Ensemble Casts, Teams, Mystery Solving, Wuxia, or Supernatural Stories. Any Era Is Fine. 群像，小队，探案或江湖或灵异。古今都OK。
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The Corpse Reader 读尸人
Standalone cases + criminal investigation + two male leads + mind-bending mystery The Linghai Public Security Bureau established a major crimes unit. Just as everyone was wondering which criminal investigation captain would be given the job, they were told that the provincial bureau had parachuted someone in directly. Everyone was curious about the new head of the major crimes unit. Cases piled up, from opening coffins for autopsies and childbirth after death to missing wives. See how a forensic
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Criminal Investigation: Major Crimes Unit, Part Two 刑侦之重案组第二部
Criminal investigation + no System + episodic cases + fast-paced A butcher’s killing spree on a rainy night brings Lin Mu, a former member of the Special Cases Investigation Team, back into action alongside top forensic pathologist Bai Miao. As they follow the clues, they discover the truth is far more complicated than it first appears. A mysterious hallucinogenic drug has surfaced again. Can they follow the trail this time and uncover who is pulling the strings...?
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Criminal Investigation: The True Culprit 刑侦：罪案真凶
[Detective team leader + criminal profiler + two equally formidable leads + episodic cases + suspense] A string of throat-slashing murders catches the criminal investigation team off guard. Two victims appear in just two days, and a criminal profiler arrives to help the team solve the case... During the final investigation, they suddenly discover a hidden case behind these crimes. Photos unrelated to each case keep appearing, and they eventually learn that these seemingly irrelevant crime scen
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Record of Strange Cases 异闻诡案录
[Crime Investigation × Urban Legends × Supernatural × Suspense | Episodic Stories · Two Male Leads] Bizarre cases and strange rumors shatter people's dreams, while the search for truth cuts through the dark veil of crime. Twelve years ago, a bizarre massacre wiped out an entire household, leaving the souls of sixteen victims unable to rest. The hand of evil has never stopped its work, and bloodthirsty killings still spread through the streets and alleys of Mingcheng. “The Goat-Headed Old Woman”
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Spirit-Touching Detective Agency 触灵侦探事务所
[Supernatural + mystery-solving + two male leads] After working in a big city for two years, 25-year-old Chen Yu decides to return to his hometown and lie flat. But thanks to his special ability, he gets caught up in a case alongside a newcomer named Li Zelin. By touching a dead person’s belongings, Chen Yu can see everything the person saw just before dying. Using this unusual ability, Chen Yu and his friends solve a series of bizarre and dangerous cases. Every client who comes to them will bri
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Special Cases Investigation Team 特殊案件调查队
An eccentric, antisocial special investigations captain; a young master worth billions; a scheming, double-standard-setting all-round forensic expert; a rookie with uncanny intuition; a top sniper who asked to be demoted; and a “sixth member” with no records. Everyone transferred to the Special Investigations Team has a secret they cannot speak of, just as the darkness buried deep beneath the city known as the “Capital of the Nine Heavens” must never come to light. Compared with handling cases b
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I Came from the Yellow Springs 我来自黄泉
At the border between yin and yang, at the mouth of the Yellow Springs, the living guard the Thirteen Ghost Gates. The prison governor, the jailers, and the Brocade-Robed Marquis; at the post station for the dead, a mountain dog keeps watch. The door gods, the water nymph, the Confucius Temple; red lanterns and white funeral banners circle the streets. This ghost ballad, missing one line, conceals a world-shaking secret. I was a child my grandfather stole from the Yellow Springs, so before I was
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Strange Tales of Northeast China 东北诡异实录
The comic adaptation of the same name is now available, also known as Mountain Spirit Lost. The comic Northeast Strange Tales is currently being serialized. Across the vast, boundless black earth of Northeast China, one strange and little-known story after another has unfolded. Now, I’ll tell you these long-buried tales of the supernatural, one by one!
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The Folk Feng Shui Master 民间风水之王
The Nine Cauldrons Dragon Palace, the Secret Files of the Yellow Springs, the Snow Mountain Corpse Demon, the Yin-Yang Inn... Ever since I borrowed a life from the underworld, I have known no peace. Every time I borrow a life, it becomes a deadly game. After each desperate struggle and narrow escape, I wait for the next secret order from the underworld so I can keep living. Just when I thought I'd escaped the clutches of fate, I discovered that Heaven had prepared a coffin for me too!
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He Kills, Never Saves: This Taoist Is Wickedly Righteous! 只杀不渡，这个道士正到发邪！
[Supernatural + Mazu + folk customs + deity processions + Guanjian Shou + yin-yang taboos] People in Fujian often say, “If the powers above won't agree, just ask Mazu.” Born with an extremely weighty fate, Lin Haien was conceived on Qingming and born on the Winter Solstice. He has a yin-yang constitution and a spirit-sensitive body. Lost souls and wandering ghosts torment him, all hoping to take over his body and replace him. To give him even the slimmest chance of survival, his midwife grandmot
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Strange Case Files of the Yin-Yang Bureau 阴阳司诡案实录
[No female lead + two male leads] [Mystery-solving + suspense and the supernatural] [Urban setting + catching criminals and hunting ghosts] [Fast-paced plot] There is a Bureau of Yin and Yang in this world. It solves cases among the living and seeks justice for the dead. Not only can it handle cases beyond the reach of ordinary people, it can also uncover the secrets and connections between the worlds of yin and yang. Whether it's a murder among the living or a grievance among the dead, the Bur
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The Metaphysics Master Keeps a Male Ghost 玄学大佬他养男鬼
[Two male leads + one-on-one, devoted romance + metaphysics master and Taoist priest as the bottom, obedient dog-like younger ghost as the top + happy ending] [Tang Xichen & Lu Yan] [Ensemble cast] The young general Tang Xichen brought home the partner fate had destined for him. At first, someone thought he’d picked up a little bride to pamper endlessly. He never expected the puppy to bite, and bite him of all people! Lu Yan. His parents gave him a name meaning “loathing.” He didn’t know why h
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The Ninth Special Case Unit 第九特案组
A rookie detective determined to become a legend in criminal investigation, he is actually a member of the Jiao clan who has cultivated for three hundred years. Spoiled rotten by his family, he is lazy, gluttonous, and poor at magic. By chance, he joins Special Case Group No. 9, which specializes in solving supernatural cases. As he and the team tackle one difficult case after another, he gradually grows stronger. He devotes all his curiosity to the group leader, Jiang Fan, only to uncover the l
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Special Cases Investigation 特殊案件调查
Dear readers, please click “Follow” so you’ll be notified as soon as there’s an update ^O^ I was born with an unusually keen sense of smell and can detect the stench given off by unclean things. I only wanted to live a quiet life as a beat cop at the police station, but unexpectedly, I got drawn into an unusual drug trafficking case… Updates are back, and I’m finishing this story no matter what! One chapter at ten in the morning and one at seven in the evening. If I don’t, I’m a puppy!
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Urban Oddities: The Bureau of Paranormal Investigation 都市奇谈：超自然现象调查局
Hello, new recruit! Welcome to the Bureau of Paranormal Investigation, or BPI for short. I'm your super AI administrator. You can call me Xiao Ai. Here, you'll face some of the strangest and most bizarre paranormal incidents on this planet. Your job is to use your abilities, along with the special equipment and tools provided by the BPI, to resolve them. If you're ready, head out with your partner and take on your first assignment at the BPI!
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The Bureau of Foreign Affairs' Strange Tales 外事局诡闻录
All the petty affairs of the world are interactions between people. Whether good or bad, they belong to the realm of internal affairs. Anything beyond ordinary human life, anything ordinary people cannot accept, belongs to external affairs. That is the meaning behind the name of the External Affairs Bureau. Skin-Human Ravine, the Five Barbarians' Ghost Cave, a thousand corpses vying to steal fortune, a mother and daughter possessed by yin spirits, a ghostly yang infant... I experienced all kinds
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Bureau 749: Classified Files 749局绝密档案
Bureau 749: Do you want to know its secrets? The dead returning to life? Vampiric zombies? Clones? All will be revealed here.
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The Ninth Secret Bureau 第九守秘局
“If we want the people of this world to live in the sunlight and keep their sanity, then we must keep secret the things they were never meant to know.” “Because the moment they see those terrifying beings that defy all known science and truly discover how horrifying this world is... believe me, Earth will become the biggest asylum in the universe.” Chen Xian, Ninth Secret Bureau
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Department of Paranormal Investigations II 神秘事件调查处【贰】
The X-Files Investigation Bureau, Part Two “That's a dragon!” “No, there are no dragons. That's a kite, that's a black plastic bag, that's a bird soaring through a storm. You've read Haiyan, haven't you? Exactly.” In 1968, our country established Institute 507, whose full name was the Institute of Space Medicine and Engineering. Later, as more and more supernatural events were discovered, the institute began handling certain cases. In September 1974, some departments of Institute 507 were split
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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 God of Solving Cases: My Forensic Partner 破案之神：我的法医搭档
Dark undercurrents stir in the city, where a spate of linked murders pushes the police to their limits. Lu Chen, the criminal investigation captain, solves cases like a genius but is stubbornly protective of his own. Shen Zhiyi, the chief forensic examiner, is technically brilliant but bears the burden of a bloody case. When the Special Action Unit takes on a serial murder investigation, the two clash over details from an autopsy, but their partnership gradually brings them into sync. They later
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The Secret Art of Hunting Yin Spirits 诡秘缉阴
On the surface, this is an ordinary modern city, but in truth it is teeming with dark energy and haunted by ghosts. China's Yin Exorcism Bureau recruits people with special abilities and sends a five-person team, including Cheng Kairui and Gu Beichen, to a remote town to cleanse a cursed place. One sinister incident follows another in the town: crying from an old mansion, people crawling out of a dry well, and more. As they investigate, the team members bicker and work together in equal measure.
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The Major Crimes Unit's Secret Files 重案组的秘密档案
The provincial public security department establishes a special major-crimes unit to tackle serious and cold cases. Its five members have wildly different personalities and are always trading barbs. They face difficult cases such as the kidnapping of a young woman and a string of murders, with tangled clues and danger at every turn. Using their professional skills and teamwork, the five crack each case, with no melodramatic romance subplot. The criminal investigation captain solves cases like a
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Qingya Academy 青崖院
The martial world is dominated by five great sword sects, while the Martial Pavilion is under the command of Xiao Jingyuan, Prince of Zhenbei. Several boys adopted by Qingya Academy, whose origins are shrouded in mystery, are forced to venture into the martial world because of a bloody case from twenty years ago. They encounter one predicament after another. First, they discover clues to a blood talisman in the territory of the Salt Transport Gang; then they get caught up in a complex conspiracy
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Bloodthirsty Spirit Jade 嗜血灵玉
A new work is out! Come read my story on Tomato Novel. I hope you enjoy it. Your support motivates me to write, and I’ll do my best to tell every story well!
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