Novels like Detective Chinatown: My Cousin's Surname Is Zhang
Books Chinese readers most often put in the same booklists as Detective Chinatown: My Cousin's Surname Is Zhang, best match first.
- 1 Tang Detective: The Nameless Demon Detective 唐探之无名魔探 “I love nothing more than investigating the stories behind cases and bringing them to light.” That’s Kong’s catchphrase. Whenever he solves a case, he writes a diary entry about the story behind it. To him, solving cases isn’t just about processing data, it’s about human nature. In this book, you’ll follow the story of a detective from the Detective Chinatown universe. 26Reads—Score—Shelves
- 2 Oh No! I've Entered the Detective Chinatown Universe 糟糕！我进入了唐探宇宙 By a twist of fate, the writer Duan Mei enters the world of Detective Chinatown. In this incredible place, she meets the most important friend of her life, the teacher she admires most, and the love of her life. In this fictional world, Duan Mei also truly experiences the goodness and evil, beauty and ugliness, warmth and coldness of human nature. And so begins her journey of growth. 1Reads—Score—Shelves
- 3 I Transmigrated to Another World, and My Cultivation Can't Possibly Be This Awesome 穿越异世之我的修仙不可能这么牛 Gu Yuanyi is hit by a car and sent to another world, where gods, demons, and monsters roam, and everyone around her seems to have extraordinary skills. Wait, why does everyone know her? Why can she do everything? Does she even have a System? Why does she have so many secret identities? This is way too much to take in! She just wants to go home! Romance takes a back seat, with a touch of feel-good wish fulfillment. The heroine grows throughout the story. —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 4 Detective Chinatown: I Outrank Q, Shocking the Detective World! 唐探：排名超过Q，震惊侦探界！ [Feel-Good Read] [One Female Lead] [Mystery and Deduction] [Smart Characters] Tang Hao accidentally transmigrates into the world of Detective Chinatown, where he obtains the Detective System. Under the online alias "Charlotte," he helps solve numerous murder cases across the Dragon Kingdom. Most importantly, he's the nephew of Tang Ren, Chinatown's number-one detective. Tang Hao runs a detective agency here. Business is dismal, though, until another murder takes place in Guangdong... Then one da 176Reads—Score—Shelves
- 5 Reborn: Might Makes Right 重生之武力为王 In his previous life, Lu Li was a notorious school bully. He wasted his days, missed out on the love of his life, and was left with countless regrets, eventually meeting a miserable end in the mire of life. An accident sent him back to his school days. In this life, Lu Li resolved to change for his one true love, Luo Lan. Then fate delivered one surprise after another. After being reborn a second time, he unexpectedly gained supernatural abilities, and his physical capabilities increased several —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 6 Escape from Childhood Nightmares 穿梭童年噩梦逃生 Female-oriented, no romance, female protagonist. "Hey, come on! I'm just an ordinary Tarot card enthusiast!" One day, Wanhui, the Tarot-loving heroine, is sucked into an alien's live-action survival game and forced to escape from one deadly situation after another. Why is it set during her childhood? A female-led story with an important female supporting character. Later on, she works with the government, though she doesn't appear much. —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 7 Demon King: Believe Me, I'm Really an Envoy of Justice 魔王：相信我，我真是正义的使者 The gods spread darkness, cloud people's minds, and enslave their bodies... "Gods! You did not create this world. These living beings are the ones who made you what you are!" Reborn in a world of magic as a Demon King, Fen De loses his memories of this world for reasons unknown. After witnessing its suffering and enduring the deaths of those dearest to him, he resolutely sets out on a path of opposition to all the gods in the heavens... "If the gods lose the faith of all living beings, can they —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 8 Detective Chinatown: The Justice League 唐探，正义联盟 This story picks up after Detective Chinatown 3 and includes the TV series. I haven't added any other characters, since we've been waiting ages for more Detective Chinatown and 1900 came out, so I thought I'd try writing about him first. If you like it, please follow along. I really hope Kiko and Qin Feng get together, and I'll do my best to make that wish come true. 30Reads—Score—Shelves
- 9 You Asked Me to Write a Comedy, So I Wrote Detective Chinatown 让你写搞笑，你写唐人街探案 Li Yuan woke up one day and discovered he'd transmigrated. He was also competing in Huaguo's most prestigious live-streamed film creation contest! Contestants had to create a film based on a theme set by the organizers. The current theme was: [Comedy] While the other contestants were still making dark comedies and forcing in memes, Li Yuan pulled out a film: Detective Chinatown! The judges and audience laughed. A detective story? This is a comedy? But as the story went on, the audience realized 76Reads—Score—Shelves
- 10 Elegy No. 42 42号挽歌 Originally titled The Black Forest People are always hesitant when faced with time. But it was ethics, my future self, and my father from the past that turned my life into a mess and made the person I loved my so-called aunt. Unable to accept any of this, I want to kill my past self in the future and put an end to this farce. —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 11 I Promote Chinese Martial Arts in Chinatown, Shocking the World 我在唐人街弘扬国术，震惊全世界 [Urban + Invincible + Passionate + No Female Lead + Traditional Martial Arts + Physiognomy + Gu Arts + Medicine] Xia Huaqiang accidentally transmigrates to a parallel world, only to discover that Xia Country is being jointly suppressed by the entire world. After awakening a System that lets him grow stronger whenever he earns Shock Points, he starts pulling off all kinds of incredible stunts! He showcases Xia Country's traditional culture, teaching people around the world a single word: “Badass! 4Reads—Score—Shelves
- 12 My Guide to Rejecting 996 in the Cultivation World 我在修真界996反卷指南 After programmer Lin Qi worked overtime until he dropped dead, he transmigrated to a cultivation world built from code! Here: · Merit points equal memory capacity, hair count determines computing power, and going bald cuts your combat strength in half; · Sects are factories that exploit their workers. Disciples burn their hair to earn merit points, and voluntary overtime is called "the blessings of cultivation"; · System pop-ups fill the sky, inner demons are cache garbage, and demonic beasts ar —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 13 Where the Arctic Ocean Meets the Pacific 北冰洋与太平洋之交 Where the Arctic Ocean meets the Pacific Ocean —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 14 Fire Clouds at Dusk 黄昏下的火烧云 Fiery clouds at dusk —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 15 Or, The Fairy Tale Book That Writes Itself 或续写的童话书 On the anniversary of a loved one's death, a young girl suddenly barges into Qin Shu's home. Who would have guessed she'd want to marry him? Even more surprising, she turns out to be the “bro” he accidentally met online ten years ago. Ghosts and monsters run rampant throughout the world. Qin Shu has a book called the Tonghua Book inside him, but he never expected the girl to be a supernatural ability user who says she'll protect him from now on. So Qin Shu has no choice but to pretend to be an o —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 16 The Detective of Chinatown 唐人街神探 My new work is out! You're welcome to read it on Tomato Novel. I hope you'll enjoy it. Your support motivates me to write, and I'll do my best to tell every story well! —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 17 The Thousand Mechanisms Manual: Assorted Tales 千机册：什锦 [Xuanhuan] [Demons and spirits] [Beautiful shou] [Loyal dog gong] [Multiple couples] A Shi (gong) × Su Fujin (shou) Three hundred years ago, Mu Liushu suddenly died. To investigate his teacher's death, Su Fujin faked his own death and went into hiding. Following a lead, he headed to the Southern Wilderness, where he picked up a wild boy and brought him home, naming him A Shi. The boy isn't as innocent as he seems… Schemes and counter-schemes, forces stirring beneath the surface, and a vast plan —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 18 The Empty City of Love 爱的空城 [This novel contains no harmful messaging. Its theme is personal growth.] After entering a new school, the boy Sugashiki, who has stopped opening his heart to others, happens upon a sensitive, perceptive girl and reunites with a girl he knew in the past. Thus begins a story of healing the emptiness within each other... One way to interpret the title: Everyone’s heart is a fortress filled with secrets they think they alone understand. But deep down, the heart is fragile, so the collision of love —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 19 Detective Chinatown 2 唐人街探案2 The web series Detective Chinatown 2 stars Qiu Ze and Shang Yuxian, is produced and head-written by Chen Sicheng, and directed by Yao Wenyue and Wang Tianwei. It is produced by Beijing iQIYI Science & Technology Co., Ltd., with joint production by Beijing Yitong Legend Film and Television Culture Co., Ltd., Wanda Pictures, and Shanghai Chengya Film and Television Media Co., Ltd. It has been streaming exclusively across the web on iQIYI since February 29! Adapted from the web series Detective Ch 310Reads—Score—Shelves
- 20 I Want to Quietly Make My Way to You 想悄悄奔赴你 Behind Shen Chen, adored by everyone, lies a trail of muddy hardships. Meng Zhiyi: I hope you won't stay caught up in the past. One day, a ray of light will shine on you. Shen Chen: You are that ray of light. They choose each other and grow together. 1Reads—Score—Shelves
- 21 I Play Matchmaker for Ghosts 我给阿飘当红娘 I Play Matchmaker for Ghosts —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 22 The Radiant Star River of the Yuan Realm 元界耀星河 [Plot] [Feel-Good] [Genius] [No System] [Play the pig to eat the tiger] Lin Mo, a young man of the new generation, accidentally transmigrates to another world during an archaeological excavation. In this world, cultivation of elemental power is paramount, but danger lurks at every turn. Only by possessing elemental power can one become a true cultivator. Here, the strong prey on the weak, geniuses abound, and countless factions keep one another in check. Caught between them, Lin Mo has no suppor 2Reads—Score—Shelves
- 23 You Just Had to Pick a Fight with Me 偏偏惹上你 Of All People, I Had to Get Involved with You —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 24 Drunk on Your Shadow: Young Master Pei's Fated Love 醉影入怀：裴少的宿命之恋 Drunk on Love: Pei Shao's Fated Romance —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 25 Detective Chinatown: Starting with the Bangkok Murder Case 唐探：从破获曼谷凶杀案开始 [Detective Chinatown Fanfic] [Local Protagonist] [No Female Lead] Li Mu is an ordinary student with a keen eye for detail. After arriving in Chinatown, he meets Tang Ren, the "Chinatown Detective," and Qin Feng, the Chinatown detective. Watch Li Mu work his magic in Chinatown. 17Reads—Score—Shelves
- 26 Chinatown Detective: I Am the Master Detective 唐人街探案之我是神探 When truth becomes a weapon that crosses dimensions, who is stealing time? Su Chen, a forensic prodigy who has returned from studying abroad, is drawn into a mind-bending crime in Bangkok’s Chinatown. A gilded Ming dynasty Buddha statue vanishes from a locked room. Ice crystals contain traces of a 21st-century nanocoating, while a pocket watch flashes in the surveillance footage, reflecting a glint from Murder on the Orient Express. Stranger still, an “Omniscient System” suddenly loads into his 7Reads—Score—Shelves
- 27 Detective Chinatown: I Committed the Perfect Crime at Eight, and That’s Perfectly Reasonable 唐探：我八岁完美犯罪，很合理吧 [Dual male leads] Qin Hao transmigrates into a world of detectives. He becomes an orphan at an orphanage in Tokyo! Luckily, he obtains a detective System! On the day Qin Feng and the others solve a locked-room murder, Qin Hao works through 9,999 bizarre cases at the orphanage! [Ding! Congratulations, Host. You have completed your deductions, and your Crime Master ranking has risen to first place!] When Qin Hao’s ID reaches number one, the entire detective world is stunned! Q: Investigate this. F 108Reads6.5Score—Shelves
- 28 Detective Chinatown 1900: Fee Yang Gu? Fei Yang Gu! 唐探1900费洋古？废洋骨！ Fei Yanggu of the Niohuru clan, a Manchu Bordered Yellow Banner man of the Qing Empire, is a First-Class Guard serving in the Imperial Household's Auxiliary Office, a First-Class Head Guard in the Cangling, and an attendant in the Imperial Guard. He has been granted the right to wear the yellow jacket of imperial favor. With the Central Plains beset by internal strife and external threats, he leads the top fighters of the imperial palace to American soil to capture the rebels. He is devoted to s 20Reads—Score—Shelves
- 29 The Scheming Prince Is Completely Under His Wife’s Thumb 腹黑王爷是个妻管严 After an accident, I transmigrated into the body of the unloved legitimate daughter of the prime minister’s family and was forced to marry the prince of the realm. But in the name of peace between our two countries, he decided to marry a princess from another nation as well. I grabbed my bucket and ran off at once to roam the martial world, only to find him chasing after me... —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 30 Young Master Qi, Long Time No See 祁少，别来无恙 Young Master Qi, Long Time No See —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 31 I Am the God of Detective Work Across All Worlds! 我！万界探案之神！ After his soul transmigrates into the body of an abandoned family orphan, he finds himself a junior police officer. When he awakens the Super Crime-Solving System, he decides his first step will be to wipe out his own family! “I’ll make you see that every choice you made was wrong!” He also gains the Myriad Worlds Detective Plot Transmigration System. He solves cases in the real world, then visits detective settings at night: Chinatown, Criminal Minds, and Sherlock Holmes, where he helps solve c 111Reads5.3Score—Shelves
- 32 Mandela Tales: Do You Trust Your Own Memories? 曼德拉怪谈:你相信自己的记忆吗 Mandela’s Strange Tales: Do You Trust Your Own Memories? 3Reads—Score—Shelves
- 33 Bathe in Sunshine, Grow Toward the Light 沐浴阳光，向阳而生 Basking in the sunshine, growing toward the light 1Reads—Score—Shelves
- 34 The Biodiversity Rescue Plan 拯救计划之生物多样性 Art imitates life, and the diversity of human beings is far richer than you could ever imagine. After a strange encounter, Xiang Qingyun gets a firsthand look at what biological diversity really means. He will also become a “hero,” saving more people from persecution by the Shadow Fiends. As he journeys through time and space, witnessing all kinds of life, he saves countless people in need. This is a tale of redemption from the depths of the soul. —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 35 Break the Cycle! 轮回破局！ [Not a Frustrating Story, Not Mindless, Plenty of Foreshadowing, No System] I can't remember anymore. I don't even know when this damn apocalypse began. In this endless cycle, I die again and again, only to start over again and again... They say good people go to heaven after they die, and evil people go to hell. But why do people enter the cycle of reincarnation...? Who are they, and why do they say I'm in the wrong? Who am I, really? What have I done? Who is to blame, him or me? As my investig —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 36 Master Fu 符真人 Yong Wuhuanben was an ordinary wage earner. But an accident sent him transmigrating to a world of talismans. How is he supposed to survive in this world? How can he establish himself? 71Reads—Score—Shelves
- 37 Eternal Calamity 永浩劫 He takes a difficult first step toward immortality, entering a cultivation world unlike any other. A merchant from the village accidentally discovers the threshold to cultivation. And so begins an extraordinary journey on the path to immortality... 1Reads—Score—Shelves
- 38 The Chinatown Case Files 唐人街探案实集 3Reads—Score—Shelves
- 39 A Backflip Into Youth 背越式青春 Promote positive, healthy attitudes toward sports and challenge the stereotype that only geniuses can compete in athletics. Show ordinary people pursuing their dreams and reveal the extraordinary within the everyday. 4Reads—Score—Shelves
- 40 The Autophage 自噬者 The Self-Devourer —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 41 Apocalypse: An Era of Chaos 末世，混乱纪元 (Mystery, apocalypse, horror, twisted, dark) The Outer Gods awaken. Ancient history is altered, the present is reconstructed, and the future is turned upside down. A battle at the end of the world, an era of chaos. —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 42 Squad 0241 0241小队 [Traditional fantasy + ensemble cast + no harem + no System + no clichés] Ye Liufeng forms Squad 0241 and heads to the demon realm on a mission. They encounter a demon uprising, a war between demons and monsters, the path to godhood, a tournament to win a bride, flowers grown among buried bones, and all sorts of other events. Their next mission takes them to the Netherworld. Where will they go from here, and what secrets does this world hold? 1Reads—Score—Shelves
- 43 I Can't Believe I Switched Bodies with My Cheating Boyfriend?! 我竟然和出轨男友互换了身体？！ I actually swapped bodies with my cheating boyfriend?! 1Reads—Score—Shelves
- 44 Lillian by the Sea 海边的莉莉安 Pure Love + Two Strong Leads White-collar worker Li Lien has lost out in both her career and love, and flees to Xinghai Bay to heal. At Seabreeze Cottage, she meets Lin Shen, a sunny Host. From comfort at a street-food stall to standing side by side on the beach, two lonely souls heal one another. Amid the salty sea breeze, they grow together and write a romantic story of two people choosing each other. —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 45 My Exam Life 1: Wingless Rainbow Crow 我的考试人生1无翼彩鸦 There are no supernatural happenings here, no strange tales. Only dangerous and eerie chief examiners, sinister and scheming proctors, question setters beyond all comprehension, and candidates waiting like lambs to the slaughter. My name is Lin Ji. I am currently in the examination hall for the second mock exam of the Global Joint Entrance Examination, using a certain method to send a message to the unknown. Remember these words: “If you are a student, pay attention to whether strange incidents 1Reads—Score—Shelves
- 46 Pandora's Memories 潘多拉的记忆 Pandora's Memories —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 47 Master of Mind Games: Persuading the Impossible 心战高手：说服不可能之人 Master of Mind Games: Persuading the Impossible —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 48 A Love Between Two Worlds: Dreams and Reality 双面情缘：梦境与现实 A Double-Sided Romance: Between Dreams and Reality —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 49 Once, There Was a God 曾经有一个神 [Technology Meets Flesh] [Explosive Payoff in the Later Story] [Strong Female and Male Leads] [Survival War] [Lighthearted and Funny] [Vast Worldbuilding] [Cthulhu] [Disasters] [Plot Twists] [Insectoid Hordes] [Sweetness and Angst] [Wild Imagination] [Sci-Fi] [Romance] [A Touch of Horror] “Your existence is like the most special line of code in my program. Every time it runs, my ‘heartbeat’ goes out of control.” This is a plan for interstellar colonization. Humanity sets off on a long voyage, 1Reads—Score—Shelves
- 50 [Lobotomy Corporation AU] A Harry Potter Watch Party 【脑叶公司pa】hp的观影故事 When a third world appears in the magical world, when a world made from abandoned technology and magic comes into being, when the timeline is changed, and when a viewing screen appears in the Marauders’ Era... Heavily altered, massively altered, with a heavily altered Lobotomy Corporation background. OOC, lots of OOC. 181Reads—Score—Shelves
![[Lobotomy Corporation AU] A Harry Potter Watch Party](https://p3-novel.byteimg.com/novel-pic/07a08a98d35c71338a34a5832dda1aa8~tplv-resize:120:0.jpeg)