Novels like I, the Mastermind, Turned the World into a Strange Tale
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- 1 If I Kill Every Enemy, the World Will Be at Nuclear Peace 只要把敌人都杀光，世界就核平了 “Move even a muscle, and I'll kill this woman!” The bandit chief pressed his blade to the neck of the stunning heiress, threatening her with a vicious grin. In the darkness, Qin Jue looked at her tear-streaked face with cold indifference, then spun around and stabbed the horse pulling the carriage in the rump! The maddened horse bolted. The carriage crashed, and everyone inside died! Qin Jue walked across the corpses, picked up the dropped treasure chest, and smiled faintly. “You think you can t 359Reads5.5Score—Shelves
- 2 After Death, I Became the Creator of the Strange 死后，我成了诡异造物主 [Behind the scenes] [Ensemble cast] [Creating horrors] [Villain] [Dark] [Urban high martial arts] This was a world that firmly believed in the laws of physics. Until one day, the indescribable “horrors” spread like a plague. The rules of reality collapsed, and the old order crumbled before the terror. Behind this abyssal revel sweeping across the globe stood Shen Chuan, who wielded the [Authority to Create Horrors]. From that moment on, he wrote the world’s terrors into existence. The [Skin-Wear 372Reads—Score—Shelves
- 3 Designing Horror Mystery Scenarios: But I Designed a Traditional Chinese Drinking Party 设计怪谈副本：我却设计中式酒局 What is Chinese-style horror? Paper wedding dresses? Ghosts trapping you in endless loops? No. The real horror is Chinese social etiquette. Chen Mo transmigrates into a world of towers and becomes a designer of dungeon scenarios. He pulls out his secret weapon: social etiquette. Chinese-style drinking banquets, seating hierarchy, which way the fish head faces, toasts, and the order in which you offer drinks will all become fuel for his dungeons and rules for designing them. From then on, Chen Mo 479Reads5.6Score105Shelves
- 4 Starting with the Knocking Ghost, I Revive Horror in the Human World 创造敲门鬼开始，让恐怖人间复苏 [Darkness + Behind the Scenes + Sequences + Revenge + The Resurgence of Horror] In an age of the Five Turbidities, hell stands empty. In the year 404 of the New Era, financial conglomerates carve up the land while the Federation sits idle. The world has rotted, and the law is unjust. The elite wield Heaven’s punishment as they please, living in luxury and indulging in every vice. The poor go hungry and cold, their lives worth less than grass. As a forensic pathologist, Chen Mo has seen far too m 17.7kReads6.3Score1.9kShelves
- 5 Time Stop from the Start: I Punish the Wicked and Slaughter the Celestial Dragons 时停起手，我惩奸除恶爆杀天龙人 [No heroine + Hates evil with a passion + Decisive and ruthless + Unrelated to reality] Keep a low profile and power up like crazy early on, then have a blast and do whatever you want later. The good news: I transmigrated. The bad news: Nothing changed. It got even worse. What a rotten world. From the start, the campus belle frames me for secretly taking photos, then a rich kid beats me to death. Now I’ve suddenly come back to life. What do I do? Isn’t it obvious? Only the dead can keep a 9kReads7.7Score470Shelves
- 6 Rules of Horror: I Have a Legion of Hauntings 规则怪谈，我有一个怪谈军团 [Supernatural horror game] + [Decisive and ruthless] + [No female lead] Fight the horrors, contain the horrors, create the horrors, become a horror. The story is eerie and suspenseful throughout; it will not turn into a cultivation novel later on. Complete at one million words. Enjoy with confidence. From the moment he enters the horror game, Li Cha gradually turns himself into other people’s nightmare. “Mother,” who lurks in the depths of the sea: “I actually wanted to adopt him as my son a 1.6kReads8.1Score167Shelves
- 7 Global Panic: I'm Actually the Evil God Behind the Revival?! 全球恐慌：我竟是复苏邪神？！ [Apocalypse + The Supernatural + Game Events Become Reality + City Building + Secret Identities] [Lighthearted Comedy + A Touch of Cosmic Horror] Behind the bustling city, a sinister shadow crept closer with every passing day. Beings from another dimension walked openly through the world, plunging those who knew the truth into unprecedented panic. “The Evil God has descended! The supernatural world is about to invade reality!” “Humanity is doomed!” Some rose up in resistance, shouting that human 1.4kReads8.5Score124Shelves
- 8 The Apocalypse: I Created the Fifth Calamity! 末日，我创造了第五天灾！ [Apocalypse + Ruthless Protagonist + Monster Fusion + Overpowered Lead] PS: No self-righteous do-gooders. No female lead. Men and women, beautiful or ugly, will all turn into monsters. No female lead, no female lead, no female lead. Han Yuqing is not the female lead! Also known as Apocalypse: I Have a Monster Pill Refining Furnace In the year 2031, the apocalypse descends. All things mutate, disasters strike without end, the food chain turns upside down, and all living beings evolve at a rapid p 731Reads6.9Score101Shelves
- 9 Master of Ghostly Fate 鬼命之主 With a useless System and a ruthless Host, Mo Li, born a villain, will stop at nothing to achieve his goals. He has always believed in one creed: either be forsaken by everyone or ascend to the very top. 3.4kReads6.7Score277Shelves
- 10 I, a Reborn Evil God, Devour the Supernatural Horrors of China 我，重生邪神，吃遍华夏诡异 [State-sponsored offerings] [Reborn as an indescribable entity] [National Fate] [Cthulhu] [Evil God] [Decisive and ruthless] [No heroine] When Lin Ye woke up, he had become an indescribable, hungry Evil God. He thought his divine life would be bleak from then on, spent counting his tentacles to stave off hunger. Then the Chinese authorities came knocking. “My lord, could we ask a favor? There's something strange we can't deal with. Could you eat it for us?” And so Lin Ye struck a deal with the a 21.1kReads8.1Score2.1kShelves
- 11 Kill or Be Killed: But I Start with a Conceptual Ability 杀戮求生：但开局概念级能力 [Villain Protagonist + Evil Path + Kill, Kill, Kill + Eat, Eat, Eat + Monster Girls] [From the start, I got a conceptual ability that lets me replenish myself by consuming things. I’m just going to eat, eat, eat!!!] I transmigrated, but my identity was exposed, and I even died. Well, not completely. So I was drafted into a world of slaughter, where I had to fight monsters for extra time to live. I thought life would be rough, but who knew I’d get a conceptual ability from the start? What more is 1.6kReads6.7Score118Shelves
- 12 I Was Just Writing a Horror Story, So How Did I Become a God? 写个怪谈而已，我怎么成神了 [Pseudo-Behind-the-Scenes Mastermind + Light Horror + Creating Rules + No Female Lead + Horror Game] [Some angst early on, proceed with caution if you're sensitive to that] Lu Ze, a weak high school boy, happens to find a mysterious diary titled “Investigate Things to Gain Knowledge.” It grants him the ability to create urban legends and accidentally draws him into an even more terrifying, darker world. A group of vicious criminals corners the boy in a locked room. Lu Ze turns and writes in the 2.5kReads9.0Score369Shelves
- 13 Eerie: I Can Devour Without Limit 诡异：我能无限吞噬 [Eldritch Horror] [Supernatural Powers] [No Romance] [No Morals] [No Limits] [Cruel and Vicious] [Selfish and Self-Serving] In a world overrun by the uncanny, I accidentally reveal that I transmigrated here. Barely escaping with my life, I manage to get away. The flames of resentment bloom. My long-awaited golden finger finally arrives: a mysterious stone tablet on the dark side of the moon, capable of endlessly devouring the uncanny’s source. After years of building strength, I unleash a massa 15.9kReads8.2Score1.6kShelves
- 14 Behind the Scenes, I Become the Source of Calamity 我在幕后，成就灾厄之源 A million-character novel on this site, with a steady, guaranteed update schedule Mastermind behind the scenes + creating the uncanny + decisive male lead Terminally ill, Bai Ye tries every possible way to save his life. A single sacrifice grants him the power to create the uncanny. “Creating the uncanny and bringing fear and disaster can prolong my life and give me supernatural power? What is there to think about? To me, life matters more than anything!” A being of absolute darkness, he gains t 2.3kReads7.4Score162Shelves
- 15 Order Paradise: I Can Add Points Without Limit 秩序乐园，我无限加点 [Nonhuman Protagonist + Infinite Flow + Data-Based + Logic-Focused + Utterly Dark + Anti-Human Nature + Decisive and Ruthless + No Female Lead] Mu Bei is a cause without origin, with no biological father. After spending eighteen years in a sterile hospital ward, Mu Bei signs a contract with the Paradise of Order. And so begins a story full of slaughter and destruction, devoid of love and mercy, one that feeds on all living beings... (Reader advisory 1: After the first volume, the protagonist bec 346Reads7.3Score113Shelves
- 16 Killing Game: I Can Strengthen Myself Through Slaughter 杀戮游戏：我可以靠杀戮强化自身 [Switch the roles, and you'll learn what cruelty really means] + [No heroine] As monsters infiltrate the human world and humanity has no way to fight back, a game called Nighttime Paradise suddenly appears. In this game, humans become the Killers, while monsters become the Survivors. After being reborn, Lin Yuan enters the game and draws an X-rank talent: Slaughter Abyss. Its effect is: Every time you perfectly kill a Survivor, you gain 2 points of Brutality, 1 point of Agility, and 1 point of P 12.9kReads7.8Score1.2kShelves
- 17 Fate Sequence, Yet They Call Me the Primordial Calamity 序列命运，可他们叫我最初灾厄 [Creating Monsters] [Creating the Supernatural] [No female lead] They all say I am calamity itself. My name is Zhao Jin. What I love most is rummaging through the piles of discarded history for strange, forgotten legends, then bringing them to life. An age without the supernatural? Then I'll create it myself. When the first monster burst from the ground, the world thought it was a natural disaster. When the second arrived, they began to panic. By the time the seventh and eighth swept across t 145.6kReads8.6Score19.8kShelves
- 18 Monsters Invade: I Founded an Organization to Counterattack the Demon Realm 魔物入侵：我创立组织反攻魔界 [Building an Organization] [Extracting Essences] [Decisive and Ruthless] [Monster Invasion] On his way home from work, Bai Ye is attacked by an unknown humanoid monster. At the brink of life and death, a red crystal falls from the sky and saves him. After fusing with the red crystal, Bai Ye gains two special abilities: [Extract] Extract a creature’s traits, abilities, bloodline, and more... [Fuse] Fuse the traits, abilities, bloodlines, and more of multiple creatures... After the attack, Bai Ye 9.2kReads8.3Score846Shelves
- 19 I'm in America, Faking a Reincarnation Space 人在美利坚，我伪造轮回空间 [Building a Lord God] + [Behind-the-scenes] + [Infinite Flow] + [Dark] + [Ensemble cast] “This world had no god until I came along.” After transmigrating to a parallel Blue Star, in America, and spending half a year there, I thought I could live well in the legendary land of opportunity. But it turned out to be heaven for the rich and hell for the poor. I go to school during the day and wash dishes at night. Life is miserable, but luckily I inherited a dilapidated divine realm and the authority 42.7kReads8.0Score5.3kShelves
- 20 The Eerie Apocalypse: I Play a Fake Human, and I Am Calamity! 诡异末世：扮演伪人，我即灾厄！ [New premise] [New setting] [Infinite Flow] [Not a power fantasy] “Don't trust him! He died three days ago!” “Ye Kai, are you a fake person or not?” Facing his neighbors' terrified questions, Ye Kai calmly shook his head. “I can't prove that I'm not a fake person, but I can tell you this.” “Your memories have been altered. The fake person... is among you.” [Not invincible] [No System] [The protagonist has no cheat abilities] The uncanny descended, shattering the world into countless fragments. H 8.6kReads8.7Score849Shelves
- 21 Dark Fairy Tales: Inventing Evil Gods and Slaughtering My Way Through Bear Ridge 暗黑童话：编造邪神，杀穿狗熊岭 I transmigrated! Speak up for me! The moment Shen Xiu crouched down, he became a tree in a dark fairy-tale multiverse. Here, entire worlds have turned grotesque. In blood-red Bear Ridge, eyeballs hang from the sky, Bald Qiang goes on a chainsaw rampage, trees wail in the blood mist, and the dead wander... In the empty Green Pastures, when the black moon becomes full, a pair of horns tears through the sky, revealing scarlet eyes beyond the void... In Fairy Tale Town, the bloody Little Red Riding 35.9kReads8.8Score3.7kShelves
- 22 The Weird Path to Immortality: I Become a God in a Strange World 诡道长生：我在诡异世界封神 [Eerie] [Gu cultivation] [A completely revamped power system] The blind Lin Hun is a corpse collector, a white-clad servant in his ninth life at the Demon Suppression Bureau. Born ill-fated, he cultivates the eerie path with his crippled body. He spends his days collecting, stitching, and refining corpses, surrounded by the Eerie. Then he unexpectedly awakens the divine Eerie art, "The Lifespan-Boiling Gu Cultivation Method": Use lifespan as fuel, boil up supernatural abilities, and cultivate Gu 23.6kReads8.2Score2.6kShelves
- 23 Sequence: Sacrifice 序列：祭品 The rating is being suppressed during the new-book period, so feel free to dive in! [Sequence-based growth + He An's new novel + the usual promise: no frustrating setbacks] Sold by his parents to be a human sacrifice, he returns with the Five Ghosts in place of his organs and the Six Demons transformed into his viscera! Mom, Dad, why aren't you smiling anymore? Those people and gods who took my organs, are you ready? I've come to collect what you owe me! 292.7kReads9.1Score32.5kShelves
- 24 Demons and Evil Spirits? They’re Clearly All Auspicious Omens! 妖魔邪祟？明明都是祥瑞！ [Evil spirit from the start] [Eerie cultivation] [Recruiting demons] [Sheltering humanity] [Believers’ delusions] [No female lead] Chen Zhou transmigrated to a bizarre world teeming with demons and rampant evil spirits. Demons slaughtered humans, specters preyed on them, immortals devoured them. Monsters ran amok, evil spirits wreaked havoc, gods and Buddhas had fallen, and humanity was in decline. Fortunately, Chen Zhou hadn’t transmigrated as a human either. He started out as an evil spirit 88.3kReads8.8Score9.6kShelves
- 25 The Supernatural Returns, and I Am the Greatest Fear in the World 诡异复苏，我是世间最大的恐惧 [Villain] [Dark] [Invincible] [No female lead] Qin Yu died, and his soul arrived in another world, merging with a haunted house. In this age of supernatural resurgence, he continually grew stronger and evolved, creating his own kingdom of terror. Whether human or supernatural, everyone saw him as their greatest fear. 13.8kReads8.4Score928Shelves
- 26 Global Mutation: The Mutant Frenzy of Trillions of Lives 全球畸变：亿兆生命的变异狂潮 Meat blossoms sprout from the soil, and fangs grow from the flowers. The old order awakens all around them. To it, humble humanity is nothing but vermin to be exterminated. Mount Fuji erupts, and the entire Sakura Isles are ripped up and hurled at Huaxia. The magnetic poles flip, super-earthquakes strike, towering tsunamis rise, and the seven continents are squeezed together by a giant hand. Abnormal memes, twisted reality, and layers of overlapping worlds: as the boundary between physics and co 14.1kReads8.8Score1.2kShelves
- 27 I'm Almost a Max-Level Evil God, and You Want Me to Switch to Summoning? 我快邪神满级，你劝我转职召唤？ The animated series is now streaming: Buried Gods! If you can't get enough of the novel, please go show it your support!!! (Story-focused, somewhat dark, with a touch of warmth, no female lead, not invincible, not a System power fantasy, a modest ensemble cast; read with caution if any of that bothers you) On the wasteland, the gods greedily carve up their territories. To survive the beast tide, people can only offer up their humble faith, hoping to earn the gods' mercy and attain the supernatur 35.8kReads8.8Score4.7kShelves
- 28 What Do You Mean I Became a World-Ending Urban Legend? 什么叫我成了灭世级怪谈？ [No Female Lead] [Mild Horror] [Turns Into a False Person in One Chapter] [The Protagonist Is a Pure Monster] Su Yuan transmigrated to a bizarre world rife with danger. Here, everything from horror legends had become real: false people, vengeful spirits, old gods hidden beneath the ocean... And an official organization lurking in everyday life: the Cleanup Bureau. This was an age of despair. With urban legends becoming reality, ordinary people could hardly fight back, and even the authorities we 270.7kReads8.3Score45.9kShelves
- 29 Creating the Uncanny: My Creations Throw the World into Chaos 诡异创造，我的造物们霍乱世界 [Superpowers + Supernatural Horror + Lovecraftian + Contamination + No Female Lead + Behind the Scenes + Natural Disasters] Mysterious myths awaken amid natural disasters, while an unknown corruption quietly takes over the world. Abominable creations howl, and contamination continues to spread. Distortion returns alongside the supernatural: eyes that target human nature, domains that twist it, and strange shackles that cannot be broken. Destruction and rebirth intertwine to create a new mytholog 2kReads—Score150Shelves
- 30 EN The Evil God Is Stunned: Are These Players Even Stranger Than Me? 邪神懵了：这群玩家比我还诡异？ After transmigrating to a world overrun by the uncanny, Lin En discovers that he has become a backwater fake god, his divine power depleted and his existence about to fade away. Outside the church, indescribable monsters are pounding on the door. The desperate countdown has begun. To save himself, Lin En grits his teeth and fabricates a full-dive VR game called Ancient Gods Awaken, summoning a group of hardcore players from Blue Star to serve as his followers. He thought the players would cower 759kReads9.0Score136.9kShelves
- 31 Reborn in a World of the Paranormal, and You Want Me to Join Bureau 749? 重生诡异，你让我加入749局？ [Devouring Evolution]+ [Self-Interest]+ [Humanity’s Natural Enemy]+ [Nemesis of Its Own Kind]+ [Kills Men and Women Alike]+ [Plot-Driven]+ [Undercover]+ [Villain]+ [Eerie] "No female lead!!! No harem!!! No romance!!!" (Not Eerie in the traditional sense. The protagonist is undercover in the human camp and kills both humans and Eerie, men and women alike. This story is plot-driven, so readers looking for a feel-good monster-grinding power fantasy should think twice.) (The rating has already been 59.3kReads8.9Score8.6kShelves
- 32 Apocalypse Villain: Reborn, I Infiltrate the Protagonist's Crew 末世反派：重生后，我混入主角团 [Zombies + post-apocalypse + doomsday + self-interest + decisive and ruthless + villain] Important: The protagonist is neutral evil when he’s in a good mood and chaotic evil when he’s not. He has almost no humanity. Don’t read if that’s not your thing. Only after Chi You dies does he learn that the hotheaded boy who’s always going on about love and peace is the chosen protagonist, destined to save the world, while he himself is merely a villain serving as a stepping stone along the protagonist 37.5kReads9.2Score3.5kShelves
- 33 I Made the Game Descend into Reality 我让游戏降临现实 [Behind the Scenes / Players / Gaming / No Female Lead] That day, the epoch-making full-dive VR game Land of Seals burst onto the scene, setting off a gaming craze across the world. Its average number of players online topped three billion at one point! But no one knew that one day in the future, everything in the game would descend upon reality! The Tower of Seals, the Legions of the Old Ones, the Doomsday Church… Only Ye Qiu, a reborn person, knew what was coming. But I don’t care, because… “I 22kReads9.1Score1.9kShelves
- 34 Eternal Demon 永魔 Traditional cultivation. The protagonist is ruthless and merciless, no holier-than-thou hero, no heroine, dark fiction! No System!! If you want to become an immortal in the heavens, you must climb the road to immortality over the bones of others. This isn't AI-generated. I wrote it by hand!!! 3.2kReads5.4Score316Shelves
- 35 EN Mortal Cultivation: Ten Thousand Corpses Forge an Immortal Bone 凡人修仙，万尸铸仙骨 Demonic cultivation + no System + scheming underdog + decisive and ruthless. This book is dark, so don't read it if that's not your thing. The moment Song Wen kills the frail little beggar and seizes his blood and soul, every cell in his body cheers and leaps with excitement. His mind races, and he knows that killing will be part of his life from now on. For survival and immortality, he'll stop at nothing: petty schemes, conspiracies, and ruthless slaughter. On the road to immortality, bones are 96kReads8.9Score8.2kShelves
- 36 EN The Monsters I Created! 我创造的怪物！ [Behind the Scenes + Ensemble Cast + Cosmic Horror + No System + No Romance] Also known as: Dark Revelation Gods and demons, dragons, and the apocalypse were once fairy tales. The mysteries of this world have faded from sight, yet someone has brought those long-lost things back into the public eye. And every clue, every lead, points to a man named Chen Ye. “Friends, would you cast off this flesh and join us in embracing evolution?” Extended blurb: Sequence 001: The Mimic Sequence 002: The Deep O 65.6kReads9.2Score6.1kShelves
- 37 Rule-Based Horror? I Choose to Rebel 规则怪谈？我选择叛逆 [A short drama adaptation of the same name is now available. You can watch it on the platform. Thank you for your support.] [Subverting expectations + no heroine + hilarious + sly schemer + rebellious + eerie + national fate] Rule-based horror descends upon Earth. The uncanny invades reality. Those chosen are sent into horror worlds, where they represent their respective nations and face the horrors within. Su Xiao is chosen by the horror world and entrusted with the task of representing the Dra 49.5kReads9.6Score6.2kShelves
- 38 The Eerie Spirit Medium: My Doll Can Really Manifest Spirits 诡异降神师：我的娃娃真能显灵 [Ghosts in the Book!] [Dark Tone!] [Villain Protagonist!] [Urban Supernatural!] [Horror Aesthetic!] [Invincible from the Start!] A sinister doll saws someone to pieces, a red-clad vengeful ghost claims lives at the airport, a hundred ghosts hunt people down along a ten-mile street, the dead rise again in a crematorium, and corpses dance wildly in an abandoned hospital... None of these things happened to me. They are all stories I wrote. My name is Yang Ning. I am an heir to the Ling Men, a profe 131.2kReads9.5Score11.5kShelves
- 39 A Long Journey in Another World 异界旅途漫漫 [No System + Original Story + Ensemble Cast + No Brain-Dead Characters + Fast-Paced + Pure Romance] I’m dedicated to creating a different kind of world and bringing everyone a fresh new thrill, along with a more realistic experience! The rain fell without letup, day after gloomy day. Beneath the curtain of rain... Travelers from another world, I’d like you to finish this terrible game of chess for me. Anyone can be a chess piece, anyone can be sacrificed. All living beings are players in this ga 5.8kReads—Score334Shelves
