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- 101 Survival Horror: My Lover Is a Monster 惊悚求生之我的爱人是怪物 Monster-world exploration + survival + younger monster male lead Welcome to Sweet Home, the happiest family in the world. Your family is fabulously wealthy, with a vast, magnificent, eerie manor and mountains of jewels. You have the most loving mother in the world and the closest-knit family imaginable, though your mother might crush your head at any moment. Your older sister might tear off your limbs and eat them as snacks. Your younger sister is always trying to turn you into a doll, while you 80Reads8.2Score—14d adds
- 102 Prove That You Were Once Human 请证明你曾是人 After Chen Zhou woke up, he was thrown into a “test of human worth” spanning the ancient past, the modern era, and the future. Plague cities, royal courts, trials, shipwrecks, stock market crashes, nuclear crises, space colonization… Each world had its own bizarre rules, and every choice demanded a sacrifice. Yet the same name appeared on every death record: Chen Zhou. Before the rules devoured everyone, he had to prove one thing: Humanity’s true worth has never been obedience. —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 103 The Final Ending 最后的结局 [Two Male Leads + One-on-One Romance + Light Romance + Rule-Based Horror + Anthology Stories + Separate Worlds] “His voice sounds like a little fox whimpering”, Xing Yu “What a real villain. He reminds me of the stray dogs back home”, Chen Fang 9Reads—Score—14d adds
- 104 The Gu Master 蛊人 I became a gu person at the age of seven… I was the only one of nine children to survive. The other eight died with blood pouring from their seven orifices as countless worms burrowed into their hearts… The most mysterious gu magic! The strangest stories! Find them all in this novel! 279Reads8.0Score—14d adds
- 105 Rule Horror: I'm Wu Ban, Don't Mess with Me 规则怪谈：我叫伍半，别惹我 [Two Male Leads + Pervert + Hero + Cold on the Outside, Warm on the Inside + Sees Everything as Five Halves + Comedy + Too Much Insane CP Shipping, Might Make You Swear…] [Blood-drinking pervert Wu Ban \ Clever, money-loving flirt Wu De.] My name is Wu Ban. Um… why am I called Wu Ban? The moment I started thinking about it, I already knew the answer. You see, whenever someone gets on my nerves, I want to split them into five halves. Strange entity or human, don’t mess with me, okay? My name is W 41Reads8.0Score—14d adds
- 106 Rule Horror: Teacher Su Has a Lesson for Everyone 规则怪谈：苏老师给大家上一课 “Next question: On a blood-red midnight, you’re chased by a painted-skin demon at an old house in a deserted village. Four escape routes appear before you. Which do you choose?” [A: Rush under the offering table in the ancestral hall] [B: Leap into the ancient well in the back courtyard] [C: Tear down the Door God print and stick it to your chest] [D: Climb onto the beams of the west wing] “Thirty-two students in this class actually picked C for this freebie!” Su Bai slammed the lesson plan down 174Reads8.1Score—14d adds
- 107 The Compendium of a Hundred Ghosts 百诡收容录 (Collecting and fighting ghosts + rule-based horror + tactical battles + ensemble cast + multiple heroines) A Book of a Hundred Ghosts lives within his soul. If he doesn't collect ghosts, the book will devour its Host, starting with his left hand, piece by piece, until there's nothing left. But every ghost he captures earns him a ghost-binding card from the book. The ghosts belong to the book, but he can borrow their abilities. He grows stronger, too. So he travels through one rule-bound horror 1Reads—Score—14d adds
- 108 Rule Horror: I Contain the Uncanny Through the Afterlife 规则怪谈：我靠往生收容诡异 Others enter rule-based horror games to struggle for survival. Li Si enters them to stock up! From the start, he’s trapped in an abandoned hospital, facing the fatal rule: “Never make eye contact with patients.” He whips out a chainsaw and treats the monsters like his wife. “Baby, your temperature’s too high. Time to slice you up and put you in cold storage.” [Ding! The Book of the Departed has successfully contained a spirit! Obtained D-rank Vengeful Ghost: Rule Bait!] [Rule loophole unlocked: —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 109 More Than Just Rules-Based Horror 不只是规则怪谈 “After careful deliberation, the school leadership has decided that classes will officially resume on the eighth day of the first lunar month. All teachers and students, please make preparations and return to school on time.” “Reminder: Returning to school tomorrow is voluntary. No one will be forced to come back.” A strange app appears on his phone. A notice about the start of term arrives in his high school class group chat, even though he graduated three or four years ago. His old classmates 20Reads8.8Score—14d adds
- 110 The Corpse-Reading Detective 诡案读尸人 The Corpse-Reading Detective 5Reads—Score—14d adds
- 111 The Mystic Arts Curse Master 玄门咒神 On the day Yang Xuan was supposed to get engaged, a blood-red coffin inexplicably appeared in his home. Inside lay a beautiful woman with skin like jade. On the first day, his father died. On the second day, a yin-yang master told Yang Xuan: If he wanted to survive this calamity, he had to consummate his marriage with her... 114Reads—Score—14d adds
- 112 Born of a Corpse 尸生子 My mother-in-law was a midwife. When I grew up, I took over and delivered babies for women, becoming a male midwife. I deliver babies for the living, but I also deliver them for the dead... 183Reads8.6Score—14d adds
- 113 I Went to Pay Respects at Grandpa's Grave, and Somehow Angered Him Back to Life? 给爷爷上坟，把爷爷气出来了？ [Supernatural + comedy + fantasy. This story is entirely fictional. Any resemblance to actual events is purely coincidental!] “Grandpa, help me earn enough to buy a house, and I’ll send you a whole hall of maids. Grandpa, bless me so I can buy a BMW, and I’ll make your home even more luxurious. Grandpa, bring me good fortune, and I promise you’ll have plenty of gold ingots to spend. Grandpa, bless me so I win the jackpot, and I’ll set off a hundred thousand firecrackers for you!” “Good grandson, 415Reads7.1Score—14d adds
- 114 The Ominous Coffin 凶棺 It all started with a coffin that floated up from the river... I thought it was a fortune dropped from the sky, but it turned out to be a disaster. After I pried open the coffin, I began to feel that something unclean had followed me home. My daughter grew stranger by the day. She was only three, yet she had already started developing! 121Reads—Score—14d adds
- 115 The Secretive World: Hunted by the Church, I Touched the Supernatural 诡秘世界：教会追杀下我触及超凡 [Western Fantasy + Cthulhu + Multiple Supernatural Sequences + Steampunk] With twin moons overhead, the Church sows its faith in the darkness; Behind towering walls, merchant guilds sell hope in a chaotic age. In the forsaken land, at the Tower of Embers, who can scale the walls under everyone’s watchful eyes? In the Fourth Empire, at the heart of machinery, who can attain the supernatural amid mysterious whispers? Revolvers, legacy crystals, cannons, and pollutants: humanity uses civilization t 8Reads—Score—14d adds
- 116 Rule Horror: From the Start, I Draw a Grade C Talent 规则怪谈：开局抽到C级天赋 [Urban Legends + National Fate + Horror + Global Livestream] Urban legends have descended, and everyone must follow the rules exactly. Yan Yu is chosen to take part in a rules-based horror game and draws a C-rank talent from the start. Viewer A: We’re finished. How did this chosen one draw the lowest-rank talent? Viewer B: Your Dragon Nation is about to suffer five losses in a row. Yoshi, yoshi! Viewer C: You American dogs, quit barking. Yan Yu: This time, I’m going to win and bring glory to my 56Reads5.9Score21114d adds
- 117 Horror Night School 恐怖夜校 My promotion was just around the corner, but my lack of a degree was holding me back. Short on money, I went for a cheap night school that nobody had ever heard of. I thought the only problem was that it was in a remote location and had rundown facilities. But I never imagined that from then on, my life would be plagued by one paranormal incident after another... Damn it, someone help me! Can I just quit school already? 13Reads5.3Score—14d adds
- 118 The King of Face Reading 观相之王 This novel is complex and brainy, not a lightweight read. If that’s not your thing, don’t read it. Ensemble cast + mind games + the supernatural + climbing the ranks and getting rich + foretelling good and bad fortune + solving mysteries through face reading and divination. “I’d like to ask about my health using the character ‘six.’” “Certainly. The character ‘six’ looks like a person dismembered into several pieces, with the head separated from the body.” Why are some people blessed with endle 5Reads—Score—14d adds
- 119 Chaos Invades the World, and I Become a God by Mediating Disputes 全球混沌入侵，我靠调解成神 Light is not necessarily pure, and darkness may hold warmth. The answer lies in a truth deeper than the abyss. When the only hope of saving the world points down a dead-end path with no chance of survival, will you still have the courage to wager everything on a faint glimmer of light? 3Reads—Score—14d adds
- 120 After All Life on Blue Star Was Wiped Out, I Created Urban Legends to Invade the World 蓝星死绝后，我创造怪谈入侵全球 [Power fantasy + behind-the-scenes mastermind + rule-based horror + ensemble cast + revenge + ruthless protagonist + no female lead] The rating has just come in. Blue Star fell five years ago. The foreigners slaughtered the last of its original inhabitants. He is Chen Mo, and he died three minutes before the war ended. But now, he has returned. He is neither a ghost nor a god. He is the blade hanging over the invaders' heads, the purest form of fear that haunts their midnight dreams. That night 3.1kReads6.3Score34814d adds
- 121 Heaven and Earth Turned Upside Down: I Become a God in a Mad World 阴阳倒悬，我在疯癫世界封神 [Eerie] + [Paths] + [Idealism] + [Partial power fantasy] + [Infinite Flow] + [Gods] (The story takes a while to get going, but the worldbuilding is truly vast.) In the old world, fate chose me as its sole heir. The price was that I lost my younger brother forever. As compensation, I touched his soul within my mind. The sleeping dragon veins of Huaxia, the awakened remnants of Rome, the whispered oracles of the Norse... When the heavens fell and the mortal world shattered, [Reality] and [the Void 1Reads6.4Score—14d adds
- 122 A New Novel by Anonymous Seagull 无名的海鸥的新书 My new work is out! You’re welcome to read it on Tomato Novel. I hope you’ll enjoy it. Your support motivates me to write, and I’ll do my best to tell every story well! 22Reads—Score—14d adds
- 123 The Fish Wizard of Bikini Bottom 比奇堡的鱼巫师 A regular SpongeBob fanfic Is transmigrating unusual? No. Is transmigrating with a golden finger unusual? No. Then tell me, is transmigrating into a fish unusual? Uh, I guess so. Then tell me, is transmigrating into a fish that can use witchcraft unusual? Don't just stand there in silence! You brought me to SpongeBob's world, so don't you think you're responsible for me? 121Reads—Score—14d adds
- 124 Transmigration: The Little Shop Around the Corner 穿越：有间小卖部 [Quick Transmigration + Strong Female Lead + Shops + Qin Shi Huang + Fusu + War of Resistance in Nanjing + Long March] Hanhan took over her grandfather's convenience store. A warm ray of sunlight streamed through the lattice window, shining onto the rippling water by the window and creating beautiful patterns like those on a lake. In the quaint room, a pink bed stood completely out of place. Its mistress lay there, brows gently furrowed as if something were troubling her, making anyone who saw h 18Reads6.3Score114d adds
- 125 A General Store Arrives in Another World with Me 带着杂货铺降临异世界 Lin Shuang, an ordinary college student, accidentally binds herself to a System and opens a general store in another world, buying and selling goods for profit. Making money is only secondary to her goal of making a name for herself in other worlds and experiencing their diverse cultures and landscapes. The other worlds confirmed so far include an ancient world, a galactic world, a cultivation world, an infinite-flow world, a modern world, the Western Middle Ages, and a Western magical world. Le 25Reads—Score—14d adds
- 126 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. 3Reads—Score—14d adds
- 127 The Mysterious Revival: From the Start, I Wielded the Deceitful Ghost 神秘复苏之开局驾驭欺骗鬼 Starting from the Myriad Worlds, I Become Invincible After transmigrating, Tang Jing arrives in the Myriad Worlds with an incredible stroke of fortune. Born with a body unfit for martial arts? He masters every technique and forges an unrivaled divine physique. Surrounded by powerful enemies? He crushes them all, rising from a humble mortal to the pinnacle of the Myriad Worlds. He travels through countless planes, subdues peerless prodigies of every age, and sweeps across the nine heavens and te 2Reads—Score—14d adds
- 128 Rule Horror: After Lights Out, Follow the Dormitory Rules 规则怪谈：熄灯后，请遵守宿舍守则 Rule Horror: After Lights Out, Please Follow the Dormitory Rules 52Reads—Score—14d adds
- 129 Campus Rule Horror 校园规则怪谈 My name is Chen Yi, and I’m a sophomore in the computer science department at C University. During a lab class on Tuesday morning, my computer suddenly went black. Then a strange voice rang out: Welcome to the world of bizarre games. All students must follow these rules: Rule One: You may not speak during class except to answer questions. Rule Two: Do not try to leave the school. All communication devices have been disabled. Rule Three: You must return to your dormitory before ten every night... 87Reads—Score—14d adds
- 130 The Lost Pool in the Mirror 镜中迷潭 That night, I stepped into the elevator. The doors opened four times. Each time, it was the fourth floor. The fifth time they opened, there was a hall of mirrors outside. In countless mirrors stood countless versions of me. Only one of them was smiling. 1Reads—Score—14d adds
- 131 Rule Horror: From the Start, I Fall in Love with the Red-Clad Bride 规则怪谈：开局和红衣新娘谈恋爱 [Rule Horror + One Female Lead + Wife-Centered + System] Are you kidding me? I transmigrated straight into a deadly Rule Horror, and from the start I had to marry an S-rank red-clad bride?! Rule Horror descends, and the whole world becomes a blood-red inferno! Everyone is on edge, seeing affection as a fatal weakness! But I awaken a god-tier golden finger: the [True Love Pact]! Fall in love with a vengeful ghost, and you get stronger?! The [True Love Pact] turns everything upside down! The deepe 376Reads—Score—14d adds
- 132 Thriller: They Call Me Kuang Ye, the Beast Among Ghosts 惊悚：我叫疯夜，鬼送绰号畜生 [Horror game + absorbing ghosts’ negative emotions + unconventional thinking] Ye Feng, nicknamed “Mad Night,” transmigrates to another world invaded by horror games and enters a solo horror instance where death is all but certain. Luckily, he awakens an emotion System that lets him exchange ghosts’ negative emotions for rewards. And so, once a “madman” gets his hands on the System, the nature of the game begins to change. Tales of “Beastly Mad Night” gradually spread through the horror world, st 729Reads6.8Score10014d adds
- 133 Patroller of the Living World 阳间巡逻人 Stories of spirit babies have circulated in the countryside of Sichuan and Chongqing for generations. When a baby dies, its lingering resentment can turn it into a ghost. Spirit babies were most common during the height of the one-child policy. As a child, I fed crows, which left me with an unusually strong aura of yin. Spirit babies often mistook me for one of their own, so someone later raised a ghost to protect me. On top of that, I have to work for the Underworld Bureau just to stay alive. 506Reads7.3Score—14d adds
- 134 My Customers Come from the Myriad Worlds 我的客人来自诸天万界 After Li Muxue died, she transmigrated to a parallel world on Earth called Water Blue Star. From the start, she inherited a shop and was bound to a trading System. In her shop, there are adorable beastfolk pandas, as well as a bewildered Emperor Qin Shi Huang, monsters, and elves. A beautiful woman clutching her head comes in to buy cosmetics, the Queen Mother of the West is a VIP member, and an empress buys stockings. Li Muxue: “Selling, selling, selling! As long as you pay, I'll sell it 99Reads6.8Score—14d adds
- 135 Xuanhuan: My New Supermarket Multiplies Its Products’ Value a Hundredfold 玄幻：新店开业，我的超市商品百倍增幅 Can running a supermarket really let you thrive in another world? Whether you believe it or not, I do. The amazing supermarket is open for business, and all kinds of bizarre products are here. A cashier? No need. Even a dog can handle that, so why bother hiring anyone... 544Reads—Score—14d adds
- 136 The Temple That Eats People 吃人的庙 The Man-Eating Temple 1Reads—Score—14d adds
- 137 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 16Reads7.2Score214d adds
- 138 Rule Horror: The Last One to Leave the Classroom After Evening Study 规则怪谈：晚自习最后离开教室的人 Rule Horror: The Last Person to Leave the Classroom After Evening Study 21Reads—Score—14d adds
- 139 Rule Horror: I Ascended to Godhood in a Death Game 规则怪谈：我在死亡游戏中封神 [Not Mindless Wish Fulfillment + Rule-Bound Horror + Death Games + No Female Lead + Lighthearted Humor + Special Abilities] Welcome to the Land of Divine Relics! This is a world ruled by rules, a playground for the supernatural, and the birthplace of [Miracles]! Here, flipping a coin, counting fingers, playing cards: these games may seem simple, but each has only one path to survival! All you can do is exploit loopholes in the rules and awaken your own [Miracle]! Through countless death games, I 3.8kReads8.6Score34314d adds
- 140 Immortal Through Cunning Arts, I Can Ignore the Cost 诡术成仙，我能免疫代价 [No female lead] [Eerie cultivation] [Urban setting] [Modern technology aids cultivation] Some eerie arts require you to destroy your own eyes. Others demand that, as a child, you cut off your limbs at the roots, then leave them immersed in a vat for three years. Some can only be mastered by driving a wooden spike into your head. After Yu Xiu transmigrates into this world, he is lucky enough to gain the ability to access an information feed, allowing him to learn eerie arts without paying their 102Reads5.4Score1914d adds
- 141 Compendium of Evil Things 邪物宝鉴 There are no ghosts in this world. Every strange occurrence is the work of evil things. Evil things are exactly what the name suggests: wicked objects with uncanny powers. Dolls, dresses, pillows... Any of them can be affected by resentment and turn into something evil. There are many such objects among the people, and most strange events are actually caused by them. Don't be afraid. If you are upright and optimistic, evil things will keep their distance. It is only when you are crooked or pessi 178Reads6.7Score—14d adds
- 142 A Rural Guide to the Supernatural 乡野灵异手册 I was born in a remote village, with a faint red, triangular birthmark on my forehead. On the day I was born, every fish in the village pond died. After my birth, one strange event after another began happening in the village: cooked chunks of a corpse in an abandoned well, a neighbor's grandmother coming back from the dead, a doll that wept bloody tears. The villagers started calling me a harbinger of disaster, and everyone avoided me. 142Reads8.7Score—14d adds
- 143 Death Rewind: Struggling to Survive in a Death Game 死亡回档：我在死亡游戏艰难求生 (Original dungeons) (No mindless characters) (No invincible protagonist) (No female lead) A playground for gods, a cradle for desperate souls. After dying, nineteen-year-old Song Ming transmigrated into the body of a boy with the same name. Before he could figure out what was going on, he was thrown into a death game. The [Death Rewind] talent he gained seemed like the perfect way to stay alive, but every mission pushed survival to its limits. His very first mission almost became his last. 418Reads8.1Score11314d adds
- 144 The School of Terror 恐怖艺校 Also known as "The Horror Art School: I Fell in Love with a Taoist Priest" [Supernatural + Romance + Transmigration + Wild Imagination] During those three years at school, many strange and terrifying things happened. At midnight, a sinister atmosphere would descend over the school... The year Ye Xue'er attended art school, she fell in love with him at first sight and decided to follow him, staying by his side as they worked together to spread the art of Taoism far and wide... 4Reads—Score—14d adds
- 145 The Underworld Storm of the Apocalypse 末世之冥界风暴 Urban Soul-Requiem Squad; Eldritch apocalypse cultivation; hard-core supernatural crime-solving. Like a Chinese version of Supernatural or a cyberpunk take on the Spiritual Pivot. Volume One, “Nephilim,” is complete. Quality guaranteed, so read with confidence. Transmigrate? No, I’ve come back to life in someone else’s body! The moment Wang Yixuan opens his eyes, he finds himself the “young marshal” of an apocalyptic stronghold, a hapless guy whose body has been gnawed hollow by demons. [Rule 1: —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 146 After My Face Was Stolen, I Drew the Six Realms of Living Beings 我的脸被夺走后我画出六道众生相 My face was stolen. It wasn’t disfigured. It wasn’t disguised. My face was literally gone. To stay alive, I had no choice but to paint one new face after another onto my own. Human, ghost, demon, beast, god, immortal. Every face I painted gave me a new ability. As I tried to reclaim my original face, I gradually discovered that this world was far more complicated than it seemed. 96Reads—Score12614d adds
- 147 Rulebound Illusion Realm: I Have a Recycling Bin 规则幻域：我有一个回收箱 [Genius] [Mind-bending] [Plot twists] [No heroine] [Mystery] [Suspense] Mu Chuan unexpectedly obtains a magical box that he can never get rid of, no matter how hard he tries. By a twist of fate, he enters a rule-bound illusion domain and becomes an emissary who walks between the domain and reality. The illusion domains have the highest death rates, and there’s too little information? No problem. I have a recycling box. Give me something good, and I’ll trade you information. Skills are too rare, 117Reads8.2Score—14d adds
- 148 Heaven and the Death Row Inmate 天堂与死刑犯 (Original instances, setting-focused, no mindless characters or formulaic tropes) A place where people live. This book has a rich setting, rigorous logic, and a complex world. It’s perfect for immersive reading, so enjoy! 12Reads—Score—14d adds
- 149 Rule Horror: Only I Can Reload Infinitely 规则怪谈：只有我能无限读档 [Rules mean certain death? Sorry, I can reload forever.] The paranormal resurges, and rules descend. Nameless horrors invade reality, and the world is reduced to a series of deadly “horror game instances.” “Mom’s Note,” “The Midnight Bus”... Ordinary people tremble in the gaps between the rules. One misstep is all it takes for their sanity to hit zero and their bodies to mutate. Su Ming awakens the only F-rank (pseudo) ability, which is actually an SSS-rank [Infinite Reload]. Faced with a ru 5Reads—Score—14d adds
- 150 Rule Horror: My Little Sister Is Definitely Not Some Kind of Anomaly 规则怪谈：妹妹才不是什么诡异 [Mystery + Not Invincible + No System + No Idiocy + Not a Saint] [Livestream for Elites Only, No Dumbing Down] After being killed a hundred times in his dreams, the refined and gentle Han Mo arrives in a world of eerie, rule-based horror. Han Mo: I get a little sister from the start? Am I dreaming? Little sister: Big brother, I'm hungry… Han Mo: …Stay back. I'm about to start dreaming! So… would you be willing to make your adorable little sister a wholesome dinner with a good balance of meat and 126Reads7.3Score—14d adds
