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- 1 Ghostly Fairy Tales: Starting with Controlling a Nightmare Ghost 鬼童话：从驾驭梦魇鬼开始 [Ferocious Ghost Revival] + [Slow Burn] + [Pure Romance] The Three Laws of Ferocious Ghosts: 1. Ghosts cannot be killed. 2. Understand the rules of a ghost. 3. Only a ghost can deal with a ghost. The “Nuo Ghost,” which can grant wishes about the future. The “Nightmare Ghost,” which can turn dreams into reality. The “Ghost Bride,” who harbors romantic fantasies. The “Ghost Knows,” a bridge between the future and the past, where truth and lies are impossible to distinguish. The terrify —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 2 Mystery Revival: The Ninth Generation of the Wang Family 神秘复苏：我是王家第九代 Vengeful ghosts have returned, and the human world is a living hell. One generation sinks into ruin, while the next rises in its place. Two hundred years after the supernatural was brought to an end… (Supernatural + horror + character growth + no female lead + no System) 454Reads—Score—Shelves
- 3 Mystery Revival: My Life Burns for Karma 神秘复苏：吾命焚业 The supernatural has returned, and evil spirits are impossible to kill. Only ghosts can fight ghosts, and those who control them are ultimately doomed to die when the spirits they command revive. My name is Li Nuo. I command the terrifying “Ghost Child,” and I have been forced onto a quest to find the pieces of a mythic codename. The Fire-Quenching Hairpin freezes my tenderness; the Mourning Staff feeds on my joy; the Soul-Binding Blood Sleeve drags me into a vortex of karma... When these three 32Reads—Score—Shelves
- 4 Spiritual Terror 灵恐 [No female lead] [No System] [Horror resurgence] [Dark] A silent “resurgence” sweeps across the world. Ancient taboos are broken, and long-sealed vengeful spirits and twisted supernatural entities awaken from the shadows. Human civilization teeters on the brink, gripped by fear. —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 5 The Return of Vicious Ghosts 神秘复苏之厉鬼重现 Disaster strikes, vengeful ghosts swarm, and the world falls into chaos. (Recommended: Start reading from Chapter 109.) In Hanhai City, an indistinct apartment appears inside an unfinished building. Those chosen must carry out a perilous mission to deliver a letter... In Dachang City, a neighborhood is shrouded in fog. At times, faint sobbing can be heard from within. Some say it sounds like laughter... “My name is He Feng. Actually, ghosts first appeared in our world sixty years ago...” This is 38Reads—Score—Shelves
- 6 Supernatural Revival: Strange Tales from Republican-Era China 神秘复苏之民国诡事 Female lead: Zhang Youhong. Second female lead: Meng Xiaodong. Twin Red Staffs: Luo Qian and Luo Wensong. Cave Heaven Emperor: Zhang Dong. In the chaotic years of the Republic of China, ghosts roam the night and supernatural disasters ravage the human world. Down-on-his-luck young man Li Shou’an accidentally stumbles upon a bizarre murder, forcing him onto the deadly path of a ghost handler. He has no innate supernatural powers and no heaven-sent cheats. Surrounded by evil spirits and facing dan 182Reads—Score—Shelves
- 7 From the Start, Ghost Music Dragged Me into a Mysterious Revival World 开局被鬼音乐拉进神秘复苏世界 [Decisive and Ruthless] [Never Forgives a Grudge] [Does Whatever He Wants] “Just because you're too beautiful, baby, just because you're really too beautiful, baby.” As powerful music blared, Sun Wu promptly passed out. When he woke up, he had arrived in a world undergoing a mysterious resurgence. … 157Reads—Score—Shelves
- 8 From a Purple Pufferfish to a Nuclear Disaster 从一头紫色河豚，化身核弹天灾 [Mysterious setting + human nuclear bomb + calamities + decisive and ruthless + power fantasy] Calamities descend, disasters of every kind erupt one after another, and cataclysms on the scale of natural disasters sweep across the world! Scalding magma becomes a natural disaster, scorching the world. Surging tides roar wildly, drowning the continents. Hurricanes twist into invisible demons, tearing apart the sky. The earth trembles and opens abyss-like fissures, swallowing all life. Natural d 2Reads—Score—Shelves
- 9 Li Zha of the Ghostfire 鬼焰之李吒 Lightning tears across the night sky. The world becomes a realm of ghosts, with eerie beings roaming everywhere. Should people pray to Buddha to save the world, or worship Heaven and beseech the gods? But there are only ghosts in this world! This is a world of despair, and the story of an ordinary man's path to godhood. Li Zha swears he will burn every evil ghost in existence. 571Reads—Score—Shelves
- 10 Eerie Revival: I Cremated My Ex-Girlfriend from the Start 诡异复苏：开局火葬前女友 Night falls, and the paranormal returns. Qin Yang works at a crematorium. The very first body he has to cremate turns out to be his ex-girlfriend... He only meant to see his ex off on her final journey. But to his utter shock, she turns out to be a ghost, crawls into his stomach, and tears open his organs to kill him. Fine, fine! I wanted to send you off, and you wanted to send me off too! I’m done pretending. Here’s the truth. Awaken, my left eye, Time Ghost! After restarting the world, Qin Yan 21Reads—Score—Shelves
- 11 Mystery Revival: I Trade with Evil Spirits 神秘复苏：我和厉鬼做交易 Mystery Revival: I Trade with Evil Spirits 44Reads—Score—Shelves
- 12 Mystery Revival: The Night Lamp's Prophecy 神秘复苏：夜灯谕行 (I should have changed the title, but I signed the contract and now I can't change it at all, aaah!!!) New author here. If you're bored, skip to Chapter 10. Title: Eerie Awakening: Encountering the Mist Ghost from the Start? This follows the three rules of evil ghosts. It is not set in the world of Mysterious Revival. Dark forces bring life to ruin; lonely graves bury sorrow. The world sinks into a prison of shadows, and lanterns guide the way at night. My name is Song Youyou. I was born in this 2Reads—Score—Shelves
- 13 Mystery Revival: Zhang Dong, One of the Seven Elders of the Republic Era, Is Here! 神秘复苏——民国七老张洞正式上线！ Mysterious Revival: Zhang Dong, one of the Seven Elders from the Republic Era, is officially online! 33Reads—Score—Shelves
- 14 Mystery Revival Begins with the Inhuman 神秘复苏从异类开始 The Knocking Ghost knocked on the door twenty-three times. I died twenty-three times, and the three ghosts inside me dragged me back twenty-three times. The Silence Ghost erased information, the Shadow Nightmare controlled space, and the Delusion devoured consciousness. Three Class A vengeful ghosts were locked in a deadlock inside me, unable to revive forever, making me an anomaly in the cracks between the rules. I couldn't die, but I couldn't truly live, either. Only later did I realize they w —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 15 The Ghost Handler's Notes 驭鬼者笔记 Evil ghosts are rising, and the human world has become a living hell. Ghosts cannot be killed. The only thing that can fight ghosts is another ghost. A college student named Mu Yang is caught up in a supernatural incident after an accident and becomes a ghost handler. But he discovers that supernatural events are erupting all over the world. Evil ghosts are rising: hanging ghosts, big-headed ghosts, ghost crows, underground ghosts, ghosts that hide among people... In this apocalypse ruled by gho —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 16 Horror Revival: I Hunt the Mysterious in the City 恐怖复苏：我在都市斩神秘 [High IQ | Mind-bending mystery | Urban supernatural | Horror resurgence] That day, the horrors buried beneath the city began surfacing one after another. People struggled to survive in the face of terror. An accident drew him into the game alone. From then on, he took up a blade and became a ghost hunter in the city. This is the story of a man who became a ghost and fought to hold on to his humanity. —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 17 The Terror Returns, and I Am Hell’s Apostle 恐怖复苏，我为地狱使徒 [When night falls, the dead dare not cry; the plague ghost exhales, and the lantern flame turns green] [Evil spirits revive + the three laws of ghosts + apocalypse + no saintly heroine + no female lead] Where do evil spirits come from? The netherworld. Where does hell come from? Fear. As evil spirits revive, the human world becomes a living hell. In this age of the supernatural, there are no gods to protect the people. The only way to find a sliver of hope is to overcome fear and command evil sp —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 18 The Supernatural Returns: Taking On the Ghost Lake Head-On from the Start 神秘复苏，开局硬抗鬼湖 My name is Hun Lin, the second-generation ghost tamer of Taiping Ancient Town. I thought I would take on the responsibility of the previous generation and continue protecting the town. But things didn't go as planned. He Yin'er accidentally died in the Ghost Lake and sank to the bottom. Knowing he didn't have much time left, He Liansheng wanted to retrieve He Yin'er so she could inherit the Summoning Ghost. We entered the Ghost Lake. During our struggle against it, the balance within my body w 209Reads—Score549Shelves
- 19 Supernatural Revival: The Supernatural Age Is Not Over 灵异复苏：灵异时代没有终结 [Paranormal Resurgence] [A Meat Grinder for Ghost Tamers] [Ghost-Hair Jeanne d'Arc] [A Battle of Wits Under Pressure] When the paranormal age dawns, the entire world is plunged into terror of evil spirits. Wang Dao is an ordinary man whose only wish is to enter the Safe Zone, a place that symbolizes hope. To that end, he deliberately seeks out Paranormal File No. 49: [Ghost Hair]. From then on, he becomes neither human nor ghost. He joins Bureau 749 and handles one of the most difficult and biza —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 20 Mythic Revival: Subduing the Supernatural World 神话复苏：镇压灵异世界 Vengeful ghosts have risen, hell lies empty, and the human world has become a purgatory. After losing his memories for five years, Jiang Jiuli accidentally touches the strange brocade pouch his grandfather left behind. Hunted by evil spirits, he chooses to command ghosts in order to survive. A vengeful ghost enters his body, his memories return, and a forbidden plan to create a god begins to surface. From then on, he wields ghosts as weapons and traverses haunted realms, searching for the truth 18Reads—Score—Shelves
- 21 Supernatural Revival: From the Start, I Command a Republic-Era Old Timer 灵异复苏：开局驾驭民国老登 After transmigrating into Mysterious Revival, Yan Sheng could feel how much this world hated him… From the start, he was trapped inside a ghost painting and hunted by four terrifying ghosts. He had no choice but to risk everything for the slimmest chance of survival… … I am Yan Sheng. By the time you read this, I will already be dead… By using a balancing method like the one in the Pippi Paper, Yan Sheng successfully gained control of all four ghosts… The Shadow Ghost possesses a vague, dark gho 627Reads8.0Score147Shelves
- 22 Mystery: The Buddha’s Realm in My Palm, Rewriting Certain Death 神秘：掌中佛国，改写必死灵异 Transported into the world of Mysterious Revival, Lin Bei is destined to become the bald team captain who dies in the national war! Armed with the one and only ability to foresee danger and save his own life, he faces ghosts that cannot be killed. Using the Mirror Ghost as his foundation, he subdues the Sleeping Ghost and the Shadow-Splitting Ghost to build a unique system that can forcibly shut down evil spirits and keep him alive. He takes root in Jiang City to purge the supernatural, encounte 3.3kReads5.0Score288Shelves
- 23 The Mysterious World: Anomalous Events 神秘世界：异常事件 Medical resident Gu Fang runs into a Lying Ghost from the start. While other protagonists are still screaming in terror, he’s already analyzing the ghost’s killing pattern: symptoms are its triggers, and physical signs define the limits of its rules. Using nothing but clinical diagnostic reasoning, he turns the Lying Ghost against itself and takes control of it. From then on, evil spirits become his case files, and haunted hospitals become his territory. This young doctor, whose real life is fu 1Reads—Score—Shelves
- 24 When Evil Ghosts Return, I Become a God by Taming Them in a Living Hell 厉鬼复苏，我于炼狱人间驭鬼成神 [This book has a dark, terrifying, and oppressive style. It's best read with the lights off in the middle of the night.] A strange bronze mirror foretells a future in which malicious ghosts revive across the world, guiding Chen Qingyu to find a way to survive in this desperate age. "If you don't want to be killed by a malicious ghost, you must become a dead person first." The Starving Ghost, the Hanging Ghost, the Ghost Bride, the Ghost Wall, the Waist-Wrapping Ghost... One paranormal incident a 5Reads—Score—Shelves
- 25 Horror Revival: The Ghost Child in My House Is Too Powerful 恐怖复苏：我家鬼童太强了 [Ghost-harnessing + lighthearted + no female lead] In the age of the supernatural, there was once a man who slaughtered countless ghosts, revered by the world as a god. The young protagonist encounters an S-rank supernatural entity, the Painted-Skin Ghost, from the start. One supernatural incident after another follows, leaving him nowhere to run. As ghosts return and the human world becomes a living hell, how can anyone survive? It takes exceptional courage, brilliant intelligence, unyieldin —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 26 The World Is but a Dream 人间如梦 When the supernatural begins to return, when your consciousness starts to fade... You will wander through every age of the supernatural, past, present, and future... You will forget the age of despairing horrors... The human world is a prison... to you, it is a dream... 278Reads—Score—Shelves
- 27 The Divine Man Reborn: The End of the Age of Divine Men 神人苏生：终结神人时代 Godlike Rebirth: The End of the Godlike Era 54Reads—Score—Shelves
- 28 Mystery Revival: Tales from the Republican Era 神秘复苏：民国传 In 1937, warlords clashed and the land was strewn with starving corpses. Even more terrifying than the man-made calamities was the supernatural resurgence silently spreading across the land. Lu Yan, a boy fleeing famine, found a blackened wooden carrying pole in a pile of corpses. It couldn’t carry grain; all it could carry were vicious ghosts. “Only ghosts can fight ghosts.” Lu Yan discovered that hanging vicious ghosts of comparable danger on either end of the pole created a strange balance in 292Reads5.4Score—Shelves
- 29 Mystery Revival: Becoming Half a Ghost Warden from the Start 神秘复苏：开局成为半个鬼差 A fan fiction based on The Mysterious Revival Liu Xuan had planned to lie flat, coast along, and take it easy, but then the unexpected happened. That day, Liu Xuan was at home as usual when he suddenly found himself in an unfamiliar place. At first, he was pretty excited. That was, until he saw the three big characters “Huanggang Village” on a road sign. Could this be one of the worlds you’d least want to transmigrate into: The Mysterious Revival? What should he do? This is urgent. Waiting for a 2Reads—Score—Shelves
- 30 Mystery Revival: My Vengeful Ghosts Come at No Cost 神秘复苏：我的厉鬼没有代价 He transmigrates into The Mysterious Revival. While everyone else risks their lives controlling ghosts, I control the [Ghost Girl] from the start, with no price to pay! Jun Zhengyue arrives in a despairing haunted domain, still shaken, only to discover that he can issue absolute commands to a mysterious and unpredictable ghost girl! No corruption, no revival, and no price to pay! She is the sharpest blade under the chilling rules of this world, and Jun Zhengyue’s only means of surviving in this 110Reads—Score—Shelves
- 31 Sole Possessor of the Divine Throne 独享神座 People draw psychic power from dead gods and Buddhas to fight the eerie beings. It is their only chance to survive! When Wei Zheng woke up, he found himself in a world full of “Eerie Folk.” Ordinary people stood no chance against them. The only way to survive was through “visualization”: borrowing psychic power from gods and Buddhas. 2Reads—Score—Shelves
- 32 Eerie Game: My Organs Cultivate in Strange Ways 诡异游戏：我的器官诡异修行 In 2025, the whole world joins forces to develop a virtual reality game called Nightfall. It takes the world by storm as soon as it launches, thanks to its bizarre and fantastical horrors! Then, five years later, the game mysteriously shuts down! A year after that, Lin Yi is killed by a horror from the game! After dying, Lin Yi discovers that he has transmigrated into the game, right at the time when the horrors are resurging, before the players’ servers have even opened. In this terrifying age, 4Reads—Score—Shelves
- 33 The Second Book by Impossible, Right? 不可能的吧的第2本书 A new work is out! You can read my story on Tomato Novels. I hope you enjoy it. Your support is what motivates me to write, and I'll do my best to tell every story well! 17Reads—Score—Shelves
- 34 Horror Resurges: I Control the Book of Ghosts and Command Life and Death 恐怖复苏，我驾驭诡书，执掌生死 [Set in the world of Mysterious Revival] [No System] [No heroine] [Fast-paced] [Mild horror] [Original instances] My name is Cui Jue. In this world, evil spirits have revived and the paranormal runs rampant. I command a Ghost Codex, tread through ghostly domains, and search for a way to survive. When the people of this age call my true name, it will mean the paranormal era has finally come to an end! I went through life and death to get here. I'm not here to reason with you. Take them down! Take 19Reads—Score—Shelves
- 35 Supernatural Revival: From the Start, I Control Two Evil Ghosts 灵异复苏：我开局驾驭双厉鬼 [Eerie Revival]+ [Decisive and Ruthless]+ [Ghost-Taming]+ [Three Laws of Vengeful Ghosts] [First-Person Version] My name is Feng Du. I’m a dead man whose heart was cut out by a crooked hospital, so why am I still alive? And whose heart is inside my body now? Is it human, or is it a ghost’s? I don’t know. I just want to find the bastard who cut out my heart and tear him limb from limb. On my way to get revenge, I encountered a second vengeful ghost. It defeated me and left me on the brink of deat 1.3kReads—Score—Shelves
- 36 Mystery Revival: The Corridor with Infinite Time Rewinds 神秘复苏拥有无限时间回溯的走廊 [Mysterious Revival Setting] [Not Overpowered] You step out of your home, only to be trapped by a hotel manager in a corridor that resets every 8:15. You're also ordered to bring customers back to the hotel. No, to be more precise, to kidnap them. What would you do in this absurd world? When I wanted to stop, I discovered that I had already been swept up in the fate of an entire era. I was lucky, because I survived. I was unlucky, too. Because I survived. —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 37 Mystery Revival: So This Is the Republic of China Era! 神秘复苏：原来这是民国啊！ My name is Zhang Ming. I thought I was already dead, but when I opened my eyes again, I found myself in the Republican era. I never expected there to be uncanny beings here. Can I really survive? 12.8kReads—Score1.4kShelves
- 38 Mystery Revival: Embracing All Rivers 神秘复苏之纳百川 With so many fantasy and immortal-cultivation worlds out there, why did I have to end up in a world of supernatural horror? How am I supposed to survive here? More importantly, why don't I have a cheat ability? No, I have to keep my head down and stay away from all kinds of paranormal incidents. That's right. That's the plan. But why did I get caught up in a paranormal incident as soon as I arrived? I swear, I can't take this. Lin Ran suddenly finds himself in a world of supernatural horror. Wit 1Reads6.6Score—Shelves
- 39 Eerie Revival: I Commanded the Masked Ghost from the Start 诡异复苏：我开局驾驭鬼面 Note: The author’s long gaps between updates aren’t because the story has been discontinued. Every day, before posting a new chapter, the author resets the previous content, so new chapters may take longer to update. New readers don’t need to worry about the story being abandoned; just read the reset version. [Supernatural revival + Three Great Laws + no female lead + not a self-sacrificing saint + decisive and ruthless + doesn’t fawn on headquarters + slow burn] In an age of the Five Turbiditie 3Reads—Score—Shelves
- 40 Horror Revival: From Foot Massage to Godhood! 恐怖复苏：从足道开始，登神！ [Supernatural Resurgence + One Heroine + Ghost Control + Survival + Comedic Daily Life + Invincible Face-Slapping] Ghosts cannot be killed!! Only ghosts can fight ghosts!! Find out the rules behind their killings!! Horror returns, and evil ghosts run rampant. Some struggle to survive, while others control the supernatural, hoping to become new gods. The world fears the darkness, but he prefers to get a foot massage before it falls. Though Lin Yuan is still a college student, he has years of e —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 41 Calamity Returns: I'm the Only One Who Knows the Rules' Loopholes 灾厄复苏：只有我知道规则漏洞 Thirty years after the Calamities returned, the city looks bright and bustling on the surface. The subways still run, and companies still force their employees to work overtime. Only a handful of people know that reality has been rotten to its core for a long time. Overworked office drone Lu Zhao only wanted to make it through the layoffs, but ended up stumbling into the Anomaly Bureau and becoming a temporary lackey for the Seventh Team. Others handle calamities with experience and their lives 1Reads—Score—Shelves
- 42 Mystery Revival: I Became the Lord of Oblivion 神秘复苏：我成了遗忘之主 My name is Zhang Yuan. I’m a transmigrator with incomplete memories. My ability is to modify rules, and the price is accelerated memory loss. Now I’ve become a “Ruinswalker.” In a wasteland of rules where countless worlds lie buried, I built a base called [Wayfarer’s Beacon] and took in a bunch of bizarre companions. We’d just managed to pry some secrets of space from an ancient ruin through a bit of trickery... I mean, with wisdom and courage, when we looked up and discovered that The entire un 6Reads—Score—Shelves
- 43 Supernatural Revival: Starting with the Image Ghost 灵异复苏：从影像鬼开始 Ensemble cast, no female lead In ancient Huaxia, gods and Buddhas vanished without a trace. Everyone believed they had ascended to immortality, unaware that those who stood at the peak had been the most terrifying ghost tamers all along. They used their own bodies as coffins and their divine powers as locks, sealing the indescribable horrors beneath the mortal world. But every seal will one day weaken, and the things they left behind came to be known by later generations as “taboos.” A jade Budd —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 44 Eerie Revival: Taming Ghosts at No Cost 诡异复苏：无代价驭鬼 Do you believe there are ghosts in this world? My name is Lin Mo. I was an ordinary person until that day, when the world was turned upside down. Evil spirits revived, and in an instant, the human world became a living hell, with terror lurking everywhere. But then the wheels of fate began to turn. I became the only person in the world who could control evil spirits without paying any price. The spirits I control pose no risk of turning on me and demand nothing in return. They obey me without 8Reads—Score—Shelves
- 45 The Ghost Market Peddler of Mystery Revival 神秘复苏之鬼市货郎 My name is Fang Jing, a soul from a hundred years in the future. Cold, fear, despair. This world is slowly falling apart. Evil spirits are reviving, and the human realm has become a living hell. The evil spirits have appeared, but where are the gods? Welcome to my ghost market. Here, you can find everything you desire, along with horrors you cannot bear. 6Reads—Score—Shelves
- 46 A Journey Through Mystery Revival 神秘复苏之旅 From the start, in a beautiful dream woven by a dream ghost, the protagonist battles the Divine Sun in a world-shaking clash. Then he abruptly opens his eyes and finds himself plunged into a cold world where the supernatural has returned. Fortunately, armed with foresight, he quickly gains control of the Tall Ghost Shadow, the Mirror Ghost, and the Illusion Stone Ghost, using ghost blood to balance the power of the evil spirits within him. A Rank-S supernatural incident runs rampant through Dac —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 47 Forbidden Horrors: One Man Against Ghosts and Gods 恐怖禁忌，只身为棋博弈鬼神 “In an age of the Five Turbidities, hell has emptied, and vengeful ghosts are invading the mortal world through my dreams. Were they always meant to exist, or did they come into being because of me? When the coffin cast from gold shattered, the version of me with no past or future awoke from a blood-red nightmare. Why do I exist at all? Rifts in ghostly realms tore reality apart, forcing him to confront the ultimate question. As the balance between civilization and the supernatural continued to —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 48 The Divine Hand 神赐手 A man from nowhere will turn back the overwhelming tide that makes the world a living hell. Bearing an eerie hand and a shadowy light, I am Xuanyue. When God finally descends, I will lose this world. —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 49 The First Book by Jinye Guanlan 烬夜观澜的第1本书 My new work is out! You can read it on Tomato Novel. I hope you enjoy it. Your support motivates me to write, and I'll do my best to tell every story well! 540Reads—Score111Shelves
- 50 The Revival of the Mysterious: A Balanced Paranormal Era 神秘复苏均衡灵异时代 There are thirty-six source ghosts in Mysterious Resurgence. In fact, these thirty-six source ghosts are thirty-six gods. For some reason, the gods died, but their divinity could not be destroyed. That is why the evil ghosts left behind cannot be destroyed, and can only act according to the laws the gods left behind. People broadly divide the struggle against the remaining ghosts into three eras: the era of supernatural disintegration, when ghosts were broken apart; the era of supernatural balan 12Reads—Score—Shelves
