Novels like Snake Scales
Books Chinese readers most often put in the same booklists as Snake Scales, best match first.
- 1 The Snake Husband Leads Me Along the Path of the Dead 蛇夫携我踏阴路 [Cunning Male Lead + Forced Love + Coming-of-Age Heroine + Both Pure] [Snake-Like, Sharp-Tongued Male Lead + Soft Yet Strong Heroine] Ten years ago, my father killed a snake that had slithered into our home. Ever since, calamity has plagued my family. My father was bitten to death by something in the mountains while chopping firewood, and overnight my mother became the village’s most despised madwoman before throwing herself down a well... To keep me alive, Grandma struck a deal with the famous 237Reads6.5Score10214d adds
- 2 The Beauty with Serpent Eyes 蛇瞳美人 When I was six, my father was brutally murdered in the cemetery behind the mountain. Beside his coffin, an evil spirit gouged out my left eye. To save my life, I sought the protection of the Snake Immortal and took his token. From then on, my fate took an unusual turn. I began earning my keep among the living while working for the dead. I braved thirty-six trials, broke seventy-two evil spells, and overcame countless calamities. [Sweet romance + snake husband + comedy + horror + supernatural mys —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 3 Seven Nights at the Prison Inn 七夜囚店 The Seven-Night Prison Shop —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 4 Our Ghost Marriage Is Set: The Tyrannical Ghost King Keeps Me Imprisoned in His Heart 冥婚已定，霸道鬼王心上囚 Because of my birth chart, I somehow ended up in a ghost marriage. My ghost husband was devastatingly handsome, but also domineering and shameless. After having his way with me, he even said, “When I was alive, countless women wanted to climb into my bed. After I died, countless female ghosts wanted to climb into my coffin. Surely you have at least a little interest in me?” I resisted with all my might, and the male ghost had no choice but to promise he wouldn't touch me again. I thought I was f 3.2kReads8.2Score42514d adds
- 5 The Grudge of West Alley 西巷怨 The Grudge in West Alley 2Reads—Score—14d adds
- 6 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
- 7 Bone Flute: The Yin-Yang Soul 骨笛之阴阳魄 When Xuan Niantao was born, she was a phoenix egg with no arms or legs. Her father, Xuan Yan, and her mother, Tao Yaor, later sent her to Bai Ting, the leader of the Nine-Tailed Fox clan, for treatment. Bai Ting took her to Lovers' Valley and went into seclusion to heal her. Unfortunately, just as she was about to grow a pair of arms, Peach Blossom Valley suddenly collapsed. Bai Ting died, and by a twist of fate, Niantao ended up in the Yellow Springs. From then on, a little sidekick appeared on 12Reads7.4Score—14d adds
- 8 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... 6Reads6.7Score—14d adds
- 9 The Abandoned Baby from Coffin Ground 棺材地的弃婴 Ding Xu was born with the bones of a phoenix, destined for a life of honor and splendor. But when she was one, her own mother abandoned her in a graveyard. The dense, overwhelming Yin energy invaded her body, and from then on her fate went off course. She became a walking magnet for Yin energy and had to wear talismans to ward off evil year-round. After growing up and returning home, she drew talismans and caught ghosts to make a living, and severed ties with her family to survive. In the end, s 43Reads6.1Score—14d adds
- 10 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
- 11 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
- 12 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
- 13 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
- 14 A Fox Borrows Her Womb to Bear a Child 狐借腹，人生子 When Bai Xi was born, she had a human body and a fox’s tail. The old woman who delivered her went mad, and her mother died in childbirth. The villagers said she was a monster born of her mother’s affair with a fox spirit in the mountains, and they wanted to burn her alive. On the night of the execution, a heavy rain fell from the sky. An old man with a face covered in scars walked through the rain, cut off her fox tail in front of everyone, and took her into the mountains, vowing never to return 1Reads—Score—14d adds
- 15 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
- 16 The Snake Wife 阴蛇妻 My name is Su Xue. I was slow to develop as a child, and I’m not very smart. My grandpa was a Yin-Yang Master. Out of a moment of kindness, he saved someone, but a snake spirit tricked him, leading to my grandma’s tragic death. In his fury, he burned every snake on the entire back mountain. To avoid revenge from the Snake Venerable of the serpent clan, he sent me straight to a psychiatric hospital, then vanished with my parents. They say that before the mentally ill, all evil spirits are nothing 217Reads—Score—14d adds
- 17 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
- 18 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
- 19 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
- 20 The Torrential Rain and the Sleeping Snake 暴雨与蛇眠 The Storm and the Sleeping Snake 3Reads—Score—14d adds
- 21 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
- 22 Snake Scales All Over the Bed 蛇鳞满床 (A heroine who grows over time + a villainous male lead + love and hate intertwined + not for naive readers + not a sweet romance + open ending + don't read if you don't like thinking things through + anyone who leaves a malicious rating without reading the blurb and setting will lose all their good luck!!!) The day I was born, my mother stepped on a black snake and killed it, and its snake spirit took revenge on her relentlessly. To save my life, my grandfather went to beg the Snake Immortal fo 204Reads8.3Score—14d adds
- 23 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
- 24 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
- 25 Decoding the Spirits 解灵 Do you believe that souls really exist in this world? Have any of you ever encountered one? If you truly came face to face with a soul one day, would you be afraid? There are many strange and unusual things in this world. If you ever encounter a soul, please believe me: don’t be afraid. All things have a spirit; even grass and trees have feelings. 2Reads—Score—14d adds
- 26 The Story of an Ordinary Office Worker 一个普通上班族的故事 The story of an ordinary office worker. 1Reads—Score—14d adds
- 27 Infinite Horror Game: Who Am I? 无限诡异游戏：我是谁 [Survival games in all kinds of eerie worlds, focused purely on exploration and story. So satisfying! Wait, by the end, you discover they’re all part of the same world?] From the start, I got a little sister, punched my sleazy uncle, and set foot in the pitch-black fog. By the end of day one, I was already at the police station. On day two at the station, ghosts were haunting a nursing home? Turns out the entire nursing home had become a ghost. On day three, a middle school girl mysteriously jum 1Reads—Score—14d adds
- 28 Lure of the Fiend 诱煞 "Heaven reveals its signs, foretelling good and ill." As time passed and dynasties rose and fell, tales of blood moons and evil spirits were gradually buried in dusty old books, and few people knew of them anymore. Only the prophecy, "When the moon turns blood-red, yin reaches its extreme and gives birth to baleful forces," remained to warn each generation of inheritors: evil spirits had never vanished. They were only waiting for the next chance to return. When the celestial omen of a blood moon 1Reads—Score—14d adds
- 29 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
- 30 The Snake King’s Child 蛇王胎 142Reads7.0Score—14d adds
- 31 The Yin Phoenix’s Calamity, the Dragon-Boned Wife 阴凤劫，龙骨妻 ◇Cold Snake God x Girl Forced to Take the Blame◇ My grandfather stole the Snake God’s dragon bones to keep me alive. Eighteen years later, the snake came to my door and demanded repayment, with interest. As a hundred snakes coil around me and red candles blaze, he bends close to my ear, his voice bewitching and cruel: “I’ll make you live in hell, my one and only captive pet. For all eternity, you’ll never be free.” He returned carrying a thousand years of hatred, yet found himself savoring the 21.1kReads8.9Score2k14d adds
- 32 The Snake King's Sacrifice 蛇王祭 After three years of severe drought, not a single grain was harvested, and corpses littered the land. Then, following a deafening crash, a black snake dozens of meters long and as thick as a barrel fell into Minshang Village. The villagers swarmed toward it like starving wolves and devoured it. From that day on, Minshang Village was cursed... 101Reads8.9Score—14d adds
- 33 A Woman with an Ill-Fated Destiny Marries the Snake Lord 阴命女，嫁蛇君 I was born with bluish-purple skin, barely alive. My grandmother tossed me onto a mass grave like a piece of trash, but a black snake protected me, saving me from being eaten by wild animals. I was frail from birth, plagued by illness and misfortune. My grandfather, a Yin-Yang master, calculated that I was a girl with an ill-fated Yin destiny and an incomplete soul. Unless I found someone powerful to protect me, I wouldn’t survive. When I was six, I came down with a serious illness. My grandfath 233Reads6.4Score—14d adds
- 34 The Snake Immortal Husband Falls at My Feet 蛇仙老公拜倒在我的石榴裙下 After my mother died, she gave birth to me inside her coffin. Since I was born on Ghost Festival, I was naturally tied to an ill-fated destiny, and from then on, people called me the Coffin-Born Girl. When I was seven, I swallowed a snake's gall and lost all my memories. I had no choice but to leave home for twelve years. When I returned, the world was full of danger and uncertainty. My father didn't care for me, my mother was gone, and the only one who came whenever I called was that long worm. 289Reads7.0Score—14d adds
- 35 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
- 36 Cheating My Way Through Cultivation: The Metaphysics Master Catches Ghosts on Livestream 修仙开挂，玄学大佬直播捉鬼 [Strong Female Lead + Supernatural + Horror + Metaphysics + Cultivation + Sweet Romance] After Wen Jiuxi was driven out of her sect, she bonded with a System and started livestreaming ghost hunts, launching herself onto a path to a life of easy wins. As time went by, rumors spread through the community about an anonymous ghost-hunting streamer who was a stunningly beautiful master with a kind heart. She often helped poor people deal with supernatural incidents for free, and no evil spirits dared 4Reads—Score—14d adds
- 37 Love of the Serpent 蛇恋 One devoted couple, in a past life and this one. He waited a thousand years to be reincarnated, all so he could meet me again. The first day of the Lunar New Year is my eighteenth birthday. This year, it was unlike any other. I dreamed of a white snake as tall as a three-story building, with wings growing from its back. It asked me, “Would you be willing to become my wife?” 22Reads—Score—14d adds
- 38 The Spirit Snake Pact 灵蛇契约 [Both leads are each other's first, sweet romance, one-on-one, secret identities, revenge, happy ending] Grandpa once did a snake a kindness, and in return, the snake became the Snake Immortal enshrined by my family. To evade his enemies, Grandpa used me as a bargaining chip and forced me to sign a contract selling myself to the Snake Immortal. I thought this was the beginning of a nightmare, but it turned out to be the first step toward a new life. And so my fate became bound to his. He took me 25Reads6.8Score414d adds
- 39 A Collection of Supernatural Horror Short Stories 超级恐怖短篇小说合集 An ordinary office worker in the city buys an antique wooden comb on a whim, unaware that he has become entangled in a terrifying curse spanning a century. A new work, with one self-contained story per chapter. 1Reads—Score—14d adds
- 40 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
- 41 Mountain Patrolman: I Suppress Evil with a Dragon's Sinew Only Three Inches Long 巡山人：我以三寸龙筋镇邪异 Warrior King Luo Laowai returns to his old home in the forests of Northeast China. By a stroke of luck, guided by the Gray Immortal, he obtains a three-inch dragon tendon. An old soldier with an old rifle takes on the forces of nature, ghosts, demons, and monsters. Fox, Yellow, White, Willow, and Gray Immortals gather as divine warriors at his gate. The Three Realms have always existed among humankind, and true immortals walk beside ordinary people... 12.6kReads7.9Score1.2k14d adds
- 42 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
- 43 You Found Me 你找到我了 Modern Supernatural + Female-Led + Fresh Premise + All-Rounder + Wild Imagination + Reincarnation + Spirit Speech + Runes and Formations + Fictional Modern Setting + Pure Wish Fulfillment in the Middle and Later Parts Abandoned and cast out? No. Her god reincarnates for her, life after life. Following the usual formula and old clichés? No. The Heavenly Dao is nothing to her. An ordinary girl dealing with a life that’s a complete mess? No. Other people are the ordinary ones. She is the unique one 6Reads—Score—14d adds
- 44 My Snake Demon Husband Is So Fierce 蛇妖夫君好凶猛 [Fantasy setting + xuanhuan + devoted couple + one-on-one romance + happy ending + sweet romance] A delicate, spoiled, tearful female demon hunter versus a gentle, domineering snake demon with an overwhelming possessive streak... When I saw the half-human snake demon again, his picturesque features were bewitching and alluring. His blood-red, slit-pupiled eyes drooped slightly as he watched me with pity. As if driven by an invisible force, I reached out to him, unable to control myself. The chil 87Reads6.5Score—14d adds
- 45 The Yin-Born Girl and the Snake-Borne Coffin 阴生女，蛇抬棺 Ghosts pave the way, and countless snakes converge. Debts of vengeance and gratitude must all be settled. If you dare regret it, you’ll find no escape from life or death… Eighteen years ago, my grandpa rescued me from a tower where abandoned infants were left to die. But he only wanted to use me to catch snakes and refine their gallbladders, so he could practice an evil art and live forever. The debt we owed the snakes brought retribution. He roamed free, while scales covered my body and I suffe 3Reads—Score—14d adds
- 46 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
- 47 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
- 48 The Dragon-Taming Bride 镇龙妻 [From home feng shui to esoteric arts, from attracting wealth and changing your fortune to reading faces and understanding people, improve your luck through the lens of metaphysics.] Fifty years ago, my grandfather forcibly pierced an underground dragon vein to find a feng shui treasure site, changing the fortunes and fate of our Zhou family. Fifty years later, a blood-soaked man showed up at our door, saying he wanted to marry into the Zhou family! The Nine Purple Li Fire cycle, the Witch’s Sun 301Reads8.4Score—14d adds
- 49 The Greatest Female Fortuneteller 第一女相师 Qi Nian dies alone on a cold operating table. Before she turns twenty-five, her family exploits her to support her younger brother. After twenty-five, her boyfriend uses her. She struggles for thirty years, yet doesn't own a single decent piece of clothing. Just because she's a woman, anyone can squeeze benefits out of her and take a bite of her flesh. If they don't, they act as though they've lost out. Her whole life was a joke. Back at nineteen, Qi Nian gains a “mystical chat group” and learn 110Reads8.7Score—14d adds
- 50 What?! My Fox Immortal Husband Is Wagging His Tail at Me 惊！狐仙老公对我摇尾巴 [Hilarious horror + suspenseful thrills + a strong female lead who isn’t saintly + a male lead who only pretends to be aloof] Qingqiu Village occupies a sacred site, and the Fox Immortal flies into a rage and sends a woman marked by yin energy. Li Xiaxia is forced into a fox’s cave by shameless villagers, who hope to beg the Fox Immortal’s forgiveness. As a materialist, she doesn’t believe in Fox Immortals at all. That is, until she sees a white fox turn into a cold, handsome man with her own ey 67Reads6.4Score—14d adds
