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- 1 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—Shelves
- 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 —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 3 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 —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 4 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 The Purple Infant’s Curse: I Sent the Fetal Ghost to the Underworld, and the Goddess Turned Around and Confessed Her Love to Me 1Reads—Score—Shelves
- 5 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 1Reads—Score—Shelves
- 6 Class Vote: Battle Royale 班级投票大逃杀 [Battle royale + mild horror + strong female perspective] [From Volume Two onward: alternate world + school setting + soft sci-fi + yandere + girls' love] On the coming-of-age ceremony festival at Hezhou Experimental School, selected students and teachers are transported to classrooms in another dimension to take part in a brutal battle royale survival game. They are forced to play an anonymous voting game called “Class Death Vote.” The class with the most votes will be executed, and the last su 18Reads—Score—Shelves
- 7 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—Shelves
- 8 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—Shelves
- 9 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—Shelves
- 10 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 3Reads—Score—Shelves
- 11 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—Shelves
- 12 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—Shelves
- 13 Yellow Springs Express: Refuse Delivery and Die 黄泉速递・拒收必死 Yellow Springs Express Delivery: Refusal Means Certain Death 1Reads—Score—Shelves
- 14 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 Reborn, I'm trapped in a haunted house ruled by a supernatural game. I pretend to be crazy and play dumb, all to reunite my family in hell. —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 15 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—Shelves
- 16 Remains Salvager 忆骸打捞师 Shen Du is a memory diver. He uses no talismans and deals with nothing supernatural. With nothing but a fictional memory-retrieval technology, he can dredge up altered or deleted fragments from the ruins of the dead's consciousness. A killer who deliberately erased his memories of murder, a mother who can't remember what her own children look like, twins whose recollections of their shared past completely contradict each other... Every client who comes to him is hiding something. But the deeper —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 17 Rule Horror: I Conquered the Myriad Realms Dungeon 规则怪谈：我闯过万相副本 On his first day at work, Chen Mo is thrown into an endless series of rule-based horror scenarios, trapped in one uncanny death trap after another. The red-clad female ghost of Mistveil Town, a blood-red wedding banquet that never ends, a deep-sea monster aboard a sunken ship, a world of fractured reflections, a cannibal village, a station where time twists, a vampire castle gripped by a blood curse, a cyber asylum that rewrites human nature, and a divine arena of unending slaughter... Ten scena —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 18 When the Strange Tales Arrive: I Win by Exploiting Loopholes 怪谈降临：我靠漏洞躺赢到无敌 While others follow the rules to survive, Lin Chen deciphers them and tears through every challenge! Global paranormal phenomena erupt, and uncanny rules are everywhere. Break them, and you’ll suffer anything from mutation to being devoured by the ruler of the domain! Lin Chen is cool-headed and fiercely protective, without a trace of saintly self-righteousness. After binding himself to the [Rule Analysis System], he begins a life of unstoppable power: Red rules? Find the loophole and turn them 3Reads7.0Score—Shelves
- 19 With Bone-Gathering and Soul-Whistling, I Made Every Rule Horror Collapse 敛骨吹魂一出，规则怪谈全崩了 [Rules-Based Horror, Suspense, Bone-Gathering and Soul-Calling, Forensic Pathology, Two Male Leads, Evil God, Power Fantasy, Infinite Flow] Thrown into a rules-based horror game? Others: Follow the rules, stay alive. Lin Yan: Touch the bones, summon the lingering souls, and flip the whole instance on its head. [Do not touch the dead.] He touches one, and the dead person opens their eyes and calls him Big Brother. [Do not enter the morgue.] He walks in, and the roomful of little ghosts lines up t —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 20 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—Shelves
- 21 Horror Rules in My Neighborhood: I Became a Witness 小区规则怪谈，我成了目击者 Neighborhood Rule Horror: I Became a Witness 1Reads—Score—Shelves
- 22 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—Shelves
- 23 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? 20Reads—Score—Shelves
- 24 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—Shelves
- 25 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—Shelves
- 26 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—Shelves
- 27 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—Shelves
- 28 I Ascended to Godhood in a World of Strange Tales 我在怪谈世界封神 [Rule-Based Horror + Paranormal Invasion + Live National Destiny Broadcast + No Female Lead] The Rule-Based Horror Game begins, and the paranormal descends upon the entire world. The age of horror stories has arrived. Bound to an Assistance System, he enters the horror world right from the start and gets ten talent draws! Becoming a god is a piece of cake! The next second: [Assistance System Notice: Congratulations! Your luck is off the charts! You received 10 Charm Points!] He grumbles and begs —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 29 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—Shelves
- 30 Rule Horror: I Received the Layoff List 规则怪谈：我收到了裁员名单 Rule Horror: I Received the Layoff List 8Reads—Score—Shelves
- 31 Haunted House Registry: I Rewrote All the Bizarre Rules 凶宅名录：我篡改了所有诡异规则 "High-impact thrills with no angst + reverse rule changes + unbeatable at staying alive + resentful spirits throwing themselves at the protagonist + a massive conspiracy behind the scenes + nonstop action, no filler" Players everywhere are desperately trying to follow the rules of each instance, terrified of dying without a body left behind. Only Shen Yan knows the horrifying truth: Every single horror instance is a rigged slaughterhouse made by humans! The rules are a scam, the cycles are a —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 32 Rule Horror: I Can Devour All the Uncanny 规则怪谈：我能吞噬一切诡异 [Rule-Based Horror + No Female Lead + National Fate + Intelligent Cast + Not Overpowered + Devouring the Supernatural] Rule-based horror descends upon the world. Chen Xin is chosen by one of these horrors and awakens an E-rank talent, “Starving Ghost.” The good news is that this ability can grow stronger. The bad news is that to develop it, he must confront the horrors within the rules head-on, or, to be precise, eat part of them. The power of whatever he devours becomes part of him and serves h —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 33 I Run a Delivery Service in the Underworld, Specializing in Weird Ghosts 我在阴间开货来拉，专治奇葩鬼 [Infinite Flow] + [Weird Ghosts] + [Handling the Rules] + [Light Horror] + [Grounded in Reality] My name is Zhang Wei, a Huolala driver driven to the brink by my mortgage, car loan, and bizarre customers. Then one day, after I cursed out my hundredth passenger trying to freeload, my phone automatically downloaded “Hell’s Huolala.” From then on, my customers weren’t human. There was the domineering ghost who wanted to dodge highway tolls even after dying, the giant-baby ghost who demanded help mo —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 34 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—Shelves
- 35 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—Shelves
- 36 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—Shelves
- 37 I Have a Ring That Turns Me into a Ghost 我有一枚变鬼戒指 A terrifying world of endless reincarnation. A ring that can transform its wearer into a vengeful ghost. Wen Dao only wants to survive, but accidentally turns into a half-human ghost. As a human, he deduces the rules for survival. As a ghost, he lures people into triggering the rules of slaughter. But after a series of events, Wen Dao gradually begins to see a third path. One that belongs to him as a half-human ghost. “I thought he was our hope. Who knew he’d be a disaster!” “Wen Dao, this time! 9kReads6.1Score1.1kShelves
- 38 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 187Reads—Score—Shelves
- 39 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—Score115Shelves
- 40 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—Shelves
- 41 I Died in the Autopsy Room, Then Entered a Rule Horror 死在解剖室后，我闯规则怪谈 Killed by a serial killer in an autopsy room, Shen Yan opened his eyes and found himself in a world of rule-based horror called the Crossing Calamity Inn. One wrong step here means your soul is scattered, with no hope of reincarnation for all eternity. The death rate in beginner instances is over 80%. His teammates are already trembling with fear, all they want is to stay alive. Only Shen Yan remains calm, running his fingers over the cold scalpel in his hand. The explicit rules others regard as —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 42 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 Creepy Roommate Rules: Never Answer the Door When You Hear Knocking —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 43 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—Shelves
- 44 Rule Horror: The Strange Chronicles of Journey to the West 规则怪谈：西游诡记 Rule Horror: Strange Records of the Journey to the West 1Reads—Score—Shelves
- 45 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—Score—Shelves
- 46 When the Zombies Come: I Can See the Red Rules 丧尸来临：我能看见红色规则 [Zombies + rule-based horror] My name is Lin Shen. When the zombie outbreak began, I was brushing my teeth in Room 401 on the fourth floor. Four in the morning. The entire dormitory suddenly lost power. A sheet of paper appeared out of nowhere behind the dorm room door. —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 47 A Survival Guide to the Desperate Supermarket 绝境超市的生存指南 A Survival Guide to the Supermarket at the End of the World —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 48 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—Shelves
- 49 The Soul Ferry Bus 灵魂摆渡大巴 My name is Lin Xiaohan. Believe it or not, I transmigrated into the body of another version of myself in a parallel world. It all started with that damned bus. I'd signed up for a tour group at the time... Great. The version of me in this “world” is now a college student, part of the demographic most likely to die in a Chinese horror movie. The good news is, I've lived for over twenty years without seeing a ghost. The bad news is, this “world” has ghosts. Forget it, I can't talk now. I'm about t —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 50 Curious Tales 奇闻杂记 Have you heard of beds that make you bow your head, ghosts in the mirror, faces hidden by hair, blasting hills apart, ghostly sleep paralysis, coffin shops, casting curses and planting ghosts, glamorous tales of corpse-driving, snake demons appearing, the Eight Diagrams and mystical arts, or physiognomy from the Book of Ma Yi? Traveling far and wide through mountains, rivers, foreign lands, bustling cities, and remote villages, I visit strange places, record my findings, and bring them together. 4Reads—Score—Shelves
