Novels like A Corrupted Heart
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- 1 Ghost Stories My Grandparents Told Me 爷爷奶奶说过的鬼故事 My new work is out! You're welcome to read it on Tomato Novel. I hope you'll enjoy it. Your support inspires me to write, and I'll do my best to tell every story well! —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 2 A Collection of Folk Horror Stories 民间恐怖鬼故事大全 Not for the faint of heart! This collection of folk horror and ghost stories is based entirely on things I have seen and heard myself. I will unveil these long-sealed supernatural tales one by one, taking you into the stories of a past locked away for years. (Better to believe they exist than to believe they don’t.) —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 3 Midnight Supernatural Stories to Hear Before Bed Every Night 每晚睡前必听的午夜灵异故事 A huge collection of short horror, suspense, Cthulhu Mythos, and detective stories. Remember to listen to one every night before bed, and I guarantee you’ll be too scared to sleep! Ahahaha! The stories come in every imaginable form, from ancient times to the present, from all over the world! 4Reads—Score—Shelves
- 4 A Century-Old Lonely Ghost: Haunted by Old Shadows 百年孤魂：旧影缠身 A Century-Old Lonely Soul: Haunted by Old Shadows —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 5 That Was a Skin-Stealing Ghost 那是一只窃皮鬼 [Mild Horror + Humans and Ghosts as Leads + Not a Wish-Fulfillment Story + Humans and Ghosts in a Battle of Wits] In the era after the vengeful ghosts were brought to an end, terror has returned. Are the familiar faces around you really human, or ghosts hiding beneath human skin? Vengeful ghosts that cannot be killed, powers beyond the laws of nature. A skin-stealing ghost has brought an unseen horror back into this world. The battle resumes between the top ghost hunters left over from the era o 1Reads—Score—Shelves
- 6 My Shadow Can Devour 我的影子会吞噬 My Shadow Can Devour 1Reads—Score—Shelves
- 7 Strange Happenings at the Medical College 医学院里的诡异事 From the birth of medicine to its development today, its history could be called the history of scientific progress, or the history of humanity's war against the gods. People today never deny the value of medicine, yet they don't dare deny the existence of gods, either. Ghosts, gods, and medicine have become close companions. As doctors, we too often find ourselves wavering between the divine and the demonic in our stories. Strange tales circulate at every school, and medical schools are no exce 32Reads7.7Score—Shelves
- 8 Meeting You Is Already a Miracle 我能遇见你已经是很不可思议了 This is a story of youthful innocence. Youth should leave no regrets, but time moves forward without caring whether the colors of the story are fading. Gu Xia is in love but cannot find the words to say it. Li Xinran finds true love but still has doubts. In the end, their memories are marked by regret. Sometimes you really don’t know how to express your love so the person you care for will understand how lucky she is, when meeting you is the greatest luck of all. If fate made you choose, would y —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 9 Midnight: Strange Tales 午夜，诡故事 There are things city folk refuse to believe and country folk dare not mention. I wrote them down to warn you: there are places you must not go, and things you must not do. Don’t ask whether they’re real. Ask, and they’ll answer right beside your ear. Before you open this, make sure no one is behind you. —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 10 Flickering Candlelight on the Eighteenth Floor 十八楼烛影摇曳 Flickering Candlelight on the Eighteenth Floor —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 11 The Abusive Scumbag Husband and His Gold-Digging Mistress 暴虐渣男老公和拜金小三 My Abusive Scumbag Husband and His Gold-Digging Mistress —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 12 Reborn: I'm the School Bully! 重生之我来当校霸！ Reborn: I'm Going to Be the School Bully! —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 13 The Night My Boyfriend Cheated, Five Ghosts Entered My Bedroom 男友出轨那晚，五只鬼魂进了我卧室 The night my boyfriend cheated, five ghosts entered my bedroom 4Reads—Score—Shelves
- 14 Strange Folk Tales of Feng Shui 民间风水奇闻 A celestial coffin for burial, a forbidden spell to return to life, a corpse demon of the Southern Sea, an inn between yin and yang... From the moment I accidentally broke a feng shui master’s taboo, my life was doomed to be anything but peaceful. Second Grandpa says it’s karma, a trial I’m fated to face, and a mission I have no choice but to complete... 201Reads—Score—Shelves
- 15 One Ghost Story Per Chapter 单章一个鬼故事 A Collection of Short Ghost Stories [Not for the Fainthearted] An abandoned haystack, bloodstained pottery, a blood-soaked bridal gown... How many terrifying truths, buried by time, are hidden in these old folk artifacts? Every old object conceals a bone-chilling tale. Over 600 terrifying tales of folk horror. Please leave a review! Thank you, dear readers! 716Reads—Score105Shelves
- 16 The Study of Crime: Perfect Evidence 罪理课：完美罪证 My name is Chen Mo, a criminal profiler abandoned by the system. I have hyperthymesia: I can remember every detail of a crime, yet struggle to understand ordinary people's emotions. I solved the police's decade-old Red Dress Serial Murders in seven days. The price was inheriting the killer's murderous impulses. On that rainy night, the dead whispered in my ear: “Welcome to Forgotten River. Your next target... is yourself.” From then on, I was forced to join a crime-solving game spanning a hundre —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 17 Live-Streaming My Counterattack in Rules Horror Stories 我在规则怪谈里直播反杀 The rules-based horror game arrives, and the whole world is thrust into a livestream of death. Then I see my “dead” sister from three years ago on the screen. She mouths to me, “Big brother, don’t trust the rules. Trust me.” The next second, viewers have tipped over a hundred million in my livestream. They want me to kill my teammates. Here, fear is currency, and popularity keeps you alive. Viewers’ emotional-value tips can be exchanged for clues, weapons, and even the power to make someone else 1Reads—Score—Shelves
- 18 A Ghost Story Every Day 每日一遍鬼故事 Can't sleep? Come on in. After reading this, you won't want to sleep at all. Listening makes the stories even more immersive. There are all kinds of tales: eerie, supernatural, touching, and more. A new story every day. —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 19 Starsea Chronicles: Earth’s Nanite Plague 星海纪年：地球纳米蛊灾 [Reverse transmigration? + slow-burn power fantasy + invincible protagonist? + tech fiction?] “Unfortunately, my appearance today has been overshadowed by a string of speculation. That my company and team are developing a weapon of mass destruction capable of targeting a specific ‘group.’” “Are we developing such a weapon? No... we aren't. Because we developed it long ago.” At the United Nations Corporate Summit, Jian Xiwen, proxy controller of ORGT, stunned the entire room with a single sentenc 1Reads—Score—Shelves
- 20 I Reincarnated as a Domineering CEO 穿成了霸总 Cheng Nian had just gotten into a heated online argument over The CEO Falls in Love with Me when she transmigrated into the book as a supporting female character. The moment she opened her eyes, the halo above the male lead's head nearly blinded her. At first, all she wanted was to avoid the fate written for her, but she soon discovered that the male and female leads kept appearing in front of her in all sorts of uncontrollable ways. As she changes the plot step by step, will the supporting fema 4Reads—Score—Shelves
- 21 Midnight Terror 午夜恐怖 Su Qi struggles to survive in a terrifying world, making readers feel the characters' fear and despair as if they were their own. Are you ready for the terrifying feast these characters have in store? Let us step into this endless journey of horror together. 30Reads—Score—Shelves
- 22 Where the Mirror Returns 镜归处 Where the Mirror Returns —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 23 Reclaimed Body Heat 体温回收 Body Temperature Recovery 1Reads—Score—Shelves
- 24 Expired Time 过期时间 Expiration Date —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 25 I Moved into the Wall of a Living Person 我住进了活人的墙里 I Moved Into the Wall of a Living Person 2Reads—Score—Shelves
- 26 Midnight Death Subscription 午夜死亡订阅 Midnight Death Subscription 2Reads—Score—Shelves
- 27 The Bloody Rescue on Dongji Island 《东极岛血色营救》 Bloodstained Rescue on Dongji Island 6Reads—Score—Shelves
- 28 My Nightmares Were Written into a Novel 我的噩梦写进小说里 Strange tales from folk tradition, and eerie stories from dreams brought to life in fiction. Horror, mystery, and suspense that come as close to reality as possible, with a chilling eeriness that makes your skin crawl. Ghosts are an unknown terror. They have no feelings, neither good nor evil. Sometimes, you just happen to cross paths with one. —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 29 Twin Jade Hairpins: The Qixian Continent 双生玉簪之栖贤大陆 Ye Zhiqiu is a science prodigy, while Su Luoyan is a humanities star. After they become bound to the Twin Jade Hairpin System, they will use their own methods to understand and rewrite the world, creating and nurturing a Qixian Continent of their very own. 3Reads—Score—Shelves
- 30 The Seven Seas Tower: Rules of the Strange 七海栖楼规则怪谈 Qihai Qilou Rule Horror —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 31 A Collection of Terrifying Folk Ghost Stories 恐怖民间鬼故事合集 This book collects real folk ghost stories from all over the country and adapts them based on the author's experience, striving to make it a book everyone will enjoy. Readers are also welcome to leave comments about frightening and terrifying things they've heard about or encountered. The older generation says that after death, people go to the underworld. They pass by the River of Three Lives, cross the Bridge of Helplessness, and drink the Meng Po Soup brewed by Meng Po herself, forgetting a —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 32 Supernatural Mystery: The Haunted Bus of Western Hunan 悬疑灵异故事｜湘西鬼大巴 Mystery and Supernatural Story | The Haunted Bus of Xiangxi —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 33 Supernatural Mystery: The Ballad of the Lonely House 悬疑灵异故事｜孤宅童谣 Mystery and Supernatural Story | The Nursery Rhyme of the Lonely House —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 34 The Midnight Spirit Medium 午夜问米人 Before my grandfather died, he handed me a bag of moldy rice and said that our family had been asking rice questions for three generations, but the tradition had to end with me. I asked why. He only said, “Because some things, once you ask about them, you can never come back.” I didn't listen. I took the bag of rice. On my first night asking the rice, I asked about Liu, the widow who had hanged herself at the end of the alley three years ago. The rice spun three times in the bowl, then stood 74Reads—Score—Shelves
- 35 The Dragon-Locking Well: Snakebone Town 锁龙井：蛇骨镇 The Dragon-Locking Well: Snakebone Town —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 36 Short Horror Mystery: Scissors 短篇悬疑恐怖故事｜剪刀 Short Mystery Horror Story | Scissors 2Reads—Score—Shelves
- 37 I Have Two Immortal Kingdoms Within Me 我身上有两个神仙国 [Passionate + xianxia + comedy + one heroine + no System + not a wish-fulfillment story] Zhou Ye is a downtrodden office worker, cursed out by his boss and betrayed by his colleagues. Then one day, he discovers that the moles on his body can move! They turn out to be two divine kingdoms that fled a heavenly tribulation and settled on him! From then on, everything changes: When he scrapes his knee, the kingdoms think the land is shaking and mobilize the whole nation to deal with the disaster. If —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 38 The Crematorium Dormitory on Ghost Festival Night 七月半之焚尸寝 [On the fifteenth night of the seventh month, don’t open the door to Room 404 without good reason.] At Qing Teng University, a strange taboo surrounds the old, dilapidated Room 404 dormitory on the fifteenth night of the seventh month. On Ghost Festival, the bold Su Yao leads her roommates in a “spirit-summoning game,” awakening a slumbering grudge. A faint smell of burning becomes the beginning of a nightmare they can never escape. Lin Wan is the first to notice that something is wrong: a cha 4Reads—Score—Shelves
- 39 The Classic of Mountains and Seas: Agent of Gods and Demons 山海经：神魔代理人 The day programmer Lu Li loses his job, he inherits an old Republic-era building. On his first night after moving in, he hears chewing beneath the floorboards. A pair of eyes watches him from the well. The person in the mirror moves half a beat too slowly, and every baby in the building starts crying in the middle of the night... He discovers that twelve mythical beasts from the Classic of Mountains and Seas are sealed beneath the building, and that the blood of an exorcist, along with a curse, 1Reads—Score—Shelves
- 40 I’m a Memory Quality Inspector, Until I Saw Myself Dead 我是一名记忆质检员，直到我看到了死亡的自己 I'm a memory inspector. Then I saw myself dead. —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 41 The Whole Sect Ascended to Immortality, While I Played Dead to Escape the Slaughterhouse 全宗门都在得道飞升，只有我装死逃出屠宰场 Everyone in the sect is attaining enlightenment and ascending to immortality. I'm the only one who fakes my death to escape the slaughterhouse —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 42 The Mysterious Flower Shop of Yin-Yang Spirit Eyes 阴阳灵眸之神秘花店 The protagonist, Fan Nana, grew up in a gloomy orphanage. She has Yin-Yang Spirit Eyes that let her see ghosts. At the request of the old director, who appears in a painting, she sets out to uncover the orphanage's secrets. After overcoming countless dangers, she finally exposes the conspiracy behind the disappearances. With help from a caregiver, she brings the culprit to justice. Later, she arrives in an unfamiliar city and happens upon a mysterious flower shop, embarking on a new journey thro —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 43 The Dragon Vein Seals the Demon: A Record of the Thousand-Year Seal at Guling 龙脉锁魔：谷岭千年封印录 Gu Ling Village in the Qinling Mountains lies at the “dragon's eye” of a dragon vein. Villager Li Gensheng comes back from the dead as an evil spirit, and strange events plague the village. The master and disciples of the Tianxin Sect join forces with Taoist priests from the Lingbao and Shenxiao sects to exorcise the evil. They uncover the secrets behind the Yinluo Sect's thousand-year seal and old grudges between sects. In the end, they destroy the remaining evil spirits and protect the dragon 2Reads—Score—Shelves
- 44 The Thousand and First Story 第一千零一个故事 Each story stands on its own. In every story, there is someone named Chen Mo. He is never the same person, yet on different nights, he always finds himself caught up in different strange happenings. Old buildings, rainy nights, long-distance buses, funeral homes, elevators, schools, haunted houses... When the truth comes to light, the living are colder than ghosts, and the past runs deeper than death. Welcome to The Thousand-and-First Story. The next story may already have begun. —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 45 We Live in Montreal 我们生活在蒙城 We Live in Montreal —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 46 Grandma's Wardrobe Hides Another Me 奶奶的衣柜藏着另一个我 There’s Another Me Hiding in Grandma’s Closet 1Reads—Score—Shelves
- 47 Double Reflection 重镜 Double Vision —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 48 Echoes in the Bone 骨相回声 Echoes in Bone —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 49 Don't Click In, This Livestream Is Really Haunted 别点进来，这直播间真闹鬼 Don’t Click In, There Are Real Ghosts in This Livestream —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 50 Reborn: The Thousand Doors' True Heir Returns to the Jianghu 重生之千门正将再战江湖 This story follows a master swindler who is reborn in the parallel world of Hankou in 1926. Amid that turbulent era, he navigates the chaos, turning the tides with a flick of his hand! Perhaps in another world, such a band of heroes really did exist! 5Reads—Score—Shelves
