Recommend Some Fantasy Mystery and Detective Novels, Fellow Readers, Give Me Your Candid Takes 求玄幻悬疑推理小说，来书友锐评，刀刀刀刀刀
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Unable to Find a Job After Retirement, I Was Forced to Become a Mercenary 退役后找不到工作，被迫当雇佣兵
After retiring from the special forces, Jin Nan can’t find a job and struggles to make ends meet. Then his neighbor comes to him for help. Her daughter has been tricked into working at a telecom fraud compound, and she’ll pay 300,000 yuan to get her back. In principle, Jin Nan only wants to be a law-abiding citizen. But he can barely afford to eat, so he accepts the woman’s rescue mission to make ends meet. He infiltrates the compound alone, gets into a gunfight with the armed guards, and manage
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Terrifying Nightmare: Extreme Survival in a Bizarre World 恐怖噩梦：我在诡异世界极限逃生
[Infinite-flow, mildly scary, no romance] Wang Yan wearily opened his front door. Inside, he saw the woman next door holding and soothing a baby, staring at him in terror. “Sorry, I’ve got the wrong apartment.” He quickly apologized and backed out, then slammed the door shut. Standing in the pitch-black hallway, he found himself unable to decide what was more terrifying: seeing his female neighbor in his home, or seeing the baby who had died long ago…
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Dragon-Slaying Celestial Master: I Wield the Art of Qimen Dunjia 斩龙天师：我身怀奇门遁甲术
On the day I was born, a dragon skeleton was unearthed beneath our ancestral home. My grandfather said I was the dragon reincarnated, and that I would live no longer than twenty years. To stay alive, I became the last Dragon-Slaying Celestial Master in the world.
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Case Files: A Collection of Dark, Suspenseful, and Terrifying Short Stories 诡案录：暗夜悬疑惊悚短篇集
In the rearview mirror on a rainy night, his missing ex-wife’s reflection overlaps with a victim from a serial dismemberment case. Beside the stitches in the emergency room, a stranger’s tattoo bears the same blood-written code found on the wall when his sister disappeared. In a locked room at a rain-lashed manor, a photograph of his late father turns up in an enemy’s files. The massacre that wiped out an entire family twenty years ago was only the beginning of a deadly game… A series of bizarr
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- 5 The Shadow Serpent Mystery 影蛇谜局 The Shadow Serpent Mystery 10Reads—Score—14d adds
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Tomb Raiding: I Tore Down the Golmud Sanatorium 盗墓：我拆了格尔木疗养院
[No Female Lead + Cheerful Protagonist + Comedy] Wu Mo transmigrates into the ultimate tomb-raiding world and becomes Wu Xie’s younger brother, gaining a tomb-raiding sign-in System. Ding! Sign-in successful. Reward granted. 1: Azure Dragon bloodline 2: Tomb-trap mechanisms 3: Corpse control With these skills at his disposal, Wu Mo starts running wild in the tomb-raiding world. He blows up the Golmud Sanatorium, beats up Hei Xiazi, and tests his strength against Xiaoge. He saves A Ning in the S
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- 7 When I'm in the Rules Horror Game, Nothing Is Forbidden 当我在规则怪谈百无禁忌 [No female lead + supernatural horror + mental illness + comedy + national destiny] My name is Su Ming, and I'm a transmigrator. I currently work at Qingshan Psychiatric Hospital, where I'm in charge of the important project of “being studied.” They keep saying I'm sick, but I know I'm fine. It's the world that's sick. After I escaped from the psychiatric hospital, I was chosen by Rule Horror to become Longguo's chosen participant, representing Longguo in the upcoming horror games. [Ding! The Ho 67kReads9.6Score7.7k14d adds
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Heaven's Abyss Halberd 天渊戟
Deep in the Black Prison, a young man dragged himself out in chains. A broken scar at the end of his eyebrow looked as if fate itself had cleaved him in two. He was sixteen, at the first level of the Mortal Body, and should have been torn apart by a vicious beast within ten breaths. In the Black Prison's death match, a hundred thousand spectators laughed, certain I would die in ten breaths. The youth, Mu Yuan, raised the vicious Sky Abyss Halberd. In the first second, he slew the beast. In the s
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- 9 Card Master from the Start: One Self-Destruct Card Makes Me a God on Livestream 开局制卡师：一张自爆卡直播封神 This is a world ruled by cards. Lin Zhou was an unremarkable card maker until he awakened the golden finger [A Thousand Dreams, A Thousand Forms]. Now he livestreams himself dreaming up SSR cards, and the whole internet watches as he ascends to godhood! While everyone else stays up late cultivating, I sleep at night I close my eyes, dream up a Nezha self-destruct card, and the livestream chat explodes the moment I wake up! At the national tournament, my Classic of Mountains and Seas deck dominat 30Reads—Score114d adds
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The Spirit Guide Who Renews Lives Through Ghost Marriage 阴婚续命渡魂人
In our village, there's a custom: children born under an unlucky star must be wed in a ghost marriage. I was unlucky from birth, so Grandpa found me the corpse of a girl who died young. But on the night we were sealed together in the coffin, I heard her whisper in my ear, “My husband, we finally meet again.” After that, the people who tried to harm me began dying one after another. Gradually, I realized she wasn't an ordinary female ghost. She was at the center of every strange and terrifying oc
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- 11 The Fogbound Village Caught in a Time Loop 时间轮回的隐雾村 At the end of a deep valley hemmed in by layer upon layer of mountains, Hidden Mist Village looks like a piece of rotting flesh forgotten by time, shrouded year-round in gray-white mist. The villagers have ashen faces and cloudy eyes, as though some inhuman consciousness is imprisoned inside their living bodies, endlessly reenacting the same events within the folds of time and space in Hidden Mist Village. —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 12 Rule Horror: Beginning with a Strange Journey to the West 规则怪谈：从诡异西游开始 [Rule Horror + Live Broadcast + National Fortune + No Female Lead] Supernatural horrors have descended upon Blue Star, and the Dragon Nation's fortunes are in decline. The chosen contestants struggle in despair. The newly selected contestant, Chen Xuan, is a shut-in who has read Journey to the West inside out and knows every mythological figure by heart. When he is transported to Gao Village, where bones lie scattered everywhere, and sees Zhu Bajie with a rotting, pig-like face and Tang Sanzang 8.6kReads7.9Score73014d adds
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The Death Spiral Game in the No-Man’s-Land 无人区的死亡螺旋游戏
To protect his younger sister, Chen Qiming is forced into a deadly game involving a thousand players. The rules are brutal: one round each day, and one death per round. In a childhood game riddled with traps, everyone around him is both an ally and a potential killer waiting for the next moment to strike. As trust crumbles and humanity falls away, Chen Qiming leads his team in a desperate search for a way out. But they gradually uncover the eerie nature of this world: the metal joints of the ant
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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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- 15 EN Ten Days to the End 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 1.7MReads9.9Score206.4k14d adds
- 16 EN Another World: My Life Has Cheat Codes! 异世界：我的人生开了挂！ [Vampires, werewolves, technology, potions, ghosts, biohumans, divination, puppets, and every terrifying element you can imagine: this world has them all.] Lin En transmigrated into such a bizarre otherworld and became an apprentice at a potion shop. "Something is wrong with that man! He never uses anesthetic when performing surgery!" "That shop is a scam! The moment you go in, they find a pile of illnesses even if you are perfectly healthy!" "But wait, isn't that shop supposed to be the bes 138kReads9.6Score16.9k14d adds
- 17 The Underworld Detective 阴间神探 My new work is out! You can read it on Tomato Novel. I hope you'll enjoy it. Your support inspires me to write, and I'll do my best to tell every story well! 73.8kReads9.4Score8.8k14d adds
- 18 The Eerie Case Coroner 诡案女仵作 A lazy salted-fish coroner who just wants to lie flat VS a workaholic commander who knows nothing about romance. They crack bizarre cases and fall in love over time. As religious sects rise to prominence, people commit murder in the name of gods and ghosts, and strange cases erupt throughout the Great Qing Dynasty. After dying from overwork, forensic pathologist Jiang Ning joins the Yuning Guard, an organization of imperial investigators, hoping to lie flat and coast along as a low-ranking nobod 1.7kReads9.2Score22614d adds
- 19 Chang'an Forensic Doctor: Using Bones as Evidence to Save the True Dragon 长安法医：以骨为证救真龙 Ling Yue, a modern forensic examiner, transmigrates to Chang’an with the Mysterious Bone Pendant. Using his autopsy skills, he cracks a witchcraft case and helps Li Shimin survive the Xuanwu Gate Incident, only to discover modern symbols appearing on the pendant. They are somehow connected to the mystery of the cursed egg that caused his grandfather’s sudden death, and share the same origins as a fragment belonging to the grandfather of Su Qinghuan, who specializes in toxicology. Unlike an ordi 1Reads—Score—14d adds
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Pleading Guilty 伏罪
[Now available in print] [Wild, calculating, wolfish captain vs. quirky, inscrutable genius girl, with deduction and crime-solving at the heart] Three years ago, Jiang An, the renowned genius girl of the police force, vanished without a trace after a meticulously planned bombing rocked the city. Three years later, Jiang An, now a famous mystery novelist, was arrested as a suspect and drawn into a bizarre murder case. Fu Jinhan, captain of the criminal investigation team, personally made the arre
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- 21 Eleven Madmen 十一个疯子 (Not mindless, no harem, no System, and not a conventional power fantasy. Please read with that in mind.) From the day you were born until now, have you ever had doubts like these? “Do I really exist?” “Does the world really exist?” “Why do I exist?” “And why does the world exist?” “Is my existence inevitable? If I die, will the world keep existing?” “At the moment m 38.7kReads9.4Score5.6k14d adds
- 22 Tracking the Unsolved Case 迷案追踪 Twenty years ago, a brutal murder took place in Jiangcheng. Song Xiaotian, captain of the city’s criminal investigation squad, was murdered at home. His pregnant wife, Yao Yao, was not only brutally killed but also had her abdomen cut open to take the baby. Their eldest son, Song Yunran, was five years old at the time. Traumatized by the ordeal, he lost his memory and could recall nothing about what had happened that night. Fearing the killer would come after him, Yao Yun, Song Yunran’s aunt, se 6.2kReads9.0Score73414d adds
- 23 The Strange Her 奇怪的她 The new girl is an oddball, but she’s smart and solves cases fast, so everyone figures they can put up with her personality flaws. She often forgets she’s “weak” and rushes into things, but she’s quick to admit her mistakes and has the right attitude, so everyone decides they can put up with her a little longer. Until one day, she sets her sights on the captain of the criminal investigation team. That’s going too far! He’s handsome, rich, and brilliant, and the two of them together look… well, l 8.7kReads9.3Score1.1k14d adds
- 24 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! 13.3kReads9.5Score2k14d adds
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