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- 1 Land of Strange Tales: I Awakened an Evil God's Spirit 怪谈之国：我觉醒了邪神精神体 [Infinite flow + rules-based horror + Cthulhu + suspense and horror + high-dimensional livestream + wild twists] “A doll with no eyes, two dolls that don’t speak...” A nursery rhyme rang through the building. Words appeared on the screen, alerting everyone: [[Paranormal] activity detected!] [Beginner mission triggered: Escape the building!] When Jiang Chen opened her eyes again, the world was under attack by anomalies, and humanity had been forced into a global survival livestream. Anyone who b 667Reads8.1Score10214d adds
- 2 After Her Fiancé Had Her Committed to a Psychiatric Hospital, She Went on a Rampage 被未婚夫送进精神病院后，她杀疯 After Her Fiancé Sends Her to a Psychiatric Hospital, She Goes on a Killing Spree —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 3 My Mom Carved Our Whole Family’s Names into a Clock 我妈把全家人的名字，刻进了钟里 My Mom Carved the Names of Everyone in Our Family Into a Clock 2Reads—Score—14d adds
- 4 The Ink-Bound Soul of White Mountain 白山墨魂 The Soul of White Mountain Ink 1Reads—Score—14d adds
- 5 Rule Horror: I Work as a Janitor in a Psychiatric Hospital 规则怪谈：我在精神病院当保洁 Rule Horror: I Work as a Janitor in a Psychiatric Hospital 1Reads—Score—14d adds
- 6 Midnight Livestream: My Late Husband and I Make a Perfect Team 午夜直播间：我和亡夫打配合 Midnight Livestream: My Late Husband and I Make a Great Team 1Reads—Score—14d adds
- 7 I Sell Ghost Money in a Global Livestream, and Tycoons Around the World Beg to Buy Wholesale 全球直播我卖冥纸，各国大佬跪求批发 I Sell Ghost Money on a Global Livestream, and Tycoons Around the World Beg Me for Wholesale Deals —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 8 The Strange Dream Compendium 诡梦收纳册 (Mystery + Sci-fi + Time Loops + Anthology) The world is strange and uncanny, and anything is possible. The Blind Era: When the apocalypse becomes a disguise for salvation, this visual revolution tearing through seven layers of reality will redefine your understanding of “what’s real.” 237 Heartbeats: While investigating the truth behind his father’s death, Lin Yan, an agent in a top-secret department, discovers that his memories are riddled with lies. The Rift Collector: When cracks begin to sp —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 9 I Am the Butcher: Welcome to the Mother Project Zone 我为刀俎：母体计划区欢迎您 [Dystopian + No Romance + Strong Female Lead + Ensemble Cast] Xiao Tingrong's assignment was simple: enter the Motherhood Program Zone and capture Fem001, a criminally dangerous experimental subject. That is, until the scanner pointed at her arm and a cold automated voice announced: “Identity confirmed. Maternal code: Fem9931. Reproductive contribution: zero. Monthly ration: three nutrient supplements, one liter of drinking water.” In an instant, she went from hunter to prey, becoming yet ano 92Reads—Score10614d adds
- 10 Fortune-Telling Livestream: My Ex-Husband on Death Row Joins the Call 直播算命，连线到我死刑犯前夫 Fortune-Telling Livestream: I Get Connected to My Ex-Husband on Death Row —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 11 Reborn, I Became a Sensation Through Fortune-Telling Livestreams 重生后，我靠直播算命爆红了 Reborn, I Became a Hit by Telling Fortunes on Livestream —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 12 Her Rules for Dreaming 她与她的梦境守则 Her and Her Dream Rules —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 13 Dream Judgment 梦判 Dream Judgment —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 14 I Thought Miss Lian Was Frail as a Sickly Flower, but She Cleaved the Heavens with One Sword 我怜小姐是病骨，可她一剑破乾坤 In this flourishing age, thick with spiritual energy, everyone strives to draw it into their bodies. Those who succeed are honored as sorcerers; those who fail are reduced to insects. Everyone knows that the fifth young lady of the Ji family is breathtakingly beautiful, yet born unable to absorb spiritual energy, a complete and utter failure. But no one knows that she can hear the most loathsome thoughts in the world. Her father: “If the city is ever threatened, sacrificing you will turn the sp 11Reads6.8Score—14d adds
- 15 The Seventy-First Knife Scar 第七十一道刀痕 The Seventy-First Knife Mark —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 16 Transmigrated into a Cannon Fodder Villainess? I'll Take the World by Storm with My System 穿成炮灰女配？我带系统杀穿世界 [Female Lead + No Romance] After failing to survive her tribulation and ascend, the cultivator Xie Zhuo is taken to other worlds by an unknown System. The System promises that if Xie Zhuo completes a few cannon-fodder missions in different worlds and resolves the lingering obsessions of the dead, it will improve her cultivation and send her back to try her tribulation again. Xie Zhuo: What a useless thing. Why would I need that little bit of cultivation you’re offering? Though she says so, she c 2Reads—Score—14d adds
- 17 Still Pretending to Be Human Today 今天也在伪装人类呢 We gazed at each other from afar thousands of times, and searched for each other thousands of times. After an interstellar jump goes wrong, Marshal Isilita of the GT425 Star Alliance crash-lands on Blue Star and takes the place of a young teacher who died by suicide at Shenlong High School… No CP, no CP, no CP. The main characters all have their own missions, and the kids in the class aren’t all bad, either… 211Reads8.4Score10914d adds
- 18 The Mad Little White Flower in Another World 异世之疯批小白花 [Unhinged fragile-looking heroine + transmigration + playing weak while hiding her strength + ruthless characters + strong female lead + travel across multiple timelines + infinite-flow adventures in other worlds + apocalypse + beast world + leveling up and fighting monsters] After Wen Yu discovered that her boyfriend, Su Jian, was cheating, he flew into a rage and pushed her off a rooftop. When she woke, she had transmigrated to the Third Space, Tianfang City, a world where anyone without super —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 19 Me, a Psych Patient, Going Crazy in a Rule Horror Story 我，精神病，在规则怪谈里发疯 Me, a Lunatic, Going Crazy in a Rule Horror —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 20 A Beauty Better Than Any Man: A Woman Disguised as a Seventh-Rank Official 红颜胜儿郎：女扮男装七品官 (Complete) [Political intrigue + powerful heroine + no romance + serious tone + semi-fictional Ming Dynasty] [No contrived plot twists, no characters acting stupidly, first-person narration] [No romance! No romance! The tag was wrong, but I can't change it] My younger brother disappeared on the eve of the palace examination. With no other choice, I bound my chest and put my hair up to take the exam in his place. To my surprise, I earned third place. At the time, war was quietly spreading between 3Reads—Score—14d adds
- 21 The Immortal Realm’s Number One Cheat-Enabled Mage 仙界第一开挂法修 No romance, no catfights between women, sound values, no mindless wish fulfillment, a strong female lead who’s invincible and has a cheat ability! The supporting characters aren’t just props. They’re all fully realized people with their own experiences and growth. Fu Zheng, the hardest person to kill in the immortal realm. Born with the Void Dao Physique and master of a divine artifact, she can’t be killed by cultivation techniques, the Heavenly Dao can’t claim her, and even the King of Hell ha 5Reads—Score114d adds
- 22 The Game Descends, and I'm Everyone's Public Enemy 游戏降临，我是全民公敌 Infinite Flow + Instances + Leveling up + Lone wolf + No romance + No saintly heroine The old era came to an end, and Evolution Game descended upon Earth, forcing human civilization into a brutal game of survival. National teams, financial tycoons, player guilds... Various factions struggle to rebuild order among the ruins and seize power in the new world. And Lin Xi will be the biggest wild card in this fragile calm. Also known as: My B-Rank Talent Lets Me Take on SSS-Rank Big Shots?; I Really 1.3kReads6.9Score11914d adds
- 23 Shh, It Eats People 嘘，它会吃人 A secondhand bookstore opened near Nancheng University. It had only one owner, a woman named Su Wanrong, and a black cat with a coat as dark as night and brown eyes. The owner was always going around looking for people willing to sell her old books. Without exception, everyone who sold her one encountered something strange and eerie... Over time, a rumor began to spread... If one day a woman carrying a pipe comes to buy your old books, it means misfortune is coming your way... The only way to br 115Reads—Score—14d adds
- 24 I’m Scared Too 我也很害怕 Do mushrooms grow on your body? Hehe~ Would you pull them off and eat them? What if you became a doctor and accidentally treated yourself to death? The amusement park is still under construction. As one of the people building it, what would you want it to look like? As a princess, how do you become a queen? When Song Wantang was starving, she pulled the mushrooms growing on her body off and ate them; She knew nothing about medicine, so after becoming a doctor, she got poisoned and decided to 4Reads—Score—14d adds
- 25 Quick Transmigration Tycoon: Saving Villains Starts in Childhood 快穿神豪：救赎反派从幼崽开始 [The rating was just posted and will rise later] [Tycoon + quick transmigration + strong female lead + no romance + an insanely powerful golden finger] Lin Xia is an outstanding employee at the Quick Transmigration Bureau, with a completion rate above ninety percent in every small world. So the System assigned her the most difficult mission: the [Villain Redemption Plan]. Her task is to make these villains, who are full of negativity, experience love and warmth from childhood, thereby preventing 1.3kReads5.9Score11414d adds
- 26 I Keep Myself Alive by Treating Hemorrhoids for the Ancients 我靠给古人割痔疮续命 [Strong heroine + master and disciple + emperor + building an empire + transmigration + multiple male leads + all male leads are chaste] Wang Hongxue, a promising young proctologist, transmigrates to an alternate era just because she took a trip to the men's bathhouse. She unexpectedly gets a stingy System that will kill her if she doesn't remove people's hemorrhoids. The moment she opens her eyes, she sees her good-for-nothing father and stepmother plotting to marry her off to an old county 103Reads8.3Score—14d adds
- 27 The Demoness Just Loves to Go Crazy 女魔头就爱发疯 No romance The path of cultivation is strewn with thorns! Thorn is the bane of every cultivator, loathed by all immortals. She bristles with spikes and treats every immortal who dislikes her the same way. After countless years of giving as good as she gets, the immortals have grown used to her, while Thorn has grown tired of it all. It’s just no fun anymore. One day, an immortal maiden hurries past. Thorn casually pricks her, and the maiden rolls her eyes in anger. “I’m going to the mortal r —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 28 The Infinite-Flow Heroine Is the Horror Game's Biggest Boss 无限女主她是恐怖游戏大boss [Two Female Leads + Infinite-Flow + No Cheats + Light Ensemble Cast + No Female Rivalry, Plot-Focused with a Smaller Romance Element + Reliable, Powerful, and Gentle Boss Rong Yu & Calm, Decisive Player Bing An, Gentle on the Outside and Crazy Within; the Player Heroine Is the Main POV] A horror game appears out of nowhere and randomly selects a small number of people to enter as players. Unfortunately, Bing An is one of the “lucky ones.” From the start, her goal is to clear the game and survive 57Reads—Score—14d adds
- 29 Infinite: I Told You I’m Gold, but You Wouldn’t Believe Me 无限：都说了我是金子，你又不信 [No Romance + Female Protagonist’s Perspective + Sci-Fi Setting + Unconventional Infinite Flow] Note: If it’s not for you, just swipe away. What do you do when your boss expects you to give them a gift? Qi Gu grinned and gave the answer: report them, report them, just keep reporting them. You’ll make sure they never have a peaceful day. … What do you do when someone is following you? Squeeze into any open space you can find, urgently call someone to let them know you’re safe. She doesn’t even r 307Reads—Score11414d adds
- 30 That Day, I Got a Call from a Classmate Who Had Died 那天，我接到了死去同学的电话 Months after a female classmate died in an accident, Su Mu unexpectedly received a phone call from her. In the midst of his terror, he had no idea this was the beginning of a series of bizarre and horrifying events. 6Reads—Score—14d adds
- 31 Mysticism: From the Start, I’m Classmates with a Female Ghost 玄学：开局就和女鬼做同学 (Strong female lead + ghost hunting + pocket dimension + adorable child + face-slapping scumbag + episodic stories) In her previous life, Su Qing inherited a massive fortune, only to be set up. On her wedding night, she was murdered when a villain broke into her home. Only as she lay dying did she learn that it had all been arranged by her scumbag fiancé and his childhood sweetheart. Her close friend had also been pushed off a rooftop after discovering their affair. When Su Qing opened her eyes —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 32 Damn System! A Million Points in My Account, but I Still Can’t Afford Pork Rice 坑爹系统！余额百万点不起猪脚饭 [No Romance] [Ensemble Cast] [Making Money] [Subverting Expectations] [Everyday Warmth] [Selfless Heroine] Jiang Yue is a low-level accountant in Haicheng’s financial district, earning just 4,200 yuan a month while juggling six jobs. Until one late night, a notification suddenly rang out on her phone: [Alipay received: 1,000,000 yuan]. But this “miracle fund” belonged to a merit account and could not be used for personal expenses. Only when the total reached 100 million yuan would she be allowe —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 33 After a Top-Rank Celestial Master Wakes Up in an Infinite Horror Instance 一品女天师穿进无限恐怖副本后 Is the world you live in really real? Who can guarantee that they aren't living inside a game instance? Shen Yingxing, a first-rank Celestial Master; Lingsu, an evil god the System wants to resurrect. He feeds on the fear, desire, and greed of the living, and is sealed inside the System... The fear of those chosen to enter an instance is its finest nourishment. Pulling Shen Yingxing into an instance may be the System's greatest mistake... Create a god? She is that god! 175Reads—Score10014d adds
- 34 I Swing My Brick of Morality Across the World of the Strange 小女子一手道德砖抡遍诡异界 Xiao Yunshuang had just gotten out of a psychiatric hospital when she suddenly realized the world had changed. A swarm of strange beings loomed in the sky, eyeing the human world hungrily. Terrified out of her wits, she fled home in a panic. The next second, her mortal enemy showed up to mock her. Xiao Yunshuang was about to slap them, but then she spotted a dead infant clinging to them. She quickly thought better of it and pulled her hand back. Never mind. Since they didn't have long to live, s 2Reads—Score—14d adds
- 35 Maze Survival: Did She Become a God in the Patriarchal Instance? 迷宫求生：她在父权副本封神了？ [Non-Power Fantasy] [Deep Themes] [Strong Female Lead] [No Romance] [Infinite Flow] "Madam, the concrete slab has only one load-bearing point. We can save either your daughter or your son, but not both!" "My husband is dead... I need to leave someone to carry on the family line..." Ling Queyi was tied to a bed by a stranger she was supposed to call "Mother." Just as they were about to forcibly remove one of her kidneys to donate to her younger brother, she lost her memory and fell into a place c 2.2kReads8.4Score41014d adds
- 36 Horror Games Invaded, and I Became Everyone’s Favorite by Slapping My Way There 惊悚游戏入侵我靠巴掌抽成万人迷 Finally, it’s my turn to say something: the rating just came out, and it might, maybe, probably go up, hehe. [Infinite flow | Horror games | Strong female lead | No romance | Feel-good power fantasy | Everyone’s favorite | Real face-slapping | Drama queen | Mild horror | Livestream comments] After slapping a trash animal abuser eighteen times, Jian Zhufeng entered the horror game. From then on, players and ghosts alike found themselves with the strictest master imaginable. The value of turning m 206Reads8.6Score13114d adds
- 37 When Madam Wang Died by Murder 当王妈死于谋杀 Wang Qiangwei is the Gu family's housekeeper, and everyone affectionately calls her Auntie Wang. One day, she wakes up to find that she has been buried alive. But she has lost all memory of how she came to work for the Gu family. Who would kill a housekeeper in such a cruel way? The housekeeper, Zhao, who never smiles and acts like a robot... Mr. Gu, so mysterious that he always signs surrogate contracts with the same woman... He Nana, who brings a new artificial person into the picture every ti 200Reads8.2Score—14d adds
- 38 Long-Lived Big Shot Cultivates the Heartless Dao, Yet Heals People to Tears 万岁大佬修无情道，治愈得让人哭 [No CP] [All-Female Main Cast] [Women Supporting Women] [Not a Power Fantasy] [Wild Imagination] In the Age of Dharma Decline, under the Nine Purple Fires. A new teahouse opens beside a lake in Yunzhou. Its owner is a young woman named Fu Kong Fei Ning. She has lived for over ten thousand years and chiefly cultivates the Heartless Dao, yet her healing stories move people to tears. Someone asks her what she hopes to achieve. She says: The time, place, and people are right. The fortunes of women a 11Reads—Score—14d adds
- 39 When the Villainess Rules the World of Devoted Wives 当恶女统治娇妻世界 [Main Character Has No Romance + Female Ensemble Cast + Feel-Good Power Fantasy + Women-Centered + Male Characters Get Put Through the Wringer + Subverts Traditional Romance Tropes + Twists] My name is Jiang Jue, and I transmigrated into a world of pampered wives. Can someone tell me why I woke up as a vicious female vampire in a romance novel? And apparently the male lead's fiancée... Wait! I think I've transmigrated into all kinds of romance novels... Jiang Jue only wanted to keep her head do 11Reads8.1Score—14d adds
- 40 Songs of the Underworld 冥歌 [Not a wish-fulfillment novel] It’s a tangled, lengthy story, not one about a loser turning his life around by fawning over women. [There is a heroine] I’m new to this, so I don’t understand why novels have to be tagged as having no heroine. To be honest, mine has one, though she doesn’t appear much. [Not necessarily funny] Hard to say. The author has a strange sense of humor. [Neurotic] The author is a little crazy, with a mind that keeps jumping around, so the plot can sometimes feel erratic. 1Reads8.1Score—14d adds
- 41 This Death Row Inmate Is Too Hot to Handle 这个死囚她过于火爆 The young king wanted to find his destined partner... After overcoming one obstacle after another, a condemned prisoner emerged above the rest and was brought before him... The king gazed at the young woman and asked tenderly, “Will you become my queen?” The condemned woman refused him, broke free of his captivity, and ran toward freedom... Love is a privilege enjoyed by those who stand above the rest... I don’t want your pity from on high... I want the power to choose... 57Reads8.1Score—14d adds
- 42 After Our Eldest Senior Sister Went Berserk, Everyone in the Sect Started Acting Normal 大师姐发飙后，宗门上下都正常啦 [Strong Female Lead] [No Suffering in Silence] [Face-Slapping and Trash-Taking-Down] [Powerful Fighter] [Unbeatable Trash Talker] [No CP] Xie Wan transmigrated into a cultivation novel as the cannon-fodder senior sister. She opened her eyes to find a man proposing to her. He was the bastard who would imitate his second senior brother, kill his wife to prove his Dao, and send her to her death. So Xie Wan turned his chrysanthemum into a bouquet. When she returned to the sect, Xie Wan realized 11.3kReads7.3Score1.2k14d adds
- 43 The Cannon Fodder Heiress Becomes a Legend Through Ghost Taming 炮灰千金她靠驭鬼封神 [Comment Stream] [Feng Shui and Metaphysics] [A Twist on Household Feuds] [Twist After Twist] [爽文] [No Romance] [Science Student] Shen Tao transmigrates into the body of the Hou Manor's true-born daughter and, the moment she opens her eyes, gets bound to a reader comment System. She expects to kick off a grand household feud, tearing apart the fake heiress and crushing her wicked stepmother... But her rival in the household feud dies on the spot from the start? Shen Tao: ??? This isn't how the s 9Reads—Score—14d adds
- 44 The Crown Princess Returns at Max Level, and Thirty Thousand Vengeful Spirits Go on a Rampage 皇太女满级归来，三万英魂杀疯了 [Empress + revenge + political intrigue + no romance + conquest + a touch of ensemble cast + powerful heroine] The rating has just appeared. Only before her death in battle did Sheng Qingyi learn that the battle that had buried over a hundred thousand soldiers and civilians was merely a trap laid by schemers to kill her. When she wakes, fifteen years have passed, and her past is shrouded in mystery. Fewer than one in ten of her subordinates survived. Her fief has fallen into ruin, reduced to a w 478Reads8.4Score10014d adds
- 45 History Livestream: The Women Who Ruled the World 历史直播：她们君临天下 Historical livestream + no CP + no rivalry between women A System called the Historical Livestream System bonded with Baili Muxian. Livestreams about Wu Zetian and Lü Zhi Tang dynasty fans, stay out! X This story focuses on female figures such as Wu Zetian and Lü Zhi. In the end, they rule the realm, with a female emperor ascending the throne and ushering in a golden age. Could a princess ascend the throne in the Southern Song? Not sure. 97Reads—Score—14d adds
- 46 The Female Power Minister 女权臣 Startled awake from her dream, Chen Huiyu trudged along the road to work. Her mind was still on last night's dream. For a moment, she couldn't tell whether it was real or not, as if a true story had reached her across the pages of a history book. As dusk fell, all sorts of people lurked in the brightly lit city. The footsteps behind her drew closer and closer... Chen Huiyu's eyes were bloodshot as she looked up at the skyscrapers ahead. In the end, she closed her eyes, unwilling to accept her fa 7Reads—Score—14d adds
- 47 The Professional Stand-In: Me, the Mentally Ill One 替身，精神病的我是专业的 My name is Chao Xingyun. Or, I used to be Chao Xingyun... I was locked up in a psychiatric hospital for ten years. One day, ten years later, I was taken out so the family business wouldn't fall into the hands of a collateral branch. I was made to take the place of my twin sister... Making a lunatic pretend to be a normal person. How interesting... So, if anyone is lucky enough to see the end of this story, please do two things for me: 1. Tell me who I am. 2. Restore the whole truth of this story 46Reads8.1Score—14d adds
- 48 A Woman's Kingdom: Parting from You 女尊之与君绝 Gu Xiaowu woke up with no memory at all. A servant called him the Crown Prince’s consort and earnestly advised him to stop arguing with His Highness. The Crown Prince, Qu Xiafeng, was handsome and refined, as graceful as jade. He loved and doted on Gu Xiaowu, giving him all his tenderness. But Gu Xiaowu couldn’t shake the feeling that something was wrong. 96Reads8.3Score—14d adds
- 49 A Transmigrated Woman Takes Charge of the Society and Puts the Patriarchal Bullies in Their Place 穿越女社后整治大爹 [No CP + Strong Female Lead + Female-Centered Society + Feel-Good Story + transmigrate + Men Get Put Through the Wringer] A new wave of trouble has erupted in this world of gender equality: gametes around the globe have suddenly begun developing mental illnesses. Fortunately, the total number of patients is small. The only strange thing is that they all suffer from inverted cognition, believing this should be a world where men are superior to women. A large proportion of the men also scoff at la 2Reads—Score—14d adds
- 50 Grave Robbing in Haunted Houses: I’m the Last Heir of the Marquis of Wu 凶宅摸金：我是武侯最后传人 [Mystery and Horror] [Feng Shui] [Tomb Raiding] [Folklore and the Supernatural] In 1995, in Xiangxi Village, Shenzhen, 22-year-old factory worker Chen Xiulian hauls bricks by day and runs a street stall by night. A scar on her left palm, left by a factory accident, turns out to be a bloodmark inherited from the descendants of Zhuge Wuhou. When Huangmao, the night market thug, comes to extort protection money and touches her left hand, a mysterious force flings him away, and he flees in terror. T 57Reads—Score2414d adds
