Looking for Fast-Paced Historical Mystery and Detective Novels! No Romance! 求古风+悬疑探案+节奏快的小说！不要恋爱！
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The Girl Who Was My Moonlight Is Done with This! 白月光她不干了！
“You are the beautiful, high-born second female lead, the childhood sweetheart who returns from abroad as everyone’s unattainable ideal. You marry the CEO of a multinational corporation for a business alliance. But you can’t help falling for the male lead, your childhood friend, and you constantly scheme against the innocent, sweet female lead. In the end, the leads live happily ever after, while your husband and family abandon you, and you die a horrible death.” After transmigrating into the an
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Transmigrated to Ancient Times? I Have a Golden Bangle from the Start 穿越到古代？我有金手镯开局
Transmigrated to Ancient Times? I Have a Golden Bangle from the Start
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Chronicles of Qiwucheng 栖梧城传记
A classic martial-arts detective tale, historical mystery, youthful passion, with no System or cheats. During the Zhenguan era of the Tang Dynasty, the realm had only just been pacified, and every trade was waiting to be rebuilt. The balance of power in the martial world shifted dramatically. The influence of the four great martial families, who controlled the Seven Gangs (power), Eight Associations (wealth), Nine Mountains (letters), and Ten Strongholds (arms), waned noticeably. The world's Fiv
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The Fog of a Bizarre Case 诡案迷雾
A historical mystery and political intrigue novel set in the fictionalized Wu Zhou period of the Tang dynasty, around the fifteenth year of Wu Zhou. It follows the protagonist and his companions as they enter government service and become entangled in a series of criminal cases, as well as the gripping struggle over the succession to the throne at the Luoyang court. This is my second novel. I hope you enjoy it, and I’ll do my best to tell a good story!
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The Healer Assassin Who Shatters the Realm 破山河之杀手神医
She was an assassin, but once she took pity on her target and saved their life, the target gave her a life-changing opportunity... The abandoned legitimate daughter of the Xie family, an unknown enemy, a poisoned mother, a brother with an intellectual disability, and a Pingliang in constant turmoil... Even with everything stacked against her from the start, she carefully plots her way forward, winning her family a chance to survive and return to the capital, only to uncover the secrets of her ow
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Tokyo Monster-Hunting Notes 东京提妖手记
Built on Song-dynasty texts and records, this book carefully recreates customs, official posts, city life, and winding streets, bringing the Song Empire to life in vivid, tangible detail. Its beating heart is the lively world of ordinary people: teahouses and taverns, street vendors and laborers, and the everyday lives of common folk, all brimming with warmth and bustle. Traditional tales of the strange give it its soul, with fox spirits, ghosts, and extraordinary people woven throughout, bizarr
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Wuniang's Cookbook 五娘食谱
Deep in the neighborhoods of Chang'an, a light from a cooking fire always glows quietly at night. It belongs to Wu Niang's food stall. Sometimes it sits on a street corner; other times, it becomes an unremarkable little shop, as if carried along by the wind. She makes food so delicious that people can't stop thinking about it. She knows her true customers are not just people, but the desires and resentments churning within their hearts. Wherever greed burns brightest, wherever old grudges run de
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The Great Ming’s Master Thief: The Imperial Guards Forced Me to Investigate a Case 大明神偷：被锦衣卫逼去查案
Transmigration to the Jiajing era | No System | Embroidered Uniform Guard | Mystery and Investigation | Political Schemes | Lighthearted Comedy During the Jiajing era, modern master thief Chu Zhongtian transmigrates into the Ming Dynasty and becomes the legendary thief known as "One Plum Blossom." No System, no status screen, no golden finger handed down from heaven. The moment he arrives, he's captured by the Embroidered Uniform Guard. His handwriting is so sloppy when he signs his confession
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- 159 Reborn to Marry the Prince Regent: The Princess Consort Becomes Famous for Solving Cases with Autopsies 重生嫁摄政王，王妃她靠验尸爆红 [Two powerful leads + contract marriage + satisfying angst and revenge + episodic investigations + ever-sweeter romance] Shen Wei transmigrates, waking up in a morgue with her hands on a corpse. A modern forensic examiner turned the daughter of a condemned official, she hides her identity and examines bodies to survive. Then the regent, a man who holds power over the entire court, arrives through the rain and hands her a marriage contract: “Marry me. I’ll protect you and clear your name.” She sn 94Reads—Score—Shelves
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Household Schemes: Not a Decent Soul in the Prince's Manor 宅斗，王府里没有一个好东西
Domestic power struggles: there isn’t a single decent person in the prince’s manor.
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I Am a Forensic Doctor in Ancient Times 我在古代当法医
[Historical Romance + Mystery Solving + Team Spirit + Transmigration + Ensemble Cast + No Romance] Lu Yinan transmigrates into a pile of corpses. She is a forensic examiner, and professional habit has her investigating the scene at once. As a result, she narrowly escapes being executed as a suspect. Only after a series of twists and turns does she clear her name and escape danger. From then on, a twist of fate brings her together with Ren Zhichu, junior minister of the Court of Judicial Review,
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- 162 After I Transmigrated, I Worked at the Dali Temple 穿越后我在大理寺打工 (Main story complete) [No romance for the protagonist + a touch of secret identities + amnesia + ghost hunting + case solving + a hint of an ensemble cast] (Note: The protagonist has no romance, no romance, no romance! Supporting characters do!) Yun Qing, an overworked wage slave, transmigrates one day and lands two government jobs. In the world of the living, he is a junior minister at the Court of Judicial Review. In the underworld, he is a soul reaper. Every day, he is either solving cases or 152Reads8.1Score—Shelves
- 163 Solving Cases at the Ministry of Justice: This Is My Kind of Work 刑部打工破案：这波操作我熟 (The low rating is only because there aren't many ratings yet. If you like it, please leave a rating as you pass by!) After transmigrating into the body of a former assassin, Ling Xi thinks she's got a solid start from the start. Solidly doomed to starve! Her home is bare, she's so hungry her front and back nearly touch, and she has to sneak into a mass grave at night to look for “pocket money”... This iron rice bowl is hard to chew! Luckily, the DNA of her former life as a forensic trace-eviden 1.2kReads8.4Score150Shelves
- 164 The Legendary Case Files of the Female Chief Minister 女首辅的断案传奇 Remember that portly Magistrate Di? Remember those baffling cases that were so hard to crack? Remember... But!! This is a female-oriented mystery, so... hehehe. A legendary detective story set in a fictionalized classical era, starring a chubby female minister! If you love brain-teasing mysteries and solving crimes, come on in, sweeties. You'll find things you can guess and things you can't, as well as things you expect but never saw coming. Of course, there's no romance!!!! This isn't a mindles 69Reads8.7Score—Shelves
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My Iron Wok Is Actually an Ancient Alchemy Cauldron 我的铁锅竟是上古丹炉
My Iron Pot Turned Out to Be an Ancient Alchemy Furnace
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- 166 The Scarlet Fountain Pen 血色钢笔 The Blood-Red Fountain Pen —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 167 Neon Abyss: Heart of the Machine 霓虹深渊：机械之心 Neon Abyss: Heart of the Machine —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 168 The Flowers Have Yet to Fade, My Perfect Lover 花事未了，完美恋人 The Flowers Have Yet to Fade, My Perfect Lover —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 169 After the Engagement Banquet 订婚宴之后 After the Engagement Banquet 5Reads—Score—Shelves
- 170 Consumed by Nightmares 噩梦焚身 A Nightmare Burns Through Me —Reads—Score—Shelves
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The Great Ming Surveillance Court 大明道察院
[See the epic history of the Daoist sects in the early Ming through the eyes of a transmigrator] In the third year of Hongwu, the Hongwu Emperor established the mysterious Dao Investigation Bureau to rein in Daoist sorcerers who could turn the tide at will. There is no carefree Daoist life here, only the ironclad rule that “magic must be bounded by law, and the Dao restrained by regulations.” Even mighty cultivators who can fly through the skies and burrow through the earth must face execution i
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The Feathered Deep 羽化深渊
The story takes place in the modern East Asian coastal city of Linyuan. Linyuan is a port city plagued by year-round rain, industrial decline, and a mix of religions. It is home to: * Abandoned Taoist temples * An underground black market * A seaside altar * A sealed-off mountainous region * Folk villages * An old, quarantined psychiatric hospital * A secret religious sect left over from the Republican era Ordinary people believe the world is normal. But in truth, the world has been infiltrated
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The Young Judge of Cases 少年青天断案录
[Mystery and Crime Solving] [Court and Jianghu] [Political Scheming and Wits]… A bizarre, earth-shaking case shattered twenty-seven years of peace in the Great Yan Dynasty. In a single day, three prefects of Jingnan Circuit died under mysterious circumstances. Xu Xinghe, the nineteen-year-old Minister of the Court of Judicial Review, was entrusted with the task in a moment of crisis and sent to investigate the southern frontier with the emperor’s sword. After enduring countless dangers and pain
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Detective Di Renjie: The Golden Flower Pursues the Dragon 神探狄仁杰之金花逐龙
Di Renjie, Li Yuanfang, and his disciple Su Wuming pit their wits against the Lord of the Golden Flower Token. Every time, they come this close to success, only for Empress Wu Zetian to intervene... Before he dies, Di Renjie entrusts all the evidence to Su Wuming. In the end... The twists never stop, and you can never guess who is good and who is a mole...
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The Huiyuan Technique 会元功
Due to copyright issues, start reading from Volume Two! Start reading from Volume Two! Start reading from Volume Two! [Workplace Wuxia + A Pragmatic Jianghu + Fictional Ming Dynasty + Light Transmigration + Light Sci-Fi: No cultivation, no tribulations, no melodrama, no Wudang, Shaolin, or Emei, no monks, Taoist priests, or nuns. No harem, no System. Inspired by true events + not a power fantasy.] The protagonist is a lowly escort bodyguard, a “corporate drone” of the martial world. One choice i
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A Man-Eating Monster Asked Me to Marry It. Should I Say Yes? 一个吃人的妖怪，它竟然向我求婚了，要不要答应它
A man-eating monster proposed to me. Should I say yes?
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Strange Cases from the Tang Dynasty Jianghu 唐朝江湖诡案志
In the golden age of the Tang dynasty, undercurrents churn through both the martial world and the imperial court. Ji Xuan, a judicial officer at the Dali Court, vows to investigate injustices across the land. Zhong Lingfan is a wandering martial artist burdened by ten years of love and vengeance. Lin Yao arrives in Chang'an alone and is drawn into a gruesome dismemberment case. Ling Xiyue possesses extraordinary medical skills and becomes entangled in a major counterfeit medicine case. A case in
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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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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
(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
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Shadows over the Hall of Loyalty 影落忠义楼
[Shadow Guard’s Rise + Court Intrigue and the Martial World + Stunning Beauties] He is the sharpest shadow guard in Prince Night Falcon’s hands. With his Feihong Sword, he has spilled countless drops of blood and never once failed. During a mission, he meets Mu Yao, a tender moonlight in a turbulent age, and then catches the fiery starlight in Shen Siyue’s eyes, a beacon of hope in utter despair. Little does he know that from the moment they met, Tong Xinling, an attendant of the Ruyi Tower, has
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The Origins of the Frostblade, Part Two 寒冰剑之缘起二
A storm of blood and fury, plotted for sixteen years: right and wrong look entirely different in different people's eyes. Fathers and sons, brothers, lovers, friends, and enemies: so many tangled loves and hatreds. I hope you'll join them in settling scores and enjoying the thrill of revenge.
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- 182 The Origin of the Ice Sword 寒冰剑之缘起 The martial world is rife with intrigue, bloody scenes, and tangled affairs of love and hate. They were the best of friends, yet took entirely different paths. Right and wrong meant different things to each of them, and both had their own principles. They fell in love with the same woman, but expressed it in different ways. And so the story that follows began. This story is only the beginning. 38Reads—Score—Shelves
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All Beings Beneath the Light 光遇众生
Adventure + high-IQ showdowns + suspicious, scheming characters + no female lead + ensemble cast + slow pace + revelations about the world’s truth, layer by layer (A Sky: Children of the Light fanfiction) After transmigrating into the world of Sky: Children of the Light, the Duke becomes a Light Child manipulated by the ancestors. “Go make an offering,” they say. “It is your supreme glory.” He believes them and fights his way forward with his companions, only to discover the horrifying truth aft
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The Solitary Sword That Locks the Sea 定海锁孤剑行
Seventeen members of the Liu household were wiped out overnight. There were no wounds or blood, and they looked as if they were asleep. The authorities blamed a vengeful ghost. Su Wan didn't believe them. The Sea-Calming Lock around her neck had grown hot in front of the Liu residence. This wasn't a ghost. It was a person. A single dusky-blue poison needle led her to the massacre at Luoxing Village ten years ago. She used the lock to identify the culprit and her sword to investigate the case. Th
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I Keep Myself Alive by Being Reborn, While She Can't Stop Killing Me 我靠重生续命，她靠杀我成瘾
After Lin Fan was hit by a car and killed, he thought his life was over. But when he opened his eyes again, he had become someone else: Fu Yunzhou, a tech tycoon. Before he could process the memories, an unfamiliar woman nestled into his arms with intimate ease. Like a couple madly in love, they got up, washed, and headed to the parking lot together. The woman leaned over tenderly to fasten his seat belt. In the next second, the smile vanished from her face. Before he could react, a deafenin
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Detective Di Renjie: The Magistrate of Pengze County 神探狄仁杰之彭泽县令
In the first year of Changshou, Di Renjie is framed by treacherous schemers and demoted to the remote wilderness of Pengze, where he stumbles upon a city full of bizarre cases! A derelict rouge house, abandoned for ten years; a locked-room murder on a rainy night; three ruffians found dead inside, their lips curled in smiles, with no trace of how they died. The county authorities rule it a ghostly vengeance, and panic grips the people. Summoned to solve the case in a time of crisis, Di Gong sets
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Record of a Thousand Lanterns 千灯录
[Mystery solving + palace intrigue and household scheming + face-slapping and revenge + powerful families + court and kingdom] Fifteen prospective husbands are locked in a fight to the death in my family’s back courtyard, while all I want is to become a nun. Schemes and deceit, suspicion at every turn, bloodshed and tragedy piling up, a deadly battle in the back courtyard with no survivors allowed. [The high-born judge of the Court of Judicial Review, who loves wiping out entire households] x [T
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A Lowly Clerk’s Rise Begins with an Official Seal 官印通天小吏开始
In the third year of Yong'an under the Great Zhou Dynasty, the realm is on the brink of chaos. In Qingyang County, Jiangnan, the impoverished scholar Shen Changge fails the imperial examination and is reduced to the lowest-ranking clerk in the county yamen. By chance, he finds an ancient bronze seal engraved with archaic script in the yamen's cellar. It is called the “Heavenly Mandate Record Seal,” and can record every cause, effect, merit, and sin in the world in its pages. Whoever holds this s
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The Great Tang’s Demon-Hunting Chronicles 盛唐捉妖记
Xie Lingshi, a spirit stone transformed into human form, is set up by Qi Xu, the magistrate of Wannian County. A hundred bolts of heavenly lightning strike her until she is reduced to dust. Though she is fortunate enough to be reborn, she is still bound to Qi Xu by an inescapable destiny. Beneath the splendor of the Tang Dynasty, all manner of extraordinary people and strange beings lurk. Reborn under the assumed name Gu Yaoju, Xie Lingshi is later forced to join forces with Qi Xu to solve one b
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