Novels like This World Is Terrifying
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- 51 EN Apocalypse Forecast 天启预报 “I want someone to give me a good beating…” Huai Shi, Sword of Calamity, Gravekeeper of the Old World, Tuner, Last Defender of Heaven, One of the Twenty-Four Agents of Destruction, Little Peppa of Huaihai Road, Sun of the Abyss, Final King of Hell. . One day, the impoverished Huai Shi discovers that the golden finger he picked up has finally started working… except this might not be a good thing. To make money and stay alive, he accidentally steps into this dangerous world. The frontier beyond t 336Votes2.2MRecs5.7MFans
- 52 Monsters Die When They're Killed 怪物被杀就会死 Anyone who is different from ordinary people is a monster Born with supernatural powers, he can make a hundred ghosts flee wherever he goes. Crushing bones is no different from crushing butter cookies. Being so extraordinary isn't necessarily a good thing. For ten years, Su Zhou traveled far and wide searching for others like himself in this seemingly ordinary world, but found nothing… until the sudden sp 17Votes1.2MRecs1.7MFans
- 53 My Girlfriend Is a Bratty Rich Heiress 我的女友是恶劣大小姐 [Then become more handsome, if you can win the heart of a beautiful girl] [If you can make your sweet talk sound even better, say it to her too] [But remember, don't make the first move] [Let the beautiful girl say it herself: “Handsome Tokyo guy with a silver tongue, I have to make you mine. You're mine.”] This is the story of a boy from Iwate Prefecture who becomes a handsome Tokyo guy. 147Votes832.1kRecs2.3MFans
- 54 Game of the World Tree 世界树的游戏 The most popular NPC in the virtual reality game Elven Kingdom is the avatar of the World Tree, Mother Nature, Goddess of Life, and ruler of the elves: Eve Yggdrasil sits high upon her divine throne, smiling down at the players below. “Welcome to the world of swords and magic.” This is the story of a transmigrator reborn as a true god who joins forces with the Fourth Calamity to build a wonderful life in another world (seriously)... P.S. Not DND, or at least not really. Behind-the-scenes player 8Votes817.3kRecs899.7kFans
- 55 EN Who Let Him Cultivate Immortality! 谁让他修仙的！ (The new book, Please Don’t Transcend Tribulation During the College Entrance Exam, is now out.) “I’ve said it again and again: the cultivation world was crooked to begin with. I didn’t corrupt it. They say history is written by the victors, so why are people still framing me when I won?” Sword Immortal Lu Yang said during an interview with reporters, clearly furious. The next day. “I’ve said it again and again: I’m the one who corrupted the cultivation world. History is written by the victors, 359Votes2.3MRecs7.4MFans
- 56 EN End of All Realms 诸天尽头 When Luo Su woke up, he found a System in his mind that could take him across the worlds of the heavens. Assassins, monsters, witches, aliens, devils, gods… Infinite worlds meant infinite possibilities and endless adventures. Those who conquered the infinite would surely leave behind a legend of their own. From the ordinary to the immortal, he would seek the end of the road through the myriad heavens! … Gazing at the endless road ahead, Luo Su patted the System on its dog head. All he had were 44Votes1.6MRecs1.4MFans
- 57 EN 13 Mink Street 明克街13号 I like sitting alone on an empty street at night, listening to “them” whisper and enjoying “their” clamor. 73Votes3.4MRecs5MFans
- 58 EN Martial Sage of the Ten Directions 十方武圣 New book: "Desperate Night", "The Strange World: I Alone Become an Immortal". Search for it if you're interested. In a barren post-apocalyptic world, it is the third year of the Shizong reign. The land is in chaos, and the people are struggling to survive. The central dynasty has collapsed. Powerful factions carve up the land, while sects rule independently. Demonic cults and evil gangs sow chao 18Votes2MRecs1.5MFans
- 59 Museum of Demon Suppression 镇妖博物馆 What defies the natural order of the world is a yao. What possesses the spirit of a living creature is a jing. What lingers after death is a ghost. What is abnormal in an object is a monster. The Commandant of Retainers, once known as the Crouching Tiger, was an office established by Emperor Wu of Han to investigate witchcraft and capture treacherous criminals. As spiritual energy and the supernatural revive across the globe, humanity gropes its way toward cultivation. The yaoguai, spirits, ghos 42Votes1.2MRecs6.9MFans
- 60 My Father Is Emperor Gaozu of Han 家父汉高祖 The new book The Court Does Not Move South is now being serialized. Your support is appreciated! A great empire has just been born, and a new era is about to begin. Liu Chang once wondered whether he should compete for the throne and lead this brand-new empire himself. But then he looked at the people around him: Liu Bang, Empress Lu, Liu Ying, Liu Heng... Well, isn’t it better to stay alive? And so Liu Chang earned himself the title of the most shameful transmigrator and settled into 160Votes1.1MRecs3.9MFans
- 61 EN Nightfall Players 黑夜玩家 The story of a group of night watchmen. - 0Votes986.2kRecs442.8kFans
- 62 EN Pokémon Master 精灵掌门人 … Why are there spirit battles on exams? Why do spirits attack me when I go outside? Can someone tell me what happened to Earth...? Don't touch me! I won't take my medicine. I'm not crazy! After accepting the reality of it all... Fang Yuan set his sights on becoming an excellent Trainer. “Now this is the life.” 18Votes2.8MRecs1.4MFans
- 63 EN My Spacetime Inn 我的时空旅舍 The new book, Where There Are Immortals, There Is a Name, is now out. In short: This is a story about a time-node administrator who runs a small inn, and the many people who transmigrate. Either pawn your treasures or work to pay your room and board! 7Votes724.3kRecs591.2kFans
- 64 Please Answer, Naruto 请回答火影 A Shuriken came flying through the air. It came from an angle he never expected. At the instant it was right before his eyes, Yu Xiaobai widened them, not because of the deadly weapon, but because behind the enemy leaping out of the shadows appeared a line of text that should not exist in this world. [To be continued…] “To be continued?” … After transmigrating to the world of Hokage, Yu Xiaobai went through a period of confusion before gradually accepting reality. Just as he finally became an ho 2Votes221.1kRecs234.4kFans
- 65 EN Mysterious Daoist of Madness 道诡异仙 An uncanny Heavenly Dao, strange immortals and Buddhas: are they real or false? Lost in confusion, Li Huowang cannot tell. But these aren’t the only things he can’t distinguish. He can’t even make sense of himself. He’s sick, and very seriously so. 650Votes1.8MRecs13.2MFans
- 66 EN Ashes of the Deep Sea 深海余烬 On that day, dense fog sealed everything away. On that day, he became the captain of a ghost ship. On that day, he crossed the dense fog and confronted a world that had been utterly overturned and shattered. The order of old had vanished without a trace, bizarre phenomena ruled the endless seas beyond civilized society, and isolated island city-states and fleets challenging the ocean had become the last lights remaining in the civilized world, while the shadows of ancient days still stirred rest 307Votes5.9MRecs16.4MFans
- 67 EN This Game Is Too Realistic 这游戏也太真实了 This game is way too realistic! Hauling bricks, running errands, picking up trash, delivering packages... At most, a company can make you experience the hardships of working 996. Here, you can experience 007 on super speed. All right, enough talk. The great Administrator has called me to haul bricks. The Administrator says that as long as we work hard and offer up our livers, next month he can get himself another brand-new set of power armor. Then he’ll take us to explore a whole new map, where 467Votes4.9MRecs9.4MFans
- 68 The Rise of a Homebody 宅之崛起 New book: I Leveled Up I've dropped too many books. If I drop another, I might never get anything off the ground again. I'll stick with this one to the end, so please give it your support. 0Votes236.4kRecs128.9kFans
- 69 EN The Infinite Fun of Little Worlds 小世界其乐无穷 The extraordinary shattered the world’s silence, and the course of technological progress took a turn. As humanity searched for a path to evolution in the darkness, I became its pioneer. This is the story of a player messing with the world. Small worlds are endlessly entertaining. 12Votes1.3MRecs1.2MFans
- 70 EN World Apocalypse Online 诸界末日在线 The end of all worlds has arrived. The Devil King's order reaps the lives of all beings. In the darkness of this despair, one man breaks free of time and space and returns to before the world is destroyed, determined to change the fate he once suffered. But as time passes, he gradually realizes that the apocalypse is not so simple... 78Votes3.2MRecs1.8MFans
- 71 EN Infinite Death 直死无限 “From today onward, you will become an emissary of the Main God in the Main God’s Space, traveling back and forth between world after world in an endless cycle. In return, you will gain things others could never obtain in an entire lifetime.” From the instant those words rang out in Fang Li’s mind, his life was destined to become anything but ordinary... (P.S. I’ve completed two long novels of over five million words each, A Girl’s Great Summoning and All-Round Fantasy. I update reliably, so rea 14Votes1.4MRecs549.4kFans
- 72 A Poor Man's Two Thousand Years 穷鬼的上下两千年 She had experienced the Battle of Changping and witnessed the massacre of hundreds of thousands. She had once led Great Qin's iron cavalry in its struggle for supremacy against the Six States. She had seen the realm divided into three and the mountains and rivers shattered. She had also heard the soft, lingering music of the zither in Longzhong. During the golden age of Zhenguan, she once drank herself drunk on the present day. How radiant was that eternal female emperor in her youth? She had ri 61Votes1.2MRecs1.6MFans
- 73 EN Life-Sim Culinary Game 生活系游戏 [A poorly presented plate of kung pao chicken] Jiang Feng’s life was turned upside down the moment he accidentally discovered that he could see notes attached to the dishes his dad cooked. … 1. This game offers a high degree of freedom. Explore at your own discretion. 2. This game will not interfere with any of your choices. Do your best to unlock achievements. 3. All explanations are the property of the game. 44Votes2.6MRecs1.4MFans
- 74 EN My Senior Brother is Too Steady 我师兄实在太稳健了 *The annual Youku season of the animated adaptation, My Senior Brother Is Too Steady, is about to conclude.* Reborn in ancient times, before the Investiture of the Gods War, Li Changshou became a minor Qi Refiner. He had no great fortune bestowed upon him, nor was he a chosen one destined to face a catastrophic tribulation. All he had was a cultivation dream: to live forever. To make a living in 120Votes11.5MRecs9.8MFans
- 75 EN The Sword of Dawn 黎明之剑 Gao Wen transmigrated, but something went a little wrong along the way. After floating above some otherworldly continent for more than a hundred thousand years, he decided he probably needed a body to count as a complete transmigrator. But after finally succeeding, he never expected he'd have to climb out of a coffin in that body, only to face two utterly terrified great-great-great-great...great-granddaughters. And a world on the verge of the end of an era. 587Votes13MRecs3.8MFans
- 76 This Monk Wants to Return to Secular Life 老衲要还俗 The myriad faces of humanity and countless divine powers amount to nothing more than a mountain, a temple, and a monk. My new book, The Rabbit Must Die, starts updating on June 1. If you enjoy Huang Liang’s work, check it out! 0Votes1.1MRecs1.1MFans
- 77 EN My House of Horrors 我有一座冒险屋 [A reprint of the simplified Chinese edition of this book will soon be published by Motie Publishing House] Chen Ge inherited an adventure house left behind by his missing parents. Business was dismal, until a phone he stumbled upon while tidying the place changed everything. Complete the different-difficulty tasks assigned by the phone each day, and the adventure house can be repaired or even expanded! So Chen Ge began exploring forbidden zones across the country to gather material, incorporati 646Votes7MRecs5.1MFans
- 78 Mythical Version of Three Kingdom 神话版三国 Chen Xi watched a soldier toss aside a boulder weighing hundreds of pounds and stared speechlessly at the heavens. Is this really the late Eastern Han? Lu Bu single-handedly tore through an army of ten thousand. There’s no way that’s scientifically possible. Zhao Zilong really seems to have a dragon’s soul possessing him. He split a mountain with one sword. Is he even human? Dian Wei protected Cao Cao by himself as they fought their way out of the enemy camp, casually slaughtering thousands of e 1.8kVotes11.8MRecs2.8MFans
- 79 The Future King 未来天王 An old legion commander who died in battle during the apocalypse is reborn as a fresh-faced young celebrity in the new century, five hundred years after the apocalypse ended (?)… “Whenever a BGM starts playing in my head, I feel like there's nothing I can't face.”, Fang Zhao. Author of three novels: Star Rank Hunter, Return to the Past and Become a Cat, and Primitive Wars. 4Votes6.6MRecs905.3kFans
- 80 EN The Legendary Mechanic 超神机械师 Han Xiao, a veteran power-leveling player in Stellar Sea, was thrown into the transmigration crowd by a mysterious force from the East, or rather, from a certain otaku. With a player interface in tow, he became an NPC and returned to the days before Stellar Sea's open beta. He resolutely chose the highest-difficulty class: Mechanic. Warships sail in formation across the stars, star-powered mechs twist through the heavens like dragons, psychic cannons lay waste to worlds, and an endless mechanica 434Votes9.2MRecs5.5MFans
- 81 EN Lord of Mysteries 诡秘之主 Amid the tide of steam and machinery, who can reach the extraordinary? In the fog of history and darkness, who is whispering? I awoke from the mysteries and opened my eyes to see this world: Guns, cannons, battleships, airships, difference engines; potions, divination, curses, the Hanged Man, Sealed Artifacts... Light still shines, and the mysterious has never left. This is the legend of th 11kVotes37.4MRecs37.6MFans
- 82 Spare Me, Great Lord! 大王饶命 A car accident changes high school student Lu Shu’s life. When the age of spiritual qi revival arrives, he’s determined to lead the way. Survival of the fittest. The victor rules. … 152Votes11.6MRecs5.4MFans
