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- 1 Rule Horror: The Haunted Orphanage from the Start 规则怪谈：开局诡异孤儿怨 [No heroine + No System + Rules-Based Horror and Lovecraftian Mythos] Another world descended, and countless inscrutable rules ran rampant. Humanity could only struggle to survive in the cracks between them. Luo Ziheng was a student whose college entrance exams had been postponed because of this. After unexpectedly surviving the first instance, he discovered the world hidden behind it. Determined to stay alive and eliminate the rules, Luo Ziheng set out on his path. —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 2 A Collection of Bizarre Horror Stories 怪诞恐怖故事集 My stories have magic, blood and tears, the evil side of human nature, and the horror you’re looking for. 1. Mother’s Bottles and Jars: A single drop of blood can turn one grain of rice into a whole pot of rice. A hundred drops can conjure a bicycle... What kind of magic is hidden in the bottles and jars Mother prepared for him? 2. The Toilets in Dreams: If you fall asleep while desperate to pee, you’ve surely dreamed of all kinds of toilets. If you write down the toilets you see in your dreams, 13Reads—Score—14d adds
- 3 Forbidden Tales of the Desolate Village: A Midnight Whistle, and a Shrouded Corpse Spirit at the Door 荒村禁忌：夜半吹哨，白布尸魂找上门 —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 4 Nightmare of Terror: Entering the Haunted World on the Red-Eyed Bus 惊悚噩梦：从红眼巴士进入诡世界 [Infinite flow + ghost survival + mild suspense + horror instances + no romance] “Ghosts cannot be killed. Only ghosts can deal with ghosts. Learn their patterns.” Lin Xi unexpectedly boarded a bus with no driver. The passengers here disappeared at regular intervals, and as more and more vanished, the survivors gradually uncovered the secret to escaping... Possessing a Nightmare Invitation means setting foot on a one-way road. At regular intervals, you are forced into the nightmare world to comp 52Reads—Score—14d adds
- 5 Rule Horror: From the Start, I Was the Only One Who Knew the Ropes 规则怪谈：开局成了唯一懂行人 [No System] + [Slow Start, Strong Finish] + [Plot-Driven] The red moon rises, and white fog seals off the building! Rule-based horror games erupt at random across Blue Star, pulling Lin Beiming and the other residents into the Bloodstained Apartment instance. Anyone who breaks the rules is instantly devoured by the eerie beings. Everyone trembles and gambles their lives to survive, but Lin Beiming's pupils contract in shock: these deadly taboos are all lessons his parents taught him! “If eve —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 6 The Train I Drive Leads to the Abyss 我开的火车通往深渊 My name is Lin Muhai. I'm twenty-one and a trainee train driver at the Ancheng Locomotive Depot. Before my first run, I heard a woman's voice in the crew waiting room. "One sleeper, two sleepers, three sleepers..." She counted to six, then paused. "Lin Muhai, it's your turn to count." 27Reads—Score—14d adds
- 7 How Did a Date Turn Into a Dungeon Run? 不是谈个恋爱怎么进副本了？ [Infinite flow + coming-of-age + a missing heroine + original instances] A bus with a green body and advertising stickers slowly passes a road sign. Li Yujia’s face slowly emerges from the sign. Resting his chin on one hand, he gazes indifferently out the window. What lies beyond it? A vast black sea... At last, he understands what this instance is. It turns out to be a gigantic mirage. 3Reads—Score—14d adds
- 8 The Haunting Broadcast 诡异广播 This is my first novel, and my writing still needs work. I’ve put a lot of thought into the plot, and I definitely won’t use AI. Read it if you like, and thank you! Updates will be irregular. I’m Little Black Umbrella. 1Reads—Score—14d adds
- 9 The Ultimate Supernatural Horror: The Ghost Card Train 终极灵异：鬼牌列车 [Supernatural] + [Horror] + [No Female Lead] + [No Sanctimonious Hero] + [No Mindless Decisions] Ghosts cannot be killed. Every ghost has its own unique rules for killing. Every card represents a vengeful ghost. Find a way to control the ghosts and escape the supernatural incidents. An old, eerie train stained with blood runs toward a terrifying supernatural realm. Where is the train’s final stop? No one knows. Or rather, no one has ever made it to the final stop. 28Reads—Score—14d adds
- 10 The Haunting of the New Home 搬家诡事 [Mystery + Thriller + Supernatural + Horror + No Female Lead + Smart Protagonist] His name was Yi Jibo. After he was wrongfully imprisoned, his mother fell ill and died. To pay off his gambling debts, his father sold her ashes to the Japanese through a crematorium driver. To get his mother's ashes back, Yi Jibo went to work at a Japanese funeral home. And so he burned Japanese corpses while searching for his mother's ashes… 19Reads—Score—14d adds
- 11 Forbidden Rules of the Haunted School 恐怖校园禁忌 These words themselves are supernatural. Many of these stories happened to me or to people around me, and the schools are real, too. You may not believe in ghosts, but that doesn’t mean you’ve never encountered one. An old Taoist priest in a tattered robe stroked her head. “A demon child has been born into the world. All living things will suffer. Disciple, go down the mountain now.” 2Reads—Score—14d adds
- 12 Rule Horror: I Entered the Game at the Zoo 规则怪谈：从动物园开始入局 [Rules Horror + Smart Protagonist + No Female Lead + Deduction] A friendly reminder: This isn’t a national survival livestream story, and there won’t be any government organizations (mainly because I’m a beginner and don’t know how to write them). The world has fallen into a nightmare of rules, and I’m the only one who doesn’t need a rulebook. I can see the cracks in the logic. From a sinister zoo to a cozy yet deadly apartment, I press on alone, making use of every loophole in the rules. 662Reads—Score10214d adds
- 13 Grandpa Started the Trouble, Three Generations Must Pay 爷爷闯下的祸，三代来还 3Reads—Score—14d adds
- 14 Death Will Be Televised 死亡将映 (Infinite Flow + mild horror + deduction + survival + one heroine) To uncover the ultimate secret, he must endure one round of slaughter and struggle after another. I thought I only had to complete a simple death mission to go home, but I was forced to uncover the ultimate secret. I thought I could open the Forbidden Zone of God and grow stronger, only to be told that the human body was also a treasure locked in chains. When I finally reached the end, I discovered that I had walked this road bef 117Reads—Score—14d adds
- 15 Don't Be Afraid, She's the Person Closest to Me 别怕，她是我最亲密的人 [Handcrafted from Scratch] [Flesh-and-Blood Vengeful Ghosts] [Chinese Horror] [Character Growth] [Not Mindless Wish Fulfillment] [Tightly Plotted] [Absolutely Ruthless] [50,000-Word Outline] If you were given the chance to change your fate, would you rather keep working hard as a delivery driver, or suddenly become a 182-centimeter-tall, golden-haired older man who never has to worry about food or clothing? Yu Fa had no choice. He was forced to transmigrate into the latter. But before he could e —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 16 Rule Horror: I Use a Lovecraftian Heavenly Court to Crush Dimensions 规则怪谈：我用克系天庭降维打击 Global rule-based horror games descend, and each country randomly draws a designer to create a rules dungeon and compete. The West unleashes "Vampire Castles," "Werewolf Towns," and "Cthulhu Cruises," crushing Daxia time and again. With its cultural heritage in tatters, Daxia loses nine rounds straight! Su Heng, who transmigrated into this world, takes over the mess and responds to the world's ridicule by tossing out [Heavenly Court Anomaly Code: Southern Heaven Gate]. "Do not look directly at t 49Reads—Score—14d adds
- 17 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 111Reads—Score—14d adds
- 18 Rift in the Abyss: We Awakened the Old Ones 深渊裂隙：我们唤醒旧日支配者 In 1992, U.S. Army Major Austin takes charge of the top-secret project "Abyss Watch." One hundred and thirty meters beneath the desert, a strange fissure spreads madness into the world above. Five elite soldiers are ordered into the abyss, with Austin directing their investigation remotely. A videotape that appears out of nowhere exposes a horrific secret from the past: To spy on the secrets underground, the military sacrificed living people. A thousand meters below ground, an ancient stone gate —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 19 Rule Horror: I Can See Echoes of the Old Days 规则怪谈：我能看到旧日余响 [Linked Instances + No Romance + Tracing the Origins of the Rules + Unconventional Rule-Based Horror] (If rules have a past, they must have left behind truths that were forgotten.) The bizarre has invaded reality, and the Chosen Ones are sent into an old world that has already been destroyed. Shen Yan gains the talent [Witness], which lets him see echoes of the past connected to the rules. When others face a strange tale, all they can do is guess which rule is false. Shen Yan discovers that the 3Reads—Score—14d adds
- 20 Hook in the Mist 迷雾之钩 The mist over Qinglan Reservoir never lifts. A pendant and fishhook engraved with the date 1962.7.15 don’t catch fish; they catch the living and the dead. Three years ago, documentary photographer Shen Bozhou’s heart stopped for ten minutes when he jumped into the reservoir to save his partner, who had plunged into the water under mysterious circumstances. Ever since, he has been haunted by visions from beneath the surface. Now he has returned to finish the film he left incomplete, only to find —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 21 The City of Silent Mist 默雾之城 [Rule-Based Horror; Infinite-Loop Adventure; Two Male Leads; No Female Lead; Wits and Strategy; A Male Lead Who Grows; One Night of a Hundred Battles; The Fear of the Unknown...] At some point, skyscrapers collapsed and mountain villas fell. The waters, skies, and earth no longer belonged to humanity. A thick fog from somewhere engulfed all these ruins, and the few humans left could only eke out an existence in the areas the white fog grudgingly spared. To grasp a slim chance of survival, people 2Reads—Score—14d adds
- 22 Ghostly Shadows in Memory 忆中诡影 [Supernatural Instance-Based Infinite Flow] A sudden natural disaster tore the world into pieces, leaving us stranded on one enormous island. Spatial rifts lead to one terrifying incident after another, as supernatural forces invade and try to drag people into a sea of death. Find the source of the fear and rescue those trapped inside. Those who seem to have nothing to do with saving the world. Those awakened by reincarnation. Survive a little longer. The Strange Mirror will find the heart of th 11Reads—Score114d adds
- 23 Girls’ Dorm Rule Horror: Survive! 女寝规则怪谈：请活下去！ 102Reads—Score314d adds
- 24 Multiple Fears 多重恐惧 An invitation to a party brings together nine writers, each with a very different style. At the party, the novelist who invited them traps everyone inside and demands that each guest tell a story. With no other choice, they comply. One story after another unfolds at the party: will they reveal the clash of human nature or unleash ghostly terrors? Everything will come to light here. "This is my debut work. I hope you'll show it plenty of support." 10Reads—Score—14d adds
- 25 Don't Talk to the Comments 不要和弹幕说话 [Horror + Supernatural + Mystery + Mind-Bending + Anthology (first four volumes complete) + Dread That Gets Under Your Skin + Not for the Fainthearted + The Villain Is the Smartest Character in the Book + Growing Female Lead + No System, No Cheats, Plot-Driven] Have you ever replied to a historical comment on a video, even just for fun? Hu Jia accidentally comes across a web series from ten years ago. It depicts a real case from that same year, but its ending is completely different from what 20Reads8.1Score—14d adds
- 26 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 2Reads—Score—14d adds
- 27 The Strange Platform 怪谈站台 (Rule-based horror + infinite scenarios + battles of wits) Everyone has a train of their own. The train stops at unknown stations at irregular intervals. The conductor must survive the rules of each horror scenario to claim the rewards and continue onward. Understand the rules, use the rules, create the rules! Struggle to survive in an infinite world of horror scenarios! 1.1kReads—Score11014d adds
- 28 Infinite Eerie Domains: Starting with a Haunted Classroom 无限诡域：从诡异教室开始 [Infinite Flow]+ [Fake terror]+ [Ghosts kill people]+ [Emotionless]+ [Mild horror] Late at night, Su Wang receives a strange black letter that appears out of nowhere in his home. Its four blood-red survival rules reveal a terrifying, unknown realm. In the blink of an eye, he is forcibly dragged into a strange study hall at Chenfeng High School, where he and six strangers are trapped together. The one unbreakable rule is carved into the blackboard: Keep quiet. One survivor loses control, makes a 28.1kReads8.0Score3.5k14d adds
- 29 Possession 上身 Ghosts: ethereal, elusive beings! Ghosts: a certainty that exists for those who believe, and not for those who don't! Are ghosts really only around at night? What do they actually look like? The truth is, they're right beside you! 4Reads—Score—14d adds
- 30 The Super Spooky Classroom 超级惊悚教室 At a certain high school, an ordinary afternoon was supposed to mean nothing more than a routine chemistry lesson. No one could have imagined that a terrifying disaster would begin there, and that our lives would never be peaceful again. 5Reads—Score114d adds
- 31 A Notebook of Ghost Stories 鬼故事手札 —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 32 The Temple That Eats People 吃人的庙 1Reads—Score—14d adds
- 33 Rule Horror: From the Start, in the Kingdom of Women 规则怪谈：开局女儿国 [Infinite instances + survival + not overpowered + not brainless + deduction + suspense + one heroine] In the mysterious Spirit Realm, created by an unknown force, anyone unfortunate enough to be drawn in must complete terrifying tasks where failure means death, at regular intervals. Zhang Yihong is unlucky enough to be pulled into the Spirit Realm, yet fortunate enough to become a Realm Breaker. What choices must he make... to make it to the end and see the light of day again? —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 34 Strange Tales from Liaozhai: Ghost Stories and Unsolved Mysteries 聊斋秘闻鬼魅传说与未解之谜 A collection of suspenseful short stories inspired by Strange Tales from a Chinese Studio and Chinese folk legends! Your follows and support motivate me to write. I’ll do my best to bring you even better stories! Fresh off the press! Leave a review, and I’ll keep improving! 1Reads8.3Score—14d adds
- 35 Rule Horror: Mentally Ill? Call Me the Savior 规则怪谈：精神病？请叫我救世主 [Rules of Horror + Original Scenarios + Intellectually Disabled Child + Dual Personality + Ensemble Cast + Live Streaming + No Female Lead + Heartwarming and Healing?] More than six months ago, Rules of Horror descended upon Blue Star, ushering in a game of national fate. Victory means survival. Defeat means death. Every move made by the chosen players affects the fate of their nations. When a nation’s Fate Value reaches zero, it will be completely overrun by the horrors. A friendly reminder fro 8Reads6.6Score—14d adds
- 36 A Dreamlike Life: What Do You Mean I'm a Nightmare? 浮生入梦，什么叫我是梦魇？ [Infinite Flow] [Fantasy] [May Have a Female Lead] [Not Mindless] [Mild Horror] A quiet day, a fleeting night: this is one person's day. A quiet day, nightmares at night: this is Bai Ye's day. On an ordinary afternoon, Bai Ye receives a message from an online acquaintance, and the nightmare that once belonged only to him begins to spread. He peels back the trappings of the dream. The truth hidden for years lies inside that old, peeling notebook. At the top of the stairs on the rooftop, his h 1Reads—Score—14d adds
- 37 Writing Correct Characters in the Advent of the Gods 我在神临写正字 [Infinite Flow] [Not Mindless] [Consistent Logic] [Single Female Lead, Much Later] [Deduction] [Story] Have you heard the legend of the Mo River? They say stones float on its surface, one after another, like teeth growing out of the abyss. Behind anyone who steps onto them lies the eerie abyss; ahead is black water with no visible end. With every trial passed, the stones shift a little farther back, farther from the abyss and closer to the truth. Some say the oldest one has crossed a thousand ti 2Reads—Score—14d adds
- 38 The Ghost Fan's Grave: Crossing the Yin-Yang Divide 鬼扇坟之阴阳渡 I saw a ghost for the first time when I was five. Using a ghost fan and a pair of eyes that could see through evil, my grandfather led me into the crack between the worlds of yin and yang. From then on, I became someone who mended fissures, patching up secrets that the living should never see and the dead could never tell. This is a story about eyes that see through evil and a ghost fan, two souls sharing one body and the Six Fiends, sacrifice and protection. From the first ghostly wail in Yinsh 5Reads—Score214d adds
- 39 Ghostly Tales from Fengdu 丰都鬼事 In her previous life, young artist Lin Wan set out alone for the fabled ghost city of Fengdu to search for her missing older sister, Lin Zhixia. Naively, she trusted the seemingly kind innkeeper and local gentry, unaware that she had stepped into a carefully laid trap. Coveted for her yin constitution, she was ultimately sacrificed in an old mansion behind Fengdu's famous mountain by the so-called “good Samaritans” to a traitor in the underworld who had disguised himself as Black Impermanence. H 4Reads—Score—14d adds
- 40 Laid Off and Driving a Taxi, I Get Haunted by Evil Spirits 被裁后开出租，我被邪物缠上了 After being laid off, 28-year-old Wang Chao starts driving a taxi to make ends meet. Little does he know that a host of evil entities are about to latch onto him. A mysterious woman in white, a strange old lady in worn-out clothes, a gaunt cemetery caretaker, and an elusive fat man... One after another, these figures drag him into a vortex he cannot escape... 4Reads—Score—14d adds
- 41 The Yin-Yang Twin 阴阳双生人 [Mild Horror + The Supernatural] Ming Ye grew up living in a cemetery. Her parents went missing seven years ago and were eventually found dead under bizarre circumstances in the mountains. Seven years later, she became an emergency room doctor. One midnight, she met the Taoist priest Xu Baoyang on a bus as he was out catching ghosts. Later, while tracking clues about his missing master, Xu Baoyang came to the hospital where Ming Ye worked and discovered that a strange hospital orderly had set up —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 42 I Heard of Strange Things That Year: Never Read This Late at Night 那年听闻怪事，千万别深夜翻看 These stories are adapted and fictionalized from various experiences shared by friends. They are written in an accessible style and make for a good way to unwind. A reminder: reject superstition. This is all imaginative fiction. Any similarities to real events are purely coincidental, so don't take it seriously! 11Reads—Score—14d adds
- 43 Slaying Demons and Ghosts Since High School 斩妖灭鬼，从高中开始 [Traditional Supernatural Horror] + [School Life] + [Ensemble Cast] + [Coming of Age] + [Not Overpowered] + [Passionate] It all begins with a student jumping from a school building. Liu Tianyu had expected to spend his student years in peace, but from that day on, his life was never quiet again. Peril at a haunted temple, a school turned into a sacrificial altar, a ghost city beneath the water: one challenge after another awaits. Watch as a group of students turn the tables amid the schemes of g —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 44 Whispers of the Ghosts 鬼魅低语 [Standalone Stories] [Eerie] [Thriller] [Strange] [Wild Imagination] Worlds full of distortion and absurdity. Whether it's seemingly ordinary snippets of everyday life or strange phenomena that gradually come to light, everything sends a chill down your spine and grows more terrifying the more you think about it. 39Reads—Score—14d adds
- 45 After My Face Was Stolen, I Drew the Six Realms of Living Beings 我的脸被夺走后我画出六道众生相 My face was stolen. It wasn’t disfigured. It wasn’t disguised. My face was literally gone. To stay alive, I had no choice but to paint one new face after another onto my own. Human, ghost, demon, beast, god, immortal. Every face I painted gave me a new ability. As I tried to reclaim my original face, I gradually discovered that this world was far more complicated than it seemed. 96Reads—Score12614d adds
- 46 The Eerie Realm: It Starts with an Elevator 诡界：从电梯开始 [No System]+ [No Heroine]+ [Dungeon Progression]+ [No Saintly Protagonist]+ [Eerie]+ [Original Dungeons] Have you ever wondered? Beneath the neon lights and atmosphere of this city, things lurk that defy all reason. They were chosen by the Eerie [Elevator] and marked by a terrifying curse. Again and again, they must take part in death games, until death claims them. 52Reads—Score—14d adds
- 47 Medium's Notes: My Left Eye Can See Ghosts 灵媒笔记：我的左眼能见鬼 The Cangye lineage of the Southern Frontier unleashes chaos. The Cherry Blossom Curse, Yin Soil summoning, Ruin Spirits, and malevolent earth veins emerge one after another, leaving the seals protecting the land on the brink of collapse. In a desperate battle, pure Yang Heavenly Energy collides with the turbid qi of Yin Soil inside him, forming a yin-yang vortex whose blessings and dangers are impossible to predict. His old enemies flee into the Hundred Thousand Mountains, seeking a chance to p 12Reads—Score—14d adds
- 48 The Haunted House at No. 13 13号凶宅 Number 13 Qianliang Hutong in Beijing has long been a haunted house. During the Cultural Revolution, several people died mysteriously one after another inside the residence. Long Fei, an investigator with the Public Security Bureau, assumed the alias Li Qiang and moved into the compound as a housing office inspector. After a series of thrilling struggles, Li Qiang finally discovered that Number 13 was an operational base for an enemy spy organization... 959Reads9.4Score—14d adds
- 49 Playing Chess Against a God in a World of Rule Horror 当我在规则怪谈里与神对弈 [Rules and Rebellion crossover][Endless twists][No female lead][Infinite Flow][Ensemble cast][Mild horror] My name is Jian Fei, and I’m a freshman. It all began when I was forced into a paranormal incident. It has been several hundred years since the last Rulebound Horror appeared. Now it has returned, and this time, the gods are involved too. You might think this is just another simple Rulebound Horror, but in truth, it’s a game of wits between the gods, the supernatural, and humanity... 15Reads—Score—14d adds
- 50 Shadows in the Daylight 白昼暗影 The criminal he hunts is himself. The shadow he cannot escape is his only protector. Lin Mo, the police department’s star profiler, cracks one extraordinary case after another with his precise criminal psychology analyses. But he doesn’t know that every night, another self awakens: Shen Ye, a “dark vigilante” who fights violence with violence, hunting down criminals who escaped justice through Lin Mo. The massacre that destroyed his family when he was a child split ten-year-old Lin Mo’s mind, cr —Reads—Score—14d adds
