Meeting the Parents

My boyfriend and I are alumni. He's three years my senior and about to graduate. We feel a strong connection and fell in love at first sight. We agreed to marry as soon as I reach the legal age. As National Day approaches, he suggests I meet his parents during the holiday. I happily agree. However, when his parents see my face, they are shocked and strongly oppose our relationship. Why?

This is set in the early days of China's reform and opening-up, during the one-child policy era. I was an 'extra' child. To keep their jobs, my parents sent me to be raised by distant relatives in the countryside and changed my surname. They've been providing financial support to the relatives. They were happy when I got into this university and, nearing retirement, were considering reconnecting with me. Unexpectedly, their children had fallen in love, resulting in a tragic situation of our unexpected incest.


The Discounted Snacks

He bought a batch of discounted snacks at a small shop, feeling he got a good deal and secretly pleased. The next day, watching the news, he was terrified.

He had bought snacks from this store once before and felt the price was quite high, thinking the shopkeeper's wife had overcharged him. The next time he went, a man was minding the store. He mentioned that the shopkeeper's wife might have miscalculated last time and overcharged him, so the man said he'd give him a discount this time to make up for it. He felt he had gotten a bargain and was happy. The next day, watching the news, he learned that the shop owners, a married couple, had been murdered. The criminal, according to the news, needed money and randomly robbed a small shop, then killed to eliminate witnesses. After the murders, the killer posed as the shopkeeper to continue selling.


Fish

I used to be a sailor, but now I feel sick and shake when I see fish. I'm always afraid to see fish.

I used to be a sailor. Once when we were at sea, for some reason, my sailor companions died one after another. Those of us who survived, in order to continue living, used the flesh of our dead companions as bait to catch fish. Days passed, and we were finally rescued. Because seeing fish always reminds me of using our dead companions' flesh as bait, since then, I feel sick and disgusted when I see fish. I'm afraid to see fish every time thenafter.


The Slide

There's a park near programmer Xiao Wang's home. Every day when Xiao Wang passes the park after working overtime, he sees a terrified child in a plaid shirt standing by the slide. One day, Xiao Wang doesn't work overtime and decides to try the slide on a whim. After sliding down, Xiao Wang is shocked. What did Xiao Wang see?

It turns out Xiao Wang saw himself as he usually is when returning home from work. The slide is a time machine, and when Xiao Wang slid down, he turned into a child. The plaid shirt the child was wearing is actually programmer Xiao Wang's shirt.

Xiaowang knows he might meet with misfortune


1237

A kindergarten child always counts '1,2,3,7', skipping '4,5,6'. When I correct her, she says her mother taught her this way. Puzzled, I propose a home visit. After the visit, I also tell her it's '1,2,3,7'.

I'm a kindergarten teacher. While teaching, I noticed a child who always counted incorrectly. While others count 1234567, she says 1237. When I try to teach her the correct way, she says what I'm teaching is different from what her mother taught her. Puzzled, I propose a home visit, but she takes me to a hospital. It turns out her mother has a heart condition and doesn't have long to live. It's currently March, and her daughter's birthday is in July. To be able to celebrate her daughter's last birthday with her, the mother created this white lie. Moved by this, I also tell her that 7 indeed comes after 3, just like her mother said.


The Four-Year-Old Mother

A five-year-old kindergarten child claims her mother is only four years old. Puzzled, I propose a home visit. At her home, I see a horrifying scene...

At her home, I see several women chained up, with a fierce-looking, ugly brute standing nearby. The kindergarten child suddenly shows a sinister smile unfit for her age... It turns out she's not just five, but twenty-five years old, suffering from a condition that prevents her from growing. The brute is her brother. She lures kindergarten teachers like us to their home to be imprisoned, all to find women for her brother... And her 'four-year-old mother' is actually a woman who has been trapped there for four years...

The child is helping to trick the kindergarten teacher


The Forgery

'You've disappointed me so much, I'll never come back' 'You've disappointed me so much, I'll never come back' 'You've disappointed me so much, I'll never come back' 'You've disappointed me so much, I'll never come back' 'You've disappointed me so much, I'll never come back' 'You've disappointed me so much, I'll never come back'

Oh no, I think I'm in trouble.

I killed my wife and am trying to forge evidence to make it look like she just ran away from home. But after writing it several times, I still can't imitate my wife's handwriting convincingly.


Fish


The Midnight Train

Five minutes before midnight, a man boards a train. He looks strange and starts asking passengers their ages. 'Ma'am, are you 28?' 'How did you know?' 'Sir, are you 55?' 'Yes.' He correctly guesses everyone's age. 'Granny, are you 69?' 'Yes, I'll be 70 in 5 minutes.' Hearing this, the man turns pale.

The man has a superpower to foresee people's ages at death, but he can't see his own. After boarding the train, he notices that everyone seems to be about the same age as their death age. Finding this strange, he tests his theory by asking a few people, discovering they will all die this year. When the grandmother says she is 69 and she'll be 70 in 5 minutes, he realizes the train will have an accident within 5 minutes, killing everyone on board.


The Washing Machine

At night, a poor scavenger brings home a washing machine he found. In the middle of the night, he wakes up startled, thinking he heard the washing machine start.

A murderer had dismembered a body and put the parts in the washing machine. He transported the body parts to the outskirts. When the scavenger found the washing machine in his three-wheeled cart, the killer had just finished removing all the body parts and was digging a hole nearby. By the time the killer realized, the scavenger had already driven off with the washing machine. So the killer followed the scavenger home and snuck in to start the washing machine, trying to clean off the blood evidence inside.


Half a Matchstick

A man's body is found in the desert, holding half a matchstick. His luggage is found nearby. It's known that he died from a fall. Please deduce what happened.

He was on a hot air balloon tour in the desert with a group. Halfway through, the balloon ran out of fuel. To keep flying, they threw out all their luggage, but it wasn't enough. They decided to draw lots using matchsticks - whoever drew the short one would be thrown off. He drew the short matchstick and was pushed out, falling to his death.


The Midnight Train

The man has mind-reading abilities and knows the grandmother is about to die


The Mountaintop

A person lives in a cabin on a mountaintop. At midnight, he hears door-knocking, but when he opens the door, no one is there, so he goes back to sleep. The next day, a body is found at the foot of the mountain. What happened?

The cabin door on the mountaintop opens to a cliff. A man had managed to climb up with great difficulty and knocked on the door for help. When the door opened, he was pushed back down, falling from the mountaintop to his death.


The Tunnel

A man takes a train to a neighboring town for medical treatment. After the treatment, he's completely cured. On the way back, as the train passes through a tunnel, the man jumps off to commit suicide. Why?

His illness was an eye disease that had left him completely blind. After the treatment, his eyesight was restored. When the train entered the tunnel, the sudden darkness made him think he had gone blind again, causing him to panic and jump off the train in despair.


The Seaweed

A man goes for a walk by the river, chats with a fisherman, and then jumps into the river to commit suicide after the fisherman tells him something.

Years ago, a couple was playing by the river when the girl accidentally fell in. The boy jumped in to save her, but due to the strong current, he only managed to grab what he thought was seaweed. He couldn't save her. Years later, he returns to the river and talks to a fisherman. The fisherman tells him there has never been any seaweed in this fast-flowing river. The man realizes what he grabbed was actually the girl's hair, and overcome with grief, he jumps into the river.


The Tunnel


The Forgery


The Lost Phone

My phone disappeared. When I found it, I was shocked.

My friend and I went clubbing. After drinking and dancing for a while, I sat down to rest and realized my phone was missing. So I asked my friend to call my phone. A strange man's voice answered, but the club was too noisy and the call was cut off before we could ask anything. I returned home feeling dejected, only to find my phone on the bedside table. I suddenly remembered I hadn't taken my phone out at all that day. I've always lived alone, and I couldn't help but feel a chill run down my spine...


The Elevator

I enter the elevator to go to school. As it rises, I realize I'll never be able to go to school again.

On Monday morning, urged by my mother, I absent-mindedly enter the elevator to go to school. After the doors close, being still sleepy, I forget to press the button for the first floor. As the elevator continues to rise, I realize my mistake and am about to press the first floor button when the elevator suddenly stops. The doors slowly open, and I see a dead girl lying in a pool of blood, with a man cleaning up the scene... The man hears the noise and suddenly turns to look at me, his eyes fixed on my hand. Startled, I frantically press the door close button. Just as the elevator is about to close, a blood-covered hand reaches in. I'll never be able to go to school again because I'm about to be killed by the murderer. (The elevator was going up because the girl had pressed the button for help before being killed.)

There was someone else besides me during the elevator's ascent


The Washing Machine

Someone used his washing machine without permission


The Midnight Train

The man's superpower is related to the grandmother


The Best Friend

Thomas visits his wife's best friend's house for the first time with his wife. After returning home, his wife wants a divorce. Why?

Thomas's wife saw that his phone automatically connected to her best friend's WiFi.

He once stayed at his wife's best friend's house


Fish

I've been afraid of fish since I was little


The Little Red Dress

My sister chose a little red dress for me. I wore it to school, and when I came home that night, I found a dead body.

My mother was having an affair with my teacher. They would meet whenever my father was away. The little red dress was a signal to the teacher, indicating that my father wouldn't be home that night. That day, my mother was busy, so my sister chose the red dress for me. The teacher saw it and came to our house thinking my father was away, but he was caught by my father, who then killed him.


The Four-Year-Old Mother


Half a Matchstick

He died from falling when the hot air balloon ran out of fuel


The Best Friend


Meeting the Parents

My boyfriend and I are alumni. He's three years my senior and about to graduate. We feel a strong connection and fell in love at first sight. We agreed to marry as soon as I reach the legal age. As National Day approaches, he suggests I meet his parents during the holiday. I happily agree. However, when his parents see my face, they are shocked and strongly oppose our relationship. Why?

This is set in the early days of China's reform and opening-up, during the one-child policy era. I was an 'extra' child. To keep their jobs, my parents sent me to be raised by distant relatives in the countryside and changed my surname. They've been providing financial support to the relatives. They were happy when I got into this university and, nearing retirement, were considering reconnecting with me. Unexpectedly, their children had fallen in love, resulting in a tragic situation of our unexpected incest.


The Washing Machine


The Woman in the Pink Dress

Your new neighbor is a young man living alone. One day, returning home after a late-night snack, you see a woman with long hair, wearing a pink dress and heavy makeup, enter your neighbor's apartment. Late at night, you hear arguing and things being thrown, which is particularly jarring in the quiet hallway. The next day, you see a shredded pink dress and a bunch of long hair in the garbage bag outside your neighbor's door. When you ask your neighbor about it, he stammers and refuses to explain... Should you call the police? What happened?

Your neighbor is a man with a cross-dressing fetish, which is why he lives alone. His family doesn't know about this and keeps pressuring him to get married, so he moved out of his parents' home. That day, he returned home after cross-dressing and you saw him. Unexpectedly, his mother was waiting for him at home. Seeing her son in women's clothing, they had a big argument, and his mother cut up his pink dress and wig. This is what actually happened.

The pink dress and long hair were cut up by a man


The Midnight Train

The man will die when the mother-in-law is 70 years old


1237


Fish

I used to be a sailor, but now I feel sick and shake when I see fish. I'm always afraid to see fish.

I used to be a sailor. Once when we were at sea, for some reason, my sailor companions died one after another. Those of us who survived, in order to continue living, used the flesh of our dead companions as bait to catch fish. Days passed, and we were finally rescued. Because seeing fish always reminds me of using our dead companions' flesh as bait, since then, I feel sick and disgusted when I see fish. I'm afraid to see fish every time thenafter.

Experienced some things at sea and survived by eating fish


A Painting

It was a beautiful painting, the man in it had distinct features and looked lifelike. The next day when I saw the painting again, my scalp tingled, and I couldn't praise it anymore.

I stayed in a run-down small hotel at night. When I entered the room, the light was broken, and the room was very dim. There was a painting opposite the bed of a man with distinct features, looking so lifelike, just like the Mona Lisa. I felt like the person in the painting was always looking at me. Early the next morning, when it was bright, I realized that what I thought was a painting was actually a window. A man had been standing outside the window watching me all night, and because the light was too dim, I had mistaken him and the window frame for a painting.


A Painting


The Forgery


The Little Red Dress


The Little Red Dress

My wearing the red dress caused his death


The High Heels

A lady buys a pair of red high heels from a shoe store. These heels foreshadow her death that night.

The lady is a performer in a circus troupe. That day, she bought a pair of red high heels. That night, she wore these heels for her performance. Her act involved balancing an apple on her head while another male performer threw a knife at the apple. However, because her new high heels were a few centimeters taller than what she usually wore, the male performer, who hadn't adjusted for this, accidentally threw a knife into her head.

The woman might not have died if she hadn't worn these high heels


Meeting the Parents

There's something abnormal about my face


The Ritual

Your parents have been arguing lately, and your mother seems strange. She's often distracted, secretly asking you how to transfer money to others... Sometimes she silently waves her hands at home as if performing some ritual. One evening after dinner, your father goes out for a walk, and your mother sneaks out too. Suspicious, you follow her... Ah, so that's what it is...

Your mother is doing square dancing. Your father thought she was having an affair. The money transfers were for buying team dance costumes, and the hand-waving was dance practice. To avoid disturbing neighbors, all the square-dancing aunties wear headphones and dance silently, making it look like some mysterious ritual.


The Four-Year-Old Mother

A five-year-old kindergarten child claims her mother is only four years old. Puzzled, I propose a home visit. At her home, I see a horrifying scene...

At her home, I see several women chained up, with a fierce-looking, ugly brute standing nearby. The kindergarten child suddenly shows a sinister smile unfit for her age... It turns out she's not just five, but twenty-five years old, suffering from a condition that prevents her from growing. The brute is her brother. She lures kindergarten teachers like us to their home to be imprisoned, all to find women for her brother... And her 'four-year-old mother' is actually a woman who has been trapped there for four years...

The child's mental age is five but they're actually much older


The Turtle Soup Story

A man walks into a restaurant, orders a bowl of turtle soup, drinks it, and then shoots himself. Why?

During his honeymoon, he and his wife were shipwrecked on a deserted island. Due to lack of food, his wife starved to death. His companions cooked his wife's flesh into a soup and tricked him into eating it, claiming it was turtle soup. Later, he was rescued by a passing ship. Today, when he tasted real turtle soup, he realized what he had eaten back then was his wife's flesh. Overwhelmed with remorse, he took his own life with a gun.

There were others around when he was drinking soup


The News

A man returns home from work, turns on the TV to watch the news, and faints.

The man works at a haunted house attraction and is responsible for cleaning up after it closes. There are many prop corpses in the haunted house. While cleaning, he saw a very realistic prop corpse. He didn't think much of it, just admiring the craftsmanship of it while cleaning. After finishing work and returning home, he turned on the TV to watch the news. The news reported a missing person case and showed a photo of the missing person - it was the 'prop' he had seen in the haunted house. He fainted from shock.

An accident happened at the man's workplace


The Ritual

The mother's transfer was to purchase something


The Little Red Dress

The sister intentionally made me wear the red dress


The Tunnel


The Best Friend


1237

A kindergarten child always counts '1,2,3,7', skipping '4,5,6'. When I correct her, she says her mother taught her this way. Puzzled, I propose a home visit. After the visit, I also tell her it's '1,2,3,7'.

I'm a kindergarten teacher. While teaching, I noticed a child who always counted incorrectly. While others count 1234567, she says 1237. When I try to teach her the correct way, she says what I'm teaching is different from what her mother taught her. Puzzled, I propose a home visit, but she takes me to a hospital. It turns out her mother has a heart condition and doesn't have long to live. It's currently March, and her daughter's birthday is in July. To be able to celebrate her daughter's last birthday with her, the mother created this white lie. Moved by this, I also tell her that 7 indeed comes after 3, just like her mother said.

Home visit revealed the child's birthday is in July


The High Heels


The Discounted Snacks

He bought a batch of discounted snacks at a small shop, feeling he got a good deal and secretly pleased. The next day, watching the news, he was terrified.

He had bought snacks from this store once before and felt the price was quite high, thinking the shopkeeper's wife had overcharged him. The next time he went, a man was minding the store. He mentioned that the shopkeeper's wife might have miscalculated last time and overcharged him, so the man said he'd give him a discount this time to make up for it. He felt he had gotten a bargain and was happy. The next day, watching the news, he learned that the shop owners, a married couple, had been murdered. The criminal, according to the news, needed money and randomly robbed a small shop, then killed to eliminate witnesses. After the murders, the killer posed as the shopkeeper to continue selling.

The person who sold him snacks wasn't the real cashier


The Diary

February 2019: My daughter stopped going to school. I can't persuade her.
June 2019: My daughter stares at the TV and computer all day. I'm worried she'll damage her eyes.
December 2019: My daughter seems a bit more cheerful. I see her often voice chatting with friends.
March 2020: My daughter smiled, saying she did something great. I'm happy too.
May 2020: My daughter's condition has worsened. She doesn't sleep at night and won't talk to me.
June 2020: Our household expenses seem unusually high lately. Hmm... am I scatterbrained?
October 2020: My daughter goes out now that the pandemic has eased. She seems to have more friends. That's great.
February 2021: I received a lawyer's letter with my daughter's name on it. How can this be?!
August 2021: I've grounded my daughter.

The daughter refused to go to school for some reason. In June, she became obsessed with a popular TV series. By December, she had joined the fan club of the show's star, Xiao Zhan. During this time, she was acting as an online 'water army' for Xiao Zhan. In March 2020, the AO3 website was reported and blocked. In May, Xiao Zhan faced widespread boycott from netizens, and investors began to reconsider their involvement. In June, a digital album was released, and the daughter stole money from home to buy it. As the pandemic eased, she continued to participate in fan activities but gradually began to see its true nature. In February 2021, Xiao Zhan sued his 'haters'. In August, he won the case, and fans were fined 30,000 yuan. The parent in the story then grounded their daughter completely.

What the daughter did is related to her mother


The Ritual


The News


A Painting


Counting

I'm counting, and he's counting too. I'm terrified.

I live in a high-rise building. Today, out of boredom, I was looking out the window when I accidentally witnessed a crime in the opposite building. A man seemed to have stabbed someone to death. I quickly took out my phone to call the police. The police asked which floor the incident occurred on, so I started counting the floors to the man's location. When I counted to his floor, I realized the man had noticed me and was counting the floors to my location, holding a bloody knife and showing a sinister smile!


The Washing Machine

At night, a poor scavenger brings home a washing machine he found. In the middle of the night, he wakes up startled, thinking he heard the washing machine start.

A murderer had dismembered a body and put the parts in the washing machine. He transported the body parts to the outskirts. When the scavenger found the washing machine in his three-wheeled cart, the killer had just finished removing all the body parts and was digging a hole nearby. By the time the killer realized, the scavenger had already driven off with the washing machine. So the killer followed the scavenger home and snuck in to start the washing machine, trying to clean off the blood evidence inside.

The killer started the washing machine to drain water


Meeting the Parents

My boyfriend's family is actually blood-related to me


The Lost Phone

My phone disappeared. When I found it, I was shocked.

My friend and I went clubbing. After drinking and dancing for a while, I sat down to rest and realized my phone was missing. So I asked my friend to call my phone. A strange man's voice answered, but the club was too noisy and the call was cut off before we could ask anything. I returned home feeling dejected, only to find my phone on the bedside table. I suddenly remembered I hadn't taken my phone out at all that day. I've always lived alone, and I couldn't help but feel a chill run down my spine...

My phone was opened by someone or something other than me


The 18th Floor

Xiaoming lives on the 18th floor. Sometimes when he returns home, he takes the elevator directly to the 18th floor, but other times he goes to the 15th floor and walks up. Why?

Xiaoming is still a kid, unable to reach the 18th-floor-button. However, when he's carrying an umbrella, he can use it to press the button.


The Girl on the Balcony

A girl greets me from the opposite balcony every day, but now I'm afraid to step onto my balcony.

I recently moved into an apartment. Every morning when I go to the balcony to hang clothes, I see a girl on the opposite balcony greeting me. I'm happy and make sure to greet her back before going to work. Two or three weeks pass, and one day I see a news article about my neighborhood: a female body was found hanging on a balcony, having committed suicide three weeks ago. Suddenly feeling something was off, I run to my balcony and indeed, the girl is gone, replaced by police tape. I feel sick and can't bring myself to step onto the balcony anymore. It turns out the swaying body of the hanged girl just looked like she was waving hello.


The Mountaintop

A person lives in a cabin on a mountaintop. At midnight, he hears door-knocking, but when he opens the door, no one is there, so he goes back to sleep. The next day, a body is found at the foot of the mountain. What happened?

The cabin door on the mountaintop opens to a cliff. A man had managed to climb up with great difficulty and knocked on the door for help. When the door opened, he was pushed back down, falling from the mountaintop to his death.


Fish


Half a Matchstick

A man's body is found in the desert, holding half a matchstick. His luggage is found nearby. It's known that he died from a fall. Please deduce what happened.

He was on a hot air balloon tour in the desert with a group. Halfway through, the balloon ran out of fuel. To keep flying, they threw out all their luggage, but it wasn't enough. They decided to draw lots using matchsticks - whoever drew the short one would be thrown off. He drew the short matchstick and was pushed out, falling to his death.

The hot air balloon was overloaded and he was pushed off


The Turtle Soup Story

The turtle soup his companion gave him tastes different from the turtle soup he's drinking now


The Midnight Train

Five minutes before midnight, a man boards a train. He looks strange and starts asking passengers their ages. 'Ma'am, are you 28?' 'How did you know?' 'Sir, are you 55?' 'Yes.' He correctly guesses everyone's age. 'Granny, are you 69?' 'Yes, I'll be 70 in 5 minutes.' Hearing this, the man turns pale.

The man has a superpower to foresee people's ages at death, but he can't see his own. After boarding the train, he notices that everyone seems to be about the same age as their death age. Finding this strange, he tests his theory by asking a few people, discovering they will all die this year. When the grandmother says she is 69 and she'll be 70 in 5 minutes, he realizes the train will have an accident within 5 minutes, killing everyone on board.

The man can see others' lifespans and this mother-in-law dies at 70


The Best Friend

Thomas visits his wife's best friend's house for the first time with his wife. After returning home, his wife wants a divorce. Why?

Thomas's wife saw that his phone automatically connected to her best friend's WiFi.


The Discounted Snacks


The Condition

A boy has liked a girl for a long time. His grades are very poor. The girl says if they can both enter the same university, she'll agree to be his girlfriend. He manages to do it, but the girl goes insane. Please deduce what happened.

The girl applied to a medical university. In the end, the girl entered the medical school, but the boy didn't pass the entrance exam. The girl went insane because she didn't expect the boy to enter the same university as her in the capacity of a cadaver for her anatomy class.

The girl doesn't want to be his girlfriend


The Best Friend

His wife discovered Thomas had been to her best friend's house


Meeting the Parents

My boyfriend and I are alumni. He's three years my senior and about to graduate. We feel a strong connection and fell in love at first sight. We agreed to marry as soon as I reach the legal age. As National Day approaches, he suggests I meet his parents during the holiday. I happily agree. However, when his parents see my face, they are shocked and strongly oppose our relationship. Why?

This is set in the early days of China's reform and opening-up, during the one-child policy era. I was an 'extra' child. To keep their jobs, my parents sent me to be raised by distant relatives in the countryside and changed my surname. They've been providing financial support to the relatives. They were happy when I got into this university and, nearing retirement, were considering reconnecting with me. Unexpectedly, their children had fallen in love, resulting in a tragic situation of our unexpected incest.

My boyfriend's parents have met me in person


The Forgery

'You've disappointed me so much, I'll never come back' 'You've disappointed me so much, I'll never come back' 'You've disappointed me so much, I'll never come back' 'You've disappointed me so much, I'll never come back' 'You've disappointed me so much, I'll never come back' 'You've disappointed me so much, I'll never come back'

Oh no, I think I'm in trouble.

I killed my wife and am trying to forge evidence to make it look like she just ran away from home. But after writing it several times, I still can't imitate my wife's handwriting convincingly.


The Elevator

I enter the elevator to go to school. As it rises, I realize I'll never be able to go to school again.

On Monday morning, urged by my mother, I absent-mindedly enter the elevator to go to school. After the doors close, being still sleepy, I forget to press the button for the first floor. As the elevator continues to rise, I realize my mistake and am about to press the first floor button when the elevator suddenly stops. The doors slowly open, and I see a dead girl lying in a pool of blood, with a man cleaning up the scene... The man hears the noise and suddenly turns to look at me, his eyes fixed on my hand. Startled, I frantically press the door close button. Just as the elevator is about to close, a blood-covered hand reaches in. I'll never be able to go to school again because I'm about to be killed by the murderer. (The elevator was going up because the girl had pressed the button for help before being killed.)


The Tunnel

A man takes a train to a neighboring town for medical treatment. After the treatment, he's completely cured. On the way back, as the train passes through a tunnel, the man jumps off to commit suicide. Why?

His illness was an eye disease that had left him completely blind. After the treatment, his eyesight was restored. When the train entered the tunnel, the sudden darkness made him think he had gone blind again, causing him to panic and jump off the train in despair.


Half a Matchstick


The Best Friend

Thomas has the best friend's phone number in his phone


Fish

I used to be a sailor, but now I feel sick and shake when I see fish. I'm always afraid to see fish.

I used to be a sailor. Once when we were at sea, for some reason, my sailor companions died one after another. Those of us who survived, in order to continue living, used the flesh of our dead companions as bait to catch fish. Days passed, and we were finally rescued. Because seeing fish always reminds me of using our dead companions' flesh as bait, since then, I feel sick and disgusted when I see fish. I'm afraid to see fish every time thenafter.


The Mountaintop

When he opened the door, the door hit the person knocking it and knocked them down the mountain to their death


The Little Red Dress

My sister chose a little red dress for me. I wore it to school, and when I came home that night, I found a dead body.

My mother was having an affair with my teacher. They would meet whenever my father was away. The little red dress was a signal to the teacher, indicating that my father wouldn't be home that night. That day, my mother was busy, so my sister chose the red dress for me. The teacher saw it and came to our house thinking my father was away, but he was caught by my father, who then killed him.


The Little Red Dress

The little red dress was a signal for an affair, accidentally worn and resulted in being killed by the father


The Circus

A blind dwarf who works at a circus is found dead in his home, surrounded by wood shavings. What happened?

There were two dwarfs in the circus, but now the circus only wanted to keep one. Because the blind dwarf was shorter, he was chosen to stay. The other dwarf sawed off a portion of all the blind dwarf's furniture, making him think he had grown taller. Realizing he would lose his livelihood, the blind dwarf committed suicide.


The Slide

There's a park near programmer Xiao Wang's home. Every day when Xiao Wang passes the park after working overtime, he sees a terrified child in a plaid shirt standing by the slide. One day, Xiao Wang doesn't work overtime and decides to try the slide on a whim. After sliding down, Xiao Wang is shocked. What did Xiao Wang see?

It turns out Xiao Wang saw himself as he usually is when returning home from work. The slide is a time machine, and when Xiao Wang slid down, he turned into a child. The plaid shirt the child was wearing is actually programmer Xiao Wang's shirt.

The process of sliding down the slide was scary


The Midnight Train

The man can see the old lady dying at 70


The Elevator

There's a killer in the ascending elevator


Counting

I'm counting, and he's counting too. I'm terrified.

I live in a high-rise building. Today, out of boredom, I was looking out the window when I accidentally witnessed a crime in the opposite building. A man seemed to have stabbed someone to death. I quickly took out my phone to call the police. The police asked which floor the incident occurred on, so I started counting the floors to the man's location. When I counted to his floor, I realized the man had noticed me and was counting the floors to my location, holding a bloody knife and showing a sinister smile!


The 18th Floor

The elevator door on the 18th floor is fine


The Condition

The woman has a history of mental illness


Eyesight

That day, disaster struck, and I, along with everyone on Earth, became blind. Two years later, I suddenly regained my sight. Just as I was about to share this news with everyone, I saw that sentence. I covered my mouth tightly.

This disaster changed everything. In this world of darkness, blind people became the so-called 'normal people'. They formed a new government and secret organizations, secretly viewing those who could see as heretics, using them for dissection and research. Over the two years, some people gradually regained their sight, but under the new government's rule, anyone who said they could see would be immediately arrested secretly. To save newly sighted individuals, those who had luckily escaped wrote 'Don't tell them you can see' in many places, hoping that those who regained sight later would see it and avoid capture.

The government wants to send people who regained eyesight to laboratories


The Four-Year-Old Mother

A five-year-old kindergarten child claims her mother is only four years old. Puzzled, I propose a home visit. At her home, I see a horrifying scene...

At her home, I see several women chained up, with a fierce-looking, ugly brute standing nearby. The kindergarten child suddenly shows a sinister smile unfit for her age... It turns out she's not just five, but twenty-five years old, suffering from a condition that prevents her from growing. The brute is her brother. She lures kindergarten teachers like us to their home to be imprisoned, all to find women for her brother... And her 'four-year-old mother' is actually a woman who has been trapped there for four years...

4 years old refers to the number of years the mother has been in this family


The Turtle Soup Story

A man walks into a restaurant, orders a bowl of turtle soup, drinks it, and then shoots himself. Why?

During his honeymoon, he and his wife were shipwrecked on a deserted island. Due to lack of food, his wife starved to death. His companions cooked his wife's flesh into a soup and tricked him into eating it, claiming it was turtle soup. Later, he was rescued by a passing ship. Today, when he tasted real turtle soup, he realized what he had eaten back then was his wife's flesh. Overwhelmed with remorse, he took his own life with a gun.

He once mistook soup made from other ingredients for turtle soup


Counting

We're hiding and counting in hide-and-seek, he's also counting


The Midnight Train


The Best Friend


The Best Friend

The wife's best friend is Thomas's ex-girlfriend


The News

A man returns home from work, turns on the TV to watch the news, and faints.

The man works at a haunted house attraction and is responsible for cleaning up after it closes. There are many prop corpses in the haunted house. While cleaning, he saw a very realistic prop corpse. He didn't think much of it, just admiring the craftsmanship of it while cleaning. After finishing work and returning home, he turned on the TV to watch the news. The news reported a missing person case and showed a photo of the missing person - it was the 'prop' he had seen in the haunted house. He fainted from shock.


The Girl on the Balcony

A girl greets me from the opposite balcony every day, but now I'm afraid to step onto my balcony.

I recently moved into an apartment. Every morning when I go to the balcony to hang clothes, I see a girl on the opposite balcony greeting me. I'm happy and make sure to greet her back before going to work. Two or three weeks pass, and one day I see a news article about my neighborhood: a female body was found hanging on a balcony, having committed suicide three weeks ago. Suddenly feeling something was off, I run to my balcony and indeed, the girl is gone, replaced by police tape. I feel sick and can't bring myself to step onto the balcony anymore. It turns out the swaying body of the hanged girl just looked like she was waving hello.


The News


The Little Red Dress


Half a Matchstick

A man's body is found in the desert, holding half a matchstick. His luggage is found nearby. It's known that he died from a fall. Please deduce what happened.

He was on a hot air balloon tour in the desert with a group. Halfway through, the balloon ran out of fuel. To keep flying, they threw out all their luggage, but it wasn't enough. They decided to draw lots using matchsticks - whoever drew the short one would be thrown off. He drew the short matchstick and was pushed out, falling to his death.


1237

A kindergarten child always counts '1,2,3,7', skipping '4,5,6'. When I correct her, she says her mother taught her this way. Puzzled, I propose a home visit. After the visit, I also tell her it's '1,2,3,7'.

I'm a kindergarten teacher. While teaching, I noticed a child who always counted incorrectly. While others count 1234567, she says 1237. When I try to teach her the correct way, she says what I'm teaching is different from what her mother taught her. Puzzled, I propose a home visit, but she takes me to a hospital. It turns out her mother has a heart condition and doesn't have long to live. It's currently March, and her daughter's birthday is in July. To be able to celebrate her daughter's last birthday with her, the mother created this white lie. Moved by this, I also tell her that 7 indeed comes after 3, just like her mother said.


1237


Half a Matchstick

The man had been tied up at a high place before


The Washing Machine

At night, a poor scavenger brings home a washing machine he found. In the middle of the night, he wakes up startled, thinking he heard the washing machine start.

A murderer had dismembered a body and put the parts in the washing machine. He transported the body parts to the outskirts. When the scavenger found the washing machine in his three-wheeled cart, the killer had just finished removing all the body parts and was digging a hole nearby. By the time the killer realized, the scavenger had already driven off with the washing machine. So the killer followed the scavenger home and snuck in to start the washing machine, trying to clean off the blood evidence inside.

That's not the sound of a washing machine


A Painting

It was a beautiful painting, the man in it had distinct features and looked lifelike. The next day when I saw the painting again, my scalp tingled, and I couldn't praise it anymore.

I stayed in a run-down small hotel at night. When I entered the room, the light was broken, and the room was very dim. There was a painting opposite the bed of a man with distinct features, looking so lifelike, just like the Mona Lisa. I felt like the person in the painting was always looking at me. Early the next morning, when it was bright, I realized that what I thought was a painting was actually a window. A man had been standing outside the window watching me all night, and because the light was too dim, I had mistaken him and the window frame for a painting.


A Painting

The man in the painting is actually painted


The Mountaintop

A person lives in a cabin on a mountaintop. At midnight, he hears door-knocking, but when he opens the door, no one is there, so he goes back to sleep. The next day, a body is found at the foot of the mountain. What happened?

The cabin door on the mountaintop opens to a cliff. A man had managed to climb up with great difficulty and knocked on the door for help. When the door opened, he was pushed back down, falling from the mountaintop to his death.

He was conscious when he opened the door


The Best Friend

Thomas visits his wife's best friend's house for the first time with his wife. After returning home, his wife wants a divorce. Why?

Thomas's wife saw that his phone automatically connected to her best friend's WiFi.


The Lost Phone

My phone disappeared. When I found it, I was shocked.

My friend and I went clubbing. After drinking and dancing for a while, I sat down to rest and realized my phone was missing. So I asked my friend to call my phone. A strange man's voice answered, but the club was too noisy and the call was cut off before we could ask anything. I returned home feeling dejected, only to find my phone on the bedside table. I suddenly remembered I hadn't taken my phone out at all that day. I've always lived alone, and I couldn't help but feel a chill run down my spine...

The phone was lost in a place I've never been to


The Girl on the Balcony


The Seaweed

A man goes for a walk by the river, chats with a fisherman, and then jumps into the river to commit suicide after the fisherman tells him something.

Years ago, a couple was playing by the river when the girl accidentally fell in. The boy jumped in to save her, but due to the strong current, he only managed to grab what he thought was seaweed. He couldn't save her. Years later, he returns to the river and talks to a fisherman. The fisherman tells him there has never been any seaweed in this fast-flowing river. The man realizes what he grabbed was actually the girl's hair, and overcome with grief, he jumps into the river.

The boy mistook the person in the water for something else and failed to save them


The Tunnel

A man takes a train to a neighboring town for medical treatment. After the treatment, he's completely cured. On the way back, as the train passes through a tunnel, the man jumps off to commit suicide. Why?

His illness was an eye disease that had left him completely blind. After the treatment, his eyesight was restored. When the train entered the tunnel, the sudden darkness made him think he had gone blind again, causing him to panic and jump off the train in despair.


The Woman in the Pink Dress

Your new neighbor is a young man living alone. One day, returning home after a late-night snack, you see a woman with long hair, wearing a pink dress and heavy makeup, enter your neighbor's apartment. Late at night, you hear arguing and things being thrown, which is particularly jarring in the quiet hallway. The next day, you see a shredded pink dress and a bunch of long hair in the garbage bag outside your neighbor's door. When you ask your neighbor about it, he stammers and refuses to explain... Should you call the police? What happened?

Your neighbor is a man with a cross-dressing fetish, which is why he lives alone. His family doesn't know about this and keeps pressuring him to get married, so he moved out of his parents' home. That day, he returned home after cross-dressing and you saw him. Unexpectedly, his mother was waiting for him at home. Seeing her son in women's clothing, they had a big argument, and his mother cut up his pink dress and wig. This is what actually happened.

The argument was because the dress was cut up


A Painting

The painting seen on the second day is the real painting


The Best Friend

Thomas had been to the wife's best friend's house before


Half a Matchstick


The Condition

A boy has liked a girl for a long time. His grades are very poor. The girl says if they can both enter the same university, she'll agree to be his girlfriend. He manages to do it, but the girl goes insane. Please deduce what happened.

The girl applied to a medical university. In the end, the girl entered the medical school, but the boy didn't pass the entrance exam. The girl went insane because she didn't expect the boy to enter the same university as her in the capacity of a cadaver for her anatomy class.

The boy performed exceptionally well in the exam


The News


The Circus

A blind dwarf who works at a circus is found dead in his home, surrounded by wood shavings. What happened?

There were two dwarfs in the circus, but now the circus only wanted to keep one. Because the blind dwarf was shorter, he was chosen to stay. The other dwarf sawed off a portion of all the blind dwarf's furniture, making him think he had grown taller. Realizing he would lose his livelihood, the blind dwarf committed suicide.


The Discounted Snacks

He bought a batch of discounted snacks at a small shop, feeling he got a good deal and secretly pleased. The next day, watching the news, he was terrified.

He had bought snacks from this store once before and felt the price was quite high, thinking the shopkeeper's wife had overcharged him. The next time he went, a man was minding the store. He mentioned that the shopkeeper's wife might have miscalculated last time and overcharged him, so the man said he'd give him a discount this time to make up for it. He felt he had gotten a bargain and was happy. The next day, watching the news, he learned that the shop owners, a married couple, had been murdered. The criminal, according to the news, needed money and randomly robbed a small shop, then killed to eliminate witnesses. After the murders, the killer posed as the shopkeeper to continue selling.


Half a Matchstick

There were other items or traces near his body indicating he had tried to start a fire


The Turtle Soup Story


The Four-Year-Old Mother

A five-year-old kindergarten child claims her mother is only four years old. Puzzled, I propose a home visit. At her home, I see a horrifying scene...

At her home, I see several women chained up, with a fierce-looking, ugly brute standing nearby. The kindergarten child suddenly shows a sinister smile unfit for her age... It turns out she's not just five, but twenty-five years old, suffering from a condition that prevents her from growing. The brute is her brother. She lures kindergarten teachers like us to their home to be imprisoned, all to find women for her brother... And her 'four-year-old mother' is actually a woman who has been trapped there for four years...


The Mountaintop


A Painting

The character in the painting really exist


The High Heels

A lady buys a pair of red high heels from a shoe store. These heels foreshadow her death that night.

The lady is a performer in a circus troupe. That day, she bought a pair of red high heels. That night, she wore these heels for her performance. Her act involved balancing an apple on her head while another male performer threw a knife at the apple. However, because her new high heels were a few centimeters taller than what she usually wore, the male performer, who hadn't adjusted for this, accidentally threw a knife into her head.


A Painting

Last night there was a real person in the painting


The Little Red Dress

My sister chose a little red dress for me. I wore it to school, and when I came home that night, I found a dead body.

My mother was having an affair with my teacher. They would meet whenever my father was away. The little red dress was a signal to the teacher, indicating that my father wouldn't be home that night. That day, my mother was busy, so my sister chose the red dress for me. The teacher saw it and came to our house thinking my father was away, but he was caught by my father, who then killed him.


The Lost Phone


The 18th Floor

Xiaoming lives on the 18th floor. Sometimes when he returns home, he takes the elevator directly to the 18th floor, but other times he goes to the 15th floor and walks up. Why?

Xiaoming is still a kid, unable to reach the 18th-floor-button. However, when he's carrying an umbrella, he can use it to press the button.

Xiao Ming doesn't live on the 18th floor


1237


Counting

I'm counting, and he's counting too. I'm terrified.

I live in a high-rise building. Today, out of boredom, I was looking out the window when I accidentally witnessed a crime in the opposite building. A man seemed to have stabbed someone to death. I quickly took out my phone to call the police. The police asked which floor the incident occurred on, so I started counting the floors to the man's location. When I counted to his floor, I realized the man had noticed me and was counting the floors to my location, holding a bloody knife and showing a sinister smile!


The Diary

February 2019: My daughter stopped going to school. I can't persuade her.
June 2019: My daughter stares at the TV and computer all day. I'm worried she'll damage her eyes.
December 2019: My daughter seems a bit more cheerful. I see her often voice chatting with friends.
March 2020: My daughter smiled, saying she did something great. I'm happy too.
May 2020: My daughter's condition has worsened. She doesn't sleep at night and won't talk to me.
June 2020: Our household expenses seem unusually high lately. Hmm... am I scatterbrained?
October 2020: My daughter goes out now that the pandemic has eased. She seems to have more friends. That's great.
February 2021: I received a lawyer's letter with my daughter's name on it. How can this be?!
August 2021: I've grounded my daughter.

The daughter refused to go to school for some reason. In June, she became obsessed with a popular TV series. By December, she had joined the fan club of the show's star, Xiao Zhan. During this time, she was acting as an online 'water army' for Xiao Zhan. In March 2020, the AO3 website was reported and blocked. In May, Xiao Zhan faced widespread boycott from netizens, and investors began to reconsider their involvement. In June, a digital album was released, and the daughter stole money from home to buy it. As the pandemic eased, she continued to participate in fan activities but gradually began to see its true nature. In February 2021, Xiao Zhan sued his 'haters'. In August, he won the case, and fans were fined 30,000 yuan. The parent in the story then grounded their daughter completely.

The daughter's behavior is related to school or holidays


1237

A kindergarten child always counts '1,2,3,7', skipping '4,5,6'. When I correct her, she says her mother taught her this way. Puzzled, I propose a home visit. After the visit, I also tell her it's '1,2,3,7'.

I'm a kindergarten teacher. While teaching, I noticed a child who always counted incorrectly. While others count 1234567, she says 1237. When I try to teach her the correct way, she says what I'm teaching is different from what her mother taught her. Puzzled, I propose a home visit, but she takes me to a hospital. It turns out her mother has a heart condition and doesn't have long to live. It's currently March, and her daughter's birthday is in July. To be able to celebrate her daughter's last birthday with her, the mother created this white lie. Moved by this, I also tell her that 7 indeed comes after 3, just like her mother said.


Meeting the Parents

My boyfriend and I are alumni. He's three years my senior and about to graduate. We feel a strong connection and fell in love at first sight. We agreed to marry as soon as I reach the legal age. As National Day approaches, he suggests I meet his parents during the holiday. I happily agree. However, when his parents see my face, they are shocked and strongly oppose our relationship. Why?

This is set in the early days of China's reform and opening-up, during the one-child policy era. I was an 'extra' child. To keep their jobs, my parents sent me to be raised by distant relatives in the countryside and changed my surname. They've been providing financial support to the relatives. They were happy when I got into this university and, nearing retirement, were considering reconnecting with me. Unexpectedly, their children had fallen in love, resulting in a tragic situation of our unexpected incest.


The Discounted Snacks


The Condition

The boy entered university through means other than grades


The Midnight Train

Five minutes before midnight, a man boards a train. He looks strange and starts asking passengers their ages. 'Ma'am, are you 28?' 'How did you know?' 'Sir, are you 55?' 'Yes.' He correctly guesses everyone's age. 'Granny, are you 69?' 'Yes, I'll be 70 in 5 minutes.' Hearing this, the man turns pale.

The man has a superpower to foresee people's ages at death, but he can't see his own. After boarding the train, he notices that everyone seems to be about the same age as their death age. Finding this strange, he tests his theory by asking a few people, discovering they will all die this year. When the grandmother says she is 69 and she'll be 70 in 5 minutes, he realizes the train will have an accident within 5 minutes, killing everyone on board.

The lifespan he saw for the granny was only 69


The High Heels

The high heels were a sign that caused a misunderstanding and led to murder


The Condition


The Elevator

I enter the elevator to go to school. As it rises, I realize I'll never be able to go to school again.

On Monday morning, urged by my mother, I absent-mindedly enter the elevator to go to school. After the doors close, being still sleepy, I forget to press the button for the first floor. As the elevator continues to rise, I realize my mistake and am about to press the first floor button when the elevator suddenly stops. The doors slowly open, and I see a dead girl lying in a pool of blood, with a man cleaning up the scene... The man hears the noise and suddenly turns to look at me, his eyes fixed on my hand. Startled, I frantically press the door close button. Just as the elevator is about to close, a blood-covered hand reaches in. I'll never be able to go to school again because I'm about to be killed by the murderer. (The elevator was going up because the girl had pressed the button for help before being killed.)


The Elevator

Someone is operating the elevator to make it ascend


Half a Matchstick

A man's body is found in the desert, holding half a matchstick. His luggage is found nearby. It's known that he died from a fall. Please deduce what happened.

He was on a hot air balloon tour in the desert with a group. Halfway through, the balloon ran out of fuel. To keep flying, they threw out all their luggage, but it wasn't enough. They decided to draw lots using matchsticks - whoever drew the short one would be thrown off. He drew the short matchstick and was pushed out, falling to his death.


The Elevator


The Elevator

The number of people who died in this story is one or more


Half a Matchstick


The Girl on the Balcony

A girl greets me from the opposite balcony every day, but now I'm afraid to step onto my balcony.

I recently moved into an apartment. Every morning when I go to the balcony to hang clothes, I see a girl on the opposite balcony greeting me. I'm happy and make sure to greet her back before going to work. Two or three weeks pass, and one day I see a news article about my neighborhood: a female body was found hanging on a balcony, having committed suicide three weeks ago. Suddenly feeling something was off, I run to my balcony and indeed, the girl is gone, replaced by police tape. I feel sick and can't bring myself to step onto the balcony anymore. It turns out the swaying body of the hanged girl just looked like she was waving hello.


The Midnight Train


The Circus


The Washing Machine

At night, a poor scavenger brings home a washing machine he found. In the middle of the night, he wakes up startled, thinking he heard the washing machine start.

A murderer had dismembered a body and put the parts in the washing machine. He transported the body parts to the outskirts. When the scavenger found the washing machine in his three-wheeled cart, the killer had just finished removing all the body parts and was digging a hole nearby. By the time the killer realized, the scavenger had already driven off with the washing machine. So the killer followed the scavenger home and snuck in to start the washing machine, trying to clean off the blood evidence inside.

The washing machine was started by a dead person


The Little Red Dress


The Best Friend

Thomas visits his wife's best friend's house for the first time with his wife. After returning home, his wife wants a divorce. Why?

Thomas's wife saw that his phone automatically connected to her best friend's WiFi.

The three of them all knew each other before


The Death Row Inmate and the Demon

A death row inmate encounters a demon and makes a wish. The demon grants it. Days later, pedestrians on the street all hold their noses and look disgusted.

The death row inmate wished to become invisible. The demon turned him invisible, allowing him to successfully escape prison. However, he was hit by a car on the street and died. A few days later, his invisible corpse began to rot, causing an unbearable stench for passersby.

The source of the smell is a living thing


The Midnight Train

The man is looking for a 70-year-old person


1237


Counting

He is counting which number I am to be killed


The Mountaintop

A person lives in a cabin on a mountaintop. At midnight, he hears door-knocking, but when he opens the door, no one is there, so he goes back to sleep. The next day, a body is found at the foot of the mountain. What happened?

The cabin door on the mountaintop opens to a cliff. A man had managed to climb up with great difficulty and knocked on the door for help. When the door opened, he was pushed back down, falling from the mountaintop to his death.


The Lost Phone

My phone disappeared. When I found it, I was shocked.

My friend and I went clubbing. After drinking and dancing for a while, I sat down to rest and realized my phone was missing. So I asked my friend to call my phone. A strange man's voice answered, but the club was too noisy and the call was cut off before we could ask anything. I returned home feeling dejected, only to find my phone on the bedside table. I suddenly remembered I hadn't taken my phone out at all that day. I've always lived alone, and I couldn't help but feel a chill run down my spine...

My phone was once in someone else's hands


The Mountaintop


The High Heels

The lady didn't wear high heels when performing in the past


The Elevator

There's someone outside the elevator who wants to kill me


The News

A man returns home from work, turns on the TV to watch the news, and faints.

The man works at a haunted house attraction and is responsible for cleaning up after it closes. There are many prop corpses in the haunted house. While cleaning, he saw a very realistic prop corpse. He didn't think much of it, just admiring the craftsmanship of it while cleaning. After finishing work and returning home, he turned on the TV to watch the news. The news reported a missing person case and showed a photo of the missing person - it was the 'prop' he had seen in the haunted house. He fainted from shock.


The Tunnel

A man takes a train to a neighboring town for medical treatment. After the treatment, he's completely cured. On the way back, as the train passes through a tunnel, the man jumps off to commit suicide. Why?

His illness was an eye disease that had left him completely blind. After the treatment, his eyesight was restored. When the train entered the tunnel, the sudden darkness made him think he had gone blind again, causing him to panic and jump off the train in despair.


The Condition

A boy has liked a girl for a long time. His grades are very poor. The girl says if they can both enter the same university, she'll agree to be his girlfriend. He manages to do it, but the girl goes insane. Please deduce what happened.

The girl applied to a medical university. In the end, the girl entered the medical school, but the boy didn't pass the entrance exam. The girl went insane because she didn't expect the boy to enter the same university as her in the capacity of a cadaver for her anatomy class.


The News

The event in the news is related to the man


The Turtle Soup Story

A man walks into a restaurant, orders a bowl of turtle soup, drinks it, and then shoots himself. Why?

During his honeymoon, he and his wife were shipwrecked on a deserted island. Due to lack of food, his wife starved to death. His companions cooked his wife's flesh into a soup and tricked him into eating it, claiming it was turtle soup. Later, he was rescued by a passing ship. Today, when he tasted real turtle soup, he realized what he had eaten back then was his wife's flesh. Overwhelmed with remorse, he took his own life with a gun.

He discovered that this bowl of soup in the restaurant contains human flesh


The Slide

There's a park near programmer Xiao Wang's home. Every day when Xiao Wang passes the park after working overtime, he sees a terrified child in a plaid shirt standing by the slide. One day, Xiao Wang doesn't work overtime and decides to try the slide on a whim. After sliding down, Xiao Wang is shocked. What did Xiao Wang see?

It turns out Xiao Wang saw himself as he usually is when returning home from work. The slide is a time machine, and when Xiao Wang slid down, he turned into a child. The plaid shirt the child was wearing is actually programmer Xiao Wang's shirt.

The child's terror is because of playing on the slide


The Elevator

I've grown up and don't need to go to school anymore


The Forgery

'You've disappointed me so much, I'll never come back' 'You've disappointed me so much, I'll never come back' 'You've disappointed me so much, I'll never come back' 'You've disappointed me so much, I'll never come back' 'You've disappointed me so much, I'll never come back' 'You've disappointed me so much, I'll never come back'

Oh no, I think I'm in trouble.

I killed my wife and am trying to forge evidence to make it look like she just ran away from home. But after writing it several times, I still can't imitate my wife's handwriting convincingly.


Half a Matchstick


The Ritual

Your parents have been arguing lately, and your mother seems strange. She's often distracted, secretly asking you how to transfer money to others... Sometimes she silently waves her hands at home as if performing some ritual. One evening after dinner, your father goes out for a walk, and your mother sneaks out too. Suspicious, you follow her... Ah, so that's what it is...

Your mother is doing square dancing. Your father thought she was having an affair. The money transfers were for buying team dance costumes, and the hand-waving was dance practice. To avoid disturbing neighbors, all the square-dancing aunties wear headphones and dance silently, making it look like some mysterious ritual.

The mother is going to meet living people


Half a Matchstick

The matches were placed there after death


The News

The news reported on the man's workplace


The Washing Machine

The washing machine can be remotely controlled


The Little Red Dress

My sister chose a little red dress for me. I wore it to school, and when I came home that night, I found a dead body.

My mother was having an affair with my teacher. They would meet whenever my father was away. The little red dress was a signal to the teacher, indicating that my father wouldn't be home that night. That day, my mother was busy, so my sister chose the red dress for me. The teacher saw it and came to our house thinking my father was away, but he was caught by my father, who then killed him.

The person who died was wearing the little red dress


A Painting

It was a beautiful painting, the man in it had distinct features and looked lifelike. The next day when I saw the painting again, my scalp tingled, and I couldn't praise it anymore.

I stayed in a run-down small hotel at night. When I entered the room, the light was broken, and the room was very dim. There was a painting opposite the bed of a man with distinct features, looking so lifelike, just like the Mona Lisa. I felt like the person in the painting was always looking at me. Early the next morning, when it was bright, I realized that what I thought was a painting was actually a window. A man had been standing outside the window watching me all night, and because the light was too dim, I had mistaken him and the window frame for a painting.

The painting became different from the first day on the second day


The Girl on the Balcony


Meeting the Parents

My boyfriend and I are alumni. He's three years my senior and about to graduate. We feel a strong connection and fell in love at first sight. We agreed to marry as soon as I reach the legal age. As National Day approaches, he suggests I meet his parents during the holiday. I happily agree. However, when his parents see my face, they are shocked and strongly oppose our relationship. Why?

This is set in the early days of China's reform and opening-up, during the one-child policy era. I was an 'extra' child. To keep their jobs, my parents sent me to be raised by distant relatives in the countryside and changed my surname. They've been providing financial support to the relatives. They were happy when I got into this university and, nearing retirement, were considering reconnecting with me. Unexpectedly, their children had fallen in love, resulting in a tragic situation of our unexpected incest.


Half a Matchstick

A man's body is found in the desert, holding half a matchstick. His luggage is found nearby. It's known that he died from a fall. Please deduce what happened.

He was on a hot air balloon tour in the desert with a group. Halfway through, the balloon ran out of fuel. To keep flying, they threw out all their luggage, but it wasn't enough. They decided to draw lots using matchsticks - whoever drew the short one would be thrown off. He drew the short matchstick and was pushed out, falling to his death.


1237

A kindergarten child always counts '1,2,3,7', skipping '4,5,6'. When I correct her, she says her mother taught her this way. Puzzled, I propose a home visit. After the visit, I also tell her it's '1,2,3,7'.

I'm a kindergarten teacher. While teaching, I noticed a child who always counted incorrectly. While others count 1234567, she says 1237. When I try to teach her the correct way, she says what I'm teaching is different from what her mother taught her. Puzzled, I propose a home visit, but she takes me to a hospital. It turns out her mother has a heart condition and doesn't have long to live. It's currently March, and her daughter's birthday is in July. To be able to celebrate her daughter's last birthday with her, the mother created this white lie. Moved by this, I also tell her that 7 indeed comes after 3, just like her mother said.

There are people other than the child alive in the house


Fish

I used to be a sailor, but now I feel sick and shake when I see fish. I'm always afraid to see fish.

I used to be a sailor. Once when we were at sea, for some reason, my sailor companions died one after another. Those of us who survived, in order to continue living, used the flesh of our dead companions as bait to catch fish. Days passed, and we were finally rescued. Because seeing fish always reminds me of using our dead companions' flesh as bait, since then, I feel sick and disgusted when I see fish. I'm afraid to see fish every time thenafter.


The Girl on the Balcony

A girl greets me from the opposite balcony every day, but now I'm afraid to step onto my balcony.

I recently moved into an apartment. Every morning when I go to the balcony to hang clothes, I see a girl on the opposite balcony greeting me. I'm happy and make sure to greet her back before going to work. Two or three weeks pass, and one day I see a news article about my neighborhood: a female body was found hanging on a balcony, having committed suicide three weeks ago. Suddenly feeling something was off, I run to my balcony and indeed, the girl is gone, replaced by police tape. I feel sick and can't bring myself to step onto the balcony anymore. It turns out the swaying body of the hanged girl just looked like she was waving hello.


The Discounted Snacks

He bought a batch of discounted snacks at a small shop, feeling he got a good deal and secretly pleased. The next day, watching the news, he was terrified.

He had bought snacks from this store once before and felt the price was quite high, thinking the shopkeeper's wife had overcharged him. The next time he went, a man was minding the store. He mentioned that the shopkeeper's wife might have miscalculated last time and overcharged him, so the man said he'd give him a discount this time to make up for it. He felt he had gotten a bargain and was happy. The next day, watching the news, he learned that the shop owners, a married couple, had been murdered. The criminal, according to the news, needed money and randomly robbed a small shop, then killed to eliminate witnesses. After the murders, the killer posed as the shopkeeper to continue selling.

The person who sold him the goods wasn't the boss


The Ritual


The Elevator

I enter the elevator to go to school. As it rises, I realize I'll never be able to go to school again.

On Monday morning, urged by my mother, I absent-mindedly enter the elevator to go to school. After the doors close, being still sleepy, I forget to press the button for the first floor. As the elevator continues to rise, I realize my mistake and am about to press the first floor button when the elevator suddenly stops. The doors slowly open, and I see a dead girl lying in a pool of blood, with a man cleaning up the scene... The man hears the noise and suddenly turns to look at me, his eyes fixed on my hand. Startled, I frantically press the door close button. Just as the elevator is about to close, a blood-covered hand reaches in. I'll never be able to go to school again because I'm about to be killed by the murderer. (The elevator was going up because the girl had pressed the button for help before being killed.)


The Elevator


Fish

The nausea is because the fish is too fishy


The Diary

February 2019: My daughter stopped going to school. I can't persuade her.
June 2019: My daughter stares at the TV and computer all day. I'm worried she'll damage her eyes.
December 2019: My daughter seems a bit more cheerful. I see her often voice chatting with friends.
March 2020: My daughter smiled, saying she did something great. I'm happy too.
May 2020: My daughter's condition has worsened. She doesn't sleep at night and won't talk to me.
June 2020: Our household expenses seem unusually high lately. Hmm... am I scatterbrained?
October 2020: My daughter goes out now that the pandemic has eased. She seems to have more friends. That's great.
February 2021: I received a lawyer's letter with my daughter's name on it. How can this be?!
August 2021: I've grounded my daughter.

The daughter refused to go to school for some reason. In June, she became obsessed with a popular TV series. By December, she had joined the fan club of the show's star, Xiao Zhan. During this time, she was acting as an online 'water army' for Xiao Zhan. In March 2020, the AO3 website was reported and blocked. In May, Xiao Zhan faced widespread boycott from netizens, and investors began to reconsider their involvement. In June, a digital album was released, and the daughter stole money from home to buy it. As the pandemic eased, she continued to participate in fan activities but gradually began to see its true nature. In February 2021, Xiao Zhan sued his 'haters'. In August, he won the case, and fans were fined 30,000 yuan. The parent in the story then grounded their daughter completely.

The name on the lawyer's letter isn't the daughter's


The Forgery


The Ritual

The mother transferred away the father's money


The Turtle Soup Story


The High Heels

A lady buys a pair of red high heels from a shoe store. These heels foreshadow her death that night.

The lady is a performer in a circus troupe. That day, she bought a pair of red high heels. That night, she wore these heels for her performance. Her act involved balancing an apple on her head while another male performer threw a knife at the apple. However, because her new high heels were a few centimeters taller than what she usually wore, the male performer, who hadn't adjusted for this, accidentally threw a knife into her head.

The lady's change in height led to her death


The Midnight Train

Five minutes before midnight, a man boards a train. He looks strange and starts asking passengers their ages. 'Ma'am, are you 28?' 'How did you know?' 'Sir, are you 55?' 'Yes.' He correctly guesses everyone's age. 'Granny, are you 69?' 'Yes, I'll be 70 in 5 minutes.' Hearing this, the man turns pale.

The man has a superpower to foresee people's ages at death, but he can't see his own. After boarding the train, he notices that everyone seems to be about the same age as their death age. Finding this strange, he tests his theory by asking a few people, discovering they will all die this year. When the grandmother says she is 69 and she'll be 70 in 5 minutes, he realizes the train will have an accident within 5 minutes, killing everyone on board.


The Elevator

There's a bad person in the ascending elevator


The Lost Phone

My phone disappeared. When I found it, I was shocked.

My friend and I went clubbing. After drinking and dancing for a while, I sat down to rest and realized my phone was missing. So I asked my friend to call my phone. A strange man's voice answered, but the club was too noisy and the call was cut off before we could ask anything. I returned home feeling dejected, only to find my phone on the bedside table. I suddenly remembered I hadn't taken my phone out at all that day. I've always lived alone, and I couldn't help but feel a chill run down my spine...


The Forgery

I want people to know that my wife is disappointed in me


The News

A man returns home from work, turns on the TV to watch the news, and faints.

The man works at a haunted house attraction and is responsible for cleaning up after it closes. There are many prop corpses in the haunted house. While cleaning, he saw a very realistic prop corpse. He didn't think much of it, just admiring the craftsmanship of it while cleaning. After finishing work and returning home, he turned on the TV to watch the news. The news reported a missing person case and showed a photo of the missing person - it was the 'prop' he had seen in the haunted house. He fainted from shock.


The News

The person reporting the news content is the man


The Tunnel

A man takes a train to a neighboring town for medical treatment. After the treatment, he's completely cured. On the way back, as the train passes through a tunnel, the man jumps off to commit suicide. Why?

His illness was an eye disease that had left him completely blind. After the treatment, his eyesight was restored. When the train entered the tunnel, the sudden darkness made him think he had gone blind again, causing him to panic and jump off the train in despair.


Eyesight

That day, disaster struck, and I, along with everyone on Earth, became blind. Two years later, I suddenly regained my sight. Just as I was about to share this news with everyone, I saw that sentence. I covered my mouth tightly.

This disaster changed everything. In this world of darkness, blind people became the so-called 'normal people'. They formed a new government and secret organizations, secretly viewing those who could see as heretics, using them for dissection and research. Over the two years, some people gradually regained their sight, but under the new government's rule, anyone who said they could see would be immediately arrested secretly. To save newly sighted individuals, those who had luckily escaped wrote 'Don't tell them you can see' in many places, hoping that those who regained sight later would see it and avoid capture.

The new government caused everyone to go blind


The Tunnel


The Circus

A blind dwarf who works at a circus is found dead in his home, surrounded by wood shavings. What happened?

There were two dwarfs in the circus, but now the circus only wanted to keep one. Because the blind dwarf was shorter, he was chosen to stay. The other dwarf sawed off a portion of all the blind dwarf's furniture, making him think he had grown taller. Realizing he would lose his livelihood, the blind dwarf committed suicide.

The blind dwarf inhaled wood shavings that caused his death


The Little Red Dress

My sister chose a little red dress for me. I wore it to school, and when I came home that night, I found a dead body.

My mother was having an affair with my teacher. They would meet whenever my father was away. The little red dress was a signal to the teacher, indicating that my father wouldn't be home that night. That day, my mother was busy, so my sister chose the red dress for me. The teacher saw it and came to our house thinking my father was away, but he was caught by my father, who then killed him.

The color of the dress is related to the cause of death


The Midnight Train

The man thought he could see people's ages but it was actually their death ages


The Woman in the Pink Dress

Your new neighbor is a young man living alone. One day, returning home after a late-night snack, you see a woman with long hair, wearing a pink dress and heavy makeup, enter your neighbor's apartment. Late at night, you hear arguing and things being thrown, which is particularly jarring in the quiet hallway. The next day, you see a shredded pink dress and a bunch of long hair in the garbage bag outside your neighbor's door. When you ask your neighbor about it, he stammers and refuses to explain... Should you call the police? What happened?

Your neighbor is a man with a cross-dressing fetish, which is why he lives alone. His family doesn't know about this and keeps pressuring him to get married, so he moved out of his parents' home. That day, he returned home after cross-dressing and you saw him. Unexpectedly, his mother was waiting for him at home. Seeing her son in women's clothing, they had a big argument, and his mother cut up his pink dress and wig. This is what actually happened.

There were two men at the neighbor's house last night


The Turtle Soup Story

A man walks into a restaurant, orders a bowl of turtle soup, drinks it, and then shoots himself. Why?

During his honeymoon, he and his wife were shipwrecked on a deserted island. Due to lack of food, his wife starved to death. His companions cooked his wife's flesh into a soup and tricked him into eating it, claiming it was turtle soup. Later, he was rescued by a passing ship. Today, when he tasted real turtle soup, he realized what he had eaten back then was his wife's flesh. Overwhelmed with remorse, he took his own life with a gun.

The man drank fake turtle soup when he experienced a shipwreck


Half a Matchstick

A man's body is found in the desert, holding half a matchstick. His luggage is found nearby. It's known that he died from a fall. Please deduce what happened.

He was on a hot air balloon tour in the desert with a group. Halfway through, the balloon ran out of fuel. To keep flying, they threw out all their luggage, but it wasn't enough. They decided to draw lots using matchsticks - whoever drew the short one would be thrown off. He drew the short matchstick and was pushed out, falling to his death.

A group of people on the hot air balloon used matches to draw lots to decide who jumps off


Half a Matchstick

The weight of the luggage and people on the air-balloon is related to the man's death


The Diary


1237

A kindergarten child always counts '1,2,3,7', skipping '4,5,6'. When I correct her, she says her mother taught her this way. Puzzled, I propose a home visit. After the visit, I also tell her it's '1,2,3,7'.

I'm a kindergarten teacher. While teaching, I noticed a child who always counted incorrectly. While others count 1234567, she says 1237. When I try to teach her the correct way, she says what I'm teaching is different from what her mother taught her. Puzzled, I propose a home visit, but she takes me to a hospital. It turns out her mother has a heart condition and doesn't have long to live. It's currently March, and her daughter's birthday is in July. To be able to celebrate her daughter's last birthday with her, the mother created this white lie. Moved by this, I also tell her that 7 indeed comes after 3, just like her mother said.


The Forgery

'You've disappointed me so much, I'll never come back' 'You've disappointed me so much, I'll never come back' 'You've disappointed me so much, I'll never come back' 'You've disappointed me so much, I'll never come back' 'You've disappointed me so much, I'll never come back' 'You've disappointed me so much, I'll never come back'

Oh no, I think I'm in trouble.

I killed my wife and am trying to forge evidence to make it look like she just ran away from home. But after writing it several times, I still can't imitate my wife's handwriting convincingly.

It's the mumbling of a person with mental issues


Meeting the Parents

My boyfriend and I are alumni. He's three years my senior and about to graduate. We feel a strong connection and fell in love at first sight. We agreed to marry as soon as I reach the legal age. As National Day approaches, he suggests I meet his parents during the holiday. I happily agree. However, when his parents see my face, they are shocked and strongly oppose our relationship. Why?

This is set in the early days of China's reform and opening-up, during the one-child policy era. I was an 'extra' child. To keep their jobs, my parents sent me to be raised by distant relatives in the countryside and changed my surname. They've been providing financial support to the relatives. They were happy when I got into this university and, nearing retirement, were considering reconnecting with me. Unexpectedly, their children had fallen in love, resulting in a tragic situation of our unexpected incest.

My boyfriend's parents have thought about letting me return to his home


A Painting

It was a beautiful painting, the man in it had distinct features and looked lifelike. The next day when I saw the painting again, my scalp tingled, and I couldn't praise it anymore.

I stayed in a run-down small hotel at night. When I entered the room, the light was broken, and the room was very dim. There was a painting opposite the bed of a man with distinct features, looking so lifelike, just like the Mona Lisa. I felt like the person in the painting was always looking at me. Early the next morning, when it was bright, I realized that what I thought was a painting was actually a window. A man had been standing outside the window watching me all night, and because the light was too dim, I had mistaken him and the window frame for a painting.


The Midnight Train


Eyesight

There are people other than oneself on Earth


The Elevator

I enter the elevator to go to school. As it rises, I realize I'll never be able to go to school again.

On Monday morning, urged by my mother, I absent-mindedly enter the elevator to go to school. After the doors close, being still sleepy, I forget to press the button for the first floor. As the elevator continues to rise, I realize my mistake and am about to press the first floor button when the elevator suddenly stops. The doors slowly open, and I see a dead girl lying in a pool of blood, with a man cleaning up the scene... The man hears the noise and suddenly turns to look at me, his eyes fixed on my hand. Startled, I frantically press the door close button. Just as the elevator is about to close, a blood-covered hand reaches in. I'll never be able to go to school again because I'm about to be killed by the murderer. (The elevator was going up because the girl had pressed the button for help before being killed.)


Half a Matchstick


The Ritual

Your parents have been arguing lately, and your mother seems strange. She's often distracted, secretly asking you how to transfer money to others... Sometimes she silently waves her hands at home as if performing some ritual. One evening after dinner, your father goes out for a walk, and your mother sneaks out too. Suspicious, you follow her... Ah, so that's what it is...

Your mother is doing square dancing. Your father thought she was having an affair. The money transfers were for buying team dance costumes, and the hand-waving was dance practice. To avoid disturbing neighbors, all the square-dancing aunties wear headphones and dance silently, making it look like some mysterious ritual.


The Condition

A boy has liked a girl for a long time. His grades are very poor. The girl says if they can both enter the same university, she'll agree to be his girlfriend. He manages to do it, but the girl goes insane. Please deduce what happened.

The girl applied to a medical university. In the end, the girl entered the medical school, but the boy didn't pass the entrance exam. The girl went insane because she didn't expect the boy to enter the same university as her in the capacity of a cadaver for her anatomy class.

The boy entered the university through other means


The Mountaintop

A person lives in a cabin on a mountaintop. At midnight, he hears door-knocking, but when he opens the door, no one is there, so he goes back to sleep. The next day, a body is found at the foot of the mountain. What happened?

The cabin door on the mountaintop opens to a cliff. A man had managed to climb up with great difficulty and knocked on the door for help. When the door opened, he was pushed back down, falling from the mountaintop to his death.

He opened the door and pushed the person who knocked the door down


The Midnight Train

Five minutes before midnight, a man boards a train. He looks strange and starts asking passengers their ages. 'Ma'am, are you 28?' 'How did you know?' 'Sir, are you 55?' 'Yes.' He correctly guesses everyone's age. 'Granny, are you 69?' 'Yes, I'll be 70 in 5 minutes.' Hearing this, the man turns pale.

The man has a superpower to foresee people's ages at death, but he can't see his own. After boarding the train, he notices that everyone seems to be about the same age as their death age. Finding this strange, he tests his theory by asking a few people, discovering they will all die this year. When the grandmother says she is 69 and she'll be 70 in 5 minutes, he realizes the train will have an accident within 5 minutes, killing everyone on board.

The man's death was caused by the elderly woman


The Ritual

The ritual is actually held for family members


The Seaweed

A man goes for a walk by the river, chats with a fisherman, and then jumps into the river to commit suicide after the fisherman tells him something.

Years ago, a couple was playing by the river when the girl accidentally fell in. The boy jumped in to save her, but due to the strong current, he only managed to grab what he thought was seaweed. He couldn't save her. Years later, he returns to the river and talks to a fisherman. The fisherman tells him there has never been any seaweed in this fast-flowing river. The man realizes what he grabbed was actually the girl's hair, and overcome with grief, he jumps into the river.

The boy jumping into the river is related to a third person


The Condition


The Washing Machine

At night, a poor scavenger brings home a washing machine he found. In the middle of the night, he wakes up startled, thinking he heard the washing machine start.

A murderer had dismembered a body and put the parts in the washing machine. He transported the body parts to the outskirts. When the scavenger found the washing machine in his three-wheeled cart, the killer had just finished removing all the body parts and was digging a hole nearby. By the time the killer realized, the scavenger had already driven off with the washing machine. So the killer followed the scavenger home and snuck in to start the washing machine, trying to clean off the blood evidence inside.

The scavenger is sleeping in their own residence


A Painting


The Girl on the Balcony

A girl greets me from the opposite balcony every day, but now I'm afraid to step onto my balcony.

I recently moved into an apartment. Every morning when I go to the balcony to hang clothes, I see a girl on the opposite balcony greeting me. I'm happy and make sure to greet her back before going to work. Two or three weeks pass, and one day I see a news article about my neighborhood: a female body was found hanging on a balcony, having committed suicide three weeks ago. Suddenly feeling something was off, I run to my balcony and indeed, the girl is gone, replaced by police tape. I feel sick and can't bring myself to step onto the balcony anymore. It turns out the swaying body of the hanged girl just looked like she was waving hello.


The Diary

February 2019: My daughter stopped going to school. I can't persuade her.
June 2019: My daughter stares at the TV and computer all day. I'm worried she'll damage her eyes.
December 2019: My daughter seems a bit more cheerful. I see her often voice chatting with friends.
March 2020: My daughter smiled, saying she did something great. I'm happy too.
May 2020: My daughter's condition has worsened. She doesn't sleep at night and won't talk to me.
June 2020: Our household expenses seem unusually high lately. Hmm... am I scatterbrained?
October 2020: My daughter goes out now that the pandemic has eased. She seems to have more friends. That's great.
February 2021: I received a lawyer's letter with my daughter's name on it. How can this be?!
August 2021: I've grounded my daughter.

The daughter refused to go to school for some reason. In June, she became obsessed with a popular TV series. By December, she had joined the fan club of the show's star, Xiao Zhan. During this time, she was acting as an online 'water army' for Xiao Zhan. In March 2020, the AO3 website was reported and blocked. In May, Xiao Zhan faced widespread boycott from netizens, and investors began to reconsider their involvement. In June, a digital album was released, and the daughter stole money from home to buy it. As the pandemic eased, she continued to participate in fan activities but gradually began to see its true nature. In February 2021, Xiao Zhan sued his 'haters'. In August, he won the case, and fans were fined 30,000 yuan. The parent in the story then grounded their daughter completely.

The daughter's online friend scammed money from the family


The News

A man returns home from work, turns on the TV to watch the news, and faints.

The man works at a haunted house attraction and is responsible for cleaning up after it closes. There are many prop corpses in the haunted house. While cleaning, he saw a very realistic prop corpse. He didn't think much of it, just admiring the craftsmanship of it while cleaning. After finishing work and returning home, he turned on the TV to watch the news. The news reported a missing person case and showed a photo of the missing person - it was the 'prop' he had seen in the haunted house. He fainted from shock.

The man saw the photo of the deceased person on the news


The High Heels

A lady buys a pair of red high heels from a shoe store. These heels foreshadow her death that night.

The lady is a performer in a circus troupe. That day, she bought a pair of red high heels. That night, she wore these heels for her performance. Her act involved balancing an apple on her head while another male performer threw a knife at the apple. However, because her new high heels were a few centimeters taller than what she usually wore, the male performer, who hadn't adjusted for this, accidentally threw a knife into her head.


The Midnight Train

The man didn't guess the granny's age correctly


The Condition

The girl goes to medical school and the boy is the body there used for dissection


The Midnight Train


The Mountaintop

The deceased got scared after knocking and fell down by themselves


The Tunnel

A man takes a train to a neighboring town for medical treatment. After the treatment, he's completely cured. On the way back, as the train passes through a tunnel, the man jumps off to commit suicide. Why?

His illness was an eye disease that had left him completely blind. After the treatment, his eyesight was restored. When the train entered the tunnel, the sudden darkness made him think he had gone blind again, causing him to panic and jump off the train in despair.


The Turtle Soup Story

A man walks into a restaurant, orders a bowl of turtle soup, drinks it, and then shoots himself. Why?

During his honeymoon, he and his wife were shipwrecked on a deserted island. Due to lack of food, his wife starved to death. His companions cooked his wife's flesh into a soup and tricked him into eating it, claiming it was turtle soup. Later, he was rescued by a passing ship. Today, when he tasted real turtle soup, he realized what he had eaten back then was his wife's flesh. Overwhelmed with remorse, he took his own life with a gun.

He remembered that the previous person died


The Turtle Soup Story

He has drunk turtle soup before but not with this taste


Half a Matchstick

A man's body is found in the desert, holding half a matchstick. His luggage is found nearby. It's known that he died from a fall. Please deduce what happened.

He was on a hot air balloon tour in the desert with a group. Halfway through, the balloon ran out of fuel. To keep flying, they threw out all their luggage, but it wasn't enough. They decided to draw lots using matchsticks - whoever drew the short one would be thrown off. He drew the short matchstick and was pushed out, falling to his death.


The High Heels


The Ritual


The Circus

A blind dwarf who works at a circus is found dead in his home, surrounded by wood shavings. What happened?

There were two dwarfs in the circus, but now the circus only wanted to keep one. Because the blind dwarf was shorter, he was chosen to stay. The other dwarf sawed off a portion of all the blind dwarf's furniture, making him think he had grown taller. Realizing he would lose his livelihood, the blind dwarf committed suicide.

The blind man learned for the first time that he was a dwarf


The Diary

The daughter's behavior caused negative consequences for a celebrity


The Woman in the Pink Dress

Your new neighbor is a young man living alone. One day, returning home after a late-night snack, you see a woman with long hair, wearing a pink dress and heavy makeup, enter your neighbor's apartment. Late at night, you hear arguing and things being thrown, which is particularly jarring in the quiet hallway. The next day, you see a shredded pink dress and a bunch of long hair in the garbage bag outside your neighbor's door. When you ask your neighbor about it, he stammers and refuses to explain... Should you call the police? What happened?

Your neighbor is a man with a cross-dressing fetish, which is why he lives alone. His family doesn't know about this and keeps pressuring him to get married, so he moved out of his parents' home. That day, he returned home after cross-dressing and you saw him. Unexpectedly, his mother was waiting for him at home. Seeing her son in women's clothing, they had a big argument, and his mother cut up his pink dress and wig. This is what actually happened.

That night the man was arguing with someone else


The Turtle Soup Story

The turtle soup he drank before was made from his wife's flesh


A Painting

It was a beautiful painting, the man in it had distinct features and looked lifelike. The next day when I saw the painting again, my scalp tingled, and I couldn't praise it anymore.

I stayed in a run-down small hotel at night. When I entered the room, the light was broken, and the room was very dim. There was a painting opposite the bed of a man with distinct features, looking so lifelike, just like the Mona Lisa. I felt like the person in the painting was always looking at me. Early the next morning, when it was bright, I realized that what I thought was a painting was actually a window. A man had been standing outside the window watching me all night, and because the light was too dim, I had mistaken him and the window frame for a painting.

The man in the painting is actually a man looking at me


The Tunnel


The Girl on the Balcony


The Turtle Soup Story


The Best Friend

Thomas visits his wife's best friend's house for the first time with his wife. After returning home, his wife wants a divorce. Why?

Thomas's wife saw that his phone automatically connected to her best friend's WiFi.


The News

The man's identity was revealed by the news


The Little Red Dress

My sister chose a little red dress for me. I wore it to school, and when I came home that night, I found a dead body.

My mother was having an affair with my teacher. They would meet whenever my father was away. The little red dress was a signal to the teacher, indicating that my father wouldn't be home that night. That day, my mother was busy, so my sister chose the red dress for me. The teacher saw it and came to our house thinking my father was away, but he was caught by my father, who then killed him.

The killer murdered because I was going to school