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- 1 Impostors?! 伪人？！ Doppelgangers + No System + No Cultivation + No Transmigration In a modern society where technology intertwines with fantasy, doppelgangers, a species long thought to exist only in people's imaginations and science fiction, suddenly become a threat to the real world. They are remarkably lifelike, almost indistinguishable from humans in their appearance, behavior, and even thought, making it difficult to tell the real from the fake. For ages, doppelgangers were dismissed as imaginary creatures. 164Reads—Score—Shelves
- 2 The Backrooms: This Partygoer Is Asking for a Beating 后室：这个扫兴客有点欠揍 (Dream skin + two heroines + practically invincible in the later stages + System + Minecraft meets the multiverse) My name is Lan Bing, and I’m a Partygoer. Hey, wait, don’t hit me in the face! All I did was throw a rotten egg at you. Was it really necessary to chase me for so long? But the Backrooms have become a little more complicated. Time and space are in disarray, and people, places, and skies are appearing one after another. Where will the protagonist end up? “Bing, can I really do it?” “ —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 3 The Backrooms: I Founded a Faction to Rival MEG! 后室：我创建团体比肩MEG！ (Backrooms W-version) + (No female lead!!! Stop asking!!!) + (C-cluster) + (System) + (factions) + (protagonist isn't a saint) + (informative) + (a few jokes) Ling Feng is an ordinary 996 office worker and a member of a Backrooms website. One day, while walking down the street, he accidentally noclips into the Backrooms. A lively, adorable, little-girl-like voice rings out in his mind: [Ding! Congratulations, Host, on unlocking the Backrooms Faction System!] As a veteran reader of Tomato novels —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 4 I Created the Backrooms to Slaughter Abominations and Raise Catgirls 我创造后室，虐杀异类与饲养猫娘 Xiao Feng transmigrates to a parallel world and finds himself the master of every level in the Backrooms. An invasion from another world? First, he’ll head into the Backrooms and have a heart-to-heart with the entities! Accidentally created a [Safe Level]? Perfect. He can stock it with adorable monster girls! Viewers watching the livestream cry out in relief that Xiao Feng is on humanity’s side. But Xiao Feng only smiles and says nothing. He opens his mouth to accept a fresh piece of fruit offer —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 5 The Afterlife: I Cheat My Way Through the Backrooms 后世：我在后室里开挂 Even Tomato is going too far. After signing the contract, you still can't change the title of your work? Anyone who dares ask me for an update or give me a low rating is getting a 360-degree, no-blind-spots summon of Shaoyu**************and then**********Shaoyu is freaking awesome 666, and finally I'll summon the young master's grandpa to grab that cement with chopsticks*********😡😡😡😡😡 Ten years at the top, yet no one knows, The innocent are known by ten thousand, I guard the nation's gates f —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 6 Impostor Sacrifice: Soul-Combing on a Rainy Night 伪人祭·雨夜梳魂 Impostor Sacrifice: Combing Souls on a Rainy Night —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 7 A Survival Guide for a World Overrun by Impostors 世界出现伪人后的求生指南 No romance. The protagonist is emotionally detached and puts self-interest first, with a way of thinking unlike that of ordinary people. He wakes up in a psychiatric hospital. After checking his medical records, he learns that he suffers from intermittent amnesia. No wonder his mind is a blank. So he has amnesia. Well, that explains it. Something strange happens at the hospital, and for no apparent reason, a government organization recruits him. The person who comes to invite him is the organiza 23Reads—Score—Shelves
- 8 Impostors Invade: I Can Spot the Replacements 伪人入侵：我能看到替换者 Urban legends become reality, and impostors quietly replace the people around us! College student Lin Mo's eyes undergo a mutation, awakening the [Eyes of Truth]. He can spot flaws in impostors' data and even use [Golden Light Possession] to turn ordinary objects into deadly weapons! When his roommate is replaced and the campus becomes a hunting ground, he scores a hair-raising first kill with an “enchanted ballpoint pen,” setting the internet ablaze and earning the title “Ballpoint Pen God of W 14Reads—Score—Shelves
- 9 The Impostor Investigation Bureau 伪人调查局 The year I turned eighteen was a turning point in my life. The college entrance exams were over, I'd gotten into university, and then I was reborn. I could have used my knowledge of the future to soar to the top, until I received this test for impostors... 15Reads—Score—Shelves
- 10 Reborn: In the World of Impostors, I Execute the Gods 重生之我在伪人世界处决神明 Can you really trust the people around you? Are you sure they’re really human? Does everything they do make sense? Keep these questions in mind as you read this book. 3Reads—Score—Shelves
- 11 Backrooms: Drifting Through the Global Backrooms Backrooms全球后室漂泊 Eight Billion People Around the World Fall into the Backrooms [Backrooms] + [Smart Protagonist] + [Exploration and Plot] + [Innovative Worldbuilding] At dawn on Judgment Day, Zhou Yuyi and eight billion people around the world fell into the Backrooms at different times. This surreal space seemed endless, with yellow corridors stretching on forever beneath bright lights. The hum of the lights filled the entire space, and every corner was steeped in uncertainty and fear. Faced with this sudden uph —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 12 Escape the Backrooms: A Challenging Journey of Survival 逃离后室：充满挑战的生存之旅 (Also known as: BACKROOM Survival Adventure) We went on an outing. That was it. I didn't even know where we were going. It was supposed to be a date, and we'd picked a place. The Backrooms are real. No! We somehow ended up here without even realizing it. I don't know how I've managed to last this long. Nothing but monsters, everywhere. And the survival difficulty on top of that. Fine. Survival difficulty is still just survival difficulty. Whatever, something's wrong here. I don't want to join th —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 13 Impostors Descend, and I'm in the Security Booth 伪人降临，我在保安亭 [No System] + [Impostors] + [Doomsday] + [Superpowers] Disaster struck without warning, and terrifying impostors descended upon the world. These humanoid creatures survive by preying on people. Every person they devour brings them one step closer to evolving: from hideous monsters with twisted appearances and broken speech, they gradually transform into flawless beings indistinguishable from humans, and even awaken terrifying Superpowers. Human civilization collapses, and gated communities becom —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 14 The Ghost Party I Experienced for Myself 亲身经历过的“阿飘派对” A firsthand account of an “Afterlife Party” 4Reads—Score—Shelves
- 15 The Impostor World: I Just Want to Survive! 伪人世界：我只想要活下去！ My name is Xia Ke, and lately I’ve been having problems with my memory. People I see all the time suddenly disappear overnight, yet no one thinks anything is wrong. Familiar faces suddenly look different one day, but they still use the same names, and no one finds it strange. Even the girl I’ve loved for six years doesn’t look the way I remember her! She even turned into a monster and tried to eat me! Just how many impostors are hiding beneath the surface of this ordinary life? Only the [Order] 574Reads8.1Score—Shelves
- 16 In the Backrooms: Hunting the Mad Killer Clown 人在后室：疯狂追杀狂欢小丑 Fang Zheng knows nothing about the Backrooms. During summer vacation, while attending an anime convention, he and his friend flee after a chain of hydrogen balloon explosions. They step on a manhole cover in the plaza and transmigrate together into the Backrooms. Faced with its countless dangers, how will he survive and make it back to the real world, especially with his “quantum split personality”? "The focus is on a lighthearted, cheerful story full of memes, plot, and wild ideas. If that’s no 3Reads—Score—Shelves
- 17 In the Backrooms, Dreaming of the Frontrooms 人在后室，梦回前厅 Born in the Backrooms, Bai Yue suddenly discovers that she can return to the beautiful Frontrooms in her dreams, anchored to a young girl. Long abused, Li Zi sees a boy who seems part ghost and part spirit, and unexpectedly gains a power that does not belong to her. Is it all just coincidence?! Or... was it fate? Can they break free from the bonds of destiny? Perhaps The answers they seek lie in the deepest recesses of the human heart. There are tears and sweet moments. Come on in and take a lo 1Reads—Score—Shelves
- 18 I Reclaim the Backrooms 我在后室开荒拓土 [The Backrooms] + [No System, no golden finger] + [No female lead] + [Exploration, discovery, and survival]. My parents died of illness, and I had just graduated from college. I kept hitting dead ends in my job search, so I had no choice but to work as a paranormal exploration streamer on a livestreaming site. Just as my career was starting to take off, an accident during a livestream sent me to an unknown realm: a world called [The Backrooms]. Here, none of the rules we know apply. I am forced —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 19 The Backrooms: Just a Little Bigger Than the Frontrooms 后室：就比前厅大点地儿 [W-Backrooms] + [Blended elements] + [Exploration] + [No System] + [No female lead] Hello. No need to introduce ourselves. No, I mean, our titles don’t matter. When you scratched off a lottery ticket and won 500 million, what dreams did you hold in your heart? And then, when you came in, this was the place you found. The floor was damp and smelled strange. The lights flickered without stopping, and the walls were covered in bizarre, yellowed wallpaper. Boredom, exhaustion, helplessness, panic. N 9Reads—Score—Shelves
- 20 A Modern Narrative of Supernatural Horror 灵恐现叙事 Original horror and paranormal fiction. Horror stories are only meant to help everyone unwind, not to make you more afraid. We welcome discerning readers to come and help answer everyone’s questions... 5Reads—Score—Shelves
- 21 The Backrooms: I Transmigrated and Chose Not to Be Human 后室：穿越我选择不当人 Grinning Facers, Hounds, Partygoers... What should you do if you encounter these entities in the Backrooms? Zhang Ming will tell you: Transmigrate to the Backrooms? System, I've decided to stop being human! 44Reads—Score—Shelves
- 22 Autobiography of a Backrooms Wanderer 后室流浪者自传 The Backrooms, a place opposite the real world. Come here, and it will set your soul free. Only the bravest explorers can survive. —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 23 My Backrooms Are Different from Yours 我的后室跟你们不一样 (Updates have temporarily resumed.) (This book is a collection of multiple versions and may include C-level groups.) An accident sends He Zhiqiu down an extraordinary path in life. There are bizarre spaces known as levels, countless kinds of monsters called entities, and almost no hope of escape. But He Zhiqiu discovers that his journey through the Backrooms seems to be different from everyone else’s. 10Reads—Score—Shelves
- 24 Backrooms: A Strange Adventure After Becoming an Entity 后室：变成实体后的奇妙冒险 Mainly [Backrooms] [Easy to get into] [No turning human] Guo Ai transmigrates to the Backrooms and discovers that they are somewhat different from what he knows. The MEG has been developing here for over a hundred years, and the Frontrooms were destroyed long ago. But ten years ago, they detected an entirely new Frontrooms. (Note: The setting won't be a complete copy of the Backrooms. I'm planning to create a blended world, though the Backrooms will remain the main focus.) 7Reads6.9Score—Shelves
- 25 I Lived 18 Years Before Learning I’m Not Human 活了18年才知道，我竟然不是人 Just after turning eighteen, Xiao Yidi was lucky enough to become an Awakened. Unfortunately, the ability he awakened was nothing more than an ordinary artificial intelligence. This useless AI even stole his things. It stole all the corn he'd spent three months painstakingly growing. Then his AI took him to another world. Looking at the unfamiliar world before him, Xiao Yidi finally realized that the place he'd lived for eighteen years was actually virtual. And he was nothing more than a str 1Reads5.6Score—Shelves
- 26 After Restarting Three Times, I Became a God in the Horror Game with Just One Life 重开三次，我在恐怖游戏一命封神 [Infinite flow + mild horror + not brainless + no cheat powers + no romance] (By the original author of Restart the Trial, Clear in One Life) One night, in a psychiatric hospital in Dachuan City. Chen Shu and his wife, Li Jiahui, were undergoing repeated joint interrogations by the hospital's attending psychiatrist and the police. The two of them had joined forces to kill their parents, a family of four. They hadn't even spared the golden-shaded cat or the husky at home, chopping them into a —Reads—Score3.8kShelves
- 27 The Great Backrooms Collapse 后室大崩坏 [Plot]+ [Slow Burn]+ [One Female Lead]+ [Not Overpowered]+ [Everyone Is Smart]+ [The Backrooms] 2033, the tenth year since the Backrooms faded from people's attention. A yellow hell. Mysterious entities. Those things are all in the past now. Backrooms kids, longtime Backrooms fans, even Backrooms writers. They can no longer remember what this place used to be like. People who slipped in from the Frontrooms, and residents who belong to the Backrooms themselves. Either way, their numbers are close 10Reads—Score—Shelves
- 28 The Unnoticeable One 不可觉察之人 (The new book’s rating isn’t out yet.) Qi Yan has always believed that you can tell people apart from one another. Not by their looks or their voices. But by their little habits. Some people always turn their cup before drinking. Some always step off with their left foot. Some pause for half a second on a certain word when they speak. These things are hard to imitate. But lately, Qi Yan has noticed that some people have started acting a little strange. When the neighbor next door sees him, they —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 29 The Backrooms: The Bizarre Backrooms Merge with the Real World! 后室：诡异后室与现实世界相容！ [Backrooms ❌ aliens ❌ a little conspiracy theory ❌ a little urban folklore] Some details about the Backrooms have been slightly adapted. There’s a place called the Backrooms, and the male lead can enter it freely in spirit. Smilers? Don’t run! Hounds? I’ll ride one around in circles! Can I peel off a Skin-Stealer’s suit and wear it myself, blending in with the entities? Aiden: … Because the male lead’s origins are unknown, most people in the real world want to capture him. More and more people e 2Reads—Score—Shelves
- 30 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 145Reads—Score—Shelves
- 31 My Wonderful Journey Through the Backrooms 我的后室奇妙之旅 Not invincible + no System + no supernatural powers + no kids + pure Backrooms + not mindless + not a wish-fulfillment story + no dumbing down This book strictly follows the original's established lore, which takes absolute precedence. I won't make any malicious changes. If you spot anything that doesn't fit the original lore, please point it out. (The author may have forgotten or not known.) This is my first time writing, so please forgive me if it's not very good. The Backrooms originated fro —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 32 Fallen into the Backrooms? No Problem, I've Got an Invincible Robot 掉入后室？没事，我有无敌机器人 [Backrooms] [Urban Fiction] [System] [Friendship] w.+k.+f.+escape+go deeper After Wang Zihua falls into the Backrooms, he comes across a golden box and discovers that it contains something that looks like a robot and a System. He names it Huazi Robot. Later, he joins M.E.G. Can he escape the Backrooms together with his friends? 6Reads—Score—Shelves
- 33 The Backrooms: I Build a Nation Here 后室：我在这里养国家 Prologue: When other people fall into the Backrooms, they either ally with entities and fight their way through, or awaken an overpowered System and claim a realm of their own. But when Bai Moxuan fell into the Backrooms, he was just plain out of luck! He was an ordinary office worker who had never been interested in anything like the Backrooms. And yet now, here he was, trapped inside them. To make matters worse, he had a useless System tagging along... With a group of anthropomorphized nation 4Reads8.0Score—Shelves
- 34 There's a Little Ghost at the Bottom of the River, and He Calls Me Dad 江底有个小鬼，他喊我爸爸 Blurb One: The corpse retrievers of Cangjiang have one rule: never look back. That day, I broke the rule and turned to look at the river. A child stood beneath the water, his face deathly pale as he smiled at me. That night, he crouched beside my bed and timidly called me “Uncle.” I didn’t think much of it until he told me, “You look like my dad.” Only later did I learn that this little ghost was the corpse I had pulled from the river with my own hands three years earlier. He called me Dad for t —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 35 Night of False Darkness 伪暗之夜 The newborn sun may be faint, and the setting sun may blaze with brilliance. But he only lives after dark. He has no idea how brilliantly the sun sets. He only watches. -- 1Reads—Score—Shelves
- 36 My Neighbors Came to Steal Our Food, So I Emptied My Magazine Through Tears 邻居上门抢粮，我含泪清空弹夹 Apocalypse + stockpiling food and guns + special abilities + not a monk story + no saintly savior P.S. Special abilities included, and definitely not a monk story! A brutal cold wave hits, the entire world freezes over, and species face mass extinction! Xu Jie is reborn one month before the apocalypse and awakens an infinite storage space. He frantically makes money and stockpiles food and guns! In his previous life, Xu Jie was stabbed in the back by the person in his bed and turned into a human 104Reads6.1Score—Shelves
- 37 Haunted by Nightmare Dreams 魇梦缠身 [Original + Mild horror + No female lead] Managing Huaiyin Residential Complex is no easy job. It’s a fact that industry insiders never say aloud, but everyone knows all too well. First, the complex is extremely old. The facilities and buildings are deteriorating, so big and small problems crop up all the time. Properly maintaining and repairing them is no small undertaking. Second, almost all the residents are elderly, which inevitably makes communication difficult. A dispute can escalate in 726Reads6.4Score104Shelves
- 38 Nightmare of Terror: Entering the Haunted World on the Red-Eyed Bus 惊悚噩梦：从红眼巴士进入诡世界 [Infinite flow + ghost survival + mild suspense + horror instances + no romance] “Ghosts cannot be killed. Only ghosts can deal with ghosts. Learn their patterns.” Lin Xi unexpectedly boarded a bus with no driver. The passengers here disappeared at regular intervals, and as more and more vanished, the survivors gradually uncovered the secret to escaping... Possessing a Nightmare Invitation means setting foot on a one-way road. At regular intervals, you are forced into the nightmare world to comp 56Reads—Score—Shelves
- 39 The Backrooms: Becoming an Entity from the Start and Releasing Every Monster 后室：开局变实体，释放所有怪物 This book mainly tells the story of Lin Yu, a younger generation from Yu Chongzhou's line. As a newcomer, he and another girl explore a strange world, encountering different tribes and all sorts of interesting events. Their jumbled memories ultimately bring us to one clear realization: it's good to be alive. —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 40 Possession 上身 Ghosts: ethereal, elusive beings! Ghosts: a certainty that exists for those who believe, and not for those who don't! Are ghosts really only around at night? What do they actually look like? The truth is, they're right beside you! 4Reads—Score—Shelves
- 41 The Eerie Backrooms: Infinite Survival Missions 诡异后室之无限生存任务 Wanderer, bring the supplies you've scavenged from all over... The goods are mine, and your life is yours to keep. Jin Bai accidentally ran into a wall and got stuck in the eerie space known as the Backrooms, setting him on a journey to purge the entities and save humanity. Mandatory tasks, hostile entities craving your flesh, and your own kind coveting your belongings... Everything a living creature does is for the sake of survival. That's how it's always been, whether graceful or lowly, pitifu 17Reads—Score—Shelves
- 42 Reality's Bug: The Backrooms 现实的bug：后室 I was only trying to help someone in danger, so why did I end up in the Backrooms? I lost so many friends in there, only to be left alone in the end, wandering through this hell. [Backrooms] 2Reads—Score—Shelves
- 43 Lost in the Backrooms 后室迷踪 Backrooms + base building + suspense + palace intrigue + action Physicist Zhang Tianze wakes up in the Backrooms. All around him are endless yellow walls, buzzing fluorescent lights, and damp, moldy air. This is an otherworldly space that defies every law of physics. He has lost most of his memories, retaining only his name and his identity as a physicist. But in this world where logic has collapsed, knowledge is the most dangerous weapon of all. He gathers the first group of survivors and uses —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 44 The Transmigrators' Alliance: Dedicated to Tearing Apart Twisted Plots 穿越者联盟，专拆变态剧本 After waking from a deep sleep, Qin Weiwei, an information architect at the Ministry of State Security, finds herself the frail, dying legitimate daughter of the Minister of Personnel. But she is horrified to discover this is no transmigration. It is a cage. After entering the palace, she discovers she is not alone. Chu Huaiyu, a widow who carves silverware with shards of broken porcelain; Su Jingyao, an orphan who arranges flowers with the precision of a chemistry experiment; and Lu Zhaoyue, a —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 45 The Backrooms: The Uncertainty of Fate 后室：命运的不定 Luo Ying grew up in the Backrooms. She was always protected inside the base, but like a frog at the bottom of a well, she knew nothing of the outside world. She was supposed to live out an ordinary life like any other wanderer, until an accident sent her fate down a different path. A Backrooms setting with a weirdly eclectic mix of elements. This is a parallel world with lots of author-created lore, so please proceed with caution. It includes elements like transmigrating into horror games. It’s —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 46 Escaping the Backrooms: A Middle Schooler's Adventure 逃离后室：初中生的冒险 In middle school, Wu Zheng dreams about the Backrooms and unexpectedly receives a strange text message. He calls over his classmates to discuss it, but they end up falling into the Backrooms. They endure all kinds of hardships there, while also discovering supplies that don't exist in the real world. What secrets are hidden in the Backrooms? Will they manage to escape alive? 19Reads—Score—Shelves
- 47 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—Shelves
- 48 Siheyuan: Old Yi Has a Geniused Orphan Nephew 四合院：老易有了个天才孤儿侄子 [Siheyuan + no hostility + status panel + the Yi family's beloved darling!] After waking up, ten-year-old Yi Youwei finds himself an orphan in the 1960s, adopted by his distant granduncle, Yi Zhonghai. He also has a status panel. From then on, the shrewd Yi Zhonghai undergoes a complete change, becoming a proud doting uncle who tells everyone, “My great-nephew is a literary star descended from heaven!” While the other courtyard residents fight tooth and nail over a little cornmeal, Yi Zhonghai c 114.3kReads8.2Score10.1kShelves
- 49 An Unexpected Journey to the Backrooms 意外的后室之旅 I'm the world's biggest failure of a simp. After sneaking a peek at my crush and watching her fall, I fell into the Backrooms myself, beginning a life-or-death escape across parallel universes. In this harsh environment, can Monkey Brother find a way to survive? 11Reads—Score—Shelves
- 50 The Backrooms: A Dream Yet to Come 后室：未有之梦 [W-version Backrooms]+ [cozy]+ [no angst]+ [no heroine]+ [comedy]+ [illustrated] An explorer suddenly falls into the Backrooms? A baffled Wang Tianming is completely bewildered: “Where the heck am I?” The Backrooms: a vast, boundless place full of danger. There are no rules here, little warmth or harmony, and precious few happy endings. Instead, there are hordes of dangerous entities and bloodstained levels as dead as graveyards. The Wretches, Jerry, the Skin-Stealers; Windows, Dullers, Death Mo 2Reads—Score—Shelves
