Despair Classroom

Wangji Lichou

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Summary

Despair Classroom is a suspense and supernatural novel by web author Wangji Lichou, serialized on Heiyan Reading from 2015 to 2016, totaling about 2.7 million Chinese characters across 1,021 chapters. After serialization ended, the work was taken down and no print edition was published. The story opens with a "Singles' Day prank vote": the class QQ group of Grade 11, Class 5 is used by someone logging into the account of a dead classmate, Chen Feng, to launch an anonymous vote—whoever gets the most votes must complete a designated option or suffer punishment. The joke quickly turns into a curse, as voters and the chosen die one after another in bizarre ways while the voting continues round after round, turning the classroom into an inescapable death examination hall. The protagonist Zhang Wei and his deskmate Li Mofan sense an unseen manipulating force amid the serial tragedies, and together with Duanmu Xuan, Li Shashen, Yang Yaxin, Xue Junxiong, and others form a group. Using settings such as guardian spirits, ghost-qi realms, and artifacts like the Taigong Compass and the Five Thunder Sword, they trace the source of the school's "Evil Eye" curse and an old case from fifty years earlier, expanding the battlefield from a single class to the whole school and eventually to the three realms. The early part builds oppressive tension through episodic horror challenges—death rock-paper-scissors, death note-passing, a bizarre long-distance bus, a death police station—focusing on the human game of suspicion and blame among classmates; the later part shifts to fantasy cultivation and cross-temporal showdowns, ultimately pointing to stopping the mastermind's world-ending plot to awaken the Heavenly Demon. This is a genre novel blending campus supernatural survival with a fantasy leveling system, strong in atmosphere and challenge design, and polarized in reception because of its stylistic shift.

Editor's review

《绝望教室》最抓人的是开局：一部班级群、一次无伤大雅的玩笑投票，却成了死亡名单的入口。作者忘记离愁很懂得把日常恐惧推到极致——手机屏幕亮起的那一刻，读者和书中的学生同样无处躲藏。前期的单元关卡设计相当密集：猜拳、传纸条、长途汽车、警察局、太平间，每一关都是规则游戏，胜负取决于对人心的判断，同学间的猜忌、背叛与结盟写得格外鲜活，那种“下一个可能是我”的窒息感正是本书的招牌。中后期作品引入守护灵、鬼气境界、法器收集等设定，主角张伟从普通高中生成长为对抗诅咒的核心力量，格局从一间教室扩到全校、再扩到三界宿命，追求升级爽感的读者会读得顺畅。需要提醒的是，行文带有明显的网文连载痕迹，篇幅长、注水段落多，前期灵异与后期玄幻的调性差别也很明显。本书未出版实体书，市面流传版本多为网络合集，阅读时不必以纸书标准苛求。

Who it's for

A good fit for

喜欢校园灵异、死亡游戏与规则闯关类故事的读者
追更过长篇网络小说、能接受数百万字体量的读者
偏爱群像博弈、人性猜忌与反转桥段的悬疑爱好者
想了解黑岩网时期灵异悬疑类型作品面貌的读者

Not a good fit for

对血腥、死亡描写敏感，或心理承受力一般的读者
偏好短篇精炼、结构严谨的严肃文学读者
希望读到经过校订出版的正式实体书版本的读者

Reading tips

先读前六章感受开局氛围，若被投票规则吸引再决定是否长线追读。
可把每个单元关卡当作独立小故事看，跳读注水的过渡段落不影响主线理解。
留意投票选项背后的“文字陷阱”，很多生路藏在选项措辞细节里。
读到中后期玄幻设定时，把它当作另一个类型的爽文来读，心态会轻松很多。

FAQ

《绝望教室》有实体书或正式出版的版本吗？

没有。据百度百科等资料，本书于2015—2016年在黑岩阅读网连载，共1021章、约270万字，连载完结后已在原平台下架，并未出版实体书，市面流传的多是网络合集或盗版整理本。

这本书算灵异恐怖还是玄幻修仙？

两者兼有。前期是典型的校园灵异生存恐怖，主打投票死亡游戏与规则闯关；中后期引入守护灵、鬼气境界、法器等设定，转向玄幻升级路线。很多读者的评价是“前期比后期精彩”。

主角张伟是什么样的人物设定？

张伟是高二（5）班学生，故事开始时与同学关系并不密切，性格谨慎、善于观察。他拥有“司马懿的鬼心”，后期掌握多元技能与法器，在连环灵异事件中成长为对抗诅咒的核心力量。

结局是什么走向？

据百科资料，结局涉及诅咒轮回与三界平衡的主题：众人阻止幕后黑手唤醒天魔的灭世计划，完成宿命闭环，部分角色的守护灵也在终局获得独立之身。

故事的开端到底是什么事件？

光棍节当天，班长陈风在班级QQ群里发起“谁高中三年找不到女朋友”的恶作剧投票，自己票数最高；第二天他以诡异方式撕扯喉咙而死，当晚他的账号却重新上线，发起了真正致命的死亡投票。

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About the author

Wangji Lichou Author

Wangji Lichou is the pen name of a Chinese web-fiction author, written in English as Wangji Lichou. Publicly available information about the author is limited, and neither nationality nor dates of birth and death are confirmed. Three of the author's works are included in the collection, with Fatal Impulse and Desperate Classroom as representative titles; the works are commonly classified as premium fiction, horror and thriller, and suspense and mystery. These titles and categories suggest a style built on tense, oppressive atmospheres, with plots driven by crisis, choice, and psychological struggle, creating a sustained sense of unease between horror and deduction. Because verifiable biographical details are scarce, little can be said about the author's writing career, and readers and researchers must understand the work mainly through the collected titles, which, though few, already show a clear orientation toward genre fiction.