Bride of the Underworld: The Ghost King’s Contract Wife

[Mild Horror + Sweet and Angsty Romance + Female Lead with Yin-Yang Eyes + Unhinged Ghost Lord + Ghost Marriage Pact + Mystery Solving] Yao Yingsheng was born with eyes that could see both the living and the dead. But on her eighteenth birthday, she was forced into a ghost marriage with a thousand-year-old Ghost Lord. In the ancestral hall, beneath blazing red candles, her husband Jiang Qiyun lay in a black coffin, handsome and uncanny, his fingertips cold as frost and the beauty mark beneath his left eye gleaming blood-red. He was the lord of the Netherworld Office, the ruler of the underworld who held the Book of Life and Death.

This ghost marriage was the protection her grandfather had bought with his life, but it was also part of an unfathomable scheme. When the Records of the Underworld revealed the Yao family’s generations-old duty to suppress evil spirits, and Jiang Qiyun gently wiped the Yin tears from the corner of her eye and whispered, “Your life is mine,” Yao Yingsheng realized she was not merely a sacrifice. She was the sole variable in his thousand-year plan.

A bewitching ghost combing her hair in the dead of night. The balance between the mortal world and the underworld is crumbling. And the husband who appears by day as a handsome scholar to help her investigate cases, yet crushes evil spirits’ throats at night: does he mean to protect her, or imprison her forever within the red thread of their ghost marriage pact?