Novels like My Husband Lives in the Underworld
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- 1 My Ghost-Marriage Husband Is the Ghost King 我的冥婚夫君是鬼王 My Ghostly Wedding Husband Is the Ghost King 14Reads—Score214d adds
- 2 The Seductive Ghost King Has His Sights on Me 邪魅鬼王惹上身 A chilling wind blows, and black clouds cover the moon. A procession of ghosts roams the night, with skeletons carrying a bridal sedan chair. Ning Wangshu only meant to earn some money by standing in as a substitute for a quick job. But at the mountain god’s temple, she ran into the ghost king Yan Youze. Mistaking him for an NPC, she even played a trick on him. They bowed before Heaven and Earth and entered the bridal chamber. Caught while trying to run away, she had no choice but to help him br 48Reads6.9Score—14d adds
- 3 The Serpent Mark Around Me 蛇印缠身 The Su family has an unwritten rule: for generations, they have worshipped the Snake Immortal. I was born with a snake-shaped birthmark, which everyone says was placed there by the Snake Immortal himself. He chose me to serve him. But I refused to believe in fate and fled the village. Still, he found me and came to collect his debt. “Su Li, didn’t your great-aunt tell you?” “Tell me what?” “When you turn eighteen, you’ll be my sacrifice!” I had no way to refuse, so I submitted to him. But this w 251Reads6.9Score—14d adds
- 4 Lord of the Underworld, Your Queen Is Absolutely Badass! 冥君大人，您的冥后飒爆了！ Black Impermanence: My Lord, Miss Li went out to fight someone. She wants me and Little White to go back her up! Mo Tingchen: What can you two do to help? Get the Ten Yama Kings, and Ox-Head and Horse-Face too! White Impermanence: My Lord, Miss Li says she’s going to exorcise some demons. She might not come home tonight. Mo Tingchen: Not come home tonight? Exorcising demons? My wife has to handle all this herself? What exactly am I feeding you all for, hmm? The ghosts: Lord of the Underworld, yo 1.4kReads6.6Score21514d adds
- 5 A Snake Immortal for a Husband, Subduing a Hundred Ghosts 蛇仙为夫，镇百鬼 Our village had an unwritten rule: girls born in the Year of the Snake with a purely yin fate were chosen as brides by the Snake Immortal. On the seventh day of the seventh lunar month in the Year of the Snake, they had to be married off at the Snake Immortal Temple on the back mountain. Otherwise, disaster would befall the entire village. My elder sister was born with the rare Yin Snake fate, unseen in a century. Ever since she was born, Grandma had warned her never to have contact with men. Sh 1.2kReads7.5Score17814d adds
- 6 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
- 7 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
- 8 The River God's Bride 河神新娘 A sacrificial rite brings the young girl Chu Xiyan together with the River God, setting in motion a deeply moving love story. They save one another and help each other become whole, enduring the tangled joys and sorrows of love and hate... 171Reads8.8Score—14d adds
- 9 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
- 10 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
- 11 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
- 12 Hail the Corpse Ancestor: My Wife Has Married into the Underworld 尸祖在上：娇妻亿嫁冥界 [Yandere corpse ancestor × teasing little troublemaker] They say Boyou, the corpse ancestor of the Netherworld, is cruel and heartless, but no one knows about the pathological possessiveness hidden beneath his outward appearance. He spies on her, schemes against her, and even hurts himself to play the victim, all to make her fall for him. She keeps causing trouble to make him hate her, only to bring disaster down on herself. On an utterly ordinary night in the Netherworld, a certain corpse ances 290Reads8.6Score—14d adds
- 13 The Snake-Skin Wedding Dress 蛇皮嫁衣 When I was three, burns covered my body and my life hung by a thread. My grandmother saved me by peeling off a snake’s skin. From then on, I had an invisible ghost husband by my side... He said he had given me my life, and that since I had worn his snakeskin wedding dress, I belonged to him. If I dared so much as interact with another man, he would punish me harshly and kill my entire family. I carefully made it to the age of twenty, but still broke the taboo! An old Taoist priest came to the vi 606Reads8.9Score10214d adds
- 14 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
- 15 Don't Mess With Her, the Ghost King Calls Her His Darling Wife 别惹她，鬼王叫她老婆大人 [One-on-one romance + mutual doting + genius yin-yang master + ghost hunting + tomb raiding + sweet bedtime read] (This is a fictional setting. The spell terminology is made up, so please don’t scrutinize it or try to match it to real-life practices. Many thanks!) Shu Qing Tong was tricked into returning home by a phone call and forced to marry a dead boy. Only later did she learn that a certain ghost had claimed her as its bride when she was little. From then on, she discovered the other side o 10.2kReads8.9Score1.7k14d adds
- 16 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
- 17 Snake Sacrifice 蛇祭 Two virgins + Sweet romance + Strong female lead leveling up The Snake Lord is fearsome. A promise made a thousand years ago, a meeting in dreams, a bracelet carved from nine dragons’ bones, protection for his wife, a Soul-Devouring Demon Blade, souls scattered to the winds, old grudges brought to an end... On the night of the Ghost Festival, the fifteenth day of the seventh lunar month, Old Song carried me back from the village’s Spirit Snake Mountain. Strange changes swept across the sky: ligh 347Reads9.1Score11614d adds
- 18 After Coming of Age, I Became the Snake Lord’s Most Beloved 成年后，我成了蛇君大人的心头肉 People from Northeast China don’t eat wild animals. The big ones are too strong to beat, and the little ones are all spirits! But my great-great-grandfather refused to believe it and caught a giant snake. From then on, strange things kept happening to the Shen family for generations. Then, when I turned eighteen, I learned firsthand what it meant to pay for his actions… 440Reads8.8Score10414d adds
- 19 After Wishing to the Yandere Underworld King, I Found Love 向病娇冥王许愿后，我脱单了 (A scheming, possessive Hades X a cheerful little ray of sunshine who heals others; sweet romance + redemption + supernatural + obsessive love) Chi Yu, who has always been unlucky, went up a mountain to make a wish. Through a series of mishaps, she climbed the wrong mountain and prayed to the wrong god. Her wish came true, but she also ended up selling herself to a deranged, violent, possessive King of the Underworld. To fulfill her vow and stay alive, Chi Yu had no choice but to work for her bo 671Reads9.3Score10314d adds
- 20 The Dragon King Sends a Betrothal Gift, and Nine Foxes Escort the Bride 龙王下聘，九狐送嫁 My name is Wen Shiqi. I'm an orphan, but on my wedding day, nine foxes escort the bridal sedan, a hundred pythons march in formation, and ten thousand birds welcome me home. When I was ten, I fell into the Changning River and accidentally broke his seal, becoming the bride promised to him. From then on, the pupil of my right eye was shattered, and I could see every demon and evil spirit in this world. Ten years later, he came to find me. He said he would save me and lead me onto the right path. 2.4kReads8.6Score38914d adds
- 21 The Snake Immortal's Bride 蛇仙娶亲 My grandfather was a snake catcher. After taking too many lives, he angered a great serpent cultivating in the mountains. On the day I was born, both my grandfather and my father died in the jaws of a snake. On my nineteenth birthday, the great serpent appeared again to make me pay the blood debt. It was the immortal spirit worshipped by my great-aunt who saved me from the serpent's jaws. I thought his arrival was my salvation, but instead he swept me into another whirlpool of fate. “Gu An Nian, 1.8kReads9.1Score13714d adds
- 22 My Lord of Demons 我的妖君大人 I was born under a curse and abandoned in his temple. Twenty years later, he was reborn from the curse, and by a twist of fate, we formed a spiritual bond. The Demon Lord not only mooches off my food and drink, but also tricks me into having his child. His emotional intelligence is in the single digits, he’s stingy and combative, and he has enemies everywhere. Every day, he’s either fighting or on his way to a fight. I finally lose my patience. “I’m divorcing you!” He sneers arrogantly. “You can 518Reads9.2Score10114d adds
- 23 Hades Husband, Don't Cause Trouble 冥王老公，别乱来 My name is Li Xiaojiu. When I was twenty, a man in my dreams told me to repay a debt. After that, he haunted me every night, and I couldn’t escape him. With my eyes veiled by a web of blood, I somehow released the greatest evil in the world. From then on, yin and yang fell into chaos, and disaster loomed. The man in my dreams said, “My name is Feng Siming. If you want to live, obediently give me your body.” I asked, “In the end, will you devour me?” Feng Siming: “Yes, from head to toe...” Me: “. 843Reads9.1Score13314d adds
- 24 The Diviner with the Evil Bone 邪骨相师 My name is Xiang Yin. According to my adoptive father, he took me in from a snake immortal. My adoptive father runs a funeral shop in a northern town. He foresaw that I was born with a gift for serving the immortals and would one day become the finest spirit medium. Everyone else says I'm a corpse-born child, steeped in darkness. Only my adoptive father treasures me, teaching me spells and skills. When I was seven, something strange happened. I sold a woman a pair of burial shoes in the midd 5.9kReads9.3Score66214d adds
- 25 The Allure of the Fox 狐香引 When I was eighteen, my grandma passed away. I inherited the spirit hall and became a female disciple who served the immortals. Thus began my strange journey in their company, and my fate changed forever... 908Reads8.9Score10714d adds
- 26 The King of Hell's Third Bride 三嫁阎君 When I turned twenty, my father forced me into a marriage everyone dreaded. The wedding was set for the fifteenth day of the seventh lunar month, the Ghost Festival, and the man I was to marry... Wasn't human either. I was born without a heartbeat. My father used a secret art to keep me alive, and marrying this mysterious husband was my only chance of survival. On our wedding night, paper money swirled through the sky as eerie paper figures descended from above, carrying an eight-bearer phoenix 88.6kReads9.1Score14.2k14d adds
- 27 My Husband Is the King of the Underworld 我的老公是冥王 When I was eighteen, I pushed open a door in a daze. I never imagined that the person behind it would use my entire family’s lives to force me to marry him… 1.3kReads8.0Score14814d adds
- 28 The Fox Who Bewitched My Heart 狐惑我心 [Mysticism + Ghost Marriage + Feng Shui + Devoted Husband + Male Rivals] My stepmother and younger sister teamed up to sell me to northern Myanmar, where I was to serve as a living lotus offering to an evil god. By day, I was beaten and forced to do hard labor. Every night, I had to spend hours entangled with a red-robed, silver-haired man. He said we had made a promise in a previous life, and forced me to marry him in a wedding ceremony at a Fox Immortal Temple. But I knew the red-robed man was 1kReads8.2Score10714d adds
- 29 A Yin Wedding, a Cursed Wife with the Phoenix Fate 阴嫁，凤命诡妻 ◇ Fated Phoenix Maiden × Supreme Ruler of the Underworld ◇ I was born with the fate of a phoenix, yet from the moment I came into the world, I was already half dead. The night I was born, rosy clouds filled the sky and all the ghosts came to pay their respects. The seventy-two celestial clans gathered to celebrate my reincarnation... Everyone considered me ill-omened, but a passing enlightened monk said I was the reincarnation of the Lady of the Underworld. The sins of my past life had not yet b 5.5kReads8.8Score1.1k14d adds
- 30 My Husband Is a Ghost 我的夫君是鬼怪 Synopsis: Supernatural + a little sweetness + a clever little ghost + a cool, aloof ghost husband who's prone to jealousy On the day I was born, dark clouds covered the sky, and the gloom was terrifying. Strange things started happening in my family as soon as I arrived. My ancestors had always practiced feng shui. By the time it reached my grandfather, the people around him called him a demigod. He didn't just read feng shui for people, he also told their fortunes, and they say he was incredibl 6.8kReads9.0Score53314d adds
- 31 Snake Spirit 蛇灵 When I was three, I came down with a strange illness. My whole body felt as if it had no bones. The rice-reading granny said something was at work, occupying my body and borrowing my lifespan. After she splashed a basin of blood toward the northeast corner, a black snake with red markings and a long beard burrowed out of the earth. Sixteen years later, the snake spirit returned. “Xiao Yu, you were the one who came after me first. If we don't get married, this is going to end badly...” [Snake Hus 1.8kReads9.3Score22814d adds
- 32 Rice Divination and a Ghostly Wedding 阴看米，鬼哭嫁 On the day I was born, paper figures came to pay their respects and left behind money to buy my life. To keep me alive, an old woman from Miaojiang made me lie in a paper coffin, pinned me down with bones, and buried me alive at birth. This drew a hundred ghosts to bow before me and severed the heads of nine dragons. The old woman said that a spirit wanted my life. She hid my shadow, and I must not look in a mirror before I turned sixteen. I followed her warning faithfully, but then the old woma 3.8kReads9.0Score47214d adds
- 33 Hell’s Temptation: My Husband Is the King of the Underworld 地狱诱宠：闪婚老公是冥王 [Supernatural + sweet romance + adorable child + secret identity + 1v1 and mutually devoted, scheming King of Hell + sweet, innocent heroine] After a whirlwind marriage to my blind date, I discover that he’s not only rich and handsome, but also full of secrets. He keeps a talking black cat, has a younger brother who can read ghost script, and even has a second face. Once I discover his secrets, he drops his disguise and reveals his wicked, scheming nature, cornering me against the bed. “Sweethea 7.3kReads9.2Score81614d adds
- 34 Three Dreams Entwined with a Snake 蛇缠三梦 I was born on the day of spring thunder, when snakes and insects stir back to life. Two red spots marked my wrist from birth, like a pair of vivid cinnabar moles, or two fresh, blood-red bite marks. From then on, every Dragon Boat Festival, countless snakes would gather at my home to pay homage. When I came of age, the snakes carried in a blood-red pearl. After that, strange events began happening one after another in the village, all of them connected to a secret the old folks spoke of. Some sa 1.1kReads9.1Score15614d adds
- 35 The Snake King’s Wife 蛇王夫 My father buried me as soon as I was born. A snake saved my life. When I turned eighteen, that snake found me and demanded I repay him by becoming his wife… 1.3kReads9.1Score15914d adds
- 36 Married to a Dragon 嫁龙作夫 The year I was born, a dragon fell from the sky and landed in the mountains behind our village. Eighteen years later, my grandmother hanged herself from the crooked locust tree at the village entrance with a length of rope. The villagers all said the Dragon King was taking a bride, and that my grandmother had defied him and suffered retribution. After the entire village nailed me into a black coffin and buried me alive, that thing violated me. Only then did I realize that things were far more co 1.7kReads9.0Score18914d adds
- 37 Fox Maiden 狐女 My name is Tu Sang. Grandpa said I was a gift from the Fox Immortal. I was barely alive when he found me, as good as dead. So he sought out the village shaman and traded his life for mine, keeping me alive until I turned eighteen. But before my eighteenth birthday, he passed away, and overnight I became an orphan again. To stay alive, I had no choice but to marry a ghost below. Who knew he would be a ten-thousand-year-old Ghost Immortal? But our connection goes far beyond that... 12.3kReads9.1Score1.4k14d adds
- 38 Married to a Snake 与蛇为妻 The fourteenth day of the seventh month, an auspicious day. The Snake Immortal is taking a bride. All bystanders must keep away. I was born unlucky. My mother died in childbirth, and I stopped breathing, too. My grandmother found a Snake Immortal to breathe life into me, but a patch of python-scale patterns appeared over my heart. When I was eight, a man in a dark jade robe came before me. He told me that he would come to marry me ten years later. In the blink of an eye, ten years had nearly pas 4.4kReads9.1Score50014d adds
- 39 What the Hell, I’m the Ghost King’s Bride 见鬼，我居然是鬼王的新娘 [A tsundere Ghost King and his two timid little brides, a sugary-sweet romance] The son of Youdu Mountain, a Ghost King born of heaven and earth, was chosen by the Book of Matrimony to serve as the God of Joy and matchmaker. Nearly a century into the job, he still wore black from head to toe, liked to wander at night, and was steeped in deathly aura. With the Ghost King serving as the God of Joy, birth rates were low, marriage rates were low, and divorce rates were high. The Book of Matrimony sa 826Reads9.3Score11214d adds
- 40 The Ghost Way, Midway Through Life 半路鬼道 Smart male lead + one heroine On the night of the Ghost Festival, the living send off the dead, burn incense, make offerings, and burn joss paper. But that night, I heard a ghost calling for a soul… The gong sounds, the night grows dark, and the road to the Yellow Springs is hard to travel… With talismans to guide the way and the departed to show the path, summon the gods and command the ghosts: only then can one master the Ghost Path between Yin and Yang! 6.8kReads8.9Score49114d adds
- 41 The Fox’s Allure 狐色魅人 [A new book from Zaizai: Nine Yin Girl is now live. We hope you'll show it lots of support. Thank you!] To save my parents' lives, I made a deal with a fox immortal. From then on, I opened a shrine and did good deeds. I devoted myself to worshipping the fox immortal and helping him achieve immortality as soon as possible, never expecting that he had other plans for me... 8kReads9.3Score75314d adds
- 42 Snake Eyes 蛇瞳 When I was eight, my father burned a snake that had been dug up back home. The entire Su family suffered retribution, and our descendants dwindled until I was the only one of our branch to live to eighteen. My grandmother took me to a spirit medium to ask how I could stay alive, but a white snake coiled around me and made me its spirit medium. A child spirit came to claim my life; my fellow practitioners framed me and made me bury a living person to ward off evil and protect their territory. A w 8.5kReads9.2Score1.2k14d adds
- 43 My Ghostly Husband, Don’t Be So Bad 鬼神老公，别太坏 [Devoted Couple + Supernatural Mysteries + Ghost-Hunting + Lots of Fun Tropes + Strong-Willed Heroine + Utterly Devoted Husband] My name is An Ning. I was born on Ghost Festival and carry a demon eye, so everyone thinks I'm cursed. Since childhood, a mysterious man I couldn't see has saved my life again and again. He told me, "If you want me to protect you forever, we have to make a marriage pact when you turn twenty." Then, on my twentieth birthday, my demon eye went out of control. I had a dan 9kReads9.1Score91714d adds
- 44 A Gluttonous Feast 饕餮盛宴 [No body-double plotline; the male lead isn't aloof; the female lead is clever and no saint; mostly comedy] I was born dead, my whole body purple and blue, without a breath in me. Everyone urged my mother to bury me, but she wouldn't believe it. She went to see Granny Wang at the village entrance, then carried me alone into the deep mountains and knelt for three days and three nights in a dilapidated temple. After that, I miraculously came back to life and was just like any other baby. Then, whe 9.5kReads9.2Score1.3k14d adds
- 45 The Yin Calamity Brings a Fox 阴祸得狐 On the night I was born, strange celestial signs appeared, and I seemed to glimpse a mythical beast. A fortune-teller said I was born with a noble destiny, that good fortune was at my door, and that I was sure to achieve great things. But when I was twelve, an accident left me plagued by misfortune and illness. Desperate to survive, I went to pay respects to my ancestors and pray for their protection, never expecting to visit the wrong grave... That night, a man with nine tails, as beautiful as 14.6kReads9.2Score2.3k14d adds
- 46 The Snake Marriage 蛇婚 Ever since I turned eighteen, I’ve kept having the same dream. Opera songs drift through it, singing, “Snakes bear the palanquin, ghosts escort the bride!” I was born with an ominous fate and a strange destiny, and I have a pair of yin-yang eyes that let me see ghosts from childhood. They say that on the night I was born, snakes swarmed everywhere, pouring into the house from the front and back. Only after I came into the world did they turn toward me, bow their heads three times, and leave. The 7.3kReads9.2Score95014d adds
- 47 On the Second Day of the Second Month, I Marry the Dragon King 二月初二，嫁龙王 Ever since I turned eighteen, I’ve had shameful erotic dreams every night. In them, I spend day and night entwined with a man dressed in black, with dark hair. My grandmother, the last shaman in the village, said I was the reincarnation of a deer spirit. In my previous life, I sealed an evil river dragon with a virgin’s blood; in this life, I was destined to live alone, and must never break my vow of chastity! On the second day of the second lunar month that year, as the dragon raised its head, 8.2kReads9.2Score1.1k14d adds
- 48 Snake Immortal 蛇仙 [The animated series Seven Days of Snake Entanglement is now streaming] My name is An Xin. On the day of the “Azure Dragon Wedding,” my great-grandfather killed a green snake and a white snake. The villagers said they were about to grow horns, transform into flood dragons, ascend, and become snake immortals. The night I was born, my grandfather knelt in the Snake Temple all night before my mother could give birth to me. He died in the temple. Ever since I was little, a snake has appeared in my d 5.2kReads9.3Score1k14d adds
- 49 Nurture an Yin Bone, Marry a Snake Immortal 养阴骨，嫁蛇仙 [Feng shui, fortune-telling, ghost marriage, adventure, tomb raiding, devoted to each other] I slept inside a clay statue of the Bodhisattva from childhood, growing up on the incense offerings. But the Bodhisattva at home began to look more and more like me. Grandfather said I had to cultivate into a living Bodhisattva, transform into a prostitute, and save all living beings before I could wash away my sins. Then one night, a strange man arrived with a pair of spirits, one dressed in red and one 4.3kReads9.3Score69214d adds
- 50 I Must Be Seeing Things: My Best Friend Turned into a Vengeful Ghost 起猛了，看到闺蜜变厉鬼了 [Just started, so the rating will rise. Feel free to dive in!] [Strong female lead + comedy + modern fantasy + multiple versions of the male lead] When she woke up, Yun Jian Yue discovered that her best friend had croaked and become a headless vengeful ghost. Yun Jian Yue: I must've woken up too early. I'll go back to sleep. Best friend: … Yun Jian Yue took her friend to get revenge on the scumbag, but a more powerful vengeful ghost showed up halfway through and stole the target. Yun Jian Yue ra 26.5kReads9.4Score4k14d adds
