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- 151 Rule Horror: School of Life and Death 规则怪谈：生死学校 [Rule Horror] [Infinite Flow] [Battle Royale] On the day he got into college, Yang Han thought his hardships were finally over. It wasn't until he stepped through the campus gates that he learned the truth: At this university, there are no classes and no exams. You only have to risk your life. Break the school rules? Erased on the spot. The survival app's countdown hits zero? You disappear instantly. If you want to live one more day, you must fight to complete one bizarre mission after another a 6kReads8.9Score72914d adds
- 152 After Entering a Horror Game, I Kick People and Make Them Take the Fall 进入惊悚游戏后我踹人背锅 410Reads7.5Score10014d adds
- 153 Rule Horror: Help! My AI Miracle Doctor Says I Have to Die 规则怪谈：救命！我的AI神医说我必须死 Rule Horror: Help! My AI Miracle Doctor Says I Have to Die —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 154 The Nightmare Investigation Team 梦魇调查团 This is the depths of hell, a world of nightmares. Without a resilient will, a nimble mind, and meticulous powers of observation, you can only become a demon's feed in this terrifying world. 1.4kReads8.8Score11014d adds
- 155 She Only Goes for Perfect Endings in Rule Horror 她在规则怪谈里只刷完美结局 [Livestream + Strong Female Lead + Mild Horror + Invincible + Unconventional Rule-Based Horror] Rule-based horror descended upon Blue Star without warning. It randomly selects chosen ones to enter its horror worlds and face the supernatural on behalf of their countries. Ye Qingwu was chosen to represent the Dragon Kingdom after it suffered six consecutive losses in horror trials. If she wins, the Dragon Kingdom will have a chance to rise again. If she loses, the Dragon Kingdom will never recover 866Reads8.8Score12614d adds
- 156 The Gods’ Tricks 神明的伎俩 [Two Male Leads + Strong Leads + Ensemble Cast + Brain-Burning + Infinite-Flow + Lighthearted] At first, people thought it was nothing more than a riot, just another ordinary clash. That was until Fang Chen happened upon a bridge and was swept into a bizarre game. From then on, he glimpsed the truth hidden beneath the surface. Some people protect the world in plain sight. Others work in the shadows. The organization Fang Chen belongs to lies dormant beneath the deep sea, fighting the unknown and 23Reads8.9Score—14d adds
- 157 Welcome to the World of Paintings 欢迎来到画卷世界 [Infinite Flow + Horror Instances + Mystery + Highly Intelligent Heroine] Guan Xiaoxi is accidentally dragged by Mu Chengguang into the world of paintings, an otherworldly realm filled with taboos and death. In every painting, he is there, silently watching. Who is he? Why does he treat her so differently? Guan Xiaoxi has no memories from before the age of six. Her emotions and senses are impaired, and she is naturally absentminded. She is unaffected by the paintings’ mental pressure and cannot 453Reads—Score10414d adds
- 158 Horror Street 恐怖街 [Infinite Flow + Mild Horror + Mind Games + Original Worldbuilding + Tight Logic + Ensemble Cast + Cthulhu Mythos + Every Mystery Gets Solved + High-IQ Characters] On Zhongshan Avenue, a dilapidated bus carrying eight passengers drove into a sinister place… The missing passengers’ relatives wept and wailed, but their cries were helplessly swallowed by the tide of the times… As the years passed, the case file eventually lost its validity and became an unsolved cold case. But one passenger was not 1Reads8.9Score—14d adds
- 159 Blood Curtain: The Final Chapter? 血幕，终章？ Five years ago, one tiny mistake of mine got three coworkers killed. From then on, I lived in endless regret. Five years later, a blood-red screen appeared in the depths of the ocean, enclosing a mysterious continent! Monsters began invading from this other continent. While every country in the world struggled to resist, I was pulled into another dimension, where lies followed rules that could get you killed, bizarre monsters were impossible to wipe out, and I had several unreliable “teammates.” —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 160 After the Engagement Banquet 订婚宴之后 After the Engagement Banquet 5Reads—Score—14d adds
- 161 I’m an Actor in a Horror World 我在恐怖世界当演员 [Infinite Loop + Death Games + Horror Worlds + Original Scenarios + No Female Lead] (The protagonist has limits he won’t cross + System (mostly useless) + Items + The protagonist isn’t superhuman) If you were asked to act in a real horror movie, would you be willing? Guan Long is one lucky guy: he was chosen to take part in one terrifying film after another. There’s the bizarre rest stop on the highway, another “floor” that suddenly appears on a rooftop, and eerie voices calling from elevators, 623Reads6.4Score—14d adds
- 162 Hellish Instances Have Arrived (Infinite Flow) 地狱副本上线（无限流） Instances: The Prince and the Princess, Petition to the People, The Cat and the Fish, Please Talk to the NPC, Black-and-White Undercover, Greetings to the Empress, Tom and Jerry, Bragging Card Game, Desert Island Survival, Strongest Special Forces Soldier, Citywide Catastrophe, Draw and Guess, Players’ Karaoke Room ^^ (Abandoned ending, bonus chapters pending) 1kReads8.8Score11214d adds
- 163 Mysterious Tales: Stop Crying! Smile, Damn It! 诡秘怪谈：别哭了！给老子笑！ Weird Tales of the Mysterious: Stop crying! Give me a damn smile! —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 164 I Am the Lord of the Milky Way, Sweeping Through Fantasy Worlds 我乃银河系领主，横扫玄幻世界 Fantasy with an inventive premise, sci-fi transmigration, ruthless and decisive, not a saint, multiple female leads, a fussy male protagonist, careful planning at every step, ensemble cast, play the pig to eat the tiger. “Maybe I can’t kill you in this secret realm! But a nuclear weapon can!” The protagonist was once a powerful being who had risen from Earth in a universe known to civilization. Through tireless effort, he grew strong enough to sweep across several star systems and become the rul —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 165 Infinite Flow: I Became the Crazy System's Darling 无限流：我成了疯批系统的掌心娇 (Both leads are faithful) (Some livestreaming) (A little horror) (1v1) (System) (Every character is an individual. Please respect them.) A major event has shaken the entire world! Some gamers are forced through various games into a game world, where they must complete all kinds of missions. Succeed, and they receive rewards. Fail, and they face the punishment of the game world. If they survive, they continue onward. If they die, they are erased from the real world too, and no one will remember t 142Reads9.0Score—14d adds
- 166 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, 6Reads—Score—14d adds
- 167 Infinite Flow: Horror Flight 无限流之恐怖航班 [Infinite-flow + a team of the elderly, weak, sick, disabled, and pregnant working together + no romance] Welcome aboard the "Send You Sky-High" flight. Please follow the captain's instructions and board or disembark in an orderly fashion. Anyone who refuses will be sent off to explode like fireworks by our beautiful, skeletal flight attendants! With her own strength, the heroine assembles a team that seems to have no chance of winning, yet they always manage to escape certain doom! [Anjia Hotel 7.1kReads7.9Score66114d adds
- 168 Rule Horror: The Strange Happy Family 规则怪谈：诡异的幸福之家 [Horror + Brain-Bending Mystery + Livestreamed National Fate] Rule-based horror descends upon the world. As one of the chosen, Ling Xiao enters the horror realm to survive. At the critical moment between life and death, he unexpectedly awakens a Rule System. If he survives, the whole nation celebrates. If he fails, the horror realm descends upon the real world. 1. You live with your wife, child, and parents. Remember, there are only five people in the household. 2. Your child goes to school at e 1.1kReads6.1Score10414d adds
- 169 Rule Horror: Feeding Records from No. 7 Huaiyin Lane 规则怪谈：槐荫里7号进食记录 Rule Horror: Feeding Records from No. 7, Huaiyin Lane —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 170 Taking Down the Green Tea Bitch in an Escape Game 在逃生游戏里虐绿茶 [Infinite flow, mild horror, primarily imaginative plot, ensemble cast, the main group aren't good people, romance] Meng Xiaxia has three great enemies in life. First, the green tea type. Second, the green tea type around her. Third, the green tea type who picks a fight with her. Unfortunately, the partner she gets on her journey through death is a veteran green tea type who can't stop calling her "Big Sis." Great. Another day of wanting to punch her partner to death. This is a highway of death. 3.5kReads8.6Score48514d adds
- 171 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
- 172 Consumed by Nightmares 噩梦焚身 A Nightmare Burns Through Me —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 173 Apocalyptic Spirit Book: I Am the Source of Disaster 末世灵书：我就是灾难之源 Not your traditional System, no zombie siege, and no main storyline about hoarding supplies Infinite worlds + wild imagination + a different kind of apocalypse This story follows Zhang Mingtian, who obtains a mystical book. It can give the doomed world he lives in a chance of survival. That chance comes from letting the mystical book create the cause of the world’s destruction instead. Zhang Mingtian must clear the trials set by the book. All kinds of natural disasters and monsters will descend —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 174 Rule Horror: Every Rule Is Waiting for Me to Break It 规则怪谈：所有规则都在等我违规 Rule Horror: Every Rule Is Waiting for Me to Break It 5Reads—Score—14d adds
- 175 Can You Fall in Love with an NPC in a Game? 能和你游npc谈恋爱吗 [Dual male leads + strong leads + infinite-flow + ensemble cast + 1v1, mutually devoted + a touch of everyone’s favorite] Luo Baiye had lived a quiet life for nineteen years. His only regret, perhaps, was that he still hadn’t experienced the hardships of falling in love. He couldn’t help it. His standards were high, and he figured he might stay single for life. Just as he thought his uneventful days would continue until he died, he boarded a chartered bus bound for an art museum on a rainy day. 1.3kReads8.8Score24114d adds
- 176 The House of the Dead 空亡屋 There is a kind of house in this world whose door is always half open and half closed. The open half is for the living to enter. The closed half is for the dead. This kind of house is called a House of the Lost. As it happens, I'm the owner of one. In three years, I've encountered both clingy ghosts and evil people who cling to ghosts. 780Reads8.7Score12514d adds
- 177 The Tea-Style Beauty Goes on a Rampage in Rule Horror!! 茶系美人在规则怪谈杀疯了！！ [A touch of mind-reading + supernatural horror + yandere tendencies + comedy + goofy abilities + faux innocent-tea persona + supernatural boyfriend] [The beginning is just like rulebound horror, with a fake protagonist team. Get ready to be blown away.] Supernatural horrors descended upon the world, and a series of rules took precedence over everyone. But the truth Xu Yuan had been searching for turned out to be... Who was the person with experimental test tubes stuck all over their body? Could 232Reads8.7Score—14d adds
- 178 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 63Reads—Score—14d adds
- 179 Apocalypse: My Superpowers Awaken, and I Open a Detective Agency 末世异能崛起：我开侦探事务所 Urban martial arts, multiple female leads, team ensemble, fussy and talkative male protagonist, second-rate rogue detective, ruthless and decisive, apocalypse survival, rising superpowers. In the apocalypse, technology has regressed, order has collapsed, disasters and human calamities run rampant, and superpowers are on the rise. Humanity lives in misery. If the gods control cause and effect in this world, then let them look down upon the earth and witness the suffering of its people! If the god 2Reads—Score—14d adds
- 180 Dropped into a Player’s Body, I Slaughter My Way Through the Dungeons 落入玩家后，我杀穿副本 [Completed + Strong Female Lead + Infinite Flow + Cool Beauty + Fortune Teller + Female Lead Shows No Mercy; Everyone Is Self-Serving Villain] [The men around the female lead all have one-sided crushes on her] Li Jiu was one of the players in the game's earliest testing phase. She had cleared the entire instance and uncovered countless early bugs, but after an accident involving the System, she found herself back in the instance. Everyone thought she was a newcomer, an ordinary woman who couldn' 2.8kReads8.1Score54514d adds
- 181 Infinite: Is My NPC Boyfriend a Hopeless Romantic Again? 无限：NPC男友又恋爱脑了？ (Infinite worlds, sweet romance, growing female lead, NPC boyfriend pursues her, devoted to each other) Xu Zidu had been dating her boyfriend for a year when he vanished on her birthday. Who would have guessed her boyfriend was an NPC in a dungeon! What’s it like to have a boyfriend in a dungeon who keeps giving you hints? While other players are fighting for their lives, Qin Shuo grips Xu Zidu by the waist, speaking in a coy, teasing voice: “Honey, I’m yours, and all the clues are yours too.” X 310Reads—Score10314d adds
- 182 Survival Game: I’m a Master of Professional Disguises 求生游戏，我是职业变装大佬 Strong Female Lead + No Romance + Survival Game + Multiple Worlds + Infinite-Flow At the start of the survival game, she drew what everyone agreed was the most useless skill: disguise? Others laughed at her bad luck, but she laughed at them for failing to see through her. She joined an aquarium, where affairs, embezzlement, and murder followed one after another! Then she transferred to a luxury mall, only to get caught up in a PUA trap and a make-or-break sales target, while also having to hel 99Reads—Score—14d adds
- 183 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~ 26Reads—Score—14d adds
- 184 Infinite Horror: My Persona Mustn't Crack 无限惊悚：我的人设不能崩 [Infinite Flow + Horror Game + Mind Games and Puzzles + No Romance, Ensemble Cast] If my mom kills me at exactly six-thirty every morning, does that count as perfect attendance? I'm Si Yan, a surgeon and an inexperienced horror-game player. My daily routine: wake up, wash my face, and think about medicine before Mom's jaws split open in a bloody grin After all, the growth rate of those lumps on the back of her neck seriously violates the principles of pathology. When I finally smashed her contro 12Reads—Score—14d adds
- 185 The Sickly Beauty Flirts with BOSSes in an Infinite Game 病美人在无限游戏撩BOSS [A seemingly frail but secretly powerful heroine VS a genuinely sinister instance boss] Content warning: The heroine has a golden finger. Gu Shian enters an escape game and becomes a “frail young woman” who coughs up blood every few steps and has to rest at the slightest exertion. Whenever Gu Shian is in an instance, she always seems to run into the most terrifying figure there... Someone saw the sickly beauty plunge a knife into the boss’s heart. After quick transmigrating through ten worlds 6.7kReads8.9Score1.1k14d adds
- 186 The Strange World: Luckily, I'm Good at Exorcising Demons with Physics 诡异世界：正好本人擅长物理驱魔 [Infinite worlds + no System + horror + no national destiny competition + no livestreaming + bloodline + get stronger by fighting monsters] A mysterious door. A group of people forced to enter. Countless worlds overrun by the uncanny. Five years ago, his younger sister was taken by the Gray Realm. Wang Anle, who bears a Taotie tattoo, spent five years searching for her. He made his living exorcising spirits, until a chance opportunity finally let him enter the Gray Realm. Only then did he disc 3Reads7.6Score—14d adds
- 187 My Emotions Can Confer Godhood 我的情绪能封神 [Strong female lead + growth-focused + Cthulhu horror + ship any couple you like] I’m Xu Quan, the only BUG left after reality’s folds invaded. My System sounds the alarm every day, either because an S-rank obsession has formed or because the real world is collapsing. I’m so sick of it. All I want is to quietly collect my obsession encyclopedia. The head of the Stability Bureau can’t stand me? [Ding! Their permissions have been changed to “backyard husky.”] A green-tea rival shows up to stir up 9Reads—Score—14d adds
- 188 Apocalypse: I Have Infinite Lives in the Land of Divine Punishment 末世：我在神罚之地无限复活 Infinite flow, apocalypse, deadly games, ensemble cast, mind games, suspense and brainteasers, ruthless protagonist, resurrection and rebirth, no dumbed-down characters, no saintly heroine. A group of ordinary people are trapped in an apocalyptic wasteland, said to be a land of divine punishment and surrounded by walls a thousand meters high. Deadly games lurk here, survival resources are desperately scarce, natural disasters strike without warning, and they must fight monsters to stay alive. Wh 2Reads—Score—14d adds
- 189 Eerie Infinite: The Death Script of the Starlight Cinema 诡异无限：星光电影院的死亡剧本 [Infinite flow + ensemble cast + battle royale + death scenarios + horror + suspense + gore + gritty realism + slow burn + character growth] “Remember, trust is a luxury here, and stupidity... is a deadly poison!” “Enough! I just want to work and live in peace. What did I do wrong? Why do I have to die? Tell me why!” “Because you’re just one of the people at the bottom...” “So people at the bottom deserve to die?” “Yes. Unless you make it to the very last day, you’re a god!” A terrifying movie t 1.5kReads6.1Score15314d adds
- 190 The Yin and Yang Overlap 阴阳重叠 Freshman Lin Xiaoxue arrives at Room 304 in the old campus dormitory of Nanguang University. She carries an unknown “boundary-attracting constitution,” and the moment she steps into the building, steeped in eerie rumors, she is swept into a string of inexplicable events: sobbing from Room 307, a shadow in Classroom 404, and campus secrets that grow clearer with every passing night. As midnight becomes the meeting point of the worlds of the living and the dead, small overlaps begin occurring afte 13Reads—Score—14d adds
- 191 Great! It's a System, Now I'm Definitely Dead 太棒了！是系统，这下我死定了 [Infinite Flow] [No heroine] [No CP] [Original instances] [The System is useless] [Rules] [Deduction] [Wits and strategy] [Survival missions] Borrowing a setting from a great author: ghosts cannot be killed... You must discern their patterns... The Haunted Spirit Tower has descended. Please make sure to complete your survival mission! Little-girl System and all that: “Host, clear each instance in one life, one every seven days! Bring the Haunted Tower era to an end!” Chen Zichu: “Damn it... Othe 2.6kReads7.6Score23114d adds
- 192 The Alternate Personality Arcade 次人格游戏厅 [Infinite Flow + horror + villain protagonist + spiritual qi revival] All this time, I've been living in the Demon Emperor's game room inside my mind. That is, until I pulled the Demon-Locking Spike from my skull and woke up on the brink of death. Only then did I learn that Sen Nuo, the womanizing demonic spellcaster from that broken-box academy, was dead. And I was nothing but his secondary personality. In the box game of Endless Desire, I must solve the ending to return to the real world. The 1Reads—Score—14d adds
- 193 It's Infinite Flow, So Why Are We Still Playing the Looks Game?! 都无限流了怎么还玩卡颜局啊！ [Ensemble Cast + Two Perpetually Single Misfits + Multiple Couples + Light Comedy] [Jiang Yelin, a genius girl ranked third on the superpower leaderboard, cold on the outside but socially awkward underneath × Jiang Qi'an, a top-tier beauty who loves to act cute and is as cheerful as a puppy] [INTJ × ENFP rainbow duo] Everyone says you're pretty, but you're the prettiest of all!! She's a sucker for good looks, and he's blessed with a perfect face. Someone tries to drive a wedge between them: “Are 1kReads8.8Score18214d adds
- 194 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 76.8kReads7.8Score12.5k14d adds
- 195 You Were Supposed to Handle Rule Contamination, So Why Are You Going, “For Real?” 让你处理规则污染，你搁这“尊嘟假嘟”？ You were supposed to handle the rule contamination, so why are you over here going, “For real, though?” 3Reads—Score—14d adds
- 196 Eerie Revival: Obstetrician to an S-Rank Haunted Hospital 诡异复苏：给S级鬼楼当产科医生 Eerie Revival: Obstetrician to an S-Rank Haunted Building 2Reads—Score—14d adds
- 197 Horror Cinema: My Teammate Is Yukino Yukinoshita 恐怖影院：我的队友是雪之下雪乃 [The rating has only just come out, and it’ll rise later] [Infinite Flow] + [Mild Horror] + [Horror Dungeons] + [Anime Crossover, Multiple Heroines] “Welcome to the Nightmare Screening Room. Here, you’re not an audience member sitting in the theater. You’re a participant in a real horror movie!” Guan Hong accidentally stumbles into a bizarre horror theater. There’s no popcorn here, only endless survival missions and vengeful evil spirits ready to peel off your skin at any moment. First screeni 1kReads6.2Score10414d adds
- 198 The Backlash of Trust 信任的反噬 The Backlash of Trust 2Reads—Score—14d adds
- 199 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
- 200 I’m Taking This All the Way to the Central Government! The Lucky Player Is Cheating! 告到中央！欧皇玩家她开挂啦！ [Romance + Game + Lucky Player + Stockpiling Supplies + Spatial Storage + Apocalypse + Character Growth + Natural Disasters + Comedy + Survival + Drama Queen] Tan Qiqi was baffled. She thought of herself as a diligent corporate drone who did little more than grumble about her boss behind his back. How could she possibly deserve this kind of punishment!? Getting dragged into a survival game out of nowhere was bad enough. She could have laid low and slowly built herself up, but this game was downr 949Reads8.5Score10814d adds
