Novels like Friends with Demons: The Monsters Are Here to Help
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- 151 The Underworld's Manager 黄泉主理人 “Do you know why the lights at Haishi University never go out? Because monsters lurk in the dark, gnawing away at the light.” Lin Chen tosses his milk tea, frozen into an ice sculpture, into the microwave to thaw, then sighs at the red-clad woman flickering in and out of view in the mirror. His life is like an absurd horror movie: vending machines sell carbonated drinks flavored with Meng Po’s soup, corpses in the dissection room tap-dance on full-moon nights, and worst of all, he’s started eyei 1Reads—Score—14d adds
- 152 The Scribe: 2035 执笔人：2035 In 2035, after the Great Depression, the brutal murder game known as script-killing had become widespread. As the games grew ever more intense, this deadly pastime reached unprecedented levels of influence during an economic downturn. More and more script-killing venues opened, and the authorities began to turn a blind eye. This also gave rise to new professions in some places. Some earned generous rewards and pay by achieving perfect endings in the games; others took commissions from the wealth —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 153 Coffin Shop No. 444 棺材铺444号 In the vast north stands an old town forgotten by time and snow: Qishan Town. At its eastern end is a shop older than the town itself. It has no sign, but everyone knows its address: 444. It is a coffin shop. The Lin family coffin shop has been passed down for 347 years. Its keeper has always been the sole heir of each generation, and every one has obeyed a strict rule: close the doors at sunset; if someone knocks at midnight, do not answer if they are alive. They say answering will awaken thin 11Reads—Score—14d adds
- 154 The Tomb-Keeper's Shaman Boy 守陵巫童 My name is Shen Yan, the lowliest tomb-guarding shaman boy on Mount Cangwu. A vengeful spirit in white bit my neck, leaving behind a black, snake-shaped mark. She said I had forty-nine days left to live. I thought that was as bad as things could get. Until my fellow disciples sold me out, and the tomb warden sealed off the mountain to hunt me down. Until the remnant soul of a Martial Emperor, who had slept beneath the earth for a thousand years, began coveting my cinnabar-bloodline body. One w 2Reads—Score—14d adds
- 155 I Mend the Cracks in the Mortal World 我在人间补裂缝 [No harem, no formulaic plot, no invincible protagonist, no System, no brainless writing, no wish-fulfillment. Read with caution if these bother you.] I survive in a reality warped by the uncanny by patching up its cracks. Then, while mending the heart of a female corpse from the Republican era, she whispers in my ear: “You’ve patched up so many cracks. Haven’t you noticed that you yourself are the biggest one?” That day, a bruise shaped like a handprint appears around my wrist, and a 72-hour —Reads6.2Score—14d adds
- 156 My True-Life Paranormal Encounters: The Bizarre Things I've Experienced 亲身灵异实录：我经历的邪门事儿 Based on true events, firsthand accounts. Over the course of my life, I’ve encountered far too many bizarre things that science can’t explain. On a stormy night, a nightclub hostess was pinned down by a ghost in her sleep. Something furry crouched on her chest, and a seductive moan like a fox’s cry sounded beside her ear. She began to walk with a sway, her eyes shining like a fox’s, and the men around her started meeting with strange accidents one after another: the boss’s brakes failed in a c 1.1kReads6.8Score10614d adds
- 157 The Greatest Ghost Taoist in the Mortal Realm 阳间第一鬼道 The coffin is raised, the incense still burns, and the grave is moved. The Taoist was once an evil ghost; wicked arts throw the age into chaos. Paper figures harbor murderous intent; living stones imprison evil spirits. Vengeful ghosts don Taoist robes, and the sinister wind never stops blowing. Ning An was a disciple of the Taoist sect, but his master used him as a pawn, while his master’s wife wanted to eat him and turn him into a vengeful ghost. 35Reads—Score—14d adds
- 158 Transmigrate to Another World: I Take on the Beasts and Slaughter My Way to Victory! 穿越异世：我携着万兽杀红眼了！ (An exciting story! The heroine isn’t a goody-goody, the leads are each other’s only love, and both leads are powerful. You won’t regret giving it a try!) Chi Yin was a successor to the Medicine King Pavilion’s legendary healer in the twenty-first century. After enemies attacked her, her plane plunged into a bottomless abyss. When she woke, she had transmigrated into the body of the dim-witted legitimate daughter of a general’s household. Chi Yin now had the “King of All Beasts,” an “Unrivaled 124Reads6.7Score10514d adds
- 159 Clad in Yellow, This Daoist Has Made It 黄袍加身，道爷我成了 My name is Jiang Qing. On the day I was born, the heavens showed strange signs: eighteen thunderclaps split the sky, and snow fell from the midsummer sky in the seventh month. The villagers saw me as a monster and avoided me. When I was ten, darkness filled my heart, and I nearly slaughtered my own family. Just as the blade was about to fall, a Taoist priest intervened and saved me. He was Zhang Hongxuan, the sixty-second Celestial Master of Mount Longhu, revered as a living god among Taoists. H 7Reads8.4Score—14d adds
- 160 Heaven-Burning Heiress: Playing with Fire to Get Ahead 焚天大小姐：玩火出位 Awakened the rare fire-type ability, “Heaven-Burning Flame Mark”? Sorry, this young lady was born to play with fire. Are you coming or not? Family trials? I'll slaughter my way through the secret realm. The ancient divine artifact, the Heaven-Burning Furnace, and the heaven-defying technique, the World-Burning Art, are as good as mine! Starfire Academy? I enrolled under the alias “Ling'er” to keep a low profile, and somehow became the talk of the academy! The domineering upperclassman, the ice-c 4Reads8.2Score—14d adds
- 161 You Have to Lose a Kidney to Cultivate Immortality? 修仙还得噶腰子？ “Young man!” “I can tell from your extraordinary bones that you have a remarkable talent. You must be a once-in-a-millennium cultivation prodigy.” “Come on!” “I’ve got an unparalleled secret manual here. Clearance sale today! Not 998, not 698, just 198.” The young man tapped the battered iron bowl in front of him and glanced at the middle-aged woman. “Ma’am, I’m so broke I’m begging here. Where am I supposed to get money to cultivate?” The woman’s face lit up with delight. “Short on money? Easy. 4Reads6.4Score—14d adds
- 162 The Final Judgment 世末审 [World BUG] [Memory alteration] [No padding] [No narration] [Hardcore deduction] [Chilling on reflection] One September evening during study hall, the classroom suddenly froze mid-frame. The cicadas fell silent, the wind stopped, and the entire class stood motionless like statues. I was the only one who could see the cracks in this world. Memories were altered, classmates were replaced, and even my family forgot my older brother. I didn't speak up. I didn't make a fuss. I just kept records. Unti 1Reads—Score—14d adds
- 163 Naruto: I’m Actually Crying, the Shinobi World’s White Moonlight 火影：真的我哭死，忍界白月光 [Liuying + No CP + Semi-Wish-Fulfillment + Naruto + The Protagonist Has No System (The protagonist has no System, not that the novel as a whole has no System) + Not a Transmigration Story + Naruto and Sasuke's Era + Naruto Livestreams Enter the Real World] Shinobi World Senju Liuying? No, no, she's Otsutsuki Liuying now. Flying Thunder God, Firefly IV, and a whole bunch of explosive ninja tools? Battle Arena You're telling me you can eat through Super Armor, have two forms, and carry a bunch of —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 164 The Road Ahead Is Hard 此间路难走 Synopsis: 1090627398 (Fate's branching paths + intertwined A/B timelines, sci-fi mystery with technology turned up to the max. Mind-bending twists throughout, with clever characters. Volume Three includes an outline and plot analysis, so you can see if it interests you.) Lin Weidong, the youngest aerospace authority at Southern Aviation United University, snaps his pen in anger during the first lecture of the school year when a freshman asks, “Can you grow roses in lunar soil?” Blood stains the 2Reads—Score—14d adds
- 165 Stealing Memories: Trapped in a Cage 窃忆火种：我深陷囚笼 Stealing Memories: Trapped in a Cage 1Reads—Score—14d adds
- 166 The Tiansheng Mystery Files 天晟悬疑录 Liu Ziyan comes to the capital to seek help from his second uncle. Under his uncle’s mix of threats and promises, he passes the civil service exam for the Tiansheng Empire and lands a position at the Court of Judicial Review. Through relentless hard work, he eventually rises to become its president. With his career thriving, Liu Ziyan figures his rank should be good enough to qualify him as a son-in-law to the Lu family, so he plans to propose to the Lu family’s daughter, his childhood sweethear 28Reads—Score—14d adds
- 167 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
- 168 The Young Master of the Capital's Elite Circles Has an Endless Combo, and the Ghost King Begs Me to Stop Sending Shocks 京圈大少无限连，鬼王求我别发电 The Capital’s Playboy Has an Infinite Streak, and the Ghost King Begs Me to Stop Generating Electricity —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 169 Awakening the Heavenly Eye: Summoning a God to Face the Great Black Buddha Mother 天眼眸启：请神硬刚大黑佛母 (Supernatural + not a self-sacrificing saint + funny + almost invincible) Li Yang was born on the twenty-fourth day of the sixth month in the lunar calendar. He never expected to be born with a third eye and a strange destiny, drawing him into a mysterious conflict beyond imagination. The Great Black Buddha Mother, far away in Yun Province, even came in person to seize him... Fox spirits, zombies, Miaojiang gu, Kuman Thong, Yellow River corpse collectors... When Li Yang arrived in Yun Province w 66Reads—Score—14d adds
- 170 The Zombies Are Coming: The World Falls 丧尸来袭，全球沦陷 (Zombies + no System + war + survival + slow-paced) No rebirth and no supernatural abilities. The story sticks closer to reality, showing what might happen to Chinese society after a zombie virus breaks out. Xu Jing has just returned to the United States after completing an investigation and reporting back. He eagerly looks forward to a month of leave back home, where he can reunite with his wife and daughter. But a zombie virus suddenly breaks out, plunging the world into chaos. Worried about h 47Reads8.1Score—14d adds
- 171 I Play an Extra in Eerie Movies 我在诡异电影里跑龙套 [Also known as: Quitting KFC to Brave the Supernatural Scenarios] Yan Jin worked like a dog at a fried chicken shop for three years, always conscientious and hardworking. At last, he finally stood up for himself and fired his boss. But right after quitting, he transmigrated into an Infinite Flow scenario where death was all but certain. Since he’d transmigrated, he might as well show the supernatural what his incredible golden finger could do: a psychiatric hospital for gods, an echo that never 1.5kReads6.3Score11514d adds
- 172 The Spirit-Pattern Paradox 灵格悖论 Have you ever wondered what you would do if you woke from a dream to find yourself in a completely unfamiliar place? What untold stories lie behind the luxurious yet unfamiliar surroundings and all those strange faces? Conspiracies, lies, betrayal, political scheming, humanity, family, love, and friendship will tear your soul apart, piece by piece! In the midst of your desperate struggle, you will come to understand yourself anew, and even learn how the entire human world works! 1Reads6.8Score—14d adds
- 173 City Feng Shui Master: My Compass Can Slay Dragons 都市风水师：我的罗盘能斩龙 [System + decisive and ruthless + slaying demons, driving out evil, and killing the supernatural] Lin Yan thought that after his grandfather passed away, he would be left all alone, eventually worn down by making ends meet until he died. Then one day, an evil spirit appeared before him, and the Heaven-Appraising System lit up! The evil spirit was gone, and a wealthy CEO showered him with money. From then on, Lin Yan stepped into a strange and sinister world invisible to ordinary people. Nightmar 9Reads—Score—14d adds
- 174 A Guide to Raising an Evil God 邪神养成指南 The professor is passionately lecturing in class when, in the next moment, the floor caves in and black water floods the classroom. When she opens her eyes again, everything in the classroom is as it was. A ring of purplish bruises has appeared around her wrist. One campus ghost story after another begins to surface: A baby crying by the lake at midnight, bruises crawling across her roommate's body, and a pregnant senior student mysteriously falling to her death. Is it all coincidence, or reveng —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 175 The Human Soul 人魄 The Human Soul 1Reads—Score—14d adds
- 176 The Taboos of Moving a Grave: I’m Forced to Be a Dead Man’s Best Man 迁坟禁忌，我被迫给死人当伴郎 Inside a brightly decorated hall, I was serving as best man to a corpse. After that, I went through all kinds of bizarre events... The dead kept sending me gifts I couldn't get rid of. A dried corpse murder case that claimed three lives in a single day. The undead patrolling a wilderness graveyard. A pale child who nailed himself inside a coffin. And the thatched hut that stole people's lifespans. To understand what started this endless string of events, we have to go back to the part-time job I 34Reads8.8Score—14d adds
- 177 Superpower Awakening: I'm an Assistant Police Officer in a Game City 异能觉醒：我在游戏都市当辅警 [This is an AI test novel. The conclusion is that a novel produced entirely by AI is completely unreadable.] [Modern urban high martial arts] [soul transmigration] [supernatural ability sequences] [nontraditional System] When fantasies once hailed as the Ninth Art are twisted into terrifying weapons, when a shattered world is piled high with kindling and a great fire is about to blaze, have you ever wondered whether the video games you once loved might one day become the ultimate force behind hu —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 178 After I Transmigrated Into a Book, I Got My Favorite Second Male Lead a Happy Ending 穿书后我和意难平男二he了 [Transmigrate into a book + sweet romance + happy ending + older woman/younger man + campus romance] Su Li, who stayed up all night cultivating immortality, transmigrates into the book she had just finished reading. Here, she's an extra who never appears on page, but she has the good fortune to live in the same apartment building as Sheng Chiyu, the second male lead whose ending she can't accept. She loves Sheng Chiyu's character in The Heart's First Flutter, but the author didn't give him a hap 114Reads—Score—14d adds
- 179 The Villainess Is Done, and a Government Job Sounds Pretty Good 反派女配不干了，进编不香吗 [Transmigrate into a book + space powers + livestreaming + showbiz] A devoted couple. After dying suddenly following three failed civil service exams, Wen Ning'er transmigrates into a book. Well, she transmigrated, but while everyone else becomes a wealthy heiress or the family favorite, she wakes up as a wicked villainess who dies a truly terrible death. This time, she has a pocket dimension in her left hand and the power to copy things in her right. And the stable government job she's always d 154Reads6.3Score—14d adds
- 180 I Live in a City with Just One Human in Ten Thousand 我住在只有万分之一人类的城里 I Live in a City Where Only One in Ten Thousand People Is Human 3Reads—Score—14d adds
- 181 Six Dolls on a Rainy Day 雨天的六个娃娃 Six Dolls on a Rainy Day —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 182 The Blue-Eroded Script 蓝蚀字 When art becomes a murder weapon, poison flows through the pigments. This is a manhunt spanning chemistry, art, and criminal investigation. Poison can be sealed inside ancient pigment recipes; crimes can be concealed in the brushwork of paintings handed down through generations. When the final piece falls into place, will you see the complete picture of the truth, or another carefully painted disguise? 3Reads—Score—14d adds
- 183 Haunted Campus: My Card-Drawing System Is a Little Unorthodox 诡异校园：我的抽卡系统不太正经 Chen Mo, an ordinary high school student, accidentally binds the “Paranormal Gacha System” and is forced to become an on-campus exorcist. He draws an [SSR Succubus Maid] and has to help her find her lost underwear. He draws an [R-Rank Jumping Senior] and must fulfill her dying wish to experience her first love. And the strangest part is, after the evil spirits possess all the beautiful girls at school, they all fall in love with him? “System, are you sure this is a horror story and not a romance 2Reads—Score—14d adds
- 184 I Own a Museum of Horrors 我有一座恐怖博物馆 [Horrors + rules + urban legends + ensemble cast + supernatural abilities] My name is Xun Tian. Ever since I came to own this museum, everything has changed. Welcome to the world of rule-bound horror! —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 185 1858: I Founded a Nation in Australia 1858我在澳洲建国 Qing dynasty setting + farming + naval warfare + gold rush history + founding a nation overseas In 2024, Li Chengze, a history student about to graduate, is tearing his hair out over his thesis when a bizarre car accident pulls him into a vortex in time and space, sending him to 1858. Australia is still a British colony, its resources barely developed, yet its potential is immense. With his deep understanding of history, Li Chengze quickly spots the opportunities in Australia’s abundant coal, i 54Reads7.9Score—14d adds
- 186 Kiss Me as the Storm Draws Near 暴雨将至时吻你 [Sharp-tongued yet soft-hearted criminal investigation captain vs. reborn queen of the night|Two Alphas clash|A tense push and pull] When Meng Chengxiao first saw Chen Xi at a bar, she was being harassed by a few drunks and crying pitifully. His cousin was so smitten, he looked ready to tear out his own heart and give it to her. But on a stormy night, he saw it with his own eyes: the delicate young woman he’d thought so helpless ground her slender toe into a thug’s throat and took down six armed 889Reads8.2Score10514d adds
- 187 Haunted Academy: Exorcisms Begin in the Classroom 囚灵学怨：镇邪从上课开始 Infinite-Flow + Horror + Mind-Bending Puzzles + Ruthless + Rule-Deciphering After an accident, Qin Feng ends up in a place called the Spirit-Prison Academy. He was supposed to go there to suppress evil spirits, but first he has to attend class. Chinese, math, PE, and more. The lessons seem simple, but they're fraught with unknown dangers. They have to uncover the hidden rules here to have any hope of surviving. A poor performance comes at the cost of your life! Ding, ding, ding, ding! I hear the 2Reads—Score—14d adds
- 188 The Six-Nosed Fox Demon 六鼻狐妖 Linghu Yin of Ningcheng is a renowned constable of the Six Fan Gate, known by the nickname Fox Demon of the Six Noses. He is exceptionally skilled, and his foxlike cunning in solving cases often helps him spot the smallest clues where none seem possible. So come along with me and see how this official, Linghu Yin, cracks his cases. 1Reads—Score—14d adds
- 189 The God in the Cage 笼中之神 This is a requiem for prisoners, echoing between the abyss of reality and illusion. When the prison of consciousness is exposed, will you choose to sink into a sweet lie, or awaken to a cruel truth and be destroyed? The answer was already decided from the very start of the search. 1Reads—Score—14d adds
- 190 Lilies Stained with Sorrow 墨染百合殇 My new work is out! You're welcome to read it on Tomato Novel. I hope you'll enjoy it. Your support gives me the motivation to write, and I'll do my best to tell every story well! 1Reads—Score—14d adds
- 191 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
- 192 The Underworld Decree 阴职令 A wedding invitation, a register of the dead, and a journey as a guide between worlds. Chen Du was an ordinary young man, until the yin-difference title inherited from his ancestors swept him into the conflicts between the worlds of the living and the dead. Old scores beneath the locust tree, lost souls in the paper city, every debt had to be settled by his own hand. This is not a story about becoming an immortal. It is a cycle of repaying debts. —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 193 The Nuo Dancer's Ordeal 傩人难 Isolated and misunderstood, two people just alike meet because of fate. What kind of story will unfold? Will it be funny or terrifying? Everything takes place beneath a vast shadow. 2Reads—Score—14d adds
- 194 The Gate of Paradox 悖论之门 I walk among the wreckage of logic, repairing one twisted reality after another. My ability is both “hope” and perhaps the deepest of curses. Then I realized that every time I saved someone, a whisper sounded in my ear: The ultimate price of repairing this broken world may be becoming an even greater mistake. —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 195 The Wasteland's Cry 荒鸣 Bodies lie buried beneath the Dragon-Spine Tree, yet even the Sea of Eternal Night cannot bury their souls. A clan with a legacy spanning a hundred thousand years is brought to ruin in a single day because of an act of kindness. Red flowers of the other shore bloom upon white robes. A black thorned banner is planted among mountains of corpses and bones. The surviving child of the Wilds seeks answers through confusion and sinks into the currents of fate... 60Reads8.7Score—14d adds
- 196 The Sealed Coffin Opens, and I Stitch the Vengeful Dead Back to Life 绝户棺开，我缝万鬼来复仇 On my twentieth birthday, my fiancée Bai Chuchu smiled like a flower as she personally gouged out my innate spirit eyes, all to steal my fortune and help her family reach the pinnacle of power. She nailed me inside a coffin sealed to leave no descendants, then buried me alive in a cavern of ten thousand ghosts, where I suffered as they devoured me. She mocked my lowly yin fate, saying I was fit only to be a stepping stone on her path to immortality. But she didn't know that my bloodline is a for 4Reads—Score—14d adds
- 197 Attic Mints: The 30th Visitor 阁楼薄荷糖：第30个访客 An old house, mint candy, and a mystery left unspoken. In the studio on the twelfth floor of an old office building in the western district, the bitter smell of instant coffee drifts in from the window. Lately, people with secrets have been gathering at the desk of the writer Miaoyi: someone clutching a silver birdcage with the faint pattern of an old house engraved on its base; someone holding a yellowed diary, its title page marked with a drawing of mint candy; and someone who keeps repeating, 2Reads—Score—14d adds
- 198 Cao Xi’s Regret Cure 曹溪的后悔药 On a winter night in the capital in 2025, Cao Xi was walking down the street with a close friend when he happened to catch sight of his ex-girlfriend, Gao Junyao, whom he hadn’t seen in three years. At his friend’s urging, Cao Xi worked up the courage to approach her. But just as he reached the corner, he saw Gao Junyao die a violent death right before his eyes. After searching the scene, the police found no eyewitnesses to the murder, yet the wound on Cao Xi’s hand contained Gao Junyao’s DNA! M —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 199 A Talentless Mystic? I Maxed Out My Yin-Yang Eyes from the Start 玄学废材？开局点满阴阳眼 Lin Yi, 22, is a recent college graduate. On the surface, he is a “good-for-nothing” who keeps striking out in his job search. In truth, he was born with yin-yang eyes, but his spiritual powers never awakened, so he has been seeing ghosts since childhood. Cowardly yet stubborn, he uses humor as a defense mechanism. His catchphrase is, “I don’t want to be brave either, but ghosts don’t play fair!” This is the story of how unlucky Lin Yi is forced into action, using scientific thinking and an unre —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 200 The Death Song of the South China Sea Shipwreck 南海沉船亡歌 A treasure ship from the Southern Song Dynasty, built to restore the empire. A death song echoing through the deep sea. His brother dies a mysterious and gruesome death, leaving behind only a bizarre recording that drives listeners mad. Mojin heir Chen Hao joins forces with a Tanka sea king and a genius archaeologist to avenge his brother and uncover the truth, venturing into the South China Sea's forbidden zone, “Ghost-Cry Cove”! Magnetic mountains block all signals, the death song warps the mi —Reads—Score—14d adds
