Novels like The Snake Marriage
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- 51 Foxbound 狐缘 [Fox King + paranormal + funny + sweet romance] After my boyfriend and I made things official, thick black fur suddenly sprouted all over my face. A fox appeared in my dreams and warned me that until I'd paid off my debt, I could forget about dating anyone and getting away from him! To repay what I owed, I became his spirit medium, opened a ritual altar, and helped him attain enlightenment. But he only got more demanding, and even wanted to marry me. “Third Master, I'm cursed and destined to bri 156Reads7.6Score—Shelves
- 52 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
- 53 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 660Reads8.8Score102Shelves
- 54 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 257Reads8.6Score102Shelves
- 55 The Snake Lord Is Above 蛇君在上 Yun Qianhan gave her boyfriend a pendant with a white snake design, but the snake crawled out of it and bit him to death. Then it abducted her and insisted she become its wife, claiming it wanted to have a whole nest of little snakes with her. What was she supposed to do? 213Reads7.2Score—Shelves
- 56 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 76Reads6.8Score—Shelves
- 57 The Coffin Bride 棺材娘子 I spent summer vacation helping Grandpa look after his paper effigy shop. But then an unexpected visitor showed up and asked me to paint eyes and eyebrows on a paper figure. I never imagined that painting its eyes could give it a soul. That very night, the person in the painting appeared in my dreams and demanded my life... 269Reads8.2Score—Shelves
- 58 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 3.5kReads8.6Score666Shelves
- 59 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
- 60 Ghost King Husband, Don't Be Like This 鬼王老公别这样 A livestream takes a turn when a ghost starts haunting me! To escape alive, I prayed to Buddhas and immortals until I obtained a secret art for exorcising ghosts. Tonight, I hold a seal-breaking dagger and wait for the monsters to come to their deaths. Sure enough, one appears, and I brandish the dagger. But... “Why isn't it working?!” “Heh, darling, you're so charming when you're scared and angry.” 42Reads8.4Score—Shelves
- 61 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
- 62 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—Shelves
- 63 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 239Reads8.7Score—Shelves
- 64 I Mistook My Blind Date and Ended Up Marrying a Snake 相亲认错人，我闪婚了一条蛇 Eighteen years ago, the villagers tore down the archway carved with a giant snake for money and burned the coffin beneath it. Afterward, a snake calamity struck the village. My grandfather threw newborn me into the snake-burning pit, saving the whole village from disaster. The summer I turned eighteen, the village party secretary tricked me into coming back. Because another snake calamity had struck the village. The party secretary said that throwing me into the snake-burning pit once more would 162Reads7.0Score—Shelves
- 65 What?! My Fox Immortal Husband Is Wagging His Tail at Me 惊！狐仙老公对我摇尾巴 [Hilarious horror + suspenseful thrills + a strong female lead who isn’t saintly + a male lead who only pretends to be aloof] Qingqiu Village occupies a sacred site, and the Fox Immortal flies into a rage and sends a woman marked by yin energy. Li Xiaxia is forced into a fox’s cave by shameless villagers, who hope to beg the Fox Immortal’s forgiveness. As a materialist, she doesn’t believe in Fox Immortals at all. That is, until she sees a white fox turn into a cold, handsome man with her own ey 67Reads6.4Score—Shelves
- 66 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 49Reads6.9Score—Shelves
- 67 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... 1.4kReads9.1Score143Shelves
- 68 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—Shelves
- 69 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
- 70 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 599Reads8.9Score102Shelves
- 71 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 516Reads8.9Score—Shelves
- 72 The Serpent Mark Around Me 蛇印缠身 The Su family has an unwritten rule: for generations, they have worshipped the Snake Immortal. I was born with a snake-shaped birthmark, which everyone says was placed there by the Snake Immortal himself. He chose me to serve him. But I refused to believe in fate and fled the village. Still, he found me and came to collect his debt. “Su Li, didn’t your great-aunt tell you?” “Tell me what?” “When you turn eighteen, you’ll be my sacrifice!” I had no way to refuse, so I submitted to him. But this w 250Reads6.9Score—Shelves
- 73 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 922Reads9.0Score156Shelves
- 74 The Snake’s Bride 蛇缠女 [Mystery] [Sweet and bittersweet] [Strong heroine] [Supernatural] Ever since I was born, I’ve been cursed as a snake’s daughter and a bringer of misfortune. Eighteen years ago, a great white snake killed my family. Eighteen years later, the snake came to collect its debt and made me its spirit medium to pay it back. From then on, I began encountering all kinds of strange events. Why had the bones in the coffin vanished? And what did the snake totem on the coffin lid mean? When the Seven Fiends A 338Reads8.8Score102Shelves
- 75 The Snake’s Delight 蛇欢 My life belongs to a snake. From the day I was born, Grandma sold me to a snake. I grew up sleeping in a dead person's coffin and shedding snake skin, living as a freak. For the snake's sake, Grandma taught me to be a shamanic 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 agreed upon... 158Reads9.3Score101Shelves
- 76 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… 645Reads8.5Score102Shelves
- 77 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 65Reads6.6Score—Shelves
- 78 A Fated Reunion: My Husband, the King of the Underworld 再生缘：我的冥王夫君 Chen Xue had been frail and sickly since childhood. Just when she had finally grown up, her breathtaking beauty aroused the jealousy of her legitimate elder sister. She thought she was doomed to die, until she met a man. He leaned close to her ear and said, “Be my woman, and I'll protect you.” From then on, everyone who bullied Zhu Chenxue either died or was left crippled. Every night, ambiguous sounds came from Zhu Chenxue's bedroom. “Don't do this...” 134Reads8.7Score—Shelves
- 79 The Cold-Blooded Snake Lord Won’t Let Go, Coaxing His Sweetheart into a Life of Passion 冷血蛇尊太缠人，哄诱娇娇入红尘 The rating just came out, so it's a little low. I promise the story is good! [One-on-one, happy ending, both leads are pure, sweet romance, comedy, love-hate relationship, proud and spirited demon princess × crazy, cunning, cold-blooded Demon Lord, possessive. It gets very sweet and very doting later, so it's well worth reading.] * The little demon Xingmi, with her meager spiritual power, is targeted by a cold-blooded Snake Lord. He possesses her fiercely in her dreams. Xingmi has always been te 577Reads8.1Score—Shelves
- 80 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… 2kReads7.5Score252Shelves
- 81 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
- 82 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 286Reads8.6Score—Shelves
- 83 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
- 84 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... 118Reads8.5Score—Shelves
- 85 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 343Reads9.1Score116Shelves
- 86 My Eerie Husband Has Arrived, and He Gives Me a Hundred Million Every Day 诡夫降临，阴老公每天给我一个亿 [Male lead is chaste, possessive, obsessive and domineering, and utterly devoted to protecting his wife] On Qingming Festival, I went up the mountain to visit a grave and met an extremely strange man dressed in ancient black-and-gold robes. The first thing he asked me was, “Miss, would you do me the honor of marrying me?” My name is Xu Mengling. My grandmother chose it, hoping that even my dreams and wishes would come true. I was born on the fifteenth day of the seventh lunar month. I’m twenty-f 4.5kReads8.6Score365Shelves
- 87 Sacrificed to the Mad Underworld King, I Somehow Have to Write Every Day? 被献祭给疯批冥王他竟然每天让我写作？ I Was Sacrificed to a Deranged King of the Underworld, and He Makes Me Write Every Day? 10Reads—Score—Shelves
- 88 My Wife, the King of the Underworld: My Husband Is a Little Crazy 冥王妻：我家夫君有点疯 (Mystery + Supernatural + Sweet romance + Mysterious love story) I’m an actor in a folk performance at a scenic attraction. Every night, my partner and I take part in a parade called “The Underworld King Takes a Bride.” But on one fateful night, the person I married turned out to be the real Underworld King... He’s cold, domineering, and unpredictable. My once peaceful life has been thrown into turmoil ever since he came into it... 485Reads6.8Score100Shelves
- 89 My Ghost Wife Is Pregnant, and Now I Have a Ghost Husband 冥妻有喜，鬼夫我有了 [King of the Underworld + ghost child + Taoist college student + supernatural tales] Li Feiling was an ordinary college student. It all began with that pregnancy test report. The man who haunted her dreams each night had such a vivid face that just thinking of him made her cheeks flush and her legs tremble. She also felt sick and repulsed. His touch felt real, yet cold... “If only I hadn’t gone to the back mountain!” Then none of those bizarre and terrifying things would have happened, and s 313Reads6.2Score—Shelves
- 90 The King of the Underworld Takes a Bride, Carried in a Sedan by a Hundred Ghosts 冥王娶妻，百鬼抬轿 [Strong Female Lead + Devoted Husband + Supernatural] I was born on Ghost Festival, with an extremely yin fate. I was born able to see things that do not belong in this world. The villagers feared me and kept their distance, treating me as an outcast. Ever since I could remember, my family had worshipped a spirit tablet with no name on it. Grandma told me it was my husband. From childhood, I was told to be loyal to “him.” When I was little, I asked, “Who is ‘he’?” Grandma would always look confl 2.2kReads8.4Score224Shelves
- 91 The Nether Emperor's Little Fool 冥帝大人的小笨蛋 The Three-Life Stone bears the mark of three lifetimes, and beside the Naihe Bridge, one can only sigh at fate. Time flies, and life is like a play. Her life may seem short, yet it has been long enough for her to taste every bitterness and sweetness. Though she has never experienced the pain of parting through death, she witnesses it every day. At first, she felt others’ pain as her own but was powerless to help. In the end, her heart became still, and she grew used to it all. She started her jo 4Reads—Score—Shelves
- 92 The Teng Snake Takes a Bride, and a Hundred Ghosts See Her Off 腾蛇娶妻百鬼送行 [Strong Female Lead] [Metaphysics] [Devoted Husband] [Ensemble Cast] [Pure Romance] [Mystery and Comedy] My name is Su Xiaowan. I was born in a small village in the south. I was born on the fifteenth day of the seventh lunar month, the Ghost Festival, commonly known as the “Ghost Day.” Legend has it that on this day, the gates of the underworld swing wide open and ghosts roam everywhere. So after paying respects to their ancestors during the day, everyone stays indoors, afraid of attracting a 1.5kReads8.9Score219Shelves
- 93 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
- 94 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 1.3kReads8.6Score144Shelves
- 95 The Ominous Coffin 凶棺 It all started with a coffin that floated up from the river... I thought it was a fortune dropped from the sky, but it turned out to be a disaster. After I pried open the coffin, I began to feel that something unclean had followed me home. My daughter grew stranger by the day. She was only three, yet she had already started developing! 120Reads—Score—Shelves
- 96 After Kissing a Dead Man, She Couldn’t Get Rid of Him 和死人接吻后，她被缠上了 [Ghosts and Monsters + Urban Romance + Devoted Love] My dad sold me to a dead man. I was kidnapped on the street, and when I opened my eyes, I found myself inside a coffin! A cold corpse was lying in the coffin. The moment I touched him, he came back to life! He pinned me down and kissed me by force! I don’t care how handsome he is, he can’t just do whatever he wants! The living and the dead belong to different worlds. Handsome, stop haunting me! “Dead man, quit flirting with me like that.” “Com 760Reads8.5Score—Shelves
- 97 The Snake Husband’s Devotion: His Little Fairy Is Reborn! 蛇夫溺宠：他的小仙女重生了！ The Beautiful, Powerful, and Tragic Demon King vs. His One and Only Little Princess [Mutual Pampering + Transmigrate into a Book and Reborn + Pure Love + Fantasy + Mind Reading + Past and Present Lives + Devoted Love] The first time she caught the thousand-year-old serpent with his huge tail showing, he was so nervous he didn't dare move a muscle. The girl immediately snuggled into his arms and kissed him until his face and eyes turned red, unable to keep her hands off his tail. And so began c 306Reads8.2Score—Shelves
- 98 Oh No! I Married a Sweet Wife, and Now I Can’t Hide My Serpent Tail 糟糕！娶了娇甜妻后蛇尾藏不住了 Sweet romance, both virgins, obsessive love, metaphysics: “Adorable, sweet little wife × cold, aloof, obsessive snake CEO” Jiang Mitian was thrown out of her home by her scumbag father. Homeless and hunted, she was saved at the brink of death by a handsome stranger. With nowhere else to go, she had to follow him home. Who knew he’d feed her and help her with her card during the day, then rub her legs and cling to her for kisses at night! A clever little woman appeared by the side of the aloof, h 107Reads7.4Score—Shelves
- 99 The Serpent King's Decree 蛇王令 I was born with a black scale on my body. As I grew older, the scale kept spreading. When I was sixteen, I dreamed that the black scales came to life and turned into a black snake that coiled tightly around me… 42Reads8.8Score—Shelves
- 100 The Snake Bridegroom 蛇婿 I was cut from the belly of a corpse, a child born of the dead, a jinx everyone despised. Misfortune followed me from childhood, yet Grandma said I had a noble destiny and limitless prospects. Then I was kidnapped and taken into the mountains, where a golden serpent coiled around me. From that moment on, strange events never stopped, and I began to challenge fate itself… 99Reads8.6Score—Shelves
