Novels like My Soul-Guarding Wife
Books Chinese readers most often put in the same booklists as My Soul-Guarding Wife, best match first.
- 51 Call Me the Great Emperor of Fengdu 请叫我，酆都大帝 An underworld bailiff and a ghostly merchant, with the humor of an underworld bailiff at the heart of it. The protagonist was an ordinary high school student, but on his eighteenth birthday, he uncovered the mystery of his origins and was forced to become a City God’s underworld bailiff. He runs himself ragged to save his girlfriend. Even when the underworld rebels, he has to lend a hand. Have you ever seen Ox-Head and Horse-Face with an arm around a woman each at a business club? Have you ever 453Reads6.6Score—14d adds
- 52 World Fusion: The Harbinger of the End 界融：终焉预知者 AI test Welcome to read my work 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! 2Reads—Score—14d adds
- 53 Meng Po Won’t Ferry Anyone but One Man 孟婆不渡，只为一人 On the banks of the River of Forgetfulness, brewing soup and guiding souls across has been Meng Po’s unchanging duty since time immemorial. The laws of the underworld are a line she must never cross. But when that familiar soul, Xiao Jinghan, steps across the Bridge of Helplessness, she is willing to break every restraint. After a thousand years of reincarnation, she may forget everyone in the world, but never him. He is the one she has held close in the depths of time, the one she would give ev 18Reads—Score—14d adds
- 54 Old He's Collection of Strange Tales (Complete in Two Volumes) 老贺的诡事辑录（全两册） The Strange Cases of Old He is a horror mystery novel based on the real-life experiences of Yang He, a retired soldier. In 1982, while serving in the army, the protagonist Yang He made a mistake. After returning home, he encountered a series of bizarre events. Though he had never believed in fate, he began to believe the words of an old fortune-teller. He wanted to change his destiny, but was drawn into a vast conspiracy as a result. One strange and eerie event after another took place, and one —Reads8.6Score—14d adds
- 55 The Jade Dust of Daoist Fate 道缘琼末 [Traditional supernatural horror + ghost wife + first-person POV + one heroine + ghost hunting] Ever since I was born, I’ve worn a strange necklace around my neck. Every year on my birthday, Grandpa makes me bow to it. When I asked him why, he always said it could protect me. Only later did I learn that a female ghost was hidden inside the necklace. Offer three sticks of incense to the gods and four to the ghosts. If someone calls to you at night, never turn around. Otherwise, your yang fire wil 143Reads—Score—14d adds
- 56 The Yin Sovereign: The Fox Immortal Arrives 阴天子，狐仙驾到 I was born with an extraordinary destiny, meant to become an emperor. But just after I was born, someone tried to sabotage my fate. To save me, my grandfather gave away the merit accumulated by eighteen generations of our family, and risked his own life to defy the heavens and change my destiny... 5.5kReads7.4Score35114d adds
- 57 Strange Tales from the Countryside 农村里的奇异怪谈 [Traditional supernatural horror + third-person narration + one female lead + no immortal cultivation] In a strange, gloomy bamboo forest, evil forces claim people’s lives. A university graduate has just returned to his village when he becomes embroiled in a series of bizarre events. In the end, he takes a master and learns the Dao. Is the mysterious woman good or evil? What other strange events will the protagonist encounter? Find out in the book. 24Reads—Score—14d adds
- 58 A Guide to the Supernatural in the New Era 新时代灵异指南 Qin An ended up becoming the very yin-yang master he hated most, on the night he was forced to marry a female ghost. Why did getting married mean signing a ghost marriage contract, too?! A fellow disciple who could summon spirits, a frosty female Taoist priest: even looking at either of them counted as cheating! Speechless, Qin An shielded the flame as he lit a cigarette for the mountain spirit beside him, then raised his glass in a respectful toast to the river ghost across from him, keeping it —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 59 Yin-Yang Paper Effigy Maker 阴阳纸扎匠 The paper effigies my grandfather made could subdue spirits and drive away evil energy. He passed this craft down to me alone. Back in his day, my grandfather was a renowned master in the world of feng shui. I thought I could carry on his legend, but I was set up as soon as I struck out on my own. It turns out there’s another me in this world! (No System, no mindless protagonist, no stale tropes, no cultivation.) 428Reads6.9Score—14d adds
- 60 When Your Reflection Starts to Betray You 当你的倒影开始背叛 [Horror assignments + death games + independent planets in the galaxy] “Hey, your sister is dead~” “Your sister is dead!” “Hey, I don’t have a sister, but yours really is dead, hehe.” “**!” Lin Yumin angrily hung up. A little while later, her phone rang again. “Ma’am, we’ve found your sister’s body. Please come to the Public Security Bureau to identify it.” “Will you give it a rest? Your sister is dead! Your whole family’s croaked!” After unleashing a torrent of abuse, Lin Yumin hung up 4Reads—Score—14d adds
- 61 The Qilin Oracle 麒麟神相 I'm a feng shui master. Over the past twenty-plus years, I've traveled all across China. I've experienced many things that ordinary people could never imagine. 10.5kReads6.9Score38914d adds
- 62 The Yin-Yang Scissors 阴阳剪 A black dragon coils around me, skeletons block the door, fox spirits form ranks, and a white snake possesses me... All I have is a pair of scissors and a sheet of red paper. I cut down demons and sever the boundary between life and death... The Yin-Yang Scissors cut through the forces of yin and yang. I am the heir to the Yin-Yang Scissors. With them in my hands, one snip decides life or death. All the thrilling, eerie, and mysterious tales are found in The Yin-Yang Scissors... 120Reads8.0Score—14d adds
- 63 The Greatest Ghost Taoist in the Mortal Realm 阳间第一鬼道 The coffin is raised, the incense still burns, and the grave is moved. The Taoist was once an evil ghost; wicked arts throw the age into chaos. Paper figures harbor murderous intent; living stones imprison evil spirits. Vengeful ghosts don Taoist robes, and the sinister wind never stops blowing. Ning An was a disciple of the Taoist sect, but his master used him as a pawn, while his master’s wife wanted to eat him and turn him into a vengeful ghost. 41Reads—Score—14d adds
- 64 Eerie: After My Divorce, I Started Dating a Yandere Ghost Girl 诡异：离婚后我和病娇女鬼谈上了 [Horror + Mystery + Pure Romance + Livestreaming + National Destiny] As the saying goes, if you survive a great calamity, more trouble is sure to follow. And if you still don't die, buddy, you're one tough guy to kill. Bai Xiaojiang has just gotten divorced when he is chosen to represent the Yan Nation in a Rule Horror scenario. He had planned to give up on life, but then he enters the first scenario, My Wife Is Acting Strange. How is this terrifying? This is my gentle, virtuous wife! 17Reads6.2Score—14d adds
- 65 Me, a College Girl: Feasting by Day, Eating Ghosts by Night 我，女大，白天干饭，晚上吃鬼 [Completed] The arrogant Ghost King vs. the forthright college girl, Chinese horror + supernatural + suspense + folk taboos. Have you ever seen an inflated human skin race you? Have you ever encountered a dead person whose mouth gaped wider than a washbasin? Have you ever come across a headless corpse that wanted to hug you? I’ve seen all of them. My name is Qin Sang, a college girl who eats ghosts. But you don’t have to be afraid of me. I’m human, but… the one beside me isn’t. It all began whe 52Reads6.5Score—14d adds
- 66 Do No Evil: Her Third Eye Is Watching You 诸恶莫作，她的第三眼在看着你 [Occult + Supernatural + Episodic + Strong Female Lead + Face-Slapping + No Romance] Also known as “After Opening Her Third Eye, the Aloof Top Student Can Catch Ghosts and Heal the Sick.” Note: The actual fortune-telling begins in Chapter 2. When her mother dies of illness, Jiang Shuo accidentally awakens her third eye: spiritual sight, remote viewing, X-ray vision, the ability to see cause and effect and people's fates... You name it, she can do it. Her biological father and stepmother treat he 1Reads—Score—14d adds
- 67 Bride of the Vengeful Ghost: The Haunted Antique Shop 猛鬼新娘：通灵古董屋 I'm the owner of an ordinary antique shop. By a twist of fate, I came into possession of an ancient jade pendant. Ever since then, a beautiful woman has been slipping silently into my dreams every night... 263Reads8.7Score—14d adds
- 68 The Ghost Marriage Pact: My Thousand-Year-Old Ghost Bride 冥婚契约：我的千年鬼新娘 Crimson wedding characters, a destined match beneath the moon; separated by life and death, their hearts are bound as one. Zhou Zi'an, a folk customs writer, travels alone to the mist-shrouded town of Qingshi to investigate an unsolved ghost marriage case from ninety years ago. The red wedding characters on the Shen family's old mansion have not faded through years of wind and rain. The carved bridal bed is made up with a quilt as good as new, and a red figure wanders in the mirror every night. 8Reads—Score—14d adds
- 69 The Heaven-Chosen Paper Effigy Maker 天命扎纸人 First comes fate, then fortune, then feng shui; fourth, accumulate virtue, and fifth, study. Sixth, choose a spouse; seventh, choose a career; eighth, make friends with people of influence; ninth, practice good health. Those who work with yin and yang make their living by reading fate, but they are doomed to three deficiencies and five afflictions, with life and death impossible to predict. With nothing but the craft of making paper effigies, they guide countless wandering souls and spirits to t 349Reads—Score—14d adds
- 70 The Treasure Hunter with a Lucky Touch 桃运摸宝师 I left home when I was young and stumbled into the world of treasure hunting and spirit-reading. From Kunlun’s Hell to the South Sea Dragon Ruins, the Netherworld Ghostwood, and the Sea of Sand’s hidden nest... I traveled far and wide in search of secret treasures. Just as I thought I could take control of my own fate, Heaven played a cruel joke on me. I tried to escape, but only sank deeper and deeper... 38Reads—Score—14d adds
- 71 Raising a Fox Immortal at Home 家里养个狐狸仙 After my girlfriend dumped me, a fox immortal showed up at my house. She said she knew how to deal with the woman who betrayed me! 157Reads8.5Score—14d adds
- 72 Who's Scratching Inside the Coffin? 谁在棺内抓挠？ Who Is Scratching Inside the Coffin? —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 73 The Years I Spent as the Village Guardian 我当守村人的那些年 Jing Shaoxuan, an atheist college student working as a village official, begins with a strange incident at a cemetery by the village entrance. Step by step, he becomes the guardian of a village in Xia Country. From ghost marriages to three little demons murdering their classmates, from the Five Immortals of the Northeast to the Cat-Faced Granny... Armed with the Dragon-Tiger Taoist Arts, which he stumbled upon by chance, and a bloodline legacy that gradually awakens, Jing Shaoxuan travels back a 1Reads—Score—14d adds
- 74 The One Born with Dual Yin Energy 双阴之人 A Person of Twin Yin 3Reads—Score—14d adds
- 75 She Can Actually Tame Shadows 她竟会豢养影子 “How can a person have no shadow?” “But what if... they really don’t?” “Have you ever seen a person without a shadow?” “Or rather, did they ever really exist?” Can shadows be kept and raised? Call to the shadow for a hundred days, but even the method passed down by the ancestors is useless! Will the vanished coffin ever be seen again... A fox that speaks like a human... They say a Yin body is a rare find, the perfect physique for cultivating Yin techniques, and also... the ideal material for cra 1Reads—Score—14d adds
- 76 You Expect a High Schooler Like Me to Marry a Thousand-Year-Old Female Ghost? 你让我一个高中生娶千年女鬼？ The white cat my classmate casually picked up during evening study turned out to be a Huang Xian spirit that had cultivated its way to enlightenment. After I so much as glanced at it, it wanted to take my internal organs. To stay alive, I had no choice but to enter a ghost marriage and wed a ghost bride... 25Reads—Score—14d adds
- 77 A Lifelike Journey: Studying the Tao and Slaying Evil as an Apprentice 栩栩如生之拜师学道斩妖邪 Black mist swirls day and night at the mouth of the Ten Thousand Souls Cave, unleashing a supernatural catastrophe that throws both the mortal world and the underworld into turmoil. Lin Xu, a feng shui master, wields a bronze sword to ward off evil and uses a compass to detect danger. Along with the hapless Ma Mingyu, the spirit fox Bai Ling, the sentient Tanggao, and the jittery Maozaojing, he enters this forbidden place filled with vengeful spirits. The bone-corroding vines ensnare people and 189Reads—Score—14d adds
- 78 The Ditsy Girl Awakens Yin-Yang Eyes, Hunts Ghosts to Prolong Her Life, and Ventures into the Underworld 呆女觉醒阴阳眼，捉鬼续命闯阴间 I’m a clueless village girl, and at twelve I awakened as a ghost-hunting powerhouse. On the day I was born, every creature on the mountain stood guard for me, and I wouldn’t open my eyes until thunder struck! For the first twelve years, the whole village took me for an idiot. Then, once I came to my senses, an old Daoist declared I wouldn’t live past twenty-four! Forced to become his apprentice, I discovered that my master’s shop was connected to the underworld at night! I lazed around and doz —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 79 My Thousand-Year-Old Ghost Wife 我的千年女鬼老婆 My name is Zhang Shaobai. Behind our village stands an ancient pagoda that has been guarded for generations. Everyone in the village says it’s cursed. But outsiders refuse to believe it, and for money, I took them to the pagoda. From then on, strange things kept happening around me. It all began with that livestream one night... 227Reads5.4Score—14d adds
- 80 Crimson Pact 深紅契约 [No harem + One heroine + All-new setting + Not reborn + Not mindless + Not a pushover] This story unfolds in an enormous world, with a tense plot and tightly paced action that never lets up. I hope every chapter gives you something to enjoy and explore. The story follows Zhou Mufan, a former detective who is unexpectedly dragged into a terrifying ordeal beyond reality: the Chinese-style horror dungeon “Xi.” To survive, he forms a “Blood Moon Pact” with An Yu, the dungeon’s core, a vengeful ghos 536Reads5.8Score10114d adds
- 81 I Eavesdrop on the Little Fox's Thoughts and Become a Top-Tier Star of the Daoist World 偷听小狐狸心声，我成了道家顶流 [Slow-Burn Romance + Supernatural Mystery + Ghost and Demon Hunting] An irreverent young Taoist priestess + a naturally desireless nine-tailed fox Luo Li was born with the fate of a Yin messenger. She catches ghosts to store up life force! At first, she was just earning one day of life at a time, until she made a pact with a divine fox. One bizarre case after another soon came her way. Ghostly hoaxes, a rat spirit causing trouble, mending fractured souls, venturing into the sea, entering the gho —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 82 The Final Celestial Master in the Age of Declining Magic 末法时代，最后一位天师 The Maoshan Sect Leader, impeached and driven down the mountain; a wet-behind-the-ears young upstart; a frost-cold ghost bride; an evil cultivation sect that stops at nothing; a master of Gu poison from Miaojiang; and the Shen family, Asia's richest. The Daoist sects of the realm are in turmoil. Watch as Ye Chen takes up his sword and roams the world! 13.2kReads7.4Score1.1k14d adds
- 83 Wilderness: I Met a Ghost Sister While Trying to Survive 荒野：我在求生时遇到个女鬼姐姐 [Good news: I have a girlfriend! Bad news: She's a ghost…] After accidentally transmigrating to a parallel world, Lin Hansheng enters a wilderness survival competition, hoping to make a fortune and change his fate. Only after arriving at the venue does he realize this is nothing like a proper wilderness survival show. Who puts coffins all over the wilderness?! And there's a lifelike girl lying inside one! Hey, hey, holy crap! She's moving! She's moving! She's alive! “Big Sis, I'll kowtow to you 44Reads6.4Score—14d adds
- 84 My Ghost Bride 我的冥婚新娘 I picked up some money by the roadside, only to unexpectedly be matched into a ghost marriage. A thousand-year-old female ghost is forcing me to marry her. To escape this curse, I sought out an old Taoist priest to drive her away, but only made things worse and signed a life-and-death pact with the ghost. With my life on the line, I had no choice but to embark on the path of cultivation. From then on, the door to a whole new world opened before me... 2Reads—Score—14d adds
- 85 The Snake's Wrath: I Invited the Underworld Lord In 蛇缠鬼怒：我把冥君请进门 My name is Xie Tianyi, and I’m the only girl born in several generations of the Xie family. Snakes often show up around our home, and the villagers all call me the Snake Girl. After I was attacked by a swarm of snakes, my parents forbade me from going out. Even after I got into university, they made me take a leave of absence and stay home. That was how I ended up confined to the house. Two years later, when I turned twenty, strange things began happening one after another. My family members kep 20Reads—Score—14d adds
- 86 Thriller Game: I Reform the Supernatural 惊悚游戏:我让诡异改过自新 After death, people enter a horror game where they can earn another chance at life. Complete a game where death is all but certain, and you’ll be reborn. Lin Li, who entered the horror game willingly in hopes of curing his terminal illness, discovers that he can reform the paranormal beings through a little heart-to-heart talk! Looking at the creature before him, Lin Li clenches his fist and smiles. “Are you ready to repent?” —Reads7.1Score—14d adds
- 87 The Peerlessly Beautiful Ghost Wife 绝美冥妻 I’m from a mountain village. My parents never let me go to the back hills when I was little, but eventually I couldn’t resist and went there. That was when I found out that it was... 3kReads8.4Score29314d adds
- 88 Twin Fates of Yin and Yang 阴阳命双生 [A defiant, fight-first demon girl heroine VS a henpecked, scheming, dark-hearted, grudge-holding male lead who seems sweet as a glutinous rice ball on the outside] [Career first, romance second] The rating just opened, so it'll go up [The heroine has two fathers. This isn't a BL story, and the two fathers aren't close; there are scenes where they try to kill each other. They are not a couple. The father who gave birth to the heroine only did so after returning to life in another body, acting ou 2.3kReads7.5Score23414d adds
- 89 The Age of Ghost Tamers: I Tamed Hundreds of Millions of Female Ghosts! 御鬼时代：我御了亿万女鬼！ [Ghost taming + wish fulfillment + total domination + no heroine + brutal beauty + utterly inhuman = 100,000 words every week?] The age of ghost taming: people fight with ghosts. At eighteen, everyone gets one chance to awaken a ghost as their fated companion. Ordinary people can awaken at most two, but after Lin Mo is reborn, he obtains the Female Ghost Alliance System. He can only awaken female ghosts, but there’s no limit to how many. At a single call, billions of female ghosts descend. Maid 33Reads7.6Score—14d adds
- 90 Folk Taboos: I Cultivate Merit in the Mortal World 民间禁忌：我在人间修功德 Everyone knows the barber, but few realize that the earliest barbers were actually executioners, and strange adepts who mastered esoteric arts. They walk between life and death, needing only a barber's razor to read the secrets of Heaven and travel between yin and yang. They shave the living, and they shave the dead. Even today, folk wisdom warns: never offend the barbers who roam the land with their poles and packs. 168Reads7.1Score—14d adds
- 91 Taking My Demon Wife to Guide Spirits Across 带着妖妻去渡灵 The new book, This Enchanting Spirit Takes Me Ghost-Hunting, is now available! In this vast world, there are countless things beyond belief. Over the course of a long life, everyone is bound to encounter something unclean, and even many years later, the memory can remain vivid… When I was ten, I got lost in the mountains with my chubby friend because we were fooling around. That was when my life began to change dramatically. From then on, armed with my thousand-year-old demon wife, an incomplete 11Reads—Score—14d adds
- 92 My Shrine Is Full of Jokers and Screw-Ups 我的堂口，全是逗比和坑货 Yang Erlang reincarnated + an ancient tragic love + a cast of screwups + face-slapping comeback The whole village laughs at me for being a useless spirit medium. The immortals at my altar are all lazy screwups, and my uncle, a Qingfeng spirit and master thief, is the most unreliable of them all. I smash the ancestral copper coin and single-handedly conquer the Nine Hells. The underworld's soldiers keep three paces away from me! One sentence from my little aunt, muttered in her sleep, reveals t 8Reads—Score114d adds
- 93 The Strange Tales of Yishan 沂山诡异录 [Supernatural horror] [Romance] [Dark humor] [Thrilling and stirring] [A short, intense read]: My name is Chen Mo. Twenty years ago, my childhood friend Li Dong nearly drowned in a rainstorm. After being rescued, his personality changed drastically, and his whole family moved away, leaving behind only a mysterious stone. Twenty years later, my father falls gravely ill, and I return to my hometown of Yishan. An anonymous package arrives soon after, containing that very stone. My father identifi 4Reads—Score—14d adds
- 94 Maoshan's Handsome Face, Catching Ghosts Without Playing Fair 茅山颜值担当，捉鬼不讲武德 When a thousand-year-old, woman-loving patriarch transmigrates into the body of a useless young Maoshan priest in modern times, he uses his handsome face and his family's creed, “Let your fellow cultivators die, not you,” to carve out a hilarious, unstoppable path through the city's supernatural world and its harem-like battlefield. Highlights: · A character full of contrasts: He looks like a handsome, lazy young Taoist, but inside he's a thousand-year-old fox. With the most laid-back expressi —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 95 Even Ghosts Get a System 鬼也会有系统 Ghosts and monsters are divided into different ranks according to how they came into being and the strength of their abilities. The lowest rank is “Wandering Spirits.” They are usually formed from people who died with deep resentment, and their powers are weak. They can only frighten people by causing minor supernatural phenomena, such as making lights flicker or producing strange sounds. The next rank is “Vengeful Ghosts.” These spirits often died violent deaths and harbor profound resentment. 1Reads—Score—14d adds
- 96 The Granny's Infinite Returns: From the Start, She Strikes Back Against Her Demon Son-in-Law 老太无限回归，开局反杀恶魔女婿 [Strong Female Lead + Elderly Woman + No CP + Metaphysical Livestreaming + Face-Slapping and Scum-Bashing] After clearing the Infinite Worlds, Xia Xiulian seals away her memories and returns to the time before her daughter and granddaughter were harmed. This time, she'll make sure they escape the clutches of their abusers. She firmly supports her daughter's divorce, fights back against the demonic son-in-law who comes to harass them, and gets a divorce of her own while she's at it. As she rewrit —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 97 The Resurgence of Ghostly Energy: My Secret with a Bewitching Ghost Bride 鬼气复苏：我与美艳鬼新娘的秘密 [Ghost taming + horror revival + spiritual qi revival + ghost bride + no System + no goody-two-shoes protagonist + no brainless decisions + every plot thread gets resolved] In an age when ghosts are returning, Fang Xie is tested and found to have no companion spirit. That very night, he encounters a stunning ghost bride, and after a conversation, the two make a secret pact. As they spend more time together, Fang Xie realizes the female ghost has a remarkable background and is connected to his la —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 98 Soul Funeral Director 灵魂殡葬师 My name is Zeng Yao. Yao, as in “beautiful as jade.” I have no father or mother. They say my mother died in childbirth, and no one knows who my father was. My uncle, Old Lei, brought me home. My uncle had an unusual profession: he was an undertaker. He beautified and applied makeup to the dead, then handled their cremation and everything else. Like father, like son, they say, but although I wasn’t my uncle’s child, he made me learn all those things from a young age. But I didn’t like it. I eve 461Reads8.7Score10014d adds
- 99 Seeking a Blessing? I'll Get a Fox Immortal for a Wife! 讨封？讨个狐仙当老婆！ [Supernatural] [One Heroine] [Lighthearted Daily Life] [Comedy] That day, an eerie blood-red coffin was unearthed at a construction site, along with a dried-up female corpse with a swollen belly, a white fox with five tails, and an ancient bronze mirror... The next day, that very white fox latched onto me and asked me to grant her a human form... A nontraditional supernatural story 70Reads—Score—14d adds
- 100 The Corpse Carrier 背尸工 My name is Chen Feng, and I work as a corpse bearer at a funeral home. After a class reunion, I spent the night with Jiang Lixin, the school beauty. I never expected to see her corpse at work the very next day, or that I'd have to carry her on her final journey... 5.4kReads7.0Score32714d adds
