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- 151 Heaven and the Death Row Inmate 天堂与死刑犯 (Original instances, setting-focused, no mindless characters or formulaic tropes) A place where people live. This book has a rich setting, rigorous logic, and a complex world. It’s perfect for immersive reading, so enjoy! 12Reads—Score—14d adds
- 152 Infinite Game, With Lifespan as the Stake 无限游戏，筹码是寿命 A pure battle of wits, with no superpowers and no System. Born from the Human Genome Project, the protagonist possesses absolute intelligence, putting him at the very pinnacle, like a god. His endless battle of wits begins the moment he enters the Domain of Fate. Genius is merely the entry ticket to this gamble. What does true peak intelligence look like? What is the truth about this world? And it turns out the final opponent is… [Some readers may worry that the protagonist’s zero personality a 210Reads6.2Score—14d adds
- 153 Wanderer of Infinite Worlds 无限世界的漫游者 [Original Infinite-Flow Worlds · No Clichés or Mindless Wish Fulfillment · Growth-Oriented Protagonist · No Golden Finger · Not Fast Food] Worlds so far: ① Western Fantasy Continent (a gathering place for transmigrators); ② Martial Artist World (the body as a furnace, qi and blood as fire, humans and ghosts coexisting); ③ Soulslike World (a dying land abandoned by the gods); ④ Imperial Star Region (where qi cultivation and interstellar technology coexist); ⑤ Weird Realm (eldritch enemies and sur 3.8kReads8.7Score37414d adds
- 154 Rule Horror: All My Teammates Are Crazy 规则怪谈：我的队友全是神经病 [The main CP is a male-male couple] [Romance] [Supernatural horror] [Social satire] [Mystery and deduction] [CPs include both men and women] The God-Sealing Game has descended on this planet for the second time. No one knows who will succeed in becoming a god this time and become a legend for future generations. The mysterious Andrew Card seems like a divine gift, yet something about it feels sinister. Zzzzt A sudden burst of static swept through everyone's minds. [Humanity's God-Sealing Plan in 62Reads—Score—14d adds
- 155 Film and TV Crossover: Crashing Into Horror Movies 综影：乱入恐怖电影 Think you've figured out every horror movie trope? This time, you're no longer a spectator. As the curtains rise on countless classic horror worlds all at once, familiar jump scares become the only rules you can rely on to survive. Use Sadako's rules of transmission in The Ring, and predict Death's deadly logic in Final Destination. This isn't a flight from danger, but the craziest practical challenge for a horror fan: use every bit of your understanding of fear to dismantle it, reshape it, and 46Reads—Score—14d adds
- 156 Rule Horror: Don't Look Back During 72 Hours in the Dorm 规则怪谈：宿舍72小时不要回头 A word of warning: this is terrifying, so timid readers beware. (No female lead, no cheats, no romance, game instances, infinite flow, horror, mystery) Eight university students who returned to campus early found a mysterious sheet of rules in their empty dormitory building: Rule One: No matter what strange “person” you see, don’t cry out or scream. Rule Two: No matter who calls you from behind, don’t turn around or answer. Rule Three: One of you is an impostor who will eat people in the middle 4.5kReads6.0Score36514d adds
- 157 My Neighbor Knocks on the Wall at 3 A.M. Every Day 我的邻居每天准时在凌晨3点敲墙 My neighbor knocks on the wall at exactly 3 a.m. every day 8Reads—Score—14d adds
- 158 Thriller Game: I Can Eavesdrop on Ghosts 惊悚游戏：我能偷听鬼话 [Infinite Flow] [No Female Lead] [Light Horror] [Multiple Twists] Six months ago, a blood mist sealed off Nandu City, trapping its ten million residents inside. Strange beings invaded the fog, and one abnormal incident after another unfolded. Lin Xu has no idea why he appeared in this city. A strange game appeared at the same time, forcing him to enter a horror instance every seven days, where death was all but certain. But the items he obtained in the game could be used against the strange enti 21.6kReads7.0Score2.3k14d adds
- 159 No Hints in the Instance 副本无提示 [The rating just came in, and it will rise later] [Mild horror + varied horror styles + original scenarios + fresh, unconventional scenarios + intelligent characters + no female lead or romantic subplots] Have any of you watching heard of the elevator ghost game? They say that if you follow the instructions, you can reach another world. Chen Feng is a video creator whose content is playing all kinds of horror games found online. He occasionally livestreams, too. During a livestream of the elevat 82.5kReads7.8Score13.5k14d adds
- 160 The Nightmare Staircase 噩梦阶梯 It all began with a staircase leading down into darkness. Lu Yu climbed the steps and entered the world of his nightmares. And so the bizarre tale began. Twisted human figures crawled beneath the moon, while rows of dark shadows drifted through the black fog... There are no ghosts in this world... but there are in dreams! [Supernatural Horror Infinite Flow × Suspense and Mystery] 1.9kReads8.3Score15614d adds
- 161 Scorpion’s Tail 蝎尾针 [Contains blood, horror, suspense, mystery, and mind-bending twists. Read with caution.] At Binhai City’s May Day Hospital, Ji Xiao is the night watchman in the morgue. To help the Shen family bring a dead relative back to life, he enters the game as a yin-yang master, putting his own life on the line. An old woman visiting a corpse, the Seven Deadly Sins of Extreme Evil turning on one another, a great yin-yang master who has taken over someone’s body... As he investigates a grisly headless mu 2Reads—Score—14d adds
- 162 I’m the Grim Reaper, and I’m About to Start Committing Crimes! 我是死神，我要开始犯罪了！ [High-IQ Crime] [No Female Lead] [A Rational Madman] [No System] Twenty years ago, Yi Bo's entire family was slaughtered. Twenty years later, he walks out of a psychiatric hospital. From that moment on, the fates of certain people are sealed! Yi Bo swears to uncover the truth behind his family's murder and kill the people responsible! But as his investigation goes deeper, he discovers that things are far from simple. An unseen hand is guiding Yi Bo as he painstakingly unravels the mystery. “The 2.6kReads6.9Score15814d adds
- 163 The Haunted House Mystery: I Am the Killer 鬼屋谜案之凶手是我 The Haunted House Mystery: I’m the Killer 9Reads—Score—14d adds
- 164 Selling Myself to a Rich Woman to Pay Off My Girlfriend's Debts 卖身富婆给女友还债 Selling Myself to a Rich Woman to Pay Off My Girlfriend’s Debt 9Reads—Score—14d adds
- 165 Rulebound Illusion Realm: I Have a Recycling Bin 规则幻域：我有一个回收箱 [Genius] [Mind-bending] [Plot twists] [No heroine] [Mystery] [Suspense] Mu Chuan unexpectedly obtains a magical box that he can never get rid of, no matter how hard he tries. By a twist of fate, he enters a rule-bound illusion domain and becomes an emissary who walks between the domain and reality. The illusion domains have the highest death rates, and there’s too little information? No problem. I have a recycling box. Give me something good, and I’ll trade you information. Skills are too rare, 117Reads8.2Score—14d adds
- 166 Rule Horror: After Lights Out, Follow the Dormitory Rules 规则怪谈：熄灯后，请遵守宿舍守则 Rule Horror: After Lights Out, Please Follow the Dormitory Rules 52Reads—Score—14d adds
- 167 Lord God's Paradise: I Got the Dread Throne from the Start 主神乐园：开局获得惊悚王座 (No female lead + ruthless and decisive + horror-game king + theme-park growth + infinite flow) Su Yue is the first “workplace emperor” in the history of horror games to clear an S-rank mission a hundred times. He's had enough of those unkillable ghosts that can only be dealt with by playing along with their rules. At last, he returns to reality, thinking he can lie flat. Then the Lord God's Paradise invitation lands right in his face! Good news: The monsters in this new world have health bars o 1.8kReads7.6Score16614d adds
- 168 Horror Descends: The Ghost Gate 恐怖降临【鬼门】 Horror + supernatural + suspense + survival + infinite worlds + twists A world of horror descends, and countless Gates of the Dead suddenly appear. Those selected must enter the gates and make a desperate escape. Some gates are formed from horror novels. Some are formed from horror movies. Some are formed from tales of evil spirits. Some are formed from bizarre imaginings. Entering a Gate of the Dead means your life has started counting down. Who can make it out alive? “If you're curious abo 1.7kReads6.3Score11414d adds
- 169 Tales of the Unextinguished Lights 不熄灯异闻录 More chilling than ghost stories, these tales recount the uncanny happenings secretly passed down by our elders! Children will be too scared to walk alone at night after hearing them, and adults will want to pay their respects to their ancestors. This is a book of taboos that the village elders tried to keep from being written! This collection of short stories features folk horror, supernatural mysteries, thrillers, legends, strange tales, and fantasy from across China and around the world. 17Reads—Score214d adds
- 170 Horror: Death Comes at Midnight 恐怖：夜半索命 I lived a routine life until the death of Old Chen changed everything. Beside his body lay a pile of handmade paper figures. One had been painted blood red and clutched in his stiff, dead hand. Blood-red words began appearing in the mirror: “Get out.” “He’s still in the building.” Then I received an ultimatum: his daughter needed a living substitute. Paper figures weren’t enough. Neither were his belongings. She wanted a living person in the building, someone warm and breathing. Tomorrow, at mid 16Reads—Score414d adds
- 171 For the Views, I Got Handcuffed to a Red-Clothed Female Ghost 为了流量，我和红衣女鬼锁了 Lin Xuan, a paranormal streamer struggling to make ends meet, breaks into the century-old haunted house known as the Huaiyin Mansion for views. He expects another scripted performance, but instead comes face-to-face with a real, murderous ghost: Wanqing, dressed in a blood-red wedding gown. The moment she sees him, she claims he is the “husband” she has waited a hundred years for, then transforms the mansion into an endless corridor. With death closing in, Lin Xuan desperately starts streaming, 4Reads—Score—14d adds
- 172 Deadly Survival Game 致命生存游戏 (Infinite-loop game, suspense, mystery, survival, no supernatural elements, no urban legends, original games, no independent System, no golden finger) ‘Selecting a game...’ ‘Player level detected: L1. Available game difficulty range: 1–2 stars.’ ‘First game detected. A one-star game is guaranteed.’ ‘Game selection successful!’ A black screen with white text immediately appeared. [Game Name: The Devil Beside You] [Game Type: Multiplayer] [Difficulty: One Star] [Clear Condition: Find the disguised 1.2kReads7.8Score10214d adds
- 173 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 100Reads—Score—14d adds
- 174 A Taoist Priest in an Infinite-Loop Story? That's Right Up My Alley 道士进无限流吗？那很专业对口了 [Infinite flow + ensemble cast + the supernatural] [Slow burn] [Mild horror + cyber ghost hunting + livestreaming + evil gods] In 2171, the neural-link horror game Random burst onto the scene, touting freedom, realism, and randomness. Homebody Taoist He Xiao opens the game, ready to let loose. Lightning magic from the start, teaching ghosts how to be ghosts. But not only does the tutorial target him, his first scenario after getting nerfed is an [S-rank scenario]? And so begins He Xiao’s livest 1Reads—Score114d adds
- 175 The Corpse-Reading Detective 诡案读尸人 The Corpse-Reading Detective 5Reads—Score—14d adds
- 176 I Deliver Souls from the Dead in Nightmares 我在噩梦里超度亡魂 (Female lead, no CP + Infinite Flow + horror game + intelligent deduction + story-focused, with horror elements) Ever since Lin Yue could remember, she had only ever made one wish before the Buddha. She would say, “May all those whose wishes have gone unfulfilled get what they wish for.” Li Zi would tease her, saying she had a bodhisattva’s heart but wasn’t cut out to be a saint. Even so, Lin Yue could never bring herself to make a wish for anything of her own. Fate would never give her what 15Reads—Score—14d adds
- 177 After Sending My Husband to a Psychiatric Hospital 把丈夫送进精神病院后 When I received my husband Zhou Huai’s psychiatric diagnosis, I sobbed so hard my whole body shook. Only I knew those were tears of excitement. After all, I was the one who had slipped drugs into his coffee every day for the past six months. He had it coming. His diary was filled with plans to use psychological manipulation to drive me to suicide and inherit the billions my parents left behind. I had him committed to the most heavily guarded psychiatric hospital in the city, thinking I’d won. U 1Reads—Score—14d adds
- 178 Don't Look Back During Evening Study at School 学校晚自习别回头 Don’t Look Back During Evening Study at School 6Reads—Score—14d adds
- 179 I Volunteered to Join the Hell Cinema 我是自愿加入地狱影院的 Mystery Infinite Flow + a passionate, hilarious ensemble cast + a story about intangible cultural heritage in every script + a protagonist who dreams their way through the trials. Watch as five ordinary young men who don’t know one another write countless adventurous tales, full of laughter and tears, as they face one perilous folk-culture script after another~ 27Reads—Score—14d adds
- 180 Eerie Descent: Nobody on the Subway Is Human 诡异降临：地铁里都不是人 [!!! NOT A POWER FANTASY !!!] [No golden finger + No Romance + No Leveling Up + No Items + No System] [Infinite Flow + Mystery and Horror + Every Character Is Smart] Important warning: If you are riding the subway right now, be sure to check underneath your seat and make sure there isn’t a corpse lying there! A mysterious subway train, with eighteen stops along its route. At every stop, the passengers must face a bizarre instance! A cruise ship sailing alone across the sea, with nowhere to dock 4.2kReads7.3Score71514d adds
- 181 Chronicles of Strange Folk Tales 民间怪谈事件录 Not for the faint of heart! Not for the faint of heart! Not for the faint of heart! The 1980s and 1990s saw one bizarre incident after another in Jubao Village: Zhao Laohei, who rose from the dead at the execution ground... The woman who hanged herself in town, her whole face turned a purplish black... The ghost child encountered during a game of hide-and-seek on the Ghost Festival... The terrifying bamboo fiend in the old bamboo grove... People and ghosts playing cards in a yin-yang card game.. 157Reads—Score—14d adds
- 182 Ten Days to the End: Qi Xia and I Storm the Haunted House! 十日终焉，齐夏带我闯诡舍！ [Mystery + wild imagination + a brand-new story] [First, all my instances are brand-new, and they're definitely mind-bending. I'm completely confident they can measure up to The Haunted House.] [Second, I hope you enjoy reading. Please consider giving it a five-star rating!] [Finally, this story is a little scary. Minors, please watch it together with an adult. Thank you.] Qi Xia transmigrates into The Haunted House and must open nine blood-red doors to return to the real world... 3kReads—Score21514d adds
- 183 Above the Ninth Floor, Starting with a Skinning Game! 九层之上，从剥皮游戏开始！ Infinite Flow + Gu Cultivation + Horror + Mind Games + Combat + Cool-Headedness + Unhinged Male Lead He thought he was a gaming expert. Only after dying did he realize this wasn't a game at all, but an ancient god's furnace for cultivating Gu. You call yourself a god, and we desperately climb the tower, hoping to use your power to bring our loved ones back to life. Little did we know you were the one who set a trap that destroyed my family, using my gaming talent to nourish your soul with Gu. I 33Reads—Score10114d adds
- 184 The Book of Deathbed Confessions: The Sickly Beauty Sweeps Through Infinite Worlds 死亡忏悔录：病美人横扫无限流 (My dears, the rating just opened, so it’ll gradually rise. Updates are steady every day, so feel free to follow along~) [Infinite Flow + Two Powerful Leads + Ensemble Cast + Feel-Good Power Fantasy + Everyone’s Favorite + Horror Instances] Bai Xue has died once, yet she can’t even remember how. In this life, she is the most useless member of the Bai family, a sickly girl who coughs after walking a few steps and pants for ages after saying three words, pale as a porcelain doll ready to shatter a 1.5kReads8.1Score29614d adds
- 185 Who Taught You to Be So Absurd in the Dungeons? 副本里玩抽象，谁教你的？ [Comedy + Absurdity + Ensemble Cast + Infinite Loop + Murder Mystery Game + Games] The Gate of Miracles: Enter, and become a god. To pay for his terminally ill younger sister's medical bills, Zhang Fan takes the risk of working as an underground paparazzo. Tempted by a mysterious client's offer of a generous 500,000 yuan, he follows instructions and heads to the designated location. After stumbling into a bizarre instance, he calls his client for help. The other person says, “Want to survive? Wa 16Reads6.7Score—14d adds
- 186 Evolution Paradise: I Have an Army of the Way of Great Peace 进化乐园，我有太平道大军 [Infinite Flow] [Arcade Worlds] [Fake Ace] [Taoist] [Summoner] [Consistently Powerful] The Three Kingdoms Battle Chronicle, where warlords vie for supremacy! Cadillacs and Dinosaurs, a bloody slaughter! The World of the Three Kingdoms, where heroes make their entrance! Dragon Warrior, a land of dragons and adventure! The King of Fighters, where fists clash with fate! ... A playground containing countless arcade worlds has opened. Players enter its spaces to adventure through the arcade worlds. I 18.6kReads8.5Score1.8k14d adds
- 187 Rules of Horror? I'll Just Fire Up Excel 规则怪谈？我反手一个Excel Mo Fan, a top data analyst who worked so much overtime he went bald, suddenly dies and is thrown into a perilous world of bizarre rules. Here, the supernatural is commonplace and death is the ending. Everyone lives in fear. When others are scared out of their wits by the Slit-Mouthed Woman, Mo Fan calmly opens Excel and marks her threat level red with conditional formatting. When others run in despair through an endless corridor, Mo Fan uses a pivot table to spot the spatial patterns at a glanc 6Reads—Score—14d adds
- 188 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—14d adds
- 189 Infinite Blood Blades 无限血刃 [Infinite worlds + Swordsmanship master + Gluttonous devouring + Ruthless and decisive + No female lead] One slash to cut down ten thousand foes, devour all and tread across the heavens! The Evolution Game descends, turning countless worlds into trial grounds. While others struggle to survive, Li Xuan charges through everything with his blade. Using his Gluttonous Monarch talent, he devours crystal cores to evolve and crushes all opposition with peerless swordsmanship! In the apocalyptic sea of 16.7kReads7.4Score1.6k14d adds
- 190 The Dead: Samsara Sacrifice Game 死者：轮回祭杀游戏 [Twists and Deception + Squid Game + Class Division] (Short title: Dead Man's Game. A first full-length novel packed with thrilling battles of wits. Watch the protagonist turn the tables.) “How can there be fairness in the six paths of reincarnation? Ordinary people are nothing but playthings of the Grim Reaper. The end of life is set from birth, and death is already decided.” 7Reads—Score—14d adds
- 191 The Miserable Good Life of a Born Unlucky Saint 先天倒霉圣体的霉好生活 When the world ran short of spiritual energy and the gods one by one lost their jobs, only the God of Misfortune survived, using her immense bad luck to save the world. Her unlucky nature was so potent that everyone else kept their distance. As haunted death zones plagued by ghosts and curses appeared one after another, a single misstep could mean eternal doom. But Yu Yingfan, the woman who became a god through bad luck, could not only stride through them with ease, but also save the world along 1Reads—Score—14d adds
- 192 Conquering the Heavens, Starting as the Top Scholar 纵横诸天，从状元郎开始 [Original dungeons + infinite worlds + no System + slow burn + highly intelligent protagonist + numerous foreshadowed clues + many twists] My name is Zhao Xingzhou, and I'm number one on the Main God Space's most-wanted list. I ended the aristocratic clans' monopoly, and they said I brought hope. I destroyed the Norse pantheon, and they accused me of bringing ruin. I became the Demon King's ruler of the demon race, and even eloped with the heroine. I founded a multiworld interstellar empire, yet 12Reads—Score214d adds
- 193 Strange Tales from the Road 行路诡闻 [Folk customs and suspense | Episodic stories | Immersive accounts] There's an old saying: Walk the night road three times, and ghosts and gods will follow you. Writer Lin Sui travels around gathering material, recording the rural ghost stories he hears along the way in the old notebook he carries with him. He has no spirit-seeing eyes and can't draw talismans or chant incantations. Faced with those indescribable horrors, his only weapons are the pen in his hand and his instinct for survival. 2Reads—Score—14d adds
- 194 Death and Infinite Resets: Uncovering the Rules of Every Vengeful Ghost 死亡无限回档：洞察所有厉鬼规律 [Death Rewind] [Kill the do-gooders first] [Vicious ghosts return] [Dark story] As the paranormal world awakens and vicious ghosts reappear, all you need to do is call Su Yun's name. I'll lead you back through time to find the perfect timeline. Su Yun had just transmigrated into a world where the paranormal was returning when four vicious ghosts began interrogating him. First interrogation: "What do you mean, you killed me because you didn't know how I died?" He rewound to before his death and s 862Reads—Score10414d adds
- 195 A Collection of Terrifying Tales 恐怖惊魂故事录 [Traditional supernatural tales] [Strange happenings late at night] [Whispers of the uncanny in your ear] [Based on true events] [Urban horror] [Thrilling and chilling] One ghost story for every chapter, all set in the dead of night. Come and read... 603Reads—Score—14d adds
- 196 Reincarnation Game: I Climbed a Hundred-Story Zombie Tower from the Start 轮回游戏：开局我爬百层丧尸大楼 [Male-Oriented, Infinite-Flow, Teamwork, Battle Anime, Wits and Courage.] Countless people grow stronger through one round after another of reincarnation games, forming teams to compete against one another. It is all entertainment for the gods, and Yang Yuan is just one of their chess pieces. Anyone here could become the protagonist. [Hundred-Story Zombie Tower (Chapters 1–28)] [Hide-and-Seek (Chapters 31–69)] [Infinite Train (Chapters 73–96)] [Horror Game (Chapters 102–109)] [Superhumans (Chapt 5.1kReads6.4Score52914d adds
- 197 My Funeral Clothing Shop Only Takes Orders from Ghosts 我开的寿衣店，只接鬼订单 The day Zhang Zaizai took over the funeral clothing shop his grandfather left behind, he discovered it wasn’t an ordinary funeral business at all. The ledger was an order system for the underworld, the paperweight was a soul-pinning nail that kept vicious ghosts at bay, and even the “New Order” alerts from the delivery app came from “Mr. Li in Bed 3 of the morgue.” “Ding! Order accepted. Task: Deliver a peachwood comb to the Midnight Hair-Combing Ghost. Rule: Do not meet her eyes while combing h —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 198 Infinite Haunting Realms: I Can See Through Lies 无限诡域：我能堪破谎言 [Infinite Flow]+ [No Romance]+ [Original Instances]+ [Mild Horror]+ [Ghosts Kill People]+ [Ghosts in Every Real-World Instance] “Ghosts cannot be killed.” “Humans cannot fight ghosts.” “Ghosts each have their own rules for killing.” A mysterious letter. A door that leads to the unknown. When Li Yu opened the door, one eerie instance after another awaited him. This is the [Ghostly Domain], a world of vengeful ghosts! Will you die in confusion, or be reborn from a nightmare? 156kReads8.4Score24.6k14d adds
- 199 Survival Game: I Defy Fate with My Imagination 生存游戏：我靠脑洞在游戏场逆天 [Absurd Comedy + Infinite Worlds + Rule-Based Battles + Internet Memes + Meticulous Plotting + Reverse Tropes + No Romance] When reaction images become primordial deities and terrible memes form the laws of the world, welcome to the “Meme Corridor,” a survival game that runs on imagination, not science. Here, every cringe-worthy meme you once laughed at will become a blade aimed at your life. While other players despair in the repulsion field of “Don’t you come any closer!” or sink into the “ 12Reads—Score—14d adds
- 200 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... 15Reads—Score—14d adds
