Novels like My Soul-Guarding Wife
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- 1 Folk Tales of the Supernatural: The Paper Effigies I Make Can Enter Ancient Tombs 民间诡闻：我扎的纸人能下大墓 My name is Li Yan, and I'm a paper effigy craftsman who won't live past twenty-five. To extend my life, I have no choice but to seek rare treasures in the most sinister tombs. Other people risk death whenever they enter a tomb. I rely entirely on paper effigies! The Yellow River Ghost Coffin, the Cloudtop Snow Tomb... I sacrifice my lifespan, dot their eyes, and give them life! A red-clad paper bride tears a female demon to shreds, while an armored paper general cleaves a snow monster in two! “B 1.4kReads—Score11014d adds
- 2 Global Horror: I Became a God-Tier Paper Effigy from the Start 全球惊悚：开局成了神级纸扎人 He transmigrates to a world plagued by the resurgence of the supernatural, and from the start finds himself inhabiting a paper effigy. But as long as he harvests fear, he can keep leveling up! “Ding! Detected: 100 fear points from Chu Renmei!” “Ding! Detected: 200 fear points from Sadako!” “Ding! Detected: 300 fear points from Kayako!” He scares people, and even ghosts. He will become a terrifying demon god. 1Reads—Score—14d adds
- 3 The Corpse Reader 尸生相人 Adapt to the balance of yin and yang and align with the secrets of the heavens. Read the bones to see the face, and the skin to see the qi. The changes in your palm are but an illusion; the five elements determine your fate. A person's face and destiny reveal only seven parts out of ten. The other three are secrets of heaven, beyond anyone's sight. Only the face of the dead can be seen in its entirety. But after I was born, I somehow displayed all ten parts, just like a dead person! 2Reads—Score—14d adds
- 4 The Coffin Bride 棺妻 My name is Li Guan. Li as in the character for plum, and Guan as in coffin. When I was fourteen, I dreamed of a purple coffin. A beautiful woman lay inside. She opened her eyes and told me she was my wife, and that she'd kill me if I married anyone else! She told me to wait for her. On my eighteenth birthday, she really came... When the purple coffin crossed my threshold, the world's shackles broke, revealing the first mysterious glimpse of an entirely new and fantastical world... 362Reads6.3Score—14d adds
- 5 The Red Coffin Descends, and My Ghost Wife Can Cut People Down 红棺降世，我的鬼妻能砍人 [Female ghost + supernatural + bloody battles] A sudden thick fog enveloped the entire village, and that day everyone was seized with fear. A red coffin suddenly appeared right in the middle of the village. From then on, death began to spread slowly through the people overnight, all because someone had opened that red coffin... “What? She’s here for me?” “Heh heh, you can’t get away.” 43Reads—Score—14d adds
- 6 My Wife Is a Ghost Constable 我的老婆是阴差 I saw a little ad about a rich woman looking for a man to father her child, and it left me completely shaken. Now she won’t stop pestering me, claiming she’s pregnant with my baby. What am I supposed to do? 50Reads—Score—14d adds
- 7 A Night Parade of a Hundred Ghosts: Bound by a Red Thread, My Beautiful Wife Is a Female Ghost 百鬼夜行：红绳结契，我的娇妻是女鬼 I own a paper effigy shop, and I don’t believe in ghosts or gods. Yet every year on the fifteenth day of the seventh lunar month, I have to pay my respects to ghosts in exchange for a reward. But this year, on the fifteenth day of the seventh month, a red string brought me a beautiful bride: a woman in red who was a ghost... Staring at the lovely, pale body lying on my bed, I was stunned! Ghost bride: “Husband, shouldn’t we consummate our marriage tonight~” 44Reads—Score—14d adds
- 8 Child of Yin, the Dragon-Locking Coffin 阴之子，锁龙棺 I have all five Yin traits, yet my lifespan is incomplete. Every day, I wear burial clothes. The moment I take them off, one strange and eerie thing after another begins to happen... 131Reads—Score—14d adds
- 9 I Hit a Grave with My Car, and the Ghost Bride Came to My Door 开车撞到坟，鬼新娘来上门 [Wild Imagination] + [Ghost Hunting] + [Multiple Heroines] The big villa Ye Chen lives in actually has more ghosts than people. He doesn't need to turn on the air conditioning in summer, so he calls it a “ghostly villa”! 56Reads—Score—14d adds
- 10 Rule Horror: My SSR Vampire Loli 规则怪谈：我的SSR吸血萝莉 [Dungeons] [One female lead] [Rules] Original title: From the Start, I Met an SSR-Rank Vampire Horror, Made Her My Beloved Wife, and Took on the World I am Mu Xia. A year ago, the bizarre descended upon the planet. Unfortunately, I got caught up in this round of rule-based horror: the Mo family’s haunted house. Fortunately, I can see hidden clues written in blood. Fortunately, I found an SSR-rank vampire girl and formed a contract with her. How many more rule-based horror scenarios will we face? 9Reads—Score—14d adds
- 11 A Marriage Contract, and the Female Ghost Wants to Be My Wife 一纸婚书，女诡要当我老婆 [First person, newbie author, slow burn, tomb exploration. Don’t read if that’s not your thing.] I was just an ordinary college student until one night, when a female ghost set her sights on me. I thought I was as good as dead. Then strange things began happening around me one after another: a mischievous ghost at an internet café, and the ancient Su family house in my dreams. One bizarre incident followed another. But when my childhood friend Wei Ge and I encountered the female ghost, he actual 4Reads—Score—14d adds
- 12 From the Start, I Force-Kissed the Ghost Bride Until She Questioned Her Life as a Ghost 开局强吻鬼新娘，亲到她怀疑鬼生 My new work is here! Welcome to read it on Tomato Novel. I hope you enjoy it. Your support motivates me to write, and I’ll do my best to tell every story well! —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 13 Tales of the Uncanny: The Uncanny Chronicler 异闻录：异闻记录者 [Nearly Invincible] [Ghost Bride] [Multiple Female Leads] [Seven Deadly Sins] Li Mingxuan, a college student fascinated by mystical arts, transmigrated to a parallel world after an accident. In this world, technology and cultivators existed side by side, while mystery and danger were intertwined. More astonishing still, during his transmigration, a mysterious treasure called Records of Strange Tales was drawn to his soul and became his "golden finger." By recording the supernatural events he ex —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 14 Serving Evil 奉邪 I was born an ugly freak, with a red birthmark on my face. My mother died right after giving birth to me. Later, to save my gravely ill younger brother, my stepmother married me off to a “Great Immortal” worshipped by one of her relatives. Four years later, the “Great Immortal” came looking for me and saved me from a living hell, but also forced me into an unspeakable relationship... 15Reads—Score—14d adds
- 15 The Yellow Immortal Worships the Moon: A Dreamt-Up Suicide Note 黄仙拜月：托梦遗书 [Traditional Supernatural Tales, Told by a Practitioner of the Netherworld Arts] A strange book left behind by my grandfather before he died. It records hundreds of uncanny spells: The Nether Soul Spirit-Communication Art, the Scissors Ghost-Sending Method, the Treasure Mirror Circle of Light Technique, the Broom Evil-Breaking Method… These spells may seem rather “homely.” But they brought me all kinds of terrifying experiences: An eerie spirit in a rented apartment, a lost child by the roadside 1Reads—Score—14d adds
- 16 Three Thousand Paths of the Weird: Starting by Rejecting My Gentle Homeroom Teacher 诡道三千，从拒绝温柔班导开始 There are two things crooked practitioners love most: stealing other people’s fortune, and scheming to live forever! Zhang Sanqian had only just started college when he encountered ghosts and humans together, corpses leaping from rooftops, and a ghost raising corpses. He thought it was just some evil spirit causing trouble. He never imagined his own homeroom teacher was plotting to live forever. A hundred lives sacrificed for one person to attain immortality. As Zhang Sanqian dealt with these in 1Reads—Score—14d adds
- 17 Book Seven: A Hundred Ghosts Walk by Day 第七本书，百鬼昼行 On a rain-soaked evening, a mysterious umbrella appeared and tore through the boundary of reality, bringing me face-to-face with Her: Xu Shuang, a pure-white soul, a wandering ghost, who became the one and only love of my life. I'm just an ordinary coffee shop owner. I grind beans and make lattes every day, never imagining I'd be caught up in a whirlpool of the uncanny. But when Her pale fingers brush my palm, when Her whispers seep into my dreams, mingling with the sound of rain, I finally unde 3Reads—Score—14d adds
- 18 I Started Out Guiding Ghost Hunters and Awakened the Five Mystical Arts 开局指点捉鬼，我竟觉醒玄门五术 After his soul transmigrated into another world, he had barely enjoyed a few days of a rich heir’s lavish life when he discovered that ghostly energy was slowly reviving. Countless hideous ghosts and monsters had appeared in what used to be a peaceful world. Fortunately, he had the Heavenly Eye, and Heaven had rewarded him with the Ancient Ghost-Exorcism System. From then on, he called the shots in his livestream. Greedy ghosts, infant spirits, thousand-year-old female ghosts, haunted skyscraper 1Reads—Score—14d adds
- 19 The Snake Demon Demands Payment: My Master Told Me to Repay the Debt with My Body 蛇妖讨债：师父让我以身抵债 My mother was frightened into giving birth prematurely by a snake. At the same time, a swarm of snakes blocked the river, threatening to flood our home. A Taoist priest said this was because my father had once harmed a great white snake. To settle the grudge, he took it upon himself to arrange for me to marry the white snake... 1.1kReads8.0Score10014d adds
- 20 Paper Effigy Maker 扎纸人 My grandfather was a renowned paper effigy maker, a trade associated with the yin world. I never imagined there could be so many mysterious and unfathomable secrets hidden in it... 189Reads—Score—14d adds
- 21 The Second Spirit 二神儿 [Supernatural] [Comedy] [Shamanism] When I was nine, my father was killed by a spirit summoned to possess him. As fate would have it, I inherited the mantle of the royal shaman. Sending off wandering spirits, battling the Chang and Mang serpent spirits, facing the mountain god of Shenxian Mountain, and encountering a dragon in the Wusong River… This is the story of the strange events I witnessed during my years as a shaman. 18Reads6.9Score—14d adds
- 22 The Corpse Mover 搬尸匠 Mo Xiaoqi, a boy born under the Four Yin signs, has been covered in festering sores since childhood, enduring scorn and humiliation. In the end, he chooses to work at a crematorium far from the crowds. He never imagined that his appearance had been caused by a villain's sinister scheme. By chance, he obtains a bone ring and learns the Five Arts of medicine, divination, destiny, and physiognomy, becoming their inheritor. He takes on his awful relatives and seeks out the culprit who poisoned him, 71Reads6.4Score—14d adds
- 23 The Mystic Paper Effigy Maker 奇门扎纸匠 Before I was even born, my grandfather had already begun quietly changing my fate, arranging an engagement to someone I had never met. He spared no effort to defy fate and pass down the paper effigy-making craft of the Four Yin Sect, hoping to avoid every calamity brought by the Five Bane and Three Deficiencies. When I was born, strange omens appeared in the sky. Something extraordinary was happening, and it seemed all the disasters were only just beginning. It looked as though everything had be 76Reads—Score—14d adds
- 24 On My First Birthday, I Choose to Hold the Female Ghost’s Hand 满岁抓周当天，我选择我牵住女鬼 In an age of supernatural resurgence, evil spirits run rampant. Born into the Su family, one of the eight great ghost-hunting houses, Su Douxing is the darling of the family from a young age. Any one of his uncles is a top-tier ghost hunter. His eldest uncle, Su Fengnian, is a shrewd businessman. They call him “abacus in his left hand, talismans in his right; no one can match him in business, be they human or ghost.” His second uncle, Su Fengxue, loves fighting foreign devils. Obsessed with vamp 146Reads—Score—14d adds
- 25 What? The Beautiful Female Ghost Is the System 啥？漂亮女鬼是系统 Xia Datou rose from humble beginnings to become the supreme sovereign. After retreating into seclusion for several epochs, he still couldn't take the final step to attain the Dao. So he decisively threw himself into reincarnation. After countless lifetimes, he let go of everything and returned to the Blue Star, putting on a yellow robe... 2Reads—Score—14d adds
- 26 I Told You to Confess, So Why Did You Go After a Female Ghost? 让你表白，你找上女鬼？ [Horror + laugh-out-loud comedy + ghost stories + multiple heroines] Qin Feng awakens a System by accident while taking part in a paranormal TV show. [Host, you have thirty seconds to confess your feelings to a woman. Fail the mission and you will die immediately!] At that moment, the only one inside the legendary haunted house is a red-clad female ghost. With no other choice, he confesses to the ghost in front of the cameras. Qin Feng: “I like you. Will you go out with me?” The female ghost: “H 39Reads—Score—14d adds
- 27 The Paper Effigy Maker 扎纸匠 Why can the descendants of the legendary Lu Ban, once famous throughout the land, only make paper offerings for funerals? Why did the once-renowned Li family retreat into the mountains? As the power of his bloodline awakens once more within a young man, is it a curse, or the work of man? Can fate be defied? Li Shuisheng refuses to believe in destiny. He will defy the heavens, change his fate, and fight for a chance to survive... 273Reads—Score—14d adds
- 28 The Snake Queen 蛇王女 When I was eighteen, I was offered as a sacrifice to a snake. Only much later did I learn that I held a shocking secret. Because of it, all manner of monsters and demons, practitioners of the mystic arts, and mysterious figures from every corner of the world wanted to get their hands on me… To protect myself, I had no choice but to cling to Lord Snake, who had protected and helped me all along. I thought he truly cared for me, but I never imagined he would be the one to push me into the abyss wi 88Reads—Score—14d adds
- 29 The Underworld King's Bridegroom 冥王夫君 [Light supernatural elements + both are pure + no self-righteous heroine + sweet romance] He Keqing was born inside a coffin on the Ghost Festival. Rumor has it she was sent into the world by the King of the Underworld. Everyone had eagerly awaited her birth, yet she nearly got strangled to death and became a mute, blind fool. “Little beggar, you're pretty good in a fight. Be my sidekick!” He Keqing didn't answer. “Little girl, stick with me from now on. I'll protect you.” He Keqing rolled her e 498Reads6.5Score—14d adds
- 30 The Yin-Ghost Calamity 阴诡难 They all say I'm no good at cultivating the Dao, but my wife says I don't need to learn it anyway. She'll carry me... (If you don't want to read the setup, you can start from Chapter Three. It really works, trust me.) When I was ten, a ghost nearly killed me, but I was lucky enough to survive because of one. Yet the strange ordeal meant for me wasn't over... 9Reads—Score—14d adds
- 31 Egg Tart's Tour of the Underworld 蛋挞地府游 On the edge of a bustling city stands an unremarkable little shop. Its sign flickers with the words “Spirit Realm Convenience Store.” This is also where the tart's extraordinary journey begins. The chapters aren't especially connected, much like episodes of a short-form drama. If that's not your thing, feel free to scroll past. —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 32 Eerie Descent: I Rise from Death Row 诡异降临：我从死刑犯开始崛起 The supernatural descended. The Heavenly Court vanished, the lineages were severed, the underworld was corrupted, the Ten Kings of Hell became monsters, and the King of the Underworld became the greatest terror. With no gods left to protect humanity, the world was like an isolated island. When night fell, eerie energy seeped up through cracks in the earth. Those tainted by it went mad, died suddenly and turned into ghosts, or mutated until they no longer recognized their own family. In this worl 195Reads—Score—14d adds
- 33 I Married a Ghost Bride, but They Told Me It Wasn’t a Script 和鬼新娘成婚，却告诉我不是剧本 Chu Fangyuan is a livestream script actor in a parallel world on Blue Star. The day before the supernatural energy returned, his assistant wrote him a livestream script about spending his wedding night with a ghost bride. Just as Chu Fangyuan headed to the agreed location the following evening and started the livestream, a world-changing upheaval quietly began. The blood moon rose, and countless ghosts returned. The once-normal world was instantly overrun by monsters. As people panicked, unsure 59Reads6.6Score—14d adds
- 34 The Female Teacher’s Yin Fetus 女先生之阴胎 My new work is out! You’re welcome to read it on Tomato Novel. I hope you’ll enjoy it. Your support is what motivates me to write, and I’ll do my best to tell every story well! 1.6kReads—Score10414d adds
- 35 The Ghostly Papercutter 幽冥剪纸人 “You want to make a deal with me? But all I want is your shadow!” Song Xiaohan grinned. 22Reads6.7Score—14d adds
- 36 Tales from the Corpse Retriever: When Midnight Comes, the Dead Speak 捞尸怪谈：夜半正是尸语时 The great river in my hometown is deeply sinister. Ever since my great-grandfather's time, my family has worked in this area at a job that living people should stay away from: retrieving corpses from the water. After I inherited the family trade, all kinds of strange events began to unfold around me: the mother and child corpses in Qinghe, the soul-snatching female streamer, the uninhabited mountain village... 53Reads7.3Score—14d adds
- 37 My Nine Ghostly Sisters 我的九个女鬼姐姐 The Yellow River Trading House has guarded items for people on both sides of the divide in fulfillment of an ancient promise. After my grandfather passed away, I was left to watch the shop alone. Every night at midnight, gorgeous female ghosts in red, blue, and green would pester me to sit and talk... 60Reads—Score—14d adds
- 38 Decoding the Spirits 解灵 Do you believe that souls really exist in this world? Have any of you ever encountered one? If you truly came face to face with a soul one day, would you be afraid? There are many strange and unusual things in this world. If you ever encounter a soul, please believe me: don’t be afraid. All things have a spirit; even grass and trees have feelings. 2Reads—Score—14d adds
- 39 The Mad Cultivator of the Ghost Path 鬼道狂修 I’m a child with no parents. My mother died in childbirth the day I was born, and my father was buried alive while mining away from home. Then his boss fled, and they didn’t even bring my father’s body back! After that, I could only live with my grandfather… 1Reads—Score—14d adds
- 40 Born in a Coffin, Bride of a Ghost 棺生子，鬼新娘 [Folkloric horror, feng shui arts, mystery and the supernatural] On a stormy night filled with thunder and lightning, I was born in a coffin that reeked of decay, breaking the taboo between yin and yang! My family betrothed me to a ghost bride. When the wedding procession came to fetch her, an eerie atmosphere shrouded the village! After that, strange things happened one after another: crying in the middle of the night, objects mysteriously moving on their own... 24Reads6.0Score—14d adds
- 41 My Yin-Yang Road 我的阴阳路 (Pure supernatural horror + no cultivation + one heroine (master-disciple romance) + powerful heroine + no national fortune system) My name is Zhang Ling. I have no special fate or extraordinary talent, but an accident when I was nine set me on the path between yin and yang... 34Reads—Score—14d adds
- 42 Just Lost My Job, Then Found a Ghost King Wife by the Roadside 刚失业，路边捡了个鬼王老婆 After losing his job, Song Yu picks up a red envelope and ends up bound to the Ghost King in a ghost marriage. He also gains extraordinary abilities to exorcise ghosts and suppress evil. After becoming a police consultant on the first murder case in a park, Song Yu embarks on an unconventional path to make money: exorcising ghosts and building connections. 507Reads7.0Score—14d adds
- 43 The Fragrance of a Beauty’s Corpse 美人尸香 I run an inn that takes in no living guests. I only send off ghosts. Corpse spirits haunt the roads, and a hundred ghosts roam the night... 444Reads6.3Score—14d adds
- 44 Horror Delivery! The Ghost Empress Says She's Pregnant with My Child 惊悚外卖！女鬼帝说我怀了你的娃 A popular female host's eerie midnight food delivery... Who's the best in the Ghost Realm? Delivery guy Lin Yexiang. That very night, he shattered the female ghost's last line of defense... Paranormal deliveries: every order is terrifying... The higher the floor of the Paranormal Delivery Restaurant, the more terrifying it gets... The Ghost King flies into a rage. Not a single ghost survives, and ten thousand ghosts wail. Dare you make the Ghost King wear that green hat?... The Female Ghost Empe 20Reads—Score—14d adds
- 45 Myriad Worlds: Log In and Get a Cute Little Ghost Wife for Free 诸天：上线就送一只呆萌小鬼妻 [Infinite Flow] [Adorable heroine] [Sweet daily life] [No System] Bad news: Xu Wuyou has been selected for the worlds of the Myriad Heavens instances, where the survival rate is a whopping zero percent. Good news: A silly, adorable little ghost girl who seems as clueless as a robot has apparently gotten lost. Not only does she show up at his house on her own, she keeps calling him “husband” like a fool. Having been taught by his master since childhood that “self-interest comes first,” he natural 72Reads—Score—14d adds
- 46 Paper Effigy Maker: From the Start, I Craft the Black and White Impermanence 扎纸匠：开局扎出黑白无常 Ning Qiu transmigrates to a fantasy continent and awakens the Paper-Figuring System. He slays fierce ghosts and demons, defines the boundary between yin and yang, and restores the order of reincarnation. He crafts the Black and White Impermanence: with a handful of yellow earth, they claim lives! He crafts the Eighteen Hells: rewarding good and punishing evil, they bar the Three Paths! He crafts Ox-Head and Horse-Face: they sweep away the wicked and take in all manner of evil! In the end, he bec 92Reads—Score—14d adds
- 47 A Weasel Came Seeking a Heavenly Title from the Start, but I Turned It into a Pet 开局黄皮子讨封反手被我当做宠物 [No System + ghost stories + comedy + egg-shaped demon + not acting human + sunny young man] One night, after a few drinks, Wang Huo ran into a weasel on the road that was asking him to grant it a human form… “Do I look more like a human or a god?” “You look like a five-foot-tall, white-haired, soft and adorable little beast-girl with fluffy ears and a flat chest!” … From that day on, Wang Huo couldn't stop himself. Beneath the blood moon, all the ghosts howled in despair as one man laughed wild 1Reads—Score—14d adds
- 48 Kissing the Ghost Bride Passionately from the Start Until She Questions Her Unlife 开局猛亲鬼新娘，吻到她怀疑鬼生 Ding! I awakened a Ghost Qi System in another world. After successfully forcing a hundred kisses on female ghosts, my Ghost Qi surged by 100 points, and my Nine Suns Divine Skill shot up to Level 99. I chose to pursue the Dao through martial arts, whose levels have no limit, and sweep aside every obstacle with invincible might. But ideals are lofty while reality is harsh. I’d barely transmigrated when a Shoulder-Groping Ghost latched onto me, leaving me on the brink of death! Luckily, my ghost b 2Reads—Score—14d adds
- 49 I'm a Professional Mage: Isn't Marrying a Demon Wife the Perfect Protection? 我职业法师：娶妖妻辟邪很正常吧 (One devoted male lead and one heroine + ensemble cast + passionate, funny, with a touch of angst) While other twenty-year-olds are partying and binge-watching shows, Shen Mobai is pretending to be a fortune-teller to scam people out of big money. He digs up a grave in the middle of the night for a 300,000-yuan ghost-marriage fee, only to wake the vengeful ghost buried inside! “Hey, lady! I was just following orders. I didn’t mean to dig up your grave!” “Take it up with the King of Hell.” “Help 20Reads—Score—14d adds
- 50 My Godfather Is the King of Hell 我干爹是阎王 The King of Hell says you’ll die at the third watch, but I can keep you alive until the fifth. I was born under an ill-fated Yin destiny, so I was bound to have dealings with ghosts. Have you ever heard of a Daoist becoming a soldier? A Daoist must not only drive out demons and uphold the righteous path, but also learn to beat people and livestock. You say you have connections? What makes you think mine are any weaker? I have connections in the world of the living, and an entire army of contacts 3.3kReads7.6Score25414d adds
