Night Hunt

Wen Xinzhe17K Novel Network

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430.1K words

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Male-Oriented Fiction Mystery and SuspenseFeatured Fiction Criminal InvestigationSuspenseExtremist GroupGolden TriangleTruth PursuitProving InnocenceSerial MurderSerial MurdersPuzzle SolvingWeb Novel

Summary

Three years ago, detective Bai Xiaotian's girlfriend and partner Chen Mei died in the "Death Tattoo Case," and the killer, Hidden Wolf, fled. After three years of suspension Bai Xiaotian returns to duty; a female corpse bearing the death tattoo appears in an abandoned auditorium, and Hidden Wolf shoots veteran detective Ou Hewei and frames him. The inspection division suspects Bai of ties to an extremist group based on a photo of him kneeling before the killer, forcing him to prove his innocence. As the truth unravels, the death tattoo, ostrich meat, and serial murders gradually connect, and the clues point to the comrade he trusted most. He sets out on a dangerous journey with his few remaining allies, even infiltrating the Golden Triangle to trace the drug-trafficking chain.

Editor's review

A typical hard-boiled detective mystery thriller: it opens with a bloody shootout and a wrongful accusation for a strong hook, and the case units link tightly with fast pacing and dense twists. Suited to readers who enjoy procedural investigations in the vein of a major-crimes unit, a dark atmosphere, and veteran-detective sentiment. Weaknesses: the prose is rough, some plot turns rely on coincidence, certain supporting characters exist only to serve the plot, and the female characters are fairly one-dimensional.

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Reading tips

  1. Read the first ten chapters to judge whether you can accept the violence and supernatural framing
  2. Read by case unit; after each case, do a brief recap to clarify character relationships
  3. Skim slow-paced passages and focus on the main revenge and mole threads

About the publisher

17K Novel Network

17K Novel Network (17K小说网) is a publishing platform centred on online literature, with 10,912 titles in its catalogue; publicly available information is limited, and its founding background and country or region are not confirmed. Judging from the existing titles, its publishing scope covers common categories such as male-oriented fiction, Eastern fantasy, urban fiction, female-oriented fiction, time-travel and alternate-history stories, and selected fiction, spanning male-oriented cultivation and urban-life themes as well as female-oriented time-travel and quick-transmigration narratives. Representative titles include Deities: Recruiting Earth Players from the Start, Rebirth of the Nine-Tailed Superstar, Quick Transmigration: When a Max-Level Boss Becomes a Toxic Dad, Supreme Pill King, My Beautiful Wife, Chaos Tang, Wind Howling through the Jianghu, and Great Qin: My Inner Thoughts Overheard by the Ancestral Dragon from the Start, most of which unfold with the length and pacing of online serialization. Representative authors include Yang Zhizhi, Yuyi Tingbing, Xuanyuan Lvedan, Zhenyong, Manyu, Wuweijiu, Meng Qingxuan and Tianyan Junran, reflecting a publishing approach built on contracted online authors and organized by genre.

FAQ

Is this book romance or mystery? It is primarily a detective mystery with a light romantic thread; the romance label is a platform categorization error.
Is the killer Hidden Wolf the final villain? Hidden Wolf is the early nemesis; the mastermind behind the main plot is someone else, involving internal betrayal.
Is the ending a good one? The protagonist ultimately uncovers the truth, but the process is brutal with many comrades sacrificed, leaning toward a dark tone.

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About the author

Wen Xinzhe Author

Wen Xinzhe is an author about whom limited public information is available; neither nationality, dates of birth and death, nor personal experience has been clearly recorded, and only one work by this author can currently be found. That representative work is Baiye Liexiong (Hunting the Culprit in the White Night), which is commonly listed under categories such as boys' fiction, suspense and mystery, and premium fiction, suggesting that the writing mainly targets readers who enjoy tense plots and puzzle-solving. Based on the available information, Wen Xinzhe's creation takes suspense and mystery as its entry point, and the work's placement among "premium fiction" indicates a certain level of accomplishment in genre narrative and recognition from the platform and readers. Because information disclosed by the author is extremely scarce, it is difficult to outline their life background, creative journey, or future direction; readers wishing to understand the style can only start from this single work and observe how it handles suspense and the progression of the case.