Survival
I Accidentally Joined a Horror Group Chat and Became an Insider
[Infinite scenarios + mild horror + lighthearted + special advantage + no fixed romantic pairing + scenarios + wish fulfillment]
Lin Yinxi has been killed by monsters ninety-nine times in a women’s dormitory.
The hundredth time she opens her eyes, her phone vibrates before she can even try to escape.
Someone with a rabbit profile picture adds her to a strange group chat.
[Women’s Dorm Building 1 Flayer Work Assignments]
Every member is a monster that has hunted her down in the dormitory before.
[Rabbit Keeper: The socially anxious Organizer is working on the fifth floor. Other staff, please do not disturb her.]
[Flayer 003: Szzzz… New colleague, remember to claim your starter pack…]
[Prop Maker: Time for some pics!]
Only then does Lin Yinxi realize that every move those human-hunting monsters make is visible in the group.
And she has been mistaken for a humanoid entity and brought into the group to work.
So Lin Yinxi joins more and more entity group chats. She lurks to steal intelligence and uses stickers to chat with the entities and maintain her disguise.
One tiny slip, and she’s dead.
As the conversations go on, Lin Yinxi discovers that the groups she enters are increasingly high-level. Little by little, she draws closer to the entities’ management.
Entity: We’ve been chatting for so long. Want to meet offline?
Lin Yinxi: Taking a break from the internet. Do not disturb. Thanks.
A second later.
Her phone vibrates again.
[Stop pretending.]
[I’m right behind you.]
P.S. The scenarios combine puzzle solving, battle royales, death games, rules-based horror, urban legends, role-playing, eerie cultivation, containment-center-style settings, and more. There are a lot of elements.
Rule Horror: I Broke the Horror World
Rule-based horror descended upon Blue Star, and each country had one Chosen One selected to enter the Horror World and fight for survival.
If a contestant died, their country’s national fortune declined and disaster struck.
If they successfully cleared the scenario, the country’s national fortune rose and the entire population received rewards.
Su Chen happened to be selected and entered the terrifying zoo horror scenario.
1. If the elephants you see look different from what you know elephants to be, do not panic. Open your eyes wide and tell yourself that seeing is believing.
2. This zoo has an Aquarium. If a staff member offers to sell you an Aquarium ticket, accept. There is a backup exit there.
3. There is absolutely nothing wrong with the zoo’s safety measures. No animal could possibly escape, and small herbivores in particular are kept in sealed enclosures where they cannot be touched. Therefore, if you see a rabbit running loose, pet it and carry it to a staff member. Rabbits can comfort you…
Just then, Su Chen awakened the Horror Rule Analysis System. As long as he deciphered the rules of the Horror World, he could earn rewards.
[Ding! Congratulations, Host. You have received the Death Rollback reward!]
From that moment on, the entire Horror World took a turn for the bizarre.
Su Chen: What do I do now that I’ve turned the zoo into a vacation resort? Urgent, waiting online!
The Mountain Trail, Mental Hospital, and School Horror Scenarios: Stay away from us!
Longguo: Su Chen is truly a blessing to Longguo!
Ugly Nation + Kimchi Nation + Sakura Nation: I’d like to report someone for cheating, but I have no proof!
The Zombie Who Just Wanted to Slack Off
When the zombie outbreak hit, my two-faced best friend locked me out.
Before I could find somewhere to hide, the ten-year-old next door bit me on the butt.
He was little, and his teeth weren’t much good.
Becoming a zombie hadn’t made him much tougher, either.
Once he’d bitten me, he stiffly shuffled away.
Watching him go, I suddenly felt a little embarrassed.
Suppose zombies ruled the world years from now, and someone asked how we’d all turned.
Everyone else would have fought off a whole pack of vicious zombies before finally going down.
Or sacrificed themselves heroically to save humanity.
Was I supposed to say I’d been lousy at hiding and some brat shorter than me had bitten my butt?
I felt pretty miserable.
But not for long.
Then I decided to stop trying.
Surviving the Apocalypse
Before the zombie virus broke out, I could barely lift a thing.
After the apocalypse hit, I was taking out zombies with a single swing.
When that two-faced bitch threatened me, I had one answer: Then we die together.
When a Native of the Ailao Mountains Comes Home
Wan Youling is a washed-up celebrity mocked across the internet for having no class.
Pressed for money, she joins a livestreamed wilderness survival show in the Ailao Mountains.
When a boastful rival claims to know the range better than anyone, Youling calmly says she is a native—and no one believes her.
Twenty minutes into the mountains, the cameras capture impossible creatures bowing to her, and the cast realizes she may have been telling the truth.
Immortal Flesh
When a grotesque mass of “immortal flesh” falls from heaven, the emperor declares it a divine gift and distributes it among the realm’s most powerful families.
Lady Yan refuses to eat it after receiving a warning written in her father’s blood, only to watch her household descend into ravenous horror.
Fleeing a plague of man-eating monsters with her young brother-in-law Wen Ge, she races toward the ruined capital in search of her father—and the truth.
The flesh may indeed grant immortality, but only if they survive long enough to learn how.
The Day Savory Flatbread Arrived
On Mars, every breath costs money, wanting is treated like a moral failure, and Chen Xiaoba has spent her life longing for one impossible luxury: savory flatbread from Earth.
After that longing costs her job and home, a reunion with her childhood friend Ah Zhi leads them to Black Rose Street, where Earth’s discarded scraps can still be traded for hope.
Together they build a food stall, save for passage to Earth, and discover that the road to freedom may demand far more than money.
In a world designed to make the poor stop dreaming, Xiaoba must decide whether a seemingly wasted journey can still be a life worth choosing.
The Ninth Daughter
Everyone in the capital knows that every beauty who disappears into Minister Luo’s rear courtyard carries him one step higher in office.
Born mute—or so the household believes—his ninth daughter survives by making herself small and useful to the family’s favored eldest daughter.
As sisters are sold, married, and sacrificed for the ambitions of men, Ah Jiu realizes that obedience will never buy her freedom.
To escape the Luo estate alive, she must wager the one thing society says determines a woman’s future: her face.
The Tale of Xihe
After Southern Xu fell, sixteen-year-old Princess Xihe fled through a land at war with the young heir to the throne, only to be delivered into a Northern Qian military camp.
An enemy general fell in love with her, believing her to be an ordinary girl, while she watched those dearest to her die before her eyes.
Hatred for a fallen nation and vengeance for her family drove her onto a road paved with thorns.
Years later, she became empress of Northern Qian and laid her plans one careful step at a time amid court intrigue and bloodshed.
Even when she had been wounded beyond bearing, someone still broke through every obstacle to reach her – but she would have to choose between her own love and hatred, and the lives of all beneath heaven.
Notes of Rural Mysteries
In remote mountain villages, strange things happen and stranger tales are told.
Corpse retrieval, spirit possession, talisman water, the paper-effigy craft, the Temple of the Five Immortals, rice divination and crossing into the underworld, the flood dragon’s run from Yin Mountain…
I walk beyond the crowds and the mundane world, living through one hidden, uncanny event after another–things ordinary people could never glimpse.
Now, I will tell them to you.