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- 1 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. 4Reads—Score—Shelves
- 2 I Use Astrology to Divine Heaven's Secrets and Crack Paranormal Cases in Seconds 我以星盘推演天机秒破诡案 [Survival in the Mist]+ [Thriller Game]+ [Omniscience and Omnipotence]+ [No Romance]+ [Strong Female Lead]+ [Not Romance]+ [Ruthless and Decisive]+ [Lovecraftian]+ [Dungeon Survival]+ [Eerie]+ [Ensemble Survival] A strange mist descended, dragging humanity worldwide into an infinite survival game. Yan Jiuxiao, a black-lotus astrologer who transmigrated from another world, bonded with the Starfall Compass System and awakened an all-knowing, all-powerful talent. A deadly mission appeared every sev 1Reads—Score—Shelves
- 3 Reincarnation Horror 轮回惊悚 [Death Game] [Infinite Flow] [Combat] [Thriller] A new cycle has begun… “Whoever takes the throne shall gain eternal life.” After a bizarre eyeball appears, Chen Ye, a lackadaisical high school student, is forced to become a player in the cycle and enter a bloody, brutal death game. A killing spree, sleep paralysis, a blood-red hotel, messengers, evil fiends, heretical ghost immortals, the Seven Deadly Sins… Players must enter all kinds of inconceivable scenarios and complete tasks issued by t —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 4 Fourth Hospital: Patient 302 第四医院：302病人 A night of torrential rain, 11:44 p.m. Lin Chen and his younger brother Lin Ye wandered into a hospital that didn't exist on any map: Fourth Hospital. There is no fourth floor, yet everyone talks about it. The elevator descends on its own late at night. The nurses making their rounds never knock. The children in the wards keep repeating the same sentence: “Are you also unable to find your mother?” And every rule ultimately points to the same room number: 302. As they explore further, the brother —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 5 The Ultimate Horror 终极惊悚 [Infinite Flow] + [Mystery] + [Team] + [Plot] Liu Zheng, a first-year graduate student at the School of Mechanical Engineering, was broke and on the verge of becoming homeless when a mysterious app quietly appeared on his phone... [Beep. Host detected: broke as can be, with a powerful desire to make money. Accept this job?] [Yes/No] With three parts apprehension and seven parts anticipation, Liu Zheng tapped to confirm. The next second, a mechanical voice rang out, and an old mansion buried deep 23Reads—Score—Shelves
- 6 Death Rewind: I'll Wipe Every Vengeful Ghost from the World 死亡回档：我要荡尽世间一切厉鬼 My name is Ye Xiu. By the time you read this, I will already be dead. Yesterday, I swallowed an entire sheet of cephalosporin pills and downed half a dozen beers. I should be dead already. But this morning, I woke up again. Time had returned to before my suicide attempt. In the room lay another version of me, a knife buried in his chest. He grabbed me and screamed with pitch-black eyes: "Hurry up and kill yourself!" "Don't go to that place! It's full of ghosts!" "I barely managed to esc —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 7 Ghost-Hunting Operation 猎诡行动 [Infinite-Round Game + Mild Horror + One Female Lead + Dungeons] In an era when advanced intelligent technology is flourishing across the globe, a new kind of game has become popular. It has replaced traditional computer and mobile games with AI-simulated horror stages set in virtual worlds. Players enter these worlds by falling asleep through a gaming brain-computer interface, where they battle monsters and ghosts. They can clear a stage by finding a way through or killing the ghosts. Even if p 20Reads—Score—Shelves
- 8 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 2Reads—Score—Shelves
- 9 Death Game: The Only Survivor 死亡游戏：唯一活着的人 [Infinite survival + plot + post-apocalypse + supernatural powers + no saintly protagonist] Feel free to skip the first three chapters. With his life nearly at an end, Shen Mo is forcibly dragged into an endless apocalyptic scenario where his survival is uncertain. Beyond the towering walls, zombies swarm the city. The ruined metropolis has become a living hell, and he finally faces reality: his old life is over, and this new world is his only chance to keep living. When survival is at stake, —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 10 Scrambling to Survive 攀草求生 (Mystery + Supernatural + Horror Game + Horror Revival + Not a Power Fantasy) Clinging to grass while drowning, fighting for survival in a desperate situation. A mysterious tycoon appears in the class group chat. Accept his red envelope, and you have to take part in his game. After barely escaping the deadly game, Xia Yu is pulled into a terrifying world once again. 75Reads—Score—Shelves
- 11 Infinite Horror: I Can Sense Ghosts 恐怖无限：我能感知到鬼 [Infinite Flow, Not a Power Fantasy] [Slight Horror] [No CP] [Survival] [Escape] [Deduction] [Mystery] "Shh..." "There are ghosts in this world!" Those contaminated by the aura of Another World can only keep clearing one instance after another. They say that after clearing 13 instances, you can make a wish? Lu Ming discovers that ghosts aren't the only things he can sense. There's also... In this game of pursuit between humans and ghosts, he is forced into Another World, a realm teeming with evi 11.5kReads6.9Score1.1kShelves
- 12 Death Train: I Just Want to Be the Boss of the Platform 死亡列车，我只是想当站台话事人 [Infinite Flow, Mild Horror, Mystery, Survival, Teamwork] One train after another carries blood and tears; One platform after another tells of love and hate. Should they bow to fate and sink into endless darkness, or overcome their fear and head toward an unknown future? Eighteen levels of hell, eighteen instances. The people on the platforms came and went, but Jiang Yu was the one who had the last laugh. Someone asked the young man beside him, “Do you know who’s in charge of this platform?” The 385Reads—Score—Shelves
- 13 My Horror Theater 我的惊悚戏楼 Lost souls come as spectators, while the living become actors in the play! The curtain is about to rise, the guests are seated. Tonight, the stage is set, and the performance will be a matter of life and death! Whenever blood rain falls, a group of people abandoned by fate return to a bizarre theater. They cannot escape and can only take part in one deadly performance after another. Here, everyone has their own set of rules for the entire show. Here, the audience's tips determine their odds of s 7Reads—Score—Shelves
- 14 Rule Horror: My Memories Are Never Wrong 规则怪谈：我的记忆从不出错 [Unconventional rules-based horror] [Multiple twists, but not mind-bending] [No need to memorize a long list of rules] [Strong, logical plotting] Rules-based horror has descended, and those caught in its games have only a one-in-ten chance of survival. The official reward: 100,000 for making it out alive, or 500,000 in compensation if you die. My name is Lin Mo. My memories never fade; I can recall every detail of every second since I was six years old. In the real world, that makes me little —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 15 The Ghostly Figure Appears 鬼影显形 [Eerie World + Folk Horror Tales + Infinite Flow + Mild Horror + Deduction and Survival + No Female Lead] My name is Zhou Lin, and I transmigrated! But my original Host didn't die. He... became a ghost! A yellowed photograph dragged Zhou Lin from the clutches of a vengeful ghost into another nightmare. The nightmare ended, but the ghosts in the real world never disappeared... A vengeful ghost closing in step by step... The photographs came one after another, haunting him like nightmares, with no 1.1kReads6.2Score104Shelves
- 16 The Human Realm's Trial Grounds 人间试炼之地 (No harem, no formulaic plot, no invincible protagonist, no System, no power fantasy. Read with caution if any of that bothers you.) (Male-oriented + Infinite Flow) My name is Chen Mo. I failed at starting a business. I thought this was just an ordinary food delivery order, but then I realized I had entered “Hell” and become an inmate. I heard this place was originally called the “Human Trial Grounds,” but after the first Main God came into being, the Main God named it “Hell.” In “Hell,” the abs 3Reads—Score—Shelves
- 17 Eerie: The Strange Play Ends in Oblivion 诡异：诡剧终湮 [Suspenseful What-If] [Rule Horror] [Infinite Flow Supernatural Horror] [Horror and the Paranormal] Apocalypse... One month before monsters from another world invaded, Jiang Qiubai unexpectedly obtained a strange play that could take him to other worlds. Only by gathering the powers of the twelve Chinese zodiac signs through these plays could there be any hope of defeating the invasion from another world. Shen Wanqing had been an ordinary college student. Could the two of them successfully tempe —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 18 Rule Horror: The Infinite Loop's Haunted Campus, Don't Trust Any Rule 规则怪谈：无限流诡异校园，别相信任何一条规则 Rule Horror: An Infinite-Flow, Supernatural School. Don't Trust a Single Rule 1Reads—Score—Shelves
- 19 The Haunted House: The End of the Foggy World 诡舍：迷雾世界终点 [Transmigrate into a Book + Infinite Flow + Mild Horror + Survival + One Heroine] Fu Jinyue accidentally transmigrated into the world of a book. After going through one bizarre and eerie instance after another, he finally learned the answer... 369Reads—Score105Shelves
- 20 The Spirit-Eating Notebook 噬灵笔记 [Infinite Flow + mind-bending puzzles + ghostly mysteries + survival] A strange notebook, and yet it is a doorway to hell. The cursed are haunted, hunted, and dragged into an endless abyss of terror. Ghosts close in at every turn, and death is just around the corner. No one can escape unscathed. A group of ordinary people bound together by a curse must awaken in the depths of despair, uncover the notebook’s secret, and put an end to this terrifying game with their own hands. Kill the ghosts, or 1Reads—Score—Shelves
- 21 Blood Curtain: The Final Chapter? 血幕，终章？ Five years ago, one tiny mistake of mine got three coworkers killed. From then on, I lived in endless regret. Five years later, a blood-red screen appeared in the depths of the ocean, enclosing a mysterious continent! Monsters began invading from this other continent. While every country in the world struggled to resist, I was pulled into another dimension, where lies followed rules that could get you killed, bizarre monsters were impossible to wipe out, and I had several unreliable “teammates.” —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 22 Better Not to Meet Again 看见不如不见 “You’re not a curse. You’re the key!” “If you don’t want to die, stay away from me.” “Liu Yan, stop licking your lips! You might poison yourself!” “Mind your own business and you’ll live longer!” “Praying to gods? Worshipping Buddha? You’d be better off kowtowing to me.” “I decide whether you stay or go.” Better not to see me than to see me. I’m not talking about myself. I mean all of you. 11Reads—Score—Shelves
- 23 Infinite Nightmares: Where's My Golden Finger in This Paranormal World? 无限噩梦：我在诡异里的金手指呢 [Infinite Flow + No Romance + Plot-Driven + Mild Horror + Mystery] Lin Jiu is a struggling paranormal livestreamer. That is, until he enters an old apartment building where an elderly woman is laid out for her wake. The person in the coffin counts heads. The mandarin ducks on the red wedding dress have no eyes. In every mirror, another you is standing there. This is a Chinese-style infinite-flow horror scenario. There is only one way to survive: Don't break any taboos. Not even one. 30Reads—Score101Shelves
- 24 The Purple Rain Descends 紫雨来袭 Also known as "Grief Rises from Within" (Infinite flow + educational themes + no special abilities + not a wish-fulfillment story + twists all the way through) Li Ze, the protagonist, has the ability to empathize. Wherever suffering ignored by society takes place, purple rain falls. It rebuilds that suffering in the victims' minds in distorted, terrifying forms. The monsters, evil spirits, and strange phenomena that emerge from the purple rain retain the defining features of the harm inflicted o 11Reads—Score—Shelves
- 25 No Hints in the Instance 副本无提示 [The rating just came in, and it will rise later] [Mild horror + varied horror styles + original scenarios + fresh, unconventional scenarios + intelligent characters + no female lead or romantic subplots] Have any of you watching heard of the elevator ghost game? They say that if you follow the instructions, you can reach another world. Chen Feng is a video creator whose content is playing all kinds of horror games found online. He occasionally livestreams, too. During a livestream of the elevat 71.4kReads7.8Score11.5kShelves
- 26 A Taoist Priest in an Infinite-Loop Story? That's Right Up My Alley 道士进无限流吗？那很专业对口了 [Infinite flow + ensemble cast + the supernatural] [Slow burn] [Mild horror + cyber ghost hunting + livestreaming + evil gods] In 2171, the neural-link horror game Random burst onto the scene, touting freedom, realism, and randomness. Homebody Taoist He Xiao opens the game, ready to let loose. Lightning magic from the start, teaching ghosts how to be ghosts. But not only does the tutorial target him, his first scenario after getting nerfed is an [S-rank scenario]? And so begins He Xiao’s livest 1Reads—Score—Shelves
- 27 Rule-Based Survival: I Can Foresee Death 规则求生：我能预知死亡 [Infinite Flow, mild horror, terrifying dungeons, no romance, survival, not a saintly protagonist] One night, Chen Feng was walking through an abandoned park after finishing his shift at the crematorium when something strange happened. There was clearly no one behind him, yet he heard faint footsteps. At first, he thought he was imagining things, but when he listened closely, the footsteps were still there, gradually drawing nearer. They sounded as though they were deliberately mimicking his own 22.3kReads7.6Score2.2kShelves
- 28 Ten Dreams Across the Calamity 十梦渡厄 (The Strange Knocking at the Door / Welcome Back to the Starting Point of the Nightmare, Book Two) Have you ever received a letter like that? Its material feels like human skin, its handwriting looks like blood. Once you open it... You find yourself standing before a door. Push it open, and you step into another world. A place with rules you must obey, nights when dawn never comes, and ghosts who have waited ten or a hundred years for release. Every door you make it through buys you one more day 4.3kReads7.1Score414Shelves
- 29 Infinite Nightmares: I Have a Pair of Ghost Ears 无限噩梦：我有一对鬼耳 [Infinite Flow], [Mild Horror], [No Female Lead], [Survive by the Skin of Your Teeth], [Unconventional Turtle Soup Riddles], [Nontraditional Rule-Based Horror], [Not a Wish-Fulfillment Story, Not Invincible] [Slow-paced, packed with details, and full of complex plot twists!] [Read at your own risk if that's not your thing!!!] I sat on a deserted street in the dead of night, listening to them whisper. I was a little confused. Wasn't I the only one here? (Instance 1: Prolonging Life) A bit lon 27kReads7.9Score3.3kShelves
- 30 Infinite Cinema: I Climbed to the Top of the Charts Through Death 无限影院：我靠死亡冲上热榜第一 [Infinite-Loop Horror + Mildly Scary + No Female Lead] Just got a rating, it'll rise later, dears! Death isn't the end. It's your ticket in. The moment Jiang Yubai was crushed beneath a cement truck, he thought his life was over. But when he opened his eyes again, he was sitting in an old movie theater that reeked of mold. Blood-red rules appeared on the screen: Welcome to the “Infinite Cinema.” Here, the dead are chosen at random to become the “protagonists” of one horror film after another. Th 9.7kReads6.9Score1.1kShelves
- 31 When Ghostly Calamities Strike: A Paranormal Escape Begins with a Séance 诡灾降临：灵异逃生从招魂开始 [Infinite Flow + No Female Lead + Original Instances] “Welcome to the Supernatural Forbidden Zone, dear Apostles!” “This world is nearing its end, so struggle as much as you like!” As paper ash blankets the world, reality and the supernatural begin to overlap. In a dilapidated clan apartment building, a drowned ghost child knocks at the door. In the vanished School Building No. 7, a headless corpse wanders in confusion. In a dim Taoist temple, gleaming statues of the gods weep tears of blood... 975Reads8.1Score101Shelves
- 32 Thriller: There's a Ghost in My Phone 惊悚：我的手机里有鬼 A month ago, my younger sister mysteriously disappeared in a subway station. A day ago, the police pulled a headless female corpse from the river. A DNA test confirmed it was my sister, Xu Yuan. A minute ago, my dead sister walked in carrying a cake decorated with a human head. A white ghost candle was stuck into the crown of the skull, and the longevity noodles were made from human organs. She had come to celebrate my birthday. A minute later, I was chosen by a supernatural app's blood contract 3.2kReads—Score450Shelves
- 33 The Scarlet Fountain Pen 血色钢笔 The Blood-Red Fountain Pen —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 34 A Haunted House for 500 a Month, and I'm the Only One Who Knows How to Survive 月租五百的凶宅，只有我知道怎么活 A Haunted House for 500 Yuan a Month, and I’m the Only One Who Knows How to Survive 7Reads—Score—Shelves
- 35 Reincarnation: My Level Was Reset to Zero, and My Doll Went on a Killing Spree 轮回：满级清零，我的人偶杀疯了 [Infinite loop + revenge + fiery, tragic, and sweet] After ten years beside an empty grave, he can no longer remember his late wife's face. The infinity tattoo on his wrist is his sole obsession. Once, he was the one who reached the summit of the cycle of reincarnation. Just one step away from the truth, he was betrayed, had his memories wiped, and became an ordinary security guard in the modern world. Then a girl doll shattered his tombstone and dragged him back to the reincarnation battlefield 11Reads—Score—Shelves
- 36 The Strange Realm: From the Start, I Dismembered the Monstrous 怪域诡界，我开局分尸诡异 [A handsome male lead, just like the readers] [Horror-leaning; do not read if you scare easily] [Mystery and the supernatural] [A story where despair and hope intertwine and ebb and flow] [Similar to Taming the Supernatural] It was an ordinary night, but it led Lu Ying into a new world woven from madness and death. This world has lost its light, and people like Lu Ying need a constant supply of “candles” to stay alive. But “candles” can only be found in the realms of those unkillable, rule-bound 8Reads—Score—Shelves
- 37 After the Engagement Banquet 订婚宴之后 After the Engagement Banquet 5Reads—Score—Shelves
- 38 The Calamity of Gui Water 癸水之祸 If even your memories are fake, who are you? Lin Zhou receives a death invitation from his younger sister, Lin Yao, who died twenty years ago. To uncover the truth, he enters the "Constellation Instances": twenty-eight prisons holding beings more ancient than the corruption itself. Each instance demands that he trade memories for power, and every dead person bears the cost on his behalf. When he finds his own file in the archives, stating that he cleared the Ghost Golden Sheep instance at age —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 39 Xue Family Paper Effigy Shop 薛记纸扎铺 On the surface, this world is an ordinary modern city. But hidden from sight is something called “Filth.” A person’s obsessions, resentment, fear, regrets, and other powerful negative emotions can coalesce under certain conditions, attaching themselves to objects, places, or even people, where they can influence or even devour the living. Most people don’t know Filth exists, but certain specialized trades can deal with it. Paper effigy crafting is one of them. As the name suggests, paper effigy 21Reads—Score—Shelves
- 40 Supernatural Horror: Someone Behind the Wall Is Calling My Name 惊悚灵异：墙里有人叫我的名字 Horror and the Supernatural: Someone in the Wall Is Calling My Name 3Reads—Score—Shelves
- 41 The Book of Deathbed Confessions: The Sickly Beauty Sweeps Through Infinite Worlds 死亡忏悔录：病美人横扫无限流 (My dears, the rating just opened, so it’ll gradually rise. Updates are steady every day, so feel free to follow along~) [Infinite Flow + Two Powerful Leads + Ensemble Cast + Feel-Good Power Fantasy + Everyone’s Favorite + Horror Instances] Bai Xue has died once, yet she can’t even remember how. In this life, she is the most useless member of the Bai family, a sickly girl who coughs after walking a few steps and pants for ages after saying three words, pale as a porcelain doll ready to shatter a 1.7kReads8.1Score320Shelves
- 42 Eerie Tales: Prisoner of the Rules 诡异怪谈，规则囚徒 Supernatural calamities run rampant, rules and taboos bind lives, and one treacherous realm after another appears, with danger at every turn. Following the rules doesn’t necessarily mean survival, while obeying the laws may lead straight to death. Some break free of their cages and see through the lies of evil spirits, shattering the chains of fate even in the most desperate moments. 3Reads—Score—Shelves
- 43 After Sacrificing Our Teammates, We All Became Gods 献祭队友后，我们全员成神 A driverless Route 13 bus carries seven losers cast aside by reality into the Myriad Worlds. An unemployed planner, a teacher on the verge of a breakdown, a spineless doctor, a cowardly programmer, a boastful salesman, a taciturn stunt double, and a laid-off machinist. This is the worst starting team in history. But every “sacrifice” triggers a wild evolution. 🔹 Vehicle upgrade path: Rusty old bus → Mobile luxury apartment → Matte black-and-gold war chariot, the Xihe (with a red-gold Golden Crow 520Reads6.5Score106Shelves
- 44 Infinite Nightmares: An Eighty-Year-Old Man Rejuvenated from the Start 无限噩梦：开局八旬老汉返老还童 Infinite flow + rules-based horror + mild horror + no romance Qin Yi accidentally enters a nightmarish world. Here, there are rules that must never be broken, along with bizarre phenomena beyond ordinary people's understanding. By chance, Qin Yi discovers the rewards for surviving a nightmare. Wealth, health, youth, achievement… Terrified of the nightmares but coveting the rewards for surviving them, Qin Yi approaches one nightmare after another with mixed feelings… 8.6kReads8.1Score983Shelves
- 45 The Buddhist Manager’s Chess Game 佛系经理的棋局 The Zen Manager’s Game —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 46 Survived Eighteen Times: The Third Real Horror Movie 活过十八次：第三度真实恐怖电影 (Starring in Real Horror Movies) + (Infinite-Flow Supernatural Instances) If you happen to scroll through videos, Weibo, or Tieba and come across an invitation to the Third Degree Horror Movie, you will find yourself thrown into a horror movie, playing one of its characters. As the plot unfolds, bizarre, spine-chilling curses and eerie ghosts lurking everywhere will descend one by one. A village shrouded in a blood spring, a strange building, thirteen flights of stairs, a dark corridor, a silent 3.3kReads—Score398Shelves
- 47 Hell Manor 地狱庄园 [Horror and the Supernatural + Suspense and Mystery + Infinite Flow + No Female Lead] A group of strangers receive a blood letter and mysteriously find themselves inside a villa. Their only chance of survival is to uncover the ghost hiding among them. After Xu Yi completes the task by the skin of his teeth, he is relieved to have finally survived. But then he discovers that he has arrived at a place called Hell Manor. He must complete the tasks in eleven blood letters to leave the manor alive. A 10.1kReads8.0Score852Shelves
- 48 In an Old Apartment Building, the Voice-Activated Lights Only Shine on the Dead 独居老楼，声控灯专照亡魂 Alone in an old apartment building, the motion-sensor lights only shine on the dead. 2Reads—Score—Shelves
- 49 Rule Horror: After Lights Out, Follow the Dormitory Rules 规则怪谈：熄灯后，请遵守宿舍守则 Rule Horror: After Lights Out, Please Follow the Dormitory Rules 34Reads—Score—Shelves
- 50 Learning to Slay Gods in an Infinite Game 我在无限游戏里学弑神 [Infinite Flow]➕ [No Female Lead]➕ [No Sanctimonious Protagonist]➕ [Plot Twists]. “A ten-day experiment in human nature. Remember, do not break the rules.” In an unattended shopping mall, six people who had volunteered to work sit in a circle. Chen Qige, the only one who was tricked into coming, sticks out like a sore thumb. A bizarre couple asks them one final question: “You all volunteered for this job, correct?” The six people, whose backgrounds are shrouded in mystery, all nod. Chen Qige: “I —Reads—Score—Shelves
