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- 1 I Suspect I’m an NPC in a Horror Game 我怀疑我是恐怖游戏里的NPC [Villainous male lead + unhinged male lead + infinite horror survival + System + survival + urban legends + horror movie worlds] Every week, several strangers show up in the class. Within a week, they all die one by one or vanish under mysterious circumstances. Amid this eerie atmosphere, Bai Chen chose to hide out at his hometown. But when he woke up, he found himself inexplicably back in his bed in the school dormitory. Bai Chen said coldly, “I've figured it out. I'm an NPC in a horror game.” 2Reads—Score—Shelves
- 2 I’m an NPC in the Coming Apocalypse 我在明日末世当NPC [A completed 800,000-word novel in the same genre] [Veteran author’s new book, with reliable updates] (Also known as: I’m an NPC in the Apocalypse of Tomorrow / I’m an NPC in LifeAfter) This is a world without battle qi or magic. Its strongest are the Two Emperors and One Sovereign! People call them the Grind Emperor, the Pay-to-Win Emperor, and the mightiest Lucky One! Some master the power of grinding and become Grind Emperors. Others wield the power of spending money and become Pay-to-Win Emp 71Reads7.4Score—Shelves
- 3 From Wild Monster to the Strongest Villain in an Online Game 网游从野怪进化成最强反派 After entering the game Boundless, Liu Shuai discovered that he had become a monster in the newbie village, the kind that dies hundreds of thousands of times a minute and gets farmed by the hundreds of millions every day: a kobold! “Huh? Killing players gives me experience? Killing them makes them drop gear? Destroying their guilds and taking their territory even earns rewards?” And so, the strongest NPC, known as every player’s worst nightmare, and the ultimate villainous boss was born! 687Reads6.7Score—Shelves
- 4 Everyone's Playing a Doomsday Game: I'm Actually Still an NPC 全民末日游戏：其实我还是npc [Zombie Apocalypse + Game + No Romance + Overpowered + Identity Play + Ruthless] Chen Tian transmigrates into Everybody's Doomsday Game and gains a dual identity. As a player, he's a powerful lone wolf. Anyone who gets in his way ends up beneath his blade! As an NPC, he's a smooth-talking con artist, the “big liar” players hate with every fiber of their being! He switches between his two identities. He posts quests, builds a base, recruits guards, and clears out a peaceful place to live... As th 60Reads8.4Score—Shelves
- 5 After Playing an NPC, Players Started Making Moves on Me 扮演NPC后玩家对我图谋不轨 [One-on-one, both chaste + Infinite Flow + Role-Playing] “Ding~ Welcome to the game world.” When Lan Lan wakes up, she finds herself in an unfamiliar place, bound to a System that calls itself “the greatest NPC ever.” The System says that if she plays an NPC, completes missions, and earns enough points in the game, she can come back to life in the real world. “Is that so?” So the System watches as the “delicate” witch hefts a giant cleaver, the “cowardly” girl “bullies” her bully, and a female d 554Reads8.9Score103Shelves
- 6 Infinite Flow: The Daily Grind of a Dungeon NPC 无限流：副本NPC的打工日常 Stars fell, and planets were destroyed. Guided by humanitarian principles, the Cosmic Council brought all the residents of Planet K666 into a horror game. Gu Yao had bathed in the light of too many stars just before she transmigrated, granting her an absurdly overpowered talent skill that changed her status directly from player to NPC. Workers have worker souls; working makes you a better person. To avoid being forcibly sent off to mine a year later, Gu Yao decided to work hard to earn points, m 332Reads7.5Score—Shelves
- 7 Don't Bully the Horror Game NPCs: Infinite 不要欺负恐怖游戏npc【无限】 [Horror, ghosts, suspense, and mystery-solving, with original supernatural-game lore.] [A timid NPC in a horror game who cries easily x a player who tries to survive every day but sometimes has a very strange way of thinking.] Lin Yilan runs a small guesthouse and only wants to coast through life. The guesthouse occupies the third and fourth floors of Chunxuan Residential Complex. For some reason, a new group of guests shows up every so often. Lin Yilan smiles, and the guests tremble with fear. 1.3kReads8.8Score139Shelves
- 8 I Played a Fantasy Game, but Became an NPC 玩玄幻游戏却成了NPC [Game System + no heroine + not a wish-fulfillment novel + a little cryptic + clever problem-solving + slow burn, enter with caution] What! The globally anticipated new online game, Eternal Continent, launches today! “I'm skipping class to try it out!” College student Zhang Yu waits at his dorm computer, watching the seconds tick by until launch. “Ding! Congratulations, Host. You have successfully activated the Strongest NPC System in History. Your profession is Villager.” Wait! NPC? How did a d 538Reads8.0Score105Shelves
- 9 I Survived Until I Became Emperor, and You're Telling Me This Is an Online Game? 苟到皇帝，你告诉我这是网游？ [Farming, livestreaming, historical luminaries, laugh-out-loud comedy, the rise of nations, NPCs fighting back, and schemers everywhere] The metaverse game of the century, Rise of Nations, launches on Blue Star. Players take on the role of lords, starting from nothing and ruling nations across the world. The game features rival powers such as the Great Qin, the mighty Han, the Three Kingdoms, the prosperous Tang, and the iron-blooded Ming, alongside emperors, famed generals, and legendary beauti 2.6kReads8.6Score186Shelves
- 10 Working as an NPC in a Horror World 在惊悚世界里做NPC [Infinite-flow + Dungeon challenges + Female protagonist posing as a player] Cheng Yue is a longtime fan of horror infinite-flow novels. She never expected that one day her world would become the terrifying world from a novel. Everyone around her, except herself, started acting strangely. Her roommate’s facial features fell off as she talked. When Cheng Yue went home for the holidays, she saw her younger brother kicking their father’s head around like a ball. The old neighbor in the plaza was ex 989Reads8.4Score102Shelves
- 11 [Full Dive] I’m Not an NPC 【全息】我不是NPC Yun Lai had just received two pieces of news. The good news was that Yun Lai, who had just died of heart disease, had been transmigrated and reborn. The bad news was that he had no body. Rescued the moment he opened his eyes, Yun Lai hadn't even had time to react before he was told that he'd transmigrated to the interstellar age. He was now living as a spirit in a full-dive online game called Second World. Although he could survive in the game for now, he still needed to earn enough money as qui 794Reads7.9Score107Shelves
- 12 What Should I Do After Becoming a Wild Monster NPC? 变成了野怪NPC该怎么办 [No CP] [Comedy] [Transmigration] [Online Game] [Feel-Good Power Fantasy] A different world, monsters, classes, races, evolution. How will a name-forgotten spirit from the void grow? The world is unsealed and players arrive. What awaits them? “Shocking! A woman has done this in broad daylight!” “Shocking! The terrifying Demon King is chasing her!” “Shocking!…” Vivitia: “What the hell are you so shocked about?!” A mimic chest that loves eating gold coins An elf guard whose dream is to b 3.9kReads9.1Score385Shelves
- 13 The Demon Sect Assassin Was Swept Away by the Goddess of Light 魔宗杀手被光明神女拐走了 Ye Ren wakes up one day to find that he has transmigrated into a character in a single-player game. But when the story is playing out, he can't control himself. And once it's over, all the other NPCs stand completely still... 5.9kReads7.8Score546Shelves
- 14 Infinite Flow: Turns Out I'm the Final Boss 无限流：原来我才是最终Boss [Infinite-flow + airheaded heroine + max-level expert + male lead + plot-focused + mild horror + light comedy] After quick transmigrating through more than three thousand worlds, Yan Mi finally got a vacation. But an unreliable System set her up and dumped her into an infinite horror game world. Other players: “Excuse me, are you a player too?” Yan Mi replied earnestly: “No, I'm just here on vacation.” Other players: “...” Is that something a normal carbon-based life-form would say??? At first, 1.1kReads9.1Score191Shelves
- 15 Infinite: The Beloved NPC Is Forced to Act Cute Every Day 无限：团宠npc每天都被迫撒娇 [Beautiful, silly sweetheart adored by everyone + pampered by all + top-tier love rivals + shameless Mary Sue] Su You is delicate, soft, and a beautiful little airhead. When she was first dragged into the survival world, she died in no time at all, just as you’d expect. Fortunately, the world’s will chose her to become an NPC. In different instances, she plays different NPCs and completes missions according to the scripts provided by the System. Su You is naturally timid and afraid of ghosts, ye 644Reads8.8Score107Shelves
- 16 What?! An NPC from the Escape Game Is Clinging to Me 惊！我被逃生游戏的npc缠上了 [Infinite-Flow + Two Powerful Leads + 1v1 Romance + Love and Hate] After Ni Ke killed herself, she somehow ended up in a horror game. In the first instance, she foolishly provoked an unknown NPC. Afterward, she completed the mission and made a quick getaway. She thought it was all over and that she'd finally escaped his clutches, but then he showed up as an NPC again in the second instance, holding a grudge and blocking her at every turn. She finally lost her temper and smashed the NPC's head wi 920Reads9.2Score114Shelves
- 17 Showing Off Romance in a Horror Game 恐怖游戏里秀恩爱 [Infinite-flow + devoted and powerful couple + male lead split into different versions + both leads are NPCs in a horror game] ♡ Prison level: Abstinent warden × cold, beautiful female prisoner ♡ “2274, what are you doing?” “Escaping, Warden.” ♡ Manor level: Vampire butler × spoiled young lady ♡ “Butler, you’re overstepping your bounds.” “Miss... Miss, I’m sorry...” ♡ Period-piece level: Miao boy × innocent girl ♡ “I hear Miao boys are experts at using poison. Is that true?” “In my opinion... yo 3.8kReads8.9Score394Shelves
- 18 I'm an NPC in the National Fate Horror Game 我在国运怪谈游戏当NPC After dying suddenly from working overtime all night, Shi Qian was dumped by the System into a terrifying world of urban legends to work as an NPC. She slacks off, enjoys the show, and just wants to be a simple, happy little couch potato. But the contestants in the national destiny horror game mistake her for a powerful boss in the instance... She giggles and watches the fun through a crack in the door! The contestants scream and wail the moment they see her. Some even cry in terror through t 3.8kReads8.7Score394Shelves
- 19 Professional Game NPC: Players Cry After I Beat Them 职业游戏NPC：玩家被我虐哭了 [No female lead + lone wolf + ruthless and decisive + video game NPC + multiple worlds + players + light comedy + a bit absurd] [The protagonist never lets lust override reason] [The protagonist only wants to grow stronger] Gu Yeming transmigrates into a game and becomes an NPC, specifically Subject 1145 of the Moreid Corporation. A disastrous start! Wait, why are his combat talents maxed out from the start? What? He can choose an unlimited number of classes, too? Years later, when Gu Yeming ap 7.5kReads8.8Score764Shelves
- 20 From the Start, I'm a National Destiny NPC, and the Protagonist Wins Big Thanks to Me 开局国运NPC，主角靠我赢麻了 My great-grandson burns money for me, and I help him ascend to heaven! Not a wish-fulfillment novel, or not entirely. [This is not a rules-based horror story! The rules offer no way out; they're all part of the game and are basically meaningless.] [Hell money can't be burned without limit. Later on, the protagonist will short the Underworld People's Bank.] [The protagonist is a scheming old fox with no golden finger.] [People will bicker among themselves early on; they won't unite until later.] 3.7kReads9.4Score453Shelves
- 21 Infinite Flow: I Reincarnated as an NPC in a Horror Game 无限流：我穿成惊悚游戏的NPC The sun falls, and the entire world transmigrates. Gu Xin, who has heart disease, had planned to take things easy, get eliminated early, and enjoy what little time she had left on Blue Star. But an error occurred during the transmigration, and she ended up as an NPC in a horror game. While she ran her doll shop and picked up odd jobs in other dungeons, hoping to earn an immigrant ship ticket as soon as possible, three strikingly handsome men suddenly appeared before her. Each claimed Gu Xin was 1.3kReads8.7Score144Shelves
- 22 Eerie Game NPC: I Carry the Fate of All Humanity 诡异游戏NPC，我背负了全人类 [Contains many scenes of illness and frailty. Proceed with caution.] Gu Heqing transmigrates one day and discovers he has become an NPC in a horror game. Humans keep entering the game world, while the real world is gradually being dragged into it. The livestreams show people dying horribly, and he is somehow connected to a “god” whose nature he cannot begin to understand… He has no idea where to go from here. But when he finally comes to his senses, he seems to have... become humanity’s onl 4.7kReads9.0Score572Shelves
- 23 I Became the Newbie Village Boss 我成了新手村BOSS [Monsters, Game Fusion, Transmigration, Fantasy, Female Lead] Li Sanjian transmigrates into a game and becomes the Newbie Village Boss from the start! He has a status panel just like the players. From then on, the players' nightmare begins. "He's just the Newbie Village boss, right? Ah! How did he kill me with one sword strike?" "No way! That guy's a pro player. How did he get wiped out too?!" "Damn it, how can a newbie village have such an overpowered boss? He's not giving us a chance to live.. 20.9kReads9.0Score1.9kShelves
- 24 My Childhood Friends Are All Game Bosses 我的青梅竟都是游戏BOSS [Game world + fake villain + myriad races + battles + multiple heroines] “Come on, I'm the young master of the Night City family of gene-modified mutants. Can you stop always making me live off a woman?” In this game world, countless races stand side by side. Genetic evolution, flourishing martial arts, technology-based cultivation, magic, and supernatural abilities all collide, while city-states wage constant wars over territory. Ye Ge is reborn into the family of magic-mutated humans in the 43kReads8.9Score4.3kShelves
- 25 Thriller: This NPC Has Gone on Strike 惊悚：这个NPC罢工了 [Thriller + unhinged beauty + not scary + no romance + killing all the way + invincible] The dungeon opens in Chapter Two. You can skip it. Shen Xiaoxiao is the famous S-rank dungeon NPC, the River God’s Bride, hated by countless players. One day, she suddenly realizes that players have tricked her into dying countless times. So she decides: “I quit! I’m done!” While other players painstakingly search for clues to clear the dungeon, Shen Xiaoxiao spends the whole time causing trouble in her own 3.4kReads9.3Score479Shelves
- 26 Infinite Starting Point: Zero Awakens 无限初始：零号觉醒 [No romance] X [Cool, white-haired lead] X [Decisive male lead] In 2030, “Player Game” burst onto the scene. Clear a dungeon, and you can get anything you want. Yan Chao (Zero), once an NPC in the “Mechanical City” dungeon, suddenly awakened to his own existence and became a player. “Player Zero, please complete the main quest as soon as possible...” A dungeon? It's just my path to godhood. 3.9kReads9.3Score599Shelves
- 27 The Beloved One: After Transmigrating, I Was Raised by an Endless Stream of NPCs 团宠：穿越后被无限NPC养大了 [If you have questions about Xie Ji, please turn to Chapter 99. There's also a discussion thread, and it's easy to find since it's been pinned.] [(I don't know why the tags say romance, ahhhhh!! It's two male leads, two male leads, two male leads! I'm saying it three times because it's important!) Also known as The Daily Life of an Infinite-World Boss Raising Kids in a Dungeon. Content warnings: This isn't an infinite-flow story in the traditional sense. It has two male leads, but the romance co 5.4kReads9.3Score637Shelves
- 28 Thriller: You Were Told to Escape, but You Became an NPC 惊悚：让你去逃生，你成了NPC [Horror Game + Choices + Comedy + Irreverent + Building a Personal Power Base] Ten years ago, the horror game descended upon Blue Star. As the protagonist, Lin Qi was inevitably dragged into the horror game too. While everyone else struggled to survive, he made choices. At the Death Restaurant, everyone else was careful not to anger the customers. Lin Qi had already become the restaurant owner. At the Ghostly Cemetery, others searched for clues and for the missing Grave No. 7. Lin Qi simply 13.9kReads9.1Score1.3kShelves
- 29 Honey, Someone's Picking on Me: Infinite Flow 老公有人欺负我【无限流】 [A lovesick, unhinged male lead with multiple facets + he might not even be human in some instances + romance in horror scenarios] School scenario: The class monitor who only cares about studying ♥ the underachieving study committee member Before she knows her boyfriend is a ghost, the class monitor’s daily routine is studying and supervising her boyfriend as he tutors everyone in the class. After she finds out he’s a ghost, the class monitor thinks for a moment and says, “Ghosts don’t need to r 8.1kReads9.1Score842Shelves
- 30 I Cling to the Boss's Leg in a Horror Game 我在惊悚游戏里抱boss大腿 [Two male leads, one-on-one, extra sweet, both devoted to each other] [Insane, vicious big-shot player × adorable, timid NPC who clings to his powerhouse] You Li enters a horror game world and somehow becomes an NPC. While all the other NPCs scare people, You Li is the only one scaring ghosts. Sanatorium level You Li tries his best to play a ghost and scare people, only to be chased around by an insane big-shot player wielding a chainsaw, screaming the whole way. You Li: I won't scare you. Can y 7.8kReads9.5Score1.3kShelves
- 31 Don't Be Fooled by My Golden Finger-Like Look, I'm Really Just an NPC 别看我像金手指，我真只是NPC [Powerhouse + role-playing + secret identities + horror and the supernatural + people reading too much into things + chosen ones + no romance] A three-in-one blend of three horror genres: psychological horror games, Cthulhu livestreams, and real-world supernatural arts. Xiao Gui'an, a bit-part actor, died, but not entirely. He was chosen to play an NPC in a world of horror and the supernatural. After becoming a ghost, Xiao Gui'an thought he would no longer have anything to fear. Who could have 49.1kReads9.5Score3.7kShelves
- 32 You Need Me to Survive? I'm an NPC, Not a Player! 靠我存活？我是NPC不是玩家哦 Wu Le is a murderous NPC in a horror game, rotating through different scenarios to "work"! Wu Le is free-spirited and willful. Deceiving players, playing tricks on them, and terrifying them are all part of her daily routine. Sometimes she likes to disguise herself as a player, getting a close look at the evil in people's hearts. She gives players hope, then crushes it completely, enjoying the look of despair on their faces. Other times, she plays the part of a proper horror NPC, hunting down pla 24.7kReads9.3Score3.3kShelves
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