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- 151 Not a Declaration of Salvation: Welcome to the Salvation Game 非救世宣言【欢迎来到救世游戏】 [Infinite Flow] [Mild Horror] [Survival] [Mind Games] [No Female Lead] [Original Instances] (Satisfying Battle of Wits + Tons of Twists, No CP) The paranormal is coming. The world is no longer what it was. Ladies and gentlemen, welcome to the Game of Salvation. Huai Jiu discovered that he was living in a bizarre world. Even stranger, everyone around him thought everything was perfectly normal! That is, until a mysterious girl dropped from the sky and dragged him into the Bureau for Suppressing 260Reads—Score11214d adds
- 152 Infinite Nightmares: An Eighty-Year-Old Man Rejuvenated from the Start 无限噩梦:开局八旬老汉返老还童 Infinite flow + rules-based horror + mild horror + no romance Qin Yi accidentally enters a nightmarish world. Here, there are rules that must never be broken, along with bizarre phenomena beyond ordinary people's understanding. By chance, Qin Yi discovers the rewards for surviving a nightmare. Wealth, health, youth, achievement… Terrified of the nightmares but coveting the rewards for surviving them, Qin Yi approaches one nightmare after another with mixed feelings… 8.4kReads8.1Score94914d adds
- 153 Infinite Horror: What Do You Mean You're Mentally Ill? 无限恐怖:什么叫你是精神病 [Not a Pure Rules-Based Horror] + [Infinite Flow] + [Two-Personality Psychopath] + [Original Instances] Humans can’t fight ghosts. But what if you stopped being human? Every ghost has at least one rule for killing. But if you can keep it in check, treat its rules like daily quests and complete them. Song Yuan, a law student, inexplicably died while playing Valorant, only to transmigrate into the body of a deranged psychopath with the same name who was about to be sentenced to death. At the very 57kReads8.6Score13.6k14d adds
- 154 [I, the Forgotten Dream, I] 【I被遗忘的梦I】 [Infinite Flow | Rules-Based Horror | Instances | Ensemble Cast | Mystery | No Harem] This is a dream that was once forgotten, a memory that should never have been recalled. By a twist of fate, Wen Xuan and four others arrived in a city born from barren wasteland: [Huacheng]. In one game, instance, and [dream] after another: They experienced disasters caused by human actions. They learned how powerful the supernatural could be. They overcame the evils of human nature. They resisted the destructi 49Reads—Score—14d adds
- 155 Rule Horror: Buried Alive as a Sacrifice from the Start 规则怪谈:开局被当祭品活埋 [Mystery] [Horror] [Deduction] [Infinite Flow] After failing a job interview, Chen Lingyun was heading home when an out-of-control semi-truck unexpectedly struck her, sending her transmigrating into a coffin that was about to be buried. “Drive faster, or we’ll miss the hour. Those things can’t wait much longer.” 169Reads—Score—14d adds
- 156 Strange Tales of Yanyun: Every Night, Singing Emerges from the Soul-Snatching Well 燕云诡事:那口落魂井里,每晚都会传出唱戏声 Strange Happenings in Yanyun: Every night, the abandoned well echoes with the sound of opera singing 14Reads—Score—14d adds
- 157 Born with Eyes That See Sin, I Can Discern Murderers. The Bones in the Unfinished Building Mark the Start of a Ten-Year Showdown 天生罪眸能辨凶,烂尾楼白骨案,是十年对局的开场 Born with eyes that can spot a criminal, he investigates the bones in an abandoned building. This case marks the opening move in a ten-year game 4Reads—Score—14d adds
- 158 The Corpse-Reading Detective 诡案读尸人 The Corpse-Reading Detective 3Reads—Score—14d adds
- 159 I’m Out of Options! Five Lunatics Insist on Being My Dogs 没招了!五个疯批硬要当我的狗 “Infinite-Flow Male Lead Fragments | Spoiled | All Male Characters Are Loyal and Unattached | Top-Tier Romantic Rivalry | Flirtatious | Yandere Powerhouses | Everyone’s Favorite” Shui Sang has no idea that she has died in the real world. All she knows is that the System has repeatedly forced her into instances, sternly warning her to complete each mission! Otherwise, she’ll risk being trapped in an instance forever. [Zaoyuan Stockade: The Huo Family] From the start, Shui Sang is forced to become 16Reads—Score—14d adds
- 160 Paper Murder 纸杀 A folk-horror app called Night Walk draws Lin Zhou into Chinese taboo scenarios such as “Red and White Spirits Collide” and “Paper Effigies Return to Life.” Death resets the cycle, but after three resets, you vanish without a trace, and he has only one resurrection left. Chinese folk horror + loop resets + death game + folklore research and puzzles 6Reads—Score—14d adds
- 161 Strange Tales from the Countryside 乡村诡故事 Before you start this book, a warning: if you scare easily, don't read it. If you live alone, be careful. Every short ghost story here is based on an ordinary person's real-life experience. Not a single word is made up. From the damp old alleyways of the south to the frozen, deserted villages of the north; from late-night overtime in office buildings to lights-out in university dorms; the taboos our elders forbade us to talk about, and the moments you dare not dwell on in the middle of the night 119Reads—Score—14d adds
- 162 Hell Manor 地狱庄园 [Horror and the Supernatural + Suspense and Mystery + Infinite Flow + No Female Lead] A group of strangers receive a blood letter and mysteriously find themselves inside a villa. Their only chance of survival is to uncover the ghost hiding among them. After Xu Yi completes the task by the skin of his teeth, he is relieved to have finally survived. But then he discovers that he has arrived at a place called Hell Manor. He must complete the tasks in eleven blood letters to leave the manor alive. A 10kReads8.0Score83614d adds
- 163 I’m a Dream Pathfinder 我是梦境寻路人 This is an infinite-loop novel of bizarre nightmares, blending oldcore, dreamcore, weirdcore, the Backrooms, comedy, and other elements. No System, multiple instances (depending on what the author dreams up each night). Note: This isn't pure horror. It's just pretty weird. Do you believe that the world we stand in is actually just someone's dream? We're no more than passing figures in the dreamer's memories. The moment they wake, everything in the world will be erased... Except for one “unlucky —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 164 Mountain Village Tales: The Book of Taboos 山村怪谈:禁忌录 For ten days, Mo Yuan endured the sinister opera at Suolong Town and survived, gritting his teeth. Three years later, a crack appeared in the mirror of his rented apartment. A clown in a red-and-white opera costume clutched a copper bell and crawled out. “Follow the taboos, and you’ll live.” He believed it. But old souls lurk in the eye sockets you must never look into; human fingernails are wrapped in candy wrappers; and even the words “haunted house” can turn a person into bloody mush in the c 4Reads—Score—14d adds
- 165 The Rosewood Clock Stopped for Ten Years. Only Then Did I Discover the Secret Grandma Hid Inside 那架红木古钟停摆十年,我才知道外婆藏在钟里的秘密 That redwood grandfather clock had been stopped for ten years. Only then did I learn the secret my grandmother had hidden inside it. 2Reads—Score—14d adds
- 166 The Night I Rented a Tenement Room, a Disconnected Phone Rang All Night 租筒子楼那晚,断线电话响了整夜 The night I rented a room in a tenement block, the disconnected phone rang all night. 1Reads—Score—14d adds
- 167 I Faked Being a Gentle Boyfriend for Ten Years, Until a Woman from the Republic Era Exposed Everything in the Video 我伪造十年温柔男友,录像里民国女人揭穿一切 I faked being a gentle boyfriend for ten years. A woman from the Republican era exposed everything in the footage. 3Reads—Score—14d adds
- 168 Someone Keeps Knocking on My Door in the Hallway Late at Night. After Discovering Who It Is, I Can’t Sleep a Wink 深夜楼道总有人拍我家门,查清来历我整夜难眠 Someone Keeps Knocking on My Door in the Hallway Late at Night. After I Learned Who It Was, I Couldn't Sleep a Wink 9Reads—Score—14d adds
- 169 A Strange Anomaly Appeared on the Overnight Security Feed. The Republic-Era Theater Ticket Had My Seat Number Engraved on It 凌晨值守监控突发异象,民国戏票刻着我的座位号 A Strange Phenomenon Appeared on the Surveillance Monitors During My Night Shift. A Republican-Era Opera Ticket Had My Seat Number Engraved on It 3Reads—Score—14d adds
- 170 Murder on a Rainy Night: The Playing Card Left at the Scene 雨夜命案:现场遗留的纸牌 Murder on a Rainy Night: The Playing Card Left at the Scene 14Reads—Score—14d adds
- 171 Don't Look Back During Evening Study at School 学校晚自习别回头 Don’t Look Back During Evening Study at School 6Reads—Score—14d adds
- 172 Horror and Oppression: You Bring the Terror, I Bring the Oppression 恐怖压抑怪谈,你恐怖,我压抑 [Absurd comedy + a cast of utter lunatics + infinite progression + mild horror + dual storylines] He woke up, and the sky was falling. Wu Yu, a notorious forum darling, had spoken a prophecy into existence: he transmigrated into a world of ghosts and monsters. Everyone in the world, except him, was a demon or ghost craving human flesh. All he could rely on was a tiny room in a shabby apartment, a desktop computer that never lost power, and an unusual job that dragged people into terrifying u 22Reads—Score—14d adds
- 173 Even If We Kill Him, We Still Need One More 就算杀了他,我们还是少一个 The one who was missing was never a monster. Bai Xun is trapped in a bizarre office tower that stretches on without end, where every floor is a deadly trial. Security, cleaning, maintenance, reception, building management: jobs that once seemed ordinary have become survival superpowers, and an employee badge is a matter of life and death. Only after accidentally unlocking the base on the 43rd floor does he learn that he is the landlord of the entire building, with the power to rewrite its rule 10Reads—Score—14d adds
- 174 I Came from the Underworld to Deal with Those Who Defy the Rules 我从地府来,专治规则不服 I Came from the Underworld to Make the Rules Behave 1Reads—Score—14d adds
- 175 Someone New Appeared in the Footage 录像里多出一个人 The test shoot’s discarded footage was four seconds longer. Everyone in the frame held the same poses they had at the end of filming. No one moved. I counted three times. There were six people every time. But only five people had been there that day. On the hard drive my mother left behind, there was an empty folder with a four-character name: Do Not Fast-Forward. In the recycle bin was a deleted video, four minutes and twenty-five seconds long, which couldn’t be recovered. Our production crew w 3Reads—Score—14d adds
- 176 Better Not to Meet Again 看见不如不见 “You’re not a curse. You’re the key!” “If you don’t want to die, stay away from me.” “Liu Yan, stop licking your lips! You might poison yourself!” “Mind your own business and you’ll live longer!” “Praying to gods? Worshipping Buddha? You’d be better off kowtowing to me.” “I decide whether you stay or go.” Better not to see me than to see me. I’m not talking about myself. I mean all of you. 11Reads—Score—14d adds
- 177 The Third Person in the Rearview Mirror 后视镜里的第三个人 The Third Person in the Rearview Mirror —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 178 Xue Family Paper Effigy Shop 薛记纸扎铺 On the surface, this world is an ordinary modern city. But hidden from sight is something called “Filth.” A person’s obsessions, resentment, fear, regrets, and other powerful negative emotions can coalesce under certain conditions, attaching themselves to objects, places, or even people, where they can influence or even devour the living. Most people don’t know Filth exists, but certain specialized trades can deal with it. Paper effigy crafting is one of them. As the name suggests, paper effigy 19Reads—Score—14d adds
- 179 The Horrifying High School 恐怖的高中学校 [Mild Horror + Infinite Flow + No System + Survival + Ensemble Cast + Not Overpowered + Mystery-Solving + Not a Wish-Fulfillment Story + Passion] Jiang Xuan was accidentally swept into a terrifying, uncanny dimension. To survive, he had to keep completing missions in the temporal rifts. To stay alive, he had to investigate the many mysteries hidden within each mission. As Jiang Xuan searched for ways to clear each one, he also sought to unravel the mysteries of the world. Thus began his struggle 1.5kReads—Score18614d adds
- 180 After Sacrificing Our Teammates, We All Became Gods 献祭队友后,我们全员成神 A driverless Route 13 bus carries seven losers cast aside by reality into the Myriad Worlds. An unemployed planner, a teacher on the verge of a breakdown, a spineless doctor, a cowardly programmer, a boastful salesman, a taciturn stunt double, and a laid-off machinist. This is the worst starting team in history. But every “sacrifice” triggers a wild evolution. 🔹 Vehicle upgrade path: Rusty old bus → Mobile luxury apartment → Matte black-and-gold war chariot, the Xihe (with a red-gold Golden Crow 473Reads6.5Score10614d adds
- 181 Rules of the Rest Stop on a Stormy Night 暴雨夜服务区规则怪谈 Rules of the Rest Stop on a Stormy Night 5Reads—Score—14d adds
- 182 Thriller Game: Everyone Struggles to Survive, While I Ascend to Godhood Alone 惊悚游戏:众生苟存!我独自封神 [Wish-Fulfillment] + [Rule Horror] + [Eerie] + [Infinite Flow] + [Mind-Bending] + [Play the Pig to Eat the Tiger] + [Roleplay] + [Hacking the Backend] Welcome to the [Multiverse Horror Show]! This is a death livestream that uses human fear to drive its ratings, and the lives and deaths of billions of beings to entertain higher-dimensional civilizations. Here, players either scrape by with divine artifact inheritances or become ratings fodder beneath the claws of vengeful ghosts. Earth's survival —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 183 The Infinite Haunted House 无限诡异屋 [Original eerie instances + infinite-level progression + handcrafted + no female lead + slow burn] Qiao Ze collapses in front of a mirror, where his reflection wears a smile like that of an impostor. Along with a group of people from all over the world, he is dragged into the same sealed, bizarre incident. A deformed child crawling like a beast, A demonic baby still attached to half an umbilical cord, A pregnant woman with two heads, An impostor whose mouth stretches from the corners to the back 126Reads—Score12314d adds
- 184 I Livestream Through My Eyes 我用眼睛来直播 Through my own eyes, I'll show you viewers the most authentic scenes of horror. No complicated streaming equipment, no carefully arranged sets. Everything I see is exactly what the viewers in the livestream can see. Have you ever seen a livestream quite like this? As long as my eyes remain open, this terrifying livestream, which will only end with my death, will never go off the air. 168Reads—Score—14d adds
- 185 Reincarnation Game: I Climbed a Hundred-Story Zombie Tower from the Start 轮回游戏:开局我爬百层丧尸大楼 [Male-Oriented, Infinite-Flow, Teamwork, Battle Anime, Wits and Courage.] Countless people grow stronger through one round after another of reincarnation games, forming teams to compete against one another. It is all entertainment for the gods, and Yang Yuan is just one of their chess pieces. Anyone here could become the protagonist. [Hundred-Story Zombie Tower (Chapters 1–28)] [Hide-and-Seek (Chapters 31–69)] [Infinite Train (Chapters 73–96)] [Horror Game (Chapters 102–109)] [Superhumans (Chapt 5.1kReads6.4Score52914d adds
- 186 The Wooden Beauty Exploits Bugs in Horror Films to Become a Legend 木头美人,惊悚片里卡BUG封神 Lu Yao, the “wooden beauty” mocked across the internet, is blacklisted for her terrible acting and forced to enter the deadly National Fate Cinema. Audiences worldwide bet she won’t last three minutes. Her teammates see her as useless dead weight. The life-taking evil spirit picks her as its first “easy target.” But when mental corruption sweeps the whole place and the actors scream in despair, Lu Yao tilts her expressionless face and asks the ghost, “You’re crying so fake. Haven’t you eaten 1Reads—Score—14d adds
- 187 Reading Comprehension 阅读理解 [Rules-based horror + smart characters + no mindless decisions + wordplay + no national destiny + thought-provoking short lines + original scenarios] Ming Cha is a high school senior, busy preparing for the college entrance exams, when he is unwittingly drawn into a game. Here, insincere, nauseating flattery, a sarcastic tone, or even a slight change in a syllable can strip words of their original meaning, and that is only at the level of sound. Welcome to the word game. Read, understand, and re 44Reads8.2Score—14d adds
- 188 The Dreamworld of Strange Memories: Do You Remember the Taste of Things Before You Turned Three? 异忆梦界:你记得三岁前的味道吗 The Memory God stole everyone’s memories from before the age of three. Lin Shen’s, too. All he remembers is that his father disappeared that year. He enters a code and falls into the Dreamscape of Lost Memories. Everyone is trapped in the ruins of their memories. Each door seals away a memory. Open one, and you lose a piece of yourself. Before the final door, a line appears in the mirror: Do you remember what things tasted like before you were three? He opens the door. His three-year-old self st 2Reads—Score—14d adds
- 189 Silent Screams: True Records of 101 Major Cases, Season One 无声尖叫:101宗大案要案记实录(第一季) 41Reads9.0Score—14d adds
- 190 Rule Horror: Infinite Instances, A Grimoire of the Eerie 规则怪谈:无限副本,诡异图鉴 [Infinite-flow + instances + no romance + eerie + suspense + mind-bending + horror + supernatural + imaginative suspense] Worried there aren't enough instances to keep you reading? This book will satisfy you. At three in the morning, the eighth rule at the convenience store is written in blood. Wu Yan only wants to earn eight hundred yuan for a night shift, but he receives an illustrated book that turns its own pages. Rules-based horrors, urban legends, Nanyang curse magic, memetic contamination 26Reads—Score—14d adds
- 191 Surviving in Hell? No, This Is My Backyard 地狱求生?不,这是我的后花园 [Unlimited-flow game for all humanity | Draw cards and evolve | High-martial-arts survival | Revenge power fantasy | Bonds with multiple women] Overnight, all of humanity is dragged into a strange and terrifying game. Countless ghosts from folklore roam its instances, and death follows at every turn. In his previous life, Jiang Xiaopang painstakingly saved up evolution points. He was just one step away from breaking through, but his lover betrayed him, and his breakthrough failed at the last m 20Reads—Score—14d adds
- 192 Rule Horror: All My Teammates Are Crazy 规则怪谈:我的队友全是神经病 [The main CP is a male-male couple] [Romance] [Supernatural horror] [Social satire] [Mystery and deduction] [CPs include both men and women] The God-Sealing Game has descended on this planet for the second time. No one knows who will succeed in becoming a god this time and become a legend for future generations. The mysterious Andrew Card seems like a divine gift, yet something about it feels sinister. Zzzzt A sudden burst of static swept through everyone's minds. [Humanity's God-Sealing Plan in 63Reads—Score—14d adds
- 193 A Single Dad’s Little Secret 单亲爸爸的小秘密 A Single Dad’s Little Secret 2Reads—Score—14d adds
- 194 Eerie Descent: Nobody on the Subway Is Human 诡异降临:地铁里都不是人 [!!! NOT A POWER FANTASY !!!] [No golden finger + No Romance + No Leveling Up + No Items + No System] [Infinite Flow + Mystery and Horror + Every Character Is Smart] Important warning: If you are riding the subway right now, be sure to check underneath your seat and make sure there isn’t a corpse lying there! A mysterious subway train, with eighteen stops along its route. At every stop, the passengers must face a bizarre instance! A cruise ship sailing alone across the sea, with nowhere to dock 3.8kReads7.3Score66514d adds
- 195 The Twilight Line of the Haunted Realm: Conquering It with My Wits 诡界晨昏线:靠脑子制霸诡界 [Mild horror] [No System] [Character growth] [One heroine] Countless “Haunted Realms” suddenly appeared around the world. Like black holes, they devoured ordinary people's mental energy and the real world, pushing reality to the brink of madness. In response to the crisis, all kinds of organizations sprang up. They ventured into the Haunted Realms to explore, seized haunted objects to protect themselves, and sought the truth on the edge of life and death. As their investigations deepened, they d 5Reads—Score114d adds
- 196 In an Old Apartment Building, the Voice-Activated Lights Only Shine on the Dead 独居老楼,声控灯专照亡魂 Alone in an old apartment building, the motion-sensor lights only shine on the dead. 2Reads—Score—14d adds
- 197 The Man Buried Upside Down 倒着埋的人 The Man Buried Upside Down 7Reads—Score—14d adds
- 198 Fatal Company: Containing the Forbidden, Starting with Scavenging 致命公司:从捡垃圾开始收容禁忌 [Modern Lovecraftian horror + wild imagination + mystery and suspense + supernatural phenomena resurging + infinite trials + one heroine + battles of wits] [This is a modern Lovecraftian novel incorporating containment entities, rule-based horror, and the resurgence of the supernatural.] [The protagonist’s power level stays consistent throughout, as he pits his wits against the rules of the containment entities.] The thing Lu Chen regrets most in his life is clicking on that job ad for a “high-p 139Reads—Score10314d adds
- 199 I, the Dao-Prover Who Travels Between Worlds! 我,穿行诸界的证道者! The laws that once shaped the world shattered, and the rules governing the myriad realms descended upon the world from beyond. Living beings were chosen by those rules to become Dao seekers and embark on a journey to attain the Dao across the myriad heavens. The path to the Dao is fraught with countless dangers and treachery. One careless step can mean death and the destruction of one’s cultivation! Must Dao seekers stain their hands with blood? Must they tread over mountains of corpses? Are the 80Reads—Score—14d adds
- 200 Death and Infinite Resets: Uncovering the Rules of Every Vengeful Ghost 死亡无限回档:洞察所有厉鬼规律 [Death Rewind] [Kill the do-gooders first] [Vicious ghosts return] [Dark story] As the paranormal world awakens and vicious ghosts reappear, all you need to do is call Su Yun's name. I'll lead you back through time to find the perfect timeline. Su Yun had just transmigrated into a world where the paranormal was returning when four vicious ghosts began interrogating him. First interrogation: "What do you mean, you killed me because you didn't know how I died?" He rewound to before his death and s 887Reads—Score10414d adds



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