Crime Investigation and Case-Solving Novels: I’ve Read All the Popular Ones. Looking for Hidden Gems 刑侦破案文，火的都看完了，求精品
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Case-Solving Partners, Identities Unknown 破案搭档，身份不明
The score is still settling, so don’t let it put you off. [Strong Leads] [Love Grows Over Time] [Mutual Devotion] [Lighthearted and Thought-Provoking] Who says someone beautiful, strong, and tragic can’t star in a comedy? Xie Shu is a private detective outside the system and a severe candy addict. She seems ditzy and goofy, but is actually incredibly skilled in a fight. She has an unconventional background, a mysterious past, and a knack for saying the most outrageous things with a perfectly str
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- 352 Judging Bloodlines in the Name of Justice 以正义之名审判血脉 Mystery and crime + dark urban drama + My Father Is the Mastermind A prosecutor is forced to call a criminal his father, but vows to bury his family with his own hands! An ordinary fishing boat murder draws Lin Feng, the youngest prosecutor in Binhai City, into an unfathomable darkness. The clues on the victim point to the Zhao Group, a black-money empire that controls the entire city, and bring to light the unsolved mystery of his father's bizarre death ten years ago. As Lin Feng investigates, 2Reads—Score—Shelves
- 353 A Female Doctor’s Murder Diary 女医生谋杀日记 The print edition has been published. Search for A Female Doctor's Diary. I'm a doctor, an obstetrician and gynecologist. I have only two goals: Make someone disappear, And have a child. But he reeks of medicine And stands in my way! 14.2kReads9.5Score2.1kShelves
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Reborn in 1998: I Can Replay Crime Scene Footage 重生98：我能回放案发录像
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Back in the Eighties, I Solved Nine Thousand Murder Cases 重回八零，我破了命案九千宗
Returning to the 1980s, Chen Qingfeng gets another chance to relive his past regrets and revisit nine thousand unsolved murder cases. This time, he has a chance to make up for the regrets he carried from his previous life as a police officer... After taking a break, I’m short on money again, so I’ve started a new book. This one isn’t a power fantasy, and there’s no System or golden finger. I just hope to capture the feel of the 1980s and write another crime-solving story, a genre I haven’t touch
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- 356 Xu Changsheng Investigates 许长生探案 Police Captain Xu Changsheng, known to his team as “Little Zhuge,” faces one tangled case after another. He always manages to unravel the clues, find the key evidence, and bring the criminals to justice. This book records several particularly challenging cases that showcase Xu Changsheng’s deductive skills. 11.2kReads9.0Score1.2kShelves
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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
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- 358 You're a Police Officer! Do You Even Know What That Means? You're Not a Criminal! 你是警察，警察懂吗！不是罪犯！ My new work is out! You can read my stories on Tomato Novel. I hope you'll enjoy them. Your support motivates me to write, and I'll do my best to tell every story well! 10.8kReads8.0Score713Shelves
- 359 The Little Princess Is Always Trying to Undermine Me 小郡主她总想拆我台 [Historical romance + mystery-solving + one-on-one romance + sweet love + ensemble cast] [Quirky young princess × aloof, sharp-tongued heir] After my imperial uncle caught me causing a scene in a brothel, I became an unofficial member of the Dali Temple. My immediate superior, Xie Zhiyan, is the sharpest-tongued heir in the capital. He’s so cutting that even the flies find him harsh when he examines a corpse. “Your Highness, if you’re bored, why not lick the tiles in the morgue clean?” That is, 291Reads6.3Score101Shelves
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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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Half a Century of Major Case Records 半个世纪，大案要案纪实
From a sensational heist in the 1980s that prompted the country's first nationwide crackdown on crime, to financial scams after reform and opening up, and then to high-tech crimes in the new millennium, this is a record of major cases spanning half a century. There is no fictional suspense, only cases so real they cut to the bone. There are no superpowered detectives, only ordinary people who pursued criminals with their passion and their lives. The secrets buried by time, the sacrifices no one
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- 362 In the Police Force: Rising Step by Step 人在警界：步步高升 [Everyday Police Work + Decisive and Ruthless + Beautiful Women + No Saintly Heroics + No System + Patriotism] After transmigrating to a parallel world, Lin Yu became a police officer. On his first day on the job, he was ordered to crack down on prostitution. He jokingly called for the wife of a crime boss, only to discover that her husband was the ringleader of a new drug case. After interrogating her, Lin Yu cracked a major drug-trafficking case and earned a First-Class Merit. A husband report 110.2kReads9.2Score6.4kShelves
- 363 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 204Reads9.1Score—Shelves
- 364 Someone Calls to You in the Dead of Night. Don't Look Back! 深夜有人叫你，莫回头！ Terrifying incidents from the founding of the nation to the present. If you're having trouble sleeping at night, take a look. You'll sleep even less afterward. If you're lonely, take a look, and you'll start thinking there's someone in the bathroom, someone in the kitchen, someone under the bed... 2Reads—Score—Shelves
- 365 Rising from a Northwest Frontier Police Post After Leaving the Army 退伍后，从西北边陲警察开始崛起 In 1987, Zhou Yang, a reconnaissance soldier returning home wounded, suffers a devastating blow. He resolutely chooses to transfer to the impoverished Northwest, beginning his rise from the desolate region, one step at a time... 19kReads8.6Score1.6kShelves
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The Technical Trial 技术审判
When the law cannot reach someone in time, some people choose silence, some choose to wait, and others choose to fight back with code, data, and algorithms, launching a precise counterattack in the gray areas of the System. The Technical Judgment series spans multiple volumes, each a standalone story focusing on a different field of technology and a social issue. From smart transportation to social media, from medical data to financial technology, every story begins with an ordinary person harm
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- 367 The Real-Life Inspiration Behind I'm a Detective 我是刑警原型揭秘 The series I Am a Police Officer could be called a documentary about major criminal cases in China. Its popularity has drawn more and more attention to safety concerns in society. This book reveals the real cases behind those depicted in the show and recreates the crime scenes. Let's take a closer look! On January 28, 1995, eleven people were killed at a mine in a single night. Four disguised men stormed the mine's guardroom and went on a killing spree, leaving bodies everywhere they went. This 1.5kReads9.5Score150Shelves
- 368 Bro, You're a Cop, Not a Taoist Priest! 大哥，你是警察啊，不是道士！ [If you dislike cutesy, whimpering heroines, read no further] [Also known as: Me, a humble paper effigy maker, and you want me to crack a major case] When Yue Dong went to a telecom service center to cancel his late grandfather’s phone service, the staff gave him a hard time. “Rules are rules. The account holder has to be here in person!” “You have to follow the rules!” Yue Dong laughed in exasperation, then waved his hand and used his paper effigy-making skills to summon his late grandfather. T 69.1kReads9.2Score7.1kShelves
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Rainfall in the Atacama 阿塔卡玛落雨
[Mystery and Suspense + Strange Tales] More than thirty years ago, a mining disaster occurred, and a mysterious corpse was brought up from the mine. More than thirty years later, an auction finally brought to light a secret that had been buried beneath the yellow sands for generations. When old acquaintances meet again, how will the grudges and tangled relationships that have endured for decades unfold? A strange illness is finally cured, but what kind of genes flow through the bloodline? A mira
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A High-IQ Madman Designs Hundreds of Announced Murders 高智商疯子，设计百起预告杀人案
[High-IQ crime] [Ruthless, cold, calculating, and mad male lead] [Not reborn] [No System] [No female lead] A mysterious murderer who is rarely seen suddenly appears in Jiangcheng, calling himself the Judge. The Judge's days are always full. Monday: He judges a popular young actor who preyed on female college students. What a lovely day. Tuesday: He judges a billionaire who has committed every kind of evil, leaving himself refreshed and invigorated. Wednesday: He calls the task force directly.
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- 371 No Missing Person Notice 不寻人启事 [Mystery + Multiple Twists + Social Realism + Villainess] [Film and TV rights sold] Luo Meijuan's daughter has gone missing. She assumes the girl ran away with her boyfriend, but while searching for her, she discovers three things: First, her daughter loves her very much. Second, her daughter has fallen from being a top student at a prestigious university to becoming a gang leader who has killed someone. Third, the whereabouts of her daughter's twenty million in illicit funds are unknown. 5.6kReads9.1Score890Shelves
- 372 Yu Zui Returns 余罪归来 “My name is Yu Zui. Yu as in ‘surplus,’ and Zui as in ‘sin.’” “The last time we met, I was probably sneaking out of an awards ceremony. Yeah, the day An Jialu was kidnapped. That old bastard Xu Pingqiu was up on stage yelling, ‘Fall in!’ I nearly believed him, damn it. Believed I could really walk back into the sunlight looking like a proper human being in this crisp police uniform.” “So what happened? Some lousy envelope smacked me in the face. Inside was An Jialu's necklace and a note. Damn, I 4.1kReads6.0Score319Shelves
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The Whole City Pretends to Be Awake: Everyone Only Gave It a Push 全城装醒：每个人都只推了一把手
I’m not a detective. I’m just a contract assistant who repairs old books in Yanjing. That night, Detective Zhao Ling showed me a photo of a dead body at a barbecue stall. There was a hemp rope in the photo. The stall owner said it was the most popular influencer-style decor at a wedding-themed homestay. A joke became the first piece of evidence. Later, I saw matchmaking agencies selling loneliness, shopping malls selling public relations, schools selling respectability, platforms selling traffic
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Dark Night: Criminal Investigation 暗夜【刑侦】
New novel: Crossing the River at Dusk [Crime Investigation]. Come check it out ^O^ Completed. The rating doesn’t matter; it won’t go any higher. Come take a look. No malicious bad reviews. If you don’t like it, don’t read it. Also known as Dark Night [Crime Investigation] [BL crime investigation + episodic cases + major case + older top + happy ending. Don’t read if that’s not your thing.] [Behavioral psychology consultant Lin Wujing ✖️ straightforward crime squad captain Li Chuan] [My life is
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Criminal Synopsis 犯罪提要
Silver-haired beauty with a genius IQ [Qin Yinluo (Chong Hu)] vs. shameless, scheming, lovesick big shot [Long Jinfeng] [Double purity, equally matched, two big shots, two male leads + crime solving + undercover criminal investigation + comedy + happy ending + sweet romance] What should you do when the one who got away returns home after years apart? Long Jinfeng's answer: Easy. A golden cage and chains. Qin Yinluo had been away for many years and met all kinds of people, but few had ever struck
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The Six Gates: A Battle Against the Demons 六扇门：与魔争锋
[Full-cast audio adaptation now available] [Court and martial world, political intrigue and mystery, decisive and ruthless] Who is caught in the scheme, and who stands outside it? Who is a pawn, and who has been cast aside? The only thing that makes their enemies tremble isn't the pair of blades in their hands... With a group of like-minded friends by their side, they can find the strength to keep going, no matter how dark the road ahead!
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The Oddball Consultant: Echoes from Ten Years Ago 怪胎顾问：十年前的回声
[Crime investigation and suspense + superhuman sound perception + nested cases + two equally capable leads + forced partners + healing] He is an eccentric consultant, cold and withdrawn. After an accident, he develops hyperthymesia and severe tinnitus, but can accurately profile suspects' minds through sound. She is a highly intuitive, action-oriented police detective, a skilled fighter with a decisive personality. The two first work together on the Ghost Radio case, then are forced to team up.
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Crime Trail: Deep in the Mist 罪案追踪迷雾深处
On a stormy night in Jiangcheng, a bizarre murder is discovered in an abandoned warehouse. A woman has been bound on her knees, stabbed through the heart. There are no traces left behind, as if she were the target of a perfectly executed killing. Chen Mo, a former homicide detective, was caught up in a string of teenage girl disappearances three years ago. Burdened by blame, he left the force in disgrace and became a private investigator, taking only cold cases the police had given up on. Then a
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My Husband Cheated, So I Personally Turned Him In to the Police 老公出轨，我亲手把他送进警局
In the middle of the night, I got a call from the city public security bureau. They said my husband had been arrested for soliciting a prostitute and told me to come bail him out. I hurriedly denied knowing him and said they had the wrong number. How ridiculous. I was the one who put him away. Why would I go bail him out? My husband cheated, and my mother-in-law treated me like a doormat. Since I’ve already sent one of them inside, I might as well send the other one too.
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- 380 The Homicide Squad Chief Has Gone Crazy: He Wants to Interrogate Himself 刑侦队长疯了，他要审讯自己 I just took over a shadowy serial murder case. When I entered the crime scene, I had the strange feeling I'd been there before. Could I be the killer? As I dug deeper into the truth, I uncovered an astonishing secret! 35Reads—Score—Shelves
- 381 I Woke Up After Being Knocked Unconscious and Became a Murder Suspect 被打晕醒来后，我成了杀人凶手 Yang Meng is a wildly popular outdoor paranormal exploration blogger, and my boss. The two of us went to the famous haunted “check-in spot” of Fengmen Village to shoot a video. There were four of us in all. Once we arrived, someone suddenly knocked me unconscious. When I woke up, I was covered in blood, and Yang Meng was already dead. The bloodstained knife was mine, and all the evidence pointed to me. But I know the killer is one of the other two who are still alive. He is still watching me lik —Reads—Score—Shelves
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The Long River, Nameless 长河，无名
In 1928, in Jinan, he lost his entire family. In 1931, at the 23rd Special Mental Research Institute in Kazan, his emotions were stripped away. In 1934, in Nanjing, he buried his past. From then on, he walked the razor's edge, turning the gears of history from the shadows. Except for the highest-ranking figures in a handful of intelligence agencies, no one knew his real name or what he had done. On May 17, 1961, he died on the execution grounds in Seoul, South Korea. His gravestone bore neither
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- 383 My Dad Demanded Three Million from Me, Claiming I Was a Murderer 我爸勒索我三百万，说我是杀人凶手 My dad suddenly came to me demanding three million yuan. If I didn’t pay, he’d expose me as a murderer. How could he possibly know the truth about what happened back then? Someone must be behind this. So I took him to an abandoned villa in the suburbs. Let’s put an end to those two murders tonight. —Reads—Score—Shelves
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The Northern Song Mystery: The Lotus Case 北宋悬疑密码：莲花案
During the Kaibao era, a murder marked with a lotus pattern shook Bianliang. More killings followed at the West Market Inn and Qingfeng Pavilion, bringing the Lotus Pavilion back into the public eye overnight. The court and the streets were in an uproar, and rumors spread everywhere. Ning Yanzhi, the orphaned survivor of the White Lotus Pavilion, disguises himself as an idle young gentleman and slips into Bianliang under an assumed name. He seeks only to find his former comrades and uncover the
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Crime Without a Trace 罪行无间
Two male leads join forces to solve cases: a homicide detective and a brilliant forensic pathologist, both formidable in their own right, one skilled in combat and the other in investigation. Together, they are a pair worthy of the name “hands of God,” piecing together the bizarre deaths of victims and uncovering the true causes of their deaths, so the dead may rest in peace and the victims may be vindicated. With their fists and fighting skills, they capture criminals and deliver justice. Is th
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The Screen Was Full of Comments! I Thought They Were All Gossip 满屏弹幕！我以为全是八卦
No Romance + Golden Finger + Crime Solving Shanghai, 1985. Nineteen-year-old Chen Yang is a contract worker handling household registration at a local police station, the kind who got the job through connections. She has a secret: she can see other people's “juicy gossip.” Any cheating, embezzling, or concealing of one's identity from the past seven days pops up as subtitles in brackets. The System has one fatal bug: it mistakes spy meetings for “dating.” So she thinks she's catching cheating me
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- 387 The Iris Strikes Back 鸢尾花的反杀 As night fell, I rode my bike through the streets and alleys, when someone suddenly stepped into my path. “Who are you?” The alley was dimly lit, so I couldn’t make out the stranger’s face, but I could clearly see his outline. The man looked utterly disheveled. Gasping for breath, he said, “Help me!” I caught sight of someone chasing him relentlessly and swiftly pulled him onto my electric scooter. “Come with me!” The cold night wind stung my cheeks, but inside, my emotions were churning. “Got y —Reads—Score—Shelves
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Manhunt Across the City: I'm Really Not a Criminal 全城围捕：我真不是罪犯啊
When he opens his eyes, Chen Mu, a former criminal police officer in his previous life, discovers that he has been reborn in a parallel world. And he has become an escaped convict wanted for an entire family’s murder! Shrill police sirens ring across the city as heavily armed officers close in from every direction. A net of traps leaves no way out. Ding! [Escape System issuing a mission] [Main Mission: Publicly serialize and update the story of your escape] [Side Mission: Find the real culprit b
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Xu Changsheng Investigates: Crazy Hormones III 许长生探案III疯狂荷尔蒙
No System, no romance, pure crime-solving, with a series of standalone cases. A skeleton suddenly appears in the courtyard of a beautiful woman whose husband has been away for years, bringing two old cold cases to light. A beautiful married clothing-store owner with a colorful romantic past dies mysteriously in her shop... Captain Xu Changsheng, known to his officers as “Little Zhuge,” faces one tangled case after another. He always manages to unravel the clues, find the key evidence, and bring
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- 390 My Daughter Was Kidnapped, and the Kidnapper Turned Out to Be My Husband 女儿被绑架，绑匪竟是我老公 My daughter had just turned one hundred days old when she was kidnapped. I paid the ransom, bankrupting myself in the process. Then the kidnappers killed her anyway. I was devastated. But then I suddenly realized my husband was deeply involved in the kidnapping. —Reads—Score—Shelves
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The Silent Boy 沉默的男孩
(The second installment of Beneath the Deep, but it stands alone and is complete. Only a very small number of scenes touch on the previous story, and they won't affect your enjoyment, so read without worry.) (A social mystery focused on human nature, ethics, deduction, and solving crimes. Virtually no romance, and not a power fantasy.) In a remote mountain village, a horrifying family massacre erupts in the middle of the night. A raging fire claims several lives. The investigation points to a bo
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- 392 The Mysterious Cases of a Mountain Village 山村诡案录 Chen Yutong, an archaeology student, returns to his hometown for a funeral, only to discover that his old house has been ransacked and the elderly are dying one after another. A family secret sealed away for many years gradually comes to light. A hidden tale that began fifty years ago draws him into the mists and mysteries of the deep mountains... 183Reads—Score—Shelves
- 393 Pathological Growth: A Life Destroyed by My Family of Origin 病态生长：被原生家庭毁掉的一生 [Dysfunctional Family Background + Women's Growth + Causes of Crime + Family's Influence] Just how deep, far-reaching, and devastating can the effects of a person's family background be? Some people spend their whole lives healing from childhood. Others lose themselves for life in its shadows. A woman born of love and destroyed by hate, trapped in a twisted relationship that went from dependence to ruin, ended everything with 32 knife blows: her love, her hatred, and a life trampled underfoot. T —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 394 The Otaku's Revenge 宅男的复仇 Duan Yu of Kun City was an ordinary homebody whose life revolved around electronic devices, video games, and endless web browsing. But his happy life changed abruptly when his older sister died in an accident on his eighteenth birthday... The once happy family of four was suddenly reduced to just him. How did his sister die? Enraged, the homebody Duan Yu resolved to make himself stronger and became a formidable avenger... Meanwhile, master detective Xu Changsheng arrived in Kun City. As he inves 6kReads8.8Score551Shelves
- 395 Evil Buried Deep 深埋下的罪恶 My new novel, The Silent Boy, is a sequel series to this book. If you’re interested, you can find it on my profile. Many thanks! ♥♥♥ (Mystery + criminal investigation + coming of age + human nature. The male and female leads are drawn into the case because of the people they each love. The investigation takes center stage, with romance as a supporting element.) A scandal-hit actress is found brutally murdered at home, setting off a storm of rumors and a chain of events. The culprit seems to be r 278Reads8.1Score—Shelves
- 396 Murderous Testimony 证言杀机 When I was seventeen, driven by jealousy, I reported someone to the police for stealing. But I never imagined that years later, he would nearly destroy my happiness… —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 397 Xu Changsheng Investigates, II 许长生探案II Police Captain Xu Changsheng, known among his team as “Little Zhuge,” faces one convoluted case after another. He always manages to untangle the clues, find the key evidence, and bring the criminals to justice. This book recounts several challenging cases that showcase Xu Changsheng’s keen powers of deduction. 6.7kReads8.3Score749Shelves
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Undercover for Three Years, Identity Exposed: Police Issue Red Wanted Notice, Shoot on Sight 卧底三年身份暴露，警队发红色通缉令：就地击毙
After three years undercover, his identity is exposed. The police issue a red wanted notice: shoot on sight.
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- 399 During Renovations on My New Home, We Found Thirty Million Hidden in the Walls! 新房装修，墙体里竟藏着三千万！ I returned to my hometown and bought the house next door. But during renovations, I found thirty million yuan in cash hidden inside the wall! 1Reads—Score—Shelves
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The Bride Who Vanished on the Island 岛上消失的新娘
On an island far from the mainland, a bride mysteriously disappears on her wedding night. Wei Zheng, a veteran county police detective, is ordered to investigate. But before one mystery is solved, another arises. Strange cases plague the isolated island, shattering decades of peace...
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