Novels like Death Train: I Just Want to Be the Boss of the Platform
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- 101 The Otherworldly Netherworld 异站冥途 A bus bound for reincarnation, visible only to those on the brink of death. Every stop beyond the platforms brings an unknown crisis. At the Netherworld bus stop, queue up and board; the living get off, the dead stay behind. To find his long-lost girlfriend, Zhao Jichuan unhesitatingly boarded the bus. In an ocean of blood and tears, in a world of pain and fear, betrayal was commonplace and screams were nothing unusual. Just as he was about to despair, he thought he saw a ray of light... 17Reads—Score—14d adds
- 102 I Quit My Job to Feed Ghosts: I Guide Spirits Across with Home-Cooked Meals 辞职喂鬼：我靠一锅烟火气渡魂 Quit My Job to Camp and Feed Hungry Ghosts! A Top Chef Uses the Comfort of Home Cooking to Handle Every Kind of Evil! I quit on the spot! I turned down a million-yuan salary, laid into my greasy boss, tossed my Michelin three-star badge aside, and drove my heavily customized camper van straight into the mountains for a camping trip. Who could've guessed that beneath this perfect campsite was a projection point leading from the mortal realm straight to King Qin Guang's palace in the underworld? W 1Reads—Score—14d adds
- 103 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
- 104 Nightmare Subway 噩梦地铁 (The rating has only just opened and will rise later.) [Infinite Flow + Survival + No Saintly Heroine] A driverless subway train carries a group of cursed passengers toward unknown, terrifying stations… A subway card is proof of survival, and a ticket to Hell. At each subway station, Jiang Fengye faces one terrifying instance after another, each a brush with death. The starving corpses in the basement; The crawling sounds in the abandoned tunnel; The skinning monster in the old castle; … "The 18.5kReads7.1Score2k14d adds
- 105 The Purple Rain Descends 紫雨来袭 Also known as "Grief Rises from Within" (Infinite flow + educational themes + no special abilities + not a wish-fulfillment story + twists all the way through) Li Ze, the protagonist, has the ability to empathize. Wherever suffering ignored by society takes place, purple rain falls. It rebuilds that suffering in the victims' minds in distorted, terrifying forms. The monsters, evil spirits, and strange phenomena that emerge from the purple rain retain the defining features of the harm inflicted o 11Reads—Score—14d adds
- 106 Death Save-Scumming: I'm Really Not a Big Shot 死亡回档：我真的不是大佬啊 [Rule-Based Horror + Not Overpowered + No Female Lead + Supernatural + National Fate] Rule-based horror has descended upon Earth. The supernatural has entered reality. Those who are chosen will enter the world of horror scenarios and represent their respective countries in challenges governed by strange rules. Su Ming has now been chosen by the world of horror scenarios. He will represent the Dragon Kingdom in the challenge. 14Reads—Score—14d adds
- 107 No Hints in the Instance 副本无提示 [The rating just came in, and it will rise later] [Mild horror + varied horror styles + original scenarios + fresh, unconventional scenarios + intelligent characters + no female lead or romantic subplots] Have any of you watching heard of the elevator ghost game? They say that if you follow the instructions, you can reach another world. Chen Feng is a video creator whose content is playing all kinds of horror games found online. He occasionally livestreams, too. During a livestream of the elevat 76.8kReads7.8Score12.5k14d adds
- 108 When Ghostly Calamities Strike: A Paranormal Escape Begins with a Séance 诡灾降临：灵异逃生从招魂开始 [Infinite Flow + No Female Lead + Original Instances] “Welcome to the Supernatural Forbidden Zone, dear Apostles!” “This world is nearing its end, so struggle as much as you like!” As paper ash blankets the world, reality and the supernatural begin to overlap. In a dilapidated clan apartment building, a drowned ghost child knocks at the door. In the vanished School Building No. 7, a headless corpse wanders in confusion. In a dim Taoist temple, gleaming statues of the gods weep tears of blood... 975Reads8.1Score10114d adds
- 109 Learning to Slay Gods in an Infinite Game 我在无限游戏里学弑神 [Infinite Flow]➕ [No Female Lead]➕ [No Sanctimonious Protagonist]➕ [Plot Twists]. “A ten-day experiment in human nature. Remember, do not break the rules.” In an unattended shopping mall, six people who had volunteered to work sit in a circle. Chen Qige, the only one who was tricked into coming, sticks out like a sore thumb. A bizarre couple asks them one final question: “You all volunteered for this job, correct?” The six people, whose backgrounds are shrouded in mystery, all nod. Chen Qige: “I —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 110 The Haunted House: Day Sign 诡舍：日兆 [Writing practice] [The Strange House fanfiction + horror + infinite flow] One week after Ning Qiushui reached the ninth door, the Mist World underwent a cataclysmic transformation… “My name is Shen Zuiqing… I am… who?” 1.2kReads7.3Score10014d adds
- 111 I Inherited a Funeral Shop During the Hundred Ghosts' Night Parade 百鬼夜行时，我继承了一家冥铺 Lu Ci thought all his grandfather had left him was an old shop on the verge of closing. Then, one rainy night, the first customer walked through the door and bought a stack of spirit money. The next day, that very “ghost currency” appeared in someone else’s account. From then on, the shop, open only at night, began receiving one unusual customer after another: some sought wealth, some wanted to buy a life, and some only wished to exchange something for a long-overdue truth. At the end of the lon 7Reads—Score214d adds
- 112 Infinite Nightmares: Where's My Golden Finger in This Paranormal World? 无限噩梦：我在诡异里的金手指呢 [Infinite Flow + No Romance + Plot-Driven + Mild Horror + Mystery] Lin Jiu is a struggling paranormal livestreamer. That is, until he enters an old apartment building where an elderly woman is laid out for her wake. The person in the coffin counts heads. The mandarin ducks on the red wedding dress have no eyes. In every mirror, another you is standing there. This is a Chinese-style infinite-flow horror scenario. There is only one way to survive: Don't break any taboos. Not even one. 32Reads—Score10114d adds
- 113 The Crimson Flower Cup 血色花盏 Blood-Red Flower Cup —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 114 The Night Shift Clerk's Countdown 《夜班店员的倒计时》 The Night-Shift Clerk's Countdown 2Reads—Score—14d adds
- 115 The Clammy Echoes of the Basement 地下室的黏腻回响 The Sticky Echoes of the Basement —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 116 Lucid Darkness 清醒的黑暗 Clear-Eyed Darkness 1Reads—Score—14d adds
- 117 Infinite Flow: Welcome to the Cursed Book World 无限流：欢迎进入诡书世界 (All-female main cast + highly intelligent leads + traditional elements + ensemble cast) (No golden finger + no livestreaming) On the way to bring her younger sister Cang Mu home, Cang Qing strays into a strange world inside a book near the airport. To avoid being killed by its uncanny forces, the sisters are forced to embark on an endless adventure. A different world shrouded in death, mysterious and uncanny paths to survival, and stories set against all kinds of strange backdrops. Taotie, b 111Reads—Score—14d adds
- 118 Rule Horror: Every Rule Is Waiting for Me to Break It 规则怪谈：所有规则都在等我违规 Rule Horror: Every Rule Is Waiting for Me to Break It 5Reads—Score—14d adds
- 119 I Keep Being Reborn in an Infinite-Loop World 我在无限流里不断重生 [Infinite-flow horror, ensemble cast | No System, no golden finger | No mindless power fantasy] After clearing my twelfth instance, I didn't get to go home. Everyone had been deceived. Clearing an instance didn't let us leave at all. It turned out that clearing an instance didn't mean escaping. We were trapped in an endless cycle of worlds, each layer harder to tell from reality than the last. The boundary between the instances and reality had blurred completely. Was anything before our eyes 11Reads—Score—14d adds
- 120 Rule Horror: The Last One to Leave the Classroom After Evening Study 规则怪谈：晚自习最后离开教室的人 Rule Horror: The Last Person to Leave the Classroom After Evening Study 21Reads—Score—14d adds
- 121 The Weird Domain: Escape from Skinless Village from the Start! 诡异领域：开局逃离无皮村！ [Infinite Flow + Mild Horror + Survival + Supernatural Instances + No Female Lead] Resentment that cannot be dispelled in the real world gathers to form new eerie domains. After being chosen, people are dragged into an eerie domain when they die unexpectedly. They can return to reality only by successfully completing the tasks inside. Only after escaping one terrifying eerie domain after another by the skin of his teeth does Lu Lin discover that the real world is also being infiltrated and taint 7.9kReads7.1Score56614d adds
- 122 The Strange Realm: From the Start, I Dismembered the Monstrous 怪域诡界，我开局分尸诡异 [A handsome male lead, just like the readers] [Horror-leaning; do not read if you scare easily] [Mystery and the supernatural] [A story where despair and hope intertwine and ebb and flow] [Similar to Taming the Supernatural] It was an ordinary night, but it led Lu Ying into a new world woven from madness and death. This world has lost its light, and people like Lu Ying need a constant supply of “candles” to stay alive. But “candles” can only be found in the realms of those unkillable, rule-bound 8Reads—Score—14d adds
- 123 Infinite Horror: When Ghosts Attack, I Just Go Home 无限恐怖：被鬼袭击，我直接回家 [Infinite-world adventure + thrilling horror + original instances + no heroine + wives and husbands + ghosts in the instances + Kind Solitary Great Celestial Venerable] [When ghosts attack me, I just go home.] One night, Chen Yu, who’s working the night shift, is swept into a supernatural elevator game. When he steps out of the elevator, he arrives in an infinitely terrifying nightmare. This place is called Hell. To escape, he must survive one blood-written mission after another. Luckily, Chen Y 2.4kReads5.9Score22014d adds
- 124 Brain-Eating Demon 噬脑魔 [Last century, psychiatric hospital, monsters, slow burn, mystery, no System] The day twelve-year-old Danny was sent to Willowbrook Psychiatric Hospital, everyone in town said he was crazy. He smashed a window in class and screamed that something inside the walls was calling to him. Symbols he drew unconsciously covered the margins of his textbooks, like ancient writing! He began to forget his mother’s face, his birthday, and the name of his best friend. The doctors called it “early-onset schizo —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 125 A Cigarette for the Female Ghost 给女鬼递根烟 Hand a Cigarette to a Female Ghost —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 126 Supernatural Horror: Someone Behind the Wall Is Calling My Name 惊悚灵异：墙里有人叫我的名字 Horror and the Supernatural: Someone in the Wall Is Calling My Name 3Reads—Score—14d adds
- 127 Thriller: There's a Ghost in My Phone 惊悚：我的手机里有鬼 A month ago, my younger sister mysteriously disappeared at a subway station. A day ago, the police pulled a headless female corpse from the river. A DNA test confirmed it was my sister, Xu Yuan. A minute ago, my dead sister walked in carrying a cake topped with a human head. White ghost candles stuck out of its crown, and longevity noodles made from its innards were served to celebrate my birthday. A minute later, I was chosen by a supernatural app's blood pact and plunged into a world of ghosts 3.1kReads—Score42714d adds
- 128 Nightmare Invitation 噩梦邀请 [Infinite flow, original instances, mild horror, no romance] An invitation sent from the Nightmare World drags a group of people into a haunted place, where they struggle desperately to survive. Those pulled into the Nightmare World have no idea what lies ahead. They only know they must do everything they can to stay alive. Fight the locals! Fight the ghosts! Fight the Nightmare World! Until... they escape the Nightmare World. 1.3kReads6.6Score10414d adds
- 129 Infinite Eerie Domains: Starting with a Haunted Classroom 无限诡域：从诡异教室开始 [Infinite Flow]+ [Fake terror]+ [Ghosts kill people]+ [Emotionless]+ [Mild horror] Late at night, Su Wang receives a strange black letter that appears out of nowhere in his home. Its four blood-red survival rules reveal a terrifying, unknown realm. In the blink of an eye, he is forcibly dragged into a strange study hall at Chenfeng High School, where he and six strangers are trapped together. The one unbreakable rule is carved into the blackboard: Keep quiet. One survivor loses control, makes a 31kReads8.0Score4k14d adds
- 130 An Ordinary Person in Another World: Chapter One, Dream IF Route 在异世界的普通人：第一章梦境IF线 An Ordinary Person in Another World: Chapter One, Dream IF Route 12Reads—Score—14d adds
- 131 The Death of Wood, the Evil Demonic Cultivator 邪恶的魔修伍德之死 The Death of Wood, the Evil Demonic Cultivator 2Reads—Score—14d adds
- 132 The Ghostly Figure Appears 鬼影显形 [Eerie World + Folk Horror Tales + Infinite Flow + Mild Horror + Deduction and Survival + No Female Lead] My name is Zhou Lin, and I transmigrated! But my original Host didn't die. He... became a ghost! A yellowed photograph dragged Zhou Lin from the clutches of a vengeful ghost into another nightmare. The nightmare ended, but the ghosts in the real world never disappeared... A vengeful ghost closing in step by step... The photographs came one after another, haunting him like nightmares, with no 1.1kReads6.2Score10414d adds
- 133 This Is a Rule Horror Story, So Why Are You Making Me Dance on a Grave? 这是规则怪谈，你让我坟头蹦迪 [The eerie descends + no saintly do-gooder + survival escape + no System + high IQ] When Chen Mo wakes up with no memories, he finds himself aboard a battered bus with seven strangers, men and women alike. The bus is headed for a tunnel called Yellow Springs, and that is where Chen Mo enters a world of rule-based horrors. Not only must Chen Mo search for clues and fight to survive in this perilous world of bizarre rules, he must also recover every memory he has lost. After enduring countless har —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 134 Sweet Heartbeats: The School Heartthrob's Special Favor 甜系心动：校草的专属偏爱 A Sweet Spark of Romance: The School Heartthrob’s Special Favor —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 135 Eerie: The Strange Play Ends in Oblivion 诡异：诡剧终湮 [Suspenseful What-If] [Rule Horror] [Infinite Flow Supernatural Horror] [Horror and the Paranormal] Apocalypse... One month before monsters from another world invaded, Jiang Qiubai unexpectedly obtained a strange play that could take him to other worlds. Only by gathering the powers of the twelve Chinese zodiac signs through these plays could there be any hope of defeating the invasion from another world. Shen Wanqing had been an ordinary college student. Could the two of them successfully tempe —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 136 Marrow Corpses Descend: Human-Skin Kites Fill the Sky 髓尸来临：满天人皮风筝 This novel is complete. [Apocalypse + Marrow Zombies + Skin Zombies + Flesh Zombies + No CP + Strong Female Lead + No Superpowers + Horror + Intelligent Monsters + Comedy] This story is mildly frightening but manageable, and has some comedy, too. “Slurp, slurp...” When you're fast asleep at night, have you ever felt your mind was awake, but your scalp was prickling and itching, as if ants or lice were biting you? You want to wake up, but can't open your eyes or move your body, as if something is 1.9kReads8.4Score23114d adds
- 137 Infinite Game: Rising to Power in the Plants Vs. Zombies World 无限游戏：从植僵世界开始崛起 [Infinite-flow, scenario-based, divination and fortune-telling, decisive and ruthless, infinite worlds] Zhao Qian wakes up in a game world. Everyone in this world must keep entering new worlds to earn the right to survive. His journey through the Myriad Worlds promises boundless glory, endless temptations, and limitless danger. (One careless mistake and you’re dead!) From the start, Zhao Qian, a college student, holds a growth-type piece of equipment bestowed by his mother, Blue Star: yarrow sta 23Reads—Score—14d adds
- 138 Return from the Forbidden Zone: I Brought the Missing Back from the Warp 禁地归人之我从亚空间带回失踪者 Every year, a million people mysteriously vanish around the world, and none ever return. Then Zhong Jiale discovered that the window in his bedroom was actually a gateway to forbidden pocket dimensions! Ruined ghost cities, deep-sea prisons, apocalyptic exclusion zones, ancient ruins... Everyone else went in to die, but he went in to save people, seize treasures, and become a god! He rescued billionaires from hell and brought back relatives who had been missing for a century through a rift in ti 7Reads—Score—14d adds
- 139 Rule Horror: The Infinite Loop's Haunted Campus, Don't Trust Any Rule 规则怪谈：无限流诡异校园，别相信任何一条规则 Rule Horror: An Infinite-Flow, Supernatural School. Don't Trust a Single Rule 1Reads—Score—14d adds
- 140 Fierce Netherworld: Starting as a Rainy-Night Killer 凶冥空间：从雨夜杀人魔开始 [Infinite Flow + The Weird Arrives, No Heroine] Could the beautiful new neighbor really be a serial killer who strikes on rainy nights? Gu Li sees through her disguise, only to get dragged into an even stranger space. Black fog rolls in and terror descends. To survive, Gu Li searches for a way to clear each instance, solving puzzles like mad and escaping certain death. But after completing a series of missions, he discovers that the weird has already arrived in the real world, and a supernatural 5.1kReads7.1Score35114d adds
- 141 All the Ghosts Smile at Me, So I Beat Them Straight to Hell 众鬼朝我笑嘻嘻，我打得它们归西 [Rules-based horror + no romance + goofy humor] Uh, it was originally going to have no romance, but the author might add a pairing later because they can’t write it. / There’s no way there’ll be a pairing. Kill them all!!! Su Que awakens to the fact that she is a villain, the fake heiress everyone hates. She also sees how she’ll die in the near future: not a single piece of her body will be intact, as the horrors in the dungeons tear her apart and devour every last bit of her. Realizing she isn 58Reads6.5Score—14d adds
- 142 Rule Horror: After Lights Out, Follow the Dormitory Rules 规则怪谈：熄灯后，请遵守宿舍守则 Rule Horror: After Lights Out, Please Follow the Dormitory Rules 34Reads—Score—14d adds
- 143 I'm a Living Detective, So Why Are You Making Me Solve Ghost Cases? 我一活人侦探，你让我破鬼案 The comic adaptation of this work, "I’m a Living Detective, So Why Make Me Solve Ghost Cases?", is now available. [Infinite flow + no System + no golden finger + horror and suspense] While investigating an urban-legend case, detective Lin Sanshi encounters the same eerie phenomenon as the victim. From then on, he must wander through a series of different mission worlds: A mountain-top guesthouse where people are murdered in a snowstorm A perilous corpse-driving journey A survival game controlled 4.8kReads7.1Score41514d adds
- 144 Infinite Survival: This Assassin Is Not So Cold 无限流之这个杀手不太冷 A battle royale descends, and countless challengers are thrown onto a path where they must prove themselves. Lin Xiaohu, a classical martial arts assassin, walks the line between life and death, searching for a glimmer of redemption. Mythical beasts block the way, powerful enemies close in, and fragments of divine weapons spark endless strife. While everyone else is trapped in a cycle of slaughter, he insists on tearing apart the rules and protecting the light that belongs to him. 9Reads—Score—14d adds
- 145 I’ve Lived for a Thousand Years. Ghosts Fear Me, but I Fear Trouble 活了一千年，鬼怕我，我怕麻烦 [Infinite Flow] [Supernatural] [Longevity] [Light Horror] [Plot-Focused] Just as Chen Yuan was getting ready to rest, a beautiful woman showed up at his door and called him Ancestor. He checked the family tree. Yep, she was a descendant thirty-seven generations down. “Ancestor, the walls in our villa community are covered in eyes, and eleven people have already died.” “Oh. That sounds pretty scary.” “Could you maybe…” “No.” Chen Yuan locked the door, played video games, and went to sleep. Three 1.3kReads6.6Score14114d adds
- 146 Strange Survival: Drawing an NPC as My Cheat from the Start 诡异求生：开局抽个NPC当外挂 [Rules-Based Horror + Infinite Flow + Card Draws + Beautiful Female NPCs + Supernatural Survival] Supernatural horrors descend, dragging countless people into one eerie world after another to fight for survival. Jiang Jue is sitting in a classroom when a countdown suddenly appears before his eyes. [3, 2, 1] [Welcome to the Dance of Death.] When he opens his eyes again, he is standing in the middle of a lavish court ball. The duke’s daughter before him is dressed in elaborate finery, her beauty b 12Reads—Score—14d adds
- 147 The Qingqiu Royal Clan Abandoned and Humiliated Me. With the Mystic Stone, I Connected the Three Realms and Made Them All Regret It 青丘王族弃我辱我，我凭玄石连通三界，让全族追悔莫及 The Qingqiu royal clan cast me aside and humiliated me. With the Mystic Stone, I connected the Three Realms and made my entire clan regret it beyond measure. 7Reads—Score—14d adds
- 148 Beyond the Constant 恒定之外 [Infinite-Rounds-esque] [Mystery] [Supernatural] [Wild Imagination] [Mystery and Wild Imagination] Beneath the Constant, all living beings are pieces on a chessboard. Fate, the script, the favor of destiny, or a predetermined outcome. What people call being reborn and turning your fortunes around is merely a plot the rules have permitted. Whether you lose or break the game, you have only gone from a cage in one script to a cage outside another. Welcome to Beyond the Constant. And I, too, am beyo —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 149 The Ghost Candle Craftsman 诡烛匠人 In a narrow alley in the old part of town stands a candle shop that has been in the same family for three generations. No one knows that it only takes on business involving the cursed. Those driven to despair by ghosts, possession, or paranormal hauntings all come knocking on its door late at night. Zhong Ling, the third-generation heir, doesn't burn talismans or summon deities. He simply hands them a candle. “Light it. Before it burns out, either you die, or the truth comes to life.” Ghostly 13Reads—Score214d adds
- 150 Horror Reincarnation: The Ultimate Adaptable Player 恐怖轮回之最强适配者 [Infinite Flow] [AI Brain] [Horror Game] [Rules-Based Horror] At three in the morning, after five straight hours of ranked losses, Lu Yuan was completely tilted. He was about to turn off his computer and go to bed. Suddenly, a blinding white light burst from the screen. An AI program appeared and selected him as a dungeon-compatible player. One eerie dungeon after another began to open. A motionless amusement park, a bizarre shared apartment, and the despairing, silent depths of a five-star dung 30Reads—Score—14d adds
