Novels like Kiss Me as the Storm Draws Near
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- 151 Tales of the Uncanny 诡话传说 “Hey, everyone, I’m here.” I pointed my phone camera at the abandoned village gate in front of me. The characters on the archway had long since blurred beyond recognition. All that remained was a sinister, rust-red color, splashed irregularly across the stone pillars like blood that had dried long ago. “See that color? Is it a good enough opening for the ‘Blood Axe’?” The comments immediately began to fly. [Sister Xue is charging into a new map!] [Just looking at this place gives me the creeps.] —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 152 The Accomplice 教唆犯 [All-Female Ensemble + Alternate Universe + Mystery + A Cast of Villains] A gripping plot packed with twists. Who is the real culprit? Does justice always prevail? Ye Jixi, chairman of Zhongneng Group, was a billionaire listed on the Forbes rankings. But as this wealthy man departed the world, the Ye family seemed cursed, beset by one disaster after another. At a gathering to announce his will, Ye Jixi had hoped his children would sit down and share a peaceful meal. Instead, a fire broke out at 1Reads—Score—14d adds
- 153 My Wife Is a Snake 我的老婆是条蛇 When I was born, nine snakes were coiled around the roof beams. They called it Nine Dragons Sending a Son, and it meant I’d face eighty-one calamities before turning nine. If I could get through them, I’d enjoy great wealth and success. To keep me alive, my grandfather made me marry a snake as my wife. He also had me marry into someone else’s family and take their surname… 20Reads—Score—14d adds
- 154 The Missing Pages of History 史阙 Time flows like water, never resting, never stopping. The world's obsessions surge like a tide, throwing the river of time and space into chaos. Some defy the natural order, trying to rewrite the years and throw the world into turmoil; Others hold fast to the rules, facing eerie shadows to defend the source of time and space. Ordinary books conceal countless rifts. Strangers who meet on unfamiliar paths become companions, while obsessions and rules clash without end. The path of order is thorny —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 155 I Run a Lifestyle Channel in a Horror Game 我在惊悚游戏里当生活区UP主 With 1.2 million yuan in debt, Lin Bei gets dragged into a horror game. While others flee, I film; while others scream, I livestream. The head nurse is chasing me with a knife? Perfect footage! Zombies are closing in? Let's dance together. I edit terrifying scenarios into comedy shows, pay off my debts with tips, and clear stages by putting on a show. The ghosts become my cast, and the audience becomes my backup. —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 156 Armor Hero: After Signing the Overlord Contract, I No Longer Believe in the Light 铠甲：签完霸王合同后，我不信光 [Armor Hero 1 + Behind-the-scenes power plays + Mystery and the supernatural] Lin Yu transmigrates as the son of D City's richest man. He doesn't wear armor or fight supernatural beasts. He sets the rules, draws the game board, and manages the ledgers. Relying on connections, information asymmetry, and analytical skill, he turns the battlefield into a chessboard. Someone in the morgue's cold storage refuses to wake. Something in the depths of an abandoned well has been painted over and concealed 65Reads—Score314d adds
- 157 Broken, Late Return 碎迟归 An old acquaintance of Captain Chi’s arrives at the Chenghai Police Station. At their first meeting, he is cold to the core. Not long afterward: “Shishi, please cheer me up. I’m really easy to comfort.” A little later, Luo Shi realizes she has wasted five years. She had already decided long ago that she wanted Chi Tuo. Five years later, Chi Tuo successfully completes his secret mission. He says, “I’m not afraid of losing. I’m only afraid my princess will disappear.” “My dear Princess Luo Shi, ma 19Reads—Score—14d adds
- 158 A Talentless Mystic? I Maxed Out My Yin-Yang Eyes from the Start 玄学废材？开局点满阴阳眼 Lin Yi, 22, is a recent college graduate. On the surface, he is a “good-for-nothing” who keeps striking out in his job search. In truth, he was born with yin-yang eyes, but his spiritual powers never awakened, so he has been seeing ghosts since childhood. Cowardly yet stubborn, he uses humor as a defense mechanism. His catchphrase is, “I don’t want to be brave either, but ghosts don’t play fair!” This is the story of how unlucky Lin Yi is forced into action, using scientific thinking and an unre —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 159 Reconstructing the Crime Scene: I Can See the Erased Traces 重构现场：我能看见被擦掉的痕迹 [Criminal investigations + trace evidence deduction + cold case pursuit + episodic cases + master-apprentice legacy] Seven years after leaving frontline work, trace examiner Lu Chuan is called back to the scene by a suspicious case on a rainy night. Everyone thinks it is just an ordinary accident. But Lu Chuan crouches down, takes one look at the gray marks on the soles of the shoes, and realizes something is wrong. The trail of mud on the ground is broken, the scuff marks by the window are 115Reads—Score—14d adds
- 160 Tales from the Pages 纸中录 In the early years of the Republic of China, the country was in turmoil. The little girl Shen Qing fled famine with her father and made her way to Linjiang. In exchange for a dou of rice, her father sold her to the Shen family, where she became the young master's child bride. But on her wedding night, a coffin awaited her. Eight coffins to pin down the dead, seven-inch wooden nails. A hundred “ghosts” roaming by night, the dead rising again. Before long, she had transformed into the stunningly b 1.1kReads9.1Score15214d adds
- 161 The Midnight Photo Studio: I Take Portraits of the Dead 丑时照相馆：我拍亡魂照 [Use the living soul as a lure, and capture the lingering image of the dead] Hidden in the shadows of the city, the photo studio opens only during the Yin hours. Its owner wields a Republic-era camera, taking portraits of the dead’s fading silhouettes, but the price is a sliver of a living person’s soul. Every photograph is a prison for a departed soul’s obsession: if the obsession remains, the soul is trapped in the photo; if it is resolved, the lamp of rebirth is lit. When a young girl enters —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 162 Yangcheng's Ten Great Unsolved Cases 阳城十大奇案 [The sequel to The Ten Great Mysteries of Yao City is here! Written by a real person, not AI, with a gripping plot] A horrific case involving confinement and the massacre of an entire family shatters Yangcheng’s peace of many years. Every member of the victimized family, young and old, male and female, was subjected to unspeakable cruelty and slaughter! What kind of brazen criminal organization could commit such heinous crimes? And how could they escape justice for so long, forcing Yangcheng pol 114Reads—Score—14d adds
- 163 Floating Balance 浮衡 [Rules-Based Horror + Thrills + Supernatural Mystery] When black fog pours from cracks in the city and devours people, and every rule corresponds to a human life, no one knows that the source of the Cataclysm of the Ruins engulfing the world is nothing more than a father's obsession with bringing back his son, who died young. Sun Tianyi, designation Y-001, is the world's only stable S-rank original anchor. A ship's-anchor mark on his palm can dispel contamination, rewrite rules, and raise a defe 18Reads7.2Score13414d adds
- 164 Testimony of Memory 记忆证言 Memory Testimony follows Lin Shouxi, a medium who can read the “marks of death” left on personal effects and use them to solve cold cases. Together with Su Rui, a brilliant scientist, and Chen Tao, a hacker, he forms a special team and infiltrates the black market in memories to take on the multinational organization known as the Archive, which seeks to collect and sell human memories. Each case is a forgotten life, and every time he touches a memory, his own begins to fade. When the truth behin 4Reads—Score214d adds
- 165 The Enigmatic Records of Immortal Bonds 仙缘诡秘录 In northeastern China in the 1990s, anyone who wanted to become a spirit medium had to establish an altar and gain the approval of the spirits. “I'm just a girl. I don't want to become a spirit medium or set up an altar. Everyone else is approved by one spirit, but why have I got 108 spirits? Sob... There's a ghost. I'm scared...” —Reads7.3Score—14d adds
- 166 The Rules of Silent Murder 默杀法则 [High-IQ crime + live-streamed trials + fighting violence with violence + social allegory + mind-bending twists] [Reader's Guide] ⚠️ This is “brain surgery without anesthesia,” and a dose of “deadly arsenic wrapped in sugar.” ⚠️ Do-gooders, stay away! This book will challenge your moral boundaries and may even make you want to cast a “kill” vote in the dead of night. ⚠️ The logic is airtight and the twists keep coming. Put down your phone, because “Mo” is watching you. Leng Yun. A disillusioned 5Reads8.0Score—14d adds
- 167 From the Start, an S-Rank Horror Tale: I Only Have One Block? 开局S级怪谈：我只有一个方块？ (Comedy, plot twists, wild imagination and logic, mild horror, and smart protagonists and antagonists) My name is Shen Mo. It sounds cool, but things went horribly from the start: no memories, no teammates, and a block… But! What do you mean, you can jump from dozens of stories up and land in water? What do you mean, you can blow up eerie scenes with TNT? What do you mean, you can beat Cthulhu senseless with the Sword of Cosmic Dominion? Oh, right. One more thing you should know: this is —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 168 I’ll Return When the Roses Have Faded 蔷薇花谢即归来. I'll Return When the Roses Fade. 3Reads—Score—14d adds
- 169 Case Seven: From a Ghost's Last Wish to a Cult Mystery 第七单：从亡魂心愿到邪教迷案 Case Seven: From a Dead Soul's Wish to a Cult Mystery —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 170 After a Ghost Hit Me While Delivering Takeout, I Became the Underworld's Top Mediator 送外卖撞鬼后：我成了阴阳界金牌调解员 After Running into a Ghost While Delivering Food, I Became the Underworld's Top Mediator —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 171 As Long as the Heart Lamp Burns, His Delivery Box Carries Unfinished Wishes 心灯不灭，他的外卖箱里装着未了的心愿 As Long as the Heart Lantern Burns, His Delivery Bag Carries Unfulfilled Wishes —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 172 Traces of the Night Shadow Star 夜影星踪 Volume One: A corpse falls from the sky on a snowy night in a mountain village, and the whole village whispers that a vengeful ghost is out for blood. A mysterious detective follows the clues, while a boy who witnessed the incident sees through the disguise with a single remark, exposing a shocking murder plot disguised as a supernatural haunting. Volume Two: A string of murders unfolds in a sealed-off, abandoned house, and former classmates die one after another. The truth behind the revenge i 2Reads—Score—14d adds
- 173 Merit-Bearing Demon Venerable: My Post-Apocalyptic World Is a Blessed Paradise 功德魔尊：我的末世是福地洞天 Mo Chen is the sole surviving heir of the Tianyue Sect after its destruction. He carries a blood feud on his shoulders, yet his identity as a demonic cultivator leaves him unable to take a single step. Slaughter brings karmic sin, and the Heavenly Dao will not tolerate him. His path forward is cut off. In this desperate moment, he awakens the sect’s supreme treasure, the Wheel of All Worlds, and enters a silent realm of the dead ruled by zombies. To his shock, he discovers that slaughtering zomb 1Reads—Score—14d adds
- 174 Escape from the Cube World 逃离魔方世界 An otherworldly tale, a transmigration story, an imaginative adventure, a Backrooms story, and a fantasy epic, with an enormous setting and a sweeping world. The author promises to flesh out every detail and fill in every plot hole. The male lead is neither a self-sacrificing saint nor cold-blooded. He’s an ordinary person who can tell right from wrong and good from evil, but he’s also steadfast and strong-willed. His golden finger is hardly overpowered; in fact, for much of the early story, he 9Reads—Score—14d adds
- 175 The Cold Case Club 悬案俱乐部 A pure mystery and crime-solving novel On the Edge of Truth: Huangfu Cheng's Mystery Cases... Huangfu Cheng is both a detective consultant and the moderator, under the name “Withered Leaf,” of the popular video account “Unsolved Case Club.” He has attracted a large following by sharing analyses of unsolved cases and criminal psychology, while also using the power of the internet to gather case leads. But his life is thrown into turmoil when his older brother disappears. He suspects his brothe 8Reads—Score—14d adds
- 176 The Oddball Consultant: Echoes from Ten Years Ago 怪胎顾问：十年前的回声 [Crime investigation and suspense + superhuman sound perception + nested cases + two equally capable leads + forced partners + healing] He is an eccentric consultant, cold and withdrawn. After an accident, he develops hyperthymesia and severe tinnitus, but can accurately profile suspects' minds through sound. She is a highly intuitive, action-oriented police detective, a skilled fighter with a decisive personality. The two first work together on the Ghost Radio case, then are forced to team up. —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 177 The Three Months I Was Trapped at My Girlfriend's Best Friend's Home 我被困在女友闺蜜家的那三个月 My girlfriend’s eerie home is the stuff of nightmares. This time, I’ve mysteriously found myself trapped in her best friend’s house, where she makes an utterly baffling demand... Two heroines + well-crafted suspense + scheming characters + sweet romance + twists + written by the author, not AI 1Reads—Score—14d adds
- 178 The Heavenly Official's Edict 天官敕令 When Chen Qi awakens the long-lost “Word Spirit Edict” during a haunted-house livestream, he thinks it’s just a way to earn money to save his father. But when fragments of an antique bronze mirror reveal a thousand-year-old formation, and the technology group “Entropy” uses algorithms to optimize feng shui and kill, he realizes he’s been dragged into an ultimate war between traditional occult arts and modern technology. From malignant spirits in haunted houses to ghost soldiers on the march, and 1Reads—Score—14d adds
- 179 The Sinful Eye 罪业视界 The people they're hunting aren't the killers, but the dead. There's a rumor at the local police station that no one dares discuss openly: retired veteran detective Yan Mingguo can see the "sins" people carry. Faced with the baffling "Red-Clad Bride Serial Murder Case," rookie officer Lin Fan knocks on Yan Mingguo's battered iron door, having run out of options. After touching the evidence, the old man delivers a chilling verdict: "The killer isn't human..." "But it isn't a ghost, either." He —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 180 After Slacking Off in the Eerie Realm, I Became the Escape Game’s Lucky Charm 在诡界摆烂后，我成了逃生吉祥物 When the blood moon shrouded the city, crimson alerts appeared on every electronic device: “Welcome to the Abyssal Corridor. Survive for 72 hours to return.” Food delivery rider Su Li looked at the countdown on his delivery order and calmly scanned the code on a street overrun with monsters. “Hello, your food has arrived.” While other players nervously searched for clues in the morgue, he napped on the autopsy table. While survivors struggled with ghosts in the mirror world, he fixed his hair in 2Reads—Score—14d adds
- 181 Driving Mom Crazy to Steal the Inheritance 逼疯老妈抢遗产 [Economic Crime Investigation + Mystery + Deduction + High Intelligence + Psychologist] Gu Xiaoqiang is a top overseas behavioral psychologist. His hidden identity is an investigator in the Financial Crime Analysis Division of the International Criminal Police Organization’s “W.P.A.” After his father dies suddenly without leaving a will, his older sister Gu Xiaolin, her husband Zhao Yunpeng, a judge, and their lawyer son Zhao Junhao begin a campaign of psychological manipulation against their mo 3Reads—Score114d adds
- 182 The Invisible Landlord 隐形房东 On the day Zhao Ming gets dumped, his company lays him off too. He thinks he has hit rock bottom, but then a lawyer calls: “Mr. Zhao, there are six property deeds left by your father that require your signature.” Ding Sheng Tower, 186 apartments at Riverside Gardens, storefronts at Jin Mao Plaza, lakeside villas... Only then does he learn that his father, a man who kept silent all his life, was actually Jinhuashi’s true hidden landlord. But the keys unlock more than wealth. They also open up a t —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 183 Late-Night Convenience Store: What Are You Doing, Customer? 深夜便利店：客官你干嘛 Lin Mo thought the worst thing about working the night shift as a cashier at Nan Cheng Huimin Convenience Store was having a teammate go 0–8 in ranked, until he met the old woman in floral pajamas. She clutched a chipped enamel mug and bought only two bags of frozen dumplings and a packet of QQ candy. Her coins were caked with dirt, and she insisted he “cook the dumplings.” Then a hoarse voice called in an identical order, laughing so hard Lin Mo could feel his upper gums go cold. The creepiest 8Reads—Score—14d adds
- 184 Original Sin 原罪 In a completely sealed room, a young university student’s heart stops, and she dies inside. It all began with the summoning game “Bloody Mary”... Set your mind ablaze! Put your brain to the test! Even the perfect murder cannot escape the long arm of the law! Suspenseful, uncanny cases await in Original Sin! 20Reads6.2Score—14d adds
- 185 My Mockumentary Came True 我的伪纪录片成真了 Luo Luo thinks he's just one “good ghost” away from becoming famous. As a struggling paranormal content creator, he throws himself into digging up a sealed videotape. Hidden inside is an urban legend called the Mirror Palace Puppet, said to appear only between two mirrors facing each other. His followers skyrocket and his popularity soars. Luo Luo brags to the camera, “Guys, I'm totally cashing in on this wave of traffic!” Then he realizes that all the strange footage is starting to invade reali 4Reads—Score—14d adds
- 186 Train Survival: My Charm Stat Went Through the Roof from the Start 列车求生，开局魅力值拉爆 [Infinite Flow + No Romance + Ensemble Cast + Power Fantasy + Lighthearted Comedy] Liu Zhaozhao, a young girl, is swept into a brutal survival game called the Infinite Train. From the start, her charm stat skyrockets to 999, activating the seemingly useless legendary talent “Natural-Born Leader Aura.” On this Infinite Train, which stops at eerie stations every week and forces passengers into bloody instances every month, she soon discovers that her absurdly high charm stat is far more than it s —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 187 The Cursed Realm: Rules for Surviving the Forbidden Zone 诡境：禁区生存法则 [Survival in Another World, Horror, Mystery, Ruthless Action, High Intelligence, No System or Formulaic Tropes, Just Thrills] Chen Zhao is a genius with extraordinary intelligence. After an inexplicable accident, he is drawn into a bizarre otherworld. There is no System and no formula to follow here, only mortal danger and terrifying presences lurking in the dark... From his initial bewilderment to gradually adapting, Chen Zhao searches for a way to survive in desperate circumstances and carves 4Reads6.5Score—14d adds
- 188 The Riddle-Filled Lives of Lu Ren and Maya 路仁和玛雅的谜语生活 [Urban supernatural powers + mediumship escape rooms + ensemble cast] Lu Ren accidentally stumbled into a place called the Medium's Chambers. Men in black, mysterious rest stops, and chambers that could cost you your life swept over him like a storm, overturning everything he thought he knew. After Lu Ren returned to the real world, he still wanted to reach the end of the Medium's Chambers and uncover the ultimate answer. [P.S. Volume One focuses on horror escape rooms, Volume Two on puzzle-solv —Reads6.4Score—14d adds
- 189 Pufferfish 河豚 [No brainless plot] + [No protagonist plot armor] + [No ghosts] + [Three male leads] A tightly paced, plot-driven crime-solving story. It all begins with a bizarre murder in the small town of Menghai... A dead man checking into a hotel, an unknown toxin, a mole in the police force, execution-style killings, a secret buried for years... In this case, criminal investigation captain Si Jiannan, case consultant Cheng Tian, and rookie officer Duan Luo untangle the clues and find redemption... Love ha 14Reads8.1Score—14d adds
- 190 The March Murder Hunt 三月追凶 I’m working hard to create the most boring, lowest-rated, most lackluster mystery novel on the entire internet. Sometimes even the author can’t understand it, but apparently lots of people enjoy novels they can’t understand. —Reads6.6Score—14d adds
- 191 I Became a Skinner After Moving Into the Apartment 入住公寓后成了剥皮匠 On the day I moved in, the building manager handed me a rusty key and a yellowed set of house rules. “Light the red lantern in the living room every night. If it goes out, hide under the bed immediately.” Next door lived a qipao-clad female ghost who loved to sing. Downstairs was a doctor with a peculiar taste for blood. To stay alive, I lit the lantern on time every day, until the power went out on the seventh night. The instant the lantern went dark, I saw the dried corpses of the previous ten 3Reads—Score—14d adds
- 192 Su Xiaochun 苏晓春 Starting at the end of the story, we’ll work backward, step by step, along the path the heroine once walked. There is no male lead in this story. No romance. Mystery, crime, investigations, deduction. 34Reads—Score—14d adds
- 193 Home and Away: I Sold the House to Ruin My Husband and His White Moonlight 家里家外：我卖房毁老公和白月光 Home and Away: I Sold the House to Ruin My Husband and His First Love —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 194 The Spirit Pact of Sinister Schemes 诡谋之灵契 People often say that a person’s fate is decided by Heaven, but that is not entirely true. Mu Fan was born into a vast conspiracy. With a body of four yin and an utterly yin fate, his perilous destiny made an ordinary life impossible. A female ghost in the park tries to seize his soul, while a stunning ghost bride enters into a marriage pact with him. Corpses dance in the funeral home; teachers and students at a school haunted by vicious ghosts leap from buildings in eerie circumstances; deep in —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 195 Annihilating the Five Elements: Ashes of the Old Days, A Journal 湮灭五行：旧日之烬手记 A new author, so the pacing is a little slow at first! 1932, the New England coast. The decaying town of Innsmouth is like swollen, rotten wood, its inhuman emptiness showing through the fog and deathly silence. Private detective Sarah Watley, a battlefield ghost haunted by nightmares of the deep, travels to this cursed land to investigate a blasphemous wax seal that has resurfaced in the world. The residents have fleshy fins behind their ears and vertical pupils hidden in their eyes. The air r —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 196 The Underworld's Manager 黄泉主理人 “Do you know why the lights at Haishi University never go out? Because monsters lurk in the dark, gnawing away at the light.” Lin Chen tosses his milk tea, frozen into an ice sculpture, into the microwave to thaw, then sighs at the red-clad woman flickering in and out of view in the mirror. His life is like an absurd horror movie: vending machines sell carbonated drinks flavored with Meng Po’s soup, corpses in the dissection room tap-dance on full-moon nights, and worst of all, he’s started eyei 1Reads—Score—14d adds
- 197 Coffin Shop No. 444 棺材铺444号 In the vast north stands an old town forgotten by time and snow: Qishan Town. At its eastern end is a shop older than the town itself. It has no sign, but everyone knows its address: 444. It is a coffin shop. The Lin family coffin shop has been passed down for 347 years. Its keeper has always been the sole heir of each generation, and every one has obeyed a strict rule: close the doors at sunset; if someone knocks at midnight, do not answer if they are alive. They say answering will awaken thin 11Reads—Score—14d adds
- 198 Urban Legends Invade: I Slay Demons with Divine Blessings 怪谈入侵：我用神明祝福斩鬼 From Chapter 102 onward, the story enters dungeons, with people from other worlds joining the main cast in them. The world within a world includes science fiction. Also known as: Gods and Ghosts Run Rampant: I Wield the Power of the Gods to Slay Ghosts [Fairly satisfying] [A whole lot of killing] [Chinese-style supernatural tales] [Legendary monsters] [System-driven] [System] [Urban supernatural powers] [Mystery] [Some Infinite Flow dungeons] [Slay Ghosts] [Slay the Gods] Do you believe ghost —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 199 The Long, Long Night 长夜长夜 Long Night, Long Night is an engrossing criminal investigation novel. It opens with the suicide of a veteran detective, drawing readers into a world of suspense and danger. The story then leads to the suicide of a female student more than a decade earlier, which in turn brings to light the accidental death of a police officer and a series of related cases. The plot is tightly paced, packed with suspense and twist after twist, making it impossible to stop reading. Every chapter leaves behind clu 198Reads8.2Score10414d adds
- 200 I'm a Detective Streamer, and Solving Cases Makes Me Stronger! 我，侦探主播，破案就会变强！ [Detective Cases + System + No Female Lead + Lighthearted + Comedy + Transmigration] Paranormal streamer Chen Mo accidentally dies while livestreaming an overnight stay in a haunted house. He transmigrates to a parallel world and becomes a trainee detective. He gets the There Is Only One Truth System, which forces him to livestream every case he solves. The viewers are from Earth, and stirring things up in the chat earns him rewards. Before long, things get increasingly bizarre: he makes corpses —Reads8.0Score—14d adds
