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- 1 Lord Ghost King, Please Stay 鬼王大人请留步 When I was six, I came down with a strange illness. After that, I gained Yin-Yang Eyes. To shield me from evil, my father asked the village spirit medium to arrange a ghost marriage for me. The plan was to have her dissolve the engagement once I was old enough to fulfill the agreement. But on the day she came to break it off, he arrived... 2Reads—Score—14d adds
- 2 My Date with a Snake Demon 我和蛇妖有个约会 [Sweet Romance / Devoted Husband] + [Main Plot + Side Stories] Both leads are completely devoted to each other! To atone for the sins of my great-grandfather, I have no choice but to marry a black snake. As events continue to unfold, I discover many astonishing secrets that have long been hidden... 3Reads—Score—14d adds
- 3 Married to the Wrong Person 所嫁非人 Just as I was in danger, a mysterious voice told me: If I paid a price, I could be saved. I agreed. One by one, the people who had bullied me paid the price... That night, a mysterious man suddenly appeared. He breathed a chilling breath against my ear and whispered, "Do you like the gift I gave you?" —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 4 The Snake King's Wedding: One Mountain Ghost Coin, a Lifetime of Security 蛇王婚：一枚山鬼钱，聘我万周全 The fortune says I’m blessed by good luck and destined for romance, and that one day I’ll marry the Snake King. But I’ve always believed my origins were anything but auspicious. Twenty years ago, on the night my father gave birth to my younger sister and me, a blood moon hung high in the sky and dark forces stirred across the land. My father died in a difficult labor… Then, twenty years later, my grandfather’s corpse inexplicably rose, and several “mountain ghost coins” passed down through our f 10Reads—Score—14d adds
- 5 The Demon Husband Is No Ordinary Man 妖夫岂是池中物 Eighteen years ago, I was born with a fate of baleful misfortune. I was full of evil energy, surrounded by murderous aura, and everything I cursed would die, whether person or thing. I was a disaster incarnate. To keep me safe, my grandparents married me off to a demon dragon... 4Reads—Score—14d adds
- 6 Snake's Seduction 蛇诱 I was born deaf and unable to speak. After my parents abandoned me, my grandmother raised me on her own. Strange things often happened wherever I went, and the villagers called me an evil spirit who brought misfortune to others. When I was seven, they locked me in the River God's temple. Eleven years later, they threw me into the river as a sacrifice to the River God. But when those cruel villagers tossed me into the Changyun River, a snake suddenly appeared and saved me. And that was how our ta 3Reads6.9Score214d adds
- 7 My Dragon King Husband 我的龙王夫君 All I wanted was a steady job and an honest living. His arrival shattered my peace. I went to bat for him, and he promised me a grand wedding. I thought he was my happy ending, but he held another woman in his arms and told me, "She is my wife. You're nothing but a bed warmer." I forgave him again and again, only for him to use my life to save another woman. The day I awoke from the dream, I realized it had all been a dream. When the heavenly tribulation for my second ascension to immortality ca 45Reads—Score—14d adds
- 8 The Serpent's Curse: My Dragon Husband Is as Beautiful as Jade 蛇怨：龙夫如玉 For generations, my family has guarded a Dragon-Locking Well. The day I was born, I brought about my father’s and grandfather’s deaths. When I was eighteen, I witnessed my grandmother die a horrific death, and my mother go mad... In my despair, a mysterious blood serpent appeared in my dream, its back covered in strange dragon scales. It told me I was destined to be its wife. To protect the only family I had left and keep my mother alive, I was forced to become entangled with it and uncover 113Reads—Score—14d adds
- 9 The Snake King’s Spiritual Bride 蛇王灵妻 I was born on the Ghost Festival in the Snake Immortal Temple. I was a corpse-born child, gifted with yin-yang eyes and the ability to commune with spirits. On the night I turned eighteen, snakes paved the way and ghosts roamed the night. A bridal sedan chair floated from the Snake Immortal Temple and came to a stop before me. A man in wedding robes stood atop the sedan chair. My grandmother said the Snake Immortal had come to marry me. But after I climbed into the sedan chair, a voice told me t 46Reads—Score—14d adds
- 10 Fox-Demon Blood, Corpse Fragrance, and Ghosts Around My Waist 狐妖血，阴尸香，百鬼缠腰 My name is Jiang Li. I’m twenty years old, and I’ve been dead for twenty years. The day I was born, my mother died in childbirth, and after her death, she gave birth to me in a mass grave. The spirit medium said, “A stillborn child of extreme yin, carrying the scent of corpses and drawing every ghost to feed.” Twenty years later, a fox spirit came to take a bride, and the door to the uncanny world swung wide open for me. Fox spirit Luo Baichen: “Be good, my bride. Call me your husband.” Green sn 16Reads—Score—14d adds
- 11 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
- 12 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
- 13 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
- 14 The Snake King’s Sacrifice: Messenger of the Underworld 蛇王祭之阴间使者 Three years ago, Ouyang Rui willingly sacrificed his dragon pearl to save me and the child in my womb, his soul utterly destroyed. Three years later, strange phenomena appeared, and red light blotted out the sun. I became a messenger of the underworld. A female corpse, a bizarre death, and one strange event after another: the conspiracy had begun anew... 3Reads6.7Score—14d adds
- 15 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
- 16 Yellow Springs: The Ghost King Is My Lover 黄泉：鬼王是我相好 Ever since I was little, I've had a strange dream. In it, a man stands among a sea of red flowers, staring at me. I can't make out his face or touch him, and no matter how many questions I ask, he never answers. Then, on my twentieth birthday, the man suddenly spoke. He said he had something to give me, and that it was in a cave behind the mountain near my childhood home. At the same time, a strange red flower, the other shore flower, appeared on my back... —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 17 My Senior Brother Is the Ancient Dragon Lord 上古龙君我师兄 I’m the best in the world "Tengjiao" Xi Beibei × My junior sister is always right "Azure Dragon" Ao Cang First came her senior brother, Lord of the Northern Darkness; then her master, Supreme High God. Xi Beibei, doted on by everyone, once lived as she pleased. Then, somehow, everything suddenly changed. Her master stripped her of her divine status. Her senior brother sealed her away for fifty thousand years. The Human Emperor drew near with ult 4Reads—Score—14d adds
- 18 The Snake King’s Child 蛇王胎 142Reads7.0Score—14d adds
- 19 The Dragon King Takes a Bride 龙王娶亲 [Sweet Romance #Devoted Husband #Everyone's Favorite #Dragon King #Supernatural #Heartwarming] The devoted Dragon King, Long Lin, fiercely protects his wife! On the day I got married, little ghosts paved the way and the heavens opened a path. Petals filled the sky, and birds came to celebrate in a phoenix procession. It was a rare gathering of all three realms. Red silk covered the land, and the banquet stretched across heaven and earth for three whole days and nights. When the bridal veil was l 65Reads—Score—14d adds
- 20 The Snake Lord Is Hard to Handle 蛇君难缠 When I was born, my father disturbed the spiritual object guarding a feng shui site and killed an entire nest of snakes. Our family was punished for it. I had to wear a pair of red jade earrings to stay alive, but one snake claimed they were his betrothal gift and demanded that I become his woman. I tried to escape, but he used force to keep me by his side, sweet-talking me and refusing to spare any rivals who coveted me. I thought his feelings for me were real, and gradually fell for him, until 257Reads8.1Score—14d adds
- 21 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
- 22 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
- 23 Devouring the Snake Fetus 噬蛇胎 On my eighteenth birthday, a black snake came looking for me, insisting that I bear his serpent child. He spoiled me madly and loved me until it became an obsession. Years later, a thousand-year-old snake curse brought disaster to the mortal world. My family was destroyed, and he told me he didn't have much time left. Only then did I finally realize that all this terror was the price he had made me pay for a feud that would doom me for eternity... 13Reads6.5Score—14d adds
- 24 On the Day I Was Born, Ten Thousand Snakes Paid Homage 我出生当天，万蛇朝拜 I was born with a demon’s fetus. On the day I was born, countless snakes bowed before me, and the village was struck by a once-in-a-century downpour. Everyone was terrified and wanted nothing to do with me... 30Reads5.0Score—14d adds
- 25 The Serpent's Curse 蛇咒 When I was little, my grandfather once beat a snake to death... After that, strange things kept happening to our family. A fortune-teller said I wouldn't live to see twenty. To save me, my father made a pact with a snake spirit. On my eighteenth birthday, it left a snake curse on my wrist. Ever since then, every night I dream of a giant golden python, its jaws gaping wide, its tongue flicking as it bares its fangs. It tells me I belong to it, and that in this life, the next, and every life after 2.5kReads—Score—14d adds
- 26 Dragon God, Send Your Proposal, and I’ll Take the Sedan Chair 龙神请聘，夫人上轿 [A touch of mystery, the supernatural, and possessiveness. Marriage before love. Plot first, romance second. Sweet and sugary.] Born at noon, fated to yin, a thunderclap shakes the world. My birth was said to herald disaster. The villagers feared me, and my parents hated me. So, when I was just a month old, my father threw me into the mountains to fend for myself. Thankfully, my grandmother saved me. She told me that, to keep me alive, she had promised me in marriage to the Dragon God… 13Reads—Score—14d adds
- 27 The Cold-Blooded King of the Underworld Has Arrived 高冷冥王驾到 I was born with unusual bones and a cold constitution. In one lifetime, a vengeful ghost surnamed Qi chose me as a potent tonic and drained my vital essence. He still wasn't satisfied. He sealed a drop of his blood between my brows and cast a love spell, decreeing that in every life, I could love no one but him. Whenever desire stirred in my heart in any lifetime, he would appear before me: handsome, with the alluring sheen of fine jade, his thin lips slightly parted in a faint, enigmatic smile. 4Reads7.2Score—14d adds
- 28 The Flood Dragon’s Beloved 蛟宠 On the night of the full moon, I wore a red paper dress and black paper shoes, and the Five Great Immortal Clans and countless ghosts all fought over me. It was because my nails grew backward, and I was born with a pair of ghost hands that attracted evil and brought harm to others. That night, everyone thought I would die, but I survived. A powerful man even proposed to me and gave me a Buddha’s Hand talisman to suppress my power. From then on, my left hand commanded ghosts to take lives, while 192Reads—Score—14d adds
- 29 The Dragon King Takes a Wife at the Divine Dragon Temple 神龙庙之龙王娶妻 Ever since my great-grandfather’s time, our family has passed down this story. My great-grandfather once ran into danger while traveling and nearly died, but was saved by the legendary Dragon King. To repay him, he let slip while drunk that he would promise his future daughter to the Dragon King, in exchange for the village’s people living in peace and gratitude for the life-saving favor. But the generations passed, sons had sons and sons had sons, and it wasn’t until I was born that the Lin fam 23Reads—Score—14d adds
- 30 Honey, Come Have Our Second Baby 老婆快来生二胎 Twenty years ago, my family moved an ancestral grave, and I, a woman with pure yin in all four pillars of my birth chart, became the sacrifice. Later, clutching my aching back, I begged him, “My Lord, please let me go.” He smiled, wicked and bewitching. “Of course. Give me a second child.” 34Reads8.4Score—14d adds
- 31 You've Kept Me Waiting, My Lord of the Underworld 久等了我的冥王大人 As long as you want it, As long as I have it... In this life and the next, I will keep you safe... Knowing you are there means the night is no longer dark, the evenings are no longer lonely, and the road home is no longer uncertain... 1.6kReads—Score—14d adds
- 32 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
- 33 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
- 34 The Serpent Lord Has Arrived: Master, Don’t Crave Me 蛇君驾到：爷，别馋我 This novel features the supernatural, an arrogant and calculating male lead, a devoted couple with no other partners, and emotional torment for both leads. I was born beneath a sky filled with rosy clouds, ablaze with every color, and blessed with auspicious signs. My grandmother was a shaman, so she read my fate and cast the divination. The result was astonishing: I was destined to become an empress. When I was seven, I fell seriously ill. A wise master advised that I form a bond with the Snake 204Reads6.8Score—14d adds
- 35 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
- 36 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
- 37 The Calamity of a Ghostly Marriage, the Debt of a Dragon's Bones 阴缘劫，龙骨债 ♢ The Obsessive Snake Lord × The Bride with a Substitute Bone ♢ I was born with an incomplete destiny bone, and a dragon bone formed from a black snake was used to make up for it. Because I ruined his path to becoming a dragon, he hated me to the bone. He tormented me, took me against my will, and forced me to bear snake offspring. He said, “You used my dragon bone to keep yourself alive, so I’ll use your body to settle the debt.” He forced me to repay my karmic debt, yet risked his life to keep 519Reads8.4Score—14d adds
- 38 Fox Bone 狐骨 My name is Gu Yu. The day I was born, red rain fell from the sky, and every fox on the mountain behind our village howled through the night. Every household in the village kept its doors tightly shut. Liu the Blind, the village fortune-teller, told my grandmother that from the moment I was born, I had taken the fox immortal’s bewitching bones. Ten thousand foxes had bowed before me. I was born with an alluring nature, and he told my grandmother to strangle me. On my twentieth birthday, the fox p 350Reads6.5Score—14d adds
- 39 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
- 40 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
- 41 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
- 42 The Dragon's Wife Is Hard to Handle 蛟夫难缠 [First-person paranormal | Flood Dragon husband | Horror | Cathartic comedy] My name is Shen Yuezhao. I was born a freak after my mother emerged from the Dragon-Locking Well. I was born with an ill-fated yin destiny, and a single talisman kept me alive until I was fourteen. When I was eighteen, an incredibly handsome man came looking for me. His moods were unpredictable, yet he was utterly devoted to me. He kept me on the brink of death while giving me everything he had... In a dream, I saw him 1Reads—Score—14d adds
- 43 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
- 44 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
- 45 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
- 46 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
- 47 My Husband Comes from the Netherworld 我的夫君他来自幽冥 I've been unlucky since I was little, bringing misfortune to husbands and children. My father even offered me up to settle the debt he owed to the underworld. When I came of age, he came to claim what was owed under that old contract. From then on, my mother was left on the brink of death, my father disappeared, and one friend after another met with disaster. Evil spirits and demons surrounded me. The man who haunted me night after night chuckled. “Chan'er, you can't escape me.” A bridal process 447Reads7.2Score10014d adds
- 48 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
- 49 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
- 50 Snake Bones 蛇骨 My name is Shen Qingxiang. My great-grandfather once burned a nest of horned spirit snakes to death in the hills behind our village. The older generation all said they were about to survive a heavenly tribulation and transform into dragons. On the night I was born, snakes swarmed through the village. My grandfather went to the Spirit Snake Temple in the hills and knelt there for an entire day and night before my mother finally gave birth to me. I was born with a snake-shaped birthmark on my lef 69Reads—Score10114d adds
