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  1. 51 Sisters, Here’s a Scary Ghost Story to Test Your Nerve Before Bed 姐妹，睡前听个练胆恐怖鬼故事吧 Speaking of Greatness说到大Mystery1.1M WordsCompleted “It’s late. Want to hear a horror story to test your courage?” This is a collection of short horror stories made just for gorgeous you. Every story comes from a crack in ordinary life that becomes terrifying the more you think about it! Maybe it’s the faint sound of breathing beneath your bed, or a strange reflection that flashes across the mirror, or perhaps it’s the home where you live alone, yet someone always knocks on the door in the dead of night... The book is made up of several standa 14Reads—Score—14d adds
  2. 52 The Seven Sages Rule the Martial World 七圣统江湖 Eggplant from Naga那加的茄子Ancient Romance175k WordsCompleted Seven “good-for-nothings” who fought their way out of the mud side by side become brothers. With loyalty as their blade and blood and fire as their armor, they eventually transform into peerless powerhouses capable of defying heaven and subduing the earth. They rewrite the rules, blazing a path from underdogs to legends and shaking the entire jianghu! 1Reads—Score114d adds
  3. 53 Keeper of the Hearth: I Receive the Immortals in Northeast China 守灶人，我在东北领仙 Night Breeze 777夜风777Mystery232k WordsCompleted A Northeast Chinese folk-custom tale about inviting celestial spirits. The Hearth Guardians protect homes and drive out evil, delivering hard-hitting tales of spirit warriors. The last Hearth Guardian holds the line in Northeast China! He commands celestial spirit troops, subdues vicious ghosts across the land, handles the strange affairs of spirit mediums, and protects the peace and warmth of the human world. Let no evil draw near! You know about the spirit mediums of Northeast China, but if yo 3Reads7.3Score—14d adds
  4. 54 Boiling Oil: Root Sacrifice 开油镬：根祭 Eighth Master of Dou City斗城八爷30k WordsCompleted Frying the Oil Wok: Root Sacrifice —Reads—Score—14d adds
  5. 55 My Ghostly Roommate 我的阴室友 Loves Stir-Fried Tomatoes爱吃爆炒番茄Mystery143k WordsOngoing [Paranormal mystery] [Updates daily, though not on a fixed schedule] [Thanks for your support ❤️] Over the summer after my college entrance exams, I kept having the same dream about my college dorm and roommates. Then I dragged my suitcase into Room 304 and saw those familiar yet unfamiliar faces, along with an empty bed. I was stunned. They were Yaoyao and Xinxin, the girls in the photo from my dream. Was the empty bed Qingqing’s? She hadn’t shown up for months after the school year began, so w 5Reads—Score—14d adds
  6. 56 Blood Night 血夜 Chasing the Sunshine追逐阳光6k WordsCompleted The day before I killed my younger brother’s family, my parents were murdered too. At nine the next morning, the phone rang. “Is this Li Feng? Please come down to the police station!” “Sure.” After hanging up, I laughed. “You’ll never catch me!” —Reads—Score—14d adds
  7. 57 Who’s Watching You Sleep? 谁在看着你睡觉 Jason Who Loves Beef Tripe Soup爱吃牛肚汤的杰森Mystery227k WordsCompleted 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! 2Reads—Score—14d adds
  8. 58 The Mystic Carpenter 玄门木匠 Murong Yuanhong慕容渊虹Mystery204k WordsOngoing A new work is out! Welcome to read my stories on Tomato Novel. I hope you'll enjoy them. Your support is what inspires me to write, and I'll do my best to tell every story well! 4Reads—Score—14d adds
  9. 59 Echoes from the Thirty-Six Steps 三十六级台阶的回响 Eighth Master of Dou City斗城八爷20k WordsCompleted Echoes from Thirty-Six Steps —Reads—Score—14d adds
  10. 60 Mint Blossoms at the Tip of a Shoe 鞋尖开出的薄荷花 Eighth Master of Dou City斗城八爷20k WordsCompleted Mint Blossoms at the Tip of a Shoe —Reads—Score—14d adds
  11. 61 The Girl in Red from the Village 村寨红衣女孩 Li Lezhao李乐昭6k WordsCompleted The Girl in Red from the Village —Reads—Score—14d adds
  12. 62 The Ultimate Ghost-Raising Master 极品养鬼师 Nangong Baiyi南宫白衣Mystery38k WordsOngoing [Adult] + [Adorable Pets] + [Sharp Tongue] + [Making Money] + [Secret Arts] Do you know how to raise ghosts? No worries, I do! Do you know how to catch ghosts? No worries, I do that too! Do you know where to find ghosts? No worries, I’ll take you there! Watch your step. Get in! —Reads—Score—14d adds
  13. 63 The Laughing Underworld Chronicles 笑冥录 Wooden Fish by the Abyss临渊木鱼Fantastical Romance183k WordsOngoing “If an almanac could turn you into a ghost right on schedule, but the price was wearing a dead person’s clothes once a day, would you use it?” Top-voted answer (by the poster “Lord Wuchang Has No More Years of Life Today”): “Thanks for the invite. I’m in the underworld, just got off the night shift.” 1Reads—Score—14d adds
  14. 64 Old Tales of Strange Happenings 民间旧诡事 Gray Matter灰白质Mystery399k WordsCompleted The woman in red who knocks on doors late at night, the soul-binding bones beneath the locust tree, the copper-bell curse in an old house in an abandoned village... These old tales of the uncanny, scattered across the countryside, are the idle chatter of old folks and stories sealed away by time... 42Reads—Score—14d adds
  15. 65 Come Listen to a Ghost Story! 来听诡故事！ Gray Matter灰白质Mystery270k WordsCompleted The chime of midnight is the switch that starts each story. Hidden here are 365 eerie legends from every corner of the world. Maybe it's the strange sobbing in the night-shift office during overtime, a stranger's long hair beside your pillow in an old residential complex, or a passenger in a white dress who vanishes in front of a cemetery. One short ghost story every night, tearing through the everyday facade to reveal the chilling truth beneath. Do you dare open this collection of midnight tale 42Reads—Score514d adds
  16. 66 I Heard of Strange Things That Year: Never Read This Late at Night 那年听闻怪事，千万别深夜翻看 Mumu Can't Sleep木木睡不着Mystery261k WordsCompleted These stories are adapted and fictionalized from various experiences shared by friends. They are written in an accessible style and make for a good way to unwind. A reminder: reject superstition. This is all imaginative fiction. Any similarities to real events are purely coincidental, so don't take it seriously! 11Reads—Score—14d adds
  17. 67 The Human-Skin Umbrella 人皮伞 A Jar of Fine Wine一坛清酒11k WordsCompleted A human-skin umbrella! Just as the name suggests, it’s made from human skin. Before the skin is removed, the “material” must soak in a medicinal bath for three full nights. Then the skin can be peeled off with ease. The intact skin is cut into several pieces and soaked in a specially prepared solution for two days. Only after it has been dried in the sun can the crafting begin. A human-skin umbrella is impervious to sunlight. The better the “material’s” skin, the better the user’s skin will be i —Reads—Score—14d adds
  18. 68 I Rented a Haunted House, and My Roommate Is So Strange 租房租到凶宅，我的室友太奇怪 Yun Yin云隐Mystery10k WordsCompleted I Rented a Haunted House, and My Roommate Is So Strange While scrolling through short videos, I discovered that the place I’d been renting for six months was a haunted house where someone had died. Even the pillow used to smother someone to death was lying quietly on my computer chair. I was going to ask my roommate to come with me to get out of the lease. But the landlord said he’d only rented the place to me. What roommate? 3Reads—Score—14d adds
  19. 69 Terror on the Meat Delivery Run 运肉惊魂 Mo Xuanyu墨玄羽Mystery14k WordsCompleted On the eve of Spring Festival last year, I quit my job in a fit of anger and went back to my hometown to work at a buddy’s butcher shop. One night, while we were driving back with a load of meat, a stunningly beautiful woman stopped us. I kindly offered her the front passenger seat, but she opened the door and climbed into the rear compartment, which reeked of blood. On the way, I could faintly hear tearing and chewing sounds coming from behind me. But the only things back there were that beauti —Reads—Score—14d adds
  20. 70 My Neighbor Isn't Normal 我的邻居不正常 Shou Ren守仁11k WordsCompleted My Neighbor Doesn’t Seem Quite Right I secretly recorded all the evidence and called the police, but watched with my own eyes as he hanged himself in a room full of “trophies.” —Reads—Score—14d adds
  21. 71 There's a Ghost in the Dorm 宿舍有诡 Shou Ren守仁10k WordsCompleted My roommate gave me a handmade paper-cut window decoration: the magpies had no eyes, and the paired fish had their tails cut off. Someone commented on my social media post: “That’s a broken talisman. It’s meant to lure a lonely ghost into your home.” I didn’t believe in such things. That night, there was knocking at our dorm room door. In the darkness, I heard a plastic bag rustling under the bed. A cold hand slowly crawled up my leg. —Reads—Score—14d adds
  22. 72 The Haunted House 诡异之家 Shou Ren守仁9k WordsCompleted Three of us went up the mountain to pick mushrooms, but there were four of us when we came back. I desperately told my parents there was an extra person, but they laughed and said I was imagining things. Until, in the middle of the night, I heard them whisper, “She seems to have noticed.” Mom gripped the meat cleaver and sneered. “Just kill her like we did the last one. Then everything will be fine.” —Reads—Score—14d adds
  23. 73 The Intern Who Died at His Desk 死在工位上的实习生 Shou Ren守仁10k WordsCompleted On my first day at my new company, the boss said, “Remember, you must leave before seven.” I thought it was a perk, until my coworker Xiaojuan saw a woman with “limbs like bamboo poles” in the empty office next door. The next day, she jumped to her death. That night, I worked overtime until 7:01. Suddenly, someone cut the power, and a freezing hand slipped inside my collar. The cleaning lady appeared in the darkness. “Run! Everyone on this floor has been dead for ages, except you!” —Reads—Score—14d adds
  24. 74 Please Do Not Use the Voice Button 请不要使用发声按钮 Shou Ren守仁10k WordsCompleted At midnight, my dog pressed the talking buttons in the living room: [Mom] [Bad thing] [Went out]. I was too sleepy to pay attention, until it pressed them again: [Mom] [Hungry] [Want food]. But my dog was fast asleep at my feet. The living room was empty, except for the overturned dog bowl and the soaked buttons. My best friend said, “Cats and dogs can see things people can’t.” I tried to stay calm, but then I felt a dog leash tucked between the sofa cushions. It wasn’t mine... Just then, the be —Reads—Score—14d adds
  25. 75 Manor of Strange Tales 庄园怪谈 Nope非也8k WordsCompleted I came to Cloudtop Manor to look for clues about my younger sister’s disappearance. When the gates closed, the manor’s steward told us: “You can only leave once you find the key.” Each of us was given a list of rules about the manor: “Do not set foot in the red house to the east. It will bring misfortune!!!” “Do not wander around the manor after eleven o’clock!!!” “Do not pick a single rose in the manor, or you may bring a deadly disaster upon yourself!!!” The remaining rules are still “unlockin —Reads—Score—14d adds
  26. 76 The Door Guardian Statue 门神像 Xiao Qing小青9k WordsCompleted The company is built on a mass grave, and every night, “something” follows me into the bathroom. My boyfriend told me to put up a Door God poster, but I accidentally put up a “Yin-Gathering Formation” instead. Ever since, the ghostly knocks at my door haven’t stopped. He said that repeating “I do” three times would drive away the evil spirits. But after I actually said it for the third time... I realized he didn’t want me. He wanted my body. The male ghost who’d been chasing me kept whispering i —Reads—Score—14d adds
  27. 77 Beware of Yourself 小心你自己 Xu Jingqi徐镜淇10k WordsCompleted Every Wednesday, a note warning me would appear in the company suggestion box. I thought it was a prank. I thought my colleague Lin Hao was getting revenge, until the police shot him dead in my living room. The last note said: “Watch out for yourself.” I turned around and saw my wife raise a knife —Reads—Score—14d adds
  28. 78 The Vengeful Ghost 怨鬼 Xiao Qing小青12k WordsCompleted My roommate sobbed as if her heart were breaking every night. I posted online to complain, and a female Taoist priest messaged me: “She’s not human. She’s a vengeful ghost. The more often she cries, the sooner you’ll die.” I didn’t believe it, until one night she bit into my wrist and smiled. “Have a taste.” I ran, she chased me, and the Taoist priest Jiang Yu handed me a string of bodhi beads. “Put them on. They’ll protect you.” I put them on, and she smiled. It turned out this wasn’t a protect 1Reads—Score—14d adds
  29. 79 Knock on the Door and Die 敲门会送死 White Swan白鹄8k WordsCompleted An delivery driver chasing online views deliberately targeted orders marked “Don’t knock.” This time, he’d picked the wrong person. He pounded on the door, picked the lock, and stormed into my home with a group of people, shouting to the millions watching his livestream, “Come out and apologize, beautiful!” Cradling the ghost baby, I said softly, “Go eat, sweetheart.” The next second, a tiny blue-gray figure pounced That night, every viewer in the livestream remembered: Some doors, once knocked —Reads—Score—14d adds
  30. 80 Please Find My Body 请寻找我的尸体 Searching for Cherry Blossoms寻觅樱花10k WordsCompleted I’m Hell Butterfly, a mystery writer who never shows her face. One day, I launched a puzzle game called “Find My Body,” and the whole internet thought I was just drumming up publicity. Until someone really found the body of a woman in white beside an abandoned building. Posing as a reporter, I called the police and pointed out “my own” corpse to them. Everyone thought the dead woman was me, not knowing she was my younger sister, who had been missing for half a year. The real killer lived in the —Reads—Score—14d adds
  31. 81 The Night Shift Guard 夜班保安 lookMystery7k WordsCompleted On my first day as a night-shift security guard, I found my predecessor’s patrol notes in a locker The last page was scrawled with the words, “Don’t trust Captain Wang. He’s been dead for seven years.” At that very moment, in the monitoring room, Wang Shouquan was staring at a screen full of static and smiling, his corpse-spotted hand clutching an employee badge from twenty years ago. And I’d just seen another uniformed version of him patrolling the fourth floor. —Reads—Score—14d adds
  32. 82 Last Train: No Living Passengers Allowed! 末班车，活人勿进！ Bai Ze白泽Mystery11k WordsCompleted The card reader let out a series of warning beeps, and the driver handed me a note: Don’t speak to anyone on the bus, or you’ll die. I turned around and saw Lin Shen, the senior I’d had a crush on for five years, sitting in the back. He was dressed in a suit, but his head was slick with cold sweat. “Everyone on this bus except us is a ghost,” he whispered. The next second, the wound on my wrist suddenly split open, and a drop of blood fell. Every passenger turned to stare at once. I recognized t —Reads—Score—14d adds
  33. 83 A Thousand-Year-Old Zombie Awakens! And Becomes a Celebrity Ghost Hunter 千年僵尸苏醒！竟成网红捉鬼师 Xiao Youqian萧有钱Mystery12k WordsCompleted My name is Jiang Shi, and I’m a thousand-year-old jiangshi. But after waking from a long slumber, I took on a new identity. I’m going to become an internet-famous ghost hunter. 43Reads—Score114d adds
  34. 84 The Ghost Whisperer 鬼语者 Full of Energy元气满满Mystery11k WordsCompleted I’m a nurse, and I can talk to ghosts. After working night shifts for so long, I’ve seen my share of strange things. The nurses were chatting about the weird things that had been happening lately. Every night at midnight, we could hear the sound of a woman’s high heels. Click... click... click... “It’s so creepy. It’s our turn on the night shift tonight. What are we going to do?” Xiao Zhang asked nervously, clutching my sleeve. “What’s there to panic about? It’s normal for ghosts to show up in a —Reads—Score—14d adds
  35. 85 The Woman Eaten by a Cat 被猫吃掉的女人 He Xi, What Evening?荷兮何夕Mystery11k WordsCompleted Ten years ago, I handled a child abduction case. The child was never found, and the mother drank herself into a stupor every day. One day, she got drunk and passed out in an abandoned house on the outskirts of town. Dozens of rabid feral cats devoured her, leaving behind only a pile of bones. Many years later, I ran into the woman who’d been eaten by cats in a small town. —Reads—Score—14d adds
  36. 86 Forbidden Strange Tales: The Taboos of the Folk 禁忌聊斋：民间禁忌的那些事 Night Breeze 777夜风777Mystery238k WordsCompleted 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 670Reads8.2Score—14d adds
  37. 87 The Haunted Hotel 恐怖酒店 Graveyard Play戏墓Mystery1.1M WordsCompleted 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... 177Reads—Score—14d adds
  38. 88 The Underworld Shop 阴间铺子 The Rookie with a Brush, Grinding Through Practice Problems刷题小白笔Mystery502k WordsCompleted [No System + traditional story + male and female leads + supernatural tales] After losing my job, I took over this funeral parlor, but all sorts of supernatural incidents started happening at night. Burned-to-death ghosts, drowned ghosts... After the parlor, a yellow weasel spirit that had become an adult made a bone-chilling discovery... Challenges faced together with my childhood sweetheart from elementary school. 40Reads—Score—14d adds
  39. 89 Obsessive Spirit Master: Muxue 执念师暮雪 Become a Flipping Salted Fish做个会翻身的咸鱼Mystery721k WordsCompleted I am Mu Xue, a grudge exorcist who walks between the realms of yin and yang. An ancient mirror reveals the demons in people’s hearts; a bronze bell awakens old injustices and buried hatred. A red-clad female ghost combs her hair at midnight. A murderous driver picks up passengers late at night. A ghost in the mirror dies in your place... Every ghost who refuses to be reincarnated hides a life that has been crushed to pieces. I don’t guide the dead to the afterlife. I only help them get justice 1Reads—Score—14d adds
  40. 90 The Author Transmigrates into a Cultivation Novel: A Roguish System Makes Me Take the Blame 作者穿修仙：流氓系统逼我背锅 A Date with My Pillow我和枕头有个约会Eastern Fantasy80k WordsOngoing Blame-shifting power-ups + lucky unlucky protagonist + wish-fulfillment + play the pig to eat the tiger + lighthearted Lin Mo accidentally transmigrated after ranting about the System mechanics in his unfinished harem-style cultivation novel. To his utter bewilderment, he became bound to the "Rogue System" he'd created, and began his career as everyone's scapegoat that very day... 5Reads—Score—14d adds
  41. 91 Hong Kong Hauntings: Seeing the Dead 港诡：见魂 Daxi Is So Aloof大西很高冷Mystery204k WordsOngoing [Mystery and suspense] + [Paranormal tales] + [No cultivation] + [No romance] An original story Chen Xiaomeng is a middle school teacher in Yau Ma Tei, born with Yin-Yang Eyes that open promptly at seven every evening. There’s no cultivation arc in the later stages. To break the curse that women with Yin-Yang Eyes never live past thirty, the protagonist struggles to survive between the supernatural and the gritty streets. 3Reads—Score—14d adds
  42. 92 Six Dolls on a Rainy Day 雨天的六个娃娃 Lalu from Junshan Island君山岛的拉鲁12k WordsCompleted Six Dolls on a Rainy Day —Reads—Score—14d adds
  43. 93 Blood Pact of the Corpse House 尸宅血契 Eighth Master of Dou City斗城八爷21k WordsCompleted The Corpse House Blood Pact 1Reads—Score114d adds
  44. 94 Yonghui Corpse Coins 永徽尸钱 Eighth Master of Dou City斗城八爷21k WordsCompleted Yonghui Corpse Coins —Reads—Score—14d adds
  45. 95 The Walking Corpse Lunatic 走尸颠佬 Eighth Master of Dou City斗城八爷30k WordsCompleted The Walking Corpse Madman 1Reads—Score114d adds
  46. 96 The Paper Effigy Yama 纸扎阎罗 Headmaster of the Jianghu江湖校长Mystery231k WordsCompleted Before Grandpa died, he left me with a warning: a paper effigy maker must never make three kinds of figures. On my very first day taking over the shop, I broke every rule. I made a wedding dress for a girl who died violently, a filial son for a childless widow, and finally... a stand-in for a living person. Now all the paper figures I made come alive at night and gather around me, calling me “Master.” Outside the window, the girl who should have been dead for three years is knocking on the door. 4Reads—Score—14d adds
  47. 97 The Third Night: The Demon Seed 第三夜：鬼种胎 Twenty-Two Hours And Thirty-Three Minutes二十二時三十三分Mystery17k WordsCompleted The Third Night: The Ghostseed Fetus 3Reads—Score—14d adds
  48. 98 Ghost Ship in the Deep Sea: Witness to the Dead's Obsessions 深海幽灵邮轮：我见证死者的执念 Elder Sugar Is So Sweet糖长老很甜Mystery112k WordsOngoing Even kind ghosts can lie, and evil humans can be worse than demons. A luxury cruise ship that vanished without a trace more than twenty years ago drifts across an otherworldly sea, cut off from the rest of the world. Aboard are pitiful ghosts who cannot let go of the people they loved, and evil spirits willing to descend into darkness in pursuit of eternal life. Travel between the world of the living and the ghost ship, fulfill the dead’s final wishes, and search for a missing father. Disappeara 5Reads—Score—14d adds
  49. 99 The Man Buried Upside Down 倒着埋的人 Ribbit Hahahaha蛙哈哈哈哈13k WordsCompleted The Man Buried Upside Down 7Reads—Score—14d adds
  50. 100 Curse of the Desolate Village 荒村咒怨 Red Dust赤尘Mystery200k WordsCompleted [Horror + suspense + mystery] [Step-by-Step Terror Series: Parasites Among the Living] An isolated mountain village is inexplicably struck by a spreading plague. The infected bleed from all seven orifices, while their internal organs liquefy and pour out through openings in their bodies, leaving them to die in gruesome agony. Several medical workers from the nearby town venture into the deadly region to investigate, and one bizarre incident after another unfolds… Can they uncover the truth? Who 313Reads8.0Score—14d adds

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