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- 101 The Global Ghost School 全球鬼校 After Liu Bowen severed the dragon veins, dragon qi vanished from the world. With dragon qi no longer holding it in check, the six paths of the underworld collapsed, and ghosts roamed the night. Faced with a living hell on earth, the Daoists emerged from seclusion, while the Buddhists came to save the world. Liu Yi also acquired ghost qi in a deadly game at a haunted school, and used it to suppress the underworld and reshape reincarnation. (Note: This story takes place in a parallel world unrela 281Reads—Score—Shelves
- 102 Rule Horror Archives 规则怪谈档案馆 This is a vast archive, filled with countless rule-based horrors. Perhaps you can find something inside? We are survivors of the apocalypse, and the archive protects us. But perhaps there is something we can do, too. We collect the rules, understand them, and try to save civilizations from the tide of destruction. This is what we do. Perhaps our actions will not be understood, but we do only what we must. Perhaps you should be ready, too? (Most of the rule-based horror stories so far are my own 14Reads—Score—Shelves
- 103 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—Shelves
- 104 Rule Horror: My House Rules Are a Little Wild 规则怪谈：我的家规有点野 [See no evil] [Not saintly or self-sacrificing + Strongly recommend watching without overthinking for the best experience] [Comedy + Mild angst + Infinite-flow + Family rules blended with traditional etiquette + Growth + Touching] Five years ago, the “Rule Domains” descended, and the world became a twisted game of survival. Chosen ones from every nation used S-rank talents and advanced technology to survive bizarre dungeon instances, often by the skin of their teeth. And me, Lin Mo, an E-rank su 22Reads6.3Score—Shelves
- 105 Rule Horror: Break Through the Campus of the Evil God’s Slaughter! 规则怪谈：突破邪神杀戮的校园！ Rule Horror: Breaking Through the Campus of the Evil God's Slaughter! 1Reads—Score—Shelves
- 106 Reborn: Potatoes Don't Grow on Trees 重生之土豆不长在树上 Reborn: Potatoes Don’t Grow on Trees 2Reads—Score—Shelves
- 107 You Got into Tsinghua, She Got into Peking, and I Baked Flatbreads 你考上了清华，她考上了北大，我烤上了烧饼 You Got Into Tsinghua, She Got Into Peking University, and I Baked Sesame Flatbread —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 108 Prove That You Were Once Human 请证明你曾是人 After Chen Zhou woke up, he was thrown into a “test of human worth” spanning the ancient past, the modern era, and the future. Plague cities, royal courts, trials, shipwrecks, stock market crashes, nuclear crises, space colonization… Each world had its own bizarre rules, and every choice demanded a sacrifice. Yet the same name appeared on every death record: Chen Zhou. Before the rules devoured everyone, he had to prove one thing: Humanity’s true worth has never been obedience. —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 109 Rule Horror: I Stay Alive by Solving Murder Cases! 规则怪谈：我以破解凶杀案续命！ With my life running short, I searched for the secrets of life so I could keep living! I stumbled into a murder case. After solving it, I unexpectedly gained more time to live. From then on, I walked in the darkness, searching for clues to survive and bringing the truth to light. As for me, as long as I stay within the rules, I will live forever! 73Reads—Score—Shelves
- 110 Rule Horror: I Contain the Uncanny Through the Afterlife 规则怪谈：我靠往生收容诡异 Others enter rule-based horror games to struggle for survival. Li Si enters them to stock up! From the start, he’s trapped in an abandoned hospital, facing the fatal rule: “Never make eye contact with patients.” He whips out a chainsaw and treats the monsters like his wife. “Baby, your temperature’s too high. Time to slice you up and put you in cold storage.” [Ding! The Book of the Departed has successfully contained a spirit! Obtained D-rank Vengeful Ghost: Rule Bait!] [Rule loophole unlocked: —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 111 Welcome to the University of Strange Rules 欢迎来到诡异规则大学 The University of Eerie Rules: Welcome to the Examination Hall of Life and Death On the day he fails the college entrance exam, Su Zhe’s life is completely ruined. The school bully’s malicious ambush makes him miss one of his exams, destroying his future. Then a mysterious admission letter falls from the sky: the prestigious Imperial University is offering him a special place, with all tuition waived and a monthly allowance of one hundred thousand. The terms are so generous they seem downright e 15Reads—Score—Shelves
- 112 After Dissecting a Corpse, I Began to Mutate 解剖尸体后，我开始异变 Urban supernatural powers + unusual professions + horror and thrills + eerie mysteries When Lin Shen followed procedure and opened the corpse’s chest cavity, he found that the dead man’s liver was beating rhythmically. A viscous fluid dotted with transparent granules seeped from its surface. Under the microscope, those granules turned out to be tiny embryos curled into shape, some even opening their eyes to stare back at him. At the same time, his bionic right-hand prosthesis shuddered violently —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 113 Rule Horror: I Use a Lovecraftian Heavenly Court to Crush Dimensions 规则怪谈：我用克系天庭降维打击 Global rule-based horror games descend, and each country randomly draws a designer to create a rules dungeon and compete. The West unleashes "Vampire Castles," "Werewolf Towns," and "Cthulhu Cruises," crushing Daxia time and again. With its cultural heritage in tatters, Daxia loses nine rounds straight! Su Heng, who transmigrated into this world, takes over the mess and responds to the world's ridicule by tossing out [Heavenly Court Anomaly Code: Southern Heaven Gate]. "Do not look directly at t 43Reads—Score—Shelves
- 114 Rule Horror: Abyss Metro 规则怪谈：深渊地铁 [Rules-Based Horror + Infinite Flow + Suspenseful Mysteries + Deduction and Puzzles + Character Growth] The ticket gate spat out a blood-red ticket. It read: Welcome aboard the Abyss Metro. This train is bound for Level 18. That was the first time Cheng Chi learned that the subway he crammed onto every day could take him to hell. Every station brought new rules. The rules could change, deceive, and contradict one another. Some died in the glass reflections on the Mirror Platform. Some walked 6Reads—Score—Shelves
- 115 Rule Horror: I Can See the Deleted Rules 规则怪谈，我能看见被删除的规则 Rules horror descends upon the world. The Midnight Convenience Store, Happy Apartments, Red Umbrella School, and Abandoned Subway appear one after another. All survivors must follow the rules to stay alive. Break them, and you die. But Lu Chen, a night-shift clerk, discovers he can see the deleted Rule Zero. From then on, he stops passively struggling to survive. He analyzes the rules, turns them to his advantage, and strikes back against the horrors. Until one day, he discovers that every horro 15.9kReads5.4Score1.8kShelves
- 116 I Set the Rules in the Horror Story 我在怪谈里立规矩 While others cower in corners of Rule Horrors, kneeling and scraping by for a chance to survive, I face the filth lurking in the shadows, gripping the Seal of Rules and establishing order in the human world with nothing but a mortal's body. I suppress the evil spirits of the world and protect the everyday lives and lamplights of every household. —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 117 Rule Horror: I Clear the Dungeon by Breathing Oxygen 规则怪谈：我靠吸氧通关副本 [No livestreaming, no livestreaming, no livestreaming] The supernatural runs rampant, and urban legends descend upon the world. Strange games invade reality, and anyone can be chosen to enter one and take on its challenges. Clear a challenge: both the player and their country receive rewards. Fail a challenge: death! The first challenge Liu Ming faces is the “Night of the Returning Soul” scenario. “It's all a scam. There isn't a dead person in that coffin!” [The first scenario, “Night of the Ret 603Reads8.0Score—Shelves
- 118 I’m a Real Man, but I’m a Sissy Boy in a Horror Story Livestream 我，纯爷们，怪谈直播当男娘 [No romance + rule-based horror + logical deduction + Infinite Flow + mild horror + humorous references] 1. A female ghost sews her parents together and keeps them in the refrigerator. You threaten her pathological devotion to her family. 2. Your “other self” hates you. Kill them? Are you sure you won't die too? He Ling's talent is Simulation and Deduction. But he was strangled to death by a female ghost from the start, before he could even use his talent. His only chance to revive was gone. The 55Reads—Score—Shelves
- 119 The Rule Horror of the Milk Tea Shop Employee Handbook 规则怪谈之奶茶店店员守则 Rules of the Strange: Bubble Tea Shop Employee Handbook 3Reads—Score—Shelves
- 120 Rule Horror: The Neighbor Who Vanished from the Residents' Group Chat 规则怪谈：小区业主群里消失的邻居 Rule Horror: The Neighbor Who Vanished from the Neighborhood Group Chat 2Reads—Score—Shelves
- 121 Rules 101: The School Survival Guide 规则必修课：校园生存守则 (The rating has just come in and is rather low, but it will rise later.) [Rule-based horror, deduction, suspense, terror] Upon opening her eyes, Lu Wanxing finds a set of weekend dormitory rules popping up on her phone. She and her two roommates proceed with utmost caution, searching for the rules’ limits on the brink of death. Human nature, resources, ghosts and monsters… After barely making it through two days of life teetering on the edge of death, Lu Wanxing finally lets out a sigh of relief 1kReads8.2Score124Shelves
- 122 You Told Me to Take the Civil Service Exam, So Why Did I End Up at Bureau 749? 让你考公，你上岸749局？ [Rule-Bound Horror + National Destiny + God-Slaying + Ruthless Protagonist + Mastermind Behind the Scenes + Unstoppable] After three years of civil-service exams and seven failures, a twist of fate lands me in Bureau 749. Other people use peachwood swords and black donkey hooves to catch ghosts. I pull out a copy of the Administrative Penalties Regulations. A red-clad female ghost is out for blood? First, file for a replacement death certificate! Zombies are causing trouble at a construction —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 123 Infinite Flow: Surviving the Game by Eating Fetal Dumplings 无限流：从吃胎婴饺开始求生游戏 [Two male leads + horror + hilarious comedy + mind-bending puzzles + lots of sweetness] My name is Jiang Yunyin, and I'm an apprentice mortician. I never thought I'd die one day by “freezing to death in a bathroom.” After I died, I came to the Horror World. To be reborn, I began taking on the horror trials the System told me about. It was supposed to be just a survival game, but it was far more difficult than I imagined. A maternal and child health hospital where women's wails and babies' cries 2Reads—Score—Shelves
- 124 On My First Day at University, I Saw My Roommate Eating Someone 新生报道第一天，看见室友吃人 [Mystery + campus + university of impostors + fake-rule horror + dark humor + ensemble cast + survival + mild horror + mild gore + ordinary protagonist] “What do I do if my roommates eat people? They’re trying to share some with me! Help, this is urgent.” Bai Hua, a freshman, found his roommates warm and welcoming. It was just that their dinner parties were a little rough on their classmates. Watching his “normal” classmates turn into “takeout,” Bai Hua’s thoughts were simple: What else could h 38Reads6.3Score—Shelves
- 125 School Horror Game 校园惊悚游戏 A horror game quietly begins in a silent classroom. Complete a task successfully and you’ll receive a reward. Fail, and you’ll be punished, or even killed! My name is Hu Ye, and I’ve been dragged into this game. I want to survive, so I keep exploring. In the end, I uncover a shocking secret! Everyone is a chess piece! 333Reads—Score—Shelves
- 126 Urban Legends: You Call This Player the Boss? 怪谈：你告诉我这玩家是boss [Rules Horror + No Romance + Comedy + Supernatural + No Female Lead + National Destiny] [The synopsis is written from the protagonist’s point of view] My name is Lin Zhi, and I’m a ghost. Ever since I was little, I’ve been the darling of all the ghost bosses in the rules-based horror worlds. The Lord of Ghosts, who is also my father, has always groomed me as his successor. Every day, my job is to visit the rules-based horror worlds to keep the ghosts in line and manage the players. Then the new 1Reads—Score—Shelves
- 127 Ghosts Are Higher-Dimensional Beings, So Stop Praying to Buddha and Chanting Sutras 鬼是高维生物，不要再求佛念经了 Four-dimensional beings have arrived! White disasters involve 1–100 people, with a 99% death rate. Green disasters involve 100–1,000 people, with a 99.99% death rate; Blue disasters involve 1,000–100,000 people, with a 99.99999999% death rate. Red disasters involve more than 100,000 people, and the death rate cannot be calculated. “Ghosts! There are ghosts!” “Don't be afraid. This place is full of temples and Buddha statues. Stop standing around and kneel down to pray! The Buddha will surely pr 3Reads—Score—Shelves
- 128 Rule Horror: The Apartment Building You Can Never Leave 规则怪谈：走不出的公寓楼 [Short Story] [Rule Horror] After graduating and leaving campus, Shi Qing rented an apartment for just 600 a month. The place seemed pretty nice, and she thought she’d landed an incredible bargain. But when she actually arrived, she was horrified to discover that she might have been... scammed! She regretted moving in on the very first night, because the apartment building was not normal! And Shi Qing would never be able to escape... —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 129 Rule Horror: Two Gods from the Start, My Archenemy and I Team Up to Conquer the Dungeons! 规则怪谈：双神开局，我和死敌联手杀穿副本！ Rule Horror: Two Gods from the Start, My Arch-Enemy and I Join Forces to Slaughter Our Way Through the Instances! —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 130 Rule Horror: The Eighth Rule 规则怪谈：第八条规则 A convenience store on a stormy night. A six-hour survival game. Seven rules were posted on the wall. I saw an eighth. While everyone else struggled to survive by the rules, I saw the truth in them. When the rule-based horror descended into reality, ordinary people couldn’t see it, but I could: The public rules, the hidden rules, even the “things” behind them. They said clearing the game meant you’d live. I said you had to see the rules before you could choose how to live. Choice is power. 1Reads—Score—Shelves
- 131 Rule Horror: I Spot the Wrong Rules at a Glance 规则怪谈：我一眼看破错误规则 Rule-Based Horror descended upon the world. Chu Ze was chosen as a Chosen One. If he cleared the horror scenario, he could stop it from descending upon his country. “All staff members wear blue uniforms. Before speaking with a staff member, check that their uniform is the right color. If anyone wearing a red uniform speaks to you inside the park, ignore them and get away as quickly as possible.” “There is a hotel in the park. Please arrive at the hotel by five in the evening each day. If you fin —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 132 Under the Rules, There Are No True Words 规则之下无真话 Under the rules, no one tells the truth —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 133 Rules-Based Horror for All: Sun Wukong Lives Inside Me 全民规则怪谈：我体内住着孙悟空 [Mystery and imagination]+ [Urban supernatural powers]+ [Rule Horror]+ [Journey to the West mythology]+ [Apocalypse]+ [Infinite Flow] At midnight one day, the Heavenly Dao collapsed. Eighty-one rifts in the rules tore open the mortal world. Each was an independent horror scenario: follow the rules to survive, break them and die, and clear a scenario to obtain a fragment of divine power. College student Sun Xing was sent flying by a truck. As he hovered on the brink of death, a wisp of a remnant —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 134 The Seventh Guest Room 《第七个客房》 The Seventh Guest Room —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 135 I Turned Rule-Based Horror Into a Management Game 我把规则怪谈玩成了经营游戏 [Mystery and Wild Imagination + Rules Horror + Business Management] Gu Fan is forced into a deadly rules-based horror game and becomes the night-shift security guard at Happy Neighborhood. From the start, he runs straight into an impossible, fatal paradox! [Three minutes to midnight. A ghost in a red dress knocks at the door. Don’t open it and you violate the property management code; open it and you violate the night-shift rules. Either way, you die!] While experienced players gleefully wait fo —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 136 Tales of the Uncanny: It Begins at a Strange Circus 怪谈：从异常马戏团开始 ([No Female Lead] + [Rule Horror] + [Gods] + [Not Mindless Wish Fulfillment]) This is a struggle between the gods and the sources of corruption. Participants from Blue Star fall step by step into traps of perception. Face the sources of corruption and hold on to the last of your sanity! The gods have long since rotted, and humanity's glory has faded. In the name of faith, build a towering wall of reason. 4Reads—Score—Shelves
- 137 Anyone Who Enters the Wrong Classroom Will Be Erased by the Rules~ 走错教室的人，会被规则除名～ Anyone who walks into the wrong classroom will be struck from the rules~ —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 138 The Unnoticeable One 不可觉察之人 (The new book’s rating isn’t out yet.) Qi Yan has always believed that you can tell people apart from one another. Not by their looks or their voices. But by their little habits. Some people always turn their cup before drinking. Some always step off with their left foot. Some pause for half a second on a certain word when they speak. These things are hard to imitate. But lately, Qi Yan has noticed that some people have started acting a little strange. When the neighbor next door sees him, they —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 139 Rule Horror: The Silence Order in Dormitory 402 规则怪谈：402宿舍缄默禁令 Rule Horror: The Silence Ban in Dormitory 402 —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 140 Rule Horror: Never Fill In the Blank Fifth Rule 规则怪谈：第五条空白千万别填 [Rule Horror + Rule Repairman + Infinite-Flow Instances + Suspenseful Mind Games + Memory as the Price + Tracing One's Own Origins] Ten deadly rules for residents are posted in the Happiness Apartments. The fifth rule is blank. A delivery driver accidentally enters the building and, unable to complete the rule, is swallowed alive by the wall. His name is carved into the blank space. Lin Yan takes a rush repair job for triple pay, only to discover that the death records from ten years ago list a 2Reads—Score—Shelves
- 141 Rule Horror: Sir, Come on In and Play! 规则怪谈：大爷，进来玩啊！ Rule Horror: Hey, Come on In and Play! 1Reads—Score—Shelves
- 142 Rule Horror: From the Start, I Fall in Love with the Red-Clad Bride 规则怪谈：开局和红衣新娘谈恋爱 [Rule Horror + One Female Lead + Wife-Centered + System] Are you kidding me? I transmigrated straight into a deadly Rule Horror, and from the start I had to marry an S-rank red-clad bride?! Rule Horror descends, and the whole world becomes a blood-red inferno! Everyone is on edge, seeing affection as a fatal weakness! But I awaken a god-tier golden finger: the [True Love Pact]! Fall in love with a vengeful ghost, and you get stronger?! The [True Love Pact] turns everything upside down! The deepe 375Reads—Score—Shelves
- 143 After Grandpa Died, He Started Teaching Me How to Stay Alive on WeChat Every Day 爷爷死后，天天在微信上教我保命 [Infinite flow + fatalism + mind-bending mystery] After my grandfather passed away, I took over the remote convenience store he left behind. At night, I would always receive life-saving warnings on WeChat from my deceased grandfather. By following one bizarre rule after another, I survived countless terrifying nights. I thought this was just a strange cycle confined to a convenience store. That was until I kept breaking out of deadly situations, being reborn, and changing the rules, all in an at —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 144 The City of Silent Mist 默雾之城 [Rule-Based Horror; Infinite-Loop Adventure; Two Male Leads; No Female Lead; Wits and Strategy; A Male Lead Who Grows; One Night of a Hundred Battles; The Fear of the Unknown...] At some point, skyscrapers collapsed and mountain villas fell. The waters, skies, and earth no longer belonged to humanity. A thick fog from somewhere engulfed all these ruins, and the few humans left could only eke out an existence in the areas the white fog grudgingly spared. To grasp a slim chance of survival, people 1Reads—Score—Shelves
- 145 I Joined Where Did Dad Die? from the Start of Rule Horror 规则怪谈开局参加爸爸死哪儿了 [Rule-Bound Horror + Thrills + Genius + Face-Slapping + Deduction + Family Fortune + System] A strange fog has blanketed the world, with terrifying entities lurking within. People can improve their own fortunes and those of their families by repeatedly taking part in rule-bound horror games, hoping to earn the right to survive. On his eighteenth birthday, Liu Yuan is forcibly sent into the SSS-rank instance Where Did Dad Die? and gains the Spirit-Speech Card System. Son: “You want to be my dad?” 290Reads8.2Score—Shelves
- 146 National Fate Horror: I Became a Dungeon NPC 国运怪谈：我成了副本NPC [National Fate + Infinite Flow + Eerie Revival + leveling] Three years ago, the eerie beings descended. Every month, chosen ones from different countries were randomly selected to enter horror-story instances. Clear an instance and your nation’s fate soars. Fail, and the eerie beings invade reality. Shen Yuan spent a hundred years wiping tables at the Yellow Springs Inn. One day, he awakened and discovered that he was actually a native paper-doll NPC in an instance. Even more absurdly, he could 63Reads—Score—Shelves
- 147 Strange Tales: The Land of Silent Hauntings 异诡实录：诡寂之地 [Horror]+ [Mystery]+ [Instances]+ [Infinite Flow] “Knock, knock, knock...” Lin Baisui was jolted awake. A voice that sounded like her mother called from outside the door. “Open up, it’s Mom...” But Lin Baisui clearly remembered that her parents had died three years ago. So who was outside? 2Reads—Score—Shelves
- 148 Witnessing Terror 见恐 [Infinite Flow + Mild Horror + No Romance + No Golden Finger + A Touch of Despair] On a rainy night, Ji Yunfeng receives a call from an “old acquaintance” and sets out to hunt down a serial killer nicknamed the “Rainy Night Butcher.” To his surprise, he stumbles into a “mysterious house.” Inside this “house,” he somehow ends up being sent, along with three people chosen by the “Death Letter,” to a “trial ground” known as the “Death Domain.” This world is home to a host of terrifying beings known 2.3kReads—Score207Shelves
- 149 Rule Horror: The Nameless Rules 规则怪谈：无名的规则 [No National Fortune] [No Female Lead] [No Livestream] [Not Mindless] [Not a Power Fantasy] [Not Invincible] [Braintwisting Deduction] When the power of rules descends upon the human world, it becomes the focal point of several parallel worlds. The rules erode the order of human society and overturn common sense. Creatures from parallel worlds are everywhere, seeking to invade the human world by these means. Disobey the rules, and you die. But blindly obey them, and all that awaits is ruin. Life 43Reads—Score—Shelves
- 150 Stop Making Things Up, I'm Really a Villainous Brocade Guard 别脑补了，我真是反派锦衣卫 [Villainous Male Lead + System + Invincible + Leveling Up + No CP + No Female Lead] Zhao Ling has gone by many names: pervert, murderer, living demon, despicable scoundrel. Other people get affection points when they transmigrate. His missions, however, are all about earning hatred. After transmigrating to the Great Chu Dynasty, Zhao Ling is ambushed on his very first day, with enemies everywhere. Luckily, he has the “Sinner Beyond Redemption” System. As long as he earns enough points, he can re 428Reads7.1Score122Shelves
