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- 1 Rule Horror: The Hauntings Make Me Break the Rules 规则怪谈：怪谈让我违反规则 [Rule-based horror + not a wish-fulfillment story + not invincible + no female lead, no romance + high-IQ deduction] The first rule-based horror scenario is complete, so you can read without worry! Content warning: The main plot and romantic elements are limited. The story focuses on the rules, so proceed with caution if that’s not your thing. This is a cursed world. From the moment they are born, everyone is cursed by It and bound at all times by Its rules. Anyone who breaks them dies instant 2Reads—Score—Shelves
- 2 Abyss Task Force: Scavenge, Shoot, and Escape in the Apocalypse 深渊特遣：末日搜打撤 [Loot, Fight, Extract + Game Invasion + Superpowered Martial Arts + True Love + Suspense + Thrilling Battles] As a top player of Deep Abyss Extraction, Lu Ran's greatest dream was to clear every map solo one day. Then one day, a bolt of lightning struck him and sent him into the real Deep Abyss Extraction. There are no cheats here, no respawns, and no way to quit the game. Lu Ran was dumbfounded. Die in the game, and at worst you lose your gear. Die here, and you really get buried. Life-storage 7Reads—Score—Shelves
- 3 A Supernatural Game? I Am the Dread King! 诡异游戏？我，恐怖君王！ [Rules-Based Horror + National Fortune + One Female Lead + Invincible Power Fantasy + System + Becoming King] While contestants around the world were still trembling beneath the horrors and searching for rules to survive, Leng Mo turned around and slapped the life-reaping female ghost flying. The Xia Kingdom livestream went from despair to frenzy. “Our contestant... killed the horror with just a few slaps?!” “Rules? Only the weak need to follow rules!” [Ding! King’s Contempt check successful! Ki 1Reads—Score—Shelves
- 4 The Villain Turns Out to Be a Pure-Hearted Puppy~ 反派竟是纯情修狗～ The villain turns out to be a lovesick puppy~ —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 5 Did Our Opera-Singing CP Become the Most Popular Ship Today? 戏腔cp今天美帝了吗 Has the Opera-Singing CP Made It Big Today? —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 6 The Tale of Yuheng and Wenxin 玉衡文心传 In the chaotic world of the fifth year of Yongjia, Xie Ninghua, the legitimate daughter of the Xie clan of Chen Commandery, courtesy name Yuheng, loses her family when Liu Yao, ruler of the Han-Zhao state of the Xiongnu, massacres them and burns their books. Carrying a mysterious black box left by her mother and the mission of preserving civilization, she awakens the “Sword Intent of the Keepers” in the face of despair. Thus begins a sweeping adventure filled with love, hatred, and intrigue. —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 7 The Long Night's Slumber 长眠夜色 Driven to the brink, humanity forged blades from bone and offered blood as a sacrifice to hunt down the blood-devouring beasts ravaging the world. The trust forged in battle and the bonds shared between life and death still couldn’t withstand fate’s backlash. They burned through their passion, going from fighting side by side to taking separate paths. In the end, the beasts were slain, and every last person died. No one returned. Only the endless night remained, burying all their love, hatred, a —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 8 Guiyuan: Hong Kong Under Siege 归元HK围城 Lin Zhao woke up in a morgue's refrigerated drawer with only one number on his wristband: LY-0001. He didn't know who he was. All he knew was that his right hand could transform into a black jade bone blade, and that devouring the infected let him read their memories. In the post-apocalyptic city of HK, the infected weren't mindless zombies. They shared a hive mind, and each one was a tendril of some ancient entity. —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 9 The Spirit Ferry Inn Never Gets a Bad Review 渡灵居从不留差评 The Duling Residence has one rule for its guests: Check in after midnight at your own risk. Lin Che has run the old inn for three years, offering company, ghost removal, and guest send-offs. He thought he'd spend the rest of his life scraping by in the “Firefly” realm, until one day an amnesiac girl crawls out of the wall and things that should never have awakened begin appearing in the city. The qi meridians awaken, and all things change. Every faction is searching for the legendary “Guardian o 1Reads—Score—Shelves
- 10 Dragon’s Roar in the Northern Song 北宋龙吟 A wuxia novel set in the late Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms period and the early Northern Song dynasty, and a major installment in the Glorious Age: Dragon’s Hidden series. The story follows two intertwined threads, the “Guixu Crisis” and the “Chivalry of the Martial World,” weaving a sweeping tale of fate, protection, and growth. At its heart are the three protagonists, Xiao Wenjing, Lin Yueyao, and Su Ningshuang, whose stories connect the conflicts between martial sects, shifts in power at c —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 11 Rule Horror: Ghost-Hunting Livestream 规则怪谈：直播捉鬼 Rule Horror: Live-Streaming Ghost Hunts 1Reads—Score—Shelves
- 12 The Rule Horror of the Milk Tea Shop Employee Handbook 规则怪谈之奶茶店店员守则 Rules of the Strange: Bubble Tea Shop Employee Handbook 3Reads—Score—Shelves
- 13 Rule Horror: The Neighbor Who Vanished from the Residents' Group Chat 规则怪谈：小区业主群里消失的邻居 Rule Horror: The Neighbor Who Vanished from the Neighborhood Group Chat 2Reads—Score—Shelves
- 14 Rule Horror: My Wife's Best Friend Lives at My House 规则怪谈：老婆闺蜜住我家 [One female lead (summoned beast) + national destiny + deduction + livestreaming + panda head + no forced romance + not invincible] The whole world is plunged into a realm of rule-based horrors. Every year, chosen ones are selected from each country to enter an instance. If a chosen one clears the instance, their country receives generous rewards. If they fail, their country is invaded by the supernatural, and horrors appear throughout its streets and alleys. Fang Ming represents the Dragon King 45Reads8.7Score—Shelves
- 15 Right and Wrong, Merit and Blame 是是非非功与过 Right and wrong, merit and blame. —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 16 The Spirit-Devouring Sword Emperor 吞灵剑帝 Fang Yuan, a youth with nine ruined meridians, is cruelly cast aside after his engagement is broken off, reduced to a lowly servant whom everyone in the Qingyun Sect looks down upon. On the day the engagement is called off, his ancestral jade pendant shatters, and an ancient scroll enters his sea of consciousness. It can devour the spiritual energy of all things and reveal flaws in every cultivation technique. He conceals his sharp edge and secretly sets his plans in motion, stirring up the enti —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 17 In 2150, After I Transmigrated, Even the Heavenly Dao Feared Me 2150年，我穿越后天道都怕我 Transmigration to a cultivation world + interstellar young marshal + technological dimensional superiority + AI comrades + flaws in the Heavenly Dao + layered worlds Who fell from low Earth orbit into a cultivation continent? Who sent a call from the depths of their soul at the very lowest level of the code? The heavens split open with a thunderous crack, and the Abyss's remains and gray-white death energy poured down. The human world became a testing ground for a higher-level program. Lin Chuan 4Reads—Score—Shelves
- 18 What Was, What Is, and a Final Smile as the Broken Prisoner Dies 曾如何，现如何，终一笑殒残囚 Other people transmigrate: a domineering hero from the start, free to do as he pleases. They transmigrate: brothers separated, their escort agency slaughtered, and dragged into a war between two nations just as they find their footing. The day the three Zhang Ru brothers transmigrated into the game, they thought they could use modern knowledge to crush everything in their path. Instead, they discovered that blades in this world were faster than they'd imagined, blood ran hotter, and human hearts —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 19 Fighting Girl: Violet Academy 格斗少女【紫罗兰高校】 She once stood at a height everyone admired, with a nearly perfect appearance. But after entering the world of martial arts, enduring collision after collision and struggle after struggle, she came to understand that true strength isn't about maintaining a flawless exterior. It's about daring to shatter the perfect version of yourself. From breaking through her limits, to finding her convictions, to accepting defeat with grace. This is a young woman's growth in the ring, and her entire journey f 29Reads—Score—Shelves
- 20 They Thought I Was Insane, Now I Lead the Star Beasts Against the Insect Tide 被当成神经后，我统领星兽抗虫潮 [No CP] Lin Miao died suddenly and caught the transmigration trend, only to become a little beggar in space. Fortunately, a still-charming old man took her in, planning to pass on to her all the mechanical repair skills he had learned in his lifetime. Her: (ﾟ⊿ﾟ) In her previous life, she studied the humanities. In this life, she only wants to be support. If that doesn't work out, farming and brewing medicine will do. Then came the entrance assessment (*꒦ິ⌓꒦ີ). The person in charge ◉‿◉: This chil 17Reads—Score119Shelves
- 21 The Protagonist Cleared the Dungeon in a Year, Fantasy 主角用一年打穿副本，幻之 [Infinite-flow] [No CP] [Light ensemble cast] [No System] [Mostly clean] [Time and space] [Interstellar] Instance One: Changping Instance Two: Memories Instance Three… From the fog-shrouded town of “Changping” to the maze of “Memories,” where truth and falsehood are impossible to tell apart, each instance is a carefully woven mystery trap, with spy-thriller-style mind games hidden in every conversation and test. Without a golden finger to protect her, she relies on her composure and keen instinc 1Reads—Score—Shelves
- 22 The Mayfly That Flew Through Heaven 穿过天堂的蜉蝣 Beneath the glittering art scene of Luocheng lies a secret buried for more than a decade. Violinist Su JinxI lives under someone else's roof, keeps her brilliance in check, and doggedly investigates the truth behind her father's fall from a building. Shen Qihe is a feared business magnate, cold-hearted and guided by profit and loss in everything. He never softens for anyone. For years, he has stayed hidden in the shadows, quietly protecting Su Jinxi, shielding her from undercurrents and waiting 13Reads—Score—Shelves
- 23 You Said She Was Supposed to Be Yandere, So What’s with This Clingy Kitten? 说好的病娇呢，这粘人小猫咪是什么鬼 Wasn’t she supposed to be a yandere? What’s with this clingy little kitty? 1Reads—Score—Shelves
- 24 My Best Friend Wants to Compete with Empress Ma for Favor. Now That I’m Reborn, I Won’t Stop Her 闺蜜要和马皇后争宠，重生归来我不劝了 My best friend wants to compete with Empress Ma for the emperor’s favor. Now that I’m reborn, I won’t talk her out of it. 9Reads—Score—Shelves
- 25 Seven Months, a Lifetime of Longing for Me 七个月，换我余生想念 “The Dharma is no Dharma; emptiness, too, is not empty.” Nothing in this world is fixed, and neither emptiness nor form is the ultimate truth. The story of Li Xinghe and Song Qingmeng is a cultivation of “gain” and “loss.” She gave him a seven-month dream; he will carry that dream with him for the rest of his life. 2Reads—Score—Shelves
- 26 Biohazard Meow: Li Hua’s Doomsday Hide-and-Seek 生化危喵：李华的末日躲猫猫 Li Hua was flipping through a catgirl manga in class, thinking the plot was ridiculous. Then the TV cut to an emergency news bulletin: "A new virus is spreading. Those infected will turn into catgirls within three seconds. Repeat: not zombies, catgirls." The whole class turned to look at him. A catgirl manga was lying open on his desk. Li Hua: "...This has nothing to do with me." Then his deskmate transformed into a catgirl right in front of him and hugged his arm. He was the only person immune. 4Reads—Score—Shelves
- 27 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—Shelves
- 28 They Call Me an Ascender, but I Call Myself a Fugitive 他们叫我飞升者，我称自己逃亡犯 [Modern Industrial Cultivation] + [Surviving Rule-Based Horror] + [Nontraditional Cultivation] On the first day of every month, I'm dragged into a hellish place called “Myriad Phenomena Heaven.” It has a scenic area that eats people, a deadly school where you must always tell the truth, a flesh factory that turns the living into canned goods... and one bizarre set of rules after another that you have to obey. I'm Chen Xing, the adopted son of Shuo Bei Governor Xuan Ji, and the last surviving hei 7Reads—Score—Shelves
- 29 Betrayed, I Rose from the Ashes 被背叛后，我涅槃了 This book is titled The Bell Tower Chronicles. [Fantasy + strong female lead + ensemble cast + episodic arcs + mystery-solving + past and present lives + an overarching storyline] One heartwarming yet sorrowful story after another forms a River of Forgetfulness that is impossible to cross and impossible to forget. To exterminate demons and uphold the Way is to defend righteousness. But do humans always represent righteousness? What is the righteous path, and what is evil? How are demons and beas 1Reads—Score—Shelves
- 30 My Fair Princess: The Whole Cast Turns Evil and Falls Apart 还珠格格：全员恶人崩坏中 My Fair Princess: The Entire Cast Turns Evil and Goes Off the Rails 1Reads—Score—Shelves
- 31 Phoenix Over the Warring States 凤临战国 History is the skeleton; art is the wings. Huang Xi transmigrates to the final years of the Warring States period, a world of the Hundred Schools of Thought, demons, and legends of the ancient Yu Dynasty. She arrives with an unshakable determination: to build a nation unlike any other. 55Reads—Score—Shelves
- 32 Abyssal Calamity 渊厄 [This is the author's first book, and I'm a complete beginner who only got into web novels last year. If you spot anything that could be improved, please share your valuable suggestions. Thank you!] [Infinite worlds | No padding | No invincible protagonist | One heroine | Modern urban martial arts | Supernatural abilities | Horror game] So calm it's pathological, so deranged it's extreme, with an intellect that crushes every rule. My name is Xi Yan. I'm trapped in the Abyssal Dimension. There ar 7Reads—Score—Shelves
- 33 Everyone Awakens, but I Alone Plunder the Dead's Echoes 全民觉醒，唯我掠夺死者残响 Three years after the public launch, Lin Yuan still has no talent at all. (Slow burn 🥵) Until he kills his first mutated beast and finds a gray-white fragment inside its skull. System notification: Plunder successful. Stone Skin Lv. 1. He thinks it's a golden finger. Only later does he learn that every fragment is a dead person's keepsake. The stronger he gets, the clearer the voices in his ears become. Until the day the purge order is posted all over the city. 3Reads—Score—Shelves
- 34 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—Shelves
- 35 Goodbye, Until We Meet Again 再见即重逢 After Shen An died, he transmigrated to the modern world by chance and became little Qi Jing. He went through countless twists and turns in search of the person he had loved in his past life. “Yes, I’m just a thief.” He came to this world all alone, only because he was looking for you. Even he wasn’t sure whether he would be able to find you. If not for that glimpse on the hospital rooftop, and that call of “Ji Chen,” he might have died soon after arriving in this world. I want to go home, but J 3Reads—Score—Shelves
- 36 Is Tang Done For? I’m Firefly’s Strongest Sniper! 唐完了？我是萤火最强狙击手！ [Arena Breakout] + [Gameplay] + [Another World] + [Light System] + [No Female Lead] When survivors who scheme against one another reignite the flames of war over resources, a glimmer of light from the Arena Breakout world spreads like wildfire, reshaping this realm. To rebuild the new world, they seek out the protagonist, Li Xingyun... Stay tuned for more exciting content! I hope you enjoy my work. Your follows and reviews are what keep me writing!!! 9Reads—Score—Shelves
- 37 The Rules: Mind Reading, and the Eerie Both Love and Hate Me 规则：读心术，诡异对我又爱又恨 [Rule-Based Mysteries + Original Game Instances + No Female Lead + National Fortunes + Livestreaming + Mind Reading + Comforting and Healing + Comedy + Mild Horror] Du En transmigrated, and his mind-reading ability came along with him. Representing the Dragon Kingdom in a rule-based mystery challenge, he received an S-rank, upgradeable talent: “Negative Emotion Harvester.” His starting instance was The Perfect Family. At first, the whole family wanted him dead. Using his mind-reading ability, 28Reads8.8Score—Shelves
- 38 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—Shelves
- 39 The Rest of Life at the Wild Crossing 野渡余生 [Bonus Scenes] After an argument Zhi Ye: I'm going to teach him a lesson. He has to understand what he did wrong. Then Shen Yanzhou: I'll change. I can learn. Zhi Ye: … Zhi Ye: Come here and give me a hug. When she gets flirted with instead Shen Yanzhou: Can I dance with a kiss instead? I won't dance, okay? Zhi Ye: Let's go home. Zhi Ye: Damn, how is he so good at flirting? Zhi Ye: This man knows all the tricks. Shen Yanzhou: ? I was just breathing. From a passerby's perspective Someone: Serious 5Reads—Score—Shelves
- 40 Taken Hostage from the Start, the System Says I'm a Supreme Species 开局被撕票，系统说我是至高种 Also known as The Era of Returning to Stillness: A Chronicle of the Void. [Not a conventional supernatural horror story + one heroine + mind-bending + nearly invincible] The blurb can't do it justice, so head straight to the story: The System descends upon the world, plunging everyone into a bizarre, deadly game. While others struggle to survive in its trials, Ye Chen leisurely racks up SSS-rank scores. Then he meets a mysterious, aloof girl in a white dress, and the System suddenly erupts wi —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 41 The Ferryman of Consciousness 意识摆渡人 The Consciousness Ferryman 2Reads—Score—Shelves
- 42 Deep Within the Phoenix Curtain Palace: I Rewrote the Plot After Becoming Cannon Fodder 凤帷宫深：穿成炮灰后我改写剧情 Reincarnated as a disposable character in a palace intrigue game, she hears the System say, "You’ll be beaten to death in three days." Countdown: 2 days, 23 hours, 59 minutes. The people framing me are powerful, and everyone offering help has their own agenda. As for my golden finger, it can only show me when I’ll die. No matter. They rely on rank. I rely on brains. One earring turns the tables. One careless remark throws the inner palace into chaos. Within three days, I’ll go from being a sacri 55Reads—Score—Shelves
- 43 Rule Horror: I Call the Paranormal Entities “Dad” from the Start 规则怪谈：开局我喊诡异爸爸 Cui Fei enters a rule-based horror scenario and gets a Relationship System. Other people's systems are for showing off and getting stronger, but Cui Fei's System makes him call the supernatural entities "Daddy," turns him into their beloved first love, and makes him their love rival! 77Reads—Score—Shelves
- 44 I Became a Skinner After Moving Into the Apartment 入住公寓后成了剥皮匠 On the day I moved in, the building manager handed me a rusty key and a yellowed set of house rules. “Light the red lantern in the living room every night. If it goes out, hide under the bed immediately.” Next door lived a qipao-clad female ghost who loved to sing. Downstairs was a doctor with a peculiar taste for blood. To stay alive, I lit the lantern on time every day, until the power went out on the seventh night. The instant the lantern went dark, I saw the dried corpses of the previous ten 3Reads—Score—Shelves
- 45 My Delusions Come True in a Horror Game 我的妄想在惊悚游戏里成真 [Original Scenarios + Not a Power Fantasy] [Scenario One: The Hospital of Malice] [Scenario Two: Alice’s Amusement Park] [Scenario Three: Joyful Funeral] Shen Xie, a patient with “severe persecutory delusions” at Qingshan Psychiatric Hospital, spends every day convinced that he is being watched and persecuted from all sides. Until one day, a blood-red notification tears through reality: [The Global Horror Game has begun. You have been chosen as a player representing “Huaguo.”] [National destiny 1Reads—Score—Shelves
- 46 Your Gods Are Kneeling Before Me 你们的神明正跪在我的面前 [Sequence + Slay the Gods + ensemble cast + no System] [A slow-paced story with a vast setting that gets better the more you read] [Perfect bedtime reading, guaranteed to cure insomnia] This book has no genius who starts out invincible, and no young underdog who rises from obscurity. In the night, what you see is blue and violet neon burning through the city’s darkness, and a Ferris wheel turning slowly like an eye suspended in the sky. What you can’t see are the giant beasts lurking in the shad —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 47 The Supreme Netherworld Lord 一代冥尊 As a descendant of an ancient evil clan, she becomes the savior of the Myriad Worlds. Holy light shines upon her, though she is covered in blood. Those who follow her will prosper; those who defy her will perish! When others mock her, she replies: “So what if my hands are stained with blood? My heart is bright and clear. What else is there to say?” Witness the trials and tribulations of Mingzun He Li, who ultimately achieves greatness! —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 48 Immortal Shepherd 仙牧 What heavenly spiritual roots or earthly spiritual roots? Cultivators in my world rely on spirit springs! When chaos first emerged, two primordial beings were born between heaven and earth: the Spirit Root Realm and the Spirit Spring Realm. The beings of the two realms fought over the origin of the world in a decisive battle at Star Ash Abyss, later known as the Great War of the Two Spirits. In the end, the Spirit Spring Realm emerged victorious. From birth, every mortal has a spirit spring th 8Reads—Score—Shelves
- 49 Rule Zero 第零规则 [Infinite Flow] [Rule Horror] [Cerebral mind games] [Identity reversals] [Ensemble cast] Shen Zhou wakes up on the subway with a note in his pocket. The handwriting is his own, and it bears five words: You forget every time. Then he’s dragged into a deadly game ruled by rules. The rules are cruel, meticulous, and seemingly flawless. Until he realizes that some of them feel strangely familiar. But he can’t remember anything. When the rules are finally revealed, everyone is searching for a way 2Reads—Score—Shelves
- 50 Can the Prince Handle It? 王爷行不行 An imperial marriage decree? The Seventh Prince? That cold, heartless royal? Brother Wen, I’m already promised to someone. “Your Highness, Qiu Shaojing says this won’t work?” “An Xue, am I a feast for the eyes?” “An Xue, I’ll do what I promised you.” 5Reads—Score—Shelves
