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- 1 I Inherited Billions in Hell Money and Married the Underworld Emperor 继承百亿冥币，我闪婚冥帝 [Rules-Based Horror + Supernatural + Face-Slapping + Losing It + Satisfying Read + Devoted Couple] When my great-aunt passed away, she left me a massive inheritance: Billions in cash, several mansions, and a handful of employees. But the cash turned into hell money, the mansions became miniatures, and the employees turned into paper figures. And I found myself trapped in a rules-based horror game. It's fine, it's fine. I may be broke, but I've got issues! Trashy scumbags from every walk of life? 20Reads—Score—Shelves
- 2 I’m a Funeral Streamer, and My Prophecies Made Me Famous Nationwide 我一丧葬主播，依靠预言火爆全网 From the start, I was bound to the Funeral System. My livestream welcomes only those who are about to die. Other streamers get sports cars and yachts. When I put up a link, I send off a reckless influencer instead. Hater: "Ban this jinx of a streamer!" I calmly replied, "My friend, you look like death is hanging over you. Why not order a thin-walled nanmu coffin first? I'll give you a killer discount." My jealous rival: "If you're so good, curse me to die!" I sighed and put a top-of-the-line ebo 27Reads—Score—Shelves
- 3 Chronicles of Annihilation 寂灭编年史 He is Mo, the Recorder of the End, the embodiment of the universe's law of increasing entropy. Clad in a simple black robe, he has the silent starlight in his eyes. His pocket watch is soundless, its hands forever fixed on the final moment. His mission is to enter worlds fated for annihilation and witness their end as one of their inhabitants. Mo is neither god nor demon. He is only an observer and a catalyst. He immerses himself in civilizations locked in logical dead ends, saturated with suffe —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 4 You Were Supposed to Survive, So Why Did You Drive the Supernatural Insane? 让你求生，你把诡异治疯了？ [Infinite Flow + Subversive Rule Horror + Unhinged Protagonist + Power Fantasy + Survival?] [Not traditional Rule Horror. Best enjoyed as a power fantasy.] The abyss descends, forcibly splitting reality into countless Rule Horror dungeons. The Gaokao Factory, the Flesh Apartment, the Dark University, the Flaying Train... All humanity desperately struggles to survive under the bizarre “rules that guarantee death.” But in the eyes of Lin Yan, a top criminal psychology profiler, the truth is comple —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 5 I Bought My Way Through the Eerie World 我用钱买穿诡异世界 [Pay-to-win cultivation + Chinese-style horror + ruthless protagonist] His only golden finger: Money really can let you do anything. At the awakening ceremony, others summoned divine weapons and spirit beasts. Lin Feng awakened nothing but a single copper coin. His clan members laughed. “Useless! How can a copper coin slay ghosts?” Then came the night of the corpse uprising. With one copper coin, he subdued a corpse. With a hundred taels of gold, he bought the silence of a red-clad bride. With a 1Reads—Score—Shelves
- 6 The Long Road to Catching a Killer in the Abyss 慢慢深渊追凶路 When Deputy Captain Chen Mingxuan of the Criminal Investigation Brigade finds a half-clad corpse in an unfinished building, he discovers that the victim is Zhao Yong, his former partner, who disappeared seven years ago. The crow mark on the corpse’s back leads to a series of old cases spanning twenty years. From the disappearance of a young girl to a mole within the police station, from illegal experiments at a biotech company to an international criminal network overseas, Chen Mingxuan, forensi 45Reads—Score—Shelves
- 7 Rule Horror: The Ghost Wedding in Eastern Guangdong 规则怪谈：从粤东鬼娶亲开始 As the supernatural runs rampant, the entire world is forcibly dragged into death-game instances by the “Ghost Story App.” Wu Hao awakens his family's inherited Nuo opera talent. From the start, he enters the S-rank Lingnan urban legend: [A Ghost Wedding in Eastern Guangdong]. Red sedan, white lanterns, and the living ordered to stay away? He can see the true names of the supernatural beings and seal gods with his Nuo mask! From ghost weddings in urban villages to ancient gods in the deep sea, W 2Reads—Score—Shelves
- 8 Rule Horror: The Repeating Door 规则怪谈：重复的门 [Infinite flow + mild horror + survival] I’m a young man from the 21st century. After boarding a train, I ended up in another world. The Smurf Village... The Smurfs here seem to have mutated. They’re actually about as tall as my knees. To get back to their original world, they try every possible way to complete the tasks announced over the radio. But the further they go, the more they realize something is wrong. Because there is only one real Smurf... “The door.” “Look, there’s the door.” “We ca 1Reads—Score—Shelves
- 9 Rule Horror: I Conquered the Myriad Realms Dungeon 规则怪谈：我闯过万相副本 On his first day at work, Chen Mo is thrown into an endless series of rule-based horror scenarios, trapped in one uncanny death trap after another. The red-clad female ghost of Mistveil Town, a blood-red wedding banquet that never ends, a deep-sea monster aboard a sunken ship, a world of fractured reflections, a cannibal village, a station where time twists, a vampire castle gripped by a blood curse, a cyber asylum that rewrites human nature, and a divine arena of unending slaughter... Ten scena —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 10 When the Strange Tales Arrive: I Win by Exploiting Loopholes 怪谈降临：我靠漏洞躺赢到无敌 While others follow the rules to survive, Lin Chen deciphers them and tears through every challenge! Global paranormal phenomena erupt, and uncanny rules are everywhere. Break them, and you’ll suffer anything from mutation to being devoured by the ruler of the domain! Lin Chen is cool-headed and fiercely protective, without a trace of saintly self-righteousness. After binding himself to the [Rule Analysis System], he begins a life of unstoppable power: Red rules? Find the loophole and turn them 3Reads7.0Score—Shelves
- 11 The Day of the Blood Moon 月血之日 On the day of the Hungry Ghost Festival’s blood moon, I witnessed flocks of birds, packs of foxes, and snowflakes hanging motionless in the air, > and became certain that the world was nothing but a virtual program riddled with bugs; > until I saw soldiers escorting a stone coffin while carrying the same group of red foxes through the streets, > and finally understood that this had always been real. They simply no longer cared to hide it; > then the red fox at the head of the group suddenly turn —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 12 Rule Horror: I Use Code to Rise Against the Ultimate Villain 规则怪谈：我靠代码逆袭最强反派 Rule horrors have descended across the globe, and humanity has become NPCs in eerie scripts. But I, Lin Jin, have been bound to the [Impostor System], forced to play the ultimate villain who drives the “hero” to grow. They think I’m following the script, but they don’t know that lines of code exposing the rules’ loopholes are floating before my eyes. [No loud noises]? I delete the word “no,” and the creepy teacher in the classroom starts belting out a song. [You must keep your head down]? I chan —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 13 A 1,001-Chapter Guide to Avoiding Insurance Pitfalls 保险避坑指南1001章 Here’s the synopsis for "A 1,001-Chapter Guide to Avoiding Insurance Pitfalls": Insurance is an adult’s safety net, and a mirror that lays bare human nature. In the unique format of “mystery stories plus hard-hitting education,” this book recounts the most realistic insurance mishaps ordinary people encounter when buying coverage: the man who mistook a thyroid nodule for a “pimple”; the blank policy that landed two successive wives in court against each other; the fatal phone call about “p 3Reads—Score—Shelves
- 14 Rule Horror Conquers the World 规则怪谈征服到全世界 Lin Wang, a low-level wage earner, gets pulled into a Rule Horror game. Using his sharp reasoning, he spots loopholes in the rules, seizes supernatural abilities from the scenarios, builds a faction, and overthrows the ruling system. In the end, he faces the source of the horrors, but loses everyone close to him and stands alone at the summit. —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 15 I Run a Delivery Service in the Underworld, Specializing in Weird Ghosts 我在阴间开货来拉，专治奇葩鬼 [Infinite Flow] + [Weird Ghosts] + [Handling the Rules] + [Light Horror] + [Grounded in Reality] My name is Zhang Wei, a Huolala driver driven to the brink by my mortgage, car loan, and bizarre customers. Then one day, after I cursed out my hundredth passenger trying to freeload, my phone automatically downloaded “Hell’s Huolala.” From then on, my customers weren’t human. There was the domineering ghost who wanted to dodge highway tolls even after dying, the giant-baby ghost who demanded help mo —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 16 Startrail Lingye: Riftwalker 星轨凌夜：裂隙行者 Ling Ye, a former detective, received a black invitation. The price of refusing was her neighbor's erasure by an uncanny force. Forced into Infinite Flow space-time instances, she faces a vengeful spirit's maze in an old mansion, the desperate siege of a city overrun by zombies, the eerie mystery of an interstellar rift, and more. Every instance is a deadly case. She survives against the odds with her special ability, “Memory Rewind,” and assembles a team of a medical student, an elite soldier, 16Reads—Score—Shelves
- 17 Secrets of the Ice Coffin 冰棺秘影 Lin Ye, a graduate student in history, sets out to discover the truth behind his grandfather's disappearance after finding a photograph of a Republican-era expedition team and a hand-drawn map of the Heavenly Palace at the Summit. Along the way, he meets A Jiu, a descendant of tomb guardians, and Lao Zhou, a glacier guide. The three form a team and venture deep into the glaciers of the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau, unaware that they have become entangled in a startling conspiracy surrounding the secret 1Reads—Score—Shelves
- 18 From the Start, I Was in Court. Call Me Miss Forensic Investigator 开局对薄公堂，请叫我女法医 She has barely transmigrated when she's hauled into court and accused of murder? How little must they think of someone who has worked as a forensic pathologist for years! Lin Yunwei will give them a taste of the shock of modern forensic science! She'll also show these ancient people the charm of women in the modern age! 14Reads—Score—Shelves
- 19 A Thousand Lights in the Starry Wilderness: The Mirror Lake Cycle 星野千光：镜湖轮回录 The Starfield in a Thousand Lights: Chronicle of Mirror Lake’s Reincarnations tells the story of pianist Shen Xing and gardener Lu Ye, who are caught in a thousand-year cycle of reincarnation as they try to protect the mysterious Starfield Flower. The mirror lake reflects the past and present; the flower and its leaves bear witness to their love. The two travel between the modern world and the realm of Xin Ning, fighting fate and conspiracy, until they finally understand that true eternity is th 3Reads—Score—Shelves
- 20 Rule Horror: The Strange Chronicles of Journey to the West 规则怪谈：西游诡记 Rule Horror: Strange Records of the Journey to the West 1Reads—Score—Shelves
- 21 When the Zombies Come: I Can See the Red Rules 丧尸来临：我能看见红色规则 [Zombies + rule-based horror] My name is Lin Shen. When the zombie outbreak began, I was brushing my teeth in Room 401 on the fourth floor. Four in the morning. The entire dormitory suddenly lost power. A sheet of paper appeared out of nowhere behind the dorm room door. —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 22 The Elevator Crashed, and My Father and I Entered a Bizarre Game 电梯坠毁，我和父亲进入诡异游戏 An infinite-progression novel about clearing levels in instance-game dungeons. No melodrama, romance, or inappropriate content. I’m a new writer, so please let me know if you spot any problems. Thank you all! —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 23 The Me in My Dreams 梦中的那个我 At other people’s universities, it’s all “skipping class, dating, and playing video games.” At Cheng Yuerong’s, it’s “running for her life, paying off debts, and making paper effigies.” Everything feels like a dream. An ordinary person is just a nobody; Cheng Yuerong is an ordinary “criminal”, the kind cursed with bad luck. —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 24 The Land Without Tombstones 无碑之地 Thirty-seven years after games invaded reality, humanity had learned how to survive. Never answer the calls from inside the clock tower. Never leave your hospital room after midnight. When the red moon rises, everyone must remain silent. No one knew why these rules existed. People only knew that behind every rule lay thousands upon thousands of corpses. Zhou Ye had never doubted them either. Until that day. In a dungeon, a newcomer broke every prohibition everyone had recited since childhood —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 25 Night Walk Without a Gate 无门夜行 Shen Zhao, a folk-custom archive restoration specialist, receives a “Death Certificate in His Own Name” and is forced into the Midnight Name-Claiming Game. He discovers that the city’s old customs demand names, identity documents, memories of family members, and social identities from the living, and that he can hear the typos that have been tampered with in the rules. 1Reads—Score—Shelves
- 26 Rule Horror: The Company’s Haunting 规则怪谈：公司诡事 A mysterious media company. All kinds of people. They're drawn into bizarre tales of the supernatural. Watch as they overcome one obstacle after another. The story contains plenty of horror, so read with caution. —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 27 Rule Horror: I Can Reproduce Fatal Injuries Without Limit 规则怪谈：我能无限复写致命伤 [Urban Supernatural] [Rule Horror] [Anomaly Investigation] [Unique Ability] On his twenty-seventh day of unemployment, Liang Nan'ai finally found a company offering a monthly salary of 9,000 yuan and full social insurance and housing fund benefits. The company was on a nonexistent sixth floor. Everyone who failed the selection process was bricked up inside the walls. Liang Nan'ai refused the job, then casually tore the company apart. He can take an injury off a dead person and inflict it on the 7Reads—Score108Shelves
- 28 Rule Horror: The Haunted House Sleep Tester Awakens a System 规则怪谈凶宅试睡员觉醒系统 After delivery driver Chen Du was swindled out of 1.2 million yuan, he unexpectedly awakened a System. Clearing rules lets him cash out. With his one particular skill, Chen Du searches the world for rule-based instances and makes a fortune! 1Reads—Score—Shelves
- 29 Guiyuan: Hong Kong Under Siege 归元HK围城 Lin Zhao woke up in a morgue's refrigerated drawer with only one number on his wristband: LY-0001. He didn't know who he was. All he knew was that his right hand could transform into a black jade bone blade, and that devouring the infected let him read their memories. In the post-apocalyptic city of HK, the infected weren't mindless zombies. They shared a hive mind, and each one was a tendril of some ancient entity. —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 30 Rule Horror: My Infinite Murder-Mystery Game 规则怪谈：我的剧本杀无限流 I’m Lin Xiao, an utterly ordinary college student. One day, I blinked and found myself dumped in a hellhole called the “Scripted Murder Mystery Game.” Other people draw identity cards like “Heir to a Celestial Master,” “Exorcist’s Disciple,” or “Successor to the Yin-Yang Eyes.” I draw: “Background NPC.” Well, fine. Guess I’m cannon fodder. In the first instance, “Midnight Funeral Hall,” a red-clad ghost is chasing everyone through the building and slaughtering them. Just as its claws are about t 3Reads—Score—Shelves
- 31 The Silent Theater: Weaving Illusions in a Cage of Rules 缄默剧场：我在规则囚笼里编织幻 The Silent Theater, where all living souls are pieces on a board. There is no freedom here, only layers of nested cages made of rules; no salvation, only an endless cycle of death and reset. In the upper-level Divine Curtain District, the Twelve Curtain Masters wield the rules, feeding on the mental energy of those below to nourish the ultimate illusion; In the middle-level Curtain District, the privileged abet the wicked, using their fellows' despair as a ladder to advancement; In the lower-l —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 32 The Calamity Watcher 灾厄守局人 Tang Fan, an overworked corporate drone who transmigrated after dying suddenly, only wanted to keep his head down in the apocalypse, take it easy, develop quietly, and stay alive. Instead, he accidentally became bound to Zi Ling, a Nether Edict-class strange being who slumbered in a burial ground and suppressed the Dark Nether Lord. Everyone feared strange entities for their bloodthirsty nature, but this Nether Edict-class terror, powerful enough to overturn heaven and earth, showed him extraord —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 33 A Top-Tier Doctor Taking on the Grim Reaper Is Only Natural 三甲医生，吊打死神很合理吧 [Urban Fantasy] + [Rule Horror] + [Golden Finger] + [Single Heroine] + [Supernatural Horror] What if one day you noticed that your shadow had grown an extra hand? Don’t shine a flashlight at it. Don’t look back. Don’t run. Others transmigrate and get a System. The day I got mine, it told me I had 18 years left to live. Want to survive? Pay with your life. Contain a forbidden entity and gain an ability. Use it once, lose a year. My mother’s Alzheimer’s is getting worse. Every year of my life I 1Reads—Score—Shelves
- 34 This Was Supposed to Be Rule-Based Survival, So Why Are There Traps Everywhere? 说好的规则求生，怎么全是陷阱？ [Mystery + Mind-Bending Puzzles + Rule Horror + Urban Anomalies + Wits-and-Survival] If your survival handbook is itself a lie, how will you stay alive? When an invisible set of rules descends upon part of a city, turning it into a death zone, a group of people known as “cleaners” are forced to enter. Lin Chu is one of them, gambling his life to pay off a massive debt. The handbook in his hands is his only lifeline, and also the most dangerous trap. Are the rules a way out, or an even deeper dec —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 35 Rule Horror: I Can Devour All the Uncanny 规则怪谈：我能吞噬一切诡异 [Rule-Based Horror + No Female Lead + National Fate + Intelligent Cast + Not Overpowered + Devouring the Supernatural] Rule-based horror descends upon the world. Chen Xin is chosen by one of these horrors and awakens an E-rank talent, “Starving Ghost.” The good news is that this ability can grow stronger. The bad news is that to develop it, he must confront the horrors within the rules head-on, or, to be precise, eat part of them. The power of whatever he devours becomes part of him and serves h —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 36 Rule Horror: The Family of Three 规则怪谈：三口之家篇 Rule Horror: The Family of Three 3Reads—Score—Shelves
- 37 Rule Horror: Morning Light Pharmaceutical Factory (2) 规则怪谈：晨光制药厂篇（2） Rule Horror: Chenguang Pharmaceutical Factory (2) 16Reads—Score—Shelves
- 38 Rule Horror: Bright Light Middle School (3) 规则怪谈：光明中学篇（3） Rule Horror: Guangming Middle School (3) —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 39 Rule Horror: City Zoo (4) 规则怪谈：市立动物园篇（4） Rule Horror: Municipal Zoo (4) —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 40 Rule Horror: Every Infinite Dungeon Is a Trap 规则怪谈：无限副本全是陷阱 Rule Horror: Every Infinite Dungeon Is a Trap —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 41 All Worlds Reset to Zero 万界归零 Trust me, you won't regret taking a look. Anyone who clicks will get rich. (Infinite-flow + equally powerful leads + genius male lead + power progression + mature heroine + funny everyday life + multiple planes + original planes) If I, Yu Haoling, had not been born, the world of overworked wage slaves would be plunged into eternal darkness! That's right, he's a wage slave, born to toil. Not only is he exploited in real life, he's been dragged into multiverse dungeons to be exploited there too. S 1Reads—Score—Shelves
- 42 Rule Horror: My Modifier Can Change Anything 规则怪谈：我的修改器能改万物 [Half rules-based horror (?), half infinite-flow, business management, mystery-solving, no heroine] The horror tales descend, and every instance is a death trap. While everyone else is being chased around the “Eternal Night Mall” by mirror ghosts, Chu Yuan stands at the checkout counter with a smile and asks, “Would you like a membership card? Top up 1,000 and get the ‘Come Back for More’ BUFF. The ghosts won't chase you, guaranteed.” That's because he awakened the SSS-rank talent [Rule Modifier 1Reads—Score—Shelves
- 43 The Eerie Elevator: I Became the Instance Master 诡异电梯：我成了副本主人 [A strange-tale livestream descends, and each of 196 countries around the world selects one chosen participant.] [Rule One: If a chosen participant dies, a strange tale descends upon their country.] [Rule Two: The livestream is broadcast worldwide and cannot be turned off.] [Rule Three: There are no rewards, only punishments.] Chen Mo was among the first chosen participants. He survived the first instance, “A Happy Home,” becoming the first person in the world to escape a strange tale. Not thr 2Reads—Score—Shelves
- 44 Rule Horror: The Smiling Granny 规则怪谈：笑脸婆婆 No one told Mo Qing that the price of being reborn was carrying the suffocating sensation of being sewn into a doll by the “Smiling Granny” and the agony of being torn apart by the reflection in “Mirror Alley,” only to stand once more in the morning light of July 15. He clutched the burning safety pendant and looked back. Bai Yu was bent over an old, yellowed notebook. The scribbled words they had never managed to decipher before they died were now highlighted in red by his brother: “Don't touch —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 45 Rule Horror: A Nightmare During Naptime 规则怪谈之午睡惊魂 Zhou Gongjin and Wang Xing were at school when a horrifyingly bizarre game suddenly appeared at noon. Was it a rules-based horror phenomenon descending upon the world, or was someone behind it??? 1Reads—Score—Shelves
- 46 Rule Horror: From the Start, I’m Teaching the Supernatural How to Behave at Work 规则怪谈：开局给诡异上职场课 A bizarre game descends upon the world. Chosen ones must survive its dungeons, with the fate of their nations on the line. While chosen ones from other countries tremble before ghosts, Lin Tianya of the Dragon Kingdom is lost in thought. At the performance-driven Deathtrap Electronics Factory, he vents to the ghost foreman: “Bro, you’re working yourself to the bone. Did the boss give you any shares?” The ghost foreman has an epiphany and leads every ghost in the factory straight into the chairma —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 47 Rule Horror: My Sanity Has No Bottom 规则怪谈：我的理智值深不见底 When Rules of the Realm descended upon the world and randomly selected “visitors” to enter deadly instances, Chen Mo realized he was a little different. Others’ minds plummeted as they were corrupted, but he stayed cool as a cucumber. Others recklessly tested the rules’ limits, but he chose to lie flat. Others racked their brains to survive, while he... Well, it seemed the instances didn’t like him? [Ding! Abnormal mental threshold detected. Binding talent: Absolute Rationality (Passive)] [Absol 1Reads—Score—Shelves
- 48 Rules Descend: I Break the Deadlock Through Reincarnation 规则降临：我靠轮回破局 Rules Descend: I Break the Deadlock Through Reincarnation 1Reads—Score—Shelves
- 49 Glitch Entity: I Rule Two Worlds with Bugs 故障体：我靠BUG统治两界 Glitch Entity: I Rule Two Worlds with Bugs —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 50 72 Hours: I Hacked God 72小时·我黑入了神 72 Hours: I Hacked God —Reads—Score—Shelves
