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- 101 The Strange Studio: Ten Thousand Tribulations of Reincarnation 异斋之万劫轮回 [Chinese-Style Supernatural Horror + No Romance] [Infinite-Flow Stories Set in the World of Strange Tales + Causal Loops Driven by Human Obsession] Have you read Strange Tales from a Chinese Studio? Do you think of it as folk tales of the supernatural from the late Ming dynasty, or as the heartwarming, romanticized “fox spirits and ghosts” seen in TV dramas and movies? The evil in human nature, the ferocity of spirits and monsters, and the poison of karma rebuild every Strange Tales story into a 1Reads—Score—14d adds
- 102 Ghost-Hunting Operation 猎诡行动 [Infinite-Round Game + Mild Horror + One Female Lead + Dungeons] In an era when advanced intelligent technology is flourishing across the globe, a new kind of game has become popular. It has replaced traditional computer and mobile games with AI-simulated horror stages set in virtual worlds. Players enter these worlds by falling asleep through a gaming brain-computer interface, where they battle monsters and ghosts. They can clear a stage by finding a way through or killing the ghosts. Even if p 22Reads—Score—14d adds
- 103 The Yin-Yang Twin 阴阳双生人 [Mild Horror + The Supernatural] Ming Ye grew up living in a cemetery. Her parents went missing seven years ago and were eventually found dead under bizarre circumstances in the mountains. Seven years later, she became an emergency room doctor. One midnight, she met the Taoist priest Xu Baoyang on a bus as he was out catching ghosts. Later, while tracking clues about his missing master, Xu Baoyang came to the hospital where Ming Ye worked and discovered that a strange hospital orderly had set up 2Reads—Score—14d adds
- 104 Everyone Is Following the Fake Rules 所有人都在遵守假规则 Endless rule-based instances descend upon the world, and every public rule they announce is a trap meant to lure players to their deaths. Shen Yan awakens the [Hidden Adjudication System], which lets him see through the true survival rules concealed within each instance. While others follow the rules and walk to their deaths, he breaks them and finds a way to survive. In one perilous instance after another, he meets all kinds of women and, amid deceit and betrayal, leads his companions through l 2Reads—Score—14d adds
- 105 I Keep Being Reborn in an Infinite-Loop World 我在无限流里不断重生 [Infinite-flow horror, ensemble cast | No System, no golden finger | No mindless power fantasy] After clearing my twelfth instance, I didn't get to go home. Everyone had been deceived. Clearing an instance didn't let us leave at all. It turned out that clearing an instance didn't mean escaping. We were trapped in an endless cycle of worlds, each layer harder to tell from reality than the last. The boundary between the instances and reality had blurred completely. Was anything before our eyes 11Reads—Score—14d adds
- 106 Fourth Hospital: Patient 302 第四医院：302病人 A night of torrential rain, 11:44 p.m. Lin Chen and his younger brother Lin Ye wandered into a hospital that didn't exist on any map: Fourth Hospital. There is no fourth floor, yet everyone talks about it. The elevator descends on its own late at night. The nurses making their rounds never knock. The children in the wards keep repeating the same sentence: “Are you also unable to find your mother?” And every rule ultimately points to the same room number: 302. As they explore further, the brother —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 107 Rule Horror: An Infinite-Flow Haunted Campus. Don't Trust Any Rule (2) 规则怪谈：无限流诡异校园，别相信任何一条规则（2） Rule Horror: The Infinite-Flow Haunted School. Don’t Trust Any of the Rules (2) 1Reads—Score—14d adds
- 108 The Haunted House: The End of the Foggy World 诡舍：迷雾世界终点 [Transmigrate into a Book + Infinite Flow + Mild Horror + Survival + One Heroine] Fu Jinyue accidentally transmigrated into the world of a book. After going through one bizarre and eerie instance after another, he finally learned the answer... 370Reads—Score10514d adds
- 109 In the Underworld from the Start, and It Only Gets Darker! 开局在阴间，之后也阴间！ Dual Personalities + Infinite-Flow Horror + Cold Protagonist + No Saintly Savior + Poker Face + No Female Lead When he opened his eyes, Murong Yinghou found himself in a bizarre place. He had to enter one world after another, each filled with vengeful ghosts and curses. Relying on his absolute rationality, he cleared mission after mission and even became a hunter of evil spirits! Others admired and liked him for his intelligence. But they also feared him for his cold-bloodedness… 7Reads—Score—14d adds
- 110 Rule Horror: Every Rule Is Waiting for Me to Break It 规则怪谈：所有规则都在等我违规 Rule Horror: Every Rule Is Waiting for Me to Break It 5Reads—Score—14d adds
- 111 The Hall of Mirrors 镜厅 [Infinite Flow] + [Mild Horror] + [One Heroine] + [Instances] The moment you step inside, you enter the endless Mirror Abyss. Every Mirror Abyss holds the lingering obsession of someone who has died. The rules for survival must be tested with human lives. More terrifying than ghosts are human hearts. Some stand shoulder to shoulder in the darkness, while others stab their companions in the back when all seems lost. Can the rifts deep within the Mirror Abyss ever be repaired? Put your mind to 3kReads6.4Score35714d adds
- 112 Cha Mi High School 茶靡高校 [Infinite Flow] [Instance-Based Story] [Original Horror Instances, Mildly Spooky] My name is Lin Fen. A bizarre car accident turned my peaceful life upside down. That day, my mother and I were crossing the street. A speeding car came hurtling toward us. My mother pushed me out of the way at the last moment and was struck dead by the roadside. I watched in terror. Then I remembered: I didn't have a mother at all! I, Lin Fen, had only ever known busy caregivers since I could remember. I was a chil 7Reads—Score—14d adds
- 113 Fogbound Game: Please Follow the Bloodstained Rules 迷雾游戏，请遵守血色规则 [Supernatural Infinite Flow, no power leveling, no System, human ingenuity, not a conventional power fantasy] Chen Mo, a high school teacher who believes in reason and logic, steps into an old alley shrouded in urban legends and is inexplicably dragged into a nightmare called the “Mist Game.” Every deadly game has a hidden, blood-red rule. And he’s the only one who can see it. 69Reads—Score—14d adds
- 114 Forbidden Tales of the Desolate Village: A Midnight Whistle, and a Shrouded Corpse Spirit at the Door 荒村禁忌：夜半吹哨，白布尸魂找上门 Taboos of the Abandoned Village: A Whistle in the Dead of Night, and a White-Cloth Corpse Spirit Comes Calling —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 115 The Ultimate Supernatural Horror: The Ghost Card Train 终极灵异：鬼牌列车 [Supernatural] + [Horror] + [No Female Lead] + [No Sanctimonious Hero] + [No Mindless Decisions] Ghosts cannot be killed. Every ghost has its own unique rules for killing. Every card represents a vengeful ghost. Find a way to control the ghosts and escape the supernatural incidents. An old, eerie train stained with blood runs toward a terrifying supernatural realm. Where is the train’s final stop? No one knows. Or rather, no one has ever made it to the final stop. 27Reads—Score—14d adds
- 116 The Unkillable Weirdness 诡无法被杀 [No System + not a wish-fulfillment story + endless supernatural mystery instances + the blurb doesn't do it justice + be sure to finish the first instance, there are scares] My name is Zhuang Gui. I'm trapped in a place called Nightmare City. Every so often, I transmigrate in my nightmares to one strange tale after another, forced to struggle for survival. The entities here cannot be killed, and everyone is ruled by fear and despair. Only with courage and wisdom can you find a way out… 7Reads6.9Score—14d adds
- 117 Ten Blood Letters 十次血字 Heavy on deduction, lightly terrifying, with a touch of humor In a corner of an ordinary residential complex stands a strange apartment building visible only to those it chooses. Those chosen by the building can never escape. They can only endure its endless stream of eerie, blood-written instructions. Evil spirits don't reason, and deadly traps lurk everywhere. The only hope of survival is to find the one path to safety that has been concealed. Blood-written instruction: From 00:00 on May 5, 20 9.3kReads6.9Score91214d adds
- 118 Rule Horror: I Start by Creating Horror Stories! 规则怪谈：从创造怪谈开始！ [No heroine + No System + No national destiny + Protagonist creates supernatural rules + Very little protagonist screen time] "The Buddha Statue·Complete" "Dusk and Dawn·Complete" "Praying God Village·Complete" "Mount Daluo·To Be Continued" … "Ascend to the Summit and Become a God·…" Wang Yu was an ordinary person from Blue Star until an accident caused him to transmigrate to a world where supernatural rules had reawakened. This world is full of supernatural rule-based horrors. At regular inte 2kReads6.2Score21314d adds
- 119 Disfigured 破相 A mysterious new tenant moves into the apartment above Xu Ying. He leaves early and comes back late every day, sometimes making a terrible racket in the middle of the night. Yet Xu Ying doesn’t seem to mind. Lin Qiao, a young detective, has been haunted for years by the suspicious suicide of his younger sister, Li Wen. His investigation has recently made a breakthrough, but at the same time he has found himself in another predicament. Ten years after Li Wen’s death, another woman’s body is disco 4Reads—Score—14d adds
- 120 Horror Realm: Seven-Day Survival Game 惊悚位面：七日生存游戏 [Female-oriented infinite flow + plot-driven + horror + deduction + twists] Ye Li, a down-and-out woman, is suddenly dragged into a terrifying realm called “Ciji Children's Welfare Hospital.” She faces an evil doctor with pitch-black pupils growing from his chest, distorted shadows lurking in the midnight corridors, and a death notice demanding that she “survive for seven days.” She licks her cracked lips. There's no fear in her eyes, only excitement! The System says one point can be exchanged f 14Reads—Score—14d adds
- 121 Eerie: The Strange Play Ends in Oblivion 诡异：诡剧终湮 [Suspenseful What-If] [Rule Horror] [Infinite Flow Supernatural Horror] [Horror and the Paranormal] Apocalypse... One month before monsters from another world invaded, Jiang Qiubai unexpectedly obtained a strange play that could take him to other worlds. Only by gathering the powers of the twelve Chinese zodiac signs through these plays could there be any hope of defeating the invasion from another world. Shen Wanqing had been an ordinary college student. Could the two of them successfully tempe —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 122 The Weird Domain: Escape from Skinless Village from the Start! 诡异领域：开局逃离无皮村！ [Infinite Flow + Mild Horror + Survival + Supernatural Instances + No Female Lead] Resentment that cannot be dispelled in the real world gathers to form new eerie domains. After being chosen, people are dragged into an eerie domain when they die unexpectedly. They can return to reality only by successfully completing the tasks inside. Only after escaping one terrifying eerie domain after another by the skin of his teeth does Lu Lin discover that the real world is also being infiltrated and taint 7.7kReads7.1Score55414d adds
- 123 Tales of the Strange: Nine Chances Out of Ten to Die? Sorry, I Can Rewind 怪谈：九死一生？抱歉，我能回档 [Infinite Flow] [Regression] [Mind Games] [Plenty of Twists] [The Protagonist Has No Cheat Skills] Yao Ze died four times in his very first round. Even with the ability to go back in time, he ended up psychologically scarred. The second instance was a punishment round where he barely escaped with his life, and the boss was downright devious. Relying on information he gathered before each reset, Yao Ze relentlessly tests the rules of the instances. He uses his information advantage to match wits 164Reads—Score—14d adds
- 124 I Came from the Underworld to Deal with Those Who Defy the Rules 我从地府来，专治规则不服 I Came from the Underworld to Make the Rules Behave 1Reads—Score—14d adds
- 125 Supernatural Horror: Someone Behind the Wall Is Calling My Name 惊悚灵异：墙里有人叫我的名字 Horror and the Supernatural: Someone in the Wall Is Calling My Name 3Reads—Score—14d adds
- 126 Infinite Flow: Welcome to the Cursed Book World 无限流：欢迎进入诡书世界 (All-female main cast + highly intelligent leads + traditional elements + ensemble cast) (No golden finger + no livestreaming) On the way to bring her younger sister Cang Mu home, Cang Qing strays into a strange world inside a book near the airport. To avoid being killed by its uncanny forces, the sisters are forced to embark on an endless adventure. A different world shrouded in death, mysterious and uncanny paths to survival, and stories set against all kinds of strange backdrops. Taotie, b 111Reads—Score—14d adds
- 127 The Eerie Realm: It Starts with an Elevator 诡界：从电梯开始 [No System]+ [No Heroine]+ [Dungeon Progression]+ [No Saintly Protagonist]+ [Eerie]+ [Original Dungeons] Have you ever wondered? Beneath the neon lights and atmosphere of this city, things lurk that defy all reason. They were chosen by the Eerie [Elevator] and marked by a terrifying curse. Again and again, they must take part in death games, until death claims them. 54Reads—Score—14d adds
- 128 The Water Stain That Never Dries 永远拧不干的水渍 The Water Stain That Never Dries —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 129 I'm a Living Detective, So Why Are You Making Me Solve Ghost Cases? 我一活人侦探，你让我破鬼案 The comic adaptation of this work, "I’m a Living Detective, So Why Make Me Solve Ghost Cases?", is now available. [Infinite flow + no System + no golden finger + horror and suspense] While investigating an urban-legend case, detective Lin Sanshi encounters the same eerie phenomenon as the victim. From then on, he must wander through a series of different mission worlds: A mountain-top guesthouse where people are murdered in a snowstorm A perilous corpse-driving journey A survival game controlled 4.7kReads7.1Score41814d adds
- 130 Strange Survival: Drawing an NPC as My Cheat from the Start 诡异求生：开局抽个NPC当外挂 [Rules-Based Horror + Infinite Flow + Card Draws + Beautiful Female NPCs + Supernatural Survival] Supernatural horrors descend, dragging countless people into one eerie world after another to fight for survival. Jiang Jue is sitting in a classroom when a countdown suddenly appears before his eyes. [3, 2, 1] [Welcome to the Dance of Death.] When he opens his eyes again, he is standing in the middle of a lavish court ball. The duke’s daughter before him is dressed in elaborate finery, her beauty b 12Reads—Score—14d adds
- 131 Beyond the Constant 恒定之外 [Infinite-Rounds-esque] [Mystery] [Supernatural] [Wild Imagination] [Mystery and Wild Imagination] Beneath the Constant, all living beings are pieces on a chessboard. Fate, the script, the favor of destiny, or a predetermined outcome. What people call being reborn and turning your fortunes around is merely a plot the rules have permitted. Whether you lose or break the game, you have only gone from a cage in one script to a cage outside another. Welcome to Beyond the Constant. And I, too, am beyo —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 132 Not a Declaration of Salvation: Welcome to the Salvation Game 非救世宣言【欢迎来到救世游戏】 [Infinite Flow] [Mild Horror] [Survival] [Mind Games] [No Female Lead] [Original Instances] (Satisfying Battle of Wits + Tons of Twists, No CP) The paranormal is coming. The world is no longer what it was. Ladies and gentlemen, welcome to the Game of Salvation. Huai Jiu discovered that he was living in a bizarre world. Even stranger, everyone around him thought everything was perfectly normal! That is, until a mysterious girl dropped from the sky and dragged him into the Bureau for Suppressing 260Reads—Score11214d adds
- 133 Divine Chess: I Woke Up with Amnesia from the Start, and Now You Want Me to Become a God? 神弈：开局失忆，还要我成神？ [Infinite Flow + No Female Lead + Vast Worldbuilding + Light Ensemble Cast] He wakes up with no memories, and five people bound by fate gather at a museum. Awakening an ability should have been cause for celebration. Why does everyone else laugh while I cry? Why are they all obedient while I'm furious? Does that make any sense? What deranged stories lie behind the exhibits? In a world where people rely on powers to survive, a protagonist is surrounded by mysteries, and a colossal lie looms over —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 134 The Haunted Gate: There's a Ghost Inside Me 恐怖鬼门：我的体内有只鬼 (The rating has just come out, and it's expected to rise...) [Infinite-flow + no female lead + fast-paced + battles of human nature] [An evolving protagonist. If it's not your thing, please don't flame me ´ᯅ`] [Don't Open the Door, There's Something Outside...] Arc complete. [Wedding] Arc complete. Read with confidence. [People Come to Kill] Arc complete. [The Missing Her] Ongoing... Rumor has it that anyone who has committed a crime will be dragged through a ghostly door. There, they are fo 87Reads8.1Score—14d adds
- 135 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… 8.4kReads8.1Score94914d adds
- 136 The Purple Rain Descends 紫雨来袭 Also known as "Grief Rises from Within" (Infinite flow + educational themes + no special abilities + not a wish-fulfillment story + twists all the way through) Li Ze, the protagonist, has the ability to empathize. Wherever suffering ignored by society takes place, purple rain falls. It rebuilds that suffering in the victims' minds in distorted, terrifying forms. The monsters, evil spirits, and strange phenomena that emerge from the purple rain retain the defining features of the harm inflicted o 11Reads—Score—14d adds
- 137 The Dungeon Hasn't Even Started, and I've Already Entered 副本还没开始，我已经提前进入了 (Spiritual qi revival + fourth natural disaster + multiple heroines + infinite levels) Spiritual qi revived, and the Main God’s space descended into reality. Some people paid to buy identities; others spent the entire night poring over expensive guides. When eighteen-year-old Yang Jing logged into the Main God’s space for the first time, he discovered he seemed to have unlocked two rather unusual permissions. Every time he entered an instance, he could arrive earlier than the other participants. 45Reads—Score—14d adds
- 138 The Ghost Car: A Road to Survival in the Blood Realm 诡车：血境生路 [Mystery and Deduction] [Horror and Strange Tales] [No System] [Light Brain Teasers] Si Chen wrote a novel called Strange Train. One day, when his inspiration ran dry, he inexplicably found himself inside the book. Aside from the rules of the setting, the story had changed beyond recognition! Passengers enter the train for all sorts of reasons, but they all share one name: Children of Calamity! Behind this train lies a Sin Gate, inside which is a New Era Pawnshop. It can be used to exchange not —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 139 The Horror Stories I Tell on the Midnight Radio Come True 午夜电台我讲的恐怖故事都成真了 [Thriller + horror + wild imagination + plot twists] Zhang Mo, a transmigrator whose parents have both died, is forced to inherit the radio station his father left behind, which is on the verge of going under. Then a System suddenly activates, releasing a new horror story every seven days. To his shock, every story comes true in the real world. The radio station reaches its peak, but little by little, Zhang Mo is driven to despair... 804Reads6.6Score10214d adds
- 140 The Funeral Bearer of the Desolate Village 荒村送葬人 When the suona sounds, it sends off neither ghosts nor gods. It only buries the player. Nineteen years old, a severed finger, a lonely tower, and a deadly Three Corpses Seal in his belly. Behind him, a skin-flaying demon. Before him, red coffins and mist. Not a single person beside him could be trusted. Driven to the brink, he blew the battered suona he’d found. The tune was off-key, yet it shook the underworld. Since this world insists on making me a sacrifice, I’ll be the corpse-piper who send 3.2kReads8.2Score20614d adds
- 141 Run! My Family Aren't Human 快跑，我的家人不是人 [No System] [Not a saint] [Infinite Flow] [mild horror] Just like any other evening after study hall, I opened the front door! The lights were off. My parents were lurking in the dark, waiting to devour my flesh. A guillotine blade hung over my head, held by my younger sister. My older brother had prepared a pot of fresh soup to go with his wine! Run! Run for your life! My family aren’t human! Your goal is to survive in this twisted world of humanity. 272Reads5.5Score11414d adds
- 142 Who Am I? A Tale of Terror Beginning with a Stage Performer 我是谁？从戏伶开始的惊悚 [Not Fanfiction] [Not a Wish-Fulfillment Story] [Slow Pace] [A Mashup of Settings from Multiple Novels, with Major Changes] [No System] [Don't Read If That Bothers You] On an ordinary workday, Wang Anle, just another office worker, merely dozed off for a moment. When he woke up, everything around him had gone completely out of control. One by one, his coworkers turned into “death-faced” people, and the entire office building was sealed inside a bizarre domain. Alongside his death-faced coworkers 3Reads—Score—14d adds
- 143 It’s Just a Horror Game. Watch My Best Friend and Me Put on a Show 区区恐游，看我和闺蜜演它一波 [Female-led | No CP | Infinite-flow | Horror game invasion | Stockpiling | Strong female ensemble | Feel-good power fantasy] Qian Luyi gets a phone call telling her she can inherit the property her mother bought before she died: A building that wasn't mentioned in the will. In Ligang, where the average price is 100,000 yuan per square meter, she's inheriting a whole building? She has to go check it out... Unoccupied for ten years, filthy, and rundown? No big deal! Creepy, strange, and leaki 127Reads—Score10814d adds
- 144 Supernatural Horror Livestream Recordings 超级恐秘直播实录 Prophecies, bizarre murders, mystical feng shui, treasure appraisal, secret Taoist arts... My name is Lin Mo, and I'm from Fujian. By day, I run my family's antique shop, which is barely staying afloat. By night, I make money from tips and commission fees by livestreaming from haunted houses. For the first ten or so streams, I didn't even catch a glimpse of a ghost's hair. Then came my twentieth stream... During that livestream at the ancient Guiyin house in Quanzhou, the regulars in my chat and 3Reads—Score—14d adds
- 145 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 34Reads—Score—14d adds
- 146 The Ghostly Figure Appears 鬼影显形 [Eerie World + Folk Horror Tales + Infinite Flow + Mild Horror + Deduction and Survival + No Female Lead] My name is Zhou Lin, and I transmigrated! But my original Host didn't die. He... became a ghost! A yellowed photograph dragged Zhou Lin from the clutches of a vengeful ghost into another nightmare. The nightmare ended, but the ghosts in the real world never disappeared... A vengeful ghost closing in step by step... The photographs came one after another, haunting him like nightmares, with no 1.1kReads6.2Score10414d adds
- 147 The Endtime Haunted Town 终焉诡镇 [Infinite Flow] [Mystery Solving] [Mildly Frightening] [One Female Lead] A red letter, a rusty key, a town shrouded in mist… The people of the town called the place they lived the “Ghost Town.” There was an altar in the Ghost Town. Every so often, someone had to offer up their life and take part in a ritual. Otherwise, unimaginable things would happen in the town. When Xu Yuan arrived in this eerie town carrying a letter, there was no way out. He could only complete one terrifying ritual game af 26Reads7.0Score—14d adds
- 148 Thriller: I Can Reload Infinitely 惊悚：我可以无限回档 (The rating just came out, but it will rise later) [Not a Power Fantasy + Infinite-Worlds Style + No Female Lead + Growing Protagonist + Original Scenarios + A Tiny Bit of Horror + Death Rewind + Slow Burn] Late one night, Li Wang got a call from his mother, telling him to hurry to the hospital. After the call, his phone conveniently ran out of battery and shut down. So Li Wang took the coin a kind stranger gave him and boarded the bus. But after getting on, Li Wang gradually realized... He was 172.1kReads7.3Score27.2k14d adds
- 149 The Crimson Round Table Game 猩红圆桌游戏 After death, a person weighs 21 grams less. Those 21 grams are a person’s consciousness. When emotions run especially high before death, that consciousness can become an obsession. Only those who die with exceptionally powerful emotions become obsessions, clinging to their last wish and struggling to remain in this world until they can fulfill it. 55Reads5.6Score—14d adds
- 150 Thriller: Paranormal Events Happening Around Me 惊悚：发生在我身边的灵异事件 [No Female Lead] + [Horror and Thrills] + [Not for the Fainthearted] Ever since I was a child, I’ve had three moles on my forehead. The old folks say three moles mean a person is spiritually attuned, which means strange things are always bound to happen to me. Sure enough, paranormal incidents have always happened around me. Today, I’ll tell you about them one by one. 2.3kReads—Score10814d adds
