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- 1 The Taoist Priest Descends the Mountain: A Heavenly Master Cultivation System from the Start 道士下山，开局觉醒天师道法系统 Wang Jiu is an orphan raised by an old Taoist priest, so poor he can barely scrape by. On his first day down the mountain, the supernatural descends and he awakens the Celestial Master System. Catch ghosts? Sure. But can someone tell him why his biological mother is a hundred-year-old vengeful ghost, and his biological father was a Celestial Master from the Republican era? He can't even draw the peachwood sword his master left him. System notification: Your cultivation is insufficient. Please ac —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 2 I Have a Lamp That Illuminates the Mountains and Rivers 我有一灯，照山河 I have a lamp to light the mountains and rivers. I have blood to set the long night ablaze. I have a soul to guide the lost. I have a body to withstand the heavenly tribulation. Keep the lamp, seek clarity, act with sincerity, set the heart straight, Cultivate yourself, guard your dreams, bring peace to others, and bring order to the world! “Life is a candle in the wind; a gentleman keeps its flame from going out.” “If the night seems endless, a gentleman must be the first to press on.” The yout —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 3 Dragon Clan Finale: Song of the World Tree 龙族终篇：世界树之歌 I want to create the perfect ending for the Dragon Clan. When the foundations of the world begin to forget, he will rebuild the entire future for the one he loves. Lu Mingfei has become the one calling the shots at Cassell, but a strange crisis emerges in the shadow of the new world: Chu Zihang's name is quietly vanishing from everyone's memories. Then an ancient song, hummed by the dead, rises from the depths of the subway. To face it, he must embark on a forbidden path that reverses life and d 28Reads—Score—14d adds
- 4 Rule Horror: I Make the Rules 规则怪谈：由我来制定规则 (The women who appear early on are not the heroine! The heroine won't appear until later, when a major secret is revealed! The protagonist isn't an idiot! The male and female leads won't fall in love! They're just partners!) In 2040, supernatural rule-based horror games descended upon the world. Bai He should have been selected to take part in one, but instead he was transported to a strange place. What secrets are hidden there, and how can he find a way out? As he struggles to uncover the truth 2Reads—Score—14d adds
- 5 This Rebirth Was Way Too Hasty! 这重生也太草率了吧！ Rags-to-riches + no System or golden finger + one heroine + slice of life Wen Yi, 36, is divorced, a rising star in the internet industry, worth tens of millions, and at the peak of his life. One late night, exhausted after drinking, he receives a bizarre pop-up: “Press the button for a 50% chance to win 10 million, or a 50% chance of triggering an unknown event.” “Ha, clickbait.” Wen Yi scoffs and presses it without a second thought. He doesn't need the money in his account anyway. He might as —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 6 Thriller: My Sister Is Beyond Medical Help 惊悚：我有一个药石无医的妹妹 [Gaming Talent] [Horror World] [Rule Horror] [Infinite Flow] [Original Scenarios] "There is a game in this world. It keeps pulling people into the game, where they must complete tasks under all kinds of rules. Those who succeed gain power and magic from the game, and may even gain the ability to bring the dead back to life. Those who fail will be cast into the abyss forever..." Lin Yan has a younger sister who is seriously ill. There is no medicine left in the real world that can cure her. So he —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 7 Rule Horror: Joy, Joy, Joy, Joy, Joy, Joy, Joy! 规则怪谈：欢欢欢欢欢欢欢愉！ [Lighthearted Comedy + Invincible Protagonist + No Heroine + The Supernatural + Subversive + Trickster] [This book is entirely fictional. If anything seems familiar, Aha takes full responsibility!] “My name is Yang Ming, an ordinary transmigrator?” “Rule Horror? The supernatural? Never heard of it.” Just as Xia Kingdom suffers three consecutive defeats, Yang Ming arrives with his [Elation], as if he were the salvation guaranteed by a full pity pull! He ignores supernatural corruption and attacks 751Reads6.4Score10014d adds
- 8 The Third Miss Is Always Fighting for What She Wants 三小姐她又争又抢 [A scheming heroine who plays the pig to eat the tiger + a celibate, secretly powerful male lead] Both are each other's first and only Only when the Wen family goes bankrupt do they learn that their mild-mannered third daughter was the real mastermind all along. When Wen Yining is 22, her engagement is called off, and her intended marries her eldest sister instead. The man asks her, “Your stepmother says your father made a will, and you won't get a share of the inheritance. Why would I marry 98Reads6.2Score—14d adds
- 9 I Become a God in Rule Horror 我在规则怪谈里封神 [Tomato's First Toilet Ghost Story] The paranormal descends, and the real world is contaminated by ghost stories. Endless mind-bending rules and terrifying games await. The Ghost Story Conquest Association sends out its outstanding trainees of the year to fight the gods and wipe out ghost stories. No rule is useless; every rule has its place. The rules cannot be broken, and they are absolutely correct. How many people in the world can possibly understand them? Your brain has crashed! A real-worl 2Reads—Score—14d adds
- 10 Your Diary 你的日记本 You suddenly come across a diary. The handwriting is clearly yours, yet you can't remember writing any of it. Curious, you decide to open it and take a look. Maybe it would be better to read it tonight. 1Reads—Score—14d adds
- 11 Guiyuan: Hong Kong Under Siege 归元HK围城 Lin Zhao woke up in a morgue's refrigerated drawer with only one number on his wristband: LY-0001. He didn't know who he was. All he knew was that his right hand could transform into a black jade bone blade, and that devouring the infected let him read their memories. In the post-apocalyptic city of HK, the infected weren't mindless zombies. They shared a hive mind, and each one was a tendril of some ancient entity. 1Reads—Score—14d adds
- 12 A Supernatural Game? I Am the Dread King! 诡异游戏？我，恐怖君王！ [Rules-Based Horror + National Fortune + One Female Lead + Invincible Power Fantasy + System + Becoming King] While contestants around the world were still trembling beneath the horrors and searching for rules to survive, Leng Mo turned around and slapped the life-reaping female ghost flying. The Xia Kingdom livestream went from despair to frenzy. “Our contestant... killed the horror with just a few slaps?!” “Rules? Only the weak need to follow rules!” [Ding! King’s Contempt check successful! Ki 1Reads—Score—14d adds
- 13 A Chronicle of Folk Secrets 民间秘闻纪实 The stories I write aren't made up. They're born when the wind beneath the old Chinese hackberry tree carries the earthy scent of Guanzhong into my ears, then slowly simmers in my heart. The “I” in those stories isn't always the same person either. —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 14 Rule Horror: I Began by Destroying the Will Behind the Horrors 规则怪谈：从毁灭怪谈意志开始 [Rules-based horror + Maoshan Taoist arts + spiritual qi revival + comedy + undercover work + infinite-flow + livestreaming + no heroine] (Adds a two-person puzzle-solving element to the original rules-based horror premise) Rules-based horror descends upon a parallel world, and just after crossing over, Lin Cheng enters his first horror scenario: the Haunted Residential Community. This scenario requires two-person teams! One person goes undercover among the anomalies, while the other plays a res 2Reads—Score—14d adds
- 15 I Use Deduction to Break Through One Mental Prison After Another 我靠推理破解一个又一个茧房 The name card at the head of your bed must face outward. (Anyone who breaks this rule will be the first taken away by the “Smiling Nurse.”) When you hear a lullaby, hide behind the wardrobe and cover both ears. (The singing implants false memories.) Every day, you must tell the elderly patient in Room 307, “You look wonderful today.” (Otherwise, it will trigger a nighttime inspection.) The nurse in a white coat with a red thread embroidered on her left lapel will offer you “calming medicine.” Dr 3Reads—Score—14d adds
- 16 Rule Horror: I Call the Paranormal Entities “Dad” from the Start 规则怪谈：开局我喊诡异爸爸 Cui Fei enters a rule-based horror scenario and gets a Relationship System. Other people's systems are for showing off and getting stronger, but Cui Fei's System makes him call the supernatural entities "Daddy," turns him into their beloved first love, and makes him their love rival! 68Reads—Score—14d adds
- 17 Cultivation Is Too Cutthroat, So I Choose the Demonic Path 修真太卷，我选择入魔 Work myself to death? No way. I’m never doing that in this life. After transmigrating to the cultivation world, Lu Ming thought he’d be soaring on his sword through the wind, free beneath the heavens. Instead, he discovered that things here were even harsher than a 996 work schedule! The prodigies competed over their fathers, their sects, and spirit stones. As a three-nothing fake spirit-root good-for-nothing, he was at the very bottom of the rat race, even when it came to breathing. When his fe —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 18 This World Feels So Unreal 这个世界太不真实了 Also known as The Most Miserable Male Lead in History Two black-and-white doors, a strange journey across different times and worlds, and a terrifying conspiracy hidden behind it all. Will he save the world or destroy it? Wang Chunan, an utterly ordinary college sophomore, unexpectedly acquired two black-and-white doors capable of transporting him to other worlds during a baffling shooting incident. Through them, he glimpsed strange realms beyond the present world. Gradually, he seemed to become 4Reads—Score—14d adds
- 19 The Road Ahead Is Hard 此间路难走 Synopsis: 1090627398 (Fate's branching paths + intertwined A/B timelines, sci-fi mystery with technology turned up to the max. Mind-bending twists throughout, with clever characters. Volume Three includes an outline and plot analysis, so you can see if it interests you.) Lin Weidong, the youngest aerospace authority at Southern Aviation United University, snaps his pen in anger during the first lecture of the school year when a freshman asks, “Can you grow roses in lunar soil?” Blood stains the 2Reads—Score—14d adds
- 20 Stealing Memories: Trapped in a Cage 窃忆火种：我深陷囚笼 Stealing Memories: Trapped in a Cage 1Reads—Score—14d adds
- 21 They Call Me an Ascender, but I Call Myself a Fugitive 他们叫我飞升者，我称自己逃亡犯 [Modern Industrial Cultivation] + [Surviving Rule-Based Horror] + [Nontraditional Cultivation] On the first day of every month, I'm dragged into a hellish place called “Myriad Phenomena Heaven.” It has a scenic area that eats people, a deadly school where you must always tell the truth, a flesh factory that turns the living into canned goods... and one bizarre set of rules after another that you have to obey. I'm Chen Xing, the adopted son of Shuo Bei Governor Xuan Ji, and the last surviving hei 7Reads—Score—14d adds
- 22 Card Master in Another World: Summon Train King from the Start 异界卡牌师：开局召唤火车王 Transmigrate to Azeroth and Let Hearthstone Decide Life and Death! No deck from the start? Watch me turn the tables against all odds! Legendary cards gather to overturn the board of gods and demons! (This new book isn't getting any readers, so I've lost the motivation to write. For now, updates are back to 6,000 words. If you ask for more, I'll add extra chapters.) Yu Xuan transmigrates to Azeroth, where an accident awakens his powers: he becomes a [Spirit Caller]! He also obtains a legendary mi 4Reads—Score—14d adds
- 23 Rule Horror: Survive with Caution 规则怪谈：谨慎求生 [No Female Lead + Mystery + National Security + No System + No Special Talents] With university graduation just around the corner, Ji Qing discovers that his world is full of rules! Following the rules doesn’t necessarily mean you’ll die, but breaking them definitely does!! As his dormmates are infected one after another and turned into puppets, will Ji Qing bow to fate? Ji Qing: My fate is mine to control. Anyone who tries to take it from me can go to hell! First Dungeon: [Campus Urban Leg 17Reads—Score—14d adds
- 24 Rule Horror: I Do It My Way and Gain an Invincible Talent 规则怪谈：我直接，获得无敌天赋 [Horror + invincible protagonist + deduction + comedy] Ye Wudi is a psychiatric patient selected for the Rule Horror game. He is chosen to represent the Dragon Kingdom and receives an SSS-rank invincibility talent from the start. Ye Wudi then appears in a dim room, with dust gathered around him. He opens his eyes with an air of absolute confidence, like a peerless master. Just like his name, Ye Wudi: invincible. But his hands seem to be bound together, and his clothes are unusual, mostly white w 1Reads—Score—14d adds
- 25 Rule Horror: My Yin-Yang Eyes Don’t Count as Cheating 规则怪谈：我用阴阳眼不算开挂 In a parallel universe, strange rules descend upon the world. Countries are randomly chosen to send contestants into the supernatural games. If a contestant dies, their country's population immediately drops by 10%. If they clear the game, their country receives a reward from the rules. The entire process is livestreamed worldwide. Jiang Chen, a genius with Yin-Yang Eyes, was fortunate enough to be chosen to represent the Great Xia Nation in the games. “Cheating? I'd never cheat in my life. What 4Reads—Score—14d adds
- 26 A Cleaning Spell Accidentally Made Me the Sect's Greatest Treasure 清洁术歪打正着后，我成宗门至宝 [Subversive cultivation + the protagonist’s parents are a question mark + smart characters] [Realms: Qi Drawing, Qi Refining, Body Tempering, Foundation Establishment, Golden Core, Nascent Soul, Spirit Transformation, Spirit Separation, Forgotten River, Other Shore, Mahayana] He transmigrates as the lowest-ranking servant in the cultivation world, just as a sect war is about to break out. Zhao Xiao cowers in a corner, trembling as spells fly everywhere, yet somehow never hit anyone. An Nascent S —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 27 Rule Horror: Ghost-Hunting Livestream 规则怪谈：直播捉鬼 Rule Horror: Live-Streaming Ghost Hunts 1Reads—Score—14d adds
- 28 The Rule Horror of the Milk Tea Shop Employee Handbook 规则怪谈之奶茶店店员守则 Rules of the Strange: Bubble Tea Shop Employee Handbook 2Reads—Score—14d adds
- 29 Rule Horror: The Neighbor Who Vanished from the Residents' Group Chat 规则怪谈：小区业主群里消失的邻居 Rule Horror: The Neighbor Who Vanished from the Neighborhood Group Chat 2Reads—Score—14d adds
- 30 My Game Isn't That Scary, Really 我的游戏真没那么吓人 I hate horror. The hurried footsteps racing up behind me, the soft whispers circling my ears that send chills down my spine… Every bit of it. I hate it all. I hate it so much that once it reaches a certain point, I throw up. But I’m a horror game developer. So, since I’m not cut out for this, I’ve decided to quit. And yet… [Congratulations! You have activated the Horror Game Developer System] No, I don’t want it. Let me quit. ※Warning: Your world may undergo some changes. This is the story of a 14Reads—Score—14d adds
- 31 Rule Horror: Teacher Su Is Starting Class! 规则怪谈：苏老师开始讲课啦！ [Rule-based horror + national fate game + no romance + no clichés + original scenarios + mildly scary] Three years ago, rule-based horror arrived, ushering in the National Fate Game. In the second month after the rule-based horror challenges began, the entire Dragon Kingdom threw its resources into collecting folk tales about ghosts and monsters and compiling them into books. At the same time, it trained tens of thousands of teachers in its first cohort, all interested in folklore and experience 44Reads7.1Score—14d adds
- 32 A Cup of Milk Tea for You 给你一杯奶茶 Fu Shanling entered Xu Fengqing's dreams. But one day, Xu Fengqing could no longer dream of Fu Shanling, and it was as if Fu Shanling had never existed at all. “If you really exist, why won't you come find me? If you're not real, why won't you enter my dreams again?” 3Reads—Score—14d adds
- 33 Case Seven: From a Ghost's Last Wish to a Cult Mystery 第七单：从亡魂心愿到邪教迷案 Case Seven: From a Dead Soul's Wish to a Cult Mystery —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 34 After a Ghost Hit Me While Delivering Takeout, I Became the Underworld's Top Mediator 送外卖撞鬼后：我成了阴阳界金牌调解员 After Running into a Ghost While Delivering Food, I Became the Underworld's Top Mediator —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 35 As Long as the Heart Lamp Burns, His Delivery Box Carries Unfinished Wishes 心灯不灭，他的外卖箱里装着未了的心愿 As Long as the Heart Lantern Burns, His Delivery Bag Carries Unfulfilled Wishes —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 36 My Mother Is Nüba 我的妈妈是女魃 I have a cheap mom. She’s gentle and kind, beautiful and generous, and always eager to help. P.S. She squeezed my neck and forced me to write those compliments~ She comes from a mysterious and noble background, and she’s long since grown tired of fighting. Unfortunately, the world is full of petty villains, so she has no choice but to send me, her cheap son, out to shield her from the wind and rain and work like an ox~ Life may be hard, but there’s plenty of fun, too. After all, some female ghos 963Reads—Score10214d adds
- 37 Rule Horror: The Haunting Is Right Beside Me 规则怪谈：怪谈竟在我身边 [Mystery + no female lead + eerie + rule-based horror + no special abilities + no national fate] From the start, all you’ve got is a brain, and all your reasoning runs on six walnuts. A seasoned reader named Fang Yan had read every kind of rule-based horror story and developed a keen interest in them. One day in the future, in order to accomplish a certain goal, Fang Yan would wipe himself clean and load himself into a horror story to uncover its truth. As part of the process, some of his memori 2Reads—Score—14d adds
- 38 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 1Reads—Score—14d adds
- 39 Original Sin 原罪 In a completely sealed room, a young university student’s heart stops, and she dies inside. It all began with the summoning game “Bloody Mary”... Set your mind ablaze! Put your brain to the test! Even the perfect murder cannot escape the long arm of the law! Suspenseful, uncanny cases await in Original Sin! 20Reads6.2Score—14d adds
- 40 Loved at Last, Mending Old Wounds 偏偏宠爱弥补遗憾 [Making up for Jiang Ren’s college dream and the regrets of Meng Ting and Jiang Ren’s high school years] Meng Ting gave birth to two adorable children, Jiang Yifei and Jiang Yixi, during her junior year of college. She and Jiang Ren had been happy together ever since they married. But one day, an offhand comment from one of Yifei’s classmates left him tossing and turning: “Yifei, why does your dad run so strangely?” Later, thoughtful Yifei went to Jiang Ren and Meng Ting to ask about it. The you 409Reads—Score—14d adds
- 41 A Guide to Raising an Evil God 邪神养成指南 The professor is passionately lecturing in class when, in the next moment, the floor caves in and black water floods the classroom. When she opens her eyes again, everything in the classroom is as it was. A ring of purplish bruises has appeared around her wrist. One campus ghost story after another begins to surface: A baby crying by the lake at midnight, bruises crawling across her roommate's body, and a pregnant senior student mysteriously falling to her death. Is it all coincidence, or reveng —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 42 My Fair Princess: The Whole Cast Turns Evil and Falls Apart 还珠格格：全员恶人崩坏中 My Fair Princess: The Entire Cast Turns Evil and Goes Off the Rails 1Reads—Score—14d adds
- 43 The First Night: The Ghost Baby 第一夜：鬼婴 The First Night: The Ghost Baby 1Reads—Score—14d adds
- 44 Rule Horror: The Supernatural Beings Fear Me Like a Tiger 规则怪谈：诡异视我如猛虎 [No female lead + livestreaming + hilarious + eerie + national destiny + absorption] The eerie descends, and those chosen are sent to represent their nations in a world of urban legends, where they must face the eerie. If they fail, the eerie descends upon their country. If they succeed, it disappears. The Dragon Nation has already endured four waves of eerie incursions. It can't withstand a fifth. Wei Ming, who has terminal lung cancer, wants to bring honor to his country before he dies. After 128Reads8.4Score—14d adds
- 45 I Exorcise the Uncanny in My Dreams 我在梦里荡除诡异 [Not AI-written] + [Mystery Revival] + [Decisive and ruthless] + [No holier-than-thou heroine] + [Mild horror] Fang Hai has had the same dream since childhood. It feels just like another world. That world became his place to unwind and relax, until one day, the supernatural quietly descended upon it... 1Reads—Score—14d adds
- 46 In a Rules Horror Story, All I Have Left Is a Rebellious Streak 人在规则怪谈，我只剩下一身反骨 [No female lead + eerie mysteries + scheming trickster + hilarious + rule-based horror + rebellious] Rule-based horrors descend upon the Blue Star, appearing at random around the world and enveloping hotels, schools, restaurants, zoos... These places can only be restored by solving the horrors. Bai Ge wakes up at school to find himself trapped in a rule-based horror. Luckily, he gains an SSS-rank talent: an irrepressibly rebellious streak! By breaking the rules, Bai Ge successfully solves the “H 15Reads6.8Score—14d adds
- 47 When I Became a Capitalist in a Rules-Horror Story 当我在规则怪谈里做资本家 [PUA Exploitation of Capitalists] + [No Romance] + [National Fate] + [Comedy] + [Eerie] + [Lighthearted] + [Livestream] + [Mystery] The red moon rises, Eerie creatures run rampant, ghost stories invade, the dead return, and people are trapped in an endless cycle… With the Dragon Kingdom on the brink of destruction, Su Fan steps forward. The talent Su Fan draws is to become a capitalist, using PUA tactics to exploit the Eerie. Even the Eerie can only shake their heads in disbelief. The first worl 21Reads—Score—14d adds
- 48 The Truth in the Ruins 废墟里的真相 Ganzhou is a city where prosperity and decay intertwine, its secrets hidden in every street and alley, unknown to all. Yu Lin is an ordinary beggar, living a life everyone overlooks and spending his days wandering the city's darkest corners. Yet Yu Lin has extraordinary powers of observation and deduction, often spotting the truth hidden in people's most casual gestures. One cold, snowy night, a bizarre murder takes place in Ganzhou. A man is found dead inside his own wardrobe, wearing a strange 6Reads7.2Score—14d adds
- 49 From the Start, I Received a Letter from a Dead Man 开局收到一封死人来信 No romance, no harem, no cultivation The year he graduated from university, Ji Yao received a letter from his grandmother, who had been dead for six years. Five kinds of insurance and a housing fund, twenty thousand a month, and just six hours of work a day. Could there really be a job like that? What he didn’t expect was that, after the letter arrived, one misfortune after another would befall him… A train hijacked by ghosts, an old woman made of candle wax crawling out of a flame, a bizarre 7Reads—Score—14d adds
- 50 National Fate Ghost Story: I Was Chosen to Enter an Infinite Dungeon 国运怪谈：我被选中参加无限副本 When the whole world is forcibly bound to supernatural scenarios and forced to watch them livestreamed, Longguo sends in three “freaks”: a con artist who exploits every loophole, a brute who believes only in his fists, and a medium who can commune with ghosts. They are thrown into a blood-red school where the rules are warped: arrive three seconds late and you die, run and you trigger a pursuit, while bones in the walls tick away the seconds. As players from other countries struggle to survive, 191Reads—Score—14d adds
