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- 1 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 all kinds of things beyond belief. A bus that only goes up and never comes down, running straight to a reservoir. An old locust tree, lush with branches and leaves, that devours people without even leaving their bones behind, growing inside a hospital. By the Qing Shui River, a bighead carp that begs people for help every night. And a deadly brothel draped in human skin that never closes. It went on and 1.6kClicks5.7kFavorites20.5kRecs
- 2 Urban Ghost Stories: I’m the Only Living Person in the Blind-Date Group 都市怪谈：相亲群只有我一个活人 Liu Nian has been single for 24 years when his mother pressures him to get married. By chance, he joins a matchmaking group with just ten members. Apart from him, all nine other members are breathtaking beauties. Just as he's congratulating himself on his good luck in love, he discovers that these "beauties" are all genuine, murderous ghosts! The school-uniform-clad Ninth Sister in her profile picture is a vengeful spirit who jumped to her death. The sexy Eighth Sister in hers is a yandere who c 1.6kClicks118Favorites456Recs
- 3 Tales of Miaojiang: The Gu Master 苗疆往事：蛊真人 “Tie the threads of love, plant the love worm. The faithless man's bones will break, his belly will rot.” An Yuyang accidentally meets A Yi, a young woman from the Miao region. They fall in love, but an accident turns An Yuyang into a faithless man. He has no idea that A Yi has planted a love worm deep inside him, one that will not rest until he is dead. To rid himself of the worm, An Yuyang joins forces with the mysterious recluse Ding Xingzhi, Liu Yan'er, and others, and ventures deep into sou 759Clicks45Favorites0Recs
- 4 Strange Cases of the Great Ming 大明异案录 In the forty-fifth year of the Wanli reign, a Korean tribute envoy arrived at the Huaiyuan Guesthouse. A shocking incident took place in a sealed room at midnight. Su Chengyu, son of the Deputy Commander of the Embroidered Uniform Guard, helped investigate the case, but the fog was only beginning to gather. In the capital, people began dying mysteriously on their way home. Then came a family massacre, a wrongful conviction from an old case, and a series of strange cases in both the north and sou 503Clicks8Favorites0Recs
- 5 Desperate Dawn 绝望黎明 I had just joined the group when I snatched a huge red packet, and then they even made me and a beautiful girl... Because of a red packet, our entire class was dragged into a bloody game that could never be stopped. Its rules knew no right or wrong, only winning and losing. The winners lost their lives, and so did the losers! Everyone became deceitful and turned on one another. The weaknesses of selfish desire and the darkness of human nature were gradually forced into the open. To stay alive, 347Clicks52.6kFavorites45.9kRecs
- 6 Destiny 天命 Three years ago, the Strange Cases Division was mysteriously disbanded. All its files were sealed and classified as top secret. Three years later, an order brought someone who should have been dead back into the sights of those with ulterior motives. Who is he? What kind of past does he have? P.S. The late king left instructions: obey the Mandate of Heaven with utmost care. But what if you knew the Mandate of Heaven at every moment? 317Clicks16.3kFavorites14.6kRecs
- 7 I Went to the Wrong Grave on a Blind Date, and the Ghost Boss Became One of Us 相亲走错坟，女鬼大佬成了自己人 [Classic Supernatural Horror] [Folk Horror] [Smart Protagonist] [Ruthless Protagonist] Before she died, Grandma introduced me to someone for a blind date. The tea she drank tasted both fishy and sweet. Her hands were ice-cold, and the gift she brought was meant for the dead... After that, one bizarre thing after another began to happen. On the bus, a blind, rigid driver sat motionless. In the morgue, a headless corpse twitched its limbs. In an abandoned hospital, a nurse in white stubbornly went 263Clicks34Favorites17Recs
- 8 Born a Yin Official? They Call Me the Grand Master in the Mortal World 天生阴官？阳间叫我大先生 My father arranged a ghost marriage for me, angering every immortal in the hall. If I want to live, I have to repay the debt with three lifetimes of my own. They said, “This debt is your life.” I accept the debt. But I refuse to surrender my life. To break the ghost marriage, I slipped into the Ghost King’s wedding procession at night, overturned the bridal sedan, and stole the bride; To enter the ghost realm, I ventured alone into the ghost city of the Underworld. Surrounded by countless ghosts 262Clicks42Favorites135Recs
- 9 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… 233Clicks2.1kFavorites79Recs
- 10 My Paranormal Case Files 我的灵异档案 Late at night, Xiao Wang from upstairs knocked on my door and asked if his cousin could stay at my place for one night. Looking at how sweet and innocent she seemed, I decided to do a good deed. But who could have guessed that she would actually... My name is Liu Yang. I'm a police officer from the legendary, most mysterious Division Seventeen! She strangled herself to death. He was tainted by evil blood and turned into a nightmare creature. He was an ancient corpse sealed away for thirty years. 214Clicks17.6kFavorites46.3kRecs
- 11 Notes of a Funeral Master 白事先生手记 Shen Bai is twenty-two years old, from the Shen family village in Huaishu County, and the seventh generation of his family to serve as a funeral master. Funeral masters have no official post and are not listed in the household registers. They deal with the village's less speakable affairs: never answer if someone calls your name at midnight, never descend into an old well, never cut down a locust tree where someone hanged themselves, and never let a shaman collect your birth date. On the night 126Clicks2Favorites0Recs
- 12 The Corpse Bride, the Ghost Emerges from the Coffin 尸娘子，鬼出棺 To keep me alive, Grandpa actually made me hold a wedding ceremony with a deserted grave. A bewitchingly beautiful, fox-tailed fox demon with a human face. An ancient jade coffin, suspended upside down by bronze nails beneath the deepest sea of Xichuan. A blood-robed female corpse hanging amid the ancient forests of Cangshan, visible for a hundred miles. A reincarnated demon Buddha in Tibet who specializes in sucking out people's brains... Every step I took felt as if a hand were pushing me forw 110Clicks190Favorites7Recs
- 13 Little Daoist Friend: The Red Mountain Witch Book 小道友之红山巫书 When heaven and earth fell into ruin, an unprecedented event took place in the Netherworld. From that day on, the Netherworld collapsed, the worlds of the living and the dead ceased to exist, and the human world was plunged into catastrophe. Strange events followed one after another... There are two books in the world: the Book of Heaven and the Book of Earth. They were born from the unreal and the real. The unreal ascends to heaven and vanishes without a trace, while the real falls to earth and 57Clicks119Favorites8.8kRecs
- 14 Tales of a Desolate Village 荒村物语 After ten years adrift, Shaoqiu was on his way home when, beneath the dim lights of dusk, he stumbled through a pitch-black doorway. Beyond it lay a village, with babbling streams and frogs calling from every direction. It was like a peach-blossom paradise, brimming with poetic charm, except... something about it felt unfamiliar. Could this be an illusion of a village? Were the figures before him not people, but ghosts?! But where was the real village where people lived? And where was home? 52Clicks90Favorites294Recs
- 15 Corpse Sister 尸妹 A desolate mountain village, a silent old building, a shadowy forest. There are always forbidden places nearby where strangers are not welcome... 51Clicks23kFavorites38kRecs
- 16 Weekly No. 01 零一号周刊 Born in the Ghost Month, Jiang Jinjiu saw his life change forever after becoming a reporter investigating paranormal events. As he investigated more and more cases and met more and more people and beings, trouble kept finding him. Gradually, he realized he had been caught up in a conspiracy. And there was more than one mastermind behind it... 46Clicks87Favorites3kRecs
- 17 Watching the Fire 观火 Beneath the foundations of a quiet old house at the foot of Lizi Mountain lies a headless male corpse! Beside it are a battered, rusted bronze mirror, shards of blue-and-white porcelain, and a kerosene lantern. What kind of terrifying, eerie scene is this? What the heck? Relax, this is no challenge for our tough guy Zhao Zimeng, the “handsome uncle.” As the rising star of the public security criminal investigation System, he has both looks and brains, and he and his capable team have what it tak 45Clicks39Favorites142Recs
- 18 Buried Alive by My Ex, I Turned Around and Married a Ghost Immortal 被前女友活埋，我反手迎娶鬼仙 When I was fifteen, my father left a blood-written letter, entrusting me to his dearest friend and sworn brother. But three years later, that man stole all of my father's wealth and arranged a most ominous ghost marriage for me, intending to leave me without a grave. That night, the woman in her phoenix crown and red wedding robes tipped up my chin, a wicked smile playing on her lips. “From now on, you belong to me.” 35Clicks34Favorites130Recs
- 19 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 23Clicks0Favorites0Recs
- 20 Murder Case 刑凶 Ghosts are not frightening. What is frightening is the human heart. Twisted human nature is like a black hole, devouring everything. Demons have never come from hell. They come from within people. I had been working as a criminal investigator for only six months when I witnessed my first case of... twisted human nature. 19Clicks1.6kFavorites500Recs
- 21 The Murder Handbook 谋杀手册 A child of just four or five had been cruelly embedded in a wall by a killer. What the police uncovered inside the little body was even harder to accept: the remains of an adult man. None of us can know whether the one sleeping beside you is an angel or a demon. 17K’s most realistic crime investigation and deduction novel, with the tightest logic and sharpest reasoning. 17Clicks2.3kFavorites4kRecs
- 22 The Yin-Yang Flayer 阴阳剥皮人 When the scalpel of science cuts into the chest of the uncanny... I discovered that ghosts can lie, and gods leave fingerprints. I am a forensic pathologist, and I believe the dead are the only source of truth. That is, until I took on a series of crime scenes that looked like a battle between gods: people spontaneously combusting in locked rooms, corpses that had "grown" out of walls, and victims killed by "invisible" weapons. Everyone says these cases are taboo, that they are supernatural. But 16Clicks803Favorites29.9kRecs
- 23 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 13Clicks2Favorites0Recs
- 24 Peace Is a Miracle 平安即奇迹 Lin Ansheng is on the verge of death after a car accident when he is reborn in the body of his seven-year-old self on the night of a great flood. Gradually, he discovers that he isn't the chosen one, but a "born vessel." Someone has been using "contracts" and anchors to shift misfortune onto him in exchange for the prosperity of their family. Gu Xuanzhou, the public face of the scheme, poses as a philanthropist while maintaining a century-old industry built on transferring calamity. Lin Ansheng 12Clicks0Favorites0Recs
- 25 The Key to Immortality 长生之引 A lost book called The Song of Immortality, a thousand-year-old tomb sunk beneath the sea, and a shocking scam built around the promise of eternal life. When we finally put all our strength into opening that door, what we saw was our own face, already rotting away. 11Clicks1Favorites0Recs
- 26 Ferryman of the Living World 阳间摆渡人 The Five Divine Strongmen are the Five Ghosts in Heaven and the Five Plagues on Earth. My name is Li Shang, and I am apprenticed to the Five Plague Envoy. The day my father broke our ancestral rules, a twist of fate swept me into the heart of a struggle between two factions. I was doomed to become trapped in an endless cycle of deadly calamities. To survive, I became a ferryman who walks between the worlds of yin and yang. The truth was buried in the earth alongside the dead. When I dispelled th 10Clicks942Favorites8kRecs
- 27 The Mystery of the Hidden Game 暗局之谜 A string of murders discovered on a stormy night entangles long-buried secrets of the martial world with the hidden currents of the city. Lou Mingzhi, a former criminal investigation captain dismissed from his post while pursuing an old wrongful conviction, unexpectedly receives an anonymous case file. The victims in it all bear a striking resemblance to survivors of the Qing Shuang Sword Case from twenty years ago. Meanwhile, folklorist Xie Yilan travels deep into the ancient city of Zhenjiang 9Clicks1Favorites0Recs
- 28 When the Suona Sounds: Red Weddings Send You to the Underworld, White Funerals Bring You Back 唢呐一响：红事归阴，白事还阳 The suona has been passed down for thousands of years. You think it’s just the king of instruments, a musical hooligan? No. In my hands, it can discern good from evil and divide the realms of yin and yang. My name is Ge Tianchong. The year I failed the college entrance exam, my father pressed a suona into my arms and said, “Of all the instruments, the suona is king. This heirloom from our ancestors is no ordinary thing.” I didn’t believe him. Not until Sister Xia, the widow next door, died in my 8Clicks5Favorites0Recs
- 29 I Come from Hell 我来自地狱 "My name is Wu Sinian. I died in 1937." "I am a surgeon at this hospital." "For a hundred years, I have never left this operating room..." 6Clicks234Favorites480Recs
- 30 Jade and Silk, Golden Ding 玉帛金鼎 Wen Tianxiang, a patriotic loyalist of the late Song dynasty, compiled a book of Chinese chess endgame studies during his lifetime. Titled Jade, Silk, and Golden Tripods, it contained forty positions. The first was called "Jade, Silk, and Golden Tripods," and the last, "A Lone Rider Meets the Enemy." Historical records attest to this. It is said that Wen Tianxiang incorporated vital military and state secrets into the book. Unfortunately, after his death, it vanished without a trace. In the earl 6Clicks183Favorites2.5kRecs
- 31 The Heavenly Master Descends the Mountain, Only to Be Hunted by a Vengeful Ghost Right After His Engagement 天师下山，刚定亲就被厉鬼索命 Other men hope their families will live in harmony when they marry, but my wife had barely joined the family before she wished my entire family dead. My name is Xie Que. I was born under an ill-fated star, and even the wife I married keeps trying to kill me. To protect myself, I finally made a decision that defied my ancestors! 5Clicks6Favorites0Recs
- 32 The Beauty Emerges from the Coffin 美人出棺 [Decisive and Ruthless, Horror and Suspense, Folk Legends, No Saintly Protagonist] As far back as I can remember, my older sister has been a fool. But I've always felt there was something strange about her. Sometimes, I even think she's pretending to be stupid... 4Clicks6Favorites0Recs
- 33 The Gods Must Keep Their Distance 诸神回避 On the day I completed my training, the Grandmaster shut the door in my face. By the rules, my hand tendons should have been severed, leaving me to fend for myself. I never imagined that someone destined to meet me three times and save me three times had already been waiting for me at the crossroads. He led me into a world beyond the reach of ordinary people. By the banks of the River of the Dead, beyond the border between Yin and Yang, atop the Cloud Peak, at the bottom of the abyss, wherever h 4Clicks583Favorites3.2kRecs
- 34 Defy Heaven's Fate and Marry the Queen of Hell 劫天运，娶阎妻 I was born with the ill fortune of the Six Harmonies and a fate that left all seven of my orifices bereft. To save me, my grandfather used my blood to nourish a female corpse… But who could have guessed that after my grandfather died, I would be tricked and have my fate stolen, left on the brink of death in a hopeless situation! 4Clicks0Favorites0Recs
- 35 My Years as a Ghost Detective 我当鬼侦探那些年 Supernatural fiction contest entry The Heavenly Way has its order, and life and death follow the cycle of reincarnation. But some people die unjustly, carrying such deep resentment that they become ghosts and monsters. They cannot enter the cycle of rebirth and instead wander among the living. I am the one who helps them uncover the causes of their deaths, dispel their resentment, and find their way into the cycle of reincarnation. What follows are the various hair-raising cases I have encounter 4Clicks2kFavorites833Recs
- 36 The Hanged Woman of the Dead Village 亡村女吊 Synopsis of The Hanging Woman of the Lost Village Deep in the mountains lies Wang Village, a forbidden ancient settlement cut off from the outside world. Its people obey bizarre ancestral rules, forbidding adult men from staying and worshipping a woman in red who hangs herself. For generations, they have used a blood pact to suppress a century-old underworld grudge, while the whole village conceals a bloodstained secret. Fine woodworker Dai Chuanyu stumbles into this forbidden place while invest 4Clicks1Favorites0Recs
- 37 The Supernatural Doctor of the Ancient Town 古镇灵异医生 A regular doctor returns to his hometown, an ancient town, to visit the graves after twenty years. By a twist of fate, he comes into possession of a mysterious black box. The box was entrusted to him by a female ghost, who wanted him to clear her name. But an evil ghost is also entangled with the black box. After a fierce battle, the doctor is forced to transmigrate. He plans to master the necessary skills, defeat the evil ghost, and transmigrate back home. But then he discovers an even greater 4Clicks115Favorites3.2kRecs
- 38 Ghostly Flames at the Foot of West Mountain 西山脚下的鬼火 A series of murders drew the close attention of our public security bureau. I, Wang Jinqiao, head of the Investigation Section, went undercover in the enemy's secret service, disguised as one of their own, and won their trust. The story is full of twists and turns, intricately plotted, and gripping from start to finish. 3Clicks70Favorites431Recs
- 39 The Dragon Rider's Manuscript 骑龙手稿 This story has ten cases, each around twenty chapters long. The first nine are self-contained, while the final case runs through all nine. The nine cases are inevitably connected, but each still stands on its own. So, dear readers following along, there's no need to push yourselves to read the whole story all at once. Sending love… 3Clicks19Favorites8Recs
- 40 True Records of Strange Cases 诡案实录 Cases in the underworld are handled by ghost wardens. Cases in the living world are handled by the police. Cases on the border between yin and yang are handled by me. My name is Yuan Ye. I'm a beat cop in Ghost District No. 3 at the Yin-Yang Road Police Station. The living and the dead share the district. I've seen the most vicious living people and the kindest wronged spirits. I've witnessed the most gruesome crime scenes and heard about the most baffling murder cases. Ghosts kill people, and p 3Clicks912Favorites559Recs
- 41 Horror Livestream: The Scarier the Haunt, the More Excited I Get 惊悚直播：诡异越强，我越兴奋 Lin Luo transmigrated into a world where a strange invasion had occurred ten years earlier, and was forcibly bound to a supernatural livestream from the underworld. In the livestream, viewers said his script was convincing and his special effects were top-notch, and showered him with gifts. But only Lin Luo knew that outside the camera's view, he was facing vengeful ghosts bent on taking his life. Every tip charged up the monsters. The more expensive the gift, the stronger the evil spirit! The 3Clicks6Favorites0Recs
- 42 The Old Building Speaks Not 旧楼无言 Linwan, an old city on the northern coast. The bustling alley in the south is rooted in the heart of the old city. By day, its streets are desolate and dilapidated, their surfaces permanently coated in black grease and grime. At night, the lights blaze, and stalls selling grilled skewers, seafood, and prepared foods stretch for hundreds of meters amid a noisy crush of people. It is a gray zone where migrant workers, longtime local residents, and short-term renters intermingle, a place where huma 3Clicks1Favorites0Recs
- 43 Haunted Guesthouse: A Female Ghost Won’t Leave Me Alone in Dali 恐怖民宿：我在大理被女鬼缠身 During the years I ran a guesthouse in Dali, a lot happened. Many years have passed since then. What I want to say is that ghosts really do exist, because I’ve seen them. The girl who was brutally murdered and left at the bottom of a well for years finally climbed out one day. That was when my nightmare began. A financial executive buried on Cangshan Mountain, a college girl hanged in a pigsty... For one reason or another, they all came looking for me and wouldn’t leave me alone. I spent my whol 3Clicks21Favorites0Recs
- 44 Playing at Life: Born to Die 游戏人间：向死而生 Lu Longchuan leaped from the sixteenth floor, believing that everything would end there. But he didn't fall to his death. Instead, he fell into a desperate world of horror games. There were no rules here, only slaughter; no kindness from the living, only ghosts lurking all around. Humanity was as small as ants here, and life or death could be decided in an instant. Countless bizarre instances and vicious ghosts ran rampant across the world. Staying alive became the hardest thing to hope for. 3Clicks18Favorites22Recs
- 45 Record of Strange Expeditions 探险诡事录 Wang Xiaoqi, an avid explorer, takes the lead and invites the bold Li Yaoyao, Luo Xiaomao, who excels at wilderness survival, and the aloof, well-versed-in-folk-magic Qin Youruo to join her. The four head to an abandoned ancient village in a no-man's-land to investigate a century-old local legend about ghostly shadows in an old mansion. The village is shrouded in fog all year round and filled with deserted houses. Strange whispers can always be heard after nightfall, and past explorers have all 3Clicks1Favorites0Recs
- 46 I Told You to Sleep in a Coffin to Recover, Not to Have Vengeful Ghosts Carry It 让你睡棺材养病，没让你厉鬼抬棺 I was born dead and raised by my adoptive father in a coffin. To stay alive, I had no choice but to enter the Cave of Wronged Spirits, bow nine times to a coffin, and take a corpse as my master. I entered the Coffin Sect and, like generations of disciples before me, carried coffins to bury ghosts, spending my whole life entangled with every kind of bizarre evil spirit. The Nine Peaks Suppressing Corpses, coffins adrift on a sea of blood, a city built of bones, eight heirs vying for supremacy… In 2Clicks16Favorites0Recs
- 47 The Reincarnators' Six Realms World 轮回者之六道世界 I was born with an extraordinarily powerful memory. A dream I had by chance completely changed the course of my life. In the dream, the astonishing identity of a "Reincarnator," mentioned by Meng Po, set me on a journey to seek memories of my past lives. Reincarnators who shared my identity all possessed supernatural abilities. We could either destroy the world or save and protect it, depending entirely on what we held in our hearts. After we eliminated everyone who stood in the way of our sear 2Clicks84Favorites1.5kRecs
- 48 Folk Taboos and Strange Tales 民间禁忌怪谈 Ever since I was a kid, I thought my grandpa was strange. Whenever he had nothing to do, he liked to wander deep into the old forest. Then one day, he brought a little girl back from the woods, and I discovered the secret he was hiding. From then on, I tried to get away, but only became more deeply entangled... 2Clicks857Favorites285Recs
- 49 A Collection of Short Ghost Stories 鬼故事短篇合集 Did they really see something supernatural? Or was it just fear playing tricks on them, making them hallucinate and scare themselves? They were deeply in love. Even after becoming a ghost, they would protect the one they loved for life... Born as the seed of an evil spirit, they sought to wreak havoc on the world. But evil cannot triumph over good, and in the end, they vanished without a trace... Kind by nature, they killed innocents for love and created zombies to harm others... More exciti 2Clicks74Favorites0Recs
- 50 Rules of the Strange: I Survive by Following the Rules 规则怪谈，我靠规则活下去 The supernatural has returned across the globe, and countless rule-based horror dungeons are appearing randomly in the real world. At midnight, hospital windows must not be opened. On the bus, you must not look back. In the dormitory, you must not open your eyes after midnight... Break a rule, and you die instantly. No exceptions. The whole population is gripped by panic, and everyone fears the supernatural like a tiger. Chen Mo unexpectedly awakens the talent [Rule Loophole Insight]. Others 2Clicks—Favorites—Recs
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