Novels like The River God's Bride
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- 101 This Ghost Husband Is Pretty Handsome 这个鬼夫有点帅 One day, while catching ghosts, I accidentally got involved with a male ghost. From then on, my days became a scorching, ghostly affair. Pinned against the wall, the ghost's hands wandered all over me. “Darling, I like this.” Pinned to the bed, the ghost gave me a seductive look. “Baby.” What the heck...? Hey, hey, hey, that's enough! Climbing mountains of corpses and wading through seas of blood is one thing, and letting you cop a feel every now and then is bad enough, but now you want to make. 58Reads8.5Score—14d adds
- 102 This Celestial Master Is Pretty Fierce 这个天师有点猛 Born with the Four Yang constitution, my Yin meridians can seize souls. With a ritual sword at my side, I roam between Yin and Yang, slaying demons, vanquishing evil spirits, battling ghosts, and destroying witchcraft and curses... My name is Shangguan Tianluo. Call me Master Dao! 38.2kReads8.6Score2.5k14d adds
- 103 The Demon Husband and His Princess Consort 妖夫墨王妻 I began dealing with ghosts and spirits when I was twenty-one. No one knows how my grandfather died. One person after another has tried to harm me. The grudges of the immortals, a rival’s jealousy, and the protection of the one I love: all sorts of baffling events have befallen an ordinary girl like me. Let the ghosts handle matters of the underworld, and the living handle matters of the mortal world. Just remember: Do good, and don’t worry about what lies ahead. 236Reads6.7Score—14d adds
- 104 The Underworld King’s Marriage Pact 冥王婚契 He took her home and raised her, doting on her all the while. As she grew up, he gradually fell for her. In her previous life, she saved his life with the blood from her heart. But on their wedding night, she died in his arms. Afterward, he used the blood from his own heart to sustain her body for thirty thousand years. Once he had made all the arrangements, he went to the mortal world and peacefully stayed by her side until the end of her life. This time, she truly forgot him. - The earlie 3.6kReads8.4Score27414d adds
- 105 Lord Ghost King, Please Spare Me 鬼王大人求放过 The road of reincarnation stretches on, and the human world rises and falls. Looking back, love and hate are hard to let go of, an obsession that will never rest. Su Yan, a rich second-generation heir pressured by his family to come home and take over the family business, lost access to his credit cards and had no choice but to slink back to China. Before he was trapped for good, he arranged a trip to an ancient town with his friends. He never expected one strange thing after another to happ 73Reads—Score—14d adds
- 106 A Fox-Born Daughter, the Snake King’s Wife 狐生女，蛇王妻 [First-Person Supernatural Fiction + Snake Husband + Marriage First, Love Later] Eighteen years ago, my father set a fire in the fields and accidentally burned a litter of fox cubs to death. On my parents’ wedding day, the cubs’ father came for revenge. It broke into the bridal chamber and violated my mother. Just six months later, I was born. I’m that fox’s daughter, and I’ve been fair-skinned and beautiful since childhood. When I turned eighteen, my body fully matured and began giving off a st 326Reads8.6Score—14d adds
- 107 The Snake King's Consort 蛇王妃 I am an ill-fated woman. The day I was born, a flood swept through hundreds of miles in every direction, wiping out all the livestock. The villagers bullied and insulted me, calling me the serpent king’s wife. When my parents died under mysterious circumstances, I had no choice but to leave my hometown and embark on a one-way path to slay demons and exorcise evil. The demonic shadows of the Eastern Sea, the legends of mirages, terrifying butterfly curses, and those hidden villages scattered acro 72Reads9.2Score—14d adds
- 108 After Kissing a Dead Man, She Couldn’t Get Rid of Him 和死人接吻后，她被缠上了 [Ghosts and Monsters + Urban Romance + Devoted Love] My dad sold me to a dead man. I was kidnapped on the street, and when I opened my eyes, I found myself inside a coffin! A cold corpse was lying in the coffin. The moment I touched him, he came back to life! He pinned me down and kissed me by force! I don’t care how handsome he is, he can’t just do whatever he wants! The living and the dead belong to different worlds. Handsome, stop haunting me! “Dead man, quit flirting with me like that.” “Com 758Reads8.5Score6814d adds
- 109 A Life-and-Death Pact Between the King of Hell and Me 我和冥王的生死契约 "Half mystery + half comedy + the worlds of yin and yang + a male lead who is a cunning, devoted deity of the underworld + a kind, steadfast, brave mortal heroine + every character is clever" One lottery ticket, one contract, and from that moment on, my three souls and seven spirits belonged to him. I took something that was never mine, so I have to do good deeds, travel between the worlds of yin and yang, give away all my money, risk my life to repay him, and even give myself to him… He laid on 524Reads8.9Score—14d adds
- 110 The Dragon King's Beloved Wife 龙王娇妻 On my eighteenth birthday, my great-grandfather called me back to the old family home and told me to stay the night. I woke in the middle of the night to find myself wearing a red wedding dress. The terrifying part was that there was a monster beside me. It looked like an immortal, but it was obviously not human... 216Reads8.9Score—14d adds
- 111 The Peerless Snake Husband’s Darling Is Tormenting Ghosts Again 绝世蛇夫掌心的小娇娇又在虐鬼了 “Be good. I'll come keep you company every night from now on.” When I was eighteen, the man from my dreams suddenly appeared in real life. I knew then that something was terribly wrong. Just before my mother was due to give birth to me, a devastating flood struck. She was submerged in the floodwaters, with no midwife or doctor to help her. The only one by her side was a pitch-black python. After I was born, I dreamed of a mesmerizing man every year on my birthday. On the night I turned eighteen, 18Reads6.3Score—14d adds
- 112 The Ghost King Pouts, and the High God's Soul Drifts Away 鬼王撒个娇，上神魂在飘 [Past and present lives + mutual redemption + sweet romance with a touch of angst + ghost-hunting and demon-slaying scenarios + the male lead’s long road to winning her back] (A heroine who’s part white rabbit, part enchantress vs. a devoted, single-minded, possessive male lead) As soon as the High God Qiu Chi descends to the mortal realm, the Ghost King Ye Yu latches on to her! “You never age or die, and I can neither live nor die. We were made for each other.” Just as Qiu Chi falls hopelessly 5Reads—Score—14d adds
- 113 My Ghost Marriage Husband Is the King of Hell 冥婚老公是阎王 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
- 114 The Underworld Lord Takes a Bride, Ten Thousand Ghosts Pay Homage 冥君娶亲，万鬼朝拜 My name is Mu Xiaolan. My birth was blamed for the deaths of my grandparents, and when I was six, both my parents passed away too. The villagers considered me cursed. I wanted to die at my parents’ graves, but at the last moment, an immortal saved me. He called himself Master Beicang, took me back to his sect to learn cultivation, and forbade me from descending the mountain before I turned eighteen. At last, I was allowed to leave the mountain at eighteen. My first assignment was to deal with th 158Reads7.0Score—14d adds
- 115 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—14d adds
- 116 A Snake Bride, a Ghostly Bridal Sedan 蛇娶妻，鬼抬棺 The year I was born, my mother died in childbirth, while my father and grandfather were killed when a swarm of snakes attacked them. When I turned eighteen, my protective talisman shattered. From that night on, I had a husband who came and went like a ghost. My grandmother looked grave as she told me this was the Su family’s retribution, and that I had to be loyal to Lord Jin or disaster would befall me! Ever since that night, Lord Jin has come to see me every evening. After a night of torment, 104Reads—Score—14d adds
- 117 The Underworld King's Little Wife Is Fierce 冥王的小娇妻超凶哒 From the day Chen Anan brought home a homeless boy, her once peaceful life was turned upside down. The boy's alarmingly rapid growth, the eerie knocks on her door at midnight, the inexplicable strange creatures in the hallway, and the soup topped with floating eyeballs that the old lady in the basement brought her... Everyone who bullied her mysteriously got what was coming to them, and more and more people began coveting her. But what gave her the biggest headache was figuring out how to kick o 16Reads8.7Score—14d adds
- 118 The Fox's Allure 狐媚 On the fifteenth day of the seventh lunar month, the gates of the underworld open, and ghosts should hurry off to be reincarnated. A fox delivered me at birth. My mother died giving birth to me, and my grandmother raised me until I was eighteen, then she passed away too. On my twentieth birthday, a fox came looking for me. He said he had given me my life, and I had to repay him. If he could give it, he could take it back. To stay alive, I struck a deal with him and became his spirit medium, but 23Reads8.0Score—14d adds
- 119 Dreams of a Fleeting Life, Half a Lifetime of Love 浮生梦语，半生缘 At the age of twenty-two, I came down with a persistent high fever and kept having the same dream. In it, I wore a wedding dress and waited for my betrothed. “You’re finally back.” The man who haunted my dreams night after night was tender beyond words. My condition worsened until my life hung by a thread. A fortune-teller said I had to find my lost soul or I would never recover. Across past and present lives, was I the one the Lord of the Underworld loved? At our wedding in the underworld, ten —Reads6.3Score—14d adds
- 120 The Fox Tomb’s Fragrant Secret 狐墓生香 [Sweet and angsty] [Mystery] [Supernatural] [Heroine grows stronger] I was born from a corpse. To save me, my grandfather went to our ancestral grave and took an empty spirit tablet. His dying wish was for me to marry the person represented by that empty tablet on my twentieth birthday. Otherwise, he said, he wouldn't rest in peace! But who could have known that someone would claim the tablet, and a handsome white fox would suddenly appear? To stay alive, I was forced onto the path of spirit-med 277Reads—Score—14d adds
- 121 The Yin-Born Girl and the Snake-Borne Coffin 阴生女，蛇抬棺 Ghosts pave the way, and countless snakes converge. Debts of vengeance and gratitude must all be settled. If you dare regret it, you’ll find no escape from life or death… Eighteen years ago, my grandpa rescued me from a tower where abandoned infants were left to die. But he only wanted to use me to catch snakes and refine their gallbladders, so he could practice an evil art and live forever. The debt we owed the snakes brought retribution. He roamed free, while scales covered my body and I suffe 3Reads—Score—14d adds
- 122 A Short Spin-Off of the Novel of the Same Name 同名小说延伸小短文 A short spin-off story for the novel of the same name —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 123 Ensnared by a Snake: My Husband Dotes on Me and Won’t Let Go 遇蛇：夫君他又宠又撩 [Romantic suspense + mild supernatural elements + both leads are chaste + sweet romance + mutual devotion + 1v1 + episodic short stories] Synopsis: On the fourteenth day of the seventh month, I was born under an ill omen. My grandmother bared her teeth and glared at me, calling me a curse who had killed one of her loved ones. In her rage, she tried to kill me by smashing me to the ground, but my maternal grandmother, a temple priestess, risked her life to save me. Eighteen years later, my grandm 83Reads8.9Score—14d adds
- 124 My Fox Immortal 我的狐仙大人 I was frail and sickly from childhood. When I was three, someone put a white jade bangle on my wrist. The fortune-teller at the village entrance said that the day it came off would be the day I died. On my twentieth birthday, my mother suddenly called me back to our hometown for some kind of coming-of-age ceremony. At midnight, paper money began drifting outside. A strange man gripped my wrist and said, “It’s time for you to repay your debt.” 572Reads8.8Score10414d adds
- 125 Snake Scales All Over the Bed 蛇鳞满床 (A heroine who grows over time + a villainous male lead + love and hate intertwined + not for naive readers + not a sweet romance + open ending + don't read if you don't like thinking things through + anyone who leaves a malicious rating without reading the blurb and setting will lose all their good luck!!!) The day I was born, my mother stepped on a black snake and killed it, and its snake spirit took revenge on her relentlessly. To save my life, my grandfather went to beg the Snake Immortal fo 204Reads8.3Score—14d adds
- 126 Raising Great Demons at the Museum 我在博物馆养大妖 Restore the most dilapidated paintings, and keep the wildest man. Pressed by financial difficulties, Le Ying took up her family's traditional craft and became a calligraphy and painting restorer at a museum. While restoring paintings, she also took in several spirits and raised a one-legged great demon. Somehow, she ended up on a path to success in both her career and love life. A cross-species romance between a spiritual-energy flatterer and a proud, obsessive divine bird. 32Reads8.7Score—14d adds
- 127 The Serpent’s Curse 蛇咒 The day I was born, my grandparents were skinned alive. Every branch around us was crawling with writhing, jubilant snakes. They said I would be next. To stay alive, I had no choice but to give myself to him. The secrets of the blood-stained garment and the snake curse became the things I most wanted to uncover. I thought I existed only to help him forge the blood garment, but when life and death hung in the balance, he held me tight. “Song Youyou, you will always be mine!” 134Reads8.6Score—14d adds
- 128 The Snake’s Delight 蛇欢 My life belongs to a snake. From the day I was born, Grandma sold me to a snake. I grew up sleeping in a dead person's coffin and shedding snake skin, living as a freak. For the snake's sake, Grandma taught me to be a shamanic healer and save others, though I could never save myself. It wasn't until I received my first patient on the day I came of age that I finally learned what Grandma and the snake had agreed upon... 155Reads9.3Score10114d adds
- 129 Your Husband, the King of the Underworld, Is Online 您的老公冥王已上线 A User Manual for the King of the Underworld: 1. Feed him. Even if you have to go hungry, never let him go hungry. 2. Flatter him, and stroke him the right way. 3. Soothe him. No matter who's at fault, it's always yours. 4. Let him pinch, knead, and hug you as much as he likes. Don't resist! 5. When he asks if you love him, don't hesitate, don't waver, and don't tell him quietly. Say, “I love you!” In short: After spending three years as a wandering soul, I met a fake reaper. He was imposing, do 167Reads9.1Score—14d adds
- 130 The Snake Immortal in Chains 锁蛇仙 When I was five, I accidentally awakened the Snake Immortal that my family had imprisoned for a thousand years. My family said I was cursed, that the Snake Immortal would take revenge on me and bring misfortune to the whole clan. But I had never even seen the Snake Immortal, and I had never brought any disaster upon my family. Before Grandma died, she gave me our family's heirloom bracelet. Strange things began happening soon after: my cousin suddenly went mad, Grandma's body vanished, and a hug 430Reads9.0Score10114d adds
- 131 My Husband Comes from the Underworld 我的夫君他来自地府 I've been unlucky since I was little. I'm said to bring misfortune to my husband and children, and my father even used me to pay off a debt of yin energy he owed. When I came of age, he showed up to make me honor the contract we made back then. After that, my mother was near death, my father disappeared, and one friend after another ran into trouble... 48Reads8.8Score—14d adds
- 132 The Fox King's Wife 狐王妻 ❤️ My name is Lu Qingyang. On the day of Jingzhe, my mother secretly gave birth to me in an abandoned Fox Immortal temple. The villagers bullied me and called me a fox demon that ate people's eyes. They dug out my left eye, then summoned a Taoist priest to call down lightning and kill me. When I grew up, a bizarre blood-red image of a fox worshipping the Big Dipper appeared on my waist. From then on, misfortune followed me everywhere. To find the mysterious man who stole my eye, I met the Fox Ki 67Reads6.6Score—14d adds
- 133 The Dragon King’s Wife, Life After Life 生生世世龙王妻 A terrible drought struck the village, so the village chief invited an old Taoist priest to perform a rainmaking ritual. The priest brought a marriage contract, and I was chosen to be offered as a sacrifice to the Divine Dragon Lord. On the night of the full moon, the villagers tied me up, stuffed me into a bridal sedan chair, and sent me to the Dragon King Temple behind the village. From then on, I became the wife of an ancient divine dragon. 61Reads8.2Score—14d adds
- 134 The King of the Underworld Takes a Bride, Carried in a Sedan by a Hundred Ghosts 冥王娶妻，百鬼抬轿 [Strong Female Lead + Devoted Husband + Supernatural] I was born on Ghost Festival, with an extremely yin fate. I was born able to see things that do not belong in this world. The villagers feared me and kept their distance, treating me as an outcast. Ever since I could remember, my family had worshipped a spirit tablet with no name on it. Grandma told me it was my husband. From childhood, I was told to be loyal to “him.” When I was little, I asked, “Who is ‘he’?” Grandma would always look confl 2.2kReads8.4Score21614d adds
- 135 I Mistook My Blind Date and Ended Up Marrying a Snake 相亲认错人，我闪婚了一条蛇 Eighteen years ago, the villagers tore down the archway carved with a giant snake for money and burned the coffin beneath it. Afterward, a snake calamity struck the village. My grandfather threw newborn me into the snake-burning pit, saving the whole village from disaster. The summer I turned eighteen, the village party secretary tricked me into coming back. Because another snake calamity had struck the village. The party secretary said that throwing me into the snake-burning pit once more would 155Reads7.0Score—14d adds
- 136 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
- 137 The King of Hell Takes a Wife 阎王娶妻 A startled cry in my dream shattered that enchanting spring reverie. My name is Luo Ning. A spring dream stirred memories hidden in my mind, memories that should never have been awakened... 178Reads—Score—14d adds
- 138 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... 489Reads6.8Score10014d adds
- 139 The Snake Bride 蛇娶妻 [Supernatural + Devoted Husband + Pure Romance + Sweet Love + Wild Imagination] She was betrothed to the Snake King at birth, branded as his snake bride. Before she turned twenty-four, the Snake King would force her to marry him. Her grandfather said the Shen family owed the Snake King a debt, and that only marrying him could save her life... 1.5kReads9.1Score14414d adds
- 140 Born of a Corpse, Bound to the Snake King 尸生女，蛇王契 [The male lead is an utterly controlling Snake Immortal Lord. The female lead grows over time, and is neither a doormat nor stupid. They fall head over heels for each other in a super-sweet romance!] This story has a few mildly scary scenes, but nothing too frightening. And it really is sweet, sweet, sweet, tooth-achingly sweet!! Manual divider When my mother gave birth to me, it took three days and three nights. The doctor took one look and froze in shock. My mother had already died. It was he 3.7kReads8.6Score71614d adds
- 141 Tales of the Snake Immortal 蛇仙鬼话 Kui Kui was born with the fate of a Snake Immortal. She had a heavenly eye from birth and could see both the living and the dead. Yet her immortal nature was borrowed from her father, and she was never meant to exist in this world. Her birth chart was too weak to hold on to that borrowed gift. On the Ghost Festival when she was eighteen, a horde of ghosts attacked. To save her life, her father hid her inside a cursed, ten-thousand-year-old snake coffin. From then on, she became the fated one of 902Reads9.0Score14714d adds
- 142 Foxbound 狐缘 [Fox King + paranormal + funny + sweet romance] After my boyfriend and I made things official, thick black fur suddenly sprouted all over my face. A fox appeared in my dreams and warned me that until I'd paid off my debt, I could forget about dating anyone and getting away from him! To repay what I owed, I became his spirit medium, opened a ritual altar, and helped him attain enlightenment. But he only got more demanding, and even wanted to marry me. “Third Master, I'm cursed and destined to bri 160Reads7.6Score—14d adds
- 143 The Stunning Snake Lord Is So Cute and Sweet, I Can't Let Go 绝色蛇君又萌又糯，让我爱不释手 [Yandere + Overprotective Love + Chasing His Wife to the Crematorium + Transmigration] [A soft, adorable little snake king vs. a proud, fierce heroine] Jiang Ling accidentally puts on a strange ring. From that day on, she dreams every night of a giant snake coiling around her, starting at her feet and winding all the way up. For someone as terrified of snakes as she is, it’s a horrifying nightmare. Later, she discovers that this isn’t a dream at all. It’s real. A golden snake is coiling around h 135Reads7.4Score—14d adds
- 144 Meeting You at the Yin Hour 阴时逢君 Beneath the hazy moon, ghostly shadows sway as a bright red bridal sedan chair rocks its way into the mountains. Just because a feng shui master said I was a cursed, ill-fated loner, I was forced to marry the Mountain God as a sacrificial offering. To escape the fate others had wrongly assigned me and break off my engagement to the Mountain God, I went to great lengths. “Who are you, really?” “Our marriage pact is already sealed. Naturally, I’m your husband.” Alone in the world, I nonetheles 111Reads—Score—14d adds
- 145 The Snake-Eyed Girl with a Dark Fate 蛇瞳阴命女 [Mysticism + marriage before love + groveling pursuit + sweet romance + lighthearted comedy] My name is Xu Yao. When I was six, my father beat a giant black python to death. From that day on, disaster struck, and my family was destroyed. I lost sight in one eye as a result. My grandmother prayed to the gods for me through the night, then sent me to Qingfeng Temple on Jinding Peak. She said the temple could protect me as I grew up, and gave me a silver bracelet, warning me never to take it off, n 361Reads—Score10014d adds
- 146 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—14d adds
- 147 Day Ghost, Night Husband 昼鬼夜夫 Falling in love with two souls sharing the same body: by day, he is cruel and domineering; at night, he is gentle and devoted. And could his secret really have everything to do with me? Through a series of mishaps, I became betrothed to a simple-minded man as a child. At first, I could barely hide my dislike. But little by little, I came to understand him, discovering tenderness and kindness in someone who didn’t seem particularly bright. When we reunited years later, the simple-minded boy had c 1.8kReads9.0Score15314d adds
- 148 The Wicked Husband’s Seduction 邪夫撩人 I was born on the night of the Hungry Ghost Festival. From that day on, strange things kept happening in my village, and the people around me died one after another. To stay alive, I fled into the Dragon King Temple. When I came out, I found myself haunted by an invisible man... (Traditional supernatural horror + mind-bending mystery + realism) 164Reads7.4Score—14d adds
- 149 The Snake Lord Is Above 蛇君在上 Yun Qianhan gave her boyfriend a pendant with a white snake design, but the snake crawled out of it and bit him to death. Then it abducted her and insisted she become its wife, claiming it wanted to have a whole nest of little snakes with her. What was she supposed to do? 207Reads7.2Score—14d adds
- 150 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
