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- 51 A Guide to Performing in Horror Films 恐怖片演绎指南 Infinite Flow + Supernatural A horror-film role-playing show has quietly become a hit. Anyone desperate to have a wish granted will receive an invitation. The Very Horror Show cordially invites anyone interested to take part in its horror-film performances. 20Reads—Score—14d adds
- 52 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
- 53 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
- 54 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
- 55 The Three Months I Was Trapped at My Girlfriend's Best Friend's Home 我被困在女友闺蜜家的那三个月 My girlfriend’s eerie home is the stuff of nightmares. This time, I’ve mysteriously found myself trapped in her best friend’s house, where she makes an utterly baffling demand... Two heroines + well-crafted suspense + scheming characters + sweet romance + twists + written by the author, not AI 1Reads—Score—14d adds
- 56 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
- 57 The Invisible Landlord 隐形房东 On the day Zhao Ming gets dumped, his company lays him off too. He thinks he has hit rock bottom, but then a lawyer calls: “Mr. Zhao, there are six property deeds left by your father that require your signature.” Ding Sheng Tower, 186 apartments at Riverside Gardens, storefronts at Jin Mao Plaza, lakeside villas... Only then does he learn that his father, a man who kept silent all his life, was actually Jinhuashi’s true hidden landlord. But the keys unlock more than wealth. They also open up a t —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 58 The Wallbreaker in the Mist 迷雾中的破壁者 Lanjiang is a city that does not exist. Or rather, it is just one of twelve logical experiment sectors governed by the Foundation Council. You think you live in reality? No, you live inside a kind of "description." If reality is a nightmare destined to be formatted, I will be the typo that cannot be fixed. Truth is the only bulwark, and the human heart is a fog no one can cross. [Experiment progress: 45%] 1. "Fractures in Logic": Hard-boiled deduction. When the world falls into a logical loo 1Reads—Score—14d adds
- 59 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
- 60 A Survival Guide to Strange Tales: The Headless Girl's Evolution 【怪谈生存指南】无头少女进化论 [Main Plot] [Mild Horror] [Eerie Otherworld] [Urban Legends] [Beloved Girl, Everyone's Favorite] [Content Warning: The female lead is an aloof, low-energy type with a gravity-like personality, and this is a reverse harem.] What do you do when you accidentally end up in the Otherworld? This awful place is full of bizarre rules and monsters. One wrong move, and your whole team gets wiped out! There's the woman in red in the stairwell, the headless monster in the classroom, the cat-faced monster th 1.4kReads—Score19014d adds
- 61 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
- 62 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
- 63 I Serve Last Meals to the Rich in the Powerful Elite’s Kitchen 我在权贵厨房给富豪配断头饭 People say a chef is a magician who holds the secret to happiness. But in Su Ye’s eyes, ingredients are elements, cooking is chemistry, and the dining table is the place closest to death, aside from the operating table. An undercooked mushroom, a cup of overreacted bitter almond tea, a carefully planned dinner of foods that “clash.” In this hospital, some patients’ causes of death can never be determined from an autopsy report. A licensed nutritionist, Su Ye wields a yanagiba that can slice top- 2Reads—Score—14d adds
- 64 The Human Soul 人魄 The Human Soul 1Reads—Score—14d adds
- 65 Kiss Me as the Storm Draws Near 暴雨将至时吻你 [Sharp-tongued yet soft-hearted criminal investigation captain vs. reborn queen of the night|Two Alphas clash|A tense push and pull] When Meng Chengxiao first saw Chen Xi at a bar, she was being harassed by a few drunks and crying pitifully. His cousin was so smitten, he looked ready to tear out his own heart and give it to her. But on a stormy night, he saw it with his own eyes: the delicate young woman he’d thought so helpless ground her slender toe into a thug’s throat and took down six armed 889Reads8.2Score10514d adds
- 66 The Time-Traveling Crime Casebook 超时空罪案事件簿 To save my critically ill girlfriend, I accidentally activated a mission System. Every time I travel to a crime scene, I take on a completely new identity at random. A female corpse case from the Tang dynasty, a locked-room mystery from the Republican era, an AI murder case... I can trade points for wishes. The stranger the case, the greater the reward. I thought I was a crime-solving genius, until the System’s final message appeared: “Your girlfriend’s illness is actually connected to you...” 1Reads—Score—14d adds
- 67 The Gallery of Gods 神明陈列馆 My sister's life hangs on my cursed one. To save his terminally ill sister, Chen Gu steps into a dark world that collects human obsessions and “tokens.” During an expedition, he embeds “Destruction” in his right arm and seals “Order” inside his chest. From then on, his body becomes a battlefield between two colliding stars. He becomes a monster, and every time he suffers, his sister's soul is torn apart from a thousand miles away in her hospital room. In his darkest hour, he discovers the mark 1Reads—Score114d adds
- 68 The Madman Special Cases Unit 疯子特案 [Four lunatics, solving cases that expose the darkest sides of human nature] My name is Lu Chenyuan, and I lead Special Case Unit Four. All four people on my team are lunatics… Forensic pathologist Su Lianxin saw her father murder her mother when she was seven. Since then, she has trusted only the dead. Technical specialist Jiang Su made a mistake that wrongfully condemned an innocent person. He swore he would never make another mistake for as long as he lived. Criminal profiler Wen Jin was on 550Reads—Score10014d adds
- 69 Yangcheng's Ten Great Unsolved Cases 阳城十大奇案 [The sequel to The Ten Great Mysteries of Yao City is here! Written by a real person, not AI, with a gripping plot] A horrific case involving confinement and the massacre of an entire family shatters Yangcheng’s peace of many years. Every member of the victimized family, young and old, male and female, was subjected to unspeakable cruelty and slaughter! What kind of brazen criminal organization could commit such heinous crimes? And how could they escape justice for so long, forcing Yangcheng pol 114Reads—Score—14d adds
- 70 No. 37, Qingyu Lane 青雨巷37号 No. 37 Qingyu Alley 2Reads—Score—14d adds
- 71 Ice Blade: Hunting the Killer, He Became the Prime Suspect 冰刃追凶：他成了头号嫌疑人 A locked-room murder at the fencing hall of Jiangcheng Institute of Physical Education. The head coach is found dead in the equipment room, a broken sword tip embedded in his chest. In a pool of blood lies a 2013 figure skating gold medal. Surveillance footage shows no one entering or leaving during the time of the murder. The only suspect is Lu Zhaoye, the fencing team captain, whose fingerprints were left behind. Intern reporter Su Yanqiu steps in to investigate, only to discover countless con 1Reads—Score12914d adds
- 72 Tales of the Uncanny 诡话传说 “Hey, everyone, I’m here.” I pointed my phone camera at the abandoned village gate in front of me. The characters on the archway had long since blurred beyond recognition. All that remained was a sinister, rust-red color, splashed irregularly across the stone pillars like blood that had dried long ago. “See that color? Is it a good enough opening for the ‘Blood Axe’?” The comments immediately began to fly. [Sister Xue is charging into a new map!] [Just looking at this place gives me the creeps.] —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 73 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
- 74 My Wife Is a Snake 我的老婆是条蛇 When I was born, nine snakes were coiled around the roof beams. They called it Nine Dragons Sending a Son, and it meant I’d face eighty-one calamities before turning nine. If I could get through them, I’d enjoy great wealth and success. To keep me alive, my grandfather made me marry a snake as my wife. He also had me marry into someone else’s family and take their surname… 20Reads—Score—14d adds
- 75 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
- 76 The Oddball Consultant: Echoes from Ten Years Ago 怪胎顾问：十年前的回声 [Crime investigation and suspense + superhuman sound perception + nested cases + two equally capable leads + forced partners + healing] He is an eccentric consultant, cold and withdrawn. After an accident, he develops hyperthymesia and severe tinnitus, but can accurately profile suspects' minds through sound. She is a highly intuitive, action-oriented police detective, a skilled fighter with a decisive personality. The two first work together on the Ghost Radio case, then are forced to team up. —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 77 Severing the Dragon Vein 断命龙脉 The men of the Gu family never live past forty. After his father, Gu Mingyuan, dies, Gu Chenchuan follows a train ticket to Baihe, a bloodstained compass, and a few unfinished last words into the old trails of the Changbai Mountains. But the deeper he digs, the more he realizes that the Gu family has not simply been haunted or cursed. They have been caught in a living account, buried for many years, that refuses to let go. From Baihe to Tamen Peak, from the Changbai Mountains to an old well in t 1Reads—Score—14d adds
- 78 Crows Descend on Sin City 鸦落罪城 (Mystery and deduction + criminal investigation + anti-drug operations + anti-corruption + mind-bending crimes) In Yacheng, Nanhuai Province, in the 1990s, a sensational case shocked the nation: the 712 serial murders. The case reached far and wide. The suspect brutally murdered a family of three, but the Qingsha Syndicate behind the killer controlled Yacheng's police, procuratorate, and courts, keeping justice out of reach. To solve the case, Zhou Zhen of the Nanhuai Provincial Police Departmen 3Reads—Score—14d adds
- 79 Gu Gu Fang: Settling the Karma of Antiquities 缚古坊：了断古物因果 An antique shop on Funeral Street settles the worldly karma of spiritual artifacts. Using their special powers, it helps those destined for them advance their official careers. Azure Dragon God, Swollen-Belly Ox, Chicken Spirit Protector, Nine-Tailed Fox Who Changes Fate, Azure Sky Serpent... They say a new owner has arrived at Fugufang, and a god is always at their side... 18Reads—Score—14d adds
- 80 Global Livestream: Game Invasion, Slay Stars and Chase the Moon 全球直播游戏入侵：弑星逐月 #Global Survival Broadcast #Unhinged High-IQ Heroine #An 8-Star Death Trap from the Start #Deals with Devils #Controls and Crushes the Field from Start to Finish #Strong Female Lead #Ensemble Cast [195-IQ Unhinged Heroine × Global Live-Streamed Death Game × Chat Comments Losing Their Minds] Global games invade, and the fate of each nation is bound to its chosen contestants. The Dragon Kingdom selects its trump card, ace special forces warrior Jiang Linyue, and the whole nation erupts with joy 433Reads—Score10514d adds
- 81 The Gate of Paradox 悖论之门 I walk among the wreckage of logic, repairing one twisted reality after another. My ability is both “hope” and perhaps the deepest of curses. Then I realized that every time I saved someone, a whisper sounded in my ear: The ultimate price of repairing this broken world may be becoming an even greater mistake. —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 82 Don't Open Your Eyes Under the Blood Moon 血月下，别睁眼 [Slow-paced] + [Urban fantasy] On the night of the Ghost Festival, a red moon hung in the sky. The news said it was a once-in-a-century astronomical spectacle. I believed them. Then I noticed that in the photo of the moon on my phone, a dense crowd of “people” stood behind me. But there had clearly been no one else on the rooftop. Even stranger, people began vanishing mysteriously across the city the next day, yet none of the media mentioned it. The TV kept playing experts’ explanations on a lo —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 83 Wuniang's Cookbook 五娘食谱 Deep in the neighborhoods of Chang'an, a light from a cooking fire always glows quietly at night. It belongs to Wu Niang's food stall. Sometimes it sits on a street corner; other times, it becomes an unremarkable little shop, as if carried along by the wind. She makes food so delicious that people can't stop thinking about it. She knows her true customers are not just people, but the desires and resentments churning within their hearts. Wherever greed burns brightest, wherever old grudges run de 131Reads8.1Score—14d adds
- 84 A World Without Epidemics, But I Have a Medical Textbook 无疫世界：但我有一本医学教材 Just started getting rated; the score will rise. [Medical Mystery + Knowledge Monopoly + Slow Burn + Scientific Superpowers + One Female Lead] When the first body was pulled from the South City drainage canal, no one knew what those purplish-blue hands meant. Only I knew: I had just died once myself in that strange textbook! In this world, the very concept of “disease” doesn’t exist. No microorganisms cause illness, and hospitals only treat injuries and broken bones. But that textbook, which sho 39Reads8.0Score—14d adds
- 85 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
- 86 The Devious Game of Fate 天机诡局 My master died under mysterious circumstances. Before he passed, he branded the Chen family’s ancestral secrets of heavenly calculations onto my wrist, leaving me with just one warning: “Never use them unless you have no other choice.” With the century-old brass compass he left me, I saw through the soul-locking formation at the haunted spot in the old mansion at a glance. A bronze mirror to suppress the evil, Big Dipper coins to seal the aura: how could ordinary people doubt eighteen years of f 1Reads—Score114d adds
- 87 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
- 88 The Price Tag 标价 She was locked up for 406 days. After escaping, she helped the police take down the entire scam compound. Forty-nine people were arrested, and the evidence formed a complete chain. Everyone said it was over. She thought so too. Until the day before the case files were archived, when she happened to glance at an attachment to an interrogation transcript. Her name was on it, but not under “victim.” It was listed under “item number.” Above that was another line: Source of information: provided inte 21Reads—Score—14d adds
- 89 Beasts Trapped in a Small Space 方寸困兽 A star basketball player vanishes in midair as he leaps for a dunk. A spatial distortion, or a supernatural force? Yuyang, a history student, accidentally forms a symbiotic bond with Huaiyan, a thousand-year-old evil spirit known as the “Wall Monk.” He becomes a “demon beacon,” a target coveted by all sides. When a mysterious organization sets its sights on his roommate, Yuyang is forced into a vast conspiracy revolving around ancient feng shui arts. Facing the mastermind who manipulates fate, Y 1Reads—Score—14d adds
- 90 My Neighbor Knocks on the Wall at 3 A.M. Every Day 我的邻居每天准时在凌晨3点敲墙 My neighbor knocks on the wall at exactly 3 a.m. every day 8Reads—Score—14d adds
- 91 The Truth Unfolds: I Give My Life While He Watches the Show 真相上演，我填命他看戏 On the 1,096th day since my younger brother went missing, I, Lin An, a standard, human-shaped office worker and clock-in machine, decided to put an end to this meaningless wait with my own hands. Instead, I floored the gas pedal, drove myself off a cliff, and crashed into another world. The good news: When I opened my eyes again, a faceless creep was standing in front of me, saying: “The Hall of Fairness... is absolutely fair. Complete the scenario, find the truth, and anything you wish for can 6Reads—Score—14d adds
- 92 0713: Black Screen Record 0713：黑屏记录 In 2010, in Plaburg, a small town in northern New York State, A Country, campus and town surveillance cameras always go black for seven minutes and thirteen seconds at critical moments after an accident on a snowy night. During one of those missing intervals, Tu Yaoyang, an international student in the physics department, sees something for the first time: a transparent spirit, and another figure who looks like him, yet is colder and more familiar. He is forced to join forces with Leslie, a Chi 2Reads—Score—14d adds
- 93 The City of the Dead Descends: I'm the Only One in the City Who Hasn't Been Forgotten 冥城降临：全城只有我没被遗忘 A strange knocking suddenly echoed from beneath the Dongzhuang antiques market. The streets cracked open, blood flowed backward, and armored ghosts crawled out from the depths of the city. A Western Regions royal city that had vanished more than two thousand years ago began to overlap with modern skyscrapers beneath the dark clouds. Ordinary young man Gu Chuan was trapped in the sealed-off zone. He joined forces with Wu Taifeng, a mysterious antiques dealer, to survive. They soon discovered that 2Reads—Score—14d adds
- 94 I’m the Protagonist, So How Could I Lose? 我都是主角了还怎么输 Fu Ci's biggest regret was choosing to save money instead of spending it. If he'd paid for a taxi, he wouldn't have gotten on the bus and ended up inside a supernatural instance. At least this trip hadn't been a complete loss. [Ding-dong~ Your System is now online! From now on, every time you spend a set amount of currency, you'll receive an exclusive skill~] Fu Ci's eyes lit up. From then on, he began spending freely, without a care in the world. While others saved, he spent. Seeing the confusi 158Reads8.4Score10014d adds
- 95 Strange Tales of the Tang Dynasty: The Great Tang’s Female Coroner 唐朝诡事录之大唐女仵作 A spin-off story inspired by the TV series Strange Tales of Tang Dynasty Main characters: Dugu Xiasu and Chuntiao One hundred days after Dugu Yang’s death, Chuntiao formally takes Cao Hui, her mother-in-law, as her mentor and begins learning the art of forensic examination. After this case, Dugu Xiasu becomes much more steady in temperament. The two embark on a new chapter of strange and supernatural tales. 4Reads—Score—14d adds
- 96 The Cursed Realm: Rules for Surviving the Forbidden Zone 诡境：禁区生存法则 [Survival in Another World, Horror, Mystery, Ruthless Action, High Intelligence, No System or Formulaic Tropes, Just Thrills] Chen Zhao is a genius with extraordinary intelligence. After an inexplicable accident, he is drawn into a bizarre otherworld. There is no System and no formula to follow here, only mortal danger and terrifying presences lurking in the dark... From his initial bewilderment to gradually adapting, Chen Zhao searches for a way to survive in desperate circumstances and carves 4Reads6.5Score—14d adds
- 97 The Devil's Den in Northern Myanmar 缅北魔窟 I paid the snakehead Zhao Peng to smuggle me into northern Myanmar, and made it into the KD compound without a hitch. I thought I could pull off a miracle, that with my intelligence and ability I could rescue my best friend from that living hell. Little did I know... 74Reads—Score10314d adds
- 98 Notebook No. 9 第九号笔记本 An unsigned letter leads Lu Jing, a special police instructor, to a deserted village that has been erased from the map. At the bottom of a well, he finds records of Japanese military experiments from 1939. That same night, he encounters something that should not exist: mutated people who move sluggishly and have black blood. He escapes by sheer luck, but an undying black pattern remains on his left arm. The hexagonal particles in his blood sample match the investigation notes of Li Zhiwei's late 5Reads—Score—14d adds
- 99 Who Wrote His Crime? 谁书其罪 A single imperial decree can decide who lives and dies. A page from an old archive can rewrite the fate of the court. Sixteen years after the new dynasty was founded, the common people praised the fairness of the civil service exams. Yet every high-ranking official in the court owed their position to a rigged cheating scandal. Shen Qingwu is merely the lowliest document-restoration clerk in the Qingjian Bureau, but from the grain of paper, old ink, and forged seals, she can make witnesses “kille —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 100 The Demon Gate Puppet 诡门人偶 [Infinite-dungeon horror + dark humor + outrageous antics + daily life + absurdity = the author's a total menace] Xu Zhifan and Chen Yu are just two ordinary office workers. Nine to nine, six days a week; meager pay, endless overtime. Until one day, the two of them are apparently “kidnapped” and taken to an unfamiliar villa. In the villa's courtyard stands a door, silent and still. Beyond it lies a resort where a considerate butler “sees the guests out”; an unsolved case in which they have —Reads—Score114d adds
