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Torchlight [Criminal Investigation] 炬火【刑侦】
Dozens of high-stakes, mind-bending cases. A detective and a psychologist join forces to solve crimes, uncover the truth, and probe human nature. (Mystery + deduction + psychologist + episodic cases + serial murders + high-IQ crimes + strange tales + revenge plots + perfect partners + light horror + suitable for the easily frightened.) This novel is the second installment in Confession, also known as The Truth About Murder. Once again, it follows detective captain Ti An and psychologist Zhao Yao
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- 302 Strange Tales from Liaozhai 聊斋奇谭 Pu Liuxian's greatest wish was once to explore the world's most wondrous and mysterious places and phenomena. Then one day, he found himself in a world overrun by ghosts and monsters. Here there were immortals, demons, ghosts, and monsters. At first, he traveled everywhere in search of the world's ghost stories, hoping to make a fortune from them. Later, he met more people and more ghosts, and glimpsed hidden truths about the world through his own stories. It turned out that the ghost realm was 223Reads9.1Score—Shelves
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Testimony of Memory 记忆证言
Memory Testimony follows Lin Shouxi, a medium who can read the “marks of death” left on personal effects and use them to solve cold cases. Together with Su Rui, a brilliant scientist, and Chen Tao, a hacker, he forms a special team and infiltrates the black market in memories to take on the multinational organization known as the Archive, which seeks to collect and sell human memories. Each case is a forgotten life, and every time he touches a memory, his own begins to fade. When the truth behin
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A Man's Criminal Psychology Files 1 男子犯罪心理档案1
[Delving into the causes of crime + analyzing criminal psychology + investigating the truth behind crimes] Who quietly cleans up the evidence in the dead of night? Who hides body after body in places no one would think to look? And who, looking back on the past from behind prison walls, murmurs, “I didn't have to kill…”? A baby in a refrigerator, an unidentified body encased in a concrete wall, an unsolved case with no answers… Each case is horrifying, yet gives us pause for thought. When a kill
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- 305 Notes on Folk Spirit Mediums 民间出马仙笔记 [Spirit Mediums + Chinese-Style Horror + Episodic Stories + Supernatural Mystery + Karma + Mind-Blowing Twists + Feng Shui and the Occult] "Unraveling one strange and unpredictable tale of karmic retribution after another" In a remote suburb of the city lies a cemetery. Few people know that a shop dealing in the supernatural stands there, run by a spirit medium who can communicate with the dead and the living. The owner specializes in paranormal cases beyond ordinary people's understanding, but 467Reads9.3Score—Shelves
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Murder on a Rainy Night: The Playing Card Left at the Scene 雨夜命案：现场遗留的纸牌
Murder on a Rainy Night: The Playing Card Left at the Scene
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- 308 The Qingqiu Royal Clan Abandoned and Humiliated Me. With the Mystic Stone, I Connected the Three Realms and Made Them All Regret It 青丘王族弃我辱我，我凭玄石连通三界，让全族追悔莫及 The Qingqiu royal clan cast me aside and humiliated me. With the Mystic Stone, I connected the Three Realms and made my entire clan regret it beyond measure. 9Reads—Score—Shelves
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Traces of Memory 记忆痕迹
In the near-future city of Haishi, a series of bizarre self-destruction cases shatters the peace: an acrophobic person leaps from a balcony, a miser burns all his possessions before setting himself on fire. There are no signs of outside interference at the scenes, only traces of the extreme emotions that seem to have awakened in the victims just before their deaths. When Lu Man, captain of the city bureau's criminal investigation squad, hits a dead end, she is forced to call in Lin Su, former ch
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- 310 Hero of the Dark Night 暗夜行侠 [Disaster + political thriller + vigilante justice + spies + national destiny] When those in power can’t change the status quo, can fighting violence with violence break the deadlock? Local councilor Zhou Qingshan knows his district like the back of his hand, but accidentally discovers that the city has another government operating in the shadows! Zhou Qingshan’s heiress girlfriend is murdered by a mysterious intelligence agency, but the police close the case almost immediately. Zhou begins to s 53Reads—Score—Shelves
- 311 Strange Tales of Yanyun: Every Night, Singing Emerges from the Soul-Snatching Well 燕云诡事：那口落魂井里，每晚都会传出唱戏声 Strange Happenings in Yanyun: Every night, the abandoned well echoes with the sound of opera singing 14Reads—Score—Shelves
- 312 Mountain Village Tales: The Book of Taboos 山村怪谈：禁忌录 For ten days, Mo Yuan endured the sinister opera at Suolong Town and survived, gritting his teeth. Three years later, a crack appeared in the mirror of his rented apartment. A clown in a red-and-white opera costume clutched a copper bell and crawled out. “Follow the taboos, and you’ll live.” He believed it. But old souls lurk in the eye sockets you must never look into; human fingernails are wrapped in candy wrappers; and even the words “haunted house” can turn a person into bloody mush in the c 4Reads—Score—Shelves
- 313 The Rosewood Clock Stopped for Ten Years. Only Then Did I Discover the Secret Grandma Hid Inside 那架红木古钟停摆十年，我才知道外婆藏在钟里的秘密 That redwood grandfather clock had been stopped for ten years. Only then did I learn the secret my grandmother had hidden inside it. 2Reads—Score—Shelves
- 314 The Night I Rented a Tenement Room, a Disconnected Phone Rang All Night 租筒子楼那晚，断线电话响了整夜 The night I rented a room in a tenement block, the disconnected phone rang all night. —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 315 I Faked Being a Gentle Boyfriend for Ten Years, Until a Woman from the Republic Era Exposed Everything in the Video 我伪造十年温柔男友，录像里民国女人揭穿一切 I faked being a gentle boyfriend for ten years. A woman from the Republican era exposed everything in the footage. 3Reads—Score—Shelves
- 316 In an Old Apartment Building, the Voice-Activated Lights Only Shine on the Dead 独居老楼，声控灯专照亡魂 Alone in an old apartment building, the motion-sensor lights only shine on the dead. 2Reads—Score—Shelves
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Restarting the Trail-Seeking Gate with the Power of Thought 意念重启寻踪门
Particles of thought break through the barriers of time and space, becoming entangled and interacting with one another. Reporter Tao Gujin encounters something strange during an interview and falls into a “whirlpool of thought,” unaware that this thought comes from a mysterious force connected to her… Baffling conversations, experiences that are both real and unreal, and dreams terrifyingly lifelike make her old condition increasingly severe. It turns out she is the “chosen one.” She frequently
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After the Parallel Shift 平行之后
This is no simple manhunt. It is a final letter addressed to the truth. Three years ago, the best friend of a close friend fell to her death from a cliff on Cuiwei Mountain. Everyone believed it was an accident. Only Shi Yi and Ai Min refused to accept that. They returned to the scene and used one tiny technical detail after another to overturn what had seemed like a flawless conclusion. But they never expected that this would drag Shi Yi into an international web of mysteries known as “Twin Lo
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- 319 Someone Keeps Knocking on My Door in the Hallway Late at Night. After Discovering Who It Is, I Can’t Sleep a Wink 深夜楼道总有人拍我家门，查清来历我整夜难眠 Someone Keeps Knocking on My Door in the Hallway Late at Night. After I Learned Who It Was, I Couldn't Sleep a Wink 9Reads—Score—Shelves
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Great! It's a System, Now I'm Definitely Dead 太棒了！是系统，这下我死定了
[Infinite Flow] [No heroine] [No CP] [Original instances] [The System is useless] [Rules] [Deduction] [Wits and strategy] [Survival missions] Borrowing a setting from a great author: ghosts cannot be killed... You must discern their patterns... The Haunted Spirit Tower has descended. Please make sure to complete your survival mission! Little-girl System and all that: “Host, clear each instance in one life, one every seven days! Bring the Haunted Tower era to an end!” Chen Zichu: “Damn it... Othe
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- 321 I Sat at the Wrong Table on a Blind Date, and My Date Was the Demon Lord Who Would Destroy the World 相亲走错桌，我的相亲对象是灭世魔主 I Sat at the Wrong Table on a Blind Date, and My Date Was the Demon Lord Who Would Destroy the World 1Reads—Score—Shelves
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The Narcissus Killing Game 水仙杀局
[Crime investigation + mind-bending schemes + undercover intrigue + corporate conspiracies] Word that the Water Nymph had appeared on Tongji Lake spread across Caiyun City overnight. Some said they saw a white-robed fairy dancing across the waves. Others claimed a god had descended to punish the wicked. Han Hu, chief of the East District Public Security Bureau, had vanished. His deputy chiefs fell silent as one, and police stations were buried under a mountain of reports, yet no one dared invest
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Psychological Crime Files 心理诡案
[The psychological mystery series, Shadow Pursuit, is currently being serialized!] A black notebook left behind by her mentor, and one strange psychological mystery after another. Su Yun says, “Captain Song, the human heart is a place of demons and monsters.” A cool, beautiful police detective × an arrogant, unconventional genius profiler. A formidable team joins forces to solve one baffling case after another…
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- 324 A Strange Anomaly Appeared on the Overnight Security Feed. The Republic-Era Theater Ticket Had My Seat Number Engraved on It 凌晨值守监控突发异象，民国戏票刻着我的座位号 A Strange Phenomenon Appeared on the Surveillance Monitors During My Night Shift. A Republican-Era Opera Ticket Had My Seat Number Engraved on It 3Reads—Score—Shelves
- 325 Multiple Selves 多重身 Wang Mingzhe, a graduate student in physics, takes part in his advisor’s quantum experiment and accidentally transmigrates to a parallel universe. There, he discovers that his counterpart has been missing for days, and that suspicious bloodstains have appeared in the laboratory. What will happen when they find a dismembered corpse in a corner of the lab, the words “Don’t trust the other you” written in blood on the wall, and fingerprints on the body that match Wang Mingzhe’s exactly? As the inve —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 326 Born with Eyes That See Sin, I Can Discern Murderers. The Bones in the Unfinished Building Mark the Start of a Ten-Year Showdown 天生罪眸能辨凶，烂尾楼白骨案，是十年对局的开场 Born with eyes that can spot a criminal, he investigates the bones in an abandoned building. This case marks the opening move in a ten-year game 4Reads—Score—Shelves
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Cao Xi’s Regret Cure 曹溪的后悔药
On a winter night in the capital in 2025, Cao Xi was walking down the street with a close friend when he happened to catch sight of his ex-girlfriend, Gao Junyao, whom he hadn’t seen in three years. At his friend’s urging, Cao Xi worked up the courage to approach her. But just as he reached the corner, he saw Gao Junyao die a violent death right before his eyes. After searching the scene, the police found no eyewitnesses to the murder, yet the wound on Cao Xi’s hand contained Gao Junyao’s DNA! M
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- 328 A Haunted House for 500 a Month, and I'm the Only One Who Knows How to Survive 月租五百的凶宅，只有我知道怎么活 A Haunted House for 500 Yuan a Month, and I’m the Only One Who Knows How to Survive 8Reads—Score—Shelves
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Code of the Killer 逐凶密码
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The Truth Is Just Within Reach 真相近在咫尺
Truth Is Within Reach is a mystery novel by Yaoyao Yaowu. It tells the strange story of a missing-person case that sends a rookie police officer further and further off course as he tries to solve it. The truth is within reach, but the ending is heartbreaking. Blending mystery, modern life, and romance, the novel uses a complex plot and intricate relationships to portray the challenges and dilemmas the protagonist faces while uncovering the truth. The novel's main elements include: A strange dis
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- 331 The Scarlet Inn 血色客栈 [Infinite Flow] [Mild Horror] [Survival] [Dungeons] [Absurd Comedy] Jiang Zhiyuan wakes up from a nap and finds himself standing outside an inn called “Wangchuan.” The red-haired man at the head of the group tells them that they're dead, and that they can return to their loved ones only by passing the test at the Crossing Gate. But can the test really be that easy…? (Don't laugh your head off when you read this. The author's already laughed so hard their heart hurts.) 51Reads—Score—Shelves
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The White Jade Prison 白玉牢
Xu Congcong’s best friend from the barbecue restaurant has gone missing. In her search for the truth, she gets caught up in a shocking conspiracy: the Bliss Group has developed a “human-transformation agent” that turns living women into rubber dolls, gives them to high-ranking officials, and sells the antidote to control people’s minds. There has always been a pair of eyes watching her. Zhang Hansheng, founder of the Hansheng Group, was already tracking the same target under the pretext of inve
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- 333 The Detective's Glory 刑警荣耀 Wang Wei is a veteran detective with twenty years of police experience and a three-time champion of the Tian Nan Provincial Police Academy’s grappling and combat tournament. By a twist of fate, he is reborn twenty years in the past, just after graduating from the academy and starting his career. From then on, he makes a name for himself. No major case, strange case, cold case, or decades-old case is too difficult for Wang Wei. Give him a moment, and he’ll crack it! If you’re a criminal, no matte 2.3kReads9.0Score271Shelves
- 334 Nether Pill 冥丸 [Rule-based horror + fateful mind games + Red Plum Opera Troupe + unmarked waystation] The opera stage's sugar debt, the morning mist scented with locust blossoms, the cold jade, and a line from an opera that was never finished. I took a night watch job with the Red Plum Opera Troupe, only to discover that its members had been dead for thirty years. Every rule in the script exacts a life when broken. This book is a prequel to Records of the Ten Days of Yin Guests. All the foreshadowing for the 4Reads—Score—Shelves
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Professor Cobra's Formula for Solving Crimes 眼镜蛇教授之破案公式
He solves a four-stage Rubik's Cube by hand, and everything can be quantified. The truth behind a crime = ∑(clues × logic) + the human factor Over two days and one night, he works remotely, using a Rubik's Cube to unravel the mystery and formulas to deduce what people are thinking. While everyone else hunts for the killer, he calmly calculates the one “ε” that cannot be eliminated. “Give me five minutes.” He says it into the phone, then scrambles the Rubik's Cube in his hand. Hardcore crime-solv
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The Gate of Paradox 悖论之门
I walk among the wreckage of logic, repairing one twisted reality after another. My ability is both “hope” and perhaps the deepest of curses. Then I realized that every time I saved someone, a whisper sounded in my ear: The ultimate price of repairing this broken world may be becoming an even greater mistake.
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- 337 A New Police Officer's First Day: You Caught a Wanted Criminal Right from the Start 新警入职：开局你就抓了个通缉犯 A new story is here! You can head over to Tomato Novel to read my work. I hope you'll enjoy it! Your support motivates me to write, and I'll do my best to tell every story well! 523Reads8.9Score103Shelves
- 338 List of Accidents 意外清单 After Chen Mo cracks an almost perfect murder-for-insurance scam, he catches the attention of a special investigation team. Thanks to his keen instincts, he is assigned to speak with a patient suffering a mental breakdown: Luo Xiao. But the deeper he investigates, the more every clue points to a terrifying conclusion: he is the one who needs treatment. When the entire world becomes an airtight chain of evidence proving you're insane, how can you save yourself? After his sense of self has com —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 339 You Were Supposed to Visit the Task Force, and You Solved the Case? 让你慰问专案组，你把案子破了？ Su Mu graduates and is assigned to work as a police officer in the police station’s political affairs office. On his first day, he’s sent to convey the leadership’s regards to a special investigation team, but on the way there, he cracks a case the team had been helpless to solve. He catches a rabid dog, then solves a string of thefts. During a coordinated operation, they find a suspect’s trunk full of junk. Su Mu manages to assemble the junk into a firearm, uncovering and dismantling a gun-runn 16.9kReads9.1Score1.6kShelves
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The Last School Bus 末班校车
[A female-focused mystery thriller, a brain-teasing and hilarious redemption story] From here on, I'll personally take you on this last school-bus journey... You'll see a terrifying doll sitting right beside you... You'll witness a string of murders in a girls' dormitory, all within a single year... You'll shudder at the bizarre death of a school beauty who was three months pregnant... You'll rage at the evil hidden in a fog-shrouded residential complex along the way... And you'll encounter the
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Once My Good Deeds Are Complete, I Want Nothing More to Do with This World 功德圆满之后，我就不要这个世界
After spending five years shut away from the world, Mo Yu resolutely returns to the city where the case took place in search of the truth. But while investigating, she unexpectedly loses her life. After her death, when handling the paperwork for reincarnation, she discovers she doesn't have enough savings and can only choose to restart her life. With every new beginning, she works hard to accumulate merit, hoping that one day she'll have enough merit and savings to embark on another cycle of rei
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- 342 Fresh Out of Police Academy, I Crack Cases Like Crazy and Refuse to Be a Rookie 警校刚毕业，疯狂破案，不当新人 [The System plays a minor role + One Heroine + Brainy, with a focus on deduction and solving cases. Not for readers who dislike that.] Han Xu accidentally transmigrated to a parallel world while driving, becoming a rookie police officer and activating the Detective Development System. He made a great haul! On his very first day on the job, he cracked a major case and shocked the task force! Then one bizarre and mysterious case after another followed! The Snow Mountain Case, the Lighthouse Case… 24.6kReads8.8Score2.3kShelves
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The Days I Spent Filling in Story Plot Holes 给故事填坑的那些日子
[Quick transmigration + no romance + not a power fantasy + ordinary female protagonist’s perspective] (See the comments for content warnings.) Half-conscious, Qin Changwu wakes up in an unfamiliar place. Her memories are fragmented, leaving her unable to piece together her past. The System tells her that if she wants to go “home,” she must travel through books and rewrite the fated deaths of her mission targets. The stories in each small world are shrouded in mystery: What is the truth behind th
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The Manga Prophecy Murder Case 漫画预言杀人事件
[Comic artist X avenger] A flop comic Chen He had abandoned three years ago suddenly went viral because it had predicted a murder. Netizens trembled in the comic's comments: [Have you seen the news? Why is this scene exactly like what they're showing on TV?!] [Am I seeing things? They only just found the body, but the comic was published three years ago!] [How did the artist come up with a burial site like that? What are the odds?] [I have a pretty wild theory...] [Could the author actually be t
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- 345 The Detective's Mission 刑警使命 Ye Jiu, an orthodox inheritor of the Su Family's Taiji tradition and a former unarmed-combat instructor with a special operations unit, transfers to a local post as a criminal investigator. While staking out a suspect, he is struck by lightning and unexpectedly gains twenty years of memories from a parallel world. From then on, he embarks on an extraordinary career as a detective, cracking major cases, capturing key criminals, and crushing all manner of criminal gangs with iron fists. No one can 11.9kReads9.0Score1.5kShelves
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The World Turned Upside Down: You Think I'm Really an NPC? 倒反天罡：你以为我真的是NPC
In 2045, the full-dive game Endless Epoch takes the world by storm. Players embark on thrilling adventures in a game world concealing enormous secrets. Gu Yan, a former game designer, uploads his consciousness after an unexpected car accident and becomes the NPC “Corrupt Town Mayor” in a beginner village, a stereotypical villain players are meant to defeat early on. To avoid being trapped in a daily “death loop” at the hands of respawning players, he must exploit loopholes in the game’s rules an
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You're a Traffic Cop. Is It Appropriate to Take a Homicide Case? 你一个交警，抢刑侦的案子合适吗
He transmigrated to a parallel world and became a graduate of the police academy. When Xu Lin received his job assignment, he was completely bewildered. He had graduated top of his class with perfect marks in criminal investigation, and was about to become a criminal investigator. So why had they assigned him to the traffic police? What was that supposed to mean? They wouldn’t let him work criminal investigations? Fine. A traffic cop could take on criminal investigations, too. On his first day a
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Pufferfish 河豚
[No brainless plot] + [No protagonist plot armor] + [No ghosts] + [Three male leads] A tightly paced, plot-driven crime-solving story. It all begins with a bizarre murder in the small town of Menghai... A dead man checking into a hotel, an unknown toxin, a mole in the police force, execution-style killings, a secret buried for years... In this case, criminal investigation captain Si Jiannan, case consultant Cheng Tian, and rookie officer Duan Luo untangle the clues and find redemption... Love ha
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- 349 Reborn, I Solve Cases on My Way to the Top of the Power Ladder 重生后，我靠破案走向权力巅峰 After being reborn, Qin Chuan starts out as a low-ranking police officer at a local station and begins turning his life around. No one can stop him. On his very first day after being reborn, he takes down a robbery and murder suspect with his bare hands, earns permanent status ahead of schedule, and receives a Third-Class Individual Merit Award. In his first week, he arrests twelve serious criminals in quick succession and earns a Second-Class Individual Merit Award. Now that Qin Chuan has been 949Reads8.5Score184Shelves
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Zero Point Detective Agency 冰点侦探事务所
[Standalone Cases + Republican-Era Crime Investigation + Crime + Hard-Boiled Deduction + Stunning Twists] One head, two heads, three... Look at those heads, swaying precariously in the depths of a cold well, their dark blue hair spreading out. Deep in the memory, crimson blood blooms like flowers. ...There’s a famous detective agency in Shanghai. They say its owner is a young lady, yet everyone insists on calling her Second Young Master! There’s no case in this city she can’t solve! Six people h
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