Novels like Rite of Life and Death
Books Chinese readers most often put in the same booklists as Rite of Life and Death, best match first.
- 1 The Night King's Wife: My Husband Is Above Me 夜王妻：夫君在上 My older sister ran away to avoid her arranged marriage, so I was forced to take her place. But I never expected that the one standing opposite me at the wedding ceremony on my wedding night would be... —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 2 An Unconventional Shared Rental 另类合租 My girlfriend and I were struggling to make ends meet in Shenzhen, so we decided to save money by sharing an apartment with a married couple. A mere curtain hung between our two beds. The couple were very uninhibited. At night, they would get on with their married life without caring whether anyone was nearby, leaving my wife and me utterly miserable. Then one day, the woman we shared the apartment with secretly reached her hand through the curtain... —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 3 An Unexpected Encounter with a Rich Heiress on a Cruise Ship 游轮上奇遇豪门千金 A tremendous explosion sent rocks flying through the air. They plunged into the sea and struck the head of Cheetah, his codename, awakening memories from his childhood. He remembered that his name wasn't Wang Jianghe, but Lin Qingyun. And so, he set out on the road home, only to find that his home was gone... 1Reads6.4Score—Shelves
- 4 The Divination Gate 卦天门 Twenty years ago, Lin Yue was born into a family of feng shui masters, covered in white hair from head to toe. To prevent rumors from spreading, she was abandoned on a stormy night in the unfathomably deep Jiuli Ravine. A silent Heavenly Gate Bell brought her back into the world. Twenty years later, on her wedding day, someone kicked Lin Yue into Jiuli Ravine. As she hovered between life and death, a mysterious man pulled her out, setting the Heavenly Gate Bell ringing as well. The golden bell r 214Reads8.8Score—Shelves
- 5 After Being Raised by a Nine-Tailed Fox, I Fell for Him! 被九尾狐养大后，我对他心动了！ When Wen Jiu was five, her parents disappeared, and she was raised by a nine-tailed fox. She always thought Zhongsun He was aloof and distant, so at twenty, she secretly tucked away the first stirrings of affection in her heart. But as her memories awaken, her feelings become harder and harder to hide. She finds herself acting coy, brushing against him without thinking, and flying into a rage when she sees other women cling to him... Wen Jiu always thought she was the first to fall in love. W 36Reads6.5Score—Shelves
- 6 The Fragrance of Serpent’s Desire 蛇色生香 Everyone considered me an ill omen, but my grandmother said I was born noble: I must never kneel to anyone in this life. Others should kneel to me, and everyone I helped must enshrine my spirit tablet at home and address me as Her Ladyship. Yet I spread blessings far and wide, driving away evil and averting disasters for the people, only to end up infamous as the reincarnation of a snake woman who brought misery to all. In this life, I’ve slain ghosts, vanquished demons, raised monuments, an 278Reads8.7Score—Shelves
- 7 The Strongest Official Career 最强官路 His career had been smooth sailing, but an unexpected turn landed him in prison. Two years later, the dragon was released, and he returned to the world of officialdom. Watch as he plans every move and climbs ever higher. 2.2kReads9.0Score289Shelves
- 8 The Yin-Yang Embroiderer 阴阳绣娘 The Yin-Yang Embroiderer 1Reads—Score—Shelves
- 9 The Nine-Tailed Fox Consort: A Thousand Years of Beauty 九尾狐妃千千岁 Everyone in the Six Realms knew that the Divine Emperor kept a little white fox and spoiled her beyond all reason, from heaven to earth. A saying spread among the people: “Better to raise a little fox than have a son or daughter.” No one could deny that the little white fox alone had the Divine Emperor’s favor. What they didn’t know was that by day, the little fox was the powerful Ninth Imperial Uncle, while at night, she let him squeeze and cuddle her, and shower her with kisses. One day, she f 82Reads8.6Score—Shelves
- 10 The Fox Takes a Wife 狐娶妻 A sunshower in the mountains, a fox wedding in the woods. The living must keep away. They say that if someone catches sight of a fox wedding, the marriage is ruined, and the couple may never be able to marry. The witness will be relentlessly hunted down until their family is destroyed. But when Gu Hanshuang encounters one, things don't go as the rumors say. Hu Xueyin, the groom of the fox wedding, sticks by her day after day, backs her into a corner, and softly asks, “Between him and me, who's m 240Reads8.7Score—Shelves
- 11 Married to a Fox 嫁狐 The sins of my ancestors came back to haunt me. To save my life, Great-Auntie invited a fox spirit to protect me. But who knew this fox spirit wasn’t here to protect me at all, but to kill me... 417Reads8.9Score100Shelves
- 12 Republic-Era Mountain God: The Nine-Headed Serpent Lord 民国山神：九头蛇君 When I was born, a thousand snakes carried a coffin. Grandpa said the Snake God wanted a bride, and if we refused, both Mom and I would die. When I was five, a high fever left me able to see spirits. I often saw a snake with nine heads. He and I grew up together, and whenever I was in danger, he always came to my rescue. As an adult, I became a spirit medium. The mountain god’s temple was destroyed, my eldest brother was murdered, and my aunt, who had been dead for twenty-eight years, suddenly r 649Reads8.8Score102Shelves
- 13 Judge of the Yellow Springs 黄泉通判 Two male leads, equally matched, reunited after a long separation, supernatural A thousand years ago, a little monster neither human nor ghost came into being on the far northern ice fields. Near the end of one year, the carefree little monster spotted a striking flash of red on the ice. Dressed in a bright red robe, Wu Xuanmo smiled and asked, “Call me Master, and I'll give you a name.” The innocent little monster said, “Master~” Wu Xuanmo said, “Good. Then your name is Chu Baiyuan.” “Call me 624Reads8.9Score108Shelves
- 14 The Folk Corpse Collector 民间收尸人 Where do people go after they die? Of course, they’re buried in the back hills of the Yin family. On the surface, I’m a corpse collector, but in truth, I deal with ghosts. I bury your body, and you work for me... 340Reads6.0Score101Shelves
- 15 Dragon Scales Covering the Bed [Mystery] 龙鳞满床「悬疑」 [Female-oriented novel] My name is Ning Xi. I was an abandoned baby my mother found by a creek. The centenarian old shamaness who lives on Toukan Mountain read my bones and declared that I was the Dragon King's daughter. I thought it was just superstition. Dragons and Dragon Kings don't exist. I'm a firm materialist, after all. But on the day of my college entrance exams, I saw a red carp turn into a dragon right before my eyes… 1.8kReads9.1Score255Shelves
- 16 The First Female Taoist Priest 第一女道士 My name is Lai Xiaoman. One foot in the world of the living, the other in the underworld: I make my living dealing with yin and yang! I thought inheriting my grandfather’s legacy would make me a renowned female feng shui master, but when I was eight, someone took over my body and stole my soul. A powerful expert extended my life by fifteen years and calculated that my destiny had been violently altered when I was only one. My once-fortunate Vermilion Bird destiny had been reduced to an empty she 7.8kReads8.4Score693Shelves
- 17 A Sweet Marriage Gone Wrong: The CEO's Contract Wife 错嫁甜婚，总裁的契约妻 She was an internationally renowned sharpshooter who could hit a target with precision down to 0.01 millimeters. Born into a wealthy family, she had her identity stolen by a scheming impostor. He was a devoted CEO who could turn the clouds with one hand and summon rain with the other, but after mistaking her for the woman who had saved his life, he married her in a whirlwind wedding, then divorced her just as quickly. He never imagined that one day, her gun would be pointed at his heart. 2.8kReads9.3Score526Shelves
- 18 My Wife, the King of the Underworld: My Husband Is a Little Crazy 冥王妻：我家夫君有点疯 (Mystery + Supernatural + Sweet romance + Mysterious love story) I’m an actor in a folk performance at a scenic attraction. Every night, my partner and I take part in a parade called “The Underworld King Takes a Bride.” But on one fateful night, the person I married turned out to be the real Underworld King... He’s cold, domineering, and unpredictable. My once peaceful life has been thrown into turmoil ever since he came into it... 489Reads6.8Score100Shelves
- 19 Commander, Stop Spoiling Me 首长别宠我 An Ruoxi asked, “Are you everything to me in this life?” Mo Li answered, “Yes!” A man's eyes filled with tenderness. This was the most devoted and sincere answer a man could give a woman! 34Reads—Score—Shelves
- 20 Borrowing Yin Bones, Wife of the King of Hell 借阴骨，阎王妻 To keep me alive, my grandfather threw me into a mass grave and buried me with nine stunningly beautiful female corpses. But he never expected someone to cut open my chest and dig out my bones, leaving me on the brink of death… 8.3kReads8.9Score835Shelves
- 21 The Farmer Girl Is Reborn as the Prime Minister's Wife 农女重生之丞相夫人 In her previous life, she married into the Han family. Her in-laws looked down on her for coming from a family of hunters and excluded her at every turn, until she even lost her life. Reborn, Xiao Zhen was determined to cut all ties with her former in-laws. But just two days after arriving, she and her former husband, the chancellor, were trapped alone together in a mountain cave?! Feverish, she even reached her clutches toward the sixteen-year-old Han Ziran... Once she came to her senses, Xiao 4.4kReads8.2Score458Shelves
- 22 Twin Flames Meet in Another Universe 双生火焰，在另一个时空相遇 Do you believe there can be two people in the world who are almost exactly alike? Nearly one hundred percent alike. Before I met him, I never believed it. But after I did, everything began to change! 9Reads—Score—Shelves
- 23 Immortal Lord, Don’t Run: This Little Fox Demon Is Adorable 仙君别跑：这只狐妖有点萌 Reborn as a little white fox, I had barely opened my eyes when I discovered that a demon-catching squad had captured me and put me up for auction. Trapped in a cage and surrounded by countless curious, greedy stares, I felt fear and helplessness for the first time. Luckily, he was the one who bought me, giving me a place to live in this chaotic world. From then on, I could turn clouds into rain with a wave of my hand: slay divine beasts, destroy evil demons, battle false immortals, and cultivate 224Reads8.6Score125Shelves
- 24 The Allure of the Fox 狐香引 When I was eighteen, my grandma passed away. I inherited the spirit hall and became a female disciple who served the immortals. Thus began my strange journey in their company, and my fate changed forever... 908Reads8.9Score107Shelves
- 25 The Fox’s Child 狐胎 I was born in a poor, remote village in Northeast China, and grew up not knowing who my father was. On the day I was born, a red-haired fox brought me a gold ingot in its mouth. Only later did I learn that I was the fox’s child. Twenty-one years later, when I met the fox again, he threatened to drag me into his bridal chamber! To survive, I swallowed my humiliation and became his spirit medium. Just as I was beginning to accept him, I discovered that it had all been a scheme, and I was nothing m 1.1kReads9.2Score185Shelves
- 26 The Snake King’s Wife 蛇王夫 My father buried me as soon as I was born. A snake saved my life. When I turned eighteen, that snake found me and demanded I repay him by becoming his wife… 1.3kReads9.1Score159Shelves
- 27 Why Are You Messing with Him? His Backing Is Far Too Powerful 你惹他干嘛，他背后靠山太大了 An invincible divine being descends upon the city. All living things revere me like a god. Heroes and warlords alike bow before me, while prodigies tremble. I wear a black Ferragamo suit with a little red flower tucked at an angle. When people say my name, they call me Mr. Qin: a legendary figure, blazing with passion and glory! 46Reads5.7Score—Shelves
- 28 The Demon Lord Is Here 妖君在上 In the thirteenth year of the Republic, with the country in turmoil, Shen Lingyin was born in an isolated village surrounded by strange legends. When she came of age, the villagers chose her as a sacrifice, but she unexpectedly uncovered a secret buried for a thousand years... Born at midnight on the second day of the second lunar month in the Year of the Tiger, she was chosen by fate, yet doomed to bring disaster. To survive, she forms an alliance with a mysterious man and walks the razor's edg 901Reads9.0Score143Shelves
- 29 Rice Divination and a Ghostly Wedding 阴看米，鬼哭嫁 On the day I was born, paper figures came to pay their respects and left behind money to buy my life. To keep me alive, an old woman from Miaojiang made me lie in a paper coffin, pinned me down with bones, and buried me alive at birth. This drew a hundred ghosts to bow before me and severed the heads of nine dragons. The old woman said that a spirit wanted my life. She hid my shadow, and I must not look in a mirror before I turned sixteen. I followed her warning faithfully, but then the old woma 3.8kReads9.0Score472Shelves
- 30 Dragon Raja: The Twilight of the Wind 龙族幻想：风之薄暮 The world grows quieter and quieter. Lu Mingfei is all alone, yet perfectly at ease. The stars and moon all circle the sun. There is no trace of dragons left. The night and day that have lasted for a thousand years will end here. Lu Mingfei is ready to die, and ready to be reborn. On a cold, hard iron throne, a warm and beautiful world, like a land of dreams, surrounds his knees. Dragon bones rattle in the wind atop countless bronze pillars that reach the heavens. In a fleeting moment of reverie 3.4kReads9.3Score488Shelves
- 31 I Just Want to Be a Slacker, but They Keep Making Me Play Horror Games 我只想当咸鱼，偏偏要我玩惊悚 All I Want Is to Be a Couch Potato, but They Keep Making Me Play Horror Games 41Reads—Score—Shelves
- 32 The Spirit Medium's Strange Cases 通灵诡事 Parental love? I have none. From the moment I was born, they wanted to strangle me. Sibling affection? I have none. My own brother calls me a country bumpkin. Friendship with my peers? I have none. Everyone in the village says I'm a demon in human form who eats children. Love? What even is that? The first time I saw Qi Yue, I just thought he looked clean-cut and handsome. The next time I saw him, I found out his mother was the woman who had gone looking for Fourth Auntie years ago. Only now, she 1.9kReads9.2Score377Shelves
- 33 Reborn as a Baby, Spoiled by Seven Powerful Big Shots 穿成小宝宝，被七个大佬抢着宠 [Everyday childcare + growing up + laugh-out-loud comedy + everyone's favorite] A pediatrician wakes up as a baby and encounters seven terrible dads? No childcare knowledge, no experience raising a kid? No problem! Just spoil her! A little star gives her the flu? Ban them! The doctors can't cure her? Fire them! She doesn't want to give up night feeds? Give her a bottle! She wants to watch TV? Buy her one after another! She scratches her second dad's face? No problem, he loves it! She ruins her f 573Reads8.9Score101Shelves
- 34 Dual Transmigration: Making a Living in Another World, Enjoying Life in the City 双穿：异界打拼，都市享受 [Dual Transmigration] + [Transmigration] + [Invincible] + [Multiple Heroines] + [Space] + [Nonstop Thrills] Also known as: Urban Life, The Apocalypse, Another World: I'm Having the Time of My Life Traveling back and forth: from a sci-fi apocalypse to the modern world, and from the modern world to an ancient fantasy realm. The apocalypse, the modern world, and the ancient fantasy realm: Li Kun is having the time of his life! Beautiful slave girls, lolis, older women, princesses, empresses, and ev 568Reads7.8Score119Shelves
- 35 My Years in the Funeral Business 我干殡葬的那些年 People light candles, ghosts blow out the lamps. The dead return at midnight, corpses rise in funeral halls, and ancient relics lie buried for thousands of years. In my years working in the funeral business, I’ve encountered plenty of strange and uncanny things. The living walk the roads of the living world, and the dead walk the roads of the underworld. But sometimes, not everyone on the underworld’s roads is a ghost, and not everyone on the living world’s roads is human… 50.4kReads9.2Score5kShelves
- 36 A Tough Fox Spirit and a Max-Level Master 硬核狐狸精与满级大佬 Ancient times to the modern day + urban supernatural powers + independent male and female leads + two powerful leads The story of a top celestial big shot who was tricked to death by a fox spirit while descending to the mortal realm, then returned to settle the score, bringing his fury with him. Overall, this book has a sweet tone. He was once a lonely minister in the imperial palace, and a crown prince amid the flames of war. At seventeen, he led troops to crush the regional warlords. At ninet 19Reads8.4Score—Shelves
- 37 What the Hell, I’m the Ghost King’s Bride 见鬼，我居然是鬼王的新娘 [A tsundere Ghost King and his two timid little brides, a sugary-sweet romance] The son of Youdu Mountain, a Ghost King born of heaven and earth, was chosen by the Book of Matrimony to serve as the God of Joy and matchmaker. Nearly a century into the job, he still wore black from head to toe, liked to wander at night, and was steeped in deathly aura. With the Ghost King serving as the God of Joy, birth rates were low, marriage rates were low, and divorce rates were high. The Book of Matrimony sa 813Reads9.3Score112Shelves
- 38 The Entire Cultivation World Wants to Dual Cultivate with Me 全修仙界都想与我双修 The moment I opened my eyes, a cannon-fodder character had kidnapped me and was trying to force me into dual cultivation. They even dared to set their sights on their sect master. How suicidal! Just watch me… ?!!!! I transmigrated into a cultivation-world nobody with the same name? A human cultivation vessel? Coveted to my face by scoundrels and watched in secret by fellow sect disciples, with no spiritual root or cultivation, all looks and no substance, living in fear every day? After an unexpe 1.4kReads9.1Score122Shelves
- 39 The Ninety-Ninth Bride 第九十九位新娘 "Ninety-eight brides. Every last one of them rotted here. You won't escape." All 98 brides were screwed, and I'm unlucky number 99! I wandered into a cursed place while scouting locations and landed myself a crazy, white-haired husband. The first time we met, he grabbed me by the throat and threatened to burn my whole family if I didn't obey! Later, he stole offerings from other people, snatched my milk tea pearls, knocked on my window in the middle of the night to keep me company, and held me w 310Reads—Score—Shelves
- 40 My Ghostly Husband, Don’t Be So Bad 鬼神老公，别太坏 [Devoted Couple + Supernatural Mysteries + Ghost-Hunting + Lots of Fun Tropes + Strong-Willed Heroine + Utterly Devoted Husband] My name is An Ning. I was born on Ghost Festival and carry a demon eye, so everyone thinks I'm cursed. Since childhood, a mysterious man I couldn't see has saved my life again and again. He told me, "If you want me to protect you forever, we have to make a marriage pact when you turn twenty." Then, on my twentieth birthday, my demon eye went out of control. I had a dan 9kReads9.1Score917Shelves
- 41 Carrying the Living and the Dead 载人也载鬼 After losing his job, the protagonist plans to buy a car and drive for a rideshare service. Instead, he ends up buying a Soul-Ring Car and helps a female ghost solve the mystery of her death. He then becomes a rideshare driver who transports ghosts. 11.3kReads8.4Score767Shelves
- 42 I Was a Detective in the Republic of China 我在民国当侦探 [Republican-era investigations + Anthology stories + Male leads + Strong leads + Folk customs] Gao Ren has been having an awful run of luck lately. He accidentally offended a rich young master and nearly got thrown in jail! Luckily, while making his escape, he ran into a gullible little Taoist priest. The little priest wasn’t just good-looking, he was also willing to be Gao Ren’s money tree! He could perform rituals and solve baffling cold cases, too! Gao Ren stuck close to the little priest, se 242Reads8.9Score—Shelves
- 43 Give Me Back My Soul 把老子的魂魄还给我 My name is Lin Zhou, and I'm a security guard. After I lost my job, my childhood friend Erwa found me a high-paying security job at a hotel. I soon discovered that everything about the place was strange. There wasn't a soul around during the day, but at night it was bustling, sending chills down my spine. I tried desperately to escape the hotel, but no matter how far I ran, I couldn't get away... 114Reads6.5Score—Shelves
- 44 My Child! Come to the Palace With Me: You’ll Be Crown Prince, and I’ll Be Empress 崽啊！跟娘进宫，你为太子我为后 Synopsis: [Palace intrigue + household drama + feisty adorable kid + gleeful mayhem + absurd comedy with no logic + punishing scumbags and face-slapping + devoted couple] Qin Wan transmigrates into the body of a bride in a marquis's household, where nobody likes her. Her husband doesn't love her? Her mother-in-law mistreats her? Her cousin tries to provoke her? No problem. As long as they don't stop her from lazing around, she's fine! But just as she tries to live a quiet life, certain people in 9.5kReads9.0Score1.2kShelves
- 45 Spirit-Seeking Case Files 3: The Grudge of the Wronged 访灵笔录3：冤亲赋 [Mystery] [Supernatural] [Strong Duo] [Lighthearted] [Episodic Stories] [Ghostly Tales] [Ensemble Ghost-Hunting] "Love gives rise to sorrow; love gives rise to fear." "An evil spirit lives inside my body. I don't know when it will devour me." A naked woman's corpse is discovered in an underground parking garage, her chest stuffed with weeds and her organs missing. A string of murders throws the entire city into panic! Quan Ning accidentally gets caught up in this bizarre case. As clues gradually 38Reads7.9Score—Shelves
- 46 Spirit-Seeking Case Files 1: The Road to the Yellow Springs 访灵笔录1：黄泉路 [Mystery] [Supernatural] [A Powerful Duo] [Lighthearted] [Episodic Stories] [Ghostly Tales] [Ensemble Cast Hunting Ghosts] "The road to the Yellow Springs stretches for thousands of miles. The living and the dead are separated, with only fate to reunite them in another life." Quan Ning got into a car accident on a mountain road. As he lay on the brink of death, a man claiming to be a ghost judge from the underworld offered him a chance to live. "I'll lend you ten years. Interest is three percent 83Reads8.6Score—Shelves
- 47 Record of the Spirit Seekers 2: Farewell to the Mortal World 访灵笔录2：入世辞 [Mystery + supernatural + powerful partners + lively humor + episodic stories + ghostly tales + an ensemble cast hunting ghosts] “Nothing brings greater joy than meeting a new friend; nothing brings greater sorrow than parting from a loved one.” A chance encounter with a beauty on Ghost Wasteland Mountain turns out to be a deadly ghost's attempt to claim a soul! Karmic ties from a past life and entanglements in this one: whose mistake is it, and whose fate? Quan Ning and Yin Cangyi are accidenta 40Reads7.9Score—Shelves
- 48 The Loop 循环 From losing everything to striking it rich overnight, Wang Hao wins at the gambling table for five days straight. But there are no free lunches, and in the end, his greed will make him pay a terrible price! In a single night, Wang Hao vanishes without a trace. Awei, Wang Hao's friend, reports him missing to the police, then secretly investigates his whereabouts. Unexpectedly, one eerie incident after another follows! Someone who died more than twenty years ago reappears! As he digs deeper, he di 246Reads8.3Score—Shelves
- 49 I Hear Snakes Speak and Walk Between Yin and Yang 听蛇语，行阴阳 Supernatural + feng shui + ghost-hunting + Bureau 749 + magic arts + demon-hunting + raising Gu + no System. My father's fate was that of a White Tiger Devouring Its Child. Of my mother's twelve pregnancies, eleven ended in miscarriage when the babies were five or six months along. Only one child was born alive, but that child didn't live to see the age of three. To ensure the Bai family had an heir, my grandfather had no choice but to seek out the White Python Embracing an Egg, a site of three 14.6kReads9.0Score1.9kShelves
- 50 The Fox’s Allure 狐色魅人 [A new book from Zaizai: Nine Yin Girl is now live. We hope you'll show it lots of support. Thank you!] To save my parents' lives, I made a deal with a fox immortal. From then on, I opened a shrine and did good deeds. I devoted myself to worshipping the fox immortal and helping him achieve immortality as soon as possible, never expecting that he had other plans for me... 8kReads9.3Score753Shelves
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