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- 1 I'm Already a Weird NPC, So What's Wrong with Having Lots of Skills? 我都诡异npc了，技能多咋了 [No romance + I have no idea why the platform gave this story that tag either (ಥ_ಥ)] Yan An accidentally became an eerie NPC in a world of Infinite Flow dungeons. He says, "What's wrong with knowing a few extra skills when I've got the Archmage System?!" He'd planned to coast along as a background character, but even as an eerie being, he still had to worry about food, clothing, shelter, and transportation. Time to get to work. First, a modest goal: build a dungeon home of his very own. 625Reads5.3Score10014d adds
- 2 The Strange World: I Became a Dungeon Boss After Death 诡异世界：死后成了副本BOOS [Infinite Flow + No Female Lead + Instance Dungeons + Eerie] Eerie Ranks [Ghost, Vengeful Ghost, Malevolent Spirit, Vicious Spirit, Calamity Demon…] Bai Qi died in a car accident. But then he came back to life, becoming a ghost driver and the boss of a one-star instance dungeon. He can raise his level, obtain all kinds of vehicles, climb to the top of the rankings, travel between the worlds of the living and the dead, and open a shop to buy supplies in the human world. He recruits NPCs by the 889Reads6.6Score10114d adds
- 3 I’m an NPC, So What? Aren’t You One Too? 我是NPC呀，难道你不是？ [Two Male Leads + 1v1 + Devoted Couple + Everyone’s Favorite, with modern-style instances but not an entirely modern setting! The tags were set by Tomato and can’t be changed...] Qiu Luofeng is a newly graduated NPC from an Infinite Flow NPC Academy. As one of this year’s outstanding graduates, the Main System, with all the fussing concern of a mother, decides to send him into a few easy instances first to gain experience and improve his chances of promotion later. Everyone has to start as an in 1.5kReads8.7Score21314d adds
- 4 Playing an NPC: The Thriller Game’s Only Bug 扮演NPC：惊悚游戏唯一BUG [Misunderstandings + Playing a Creepy NPC + Secret Identities + Horror and the Supernatural + Rules-Based Horror + Livestream Audience Overthinking Everything + Dungeon Mayhem + System + No Romance] Horror game livestreams have taken the world by storm! In 2054, the supernatural returns, and humanity is forced into the “Fate Game.” Lose, and you die for real! After Feng Yue dies, she is bound to a System and begins her afterlife playing NPCs... Shocking! The whole world is watching live, but th 401Reads7.4Score15114d adds
- 5 Reborn as a Ghost: My Brothers Have Always Been Carrying Me 重生成诡：哥哥们一直都在带飞我 (The rating just came in, so I don't know if it'll go up later.) Tang Xiaoze was diagnosed with a terminal illness in his first year of high school. After several years of treatment, he still died. What he never expected was to see his older brothers, who had died long ago. Back at the familiar Sunshine Welfare Home, Tang Xiaoze saw his second brother and said, “Second Brother, I've missed you so much.” Tang Mubai smiled. “Xiaoze, what do you think of this place?” Standing in a vast park, Tang X 8.5kReads7.6Score84214d adds
- 6 The God-Tier NPC's Art of Disguise 神级NPC的伪装守册 [Infinite Flow + pure romance + a touch of horror + funny, sweet romance + powerful partners + everyone thinks the others are amazing] (NPC role-playing + mutual devotion, no useless beauties! Everyone grows!) Su Xiaoxiao was on the verge of a breakdown. “What kind of decent person starts an NPC job without even getting a script on the first day of training?!” As if having no newbie protection weren't bad enough, she had to compete with her “ghost coworkers” for performance reviews and got targe 59Reads9.3Score—14d adds
- 7 Help! The Tragic Novel's Protagonists Are Forcing the Author to Rewrite the Ending as a Power Fantasy 救命！虐文主角逼作者改爽文结局 [Wild imagination + angst + multiple stories set in different worlds + satisfying revenge + mild horror + healing and redemption] Su Xiao currently works as an NPC in an escape room. She used to be a struggling author who loved writing angsty stories. Now, for some reason, the protagonists in all those angsty novels she wrote are awakening one by one, turning every trope on its head in spectacular fashion! Other authors torment their protagonists, but here the protagonists rebel across dimensi 1Reads6.0Score—14d adds
- 8 Trying My Best to Observe Humanity 正在努力观察人类 [No romance] [Just got a rating, it'll probably go up later... right?] [The protagonist's perspective is in first person; everyone else's is in third person. The narrative switches between multiple viewpoints.] [An unconventional horror story with a cozy, everyday feel.] The protagonist is a newly born little supernatural being. Its true form has no shape or gender, but it usually appears to humans as a little girl. Sometimes it changes its skin. If you experience the story from the prot 2.2kReads8.8Score21114d adds
- 9 Eerie: The Mirror Queen Doesn't Want to Work 诡异：镜子女王不想打工 [No CP + Infinite Flow + eerie dungeons + mild horror] The high point of Tang Jingjing’s life was finally getting her property deed. The darkest moment came the very next second, when she was killed by something thrown from a high-rise. The good news: After her death, she was bound to her own dungeon, “Home,” and promoted straight to a Boss-level vengeful spirit. The bad news: Her “home” was an unfinished shell, without even a bed. To save up for renovations, Tang Jingjing was forced to start wo 2.3kReads8.8Score20814d adds
- 10 EN You Slaughter Wraiths by the Dozen? But I'm a Save-Scumming Wraith! 你杀诡如麻？可我是回档诡异！ [Infinite flow + game + mild horror + no heroine + turn-based resets + instances + protagonist is a monster] Readers have left plenty of positive reviews. No undercover troublemakers, so give it a try. Beneath the veil of the “city,” Xu Kai stood amid a mountain of corpses and a sea of blood. His enemies fell one after another, their eyes filled with confusion as they died. His opponents weren’t especially strong. They were more like machines. Every turn, every gesture, was perfectly timed to de 2.2kReads6.5Score25514d adds
- 11 Nightmare Game 梦魇游戏 [Mystery + Semi-Infinite Flow + No Female Lead + Light Ensemble Cast + Original Setting + Protagonist Is an NPC + Faction Conflict + Everyone Is Smart + Slow Burn + Light Lovecraftian Horror + Decisive and Ruthless] Reporters deliver the news. [Reporters] report the truth. Yin Lu transmigrated. He ended up in Nightmare Game, a full-immersion horror game with an official reported death rate of 3% but an actual death rate of fifty-fifty, and became an NPC. The good news: He's a five-star mini-bos 11.9kReads9.0Score1.7k14d adds
- 12 Strange Roleplay: All My NPC Secret Identities Are Weak 诡异扮演：我的NPC马甲都很弱 [Delusions of Grandeur + Supernatural Mystery + Bizarre NPCs + Horror Game + System + Infinite Flow + No CP + Big Shot + Secret Identity] I became a bizarre NPC from the start, but my level is too low. What do I do? I'm waiting for an answer, hurry up!! [Instance: Heaven-Sent Magic Academy] “Lin Shuyu”: I blew up the classroom in my very first lesson. Is the principal going to make me pay for the damage? My coworkers are all ostracizing me. Sigh, I guess it's because my level is too low! Princi 240Reads8.0Score—14d adds
- 13 I Own a Dollhouse in a Horror Game 我在惊悚游戏里有一家玩偶屋 [Infinite-Flow + System + Wild Imagination + No Romance] The doll maker Huanxi opened a doll shop in a small town, but few customers ever came by. It wasn’t just the doll shop. The flower shop run by Sister Qiong across the street, Granny Wu’s qipao shop next door, and Uncle Qian’s pawnshop were all empty too. In fact, it would be more accurate to say that strangers rarely ever appeared in town. Business was slow, but Huanxi got along well with everyone in town, and they often gathered for meals 1.1kReads8.6Score13414d adds
- 14 Even Rule Horror Wants to Build a Family Business 规则怪谈也想经营家族 Reviews have just started coming in, so this will rise [Nonhuman Protagonist + No Couple + Eldritch Horror + Farming + Faction Management + A Little National Destiny in the Early Story, None Later + Dice Goddess Blessings + Game Invasion] Rules stem from the rights granted by one's identity. Rights bring both power and responsibility. The weak can only gain a foothold in this world where rules reign supreme by banding together. The rules of the Strange Tale Collective's home collapsed after inte 53.6kReads9.0Score6.8k14d adds
- 15 I'm Really Not a God-Tier Guide NPC 我真的不是神级指引npc [Infinite flow + no romance + ensemble cast + no female lead + suspense and twists + NPC role-playing] [Just got a rating, it’ll rise over time.] Su Ming wakes up to discover that he has become a guide NPC in a horror game, monitored by the System and sent from one instance to another. Along with the players, he is trapped in “Restful Haven,” a village that appears peaceful but sustains its “perfect immortality” through the sacrifice of the living. Amid one battle of wits and probing after anoth 415Reads8.4Score11014d adds
- 16 I Became a Corporate Drone After Turning into a Horror Game NPC 穿成恐游npc后成为社畜 [Thank you for all your love. I'm overjoyed.] [No CP + character growth + mildly scary + lighthearted + ensemble cast] Office worker Jiu Sansan transmigrated into a horror game's NPC. To earn enough to eat and stay alive, she had to scare players and make a living. Bullshit. The job was bullshit. The boss was bullshit! The players were bullshit too!! Why was she still an overworked corporate drone even after ending up in a horror game?! She'd thought her boss looked awful, but it turned out the 22.5kReads9.3Score5k14d adds
- 17 Working as an NPC in a Horror World 在惊悚世界里做NPC [Infinite-flow + Dungeon challenges + Female protagonist posing as a player] Cheng Yue is a longtime fan of horror infinite-flow novels. She never expected that one day her world would become the terrifying world from a novel. Everyone around her, except herself, started acting strangely. Her roommate’s facial features fell off as she talked. When Cheng Yue went home for the holidays, she saw her younger brother kicking their father’s head around like a ball. The old neighbor in the plaza was ex 998Reads8.4Score10214d adds
- 18 Horror Game: You Want Me, a Vengeful Ghost, to Be a Player? 惊悚游戏，你让我一厉鬼当玩家？ Infinite-survival + no romance + fun + memes + a touch of horror + bizarre = unhinged fiction [Warning: A god-tier supernatural monster has been spotted wandering through an instance in the guise of a human player. All monsters and players in every instance, proceed with caution.] Lu Wang: I'd say The Abyss of Death is an utterly heartwarming game. There's a clown who gives me balloons. And a sweet old lady who eagerly invites me home to make dumplings. I even have a cat that likes to wear r 5.2kReads8.8Score93014d adds
- 19 I Transmigrated to a Supernatural World and Became a Dungeon Boss 穿越诡异世界我成了副本BOSS [Infinite Realms + Supernatural Horror + Mild Horror + No Romance + Everything Handcrafted] Zuo Lin'an discovers that he has transmigrated. At first, he assumes this is just an ordinary otherworld, until he runs into his close friend Xu Youyou and learns that his aunt is a supernatural investigator. Only then does he realize he has transmigrated to a world haunted by the supernatural. And this supernatural world is not what he expected. Because he happens to discover that he might have a chance 71.9kReads8.8Score6.4k14d adds
- 20 A Professional NPC’s Guide to Working in an Infinite-Loop World 无限流世界职业npc工作指南 [Two male leads + infinite-flow] (A self-indulgent passion project!!) Qi Wu always thought he was an ordinary person, until misfortune struck him. Then he realized that ordinary people weren't nearly as unlucky as he was! After officially becoming an employee assigned to play an NPC in a death game: Qi Wu: "Why does that man over there keep staring at me?" System: "He's a player. He probably thinks you're an important NPC." Qi Wu: "Oh, I see." A little while later... Qi Wu: "Hey, why is he getti 19.7kReads9.0Score2.8k14d adds
- 21 Me, the Wandering Boss of the Infinite Worlds 我，在无限世界当流窜boss When he wakes up and finds himself in another world, Ke Mubai looks at the bedroom, which is about the same size as his rented room, and thinks his luck must have finally turned. But the blood moon hanging high in the sky and the butcher-like monsters hunting people downstairs make it clear that this world is anything but simple. (The protagonist has a bit of a conscience at first. Later on, not setting people up is about as kind as he gets.) 1.8kReads8.9Score16714d adds
- 22 No One Dares Offend This Top Expert: All the Paranormal Beings Are His Patients 顶级大佬惹不起，诡异全是他病友 [Infinite-flow + wish fulfillment + no romance + livestreaming + a true powerhouse] Qi Yan spent ten years in a mental hospital and has finally been discharged. But the moment he steps outside, he is dragged into a newly generated instance. It turns out the outside world has been overrun by the supernatural for a long time. - Every time Qi Yan enters an instance, he runs into familiar “people”: his dear fellow patients again. While players flee in disarray, he leisurely visits old friends and to 77.4kReads9.0Score17.3k14d adds
- 23 In a Bizarre World, My Whole Family Is Bizarre 诡异世界，我们一家诡异 When Su Mo was eighteen, his older brother died saving someone, and his father was killed in a workplace accident. When Su Mo received his college acceptance letter, his mother passed away from overwhelming grief. On his eighteenth birthday, Su Mo was the only one left in his family of four. He died of illness at twenty-four, only to be reborn as a ghost. That was when he discovered that this world had a realm of ghosts, where his parents and older brother were waiting. His family had become a n 29.3kReads8.6Score1.9k14d adds
- 24 Infinite Worlds: After I Became the Manor Lord 无限世界：当我成为庄园主后 [Infinite flow + System + wild imagination + no romance] Zhao Manman, an NPC, awakened in a terrifying world of mist. The world of mist is made up of players and NPCs. Players enter to have their wishes fulfilled, but the mysterious world of mist offers more than thrilling survival challenges. They also have to deal with all kinds of players, whose hearts are impossible to read. Zhao Manman could only weep in despair. I just want to stay alive! Luckily, she got a manor from the start and unexpec 1.2kReads8.6Score11514d adds
- 25 EN Humans Are the Juvenile Form of Monsters. I Was Stripped of My Humanity as Soon as I Graduated 人是诡的幼年体毕业即被开除人籍 [Eerie + Boss's perspective + dungeon worlds + rules + no female lead] Ren Yi wakes up to find that he has transmigrated into a “normal” world with unbelievably generous benefits. Under the League's attentive protection, everyone lives without a care, and the future looks bright. He thinks he and his only family member in this world, his autistic older brother, will live an ordinary, peaceful life together. But a “career placement test” shatters his entire worldview. “There are no humans in the 128.3kReads8.7Score14.2k14d adds
- 26 No HP Bar? You Call This Stunning NPC Frail? 没血条？你管这绝美NPC叫病弱 This was supposed to be a horror instance, so why are all the players treating me, an NPC, like their savior? After transmigrating into an eerie, infinite-world setting, everyone else struggles to survive, while Mu Zhixi doesn't even have a body. Luckily, the character-creation software from her previous life activates, allowing her to possess characters she designed herself and gain their abilities and backstories. So, what if her identity isn't mysterious enough? Make one up! What if her facti 148.3kReads8.6Score21.5k14d adds
- 27 Eerie Game NPC: I Carry the Fate of All Humanity 诡异游戏NPC，我背负了全人类 [Contains many scenes of illness and frailty. Proceed with caution.] Gu Heqing transmigrates one day and discovers he has become an NPC in a horror game. Humans keep entering the game world, while the real world is gradually being dragged into it. The livestreams show people dying horribly, and he is somehow connected to a “god” whose nature he cannot begin to understand… He has no idea where to go from here. But when he finally comes to his senses, he seems to have... become humanity’s onl 4.6kReads9.0Score55414d adds
- 28 The Ghost King’s Self-Cultivation 鬼王的自我修养 “I'm Li Jiong. I'm still alive.” “I have no memories. I know nothing about this world.” “Something seems wrong here. How strange.” “I remember a little now. This world really is wrong.” “It's me. How could the world be wrong?” “I'm the one who's wrong.” Li Jiong sways his head and hums an unknown tune as he tears through layers of unfamiliar fog in the game. He witnesses the strange things around him and records them in his diary. As he investigates, his memories slowly begin to unfold, and he s 5.2kReads8.3Score56614d adds
- 29 Thriller: This NPC Has Gone on Strike 惊悚：这个NPC罢工了 [Thriller + unhinged beauty + not scary + no romance + killing all the way + invincible] The dungeon opens in Chapter Two. You can skip it. Shen Xiaoxiao is the famous S-rank dungeon NPC, the River God’s Bride, hated by countless players. One day, she suddenly realizes that players have tricked her into dying countless times. So she decides: “I quit! I’m done!” While other players painstakingly search for clues to clear the dungeon, Shen Xiaoxiao spends the whole time causing trouble in her own 3.4kReads9.3Score46914d adds
- 30 I'm an NPC in the National Fate Horror Game 我在国运怪谈游戏当NPC After dying suddenly from working overtime all night, Shi Qian was dumped by the System into a terrifying world of urban legends to work as an NPC. She slacks off, enjoys the show, and just wants to be a simple, happy little couch potato. But the contestants in the national destiny horror game mistake her for a powerful boss in the instance... She giggles and watches the fun through a crack in the door! The contestants scream and wail the moment they see her. Some even cry in terror through t 3.9kReads8.7Score41014d adds
- 31 Horror Game: I’m Really Just a Doctor 恐怖游戏：我真的只是一名医生 [Long-form campus writing contest entry] [The only one on the entire site] Fu Bai is reborn as an NPC in a horror game. He considers himself an ordinary, normal person, yet players keep calling him the Murderous Ghost Doctor, the Mad Doctor, the Horror Doctor... Come on, he's a refined, cultured doctor with a rather wicked streak. How can people still criticize him like that? Oh? More players have arrived. Fu Bai swirls the blood-red wine in his left hand, toys with a scalpel in his right, and b 672Reads7.0Score11514d adds
- 32 The Beloved One: After Transmigrating, I Was Raised by an Endless Stream of NPCs 团宠：穿越后被无限NPC养大了 [If you have questions about Xie Ji, please turn to Chapter 99. There's also a discussion thread, and it's easy to find since it's been pinned.] [(I don't know why the tags say romance, ahhhhh!! It's two male leads, two male leads, two male leads! I'm saying it three times because it's important!) Also known as The Daily Life of an Infinite-World Boss Raising Kids in a Dungeon. Content warnings: This isn't an infinite-flow story in the traditional sense. It has two male leads, but the romance co 5.2kReads9.3Score65614d adds
- 33 From the Start, I'm a National Destiny NPC, and the Protagonist Wins Big Thanks to Me 开局国运NPC，主角靠我赢麻了 My great-grandson burns money for me, and I help him ascend to heaven! Not a wish-fulfillment novel, or not entirely. [This is not a rules-based horror story! The rules offer no way out; they're all part of the game and are basically meaningless.] [Hell money can't be burned without limit. Later on, the protagonist will short the Underworld People's Bank.] [The protagonist is a scheming old fox with no golden finger.] [People will bicker among themselves early on; they won't unite until later.] 3.7kReads9.4Score46314d adds
- 34 Infinite Flow: I Reincarnated as an NPC in a Horror Game 无限流：我穿成惊悚游戏的NPC The sun falls, and the entire world transmigrates. Gu Xin, who has heart disease, had planned to take things easy, get eliminated early, and enjoy what little time she had left on Blue Star. But an error occurred during the transmigration, and she ended up as an NPC in a horror game. While she ran her doll shop and picked up odd jobs in other dungeons, hoping to earn an immigrant ship ticket as soon as possible, three strikingly handsome men suddenly appeared before her. Each claimed Gu Xin was 1.3kReads8.7Score15314d adds
- 35 Everyone in My Family Is a Boss Except Me 除我之外，我们全家都是BOSS [Two Male Leads + Unconventional Infinite Flow + Everyone’s Favorite + One-on-One Romance] It is common knowledge that the boss base in an Infinite Flow world is home to three kinds of people: bosses, NPCs, and Shi Yu. As the second-generation offspring of a powerful union between a demon and a ghost, Shi Yu’s greatest contribution to Ghost City is joining forces with the players to report a coworker whose performance was too good. In response to this second-generation boss’s indiscriminate at 7.7kReads9.3Score1.1k14d adds
- 36 After Entering a Horror Novel, I Became a Background Extra 穿进恐怖小说后我变成了路人甲 [Infinite-instance story + cross-dressing scenes + two male leads] (!!! I'm writing this for myself, so the romance may develop quickly and feature quite a lot.) Yang Guang is an antisocial, broke college guy. Just when he thinks he's headed for a dull, uneventful life, he transmigrates. Good news: He's landed inside a novel he's read. Bad news: It's a horror infinite-instance novel, and he's become a nameless NPC extra... But Yang Guang discovers that playing an NPC is like wearing a costume. H 11.2kReads9.3Score1.2k14d adds
- 37 I Transformed into a Pink Sprite and Made Every Player Cry with My Blade 变身粉色妖精，我刀哭所有玩家 [Love and Justice + Pink-Haired Characters Turn Dark + Players Regret It] When she woke up, she discovered she had transmigrated! And not only had she transmigrated into a game world, she had become Taoyao, the female antagonist in the story! What awaited her was not only getting crushed by the protagonist’s party, but also becoming a permanent weekly boss for players to farm breakthrough materials from? Luckily, she awakened a Popularity System! As long as she raked in popularity, she could inf 13.8kReads9.1Score1.2k14d adds
- 38 Players, Please Don't Mess With the Soft and Cuddly NPCs 请玩家不要招惹软糯NPC A sweet, soft-hearted, captivating NPC who plays hard to get vs. a possessive, unhinged top player (split personality) [Male-male romance] [Sweet romance] [Livestream setting] [Monster-slaying and scum-bashing] [Rivalry for the love interest] The full-immersion game “Escape at the End of Time,” which has taken the nation by storm, has officially launched. A haunted dormitory in a school, a city overrun by zombies, a ghost bride, a mass sacrifice, evil spirits kept in the basement of a gloomy old 4.2kReads9.1Score62814d adds
- 39 A Shady Merchant in a Horror World 在惊悚世界当奸商 [Horror world, transmigration, System, comedy, no female lead, survival, feel-good story, infinite worlds, horror, the uncanny] Lin Wu adjusted quickly to suddenly finding himself in an unfamiliar place. After all, those people in white coats often moved him around while he was asleep. The people here looked a lot like the ugly things he used to see. They were a little uglier, but a 19.8kReads9.1Score1.9k14d adds
- 40 I'm in a Rule Horror Game, and I'm the Chosen Villain 人在规则怪谈，我是天命大反派 [Subverting expectations + horror administrator + creating rules + no romance, no female lead + invincible] Chen Fan woke up inside a rule-based horror scenario and discovered that everyone else had drawn powerful SSS-rank talents. He alone had no talent and no System. And wasn’t this task a little strange? “Kill the Chosen Ones in the scenario? Am I supposed to kill myself?” “Wait, I’m not a Chosen One. I’m the horror administrator?” “So I don’t have a talent or a System, but I do have all kind 6kReads9.0Score76414d adds
- 41 A Stunning NPC Accidentally Joins the Players' Side 神级貌美npc，误入玩家阵营 [Boys’ love! + 1v1 + character fragments + NPC + game + pseudo-infinite?] Xie Jue had always thought he was just an ordinary person. He went through life by the book and worked by the book. Then one day, he found a phone displaying the loading screen of a game. [Loading character... Character loaded successfully...] [Ding! Welcome, Player Xie Jue, to the game.] From then on, the door to a new world opened for Xie Jue... Once Xie Jue stepped inside, there was no going back. The golden canary, 6kReads9.4Score71114d adds
- 42 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. 13.8kReads8.4Score92814d adds
- 43 Strange Tales: The Evil God Gets a New Job 诡谈：邪神再就业 [Horror + Twists + Foreshadowing: The Series Where Even the Righteous Gods Are Worshipped by Villains] The supernatural invaded, and Shi Fei received a mission invitation from a dead person. Horror, slaughter, and escape: everyone was fighting to survive. When the supernatural blocked his only way out, Shi Fei calmly tried to talk it down: “Move aside. Don’t make me stop being human.” The creature refused to surrender and launched an attack instead. So Shi Fei really did stop being human, turnin 47.8kReads9.4Score6.9k14d adds
- 44 Trapped in a Horror World, I Was Forced to Become the Boss 人在惊悚，我被逼成了BOSS [No female lead + infinite-flow + decisive and ruthless + nuclear-grade absurdity + chaotic neutral] As everyone knows, surviving even a single day in a horror game is extremely difficult. Yet Lin Yi was trapped in the Undying Village for a full 29 days! Not only did he manage not to die, he was forced to become the ultimate BOSS of that instance! After resolving his survival crisis, he finally realized there was a problem. Now that I'm a BOSS, why haven't I cleared the game? That is, until a ne 5kReads9.0Score51814d adds
- 45 I Teach as a Vicious Ghost in a Horror Game 我在惊悚游戏做猛鬼老师 A horror game descends upon the world. Su Yun, the game’s first A-rank player, suddenly vanishes from public view. When he reappears, he is a teacher at a kindergarten for evil spirits. This is an F-rank instance with a death rate as high as ninety percent, but no player believes it. “Little Chubby is so honest. How could he be dangerous?” “The ghost girl is so kawaii. There’s no way she’d hurt the players!” But Su Yun knows that these adorable, good-natured little ones are all evil spirits, 1.4kReads9.1Score13014d adds
- 46 Rule Horror: I Am the Horror Story 规则怪谈：我即怪谈 In 2017, supernatural tales descended upon Earth. Conventional weapons couldn't harm them, and humanity struggled to survive. Rule-based supernatural tales became humanity's last lifeline. Tens of thousands of chosen ones around the world were selected. If they won, the supernatural tales would vanish from reality. If they lost, the rule-based tales would descend upon the world. This was a war between humanity and the supernatural. Chen Shao, a patient suffering from bone cancer, became one of t 144kReads9.6Score19.1k14d adds
- 47 The Cursed Abyss Cannot Be Crossed 诡渊不度 [Supernatural resurgence + nonhuman protagonist + no female lead + evil gods] Note: This is not a livestream story, a wish-fulfillment power fantasy, or a brainless invincible-protagonist story. Feel free to ship any pairings, though (doge). It leans a little toward two male leads, but not much, and has an everyone-loves-the-protagonist vibe. If that bothers you, please move along. The worlds of ghosts and humans were once clearly divided, yin and yang keeping each other in balance. But as t 12.3kReads9.4Score1.7k14d adds
- 48 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 59kReads8.9Score8.5k14d adds
- 49 Don't Be Fooled by My Golden Finger-Like Look, I'm Really Just an NPC 别看我像金手指，我真只是NPC [Powerhouse + role-playing + secret identities + horror and the supernatural + people reading too much into things + chosen ones + no romance] A three-in-one blend of three horror genres: psychological horror games, Cthulhu livestreams, and real-world supernatural arts. Xiao Gui'an, a bit-part actor, died, but not entirely. He was chosen to play an NPC in a world of horror and the supernatural. After becoming a ghost, Xiao Gui'an thought he would no longer have anything to fear. Who could have 48.9kReads9.5Score3.7k14d adds
- 50 I, Child of Fortune, Am Playing the Golden Finger Online 我，气运之子，在线扮演金手指 [Content warning: no romance, pure power fantasy, role-playing, some secret identities, no logic] Pei Yuzhi was the chosen one of a high-level cultivation world. One day, his own Heavenly Dao sent him to the Administration Bureau for training, and so began his career as a task-taker: outrageously wealthy and undefeated. [Apocalypse Savior] He was the only hope said to be capable of ending the apocalypse. Proud, cold, and eccentric. Shh, he isn't the savior. He's just keeping a promise. [The La 15.7kReads9.3Score1.2k14d adds
