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- 1 Tales of a Strange Village: The Severed Meridian Curse 孤村诡异故事之绝脉枯煞 Strange Tales from a Lonely Village: The Severed Meridian and Withered Curse —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 2 Tales of a Strange Village: The Corpse Worm Gu 孤村诡异故事之阴尸虫蛊 Strange Tales from a Lonely Village: Yin Corpse Insect Gu —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 3 Rift Valley Spirit Detective: You Chen's Realm of Illusions 峡谷灵探：宥琛的虚实诡域 On the campus of an ordinary university, all seems peaceful on the surface, but beneath it, hidden currents are stirring. Strange incidents have been happening with increasing frequency: chilling cries echo from the lecture halls late at night, several students have vanished without a trace, and the security footage offers no clues. The university has tried to keep it quiet, but panic is spreading. You Chen, a homebody obsessed with League of Legends, discovers one day that he can bring in-game —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 4 The Perpetual Motion Train 永动列车 Former mechanical engineer Chen Mo boards the mysterious “Perpetual Motion Train” on a stormy night, searching for his younger sister Chen Xi, who has been missing for six months. What follows is a bizarre journey aboard a train running along abandoned tracks, where time and space twist into chaos. Missing passengers are bound by their obsessions, reliving endless cycles of death in the carriages. Each carriage holds a sealed supernatural incident, from curses in mirrors to apparitions in misty —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 5 Atonement Darwin 赎罪达尔文 What do you mean, I transmigrated, then transmigrated again? (No harem, no formulaic tropes, no wish fulfillment, no System. An ensemble cast with a focus on characters and plot. If that’s not your thing, please don’t read.) “My life ended yesterday, but my story begins today.” Lu Wei was an ordinary second-year college student on Earth, but every night he entered another world of immortal cultivation in his dreams. When he was certain the world in his dreams was fake, he found himself trapped i —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 6 Max Level from the Start: The Myriad Realms Overlord System Helps Me Sweep All Before Me 开局满级，诸天主宰系统助我横扫 >I was reborn in Douluo Dalu and awakened the All-Heavens Overlord System from the start. >At the entrance to Notting Academy, I casually crushed Tang San's hidden weapon in my hand. >“System mission: Establish the Dragon God Hall. Members must surpass the Tang Sect.” >Xiao Wu's Soft Bone Lock? I pin her down and pull her into my arms. >Ning Rongrong's Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Pagoda? In the next second, it becomes the Dragon God Hall's exclusive amplifier. >Tang San and his father team up? Gu 32Reads—Score—Shelves
- 7 Infinite Missions: Starting on Elm Street 无限任务，从猛鬼街开始 Li Mao was dragged into the Lord God space, and his very first scenario was Nightmare on Elm Street, where the death rate was almost one hundred percent. To make matters worse, he had been forced into it. Who could understand what it was like to be happily eating takeout in his dorm one moment, then suddenly get pulled into the Lord God space? And because he had been forced to participate, he wouldn’t receive any rewards even if he completed the mission. All Li Mao could do was say: Lord God, yo 1.9kReads6.1Score206Shelves
- 8 The Northern School's Secret Tombs: Nine Talismans to Find the Tomb 北派秘藏九符寻陵 No mystical spells or dazzling magic, just clashes of blades and bloody fights. Against a backdrop where the modern martial world intertwines with the transmission of cultural traditions, the “Nine Talismans,” the keys that unlock Qin Shi Huang's tomb, become the focus of competing forces. To protect the roots of his culture and trace the whereabouts of his missing master, protagonist Chen Feng is drawn into a story of the duty to safeguard cultural relics and the undercurrents stirring among ma 2Reads—Score—Shelves
- 9 The Scalding Gold Bracelet 烫手的金镯 Five boys set out to rob a tomb, but their greed awakened something even more terrifying beneath it. Could the ancestral gold bracelet actually be the lock on a seal? Forced to become a “living target,” Wang Erwa must uncover the truth behind a silversmith’s violent death and the sins of an old debt before the evil spirit fully awakens. 1Reads—Score—Shelves
- 10 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—Shelves
- 11 Records of Supernatural Investigations 诡事调查录 A world full of familiar events: the No. 375 bus, the haunted cha chaan teng... Caught off guard by these supernatural incidents, how will the protagonist handle them? How will he solve them? Magic, vampires, werewolves, Taoist priests, supernatural abilities, the uncanny, monsters and demons... What would happen if all of these existed in one world? In this world full of familiar things, what will Su You encounter? 1Reads—Score—Shelves
- 12 Apocalypse: More Children, More Blessings. From the Start, I Get the Blue Silver Grass Martial Soul 末世多子多福开局奖励武魂蓝银草 The Apocalypse arrives, and zombies erupt everywhere. Lin Yi and his cool, mature teacher are trapped in a communal kitchen when he awakens the More Children, More Blessings System. From then on, taking in goddesses earns him rewards. [Infinite Space]→ [Spatial Blades]! [Bloodthirsty Blue Silver Grass]→ [World-Ending Star-Devouring Grass]! [Apocalypse RV]→ [Interstellar Star Destroyer]! [Reward Rebate]→ [Infinite Supplies]! … Follow Lin Yi and see how he ends the Apocalypse and enjoys the treat 20Reads—Score121Shelves
- 13 Village Chronicles: Strange Tales of Dragon Cave 山村志：龙洞异闻 A lie about divine water from a spirit snake, all to fulfill a simple wish. A glimpse of real rural life, and an investigation into the actual supernatural events in the Dragon Cave. Everyone in the mountain village has a secret. The most honest person has the biggest secret of all. What exactly is hidden in the reservoir? Are there really dragons in this world? Or can people create dragons themselves? —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 14 I Asked You to Turn Around, Not Bring People to Clear My Blockage! 让你回个头，你带人疏通我？ [Martial fantasy + infinite-loop trials + rule-based killing games + ensemble cast + no mindless power fantasy + scheming, trope-subverting hero + themed pocket worlds] Unemployed wage slave Mu Chen's life rules: The later the night, the wilder you get. The more forbidden the fun, the better. Rules are there to test your limits. Teammates are there to take the fall for you. Never trust a warning that says "Do Not Look Back"... unless there's really something behind you. "Kid, you're walking —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 15 The Sea Without Eyes 无瞳之海 This story follows Elena Shaw’s horrifying discoveries in the remote fishing town of Arkham. After she is invited to study a strange statue unearthed in the basement of a local church, a series of supernatural events unfolds: fishermen mutter deliriously about dreams beneath the sea, the tides bring in the remains of indescribable creatures, and ancient families guard dark secrets. As her investigation deepens, Elena gradually realizes that the town lies atop a fissure between reality and nightm 2Reads—Score—Shelves
- 16 Great, the Whole Village Is Haunted, and I’m Beyond Saving 太好啦，全村都是诡，我没救了 [Horror + Body Collection + Comedy + Plot Twists] On the day I graduated from college, I got a call saying my dad had skinned himself and died. My mother said she had to meet her daughter-in-law before my dad was buried, so I had no choice but to pay a fortune to hire the campus belle to pretend to be my girlfriend. But when I returned to the village, I discovered that no one there was human! They were all corpses... After narrowly escaping death, I became a corpse collector. The first one I col 990Reads5.6Score107Shelves
- 17 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—Shelves
- 18 My Dead Wife Returns on Our Wedding Night 亡妻归来新婚夜 My Late Wife Returns on Our Wedding Night 1Reads—Score—Shelves
- 19 Peering into Immortality: The Eye That Sees Through Illusions 窥仙：破妄之眼 Gu Xian, a college student, never imagined that his closest roommate would vanish completely from everyone's memories overnight. His classmates don't remember him, he's missing from the photos, and even their social media history has been erased. Gu Xian is the only person in the world who remembers that he ever existed. At that moment, a pale blue-white light blazed in Gu Xian's eyes. He saw another face of the world: the hidden realm of cultivation, concealed beneath ordinary cities and foreve —Reads—Score182Shelves
- 20 After Moving into a Haunted House, the Male Ghosts Set Their Sights on Me 住进凶宅后，男鬼们盯上我了 [One female lead, three male leads] [Male ghosts] [All characters are sexually inexperienced] Ruan Xi wanted some peace and quiet, so she bought a century-old haunted house outright. But she never expected the “residents” to have no intention of leaving her in peace. Three male ghosts trapped there had all set their sights on her. They thought she was a helpless prey who had wandered into their trap. But they had no idea that she was the hunter who had walked into the cage. 78Reads—Score—Shelves
- 21 Morgue Notes: I Saw Messages from the Dead 太平间手记：我看见了死者留言 Chen Ye, an ordinary medical school graduate, took a well-paid job as the night-shift attendant in the city hospital morgue. On his very first night, he discovered that the rules here were absurdly strict: the lights had to be turned off at three in the morning, refrigerator number three was never to be used, and he must never respond to even the faintest sound. He thought it was just a prank to scare the new guy, until he found a line of new writing formed in frost on the back of an old autopsy 2Reads—Score—Shelves
- 22 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—Shelves
- 23 My Hopeless Life Became Even More Desperate 我无望的人生更加绝望 After something happened to her family, Mu Xia could never move on from that day. She went through life in a daze. Until one day, she accidentally entered a world of horror. And so began a fantastical journey. She made new friends, faced all kinds of events, and lived a new life. 1Reads6.4Score—Shelves
- 24 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—Shelves
- 25 The Death Song of the South China Sea Shipwreck 南海沉船亡歌 A treasure ship from the Southern Song Dynasty, built to restore the empire. A death song echoing through the deep sea. His brother dies a mysterious and gruesome death, leaving behind only a bizarre recording that drives listeners mad. Mojin heir Chen Hao joins forces with a Tanka sea king and a genius archaeologist to avenge his brother and uncover the truth, venturing into the South China Sea's forbidden zone, “Ghost-Cry Cove”! Magnetic mountains block all signals, the death song warps the mi —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 26 I’ll Salvage Anything, Never Expected to Haul Up… 什么都捞，没想过打捞上来… I'll salvage anything. I never expected to haul up... 2Reads—Score—Shelves
- 27 A Billion-Dollar Collection of Horror Stories 一个亿恐怖故事集 A Collection of One Hundred Million Horror Stories [Standalone stories + supernatural horror + folk customs + feng shui and mysticism + heartfelt emotion + mild horror + timid readers beware] A hundred wildly different tragic fates await. When long-forbidden folk taboos passed down by the ancestors are broken, and eerie legends from the corners of the city quietly come true, the everyday world you know will begin to fall apart on the very next page. Whispers by the pillow, shadows beneath the wa 3Reads—Score—Shelves
- 28 I’m in Douluo Dalu: More Children, More Blessings! 我在斗罗大陆，多子多福！ After my soul transmigrated into Douluo, I unexpectedly became bound to the “more children, more blessings” System. While others toil away at cultivating their soul skills to prove who's stronger, I make my family my shield and my loved ones my spear. Laughing and crying as I trample the thorns beneath my feet, surrounded by children and grandchildren, I forge a path to godhood that belongs to me alone. 3Reads—Score—Shelves
- 29 The Last City God: Turning the Taboo on Its Head in Mountain City 末代城隍：我在山城逆转禁忌 Three years after his grandfather went missing, Shen Shu, who films videos about intangible cultural heritage, found a sheet of yellow paper in an old trunk. It bore just one sentence: Don’t go to the Old Stone Bridge. But his camera had already captured a white figure beneath the bridge. From that night on, the old rules of the mountain city, torn down, forgotten, and exploited for profit, came looking for him one by one. Shen Shu could see taboos others couldn’t, and even reverse them. But eve 1Reads—Score—Shelves
- 30 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 2Reads—Score—Shelves
- 31 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 —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 32 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—Shelves
- 33 Transmigrating into Douluo Dalu to Save Countless Young Women 穿越斗罗拯救万千少女 (Multiple heroines) + (scheming) (tsundere) (Tang San gets abused; no worshipping Grandmaster; Tang San fans, don’t read) Please don’t flame if you don’t like it. We lost the great battle in the Divine Realm. The gods of the Divine Realm destroyed the souls of my beloved and comrades right before my eyes, condemning them to eternal oblivion. In a fit of rage, I was about to self-destruct. But who knew the treasured Book of Time and Space would carry me through the river of time, back to the mome —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 34 Tomb of Terror: My Haunted Forest Expedition 古墓惊魂，我的恐怖森林探险之旅 Terror in the Ancient Tomb: My Adventure Through a Haunted Forest 1Reads—Score—Shelves
- 35 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—Shelves
- 36 Pawnshop No. 7 第7当铺 In the darkest corner of the city stands the Number Seven Pawnshop, which never closes. It doesn’t take physical objects as collateral, but rather the “sinful traits” buried deep in human nature. The owner offers unimaginable wealth, success, or wishes, but the price is your greed, arrogance, lust, envy, gluttony, wrath, and sloth. The rules here are cold but fair: the more “sin” you pawn, the richer the reward. But without your “sins,” are you still truly whole? 5Reads—Score—Shelves
- 37 The Scribe: 2035 执笔人：2035 In 2035, after the Great Depression, the brutal murder game known as script-killing had become widespread. As the games grew ever more intense, this deadly pastime reached unprecedented levels of influence during an economic downturn. More and more script-killing venues opened, and the authorities began to turn a blind eye. This also gave rise to new professions in some places. Some earned generous rewards and pay by achieving perfect endings in the games; others took commissions from the wealth —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 38 Old Alley Sound Repair: At Midnight Tonight, Qin Opera Calls the Souls 旧巷声修：今夜子时，秦腔引魂 [One Heroine + Sound Cultivation + Qin Opera + Livestreaming + Supernatural Mystery + Urban + Adventure] In modern society, information explodes across the world, and human negativity is amplified through social media, forming an immense “Tide of Resentment.” If no one guides and dispels it, within three years it will gather into a “Lament of Doomsday,” and the boundary between the worlds of yin and yang will collapse completely. Humanity’s power comes from “the Power of Wishes”: energy formed w —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 39 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—Shelves
- 40 The Conspiracy Behind the Terrifying Calls 恐怖电话背后的阴谋 The conspiracy behind the horror phone 3Reads—Score—Shelves
- 41 Redemption and Rebirth in the Darkness 黑暗中的救赎与新生 Salvation and New Life in the Darkness 1Reads—Score—Shelves
- 42 Terror Underground: My Journey of Adventure and Growth 地道惊魂，我的探险与成长 Terror Underground: My Adventure and Growth —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 43 The Abandoned Wife's Desert Island Adventure 弃妇的荒岛冒险之旅 An Abandoned Wife's Adventure on a Deserted Island 1Reads—Score—Shelves
- 44 Su Ning Transmigrates to Douluo Dalu from the Start, Carrying Hu Xiaowu 开局苏宁穿越了斗罗大陆载胡小舞 Su Ning transmigrates to the Douluo World and awakens the Cuddle-Up System! Dai Ersa transmigrates to Douluo Dalu and awakens the God-Tier Choice System! Chu Xiong transmigrates to Douluo Dalu and awakens the Goddess Friendship System! 113Reads—Score—Shelves
- 45 The Nuo Dancer's Ordeal 傩人难 Isolated and misunderstood, two people just alike meet because of fate. What kind of story will unfold? Will it be funny or terrifying? Everything takes place beneath a vast shadow. 2Reads—Score—Shelves
- 46 Haunted House Mysteries 鬼宅诡事 Haunted House Mysteries 1Reads—Score—Shelves
- 47 I Play an Extra in Eerie Movies 我在诡异电影里跑龙套 [Also known as: Quitting KFC to Brave the Supernatural Scenarios] Yan Jin worked like a dog at a fried chicken shop for three years, always conscientious and hardworking. At last, he finally stood up for himself and fired his boss. But right after quitting, he transmigrated into an Infinite Flow scenario where death was all but certain. Since he’d transmigrated, he might as well show the supernatural what his incredible golden finger could do: a psychiatric hospital for gods, an echo that never 1.6kReads6.3Score121Shelves
- 48 The Five Ghosts' Wealth-Invoking Art 五鬼招财术 This story is entirely fictional and has no connection to real life. Any similarities are purely coincidental. Su Jin, a formidable force in Shanghai’s e-commerce industry, was born with Buddha bones and a faint spiritual sensitivity. She marries into a wealthy merchant family for the second time, but life is soon caught in an undercurrent of conflict, stirred up by her domineering, superstitious mother-in-law and her emotionally obtuse husband. When a new factory is completed, her mother-in-law 2Reads—Score—Shelves
- 49 A Bewildering Labyrinth of Strange Tales 诡谲迷迭 [Infinite Flow] [No Golden Finger] My name is Wang Hong. My younger sister has gone mad. She's been haunted by a ghost. When I started searching for the truth, I was haunted by a ghost too. I should have realized sooner. Now, there's no going back. And ghosts are like a plague. I was the one who brought them into the lives of those around me. Believe me, I didn't mean to. If she comes to find me, it'll be inevitable once she comes to her senses. Anyway, while I was still more or less lucid, I le 2Reads—Score—Shelves
- 50 My Date with a Vampire: Future and Past 我和僵尸有个约会之未来昔日 Jiang Tianyou, the Zombie God, and Ma Xiaoling, the exorcist Celestial Master, both vanished without a trace after the world-ending crisis several decades ago, leaving behind only an urban legend about their demon-slaying exploits. Years later, the winds of change rise again, and the gears of fate begin turning once more! Kuang Tianya, an exorcist girl bearing her family's mission, unexpectedly encounters Kuang Wuming, a mysterious young man who keeps his true abilities hidden, in a city seeth 22Reads—Score—Shelves
