Novels like The Gu Lady
Books Chinese readers most often put in the same booklists as The Gu Lady, best match first.
- 151 Adenovirus Swimming Pool: I Fell Asleep and Was Pulled into a Livestream, Then My Child Disappeared 腺病毒游泳馆：睡一觉被拉进直播后，我的孩子不见了 The Adenovirus Swimming Pool: I Was Pulled Into a Livestream While I Slept, and My Child Disappeared 2Reads—Score—Shelves
- 152 Miaojiang Gu Chronicles 2 苗疆蛊事2 "Witchcraft of Miaojiang II", also known as "Witchcraft of Miaojiang: The End of the World", is written by Nan Wu Jia Sha Li Ke Fo. The calamity of witchcraft has persisted for thousands of years, ever since the Western Han dynasty, despite repeated attempts to suppress it. Today, as traditional Chinese culture declines and public awareness grows, only country folk in this vast land of China still talk about it. Many people caught up in the affairs of the world don't even know it exists. Yet wi 6.6kReads9.3Score723Shelves
- 153 The Snake-Eyed Girl with a Dark Fate 蛇瞳阴命女 [Mysticism + marriage before love + groveling pursuit + sweet romance + lighthearted comedy] My name is Xu Yao. When I was six, my father beat a giant black python to death. From that day on, disaster struck, and my family was destroyed. I lost sight in one eye as a result. My grandmother prayed to the gods for me through the night, then sent me to Qingfeng Temple on Jinding Peak. She said the temple could protect me as I grew up, and gave me a silver bracelet, warning me never to take it off, n 332Reads—Score100Shelves
- 154 Snake Scales 蛇纹 When I was six, I came down with a strange illness. Dark red snake scales covered my body. They looked horrifying and revolting, and whenever it rained, they became unbearably itchy and painful. Everyone said it was payback for my father catching and killing snakes, and that he deserved to have a snake girl for a daughter. My family paid no mind to the gossip, but that night, a white snake suddenly coiled around me and demanded that I repay my blood debt… 111Reads7.0Score—Shelves
- 155 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—Shelves
- 156 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—Shelves
- 157 The Mad Immortal of Gu Poison 炼蛊疯仙 In this world, Gu is supreme, and the lives of ordinary people are as worthless as ants. The young Gu Feng begins in the Sealed Demon Valley. To survive and grow stronger, he is willing to use any means necessary. Bowing and scraping is only my disguise. Refining Gu to become an immortal is my ultimate goal. I was never good. So how can I be called a demon? I’m no saint. Why should I pretend to be above it all? Heaven and earth are Gu, and all things are Gu. Gu Masters have nine ranks, and I’ll 2.2kReads6.2Score103Shelves
- 158 The Young Man from Miaojiang Has Turned Dark 苗疆少年黑化了 Sweet, innocent older sister × Miaojiang younger brother (sweet on the outside, sinister within) When Xu You learns that her best friend went missing after traveling to a Miao village, she decides to go search for her on her own. There, she meets a well-dressed Miao boy. At first, he says, “Need any help, sis? I can help you look.” Later, he says, “Sis, you’re really heartless, aren’t you? You found your friend and now you want to abandon me?! You’re just going to use me and toss me aside?” “I’m 680Reads6.9Score112Shelves
- 159 I Became a Gu 我变成了一只蛊 After transmigrating into a village of witchcraft and poison, Feng Yao became an adorable little spider. He finally accepted his fate and decided to evolve into a fearsome divine Gu. But the first task the System gave him was “Do not eat,” and the second was “Do not become a Golden Silkworm.” Feng Yao broke into a cold sweat. What the hell was he supposed to do now? 119Reads6.5Score—Shelves
- 160 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. 1kReads7.7Score104Shelves
- 161 The Commandery Princess Won't Fall in Love, but Her Obsessive Ex-Husband Won't Leave Her Alone 郡主不入爱河，病娇前夫缠她上瘾 [Completed] “Black-lotus princess from the Central Plains vs. lovesick, possessive young man from Miaojiang” Alternate universe, one-on-one romance, both leads have no past relationships, happy ending · Yun Si is investigating a rebel conspiracy in Jiangnan under an assumed name when a trap nearly exposes her identity. In desperation, she tricks a harmless-looking, handsome young man into posing as her husband to conceal who she is. Her husband is gentle, obedient, and sweet. His only flaw is th 655Reads8.7Score100Shelves
- 162 That Miaojiang Boy Is a Master of Bewitching Hearts 那苗疆少年善蛊惑人心 [Mostly first-person narration, a sweet dumpling of a male lead who's an Oscar-worthy actor and a lovesick obsessive + a kind, gentle heroine] (Healing and redemption) (The male lead is disturbed. Don't read if that's not your thing.) To get over my breakup, I went on a trip to a Miao village. I thought the boy was a gentleman: gentle, kind, pure and adorable, someone you couldn't help feeling sorry for. But I never imagined that every word he said and every move he made was meant to draw me in, 517Reads8.7Score100Shelves
- 163 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.” 572Reads8.8Score104Shelves
- 164 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—Shelves
- 165 Abducted to Miaojiang and Doted on by All: The Whole Capital Is Regretful 被拐苗疆当团宠，全京城悔疯了 Also known as: After Being Taken in by the Miao, I Bring Their Young Chief Back to the Capital to Have My Back [From bullied by everyone to everyone's darling + mind reading + the whole capital grovels + animal speech + mutual healing] Qu Yang is a poor little thing. Everyone in the capital, Shengjing, takes a turn stepping on her. Her birth mother, the Eldest Princess, died young. Her father, who was set on becoming an official, remarried for influence, all to secure a place for himself at cour 298Reads8.9Score101Shelves
- 166 Didn't You Lose Your Memory? Then Why Do Your Eyes Turn Red When We Meet? 不是失忆了吗，怎么一见面就眼红 Leave the father, keep the child + capital's princeling + little boy + Miaojiang Saintess + wealthy female lead A tour group livestreams a visit to the most famous Miao village, and happens to capture the Miao Saintess on camera. Some suspect she's the faceless mommy streamer who went viral recently. Others think she's the capital's princeling's former rumored girlfriend. Li Yousheng's mother always told her that a Saintess could remain unmarried, but needed a child to inherit her position. Li 1.3kReads8.9Score103Shelves
- 167 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 347Reads9.1Score116Shelves
- 168 Bone Flute 骨笛 My grandmother was a famous spirit medium throughout the surrounding villages. I was a child she picked up and brought home. People in the village said that on the night she carried me home, flutes sounded throughout the village until dawn. The next day, every peach tree in the village had withered. They called me an ill omen, but my grandmother always treated me well, and life went on quietly like that, until the day I turned sixteen. Then everything changed. 1.3kReads9.0Score127Shelves
- 169 The Heavenly Coffin and the Snake Wife 天棺蛇妻 I was born under the fate of a calamity star. Before I was born, my mother was swallowed by a demon snake, and my grandfather raised me inside its belly. After I was born, a snake kept appearing in my dreams, saying she was my wife... 49Reads6.3Score—Shelves
- 170 A Fox-Born Daughter, the Snake King’s Wife 狐生女，蛇王妻 [First-Person Supernatural Fiction + Snake Husband + Marriage First, Love Later] Eighteen years ago, my father set a fire in the fields and accidentally burned a litter of fox cubs to death. On my parents’ wedding day, the cubs’ father came for revenge. It broke into the bridal chamber and violated my mother. Just six months later, I was born. I’m that fox’s daughter, and I’ve been fair-skinned and beautiful since childhood. When I turned eighteen, my body fully matured and began giving off a st 340Reads8.6Score—Shelves
- 171 The Yin Marriage Thread 阴缘线 Murong thought she was probably just born unlucky. Her master used her to nurture his soul, while her senior brothers and sisters used her to fend off the fate of the Five Bane-and-Deficiency Afflictions. Sometimes, she felt it didn’t really matter whether she lived or died. Then she met her little crew: her sisters, friends, and apprentices. They showed her how wonderful warmth could be! And there was that devoted, puppy-like young man. He was brave, confident, warm, and bright. He seemed like 35Reads—Score—Shelves
- 172 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 430Reads9.0Score101Shelves
- 173 A Life-and-Death Pact Between the King of Hell and Me 我和冥王的生死契约 "Half mystery + half comedy + the worlds of yin and yang + a male lead who is a cunning, devoted deity of the underworld + a kind, steadfast, brave mortal heroine + every character is clever" One lottery ticket, one contract, and from that moment on, my three souls and seven spirits belonged to him. I took something that was never mine, so I have to do good deeds, travel between the worlds of yin and yang, give away all my money, risk my life to repay him, and even give myself to him… He laid on 524Reads8.9Score—Shelves
- 174 Urban Hauntings: My Paper Knife Can Pierce Illusions 都市诡异：我的纸刀能破妄 The rating has just been released, so it may still go up. Zhang Ping, an unemployed advertising copywriter, is attacked by a paper figure with a slit mouth in his shared apartment on a stormy night, at the lowest point in his life. On the verge of death, he desperately throws out an old piece of yellow paper he has carried for years, unexpectedly activating a fragment of the ancestral “Blade of Illusion-Breaking” and a mysterious “Night Watchman System.” The System turns terrifying supernatural 3Reads8.3Score—Shelves
- 175 I, a Pixiu, Have Been Demoted to Barbecue Pig Trainee 我，貔貅，被贬成烤猪预备役 I, a Pixiu, Was Demoted to Roast-Pig-in-Training —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 176 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—Shelves
- 177 The Snake-Skin Wedding Dress 蛇皮嫁衣 When I was three, burns covered my body and my life hung by a thread. My grandmother saved me by peeling off a snake’s skin. From then on, I had an invisible ghost husband by my side... He said he had given me my life, and that since I had worn his snakeskin wedding dress, I belonged to him. If I dared so much as interact with another man, he would punish me harshly and kill my entire family. I carefully made it to the age of twenty, but still broke the taboo! An old Taoist priest came to the vi 606Reads8.9Score102Shelves
- 178 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 902Reads9.0Score147Shelves
- 179 Gu Master: Starting with the Dreamweaver Gu 蛊师：从获得衍梦蛊开始 Huang Ting was traveling through Miaojiang, exploring secluded places, when one misstep sent him tumbling off a cliff. He transmigrated into the Gu World. (You can follow the story without reading the original; the setting is gradually introduced.) Here, the Gu path flourishes, with countless wondrous and bizarre uses. Here, people are treacherous and scheme against one another... Here, clans and sects hold sway, making it hard for those at the bottom to rise. Here, no one is free; all living be 214Reads8.6Score—Shelves
- 180 The Celestial Tribulation Inspection Bureau 天劫巡检司 Whenever a cultivator in Linchuan City undergoes tribulation, the Heavenly Tribulation Inspection Bureau must survey the area in advance and verify the tribulation order to prevent stray lightning from harming innocent people. On his first solo night patrol, trainee inspector Shen Yan encounters a tribulation that should never have happened. The order calls for three bolts of lightning, but the scene bears seven scorch marks and eight corpses. The dead have no names, the order lists no target, a —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 181 A Haunted Romance? From the Start, I Kissed the Evil Spirit School Beauty! 诡异恋爱？开局强吻恶灵校花！ [Romance with a ghost + devoted lover + one heroine + horror instances] My name is Fang Han. The first thing I did after entering the horror instance [Demon University] was force a kiss on Jiang Shuyan, an SSS-rank evil spirit! That's because I awakened the Ghost Romance System. As long as I win over female ghosts, I can gain supernatural abilities! And naturally, my target is the breathtakingly beautiful, peerless ghost-school belle, with skin like cream! As my lips came down I watched Jiang Su 17Reads—Score—Shelves
- 182 Don't Look Back During Evening Study at School 学校晚自习别回头 Don’t Look Back During Evening Study at School 6Reads—Score—Shelves
- 183 The Yin Messenger's Wife 阴差夫人 Twin sisters, one human and one ghost. My parents were brutally murdered before my eyes. I sought help from a ghost-catching official to avenge them, but he demanded I catch three thousand ghosts for him. I never imagined I would end up becoming a ghost-catching official myself... 3.9kReads9.0Score335Shelves
- 184 Haunted University: I’m the Only Living Person on Campus 诡大学：全校就我一个活人 [Supernatural + one female lead] He scored 320 on the college entrance exam and just wanted to find a decent university to attend. He never expected to meet a ghostly version of Zhang Xuefeng, who recommended a ghost university 😭 His classmates and teachers are all ghosts 👻 —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 185 Infinite Haunting Realms: Beginning with a Murderer's Memories 无限诡域：从杀人记忆开始 [Infinite Flow] [Mild Horror] [Mystery and Crime Solving] [No CP] Lin Yu is certain that he killed someone, but the corpse he disposed of with his own hands vanished into thin air, and a vivid red line of death appeared around his neck. When he opened his eyes again, Lin Yu had been dragged into a strange instance... (Slow burn!! Important characters appear later. No golden finger, and he is not invincible.) Each instance seems to read their deepest memories. Every escape makes the so-called "re 1Reads—Score—Shelves
- 186 My Snake Immortal Husband Comes in the Dead of Night 蛇仙老公，深夜来 When I was ten, I came down with a fatal illness. To save me, Grandpa went to Changbai Mountain and brought back a snake pill. I recovered, but Grandpa and my parents all died. That dragon came for revenge… It didn’t kill me. It demanded offerings and wanted the snake pill back. From then on, Changbai Mountain had a new Pool Immortal Maiden. A pig spirit bewitches people, a little ghost steals unborn babies, and at midnight, who is it holding a bone umbrella and carrying a human-skin lantern to 324Reads9.1Score110Shelves
- 187 The Yin Walker: The Last Stick of Incense 走阴人：最后一炷香 Xu Zhaolin makes a living with his ears. He is a sound documentary field recorder, traveling through the countryside with a recorder on his back to document folk crafts on the verge of disappearing and the oral histories of the elderly. Three years ago, his twin brother, Xu Zhaochuan, vanished near the reservoir in Baishi Town. No one had seen him alive, and no body was ever found. Three years later, Xu Zhaolin returns to Baishi Town to record the final oral history of an old man. A stretch of b 7Reads—Score—Shelves
- 188 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, 1.8kReads9.1Score139Shelves
- 189 Rules of the Rest Stop on a Stormy Night 暴雨夜服务区规则怪谈 Rules of the Rest Stop on a Stormy Night 5Reads—Score—Shelves
- 190 Master of Medicine and Gu: The Mad Prince's Gorgeous Wildcat 医蛊双绝：疯批王爷俏狂妃 Lu Xuechao, a genius war doctor, transmigrated into a book in her true body! She landed right in the mansion of the male lead, a violent, unhinged prince afflicted with a Gu worm! Lu Xuechao declared, “I’ll cure the mad prince’s Gu, and I’ll be his princess consort!” And so... “I heard a remarkable woman has appeared in the Kingdom of Tianqi. She’s a formidable fighter who knocked several masters from the Shocking Sky Ranking flat on their backs!” Someone in the know replied, “Oh, that’s the Mad 372Reads8.8Score100Shelves
- 191 My Nemesis and I Share Each Other's Pain 我和冤家共享痛觉 [Supernatural elements, no transmigration, solving mysteries, romance, devoted to each other, past and present lives] The only woman general in the Celestial Dynasty, Shen Qingchen, is breathtakingly beautiful, yet she loves nothing more than practicing with swords and sabers. She refuses to be confined to the inner quarters. The handsome man she once frightened away with her “looks” turns out to be the notorious wastrel of the capital, the Seal Keeper of the Blackbird Bureau and the commander 13Reads—Score—Shelves
- 192 Classroom of Despair 绝望教室 One day, a classmate who had been dead for a long time dragged everyone in our class into a bizarre QQ group and forced us to take part in a death vote. After I managed to escape the Desperate Classroom, one massive conspiracy after another unfolded. To survive, I sold my soul… 141Reads5.7Score—Shelves
- 193 After I Dumped the Young Lord of the Miao Borderlands, He Forced Me to Love Him 渣了苗疆少主后，我被他强制爱了 [Dual male leads + Miaojiang top + obsessive love + poison-cultivation + regretful pursuit + younger top!!!] [Obsessive, unhinged yet devoted young Miaojiang lord top + initially aloof, chaste princess in disguise, later frail emperor bottom] Legend says the heart's blood of a Miaojiang lord in love can cure any deadly poison. To save the one he loved, Yan Huaishu traveled thousands of miles to Miaojiang, all to obtain the young lord's heart's blood. While searching for the young lord, he met th 1.2kReads7.2Score108Shelves
- 194 The Fox Who Bewitched My Heart 狐惑我心 [Mysticism + Ghost Marriage + Feng Shui + Devoted Husband + Male Rivals] My stepmother and younger sister teamed up to sell me to northern Myanmar, where I was to serve as a living lotus offering to an evil god. By day, I was beaten and forced to do hard labor. Every night, I had to spend hours entangled with a red-robed, silver-haired man. He said we had made a promise in a previous life, and forced me to marry him in a wedding ceremony at a Fox Immortal Temple. But I knew the red-robed man was 1kReads8.2Score107Shelves
- 195 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 1.3kReads8.6Score139Shelves
- 196 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 301Reads9.1Score102Shelves
- 197 I Inherited a Joss Stick and Candle Shop 我继承了一家香烛店 Bai Linlin had just graduated when she was involved in a car accident that had been planned long in advance. After being discharged from the hospital, she had to use a wheelchair for a while, so she decided to take over the incense and candle shop her grandmother had left her. The shop served both the living and the dead, and business was far busier than Bai Linlin had expected. Especially business from the underworld. Fortunately, it was right up the alley of Bai Linlin, who came from a family 105Reads8.4Score—Shelves
- 198 Gu Saint 蛊圣 Gu cultivation, mortal's journey, no System. Sold into slavery to become a Gu Master, he happens upon the Thief Saint's legacy and steals his archenemy's rank-one spirit vein. Disguised as a mole, he infiltrates an opposing faction, where schemes and plots eventually make him a Gu Saint. Cultivating all six paths, he stands unrivaled and cuts across the ages. Sword Path, Luck Path, Theft Path, Performance Path, Strength Path, Dream Path, and many other Gu cultivation disciplines. From Three-Foot 543Reads7.3Score100Shelves
- 199 Demons of the Northern Mountain 北山有妖 When I was twenty, someone killed me. My killer dumped my body at Beishan, a thousand miles away… 2kReads7.5Score243Shelves
- 200 The Yin-Walking Incense Master 走阴女香师 Ever since I can remember, there has been a paper doll on my bed every night. With straight bangs and a bob, a pale face with rosy cheeks, a round face and almond-shaped eyes, it was clearly made to look just like me. As I slowly grew up, the paper doll “grew up” too… 318Reads9.0Score105Shelves
