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 fourth, fifth, and sixth children died


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.

They discovered that my boyfriend and I look very similar


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 Ritual


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 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.


1237

During the home visit, I learned why the child always says 7 after 123


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 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 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 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 mother appears to be four years old


The Forgery


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.


1237


1237

The child intentionally wanted to count this way


Meeting the Parents


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 disappeared the next day


1237

It's related to one's deceased relatives


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.


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 matches were used to decide who to kill


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 death row inmate wished others couldn't smell his special odor


The 18th Floor

Xiao Ming went to the 15th floor first because he's not tall enough


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 was in a bad mood after eating the turtle soup


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 Lost Phone


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 deceased had a grudge against my family


The Best Friend

The wife's divorce was due to relationship related reasons


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 thought he couldn't compete with others for the job position so he committed suicide


The Best Friend

She and her best friend caught Thomas cheating


A Painting


Fish

I know the ingredients of the fish bait so I find the fish disgusting


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.


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 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.

It's because of this girl that I don't dare go to the balcony anymore


Half a Matchstick

His companion wanted to convey some information to others through the matches


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!


Counting


The Best Friend


The Best Friend

The wife had an affair with her best friend


The Little Red Dress

The little red dress was the cause of death


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 Little Red Dress


Half a Matchstick


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 Turtle Soup Story

The turtle soup the man is drinking in the restaurant is made of human flesh


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 man got involved with his wife's best friend


The Circus


The Death Row Inmate and the Demon

The demon turned the death row inmate into a corpse


The Elevator

There's a woman in high heels in the elevator


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.

Someone attempted to take away the washing machine


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...

It's been four years since the child's mother died


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.

I am the biological daughter of my boyfriend's parents


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 discounted snacks contain real snacks


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 superpower is identifying others' ages


Counting


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.


1237

I learnt what happened to the kid's family


The Elevator

Someone died while the elevator was ascending


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.

I had met the man from the painting in reality


The Washing Machine

This sound is really coming from the washing machine


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 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 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 girl had an intimate relationship with the neighbor


The Best Friend


Exchanging Photos

I exchange photos with an online friend I've known for a short time. After seeing his photo, I break out in a cold sweat.

I recently met a new online friend, and we got along well. One day, I suggested exchanging photos to see what each other looked like. After I sent my photo, he waited a while and then sent back the same photo of me. I found it strange, but when I looked closely, I noticed a foot sticking out from under the bed in the photo. This online friend was hiding in my room.

The photo sent by the online friend is the same as the one I took


The Ritual


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.


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.

There are other people who can see this sentence


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 left at home but I live alone


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 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 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 was a drug in the turtle soup that caused him to commit suicide


A Painting

The person in the painting stares at me wherever I go


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.

Thomas did something to the best friend that made his wife think he was cheating


The Diary

The daughter transferred money to buy something


Half a Matchstick

The matches were placed there by someone else


The Lost Phone


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 trouble is that the police will come looking for me


Half a Matchstick


The Little Red Dress

The cause of the deceased's death is related to me


The Best Friend

The wife got together with the best friend


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 person who pressed the elevator button was killed


The Little Red Dress


The Turtle Soup Story

He had drunk soup with the same taste before


The Ritual

The mother really transferred money to someone else


The Midnight Train

If the man guesses the age correctly, something will happen to the train


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 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 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 price for the demon's help was to take something from him


The Death Row Inmate and the Demon

The death row inmate's body was later transported out of the prison


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 Best Friend

He had an affair with his wife's best friend and was discovered by his wife


The Best Friend


The Elevator


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.

After hearing the granny's answer, others also turned pale


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.

This is a pirate ship so the sailors are also pirates


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.

I had seen the person from the painting before


Fish


The Circus


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 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.

There's a person in the washing machine and the scavenger heard their struggling sounds


A Painting

The person in the painting really exists


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 High Heels

The red high heels were pulled from a dead person


The Midnight Train

The train is going in the wrong direction


The Midnight Train


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 half matchstick was placed in his hand by the killer


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 Turtle Soup Story

The man's death is related to a second person


The Tunnel


Half a Matchstick

The hot air balloon malfunctioned and everyone drew matches to decide who would jump


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 News


The Forgery


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 real shopkeeper of the small store was killed by the murderer who pretended to be the shopkeeper and probably didn't know the price of snacks so sold them cheaply


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 Girl on the Balcony

The girl was posed in a waving gesture by someone


The Elevator

I went to a floor that didn't originally exist in the elevator


Fish


The Death Row Inmate and the Demon


A Painting


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 was someone else besides the man at the neighbor's house last night


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 Midnight Train

The man turned pale because he found the grandmother a bit scary


The Elevator


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 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 Best Friend


Half a Matchstick


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 Elevator

The elevator malfunctioned and should have gone down


The Little Red Dress


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.

It was to conceal which floor he lived on


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 Best Friend

Thomas had met his wife's best friend before


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 experienced something on a deserted island


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.

Upon opening the door, the deceased wasn't seen, so they froze to death


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.

Pedestrians must pass through a specific place to smell the odor


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.

Someone will dissect people who aren't blind


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.

I had seen the man in the painting before


The 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 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's job requires her to wear high heels


A Painting

The person in the painting looks different on the second day compared to the first


The Mountaintop

The person who died was living alone in a cabin on the mountaintop


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.

There will be a punishment for guessing the passenger's age wrong


The Midnight Train

The train is about to have an accident and this man is stuck in a loop


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 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.

It was caused by another dwarf in the circus


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.

There is actually no tunnel, this person has become blind again


The 18th Floor


The Ritual

The mother, transferring money, is making a transaction with someone


The Turtle Soup Story

He drank the soup with the intention of seeking the truth


The High Heels

She will die because her height increases


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.

Their argument was due to emotional issues


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 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 Death Row Inmate and the Demon

The death row inmate's wish led to his death


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.

Thomas is familiar with the best friend's house


Exchanging Photos

I exchange photos with an online friend I've known for a short time. After seeing his photo, I break out in a cold sweat.

I recently met a new online friend, and we got along well. One day, I suggested exchanging photos to see what each other looked like. After I sent my photo, he waited a while and then sent back the same photo of me. I found it strange, but when I looked closely, I noticed a foot sticking out from under the bed in the photo. This online friend was hiding in my room.

The photo sent by the online friend is my photo


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 went crazy due to too much academic pressure


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 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.

He works in a haunted house, and the prop corpse is actually a dead person


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 wanted to scare away the homeless person


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 father knows about the mother transferring money to someone else


Counting

I witnessed a murder scene and I need to report the floor number to the police as the killer is counting the floors I'm on to kill me


The Circus


The Little Red Dress

The little red dress has a special meaning


The Midnight Train


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 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.)

I was originally going to take the elevator down


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 refers to their younger sister as mom


Exchanging Photos

The photo contains part of my home's background


The Elevator


The Washing Machine

The killer dismembered the body and followed the scavenger home to clean up the scene


The Diary


The Circus

The wood shavings were caused by the blind dwarf falling


The Best Friend

Thomas's wife discovered at her best friend's house that Thomas had previously cheated with the best friend's boyfriend or husband


The Elevator

There are bad people upstairs or on the roof


The Little Red Dress


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 Tunnel

This person lost their eyes and thought it suddenly became dark when the train passed through a tunnel, got scared and tried to escape the train, then fell to their death


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 Best Friend

The best friend's husband bought something for the best friend


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 person living on the mountaintop caused someone's 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 Seaweed


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 Tunnel


The Diary

Throughout the whole process, the daughter is still the same daughter


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 Elevator


Half a Matchstick


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 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 died while doing woodwork


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 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 Forgery


The Forgery

I'm imitating the handwriting of the person who died


The Seaweed

The man knows the person who previously died in the river


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 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.


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!

I saw him kill someone but he's counting my floor


The Discounted Snacks


The Midnight Train

The man must guess everyone's age correctly by midnight


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 Mountaintop

The deceased was alive before knocking on the door


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 Four-Year-Old Mother

The child's brother kidnapped a female teacher


The Tunnel


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 about to crash and needed to reduce weight, the man drew the half matchstick representing being thrown out


A Painting


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.)

I pressed the down button but the elevator went up


The Condition

The man died and became a cadaver for medical students


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 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 Discounted Snacks

The person selling discounted snacks is suspicious


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 Forgery


The Lost Phone


The Tunnel

This person's illness isn't completely cured


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 Midnight Train


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 mother wants to celebrate the little girl's birthday early


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 knocking sound was made by someone falling


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.

I didn't want the other person to leave so I killed them


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 Girl on the Balcony


The Elevator


The Mountaintop

There was someone outside the door when the owner heard the knocking sound


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 Forgery

Someone is imitating others in front of me


The Forgery

I am repeating the same day over and over


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 Ritual

The mother wants to spend money secretly without anyone knowing


The Ritual

The father and mother went out to dance in the square


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 sailor's companion doesn't like fish


The Mountaintop

There was someone at the door when there's the knocking sound


The Forgery

I was still alive when saying the sentences


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.

He thought he wouldn't be employed anymore


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.

His special ability made an incorrect judgment on the old lady


The Circus

The blind dwarf thought he had grown taller and the circus didn't want him


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.

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


The Forgery

Someone successfully imitated my handwriting and wants to dispose of me


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.

My scalp tingles because of the person in the painting


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 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.


1237

The numbers represent the number of people


The Mountaintop

The deceased is either the person knocking or the person in the cabin


The Ritual


The Circus


A Painting


The Lost Phone

The phone is in its original place but has been used


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 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's destination is not the school


1237


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 Forgery

The protagonist was abandoned by relatives


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 Turtle Soup Story

The man came to the restaurant without speaking


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 Little Red Dress

Wearing the little red dress made others think I was someone else


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.

I am the child of my boyfriend's parents


Meeting the Parents


The High Heels


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 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 death row inmate's wish to the demon was to be released from prison