Novels like The Dragon King’s Debt: A Ghost Marriage
Books Chinese readers most often put in the same booklists as The Dragon King’s Debt: A Ghost Marriage, best match first.
- 1 The Haunted Record of the Three Towns Villas 三镇别墅灵异簿 A gathering place for Jiangcheng urban legends, devoted to strange folk tales from the three towns of Wuhan. Night fog on the Yangtze, the fading shadows of old towers, secrets of ancient streets, and strange happenings beneath bridges: every curious tale, urban legend, and folk mystery from Wuchang, Hankou, and Hanyang is collected here. We preserve the uncanny in writing and bring kindred spirits together through stories, exploring the hidden secrets of Jiangcheng after dark and retelling the —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 2 The Fox Bride 嫁狐新娘 My stepfather sold me into the mountains to be the wife of a fool. My in-laws forced me to share a room with him, but a wickedly handsome spirit fox immortal swooped in and stole me away. Not only does he want to marry me, he wants me to bear his fox cubs. What am I supposed to do? 17Reads6.3Score—14d adds
- 3 The Snake King’s Sacrifice: Messenger of the Underworld 蛇王祭之阴间使者 Three years ago, Ouyang Rui willingly sacrificed his dragon pearl to save me and the child in my womb, his soul utterly destroyed. Three years later, strange phenomena appeared, and red light blotted out the sun. I became a messenger of the underworld. A female corpse, a bizarre death, and one strange event after another: the conspiracy had begun anew... 3Reads6.7Score—14d adds
- 4 The Eerie Groom 诡异新郎官 My family kept a fox immortal spirit on its altar. Then one day, I received a gift from my grandfather, and finally succeeded in summoning a fox spirit to be my husband! A thousand years of karma, one servant and one master. As long as you're here, I will follow you forever. 58Reads—Score—14d adds
- 5 I'm Just a Walking Disaster, and You Want Me to Be a Spirit Medium? 我一个倒霉蛋，你让我当出马仙？ [First-person narration, fake transmigration, not a strong female lead, two equally matched leads, no golden finger. The heroine is intelligent and quick to adapt. The early plot moves too fast. She is not adored by everyone. The story leans toward fantasy and includes cultivation. The male lead has a double identity. The Three Realms are divided into the Heavenly Realm, the Demon Realm, and the Mortal World. The Immortal Realm belongs to the Heavenly Realm, while the Netherworld belongs to the —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 6 Transmigrating, I Can't Resist the Sweet Talk of the Imprisoning Dragon 穿越之抵不过囚龙的甜言蜜语 [One-on-one, both leads are pure. The nineteen-year-old female lead lives on a high-tech planet. For a generous reward, she volunteers as a test subject. Her transmigration brings her to him, where the redemption of love is worth more than every victory in his past. Her arrival is his good fortune.] Hey, you broke loser, I'm warning you: don't sleep too close to me tonight! Lingling, do you really mean that? Don't you remember how you frolic in my warm embrace every night? That night, a shameles 6Reads—Score114d adds
- 7 My Dragon King 我的龙王大人 Every night, I have that kind of dream. Not with a person. That thing presses tightly against me, its long, serpentine tail coiling around me and sliding over every inch of my body! Wherever its scales pass, it feels like an ice blade cutting into my flesh. It hurts, and I can't even scream. All I can do is endure the stabbing pain and shiver in the cold, until at last its icy tail tightens around me and suffocates me to death! Until that day… 81Reads7.0Score—14d adds
- 8 The Snake Lord Is Hard to Handle 蛇君难缠 When I was born, my father disturbed the spiritual object guarding a feng shui site and killed an entire nest of snakes. Our family was punished for it. I had to wear a pair of red jade earrings to stay alive, but one snake claimed they were his betrothal gift and demanded that I become his woman. I tried to escape, but he used force to keep me by his side, sweet-talking me and refusing to spare any rivals who coveted me. I thought his feelings for me were real, and gradually fell for him, until 257Reads8.1Score—14d adds
- 9 The Dragon Takes a Wife 龙娶妻 [Supernatural + Both Leads Are Faithful + Goofy Heroine + Sweet Romance + Plot-Focused + Cunning] My name is Lin Shuang. When I was born, relentless rain caused a flood that drowned many people. I am a true woman of extreme yin, but... 116Reads5.5Score—14d adds
- 10 Dragon God, Send Your Proposal, and I’ll Take the Sedan Chair 龙神请聘，夫人上轿 [A touch of mystery, the supernatural, and possessiveness. Marriage before love. Plot first, romance second. Sweet and sugary.] Born at noon, fated to yin, a thunderclap shakes the world. My birth was said to herald disaster. The villagers feared me, and my parents hated me. So, when I was just a month old, my father threw me into the mountains to fend for myself. Thankfully, my grandmother saved me. She told me that, to keep me alive, she had promised me in marriage to the Dragon God… 13Reads—Score—14d adds
- 11 The Flood Dragon’s Beloved 蛟宠 On the night of the full moon, I wore a red paper dress and black paper shoes, and the Five Great Immortal Clans and countless ghosts all fought over me. It was because my nails grew backward, and I was born with a pair of ghost hands that attracted evil and brought harm to others. That night, everyone thought I would die, but I survived. A powerful man even proposed to me and gave me a Buddha’s Hand talisman to suppress my power. From then on, my left hand commanded ghosts to take lives, while 192Reads—Score—14d adds
- 12 The Dragon King Takes a Wife at the Divine Dragon Temple 神龙庙之龙王娶妻 Ever since my great-grandfather’s time, our family has passed down this story. My great-grandfather once ran into danger while traveling and nearly died, but was saved by the legendary Dragon King. To repay him, he let slip while drunk that he would promise his future daughter to the Dragon King, in exchange for the village’s people living in peace and gratitude for the life-saving favor. But the generations passed, sons had sons and sons had sons, and it wasn’t until I was born that the Lin fam 23Reads—Score—14d adds
- 13 The Ghost King's White-Haired Bride 鬼王的白发新娘 My name is Lin Yao. I was born cursed. The day I was born, I brought about my parents’ deaths. For nineteen years, the whole village treated me like a plague, an ill omen, a filthy breathing thing not even worth a second glance. Only my grandmother was willing to shield me. But when she died, my hair turned white overnight. I became a true orphan, and the disaster they said had to be driven out. Afraid the ancient locust tree at the village entrance, which had gained a spirit, would bring disast 2Reads—Score—14d adds
- 14 The Dragon King's Fated Wife 命中注定龙王妻 I’ve suffered from a strange illness since childhood. Dark patches spread across my body, and I grew increasingly frail. We went to the hospital countless times, but no one could cure me. With no other options, my mother turned to superstition and took me to a so-called spirit medium. The medium told her my illness was caused by the “Dragon King’s Curse”! With a basin of chicken’s blood and a stick of incense, the medium sent me to the “Dragon King’s Palace in the Eastern Sea.” She said there mi 80Reads6.2Score—14d adds
- 15 A Snake's Many Pregnancies 蛇孕连连 My ancestors killed countless snakes, and generations of my family have had snake blood on their hands. A passing Taoist priest said we would have to pay for those blood debts. A fire burned my father to death. As I was collecting his remains, a snake on his body bit me. The village chief said it was a subterranean dragon snake from Hell, come to claim my life, and that I had less than three months to live. I refused to believe it, until one day a handsome young man came and insisted on marrying 79Reads8.7Score—14d adds
- 16 The Dragon King Takes a Bride 龙王娶亲 [Sweet Romance #Devoted Husband #Everyone's Favorite #Dragon King #Supernatural #Heartwarming] The devoted Dragon King, Long Lin, fiercely protects his wife! On the day I got married, little ghosts paved the way and the heavens opened a path. Petals filled the sky, and birds came to celebrate in a phoenix procession. It was a rare gathering of all three realms. Red silk covered the land, and the banquet stretched across heaven and earth for three whole days and nights. When the bridal veil was l 65Reads—Score—14d adds
- 17 Pleasure with a Snake 与蛇欢 When I was eight, my father burned a nest of snakes, and the whole Su family suffered retribution. To save my life, I was forced to make a marriage pact with a Fox Immortal. Now that I'm eighteen, a snake has forcibly destroyed my engagement and demanded that I become his wife and spirit medium. Karmic debts must be repaid, and love and resentment are tangled together. Caught between two immortal beings, I have nowhere to turn. Infant spirits come for my life, and people are sacrificed to serve 120Reads9.0Score2214d adds
- 18 The Calamity of a Ghostly Marriage, the Debt of a Dragon's Bones 阴缘劫，龙骨债 ♢ The Obsessive Snake Lord × The Bride with a Substitute Bone ♢ I was born with an incomplete destiny bone, and a dragon bone formed from a black snake was used to make up for it. Because I ruined his path to becoming a dragon, he hated me to the bone. He tormented me, took me against my will, and forced me to bear snake offspring. He said, “You used my dragon bone to keep yourself alive, so I’ll use your body to settle the debt.” He forced me to repay my karmic debt, yet risked his life to keep 519Reads8.4Score—14d adds
- 19 The Spirit-Boned Snake Immortal 灵骨蛇仙 [Domineering, ruthless Snake-Bone Immortal x unlucky, resilient, clever young bride] (Mystery + supernatural deduction + doting romance + sweet and angsty moments + little demon-hunting adventures + more or less a marriage-first, love-later story) I was born in an ancient village steeped in mysterious legends. In a cave there lay a huge coiled snake skeleton, worshipped like a god by the people after a century of offerings. When I was barely a teenager, my greedy father sold me to the Snake-Bone 54Reads6.4Score—14d adds
- 20 Snake Pregnancy 蛇胎 One true pairing, both pure. “Jiang Xiaoli, have you really forgotten who I am? How dare you?” In countless dreams, someone repeats those words. Sometimes through tears of blood, sometimes with a beaming smile. Jiang Xiaoli doesn’t know who the man is, or even whether he’s human. All she knows is that it feels as if a huge hole has been dug out of her heart. She can’t remember her past with him. Just as she could never have imagined that the grand gift for her twentieth birthday would be a nonhu 118Reads6.5Score—14d adds
- 21 Married to a Snake 蛇嫁 My mother died in difficult labor while giving birth to me. As they were lowering her coffin into the grave, a white snake coiled around it. The pallbearers fled in terror, and when the coffin hit the ground, I crawled out of my mother’s corpse. Ever since, the great white snake has pursued me relentlessly, insisting I bear him a whole brood of little white snakes. What am I supposed to do? 93Reads8.4Score—14d adds
- 22 The Dragon-Taming Bride 镇龙妻 [From home feng shui to esoteric arts, from attracting wealth and changing your fortune to reading faces and understanding people, improve your luck through the lens of metaphysics.] Fifty years ago, my grandfather forcibly pierced an underground dragon vein to find a feng shui treasure site, changing the fortunes and fate of our Zhou family. Fifty years later, a blood-soaked man showed up at our door, saying he wanted to marry into the Zhou family! The Nine Purple Li Fire cycle, the Witch’s Sun 301Reads8.4Score—14d adds
- 23 Marry the Phoenix, You! Go Cook Me a Couple of Dishes 嫁凤，你，去给我炒两个菜 [The heroine is clever, neither a saint nor an idiot. The hero isn’t aloof or short-tempered. Lots of jokes, a mutually faithful couple, happy endings for everyone, causes revealed after effects, no substitute trope, a little angst for the hero but none for the heroine, with a touch of past and present lives.] Warnings: The heroine is a strong woman with a feminist outlook, and there are lots of jokes. The romance between the leads has little to do with their past and present lives, but those li 210Reads8.7Score—14d adds
- 24 Goddess Reborn, Snake Immortal Wife 神女转世，蛇仙妻 An early work, an experiment. A girl born under an ill-starred fate, destined to be a goddess, with two immortals, a snake and a fox, circling around her, while the Ghost King of Kunlun fights to protect her to the death. I was born with a snake-shaped tattoo. It brought me plenty of benefits, but also some unpleasant consequences. My parents never let me get too close to boys, but when I hit puberty, I still broke that rule. Ever since then, a man has appeared in my dreams every single night... 5Reads8.0Score314d adds
- 25 Midnight in the Countryside 午夜乡村 My parents' job transfers sent me to live and study at my grandmother's house. Before bed, she warned me not to go and look, no matter what sounds I heard. From then on, one strange event after another came crashing into my life. Then, one day, my grandmother suddenly told me the secret about who I really was... 550Reads6.8Score—14d adds
- 26 The Yin-Born Girl: The Dragon King's Little Wife 阴生女：龙王的小娇妻 I was born with an unusually yin nature, and I’ve had yin-yang eyes since childhood. I can see every demon and evil spirit in the world, and they’re always haunting me. My mother suffered a difficult labor when she gave birth to me. After three days and three nights, I still hadn’t been born. My grandmother was a fortune-telling medium, and she predicted that I was destined for wealth and would become the Dragon King’s wife. She said that the only way to save my life was to betroth me to the Dra 70Reads—Score—14d adds
- 27 Come One, Come All! The Dragon-Taming Bride Is Taking Students 快来人啊，驯龙小娘子开班啦 At first, Ye Liangyu thought: “I've heard Western dragons love to plunder beautiful women and treasures. Our own dragons surely aren't that vulgar, right? Hmm... yes!” “Who says I don't like those things?” Su Qing said with a knowing smile. Boom! Ye Liangyu's face turned red all the way to her ears. She stamped her foot in anger. “Boss Su! If you use your mind-reading powers on me again, I'm going on strike! Strike!” Later, standing in Su Qing's vast, smoke-like treasure vault, she had to admit 2Reads—Score114d adds
- 28 My Immortal House’s Male Pet 我的仙家男宠 A celestial bond spanning three hundred years, and a redemption that reverses the balance of yin and yang. Yuyao, a high school senior, has been tormented since childhood by strange dreams: a ruined celestial shrine, five imprisoned immortals, and a silver-armored general who always protects her in moments of danger. She thought they were just stress-induced hallucinations. But after her grandmother dies, she inherits a notebook and a key, and learns that she is a fated “spirit medium,” destine 5Reads6.6Score—14d adds
- 29 I Am a Young Master of the Tang Dynasty 我乃大唐公子 A remote ancient town seals away a thousand-year-old ghost. When I set foot in this land, the seal breaks, and a tragic love spanning a thousand years begins. “Hello, young master.” “Goodbye, young master.” 156Reads8.2Score10414d adds
- 30 This Celestial Master Is Pretty Fierce 这个天师有点猛 Born with the Four Yang constitution, my Yin meridians can seize souls. With a ritual sword at my side, I roam between Yin and Yang, slaying demons, vanquishing evil spirits, battling ghosts, and destroying witchcraft and curses... My name is Shangguan Tianluo. Call me Master Dao! 38.2kReads8.6Score2.5k14d adds
- 31 A Fated Bond from a Past Life: Lord Yan's Sweet Little Wife Is Soft and Fragrant 前世宿缘，阎爷的小娇妻又香又软 A touch of the supernatural, true love, sweet romance, one-on-one. The male lead is the King of Hell, and the female lead's identity is a secret. Nangong Liuli accidentally had her three life-kindling flames extinguished by her best friend. The next day, as expected, she started seeing ghosts. Her grandfather, a member of the Taoist Association, gave her a dragon-patterned jade pendant, and then she began dreaming of a mysterious man. She couldn't make out his face, but she heard his domineering 38Reads6.5Score—14d adds
- 32 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—14d adds
- 33 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—14d adds
- 34 Nine Serpents Carry the Coffin 九蛇抬棺 When I was born, my father cut off several snakes with a knife. Ever since then, I’ve often dreamed at night of a huge black snake coiling around me, squeezing the breath from my lungs as if it were taking revenge. On my eighteenth birthday, the villagers tied me up and sent me to the mountain behind the village… 86Reads7.1Score—14d adds
- 35 Reborn: My Snake Husband Is So Fierce, Please Go Easy on Me 重生之蛇夫好猛，求轻点宠 [Rebirth + putting scumbags in their place + sweet romance] In her past life, Yang Qingran was blind and foolish, insisting on taking what others had discarded. He was nothing but a pretty fox with no redeeming qualities, yet she treasured him above all else. In the end, her family was destroyed, and all three of them were buried in a wolf's belly. Heaven gave her a chance to live again. This time, a different choice led her to find a treasure. It's just that her snake-beast husband is a bit too 41Reads—Score—14d adds
- 36 Subway Hauntings 地铁诡事 Supernatural stories often circulate about the subway in the capital: People carrying a sedan chair through the tunnel at Yonghegong Station; the last subway train at 11:30 p.m., running with its lights off; passengers who mysteriously die on the tracks, only for the last surveillance footage to reveal that they were pushed off the platform by a pair of invisible hands... Are these rumors just urban legends, or are they real? At first, I didn’t believe them either. But one night, when I accid 794Reads8.7Score10914d adds
- 37 Snake Scales All Over the Bed 蛇鳞满床 (A heroine who grows over time + a villainous male lead + love and hate intertwined + not for naive readers + not a sweet romance + open ending + don't read if you don't like thinking things through + anyone who leaves a malicious rating without reading the blurb and setting will lose all their good luck!!!) The day I was born, my mother stepped on a black snake and killed it, and its snake spirit took revenge on her relentlessly. To save my life, my grandfather went to beg the Snake Immortal fo 204Reads8.3Score—14d adds
- 38 Raising Great Demons at the Museum 我在博物馆养大妖 Restore the most dilapidated paintings, and keep the wildest man. Pressed by financial difficulties, Le Ying took up her family's traditional craft and became a calligraphy and painting restorer at a museum. While restoring paintings, she also took in several spirits and raised a one-legged great demon. Somehow, she ended up on a path to success in both her career and love life. A cross-species romance between a spiritual-energy flatterer and a proud, obsessive divine bird. 32Reads8.7Score—14d adds
- 39 The Yin Phoenix’s Calamity, the Dragon-Boned Wife 阴凤劫，龙骨妻 ◇Cold Snake God x Girl Forced to Take the Blame◇ My grandfather stole the Snake God’s dragon bones to keep me alive. Eighteen years later, the snake came to my door and demanded repayment, with interest. As a hundred snakes coil around me and red candles blaze, he bends close to my ear, his voice bewitching and cruel: “I’ll make you live in hell, my one and only captive pet. For all eternity, you’ll never be free.” He returned carrying a thousand years of hatred, yet found himself savoring the 20.7kReads8.9Score2k14d adds
- 40 The Snake King's Sacrifice 蛇王祭 After three years of severe drought, not a single grain was harvested, and corpses littered the land. Then, following a deafening crash, a black snake dozens of meters long and as thick as a barrel fell into Minshang Village. The villagers swarmed toward it like starving wolves and devoured it. From that day on, Minshang Village was cursed... 101Reads8.9Score—14d adds
- 41 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 2.2kReads8.4Score21614d adds
- 42 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 155Reads7.0Score—14d adds
- 43 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 62Reads6.4Score—14d adds
- 44 A Dragon’s Life with You 龙生有你 The snake immortal insists on becoming my patron immortal and wants me to love him deeply, but in my dreams, fragments of a strange memory keep resurfacing. It seems closely tied to both his origins and mine, where love intertwines with mystery… 102Reads—Score—14d adds
- 45 My Fox Immortal Lord Keeps Blowing His Cover 我家狐仙大人总掉马 One rainy night, office worker Shen Yuyu rescues a badly injured little white fox, unaware that it's actually Jun Linyi, a fox immortal who has cultivated for a thousand years. To repay her kindness, Jun Linyi stays by Shen Yu's side, but mishaps abound as he repeatedly blows his cover. Their peaceful life is shattered by dark forces, and Shen Yu unexpectedly awakens a mysterious power. Together, they delve into the secrets of their past lives, with laughs and danger at every turn... 1Reads—Score—14d adds
- 46 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 649Reads8.8Score10214d adds
- 47 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 902Reads9.0Score14714d adds
- 48 My Fiancé, Lord White Fox 我的未婚夫白狐大人 I went back to my hometown for the Mid-Autumn Festival and felt that my family was acting strangely. In the middle of the night, I caught them secretly burning a paper sedan chair, saying they were going to marry me off. Curious, I followed them. I never expected to end up trapped and get married in a daze. Huh? Handsome husband in white, what’s that behind you? Could it be a white fox’s tail? 319Reads7.3Score—14d adds
- 49 The Stunning Snake Lord Is So Cute and Sweet, I Can't Let Go 绝色蛇君又萌又糯，让我爱不释手 [Yandere + Overprotective Love + Chasing His Wife to the Crematorium + Transmigration] [A soft, adorable little snake king vs. a proud, fierce heroine] Jiang Ling accidentally puts on a strange ring. From that day on, she dreams every night of a giant snake coiling around her, starting at her feet and winding all the way up. For someone as terrified of snakes as she is, it’s a horrifying nightmare. Later, she discovers that this isn’t a dream at all. It’s real. A golden snake is coiling around h 135Reads7.4Score—14d adds
- 50 The White Dragon Takes a Wife, the Blind Girl Walks by Night 白龙娶妻，盲女夜行 [A quirky, mystical young woman vs. a scheming, black-hearted White Dragon of the East Sea] Ghost hunting and fortune-telling | Supernatural | Suspense | Twists | Fresh premise | Happy ending People said my birth was an ill omen. I couldn't see during the day, but at night I could see things ordinary people couldn't. So when I was three, I left home to live in a temple. Fifteen years later, my family brought me back, and the first thing they told me was that they were going to marry me off. That 39Reads8.5Score—14d adds
