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- 151 Lover in a False World 虚假世界的爱人 My wife has been acting strangely lately. She keeps pestering me, saying she wants me to stay by her side forever. I can't help finding it a little funny. "Of course I'll stay by your side forever and ever, honey." But whenever she hears me say that, her body stiffens noticeably. Then she goes back to her room alone and locks the door. No matter how I try to coax her from outside, she refuses to open it. —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 152 Longevity Soup 长寿汤 When I was little, Liu Laoer’s family in the village made a living selling goat-horn powder. The powder came from the horns of female goats. Though those horns were short and slender, Liu Laoer would skin and butcher female goats alive right after they gave birth. Then he would cut off their horns and grind them into powder. He would add the powder to soup made with freshly slaughtered lamb. They said drinking it regularly could help you live a long life. 16Reads—Score—14d adds
- 153 The Twilight Line of the Haunted Realm: Conquering It with My Wits 诡界晨昏线：靠脑子制霸诡界 [Mild horror] [No System] [Character growth] [One heroine] Countless “Haunted Realms” suddenly appeared around the world. Like black holes, they devoured ordinary people's mental energy and the real world, pushing reality to the brink of madness. In response to the crisis, all kinds of organizations sprang up. They ventured into the Haunted Realms to explore, seized haunted objects to protect themselves, and sought the truth on the edge of life and death. As their investigations deepened, they d 5Reads—Score114d adds
- 154 A Corrupted Heart 糜烂之心 Deep inside the Luocheng Police Department, a metal filing cabinet labeled “Bloodstained Files” holds dozens of long-unsolved, grisly cases. Each one once shocked the nation with its bizarre deaths, but limited forensic technology at the time meant they were ultimately filed away as “unsolved.” In 2025, advances in forensic science prompted the department to launch the “Bloodstained Files Resolution Project.” The first case to be reopened was the most controversial of them all: the “Terrifying P 42Reads—Score—14d adds
- 155 I Keep Being Reborn in an Infinite-Loop World 我在无限流里不断重生 [Infinite-flow horror, ensemble cast | No System, no golden finger | No mindless power fantasy] After clearing my twelfth instance, I didn't get to go home. Everyone had been deceived. Clearing an instance didn't let us leave at all. It turned out that clearing an instance didn't mean escaping. We were trapped in an endless cycle of worlds, each layer harder to tell from reality than the last. The boundary between the instances and reality had blurred completely. Was anything before our eyes 8Reads—Score—14d adds
- 156 The People Around Me and I Had the Same Dream 我和周围人做了一样的梦 I knew I was dreaming, but everything in the dream was strange. When I woke up, I discovered that my coworkers and I had all shared the same dream. It turned out to be a monster's trap. 2Reads—Score—14d adds
- 157 The One-Yuan Villa 一元别墅 Never believe that a windfall will fall from the sky. At 28, I was “hit” by a villa, but I don't have much time left. Now I have to find my next heir. 1Reads—Score—14d adds
- 158 The Horror Night-Duty Booth 恐怖值班亭 Back around the 2000s, I worked as a security guard at an apartment complex. The complex had a strange rule: [After midnight, do not leave the security booth.] It made no sense, but I always kept it in mind, until the day one of my coworkers died! That night, a woman in a skirt knocked on the security booth window… 31Reads—Score114d adds
- 159 I Was a Ghost Officer, but Now I Only Want a Promotion 身为鬼差的我，后来只想升官 I wield the Register of the Underworld as a ghost officer, commanding the power to seize souls. Everyone says the King of Hell is the supreme ruler of the netherworld, but to me, he is merely a stepping stone. The underworld is vast, and the Nine Hells are deep. Is that really the limit of my ambition? I want to break the Nine Hells’ shackles, shatter the chains between yin and yang, ascend to the realm of the Great Emperor, and rule the netherworlds of all realms. Only then will my lifelong wis 33Reads6.0Score—14d adds
- 160 Hell Manor 地狱庄园 [Horror and the Supernatural + Suspense and Mystery + Infinite Flow + No Female Lead] A group of strangers receive a blood letter and mysteriously find themselves inside a villa. Their only chance of survival is to uncover the ghost hiding among them. After Xu Yi completes the task by the skin of his teeth, he is relieved to have finally survived. But then he discovers that he has arrived at a place called Hell Manor. He must complete the tasks in eleven blood letters to leave the manor alive. A 10kReads8.0Score82914d adds
- 161 An Unremarkable Jumping Death Case 不起眼的跳楼案 My fiancé, who had been overseas for three years, called to tell me he was coming back the day after tomorrow. I went to meet him at the airport. On the way home, he proposed, and I said yes. But this morning, he disappeared again, because I had once more returned to the day he called me. I've already relived these three days seven times. 2Reads—Score—14d adds
- 162 The Life-Extending Money 借寿钱 After a friend dies in a bizarre car accident, could a hundred-yuan bill inscribed with “Borrow your years to buy my life” really be a deadly curse? At the funeral home, he uses “life-borrowing money” to buy an urn, only to be haunted by the dead man's mother in a strange way. A talisman hides a sinister plot, and three life-borrowing bills appear out of nowhere at midnight! A locked kitchen, boiling water, knives falling for no reason... Who is controlling this deadly game? 273Reads—Score314d adds
- 163 The Haunted Gate 恐怖诡门 This novel features [one heroine] + [original instances] + [no saintly do-gooder] + [no System] + [mild horror] + [no mindless plot] I don’t know when it began. Perhaps when I was very young, in high school or college, or maybe when I started working. I realized that the world had gone beyond the bounds of reason. To be precise, it had shifted away from the world we once knew. The ghosts and monsters we saw in TV dramas and horror movies were actually hiding all around us. In my third year at wo 702Reads—Score—14d adds
- 164 The Spirit-Eating Notebook 噬灵笔记 [Infinite Flow + mind-bending puzzles + ghostly mysteries + survival] A strange notebook, and yet it is a doorway to hell. The cursed are haunted, hunted, and dragged into an endless abyss of terror. Ghosts close in at every turn, and death is just around the corner. No one can escape unscathed. A group of ordinary people bound together by a curse must awaken in the depths of despair, uncover the notebook’s secret, and put an end to this terrifying game with their own hands. Kill the ghosts, or 1Reads—Score—14d adds
- 165 The Old Corpse: Strange Happenings in the Mountains 老尸：山中诡事 A thousand skeletons pillow the moonlit stele, their shadows sealed. Autumn tombs wear rosy clouds, blood soaking the steps. The boiling cauldron cooks souls, a thousand years of grievance. A grand feast for ghosts, with every skeleton withered. In the utter silence, corpse oil lights the candle. In a place shrouded from the world, a rotting hand pushes open the door. A lingering soul adorns the dressing table, a spider transformed into a hairpin. A name sinks beneath the mirror, maggots become 136Reads—Score—14d adds
- 166 The Haunted Dreamscape, Part One 诡梦境第一部 Are ghosts always frightening? Are people always kind? Sometimes, people can be more terrifying than ghosts. Behind every strange incident may lie a tragic story you never saw coming. 13Reads—Score—14d adds
- 167 Strange Tales from the Countryside 乡村诡故事 Before you start this book, a warning: if you scare easily, don't read it. If you live alone, be careful. Every short ghost story here is based on an ordinary person's real-life experience. Not a single word is made up. From the damp old alleyways of the south to the frozen, deserted villages of the north; from late-night overtime in office buildings to lights-out in university dorms; the taboos our elders forbade us to talk about, and the moments you dare not dwell on in the middle of the night 111Reads—Score—14d adds
- 168 Don't Talk to the Comments 不要和弹幕说话 [Horror + Supernatural + Mystery + Mind-Bending + Anthology (first four volumes complete) + Dread That Gets Under Your Skin + Not for the Fainthearted + The Villain Is the Smartest Character in the Book + Growing Female Lead + No System, No Cheats, Plot-Driven] Have you ever replied to a historical comment on a video, even just for fun? Hu Jia accidentally comes across a web series from ten years ago. It depicts a real case from that same year, but its ending is completely different from what 20Reads8.1Score—14d adds
- 169 Curse of the Desolate Village 荒村咒怨 [Horror + suspense + mystery] [Step-by-Step Terror Series: Parasites Among the Living] An isolated mountain village is inexplicably struck by a spreading plague. The infected bleed from all seven orifices, while their internal organs liquefy and pour out through openings in their bodies, leaving them to die in gruesome agony. Several medical workers from the nearby town venture into the deadly region to investigate, and one bizarre incident after another unfolds… Can they uncover the truth? Who 313Reads8.0Score—14d adds
- 170 Fourth Hospital: Patient 302 第四医院：302病人 A night of torrential rain, 11:44 p.m. Lin Chen and his younger brother Lin Ye wandered into a hospital that didn't exist on any map: Fourth Hospital. There is no fourth floor, yet everyone talks about it. The elevator descends on its own late at night. The nurses making their rounds never knock. The children in the wards keep repeating the same sentence: “Are you also unable to find your mother?” And every rule ultimately points to the same room number: 302. As they explore further, the brother —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 171 The Dungeon Hasn't Even Started, and I've Already Entered 副本还没开始，我已经提前进入了 (Spiritual qi revival + fourth natural disaster + multiple heroines + infinite levels) Spiritual qi revived, and the Main God’s space descended into reality. Some people paid to buy identities; others spent the entire night poring over expensive guides. When eighteen-year-old Yang Jing logged into the Main God’s space for the first time, he discovered he seemed to have unlocked two rather unusual permissions. Every time he entered an instance, he could arrive earlier than the other participants. 45Reads—Score—14d adds
- 172 The Hundred Venerables Record: Tales of Another Day 百崇录：异日谈 A sealed ancient scroll has come to light once more: "The Hundred Abominations: Tales of Strange Days". Its faded, uncanny writing: written in blood? Annotated in tears? No one can say. All that remains are over a hundred strange accounts, each word sinking into the bone, all told by the “ill omens” lurking among humankind. Some nest in the dark corners of people's hearts, watching for greed; some lie in the shadows of the streets, drinking in sobs; others haunt desolate wilderness and ancient h —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 173 It Lies at the Bottom of the Abyss 祂在深渊之底 [You have been selected to enter the Abyssal Corridor. Rules-based horror has arrived, and terror is now part of everyday life.] Lin Mo, a criminal profiler, is dragged into the Abyssal Corridor, an endless realm of terror. Here, every horror instance is born from the resentment of those who died unjustly, and the rules determine life and death. While others tremble under the pursuit of monsters, Lin Mo opens his eyes: the Abyssal Eyes, which can see through the source of fear. The rules of Bloo —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 174 The Missing Body 丢失的身体 Two empty bottles of sleeping pills lay before the grave, and two kidneys lay before his son's grave. With a smile on his face, he leaned against his son's gravestone and slowly closed his eyes. —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 175 Midnight Strangulation Marks on a Severed Hand 断手的午夜掐痕 That night on duty, my junior grabbed my sleeve, his voice trembling. “Senior, the patient who lost a hand in a drunk-driving accident half a year ago… he's dead.” A chill ran down the back of my neck as the memories came flooding back. Two accident victims had been brought to the hospital that day, and both had lost their right hands. Yet only one of them survived. Later, the survivor woke in the middle of the night with red marks where his own hand had choked him. His family sought help from e 2Reads—Score—14d adds
- 176 Climbing the Steps 拾级 Climbing the Steps 3Reads—Score—14d adds
- 177 My Best Friend Disappeared While Picking Up Takeout, and Everyone Says She Never Existed 闺蜜取个外卖就失踪，所有人都说她并不存在 My best friend went out to pick up a delivery and never came back. She vanished from my life completely. Nobody remembered her. They all thought I was mentally ill. The truth was, we had been split across two different timelines. 1Reads—Score—14d adds
- 178 A Woman Fell from the Building at My Feet, Then Begged Me in the Middle of the Night to Avenge Her 坠楼女子落我脚边，半夜她哭着求我替她报仇 The Evil Spirit in the Talisman On a rainy night, I watched a girl jump from a tall building and die on the spot. Her soul latched onto me and demanded that I avenge her. 2Reads—Score—14d adds
- 179 The Horrifying High School 恐怖的高中学校 [Mild Horror + Infinite Flow + No System + Survival + Ensemble Cast + Not Overpowered + Mystery-Solving + Not a Wish-Fulfillment Story + Passion] Jiang Xuan was accidentally swept into a terrifying, uncanny dimension. To survive, he had to keep completing missions in the temporal rifts. To stay alive, he had to investigate the many mysteries hidden within each mission. As Jiang Xuan searched for ways to clear each one, he also sought to unravel the mysteries of the world. Thus began his struggle 1.5kReads—Score19814d adds
- 180 My Job at the Horror Radio Station 我在恐怖电台任职这件事儿 [Folklore] [Supernatural] [Short Story] [No Superpowers] [No Rule-Based Horror] [Not a Wish-Fulfillment Story] [Not for the Faint of Heart] The author is working hard to make a living. 23Reads—Score414d adds
- 181 The Blood-Red Bun Shop 血色包子铺 The buns I sell have already sent two customers to their deaths. And yet my shop is still packed with customers. Just as the police run out of leads in the case, there is a third person who dies after eating one of my buns... 11Reads—Score—14d adds
- 182 Thriller Game: Becoming a God Aboard the Abyssal Cruise Ship 惊悚游戏：从深渊游轮开始成神 [Infinite Flow] + [mild horror] + [a little deduction] + [original instances] “My name is Lin Yuan. By the time you read this, I'll already be dead.” I was an ordinary person until one day, by chance, I boarded the Abyss Cruise, a mysterious vessel that travels between the real world and the supernatural. Here, you are a chosen [player] and the last line of defense against [supernatural instances] invading reality. If you clear an instance, your terminal illness in the real world will be cured i 31Reads—Score—14d adds
- 183 In the Paranormal World, Being Killed Means Death 灵异被杀就会死 [No romance + paranormal invasion + lighthearted comedy + mild horror + apocalypse] I just want to find a job. Why is it so hard? Aaaagh! O(≧口≦)O Poor Bai Xiu is broke, and then a job falls from the sky and forces him to show up for work. What? I have to go to another world? What? This world has been invaded by the paranormal, and it's the apocalypse? What? You want me to exterminate the supernatural and save the world? 2Reads—Score—14d adds
- 184 Deadly Delivery 致命快递 I received a package from an unfamiliar sender. A note inside said I could scan a code to claim a huge cash bonus. But when I scanned it, my phone opened a livestream instead. Even stranger, my face appeared right in the middle of the screen. The comments were flying by: "This girl looks pretty good. What a shame to kill her." "Tsk, tsk, what a beauty. I recommend having some fun with her before killing her." Just then, I suddenly heard someone knocking behind me. "Hello, delivery!" 8Reads—Score—14d adds
- 185 The Corpse Stitcher 缝尸匠 My family makes its living dealing with the dead, and my father is a renowned corpse seamster in the surrounding area. His skills are superb. No matter how mangled a corpse is, he can restore it to look as good as new. Whenever someone died in an accident and their body was disfigured, wealthy families from hundreds of miles around would ask my father to stitch it back together. But as far as I knew, my father used to be a butcher. He was skilled at dressing pigs, but I had never heard that he w 11Reads—Score—14d adds
- 186 A Terrifying New Year’s Eve 惊悚除夕夜 A Chilling New Year's Eve 7Reads—Score—14d adds
- 187 I Decided to Kill My Lover, Then Got on a Haunted Bus with Her 我决定谋杀情人，和她上了一辆闹鬼的巴士 I think I got on a haunted bus. My girlfriend was sitting beside me, her pretty little face deathly pale with fear. "Th-those two people just carried a corpse onto the bus." —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 188 Terror at the Villa: Everyone Who Heard the Weeping Died 别墅惊魂：听见哭声的人都死了 I'm a feng shui master. One day, I was hired by the tycoon Jia Qing, who said something strange was happening at his villa on Lingzhou Island. Every night, the sounds of a woman and a baby crying could be heard inside the villa. The reward he offered was so generous that I couldn't refuse. Who knew that a string of terrifying events would unfold on the very night I moved in? 5Reads—Score—14d adds
- 189 There’s a Ghost in the Dorm 宿舍有鬼 My roommate is a cosplayer. A month into our sophomore year, she ordered a complete Chinese ghost-bride outfit online to wear to a horror party. She even hung the entire outfit beside her bed the night before. But that night, I woke with a start in the middle of the night and saw with my own eyes a female ghost in a bright red wedding dress pacing back and forth at the foot of her bed. 7Reads—Score—14d adds
- 190 My Girlfriend and Best Friend Are Plotting to Have Me Killed 女朋友和好兄弟密谋让我去死 “Do you believe a painting can kill someone?” I took a job worth three hundred thousand yuan: recreating Along the River During the Qingming Festival. At first, I thought it was just an ordinary copy, until the old man from the coffin shop in the painting knocked on my bed in the middle of the night, a woman in a white dress silently watched me from the entryway, and the “boat girls” that had appeared out of nowhere seeped into every stroke of paint like a curse. My buddy urged me on: “Fortune f 1Reads—Score—14d adds
- 191 Wet Footprints 水脚印 Have you ever heard the legends of water ghosts? Strings of wet footprints beneath the moonlight are proof that they exist... A group of young people, hoping to strike it rich by studying abroad, believed they could cash in on their overseas degrees and build brighter futures. But while attending university abroad, they ran into a series of inexplicable events. The fear of the unknown loomed over them like a dark cloud, and their original reasons for going had long since changed amid frantic esc 11Reads—Score—14d adds
- 192 Killing My Second Personality 杀死第二人格 I killed my second personality. But before he died, he left me a “grand gift”... A list of people to harass at the asylum, with 16 names on it, even though the asylum has only 15 patients in total. “Did you think you were the only one with a second personality?” What is the truth? Who is the real madman? 1Reads—Score—14d adds
- 193 Blood Ties 血缘关系 I rushed a thousand miles to mourn my mother, only to discover that she had died under suspicious circumstances. I wanted to uncover the truth and avenge her, but my whole family opposed me! It turned out everything was because there was a “vampire” in the family! 3Reads—Score—14d adds
- 194 My Fiancée Disappeared, and I Became the Killer 未婚妻失踪，我成了凶手 My name is Cheng Yuan. My fiancée has disappeared. The last message I saw before I passed out was from her. “Cheng Yuan, run!” When I woke up, I found myself trapped in a perfect replica of my home, with something sinister lurking everywhere. And it seemed someone was watching me! A madman claimed to be deeply in love with my fiancée. But later, I discovered that the real madman was someone else. 1Reads—Score—14d adds
- 195 Cheers Curse: Anyone Who Mishears It Dies 干杯咒：听错的去死 “That American exchange student says ‘Cheers’ to me in his dreams every night, until I realize he misheard ‘Go to hell.’” In the graduate dormitory, Dennis grows paler by the day, and the doctors can’t figure out why. Then Mina brings back the exorcist’s verdict: Seven years ago, a girl whose foreign boyfriend cheated on her jumped from this building. Every night, her shattered head presses against Dennis’s ear and repeats “Cheers” in English... But when we reach the tenth repetition, the corner —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 196 Bao Dadan’s True Accounts of Ghost Encounters 包大胆撞鬼实录 “You’ve heard of people who are ‘bold beyond belief,’ but have you ever seen someone scare a ghost into shutting itself away?” My name is Bao Dadan. It’s not a stage name, it’s my real name. My friends say I’m missing a screw, but they changed their minds after seeing it for themselves: I talked the “haunting female ghost” the landlord warned me about into silence; I roasted a “human-faced fish” deep in the mountains with pepper until it shrieked; even the “Slit-Mouthed Woman” covered her mask a —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 197 The Deadly Mirror Image in the Symmetrical Bathroom 对称浴室的死亡镜像 “At three in the morning, I saw my ‘future husband’s’ face in the mirror, and three days later, he ran me over with his SUV until I was nothing but scraps.” My landlady told me in a hushed voice that if I recited an incantation to a mirror at midnight for 49 days in a row, I’d see my destined partner. On the 47th day, her son’s twisted smile appeared in the mirror. I screamed and fled the apartment, but at the intersection he ran over me four times, reversing each time. The police said he kept s —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 198 Horror Sketches 恐怖素描 “The day I was accepted into art school through the recommendation program, I drew the killer who murdered Teacher Zhou with my own hands: the faceless woman who had been draped over my back for three whole months.” In the dead of night, a blizzard battered the studio windows with a crackling roar. I curled up in the bathroom and vomited, but a pale body slowly emerged in the mirror. Her long hair wound around my neck, her rotting fingertips stroked my spine, and where her face should have been. 3Reads—Score—14d adds
- 199 Paranormal Podcast 灵异播客 “What’s the most convincing paranormal story you’ve ever heard? As a paranormal podcast host, I thought I was just collecting urban legends, until a laugh that wasn’t mine came through my headphones. While I was adjusting the audio track, a shrill whisper seemed to breathe right into my ear, and a new waveform mysteriously appeared in the recording software. An expert told me, ‘That’s another audio signal. It isn’t human.’ Worse still, after I said, ‘Don’t come looking for me through my headphon —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 200 The Hypnosis Trap: The Forgotten Bloody Hand 催眠陷阱：被遗忘的血手 “I caused my husband and child’s deaths with my own hands, then spent an entire year forgetting them. The truth only tore through my memories as I fell, after my psychiatrist pushed me onto the rooftop.” The travel magazine from a year ago, the coffee cup that appeared out of nowhere in the living room, the unfamiliar father and son in the photo frame... I thought I was simply suffering from depression, until I encountered those blood-soaked hands during hypnosis and realized that forgetting was —Reads—Score—14d adds
