Period Novel with a Female Lead Who Solves Mysteries and Crimes 年代文，女主，推理破案
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The Female General Who Became Cannon Fodder in a Period Novel 穿成年代文炮灰的女将军
Shaomin, whose martial prowess was unmatched, never imagined that after spending half her life on the battlefield, her entire family would be executed for a trumped-up charge. Her furious soul refused to enter the cycle of reincarnation. On a night of lightning and thunder, she watched in spirit as the enemy army cut down the heads of the corrupt emperor and his treacherous ministers. With her great vengeance fulfilled, she was finally able to let go. But then lightning struck her soul and sent
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- 2 The Little Cop Who Makes a Big Difference 小警大用 Du Dayong once hoped to grow up to be a great chef. He never expected to become a low-ranking criminal investigator. This is the story of a young police officer growing up. There is no reborn protagonist showing off and face-slapping people, no System or golden finger making him invincible, and no ridiculous transmigration to another world. Here, you'll find the humor and warmth between comrades, a touch of youthful romance, loving family bonds, mischievous leaders, and absurd coworkers. Young o 89.5kReads9.6Score10.8kShelves
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What a Shock! I Landed a Secure Government Job in the 1960s 惊！我竟在六零端上了铁饭碗
[Set in a bygone era + Transmigration + Inspirational + Heartwarming + Everyday family life + City job] After saving a cat just after finishing the college entrance exams, Su Yuhe became a vegetable. A year later, she transmigrated into the body of Su He, a girl from Nanshan Village in the 1960s who had heard that the college entrance exams had been suspended, missed a step, and drowned. Suddenly transported to the countryside of the 1960s, Su He had no phone, no electricity, no internet, and n
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The 1980s Crime Drama: Even a Chef Can Be a Great Detective 八零刑侦剧场：厨子也能当神探
Was life in the 1980s really that boring? Not necessarily. Pigs eat people, dogs poison people, and a dragon falls from the sky! Are these bizarre cases real or not? Welcome to the world of a female criminal investigator in the 1980s. See how detectives of that era solved cases without surveillance cameras or DNA evidence. A word of caution: The heroine is not a transmigrator or someone who transmigrates into a book. There is no System and no golden finger.
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- 5 After Joining the Army in the 1970s, the Psychological Expert Shakes Up the Family Compound 七零随军后，心理大佬轰动家属院 [Joining the army in the 1970s + solving cases with psychology + cozy everyday life + sweet romance + no awful relatives + no space or System] [Gentle psychology expert vs. a ruthless jade-faced soldier with foxlike eyes] In her previous life, Shen Mingyu was a PhD in psychology. An expert in microexpressions, criminal psychology, and more, she solved countless major cases and was known as a human lie detector. After transmigrating, she found that her father was a factory director, her mother a 18.3kReads9.0Score2.7kShelves
- 6 Everyday Detective Work in the Eighties 八零年代探案日常 (I've been enjoying stories set in this era lately, but I'm not very familiar with it, so just treat this as an alternate history.) Su Er Ya, also known as Su Jing, is an ordinary girl who is also, in some ways, quite extraordinary. After graduating from college, she joined the Public Security Bureau and became a police officer. She had never once eaten her fill, but finally did once she was in charge of her own salary. That was when she realized just how strong she was. (Hehe, the heroine absol 5.6kReads8.5Score602Shelves
- 7 The 1990s: I Solve Cases by Watching Douyin Videos 九零年代：我靠刷抖音视频破案 With a virtual Douyin app connected to the internet of the future, Sang Shiqing awakens memories of her past life in the 1990s! … On the first day after regaining her memories, Sang Shiqing spends the whole night watching videos about criminal law. Early the next morning, she comes face-to-face with a serial killer at the entrance to her workplace. Her first move is to report him… … After being bullied into going to the countryside to collect material, she finds herself in a scenic mountain vi 964Reads8.4Score101Shelves
- 8 Sweet Military Romance: The Reborn True Heiress Makes a Fortune in the 1980s 甜宠军婚：重生真千金在八零赚麻了 After the mission to save the world ended, the System disconnected, and Gu Baozhu was reborn. After being reborn, she kicked out the cousin who had tried to steal her destiny, and turned around the miserable fate of being made a sacrificial pawn by a reborn heroine who rose to success. She put what she'd learned in various worlds to use, making a fortune amid the tide of reform. She truly made so much money her hands cramped from counting it, and slept until she woke naturally. What's more, she 3.2kReads9.1Score309Shelves
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The Wicked, Brash Drama Queen Is Doted on by the Wildest Roughneck 恶毒拽作精被最野糙汉狠狠娇宠
[Completed] [1970s + Flirting + Sweet Romance + Rugged Man + Devoted Love + Both Chaste] [Arrogant, spoiled, wicked yet adorable rich girl ✖ Ruthless, cautious, insecure, sensitive landowner’s wolf cub] She was once a wandering ghost in the mortal world, chosen by the Heavenly Dao to set chaotic fate back on track. She transmigrates into Chen Jiaojiao, a busty, beautiful but empty-headed supporting character, sent to the countryside as an educated youth in the 1970s. After dealing with the scumb
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- 10 A Hard Nut to Crack 硬骨头 The new major-crimes squad captain, Lin Cuo, is gorgeous, cool, confident, and bold enough to take on Jiang Yi, the icy demon king of the criminal investigation corps. Everyone waits for her to make a fool of herself, but... Captain Lin keeps sending in good news: the shattered-skull case, the Lolita case, the death of a female livestreamer... Captain Lin is incredible! Jiang Yi is a top criminal investigator, a walking iceberg who solves cases with ruthless speed and dominates the police force. 3.1kReads9.3Score691Shelves
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Reborn in the Nineties: Racing Toward Life as a Landlady 重生九零之向着包租婆的人生狂奔
(Also known as: Reborn in the 1990s: Racing Toward Life as a Landlady) (Also known as: Reborn Housewife: Mom, Dad's Acting Up Again) After Shen Xiaojun divorced, she had a dream and found herself back twenty years in the past. Back then, she was only twenty-five, yet already the mother of three children. Her eldest daughter was six, her younger daughter four, and her little boy had just turned one month old. Xiaojun's head spun. Did she really have to live through all of this again? For her chil
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The 90s Policewoman Who Hears Animals' Thoughts Rises Through the Ranks 九零小警鲤，听动物心声升职加薪
[Transmigrate into a book + 1990s + animal thoughts + solving crimes + everyone's darling] Jiang Yeqiu transmigrated into a business-startup novel set in the 1990s, becoming a newly graduated junior police officer working at a local police station. In the novel, the heroine was reborn, divorced and quit her job, then went into business and made a name for herself. Along the way, she met all sorts of admirers and eventually built her own business empire. The bad news: In the story, Jiang Yeqiu wa
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Transmigrating to the 1980s: A Female Detective's Case Files 穿越八零：女刑警探案手记
This book tells the story of Lin Fan, who dies in the line of duty and transmigrates into the body of a young woman with the same name who failed her college entrance exam in 1980. Through her own efforts, she joins the county Public Security Bureau and works with her colleagues to solve all kinds of cases. This is a relatively traditional crime investigation novel. Aside from the fact that the heroine, Lin Fan, transmigrates into the 1980s at the beginning, she receives no help from a System, a
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A Little Land of Mountains and Rivers 小山河
When Chi Xia first joins the special investigations team, Luo Xun strongly recommends transferring her elsewhere. The intern is so thin-limbed and wooden, like she can barely keep her eyes open. What makes her suitable for this team? She’d be much better off in Publicity! The thin-limbed intern says nothing, responding to everything with, “Captain Luo, solving the case comes first.” Luo Xun is so frustrated he can barely contain himself. The team is doomed, he thinks. Before long, Captain Luo ge
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- 15 Solving Cases Is a Skill 查案是门技术活儿 C City Police Bureau, Special Cases Group C. Ji Huan watched Shi Yan, head bent over his phone, and tapped the whiteboard behind him. “What do you make of this case?” Shi Yan didn't even look up. “Investigating cases is a technical job. I wouldn't know where to start!” Ji Huan cleared his throat. “Ahem! ... It's not easy to learn, so come on, I'll teach you...” 140Reads8.8Score—Shelves
- 16 The Chief Secretary's Adorable Forensic Surgeon Wife 首辅家的法医娇妻 She was a forensic doctor in the 21st century. One day, she transmigrated into the body of a farmer's daughter. When her younger brother became entangled in a murder case, she stepped in to save him. The newly appointed county magistrate was impressed by her forensic skills and hired her as the county office's female coroner. For the sake of her family, Xie Ziyun resolutely accepted the new magistrate's offer. She helped him solve one strange case after another, until he rose to become the Grand 11.4kReads9.1Score1.5kShelves
- 17 The Case Against Chang'an 问罪长安 You see a world of flowers in full bloom, a land of magnificent beauty. I see only broken bones buried beneath the earth and wronged spirits hidden in the darkness. This is the transmigration journey of a forensic doctor who is brilliant in both letters and arms but struggles with psychological issues and fears the dark, blood, and the dead. Fortunately, love can cure anything. 84Reads8.5Score—Shelves
- 18 In Search of the Light [Crime Investigation] 寻光【刑侦】 Also known as The Gentle Captain Yan’s Cool, Aloof Fiancée Is So Hard to Woo and The Fiancée Who Solves Cases Her Own Way [Mystery + sweet romance + both leads are inexperienced + one-on-one romance + happy ending + crime-solving + suspense] The plot takes center stage, with romance as a secondary thread. . On the first day Yan Mo reunites with his long-lost fiancée, he handcuffs her and brings her back to the police station as a suspect. Facing Chu Xi, who is cool and aloof while pretending to 686Reads8.9Score103Shelves
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I Bring My Pocket Dimension to the 1970s, Snacking on Sunflower Seeds to Get By 带着空间穿七零，磕着瓜子混日子
Synopsis: Parallel world + top-tier hunk. Female lead: Sheng Wanyan. Male lead: Gu Tingxiao. Every night, Sheng Wanyan, living in 2026, has the same dream. Everything in it is gray and dreary. The streets are full of skinny people in patched clothes, yet everyone looks full of energy. Mud houses are everywhere, and people have to work in the fields to earn work points just to get enough to eat. Terrified, she quickly sells off her belongings and stockpiles supplies to prepare. “Hey! What are you
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A Scheming Couple's Daily Bickering in the Sixties 六零腹黑夫妻互怼日常
[1960s Era + Light Ensemble Cast + Crime Solving + Whirlwind Marriage + Guiding Romance] In the 1960s, unsolved cases shrouded the land in mystery. He Xinghua, a policewoman from the countryside, and Lu Yanping, a criminal investigation chief, were not only husband and wife, but also partners in the line of duty. From a rural courtyard to city housing for government cadres, and from sorting through case files to confronting the most baffling criminal minds, they embarked together on a new caree
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- 21 Hunting Killers in the Dark 暗夜逐凶 [Delicate, sickly beautiful forensic examiner vs. tough, handsome elite criminal investigator] On her first day at work, the beautiful forensic examiner earns a reputation for being a scammer after the captain of the criminal investigation team mistakenly issues her a ticket. The victims in a string of murders are all found with their hands joined in a strange prayer-like pose. A poor college student is dismembered into countless pieces, but when the body is put back together, the liver and kidn 566Reads8.9Score142Shelves
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The Bad Woman from Prison 来自监狱的坏女人
Original title: The Chaste Police Commissioner: I've Locked Away Your Heart Workplace romance + suspenseful romance + soul swapping + unhinged villainess forces her love + forbidden cop-and-criminal romance + the queen returns I'm Su Yu. The “Goddess of Finance” admired by everyone in the business world. A meticulously planned car accident sent me tumbling from the clouds into the mud. I became the “suspect” everyone cursed and was personally delivered to a detention center. My best friend betra
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The Mad Forensic Princess and the Master Coroner 法医狂妃大仵作
In the capital of Daling, there is a woman who can hear the dead speak and understand the words of ghosts. If someone's cat or dog goes missing, they go to her. If someone has died a gruesome death, they can go to her too. Rumor has it she can do more than examine corpses: she can communicate with spirits and even track anyone across a thousand miles. Qin Zhi scoffed. "That's all ghost talk! I've killed countless people, and I don't believe in ghosts!" Another rumor says that the young lady
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Livestreaming Fortune-Telling: All My Top Supporters Are in Jail 直播测字：我的榜一全在局子里
A ghost-seeing girl and a genius young detective make the perfect supernatural duo! Jiang Chen: Can you check whether there are any nasty things around us? Su Su: Do you think I'm a ghost-hunting police dog or something?! Ghost: You're the nasty thing! Your whole family is nasty! The supernatural duo always cracks the case!
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- 25 The Female Detective of the Great Song Dynasty 大宋女刑司 [High IQ + mystery-solving + suspense] She transmigrates straight into a murder scene. Framed for the crime and squeezed dry by her gambling-addict parents, she disguises herself as a man to escape trouble, only to be exposed without mercy by a general. Watch as this lowly servant latches on to the general, examines corpses, and deduces the truth behind each case. She punishes princes above and corrupt officials below, all with a loyal friend by her side. From hunting killers in Jiangnan to trek 7kReads9.2Score805Shelves
- 26 The Great Coroner: Xilai, Another One’s Dead 大仵作：喜来，又死一个 She was a posthumous child pulled from a pile of corpses. She spent her days among the dead, playing with skulls and amusing herself by catching maggots. To uncover the truth behind her adoptive father's death, she even took it upon herself to dissect a corpse. Others mocked her as a freak and kept their distance, but the ruthless commander of the realm's forces doted on her beyond measure. Dismemberment and cremation, for love or for money. In this bizarre world, joy comes from seeing clearly f 5.7kReads8.9Score877Shelves
- 27 The Shepherd 领羊 Leading the Sheep 212Reads—Score—Shelves
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The Forensic Concubine 法医狂妃
She is a 21st-century forensic doctor trained in both medicine and autopsy. With a single scalpel, she can treat the living and examine the dead. Then one day, she wakes up as the overlooked illegitimate eldest daughter of the Liu family in the capital! And she meets him, too! One day, her son is making medicine. “I didn’t do a very good job. It looks a little ugly.” It’s not just ugly, it’s hideous! And from that burnt smell, eating it would surely kill someone. The little boy’s eyes turn r
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A Wind of Cranes and the Rustle of Grass 风声鹤唳
A cuckoo cannot build its own nest. It can only take over the nests of other birds. What Feng Chen took over was not a nest, but someone else’s identity and name. Even the Military Statistics Bureau’s confidential files in Section Eight contained no photograph of him, only a codename known to no one: Red Cuckoo. A top Kuomintang agent, Feng Chen was ordered to infiltrate the Shanghai underground Communist Party to obtain the list of Communist agents embedded in the Military Statistics Bureau’s u
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- 30 Espionage: A Fight to the Death 谍战：生死较量 In early 1928, Su Ziwu, the son of a wealthy family, is arrested and imprisoned by the Kuomintang's Special Operations Group, then secretly trained as an agent. During an operation to crack a secret Japanese spy organization, a Chinese Communist underground operative sacrifices herself to protect Su Ziwu's identity. Stunned by this revelation, Su Ziwu makes an even greater discovery: the "Thousand Faces" instructor who has been training him in the Kuomintang unit is also a member of the Chinese 4.1kReads9.2Score487Shelves
- 31 The Memory Trial: The Moment the Nation Wept for Him 记忆审判：那一刻，全国为他痛哭 [Narcotics Police] [Anti-Drug Campaign] [Narcotics Officer] [Sacrifice] A scarecrow stands in the wilderness, shielding the endless expanse behind it. In early autumn, ten years after he left home, he asked someone to place his final wish in your hands. The fire he lit never went out. Only the one who kept watch has gone. The national emblem on his cap is like his name: “Please bury it with me.” Birds sweep across the blank spaces of time, like a long story waking from beneath the dust. His eyes 5.1kReads9.2Score700Shelves
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The Record of Hairpins (Complete in 4 Volumes) 簪中录（全4册）
The little red fish Agashnie, which feeds on human blood; the mysterious talisman that had followed Li Shubai for years; Empress Wang, the peerless beauty of the Daming Palace; three clusters of doodles written by the late emperor himself before his death; a marriage contract made with Wang Yun in their youth... Every mystery returns to its point of origin. Every choice remains beyond anyone’s control, as impossible to resist or escape as fate itself. Yang Chonggu has returned to the palace and
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The Spy's Daily Life After the System Dumped Me in Republican-Era China 【被系统坑到民国的】间谍日常
An ordinary office worker gets a System, but before she can enjoy any of its benefits, it dumps her into a parallel-world version of Republican-era China. That's where her life as a spy begins. From an ordinary field operative to an undercover agent, from a regular spy to a triple agent, she goes from reluctant to willing, writing her own legend in the great metropolis of Shanghai... Check out the new book next door: The Village Girl, the Grand Diviner, also known as After Getting a Puppet Space
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Ashen Panic 烬慌
As my father lay dying, he pressed a bloodstained chip into my hand. Six months later, the person I loved became a vegetable while protecting me. On his cold personal server, I found the only folder named after me. Inside were records of his awkward affection and a final message: “Xinxin, keep moving forward. Don’t look back.” I thought I would spend the rest of my life caught between revenge and protecting what I loved, until the “Observers,” beings from a higher civilization, arrived and col
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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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The Net of Justice: Part One, The Killer Cannot Escape 天网第一部真凶难逃
“The net of justice may be wide, but nothing escapes it.” Do you think you can get past her keen eye? The Web’s Number One Female Criminal Investigator: The Killer Can’t Escape Ye Bailing is the leader of a criminal investigation squad. Since joining the force, she has never stopped moving forward, come rain or shine. No matter how difficult a case is, she is determined to uncover the truth. This time, however, she faces a murder case beyond anything she could have expected...
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After I Transmigrate into a Book, I Spoil the Villainous Regent 穿书后，我娇养了反派摄政王
[Rugged Hero + Villain + Adorable Kids + Stepmother + Lucky Charm + Everyone’s Favorite] Tang Li transmigrated into a book and became a cannon-fodder female side character, sold to a wild, burly man in the mountains as his wife and made stepmother to three burdensome children! But as it turned out, the rugged man was actually the ruthless main villain from the book! And those three burdensome children were future villains in their own right. In the end, they would be executed by a thousand cuts
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The 1990s: The Villainess Is Forced into the Rat Race 九零年代之黑化女主被迫内卷
Qin Manshu, a wealthy widow, is arrested and meets her former lover, now a powerful official, in the interrogation room. Jiang Teng switches off the surveillance System, his emotions in turmoil. “President Qin, do you remember who I am?” “Jiang Teng. It’s been a long time.” “I thought someone as important as you would have forgotten an old acquaintance like me.” Qin Manshu remains composed, smiling warmly. “How could I? Meeting an old friend in a place like this is my good fortune. Secretary Jia
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