Novels like The Madman Special Cases Unit
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- 51 Night In, Day Out 夜入白出 [Thriller and Horror + Infinite-Flow + Mystery and Deduction + Exploring Strange Realms + Supernatural + Time Loops + The Emotions of Life] The night wind blows. Lie down and sleep. Don’t open your eyes, and no ghosts will appear. If you do open them, look beside the bed: a hand is among the books. Look by the window: a head with no eyes is staring at the bed. Lu Chen, Ye Xiaoqian, Wu Ziyu, Xu Zhuang, and Hu Yingying accidentally touched an old book filled with ghost stories about wronged souls. 10Reads—Score—Shelves
- 52 Beast Maze: The Ring of Displacement 异兽迷城：错位之环 [First Edition]+ [Fanfiction]+ [Sequences]+ [Ensemble Cast]+ [No Tragedy] Can you be sure that the person sitting next to you right now is human? This world is caught in a distorted cycle, where cause and effect give rise to each other. Beneath its sugar-coated surface lie darkness and bitterness that can never be concealed... When the calm surface of the sea begins to ripple, what rises with it may be more than just waves... Perhaps it will also bring forth something that never be 397Reads8.0Score—Shelves
- 53 Blood Redeemer 血赎者 Hardcore and original! "Mystery" "Escape Game" "Infinite Flow" "Deduction" "Thriller" "Supernatural" "Lie Qi" "Fair-Play Mystery" * “Your selfish desires blinded you. You trampled on morality. You deserve to die a hundred times over…” “Compared to dying outright, those unreasonable things may be even more painful…” * After death, those burdened by guilt or resentment receive a numbered tag, with names marked in black or white. The guilty are marked black, and the resentful are marked white. The 2Reads—Score100Shelves
- 54 Master Detective: I Have a Criminal System! 破案神探，我有一个罪犯系统！ [System] + [One Female Lead] + [Relentless Case-Solving] + [Fast-Paced, Detailed Wish Fulfillment] Chen Ming has been a walking jinx for over twenty years. To break the curse of bad luck, he takes his parents' advice and joins the police force. They say a police officer's power can suppress his misfortune! He thought becoming an auxiliary police officer would finally put an end to his bad luck. Who knew that on his very first day at work, he would activate the “Criminal System”! A System determi 346Reads6.4Score—Shelves
- 55 No Responsibility for Scaring You to Tears 吓哭不负责 [Traditional supernatural tales] [Ghost stories] [Chinese-style horror] [Based on true events] [Reader submissions] [Chilling when you think about it] [Bizarre tales] [Beyond the realm of science] [Plainspoken prose, no literary flourishes] [Just stories] Not for the faint of heart! Don’t read late at night! Folklore, haunted houses, eerie village incidents, urban vengeful spirits, supernatural curses, and even non-supernatural stories that are chilling when you think about them... A collection 24.3kReads9.3Score1.9kShelves
- 56 My Best Friend Urged Me to Get a Tattoo, But I Ended Up Tattooing Ghost Skin 闺蜜劝我纹身，可我竟然纹了鬼皮 My best friend urged me to get a tattoo, but somehow I ended up tattooing ghost skin on myself 86Reads—Score—Shelves
- 57 The Fallen Star’s Path 殒星之路 [Two Powerful Leads + Life-or-Death Competition + Memory Loss and Recovery + Multiple Identities + Academy] The Fallen Star Competition has opened once again, but this time it has undergone sweeping changes compared to previous editions. The contestants now possess “phantom power,” something past competitors never had, and the live broadcast System, which had been cut off, has resumed. “The winner of the Fallen Star Competition can have everything.” In every world where the broadcast can be watc 2Reads—Score—Shelves
- 58 Traces of the Night Shadow Star 夜影星踪 Volume One: A corpse falls from the sky on a snowy night in a mountain village, and the whole village whispers that a vengeful ghost is out for blood. A mysterious detective follows the clues, while a boy who witnessed the incident sees through the disguise with a single remark, exposing a shocking murder plot disguised as a supernatural haunting. Volume Two: A string of murders unfolds in a sealed-off, abandoned house, and former classmates die one after another. The truth behind the revenge i 2Reads—Score—Shelves
- 59 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
- 60 My Neighbor Knocks on the Wall at 3 A.M. Every Day 我的邻居每天准时在凌晨3点敲墙 My neighbor knocks on the wall at exactly 3 a.m. every day 7Reads—Score—Shelves
- 61 A Dark Kiss Beneath the Deep Lake 深湖之下的暗吻 On the glittering annual gala night at Xingguang Group, senior finance executive Lin Wei “accidentally” falls into a lake and dies. While sorting through her belongings, her younger sister Lin Yue finds a bloodstained encrypted USB drive. On the night she died, her sister sent one last message: “They’re here.” Lin Yue’s investigation hits a hidden reef. Witnesses are silenced one after another, and every lead is cut off. Then Song Feng, just back from studying abroad, enters her life with perfe 7Reads—Score—Shelves
- 62 Urban Legends Invade: I Slay Demons with Divine Blessings 怪谈入侵：我用神明祝福斩鬼 From Chapter 102 onward, the story enters dungeons, with people from other worlds joining the main cast in them. The world within a world includes science fiction. Also known as: Gods and Ghosts Run Rampant: I Wield the Power of the Gods to Slay Ghosts [Fairly satisfying] [A whole lot of killing] [Chinese-style supernatural tales] [Legendary monsters] [System-driven] [System] [Urban supernatural powers] [Mystery] [Some Infinite Flow dungeons] [Slay Ghosts] [Slay the Gods] Do you believe ghost —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 63 The First Emperor of Dafeng 大丰始皇 [Summoning + Three Kingdoms + political scheming + conquest] Powerful ministers run amok, regional warlords carve up the realm, and the young emperor faces deadly danger at every turn. Xiao Yan wields the Three Kingdoms Summoning System to defy fate and change his destiny. No benevolent rule, no kingly virtue. I believe only in ruthless schemes that strike at the heart, careful plans put into action at the right moment, and wiping out every last trace of the enemy. Jia Xu sets wolves against tig 88Reads—Score—Shelves
- 64 Forensic Pathologist Jiang Yan 法医姜颜 She is an unlucky forensic examiner whose greatest wish in life is to solve a case. After an accidental car crash, she gains the strange ability to travel through time. From then on, her life takes off: the Sada cult case, a double locked-room murder, a bizarre case of evisceration, a university beauty poisoned... She cracks one mysterious case after another and finally becomes a legendary figure in forensic science! 158Reads8.6Score—Shelves
- 65 This 24-Hour Convenience Store Uses the Living as Shopping Baskets 这家24小时便利店，用活人抵购物篮 This 24-Hour Convenience Store Uses Living People as Shopping Baskets 1Reads—Score—Shelves
- 66 Atonement Darwin 赎罪达尔文 What do you mean, I transmigrated, then transmigrated again? (No harem, no formulaic tropes, no wish fulfillment, no System. An ensemble cast with a focus on characters and plot. If that’s not your thing, please don’t read.) “My life ended yesterday, but my story begins today.” Lu Wei was an ordinary second-year college student on Earth, but every night he entered another world of immortal cultivation in his dreams. When he was certain the world in his dreams was fake, he found himself trapped i —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 67 The Temptation of Returning to the Village? 回村的诱惑？ The story of Li Lei, an ordinary, plain, and rather ugly person from Earth... You don't need to read this line. It's only here to pad the word count, pad the word count, hee hee, just enough. —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 68 My Younger Half-Sister Stole My Wedding, So I Broke the Scarred Sword and Defied Fate in Beidou 庶妹抢婚，挥断痕剑北斗逆命 The Shen family was slaughtered, and in her previous life, her dantian was shattered before she died with a grudge. When she opens her eyes again, she is reborn on the night her family is destroyed. A broken-marked sword is clenched in her hand, and she secretly bears the heaven-defying fate of the Goddess of the Big Dipper. The hypocrites lay trap after trap, turmoil stirs in the depths of the Demon Abyss, and all her old enemies return. In this life, she will never let anyone control her! So w 92Reads—Score—Shelves
- 69 The Returnee from Hell 地狱归客 He once fell into the Inferno, enduring nine near-death trials amid mountains of corpses and seas of blood. At last, he returned to the human world bearing the brands of Hell and the power to devour souls. That power can see through the hidden sins of sinners and turn their past misdeeds into pain they must suffer themselves. It is a “gift” Hell bestows upon its judges. The human world is no paradise. Evil lurks in the shadows of neon lights: a hypocritical principal who abused children is still 1Reads—Score—Shelves
- 70 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
- 71 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
- 72 What Came Back from the Mountains When the Fog Rolled In 浓雾起时，从山里跟回来的东西 The Thing That Followed Me Back from the Mountains When the Fog Rose —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 73 The Wooden Beauty Exploits Bugs in Horror Films to Become a Legend 木头美人，惊悚片里卡BUG封神 Lu Yao, the “wooden beauty” mocked across the internet, is blacklisted for her terrible acting and forced to enter the deadly National Fate Cinema. Audiences worldwide bet she won’t last three minutes. Her teammates see her as useless dead weight. The life-taking evil spirit picks her as its first “easy target.” But when mental corruption sweeps the whole place and the actors scream in despair, Lu Yao tilts her expressionless face and asks the ghost, “You’re crying so fake. Haven’t you eaten 1Reads—Score—Shelves
- 74 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
- 75 President, Pursue Her Boldly 总裁大胆追 One unforgettable glimpse five years ago, and from then on, the girl could see no one but him. She chased after him with all her might, but the boy had a childhood sweetheart. After they were forced to break up, she launched an all-out pursuit. But once he recovered from his heartbreak, he left without a second glance. Five years later, the humble CEO and shadowy underworld boss is back, acting cute and begging to get back together. The young woman turns away haughtily: “I don’t take back old fl —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 76 Street Punk: What’s Wrong with Having a Few Too Many First-Class Merits? 街溜子，一等功有点多怎么了 (Crime solving + suspense + one heroine + System) “Brother Cui, how many first-class merits is that now?” “Number eight, I think. Just a little more than I can count.” The chief: “There's a major case. Go get Cui Jue, now.” Suspect: “I didn't kill anyone! I only had half a month left until the statute of limitations ran out. Cui Jue came in and arrested me on the spot.” Thief: “I'd only just started thinking about stealing something, and he arrested me for a case from three years ago.” Watch Cui 601Reads6.9Score104Shelves
- 77 After the Divorce, I Took Over His Company 离婚后，我接管了他的公司 [Reborn + contemporary business world + wealthy family + strong heroine + sweet on the outside, ruthless within + mutual salvation] In her previous life, Shen Zhiwei never understood, even on her deathbed, why Lu Chenzhou, who clearly loved her, refused to hand her the divorce papers. Only after he died did she learn that he hadn’t written the agreement. Someone else had forced it on him. He didn’t give it to her not because he didn’t want a divorce, but because he knew she would die if they div —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 78 Female Rivalry Reigns Supreme 雌竞为王 The Ultimate People-Pleaser + Role Reversal + Men Gone Wild + Multiple Women + Female Rivalry + A Smart Protagonist I’m no good at writing a blurb. Just read the first ten chapters. My name is Lin Yuan. Last month, I was an ordinary college student studying for exams. Then I opened my eyes and became this world’s “heaven-sent rising star.” Here, the ratio of women to men is absurdly high. My female mentor pushed an internship contract toward me, her voice trembling with warmth. “Don’t worry abou 20Reads—Score—Shelves
- 79 Mystery and Detective Notes 悬疑推理笔记 My new work is out! Welcome to read it on Tomato Novels. I hope you enjoy it. Your support inspires me to write, and I'll do my best to tell every story well! 39Reads—Score—Shelves
- 80 Rules of the Rest Stop on a Stormy Night 暴雨夜服务区规则怪谈 Rules of the Rest Stop on a Stormy Night 5Reads—Score—Shelves
- 81 The Three Months I Was Trapped at My Girlfriend's Best Friend's Home 我被困在女友闺蜜家的那三个月 My girlfriend’s eerie home is the stuff of nightmares. This time, I’ve mysteriously found myself trapped in her best friend’s house, where she makes an utterly baffling demand... Two heroines + well-crafted suspense + scheming characters + sweet romance + twists + written by the author, not AI 1Reads—Score—Shelves
- 82 After My Face Was Stolen, I Drew the Six Realms of Living Beings 我的脸被夺走后我画出六道众生相 My face was stolen. It wasn’t disfigured. It wasn’t disguised. My face was literally gone. To stay alive, I had no choice but to paint one new face after another onto my own. Human, ghost, demon, beast, god, immortal. Every face I painted gave me a new ability. As I tried to reclaim my original face, I gradually discovered that this world was far more complicated than it seemed. 96Reads—Score126Shelves
- 83 Major Case Files: Criminal Psychology 重案录：罪恶心理 [I’m going to write a novel modeled on Ten Deadly Sins] [Mystery + deduction + crime-solving + mind-bending twists + unit stories, focused mainly on solving cases, with a bit of a disturbing edge] Four top detectives, brought together from across the country to form a major crimes unit, investigate the most serious cases nationwide. Have you ever seen someone born with two sets of reproductive organs? Have you ever seen a girl planted in a flowerpot? Have you ever seen a dairy farm that produces 18kReads8.5Score1.5kShelves
- 84 Full-Time God of Wealth 全职财神 With only five yuan left in his account, rent breathing down his neck, and his life at rock bottom, Jiang Li put on a secondhand gaming headset. In the world of Epoch, he unexpectedly acquired the unique skill [Eye of Wealth]. From then on, the monsters dropped more than just gear: they dropped wealth with a price tag. One copper coin equaled one yuan, and the crisp clink of gold hitting his pocket was the sound of money arriving in his real-world bank account! From a “useless mine owner” mocked —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 85 The Yin-Yang Hotel: Waiting for My Bride to Return 阴阳酒店之等我的新娘回来 This is a suspenseful supernatural mystery. Keep reading boldly, and surprises abound! “Where is this place? How did I get here?” Mu Jiuchi walked forward one step at a time. She had no idea what had happened to her or how she had ended up in this unfamiliar place. The darkness all around her made her walk in fear. Then a light appeared ahead, and she headed toward it. The distant light turned out to be coming from a hotel. Mu Jiuchi made her way to the hotel. At the entrance, she saw four 20Reads—Score—Shelves
- 86 Beast City: Eight-Star Luck from the Start 异兽迷城：开局八级幸运 The protagonist transmigrates into the world of Strange Beasts Maze from the start. Gao Yang? The maze is in crisis, and beasts are everywhere. Yet he unexpectedly gains Level 8 luck. He planned to rely on his memories to clear the story, but never expected the plot to twist and turn until it got more and more absurd. Then the System switches to a win-win mode? It no longer hands out perks for free and starts assigning missions instead. “What? You want me to join the Baichuan Squad? You’d better 16Reads—Score—Shelves
- 87 Night Shift Security Guard Wanted: Must Be Able to Find the Extra Building That Appears at Dawn 招聘夜班保安，要求能找到凌晨多出的那栋楼 Night-shift security guard wanted. Must be able to find the extra building that appears at midnight. 5Reads—Score—Shelves
- 88 The People of Huai Tree Lane 槐树里的人 The People in the Locust Tree Lane 1Reads—Score—Shelves
- 89 The Compendium of Ten Thousand Ghosts 万诡集录 This book brings together thrilling, suspenseful, and terrifying stories. Discover tales that are both gripping and fun to listen to. After reading this book, you’ll never be alone again, because there’ll be someone under your bed and at its foot!!! —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 90 Stop Insulting Me! One More Word and I’ll Be Invincible 别骂了！再骂我就要无敌了 Dumped, mocked, and publicly humiliated? Lin Chen activates the Get Stronger by Taking Abuse System from the start! The more people curse him, the stronger he gets; the more they look down on him, the faster he levels up! The whole sect laughs at him as a good-for-nothing with no spiritual roots, and everyone is waiting to see him make a fool of himself in the tournament. But no one knows he's already secretly invincible! Go ahead and humiliate me. Mock me. Trample me. The more abuse I take, the 8Reads—Score—Shelves
- 91 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—Shelves
- 92 The Human Soul 人魄 The Human Soul 1Reads—Score—Shelves
- 93 After Entering a Dream, My Soul Arrived in a Ghost City 入梦后，我的灵魂来到了鬼城 It's late. Time to go to sleep. But the moment you dream, you enter a ghostly realm full of peril. The dream ghosts here are masters of disguise, blending into illusions where truth and falsehood are impossible to tell apart. Never let them discover that you can see them. If they notice your eyes have seen through the truth, they will devour your soul completely and take over your body. An accident took Ye Qiubai's parents and erased his childhood memories. He and Jiang Xue, whom he had known si 31Reads—Score—Shelves
- 94 The Time-Traveling Crime Casebook 超时空罪案事件簿 To save my critically ill girlfriend, I accidentally activated a mission System. Every time I travel to a crime scene, I take on a completely new identity at random. A female corpse case from the Tang dynasty, a locked-room mystery from the Republican era, an AI murder case... I can trade points for wishes. The stranger the case, the greater the reward. I thought I was a crime-solving genius, until the System’s final message appeared: “Your girlfriend’s illness is actually connected to you...” 1Reads—Score—Shelves
- 95 Don't Look Back During Evening Study at School 学校晚自习别回头 Don’t Look Back During Evening Study at School 6Reads—Score—Shelves
- 96 Horror Game: Hell Corporation 恐怖游戏：地狱公司 (The rating just came in, and it’ll rise over time!!!) [Infinite Flow + mild suspense + horror game + one female lead] "This is a company that can make any wish come true. Do you have a wish you'd like granted? Call our hotline to join our game. If you clear it, we'll make your wish come true." Wang Zhu looked at the ad on his phone and called the number. He didn't notice the pair of deathly pale eyes staring at him from outside the window. 14kReads7.7Score1.5kShelves
- 97 Kiss Me as the Storm Draws Near 暴雨将至时吻你 [Sharp-tongued yet soft-hearted criminal investigation captain vs. reborn queen of the night|Two Alphas clash|A tense push and pull] When Meng Chengxiao first saw Chen Xi at a bar, she was being harassed by a few drunks and crying pitifully. His cousin was so smitten, he looked ready to tear out his own heart and give it to her. But on a stormy night, he saw it with his own eyes: the delicate young woman he’d thought so helpless ground her slender toe into a thug’s throat and took down six armed 889Reads8.2Score105Shelves
- 98 The Six-Nosed Fox Demon 六鼻狐妖 Linghu Yin of Ningcheng is a renowned constable of the Six Fan Gate, known by the nickname Fox Demon of the Six Noses. He is exceptionally skilled, and his foxlike cunning in solving cases often helps him spot the smallest clues where none seem possible. So come along with me and see how this official, Linghu Yin, cracks his cases. 1Reads—Score—Shelves
- 99 The Phoenix Rules the World: The Top Female Finance Official 凤倾天下，第一女财官！ Su Li is transmigrated into the body of an orphaned young lady from a marquis’s household. Her dowry is stolen, and she is falsely accused and sentenced to be drowned. She smiles and opens the account books, using her financial savvy to make the whole clan kneel and pay her back. The mysterious organization Yunjing recognizes her as its master, and she forms an alliance with the sickly, possessive Prince Jing. From buying up shops to vying for imperial power, from Jiangnan salt permits to milita 1Reads—Score—Shelves
- 100 My Husband Sacrificed Me to a Freezer, Saying It Was the Night-Shift Rule 丈夫把我献祭给冰柜，说这是夜班规则 My Husband Sacrificed Me to the Freezer, Saying It Was the Night Shift Rules 3Reads—Score—Shelves
