Novels like My Ghostly Husband, Don’t Be So Bad
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- 151 Lord of the Underworld, Your Queen Is Absolutely Badass! 冥君大人，您的冥后飒爆了！ Black Impermanence: My Lord, Miss Li went out to fight someone. She wants me and Little White to go back her up! Mo Tingchen: What can you two do to help? Get the Ten Yama Kings, and Ox-Head and Horse-Face too! White Impermanence: My Lord, Miss Li says she’s going to exorcise some demons. She might not come home tonight. Mo Tingchen: Not come home tonight? Exorcising demons? My wife has to handle all this herself? What exactly am I feeding you all for, hmm? The ghosts: Lord of the Underworld, yo 1.4kReads6.6Score229Shelves
- 152 Lord Yama, I Didn't Mean to Fall Into Your Arms 阎君大人，我不是故意掉你怀里的 [Mystery romance + love that grows over time + team exploration + a touch of ensemble cast] [Not a wish-fulfillment story, no horror, and the plot avoids clichés.] [Delicate writing + rich content + a little spice] Yan Yichen: You share my name, so I'll call you A Li. Yan Yichen: So Lord Yan is actually this tsundere. Bai Manjun: Tu Shanze, you showy peacock, strutting your stuff everywhere! Tu Shanze: How about I repay you for saving my life by marrying you? Song Bao: Can I eat this? What abou 38Reads—Score—Shelves
- 153 This Ghost Husband Is Pretty Handsome 这个鬼夫有点帅 One day, while catching ghosts, I accidentally got involved with a male ghost. From then on, my days became a scorching, ghostly affair. Pinned against the wall, the ghost's hands wandered all over me. “Darling, I like this.” Pinned to the bed, the ghost gave me a seductive look. “Baby.” What the heck...? Hey, hey, hey, that's enough! Climbing mountains of corpses and wading through seas of blood is one thing, and letting you cop a feel every now and then is bad enough, but now you want to make. 58Reads8.5Score—Shelves
- 154 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 5.7kReads8.8Score1.2kShelves
- 155 The Jealous Snake Lord Is Brutal and Obsessive, Yet He Spoils His Wife Without Limit 醋王蛇君暴戾偏执却宠妻无度 Also known as: The Snake Bride. Devoted couple + sweet romance + light supernatural elements. I was born in a cursed village. The year I was born, my grandfather killed a snake matriarch, and our whole family was relentlessly hounded for revenge. I fled the village with a bracelet passed down through my family. When I returned to the village years later, I met a giant white snake. He was desperate to keep me by his side. To outsiders, he was a vicious demon, but he spoiled me in every way. To ot 301Reads9.1Score102Shelves
- 156 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. 1kReads8.3Score113Shelves
- 157 Snake Demoness 蛇姬 [Ensemble Cast + Feng Shui + Fortune-Telling + Metaphysics + Strange Folk Tales] Romance: A dignified, devoted, ruthless Snake Lord vs. a pampered, cunning diviner I was born on the night of the Ghost Festival, when the gates of the underworld swing wide open. Everyone in the village said my mother conceived me after being entwined by a snake, so they called me Little Snake. When I was thirteen, I spoke carelessly and offended the “Snake Lord” in a painting. From then on, I was bedridden, and st 1.9kReads9.0Score275Shelves
- 158 Snake Spirit 蛇灵 When I was three, I came down with a strange illness. My whole body felt as if it had no bones. The rice-reading granny said something was at work, occupying my body and borrowing my lifespan. After she splashed a basin of blood toward the northeast corner, a black snake with red markings and a long beard burrowed out of the earth. Sixteen years later, the snake spirit returned. “Xiao Yu, you were the one who came after me first. If we don't get married, this is going to end badly...” [Snake Hus 1.8kReads9.3Score219Shelves
- 159 Nine Turns Back to the Underworld 九转归幽 The Yuan family has a daughter skilled in controlling paper. Strange mysteries abound as she searches for her father and mother. Exceptionally gifted in spiritual arts and violent by nature... The nine factions of the Mystic Sect each have their own agenda, and the Yuan family is caught in the middle, triggering a string of bizarre events. In the course of it all, Yuan Ling discovers that someone is secretly protecting her. As she follows the clues to her parents’ disappearance, she also searche 151Reads8.3Score—Shelves
- 160 Married to a Snake 蛇嫁 My mother died in difficult labor while giving birth to me. As they were lowering her coffin into the grave, a white snake coiled around it. The pallbearers fled in terror, and when the coffin hit the ground, I crawled out of my mother’s corpse. Ever since, the great white snake has pursued me relentlessly, insisting I bear him a whole brood of little white snakes. What am I supposed to do? 94Reads8.4Score—Shelves
- 161 The Snake King Has His Eyes on Me 蛇王惹上身 I was pushed off a cliff. The good news was that I didn't fall to my death, and my boyfriend and best friend hadn't killed me. The bad news was that although I was still alive, I had landed in something even more terrifying than death: a nest of snakes... 259Reads8.2Score102Shelves
- 162 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… 2kReads7.5Score252Shelves
- 163 Snake Enchantment 蛇媚 When I was born, countless snakes came to propose, while wildcats carried the sedan chair. The arrangement was set for twenty years. My father and grandfather took me on the run for twenty years. Just when we were close to despair, I met Ming Cang. He came toward me against the light, carrying an erhu on his back. Its music drove away the snakes, and he was like a god. I thought he was my savior, and trusted him with all my heart and soul. I never imagined that everything had been planned from t 186Reads8.9Score—Shelves
- 164 Snake Calamity 蛇劫 The day I was born, two snakes, one female and one male, fell in unison from the eaves above our front door. My grandfather, who had spent his whole life catching snakes, actually dropped to his knees before them right then and there. Everyone was terrified by what my grandfather had done. I was three days old, yet I still wouldn’t eat or drink, cry or fuss. I just stared with my wide-open eyes. My family panicked, thinking I was possessed, and went out of their way to invite the village shaman 257Reads8.6Score102Shelves
- 165 Snake Burial 蛇葬 When I was nine, my grandmother sealed me alive inside the hollow of a thousand-year-old willow tree to keep me safe from disaster. She never expected a black snake to wrap itself around me. It coiled over my collarbone and slowly devoured my heart. 9.3kReads8.2Score271Shelves
- 166 The Snake’s Bride 蛇缠女 [Mystery] [Sweet and bittersweet] [Strong heroine] [Supernatural] Ever since I was born, I’ve been cursed as a snake’s daughter and a bringer of misfortune. Eighteen years ago, a great white snake killed my family. Eighteen years later, the snake came to collect its debt and made me its spirit medium to pay it back. From then on, I began encountering all kinds of strange events. Why had the bones in the coffin vanished? And what did the snake totem on the coffin lid mean? When the Seven Fiends A 338Reads8.8Score102Shelves
- 167 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 6.9kReads8.9Score447Shelves
- 168 The Dragon King’s Debt: A Ghost Marriage 龙王债，娶阴亲 During the Qingming Festival, I paid respects at the wrong grave. A high fever left me blind. My grandmother had always favored boys. To make my mother give birth to a son, she threw me into the back hills to be devoured by wild beasts. By sheer luck, I saved a white dragon from the mountains and survived. Grateful for saving his life, the white dragon gave me one of his eyes. He told me he would return to take it back once I came of age. But before I even reached adulthood, my life changed d 56Reads6.9Score—Shelves
- 169 The White Snake in Bed 白蛇在榻 In an ancient, mysterious town, a terrifying legend has been passed down: any woman born with a yin constitution must marry the Snake God, make offerings to him, and establish a shrine for him, or she will be consumed by yin energy and lose her life. Many women have died this way over the years, and the legend has become a shadow that haunts the townspeople. Lin Mei was born with a yin constitution. Frail and often plagued by yin energy, she has suffered greatly. Strong-willed and kind, she is c —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 170 My Husband Is a Ghost 我的夫君是鬼怪 Synopsis: Supernatural + a little sweetness + a clever little ghost + a cool, aloof ghost husband who's prone to jealousy On the day I was born, dark clouds covered the sky, and the gloom was terrifying. Strange things started happening in my family as soon as I arrived. My ancestors had always practiced feng shui. By the time it reached my grandfather, the people around him called him a demigod. He didn't just read feng shui for people, he also told their fortunes, and they say he was incredibl 6.9kReads9.0Score541Shelves
- 171 The Yama King's Wife: Living Sacrifice 阎王妻：活祭 Every five years, the village offers a living person as a sacrifice to the gods. It has to be an unmarried young woman who is still pure. The year I turned seventeen, the Heavenly God chose me as the sacrifice... 60Reads8.6Score—Shelves
- 172 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… 1.3kReads9.1Score158Shelves
- 173 The Serpent’s Curse 蛇咒 The day I was born, my grandparents were skinned alive. Every branch around us was crawling with writhing, jubilant snakes. They said I would be next. To stay alive, I had no choice but to give myself to him. The secrets of the blood-stained garment and the snake curse became the things I most wanted to uncover. I thought I existed only to help him forge the blood garment, but when life and death hung in the balance, he held me tight. “Song Youyou, you will always be mine!” 134Reads8.6Score—Shelves
- 174 The Snake Husband’s Devotion: His Little Fairy Is Reborn! 蛇夫溺宠：他的小仙女重生了！ The Beautiful, Powerful, and Tragic Demon King vs. His One and Only Little Princess [Mutual Pampering + Transmigrate into a Book and Reborn + Pure Love + Fantasy + Mind Reading + Past and Present Lives + Devoted Love] The first time she caught the thousand-year-old serpent with his huge tail showing, he was so nervous he didn't dare move a muscle. The girl immediately snuggled into his arms and kissed him until his face and eyes turned red, unable to keep her hands off his tail. And so began c 306Reads8.2Score—Shelves
- 175 My Fated Snake King Husband Is So Hard to Handle 奇缘蛇王老公太难缠 Lin Qingqing rescued a little black snake. She clearly saw it slither into the bushes, but after evening study hall, there it was on her bed. She put it in her schoolbag, and the next day it was wrapped around her hand. She left it in the bushes behind the school. Thinking the little black snake was so cute, she named him Qiu Han and couldn’t resist giving him a kiss. Who knew that within a day, the black snake would turn into a black python? To be with Lin Qingqing, Qiu Han took human form and 33Reads8.8Score—Shelves
- 176 The Serpent King's Decree 蛇王令 I was born with a black scale on my body. As I grew older, the scale kept spreading. When I was sixteen, I dreamed that the black scales came to life and turned into a black snake that coiled tightly around me… 42Reads8.8Score—Shelves
- 177 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 7.3kReads9.2Score820Shelves
- 178 Snake Sacrifice 蛇祭 Two virgins + Sweet romance + Strong female lead leveling up The Snake Lord is fearsome. A promise made a thousand years ago, a meeting in dreams, a bracelet carved from nine dragons’ bones, protection for his wife, a Soul-Devouring Demon Blade, souls scattered to the winds, old grudges brought to an end... On the night of the Ghost Festival, the fifteenth day of the seventh lunar month, Old Song carried me back from the village’s Spirit Snake Mountain. Strange changes swept across the sky: ligh 343Reads9.1Score116Shelves
- 179 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 510Reads9.2Score101Shelves
- 180 Pregnant with Evil, Again and Again 阴孕连连 The consequence of one wild night was that I got pregnant, and I had no idea who the father was. Filled with anxiety, I had no choice but to ask my best friend to come with me to get rid of the baby. But from that day on, strange things kept happening. A little ghost that ate people, a night road I could never escape, a lecherous man who kept appearing in my dreams, and the baby in my belly that I just couldn't get rid of. It all told me one thing: I had… encountered something supernatural… 197Reads5.4Score—Shelves
- 181 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 319Reads—Score—Shelves
- 182 My Husband Comes from the Underworld 我的夫君他来自地府 I've been unlucky since I was little. I'm said to bring misfortune to my husband and children, and my father even used me to pay off a debt of yin energy he owed. When I came of age, he showed up to make me honor the contract we made back then. After that, my mother was near death, my father disappeared, and one friend after another ran into trouble... 52Reads8.8Score—Shelves
- 183 The Gentle Ghost in the Haunted House 凶宅里的温柔男鬼 Xu Xingyao is a dirt-poor office worker down on her luck. She rents a haunted house. She can put up with a woman sobbing in the middle of the night, bloody water in the bathroom, takeout mysteriously vanishing, and soup so salty her own cooking nearly kills her. But a ghost turning on her faucet and making her pay a higher water bill? Absolutely not. Just as Xu Xingyao is preparing to go head-to-head with the ghost, she discovers that the house is home to a male ghost. He looks terrifying and te 1.9kReads8.7Score203Shelves
- 184 The Fox Seeks a Wife 狐讨妻 When I was born, I fell gravely ill. To save my life, my father sold me to a white-haired fox. Fifteen years later, the fox came to collect its debt and demanded I repay it by becoming its disciple. From then on, I began encountering all kinds of bizarre things I could never have imagined. I thought the fox and I had nothing more than a simple debt to settle, but later I discovered a shocking secret hidden beneath it all. 400Reads9.0Score100Shelves
- 185 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...? 270Reads8.4Score100Shelves
- 186 Rice Divination and a Ghostly Wedding 阴看米，鬼哭嫁 On the day I was born, paper figures came to pay their respects and left behind money to buy my life. To keep me alive, an old woman from Miaojiang made me lie in a paper coffin, pinned me down with bones, and buried me alive at birth. This drew a hundred ghosts to bow before me and severed the heads of nine dragons. The old woman said that a spirit wanted my life. She hid my shadow, and I must not look in a mirror before I turned sixteen. I followed her warning faithfully, but then the old woma 3.7kReads9.0Score454Shelves
- 187 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 85.3kReads9.1Score13.6kShelves
- 188 Marry a Ghost Husband, Subdue a Hundred Spirits 嫁鬼夫，镇百诡 [Supernatural] [Ghost Hunting] [Devoted Husband] [Growing Female Lead] [Mutually Faithful] The rating just opened. It should go up later... Proud, reclusive Ghost Emperor Di Jun Xuanming × Chen Xuanqing, a cool and aloof girl born from a corpse The prequel, The Ghost Wedding on the Fifteenth Night of the Seventh Month, is complete. I was born in a coffin, a corpse-born girl whom everyone shunned. My birth mother was kidnapped and sold after her lover's scheming, then died horribly in a mass grav 18kReads8.3Score1.6kShelves
- 189 My Lover Is a Wolf 我的爱人是头狼 On my twentieth birthday, my peaceful life was shattered by the sudden arrival of a mysterious man. My grandmother, who was a spirit medium, tried her hardest to set us up. He was unbelievably handsome, but I couldn’t even figure out whether he was human or a demon… It wasn’t until later that I learned I was the one with the complicated background, neither fully human nor ghost. After enduring one hardship after another, I finally made up my mind: I was going to marry the wolf husband who had si 46Reads6.7Score—Shelves
- 190 Claim Ghostly Merit and Ward Off Disaster for the Dead 拿鬼功德，替鬼消灾 [Devoted couples + sweet romance + past and present lives] The ghost immortal Rong Wu is reborn and reincarnated. She diligently roams the mortal world, resolving grudges and settling disputes for restless souls. She never expected to summon the Netherworld Emperor, Jiuyuan, when she found herself in danger one day. She acts sweet and obedient around him every day, all so she can use him. When they meet again, Jiuyuan’s feelings are complicated, and he begins to make his move, tempting her wit 32Reads—Score—Shelves
- 191 The Fox's Seduction 狐诱 Twenty years ago, my father brought home a mute woman. From then on, men in the village began dying in mysterious ways… They said my mother was a wicked fox spirit who brought harm to others. No, my mother was the Great Fox King, chosen by Heaven. The Fox King bore a daughter, and the new king ascended the throne. Beneath all of Heaven, our king rules. The harem matters just as much as the people! An angsty romance dressed up as a wish-fulfillment blurb. Come on in, everyone! 617Reads8.4Score101Shelves
- 192 My Snake Immortal Husband Comes in the Dead of Night 蛇仙老公，深夜来 When I was ten, I came down with a fatal illness. To save me, Grandpa went to Changbai Mountain and brought back a snake pill. I recovered, but Grandpa and my parents all died. That dragon came for revenge… It didn’t kill me. It demanded offerings and wanted the snake pill back. From then on, Changbai Mountain had a new Pool Immortal Maiden. A pig spirit bewitches people, a little ghost steals unborn babies, and at midnight, who is it holding a bone umbrella and carrying a human-skin lantern to 314Reads9.1Score108Shelves
- 193 The River God's Bride 河神新娘 A sacrificial rite brings the young girl Chu Xiyan together with the River God, setting in motion a deeply moving love story. They save one another and help each other become whole, enduring the tangled joys and sorrows of love and hate... 171Reads8.8Score—Shelves
- 194 Deep Serenity 殷宓 Yin Mi is the Underworld's only female general, with immense spiritual power and a fearsome reputation across the Six Realms. She is adored by all ten Kings of Hell, the Five Ghost Emperors, and the Great Emperor of the Underworld. She and the King of the Underworld are bound together by love and hate through three lifetimes... 7Reads—Score—Shelves
- 195 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—Shelves
- 196 I Conquer Both Worlds of Yin and Yang by Sheer Stubbornness 我靠命硬横行阴阳两界 Everyone has always said I was cursed, an ill-fated star whose hard luck would bring death to my family. I refuse to believe it! After landing a job at a mysterious company, I use my iron constitution and superhuman stamina to earn a fortune! The Ghost Emperor wants to marry me? No way! Nobody’s getting in the way of me making money! 3Reads—Score—Shelves
- 197 The Fox Bride 狐嫁 Ye Zier is a half-yin person, born with a tendency to attract evil spirits. After finally getting married to her boyfriend, she’s kidnapped along the way by a fox spirit who insists on having little foxes with her. What is she supposed to do? 370Reads9.1Score100Shelves
- 198 Snake Scales 蛇纹 When I was six, I came down with a strange illness. Dark red snake scales covered my body. They looked horrifying and revolting, and whenever it rained, they became unbearably itchy and painful. Everyone said it was payback for my father catching and killing snakes, and that he deserved to have a snake girl for a daughter. My family paid no mind to the gossip, but that night, a white snake suddenly coiled around me and demanded that I repay my blood debt… 111Reads7.0Score—Shelves
- 199 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 889Reads9.0Score141Shelves
- 200 The Allure of the Fox 狐香引 When I was eighteen, my grandma passed away. I inherited the spirit hall and became a female disciple who served the immortals. Thus began my strange journey in their company, and my fate changed forever... 918Reads8.9Score111Shelves
