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- 1 Open-Ended Rule Horror: I Treat the System Like Air 开放类规则怪谈，系统被我当空气 (No heroine + System) A global game of eerie urban legends has arrived. It’s an open world with an extremely high degree of freedom... (including a showdown between humans and the supernatural) —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 2 Rules of the Paranormal: Hugging the Innkeeper’s Leg Is So Rewarding 规则怪谈我抱旅店老板大腿嘎嘎香 [Two Male Leads + No National Destiny + Strictly 1v1, Both Chaste] [Note: The male lead, Zhou Shu, grows over the course of the story] Zhou Shu is chosen to enter the world of strange tales, and his very first scenario is the 748 Convenience Store. To survive this scenario, you must stay alert and clear-headed, and learn the rules. [Bonus Scene: Zhou Shu discovers that the convenience store’s driver, cleaner, and delivery worker are all the same NPC. How does an NPC in your strange-tale scena —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 3 The Road of Dreams 梦之路途 If the wind brings good fortune, then I am willing to walk into it. The protagonists, Su Gu and Li Fengsheng, fail to find jobs and end up embracing each other in tears. Just then, a golden light flashes across the sky, and they are transported to another world. Blending politics, ancient warfare, romance, and more, Su Gu and A Pang embark on a dangerous, fantastical adventure here. —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 4 The Whole World Breaks Down: I’m an Admin in a Haunted Tale 全球破防：我在怪谈里当管理员 Eerie tales have descended upon the world, and every civilization must send one “Chosen One” into a world governed by rules to fight for survival. If they fail, the eerie tales will descend upon their homeland. While the elite soldiers, geniuses, and shrine maidens chosen by other countries struggle against the supernatural, our civilization picked me: Shen Li, a temporary administrator who was asleep in a corner of the library. The global livestream chat exploded: “Has this civilization given u —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 5 Rule Horror: My Dictionary Is Scarier Than the Ghosts 规则怪谈：我的词典比鬼大 A convenience store, 2:17 a.m. Rain lashes the glass door at an angle, and the air conditioner’s outdoor unit hums. An old man with a mouth split from ear to ear, a giant planarian worm crawling up through the floor, and the eternally dark hallway lights in the S-rank instance “Happy Apartment.” Science has failed, and the rules have collapsed. Gray fog swallows the streets. Survivors huddle inside safe zones, while the things lurking in the dark bare their teeth and wait for you to bend down. —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 6 Psionic Special Zone: Night Watchman of the Wasteland 灵能特区：废土打更人 In a post-cataclysmic world known as the “New Era,” spiritual energy (“psychic radiation”) has fused grotesquely with technology, which is highly advanced but tightly controlled. The world is divided by enormous energy barriers into several vast “psychic zones.” Beyond them lies a “wasteland of despair,” teeming with ferocious mutant beasts, deadly radiation, and out-of-control AI. Within the zones, the people are ruled jointly by the super AI “Skynet” and the human elite, in a cyberpunk cultiva —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 7 I Lost Sight in My Left Eye After a Car Accident, Now I’m Turning My Life Around 车祸后左眼失明，我要逆袭人生 I Lost Sight in My Left Eye After a Car Accident, but I’ll Turn My Life Around —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 8 From Frugal Living to a Fortune, All Because I Found a Spirit Jade Bracelet That Chose Me as Its Owner 从省吃俭用到家财万贯，只因我捡了个认主的灵石手镯 From Scrimping and Saving to a Vast Fortune, All Because I Found a Spirit Stone Bracelet That Chose Me as Its Master —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 9 Rules Can Go to Hell: My Murder-Mystery Script Reached the Heavens 规则算屁：我的剧本杀通了天 “I’m Done Being a Doormat: I’ve Cleared Every Supernatural Case in Hong Kong” Everyone at the Hong Kong Supernatural Incident Mediation Center knows me: Li Wuye, the most useless of the useless, a total pushover. While my colleagues risk their lives testing the rules, I huddle in a corner and smoke. An SSS-rank incident lands right in front of me, and I just tilt my head: Not going. Then one day, a mysterious file appears on my phone. It updates with the core rules of supernatural incidents, alo 1Reads—Score—14d adds
- 10 Proudly Above the Heavens: The Legend of Jin Li 灵霄傲世：晋黎传奇 Jin Li was born into an ordinary family in Cangyun Town. His life was simple, but he was an optimist by nature, carefree and unrestrained. On his sixteenth birthday, his family gathered happily to celebrate. Then the earth suddenly shook, and a crack inexplicably opened beneath the ancestral home. Jin Li accidentally fell inside. —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 11 Judgment Day: Reborn with Scales of Vengeance 裁决时刻：重生之逆鳞 A story of a modern man reborn to seek revenge. Zhang Sheng, a self-made young tycoon who valued loyalty and deep bonds, was betrayed by someone he trusted, leaving his family shattered and his life in ruins. (This story is entirely fictional. Any resemblance to real people or events is purely coincidental.) —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 12 Chronicles of Chaos Magic 混沌神通录 Born with a Supreme Bone, he had it cruelly carved out by his own cousin. Then his fiancee came to break off their engagement: “The Lin family doesn't want a useless good-for-nothing.” Blood and tears seep into his old scars, awakening an ancient, forbidden inheritance: the Record of Chaos Divine Arts, which devours all techniques and forges them into one's own power. You stole my Supreme Bone, so I'll devour every divine art under heaven. From a mine laborer to the foremost disciple of the Se 1Reads—Score—14d adds
- 13 The Mountain-Worshipping Manual 叩山谱 The Yunling Mountains, Gaoligong Mountains, and Hengduan Mountains run south from the north into the heart of Yunnan, dividing the basins of the Lancang, Jinsha, and Nu rivers. For thousands of years, the rivers have worn stones smooth and bones away. All that remains are the peoples on their banks, still singing ancient scriptures again and again beside the hearth. The Twelve Slave Bureaus conceal the secret of creation; Eleteyi records the tracks of migration; Hongnong Luquan depicts the route —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 14 Rule Horror: I Make the Rules 规则怪谈：规则，我说了算 [You have been selected. Complete the trial within 72 hours.] Jiang Yan, a forensic doctor, is pulled into a trial arena: there are six rules, and exactly one of them is false. Believe the wrong one, and you die. Everyone else frantically memorizes the rules and gambles with their lives. He doesn't bother. One glance is all it takes for him to spot the false rule, and he can even rewrite it to suit himself. The rules kill people. He changes the rules. When your name is called, whatever you d 5Reads—Score—14d adds
- 15 You Were Supposed to Go Undercover at the University! You Went to Catch the Supernatural 让你去大学当卧底！你去抓诡异 [Crime Investigation and Deduction] [Undercover] [Humor] [System Barely Present] [Resurgence of the Uncanny] Lin Zhe, a hotheaded rookie at the police academy, had just sprained his ankle while chasing a pickpocket and become the laughingstock of his squad. Then he was thrust into a high-risk undercover assignment at Jincheng University. He thought he only had to catch a few drug dealers selling "stamp milk tea," but the deal's coded signals felt downright sinister. Bugs crawled across the stick 2Reads—Score—14d adds
- 16 Rule Horror: The Hauntings Make Me Break the Rules 规则怪谈：怪谈让我违反规则 [Rule-based horror + not a wish-fulfillment story + not invincible + no female lead, no romance + high-IQ deduction] The first rule-based horror scenario is complete, so you can read without worry! Content warning: The main plot and romantic elements are limited. The story focuses on the rules, so proceed with caution if that’s not your thing. This is a cursed world. From the moment they are born, everyone is cursed by It and bound at all times by Its rules. Anyone who breaks them dies instant 2Reads—Score—14d adds
- 17 I’m Righteous to the Core, and Every Villain Must Die 我正的发邪，坏人都得死 A righteous-to-the-core senior brother × a smiling demon who is evil to the core × a good-for-nothing junior brother who never lets go of his chicken legs Rebirth + wish fulfillment + anti-clichés: this time, not a single villain gets away. --In his previous life, he was Tianheng Sect’s coldest sword. Forty-seven years, three thousand cases, not one wrongful verdict. As he died, his junior sister cried and cursed at him: “You’re not even human!” Chang Duhuo thought: Oh, I’m a sword. Then he died —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 18 The Red Mound Rope 红陵绳 A red cord from Hongling turns any ordinary person who touches it into a demon's thrall. It is known as the “red thread beneath the moon.” That year, I flung the cord around a scholar on his way to the imperial examinations, but a Luban lock dangled from his neck. It was the very one that had pinned my soul in my previous life. His voice trembled as he asked, “Why are you doing this to me, miss?” I traced the features I'd carved into my dreams a thousand times and smiled through my tears. “Don't —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 19 Master of the Paranormal: I’m an Undercover Agent in the Paranormal Faction 诡异主宰：我在诡异阵营当卧底 The protagonist becomes an entity of the uncanny to take revenge. After getting his revenge, he hopes to settle down and live a lazy life, but an invisible “hand” keeps pushing him forward. When he finally comes to understand the whole world, he realizes that... well, uncanny gods are still gods. He begins his undercover journey in the uncanny world, tricking the uncanny beings. The uncanny world has nine world-ending... In the real world, multiple organizations are shouldering the burden and fi —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 20 Rule Horror: I Have the Golden Eyes 规则怪谈：我有黄金瞳 [Mystery + Supernatural Entities Descending Upon the World + No System + No Goody-Two-Shoes Protagonist + Original Instances + Every Mystery Gets Resolved] You are among a new batch of inmates sent to this prison. All you want is to reform yourself, but the prison seems determined not to let you go. You and your companions are trapped in single-occupancy cells. Finding the key to your cell quickly is crucial to your survival! With the warden imposing restrictions at every turn and black-mist cre —Reads—Score114d adds
- 21 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
- 22 Rule Horror: The Haunted Orphanage from the Start 规则怪谈：开局诡异孤儿怨 [No heroine + No System + Rules-Based Horror and Lovecraftian Mythos] Another world descended, and countless inscrutable rules ran rampant. Humanity could only struggle to survive in the cracks between them. Luo Ziheng was a student whose college entrance exams had been postponed because of this. After unexpectedly surviving the first instance, he discovered the world hidden behind it. Determined to stay alive and eliminate the rules, Luo Ziheng set out on his path. 1Reads—Score—14d adds
- 23 Rule Horror: Are Humans Really This Hard to Kill? 规则怪谈：人类这么难杀吗 **Practice Run Lighthearted in the early chapters, with a more tragic tone later. A character-driven drama with multiple emotional storylines. The protagonist develops in highly unconventional ways, so please read with that in mind. [No Romance / Rule Horror + Xuanhuan + Original Instances + Wild Imagination + Ensemble Cast] A month after Rule Horror descended, every contestant had died, and seven cities in every country had become dead zones. Everyone was waiting to die, until a mentally il 13Reads6.6Score514d adds
- 24 The Celestial Gate Sect Master of the City 都市之天门宗主 The exhilarating power fantasy of a former powerhouse returning to the city at max level, the fortune to be made from growing crops with spiritual energy, and the romantic entanglements and cultivation breakthroughs brought on by the Carefree Art. He joins forces with the Dragon Group and passes down the Twelve Forms of the Heaven-Breaking Fist. The Heavenly Gate Sect is rebuilt on Earth, protecting Huaxia and all life on the planet. —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 25 Rule Horror: The Eighth Rule 规则怪谈：第八条规则 A convenience store on a stormy night. A six-hour survival game. Seven rules were posted on the wall. I saw an eighth. While everyone else struggled to survive by the rules, I saw the truth in them. When the rule-based horror descended into reality, ordinary people couldn’t see it, but I could: The public rules, the hidden rules, even the “things” behind them. They said clearing the game meant you’d live. I said you had to see the rules before you could choose how to live. Choice is power. 1Reads—Score—14d adds
- 26 Rule Horror: Infinite Horrors 规则怪谈：无限诡异 [Rules horror + original scenarios + thrills + deduction + puzzle-solving] The rules-horror world sweeps across the globe, forcing countless people to enter it. [The nonexistent seventh passenger on a plane that takes off on time, patients wearing smiley-face masks in a hospital, bizarrely misshapen people in a maze...] Relying on the talents he draws and his own abilities, Pei Heng ventures ever deeper into the rules-horror world, only to stumble upon a secret hidden from everyone... 54Reads—Score—14d adds
- 27 Breathing Technique Talent: My Powers Are Especially Effective Against the Eerie 天赋呼吸法，我对诡异有特攻 Your opponents include a gambler who can drag people into a dangerous card game at any moment, and a fat ghost who bursts into flames at the slightest provocation... Your teammates include [Thick Lenses], whose thoughts you can never figure out, and [Iron Face], whose skin is so thick it's practically invincible... With teammates like these, Gu Xiao, who just wants to be a decent person, has no choice but to stop acting like one. He takes a deep breath, makes the gambler his adopted son, and cas 13Reads—Score—14d adds
- 28 Rule Horror: I’m the Perfect Clearer 规则怪谈之我是完美通关者 (Infinite-world setting + no romance + strong female lead + ensemble cast + character growth + plot-driven + mild horror + occasional livestreaming) An inferno at the orphanage wiped out all of Bai Zhou’s memories. The Third World opens If you become blind and cannot see, how will you survive in the world of rules? If you turn into a child and everything familiar around you changes, how will you survive countless brushes with death? What if one day you wake up and find someone who looks and acts —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 29 The Crimson Demon Hunter 血色猎妖师 I dare lay open the depths of the human heart, and even with a god’s throne before me, I can strike it down! Demons prey on humans, and humans hunt demons. It has been an unchanging truth since ancient times. Jiang Yanzhou, a demon hunter, uses his blade to cut through layer upon layer of deception beneath the blood-red night, reading bone-chilling truths from his enemies’ corpses. His blade slays demons and lays bare the human heart. In this blood-soaked game of chess, where all living beings a —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 30 Reborn to Crush the Scum: My Empathic Male Lead Has Gone Obsessively Mad 重生虐渣：我的共感男主偏执疯了 [Content warning: One side couple is a male-male pairing, with an older top who takes the lead and a fiery, beautiful bottom. They don't get much page time, so please skip if that's not your thing‼️‼️] [Campus life / Reborn / System / Puppy-like husband chasing his wife] In her previous life, Qi Xu was betrayed by her scumbag boyfriend and fake younger sister working together, then died in an accident. In a new life, she wakes up back at seventeen! Bound to an overpowered System, she has a statu 1Reads—Score—14d adds
- 31 Rule Horror: The Family of Three 规则怪谈：三口之家篇 Rule Horror: The Family of Three 3Reads—Score—14d adds
- 32 Rule Horror: Morning Light Pharmaceutical Factory (2) 规则怪谈：晨光制药厂篇（2） Rule Horror: Chenguang Pharmaceutical Factory (2) 16Reads—Score—14d adds
- 33 Rule Horror: Bright Light Middle School (3) 规则怪谈：光明中学篇（3） Rule Horror: Guangming Middle School (3) —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 34 Rule Horror: City Zoo (4) 规则怪谈：市立动物园篇（4） Rule Horror: Municipal Zoo (4) —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 35 After I Got a Mental Illness, I Became Much More Normal 得了精神病后，正常多了 [No romance + transmigrate into a book + absurd comedy + nonsensical humor + mentally unstable] After five years at a major IT company, Yu Qingyuan finally gets to see someone blow it up. The good news: She doesn’t have to work anymore. Hahaha! The bad news: She’s fallen into the void, bound to a bottom-of-the-class System, and is about to die. She’s also signed a deadly quick transmigration contract with her own company. So, carrying a grudge heavier than Evil Sword Immortal’s, she starts worki —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 36 The Marquis's Heir: From Gambling Debts to Ruling the Realm 军侯世子：从赌债缠身到权御天下 [Political intrigue, iron-willed hero, nation-building and a comeback, head-on clashes at court, an empress in the harem] After being reborn as the dissolute heir of the Marquis of Military Might’s estate, Shen Mo starts off owing thirty thousand taels in gambling debts. With the clan elders about to strip him of his title and throw him out, he turns the tables and creates a lottery, raking in two hundred thousand taels overnight! Armed with a search engine as his golden finger, he goes from us —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 37 Tales of the Strange Lady of Qingxi 青溪奇女录 Farming + ensemble of women + ancient setting Shanxi Valley, a paradise beyond the world for nine women fleeing hardship. They can live just fine without men: farming, hunting, and building stone houses. Until men arrive. Some want to take charge, while others come looking for trouble. The women don't rush or panic. They set rules and divide up the work, giving meals to those who deserve them and keeping the others at a distance. The men fall in line, and life goes on as usual. But eyes are stil —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 38 Falling from the Top 从顶层坠落 His name is Shen An. More precisely, he is the man who transmigrated and became this young detective named Shen An. In his previous life, he could move heaven and earth. Now, he earns 4,800 yuan a month, lives in a cramped, rundown apartment beside the precinct, and gets vomited on by drunks while on duty. Then he has to wash his own uniform. He thought this was the most absurd fall from grace imaginable. Until he got assigned to his first case. —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 39 The Chosen Storyteller 天选说书人 A top multilevel-marketing lecturer transmigrates to a war-torn age with no money, no strength to fight, and only his silver tongue. He wins over refugees with slick talk, handles warlords through negotiation, and fools ambitious leaders with promises of a “win-win.” In the end, he realizes that after a lifetime of lies, the only thing he wants to believe is the promise that “tomorrow will be better.” —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 40 The Useless Nobody Takes on the Kingdom of Nanchen 废物点心力挑南辰国 Ran Lingxue was once a timid good-for-nothing. After sending her mother a message, her words unexpectedly came true, and she transmigrated to another world. Jiang Boxi rescued her when she was in danger, then abandoned her. This happened again and again, leaving her tossed around like a ball. Su Jingxing was determined to marry her. Just as Ran Lingxue was about to give herself to him, she discovered that he was already betrothed. From beginning to end, Su Jingxing had only wanted her as his mis 1Reads—Score—14d adds
- 41 Boonie Bears: Rules for Surviving the Strange 熊出没：诡异生存手则 Boonie Bears: Eerie Survival Rules 2Reads—Score—14d adds
- 42 I Thought Seven Nights Was Everything, but It Was Only the First Seven Days After Death 我以为七晚是全部，其实七晚只是头七 I thought seven nights were all there was, but the seventh night was only the beginning of the mourning period. 1Reads—Score—14d adds
- 43 Rule Horror: The Nameless Rules 规则怪谈：无名的规则 [No National Fortune] [No Female Lead] [No Livestream] [Not Mindless] [Not a Power Fantasy] [Not Invincible] [Braintwisting Deduction] When the power of rules descends upon the human world, it becomes the focal point of several parallel worlds. The rules erode the order of human society and overturn common sense. Creatures from parallel worlds are everywhere, seeking to invade the human world by these means. Disobey the rules, and you die. But blindly obey them, and all that awaits is ruin. Life 43Reads—Score—14d adds
- 44 Bikini Bottom Survival Guide 比奇堡生存守则 Bikini Bottom Survival Rules 4Reads—Score—14d adds
- 45 Rule Horror: I Understand the Rules Better Than the Ghosts Do 规则怪谈：我比诡异更懂规则 Working overtime late at night, Lin Chuan spots a strange set of rules by the company elevator: [Do not take elevators with odd numbers.] [If the elevator stops on a floor that does not exist, do not get out.] [If someone calls your name from behind, do not look back.] He assumes it is just a prank, until a coworker steps into the elevator and vanishes the very next second. From that night on, something is wrong with the entire Sheng'an Building. In the basement parking lot, empty cars drive the 104Reads—Score—14d adds
- 46 Rule Horror? The Paranormal Doesn't Stand a Chance Against Me, the Killer 规则怪谈？遇到我诡异杀手不炸了 [Rule-based horror + wish fulfillment + no romance + suspense + cooperative team] In 2030, rule-based horror descended upon Earth, and the Dragon Nation suffered one defeat after another. Then an ordinary person was chosen as the Dragon Nation’s Chosen One. [Chosen One, congratulations on awakening the SSS-rank talent: “Weird Killer”] [“Weird Killer” talent description: A merciless killer who despises the weird. Talent effect: You will gain the immense power to kill the weird, but lose some of y 2Reads—Score—14d adds
- 47 Horror Tales: After I Was Killed, the Supernatural’s Affection for Me Maxed Out 怪谈：被杀后，诡异好感度爆满了 When the rules-based horror tales descended, Lin Feng awakened the SSS-rank talent Undying Devotion. While the other contestants struggled to survive, the horrors took a special interest in him. Lin Feng drew the SSS-rank talent Undying Devotion. Every time he is killed, the horror's affection for him increases, and he comes back to life. [The Chosen One was killed by an Unspeakable. Affection increased by 15 points.] [Once an Unspeakable's affection reaches obsession, it will stop killing you. 3.5kReads5.3Score45614d adds
- 48 Transmigrated as Dongge’s Little Sidekick 穿越成东哥的小跟班 A new work is here! Welcome to read my stories on Tomato Novel. I hope you enjoy them. Your support is what motivates me to write, and I’ll do my best to tell every story well! 5Reads—Score—14d adds
- 49 From the Start, I Snatch Old Zhu's Opportunity and Found Great Ming in the Three Kingdoms 开局截胡老朱：我在三国建立大明 Liu Hao, a modern-day loser, is thrown back into the chaos of the Three Kingdoms era and struggles to survive. He had hoped to use his knowledge from the future to serve a worthy lord, but powerful aristocratic clans drive him to the brink. Liu Hao says, “If you won’t let me live, then I’ll turn this whole world upside down. The founding emperor built the Great Ming with nothing but a bowl. I, Liu Hao, can do the same.” 2Reads—Score—14d adds
- 50 Refugees at the End of the Tang: I Rebuild the Tang Dynasty Through Farming 唐末流民：我靠种田基建建大唐 A top graduate in modern agriculture and forestry transmigrates into the chaos of the late Tang dynasty, where famine is everywhere, corpses litter the roads, and war never ends. From the start, he’s a starving refugee on the brink of death, but luckily, he activates the [Everything Improvement System]! He turns wasteland into fertile fields, improves poor seeds into high-yield crops, and reforges scrap iron into divine weapons! While others flee famine and resort to cannibalism, he farms and —Reads—Score—14d adds
