Novels like I Can See the Cost of Every Choice
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- 1 Paper Figures Call the Roll: A Record of a Netherworld Worker's Trials 纸人点名：地府打工人闯关实录 His name is Chen Jiujin, a washed-up streamer who makes a living telling folk tales about the supernatural. He has eighty thousand followers, earns three thousand a month, and still owes money on Huabei. During a late-night livestream exploring a haunted house, a paper effigy smacks him in the face, and he is "scared to death" on the spot. After death, there's no Granny Meng's soup, just a text message welcoming him to a job: Welcome to the Folk Horror Challenge Game. This isn't the Eighteenth L 0Votes31Recs0Fans
- 2 Sounds Beneath the Sand 沙下有音 In Kashgar's Old City, Shen Nanyin can hear the voices beneath the sand. On a night of sandstorms, a voice dead for thirty years calls her name. Gu Xizhou, a relic restorer, arrives with a jade cicada passed down through his family, leading to a Kunlun eagle-bone flute left behind by her mother. Legend says that the priests of the thirty-six kingdoms of the Western Regions used sound to suppress evil spirits, sealing disasters inside a sound prison beneath a sunken city. Now the city is about to 0Votes71Recs0Fans
- 3 Reborn, I Just Want to Return to My Comfort Zone 重生后我只想回舒适区 A soul, a warm soul. Cast out of 2026, exiled to wander through 2013. To fill the emptiness of his wandering, he used the perspective of someone reborn to make plans for his present life, map out the road ahead, and furnish the home that was about to be built. All so he could find his way back to the comfort of a life with "her" in this lifetime. Every plan led toward the summer after his wife graduated from high school in his previous life. But fate played cruel games, morality put him on trial 75Votes247Recs4Fans
- 4 Strange Tales of Mountains and Rivers 山河志异 Mountain fruit falls in the rain; I search my heart and ask the Way. Grass insects chirp beneath the lamp; I touch my sword and know that autumn has come. A little man is forced to forge ahead through strange mountains and magnificent rivers. 0Votes612.2kRecs360.2kFans
- 5 Warhammer Returns: Saving the World from a Streamer’s Home 战锤归来，从女主播家开始救世 Friend, are you still worrying because you can't find a job? Are you still being rejected for lacking the right degree, work experience, or connections? Come join the Earth Chapter of the Extreme Warriors! Here, heroes are welcome from anywhere, and no one cares how old a rogue is. As long as you're willing to take up arms and protect the innocent, you can become one of us. Join us and you'll receive: Power armor and professional weapons training. Opportunities to travel to the myriad worlds. Th 74Votes1.1kRecs8Fans
- 6 EN The Urban Horror Game Designer 怪谈游戏设计师 “Doctor, the game I made seems to have become reality.” “Isn't that a good thing? People are under so much pressure at work these days, yet you can escape all that, play at life, and live the life you've always dreamed of.” “But I'm a horror-game designer. I've devised 126 murder cases and created dozens of killers with different personalities. To find material, I've also watched 95 thriller films, read more than 400 horror comics, and collected over 2,000 urban legends. Now they all seem to hav 80Votes1.1MRecs1.5MFans
- 7 When Pride Still Mattered 当骄傲仍然重要时 Some people exist proudly, and some struggle proudly. Some compete proudly, and some fail proudly. But few can walk away with pride. By the time you finish reading this, congratulations: you’ve already seen the lives of many players. This passage took shape in Stephen Curry’s words after his 2021 defeat: “Nobody wants to face us next season.” It was Tim Duncan, certain before the 2014 Finals began that they wouldn’t mess it up. It was Kobe Bryant promising at Old Man Buss’s memorial to get the L 5Votes234.7kRecs386.1kFans
- 8 Rebooting Mythology 重启神话 Dawn. The first light of day was long overdue, while the last glow of the setting sun had already faded into darkness. In a city shrouded in mist, a church hid in the shadows, veins clung to cracks in the walls, something gnawed in the sewers, and dark figures murmured in hushed whispers... The lamplighter strolled onward. 3Votes455.2kRecs1MFans
- 9 War Smoke and Beauty 烽烟揽姝 The peerless beauty of Jiangnan, Shen Qingdai. Caught amid the flames of war and chaos, she is trapped in the power struggles of a military camp. With no way out, she fights to survive, using her wit to save herself. In a chaotic age, gentlemen are powerless to act, while a ruthless warlord can quell the turmoil. Wolves must be brought to heel by someone fiercer still. When they first meet, the iron-blooded general feels no love at first sight. He sees her only as a prize to seize in their conte 0Votes877Recs0Fans
- 10 EN No Retreat South 衣冠不南渡 The ancient empire has fallen, and jackals watch hungrily from the sidelines. Cao Mao never wanted to become an emperor. It is just that the Wei and Jin dynasties know no elegance, and white bones lie everywhere. Thinking of the great catastrophe that will befall Huaxia fifty years from now, Cao Mao can only mount the war chariot once more and launch a final charge. The Han and its traitors cannot coexist! The cultured people must not flee south! Sima clan, aristocratic families, Five Barbarian 6Votes403.4kRecs3.4MFans
- 11 EN Glitch Utopia 故障乌托邦 Metal prosthetics, AI girlfriends, neural networks inside your head, cyberspace. This is a world of ultra-advanced technology, where all kinds of tech can change your life like magic. The terminal cancers that once plagued people are nothing in the face of nanomedical robots. But new levels of technology bring new problems and new troubles, including a new kind of… cyberpsychosis. “What is capitalism, anyway?” Sun Jieke said, hands on his hips, leaning back. 75Votes632kRecs1.6MFans
- 12 Splendor Across the Tang Dynasty 满唐华彩 The Tang Dynasty flourishes in all its splendor, but a cataclysmic upheaval is imminent. In the fifth year of Tianbao, he opens his eyes to the majestic prosperity of “radiant Tang, favored by Heaven, with all nations beneath its sway.” Famous generals abound, its borders stretch far and wide; capable ministers are plentiful, its granaries overflowing; poetry shines brilliantly, its culture dazzles; beauties take your breath away, and song and dance fill the land. He also sees a court utterly in 39Votes987.8kRecs2.5MFans
- 13 EN Celestial Being's Codex 天人图谱 If human life could grow ever stronger without limit, then one day we would reach the heavens! 465Votes3.7MRecs1.8MFans
- 14 EN Twilight Divide 黄昏分界 Dusk divides the world in two, yin and yang. When the flesh of evil gods forced its way through cracks in the earth, flesh as vast as mountains appeared everywhere. Some were afraid. Some worshipped it. Some burned incense and made offerings. Others took a taste and thought, Huh, not bad. And so the flesh became crops, greedily harvested and fought over by people who consulted spirits and worshipped their ancestors. Hu Ma was reborn out of fear. He ate taixui, tended his furnace, and endured cou 67Votes705.1kRecs3.8MFans
- 15 Hidden Dead Ends 隐秘死角 New book: The Desperate Night: I Alone Am Immortal in a Strange World. Search for it if you're interested. Have you heard? If, late at night when all is quiet, you open a music player, put on your headphones, curl up under the covers with your head tucked in, and listen to the same song on repeat, then fall asleep after the forty-fourth play, you might wake up somewhere other than your own bed. You will have entered a strange space completely cut off from reality. That space... at first glance, 11Votes812kRecs2MFans
- 16 EN Becoming a Weird Tale Counts as Success 成为怪谈就算成功 Urban legends are uncanny things that feed on cognition, wield information as weapons, and use data as currency. They are neither living nor dead, existing in human rumors and dwelling in the shadows of the world. “So this means I’ll become an urban legend?” In ancient times, they were worshipped as gods, growing stronger through faith. “Then I’ll be a god!” In more recent times, they were feared as demons, nourished by fear. “I’ll become the Lord of Urban Legends!” But swept along by the tides 0Votes212.8kRecs675.3kFans
- 17 The Long Sword at the End of Jin 晋末长剑 As the Tang poet Xu Yin wrote in his poem “The Two Jins”: “Deep schemes across three generations laid the foundations of an empire. What a pity for the widow and orphan. Cheng Ji’s crime brought Heaven’s wrath; the spear that struck a wise ruler is mourned for all eternity.” The Western Jin came to power through illegitimate means and made far too many mistakes, inheriting every ill that had accumulated since the Eastern Han and the Three Kingdoms. By the end of the Jin dynasty, the damage had b 123Votes2MRecs2.1MFans
- 18 A Guide to Time-Traveling in the Northern Song 北宋穿越指南 If you transmigrate back to the Song Dynasty, should you compose poetry and enjoy romance? Or raise an army and vie for supremacy? Either way, first things first: fill your stomach. 55Votes1.4MRecs2.6MFans
- 19 My Simulated Path to Immortality 我的模拟长生路 How difficult is the path to immortality! And all the more so in this cultivation world, utterly transformed by a plague! Mortals carry disease. If immortals come into contact with them, their cultivation may decline in mild cases, or they may return to the heavens in severe ones. Thus mortals and immortals are forever divided. Immortals cannot cultivate together, and the entire cultivation world has become one vast dark forest. Li Fan transmigrated into this world with soaring ambitions, ye 508Votes975.7kRecs2.9MFans
- 20 The Mirror Legacy 玄鉴仙族 Lu Jiangxian stayed up all night and died suddenly, but his lingering soul attached itself to a blue-gray bronze mirror covered in cracks. The mirror drifted into a vast, boundless world of immortal cultivation. In the perilous and unpredictable Dali Mountains, beside the Mei Chi River, a small village sat in the shadow of a minor clan. When the clan came across the mirror, it began passing down the path of immortality and teaching its arts, ushering in a magnificent new era. (A family’s cultiva 22.9kVotes7.2MRecs21.2MFans
