Novels like The Dragon King's Bride
Books Chinese readers most often put in the same booklists as The Dragon King's Bride, best match first.
- 151 The Last Paper Effigy Maker 最后一个扎纸人 The art of paper effigies can bridge the worlds of yin and yang, perform rites for the dead, and summon the King of Hell. Cut yellow paper, weave bamboo strips: paper horses travel a thousand miles, and paper figures summon spirits. With one stroke to paint their eyes, the King of Hell appears, striking terror into all directions and sending ten thousand ghosts into hiding! By the time the art of paper effigies reaches Chen Mo, he is its last practitioner. He assumes this ancient, mysterious cra 16.7kReads8.5Score1.7kShelves
- 152 Horrifying! The Haunted House That Claims Lives 惊悚！索命凶宅 After moving into a haunted house, I discovered the secret behind a murder. I'm a suspense writer. After moving into my new home, I discovered it was a murder house! I stumbled upon some hidden clues that seemed to point to rumors of a murder from years ago! At night, beneath the bright moonlight, I stared in shock at a horribly disfigured face! A woman's rotting corpse was hanging from a tree outside the window! A little boy in a black-and-white photograph, a dried corpse sealed inside a wall, 6.1kReads9.1Score453Shelves
- 153 A Heart Full of Longing 春心难捱 [I'm Only 19, But My Son Is 18 + He Begs for Her Back + The Cocky Guy Takes the Lead + A Little Wolf-and-Bunny Romance] [Quiet, Sweet Student x Bad-Tempered Tycoon] The Zhu and Meng families have been close for generations. Zhu Lingyu and Meng Ke have known each other since childhood and are engaged. Everyone around them assumes they're a couple and will get married one day. Only Zhu Lingyu knows that the man who indulges her in every way has always held someone else in his heart. She thinks he' 114.5kReads9.3Score15kShelves
- 154 The True Heiress Returns with Her Metaphysical Powers, and Her Wealthy Family Begs Her to Stop Setting Up a Stall 玄学真千金归来，豪门全家跪求别摆摊 The Metaphysical True Heiress Returns, and Her Entire Wealthy Family Begs Her to Stop Setting Up a Fortune-Telling Stall 644Reads—Score—Shelves
- 155 The Divine Son-in-Law in Hemp Clothes 麻衣神婿 The day I was born, strange omens appeared in the sky. To keep me alive, my grandfather came out of retirement and arranged an engagement to prolong my life. Twenty years later, thanks to the great fortune my grandfather bestowed on her family, my fiancée had become the richest woman in the land, yet her family broke off our engagement. They had badly underestimated my grandfather’s power and my background. Then karma came knocking... 9kReads8.5Score935Shelves
- 156 Three Souls as the Betrothal Gift, Seven Spirits as the Wedding Present 三魂为聘，七魄为礼 Everyone has three hun and seven po souls. Yin Wenjiu has only one hun and one po: an unidentified resentful soul and an unidentified life soul. Both exist to keep her body alive. But she only cares about enjoying the moment. She tells fortunes with perfect accuracy and charges the highest price! She won’t go out of her way to stay alive, nor will she actively seek death. She waited at Yunmeng Marsh for five years. If someone came to save her, she would go with them; if no one did, she would dig 24.4kReads9.3Score3.5kShelves
- 157 Ghostly Eyes 鬼灵瞳 A reclusive man known as Little Master, along with several strange people brought together by coincidence but united by their shared interests, gradually uncovers a history buried for many years: the five great clans of the ancient world and the Yin-Yang adepts who could do anything. It seems that fate has long been leading them into one thrilling fantasy adventure after another... 1kReads9.1Score103Shelves
- 158 I Went Home for the Dragon Boat Festival, and My Flash-Married Husband's Secret Was Exposed 端午回老家，闪婚老公掉马了 I went back to my hometown for the Dragon Boat Festival, and my flash-married husband was exposed 1.2kReads—Score—Shelves
- 159 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 82.3kReads9.4Score14.5kShelves
- 160 The Yin-Yang Hot Pot Restaurant 阴阳火锅店 I took over a hot pot restaurant from my second uncle. He told me never to serve customers a yuan yang hot pot after midnight! After I took over the place, everything I believed in began to crumble... One night, I wasn't paying attention and served a couple a yuan yang hot pot. The next day, I saw in the newspaper that the couple had died! They'd jumped to their deaths together! After that, every night at midnight, a strange couple would appear in my restaurant and ask me to make them a yuan yan 676Reads7.7Score—Shelves
- 161 The Heaven-Ordained Spirit Medium 天命出马仙 When I was five, an old beggar showed up at our door and insisted that one day I would marry a snake as my wife... 11.9kReads8.8Score1.2kShelves
- 162 The Woman in the Closet 柜子里的女人 The Woman in the Cabinet 55Reads—Score—Shelves
- 163 The Haunted Grave 诡坟 I think I've been possessed! Right before the college entrance exam, I suddenly came down with a high fever that wouldn't break. I missed the exam and had to spend half a year recovering at home. During those six months, I found a job as a cemetery groundskeeper. My coworker, Old Zhang, saw how frail I was and how weak my yang energy seemed, and insisted on finding me someone to protect me. But he didn't tell me that my protector would be a female ghost!! Not only does she want to marry me, she 101Reads7.4Score—Shelves
- 164 Calculating Your Fate to the End 算死命 When I was born, I was nursed by a wolf for a few days. I thought of her as my mother, and believed I'd never see her again. Then one day, a woman came looking for me... 22.8kReads8.9Score2.5kShelves
- 165 You Asked Me to Tell Fortunes, So Why Do I Have Secret Identities in Both the Underworld and the Living World? 让你算命，你咋阴界阳界都有马甲 Su Cen, the Su family's daughter, is a master of the occult with memories of three lifetimes and a renowned figure across the three realms. She is blessed with great merit and abundant good fortune, yet she is mistaken for a bringer of disaster. Abandoned at birth, she grows up rejected by her parents. “Your older sister is the leading socialite in the capital, your brother is a rising star among the city's elite, and your younger sister attends a prestigious university. You've accomplished noth 7.8kReads9.1Score1.1kShelves
- 166 The Clue System: No Criminal Can Escape 提示线索系统之犯罪分子无处可逃 (Urban crime investigation + System + mystery and deduction + team investigations.) The protagonist, Song Mozhou, unexpectedly awakens a System that provides clues to criminal cases. Follow along as he solves one baffling case after another with the System’s help. This is a pure crime-solving novel, with no romance, featuring a series of standalone cases. All cases and characters in this book are fictional. Any resemblance to real people or events is purely coincidental. Here’s hoping you’ll enj 264Reads—Score—Shelves
- 167 What If Uncle Is Platonic Toward the Fake Heiress? 万一小叔对假千金是柏拉图呢？ (The untouchable beauty falls from her pedestal + deliberate seduction + seven-year age gap + uncle) [Scheming, well-behaved fake heiress × powerful political heavyweight] Song Ci had a dream. In it, she was a fake heiress who had been switched at birth, while her fiancé's beloved, a poor but brilliant country girl, was the real heiress. Later, her fiancé teamed up with the real heiress, exposed Song Ci's identity, and sent her to a psychiatric hospital. Unable to bear the humiliation, she slit 198kReads9.4Score40.1kShelves
- 168 The Capital’s Young Master Is at Her Feet 京圈太子爷是她的裙下之臣 The Capital’s Crown Prince Is Her Devoted Suitor 97Reads—Score107Shelves
- 169 Ashtray 烟灰缸 [Mild horror + affair + twists] A stunning woman from the south, a knock at midnight, a silent delivery guy, someone crouching beneath the bed... Qin Song’s life is plunged into a living hell by an affair. 104.1kReads9.5Score19.1kShelves
- 170 Out of Control 失控者 [Anthology stories + supernatural horror + folk customs + feng shui and mysticism + subtle scares + jaw-dropping twists] Open a paper box sealed away for many years, and one terrifying incident after another begins to surface. The massacre that wiped out an entire family in Nanhua Estate, and the deaths of everyone connected to the case! A bride in a red qipao appearing by your side in the dead of night! Strange legends circulate through a dilapidated high-rise, where hands reach out of the dark 35Reads—Score—Shelves
- 171 The Living Must Keep Away 活人回避 Originally titled Living People, Keep Away. An antique set me on a desperate path. From then on, just to stay alive, I became a yin walker who dealt with the dead and the walking corpses. Three years searching for dragon veins, ten years locating acupoints, roaming between yin and yang, dealing in ghosts and spirits. I kept walking, struggling my way to where I am today. 2.7kReads8.9Score327Shelves
- 172 Dark Face Reading 黑相术 After I lost my sight, a matchmaker set me up on a date, and I met a girl. She wasn’t human… One night, as we slept, I touched her tail. 23.3kReads8.9Score2.8kShelves
- 173 Record of the Spirit Seekers 2: Farewell to the Mortal World 访灵笔录2：入世辞 [Mystery + supernatural + powerful partners + lively humor + episodic stories + ghostly tales + an ensemble cast hunting ghosts] “Nothing brings greater joy than meeting a new friend; nothing brings greater sorrow than parting from a loved one.” A chance encounter with a beauty on Ghost Wasteland Mountain turns out to be a deadly ghost's attempt to claim a soul! Karmic ties from a past life and entanglements in this one: whose mistake is it, and whose fate? Quan Ning and Yin Cangyi are accidenta 45Reads8.6Score—Shelves
- 174 The Terrifying Online Celebrity 恐怖女网红 Ning Ruoyu is bullied and framed by the people closest to her. To stay alive, she has no choice but to catch ghosts for money. She never expected to become an online sensation with tens of millions of followers... During the new-book period, there will be one update a day until the story reaches 30,000 words, posted at noon. After that, there will be two updates 3.2kReads9.1Score360Shelves
- 175 It's All the Haunted House's Fault 都是凶宅惹的祸 I'm a mystery writer. In search of inspiration, I moved into a house rumored to be haunted. Every night, a horribly disfigured face appeared in the window, and outside, the rotten corpse of a woman hung from a tree. I realized then that this really was a haunted house! Gradually, my family began acting strangely, and we even found a mummified corpse sealed inside the wall for years! As I investigated further, I came across something even more terrifying… 71Reads8.7Score—Shelves
- 176 The Midnight Gravekeeper 午夜守墓人 A desolate mountain. An ancient tomb. A woman in white. A blood-red moon at midnight. A corpse monk on the move. I’m a high school senior. With the college entrance exam just around the corner, I suddenly came down with a fever that wouldn’t break and missed the test. After recovering at home for more than half a year, I found a job guarding the gate at a cemetery. Seeing how frail I was and how weak my yang energy was, Old Zhang, the gravedigger, found me a protector. But she wasn’t human. She 6.1kReads8.5Score324Shelves
- 177 The Peerless Mage 法师无双 A top sorcerer who once led the Heavenly Masters’ Court returns, only to be cast out by his powerful family. As he prepares to leave, he discovers that his younger female cousin has fallen victim to dark magic… 3.9kReads9.1Score483Shelves
- 178 Plenty of Stories at the Funeral Home 殡仪馆里故事多 Ever since Lin Yu took a job driving a hearse at a funeral home, his life became anything but ordinary. He and his friends went through all kinds of bizarre, inexplicable events together. Vengeful spirits possessing people, a dead infant in a pot, opera singing in a graveyard... No one knew what would happen next. 13kReads8.7Score978Shelves
- 179 Spirit-Seeking Case Files 1: The Road to the Yellow Springs 访灵笔录1：黄泉路 [Mystery] [Supernatural] [A Powerful Duo] [Lighthearted] [Episodic Stories] [Ghostly Tales] [Ensemble Cast Hunting Ghosts] "The road to the Yellow Springs stretches for thousands of miles. The living and the dead are separated, with only fate to reunite them in another life." Quan Ning got into a car accident on a mountain road. As he lay on the brink of death, a man claiming to be a ghost judge from the underworld offered him a chance to live. "I'll lend you ten years. Interest is three percent 83Reads8.6Score—Shelves
- 180 My Husband and His Childhood Sweetheart Made Me Miscarry, So I Finally Got Over Him 夫君和青梅害我流产，我恋爱脑好了 My Husband and His Childhood Sweetheart Made Me Miscarry, and I Got Over My Lovesick Foolishness 803Reads—Score—Shelves
- 181 The Cat-Paw Martial Heroine: Fleeing Her Way to the Top 三脚猫女侠，逃命成为天下第一 The Three-Legged Cat Swordswoman: Fleeing for Her Life to Become the Greatest Under Heaven 256Reads—Score—Shelves
- 182 A Notebook of Folk Taboos 民间禁忌笔记 I was born with a pair of snake eyes, and everyone at the forest farm said I was a demon child born of a snake. The night I was born, thunder crashed again and again. The next day, a huge, gold-scaled python was found dead from a lightning strike outside Laolingou. Something was squirming inside its belly. Master Sang sliced open the python with a single stroke and carried out a blood-soaked baby. He named me Lin Shisan. From that moment on, my fate was bound to Master Sang’s for life… 19.9kReads9.3Score1.5kShelves
- 183 High Alert in the Ghost Realm! The Little Mystic Prodigy Is Coming Down the Mountain 鬼界高能！前方玄学小祖宗下山了 The eldest son of the richest family in the capital, who suffered from gynophobia, had somehow acquired a fiancée. Supposedly, she was a country bumpkin who claimed she could exorcise ghosts and tell fortunes, deciding life and death with a single word. She had offended quite a few big shots. Everyone waited for those big shots to drive the country girl out of the capital. But they waited and waited, only to hear that the eldest son of the Ning family was engaged to her. At the wedding, everyone 6.9kReads9.4Score1kShelves
- 184 The Six-Fingered Exorcist 六指诡医 Born with six fingers on his left hand, he was called a jinx by his family. His father died the day he was born, and misfortune followed him everywhere as he grew up. He endured discrimination and contempt. When he turned eighteen and suffered his third half-cycle tribulation, even his beloved grandparents died. From then on, the protagonist was forced to wander. While struggling to stay alive, he investigated the truth behind the mysteries. Caught in an endless struggle between life and death, 4.7kReads9.2Score820Shelves
- 185 Palm Bait: A Record of Taming the Pampered One 掌心饵，驯娇记 [Gloomy eunuch ✖️ a palace maid who grows over time] Behind the deep palace walls, two broken souls become entangled and find a way to keep living amid the gray shadows of imperial power struggles. "Though the moss flower is tiny as a grain of rice, it still blooms like a peony." We may live humbly, hidden from the light, but we still live. A somewhat realistic story, not a wish-fulfillment novel. If you enjoy its subtle, tense atmosphere, step inside. 212.6kReads9.5Score38.5kShelves
- 186 Don't Move! I've Got Connections in the Underworld 别动！姐地府有人 The continuation of Little Prodigy of the Northern Ma: filling in the gaps from before, meeting the people who came afterward, and briefly recording the everyday happenings that followed. It also teaches a few simple things that you can put into practice. 745Reads8.9Score101Shelves
- 187 Tales of a Spirit Medium 出马仙往事 “First, invite Hu; second, invite Huang. Third, invite Mang; fourth, invite Chang. Offer incense in the hall, and let all the immortals come forth.” With an entirely yin birth chart, I suddenly became the village's most despised madman when I was eight years old. Ten years later, I recovered from my madness and took charge of the Hu family's altar, one of the five great immortal clans of Northeast China. From then on, the Five Evils and Three Deficiencies followed me everywhere. I thought I had 32.4kReads9.5Score3.4kShelves
- 188 Innkeeper, Don't Think You Can Escape: The CEO's Runaway Pregnancy 民宿老板别想逃：女总裁的“带球跑” The B&B Owner Can't Get Away: The CEO's "Pregnant and on the Run" Romance 183Reads—Score—Shelves
- 189 Fall in Love and Die: The Heir and I Defy Heaven 动情即殒命，我与世子逆苍天 Shen Qingyan unexpectedly spends a night entangled with Xiao Jinyuan, a ruthless and cold-blooded heir to a noble title. A high monk tells them, "Only by joining body and soul forty-nine times can you break the heavenly punishment that has haunted you for three lifetimes." But the curse's shackles remain: the moment they fall in love and commit to each other, both will die. She runs, he pursues. There is no escape from fate. She is a goddess undergoing tribulation. Reborn across three lifetimes, 144Reads—Score—Shelves
- 190 Underworld Agent 地府经纪人 I was hit by a basketball at school and fell into a lake, but I survived and became an official employee of the Underworld. I also gained a Ghost Hunter System that helps the Underworld recruit talented ghosts, setting me on the path to turning my life around. 49Reads6.8Score—Shelves
- 191 The Last Soul-Quelling Master 最后一个镇魂师 I grew up at my grandfather's house in the countryside. He was the most respected suona player in our village. One day, Li Dashan, a fellow villager, beat his pregnant wife to death and came to ask my grandfather for help. My grandfather tried everything he could, but still couldn't calm the resentment of Li Dashan's wife. In the end, he had no choice but to play a suona dirge to forcibly pacify her soul. On the night of the Lantern Festival, Li Dashan and his family turned into vengeful ghosts 117Reads8.5Score—Shelves
- 192 Secret Art: I Transmigrate and Fight to Survive in a Bizarre World 秘法穿越:我在诡异世界极限逃生 Secret Art Transmigration: My Extreme Escape in a World of the Uncanny 95Reads—Score—Shelves
- 193 One Haunting a Day 一日一诡 Like people, supernatural entities can be good or bad, so the author can’t promise that every story will have an off-the-charts scare factor that keeps you up at night. The only guarantee is that all the stories are entirely fictional. If anything seems familiar, you’re on your own! 356Reads—Score101Shelves
- 194 The Master of Ma Yi Divination 麻衣相师 My great-uncle had all kinds of abilities. One day, he told me he’d buried a treasure for me in a feng shui paradise… 28.1kReads9.0Score3.3kShelves
- 195 The Yin-Walker 巡阴人 Applying makeup to the dead, reading the winds and assessing the land, preparing bodies for burial, and performing rites on the seventh day after death. Scorched corpses: cleaning the body, applying rouge, painting the features! Bodies cut in half at the waist: removing the organs, filling the cavities, and stitching the body back together! I was born into a family that made its living from the dead, so I grew up dealing with corpses. I’ve seen all sorts of bizarre ways to die and countless inex 8.4kReads9.1Score1.1kShelves
- 196 Followed by Ghosts 与鬼随行 Immersive, terrifying, and packed with suspenseful mystery and deduction. I have a strange world, and I want to take you there! After the college entrance exams, I took a fatal blow meant for my friend and lost my sight. By chance, I ended up at a bizarre vocational college. My classmates are dying one after another under strange circumstances, and there seems to be a much bigger secret behind it all. This world seems so strange... so strange... I have to solve the mind-bending challenges one by 2.7kReads—Score255Shelves
- 197 Records of the Tang Dynasty Zombies 大唐丧尸录 The Tang Dynasty Zombie Chronicles 6Reads—Score—Shelves
- 198 The Occult Ancestor Is Still Paying Off Debts Today 玄学老祖宗今天也在还债 Based on the original novel The Legendary Fortune-Telling Ancestor [Occult arts + satisfying read + sweet romance] Decades ago, Yun Qing took in seven disciples and happily settled down to lie flat and enjoy her retirement. But then she was actually jolted awake by hunger! Her merit was gone, her gold and jewels were gone, and her Taoist temple had even been mortgaged by her unfilial disciples. With no other choice, she had to start the grueling business of paying off her debts. Drawing talisman 1.9kReads9.2Score292Shelves
- 199 The Big Shot Reads Her Mind, Then Carries the Maid Straight to Bed 大佬读心后，直接扛起保姆扔在床 [Both Leads Have No Past Relationships + Pure Love + Mind Reading + Transmigrate into a Book + Kissing Addict] A lively, lustful little housekeeper vs. a pure-hearted, sickly villain (They get together incredibly fast!) She transmigrates into a dog-blood novel as a cannon-fodder housekeeper. The original owner disappeared after trying to climb into the villain's bed while he was dead. Looking at the handsome, sinister Shen Jin, she acts obedient on the surface, while internally going wild: [Ooh! 11.9kReads8.4Score933Shelves
- 200 There Are Ghosts in These Words 话里有诡 They say everyone has a few little secrets they can't bring themselves to talk about these days. But if you really want to hear something out of the ordinary, go find Old Bu. Old Bu runs a little tavern set inside an abandoned train carriage. From the day it opened, he laid down one rule: One interesting story in exchange for a night's worth of drinks. Sounds like a good deal, doesn't it? Too bad he doesn't give you much to drink, and the stories just keep getting stranger. An intelligent wristb 8Reads7.6Score—Shelves
