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- 1 The Mansion: A Shut-In Girl Slays Her Way to the Deadly True Ending 馆：宅女杀穿致命真结局 [Infinite-Flow + Strong Heroine + No Romance + Hard-Core Deduction + Mild Horror] No golden finger. The heroine will grow, so I hope you’ll show her lots of support! A veteran visual-novel addict falls into a real-life horror instance! Her maxed-out way of thinking and “clear-the-game intuition” are her strongest cheats. While others are sobbing and fighting to survive in dire straits, she’s turned the horror game into a hard-core puzzle-solving session! Yu Jinxia is a hardcore anime-loving shut —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 2 Subject Number Five 第五号猎物 Touch a dead person’s belongings, and replay the final thirty minutes of their memories. Every time, you gamble with your life. Three years ago, his fiancée died in an “accident.” After replaying a corpse’s memories, he discovered the killer had been by her side all along, three years ago. [You are the fifth target.] The first four are all dead. His mentor has spent thirty years researching mental energy. His fiancée had an exceptionally high concentration of mental energy. A person know —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 3 Survival Manual for the Eerie World 诡异世界生存手册 [Suspense] [Rule Horror] [Chinese-Style Horror] [Battle of Wits] [Warning: This is not a novel. It is a real survival manual for the supernatural world.] Rule One: Don’t open the window after dark. Rule Two: The night-watch candle must never go out. Rule Three: Never trust anyone outside the window. If you break any of these rules, write down your last words immediately. Because a ghost player is already standing behind you. 27Reads5.7Score—Shelves
- 4 At Midnight Every Day, Someone Disappears from the City 每天零点，城市少一个人 [Mystery and wild ideas + urban supernatural powers + no System + one heroine + ensemble cast] Linjiang City has a rule no one knows about: every day at midnight, one person disappears from the city. They don't die. They're erased completely. They vanish from photographs and records, and even their parents forget they ever gave birth to them. The only person who can still remember the vanished is Zhou Wang, who restores memorial portraits at a funeral home. At exactly midnight, a portrait of an 2Reads—Score—Shelves
- 5 She Risked Her Life to Help Me Escape That Village 她用命换我逃出那个村子 She gave her life so I could escape that village. 3Reads—Score—Shelves
- 6 Declared Dead While Still Alive, I Tear Apart My Family’s Deception After Being Reborn 活人被宣告死亡，重生后我撕碎亲情骗局 Declared dead while still alive, I tear apart the ruse of family affection after being reborn 1Reads—Score—Shelves
- 7 The Nightmare Comes True! The Inescapable Pharmacy Hides a Sinister Plot 噩梦成真！绕不开的多远药店暗藏人间诡局 Nightmares Come True! The Inescapable Duoyuan Pharmacy Hides a Sinister Plot in Plain Sight —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 8 The Forty-Seventh Dawn 第四十七个清晨 The Forty-Seventh Morning 38Reads—Score—Shelves
- 9 The Zeroing Oath 归零誓约 (The rating just came in, so it'll go up later. Please go easy on me, dear readers.) The protagonist, Xu Yi, wakes up in a place he has never seen before. Everything here is strange: classmates behaving abnormally, teachers acting suspiciously, school facilities mysteriously damaged, and… bizarre rules for survival. The protagonist has no romance storyline, and all the scenarios are completely original. Every new scenario brings something different. A game, a trial. At one end of the scales is l 2Reads6.1Score—Shelves
- 10 No Snow at Dawn 黎明没有雪 15Reads—Score—Shelves
- 11 Anyone Who Enters the Wrong Classroom Will Be Erased by the Rules~ 走错教室的人，会被规则除名～ Anyone who walks into the wrong classroom will be struck from the rules~ —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 12 A Father on the Trail of a Killer 追凶父亲 His seven-year-old son was kidnapped and killed for ransom. No trace of the body was ever found. Former financial crimes detective Zhou Qiming went gray overnight, and the faith he'd held for half his life crumbled completely. While sorting through his child's belongings, he found a custom-made chip marked with the signature pattern of He Capital, exposing a shocking conspiracy. As a new case begins, Tang Qiyue, deputy captain of the major crimes unit, investigates and feels a chill run down h 256Reads—Score—Shelves
- 13 My Sister-in-Law's Lateral Thinking Puzzles Drove Them to Kill 嫂子的海龟汤让他们杀疯了 [Mind-bending puzzles + deduction + horror survival + urban legends + Turtle Soup] Qin Xuehua is a beautiful woman burdened with a blood feud. To find clues to the person who killed her sister, she marries into Turtle Soup Village. The men in the village spend all day thinking about how to make her theirs. Until that day. An indescribable monster takes over the isolated mountain village. The uncanny runs rampant, strange tales abound, and evil flourishes. To survive, the villagers are forced to 6Reads—Score—Shelves
- 14 The Deadly Madman 致命狂人 (A gifted university student and profiler with a dark childhood, Su Dimo, and Jin Ruyan, a deep-thinking, two-faced captain of the criminal police, x Qin Yuchen, a natural-born star. Jin Ruyan would tear someone apart bone by bone for the one he loves, while Qin Yuchen's secret crush is doomed. How will their story end?) She is a psychology prodigy at university, and she sees Jin Ruyan as the knight of her life. When bizarre cases come to light, her knight grows more and more distant... She s 2Reads8.0Score—Shelves
- 15 Drowning a Child to Steal a Womb 溺童抢胎 Stealing a Child's Reincarnation 1Reads—Score—Shelves
- 16 I Play an Extra in Eerie Movies 我在诡异电影里跑龙套 [Also known as: Quitting KFC to Brave the Supernatural Scenarios] Yan Jin worked like a dog at a fried chicken shop for three years, always conscientious and hardworking. At last, he finally stood up for himself and fired his boss. But right after quitting, he transmigrated into an Infinite Flow scenario where death was all but certain. Since he’d transmigrated, he might as well show the supernatural what his incredible golden finger could do: a psychiatric hospital for gods, an echo that never 1.8kReads6.3Score134Shelves
- 17 A Terrifying Journey West: Chasing Killers Across Seven Cities 惊悚西行：我在七城追凶的诡异事 [Mystery + wild imagination + folk customs + strong female lead] In a Dong village, the village elder is found dead in the drum tower in the middle of the night, while a mad girl mutters, “Sax Sui has come.” Deep in western Hunan, Nuo opera performers go missing one after another, and an eerie smile shows beneath their blue-faced, fanged masks. What secrets lie behind Grandma's death? 1Reads—Score—Shelves
- 18 Reborn as a Forensic Doctor: The Real Heiress Takes Down Her Powerful Family and Becomes a Sensation 重生法医：真千金杀疯豪门后爆红 [Two formidable leads + mystery-solving + ensemble of female characters + reborn + episodic mysteries + no System, grounded and logical] The very first second after she was reborn, she was framed for pushing the fake heiress down the stairs. Su Qingyan smiled. In her previous life, she had spent ten years as a chief forensic pathologist, solving 37 cold cases, only to be pushed from the autopsy building by her own family. This time, she neither cried nor argued. She exposed the white lotus's dis 67Reads—Score102Shelves
- 19 You Told Me to Take the Civil Service Exam, So Why Did I End Up at Bureau 749? 让你考公，你上岸749局？ [Rule-Bound Horror + National Destiny + God-Slaying + Ruthless Protagonist + Mastermind Behind the Scenes + Unstoppable] After three years of civil-service exams and seven failures, a twist of fate lands me in Bureau 749. Other people use peachwood swords and black donkey hooves to catch ghosts. I pull out a copy of the Administrative Penalties Regulations. A red-clad female ghost is out for blood? First, file for a replacement death certificate! Zombies are causing trouble at a construction —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 20 Heartbeat Concerto 心跳协奏 There are two kinds of people heart surgeon nurse Lin Xue wants nothing to do with in this life: police officers, and people even more stubborn than police officers. When Lu Jun, deputy captain of the criminal investigation squad, bursts into her emergency room with a gunshot wound, the two become one. He investigates cases with decisive efficiency, yet cannot understand why she resents the badge. She stitches wounds with calm professionalism, yet cannot escape the truth closing in as he reopens —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 21 The Final Judgment 世末审 [World BUG] [Memory alteration] [No padding] [No narration] [Hardcore deduction] [Chilling on reflection] One September evening during study hall, the classroom suddenly froze mid-frame. The cicadas fell silent, the wind stopped, and the entire class stood motionless like statues. I was the only one who could see the cracks in this world. Memories were altered, classmates were replaced, and even my family forgot my older brother. I didn't speak up. I didn't make a fuss. I just kept records. Unti 1Reads—Score—Shelves
- 22 Reading Memories 窥视记忆 Chen Yuan’s life followed a routine precise to the minute: he woke at the same time every morning, every object was placed with millimeter accuracy, and everything had adhered to the same order for five years. Until one morning, the routine began to go wrong. His cup was two centimeters out of place, the coffee machine’s settings had been altered, and the familiar cityscape was completely askew. In his orderly world, these tiny anomalies were cracks hinting at a far deeper collapse. At the cent —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 23 The Mirror-Crossing Record 渡镜录 [Historical political intrigue + mystery] The entire army was wiped out. I alone survived, only to be condemned for all eternity as a traitor who colluded with the enemy! Behind the Canglang Valley massacre lay a monstrous plot by the Marquis of Jing'an, who falsified military intelligence and trafficked in weapons. He goes undercover at the marquis’s manor under an assumed name, tearing apart, layer by layer, the outrageous lies woven by the powerful. Undercover agents, forensic examiners, vete —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 24 Peering into Immortality: The Eye That Sees Through Illusions 窥仙：破妄之眼 Gu Xian, a college student, never imagined that his closest roommate would vanish completely from everyone's memories overnight. His classmates don't remember him, he's missing from the photos, and even their social media history has been erased. Gu Xian is the only person in the world who remembers that he ever existed. At that moment, a pale blue-white light blazed in Gu Xian's eyes. He saw another face of the world: the hidden realm of cultivation, concealed beneath ordinary cities and foreve —Reads—Score182Shelves
- 25 A Survival Guide to Strange Tales: The Headless Girl's Evolution 【怪谈生存指南】无头少女进化论 [Main Plot] [Mild Horror] [Eerie Otherworld] [Urban Legends] [Beloved Girl, Everyone's Favorite] [Content Warning: The female lead is an aloof, low-energy type with a gravity-like personality, and this is a reverse harem.] What do you do when you accidentally end up in the Otherworld? This awful place is full of bizarre rules and monsters. One wrong move, and your whole team gets wiped out! There's the woman in red in the stairwell, the headless monster in the classroom, the cat-faced monster th 2kReads—Score276Shelves
- 26 The Blue-Eroded Script 蓝蚀字 When art becomes a murder weapon, poison flows through the pigments. This is a manhunt spanning chemistry, art, and criminal investigation. Poison can be sealed inside ancient pigment recipes; crimes can be concealed in the brushwork of paintings handed down through generations. When the final piece falls into place, will you see the complete picture of the truth, or another carefully painted disguise? 2Reads—Score—Shelves
- 27 My Second Face 我的第二张脸 A convenience store owner has a faceless face lodged beneath the skin of his own. It doesn't feed on his senses. It's learning his expressions, preparing for the day it can “act” its way into taking over his face. He doesn't know what it is or where it came from. He only knows that it's right there on his face. 5Reads—Score—Shelves
- 28 A Dark Kiss Beneath the Deep Lake 深湖之下的暗吻 On the glittering annual gala night at Xingguang Group, senior finance executive Lin Wei “accidentally” falls into a lake and dies. While sorting through her belongings, her younger sister Lin Yue finds a bloodstained encrypted USB drive. On the night she died, her sister sent one last message: “They’re here.” Lin Yue’s investigation hits a hidden reef. Witnesses are silenced one after another, and every lead is cut off. Then Song Feng, just back from studying abroad, enters her life with perfe 6Reads—Score—Shelves
- 29 Cross-Time Project Manager: Checking In at Juejing 跨时空项目经理之绝镜打卡 Other people transmigrate and get to live it up in a new world. Lin Shi transmigrates and still has to clean up other people’s messes when he comes back. In ancient times, he works as a wet nurse, gives birth, feeds babies, and takes knives for them. Meanwhile, someone wearing his face wrecks his real life. So the most terrifying thing about transmigration isn’t being unable to return. It’s transmigrating into someone else while they transmigrate into you. Saving lives in the past, rescuing proj 1Reads—Score—Shelves
- 30 The Silent Relic 圣物无言 Sullivan is an Irish archaeologist. A graduate of the University College Dublin Department of Archaeology, she could take carbon-14 samples at twelve and spent an entire summer at fifteen in the passageways of Newgrange. She should have been digging at Celtic sites, but an organization called the “Recorders' Guild” recruited her after reading her paper, “Materials and Chronology of Medieval Relics.” The Guild has only one rule: record the truth, and never interfere. She has traveled across Europ —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 31 The Germaphobic Detective Is Dragged into a Mechanical Killing Trap by His Mad-Dog Deputy 洁癖探长被疯狗副手拽入机械杀阵 A fastidious detective is dragged into a mechanical killing trap by his rabid deputy. 1Reads—Score—Shelves
- 32 The Midnight Photo Studio: I Take Portraits of the Dead 丑时照相馆：我拍亡魂照 [Use the living soul as a lure, and capture the lingering image of the dead] Hidden in the shadows of the city, the photo studio opens only during the Yin hours. Its owner wields a Republic-era camera, taking portraits of the dead’s fading silhouettes, but the price is a sliver of a living person’s soul. Every photograph is a prison for a departed soul’s obsession: if the obsession remains, the soul is trapped in the photo; if it is resolved, the lamp of rebirth is lit. When a young girl enters —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 33 Sin Fetish I 罪癖I 2Reads—Score—Shelves
- 34 The Rules Are Out of Control, and Only I Can Find the Loopholes 规则失控，只有我能找到漏洞 Make a mistake, and you die… Nine people are trapped in a hotel. They must identify the hidden nonhuman among them, or everyone will die. The cycle resets, wiping everyone's memories clean. Only Lin Che retains his memories. With no special abilities or plot armor, he relies solely on observation, searching for loopholes in the rules to survive. Escape the hotel, and they find themselves in an empty city caught in a seven-day time loop. Beyond it lie countless worlds that have been destroy —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 35 My Embalming Notes with the Agent 我和代行者的入殓手记 [Thrills + Heartwarming Moments + Redemption + Past and Present Lives] Do you believe someone could wait a hundred years for you? Bai Yan doesn’t. She’s just a junior makeup artist at a funeral home. Her only real skill is pretending she can’t see ghosts. But one early morning, she personally transfers a man’s seal onto herself. He lived to be 129, owes a life, and demands she repay him by doing ten things. This isn’t an evil spirit haunting her. It’s a madman who waited a hundred years for the 1Reads—Score—Shelves
- 36 The Shen Family Daughter Clause 沈氏女儿条款 In the depths of winter by the sea, due diligence tears open a breach in the Shen Group. An intern named Li Li joins the risk-control team, but her goal has nothing to do with her resume: she wants to find her adoptive father, Li Shouyi, who has been missing for three years. All she has is an iron box, a string of numbers, a key, and an old index deliberately "sealed away." The deeper she digs, the more she realizes she hasn't stumbled upon a family matter, but an old ledger written into proced 2Reads—Score—Shelves
- 37 I Delivered Food to the Dead 23 Times. The 24th Recipient Was Me 我给死人送了23次外卖，第24次收件人是我自己 I Delivered Takeout to the Dead 23 Times. The 24th Recipient Was Me 2Reads—Score—Shelves
- 38 After My Sister Vanished, My Prosthetic Eye Started Sounding the Alarm 妹妹失踪后，我的义眼开始报警 Synopsis [Urban action and adventure + anti-scam survival + suspense] Former special police officer Jiang Che's younger sister, Jiang Yao, was lured by a high-paying job offer to the “Jinlan Federation” in Southeast Asia. He goes undercover alone to Blackstone Valley to search for clues. The tactical lens over his right eye can map the terrain, but it can't stop bullets. At the compound, he meets Cheng Ye, an imprisoned programmer; Wen Xi, an undercover female doctor; and Lao Zhong, an informant 1Reads—Score—Shelves
- 39 The Nightmare Frontier 噩梦边境 Late at night, five people in a subway car were all plunged to the edge of a dream, trapped between life and death. And someone was already waiting for them there: a bizarre creature… 31Reads—Score—Shelves
- 40 A Guide to Raising an Evil God 邪神养成指南 The professor is passionately lecturing in class when, in the next moment, the floor caves in and black water floods the classroom. When she opens her eyes again, everything in the classroom is as it was. A ring of purplish bruises has appeared around her wrist. One campus ghost story after another begins to surface: A baby crying by the lake at midnight, bruises crawling across her roommate's body, and a pregnant senior student mysteriously falling to her death. Is it all coincidence, or reveng —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 41 At the Crime Scene, a Prompt Appears Above the Victim’s Head 命案现场，死者头顶飘出提示框 [System-focused] [Crime solving] [Urban] Three months into the job, Gu Bei, a trainee forensic technician, was examining a hanging scene when a line of blood-red words appeared out of thin air above the victim’s head: [She didn’t tie the knot]. Using the bizarre clue, Gu Bei applied his forensic knowledge to reconstruct the scene and expose the truth behind the staged suicide. Then came [It fell twice] on the face of a car-crash victim, and [Died before the fire] on a charred body at a fire scen —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 42 The Wooden Beauty Exploits Bugs in Horror Films to Become a Legend 木头美人，惊悚片里卡BUG封神 Lu Yao, the “wooden beauty” mocked across the internet, is blacklisted for her terrible acting and forced to enter the deadly National Fate Cinema. Audiences worldwide bet she won’t last three minutes. Her teammates see her as useless dead weight. The life-taking evil spirit picks her as its first “easy target.” But when mental corruption sweeps the whole place and the actors scream in despair, Lu Yao tilts her expressionless face and asks the ghost, “You’re crying so fake. Haven’t you eaten 1Reads—Score—Shelves
- 43 Cold Case Executioner 旧案行刑官 Police Captain Ji Xiao launches a livestreamed investigation to restore public trust, but the scene of a series of murders bears a secret code shared only by him and his older brother, Ji Lin, in childhood. As the whole internet calls for the “Shadowblade Killer” to be executed, forensic pathologist Chen Yan’s abnormal autopsy report, policewoman Zhou Yutang’s encrypted notes, and editor-in-chief Lin Zhao’s manipulation of public opinion gradually peel back the truth buried for ten years. The ki 10Reads—Score149Shelves
- 44 Night of Life and Death 生死夜 During the Dasheng era, at the end of every ten-day period, black fog would seal off a place and bring buried disasters back to life. Shen Yan, a low-ranking clerk in Huaishui County, witnessed his mother’s murder with his own eyes. Yet when dawn came, the family register, the neighbors, and even the county office all insisted that no such person had ever existed. The blood-written message his mother left behind, “Don’t trust the Yellow Register,” became his only clue. He and his companions plun 1Reads—Score—Shelves
- 45 Blood Redeemer 血赎者 Hardcore and original! "Mystery" "Escape Game" "Infinite Flow" "Deduction" "Thriller" "Supernatural" "Lie Qi" "Fair-Play Mystery" * “Your selfish desires blinded you. You trampled on morality. You deserve to die a hundred times over…” “Compared to dying outright, those unreasonable things may be even more painful…” * After death, those burdened by guilt or resentment receive a numbered tag, with names marked in black or white. The guilty are marked black, and the resentful are marked white. The 2Reads—Score100Shelves
- 46 The Bride I Brought Home Was Dead 媳妇领回来的，是个死人 The woman he brought home was a dead person. —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 47 Ghost Soldiers in the Mountains 山间有鬼兵 Ghost Soldiers in the Mountains 1Reads—Score—Shelves
- 48 Guardians of the Lake: Ghost Ship in the Mist, Season One 守湖人雾中鬼船第一季 The Lake Keeper: Ghost Ship in the Fog, Season One 1Reads—Score—Shelves
- 49 Guardians of the Lake: Don't Board the Fog Boat, Season Two 守湖者，莫登雾.船第二季 Guardians of the Lake: Do Not Board the Fog Boat, Season Two —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 50 The Night Flight Lost and Found 夜航失物局 On a rainy night after being laid off, lost-property archivist Lu Wen receives an impossible claim slip: go to the subway entrance and retrieve a child’s umbrella that won’t be lost until tomorrow. The moment he touches its handle, he hears seventeen seconds of sobbing from the future. From then on, his camera captures tomorrow night, and the last train takes him to a platform that doesn’t exist on any map. Every lost item he returns brings him closer to the truth, but farther from his own memor —Reads—Score—Shelves
