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- 1 Strange Tales of the Maze City: Return of the Dead 迷城诡事之回魂 Mysteries of the Haunted City: Return of the Soul 2Reads—Score—14d adds
- 2 Reborn in 1998: A Master Forensic Pathologist Slaughters the Novice Village 重生98：满级法医屠新手村 (The rating just came in, so it’ll rise later.) Corpses boiling in the rain, strangulation by a red dress, bones sealed in concrete… Faced with primitive crime-solving methods, he uses trace evidence collection, gait analysis, and criminal profiling to utterly outclass every criminal mastermind and their protectors! A max-level expert enters the fray for real, delivering a brutal, one-sided takedown of every high-IQ psychopath and criminal protector in the barren landscape of 1990s forensics! “P 2.3kReads7.4Score14714d adds
- 3 What?! My New Neighbor Might Be a Serial Killer 惊！我的新邻居好像是连环杀人犯 [Mystery and investigation + BG + one-on-one romance, both leads devoted only to each other] Lin Shifei suspects that her new neighbor across the hall is the culprit behind a recent string of murders. Ever since he moved in, she runs into him whenever she takes out the trash at night. Sometimes, the man even follows her at an unhurried pace. That alone wouldn’t be enough to make Lin Shifei suspicious. What first caught her attention was their very first encounter, the beginning of a series of ch 267Reads6.4Score10114d adds
- 4 The Singing in the Tomb 墓室里面的歌声 The Singing in the Tomb —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 5 The Woman Who Crawled Out of the Dry Well 枯井里爬上来的女人 The Woman Who Climbed Out of the Dry Well —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 6 The World Above the Well 井上人间 My name is Chen Xiaoman. I run a joss stick and candle shop called "A Single Lamp" in Suzhou's old town. My grandfather, Ninth Master Chen, was a well-known guardian of the wells around here. Three years ago, on Tomb-Sweeping Day, he sat in his wicker chair and passed away as if he'd simply nodded off. Before he left, he taught me just one sentence: "The incense is about to go out." Then, late one night, my childhood friend's cousin rode the last subway to the end of the line and got trapped at —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 7 Strange Tales of the Maze City: Spirit Detective 迷城诡事之灵探 Mysteries of the Haunted City: Spirit Investigator 1Reads—Score—14d adds
- 8 A Seventies-Era Public Security Officer: My Wife Excels at Solving Cases, Appraising Treasures, and Martial Arts 七零公安我媳妇破案鉴宝文武双全 [Period mystery and antique appraisal, 1v1, both leads are devoted to each other, happy ending] Beneath the frozen cellar on a bitter winter night, star paths lie hidden. Lotus lanterns drift across the water, ferrying departed souls. A crack opens in the eye of an ancient Buddha, feeding greed... In a turbulent era, a string of bizarre murders erupts, national treasures vanish one after another, and a cult’s sacrifices cast a shadow over the land. Every tender act of walking willingly to one’s 4Reads—Score—14d adds
- 9 Double-Faced Killer: White and Night 双面缉凶：白与夜 [Dual Personality] [Criminal Psychology] [Hardcore Deduction] [Episodic Cases] [No System] A string of suicides among schoolgirls, an accident on a stage before a crowd of thousands, a headless corpse discovered on a train... The whole city is gripped by panic, and unsolved cases keep piling up. He deduces the truth with a clear mind and subdues criminals with a touch of madness. When light and darkness dwell within the same person, even the most perfect crime will eventually be exposed. 11Reads—Score—14d adds
- 10 Chasing Down a Hundred Cases: Wu Hao's Criminal Investigation Notebook 百案追凶：吴浩的刑侦笔记 Wu Hao is a rookie officer who has just reported for duty at a local police station. His colleagues hold a welcome party for him. The next morning, he wakes to news of a major incident in their jurisdiction. The moment he arrives at the scene, he is stunned. A series of murders targeting police officers has just come to light. Thus begins Wu Hao's turbulent career solving cases. Cases within cases, schemes within schemes. Baffling clues lead to endings that make perfect sense. Behind each heinou 31.5kReads7.7Score3.6k14d adds
- 11 Serial Murder Investigation Unit 连环凶案调查组 [Criminal Investigation + Serial Killer + Case-of-the-Week + Psychological Profiling + High-IQ Crimes + Not for the Fainthearted] Every time she dates a man, he dies. All three of Shi Yike's boyfriends have met untimely ends, and the serial murder case remains unsolved. Her family and friends all think she's bad luck. She also knows that a serial killer with a sick obsession with her is lurking nearby. Should she listen to her family and stay single for the rest of her life so no innocent man ge 659Reads—Score10314d adds
- 12 Who Moved My Corpse? 谁动了我的尸体 My name is Minnie, and I’m a mortician. To put it plainly, I do makeup for the dead. But some people just can’t stand me, and they actually transferred me to the Non-Natural Death Department. From then on, my life was filled with countless mutilated corpses. 144Reads—Score—14d adds
- 13 Dreams Fade to Ash 沉梦归烬 Dreams Sink, Returning to Ashes —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 14 Tokyo Monster-Hunting Notes 东京提妖手记 Built on Song-dynasty texts and records, this book carefully recreates customs, official posts, city life, and winding streets, bringing the Song Empire to life in vivid, tangible detail. Its beating heart is the lively world of ordinary people: teahouses and taverns, street vendors and laborers, and the everyday lives of common folk, all brimming with warmth and bustle. Traditional tales of the strange give it its soul, with fox spirits, ghosts, and extraordinary people woven throughout, bizarr 138Reads6.5Score10114d adds
- 15 1993: Back on the Police Beat 1993重走警途 [Mind-Bending Mystery + Episodic Stories + Crime + Criminal Investigation + Twists + No Golden Finger] The rating has just come in, and it will rise later “I wanted to be a good person too, but the nights in that era were so dark that I had no choice but to be more ruthless than the criminals.” In 1993, Binjiang County had no surveillance cameras, no DNA technology, and no big data. It was a golden age for crime to flourish unchecked, and the darkest of times for criminal investigators, who co 3.1kReads7.5Score26214d adds
- 16 I Tamed the Paranormal 我把诡异收服了 Born with ghostly eyes, I share a desk with the City Lord of the Underworld. A vengeful female ghost wants me to kiss her, I take in a powerful underworld enforcer, and a princess from a thousand years ago swears an oath with me. Onstage, they sing of sorrow and grief. Beneath the stage, I capture every kind of evil. My name is Zhang Qiang. Watch me run rampant through the Underworld! —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 17 Crime: Ten Bizarre Cases 罪恶：十大奇案 Criminal investigation + episodic cases + no romance. A regular case-solving team, with no need to keep track of too many characters. When a case comes in, there’s no time for talk: they get straight to work! A pure battle of logic, a high-stakes storm of intellect. Step into every baffling crime scene, follow the investigation as it unfolds, and face the depths of human nature until the truth finally comes to light. 1.8kReads6.5Score11614d adds
- 18 Bones Buried for Twenty Years 廿年埋骨 In the summer of 1997, five young people who had come to the city for work ran into three thugs on a bus. One confrontation, three lives lost, and a night they could never take back. They buried the bodies and swore never to speak of it again. But secrets don't die. Someone was waiting, and someone was investigating. Twenty years later, a livestream gone wrong brings the whole affair to light again. A marriage built on wrongdoing. Bones that have vanished. What will become of the five of them? 578Reads—Score11014d adds
- 19 The Great Qian Coroner: From the Start, I Dissect the Empress's Favorite Consort 大乾验尸官：开局解刨女帝宠妃 [Forensic Doctor Transmigrates] + [Professional Autopsies] + [Hard-Core Deduction] + [One Major Case Entwined with Three Smaller Cases] + [Impossible Methods of Murder] + The Empress's Favorite Consort Dies Horribly in the Opening Case In his previous life, Qin Feng studied forensic medicine. By accident, he transmigrates to the Great Qian Dynasty and becomes a lowly coroner. From the start, he is confronted with the bizarre death of the empress's beloved consort. The empress orders him to solv 10Reads—Score—14d adds
- 20 The Recipient After Death 死后收件人 I'm a courier for a residential complex. Since last month, I've been receiving packages addressed to the dead. An empty apartment building, recipients whose accounts were closed long ago, parcels that no one ever claims. The property manager says I'm seeing things. My coworkers say I've been cursed. The police checked every security camera, but say everything looks normal. That is, until I opened the first package for a dead person. Inside was only a note: [You're next.] 4Reads—Score—14d adds
- 21 Even the Buddha Cannot Escape 佛陀难逃 On the first day after I was discharged from the military, my mom called and told me not to come home. But I saw her standing behind the second-floor window with my own eyes. The “Mom” on the phone and the “her” behind the window were not the same person at all. “Even the Buddha Can't Escape”: The consequences of karma that even the Buddha cannot shield you from eventually fall on the living. As I become more deeply involved with Emergency Response Bureau 331, the truth about the world begins to 3Reads—Score—14d adds
- 22 This Detective Isn’t Very Cold 这个刑警不太冷 Being a police officer is like standing between two worlds: light on one side and darkness on the other. A police officer's mission is to stop darkness from encroaching on the light. A cop who only knows how to enforce the law impartially and draw a clear line between right and wrong may be a good cop, but will never be an outstanding one. An outstanding cop must know when to compromise and when to step aside for a while. They must remain undaunted even in the face of setbacks, able to walk thro 149Reads8.0Score—14d adds
- 23 Your Diary 你的日记本 You suddenly come across a diary. The handwriting is clearly yours, yet you can't remember writing any of it. Curious, you decide to open it and take a look. Maybe it would be better to read it tonight. 1Reads—Score—14d adds
- 24 The Real Young Master Only Wants to Be a Detective 真少爷只想当刑警 Orphan + The Real Young Master + Provincial Top Scorer (No CP, No System) After returning to his family as the real young master who had been switched at birth, Yan Ci still carried the distinction of being the provincial top scorer and firmly chose to apply to the People’s Public Security University. His change in status never knocked him off course. At school, he was a legendary top student who cracked one baffling case after another in his second year. After joining the force, he took on the 4Reads—Score—14d adds
- 25 The Borrowed-Life Formation in the Wilds 山野借命局 While working away from home, I get the news that my grandfather has passed away, so I return to the mountain village I left many years ago. I thought I was just coming back to clean out the ancestral home and take care of the funeral. But the moment I stepped into the village, I realized that something strange was going on everywhere. Footsteps circle endlessly outside the wall in the middle of the night. Gray-white hems quietly peek through cracks in the earthen walls. Behind the window pape —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 26 After Ten Years as a Psychiatrist, I Finally Began to Doubt My Entire Worldview 当了十年精神科医生，第一次彻底怀疑世界观 After ten years as a psychiatrist, I finally began to seriously doubt my view of the world for the first time. 1Reads—Score—14d adds
- 27 The Mystery of Dingcheng 2 定城迷踪2 [Mind-Bending Mystery + Standalone Stories + Jaw-Dropping Twists] The second installment of "Unraveling the Truth". Behind every massacre, there is always an unseen hand, seemingly trying to expose the ugliest side of human nature. Children turned into pawns in their parents’ power games, victims who take up the butcher’s knife, ghosts wandering on rainy nights, missing human organs... Walking the boundary between day and night, seeing the warmth and coldness of this world, a ray of dawn will al 39.7kReads9.1Score2.8k14d adds
- 28 From the Start, I Took My Colleagues Back to Town 开局带着同事回镇 I grew up in Luoyin Town, but when I was six, I fled the ancient town overnight with my family. The town's baleful energy sealed away all my memories of it, leaving only scattered fragments of terrifying nightmares. My parents vanished mysteriously many years ago, leaving behind just one final warning: Never return to the mountains, and never touch anything red. To uncover the truth behind their disappearance, I follow the clues in a fragmentary ancient text and return to Luoyin Town. I am the o —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 29 Murder Scene: Staring into the Abyss 命案现场：凝视深渊 [Criminal Investigation Documentary] [Case-of-the-Week] [Ensemble Cast] [No Romance] The story is made up of numerous independent criminal cases. Each case spans five or six chapters, unfolding at a brisk pace in a case-of-the-week format with an ensemble cast and a documentary-style approach. The collection features all kinds of criminal cases, including murders, dismemberments, bizarre incidents, and family massacres... Cases are solved through a combination of crime-scene investigation, foren 3.6kReads—Score30914d adds
- 30 Criminal Investigation: Case Files 刑侦：大案纪实 1980s criminal investigation + case-by-case stories + no romance or female lead + a touch of ensemble cast Based on real cases, with some changes. The investigations generally follow the original cases. Case One: Too clever by half: Charred remains by the river Case Two: Everyone is evil: A naked corpse in a well Case Three: The thief cries “Stop thief!”: A corpse hidden in a wardrobe Case Four: The poisonous insect’s last stand: A demon strikes Case Five: A killer in two places: A body dismembe 16.3kReads8.3Score1.4k14d adds
- 31 Criminal Investigation: I Can See the Notes on Everything 刑侦：我能看见万物备注 (I'll accept all the negative reviews of the second case, and I want to apologize to everyone first. I wasn't trying to use the parents as bait. I mainly wanted to show how an ordinary police officer, newly involved in a case, might overthink things after certain experiences and make the wrong call. I wanted to write about the protagonist's growth, but I didn't handle it well, and it's too late to fix it now. If the second case bothers you, feel free to skip it. I'm truly sorry for the discomfor 53Reads5.9Score—14d adds
- 32 Darling? Darling! 亲爱的？亲爱的！ Welcome, everyone, to our Loving Family The blurb can't show off my charm, so just read Chapter One. I'm a new author, and the earlier chapters aren't very good. Please bear with me. I'll try to wrap up the instances quickly and just write romance in the real world instead. I'll be making major revisions to the earlier chapters. Updates will probably come gradually, with around 200,000 words in total. The earlier chapters really aren't good. Start reading from Chapter 60 onward. The earlier part 2Reads—Score—14d adds
- 33 The Death God's Code 亡神密码 Qin Jingfeng was a criminal investigator with the municipal public security bureau. A seemingly "open-and-shut" suicide case he takes on leads to a bizarre case from six years earlier, involving "five deaths and four corpses." As the Grim Reaper swings his scythe time and again, the numbers left on the bodies become the key to solving the case. To stop more deaths, Qin Jingfeng keeps company with the uncanny and feels his way through the darkness, deciphering the Grim Reaper's code and becoming 22.8kReads8.3Score2.1k14d adds
- 34 Criminal Investigation: The Truth About Murder 刑侦：杀人真相 [Mystery + Deduction + Therapist + Case-of-the-Week Mysteries + Serial Killings + High-IQ Crimes + Forensics + Revenge Plot + Bizarre Tales + Light Horror + Suitable for the Easily Frightened] You can skip romance, but you have to read about a case every day. When in love, you take your clothes off one piece at a time. When it's over, you stab one knife at a time. When in love, you stay together forever. When it's over, you hide a corpse in a trunk. When in love, you're stuck together every day. 6.9kReads7.2Score36914d adds
- 35 The Living Ghost King 活诡王 A mysterious fragment of a map, a strange jade gourd, a grandfather who vanished nineteen years ago, and a person dying mysteriously after every QQ message I receive. Together, they set off one bizarre and eerie event after another... To uncover the truth, I have no choice but to embark on a series of strange and perilous investigations. It seems as though I’m merely reacting to events, yet everything seems fated to happen. From a haunted dormitory to a ghost village deep in the mountains, and t 160Reads—Score—14d adds
- 36 A Record of Strange Tales from Ancient Times 古代志怪异闻录 A beautiful face can be painted, but the human heart is hard to fathom. Bewitching demons and enchanting women turn tradition on its head, as desire weaves a tangled web and cunning hunters carry out their kills. A bewitching mask of human skin reveals just one corner of a sinister, ghostly world. A borrowed womb bears an egg, a male fox claims lives, and two beauties journey together... Every kind of spirit has its own desires and grievances. Only deep in the mortal world, amid desire and the c 5.1kReads8.9Score63714d adds
- 37 Facial Recognition Failed 人脸识别失败 Lin Xiao arrived at the village entrance late at night. The streetlights with facial recognition were broken, and in the darkness, she felt someone watching her. When she got home, she found her father’s dog, Heizi, dead at the door. There were marks around its neck, and its death had been disguised as illness. The local police station said her father had last appeared on the surveillance cameras on the back hill, then had “vanished into thin air.” 10Reads—Score—14d adds
- 38 Solving Cases with Sign-Ins: All These Cases Are Eerie Unsolved Mysteries? Perfect! 签到破案：全是诡异悬案？太好了 The rating just came out, but it should rise later. [Criminal Investigation + System + No Romance + High-IQ Crimes + Realistic + Everyone's a Villain vs. the Light of Justice] Xu Jingzhi transmigrates to a parallel world and becomes a newly graduated probationary police officer. On his way to report to the police station, his System activates! [Ding! Sign-in successful. You've obtained a god-tier skill: Microexpression Insight!] The next second, he locks eyes on the bus with a serial killer who 13.1kReads6.5Score1.6k14d adds
- 39 The Homicide Squad Chief Has Gone Crazy: He Wants to Interrogate Himself 刑侦队长疯了，他要审讯自己 I just took over a shadowy serial murder case. When I entered the crime scene, I had the strange feeling I'd been there before. Could I be the killer? As I dug deeper into the truth, I uncovered an astonishing secret! 33Reads—Score—14d adds
- 40 From the Start, I Awakened Divine Sense and Became the Police Force’s Top Crime Solver 开局觉醒神识我成警队破案天花板 [Criminal Investigation] [Deduction and Case-Solving] [Police] [Suspense and Mystery] [Power Fantasy] [Golden Finger] [No Female Lead] [From the Start] [Ensemble Cast] [Period Piece] [Episodic] After graduating from police academy, Lu Yuan wanders into a Taoist temple during a graduation trip and awakens Crime Trace Retrospection. He can reconstruct a crime scene from the previous ten seconds, revealing the weapon's trajectory and the victim's final field of vision, but the killer's face remains 5Reads—Score10314d adds
- 41 Tales of the Strange 聊斋那些事 Have you ever heard of a plain-language version of Strange Tales from a Chinese Studio? A scholar spends the night in an abandoned house and is welcomed into a beautiful woman's arms, only to discover that her face is a painted skin. A poor young man finds a fox. The fox says, “I’ll marry you, but you must never look at my tail.” At the mass graves outside town, someone tells stories every night. Anyone who listens disappears the next day. Don’t be afraid. These are all stories passed down by ou 3Reads—Score—14d adds
- 42 Criminal Investigation Partners: Special Case Unit 6 重案六组之刑侦之侣 They are criminal investigators, comrades-in-arms, each other's sharpest blade and strongest shield. Through the daily trials of life and death, and their quiet, unspoken understanding, a bond deeper than partnership slowly takes root. When reason clashes with emotion and duty intertwines with private desire, they choose to defend justice together and become each other's one and only home. 101Reads—Score—14d adds
- 43 Criminal Investigation: I Can See Numbers Above the Victims' Heads 刑侦：我能看见受害者头上的数字 [No CP] [No Romantic Tension] [Episodic Case-Solving] [Period Crime Investigation] [Ensemble Cast] In 1998, forensic medicine intern Yan Xu joins the Nancheng Branch of the Pingzhou Public Security Bureau. At his very first crime scene, he sees a number above an unidentified victim's head, one that only he can see. At first, he thinks it's just a hallucination, until more victims marked with numbers start appearing one after another... 4.8kReads7.1Score56814d adds
- 44 Reborn in 1999: Solving a Cold Case from the Start, Shocking the Entire Bureau 重生99：开局破获悬案，震惊全局 Reborn in 1999, he becomes the youngest fingerprint expert. In his previous life, he solved countless cases. When he opens his eyes again, he’s back on his first day as a police officer. The cases that once went cold are waiting for him to rewrite their endings. A partial fingerprint or an overlooked detail is enough to leave the real culprit nowhere to hide. From murder cases in county towns to manhunts spanning provinces, fingerprints are the king of evidence, and he is the man behind the king 40.9kReads8.1Score4.5k14d adds
- 45 I’m Just a Deep-Cover Agent, So What If I Know a Little Criminal Psychology? 我一个卧底会亿点犯罪心理怎么了 [Cunning, alluring undercover psychological counselor VS smiling tiger of a detective, a gentleman with a dark heart] Bring our heroes home. Bring criminals to justice. Yu Ningwei volunteered to go undercover to find her parents' remains, but when her informant was exposed, she had no choice but to abort the operation. After changing jobs, she found herself between positions, becoming an intern... a rookie who could do a little bit of everything... Blood-soaked floors, a secret fighting arena, 550Reads6.3Score10014d adds
- 46 A Con Artist? I'm the Grandmaster of Con Artists 骗子？我才是骗子祖师爷 Qin Xiao was one of the leaders of a scam ring. After learning that his girlfriend was pregnant, he decided to quit for good, only for his sworn brother to cruelly murder her. After his death, Qin Xiao’s soul transmigrates into another person’s body, setting him on a path of revenge... —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 47 Crime Investigation: My Eyes Are as Precise as a Ruler 刑侦：我的眼睛就是尺 Xie Chen, a police academy graduate, is a trace evidence examiner with the county criminal investigation unit. Since childhood, he has known his eyesight was extraordinary. His vision is sharp, he notices the tiniest details, and he can discern the fine patterns on even the smallest objects. That keen eyesight always brings unexpected discoveries when he uses it to solve cases. One glance at a dent on a taxi's steering wheel was all it took for Xie Chen to tell it had just been made and left by 21.7kReads7.2Score2.4k14d adds
- 48 Crime Investigation: Crushing the Dark Web and Winning the Hearts of Beautiful Women 刑侦：横推暗网，坐拥红颜 Detective Captain Lin Yu runs into a grisly dismemberment case at an abandoned factory from the start. The killer is an expert in forensic dissection, a top hacker, and a shadow on the dark web, brazenly challenging the police at every turn. A broken phone leads to a death text, while the hunt for the killer draws Lin Yu into a shocking conspiracy. A mole lurks within the police force, witnesses are silenced one after another, and a dark web syndicate casts its shadow over the entire city. With 1Reads—Score—14d adds
- 49 Five-and-a-Half-Year-Old Cutie: The Police Station's Big Shots Fight Over Me 萌宝五岁半，警局大佬抢疯了 [Transmigrate + System + Mystery + Deduction + Case-of-the-Week Investigations + Adorable Child] Police officer Su Xiaoxiao has transmigrated yet again. This time, she's become an adorable five-year-old, and one who's been kidnapped at that. Looking at her chubby little hands and short legs, she figures one kick probably wouldn't even reach the kidnapper's waist. If she can't reach him, that's fine. She just needs to kick hard enough. The police officers who come to rescue the hostage watch in d 1.6kReads8.2Score28314d adds
- 50 Tales of the Countryside: My Grandma Was a Midwife 乡野怪谈之我的姥姥是稳婆 At the foot of Mount Maqi, midwife Zhang Guilan spent her life delivering babies on nighttime roads. Other midwives delivered human babies. The ones she delivered were ghosts, demons, and wronged spirits from the wilderness. Road-blocking skin-sellers, water ghosts demanding souls, Pixihuzi repaying a debt of gratitude, and Li the Bald-Tailed Dragon making his presence known. She didn't believe in the supernatural when she was young. Only after surviving countless dangers did she understand t 147Reads—Score—14d adds
