Novels like Snake Scales
Books Chinese readers most often put in the same booklists as Snake Scales, best match first.
- 51 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
- 52 My Fox Immortal Lord Keeps Blowing His Cover 我家狐仙大人总掉马 One rainy night, office worker Shen Yuyu rescues a badly injured little white fox, unaware that it's actually Jun Linyi, a fox immortal who has cultivated for a thousand years. To repay her kindness, Jun Linyi stays by Shen Yu's side, but mishaps abound as he repeatedly blows his cover. Their peaceful life is shattered by dark forces, and Shen Yu unexpectedly awakens a mysterious power. Together, they delve into the secrets of their past lives, with laughs and danger at every turn... 1Reads—Score—14d adds
- 53 After Marrying the Ghost King 嫁给鬼王后 Beloved by all + funny + lighthearted After being hounded by relatives to get married and losing her job, Bai Ziyan had no choice but to find some man by the roadside and marry him. As a bonus, she got a high-paying job. But there's something eerie about both this husband and this job... Bai Ziyan: Why are they all looking at me like that? Li Heng: Because you're beautiful. Bai Ziyan: ... Bai Ziyan: I'm going to a class reunion. I'll be out for a while. Li Heng: Wait. As soon as he spoke, 8Reads7.5Score—14d adds
- 54 When I Was Born, I Had a Phoenix Crown on My Head and a Green Dragon Around My Waist 我出生时，头顶凤冠，青龙缠腰 My mother was born with a yin fate and was known as the Ghost Mother. She also had another, deeply mysterious identity, one that struck fear into both the spirit and human worlds. Later, my mother gave birth to me. On the day I was born, I wore a phoenix crown, and a green dragon coiled around my waist. The Five Immortals willingly became my babysitters… Yet Master Chen the Third, a feng shui expert, declared that this girl was destined to bring disaster! 5Reads7.1Score—14d adds
- 55 Let Me Say This: You’re Such a Shameless Mystic! 说句母道话：玄学大佬你太流氓！ [Comedy + no manners + ridiculous memes + face-slapping + satisfying read] Shen Li, a sharp-tongued mystic grandmaster from a matriarchal world, transmigrates to a modern patriarchal society and becomes an orphaned, delicate little white flower whose family has been destroyed. The scumbag says, “A good wife helps me achieve my ambitions, and I’ll reward her with a fortune! Can’t you skip the bride price so we can struggle and work hard together first?” Shen Li slaps him across the face. “Your mo —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 56 The Snake Bride 蛇娶妻 [Supernatural + Devoted Husband + Pure Romance + Sweet Love + Wild Imagination] She was betrothed to the Snake King at birth, branded as his snake bride. Before she turned twenty-four, the Snake King would force her to marry him. Her grandfather said the Shen family owed the Snake King a debt, and that only marrying him could save her life... 1.5kReads9.1Score14414d adds
- 57 The Dragon King's Beloved Wife 龙王娇妻 On my eighteenth birthday, my great-grandfather called me back to the old family home and told me to stay the night. I woke in the middle of the night to find myself wearing a red wedding dress. The terrifying part was that there was a monster beside me. It looked like an immortal, but it was obviously not human... 216Reads8.9Score—14d adds
- 58 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
- 59 The Spirit Medium’s Flower Shop 通灵花店 An ordinary flower shop, a breathtakingly beautiful woman with different-colored eyes, and a responsibility that cannot be refused... A legacy passed down through generations, and events beyond your wildest expectations. Is this really the world you thought you knew? 60Reads7.7Score—14d adds
- 60 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
- 61 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
- 62 Thriller Game: A Certain Madman Leaves the Ghosts Stunned! 惊悚游戏：某狂徒让鬼震惊啊！ Synopsis: Infinite Flow + god-tier System + no female lead + decisive and ruthless + comedy + memes + all kinds of outrageous antics. The sunny, cheerful Jing Ran enters a horror game and awakens the “You're So Shameless” god-tier System. He obtains all kinds of bizarre skills and uses them to dominate the horror game! [Pinru's Wardrobe] Summons Pinru's wardrobe to drop from the sky and smash the target. Sneak attacks are just that satisfying! [100% Face-Slapping] Forces the target to kneel for 55Reads6.1Score—14d adds
- 63 The Dragon Coffin 龙棺 The day my mother gave birth to me, a dying giant snake frightened her so badly that she started bleeding. In a fit of rage, my father cut off the snake’s head. When I was born, birds and beasts took flight, and countless snakes gathered, surrounding our courtyard so tightly that nothing could get in or out. My grandfather asked a feng shui master to resolve the matter. He buried the giant snake’s remains in our ancestral graveyard, and only then did its resentment subside. Ever since I was old 315Reads8.1Score—14d adds
- 64 Fox Town 狐镇 After surviving a landslide, Qiu Yiyao returns to the hometown she left years ago, only to find that everything there feels strange. Her father is a stranger, the neighbors are odd, and the other survivors are dying one after another. Then there’s the mysterious forum that appears from time to time: We’re being watched. As the truth slowly comes to light, she discovers that everything is connected to the white fox she saved all those years ago. 8Reads—Score—14d adds
- 65 Lady Fox Immortal, You Haven’t Hidden Your Tail Properly 狐仙大人，你的尾巴没藏好 That year, I was twenty. Fine white hair inexplicably sprouted all over my body. The village’s spirit medium, Granny Hui, laughed and said, “When white fur appears, romance is near.” That night, under a moonless sky, I was forced into a red wedding dress and married off to a man I had never met. On our wedding night, he raised his voice and snarled, “Su Jinhe, you made me lose a tail, and you still have the nerve to cling to me and marry me? You’re asking to die!” Me: ???!!! (Completely bewilder 71Reads6.8Score—14d adds
- 66 Immortal Fate, Ghostly Body 仙命鬼身 When I was born, the sun rose at midnight. The darkness faded, and purple clouds appeared on the horizon. My grandfather said it was an omen of an emperor, and that I was destined for wealth and honor. But on my sixteenth birthday, daylight never came. Countless evil spirits came knocking, and everyone in my family died except me! After my family was buried, an unexpected guest came calling again. From him, I learned that I was no ordinary person. I was born under the Queen Mother's fate, with a 6Reads—Score—14d adds
- 67 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
- 68 I Was Scammed Into Buying a Haunted House from the Start, So I Invited a Fox Immortal to Subdue All Evil 开局被骗买凶宅，我请狐仙镇百邪 From the Start, I Was Tricked into Buying a Haunted House, So I Summoned a Fox Immortal to Suppress Every Evil Spirit 2Reads—Score114d adds
- 69 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
- 70 The Dragon King’s Embryo 龙王胎 In 1934, my grandmother witnessed a strange dragon-fall incident with her own eyes... Many years later, scales began to grow on my body. Worse still, I somehow became pregnant with a monster! I lead troops, run an incense hall, and carry out the rituals. I'm a female shaman, and my husband is the Dragon King! 344Reads7.1Score—14d adds
- 71 Nine Serpents Carry the Coffin 九蛇抬棺 When I was born, my father cut off several snakes with a knife. Ever since then, I’ve often dreamed at night of a huge black snake coiling around me, squeezing the breath from my lungs as if it were taking revenge. On my eighteenth birthday, the villagers tied me up and sent me to the mountain behind the village… 86Reads7.1Score—14d adds
- 72 Is This the Funeral Parlor? 是那间丧葬店吗？ A funeral goods shop that looks completely out of place has suddenly opened on a bustling shopping street. It keeps its doors shut during the day and opens for business by night. Qi Shiwu, born at an hour of yin, accidentally becomes a shop assistant. What connection could she have to this place? Follow Shiwu as she opens the shop’s doors! “Shh! A customer’s here!” 102Reads—Score—14d adds
- 73 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
- 74 The Heavenly Eye Coffin: Tales of Tomb Raiding in Tibet 天眼棺材：西藏盗墓惊奇录 [Mystery] + [Supernatural] + [Horror] + [Tomb Raiding] Two tomb-raiding enthusiasts meet online. After receiving an invitation from a mysterious stranger, they head to Tibet in search of an ancient tomb containing a coffin with a celestial eye. After enduring countless dangers, they uncover a shocking secret and treasure, and encounter both allies and enemies, along with a web of intrigue. Hidden inside the celestial-eye coffin is a crystal ball that can see through everything. It will change 2Reads—Score—14d adds
- 75 Demons Lurk in Qingcheng 青城有妖 On Mount Qingcheng lived a snake demon named Qing Shanjun, known as the Great Immortal Qing. The Great Immortal Qing often lounged in front of a waterfall on Mount Qingcheng, admiring his own beauty and bragging, “I’m such a gorgeous male snake, and I’ve been single for over nine hundred years. I really have kept myself pure!” On his first day down the mountain, the Great Immortal Qing latched onto Su Hexiang, the young woman who had caused him to fail his tribulation. He couldn’t kill her or ea 9Reads7.0Score—14d adds
- 76 Notes of a Spirit Medium: I Set KPIs for My Spirit Hall 出马仙笔记我制定堂仙考核KPI [Humorous] [Supernatural] [Spirit Medium] [No System] [Not a Wish-Fulfillment Novel] [Treasure Hunt] [Growth] [Defying Fate] I died after falling for a beauty’s trap, but then I came back to life. I even got to experience a trip to the underworld. What’s it like down there? Look, there’s a young lady standing by a pink doorway up ahead, dressed in something so revealing it looks ready to burst. She’s waving at me. “Hey, handsome, wanna come have some fun?” But I’m a model young man. “Go have fun 34Reads—Score—14d adds
- 77 The Snake King Takes a Wife, Subduing a Hundred Demons 蛇王娶妻，镇百妖 I've been afraid of snakes ever since I was little, but Grandma told me that on the day I was born, a violent storm broke out, and little snakes slithered all over the courtyard. It turned out I was born under an ominous fate and was incredibly hard to keep alive. To save me, Grandma arranged a marriage between me and the snake in the village well, hoping it would give me a chance to survive. When I came of age, I didn't take the matter seriously and even got a boyfriend. But I never expected to 417Reads8.5Score10214d adds
- 78 The Fox Immortal Descends: A Cursed Fox's Fate 狐仙降世：诡命狐缘 On the day she was born, a blind old fortune-teller declared that Bai Xiao was destined to a life of extreme yin: “This girl won’t live past eight. At eighteen, she’ll be beset by a hundred ghosts and meet certain death.” She refused to believe him and stubbornly made it to eighteen. But the year she turned eighteen, she watched with her own eyes as her grandmother climbed out of her coffin, intending to bury her alive and take her along as a funeral offering… “Xiao Xiao, come with Grandma…” As 10Reads—Score—14d adds
- 79 Married to a Snake 蛇嫁 In late spring of 1993, after my grandfather returned from a trip, he gave me a pendant. From then on, my life changed dramatically. One day, a wickedly alluring man appeared, abducted me by force, and made me his disciple in the art of spirit-mediumship. He often said, “The debt your grandfather owes is yours to repay for the rest of your life...” 65Reads7.5Score—14d adds
- 80 An Unbroken Serpent Marriage: The Snake Lord Is Too Fierce 阴缘不断：蛇夫太凶猛 When I was ten, I hurt a snake. More than a decade later, it came back for revenge, and strange things began happening around me… It all began that night when I caught a ride with the guy of my dreams… 68Reads6.4Score—14d adds
- 81 Republic-Era Mountain God: The Nine-Headed Serpent Lord 民国山神：九头蛇君 When I was born, a thousand snakes carried a coffin. Grandpa said the Snake God wanted a bride, and if we refused, both Mom and I would die. When I was five, a high fever left me able to see spirits. I often saw a snake with nine heads. He and I grew up together, and whenever I was in danger, he always came to my rescue. As an adult, I became a spirit medium. The mountain god’s temple was destroyed, my eldest brother was murdered, and my aunt, who had been dead for twenty-eight years, suddenly r 649Reads8.8Score10214d adds
- 82 Married to a Snake 蛇嫁 My mother died in difficult labor while giving birth to me. As they were lowering her coffin into the grave, a white snake coiled around it. The pallbearers fled in terror, and when the coffin hit the ground, I crawled out of my mother’s corpse. Ever since, the great white snake has pursued me relentlessly, insisting I bear him a whole brood of little white snakes. What am I supposed to do? 93Reads8.4Score—14d adds
- 83 Born of a Corpse, Bound to the Snake King 尸生女，蛇王契 [The male lead is an utterly controlling Snake Immortal Lord. The female lead grows over time, and is neither a doormat nor stupid. They fall head over heels for each other in a super-sweet romance!] This story has a few mildly scary scenes, but nothing too frightening. And it really is sweet, sweet, sweet, tooth-achingly sweet!! Manual divider When my mother gave birth to me, it took three days and three nights. The doctor took one look and froze in shock. My mother had already died. It was he 3.7kReads8.6Score71614d adds
- 84 Bound by the Snake Husband 蛇夫缠 My life belongs to a snake. From the day I was born, Grandma sold me to a snake. I grew up sleeping in a coffin with snake skin, living as a freak. For the sake of that snake, Grandma taught me to be a shaman 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 traded… 649Reads8.5Score10214d adds
- 85 Doted on Too Much by My Nonhuman Husband 被非人老公过分宠爱 [Satisfying romance + sweet doting love + supernatural + scheming] Because of my unusual constitution and fate, my grandfather arranged a marriage for me before he died. He only appears at night, and loves kissing, cuddling, and lifting me up in his arms! And wherever he appears, all sorts of bizarre events follow! It wasn’t until the very end that I discovered he had been with me because... 114Reads8.5Score—14d adds
- 86 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
- 87 A Light in Your Name 以你之名的光 She suffered from childhood: her family was broken apart, her father was indifferent and her mother distant. After moving in with her grandmother, she learned the arts of the strange and mysterious, miraculous medicine, and the art of reading people’s fortunes and misfortunes! Her doting senior brother helps her level up through life. The powerful, clingy, devoted male lead would climb to the heavens or descend to the underworld for her. And there’s an adorable, lively little fox who worries him —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 88 The Granny's Infinite Returns: From the Start, She Strikes Back Against Her Demon Son-in-Law 老太无限回归，开局反杀恶魔女婿 [Strong Female Lead + Elderly Woman + No CP + Metaphysical Livestreaming + Face-Slapping and Scum-Bashing] After clearing the Infinite Worlds, Xia Xiulian seals away her memories and returns to the time before her daughter and granddaughter were harmed. This time, she'll make sure they escape the clutches of their abusers. She firmly supports her daughter's divorce, fights back against the demonic son-in-law who comes to harass them, and gets a divorce of her own while she's at it. As she rewrit —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 89 Soul Funeral Director 灵魂殡葬师 My name is Zeng Yao. Yao, as in “beautiful as jade.” I have no father or mother. They say my mother died in childbirth, and no one knows who my father was. My uncle, Old Lei, brought me home. My uncle had an unusual profession: he was an undertaker. He beautified and applied makeup to the dead, then handled their cremation and everything else. Like father, like son, they say, but although I wasn’t my uncle’s child, he made me learn all those things from a young age. But I didn’t like it. I eve 461Reads8.7Score10014d adds
- 90 The Fox King's Wife 狐王妻 ❤️ My name is Lu Qingyang. On the day of Jingzhe, my mother secretly gave birth to me in an abandoned Fox Immortal temple. The villagers bullied me and called me a fox demon that ate people's eyes. They dug out my left eye, then summoned a Taoist priest to call down lightning and kill me. When I grew up, a bizarre blood-red image of a fox worshipping the Big Dipper appeared on my waist. From then on, misfortune followed me everywhere. To find the mysterious man who stole my eye, I met the Fox Ki 67Reads6.6Score—14d adds
- 91 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
- 92 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
- 93 The Fox Takes a Wife 狐娶妻 A sunshower in the mountains, a fox wedding in the woods. The living must keep away. They say that if someone catches sight of a fox wedding, the marriage is ruined, and the couple may never be able to marry. The witness will be relentlessly hunted down until their family is destroyed. But when Gu Hanshuang encounters one, things don't go as the rumors say. Hu Xueyin, the groom of the fox wedding, sticks by her day after day, backs her into a corner, and softly asks, “Between him and me, who's m 240Reads8.7Score—14d adds
- 94 Snake Calamity 蛇劫 The day I was born, two snakes, one female and one male, fell in unison from the eaves above our front door. My grandfather, who had spent his whole life catching snakes, actually dropped to his knees before them right then and there. Everyone was terrified by what my grandfather had done. I was three days old, yet I still wouldn’t eat or drink, cry or fuss. I just stared with my wide-open eyes. My family panicked, thinking I was possessed, and went out of their way to invite the village shaman 259Reads8.6Score10214d adds
- 95 The Snake's Seduction 蛇欲撩情 I went back to the countryside to move a grave, and ended up attracting a huge black snake. He went to great lengths to get close to me, following me from the countryside all the way to my company. “Shen Ning, you have to take responsibility for me,” he whispered softly in her ear. 1kReads7.7Score10414d adds
- 96 Judge's Darling Wife, Behave Yourself: Your Husband Is a Jealous Man 判官娇妻安分点，你老公是醋精 [Metaphysics + domineering CEO + ghost hunting + revenge + everyone’s favorite + power couple + satisfying read + secret identities] My new novel, The Ghost King Spoils Her Sickly Husband, Shaking Both the Yin and Yang Worlds, is updating regularly. Come give it a read! Shen Ci spent over ten thousand years in Fengdu, eventually becoming a judge of the underworld. She never expected a botched soul-summoning to leave her stranded in the mortal world. Her unlucky ghost of a brother is being bullie 45Reads8.4Score—14d adds
- 97 I Cultivate the True Five Thunder Method and Crush the Evil Ghosts of the Spirit Realm 我修五雷正法，力压鬼界恶鬼 Xu Fan was born different. His natural Yin-Yang Eyes could suppress every evil spirit and demon. After Old Xu died, Xu Fan inherited the family’s ancestral spirit hall and became a shamanic medium. He battles Japanese invaders and evil spirits! Beats up the island nation’s Yin-Yang masters! Bullies the shikigami You Chizi! And marries a thousand-year-old White Snake Immortal! 615Reads7.1Score—14d adds
- 98 Marry a Ghost Husband, Subdue a Hundred Spirits 嫁鬼夫，镇百诡 [Supernatural] [Ghost Hunting] [Devoted Husband] [Growing Female Lead] [Mutually Faithful] The rating just opened. It should go up later... Proud, reclusive Ghost Emperor Di Jun Xuanming × Chen Xuanqing, a cool and aloof girl born from a corpse The prequel, The Ghost Wedding on the Fifteenth Night of the Seventh Month, is complete. I was born in a coffin, a corpse-born girl whom everyone shunned. My birth mother was kidnapped and sold after her lover's scheming, then died horribly in a mass grav 17.9kReads8.3Score1.6k14d adds
- 99 A Stranger's Path Through the Ghost World 鬼途陌路 Modern setting + horror + suspense + supernatural + strong female lead Hu Ying is a funeral makeup artist who just wants to earn a little money and lie flat. Who would have thought that after an accident, she’d be forced onto a one-way road where she’d have to live among ghosts? From then on, she uncovers conspiracies and fights evil cults, and somehow ends up at the very peak of life... 82Reads—Score—14d adds
- 100 Goddess Reborn, Snake Immortal Wife 神女转世，蛇仙妻 An early work, an experiment. A girl born under an ill-starred fate, destined to be a goddess, with two immortals, a snake and a fox, circling around her, while the Ghost King of Kunlun fights to protect her to the death. I was born with a snake-shaped tattoo. It brought me plenty of benefits, but also some unpleasant consequences. My parents never let me get too close to boys, but when I hit puberty, I still broke that rule. Ever since then, a man has appeared in my dreams every single night... 7Reads8.0Score—14d adds
