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- EN Mysterious Revival 神秘复苏 "My name is Yang Jian. By the time you read this, I will already be dead..." A strange scroll of sheepskin, an eye peering into the darkness: this is the story of someone who survived. 6.5MHeat22.6MPopularity545kReaders
- The Fragrance of the Coffin's Beauty 棺香美人 When I was born, the river rose and swept a coffin into my home. Fifteen years later, the coffin opened, and inside was a woman... Feng shui, destiny... There are endless folk legends and tales of the bizarre and the fantastic. (Keywords: Corpse Fragrance, Coffin Fragrance Beauty) 1.7MHeat14.1MPopularity141kReaders
- Paranormal Invasion? Welcome to My World of Rules! 诡异入侵？欢迎你们来到我的规则世界！ [Rule Horror] [Delusional Misinterpretations] [Powerful Without Knowing It] [No Romance] Wen Li, a college student, graduated straight into unemployment. She decided to look for a job while working part-time at a convenience store to earn some money for rent and utilities. The cashier job was easy, and she could take home food from the store that was close to its expiration date. Wen Li was quite happy with her part-time work, but it seemed her luck had suddenly taken a turn for the worse. Her c 988kHeat440kPopularity83kReaders
- Death Makes Me Stronger: The Whole World Begs Me to Stop Dying 死亡就变强：全球诡异求我别送 [Not a conventional eerie-dungeon story. If you're only here for dungeon arcs, feel free to skip this and save yourself some time.] "The Ghost King? I'd say we're about evenly matched. I often take it down solo, too." That's what Qin Lan said after leaving a max-star horror dungeon. Eerie horrors descended upon the world, and people everywhere were randomly dragged into terrifying dungeons, where evil spirits hunted them down. But Qin Lan had gained a cheat-like talent that let him reload endles 986kHeat1MPopularity82kReaders
- Being a Taoist Priest Is No Easy Job 道士不好惹 At Zhongnan Mountain, people know that the Quanzhen Sect is there, but they don't know that a dilapidated Taoist temple lies at its foot. People know that Maoshan is skilled at catching ghosts, that celestial masters excel at warding off evil, and that Master Yang knows feng shui, but they don't know that the people of Gujing Temple understand the Way of Heaven best. That day, the people of Gujing Temple emerged out of nowhere, and from then on their name resounded throughout the world! 969kHeat7.2MPopularity81kReaders
- EN My House of Horrors 我有一座冒险屋 Chen Ge inherits an adventure house left behind by his missing parents. Business is poor, until a phone he unexpectedly finds while tidying the place changes everything. As long as he completes the phone's daily missions of varying difficulty, the adventure house can be repaired and even expanded! So Chen Ge begins exploring forbidden sites to gather inspiration, incorporating their settings and features into his own adventure house. As visitors scream in fright, the place becomes famous overnig 772kHeat4.5MPopularity65kReaders
- EN When Darkness Falls, Light the Lamp 天黑请点灯 The village chief said, "When it gets dark, lock the doors and windows, light the oil lamp, and don't believe anything anyone outside tells you." This world is full of evil spirits and eerie horrors. The lovely flowers blooming in this barren land are poisonous. Fear and greed nourish sweet fruit. This is a world where "people eat people." Luo Bin said, "Funny, that's the kind of world I came from, too." 757kHeat3MPopularity63kReaders
- True Tales of Strange Happenings 民间诡闻实录 Deliver the spirit-baby, avoid the Yang Pass, carry the pregnancy to term, give it a name, offer incense and candles in the twelfth month, and welcome the midwife... I inherited my grandmother's craft and became a male spirit-midwife. Here are the strange and uncanny tales I've encountered over the years... [This story is entirely fictional] 525kHeat28.4MPopularity44kReaders
- The Evil Dragon Escapes Prison: I'll Send My Fiancée's Whole Family to Their Doom! 邪龙出狱：我送未婚妻全家升天！ Accused of assaulting his mother-in-law and murdering his deputy, Duan Lingxiao is sentenced to life imprisonment in Prison Zero. What he doesn't know is that seven mysterious villains are hidden deep within the prison. The villain whose entire body is sealed teaches him the Supreme God of War Art of Slaughter. The villain with crippled legs teaches him the Dragon Soaring Nine Heavens movement technique. The villain with both arms severed teaches him the Invincible Dragon Fist. The villain whose 471kHeat1.9MPopularity39kReaders
- You Hired Me to Collect Bodies, So I Dissected My Ex-Girlfriend 让你当收尸人，你直接解刨了前女友 In anatomy class, the corpse turned out to be my ex-girlfriend... After that, I went through one bizarre experience after another. A bus out of service that only went up, never down, and led straight to a reservoir. An old pagoda tree in the hospital, lush with branches and leaves, that swallowed people whole without even spitting out their bones. A bighead carp by the Qingshui River that begged people for help every night. And a deadly brothel draped in human skin, open for business day and nig 404kHeat1.9MPopularity34kReaders
- Calculating Your Fate to the End 算死命 When I was born, I was nursed by a wolf for a few days. I thought of her as my mother, and believed I'd never see her again. Then one day, a woman came looking for me... 327kHeat5MPopularity27kReaders
- The Divine Fortune-Teller in the Linen Robe 麻衣神算子 My grandfather taught me everything he knew about fortune-telling, but after I read people's fortunes three times, he left me. From then on, I didn't just read the fortunes of the living. I also had to read those of the dead, and even... 296kHeat4.4MPopularity25kReaders
- The Heaven-Ordained Fortune Teller 天命神算 When I was thirteen, I lost my soul. As my grandfather tried to call it back, he summoned a spirit that didn't belong to me. From then on, my life changed beyond recognition... 261kHeat14MPopularity22kReaders
- The Language of the Three Corpses 三尸语 You've heard of the dead who died with their eyes open, but you've surely never heard of a corpse whose mouth won't close... (The Third-Round Coffin Bearer) 244kHeat3.8MPopularity21kReaders
- Strange Republican-Era China: Sewing Corpses to Begin My Path to Immortality 诡异民国，从缝尸开始长生 In the early years of the Great Shun Republic, new learning clashes with old customs, while guns and demons dance together. The exalted "Seekers of the Dao" steal the secrets of Heaven, unaware that they have long since been corrupted by an indescribable horror and transformed into walking calamities, bizarre corpses roaming the mortal world. Li Changsheng, who transmigrates from another world, becomes the lowest of the low, a corpse stitcher at the execution ground. From the start, he has only 240kHeat120kPopularity20kReaders
- Museum of Demon Suppression 镇妖博物馆 When the ways of the world go awry, a demon is born. When an object's nature gains awareness, it becomes a spirit. When a soul refuses to disperse, it becomes a specter. When an object behaves abnormally, it becomes a monster. The Commandant of the Sili, once known as the Crouching Tiger, was established by Emperor Wu of Han to handle witchcraft cases and capture treacherous criminals. As spiritual energy and the supernatural revived across the globe, humanity began to grope its way toward culti 207kHeat3.9MPopularity17kReaders
- The Fated Guardian of the Village 天命守村人 On the day I was born, strange phenomena filled the skies, and countless animals bowed before me. Everyone said I was destined for greatness, but my grandfather shook his head and said I was born slow-witted, fated to become the village guardian. To defy fate and change my destiny, my grandfather found me a child bride of peerless beauty. But she ran away the very next day, and my grandfather was not long for this world. Before he died, he told me not to leave the village for twelve years, or I 194kHeat4.4MPopularity16kReaders
- Heaven's Chosen Guardian of the Village 天命守村人 Every village has an idiot... The older generation calls them Village Guardians, also known as Yin Wardens. They’re said to protect their village from disaster. I’m the idiot in our village... When I was twelve, the King of Hell summoned me. To stay alive, I was forced to become our village’s Guardian. 169kHeat314kPopularity14kReaders
- Terror in the Haunted Dorm 诡寝惊魂 I landed a job as the dorm supervisor in a women's dormitory at a university, but the girls there were acting strangely... Crying in the middle of the night, a dorm room catching fire, a room that doesn't exist. Deep in the darkest recesses of memory, a bizarre and wondrous world lies hidden... The night grows late, but the dream is not yet half over. The mountain spirit snuffs out the lamp. Where can a lone ghost return? 166kHeat1.9MPopularity14kReaders
- Tales of the Supernatural: Master of Feng Shui 民间诡闻实录：堪舆宗师 I am a corpse carrier. I travel north and south, bringing countless bodies to their final resting places, and have seen more than a hundred kinds of death. A violent death is the most ominous; a peaceful death in old age is calm. Those who take their own lives cannot be reincarnated. I am someone rejected by fate, the last surviving bloodline of the Jiang family. Don't light a lamp after dark. Don't blow out the candle. Don't look back as you walk. In every corner, a pair of eyes is watching tho 165kHeat2.9MPopularity14kReaders
- The Art of Curse Magic 厌胜术 The Lu Ban craft is also known as the "Missing One." Its five forms are widower, widow, orphan, childless, and disabled. My name is Xu Dong. I'm an untalented carpenter, and my greatest ambition is to coast through life until I die. That is, until I came across Chen Mazi's shoddily made coffin! A corpse opening its eyes, a body hanging from a roof beam, eerie echoes in a haunted building, shadows in the hospital morgue... Strange events follow one after another, swallowing me like a whirlpool an 162kHeat778kPopularity14kReaders
- The Yin-Yang Exorcist 阴阳诡匠 Have you ever heard of a dead person turning over? I saw it with my own eyes... 160kHeat3.1MPopularity13kReaders
- The Strange Things I Encountered on Long-Distance Drives 我跑长途遇到的那些邪乎事 Do you believe ghosts exist in this world? Do you think there are ghosts in this world? I believe they do, and I've seen them with my own eyes... My name is Qi Ming, but you can also call me Xiao Liu. I hope that when you read this book, I... will still be alive... [Do not read late at night!!!] 155kHeat1.8MPopularity13kReaders
- The Seer in Hemp Robes 麻衣天相 Feng Shui techniques can kill without shedding blood and save people without anyone noticing. Fortune-telling and divination can reveal one's fate, but never calculate it to the very end, for the Heavenly Dao is ever-changing. My name is Jiang Sheng. I was born with a yang body and a yin fate, destined for a life of hardship. My grandfather named me Sheng, meaning "victory," hoping I could triumph over fate by half a move and live a good life. My grandfather arranged nine marriages for me so the 153kHeat5.7MPopularity13kReaders
- Secrets of Yin and Yang 阴阳秘事 I was born with a Yin fate. When I was five, everyone in my family was murdered except me. From that day on, my family became neither human nor ghost, yet they remained by my side. To avenge them, I took up the path of a Yin-Yang ghost hunter. The darkness reeked of blood, and it seemed countless pairs of eyes were watching me. Shh. Don't move. The hunt has begun! 148kHeat1.3MPopularity12kReaders
- Tales of the Supernatural: The Yin-Yang Master 民间诡闻实录之阴阳先生 Feng shui and geomancy determine fate; a tongue of iron and a golden abacus reveal fortune and misfortune! Those who die unjustly at birth become malevolent spirits; in the end, Heaven will judge good and evil! I was born in an age of turmoil. In that era, famine and war were not the only things that took lives. There were also ruthless, vicious criminals. Beneath the bowls of rice handed out to disaster victims, someone might be stealing people's lifespans! Beyond a plague-stricken village, a c 139kHeat4.6MPopularity11kReaders
- The Living Yin-Breaker 活人阴差 There are people who live in seclusion during peaceful times, then emerge when chaos reigns. They know feng shui and the ways of yin and yang. With a warrant from the Underworld in hand and a spirit-slaying blade at their waist, they destroy evil spirits, deliver wronged souls, open the gates of the Underworld, and guide the dead to the afterlife... "You have done evil without end and lost all conscience. I sentence you to die at the third watch and have your soul destroyed at the fifth. You sha 131kHeat5.9MPopularity11kReaders
- The Misty Sky 迷雾苍穹 Thick fog over the airport, an international flight delayed. A star agent from the Aerospace Investigation Bureau transmigrates through a polar vortex, endures severe turbulence, an invalid passport, and lost luggage, only to watch in horror as his own corpse appears on the baggage carousel, still clutching his ex-girlfriend's pendant. Just one day earlier, the two of them had been making passionate love in New York, thousands of miles away... The tarmac, the control tower, the cockpit, first cl 129kHeat187kPopularity10kReaders
- The Master of Ma Yi Divination 麻衣相师 The woman who just moved in as a tenant kept hearing strange noises in her bedroom and asked me for help. One look at the security footage, and I told her to move out immediately... 128kHeat11.4MPopularity11kReaders
- Strange Tales from the Bureau: The Final Chapter 民调局异闻录之最终篇章 A bizarre past, a mysterious organization, an eccentric white-haired man, and a fat folk-custom investigator who can see through everything. The last tale from the Bureau of Folk Affairs Investigation and Research. 125kHeat1.8MPopularity9.8kReaders
- EN Terror: I Only Sell Haunted Houses 惊悚：我只卖凶宅 Rooms where unnatural deaths have occurred are collectively known as haunted houses. Haunted houses are divided into two types: blue houses and red houses. Living people can stay in a blue house without harm, but anyone who stays in a red house is doomed to die. I work as a real estate agent. Once, I unknowingly sold a red house. After that, I began to experience terrifying things... 119kHeat1.3MPopularity9.6kReaders
- The Divine Craftsman Who Hates Magic 厌术神匠 When I was eight, I caught the village party secretary having an affair with Widow Li at a Taoist temple on the back hill. The next day, I became mute. Ten years later, while our old house was being renovated, we found a dried-up snake nailed to a roof beam, its head pointed straight at my bed. The old carpenter said, "This is Lu Ban cursecraft. Someone wants to keep you silent forever!" Only later did I learn this was just the beginning. Ghostly happenings at construction sites, paper figures w 117kHeat38kPopularity9.2kReaders
- Folk Feng Shui Taboos 民间风水禁忌 I was born under a fate of certain doom: every seventh year brought a great disaster, and a fortune-teller said I wouldn't live to adulthood. But I was born prematurely, and a mysterious man took me in as his disciple. From then on, I was introduced to a whole different world of the mystical and extraordinary! 116kHeat532kPopularity9.4kReaders
- Borrowing Skin from the Yellow Springs 黄泉借皮 The skin I'm wearing isn't my own. It's a fox's skin. The life I'm living isn't my own, either. It's a yin life! Skin can be borrowed, but a life is hard to repay! The laws of heaven, fate, and man all reject me. And I... I only want to stay alive! 116kHeat1.5MPopularity9.2kReaders
- The Fated Knife-Lender 天命赊刀人 They are fortune-tellers who travel the land. They understand feng shui and the yin and yang, and wherever they go, they carry a bag of kitchen knives and scissors on their backs. Wherever they pass, the things they witness usually inspire an eerie prophecy. "Keep this kitchen knife. If an elder in your family dies of tuberculosis within five years, I'll come back to collect payment." "Keep these scissors. If a ghost haunts your child when they're born, I'll come back to collect payment." They c 115kHeat6.5MPopularity9.1kReaders
- Secrets of the Northern Steed 北马秘闻 I spent seven years in a daze, living like a fool. Then the Yellow Immortal told me I had a spirit altar inside me, and that my origins were extraordinary. From then on, I embarked on the path of the Northern Tradition. (Keyword: Black Spirit Altar) 111kHeat1.8MPopularity8.7kReaders
- I’m a Max-Level Taoist Master, and You’re Throwing Me Into a Rules-Based Horror Game?! 我满级天师，你让我进规则怪谈？ A bizarre game descends, and one person from each country is randomly transported into it. Zhang Yangqing, who has trained at Longhu Mountain for two years, inexplicably finds himself in the bizarre world of a rules-based horror game. Wax Museum at Midnight. You will play the role of a security guard. [Rule 1: The wax museum closes promptly at midnight. No one may enter or leave, no matter what requests are made from inside or outside the doors.] [Rule 2: You are the only person in the wax museu 108kHeat405kPopularity8.3kReaders
- Borrowing Yin Bones, Wife of the King of Hell 借阴骨，阎王妻 To keep me alive, my grandfather threw me into a mass grave and buried me with nine stunningly beautiful female corpses. But he never expected someone to cut open my chest and dig out my bones, leaving me on the brink of death… 108kHeat2.9MPopularity8.4kReaders
- Apocalypse: Evolving by Devouring Corpses 末世，从吞尸体开始进化 In the post-apocalyptic wasteland, refugees are no more than ants. Is it paradise within the fortress walls? No, just another prison. Xu Yu is reborn in this perilous wasteland. If he wants to gain power and survive in this land that devours the weak, he has only one choice: keep growing stronger! No food? The land is full of "ingredients." Use his body as a furnace to refine countless vicious fiends, and his teeth as blades to tear open a path to survival for humanity! [Devour Energy +9] [Choos 103kHeat1.5MPopularity8.2kReaders
- Horror Revival: After the Divorce, I Stopped Taking Her Place in Disaster 恐怖复苏：离婚后，我不替她挡灾了 For five years, Qin Xu worked himself to the bone for his wife, Jiang Zi, and all he got in return was, "You're useless." On the day they divorced, he pulled a yellowed piece of red paper from behind the mirror and burned it in front of her. "Your fate belongs to you now." That night, a row of wet footprints appeared in the hallway of Jiang Zi's home. And Qin Xu pushed open a dust-covered door that had been shut for five years... "Qin's Vintage Shop is taking jobs again." From that day on, mansi 89kHeat290kPopularity6.9kReaders
- I Turned the Horror World Into a Raising Game! 我把惊悚世界玩成养成游戏！ [Story-Driven Plot] A mysterious force descended upon Earth, giving rise to another world, a civilization of terror. On their eighteenth birthday, everyone is forcibly sent into the world of horror games. While everyone else is immersed in fear, struggling to survive in the cracks, Qin Nuo discovers that by manipulating the ghosts' emotions, he can earn System rewards. And every time he completes an instance, he can establish a business of his own in the horror world. So he becomes a food runner 88kHeat1.5MPopularity7.2kReaders
- A Weak Affinity Talent? Female Ghosts Are Fighting to Give Me Hints 好感度天赋弱？女鬼抢着送提示 An Lan, who loves playing dating sims, is chosen one day by a horror-game instance and transmigrates into the S-rank instance known as Qing Shan Mental Hospital. In these instances, humans are the lowest form of existence. Humans cannot harm the paranormal; only rules and the paranormal can deal with them. When people transmigrate into an instance, they awaken a talent. An Lan awakens the lowest-ranked, E-rank talent, [Love at First Sight]: every paranormal creature naturally starts with 5% favo 85kHeat511kPopularity7kReaders
- The Yin-Yang Lu Ban Curse 阴阳鲁班咒 Legend tells of a group of people who understood yin and yang, knew feng shui, could draw talismans and read fate, and knew how to catch ghosts and exorcise demons. They were no disciples of some famous sect, but came from among the common folk. The martial world called them the Lu Ban Heirs. For decades, the Lu Ban Heirs vanished from sight. Everyone in the mystic world thought they had disappeared into the rolling tides of history. But with the arrival of a young troublemaker named Yan Shouyi, 85kHeat2.6MPopularity6.9kReaders
- The Sun God's Arrival 出阳神 Those who commit five thousand sins become ghosts in the Five Hells. Those who commit six thousand sins become prisoners in the Twenty-Eight Hells. Ghosts have six palaces within their grotto-heavens. The Dao is preserved in seven thousand talismanic chapters. People cultivate thirty-six thousand spirits! In this world, ghosts don’t act like ghosts, and people don’t act like people. Hell is empty, and the mortal world is a prison. 85kHeat3.3MPopularity6.8kReaders
- I Own a Paper Effigy Shop 我有一家纸扎铺 [Chinese-Style Horror + Mild Horror + Supernatural + Not for the Faint of Heart] A mother who died young, a father in prison, a ramshackle paper effigy shop, and a daughter who brings misfortune. To scrape together tuition money, Wu Qiuqiu takes a job keeping vigil over a corpse. From then on, she is hounded by ghosts and watched by unseen eyes. The tiny village of Wu hides a startling secret. It turns out she is a corpse-born child. Evil spirits want to possess her body, while the living want t 83kHeat1.1MPopularity6.9kReaders
- Apocalyptic Disasters: I Stole an Aircraft Carrier for a Base 末世天灾，抢艘航母当基地 Apocalyptic disasters strike, leaving the world in ruins. Zhou Lin is reborn three days before disaster strikes and gains the ability to "coexist." After careful consideration, he boards a flight to the island nation. Two days later, the whole world is stunned: The United States' largest and most advanced nuclear-powered aircraft carrier vanishes into thin air after resupplying at a port in the island nation! The United States, 80kHeat5MPopularity6kReaders
- The Beauty in the Coffin 美人棺 [Mystery + Revenge + Feng Shui] Every month on the fifteenth, my grandfather would ask me for a drop of blood from my middle finger. Only later did I learn that he was feeding the beautiful older sister inside the beauty coffin. 77kHeat614kPopularity5.9kReaders
- The Divine Qilin 麒麟神相 I was born with a qilin by my side. To save me, my grandfather personally performed a secret art and gave the Nine-Tailed Fox a gift. That day, dead trees bloomed again, and all the beasts came to pay homage! 75kHeat6.8MPopularity5.6kReaders
- The Urban Demon Hunter 都市捉妖人 Ye Shaoyang charges into the city, battling people, demons, and enchanting fox spirits. The undying True God, the Netherworld's bandits from every quarter. 74kHeat593kPopularity6kReaders
- My Tomb-Raiding Days 我的盗墓往事 [Mystery] [Tomb Raiding] [Antique Appraisal] [Revenge] I was a young man from the countryside, living an ordinary, honest life. But because of my sister-in-law, I was forced down the one-way road to crime... 73kHeat1.7MPopularity5.8kReaders
