Do Novelists Have to Solve Mysteries Too? [Classic Literature Crossover]

Mystery novelist Sylvie unexpectedly transmigrates into the body of a nineteenth-century London aristocrat.

The good news: she's wealthy and has no worries about food or clothing.

The bad news: her fiance is James Moriarty.

After meeting the famous genius mathematician and king of London's underworld, she runs off to Paris in the middle of the night without looking back.

Yet the week that follows is so full of twists and turns that one can't help wondering whether someone has cursed her with bad luck.

Luckily, her exceptional fighting skills and profound understanding of mystery novels help her escape danger time and again. She even solves a horrifying murder case that has left the Paris police at a loss, transforming herself into a renowned detective known to all.

But just before the fiance she had callously abandoned is about to leave Paris, he leaves her with a remark laden with meaning: “Having fun, darling?”

One day, Miss Sylvie Grigori, “London's newest famous detective,” “the most popular guest at tea parties,” and “Scotland Yard's savior,” opens a newspaper during a leisurely afternoon tea and spots the most prominent headline:

“London's most talked-about detective! Her fiance's moving statement!”

Sylvie frowns and quickly locates Moriarty's statement.

Moriarty: “Although my fiancee doesn't trust me and even ran away from home after getting angry with me, I still hope she knows that whatever she wants to do, I will support her unconditionally.”

Sylvie's private assessment: What a strong smell of tea! He gets to play the good guy in every way!

Being a celebrity isn't all it's cracked up to be.

Ever since she became a famous detective, her life has never been peaceful again.

The elusive “Phantom of the Opera” follows her all the way from Paris to London just to settle an old score;

Hiring tutors for her younger siblings somehow results in getting a “Napoleon superfan”;

After casually submitting a letter to a magazine's “Letters to the Editor” column, she unexpectedly becomes pen pals with Mycroft;

And young Sherlock looks up to her, becoming even more determined about his future career.

But the most absurd thing of all is that letter, “A Challenge to the Famous Detective.”

Sylvie: Let me catch whoever wrote that.

[Read Before You Start]

1. A crossover of The Phantom of the Opera, The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, The Red and the Black, and more. The pairing is with Moriarty.

2. The heroine isn't a good person. The focus is on mystery and plot, and you don't need to have read the original works to follow along.

3. The author doesn't know much, and everything serves the plot. Please don't nitpick!!! Just treat any plot holes as my own inventions! (Important!)

4. The timelines are rearranged and combined, with the Holmes timeline as the main reference.

5. The Phantom is based on the 1989 horror film version, though it's not entirely horror. It's a fusion of different versions, so supernatural elements will appear.

Here is an upcoming work (please add it to your favorites):

The Crime Planner Forced to Play a Good Person [Sherlock Holmes] (the male lead in this one is the original Holmes)

Calista Valemont is a crime planner from the future, well-versed in all kinds of criminal psychology and methods.

A chance accident forces her into a different space, where she is bound to a role-playing System and tasked with portraying all kinds of fictional characters.

But every one of these characters is a good person.

The first time, she becomes an honest and kind housekeeper beloved by a countess. But after the countess dies, she becomes the prime suspect;

The second time, she becomes a wise aristocratic young lady opposed to her sister marrying the man she loves. When that man is murdered, she is accused of the crime;

The third time...

Calista wonders: Do I really look like a good person?

Whatever role she draws, she always gets stuck with the good-person card, and people frame her every time.

How is that not an insult to her professional career?

So she decides to stir up trouble in secret to make things more fun, turning simple melodramatic plots into tangled messes that challenge both the NPCs and the other role-players.

After all, as long as the System doesn't judge her roleplaying to be out of character, she's fine!

But every time she tries to put her ideas into action, an annoying guy goes out of his way to stop her and ruin her plans.

Sherlock Holmes is a renowned consulting detective in London, highly knowledgeable and exceptionally intelligent.

A chance accident also sends him into a strange space, where he is asked to play characters of all kinds.

He might be the obsessive admirer of a housekeeper who has been framed, or the deranged fiance of an aristocratic young lady accused of murder, or...

But he also has another, hidden identity.

A detective.

Sherlock thinks this arrangement suits him perfectly.

Although the roles he plays are bizarre, he is thrilled to put his mind to full use!

How is that not an endorsement of his professional career?

But while enjoying this strange adventure, he seems to keep running into a malicious person who loves to trip him up in secret.

Every time he's on the verge of completing a mission, they use some underhanded trick without anyone noticing, changing the established plot and making his mission progress regress at a dizzying pace.

Sherlock: Interesting.

He is determined to unmask the mysterious person who loves setting traps.

During a brief return to reality, Sherlock shares the amusing events of the other world with his friend Watson.

But what puzzles him is that Watson doesn't seem surprised, as if he already knew all about it.

So Sherlock asks him directly.

Watson: “My friend, I've already read about the plot you described in The Days of Being a Good Person. If I hadn't known you for years, I would have thought you'd gotten so caught up in this novel that you imagined yourself as one of its characters, then told me the story all over again.”

After hearing this, Sherlock immediately buys every magazine in the series and reads them carefully.

In the end, he reaches a conclusion with absolute certainty.

The author of this story is the mysterious person he's been searching for all this time, and he himself is the “annoying guy” in their book!!

Theme: Never let down the things you love.