Novels like My Lord of Demons
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- 51 My Top-Tier Star Brother Is a Ferocious Great Demon 顶流哥哥是大妖怪，超凶猛哒 [Sweet romance] [Entertainment industry] [Fur lover] [Devoted to each other] [Healing] A “white dog” suddenly appears at home, and fur lover Lin Lingxi can’t resist. One second she’s petting the “white dog,” and the next, a handsome man in ancient robes has her pinned down and is kissing her by force! He says, “Give me back my inner core.” Dumbfounded, Lin Lingxi finds herself saddled with an ancient silver-wolf demon. He moves into her place, and on top of that, he eats way too much. Lin Lingxi 16Reads8.0Score314d adds
- 52 My Husband Comes Knocking at Midnight 老公夜半来敲门 Out of curiosity, I picked up a banknote in a cemetery where people were paying respects to their ancestors. From then on, strange things began to happen... 52Reads6.4Score—14d adds
- 53 Marry the Phoenix, You! Go Cook Me a Couple of Dishes 嫁凤，你，去给我炒两个菜 [The heroine is clever, neither a saint nor an idiot. The hero isn’t aloof or short-tempered. Lots of jokes, a mutually faithful couple, happy endings for everyone, causes revealed after effects, no substitute trope, a little angst for the hero but none for the heroine, with a touch of past and present lives.] Warnings: The heroine is a strong woman with a feminist outlook, and there are lots of jokes. The romance between the leads has little to do with their past and present lives, but those li 210Reads8.7Score—14d adds
- 54 The Spirit Snake Coils Around the Dragon Coffin 灵蛇缠龙棺 My birth chart marked me for misfortune. Not only was I fated to bring disaster to my parents, I was doomed to die before turning eighteen. Then a mysterious person changed my fate. Ever since I can remember, I’ve had the same nightmare over and over: thousands upon thousands of snakes coiling around a golden coffin. From inside it, I can faintly hear the voice of a young man, luring me to climb inside. Every time I wake up, I’m relieved it was only a dream. But one day, in an ancient tomb, I 55Reads—Score—14d adds
- 55 Pushed into the Snake Pit, I Became the Dragon Lord’s Bride 被推进蛇窟，我却成了龙君的新娘 My name is Zhou Yao, and I’m a woman. Before I was even born, people said I was cursed and destined to bring misfortune, all because one of my ancestors once misspoke and caused a river dragon to die. 80Reads7.1Score—14d adds
- 56 Come One, Come All! The Dragon-Taming Bride Is Taking Students 快来人啊，驯龙小娘子开班啦 At first, Ye Liangyu thought: “I've heard Western dragons love to plunder beautiful women and treasures. Our own dragons surely aren't that vulgar, right? Hmm... yes!” “Who says I don't like those things?” Su Qing said with a knowing smile. Boom! Ye Liangyu's face turned red all the way to her ears. She stamped her foot in anger. “Boss Su! If you use your mind-reading powers on me again, I'm going on strike! Strike!” Later, standing in Su Qing's vast, smoke-like treasure vault, she had to admit 2Reads—Score—14d adds
- 57 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
- 58 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 111Reads9.0Score—14d adds
- 59 My Bewitching Husband Is Flirting with Me Again 妖孽夫君又在撩我 Su Yu has had an unlucky fate since childhood and thought she would be alone for the rest of her life. Instead, she marries Third Master Qin, the most powerful man in all of Haicheng, who dotes on her like no one else. “I hear Third Master’s new wife is bad luck incarnate! She’ll bring her husband to ruin!” Third Master Qin: “My fate is too strong. I’m only worried nobody will be able to jinx me.” “Look at that necklace Third Madam is wearing. How tacky!” Third Master Qin: “Go buy up every jewel 107Reads8.6Score—14d adds
- 60 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
- 61 The Dragon King's Wife 龙王妻 My name is Fu Ling. Everyone in the village calls me a ghost child because my mother is a corpse. On the fifteenth day of the seventh lunar month, when the gates of the underworld opened, I began dreaming of the Black and White Impermanence coming to fetch me in a bridal sedan. I also encountered all kinds of supernatural events: paper effigies that ate people, a cat-faced woman, and a fox demon. I even met a powerful male demon. He said I would only survive if I married him... 20Reads6.5Score—14d adds
- 62 The Dragon King’s Most Yin Bride 龙王大人的至阴新娘 I was born with an extremely yin nature, and the village shaman found me in a graveyard. I was frail and sickly from childhood. To keep me safe, my grandmother, the shaman, made a blood pact with a fox spirit, but the pact backfired and left her gravely injured because of me. Just as I was at a loss for what to do, a man who could transform into a Azure Dragon appeared. He claimed we had been bound by fate for a long time, and he protected me from disaster, calling me his “little bride,” yet he 69Reads—Score—14d adds
- 63 An Epic Love Between a Man and a Snake 旷世蛇恋 When I was eighteen, my grandmother sacrificed her life to beg a huge white snake to heal my eyes. To bring her back to life, I made a pact with that snake. As fragments of my memories gradually come together, I discover that my bond with the great white snake is no coincidence. Grudges from a past life and unfinished love: everything has been guiding me toward the whirlpool of fate all along. 126Reads—Score—14d adds
- 64 The Proud Snake Lord Is Hard to Handle 傲娇蛇君不好惹 My name is Ming Yue. Ever since a classmate confessed their feelings for me, a snake has been clinging to me. He arrogantly declared that I belonged to him... His arrival shattered my peaceful life, and from then on, my world was turned upside down... Both leads are devoted only to each other. A super-sweet story with no angst. 82Reads8.2Score—14d adds
- 65 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
- 66 A Dragon’s Life with You 龙生有你 The snake immortal insists on becoming my patron immortal and wants me to love him deeply, but in my dreams, fragments of a strange memory keep resurfacing. It seems closely tied to both his origins and mine, where love intertwines with mystery… 102Reads—Score—14d adds
- 67 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
- 68 The Dragon King's Fated Wife 命中注定龙王妻 I’ve suffered from a strange illness since childhood. Dark patches spread across my body, and I grew increasingly frail. We went to the hospital countless times, but no one could cure me. With no other options, my mother turned to superstition and took me to a so-called spirit medium. The medium told her my illness was caused by the “Dragon King’s Curse”! With a basin of chicken’s blood and a stick of incense, the medium sent me to the “Dragon King’s Palace in the Eastern Sea.” She said there mi 80Reads6.2Score—14d adds
- 69 The Snake Queen 蛇王女 When I was eighteen, I was offered as a sacrifice to a snake. Only much later did I learn that I held a shocking secret. Because of it, all manner of monsters and demons, practitioners of the mystic arts, and mysterious figures from every corner of the world wanted to get their hands on me… To protect myself, I had no choice but to cling to Lord Snake, who had protected and helped me all along. I thought he truly cared for me, but I never imagined he would be the one to push me into the abyss wi 88Reads—Score—14d adds
- 70 He Came with the Calamity 他和劫一起来了 I was born two days before the Ghost Festival, but that night, ghosts roamed everywhere. A passing eminent monk said that I would face a great calamity when I turned twenty-five, and told me to seek him out then. But I never expected my calamity to arrive four years early. 42Reads7.7Score—14d adds
- 71 The Ideal Husband 最佳夫婿 The husband she married four years ago shows up at her door and comes to pester her every night... 87Reads6.4Score—14d adds
- 72 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
- 73 The Serpent's Bewitching Dance 蛇骨婆娑 The year I turned twenty-four, a group of snakes gave me a marriage contract. It was signed by someone from the Guangxu era, named Yin Jiuyuan. When we met again, he handed me an employment agreement. “Snakes are unusually attracted to you, which makes you valuable to my research. Your salary is twenty thousand a month, and double if one bites you.” I was broke, so I signed. Only later did I learn that he was a snake king who had lived for three hundred years, and I was the person he fell in 30Reads—Score—14d adds
- 74 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
- 75 The Nether King’s Betrothal: The Ghost King Comes to Claim His Bride 冥王聘:鬼王迎亲 I once had a dream. In it, a group of strange little ghosts carried a coffin to fetch a bride. I wore a black-and-red wedding robe and a black veil, lying in the coffin as a bloodstained coffin nail was slowly driven into the space between my brows… I thought it was only a dream, until one day, because of an ancient legend, I was to sacrifice myself for the entire Yin-Yang Sect and marry the ruler of the underworld, the King of Hell. Just like in my dream, a group of little ghosts came car 17Reads—Score—14d adds
- 76 The Ghost King's Wife: I'm the Apple of His Eye 鬼王妻，我是他的心头宝 My younger brother got into trouble, and my grandmother wanted to sacrifice me alive to save him. That night, he forced himself on me, and from then on, I became his wife... Every ghost and demon wants to devour my spiritual essence. They say that eating my soul is worth ten thousand years of cultivation and eternal life. He is arrogant and cold, yet he is exceptionally kind to me alone. That night, I was caught up in a manhunt and unexpectedly met a master. From then on, I was drawn into one bi 5Reads—Score—14d adds
- 77 Carrying a Ghost Child: The Ghost King Is Such a Handful 身怀鬼胎：鬼王大人太难缠 [Sweet romance × little dumpling] [One-on-one] With tearful eyes, Gun Gun crouched on the ground, aggrieved, clutching Nian Nian’s thigh. “Mother! Don’t abandon me!” Xiao Yin gave a cold laugh. “Then do you know why you’re called Gun Gun?” “Why?” “Because I want you to get lost. This is my wife!” “????” Hearing how cruel his father was, Gun Gun rolled around on the floor, unable to stop himself. “Hmph! A gentleman’s revenge can wait ten years! I’m going to find Mother’s favorite treasure right n 117Reads5.4Score—14d adds
- 78 Easy There, My Lord of the Underworld 轻点宠，我的冥王大人 [Fateful cycles + Devoted couple + Proud, stubborn King of the Underworld + Funny yet earnest college student + The heroine was actually a fickle flirt in her past life, falling for everyone she met, not just the hero] Born a yin maiden, destined to become the King of the Underworld’s wife. He said my fate was yin, and I could only marry him. Otherwise, I wouldn’t live past twenty-eight. I said I didn’t believe in fate. He replied, “Then find out for yourself.” I did. I nearly died in his wo 21Reads—Score—14d adds
- 79 On the Day of Our Blind Date, My Snake Husband Transferred Me 500,000 相亲当天，蛇夫给我转了五十万 Lin Xiaoxiao is broke, with a seriously ill father and a sister trapped in an abyss of despair. As long as a job doesn't involve selling herself or breaking the law, Lin Xiaoxiao will do it. One day, she takes a gig standing in for someone on a blind date. She never expected such an easy job, so she accepts. But then her date transfers 500,000 yuan to her account without a word, saying she'll get another 500,000 if the job goes well... Wait... How did he know her account number? 4Reads—Score—14d adds
- 80 The Underworld King's Bridegroom 冥王夫君 [Light supernatural elements + both are pure + no self-righteous heroine + sweet romance] He Keqing was born inside a coffin on the Ghost Festival. Rumor has it she was sent into the world by the King of the Underworld. Everyone had eagerly awaited her birth, yet she nearly got strangled to death and became a mute, blind fool. “Little beggar, you're pretty good in a fight. Be my sidekick!” He Keqing didn't answer. “Little girl, stick with me from now on. I'll protect you.” He Keqing rolled her e 493Reads6.5Score5414d adds
- 81 Snake Pregnancy 蛇胎 One true pairing, both pure. “Jiang Xiaoli, have you really forgotten who I am? How dare you?” In countless dreams, someone repeats those words. Sometimes through tears of blood, sometimes with a beaming smile. Jiang Xiaoli doesn’t know who the man is, or even whether he’s human. All she knows is that it feels as if a huge hole has been dug out of her heart. She can’t remember her past with him. Just as she could never have imagined that the grand gift for her twentieth birthday would be a nonhu 118Reads6.5Score—14d adds
- 82 Wielding the Imperial Seal to Subdue Ghosts and Monsters 执帝印，镇鬼妖 PS: Past and present lives + crime solving + ghost hunting and demon slaying + devoted romance + coming-of-age I was born into the royal family, the youngest legitimate princess of the Liang emperor. A once-in-a-thousand-years South Sea pearl was discovered in the royal pearl beds just as I was born, so Father bestowed upon me the name Baozhu, meaning “precious pearl.” But I was unlike ordinary people. From birth, I could see things no one else could. The palace maids who served me said it was c 82Reads—Score—14d adds
- 83 My Beautiful Ghost Wife 我的绝美冥妻 I was born in a village and grew up depending on my grandfather, who was the village teacher and greatly respected. Most of the villagers were superstitious, and certain rules handed down from their ancestors could never be broken. Of the three forms of unfilial conduct, having no descendants is the worst. The village was poor back then, and many men couldn't find wives. Some started thinking about kidnapping a woman and bringing her back to be their wife… 101Reads—Score—14d adds
- 84 Serving Evil 奉邪 I was born an ugly freak, with a red birthmark on my face. My mother died right after giving birth to me. Later, to save my gravely ill younger brother, my stepmother married me off to a “Great Immortal” worshipped by one of her relatives. Four years later, the “Great Immortal” came looking for me and saved me from a living hell, but also forced me into an unspeakable relationship... 17Reads—Score—14d adds
- 85 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
- 86 The Ghost Wedding Comes First 冥婚至上 Ever since I quit my job and returned home, strange things have kept happening in our village. First, my late father stood outside my window in the middle of the night, staring at me. Then all the people who had died in the village began coming back, one family at a time, and standing at their doorways... Only later did I discover that those bodies were all ones I had carried back myself. 12Reads6.6Score—14d adds
- 87 My Husband, the Dragon 化龙为夫 [Mystery with a touch of the supernatural, mutual devotion, sweetness, personal growth, a false past life, mild angst and fantasy] When my father was young, his family was poor, so he made a living by collecting snake eggs. Then one day, he accidentally witnessed a snake transforming, a dangerous process. Back then, people said that seeing a snake transform brought bad luck. Unexpectedly, from that day on, a giant snake set its sights on our family. It threatened us: If we wanted the whole famil 23Reads—Score—14d adds
- 88 Short on Ghosts in My Life? The Ghost King Husband Clings to Me Night After Night 命里缺鬼？鬼王夫君夜夜缠着我 [Mystery + Mild Horror + Sweet Romance + Past and Present Lives, One True Pairing] Lin Shuyue, a forensic medicine intern, takes on the body of someone who died in an archaeological accident. That night, she begins having unspeakable dreams. In them, a man whose face she cannot make out forcefully possesses her. When she wakes, ambiguous kiss marks have appeared on her neck. What’s more, she begins dreaming frequently of a blood oath from a thousand years ago and an unfinished wedding… Then the 99Reads—Score—14d adds
- 89 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
- 90 I Picked Up a Hamster for a Husband 捡只仓鼠当老公 (Gentle big sister & adorable giant hamster) Who gets it?! Su Li just picked up a dusty, black Polibear beside a garbage can after work one day. She got him used to her and fed him freeze-dried tofu every day, but then one day the little guy vanished without a trace. The next time she saw him, he'd become an entertainer at her father's company. “Li, I missed you.” She was utterly stunned. So the hamster she'd picked up had turned into a man?! Su Li froze in place, with just one thought in her he —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 91 The Snake Bride's Rite on the Fifteenth of July 七月十五，蛇妻礼 I was frail and sickly as a child. A fortune-teller predicted I wouldn’t live past twenty. My childhood friend couldn’t bear to see me quit school and stay home, so she gave me her family’s heirloom jade snake necklace... She died on her way home. The jade snake she gave me came to life and coiled around me. Before I could uncover the truth behind my friend’s death, one strange event after another began to unfold. 5Reads—Score—14d adds
- 92 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
- 93 Doted on Too Much by My Nonhuman Husband 被非人老公过分宠爱 [Satisfying romance + sweet doting love + supernatural + scheming] Because of my unusual constitution and fate, my grandfather arranged a marriage for me before he died. He only appears at night, and loves kissing, cuddling, and lifting me up in his arms! And wherever he appears, all sorts of bizarre events follow! It wasn’t until the very end that I discovered he had been with me because... 114Reads8.5Score—14d adds
- 94 Ghost King Husband, Don't Be Like This 鬼王老公别这样 A livestream takes a turn when a ghost starts haunting me! To escape alive, I prayed to Buddhas and immortals until I obtained a secret art for exorcising ghosts. Tonight, I hold a seal-breaking dagger and wait for the monsters to come to their deaths. Sure enough, one appears, and I brandish the dagger. But... “Why isn't it working?!” “Heh, darling, you're so charming when you're scared and angry.” 42Reads8.4Score—14d adds
- 95 The Snake King's Beloved Wife: The Hilarious Little Queen 蛇王宠妻：爆笑小王后 Her name was Su Beibei, and it already sounded like she was destined for bad luck. Sure enough, her life was just as unlucky as her name! Good grief, all she did was enjoy the exhilaration of flying downhill at full speed from a snowy mountaintop. Did she really have to fly all the way into some ancient kingdom from an unknown era? “Ah! Help!” Su Beibei screamed as she fell. 203Reads7.1Score—14d adds
- 96 Lady Fox Immortal, You Haven’t Hidden Your Tail Properly 狐仙大人，你的尾巴没藏好 That year, I was twenty. Fine white hair inexplicably sprouted all over my body. The village’s spirit medium, Granny Hui, laughed and said, “When white fur appears, romance is near.” That night, under a moonless sky, I was forced into a red wedding dress and married off to a man I had never met. On our wedding night, he raised his voice and snarled, “Su Jinhe, you made me lose a tail, and you still have the nerve to cling to me and marry me? You’re asking to die!” Me: ???!!! (Completely bewilder 71Reads6.8Score—14d adds
- 97 A Lavish Ghost Marriage: My Husband Is Actually the Great Emperor of Fengdu 冥婚厚爱：我的老公竟是酆都大帝 [Mutual First Love + Sweet Romance + Supernatural] Qiao Nuan was born in a coffin, with pure yin in all four pillars of her birth chart. On the night of her twentieth birthday, a path was cleared by a hundred ghosts, and a bridal sedan chair stopped outside her door. Only then did she learn that the ghost-marriage husband her grandfather had chosen for her at birth, the man in white who had kept her company in her dreams for twenty years and taught her everything she knew, was none other than Fe 2.3kReads6.5Score23714d adds
- 98 The Coffin Bride 棺材娘子 I spent summer vacation helping Grandpa look after his paper effigy shop. But then an unexpected visitor showed up and asked me to paint eyes and eyebrows on a paper figure. I never imagined that painting its eyes could give it a soul. That very night, the person in the painting appeared in my dreams and demanded my life... 278Reads8.2Score—14d adds
- 99 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
- 100 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
