Novels like I Play an Extra in Eerie Movies
Books Chinese readers most often put in the same booklists as I Play an Extra in Eerie Movies, best match first.
- 151 The Germaphobic Detective Is Dragged into a Mechanical Killing Trap by His Mad-Dog Deputy 洁癖探长被疯狗副手拽入机械杀阵 A fastidious detective is dragged into a mechanical killing trap by his rabid deputy. 1Reads—Score—14d adds
- 152 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
- 153 Obsession Is a White Begonia Resting on the Sea 执念是落在海面的白海棠 On the last subway train at 11:50 p.m., Su Wang is pulled into a bizarre vortex by a burst of piercing static. On the mysterious 87.4 MHz frequency, a college student tearfully describes a blue hair clip that has appeared in her mirror. In the shadows on the platform, a figure wearing the same hair clip watches her in silence. From then on, Su Wang is drawn into the mystery of “Frequency 044.” A faint red mark burns into her palm. A transmitter that switches on by itself in the attic, half of a 1Reads—Score—14d adds
- 154 From the Start, I Took My Colleagues Back to Town 开局带着同事回镇 I grew up in Luoyin Town, but when I was six, I fled the ancient town overnight with my family. The town's baleful energy sealed away all my memories of it, leaving only scattered fragments of terrifying nightmares. My parents vanished mysteriously many years ago, leaving behind just one final warning: Never return to the mountains, and never touch anything red. To uncover the truth behind their disappearance, I follow the clues in a fragmentary ancient text and return to Luoyin Town. I am the o —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 155 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
- 156 Can’t Beat People in a Fight? Catching Demons Should Be a Piece of Cake, Right? 斗人斗不过，抓妖还不手到擒来？ A ghoul is a creature of lack. Whatever it lacked in life, be it wealth, health, or fortune, it must seize from others after death to make up for it and rest in peace. In 2009, five homeless children were suffocated in a dumpster. I was the sixth, and the only one who survived. I was never meant to become a Yin-Yang Celestial Master. Until I discovered that what happened that year was no accident. Some ghosts are bottomless pits, plundering without restraint. Some people once swept away an entir 1Reads—Score—14d adds
- 157 Records of Supernatural Investigations 诡事调查录 A world full of familiar events: the No. 375 bus, the haunted cha chaan teng... Caught off guard by these supernatural incidents, how will the protagonist handle them? How will he solve them? Magic, vampires, werewolves, Taoist priests, supernatural abilities, the uncanny, monsters and demons... What would happen if all of these existed in one world? In this world full of familiar things, what will Su You encounter? —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 158 Don't Look Back, My Shadow Is Killing People 别回头，我的影子在杀人 Don't Look Back, My Shadow Is Killing —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 159 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
- 160 The Underworld Decree 阴职令 A wedding invitation, a register of the dead, and a journey as a guide between worlds. Chen Du was an ordinary young man, until the yin-difference title inherited from his ancestors swept him into the conflicts between the worlds of the living and the dead. Old scores beneath the locust tree, lost souls in the paper city, every debt had to be settled by his own hand. This is not a story about becoming an immortal. It is a cycle of repaying debts. —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 161 The Rules Are Out of Control, and Only I Can Find the Loopholes 规则失控，只有我能找到漏洞 Make a mistake, and you die… Nine people are trapped in a hotel. They must identify the hidden nonhuman among them, or everyone will die. The cycle resets, wiping everyone's memories clean. Only Lin Che retains his memories. With no special abilities or plot armor, he relies solely on observation, searching for loopholes in the rules to survive. Escape the hotel, and they find themselves in an empty city caught in a seven-day time loop. Beyond it lie countless worlds that have been destroy —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 162 From the Start, an S-Rank Horror Tale: I Only Have One Block? 开局S级怪谈：我只有一个方块？ (Comedy, plot twists, wild imagination and logic, mild horror, and smart protagonists and antagonists) My name is Shen Mo. It sounds cool, but things went horribly from the start: no memories, no teammates, and a block… But! What do you mean, you can jump from dozens of stories up and land in water? What do you mean, you can blow up eerie scenes with TNT? What do you mean, you can beat Cthulhu senseless with the Sword of Cosmic Dominion? Oh, right. One more thing you should know: this is —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 163 Eerie Descent: My Wife Is an S-Rank Horror 诡异降临：我的老婆是S级诡异 [Spiritual qi revival + Supernatural horrors + Instance-based + Thrilling battles + Sensible!] [The rating just came out. It’ll go up later, so feel free to keep reading.] Black fog descended, and spiritual qi revived. In this age overrun by the uncanny, some people wanted to welcome the coming of “God.” But Lu Li, an undercover agent, couldn’t bring himself to laugh at such an outlandish goal. See how Lu Li “gets promoted and earns a raise,” “marries a beautiful rich girl,” and “reaches the pin 15Reads5.1Score—14d adds
- 164 Folk Feng Shui Taboos: I Can Expose Life-or-Death Traps 民间风水禁忌：我能点破生死局 He can see at a glance the deadly traps hidden in homes and burial grounds, but he never dares speak up. Every taboo he exposes costs someone a life. Until the night he revealed the “blood coffin crushing the pulse” to save an orphan girl. Seven people in the village died violent deaths, and with their dying breath, they all pointed at him: “It was you... You should have died long ago.” The truth was, he wasn’t a feng shui master at all. He was the “Life-Substitution Judge,” chosen by the ancien —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 165 A Crime Guide Group from the Start 开局犯罪指导群 When logic is the only weapon, who can glimpse the truth at the edge of the abyss in a maze woven from lies? On a rainy night in the old city, there is a corpse and a picture frame deliberately set straight. To criminal investigation captain Chen Xi, the evidence clearly points to a burglary. But to forensic evidence expert Lin Jianshen, it is a chilling ritual, meticulously staged. He never believes in coincidence. He trusts only the ironclad logic behind people's actions. The angle of a tilted —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 166 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
- 167 Falling Homework 坠落作业 [Campus horror + coming-of-age + no saintly heroine + one heroine + combat + heartbreaking] One day, a mysterious assignment appeared on the blackboard. As a high school student, I felt a terror unlike anything I’d ever known. All kinds of ghosts appeared in the world, coming to take human lives. From that day on, my life changed completely. I was forced to fight for my life through the assignments, but that was far from all. A slew of conspiracies began to close in around me. Worse still, a mas 1.8kReads8.2Score15314d adds
- 168 Turning the Tables! The Midnight Courier's Rules 逆袭！午夜快递员守则 [Rule-based horror + mystery and suspense + one female lead + smart characters + not a power fantasy] Enter at your own risk. A rule-based horror story revealing the truth of the worlds of the living and the dead through the eyes of a midnight courier. It begins with the first red parcel he is forced to deliver, then takes him through an eerie city twisted by the System, into contact with all kinds of dead souls and their obsessions, face-to-face with the elders’ merciless oppression, and towar 1Reads—Score—14d adds
- 169 I Run a Lifestyle Channel in a Horror Game 我在惊悚游戏里当生活区UP主 With 1.2 million yuan in debt, Lin Bei gets dragged into a horror game. While others flee, I film; while others scream, I livestream. The head nurse is chasing me with a knife? Perfect footage! Zombies are closing in? Let's dance together. I edit terrifying scenarios into comedy shows, pay off my debts with tips, and clear stages by putting on a show. The ghosts become my cast, and the audience becomes my backup. —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 170 Armor Hero: After Signing the Overlord Contract, I No Longer Believe in the Light 铠甲：签完霸王合同后，我不信光 [Armor Hero 1 + Behind-the-scenes power plays + Mystery and the supernatural] Lin Yu transmigrates as the son of D City's richest man. He doesn't wear armor or fight supernatural beasts. He sets the rules, draws the game board, and manages the ledgers. Relying on connections, information asymmetry, and analytical skill, he turns the battlefield into a chessboard. Someone in the morgue's cold storage refuses to wake. Something in the depths of an abandoned well has been painted over and concealed 65Reads—Score314d adds
- 171 The Last Sand Diver 最后一个淘沙官 [Tomb Raiding]+ [Mystery]+ [Supernatural] There is a group of people in this world who understand the balance of yin and yang, know the past and present, and brave deadly dangers in search of secret treasures buried with dragons, lost cities, and ancient palaces said to house immortals. With their own hands, they piece together fragments of the unknown world. They are the Sand-Seeking Celestial Officials. I am the last inheritor of the Sand-Seeking Celestial Officials, and I have decided to reco 3Reads—Score—14d adds
- 172 You Found Me 你找到我了 Modern Supernatural + Female-Led + Fresh Premise + All-Rounder + Wild Imagination + Reincarnation + Spirit Speech + Runes and Formations + Fictional Modern Setting + Pure Wish Fulfillment in the Middle and Later Parts Abandoned and cast out? No. Her god reincarnates for her, life after life. Following the usual formula and old clichés? No. The Heavenly Dao is nothing to her. An ordinary girl dealing with a life that’s a complete mess? No. Other people are the ordinary ones. She is the unique one 6Reads—Score—14d adds
- 173 Lord Guan Guards the Night: From the Start, a Security Guard Gains the Remnant Will of the Martial Sage 关公镇夜：保安开局得武圣残念 [Bickering Couple + Mystery and Deduction + Witty Humor + Leveling Up and Fighting Monsters] Watch an ordinary person from the streets stumble into the business of yin and yang, as his hilarious journey of soul-catching begins! Male Lead: A down-on-his-luck man of humble origins, quick with a joke and fond of snarky remarks. A timid good-for-nothing at first, he grows into a composed and powerful protagonist who makes a comeback. Female Lead / Bickering Partner: Sharp-tongued and always trad —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 174 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
- 175 The Broken Mirror Murder Case 破镜缉凶 [Mystery + Criminal Investigation + Deduction + Case-of-the-Week + Long Main Plot + No Romance + Solving Crimes] On a livestream, a bride in red hangs herself from an ancient locust tree. A million viewers watch as her corpse follows an invisible track and “walks” back to the crime scene. I'm Qin Niu, captain of the criminal investigation team in Changping City. The people I'm up against aren't ghosts, but a group of “crime designers.” They use magnetic levitation to transport corpses, infrasou 13Reads—Score—14d adds
- 176 Darling? Darling! 亲爱的？亲爱的！ Welcome, everyone, to our Loving Family The blurb can't show off my charm, so just read Chapter One. I'm a new author, and the earlier chapters aren't very good. Please bear with me. I'll try to wrap up the instances quickly and just write romance in the real world instead. I'll be making major revisions to the earlier chapters. Updates will probably come gradually, with around 200,000 words in total. The earlier chapters really aren't good. Start reading from Chapter 60 onward. The earlier part 2Reads—Score—14d adds
- 177 The System Can’t Delete His Last Words 系统删不掉他的遗言 The System Can't Erase His Last Words —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 178 Knocking on the Deep Space, With No Turning Back 叩响深空，从此再无回头路 Knock on the deep reaches of space, and there is no turning back —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 179 Goodnight, My Perfect Doll 晚安，我的完美人偶 Goodnight, My Perfect Doll —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 180 Cultivating Buddhism and Taoism, I Befriend the Paranormal 佛道双修我与诡异为伍 No System, no harem, no goody-two-shoes protagonist, and either one or two heroines. Fresh out of college, Chen Xiao scraped by delivering takeout in his spare time. One night, he accidentally crossed paths with something unclean, and from then on, evil spirits clung to him relentlessly. Strange events kept happening, and misfortune followed him everywhere. On the road, he ran into a ragged wandering monk. Unable to turn a blind eye, Chen Xiao gave him a little help. He never imagined that this 5Reads—Score—14d adds
- 181 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
- 182 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
- 183 The Mystery of the Silver Token 银令牌谜案 The Mystery of the Silver Token —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 184 Haunted Cellblock: I Am Thailand's Chao Fa 监舍诡事：我是泰国昭法 A strange female resident arrives at a drug rehabilitation center. She comes from a remote town and has never left the country, yet insists she is a Thai Chao Fa, a princess. Dressed in the coarse clothes of a rehab patient, she carries herself with the poise of royalty. In a two-second news clip, she instinctively performs a deep-palace court ritual. She casually reveals long-buried royal secrets, and with a few strokes, sketches the layout of a palace. She can’t remember her ordinary life, yet —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 185 Phantom Capsule: The Prison Hut That Appeared Out of Nowhere on a Barren Mountain 诡影胶囊：凭空现世的荒山囚屋 The Phantom Capsule: A Prison House Appears Out of Nowhere in the Barren Mountains 2Reads—Score—14d adds
- 186 The Seven-Day Mystery: Countdown to Judgment 七日迷局：审判倒计时 [When death becomes a bargaining chip in solving a mystery, would you wager your life to uncover the truth?] When Lu Chen received the last message from his missing sister, the phone screen was flashing a blood-red countdown: 7:00:00. The moment he stepped into the isolated island’s ancient castle, the iron gate slammed shut. Static crackled from an old radio: “Welcome to the 307th trial. Find the killer, or everyone will be buried here.” In the sealed dining room, seven wax figures represented 1Reads—Score—14d adds
- 187 The Secondhand Goods I Collect Come with Ghosts 我收的旧货里住着鬼 [Urban supernatural horror · Hunting ghosts and growing stronger · Folklore and strange tales · Golden finger stat upgrades · No System] Also known as: Don't Go Out at Night People know how terrifying ghosts are, but ghosts know how poisonous human hearts can be. Jiang Ye is an ordinary man who was just fired from his job. All he can do is ride a beat-up motorcycle and listen to people who burn paper money tell ghost stories. Then, beneath the cabinet in his rented room, he found a scroll of Sou 16Reads—Score—14d adds
- 188 The Fog of Heguang Tower 和光楼的雾 Mist at the Heguang Tower 14Reads—Score—14d adds
- 189 Anomaly Containment: Why Am I Already on the Containment List? 异常收容：怎么我先上收容名单了 [Supernatural + military. No clichés, no invincibility, no System, no transmigration, no face-slapping.] Midnight square dancing, ghost monks offering living sacrifices, corpse puppets performing ghost operas... This world is full of anomalies! My name is Xu Fei, and I've had an exceptionally stable mind since childhood. A pack of cigarettes gave me the ability to block evil spirits from sensing me. With the nation and my teammates at my back, I do everything I can to uncover the truth behind th 13Reads—Score—14d adds
- 190 Atonement Darwin 赎罪达尔文 What do you mean, I transmigrated, then transmigrated again? (No harem, no formulaic tropes, no wish fulfillment, no System. An ensemble cast with a focus on characters and plot. If that’s not your thing, please don’t read.) “My life ended yesterday, but my story begins today.” Lu Wei was an ordinary second-year college student on Earth, but every night he entered another world of immortal cultivation in his dreams. When he was certain the world in his dreams was fake, he found himself trapped i —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 191 Lord of the Heavenly Secrets 天机之主 Chu Yu only wants to solve cases in peace, but everyone keeps taking him for a charlatan. After solving the unsolved case of a young nobleman, the emperor declares him the uncrowned Imperial Preceptor. After unraveling mysteries involving ghosts and monsters, the myriad realms revere him as the Heavenly Secrets Dao Venerable. Holding up his bronze mirror, he sighs helplessly: “I never wanted to be a savior. Can’t you just let me solve a case in peace?” The mastermind behind it all trembles at hi 13Reads—Score—14d adds
- 192 Grading Essays, I Uncovered a Murder from Three Years Ago 批阅作文，我查出了三年前的人命 Chen Mo, a Chinese teacher, discovered a murder case in an essay. A student described in detail how a girl from the same school had been bullied to death three years ago. The victim was the older sister of Su Qing, the transfer student in his class. When he started investigating, the principal handed him a thick red envelope. “Mr. Chen, let the past lie quietly. This is the ‘rational good.’” His mother was gravely ill and urgently needed money. And the fate of whistleblowers? Shen Xiao, the form —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 193 The Returnee from Hell 地狱归客 He once fell into the Inferno, enduring nine near-death trials amid mountains of corpses and seas of blood. At last, he returned to the human world bearing the brands of Hell and the power to devour souls. That power can see through the hidden sins of sinners and turn their past misdeeds into pain they must suffer themselves. It is a “gift” Hell bestows upon its judges. The human world is no paradise. Evil lurks in the shadows of neon lights: a hypocritical principal who abused children is still 1Reads—Score—14d adds
- 194 Sin Fetish I 罪癖I 2Reads—Score—14d adds
- 195 Yin-Yang Travels in a Mountain Village 山村阴阳行 My name is Chen Jiujin, and I'm a wandering tradesman. To put it plainly, when someone has a haunting on their hands, they hire me to take a look. This time, I came to Zhou Family Village. A seventeen-year-old girl had been followed by something foul. She drank chicken blood, dug up graves in the middle of the night, and kept repeating the same words: “Give me back my life.” I thought it was just an ordinary wandering ghost. But I was wrong. The thing inside that girl's belly wasn't a ghost. It 2.7kReads6.4Score22114d adds
- 196 The Missing Pages of History 史阙 Time flows like water, never resting, never stopping. The world's obsessions surge like a tide, throwing the river of time and space into chaos. Some defy the natural order, trying to rewrite the years and throw the world into turmoil; Others hold fast to the rules, facing eerie shadows to defend the source of time and space. Ordinary books conceal countless rifts. Strangers who meet on unfamiliar paths become companions, while obsessions and rules clash without end. The path of order is thorny —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 197 Cold Case Executioner 旧案行刑官 Police Captain Ji Xiao launches a livestreamed investigation to restore public trust, but the scene of a series of murders bears a secret code shared only by him and his older brother, Ji Lin, in childhood. As the whole internet calls for the “Shadowblade Killer” to be executed, forensic pathologist Chen Yan’s abnormal autopsy report, policewoman Zhou Yutang’s encrypted notes, and editor-in-chief Lin Zhao’s manipulation of public opinion gradually peel back the truth buried for ten years. The ki 10Reads—Score14914d adds
- 198 Ming Dynasty Coroner: The Forbidden Records 大明仵作：禁忌录 [Historical Transmigration, Mind-Bending Mystery] A graduate student in forensic medicine transmigrates to the Ming Dynasty and becomes a coroner in a small county town. He discovers that the murders in this world aren’t all committed by people; many are connected to local folk “taboos.” Those who break them meet their end in an extraordinarily bizarre manner, as if they had “killed themselves.” Using modern forensic knowledge and his ability to unravel folk taboos, he must solve strange cases a 28Reads8.0Score—14d adds
- 199 Pawnshop No. 7 第7当铺 In the darkest corner of the city stands the Number Seven Pawnshop, which never closes. It doesn’t take physical objects as collateral, but rather the “sinful traits” buried deep in human nature. The owner offers unimaginable wealth, success, or wishes, but the price is your greed, arrogance, lust, envy, gluttony, wrath, and sloth. The rules here are cold but fair: the more “sin” you pawn, the richer the reward. But without your “sins,” are you still truly whole? 4Reads—Score—14d adds
- 200 The Underworld's Manager 黄泉主理人 “Do you know why the lights at Haishi University never go out? Because monsters lurk in the dark, gnawing away at the light.” Lin Chen tosses his milk tea, frozen into an ice sculpture, into the microwave to thaw, then sighs at the red-clad woman flickering in and out of view in the mirror. His life is like an absurd horror movie: vending machines sell carbonated drinks flavored with Meng Po’s soup, corpses in the dissection room tap-dance on full-moon nights, and worst of all, he’s started eyei 1Reads—Score—14d adds
