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- 1 The Ultimate Horror 终极惊悚 [Infinite Flow] + [Mystery] + [Team] + [Plot] Liu Zheng, a first-year graduate student at the School of Mechanical Engineering, was broke and on the verge of becoming homeless when a mysterious app quietly appeared on his phone... [Beep. Host detected: broke as can be, with a powerful desire to make money. Accept this job?] [Yes/No] With three parts apprehension and seven parts anticipation, Liu Zheng tapped to confirm. The next second, a mechanical voice rang out, and an old mansion buried deep 23Reads—Score—Shelves
- 2 Cha Mi High School 茶靡高校 [Infinite Flow] [Instance-Based Story] [Original Horror Instances, Mildly Spooky] My name is Lin Fen. A bizarre car accident turned my peaceful life upside down. That day, my mother and I were crossing the street. A speeding car came hurtling toward us. My mother pushed me out of the way at the last moment and was struck dead by the roadside. I watched in terror. Then I remembered: I didn't have a mother at all! I, Lin Fen, had only ever known busy caregivers since I could remember. I was a chil 8Reads—Score—Shelves
- 3 The Ultimate Ghost-Raising Master 极品养鬼师 [Adult] + [Adorable Pets] + [Sharp Tongue] + [Making Money] + [Secret Arts] Do you know how to raise ghosts? No worries, I do! Do you know how to catch ghosts? No worries, I do that too! Do you know where to find ghosts? No worries, I’ll take you there! Watch your step. Get in! —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 4 The Haunted House 诡院 [No rating yet, but one should be available later] [Infinite stream + suspense + deduction + no female lead + ensemble cast] At the end of a long street stands a small courtyard. Old objects are displayed all along the street. No one knows how the street came to be, or why a strange courtyard stands at its end. Those chosen are swept into this street, where dusk lasts forever, in the middle of an ordinary moment. Then they are forced to push open a door and enter the ghost realm. They have to su 3.4kReads—Score389Shelves
- 5 The Strange Platform 怪谈站台 (Rule-based horror + infinite scenarios + battles of wits) Everyone has a train of their own. The train stops at unknown stations at irregular intervals. The conductor must survive the rules of each horror scenario to claim the rewards and continue onward. Understand the rules, use the rules, create the rules! Struggle to survive in an infinite world of horror scenarios! 1.2kReads—Score123Shelves
- 6 The Haunted House: The Evil God Descends 诡舍：邪神降临 [A Strange House fanfiction + horror + survival + infinite loop] Ning Qiushui sealed the Gray Sun, bringing the calamity of the old world to an end. But the Heavenly Dao demands balance between yin and yang. With the old evil destroyed, an even more powerful evil god was born. After lying dormant for ages, the Strange House's blood-red door appeared once more. The blood-red door swung open. Yin and yang were reversed, the underworld fell, and the six paths were severed. A new generation of S 8Reads—Score—Shelves
- 7 Strange Tales: The Land of Silent Hauntings 异诡实录：诡寂之地 [Horror]+ [Mystery]+ [Instances]+ [Infinite Flow] “Knock, knock, knock...” Lin Baisui was jolted awake. A voice that sounded like her mother called from outside the door. “Open up, it’s Mom...” But Lin Baisui clearly remembered that her parents had died three years ago. So who was outside? 2Reads—Score—Shelves
- 8 Shadows in the Daylight 白昼暗影 The criminal he hunts is himself. The shadow he cannot escape is his only protector. Lin Mo, the police department’s star profiler, cracks one extraordinary case after another with his precise criminal psychology analyses. But he doesn’t know that every night, another self awakens: Shen Ye, a “dark vigilante” who fights violence with violence, hunting down criminals who escaped justice through Lin Mo. The massacre that destroyed his family when he was a child split ten-year-old Lin Mo’s mind, cr —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 9 Infinite Eerie Domains: Starting with a Haunted Classroom 无限诡域：从诡异教室开始 [Infinite Flow]+ [Fake terror]+ [Ghosts kill people]+ [Emotionless]+ [Mild horror] Late at night, Su Wang receives a strange black letter that appears out of nowhere in his home. Its four blood-red survival rules reveal a terrifying, unknown realm. In the blink of an eye, he is forcibly dragged into a strange study hall at Chenfeng High School, where he and six strangers are trapped together. The one unbreakable rule is carved into the blackboard: Keep quiet. One survivor loses control, makes a 31.9kReads8.0Score4.3kShelves
- 10 Horror Nightmare: From the Start, I Entered the World of the Supernatural 惊悚噩梦：开局进入诡世界 [Infinite worlds + instance dungeons + rule-based horror + mildly scary + no female lead] A bus carries its passengers back and forth between reality and the uncanny realm. But Ren Qingshan discovers that it isn't only the uncanny realm: every night, something is watching him. Are they players, or sacrifices? Who will survive this terrifying nightmare? [The Human Offering] A desolate mountain village, a ghostly figure on the third floor, a doll on the door. Would you dare open the cabinet at mid 78Reads—Score—Shelves
- 11 The Hall of Mirrors 镜厅 [Infinite Flow] + [Mild Horror] + [One Heroine] + [Instances] The moment you step inside, you enter the endless Mirror Abyss. Every Mirror Abyss holds the lingering obsession of someone who has died. The rules for survival must be tested with human lives. More terrifying than ghosts are human hearts. Some stand shoulder to shoulder in the darkness, while others stab their companions in the back when all seems lost. Can the rifts deep within the Mirror Abyss ever be repaired? Put your mind to 3kReads6.4Score362Shelves
- 12 Black Coffin: The Hidden Treasure 黑棺：归藏 One night, I was working overtime until late when the elevator suddenly went out of control and descended all the way to Floor -18. The doors opened onto a corridor, a bus, and seven strangers. A voice said, “Welcome to the Black Coffin Manor. Keep vigil for seven days. Do not look directly at the coffin. “One of you is not human. “Find them within seven days, or be killed by them.” I thought it was just a nightmare. Until the first person to run had his head twisted off, a black handprint 3Reads—Score—Shelves
- 13 Horror Game: Hell Corporation 恐怖游戏：地狱公司 (The rating just came in, and it’ll rise over time!!!) [Infinite Flow + mild suspense + horror game + one female lead] "This is a company that can make any wish come true. Do you have a wish you'd like granted? Call our hotline to join our game. If you clear it, we'll make your wish come true." Wang Zhu looked at the ad on his phone and called the number. He didn't notice the pair of deathly pale eyes staring at him from outside the window. 14kReads7.7Score1.5kShelves
- 14 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
- 15 Rule-Based Survival: I Can Foresee Death 规则求生：我能预知死亡 [Infinite Flow, mild horror, terrifying dungeons, no romance, survival, not a saintly protagonist] One night, Chen Feng was walking through an abandoned park after finishing his shift at the crematorium when something strange happened. There was clearly no one behind him, yet he heard faint footsteps. At first, he thought he was imagining things, but when he listened closely, the footsteps were still there, gradually drawing nearer. They sounded as though they were deliberately mimicking his own 22.3kReads7.6Score2.2kShelves
- 16 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
- 17 The Haunted Rental House: Survive the Dungeon and Collect Mahjong Tiles 诡异出租屋：活过副本，攒麻将牌 [No mindless protagonist] [Not invincible] [Infinite Flow] [Original scenarios] [No romance] [Thriller Game] [Survival] [Rules] [Supernatural] [Folk customs] [A conspiracy lurking behind it all] Chen Jiu'an signed a bizarre contract and became the newest tenant of Haunted Apartment 904-B. A blood-red brand appeared on his wrist. Every so often, he was thrown into a terrifying world to complete a mission where death was all but certain. A bag of candy, a box of condoms, a few crackers... These se 3Reads—Score—Shelves
- 18 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
- 19 Infinite Horror: I Can Sense Ghosts 恐怖无限：我能感知到鬼 [Infinite Flow, Not a Power Fantasy] [Slight Horror] [No CP] [Survival] [Escape] [Deduction] [Mystery] "Shh..." "There are ghosts in this world!" Those contaminated by the aura of Another World can only keep clearing one instance after another. They say that after clearing 13 instances, you can make a wish? Lu Ming discovers that ghosts aren't the only things he can sense. There's also... In this game of pursuit between humans and ghosts, he is forced into Another World, a realm teeming with evi 11.5kReads6.9Score1.1kShelves
- 20 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
- 21 Infinite Cinema: I Climbed to the Top of the Charts Through Death 无限影院：我靠死亡冲上热榜第一 [Infinite-Loop Horror + Mildly Scary + No Female Lead] Just got a rating, it'll rise later, dears! Death isn't the end. It's your ticket in. The moment Jiang Yubai was crushed beneath a cement truck, he thought his life was over. But when he opened his eyes again, he was sitting in an old movie theater that reeked of mold. Blood-red rules appeared on the screen: Welcome to the “Infinite Cinema.” Here, the dead are chosen at random to become the “protagonists” of one horror film after another. Th 9.7kReads6.9Score1.1kShelves
- 22 The Ghostly Figure Appears 鬼影显形 [Eerie World + Folk Horror Tales + Infinite Flow + Mild Horror + Deduction and Survival + No Female Lead] My name is Zhou Lin, and I transmigrated! But my original Host didn't die. He... became a ghost! A yellowed photograph dragged Zhou Lin from the clutches of a vengeful ghost into another nightmare. The nightmare ended, but the ghosts in the real world never disappeared... A vengeful ghost closing in step by step... The photographs came one after another, haunting him like nightmares, with no 1.1kReads6.2Score104Shelves
- 23 Infinite Nightmares: I Have a Pair of Ghost Ears 无限噩梦：我有一对鬼耳 [Infinite Flow], [Mild Horror], [No Female Lead], [Survive by the Skin of Your Teeth], [Unconventional Turtle Soup Riddles], [Nontraditional Rule-Based Horror], [Not a Wish-Fulfillment Story, Not Invincible] [Slow-paced, packed with details, and full of complex plot twists!] [Read at your own risk if that's not your thing!!!] I sat on a deserted street in the dead of night, listening to them whisper. I was a little confused. Wasn't I the only one here? (Instance 1: Prolonging Life) A bit lon 27kReads7.9Score3.3kShelves
- 24 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 6Reads—Score—Shelves
- 25 Death Train: I Just Want to Be the Boss of the Platform 死亡列车，我只是想当站台话事人 [Infinite Flow, Mild Horror, Mystery, Survival, Teamwork] One train after another carries blood and tears; One platform after another tells of love and hate. Should they bow to fate and sink into endless darkness, or overcome their fear and head toward an unknown future? Eighteen levels of hell, eighteen instances. The people on the platforms came and went, but Jiang Yu was the one who had the last laugh. Someone asked the young man beside him, “Do you know who’s in charge of this platform?” The 385Reads—Score—Shelves
- 26 The Calamity of Gui Water 癸水之祸 If even your memories are fake, who are you? Lin Zhou receives a death invitation from his younger sister, Lin Yao, who died twenty years ago. To uncover the truth, he enters the "Constellation Instances": twenty-eight prisons holding beings more ancient than the corruption itself. Each instance demands that he trade memories for power, and every dead person bears the cost on his behalf. When he finds his own file in the archives, stating that he cleared the Ghost Golden Sheep instance at age —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 27 Thriller Game: I Can Eavesdrop on Ghosts 惊悚游戏：我能偷听鬼话 [Infinite Flow] [No Female Lead] [Light Horror] [Multiple Twists] Six months ago, a blood mist sealed off Nandu City, trapping its ten million residents inside. Strange beings invaded the fog, and one abnormal incident after another unfolded. Lin Xu has no idea why he appeared in this city. A strange game appeared at the same time, forcing him to enter a horror instance every seven days, where death was all but certain. But the items he obtained in the game could be used against the strange enti 21.4kReads7.0Score2.2kShelves
- 28 Grandpa Started the Trouble, Three Generations Must Pay 爷爷闯下的祸，三代来还 The trouble Grandpa caused will take three generations to repay. 2Reads—Score—Shelves
- 29 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 725Reads—Score—Shelves
- 30 The Wei Cipher 韦氏密码 [Mind-Bending Suspense + Adventure + Puzzles + Not a Power Fantasy] After ten years spent seeking the truth behind his parents’ disappearance, Wei Qiushan is drawn into the mystery by a photograph. Following the hidden clues in a ledger and a cryptic note that says “Don’t be afraid,” he begins his investigation. A transport team vanishes without a trace. A witness suddenly drops dead. Deep in a mine, he discovers a strange bedroom dozens of meters underground. During an ancestral rite in the Nor —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 31 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—Shelves
- 32 The Eerie Realm: It Starts with an Elevator 诡界：从电梯开始 [No System]+ [No Heroine]+ [Dungeon Progression]+ [No Saintly Protagonist]+ [Eerie]+ [Original Dungeons] Have you ever wondered? Beneath the neon lights and atmosphere of this city, things lurk that defy all reason. They were chosen by the Eerie [Elevator] and marked by a terrifying curse. Again and again, they must take part in death games, until death claims them. 57Reads—Score—Shelves
- 33 This Is a Rule Horror Story, So Why Are You Making Me Dance on a Grave? 这是规则怪谈，你让我坟头蹦迪 [The eerie descends + no saintly do-gooder + survival escape + no System + high IQ] When Chen Mo wakes up with no memories, he finds himself aboard a battered bus with seven strangers, men and women alike. The bus is headed for a tunnel called Yellow Springs, and that is where Chen Mo enters a world of rule-based horrors. Not only must Chen Mo search for clues and fight to survive in this perilous world of bizarre rules, he must also recover every memory he has lost. After enduring countless har —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 34 Someone New Appeared in the Footage 录像里多出一个人 The test shoot’s discarded footage was four seconds longer. Everyone in the frame held the same poses they had at the end of filming. No one moved. I counted three times. There were six people every time. But only five people had been there that day. On the hard drive my mother left behind, there was an empty folder with a four-character name: Do Not Fast-Forward. In the recycle bin was a deleted video, four minutes and twenty-five seconds long, which couldn’t be recovered. Our production crew w 3Reads—Score—Shelves
- 35 Welcome to the Real Nightmare Game 欢迎进入真实噩梦游戏 [Infinite Flow] [Horror Dungeons] [Plot-Heavy] [Mind Games] [No Romance] [Mystery and Escape] [Supernatural] Zhao Ding woke with a start in the middle of the night, only to find that his familiar bedroom had become strangely unfamiliar. The walls had turned old and yellow, inexplicable dust had appeared in his slippers, and eerie knocking echoed through the silent night... Listening to the strange knocking outside, Zhao Ding had no idea that the world beyond his door was no longer reality. The m 32.1kReads8.1Score4kShelves
- 36 The Purple Rain Descends 紫雨来袭 Also known as "Grief Rises from Within" (Infinite flow + educational themes + no special abilities + not a wish-fulfillment story + twists all the way through) Li Ze, the protagonist, has the ability to empathize. Wherever suffering ignored by society takes place, purple rain falls. It rebuilds that suffering in the victims' minds in distorted, terrifying forms. The monsters, evil spirits, and strange phenomena that emerge from the purple rain retain the defining features of the harm inflicted o 11Reads—Score—Shelves
- 37 Infinite Nightmares: Where's My Golden Finger in This Paranormal World? 无限噩梦：我在诡异里的金手指呢 [Infinite Flow + No Romance + Plot-Driven + Mild Horror + Mystery] Lin Jiu is a struggling paranormal livestreamer. That is, until he enters an old apartment building where an elderly woman is laid out for her wake. The person in the coffin counts heads. The mandarin ducks on the red wedding dress have no eyes. In every mirror, another you is standing there. This is a Chinese-style infinite-flow horror scenario. There is only one way to survive: Don't break any taboos. Not even one. 30Reads—Score101Shelves
- 38 Eerie: The Strange Play Ends in Oblivion 诡异：诡剧终湮 [Suspenseful What-If] [Rule Horror] [Infinite Flow Supernatural Horror] [Horror and the Paranormal] Apocalypse... One month before monsters from another world invaded, Jiang Qiubai unexpectedly obtained a strange play that could take him to other worlds. Only by gathering the powers of the twelve Chinese zodiac signs through these plays could there be any hope of defeating the invasion from another world. Shen Wanqing had been an ordinary college student. Could the two of them successfully tempe —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 39 Medium's Notes: My Left Eye Can See Ghosts 灵媒笔记：我的左眼能见鬼 The Cangye lineage of the Southern Frontier unleashes chaos. The Cherry Blossom Curse, Yin Soil summoning, Ruin Spirits, and malevolent earth veins emerge one after another, leaving the seals protecting the land on the brink of collapse. In a desperate battle, pure Yang Heavenly Energy collides with the turbid qi of Yin Soil inside him, forming a yin-yang vortex whose blessings and dangers are impossible to predict. His old enemies flee into the Hundred Thousand Mountains, seeking a chance to p 12Reads—Score—Shelves
- 40 The Temple That Eats People 吃人的庙 The Man-Eating Temple 1Reads—Score—Shelves
- 41 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
- 42 Nightmare Subway 噩梦地铁 (The rating has only just opened and will rise later.) [Infinite Flow + Survival + No Saintly Heroine] A driverless subway train carries a group of cursed passengers toward unknown, terrifying stations… A subway card is proof of survival, and a ticket to Hell. At each subway station, Jiang Fengye faces one terrifying instance after another, each a brush with death. The starving corpses in the basement; The crawling sounds in the abandoned tunnel; The skinning monster in the old castle; … "The 18.1kReads7.0Score1.9kShelves
- 43 Ten Dreams Across the Calamity 十梦渡厄 (The Strange Knocking at the Door / Welcome Back to the Starting Point of the Nightmare, Book Two) Have you ever received a letter like that? Its material feels like human skin, its handwriting looks like blood. Once you open it... You find yourself standing before a door. Push it open, and you step into another world. A place with rules you must obey, nights when dawn never comes, and ghosts who have waited ten or a hundred years for release. Every door you make it through buys you one more day 4.3kReads7.1Score414Shelves
- 44 The Haunted House: Day Sign 诡舍：日兆 [Writing practice] [The Strange House fanfiction + horror + infinite flow] One week after Ning Qiushui reached the ninth door, the Mist World underwent a cataclysmic transformation… “My name is Shen Zuiqing… I am… who?” 1.2kReads7.3Score100Shelves
- 45 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 71.4kReads7.8Score11.5kShelves
- 46 The Haunted House: The End of the Mist World 2 诡舍：迷雾世界终点2 [Transmigrate into a book + infinite flow + mild horror + instances + single heroine] Fu Jinyue unexpectedly transmigrates into the world of a book. After going through one bizarre, uncanny instance mission after another, Fu Jinyue gradually gets closer to the truth: the secrets of the four great families, and whether rebirth truly exists... 128Reads—Score—Shelves
- 47 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
- 48 Hell Station 地狱车站 [Horror Infinite-Loop + Hell Apartment Style + Supernatural + Deduction + Bizarre + No Couple + No Female Lead + Ensemble Cast] There is a Hell Station in this world. They say every train departing from it leads to Hell, and the only way to truly leave is to complete mission after mission. Ye Luo, who suffers from a mental illness, stumbles into it by accident. “Welcome to Hell Station.” “Who am I? I’m just a servant of Hell.” First Train: Jigsaw [Completed] Second Train: Plague [Completed] 11Reads—Score—Shelves
- 49 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
- 50 I Came from the Underworld to Deal with Those Who Defy the Rules 我从地府来，专治规则不服 I Came from the Underworld to Make the Rules Behave 1Reads—Score—Shelves
