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- 1 The World Is a Ghostly Hell, Good Thing I Went Crazy Early 人间鬼蜮，还好我提前疯了 A funny, mildly frightening Lovecraftian folk-horror Infinite Flow story, with no System, a small ensemble cast, and no female lead. It all begins with a text message sent to everyone in despair. Step onto the platform of death and search for hope amid despair. Completed instances: "The Haunted Nursing Home" and "The Age of Peace and Chaos." These two instances form the main story of the first arc. Based on "The Taiping Book of Sorcery," left behind by the Great Sage of Learning, Zhang Jue, 30.6kReads8.4Score4k14d adds
- 2 A Wedding Feast in the Old Town 古镇喜宴 A Wedding Feast in the Ancient Town 1Reads—Score—14d adds
- 3 The Late-Night Bus 凌晨的夜班车 The Late-Night Bus 1Reads—Score—14d adds
- 4 Desolate Reef Island 荒礁岛 Barren Reef Island 7Reads—Score—14d adds
- 5 Old Arts Building 旧术楼 Old Techniques Building 9Reads—Score—14d adds
- 6 Lost Paradise Amusement Park 失乐游乐园 The Lost Paradise Amusement Park 7Reads—Score—14d adds
- 7 The Sealed Gate's Final Sacrifice 封门遗祭 The Sacrifice at the Sealed Gate 2Reads—Score—14d adds
- 8 The Village Opera Stage Where the Coffin Was Lowered 落棺村戏台 The Village Coffin Stage 1Reads—Score—14d adds
- 9 After Ten Years as a Psychiatrist, I Finally Began to Doubt My Entire Worldview 当了十年精神科医生，第一次彻底怀疑世界观 After ten years as a psychiatrist, I finally began to seriously doubt my view of the world for the first time. 1Reads—Score—14d adds
- 10 Welcome to the Game of Sin and Desire 欢迎来到罪欲游戏 [Infinite Flow + two male leads, 1v1, both pure] Sunflowers die beneath the scorching sun; the selfish die of greed. Because of his heart condition, Chen Yi is filled with a desperate will to survive and is forced into the Sin and Desire Game. Here, desire is the only master. "Ding! Please honor your desires, for it is your privilege." Beneath beautiful appearances lie bloodshed and filth. Beneath trust lie betrayal and suspicion. In a realm of desire, no one can stay untouched. But what's going —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 11 Ghosts Are So Scary! Learning to Slay Them in a Supernatural World 有鬼好怕怕，我在灵异世界学斩鬼 [Horror novel. Not for the faint of heart.] Do you believe there are ghosts in this world? If not, where did the word “ghost” come from? Have you ever experienced despair? The world I live in is filled with it. My name is Li You'an. If you’d like to hear my story, come take a look at my world. Twenty kilometers beyond the cemetery, countless hands clawed their way out of the earth. The world changed, becoming strange and unfamiliar. Ghosts ran rampant, the gates of the underworld swung wide ope —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 12 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 Taboos of the Abandoned Village: A Whistle in the Dead of Night, and a White-Cloth Corpse Spirit Comes Calling —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 13 On My Wedding Day, My Deceased Sister Texted: You Can't Marry This Man 婚礼当天，亡妹发短信：这人不能嫁 On her wedding day, her deceased younger sister texted her: Don't marry this man. —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 14 The Funeral Bearer of the Desolate Village 荒村送葬人 When the suona sounds, it sends off neither ghosts nor gods. It only buries the player. Nineteen years old, a severed finger, a lonely tower, and a deadly Three Corpses Seal in his belly. Behind him, a skin-flaying demon. Before him, red coffins and mist. Not a single person beside him could be trusted. Driven to the brink, he blew the battered suona he’d found. The tune was off-key, yet it shook the underworld. Since this world insists on making me a sacrifice, I’ll be the corpse-piper who send 3.2kReads8.2Score20614d adds
- 15 Before the Strange Things Begin 在一切诡异之前 [Supernatural resurgence + horror + no System + semi-infinite survival + no saintly protagonist + not dark + no female lead] When ghosts invaded reality, a group of survivors gained the protection of the “Rules.” They became employees of the “Rules,” and to keep enjoying their protection, they had to complete tasks. But the power of the “Rules” was limited... I didn't really care about any of that. I didn't want to bother figuring out what was the cause and what was the effect. So what if this w 11Reads—Score—14d adds
- 16 Supernatural Horror Livestream Recordings 超级恐秘直播实录 Prophecies, bizarre murders, mystical feng shui, treasure appraisal, secret Taoist arts... My name is Lin Mo, and I'm from Fujian. By day, I run my family's antique shop, which is barely staying afloat. By night, I make money from tips and commission fees by livestreaming from haunted houses. For the first ten or so streams, I didn't even catch a glimpse of a ghost's hair. Then came my twentieth stream... During that livestream at the ancient Guiyin house in Quanzhou, the regulars in my chat and 3Reads—Score—14d adds
- 17 Tales of the Countryside: My Grandma Was a Midwife 乡野怪谈之我的姥姥是稳婆 At the foot of Mount Maqi, midwife Zhang Guilan spent her life delivering babies on nighttime roads. Other midwives delivered human babies. The ones she delivered were ghosts, demons, and wronged spirits from the wilderness. Road-blocking skin-sellers, water ghosts demanding souls, Pixihuzi repaying a debt of gratitude, and Li the Bald-Tailed Dragon making his presence known. She didn't believe in the supernatural when she was young. Only after surviving countless dangers did she understand t 147Reads—Score—14d adds
- 18 Strange Tales: Paper Money 诡异杂谈之纸钱 Weird Tales: Paper Money 1Reads—Score—14d adds
- 19 Eerie Revival: From the Start, I Perfectly Mastered the Ghost Leg 诡异复苏：开局完美驾驭鬼脚 [Non-Fanfiction + Ghost Controller Supernatural System + Not Scary + No Survival Struggle + Lighthearted] The Heavenly Dao is shattered, and the Underworld lies empty. Scattered fragments of the Heavenly Dao's laws merge with evil ghosts. Carrying supernatural rules, these ghosts invade the human world, and the apocalypse begins. Xu Nuo transmigrates into this world. The version of himself here failed to control a ghost foot and became a ghost slave. The power of transmigration causes the two to 3.6kReads6.5Score25514d adds
- 20 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
- 21 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
- 22 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
- 23 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
- 24 A Notebook of Ghost Stories 鬼故事手札 A Notebook of Ghost Stories 1Reads—Score—14d adds
- 25 Deep Fear: This Taoist Priest Doesn't Believe in Ghosts 深层恐惧，贫道不信鬼 [Mild Horror | Infinite Flow | Supernatural | Ensemble Cast | No System] Zhou Heng was raised in the Daoist tradition. He knows ritual ceremonies and talismans, and he has also studied applied psychology. After years of driving away evil spirits for people, he is certain of one thing: there are no ghosts in this world. Possession, spirits knocking at the door, and the dead returning are usually illnesses, hoaxes, or worries the living refuse to acknowledge. Those who need a hospital should go to —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 26 Rule Horror: I Transmigrated into an F-Rank Aberration 规则怪谈：我穿越成了F级诡异 (Rules-based horror, subverting the usual tropes, with an eerie being as the protagonist. Mildly scary, with light humor. Not quite like traditional rules-based horror: the rules in the early dungeons are weak, but the dungeons gradually grow stronger and evolve.) Overworked office drone Zhou Yan dies suddenly from working overtime. When he opens his eyes again, he has become an F-rank trainee horror in a rules-based horror world. During his trainee dungeon, he must stop the Chosen One from clea 12.6kReads7.1Score1.2k14d adds
- 27 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
- 28 Grandpa Started the Trouble, Three Generations Must Pay 爷爷闯下的祸，三代来还 The trouble Grandpa caused will take three generations to repay. 3Reads—Score—14d adds
- 29 The Temple That Eats People 吃人的庙 The Man-Eating Temple 1Reads—Score—14d adds
- 30 I’m an S-Rank Aberration, Contracted by a Psychic School Beauty S级诡异的我，被通灵体校花契约 [Supernatural + Mysterious Revival + Suspense + Horror + Terror + Adrenaline Rush + Not for the Faint of Heart] My name is Zhang Jian. I transmigrated into a world where the supernatural had returned and was reborn as an S-rank supernatural entity, the Taotie Ghost. I can devour other supernatural beings and take their powers, earning me the title of nightmare to countless spirits. Unfortunately, my strength was low from the start. I planned to lie low and devour a few weak spirits to grow stron 206Reads6.0Score14014d adds
- 31 Eternal Night: You Want Me to End the Supernatural Era? 永夜：你叫我终结灵异时代？ "My name is Yang Mo. By the time you read this, I'll be dead." "At first, all I wanted was to study hard and get into the university of my dreams, escaping the high school life that offered no glimpse of a future. But it seems I'll never live to see that day..." (Mysterious Revival + before the eternal night falls) (No female lead. You don't need to have read the original; I'll explain the important setting details.) 10.3kReads7.3Score92014d adds
- 32 Thriller: Paranormal Events Happening Around Me 惊悚：发生在我身边的灵异事件 [No Female Lead] + [Horror and Thrills] + [Not for the Fainthearted] Ever since I was a child, I’ve had three moles on my forehead. The old folks say three moles mean a person is spiritually attuned, which means strange things are always bound to happen to me. Sure enough, paranormal incidents have always happened around me. Today, I’ll tell you about them one by one. 2.3kReads—Score10814d adds
- 33 Mystery Revival: What Do You Mean You Set Yang Jian Up With... 神秘复苏：什么叫做你给杨间配了 (All written by hand, 8,000 words a day, and up to 13,000 when I’m in good form. Multiple heroines, ensemble cast, sweet romance, and an older woman-younger man relationship in the first 300,000 words.) “Knock, knock, knock~” “Who’s at the door?” “Oh, it’s Qi Xia. You’re home.” … Meanwhile, somewhere else “Knock, knock, knock!” Oh no, no, no! You’ve got to be kidding me?! ˃̣̣̥᷄⌓˂̣̣̥᷅ Bai Che transmigrated to an unknown world. And in that world... There were ghosts! [Urban high martial arts] + [ 597Reads6.4Score10414d adds
- 34 The First Book by Jinye Guanlan 烬夜观澜的第1本书 My new work is out! You can read it on Tomato Novel. I hope you enjoy it. Your support motivates me to write, and I'll do my best to tell every story well! 520Reads—Score11114d adds
- 35 Everyone Is Following the Fake Rules 所有人都在遵守假规则 Endless rule-based instances descend upon the world, and every public rule they announce is a trap meant to lure players to their deaths. Shen Yan awakens the [Hidden Adjudication System], which lets him see through the true survival rules concealed within each instance. While others follow the rules and walk to their deaths, he breaks them and finds a way to survive. In one perilous instance after another, he meets all kinds of women and, amid deceit and betrayal, leads his companions through l 2Reads—Score—14d adds
- 36 Strange Tales from the Teaching Mission 支教诡事 I'm an ordinary teacher at a key secondary school, but after I talked back to the principal, I was “volunteered” for a long-term teaching assignment at a middle school in the countryside. I was furious, but to keep my job, I had no choice but to accept being “volunteered.” What I never expected was that this school would be anything but ordinary. (Note: This book is set in a parallel world. Any resemblance between its place names, characters, or events and those in real life is purely coincident 3.6kReads8.2Score37314d adds
- 37 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." 9Reads—Score—14d adds
- 38 Escape from the Bear’s Jaws 熊口逃生 Escape from the Bear’s Jaws 949Reads—Score—14d adds
- 39 No Responsibility for Scaring You to Tears 吓哭不负责 [Traditional supernatural tales] [Ghost stories] [Chinese-style horror] [Based on true events] [Reader submissions] [Chilling when you think about it] [Bizarre tales] [Beyond the realm of science] [Plainspoken prose, no literary flourishes] [Just stories] Not for the faint of heart! Don’t read late at night! Folklore, haunted houses, eerie village incidents, urban vengeful spirits, supernatural curses, and even non-supernatural stories that are chilling when you think about them... A collection 24.3kReads9.3Score1.9k14d adds
- 40 My Best Friend Urged Me to Get a Tattoo, But I Ended Up Tattooing Ghost Skin 闺蜜劝我纹身，可我竟然纹了鬼皮 My best friend urged me to get a tattoo, but somehow I ended up tattooing ghost skin on myself 86Reads—Score—14d adds
- 41 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
- 42 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
- 43 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
- 44 Mystery: Even a Smoker Can Be a Ghost 神秘：烟鬼也是鬼 When the mysterious returns and terror descends. When evil spirits appear and cannot be killed. When the world falls into despair, who will be its savior? The protagonist, Li Er, was an ordinary college student until he found himself in this desperate age. 9.5kReads5.5Score1.2k14d adds
- 45 Rule Horror: If You Don't Die Ten Times, I'll Take Your Surname 规则怪谈：你不死个十次我跟你姓 A nobody rises to become a legend? Sorry, no. A villain gets face-slapped and makes a comeback? Sorry, no. Chance encounters on floating islands, cultivation, slaying demons and vanquishing evil? None of that! This story casts aside every lucky break, chance encounter, path to survival, and miracle. The so-called [Game System] was never a golden finger to help you turn your life around. It is merely a fake cage casually fashioned by a higher plane, a malicious set of rules designed for the g 137Reads—Score—14d adds
- 46 Strike It Rich by Opening the Coffin 开棺发财 [Handcrafted from scratch + Traditional supernatural horror + No System + No cultivation + Extremely scary + Based on true experiences] Paper figures carry the coffin, a black dog tosses the grave, and an old man falls in love with a ghost. An opened coffin is carried home, and a beautiful fairy follows through the door. My name is Qin Yang. I was down on my luck and only hoped to make money by opening coffins. I never expected that it would turn out to be such a high-risk profession. (Friends i 1.6kReads—Score13414d adds
- 47 The Otherworldly Netherworld 异站冥途 A bus bound for reincarnation, visible only to those on the brink of death. Every stop beyond the platforms brings an unknown crisis. At the Netherworld bus stop, queue up and board; the living get off, the dead stay behind. To find his long-lost girlfriend, Zhao Jichuan unhesitatingly boarded the bus. In an ocean of blood and tears, in a world of pain and fear, betrayal was commonplace and screams were nothing unusual. Just as he was about to despair, he thought he saw a ray of light... 17Reads—Score—14d adds
- 48 Horror Game: Hell Corporation 恐怖游戏：地狱公司 (The rating just came in, and it’ll rise over time!!!) [Infinite Flow + mild suspense + horror game + one female lead] "This is a company that can make any wish come true. Do you have a wish you'd like granted? Call our hotline to join our game. If you clear it, we'll make your wish come true." Wang Zhu looked at the ad on his phone and called the number. He didn't notice the pair of deathly pale eyes staring at him from outside the window. 14kReads7.7Score1.5k14d adds
- 49 I Have a Ghostly Wife 我有鬼娇妻 [Mystery] [Comedy] Have you ever experienced something like this? I mean, asking for a wife at the bottom of a dry well! I live in a small village in the mountains, cut off from the outside world. No outsiders have visited in hundreds of years. Maybe it's because of a curse, but no baby girls have ever been born in our village. 1Reads—Score—14d adds
- 50 One Thousand and One Modern Tales of the Supernatural 一千零一个，现代灵异故事 [Based on True Stories] [Folktales] [Horror and the Supernatural] The stories in this novel feel full of everyday life. The people and events in every story are portrayed in a realistic way, bringing to life the supernatural experiences of all the main and supporting characters. If you’re a horror story fan, don’t miss this novel. (If you get scared, call your best hapless friend over… so you can be scared together.) 5.2kReads7.0Score21214d adds
