Looking for a Male Lead Whose Wife Is a Ghost, and Who Has an Impressive Past Life or Destiny 求媳妇是鬼的男主还有很厉害的前世或命格的

1. 1 活 Taboo of the Living 活人禁忌 Ninth Master of the Thieves' Sect盗门九当家Mystery1.9M WordsCompleted When I was nine, I found myself in mortal danger! To save me, my grandfather made a decision that would change my life forever... 16kReads9.2Score2.1kShelves

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   Brothers, trust me, you won't be able to stop watching once you start!

2. 2 劫EN Heavenly Calamity 劫天运 Dreams Adrift Through the Years浮梦流年Mystery21.6M WordsOngoing I was schemed against before I was even born. I was born with all five yin traits and naturally attracted vicious ghosts. A knowledgeable fortune-teller said I wouldn’t live past seven, and that after I died, someone would turn me into a blood-clothed child ghost to harm others. To save me, my grandmother arranged for me to marry a child bride, and I was able to live in peace... I’d been scraping by since childhood, and had long since grown used to enduring whatever came my way. But my grandmoth 12.3kReads9.0Score1.3kShelves

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   Perfectly meets all requirements! The first book's male protagonist's ghost wife is incredibly powerful—she's a ghost emperor from another world! The second book's male protagonist is a reincarnated being! His wife is one of the ten most ferocious beasts of ancient times! His concubine is an empress from the Three Kingdoms period.

3. 3 妖 Demon Wife, Ghost Concubine 妖妻鬼妾 Red Kui Commander红魁司令Mystery660k WordsCompleted [Third-Person Narration | Traditional Supernatural | Taoist Arts | Spirit Mediums] My name is Zuo Li. I was different from the moment I was born, carrying the fate of a ghost. To make sure I could grow up safely, my grandfather had me live off two women at once. As it turned out, I could only stay alive by living off women... 259Reads6.9Score—Shelves
4. 4 镇 Suppressing the Dragon 镇龙 Ninth Young Master of the Daoist Sect道门九公子Mystery2.2M WordsCompleted For one person, he dug up an ancient grave, broke into a dragon's tomb, and wielded the Yang Sword to slay yin spirits! An heir to a family of secret arts, he joins a group of men and women bound together by fate. Together, they travel far and wide, fighting monsters in the mountains, slaying evil in the cities, breaking into the underworld, and robbing ghost messengers... To change our fate, we defy the heavens! 2.5kReads8.8Score532Shelves

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   The first three are all absolute classics, absolutely fantastic. The last one I wrote myself. I think it's pretty good too.

5. 5 青 The Fox Bride of Qingqiu 青丘狐妻 The Real Ninth Young Master of the Daoist Sect道门九公子本尊Mystery1.9M WordsCompleted Liu the Half-Immortal told my mother, “On the night of the full moon, take your child and a chicken to Qingqiu Mountain and wait. Whoever eats your family’s chicken will become your child’s spouse, whether it’s a snake, an insect, an ant, a bird, or a beast...” That night, a little fox and a little white wolf fought fiercely over the chicken, and from then on, the gears of fate began to turn... 9.5kReads8.6Score831Shelves
6. 6 活 A Living Person's Ghost Marriage 活人冥婚 Yi Yun Chou忆云愁Mystery189k WordsOngoing A ghost marriage is traditionally a union between two people who are already dead. But I was supposed to die at the age of three. By defying fate and holding a ghost wedding while still alive, I secured a future for myself… 425Reads—Score—Shelves
7. 7 僵 The Jiang Family's Haunted House and Corpse Marriage Pact 僵家尸宅冥尸婚契 Floating0Life浮0生Mystery329k WordsOngoing Jiang Si, who was there to watch the show, nearly gets crushed to death. On the brink of life and death, he is sucked into the core of the Nine Dragons Feng Shui Formation and accidentally gains a pair of all-seeing eyes... Before he can even celebrate, a drought demon sets its sights on him... Luckily, at the crucial moment, he is summoned to a bizarre world by an ancient zombie patriarch who has lived for a thousand years... After being welcomed back into the family, he hears, "What! You want 7.5kReads8.3Score908Shelves

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   Taoist priest and his zombie wife...

8. 8 让 You Hired Me to Collect Bodies, So I Dissected My Ex-Girlfriend 让你当收尸人，你直接解刨了前女友 Ye Wusheng夜无声Mystery4.6M WordsOngoing In anatomy class, the corpse turns out to be my ex-girlfriend... After that, I went through all sorts of unbelievable things. A bus that only goes up, never down, and runs straight to a reservoir. An old scholar tree in the hospital, lush with branches and leaves, that swallows people whole. A giant catfish by the Qingshui River, begging people for help every night. And a deadly brothel hung with human skin, open for business without end. It went on and on, as if it would never come to an end... 62.6kReads9.4Score2.3kShelves

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   ① Single female lead. The male lead was the last high priest of the Yin Shang Dynasty in his past life. The female lead waited for him for over 3000 years to meet him again. (The woman the male lead met in the anatomy class earlier was not the female lead; see chapter 638 for details.) ② The male lead is a dragon. ③ The male lead has an unusual identity; he suppresses shops but has no affinity with immortality. ④ The female lead is a powerful figure, and the male lead is also extraordinary; even those destined for greatness want to know about his fate. ⑤ The male lead has a pure yang body, his mind is sealed at the beginning, and he also has a very strong girlfriend.

9. 9 我 I Drive a Taxi, but I Don’t Pick Up Passengers, Only Female Ghosts and Models 我开出租不拉客，只拉女鬼和模特 I Want to Run Wild我要浪Mystery1.3M WordsCompleted Pan Mudan kept her lips pressed tightly together, not daring to make a sound in case her husband heard... I used to be a company driver at a steel mill. Then the company laid people off. I spent eight thousand yuan on an almost-decommissioned commercial vehicle and started driving a taxi. My friends all said I'd struck gold! Even without the air conditioning on in summer, the car was chilly inside! 6.2kReads8.9Score568Shelves
10. 10 地 The Essence of Heaven and Earth 地天髓 Spinach Noodles Without Any Spinach菠菜面里却没菠菜Mystery100k WordsOngoing One man is eighty years old, another is four hundred. In my youth, I climbed the mountains until my shoes wore through. Why, then, do clouds rise from the peaks tonight? I see a rainbow in the sky, then return to the world after hundreds of years. In an instant, a vast red cloud sweeps across the heavens. “Supernatural Mystery + Urban Cultivation + Primordial Wilderness + Tomb Raiding + Ancient Masks + Comedy + Horror...” I was different from the moment I was born. Others have three flowers gath 55Reads—Score—Shelves

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    Yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes

11. 11 扎 The Paper Effigy Shop: Everyone Around Me Is a Big Shot 扎纸铺，我身边都是大佬 Jie Yu界玉Mystery1.0M WordsCompleted In our ancient land of China, many professions have their own rules and taboos. The older and more mysterious the craft, the more this is true. For example, when “asking the rice,” you must never ask how someone died; a coffin maker must never make their own coffin; a paper effigy maker must never draw eyes on a paper figure; and a spirit medium must never conduct a ceremony without all the members of their altar present... If any of these rules and taboos are broken, something terrifying will h 22.1kReads9.3Score2kShelves
12. 12 棺 The Fragrance of the Coffin's Beauty 棺香美人 Rivet铆钉Mystery6.1M WordsOngoing When I was born, the river swelled and washed a coffin right into my home. Fifteen years later, the coffin opened, and inside was a woman... Feng shui, fate and destiny... There are endless folk legends to tell, and more bizarre wonders than words can describe. 32.6kReads9.4Score808Shelves
13. 13 守 The Village Guardian, the Wife in the Coffin 守村人，棺中妻 Big Brother Xuanyi玄一哥哥Rural Life3.2M WordsCompleted [Fox Wife] + [Traditional Supernatural Horror] + [Mystery and Twists] + [Funny Ensemble Cast] + [Interlocking Plotlines] + [First-Ever Nine-Tailed Fox with Nine Clones] I’m the village’s famous idiot. Of course, that’s what people who don’t know any better call me. Those in the know call me… the village guardian! But my half-baked fortune-teller of a grandfather has a very different opinion from everyone else. He says I’m a kept man who lives off women! Still, I never imagined the woman I’d have 19.4kReads8.8Score1.9kShelves
14. 14 夜 Night Fishing, When a Weasel Begs for a Title and Says She Looks Like a Beast-Eared Girl 夜钓遇黄皮子讨封，说她像兽耳娘 Tang Xiaotangguo唐小糖果Mystery846k WordsCompleted Fishing enthusiast Wang Kun transmigrates to a parallel world and decides to become a fishing streamer. Who could have guessed that supernatural forces would be returning in this world? On a night-fishing trip, he runs into a spirit: a weasel seeking a divine title. Weasel: “Hey, you there. Do I look more like a person or a god?” For the sake of his own happiness, Wang Kun replies, “You look like a golden-haired, beast-eared beauty who’ll do whatever I say, has boundless magical powers, and is s 14.1kReads8.8Score1.3kShelves

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    The male protagonist is a legendary figure who has lived five lifetimes, and all his wives are fierce ghosts.

15. 15 诡 The Haunted Tomb 诡坟 Sugar Quixote糖吉柯德Mystery2.2M WordsCompleted [This is no ordinary paranormal story. It's all about horror and suspense: no mindless wish fulfillment, forbidden yin-yang lore, no cultivation, and a ghost wife. If it's not good, you can break my legs.] People laugh at my family's poverty and say that all my blood relatives have died, so there must be a ghost in our house. I don't dare argue... because there really is a ghost buried in our ancestral grave! ...My name is Zhang Asi... I was born at four in the morning on the fourteenth day of t 40.2kReads8.8Score3.7kShelves

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    This ghost wife is incredibly fierce and extremely jealous.

16. 16 黄 No. 81 on the Yellow Springs Road 黄泉路81号 Ye Wusheng夜无声Mystery1.9M WordsCompleted Night blankets the city, and the things lurking in the shadows begin to stir. The raccoon dog granny who eats raw meat, the fitness girl with fish scales growing on her back. The wild foxes who approach people by the roadside, and the little convenience store in the cemetery. I've experienced all of these. And it all began after I witnessed a car accident... 42.1kReads9.2Score3.4kShelves

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    The pig's feet have a ghost wife who has lived for thousands of years.

17. 17 黄 The Yellow Springs Pawnshop: No Living Visitors 黄泉典当铺，生人勿近 The Moon Bridge Remains桥月仍在Mystery1.3M WordsOngoing [Ghost Hunting + Supernatural Horror + Folk Customs + Strange Tales + Taoist Arts + Maoshan] At the end of a street at midnight stands a Yellow Springs Pawnshop. You have no way of knowing whether those who come and go to trade are human or ghost! Lu Guanshan takes over the pawnshop, and on his very first night, he encounters a stunningly beautiful, cold and aloof Ghost Queen hanging from a beam. She latches onto him and stays by his side as they collect yin objects and subdue a hundred ghosts. 5.3kReads6.5Score472Shelves

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    The wife at the beginning is a cold and aloof female ghost king.

18. 18 爷 When Grandpa Died, Dragons Lifted His Coffin and Ghosts Wept at His Grave 爷爷死时，龙抬棺，鬼哭坟 Big Brother Shuiyue水月大哥Mystery2.4M WordsCompleted My grandfather was tragically caught up in a thousand-year-old feng shui plot. When he died, a dragon lifted his coffin and ghosts wailed at his grave. As for me, I was born wrapped in snake scales. They all called me a monster, but the Five Immortals willingly became my babysitters. They secretly sent me to Dragon Pool, where eight old men took me on as their disciple. When I grew up, I punched demons and monsters and kicked spirits and fiends aside. Practicing both Buddhist and Daoist arts, I 10.6kReads8.5Score830Shelves

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    The protagonist of this book is incredibly powerful. His wife initially came to take his life, but by a twist of fate, she was conquered by him and even gave birth to a bunch of ghost babies for him.

19. 19 替 Upholding Justice in Heaven's Name 替天行道 Lord Jiu of the East Side,城东九爷、Mystery1.7M WordsCompleted Yin cannot thrive alone, and yang cannot exist by itself. I grew up in the countryside, left behind by my parents and raised by my grandfather. All his life, Grandpa was either helping widows and orphaned girls or on his way to help them. So, for as long as I can remember, I heard the villagers cursing him behind his back. Then one day, a stranger in a burial shroud asked me a question. A tree without bark but with a soul is bound to die. What happens to a person with skin but no soul? The relat 3kReads8.9Score247Shelves

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    You absolutely have to watch this, okay? The wife is a ghost, but she's born to be an empress. The male lead was a Kunlun general in his past life, a man feared by the entire divine realm.

20. 20 借 A Life Borrowed from the Yin Realm 借阴命 Shengtang You圣堂幽Mystery1.2M WordsCompleted To keep me alive, my grandfather borrowed someone else’s life for me. Years later, that person’s descendants came seeking revenge... 190Reads7.2Score—Shelves

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    These two books are super good! Character traits: Has a ghost wife, male lead is powerful.

21. 21 娶 I Married a Female Ghost 娶了个女鬼媳妇 Brother Zero Degrees零度哥哥Mystery36k WordsOngoing Ghost Festival! On the night I was born, a hundred ghosts surrounded our home, throwing the entire Maoshan Sect into an uproar! A thousand-year-old centipede demon and the Ghost King also came to claim our lives! The ones who saved our whole family were a female ghost with a thousand years of cultivation and a white nine-tailed fox! The female ghost was my wife! She'd waited a thousand years for me, just so she could wait for me to be reborn as a human and love me once again… 6Reads—Score—Shelves

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    Anyone interested in my new book? It's about a female ghost wife with a thousand years of cultivation! The male lead was a Taoist master in his past life!

22. 22 诡EN The Horrors Are Hard to Kill? Sorry, I'm the Truly Immortal One 诡异难杀？抱歉，我才是真正不死 Six Gourds六个葫芦Urban2.0M WordsCompleted This book has been signed for publication, so enjoy it with confidence. [Death Regression + Foreknowledge of the Future + Kill the Saintly One First + Dark Tone + Supernatural Resurgence] After accidentally transmigrating to a world invaded by the supernatural, Fang Xiu awakens the ability to return from death, also known as turning back time. Whenever he dies, time rewinds to just before his death. In this perilous and uncanny world, he could have laid low, but instead he chooses to announce to 231.9kReads9.5Score28.4kShelves

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    The male lead's wife is a ghost, arguably the strongest being so far in the series. The female lead loves the male lead terribly, and the male lead loves the female lead just as much. Without his wife, the male lead loses his mind and can't go on living. It was his wife's encouragement that gave him the will to live after he came into this world. He keeps growing stronger for his wife's sake—true love! [Crying emoji]

23. 23 天 The Heavenly Coffin 天棺 Youth Evening News青年晚报Mystery2.0M WordsCompleted Because of a joke, my grandmother’s spirit refused to leave after her death and insisted on taking me with her to the grave. Otherwise, my whole family would die. To save my family, I went into the grave with my grandmother... 22kReads9.0Score1.9kShelves

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    It's so good! The male and female leads are so adorable. Strong male and strong female leads! I love supernatural stories with female leads! 😍

24. 24 湘 Tales of the Strange in Western Hunan 湘西异闻录 Qia Ling Little Taoist恰灵小道Mystery2.7M WordsCompleted [A friendly warning: This book has no System. It's funny and terrifying, with suspense and clever twists throughout, plus plenty of passion and brains. The more you read, the better it gets.] When I was four, I was kidnapped and taken to a cursed village to be sacrificed alive. A fox spirit risked her life to save me, and secretly pledged herself to me for life. To marry my fox bride, I venture deep into the Miao Valley, tread the Nether River Gorge, and walk the boundary between Yin and Yang. I 6.1kReads9.1Score593Shelves
25. 25 我 My Girlfriend Is Actually a Ghost 我的女友竟是女鬼 Little Bodhi小菩提Urban202k WordsCompleted [Campus Writing Contest] Su Chen was reborn in a world much like Blue Star, living in a declining family of Celestial Masters. One summer, after getting into university, Su Chen planned to meet his online girlfriend in person. When they met, he discovered that she had no shadow. … [Sweet Romance + Love Story + Monsters and Demons Resurge] (The blurb doesn’t do it justice. Read the story instead.) 52Reads—Score—Shelves

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    These books are really good. "My Wife is a Ghost" makes me smile like a doting aunt when I see the couple being affectionate [shy emoji]. The male leads are all very decisive, not saintly at all, making for a thrilling read.

26. 26 新 On Our Wedding Night, My Bride Turned into a Female Ghost, and I Got Even More Excited 新婚夜，新娘变女鬼，我更兴奋了 A Little Water Person一只小水人Mystery221k WordsCompleted Before he died, my grandfather arranged a marriage for me. My bride was a rich heiress, and so beautiful she could put every other woman to shame. But on our wedding night, the bride turned into a female ghost. Everyone was terrified, but I was even more excited. “Ding! The ghost bride is bashful. Ghost Qi +20.” “Ding! The ghost bride is acting coy. Ghost Qi +30.” The Underworld has fallen into chaos, and ghosts roam the night. Su Zhe farms Ghost Qi from ghosts, then exchanges it for superna 1.3kReads8.5Score129Shelves
27. 27 恐 Horror Apocalypse: From the Start, I Married a Ghost and Took the Bride by Force 恐怖末世：开局冥婚，强娶鬼新娘 Drinking in the West Wind醉饮西风Mystery1.0M WordsCompleted [Supernatural phenomena return + unconventional stockpiling + comedy + reborn + one female lead + mental illness] Lu Yuan is unexpectedly reborn and remembers what will happen on May 20: when a girl confesses to him, his dead ex-girlfriend will turn into a vengeful ghost and hunt him down! To stay alive, Lu Yuan comes up with a great idea. Only ghosts can hold back ghosts. If he can gather an embroidered shoe, a bridal gown, a red bridal veil, a phoenix hairpin, and a jade bangle, he can assembl 8.4kReads8.7Score785Shelves
28. 28 停 Working Part-Time at the Morgue, I Carried Out My Ex-Girlfriend? 停尸房兼职，搬出了前女友？ A Flower Flying on a Leaf一叶飞花Mystery1.3M WordsOngoing The Dao has both civil and martial paths. The martial path: uphold the law and slay demons. The civil path: read faces and understand the world. I am Jiang Rui, skilled in both. You can call me Handsome, or you can call me Ah Zu. Passerby: “Master Jiang, I think I’ve been haunted. Please, you have to save me!” Jiang Rui smiles calmly. “Come on, there’s no such thing as ghosts.” As he speaks, he discreetly pinches a yellow talisman between his fingers. Passerby: “Master Jiang, can you find a feng 21.2kReads8.9Score1.2kShelves

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    Are you guys talking about this? [Smirking]

29. 29 白 Selling Clothes by Day, Sewing Corpses by Night 白天卖衣服，晚上缝尸体 Night Shadow夜幽影Mystery2.7M WordsCompleted [Traditional supernatural horror, folk terror, decisive and ruthless] I rented an apartment where someone had died, hoping to save money, only to be plunged into endless darkness... My terrifying girlfriend has a mouth full of sharp teeth and haunts me day and night; A headless vengeful infant on the highway frantically tries to steal people’s heads; A horrifying internet celebrity livestreams herself peeling off people’s faces, while the comments turn eerie; At a Cat Immortal shrine in a strang 51.9kReads9.2Score6.2kShelves

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    This is a very good book. The male protagonist doesn't have any particularly extraordinary background or destiny; it's not typical at all. He develops purely through his own hard work and perseverance. Of course, his wife is a ghost. Judging from the current pace, this book will likely reach 3 million words, maybe not quite 4 million, but it should definitely reach 3.5 Million.

30. 30 诡 Terror in the Haunted Dorm 诡寝惊魂 Chen Zidong辰子栋Mystery3.6M WordsCompleted I got a job as a dorm supervisor in a university women’s residence, but the girls there were a little too friendly… Crying in the middle of the night, dorm rooms catching fire, rooms that don’t exist. Hidden in the deepest corners of memory is a bizarre and fantastical world… The night is deep, the dream unfinished. A mountain spirit blows out the lamp. Where can a lonely soul return? 10.4kReads8.5Score1.1kShelves

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    My wife isn't a ghost. The first book was a harem-style story, but it was really good and well-written. The second book was YYDS.

31. 31 尸 Born of a Corpse, Carried in a Ghost's Coffin 尸生子，鬼抬棺 Jie Yu界玉Mystery3.3M WordsCompleted In ancient, remote places, all kinds of strange and terrifying things are bound to happen. And these things happen around Hua Jiunan. In fact, Hua Jiunan is part of them. For instance, he was born from a corpse! 212.8kReads9.6Score25.1kShelves
32. 32 我 The Year I Was Born, Ghosts Came Looking for a Groom 我出生那年，鬼招婿 Half a Button半颗纽扣Mystery3.2M WordsCompleted The year I was born, ghosts came seeking a bride. To stay alive, I slept in a haunted coffin. When I was twelve, I was forced to marry a ghost bride, bringing disaster upon us all. My grandfather had me take an unclaimed grave as my master. I thought things would finally be peaceful from then on. But the good times didn't last. I discovered by chance that my ghost wife had been by my side all along... 12.1kReads8.2Score1.1kShelves

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    Absolutely wonderful.

33. 33 阴 Yin-Yang Taboos 阴阳禁忌 Ninth Master of the Thieves' Sect盗门九当家Mystery1.3M WordsCompleted My family told me that on the night I was born, an old beggar woman came to my grandfather's house. The moment she saw me, she said nothing and grabbed me by the throat... It wasn't until my grandfather was murdered that I learned the truth. I swore to fulfill every last one of his wishes! 1.5kReads8.4Score123Shelves

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    This is an incredibly addictive horror novel; you can't stop reading once you start. The main character is just too good to pass up. It's so good, you'll want to read "The Forbidden Living."

34. 34 九 Nine Dragons Carry the Coffin 九龙抬棺 Ninth Master九当家Mystery3.5M WordsOngoing The night of my grandfather's funeral, I carried a stone tablet at the front of the procession to lead the way. I didn't dare look back, because the eight evil spirits carrying the coffin were behind me... 9.8kReads9.2Score2.7kShelves
35. 35 急 By the Power of the Law 急急如律令 Nine Buns九包子Mystery1.5M WordsCompleted It all began when I took fifty yuan from a blind fortune-teller. Then, in the middle of the night, a woman's voice suddenly sounded behind me. 1.5kReads8.6Score160Shelves

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    This is absolutely amazing!

36. 36 我EN With a Fox Immortal, I Subdue a Hundred Ghosts 我以狐仙镇百鬼 Purple Dream Wandering Dragon紫梦游龙Mystery10.3M WordsOngoing The day I was born, nineteen bolts of thunder struck around our family’s courtyard. A fortune-teller said I was born a demon child, fated to suffer eighteen calamities in my life. Either someone else would die, or I would. As it turned out, the fortune-teller met his own calamity on the very day I was born. He carried me out of the village, and suddenly dropped dead! 748.4kReads9.4Score43kShelves

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    The male lead is also incredibly powerful, as his wife is a nine-tailed fox.

37. 37 惊 Thriller Game: Slaughtering the Entire Village from the Start 惊悚游戏：开局屠杀全村村民 Old Friends Never Return故人不再来Mystery57k WordsOngoing [Romance + not overpowered + one female lead] A mysterious cloud suddenly appears at Jinghai City's Central Primary School in Gaojing. Ye Tianming's father, the head of the universe's number one meteorology team, hurries to the scene with the entire team. A man dies mysteriously in the mist. His son, Ye Tianming, arrives at the scene wearing a suit and tie. The boy's consciousness grows hazy. When he wakes again, he finds himself transmigrated to the day of the college entrance exams. A strange —Reads—Score—Shelves

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    These are pretty good.

38. 38 十EN Ten Days to the End 十日终焉 Pest Control Team Member杀虫队队员Mystery3.2M WordsCompleted 2024 Tomato Novel Annual Peak Rankings TOP 1 | 2024 China Online Literature Influence List | 2024 China Good Novel Award | Over 2 million copies sold (No harem, no formulaic tropes, no invincibility, no System, no mindless antics, no wish fulfillment. Read with caution if these bother you.) Just when I thought it was an ordinary day, I discovered I had been captured and taken to the End. Just when I thought I could escape by continually taking part in death games, people began awakening supernat 1.7MReads9.9Score207.7kShelves
39. 39 诡EN The House of Dread 诡舍 The Sound of Wind and Rain at Night,夜来风雨声丶Mystery2.1M WordsCompleted [Infinite-flow + Mild Horror + Survival + One Female Lead] A driverless bus carried a group of cursed people to a strange black lodge… Inside the lodge stood a door stained red with blood. At regular intervals, the cursed were forcibly dragged through the blood-red door and into terrifying worlds, where they had to complete horrifying events… After Ning Qiushui survived one bizarre and terrifying story after another inside the lodge, narrowly escaping death each time, he discovered that none of 707.4kReads9.6Score103.9kShelves
40. 40 麻 The Divine Fortune-Teller in the Linen Robe 麻衣神算子 Horseback Fishing骑马钓鱼Mystery7.4M WordsCompleted My grandfather taught me everything he knew about fortune-telling, but after I read three people’s fortunes, he left me. From then on, I didn’t just tell the fortunes of the living... 43.7kReads9.2Score3.8kShelves

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    Whenever ghost wives are mentioned, taboos for the living inevitably arise. This is indeed a good book, with a plot full of twists and turns. I'd also like to mention the book *The Divine Calculator in Ma Yi*. Like *The Taboos of the Living*, this book also features a protagonist who gradually transforms from weak to powerful, with a rich plot and vivid characters.

41. 41 活 Taboo of the Living 2 活人禁忌2 Ninth Master of the Thieves' Sect盗门九当家Urban1.7M WordsCompleted Heaven Official's Blessing, no taboos under heaven. The second installment of Living People’s Taboos! 8.1kReads9.1Score1.3kShelves

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    I'm absolutely in love with Lao Jiu! [Admiration][Admiration][Admiration]

42. 42 茅 The Maoshan Coffin-Raiser 茅山升棺人 Ninth Master of the Thieves' Sect盗门九当家Mystery1.8M WordsOngoing From the moment I was born, someone secretly plotted against me, making my mother give birth prematurely and changing my birth date. My birth chart clashed with my parents' fates, and they both died on the very day I was born. I vowed to find the culprit, and in time became a Maoshan coffin-raiser! Coffin-raising is the practice of relocating graves. After death, people should be buried in a place with good feng shui to protect their descendants. But some ancestors are buried in malevolent place 1.2kReads9.0Score101Shelves
43. 43 狐 Fox Wife 狐妻 Ninth Young Master of the Daoist Sect道门九公子Mystery451k WordsCompleted As a child, I was alone and had no one to rely on, so I depended on a little fox I had found. But one day, it suddenly disappeared. I still remember that an old woman came looking for her granddaughter the day before, and then all sorts of strange things started happening. Why has my brother, who hasn't come home in years, suddenly returned? He says he'll find me a wife, and that we'll have to go into the mountains to look for her. Who could have guessed... 2.7kReads8.1Score213Shelves

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    Lao Jiu's writing is really good! The female lead isn't particularly powerful, but her background is. The plot is a bit scary and realistic. Highly recommended! 👍 The second book is great at the beginning; the female lead is Xiang Yu's sister. It gets a bit padded later, but it's still okay. The two books overlap, so you can read the first one first. If you're looking for something to read, come check this out! Give me feedback after you finish reading! 😀😀😀

44. 44 恐 Haunted Taoist Temple: I Only Hunt the Most Ominous Things 恐怖道观：我只抓大凶之物 Lord Salted Fish咸鱼君Mystery1.0M WordsCompleted “My good apprentice, you've completed your training. You may leave the mountain now.” “Rest assured, Master. Once I descend the mountain, I will vanquish demons and exorcise evil, restoring the glory of our Daoist tradition!” “To temper your character, I have a small test for you.” “I won't let you down, Master!” “Excellent. There's a young woman down the mountain. Go marry her!” “What?!” … 3.3kReads8.9Score354Shelves

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    Single female protagonist novel 😏

45. 45 少 A Young Feng Shui Master Betrothed to a White Tiger at Birth 少年风水师，出生就和白虎定亲 Ye Wusheng夜无声Mystery809k WordsCompleted At the Human Skin Inn, a hundred ghosts carry a coffin. A yin corpse borrows a life. A demon child lies hidden in a Buddhist womb… From the moment I was born, my father pledged his life to arrange my engagement to a White Tiger. Because of that, I embarked on a little-known path… 5.9kReads9.2Score541Shelves
46. 46 我 There’s a Ghost Inside Me 我的体内有只鬼 A Black-Inked Blade一柄墨刀Mystery3.5M WordsCompleted Vengeful ghosts awaken, and a hundred ghosts roam the night. Jiang Xiao transmigrates into this world for no apparent reason and finds himself surrounded by demons and monsters. But then he discovers that his shadow can devour ghosts without limit and gain their abilities. [Successfully devoured the White Mist Ghost. Ability acquired: Mist Form] [Successfully devoured the Hanging Ghost. Ability acquired: Shackles] [Successfully devoured the Bronze Ghost. Ability acquired: Copper Skin] [Successfu 20.7kReads9.3Score2.4kShelves

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    A rare and exceptional ghost, the female lead is a cold and aloof red-clad ghost, yet gentle towards the protagonist. The protagonist's past life was Bei Ming, later becoming the number one on the Hundred Ghosts Ranking, comprehending life and death, and the head of all ghosts.

47. 47 麒 The Divine Qilin 麒麟神相 Daoist of Jiangnan江南道长Rural Life3.8M WordsCompleted I was born with a Qilin by my side. To save me, my grandfather peeled off his own human skin and gave it to a nine-tailed fox. That day, dead trees bloomed again, and all the beasts came to pay their respects! 10.8kReads9.4Score1.2kShelves

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    I've been staying up all night watching this lately, and I wanted to share it with you all.

48. 48 诡 Eerie: My Wife Is a Vengeful Ghost 诡异：我家娘子是厉鬼 Hei Luo Hei Luo黑咯黑洛Urban335k WordsCompleted [Eerie] [Single heroine] [Pure love] [Mischief-maker] Chen Yu, an ordinary university student, transmigrates into an Eerie world and meets the wife from his dreams. But unlike in his dreams, his gentle, virtuous wife is an Eerie creature who kills without blinking… Faced with countless grotesque and terrifying Eerie beings, Chen Yu calmly holds his rice bowl and says, “Wifey! It’s yelling at me!” “Wifey! Get it!” Today, I, Chen Yu, am going to eat this bowl of rice standing up! I have a wife 222Reads6.6Score—Shelves
49. 49 天 The Fox Wife Chosen by Fate 天命狐妻 Three-Fingered Loofah三指丝瓜Mystery1.7M WordsOngoing Born with a frail fate that draws evil spirits, I married a fox under the terms of a written betrothal. She unfurled her nine tails and protected me, granting me a lifetime of peace. I cultivated the Dao and cut down every wicked ghost in the world. Together, human and fox, we roamed between yin and yang. Blessed with a fox wife, I alone stand guard against a hundred ghosts! 5.3kReads7.4Score278Shelves

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    It's addictive once you start reading; this book is great. The female lead is a fox spirit who's very clingy, and the male lead is a Taoist priest. The two love each other very much.

50. 50 九 Nine Dragons Pulling a Coffin 九龙拉棺 Dancing Lone Spirit舞独魂灵Mystery2.0M WordsCompleted I became a corpse retriever to get rich and marry a wife. But before I could make a fortune, I pulled a delicate, stunning beauty out of the Yellow River... 4kReads8.8Score281Shelves

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    You mean this one? The protagonist's name is Xie Lan, and the protagonist you're talking about has the Seven Killings destiny. His wife is Lin Guihua, who is a ghost.

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