Novels like The Allure of the Fox
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- 1 Dragon God, Send Your Proposal, and I’ll Take the Sedan Chair 龙神请聘，夫人上轿 [A touch of mystery, the supernatural, and possessiveness. Marriage before love. Plot first, romance second. Sweet and sugary.] Born at noon, fated to yin, a thunderclap shakes the world. My birth was said to herald disaster. The villagers feared me, and my parents hated me. So, when I was just a month old, my father threw me into the mountains to fend for myself. Thankfully, my grandmother saved me. She told me that, to keep me alive, she had promised me in marriage to the Dragon God… 13Reads—Score—14d adds
- 2 I’m the Dragon King’s Heartbreak 我是龙王的心上坎 Grandma passed down to me the deity our family had worshipped for generations. But disaster kept striking, and terrifying scales began covering my body. When I asked why, Grandma merely said, “It’s fate. There’s no escaping it.” 5Reads—Score—14d adds
- 3 The Ghost King's White-Haired Bride 鬼王的白发新娘 My name is Lin Yao. I was born cursed. The day I was born, I brought about my parents’ deaths. For nineteen years, the whole village treated me like a plague, an ill omen, a filthy breathing thing not even worth a second glance. Only my grandmother was willing to shield me. But when she died, my hair turned white overnight. I became a true orphan, and the disaster they said had to be driven out. Afraid the ancient locust tree at the village entrance, which had gained a spirit, would bring disast 2Reads—Score—14d adds
- 4 The Eerie Groom 诡异新郎官 My family kept a fox immortal spirit on its altar. Then one day, I received a gift from my grandfather, and finally succeeded in summoning a fox spirit to be my husband! A thousand years of karma, one servant and one master. As long as you're here, I will follow you forever. 57Reads—Score—14d adds
- 5 A Ghostly Marriage 冥媒正娶 I was born under an extremely yin fate, a star of calamity destined to live and die alone. When I was sixteen, I had a nightmare that changed my life. In the dream, a headless female corpse came for my life. Its crimson, pointed fingernail slashed across my neck, and I woke with a sharp sting at four in the morning. After that, a red mark resembling a birthmark mysteriously appeared on my neck. Then, on the night of my nineteenth birthday, a man whose face I couldn't make out took that mark from 55Reads—Score—14d adds
- 6 I'm Just a Walking Disaster, and You Want Me to Be a Spirit Medium? 我一个倒霉蛋，你让我当出马仙？ [First-person narration, fake transmigration, not a strong female lead, two equally matched leads, no golden finger. The heroine is intelligent and quick to adapt. The early plot moves too fast. She is not adored by everyone. The story leans toward fantasy and includes cultivation. The male lead has a double identity. The Three Realms are divided into the Heavenly Realm, the Demon Realm, and the Mortal World. The Immortal Realm belongs to the Heavenly Realm, while the Netherworld belongs to the —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 7 Lord Snake: So Adorable 蛇君大人：萌萌哒 My name is Luo Qiqi. When I was little, a black snake in the fields bit me, and my father killed it. Later, the black snake came looking for me, saying it wanted revenge. Grandpa told me I’d been born with the bloodline of a spirit snake, and that I had no choice but to marry the Black Snake Lord and become his wife. A few months later, Grandpa was murdered. His death made me realize that a huge conspiracy was hidden behind it all... 47Reads6.4Score—14d adds
- 8 A Vengeful Fox Haunts Me, and the Fox Lord Forces Me to Be His Wife 凶狐缠身，狐君逼我做他妻 I am a corpse-born girl. From the moment I was born, I brought death to my parents. Everyone in the village hated me for being born from a dead woman's womb. They called me a jinx, an ill-omened girl, and said anyone who came near me would have bad luck. Twenty years ago, when my mother was pregnant with me, our family was moving our ancestors' graves. A white-haired fox suddenly leaped out of one of the tombs, and my father struck it with a shovel. From then on, my parents met violent deaths, a 102Reads6.5Score—14d adds
- 9 Snake Sacrifice: I Was Born to Eat Yin 蛇祭，我天生吃阴饭 I was born with a celestial womb. Birds gathered to pay homage to the phoenix, and countless ghosts came to worship me. Everyone said I was destined to be an empress. But after a fortune-teller cast a reading for me, someone found him dead in the wilderness that very night, his body horribly mangled... From then on, Grandma made me wear a snake-shaped bracelet and told me, “When your tribulation begins, your destined one will arrive.” He came when I was nineteen, and so did my tribulation... 207Reads—Score—14d adds
- 10 I Took the Fox King’s Heartblood at Five, and Now He’s Come to Kill Me 五岁取了狐王心尖血，他来索命了 When Cen Zhaoye was five, her heart ailment left her on the brink of death. Her father sought help from a Daoist priest, who captured a scarlet fox cub, the son of the Fox King. He was born with Nirvana Flame, and legend said the blood from his heart could bring the dead back to life. She personally fed him a bowl of sweet water laced with a spirit-binding drug. For the next two years, she took bowl after bowl of blood from his heart, keeping herself alive by sheer force. Ten years later, he ret 5Reads—Score—14d adds
- 11 The Immortal Hall's Secret Records 仙堂秘录 The tales of the northeastern spirit mediums are widely known, but have you ever heard of someone serving as a medium for a “Dragon Immortal”? From childhood, I was a walking calamity, born under the sign of Yinghuo and beset by a fiery catastrophe. By a twist of fate, the immortals chose me as their medium. This immortal is not one of the “Five Great Immortal Clans.” She looks sweet and adorable, but she is actually a young dragon from the Heavenly Lake of Changbai Mountain! On the day we estab 111Reads—Score—14d adds
- 12 Bullying Me? You Really Think a Spirit Medium Is a Soft Touch? 霸凌我？真当出马仙是软柿子啊 I got into a university in the city after growing up in the countryside. Before I left, Grandpa gave me a wooden sword and told me to keep it with me at all times, even when I slept. With an outfit this strange, the aunties thought I was practicing tai chi, and my roommates thought I was a cosplayer. The campus belle made fun of me, and the campus bully picked on me... Until the freshman bonfire party. I stood beside the fire, reciting an ancient spell to summon spirit mediums, as the shadow of 6Reads—Score—14d adds
- 13 Fox Incense 狐香 That year, on a snowy day, a wolf carried off the village children from the mountain. My “Fox” mother saved me. Twenty years later, she came back... A tiger's roar sends a dragon from its lair; phoenixes soar and dance as they enter the Golden City! 19Reads—Score—14d adds
- 14 Raising a Ghost Husband: Grow Up Already! 养鬼为夫：夫君，快长大！ Grandpa’s coffin shop was quiet year-round. Then one day, an old woman showed up and asked me to hammer four iron nails into a coffin for her. After that, my shadow disappeared. Second Uncle from the village said someone had borrowed my life. To save me, Grandpa had no choice but to take a dangerous gamble. The wedding and funeral were held together, and in a daze, I got engaged to a little ghost who had just burst out of a female ghost’s belly right in front of me. From then on, I had to be bot 30Reads—Score—14d adds
- 15 The Fox Bride 狐嫁女 After I accidentally saved a fox, my life changed completely. I kept finding myself in all kinds of dangerous situations. This fox clearly wasn't here to repay a kindness. It must have come for revenge! 201Reads—Score—14d adds
- 16 Fated by the Yin Dragon, Married to the Fox King 阴龙命，狐王妻 I was born in a graveyard on the second day of the second month of the Year of the Dragon. The village spirit medium said I was born under the fate of a yin dragon, destined for misfortune and hardship. When I was eighteen, after a nightmare, a deep bite mark inexplicably appeared on my waist. It festered and oozed pus, and I had no choice but to offer sacrifices to the Fox Immortal. The spirit medium gave me a special warning: Don’t trust the Fox Immortal, don’t live with the Fox Immortal, and 34Reads—Score—14d adds
- 17 Spirit Mediums Beyond the Pass: Making a New World in the Internet Age 关内出马：互联网时代闯出新天地 The Hu and Huang spirits never cross Shanhai Pass, but I'm a spirit medium for the new era, and I'm going to venture out! So I crossed Shanhai Pass, stepped into the world of the internet, and entered a world unlike any other... A brave spirit medium fears no hardship! 1Reads—Score—14d adds
- 18 Celestial Dragon Maiden: Rekindling the Flames of a Past-Life Romance 神龙天女，重燃前世仙缘之火 A fantastical pregnancy finally comes to term, and two dragon princes are born! The twin dragon princes nestle on either side of Chu Xiaoyue, crying softly for their mother. Just then, Daoist Xuanling bursts through the door. The guards of this mortal manor hurry after him, and one shrimp soldier roars at the Daoist, “How dare you lay a hand on our mistress!” “Immortals and mortals cannot marry. Any child they bear is a monster. I have come to capture the demon and uphold Heaven’s will,” Daoist 1Reads—Score—14d adds
- 19 The Register of Demons: Past and Present 妖怪名单之前世今生 Love is a mystery: no one knows where it begins, yet it sinks deep; no one knows where it goes, or where it ends. The thousand-year-old fox spirit Su Jiu’er has remained devoted to Feng Xi through seven lifetimes. She hopes that this time, the two of them can finally find their happy ending. This is a fanfiction based on the manga Monster List, set in the same universe. 3Reads—Score—14d adds
- 20 My Tsundere Ghost Husband, No Thanks 傲娇鬼夫，我不约 Two years ago, my boyfriend inexplicably cheated on me. Two years later, an overbearing, arrogant male ghost latched onto me, claiming I was his wife. He showed up at my door every night, had his way with me, and shamelessly demanded that I bear him a child! As if that could happen! I tried every way I could to get rid of him, but one day he showed up with a marriage certificate and a pregnancy test, grinning shamelessly. “Honey, we’ve already got a baby. You can’t run away now!” 5Reads6.4Score—14d adds
- 21 I Snagged a Fox Immortal for a Husband 拐个狐仙当夫君 Wanru was born with a constitution that attracts ghosts. She stopped breathing the moment she was born. To save her, her grandmother, a spirit medium, struck a deal with a fox spirit. That night, a hundred foxes wailed in mourning, and everyone knew Wanru was the legendary Fox Maiden. She learned a few spirit-seeing skills from her grandmother as a child. After her grandmother passed away, her aunt-by-marriage tricked her into going to a brothel for five taels of silver. That night, her client h 35Reads—Score—14d adds
- 22 Strange Tales from Northeast China 东北民间诡异故事 A demolished Changxian Temple, the eerie Little South Mountain, a great fox who came to visit, the person behind the resurrection of paper effigies, a wronged female ghost come to call, a full-term fetus dead in the womb. Tell me, am I the one telling the stories, or am I a character in one? 1Reads—Score—14d adds
- 23 The Mighty Fox Husband Comes Calling 强悍狐夫追上门 I’m a girl in the bloom of youth, and I haven’t even had the chance to enjoy my wonderful life. Who would’ve thought I’d get tricked into becoming an evil fox’s spirit disciple? “Bai Xiaoru, you owe me this,” Hu Shannan said viciously. Waaah… How did I end up owing you anything? 1Reads—Score—14d adds
- 24 Reopening the Dojo for Her | I Offer Immortal Blood to Save the World 为她重开堂口|我以仙血祭苍生 I’ll Reopen the Lodge for Her | I Offer Immortal Blood to the Common Folk —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 25 I Became a Spirit Medium in the Village 我在村里出马仙 At midnight, the incense ash at the village entrance always forms the two characters for “weekend.” Inside the yellowed notebook Grandpa left behind is half a bloodstained birth chart. He thought the village’s “immortals” were showing their power, until the kitchen cleaver sharpened itself and clawed shadows covered the window paper. Those so-called “blessings” were actually sacrifices meant to claim his life. 3Reads—Score—14d adds
- 26 My Cat Is a Cultivator 我家有只修仙猫 The older generation always says cats don’t live past six and dogs don’t live past eight. They say that once cats and dogs reach that age, they start exhibiting strange, supernatural behaviors. And the cat in my house... "Do you have any fava beans? I need eighty-one of them." "You can talk?" "I need eighty-one fava beans." Later, a wandering old Taoist priest said that my old cat had an affinity for immortality, and needed fava beans to cultivate... —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 27 Married to the Wrong Person 所嫁非人 Just as I was in danger, a mysterious voice told me: If I paid a price, I could be saved. I agreed. One by one, the people who had bullied me paid the price... That night, a mysterious man suddenly appeared. He breathed a chilling breath against my ear and whispered, "Do you like the gift I gave you?" —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 28 White Mountain Mysteries: A Journey of Five Immortal Bonds 白山灵事：五大仙缘之旅 Synopsis of The Immortal Path Begins Amid the White Mountains and Black Waters In a mysterious region surrounded by the White Mountains and Black Waters lies the quiet village of Taiping. Young Zhang Yichen lost his parents early and lives with his grandmother. Kind and brave by nature, he is fascinated by legends of the Five Great Immortals of the Northeast. One day, a child in the village falls gravely ill, and the local doctor is helpless. Hearing that a fox immortal might be able to save the —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 29 Fox Mountain Ritual 狐山祭 I was a child brought home by a wildcat. Little did I know that my arrival would bring my family an inescapable run of bad luck. Later, by a strange twist of fate, I was taken in by a fox immortal as graceful as jade and brought to his immortal mountain. From then on, I became the temple maiden who guarded his shrine. “Lingcai, Lingcai. It means lively and brilliant, full of spirit; it also means all living things, flourishing in their splendor. In the broadest sense or the narrowest, it is all 270Reads8.7Score—14d adds
- 30 The Fox Demon's Allure 狐妖魅 Have you ever seen a baby born with a head of white hair? Tao Yuling, a white-haired girl abandoned by her parents, is always dreaming that someone is chasing her. Then one day, her grandmother suddenly dies, leaving behind a mysterious last message: “He’s here!” In the pouring rain, a fox demon approaches slowly. His thin lips part, his alluring eyes cold: “From now on, I can kill you whenever I feel like it!” Years later, Yuling is baffled. “I’ve made you angry so many times. Why haven’t you k 79Reads6.5Score414d adds
- 31 The Snake Lord Is Hard to Handle 蛇君难缠 When I was born, my father disturbed the spiritual object guarding a feng shui site and killed an entire nest of snakes. Our family was punished for it. I had to wear a pair of red jade earrings to stay alive, but one snake claimed they were his betrothal gift and demanded that I become his woman. I tried to escape, but he used force to keep me by his side, sweet-talking me and refusing to spare any rivals who coveted me. I thought his feelings for me were real, and gradually fell for him, until 257Reads8.1Score—14d adds
- 32 Fox Bone 狐骨 My name is Gu Yu. The day I was born, red rain fell from the sky, and every fox on the mountain behind our village howled through the night. Every household in the village kept its doors tightly shut. Liu the Blind, the village fortune-teller, told my grandmother that from the moment I was born, I had taken the fox immortal’s bewitching bones. Ten thousand foxes had bowed before me. I was born with an alluring nature, and he told my grandmother to strangle me. On my twentieth birthday, the fox p 350Reads6.5Score—14d adds
- 33 The Snake Husband Is Hard to Tame 蛇夫难驭 Ever since I can remember, my family has worshipped a snake immortal. My mother said that snake saved my life! The year I was born, a flood struck our village. The plague that followed took many lives. If the snake hadn't shed its own skin and wrapped me in it, I wouldn't have survived. When I came of age, he came to claim his reward. The only problem was that the reward he wanted was for me to become his wife... His love was fierce and overwhelming, laid bare in an all-out assault. In the e 244Reads—Score10214d adds
- 34 The Snake Wife 阴蛇妻 My name is Su Xue. I was slow to develop as a child, and I’m not very smart. My grandpa was a Yin-Yang Master. Out of a moment of kindness, he saved someone, but a snake spirit tricked him, leading to my grandma’s tragic death. In his fury, he burned every snake on the entire back mountain. To avoid revenge from the Snake Venerable of the serpent clan, he sent me straight to a psychiatric hospital, then vanished with my parents. They say that before the mentally ill, all evil spirits are nothing 217Reads—Score—14d adds
- 35 Pleasure with a Snake 与蛇欢 When I was eight, my father burned a nest of snakes, and the whole Su family suffered retribution. To save my life, I was forced to make a marriage pact with a Fox Immortal. Now that I'm eighteen, a snake has forcibly destroyed my engagement and demanded that I become his wife and spirit medium. Karmic debts must be repaid, and love and resentment are tangled together. Caught between two immortal beings, I have nowhere to turn. Infant spirits come for my life, and people are sacrificed to serve 120Reads9.0Score2214d adds
- 36 I Am a Young Master of the Tang Dynasty 我乃大唐公子 A remote ancient town seals away a thousand-year-old ghost. When I set foot in this land, the seal breaks, and a tragic love spanning a thousand years begins. “Hello, young master.” “Goodbye, young master.” 156Reads8.2Score10414d adds
- 37 Northeastern Spirit Medium: The Yellow Weasel Mourns the Dead 东北出马仙：黄仙哭丧 My dad beat a weasel to death. That night, outside our house, ghosts wailed and countless yellow weasels mourned... A three-foot red sash draped over the body, four beams and eight pillars forming a ladder to heaven. Three great roads meet in the center; nine sticks of incense honor the immortals and gods. The sky grows dark, chaos reigns in every direction. Whenever an age falls into turmoil, demons and evil spirits emerge, wearing human faces and worming their way into the halls of power. Some 156Reads6.4Score—14d adds
- 38 Secrets of Spirit Mediums: Incense-Bearing Rituals and Journeys Between Worlds 出马秘闻：顶香出马，走阴串阳 Cultivating immortality requires a destined connection to the Immortal Path, and every immortal has a master to recommend them. Masters roam far and wide, and miraculous powers appear when one falls from grace and passes the imperial examinations. Born in the 1990s, I once thought I had a bright future ahead of me. But one strange thing after another began happening, and all my ambitions came to nothing. Then someone pointed out that I was meant to become a spirit medium and serve the spirits. F 12Reads—Score—14d adds
- 39 The Snake King’s Sacrifice: Messenger of the Underworld 蛇王祭之阴间使者 Three years ago, Ouyang Rui willingly sacrificed his dragon pearl to save me and the child in my womb, his soul utterly destroyed. Three years later, strange phenomena appeared, and red light blotted out the sun. I became a messenger of the underworld. A female corpse, a bizarre death, and one strange event after another: the conspiracy had begun anew... 3Reads6.7Score—14d adds
- 40 Snakes Entwined 蛇缠 My name is Qiao Lin. I was born with one fewer bone than other people, and a bone reader declared I wouldn't live past seven. To save me, Grandma dug up a snake bone and gave it to me. Ever since, I've dreamed every night of a huge snake covered in blood. It clings to me and won't let go… To stay alive, I agreed to worship it and become its spirit medium. I thought that once I'd helped it cultivate enough merit, it would let me go. Little did I know it wanted even more. 179Reads6.4Score—14d adds
- 41 Snake Gu 蛇蛊 I was destined to face a calamity. I tried every way I could to escape, but they still found me. Ghosts cleared the way as eerie music rang out, and a bewitching man in red hunted me down from a thousand miles away. A dying message written in blood, a demon arriving at my door in the dead of night. On the verge of death, I had no choice but to accept the snake demon's terms: enter a ghost marriage and become his spirit medium. The demon snake was ferocious. He promised me eternal life, but life 68Reads—Score—14d adds
- 42 Little Brother Yama! Please, I'm Begging You! 阎王小哥哥！求求你了！ [An innocent, timid girl who hides her talents meets a scheming, lovesick King of Hell] [A push and pull between sweetness and heartbreak | The King of Hell’s obsessive mortal fixation] The day her uncle-in-law passed away, Song Ci’s world completely fell apart. The words lodged in her throat became a torment she could never escape. When she returned from the funeral and saw her aunt’s haggard face, her heart went hollow. It was then that she quietly entered into a pact with the Underworld. —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 43 The White Dragon Takes a Wife, the Blind Girl Walks by Night 白龙娶妻，盲女夜行 [A quirky, mystical young woman vs. a scheming, black-hearted White Dragon of the East Sea] Ghost hunting and fortune-telling | Supernatural | Suspense | Twists | Fresh premise | Happy ending People said my birth was an ill omen. I couldn't see during the day, but at night I could see things ordinary people couldn't. So when I was three, I left home to live in a temple. Fifteen years later, my family brought me back, and the first thing they told me was that they were going to marry me off. That 39Reads8.5Score—14d adds
- 44 Immortal Who Chases the Yin 逐阴仙 At seven, I encountered an evil spirit, and yin energy came knocking. My dead great-uncle beckoned me, but he appeared out of nowhere and gently stopped me from taking one fatal step. His name was Xie Changli, an unknown wandering spirit who stayed by my side as I grew up and protected me for years. At seventeen, I lost my protective talisman. We met again in a desperate situation, a red thread winding around my finger as the bell rang to drive away evil. He had always been cool and distant, u 28Reads8.0Score—14d adds
- 45 Walking the Yin Road, Led by a Snake Spirit 走阴路，蛇魂引 There’s a black snake locked in my basement. Whenever I got sick, the elders in my family would go whip it. Grandpa told me it was my stand-in for death. Later, Grandpa died a violent death, my family was ruined, and a man appeared before me. He grabbed me by the throat and forced me to repay my debt... 248Reads8.9Score—14d adds
- 46 The Dragon-Taming Bride 镇龙妻 [From home feng shui to esoteric arts, from attracting wealth and changing your fortune to reading faces and understanding people, improve your luck through the lens of metaphysics.] Fifty years ago, my grandfather forcibly pierced an underground dragon vein to find a feng shui treasure site, changing the fortunes and fate of our Zhou family. Fifty years later, a blood-soaked man showed up at our door, saying he wanted to marry into the Zhou family! The Nine Purple Li Fire cycle, the Witch’s Sun 301Reads8.4Score—14d adds
- 47 The Dragon King’s Embryo 龙王胎 In 1934, my grandmother witnessed a strange dragon-fall incident with her own eyes... Many years later, scales began to grow on my body. Worse still, I somehow became pregnant with a monster! I lead troops, run an incense hall, and carry out the rituals. I'm a female shaman, and my husband is the Dragon King! 344Reads7.1Score—14d adds
- 48 My Dragon King 我的龙王大人 Every night, I have that kind of dream. Not with a person. That thing presses tightly against me, its long, serpentine tail coiling around me and sliding over every inch of my body! Wherever its scales pass, it feels like an ice blade cutting into my flesh. It hurts, and I can't even scream. All I can do is endure the stabbing pain and shiver in the cold, until at last its icy tail tightens around me and suffocates me to death! Until that day… 81Reads7.0Score—14d adds
- 49 The Spirit-Boned Snake Immortal 灵骨蛇仙 [Domineering, ruthless Snake-Bone Immortal x unlucky, resilient, clever young bride] (Mystery + supernatural deduction + doting romance + sweet and angsty moments + little demon-hunting adventures + more or less a marriage-first, love-later story) I was born in an ancient village steeped in mysterious legends. In a cave there lay a huge coiled snake skeleton, worshipped like a god by the people after a century of offerings. When I was barely a teenager, my greedy father sold me to the Snake-Bone 54Reads6.4Score—14d adds
- 50 The Snake Lord's Passionate Entanglement 蛇君缠情 Decades ago, a terrible drought struck. Grandpa was lucky enough to be saved by a white snake and survived, but the snake fell into a coma and never woke. To repay its kindness, Grandpa made a small coffin to give it a place to rest. Then a drop of my blood accidentally fell on it, awakening the white snake that had been sleeping all this time... 79Reads6.6Score—14d adds
