Novels like The Truth Beneath the Scalpel
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- 51 In the Wake of Evil 恶果之下 A murder tears apart a once-prosperous, harmonious family, while an unseen hand manipulates everything from behind the scenes. Determined to uncover the truth about her mother's death, Tan Wan throws herself into the police force, ready to make a difference. Just as she is about to get to the bottom of it, a man's arrival overturns everything she once believed. His closeness is like honey in a jar, drawing Tan Wan in until she cannot break free, and slowly leading her astray. What really happene 2Reads8.1Score—Shelves
- 52 The Bullied Intern Slaughters Every Villain with Their Own Hands 被霸凌的实习生，亲手屠尽所有恶人 A bullied intern takes it upon himself to slaughter every villain. 1Reads—Score—Shelves
- 53 We Used to Run Wild Back Then, Too 当年我们也曾混过 A fun-loving college student falls in love with a woman he shouldn't, setting off on an unusual journey through life. Back then, we were young and carefree. We got into trouble, and we were nobodies. Maybe we couldn't turn our lives around, and maybe we would never achieve greatness. But we would always press forward, defiant and untamed. We used to get into trouble, too. This story is dedicated to the youth we've left behind. —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 54 Cold Case Reopened: I Pursue the Killer After My Son Goes Missing 悬案重启：儿子失踪后我拼命追凶 Six years ago, Lin Yan, an adorable six-year-old boy, mysteriously vanished overnight. His mother, Li Muzi, went gray with worry in a single night. Everyone urged her to let go, have another child, and start over. Later, she quit her job as a full-time homemaker, got divorced, studied for the police academy entrance exam, and joined the city bureau after graduating. Could she finally solve this case, which she had painstakingly pursued, buried in the files, and forgotten by everyone for six year 8Reads—Score—Shelves
- 55 Crime Scene 罪恶现场 The story recreates crime scenes and explores the weaknesses of human nature. Behind every case lies a battle between the police and evil! Each case is adapted from a real incident. Any resemblance is purely coincidental! 7Reads—Score—Shelves
- 56 That Day, I Got a Call from a Classmate Who Had Died 那天，我接到了死去同学的电话 Months after a female classmate died in an accident, Su Mu unexpectedly received a phone call from her. In the midst of his terror, he had no idea this was the beginning of a series of bizarre and horrifying events. 7Reads—Score—Shelves
- 57 From the Start, I Got Drunk and Broke into the Women's Bathhouse, Then Solved a Bizarre Cold Case 开局醉闯女澡堂，破获离奇悬案 From the start, he drunkenly barged into a women's bathhouse and stumbled upon a bizarre case: the victim had vanished, yet surveillance footage showed they were still inside! They searched behind the walls and beneath the floors, nearly turning the whole place upside down, but still couldn't find the victim. Just then, Lu Chen awakened the Solve Cases to Get Stronger System. He cracked the human-fat soap case and thought it was a one-off. It was only the beginning! The shadow killer case in the —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 58 The Divine Detective 神探 A murder case brings agent Xia Lan back to her hometown, where she becomes the youngest captain of the criminal investigation team in Mengshan City. With the help of private detective Sun Yu, she uncovers the secrets behind one bizarre case after another: serial killers, unexpected culprits, and a mysterious criminal organization. It was he who made the Blue Enchantress bloom once more in the darkness. After darkness is dispelled, the brilliant detective ensures that the light remains. 10Reads7.7Score—Shelves
- 59 Fengcheng Crime Files 风城罪案录 Synopsis of The Windy City Crime Files At the turn of the century, the industrial hub of Luo City was known as the "Windy City." There, a criminal investigation squad moved between the ruins of steel mills and newly opened internet cafés, solving more than forty bizarre cases. The crimes spanned two eras: an old engineer died in a sealed-off workshop, while a programmer vanished into a virtual trading network. Each case was a snapshot of its time. Investigations ranged from fingerprint tracking 63Reads—Score—Shelves
- 60 The Half-Cigarette Detective 半支烟神探 He never smokes a cigarette down to the end; the cases he solves are never settled.?? At forty, Chen Mu is a legend who doesn't fit in with the police force. Sloppy in appearance and a little obsessive, he solves cases through a fixation on details and his odd habit of snuffing out a cigarette halfway through. From bizarre accidents to perfect murders, no trick can escape his notice. But Chen Mu has never been after the killer right in front of him. Ten years ago, his father, Chen Guodong, was d 10Reads—Score—Shelves
- 61 Livestream: The Ultimate Deduction 直播：超级大推理 [Please note: This book is mainly about livestreaming all kinds of murder cases, with the System playing a supporting role. Through this, the protagonist turns his fortunes around and defies fate!] Online livestreaming is highly advanced in this world, and the rules are downright bizarre! Zhao Kai, an unsuccessful online fiction writer, transmigrates here. He thinks he’ll have to scrape by until the end of his days, but unexpectedly acquires the “Mystery Story System” and embarks on a thrillin 16Reads6.8Score—Shelves
- 62 I Inherited a Paper Effigy Shop and Became a Case Consultant 我继承纸扎铺，成了破案顾问 [Supernatural Evil Entities + Case Solving + No Female Lead] Liu Xiangyi has mastered the art of driving out evil spirits. After helping his wealthy childhood friend crack a series of murders involving a snake woman, he unexpectedly becomes a case-solving consultant for the SCIG team, embarking on a journey to solve crimes, punish villains, and uphold justice... 137Reads6.4Score—Shelves
- 63 The Mist Finally Clears 迷雾终散去 9Reads—Score—Shelves
- 64 The Fate Ledger: I Tore Up Books to Reach the Top 逆命簿：我靠撕书走上人生巅峰 Late one night, Chen Yan came into possession of a mysterious notebook. He opened to the first page and was dragged into a hell of threads. When he barely made it back alive, he saw the words in blood on the page slowly seeping into an ominous, dark red. The next morning, during the staff meeting, his supervisor once again tried to dump the dirty work on him. Chen Yan tore out that page. An invisible thread seemed to stitch the supervisor’s lips shut. Not a sound came from his throat, and his f —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 65 He Hid in a Book and Ate My Secrets 他藏在书里，吃掉了我的秘密 He was hiding in a book, eating my secrets. —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 66 At Twenty, My Sister Sent Me a Photo of a Coffin: Don’t Worry, You’re Next 二十岁，姐姐寄来棺材照：别急，很快就轮到你了 At twenty, a photo of a coffin arrived from my sister: “Don't worry, you'll be next soon.” —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 67 After Being Reborn, I Choose Not to Forgive 重生后，我选择不再原谅 Revenge and a comeback after being reborn! In her previous life, Wen Ning died in despair, trapped in a mire of betrayal and slander. When she opened her eyes again, she had returned to her college days. There, she met Ji Yunshen by chance. His sunshine and warmth were like a beacon in the darkness, illuminating Wen Ning's world after her rebirth. But Wen Ning had not forgotten the pain of her past life. The flames of revenge burned fiercely in her heart. Drawing on the experience and wisdom sh 50Reads7.4Score—Shelves
- 68 The Silent Relic 圣物无言 Sullivan is an Irish archaeologist. A graduate of the University College Dublin Department of Archaeology, she could take carbon-14 samples at twelve and spent an entire summer at fifteen in the passageways of Newgrange. She should have been digging at Celtic sites, but an organization called the “Recorders' Guild” recruited her after reading her paper, “Materials and Chronology of Medieval Relics.” The Guild has only one rule: record the truth, and never interfere. She has traveled across Europ 1Reads—Score—Shelves
- 69 She Gazes from the Abyss 她自深渊凝视 [Historical fantasy] + [mystery solving] + [formidable partners] + [suspense] + [geniuses] + [deduction] In the autumn of the fourteenth year of Yongzhao, Song Chen, Vice Minister of Justice, takes on a case involving a set of human remains. In the examination room, he finds a young woman in plain robes cutting into the bones with a knife. Her fingertips are stained with blood, but she precisely extracts half a piece of jade from the victim’s throat. “When poison has reached the vital organs, th —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 70 The Academy’s Divine Detective 书院女神探 Seven years ago, Song Nanzhi escaped the fire that engulfed the Song family home. Seven years later, she returned to the capital under an assumed name, but Prince Qi Yuan saw through her disguise. Amid the mysteries surrounding the imperial examinations and the secrets of the academy, she bore a blood feud and joined forces with him to uncover the shocking truth. Also known as: The Young Prince Can’t Stop Flirting at Crime Scenes! Song Nanzhi: “I think the young prince is quite kind. Why is ever 93Reads8.9Score—Shelves
- 71 From the Start, an S-Rank Horror Tale: I Only Have One Block? 开局S级怪谈：我只有一个方块？ (Comedy, plot twists, wild imagination and logic, mild horror, and smart protagonists and antagonists) My name is Shen Mo. It sounds cool, but things went horribly from the start: no memories, no teammates, and a block… But! What do you mean, you can jump from dozens of stories up and land in water? What do you mean, you can blow up eerie scenes with TNT? What do you mean, you can beat Cthulhu senseless with the Sword of Cosmic Dominion? Oh, right. One more thing you should know: this is —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 72 The Forgotten Petal 被遗忘的花瓣 Article 16 of the Criminal Law of the People's Republic of China [Force Majeure and Accidental Events]: If an act causes harmful consequences in objective terms, but they are not the result of intent or negligence and instead arise from an unavoidable or unforeseeable cause, it is not a crime. Qing Li fell asleep with her head resting on the bright red cover of a copy of the Criminal Law of the People's Republic of China. The cover was still as eye-catching as ever, though the pages had yellowed 128Reads8.5Score—Shelves
- 73 Your Badge Just Restarted, and You Already Caught an A-Rank Fugitive to Report In? 警号刚重启，你就抓住A级通缉犯来报道了？ The same badge number, rebooted once more. Ning Fan, who never liked studying and loved getting into fights as a kid, awakened a random skill loot-box System. On his way to report for duty, he caught an A-level fugitive and brought him to the police station. Capture criminals to gain experience and draw all kinds of skills. [Target locked: Built-in navigation.] [Truth during interrogation: Answer every question.] [Follow the clues: Make the evidence appear.] Not much education, but a high case-s 977Reads7.5Score133Shelves
- 74 Night Watch Detective 守夜刑警 Everyone on the Criminal Investigation Team says I'm cursed. Someone died in a case my father investigated, my mother died in front of a mirror, and even my partner nearly lost their life. Then I took on the dismemberment case. The victim had been cut into seven pieces, each incision dusted with sandalwood powder. The forensic pathologist said it was the work of a deranged killer. I said it wasn't. Because in the second-floor window at the crime scene, I saw a woman in a red dress. Rain passed s 5Reads—Score—Shelves
- 75 Hello, Sunday! 你好呀，礼拜天！ This is a story about fate and human nature. Li Yang and the others accidentally create a “game.” Li Yang and other key figures are able to use it to transmigrate, discover fate, fight against fate, accept fate, and become part of it. Details bring about change; change comes at a cost; the cost leads to awakening; and awakening gives rise to new details. This is a logic-driven story with multiple parallel worlds. The numbered chapter titles refer to the contents of the game created by Li Yang an 2Reads8.2Score—Shelves
- 76 The Invisible Landlord 隐形房东 On the day Zhao Ming gets dumped, his company lays him off too. He thinks he has hit rock bottom, but then a lawyer calls: “Mr. Zhao, there are six property deeds left by your father that require your signature.” Ding Sheng Tower, 186 apartments at Riverside Gardens, storefronts at Jin Mao Plaza, lakeside villas... Only then does he learn that his father, a man who kept silent all his life, was actually Jinhuashi’s true hidden landlord. But the keys unlock more than wealth. They also open up a t —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 77 Pufferfish 河豚 [No brainless plot] + [No protagonist plot armor] + [No ghosts] + [Three male leads] A tightly paced, plot-driven crime-solving story. It all begins with a bizarre murder in the small town of Menghai... A dead man checking into a hotel, an unknown toxin, a mole in the police force, execution-style killings, a secret buried for years... In this case, criminal investigation captain Si Jiannan, case consultant Cheng Tian, and rookie officer Duan Luo untangle the clues and find redemption... Love ha 14Reads8.1Score—Shelves
- 78 Transmigrating to the Great Song: A Young Constable Solves Cases and Becomes a Legend 穿越大宋，小捕快破案封神 A modern SWAT officer transmigrates to the Northern Song dynasty and becomes a low-ranking constable. With his exceptional criminal-investigation skills, he cracks every baffling case under heaven! He solves cases and becomes legendary, his official career skyrocketing. From a petty clerk, he rises to become a powerful figure who dominates the court! 12.9kReads7.7Score1.1kShelves
- 79 Crows Descend on Sin City 鸦落罪城 (Mystery and deduction + criminal investigation + anti-drug operations + anti-corruption + mind-bending crimes) In Yacheng, Nanhuai Province, in the 1990s, a sensational case shocked the nation: the 712 serial murders. The case reached far and wide. The suspect brutally murdered a family of three, but the Qingsha Syndicate behind the killer controlled Yacheng's police, procuratorate, and courts, keeping justice out of reach. To solve the case, Zhou Zhen of the Nanhuai Provincial Police Departmen 3Reads—Score—Shelves
- 80 Disaster Profiling: The Entire Song Dynasty Is Hunting Me 侧写天灾：我被全大宋通缉了 [Crime Solving] [Brotherhood] [Extreme Contrast] [Dynastic Espionage] [Transmigration] He is a walking “profiling disaster,” and every time he uses his gift, he comes closer to becoming a monster. I am a constable sent by the court, yet I have become the only one who can “bring him back to himself.” When the whole world wants him dead, I tear up the wanted notice. “If you want to touch him, you'll have to get past the blade in my hand.” —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 81 Major Crimes Unit Nine: I’m the King of Solving Cases! 重案九组，我破案之王！ The criminal investigation unit at Xingchan City Public Security Bureau has taken on a difficult murder case involving a car. Five rookie officers are unexpectedly chosen by the chief to become undercover agents in Unit Nine. Along with handling some of the most vicious cases, they must uncover a terrifying secret within the Xingchan City Public Security Bureau itself. Setting their detective badges aside, the undercover agents set out to reveal the mystery surrounding Unit Nine… Why have three 38Reads6.3Score—Shelves
- 82 Men and Women in the Stock Market 股海男女 Ren Shaocheng doubled his money on Yongfeng stock warrants, and used his earnings to help Jiang Meimei. Jiang Meimei went to Hainan Province to make a living, while Ren Shaocheng married Pan Lan, a woman from the countryside. They later divorced. Ren Shaocheng married Yan Hua for love, but after Yan Hua failed at government bond futures, she took her own life. Jiang Meimei returned from Hainan Province to Chengdu and joined six others in forming the Limit-Up Whirlwind Team in the large-investor 8Reads—Score—Shelves
- 83 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
- 84 No Escape from the End of Sin 2 罪终难逃2 Cheng Yi, the male lead of this novel, is twenty-six years old and heads Criminal Investigation Team A in the Major Crimes Unit of the U City Police Department. Most of the time, he looks half-asleep and utterly listless. You’d never take him for a police officer just by looking at him. But whenever a case comes up, he becomes a completely different person. He investigates with utmost care and rigor, his mind racing even faster than a computer’s CPU fan. He’s handsome and charming, too, but what 24Reads—Score—Shelves
- 85 A Heart Stirs in the Moonlight 趁月色心动 [Detective Captain VS Surgeon, crime-solving + sweet romance, reunion after a long separation, rekindled love] [Xu Wanning's Version] When Xu Wanning sees Chen Zheng again, ten years have passed. He is a detective captain, while she is a murder suspect. “I didn't kill her. She framed me by taking her own life.” “What terrible thing did you do to make someone frame you by killing herself?” She returns to the country to uncover the truth about a fire from ten years ago, but one suspicious clue aft 3kReads8.8Score375Shelves
- 86 I'm a Top-Ranked Criminal, So What's Wrong With Becoming a Detective? 我堂堂头号罪犯，转业刑警怎么了 [Crime Investigation + Crime + Mystery + No Female Lead + Hard-Core Case Solving] Wait, is it really so shameful for a prodigal to turn over a new leaf and become a detective? My name is Su Xu. I was once the world’s most wanted criminal, with a bounty of one billion dollars on my head. I broke into the British Museum alone to steal back cultural relics, infiltrated a terrorist group in a war zone and killed its leader, and posed as someone else to bug the White House and steal its top secrets… 17Reads8.2Score—Shelves
- 87 Mystery in Dingcheng 定城迷踪 What kind of case could be even more terrifying than a dismemberment? What is behind the girl's strange behavior? What meticulous schemes lie behind each mysterious case? How will the untold story unfold? Watch as the Criminal Investigation Team One, led by Gu Chen, overcomes obstacle after obstacle and solves one mystery after another until they finally find the answers. 15.9kReads9.0Score1.8kShelves
- 88 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
- 89 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
- 90 Blood Night 血夜 Night of Blood —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 91 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
- 92 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
- 93 Who Killed Him 誰殺了他 Zhou Xu died at eighteen, just after graduating from high school. The cause of death was unknown. Yu Wan, twenty-four, was murdered and unexpectedly transmigrated to the year 2020. She figured that since she was here, she might as well make the best of it. Little did she know, she'd long since become a lamb waiting to be slaughtered. “Everything in the world, including me, is an absurd stillness. At this moment, my heart holds the most burning desire for you.” [Cool and fragile × Bright and unr 532Reads8.4Score113Shelves
- 94 I Didn't Sign a Contract, and Now the Gods Are Panicking 我没签合同，神明急了 On the day of the spiritual qi revival, everyone on Earth received a contract to become immortal. Sign it and enter a dungeon; clear it and receive a spiritual root. Ming Qi turned to page 34 and found a supplementary clause: The final right to interpret this dungeon belongs to the gods. She refused to sign on the spot. But when the countdown ended, she was pulled into the dungeon anyway. Only then did the System realize that, since she hadn't signed the contract, it couldn't assign her an ident —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 95 The Moments We Lived 我们活过的刹那 [How do you rebuild a life that has fallen apart after losing the one you love?] Han Yilan’s life collapses in an instant when her boyfriend of three years dies in a car accident. On one side is her unreliable mother; on the other, her boyfriend’s parents, who guilt-trip her into shouldering their grief. A handsome, refined forensic doctor is there to her left, and a cool but timid rich young man, nicknamed “Husky,” to her right. While worthy suitors close in from every direction, her best frien 3Reads6.7Score—Shelves
- 96 At the Crime Scene, a Prompt Appears Above the Victim’s Head 命案现场，死者头顶飘出提示框 [System-focused] [Crime solving] [Urban] Three months into the job, Gu Bei, a trainee forensic technician, was examining a hanging scene when a line of blood-red words appeared out of thin air above the victim’s head: [She didn’t tie the knot]. Using the bizarre clue, Gu Bei applied his forensic knowledge to reconstruct the scene and expose the truth behind the staged suicide. Then came [It fell twice] on the face of a car-crash victim, and [Died before the fire] on a charred body at a fire scen 2Reads—Score—Shelves
- 97 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
- 98 The Sound of an Axe 斧声 I work at a state-owned factory. The coworker who had lived next door for three years had been silent for three days. The moment I opened the door, I saw an axe embedded in her head... 8Reads—Score—Shelves
- 99 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
- 100 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
