Novels like The Gu Wife
Books Chinese readers most often put in the same booklists as The Gu Wife, best match first.
- 1 My Witchcraft-Wielding Husband Is So Cold 入赘蛊夫太高冷 I drank too much at a dinner party, and when I woke up, I found myself surrounded by several men with bad intentions... As they were assaulting me, I accidentally called my live-in son-in-law husband. I never expected the man I’d always dismissed as a good-for-nothing to come to my rescue with such authority. I was stunned! 30Reads6.0Score—Shelves
- 2 Gu Master Husband 蛊夫 During the summer break of my sophomore year, I was heading back to campus and accidentally boarded the wrong bus because I was in a hurry. I fell asleep on the ride, and when I woke up, I was in a remote mountain village. A local farmer took me in, only for me to discover that he had planted a love gu in me... 13Reads6.1Score—Shelves
- 3 The Miaojiang Lovers’ Tomb 苗疆情冢 The Miao people of Nanyang have a peculiar custom: people there know only their mothers, never their fathers. The women are in charge, and if one takes a liking to you, she'll force you into marriage. After a local woman chose me, I was thrust into a nightmare I had never imagined... 78Reads5.4Score—Shelves
- 4 Chronicles of Miaojiang 苗疆风云录 Centered on the “Flower-Falling Cave Maid,” one of the three great mysteries of the Xiangxi Miao region, this story weaves together the survival philosophy and history of the Miao people from primitive society through the Western Han dynasty, recounting a series of fantastical, suspense-filled tales of extraordinary people. 3Reads6.9Score—Shelves
- 5 A Miao Village Romance: The Gu Witch Descends the Mountain to Solve a Murder 苗寨情缘：蛊女下山破命案 [Live streaming, Taoist priests, poison sorceresses, spirit mediums, supernatural events and ghosts. Strong female lead, weaker male lead] I’m Fu Qing, a poison sorceress. I learned to raise and practice poisons from my grandmother as a child, and it took a toll on my body. When I was ten, an old man came to our stockade and said we were fated to meet, and that I was born to become a Taoist priest. Was he joking? I practiced poisons. How could I possibly study Taoism? My grandmother was friends 42Reads—Score149Shelves
- 6 The Aloof Villain Begged Me Through Tears to Love Him 清冷反派哭着求我疼爱他 Also known as To Die For! The Miaojiang Prince Is Simply Irresistible Beneath the fading lights, she turned around and saw a young man dressed in dazzling Miaojiang finery, with silver hair and mismatched eyes, captivating all who looked upon him. “Do you only care about your big brother, Sister?” A beauty mark like a tear of rouge adorned the corner of his eye, lending him a bewitching allure. “Luo Yurao, love me. Otherwise, I’ll die...” The Miaojiang prince may not use gu, but he is more de 67Reads—Score—Shelves
- 7 The Love Curse 情蛊 I went on a trip to Yunnan and accidentally ended up at a Miao village's matchmaking gathering, where I drank liquor offered by one of the men in the village. That very night, he dragged me home... Afterward, I waited until he fell asleep and sneaked out of the village. But not long later, my stomach began to ache unbearably, and I retched up a blood-red worm! 51Reads8.1Score—Shelves
- 8 Miaojiang: It Is Never Too Late to Meet in Autumn 苗疆：桑榆非晚 [Miaojiang youth + pure love + happy ending] Gentle Sang Yu was humiliated, imprisoned, and tormented by a yandere boy until she lost her mind, forever remaining in that late autumn when the spider lilies bloomed. Afterward, her obsessive younger sister, Sang Wan, who suffered from a split personality, grew her hair long and recreated her sister's life. She joined a research team on its way to a Miao village, wearing the same innocent expression as her sister, to find the Miaojiang boy skilled i 275Reads8.1Score—Shelves
- 9 Night Watcher of Miaojiang 苗疆守夜人 Set in the final years of the Western Han dynasty, this novel tells a chilling tale of various factions raiding ancient tombs across the Ten Caves of western Hunan. Blending in folk legends, it offers readers a glimpse of the mysterious natural scenery, local customs, and people of this ethnic region. It’s the perfect companion for getting to know western Hunan on your travels. 53Reads9.4Score137Shelves
- 10 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
- 11 The Gu Insect Chronicles 捉蛊记 On the fifth day of the fifth lunar month, take a pair each of ghost-faced butterflies, large gray moths, white butterflies, and red admirals. Catch hornets, venomous bees, silkworms, venomous snakes, centipedes, and toads, then grind them into powder. Three days later, scald them with boiling water. Add a woman's hair, fingernails, menstrual blood, poisonous fungi, and plants such as datura, then grind everything into powder. Thus is the gu poison made. If a woman has been wounded in love and u 2.3kReads9.2Score304Shelves
- 12 Miaojiang's Bewitching Incense: The Young Gu King Is Crazy and Possessive 苗疆迷香，少年蛊王他又疯又抢 (Flirtatious male lead + Forced love + Captivity + Love poison + Soft-hearted, indecisive heroine) (The heroine has a special identity, which makes the male lead suffer quite a bit. But this obsessive, unhinged man is both mad and possessive, and will cling to her to the death, even if he has to climb a mountain of blades or plunge into a sea of flames.) (A moment of sympathy for the heroine’s “big brother,” a major underworld figure who quietly watched over her as she grew up. He had plans… but 1.1kReads—Score105Shelves
- 13 The Miao Are Masters of Gu Poison? But He’s Better at Manipulating Hearts 苗疆善蛊？可他善玩弄人心 [Two male leads + love at first sight + careful scheming + both devoted to each other + happy ending] Main couple: Shen Man: Heir to the Miao king, possessive and calculating, skilled in using Gu (boy) Jiang Ji: Overworked wage slave, hesitant when it comes to love (boy) Supporting couple: Shang Tiantian: Heiress to the Zhao Group (cool girl) Meng Zhao: Successor to the Meng Group (cool boy) In the mysterious land of Miaojiang, the onset of a love Gu marks both the beginning of tragedy and the 134Reads—Score—Shelves
- 14 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 682Reads6.9Score104Shelves
- 15 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, 524Reads8.7Score100Shelves
- 16 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
- 17 My Obsessive Gu Queen Sister Keeps Me All to Herself 偏执蛊王姐姐只养我 [Two Yanderes + A Battle of Wills + A Miaojiang Youth + Love by Force + The Ex Begs for Her Back + Possessive Love] A game of taming a gorgeous madwoman VS a fatal trap set by a possessive Gu King! After Shen Sui Sui was abandoned by Shen Xubai, the boy she had raised from childhood as her future husband, she went alone to Miaojiang. She had come to find the most poisonous Gu and use it to treat the most incorrigible person. But she stumbled into a secret realm, where she saw a young man chained 583Reads—Score101Shelves
- 18 After I Planted a Love Bug, the Miao Boy Became Gloomy and Lovesick 种下情蛊后，苗疆少年阴郁又病娇 [Complete] [Transmigrate into a Book + Miao Territory + Abstinent Young Man + Coercive Love + 1v1] When Jiang Shu transmigrated into a book as the vicious female supporting character, the story had just reached its ending. She thought she could finally enjoy a relaxing vacation, but in the Yunjiang Miao village, she stumbled straight into the most dangerous trap! Visitors may explore the outer village, but the inner village is off-limits. Yet she happened to meet the young man who had emerged fr 29.2kReads8.5Score3.7kShelves
- 19 After My Escape Failed, a Miaojiang Boy Locked Me Up 逃跑失败后，被苗疆少年反手囚禁 (The rating just came out!) | Scheming and obsessive | Carefully plotting | Young man from the Miao region | Yandere tendencies | Uses love spells later on | Unhinged and keeps her captive | Devoted 1v1 romance | Older woman, younger man When I was eight, I met A Yu. By a twist of fate, I lost my memory and found myself a boyfriend. One day, a cool and striking young man appeared at my side and began calling me “Big Sister” at every turn. My relationship with my boyfriend grew closer, and the yo 6.2kReads8.5Score946Shelves
- 20 No Gu, No Bewitchment [Miaojiang] 无蛊不惑【苗疆】 [Lively, Clear-Headed, Slightly Unhinged Bottom × Crazy, Scheming Miao Youth Top] [Male-Male Romance + 1v1, Both Pure + Equally Matched + Sweet Romance + Bottom’s Perspective + Younger Top] Fascinated by the mysterious art of witchcraft and poison said to exist in legends, Xia Qingxi joins a Miao folk-culture research trip at the last minute. In this Miao village, with little contact with the outside world, Xia Qingxi happens upon a long-haired youth of striking beauty, whose background seems le 2.5kReads9.3Score509Shelves
- 21 The Young Man from Miaojiang Has His Eye on Me 被苗疆少年盯上了 (Content warning: Completely absurd and utterly brainless! The pacing is lightning-fast. If that's not your thing, please check out something else. Thanks!) [Sweet-faced but dark-hearted boy x fragile yet resilient innocent girl] Coercive romance Everyone knows the people of Miaojiang are skilled with Gu, and Sang Sinna is an unrivaled genius among them. He knew all kinds of Gu at the age of five, and was immune to every poison by ten. Now he can wield Gu to its utmost potential, even using it t 2.2kReads8.1Score178Shelves
- 22 My Obsessive Childhood Friend Keeps Closing In 病娇竹马步步囚宠 Childhood sweethearts + young man from Miaojiang + intensely possessive + two yanderes + long-planned obsession + a rose raised since childhood In the eyes of outsiders, he's just a cold, aloof young man. Only she knows how twisted he is. She knows how he feels, yet deliberately toys with him. She never imagined her childhood friend was the Miaojiang Gu King. In the end, the girl drives him mad, and he puts a Gu curse on her. He drugs the milk tea her friend gives her. He kneels on shards of gla 1.8kReads6.2Score143Shelves
- 23 Tomb Raiding: The Miaojiang Woman Doesn’t Bewitch People 盗墓：苗疆女子并不会蛊惑人心 [Revised: Female Lead] [Everyone’s Favorite] [The main story focuses on Little Brother; the bonus chapters feature different male leads and endings] Includes game skills. You don’t need to have played the game to enjoy the story. Jiang Yu, who transmigrated into a game, never imagined that one person could transmigrate twice in a lifetime. Once a burned-out corporate drone and now the junior disciple of the Five Saints Cult’s leader, Jiang Yu stared in bewilderment at the dim tomb chamber before 2.3kReads8.5Score274Shelves
- 24 I Married the Young Lord of the Miao Frontier, and He Gives Me Love Charms Every Day 嫁给苗疆少主，他天天给我下情蛊 [Beautiful, lovesick, scheming top × sweet, pure-hearted, upright, passionate bottom; 1v1, both leads' first and only love] Lin Yang never expected that a carefree trip, during which he tried out the local wedding customs, would actually end with him getting married. The other man only kissed him once, but after returning home, Lin Yang couldn't sleep at night and thought about the man who had kissed him every day. Later, his "husband" not only tracked him down, but also became his direct superv 4kReads9.2Score539Shelves
- 25 Teaching and Guiding People in the Demon Cult 我在魔教教书育人 Gu Zening wakes up to find herself a demonic woman of the Devil Cult. In a world where anyone can draw a sword at the slightest provocation, she can only rely on the skills she picked up playing battle royale games and strive to become the king of all cowards. A cowardly wolf? She casually rescues a stunning beauty, thinking she's a harmless little rabbit, only to discover that when no one's watching, she controls Gu to kill people: a true yandere, a black-hearted lotus. When the beauty pins Gu 2kReads9.3Score268Shelves
- 26 The Miaojiang Gu Chronicles 苗疆蛊事 The calamity of witchcraft and poison is spoken of only by people in the countryside. Many people who are unknowingly caught up in it have no idea it exists. Friends, do you really think there are no extraordinary people in this vast land of China? You do? No! No! No! Do you want me to tell you that I’m a poison-raising practitioner from the Miao borderlands? All right, come on in and let’s dish… 13.8kReads9.3Score2kShelves
- 27 Don't Mess with That Miaojiang Boy, He's Twisted and Sadistic 别惹那个苗疆少年，他病娇又变态 [Print edition signed, awaiting release] [Exclusive 1v1 Romance + Healing + Sweet Romance + Happy Ending] [Straightforward Sweetheart x Sharp-Tongued, Brooding Tsundere] Original title: Don’t Mess with That Miaojiang Boy, He’s Obsessive and Twisted When Chai Xiaomi reads how the righteous female side character tries to stop the villain from planting a love gu in the heroine, only to be eaten by venomous insects until not a bone remains, she shudders in silence. She is stung to death by a poisono 83kReads9.4Score14.4kShelves
- 28 I Got Involved with a Sickly Young Man. Sis, I'm an Adult Now 惹上病娇少年，姐姐我成年了 Sweet on the outside, dark within, yandere younger brother | Miaojiang boy | dazzling beauty of an older sister | calculated scheming | love gu | seven-year age gap | both virgins | rekindled romance When Li Yang was twenty-one, her gambling-addict father found himself a new wife. The stepmother brought along a breathtakingly beautiful young man. He seemed rebellious and aloof, but treated her with gentle obedience. He became her younger brother. She thought this was a stroke of good luck, but l 7.1kReads9.0Score837Shelves
- 29 But That Miaojiang Boy Is a Hopeless Romantic 可那苗疆少年是个恋爱脑 Flirtatious, seductive painter who falls for looks at first sight × mysterious, powerful young man from the Miao region who falls in love at first sight Dami Mountain is a dangerous and mysterious place. After an accident, Xiao Yu meets an earnest, straightforward young man deep in the mountains. At their first meeting, Xiao Yu looks at the young man's face and thinks, “Not bad. There's de 6kReads9.6Score959Shelves
- 30 The Grave Robbers' Chronicles: The Miao Saint Son Is Yandere and Obsessive 盗笔：苗疆圣子他病娇又偏执 Gu-Controlling, Sweet on the Outside but Black-Hearted Within, Vengeful!!! Beautiful, Powerful, and Tragic, with a System, Everyone’s Favorite, Irresistible, Sharp-Tongued, Zhang Family Bloodline, Gu Spirit Saint Body After dying, Ruan Shuo wakes up in an unfamiliar world, in an unfamiliar body, inside an unfamiliar pit. As he walks along, someone knocks him out, ties him up as bait, and throws him into a tomb to scout ahead. The good news: he has a System. The bad news: the System isn’t all-kno 7.1kReads9.2Score1kShelves
- 31 After Being Kidnapped, I Kidnap the Western Regions' Young Lord and Bring Him Back to the Central Plains 被拐后，我反拐西域少主回中原 [Young lord of the Western Regions × Princess of Sheng'an] Ye Zhaoyu was born into the imperial family. She figured she'd surely been dealt the pampered darling's script in life, so she wisely decided to coast. But she never expected to take a wrong turn and be kidnapped to the Western Regions. By a stroke of bad luck, she was sent to the bed of a deranged young lord known as a demon's lair and a living Shura. She immediately switched into survival-and-escape mode, determined to flee back to the 8.8kReads9.5Score1.4kShelves
- 32 Every Psycho I Bullied and Toyed With Fell in Love With Me 我欺凌玩弄过的疯批，都爱上我了 *Quick transmigration | devoted couples | no romantic rivalry between women | male pursues female *Elegant, self-interested, rational heroine × sexually voracious, unhinged male leads❗ Yun Siyao was sickly and frail, yet cold and self-serving by nature. Bound to a System, she traveled to various small worlds to complete missions. Who could have guessed she’d get entangled with a sinister madman every time, each one refusing to let her go! [World One: Beautiful, vicious female powerbroker vs. unh 19.7kReads9.2Score1.9kShelves
- 33 After I Played the Miaojiang Boy, He Planted a Love Gu in Me 渣了苗疆少年后，我被种情蛊了 [Complete + Miaojiang seme + Two male leads + Obsessive love + Alternate-universe supernatural setting + Happy ending] [Pure-hearted, aloof, unhinged, possessive Miaojiang seme x researcher with an emotional disorder] Everyone said the people of Miaojiang were skilled in gu, but Shen Jue refused to believe it. To uncover the secret behind the villagers of Jiteng Village’s longevity, Shen Jue, a researcher at the Tower, disguised himself as part of a documentary crew and entered the Miao village 21.7kReads9.4Score4.4kShelves
- 34 Winning Over the Young Lord of Miaojiang 攻略苗疆少主 Chu He transmigrates into a book. [The villain will kill the male lead, cripple the female lead, and then commit suicide out of hatred for the world. This world is about to collapse, and your mission is to save it.] The lousy System vanishes after assigning the mission. Before Chu He can even figure out what to do, she is kidnapped to Miaojiang, where she becomes the perfect mother Gu for the medicine people to cultivate their Gu. Medicine people aren’t human and have no memories of their past. 142kReads9.5Score14.6kShelves
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