Novels like The Hall of Mirrors
Books Chinese readers most often put in the same booklists as The Hall of Mirrors, best match first.
- 101 Infinite Loop: Escape the Forbidden Land of the Final End 无限循环，逃离禁忌终焉之地 [Infinite Flow] + [Escape Through Logic and Deduction] + [Two Male Leads, No Romance] In the middle of the night, Lu Chao receives a call from an employer who disappeared a week ago. Just as he is about to ask what happened, he realizes the other person is speaking strangely. Moments later, he receives another eerie phone call. The caller counts down seven days. When the seven days are up, Lu Chao wakes in a locked room, only to discover that he has entered a deeply unsettling world… 80Reads—Score—Shelves
- 102 Rule Horror: The Fate-Splitting Trickster 规则怪谈：诡谲拆命人 Have you ever felt this way? Some things weren’t even your fault, yet you’re the one who has to bear the consequences. Some debts aren’t yours, yet you’re the one who has to repay them. Zhang Wuling is a fate-splitter. Others split ghosts. He splits fate. Others fear ghosts. He fears karma. In the resettlement district of Bincheng’s West Zone, eighteen couriers set out to deliver food. Not one of them came back. At the funeral home in Jiujiang Town, an electrician went to fix the power and disco 3Reads—Score—Shelves
- 103 Even If We Kill Him, We Still Need One More 就算杀了他，我们还是少一个 The one who was missing was never a monster. Bai Xun is trapped in a bizarre office tower that stretches on without end, where every floor is a deadly trial. Security, cleaning, maintenance, reception, building management: jobs that once seemed ordinary have become survival superpowers, and an employee badge is a matter of life and death. Only after accidentally unlocking the base on the 43rd floor does he learn that he is the landlord of the entire building, with the power to rewrite its rule 9Reads—Score—Shelves
- 104 Reincarnation Horror 轮回惊悚 [Death Game] [Infinite Flow] [Combat] [Thriller] A new cycle has begun… “Whoever takes the throne shall gain eternal life.” After a bizarre eyeball appears, Chen Ye, a lackadaisical high school student, is forced to become a player in the cycle and enter a bloody, brutal death game. A killing spree, sleep paralysis, a blood-red hotel, messengers, evil fiends, heretical ghost immortals, the Seven Deadly Sins… Players must enter all kinds of inconceivable scenarios and complete tasks issued by t —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 105 The Nightmare Tomb 魇冢 “No System + Not Mindless + Not a Power Fantasy + Not Invincible + No Harem + Infinite Flow + Mild Horror + Mystery + Plot-Driven” Cheng Mo’s girlfriend, Ye Yunqi, disappears after attending a funeral. That night, the elderly neighbor who had just been buried knocks on Cheng Mo’s door. From that day on, Cheng Mo is chosen by the Nightmare Realm and trapped in eerie instance worlds. Yet inside one of them, he finds a letter his girlfriend left behind in advance: Never turn your back on a 24Reads7.1Score—Shelves
- 106 A World of Paranormal Phenomena: I Can See the Countdown to Death 全球诡异，我能看见死亡倒计时 The world is shrouded in an unknown mist, and ancient taboos are quietly awakening as a wave of eerie resurgence sweeps across the globe. In China, an ordinary university student unexpectedly discovers that he can see countdowns above other people’s heads, but he has no idea whether this is a curse or salvation. When the countdown reaches zero, vengeful ghosts come to claim their lives. Armed with only fragments of ancient texts, he must struggle to survive in this uncanny age, gradually uncover 2Reads—Score—Shelves
- 107 Who Is Standing Behind Me? 谁站在身后？ Who is standing behind me? —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 108 I'm Handsome in the Bizarre World 诡异世界的我很帅 Multiple female leads, and the senior girls are great at putting on an act. The women around the male lead are all bad news, and they turn the tables on him. The male lead has a golden finger: he gets stronger whenever he comes into contact with the supernatural. This is a nontraditional supernatural-rules novel, with a little humor and a little romance. Please give it a few more chapters. 3Reads—Score—Shelves
- 109 I Became Invincible After the Paranormal Took Over and I Stopped Acting Human 诡异当道不当人后我无敌了 [The Supernatural + Fake System + Instances + Rules + No Female Lead + Character Growth] A strange invitation draws Gu Shiyue into a world filled with the supernatural. Whether they are supernatural beings that regard human life with indifference, or a new breed of humans who devour them to keep the human race alive, they all want to use Gu Shiyue to obtain the key to controlling the world. It is then that the evil god hidden within Gu Shiyue finally awakens. The world should be under their cont 6Reads—Score—Shelves
- 110 Ten Dreams Across the Calamity 十梦渡厄 (The Strange Knocking at the Door / Welcome Back to the Starting Point of the Nightmare, Book Two) Have you ever received a letter like that? Its material feels like human skin, its handwriting looks like blood. Once you open it... You find yourself standing before a door. Push it open, and you step into another world. A place with rules you must obey, nights when dawn never comes, and ghosts who have waited ten or a hundred years for release. Every door you make it through buys you one more day 4.3kReads7.1Score414Shelves
- 111 Infinite Cinema: I Climbed to the Top of the Charts Through Death 无限影院：我靠死亡冲上热榜第一 [Infinite-Loop Horror + Mildly Scary + No Female Lead] Just got a rating, it'll rise later, dears! Death isn't the end. It's your ticket in. The moment Jiang Yubai was crushed beneath a cement truck, he thought his life was over. But when he opened his eyes again, he was sitting in an old movie theater that reeked of mold. Blood-red rules appeared on the screen: Welcome to the “Infinite Cinema.” Here, the dead are chosen at random to become the “protagonists” of one horror film after another. Th 9.7kReads6.9Score1.1kShelves
- 112 The Zi Wei Astrology: A World of Shining Stars 紫微斗数之星耀世界 In the starry world of Zi Wei astrology, Tan Lang is a unique star whose fate is full of twists and turns. Combining the qualities of romance and desire, Tan Lang brings both fortune and misfortune, and constantly searches for personal strength and purpose in this mysterious world. By chance, Tan Lang meets Du Fei, who bears the power of the Sun Star, and Li Ya, who bears the power of the Tian Xiang Star. They become entangled in a series of mysterious events, including the case of Fan Shuhan, w 3Reads—Score—Shelves
- 113 Thriller Game: I Can Eavesdrop on Ghosts 惊悚游戏：我能偷听鬼话 [Infinite Flow] [No Female Lead] [Light Horror] [Multiple Twists] Six months ago, a blood mist sealed off Nandu City, trapping its ten million residents inside. Strange beings invaded the fog, and one abnormal incident after another unfolded. Lin Xu has no idea why he appeared in this city. A strange game appeared at the same time, forcing him to enter a horror instance every seven days, where death was all but certain. But the items he obtained in the game could be used against the strange enti 21.4kReads7.0Score2.2kShelves
- 114 Nightmare Subway 噩梦地铁 (The rating has only just opened and will rise later.) [Infinite Flow + Survival + No Saintly Heroine] A driverless subway train carries a group of cursed passengers toward unknown, terrifying stations… A subway card is proof of survival, and a ticket to Hell. At each subway station, Jiang Fengye faces one terrifying instance after another, each a brush with death. The starving corpses in the basement; The crawling sounds in the abandoned tunnel; The skinning monster in the old castle; … "The 18.1kReads7.0Score1.9kShelves
- 115 All the Ghosts Smile at Me, So I Beat Them Straight to Hell 众鬼朝我笑嘻嘻，我打得它们归西 [Rules-based horror + no romance + goofy humor] Uh, it was originally going to have no romance, but the author might add a pairing later because they can’t write it. / There’s no way there’ll be a pairing. Kill them all!!! Su Que awakens to the fact that she is a villain, the fake heiress everyone hates. She also sees how she’ll die in the near future: not a single piece of her body will be intact, as the horrors in the dungeons tear her apart and devour every last bit of her. Realizing she isn 58Reads6.5Score—Shelves
- 116 The Weird Domain: Escape from Skinless Village from the Start! 诡异领域：开局逃离无皮村！ [Infinite Flow + Mild Horror + Survival + Supernatural Instances + No Female Lead] Resentment that cannot be dispelled in the real world gathers to form new eerie domains. After being chosen, people are dragged into an eerie domain when they die unexpectedly. They can return to reality only by successfully completing the tasks inside. Only after escaping one terrifying eerie domain after another by the skin of his teeth does Lu Lin discover that the real world is also being infiltrated and taint 7.7kReads7.1Score554Shelves
- 117 The Paranormal Investigation Bureau Needs Talents Like Me 怪谈调查科需要我这样的人才 [Handcrafted from scratch!]+ [Vengeful Ghosts Return]+ [Supernatural Escape]+ [Killing Patterns]+ [Rule Horror]+ [Mystery and Twists]+ [There’s a Romance, but It’s Not the Focus] [Please Give Me a Chance to Tell a Ghost Story] Doppelgängers, dismemberment cases, vengeful ghosts, whatever you do, don’t look back, a deadly exam, zoo horror stories… The world is being invaded by the supernatural, and ordinary humans can no longer survive. Lu Ming, a rookie at the Paranormal Investigation Bureau, di 94Reads—Score—Shelves
- 118 Tales of the Strange: Nine Chances Out of Ten to Die? Sorry, I Can Rewind 怪谈：九死一生？抱歉，我能回档 [Infinite Flow] [Regression] [Mind Games] [Plenty of Twists] [The Protagonist Has No Cheat Skills] Yao Ze died four times in his very first round. Even with the ability to go back in time, he ended up psychologically scarred. The second instance was a punishment round where he barely escaped with his life, and the boss was downright devious. Relying on information he gathered before each reset, Yao Ze relentlessly tests the rules of the instances. He uses his information advantage to match wits 155Reads—Score—Shelves
- 119 I Keep Being Reborn in an Infinite-Loop World 我在无限流里不断重生 [Infinite-flow horror, ensemble cast | No System, no golden finger | No mindless power fantasy] After clearing my twelfth instance, I didn't get to go home. Everyone had been deceived. Clearing an instance didn't let us leave at all. It turned out that clearing an instance didn't mean escaping. We were trapped in an endless cycle of worlds, each layer harder to tell from reality than the last. The boundary between the instances and reality had blurred completely. Was anything before our eyes 13Reads—Score—Shelves
- 120 Are You Crazy? Who Let This Zombie Into the Eerie World? 疯了吧，谁把这僵尸拉进诡异圈的 [Rule Horror + Underworld Invasion + No Hiding His Strength] These are the only tags for now. I'll add more if I think of any… "The point between life and death isn't a door. It's a tombstone." The hem of his purple robe hung motionless in the wind of the void. Gego was the last great purple-robed Celestial Master of the human race to touch the laws of life and death. He willingly buried his undying corpse deep in the earth, inside that madly distorted point: the only passage connecting the mort 10Reads—Score—Shelves
- 121 Pranks and Hauntings: Master of Fate 整蛊造诡：执掌命运 A billion years ago, the God of the Supernatural held the balance of fate, but was besieged by the two divine factions of Order and Light. His divine essence shattered, and its fragments scattered across the myriad realms. A billion years later, Chen Yiyao, a high school student in the capital, binds himself to a fragment of the divine essence by chance and embarks on a path of “pranking and creating the supernatural.” He disrupts enemies with an eerie atmosphere, seizes power through ingenious 1Reads6.3Score—Shelves
- 122 Transmigrating Into the Haunted House, I Lead My Roommates Through the Blood Gate 穿越诡舍，我带室友杀穿血门 [Not a power fantasy] [No breaking up the canon couple] [Single heroine] [No out-of-character behavior] Just so there won’t be any regrets. Some details may differ a little from the original, so I hope you’ll bear with me. Bitter Melon King’s writing is slowly improving, too... [Dog-head emoji for self-preservation] Blood Gate [Kindheart Hospital]: Saving lives is a doctor’s duty. [Qingxiao University]: The truth lies buried beneath lies, and trust dispels the danger of death. [Paradise Lost]: R 190Reads6.5Score—Shelves
- 123 A Female-Focused Writer Enters a Male-Focused Genre: I Open a Horror Museum in America 女频入男频：我在美国开恐怖馆 This seemingly prosperous and peaceful American city hides strange truths unknown to the public. Countless local ghosts lurk in every corner: abandoned theaters, roads on rainy nights, old apartment buildings, and cemeteries on the outskirts of town. Evil spirits and eerie shadows wander everywhere, unseen by anyone, while ordinary people remain completely unaware and go about their everyday lives. Tourists who visit for a thrill think the venues' gloomy atmosphere and bizarre scenes are just ca 3Reads—Score—Shelves
- 124 The Final Judgment 世末审 [World BUG] [Memory alteration] [No padding] [No narration] [Hardcore deduction] [Chilling on reflection] One September evening during study hall, the classroom suddenly froze mid-frame. The cicadas fell silent, the wind stopped, and the entire class stood motionless like statues. I was the only one who could see the cracks in this world. Memories were altered, classmates were replaced, and even my family forgot my older brother. I didn't speak up. I didn't make a fuss. I just kept records. Unti 1Reads—Score—Shelves
- 125 The Sole Witness to a Murder Is Busy Catching Ghosts 凶杀案唯一目击证人，忙着抓鬼呢 (Supernatural + Metaphysics + Generational Feud + Sole Eyewitness to a Murder + Ensemble Cast + Mystery and Horror + Mysterious Romance + A Touch of Comedy) What kind of trouble can the sole eyewitness to a murder get into? Why would a murder witness end up hunting ghosts? You heard right. She really does hunt ghosts. Do you believe ghosts exist? Whether you believe it or not, Chen Ling is the unluckiest person in the world. She became the sole eyewitness to a murder, then got arrested while try 1Reads—Score—Shelves
- 126 After Getting Fired, I Became an Assassin 被开除后我成了杀手 After Getting Fired, I Became an Assassin 1Reads—Score—Shelves
- 127 The Spirit-Eating Notebook 噬灵笔记 [Infinite Flow + mind-bending puzzles + ghostly mysteries + survival] A strange notebook, and yet it is a doorway to hell. The cursed are haunted, hunted, and dragged into an endless abyss of terror. Ghosts close in at every turn, and death is just around the corner. No one can escape unscathed. A group of ordinary people bound together by a curse must awaken in the depths of despair, uncover the notebook’s secret, and put an end to this terrifying game with their own hands. Kill the ghosts, or 1Reads—Score—Shelves
- 128 Ghost Orchid 鬼兰 The Ghost Orchid in the Mirror Is His Missing Wife: The academic world regards the Ghost Orchid as an evil thing, but Zhou Chen and his wife, Lin Xiao, swore to protect it, convinced it was a spiritual treasure of heaven and earth. Their steadfastness brought Zhou Chen rejection from the entire internet, while his wife Lin Xiao suddenly vanished during an expedition. Just as he was on the verge of collapse, the arrival of a strange young woman broke the deadlock. In the Ghost Orchid blooming 3Reads—Score—Shelves
- 129 Death Train: I Just Want to Be the Boss of the Platform 死亡列车，我只是想当站台话事人 [Infinite Flow, Mild Horror, Mystery, Survival, Teamwork] One train after another carries blood and tears; One platform after another tells of love and hate. Should they bow to fate and sink into endless darkness, or overcome their fear and head toward an unknown future? Eighteen levels of hell, eighteen instances. The people on the platforms came and went, but Jiang Yu was the one who had the last laugh. Someone asked the young man beside him, “Do you know who’s in charge of this platform?” The 385Reads—Score—Shelves
- 130 Infinite Flow: Welcome to the Cursed Book World 无限流：欢迎进入诡书世界 (All-female main cast + highly intelligent leads + traditional elements + ensemble cast) (No golden finger + no livestreaming) On the way to bring her younger sister Cang Mu home, Cang Qing strays into a strange world inside a book near the airport. To avoid being killed by its uncanny forces, the sisters are forced to embark on an endless adventure. A different world shrouded in death, mysterious and uncanny paths to survival, and stories set against all kinds of strange backdrops. Taotie, b 111Reads—Score—Shelves
- 131 Possessing a Body in the Void 虚空夺舍 [Mystery and deduction] + [Yandere] + [Contract Ghosts] + [Transmigration] + [Horror] While in college, the protagonist, Yuan Wenxing, stumbles upon an abandoned school building. From then on, a mindscape comes into being!!! The most terrifying thing inside isn't the supernatural horrors, but the hearts of those within. Yuan Wenxing takes on task after task in the mindscape, gaining skills as he goes. The only way to escape is to become the rules themselves, in other words, to become a god. 1Reads—Score—Shelves
- 132 I Came from the Underworld to Deal with Those Who Defy the Rules 我从地府来，专治规则不服 I Came from the Underworld to Make the Rules Behave 1Reads—Score—Shelves
- 133 Infinite Flow: Shocking! The Big Shot Is Killing It in the Instance 无限流：震惊！大佬在副本杀疯了 [Dual Male Leads] [Gentle, Cunning, and Flirtatious Top x Short-Tempered, Tsundere, Bad-Boy Bottom] [One-on-One] [Two Powerful Leads, Push and Pull] [Horror Instances] Lin Ci woke with a start to find himself in a strange art studio, surrounded by bizarre, terrifying paintings. Before he could figure out what was going on, he spotted a young man in the distance, leaning against the wall with his arms crossed. The young man stared at him with a piercing gaze and a faint, mocking smile. Lin Ci f 369Reads6.6Score106Shelves
- 134 The Haunted Classroom 幽魂教室 A mysterious classroom, 16 sets of desks and chairs, 16 sacrifices, and countless cycles of reincarnation. After taking the death exam again and again, how many people will ultimately escape alive? This is an eternal curse!!! 85Reads5.5Score—Shelves
- 135 A Dreamlike Life: What Do You Mean I'm a Nightmare? 浮生入梦，什么叫我是梦魇？ [Infinite Flow] [Fantasy] [May Have a Female Lead] [Not Mindless] [Mild Horror] A quiet day, a fleeting night: this is one person's day. A quiet day, nightmares at night: this is Bai Ye's day. On an ordinary afternoon, Bai Ye receives a message from an online acquaintance, and the nightmare that once belonged only to him begins to spread. He peels back the trappings of the dream. The truth hidden for years lies inside that old, peeling notebook. At the top of the stairs on the rooftop, his h 2Reads—Score—Shelves
- 136 Rule Horror: All My Teammates Are Crazy 规则怪谈：我的队友全是神经病 [The main CP is a male-male couple] [Romance] [Supernatural horror] [Social satire] [Mystery and deduction] [CPs include both men and women] The God-Sealing Game has descended on this planet for the second time. No one knows who will succeed in becoming a god this time and become a legend for future generations. The mysterious Andrew Card seems like a divine gift, yet something about it feels sinister. Zzzzt A sudden burst of static swept through everyone's minds. [Humanity's God-Sealing Plan in 77Reads—Score—Shelves
- 137 Urban Legends Invade: I Slay Demons with Divine Blessings 怪谈入侵：我用神明祝福斩鬼 From Chapter 102 onward, the story enters dungeons, with people from other worlds joining the main cast in them. The world within a world includes science fiction. Also known as: Gods and Ghosts Run Rampant: I Wield the Power of the Gods to Slay Ghosts [Fairly satisfying] [A whole lot of killing] [Chinese-style supernatural tales] [Legendary monsters] [System-driven] [System] [Urban supernatural powers] [Mystery] [Some Infinite Flow dungeons] [Slay Ghosts] [Slay the Gods] Do you believe ghost —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 138 The Eerie Realm: It Starts with an Elevator 诡界：从电梯开始 [No System]+ [No Heroine]+ [Dungeon Progression]+ [No Saintly Protagonist]+ [Eerie]+ [Original Dungeons] Have you ever wondered? Beneath the neon lights and atmosphere of this city, things lurk that defy all reason. They were chosen by the Eerie [Elevator] and marked by a terrifying curse. Again and again, they must take part in death games, until death claims them. 57Reads—Score—Shelves
- 139 Fatal Game: The Death Script 致命游戏：死亡剧本 [Infinite-Flow + Horror + Survival] No female lead, no romance between men and women, pure deduction-based infinite flow. A strange minibus carries a group of guilty people to a village that doesn’t exist on any map. ...The people living in the base dormitories receive a different horror script every so often. Anyone who receives one is forcibly dragged into the script to play out its horrifying story. When Su Bai finally returns home after experiencing one terrifying incident after another, he 504Reads7.0Score—Shelves
- 140 The Ghostly Figure Appears 鬼影显形 [Eerie World + Folk Horror Tales + Infinite Flow + Mild Horror + Deduction and Survival + No Female Lead] My name is Zhou Lin, and I transmigrated! But my original Host didn't die. He... became a ghost! A yellowed photograph dragged Zhou Lin from the clutches of a vengeful ghost into another nightmare. The nightmare ended, but the ghosts in the real world never disappeared... A vengeful ghost closing in step by step... The photographs came one after another, haunting him like nightmares, with no 1.1kReads6.2Score104Shelves
- 141 The Endtime Haunted Town 终焉诡镇 [Infinite Flow] [Mystery Solving] [Mildly Frightening] [One Female Lead] A red letter, a rusty key, a town shrouded in mist… The people of the town called the place they lived the “Ghost Town.” There was an altar in the Ghost Town. Every so often, someone had to offer up their life and take part in a ritual. Otherwise, unimaginable things would happen in the town. When Xu Yuan arrived in this eerie town carrying a letter, there was no way out. He could only complete one terrifying ritual game af 26Reads7.0Score—Shelves
- 142 The World of Divine Eyes 神眼世界 [Infinite-flow + Mild horror + Finishing blows + No saintly protagonist + Ensemble cast + One female lead] The Path of Shadows has opened. Survive once, and you’ll be bound by its rules for life. Spiritual pressure is a curse. It builds up in the real world, forcing us back into hell again and again. I’m Xu Guang, a curse-breaker. My right eye can see through every vengeful spirit’s fixation and rules. They say I can bring salvation. Until I personally turned an entire town into ruins. Only then 5Reads—Score—Shelves
- 143 She Became Famous in the Survival Game for Her Love of Money 因为爱财，她在求生游戏里出了名 [Full-Dive Game + 1v1 + Infinite Worlds + Survival] Late in the game, the few remaining players thought they were doomed. They started preparing their final words and obituaries on the spot, but when they turned around, they saw her crouched in a corner, seriously haggling with a female ghost: “Send you off to be reincarnated? No problem, but it’ll cost you. No, no, I don’t mean ghost money.” As the players embarked on a desperate, life-or-death escape, she defected from their side to the mon 444Reads8.7Score101Shelves
- 144 Lost in a Haunted Village 误入恐怖村 An original story. Hope you enjoy it! Lu Chao stumbled into this village by chance, and in doing so, stepped onto a road with no return. Only those chosen by it can see it and enter it. Once chosen to become a resident of the village, there is no going back. The only way to leave is to be cursed by it and killed. To escape, Lu Chao has no choice but to embark on one adventure after another… 293Reads8.1Score—Shelves
- 145 Infinite Nightmares: I Have a Pair of Ghost Ears 无限噩梦：我有一对鬼耳 [Infinite Flow], [Mild Horror], [No Female Lead], [Survive by the Skin of Your Teeth], [Unconventional Turtle Soup Riddles], [Nontraditional Rule-Based Horror], [Not a Wish-Fulfillment Story, Not Invincible] [Slow-paced, packed with details, and full of complex plot twists!] [Read at your own risk if that's not your thing!!!] I sat on a deserted street in the dead of night, listening to them whisper. I was a little confused. Wasn't I the only one here? (Instance 1: Prolonging Life) A bit lon 27kReads7.9Score3.3kShelves
- 146 Eerie: The Strange Play Ends in Oblivion 诡异：诡剧终湮 [Suspenseful What-If] [Rule Horror] [Infinite Flow Supernatural Horror] [Horror and the Paranormal] Apocalypse... One month before monsters from another world invaded, Jiang Qiubai unexpectedly obtained a strange play that could take him to other worlds. Only by gathering the powers of the twelve Chinese zodiac signs through these plays could there be any hope of defeating the invasion from another world. Shen Wanqing had been an ordinary college student. Could the two of them successfully tempe —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 147 Hell Station 地狱车站 [Horror Infinite-Loop + Hell Apartment Style + Supernatural + Deduction + Bizarre + No Couple + No Female Lead + Ensemble Cast] There is a Hell Station in this world. They say every train departing from it leads to Hell, and the only way to truly leave is to complete mission after mission. Ye Luo, who suffers from a mental illness, stumbles into it by accident. “Welcome to Hell Station.” “Who am I? I’m just a servant of Hell.” First Train: Jigsaw [Completed] Second Train: Plague [Completed] 14Reads—Score—Shelves
- 148 I Inherited a Funeral Shop During the Hundred Ghosts' Night Parade 百鬼夜行时，我继承了一家冥铺 Lu Ci thought all his grandfather had left him was an old shop on the verge of closing. Then, one rainy night, the first customer walked through the door and bought a stack of spirit money. The next day, that very “ghost currency” appeared in someone else’s account. From then on, the shop, open only at night, began receiving one unusual customer after another: some sought wealth, some wanted to buy a life, and some only wished to exchange something for a long-overdue truth. At the end of the lon 9Reads—Score—Shelves
- 149 Horror Nightmare: From the Start, I Entered the World of the Supernatural 惊悚噩梦：开局进入诡世界 [Infinite worlds + instance dungeons + rule-based horror + mildly scary + no female lead] A bus carries its passengers back and forth between reality and the uncanny realm. But Ren Qingshan discovers that it isn't only the uncanny realm: every night, something is watching him. Are they players, or sacrifices? Who will survive this terrifying nightmare? [The Human Offering] A desolate mountain village, a ghostly figure on the third floor, a doll on the door. Would you dare open the cabinet at mid 78Reads—Score—Shelves
- 150 Crimson Game: The Second Stigma 猩红游戏：第二圣痕 [If you don’t mind, you can start reading from the fourth instance. I can barely get through the earlier parts myself.] Welcome to register for Crimson Stigmata. What you are about to receive is more than a game. It is a complete, irreversible way of life. The device is free and delivered to your door. Hyper-realistic senses, total immersion. Your eyes will be unable to tell the virtual from the real. Rules: Teams are assigned at random. Progress is not saved. Teammates can harm you. Health cann 1Reads—Score—Shelves
