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- 1 Ghosts Are Appearing, and You're Catching Your Partner Cheating? You've Got Some Nerve! 诡异降临还捉奸，你胆子挺大啊？ [Strange Dimension] + [Card-Based Powers] + [Rule Horror] It all happened far too suddenly. “A strange dimension...” An hour before he first encountered those words, Jiang Chen was helping someone catch a cheater in the act. But that little operation was what got him into trouble. The two men who had been having an affair turned into a pair of rotting corpses. A classmate he'd always gotten along with somehow became a “Strange Entity Tamer.” They say anyone who can enter a strange dimension 1Reads6.6Score10014d adds
- 2 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
- 3 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
- 4 The Gates of Death 死亡之扉 An original light novel, dedicated to everyone who felt lost during their teenage years. Every city has its own legends. And in Chenghua City, there is a legend about the Door of Death. They say anyone who opens this door will disappear, not simply die. Every trace of their existence will vanish, and everyone who knew them will lose all their memories of them... But this door only opens for those who want to end their lives. Once it opens... that person will truly disappear. Our protagonist, Lan 3Reads—Score—14d adds
- 5 Rule Horror: My Rules Exempt Me 规则怪谈，我的规则我豁免 Rule Immunity: The Detective’s Ruthless Path Lu Chen possesses the talent of Rule Immunity and takes on 500 deadly Rule Horror instances. Using a detective’s insight to solve each puzzle and ruthless resolve to cut down every obstacle, he searches for the ultimate truth behind the game amid life-and-death struggles. —Reads—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 The Mansion: A Shut-In Girl Slays Her Way to the Deadly True Ending 馆：宅女杀穿致命真结局 [Infinite-Flow + Strong Heroine + No Romance + Hard-Core Deduction + Mild Horror] No golden finger. The heroine will grow, so I hope you’ll show her lots of support! A veteran visual-novel addict falls into a real-life horror instance! Her maxed-out way of thinking and “clear-the-game intuition” are her strongest cheats. While others are sobbing and fighting to survive in dire straits, she’s turned the horror game into a hard-core puzzle-solving session! Yu Jinxia is a hardcore anime-loving shut —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 9 Rule Horror: The Horrifying Library 规则怪谈：恐怖图书馆 Author: Chi Fanqie Bu Tu Fanqie Pi Su Ran was an ordinary senior in high school in the Dragon Kingdom, working hard to get ready for the college entrance exams. Then, one night, the heavy hand of fate abruptly yanked him off his usual path. His textbooks transformed into a mysterious gateway to another world, and a cold, eerie light announced that he would represent the Dragon Kingdom in the terrifying realm of Rule-Based Horror, where victory or defeat would determine the fate of his country. I 2Reads—Score—14d 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 Infinite Games: Magical Quick Transmigration Through Independent Worlds 无限游戏：独立世界的神奇快穿 University student He Zhiyu accidentally joins an unlimited quick-transmigration game. Every player has a spirit deity, and each adventure in a different instance gives them a new identity. They must complete the instance’s missions to escape. Completing missions earns points and rewards, and points can be exchanged for items in the spirit deity’s space to help clear the game. In the instances, He Zhiyu meets many companions who fight alongside him. —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 13 In the Dark Age, Seeking Truth Through the Gateways 黑暗时代，于门径寻求真理 The world is shrouded in the mutterings of gods, and mortals compose hymns to survive. The Old Ones slumber in the abyss, and every breath stirs up a tide of corruption; In a realm of twisted rules, you must survive against impossible odds to earn your trump card: Elements. A virologist who should have died awakens in another world, able to make a contribution to human civilization... This world doesn’t need heroes. It just need —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 14 Night Walk Without a Gate 无门夜行 Shen Zhao, a folk-custom archive restoration specialist, receives a “Death Certificate in His Own Name” and is forced into the Midnight Name-Claiming Game. He discovers that the city’s old customs demand names, identity documents, memories of family members, and social identities from the living, and that he can hear the typos that have been tampered with in the rules. 1Reads—Score—14d adds
- 15 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
- 16 After I Escaped, the World Erased Me Forever 我逃出来后，被世界永久删除 After I escaped, the world permanently deleted me. —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 17 The Lifespan Game: A Cheat-Fueled Life of Extra Points 寿数游戏，可加点的开挂人生 A Lifespan Game: A Cheat-Fueled Life Where You Can Allocate Points —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 18 Rule Horror: The Company’s Haunting 规则怪谈：公司诡事 A mysterious media company. All kinds of people. They're drawn into bizarre tales of the supernatural. Watch as they overcome one obstacle after another. The story contains plenty of horror, so read with caution. —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 19 She Risked Her Life to Help Me Escape That Village 她用命换我逃出那个村子 She gave her life so I could escape that village. 4Reads—Score—14d adds
- 20 Three Days After I Died, I Looked in the Mirror and Nearly Fainted 死后三天，照镜子吓傻了 Three Days After I Died, I Looked in the Mirror and Nearly Lost My Mind —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 21 Rule Horror: Every Infinite Dungeon Is a Trap 规则怪谈：无限副本全是陷阱 Rule Horror: Every Infinite Dungeon Is a Trap —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 22 I'm Writing Something That Scares Even Me 我在写一种我自己也害怕的东西 I'm writing something that scares even me. —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 23 All Worlds Reset to Zero 万界归零 Trust me, you won't regret taking a look. Anyone who clicks will get rich. (Infinite-flow + equally powerful leads + genius male lead + power progression + mature heroine + funny everyday life + multiple planes + original planes) If I, Yu Haoling, had not been born, the world of overworked wage slaves would be plunged into eternal darkness! That's right, he's a wage slave, born to toil. Not only is he exploited in real life, he's been dragged into multiverse dungeons to be exploited there too. S 1Reads—Score—14d adds
- 24 Rule Horror: I Can Reproduce Fatal Injuries Without Limit 规则怪谈：我能无限复写致命伤 [Urban Supernatural] [Rule Horror] [Anomaly Investigation] [Unique Ability] On his twenty-seventh day of unemployment, Liang Nan'ai finally found a company offering a monthly salary of 9,000 yuan and full social insurance and housing fund benefits. The company was on a nonexistent sixth floor. Everyone who failed the selection process was bricked up inside the walls. Liang Nan'ai refused the job, then casually tore the company apart. He can take an injury off a dead person and inflict it on the 7Reads—Score10814d adds
- 25 Rule Horror: My Modifier Can Change Anything 规则怪谈：我的修改器能改万物 [Half rules-based horror (?), half infinite-flow, business management, mystery-solving, no heroine] The horror tales descend, and every instance is a death trap. While everyone else is being chased around the “Eternal Night Mall” by mirror ghosts, Chu Yuan stands at the checkout counter with a smile and asks, “Would you like a membership card? Top up 1,000 and get the ‘Come Back for More’ BUFF. The ghosts won't chase you, guaranteed.” That's because he awakened the SSS-rank talent [Rule Modifier 1Reads—Score—14d adds
- 26 The Long Night Turns West 长夜向西 At the end of the hospital corridor, Wen Xiao knelt before the Bodhisattva and bowed three times. The Bodhisattva did not answer. Then the System came. She could travel to other worlds to fulfill people's wishes. If she died, she alone would die; if she lived, she and her mother would live together. She would wager her life for one chance to keep her mother alive. No matter how long the night, if you keep heading west, dawn will come. Mom, wait for me to come back. 1Reads—Score—14d adds
- 27 Transmigrate to the Stars: A Young Master’s Style 穿越星际：少爷的排面 Transmigrating Across the Stars: The Young Master's Style —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 28 I’m a Young Master from Beijing’s Elite Circle, Now a Nepotism Hire in Space 我，京圈大少，在星际当关系户 I’m the Big Shot of Beijing’s Elite Circle, Playing the Well-Connected One Among the Stars —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 29 I Found a Jade Pendant, and Now the Heirless Wealthy Family Wants Me Back 扫出个玉坠，豪门绝嗣我归位 I Scanned Up a Jade Pendant, and Now the Heirless Wealthy Family Has Welcomed Me Back —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 30 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 Trapped in a shopping paradise, I fought my way through the rules of survival. 1Reads—Score—14d adds
- 31 Rule Horror: HR Handed Me a Survival Rulebook 规则怪谈：HR塞给我活命守则 [Rules of the Strange Tales + Workplace Survival + Searching for His Sister + Blood-Written Notes + Exploiting Loopholes in the Rules + Suspense and Horror] On the 183rd day since his older sister vanished, Chen Mu walked into Changming Tower, the last place she had sent him her location, carrying a fake resume he had bought for three hundred yuan. HR shoved a rulebook into his hands. “The kind that keeps you alive.” Rule One: If you are still at your desk after 10:00 p.m., do not respond to 286Reads—Score11514d adds
- 32 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
- 33 The Delivery Rider’s Fat-Burning Cheat 外卖小哥的燃脂外挂 The human brain is merely a local terminal, a biological antenna responsible for everyday processing, display, and interaction. Each person's consciousness and memories are not stored in the mere three pounds of gray matter inside their skull. Instead, they are uploaded in real time and stored on a vast “cloud server” that exists beyond physical space. The underworld, King Yama, karma? Or programs, algorithms, and data? Lin Fengfeng is an unusual city dweller who can “burn fat.” From serving 1Reads—Score—14d adds
- 34 The Victim’s Third Hand 受害者的第三只手 Wang Mian, a young man with a severe sleep disorder, constantly witnesses brutal murders in his dreams. When he wakes, the exact same crimes have taken place in real life. He seeks help from Huang Zhiheng, a psychologist who is actually a former police captain forced into retirement by an injury. As the investigation deepens, a mysterious serial killer known by the codename “V” emerges. He carries out vigilante justice against the guilty, leaving the blood-red letter “V” at each crime scene. Mea —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 35 The Thirteenth Instance 第十三号副本 When ordinary people are forcibly dragged into a strange space known as “Instance Thirteen,” what awaits them is no game, but a survival trial with their lives on the line. A sealed setting, merciless rules, and deadly puzzles: every choice could lead to death, and every successful clear comes at a price. Protagonist Ji Zhou Bai is forced into this place of despair, struggling to survive one bizarre incident after another. He must uncover the traps hidden within each scenario while confronting 2Reads—Score—14d adds
- 36 Nine-Pearl Powder 九珠散 During the Republican era, my great-grandfather was lured by members of the Fu family into exploring the Song Dynasty tomb in Luoyang and an underground ancient tomb beneath a temple on Mount Jiuhua. There, he accidentally discovered a mysterious Buddhist bead. Years later, in 2002, the same kind of bead appeared again in a Six Dynasties tomb beneath an abandoned chemical plant in Nanjing. In 2003, I found my great-grandfather's notes and two Buddhist beads back in my hometown. Gradually, I real —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 37 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
- 38 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
- 39 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 27Reads—Score—14d adds
- 40 Rule Horror: Starting with My Own Martial Arts Legend! 规则怪谈：从武林外传开始！ [Rule-based horror + wuxia instances + national destiny + deduction + livestream] When the American supercomputer issued a red alert: “Stay away from the man without a mouth on Bright Summit. He's a top-tier supernatural entity!” Transmigrator Su Chen walked up with a bag of chicken blood. “Bat King Wei, have you had dinner?” Rule-based horror descended, binding itself to national destiny. After ten straight losses, ten cities in China became forbidden zones for the supernatural, and countless l 88Reads5.7Score14314d adds
- 41 After Nine Lives, I Awoke as the King of the City 九世轮回醒来已是都市王 Nine lifetimes of reincarnation + modern urban cultivation + invincible protagonist + the Myriad Worlds + multiple heroines + CEO A thousand years of reincarnation, nine lifetimes as an emperor. Qin Feng awakens once more in a modern city, carrying vast memories and an unfinished empire-building ambition. When the mysterious organization “Nine Cauldrons” designates him as a target for evaluation, he turns the tables, using an ancient emperor’s heart to wage war in the modern age. Starting at uni —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 42 I Search for Collapse in the Eerie World 我在诡异世界找崩坏 I transmigrated into a world where urban legends can kill and conceptual rules are power. People here fear the paranormal, wield supernatural entities, and struggle to survive under a fixed set of rules. And me? I'm just a passerby looking for a bit of fun. When the “Infinite Corridor” traps and kills everyone who enters, I softly ask the wall, “Do you know what a Klein bottle is?” When the rule of the “Echo of Death” is “understanding means death,” I raise a mirror toward the void. They say I d —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 43 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
- 44 Rule Horror: My Sanity Has No Bottom 规则怪谈：我的理智值深不见底 When Rules of the Realm descended upon the world and randomly selected “visitors” to enter deadly instances, Chen Mo realized he was a little different. Others’ minds plummeted as they were corrupted, but he stayed cool as a cucumber. Others recklessly tested the rules’ limits, but he chose to lie flat. Others racked their brains to survive, while he... Well, it seemed the instances didn’t like him? [Ding! Abnormal mental threshold detected. Binding talent: Absolute Rationality (Passive)] [Absol —Reads—Score114d adds
- 45 Rules Descend: I Break the Deadlock Through Reincarnation 规则降临：我靠轮回破局 Rules Descend: I Break the Deadlock Through Reincarnation 1Reads—Score—14d adds
- 46 Glitch Entity: I Rule Two Worlds with Bugs 故障体：我靠BUG统治两界 Glitch Entity: I Rule Two Worlds with Bugs —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 47 72 Hours: I Hacked God 72小时·我黑入了神 72 Hours: I Hacked God —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 48 Chronicles of Annihilation 寂灭编年史 He is Mo, the Recorder of the End, the embodiment of the universe's law of increasing entropy. Clad in a simple black robe, he has the silent starlight in his eyes. His pocket watch is soundless, its hands forever fixed on the final moment. His mission is to enter worlds fated for annihilation and witness their end as one of their inhabitants. Mo is neither god nor demon. He is only an observer and a catalyst. He immerses himself in civilizations locked in logical dead ends, saturated with suffe —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 49 The Life Thief: Secrets of the Time Pawnshop 窃命者：时间典当行的秘密 Lu Ming believed the power of retrospection he had traded his future for was his only hope of finding his sister. He followed the clues and fought the vast organization known as Ouroboros, gradually uncovering a terrifying ritual that collected time. He thought he was the hunter, the savior. Then he stood at the heart of the ritual and saw the same power of time flowing in his sister's eyes. Every search had been in vain. Every effort had been a sacrifice. The fate he fought against was one he h —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 50 The Sunken Web: The Last Gatekeeper 沉网滩：最后的守门人 I always thought my folklore professor had sent me to “Shenwang Shoal” just to collect fishing songs on the verge of being lost. That was until I discovered, hidden in a secret compartment in the village ancestral hall, the Observation Notes on Shenwang Shoal, a record spanning centuries and compiled by generations of scholars from our own school. There were no fishing songs in the notes, only one horrifying, bloody truth after another: “In the eighth year of the Qianlong reign, we observed that —Reads—Score—14d adds
