Novels like The Beautiful Demon Wife
Books Chinese readers most often put in the same booklists as The Beautiful Demon Wife, best match first.
- 1 I Told You to Confess, So Why Did You Go After a Female Ghost? 让你表白，你找上女鬼？ [Horror + laugh-out-loud comedy + ghost stories + multiple heroines] Qin Feng awakens a System by accident while taking part in a paranormal TV show. [Host, you have thirty seconds to confess your feelings to a woman. Fail the mission and you will die immediately!] At that moment, the only one inside the legendary haunted house is a red-clad female ghost. With no other choice, he confesses to the ghost in front of the cameras. Qin Feng: “I like you. Will you go out with me?” The female ghost: “H 40Reads—Score—Shelves
- 2 The Campus Beauty Is a Snake Demon? Then I’ll Be Xu Xian! 校花是蛇妖？那我必当许仙！ (Sweet romance with a snake demon wife + ensemble cast + funny and fiery + plot-driven) Shen Mobai stupidly wanders into a haunted building, only to be trapped at the door by a female ghost. Just when he’s at his wit’s end, the campus belle Su Qinghan suddenly appears. “What do we do? There’s nowhere left to run...” “Come on, man!” “What do you mean, you’re a snake demon?!” As they investigate the female ghost’s death, they fight countless battles for their lives. Little by little, Shen Mobai —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 3 Marry a Ghost Wife and Defy Yin and Yang 娶鬼妻逆阴阳 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... 21Reads—Score—Shelves
- 4 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 (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 16Reads—Score—Shelves
- 5 Kissing the Ghost Bride Passionately from the Start Until She Questions Her Unlife 开局猛亲鬼新娘，吻到她怀疑鬼生 Ding! I awakened a Ghost Qi System in another world. After successfully forcing a hundred kisses on female ghosts, my Ghost Qi surged by 100 points, and my Nine Suns Divine Skill shot up to Level 99. I chose to pursue the Dao through martial arts, whose levels have no limit, and sweep aside every obstacle with invincible might. But ideals are lofty while reality is harsh. I’d barely transmigrated when a Shoulder-Groping Ghost latched onto me, leaving me on the brink of death! Luckily, my ghost b 2Reads—Score—Shelves
- 6 My Fated Little Fox Immortal 我的天命小狐仙 Born with all eight characters of my birth chart belonging to yin, every ninth year brings disaster. That is my fate. To save my life, my grandfather arranged a marriage for me when I was nine. But when I was nearly eighteen, he personally called it off. Because of that, I embarked on a path unlike that of any other feng shui master! I said, “Our marriage was fated. You’re written in my destiny, and we’ll be together for three lifetimes!” She said, “Cut it out. If you don’t wash the dishes today 315Reads7.2Score—Shelves
- 7 The Evil Dead Pursue: My Master Tried to Possess Me, but I Turned the Tables 猛鬼追魂：师父夺舍被我反噬 After a ghost blinded me, I accidentally knocked over a vase in a porcelain shop. The heartless old boss demanded an outrageous sum, so I had no choice but to agree to work as his shop assistant for three months to pay off the debt. I figured he'd make my life miserable, but the old geezer did a complete about-face. He said we were destined to meet, and not only wanted to take me as his apprentice, but also offered me his ravishing, graceful, one-in-a-million goddaughter as a wife. Could anythin 12Reads—Score—Shelves
- 8 The Haunted Clinic: I Use My Snake Wife to Subdue a Hundred Ghosts 恐怖医馆：我以蛇妻镇百鬼 I grew up in a gloomy, ruined temple, where I unexpectedly met a white snake. When I turned eighteen, the white snake became the love of my life. For its sake, I also became a rising star in the underworld of occult practitioners... 413Reads6.6Score—Shelves
- 9 I’m the Fox Immortal’s Son-in-Law 我给狐仙当女婿 On his birthday, he gets cheated on and loses his loved ones. Then a fiancée suddenly appears at home, and she claims to be a fox spirit... 32Reads7.1Score—Shelves
- 10 Raising a Fox Immortal at Home 家里养个狐狸仙 After my girlfriend dumped me, a fox immortal showed up at my house. She said she knew how to deal with the woman who betrayed me! 159Reads8.5Score—Shelves
- 11 Underworld: My Ghost Bride and I, Bound Forever by Yin Fate 冥域：我和鬼媳，阴缘永合 [Paranormal + Ghost Wife + Horror + Superpowers + Reincarnation] Li Xiaoshi is the reincarnation of a judge from the underworld. He was born nearly transparent, with his internal organs clearly visible. Later, he meets a female ghost named Gu Pannan, and the two become husband and wife in a union of yin and yang. His life is beset by misfortune. He eventually learns that his ghost wife came from the Nether Realm, but their pact between human and ghost has bound their minds together, making separ 54Reads—Score—Shelves
- 12 Bride of the Ghost Gate 替嫁鬼门 In the outside world, a ghost marriage means a living person is wed to a dead one. But the Su family deals in a forbidden trade at the gates of the underworld: we find lonely ghosts living brides. Each ghost marriage buys the Su family ten years of mortal life. Ever since our ancestor violated the laws of Heaven, this fate has been impossible for generation after generation to escape. Our ancestor was once the gatekeeper of the underworld. One thoughtless choice trapped him in the shackles of re 1Reads—Score—Shelves
- 13 The Jade Dust of Daoist Fate 道缘琼末 [Traditional supernatural horror + ghost wife + first-person POV + one heroine + ghost hunting] Ever since I was born, I’ve worn a strange necklace around my neck. Every year on my birthday, Grandpa makes me bow to it. When I asked him why, he always said it could protect me. Only later did I learn that a female ghost was hidden inside the necklace. Offer three sticks of incense to the gods and four to the ghosts. If someone calls to you at night, never turn around. Otherwise, your yang fire wil 149Reads—Score—Shelves
- 14 The Ghost Marriage Pact: My Thousand-Year-Old Ghost Bride 冥婚契约：我的千年鬼新娘 Crimson wedding characters, a destined match beneath the moon; separated by life and death, their hearts are bound as one. Zhou Zi'an, a folk customs writer, travels alone to the mist-shrouded town of Qingshi to investigate an unsolved ghost marriage case from ninety years ago. The red wedding characters on the Shen family's old mansion have not faded through years of wind and rain. The carved bridal bed is made up with a quilt as good as new, and a red figure wanders in the mirror every night. 8Reads—Score—Shelves
- 15 The Daoist Half-Immortal 道门小半仙 [Fox Wife, Single Female Lead] [Pure Supernatural Horror, No Cultivation, No Invincibility, Intelligent Male Lead] The night I was born, it snowed all night despite the sweltering midsummer heat. The descendant of the Willow Immortal, one of the Five Great Immortals of the Northeast, and the current Celestial Master of Mount Longhu both came to my home. A fate marked by an evil dragon, rejected by Heaven? Then I'll defy Heaven itself. My grandfather used eight coffins, eight yin souls, and eight 13Reads—Score—Shelves
- 16 Eerie: From the Start, I Contracted a Pure-Hearted Female Ghost 诡异：开局契约了一只清纯女鬼 For seventeen-year-old high school student Guo Yang, his biggest worries are the college entrance exam and the future. Then, on a blood-red morning, he and his car are dragged into the rift between the world of the living and the underworld: the Yin-Yang Rift of the Ghost Realm. The System activates, but instead of a chance to turn his life around, it gives him a nightmare from the start. Before his eyes, countless pale ghost hands reach out from the rift and drag a living person into the abyss, 10Reads—Score—Shelves
- 17 A Living Person's Ghost Marriage 活人冥婚 A ghost marriage is traditionally a union between two people who are already dead. But I was supposed to die at the age of three. By defying fate and holding a ghost wedding while still alive, I secured a future for myself… 425Reads—Score—Shelves
- 18 My Thousand-Year-Old Ghost Wife 我的千年女鬼老婆 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... 220Reads5.4Score—Shelves
- 19 Crimson Pact 深紅契约 [No harem + One heroine + All-new setting + Not reborn + Not mindless + Not a pushover] This story unfolds in an enormous world, with a tense plot and tightly paced action that never lets up. I hope every chapter gives you something to enjoy and explore. The story follows Zhou Mufan, a former detective who is unexpectedly dragged into a terrifying ordeal beyond reality: the Chinese-style horror dungeon “Xi.” To survive, he forms a “Blood Moon Pact” with An Yu, the dungeon’s core, a vengeful ghos 525Reads5.8Score101Shelves
- 20 The Fox Wife 狐妻 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... 367Reads6.7Score—Shelves
- 21 The Daoist Bones That Suppress Evil 道骨镇凶 Strange happenings plague a desolate village on rainy nights: an old house haunted by ghosts, children vanishing, resentment clinging to the living... An orthodox Taoist priest descends the mountain with a peachwood sword and a Bagua mirror, following every clue in search of the truth. But behind every mysterious case lurk conspiracies and obsessions that have endured for a thousand years. He uses Taoist magic to dispel evil and his wits to solve riddles, ferrying souls between the worlds of yin —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 22 My Beloved Ghost Wife 冥妻挚爱 Straight version: I never believed in ghosts or gods, until the day I met a beautiful woman... Literary version: Along the bluestone road and over the bluestone bridge, beneath an oil-paper umbrella, that blue-robed figure remains as before! At the Bridge of Reincarnation, I’ll wait through a lifetime of rebirth. I’d trade a hundred years of my life for one lifetime of your beauty! I bow three times before the Buddha, wishing for love across three lifetimes. The Buddha says: Why seek it in this 4.3kReads7.7Score359Shelves
- 23 Seeking a Blessing? I'll Get a Fox Immortal for a Wife! 讨封？讨个狐仙当老婆！ [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 68Reads—Score—Shelves
- 24 My Tsundere Fox Wife 傲娇狐妻 My uncle told me that if I raised a fox well, I'd have no trouble finding a good wife. But before I could even make my fortune, a long-tailed bride came knocking at my door... 216Reads8.3Score—Shelves
- 25 A Fox’s Dream, Traveling by Your Side 狐梦伴君行 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 16Reads—Score—Shelves
- 26 Life with a Woman in Red Who's a Ghost 与红衣女鬼同居的日子 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 436Reads7.3Score—Shelves
- 27 The Final Celestial Master in the Age of Declining Magic 末法时代，最后一位天师 The Maoshan Sect Leader, impeached and driven down the mountain; a wet-behind-the-ears young upstart; a frost-cold ghost bride; an evil cultivation sect that stops at nothing; a master of Gu poison from Miaojiang; and the Shen family, Asia's richest. The Daoist sects of the realm are in turmoil. Watch as Ye Chen takes up his sword and roams the world! 13.2kReads7.4Score1.1kShelves
- 28 My Fox-Wife Protects Me on the Yin-Yang Road 狐妻护我阴阳路 My father once saved a nine-tailed fox immortal who was undergoing tribulation. She would later become my wife. The night I was born, the heavens showed strange signs, and seven-colored auspicious clouds appeared over my home! From childhood, I was raised to be a “child bridegroom”! Because of my unusual fate, by the age of ten I had caused everyone around me in the prince's residence to die. That's because I'm the “Black Qilin,” a once-in-a-thousand-years omen! The embodiment of evil, I could f 335Reads6.0Score—Shelves
- 29 Wilderness: I Met a Ghost Sister While Trying to Survive 荒野：我在求生时遇到个女鬼姐姐 [Good news: I have a girlfriend! Bad news: She's a ghost…] After accidentally transmigrating to a parallel world, Lin Hansheng enters a wilderness survival competition, hoping to make a fortune and change his fate. Only after arriving at the venue does he realize this is nothing like a proper wilderness survival show. Who puts coffins all over the wilderness?! And there's a lifelike girl lying inside one! Hey, hey, holy crap! She's moving! She's moving! She's alive! “Big Sis, I'll kowtow to you 53Reads6.4Score—Shelves
- 30 My Wife Is a Dragon Maiden 我的老婆是龙女 When my mother was giving birth to me, she had a difficult labor. In a dream, she found herself in the Dragon Palace, where a fairy handed her a cup of tea. She drank it without thinking, then miraculously survived. Little did she know, that was the tea a bride serves her mother-in-law at the wedding. And somehow, I ended up with a Dragon Princess for a wife... 597Reads8.9Score112Shelves
- 31 Raising a Fox Brings Disaster 养狐为祸 He went hunting in the mountains and found a white fox, which he brought home. That night, he met a breathtakingly beautiful woman… She was gorgeous and gentle, and said she wanted to marry him and bear his children. He thought it was a stroke of luck, but then came corpse poison, grinning dolls, and women in red, one after another!! 119Reads6.6Score—Shelves
- 32 A Guide to the Supernatural in the New Era 新时代灵异指南 Qin An ended up becoming the very yin-yang master he hated most, on the night he was forced to marry a female ghost. Why did getting married mean signing a ghost marriage contract, too?! A fellow disciple who could summon spirits, a frosty female Taoist priest: even looking at either of them counted as cheating! Speechless, Qin An shielded the flame as he lit a cigarette for the mountain spirit beside him, then raised his glass in a respectful toast to the river ghost across from him, keeping it —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 33 Taking My Demon Wife to Guide Spirits Across 带着妖妻去渡灵 The new book, This Enchanting Spirit Takes Me Ghost-Hunting, is now available! In this vast world, there are countless things beyond belief. Over the course of a long life, everyone is bound to encounter something unclean, and even many years later, the memory can remain vivid… When I was ten, I got lost in the mountains with my chubby friend because we were fooling around. That was when my life began to change dramatically. From then on, armed with my thousand-year-old demon wife, an incomplete 11Reads—Score—Shelves
- 34 Living Witness to the Strange 活见异闻 Grandpa had seen a ghost for himself. In the dead of night, he went behind the villagers’ backs to dig up a dead woman’s grave, and even stripped off her... 41Reads6.5Score—Shelves
- 35 The Demon Wife at Home 家有妖妻 Grandma arranged a marriage for me. Only after the wedding did I learn that the bride I'd brought home was a fox spirit... Chapter preview: …I stole a glance into the pool. A beautiful older girl was standing by the washing platform, washing her hair. She was gorgeous, with snow-white skin, delicate willow-shaped brows, an oval face, and luscious red lips like ripe cherries. Most striking of all were her captivating, tender eyes, deep as a pool of spring water. She was alluring to the very cor 1.9kReads8.2Score130Shelves
- 36 The Corpse-Scent Beside My Pillow 枕边尸香 Ever since I was little, I had a wife-to-be I'd never met. When I was fifteen, my grandfather died, and I married into her family... 2.4kReads8.3Score184Shelves
- 37 Protected by My Ghost Wife, I Roam Freely Between the Worlds of Yin and Yang 鬼妻护体，我在阴阳两界横着走 [Multiple Heroines + Supernatural + Ghost Stories + First Person] To stay alive, I was forced into a ghost marriage and wed a female ghost in a coffin. Everyone laughs and says I won’t live long, but they don’t know that my ghost wife is the most terrifying being in both the world of the living and the underworld. The soul-takers come to claim souls? She beats them into submission. Vengeful ghosts harm people? She suppresses them with ease. From then on, protected by my ghost wife, I’m avoided 131Reads—Score—Shelves
- 38 A Ghostly Ghost Marriage, and My Wife Is Adorably Fierce! 诡异冥婚，我的老婆超奶凶！ My name is Ning Ye. I was born with a weak Eight Characters, so all the ghosts steer clear of me! Until a blind date arranged by my adoptive father before he died completely changed my life! People fear ghosts and avoid them like the plague. I'm the one who marries a ghost, living alongside her across the divide between yin and yang, nourishing her soul with my living aura and defying fate to stay by her side! I thought a massive conspiracy lay behind our ghost marriage, but as the identities of 66Reads—Score106Shelves
- 39 Transmigrate to Another World and Spoil My Fox-Spirit Wife 穿越异界，宠溺我的狐妖老婆 (One heroine + System) Yi Chen transmigrated to another world and once again met the woman he wanted to protect for the rest of his life. But fate had other plans. The Wu Tribe rose to power, on the verge of ruling both the human and demon races, while his beloved was gravely injured and fell into a coma. At that moment, Yi Chen slew the Nine Emperors in a fit of fury, all to protect the woman he held dear. 95Reads6.2Score—Shelves
- 40 Lord of the Origin Clan 源族之主 [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—Score—Shelves
- 41 Mo Chi Y 墨池Y The inspiration for this novel came from a real supernatural incident involving a residential compound security guard. As cities expand, they inevitably encroach on the homes of the dead. The Dingyuan Estate, where Yao Yan worked as a security guard, had been built on a mass grave abandoned for a thousand years. One late-spring night, deep in the darkness, all was silent beneath a fine drizzle. Suddenly, a girl’s spine-chilling cry for help came from outside the guard booth: “It hurts so much. C 10Reads—Score—Shelves
- 42 I Only Take on the Most Ominous Cases 我只收大凶之物 [Supernatural] + [Traditional Folk Customs] + [First-Person Narration] + [Chinese-Style Horror] + [Decisive and Ruthless] + [Not a Do-Gooder] + [One Female Lead] I was born in a rural village in the mountains of Southwest China. I'm a third-year university student, and I'm also a yin-yang master. Calling myself a yin-yang master is really just to make myself sound impressive. Back in my hometown, people in the countryside call someone like me a Daoist ritual master. Most people probably know a l 53Reads8.2Score—Shelves
- 43 The Fox Immortal Beauty 狐仙美人 When I was fourteen, I saved a white fox. To save my life, Grandpa actually made me enter into a contract with it? Fox Immortal: “I would gladly shed all my demonic aura and give up a thousand lifetimes of cultivation, all to spend a lifetime with you, from youth to old age!” Ding Ning: “I thought I’d become a Taoist priest who hunted ghosts and vanquished demons, but in the end I became a heretic condemned by everyone...” As I taught myself Taoist arts, secrets and legends began to emerge one a 1.1kReads8.6Score103Shelves
- 44 The Ghost Wife, Yu Niang 鬼妻玉娘 This novel takes inspiration from the case of Yang Ji, eldest son of the Ming dynasty's high-ranking official Yang Shiqi. Yang Ji tyrannized the local people for years before finally being exposed. The story follows Jiang Han, whose chance encounter with the female ghost Zhong Yuniang sets the two of them off from Jiangxi on a journey north to Beijing to petition the emperor directly. The story is set against real events, but I made up the causes and course of what happened. I think I did a pret 43Reads—Score—Shelves
- 45 Marrying a Fox Wife and Walking Between Yin and Yang 娶狐妻走阴阳 One female lead! The protagonist never dithers! He is the reincarnation of a big shot! When I had nothing to my name, I met you, who were fabulously wealthy. I said, “With nothing but poverty to my name, how could I enter your glamorous world? With empty sleeves, how could I hold you back?” She said, “Zip it. Come wash the dishes. I’ll take care of you!” “Sure!” 27Reads—Score—Shelves
- 46 Everyday Romance with Miss Fox Immortal 我和狐仙小姐的恋爱日常 The landlady is an elegant, intellectual older woman. She’s beautiful, and she’s also a schoolteacher. Chen Jing thought they were in for a pleasant experience sharing a home, but he never expected his landlady to be a fox immortal who refused to reveal how many years she’d cultivated. (Her age? She’d never tell you! Hmph!) “Now that you know my secret, you’re not getting out of my grasp. Be a good little helper for me!” *Kiss~* "Flirty wink" “A real man born between heaven and earth can’t spend 155Reads7.6Score—Shelves
- 47 Raising a Fox as My Wife II 养狐为妻Ⅱ I am a jinx, born under an ill omen. To keep me alive, my grandfather arranged an extraordinary betrothal for me when I was a child… 293Reads7.3Score—Shelves
- 48 Zombie Scammers: Celestial Master, You’re a Dad Now 僵尸碰瓷：天师你当爹了 During a nighttime patrol, Celestial Master Ye Tian comes across a female zombie who refuses to leave his home. She declares, without a hint of shame, “I’m pregnant. The baby is yours, so you have to take responsibility.” Ye Tian: “I didn’t do anything!?” 161Reads—Score—Shelves
- 49 You Were Supposed to Catch Demons, So Why Are You Dating a Fox Demon? 让你去捉妖，你和狐妖好上了？ When I was born, the King of Hell sent a child, and the Yin Marshal guarded me. Strange things happened one after another. To keep me alive, my grandfather arranged five betrothals for me. On my eighteenth birthday, a bewitchingly beautiful fox spirit came to my door... 289Reads9.0Score—Shelves
- 50 Demon Wife, Ghost Concubine 妖妻鬼妾 [Third-Person Narration | Traditional Supernatural | Taoist Arts | Spirit Mediums] My name is Zuo Li. I was different from the moment I was born, carrying the fate of a ghost. To make sure I could grow up safely, my grandfather had me live off two women at once. As it turned out, I could only stay alive by living off women... 259Reads6.9Score—Shelves
