Novels like The Clever Fool Detective
Books Chinese readers most often put in the same booklists as The Clever Fool Detective, best match first.
- 1 Six Relics to Banish Evil 六器渡邪 On a stormy night, the evil box passed down through my family shattered on its own, and I became a wanted fugitive accused of several murders. My only chance of survival was to recover the six cursed artifacts scattered across the Lin family. But they weren't treasures. They were instruments of torture, each one imprisoning the soul of someone our ancestors had tortured into becoming an artifact. Soul-harvesting rice from the Hungry Ghost Realm, a mending needle used to sew together a hundred —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 2 Old Alley Sound Repair: At Midnight Tonight, Qin Opera Calls the Souls 旧巷声修：今夜子时，秦腔引魂 [One Heroine + Sound Cultivation + Qin Opera + Livestreaming + Supernatural Mystery + Urban + Adventure] In modern society, information explodes across the world, and human negativity is amplified through social media, forming an immense “Tide of Resentment.” If no one guides and dispels it, within three years it will gather into a “Lament of Doomsday,” and the boundary between the worlds of yin and yang will collapse completely. Humanity’s power comes from “the Power of Wishes”: energy formed w —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 3 The Devouring Emperor Reborn 噬帝重生 “Old man with the white beard, you make the Dao of Eating sound incredible. So how do we attain the Dao?” “The Buddha says that killing one person makes you a First-Ground Bodhisattva, while killing ten makes you a Second-Ground Bodhisattva…” “Stop! We’re talking about the Dao of Eating!” “Eat one person and gain the Lesser Dao, eat a hundred and gain the Middle Dao, eat ten thousand and gain the Great Dao…” “Ugh… I’m going to be sick!” “Senior Brother! Are you done throwing up? Come help me app 1.8kReads8.5Score263Shelves
- 4 I'll Come Clean: The Cast-Off Wife Is a Global Billionaire 摊牌了，弃妇她是全球首富 I’ll come clean: this castoff wife is a global tycoon 1Reads—Score—Shelves
- 5 I Transmigrated into Tianpeng and Spent My Wife's Dowry First 穿越天蓬，夫人嫁妆我先用了 The moment Wang Hai opens his eyes, he finds himself as Marshal Tianpeng, newly reborn into a pig's body. In the cave, a rabbit demon holds out the wedding wine and smiles as she calls him her husband. She'll die in a year, leaving all her property to him. Looking at her dowry, Wang Hai decides to use it to build roads first. In the world of Journey to the West, he's going to establish the first logistics empire. —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 6 My Hopeless Life Became Even More Desperate 我无望的人生更加绝望 After something happened to her family, Mu Xia could never move on from that day. She went through life in a daze. Until one day, she accidentally entered a world of horror. And so began a fantastical journey. She made new friends, faced all kinds of events, and lived a new life. 1Reads6.4Score—Shelves
- 7 Born the Ghost King, I Subdue Ten Thousand Evil Spirits 鬼王命，镇万煞 I was born destined for wealth, good fortune, and a long life, but someone stole my fate, and I nearly died when a horde of ghosts surrounded me. The villains who swapped our fates never imagined that they would be the ones to lead me back to the Ghost King’s destiny... [Horror, talismans, feng shui, curses, folk customs] Ghosts demand lives on a rainy night; a painted-skin demon returns; a devil’s sacrifice; a snake woman in a mountain village; a cursed guesthouse; blood crows snatch souls; a m 9.8kReads8.9Score635Shelves
- 8 A Guide to the Supernatural in the New Era 新时代灵异指南 Qin An ended up becoming the very yin-yang master he hated most, on the night he was forced to marry a female ghost. Why did getting married mean signing a ghost marriage contract, too?! A fellow disciple who could summon spirits, a frosty female Taoist priest: even looking at either of them counted as cheating! Speechless, Qin An shielded the flame as he lit a cigarette for the mountain spirit beside him, then raised his glass in a respectful toast to the river ghost across from him, keeping it —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 9 After I Died, the Wolf King Went Mad 我死之后，狼王疯魔 After I Die, the Wolf King Goes Mad —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 10 I Mistook My Best Friend's Husband for My Boyfriend 错把闺蜜老公认成男友 I Mistook My Best Friend's Husband for My Boyfriend 1Reads—Score—Shelves
- 11 EN Everlasting 生生不灭 Young Chen Feng possesses an unparalleled divine artifact and cultivates peerless demonic arts. He battles the Human Realm, slaughters the Demon Realm, challenges the Immortal Realm, and charges into the Divine Realm. He fights his way across countless worlds, carving a bloody path to the heavens and becoming the supreme ruler above all. 5kReads7.8Score487Shelves
- 12 World Order Research Institute 世界秩序研究学院 In 2012, spiritual qi revival began. Unexplained supernatural phenomena started appearing around the world. Urban legends, online ghost stories, and unidentified creatures emerged one after another. To maintain human order, the government secretly established an organization: The World Order Research Academy, or the Prefectural Academy. It studies the supernatural, contains people with special abilities, and suppresses ghosts and gods. Every student selected is among the finest young humans. Li 4Reads—Score—Shelves
- 13 I Am a Corpse 我是一具尸体 I slit my wrists and bled to death, my body drying into a corpse. They buried me in the ancestral copper coffin, and I came back to life on the Ghost Festival. I wielded my corpse with the will of a living person. I crossed between the worlds of yin and yang. I have loved, hated, killed people, and destroyed ghosts. I am a corpse. I will never grow old. Standing at the highest point in this world, I looked down and saw nothing but desire. This is my story. This is my biography... 158Reads6.7Score—Shelves
- 14 Urban Hauntings: My Paper Knife Can Pierce Illusions 都市诡异：我的纸刀能破妄 The rating has just been released, so it may still go up. Zhang Ping, an unemployed advertising copywriter, is attacked by a paper figure with a slit mouth in his shared apartment on a stormy night, at the lowest point in his life. On the verge of death, he desperately throws out an old piece of yellow paper he has carried for years, unexpectedly activating a fragment of the ancestral “Blade of Illusion-Breaking” and a mysterious “Night Watchman System.” The System turns terrifying supernatural 3Reads8.3Score—Shelves
- 15 Happy Divorce, My Ex-Husband Can’t Hope to Match Me 离婚快乐，前夫高攀不起 Happy Divorce. Your Ex-Husband Could Never Measure Up —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 16 Ten Thousand Reincarnations: I Farm Deaths to Break the Universe 轮回万次：我靠作死刷爆宇宙 Dead? No, it’s the beginning of a fortune! Lin Feng, an overworked office drone, accidentally binds himself to the [Reincarnation Fortune-Making System]. The rules are simple and brutal: death means rebirth, and only a flamboyant death can bring victory! Every time he opens his eyes, he’s randomly tossed into a brand-new “feel-good novel universe”: One moment he’s humiliating the patriarch who broke off an engagement in a fantasy world; the next, he’s starting from the beginning in an apocalypse 17Reads—Score—Shelves
- 17 Returning After 5,000 Years of Cultivation 修仙5000年归来 Five years ago, Xiao Fan mysteriously disappeared. In truth, he had entered a vast cultivation world where immortals, gods, demons, and fiends coexist. He spent five thousand years there, mastering extraordinary powers. Five years later, he returned with unfathomable abilities. —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 18 Borrowing My Best Friend's Husband 借用闺蜜的老公 Borrowing My Best Friend's Husband 1Reads—Score—Shelves
- 19 Little Dongbei 小东北 Nature has yin and yang, and society has good and evil. An imbalance between yin and yang brings chaos, but so does drawing too sharp a line between good and evil. When righteousness dwells within, evil cannot intrude. When yin is balanced and yang is secure, the spirit is at peace. Your path is yours to choose: follow your nature, let go of judgment, and wisdom will shine. The Dao moves by returning to its source. In a word, avoid extremes and don't make the same mistake twice... 339Reads7.1Score—Shelves
- 20 My Parents Gave All the Family Property to My Younger Brother, Then Asked Me to Support Them 家产尽弟，父母求我养老 My Parents Gave Everything to My Younger Brother, Then Begged Me to Support Them in Their Old Age —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 21 Crowned in Yellow Robes: From the Start, I Delivered Takeout to Cao Cao 黄袍加身，开局给曹操送外卖 Chen Ping'an transmigrates into a parallel world and binds to the Myriad Worlds Food Delivery System. Other people bind to Systems to cultivate immortality, fight monsters, and level up. He just has to deliver on time. Good reviews earn rewards; after three bad reviews, he's erased on the spot. His very first order is headache powder for Cao Cao. In the Prime Minister's residence, Cao Cao is writhing in pain on his bed when Chen sets the medicine on the table. “Your delivery is here.” With a k —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 22 You Cast Me Aside, Now I’m Beyond Your Reach 弃我如敝，他日高不可攀 You Cast Me Aside Like Trash. One Day, You'll Be Unable to Reach Me —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 23 Supreme God King 无上神王 To pay for his mother’s medical treatment, Meng Fan broke his clan’s rules and went to mine for herbs on Jin Mountain without permission. By a stroke of luck, he obtained a black bead and inherited an unparalleled cultivation art. From then on, he turned his life around, crushed his enemies, challenged opponents above his level, tamed spirit beasts, and seized divine treasures. In a continent teeming with powerful cultivators, he tramples his rivals beneath his feet and defies heaven itself to b 7.4kReads8.2Score952Shelves
- 24 The Heaven Devouring Dragon Emperor 噬天龙帝 Jiang Tian is a gifted young man, yet a problem with his bloodline makes him a laughingstock, subjected to relentless oppression! Just when his life seems at its lowest, fate suddenly takes a turn! With a mysterious treasure his mother left behind, Jiang Tian fuses with the bloodline of the Savage Blood Divine Dragon, rises to power, and crushes every genius in his path! But as he continues to grow stronger, he realizes that the people and events around him are not so simple. Even this world is 8.9kReads8.2Score728Shelves
- 25 Strange Tales from the Wilderness: I Cultivated the Way Through Folk Secrets 山野诡闻：我靠民间秘术成道 Set against the rural folkways of the late Qing and early Republic, this world blends traditional Chinese customs, supernatural legends, and secret arts passed down through generations. Humans, demons, ghosts, immortals, and spirits all coexist. The land is dotted with spiritual ley lines, haunted burial grounds, immortal abodes, and sects of evil cultivators. Folk arts such as Lu Ban sorcery, spirit-medium practices, corpse-driving, poison magic, face-reading and feng shui, and talismanic Taois 4Reads—Score—Shelves
- 26 The Super-Grade Fisherman 超品渔夫 Reborn at the moment his wife leaves him and his family falls apart, he hides away in a small fishing village. Watch Yin Dong cultivate and raise a child at the same time, charm his way through the flowers, and stir up storms across the sea... 5.6kReads8.2Score757Shelves
- 27 Overhearing His Thoughts: The Icy CEO's Mind Is Full of Pink Comments 偷听心声:高冷总裁内心全是粉红弹幕 Eavesdropping on inner thoughts: The aloof CEO’s mind is full of pink on-screen comments —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 28 Live-Streaming the Nine Dragons Coffin 巜直播九龙拉棺》 [Live Stream: Nine Dragons Pulling a Coffin] 1Reads—Score—Shelves
- 29 The Icy Campus Belle Wants a Ghost Marriage? This Celestial Master Is Just the Man for the Job 高冷校花下冥婚？本天师专业对口 [Mystery] [Supernatural] [Horror] [Decisive and Ruthless] [School Beauty] [Invincible] Zhang Jiuxiao, a Celestial Master in a purple robe, perished in a mutual destruction with a fierce ghost one moment, only to be reborn as an ordinary senior high school student the next. After a previous life of bloodshed and turmoil, he considers it the greatest blessing to live an ordinary, peaceful life this time around. That is, until his cool and aloof school beauty deskmate turns deathly pale and tremble 857Reads—Score163Shelves
- 30 Growing Grass in the Eastern Wilderness 巜我在东荒种草》 I Grow Grass in the Eastern Wilderness —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 31 EN Path of Destiny 命之途 “Those who follow the will of Heaven suffer; those who defy it die! What can be done? Pray for the protection of Heaven and Earth? Little do they know, ‘Heaven and Earth are not benevolent; they treat all things as straw dogs!’ Born into hardship, watch how he faces life! After great upheaval, watch how he slowly transforms! As fate descends, watch how he fights against it! With halberd in hand and bow drawn, watch how he splits the firmament! Destroy the heavens, annihilate the earth, slay gods 2.9kReads6.9Score373Shelves
- 32 The Madman’s Bloodline Awakens, and Five Male Leads Fight Over Me 癫公血脉觉醒，五个男主相争我 [Two male leads, Korean webtoon tropes, everyone’s favorite, straight male bottom, highly intelligent, bottom-focused, not a harem story, male lead’s body is 24 while his soul is 20, an extremely complicated mutual-purity romance] Jin Bi finds himself inside a popular Korean webtoon. His father is in debt, his mother has run away, his grandmother is seriously ill, and his younger brother is still in school. To pay off the debt, Jin Bi has no choice but to drop out and work. “If you can’t pay me 215Reads8.9Score101Shelves
- 33 I Command the Ghost King and Become the Mastermind Pulling the Strings 我驾驭鬼王，化身幕后执棋者 [Slow-paced + ghost control + satisfying read + invincible protagonist + daily life] This story follows Mo Bai, who accidentally falls into a supernatural realm while out in the suburbs. After meeting a teammate, he successfully gains control of the Ghost King and returns to the real world. He gradually grows stronger through one supernatural incident after another, eventually becoming the mastermind pulling the strings. This is an invincible-protagonist type of novel, so please don't nitpick th 17Reads—Score—Shelves
- 34 Martial Dao Supreme 武道至尊 As long as a breath remains, hope never dies. Wang Chen, born with the Divine Martial bloodline, shoulders a heavy burden and sets out on the path of martial cultivation, carrying his family's hatred and his own dreams. He hunts down his enemies, seeks the Martial Dao, and makes his name known throughout the world. Leading his family and its declining sect, he begins his journey and faces one challenge after another. The road to the summit is unimaginably difficult, and endless slaughter spreads 8.1kReads8.3Score870Shelves
- 35 The City's Exorcist 都市驱魔先生 When shadows emerge beyond the reach of the city’s neon lights, young exorcist Jin Lei sets out on the path fate has laid for him. He inherits more than his family’s powers: he also inherits a tragic mystery spanning a hundred years. Why did his ancestor and fellow disciple turn evil? What earth-shattering scheme is the Xuanjing organization plotting from the shadows of history? From strange happenings on campus to bloody feuds in the countryside, from urban crime investigations to a battle ove 274Reads—Score—Shelves
- 36 From the Start, I Sold Mattresses, and the Sleeping Heiress Became My Strongest Ace 开局卖床垫，沉睡富婆竟是我最强外挂 Selling Mattresses from the Start: The Sleeping Rich Heiress Turns Out to Be My Strongest Cheat —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 37 Martial Emperor of the Heavens 御天武帝 The Great Dao has no form, and the Great Dao has no feelings. The young Chu Yan carries a heart of pure innocence. To pursue his dream, he is willing to cross mountains and rivers and shatter three thousand worlds, ultimately becoming a generation-defining Martial Emperor Who Rules Heaven. 12.7kReads8.4Score1.2kShelves
- 38 Report! I Caught One of Our Own 巜报告！我抓了个自己人》 Report! I Caught One of Our Own 1Reads—Score—Shelves
- 39 Reborn, This Monk's Dharma Name Is Jieshen 重生后贫僧法号戒嗔 After Being Reborn, This Poor Monk's Dharma Name Is Jieshen —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 40 99.99% Comedy Series: A Love Story Between a Monk and a Nun 99.99%搞笑系列之巜贫僧和尼姑的爱情故事》 The 99.99% Comedy Series: The Love Story of a Monk and a Nun —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 41 The Top Student System's Quest to Win Her Heart 巜学霸系统追妻记》 The Top Student System’s Quest to Win Her Heart —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 42 The Underachiever's Self-Cultivation 巜学渣的自我修养》 The Self-Cultivation of a Poor Student —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 43 Sand Belly 巜沙腹》 Sand Belly —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 44 At Forty-Five, My Daughter and I Swapped Bodies, and I Made a Hundred Million 四十五岁，我和女儿互换身体后狂赚一个亿 At Forty-Five, My Daughter and I Swapped Bodies, and I Made a Hundred Million —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 45 Night-Shift Security Guard: I Use Reason to Cut Down Glitches 夜班保安：我靠理智斩乱码 Night Shift Security Guard: I Cut Through Glitches with Reason —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 46 A Tomb Raider's Rules for Fighting the Japanese 巜盗墓者的抗日法则》 The Tomb Raider’s Rules for Fighting the Japanese —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 47 The Past's Gas Station 巜往事加油站》 The Past Pit Stop —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 48 The Bronze Talisman 巜铜符》 Copper Talisman —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 49 My System Is Here to Test Human Nature 我的系统是来测试人性的 My System Is Here to Test Human Nature —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 50 Dual Mastery of Alchemy and Martial Arts 丹武双绝 Pills can restore flesh and reverse the course of life. Martial arts can shatter the heavens and conquer every corner of the land. Qin Ming’s martial foundation is damaged, but through sheer determination, he awakens a divine-grade talent in the alchemical path. At the most crucial moment on his journey to becoming a Pill God, he is murdered by those closest to him. To his surprise, he returns to his youth. In this life, he will not only refine the stars themselves, but also reach the pinnacle o 33.4kReads8.3Score4.1kShelves
