Novels like I Play an Extra in Eerie Movies
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- 101 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—14d adds
- 102 Life at a Crossroads 岔路人生 If you could truly live your life over again, would you regret the choices you made? Shen Que never imagined there could be a real answer to that question. That day, the subway stopped at 5:42 p.m. Two people with the same name and the same face, each having lived through twenty-seven years that were almost, but not quite, the same, appeared before him at once. Only then did he learn the truth: Every truly important choice could allow another version of your life to keep going. They weren' —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 103 Dreams of the Ghost Realm: The Gate of Life and Death 梦之鬼境：生死门 [Mystery + Wild Imagination + System + Two Heroines + High Intelligence + No Brain-Dead Plotting + Weak in Reality, Invincible in Dreams] “When you read this letter, I'll have become a ghost, one whose sole purpose is to open the Gate of Life and Death. Don't try to stop me, or I'll kill you without a second thought!” Three years ago: The top student in the school hanged himself the day before the college entrance exam... Three years later, a hugely popular streamer suddenly leaped to her death —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 104 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
- 105 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
- 106 The Serial Killer Turned Out to Have a Split Personality 连环杀手竟是双重人格 While sorting through my father's belongings, I found an old camera from twenty years ago. When I turned it on, the screen lit up with photos of strangers being beaten. In the last photo, my father held up a piece of paper that said “Save me,” his eyes filled with despair. An anonymous message suddenly appeared: “Your father sent me three photos before he died.” “This is the first. The second is in your attic.” Trembling, I climbed up to the attic and found the second photo at the bottom of an o 4Reads—Score—14d adds
- 107 I, a Criminal Mastermind, Became the Nightmare of London's Criminals 犯罪天才的我成为伦敦罪犯的梦魇 [Dual Male Leads + High Intelligence + Handsome Men + Victorian England Setting] Ewan Montague, the youngest professor in Cambridge's criminology department, is hired as a special consultant to Scotland Yard. He solves countless cold cases and mysteries, but at the same time, a brilliant criminal known as the Jubilee Line Butcher begins his activities. The two seem to be locked in a fierce rivalry. Or perhaps they are simply two identities belonging to the same person. 64Reads—Score—14d adds
- 108 The Seventy-First Knife Scar 第七十一道刀痕 The Seventy-First Knife Mark —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 109 The Ferryman of the Yin River 阴河守渡人 For three generations, the Jiang family has recovered bodies from the river, but only one kind: The yin-gate corpses, sunk in the Yin River and never meant to see the light of day. A century-old taboo was completely broken in my generation by a group of influencers. Chasing views, they recklessly dredged the river and unearthed a century-old corpse from a ghost marriage, rousing the evil spirits in the water. From then on, the Yin River opened its mouth, and ghosts roamed the night. I’m Jiang Xu 1Reads—Score—14d adds
- 110 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—14d adds
- 111 Archive of Anomalous Cases 异常项目档案 [Engineering Mystery + Folk Customs and Tomb Raiding + Anomalous Projects] Duan Zhiyuan had spent seven years working on IT projects and had dealt with all kinds of unreasonable clients. Then one day, a client came to him with a bizarre request: Install an access control system at an abandoned well. The well had been sealed for years. There was no passage at its mouth, and nobody went in or out. But every night at 3:03 a.m., the old System generated a card-swipe record. The cardholder was —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 112 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
- 113 Codename: Number Seven 代号：第七号 At two in the morning, a young man with a high fever and convulsions was brought to the emergency room at the Third Municipal Hospital. His body was covered in purplish-red, netlike rashes; his pupils had shrunk to thin slits, and his neck was stiff as a board. Lin Shen, an attending neurologist, identified the illness within two hours: anti-NMDA receptor encephalitis. He began treatment. The patient woke up, but the rash vanished completely overnight. Then his fever rebounded, followed by mania —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 114 Tales of the Strange 聊斋那些事 Have you ever heard of a plain-language version of Strange Tales from a Chinese Studio? A scholar spends the night in an abandoned house and is welcomed into a beautiful woman's arms, only to discover that her face is a painted skin. A poor young man finds a fox. The fox says, “I’ll marry you, but you must never look at my tail.” At the mass graves outside town, someone tells stories every night. Anyone who listens disappears the next day. Don’t be afraid. These are all stories passed down by ou 3Reads—Score—14d adds
- 115 The Whole Village Took a Tree as Their Godmother, Only to Discover a Thousand-Year Pact 全村认树做干娘，却发现千年契约 (The real-life inspiration for this ancient camphor tree truly exists.) Since childhood, Zhao Xun had regarded the ancient camphor tree at the entrance to his village as family. As his eighteenth birthday drew near, he received a bizarre message consisting of just three words: Don't come back. But a clue about his father, who had been missing for years, suddenly surfaced, and the red mark on his wrist was creeping toward his heart day by day. He had no choice but to return to Zhao Family Village 12Reads—Score—14d adds
- 116 A Father on the Trail of a Killer 追凶父亲 His seven-year-old son was kidnapped and killed for ransom. No trace of the body was ever found. Former financial crimes detective Zhou Qiming went gray overnight, and the faith he'd held for half his life crumbled completely. While sorting through his child's belongings, he found a custom-made chip marked with the signature pattern of He Capital, exposing a shocking conspiracy. As a new case begins, Tang Qiyue, deputy captain of the major crimes unit, investigates and feels a chill run down h 204Reads—Score—14d adds
- 117 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
- 118 At Eighteen, I Inherited 1.8 Billion in Cold Cases 十八岁，我继承了十八亿悬案 Synopsis: [Urban Mystery] [Criminal Investigation and Deduction] [1.8 Billion in Inheritance] [Crime Scene Reenactment] [Noodle Shop Boy] [One Female Lead] Qin Dongzhi was an orphan taken in by a veteran detective. His adoptive father died two years ago in a "gas accident," leaving him only a noodle shop and eighteen trophies. On the night of his eighteenth birthday, the lawyer Gao Xuanxing brought him a will: an inheritance of 1.8 billion. "I'm just a guy who makes noodles. Who would leave m 6Reads6.9Score—14d adds
- 119 There’s Someone on My Back 我的背上有个人 I always thought I'd slept wrong. I tried medicated plasters and got X-rays, until I met an old man who said, "Young lady, someone has been riding on your back for nearly half a year. You need to send her on her way, right now..." —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 120 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
- 121 My Family Vanished After the Car Crash 车祸后我的家人都消失了 My Family Disappeared After the Car Accident 1Reads—Score—14d adds
- 122 When the Nursery Rhyme Begins, Close Your Eyes 童谣响起，请闭眼 At 12:17 a.m., audio restoration specialist Mo Feiyue hears his own name on a children's recording from 1998. On the tape, the children are singing "Drop the Handkerchief." But at the very end, a girl's voice suddenly joins in. "Mo Feiyue, why haven't you come yet?" The next second, his phone lights up on its own. [First Nursery Rhyme Realm: Drop the Handkerchief] [Before dawn, find the person who wasn't mentioned in the nursery rhyme.] From that day on, Mo Feiyue discovers that the familiar nur 1.6kReads—Score26814d adds
- 123 I Delivered Food to the Dead 23 Times. The 24th Recipient Was Me 我给死人送了23次外卖，第24次收件人是我自己 I Delivered Takeout to the Dead 23 Times. The 24th Recipient Was Me 3Reads—Score—14d adds
- 124 After My Sister Vanished, My Prosthetic Eye Started Sounding the Alarm 妹妹失踪后，我的义眼开始报警 Synopsis [Urban action and adventure + anti-scam survival + suspense] Former special police officer Jiang Che's younger sister, Jiang Yao, was lured by a high-paying job offer to the “Jinlan Federation” in Southeast Asia. He goes undercover alone to Blackstone Valley to search for clues. The tactical lens over his right eye can map the terrain, but it can't stop bullets. At the compound, he meets Cheng Ye, an imprisoned programmer; Wen Xi, an undercover female doctor; and Lao Zhong, an informant 1Reads—Score—14d adds
- 125 Ghost Story Livestream: Earning Points in Journey to the West 怪谈直播间：我在西游赚积分 [No national fate system + infinite-flow horror + rule-based mysteries + modern reimagining of Journey to the West + one heroine] Li Zhou is transported into an apocalyptic prophecy novel. On New Year’s Day, 2026, the supernatural arrives right on schedule. The homeroom teacher’s head spins 180 degrees on the lectern, and a classmate’s face grows out of their throat. He accidentally binds himself to a horror livestream System: the more frightened the viewers are, the more points he earns. So 2Reads—Score—14d adds
- 126 The Compendium of Strange Objects 诡物典 An antiques shop on the verge of closing. A livestream with nowhere else to turn. The strange artifacts they sell bring inexplicable calamities. When a bronze sundial starts turning back time, when a strange rock creates another you... Do you dare click in? 2Reads5.6Score—14d adds
- 127 A Chain of Mysteries 谜案连环 [Crime investigation and deduction + no female lead + episodic stories + light romance] In a corner stands an exquisite, beautiful ice sculpture, but it is made of a corpse. An anime character who seems to have stepped out of another dimension, yet has no breath left. And a blonde beauty asleep on a bench who just won't wake up... What connection do they share? Why did the killer do this? What secrets lie behind it all? The clues they uncover all seem to point to the unsolved case from seven yea 1.3kReads—Score10214d adds
- 128 I Built a Life-Swap Machine! 我打造了人生交换器！ Two people who both want to die meet on the brink of life and death. Through a mysterious box, they exchange lives and begin living in each other’s bodies. In Su Nian’s body, Lin Shen faces a mother with hair half turned gray, a dead father, a comatose person who “had an accident” on the night of the engagement, and an ex-boyfriend who is still searching for her. A huge photograph of her hangs on the wall, yet no one can explain exactly what happened that day. In Lin Shen’s body, Su Nian moves —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 129 My Sister-in-Law's Lateral Thinking Puzzles Drove Them to Kill 嫂子的海龟汤让他们杀疯了 [Mind-bending puzzles + deduction + horror survival + urban legends + Turtle Soup] Qin Xuehua is a beautiful woman burdened with a blood feud. To find clues to the person who killed her sister, she marries into Turtle Soup Village. The men in the village spend all day thinking about how to make her theirs. Until that day. An indescribable monster takes over the isolated mountain village. The uncanny runs rampant, strange tales abound, and evil flourishes. To survive, the villagers are forced to 6Reads—Score—14d adds
- 130 The Deadly Madman 致命狂人 (A gifted university student and profiler with a dark childhood, Su Dimo, and Jin Ruyan, a deep-thinking, two-faced captain of the criminal police, x Qin Yuchen, a natural-born star. Jin Ruyan would tear someone apart bone by bone for the one he loves, while Qin Yuchen's secret crush is doomed. How will their story end?) She is a psychology prodigy at university, and she sees Jin Ruyan as the knight of her life. When bizarre cases come to light, her knight grows more and more distant... She s 2Reads8.0Score—14d adds
- 131 You're Livestreaming a Haunted Place, and It's Your Own School? 直播鬼地方，你直播自家学校啊？ I’ve had a psychic body since childhood, allowing two souls to inhabit me. I thought it was going to be a peaceful night, but it turned out that my roommate, who’d been my classmate for years, had drowned seven days ago. So who is my roommate now? My name is Yang Huang. I never imagined that my close friend would turn into a ghost and try to drag me down to hell with him. With no other choice, I entered a place called the Nightmare Livestream. It’s a deal with the devil... Every few days, I have 1Reads—Score—14d adds
- 132 A Century of Housebound Echoes, Filled with the Wails of Kin 百年宅响，尽是至亲泣 For a century, the old mansion has echoed with the weeping of kin. —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 133 She Worshipped Her as a Goddess, Then Imprisoned Her Soul 敬她为神，困她为魂 She is revered as a god, yet imprisoned as a soul. —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 134 After My Entire Family Was Executed, I Joined the Inspector to Solve a Cold Case 满门抄斩后，与巡察从事共探悬案 [Mystery and Investigation | Deduction | Light Political Intrigue | Linked Serial Murders | A Vivid Portrait of Society] Yun Shu, the legitimate son of a great general and once the crown prince's study companion, watched his family suffer a sudden calamity. His father was framed for colluding with the enemy and plotting treason, and the entire clan was sentenced to death. With secret help, he faked his death and escaped, abandoning his identity to drift among the common people. He endures humili —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 135 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
- 136 The Celadon Case: A Red-Dressed County Magistrate's Rise 青瓷案：红妆县令的逆袭之路 The Porcelain Case: A Red-Clad County Magistrate's Road to a Comeback —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 137 The Mystic Ruins: Secret Records of a Great Jing Taoist Priestess 玄墟：大靖女道秘录 You've seen plenty of formidable male Taoist priests, but have you ever seen a formidable female Taoist priest? Seventeen-year-old Shen Qingyan is a prodigy in the arts of sorcery in her master's eyes. She should have been a free and carefree cultivator, but her master's recent disappearance and a series of strange cases she encounters after descending the mountain draw her into a web of mysteries... Everything points to the Xuanhu Cult... What does “A disturbance in Kunlun, the Great Jing on th —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 138 After the Founding of the Nation, I Became a Spirit: Catching Ghosts Is My Duty, and I’m Good at It 建国后成精，抓鬼没有不强的义务 Strong female lead, no romance, ghost hunting, with a mildly supernatural variety show. Please don’t take it as reality. The heroine doesn’t grow stronger over time: she inherits the memories of the demon clan, giving her a cheat, and is powerful from beginning to end. There’s no angst. As one of the demons who slipped through the cracks of the rule that no one could become a spirit after the founding of the country, newborn demon Shi Jia leapt into Qiongqi’s pocket with a thunderous force. “Bos 3Reads—Score—14d adds
- 139 The Seven Sins Prison: I Survive by Keeping a Low Profile 七恶囚笼：我靠普通苟活 When I signed the contract, all I noticed were the six words: “Bonuses have no upper limit.” Now I’m locked inside a nine-story cage. The other seven people all seem to be more disturbing than the last. One decided he was a god on the very first day. Another was so hungry he’d eat absolutely anything. One could only serve the most primitive desires of animals. No one told me why those bizarre English words were printed on our backs. No one told me why someone as ordinary as me was chosen. —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 140 Rule Horror: I Can Reproduce Fatal Injuries Without Limit 规则怪谈：我能无限复写致命伤 [Urban Supernatural] [Rule Horror] [Anomaly Investigation] [Unique Ability] On his twenty-seventh day of unemployment, Liang Nan'ai finally found a company offering a monthly salary of 9,000 yuan and full social insurance and housing fund benefits. The company was on a nonexistent sixth floor. Everyone who failed the selection process was bricked up inside the walls. Liang Nan'ai refused the job, then casually tore the company apart. He can take an injury off a dead person and inflict it on the 7Reads—Score10814d adds
- 141 Strange Tales: Paper Money 诡异杂谈之纸钱 Weird Tales: Paper Money 1Reads—Score—14d adds
- 142 The Death Register 死亡登记簿 The Death Register 1Reads—Score—14d adds
- 143 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
- 144 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
- 145 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—14d adds
- 146 The Blue-Eroded Script 蓝蚀字 When art becomes a murder weapon, poison flows through the pigments. This is a manhunt spanning chemistry, art, and criminal investigation. Poison can be sealed inside ancient pigment recipes; crimes can be concealed in the brushwork of paintings handed down through generations. When the final piece falls into place, will you see the complete picture of the truth, or another carefully painted disguise? 3Reads—Score—14d adds
- 147 My Embalming Notes with the Agent 我和代行者的入殓手记 [Thrills + Heartwarming Moments + Redemption + Past and Present Lives] Do you believe someone could wait a hundred years for you? Bai Yan doesn’t. She’s just a junior makeup artist at a funeral home. Her only real skill is pretending she can’t see ghosts. But one early morning, she personally transfers a man’s seal onto herself. He lived to be 129, owes a life, and demands she repay him by doing ten things. This isn’t an evil spirit haunting her. It’s a madman who waited a hundred years for the —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 148 The Spirit Pact of Sinister Schemes 诡谋之灵契 People often say that a person’s fate is decided by Heaven, but that is not entirely true. Mu Fan was born into a vast conspiracy. With a body of four yin and an utterly yin fate, his perilous destiny made an ordinary life impossible. A female ghost in the park tries to seize his soul, while a stunning ghost bride enters into a marriage pact with him. Corpses dance in the funeral home; teachers and students at a school haunted by vicious ghosts leap from buildings in eerie circumstances; deep in —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 149 The Great Immortal's Record of Sealing Tombs 锁冢大仙录 The moment the Nuo mask swept across my right eye, the world changed. I saw underground waterways deep beneath the earth. I saw ancient Shu script carved into the stone walls three thousand years ago. And in the deepest place, I saw a crack with two words carved inside: Buzhou! And then there was Shangguan Wanyu, a forensic pathologist with a doctorate. The first time I saw her, the bone needles at her waist were all ringing, as if twelve tuning forks had been struck at once. She said my right e —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 150 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
