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1. 351 金 The Canary Murders 金丝雀杀人事件 Van Dine范达因Male-Channel Fanfiction140k WordsCompleted Broadway's hottest star, Margaret Odell, known as “the Canary,” has been brutally murdered in her apartment at 184 West Seventy-first Street. The scene is a completely sealed room. As the police search tirelessly for clues, they only sink deeper into a fog of conflicting testimony. Everyone seems like the murderer, yet each has a clear alibi. So who is the real killer? Who slipped like a ghost into the star's sealed apartment and carried out the brutal murder? 72Reads8.9Score—Shelves
2. 352 骇 Hacker Mission: Infinite Loop 骇客任务-无限循环 Love Horse Stone爱马石22k WordsCompleted The Hacker’s Mission: Infinite Loop —Reads—Score—Shelves

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   If you don't understand AI technology, ordinary space-time concepts and mixed reality technology, this article is just a brain-burning article! Watch how the male protagonist trapped in the virtual time and space uncovers the layers of mystery and finally breaks through, defeats the conspiracy of the mother body, and regains the new world.

3. 353 水 The Water Monster Murders 水怪杀人事件 Van Dine范达因Mystery97k WordsCompleted At a weekend party hosted by a renowned marine biologist, a guest dives into the swimming pool in full view of everyone, then vanishes without a trace! There’s no sign that he ever climbed out, and he’s nowhere in the pool, yet strange, enormous claw marks lie on the bottom! Rumors that a vicious dragon killed him begin to spread through the group! When the missing guest’s body is finally found, something even more shocking comes to light: his corpse bears marks just like those left by dragon cl 41Reads8.4Score—Shelves
4. 354 第 The Seventh Awakening: My Fake Boyfriend Always Wants to Save Me 第七次觉醒：我的假男友总想救我 Fu Xu Xu Xu符叙叙叙11k WordsCompleted The Seventh Awakening: My Fake Boyfriend Keeps Trying to Save Me —Reads—Score—Shelves

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   This book feels okay, a bit interesting

5. 355 刑 Criminal Investigation Consultant Lin Chen 刑侦顾问林辰 Bear Er'er, the Novelist写小说的熊二二Mystery263k WordsCompleted Lin Chen, the youngest criminal psychology professor at the provincial public security department, suffered a fatal setback at the peak of his career. A profile that was supposedly one hundred percent accurate sent an innocent courier to prison, while the real killer struck again ten months later. He tore up the honors he had earned over ten years with his own hands, wrote the words “resigning to take responsibility,” and disappeared for three whole months. When he resurfaced, he had become the 370Reads—Score—Shelves

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   There was a murderous intention hidden in the old restaurant. The private room was locked and there were no traces of a fight. The deceased was killed without any precautions. A hard-core criminal investigation team is online, reviewing traces of the scene one by one, investigating suspects such as landlords, fans, colleagues, etc., And using rigorous reasoning to crush lies and identify the real culprit.

6. 356 不 The Nonconsecutive Murders 不连续杀人事件 Sakaguchi Ango坂口安吾Mystery95k WordsCompleted In the summer of 1947, scholars, poets, authors, painters, doctors, actors, and others gather to escape the heat at the mountain villa of the great poet Utagawa Kazuma. A shadow of death falls over the place, and people begin dying one after another. Were they all killed by the same murderer, or did different people commit the crimes? Was this a serial murder case, or a series of unrelated killings that only seem connected because they happened one after another? There is only one truth. Who is 143Reads8.2Score—Shelves
7. 357 秘 Arcane Magic Out of Control 秘法失控 Guangzhou Slime King广州史莱姆王Mystery239k WordsOngoing [Mystery and Crime Investigation]+ [Logical Deduction]+ [Bizarre Unsolved Cases]+ [Modern Magical World] A baffling murder and a corpse whose bones, flesh, and skin had been inexplicably separated drew Iris Moreau, a police detective on the homicide squad, into a dazzling yet dangerous world. The boundary between the demon realm and the mortal world was growing increasingly blurred. Legendary magicians, forbidden ancient arts, and killers who continually crossed ethical lines all came one after 9Reads—Score—Shelves

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   Suspenseful ideas? Brain-burning masterpiece? I'm afraid your brain will turn into ashes after reading this book. Do you dare to challenge me???

8. 358 狄 Judge Dee Case Files: The Red Pavilion 狄公案：红阁子 Gao Luopei高罗佩66k WordsCompleted Three curses in a secret chamber, a beauty’s debt from hell On Paradise Island, the nights are a whirl of luxury and revelry. Di Renjie, magistrate of Puyang County, is just passing through when he is forced to stop and take on what seems like an open-and-shut suicide case: Li Hanlin, a newly appointed top scholar, is heartbroken and has slit his throat in the Red Pavilion at the Yongle Inn. Thirty years earlier, the wealthy merchant Tao Kuang also cut his own throat in this room. Three days lat 19Reads8.9Score—Shelves

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   It was so difficult to solve cases in the past!!! [Thinking][Thinking][Thinking]

9. 359 狄 Judge Dee Case Files: Chaoyun Temple 狄公案：朝云观 Gao Luopei高罗佩56k WordsCompleted While returning home with his family, the famed detective Di Gong is caught in a violent storm. Their carriage is wrecked, forcing them to seek shelter at the mist-shrouded Chaoyun Temple. The temple is celebrating its founding anniversary. Pilgrims fill the grounds, and a theater troupe takes the stage. It all seems lively and festive, yet something sinister lurks beneath the surface. Late that night, Di Gong looks out his window and catches sight of a burly man in an iron helmet in the opposit 7Reads8.6Score—Shelves
10. 360 狄 Judge Dee Case Files: The Bronze Bell Case 狄公案：铜钟案 Gao Luopei高罗佩78k WordsCompleted [Historical mystery + locked-room murders + Detective Di Renjie + interwoven serial cases] A new official takes office, and the county yamen stays lit late into the night. On his first day in Puyang, Di Gong encounters a strange case: on Half-Moon Street, a butcher’s daughter is brutally murdered in her bedroom. A love poem and a gold hairpin point to a scholar. But hidden clues and the night watchman’s clappers reveal the real killer: a wandering fraud posing as a Daoist, using holy robes to di 33Reads8.8Score—Shelves
11. 361 狄 Judge Dee Case Files: The Lakeside Case 狄公案·湖滨案 Gao Luopei高罗佩83k WordsCompleted [High suspense, nonstop twists, and ancient-style detective stories] Di Renjie, county magistrate of Hanyuan, attends a banquet aboard a pleasure boat. What should have been an elegant evening becomes the scene of a locked-room murder. Beneath the moonlit sky, at the heart of the lake, the music suddenly stops, and a woman’s corpse surfaces. Then an unsolved chess game from seventy years ago reappears, a bride mysteriously “comes back to life” on her wedding night, a carpenter is found dead in a 5Reads8.7Score—Shelves
12. 362 毛 The Mao Family Cases 毛公案 Chu Renxun储仁逊Historical22k WordsCompleted The Mao Gong Cases is a classic of Ming and Qing courtroom fiction. Centered on the legendary cases solved by Mao Dengke, an imperial censor sent to inspect Zhili during the Jiajing era, it presents the moral codes and judicial ideals of Ming society through shocking cases such as “A Wicked Brother Harms His Younger Brother” and “A Rebellious Son Kills His Mother.” The book consists of six chapters and follows the loyal official Lord Mao as he goes undercover to investigate and cleverly solve st 110Reads9.2Score—Shelves
13. 363 大 Judge Dee: Cracking the Case 大唐狄公案·破局 Mo Yu莫逾Mystery196k WordsCompleted What makes this book a great read: the victims’ bizarre deaths, painstaking deduction, and a style that shifts from witty and humorous to serious and meticulous. It’s a boy’s version of The Cases of Judge Dee and a Tang Dynasty version of The Washing Away of Wrongs! Rather than sketching out the plot in broad strokes, the story offers detailed, vivid depictions of the crime scenes. This makes the cases feel authentic while keeping the focus on the investigations! The Golden Mystery, The Secret T 1.7kReads9.3Score101Shelves
14. 364 狄 The Judge Dee Cases 狄公案 Wu Jianren吴趼人Mystery200k WordsCompleted [Four Great Mysteries of Empress Wu Zetian + Di Renjie + detective mystery + stunning reversals + Chinese-style horror] When Di Renjie takes up his first post as magistrate of Changping County, he never expects one murder after another to rock the small town! News arrives that a Huzhou merchant has been murdered at the Li Lidun inn. The innkeeper, Kong Wande, protests his innocence, but the local headman, Hu De, refuses to let him off the hook. When Di Renjie investigates, the evidence points st 587Reads9.5Score—Shelves
15. 365 刘 The Liu Gong Case Files 刘公案 Anonymous Author不题撰人Mystery308k WordsCompleted [Mind-Bending Mystery + Qing Dynasty Cold Cases + Shocking Twists + Chinese-Style Horror + Liu Luoguo] The Great Qing is at peace, but beneath the surface, unrest stirs in Jiangning Prefecture, Jinling. Liu Yong has barely arrived and settled in when he stumbles upon a shocking case: a married couple spends the night at an inn, but the husband dies under mysterious circumstances and the wife vanishes. The county magistrate beats a confession out of the innkeeper, who is then declared the murdere 158Reads9.5Score—Shelves
16. 366 白 The Mao Gong Cases in Plain Language: A Deadly Dispute Over an Inheritance 白话毛公案：兄弟争产酿血案 Xuan Lin煊霖Mystery36k WordsCompleted Modern Vernacular Translation of the Mao Gong Casebook retells the ancient casebook novel The Mao Gong Casebook in contemporary vernacular. It mainly tells the story of a tragic and inhuman murder during the Jiajing reign of the Ming dynasty, when the Yao brothers of Liangxiang, Zhuozhou, fought over their father’s inheritance. The elder brother, Yao Geng, and his sister-in-law, Liu, were consumed by greed and plotted to seize the family estate. They went so far as to murder Yao Yi, the younger 131Reads9.3Score102Shelves
17. 367 大 Strange Tales of Food and Water Transport in the Tang Dynasty 大唐漕运食异录 Iced Moon Fruit Tea冰月水果茶Mystery505k WordsOngoing During the Changshou era of the Wu Zhou dynasty, the Grand Canal’s grain transport routes weave together the empire’s wealth and secrets. Su He, the third princess of the Qingqiu Fox Kingdom, is escorting tribute goods along the Bian River when her ship is mysteriously scuttled in the middle of the night. The incident leads to the eerie prophecy, “The Luo River takes none back; shadows crowd the grain routes,” and a palace secret tied to the “dream of drowning.” Disguised as “Young Master Su,” 2Reads—Score—Shelves

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    Just read it if you're interested. You won't be able to get out of it after watching it. You have such a strong sense of immersion that your mind is filled with the plot of the novel.

18. 368 时 The Time Amber 时间琥珀 Blue Coral Velvet蓝珊绒Mystery129k WordsCompleted Lin Wan discovers that she is trapped in a bizarre seven-day loop. The end of every cycle comes when her best friend, Su Qing, raises a dinner knife and plunges it into her heart. As one sensation after another is stripped away from her, sweetness, the warmth of her mother, her sense of safety, she gradually realizes that none of this is a coincidence. With the help of the mysterious butler Uncle Chen and Gu Yan, a guardian of time, Lin Wan enters a rift in time and sees the true face of the “H 1Reads—Score—Shelves

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    This is really beautiful, I highly recommend it!

19. 369 枪 My Gunplay Is the Way: I Use an M1911 to Exorcise Ghosts 枪法即道法，我用M1911驱鬼 It's Spicy Hot Pot是麻辣火锅Mystery393k WordsCompleted (Just got a rating) (harem) (urban high martial arts, supernatural mysteries, Taoist priest, multiple heroines, daily life, ghost-hunting with firearms, urban supernatural abilities, SCP-like, no System, solving cases, tomboy, childhood friends, tsundere) “Have you made up your mind?” “I have.” Wu Kui picks up the document and signs his name. “A true hero, and so young!” “No. I just don’t want to be kept in the dark.” To protect Wen Wan, an innocent girl with a rare Yin fate who is repeatedly ta 56Reads8.2Score—Shelves

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    Highly recommended, the writing and plot are very good! The setting is novel, and the key is to see that I personally feel that the logic is perfect. The direction of the plot is unexpectedly exciting.

20. 370 消 My Travel Companion Disappeared, and I Went Mad. 消失的旅伴，疯了的我。 0An Ordinary Person00一个平凡的人010k WordsCompleted My Missing Travel Companion, My Madness. 1Reads—Score—Shelves

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    Horror mystery and fantasy short essay.

21. 371 镜 No Flowers in the Mirror, but Fire in My Heart 镜中无花，心上有火 0An Ordinary Person00一个平凡的人07k WordsCompleted No Flowers in the Mirror, Fire in My Heart —Reads—Score—Shelves
22. 372 东 Paranormal Tales from the Northeast Countryside 东北农村灵异小故事 0An Ordinary Person00一个平凡的人0Modern Romance9k WordsCompleted Spooky Little Stories from the Northeastern Countryside 6Reads—Score—Shelves
23. 373 百 A Century of Upheaval 百年丧乱 Mo Ying Wu An莫盈勿暗Sci-Fi & Apocalypse2.6M WordsCompleted [Zombies + no saintly protagonist + decisive and ruthless + multiple narrative threads + ensemble cast + apocalypse fortress + war + survival + slow-paced] No rebirth, no supernatural abilities, no System or pocket dimension, no plot armor, and no romantic entanglements. This is not a power fantasy. It focuses more on realistic portrayals, particularly the story of humanity's resistance in an age overrun by zombies, and accounts of people trying to survive the apocalypse from multiple perspectiv 20.1kReads8.8Score2kShelves

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    This doomsday novel is really different! Rebirth and revenge + high IQ game, the plot twists and turns again and again, the world view is grand and there are many foreshadowings, the writing is solid and the characters are realistic. After reading it, you will directly refresh your understanding of apocalyptic literature!

24. 374 局 The Bureau's Twin Years: A Record of Strange Herb Mysteries in the Martial World 局编双年：奇草谜案江湖录 Forge a Sword from Scales and Cleave the Universe逆鳞作剑斩乾坤Mystery436k WordsOngoing (Not a power fantasy + no System + plot-driven + crime-solving and deduction + mind-bending twists) (The author spent a full year crafting all the murder cases. They’re sure to be gripping and mind-bending, so enjoy!) One year ago, on a dark night, I was a lowly cleaner working in the City Lord’s Hall when I was dragged into a murder targeting the three great families. Everyone said I was the killer! One year later, by day, I’d turned my fortunes around and become deputy director of the Security 16Reads—Score—Shelves

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    This is a new book of suspense reasoning. The author has worked hard for half a year to create a perfect murder case. It is absolutely exciting and brain-burning, and you will not be able to guess the murderer's method and the truth behind the scenes!!!!!

25. 375 暗 The Ghost Who Walks in the Night 暗夜行走的幽灵 Lin Zangfeng林藏峰Urban214k WordsCompleted [Urban Supernatural Powers + Reborn + Fantasy] He is a law enforcer who walks through the darkness, and a savior in the hearts of victims' families... The police station, the courts, and the prison can't stop his righteous judgment. A series of bizarre deaths has drawn the highest authorities' attention. How will Liu Zhentian navigate the path of enforcing the law under cover of darkness? And who will stand in the way of his pursuit of justice? The police? Or demons? Only after he has gone far 118Reads—Score—Shelves

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    This is my first time writing, I hope everyone will support me

26. 376 龙 Dragon Blood 龙血 Shui Qiancheng水千丞Sci-Fi & Apocalypse461k WordsCompleted While carrying out a mission, mercenary Shan Ming comes across a little boy. He never expected the child to be a “Dragonblood,” or to have countless ties to the terrifying “National Weapon” program. The fates of the two of them, and even more people, are changed as a result. A massive conspiracy lurks behind what seems to be an ordinary mission, and Shan Ming's mercenary group is plunged into crisis after crisis… 4.2kReads8.2Score875Shelves

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    The second book. . .

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