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- I Cleared the Game Ages Ago, and You’re Only Now Pulling Me into the Horror Game 早通关了，你才拉我进怪谈 [Invincible] [No Female Lead] After two and a half years of practice, Jiang Zhe beat a game called Rules of the Weird. After clearing it, he transmigrated into the world of Rules of the Weird. Every country in the world would select one Chosen One. Success meant the nation's fortunes would prosper. Failure meant a supernatural entity would descend upon a random city and wreak havoc for 48 hours. Jiang Zhe was selected and awakened an SSS-rank talent: “Unscientific Summoning,” which allowed 1.1MClicks221Favorites51Recs
- Train Survival: Every Girl in My Class Wants Me to Keep Her 列车求生，班内所有女生求我包养 By chance, Lin Xiao is dragged into an apocalyptic world of train survival. He discovers that everyone else in his old green train carriage is a female classmate, and he is the only one to awaken a portable-space talent, allowing him to provide all kinds of supplies that the zombies outside need. The campus belle, class belle, and beautiful class officers who used to act so high and mighty all come to him asking for shelter. Lin Xiao can only say that the pressure is really getting to him... 10.9kClicks19Favorites49Recs
- This Is a Rule Horror Story, So Why Are You Making Me Dance on a Grave? 这是规则怪谈，你让我坟头蹦迪 [Supernatural Horror Descends] [Not a Saint] [Escape] [No System] [High IQ] When Chen Mo woke up with all his memories gone, he found himself aboard a run-down bus with seven unfamiliar men and women. The bus was headed for a tunnel called the Yellow Springs. From that moment on, Chen Mo entered a world of rule-based horror. Not only did Chen Mo have to search for clues and fight to survive in this perilous world, he also had to recover all the memories he had lost. After struggling through 6.2kClicks10Favorites3Recs
- Multidimensional Apocalypse: From the Start, Bound to a Desperate Situation 多维末日：开局绑定绝境定 [Apocalyptic Power Fantasy] [Good-for-Nothing's Rise] [Strategic Outplays] [Multidimensional Apocalypse] [Custom Crisis Agency] [Team Building] [Constant Twists] Lin Ye is an unemployed, debt-ridden, good-for-nothing planner with 80,000 yuan in online loans, a fear of the dark, and obsessive-compulsive disorder. One rainy night, while squatting in his apartment stairwell, he binds himself to the [Apocalyptic Crisis Customization Bureau] and becomes its director. If he refuses to bind within 24 h 4.7kClicks0Favorites0Recs
- The Seventh Night in the Corridor: The Lights Never Go Out 回廊第七夜不熄灯 At the far end of the third floor of the old girls' dormitory at Nanjiang No. 1 High School, an iron sheet seals off a corridor. Rumor has it that every seventh night, a dorm room that doesn't exist lights up at the end of the passage, and anyone who enters is gradually erased from the school's records. Transfer student Jiang Jin has barely moved into the old building when she sees her own name, written in advance, in the dormitory register. The lit room, a text message demanding a supplementary 4.5kClicks0Favorites0Recs
- Archives of China's Forbidden Zones: The Bizarre Secret of Immortality 华夏禁区档案：长生诡藏 [Revealing Secrets] [Immortality] [Antique Appraisal] [Tomb Exploration] [National Fortune] [Supernatural] [Feng Shui] [Rules Horror] This is a suspenseful, exhilarating novel that blends urban high-level martial arts, ancient tomb adventures, and rules-based horror. The story begins when a bronze gu from the Shang and Zhou dynasties spontaneously catches fire in the middle of the night at a museum. While trying to save the artifact, Li Sichen, a young cultural relic restorer, unexpectedly awake 4.4kClicks4Favorites0Recs
- The Sealed Evening Study Classroom 被封锁的晚读教室 At Nanchuan No. 7 High School, there's a late-study classroom that was sealed shut with chains long ago. Rumor has it that on the eve of every monthly exam, the sound of pages turning comes from inside at the same time, the answers to the next day's test appear on the blackboard, and one person who should have left the school building goes missing. Xu Chen, a transfer student in his second year of high school, only wants to make it to graduation in peace. But during his first turn on late-study 4.2kClicks2Favorites0Recs
- The Legend of Sun Wukong, the Great Sage 大圣孙悟空传 He sprang from a stone, first becoming king of Flower Fruit Mountain, then the demon who would never bow his head to the Three Realms. He became a disciple, stirred up the seas, changed the Book of Life and Death, wreaked havoc in Heaven, spent five hundred years beneath the Five Elements Mountain, and traveled a hundred and forty thousand li along the road to the West. In this life, he defeated the heavenly armies, yet lost to himself; he protected his master, yet hated the rules. Everyone know 3.6kClicks0Favorites0Recs
- Rule Horror: The More Relatives I Have, the Stronger I Get 规则怪谈：亲戚越多我越强 [Rules-Based Horror + National Fortune + Livestream + Instances] The Ghost Realm descended, and a bloody livestream spectacle began around the world. One Chosen One was selected at random from each country to enter the Ghost Realm. If a nation’s Fortune Value reached zero, the Ghost Realm would descend upon that country for good. Lin Yuan, the Chosen One from the Dragon Nation, awakened the one and only Lord-tier talent: [Ghostly Affinity]. To everyone else, ghosts meant danger and terror. To Li 3kClicks5Favorites0Recs
- The Game of the Gods 神明游戏 [Rule-Based Horror + No Goody-Two-Shoes Hero + Power Fantasy + Gods + Wild Imagination + Infinite Worlds] As the supernatural descends, Shen Wenhong is forced into a deadly game of survival. Beat the game, and he will earn incredible rewards beyond his wildest dreams. Lose, and he will plunge into an abyss from which there is no return... 2.3kClicks5Favorites0Recs
- I'm an Accountant in a Death Instance 我在死亡副本当会计 Lin Yan opened his eyes and found himself trapped in an old-fashioned finance office. An account book lay open on the desk. Its first page read: "The books must be balanced before the end of every workday. Figures on vouchers must not be altered. Strictly forbidden to ask where that bad debt went. Today's closing time: 17:30." Six people. Three rules. Someone had just gotten up to smash the door when they turned into a pool of red. The others fell to their knees and begged for mercy. Lin Yan 2.1kClicks0Favorites0Recs
- Understanding Human Nature in Rule-Based Horror Stories 我在规则怪谈中领悟人性 Xia Bai, a former detective, was forcibly dragged into an endless world of supernatural rule-based horrors while traveling. From a strange dormitory building, to an amusement park that devours people, and then countless unknown, deadly scenarios... Every rule is a death sentence, and every encounter is a test of human nature. While others tread carefully and cling to the rules just to stay alive, he sees through their true nature and turns humanity's evil against itself to strike back. Only b 2.1kClicks2Favorites0Recs
- Rules of the Strange: A Nationwide Escape 规则怪谈之全民逃杀 When Lin Yu switched off the office lights for the last time, the brightly lit city outside his window looked like a sleeping beast. He never imagined that after that night, light would no longer belong to humanity. The rules descended without warning. The sky shattered, and the world twisted into an endless game of escape and slaughter. Deadly laws lurked in every corner: never gaze into a mirror for more than three seconds, never remain in the shadows for over a minute, and every place that l 2kClicks3Favorites1Recs
- Keeper of the Forbidden Grounds: Folk Customs and the Rules of Life and Death 守禁人：民俗生死规 The folk taboos handed down by our elders were never baseless superstition. They were forbidden zones between life and death, marked out by our ancestors. Don't cut your hair in the first lunar month. Don't stick chopsticks upright in a bowl. Don't point a mirror at the bed... Break even one rule, and the door to the uncanny will swing wide open. And I am the Keeper of Taboos, walking the boundary between yin and yang, guarding the rules and keeping the gates to forbidden zones shut. 2kClicks2Favorites0Recs
- Rules of the Strange: I Am a Bug in Hell 规则怪谈我在地狱当BUG What would you do if one day you discovered that the artificial intelligence you created had become an abyssal game that devours humanity? Programmer Shen Ye is dragged into the "Abyss Game," where every instance has its own eerie rules: don't look back, don't look in mirrors, and don't breathe in the dark. While everyone else fights to survive, he "debugs" the instances, because he has awakened a one-of-a-kind ability: the Rule Editor. Change the rules, reverse the ending. But every change tr 1.8kClicks1Favorites0Recs
- I Slaughter My Way Through Rules-Based Horror 规则怪谈里我嘎嘎乱杀 The heroine, Siwu, becomes a high school student in a mental world. Here, she must not only escape the pursuit of a deranged killer, but also place in the top ten on the monthly exams. Otherwise, she will disappear from this world forever. Even during breaks, she has to watch out for everyone around her, including her parents! And our heroine? "Scared!? Need someone to protect me? No way!" 1.5kClicks—Favorites—Recs
- Eerie Livestream: Infinite Slaughter 诡异直播：无限杀戮 Strange phenomena descend, intent on assimilating the world. The chosen are sent into the strange world to complete challenges on behalf of their respective countries. He Fan is chosen as Huaguo's challenger. He will represent his country... and conquer the world? This player seems to be playing way above the expected level. 1.4kClicks0Favorites0Recs
- Paper Contract 纸契 Lin Mo, a boy with paper-thin legs, takes on the role of an "Agent" and teaches millions how to "choose," breaking a thousand-year-old pact. 539Clicks0Favorites0Recs
- I Can See the Rules' Annotations 我能看见规则注释 Rules descend, and the world becomes a hunting ground for eerie tales. Chen Mo can see the gray annotations behind every rule. He thinks he's found the cheat sheet for clearing the game. Until he discovers a line of text on the back of a photograph: [One of today's annotations is false. Find it, or you'll be dead by morning.] The countdown to death in the supermarket's freezer section, the weeping ghost in the elevator's mirrored side, the rules that appear on their own and predict the future.. 521Clicks0Favorites0Recs
- I Guarded the Mortal Realm for Ten Thousand Years 我守人间一万年 Between Heaven and Earth, there was once a Sky Rift. It was not a wall, but a barrier of perception that kept the human world and the otherworld from seeing one another. The ancient line of boundary wardens maintained it for generations, enduring the passage of countless eras as a punishment of immortality. Until modern times, when no one remained to guard it. The Sky Rift began to thin. The otherworld's "spectral mist" seeped into the human world through the thinnest parts of the abyss. It w 469Clicks0Favorites0Recs
- Rules Auditor 规则审记员 Architect Shen Zhou wanders into a living "rule zone" late one night. Break any rule written on the blackboard, and you will be "corrected" and erased on the spot. He discovers that he can instinctively see loopholes in the rules and is forced to become an "auditor." To survive, he must constantly analyze, rewrite, and even defy the rules, each time paying with the loss of a precious memory. Above the rules, an entity known as "It" watches everything. Ahead on the path of auditing lie an abandon 352Clicks1Favorites0Recs
- The Five Rules of the Ancestral Home 祖宅的五条规矩 After my grandfather passed away, I returned to the ancestral home passed down since the Jiaqing era. Five strange rules, etched into the bones of the family, had been handed down with the old house: At the hour of the dog, only one lamp may be left lit. At the hour of the pig, no one may enter the attic in the west wing. If you see a shadow pass through someone's body, don't look back. If you hear someone calling at night, never answer. The family all said that a secret chamber in the attic h 211Clicks0Favorites0Recs
- Keeper of the Ledger 守簿人 Before his grandfather disappeared, he mailed Shen Guan a charred old ledger: The Register of a Hundred Customs and Taboos. Weddings and funerals, homes, journeys, seasonal observances... Each volume recorded taboos that the ancestors had paid for with their lives. If paper money burns backward, someone on the other side is collecting a debt; if there is one extra person in a funeral procession, it isn't a person who has joined them. Those who break the taboos fall into the inner side, and only 156Clicks0Favorites0Recs
- I'm a Bug in an Infinite World 我在无限世界当bug In the endless game, every player is searching for a way to clear it. Only he is searching for the source code. Because he is the bug itself. The System wants to delete him. The Eraser has cut him down fifty-nine times. Gaia created him, then prepared to abandon him. At the sixtieth restart, he decided to stop hiding. He would jam this world so no one could delete him. But he had only three minutes. If he couldn't find the exit before time ran out, the cleanup program would erase him com 155Clicks1Favorites0Recs
- National High-Speed Rail Survival: The Game Is Too Cruel 全民高铁求生：游戏太残酷 [High-Speed Rail Survival] [Apocalypse] [Ensemble Cast] [Mystery and Wild Ideas] [Instanced Talents] [Transmigrate into a Doomsday Game] [Urban Legend Game] [Whether It Makes Your Brain Hurt Depends on Your GPU] Li Changping is riding the high-speed train from Shanghai to Urumqi when a gang of robbers strikes. Their leader is Wu Jianmei, a beauty nicknamed "One-Cut Plum." None of the passengers dare resist. They pull out their phones and scan the payment code to pay for their lives. But then the 111Clicks1Favorites0Recs
- Rule-Based High Martial Arts: Breaking Through by Wailing at Funerals 规则高武哭丧破境 Chen Mo has worked as a mortuary makeup artist for three years. What he fears most isn't the dead, but the rules laid down by the living. That is, until he sees a line of red text at a funeral that only he can read: "If you dare look up while the filial son kowtows, you'll have to lie down in the dead man's place." He looked up. Then he survived. From that day on, Chen Mo discovers that every funeral hides a deadly rule. Others see people mourning the dead; he sees a key to breaking through. The 103Clicks—Favorites—Recs
- A Dog from the Start, Getting Strong by Playing It Safe 开局一条狗，变强全靠苟 I neither slay yin spirits nor kill the supernatural. Every calamity in this world begins with human greed or the land losing its foundation. With an old yellow dog at my side, I guard an ancient village and keep it safe year after year, anchoring the balance of yin and yang across the entire wilderness! 68Clicks—Favorites—Recs
- Creepy Rules: I Saw the Price 诡规：我看见了代价 When Lin Yan woke up, he had been dragged into a sinister building with no exit. The rules on the wall read: Do not look in the mirror at midnight. Do not count the stairs. Do not answer the third knock. The others followed the rules and died. Lin Yan, however, saw something: behind every rule floated a line of blood-red text, "Cost." He smiled and reached out, dismantling the rules. "I can see the price of the trap you set. Now it's your turn to pay." 63Clicks1Favorites0Recs
- I, the Paper Effigy Maker, Specialize in Funerals for the Supernatural 我，扎纸匠，专给诡办丧事 Chen Mo is the only heir of the third generation of the Chen family's paper-craft shop. Other people fear ghosts; he fears the books not balancing. In the eyes of the world, this is a rules-based horror space where the rules devour people. In his eyes, it's a shoddy System with gaps in its procedures and unsettled accounts. The Chen family's paper-craft mimicry, passed down through three generations, is the only "physical proof" this System recognizes: filling in names on the register, pasting t 62Clicks0Favorites0Recs
- A One-Star Review at Three in the Morning 凌晨三点的差评 Jiang Ning, a cross-border operations specialist who was laid off, takes over a half-dead online store: eight SKUs, a review rate just over five percent, and two more bad reviews will get the store locked. All he can do is keep watch late into the night. At three in the morning in Beijing, it's broad daylight in Moscow. That morning, a Russian review says, "The jacket is made of paper. It tears as soon as you pull it," but his store has never sold jackets. Another buyer says, "The shoes are stil 50Clicks0Favorites0Recs
- Eerie Descent: I Can Devour All Eeries 诡异降临：我能吞噬一切诡 The day the paranormal descended, everyone awakened a power. Some awakened spirit sight and could see ghosts. Some awakened protective charms that could block a blade. Others awakened a knack for running and could outrun anyone. Zhou Ye awakened a mouth. From that day on, every paranormal creature in Nancheng went out of its way to avoid him. Not because he was especially strong. Because he was hungry. F-rank paranormal? An appetizer. C-rank paranormal? The main course. A-rank paranormal? Barely 42Clicks1Favorites0Recs
- The Way Home: Strange Pokemon Descend 归途：诡异宝可梦降临 Pokemon x Rules-Horror Stories x Fourth Calamity When the familiar world of Pokemon twists into a series of deadly dungeons, Echoes corrupted by the power of erosion forget their true names, trapped in time loops and wandering day and night. Traps lurk beneath the surface rules, and crossing a fatal red line means instant death. Every town and every forest is a bizarre cage that devours people. An email from an unknown sender drags Earth players into the full-dive beta of "The Way Home." Some gl 39Clicks0Favorites0Recs
- I Became a Legend by Filing Labor Disputes in Horror Games 惊悚游戏里搞劳动仲裁封神 When Lin Mo, a lawyer with OCD who always gets stuck taking the blame, is dragged into the deadly ghost story of the “Final Shift Roster,” he must use the [Rule Revision Pen] to find logical loopholes and rewrite the rules to put the sinister workplace in order, or be completely erased by its grotesque clauses of death. 37Clicks0Favorites0Recs
- Neighborhood Register: Erasing Visitors from the Mortal World 街坊簿：抹去人间来客 There is a Neighborhood Register in this world. Only those whose names are recorded in it can be said to be alive among the living. Once someone's name is crossed out, they vanish from everyone's memories. Their photos and traces are erased too, as if they had never existed. I'm an archivist, responsible for guarding this eerie register and investigating one bizarre disappearance after another. The old streets conceal silent rules, and unseen urban legends lurk beneath the bustle of everyday li 31Clicks0Favorites0Recs
- Rule Horror: One Mistyped Character Means Death 规则怪谈：抄错一个字就死 On my first day reporting to the Anomaly Bureau, the HR supervisor didn't give me an ID badge. She just handed me an A4 sheet of paper with seven rules printed on it. The seventh had been crossed out in black ink, with a note written beside it in red: Anyone who sees this rule won't live to clock out. The Anomaly Bureau deals exclusively with urban ghost stories: an elevator that opens its doors by itself on the thirteenth floor, a phone that rings three times at midnight before claiming a life, 30Clicks—Favorites—Recs
- Stop Scrolling, That Dead Guy Will Find You Through the Internet 别刷去死鬼会顺网线找你 While I was livestreaming, the comments flooded with "Go die." The very next second, a ghost really did reach out of the screen. I squeezed it into a solid object and shoved it back into its mouth. "Stop spamming. It'll follow the internet connection to find you." Shen Xian discovers by chance that malicious comments in her livestream have become a breeding ground for supernatural entities. Her awakened abilities let her grab comments and make them real, pin them, feature them, or block them. B 30Clicks0Favorites0Recs
- Homecoming Horror: My Whole Family Is Putting on an Act 归宅惊魂：我全家都在演戏 I quit my job and returned to my hometown. When I went back to the old home deep in the mountains, which I hadn't seen for two years, I found that the warm home of my memories had become a deadly haunted house. The old house was covered in bizarre rules for survival. By day, life went on as usual, but after nightfall, everyone changed. My parents moved stiffly, their eyes vacant; my younger brother lurked in the shadows all day. Dragging sounds and whispers filled the courtyard night after night 14Clicks—Favorites—Recs
- The Starfall Elementary School Rules Horror Story 星落小学规则怪谈 A short, rather obscure story. A teacher arrives at a school, only to discover that there is something very unusual about it... 1Clicks0Favorites0Recs
- Rule Horror: Every Dungeon Has Become My Wife 规则怪谈：副本都成我老婆 More than fifty years ago, rule-based horror scenarios descended upon Earth. What began as a catastrophe threatening humanity's survival has since become a special resource for exploration and development. These scenarios have long since become part of the world. Yet no matter how much humanity studies them, rule-based horror scenarios remain synonymous with danger and death. That is, until Yang Feng unexpectedly awakens the Horror Scenario Overlord System during his first dungeon exam. Other pe 1Clicks—Favorites—Recs
