Miss Forensics Read Along Interest Check

[yuerstruly]

Hey everyone, I'm putting up an interest check for a Miss Forensics read along. This work by Jiu Nuan Chun Shen is a thriller and sits at 878k words in Chinese on JJWXC. With some people's copies of the physicals coming in, I thought this would be a good time to start a read along for one of many baihe novel staples of the new generation.

I will be asking for FIVE (5) people minimum to start this, as I would not want to start a thread and have it dwindle down to me speaking to a brick wall.

How it works: I'll put up a master post every 2 weeks, with the assumption of this being paced at 5 chapters a week (based on the web version) and one chapter summary posted per weekday. You would read 20k words per week at least and 50k words per week at most. If you are reading from the Traditional print, please keep in mind that the chapters are condensed, with the chapter headings from JJWXC being used as section breaks. Of course, this can be adjusted if people would like to commit and want to suggest a lower cap on the weekly word count.

Where to read: You can read Miss Forensics through JJWXC or acquired copies of the Traditional Chinese print. Please keep in mind that the Simplified Chinese print is censored. There are 5 chapters translated on Fluffy Translations, but any subsequent translated chapters found online are MTL. I do not like MTL and will not promote it, and will not be responsible for any plot interpretation discrepancies as a result of reading via MTL.

If enough people are interested, we will start on June 2nd. Any "late" postings will be attributed to time differences. If there are no changes made to the reading pace, the read along would run until December 2025.

Please let me know in the comments if you have any questions! If you are shy and don't want to publicize your questions/comments/concerns, please feel free to DM me on Dreamwidth or drop an ask in my Neospring inbox. I can then share said inquiry with my reply in the comments and maintain your anonymity.

Edit 2025-06-07: Haha, oops, I've been kinda dead, but we still start the read along next week! I'll put up a new post for every 10 chapters

Comments

[douqi]

As you know, I'm up for this! Though if possible could we have a slightly later start date — I have a big work deadline on 2 June exactly and am likely to be catatonic from exhaustion that week (but if it's not possible to adjust, just go ahead and I'll try to catch up).

[yuerstruly]

Shouldn't be a problem! I'm flexible on time, so honestly whatever works for majority.

[lunarriviera]

[weeps quietly in HSK3] but have fun! i'll be cheering you on!

[skuzzybunny]

Ahhh YuEr this looks so fun. I DO have this on my reading list, and would like to get to it this summer, but it would be unfair of me to commit to this with my other projects through August. If you do end up doing it I may try to follow behind as I keep up w Ning Yuan's new serialization and the other baihe I started!

[hanlinacademic]

I'm here, I'm joining!!!

[sleepyneedle]

I'm interested in joining too!

[laine4466]

Joining in on this as well!