Novels like I Put on a Mask and Became a God
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- 1 I Can See the Loopholes in the Rules 我能看见规则的漏洞 It has been 127 years since spiritual energy revived, and cultivating immortality is no longer a matter of fated encounters and lucky breaks. Want to establish your Foundation? Take out a loan. Want to buy a cultivation manual? Pay in installments. Want to join a sect? Sign away your freedom first. Lin Yuan, twenty-four years old, is at the peak of Foundation Establishment, stuck at the bottleneck to the Golden Core realm with no end in sight. Burdened with 280 spirit stones in student loans, he —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 2 She Risked Her Life to Help Me Escape That Village 她用命换我逃出那个村子 She gave her life so I could escape that village. 4Reads—Score—14d adds
- 3 Your Chaotic Plot Has Arrived: She Always Stands on the Edge of Death 您点的乱局已送达她总在致命边缘 The System says I'm a supporting villainess destined to be a stepping stone in a tragedy. So I turn around and bring out my retired, high-ranking official father and my brother who dotes on his little sister. The original male lead grits his teeth. “You’re only relying on your family background!” Lounging on a chaise longue and eating grapes, I say, “No way, no way. Are there really people who work hard for ten years and still can’t beat someone who was born into the right family?” Later, my pow —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 4 Heartbeat Concerto 心跳协奏 There are two kinds of people heart surgeon nurse Lin Xue wants nothing to do with in this life: police officers, and people even more stubborn than police officers. When Lu Jun, deputy captain of the criminal investigation squad, bursts into her emergency room with a gunshot wound, the two become one. He investigates cases with decisive efficiency, yet cannot understand why she resents the badge. She stitches wounds with calm professionalism, yet cannot escape the truth closing in as he reopens —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 5 She Judges the Dead in Hell and Kills for a Living 她在地狱当判官，在人间当杀手 Misheng, the judge of the First Hall of the Underworld, altered the Book of Life and Death and was banished to the mortal realm to atone for her crime. Heaven's punishment: within one year, she must personally kill seven heinous criminals. When she opens her eyes again, she is Wang Fang, a judge at the Jiangcheng People's Court. By day, she presides over court and judges cases according to the law; by night, she commands the Underworld and punishes the guilty. The Mirror of Retribution settles a 3Reads6.4Score—14d adds
- 6 I Search for Collapse in the Eerie World 我在诡异世界找崩坏 I transmigrated into a world where urban legends can kill and conceptual rules are power. People here fear the paranormal, wield supernatural entities, and struggle to survive under a fixed set of rules. And me? I'm just a passerby looking for a bit of fun. When the “Infinite Corridor” traps and kills everyone who enters, I softly ask the wall, “Do you know what a Klein bottle is?” When the rule of the “Echo of Death” is “understanding means death,” I raise a mirror toward the void. They say I d —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 7 In the Dark Age, Seeking Truth Through the Gateways 黑暗时代，于门径寻求真理 The world is shrouded in the mutterings of gods, and mortals compose hymns to survive. The Old Ones slumber in the abyss, and every breath stirs up a tide of corruption; In a realm of twisted rules, you must survive against impossible odds to earn your trump card: Elements. A virologist who should have died awakens in another world, able to make a contribution to human civilization... This world doesn’t need heroes. It just need —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 8 The Code of the Shadow Soldiers 阴兵密码 A blood-soaked dossier deliberately erased from history. A deadly hunt for the truth spanning forty years. Li Wu, a veteran, returns to his hometown carrying the mystery of his father's strange death and a rusted five-pointed star cap badge from the People's Liberation Army. The village lies forgotten in the folds of the mountains. What awaits him is no warm homecoming, but a world-shaking secret soaked in blood: a ghost woman in a red gown weeps blood night after night; Nanyang sorcery is used —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 9 The Life Thief: Secrets of the Time Pawnshop 窃命者：时间典当行的秘密 Lu Ming believed the power of retrospection he had traded his future for was his only hope of finding his sister. He followed the clues and fought the vast organization known as Ouroboros, gradually uncovering a terrifying ritual that collected time. He thought he was the hunter, the savior. Then he stood at the heart of the ritual and saw the same power of time flowing in his sister's eyes. Every search had been in vain. Every effort had been a sacrifice. The fate he fought against was one he h —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 10 Proving Her Innocence 为她证无罪 When her closest family member becomes the prime suspect in a perfect crime, when every piece of evidence points to her sister’s already shattered soul, a younger sister who is a forensic pathologist decides to use science, faith, and unwavering love to fight through the fog for her sister’s chance to live. —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 11 What If I Were Cannon Fodder in a Mystery Novel 如果我是悬疑文炮灰 If I Were a Cannon Fodder in a Mystery Novel 22Reads—Score—14d adds
- 12 The Housewife Detective Case Files 名侦探主妇事件簿 After her husband cheats, a housewife unexpectedly discovers she has a talent for detective work? Join a famous Japanese high school detective and a certain compensated-dating girl detective to crack a baffling cold case!! Watch me turn my life around and rewrite my destiny against all odds! —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 13 Forensic Examiner of Relics: Every Cursed Object I Autopsy Weeps 遗物法医：我解剖的凶物都在哭 Forensic pathologist specializing in haunted relics, rule-based horror, relics taking human form, two powerful male leads, criminal investigations, mystery and horror, supernatural tragic romance, episodic wish fulfillment, fated entanglements, the unattainable first love, unresolved regrets, a tragedy from ten years ago, life-and-death protection, heartbreaking angst, every character gets a moment to shine 1Reads—Score—14d adds
- 14 I'm a Handsome College Guy Who Slaughters the Supernatural to Prove the Way of the Weird 我帅逼男大爆杀诡异，以证诡道 Unlucky from the start: an old hag drained him three times. This pure-hearted, handsome college hunk slaughters the uncanny, devouring every one he kills. His do-gooder teammate: “The uncanny have their reasons. We should help them change...” Zhu Zhen: “Help the uncanny change? I’ll cut you down first.” By devouring the uncanny and stealing their abilities, his appearance gradually fades away, until he becomes something more terrifying than the uncanny themselves. When the realms of gods and dem —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 15 A Dark Kiss Beneath the Deep Lake 深湖之下的暗吻 On the glittering annual gala night at Xingguang Group, senior finance executive Lin Wei “accidentally” falls into a lake and dies. While sorting through her belongings, her younger sister Lin Yue finds a bloodstained encrypted USB drive. On the night she died, her sister sent one last message: “They’re here.” Lin Yue’s investigation hits a hidden reef. Witnesses are silenced one after another, and every lead is cut off. Then Song Feng, just back from studying abroad, enters her life with perfe 10Reads—Score—14d adds
- 16 I Asked You to Turn Around, Not Bring People to Clear My Blockage! 让你回个头，你带人疏通我？ [Martial fantasy + infinite-loop trials + rule-based killing games + ensemble cast + no mindless power fantasy + scheming, trope-subverting hero + themed pocket worlds] Unemployed wage slave Mu Chen's life rules: The later the night, the wilder you get. The more forbidden the fun, the better. Rules are there to test your limits. Teammates are there to take the fall for you. Never trust a warning that says "Do Not Look Back"... unless there's really something behind you. "Kid, you're walking —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 17 I Play an Extra in Eerie Movies 我在诡异电影里跑龙套 [Also known as: Quitting KFC to Brave the Supernatural Scenarios] Yan Jin worked like a dog at a fried chicken shop for three years, always conscientious and hardworking. At last, he finally stood up for himself and fired his boss. But right after quitting, he transmigrated into an Infinite Flow scenario where death was all but certain. Since he’d transmigrated, he might as well show the supernatural what his incredible golden finger could do: a psychiatric hospital for gods, an echo that never 1.5kReads6.3Score11514d adds
- 18 Tales of Paradox 悖论物语 [Alternate setting + strong female leads + business battles + marriage alliances between powerful families + love of country] . Nine volumes in total, each a standalone story set in a different time and place, spanning the past and present, East and West. Stories of love, hatred, obsession, entrapment, and redemption. There should be an adult fable in here that catches your interest. . Volume One [The Player]: Mu Jinyue breaks free from her family's power struggles, stirs up the world, and takes 1Reads—Score—14d adds
- 19 The Princess Consort Still Thinks of Me, and the Crown Prince Wants Me to Join His Rebellion 王妃她还念着我，太子他拉我造反 [Court Intrigue] [Ensemble Cast] [Strong Female Lead] [Everyone Loves Her] Reborn as the beloved and immensely powerful Eldest Princess of the Li Dynasty, Jiang Lirun receives her final mission. "Help the neglected Crown Prince ascend the throne, then retire!" The Sea Lion System has barely finished speaking when Jiang Lirun, who is only twenty-one, says, "I'm in!" When she opens the mission details, she discovers that Ji Chang, the Crown Prince of the realm, has never once left the imperial cit 1Reads—Score—14d adds
- 20 Cube Mansion 魔方公馆 A reckoning for sins committed twenty years ago comes at last. Six people enter the Magic Cube Mansion after receiving a mysterious invitation... Amid hidden mechanisms and buried memories, the dark secrets of an orphanage and a young man’s wrongful conviction are brought to light... —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 21 Multiverse of Dreams 多元梦境 (A summary of the full story: Mild horror, mystery and escape, two male leads, no cultivation, no System. There are multiple scene transitions to fit the dreamlike theme.) “Run from the dream!” These four words were written in code on the inside of a discontinued cigarette box. Who wrote them? And how did it end up in my hands? What were those four words supposed to mean? My memories seemed hazy. I felt as if I should know, but no matter how hard I tried, I couldn’t remember. On a rainy night, W —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 22 Lure of the Fiend 诱煞 "Heaven reveals its signs, foretelling good and ill." As time passed and dynasties rose and fell, tales of blood moons and evil spirits were gradually buried in dusty old books, and few people knew of them anymore. Only the prophecy, "When the moon turns blood-red, yin reaches its extreme and gives birth to baleful forces," remained to warn each generation of inheritors: evil spirits had never vanished. They were only waiting for the next chance to return. When the celestial omen of a blood moon 1Reads—Score—14d adds
- 23 The Belongings Organizer: I Received My Own Belongings 遗物整理师：我收到了自己的遗物 [Urban Mystery | Death Prediction | Episodic Stories | One Female Lead] On his first independent case, Xu Chi receives a box of his own personal effects. A keychain he'd used for three years, a phone that had cracked that very morning, and an authorization letter bearing his own signature. The time of death listed on the inventory is seven days away. There is only one additional request: "Before my mother comes to claim my things, retrieve the photo on the phone." But his phone is safe in his ha —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 24 Going to Hell School 上个鬼学 [Night Parade of a Hundred Demons] [Infinite-Flow Instances] [Past: From Pangu's Creation of the World to the Founding of the Nation] [Present and Future: Modern Day, Post-Apocalypse, and Nonhumans] [Chinese Folklore from Every Province and Region] [Folklore from the West, Europe, America, Russia, Japan, Korea, and Thailand] [Strong Female Lead Who Grows Over Time] [Feel Free to Ship Characters] [Ensemble Cast and a Growing Group of People Who Love the Female Lead] Great news! Great news! This 13Reads—Score—14d adds
- 25 The Zeroing Oath 归零誓约 (The rating just came in, so it'll go up later. Please go easy on me, dear readers.) The protagonist, Xu Yi, wakes up in a place he has never seen before. Everything here is strange: classmates behaving abnormally, teachers acting suspiciously, school facilities mysteriously damaged, and… bizarre rules for survival. The protagonist has no romance storyline, and all the scenarios are completely original. Every new scenario brings something different. A game, a trial. At one end of the scales is l 2Reads6.1Score—14d adds
- 26 The Shackles of Misty Alley 雾巷枷锁 A corpse is found in an ancient well, reopening an old case. A butterfly jade pendant binds the fates of Chen Ci, a writer who has spent seven years pursuing the killer, and Lu Zheng, a detective hemmed in by the rules. Symbol-filled notes, torn field records, a second skeleton of unknown identity... Amid the fog of the narrow alleys, the two go from opposition to partnership, closing in step by step on the truth: a loan-sharking gang has colluded with senior figures at the police bureau. As sec —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 27 Nine-Pearl Powder 九珠散 During the Republican era, my great-grandfather was lured by members of the Fu family into exploring the Song Dynasty tomb in Luoyang and an underground ancient tomb beneath a temple on Mount Jiuhua. There, he accidentally discovered a mysterious Buddhist bead. Years later, in 2002, the same kind of bead appeared again in a Six Dynasties tomb beneath an abandoned chemical plant in Nanjing. In 2003, I found my great-grandfather's notes and two Buddhist beads back in my hometown. Gradually, I real —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 28 I'm a Teacher in Outer Space 我在外太空，当老师 Most people have no idea that Yin Temples exist. Jing Wuming, a Yin Envoy, guards this temple, born from evil thoughts. Countless wronged souls come here to recount the grievances they were unable to voice in life. One sealed murder case after another slowly comes to light. Bones hidden in chandeliers, resentful souls trapped in mirrors, and evil things spawned by malice roam the grounds. The truth of this world can be hard to find, but karma never fails to come calling. Sow evil, and you will r 1Reads—Score—14d adds
- 29 Broken Bones, Unasked Pain 残骨问痛 Everyone says the dead cannot lie, but no one knows that the dead are the best at crying out in pain. Whatever her fingertips touch, the dead person's pain becomes her own. Qing Luan measures the human heart by pain and uses broken bodies as blades to cut open the empire's secrets. Those hands have touched countless cold bones and tasted every hardship in the world, until she met Xiao Qi. He is always smiling as he fingers a flower, a blade hidden in his sleeve. His face is kind to everyone, but 88Reads—Score16614d adds
- 30 The Flower Stall at Dusk 暮色花摊 The Twilight Flower Stall series delves into the desires and costs hidden in the bustling streets of the Ming Dynasty. Every dusk, a mysterious flower stall quietly appears beneath a centuries-old pagoda tree, selling Heart's Desire Blossoms that grant wishes in exchange for one's deepest obsession. The stallkeeper, Taoyao, feels neither sorrow nor joy. She watches each transaction with cool detachment, explaining the flowers' meanings and their price, but never interfering with anyone's choice. 1Reads—Score—14d adds
- 31 The Heavenly Official's Edict 天官敕令 When Chen Qi awakens the long-lost “Word Spirit Edict” during a haunted-house livestream, he thinks it’s just a way to earn money to save his father. But when fragments of an antique bronze mirror reveal a thousand-year-old formation, and the technology group “Entropy” uses algorithms to optimize feng shui and kill, he realizes he’s been dragged into an ultimate war between traditional occult arts and modern technology. From malignant spirits in haunted houses to ghost soldiers on the march, and 1Reads—Score—14d adds
- 32 The Shen Family Daughter Clause 沈氏女儿条款 In the depths of winter by the sea, due diligence tears open a breach in the Shen Group. An intern named Li Li joins the risk-control team, but her goal has nothing to do with her resume: she wants to find her adoptive father, Li Shouyi, who has been missing for three years. All she has is an iron box, a string of numbers, a key, and an old index deliberately "sealed away." The deeper she digs, the more she realizes she hasn't stumbled upon a family matter, but an old ledger written into proced 2Reads—Score—14d adds
- 33 Night In, Day Out 夜入白出 [Thriller and Horror + Infinite-Flow + Mystery and Deduction + Exploring Strange Realms + Supernatural + Time Loops + The Emotions of Life] The night wind blows. Lie down and sleep. Don’t open your eyes, and no ghosts will appear. If you do open them, look beside the bed: a hand is among the books. Look by the window: a head with no eyes is staring at the bed. Lu Chen, Ye Xiaoqian, Wu Ziyu, Xu Zhuang, and Hu Yingying accidentally touched an old book filled with ghost stories about wronged souls. 11Reads—Score—14d adds
- 34 Attic Mints: The 30th Visitor 阁楼薄荷糖：第30个访客 An old house, mint candy, and a mystery left unspoken. In the studio on the twelfth floor of an old office building in the western district, the bitter smell of instant coffee drifts in from the window. Lately, people with secrets have been gathering at the desk of the writer Miaoyi: someone clutching a silver birdcage with the faint pattern of an old house engraved on its base; someone holding a yellowed diary, its title page marked with a drawing of mint candy; and someone who keeps repeating, 2Reads—Score—14d adds
- 35 My Dead Wife Returns on Our Wedding Night 亡妻归来新婚夜 My Late Wife Returns on Our Wedding Night 2Reads—Score—14d adds
- 36 Everyone Transmigrates! Where Are the Ghosts We Were Promised? Why Are They All Cases? 全员穿越！说好的鬼呢咋都是案子 Everyone Transmigrates: Where Are the Ghosts We Were Promised? Why Are They All Murder Cases? I had barely transmigrated before bandits dragged me up a mountain and demanded I become their captive bride? Top forensic pathologist Lin Qingge says: No problem. First, let's use science to humiliate you all. [Ding! Golden finger “Voices of All Things” activated. Three uses per day. Hear the final words of all things!] The bandit chief raised his blade. “You little brat, prepare to die!” I looked up a 7Reads—Score—14d adds
- 37 The Train Disappears in the Hot Spring Village 电车消失于温泉乡 Chen Zhihe went abroad to pursue research on time machines, but angrily quit after being treated unfairly by his company. During a trip, he boarded a train to Lin'ai Hot Springs, a town shrouded in mist, where he met his foreign friend Iwasawa Songhao. He thought it would be an ordinary getaway. Hot springs, a stroll around the island, and a centenarian's stories about events from decades ago. Until Chen Zhihe realized that the tales the locals loved to recount seemed to have really happened 4Reads—Score—14d adds
- 38 Thriller Game Strategy Handbook [Infinite] 惊悚游戏攻略手册【无限】 [A max-level powerhouse loses her memory and returns to the starter village, turning from a white lotus into a black-hearted one] Cang Ling never imagined that her birthday present would be becoming a player in a horror game. Other people start with a golden finger; she starts with the System crashing and evil ghosts right in her face. She swears that the wish she made was to win the lottery and get rich overnight. It definitely wasn’t to claw her way to the top of an endless horror game by bei —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 39 Rule Horror: Two Alphas Go on a Rampage in a Sacrifice Game 规则怪谈：双A在献祭游戏杀疯了 [Dual female leads + transmigration to an ancient supernatural world + Chinese-style, mildly terrifying dark game] Tantai Jing, held up as the “perfect kid everyone else should learn from,” and Su Yinhe, labeled “no matter how hard you work, you’ll never beat someone born lucky,” are both treated by their families as human shields and tossed into a newly developed high-risk supernatural world by the Space-Time Administration. There, they’re made to serve as horror-game testers. Disaster strikes —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 40 No Snow at Dawn 黎明没有雪 17Reads—Score—14d adds
- 41 The Hidden Truth 隐秘的真相 This novel tells twelve criminal investigation stories in short-story form. Back then, there were no cameras covering every street corner, nor modern investigative tools such as DNA testing. The only things investigators could rely on to solve cases were trace evidence and logical deduction. Yet even under those conditions, veteran detectives used their keen observations, meticulous reasoning, and extraordinary insight to cut through layers of uncertainty and unravel one mystery after another. T 1.5kReads9.5Score19914d adds
- 42 The Book Behind the Veil 帷后之书 I hope to tell this story slowly to every listener. But when you hear it, the curtain will hear you too. I hope you enjoy my new work. I’m new to this, so please be kind. 1Reads—Score114d adds
- 43 A Notebook of Ghost Stories 鬼故事手札 A Notebook of Ghost Stories 1Reads—Score—14d adds
- 44 Midnight Inn: Taking Ghost Calls in the CBD 子时客栈，CBD圈内接鬼 [Mystery + Wild Imagination + Supernatural + Alternate Dimension + A Whole New World] "I sell tea by day and receive guests at midnight. Dear customer, are you human or ghost?" - A city blending classical charm with a futuristic feel. A mistake by the underworld made her the only "bug" between the worlds of yin and yang. Rule Three of the inn: No business from the dead. But the very first customer she takes is a ghost. A copper coin engraved with "Ling," a male lead with amnesia, and code she wr 2Reads—Score—14d adds
- 45 The Yin-Yang Businessman 阴阳生意人 [Ensemble cast]+ [Capable protagonist]+ [Plenty of twists]+ [Mystery] (Paper effigy makers, coffin makers, pallbearers, coroners, funeral wailers, funeral banquet chefs, straw effigy makers, executioners, antique dealers...) (Physiognomy, secret arts, feng shui, witchcraft, curse arts, black magic) When I was born, Granny Feng, who ran the paper effigy shop in town, discovered that I was burdened by a debt to the underworld. When I was twelve, my mother pledged two of my life lamps and her own b 733Reads8.1Score10114d adds
- 46 At the Crime Scene, a Prompt Appears Above the Victim’s Head 命案现场，死者头顶飘出提示框 [System-focused] [Crime solving] [Urban] Three months into the job, Gu Bei, a trainee forensic technician, was examining a hanging scene when a line of blood-red words appeared out of thin air above the victim’s head: [She didn’t tie the knot]. Using the bizarre clue, Gu Bei applied his forensic knowledge to reconstruct the scene and expose the truth behind the staged suicide. Then came [It fell twice] on the face of a car-crash victim, and [Died before the fire] on a charred body at a fire scen 2Reads—Score—14d adds
- 47 Peering into Immortality: The Eye That Sees Through Illusions 窥仙：破妄之眼 Gu Xian, a college student, never imagined that his closest roommate would vanish completely from everyone's memories overnight. His classmates don't remember him, he's missing from the photos, and even their social media history has been erased. Gu Xian is the only person in the world who remembers that he ever existed. At that moment, a pale blue-white light blazed in Gu Xian's eyes. He saw another face of the world: the hidden realm of cultivation, concealed beneath ordinary cities and foreve —Reads—Score18214d adds
- 48 The Last City God: Turning the Taboo on Its Head in Mountain City 末代城隍：我在山城逆转禁忌 Three years after his grandfather went missing, Shen Shu, who films videos about intangible cultural heritage, found a sheet of yellow paper in an old trunk. It bore just one sentence: Don’t go to the Old Stone Bridge. But his camera had already captured a white figure beneath the bridge. From that night on, the old rules of the mountain city, torn down, forgotten, and exploited for profit, came looking for him one by one. Shen Shu could see taboos others couldn’t, and even reverse them. But eve 1Reads—Score—14d adds
- 49 While Everyone Else Fights to Survive, You Flirt with Female Ghosts and Live Off Them? 别人求生，你撩女诡吃软饭？ [The second instance is almost over] My name is Shen Ping'an. The moment I entered a national destiny instance, an S-rank female ghost in a red dress lunged at me from point-blank range. Her hand had already passed through the glass and grabbed me by the throat, while the American contestant beside me was still laughing and calling me a good-for-nothing. I didn't back down. Instead, I pulled out an old movie ticket and slapped it against the window. It was for the rare, out-of-print film she had 16Reads—Score10014d adds
- 50 The Identity of the Dead 亡者身份 Introduction “R.I.P. A Hao (1995-2025)” A pop-up notification. A 24-hour countdown. His bank card is frozen, his kidney donor match is canceled, and the criminal underworld offers 500,000 for him. He has one day to bring himself back to life. Or his mother will be buried alongside the truth. —Reads—Score—14d adds
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