Novels like The Dragon King's Wife
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- 101 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
- 102 The Dragon King’s Wife, Life After Life 生生世世龙王妻 A terrible drought struck the village, so the village chief invited an old Taoist priest to perform a rainmaking ritual. The priest brought a marriage contract, and I was chosen to be offered as a sacrifice to the Divine Dragon Lord. On the night of the full moon, the villagers tied me up, stuffed me into a bridal sedan chair, and sent me to the Dragon King Temple behind the village. From then on, I became the wife of an ancient divine dragon. 61Reads8.2Score—14d adds
- 103 Tales of the Snake Immortal 蛇仙鬼话 Kui Kui was born with the fate of a Snake Immortal. She had a heavenly eye from birth and could see both the living and the dead. Yet her immortal nature was borrowed from her father, and she was never meant to exist in this world. Her birth chart was too weak to hold on to that borrowed gift. On the Ghost Festival when she was eighteen, a horde of ghosts attacked. To save her life, her father hid her inside a cursed, ten-thousand-year-old snake coffin. From then on, she became the fated one of 902Reads9.0Score14714d adds
- 104 The Snake’s Bride 蛇缠女 [Mystery] [Sweet and bittersweet] [Strong heroine] [Supernatural] Ever since I was born, I’ve been cursed as a snake’s daughter and a bringer of misfortune. Eighteen years ago, a great white snake killed my family. Eighteen years later, the snake came to collect its debt and made me its spirit medium to pay it back. From then on, I began encountering all kinds of strange events. Why had the bones in the coffin vanished? And what did the snake totem on the coffin lid mean? When the Seven Fiends A 337Reads8.8Score10214d adds
- 105 My Fated Snake King Husband Is So Hard to Handle 奇缘蛇王老公太难缠 Lin Qingqing rescued a little black snake. She clearly saw it slither into the bushes, but after evening study hall, there it was on her bed. She put it in her schoolbag, and the next day it was wrapped around her hand. She left it in the bushes behind the school. Thinking the little black snake was so cute, she named him Qiu Han and couldn’t resist giving him a kiss. Who knew that within a day, the black snake would turn into a black python? To be with Lin Qingqing, Qiu Han took human form and 27Reads8.8Score—14d adds
- 106 My Fiancé, Lord White Fox 我的未婚夫白狐大人 I went back to my hometown for the Mid-Autumn Festival and felt that my family was acting strangely. In the middle of the night, I caught them secretly burning a paper sedan chair, saying they were going to marry me off. Curious, I followed them. I never expected to end up trapped and get married in a daze. Huh? Handsome husband in white, what’s that behind you? Could it be a white fox’s tail? 319Reads7.3Score—14d adds
- 107 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
- 108 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... 36Reads6.5Score—14d adds
- 109 The Jealous Snake Lord Is Brutal and Obsessive, Yet He Spoils His Wife Without Limit 醋王蛇君暴戾偏执却宠妻无度 Also known as: The Snake Bride. Devoted couple + sweet romance + light supernatural elements. I was born in a cursed village. The year I was born, my grandfather killed a snake matriarch, and our whole family was relentlessly hounded for revenge. I fled the village with a bracelet passed down through my family. When I returned to the village years later, I met a giant white snake. He was desperate to keep me by his side. To outsiders, he was a vicious demon, but he spoiled me in every way. To ot 301Reads9.1Score10214d adds
- 110 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
- 111 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
- 112 The Ominous Coffin 凶棺 It all started with a coffin that floated up from the river... I thought it was a fortune dropped from the sky, but it turned out to be a disaster. After I pried open the coffin, I began to feel that something unclean had followed me home. My daughter grew stranger by the day. She was only three, yet she had already started developing! 125Reads—Score—14d adds
- 113 A Serpent’s Unrequited Love 蛇不了情 I was born a malformed conjoined twin, with the underdeveloped fetal corpse of a baby girl, covered in python-like markings, fused to my back. Worse still, twenty years later, I met Di Xiuyin, and the fetal corpse on my back began to come back to life... Everyone knows that Di Xiuyin is a ghostly python, steeped in sin and living by the blade. He rips out snake gallbladders, cuts out their glands, and refines their venom, running rampant wherever he goes and leaving devastation in his wake. Ever 21Reads6.9Score—14d adds
- 114 May All Go as You Wish, Generation After Generation 巳巳如意，世世如怡 [Snake Immortal + Supernatural + Mystery Solving + Twists + Romantic Tension] When Lu Mingshen, a snake immortal, loses his younger brother to humans who eat him, the tragedy sparks a hatred that sets Lu Mingshen’s fury ablaze. A tale of love and vengeance between humans and snake immortals unfolds. —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 115 I Married a Dragon, and I Was Born to Eat Yin Energy! 嫁给了龙，我天生吃阴饭！ I was born amid a blazing fire on a yin year, yin month, and yin hour, right at the witching hour. A fortune-teller said I had a "demon-encountering fate and must never leave my hometown." On the day I turned sixteen, I went with the other girls from my village and accidentally stepped onto land belonging to the neighboring village. When the witching hour came, I gained the ability to see spirits. The first thing I saw was the sweetheart of a girl from the village. He smiled at me, then flicked 829Reads9.2Score10014d adds
- 116 On My Wedding Day, the Fox King and Snake Lord Both Forced Me to Marry Them 我出嫁当天，狐王蛇君齐逼嫁 When I was fifteen, I went to the river to bathe and encountered a huge white snake. That very night, I came down with a strange illness. My fever wouldn’t break, I was paralyzed from head to toe, and my belly swelled as if I were ten months pregnant. After three years of paralysis, I became a cripple everyone despised. Just as my parents were worrying every day that I’d never find a husband, a man as beautiful as a celestial being volunteered to marry me. He was willing not only to wed me but a 1.7kReads8.8Score25014d adds
- 117 The Ghost King Clings to Me: The Coffin Man Climbs into My Bed 鬼王缠身：棺人榻上来 I was born with pure yin, making me a walking piece of Tang Monk's flesh to ghosts and monsters. I was destined to die young. A fortune-teller said that if I wanted to survive, I had to enter into a ghost marriage with the Ghost King. On our wedding day, a blood moon hung high overhead. A hundred ghosts carried the bridal sedan, and the Ghost King and I consummated our marriage in a night of passion. From then on, a new presence remained by my side… In a world where flesh and time exist, the Bud 424Reads6.6Score—14d adds
- 118 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
- 119 A Substitute Bride in a Ghost Marriage: 100 Terrifying Days in an Ancient House 替嫁冥婚我在古宅的惊魂100天 On the twenty-third day of the twelfth lunar month, heavy snow buried Qingwa Town, and the cold cut to the bone. I, Li Wan, the adopted daughter of the Li family, faced a choice in the ancestral hall: take my sister’s place in an arranged marriage. My younger sister, Li Jiaojiao, wept and refused to marry into the ancient Gu family manor, while Father pleaded with me. All that remained of the Gu family was their gloomy old manor and their young master, Gu Yanzhi, who had been dead for three year 3Reads—Score—14d adds
- 120 Sacrificed to the Mad Underworld King, I Somehow Have to Write Every Day? 被献祭给疯批冥王他竟然每天让我写作？ I Was Sacrificed to a Deranged King of the Underworld, and He Makes Me Write Every Day? 10Reads—Score—14d adds
- 121 The Wealthy Family’s Adorable Baby Is a Fortune-Teller 豪门萌宝是神棍 Chu Wei was peacefully cultivating when a bolt of lightning struck her and sent her to the modern world, where she became an adorable five-year-old girl. She was dumbfounded! Well, when in Rome, do as the Romans do. To ascend to heaven, the little cutie sets out on a path of smiting gods, Buddhas, and all mortal beings, defying heaven, earth, and even thin air. Young Master Song says, “My little girl is sweet and kind. Don’t you dare bully her.” Everyone is on the verge of tears. Young Master So 13Reads8.0Score—14d adds
- 122 The Snake’s Delight 蛇欢 My life belongs to a snake. From the day I was born, Grandma sold me to a snake. I grew up sleeping in a dead person's coffin and shedding snake skin, living as a freak. For the snake's sake, Grandma taught me to be a shamanic healer and save others, though I could never save myself. It wasn't until I received my first patient on the day I came of age that I finally learned what Grandma and the snake had agreed upon... 155Reads9.3Score10114d adds
- 123 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
- 124 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
- 125 The Underworld King's Beloved Consort 冥王殿下的宠妃 I went back to my hometown with my boyfriend of one year, never imagining he'd offer me up as a sacrifice. When I opened my eyes again, I had become the wife of the King of the Underworld. This handsome, supreme Lord of the Underworld threatened to strangle me at the drop of a hat. He pressed his thin lips together. “Just obey me, and I'll protect you for the rest of your life.” When I tried to get away from him, I ran into a snow monster while making my escape. Just when I thought I was about t 16Reads—Score—14d adds
- 126 Walking with the Fox 遇狐行 I was born with a fate blessed by the heavens, but one of my seven souls was stolen at birth. Countless lonely ghosts coveted my destiny. When I was nine, I unexpectedly gained a pair of eyes that could see through ghosts and gods. But those coveted eyes plunged me into an endless hell. Someone told me that if I wanted to survive, I had to go to Qingyun Mountain and seek divine protection. If I succeeded, I would be safe for the rest of my life. If I failed, misfortune would follow me wherever I 227Reads8.2Score—14d adds
- 127 Reborn as the Netherworld King: He's Impossible to Flirt With 重生之冥王大人太难撩 "New book out now, come on in and show your support!" [A supernatural story disguised as romance] [A male lead who doesn't understand love but still dotes on her X a clever, flirtatious female lead] Lu Xinyue spent her whole life being foolish, only to end up murdered by the man she loved. But she is reborn. After her rebirth, the world seems different. There's a blood ruyi that bewitches people, a giant carp that eats humans, an orphanage from a hundred years ago, a village in Shanyin where eve 2Reads—Score—14d adds
- 128 The Fox-Fur Wedding Dress 狐皮嫁衣 “My Husband Is the Wolf King” ❤️ In July 1928, my great-grandfather, driven mad by greed, stole a priceless luminous pearl from the Eastern Qing Tombs. Then, when I was five, a white wolf latched onto me. He gouged out my eyes and stole all my other senses as well... [On Qingqiu Hill there lives a fox, its fur a wondrous sight. Skin it alive, then sew it into a rosy bridal cape. If I wear it, we shall share three lifetimes, never parted from you in any of them.] 208Reads8.8Score—14d adds
- 129 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
- 130 The White Snake in Bed 白蛇在榻 In an ancient, mysterious town, a terrifying legend has been passed down: any woman born with a yin constitution must marry the Snake God, make offerings to him, and establish a shrine for him, or she will be consumed by yin energy and lose her life. Many women have died this way over the years, and the legend has become a shadow that haunts the townspeople. Lin Mei was born with a yin constitution. Frail and often plagued by yin energy, she has suffered greatly. Strong-willed and kind, she is c 1Reads—Score—14d adds
- 131 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
- 132 The Dragon-Locking Well and the Snake Immortal in the Painting 锁龙井，画蛇仙 My name is Su Luoqing. I was born in the ancient village of Dragon Guardians, where our people have guarded a well for generations. Legend says an evil dragon that has cultivated for thousands of years is sealed beneath it. Every year on the second day of the second lunar month, a special ritual must be performed to appease the dragon. On the second day of the second lunar month, when the dragon raises its head, rain poured for a whole month, nearly submerging Dragon Guardians Village. Then, dur 559Reads8.8Score11414d adds
- 133 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
- 134 Married to a Fox 嫁狐 The sins of my ancestors came back to haunt me. To save my life, Great-Auntie invited a fox spirit to protect me. But who knew this fox spirit wasn’t here to protect me at all, but to kill me... 417Reads8.9Score10014d adds
- 135 Married to a Ghost on My Wedding Night: My Ghost Husband's Beloved 冥婚夜嫁，鬼夫心尖宠 My name is Liu Yueli. I was born in a remote mountain village. When I was little, my grandmother would often sit in front of our house, staring blankly toward the place where I was born and murmuring... “On a night when a hundred ghosts roam, red candles will light the way. Paper figures will carry the coffin, and a hundred ghosts will serve as matchmakers. The worlds of yin and yang shall not be divided; the paths of humans and ghosts shall not be separate. With heaven and earth as witnesses, o 1.2kReads8.7Score17214d adds
- 136 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
- 137 Ensnared by a Snake: My Husband Dotes on Me and Won’t Let Go 遇蛇：夫君他又宠又撩 [Romantic suspense + mild supernatural elements + both leads are chaste + sweet romance + mutual devotion + 1v1 + episodic short stories] Synopsis: On the fourteenth day of the seventh month, I was born under an ill omen. My grandmother bared her teeth and glared at me, calling me a curse who had killed one of her loved ones. In her rage, she tried to kill me by smashing me to the ground, but my maternal grandmother, a temple priestess, risked her life to save me. Eighteen years later, my grandm 83Reads8.9Score—14d adds
- 138 The Yin-Yang Fate Borrower 阴阳借命师 [Traditional Supernatural Horror]+ [Feng Shui and Mysticism]+ [Suspense and Deduction] On my seventeenth birthday, I watched my best classmate die horribly right in front of me. That was when I learned someone had stolen my fate! A mysterious old man told me I was one of the Seven Wise and offered to take me as his disciple. If I refused, I wouldn’t live past thirty. When I was twenty-five, my master ventured alone into the underworld to negotiate with the King of Hell and extend my life. He ult —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 139 Snake Demoness 蛇姬 [Ensemble Cast + Feng Shui + Fortune-Telling + Metaphysics + Strange Folk Tales] Romance: A dignified, devoted, ruthless Snake Lord vs. a pampered, cunning diviner I was born on the night of the Ghost Festival, when the gates of the underworld swing wide open. Everyone in the village said my mother conceived me after being entwined by a snake, so they called me Little Snake. When I was thirteen, I spoke carelessly and offended the “Snake Lord” in a painting. From then on, I was bedridden, and st 1.9kReads9.0Score28014d adds
- 140 The Fox's Seduction 狐诱 Twenty years ago, my father brought home a mute woman. From then on, men in the village began dying in mysterious ways… They said my mother was a wicked fox spirit who brought harm to others. No, my mother was the Great Fox King, chosen by Heaven. The Fox King bore a daughter, and the new king ascended the throne. Beneath all of Heaven, our king rules. The harem matters just as much as the people! An angsty romance dressed up as a wish-fulfillment blurb. Come on in, everyone! 635Reads8.4Score10114d adds
- 141 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
- 142 The Fox Bride 狐嫁 Ye Zier is a half-yin person, born with a tendency to attract evil spirits. After finally getting married to her boyfriend, she’s kidnapped along the way by a fox spirit who insists on having little foxes with her. What is she supposed to do? 357Reads9.1Score10014d adds
- 143 The Nine Yin Woman and the Demon Husband’s Sacrifice 九阴女，妖夫祭 [Both virgins, metaphysics, sweet romance, heroine's growth] When my mother was pregnant with me, my grandfather forced her to drink a bowl of foul brew. She went into premature labor, and I was born on an extremely inauspicious day. Born with the Nine Yin constitution, I became a coveted offering for demons and evil spirits. An expert gave my family a jade pendant to keep me safe as I grew up, and promised that when I turned eighteen, he would come with a new token to exchange for it. If we exc 1.3kReads8.6Score13914d adds
- 144 The Bewitching Snake Husband Is So Hard to Handle 妖孽蛇夫太难缠 Of all people, why do I have to bear a snake’s child...? 262Reads8.4Score10014d adds
- 145 The Ultimate Husband 最强老公 A fierce husband, seven nights of passion, a spirit fetus conceived in secret, a Chi dragon blood ring... A family that crawled out of a tomb offered me as a sacrifice to the Emperor. From then on, I wandered between the worlds of yin and yang, no longer welcome among the living. 1kReads8.3Score11114d adds
- 146 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
- 147 The Teng Snake Takes a Bride, and a Hundred Ghosts See Her Off 腾蛇娶妻百鬼送行 [Strong Female Lead] [Metaphysics] [Devoted Husband] [Ensemble Cast] [Pure Romance] [Mystery and Comedy] My name is Su Xiaowan. I was born in a small village in the south. I was born on the fifteenth day of the seventh lunar month, the Ghost Festival, commonly known as the “Ghost Day.” Legend has it that on this day, the gates of the underworld swing wide open and ghosts roam everywhere. So after paying respects to their ancestors during the day, everyone stays indoors, afraid of attracting a 1.5kReads8.9Score21914d adds
- 148 The Fox Immortal's Betrothal Gift: A Town for a Hundred Ghosts 狐仙下聘，镇百鬼 (Ancestor of the Fox Clan) (Angst in the middle and later parts) My grandmother told me I was born under an unusual fate. On the day I was born, my mother nearly died in childbirth, thunder and lightning raged, and many restless spirits appeared nearby. The Ancestor of the Hu Clan emerged from seclusion and brought the Fox Clan’s troops to guard our family’s courtyard. That was the only reason I survived. In exchange, my family had to offer incense to him for the rest of our lives, and eighteen 160Reads—Score—14d adds
- 149 Forced Ghost Marriage: My Possessive Ghost Husband Is Too Much to Handle 被迫冥婚之偏执鬼夫太难缠 Obsessive, dark, beautiful-and-tragic top × cold, loveless bottom with a miserable fate Qing Ling was haunted by a vicious ghost of unknown origin. From then on, his still-as-dead-water life was thrown into turmoil. A marriage contract bound him to a fate already set in stone. He could neither run nor hide, and no matter how unwilling he was, he could only endure the bullying and humiliation. Some people are born with lives as fragile as paper. The grievances and hatred of a past life were force 689Reads8.9Score10414d adds
- 150 Half a Step Beyond 半步多 Half-Step Pass, the boundary between yin and yang, a place where the living must not go. Grandpa and I escaped from there and lived under assumed names for twenty years, but they still found us... 507Reads8.9Score10714d adds
