Novels like The Truth Beneath the Scalpel
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- 151 Testimony of Memory 记忆证言 Memory Testimony follows Lin Shouxi, a medium who can read the “marks of death” left on personal effects and use them to solve cold cases. Together with Su Rui, a brilliant scientist, and Chen Tao, a hacker, he forms a special team and infiltrates the black market in memories to take on the multinational organization known as the Archive, which seeks to collect and sell human memories. Each case is a forgotten life, and every time he touches a memory, his own begins to fade. When the truth behin 4Reads—Score—Shelves
- 152 Flower in the Bone: The Legend of Jiang Yanbai 骨中花之江砚白传 Jiang Yanbai, an official of the Ministry of Justice, investigates cases with a coffin in tow and becomes entangled in a cycle of obsession spanning three hundred years. Waiting for someone for three years, then three hundred; waiting until the heart becomes a flower and the bones turn into a tree. The most insidious curse in this world is nothing more than the words, “I’ll wait for you.” —Reads6.8Score—Shelves
- 153 Countdown to Murder 凶案倒计时 Have you ever seen an honor student in her underwear dancing in a morgue? Have you ever seen three kumanthong dolls singing a corrupted nursery rhyme in the dead of night? Have you ever seen four female college students, dead for days, ordering takeout with ghost money? I have. My name is Liu Cheng, and I'm a professional criminal investigator. My bizarre experiences began with the “Ghost Money Female Corpse Case,” which shocked the entire city… 25Reads6.6Score—Shelves
- 154 Street Fortune-Telling: From the Start, I Send Passersby to Jail 街头算命开局送路人坐牢 After transmigrating, Chen Luo obtains an ancient secret art. As long as he tells people’s fortunes, he can grow stronger. Fortune-telling on the street. “Hey, could you tell my fortune?” “Sure, but don’t sit on the stool.” “Have you got any manners?” “What are you, anyway?” “Why are you insulting me?” Chen Luo sighs and explains, “I’m asking what you want me to tell your fortune about.” “My love life. I want to know when I’ll get a girlfriend!” “Let’s put your love life aside for now. Your dad 248Reads7.3Score—Shelves
- 155 Detective Chen Meng: Twelve Secrets from Major Cases, Complete in 3 Volumes 刑警陈猛：重案秘闻十二宗（共3册） I’m a special crimes detective. Just one of the countless ordinary detectives out there. This is both a collection of criminal cases and a record of memories. In this novel, there’s me, my mentor, and my best friend. Like me, they’re each one of a kind, yet utterly ordinary. We once strode forward with bold ambition and high spirits. We once unraveled tangled clues, cutting through the fog to hunt down the truth. We also faced twelve major cases that left us grief-stricken, hesitant, and lost. M 211Reads6.9Score—Shelves
- 156 Nanjing, 1996: The Nanda Dismemberment Case Is Nearly Solved 南京1996：南大碎尸案快破了 In Nanjing, in January 1996, a female college student was cut into more than 2,000 pieces. Some say the killer was a pervert, others say it was revenge, and still others claim the killer wanted to “become an immortal.” I say none of them are right. “Evil has a source” is the greatest misconception in the world. Open the book, and I’ll guide you step by step toward the truth. 41Reads—Score—Shelves
- 157 Mysterious Case Files: The Strange Mark 破案迷踪之诡异的印记 The restaurant’s delicious “ostrich meat,” a husband drowned in the bathroom, half a charred foot in a trash can, a woman hanged in a roast duck oven, a dead woman giving birth, raising little ghosts, “human centipedes,” burying people alive as construction sacrifices, and a cat abuser. The methods of murder are endlessly varied: killing by chance, hypnosis, drugs, dismemberment, murder, suicide, crimes of passion, and revenge killings. The victims bear eerie markings. Little fingers go missing. 576Reads7.5Score—Shelves
- 158 The Marquis’s Daughter, Forensic Investigator 侯门女法医 Xia Zhuqing, a 22nd-century forensic examiner, transmigrates a thousand years into the past and becomes the least favored legitimate daughter of a marquis’s household. She exhumes the dead and investigates cases, admires optimistic people, and longs for a life in the sun. But after weathering countless trials, she finally realizes that the man who has always stayed by her side is the one who seems cold but has a warm heart. 349Reads8.8Score—Shelves
- 159 A Guest Without a Home: From the Start, I Went on a Rampage in a Psychiatric Hospital 无寄之客：开局在精神病院杀疯了 Also known as: Transmigrating into an Asylum, Taking the Blame First and Becoming a Sage Later Shen Mo never imagined he would be killed by his own hand. He thought the knife wound he gave himself in the psychiatric hospital wasn’t too deep: enough to frame his enemy, but not so bad that he couldn’t make it out alive. But when he collapsed beside the police car, he realized the truth: the human body is incredibly fragile. After transmigrating into another body, he hadn’t even opened his eyes —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 160 My Husband Cheated, So I Personally Turned Him In to the Police 老公出轨，我亲手把他送进警局 In the middle of the night, I got a call from the city public security bureau. They said my husband had been arrested for soliciting a prostitute and told me to come bail him out. I hurriedly denied knowing him and said they had the wrong number. How ridiculous. I was the one who put him away. Why would I go bail him out? My husband cheated, and my mother-in-law treated me like a doormat. Since I’ve already sent one of them inside, I might as well send the other one too. —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 161 I Woke Up After Being Knocked Unconscious and Became a Murder Suspect 被打晕醒来后，我成了杀人凶手 Yang Meng is a wildly popular outdoor paranormal exploration blogger, and my boss. The two of us went to the famous haunted “check-in spot” of Fengmen Village to shoot a video. There were four of us in all. Once we arrived, someone suddenly knocked me unconscious. When I woke up, I was covered in blood, and Yang Meng was already dead. The bloodstained knife was mine, and all the evidence pointed to me. But I know the killer is one of the other two who are still alive. He is still watching me lik —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 162 My Daughter Was Kidnapped, and the Kidnapper Turned Out to Be My Husband 女儿被绑架，绑匪竟是我老公 My daughter had just turned one hundred days old when she was kidnapped. I paid the ransom, bankrupting myself in the process. Then the kidnappers killed her anyway. I was devastated. But then I suddenly realized my husband was deeply involved in the kidnapping. —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 163 Pathological Growth: A Life Destroyed by My Family of Origin 病态生长：被原生家庭毁掉的一生 [Dysfunctional Family Background + Women's Growth + Causes of Crime + Family's Influence] Just how deep, far-reaching, and devastating can the effects of a person's family background be? Some people spend their whole lives healing from childhood. Others lose themselves for life in its shadows. A woman born of love and destroyed by hate, trapped in a twisted relationship that went from dependence to ruin, ended everything with 32 knife blows: her love, her hatred, and a life trampled underfoot. T —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 164 Murderous Testimony 证言杀机 When I was seventeen, driven by jealousy, I reported someone to the police for stealing. But I never imagined that years later, he would nearly destroy my happiness… —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 165 During Renovations on My New Home, We Found Thirty Million Hidden in the Walls! 新房装修，墙体里竟藏着三千万！ I returned to my hometown and bought the house next door. But during renovations, I found thirty million yuan in cash hidden inside the wall! 1Reads—Score—Shelves
- 166 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
- 167 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
- 168 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
- 169 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
- 170 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
- 171 A Survival Guide to Strange Tales: The Headless Girl's Evolution 【怪谈生存指南】无头少女进化论 [Main Plot] [Mild Horror] [Eerie Otherworld] [Urban Legends] [Beloved Girl, Everyone's Favorite] [Content Warning: The female lead is an aloof, low-energy type with a gravity-like personality, and this is a reverse harem.] What do you do when you accidentally end up in the Otherworld? This awful place is full of bizarre rules and monsters. One wrong move, and your whole team gets wiped out! There's the woman in red in the stairwell, the headless monster in the classroom, the cat-faced monster th 1.7kReads—Score234Shelves
- 172 Night of Life and Death 生死夜 During the Dasheng era, at the end of every ten-day period, black fog would seal off a place and bring buried disasters back to life. Shen Yan, a low-ranking clerk in Huaishui County, witnessed his mother’s murder with his own eyes. Yet when dawn came, the family register, the neighbors, and even the county office all insisted that no such person had ever existed. The blood-written message his mother left behind, “Don’t trust the Yellow Register,” became his only clue. He and his companions plun 2Reads—Score—Shelves
- 173 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
- 174 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
- 175 Hunting Killers in the Forbidden Zone: Unsolved Murders and the Secret Network of the Dark City 禁区追凶：连环绝案，暗城秘网 Surviving witnesses from an old case are dying one after another under mysterious circumstances. The unsolved case grows more tangled by the day, and every clue points toward a web of hidden interests, deeply entrenched in the heart of the city. One man breaks free of rigid procedures and trusts only the smallest truths at the scene. The other holds fast to the law and refuses to compromise with the forces of darkness. The two male leads stand shoulder to shoulder, pushing forward against the 4Reads—Score—Shelves
- 176 Fierce Shadow 凶影 If you enjoy works like "Medical Examiner Qin Ming" and "The Knockout", this novel will keep you up all night. Every chapter is a shovel-full, and every shovel-full might uncover a corpse, or a truth you can't bring yourself to believe. 3Reads—Score—Shelves
- 177 What?! My Biggest Fan Is Actually My Boss 惊！忠实铁粉竟是我上司 Not your traditional CEO romance [Top-tier, hugely popular concept artist + heir to a family fortune worth tens of billions] [Two introverts saving each other, falling in love over time, and a sweet, fluffy romance with no angst] The male lead is gentle and mature, but very cold toward people he doesn’t know. The female lead is starved for affection, innocent, and sweetly melancholic. Accidentally sent the wrong message to your boss? Rong Zhiruo’s personal experience shows that if he’s single, y 18Reads8.1Score—Shelves
- 178 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
- 179 The Whole City Says I Agreed 全城都说我同意 After waking up, a delivery driver discovers that the System has stolen forty-seven minutes from him. The surveillance footage never cut out, and the records were not falsified, yet that stretch of time he can't remember has already made him responsible for an accident. Bailing and Chenfeng, the investigators on the case, soon run into a "most cost-conscious" household AI, a child engineered to be perfect, unlimited permissions granted with a single click, and someone convicted before their crim 3Reads—Score154Shelves
- 180 The Psychiatric Hospital Murder: A High-IQ Crime Detective 精神病院谋杀案高智商犯罪侦探 The murder of Li Zhiming, director of a psychiatric hospital, unexpectedly unravels a child abduction case from 32 years ago. New and old cases intertwine, mysteries pile up, and a web of clues connects everything. Human nature and animal instinct collide as detectives take on what appears to be a perfect crime. Who will outsmart whom? A mind-bending tale of a high-IQ criminal with mental illness! 12Reads—Score—Shelves
- 181 The Night Flight Lost and Found 夜航失物局 On a rainy night after being laid off, lost-property archivist Lu Wen receives an impossible claim slip: go to the subway entrance and retrieve a child’s umbrella that won’t be lost until tomorrow. The moment he touches its handle, he hears seventeen seconds of sobbing from the future. From then on, his camera captures tomorrow night, and the last train takes him to a platform that doesn’t exist on any map. Every lost item he returns brings him closer to the truth, but farther from his own memor —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 182 A Double Murder in an Aristocratic Estate 高门私宅双杀命案 This is a true tragedy that took place in Cixi County, Zhejiang Province, during the Jiaqing era of the Qing dynasty. After a heavy rain, a father and son who had gone up the mountain to gather herbs discovered a woman's body on the hillside behind the Chen residence. The victim was identified as Chen A Mao, the eldest daughter of the Chen family. Chen Yongjin, head of the Chen family, claimed that his granddaughter A Mao had been having an affair with their servant Gao Hongtong, and that in a —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 183 The Dead Speak: Cases from Harbor City 尸语追凶：港城谜案录 In a prosperous harbor city where neon lights blot out the sky, crime never sleeps in the shadows. A red-clad corpse found floating in Victoria Harbour shocks the entire city and sets off a string of murders. It also forces three people who can barely stand one another to form an unlikely crime-solving trio. He is Lu Chen, a senior inspector in the Major Crimes Unit: domineering and hot-tempered, he trusts experience and speed. Beneath his machismo, he is protective and soft-hearted, but he can 412Reads—Score111Shelves
- 184 Reborn in 1998: I Can Replay Crime Scene Footage 重生98：我能回放案发录像 105Reads—Score290Shelves
- 185 Lone Cop 孤警 He is meticulous when solving cases, but has terribly poor social skills in everyday life. He was once called a “pervert” for following a single woman. A procedural crime series in which every protagonist and supporting character is intelligent and capable. The pacing is brisk, with roughly one case every ten chapters. The twists are unexpected, and behind each case are the joys and sorrows of human life and the darkness of human nature. The male lead was born with a disability. He became a poli 795Reads8.4Score102Shelves
- 186 A World Without Epidemics, But I Have a Medical Textbook 无疫世界：但我有一本医学教材 Just started getting rated; the score will rise. [Medical Mystery + Knowledge Monopoly + Slow Burn + Scientific Superpowers + One Female Lead] When the first body was pulled from the South City drainage canal, no one knew what those purplish-blue hands meant. Only I knew: I had just died once myself in that strange textbook! In this world, the very concept of “disease” doesn’t exist. No microorganisms cause illness, and hospitals only treat injuries and broken bones. But that textbook, which sho 39Reads8.0Score—Shelves
- 187 Thriller Game: Everyone Struggles to Survive, While I Ascend to Godhood Alone 惊悚游戏：众生苟存！我独自封神 [Wish-Fulfillment] + [Rule Horror] + [Eerie] + [Infinite Flow] + [Mind-Bending] + [Play the Pig to Eat the Tiger] + [Roleplay] + [Hacking the Backend] Welcome to the [Multiverse Horror Show]! This is a death livestream that uses human fear to drive its ratings, and the lives and deaths of billions of beings to entertain higher-dimensional civilizations. Here, players either scrape by with divine artifact inheritances or become ratings fodder beneath the claws of vengeful ghosts. Earth's survival —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 188 The Long Night Dawns: Silent Testimony 长夜将明：无声的证词 [Mind-bending mystery | Case-by-case investigations | Hard-core criminal investigations | High-stakes twists | A tender-hearted police team] The long night looms like a mountain, and mist engulfs the city. When every clue points to the person who seems least likely to be guilty, Leng Hanzhou is forced to make the hardest choice, on the fine line between justice and the law. Because some silent testimony has always been hidden in the darkest depths of human nature. Ningzhou, a prosperous economic 817Reads—Score105Shelves
- 189 Flowers Bloom, Leaves Come Late 花开叶迟迟 [Good-for-nothing goddess ✘ scheming Demon Lord] The thing that breaks Yao Ruo’s heart most is that good deeds never go rewarded! She saves a child from drowning, only for a blind underworld official to drag her off to the Netherworld and punish her by reincarnating her as a pig! Then a sour-faced Demon Lord shatters her soul! Luckily, the Demon Lord agrees to help her restore her soul and seals the deal with a contract. Yao Ruo has no choice: if she wants to be human again, she has to cultivate 10Reads—Score—Shelves
- 190 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
- 191 The Unknown Cause of His Death 他的不明死因 When faced with other people’s misfortune, most of us choose silence, compromise, or forgetfulness. The pressures of life, family ties, and fear of unknown risks make most of us hesitate. This is not cowardice, but a practical consideration. The sacrifices behind going to any lengths are often ones ordinary people can hardly imagine, let alone bear. Three years after the previous secretary of Shengjie Group died by suicide, Wan Sen, who also worked as a secretary, fell from the top floor. The of 5Reads—Score—Shelves
- 192 Bloody Secret 血色秘密 I was accused by one of my students' mothers. She claimed I had caused her child's death and demanded a million yuan in compensation. But she didn't know that I was a psychological counselor. I knew everything about her and her child. 1Reads—Score—Shelves
- 193 The Case of the Missing Twelve-Year-Old Girl 十二岁少女失踪事件 A twelve-year-old girl goes missing on her way home from school, and the case makes the local trending searches. Yu Manman, her half-sister, is treated as a suspect and attacked and insulted by netizens. As the police search for the girl, they discover that not only her sister but also her father and mother had motives to commit the crime. The strange family makes the disappearance all the more mysterious. While interviewing the neighbors, the police notice more irregularities. The upstairs neig 5.6kReads8.9Score802Shelves
- 194 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
- 195 Twin Cities Detective: The Genius Inspector Steals the Show 双城推理：天才探长飒爆了 [Alternate modern setting] A cool, mature female detective and her puppyish young male partner: sweet and spicy, solving cases while falling in love Detective Tang's conviction is that she will find the person who killed her mother. Detective Du's dream is to become as capable as Sister Tang. As time goes by, amid dangerous cases, the two gradually come to share a goal: solve crimes, and find time for romance too. “Cuckoo, Cuckoo, report in! Get to the crime scene immediately!” Detective Tang ca 26Reads8.9Score—Shelves
- 196 Silent Screams: True Records of 101 Major Cases, Season One 无声尖叫：101宗大案要案记实录（第一季） 41Reads9.0Score—Shelves
- 197 Fallen from Grace 坠落失格 Psychological suspense | High-IQ battle of wits | The boundary between reality and illusion collapses | Criminal profiling “My name is Chi Xiaochuan. I’m 26 years old, a hyperthymesia patient, and a full-time writer. Years from now, when I write this book, I’ll still remember that rainy night ten years ago. When the creator becomes the one to solve the puzzle, will the words on the page bring salvation, or lead to an even deeper trap? I’m not a profiler. I’m just someone who writes stories. I do 2Reads—Score—Shelves
- 198 The Metaphysics Master Returns to the Mortal World, and the Crime Squad Captain Begs for Her Help 玄学大佬重返人间，刑侦队长求她 [Female-Oriented Metaphysics] [Reborn for Revenge] [Mystery and Investigation] [Strong Female Lead] [A Powerful Team-Up] In her previous life, Pei Qingyi was framed by her cousin and fiancé working together, and died horribly in prison. Reborn three years in the past, she has not only been given a new lease on life, but has also awakened an ancient feng shui inheritance! She reads fortunes from the flow of qi and alters fate with formations. In this life, she will make the trash men and wicked w 8Reads—Score—Shelves
- 199 Darksteel Armor God: The Azure Martial Era 玄铁甲神：苍武纪元 Divine Black-Iron Armor: The Cangwu Era —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 200 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
