Novels like Chief Detective
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- 1 I’m a Detective for the Eastern Depot 我给东厂当侦探 Lu Xizhi, a young police detective, transmigrates into the body of a concubine-born daughter in a government official’s family. Unfortunately, women are barred from government service, leaving her nowhere to put her investigative skills to use. She thinks she’ll simply muddle through life, until she unexpectedly gets caught up in a murder case. From a killer who strikes on rainy nights, to a massacre, a skin-stealing case, and finally unraveling the mystery of Lord Yuan Yanxi’s origins, Lu Xizhi 0Votes808Recs1.8kFans
- 2 Master Detective: It Started with Finding a Missing Dog 神探：从抓捕找回狗开始 (An account-recovery scammer is someone who sells a game account, then uses the original registration details to reclaim it.) While helping a friend catch an account-recovery scammer, Han Xin accidentally downloaded the “Detective App,” and his life changed completely. Solving cases earns him detective points, which he can use to learn and upgrade all kinds of investigative skills. Host: Welcome to our program. We’ve heard that in 2019, you went viral online after catching an account-recovery s 0Votes8.5kRecs34.2kFans
- 3 Tiger Cop 虎警 Complicated cases, sinister human hearts, investigation, investigation, investigation. Young people are always filled with passion, eager to integrate into society according to their own wishes. From passive to proactive, Hu Pingtao truly fell in love with the police profession. Starting as an ordinary university graduate who became an auxiliary police officer, he passed the civil service examination, participated in and solved one case after another, and earned merit and commendations. He becam 0Votes59kRecs91.8kFans
- 4 Great Tang: The Last Courier in Anxi 大唐：安西最后一个信使 The moon shone over the passes in The Legend of Qin, as it had in the days of Han. Our men marched thousands of miles, yet have not returned. If only the Flying General of Dragon City were here, he would never let the enemy ride past Yin Mountain. White-haired in a lonely city, Kucha is still here, Anxi is still here, and the last messenger of the Anxi Army is still on the road! 0Votes25kRecs69.1kFans
- 5 The Police Beat of Apricot Grove 杏林警途 Medicine had been practiced in Gu Heng’s family for generations, but through a twist of fate, he ended up on the police force. Reading expressions, distinguishing sounds and breaths, tracing clues to their source, and finding the truth at one’s fingertips: he is a medical school graduate with a passing knowledge of the four diagnostic methods. “Captain Dong, you said there’s nothing wrong with this person’s ID, right? “Then why do I see a weak spleen and stomach, a disturbed mind, a thick and gr 313Votes45.1kRecs62.4kFans
- 6 Retracing the Path of a Police Officer, 1993 重走警途1993 In this life, he is going to become a criminal police officer! In this life's police career, he will not leave behind any regrets! Liu Pengcheng, deputy captain of the traffic police brigade of Bian County Public Security Bureau, heroically sacrificed himself while saving a primary school student. When he opened his eyes again, he discovered that he had been reborn before beginning his internship in his junior year at the investigation program of the Northern Provincial Public Security Cadre Sch 6Votes91.4kRecs153.5kFans
- 7 Police Officer Lu Ling 警察陆令 What is it like to become a police officer with a master's degree in personality psychology? You can judge people by their faces. A true expert can see right through ordinary people after only a few glances. Of course, it's much harder to see through someone who's deeply guarded. This is the story of someone who wanted to study psychology but somehow became an expert at solving cases~~ Compared with The Chief of Police, this book is... a bit more satisfying... 2Votes576.6kRecs556.6kFans
- 8 The Ingenious Detective 千机妙探 A master of deception is reborn as a detective in the Major Crimes Unit. Using his skills to solve cases with finesse, he becomes a truly ingenious sleuth! A work by Kuang Hai Wang Hu. Quality guaranteed, fair to readers of all ages. 0Votes839kRecs48kFans
- 9 My Neighbor Is Conan 我的邻居叫柯南 After dying of a serious illness, Aoki Matsumoto thought he had hit the jackpot and gotten a second chance at life, transmigrating from China to Japan. That was, until the year he started junior high, when a father and daughter moved into a house on his street. They opened the Mouri Detective Agency, and their names were Kogoro Mouri and Ran Mouri. This is the everyday life of an ordinary person in the world of Detective Conan... P.S. The protagonist is a police officer, has no golden finger 0Votes46kRecs136.9kFans
- 10 My Family’s Livestream Connects the Past and Present 我家直播间通古今 An old lady transmigrates to ancient times with her granddaughter and gets a livestream System as a bonus. The camera is attached to her granddaughter, so wherever the girl looks becomes the livestream's view. It was destiny: the beautiful young woman could only be the assistant, while the wrinkled old lady became the star influencer. What should she stream? They were so poor they were starving. They had to tighten their belts and curse and brawl just to get a bite to eat. She took on the sharp- 2Votes257.4kRecs66.2kFans
- 11 The Way of the Heavens 诸天执道 In The Sword of the Yue Maiden, he is a Huashan disciple and the greatest prodigy under heaven. In Demi-Gods and Semi-Devils, he is Xiaoyaozi's junior apprentice brother and heir to the Hidden Immortal Sect. In A Step into the Past, he spreads the Dao across the Qin Empire, earning a legacy that lasts for millennia. In The Legend of Qin, he drinks and sings with the First Emperor. In the world of Strange Tales from a Chinese Studio, he wanders f 0Votes71.6kRecs156.4kFans
- 12 I Made a Contract with a Cat 我契约了一只猫 This is a story about Jacques Renault and his master (pet): a chubby orange cat. Together, they grow up amid a turbulent era and save the world, or struggle to survive. A newcomer writing in an old-fashioned style, with a slow build that still packs a punch. Readers looking for something different are welcome to give it a try. The story is nearing its end. Please check out the author’s new book, The Great Monster Teahouse, about the everyday life of a city-dwelling cultivator. 0Votes182.2kRecs41.9kFans
- 13 Who Taught You to Be a Soldier Like That?! 谁教你这么当兵的！ After half a lifetime of working a sewing machine, Zhao Weihong finally... Died suddenly! When he opened his eyes again, Zhao Weihong was back in the summer after he failed the college entrance exam. He looked at his haggard parents, then at the relatives who had come to demand repayment of their debts. After a moment's thought, Zhao Weihong decided to change the way he lived. “Dad, I think I'll enlist after all.” Years later, with gold stars gleaming on his shoulders, Zhao Weihong quietl 26Votes122.1kRecs443.6kFans
- 14 Unrivaled Treasure Appraisal 鉴宝无双 In the world of antiques, discernment is everything. He, however, takes a path all his own. A seemingly chance encounter with a little white dog sets him on the road to collecting antiques and treasures. But is it really a dog? And is it connected to the Nine Tripod Cauldrons, the legendary treasures that have lain dormant for two thousand years? 0Votes131.4kRecs82.5kFans
- 15 Binjiang Police Affairs 滨江警事 Youth is an asset, but a diploma is essential. For Han Yu, who started working at sixteen, being too young is not necessarily a good thing. Because he was so young, the organization he was assigned to nearly sent him right back. Read the story of how the youngest police officer in Linghai Public Security Bureau history turns his fortunes around. 8Votes589.7kRecs302.8kFans
- 16 Rookie Forensic Pathologist 新手法医 Forensic pathologist Zhou Ning takes you into one horrifying, thrilling, brutal, and twisted crime scene after another! Uncover the truth, challenge the limits of the psyche, and expose the ugliness of human nature. Conspiracies! Puzzles! Doubts! One bizarre and eerie case after another is unfolding. 6Votes323.3kRecs125.6kFans
- 17 An Unusual Transmigration 非正常穿越 "Mr. Gu Wei, I have one piece of good news and one piece of bad news. Which would you like to hear first?" "The good news." "The good news is that you have transmigrated. The new world is vast and boundless, with advanced technology, battleships, and even mechs." "That's great! A real man should pilot a mech! By the way, what's the bad news?" "The bad news is…you transmigrated into a mech." "Huh????" PS: This is a soft science-fiction space epic, a new book from a veteran author. Ther 17Votes141.5kRecs166.8kFans
- 18 System: Get Your Act Together! 系统：你给我支楞起来 My name is Bei Yi. Don't let the fact that I'm only eighteen fool you, and don't let the fact that I've never had a boyfriend fool you either. I understand all the tricks of love because I have an Old Sister-in-Law System. My Old Sister-in-Law System says, "The hardships in a woman's life will always be passing difficult exams and earning difficult money. As for men, those things are far too easy to find." My Old Sister-in-Law System says that as long as I study hard and earn enough renminbi, 0Votes121kRecs41.3kFans
- 19 Final Diagnosis 最终诊断 Originally titled I’m Really Not the Second-Generation Doctor The patient’s point of view: Brain: All units, report your current condition. Liver: Function lost, 88%. Lungs: Function lost, 95%. Stomach: Function lost, 95%. Kidneys: Function lost, 64%. Heart: Function lost, 88%. Brain: The body can no longer reverse the situation on its own. How much adrenaline remains in reserve? Adrenal glands 0Votes25.6kRecs55.9kFans
- 20 Grant Me the Name of God 赐我神之名 Zeus’s thunder roars across the sky, while Gaia’s fury burns across the earth. I came from the Jurassic Period, and witnessed with my own eyes a world once ruled by gods. The Age of the Gods has faded, and empires and dynasties are rising. The ancient gods are branded heretics, their temples destroyed and their followers slain. In their fury, the gods pass their bloodlines and divine artifacts down to the mortal world. Survive the mists of monsters, protect yourself amid the struggles of the nob 0Votes17.3kRecs72.8kFans
- 21 These Monsters Are Too Hard to Enfeoff 这些妖怪太难敕封了 After transmigrating for the eleventh time, I finally arrived in a world of immortal cultivation. From the start, I had a golden-feathered chicken that kept insisting it was a phoenix. It could summon ghost spirits and divine artifacts, and this chicken, which went bald every night, had an innate soul more powerful than a phoenix’s. A weasel begs for a title, a unicorn waits to be sealed, and even the Four Sacred Beasts are hard to enfeoff. The mysterious art of conferring titles is unfathomable 0Votes7.8MRecs1MFans
- 22 Reborn: I Want to Conquer a Vast Empire 重生之朕要打下一个大大的江山 The greatest advantage of being reborn is having access to information others lack, but that advantage has never belonged exclusively to the reborn. For anyone hoping to cash in on privileged information, the hardest part is always making it happen. Liang Xin woke from a nap back in his college dorm, looked at the five hundred yuan of spending money in his wallet, and knew full well that in this world, no one but himself could help him. So he steeled himself and embarked on the point-of-no-retur 0Votes165.7kRecs139.4kFans
- 23 The Young Emperor’s Growth Plan 少帝成长计划 In people's minds, emperors are born sacred, worshipped by all, and supreme above everyone else. But there are always a few unlucky emperors who have no power to shape their own fate. Liu Hong was one of them. At this very moment, he sat on the imperial couch in a rear hall of Weiyang Palace in Chang'an, in 180 BC, looking helplessly and bitterly at the wine cup before him, unsure what to do. Just one wall away, in Weiyang Palac 0Votes54.7kRecs67.4kFans
- 24 The Fog City Detective 雾都侦探 This book goes from heaven to earth, sees ghosts and toys with people, and includes counterterrorism, antidrug operations, criminal investigations, espionage, plotting, conspiracies, serial killers, sky-high heists, and more. The story is set in Europe. It involves no discrimination and has nothing to do with our country, so please don’t read anything into it. Also, the Xia-Ou continent may differ in a few minor details from the European continent as people generally understand it. Important: Do 3Votes741.3kRecs271.4kFans
- 25 Extreme Vigilance 极限警戒 What if you knew that this world had a light side and a dark side, and that there were two different versions of you... -- Countless wonders await in Extreme Vigilance! A Mo Wu production is always a classic, so dive in with confidence! 1Votes893.4kRecs184kFans
- 26 Ultimate Firepower 终极火力 The world isn't just the familiar place ordinary people know. There is also an underworld that most people will never encounter. Government agents deal with trouble in secret, while assassins hired by financial conglomerates settle problems behind closed doors. There are assassins, mercenaries, arms dealers, and agents. There is a dark web that connects this world, and financial conglomerates trying to control everything with money. Gao Yi barges into the underworld and carves out his own domain 8Votes735.5kRecs732.8kFans
- 27 Monster Hunting Worldwide 全球刷怪 When fantasy invades reality, when technology and human nature collide, when the world faces a choice, when destruction creeps ever closer... The nobody destined to become humanity's savior addressed the world with unwavering conviction that day: “History is made by the people, but you have to survive first before you can call yourself one of them, right?” 0Votes263.5kRecs193kFans
- 28 Judge of the Song Dynasty 北宋大法官 During the Xining era, Emperor Shenzong of Song, Zhao Xu, has just ascended the throne. Ouyang Xiu, Han Qi, and Fu Bi are heroes in their twilight years. The stubborn Chancellor Wang is brimming with confidence, intent on turning the tide, while Sima Niu lies low in the wilderness, steadfastly defending the foundations of the state. Su Dongpo watches from the sidelines, unable to make up his mind. This should have been the final moment of glory for the Song Dynasty’s greatest team of civil offic 3Votes141.2kRecs195.3kFans
- 29 North American Detective: I'm an Expert in Every Kind of Quick-Draw 北美神探：我精通各种美式居合 [Gunfights + Crime-Solving and Deduction + Ruthless Action] I’ve been doing black-on-black deals, and only now you’re telling me I was planted by the police as an undercover agent??? Dean looked at the boss, who had died with his eyes wide open, and scratched his head. He could only seize the opportunity to become Los Angeles’s five-star citizen: Detective Dean! P.S.: No supernatural powers, but there is a dark world beyond the reach of ordinary people, with hitmen, master thieves, and all kinds 0Votes97kRecs357.1kFans
- 30 I Became a Prince in the Middle East 我在中东当王爷 Keywords: Chinese wisdom applied to a Middle Eastern story · top-tier political intrigue · great-power rivalry · from pawn to player · outrageous schemes galore · absurd comedy · pure satisfaction Who could have guessed that an academic yellow-hair who specialized in Middle Eastern studies would die unexpectedly and wake up as Saudi Arabia's forgotten, slumbering prince?! One moment he was studying all the satisfying aspects of Luckin Coffee, and the next he was hurled into a vortex of political 175Votes57.7kRecs301kFans
- 31 I Have a Research Assistant System 我有科研辅助系统 After applying for a place in a graduate program, Xu Qiu, a student at a top 985 university, unexpectedly obtains a research-assistance System. From then on, a new star begins to rise in academia. PS: This is a slice-of-life story about academic research, not a high-tech fantasy. It aims to portray the research world as it really is, and the pacing is fairly slow. 2Votes85.9kRecs103.7kFans
- 32 The Academic Ace Starts with Change 学霸从改变开始 “The Host must retake the college entrance examination and achieve the required preferential admission score!” “I've already started selling my books, and you want me to repeat a year?” “If you don't repeat a year, how can I give you the cheat System?” “…” Although it is an option that cannot be refused, making a choice means changing. Beginning with that choice, Chen Zhou gradually changes himself. 0Votes126.5kRecs229.3kFans
- 33 The Golden Age 流金时代 (Winner of the Fourth Real-Life Writing Contest, one of the finest works selected by hundreds of websites, a premium work with over ten thousand subscribers) This is the story of me, a highly accomplished master's graduate from Southeast University and an IT elite, and how my wife, a professional online fiction writer and perennial flop with only an elementary-school education, managed to bamboozle me into marrying her. It is also the story of how, amid fifteen years of upheaval in Chinese onli 0Votes85.2kRecs209.1kFans
- 34 The Road to Gourmet Cooking Starts with Mapo Tofu 美食从麻婆豆腐开始 It all begins with a perfect-grade serving of mapo tofu that costs one yuan… An inconspicuous little restaurant. A mysterious cookbook. A restaurant owner who has countless renowned masters from ancient and modern times backing him, yet still swears to personally work himself to the bone and crush the entire culinary industry. According to the owner's precise calculations: The restaurant loses seven y 0Votes55.8kRecs161.7kFans
- 35 Yanggang Community 洋港社区 A banking star, retiring to the countryside, keeping a low profile in the community. He wants to stay under the radar, but his abilities won't let him! 0Votes159.1kRecs49.8kFans
- 36 Terrifying! They’re Actually Making This Kind of Game! 可怕！居然做这种游戏！ In 1990, Qing Zhiyuan transmigrated to an island nation in a parallel world and became the president of a game company. Having already seen the direction the next thirty years would take, he could not possibly fail. But several years later… Qing Zhiyuan still could not figure out one thing. I clearly made so many landmark games: the king of turn-based strategy games, the pioneer of RTS, the creator of major IPs, the ancestor of online games… so why does everyone call me the father of galgames? 0Votes38kRecs181.9kFans
- 37 The Heavenly Blade of Biluotian 碧落天刀 One slash cleaves the road between life and death; a cold blade slays every faithless soul! I don't want to be a blade. I want to be the one who wields it. I don't want to be a pawn. I want to be the player. An ordinary person, yet determined to live life on my own terms in this world. The road ahead is uncertain and the future unclear, but I keep moving forward one step at a time. Before I know it, the journey is filled with storms and wonders, opening up an entirely new world. A thorny roa 1Votes680.3kRecs601.7kFans
- 38 EN Depths of the Living 活人深处 “Lovecraft” × “Junji Ito” × “Giallo” [Immigration Notice] Date: ████/██/██ Location: “██” Application requirements: 1. Memorize The Corner Law. 2. Understand concepts related to █ people, anomalies, and monsters, and have some familiarity with ██ literature. 3. Be in good physical and mental health, with no contagious diseases or history of mental illness. 4. Have at least one practical skill, including but not limited to infrastructure, medicine, and sports. 5. Family immigration applications w 34Votes342.6kRecs822kFans
- 39 My Wife Is Actually the Demon Cult Leader 我的夫人竟是魔教教主 Qingmei: “My husband has miraculous healing hands and a kind heart. He's the most famous doctor in Yuzhou City…” An Jing: “My wife is gentle, virtuous, an excellent cook, and beautiful enough to outshine any other woman…” Beneath the moonlight, a fresh rain of swords falls, and two figures weave past each other. “Husband, aren't you a doctor?” “Wife, aren't you a proper young lady?” 2Votes175.8kRecs683.3kFans
- 40 The Detective from the Future 来自未来的神探 Police officer Han Bin unexpectedly acquires a badge from the future. He learns future criminal investigation techniques, solves one baffling case after another, upholds justice, and becomes a legend in law enforcement... 0Votes413.9kRecs279.7kFans
- 41 I Make Inventions at Hogwarts 我在霍格沃茨搞发明 After Ridge joined Hogwarts, the pressure was on Azkaban. When Voldemort broke free, Harry Potter took him down with a single electromagnetic cannon. “Ridge, this is way better than a wand!” 0Votes102.2kRecs201.6kFans
- 42 Clothes Conceal All 衣手遮天 The new book, The Villain Keeps Wanting a Divorce, is now out... Xie Jingyi has been reborn. She doesn't want to spare her enemies a second thought. She only wants to say: Get lost, and don't get in my way as I become a powerful figure who can call all the shots! But things don't go as planned. A... colossal obstacle appears on her path to success, one whose words strike straight to the heart. Xie Jingyi: Why do you want to marry me, sir? Chai Youchen: Among the three thousand women in Lin'an, n 0Votes196.8kRecs97.5kFans
- 43 I Bring Destruction and Rebirth to the World 我给予世界毁灭与新生 When the first superhuman appeared, people thought it was a miracle; when the first superhuman criminal appeared, people thought it marked the beginning of unrest; when superhumans made up 0.42% of the population, everyone realized this would be a revolution that overturned the existing order. But it was only when the first player to possess a superhuman’s consciousness appeared that the world understood: this was an unprecedented natural disaster... the Fourth Calamity. The AFK author is back. 4Votes134.2kRecs204.6kFans
- 44 The Story of Them in the Nineties 九十续之他们的故事 The heroine, Jiang Nan, was nearly driven to ruin in the previous novel, Reborn in the Nineties. This story is hers. She's decided that whoever messes with her, she'll scare them half to death. The author says: Writing a blurb is so hard, especially when it's for the sequel. Did you get it, dear readers? Before you start this book, please go read the first one, Reborn in the Nineties. 0Votes83.4kRecs23.5kFans
- 45 Tiga's Legend 迪迦的传说 I transmigrated into the world of Ultraman Tiga, but there was no Tiga in the glowing pyramid? No matter. I have a Spark Lens. P.S. I've already completed Ultraman War Chronicle and The Knight Who Strolled Through Marvel, so don't worry about the story being left unfinished. 5Votes187.8kRecs237.3kFans
- 46 The Last Dark Lord 最后的黑暗之王 This is a world shrouded in darkness. The black fog devours every living creature it touches. Fire is humanity’s only refuge. Then the age of darkness arrives, and the flames begin to die. Countless mighty kingdoms become lairs for dark monsters. Humanity loses all contact, and the survivors tremble in their lonely pinpricks of light. Until Rhodes arrives in this world. “Damn, what kind of freak is this? Is it edible?” “This soul tastes delicious.” “As long as the will of fire endures, I believe 2Votes182.2kRecs593.8kFans
- 47 The Star Spy Family 星谍世家 He is a spy, and every man and woman in his family is a spy too. The trade has been passed down for generations. Their daily fare is power and money, their drink is loyalty and betrayal, their game is glances and words, and their pleasure lies in riddles and cracking codes. Their enemies are always another band of spies. Even the stars and the void between them cannot keep the two sides from scheming and struggling against each other. 2Votes416.4kRecs252.8kFans
- 48 EN The Fox in the Forbidden Zone 禁区之狐 “Mr. Hu, in today's football world, strikers like you who can only score goals are being given less and less room to survive... Even so, you have achieved dazzling success. What would you say is the secret of your success?” On a winter afternoon, Hu Lai was showing reporters from around the world the highest honor he had just received when one of them asked him that question. As Hu Lai faced the reporters' gazes, his thoughts returned to an afternoon during middle school. He had stood alone besi 10Votes2.1MRecs596.1kFans
- 49 My Whole Family Has a Golden Finger 我全家都带金手指 The Zuo family had no sons, only three daughters. People from every village nearby made fun of them: “Just wait. One day they won’t even have a man to shoulder the family’s burdens. They should’ve adopted a son years ago!” But the villagers didn’t know that all three of the Zuo girls’ husbands had golden fingers. The eldest son-in-law was reborn. He could do more than just shoulder the family’s burdens: he could even carry his father-in-law up a mountain for a stroll. The second son-in-law had a 8Votes431.7kRecs98.2kFans
- 50 Ask the Sword 问剑 In the third year of Zaiqian in the Yu Kingdom, rain fell over Yizhou City. Li Ang awoke in a daze, having dreamed that a sword was hidden inside his head. 0Votes332.3kRecs751.8kFans
