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- 1 Rule Horror: HR Handed Me a Survival Rulebook 规则怪谈：HR塞给我活命守则 [Rules of the Strange Tales + Workplace Survival + Searching for His Sister + Blood-Written Notes + Exploiting Loopholes in the Rules + Suspense and Horror] On the 183rd day since his older sister vanished, Chen Mu walked into Changming Tower, the last place she had sent him her location, carrying a fake resume he had bought for three hundred yuan. HR shoved a rulebook into his hands. “The kind that keeps you alive.” Rule One: If you are still at your desk after 10:00 p.m., do not respond to 286Reads—Score11514d adds
- 2 Rule Horror: I Have One Extra Hint 规则怪谈：我的提示多出一条 [Rules-based horror + supreme rationality + national-fortune livestream + invincible protagonist] Rules-based horrors descend upon the world, with a death rate of 92%! Those chosen must represent their nations in dungeons where death is all but certain. Victory sends their nation’s fortunes soaring; defeat brings utter ruin. When Daxia’s chosen player turns out to be Jiang Zhe, a slender high school student, the world writes him off, and Daxia falls into despair. Yet behind Jiang Zhe’s cheap gla 5Reads—Score—14d adds
- 3 The Haunting Rules of Rooming Together: Never Answer the Door When You Hear Knocking 诡异合租规则：听到敲门决不能应 Creepy Roommate Rules: Never Answer the Door When You Hear Knocking —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 4 Rule Horror: I Rewrite the Rules with Annotations 规则怪谈：我靠注释改写规则 When other people enter the strange tales, they desperately search for the rules. When Lin Ye enters one, he can see the death warnings hidden behind them. “Do not look back”: It’s right behind you. “Do not make a sound”: It tracks you by sound. “The family must live in harmony”: An argument will cause the family to fall apart ahead of time. Every warning is a chance to survive. From beginner instances to the national fate battlefield, from international rivalries to the source of the rules, Lin —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 5 Rule Horror: I'm Really Not a Fangirl 规则怪谈，我真的不是追星少女 [Rules-based horror + suspense + transmigrate into a book + golden finger + infinite worlds + lighthearted comedy + absurd] Ye Mei transmigrated into the novel Strange Tales of a Haunted World. All she wanted was the power of money, but from the start, she unexpectedly got herself a creepy “husband.” The husband I want is someone who holds me in his hands and treats me like his darling, not someone who holds my heart and treats it like a treasure! [A lighthearted comedy with little brain-teasing 11Reads8.1Score—14d adds
- 6 Haunted House Livestream: These Ghosts Are Terrible Actors 凶宅直播，我嫌诡异演技太差 My name is Jiang Ye, and I’m a horror film director on the verge of bankruptcy. To pay off my debts, I took a job livestreaming from a haunted house. Other people livestream ghost hunts. I bring my old camera and film ghosts. The viewers in my livestream think I’m crazy. But they don’t know that once my camera starts rolling, the whole world becomes my set. Every supernatural being has to listen to me, the director. Later, I turned a wronged water ghost into The River God’s Tears, and a hanged s 1Reads—Score—14d adds
- 7 Yellow Springs Express: Refuse Delivery and Die 黄泉速递・拒收必死 Yellow Springs Express Delivery: Refusal Means Certain Death 1Reads—Score—14d adds
- 8 Reborn and Trapped in a Haunted House's Rule Horror, I Play Crazy and Foolish Just to Lead My Whole Family to Hell Together 重生竟困凶宅规则怪谈，我装疯卖傻只为全家团圆下地狱 Reborn, I'm trapped in a haunted house ruled by a supernatural game. I pretend to be crazy and play dumb, all to reunite my family in hell. —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 9 Rule Horror: All the Male Ghosts Enter the Ten Thousand Souls Banner 规则怪谈：男鬼全进万魂番 [I, the Last Heir of Taoism, Was Thrown Into a Rule-Based Horror Game from the Start!] [Other chosen ones tremble as they beg for their lives, while I pull out a Bagua Mirror and light a stick of incense, ] “Miss in Red, you've got a bug. Want to join my crew?” “Miss Split-Mouth, you're pretty good at traveling through mirrors. Sign a contract, and I'll guarantee you five-star dorm accommodations.” “Senior Meng Po, could I borrow that soup ladle to stir-fry something?” Qi Xia was reborn on 1Reads—Score—14d adds
- 10 Tales of the Uncanny: It Begins at a Strange Circus 怪谈：从异常马戏团开始 ([No Female Lead] + [Rule Horror] + [Gods] + [Not Mindless Wish Fulfillment]) This is a struggle between the gods and the sources of corruption. Participants from Blue Star fall step by step into traps of perception. Face the sources of corruption and hold on to the last of your sanity! The gods have long since rotted, and humanity's glory has faded. In the name of faith, build a towering wall of reason. 6Reads—Score—14d adds
- 11 Rule Horror: The Old Play in the Cabinet 规则怪谈：柜中旧戏 One day, you receive a text telling you to retrieve a keepsake from an abandoned building. You go. You push open the door. There is only an old-fashioned safe in the room, its door left slightly ajar. Then a line of text appears on your phone screen: “Rule One: You are an audience member, not a volunteer. Do not take part in any performance.” This is no prank. The performance has already begun. And from the moment you stepped into the room, you were seated in the audience. Those who follow the r 1Reads—Score—14d adds
- 12 Trapped in a Shopping Paradise, I Fought My Way Through the Rules of Survival 被困购物天堂后，我硬闯生存规则 Trapped in a shopping paradise, I fought my way through the rules of survival. 1Reads—Score—14d adds
- 13 I Died in the Autopsy Room, Then Entered a Rule Horror 死在解剖室后，我闯规则怪谈 Killed by a serial killer in an autopsy room, Shen Yan opened his eyes and found himself in a world of rule-based horror called the Crossing Calamity Inn. One wrong step here means your soul is scattered, with no hope of reincarnation for all eternity. The death rate in beginner instances is over 80%. His teammates are already trembling with fear, all they want is to stay alive. Only Shen Yan remains calm, running his fingers over the cold scalpel in his hand. The explicit rules others regard as 1Reads—Score—14d adds
- 14 The Strange Machine Mission Log 诡机任务录 An urban supernatural suspense novel for male readers, driven by System missions, featuring a long-running mystery about an organization and an expansive plot. On his way home from work, Chen Du finds an old phone that he can’t turn off. It stores no numbers and connects to no network. At midnight, it only issues brutal missions: Complete them and live. Refuse, and die. After a series of life-or-death missions, he unlocks a power no ordinary person can access: the ability to “see.” At abandoned —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 15 Rules of the Strange: Part Two, Please Begin Making the Rules 规则怪谈二：请开始制定规则 Reader’s Guide: All dungeons are original, with no incorrect rules, though a few bugs are inevitable. Please go easy on me. This is the second book in the series. It answers some questions from the first book and fills in some plot holes, but you can read it without having read the first one. The protagonist is not invincible. No romance. Yves Lester, also known as Yin Du, was born into a world governed by rules. As long as you didn’t break the rules each day, you earned Order Points. The Order 199Reads—Score10014d adds
- 16 You Were Supposed to Survive, So Why Did You Drive the Supernatural Insane? 让你求生，你把诡异治疯了？ [Infinite Flow + Subversive Rule Horror + Unhinged Protagonist + Power Fantasy + Survival?] [Not traditional Rule Horror. Best enjoyed as a power fantasy.] The abyss descends, forcibly splitting reality into countless Rule Horror dungeons. The Gaokao Factory, the Flesh Apartment, the Dark University, the Flaying Train... All humanity desperately struggles to survive under the bizarre “rules that guarantee death.” But in the eyes of Lin Yan, a top criminal psychology profiler, the truth is comple 1Reads—Score—14d adds
- 17 I’m a Lawyer Who Puts the Supernatural on Trial 我当律师，专审诡异 [Rule Horror] [Eerie Revival] [System] [Mystery] [Supernatural] [Transmigration] [High-IQ Protagonist] [Subverting Expectations] [Urban] [Lawyer] I’m Zhang San, a veteran lawyer in two lifetimes. One day, I transmigrated to another world where a blood moon hangs overhead and eerie creatures run rampant! Rule Horror has swallowed the entire city. Step outside with your left foot and you die; fall short on overtime hours and you’re erased on the spot. Ordinary people have to watch every step just —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 18 Rule Horror: I'm More Like a Monster Than the Monsters 规则怪谈：我比诡异更像诡异 Rule Horror: I Look More Like a Monster Than the Monsters Do —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 19 Rule Horror: I Can Ignore One Rule 规则怪谈：我能无视一条规则 [Infinite flow + mild horror + mind games + twists] Qin Luo is swept into a rules-based horror game, where he must take part in a series of scenarios. Only the winners survive. Clearing a scenario earns rewards: ten points buy a meal, one hundred points can be exchanged for a weapon, one hundred thousand points for an evolutionary gene, and ten million points unlock the Age of the Chosen. Fortunately, Qin Luo gains the unique talent [Outlaw]. In each scenario, he can ignore one rule, with a chan 292Reads—Score10314d adds
- 20 When the Zombies Come: I Can See the Red Rules 丧尸来临：我能看见红色规则 [Zombies + rule-based horror] My name is Lin Shen. When the zombie outbreak began, I was brushing my teeth in Room 401 on the fourth floor. Four in the morning. The entire dormitory suddenly lost power. A sheet of paper appeared out of nowhere behind the dorm room door. —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 21 Rules of the Bear Ridge 狗熊岭规则怪谈 Gouxiong Ridge Rules Horror 25Reads—Score—14d adds
- 22 Rule Horror: I Get Stronger by Tormenting Others 规则怪谈：我靠折磨别人变强 [Office survival | Ensemble cast | Comedy | Not brainless | Nontraditional rules-based horror] Strange supernatural occurrences suddenly descend upon the world. You have ten days to escape the building. But Wang Chen gains a System that makes him stronger by tormenting others. “Master, won't you come in for a drink of water before you go?” “Your nails are so long. Did you get them done?” [+10 negative emotions from a low-level anomaly!] [+20 negative emotions from a low-level anomaly!] Listening 1Reads—Score—14d adds
- 23 Rule Horror Conquers the World 规则怪谈征服到全世界 Lin Wang, a low-level wage earner, gets pulled into a Rule Horror game. Using his sharp reasoning, he spots loopholes in the rules, seizes supernatural abilities from the scenarios, builds a faction, and overthrows the ruling system. In the end, he faces the source of the horrors, but loses everyone close to him and stands alone at the summit. —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 24 Rule Horror: The Eighth Rule 规则怪谈：第八条规则 A convenience store on a stormy night. A six-hour survival game. Seven rules were posted on the wall. I saw an eighth. While everyone else struggled to survive by the rules, I saw the truth in them. When the rule-based horror descended into reality, ordinary people couldn’t see it, but I could: The public rules, the hidden rules, even the “things” behind them. They said clearing the game meant you’d live. I said you had to see the rules before you could choose how to live. Choice is power. 1Reads—Score—14d adds
- 25 Rule Horror: Infinite Horrors 规则怪谈：无限诡异 [Rules horror + original scenarios + thrills + deduction + puzzle-solving] The rules-horror world sweeps across the globe, forcing countless people to enter it. [The nonexistent seventh passenger on a plane that takes off on time, patients wearing smiley-face masks in a hospital, bizarrely misshapen people in a maze...] Relying on the talents he draws and his own abilities, Pei Heng ventures ever deeper into the rules-horror world, only to stumble upon a secret hidden from everyone... 54Reads—Score—14d adds
- 26 Rule Horror: My Infinite Murder-Mystery Game 规则怪谈：我的剧本杀无限流 I’m Lin Xiao, an utterly ordinary college student. One day, I blinked and found myself dumped in a hellhole called the “Scripted Murder Mystery Game.” Other people draw identity cards like “Heir to a Celestial Master,” “Exorcist’s Disciple,” or “Successor to the Yin-Yang Eyes.” I draw: “Background NPC.” Well, fine. Guess I’m cannon fodder. In the first instance, “Midnight Funeral Hall,” a red-clad ghost is chasing everyone through the building and slaughtering them. Just as its claws are about t 3Reads—Score—14d adds
- 27 Infinite Flow: Dream-Predicted Dawn 无限流：梦谕黎明 (Infinite-flow, mind-bending mysteries, rule-based horror, no female lead) My name is Su Muzhe, Patient 202 at the X City Psychiatric Hospital. As nightmares consume reality, fear becomes sustenance. Welcome to Rulebound Horror, the world of dreams. —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 28 Rule Horror: I Can Devour All the Uncanny 规则怪谈：我能吞噬一切诡异 [Rule-Based Horror + No Female Lead + National Fate + Intelligent Cast + Not Overpowered + Devouring the Supernatural] Rule-based horror descends upon the world. Chen Xin is chosen by one of these horrors and awakens an E-rank talent, “Starving Ghost.” The good news is that this ability can grow stronger. The bad news is that to develop it, he must confront the horrors within the rules head-on, or, to be precise, eat part of them. The power of whatever he devours becomes part of him and serves h —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 29 Gao Leng Di Meng Han's Ninth Book 高冷滴梦瀚的第9本书 17Reads6.0Score—14d adds
- 30 Rule Horror: The Dungeon's Evil God Favors Only Me 规则怪谈：副本邪神独独偏爱我 When a grating mechanical voice rang out, Lin Yan was dragged into the Rule Horror instance “Midnight School Building.” Ten rules for survival were written on yellowed sheets of paper covering the walls. Anyone who broke them would die. The other players broke the rules one after another, disintegrating into ash amid eerie shadows. Only he escaped danger time and again. Gradually, he realized something was wrong. The ghost in the mirror, which no one was allowed to look in the eye, would deliber 1Reads—Score—14d adds
- 31 Rule Horror: Huimin Library's Borrowing Rules 规则怪谈：惠民图书馆借阅守则 Rule Horror: Huimin Public Library Borrowing Rules —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 32 Rule Invasion: Corebreaker 规则入侵：破核者 In 2050, humanity entered a new era of shared prosperity. Controlled nuclear fusion lit up every inch of the land, an intelligent network covered every corner, and aerospace carriers patrolled the skies. Everyone believed this golden age would last forever. Then a crack split open the sky. Gray fog poured through, reality warped, and the laws of physics buckled under the invasion of another plane. The first 127 assault-team members fought with their lives. Only 21 survived, returning with a brut 1Reads—Score—14d adds
- 33 Transmigrator, Stop Acting: I'm the Real Local 穿书者别演了，我才是本地人 1Reads—Score—14d adds
- 34 No Fear of Rule-Based Horror! Let's Storm the Haunted Elevator 规则怪谈不用怕！开团干翻诡域电梯篇 Rules of the Strange Tales? No Need to Fear! Let's Team Up and Take Down the Eerie Realm: Elevator Arc —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 35 Rule Horror: I Can See the Deleted Rules 规则怪谈，我能看见被删除的规则 Rules horror descends upon the world. The Midnight Convenience Store, Happy Apartments, Red Umbrella School, and Abandoned Subway appear one after another. All survivors must follow the rules to stay alive. Break them, and you die. But Lu Chen, a night-shift clerk, discovers he can see the deleted Rule Zero. From then on, he stops passively struggling to survive. He analyzes the rules, turns them to his advantage, and strikes back against the horrors. Until one day, he discovers that every horro 16.4kReads5.4Score1.9k14d adds
- 36 Rule Horror: I Work as an Auditor at a Hospital 规则怪谈：我在医院做审计 Rule-Based Horror + Sci-Fi + Apocalypse + Mystery + Deduction + No Female Lead + Battles of Wits + Data-Driven On my first day working at a bizarre hospital, I discovered that every death record stopped at 3:17 a.m. As a former medical insurance bureau auditor, I can see a fatal bug in how this world operates. To me, every anomaly in the data appears as a pulsing red bloodline. They don't know that I'm not auditing the accounts. I'm investigating the people who were "automatically discharged" 2Reads—Score—14d adds
- 37 Rule Horror: My Modifier Can Change Anything 规则怪谈：我的修改器能改万物 [Half rules-based horror (?), half infinite-flow, business management, mystery-solving, no heroine] The horror tales descend, and every instance is a death trap. While everyone else is being chased around the “Eternal Night Mall” by mirror ghosts, Chu Yuan stands at the checkout counter with a smile and asks, “Would you like a membership card? Top up 1,000 and get the ‘Come Back for More’ BUFF. The ghosts won't chase you, guaranteed.” That's because he awakened the SSS-rank talent [Rule Modifier 1Reads—Score—14d adds
- 38 Rule Horror: Starting Out as SpongeBob SquarePants 规则怪谈：从扮演海绵宝宝开始 [Rule-Based Horror + Eerie SpongeBob SquarePants + National Fortune + Livestreaming + No Female Lead] Eerie creatures descend upon the world, forcing every country to select contestants to take part in the urban legends. After repeated defeats in these challenges, the Dragon Kingdom is nearly out of resources. When the Rank S instance “Bikini Bottom” arrives, everyone is terrified and despairing of this unknown Rank S Eerie world. Only Zhou Chen, who transmigrated from Earth and knows the plots 11.3kReads—Score1k14d adds
- 39 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
- 40 Rules of Horror, but with the Theory of Firepower Superiority 规则怪谈，但火力优势学说 [Rules Horror + Satisfying Battles + Item Competition + Unorthodox Clear Strategies + Chaos Beyond the Game] A good contestant never breaks the rules, no matter the cost. A better contestant knows how to maximize their gains when they have to break the rules. The best contestant carefully plans the whole game and leads their supporters toward the best possible future. 1.8kReads—Score1.3k14d adds
- 41 Rule Horror: I Understand the Rules Better Than the Ghosts Do 规则怪谈：我比诡异更懂规则 Working overtime late at night, Lin Chuan spots a strange set of rules by the company elevator: [Do not take elevators with odd numbers.] [If the elevator stops on a floor that does not exist, do not get out.] [If someone calls your name from behind, do not look back.] He assumes it is just a prank, until a coworker steps into the elevator and vanishes the very next second. From that night on, something is wrong with the entire Sheng'an Building. In the basement parking lot, empty cars drive the 104Reads—Score—14d adds
- 42 Rule Horror: It Begins with the Eerie Black Cat Sheriff 规则怪谈：从诡异黑猫警长开始 [National Fate Livestream + Rule Horror + Reverse PUA + Adaptation of Childhood Nightmares] From the start, he draws the doomed cannon-fodder “White Cat Class Monitor.” Facing the eerie Black Cat Detective’s death glare, billions of viewers in the National Fate livestream room despair and wait for him to die! But Gu Qing doesn’t back down. Instead, he berates the bizarre boss for “sloppy uniform and disgraceful appearance,” verbally tearing into the two-meter-tall, blood-eyed detective until his 98Reads—Score—14d adds
- 43 I Inherited Billions in Hell Money and Married the Underworld Emperor 继承百亿冥币，我闪婚冥帝 [Rules-Based Horror + Supernatural + Face-Slapping + Losing It + Satisfying Read + Devoted Couple] When my great-aunt passed away, she left me a massive inheritance: Billions in cash, several mansions, and a handful of employees. But the cash turned into hell money, the mansions became miniatures, and the employees turned into paper figures. And I found myself trapped in a rules-based horror game. It's fine, it's fine. I may be broke, but I've got issues! Trashy scumbags from every walk of life? 22Reads—Score—14d adds
- 44 I’m a Funeral Streamer, and My Prophecies Made Me Famous Nationwide 我一丧葬主播，依靠预言火爆全网 From the start, I was bound to the Funeral System. My livestream welcomes only those who are about to die. Other streamers get sports cars and yachts. When I put up a link, I send off a reckless influencer instead. Hater: "Ban this jinx of a streamer!" I calmly replied, "My friend, you look like death is hanging over you. Why not order a thin-walled nanmu coffin first? I'll give you a killer discount." My jealous rival: "If you're so good, curse me to die!" I sighed and put a top-of-the-line ebo 27Reads—Score—14d adds
- 45 Horror Revival: I Would Make All Living Beings My Pawns 恐怖复苏：我欲以众生为刍狗 [Seven Days to Die] [Original Supernatural] [Ghost Mother] [Slow Burn] [Arc Light] I made a wish to “it.” I want to have a mother. Day One It gave me clothes, draping my scarlet flesh in a flesh-colored covering. Day Two It gave me sight. At last, I could see it standing in the corner, smiling at me. Day Three It gave me hearing. But at night, I could always hear her humming, and I could never fall asleep again. Day Four It taught me language. Sounds began to spill from my mouth, answe 475Reads—Score19014d adds
- 46 Rule Horror: Starting with My Own Martial Arts Legend! 规则怪谈：从武林外传开始！ [Rule-based horror + wuxia instances + national destiny + deduction + livestream] When the American supercomputer issued a red alert: “Stay away from the man without a mouth on Bright Summit. He's a top-tier supernatural entity!” Transmigrator Su Chen walked up with a bag of chicken blood. “Bat King Wei, have you had dinner?” Rule-based horror descended, binding itself to national destiny. After ten straight losses, ten cities in China became forbidden zones for the supernatural, and countless l 88Reads5.7Score14314d adds
- 47 Rule Horror: A Nightmare During Naptime 规则怪谈之午睡惊魂 Zhou Gongjin and Wang Xing were at school when a horrifyingly bizarre game suddenly appeared at noon. Was it a rules-based horror phenomenon descending upon the world, or was someone behind it??? 1Reads—Score—14d adds
- 48 Rule Horror: My Inspiration Is Overloaded Again! 规则怪谈：我的灵感又过载了！ (Completed, so read with confidence) [Anomaly Rules + Horror Game + Mutual Devotion!] The anomaly rules have descended, and ordinary people are trembling in fear. But Song Weisheng has just been fired. On the day she loses her job, she accidentally wanders into the C-rank contaminated zone known as the "Academy in the Mirror." While everyone else desperately avoids mirrors, holds their breath, and is terrified to the point of breaking down, she pulls a whole series of silly faces at the mirror, 9Reads7.2Score—14d adds
- 49 Infinite Flow: I’m a Wage Earner in a Rule Horror World 无限流：我在规则怪谈里当打工人 This is the first book I've actually put real effort into writing, and it got rejected outright during the recommendation review. From now on, I'll update when readers ask, and otherwise just see how it goes. I didn't realize the synopsis had to be at least 50 characters. If I'd known, I wouldn't have deleted the original one. 13Reads—Score—14d adds
- 50 Rule Horror: My Sanity Has No Bottom 规则怪谈：我的理智值深不见底 When Rules of the Realm descended upon the world and randomly selected “visitors” to enter deadly instances, Chen Mo realized he was a little different. Others’ minds plummeted as they were corrupted, but he stayed cool as a cucumber. Others recklessly tested the rules’ limits, but he chose to lie flat. Others racked their brains to survive, while he... Well, it seemed the instances didn’t like him? [Ding! Abnormal mental threshold detected. Binding talent: Absolute Rationality (Passive)] [Absol —Reads—Score114d adds
