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The Wandering Swordsman 侠客江湖行传
It is said that two long-lost martial arts manuals, missing for a hundred years, are hidden in Shaolin Temple. One is called The Heavenly Soul-Stealing Manual, and everyone wants to get their hands on it. The other is the sinister Flying Cloud Palm, a martial art that requires a woman’s body for training and for channeling energy to heal injuries. To obtain The Heavenly Soul-Stealing Manual, the Demon Cult leader sent his chief guardian, Yang Yi, to infiltrate Shaolin Temple and steal it. But he
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Legend Management Bureau 传说管理局
(No harem, no formulaic plot, no invincibility, no System, no brainless decisions, and no wish fulfillment. Read with caution if any of that bothers you.) Du Yu dies an untimely death right at the beginning of the story. Hoping to secure a better spot in his next life, he takes a job with the Bureau of Legendary Tales. His job is to return to legends that have gone off course and put their plots back on track. He never expected that the first mission assigned to an ordinary mortal like him would
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Major Crimes Investigation Division 重案调查科
[The rating just came out a little low, but don’t worry, read on!] (A roguishly handsome, gentle criminal investigation captain × a cool-on-the-outside, warm-on-the-inside, delicate-looking criminal psychology expert + episodic mysteries + mutual salvation + two equally matched, devoted leads) Shen Mengshu is a 24-year-old psychology prodigy with an exceptional IQ. He’s used to treating everyone with gentle detachment, until he meets Yun Zhiyuan, captain of Luoyang City’s criminal investigation
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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
1.7MReads9.9Score231.4kShelves
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The Price Tag 标价
She was locked up for 406 days. After escaping, she helped the police take down the entire scam compound. Forty-nine people were arrested, and the evidence formed a complete chain. Everyone said it was over. She thought so too. Until the day before the case files were archived, when she happened to glance at an attachment to an interrogation transcript. Her name was on it, but not under “victim.” It was listed under “item number.” Above that was another line: Source of information: provided inte
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Records of the Tang Case: The Xinan Chapter of Qingxi 唐案清溪录信安篇
The disgraced Dali Temple official Lu Heng takes charge of Kaiyuan Field, bringing together a five-person case-solving team to build the Tang Dynasty's finest investigation squad. Following Di Renjie's meticulous examination of clues and painstaking deduction, and carrying on Su Wuming's mastery of breaking cases by reading people's minds and striking decisively, they handle one case in each place, never mixing them up. Every case is tightly constructed, with clues planted subtly and every detai
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A World Out of Balance 人间失衡
[Mind-bending suspense + short stories + no overarching plot + crime + criminal investigation + shocking twists + stories of ordinary people] The deepest wounds are often inflicted by those closest to us. A bloody case at an old family home, shrouded in mystery. Who is the real killer? After her father dies of illness, her sister-in-law sells her to northern Myanmar! The body of a baby girl is found in the woods. A kidnapping case turns into a murder investigation. Who would target an innocent i
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The Evil Tale (Complete) 恶谭（全文）
[Suspense + criminal investigation + deduction + episodic cases + the depths of human nature + no romance + crime-solving focus] “When a person’s heart is filled with darkness, evil takes root there. The guilty are not the criminals, but those who create the darkness.” A distress call received in the early hours comes from a dead person’s phone number. A murder in a village is reported in the news, with the Wolf God suspected of being responsible! Men in Liangcheng are repeatedly found to have b
1.5kReads8.8Score235Shelves
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Dawn of Murder 1: Undercurrent 破晓杀机1：暗潮
[Criminal Investigation and Deduction + Criminal Psychology + Stunning Twists + Horror + Wild Imagination] On the square of the Police University, a horrifying corpse lies curled inside a shattered sculpture, its face contorted as if frozen in a silent scream. Even more unsettling, a note found in the victim's stomach eerily foretells the crime scene. Chen Ye has only just become a police officer when he is handed such a difficult case, and this is only the beginning. A string of deaths shatters
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Lost in You 沉溺
A week ago, An Lan’s criminal investigation unit received a report about a strange kidnapping that had taken place on the night of the twenty-fifth of this month. The people who reported it were Long Jia, a student who had taken a year-long leave from Provincial Normal University, and her mother. During the rescue operation, an anonymous video appeared on the campus video-bulletin website of Xuan City’s famous Provincial Normal University. These two seemingly unrelated exposés would set off the
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I Inherited a Haunted House with a Hundred-Year History 我继承了百年凶宅
I inherited a century-old haunted house.
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I Awakened the Dragon Vein Legacy After Sleeping in a Haunted House 凶宅试睡后，我觉醒了龙脉传承
Awakening an inheritance in feng shui, I obtain the Nation-Protecting Compass, forge a bond with a sworn friend who will share life and death, break evil formations, lay tormented souls to rest, battle great clans, and repel foreign enemies. I expose the Japanese invaders' plot to steal China's dragon veins and protect the fortune of the land of Huaxia!
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The Horrors Are Hard to Kill? Sorry, I'm the Truly Immortal One 诡异难杀？抱歉，我才是真正不死
This book has been signed for publication, so enjoy it with confidence. [Death Regression + Foreknowledge of the Future + Kill the Saintly One First + Dark Tone + Supernatural Resurgence] After accidentally transmigrating to a world invaded by the supernatural, Fang Xiu awakens the ability to return from death, also known as turning back time. Whenever he dies, time rewinds to just before his death. In this perilous and uncanny world, he could have laid low, but instead he chooses to announce to
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The House of Dread 诡舍
[Infinite-flow + Mild Horror + Survival + One Female Lead] A driverless bus carried a group of cursed people to a strange black lodge… Inside the lodge stood a door stained red with blood. At regular intervals, the cursed were forcibly dragged through the blood-red door and into terrifying worlds, where they had to complete horrifying events… After Ning Qiushui survived one bizarre and terrifying story after another inside the lodge, narrowly escaping death each time, he discovered that none of
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Records from Within the Gate 门内录
Chen Du, heir to a family in the funeral business, discovers that “throat-locking saliva” has resurfaced while handling the body from a bizarre murder case. To protect his family, he defies his ancestors' rules and uncovers the secret of the “opening of the Yin Gate,” only to become entangled in a curse spanning thirty years. A Republican-era book called The Sealed Gate Register guides him in his search for the truth, but each of his companions has secrets of their own. When the long-sealed “gat
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The Unlucky Police Chief: Every Shift Brings a Murder 倒霉警长：一值班就来命案
Every case pushes the limits of human nature. Every chapter turns conventional wisdom on its head. Not for the faint of heart! My name is Lu Xun, and everyone at the Lijiao Bridge Police Station knows me as the “unlucky police captain.” I seem to have a natural magnet for murder cases. Whenever I'm on duty, there's a body in the Yu River, a corpse in a freezer, a dismembered body in an apartment, a body soaked in poison... One bizarre case after another always finds its way to me. The darker a
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The Mirrorflower Case Files 镜花罪案录
The Mirror Blossom Case Files In Nanzhou, an ancient city with a history of a thousand years, its most refined culture is being twisted into the most intricate criminal code. Rookie police officer Chu Ran discovers that behind an unsolved case her father has investigated for twenty years lies a dark network called “Mirror Blossom,” which uses Tang poetry as its code system. Its workings are chilling: the most elegant tonal patterns disguise the bloodiest criminal orders, while the most timeles
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12:17 A.M., Please Confirm Your Name 零点十七分，请确认你的姓名
In Qiheng City, people don’t simply disappear. First, the city erases their names, then convinces everyone they never existed. At 12:17 a.m., a fire alarm suddenly went off in a residential building in Qiheng City that had only sixteen floors: “Someone is trapped on the seventeenth floor.” Zhou Jiming, an engineer who inspected fire safety systems, checked the building plans, stairwell height, elevator programming, and exterior facade. Every piece of evidence proved that the seventeenth floor di
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Humans Should Not Die 人类不宜死亡
It’s just a game. Does adding the word “death” really make it any different? If my heart died long ago, what am I supposed to do? Ah... You say I still have teammates? Fair enough. If other people insist on dragging me along, I can’t just refuse and act like a jerk, can I? All right, they say high risk brings high rewards, so I’ll play the game in the riskiest way possible and see exactly what this game is, where it comes from, and what methods it uses to break people down inch by inch.
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Who Wrote His Crime? 谁书其罪
A single imperial decree can decide who lives and dies. A page from an old archive can rewrite the fate of the court. Sixteen years after the new dynasty was founded, the common people praised the fairness of the civil service exams. Yet every high-ranking official in the court owed their position to a rigged cheating scandal. Shen Qingwu is merely the lowliest document-restoration clerk in the Qingjian Bureau, but from the grain of paper, old ink, and forged seals, she can make witnesses “kille
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A Brief History of Human Torture 人类酷刑简史
For thousands of years, humanity has devised many ingenious and cruel ways to inflict pain on its own kind. This tragic yet seemingly universal trait has corroded the civilization humanity strives to achieve. Though we now seem to detest torture, for more than 3,000 years it was part of the laws of all Europe and much of the Far East. A Brief History of Human Torture explores the many forms of punishment, torture, coercion, and torment. It takes readers into the arenas of ancient Rome, medieval
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A Human Cage 人间囚笼
[Not a wish-fulfillment story + extremely dark + oppressive and suffocating. Don’t read if you’re faint of heart.] When you’re nearing the end of your life, you can actually feel it coming. Just like right now. The closer that moment gets, the more you want to leave something behind in this world. But what should I leave? Assets lose value, and houses change hands. Nothing material can last forever. So perhaps I should tell everyone my story instead. I’m no good person. I just occasionally feel
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True Tales of the Spirit Mediums: My Ten Years Serving at a Ghost Hall 出马仙纪实：我供奉鬼堂的那十年
My name is Zhou Tie. In this book, I'll tell the true story of my ten years running a spirit hall and serving ghosts. You've heard of spirit mediums... but have you heard of a ghost spirit hall? At eighteen, I established a ghost spirit hall and served ghost immortals! The presiding master was the sister my grandfather said had gone mad and died! This book has no female lead. It's not fantasy, and it's definitely not a cultivation novel! It's the true story of how I, born with an ominous yin con
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The Mad Princess Is Here: The Bewitching Demon Lord Won't Stop Clinging to Her 狂妃上线：绝色魔尊痴缠不休
[Strong heroine + strong hero + doting romance + no angst + comedy] She was once the most beloved princess of the empire. Everyone knew she was stunningly beautiful and extraordinarily gifted, the cherished darling of the emperor and the retired emperor. But everything changed on the day she came of age! The emperor's usual adoring expression turned greedy. “Xi'er, I've spoiled you for fifteen years. Now it's time for you to repay me.” The retired emperor's former kindness vanished. “Xi'er, you
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My Ghostly Husband, Don’t Be So Bad 鬼神老公，别太坏
[Devoted Couple + Supernatural Mysteries + Ghost-Hunting + Lots of Fun Tropes + Strong-Willed Heroine + Utterly Devoted Husband] My name is An Ning. I was born on Ghost Festival and carry a demon eye, so everyone thinks I'm cursed. Since childhood, a mysterious man I couldn't see has saved my life again and again. He told me, "If you want me to protect you forever, we have to make a marriage pact when you turn twenty." Then, on my twentieth birthday, my demon eye went out of control. I had a dan
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The Eighteen-Year-Old Great-Grandma Is Here to Restore the Family's Glory 十八岁太奶奶驾到，重整家族荣耀
[Eighteen-year-old great-grandma arrives to restore her family’s glory] Rong Yu was taking her eight-year-old son out when they were hit by a car and killed. When she opened her eyes, she had landed seventy years in the future. Her adorable eight-year-old had instantly turned into a decrepit old man, and she had gained a bunch of troublesome great-grandchildren. The eldest is a dim-witted CEO. The second has been entangled with a married woman and had his reputation ruined. The third is being us
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The Ghost Wedding on the Fifteenth Day of the Seventh Month 七月半，鬼娶亲
[Strong Female Lead + Mysticism + Devoted Husband + Ensemble Cast + Revenge] A short drama of the same name, July Half: The Ghost's Wedding, is now available. Its companion story, Marrying a Ghost Husband, Subduing a Hundred Demons, is currently being serialized. My mother said that the year I was born, strange signs appeared in the village: thunder and torrential rain, while all the ghosts wailed. Grandpa invited Seventh Granny, who delivered me herself. Only then was I born. Seventh Granny rea
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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!
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Sin Hunter Detective 猎罪神探
What's the most terrifying case you've ever heard of? The Corpse Immortal Madam, the Medical University's Sex Fiend, the Human-Head Planters, the Zombie Baby in Building Seven... There are no ghosts in this world, only wrongs waiting to be righted by a master hand. The legendary coroner Song Yang returns to the scene with his disciples, piercing through layer upon layer of mystery to hunt down the killers lurking in this world. Come face-to-face with the bloodiest, most baffling, and most hair-r
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Born of a Corpse, Carried in a Ghost's Coffin 尸生子，鬼抬棺
In ancient, remote places, all kinds of strange and terrifying things are bound to happen. And these things happen around Hua Jiunan. In fact, Hua Jiunan is part of them. For instance, he was born from a corpse!
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The Sins That Linger in the Long Night 长夜余罪
Crimes run rampant through the city late at night. Behind seemingly unrelated deaths lie layers of conspiracy and grudges decades old. Task force captain Huo Xun is called in during a crisis and leads his elite team into action. Forensic analysis, online tracking, psychological profiling, field operations and manhunts... Every case is a battle of wits against the devil. The end of the night does not necessarily bring the dawn. But as long as the truth remains hidden, they will never stand down.
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