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- 1 Police Ranks 警阶 He climbed from police academy prodigy to the pinnacle of power, every step paid for with a carefully calculated “price.” When his mentor becomes the System’s biggest stain, the final step toward promotion demands that he pull the trigger himself, aiming either at himself or at the rules themselves. —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 2 You’re a Police Academy Freshman, Is It Really Appropriate to Rack Up Merits Like Drinking Water? 你一警校新生，立功如喝水合适吗 Wang Heng got a second chance at life and once again passed the police academy entrance exam. As a new cadet, Wang Heng was on his way to report to the academy when he ran into two criminals preparing to rob a bank! As an agent of justice, how could Wang Heng let such a golden opportunity to earn merit slip by? He took the criminals down in front of everyone. When the local police station chief arrived and saw what had happened, he was stunned. “You're a new police academy cadet?” “Are you not a 54Reads7.1Score—Shelves
- 3 I Walked into a Police Station and Became the Bane of Crime from the Start 开局进警局，我成了罪恶克星 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! 658Reads7.1Score102Shelves
- 4 Reborn: The Counterattack of an Auxiliary Police Officer 重生之辅警的逆袭 Zhao Tianyu, an auxiliary police officer with over twenty years on the job, was unexpectedly killed while responding to an incident. By some strange twist of fate, he was reborn more than twenty years in the past, back when he had just gotten married and started working as an auxiliary police officer. With a new life ahead of him, Zhao Tianyu set out on a different path. From that moment on, he began defying fate and making his comeback. 37Reads—Score—Shelves
- 5 I Am a Detective: Giving Qin Chuan a Helping Hand 2 我是刑警：助秦川一臂之力2 A sequel fanfic to I Am a Police Officer, and the only one of its kind! Inspired by real criminal investigation cases, with high-stakes mysteries solved one episode at a time. There’s never a dull moment, and every twist is explosive! A veteran detective returns to the crime scene, and new cold cases keep piling up. Can you follow them through the fog and uncover the truth from the smallest clues? 853Reads—Score—Shelves
- 6 The First-Rank Detective 一品神探 He was a beat cop in a remote little backwater, so who could have guessed he'd stumble onto a murder case? Well, there's nothing for it but to step up and take charge! Maybe his luck really was turning around: at the city Public Security Bureau, he unexpectedly met a beautiful policewoman with a frosty demeanor. See how this low-ranking cop turns the tables, wins her heart, climbs to the top, and lives out an extraordinary career as a master detective! 102Reads8.1Score110Shelves
- 7 You're a Traffic Cop, So Why Are You Always Stealing Cases from the Criminal Police? 你一交警，咋净和刑警抢活？ Ji Fei transmigrates into the body of a traffic cop taking part in The Professions Uncovered, where he is responsible for explaining traffic laws. But he never expected that every case he came across would be a major one, and he awakens a golden finger as well. The more cases he solves, the stronger he becomes! Before long, the criminals are in tears. “I've had a bounty on my head for ten years and you still couldn't catch me. Then you show up and pin me down right away? Where's the justice in t 267Reads5.4Score—Shelves
- 8 I Can See Criminal Suspects 我能看到犯罪嫌疑人 Zhang Chi, an outstanding detective in 2025, is reborn in 2000, just as he graduates from the police academy. He had expected to join the city bureau’s criminal investigation team, but instead he was assigned to a suburban police station. After activating the System, he rises from disappointment and uses the System and his knowledge of the future to become a legendary detective! 593Reads6.8Score101Shelves
- 9 A Hundred Times More Brutal Than Criminals, and You Call Him a Cop? 比罪犯凶悍百倍，你管他叫警察？ Wu Wei transmigrates to a parallel world and decides to become a police officer again. On his first day reporting for duty, he awakens the Tough Cop System. Complete the System's missions or choose one of its suggested plans, and he'll receive a random reward. [Congratulations, Host, you've identified an A-Class wanted criminal. A flying kick straight to their weak point will earn you a clue related to the case.] [Use force against a petty thief, and once you're done, you'll receive “Godlike Str 10Reads6.6Score—Shelves
- 10 Reborn in 1998: A Young Cop's Rise to the Top 重生1998小警一路逆袭 Pure crime-solving Time flows backward, and fate is rewritten. Through a strange twist of fate, Lin Mo returns to 1998, where everything begins anew. This time, he is no longer the soldier forced to leave the military due to his injuries. Instead, he is a “rookie” armed with memories and wisdom from the future. Faced with a fresh start, he resolutely chooses a career in the police force, vowing to fulfill every ambition left unrealized in his previous life. Cases come one after another, from 4.6kReads8.3Score440Shelves
- 11 Reborn as a Police Officer: Li Muchen's Extraordinary Mission 重生警魂：李沐辰的非凡使命 A policeman from a local station is murdered for investigating a case, then transmigrates into the body of his own self from twenty years earlier. He leaves China's most secretive special forces ahead of schedule and returns to civilian life, becoming a police officer. In just a few years, he solves countless major and minor cases. As he investigates, the cases begin to overlap with missions he took on overseas before retiring. As the story unfolds, the truth about his past is gradually revealed 1.9kReads7.7Score161Shelves
- 12 Animal Crime Buster: I Became a Laid-Back Detective! 动物追凶，我成了咸鱼神探！ “There’s no such thing as the perfect crime! If there is, then I must be dead!”, The Slacker Detective “Top-tier criminals never confess on their own, because they know that if law enforcement has enough evidence, a case can be closed even without a confession!”, The Slacker Detective “I’m ready. You can start lying now!”, The Slacker Detective 458Reads6.8Score140Shelves
- 13 My Bizarre Skills Are Maxed Out, and You’re Telling Me You’re a Cop? 变态技能叠满，你跟我说你是警察 [System] [Feel-Good Story] [No Female Lead] [Lighthearted Pace] [Solving Cases in Everyday Life] When Xu Luonan woke up, he discovered that he had arrived in another world. (The blurb doesn't do it justice. Please read the story.) 1.4kReads8.6Score195Shelves
- 14 New Cop: Going to Collect a Bride Price, I Run into a Bank Robbery? 新警：取个彩礼钱，碰上抢银行？ [Urban, point allocation, crime solving] Also known as The Max-Level Detective: Even Criminals Call Him the City’s Light! In a parallel world at the turn of the millennium, Lu Sheng becomes an auxiliary police officer. After awakening a System, he sets out on the path to becoming a supercop. He becomes a rising star in the police force, and the citizens affectionately call him the “City’s Light.” On his very first day at work, bank robbers take him hostage. Lu Sheng erupts into action, and one p 9.6kReads8.8Score672Shelves
- 15 Zero Murder 零号谋杀 1kReads6.3Score129Shelves
- 16 Crime Solving: I Can Pick Up Memory Fragments 破案：我可以拾取记忆碎片 A small-town police officer transmigrates to a parallel world. From the start, in the interrogation room, he awakens a System that lets him pick up fragments of memory. From then on, he solves cases like a god... No female lead, no harem, crime-solving, transmigration. 4.8kReads8.5Score424Shelves
- 17 You Asked Me to Solve Cases, So How Did I Become Police Chief? 让你破案，你怎么当上警察局长了？ My new work is out! You can find 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! 11.1kReads8.6Score1.1kShelves
- 18 Reborn in 1994: From Rookie Cop to Criminal Investigation Expert 重生94：从菜鸟警察到刑侦专家 One morning, award-winning lawyer Zhu Yu woke up and found himself reborn in 1994, at the scene of a family massacre. It was the first case he had worked on after graduating from police academy: the June 23 massacre. In his previous life, the gruesome, blood-soaked scene had terrified him into fainting, making him the laughingstock of the entire criminal investigation team. The June 23 massacre had also remained unsolved ever since. Given a second life, Zhu Yu swears he will crack the case and c 26.3kReads8.6Score2.7kShelves
- 19 Tough Cop: I Earned Second-Class Merit on My First Day, and You Call Me an Intern? 悍警：入职当天二等功，你管这叫实习生？ A new work is out! You can find my stories on Tomato Novel. I hope you enjoy them. Your support motivates me to write, and I’ll do my best to tell every story well! 3.3kReads7.8Score350Shelves
- 20 From the Start, I Crack a Serial Murder Case and Shock the Chief Detective 开局破获连环杀人案震惊刑警队长 980Reads8.1Score108Shelves
- 21 Reborn in the 1990s: Solving Serial Murder Cases 重生九零刑侦，破获连环杀人案 “Help! Somebody save me!” A feeble cry for help rings out across the playground in the darkness! As the fog clears, a blood-soaked corpse is found nailed to the lawn, its vacant eyes staring straight ahead. The cries for help still echo in the air! Possessing a corpse? After being reborn, Ye Xuan binds himself to the God-Tier Detective System. Every solved case earns him special abilities and all kinds of rewards! From then on, Ye Xuan sets out on an endless path of solving cases! If your crimin 296Reads5.7Score104Shelves
- 22 Reborn as a Man of Iron and Blood, I Won’t Let You Down This Life! 重生之铁血男儿，今生不负！ A veteran undercover agent, reborn as a rogue cop! Chu Xiao had planned to coast through life and slack off, but he unexpectedly activated the Super Detective System. Super Eagle Eye, Track Someone Across a Thousand Miles, Rewind Time and Space… With all kinds of overpowered abilities at his disposal, he can spot the tiniest clues at a crime scene and expose the evil lurking in the shadows! He no longer fears the powerful, and dares to confront corruption head-on: “Who do you think you are?” He’ 704Reads6.7Score—Shelves
- 23 Slacking Off at Work, and a First-Class Merit Award Shows Up at My Door? 上班摸鱼，一等功自己送上门了？ Lin Feng, a police academy graduate, awakens the Lucky Slacker System: the more he slacks off, the luckier he gets. “Ding! Host detected slacking off. Luck increased tenfold.” “Ding! Host detected slacking off in front of a superior. Luck increased a hundredfold.” “Ding! Host detected slacking off under a security camera. Luck received a tenfold critical boost.” Lin Feng slacks off at work by hiding in the restroom to play on his phone. A wanted criminal runs out of toilet paper and asks Lin Fen 2.3kReads8.5Score221Shelves
- 24 You Were Supposed to Be a Cop, but You Arrested the Chief 让你当警察，把局长抓进去了 [All-Round Detective]+ [Fast-Paced Case Solving]+ [Rapid Promotions]+ [Catching Traitors]+ [Some Comedy]+ [Tentatively No Heroine] (A wish-fulfillment story. Fans of traditional police procedurals, please look elsewhere. Thanks.) Gao Yang, a special forces soldier, transmigrates to a parallel world and becomes a graduate of the police academy's criminal investigation program. Despite ranking first in the overall assessment, he is assigned to a police station in a remote area. So he can't become 896Reads8.3Score107Shelves
- 25 What? You Reached the Top of the Ladder in Just Five Years as an Intern? 什么？你一实习生5年就升到头啦 Criminal investigations, solving cases, a golden finger, teamwork, meticulous reasoning, criminal organizations, and a tightly connected plot. Watch as protagonist Zhou Mo uses his skills to move freely through the darkness! 4.8kReads8.4Score407Shelves
- 26 I'm Just a Beat Cop. Is It Really So Strange to Catch a Wanted Criminal? 我一个片警，抓个通缉犯很合理吧 Synopsis: Urban setting + One heroine + System + Crime Solving + Not a comedy Su Jie transmigrates to a parallel world (don’t compare it to reality) and becomes an ordinary patrol officer. He suddenly awakens the Crime Buster System, and from then on sets out to catch criminals and solve cases. On the very day he awakens the System, he happens to run into an A-list fugitive. On his way to the hospital, he casually solves a scumbag’s murder case, too. A human-trafficking gang that has stumped 5.1kReads8.8Score449Shelves
- 27 I Just Transmigrated and Solved a Major Case. That's Totally Reasonable, Right? 刚穿越，就破了大案，很合理吧 414Reads8.4Score100Shelves
- 28 You Catch a Whole Carload Every Day, and You Call Yourself a Trainee Cop? 一天抓一车，你管这叫实习警察？ Online love interest: Want to meet in person? Jiang Hao: Hang on, I'm busy. I might be a little late... Future father-in-law: Is that any way to behave?! Online dating is one thing, but you're late to meet her in person too? Can my daughter really be with a man like that? They have to break up! Ding! The Divine Police System has activated during your blind date. Arrest an A-rank fugitive! The father-in-law stared at the fugitive Jiang Hao had brought along as a meeting gift to the blind date 6.9kReads8.6Score769Shelves
- 29 Police Detective Dao Feng 刑警刀锋 Are you coming back to the station with me, or should I take you to the hospital? What? You're an adult, and you want both? That's a rather strange request... All right, I'll make it happen! A “famous quote” from elite detective Dao Feng. PS: This isn't simply a crime-solving story. It offers a panoramic portrayal of how public security bureaus handled cases in the 1990s. 4kReads9.3Score385Shelves
- 30 Police Honor: People's Safety Mission System 警察荣誉：维护人民安全任务系统 A new work is out! You can read my stories on Tomato Novel. I hope you'll enjoy them. Your support is what motivates me to write, and I'll do my best to tell every story well! 432Reads8.0Score—Shelves
- 31 The Six-Fingered Forensic Doctor 六指法医 Heaven’s justice shines bright; the wronged shall be cleared of their names. Lin Ran, heir to a family of coroners and a top student at a forensic medicine college. Guided by his family’s eight-character ancestral motto and armed with a remarkable ability, Lin Ran joins the police force to clear the names of countless dead. Along the way, he embarks on one terrifying investigation after another. “The dead can’t speak, but their bodies can tell me who the killer is!” The world has lost a doctor, 3.3kReads8.4Score367Shelves
- 32 Who Says This Detective Is Fierce? He's Absolutely Incredible! 谁说这警探凶，这警探可太神了！ [reborn + System + deduction + solving crimes + suspense + not a fast-paced power fantasy] A thug from a gang transmigrates after death into the body of a police detective and team leader. He plans to go back to his old ways, but then he gets bound to a crime-solving System that rewards him with prizes and draws whenever he solves a case. Thus a legendary detective rises to prominence, and no murder, cold case, or wrongful conviction can escape his grasp. Murderer: This detective doesn’t play by 9.9kReads8.7Score1.4kShelves
- 33 The Guilty Old Man's Notes 罪翁停记 The Radio Butcher, a ghost killing students on campus, a livestreaming influencer’s death, a deadly ice cream, a star player’s demise… Behind these baffling cases often lies the unknown side of human nature. Watch as police detective Yan Da painstakingly pieces together the clues and brings everything to light. His name is Yan Da. He was born on November 11, 1983, into a family of police officers, but somehow kicked himself right out of the criminal investigation team and into a local police sta 5.8kReads9.1Score532Shelves
- 34 Chen Zhu at Daybreak 陈竹破晓 A perfect locked-room mystery on a magic-show stage, the remains of an innocent infant in an abandoned brick kiln, a revenge curse from a wedding-dress doll, a string of murders at a resort, a death notice on a takeout box, a sacrificial mystery at a Taoist temple, a bloody livestream… With murders occurring one after another in Nancheng, Lu Xun and Su Wanqing join forces to unravel one mystery after another. They seek the truth amid the depths of human nature and the schemes of criminals, using 17Reads—Score—Shelves
- 35 Reborn, I Solve Cases on My Way to the Top of the Power Ladder 重生后，我靠破案走向权力巅峰 After being reborn, Qin Chuan starts out as a low-ranking police officer at a local station and begins turning his life around. No one can stop him. On his very first day after being reborn, he takes down a robbery and murder suspect with his bare hands, earns permanent status ahead of schedule, and receives a Third-Class Individual Merit Award. In his first week, he arrests twelve serious criminals in quick succession and earns a Second-Class Individual Merit Award. Now that Qin Chuan has been 963Reads8.5Score182Shelves
- 36 Rejected on a Dating Show, So I Arrested the Female Guest 相亲节目表白被拒，逮捕女嘉宾 Handsome and charming Han Cheng was forced by his mother to appear on a dating show. Hoping to activate the System, the socially anxious young man nervously confessed his feelings to the girl he liked in front of a million viewers, only to be mocked! “The male contestant’s financial situation is terrible! A salary of three thousand yuan won’t even cover one bottle of makeup!” “I’d rather cry in a BMW than laugh on a bicycle!” … His confession was rejected! Han Cheng immediately arrested the gir 6.6kReads8.1Score545Shelves
- 37 Me, I Arrested My Blind Date from the Start 我，开局逮捕了相亲对象 “Ding!” “System activated...” “Skills are now being issued...” Lin Ran, a newly hired police officer, awakened the System during a raid on a foot massage parlor. From then on, solving major cases became as easy as eating and drinking. Criminals of every stripe trembled at the mere mention of his name... 3.3kReads8.3Score360Shelves
- 38 A New Police Officer's First Day: You Caught a Wanted Criminal Right from the Start 新警入职：开局你就抓了个通缉犯 A new story is here! You can head over to Tomato Novel to read my work. I hope you'll enjoy it! Your support motivates me to write, and I'll do my best to tell every story well! 520Reads8.9Score103Shelves
- 39 I'm a Criminal Investigator in Northeast China 我在东北当刑警 A Criminal Investigator’s Memoir In June 2010, I reactivated my father’s police badge number, 063342, and became a police officer. My father died in the line of duty many years ago. I resolved to carry on his legacy and complete the work he left unfinished. More importantly, I would personally bring his killer to justice. As I investigated case after case, I gradually grew into my role and came ever closer to the truth behind my father’s death... 8.7kReads9.2Score1kShelves
- 40 You Were Supposed to Catch Suspects, So How Did You Become a Legend? 让你抓嫌疑人，你成就无敌神话？ [Transmigration and rebirth + System + mystery-solving + no heroine + no romance] Ye Changsheng transmigrates to another world. He wanted to become a teacher, but instead ends up as a police officer. With help from an unbeatable enhancement System, he rushes into blazing fires to save people, catches suspects, and solves all kinds of murder cases... Every completed mission makes him stronger. [Congratulations, Host! You’ve received a physical enhancement!] [Congratulations, Host! You’ve received 7.8kReads8.9Score689Shelves
- 41 The Detective's Mission 刑警使命 Ye Jiu, an orthodox inheritor of the Su Family's Taiji tradition and a former unarmed-combat instructor with a special operations unit, transfers to a local post as a criminal investigator. While staking out a suspect, he is struck by lightning and unexpectedly gains twenty years of memories from a parallel world. From then on, he embarks on an extraordinary career as a detective, cracking major cases, capturing key criminals, and crushing all manner of criminal gangs with iron fists. No one can 12kReads9.0Score1.5kShelves
- 42 This Auxiliary Police Officer Is a Little Too Strong 这个辅警有亿点强 The story of a rookie auxiliary police officer fresh out of high school. Armed with the strongest career System, he earns a salary of 1,800 yuan while doing work worth 108,000, growing steadily along the way until he becomes a legend in the police force. (This is not a brainless power fantasy. Please proceed with caution if that bothers you.) 47Reads8.9Score—Shelves
- 43 The Canary Murders 金丝雀杀人事件 Broadway's hottest star, Margaret Odell, known as “the Canary,” has been brutally murdered in her apartment at 184 West Seventy-first Street. The scene is a completely sealed room. As the police search tirelessly for clues, they only sink deeper into a fog of conflicting testimony. Everyone seems like the murderer, yet each has a clear alibi. So who is the real killer? Who slipped like a ghost into the star's sealed apartment and carried out the brutal murder? 59Reads8.9Score—Shelves
- 44 You Set Me Up on a Date with a Policewoman, and I Arrest a Wanted Criminal! 让你相亲警花，你逮通缉犯！ My new work is out! You can read it on Tomato Novels. I hope you enjoy it. Your support is my motivation to write, and I will strive to tell every story well! 40.8kReads8.1Score3.2kShelves
- 45 Back in the Eighties, I Solved Nine Thousand Murder Cases 重回八零，我破了命案九千宗 Returning to the 1980s, Chen Qingfeng gets another chance to relive his past regrets and revisit nine thousand unsolved murder cases. This time, he has a chance to make up for the regrets he carried from his previous life as a police officer... After taking a break, I’m short on money again, so I’ve started a new book. This one isn’t a power fantasy, and there’s no System or golden finger. I just hope to capture the feel of the 1980s and write another crime-solving story, a genre I haven’t touch 59kReads8.8Score4.2kShelves
- 46 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 195Reads—Score—Shelves
- 47 After Prison, I Draw Ghosts at the Police Station 刑满释放后，我在警局给鬼画像 [No CP] [Real Ghosts] [Criminal Investigation] [Personal Growth] [Daily Life] [Family Bonds] [Friendship] [Romance] [Human Nature] [Society] At nineteen, Lin Yaoyao killed her grandfather. At twenty-eight, her grandfather appeared before her again. [Yaoyao, what you see is what other people want you to see.] … [Jiang Ge: Yaoyao, when are you going to be my wife?] [Lin Yaoyao: Maybe in a couple of days.] … [Zhao Hao: Sis, where are my buns?] [Lin Yaoyao: In your back pocket.] … [Wang Yanjie: Yaoz 3.8kReads8.4Score545Shelves
- 48 Deadly Reckoning: Starting as a Police Officer at the Local Station 致命清算：从派出所民警开始 A young body + a seasoned soul = the youngest record-breaker! Li Nan, a former special forces soldier who transferred to the local police, accurately predicts events, avoids risks, seizes opportunities, gets industries off the ground ahead of time, and reads people and situations. He overcomes every obstacle, develops the economy with his far-sighted vision, and makes precise moves at critical junctures. In the end... 22.8kReads8.1Score2.2kShelves
- 49 Receiving Memories from Physical Evidence: I Am the King of Criminal Investigation 接收物证记忆，我，刑侦之王 Twenty years ago, my father suddenly disappeared while investigating a case. Twenty years later, Su Zhuo followed in his footsteps and joined the police force. By touching physical evidence from a case, he could access fragmentary memories that offered clues. Solving a case even earned him skill rewards. From then on, Su Zhuo’s career in law enforcement was one triumph after another. Tools used in crimes, items left at the scene, traces, footprints, fingerprints... As long as a criminal left beh 6.5kReads8.9Score490Shelves
- 50 The Laid-Back Detective: From the Start, I Show Up with a Robbery Suspect in Tow 咸鱼警探之开局拎着抢劫犯报到 Bu Tongfeng had hoped to lie flat, but somehow ran into an unreliable System. Before long, he found himself caught up in one bizarre case after another. Fine. If you won't let me take it easy, then none of you are getting away unscathed. I'll use the iron fist of justice to teach you that being a couch potato is an attitude, not a lack of ability. 3.5kReads9.2Score331Shelves
