Ashes of Evil
烬恶
- Status
- Completed
- Length
- 419k Words
- Genre
- Mystery
- Subgenre
- Female-Channel Mystery
- Updated
- 1y ago
- English
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Synopsis
Other names
- A Case-Solving Journey with a Tsundere Captain and a Maverick Expert傲娇队长与怪才专家的破案之旅Alternate title on Fanqie
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Any Crime Investigation Novels With Tight Logic, Detailed Cases, and a Bit of Romance?
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Can Crime Investigation Stories Start Differently for Once?
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Crime Investigation and Case-Solving Novels: I’ve Read All the Popular Ones. Looking for Hidden Gems
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Crime Solving, Suspense, Mystery, and Romance
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They start out disliking each other, then solve cases and fall in love along the way.
Crime Investigation! Crime Investigation! Please!!!
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Crime Investigation Stories with a Romance and Detailed Case Solving
I want to read books like *Veil the Clouds [Criminal Investigation]*. Are there any stories where both leads are criminal police officers, with a strong female lead and a strong male lead? The female lead shouldn’t be a doctor, forensic pathologist, or lawyer, and I don’t want fantasy or folk-supernatural elements with monsters and ghosts.
Crime-Solving, Mystery, and Romance
The male lead works for the state, and the female lead has been reborn, but they had little to do with each other in their previous lives.
A Genius Heroine Solves Cases With the Male Lead
The Female Lead Is a Forensic Scientist or Psychologist Who Helps the Police
Modern Romance Where a Female Criminal Psychology Expert Teams Up With the Male Lead to Solve Cases
A modern romance novel where the female lead is a criminal psychology expert who teams up with the male lead to solve cases. She should be able to analyze the suspects' psychology.
Mystery Novels With a Beautiful, Unhinged Heroine Who Has a Secretive Past
Looking for a female lead who shares a secret with the final boss. Please, I beg you! I love crazy, gorgeous women so much.
Any Novels That Combine Mystery and Romance?
Both the male and female leads should be smart and competent.
Mystery and Romance: Historical or Modern, Anything Goes
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Passionate Struggles in a Fashionable Suspense Setting
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Reader comments 25
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It's very engaging. The romance and the cases are clearly separated, and the relationship develops gradually without feeling abrupt. Each case is unique, and while reading, the phrase "Everyone is the protagonist of their own life, not a background NPC" kept popping into my head. Every character is vividly portrayed.
As a fan of suspense and crime novels, I personally think this book is generally good. However, as a reader, I have some well-intentioned suggestions: I feel there are too many sentimental and repetitive passages, such as some of the scenes in chapters 51 and 63 (examples) that highlight the hardships of police officers. I found these to be overly sentimental, frequent, and forced.
The focus is on crime-solving, with romance as a secondary element. The romance develops gradually, unlike other novels where characters are all lovey-dovey after just a few chapters. The cases are also relatable, based on real-life or heard-of cases. Overall, it's a very good read and worth adding to your bookshelf… I generally don't write reviews unless I come across something exceptional…
In the second case, during the interrogation, the male and female leads were still calling each other "Uncle Liu" and "Aunt Liu," which clearly didn't conform to interrogation procedures. Furthermore, the murderer was so arrogant, spouting strange things about how people who do wrong should be punished, yet the male and female leads didn't find anything amiss.
I really like this book with its episodic crime-solving format; it's quite good.
Episodic dramas are my favorite; the romance between the male and female leads deepens with each case they solve.
It's not bad. The emotional development feels rushed; it's not a romance-crime drama. It's a good pure crime-solving mystery series. If you want a sweet romance, switch channels.
The case itself was rather ordinary, but the underlying values were quite sound.
It's quite good, but the case reasoning part is a bit simple.
Not bad 👍, no time travel or reincarnation, no cheat codes, hardcore crime-solving theme.