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- 1 My Perfect Husband Is Actually a Psychopath 我的完美丈夫竟是个变态 My Perfect Husband Is Actually a Psychopath —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 2 Horror Stories That Aren’t Scary 恐怖故事不恐怖 When the brakes of the last subway train shriek through the silence, the morgue elevator stops on its own at three in the morning, the reflection in a department store fitting-room mirror starts counting your buttons, and someone knocks on your rented apartment door like clockwork on rainy nights... The details everyone overlooks are beginning to fester: an extra knuckle suddenly appearing in the mirror, a faint wail at the end of the corridor, a mark on an old keepsake that is still wet. They a 1Reads—Score—14d adds
- 3 The Lonely Devour the Nest 孤独噬巢 The Lonely Nest —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 4 Terror at Three in the Morning: There's a Ghost Behind the Door 三更惊魂，门内有鬼 Terror at Three in the Morning: There's a Ghost Behind the Door —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 5 The Tenant 租房客 The Tenant —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 6 The Cage of Music 琴音囚笼 The Cage of Melody —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 7 The Impostors: The Whole World Is Fake, and I'm the Only Real Human 伪人：全世界都是假的，只有我是真人 Impostors: The Whole World Is Fake, and I'm the Only Real Person —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 8 Midnight Terror! Is There Someone in the Mirror? 夜半惊魂！镜里有人？ A Midnight Fright! Someone in the Mirror? —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 9 The Filing Cabinet on Basement Level One 负一层的档案柜 The Filing Cabinet on Level B1 —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 10 The Broken Bell's Message (Sequel) 残钟寄片（续） The Broken Clock Sends a Message (Sequel) —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 11 365 Bedtime Ghost Stories 365个睡前鬼故事 Still worried you won't make it through a long horror story? Still worried the scares will drag on and take forever to pull you in? This collection of short ghost stories takes just ten minutes to read each one. Open one before bed or on your commute, and let a concentrated burst of fear wrap around you. You won't be able to stop. Perhaps one of these stories will be just right for whenever you feel like being given a little scare. 7.1kReads8.4Score72514d adds
- 12 A Troubling Seed 让人不安的种子 [Horror Short Story Collection + Standalone Stories + Chilling on Second Thought] Every story takes place in an ordinary setting: a home, a street, a school, nighttime, an elevator, a bathroom, and so on. Tiny inconsistencies, misperceptions, hallucinations, and fragments of urban legends are presented as things that “really happened,” making you think: This could be happening right next to me. 20Reads—Score—14d adds
- 13 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 “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
- 14 Midnight Whispers: Lock the Door Before You Hear My Ghost Story 午夜耳语：锁好门再听我的鬼故事 #Horror #Thriller #Mystery #UrbanLegends #ShortStories #CreepyOnSecondThought #QuickRead Shh...! Listen... When the clock’s pendulum swings past midnight, are you ready to receive a “whisper” meant only for you? Standalone short stories reveal brand-new scenes of terror. No complicated plots, no lengthy build-up, just pure sensory thrills. [Before You Read]: Lock your door. This book accepts no responsibility for any “accidents” that may occur because you left it unlocked. We recommend turning o 115Reads—Score—14d adds
- 15 Shh, It’s Time for a Ghost Story 嘘，要讲鬼故事了 [Short ghost stories + Chinese-style horror + rural setting + strange folk tales] Have you ever heard of a cow bride? The legend says you must offer the blood of an old yellow ox that can no longer plow the fields. Skin it, pull out its tendons, and hammer ninety-nine iron nails into its skull. Nail it inside a wooden coffin and leave it hanging for forty-nine days. When you open it, a peerlessly beautiful woman with pale skin will be inside. My older brother was born disabled, ugly, and coarse, 2.3kReads—Score13314d adds
- 16 I Asked You to Turn Around, Not Bring People to Clear My Blockage! 让你回个头，你带人疏通我？ [Martial fantasy + infinite-loop trials + rule-based killing games + ensemble cast + no mindless power fantasy + scheming, trope-subverting hero + themed pocket worlds] Unemployed wage slave Mu Chen's life rules: The later the night, the wilder you get. The more forbidden the fun, the better. Rules are there to test your limits. Teammates are there to take the fall for you. Never trust a warning that says "Do Not Look Back"... unless there's really something behind you. "Kid, you're walking —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 17 After I Unboxed Grandma's Keepsakes on Livestream, Every Viewer Started Posting the Same Thing 直播拆开外婆的遗物后，观众都在刷同一句话 While livestreaming the unboxing of Grandma's belongings, viewers all spammed the same comment 1Reads—Score—14d adds
- 18 The Teahouse in the Old Alley 老巷茶馆 The Teahouse in the Old Alley 1Reads—Score—14d adds
- 19 The Lin Family's Haunted House 林氏凶宅 The Lin Family's Haunted House 2Reads—Score—14d adds
- 20 The Qing Dynasty Campus Beauty of Jiuyan Bridge 九眼桥的清朝校花 The Qing Dynasty Campus Belle of Jiuyan Bridge —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 21 The Shadow Sedan Chair of Wawu Mountain 瓦屋山阴轿 The Ghost Sedan Chair of Wawu Mountain —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 22 Rental Apartment Taboos: Don't Look in the Mirror at Three in the Morning 出租屋禁忌：凌晨三点别照镜 Rental Apartment Taboos: Don't Look in the Mirror at Three in the Morning —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 23 The Ghost Opera Troupe and Old Resentments 阴戏班、旧时怨 The Ghost Opera Troupe, Old Grudges —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 24 A Thing That Takes Revenge Like a Vengeful Ghost 如鬼煞复仇之物 Like a vengeful demon 12Reads—Score—14d adds
- 25 A Thousand Ways to Exorcise Ghosts on Livestream 直播驱鬼的一千种姿势 Infinite-Flow Rules Horror! He’s a horror-game streamer whose persona is a sweet, naive coward, but beneath the surface he’s a shameless, diabolical big shot. The System bound him to a livestreaming system, and he turned around and gave the System a surprise of its own. The ghosts and monsters huddled together, trembling; his fans’ worldviews teetered on the brink; and his teammates were fuming. “If he’s going to be this outrageous, what does he need us for?” Our streamer smiled faintly. “To sel 234Reads—Score—14d adds
- 26 Forbidden Strange Tales: The Taboos of the Folk 禁忌聊斋：民间禁忌的那些事 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
- 27 A Collection of Short Horror Stories! 短篇恐怖故事集！ A collection of horror stories. No human causes, no romance or harem, no humor or comedy, no good luck, and no one can escape! Fear! Fear! And more fear! 59Reads—Score—14d adds
- 28 Funeral Shroud Shop Taboos: I Don't Sew Clothes for the Dead, but Souls for the Living 寿衣店禁忌：我缝的不是死人衣，是活人魂 Funeral Shroud Shop Taboos: What I Sew Isn't a Dead Person's Garment, but a Living Person's Soul 5Reads—Score—14d adds
- 29 Paper Cocoon 纸茧 Paper Cocoon 1Reads—Score—14d adds
- 30 The Faceless Woman 无脸婆 The Faceless Woman 2Reads—Score—14d adds
- 31 Heimu Creek: Bloodstained Human-Skin Paper Spat Out in the Dead of Night 黑木溪：深夜吐出的带血人皮纸 Blackwood Creek: Bloodstained Human Skin Paper Spat Out in the Dead of Night —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 32 Haunted House Mysteries 鬼宅诡事 Haunted House Mysteries 1Reads—Score—14d adds
- 33 Is Someone Hiding in Your Ceiling? 你家天花板有没有藏人？ Is Someone Hiding in Your Ceiling? —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 34 Sacrificial Red: Strange Tales from a Deep-Mountain Base Station 祭红·深山基站·诡事录 Offering Red: Strange Tales from a Remote Mountain Relay Station 1Reads—Score—14d adds
- 35 Old Alley Sound Repair: At Midnight Tonight, Qin Opera Calls the Souls 旧巷声修：今夜子时，秦腔引魂 [One Heroine + Sound Cultivation + Qin Opera + Livestreaming + Supernatural Mystery + Urban + Adventure] In modern society, information explodes across the world, and human negativity is amplified through social media, forming an immense “Tide of Resentment.” If no one guides and dispels it, within three years it will gather into a “Lament of Doomsday,” and the boundary between the worlds of yin and yang will collapse completely. Humanity’s power comes from “the Power of Wishes”: energy formed w —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 36 Invitation to a Personality Analysis 人格分析邀请函 You, Me, and Him · Invitation Tonight at 7:00 p.m., the white room in Jing'an Apartments. We’re waiting for you to solve the mystery. Let’s get this out of the way: once you finish this script, you’ll go mad. The bad news: you are Chen Ke, Shadow, and Tianming. Player 1: Your character card: Reader Mission: Find the real author Player 2: My character card: Chen Ke Mission: Tear up the murder-mystery invitation Player 3: His character card: Tianming Mission: Stop the other two Opening lines: You —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 37 Great Ming: The Imperial Grandson Slanders Me, So I, Zhu Quan, Am Rebelling! 大明：皇孙污蔑，那我朱权反了！ Zhu Quan transmigrates to the twenty-eighth year of Hongwu and becomes the Ning Prince Zhu Quan, a man with the same name as himself. Knowing how history will unfold, Zhu Quan hasn't even had time to build up his army and plot a rebellion before an imperial decree arrives from his good nephew, Zhu Yunwen. It orders him to surrender all his military authority and settle down as a wealthy, carefree prince! Zhu Quan laughs. "Anyone who's read Water Margin knows there's no such thing as surrendering 141Reads5.0Score—14d adds
- 38 The Black Dog of Misty Mountain 雾山黑犬 Black Dog of Mist Mountain 11Reads—Score—14d adds
- 39 Twelve Ghosts 十二鬼魂 Twelve Ghosts 17Reads—Score214d adds
- 40 Strange Tales from a Chinese Studio: The Paper Bride 聊斋灵异故事：纸妻 Strange Tales from a Chinese Studio: The Paper Wife 3Reads—Score—14d adds
- 41 Don't Look Down, There's a Ghost Beneath You 别低头，地下有鬼 Don't Look Down, There's a Ghost Below —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 42 Paranormal Ghost Story: The Lingering Yin Debt 灵异鬼故事：残阴债 A Ghost Story: The Lingering Yin Debt 2Reads—Score—14d adds
- 43 Don't Touch That Red Coffin 别碰那口红棺 Don't Touch That Red Coffin 2Reads—Score—14d adds
- 44 The Girl in Red from the Village 村寨红衣女孩 The Girl in Red from the Village —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 45 The Eerie Portrait at the Wake 守灵夜的诡异遗像 The Eerie Portrait at the Wake 2Reads—Score—14d adds
- 46 The Brain-Twisting Maze City 烧脑迷城 [Mind-Bending]+ [Lord of the Mysteries]+ [Superpowers] [Not a Power Fantasy]+ [Not a Harem Power Fantasy] Lin Yuan, the sole survivor of a minibus crash over a cliff, had only just opened his eyes when he realized he was in even greater danger. Every step was fraught with the bizarre, and finding a chance to survive took extraordinary brainpower. One careless move, and his life would end at once! After barely making it through one deadly trial after another, he suddenly discovered that the absur 7Reads—Score—14d adds
- 47 Rule Horror: Zhen Huan’s Reminder, Never Look into the Bronze Mirror 规则怪谈：甄嬛谨记勿照铜镜 Rule Horror: Zhen Huan, Remember Never to Look in the Bronze Mirror 2Reads—Score—14d adds
- 48 Stop Talking, There Are No Ghosts in This World! 别聊了世上没鬼的！ Stop talking! There are no ghosts in this world! 3Reads—Score—14d adds
- 49 Nightmare Game: I Can Rewind Time by Dying 噩梦游戏：我能死亡回档 [Nightmare Game + Infinite Worlds + Mild Horror + Death Rewind] Ye Feng moved into the Xingfu Huayuan residential complex. The scenery was nice, and the neighbors were friendly enough. The only fly in the ointment was that the person living upstairs kept making noise in the middle of the night. He once tried going over to talk, but they never opened the door. Then, one day, just as he was about to put on his headphones as usual to block out the annoying noise, two people showed up at his door, c 1Reads—Score—14d adds
- 50 The Three Months I Was Trapped at My Girlfriend's Best Friend's Home 我被困在女友闺蜜家的那三个月 My girlfriend’s eerie home is the stuff of nightmares. This time, I’ve mysteriously found myself trapped in her best friend’s house, where she makes an utterly baffling demand... Two heroines + well-crafted suspense + scheming characters + sweet romance + twists + written by the author, not AI 1Reads—Score—14d adds
