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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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- 2 Detective Di Renjie: Ghosts in the Canyon 狄仁杰之峡谷幽魂 After one hundred thousand soldiers of the Right Guard perished in Eastrock Gorge, Di Renjie, a high-ranking minister, was secretly dispatched by the emperor to Yingzhou to investigate the truth behind the fall of the Great Zhou. There, he meets Ling Yun, the former right battalion general of the Right Guard, now one of the most wanted criminals in the land, and unexpectedly learns about the past turmoil of the Ling family of Yingzhou… Around this time, a series of ghost murders take place in Y 2.5kReads7.5Score153Shelves
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Power Plays in the Divine Capital: Di Renjie's Courtroom Mysteries 神都权谋：狄仁杰朝堂谜局
In the turbulent era of Wu Zhou, the court is rife with intrigue and undercurrents stir in the martial world. Di Renjie, a wise and levelheaded chancellor with an eye for the finest details and unmatched powers of deduction, becomes the pillar holding the Great Zhou Empire steady. A Turkic diplomatic mission is massacred, putting the hope of peace on the brink. What shocking conspiracy lies behind it? The mysterious Blue Shirt Record leads to rumors of the Prince of Yue’s treasure, stirring all
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Di Renjie's Casebook: Solving Mysteries with Corpse Speech, Judging the Fate of All Under Heaven 大唐狄刑录：尸语破诡，权断乾坤
A modern forensic examiner transmigrates to the Wu Zhou era and becomes a lowly coroner nobody respects! One bizarre case after another, all written off as “vengeful ghosts claiming lives,” drives the Tang court's justice system to the brink! “The dead cannot speak, but their bodies bear witness!” Massacres, serial murders, court conspiracies... Armed with nothing but an autopsy knife, he face-slaps the powerful, tears apart rebel factions, helps Judge Di restore order, and becomes the Tang Dyna
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Detective Di Renjie 5 神探狄仁杰5
In the first year of the Wu Zhou era, during the Lantern Festival, it should have been a peaceful night of celebration, with every household rejoicing and the whole nation in high spirits. But in Yangzhou, the ancient Qionghua tree, which had been withered for many years, suddenly came back to life. Scarlet droplets seeped from its petals and slid down like bloody tears. Rumors spread like wildfire, and panic over “Heaven's punishment descending upon the world” swept through Yangzhou. The people
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- 6 Detective Di Renjie 5: The Palace Shifts the Stars 神探狄仁杰5下之宫阙换星 Jiangnan and Jiangzhou are riddled with deadly traps, while the capital, Luoyang, conceals the roots of disaster. The undercurrents in the north and south echo one another and are secretly intertwined. Layer by layer, a tangled web of conspiracies is exposed, and a shocking upheaval capable of bringing down the Great Zhou dynasty and sweeping through the entire imperial court is about to begin. This work continues the previous volume, "Detective Dee: The Blood Jade Mystery", and centers on a maj 6kReads7.1Score390Shelves
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A Record of Monster Containment in Tang Dynasty Luoyang 大唐神都妖怪收容日志
Foxfire Illuminates the Iron Case: Together, They Guard the Three Realms **Everyone knows she was a femme fatale, but no one knows she took the poisoned wine in his place.** The blood before Zichen Hall had yet to cool, while the historians’ pens carved “demon consort” into the record like blades. But when she broke free from the cold prison of the River of Forgetfulness, all she remembered was the blood-stained moonlight before Nuwa’s Temple, and a truth drowned beneath a thousand years of c
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Judge Dee Case Files: The Bronze Bell Case 狄公案：铜钟案
[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
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Shangguan Wan’er: Courtly Intrigue in the Tang Dynasty 唐朝上官婉儿宫廷风云
Shangguan Wan'er was the daughter of a convicted official, yet she became Wu Zetian's right-hand woman. When Emperor Zhongzong of Tang was restored to the throne, she was named Zhaorong and continued overseeing official edicts for both the inner court and the outer government. Later, she attached herself to Princess Taiping. After Emperor Zhongzong's sudden death, Shangguan Wan'er and Princess Taiping drafted an imperial edict naming Li Chongmao crown prince, with Prince Xiang, Li Dan, as regent
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The Tales of Di Renjie 狄仁杰故事
[Mystery + Deduction + Crime Solving + Ancient China + Tang Dynasty] 1. Story Background During the reign of Emperor Gaozong of the Tang Dynasty, the young Di Renjie discovers a case involving a skeleton while on his way to take up the post of magistrate of Luoyang County. As he investigates its hidden secrets, a murder occurs in the Wang family. Everyone is a suspect, but who is the killer? In a secluded manor, the host dies before a banquet ends. No one present could have committed the crime,
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Di Renjie Investigates: The Blood Peony 狄仁杰探案·血牡丹
Di Renjie Investigates: The Blood Peony
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Detective Dee 2026: The Prime Minister of Magic City Alley 狄仁杰2026之魔都小巷总理
Di Renjie, the renowned minister of ages past, transmigrates to the Magic City and takes up a position at a residents' committee, serving as the secretary of a residential district. He settles neighborhood disputes, manages the community, and becomes the Magic City's “alleyway premier.” See how Di Renjie leads modern community workers in their work, and discover the path this legendary minister takes toward modern community governance!
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Di Renjie: The Dragon's Transformation 狄仁杰之神龙之变
After Di Renjie retires and returns to his hometown, Wu Zetian faces a crisis at court and has no choice but to summon him back to the capital to take charge. The captain of the Imperial Bodyguard escort sent to bring Di Renjie back turns out to be a transmigrator named Fan Lei. He will use his abilities to help Di Renjie restore the Li dynasty! Li Yuanfang, Di Ruyan, Fan Lei, and the others assist Di Renjie in solving cases and work tirelessly to restore the Tang dynasty. The era of Empress Wu’
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- 14 Judge Dee Case Files: The Red Pavilion 狄公案：红阁子 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 28Reads8.9Score—Shelves
- 15 Judge Dee: Cracking the Case 大唐狄公案·破局 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 1.6kReads9.3Score101Shelves
- 16 Detective Di Renjie: The Young Man’s Overseas Journey 神探狄仁杰之少年海外行 During the flourishing Tang dynasty, the young Di Renjie and his companions travel overseas, where they become entangled in a series of strange cases in foreign lands. Unfamiliar customs conceal hidden mysteries, and bizarre cases emerge one after another: from secret killings in city-states and eerie shadows in ancient temples to suspicious merchant ships and traps among the ruins. With keen insight and meticulous reasoning, Di Renjie follows the clues through the fog of foreign lands and unrav 2Reads—Score—Shelves
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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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Judge Dee Case Files: The Lakeside Case 狄公案·湖滨案
[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
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- 19 Judge Dee Case Files: Chaoyun Temple 狄公案：朝云观 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 5Reads8.6Score—Shelves
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Attracting Di Renjie from the Start 开局吸引狄仁杰
Who else gets it? I transmigrated into the Zhou dynasty after one good night's sleep, only to become an obscure coroner. I planned to coast through life, but unexpectedly teamed up with Di Renjie to solve cases. From finding clues by examining corpses to leading troops to quell a rebellion, I made a complete turnaround and became a great general who protects the realm. This is absolutely ridiculous!
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Detective Di Renjie, Book Five 神探狄仁杰第五部
In the final years of Emperor Wu of the Tang dynasty, the capital Luoyang had finally begun to settle down. After the brilliant detective Di Renjie exposed the Burning Heaven Fire at the Shanjin Bureau, the rebellion in Youzhou, and the Blood Eagle's chain of murders, he retired from public life and settled in the Southern Market, hoping to enjoy his twilight years in peace. But when all is quiet, trouble is never far away. After a banquet in the Eastern Palace, Crown Prince Li Xian suddenly fa
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- 22 I'm Li Yuanfang, and I Get the Iron Hand Gang from the Start 我叫李元芳，开局签到铁手团 The Judge Dee Mysteries never gets old, no matter how many times I watch it! Especially since my name is Li Yuanfang too, which makes it incredibly easy to get immersed. After saving someone, I unexpectedly transmigrated to another world. From the start, I got a sign-in reward from the Iron Hand Gang, and so began my carefree adventures in another realm. First world: The Mischievous Princess Second world: Strange Tales of the Tang Dynasty 9Reads—Score—Shelves
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The Sun and Moon Beneath One Sky: Princess Taiping 日月当空：太平公主
Princess Taiping was one of the most controversial and legendary female political figures in Chinese history, a thorny yet dazzling rose in the splendor of the High Tang. The most beloved daughter of Emperor Gaozong Li Zhi and Empress Wu Zetian, she married Xue Shao at sixteen in a wedding procession stretching ten miles, hoping for a peaceful life. But she was implicated in Xue Yi's treason case and watched her husband starve to death in prison, shattering her dreams. She put away her innocence
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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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Calming the Waves: The Road Home 定风波之归去来
In the final years of the Wu Zhou dynasty, Di Renjie, frustrated by his repeated and fruitless remonstrations, angrily retires to his hometown. From the moment he leaves the capital, assassins dog his every step: killers from the martial world, corrupt officials, and enemy spies. An invisible web stretches from Luoyang to the East Sea. Every step of his three-thousand-li journey home takes him across the blades of the two Zhangs' faction. What should have been a quiet retirement becomes a deadly
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- 26 Gaining a Villain's Legacy, Starting with Detective Di Renjie 从神探狄仁杰开始获得反派传承 Bai Yunfei is at home watching TV, tuned to Detective Di Renjie. When he sees Hu Jinghui die, he can't help feeling that Hu Jinghui deserved better. He had peerless martial arts, yet fell for a woman like Li Qingxia. What a tragedy! That night, Bai Yunfei is taken away by the System in his sleep because his obsession runs too deep. Thus begins his journey through other worlds, experiencing different lives. With a different position in each world, he sees more and makes choices unlike the ones he 187Reads6.8Score—Shelves
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