Looking for High-IQ Protagonists, Like High-IQ Crime, Devil's Reversal, and The End of Ten Days 要主角高智商，类似高智商犯罪恶魔逆位，十日终焉
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A Math Teacher's Revenge 数学老师的复仇演绎
[Realism] [High-IQ crime] [Masterful mind games] [No female lead] [For readers who love logic] The police in Xikang City received a phone call from someone calling himself Ghost, who claimed he would kill a certain person in three days. More than that, he wanted the police to rush out and protect the target. He intended to carry out the killing under the police's tight security. The police took the threat extremely seriously and made careful preparations. When the three days were up, the result
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The Gods’ Foolish Game 诸神愚戏
I have two principles in life: 1. I never lie. 2. I never believe anything anyone says, including myself. “Sir, I would like to point out that your second statement conflicts with the first.” “How so?” “If you never lie, why don’t you believe what you say?” “Oh, sorry. I forgot to mention that I don’t consider myself human.” “?” Allow me to introduce myself. My name is Cheng Shi, Cheng Shi who never lies. What, you’ve never heard of me? That’s all right. You simply haven’t been deceived by m
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The End of Ten Days 十日终焉
2024 Tomato Novel Annual Peak Rankings TOP 1 | 2024 China Online Literature Influence List | 2024 China Good Novel Award | Over 2 million copies sold (No harem, no formulaic tropes, no invincibility, no System, no mindless antics, no wish fulfillment. Read with caution if these bother you.) Just when I thought it was an ordinary day, I discovered I had been captured and taken to the End. Just when I thought I could escape by continually taking part in death games, people began awakening supernat
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The Cicada Project 蝉计划
[Spiritual qi revival + crafty schemer + comedy + meme references + one heroine] As spiritual qi revived, Jiang Bai unexpectedly arrived in the age of the fifth mysterious tide. Everything he knew had faded with the passage of time. The world had been utterly transformed, familiar places and people were gone, and the career he had once fought for had turned to dust. The past was beyond recall. In this chaotic, dark age, order had long since collapsed, civilization was no more, and the shadow of
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I Am Not the God of Drama 我不是戏神
The brand-new masterpiece by San Jiu Yin Yu, author of Slay the Gods | Winner of the Best Science-Fiction Web Novel Award at the Macau International Science Fiction Awards | A Chinese grotesque epic that turns the tide of an era After a scarlet meteor streaked across the sky, human civilization ground to a halt. From that day onward, humanity could no longer build a rocket, a nuclear bomb, an airplane, a car... The pyramid of civilization built upon modern science collapsed with a thunderous roa
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Your Criminal Talent Is Off the Charts, Yet You Join the Homicide Squad 犯罪天赋拉满，你转头加入刑侦队
[Crime Investigation + Crime + Invincible + All-Rounder + Hardcore Detective] A killer capable of committing the perfect crime must also be a master detective. Su Ming should have become the perfect criminal, but instead he aced the entrance exam for the criminal investigation team and chose to stand on the front line of the fight against crime. He has pored over tens of thousands of case files and scrutinized hundreds of millions of cases. In his eyes, every crime is riddled with laughably obvi
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Criminal Investigation: I Can See Crime Records 刑侦：我能看见犯罪记录
Cen Lian was a junior-college general education teacher who did just enough to get by, and always thought he would keep coasting through life. Then a cheat ability fell into his lap: every criminal revealed their crimes in front of him. Driven by a simple sense of justice, Cen Lian began matching wits with criminals, both smart and stupid. He became a specially appointed consultant and, alongside a group of like-minded partners, embarked on a career solving criminal cases.
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After Awakening the Serial Killer Talent, I Became a Psycho 觉醒杀人魔天赋后，我成了疯批
[No System + No heroine + Villain protagonist + Madman + Dark + Ruthless] My name is Shi Qian. I'm an ordinary office worker, and in my spare time I enjoy creating a little “art.” Of course, I have another name too. You can call me, the Prisoner. (Positive characters may also meet tragic ends in this book. If that bothers you, don't read.)
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The Devil's Diary 恶魔日记
Chen Xiao wakes up to find everything around him strangely unfamiliar. The only thing beside him is a diary. He thinks it might explain his current predicament, but as he reads, he begins to doubt whether its contents are real. It is clearly a record of crimes committed by “himself.” Just as Chen Xiao is about to read on, the piercing wail of police sirens downstairs jolts him awake, and he can't help imagining the worst...
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A Psychopath with a Trillion, Finding Healing Every Day 神经病拥有万亿，每天很治愈
(Mystery + Deduction + No System + No Female Lead) When you open your eyes and find yourself carrying the burden of 51 murders, what would you do? Turn yourself in? Run for your life? Or quietly enjoy yourself? When a huge sum of money appears in your account, what would you do? Pursue your dream girl? Buy a house and a car? Or party the night away? And when you become mentally ill, what would you do? Get treatment? Escape reality? Or become completely insane? Mark Twain once said, “Man is the o
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Who Touched My Novel? 我的小说谁动的
Xue Mo sat at his computer, typing away with great concentration. “Knock, knock, knock!” A series of urgent knocks sounded at the door. “Who is it?” Xue Mo asked, puzzled, as he went to the door. “The police.” Through the peephole, he saw two people in police uniforms standing outside. One of them held up his police identification. “Does Xue Mo live here?” “Yes, that’s me.” Xue Mo hurriedly opened the door. “We’ve found that several recent murder cases closely match your novel. We need you to as
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The Long Night’s Journey 长夜行
The eyes are the angle observers most often scrutinize, so you must learn to disguise your own., Li Mu. From making up his mind to carrying out his plan, he spent a full three years. His first murder, his second, his third... Even when he was teetering on the brink of death, he would take a gamble if it meant he might escape. To everyone else, he was merely a weakling, not even as capable as an ordinary person...
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The Sea Further Than Death 比死亡更远的那片海
After a financial collapse, Gu Beichen retreated from New York to Lingshui, Hainan, where he spent the rest of his life in a dilapidated fishing house on the beach. Ji Xiaotang is a female doctor who studies coral reef restoration. She suffers from ALS, but she insists on planting limited life into the seabed. One lost faith in the world of capital, and the other refused to give up in the countdown to death. They met because of a dying coral sea. As the adoption plan was launched, interest group
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Murder on the Page! Every Villain Wants to Send Me to Prison 穿书案发！反派都想让我吃牢饭
[Everyone’s Favorite + Villain + Straight as a Ruler + Misinterpretations + Dual Personality + No Romance] Xie Xu’an is a mysterious writer shrouded in a thick haze of blood and darkness. His unpublished work seems to be a Pandora’s box concealing endless evil. Fate takes an unexpected turn, hurling him into the world he created. In an instant, he plummets into an abyss of darkness. Here, villains bare their fangs and schemes intertwine. At first, he is like a lone leaf tossed about in a storm,
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Corridor of Eternal Sin: Voices of an Unending Obsession 永罪回廊：永恒的执念之声
“Welcome to your 784th death.” When Qi Yongye wakes from a car crash, a maze formed by 368 bronze pillars is already waiting for him. A face frozen in agony, someone he once knew, is embedded in every pillar. The numbers on his wrist begin to tick down: 16...15...14... Here, death is only the beginning. In a sixteen-second death loop, the logic a programmer once took pride in becomes a joke, and the surgeon Qin Ruoyan’s scalpel can’t bring back a single memory. When they discover that the marks
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Crime Domain: A Web of Wits 罪域：智慧的迷局
This is an urban crime novel filled with high-IQ crimes, complex deduction, and deep psychological insight. The story revolves around a criminal mastermind who uses meticulous planning and profound psychological manipulation to plunge a modern city into an unprecedented game of terror and murder. This genius commits serial killings, thinking through every step in advance. He manipulates hidden forces at every level of society and engages law enforcement in a battle of wits. Behind each case lies
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Eternal Descent into the Sin Domain 罪域永堕
A poor boy living in a coastal town in Lacavia harbors a shocking secret! Who would have thought that someone who can't even afford his rent is the country's first legal heir to the throne? As the king grows older, schemes and deadly dangers surge toward the young man in his quiet corner of the kingdom. The shadow of war falls over all of Violet, and the prelude to chaos and destruction is about to begin. The curtain rises. Who will ascend the stage of history?
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Crime Without a Trace: The Perfect High-IQ Crime 无证之罪：高智商完美犯罪
[Trial + Reality + Battle of Wits + Perfect Crime + Outlaw Zhang San] The score has just come out. Since he was kept in solitary confinement, it will gradually go up! He gets murderers acquitted, helps rapists get off, and wins suspended sentences for fraudsters. As long as there’s a weakness in the chain of evidence, he can get them out. Eyewitnesses, physical evidence, and an alibi: the classic three-piece set. But his clients keep dying in bizarre ways, one after another! Wang Haibo is dead.
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