Novels like The Forgotten, the Unwritten
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- 1 Star Harbor Major Crimes Unit One 星港重案一组 Centered on Major Crimes Unit One of the Criminal Investigation Division of Xingang City Public Security Bureau, this story follows Captain Chen Feng and his team: Lin Lan, an expert criminal profiler; veteran detective Wang Jianjun; forensic pathologist Zhao Lei; and information analyst Li Wen. In each case, they unravel the clues one by one. Using expert forensic analysis and precise logical deduction, they uncover the truth, exposing social issues such as domestic violence and conspiracies in —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 2 Wasteland Coordinator 废土协调官 Introduction: #SoftSciFi #HardCore #Apocalypse #EnsembleCast #MindGames #SlowBurn #NotAPowerFantasy #DarkFantasy “They gave me a sword, then ordered me to sever my own roots.” In seven days, my homeland will be erased from the map. And I will be the one to carry out its execution. The moment I put on the Alliance uniform and set foot on my homeland, I became a traitor in the eyes of my own people. Our token of trust was crushed beneath someone’s feet, Mara’s blade pressed against my throat, whil 3Reads—Score—14d adds
- 3 Never Play the Pen Fairy Game 千万别玩笔仙 Never Play the Spirit of the Pen 2Reads—Score—14d adds
- 4 Rules of the Strange: Power Outage 规则怪谈之停电 Rules Horror: Power Outage —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 5 I Rule the Underworld 阴司任我行 Can you see spirits? I don't know what I did to deserve this, but the souls I've never met before come in all shapes and forms. Being around them is like meeting all kinds of people in everyday life. Every day, I witness strange stories and bizarre ways of expressing themselves. —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 6 My Roommate Is a Paper Doll 我的合租室友是纸人 My Roommate Is a Paper Effigy —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 7 Your Wi-Fi Neighbor Is Watching You 你的Wi-Fi邻居正在看着你 Your Wi-Fi Neighbor Is Watching You —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 8 My Shadow Is Livestreaming 我的影子在直播 My Shadow Is Live-Streaming 2Reads—Score—14d adds
- 9 The Path of the Chosen 天选人之途 [Not invincible] [Character growth] [Deduction] “Welcome to the Chosen's Path!” Feng Yu is one of the candidates to become a “Chosen One,” and transmigrates to another bizarre world. Deduction, exploration, verification, deception... Everything you can think of is here! He can only make his way through one stage after another to uncover the ultimate truth. Is it all a game played by the gods, or is there a greater conspiracy at work? Will he reach into the realm of the gods, or scrape by in a wr —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 10 After Switching Bodies, I Became a Murderer 换身之后，我成了杀人犯 After a Body Swap, I Became a Murderer 3Reads—Score—14d adds
- 11 I Delivered Takeout, and She Invited Me Inside 送个外卖，她却把我叫进屋里 I delivered takeout, and she invited me inside. 5Reads—Score—14d adds
- 12 The Rat Immortal 鼠真人 [Dark] [Critical] [Heretical Cultivation] [Satire] [Human Nature] [Reality] On the surface, it's about cultivation. Beneath that, it's about reality. "I opened this cultivation world's history book and found no dates in it. Every crooked page was covered in the words 'benevolence, righteousness, morality.' I tossed and turned, unable to sleep. After studying it closely for half the night, I finally read between the lines: the whole book was written with two words: 'eat people!'" —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 13 President Lu's Sweet Little Sugarplum 陆总的掌心小软糖 Synopsis: Xia Wanxing thinks the boldest thing she’s ever done is drop a file at Lu Zhiyan’s feet on her first day at work, then crash headfirst into the arms of the man rumored to be as cold as an iceberg. She expects to face “social death,” but instead... On a stormy day, he appears outside her office with an umbrella and says casually, “I’m going that way. I’ll give you a ride.” When she works late, he has his assistant bring her a warm dinner with a note: “Remember to eat on time.” When a pr —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 14 Scream 惊声尖叫 [Mystery + Mind-Bending Puzzles + Death Game + Intricate Logic + Brain-Burning + Not for the Fainthearted] Have you ever wondered if this world is real? Have you ever wondered if humanity is just a cultivation game for some mighty being? Our human civilization changes dynasties, is reborn again and again, and ultimately marches toward its destruction! None of it feels real! 1Reads—Score—14d adds
- 15 A Ye's Paranormal Investigation Diary: The Office Building Elevator 阿野探灵日记：办公楼的电梯 A Ye's Paranormal Investigation Diary: The Office Building Elevator —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 16 My Twin Girlfriends: Beneath the Wedding Dress, My Girlfriend’s Sister Calls Me Hubby 我的双胞胎女友：婚纱下，女友妹妹叫我老公 My Twin Girlfriends: Beneath the Wedding Dress, My Girlfriend's Younger Sister Calls Me Her Husband —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 17 Wonderland in the Rabbit Hole 兔子洞里的仙境 A joyful world, one fascinating game after another, an experience that lasts forever. Wonderland Travel Co., Ltd. warmly invites you to come and see for yourself. Ladies and gentlemen, let the games begin... I'm a loser. This is my story. One ordinary night, I met the little blue man who would change my future, and I fell into the Wonderland down the rabbit hole. I fought my way through this den of horrors, desperate to stay alive and hoping I could escape this nightmare in the end. But one day, 2Reads—Score—14d adds
- 18 The Seventh Person 第柒人称 During my years at Tingyu Tower, countless people came and went, as plentiful as fish crossing a river. Yet only six left a lasting mark deep in my memory. In the church's most hidden corner, they once prayed devoutly for power. At daybreak, the first rays of sunlight pierced the stained glass, and as light and shadow intertwined, the wheels of fate quietly began to turn. When the dust settled, only one remained, wandering alone through the cracks between the years. I remember a snowbound street —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 19 Oh No! He’s Really Gone on a Killing Spree in the Death Game! 完了！真让他在死亡游戏杀疯了！ [Decisive and ruthless] [No characters acting stupidly] [Rewind after death] [Mystery that will make your brain work] Su Mo transmigrates into a locked-room murder scene where, from the start, he is the only one who could have committed the crime. Then, at the worst possible moment, the cops burst in! After rewinding time over and over following his deaths, he uncovers the terrifying truth behind it all and manages to save the people he was meant to save! But this is only the beginning... To sur 3Reads—Score—14d adds
- 20 Horror Stories That Aren’t Scary 恐怖故事不恐怖 When the brakes of the last subway train shriek through the silence, the morgue elevator stops on its own at three in the morning, the reflection in a department store fitting-room mirror starts counting your buttons, and someone knocks on your rented apartment door like clockwork on rainy nights... The details everyone overlooks are beginning to fester: an extra knuckle suddenly appearing in the mirror, a faint wail at the end of the corridor, a mark on an old keepsake that is still wet. They a 1Reads—Score—14d adds
- 21 The Uncanny: Did We Ever Truly Exist? 诡异之：我们是否真实的存在过？ Where did we come from? Who are we? Did we ever truly exist? When you stand before a mirror and gaze at yourself, have you ever wondered if the face in the glass is really yours? When you look back on your childhood, it feels as if it happened only yesterday. But then you realize your parents have grown old and you’re nearly middle-aged. Decades have passed like a dream. This world feels uncannily real, yet it’s more mind-bending than science fiction, more shocking than the supernatural, and str 1Reads—Score—14d adds
- 22 Imprisoned: The Secret of My Devilish Wife 囚禁——恶魔妻子的秘密 Imprisonment: The Secret of the Demon Wife 1kReads—Score—14d adds
- 23 A Ye's Paranormal Investigation Diary: Room 514 at the Old Hotel 阿野探灵日记：老宾馆514号房间 A Ye's Paranormal Investigation Diary: Room 514 of the Old Hotel —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 24 A Ye's Paranormal Investigation Diary: Spending the Night in a Haunted House 阿野探灵日记：凶宅试睡 A Ye's Paranormal Investigation Diary: Spending the Night in a Haunted House —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 25 Those Things from My Younger Days 我的那些年的那些事儿 A real-estate tycoon is found dead in his private villa. His ex-girlfriend holds ironclad evidence but refuses to speak, because her family has been threatened and made into pawns. Following the clues, the police find that everyone involved had a motive to kill, yet each has a perfect alibi: a builder ruined by a scheme that left his family destitute, a partner framed and burdened with massive debts, and a secretary forced to falsify accounts after someone uncovered her secret. Everyone has some 1Reads—Score—14d adds
- 26 The Ghostly Voyage 神诡迷航 [Not a power fantasy] [Mystery-solving] [Suspense] [Fantasy] [A touch of cosmic horror] [Conceptual skills] [Mind-bending] Read with care if these aren't your thing. You need to pay close attention; skim a few lines at a time and you won't understand it. The author has gone mad, so please bear with them. Chen Miao, better known as San Shui Ge. A bizarre parallel world? Multiple personalities of his own? ... A [Curse Caster]? A [Gifted One]? A [Mechanic]? Is everything around him strange and 3Reads—Score—14d adds
- 27 Poison Before Bed 睡前毒物 Look up to the heavens and honor all living things; lower your head to write, and fear ghosts and gods. Good is repaid with good, and evil with evil. It’s not that retribution never comes, only that its time has not yet arrived. Absurd, terrifying, eerie, moving. I hope there’s a story that can frighten you, bring you to tears, and make you fall in love with it. 1.1kReads8.2Score19714d adds
- 28 The Perjurer 伪证者 Jiang Fanyu never imagined that the junior high school classmate he had once been closest to would one day become a trial he could never overcome. A phone call asking for help stirs the long-buried feelings of their youth, bringing them briefly back to life. Before his good deed can be settled, a cold threat wraps around him like a poisonous vine, dragging him step by step into a dark whirlpool. To eliminate the danger to his son, Jiang Nan schemes and calculates every angle. In the end, however 4Reads—Score—14d adds
- 29 A Troubling Seed 让人不安的种子 [Horror Short Story Collection + Standalone Stories + Chilling on Second Thought] Every story takes place in an ordinary setting: a home, a street, a school, nighttime, an elevator, a bathroom, and so on. Tiny inconsistencies, misperceptions, hallucinations, and fragments of urban legends are presented as things that “really happened,” making you think: This could be happening right next to me. 20Reads—Score—14d adds
- 30 The Surveyor's Mysterious Death 测绘员的死亡谜团 The Surveyor’s Mysterious Death 1Reads—Score—14d adds
- 31 The Cruel Words of the World 世俗恶语 [Mystery | Truly Mentally Ill | Criminal Investigation | Madman’s Philosophy | Chinese and International Mysteries | Human Nature | Society | Intrigue] “A mental patient? Helping with an investigation? What kind of nonsense is this? Do you think this is a novel?!” Was the truth we saw carefully staged? “From beginning to end, you saw only the parts of the cases I wanted you to see.” Why did two twelve-year-old girls kill ten people in three days? “My hands have never been stained with blood, hav 12Reads—Score—14d adds
- 32 A Ye's Paranormal Investigation Diary: The Woman in the Rental Apartment 阿野探灵日记:出租屋里的女人 A Ye's Paranormal Investigation Diary: The Woman in the Rental Apartment —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 33 A Ye's Paranormal Investigation Diary: The Last Bus on Route 73 阿野探灵日记：73路末班车 A Ye's Paranormal Investigation Diary: The Last Bus on Route 73 —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 34 A Ye's Paranormal Investigation Diary: The Dripping Sound in the Old House 阿野探灵日记：老宅滴水声 A Ye's Paranormal Investigation Diary: The Dripping Sound in the Old House —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 35 The Silent Truth: The Language of Corpses 沉默的真相：尸语 On a stormy night, a woman in white lay curled up at the bottom of an elevator shaft in an unfinished building. There were no fatal injuries on her body, but strange honeycomb-shaped bruises marked her ankles. The faintest curve lingered at the corner of her mouth, as if she were waiting for someone, waiting for an answer. An unjust case buried for twenty-eight years. Three recent deaths. A “ghost” hiding inside the forensic center. As Long Yusheng edges closer to the truth, a threatening call c 129Reads—Score—14d adds
- 36 The Hengjiang Sword's Call 恒江剑引 [About This Book]: Main genre: Ancient martial arts. Type: Not a feel-good power fantasy in the traditional sense. There is no “safe haven.” Pacing: Slow. The later volumes are still in the planning stages. This isn’t my full-time job, just a hobby. [About Volume One (Part One), the Prequel]: Now complete and published as a standalone volume (around 300,000 words). This is not a feel-good story. There is no safe haven, no golden finger, and no one waiting for you at the finish line. Lu Wangji c 1Reads—Score—14d adds
- 37 Haunted House Livestream: Viewers Request Ghost Operas 老宅直播：观众点播鬼戏 Livestreaming from the Old House: Viewers Request Ghost Operas —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 38 The Button for the Thirteenth Floor 电梯里的第13层按钮 The Button for the 13th Floor in the Elevator —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 39 The Corpse-Talking Deliveryman 尸语外卖员 The Corpse-Talking Food Delivery Rider —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 40 A Delivery from the Bottom of the Well, Please Sign for It 井底快递，签收一下 A Delivery from the Bottom of the Well: Please Sign for It —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 41 The Housewife Detective Case Files 名侦探主妇事件簿 After her husband cheats, a housewife unexpectedly discovers she has a talent for detective work? Join a famous Japanese high school detective and a certain compensated-dating girl detective to crack a baffling cold case!! Watch me turn my life around and rewrite my destiny against all odds! —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 42 A Hundred People Transmigrate: After Killing All My Fellow Countrymen, I Became an Emperor for the Ages 百人穿越：杀光老乡后我成了千古一帝 A Hundred People Transmigrate: After Killing All My Fellow Countrymen, I Became an Emperor for the Ages —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 43 Mystery Detective Li Jin 悬疑侦探李金 The mystery of the Ghostface Reef treasure The “perfect locked-room” suicide The “ghost” serial cases The mystery of the blood curse at the old mansion The mystery of the Mount Wuyin murders Li Jin, captain of the city criminal investigation team, is a name that strikes fear into the hearts of criminals. To his friends, he is a “master detective”; to his subordinates, he is their “rock”; to criminals, he is a “nightmare.” 3Reads—Score—14d adds
- 44 Short Horror Stories 短篇恐怖故事 A crescent moon hung over Beijing late at night, casting its light over the empty streets, where yellow streetlamps glowed dimly. At that hour, nobody was out and about, and the whole city had sunk into a deep, peaceful sleep. He stepped outside and looked back at the office building, now shrouded in darkness, then drew a deep breath. The chilly late-autumn breeze was like a mischievous girl gently fanning his face, and it felt wonderfully refreshing. 6Reads7.5Score—14d adds
- 45 Double Shadows 双重阴影 Twin Shadows 2Reads—Score—14d adds
- 46 The Classics Academy 名著学院 What happens when Cao Cao, Song Jiang, Tang Sanzang, and Jiang Ziya all attend the same school? What happens when they start running for class monitor? Classics become hilarious school-life power fantasies, full of cutting humor and blows that hit home. We're not just talking nonsense with a straight face. If life were an academy of classics, you and I would both be transfer students. Bring the original texts with you, then hand in an answer sheet full of holes and utterly one of a kind. 3Reads—Score—14d adds
- 47 The Detective's Notebook 推理笔记 A collection of original short mystery stories! A collection of original short mystery stories! A collection of original short mystery stories! (Important things are said three times.) Each volume is a standalone short story, so feel free to skip around! Hope you enjoy! —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 48 A Hundred Ghosts at the Night Banquet 百诡夜宴 [Mystery + Mind-Bending + No System + Supernatural Horror + Murder-Mystery Game] “The true trick isn’t hidden in the shadows. It sits upon the throne, making everyone bow before it.” “It never deceives the eyes. It only fools the heart.” A human body hanging in the air, a head burned and charred to the bone, severed limbs abandoned on a rainy night: all seem like the final echoes of death. Four survivors and one overseer sit around the long table at a night banquet, whispering among themselves. 1Reads—Score—14d adds
- 49 The Blind Man, the Shadow, and the Dog 瞎子，影子和狗子 [Superpowers] [One heroine] [No saintly do-gooder] [Pure exhilaration] Food delivery worker Jiang Fan has his corneas surgically removed in broad daylight. When he wakes up, he has fallen into an endless night. Just as he thinks his life has collapsed for good, the mysterious “Darkness System” suddenly activates. In exchange for losing his sight, he gains the ability to reconstruct the world through “shadow analysis”: Human body temperature appears on his retina as flowing thermal images. A targ 16Reads—Score—14d adds
- 50 The System Can’t Delete His Last Words 系统删不掉他的遗言 The System Can't Erase His Last Words —Reads—Score—14d adds
