time Cheng Chi learned that the subway he crammed onto every day could take him to hell. Every station brought new rules. The rules could change, deceive, and contradict one another. Some died in the glass reflections on the Mirror Platform. Some walked 6Reads—Score—14d adds
- 69 Writing Correct Characters in the Advent of the Gods 我在神临写正字 [Infinite Flow] [Not Mindless] [Consistent Logic] [Single Female Lead, Much Later] [Deduction] [Story] Have you heard the legend of the Mo River? They say stones float on its surface, one after another, like teeth growing out of the abyss. Behind anyone who steps onto them lies the eerie abyss; ahead is black water with no visible end. With every trial passed, the stones shift a little farther back, farther from the abyss and closer to the truth. Some say the oldest one has crossed a thousand ti 2Reads—Score—14d adds
- 70 Laid Off and Driving a Taxi, I Get Haunted by Evil Spirits 被裁后开出租，我被邪物缠上了 After being laid off, 28-year-old Wang Chao starts driving a taxi to make ends meet. Little does he know that a host of evil entities are about to latch onto him. A mysterious woman in white, a strange old lady in worn-out clothes, a gaunt cemetery caretaker, and an elusive fat man... One after another, these figures drag him into a vortex he cannot escape... 4Reads—Score—14d adds
- 71 The Poet Immortal’s Cat and the Mountain-and-River Sign-In System 诗仙的猫与山河签到系统 After transmigrating to the Wu Zhou dynasty, Lin Xiaozhou becomes a descendant of the Poet Immortal Li Bai, generations removed. Perched on his shoulder is Jinzun, a booze-loving, endlessly chatty spirit cat. Bound to the “Mountains and Rivers Poetry System,” his journey is destined to be extraordinary: he climbs Mount Tai to grasp the meaning of “Gazing at Mount Tai,” then arrives in Luoyang to unravel a “blood pact.” Every step takes him across the verses of history and into its conspiracies. 2Reads—Score114d adds
- 72 You, You Idiot of a Daoist 你个二货道士 I had the Fate of the Limitless, the destiny countless cultivators envied. But the heavens were jealous of my talent, and my fate was left incomplete. Was I destined to be a good-for-nothing all my life? No, I refused to accept it! I would slay demons and vanquish evil! I would uphold justice! “Hey! Wake up. Stop dreaming. You’re a good-for-nothing.” “Take this, you wicked fiend: my Ten Dragon-Subduing Slaps!” “Please. You’re a complete idiot of a Taoist priest!” 8Reads8.2Score—14d adds
- 73 Tales of the Strange: King of Destruction 怪谈：破坏之王 The bane of everyone’s existence in the urban legend game is back. Whether you’re a monster or a demon beast, you’d better stay far away. Otherwise, everything’s going to go to pieces. I’m Hao Yun. The monsters all hate me, and I’m so sad... [Mystery + Imaginative Premises + Original Scenarios + Comedy + No Female Lead + Cunning Twists] 1Reads—Score—14d adds
- 74 I Have a Ghostly Wife 我有鬼娇妻 [Mystery] [Comedy] Have you ever experienced something like this? I mean, asking for a wife at the bottom of a dry well! I live in a small village in the mountains, cut off from the outside world. No outsiders have visited in hundreds of years. Maybe it's because of a curse, but no baby girls have ever been born in our village. 1Reads—Score—14d adds
- 75 Who Are You Calling Crazy? I'm the Protagonist! 骂谁精神病呢？我是主角！ Qi Zhou, who had lived in a mental hospital since childhood, firmly believed that he was the “protagonist” of this world. Sure, he was trapped behind these high walls for now, but one day he’d meet his very own old-timer who would pass on his luck and wisdom! One day, as usual, he tried to climb over the mental hospital’s wall, even though he had no chance of making it over on his own. At long last, Qi Zhou got incredibly lucky and met an ugly old man with a full head of white hair and beard. Ha 36Reads7.2Score—14d adds
- 76 Thriller Paradise: Jurassic Park from the Start 惊悚乐园：开局侏罗纪公园 The protagonist has no cheat. Everyone in the reincarnation instances has a talent, though some are stronger than others. The first instance is terribly written, but things gradually improve afterward. [The endless trials have begun. There is only one rule: survive.] After a strange “recruitment game,” Lin Feng and more than ten others are drawn into a series of reincarnation instances known as the “Trial World.” First instance: Jurassic Park 1. Welcome to the dinosaurs’ territory. They arri 90Reads5.8Score12714d adds
- 77 Is This the Funeral Parlor? 是那间丧葬店吗？ A funeral goods shop that looks completely out of place has suddenly opened on a bustling shopping street. It keeps its doors shut during the day and opens for business by night. Qi Shiwu, born at an hour of yin, accidentally becomes a shop assistant. What connection could she have to this place? Follow Shiwu as she opens the shop’s doors! “Shh! A customer’s here!” 102Reads—Score—14d adds
- 78 The Ghostly Deliveryman 鬼怪外卖员 “Hello, this is Jiang Sheng, a delivery rider for the Midnight Takeout app. Here’s your order. Please check it!” Wearing a black delivery uniform, Jiang Sheng smiled at the rotting corpse before him. He even remembered to take the corpse’s hand as he said, “Hey, don’t forget to leave me a five-star review!” This is the story of an ordinary man delivering takeout to vengeful ghosts... 250Reads7.1Score—14d adds
- 79 Multiple Fears 多重恐惧 An invitation to a party brings together nine writers, each with a very different style. At the party, the novelist who invited them traps everyone inside and demands that each guest tell a story. With no other choice, they comply. One story after another unfolds at the party: will they reveal the clash of human nature or unleash ghostly terrors? Everything will come to light here. "This is my debut work. I hope you'll show it plenty of support." 9Reads—Score—14d adds
- 80 Underworld: This Identity Is Perfect for a Ghost Officer 地府：这身份当鬼差很合理吧 Synopsis: [Underworld + Ghost Constable + Romance + Suspense + Horror + Supernatural + Alternate Setting] Do you know about the Bridge of Helplessness? It has three levels: red above, dark yellow in the middle, and black below. Those who did good deeds in life walk across the top level; those whose good and evil deeds were evenly balanced take the middle; and evildoers walk the bottom. So, do you still dare to do evil? As you can see, I am a ghost constable. But you couldn't imagine the backing —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 81 Escape from the Bear’s Jaws 熊口逃生 Escape from the Bear’s Jaws 917Reads—Score2714d adds
- 82 Monster Servant: Granny Denghua 精怪仆役-灯花婆婆 Supernatural Servants: Granny Lampflower —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 83 One Hundred Thousand and One Folk Horror Stories 十万零一个民间恐怖故事 A collection of short horror stories in an episodic format, with a new story every chapter. No dragging things out! Haunted houses in the countryside, mountain spirits, urban legends, old customs and taboos... Every kind of Chinese-style horror is covered, with nonstop thrills and no filler. Anti-superstition disclaimer: This story is entirely fictional. Believe in science and read rationally. Please don’t apply it to real life~ 304Reads—Score10114d adds
- 84 Paper Figures Knock at the Door: No Living People Allowed 纸人敲门，活人勿进 The father who came back with a corpse died yesterday. The old man who came to report a death was made of paper. My childhood sweetheart, Fang Ting, kept watch with me. At dawn, she was gone too. Suona horns blared outside. Her father held up her memorial portrait and said she had died at eight o'clock last night. So what was the thing in my bed last night? And now, evil beings from a hundred li in every direction are heading for my home. 7.6kReads7.1Score79314d adds
- 85 Opening the Sparrow Gate 开雀门 While my mother was carrying me, I was sitting upright in her womb. The doctors all said the birth would be difficult, but my grandmother traded my life to a spirit messenger. My Xuanwu even went so far as to strip off his skin and bones for me! My relatives sought out one master after another to protect me, but sadly, they all said the good fortune I was born with was nowhere near enough to keep me alive. If I wanted to survive, I had no choice but to embark on the path of cultivation. From Sha 34Reads7.1Score—14d adds
- 86 The Source Code Abyss: A Global Guide to Commanding Gods Through Programming 源码深渊：全球编程驭神指南 "Have you ever seen code that could send an intern to a psychiatric hospital? Have you ever dealt with a bug that could burn through a monitor?" This is a world more terrifying than working overtime until nine every night, six days a week. In 2045, humanity stored 99% of its data in the quantum cloud. Everyone thought this was the ultimate triumph of technological progress, unaware that the ancient Cthulhu deities were stirring in the deepest reaches of the data. Chen Mo, the most obsessive c 5Reads—Score—14d adds
- 87 My Best Friend Urged Me to Get a Tattoo, But I Ended Up Tattooing Ghost Skin 闺蜜劝我纹身，可我竟然纹了鬼皮 My best friend urged me to get a tattoo, but somehow I ended up tattooing ghost skin on myself 93Reads—Score214d adds
- 88 Thriller Game: This Player Never Acts Like a Decent Human 惊悚游戏：这个玩家从不干人事 My new work is out! You can read it on Tomato Novel. I hope you’ll enjoy it. Your support inspires me to write, and I’ll do my best to tell every story well! 3Reads7.5Score—14d adds
- 89 A Bowl of Meng Po's Soup 一碗孟婆汤 Among strange spirits and monsters, dangers abound. Break bones to uncover secrets and seek the path to immortality. Lin Zemin’s grandmother was a famous village doctor throughout the surrounding countryside. She could not only cure illnesses, but also read the signs. The medicines she used were all folk remedies. They might not have seemed orthodox, but they always worked. Lin Zemin was born late in his parents’ lives, and after his birth, his grandmother declared that he was destined to bear a 116Reads9.0Score—14d adds
- 90 Don't Talk to the Comments 不要和弹幕说话 [Horror + Supernatural + Mystery + Mind-Bending + Anthology (first four volumes complete) + Dread That Gets Under Your Skin + Not for the Fainthearted + The Villain Is the Smartest Character in the Book + Growing Female Lead + No System, No Cheats, Plot-Driven] Have you ever replied to a historical comment on a video, even just for fun? Hu Jia accidentally comes across a web series from ten years ago. It depicts a real case from that same year, but its ending is completely different from what 19Reads8.1Score—14d adds
- 91 Back When I Was a Folk Mage 我做民间法师的时候 I entered the trade at fourteen and spent six years as a folk ritual master. In the south, this line of work is called “spirit arts.” I watched it go from thriving to decline. This year marks my sixth year, and I’ve finally left the trade behind. This work isn’t as glamorous as it looks. We’re all rats crawling out of the sewers, and the bar for entry keeps getting lower. I’m writing these stories down now as a way to remember those days. 195Reads—Score10414d adds
- 92 Shadows in the Daylight 白昼暗影 The criminal he hunts is himself. The shadow he cannot escape is his only protector. Lin Mo, the police department’s star profiler, cracks one extraordinary case after another with his precise criminal psychology analyses. But he doesn’t know that every night, another self awakens: Shen Ye, a “dark vigilante” who fights violence with violence, hunting down criminals who escaped justice through Lin Mo. The massacre that destroyed his family when he was a child split ten-year-old Lin Mo’s mind, cr —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 93 Match-Three Apocalypse: I Predict the End of the World Through Tile-Matching 消了个消：我靠消消乐末日预言 [Infinite Flow] [Rule Horror] [Mystery and Mind-Bending] [Supernatural] [No Female Lead] [Not a Saint] [Transmigrating Between Worlds] [Gods] “Your world is on the verge of collapse.” Qiao Yi, who called himself a gaming genius, opened the wildly popular match-three game and cleared a level. Just as he finished the first one, these words suddenly appeared before his eyes. Qiao Yi thought nothing of it, until “Are you talking about someone like me?” The middle-aged man before him gave an eerie sm 5Reads8.8Score—14d adds
- 94 White Russian Cemetery 白俄公墓 [Supernatural + Mystery + Horror + Forbidden Sites and Zone Exploration + Dark] While traveling, I passed through a small town called Beima and accidentally entered a strange internet cafe. The terrifying legend of a woman ghost hanging upside down, messages from an online friend dating back to 2001, an old school campus regarded as forbidden ground, a mysterious ghost village behind the school, and a cemetery that exists only in people's memories. Somehow, all of it seems connected to me. This 47Reads8.0Score—14d adds
- 95 Girls’ Dorm Rule Horror: Survive! 女寝规则怪谈：请活下去！ The Dormitory Girls’ Rules of the Strange: Survive! 102Reads—Score314d adds
- 96 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
- 97 The Otherworldly Netherworld 异站冥途 A bus bound for reincarnation, visible only to those on the brink of death. Every stop beyond the platforms brings an unknown crisis. At the Netherworld bus stop, queue up and board; the living get off, the dead stay behind. To find his long-lost girlfriend, Zhao Jichuan unhesitatingly boarded the bus. In an ocean of blood and tears, in a world of pain and fear, betrayal was commonplace and screams were nothing unusual. Just as he was about to despair, he thought he saw a ray of light... 17Reads—Score—14d adds
- 98 Taboo of the Living 活人禁忌 There are many taboos passed down in everyday life. For example, never stick your chopsticks upright in a bowl of rice, and never look back when walking alone at night... But some people refuse to believe in them. The consequences? Death, or something worse than death! One taboo passed down by word of mouth in our village was never to touch the stone tablet beside the well. Then the village’s Eighth Master touched it, and terrifying events began happening one after another... 28Reads6.9Score—14d adds
- 99 Tales of the Strange on National Highway 318 with My Two Spirit Dogs 我与通灵双犬的318国道诡事录 One national highway, half a hidden history of China; two dogs at his side, bearing witness to the healing heart of heaven and earth. Han Yuguo, a practitioner of traditional Chinese medicine, sets off west along National Highway 318 with a husky who understands yin and yang and a teddy who senses spirits. From the covered bridges and underground river of Lili Ancient Town to the mystery of dragon bones deep in Taihu Lake; from the poetic spirit of gold and iron along the Qiupu River to the tea 1Reads—Score—14d adds
- 100 The Ghostly Side of Humanity: Mad Stories You Never Knew, Volume 1 鬼味人间：你不知道的疯人故事1 Believe me, this world has another face. What seems insane to you may be perfectly normal to someone else. The eerie, unsettling stories of human life, the sinister and unfathomable depths of the human heart, and tales of madness you’ve never heard before are all hidden in this book, Ghostly Flavors of the Human World. 3.2kReads9.2Score26114d adds
