Novels like One Glance at the Past, One at the Future
Books Chinese readers most often put in the same booklists as One Glance at the Past, One at the Future, best match first.
- 101 Wind in the Dead of Night: Suspects Know They’re in for Trouble When They Meet Me 暗夜有风：嫌疑人遇到我自认倒霉 The world has both light and darkness, and the line between good and evil can be crossed in an instant. What is the line you won't cross? Where does the abyss begin? And who is the prey? Let rookie cop Chu Feng tell you the truth... 4Reads—Score—14d adds
- 102 The Nineteenth Act of Domestic Violence 第十九次家暴 The Nineteenth Beating 2Reads—Score—14d adds
- 103 The Detective Who Stole the Spotlight 出圈女刑警 The little girl rescued eighteen years ago grows up to become a criminal investigator with the Xihai City Criminal Investigation Squad. She reunites with the police officer who saved her all those years ago... The sparks between them set off one gripping real-life police crime story after another! 11Reads—Score—14d adds
- 104 What Do I Do If I Can't Take It Easy After I Transmigrate? 穿越后躺不平怎么办？ [Anti-trope] [Ancient-style infinite-flow] [Unique worldbuilding] [Comedy at first, then the plot unfolds] I accidentally transmigrated. I transmigrated into the body of a little princess. I’d planned to lie flat. But after I arrived, I encountered poison, a cult, a fire, and zombies. A fortune-teller claimed I had “the bearing of an emperor.” (That fortune-teller had transmigrated too.) I even awakened the power of the Water God... You think I have protagonist aura? I was freaking stabbed to de 4Reads—Score—14d adds
- 105 Home and Away: I Sold the House to Ruin My Husband and His White Moonlight 家里家外：我卖房毁老公和白月光 Home and Away: I Sold the House to Ruin My Husband and His First Love —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 106 I Began to Live Forever by Having Nightmares 从做噩梦开始长生不死 [Xuanhuan Cultivation] + [No System] + [Mystery] + [Horror] Lin Yan died of a terminal illness and transmigrated to a world of cultivation. Under the guidance of his master, Meng Feng, he embarked on the path of “dream cultivation”! He thought that, as someone skilled at daydreaming, he could easily master every dream, break through them one by one, and claim the fruit of immortality! Unexpectedly, with memories of his past life still intact, Lin Yan found his dreams filled with horrifying thing 2Reads—Score—14d adds
- 107 The Whole City Pretends to Be Awake: Everyone Only Gave It a Push 全城装醒：每个人都只推了一把手 I’m not a detective. I’m just a contract assistant who repairs old books in Yanjing. That night, Detective Zhao Ling showed me a photo of a dead body at a barbecue stall. There was a hemp rope in the photo. The stall owner said it was the most popular influencer-style decor at a wedding-themed homestay. A joke became the first piece of evidence. Later, I saw matchmaking agencies selling loneliness, shopping malls selling public relations, schools selling respectability, platforms selling traffic 5Reads—Score—14d adds
- 108 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—14d adds
- 109 The Ghostly Side of Humanity: Mad Stories You Never Knew, Volume 1 鬼味人间：你不知道的疯人故事1 Believe me, this world has another face. What seems insane to you may be perfectly normal to someone else. The eerie, unsettling stories of human life, the sinister and unfathomable depths of the human heart, and tales of madness you’ve never heard before are all hidden in this book, Ghostly Flavors of the Human World. 3.2kReads9.2Score26114d adds
- 110 The Eleventh Suspect 第11名嫌疑人 [Two Male Leads]+ [Plot Twists]+ [High-IQ Crime]+ [Vengeance for a Murdered Wife]+ [Second Male Lead Is a Lovesick Puppy] Mystery, crime-solving, deduction! Set against the backdrop of the “221” case, the protagonist uses his unique powers of logical deduction to face one difficult case after another alongside his team. With smoothly unfolding plots and tightly coordinated roles within the team, they trace and investigate ruthless criminals across a variety of murder cases! Featuring dozens of s 140Reads—Score—14d adds
- 111 The Silent Edge 无声的锋刃 Once the “brain” of the strongest special operations unit, he retired in bitter disappointment after a mission involving a high-level power struggle ended in failure. He became an ordinary police bomb-disposal expert in a major city. He thought he had left the storm behind, but it returned with even greater fury: undercurrents stirred in the city as international spies, financial predators, new forms of crime, and the shadows of his past converged. Forced to take up his “weapons” again, he now f 1Reads—Score—14d adds
- 112 The Ten Deadly Crimes 【十宗罪】 Ten Deadly Sins + darkness + humor + morally gray coming-of-age. A legend about a snowman and fur suddenly emerges in Jiangcheng. It all stems from a boy named Zhang Fansheng, whose long-buried secrets are gradually coming to light... 127Reads—Score10514d adds
- 113 A Collection of Mystery and Horror Stories from Hancheng 寒城悬疑恐怖故事集 [Mystery + Criminal Investigation + Dark + Horror + Human Nature + Crime] Not long after joining the criminal investigation team as a trainee officer, Fan Xing gets involved in the investigation of a fall-from-a-building case in Hancheng. The female victim had clearly been tortured before her death. Fan Xing also finds a silver pendant in her mouth: it's the very coming-of-age gift his father meant to give him before disappearing ten years ago. As Fan Xing and the others delve deeper into the ca 24Reads—Score—14d adds
- 114 Turning Romance into Cash 用浪漫折现 [Two Powerful Leads] [Sweet on the Outside, Dark Within] [The Powerful One Bows His Head] [Forced Love] [Size Difference] [Intense Push and Pull] [Both Leads Are Each Other’s First and Only] "A flirtatious, surprisingly feisty little troublemaker × a scheming, obsessive romantic" Ran Qingzhi has a cool, cute face. Nobody would guess that this seemingly pure and adorable girl has been a sanda champion for years. Born into a wealthy family, she was cherished by her parents from childhood. But when 1Reads—Score—14d adds
- 115 Cheng'an Case Files 承安推案杂录 Originally titled Brocade Robes and Emerald Sleeves [Daily Life of a Historical Detective: Brocade Robes and Emerald Sleeves, May Every Year Bring Peace] There was a man named Lu Fang at the Court of Judicial Review. He was refined and upright, and solved cases with uncanny skill. As one of the Court’s hardest workers, he found himself pursued by a pampered young lady who insisted on joining him in catching thieves and criminals. Lu Fang regarded her as nothing more than a passing nuisance, neve 17Reads—Score—14d adds
- 116 A Perfect Lover 精密爱人 This is more than a love story about two people finding their way back to each other. It's also an epic of **“industrial romanticism.” Like a precise, “industrial-grade” blueprint for love, it brims with the chill and gleam of metal, and the blazing warmth of light. It tells the story of two young people battered by the tides of their era, and how they smelt the iron filings and dust of a machinery factory into stars that light the way ahead for each other… —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 117 A Young City Cop: Serving the Nation and Its People 都市小警察：福国利民 Flowers bloom in an instant, then fall without a sound. A short line captures life’s subtlety. Who is selfish? Television, or being hurt, or saying, or saying, or saying the class is starting. Who is Su Su telling her story to? —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 118 The Thousand and First Time 第一千零一次 The gods said, “Immortality is the most impossible curse to break! Forgetting her is the price of reincarnation!” If I can meet her once more, what does a little price matter? Searching for her through hundreds, then thousands, of cycles of reincarnation, I finally found her on the thousand-and-first. This time, I won't let her slip away... Perhaps love is a string that, even after snapping a million times, still trembles endlessly in the void. —Reads—Score114d adds
- 119 Loving You on the World's Behalf 替世界爱你 (Urban daily life + one female lead + ensemble cast + pure love + campus) When the whole class looks down on the transfer student for being messy and smelly, he is the only one who knows how clean her hands are when she returns his meal card. A Chinese meal, a bottle of milk, a clumsy act of standing up for her... It might seem insignificant to others, but she knows he is the only light in her bleak youth. From meeting to understanding to falling in love, through misunderstandings, touching mome 502Reads6.1Score—14d adds
- 120 The Journey Through Fuchuan 府川行 (A historical mystery with no special abilities and no transmigration. Every case is solved through logical deduction, and the schemes and power struggles are grounded in real insight.) Lin Wuwei looked at the corpse before him and said, “If this were the only corpse, it would be far too simple!” 1Reads—Score—14d adds
- 121 Years on the Police Beat: Setting Out in 1983 警途岁月：从八三出发 Zhou Jianshe had spent his whole life being a pushover. The day after he retired, he suffered a heart attack, and when he opened his eyes, he was back in 1983, once again twenty-one years old and freshly graduated from the police academy. The major cases and cold cases he failed to solve in his previous life, he closed one by one with his own hands this time. In this life, he would no longer be a pushover. 51Reads—Score—14d adds
- 122 The Otaku's Revenge 宅男的复仇 Duan Yu of Kun City was an ordinary homebody whose life revolved around electronic devices, video games, and endless web browsing. But his happy life changed abruptly when his older sister died in an accident on his eighteenth birthday... The once happy family of four was suddenly reduced to just him. How did his sister die? Enraged, the homebody Duan Yu resolved to make himself stronger and became a formidable avenger... Meanwhile, master detective Xu Changsheng arrived in Kun City. As he inves 5.7kReads8.8Score52914d adds
- 123 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—14d adds
- 124 Tracking Down the Mystery 迷案追凶 There are two kinds of things in the world: those you can see and those you can’t. What you can see is human nature. What you can’t see is what lies in people’s hearts. Behind every seemingly absurd story are faces twisted by ugliness. My name is Qin Mu. I’m a criminal police officer with seven years on the job. Three years ago, I helped the local police crack a smuggling case involving an international crime syndicate. My partner, Ayun, fell victim to a Nanyang curse technique and then mysterio 504Reads7.7Score10114d adds
- 125 A Mastermind's Criminal Skills, and You Say You're Just a Cop? 满级犯罪天赋，你说你是小警察？ [Criminal investigation + crime + solving cases + invincible from the start + major cases with brain-burning deductions + no romance] (A heads-up: This is heavy on deduction and follows an underdog’s rise. It isn’t mindless wish fulfillment, and the protagonist will face hardships. If you’re only here for effortless feel-good power fantasy, feel free to move along…) With doomsday prophecies looming, Pandora’s box was opened. Overnight, a select few gained special abilities. Intern Su Musheng was 195Reads8.0Score—14d adds
- 126 Murdering Eric 谋杀Eric On Monday morning, a murder took place in a bustling CBD. A partner at a globally renowned accounting firm was bludgeoned to death with a heavy object. The police questioned everyone connected to the case, only to uncover a suicide from many years ago... 52Reads—Score—14d adds
- 127 Crime Hunter: The Detective, Book 2 罪猎神探2 The sequel to Crime Hunter Detective. Follow Detective Chen Yang as he cracks a series of bizarre, mysterious cases. The book has it all: the supernatural, thrills, terror, suspense, and deduction. 357Reads—Score—14d adds
- 128 Solving Cases Like Crazy from the Start, and You Call Him a Rookie? 开局疯狂破案，你说他是新人？ Chu Nan is a newly hired trainee officer at the Nancheng Police Station, and he has successfully activated the [Star-Rank Detective System]! Captain Xingtian casually tossed him a case to give him some experience. Seven hours later, Chu Nan had not only found the culprit behind a lingerie theft, but also dug up a long-cold case! The captain was tearing his hair out over a serial dismemberment case. Chu Nan gave him a few pointers, and they quickly pinpointed the key to solving it! Driven to murd 4Reads—Score—14d adds
- 129 The Whole Family Is Dead, Don't Panic, We Still Have the Third Young Master! 全家战死，不要慌，还有三少爷！ Gu Qing transmigrates into a dynasty that has strayed from the historical timeline and becomes the third young master of a general's household. He had planned to lie flat and enjoy a life of luxury, with several wives and concubines and music at the pleasure quarters. But fate had other plans: his entire family is killed in a scheme by treacherous ministers, and he is left with a disgraced name. From the start, Gu Qing is trapped in a desperate situation, surrounded by danger. He means to enter 507Reads7.2Score—14d adds
- 130 Supreme Bounty Hunter 至尊赏金猎人 Hey, you there, “Thirty Thousand Bucks”! No, I mean, fugitive, where do you think you’re going? Behold, the embodiment of justice and a role model for our times has arrived! Now get in my pocket! No, I mean, surrender peacefully... 42Reads6.4Score—14d adds
- 131 Sorry, Mr. Shen, the Child Isn’t Yours 抱歉沈先生，孩子不是你的. Sorry, Mr. Shen, the Child Isn't Yours. 1Reads—Score—14d adds
- 132 A Programmer Transmigrates to a World of Commoners 码农穿越平民世界 This is a long-form web novel combining transmigration, a System, the apocalypse, infinite-world adventures, wars across multiple worlds, a time loop, clashes between civilizations, and emotional growth. The protagonist, Jiang Hai, was an overworked programmer who died suddenly in his previous life. After transmigrating, he becomes an ordinary lathe operator at an electronics factory in Haicheng, apparently entering a peaceful, backward, and orderly “commoner’s world.” But he soon discovers tha 2Reads—Score—14d adds
- 133 The Secret on the Hospital Rooftop 医院顶楼的秘密 The city hospital was bustling with people, seemingly ordinary. But hidden on its top floor was a dark secret capable of dragging the world into an abyss. A merciless “Eternal Life Project” was being conducted in secret, part of a mad plot by a mysterious organization to awaken an ancient evil slumbering at Earth’s core. By a twist of fate, Lin Qian, Chen Feng, and David ventured into the forbidden top floor of the hospital, becoming embroiled in a thrilling global adventure. From ruins radiati —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 134 The Tale of Wen Tan 文檀传 A perceptive, worldly beauty × a jade-faced marquis Wen Tan thought this was all life had to offer: scheming against the other girls in the training house, waiting for some rich man to buy her, and rotting away in the mud. Then Marquis Jiarui offered her a chance to work together. “I need a fiancée, and you need somewhere to belong. Why not make a deal?” And so she transformed from a Yangzhou beauty bred for sale into an official's daughter in the capital, nervously navigating a world of power a 4Reads—Score—14d adds
- 135 The Laid-Back Immortal Emperor Is Reborn and Makes the Aloof Campus Beauty His Underling 摆烂仙帝重生，调高冷校花当小弟 [Taming] [Invincible] [One heroine] [Read the first three chapters. If they’re no good, you can kill me] This is a high-martial-world novel blending Immortal Emperor and romance elements, told in a lighthearted, humorous style. Jingguan opens his eyes and finds he has returned to the high-martial world, with all his Immortal Emperor powers gone. Jingguan doesn’t panic at all. He awakens the Invincible Slacker System and gains a Slacker Sacred Body. From the start, he meets the aloof campus beaut 17Reads—Score—14d adds
- 136 Real Case Files from a Homicide Detective, Forensic Doctor, Trace Evidence Analyst, and Profiler 刑警、法医、痕检师、侧写师的真实破案手记 A string of bizarre disappearances involving young women: who is watching lost souls from the darkness? Everyone has secrets they don't want known. The line between darkness and light is crossed in a single thought. Step into the crime scene and see it through a professional's eyes as the truth and lies of human nature are exposed. This collection includes 18 books, featuring the Qin Ming forensic pathologist series, The Crime Scene Investigation Unit, Criminal Profilers, The Punisher, and True —Reads8.5Score—14d adds
- 137 The Lost Forest [Crime Investigation] 迷踪森林【刑侦】 [Dual Male Leads] [Pure Crime Solving] [Some plot details are fictionalized. Please don't compare them with reality!] [This is not a supernatural mystery. The System's tags are wrong!] Short story + traditional criminal investigation + deduction + team-based crime solving + no romance + no female lead + episodic cases + fast-paced, no dragging Wipe the dust from the mirror and part the layers of thick fog. It's an indescribable perversion, a personality disorder marked by antisocial behavior. 3.7kReads8.4Score23214d adds
- 138 The Story of Miss Zhao and the Young Policeman 赵大小姐与小警察的故事 After graduating from the Police University and marrying into the wealthy Zhao family, Ke Dongfan remains a low-ranking officer at a local police station. He accidentally discovers that his two-year-old son isn't his biological child. His wife, Zhao Xinlan, treats him with such devotion that he can't bring himself to make a decision. But after learning the truth, he resolutely takes the path of justice. From then on, he awakens to his calling, solves one bizarre case after another, and avenges t 230Reads6.8Score—14d adds
- 139 Fifteen Years Hunting a Killer: The Restaurant Family Massacre 追凶十五年：饭店灭门惨案 Fifteen years ago, the family of the owner of the Xinxin Restaurant in Linhai City was massacred, and the restaurant burned to ashes overnight. Was it a vendetta or a random crime? Over the next fifteen years, three generations of detectives, young and old, tirelessly passed the investigation from one to the next, peeling back layer after layer until they finally found the killer. 175Reads6.5Score—14d adds
- 140 Eyes of the Abyss: Season 2, Part 1: River of Beasts 凝渊之眸.第二季.1，野兽之河 I'm a special crimes detective. And I'm the most ordinary one among the countless detectives out there. This is both a collection of criminal cases and a record of memories. This novel features me, my mentor, and my best friend. Like me, they're unique yet utterly ordinary. We once strode boldly forward, full of confidence and ambition. We once pieced together clues and pursued criminals through the fog. And we also knew sorrow and uncertainty, hesitating and losing our way. My mentor once told 205Reads9.4Score3314d adds
- 141 Just Straight-Up Deduction? That's My Specialty! 单纯推理是吧？这个我擅长啊！ [A Conan-style episodic story. No romance or ambiguous relationships, grounded, no invincibility, no System, no brainless plot, with deduction and crime-solving] “Like Detective Conan? Then don’t miss this book!” There’s no such thing as a perfect crime. And if there is, then I must have committed it. While pursuing one of the world’s greatest criminal masterminds, Xian Yifan, hailed as the youngest great detective in history, died alongside his quarry. After accidentally transmigrating, he 185Reads6.4Score—14d adds
- 142 The Cold Case Reopens 迷案重启 [Criminal Investigation and Deduction] [Unraveling the Clues to Dispel Layer Upon Layer of Mystery] The Rainy-Night Predator Case The Flower Shop Owner’s Lover The Death of a Streamer A Captive in the Cellar… Murder after murder… Deputy Captain Lin Yi leads his team in solving one bizarre case after another. Who could have guessed that in the end, he would uncover the mystery of his own origins! 86Reads7.3Score10814d adds
- 143 A Survival Guide to the Blind-Box Life Under Seattle's Bridges 西雅图桥洞盲盒生存指南 Seattle, a steel jungle folded beneath the weight of capital. In hillside mansions, the plutocrats party through the night. Beneath the bridges, nameless bodies are tossed into the dark every day like industrial waste. Desperate for money, North American student Lu Di takes a low-level night-shift gig collecting bodies for the King County Medical Examiner's Office, just to stay alive. While everyone else avoids crime scenes, he sees them as untapped gold mines beyond the reach of the law. With 7Reads—Score—14d adds
- 144 Crime Scene Puzzle: The Unseen Truth 罪案拼图：看不见的真相 In the modern city, the streets are bustling and the lights are bright, and people hurry along their own paths through life. Yet in the city’s shadowy corners, evil quietly takes root like a ghost concealed by night. Countless secrets hidden from view and thrilling crimes intertwine into an invisible web, waiting to be unraveled. 23Reads—Score—14d adds
- 145 A Game of Life and Death: Love Is the Killer’s Chain 弈世：爱者是戮者的枷锁 [No System / Not a Power Fantasy / Ensemble Cast / Philosophical Reflections] To love is to kill; obsession is a shackle; reincarnation is the way home; the struggle ends only in death. One lantern, two lingering souls from different worlds, three hundred million years alone. In this wager played on a chessboard called the universe, with all living beings as pieces, I stake everything on one sentence: “I’ve come to take you all home.” I wanted to be a literary type, but who knew that what I’d r 7Reads—Score—14d adds
- 146 Detective Ziegler 神探齐格勒 [Reclusive Genius Detective vs. Righteous, Spirited Policewoman] [Standalone Cases + Criminal Investigation + Logical Deduction + Secret Crush + Human Drama] He has no pipe or deerstalker hat. But Qigler is China’s very own “Sherlock Holmes.” His intelligence is off the charts, his emotional intelligence is below zero. Reclusive and sharp-tongued, he lives only for solving cases. A wealthy heiress is kidnapped, a woman is found hanged in a locked room, and students at a rural school are victims, 139Reads9.1Score—14d adds
- 147 I'm Writing a Long Shushan-Style Novel on Tomato Novel 我在番茄写蜀山类长篇小说 I'm a junior company employee, crushed by debt and barely able to breathe. So I decided to write a Mount Shu novel on Tomato Novel, titled Mount Shu: Slaying Demons and Monsters. Drawing on my own experiences, I write about "myself" bearing a blood feud as I enter Mount Shu, wielding a thunder sword and meeting the lively Qiao. Alongside Miss Su, a spirited healer, and other beauties, I battle the demons of Qingcheng and the fiends of Emei. I earn extra money with thrilling xianxia fiction, whil 6Reads—Score—14d adds
- 148 Jiang Chu and Mugwort 姜楚与艾叶 Jiang Chu and Ai Ye —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 149 A Desolate Grave in the Mountains 山野荒坟 A Desolate Grave in the Wilderness —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 150 Xu Changsheng Investigates, II 许长生探案II Police Captain Xu Changsheng, known among his team as “Little Zhuge,” faces one convoluted case after another. He always manages to untangle the clues, find the key evidence, and bring the criminals to justice. This book recounts several challenging cases that showcase Xu Changsheng’s keen powers of deduction. 6.7kReads8.3Score76814d adds
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