Novels like Yangcheng's Ten Great Unsolved Cases
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- 151 Operation Break of Dawn! 破晓专案组！ [Dual male leads] + [sickly genius] + [criminal investigation mystery] + [family tragedy] + [ensemble cast] Beneath the shadow of crime in Yong'an City, the serious crimes unit of the criminal investigation squad brings together a group of “odd geniuses”: IT hacker Qiao Wen, forensic examiner Chen Yun, intelligence expert Wang Xiaohu, sniper Shen Qing, archivist Zhao Ting, and evidence specialist Jiang Rui. At the heart of the team are two completely different souls. Xiao Yao's name means carefr 399Reads—Score107Shelves
- 152 My Wife Is a Snake 我的老婆是条蛇 When I was born, nine snakes were coiled around the roof beams. They called it Nine Dragons Sending a Son, and it meant I’d face eighty-one calamities before turning nine. If I could get through them, I’d enjoy great wealth and success. To keep me alive, my grandfather made me marry a snake as my wife. He also had me marry into someone else’s family and take their surname… 20Reads—Score—Shelves
- 153 The Devious Game of Fate 天机诡局 My master died under mysterious circumstances. Before he passed, he branded the Chen family’s ancestral secrets of heavenly calculations onto my wrist, leaving me with just one warning: “Never use them unless you have no other choice.” With the century-old brass compass he left me, I saw through the soul-locking formation at the haunted spot in the old mansion at a glance. A bronze mirror to suppress the evil, Big Dipper coins to seal the aura: how could ordinary people doubt eighteen years of f 1Reads—Score—Shelves
- 154 Notebook No. 9 第九号笔记本 An unsigned letter leads Lu Jing, a special police instructor, to a deserted village that has been erased from the map. At the bottom of a well, he finds records of Japanese military experiments from 1939. That same night, he encounters something that should not exist: mutated people who move sluggishly and have black blood. He escapes by sheer luck, but an undying black pattern remains on his left arm. The hexagonal particles in his blood sample match the investigation notes of Li Zhiwei's late 5Reads—Score—Shelves
- 155 Mystic Detective Cases: After Leaving Seclusion, I Joined the Special Investigations Unit 玄学探案，出山后，我进特案组了 Two male leads, mysticism + supernatural investigations + everyday life Mo Li is an eccentric celestial master with a sensationally tragic background. He joins the newly established Special Case Investigation Team in the capital and becomes its mysticism consultant, solving cases alongside the rest of the team. Multiple couples, simple cases, half investigations and half everyday life. This story has no connection to real life! 5.7kReads8.9Score1kShelves
- 156 A Forensic Genius? No, I Just Have Empathy 刑侦天才？不，我只是会共感 [Both devoted to each other] [One-on-one] [Rugged-looking but perceptive criminal police captain VS exceptionally beautiful, manga-like ability consultant] After her father dies in an accident, Xu Qingyi awakens a supernatural ability. Determined to become a detective and solve cases, she sets out to uncover the truth behind her father's “accidental death.” After being “loaned” to another unit, he finds himself farther and farther from his dream, but closer and closer to love. Farther from the k 568Reads8.4Score106Shelves
- 157 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
- 158 AI Made Him a Cyber Heavenly Master Ai封他做了赛博天师 AI crowned him a cyber-era Celestial Master. —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 159 Tengwang Pavilion Time 滕王阁时间 The Pavilion of Prince Teng has always had only six floors. Yet ancient books mention a seventh. Lu Chuan was an ordinary historic-building restoration specialist at the pavilion, until one late night he saw something in the attic that should not have existed: a mural that changed before his eyes. The mural showed a passage from history. But when he looked again the next day, that passage had changed. From that moment on, Lu Chuan understood: the history of this world was not fixed. Someone was —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 160 Everyone in Class Awakened Superpowers, but I Can Only See On-Screen Comments 全班都觉醒了异能，只有我的能力是看见弹幕 The whole class awakened superpowers. Mine is the ability to see comments floating across my vision. 2Reads—Score—Shelves
- 161 I’m the Protagonist, So How Could I Lose? 我都是主角了还怎么输 Fu Ci's biggest regret was choosing to save money instead of spending it. If he'd paid for a taxi, he wouldn't have gotten on the bus and ended up inside a supernatural instance. At least this trip hadn't been a complete loss. [Ding-dong~ Your System is now online! From now on, every time you spend a set amount of currency, you'll receive an exclusive skill~] Fu Ci's eyes lit up. From then on, he began spending freely, without a care in the world. While others saved, he spent. Seeing the confusi 158Reads8.4Score100Shelves
- 162 Wuniang's Cookbook 五娘食谱 Deep in the neighborhoods of Chang'an, a light from a cooking fire always glows quietly at night. It belongs to Wu Niang's food stall. Sometimes it sits on a street corner; other times, it becomes an unremarkable little shop, as if carried along by the wind. She makes food so delicious that people can't stop thinking about it. She knows her true customers are not just people, but the desires and resentments churning within their hearts. Wherever greed burns brightest, wherever old grudges run de 131Reads8.1Score—Shelves
- 163 Attic Mints: The 30th Visitor 阁楼薄荷糖：第30个访客 An old house, mint candy, and a mystery left unspoken. In the studio on the twelfth floor of an old office building in the western district, the bitter smell of instant coffee drifts in from the window. Lately, people with secrets have been gathering at the desk of the writer Miaoyi: someone clutching a silver birdcage with the faint pattern of an old house engraved on its base; someone holding a yellowed diary, its title page marked with a drawing of mint candy; and someone who keeps repeating, 1Reads—Score—Shelves
- 164 Numerology: Tracking Down Killers 易数缉凶 [Two powerhouses in criminal investigation and the occult + satisfying episodic cases + rapid-fire twists] No golden finger, no System. Su Wan, the stern-faced captain of the criminal investigation unit, trusts only one rule: "Physical evidence doesn't lie." With her expert forensic skills and investigative logic, she cracks one strange case after another, until she hits a wall in a series of ritualistic murders. Three crime scenes have no fingerprints, no DNA, and no witnesses. The killer has v 6Reads—Score—Shelves
- 165 The Gray Realm’s Devotee 灰界信徒 After I was dismembered, my consciousness awoke in the restroom of an abandoned psychiatric hospital. A stranger's face stared back at me in the mirror. A phone lay on the sink, its screen displaying a message: “Welcome to the Ashen Realm Human Resources Department. Employee ID: 444. Your first performance target: survive tonight.” This is a bizarre world formed as the “Ashen Realm” seeps into reality. Grudges become rules, memories become currency, and humans are its cheapest disposable resourc 6Reads—Score—Shelves
- 166 The City of the Dead Descends: I'm the Only One in the City Who Hasn't Been Forgotten 冥城降临：全城只有我没被遗忘 A strange knocking suddenly echoed from beneath the Dongzhuang antiques market. The streets cracked open, blood flowed backward, and armored ghosts crawled out from the depths of the city. A Western Regions royal city that had vanished more than two thousand years ago began to overlap with modern skyscrapers beneath the dark clouds. Ordinary young man Gu Chuan was trapped in the sealed-off zone. He joined forces with Wu Taifeng, a mysterious antiques dealer, to survive. They soon discovered that 2Reads—Score—Shelves
- 167 Rule Horror from the Start: I Raked In Billions in Bonus Money 开局规则怪谈：我斩获百亿磕磕金 Song Fuyou is dragged into a Rule Horror world with a 100% death rate, but inherits a fortune of ten billion from her System Mom. While everyone else struggles to survive, she gazes at the trembling figure before her, eyes shining. “You’re a perfect match for someone out of shape!” The [Ultimate Couple-Shipping System] activates! Spend one million to make character A in an instance gaze into character B’s eyes, and you can twist some of the rules. Spend ten million to make them give each other “ 3Reads—Score—Shelves
- 168 Quick Transmigration: A Meteorite Fell, and We Switched Fates 快穿：陨石降临，我们交换了命运 [Soft Sci-Fi + Parallel Worlds + Quick Transmigration + Mystery and Wild Speculation + Ensemble Cast] A meteorite crashed into Earth, disrupting the magnetic field and cutting off communications. A small town more than eight hundred kilometers away seemed untouched, but an invisible crack quietly appeared. Step through a door and you transmigrate; cross a threshold and your fate changes. The living dead, long-buried unsolved cases, and forbidden secrets reappear again and again in the gaps betwe 61Reads—Score—Shelves
- 169 The Struggling Salaryman's Comeback 苦逼打工仔的逆袭 Deng Xian was born in a mountain village in southwest China and made a living repairing appliances. After being looked down on and underpaid time and again, he came to understand that skill could keep him alive, but rules determined his dignity. Armed with an old computer and the determination to learn programming from scratch, he moved to the city and joined Hesheng Electrical, starting at the very bottom as a factory worker. He refused to take shortcuts, focusing on just two things: breaking d 21Reads—Score—Shelves
- 170 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
- 171 The Truth Unfolds: I Give My Life While He Watches the Show 真相上演，我填命他看戏 On the 1,096th day since my younger brother went missing, I, Lin An, a standard, human-shaped office worker and clock-in machine, decided to put an end to this meaningless wait with my own hands. Instead, I floored the gas pedal, drove myself off a cliff, and crashed into another world. The good news: When I opened my eyes again, a faceless creep was standing in front of me, saying: “The Hall of Fairness... is absolutely fair. Complete the scenario, find the truth, and anything you wish for can 6Reads—Score—Shelves
- 172 Ming Dynasty Coroner: The Forbidden Records 大明仵作：禁忌录 [Historical Transmigration, Mind-Bending Mystery] A graduate student in forensic medicine transmigrates to the Ming Dynasty and becomes a coroner in a small county town. He discovers that the murders in this world aren’t all committed by people; many are connected to local folk “taboos.” Those who break them meet their end in an extraordinarily bizarre manner, as if they had “killed themselves.” Using modern forensic knowledge and his ability to unravel folk taboos, he must solve strange cases a 26Reads8.0Score—Shelves
- 173 The Shen Family Daughter Clause 沈氏女儿条款 In the depths of winter by the sea, due diligence tears open a breach in the Shen Group. An intern named Li Li joins the risk-control team, but her goal has nothing to do with her resume: she wants to find her adoptive father, Li Shouyi, who has been missing for three years. All she has is an iron box, a string of numbers, a key, and an old index deliberately "sealed away." The deeper she digs, the more she realizes she hasn't stumbled upon a family matter, but an old ledger written into proced 2Reads—Score—Shelves
- 174 Little Ghost Doctor 小诡医 Beneath the bustling modern city lies a hidden world of unorthodox medicine: In ordinary people’s understanding, medicine can only treat physical illnesses. But in the shadows, there are unorthodox doctors who possess ancient traditions and can treat “supernatural ailments” that conventional medicine cannot cure, including possession by evil spirits, displaced souls, and curses or poison created through sorcery. These ancient schools of medicine have remained hidden among ordinary people for tho 29Reads7.5Score—Shelves
- 175 0713: Black Screen Record 0713：黑屏记录 In 2010, in Plaburg, a small town in northern New York State, A Country, campus and town surveillance cameras always go black for seven minutes and thirteen seconds at critical moments after an accident on a snowy night. During one of those missing intervals, Tu Yaoyang, an international student in the physics department, sees something for the first time: a transparent spirit, and another figure who looks like him, yet is colder and more familiar. He is forced to join forces with Leslie, a Chi 2Reads—Score—Shelves
- 176 Falling Homework 坠落作业 [Campus horror + coming-of-age + no saintly heroine + one heroine + combat + heartbreaking] One day, a mysterious assignment appeared on the blackboard. As a high school student, I felt a terror unlike anything I’d ever known. All kinds of ghosts appeared in the world, coming to take human lives. From that day on, my life changed completely. I was forced to fight for my life through the assignments, but that was far from all. A slew of conspiracies began to close in around me. Worse still, a mas 1.8kReads8.2Score153Shelves
- 177 The Oddball Consultant: Echoes from Ten Years Ago 怪胎顾问：十年前的回声 [Crime investigation and suspense + superhuman sound perception + nested cases + two equally capable leads + forced partners + healing] He is an eccentric consultant, cold and withdrawn. After an accident, he develops hyperthymesia and severe tinnitus, but can accurately profile suspects' minds through sound. She is a highly intuitive, action-oriented police detective, a skilled fighter with a decisive personality. The two first work together on the Ghost Radio case, then are forced to team up. —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 178 Undercover for Three Years, Identity Exposed: Police Issue Red Wanted Notice, Shoot on Sight 卧底三年身份暴露，警队发红色通缉令：就地击毙 After three years undercover, his identity is exposed. The police issue a red wanted notice: shoot on sight. 28Reads—Score—Shelves
- 179 Reborn for Revenge: I’ll Spoil the Cheating Bastard and His Mistress Straight Into Hell 重生复仇：我将渣男和小三“宠”进地狱 Reborn for Revenge: I “Spoiled” the Scumbag and His Mistress Straight into Hell 1Reads—Score—Shelves
- 180 The Shroud Tailor 寿衣匠 [Supernatural Horror + Leveling + Supernatural Collecting + No Romance, Healing] It may start slowly, but if you keep reading, you should find something to enjoy. The most obsessive attachments in this world turn into threads. My job is to find them, weave them into a shroud for battle, and uphold my own sense of justice! [Thread of Worry]: A mother’s concern that she never forgot, even in death. I drape it over myself, and it blocks a deadly curse for me. [Thread of Scent]: A stray dog’s longin —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 181 Testimony of Memory 记忆证言 Memory Testimony follows Lin Shouxi, a medium who can read the “marks of death” left on personal effects and use them to solve cold cases. Together with Su Rui, a brilliant scientist, and Chen Tao, a hacker, he forms a special team and infiltrates the black market in memories to take on the multinational organization known as the Archive, which seeks to collect and sell human memories. Each case is a forgotten life, and every time he touches a memory, his own begins to fade. When the truth behin 4Reads—Score—Shelves
- 182 Flower in the Bone: The Legend of Jiang Yanbai 骨中花之江砚白传 Jiang Yanbai, an official of the Ministry of Justice, investigates cases with a coffin in tow and becomes entangled in a cycle of obsession spanning three hundred years. Waiting for someone for three years, then three hundred; waiting until the heart becomes a flower and the bones turn into a tree. The most insidious curse in this world is nothing more than the words, “I’ll wait for you.” —Reads6.8Score—Shelves
- 183 The Plot Between Wood and Fire 木火同谋 Designer Lin Huohuo has a fire burning inside her, warm and bright, and she dreams of using design to light up the world. The new hire Jiang Rong is like a piece of smooth, warm wood, quietly drawing close to bask in her light and warmth. Together, they envision “wood and fire thriving in harmony” and work side by side in the workplace, a seemingly perfect creative partnership. Yet beneath the appearance of warmth and harmony, a meticulously planned manipulation is already underway. Every “coinc 15Reads—Score—Shelves
- 184 The Sound of an Axe 斧声 I work at a state-owned factory. The coworker who had lived next door for three years had been silent for three days. The moment I opened the door, I saw an axe embedded in her head... 8Reads—Score—Shelves
- 185 Fate's Lock, A Love Letter in the Palm of My Hand 命锁，掌心情书 [Powerful CEO, sweet and angsty mind-reading romance, the long road to winning his wife back] She has been able to see death since the day she was born. A string of numbers hangs above everyone’s head, ticking like a countdown that never ends. When the numbers reach zero, that person dies. She watched them for twenty-three years and never told anyone. Because she can’t speak. She thought she would quietly live out the remaining 712 days of her life, then sink away without a sound, like a pe 11Reads—Score—Shelves
- 186 The Time-Slot Reversal 时隙回旋 Far beyond where the sky and sea meet, the dawn watched over by the stars for ten thousand years. Time twisted, and space overlapped. Are you a lucky one abandoned by the world, or a poor soul remembered by time? But perhaps we can have a different future. Will you fight for it? Dare you? Maybe change isn’t so bad, even when you watch your desperate efforts get undone with ease. Will you take a gamble? Will you fight? For a casual promise, for the dead whose momentary glance once took your breat 235Reads9.3Score—Shelves
- 187 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
- 188 A Dreamlike Scene of Nanke 南柯幻景 [Chinese-Style Infinite Flow + Strange Tales from Ancient Books + Rule-Based Suspense + Six-Person Ensemble] If you discovered that every classical poem you memorized as a child concealed a loophole from which a living person could never escape, would you dare turn to the next page? While restoring a damaged page from a Song-era printed volume, ancient book restorer Qu Youyang was dragged into the Nanke realm behind the lines of poetry. "At Hanshan Temple outside Suzhou," why does the temple bel 1Reads—Score—Shelves
- 189 The Riddle-Filled Lives of Lu Ren and Maya 路仁和玛雅的谜语生活 [Urban supernatural powers + mediumship escape rooms + ensemble cast] Lu Ren accidentally stumbled into a place called the Medium's Chambers. Men in black, mysterious rest stops, and chambers that could cost you your life swept over him like a storm, overturning everything he thought he knew. After Lu Ren returned to the real world, he still wanted to reach the end of the Medium's Chambers and uncover the ultimate answer. [P.S. Volume One focuses on horror escape rooms, Volume Two on puzzle-solv —Reads6.4Score—Shelves
- 190 Research Report on Abnormal Deities 非正常神明研究报告 When mythology invades reality, indescribable ancient gods lurk beneath neon lights. Everyone else kneels in terror and prays, but he’s wondering where to make the first incision. The morgue beneath City Third Hospital: freezer 444 is suddenly kicked open. Xiao Xiao, whose cause of death is listed as “heart failure,” sits up inside his body bag. Looking at the Night Watch squad arriving to contain the reanimated corpse, he calmly pushes up his nonexistent glasses. “Don’t panic. I just died in a 1Reads—Score—Shelves
- 191 Infinite Haunting Realms: Beginning with a Murderer's Memories 无限诡域：从杀人记忆开始 [Infinite Flow] [Mild Horror] [Mystery and Crime Solving] [No CP] Lin Yu is certain that he killed someone, but the corpse he disposed of with his own hands vanished into thin air, and a vivid red line of death appeared around his neck. When he opened his eyes again, Lin Yu had been dragged into a strange instance... (Slow burn!! Important characters appear later. No golden finger, and he is not invincible.) Each instance seems to read their deepest memories. Every escape makes the so-called "re 1Reads—Score—Shelves
- 192 National Destiny Instance: I Manifested Fengdu and Scared the Whole World 国运副本，我具现酆都吓哭全球 The nation-fortune supernatural instances descend, and the world has lost its history. Only I, Su He, remember China’s five thousand years! [Ding! The National Fortune Rescue Device has been bound. China’s Underworld completeness detected at 0%.] [Loading Host’s core memory template: Emperor Fengdu!] [Fear points spent: 0. Successfully manifested: Beginner-level Weasel’s Enfeoffment Request] [Congratulations, Host. The Weasel’s Enfeoffment Request instance has earned 100,000 fear points. A speci 628Reads5.3Score—Shelves
- 193 Master of Scripted Mysteries: Solving an S-Rank Script from the Start 剧本推理大师：开局破解S级剧本 [Scripted Mystery Game Simulation] [Deduction] [Suspense] [Script Design] [Loads of Original Scripts] [Twists] [I'm Playing on Another Level] Tricks, murders, cases, classic mysteries, unconventional mysteries, neo-classical mysteries, unpredictable motives, hidden identities, unusual settings, bizarre methods of deduction: every mystery element you could want is here! Get your brain working with the key script that starts in Chapter 20, "Ancient Ferry Village"! The protagonist, Gu Ling, accide 2.3kReads—Score377Shelves
- 194 Prove That You Were Once Human 请证明你曾是人 After Chen Zhou woke up, he was thrown into a “test of human worth” spanning the ancient past, the modern era, and the future. Plague cities, royal courts, trials, shipwrecks, stock market crashes, nuclear crises, space colonization… Each world had its own bizarre rules, and every choice demanded a sacrifice. Yet the same name appeared on every death record: Chen Zhou. Before the rules devoured everyone, he had to prove one thing: Humanity’s true worth has never been obedience. —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 195 The Theatrical Detective 戏精侦探 A former detective with a knack for playing roles and a criminal psychologist who can read people's minds must unravel layer upon layer of conspiracies in a live-action puzzle game controlled by a mysterious billionaire, or become sacrifices in an even larger purge. 6Reads—Score—Shelves
- 196 Humans Should Not Die 人类不宜死亡 [Ensemble Cast] [Infinite Flow] [Mystery and Deduction] [Horror Games] [Paranormal Imagination] [Mind-Bending Premise] It's just a game. Does adding the word death really make it special? If my heart died long ago, what am I supposed to do? Huh? You say I still have teammates? I suppose you're right... If someone insists on dragging me along, I can't exactly be rude and act like a jerk, can I? All right, then. They say high risks bring high rewards, so I'll play the game in the riskiest way poss 18Reads—Score—Shelves
- 197 The Accomplice 教唆犯 [All-Female Ensemble + Alternate Universe + Mystery + A Cast of Villains] A gripping plot packed with twists. Who is the real culprit? Does justice always prevail? Ye Jixi, chairman of Zhongneng Group, was a billionaire listed on the Forbes rankings. But as this wealthy man departed the world, the Ye family seemed cursed, beset by one disaster after another. At a gathering to announce his will, Ye Jixi had hoped his children would sit down and share a peaceful meal. Instead, a fire broke out at 1Reads—Score—Shelves
- 198 King of the Strange Realm 诡界之王 [Top recommendation: The King of Mystery-Filled Realm Detective Fiction, Tomato’s Number One “Master of Deception”] Zhao Luo thought this was just a murder-mystery game arranged by the God of Fun. He never expected to be trapped in an endless spiral of wits and survival. A one-eyed monster cat fed with sacrifices, over a thousand bizarre artifacts that defy description, eerie monsters that drain your Sanity, player companions dying one after another, and sudden flashes of forgotten memories... O 48Reads8.4Score—Shelves
- 199 Chou Xian'er 仇仙儿 Good demons are for Fahai to handle, and bad ghosts need bad people to deal with them. If life is already miserable, who cares if you end up in the frying pan after death! If you won’t let me, Chen Guang, live in peace, then what the hell am I cultivating merit for? One word: fight to the bitter end! 3.5kReads—Score202Shelves
- 200 Fog over Jinyang Town 雾锁金阳镇 251Reads—Score—Shelves
