The Male Lead Is Human and Marries a Ghost or Demon Wife in a Ghost Marriage to Stay Alive, Yet Deeply Loves the Heroine 男主是人为了活命配冥婚娶鬼妻妖妻并十分爱女主

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... 16kReads9.2Score2.2k14d adds

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   This is definitely the one; I can read it over and over again without getting tired of it. After finishing it, I felt a sense of emptiness.

2. 2 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 40.1kReads8.8Score3.7k14d adds

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   If you don't like it, just send me razor blades.

3. 3 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… 397Reads—Score—14d adds

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   Please take a look at me, everyone! Your ghost wife is gentle, considerate, and jealous!

4. 4 僵 The Jiang Family's Haunted House and Corpse Marriage Pact 僵家尸宅冥尸婚契 Floating0Life浮0生Mystery333k 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 8kReads8.3Score93714d adds

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   A mysterious zombie marriage contract—binding two obedient zombie wives!!!

5. 5 绝 My Stunning Wife Has Five Souls, and I Can't Handle It! 绝美老婆有五魂，我直呼受不鸟！ Slippery Snake滑滑的蛇Urban683k WordsOngoing [One heroine]+ [Supernatural]+ [Urban]+ [Daoism]+ [Underworld]+ [No System]+ [Not invincible] Lin Xuan is the ninety-fifth-generation heir of the Maoshan Sect. In his twentieth year in this world, his master told him that his destiny was still uncertain, and that descending the mountain before he turned thirty would bring disaster. He didn't believe it. The moment he came down from the mountain, however, Judge Lu hauled him off to the Underworld, saying he wanted to introduce him to a wife... Th 1.7kReads5.9Score22314d adds

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   Give it a try.

6. 6 我 My Wife Is an Untransformable Corpse 我老婆是不化骨 A Gentleman Schemes with His Heart君子谋心Mystery2.2M WordsCompleted Jianghu + the Eight Outer Sects + spirit mediums + corpse herders + witchcraft and poison arts + traditional martial arts In the jianghu of Huaxia, men are ruthless and women alluring. To save me, my grandmother made me share a bed with a thousand-year-old female corpse. I never expected that one day, the corpse would come to life. 48.9kReads8.7Score6.2k14d adds
7. 7 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 19.3kReads8.8Score1.9k14d adds

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   This meets the requirements.

8. 8 我 I'm a Professional Mage: Isn't Marrying a Demon Wife the Perfect Protection? 我职业法师：娶妖妻辟邪很正常吧 Bing Ling'an冰灵安Mystery218k WordsCompleted (One devoted male lead and one heroine + ensemble cast + passionate, funny, with a touch of angst) While other twenty-year-olds are partying and binge-watching shows, Shen Mobai is pretending to be a fortune-teller to scam people out of big money. He digs up a grave in the middle of the night for a 300,000-yuan ghost-marriage fee, only to wake the vengeful ghost buried inside! “Hey, lady! I was just following orders. I didn’t mean to dig up your grave!” “Take it up with the King of Hell.” “Help 20Reads—Score—14d adds

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   The Snake Wife: From Hate to Love (Single Female Lead), Ensemble Cast, Comedy, Action, Mildly Angsty, No Traditional Starts with Grandfather's Death, Clear Logic, Decent Writing Style

9. 9 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... 260Reads6.9Score—14d adds

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   You can tell just by looking at the title. [Eating popcorn emoji]

10. 10 狐 A Fox’s Dream, Traveling by Your Side 狐梦伴君行 Nan Mogui Chen南墨鬼尘Urban125k WordsOngoing Also known as: Down on My Luck, I’m Forced to Marry the Fox Family’s Eldest Daughter My name is Xu Rong. I was born in a remote mountain village. My mother left when I was little, and my father passed away when I was twelve. I thought I would spend my whole life alone, until the night I came of age at eighteen, when I had a dream that completely turned my life upside down. In the dream, a young woman caressed my face, calling me her husband. But I never expected her hand to be a furry animal paw 14Reads—Score—14d adds

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    You could check this out. The male lead's life starts off disastrously, but he's forced into marriage by a fox demon. The male lead is just an ordinary person.

11. 11 开 Marrying a Ghost Bride from the Start, the 749 Bureau Comes Knocking 开局迎娶鬼新娘，749局找上门 Red Bean Number Fifteen十五号红豆Urban1.5M WordsCompleted [Ghost Bride + 749 + invincible + lifespan-for-power + hot-blooded + ruthless...] Hong Yao was panicking. He was living in what should have been an ordinary modern city, yet supernatural incidents were becoming more and more frequent. By chance, he found the betrothal letter of a ghost bride, and now he had to marry her! From then on, one strange entity after another came after him, all out to take his life. You brought this on yourselves! System! Take my lifespan! Also known as: “Am I strong? I 10.4kReads7.9Score80414d adds
12. 12 我 My Beautiful Ghost Wife 我的绝美鬼妻 Seeing Wealth at First Sight一见生财Mystery158k WordsOngoing When I was five, on Ghost Festival, I got lost in a graveyard on the mountain and somehow ended up married to a thousand-year-old female ghost. Cursed and doomed to a short life, I learned Taoist arts from my grandfather. From then on, I became an inheritor of yin-yang magic. I fought zombies and vanquished evil spirits, discussed the meaning of life with a thousand-year-old fox, and searched for the origins of humanity with my ghost-wife. Seductive fox demons, vicious corpse fiends: a childhood 182Reads—Score—14d adds
13. 13 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... 12.2kReads8.2Score1.1k14d adds
14. 14 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 51.7kReads9.2Score6.2k14d adds
15. 15 娶 Marry a Ghost Wife and Defy Yin and Yang 娶鬼妻逆阴阳 Wind on the Way Home Y归途有风YMystery203k WordsOngoing The year I was born, nine bolts of heavenly lightning struck, soldiers from the underworld escorted the way, and ghosts roamed the night. Master Qingyun divined that my fate was unusual, and that the ghosts would come for my life when I was nine. On my eighteenth birthday, I would have to marry a ghost bride in a yin wedding. Defy the balance of yin and yang. Fight against fate... 22Reads—Score—14d adds

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    The first book about ghost wives needs no introduction; it features Thirteen and Ru Shuang, and is definitely worth reading. The second book involves a ghost marriage contract used to survive, where the protagonist finds a ghost wife for protection. It also has many plot twists. The third book also involves forgetting about survival and marrying a ghost wife.

16. 16 女 A Female Ghost Is Clinging to Me? Better Cling to Her! 女鬼缠身？反抱她大腿！ Tale of the Strange Star奇星记Mystery1.0M WordsCompleted [No System, one heroine, ghost wife, yin-yang master, urban, supernatural, lighthearted comedy] A night spent beside a lonely grave, and the tomb’s occupant latches on. After paying respects to my grandfather tonight, I encountered something utterly absurd: I actually saw a ghost! These days, I’m afraid of being poor, and I’m afraid of dying! On a whim, after we couldn’t agree on anything, I got into a fight with the ghost and even slept on a lonely grave for the whole night. After that, one st 3.4kReads8.2Score32314d adds

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    "Walking Between Yin and Yang to Marry a Ghost Bride" 🌸 Single female lead 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻 Worth watching

17. 17 狐 The Fox Immortal Madam Chose Me as Her Son-in-Law 狐仙娘娘选我做女婿 Goodbye, Youth青春再见Mystery314k WordsCompleted Since I was born in a yin year, yin month, yin day, and yin hour, I'm especially prone to attracting unclean things. To stay alive, I had no choice but to marry a fox immortal and make her my wife. From then on, my life... 108Reads—Score—14d adds
18. 18 你 You Expect a High Schooler Like Me to Marry a Thousand-Year-Old Female Ghost? 你让我一个高中生娶千年女鬼？ Waiting by the Phone for Her守着电话等她Mystery102k WordsOngoing The white cat my classmate casually picked up during evening study turned out to be a Huang Xian spirit that had cultivated its way to enlightenment. After I so much as glanced at it, it wanted to take my internal organs. To stay alive, I had no choice but to enter a ghost marriage and wed a ghost bride... 25Reads—Score—14d adds

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    As you can tell from the title, it's a story about a ghost wife with only one female lead. The female lead is incredibly gentle and only loves the male lead.

19. 19 女 After My Girlfriend Died, She Came Looking for Me 女友死后，她来找我了 Hate Eating Vegetables讨厌吃青菜Mystery331k WordsCompleted [Alternate setting + yandere + supernatural + special powers + ghosts and monsters + mild horror + suspense] [Female-led romance + romantic entanglements + male-oriented] My name is Fu Ming. I'm an ordinary person, and I have a girlfriend who loves me very much. My girlfriend is Lin Wan, a rich heiress. She is decisive and ruthless, and very good at putting on an act. Most importantly, she's smart. Throughout the years we've been together, she has always controlled my life. I thought things woul 1.7kReads7.1Score10014d adds

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    That has to be it! The male lead is a pretty boy, quite a beast in the beginning, deceiving women's feelings. He even deceives female ghosts, let alone women.

20. 20 猛 The Bride of the Vengeful Ghost 猛鬼新娘 Lampwick灯草Mystery417k WordsCompleted When I was sixteen, I rescued a woman who had been tricked into coming to our village, simply because I wanted to help. I never imagined that my actions would not only get the poor woman killed, but also lead to the deaths of more than a hundred villagers. And so my strange life began. 5.5kReads9.0Score38814d adds

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    Traditional supernatural, the male protagonist marries a ghost bride! - ̗̀(๑ᵔ⌔ᵔ๑) 1. [Note] The male protagonist has a miserable life. People say there's a "ghost" in his house, and he doesn't refute it because it really is—his wife is the one! It's because when they encounter a ghost, his wife protects him! 6. [Note] The male protagonist is forced into a ghost marriage just to save his life. After he's safe, he thinks everything is fine, until he encounters another supernatural event and realizes that she has been protecting him all along!

21. 21 猛 Bride of the Vengeful Ghost: The Haunted Antique Shop 猛鬼新娘：通灵古董屋 Lampwick灯草Mystery542k WordsCompleted I'm the owner of an ordinary antique shop. By a twist of fate, I came into possession of an ancient jade pendant. Ever since then, a beautiful woman has been slipping silently into my dreams every night... 263Reads8.7Score—14d adds
22. 22 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. 32.2kReads9.4Score76114d adds
23. 23 度 The Yin-Duiner 度阴人 Half a Day of Leisure半日闲丶Mystery741k WordsOngoing [One heroine] [No harem] [No System] [Fantasy world] Do you know what yin entities are? In this world, there are four kinds of yin entities: ghosts, monsters, demons, and fiends. The woman in white drifting through an unfinished building, the bloodthirsty zombie in an ancient mountain tomb, the man-eating beast in a scenic lake... When these yin entities appear in the world of the living, a yin guide must step in to deal with them. And I’m the current yin guide. 639Reads8.1Score10514d adds

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    Me! Me! Me! Look at me! The male lead entered into a ghost marriage with the female lead when they were children in order to survive. More details will be added later!

24. 24 尸 The Corpse Coffin's Ghostly Fragrance 尸棺鬼香 A Jiao阿椒Mystery104k WordsOngoing [The corpse sits in the coffin, the ghost eats incense] [Fate from a past life, continued in this one] A Maoshan Taoist’s path to raising ghosts... After his grandmother dies unexpectedly, Shen Lin happens upon the notes his grandfather left behind. From then on, he begins a ghost-hunting life in which he narrowly escapes death time and time again... 150Reads—Score—14d adds

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    Folk customs are always good, right?

25. 25 超 Super Scary Livestream 超级惊悚直播 Yuwen Chang Gong宇文长弓Mystery2.2M WordsCompleted "Welcome, everyone, to the Supernatural Scary Live Stream. Before we start today's broadcast, I have to tell you that only three kinds of people can watch this stream: those with a heavy aura of yin energy, those who will die within seven days, and the third kind, which I can't discuss in detail. I can only give you one warning: watch your back!" 25.3kReads9.2Score3.3k14d adds
26. 26 源 Lord of the Origin Clan 源族之主 Burn and Extinguish燃灭Mystery336k WordsCompleted [Mystery and the Supernatural, Ghost Wife and Fox Demon] In my senior year of high school, I became the top scholar in a dream and married a female ghost and a fox demon. After I woke up, one strange thing after another began happening around me. Together with my ghost wife and the fox demon, I embarked on adventures, weathered countless trials, and fought powerful foes. Bizarre and uncanny cases, strange folk customs, Miaojiang sorcery, demon arts, magic, and all manner of oddities await. Let’s 28Reads—Score314d adds

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    The male protagonist married a female ghost and a fox spirit in his past life; the more you read, the more exciting it becomes.

27. 27 我 I'm Getting Married, But Is My Bride Even Human? 我要结婚了，新娘不是人？ Shading Fish811鲨丁鱼811Mystery325k WordsCompleted Also known as "I'm a Taoist Priest at Taizhou University". One female lead + mystery + comedy + the supernatural, no System. Montage storytelling, with the principles of an infinite-flow novel. I bet you won't guess the ending. "Hey, hey, who are you? Why are you in my house?" "Your dad's dead. He asked me to look after you." "Bullshit! Get him out here to tell me himself. I want to see my lawyer!" That night, Dad appeared in my dream and slapped me. "Hurry up and burn some joss paper for me. I' 9Reads—Score—14d adds

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    If things don't look good, you might hit me.

28. 28 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... 2.6kReads8.1Score20214d adds

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    It's a bit short, but it looks pretty good.

29. 29 寻 Heavenly Dragon-Seeking Master 寻龙天师 Wanderer of the Mortal World风尘散人Mystery8.3M WordsCompleted “The Heavenly Hound rises from earthen ramparts, then falls beneath the fading sunset. The sky turns blood-red, and the lucky star retreats into nothingness. Amid the vast wilderness, one person staggers onward, struggling through hardship, leaving blood with every step. Behind them, only a single late-blooming camellia wilts and falls.” This is an omen no one can decipher, but some say it is my fate. Others say that ritual officials who meddle in yin and yang, specialize in tombs, and obscure H 3.1kReads8.7Score34014d adds

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    Don't be fooled by the ratings; if you don't like it, you can kill me! [Eating popcorn emoji]

30. 30 窥 Divine Art of Reading the Heavens 窥天神测 Peach Blossom Ferry桃花渡Mystery3.0M WordsCompleted Words spring from the heart, and writing gives the heart form. The characters a person writes are intricately connected to their fortunes, misfortunes, and fate. Thus, the art of fortune-telling through written characters came into being. My journey down this path began when I accidentally fell into my grandmother's coffin, only to discover a young woman inside, her clothes in disarray… 985Reads8.8Score10614d adds

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    It meets your requirements.

31. 31 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 12.4kReads9.0Score1.3k14d adds

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    "The Heavenly Tribulation" fits this requirement perfectly. The protagonist, Xia Yitian, is nicknamed "Little Demon Xia" because he gets into trouble and fights with magic without regard for his life. He has a ghost wife, the Ninth Princess, inside his body. He commands four ghost generals: Devouring God Ghost General Xi Jun, Mountain Ghost Song Wanyi, City Guardian Ghost General Jiang Han, and a ghost beast, Black-haired Roar. He possesses three lineages: Yin-Yang Dao, Ghost Dao, and Four Little Immortal Children.

32. 32 穿 Wear a Burial Shroud, Summon the Dead, Marry a Ghost Bride 穿寿衣，请阴人，娶鬼妻 Mei Wangxi玫王熙Mystery287k WordsCompleted The living wear funeral robes, forcibly summon the dead, and marry ghost brides. A forbidden ghost wedding reveals the greatest deception in the Three Realms: Reincarnation is a cage, ghost weddings are sacrifices, and the Underworld is a prison! 5Reads—Score—14d adds

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    Perfectly fits the theme

33. 33 狐 The Fox Wife 狐妻 Autumn Blade秋刀Mystery4.8M WordsOngoing At the Bridge of Helplessness and along the Road to the Sun, I set out on the path of cultivation to save my own life. All the eerie, terrifying stories began when I brought home a fox... 371Reads6.7Score—14d adds

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    I've been watching Chu Tian and Ning Wu's story for 17 years now. The novel subject matter and the intricate, dramatic plot make it undoubtedly the best.

34. 34 娶 Marrying a Ghost 娶鬼为妻 Little Nian'an小小的念安Urban182k WordsOngoing Ling Xiao should have been born into an ordinary life, but he was framed by villains. His mother gave birth to him in a graveyard steeped in yin energy, and he became a sacrifice in an evil ritual to forge a Nine Yin Vengeful Ghost. His great-grandmother fought desperately to save him, arranging for him to marry the ghost bride Tian Xuan'er and thus preserving a chance for him to live. But for thwarting this earth-shattering plot, she was sealed inside a mysterious blood coffin by the combined e —Reads—Score—14d adds

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    Are you sure you don't want to come and see this stunningly beautiful, domineering, and incredibly powerful ghost wife?

35. 35 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! 5.5kReads7.4Score28614d adds

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    I have to say, this book is amazing. The male protagonist marries a fox spirit to survive, and he loves the female protagonist very much.

36. 36 开 Beheaded from the Start, I Was Forced to Marry a Ghost Bride 开局惨遭斩首，我被鬼妻强行迎娶 Huairou Ruoxu怀柔若虚Mystery188k WordsCompleted The Heavenly Dao mutated, and the Evil God Tianzhu usurped its authority. The laws of heaven and earth collapsed, vengeful ghosts ran rampant, monsters wreaked havoc, and every night in Yuning City, ghosts sang opera to claim lives. I was once the Liu family’s live-in son-in-law. On the day my entire family was sentenced to execution, I was beheaded in public. My head rolled across the snowy ground. As my soul teetered on the edge of oblivion, a long, sinister red cord suddenly wrapped around it 3Reads—Score—14d adds

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    Worth reading, a good book

37. 37 爷 Grandpa Got Me a Ghost Bride 爷爷给我娶了一个鬼媳妇 No Pressure, No Restraints不吃压力我身无拘Mystery189k WordsOngoing The day I was laid off, I got bound to a paranormal livestream System. My first mission: at midnight, summon the Red-Dressed Senior in a locked women's restroom. System prompt: Bringing a full-sugar milk tea is recommended. This spirit enjoyed sweets when she was alive. I thought the System was messing with me, until the woman in the red dress really appeared. She floated in midair, with a resentment score of 999+ and an S-rank conquest difficulty. I instinctively pulled out my milk tea and used 51Reads—Score—14d adds

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    Nice and very good-looking

38. 38 诡 My Eerie Husband Has Arrived, and He Gives Me a Hundred Million Every Day 诡夫降临，阴老公每天给我一个亿 The Cat Isn't Wild猫不野Fantastical Romance1.6M WordsOngoing [Male lead is chaste, possessive, obsessive and domineering, and utterly devoted to protecting his wife] On Qingming Festival, I went up the mountain to visit a grave and met an extremely strange man dressed in ancient black-and-gold robes. The first thing he asked me was, “Miss, would you do me the honor of marrying me?” My name is Xu Mengling. My grandmother chose it, hoping that even my dreams and wishes would come true. I was born on the fifteenth day of the seventh lunar month. I’m twenty-f 4.5kReads8.6Score36114d adds
39. 39 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... 62.6kReads9.4Score2.3k14d adds
40. 40 讨 Seeking a Blessing? I'll Get a Fox Immortal for a Wife! 讨封？讨个狐仙当老婆！ Yi Xiao'er易小耳Mystery189k WordsOngoing [Supernatural] [One Heroine] [Lighthearted Daily Life] [Comedy] That day, an eerie blood-red coffin was unearthed at a construction site, along with a dried-up female corpse with a swollen belly, a white fox with five tails, and an ancient bronze mirror... The next day, that very white fox latched onto me and asked me to grant her a human form... A nontraditional supernatural story 70Reads—Score—14d adds

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    6000 Readers, the plot is quite interesting.

41. 41 天 Tianxuan Paranormal Affairs Office 天玄灵异事务所 Lantern-Bearing Wuchang提灯无常Mystery541k WordsCompleted - [Infinite Flow + Urban Supernatural + Chinese-Style Horror + Folk Legends and Hauntings + Celestial Master Exorcists + Heirs to the Daoist Tradition + Heterochromatic-Eyed Heroine + Haunted House Tales + Episodic Stories + Folk Taboos] - Hidden deep in the bustling streets is an inconspicuous supernatural affairs office called Tianxuan. - No one dares touch the folk taboos of this world. Haunted houses are plagued by unsolved horrors, abandoned villages and ancient mansions seethe with resentm 1.2kReads—Score10414d adds

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    A dark and terrifying masterpiece in the style of traditional Chinese horror | "Tianxuan Supernatural Agency" features ghostly figures claiming lives in the middle of the night, vengeful spirits from ancient walls, and malevolent spirits roaming desolate graves. People believe in the magic of prayer and blessing, unaware that it is all a scam of sacrificing lives for each other. The three masters and disciples travel between the realms of the living and the dead, slaying evil spirits and uncovering bloody secrets. The whole story is full of high-energy twists and turns, and Chinese horror lovers will be hooked!

42. 42 我 My Grandfather Used My Life to Raise Eighteen Ghost Brides 我爷用我命，养了十八具鬼妻 Yun Cheng of Ice Lantern Street冰灯街的云澄Urban225k WordsOngoing The day I was born, my grandfather lined up eighteen red-lacquered coffins outside the delivery room. The village elders said it was the “Eighteen Rites of Ghost Marriage”: they would use my life force to nourish ghost brides and turn our family into a “wealthy clan of the underworld.” From the age of three, I had to feed the corpse in each coffin drops of blood from my fingertips. When I was ten, the “ghost brides” began slipping bloodstained hairpins under my pillow. On the night of my fifteen —Reads—Score—14d adds

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    This book meets the recommendation.

43. 43 我 My Thousand-Year-Old Ghost Wife 我的千年女鬼老婆 The Sky Above the Stars星空在上Mystery772k WordsCompleted My name is Zhang Shaobai. Behind our village stands an ancient pagoda that has been guarded for generations. Everyone in the village says it’s cursed. But outsiders refuse to believe it, and for money, I took them to the pagoda. From then on, strange things kept happening around me. It all began with that livestream one night... 227Reads5.4Score—14d adds
44. 44 冥 My Ghost Marriage Husband Is the King of Hell 冥婚老公是阎王 Clearwater Lotus Branch清水枝荷Mystery387k WordsCompleted Yin Qing, an ordinary college student, was worried about finding a job after graduation. But after an uncanny trip back to her hometown, she found herself bound in a ghost marriage to the King of the Underworld! From then on, strange events came one after another. To uncover the secret behind the curse that had plagued the Yin family for generations, Yin Qing resolutely joined the Special Abilities Divisio 804Reads8.8Score—14d adds

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    [Supernatural Suspense + Episodic Stories + Growing Female Lead + Stable Daily Updates] [Sending Hearts][Sending Hearts] Yin Qing, an ordinary female college student, was originally troubled by finding a job after graduation. But a bizarre experience returning home unexpectedly led her to the underworld...

45. 45 独 I Created Chinese-Style Horror and Ushered in the Age of the Supernatural 独创中式恐怖，我引领了诡异时代 Autumn Wind Enters Dreams秋风入梦Mystery779k WordsCompleted [Chinese-Style Horror] [Horror Designer] [Eerie Revival] A curtain of blood covered the globe, and the highly anticipated horror show Horror Designer went on air. The production team put out a call for horror works across the internet. Anyone whose submission was accepted could become a Level 1 Horror Designer and gain the power to fight the eerie entities of the Black Fog. And if you were lucky enough to make it through round after round and win the ultimate Fear Prize, you could become a god i 6.6kReads7.4Score54914d adds
46. 46 妖 A Monster? No, She's My Wife! 妖怪？不，是吾妻！ Bing Ling'an冰灵安Mystery135k WordsOngoing (No harem, a little comedy, and a decisive protagonist) I accidentally saved a little white snake and kept it as a pet at home. I never expected it to reveal itself as a snake immortal when danger struck! “You... you're my little white snake?” “Husband, our snake clan has a rule: if you touch my tail, you have to become my husband.” “What??? No way...” —Reads—Score—14d adds

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    This is a good start. The protagonist has a unique dantian (energy center) and his wife is a snake demon. He's being hunted by the world's most powerful organization from the very beginning. Currently, we await the author to complete the world-building.

47. 47 全 The All-Powerful, Invincible Medicine Saint 全能无敌医圣 Leng Yun Xie Shen冷云邪神Urban3.0M WordsCompleted [A finished classic you don't want to miss] Lu Fan, the village fool, had endured the contempt of his neighbors for years. Then, by a stroke of luck, he obtained the Dragon King Art and became an all-powerful miracle doctor. From then on, he made his fortune and enjoyed the good life. 1.6kReads9.3Score69714d adds

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    This is amazing! I've watched it countless times, it's so good, I highly recommend it!

48. 48 乡 The Village Miracle Doctor 乡村神医 A Green Lotus一朵青莲Rural Life6.1M WordsCompleted The city is full of schemes, so why not go back to the countryside? A village miracle doctor uses his amazing skills to cure the sick. College student Wang Dachun is framed, but the misfortune turns out to be a blessing: he inherits the legacy of a miracle doctor. He leaves the hustle and bustle of the city behind and leads the villagers to prosperity, building roads and schools, raising golden chickens, growing medicinal herbs, and putting up factories and villas... In his spare time, he fishes 16.1kReads9.4Score4.2k14d adds
49. 49 上 I Visited the Wrong Grave, and Now the Female Ghost Wants to Come Home with Me 上错坟，女鬼竟要跟着我回家 A Person Like a Bang轰一样的人Mystery377k WordsOngoing My new work is out! Come read it on Tomato Novel. I hope you’ll enjoy it. Your support is what keeps me writing, and I’ll do my best to tell every story well! 6Reads7.1Score—14d adds

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50. 50 与 Life with a Woman in Red Who's a Ghost 与红衣女鬼同居的日子 Ten Lifetimes, This Life十世今生Mystery793k WordsCompleted My name is Wang Chongyang, and I'm a struggling horror writer who gets by on attendance bonuses. One night, after falling behind on rent, I was kicked out by my landlord. I accidentally wandered into a haunted house and ran into a red-clad vengeful ghost. And that's how a whole series of events began. What the heck? I take Zhong Kui as my master, my wife is a red-clad vengeful ghost who dares to beat up even the Black and White Impermanence, and even the dog I picked up on a whim is the ancient 458Reads7.3Score—14d adds

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