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- 101 Nightmare Realm 噩梦诡境 [Infinite-flow + horror + survival + one female lead] Liu Xiao woke up in a long-abandoned hospital, with several others beside him who had arrived there just like he had. He thought he had been kidnapped, but never imagined it was the start of an endless nightmare! Once you are chosen by a haunted realm, death is your only possible ending! 1Reads—Score—Shelves
- 102 Death Novel: Judgment 死亡小说:审判 Death Novel: Judgment 4Reads—Score—Shelves
- 103 The Myriad Worlds Cultivation System 诸天游戏修仙系统 The Heavens and Worlds Game Cultivation System 3Reads—Score—Shelves
- 104 Murder in a Locked Room at Tang House on a Rainy Night 雨夜唐楼密室杀人案 Murder in a Locked Room at a Tanglou on a Rainy Night 2Reads—Score—Shelves
- 105 Why Mess with Him? The Dungeon Boss Is Super Protective 惹他干什么，副本BOSS超护短 [Ensemble Cast, Strong Female Lead, Two Powerful Leads, Devoted Husband, Comedy, Lighthearted, 1v1, Horror Game, Sweet Romance, Face-Slapping, Plot-Driven, Protective] Alternate title: Why Pick a Fight with Him? The Dungeon Boss Is Extremely Protective The supernatural has descended upon the world, forcing humanity to take part in horror games. Those who survive gain power, status, fame, fortune, and all kinds of resources to fight the supernatural. Those who fail become sustenance for the hor 1.8kReads6.3Score146Shelves
- 106 Esports: Even a Genius Prodigy Works Hard 电竞：天才少年也很努力 Esports: Even the Genius Prodigy Works Hard 2Reads—Score—Shelves
- 107 Rule Horror: The Three Gates School Rules Forbid Telling the Truth 规则怪谈：三重门校规禁止说真话 Dungeon difficulty: Easy, Normal, Hard, Nightmare, Hell. Lin Han is in a different parallel universe in each dungeon, and the plots are unrelated, so feel free to read them out of order. Lin Han is clever and resourceful, bold in thought and action, and seriously badass. 15Reads—Score—Shelves
- 108 The Gray Realm’s Devotee 灰界信徒 After I was dismembered, my consciousness awoke in the restroom of an abandoned psychiatric hospital. A stranger's face stared back at me in the mirror. A phone lay on the sink, its screen displaying a message: “Welcome to the Ashen Realm Human Resources Department. Employee ID: 444. Your first performance target: survive tonight.” This is a bizarre world formed as the “Ashen Realm” seeps into reality. Grudges become rules, memories become currency, and humans are its cheapest disposable resourc 6Reads—Score—Shelves
- 109 Green Rain Falls on White Robes 青雨沾白衣 [Horror Game + Supernatural Survival + Rules-Based Horror + Scheming + Yandere] Note: The main storyline is about a forbidden romance that transcends time and space. Survival is a secondary plotline. My name is Qin Yang. Qin as in Qin Yang, and Yang as in Qin Yang. I have a wife named A Ying. To be precise, she's my ghost wife... I'm a lecherous, hard-drinking gambler who would bet his life away. One day, I died because of a wretched romance from three years ago. I thought my life was over, but 6Reads8.6Score—Shelves
- 110 Journey to the West: NPC Divine Constable, From the Start I Possess a Player 西游：NPC神捕，开局夺舍玩家 [Journey to the West NPC Awakening + System Comeback + Mystery and Crime-Solving + Multiple Worlds] I'm a divine constable NPC in an online game based on Journey to the West. In the repeating storyline, my whole family was supposed to be slaughtered by Night Beauty. On the brink of death, I killed the player who had betrayed me, took over his pay-to-win account, and instantly unlocked the third level of the Body Awakening Realm! Bound to the Brain Marrow Prison, I slay demons to seize their powe 1Reads—Score—Shelves
- 111 Ghost Game 鬼游戏 [Infinite-Flow + Horror Mystery + Supernatural + Ensemble Cast + Mild Horror + Strong Female Lead + Plot-Driven] The human heart is more terrifying than the paranormal. Grievances fill the human world, summoning the Grudge God. GQ2026.12.28. After a rain of blood, the Ghost Game appeared out of nowhere and began invading the human 45Reads—Score—Shelves
- 112 Fierce Netherworld: Starting as a Rainy-Night Killer 凶冥空间：从雨夜杀人魔开始 [Infinite Flow + The Weird Arrives, No Heroine] Could the beautiful new neighbor really be a serial killer who strikes on rainy nights? Gu Li sees through her disguise, only to get dragged into an even stranger space. Black fog rolls in and terror descends. To survive, Gu Li searches for a way to clear each instance, solving puzzles like mad and escaping certain death. But after completing a series of missions, he discovers that the weird has already arrived in the real world, and a supernatural 5.3kReads7.1Score365Shelves
- 113 72-Hour Countdown to Death! 死亡倒计时72小时！ 72 Hours Until Death! 1Reads—Score—Shelves
- 114 The Teacher's Birthday Banquet 老师的生日宴 The Teacher’s Birthday Banquet 2Reads—Score—Shelves
- 115 I Asked You to Write a Horror Play, So Why Did You Have to Add a Deity? 让你写诡剧，您非要往里加神人？ He Mo has always believed that eerie plays, with their dark, disturbing themes and wall-to-wall negativity, are bound to drive actors to a mental breakdown if they perform in them for too long. So he insists on adding a few absurd characters and comic plotlines to lighten things up. The more the theater objects, the more it proves he's doing the right thing. It shows that he's exposed the theater's intention to torment its actors through eerie plays. The more the actors object, the more it prove 329Reads—Score—Shelves
- 116 Nether Pill 冥丸 [Rule-based horror + fateful mind games + Red Plum Opera Troupe + unmarked waystation] The opera stage's sugar debt, the morning mist scented with locust blossoms, the cold jade, and a line from an opera that was never finished. I took a night watch job with the Red Plum Opera Troupe, only to discover that its members had been dead for thirty years. Every rule in the script exacts a life when broken. This book is a prequel to Records of the Ten Days of Yin Guests. All the foreshadowing for the 4Reads—Score—Shelves
- 117 I'm a Criminal, Yet They Call Me a Saint 我是罪犯，他们却喊我圣人 [Infinite-flow + multiple foreshadowed mysteries + two heroines + two powerful leads + ensemble cast + fictional world] The full story outline is complete, so enjoy without worry. One-on-one, happy ending (Charlatan criminal x drama-queen undercover agent) Waking up to find herself turned into a criminal would be bad enough. But she also has to keep clearing Sin-Expiation instances to reduce the crimes pinned on her? But can someone please tell Xu Mingzhou what happened to her? Why can't she rem 87Reads—Score144Shelves
- 118 Death and Infinite Resets: Uncovering the Rules of Every Vengeful Ghost 死亡无限回档：洞察所有厉鬼规律 [Death Rewind] [Kill the do-gooders first] [Vicious ghosts return] [Dark story] As the paranormal world awakens and vicious ghosts reappear, all you need to do is call Su Yun's name. I'll lead you back through time to find the perfect timeline. Su Yun had just transmigrated into a world where the paranormal was returning when four vicious ghosts began interrogating him. First interrogation: "What do you mean, you killed me because you didn't know how I died?" He rewound to before his death and s 916Reads—Score104Shelves
- 119 The May Day Calamity 五一劫 The May Day Calamity —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 120 Tales of the Supernatural in Xiangnan 湘南鬼事录 My family is truly from southern Hunan, with ancestral expertise in feng shui and geomancy, spirit-summoning and calming, demon-subduing and exorcism, funeral music, and rites to guide the dead onward. Let me begin with my great-grandfather’s generation. My great-grandfather and his brother were born in the early Guangxu era of the Qing Dynasty. By the late Guangxu and Xuantong eras, they had raised five cousins in all, including my grandfather. They all knew our family’s inherited arts. My gran 138Reads—Score—Shelves
- 121 Infinite Haunting Realms: I Can See Through Lies 无限诡域：我能堪破谎言 [Infinite Flow]+ [No Romance]+ [Original Instances]+ [Mild Horror]+ [Ghosts Kill People]+ [Ghosts in Every Real-World Instance] “Ghosts cannot be killed.” “Humans cannot fight ghosts.” “Ghosts each have their own rules for killing.” A mysterious letter. A door that leads to the unknown. When Li Yu opened the door, one eerie instance after another awaited him. This is the [Ghostly Domain], a world of vengeful ghosts! Will you die in confusion, or be reborn from a nightmare? 155.1kReads8.3Score24.8kShelves
- 122 After My Spiritual Root Was Stolen, I Turned Around and Slaughtered the Entire Sect 被挖灵根后我反手屠了整个宗门 After my spiritual root was ripped out, I turned around and slaughtered the entire sect 50Reads—Score—Shelves
- 123 The Perfect Nanny 完美月嫂 The Perfect Nanny 2Reads—Score—Shelves
- 124 Rule Horror: Nightmare City 规则怪谈：梦魇迷城 [Clever deductions + mind-bending suspense + instance challenges + strategic games + logical thinking + knowledge-based puzzles] Rules are both a way to control players and the key to breaking out of a dead end. The protagonist, Chen Mo, is accidentally drawn into a world of rule-based horror. He thinks he only needs to keep taking part in deadly games to escape. Then Chen Mo believes that collecting five keys with different attributes will let him leave the City of Nightmares, but one unexpecte 334Reads—Score—Shelves
- 125 Horror Cinema: My Teammate Is Yukino Yukinoshita 恐怖影院：我的队友是雪之下雪乃 [The rating has only just come out, and it’ll rise later] [Infinite Flow] + [Mild Horror] + [Horror Dungeons] + [Anime Crossover, Multiple Heroines] “Welcome to the Nightmare Screening Room. Here, you’re not an audience member sitting in the theater. You’re a participant in a real horror movie!” Guan Hong accidentally stumbles into a bizarre horror theater. There’s no popcorn here, only endless survival missions and vengeful evil spirits ready to peel off your skin at any moment. First screeni 992Reads6.2Score104Shelves
- 126 Welcome to the World of Paintings 欢迎来到画卷世界 [Infinite Flow + Horror Instances + Mystery + Highly Intelligent Heroine] Guan Xiaoxi is accidentally dragged by Mu Chengguang into the world of paintings, an otherworldly realm filled with taboos and death. In every painting, he is there, silently watching. Who is he? Why does he treat her so differently? Guan Xiaoxi has no memories from before the age of six. Her emotions and senses are impaired, and she is naturally absentminded. She is unaffected by the paintings’ mental pressure and cannot 466Reads—Score107Shelves
- 127 I Rely on My Nose to Attain the Great Dao 我靠鼻子证大道 I Rely on My Nose to Attain the Great Dao 1Reads—Score—Shelves
- 128 The Curse's Endless Loop 咒溯廻环 [Cursed battles in the early chapters + infinite-flow in the later chapters + a cryptic, mind-bending plotline + extremely cold jokes] Please believe me! I’m not some bloodthirsty Demon Emperor who kills and dismembers people just to get sexy legs. The women’s legs I collect are all fakes, made to look real. As for wiping out entire families, that’s not something I usually do. The goddess judging me with her holy sword was just a misunderstanding that snowballed out of control. She took my repro 2Reads—Score—Shelves
- 129 A Collection of Terrifying Tales 恐怖惊魂故事录 [Traditional supernatural tales] [Strange happenings late at night] [Whispers of the uncanny in your ear] [Based on true events] [Urban horror] [Thrilling and chilling] One ghost story for every chapter, all set in the dead of night. Come and read... 635Reads—Score—Shelves
- 130 The Strange Gate Subdues the Eight Wastelands 奇门镇八荒 My name is Yang Yufan. I was born with a pair of yin-yang eyes, and my grandfather taught me the arts of the Qimen. I thought that becoming an inheritor of the Qimen tradition would make me a fortune-teller... But who could have guessed that I’d end up as one of the saints guarding the Eight Wastelands? I’ll tell you the story of what happened in my own words! 10Reads7.0Score—Shelves
- 131 Mercy Voyage: I Sacrifice My Girlfriend, and I Sacrifice the Whole World 慈航游戏：女友祭天，我祭全世界 [Horror game + rule-based horror + decisive and ruthless protagonist + one heroine] I died once trying to save my late girlfriend, Xi Yin But I can die twice more! She awakened inside the game as a vengeful ghost, with even her memories altered. I picked the most useless class on the server, building manager. I have no SSS-rank talent to take on the divine spirits, so I rely on the Building Manager app to master the rules. A divine spirit in my way? Players causing trouble? Do I really have to t 237Reads—Score—Shelves
- 132 Reincarnation's Eerie Station 轮回诡站 A cursed ticket leading to one horrifying incident site after another... A city shrouded in dense fog, obsessed with eradicating the very existence of "horror"... Passengers who vanish one after another, or are cursed for all eternity... Inside a dilapidated train, an amnesiac burdened by three curses awakens in the dim light, as a voice calling out "curse" sounds in his ears... "Welcome to Reincarnation Station! Passengers aboard the train, please pay attention... The next stop is... Corpse Pai 167.9kReads8.8Score17.9kShelves
- 133 After Losing My Memory, Who Cares If That Jerk Goes Crazy? 失忆后，谁管渣男疯不疯 After Losing Her Memory, Who Cares Whether the Scumbag Goes Crazy? 11Reads—Score—Shelves
- 134 Please Don’t Be Afraid 请不要害怕 [Subverting Tropes + Infinite Flow + No Female Lead + Mild Horror] “Captain Wang, I clearly buried her, but… but I saw her in the backyard again!” “How did she die?” “It had nothing to do with me. She… she killed herself!” “She… she just didn’t want to be cremated…” “Then… what is that thing in the backyard?” “I… I don’t know.” “Can she see us? Can she hear our voices?” “And is she dangerous?” … “As for ghosts, I have only one piece of advice for everyone…” “If you happen to run into one, pleas 31.2kReads8.5Score1.4kShelves
- 135 Invitation from Hell 地狱邀请函 [Ghost Escape + Supernatural Horror + Infinite Flow + A Clever Protagonist] An invitation and an abandoned bus drag a group of people into a haunted realm… Lin Mo barely makes it back to the real world alive, only to discover that the horror has just begun. One invitation after another arrives before him, and one eerie world after another comes calling… The Dusk Spirit Hotel, the Dead Return, Vengeful Ghosts Invade: what is the truth behind it all? Who is a friend? And who is an enemy? Shh… Watc 18.2kReads8.6Score1.4kShelves
- 136 The Alternate Personality Arcade 次人格游戏厅 [Infinite Flow + horror + villain protagonist + spiritual qi revival] All this time, I've been living in the Demon Emperor's game room inside my mind. That is, until I pulled the Demon-Locking Spike from my skull and woke up on the brink of death. Only then did I learn that Sen Nuo, the womanizing demonic spellcaster from that broken-box academy, was dead. And I was nothing but his secondary personality. In the box game of Endless Desire, I must solve the ending to return to the real world. The 1Reads—Score—Shelves
- 137 Night Watchman at the Funeral Home: I Can See the Dead One Last Time 殡仪馆守夜人：我能看见死者最后一眼 Funeral Home Night Watchman: I Can See the Dead One Last Time 33Reads—Score—Shelves
- 138 The City Lost in the Eerie Fog: Divine Punishment Game 诡雾迷城：神罚游戏 Tags: Survival Game + Mind-Bending Mystery + Challenge Dungeons + Wits and Deduction + Alternate Dimension + Monster Invasion When Ling Wen thought this was just an ordinary exam, he was forcibly dragged into the "Death Game." When he thought that clearing the "Death Game" would let him leave and return to the real world, he discovered that he had been in the real world all along. But now, gods from an alternate dimension are invading the real world. The fog descends without warning, and a dimen 2.9kReads—Score391Shelves
- 139 Apartment 18 18号公寓 Lin Shen has no idea why he’s in an unfamiliar apartment building. Outside, nothing but endless thick fog surrounds it. The building doesn’t appear on any map, and no one has ever heard of it. Inside are countless rooms. The place is eerily quiet most of the time, though strange sounds can occasionally be heard. The management office, with no one in sight, continues to operate normally day after day. Lin Shen wants to escape and return to his ordinary, boring life. But there is only one way out. 4.3kReads8.4Score704Shelves
- 140 N37: Spiritual Cultivation Breaks the Prison N37灵修破狱 [Everyone, when big data only recommends garbage to you, don't forget that you still have me!] Test Subject N37 awoke in a cultivation pod aboard the Shushan, only to find that his fate had long since been tampered with: The massacre in which he killed his own family to prove his Dao was a trap set by cultivators from another world, meant to control the flow of spiritual energy! This cybernetic battleship carrying a cultivation civilization had its limits locked by a God-Sealing formation, leavi 1Reads—Score—Shelves
- 141 Fahai's Rewind and Xiao Qing the Magical Girl's Journey to the West 法海回档与魔法少女小青西游 [Multiple Worlds + Infinite Flow + Games + Magical Girls + Mystery + Reincarnation System] Feng Hai had hoped to cultivate the Dao and become an immortal, but the Vulgar Buddha Sect kidnapped him and made him a disciple of Master Poison Sac. Trapped in the “Fahai Reload” game, he was doomed to endless cycles of reincarnation. While out shopping, he was swallowed by the White Snake. He was awakened by Yang Yunxing, a dungeon breaker, and learned that the only way to return to reality was to culti —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 142 Thriller Game: Awakening the Betting System from the Start 惊悚游戏：开局觉醒对赌系统 [Horror game invasion + rule-based horror + Infinite Flow + reborn + national destiny + no romance + strong female lead + ensemble cast] The low rating is only because it just came out 🙇♂️ Yu Cong was reborn, returning to three days before the horror game descended. She knew better than anyone that this terrifying game sweeping across the globe was no coincidence. It was the opening act of an alien invasion of Earth. With the apocalypse approaching, she sprinted out the door “Hello, relevant au 2.4kReads8.8Score4.4kShelves
- 143 Hush! It's Here 嘘！它来了 Stray cats appear on campus, awakening a curse of murder sealed away for fifty years. Long ago, cats protected the school by killing rats, but when their numbers grew too large, they were burned alive. Their resentment coalesced into a nine-lived shadow cat. It uses humans to wreak havoc, draining the vitality of the living in a blood sacrifice to avenge its burning. Strange incidents, gruesome deaths, vengeful spirits demanding lives night after night: the only way to survive is to destroy all 182Reads—Score—Shelves
- 144 My Daughter, Sun Wukong, Wants to Cultivate Immortality 我女儿孙悟空想要修仙 [Infinite-Flow Cultivation + No System, Brain-Burning + Post-Apocalyptic Journey to the West = The Year’s Hit, Come on in] In my dream, a female version of Wukong actually called me Dad the moment she opened her mouth! Was there a path to cultivation hidden in the wager I made before my planned euthanasia? The android Guanshi set a trap and illegally extracted reproductive cells. My beloved dog Yang Jian was revived from the dead, only to shout “Nezha.” Climbing a tower alongside fellow cultivat 3Reads6.1Score—Shelves
- 145 The Light of Creation at Zero Grams 零克的创世之光 Two people live inside his body: one wants nothing but roast chicken, while the other has already seen through the threads of fate. The young chieftain has lived for over a decade in the Floating Sky Stronghold. He has no name, no parents, only a band of demons missing arms and legs to keep him company. Then one day, a woman storms into the stronghold, claiming she intends to marry his deceased adoptive father. The young chieftain acts without hesitation. He accepts her as his mother and forces 44Reads—Score—Shelves
- 146 Great! It's a System, Now I'm Definitely Dead 太棒了！是系统，这下我死定了 [Infinite Flow] [No heroine] [No CP] [Original instances] [The System is useless] [Rules] [Deduction] [Wits and strategy] [Survival missions] Borrowing a setting from a great author: ghosts cannot be killed... You must discern their patterns... The Haunted Spirit Tower has descended. Please make sure to complete your survival mission! Little-girl System and all that: “Host, clear each instance in one life, one every seven days! Bring the Haunted Tower era to an end!” Chen Zichu: “Damn it... Othe 2.6kReads7.6Score221Shelves
- 147 I Was Scrubbing Pans When I Landed in Cooking Master Boy, and Now the Dark Cooking Society Has Its Eye on My Pan 刷锅刷进小当家，我的锅被黑暗料理界盯上了 I Scrubbed My Way into The Little Chef, and Now the Dark Cuisine World Has Its Eyes on My Wok 5Reads—Score—Shelves
- 148 Humanity Performs a Scripted Murder Mystery for Higher-Dimensional Life in the Apocalypse 末世人类为高维生命表演剧本杀 What's it like to perform a murder-mystery game for higher life forms during the apocalypse? Mess up, and you die… Decisive killing + No Female Lead + Apocalypse + Instances + Multiple Worlds Warning: The male lead is greasy. Extremely greasy. This story is entirely fictional. Any resemblance to actual events is purely coincidental. No false claims of plagiarism. 62Reads8.8Score116Shelves
- 149 The Land of the Dead and the Damned 逝躯凶地 The day the corpse explosion happened at school, I lost my left eye. When I woke up in the biology lab, I shoved a plastic eyeball into my empty socket, put on a fox mask, and walked into a classroom. Inside was a girl holding her dead dog. I took a switchblade from my pocket and handed it to her: “You're not good at handling this kind of thing. I can hold out a little longer. Once you're dead, I'll kill myself.” I didn't die. We were dragged into a place called the Murderous Land of the Dead, w 32Reads—Score—Shelves
- 150 In an Infinite-Flow World, Being Too Beautiful Gets You Kissed to Tears 在无限流长的太漂亮是会被亲哭的 [BG + female-domination harem + 1vN + Infinite Flow + beautiful, sweet, soft, and adorable heroine + gloomy, crazy, perverted, twisted bad-boy male leads + all male leads are virgins] Chi Shu was born into a wealthy family, but her health kept her from going out much. She never expected to be chosen by a horror game on her twentieth birthday, entering an Infinite Flow world as a rookie player with abysmal combat skills. Without her money or influence, the delicate, soft-hearted heiress who crie 17.6kReads8.8Score2.8kShelves
