Novels like The World Under the Rules
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- 51 Infinite Nightmares: An Eighty-Year-Old Man Rejuvenated from the Start 无限噩梦：开局八旬老汉返老还童 Infinite flow + rules-based horror + mild horror + no romance Qin Yi accidentally enters a nightmarish world. Here, there are rules that must never be broken, along with bizarre phenomena beyond ordinary people's understanding. By chance, Qin Yi discovers the rewards for surviving a nightmare. Wealth, health, youth, achievement… Terrified of the nightmares but coveting the rewards for surviving them, Qin Yi approaches one nightmare after another with mixed feelings… 8.6kReads8.1Score983Shelves
- 52 [I, the Forgotten Dream, I] 【I被遗忘的梦I】 [Infinite Flow | Rules-Based Horror | Instances | Ensemble Cast | Mystery | No Harem] This is a dream that was once forgotten, a memory that should never have been recalled. By a twist of fate, Wen Xuan and four others arrived in a city born from barren wasteland: [Huacheng]. In one game, instance, and [dream] after another: They experienced disasters caused by human actions. They learned how powerful the supernatural could be. They overcame the evils of human nature. They resisted the destructi 46Reads—Score—Shelves
- 53 The Mysterious Invitation [Infinite Flow] 诡异邀请函【无限流】 [Infinite Flow + horror instances + mild scares + survival] After receiving a mysterious envelope, you wake up inside a van and find yourself being taken to a cemetery to complete a week-long task: "Protect the coffin." But every night, one of your companions disappears, and the next day, you find their face inside the coffin. What kind of world is this...? Dare you step into this adventure? The truth is far more terrifying than death. 974Reads—Score102Shelves
- 54 So, About Eating Monsters! 关于吃怪兽这件事！ (Kaiju No. 8, wild imagination, evolutionary progression, skill trees, sci-fi mecha, disaster, no romance) In the year 2030, monsters, enormous creatures that should exist only in fantasy, began appearing one after another as sinkholes collapsed. Biological monsters brought death to all living things. Natural monsters brought terrifying disasters. Mythical monsters brought world-shattering destruction. Five years later, a human named Sha Feng is forced to fall into a sinkhole, forced to devo 6Reads—Score—Shelves
- 55 EN My Daughter Plays a Horror Game—and Exposes Me as the Ghost Emperor 女儿玩惊悚游戏，我鬼帝被曝光 A game of evil spirits has descended upon the world. People are randomly chosen to become playthings for evil spirits, struggling in agony! Even four-year-old Tang Xiaoling is selected! The youngest player in history, she enters the game of evil spirits! The livestream explodes with comments from viewers across the internet! A four-year-old toddler? That's just a snack for the evil spirits! But what shocks everyone is that Tang Xiaoling's father, Tang Long, tells her to treat it like a playgroun 4.3kReads7.6Score248Shelves
- 56 Hell Manor 地狱庄园 [Horror and the Supernatural + Suspense and Mystery + Infinite Flow + No Female Lead] A group of strangers receive a blood letter and mysteriously find themselves inside a villa. Their only chance of survival is to uncover the ghost hiding among them. After Xu Yi completes the task by the skin of his teeth, he is relieved to have finally survived. But then he discovers that he has arrived at a place called Hell Manor. He must complete the tasks in eleven blood letters to leave the manor alive. A 10.1kReads8.0Score852Shelves
- 57 Death and Infinite Resets: Uncovering the Rules of Every Vengeful Ghost 死亡无限回档：洞察所有厉鬼规律 [Death Rewind] [Kill the do-gooders first] [Vicious ghosts return] [Dark story] As the paranormal world awakens and vicious ghosts reappear, all you need to do is call Su Yun's name. I'll lead you back through time to find the perfect timeline. Su Yun had just transmigrated into a world where the paranormal was returning when four vicious ghosts began interrogating him. First interrogation: "What do you mean, you killed me because you didn't know how I died?" He rewound to before his death and s 916Reads—Score104Shelves
- 58 The Haunted House 2 诡舍2 The eternal night has come, and absurdity runs rampant. A thick pollution blankets the sky, while pitch-black eyes look down upon the world. Carrying a flame, we press slowly onward. Humanity's sun will be kindled by human hands. 317.9kReads8.8Score35.3kShelves
- 59 The Beautiful Demon Wife 妖妻美人 I've slept in a coffin since I was little. When I was six, a snake slipped inside and stayed with me in the coffin for six years… 3.7kReads8.9Score424Shelves
- 60 Living Sacrifice 活人祭祀 Living Sacrifice 1.8kReads—Score—Shelves
- 61 The Paper-Linked World 纸连世界 [Murder-mystery game + Infinite Flow + supernatural abilities + survival + strong female lead] My name is Shu Yulian, and I transmigrated into a book. But why are there ghosts in this book? What do you mean I have to play a life-or-death game with the eerie creatures? I only made it through elementary school. You expect me to outsmart them? Heavenly Grandma, can you please give me a break!! What? You're saying my sister is one of the eerie creatures? What, I got put on the wanted list by an [Evi 85Reads8.9Score251Shelves
- 62 The Final Hunt in Ten Days 十日终猎 A new work is here! Welcome to read my story on Tomato Novel. I hope you enjoy it. Your support motivates me to write, and I'll do my best to tell every story well! 1Reads—Score—Shelves
- 63 I Slaughter My Way Through the Survival Game with an Evil Ghost on My Back 我背着恶鬼在生存游戏里大杀四方 [Infinite-flow + suspense + horror + ensemble cast + mysteries to solve + powerful male lead and strongest female lead couple] [Residents of Nameless City, greetings. The Cleaners Project is a mandatory undertaking for every citizen. Purifying the world is everyone’s responsibility. Please take part in the Cleaners Project. Your assessment results will determine your fate. Believe us, Eden is waiting for you.] Nan Yue came from Nameless City and was one of the lowest-ranked trash people. Like al 15.5kReads9.1Score2.6kShelves
- 64 Fifty People: The Death Game 五十人：死亡游戏 [Battle Royale] [An Upgraded Version of Squid Game] [Human Nature and Darkness] [Psychological Warfare] Fifty people are kidnapped and taken to an unknown place. Every night at eight, the death game begins. In the end, only one person can make it out alive. They’ll win ten million in cash. Who will be the ultimate winner? 25.8kReads9.0Score2.7kShelves
- 65 Mercy Voyage: I Sacrifice My Girlfriend, and I Sacrifice the Whole World 慈航游戏：女友祭天，我祭全世界 [Horror game + rule-based horror + decisive and ruthless protagonist + one heroine] I died once trying to save my late girlfriend, Xi Yin But I can die twice more! She awakened inside the game as a vengeful ghost, with even her memories altered. I picked the most useless class on the server, building manager. I have no SSS-rank talent to take on the divine spirits, so I rely on the Building Manager app to master the rules. A divine spirit in my way? Players causing trouble? Do I really have to t 237Reads—Score—Shelves
- 66 Enlisted at Seven: Carrying Nuclear Weapons with Me 七岁入伍：随身携带核武器 I was born standing at the very top of the pyramid. I’m also a rich young master who grew up with a silver spoon in my mouth. And I’m the world’s first person to be so handsome at birth that I killed the doctor. I wanted to keep a low profile, but my abilities wouldn’t let me. 546Reads6.4Score105Shelves
- 67 My Wife Is Already the Richest, So Why Take the Top Scholar Exam? 娘子都首富了，还要考状元？ [Whose husband is this? Whoever grabs him gets to keep him!] Xu Ye accidentally transmigrates while rescuing someone from drowning. When he reaches shore, he realizes he's holding the daughter of the richest man in the realm. He thinks he's landed himself a wealthy wife and can lie flat, living off her money, but then he sees his fiancée being schemed against... “Copy books to pay off your debts? Why not copy Battle Through the Heavens!” “The teahouse is empty? Let's get on the BBS!” The imp 62.2kReads8.2Score6.9kShelves
- 68 Ten Days: I Saw the Long-Missed Turmoil 十日：我看到了念念不忘的激荡 [Ten Days to the End fan fiction] + [continuation of the original] + [happy ending] + [making up for regrets] + [completing the autobiographies] [Primarily aimed at male readers, with something for female readers too. There is romance, while the main plot follows the cast’s funny everyday life in the city at the Third Station, alongside bizarre and imaginative adventures.] [Everyone will appear as the main story progresses, and their autobiographies will be completed.] [Brain-teasers + twists + 10.7kReads9.0Score1.4kShelves
- 69 Please Don’t Be Afraid 请不要害怕 [Subverting Tropes + Infinite Flow + No Female Lead + Mild Horror] “Captain Wang, I clearly buried her, but… but I saw her in the backyard again!” “How did she die?” “It had nothing to do with me. She… she killed herself!” “She… she just didn’t want to be cremated…” “Then… what is that thing in the backyard?” “I… I don’t know.” “Can she see us? Can she hear our voices?” “And is she dangerous?” … “As for ghosts, I have only one piece of advice for everyone…” “If you happen to run into one, pleas 31.2kReads8.5Score1.4kShelves
- 70 The Disciple's Game 神徒游戏 The entire world is plunged into a terrifying death game, with 8 billion people taking part! A global battle royale for survival has begun! Only 12 of the 8 billion will survive! The survival rate is less than 0.00000000015%! Hospitals, schools, prisons... Any location anywhere in the world could become a death-game arena! Terrifying ghosts and monsters take part in the game alongside humanity! [Welcome to the Disciple Game] [Light horror + mind games + games + infinite-world adventure] (This no 75.8kReads8.3Score6.9kShelves
- 71 The Art of Deception! 千术！ As the saying goes, nine out of ten gamblers lose. You'll never see the knives hidden behind the gambling table! I have a plain name: Niu Tiezhu. Of course, you can also call me... A-Yao. 23.7kReads9.0Score2.3kShelves
- 72 Ashes of the Old World 旧日余烬 "Some say the world is one enormous nightmare, and everyone lives in it with painstaking care. What do you think, sir?" "Me? I don't have time to watch. Because for me, there's more than one nightmare like this..." At first, no one cared whether they'd had a nightmare the night before, until one day people woke up to find traces of their dreams still lingering before their eyes. And so the world changed. Disaster swept across the land, fear followed like a shadow, and reality crumbled away. 101.1kReads9.3Score16kShelves
- 73 Death Game Countdown 死亡游戏倒计时 Ning Ye was just an ordinary game booster, renting a small room and making money by playing games for other people. So, what’s the highest level a game booster can reach? Dominating high-ranked matches against other boosters? Taking on pro players? Leaving one-trick specialists with nowhere to go? For him, all that was just routine. What he never expected was that one day, he would become a deity’s game booster. … Want to get rich overnight? Want to reach the pinnacle of life? Want all kinds of 3.4kReads8.6Score360Shelves
- 74 The Secret Record of the Between-Realm 筑间秘录 Jiang Ziwen, a renowned designer, was playing a game when someone lured his soul into a dream. He suddenly died... When he was judged in the underworld, the King of Hell took note of his sense of justice and the injustice he had suffered. Since they shared the same name, the King of Hell bestowed upon him secret Feng Shui techniques. After returning to the living world, he fell in love at first sight with Ye Ling, a night patrol envoy of the underworld... 3Reads—Score—Shelves
- 75 My Professor Sister 我的教授姐姐 [No System] [No Rebirth] [One Heroine] [Teacher-Student Romance] [Slice of Life] A chance encounter brings Chen Yufeng, who is filling in on a blind date for a good friend, together with Chen Yurou, who is doing the same for her best friend. And so their story begins. Chen Yufeng studies at Jiangzhe University, where Chen Yurou happens to become the instructor for his class. Chen Yufeng owns an apartment off campus, and Chen Yurou happens to buy one right across from it. Chen Yufeng has a big si 4.7kReads9.0Score443Shelves
- 76 I'm the Only Living Person in This Apartment Building 我住的这栋公寓，只有我是活人 I'm the only living person in the apartment building where I live. 4.3kReads—Score—Shelves
- 77 Showbiz: A Specialist in Villain Roles, Starting with Playing Zhao Gao 娱乐：反派专业户，从演赵高开始 (If you want a short-drama adaptation, search for "Villain Specialist") [One Female Lead: Meng Ziyi] + [Best Actor] + [Entertainment Industry] + [Villain Specialist] In his previous life, Lin Ye was a washed-up actor with no fans, a girlfriend who ran off with someone else, and five million yuan in bank debt. After being reborn, he activated the "Fiction Becomes Reality" Villain Best Actor System. From the start, he played Zhao Gao, delivering a stunning performance that wowed the entire interne 19kReads8.4Score1.7kShelves
- 78 Go Slay the Monsters, Why Are You Picking on a Student? 去灭诡啊，盯我一个学生干嘛 [Powers for All + No Romance + Original Worldbuilding + Original Dungeons] A bizarre world invaded, forcibly interfering with reality. After passing a trial, those chosen would see a countdown appear on their palms. When the countdown ended, they would be forcibly transported to the bizarre world! Bai Pu had only just transmigrated when he was forced to join the fight against the bizarre! From then on, the bizarre realm gained a masked man who made both humans and monsters hate him! [The Real Wo 4.8kReads8.2Score513Shelves
- 79 Infinite Haunting Realms: I Can See Through Lies 无限诡域：我能堪破谎言 [Infinite Flow]+ [No Romance]+ [Original Instances]+ [Mild Horror]+ [Ghosts Kill People]+ [Ghosts in Every Real-World Instance] “Ghosts cannot be killed.” “Humans cannot fight ghosts.” “Ghosts each have their own rules for killing.” A mysterious letter. A door that leads to the unknown. When Li Yu opened the door, one eerie instance after another awaited him. This is the [Ghostly Domain], a world of vengeful ghosts! Will you die in confusion, or be reborn from a nightmare? 155.1kReads8.3Score24.8kShelves
- 80 Online Game: Conquering the World 网游之定鼎天下 Betrayed seven years ago, he lost all hope and joined the military. Seven years later, just after he retired, the game Deer Hunt launched. The once-great king has returned. Will he reign supreme once more? (This is a fairly traditional online game story, with some urban scenes.) 52.1kReads8.2Score4kShelves
- 81 Welcome Back to the Nightmare's Beginning 欢迎回到噩梦起点 (Infinite survival, puzzle-solving, mild horror) Late at night, Shao Jie stumbled sleepily toward the bathroom. The instant he opened the door, the whole world spun upside down! When he came to, he found himself in a gloomy, terrifying otherworld. There, he was forced to take part in a horrifying survival game: eerie footsteps sounded outside the door during the midnight room inspections, villagers mysteriously vanished from a remote village every night, and worst of all... the woman who had onc 15.8kReads7.8Score1.7kShelves
- 82 Exploring the Unknown Entity 探明未知体 Modern urban setting + unsolved mysteries + specialized career system + unknown beings and objects (Cthulhu, SCP Foundation) + collection of grim fairy tales + ensemble cast This is an era in which humans and unknown beings coexist peacefully! Tan Zhen sets out with his childhood friend Wan Kun to investigate the disappearance of their loved ones. After passing the warrior assessment, they are assigned to the Third District Containment Center. Along the way, they search for his older brother, 4Reads—Score—Shelves
- 83 The Theater of Endless Torment: I Run Ancient-Era Instances in a Ghost City 无间戏台：我在鬼城开古代副本 [No romance + ancient-era infinite-level challenges + Chinese horror] Shi Jing lowered her head and saw the bright red bridal gown she was wearing. Beneath her veil, she held up a bronze mirror and aimed it outside. The mirror offered a blurry reflection of the scene beyond the bed. A stooped old woman stood ramrod straight outside the canopy bed She wore a crimson floral dress and a crooked velvet flower in her hair. Her face was as pale as paper, two garish patches of rouge on her cheeks, her 21.7kReads9.5Score3.3kShelves
- 84 The Hell Handbook 地狱手册 A handbook said to have come from hell. The moment you open it, you are already trapped in horror. Life and death... are no longer yours to decide! The Town of the Dead, Horror Fairy Tales, The Hospital of Terror... Behind these repeated, terrifying cycles of hell, what spine-chilling truth is hidden? Su Jin, I want to live, even if... 2.9kReads8.5Score256Shelves
- 85 The Divine Phoenix's Gift 神凰赋 A garden needs roses! But roses don’t need gardens. A rose is a rose wherever it grows: proud, radiant, and brilliantly independent. In the wild, in the fields, in a free and unrestrained world, she lives as a goddess who strikes decisively and without hesitation. 12.3kReads9.3Score105Shelves
- 86 Infinite Reincarnation: I Was Forced to Become a Vicious Woman from a Thousand Years Ago 无限轮回：我被迫成为千年前的毒妇 Infinite Reincarnation: I'm Forced to Become the Villainous Woman from a Thousand Years Ago 822Reads—Score—Shelves
- 87 Great! It's a System, Now I'm Definitely Dead 太棒了！是系统，这下我死定了 [Infinite Flow] [No heroine] [No CP] [Original instances] [The System is useless] [Rules] [Deduction] [Wits and strategy] [Survival missions] Borrowing a setting from a great author: ghosts cannot be killed... You must discern their patterns... The Haunted Spirit Tower has descended. Please make sure to complete your survival mission! Little-girl System and all that: “Host, clear each instance in one life, one every seven days! Bring the Haunted Tower era to an end!” Chen Zichu: “Damn it... Othe 2.6kReads7.6Score221Shelves
- 88 Backrooms Escape Backroons后室逃脱 [The Backrooms]+ [Smart Protagonist]+ [Exploration]+ [Creative Levels]+ [Plot]+ [Not Overpowered] A dim yellow light spills across an empty room. The damp, old carpet reeks, and everywhere you look there’s the same maddeningly monotonous yellow... If you’re unlucky enough to slip out of reality in the wrong place, you’ll end up somewhere like this: the Backrooms. Here, if you hear something wandering nearby, may God protect you, because it has definitely heard you. This was how a foreign forum d 21.7kReads9.5Score2.4kShelves
- 89 The Wish of the Eighth Day 第八天的愿望 [Ensemble Cast | Supernatural Powers | Instances | Game | Infinite Flow | One Female Lead] (No intricate battles of wits! Not a ruthless, action-packed power fantasy! Readers with “sensitive skin” should proceed with caution!) The ones most in need of salvation have never been those suffering in the real world, but the kind thoughts we nearly drowned in despair... At first, A shooting star fell into their eyes, and despairing souls were dragged onto a strange island. “They” said that any wis 35.9kReads9.2Score4.3kShelves
- 90 I'm a Haunted House Sleep Tester 我在凶宅当试睡员 I worked for a real estate company, but later I was transferred to another department. I never expected to encounter something terrifying on my very first day... 5.7kReads8.8Score600Shelves
- 91 Rigid Justice 刻板正义 If you were born to be humanity’s savior, destined to sacrifice yourself, would you accept your mission? [Great Calamities] are extinction-level natural disasters that occur every few years: tsunamis, meteorites, swarms of insects, collapsing stars. Only the most powerful superhuman, known as [Justice], can end them by offering up their life. Against this backdrop, humanity has developed all kinds of unique social systems, and the world’s balance of power and relations between nations have bec 630Reads8.6Score106Shelves
- 92 It All Starts with a Cozy Game 从一款温馨游戏开始 In 2035, virtual games have become part of everyone's daily life. But one day, a mysterious horror civilization invades the virtual games. As terror engulfs the virtual world, every registered player instantly becomes a lamb to the slaughter, a rat in the street, a slave to be killed at will... The game's NPCs turn into terrifying ghosts. They overturn the master-servant relationship, roam the depths of the virtual world, carve out their own territories, and pen human players up to torment and e 3.7kReads9.0Score352Shelves
- 93 The Land Where Gods Speak 神说之地 Death game + mystery + puzzle-solving + supernatural powers + mind games + ensemble cast + high-octane action Fast-paced and plot-driven, the kind of story where you can never guess what the next chapter will bring. When Dongfang Yao wakes up, he finds himself trapped in a strange room. To get out, he has to solve a puzzle game. He never expected his very first room to be a destruction-level game that puts life and death in the balance... Only after he clears the game and makes it out does he re 104Reads—Score—Shelves
- 94 Everyone, Aim at the Idea King and Take the Safety Off 全体都有！瞄准点子王打开保险 Jiang Chen transmigrates to a parallel world and signs up for the reality show Three People Walk Together, One Can Teach Me, ready to stir things up. From the start, he awakens the Three People Walk Together, There’s Bound to Be a Mastermind System! The Mastermind, the Man of Action, and the Whatever Bro. In the low hills and foul waters, kindred spirits meet; in the barren mountains and harsh lands, the three big shots make their home! Three people, three schemes, and Jiang Chen is the lunatic 203.8kReads8.5Score22.2kShelves
- 95 A Lifetime of Martial Arts 一生武功 This is the story of Wang Han, who failed the Bayes' theorem exam administered by the God of Physics and Technology and was banished to the mortal realm. There, he became cultivation partners with Huang Zhumiao, one of the Seven Fairy Maidens from Heaven, and underwent trials to advance his cultivation. Wang Han studied the Seven Injuries Fist. Every morning, he did push-ups, sit-ups, and pull-ups, then sat cross-legged and ate Shizhen Yifang ginseng paste for his health before soaking in medici 19Reads—Score—Shelves
- 96 I Turned In an Unspeakable Being 我把不可名状物上交了 In a world where looking directly at an ancient god drives you mad, Ji Ye comes with a “Deep Abyss Filter.” The indescribably horrifying beings are just destructive huskies and fresh ingredients in his eyes. For health insurance and a steady paycheck, he joined the Anomaly Bureau as a “janitor.” When an S-rank forbidden zone erupted, everyone else despaired and waited to die. He complained as he carried his mop: “Who spilled ink all over the floor?” When an ancient god descended, he looked at th 3.9kReads8.0Score441Shelves
- 97 Followed by Ghosts 与鬼随行 Immersive, terrifying, and packed with suspenseful mystery and deduction. I have a strange world, and I want to take you there! After the college entrance exams, I took a fatal blow meant for my friend and lost my sight. By chance, I ended up at a bizarre vocational college. My classmates are dying one after another under strange circumstances, and there seems to be a much bigger secret behind it all. This world seems so strange... so strange... I have to solve the mind-bending challenges one by 2.7kReads—Score255Shelves
- 98 Reborn in the Millennium: My Career in Government Starts as a Beat Cop 重生千禧年：官场之路从片警开始 Liu Qingming's rebirth begins with a major case, one that cost him his job in his previous life. In this life, he'll take a different path. 6.3kReads8.9Score715Shelves
- 99 Invitation from Hell 地狱邀请函 [Ghost Escape + Supernatural Horror + Infinite Flow + A Clever Protagonist] An invitation and an abandoned bus drag a group of people into a haunted realm… Lin Mo barely makes it back to the real world alive, only to discover that the horror has just begun. One invitation after another arrives before him, and one eerie world after another comes calling… The Dusk Spirit Hotel, the Dead Return, Vengeful Ghosts Invade: what is the truth behind it all? Who is a friend? And who is an enemy? Shh… Watc 18.2kReads8.6Score1.4kShelves
- 100 The Eighteenth Level of Hell: No Lying Allowed 地狱十八层：这里禁止说谎 [No System, no power fantasy, no harem, no saintly protagonist. Mind games + wits and strategy + locked-room mysteries + deduction.] Chen Ran is a good person. He went to hell. This is the Tongue-Ripping Hell, where lying is forbidden, so everyone lies about their lies. Differences in how people believe lies should be handled gave rise to two major alliances. The Lie-Slayer Alliance: Lie, and you're killed instantly. The Strange-Tongue Alliance: Turn lies into the truth. A beginner's tutorial wi 74.6kReads9.1Score11.6kShelves
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