Novels like The Yin-Chasing Detective
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- 51 Consumed by Love, He Became an Executioner 为情沉沦，他终成刽子手 Who was really in the wrong? A mother and son were brutally murdered. She was a married woman of irresistible charm. He was a hardworking, diligent carpentry contractor. On a quiet night, he climbed into her home and slit the throats of the woman and her son as they slept. —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 52 He Killed His Wife, Then Took His Own Life 杀死妻子后，他自杀了 His wife was dead. He had killed her with his own hands. He held her as her body grew cold, weeping uncontrollably. The moment the police rushed upstairs, he plunged a knife into his own abdomen… —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 53 The Court Summons Was the Best Gift I Ever Received: A Betrayed Housewife's Complete Account of Taking Down Her Scumbag Husband 法院的传票是我最好的礼物：被出轨主妇手撕渣男全记录 After three years of marriage, I thought I’d married for love. I never expected I’d actually married into a carefully orchestrated scam. My husband, Zhou Ming, not only cheated on me, but also worked with his mistress to transfer our assets and leave me with nothing. And the most ridiculous part? The court ruled against me in the first trial! The reason was that I couldn’t provide concrete evidence that Zhou Ming had cheated or transferred our assets. What a joke. In this day and age, are honest —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 54 My Late Husband's Secret 亡夫的秘密 I tried one of those viral TikTok tests and texted my husband: “Let’s get a divorce!” He replied instantly: “Fine. You can have the house, I’ll take the money.” My mind went completely blank! Was the marriage I’d always been so proud of really that fragile? I never expected a joke to reveal what he truly thought. Not long after we divorced, I unexpectedly received a massive inheritance. Just as I was convinced Ji Siming had already died, I received a text from an unknown number: “Wife, don’t tru —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 55 The Body Double's Deadly Game: An Amnesiac Wife's Revenge 替身杀局：失忆妻子的复仇 On our wedding night, my wife accidentally discovered my secret. She walked up to me holding that yellowed diary. “Chen Sheng! What’s this? Why is it in the safe?” After learning how important the diary was, she kept pestering me to tell her where it came from. Maybe I made it sound too real, because when I finished, she trembled all over and bolted out of the house like a madwoman. The next day, the police arrested me. But no one knew that I still had a get-out-of-jail-free card. —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 56 Detective: Congratulations, You're Under Arrest! 神探：恭喜你被逮捕了！ My name is Lin Fan. I’m a genius detective with expertise in psychology, anatomy, criminology, and criminal investigation! The youngest police captain in history. There’s no case in the world I can’t solve! 144Reads6.6Score—Shelves
- 57 Crime Scenes: The Cases That Shook the Nation 罪案现场，那些轰动全国的大案 This book is adapted from several real, high-profile criminal cases that once made headlines across the country. Baffling murders, shocking robberies, investigations into cold cases, manhunts spanning multiple provinces... Every case once stunned the nation; every crime concealed a truth unknown to the public. Told from a documentary perspective, this book reconstructs the crime scenes, investigative details, criminals' minds, and the full process of bringing them to justice. These stories are 80.1kReads8.8Score5.6kShelves
- 58 Detective Xiao Jiangnan 神探肖江南 Prosecutor Xiao Jiangnan loses his public post after being framed by organized crime. After leaving the procuratorate, he returns to university to study criminology and the evil in human nature. Once he earns his doctorate, his former classmate Liu Sanxiao helps him join the Xinggang Criminal Investigation Unit, where he is appointed a police expert consultant. Xiao Jiangnan makes use of his position on the criminal investigation team to solve a string of baffling cases, while drawing ever close 539Reads9.1Score106Shelves
- 59 My Dad Demanded Three Million from Me, Claiming I Was a Murderer 我爸勒索我三百万，说我是杀人凶手 My dad suddenly came to me demanding three million yuan. If I didn’t pay, he’d expose me as a murderer. How could he possibly know the truth about what happened back then? Someone must be behind this. So I took him to an abandoned villa in the suburbs. Let’s put an end to those two murders tonight. —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 60 The Brilliant Detective 妙笔神探 Wei Xiaoxi, a rookie mystery writer just starting out, gets the chance to observe the A Team's criminal investigations. She and Lin Mochuan, a police officer who's cold on the outside but warm within, work seamlessly together as they crack one bizarre case after another in Nancheng. 57Reads—Score—Shelves
- 61 Crime Scene 犯罪现场 My name is Shen Yuan. I'm twenty-three, and although I only recently graduated, I've already spent three years with the criminal investigation squad. In those three years, I've seen countless vicious murderers. I've also seen hypocrites slaughter people in the name of justice. Human nature is fundamentally good. But when a kind person raises a butcher's knife, you won't even get the chance to kneel. 722Reads7.6Score102Shelves
- 62 Crime Solving: From the Start, I Know How to Dismember a Body? 破案：开局掌握分尸技巧？ After three years on the police force, he finally unlocks a System and gains his first skill: dismemberment. When a dismemberment case comes along, he's better at reassembling the body than the forensic pathologist! Forensic pathologist: “Check him out, quick! This kid is way too good at this!” He gains all kinds of skills: dismemberment, butchery, traps, accidents, hypnosis... A murder on a rainy night, a serial killer, a killer targeting internet celebrities, a murder at a black kiln... 180Reads5.7Score—Shelves
- 63 A Ten-Year Secret Crush, Reunited at a Crime Scene 暗恋十年，重逢在案发现场 [Complete] [Post-marriage and child-rearing extras in progress] [Mutual crush] [Reunion after years apart] [Police captain] [Contrasting forensic pathologist] Shen Shiyin's boyfriend died in a car accident. At the crime scene, she ran into Lu Siyan, her former high school classmate. He was a criminal investigation captain who had been parachuted in from the provincial department. They had not seen each other in ten years. The reclusive boy from back then had become a brilliant detective who had 22.1kReads8.7Score2.7kShelves
- 64 The Truth Behind the Perjury 伪证下的真相 I’m a doctor at a clinic. One day, a patient vanished mysteriously after leaving. Two months later, the body turned up in the countryside. Then the police showed up at my door, investigating the patient’s death. The security footage had conveniently been damaged, and the medication records altered. The police kept pressing me with questions, and my younger brother could barely hide his suspicions. But I’d already prepared the perfect story. 1Reads—Score—Shelves
- 65 Crime Solving: The Master Detective of a Parallel World 破案：平行世界里的神探 701Reads8.0Score—Shelves
- 66 They Asked Me to Join a Travel Variety Show, Not Bring Reba Along to Catch Criminals 让参加旅综，没让你带热芭抓罪犯 [Livestreaming + Challenges + Lucky Charm + Crime-Solving + Entertainment Industry + Travel Variety Show + Reba + Baiting Criminals + System + Deduction + Mystery] Lin Chen transmigrates to a parallel world and becomes a student who has just finished his college entrance exams and is about to enter the police academy. But someone unexpectedly stole his guaranteed admission spot. Disheartened, he joins a global travel competition show and becomes teammates with Reba. The rules require contestants 121Reads—Score—Shelves
- 67 Cold Case Executioner 旧案行刑官 Police Captain Ji Xiao launches a livestreamed investigation to restore public trust, but the scene of a series of murders bears a secret code shared only by him and his older brother, Ji Lin, in childhood. As the whole internet calls for the “Shadowblade Killer” to be executed, forensic pathologist Chen Yan’s abnormal autopsy report, policewoman Zhou Yutang’s encrypted notes, and editor-in-chief Lin Zhao’s manipulation of public opinion gradually peel back the truth buried for ten years. The ki 9Reads—Score149Shelves
- 68 The Perfect Murder Plan 完美犯罪计划 My older brother died in an accident. While sorting through his belongings, I discovered it hadn’t been an accident at all. He had been murdered by his business partner. So I devised the perfect murder plan. The only catch was that I wouldn’t be the one to carry it out. The killer who murdered my brother would. 1Reads—Score—Shelves
- 69 Su Yi'an, Junior Minister of the Court of Judicial Review 大理寺少卿苏以安 Su Yi'an, the son of a Tang dynasty official, was raised in the countryside, where he and his grandmother depended on each other. By a twist of fate, Empress Wu Zetian appointed him Deputy Minister of Justice. From then on, he and two friends solved one baffling case after another. As they investigated, the truth behind his father's disappearance slowly came to light. 10Reads—Score—Shelves
- 70 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 4Reads—Score—Shelves
- 71 Forensic Investigation Case Files 刑侦现场鉴证录 A case-of-the-week detective novel, with each case telling a standalone story. Everyone is the protagonist of their own field. Thick ink-black darkness seeps into every inch of the city, while the stench of the sewers mingles with the rotting miasma of crime, drifting low through deserted streets and alleys. Darkness is a wound that never heals, silently festering in the gaps between buildings. One careless moment, and it can drag a living person into the abyss. As the lights in home after hom 435Reads—Score—Shelves
- 72 Daybreak [Crime Investigation] 破晓【刑侦】 (Crime investigation + suspense + happy ending + daily updates) Lin Yuanzhi, a newly hired criminal psychology consultant, joins the Criminal Investigation Division of the Quyang City Public Security Bureau. Wu Zhen, Liu Chuanxing, and the others face an astonishing number of trafficking cases, a serial killer known as the “Perfume Killer,” and an art exhibition called “Chasing the Wind,” along with one bizarre case after another. Working side by side, the division solves each case, arrests the 479Reads8.1Score100Shelves
- 73 A Spirited Young Woman Gets Scammed by an Old Creep 精神老妹被老登骗 A Spirited Young Woman Gets Fooled by an Old Creep 2Reads—Score—Shelves
- 74 Chinese Criminal Investigations: True Major Cases 中国刑侦：那些真实大案 Since the founding of the country, ruthless criminals have crisscrossed the provinces from south to north, committing crimes with savage methods and vanishing without a trace. Some spent years on the run, hiding in obscurity. Some worked alone for years without being detected. Others disappeared without a trace after committing shocking massacres. This book covers more than ten long-unsolved cases, each of which once shook the entire country. Some cold cases were finally solved after years of si 140Reads—Score110Shelves
- 75 The Shadow Serpent Mystery 影蛇谜局 The Shadow Serpent Mystery 10Reads—Score—Shelves
- 76 Case Files of a Homicide Detective 缉凶笔记 I’m a college student, and fate has entangled me in one bizarre murder case after another! A woman’s corpse sealed in concrete, an unidentified charred body missing its genitals, a deranged killer who feeds on human brains… One brutal, bloody murder after another, and one appalling mastermind after another! Driven by the fire of justice in my heart, I’m caught up in a series of dangerous, thrilling hunts for the killers… 8Reads—Score—Shelves
- 77 Apprentice Detective 见习神探 On his third day on the police force, Bai Ziluo faced the biggest challenge of his life: getting the former captain back on the job! Cases that seemed unrelated were linked by a mysterious cross, leading to a murder that had vanished from the record nineteen years ago. Follow a rookie intern as he becomes a star detective’s sidekick and searches for the truth, watching an aspiring detective grow step by step. Bai Ziluo: “Aspiring detective? No, I was born to be one.” Xiao Su: “Hmm?” Bai Ziluo: “ 98Reads9.5Score—Shelves
- 78 Casework: My Epic Showdown with the Criminal! 探案，我与案犯巅峰对决！ A nightmare from the start: transmigrate into a murder suspect's body, then turn around and teach the police how to solve the case. After transmigrating to a parallel world, Wu Wei becomes a high school senior filling out his college entrance exam application. Before he can finish entering the code for his final school, two police officers show up in his classroom. Officers: We suspect you committed murder! Wu Wei: ??????!!! After merging his memories, he analyzes the bloodstains... The officers 738Reads7.0Score115Shelves
- 79 Di Renjie Investigates: The Haunted Seal of Chang'an 狄仁杰探案·长安诡印 Di Renjie Investigates: The Eerie Seal of Chang'an 1Reads—Score—Shelves
- 80 The Ghost Hand Murders: Selected Detective Stories of Sun Liaohong 鬼手谜案：孙了红侦探小说精选集 “He climbed out of his grave and strangled the enemy who had framed him with his bare hands!” Sun Liaohong was a bestselling detective novelist during the Republican era. He entered the literary scene in the 1920s and reached the height of his career in the late 1940s. His “The Strange Cases of the Gentleman Thief Lu Ping” series became one of China's best-known detective series, as celebrated as Cheng Xiaoqing's “The Huo Sang Cases.” This collection brings together several of his classic detect 9Reads8.5Score—Shelves
- 81 I’m Trapped in an Endless Case File 我陷入了无限案卷 A cool-headed genius detective heroine × a street thug hero with a sharp instinct Chen Meng has solved countless cases. After every case is closed, she returns to “reality”: familiar streets, ordinary dates, and people who are alive. Then she discovers that none of it is reality. It’s the beginning of the next case file. The cases never end, because she has never truly left. 13Reads—Score—Shelves
- 82 Crime Investigation 罪案调查 Investigate a series of unusual cases, bring the criminals to justice, and ensure they receive the full punishment of the law. Let everyone believe that justice always prevails, that every criminal will be severely punished and none can escape. The people's police will see that victims get justice. The Lotus Town murder, the 312 serial killings, the locked-room murder, the kidnapping, the murder-by-proxy case, and others were solved one after another thanks to Zhang Wende and his teammates. 3.4kReads8.8Score229Shelves
- 83 The Violet Murder Shroud 紫色凶罩 A woman is found in a cornfield, impaled through the body by a steel bar. Was it revenge, a crime of passion, or torture? Read closely and examine every detail to find the answer. Otherwise, you won’t know the truth until the very end! 220Reads—Score—Shelves
- 84 The Bad Kids: Bloodshed in Northern Myanmar 边水往事：血色缅北 Here, they traffic drugs, murder people, trade in organs, commit fraud… They stop at nothing. I went from an eagerly anticipated honeymoon to falling into the hands of a criminal syndicate in northern Myanmar, and began a perilous struggle to survive. In the syndicate, I started out as a “piglet” and carefully worked my way up until I became the boss’s second-in-command. Facing this vast criminal organization, I had to struggle not only on the edge between morality and survival, but also with a —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 85 His Black-Gold Empire 他的黑金帝国 On the blood, tears, and lives of countless ordinary people, he swiftly built his own empire of wealth. His insane, colossal profits became a nightmare for 390,000 people. Behind the lavish mansions and luxury cars lay the financial ruin of thousands upon thousands of people. The gleam of 304 jin of gold cannot conceal the victims' final accusations, made with their lives. —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 86 Blood Night 血夜 Night of Blood —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 87 One Gunshot, and My Eight-Year Flight Began 一声枪响，我开始了八年逃亡 Bang! A deafening gunshot shattered the peaceful night sky over Zhuzhou. Lin Zeyu gripped the gun, still smoking in his hand. He knew that from this moment on, his life had plunged once more into a dark abyss. And it had all begun with a choice that seemed ordinary, yet was steeped in tragedy. 19Reads—Score—Shelves
- 88 Death of the Other Woman: 27 Stabs That Drove Her to the Brink 第三者之死：被逼至绝路的27刀 Beside the supermarket shelves in the early hours, a bloodied fruit knife clattered to the floor. When He Wenling plunged the knife into her husband’s mistress, the security camera caught her twisted smile. This housewife, whom the neighbors had mocked for being “too useless to keep a man,” had finally torn the smug, pretty face of Li Xiaoyun apart with her own hands. No one understood why, a year after her divorce, she had suddenly murdered her ex-husband’s new lover. Until the police opened he 1Reads—Score—Shelves
- 89 Di Renjie Investigates: The Headless Corpse Case 狄仁杰探案·无头尸案 Di Renjie Investigates: The Headless Corpse Case 2Reads—Score—Shelves
- 90 Notes of a Female Forensic Examiner: Cracking the Code 女法医手记之破译密码 Forensic pathologists have a strange and mysterious profession. They spend their days and nights with the dead, listening to the voices of the departed, speaking for the dead and clearing their names. A play, a terrifying case from long ago, a series of recurring bloody murders... Why does the killer leave a distinctive “death signature” on every victim, and what does it mean? Several dismembered bodies are discovered one after another aboard a train. As the investigation unfolds, a woman of the —Reads8.5Score—Shelves
- 91 Murder Case Alert Line 命案警戒线 As an ordinary homicide detective, Huo Xiang considers herself hardworking and tireless: digging up dismembered bodies in sewers, going undercover in red-light districts; hunting killers in remote forests, defusing bombs in skyscrapers; battling criminals at lavish banquets, catching fugitives at barbecue stalls. Huo Xiang has just one question: “When will I get to have a proper date with my celebrity boyfriend?” Her celebrity boyfriend, Shi Zuo, says, “My girlfriend is so obsessed with solving 268Reads9.2Score112Shelves
- 92 Marks of Guilt 罪痕 Is there always evil behind every crime? Real cases reveal the truth about human nature. [Crime Investigation] [Not a Web Novel] [Not a Wish-Fulfillment Story] Strange and major cases, from human flesh takeout and a cat corpse found in a belly to a body hanging in Xian Lake, are uncovered one by one across the country. 1.9kReads8.7Score211Shelves
- 93 Judge Bao Wisely Solves the Xiangguo Temple Fake-Death Mystery 包拯智断相国寺假死谜局 Late at night at Xiangguo Temple, I crunched across the frost covering the ground and stopped before a scholar’s corpse. His lips were purplish-black, and his palm clutched an embroidered shoe and a perfumed handkerchief. A sacred Buddhist sanctuary had become a slaughterhouse. A young qin player wept as he identified a monk. Three close friends pointed fingers at one another in court, while the daughter of a rouge-shop owner wept as she recounted her love affair. It looked like a crime of passi —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 94 On My First Day as a Constable, I Got a Headless Corpse Case 当上捕快第一天，就遇上无头尸案 On her first day as a constable, Xiao Qin encounters a headless corpse case. Madam Zou comes to identify the body. The moment she sees it, she bursts into tears. But after she gets home, there isn't a trace of grief on her face. Instead, she buys the finest satin to make clothes for her husband. Da Hu suspects she murdered her husband and is questioning her when a report comes in: another male corpse has been found in the western suburbs. —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 95 Judge Bao's Divine Verdict: The Bloody Case on the Bian River 包拯神判之汴河血案 A bloodstained secret letter arrives in the dead of night, and two bodies are discovered in a powerful minister’s household. The moment Bao Zheng takes the letter sealed with wax, he has no idea that this seemingly ordinary maid’s disappearance will uncover a shocking scandal in Bianjing’s canal transport system. A deadly secret lies in the black mole on the emperor’s throat. The golden hairpin worn by the wife of the surveillance commissioner, who loves feeding birds, drips with human blood. An —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 96 A Marriage Mystery in Kaifeng: The New Graduate's Fifty-Tael Wife-Murder Pact 开封府婚嫁疑案：新科进士五十两杀妻协议 On the eve of her wedding, the daughter of the Wang family catches her fiancé with a beggar girl clutching his wrist. The woman’s face is contorted, and she rasps the name “Wang Kui.” The words “wronged” are written in blood, seeping into the blue bricks of Kaifeng Prefecture. Bao Zheng grips the marriage contract from three years ago and sneers. “An empty coffin with no corpse. Was the scholar’s betrothal gift a human life?” The gold hairpin still lies in its box, while Sun Die, his childhood s —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 97 The Fake-Bone Mystery: Judge Bao Exposes a Tycoon's Filicide 假骨迷局：包公智破豪门杀子案 A five-year-old vanishes without a trace, and his birth mother is accused of killing him for his inheritance and sentenced to execution? A single ox bone reveals a shocking miscarriage of justice! During the Northern Song dynasty, Bao Zheng, prefect of Kaifeng, visits Xiangfu County and encounters an old servant pleading his case through tears of blood. An autopsy reveals that the remains of “Shennu’er” are ox bones, not human. The county magistrate rushed to judgment, and the case files are rid —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 98 Judge Bao's Divine Verdict: The Serial Murders at the Ancient Temple 包公神断古庙连环杀人案 Deep in the mountains, an ancient temple stands beneath a weeping downpour. While taking shelter, Bao Zheng witnesses a bizarre scene: a monk murmurs Buddhist prayers as he holds a tiger-head shoe; a scholar trembles with a poisoned pastry tucked in his clothes; a beautiful woman conceals a cold blade up her sleeve; and the tyrant Lu Zhailang curses arrogantly, “I am the law!” Lightning strikes. His attendants lie in a row, charred corpses. A baked cake rolls across the ground, and Lu Zhailang’s —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 99 A Strange Case in the Northern Song: Judge Bao Solves the Mystery of the Noblewoman's Beheading 北宋奇案：包拯智断员外夫人断头谜案 During the Northern Song dynasty, a bizarre murder case shocks Kaifeng Prefecture: the wealthy merchant’s wife, Madam Lu, is found decapitated, and her bed is soaked with blood beneath the brocade covers. On the night of the murder, her husband, Huang, and his sworn younger brother, Zhang Dalian, drink together until dawn, yet both claim they “never left their seats.” The household cook, Wu Laosan, watches with cold indifference, and his technique for killing chickens is uncannily like beheading 3Reads—Score—Shelves
- 100 The Case-Solving Adventures of a Dali Temple Officer and His Unlucky Brother 大理寺丞和冤种兄弟的破案日常 [Mystery + crime-solving + mind-bending + handsome men] Male lead: Xu Yougong, a nobody who has just joined the Dali Temple. Boss: A man with close ties to all the madams in the city’s brothels. Every time he goes to a brothel to investigate a case, he runs into Wang Shaoqing. Brother No. 1: An outstanding fighter, beautiful as a flower, born into a prominent family, and the man every woman in the capital wants to marry. Brother No. 2: A favorite of Heaven who can tell the future with unerri 551Reads8.8Score109Shelves
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