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- 1 At the End of the Dungeon Lies the Human World 副本的尽头是人间 Infinite-flow, high-IQ, rules horror, dark, and self-interest-driven. He is terminally ill, and the one he loves is at death's door. Su Jin accidentally binds himself to a System and enters one deadly instance after another. A mountain of blades, a sea of flames, danger at every turn. Again and again, he claws his way back from hell to the human world, risking his life for money, all to cure Chen Zhaozhao. He doesn't ask how perilous the road ahead is, only that home awaits at the end. He risks 1Reads—Score—14d adds
- 2 Rule Horror: I’m the Only One Who Doesn’t Play by the Rules 规则怪谈：就我不按套路出牌 [Deduction + Supernatural Horror + Suspense + National Fortune + System + Livestreaming] The world of urban legends is under supernatural invasion. It selects chosen ones from the human world to embark on adventures. These chosen ones must face challenges on behalf of their respective countries, while everything that happens in the world of urban legends is livestreamed to audiences around the globe. Billions of people watch at the same time. The first dungeon entered by Ji Heng, the chosen one 45Reads—Score—14d adds
- 3 Thriller Game: Clearing Rule Horror With Bugs 惊悚游戏：用BUG通关规则怪谈 After working overtime for seven days straight, programmer Li Mo blacks out and transmigrates into the body of the prime suspect at a murder scene: the victim’s no-good ex-boyfriend! Before he can figure out what’s going on, a rules-based horror game forcibly loads: [You are an undercover agent. Find the hidden “nonhuman entity,” or survive until dawn.] Staring at the eerie corpse, the guests each harboring their own schemes, and a death clock counting down five hours, Li Mo panics. Then his irr —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 4 National Fate Survival: I Feed the Nation by Devouring and Evolving 国运求生：我靠吞噬进化养活国家 [National fortunes + livestreaming + survival + devouring and evolution + fiery action] In 2077, an alien civilization placed the resources of Blue Star under blockade. Disasters arrived one after another, and the Heavenly Dao collapsed. The Great Xia contestant was born in the harshest environment of all, the “Snowfall Icefield.” Everyone mocked the contestant from Great Xia: “The Great Xia contestant is doomed. Great Xia's national fortunes will soon fall.” In this desperate situation, Lin Fen 648Reads5.7Score11314d adds
- 5 National Fate Island: I Create a Spirit Spring to Nourish China 国运海岛：我演化灵泉，反哺神州 National Destiny Archipelago: I Created a Spirit Spring and Nourished the Divine Land in Return Global resources were running out, and the threat of world war loomed. The National Destiny Game descended. Each country sent one contestant, bound to its national destiny, to survive in the endless ocean. Supply crates drifted in at random. Whatever a contestant found would be multiplied ten thousand times and returned to their country in the real world! Lin Ke, the Dragon Kingdom’s representative, l 112Reads—Score—14d adds
- 6 I Bought My Way Through the Eerie World 我用钱买穿诡异世界 [Pay-to-win cultivation + Chinese-style horror + ruthless protagonist] His only golden finger: Money really can let you do anything. At the awakening ceremony, others summoned divine weapons and spirit beasts. Lin Feng awakened nothing but a single copper coin. His clan members laughed. “Useless! How can a copper coin slay ghosts?” Then came the night of the corpse uprising. With one copper coin, he subdued a corpse. With a hundred taels of gold, he bought the silence of a red-clad bride. With a 1Reads—Score—14d adds
- 7 The Restricted Zone Rules Fail: I Become the Top Night Watchman 禁区守则失效：我成巡夜头名 Rule One for the Restricted Zone: Get out before dark. It’s an ironclad rule bought with hundreds of thousands of lives. Lu Yan didn’t follow it. Not because he didn’t want to. He was trapped inside. That night, the Restricted Zone changed. Every situation left out of the rules came to pass. Lu Yan ran through the ruins all night. He evaded three beast tides. He detoured around two spatial rifts. And along the way, he rescued fifteen people who were trapped just like him. At daybreak, the rescue 1Reads—Score—14d adds
- 8 Be Careful, Be Very Careful 小心，一定要再小心 My new work is here! You're welcome to read it on Tomato Novel. I hope you'll enjoy it. Your support inspires me to write, and I'll do my best to tell every story well! —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 9 From the Start, I Got the Luck of the Gods: Six Golds in Ten Pulls 开局获得欧皇附体，我十连六金 System + one heroine + I write whatever I dream about Lin Mo has both parents, a house and a car, and dreams of spending his whole life doing nothing. He's a seasoned shut-in. He thought he'd spend the rest of his life comfortably lounging around, but one day, while watching anime, a golden panel smacks him right in the face! His very first pull from the start gets him [Born Under a Lucky Star]! From then on, Lin Mo's whole vibe changes. “What is a guaranteed pity pull? I only know ten pulls can 1.1kReads—Score10814d adds
- 10 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
- 11 Rules Are Lies 规则是谎言 When you push the door open, its hinges creak. You don't know whether there's a classroom or a hallway behind it. But you do know one thing: one of the six rules on the light screen is already wrong. On the day the Qinglan Middle School instance arrived, every student and teacher saw the survival rules displayed on the light screen. The rules said: There is no Class 7, Grade 12, at this school. Su Ye had seen the sign with his own eyes at the end of the hallway: brand-new, gleaming, hanging o 2Reads—Score—14d adds
- 12 Rule Horror: The Ghost Wedding in Eastern Guangdong 规则怪谈：从粤东鬼娶亲开始 As the supernatural runs rampant, the entire world is forcibly dragged into death-game instances by the “Ghost Story App.” Wu Hao awakens his family's inherited Nuo opera talent. From the start, he enters the S-rank Lingnan urban legend: [A Ghost Wedding in Eastern Guangdong]. Red sedan, white lanterns, and the living ordered to stay away? He can see the true names of the supernatural beings and seal gods with his Nuo mask! From ghost weddings in urban villages to ancient gods in the deep sea, W 2Reads—Score—14d adds
- 13 Rule Horror: The Repeating Door 规则怪谈：重复的门 [Infinite flow + mild horror + survival] I’m a young man from the 21st century. After boarding a train, I ended up in another world. The Smurf Village... The Smurfs here seem to have mutated. They’re actually about as tall as my knees. To get back to their original world, they try every possible way to complete the tasks announced over the radio. But the further they go, the more they realize something is wrong. Because there is only one real Smurf... “The door.” “Look, there’s the door.” “We ca 1Reads—Score—14d adds
- 14 Yellow Springs Express: Refuse Delivery and Die 黄泉速递・拒收必死 1Reads—Score—14d adds
- 15 Reborn and Trapped in a Haunted House's Rule Horror, I Play Crazy and Foolish Just to Lead My Whole Family to Hell Together 重生竟困凶宅规则怪谈，我装疯卖傻只为全家团圆下地狱 —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 16 Rule Investigator 规则调查员 My name is Lu Chen. I test haunted houses by sleeping in them. At three in the morning, words of blood seeped through the wall: [Rule One: Never turn your back on a mirror.] I didn’t run or call the police. I looked back at the mirror My reflection didn’t turn around with me. Only later did I learn that rule-bound monsters were everywhere in this world. Trapped at sites of anomalies, they waited for people to make a mistake so they could devour them. And I was the only one who could see the rule —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 17 Rule Horror: I Use Code to Rise Against the Ultimate Villain 规则怪谈：我靠代码逆袭最强反派 Rule horrors have descended across the globe, and humanity has become NPCs in eerie scripts. But I, Lin Jin, have been bound to the [Impostor System], forced to play the ultimate villain who drives the “hero” to grow. They think I’m following the script, but they don’t know that lines of code exposing the rules’ loopholes are floating before my eyes. [No loud noises]? I delete the word “no,” and the creepy teacher in the classroom starts belting out a song. [You must keep your head down]? I chan —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 18 Rule Horror Conquers the World 规则怪谈征服到全世界 Lin Wang, a low-level wage earner, gets pulled into a Rule Horror game. Using his sharp reasoning, he spots loopholes in the rules, seizes supernatural abilities from the scenarios, builds a faction, and overthrows the ruling system. In the end, he faces the source of the horrors, but loses everyone close to him and stands alone at the summit. —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 19 After I Escaped, the World Erased Me Forever 我逃出来后，被世界永久删除 —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 20 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
- 21 National Fate: You Picked a Bald, Lecherous Old Man? 国运：你就选个光头好色老头？ [National Destiny Battlefield + Livestream + High Martial Arts + Play the pig to eat the tiger] See if you can guess who these templates represent from the description. Note that each template is for a different world, and they won't all appear at once. Here are the templates chosen for each world: [Bald, lecherous old man] [Big-brother type with a massive chest] [Bald police officer] [Weak lower-class warrior] [Hextech-style Heavenly Emperor] [Invincible, mightiest hero] [Ordinary blond high sc 50.4kReads8.0Score4.6k14d adds
- 22 Rule Horror: Every Infinite Dungeon Is a Trap 规则怪谈：无限副本全是陷阱 —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 23 Rule Horror: From the Start, I Was the Only One Who Knew the Ropes 规则怪谈：开局成了唯一懂行人 [No System] + [Slow Start, Strong Finish] + [Plot-Driven] The red moon rises, and white fog seals off the building! Rule-based horror games erupt at random across Blue Star, pulling Lin Beiming and the other residents into the Bloodstained Apartment instance. Anyone who breaks the rules is instantly devoured by the eerie beings. Everyone trembles and gambles their lives to survive, but Lin Beiming's pupils contract in shock: these deadly taboos are all lessons his parents taught him! “If eve —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 24 The Laws of the Mortal World: Somehow, I'm at the End of the Rules 人间遗则：规则尽头居然是我 There is no Bed Seven at Ren'ai Hospital. The midnight subway cannot tell you its final stop. At Happiness Gardens, no one is allowed to admit to being unhappy... Every strange tale hides a perfect route to victory that can be deduced. Others only want to make it out alive, but Lin Jibai keeps recovering the names that have been erased, asking who wrote the rules in the first place. Until every clue points to the same secret… —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 25 Trapped in a Shopping Paradise, I Fought My Way Through the Rules of Survival 被困购物天堂后，我硬闯生存规则 1Reads—Score—14d adds
- 26 I Survive the Haunted Bus with the Rules 我靠规则在怪谈公交求生 [I woke up to find myself aboard a death bus that never stops.] Outside the windows, the world is a formless chaos. Inside, the passengers sit in an eerie silence. Blood-red words appear before me: [Passenger Rules] 1. Do not give your seat to a passenger wearing a red hat. 2. The driver will not turn around to look at you. 3. If you hear crying, pretend you didn’t. 4. Trust your ticket. It is your only proof of identity. Just as I’m trying to make sense of the rules, an old woman in a brigh 175Reads—Score—14d adds
- 27 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
- 28 Rule Horror: I Have One Extra Hint 规则怪谈：我的提示多出一条 [Rules-based horror + supreme rationality + national-fortune livestream + invincible protagonist] Rules-based horrors descend upon the world, with a death rate of 92%! Those chosen must represent their nations in dungeons where death is all but certain. Victory sends their nation’s fortunes soaring; defeat brings utter ruin. When Daxia’s chosen player turns out to be Jiang Zhe, a slender high school student, the world writes him off, and Daxia falls into despair. Yet behind Jiang Zhe’s cheap gla 5Reads—Score—14d adds
- 29 Rule Horror: I Am the Boundless Lord of the Eerie 规则怪谈：我，无界诡主 At midnight, I received a text message: [Welcome to the Boundless Strange Tales game. Break the rules and die.] While everyone else is fighting to survive, I can see the truth behind every rule, because I am the source of all things uncanny. —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 30 The Haunting Rules of Rooming Together: Never Answer the Door When You Hear Knocking 诡异合租规则：听到敲门决不能应 —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 31 I Became a God After Conquering the Rule Horror Stories 征服规则怪谈后，我成神了 (No romance + badass female lead power fantasy + everyone’s favorite + rules-based horror) The Felis Nanhu Province Investigation Report My name is Felis. It’s an alias, because the rules of my rules-horror partner involve its real name. Anyone who learns its true name and mine will be assimilated by it. I was originally from Nanhu Province. After rules-based horror erupted there, I moved elsewhere. Now I’m restarting the investigation… The Rules Investigation Bureau records the few rules-based 3Reads—Score—14d adds
- 32 You Were Supposed to Survive, So Why Did You Drive the Supernatural Insane? 让你求生，你把诡异治疯了？ [Infinite Flow + Subversive Rule Horror + Unhinged Protagonist + Power Fantasy + Survival?] [Not traditional Rule Horror. Best enjoyed as a power fantasy.] The abyss descends, forcibly splitting reality into countless Rule Horror dungeons. The Gaokao Factory, the Flesh Apartment, the Dark University, the Flaying Train... All humanity desperately struggles to survive under the bizarre “rules that guarantee death.” But in the eyes of Lin Yan, a top criminal psychology profiler, the truth is comple 1Reads—Score—14d adds
- 33 I’m a Lawyer Who Puts the Supernatural on Trial 我当律师，专审诡异 [Rule Horror] [Eerie Revival] [System] [Mystery] [Supernatural] [Transmigration] [High-IQ Protagonist] [Subverting Expectations] [Urban] [Lawyer] I’m Zhang San, a veteran lawyer in two lifetimes. One day, I transmigrated to another world where a blood moon hangs overhead and eerie creatures run rampant! Rule Horror has swallowed the entire city. Step outside with your left foot and you die; fall short on overtime hours and you’re erased on the spot. Ordinary people have to watch every step just —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 34 Rule Horror: The Strange Chronicles of Journey to the West 规则怪谈：西游诡记 1Reads—Score—14d adds
- 35 National Fate Survival: Reborn as a White Tiger, I Hunt for My Country 国运求生：我重生白虎为国家狩猎 [National Fate Survival + Turn Everything Over to the Nation + Global Livestream + System + Ten-Thousandfold Returns + One Heroine + Decisive and Ruthless + Beast Taming + Not a Brain-Dead Power Fantasy] In 3636, Blue Star's resources are nearing depletion, and advanced civilizations are eyeing the planet hungrily. To preserve the spark of civilization, humanity votes to sign a National Fate Survival pact with the Primordial Realm. The pact stipulates: 1. Each country sends ten pioneers to the P 13Reads—Score314d adds
- 36 Rule Horror: I Want to Switch Dorm Rooms 规则怪谈：我想换个寝室 [Horror + Comedy + Bizarre] My name is Jiang Xun, and I died from the start. The world of strange tales is slaughtering humanity. Jiang Xun became one of the first people to enter the game. Living in a world of strange tales fraught with danger, he was tasked with saving the world. Dungeon: Nanjiang Vocational and Technical College. Stage One: Dorm Room 404 Rules: One. [You have only three roommates.] Two. [Your roommates are very considerate and often buy things to share with you.] Three. [Ther —Reads—Score214d adds
- 37 National Fate: Slaying Delusions in the Realm of Lingering Thoughts 国运：我在残念界斩妄念 In 2077, Earth's resources are depleted, acid rain blankets the globe, and humanity has only ten years left to live. The Trial of the Remnant Realm opens across the heavens. Nations send their finest ordinary people to become Thought-Severing Masters, slaying delusion entities and claiming fortune. The victors can win their homelands a century of renewed life. Fang Qin is Earth's 17th envoy of fortune. She awakens her destined weapon, the Green Edge Thought-Severing Blade. No one knows she also 2Reads—Score—14d adds
- 38 Rule Horror: I Fight to Survive Between the Lines 规则怪谈我在字缝求生 Jiang Mo is the only contestant in the Dragon Kingdom with an 80% contamination rate. He's thrown into the mental hospital instance, where the rules are in utter chaos. Everyone else: Follow the rules. Jiang Mo: Tear the rules apart and kill the paranormal instead. The paranormal scheme while he breaks their plans; The rules kill people, so he uses the rules to kill. As his contamination level skyrockets, Jiang Mo says softly: “You think you're contaminating me? I'm the one devouring you.” M —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 39 The Purple Infant's Curse: I Sent the Fetal Ghost to the Underworld, and the Goddess Turned Around and Confessed Her Love to Me 紫婴劫：我把胎鬼送入地府，女神扭头向我表白 1Reads—Score—14d adds
- 40 I Wrote This Book of Taboos 这本禁忌之书，是我写的 Rule Horror descends, and Lin Yan awakens the Eye of True Sight, able to tell true rules from false ones at a glance. While others struggle to survive by following the rules, he exploits loopholes to turn the tables on the horrors. Until he discovers a handwritten notebook whose title page reads, “You wrote this book of forbidden knowledge.” The handwriting is his own. —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 41 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
- 42 National Destiny Evolution Arena: Holding Four Billion Years of Evolution in My Hands 国运进化擂台：手握四十亿年演化 [National Fate] [Evolutionary Biology] [Instances] [Conquest] [Black Technology] This is a world that has been shackled by creationism for ten thousand years. People worship divine creation and dismiss the evolution of life as heresy. The Global National Fate Evolution Arena suddenly descends, and nations race to simulate the creation of the world and compete for National Fate. Ye Yuan, who transmigrated here, is the only clear-minded person in the world. Carrying the epic of Earth's four billio 2.5kReads—Score24214d adds
- 43 The Paranormal Invades: From the Start, I Can See Death Replay 诡异入侵，开局我能看到死亡回放 “After lights out, do not open the door for anyone!” When the paranormal descends upon a boarding high school and monsters prowl the dormitory halls, students and teachers alike become lambs led to slaughter. Lin Que is trapped in the middle of it all, but fortunately awakens an SSS-rank skill: Demon Eye. He can see all the possibilities of the future. He can even replay events from the past. And with every survival challenge he clears, the power of his Demon Eye grows stronger. The indescribabl —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 44 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 98Reads—Score—14d adds
- 45 I Inherited Billions in Hell Money and Married the Underworld Emperor 继承百亿冥币，我闪婚冥帝 [Rules-Based Horror + Supernatural + Face-Slapping + Losing It + Satisfying Read + Devoted Couple] When my great-aunt passed away, she left me a massive inheritance: Billions in cash, several mansions, and a handful of employees. But the cash turned into hell money, the mansions became miniatures, and the employees turned into paper figures. And I found myself trapped in a rules-based horror game. It's fine, it's fine. I may be broke, but I've got issues! Trashy scumbags from every walk of life? 22Reads—Score—14d adds
- 46 I’m a Funeral Streamer, and My Prophecies Made Me Famous Nationwide 我一丧葬主播，依靠预言火爆全网 From the start, I was bound to the Funeral System. My livestream welcomes only those who are about to die. Other streamers get sports cars and yachts. When I put up a link, I send off a reckless influencer instead. Hater: "Ban this jinx of a streamer!" I calmly replied, "My friend, you look like death is hanging over you. Why not order a thin-walled nanmu coffin first? I'll give you a killer discount." My jealous rival: "If you're so good, curse me to die!" I sighed and put a top-of-the-line ebo 28Reads—Score—14d adds
- 47 Rule Horror: From the Start, I’m Teaching the Supernatural How to Behave at Work 规则怪谈：开局给诡异上职场课 A bizarre game descends upon the world. Chosen ones must survive its dungeons, with the fate of their nations on the line. While chosen ones from other countries tremble before ghosts, Lin Tianya of the Dragon Kingdom is lost in thought. At the performance-driven Deathtrap Electronics Factory, he vents to the ghost foreman: “Bro, you’re working yourself to the bone. Did the boss give you any shares?” The ghost foreman has an epiphany and leads every ghost in the factory straight into the chairma —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 48 Rules Descend: I Break the Deadlock Through Reincarnation 规则降临：我靠轮回破局 1Reads—Score—14d adds
- 49 Glitch Entity: I Rule Two Worlds with Bugs 故障体：我靠BUG统治两界 —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 50 72 Hours: I Hacked God 72小时·我黑入了神 —Reads—Score—14d adds
