Novels like My Soul-Guarding Wife
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- 151 Heavenly Fragrance 天香引 The land of Chuzhou is rife with witchcraft, and people get carried off at the drop of a hat. Wen Yin was born with a fragrant soul, able to reach ghosts and gods through scent. When she was eight, she rescued a young convict from the clutches of a cat ghost, never realizing she'd saved the person destined to be her nemesis. Lu Jing was born into a family of Imperial Preceptors, but unfortunately, he was a bringer of bad luck. Exiled at ten, he brought death to his entire patrol and became a 22Reads—Score—14d adds
- 152 Crime Solving: The Ghost Lord Is Quite Charming 破案：鬼卿可亲 [Mystery + no romance + ensemble cast + urban fantasy + ghost hunting + monsters] [The first volume takes time to set things up. If you prefer fast-paced mysteries, start with “Volume Two: Canghai City.”] When Hu Taisui, a mountain witch, arrives in Millennium City, she is immediately caught up in major cases, including an evil spirit that switches hearts and a fatal birthday party. People say, “It has to be a ghost! Or maybe a monster!” But when she takes a closer look, she finds that althou 3Reads—Score—14d adds
- 153 The Coffin Bearer 抬棺匠 My family has dealt with the dead for generations. Following in my father’s footsteps, I became a coffin bearer. Before carrying a coffin, I always offer the deceased five incense sticks. When offering incense to the living, three long sticks and two short ones are taboo. When offering incense to the dead, three short sticks and two long ones are taboo. That day, I carried a coffin, and the dead pregnant woman inside gave birth to a pair of twins, a boy and a girl! [Shh, keep quiet! We’re settin 2.8kReads8.3Score18414d adds
- 154 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
- 155 Ghost Wife: Bro, Please Take Your Sister-in-Law Back 鬼妻：哥，求你把嫂子收回去吧 [Married from the start + ghost wife + one heroine + not a wish-fulfillment novel (plot-focused) + fast-paced growth (nearly invincible) + exorcising ghosts and banishing evil] Born under yin, he is also a child born of a corpse. He has the body of the living, but the fate of the dead. He is doomed to be cursed! Liu Cheng was dug from his dead mother's womb by an old gravedigger, and grew up in a cemetery. The old man said that those born under yin are extremely yin from birth, making them a cho 233Reads7.6Score10014d adds
- 156 The Nine Dragons Send Off the Dead 九龙送葬 On the day of my grandfather’s funeral, nine dragons led the procession, and ten thousand ghosts wept in unison... 1kReads8.8Score14614d adds
- 157 The Haunted House: The End of the Mist World 2 诡舍：迷雾世界终点2 [Transmigrate into a book + infinite flow + mild horror + instances + single heroine] Fu Jinyue unexpectedly transmigrates into the world of a book. After going through one bizarre, uncanny instance mission after another, Fu Jinyue gradually gets closer to the truth: the secrets of the four great families, and whether rebirth truly exists... 122Reads—Score—14d adds
- 158 Yin-Yang Ghost Arts Master 阴阳鬼术师 Some bargains are too tempting to take; accepting them might cost you your life. After Old Wang downstairs died, people around me kept inexplicably trying to give me money, and these offers of money were often followed by death. To stay alive, I had no choice but to learn the secret arts Old Wang left behind, stepping into a mysterious underworld... 491Reads7.9Score10214d adds
- 159 You Asked Me to Make a Game, but Now Every Streamer Online Is Kneeling 让你做游戏，你把全网主播跪了 Late at night, Blue Star’s toughest streamer, “Raging Dragon,” opens a beginner-level game called "Red Bridal Veil". The million viewers in his livestream laugh at him: “A few scraps of paper and a wooden box? They couldn’t even afford a zombie model?” “With this shoddy black-and-white art style, I could beat the game laughing!” Dragon scoffs and raises the Gatling gun in his hands, ready to blast the ghosts into the afterlife. But ten minutes later, the entire internet falls silent. There’s no 5.6kReads7.8Score49714d adds
- 160 Ghost Master of the Yellow Springs 黄泉鬼师 A Master of Water Divination, also known among the people as a Ghost Master or Celestial Master, possesses powers that reach from heaven to earth and can speak with ghosts and gods. He treads the Yellow Springs, wields the Yin Lamp, glimpses fate, and cultivates the Great Dao. One day, my grandfather told me that I was actually dead... 159Reads8.3Score—14d adds
- 161 Bride of the Ghost Gate 替嫁鬼门 In the outside world, a ghost marriage means a living person is wed to a dead one. But the Su family deals in a forbidden trade at the gates of the underworld: we find lonely ghosts living brides. Each ghost marriage buys the Su family ten years of mortal life. Ever since our ancestor violated the laws of Heaven, this fate has been impossible for generation after generation to escape. Our ancestor was once the gatekeeper of the underworld. One thoughtless choice trapped him in the shackles of re 1Reads—Score—14d adds
- 162 Tales of Spirit-Binding and Ghost-Fighting 扎灵斗阴传 My name is Yun Bo, and I make paper offerings. My master said there was one taboo every paper-offering maker had to observe: never paint the eyes on a paper figure. Because once you do, it might come to life. That year, during a deadly night at a haunted house, I broke the taboo. I thought I had only brought a pair of guides to life, never dreaming they would become weapons of murder. It was only when the government’s shackles closed around my wrists that I understood: I had never been the one c 3Reads—Score—14d adds
- 163 Heavenly Mandate Ghost Seal 天命鬼印 [Feng Shui and the Supernatural + High-Octane Magical Duels + Mystery Investigations], nonstop excitement! Three million in debt, I was forced to inherit my grandfather's spirit-medium ghost seal. From then on, I saw ghosts every night! On a stormy night, loan sharks hunted me down! At death's door, the Nine Hells Ghost Seal my grandfather left behind suddenly recognized me as its master: it opened my third eye, subdued evil spirits, and devoured yin energy! But each time I used it, I lost a wi 1Reads8.2Score—14d adds
- 164 I Visited the Wrong Grave, and Now the Female Ghost Wants to Come Home with Me 上错坟，女鬼竟要跟着我回家 My new work is out! Come read it on Tomato Novel. I hope you’ll enjoy it. Your support is what keeps me writing, and I’ll do my best to tell every story well! 6Reads7.1Score—14d adds
- 165 I Became Haunted by Evil Spirits After Starting Out as a Corpse Burner 从当烧尸匠开始恶鬼缠身 To escape an arranged marriage, I took a job burning corpses at a funeral home. Old Li, who handled the bodies, actually brought a prostitute to the funeral home. That woman later died, leaving a red high heel at the entrance... The next day, Old Li died. A red high heel had pierced through the center of his forehead... With my father's help, I learned that before she died, the woman had been pregnant. Someone had cut the baby out of her and turned them into a Mother-Child Demon. After that, t 5.5kReads8.3Score44214d adds
- 166 Coming for My Life on the Seventh Night? I Can Command the Most Ominous Creatures 头七索命？我能御大凶之物 Anyone who makes money from the dead knows there are three kinds of corpses you must never handle. First, don’t take the bodies of people who died violently or are missing limbs. Such corpses carry baleful energy, damage your fortune, and bind you to karmic debts. Second, don’t take a corpse that has been left unattended for seven days after death. After seven days, the flesh has begun to decay and the soul has nowhere to settle. Disturb it, and you may find yourself haunted by evil things. Thir 243Reads—Score—14d adds
- 167 The Yin-Yang Geomancer’s Legacy 阴阳地师传 At ten years old, I slew a white serpent and subdued a hundred ghosts. The generals of the underworld called me “little brother.” Using feng shui, the art of Qimen, and Taoist magic, I solved one strange murder case after another! It all began with the corpse of a man in a cornfield! 7Reads—Score—14d adds
- 168 Five-Year-Old Cutie Ye Xiaoman: Blows Up the Yin-Yang Realm 五岁萌宝叶小满：炸翻阴阳界 Five-year-old Su Xiaoman was born with yin-yang eyes and destined to be short of money... After her parents are tragically killed, a Daoist priest saves her, takes her in, and teaches her his skills. She eats the mountain temple out of house and home, so her master sends her down the mountain, saying, “Your family is in trouble.” With osmanthus candies in her pocket, she sets off to find her relatives. Gazing at a grand villa, she sobs, “Waaah... I've finally found a meal ticket for life...!” Sh —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 169 Hauntings in Xiang Village 湘村诡事 The living leave shoes to see someone off; the dead leave shoes to send someone to their grave. After I picked up a pair of a beggar’s straw sandals, my grandfather hanged himself in the bamboo grove in the middle of the night... 137Reads7.0Score10714d adds
- 170 Ghost-Hunting Yin-Yang Master 捉鬼阴阳师 On the day I was born, the clear sky suddenly filled with lightning and thunder. A bolt struck a tree in our yard, and everyone in the village decided my birth was an ill omen. They all kept their distance. One villager accidentally offended me, and that night he mysteriously hanged himself. The body could only be taken down if someone knelt before me. On the day of his funeral, his brother died a violent death and the coffin fell to the ground. That was how the whole story began… 214Reads8.8Score10014d adds
- 171 Dragon-Seeking Feng Shui Master 寻龙风水师 My mother was offered as a living sacrifice to the river god. To everyone's surprise, ten months later, she crawled out of the river. Dragons eat their illegitimate children. As the Dragon King's bastard son, I was supposed to be eaten at birth. Luckily, my master saved me and used eighteen phoenix maidens to deceive the heavens, helping me escape the Dragon King's pursuit. But eighteen years later, the people who had built their fortunes on my dragon blood turned against me. They looked down on 920Reads8.5Score26814d adds
- 172 Eerie: After Dying a Hundred Times, I Turn the Tables and Sacrifice My Ghostly Wife 诡异：连死百次，反手献祭鬼娇妻 The author’s new novel: “Reincarnation and Immortality: My Lifespan Limit Doubles with Every Life” [Supernatural Resurgence + System + Ghost Bride + One Heroine!] (A motion-comic adaptation of this book is now available.) After being killed by something hurled from a heavy truck that swerved to save someone on the road, he transmigrates, only to find a blood-clad vengeful ghost invading his dreams. What should he do? Looking at the abilities in his System, Jiang Wuyang sees “Dream Corridor” + “M 1.5kReads8.6Score12114d adds
- 173 Corpse Driving in Western Hunan: The Soul-Calling Guide on the Night Road 湘西赶尸：夜行引魂人 A sudden disaster at a mass grave! Wu Liangzi is struck on the back of the head and wakes among rotting coffins and bones, clutching a bloodstained piece of yellow paper. It bears the name of the man he has spent three years tracking down for murdering his father! Seven corpses in black robes dance around him all night, their lifeless eyes seeming to “acknowledge their master.” A mysterious corpse driver tosses him a life-and-death contract. “Four of your seven souls have scattered. If you can’t 277Reads—Score—14d adds
- 174 My Fated Little Fox Immortal 我的天命小狐仙 Born with all eight characters of my birth chart belonging to yin, every ninth year brings disaster. That is my fate. To save my life, my grandfather arranged a marriage for me when I was nine. But when I was nearly eighteen, he personally called it off. Because of that, I embarked on a path unlike that of any other feng shui master! I said, “Our marriage was fated. You’re written in my destiny, and we’ll be together for three lifetimes!” She said, “Cut it out. If you don’t wash the dishes today 310Reads7.2Score—14d adds
- 175 Night Fishing for Ghosts: I Ask Her Where the Fish Are Underwater 夜钓钓女鬼，我问她水下哪里有鱼 Fishing master Cao Kun transmigrates to a parallel world, joins a live-streamed fishing competition, and makes it all the way to the finals. Out of luck in the decisive round, he hooks a female ghost. With defeat looming, Cao Kun panics and bluntly asks her where the fish are underwater. The production crew is stunned, and the whole internet goes wild. “I can’t believe it. This guy’s a real fishing fanatic!” “He’d be casting a line even at the Bridge of Helplessness!” “That damn competitive spir 193Reads8.8Score—14d adds
- 176 A Rural Guide to the Supernatural 乡野灵异手册 I was born in a remote village, with a faint red, triangular birthmark on my forehead. On the day I was born, every fish in the village pond died. After my birth, one strange event after another began happening in the village: cooked chunks of a corpse in an abandoned well, a neighbor's grandmother coming back from the dead, a doll that wept bloody tears. The villagers started calling me a harbinger of disaster, and everyone avoided me. 131Reads8.7Score—14d adds
- 177 Miss Ghost and Someone’s Everyday Case Collisions 幽灵小姐与某人的撞案日常 One bizarre case after another seems to be destroying Luo Minglu's ordinary life. The talkative ghost lady, meanwhile, seems to be rebuilding his world. Clues leading to the truth lie hidden in the past that has been concealed. Only after the smoke clears will the real deduction begin. The young man stands with his back to the rain. He slowly speaks: “If sincerity can bring only tragedy, then lies will be my answer.” 30Reads8.5Score—14d adds
- 178 The Ghost Wife, Yu Niang 鬼妻玉娘 This novel takes inspiration from the case of Yang Ji, eldest son of the Ming dynasty's high-ranking official Yang Shiqi. Yang Ji tyrannized the local people for years before finally being exposed. The story follows Jiang Han, whose chance encounter with the female ghost Zhong Yuniang sets the two of them off from Jiangxi on a journey north to Beijing to petition the emperor directly. The story is set against real events, but I made up the causes and course of what happened. I think I did a pret 42Reads—Score—14d adds
- 179 Horror Returns: My God-Tier Paper Effigy Maker Brings the Imaginary to Life 恐怖复苏，我神级扎纸匠化虚为实 Zhang Ling is reborn before the resurgence of horror and inherits the coffin shop left behind by his adoptive father. He never expected the ghost bride to keep haunting him, but luckily, he awakens the God-Tier Paper Effigy Craftsman System. Anything he crafts from paper can become real. A vengeful ghost? Watch me craft a Celestial Master Zhong Kui to subdue evil and protect the righteous! A monster? The Great Sage is here to keep me safe! Craft a mansion, and you instantly own a thousand acres —Reads5.9Score—14d adds
- 180 The Corpse Coffin's Ghostly Fragrance 尸棺鬼香 [The corpse sits in the coffin, the ghost eats incense] [Fate from a past life, continued in this one] A Maoshan Taoist’s path to raising ghosts... After his grandmother dies unexpectedly, Shen Lin happens upon the notes his grandfather left behind. From then on, he begins a ghost-hunting life in which he narrowly escapes death time and time again... 150Reads—Score—14d adds
- 181 A Life-and-Death Pact with My Living Corpse Husband 生死契约之我的活死人老公 On the day I was born, my mother nearly died in childbirth. Then my father almost threw me into the river to drown. Later, my mother ran off with a rich man, abandoning me, and my father started a new family. My stepmother never liked me. Then she bore my father a son, my younger brother Su Xiaodong, who was at odds with me every day. After that, my stepmother became pregnant again, but died mysteriously, taking the baby with her. Everyone began to regard me as an ill omen. It was all because I 6Reads—Score—14d adds
- 182 Altar of Views: The Influencer Who Sends Off the Meat Dumplings 流量祭坛：送肉粽的网红 The Traffic Altar: The Influencer Who Sends Off Rice Dumplings 5Reads—Score—14d adds
- 183 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
- 184 The Demon Taoist Breaks Through the Underworld Pass 妖道破阴关 (Supernatural horror, feng shui and geomancy, warding off evil and misfortune, one heroine) My parents used forbidden magic to conceive me, but on the day I was born, my strange appearance frightened them away... My third uncle raised me in a cage. I barely managed to grow up on borrowed yin virtue and incense offerings... On my eighteenth birthday, I was buried alive in the ancestral graveyard. She saved me... but she wasn’t human... 5.4kReads9.1Score47014d adds
- 185 A Haunted Romance? From the Start, I Kissed the Evil Spirit School Beauty! 诡异恋爱？开局强吻恶灵校花！ [Romance with a ghost + devoted lover + one heroine + horror instances] My name is Fang Han. The first thing I did after entering the horror instance [Demon University] was force a kiss on Jiang Shuyan, an SSS-rank evil spirit! That's because I awakened the Ghost Romance System. As long as I win over female ghosts, I can gain supernatural abilities! And naturally, my target is the breathtakingly beautiful, peerless ghost-school belle, with skin like cream! As my lips came down I watched Jiang Su 17Reads—Score—14d adds
- 186 Heir of the Classic of Mountains and Seas 山海传人 When I was nine, a horde of ghosts surrounded our house, all intent on taking my life! To save me, Grandpa went and found me a female ghost to be my wife… 210Reads9.0Score10314d adds
- 187 The Underworld Longevity Bureau 黄泉长生局 [Mystery + Tomb Raiding + Adventure + Ghost Hunting] They say the Yellow Springs are crawling with ghosts and demons. Once I raise my yellow talisman and form a hand seal, I'll wipe them all out. From three-eyed ghost lice and the Fish Kingdom tomb to the Ten-Thousand-Pearl Snake Woman... Li Que, a little nobody of the Daoist sect, and Fatty get caught up in a vast scheme for immortality. As the saying goes: “In paper shoes, I tread into the Yellow Springs; through the gloom of life and death, I 224Reads7.1Score—14d adds
- 188 Summoning Spirits 招魂 “Old Liu at the village entrance is dead.” “I heard. He died horribly.” “Yeah. He ate himself.” Everyone in the village was talking about it. When I heard, I was stunned. What did they mean, he ate himself? I only understood after I went with my grandfather, a yin-yang master, to see Old Liu’s body. It looked as if something had ripped open his stomach. At a glance, aside from a stomach about the size of a human head, all his internal organs were gone! In his hand was half a severed intestine, a 435Reads6.4Score—14d adds
- 189 The Knife Seller 赊刀人 The Knife on Credit tradition is documented in historical records as far back as the Song Dynasty. Back then, these sellers were not yet called Knife-on-Credit sellers; they were known as fortune-tellers who sold their wares. They never sold their knives outright, only lent them on credit. When they handed one over, they would leave behind a prophecy. Once it came true on the appointed day, they would return to collect payment. “You'll be blessed with a son two years from now. Keep these scissor 7kReads7.1Score26414d adds
- 190 The Bone Painter 白骨画师 He is a painter, and she is the work he is most proud of. He is also a collector, using artifacts as his medium and white bones as his guide. Shanghai, in an old alley. An ancient woman, and a qipao shop called Ling Gu Zhai. Every antique in the shop holds the record of a story from the past. So, did you know that the things of legend really do exist... (A collection of strange tales and supernatural mysteries, beginning in the Republican era.) 154Reads8.8Score—14d adds
- 191 A Funeral Procession From the Start, Then I Married a Ghost Bride 开局红白撞煞，娶个女鬼回家 [Spiritual Qi Revival + Superhuman Martial Arts + Not Pure Wish Fulfillment + No System + Lighthearted and Fun + Multiple Well-Developed Heroines + Plenty of Romance + Positive Values, Not Dark and Gritty + Nuanced, Thoughtful Writing] What on earth has happened to this world? I just saw a wild monkey holding a stick and claiming to be Sun Wukong, and a chicken pluck someone's head off and use it as a ball... The world changed drastically, and spiritual qi revived! Monsters, demons, and ghosts a 42Reads8.2Score—14d adds
- 192 The Corpse-Scent Beside My Pillow 枕边尸香 Ever since I was little, I had a wife-to-be I'd never met. When I was fifteen, my grandfather died, and I married into her family... 2.4kReads8.3Score19014d adds
- 193 The Yellow River Corpse Retriever 黄河捞尸人 There is always more to the Yellow River than you know! You’d be better off never asking about the forbidden legends of the Yellow River! The Yellow River’s ghost soldiers, the Fish-Bone Divine Temple, the Iron-Headed Dragon King, deadly venomous insects, ghost wedding processions... The strangest objects of the Yellow River, and the oldest, most mysterious profession: Yellow River corpse divers! Their families have guarded the ancient river route for generations. But what are they really protec 27Reads7.4Score—14d adds
- 194 Strange Yin-Yang Tales: A Half-Immortal’s Records 阴阳诡事：半仙诡录 [This is no ordinary supernatural story. It’s all about horror and suspense: no mindless power fantasy, just yin-yang taboos, the Grinning Fiend, the Ghost Bride’s Gown, eerie shadows in an ancient mansion, and the Mandarin Duck Pendant. If it’s not good, you can break my legs!!] There’s no shortage of bizarre happenings between the worlds of yin and yang. The Grinning Fiend: what unknowable resentment lies behind that sinister face? The thousand-year-old fox: what cunning schemes hide beneath h 1.2kReads—Score—14d adds
- 195 Thriller: Let Go of That Female Boss, Let Me Handle Her 惊悚：放开那个女BOSS让我来 Synopsis: [Horror Game + Satisfying Story + Comedy + Pets + Livestream] This is a terrifying world where blood, death, wealth, and power coexist. For every instance you complete, you can earn a handsome reward, but only if you survive. Lu Nian "luckily" plummets into the horror world. Lost and helpless, he finds Pipi, the pet hamster he lost many years ago, and begins an outrageously overpowered adventure. [Ding! You successfully used an item to tame the Zombie Lord. The Zombie Lord's affection 140Reads8.2Score—14d adds
- 196 Lord of the Origin Clan 源族之主 [Mystery and the Supernatural, Ghost Wife and Fox Demon] In my senior year of high school, I became the top scholar in a dream and married a female ghost and a fox demon. After I woke up, one strange thing after another began happening around me. Together with my ghost wife and the fox demon, I embarked on adventures, weathered countless trials, and fought powerful foes. Bizarre and uncanny cases, strange folk customs, Miaojiang sorcery, demon arts, magic, and all manner of oddities await. Let’s 28Reads—Score314d adds
- 197 I Asked You to Make Paper Effigies, Not Control the Yin Soldiers 让你做扎纸匠，没让你控制阴兵 Ye Xuan is a paper effigy maker who unexpectedly gets the strongest Paper Effigy System. The more effigies he makes, the stronger he becomes. Then one day, a popular celebrity on a film set draws eyes on one of his paper effigies. Who could have guessed it would come to life and snap the celebrity’s neck? Ye Xuan is accused of using someone else to do his dirty work. From then on, his name becomes a trending topic, and everyone learns he’s a paper effigy maker. A string of bizarre incidents foll 185Reads6.0Score—14d adds
- 198 My Ghostly Roommate 我的阴室友 [Paranormal mystery] [Updates daily, though not on a fixed schedule] [Thanks for your support ❤️] Over the summer after my college entrance exams, I kept having the same dream about my college dorm and roommates. Then I dragged my suitcase into Room 304 and saw those familiar yet unfamiliar faces, along with an empty bed. I was stunned. They were Yaoyao and Xinxin, the girls in the photo from my dream. Was the empty bed Qingqing’s? She hadn’t shown up for months after the school year began, so w 5Reads—Score—14d adds
- 199 Strange Feng Shui Affairs 风水异事 My grandfather is a feng shui master. While he was away, a woman came looking for him. After I greeted her, I saw purple-black veins of blood on her face, writhing on their own… 1.7kReads8.8Score52014d adds
- 200 From the Start: My Extreme Yin Sacred Body Awakens, Shocking Everyone 开局：极阴圣体启动，震惊所有人 [Plot twists + one heroine + suspense and horror + decisive killing + brotherhood] My name is Jiang Daotian. I was born on Ghost Festival, and I’ve been frail and sickly since childhood. When I was five, I became seriously ill, and major hospitals issued notices that I was in critical condition. My parents had plenty of connections and sought out many Taoist priests and immortal masters. But after looking at my birth details and fate, every one of them furrowed their brows and reached the same c —Reads—Score—14d adds
