Five Cases

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Lu Hui is a genius, but he has an odd temperament.

The director of Linhua City’s Bureau of Public Safety, Gao Zhengcheng, personally invited Lu Hui to head the serious crimes division, taking over to solve particularly tricky homicide cases.

And so opens Linhua City’s collection of cases.

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五个案子
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Recommendations
S.C.I Mystery Series (2)
Madness of the Heart (1)
Silent Reading (1)
Black Butterfly, Where Does the Black Butterfly Go Drink Water (1)
The Way of the Evil (1)
Recommendation Lists
  1. Crime/Police/Investigation BL
  2. to be read part 5
  3. the gong is the MC
  4. gays solving crimes
  5. MLM NOVELS III

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01/23/24 KnoxT extra 3
01/23/24 KnoxT extra 2
01/23/24 KnoxT extra 1
01/23/24 KnoxT c72
01/23/24 KnoxT c71
01/23/24 KnoxT c70
01/23/24 KnoxT c69
01/23/24 KnoxT c68
01/23/24 KnoxT c67
01/21/24 KnoxT c66
01/21/24 KnoxT c65
01/21/24 KnoxT c64
01/19/24 KnoxT c63
01/17/24 KnoxT c62
01/16/24 KnoxT c61
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Genzany
Genzany rated it
May 22, 2022
Status: Completed
A biased review by the translator here (me)

I would say that this is a solid 4/5 depending on what you're looking for. As a crime novel, there was nothing here that was mind blowing, but nothing that insulted my intelligence too much, which is already more than I can say about some novels. The killers are normal people with normal motivations, kind of refreshing, ngl. The whole schtick with Lu Hui being a 'genius detective' was perhaps a stretch, and sometimes the whole 'thank god Lu Hui's here or... more>> else we wouldn't be able to solve this case' when the case wasn't too difficult pushed the limits of my patience a little bit and was kinda cringe, but this was never focused on too much and easily glanced over.

Rather, the novel does well in its character interactions, both between the main couple and between the other side characters. I give it an extra point for the fact that it has female characters that aren't evil or whiny, something unreasonably rare in bl sometimes. The main couple won't be everyone's cup of tea, but I love the 'old married couple' vibes they got going on, even before any romance happens. We've got a gong main with a case of 'late-onset middle school syndrome' and a shou with a severe savior complex, which the novel acknowledges and addresses. It's a boss-subordinate relationship that doesn't have weird power dynamics.

It's short and to the point, not dragging out the story to a bloated chapter length unnecessarily. Overall solid, worth a read if you don't want to get caught up in some sort of 250-chapter-long epic. <<less
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Enkeli
Enkeli rated it
August 1, 2022
Status: --
Actually a good crime novel. The killers were just your normal average criminals, with normal motives. The mysteries are lacking, weren’t really difficult. MC as a genius is probably just the author trying to hype the main character. There are some times where some characters are thanking god because Lu Hui’s accompanying them in investigating cases, which I find quite irksome and funny because the cases are not that perplexing. Hence, it’s one interesting novel.
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ItsameMario
ItsameMario
June 28, 2022
Status: c35
*sobs* this is so fun to read! I’m dying for the interactions and it’s funny as hell.

Mmm the mysteries weren’t really difficult and like you could guess who the culprit is towards the end but they had satisfying ending ig.

But good side characters and interactions! I can’t wait for more chapters to come out!!!!
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AelianaLyra
AelianaLyra rated it
September 11, 2022
Status: c10
This is my first time writing review becuz I'm too dissatisfied with this.

May be I've been reading Infinite flow genres recently, in which the protagonists have to work together to solve the mysteries as fast as possible. They only have two or three days, so when encountered clues, they have to link them in a short time. If not, they have to die.

Below, I will tell you in which areas I'm dissatisfied with: This contains spoilers, read with your own risk.

Spoiler
  • First - The author is too much perfunctory with naming side characters. Even the mu*derer can't have his own name, only surnames... But that's a little bit okay.
  • Second - For the first case, When the MC interrogated suspect, the suspect really Emphasize on giving a cup of water to victim! Which normal criminal will answer like this? They will skip parts which make them suspicious. Only when detective break down their psychological defense, they accidentally make a flaw. But, in this novel, they only interrogated once and he really tell them his mu*der method in his statement.
  • Next is The Phone. The other polices investigate this case for many days but, They can't find the victim mobile phone and MC can find it once. This is really unrealistic. I don't know if I should scold other polices for their negligence or praise MC for his luck, observance?
  • The first arc, This case is concluded as su*cide at first, then MC suspects it's not and investigate again. The victim drinks antifreeze and sleeping pills together to su*cide. Sleeping pill bottle is beside his chair and antifreeze bottle is too far away. Even for normal people, they will wonder why the victim use two methods, why one is near when one is far away. But the other detectives can't think this fact. Are they really s*upid? No, Author make them s*upid.^^ And even for MC, he have to think this fact the whole day to understand. He sat in the middle of victim's apartment and and think the whole day, the whole night ").
  • When he get the answer, he go to ML's home at 2 a.m and disturb his sleep. Then, explain the mu*derer use antifreeze to kill victim. While he explain, the ML is sleepy and so he POURS cold water on ML's face! F**k MC! He don't care other subordinates but he come to ML's home in the middle of night? Can't phones use? Can't he explain it the next day?
  • The next day, when the director ask the case investigation process, ML tell they found the answer and explain other subordinates, other team leader and director. And they are like " Ah, MC is really great. Without him, we can't solve this." Even the other team leader who don't like MC is like, " Ah I really can't compete with him, I can't control him. He is too great. It's not appropriate him to be their subordinate." Even the ML is like, " The two cups of water which is poured on his face turned to admiration" Yes, The author really write like this. Is ML a M?
  • Then, ML's unruly character. Although he is domineering, he can't defeat his sister. Even if they need someone who can control MC, this is too much. It is like MC's character is a little contradictory. When she make him apologize his subordinate who quit from his team due to their quarrel, I'm a bit uncomfortable. MC is team leader. The subordinate have to obey his leader's command and work together to investigate the case. But, that subordinate said he can't work under someone who disregard discipline and quit. I say. Even the director give the leader two days to investigate, why can't he satisfied? He is not trust enough of his leader. But, MC is also not right. I feel like he always target this subordinate becuz he don't like him too much or something like that. But even so, even if they both are in false, when MC'S sister make him apologize, he have to go and really apologize ").
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Then I dropped this novel at Chapter - 10. I accept the criminals are normal people, have normal motive. But it is unrealistic enough in some places.
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