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- 151 Going to the Countryside to Collect Ghosts: A Feng Shui Master for Just 9.9 Yuan, Shipping Included 下乡收诡：九块九包邮的风水师 A supernatural resurgence? No, feng shui has gone wrong. A forty-year-old fat man will help you deal with ghosts for just 9.9 yuan. He contains them; while others talk about karma, he talks about money. With his compass and geomancy, he examines the water outlets of burial sites and the baleful energy in the earth’s veins: the ancient well in Tonghua Village, the old house in Huang Village, the looping ghostly shadows at the old ferry, the mountain range where a grave was relocated, the yin ener —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 152 No Dreams When You Close Your Eyes 闭眼无梦 [A Newly Built World + Deeply Suspenseful Puzzles + Adventurous Action + Reflections on Life + Not a Power Fantasy] Three thousand years from now, the world consists of three realms: When people are awake, they are in the White Realm. When they fall asleep, they enter the Dream Realm. If they die in both realms, they enter the boundless Void Realm, and the cycle begins again. Two mysterious ancient divine beasts, the White Mo and the Black Mo, maintain the balance of energy between the White Rea —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 153 The Encryption Mystery 加密疑案 A master detective from the Republic of China era; a detective’s notebook whose records begin in 1931; a special cipher tailored for detectives of the future; and an intellectual duel that forcibly draws in the Queen of Crime… A conspiracy passed down through generations, inherited schemes, an endless cycle of revenge, and a detective who cannot rest in peace. Only by cracking the double cipher hidden in the notebook can one reach the truth buried in the distant past. The detectives’ wordplay be 52Reads8.7Score—14d adds
- 154 Transmigrate Across the Eight Wildernesses: My Immortal Maiden Clone 穿越八荒之我的仙子分身 [One Soul, Two Bodies] [No System] [Not Invincible] [Not Mindless] [Character Growth] [Female Clone] [Gender Swap] [Cultivation] Zhang Yuan transmigrates into a Cultivation game after playing it, then spends more than ten years working hard to cultivate. Just as he advances to Foundation Establishment, he unexpectedly awakens a golden finger. But when he looks at the peerless beauty before him, he realizes this golden finger is way too stimulating. 61Reads6.3Score914d adds
- 155 Rule Horror: Abyss Metro 规则怪谈：深渊地铁 [Rules-Based Horror + Infinite Flow + Suspenseful Mysteries + Deduction and Puzzles + Character Growth] The ticket gate spat out a blood-red ticket. It read: Welcome aboard the Abyss Metro. This train is bound for Level 18. That was the first time Cheng Chi learned that the subway he crammed onto every day could take him to hell. Every station brought new rules. The rules could change, deceive, and contradict one another. Some died in the glass reflections on the Mirror Platform. Some walked 6Reads—Score—14d adds
- 156 Ancestral Legacy: One Soul, Many Bodies at University 祖上传承，我在大学一魂多体 [No System + Transformation + Sweet Everyday Life + Yandere + Gender-Bender Yuri] (This story may contain some potentially disturbing scenes. Please read at your own discretion.) The last day of summer vacation. Fang Mo, an ordinary first-year college student, learns that his grandfather has died and hurries back to his hometown. After hastily wrapping up the funeral, Fang Mo sorts through his grandfather's belongings and finds a young girl's body, followed by an ancient book. It contains vague 2Reads—Score—14d adds
- 157 The Blue-Eroded Script 蓝蚀字 When art becomes a murder weapon, poison flows through the pigments. This is a manhunt spanning chemistry, art, and criminal investigation. Poison can be sealed inside ancient pigment recipes; crimes can be concealed in the brushwork of paintings handed down through generations. When the final piece falls into place, will you see the complete picture of the truth, or another carefully painted disguise? 3Reads—Score—14d adds
- 158 Hell Game: The Ten Courts of Yama 地狱游戏：十殿阎罗 Gaming + suspense + ensemble cast. No mindless protagonist, no saintly heroine, and no female lead. When Lu Yu opens his eyes, he finds himself in a world filled with “Lucky Games.” There is no order like in the normal world. To survive, you have to keep playing the games and winning. Lose a game, and death is the only thing waiting for you! But the games aren’t what they seem. Many phenomena Lu Yu can’t understand seem to tell him that he’s fallen into a loop he may never escape. Even if Lu Yu —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 159 After Transmigrating, the Forensic County Magistrate Becomes a God! 穿越后，法医县令成神了！ After transmigrating, the county magistrate and forensic examiner became a god! 1Reads—Score—14d adds
- 160 The Case of the Eroding Color 色蚀谜案 A Case of Sensual Corruption 2Reads—Score—14d adds
- 161 The Court of Causality: Fatal Percentage 因果律庭：致命百分比 I’m Alan Wexler, a former causality investigator and now a down-at-the-heels detective. My daily routine is watching people at the “Court of Causality” argue themselves hoarse over trivial nonsense. For example, when a piece of cheese goes missing, they’ll blame the boss, a robot, a dog, even the constants of the universe! Then I get dragged into Alex’s death case, and all five unlucky nodes insist they’re innocent. Fine, looks like I’ll have to step in again and find the one truly guilty “cause 5Reads—Score—14d adds
- 162 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 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
- 163 The Upstairs Is the Underworld 楼上是阴间 The Upstairs Neighbor Is from the Underworld 1Reads—Score—14d adds
- 164 Mystery and Detective Notes 悬疑推理笔记 My new work is out! Welcome to read it on Tomato Novels. I hope you enjoy it. Your support inspires me to write, and I'll do my best to tell every story well! 39Reads—Score—14d adds
- 165 Testimony of Memory 记忆证言 Memory Testimony follows Lin Shouxi, a medium who can read the “marks of death” left on personal effects and use them to solve cold cases. Together with Su Rui, a brilliant scientist, and Chen Tao, a hacker, he forms a special team and infiltrates the black market in memories to take on the multinational organization known as the Archive, which seeks to collect and sell human memories. Each case is a forgotten life, and every time he touches a memory, his own begins to fade. When the truth behin 4Reads—Score214d adds
- 166 Once the Dark Moonlight 曾经黑月光 A serial murder case spanning several provinces brings He Zhiqiu, now a PhD in criminal psychology, face to face again with Qi Yu, a former university classmate and current police squad leader. He Zhiqiu says, “Long time no see,” while Qi Yu turns and walks away without a trace of expression. An excited friend asks, “You two seem to have a history. Could you be the white moonlight of Qi Yu, the shining star of the police force?” He Zhiqiu exhales a puff of smoke, thinks for a moment, then repli 354Reads8.7Score—14d adds
- 167 Everyone Transmigrates! Where Are the Ghosts We Were Promised? Why Are They All Cases? 全员穿越！说好的鬼呢咋都是案子 Everyone Transmigrates: Where Are the Ghosts We Were Promised? Why Are They All Murder Cases? I had barely transmigrated before bandits dragged me up a mountain and demanded I become their captive bride? Top forensic pathologist Lin Qingge says: No problem. First, let's use science to humiliate you all. [Ding! Golden finger “Voices of All Things” activated. Three uses per day. Hear the final words of all things!] The bandit chief raised his blade. “You little brat, prepare to die!” I looked up a 7Reads—Score—14d adds
- 168 The Silent Relic 圣物无言 Sullivan is an Irish archaeologist. A graduate of the University College Dublin Department of Archaeology, she could take carbon-14 samples at twelve and spent an entire summer at fifteen in the passageways of Newgrange. She should have been digging at Celtic sites, but an organization called the “Recorders' Guild” recruited her after reading her paper, “Materials and Chronology of Medieval Relics.” The Guild has only one rule: record the truth, and never interfere. She has traveled across Europ 1Reads—Score—14d adds
- 169 The Germaphobic Detective Is Dragged into a Mechanical Killing Trap by His Mad-Dog Deputy 洁癖探长被疯狗副手拽入机械杀阵 A fastidious detective is dragged into a mechanical killing trap by his rabid deputy. 1Reads—Score—14d adds
- 170 The Train Disappears in the Hot Spring Village 电车消失于温泉乡 Chen Zhihe went abroad to pursue research on time machines, but angrily quit after being treated unfairly by his company. During a trip, he boarded a train to Lin'ai Hot Springs, a town shrouded in mist, where he met his foreign friend Iwasawa Songhao. He thought it would be an ordinary getaway. Hot springs, a stroll around the island, and a centenarian's stories about events from decades ago. Until Chen Zhihe realized that the tales the locals loved to recount seemed to have really happened 4Reads—Score—14d adds
- 171 Married Life with a Bad-Luck Tsundere Little Detective 与倒霉系傲娇萝莉侦探的婚后日常 Patrick Julius's career as a detective ended when he was twenty. During a major field operation, he accidentally shot and killed his fiancée. The former star of the police force sank into despair for six whole years, until his family arranged a marriage for him. His intended was Belfast Christina, a twenty-four-year-old detective in the field. Though she is a detective, this petite young woman, who loves imitating famous figures, never seems to have much luck. Under her influence, Julius begins 1.8kReads—Score22314d adds
- 172 I’m the Zombie King, Forced to Livestream Sales 我，僵尸王，被迫直播带货 My name is Ying Gou, the last Zombie King. On my first day awake, a gaming-addicted kid beat me up. On the second, a stray dog chased me for three whole blocks. On the third, someone paid me fifty yuan to dress up as a zombie. Later, I became the hottest paranormal streamer on the internet. Then ancient demons broke free from their seals, and the human world stood on the brink of disaster. Standing before the ruins, I started a livestream: “Folks, stop sending rockets. This time, I’m fighting fo 17Reads—Score—14d adds
- 173 A Terrifying Journey West: Chasing Killers Across Seven Cities 惊悚西行：我在七城追凶的诡异事 [Mystery + wild imagination + folk customs + strong female lead] In a Dong village, the village elder is found dead in the drum tower in the middle of the night, while a mad girl mutters, “Sax Sui has come.” Deep in western Hunan, Nuo opera performers go missing one after another, and an eerie smile shows beneath their blue-faced, fanged masks. What secrets lie behind Grandma's death? 1Reads—Score—14d adds
- 174 Yunhu Town 云湖镇 A death-row inmate whose sentence has been suspended opens a livestream with a hidden phone while on his way to receive medical treatment outside prison. Looking into the camera, he says, “I wasn’t the one who killed the little girl in Yunhu Town ten years ago.” The livestream is cut off, but the video has already spread across the internet. Investigative reporter He Zhiyuan recognizes the face in the video, as well as a name long forgotten: retired detective Lin Ge. Ten years ago, Lin Ge point —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 175 After the Gods Die, They Ask Me to Carve Their Tombstones 神明死后，请我替祂刻碑 The laws of Great Zhao state: Gods do not die. They merely return to their rightful place. But after Qin Sheng joined the Divine Sealing Bureau, every god he heard was begging him to grant them death. For three hundred years, Qingyang County had worshipped the Green Lantern Lady. Legend said that as long as her lamp stayed lit, disease would never enter. But when Qin Sheng split open the statue, he saw a woman pinned inside its clay body with copper nails. She was not the Green Lantern Lady. Her 1Reads—Score—14d adds
- 176 A Fateful Bond with a Demon Cat 孽猫缘 A Fateful Bond with a Cat —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 177 From the Start, I Took My Colleagues Back to Town 开局带着同事回镇 I grew up in Luoyin Town, but when I was six, I fled the ancient town overnight with my family. The town's baleful energy sealed away all my memories of it, leaving only scattered fragments of terrifying nightmares. My parents vanished mysteriously many years ago, leaving behind just one final warning: Never return to the mountains, and never touch anything red. To uncover the truth behind their disappearance, I follow the clues in a fragmentary ancient text and return to Luoyin Town. I am the o —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 178 Mystery Detective Li Jin 悬疑侦探李金 The mystery of the Ghostface Reef treasure The “perfect locked-room” suicide The “ghost” serial cases The mystery of the blood curse at the old mansion The mystery of the Mount Wuyin murders Li Jin, captain of the city criminal investigation team, is a name that strikes fear into the hearts of criminals. To his friends, he is a “master detective”; to his subordinates, he is their “rock”; to criminals, he is a “nightmare.” 3Reads—Score—14d adds
- 179 The Shackles of Misty Alley 雾巷枷锁 A corpse is found in an ancient well, reopening an old case. A butterfly jade pendant binds the fates of Chen Ci, a writer who has spent seven years pursuing the killer, and Lu Zheng, a detective hemmed in by the rules. Symbol-filled notes, torn field records, a second skeleton of unknown identity... Amid the fog of the narrow alleys, the two go from opposition to partnership, closing in step by step on the truth: a loan-sharking gang has colluded with senior figures at the police bureau. As sec —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 180 Cold Case Executioner 旧案行刑官 Police Captain Ji Xiao launches a livestreamed investigation to restore public trust, but the scene of a series of murders bears a secret code shared only by him and his older brother, Ji Lin, in childhood. As the whole internet calls for the “Shadowblade Killer” to be executed, forensic pathologist Chen Yan’s abnormal autopsy report, policewoman Zhou Yutang’s encrypted notes, and editor-in-chief Lin Zhao’s manipulation of public opinion gradually peel back the truth buried for ten years. The ki 10Reads—Score14914d adds
- 181 I’m Really Not Greedy 我真的不贪 (One Soul, Two Bodies + Magical Girl + White-Haired Little Girl) Hei Ye used to be a corporate workhorse in his past life, until he died suddenly from overwork. After transmigrating to a parallel world, Hei Ye grew up in a single-parent family. To survive, he had to study hard and change his fate, picking up all kinds of skills to improve his chances of making it. A few days before the new school term began, his luck ran out. While collecting bottles, he stumbled upon a superpowered person murde 29Reads—Score—14d adds
- 182 A Dream of Illusions 虚妄一梦 The soul is the essence of spirit and power. Everything one thinks and imagines becomes reality. The body is the vessel for matter and action. Everything one does and moves is according to one's will. Thought is the foundation of human reasoning and action. Through life and death, I remain true to my heart. But what if everything you thought and imagined could become reality? [One soul, two bodies; multiple kinds of worlds, primarily a cultivation world; no System from the start, no supreme tre 12Reads—Score214d adds
- 183 Singularity Era: My Journey with Myself 奇点时代：我与我之行 [Primarily Follows the Original Plot + System + Slightly Angsty but Sweet + One Soul, Two Bodies] In this game world set in the Singularity Era, I live a carefree life. At the same time, I discover that I can control two bodies. One is a woman's body named Xie Mengling, the older sister of Xie Junling, the game's villain. The other is my second body, named Lin, the older brother of Zhizi, one of the protagonists and heroines of this game world. In this world, I witness the protagonist group and 94Reads—Score614d adds
- 184 From the Start, an S-Rank Horror Tale: I Only Have One Block? 开局S级怪谈：我只有一个方块？ (Comedy, plot twists, wild imagination and logic, mild horror, and smart protagonists and antagonists) My name is Shen Mo. It sounds cool, but things went horribly from the start: no memories, no teammates, and a block… But! What do you mean, you can jump from dozens of stories up and land in water? What do you mean, you can blow up eerie scenes with TNT? What do you mean, you can beat Cthulhu senseless with the Sword of Cosmic Dominion? Oh, right. One more thing you should know: this is —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 185 Folk Feng Shui Taboos: I Can Expose Life-or-Death Traps 民间风水禁忌：我能点破生死局 He can see at a glance the deadly traps hidden in homes and burial grounds, but he never dares speak up. Every taboo he exposes costs someone a life. Until the night he revealed the “blood coffin crushing the pulse” to save an orphan girl. Seven people in the village died violent deaths, and with their dying breath, they all pointed at him: “It was you... You should have died long ago.” The truth was, he wasn’t a feng shui master at all. He was the “Life-Substitution Judge,” chosen by the ancien —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 186 A Strange Diary Raises the Question: Who Is Zhou Wei? 一本诡异日记引发，到底谁是周为？ A strange diary sets everything in motion. Who exactly is Zhou Wei? —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 187 The Last City God: Turning the Taboo on Its Head in Mountain City 末代城隍：我在山城逆转禁忌 Three years after his grandfather went missing, Shen Shu, who films videos about intangible cultural heritage, found a sheet of yellow paper in an old trunk. It bore just one sentence: Don’t go to the Old Stone Bridge. But his camera had already captured a white figure beneath the bridge. From that night on, the old rules of the mountain city, torn down, forgotten, and exploited for profit, came looking for him one by one. Shen Shu could see taboos others couldn’t, and even reverse them. But eve 1Reads—Score—14d adds
- 188 Traces of the Night Shadow Star 夜影星踪 Volume One: A corpse falls from the sky on a snowy night in a mountain village, and the whole village whispers that a vengeful ghost is out for blood. A mysterious detective follows the clues, while a boy who witnessed the incident sees through the disguise with a single remark, exposing a shocking murder plot disguised as a supernatural haunting. Volume Two: A string of murders unfolds in a sealed-off, abandoned house, and former classmates die one after another. The truth behind the revenge i 2Reads—Score—14d adds
- 189 While Everyone Else Fights to Survive, You Flirt with Female Ghosts and Live Off Them? 别人求生，你撩女诡吃软饭？ [The second instance is almost over] My name is Shen Ping'an. The moment I entered a national destiny instance, an S-rank female ghost in a red dress lunged at me from point-blank range. Her hand had already passed through the glass and grabbed me by the throat, while the American contestant beside me was still laughing and calling me a good-for-nothing. I didn't back down. Instead, I pulled out an old movie ticket and slapped it against the window. It was for the rare, out-of-print film she had 16Reads—Score10014d adds
- 190 Crows Descend on Sin City 鸦落罪城 (Mystery and deduction + criminal investigation + anti-drug operations + anti-corruption + mind-bending crimes) In Yacheng, Nanhuai Province, in the 1990s, a sensational case shocked the nation: the 712 serial murders. The case reached far and wide. The suspect brutally murdered a family of three, but the Qingsha Syndicate behind the killer controlled Yacheng's police, procuratorate, and courts, keeping justice out of reach. To solve the case, Zhou Zhen of the Nanhuai Provincial Police Departmen 3Reads—Score—14d adds
- 191 A Survival Guide to Strange Tales: The Headless Girl's Evolution 【怪谈生存指南】无头少女进化论 [Main Plot] [Mild Horror] [Eerie Otherworld] [Urban Legends] [Beloved Girl, Everyone's Favorite] [Content Warning: The female lead is an aloof, low-energy type with a gravity-like personality, and this is a reverse harem.] What do you do when you accidentally end up in the Otherworld? This awful place is full of bizarre rules and monsters. One wrong move, and your whole team gets wiped out! There's the woman in red in the stairwell, the headless monster in the classroom, the cat-faced monster th 1.4kReads—Score19014d adds
- 192 The Time-Traveling Crime Casebook 超时空罪案事件簿 To save my critically ill girlfriend, I accidentally activated a mission System. Every time I travel to a crime scene, I take on a completely new identity at random. A female corpse case from the Tang dynasty, a locked-room mystery from the Republican era, an AI murder case... I can trade points for wishes. The stranger the case, the greater the reward. I thought I was a crime-solving genius, until the System’s final message appeared: “Your girlfriend’s illness is actually connected to you...” 1Reads—Score—14d adds
- 193 Case Files of the Special Operations Task Force 特别行动组破案实录 The municipal public security bureau's criminal investigation unit establishes a psychological special cases team to tackle difficult cases by analyzing behavioral patterns. Led by Lu Anning, the team has five formidable specialists, each with a role to play: sharp-tongued forensic pathologist Shen Yan, female sharpshooter Cheng Sa, hacker Chen Mo, modification expert Zhao Yan, and skilled negotiator Zhou Xubai. Their cases are solved through psychology and rigorous investigative techniques. The 17Reads—Score—14d adds
- 194 One Soul, Two Bodies: Why Does the Chat Say I’m So Overpowered? 一魂双体：弹幕怎么都说我逆天啊 One soul, two bodies + Western fantasy + everyday life + mostly for laughs (This novel is an ultimate mash-up, so don't read it if that's not your thing.) After accidentally transmigrating to another world, he finds himself with two bodies and a Popularity System. Can he go home only after the show becomes popular enough? Xu Nuo glances at the comments and decides to make things interesting. But after trying all sorts of stunts, he realizes they're all terrible, so he decides to stop trying. Wha 81Reads6.4Score—14d adds
- 195 Attic Mints: The 30th Visitor 阁楼薄荷糖：第30个访客 An old house, mint candy, and a mystery left unspoken. In the studio on the twelfth floor of an old office building in the western district, the bitter smell of instant coffee drifts in from the window. Lately, people with secrets have been gathering at the desk of the writer Miaoyi: someone clutching a silver birdcage with the faint pattern of an old house engraved on its base; someone holding a yellowed diary, its title page marked with a drawing of mint candy; and someone who keeps repeating, 2Reads—Score—14d adds
- 196 Cao Xi’s Regret Cure 曹溪的后悔药 On a winter night in the capital in 2025, Cao Xi was walking down the street with a close friend when he happened to catch sight of his ex-girlfriend, Gao Junyao, whom he hadn’t seen in three years. At his friend’s urging, Cao Xi worked up the courage to approach her. But just as he reached the corner, he saw Gao Junyao die a violent death right before his eyes. After searching the scene, the police found no eyewitnesses to the murder, yet the wound on Cao Xi’s hand contained Gao Junyao’s DNA! M —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 197 Reborn as a Forensic Doctor: The Real Heiress Takes Down Her Powerful Family and Becomes a Sensation 重生法医：真千金杀疯豪门后爆红 [Two formidable leads + mystery-solving + ensemble of female characters + reborn + episodic mysteries + no System, grounded and logical] The very first second after she was reborn, she was framed for pushing the fake heiress down the stairs. Su Qingyan smiled. In her previous life, she had spent ten years as a chief forensic pathologist, solving 37 cold cases, only to be pushed from the autopsy building by her own family. This time, she neither cried nor argued. She exposed the white lotus's dis 67Reads—Score10214d adds
- 198 The Last Sand Diver 最后一个淘沙官 [Tomb Raiding]+ [Mystery]+ [Supernatural] There is a group of people in this world who understand the balance of yin and yang, know the past and present, and brave deadly dangers in search of secret treasures buried with dragons, lost cities, and ancient palaces said to house immortals. With their own hands, they piece together fragments of the unknown world. They are the Sand-Seeking Celestial Officials. I am the last inheritor of the Sand-Seeking Celestial Officials, and I have decided to reco 3Reads—Score—14d adds
- 199 One Soul, Two Bodies: The Dark Knight and the Black Mage 一魂双体：黑暗骑士与黑魔法师 Dark Knight You Wannian has wandered the world for years, trying to escape his identity as a dark creature. At last, he finds a target perfectly suited for possessing. The only drawback is that she's a girl. But then~ something goes wrong during the possession. 9Reads—Score—14d adds
- 200 The Broken Mirror Murder Case 破镜缉凶 [Mystery + Criminal Investigation + Deduction + Case-of-the-Week + Long Main Plot + No Romance + Solving Crimes] On a livestream, a bride in red hangs herself from an ancient locust tree. A million viewers watch as her corpse follows an invisible track and “walks” back to the crime scene. I'm Qin Niu, captain of the criminal investigation team in Changping City. The people I'm up against aren't ghosts, but a group of “crime designers.” They use magnetic levitation to transport corpses, infrasou 13Reads—Score—14d adds
