Novels like Shh, Please Be Quiet
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- 101 The Horror Industrial Park 恐怖工业园 You're a seasoned wage slave. One day, you're dragged into a [Weird and Absurd + Comedic and Witty + Not Brain-Dead + Not a Wish-Fulfillment Story + Exploring Human Nature + Enter at Your Own Risk] strange other world. You think that if you complete the System's tasks, you'll return to the real world. What you don't know is that this other world exists because of you... 16Reads—Score—Shelves
- 102 Rule-Based Survival: I Can Foresee Death 规则求生：我能预知死亡 [Infinite Flow, mild horror, terrifying dungeons, no romance, survival, not a saintly protagonist] One night, Chen Feng was walking through an abandoned park after finishing his shift at the crematorium when something strange happened. There was clearly no one behind him, yet he heard faint footsteps. At first, he thought he was imagining things, but when he listened closely, the footsteps were still there, gradually drawing nearer. They sounded as though they were deliberately mimicking his own 22.3kReads7.6Score2.2kShelves
- 103 Rule Horror: I Can See Echoes of the Old Days 规则怪谈：我能看到旧日余响 [Linked Instances + No Romance + Tracing the Origins of the Rules + Unconventional Rule-Based Horror] (If rules have a past, they must have left behind truths that were forgotten.) The bizarre has invaded reality, and the Chosen Ones are sent into an old world that has already been destroyed. Shen Yan gains the talent [Witness], which lets him see echoes of the past connected to the rules. When others face a strange tale, all they can do is guess which rule is false. Shen Yan discovers that the 2Reads—Score—Shelves
- 104 Infinite: Searching for the Moon in a World of Haunted Domains 无限：我在诡域世界寻找月亮 [Infinite-loop horror + survival + suspense + mystery + no System] A photograph recording the deepest secrets of the heart draws people into one eerie world after another, each filled with endless terror. At first, Lin Yi only wanted to prove that he wasn't mentally ill. But instead, he became trapped in an endless succession of terrifying stories. The truth seems to be far more complicated than that. The moon's disappearance is only the beginning of all the strange horrors… [Mount Lingshan Tunn 3Reads—Score—Shelves
- 105 Fear Infection: Paper Dolls Absorb Everything for Me 恐惧感染，纸人替我吸收一切 [Horror Game + Infinite Escape + Supernatural Horror] Darkness fell, and a world of terror arrived. An invisible plague was spreading unseen. Dreamlike murmurs echoed across the land. Terror filled the cities, and nightmares reveled in the streets. [Survival Guide for Ordinary Citizens]: Keep your fear level down! Keep your fear level down! Keep your fear level down! Unless... you want to see them become real. Wen Jiu: “Well said, but... what if I don’t have a fear level?” 14Reads8.4Score—Shelves
- 106 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 3.6kReads8.2Score353Shelves
- 107 Thriller Game: Becoming a God Aboard the Abyssal Cruise Ship 惊悚游戏：从深渊游轮开始成神 [Infinite Flow] + [mild horror] + [a little deduction] + [original instances] “My name is Lin Yuan. By the time you read this, I'll already be dead.” I was an ordinary person until one day, by chance, I boarded the Abyss Cruise, a mysterious vessel that travels between the real world and the supernatural. Here, you are a chosen [player] and the last line of defense against [supernatural instances] invading reality. If you clear an instance, your terminal illness in the real world will be cured i 38Reads—Score—Shelves
- 108 The Game of Fate: Unlocking the Fate Realm 命运游戏：开启命运空间 [Mild Horror + Mind Games + Strategic Rivalry + Infinite Flow] A game of fate, a paradise capable of conferring godhood. Shen Miao never imagined that one day he would face a trial of life and death. Every day, someone around him dies. Shen Miao must not only find a way to survive, he must also unravel the clues and confront the enormous secret pulling the strings behind everything. The school, the office, the cafeteria, the stairs: any place could conceal a deadly trap. [The Game of Fate has be 28Reads—Score—Shelves
- 109 She Became Famous in the Survival Game for Her Love of Money 因为爱财，她在求生游戏里出了名 [Full-Dive Game + 1v1 + Infinite Worlds + Survival] Late in the game, the few remaining players thought they were doomed. They started preparing their final words and obituaries on the spot, but when they turned around, they saw her crouched in a corner, seriously haggling with a female ghost: “Send you off to be reincarnated? No problem, but it’ll cost you. No, no, I don’t mean ghost money.” As the players embarked on a desperate, life-or-death escape, she defected from their side to the mon 444Reads8.7Score101Shelves
- 110 Lost in a Haunted Village 误入恐怖村 An original story. Hope you enjoy it! Lu Chao stumbled into this village by chance, and in doing so, stepped onto a road with no return. Only those chosen by it can see it and enter it. Once chosen to become a resident of the village, there is no going back. The only way to leave is to be cursed by it and killed. To escape, Lu Chao has no choice but to embark on one adventure after another… 293Reads8.1Score—Shelves
- 111 Playing Heaven, Walking the Path of Thieves 戏天行盗 [Playing God + Becoming God + Human-and-Ghost Games + Wild Imagination + Superpower Awakening + Infinite Game + Ensemble Cast] “Why did nobody tell me playing God was so exhausting? What a pain. I’m putting on a big show and going home!” “Chen Yao, there’s a ghost behind you! Run!” … “No, no, no, this isn’t theft. I just took something you didn’t want and brought it over to my place.” “And as for what you didn’t want, don’t worry about it.” … “I would reform the world. First, I must cast out sel —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 112 Death Game: The Only Survivor 死亡游戏：唯一活着的人 [Infinite survival + plot + post-apocalypse + supernatural powers + no saintly protagonist] Feel free to skip the first three chapters. With his life nearly at an end, Shen Mo is forcibly dragged into an endless apocalyptic scenario where his survival is uncertain. Beyond the towering walls, zombies swarm the city. The ruined metropolis has become a living hell, and he finally faces reality: his old life is over, and this new world is his only chance to keep living. When survival is at stake, —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 113 Divine Mercy: Creating Infinity from Despair 神慈：以绝望创造无限 A true powerhouse heroine with no nerfs, a cosmic-horror heroine, no romance, an infinite-flow story, Cthulhu Mythos, airtight logic, a huge cast, and mind-bending mysteries Li Yu has died three times already. Each time she dies, some of her memories disappear. Now, her memories have grown completely hazy. How many times has she died? Monsters can kill her, and revealing that she has died before can kill her too. This dungeon and its world seem to be screening for a worthy version of her, one w 367Reads—Score130Shelves
- 114 Escape from the Bear’s Jaws 熊口逃生 Escape from the Bear’s Jaws 1.1kReads—Score—Shelves
- 115 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—Shelves
- 116 Nightmare Subway 噩梦地铁 (The rating has only just opened and will rise later.) [Infinite Flow + Survival + No Saintly Heroine] A driverless subway train carries a group of cursed passengers toward unknown, terrifying stations… A subway card is proof of survival, and a ticket to Hell. At each subway station, Jiang Fengye faces one terrifying instance after another, each a brush with death. The starving corpses in the basement; The crawling sounds in the abandoned tunnel; The skinning monster in the old castle; … "The 18.1kReads7.0Score1.9kShelves
- 117 The Paranormal Investigation Bureau Needs Talents Like Me 怪谈调查科需要我这样的人才 [Handcrafted from scratch!]+ [Vengeful Ghosts Return]+ [Supernatural Escape]+ [Killing Patterns]+ [Rule Horror]+ [Mystery and Twists]+ [There’s a Romance, but It’s Not the Focus] [Please Give Me a Chance to Tell a Ghost Story] Doppelgängers, dismemberment cases, vengeful ghosts, whatever you do, don’t look back, a deadly exam, zoo horror stories… The world is being invaded by the supernatural, and ordinary humans can no longer survive. Lu Ming, a rookie at the Paranormal Investigation Bureau, di 94Reads—Score—Shelves
- 118 The One-Fifth Death Game 五分之一的死亡游戏 [Clever mind games + deduction + all kinds of scenarios + no System + no harem + plot-focused] On a whim, Lin Shuo took part in a quiz show offering a cash prize of one hundred thousand yuan. And so the gears of fate began to turn, as one deadly game after another came his way. A hidden, lethal poison: how could he identify it quickly? A terrifying old building haunted by ghosts: how could he escape alive? An unsolvable locked-room mystery involving werewolves: where were they? A train trapped i 1.2kReads8.7Score137Shelves
- 119 The Corpse-Reading Detective 诡案读尸人 The Corpse-Reading Detective 3Reads—Score—Shelves
- 120 Rule Horror: The Last One to Leave the Classroom After Evening Study 规则怪谈：晚自习最后离开教室的人 Rule Horror: The Last Person to Leave the Classroom After Evening Study 21Reads—Score—Shelves
- 121 Rule Horror: I Have the Talent to Ignore Rules 规则怪谈：我有天赋无视 [Rule-Based Horror + Livestreaming + No Romance] The Rule-Based Horror game descends upon Blue Star, announcing the arrival of the gaming era. Countries become competing factions, and players are chosen at random. During the sixth rule-based game, a player who seems completely harmless enters the game. Dungeon: Listen to Mom Mom: Good children aren’t picky eaters. You have to eat your vegetables. Zhou Qiyun: But Mom, the doctor said I need to eat more meat, or I might faint in the middle of the 422Reads7.0Score110Shelves
- 122 The Haunted Gate: There's a Ghost Inside Me 恐怖鬼门：我的体内有只鬼 (The rating has just come out, and it's expected to rise...) [Infinite-flow + no female lead + fast-paced + battles of human nature] [An evolving protagonist. If it's not your thing, please don't flame me ´ᯅ`] [Don't Open the Door, There's Something Outside...] Arc complete. [Wedding] Arc complete. Read with confidence. [People Come to Kill] Arc complete. [The Missing Her] Ongoing... Rumor has it that anyone who has committed a crime will be dragged through a ghostly door. There, they are fo 90Reads8.1Score—Shelves
- 123 I'm a Living Detective, So Why Are You Making Me Solve Ghost Cases? 我一活人侦探，你让我破鬼案 The comic adaptation of this work, "I’m a Living Detective, So Why Make Me Solve Ghost Cases?", is now available. [Infinite flow + no System + no golden finger + horror and suspense] While investigating an urban-legend case, detective Lin Sanshi encounters the same eerie phenomenon as the victim. From then on, he must wander through a series of different mission worlds: A mountain-top guesthouse where people are murdered in a snowstorm A perilous corpse-driving journey A survival game controlled 4.7kReads7.1Score418Shelves
- 124 I Entered a Horror Story 我进入了恐怖故事 When Shen Yu opens his eyes, a villa shrouded in darkness comes into view. This is where the game begins. When staying up late becomes forbidden, going to the bathroom alone brings misfortune, and your roommate turns into a monster, the unknown conditions for death have yet to be unlocked. What will you choose? 424Reads6.6Score106Shelves
- 125 No Responsibility for Scaring You to Tears 吓哭不负责 [Traditional supernatural tales] [Ghost stories] [Chinese-style horror] [Based on true events] [Reader submissions] [Chilling when you think about it] [Bizarre tales] [Beyond the realm of science] [Plainspoken prose, no literary flourishes] [Just stories] Not for the faint of heart! Don’t read late at night! Folklore, haunted houses, eerie village incidents, urban vengeful spirits, supernatural curses, and even non-supernatural stories that are chilling when you think about them... A collection 24.1kReads9.3Score1.9kShelves
- 126 Rule Horror: I Can Fool Fate 规则怪谈：我能愚弄命运 When the entire world is dragged into a deadly game of rules-based horror, Xia Ke earns the favor of the God of Fate. “Rules are weapons, and loopholes are ways to survive.” “Rules-based horror? It's just a playground where I can exploit bugs!” 4.3kReads8.4Score437Shelves
- 127 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 86Reads—Score—Shelves
- 128 The Water Stain That Never Dries 永远拧不干的水渍 The Water Stain That Never Dries 1Reads—Score—Shelves
- 129 Paradise Lost: The Never-Ending Game 失乐园，永无止境的游戏 Men and women are trapped inside a house. The killer keeps murdering people, and there's only one way out. When facing the living dead, never reveal that you're a player, or you'll die! Not smart enough? You'll die! Bad luck? You'll die! Ugly? You'll die! Cross Mu Ye? You'll die even faster! While everyone else struggles to survive, Mu Ye alone gradually becomes obsessed with the game, gradually becoming... a psychopath. In this world full of danger and unknowns, a police officer, a teacher, a t 1Reads—Score—Shelves
- 130 Fatal Game: The Death Script 致命游戏：死亡剧本 [Infinite-Flow + Horror + Survival] No female lead, no romance between men and women, pure deduction-based infinite flow. A strange minibus carries a group of guilty people to a village that doesn’t exist on any map. ...The people living in the base dormitories receive a different horror script every so often. Anyone who receives one is forcibly dragged into the script to play out its horrifying story. When Su Bai finally returns home after experiencing one terrifying incident after another, he 522Reads7.0Score—Shelves
- 131 Being the Bright and Cheerful Guy in the Rule Horror 在规则怪谈当阳光开朗大男孩儿 (No female lead + not a wish-fulfillment story + no invincible protagonist + thrills + horror + mystery + plot-driven) If that bothers you, don't read! Completed instances: Death Academy, Train in the Fog, An Unblessed Start to the School Year When eerie instances descend, Zhao Di is chosen as a challenger. Talent draw in progress... Your talent is Sunny, Cheerful Young Man: You're a young man with nothing, but you have a little more luck than everyone else. Would you like to spend one point of 31Reads—Score—Shelves
- 132 Fierce Netherworld: Starting as a Rainy-Night Killer 凶冥空间：从雨夜杀人魔开始 [Infinite Flow + The Weird Arrives, No Heroine] Could the beautiful new neighbor really be a serial killer who strikes on rainy nights? Gu Li sees through her disguise, only to get dragged into an even stranger space. Black fog rolls in and terror descends. To survive, Gu Li searches for a way to clear each instance, solving puzzles like mad and escaping certain death. But after completing a series of missions, he discovers that the weird has already arrived in the real world, and a supernatural 5.3kReads7.1Score365Shelves
- 133 Welcome to the Real Nightmare Game 欢迎进入真实噩梦游戏 [Infinite Flow] [Horror Dungeons] [Plot-Heavy] [Mind Games] [No Romance] [Mystery and Escape] [Supernatural] Zhao Ding woke with a start in the middle of the night, only to find that his familiar bedroom had become strangely unfamiliar. The walls had turned old and yellow, inexplicable dust had appeared in his slippers, and eerie knocking echoed through the silent night... Listening to the strange knocking outside, Zhao Ding had no idea that the world beyond his door was no longer reality. The m 32.1kReads8.1Score4kShelves
- 134 Eerie: After Completing the Puzzle, I Somehow Ended Myself 诡异：凑完拼图莫名把自己终结了 [Mystery + Eerie + Deduction + Infinite Flow + Ensemble Cast + Flawless Logic] Have you ever felt despair? Lu Bai wakes up in a dim room, where a mysterious force orders him and several other poor souls to go on missions in one strange place after another. Complete a mission and live. Fail, and die. Black Dragon Pool, the old elm tree, the ancient well at the village entrance, the strange funeral home. After Lu Bai and his companions rack their brains, endure countless hardships, and narrowly es 142Reads8.2Score—Shelves
- 135 Infinite Eerie Domains: Starting with a Haunted Classroom 无限诡域：从诡异教室开始 [Infinite Flow]+ [Fake terror]+ [Ghosts kill people]+ [Emotionless]+ [Mild horror] Late at night, Su Wang receives a strange black letter that appears out of nowhere in his home. Its four blood-red survival rules reveal a terrifying, unknown realm. In the blink of an eye, he is forcibly dragged into a strange study hall at Chenfeng High School, where he and six strangers are trapped together. The one unbreakable rule is carved into the blackboard: Keep quiet. One survivor loses control, makes a 31.9kReads8.0Score4.3kShelves
- 136 The Ghostly Figure Appears 鬼影显形 [Eerie World + Folk Horror Tales + Infinite Flow + Mild Horror + Deduction and Survival + No Female Lead] My name is Zhou Lin, and I transmigrated! But my original Host didn't die. He... became a ghost! A yellowed photograph dragged Zhou Lin from the clutches of a vengeful ghost into another nightmare. The nightmare ended, but the ghosts in the real world never disappeared... A vengeful ghost closing in step by step... The photographs came one after another, haunting him like nightmares, with no 1.1kReads6.2Score104Shelves
- 137 The Class of Death 死亡班级 Their class used to get along just fine, but money and self-interest ruined everything. Now they even come to blows over a single meal, turning on their own classmates. 2.1kReads5.9Score114Shelves
- 138 Seven-Day Horror: My University Is a Horror Game 七日怪谈：我的大学是恐怖游戏 [First Person], [Rule Horror], [Ensemble Cast], [Coming-of-Age Protagonist], [No Romance], [Not a Power Fantasy], [Hardest Beginner Instance in History] This school has become a ghost-story game arena. Lin Xia, Ye Yan’s roommate, dies for no apparent reason in their dorm. The announcement sounds, declaring that the [Ghost-Story Game] has officially begun. Ye Yan, Chen Mo, and Zhou Yuan discover that Lin Xia died because she unknowingly broke a rule. For the next seven days, every place may hide 302Reads8.1Score—Shelves
- 139 Infinite Cinema: I Climbed to the Top of the Charts Through Death 无限影院：我靠死亡冲上热榜第一 [Infinite-Loop Horror + Mildly Scary + No Female Lead] Just got a rating, it'll rise later, dears! Death isn't the end. It's your ticket in. The moment Jiang Yubai was crushed beneath a cement truck, he thought his life was over. But when he opened his eyes again, he was sitting in an old movie theater that reeked of mold. Blood-red rules appeared on the screen: Welcome to the “Infinite Cinema.” Here, the dead are chosen at random to become the “protagonists” of one horror film after another. Th 9.7kReads6.9Score1.1kShelves
- 140 Linking the Eerie Realms 诡域连结 [Infinite Flow] [Deduction] [Mind-Bending] [Supernatural] When Shen Shiyan woke up, he found himself inside a strange building filled with unknown dangers. After solving one mystery after another, he thought he could finally escape alive. “This is the Domain of the Uncanny. Welcome to your eternal rest!” A mysterious voice sent a chill down his spine. What kind of place was this? And how could he escape? 705Reads—Score124Shelves
- 141 Prove That You Were Once Human 请证明你曾是人 After Chen Zhou woke up, he was thrown into a “test of human worth” spanning the ancient past, the modern era, and the future. Plague cities, royal courts, trials, shipwrecks, stock market crashes, nuclear crises, space colonization… Each world had its own bizarre rules, and every choice demanded a sacrifice. Yet the same name appeared on every death record: Chen Zhou. Before the rules devoured everyone, he had to prove one thing: Humanity’s true worth has never been obedience. —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 142 I Joined Where Did Dad Die? from the Start of Rule Horror 规则怪谈开局参加爸爸死哪儿了 [Rule-Bound Horror + Thrills + Genius + Face-Slapping + Deduction + Family Fortune + System] A strange fog has blanketed the world, with terrifying entities lurking within. People can improve their own fortunes and those of their families by repeatedly taking part in rule-bound horror games, hoping to earn the right to survive. On his eighteenth birthday, Liu Yuan is forcibly sent into the SSS-rank instance Where Did Dad Die? and gains the Spirit-Speech Card System. Son: “You want to be my dad?” 290Reads8.2Score—Shelves
- 143 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—Shelves
- 144 The Purple Rain Descends 紫雨来袭 Also known as "Grief Rises from Within" (Infinite flow + educational themes + no special abilities + not a wish-fulfillment story + twists all the way through) Li Ze, the protagonist, has the ability to empathize. Wherever suffering ignored by society takes place, purple rain falls. It rebuilds that suffering in the victims' minds in distorted, terrifying forms. The monsters, evil spirits, and strange phenomena that emerge from the purple rain retain the defining features of the harm inflicted o 11Reads—Score—Shelves
- 145 Infinite Replays in the Trial Run: Now Clear It in One Life 试玩无限重开，接下来请一命通关 (The rating just came out, so it'll rise later!) [Infinite Flow + Mild Horror + No Romance + No Cheats + Not a Feel-Good Story + Smart Characters] One night, the police station received a phone call. A man named Chen Mo turned himself in. He had murdered all four members of his family, and even killed the family dog. During repeated interrogations, Chen Mo remained completely calm. “Officer, I'll say it again.” “I didn't kill people. I killed... a bunch of ghosts.” After dying and rewinding ti 309Reads8.7Score—Shelves
- 146 Dead City 死城 In this book, I’ll take you in search of the eerie things hidden in the city, and the terrifying taboos lurking in everyday life. 1.7kReads8.4Score259Shelves
- 147 You Think College Makes Life Easy? 上了大学就轻松了？ Infinite-loop horror + slow burn + no golden finger + challenges + rule-based horror + the supernatural + instances + conflict An ordinary school suddenly turns into a “meat grinder”! All kinds of deadly rules: ignore the “teachers,” don't run, follow the schedule to the letter... All kinds of bizarre instances, movie scenes, teamwork, and going it alone... Ten universities compete online. Staying alive is the only hope! When you graduate from your senior year of high school and take the college 3Reads—Score—Shelves
- 148 Strange Tales of the Uncanny: The Cause of My Death Is Anything but Normal 诡异怪谈：我的死因不正常 [Death Warnings] + [Thriller] + [Mystery] + [Mysterious Objects] + [Factional Conflict] A month ago, Musheng narrowly survived an accident. Ever since, strange death warnings have kept appearing in his mind. [In five minutes, you will be hit and killed by a car.] [In five minutes, a woman will reach into your chest with her bare hand and tear out your heart.] [In five minutes, you will be squeezed into “juice” by a giant juicer.] Misfortune follows him everywhere, and death is always close a 1.1kReads8.2Score135Shelves
- 149 Rule Horror: Hope Children’s Welfare Home 规则怪谈：希望儿童福利院 [No national fortune] + [No livestreaming] + [No female lead] + [No romance] + [Purely original survival instances] + [Just a tiny bit of horror] There is no more miserable way to die than while taking a dump. Worse still, after dying, you discover that you're sitting in a strange station. A creepy ticket seller on the train The unspeakable secret of the Hope Children's Welfare Institute A mysterious fourth person in a happy family Strange happenings hidden at summer camp A quiet mountain villag 803Reads8.6Score101Shelves
- 150 Infinite Nightmares: An Eighty-Year-Old Man Rejuvenated from the Start 无限噩梦：开局八旬老汉返老还童 Infinite flow + rules-based horror + mild horror + no romance Qin Yi accidentally enters a nightmarish world. Here, there are rules that must never be broken, along with bizarre phenomena beyond ordinary people's understanding. By chance, Qin Yi discovers the rewards for surviving a nightmare. Wealth, health, youth, achievement… Terrified of the nightmares but coveting the rewards for surviving them, Qin Yi approaches one nightmare after another with mixed feelings… 8.6kReads8.1Score983Shelves
