Novels like Yangcheng's Ten Great Unsolved Cases
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- 101 When the Nursery Rhyme Begins, Close Your Eyes 童谣响起，请闭眼 At 12:17 a.m., audio restoration specialist Mo Feiyue hears his own name on a children's recording from 1998. On the tape, the children are singing "Drop the Handkerchief." But at the very end, a girl's voice suddenly joins in. "Mo Feiyue, why haven't you come yet?" The next second, his phone lights up on its own. [First Nursery Rhyme Realm: Drop the Handkerchief] [Before dawn, find the person who wasn't mentioned in the nursery rhyme.] From that day on, Mo Feiyue discovers that the familiar nur 1.6kReads—Score268Shelves
- 102 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. 11Reads—Score—Shelves
- 103 After Awakening Super-Senses, I Could Hear Everyone's Thoughts Across the City 觉醒超感后我听见了全城心声 After a car accident, Lu Chen wakes up to find that the world has changed: he can hear the thoughts of everyone in the city. On the subway, office workers pray for their bosses to go bankrupt; a neighbor’s wife has a crush on the delivery guy; even the beggar on the street is calculating how much money he can scam today... As thoughts surge into his mind like a flood, he realizes that the most terrifying thing isn’t lies, but the malice hidden behind people’s smiles. The only person who can hear 4Reads—Score—Shelves
- 104 I Play an Extra in Eerie Movies 我在诡异电影里跑龙套 [Also known as: Quitting KFC to Brave the Supernatural Scenarios] Yan Jin worked like a dog at a fried chicken shop for three years, always conscientious and hardworking. At last, he finally stood up for himself and fired his boss. But right after quitting, he transmigrated into an Infinite Flow scenario where death was all but certain. Since he’d transmigrated, he might as well show the supernatural what his incredible golden finger could do: a psychiatric hospital for gods, an echo that never 1.5kReads6.3Score115Shelves
- 105 The Human Soul 人魄 The Human Soul 1Reads—Score—Shelves
- 106 Rule Horror: I Go Undercover Among the Eerie Things 规则怪谈：我在诡异里当卧底 When other people enter a rule-based horror scenario, they're all on edge, desperately fighting to survive. A top-tier genius player is accidentally dragged into a scenario, only to awaken the server's one and only hidden identity: an undercover agent in the strange tales! From the start, he's bound to a max-level talent: [Rule Analysis and Exploiting Loopholes]. While other players tremble before rules that mean certain death, the whole situation takes a sharp turn when it comes to him: Rule: “ 3Reads—Score—Shelves
- 107 Slay the Gods: The Master of Deception, Fooling His Way to Slay Every God 斩神：老六影帝，骗斩万神 The Divine Court descends upon the world, and mist shrouds the land. Night Watchers fight back in a bloody struggle, while the gods treat all mortals like dogs. This is the brutal reality of the God-Slaying world, but Lu Chen is determined to be the wild card who throws the whole game into chaos. On the surface, he's the least serious member of the Night Watchers: greedy, cowardly, slick-tongued, and quicker than anyone to run from danger. He talks nonsense all day and serves as the team's comic 7Reads—Score—Shelves
- 108 Hell Game: The Ten Courts of Yama 地狱游戏：十殿阎罗 Gaming + suspense + ensemble cast. No mindless protagonist, no saintly heroine, and no female lead. When Lu Yu opens his eyes, he finds himself in a world filled with “Lucky Games.” There is no order like in the normal world. To survive, you have to keep playing the games and winning. Lose a game, and death is the only thing waiting for you! But the games aren’t what they seem. Many phenomena Lu Yu can’t understand seem to tell him that he’s fallen into a loop he may never escape. Even if Lu Yu —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 109 The Successful Outsourcing Company 成功外包公司 Successful Outsourcing Company 1Reads—Score—Shelves
- 110 Can I Steal Other People's Luck? 我可以夺走别人的运气？ On the day Chen Yu was fired, he found a rusty old coin in the rain. That night, he dreamed his boss had suddenly gotten rich while he was so broke he could only afford instant noodles. The next morning, he woke in horror to discover that a mere touch could quietly steal someone else’s luck. A colleague who’d just been promoted was suddenly hospitalized after a car accident. His love rival won five million in the lottery, then dropped dead on the spot. Even his landlord’s demolition compensation 1Reads—Score—Shelves
- 111 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
- 112 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—Shelves
- 113 Don't Open Your Eyes Under the Blood Moon 血月下，别睁眼 [Slow-paced] + [Urban fantasy] On the night of the Ghost Festival, a red moon hung in the sky. The news said it was a once-in-a-century astronomical spectacle. I believed them. Then I noticed that in the photo of the moon on my phone, a dense crowd of “people” stood behind me. But there had clearly been no one else on the rooftop. Even stranger, people began vanishing mysteriously across the city the next day, yet none of the media mentioned it. The TV kept playing experts’ explanations on a lo —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 114 I Run a Lifestyle Channel in a Horror Game 我在惊悚游戏里当生活区UP主 With 1.2 million yuan in debt, Lin Bei gets dragged into a horror game. While others flee, I film; while others scream, I livestream. The head nurse is chasing me with a knife? Perfect footage! Zombies are closing in? Let's dance together. I edit terrifying scenarios into comedy shows, pay off my debts with tips, and clear stages by putting on a show. The ghosts become my cast, and the audience becomes my backup. —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 115 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 10Reads—Score—Shelves
- 116 The Dragon Son-in-Law from Heaven: The All-Around Dad 天降龙婿：全能奶爸 The Dragon Son-in-Law from Heaven: The All-Around Dad 1Reads—Score—Shelves
- 117 The Pawnshop of Morality 道德当铺 The Morality Pawnshop 2Reads—Score—Shelves
- 118 The Peach-Branch Sprite Is Just Too Sweet 桃枝小妖太软了 The Peach-Branch Little Sprite Is Too Sweet —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 119 Memory Erased: The Murders Continue 记忆归零：凶案未止 Memory Erased: The Murders Continue —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 120 Crime Puzzle: The Zero-Degree Detective 罪案拼图：零度侦探 Crime Scene Puzzle: The Zero-Degree Detective Synopsis On a rainy night in the old district, a string of locked-room murders rocks the city. The victims are all social elites, and the crime scenes yield no clues, save for a bizarre spade symbol. Reclusive to the point of obsession, Ling Ji, the "Detective Zero," uses uncanny deductive skills to unravel the truth, starting with a single strand of hair or half a fingerprint and stripping away layer upon layer of disguise. At his side are Qin Feng, —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 121 The Train Disappears in the Hot Spring Village 电车消失于温泉乡 Chen Zhihe went abroad to pursue research on time machines, but angrily quit after being treated unfairly by his company. During a trip, he boarded a train to Lin'ai Hot Springs, a town shrouded in mist, where he met his foreign friend Iwasawa Songhao. He thought it would be an ordinary getaway. Hot springs, a stroll around the island, and a centenarian's stories about events from decades ago. Until Chen Zhihe realized that the tales the locals loved to recount seemed to have really happened 4Reads—Score—Shelves
- 122 My Embalming Notes with the Agent 我和代行者的入殓手记 [Thrills + Heartwarming Moments + Redemption + Past and Present Lives] Do you believe someone could wait a hundred years for you? Bai Yan doesn’t. She’s just a junior makeup artist at a funeral home. Her only real skill is pretending she can’t see ghosts. But one early morning, she personally transfers a man’s seal onto herself. He lived to be 129, owes a life, and demands she repay him by doing ten things. This isn’t an evil spirit haunting her. It’s a madman who waited a hundred years for the —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 123 Eerie Descent: My Wife Is an S-Rank Horror 诡异降临：我的老婆是S级诡异 [Spiritual qi revival + Supernatural horrors + Instance-based + Thrilling battles + Sensible!] [The rating just came out. It’ll go up later, so feel free to keep reading.] Black fog descended, and spiritual qi revived. In this age overrun by the uncanny, some people wanted to welcome the coming of “God.” But Lu Li, an undercover agent, couldn’t bring himself to laugh at such an outlandish goal. See how Lu Li “gets promoted and earns a raise,” “marries a beautiful rich girl,” and “reaches the pin 15Reads5.1Score—Shelves
- 124 The Cannon Fodder Fiancée Marries Her Future Uncle Instead 炮灰未婚妻改嫁小叔 After transmigrating into a book, Shen Wanwan becomes the doomed fiancée who is destined to die miserably as a rich-family sacrificial character. At the engagement banquet, her fiancé publicly humiliates her by calling off their engagement, while a fake sweet-and-innocent woman pretends to be pitiful and keeps pushing her around. Shen Wanwan comes to her senses, decisively cuts ties on the spot, and exposes both their hypocritical faces, stunning everyone present! Everyone assumes she will end u 2Reads—Score—Shelves
- 125 While Everyone Else Fights to Survive, You Flirt with Female Ghosts and Live Off Them? 别人求生，你撩女诡吃软饭？ [The second instance is almost over] My name is Shen Ping'an. The moment I entered a national destiny instance, an S-rank female ghost in a red dress lunged at me from point-blank range. Her hand had already passed through the glass and grabbed me by the throat, while the American contestant beside me was still laughing and calling me a good-for-nothing. I didn't back down. Instead, I pulled out an old movie ticket and slapped it against the window. It was for the rare, out-of-print film she had 16Reads—Score100Shelves
- 126 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
- 127 The Gallery of Gods 神明陈列馆 My sister's life hangs on my cursed one. To save his terminally ill sister, Chen Gu steps into a dark world that collects human obsessions and “tokens.” During an expedition, he embeds “Destruction” in his right arm and seals “Order” inside his chest. From then on, his body becomes a battlefield between two colliding stars. He becomes a monster, and every time he suffers, his sister's soul is torn apart from a thousand miles away in her hospital room. In his darkest hour, he discovers the mark 1Reads—Score—Shelves
- 128 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
- 129 The Seconded Consultant Specializes in Tough Cases 借调顾问他专治疑难案 The city's criminal investigation team has recently gained a special consultant: Jiang Xibai. He's no rookie; the bureau chief personally went to great lengths to borrow him from the provincial department. He's an expert in criminal psychology. At their first meeting, everyone on the team thought the consultant looked far too sweet. With every button of his white shirt fastened to the collar and a soft, gentle voice, he seemed more like a student than someone who could read minds. Then, when a s 568Reads6.9Score—Shelves
- 130 Lord of the Heavenly Secrets 天机之主 Chu Yu only wants to solve cases in peace, but everyone keeps taking him for a charlatan. After solving the unsolved case of a young nobleman, the emperor declares him the uncrowned Imperial Preceptor. After unraveling mysteries involving ghosts and monsters, the myriad realms revere him as the Heavenly Secrets Dao Venerable. Holding up his bronze mirror, he sighs helplessly: “I never wanted to be a savior. Can’t you just let me solve a case in peace?” The mastermind behind it all trembles at hi 13Reads—Score—Shelves
- 131 Late-Night Convenience Store: What Are You Doing, Customer? 深夜便利店：客官你干嘛 Lin Mo thought the worst thing about working the night shift as a cashier at Nan Cheng Huimin Convenience Store was having a teammate go 0–8 in ranked, until he met the old woman in floral pajamas. She clutched a chipped enamel mug and bought only two bags of frozen dumplings and a packet of QQ candy. Her coins were caked with dirt, and she insisted he “cook the dumplings.” Then a hoarse voice called in an identical order, laughing so hard Lin Mo could feel his upper gums go cold. The creepiest 8Reads—Score—Shelves
- 132 Strange Tales of the Tang Dynasty: Eternal Chang'an 唐朝诡事录之天下长安 Beneath the prosperous age, undercurrents are stirring. When Di Renjie narrowly escapes death at the hands of a ruthless official, and fifteen-year-old Su Wuming shows his brilliance at a temple fair, an astonishing mystery spanning twenty years slowly begins to unfold. Here are just some of the cases: 1. A secret chamber in Youzhou, Cheng Wuting colluding with the Turks, and Wang Xiaojie operating undercover on both sides. Who is a pawn, and who is the player? 2. The Gobi Desert in Liangzhou. B 6Reads—Score—Shelves
- 133 Severing the Dragon Vein 断命龙脉 The men of the Gu family never live past forty. After his father, Gu Mingyuan, dies, Gu Chenchuan follows a train ticket to Baihe, a bloodstained compass, and a few unfinished last words into the old trails of the Changbai Mountains. But the deeper he digs, the more he realizes that the Gu family has not simply been haunted or cursed. They have been caught in a living account, buried for many years, that refuses to let go. From Baihe to Tamen Peak, from the Changbai Mountains to an old well in t 1Reads—Score—Shelves
- 134 Transmigrate Into a Book: The Mad Qi Min’s Caged Sparrow 穿书逐玉：疯批齐旻的掌中雀 Yu Qianqian was transmigrated into the body of a doomed cannon-fodder character, and mistook the sinister, unhinged imperial grandson Qi Min for her savior. Qi Min was a thoroughly rotten man. He didn’t understand love, only possession. He clipped her wings and locked her in a cage made of pure gold, stroking her face with a smile. “Qianqian, you’re only safe by my side.” Desperate for freedom, Yu Qianqian faked her death in a blazing fire. That night, the all-powerful Third Young Master Qi dug 13Reads—Score—Shelves
- 135 Gu Gu Fang: Settling the Karma of Antiquities 缚古坊：了断古物因果 An antique shop on Funeral Street settles the worldly karma of spiritual artifacts. Using their special powers, it helps those destined for them advance their official careers. Azure Dragon God, Swollen-Belly Ox, Chicken Spirit Protector, Nine-Tailed Fox Who Changes Fate, Azure Sky Serpent... They say a new owner has arrived at Fugufang, and a god is always at their side... 18Reads—Score—Shelves
- 136 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
- 137 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 1.4kReads—Score190Shelves
- 138 Three Seconds to Defy Fate 三秒逆命 [Urban Supernatural Horror | Deadly Rule-Based Traps | Lifespan Reversal | Defying Fate | Everyone Burns Themselves for the Cause] Supernatural horrors descend upon Jiangcheng. After dark, the city becomes a death zone! On the brink of death, Lu Chen awakens the ability to rewind all things by three seconds. The sole price: burning his lifespan to be reborn! Don’t look back, don’t count the steps, don’t stop moving. Break a single rule and you die on the spot! His younger sister is possessed —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 139 I Just Wanted to Watch the Drama, but the System Made Me the Savior 吃瓜看戏的我被系统逼成了救世主 [A Hilarious, Anti-Cliché System Story] [Ordinary Person Turns the Tables Against All Odds] [Power Fantasy] When every System in the world is designed to exploit people, I get my hands on a BUG System and make all the chosen ones dance in the palm of my hand. The peaceful modern world you know is just a livestock-raising game run by a higher-dimensional civilization. Those chosen ones who come with Systems are nothing more than "emotional feed" kept in captivity. Every comeback and every act of 3Reads—Score—Shelves
- 140 Golden Core Cultivators Are Only Fit for Exploitative Jobs? Come With Me! I'll Get You Benefits 金丹只配打黑工？跟我！我给五险 [The early story focuses on group development and plot. The protagonist's individual combat strength comes into its own later. Please don't complain if that's not your thing ^_^] [Comedy]+ [Passion]+ [Sect Bonds]+ [Quirky Leveling System]+ [Mystery-Solving, Exploratory Worldbuilding] This is a world where you can't take a single step without spirit stones. After transmigrating to the Age of Declining Magic in the Cultivation World, Lin Yuzhou had hoped to become the strongest cultivator... What? 4Reads—Score—Shelves
- 141 The Upstairs Is the Underworld 楼上是阴间 The Upstairs Neighbor Is from the Underworld 1Reads—Score—Shelves
- 142 The Nightmare Frontier 噩梦边境 Late at night, five people in a subway car were all plunged to the edge of a dream, trapped between life and death. And someone was already waiting for them there: a bizarre creature… 27Reads—Score—Shelves
- 143 My Whole Family Are Villains? Yet This NPC Can Edit the Script 全家反派？偏偏我这NPC能改字 I, Yin Xia'en, am the youngest daughter of the Yin family, one of Korea's top chaebols. My family is rich, my parents are alive and well, I have an older sister and brother, plus a promising young uncle. In short, as long as the Yin family doesn't go bankrupt, my biggest problem in life should be figuring out how to spend my money. Then a transfer student from Sichuan and Chongqing joined our school, and a short-drama panel appeared before my eyes. My sister: [Wicked Supporting Female Charac 18.3kReads—Score62.3kShelves
- 144 The Price Tag 标价 She was locked up for 406 days. After escaping, she helped the police take down the entire scam compound. Forty-nine people were arrested, and the evidence formed a complete chain. Everyone said it was over. She thought so too. Until the day before the case files were archived, when she happened to glance at an attachment to an interrogation transcript. Her name was on it, but not under “victim.” It was listed under “item number.” Above that was another line: Source of information: provided inte 21Reads—Score—Shelves
- 145 Dreaming Through Empathy 共感入梦 [Reborn + mystery + wild imagination + redemption + 1v1] She spends the entire night having nightmares. In her dreams, her mother dies in a sea of flames. When she wakes, her whole body burns with pain. Then she hears the devastating news: her mother has died. She goes from grief-stricken and dazed to unable to believe it. Could everything her mother said in the dream really be true? Later, someone approaches her, claiming to know the mystery of her birth and offering sincere help. She clings to 2Reads—Score—Shelves
- 146 There’s Someone on My Back 我的背上有个人 I always thought I'd slept wrong. I tried medicated plasters and got X-rays, until I met an old man who said, "Young lady, someone has been riding on your back for nearly half a year. You need to send her on her way, right now..." —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 147 Who Wrote His Crime? 谁书其罪 A single imperial decree can decide who lives and dies. A page from an old archive can rewrite the fate of the court. Sixteen years after the new dynasty was founded, the common people praised the fairness of the civil service exams. Yet every high-ranking official in the court owed their position to a rigged cheating scandal. Shen Qingwu is merely the lowliest document-restoration clerk in the Qingjian Bureau, but from the grain of paper, old ink, and forged seals, she can make witnesses “kille —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 148 The Demon Gate Puppet 诡门人偶 [Infinite-dungeon horror + dark humor + outrageous antics + daily life + absurdity = the author's a total menace] Xu Zhifan and Chen Yu are just two ordinary office workers. Nine to nine, six days a week; meager pay, endless overtime. Until one day, the two of them are apparently “kidnapped” and taken to an unfamiliar villa. In the villa's courtyard stands a door, silent and still. Beyond it lies a resort where a considerate butler “sees the guests out”; an unsolved case in which they have —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 149 Mirror City Loop 镜城循环 If you were trapped in the same day, would you go crazy, or turn it into a game you could beat? College student Lin Che chose the latter. By the 37th time he woke up on July 15, he couldn’t even be bothered to panic. Confessing to the principal in front of everyone, jumping from the fourth floor of an academic building to test the limits of physics, trying every flavor of instant noodles sold in every convenience store in town: he had turned the time loop into a massive open-world game. Then h 10Reads—Score—Shelves
- 150 I Serve Last Meals to the Rich in the Powerful Elite’s Kitchen 我在权贵厨房给富豪配断头饭 People say a chef is a magician who holds the secret to happiness. But in Su Ye’s eyes, ingredients are elements, cooking is chemistry, and the dining table is the place closest to death, aside from the operating table. An undercooked mushroom, a cup of overreacted bitter almond tea, a carefully planned dinner of foods that “clash.” In this hospital, some patients’ causes of death can never be determined from an autopsy report. A licensed nutritionist, Su Ye wields a yanagiba that can slice top- 2Reads—Score—Shelves
