Novels like A Thousand-Year Contract: The Underworld King Comes Calling
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- 151 The King of Hell’s Devotion: Meng Po’s Quest to Win Her Husband 阎王溺爱：孟婆追夫记 Meng Qiqi has spent thousands of years brewing soup in the underworld. Famous throughout the Three Realms for her violent, stunning beauty, she makes both the living and the dead tremble at the sound of her name. One day, a young immortal under the Matchmaker comes down to the mortal realm to gain experience. After she pins him down, makes him drink a bellyful of Meng Po soup, and tosses him off the Bridge of Helplessness, the Matchmaker holds a grudge against her. He ties her red thread to Shen 269Reads8.5Score105Shelves
- 152 One Day, I Became the Underworld’s Beloved 有一天，我成了冥界团宠 I’m pregnant, but the father of my child isn’t human. As if that weren’t enough, my grandmother, the only family I have, dies around the same time. To my surprise, with her dying breath, she entrusts me to the very creature that defiled me. I always thought he was a worthless ghost. Then I discovered that he eats like there’s no tomorrow and doesn’t feed on incense offerings. I thought I’d married a pig. Married to a pig? He might as well have been a ghost! After finally accepting the reality th 1.5kReads9.0Score125Shelves
- 153 The Fox Seeks a Wife 狐讨妻 When I was born, I fell gravely ill. To save my life, my father sold me to a white-haired fox. Fifteen years later, the fox came to collect its debt and demanded I repay it by becoming its disciple. From then on, I began encountering all kinds of bizarre things I could never have imagined. I thought the fox and I had nothing more than a simple debt to settle, but later I discovered a shocking secret hidden beneath it all. 400Reads9.0Score100Shelves
- 154 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… 451Reads8.8Score104Shelves
- 155 Rice Divination and a Ghostly Wedding 阴看米，鬼哭嫁 On the day I was born, paper figures came to pay their respects and left behind money to buy my life. To keep me alive, an old woman from Miaojiang made me lie in a paper coffin, pinned me down with bones, and buried me alive at birth. This drew a hundred ghosts to bow before me and severed the heads of nine dragons. The old woman said that a spirit wanted my life. She hid my shadow, and I must not look in a mirror before I turned sixteen. I followed her warning faithfully, but then the old woma 3.7kReads9.0Score454Shelves
- 156 The Ghost-Eyed Diviner 鬼瞳女卦师 [Supernatural + mildly scary + ghost hunting + fortune-telling + strong female lead’s growth + supporting romance] When I was seven, an evil sorcerer attacked me. I lost my eyes, and my family was destroyed. Just as I’d reached a dead end, my master came to my rescue and taught me how to tell fortunes. To cure my eyes, my master took me every night to keep watch at the entrance to the road of the dead. Whenever a ghost set off on its journey, my master would shake a white banner and chant loudly 815Reads9.2Score109Shelves
- 157 Nine Turns Back to the Underworld 九转归幽 The Yuan family has a daughter skilled in controlling paper. Strange mysteries abound as she searches for her father and mother. Exceptionally gifted in spiritual arts and violent by nature... The nine factions of the Mystic Sect each have their own agenda, and the Yuan family is caught in the middle, triggering a string of bizarre events. In the course of it all, Yuan Ling discovers that someone is secretly protecting her. As she follows the clues to her parents’ disappearance, she also searche 151Reads8.3Score—Shelves
- 158 The Spirit Burying Master 葬灵师 Every year since the year I was born, someone in the village has died. To keep me alive, Grandma arranged a marriage for me, and my betrothed was supposed to come for me when I came of age. On my eighteenth birthday, I discovered that the one who had come for me wasn't human... 146Reads7.9Score244Shelves
- 159 Married to a Dragon 嫁龙作夫 The year I was born, a dragon fell from the sky and landed in the mountains behind our village. Eighteen years later, my grandmother hanged herself from the crooked locust tree at the village entrance with a length of rope. The villagers all said the Dragon King was taking a bride, and that my grandmother had defied him and suffered retribution. After the entire village nailed me into a black coffin and buried me alive, that thing violated me. Only then did I realize that things were far more co 1.7kReads9.0Score191Shelves
- 160 The King of Hell's Third Bride 三嫁阎君 When I turned twenty, my father forced me into a marriage everyone dreaded. The wedding was set for the fifteenth day of the seventh lunar month, the Ghost Festival, and the man I was to marry... Wasn't human either. I was born without a heartbeat. My father used a secret art to keep me alive, and marrying this mysterious husband was my only chance of survival. On our wedding night, paper money swirled through the sky as eerie paper figures descended from above, carrying an eight-bearer phoenix 85.3kReads9.1Score13.6kShelves
- 161 A Clumsy Beauty Falls into the Beast World, Where a Bloodthirsty Demon King Dotes on Her 笨美人落兽世，嗜血魔王宠她入骨 With the help of the gods, she transmigrates to a world of beastmen. The females here are incredibly ugly and rare, so her beautiful looks make her a hot commodity! Unfortunately, she lands in the City of the Demon Realm, feared by every tribe... For her own safety, she has no choice but to play the good girl in front of the Demon Realm King. She plans to coast along and live off his hospitality, but the City of the Demon Realm isn’t as simple as she imagined... One mishap would be understandabl 677Reads8.9Score106Shelves
- 162 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.” 562Reads8.8Score104Shelves
- 163 Is It So Wrong to Pick Up a Little Zombie While Fleeing Disaster? 逃难捡到一只小僵尸不过份吧？ [The main couple get together in the main story. The Gu Chen arc is an extra, not part of the main story! Not part of the main story! Not part of the main story!] Zombie arc: Nothing particularly special about me. If I had to name something, I'd say I'm especially unlucky. After I transmigrated, I became a professional funeral wailer to survive. I was so good at crying that my colleagues grew jealous. On the way home, they ambushed me, and I nearly lost half my life. Luckily, I fell into an anci 9.5kReads8.8Score766Shelves
- 164 The Female Spirit Medium 女出马仙 We read the fortunes of the dead and the living, settle debts with aggrieved spirits, and handle lost souls, hysteria, and demonic possession! If it’s anything out of the ordinary, there’s nothing our shamanic spirit medium, Wu Mei, can’t handle! Jealous colleagues come by to challenge us? No problem. We have powerful connections up above... Lord Tu Tanyue, emperor of the Qingqiu Nine-Tailed Fox Clan and so handsome he has no rivals, spoils his wife without limit. His half-fox spirit medium brid 844Reads8.8Score100Shelves
- 165 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 429Reads9.0Score101Shelves
- 166 She Kills, He Hands Her the Knife: The Princess Consort Is a Master of Medicine and Poison 她杀人，他递刀，王妃她医毒双绝 Ye Ningyou was a genius doctor in the 21st century. Her grandfather was a veteran practitioner of traditional Chinese medicine, and he made her study for years so she could carry on his legacy. As a result, her greatest wish in life was to slack off and lie flat. After an accident, she transmigrated into the body of the second daughter of an ancient chancellor's household and was betrothed to Prince Jing, Mu Nanjing. After the wedding, she finally got the laid-back life she had always wanted. Bu 6kReads8.5Score755Shelves
- 167 The Demon Husband Is Here 妖夫在上 I have a birthmark, and I covered it with a tattoo to make it look better. Who could have guessed the tattoo shop I chose would be so unreliable? They actually tattooed a demon on me. From then on, my life was never peaceful again. 1.5kReads8.9Score239Shelves
- 168 The Snake Pregnancy in October 十月蛇胎 A serious illness left me pregnant after ten months, and the child's father was a snake: The Northeast Spirit Medium, the true story of a female spirit medium 342Reads8.7Score113Shelves
- 169 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! 617Reads8.4Score101Shelves
- 170 The Wolf King's Wife: Sacrificed in the Womb 狼王妻：胎祭 The night my younger sister and I were born, a blood moon hung in the sky and a thousand wolves howled. From then on, a black wolf clung to me… ✨ When I was twenty, I killed my sister. But strange scales sprouted on my legs, and I became pregnant with the beast’s abomination… 75Reads8.2Score—Shelves
- 171 After Transmigrating, I Became the Vampire Duke's Maid 穿越后我成为了吸血鬼王爵的女仆 A proud, cruel vampire duke who says one thing but means another vs. a self-respecting human of low status. A true regretful pursuit. She wakes up to find she has transmigrated into a vampire world where humans are food, and become the personal maid to the vampire duke with the finest bloodline and highest status in the world, who hates and despises humans more than anyone. Su Li says, “It’s fine. I can survive.” Duke Norman sighs, “What a lowly, pitiful, useless human.” Su Li: “…” If only you d 903Reads8.5Score106Shelves
- 172 The Dragon King's Wife 龙王妻 On the night of the blood moon, the Dragon King takes a bride. Luo Anzhi was born a noblewoman, but fate swept her up and made her the Dragon King's wife. From then on, she set out on a path unlike anyone else's... 1kReads9.1Score360Shelves
- 173 What the Hell, I’m the Ghost King’s Bride 见鬼，我居然是鬼王的新娘 [A tsundere Ghost King and his two timid little brides, a sugary-sweet romance] The son of Youdu Mountain, a Ghost King born of heaven and earth, was chosen by the Book of Matrimony to serve as the God of Joy and matchmaker. Nearly a century into the job, he still wore black from head to toe, liked to wander at night, and was steeped in deathly aura. With the Ghost King serving as the God of Joy, birth rates were low, marriage rates were low, and divorce rates were high. The Book of Matrimony sa 813Reads9.3Score112Shelves
- 174 The Chaste Older Man's Only Love Is His Sweetheart 禁欲大叔独宠小娇妻 [Older-man romance, ten-year age gap, one-on-one, both leads’ first love] There was a ten-year age gap between them. They met on a messaging app. Guan Yanxi met an older man on a messaging app. After her college entrance exams, things between them developed quickly. Guan Yanxi’s goal was, “If I can’t have him, I’ll sleep with him, then break up.” But she never expected to get in too deep. Shi Yan had never imagined being with a young woman, but everything about her drew him in. He didn’t want to 12Reads—Score—Shelves
- 175 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 1.8kReads9.3Score219Shelves
- 176 The King of Hell's Own Daughter Streams Herself Exorcising Ghosts, Leaving Him Stunned 阎王亲闺女直播虐鬼后他不淡定了 [Mystical Ghost Hunting] [True and Fake Heiresses] [Strong Female Lead] [Beloved by Everyone] [Secret Identities] [Live Streaming] [Scheming, Funny] [Two Powerful Leads] The little ancestor of the ghost realm is sent by her King of Hell father to train in the human world. The moment she arrives, she nearly kicks someone's crown jewels clean off. From then on, she does whatever she likes, either taking down scumbags or scaring ghosts... The scumbags: Someone, please deal with her! The vengeful gh 233Reads9.2Score100Shelves
- 177 Having a Son Is Like Having the King of Hell 生个儿子是阎王 Five years ago, I gave birth to a child. Everyone who saw what the child looked like died. Five years later, I met a man who told me he was the child's father. 16.9kReads8.9Score377Shelves
- 178 The Demon Lord Is Here 妖君在上 In the thirteenth year of the Republic, with the country in turmoil, Shen Lingyin was born in an isolated village surrounded by strange legends. When she came of age, the villagers chose her as a sacrifice, but she unexpectedly uncovered a secret buried for a thousand years... Born at midnight on the second day of the second lunar month in the Year of the Tiger, she was chosen by fate, yet doomed to bring disaster. To survive, she forms an alliance with a mysterious man and walks the razor's edg 889Reads9.0Score141Shelves
- 179 A Snake’s Twisted Love 蛇缠异爱 Unable to turn down her friend's request, Lihua agrees to go with her best friend to a wedding and serve as a bridesmaid. Little does she know that this wedding will make her life feel as if it's spiraling out of control. 394Reads6.8Score102Shelves
- 180 The Ghost-Hunting Chronicles of Chang'an 长安御鬼行 (A bold, dashing female Yin-Yang Master from Chang'an + The sharp-tongued, arrogant King of Ten Thousand Ghosts) Ye Yaoniang is a renowned Yin-Yang Master in Chang'an. Born with Yin Eyes and extraordinary abilities, she walks between the worlds of yin and yang. Clad in red and armed with a golden blade, she roams the land, vanquishing demons and slaying ghosts without batting an eye. Even the ghost officials of the underworld show her respect. One day, she accidentally takes a sharp-tongued Ghos 7Reads8.4Score—Shelves
- 181 Calling on the Immortals 请仙儿 In our village, every adult child in the family has to visit the graves during the Qingming Festival and weigh down paper offerings on the graves. But when I went to pay my respects at Grandma's grave, I put the paper on the wrong one... 526Reads8.7Score111Shelves
- 182 The Snake King’s Wife 蛇王夫 My father buried me as soon as I was born. A snake saved my life. When I turned eighteen, that snake found me and demanded I repay him by becoming his wife… 1.3kReads9.1Score158Shelves
- 183 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 560Reads8.8Score109Shelves
- 184 The Allure of the Fox 狐香引 When I was eighteen, my grandma passed away. I inherited the spirit hall and became a female disciple who served the immortals. Thus began my strange journey in their company, and my fate changed forever... 918Reads8.9Score111Shelves
- 185 Married to a Snake 与蛇为妻 The fourteenth day of the seventh month, an auspicious day. The Snake Immortal is taking a bride. All bystanders must keep away. I was born unlucky. My mother died in childbirth, and I stopped breathing, too. My grandmother found a Snake Immortal to breathe life into me, but a patch of python-scale patterns appeared over my heart. When I was eight, a man in a dark jade robe came before me. He told me that he would come to marry me ten years later. In the blink of an eye, ten years had nearly pas 4.3kReads9.1Score491Shelves
- 186 The Ghost King Spoils His Sickly Beloved, Shaking Both the Yin and Yang Worlds 鬼王强宠病娇夫，轰动阴阳两界 [Supernatural arts + seducing her husband + one-on-one, both leads are virgins + sweet romance + episodic ghost stories and cases + secret identities + multiple twists] [A psychotic, ruthless, Chinese-style little ghost king vs. a domineering, calculating, ruthless business tycoon] Si Jiu had roamed the underworld of Fengdu for a thousand years, unable to enter the cycle of reincarnation. She watched one generation after another of ghost kings pass away, until she finally rose to the throne h 243Reads8.9Score—Shelves
- 187 After the Rebellious Lucky Carp Descends to Earth, All Ghosts and Monsters Go Into Hiding 反骨锦鲤下凡后，鬼怪通通躲起来 [Mysticism, ghost and demon hunting, putting scumbags in their place, doted-on heroine, lucky koi, feel-good story, comedy, episodic plot] [A beautiful, pampered, hot-tempered lucky koi who gets away with everything vs. an obsessive god with a human face and a beast’s heart] The wealthy Shen family suddenly found their missing youngest daughter, who had been gone for a year. They heard she was beautiful, sweet, innocent, and brimming with lively energy. But the girl turned out to have a peculiar 18Reads8.2Score—Shelves
- 188 Blood Wedding 血嫁 Ever since I received a strange hundred-yuan bill, every wedding I attend ends in bloodshed. The grooms have their throats slit, their blood splattering across the brides’ white gowns. Ten couples have died for no apparent reason, and I’m the only one who has seen the killer: the Grim Reaper, holding a scythe... A cold and aloof fiancé appears out of nowhere. A mysterious exorcist hides in a coffee shop. Strange supernatural incidents pull me into a terrifying, thrilling spiral. At last, the da 961Reads8.6Score121Shelves
- 189 The Demon Lord's Adorable Little Wife 魔尊的可爱小娇妻 Modern romance + sweet pampering + supernatural + a Demon Venerable who spoils his wife rotten + love at first sight + amnesia + reincarnation + … After an accident, Wu Xue'er enters into a contract. Demon Venerable: “Be a good girl. Your husband likes you. Give me your… Well, that's a good girl, Xue'er. Your husband will take good care of you.” Wu Xue'er: “You lecher!” 26Reads—Score—Shelves
- 190 My Ghostly Husband, Don’t Be So Bad 鬼神老公，别太坏 [Devoted Couple + Supernatural Mysteries + Ghost-Hunting + Lots of Fun Tropes + Strong-Willed Heroine + Utterly Devoted Husband] My name is An Ning. I was born on Ghost Festival and carry a demon eye, so everyone thinks I'm cursed. Since childhood, a mysterious man I couldn't see has saved my life again and again. He told me, "If you want me to protect you forever, we have to make a marriage pact when you turn twenty." Then, on my twentieth birthday, my demon eye went out of control. I had a dan 9kReads9.1Score906Shelves
- 191 The Lady Is Spoiled Rotten by the Demon Lord 夫人被妖君大人宠野了 Her fiancé buried her alive. On the very day she was reborn, she clawed her way out of the grave, put on her red bridal gown, and married the great demon lord who would devour you without even spitting out the bones. She thought her story would end there, but who knew the Demon King would carry her across the Three Realms, sweeping all before him… (Note: The male lead is a domineering, possessive Demon Venerable, while the female lead is a clever and adorable veterinarian who transmigrated to an 15Reads8.7Score—Shelves
- 192 The Stunning Young Heavenly Master’s Daily Face-Slapping 绝色小天师打脸日常 Tang Yici is the youngest disciple of a mystic sect, born with a Heavenly Eye that lets her see the realms of yin and yang. But when she turns twenty-two, her master reads her fate and tells her she must guide a hundred thousand restless spirits, or she will never set foot on the Road to the Underworld or cross the River of Forgetfulness. With no other choice, she has to embark on the path of a Celestial Master. She discovers that every spirit has a tale of love and hatred behind it. Watch as th 899Reads9.4Score145Shelves
- 193 Lord Chu, Your Wife Says Come Home and Catch Ghosts! 褚爷，夫人喊你回家抓鬼！ For the first seventeen years of her life, Qing Yanrou cared about only two things: cultivating her powers and catching ghosts, and taking care of her grandfather. But then her long-absent biological father appeared and accused her of being heartless and unworthy of being his daughter. Her half-sister tearfully claimed that Qing Yanrou had stolen her man. Qing Yanrou: What? She only had two family members in this life: her late mother and her elderly grandfather. Where did these other people get 371Reads9.1Score106Shelves
- 194 My Husband Is a Retired Official in the Underworld 老公在地府当退休领导 [Two Male Leads + Supernatural and Ghostly Encounters + All Walks of Life + Happy Ending] Shen Yinqing lost both his parents as a child. His uncle and aunt “married” him off to the Heng family, where he entered into a ghost marriage with his deceased husband, Heng Yan. After graduating, he became unemployed. To kill time, he watched fortune-telling livestreams for fun, but through a stroke of ill fortune, he ended up at the Nanyuan City Branch of the Supernatural Incident Management Bureau... 3.4kReads8.6Score463Shelves
- 195 After I Was Forced to Marry the Ghost King, I Fell for Him 被迫和鬼王成亲后，我真香了 On the fifteenth day of the seventh month, Luo Xun is tricked by his boyfriend into going to a mountain village to marry a dead person, all for a sum of money. Locked inside a coffin and buried underground, Luo Xun pounds on the lid in terror “Is anyone there? Please, help me…” he begs helplessly. The Ghost King, awakened by the noise, says, “…” Of all the offerings he’s received over the years, this one is by far the prettiest. He supposes he can keep him! Later Pinning the Ghost King down, Luo 1.2kReads8.8Score183Shelves
- 196 Shh! The Chu Family Kid Is Taking Paper Effigies Ghost-Hunting Again 嘘！楚家崽崽又带纸人出门抓鬼啦 [Supernatural Mysteries + Everyone’s Favorite + Adorable Child] A wealthy young man from the city joined the reality show Metamorphosis to experience life in the countryside, where he fell for the jinx everyone in the village avoided. Tangtang was born with yin-yang eyes and could recognize ghosts and distinguish good from evil. But her father and stepmother despised her and made her live in the doghouse. Her stepmother was furious that the rich young man had taken a liking to Tangtang and false 312Reads9.2Score100Shelves
- 197 The Fox’s Allure 狐色魅人 [A new book from Zaizai: Nine Yin Girl is now live. We hope you'll show it lots of support. Thank you!] To save my parents' lives, I made a deal with a fox immortal. From then on, I opened a shrine and did good deeds. I devoted myself to worshipping the fox immortal and helping him achieve immortality as soon as possible, never expecting that he had other plans for me... 7.9kReads9.3Score732Shelves
- 198 The Yin-Born Girl and Her Snake King Betrothed 阴生女，蛇王聘 The day I was born, the Imperial Star entered my fate, and a hundred ghosts clung to me. To keep me alive, my grandmother summoned the most powerful guardian spirit in the north to suppress my fate. With a python as my master, I became a spirit medium, learned the ways of yin and yang and the Eight Trigrams, and traveled across the land to protect the world. Under my master's protection, I became a generation's greatest prodigy. But in doing so, I also glimpsed secrets and heavenly mysteries I w 6.9kReads8.9Score447Shelves
- 199 I’m the Mighty King of Hell’s Daughter, So What’s Wrong With Being Down-to-Earth? 我堂堂阎王闺女儿，接地气很合理 Su Xianyu takes on a task from her father, the King of Hell, to find her reincarnated lover, transmigrating into the body of the pitiful real daughter who was switched at birth in the Su family. The Su and Huo families have a marriage agreement, but the Sus don't want to marry off the fake daughter they've raised for seventeen years to the sickly eldest son of the Huo family as a sacrificial bride. So they find the real daughter, who was left behind in a remote village, and bring her back to t 557Reads8.9Score100Shelves
- 200 My Lord Hades 我的冥王殿下 Ming Jiu is an orphan who was raised by his grandmother. His eyes are not only a different color from everyone else's, but they can also see ghosts... For a certain reason, Ming Jiu begins helping ghosts seek justice. He has never been possessed before, but then he runs into a vicious ghost! This evil spirit isn't afraid of glutinous rice, black dog blood, or copper-coin swords. It even possesses him again and again, bullying him... And yet, it also saves his life time after time... Until one da 125Reads9.3Score—Shelves
