Novels like The Cursed Mansion
Books Chinese readers most often put in the same booklists as The Cursed Mansion, best match first.
- 101 Anomaly Box: Give Me a Hand, I Need to Show Off 异常盒子：快拉我一把，我要装逼 [Hell difficulty from the start! While every other transmigrator gets a cheat System, I drew a deadly mystery box] On the eve of the world’s collapse, Bu Hao transmigrated, still seething with resentment over working overtime all night. He opened his eyes to see the sky bleeding, with the fading echoes of the gods handing out golden fingers ringing in his ears. His System, however, was a sharp-tongued black box that called its Host useless. “Binding failed? You’re not even qualified to be this 2Reads8.4Score—Shelves
- 102 Three Years Together Without a Marriage License, Then I Marry a Tycoon on a Whim and He Loses His Mind 恋爱三年不领证，闪婚财阀大佬后他急疯 (Scheming wolf-like tycoon × clear-eyed, seductive beauty | calculated secret crush × marriage first, love later and a husband’s road to redemption × second male lead wins) “I’m already sick of Su Wan.” Zhou Yanyan gave a mocking smile as he swirled his wineglass. “A delicate girl like Shanshan is what you call a woman. As for her...” In the corner, a glass suddenly shattered in a man’s palm. Su Wan clutched the cake celebrating their third anniversary as a couple and watched blood drip from the 52Reads8.2Score—Shelves
- 103 My Past Life Reset to Zero, I Wield System Powers to Conquer the World 前世归零，我持系统异能杀穿世界 [Reborn revenge, cutting-edge technology, global dominance, cause and effect, smart wish fulfillment] Reborn, Ye Xiao grips the System interface. The dignity crushed from him in his past life will become a throne, forged with supernatural powers and technology centuries ahead of its time! In his previous life, he was an unlucky genius trampled by capital and power. In this life, his System awakens and unlocks all his abilities. The moment he creates the “Dawn Reactor,” capable of overturning 1Reads6.3Score—Shelves
- 104 You Think College Makes Life Easy? 上了大学就轻松了？ Infinite-loop horror + slow burn + no golden finger + challenges + rule-based horror + the supernatural + instances + conflict An ordinary school suddenly turns into a “meat grinder”! All kinds of deadly rules: ignore the “teachers,” don't run, follow the schedule to the letter... All kinds of bizarre instances, movie scenes, teamwork, and going it alone... Ten universities compete online. Staying alive is the only hope! When you graduate from your senior year of high school and take the college 3Reads—Score—Shelves
- 105 The Stunning Female General: Sovereign of the Seven Seas 绝色女将军，凰主七海 After one night together, he looked at her coldly with violet eyes, abandoned her on a deserted island with his own hands, and cursed, “You jinx, you don’t deserve to live!” Ye Shuye’s heart turned to ash. Clutching the mysterious holy mark she had just awakened, she struggled to survive. She thought she was a jinx abandoned by the gods, destined to spend her life alone. Little did she know she carried the bloodline of the ancient Sea God, and was the sole heir of all the seas and lands! Mont —Reads8.9Score—Shelves
- 106 Return from the Forbidden Zone: I Brought the Missing Back from the Warp 禁地归人之我从亚空间带回失踪者 Every year, a million people mysteriously vanish around the world, and none ever return. Then Zhong Jiale discovered that the window in his bedroom was actually a gateway to forbidden pocket dimensions! Ruined ghost cities, deep-sea prisons, apocalyptic exclusion zones, ancient ruins... Everyone else went in to die, but he went in to save people, seize treasures, and become a god! He rescued billionaires from hell and brought back relatives who had been missing for a century through a rift in ti 5Reads—Score—Shelves
- 107 Rule Horror: The Infinite Loop's Haunted Campus, Don't Trust Any Rule 规则怪谈：无限流诡异校园，别相信任何一条规则 Rule Horror: An Infinite-Flow, Supernatural School. Don't Trust a Single Rule 1Reads—Score—Shelves
- 108 The Eerie Abode: Infinite Flow Instances 诡所【无限流副本】 [Survival + No System + Mystery Solving + Supernatural Stories + Horror Atmosphere] [Fast-paced, enters the first instance in Chapter 2] [Ancient Mansion + Village + Campus + Hotel + Bus + Temple + Island + Skyscraper] Every city has a mysterious place called “Nirok Manor,” home to a group of residents marked with black patterns. Whenever a strange letter appears in their mailbox, whoever is named in it must undertake a perilous green-text mission! As Si Chen completes one green-text mission aft 41Reads—Score—Shelves
- 109 I'm a Living Detective, So Why Are You Making Me Solve Ghost Cases? 我一活人侦探，你让我破鬼案 The comic adaptation of this work, "I’m a Living Detective, So Why Make Me Solve Ghost Cases?", is now available. [Infinite flow + no System + no golden finger + horror and suspense] While investigating an urban-legend case, detective Lin Sanshi encounters the same eerie phenomenon as the victim. From then on, he must wander through a series of different mission worlds: A mountain-top guesthouse where people are murdered in a snowstorm A perilous corpse-driving journey A survival game controlled 4.7kReads7.1Score418Shelves
- 110 Infinite Flow: Becoming a God in Nightmare Games 无限流：在噩梦游戏中成神 [Reborn + Two Male Leads + Infinite Flow + Mystery + Revenge Power Fantasy] A possessive, obsessive top who listens to his wife VS a mad, brilliant bottom In his previous life, Jiang Qi fought his way through endless nightmare games, slaying every boss in his path, all to escape the nightmare game. From the start, he casually rescued a frail boy. Just as he was about to reach the pinnacle, a carefully orchestrated betrayal plunged him into an abyss of despair. Once someone countless people looke 155Reads6.9Score—Shelves
- 111 The Haunted House: The End of the Foggy World 诡舍：迷雾世界终点 [Transmigrate into a Book + Infinite Flow + Mild Horror + Survival + One Heroine] Fu Jinyue accidentally transmigrated into the world of a book. After going through one bizarre and eerie instance after another, he finally learned the answer... 369Reads—Score105Shelves
- 112 Is This Really a Horror Game Livestream?! 这真的是恐怖游戏直播？！ Welcome to the Super-Dimensional Reality Show, a game that transcends the dimensions of reality, with extraordinary battles of wits and will. Who will be the ultimate winner? Faced with an unwinnable dead end, Gu Ye calmly kicked a stone a few times. Ding! Congratulations, you’ve cleared the level! Faced with a computer that wouldn’t shut down, Gu Ye kept a straight face and talked his macho teammate into acting cute. Ding! Congratulations, you’ve cleared the level! Gu Ye smiled. “Fi 4Reads8.7Score—Shelves
- 113 Reborn with a Mixed Spirit Root, I Prove the Dao Through Unorthodox Means 重生杂灵根，我靠偏门证道成仙 The Heavenly Dao is collapsing, spiritual energy is like a candle about to go out, and all manner of demons and monsters are fighting tooth and nail over resources. From childhood, the boy was scorned as a “black-hearted fishmonger.” Even so, he dragged his mixed spiritual root into an immortal sect and became a menial disciple. After ten years as a servant, enduring the sect’s humiliation, the imperial dynasty’s schemes, and the demon clan’s attacks, he plots with his feet on the knife’s edge 33Reads8.4Score101Shelves
- 114 I’ve Lived for a Thousand Years. Ghosts Fear Me, but I Fear Trouble 活了一千年，鬼怕我，我怕麻烦 [Infinite Flow] [Supernatural] [Longevity] [Light Horror] [Plot-Focused] Just as Chen Yuan was getting ready to rest, a beautiful woman showed up at his door and called him Ancestor. He checked the family tree. Yep, she was a descendant thirty-seven generations down. “Ancestor, the walls in our villa community are covered in eyes, and eleven people have already died.” “Oh. That sounds pretty scary.” “Could you maybe…” “No.” Chen Yuan locked the door, played video games, and went to sleep. Three 1.2kReads6.6Score120Shelves
- 115 Beyond the Constant 恒定之外 [Infinite-Rounds-esque] [Mystery] [Supernatural] [Wild Imagination] [Mystery and Wild Imagination] Beneath the Constant, all living beings are pieces on a chessboard. Fate, the script, the favor of destiny, or a predetermined outcome. What people call being reborn and turning your fortunes around is merely a plot the rules have permitted. Whether you lose or break the game, you have only gone from a cage in one script to a cage outside another. Welcome to Beyond the Constant. And I, too, am beyo —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 116 The Ghost Candle Craftsman 诡烛匠人 In a narrow alley in the old part of town stands a candle shop that has been in the same family for three generations. No one knows that it only takes on business involving the cursed. Those driven to despair by ghosts, possession, or paranormal hauntings all come knocking on its door late at night. Zhong Ling, the third-generation heir, doesn't burn talismans or summon deities. He simply hands them a candle. “Light it. Before it burns out, either you die, or the truth comes to life.” Ghostly 8Reads—Score—Shelves
- 117 The Horror Exam 恐怖考试 One exam, one cycle of rebirth, a battle between life and death, all for a brilliant tomorrow! Do you have the courage to face this endless nightmare? The Horror Exam awaits your challenge! 84Reads6.8Score—Shelves
- 118 My Whole Family Can Hear My Thoughts: The Bug-Fixing Lucky Star Defies Fate 全家读心：修Bug锦鲤逆乾坤 [Lucky koi descends to earth + reborn + metaphysics + the whole family hears her thoughts + real and fake heiress + face-slapping + light romance] In the Jade Pool of the Heavenly Realm lived a mischievous little koi, wild and lawless. After breaking the heavenly rules with her reckless antics, she was sent down to the mortal world to undergo tribulations. She thought that after enduring the seven hardships of human life and completing her merits, she could happily return to the heavens and enjo —Reads8.2Score—Shelves
- 119 Three Ships 三舰 [Hard Sci-Fi] [Long-Running Mystery] [Sociology] [Philosophy] [Time Reversal] [Emotional Detachment] [Ensemble Cast]. Among the vast stars, three warships, Eagle Strike, Soaring Fish, and Frosty Sky, carry out a mission to explore the unknown, traveling into deep space along the “string song” left behind by a mysterious civilization. After five hundred years of voyage, their differing ideologies and internal conflicts have become deeply entrenched, and a clash is on the verge of breaking out. Li 5Reads8.4Score—Shelves
- 120 The Ninth-Life Immortal-Slaying Tribulation 九世弑仙劫 [High-IQ Revenge + Battle Against the Cycle of Fate + Mortal’s Immortal-Slaying Tale] Three-year-old Ye Yun rises onto his tiptoes and licks the sect’s sacred flame. In a childish voice, he smiles at the Dao Ran Sacred Sect’s leader: “Leader, when you casually wiped out that family all those years ago, did you ever imagine that I would be reborn into your sect and dig up its very foundations?” Four lives of reincarnation: he died a miserable death on Earth in his first life, his entire family wa 2Reads6.6Score—Shelves
- 121 Once Upon a Time in Xiegu Town 从前有个协谷镇 A portrait of ordinary people spanning thirty years in Xiegu Town. There are no schemes or deadly struggles, just the possibility of finding a little something extraordinary in everyday life! 857Reads9.5Score115Shelves
- 122 Crimson Battlefield: Endless Trials 猩红战场：无尽试炼 [Infinite Flow + apocalypse + survival + power progression + spatial dimension + multiple heroines] Either evolve through slaughter, or turn to dust beneath the crimson sky screen. Survival has no end. The only way forward is to face death head-on. One day, two days... ten days... Not just for themselves, but to protect their home. One person, a squad, a fortress, a town... Step by step, people built the homes they carried in their hearts, all for that faint glimmer of hope. 22Reads—Score—Shelves
- 123 In the 1980s, an Old Wardrobe Connected to the Girl Next Door’s Home 八零年代，旧衣柜连通隔壁少女家 [Period] [Book Transmigration] [Reborn] [Scheming] [Comedy] [Single Female Lead] [Mischief Maker] [1980s] [Business Warfare] [Building a Strong Industrial Nation] [Ensemble Cast] [Smart Characters] The irreverent Yu Hanqing transmigrates into a book about 1982... Next door lives Tang Wanqing, a girl living alone who has returned from a wealthy family in a big city. She’s even been reborn! The antique furniture and props from old magic tricks have strange effects, and it seems only Yu Hanqing can 1.9kReads8.9Score186Shelves
- 124 Infinite Realm: Super Scary Dungeons 无限流，超级惊悚副本 [Infinite Worlds + Pure Mind Games, No Cultivation + Horror and Escape + No Saintly Protagonist] “My name is Xiao Yan. By the time you read this, I’ll be dead...” Xiao Yan receives this letter and follows its instructions to board a bus bound for the horror world, arriving at Haunted Zone 39. He later learns there are 52 zones like it. Twelve blood-red gates stretch from the center of the zone to the heavens, and each one leads to a different instance. Every instance has its own unique story 15Reads—Score—Shelves
- 125 The Weird Domain: Escape from Skinless Village from the Start! 诡异领域：开局逃离无皮村！ [Infinite Flow + Mild Horror + Survival + Supernatural Instances + No Female Lead] Resentment that cannot be dispelled in the real world gathers to form new eerie domains. After being chosen, people are dragged into an eerie domain when they die unexpectedly. They can return to reality only by successfully completing the tasks inside. Only after escaping one terrifying eerie domain after another by the skin of his teeth does Lu Lin discover that the real world is also being infiltrated and taint 7.7kReads7.1Score554Shelves
- 126 I Have a Horror Livestream 我有一个恐怖直播间 The moment you receive a bizarre job offer to become a streamer, you have set foot on a road of no return. No one can escape! In this deadly livestream, the appearance of bloody writing on the walls means the broadcast has begun. Once it starts, you will enter an unknown world of terror and face ghosts so bizarre and horrifying they defy belief. They will be everywhere, coming to claim your life. Even if you are lucky enough to survive this deadly livestream and return to your room, you will sti 302Reads6.2Score—Shelves
- 127 Linking the Eerie Realms 诡域连结 [Infinite Flow] [Deduction] [Mind-Bending] [Supernatural] When Shen Shiyan woke up, he found himself inside a strange building filled with unknown dangers. After solving one mystery after another, he thought he could finally escape alive. “This is the Domain of the Uncanny. Welcome to your eternal rest!” A mysterious voice sent a chill down his spine. What kind of place was this? And how could he escape? 705Reads—Score124Shelves
- 128 Chaos Sword Sovereign: From the Start, I Cultivate with the Female Emperor 混沌剑尊：开局与女帝双修 [Classic fantasy + Chosen One + Decisive killer + Invincible protagonist] Lin Xuan is framed by a fellow disciple and thrown into a bottomless frozen abyss, where he unexpectedly discovers a breathtakingly beautiful Empress asleep in an ice coffin! On the brink of death, the remnant soul of the Empress awakens. Through dual cultivation with her, he awakens a Chaos Spiritual Root, allowing him to devour poison, reverse heavenly tribulations, and defy the laws of Heaven! From then on, he wields th 1Reads—Score—Shelves
- 129 Naruto: The Years the Cannon Fodder Fought Back 火影：炮灰逆袭的那些年 (Multiple worlds + a different protagonist in each world + ensemble cast + butterfly effect turned up to the max + the protagonist's luck is maxed out) If the protagonists of each volume were writing books... Uchiha Yuan: How do you go from being a nameless extra on the night of the clan massacre, with no cheats, to becoming the final boss of the Fourth Great Ninja War? Uchiha Izayoi: How can an ordinary genius rewrite his fate in Konoha's hellish dungeon? (Currently getting an early start...) K 21Reads8.8Score—Shelves
- 130 One Cursed Letter, and I'm in the Eighteenth Layer of the Ghost Realm? 一封诅咒信，我入诡界十八层？ [Horror + Survival + Infinite Flow + Plot-Heavy + Three Updates a Day + No Fighting Monsters to Level Up + Original Horror Instances] They say that when a white letter mysteriously arrives in your hands, a curse has attached itself to you… Rotting books, an empty bus, a door seeping blood… In bizarre ways, a group of unsuspecting people who receive letters are sent to one eerie world after another. They are called Curse-Bearers, and in the eldritch realm, they must endure their own curses. No 1.3kReads6.4Score111Shelves
- 131 Fatal Game: The Death Script 致命游戏：死亡剧本 [Infinite-Flow + Horror + Survival] No female lead, no romance between men and women, pure deduction-based infinite flow. A strange minibus carries a group of guilty people to a village that doesn’t exist on any map. ...The people living in the base dormitories receive a different horror script every so often. Anyone who receives one is forcibly dragged into the script to play out its horrifying story. When Su Bai finally returns home after experiencing one terrifying incident after another, he 522Reads7.0Score—Shelves
- 132 Thriller Game: Everyone Struggles to Survive, While I Ascend to Godhood Alone 惊悚游戏：众生苟存！我独自封神 [Wish-Fulfillment] + [Rule Horror] + [Eerie] + [Infinite Flow] + [Mind-Bending] + [Play the Pig to Eat the Tiger] + [Roleplay] + [Hacking the Backend] Welcome to the [Multiverse Horror Show]! This is a death livestream that uses human fear to drive its ratings, and the lives and deaths of billions of beings to entertain higher-dimensional civilizations. Here, players either scrape by with divine artifact inheritances or become ratings fodder beneath the claws of vengeful ghosts. Earth's survival —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 133 Ruling the Cosmos 执宙 [Battle to Become Emperor] + [Decisive and Ruthless] + [Eastern Fantasy] + [Path to Invincibility] If the heavens press down on me, I'll cleave them apart. If the Dao traps me, I'll tread upon the immortals! A scion of a great clan steps into the heavens, his Sacred Physique battling the greatest prodigies! Three thousand gods and demons kneel beneath the starry river. From the moment he was born, he was destined for greatness. The Primordial God-Demon Sacred Physique is rarely seen throughout t 1Reads8.1Score—Shelves
- 134 Nightmare Realm 噩梦诡境 [Infinite-flow + horror + survival + one female lead] Liu Xiao woke up in a long-abandoned hospital, with several others beside him who had arrived there just like he had. He thought he had been kidnapped, but never imagined it was the start of an endless nightmare! Once you are chosen by a haunted realm, death is your only possible ending! 1Reads—Score—Shelves
- 135 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 94Reads—Score—Shelves
- 136 A Dust Mote’s Dream of Immortality 微尘梦仙 [The protagonist has a cheat, but he’s no overpowered wish-fulfillment hero, so don’t expect a power fantasy] [There’s no real harem, just one heroine] [Comedy | Angst | Not brainless] Many dreams come in the night; the soul foretells fortune and misfortune. The ten Golden Crows that sealed away the nightmare spirits vanished without a trace, and the world entered the age of uncanny dreams. Countless fantasy worlds, strange monsters, and urban legends imagined by humanity can now claim people’s 5Reads8.5Score—Shelves
- 137 Reincarnation: Infinite Academies 轮回：无限高校 In Resident Evil, he smiles as he drinks a bottle of T-virus. In Batman, he watches the Joker cower in a corner, trembling. In The Avengers, he wears the Infinity Gauntlet and snaps his fingers, watching hundreds of millions of lives vanish. In Romance of the Three Kingdoms, he sits atop the Bronze Sparrow Terrace, leisurely waving a feather fan as Liu, Guan, and Zhang fight to the death. Su Ye smiles as he looks at the so-called Slaughter Academy before him. 23Reads5.3Score—Shelves
- 138 Heavenly Realms Deliveryman: From the Start, I Deliver the Wrong Tribulation Pill 诸天配送员：开局送错渡劫丹 (Traveling between worlds + thrilling instances + aiming to become the greatest trader across the heavens) Delivery guy Lin Han crashes into a ghost on a stormy night and somehow gets bound to the Myriad Worlds Delivery System. From then on, clad in his delivery uniform, he travels through the Myriad Worlds to deliver takeout. He delivers tribulation pills to powerful cultivators in the immortal realm, brings the true scriptures to Tang Sanzang and his disciples only to be chased by Buddha, and 6Reads8.0Score—Shelves
- 139 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 13Reads—Score—Shelves
- 140 I'm Just a Prisoner, and You Want Me to Become a God? 我就一囚犯，你让我成神？ [Rich Storytelling] [Constant Thrills] [Varied Settings] [Well-Rounded Characters] [No Saintly Heroes] [Logical Plot] What should you do if the villain in this world is invincible? What if this villain is not only invincible, but can also cheat? “All I can say is, don't rush. This is exactly the kind of villain I had in mind. If they're not strong enough, then beating them wouldn't feel like an achievement at all, would it?” After the world changed, Chen Bingshu accidentally began studying 73Reads9.3Score—Shelves
- 141 Lost on the Path to Immortality 仙路迷茫 The protagonist, who lives an ordinary life, is drawn into the path of cultivation. Through the eyes of an ordinary person, he sees a world that brings both confusion and growth. Everyone is the protagonist of their own life. Keep striving onward. 3Reads8.7Score—Shelves
- 142 I Work as a Gravekeeper in an Unknown Cemetery 我在无名墓园当守墓人 [Infinite Flow + Mild Horror + Mild Suspense + Survival + Plot Twists] The protagonist isn’t a do-gooder, the villains aren’t idiots, the plot doesn’t drag, and every mystery gets resolved; An unnamed Taoist temple deep in the Hundred Thousand Mountains; A merchant ship adrift across a vast sea; A mysterious ruin in an ancient forest; An endless desert stretching beyond the horizon; Snow-capped mountains where the snow never melts; A breathtaking woman in red who is a ghost, and an entity that c —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 143 Fierce Netherworld: Starting as a Rainy-Night Killer 凶冥空间：从雨夜杀人魔开始 [Infinite Flow + The Weird Arrives, No Heroine] Could the beautiful new neighbor really be a serial killer who strikes on rainy nights? Gu Li sees through her disguise, only to get dragged into an even stranger space. Black fog rolls in and terror descends. To survive, Gu Li searches for a way to clear each instance, solving puzzles like mad and escaping certain death. But after completing a series of missions, he discovers that the weird has already arrived in the real world, and a supernatural 5.3kReads7.1Score365Shelves
- 144 Nightmare Invitation 噩梦邀请 [Infinite flow, original instances, mild horror, no romance] An invitation sent from the Nightmare World drags a group of people into a haunted place, where they struggle desperately to survive. Those pulled into the Nightmare World have no idea what lies ahead. They only know they must do everything they can to stay alive. Fight the locals! Fight the ghosts! Fight the Nightmare World! Until... they escape the Nightmare World. 1.4kReads6.6Score104Shelves
- 145 Reborn in 2001: Ruling the Global Business World 重生2001之制霸全球商业 In his previous life, he lived like a dog. In this life, he will become a dragon who looks down on all living beings! The crushing failure and betrayal of 2024 vanished after one night of heavy drinking. Wang Tianyu woke to find himself back in December 2001, at the crossroads of fate. Nothing had begun yet, and everything could still change! Armed with memories of the next twenty years, he faced the familiar yet boundlessly promising tide of the times and smiled. The internet, chips, smartpho 9Reads8.4Score—Shelves
- 146 The Heavenly Elixir's Demon-Breaking Record 天丹破魔录 [Multiple storylines + military and political intrigue + slow-burn power fantasy] In the Shengfu Dan Realm, one fundamental law governs the entire world's existence. That law revolves around a single object: the Heavenly Pill! A genius alchemist fakes his death from the start, plans several moves ahead, and grows stronger as he dominates the Seven Kingdoms and looks down upon Great Xia. A cool and elegant commandery princess plans several moves ahead, plays the pig to eat the tiger, relentlessly —Reads6.2Score—Shelves
- 147 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—Score—Shelves
- 148 Sin and Haunting 罪与祟 [Supernatural Crime Investigation | Classic Taoist Exorcism | Two Powerful Leads, 1v1 | BG | Episodic Cases] West of the Yunnan border, three dried corpses, a ghost wall, cicadas singing in the forest to summon unexpected fortune; Mount Tai moves, heavy rain falls, an old village appears, and an old friend’s sword breaks through mortal flesh; On the high seas, aboard a cruise ship, blood spills from a Gu curse; true essence is spent, yet life is restored; A painting that devours people, a blaze 15Reads—Score—Shelves
- 149 Half a Lifetime Chasing Dreams, Love Aged with Time 逐梦半生，爱已沧桑 Jiang Yuwei: “I’m beautiful. Don’t I deserve love?” Every intimate relationship feels like an unknown adventure, yet always ends in heartbreak. (This is a slow-burn story with no transmigration or golden finger, focusing on mystery and romance. The early chapters focus on character growth and setup. After Chapter 10, the plot takes off at a breakneck pace. I hope you’ll join me for this journey that only gets better as it goes.) 3Reads8.7Score—Shelves
- 150 If You Love Me, You Don't Need to Say You're Sorry! 爱我，就不用说对不起！ [Stock-market face-slapping + doting devotion + breaking into new circles] Shi Xiaolu is a “new Shanghainese” from an ordinary family of intellectuals. Young, she has no money, power, or connections, but she's bright, talented, and beautiful. She never curries favor or grovels to anyone, and always puts her own feelings first. Can she defy fate and break into a new circle? There are two important men in Shi Xiaolu's life: Brother Lequ: a stock-market genius. If Shi Xiaolu follows his stock pick 21Reads9.4Score—Shelves
