Novels like The Dragon King’s Debt: A Ghost Marriage
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- 151 My Lord of Demons 我的妖君大人 I was born under a curse and abandoned in his temple. Twenty years later, he was reborn from the curse, and by a twist of fate, we formed a spiritual bond. The Demon Lord not only mooches off my food and drink, but also tricks me into having his child. His emotional intelligence is in the single digits, he’s stingy and combative, and he has enemies everywhere. Every day, he’s either fighting or on his way to a fight. I finally lose my patience. “I’m divorcing you!” He sneers arrogantly. “You can 518Reads9.2Score10114d adds
- 152 Half-Yin Woman, Bride of the Dragon King 半阴女，嫁龙王 I was working the night shift at a hospital when I got into a car accident on my way home and fell into a deep coma. Beneath a blood-red crescent moon, a pair of cold hands lifted me from the car. Half-conscious, he pulled me into his arms. From then on, a handsome man kept appearing beside me as if from nowhere. He said I was his wife and forbade me from getting close to any other man. If I ignored his warning, I would have to face the consequences. Refusing to believe him, I got engaged to som 34Reads6.2Score—14d adds
- 153 The Yin-Born Girl and Her Snake King Betrothed 阴生女，蛇王聘 The day I was born, the Imperial Star entered my fate, and a hundred ghosts clung to me. To keep me alive, my grandmother summoned the most powerful guardian spirit in the north to suppress my fate. With a python as my master, I became a spirit medium, learned the ways of yin and yang and the Eight Trigrams, and traveled across the land to protect the world. Under my master's protection, I became a generation's greatest prodigy. But in doing so, I also glimpsed secrets and heavenly mysteries I w 6.6kReads8.9Score45814d adds
- 154 The Sinister Ghost Monk Won’t Stop Clinging to Me 阴湿鬼僧非要缠我 An insecure, unhinged heroine × a hypocritical, demonic monk hero [Both are crazy! He’s compassionate in public, dark and cold in private. She has somewhat questionable morals, so steer clear if that bothers you. A sweet, indulgent romance between two crazies. No golden finger, traditional ghost-hunting and folk-horror elements.] “I love seeing you smile. But anyone besides me who can make you smile deserves to die.” Every grievance has its culprit, and as long as people are alive, they remain —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 155 The Fox King's Betrothed: A Girl Born to the Yin 狐王聘，阴生女 On the night of Jiang Yuening's eighteenth birthday, she saw ghosts drifting through her village. After that night, a little red fox came to her in her dreams every night. Its magnetic, bewitching voice had already been etched into her memory. Who is this little fox? How will the wheels of fate turn? The secrets hidden deep in the darkness will eventually bloom like flowers beneath the sunlight… 12Reads6.8Score—14d adds
- 156 Tales of Evil 恶谭 [Mind-Bending Mystery + Episodic Cases + Crime + Criminal Investigation + Jaw-Dropping Twists + Partners in the Field + Comedy] “When a person’s heart is filled with darkness, evil takes root there. The guilty are not those who commit crimes, but those who create the darkness.” A desperate call for help in the early hours of the morning came from a dead person’s phone number. A news report about a murder in a village claimed the Wolf God might be responsible! In Liangcheng, men kept turning up w 33Reads—Score—14d adds
- 157 The Demon Lord Is Here 妖君在上 In the thirteenth year of the Republic, with the country in turmoil, Shen Lingyin was born in an isolated village surrounded by strange legends. When she came of age, the villagers chose her as a sacrifice, but she unexpectedly uncovered a secret buried for a thousand years... Born at midnight on the second day of the second lunar month in the Year of the Tiger, she was chosen by fate, yet doomed to bring disaster. To survive, she forms an alliance with a mysterious man and walks the razor's edg 901Reads9.0Score14314d adds
- 158 The Uncanny One 邪门儿 In the old days, bandit gangs had four pillars and eight posts. The foremost pillar was called the Heaven-Supporting Pillar, and its holder served as the gang's strategist. Since strategists tattooed goshawks on their chests, they were also known as Mountain-Circling Eagles. A Mountain-Circling Eagle is neither monk nor Daoist, yet can discern yin and yang, communicate with spirits, and foretell fortune and misfortune. Neither immortal nor shaman, yet can cast talismans, drive out evil spirits, 1.5kReads8.6Score15614d adds
- 159 The Underworld King’s 101st Bride 冥王的第101个新娘 Historical romance, 1v1, devoted to each other, sweet and doting [A Family Banquet in the Underworld] The King of the Underworld raises the corner of his mouth and smiles playfully. “You want to be Queen of the Underworld? What makes you think you can?” Fuguang conceals the pain in her heart. Her pearly teeth glimmer as she smiles like fireworks in the night. “In all the Underworld, I’m the only one worthy of standing beside you!” The women seated below whisper among themselves: “Good heavens, t 23Reads—Score—14d adds
- 160 The Fox-Fur Wedding Dress 狐皮嫁衣 “My Husband Is the Wolf King” ❤️ In July 1928, my great-grandfather, driven mad by greed, stole a priceless luminous pearl from the Eastern Qing Tombs. Then, when I was five, a white wolf latched onto me. He gouged out my eyes and stole all my other senses as well... [On Qingqiu Hill there lives a fox, its fur a wondrous sight. Skin it alive, then sew it into a rosy bridal cape. If I wear it, we shall share three lifetimes, never parted from you in any of them.] 208Reads8.8Score—14d adds
- 161 Nine Dragons Pulling a Coffin 九龙拉棺 I became a corpse retriever to get rich and marry a wife. But before I could make a fortune, I pulled a delicate, stunning beauty out of the Yellow River... 3.4kReads8.8Score25614d adds
- 162 Three Dreams Entwined with a Snake 蛇缠三梦 I was born on the day of spring thunder, when snakes and insects stir back to life. Two red spots marked my wrist from birth, like a pair of vivid cinnabar moles, or two fresh, blood-red bite marks. From then on, every Dragon Boat Festival, countless snakes would gather at my home to pay homage. When I came of age, the snakes carried in a blood-red pearl. After that, strange events began happening one after another in the village, all of them connected to a secret the old folks spoke of. Some sa 1.1kReads9.1Score15614d adds
- 163 Awakening My Immortal Destiny: The Path of a Spirit Medium 仙缘觉醒，出马仙之路 Lin Xiaoman once thought she would spend her whole life in the old alleys of a small Northeastern town, working from sunrise to sunset and living a quiet, uneventful life like countless generations of her family before her. Then, after a sudden high fever, she began to see “things” ordinary people couldn’t: a woman in blue wandering beneath the old locust tree at the end of the alley, a white-bearded old man tapping on her window at night, and even the indistinct summons of “the immortals” in he 2Reads—Score—14d adds
- 164 The Snake Pregnancy in October 十月蛇胎 A serious illness left me pregnant after ten months, and the child's father was a snake: The Northeast Spirit Medium, the true story of a female spirit medium 342Reads8.7Score11314d adds
- 165 The Yin-Yang Courier 阴阳快递员 After graduating from college, I became a delivery courier to make ends meet. Who knew I'd have to work nights, and that none of the people coming to collect their packages would be human… 153Reads8.1Score14714d adds
- 166 My Childhood Sweetheart Is Actually a Snake 青梅竹马竟是蛇 Synopsis: “Snake, let’s play house today! q(≧▽≦q)” Not long after Lan Xingyue was born, a pet snake came into her life and grew up alongside her. Before long, a little boy named Mo Siyu and his family moved in next door, and she gained a childhood sweetheart. Until one day, she discovered that Mo Siyu had a mysterious connection to her snake! Lan Xingyue: “Why won’t my snake come out when Siyu’s here?” Mo Siyu: “...Maybe it’s afraid of me.” `(*>﹏<*)′ I feel so guilty~ Lan Xingyue: “Why are you n 252Reads8.7Score—14d adds
- 167 The Bewitching Snake Husband Is So Hard to Handle 妖孽蛇夫太难缠 Of all people, why do I have to bear a snake’s child...? 262Reads8.4Score10014d adds
- 168 The Ultimate Husband 最强老公 A fierce husband, seven nights of passion, a spirit fetus conceived in secret, a Chi dragon blood ring... A family that crawled out of a tomb offered me as a sacrifice to the Emperor. From then on, I wandered between the worlds of yin and yang, no longer welcome among the living. 1kReads8.3Score11114d adds
- 169 I Won’t Survive the Night 活不过今夜 At some point, a strange old beggar showed up in our neighborhood. The strange thing was, he never spent the money people gave him. He’d burn it or destroy it instead. Then one day, the woman downstairs was burned to death, and the butcher was brutally murdered. That was when I finally realized the truth. He wasn’t begging for money. He was begging for lives! 1.1kReads8.2Score10214d adds
- 170 The March Murder Hunt 三月追凶 I’m working hard to create the most boring, lowest-rated, most lackluster mystery novel on the entire internet. Sometimes even the author can’t understand it, but apparently lots of people enjoy novels they can’t understand. —Reads6.6Score—14d adds
- 171 The Yin-Yang Cheat 阴阳挂 “Have you ever had your fortune told? The kind where you die after the reading. “I tell fortunes for a living. I don’t get many customers, but they’re all normal people. “Then that man showed up. After that, my customers were either about to die or already dead. “A dismembered female ghost chased me for a thread. A toothless male ghost chased me to buy teeth. A billionaire insisted on keeping a ghost, and an ugly woman wanted to change her fate. “An urn that suddenly appeared on my bed, a vase t 124Reads9.2Score1314d adds
- 172 A Yin Wedding, a Cursed Wife with the Phoenix Fate 阴嫁，凤命诡妻 ◇ Fated Phoenix Maiden × Supreme Ruler of the Underworld ◇ I was born with the fate of a phoenix, yet from the moment I came into the world, I was already half dead. The night I was born, rosy clouds filled the sky and all the ghosts came to pay their respects. The seventy-two celestial clans gathered to celebrate my reincarnation... Everyone considered me ill-omened, but a passing enlightened monk said I was the reincarnation of the Lady of the Underworld. The sins of my past life had not yet b 5.5kReads8.8Score1.1k14d adds
- 173 The Snake King Chases His Wife: Darling, Don’t Run Away 蛇王追妻茫：媳妇儿你别逃 [Comedy] [Mystery] [Multiple Twists] [Stealing Someone's Love] [Ascension to Godhood] [Demon-Slaying] The male lead is beautiful, tragic, and powerful, and is frantically chasing his wife... When the thousand-year-old Snake King Feng Moli was undergoing his tribulation to become a dragon, he lost his senses and violated Bai Ranran, the woman who had saved his life. He resolved to stay by her side and protect her for a hundred years. Bai Ranran thought she had simply adopted a giant pet. Little 1.6kReads9.0Score21114d adds
- 174 Sweet Romance: The Dragon King Brings Home a Cute Little Bride to Raise 甜宠：龙王捡个可爱小媳妇回家养 [Lively, Adorable, Clever Sweetheart × Gentle, Considerate Dragon King Who Grants Her Every Wish] Before she transmigrated, Meng Ci was a poor unfortunate soul: her family life was miserable, her education mediocre, she had no money, and her partner cheated on her. But after getting hit by a car and flying through the air, she wakes up in a magnificent palace. She also discovers that the dragon who found her is rich, powerful, and handsome. Meng Ci: I want to open a shop. The dragon: I’ll buy 283Reads8.9Score10014d adds
- 175 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… 2kReads7.5Score24314d adds
- 176 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… 1.3kReads9.1Score15914d adds
- 177 The Fox Bride 狐嫁女 Eighteen years ago, my grandfather offended a Hu fairy in the mountains and suffered its frenzied revenge. Eighteen years later, to settle the score, I was forced to marry the beast that ruined my family, serve as its spirit medium, and become the most powerful spirit medium across the vast black soil! Please help me with the spirit-invocation chant: Golden incense burner, silver incense whip, set aside the sea-sized bowl and let the incense smoke rise; Offer red beams and clear water to the 1.6kReads8.9Score21414d adds
- 178 Paper Cutting to Prolong Life 剪纸续命 Three days after his master's death, Chen Zhi's name was pressed into a paper-cut figure. Someone cut paper outside his door late at night. A paper figure bearing his name appeared at the doorstep, and from then on, the blue-black mark on his hand began to seep inward along his veins. Paper can ward off evil and bind souls. And the darkest art of the Paper-Cutting Sect is called Name Binding. To stay alive, Chen Zhi can only follow the torn pages his master left behind, the black sand beneath t 12Reads—Score—14d adds
- 179 Married to a Snake 与蛇为妻 The fourteenth day of the seventh month, an auspicious day. The Snake Immortal is taking a bride. All bystanders must keep away. I was born unlucky. My mother died in childbirth, and I stopped breathing, too. My grandmother found a Snake Immortal to breathe life into me, but a patch of python-scale patterns appeared over my heart. When I was eight, a man in a dark jade robe came before me. He told me that he would come to marry me ten years later. In the blink of an eye, ten years had nearly pas 4.4kReads9.1Score50014d adds
- 180 The Ninety-Ninth Bride 第九十九位新娘 "Ninety-eight brides. Every last one of them rotted here. You won't escape." All 98 brides were screwed, and I'm unlucky number 99! I wandered into a cursed place while scouting locations and landed myself a crazy, white-haired husband. The first time we met, he grabbed me by the throat and threatened to burn my whole family if I didn't obey! Later, he stole offerings from other people, snatched my milk tea pearls, knocked on my window in the middle of the night to keep me company, and held me w 310Reads—Score—14d adds
- 181 The Tsundere Fox Demon Lord Is Too Easy to Tease 病娇狐狸魔尊不经撩 [Complete] The rating is low because few people have rated it. The story is guaranteed to be good. [1v1, happy ending + mutual devotion + intense push and pull + two powerful leads + sweet romance: a shrewd, mischievous young lady × a cold, heartless Demon Venerable] After transmigrating, Nan Xingchen found herself a useless nobody with no spiritual power! She was a thousand years old without having formed a demon core, yet she had a peerlessly beautiful face that could topple kingdoms. Her frie 57Reads6.8Score—14d adds
- 182 The Snake Husband's Obsessive Love: His Bride Flees in Panic 蛇夫强宠，娇妻慌乱出逃 Rong Jin had to work as a servant at a manor deep in the forest to pay off her debts. The manor’s handsome, cold-faced master ordered her to raise snakes! Rong Jin was terrified of snakes and fainted on the spot! Luckily, he didn’t hold it against her and had Rong Jin attend to him while he soaked in the hot spring. Rong Jin dreaded nightfall, and dreamed every night. As her dreams grew more and more outrageous, they became increasingly difficult to talk about! Her mind grew more and more troubl 1.7kReads8.8Score13614d adds
- 183 The Cat’s Chronicle 狸奴录 He was the only legitimate son of the Marquis Yongchang's household, yet he met a gruesome death at his coming-of-age ceremony. His vengeful spirit could not enter the cycle of reincarnation. In his panic, he attached himself to a cat, eventually becoming the beloved pet in my arms. From then on, he worked in the shadows, tearing through layers of disguises under cover of night, while I uncovered schemes and read people's hearts in the courtroom. Together, we exposed a conspiracy that threatened 3Reads—Score—14d adds
- 184 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... 489Reads6.8Score10014d adds
- 185 The Soul Ferryer Between Yin and Yang 阴阳渡魂人 Soul-snatching ghost weddings, bathroom hauntings, the legend of the red-clad senior, Thai black magic, ghost soldiers borrowing the road, man-eating mountain demons, nightmare fiends that enter your dreams, the mystery of the headless woman, a bizarre bride in an escape room, vengeful child spirits, games that summon ghosts, human organ trafficking, a shocking exhibition of human deformities, and long-lost Maoshan secrets... Do these things send a chill down your spine? - The truth is, this wor 177Reads9.2Score10214d adds
- 186 A Dragon's Son, Carried in a Ghost's Coffin 龙生子，鬼抬棺 My name is Ding Lin, and I was born covered in dragon scales. The villagers said my mother wasn’t human. When she died, a hundred ghosts carried her coffin, and the River Earl wept at her funeral. My mother said I was the child of a dragon, born extraordinary, blessed by a hundred ghosts and immune to every taboo... 5.2kReads8.8Score52414d adds
- 187 Married to a Dragon 嫁龙作夫 The year I was born, a dragon fell from the sky and landed in the mountains behind our village. Eighteen years later, my grandmother hanged herself from the crooked locust tree at the village entrance with a length of rope. The villagers all said the Dragon King was taking a bride, and that my grandmother had defied him and suffered retribution. After the entire village nailed me into a black coffin and buried me alive, that thing violated me. Only then did I realize that things were far more co 1.7kReads9.0Score18914d adds
- 188 The King of Hell's Third Bride 三嫁阎君 When I turned twenty, my father forced me into a marriage everyone dreaded. The wedding was set for the fifteenth day of the seventh lunar month, the Ghost Festival, and the man I was to marry... Wasn't human either. I was born without a heartbeat. My father used a secret art to keep me alive, and marrying this mysterious husband was my only chance of survival. On our wedding night, paper money swirled through the sky as eerie paper figures descended from above, carrying an eight-bearer phoenix 88.6kReads9.1Score14.2k14d adds
- 189 Strange Tales of a Mountain Village 山村异事 Mom tied a rope around her mouth and hanged herself over Dad's coffin! Forty-nine days later, Mom came back for me! 341Reads6.7Score10314d adds
- 190 The Coffin of Life and Death 生死棺材 In our line of work, there’s a type known as the miscellaneous school. They follow unorthodox paths, dabbling in everything but mastering nothing. They have no sect above them and no helpers below them, and nobody takes them seriously. I’m an heir to the miscellaneous school, yet I turned their world upside down and left them in chaos. Only when I decided to retire did I discover a shocking mystery hidden within me... 491Reads8.7Score10014d adds
- 191 Horror: Death Comes at Midnight 恐怖：夜半索命 I lived a routine life until the death of Old Chen changed everything. Beside his body lay a pile of handmade paper figures. One had been painted blood red and clutched in his stiff, dead hand. Blood-red words began appearing in the mirror: “Get out.” “He’s still in the building.” Then I received an ultimatum: his daughter needed a living substitute. Paper figures weren’t enough. Neither were his belongings. She wanted a living person in the building, someone warm and breathing. Tomorrow, at mid 17Reads—Score11014d adds
- 192 The Jiao Consort Returns 蛟妾归 I’m blind, born with a disability. A fortune-teller said I had to stay away from my parents or disaster would strike our whole family. The prophecy came true when I was twelve. My entire household was massacred, and I was the only one lucky enough to escape. Unexpectedly, that escape led me straight into a realm of demons and spirits, where I was surrounded by monsters and ghosts, and the underworld. During my flight, I was hunted down again and again, nearly killed, and wanted for the massacre 114Reads8.4Score—14d adds
- 193 There’s Something Strange in Your Heart 你的心里有鬼 [A print edition under the same title is available from Dimension Core] [Chinese-style horror + folk legends and strange tales + over 70 standalone cases + suspense + romance between two powerful leads + hugely popular series!] “Yin-Yang Studio bridges the worlds of yin and yang. The living come to ask the dead about their affairs, and the dead speak to the living about theirs.” Ye Miao was an orphan born with a special constitution and a pair of “yin-yang eyes.” She grew up with her grandfather 558Reads8.3Score10914d adds
- 194 Fifth Watch 五更 The stories my grandpa used to tell me were probably meant to scare me into staying put, or maybe to lull me to sleep. He always told them with such conviction and vivid detail that I often found myself dreaming of the very scenes he had lived through. I met the old flower-growing woman on Yinshan Mountain, and one villager after another from Sangen Village. Their faces were gloomy and strange, and their deeds served as a warning, reminding us that “the gods are watching from three feet above yo 705Reads7.2Score10014d adds
- 195 The Demon Husband Is Here 妖夫在上 I have a birthmark, and I covered it with a tattoo to make it look better. Who could have guessed the tattoo shop I chose would be so unreliable? They actually tattooed a demon on me. From then on, my life was never peaceful again. 1.5kReads8.9Score23914d adds
- 196 Hell’s Temptation: My Husband Is the King of the Underworld 地狱诱宠：闪婚老公是冥王 [Supernatural + sweet romance + adorable child + secret identity + 1v1 and mutually devoted, scheming King of Hell + sweet, innocent heroine] After a whirlwind marriage to my blind date, I discover that he’s not only rich and handsome, but also full of secrets. He keeps a talking black cat, has a younger brother who can read ghost script, and even has a second face. Once I discover his secrets, he drops his disguise and reveals his wicked, scheming nature, cornering me against the bed. “Sweethea 7.3kReads9.2Score81614d adds
- 197 My Husband Is the King of the Underworld 我的老公是冥王 When I was eighteen, I pushed open a door in a daze. I never imagined that the person behind it would use my entire family’s lives to force me to marry him… 1.3kReads8.0Score14814d adds
- 198 Death on Delivery 死亡外卖 Never try to save money when ordering takeout! After ordering a meal that wasn't clean, strange events keep happening, and his coworkers begin dying one by one. Some takeout costs you money. Some takeout costs you your life. My other completed novel, The Hell Company, is over a million words long. Come check it out, dear readers~~ 2.4kReads8.7Score22614d adds
- 199 Someone New Appeared in the Footage 录像里多出一个人 The test shoot’s discarded footage was four seconds longer. Everyone in the frame held the same poses they had at the end of filming. No one moved. I counted three times. There were six people every time. But only five people had been there that day. On the hard drive my mother left behind, there was an empty folder with a four-character name: Do Not Fast-Forward. In the recycle bin was a deleted video, four minutes and twenty-five seconds long, which couldn’t be recovered. Our production crew w 3Reads—Score—14d adds
- 200 Strange Tales, Volume 1 奇闻诡事录1 This is a collection of folk tales about the uncanny, strange accounts from across the land. Each chapter is a complete story, each tale a separate supernatural mystery, revealing the mysteries of yin and yang, folk taboos, and the obsessions of the dead. You never know when a casual remark might draw the attention of spirits lurking in the wilderness; when an old object you pick up might hold the memory of a tragic death; or when an everyday habit might already have crossed a forbidden boundary 20Reads—Score—14d adds
