Novels like A Corrupted Heart
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- 151 Leaving Haozhigou 走出浩志沟 The winter he was seven, Xiang Yang’s feet were covered in chilblains. Pus and blood stuck to his socks, and when they were pulled off, flesh came away with them. There was only one bowl of cornmeal gruel left at home. His mother gave it to him and drank cold water to stave off her own hunger. Everyone in the village said, “That kid’s life is over.” But he refused to believe them. From a poor boy who walked mountain paths barefoot to a factory hand whose feet swelled from standing on an assembly 55Reads—Score—Shelves
- 152 Ghost Tattoo Seal, Forbidden Arts of the Yellow Springs 鬼纹印，黄泉禁术 From the start, he was bound in marriage to a ghost. After a series of twists and turns, he met a master. To stay alive, Yin Linchuan followed an old Taoist priest to catch ghosts and ward off evil, slaying demons and vanquishing monsters. From then on, he embarked on the path of catching ghosts and driving away evil... —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 153 Make Way, the Ultimate Cleaner Is Here! 都让开，终极清道夫来也！ [Not a brainless power fantasy] [A fresh and unusual setting] [I Am the Source of Calamity] [A slow-burn coming-of-age hero] [The tragic beauty of dragonkind] [A richly drawn ensemble cast] Li Xiang, a corporate drone, thought the greatest crises in life were overtime and a mortgage, until he encountered a nonhuman monster in a dark alley and awakened the uncanny power to control the “River Styx.” Only then did he discover that the city he lived in was actually an “abandoned land” where the gods 1Reads—Score—Shelves
- 154 Forbidden Strange Tales: The Taboos of the Folk 禁忌聊斋：民间禁忌的那些事 What you’re reading isn’t just an ordinary supernatural story. It may be a set of rural survival rules that can keep you safe. The taboos of the countryside aren’t just old people’s nagging. Every “don’t touch that” carries the weight of lives lost long ago. When dusk seeps into an abandoned village, the names on the road markers glisten with a deathly aura in the rain; white crows on the eaves of a birthing room beckon a newborn’s soul; copper coins in an old mansion rust into blood scabs; an 706Reads8.2Score—Shelves
- 155 The Haunted Hotel 恐怖酒店 I used to be an ordinary hotel sleep tester. Then one day I spent the night at a hotel where someone had died, and my life was never peaceful again. Every night, I have erotic dreams with female ghosts... 176Reads—Score—Shelves
- 156 Strange Tales of Southeast Asia 东南亚诡事 (The author has opened a coffee shop in the ancient city of Dali and is busy with renovations. Please wait a little while for updates.) My name is Ning. During college, I went alone to Thailand to intern at a hotel, where a series of bizarre and inexplicable things happened. Why was there a temple built inside the hotel? What secrets did this temple hide? 8Reads—Score—Shelves
- 157 The Legend of Xiao Xiao: The Empress Descends to the Mortal Realm 萧潇传：女帝临尘 Her parents ascended, and an empress descended into the mortal world. Twenty years ago, Xiao Yan, Medusa, and Xun’er ascended together to the Great Thousand World, leaving eight-year-old Xiao Xiao alone in the lower realm. Everyone thought the Xiao Clan, deprived of her parents’ protection, was bound to decline. Everyone thought the willful, pampered little princess would be a fleeting star. But they forgot: she was Xiao Yan’s daughter, Medusa’s daughter, and the girl Xun’er raised. Twen 30Reads—Score—Shelves
- 158 Six Dolls on a Rainy Day 雨天的六个娃娃 Six Dolls on a Rainy Day —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 159 Ghostly Tales from Fengdu 丰都鬼事 In her previous life, young artist Lin Wan set out alone for the fabled ghost city of Fengdu to search for her missing older sister, Lin Zhixia. Naively, she trusted the seemingly kind innkeeper and local gentry, unaware that she had stepped into a carefully laid trap. Coveted for her yin constitution, she was ultimately sacrificed in an old mansion behind Fengdu's famous mountain by the so-called “good Samaritans” to a traitor in the underworld who had disguised himself as Black Impermanence. H 4Reads—Score—Shelves
- 160 Notes on Strange Folk Tales 民间诡事札记 The countryside hides the strangest legends and lays bare the truest depths of the human heart. A single red embroidered shoe beneath an old pagoda tree holds a grievance and a hatred left unspoken. A strange peddler knocking at the door in the dead of night carries no ordinary goods in his pack, only old stories frosted over with time. A bronze mirror rising from an ancient well can reflect ghosts, but not the depths of the human heart... These curious tales scattered across bustling streets an 66Reads—Score—Shelves
- 161 Who’s Watching You Sleep? 谁在看着你睡觉 A collection of horror stories, including The Haunting of the Girls' Dorm, The Peeping Eye, and The Abyss of the Locked Room: A Mother's Checkmate! I guarantee you'll be too scared to use the bathroom after reading them at night! Each story is 80,000 to 100,000 characters long. I'm a newcomer, and this is my first time writing on Tomato Novel! I hope you'll give me lots of encouragement! Your support is what motivates me to create more and better stories! 1Reads—Score—Shelves
- 162 Shattered Yin-Yang Jade 阴阳玉碎 [Supernatural + horror + suspense + first person + no idiots in the story + clever protagonist + a touch of angst] "I'm turning eighteen soon. I should die, too." Yu Yue and I are twin sisters, born eighteen years ago on Ghost Festival. A fortune-teller gave us each a jade pendant and said that on our eighteenth birthday, whoever's pendant broke would die. We're seventeen now, and suddenly both pendants have shattered. How can we possibly survive? 43Reads—Score—Shelves
- 163 The Water Ghost 水鬼 Water Ghost 8Reads—Score—Shelves
- 164 Grudge-Locked Patterns 怨气锁纹 Dai Xiaochao, the protagonist, is a college graduate in architecture from the 1990s. Under heavy financial pressure, he moves into a tenement building where a locked-room murder took place two years earlier. Surveillance was scarce in those days, so the police had to investigate door to door, and the case made little progress. Then the ancient Taotie jade pendant inherited by Dai Xiaochao’s family, along with its Taotie patterns, begins to react... And that is where the story begins. 7Reads—Score—Shelves
- 165 A Collection of 365 Strange Tales and Horror Stories 365个奇闻异事和恐怖故事合集 This is a series of short horror stories. The writing isn't the focus; it's all about telling the stories. [Standalone stories + horrors that grow worse the more you think about them + mystery and the supernatural + urban legends + haunted homes + folk tales + strange tales + feng shui and mysticism] Are you ready? When night falls, these terrifying stories will begin crawling into the ears of the living... 736Reads—Score—Shelves
- 166 Midnight Terror: Tales of the Supernatural 午夜惊魂：民间鬼事录 [Folk Taboos + Rural Ghost Stories + Episodic Tales + Chilling on Second Thought] The village elders say that some things are better believed than dismissed. Liu Er, a bachelor, picked up a red wedding dress. That very night, he heard the sound of a suona, and a faceless bride knocked on his door and said, “Liu Er, I’ve come to marry you.” Before a dead person is buried, the guiding candle at the head of the coffin must never go out. Old Liu Guang died, the candle went out, and a crack appeared 4kReads—Score174Shelves
- 167 The Crimson Flower Cup 血色花盏 Blood-Red Flower Cup —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 168 The Night Shift Clerk's Countdown 《夜班店员的倒计时》 The Night-Shift Clerk's Countdown 4Reads—Score—Shelves
- 169 The Clammy Echoes of the Basement 地下室的黏腻回响 The Sticky Echoes of the Basement 1Reads—Score—Shelves
- 170 Lucid Darkness 清醒的黑暗 Clear-Eyed Darkness 2Reads—Score—Shelves
- 171 Route 14 Night Bus 14路夜班公交车 My name is Li Long. For triple pay, I took the night shift on Bus Route 14, the one everyone else avoids. It starts at the old depot in the west of the city and ends at the back gate of the crematorium. Departure time: exactly eleven at night. The passengers have no body heat, no breath, and no faces. They are the souls of those who drowned in the river three years ago. A chilling aura hangs over the route, ghosts follow in its wake, and every stop hides a curse that claims lives. Three rules ar 1Reads—Score—Shelves
- 172 Super Scary: Spine-Chilling Horror Stories 超级恐怖：耸人听闻的恐怖故事 [Traditional Supernatural Tales] [Chinese-Style Horror] [Reader Submissions] [Chilling on Second Thought] [Strange Stories] [Plainspoken Storytelling] [No Fancy Prose] [A New Protagonist Every Chapter to Keep You Immersed] I pieced these stories together bit by bit from old folks around the country, private messages from netizens, and country gossip. They're all little ghost stories I heard before bed. I've rewritten them in plain, easy-to-follow language without beating around the bush. I just 2Reads—Score—Shelves
- 173 Weird Things, Don't Run! 诡异你别跑！ In a modern world where the paranormal is running rampant, how am I supposed to survive? Wait, the paranormal? Don't run! —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 174 Cultivation Logs of a Happy Slacker: I Lie Flat and Love It 咸鱼修仙日志：我做咸鱼我开心 Modern office worker Sang Ning gets lost and wanders into a ruined temple. After receiving a mysterious seed, she accidentally falls off a cliff and transmigrates into the body of a good-for-nothing young woman with the same name in the cultivation world! Facing the selection by the immortal clans and an invasion by the demon clans, she sticks to her workplace philosophy: “Keep your head down whenever you can.” But the awakening of a Chaos Spirit Seed within her draws her into a conflict spannin —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 175 A Grain of Dust Rises, Never Falling with the Sunset 尘埃向上，永不落霞 As life’s burdens crush down like boulders, and the struggle within human nature torments people through the dark hours, this ordinary person, tucked away in the folds of society, clings to a stubborn refusal to give in. Grasping the rope fate happens to toss their way, they hack through the brambles with every choice to turn left or right. This is a fierce struggle against the barriers of class, a coming-of-age epic carved out by sheer force through the mud. Every step is steeped in sweat and t —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 176 The Eerie Phone Call 诡来电 [Mystery + Infinite Realms + Mild Horror + Scenarios + Survival + One Female Lead] The protagonist, Ning Zhaoye, is an excellent psychiatrist. One night, after work, he was walking down a deserted street when the streetlights on both sides suddenly began flickering, as if they had loose connections. Just then, his phone rang. The screen displayed “Ghostly Caller.” Ning Zhaoye assumed it was some kind of prank, so he hung up and turned off his phone. But even after it was switched off, the phone 7.1kReads6.0Score766Shelves
- 177 The Yellow Springs Trading Post 黄泉交易铺 My grandfather ran a pawnshop unlike any other. It had three rules: there were three things we would never accept. No objects from the earth, no divine robes or stage costumes, and no stolen goods. One day, a woman came to our pawnshop and pawned something. My father accepted it. That night, my father fled with the item. I only learned what had happened when the police called to tell me my father had been in a car accident and there was nothing they could do. They asked me to identify his body. 191Reads—Score—Shelves
- 178 The Half-Baked Feng Shui Master: I Became a Legend Through Hands-On Ghost Hunting 半吊子风水师：撞鬼后靠实操封神 Lin Jingran, nicknamed Dogshit, is the most hopeless half-baked feng shui master in the old district. He has no real skills and is a coward, getting by on the old notes his grandfather left behind. That is, until his childhood friend kneels before him, crying that the secondhand house he bought is haunted and his wife and son are close to dying. For two thousand yuan, Lin Jingran steels himself and goes over. He steps on wet hair as soon as he walks in, hears a woman crying by his ear, and watch 3Reads—Score—Shelves
- 179 I Heard My Scumbag Blind Date Killed Me 听说相亲渣男杀死了我 [A bizarre tale. In real life, please don’t date people with mental illnesses or scumbags!] Aunt Six introduced Xia Zhiwei to someone, but the man turned out to be a complete lunatic. He said he could see ghosts everywhere. As luck would have it, the director of a psychiatric hospital happened to pass by and reminded him to take his medication! Help, her blind date is mentally ill... Xia Zhiwei went to confront Aunt Six. What, Aunt Six died last year?! Yan Wangzhi said in a crazed voice: Are you 22Reads6.3Score—Shelves
- 180 Young Tutor, I Would Gladly Throw the Realm Into Chaos for You 少师，朕甘愿为你乱天下 He thinks he's taming a dragon, unaware that the dragon has long since woven a cage around him. Chi Yan, a cool and aloof young tutor, uses himself as bait to enter the game, swearing to overthrow the realm and trample the tyrant beneath his feet. Yan Shi, a mad emperor, welcomes the wolf into his home and watches him maneuver step by step, utterly delighted. He kills loyal ministers and strips the powerful of their authority for him, then offers him the throne with his own hands: “Young Tutor, 4Reads—Score—Shelves
- 181 I've Said Eight Hundred Times That My Surname Is Ma, But I'm Not Chu 说八百遍我姓马但不是出 [Feel-good power fantasy + rebirth + ghost hunting + horror + System + Northeastern Chinese dialect + comedy + fighting + face-slapping + scheming] The male lead was born into the Ma family of Northeast China. He was an obscure nobody until an accident awakened the power within him. His grandfather took him back to their old village to learn the Ma family's abilities. From then on, wherever there are ghosts, he's sure to be there. 9Reads—Score—Shelves
- 182 I Transmigrated Back to Middle School, Only to Discover the Ghost Haunting Our School Was Me 我穿越回初中，才发现当年学校闹的鬼是我自己 I Transmigrated Back to Middle School, Only to Discover That the Ghost Haunting Our School Back Then Was Me —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 183 One Week Until My Thesis Defense, and I Turn Around to Hunt Ghosts 还有一周就毕业答辩了，我转头去捉鬼 My thesis defense is in a week, but I turned around and went ghost hunting —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 184 Want to Roll Over in Bed? Just Buy a 1.8-Meter Charging Cable 在床上躺着想翻身怎么办？买根1.8米数据线就好了 What should you do if you’re lying in bed and want to turn over? Just buy a 1.8-meter charging cable. —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 185 The White Moonlight in the Deep Mountains 深山里的白月光 [No System + no golden finger + fleeing disaster + farming + infrastructure building] On a snowy New Year’s Eve, her father and grandfather are suddenly conscripted. Whether they live or die is uncertain! Wu Yue’er, a farm girl who has been lying flat for thirteen years, is just an ordinary, frail young woman. But she refuses to let her family die, so she follows them to the battlefield, hoping for a chance to save their lives. Before one crisis can pass, another arrives: natural disasters strik 1Reads—Score—Shelves
- 186 Don't Mess with This Fiery Wife 爆辣媳妇就惹我 [Reborn + space + adored by everyone + hopeless flirt + sharp tongue + goofy friends] The cool and confident Qian Ge is an outstanding student, effortlessly excellent at everything. She was destined for an extraordinary life, but after one move, everything slowly began to change: her parents, her friends, even herself... What is really going on? When Lu Qianye is reborn, has her luck been stolen? Why have her parents been sick for so long without getting better? Is she facing a life-or-death cri —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 187 Rural Ghost Stories: A Collection of Short Supernatural Tales 乡村诡事——农村短篇灵异故事集 Rural Hauntings: A Collection of Short Supernatural Stories —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 188 The Clapback Championship: Sister Que, Stop Arguing! 怼王争霸赛：榷姐你别诤了 [Sharp-tongued, flirtatious female lead (goes nuts at any time and has a flair for drama) × scheming, aloof, chaste male lead (emotionally stable) + one-on-one sweet romance with a fiery edge] [Livestreamed dating show + playful banter with trending catchphrases + watched by the whole internet + goofy antics + contrasting charm + laugh-out-loud comedy] (Enter at your own risk! Both leads are total goofballs. Plot-driven, not a traditional wish-fulfillment novel.) The first time Ye Que, a sharp- 10Reads—Score—Shelves
- 189 Eat Mutton, Share the Sheep's Lifespan 吃羊肉，分羊寿 Eat mutton, share the sheep's years of life —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 190 The System Tells Me to Lie Flat: From Good-for-Nothing to Village Tycoon 系统让我躺平从窝囊废到乡村首富 Key Characters - Protagonist: Lin Mo (transmigrates into a village gambling addict, awakens the Lie-Flat System, and uses modern technology and a dragon might physique to turn his fortunes around, becoming a wealthy village tycoon who protects his wife and dotes on his children) - Second protagonist: Su Wanniang (Lin Mo’s wife, gentle yet resilient. She goes from quietly enduring hardship to supporting her husband’s business ventures, becoming his capable partner) Novel Synopsis He transmigrates —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 191 A Collection of Supernatural Horror Short Stories 超级恐怖短篇小说合集 An ordinary office worker in the city buys an antique wooden comb on a whim, unaware that he has become entangled in a terrifying curse spanning a century. A new work, with one self-contained story per chapter. 1Reads—Score—Shelves
- 192 Slacking Off While Cultivating Immortality: I’m Unbeatable Thanks to Sleep 摸鱼修仙：我靠睡觉无敌了 Overworked wage slave Tian Yueliang dies suddenly after pulling an all-nighter and wakes up in a parallel cultivation world. In this world, the Hall of Reincarnation tricks the dead into ascending, when in truth they become nourishment for the True Gods. He refuses to be brainwashed, and while being hunted, he unexpectedly gains a golden finger. The System tells him to go to bed early and stay healthy. The more he slacks off, the stronger he gets, and the cultivation stages are absurd: early to —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 193 The Vengeful Spirit Seal Chronicles_1 怨灵封印传_1 The Vengeful Spirit Sealing Chronicles_1 3Reads—Score—Shelves
- 194 Five Horror Stories That Will Keep You Up at Night 五个让你不敢熬夜的恐怖故事 Five Horror Stories That Will Make You Afraid to Stay Up Late 2Reads—Score—Shelves
- 195 From the Start as a Little Demon? I Smash the Hall of King Yama to Defy Fate 开局成小妖？怒砸阎王殿逆天改命 A mildly terrifying journey through branching timelines. Are you ready? “Inside the bridal shop, the once-cozy pink walls began to writhe. Plump mold worms wriggled out through the cracks, one after another. The clerk's smile never changed. It was like a frozen mask, sending chills down your spine. She reached out to grab me. ‘Let... me... help you... shed... your skin.’” [CULT + branching timelines + mild horror + no saintly protagonist + slow start + supernatural + dreamcore + SAN loss + inf —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 196 After Bragging, AI Tossed Me into a Wuxia World, Where I Chose to Lie Flat 吹牛逼被AI扔去武侠世界后躺平 [Comedy] [No Power Fantasy] [Transmigration] [Wuxia] Yu Xu sprawled on the sofa, bragging: "I'll go to a Wuxia world and sweep the martial arts world in six months!" The AI assistant Doubao replied: "If you can do it, then go ahead." The next second, a flash of white light, and he tumbled down a hillside. His takeout was gone, his phone was dead, and people in ancient clothes thought he was crazy. This AI really comes through. It said it would send him through time, and it did! He practiced mart 1Reads—Score—Shelves
- 197 Mysterious Curse 1 神秘诅咒1 [Supernatural Mystery + Urban Cultivation + Folk Taboos + A Passionate Coming-of-Age Story] Enter a sinister world concealed beneath the bustle of the modern city! I have no control over life or death. My name is Zhang Wen. I thought getting into college would let me escape that bleak village in the southwest. Then my grandfather died suddenly, with these words written in cinnabar on his palm: "Dig three feet down at the southeast corner of the wall." I unearthed a bloodstained notebook. Its fir 5Reads—Score—Shelves
- 198 Strange Tales from the Countryside 乡村诡故事 Before you start this book, a warning: if you scare easily, don't read it. If you live alone, be careful. Every short ghost story here is based on an ordinary person's real-life experience. Not a single word is made up. From the damp old alleyways of the south to the frozen, deserted villages of the north; from late-night overtime in office buildings to lights-out in university dorms; the taboos our elders forbade us to talk about, and the moments you dare not dwell on in the middle of the night 120Reads—Score—Shelves
- 199 Chinese-Style Horror Stories 中式恐怖小说 29Reads—Score—Shelves
- 200 No Responsibility for Scaring You to Tears 吓哭不负责 [Traditional supernatural tales] [Ghost stories] [Chinese-style horror] [Based on true events] [Reader submissions] [Chilling when you think about it] [Bizarre tales] [Beyond the realm of science] [Plainspoken prose, no literary flourishes] [Just stories] Not for the faint of heart! Don’t read late at night! Folklore, haunted houses, eerie village incidents, urban vengeful spirits, supernatural curses, and even non-supernatural stories that are chilling when you think about them... A collection 24.1kReads9.3Score1.9kShelves
