Novels like Demon Wife, Ghost Concubine
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- 101 Boiling Oil: Root Sacrifice 开油镬：根祭 Frying the Oil Wok: Root Sacrifice —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 102 Part-Time Ghost Officer: You Ask If I Can Catch Ghosts? 兼职鬼差，你问我会不会捉鬼 Zhong Ze is so hopelessly unmotivated that his ancestor Zhong Kui storms up from the underworld and gives him a thorough beating. Then he teaches him cultivation techniques and gives him magical treasures, making Zhong Ze a part-time underworld ghost constable. In the mortal realm, Zhong Ze catches ghosts, banishes evil, and upholds justice on Heaven's behalf. Later, he is even invited to become an exorcist police officer. With an official post in both the mortal and spirit worlds, he thrives in —Reads6.2Score—Shelves
- 103 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—Shelves
- 104 Living Witness to the Strange 活见异闻 Grandpa had seen a ghost for himself. In the dead of night, he went behind the villagers’ backs to dig up a dead woman’s grave, and even stripped off her... 36Reads6.5Score—Shelves
- 105 The Daoist Bones That Suppress Evil 道骨镇凶 Strange happenings plague a desolate village on rainy nights: an old house haunted by ghosts, children vanishing, resentment clinging to the living... An orthodox Taoist priest descends the mountain with a peachwood sword and a Bagua mirror, following every clue in search of the truth. But behind every mysterious case lurk conspiracies and obsessions that have endured for a thousand years. He uses Taoist magic to dispel evil and his wits to solve riddles, ferrying souls between the worlds of yin —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 106 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—Shelves
- 107 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... 2.4kReads8.3Score190Shelves
- 108 The Extraordinary Little Taoist of Huadu 花都超凡小道士 [Invincible Protagonist] + [Urban] + [Lighthearted Comedy] + [Supernatural] This book features a Primordial World setting, but it's different from the traditional version. Please don't read if that bothers you. There isn't just one female lead. Please don't read if that bothers you. Each book has its own world. Don't bring the worldbuilding from other books into this one. 1.7kReads8.8Score113Shelves
- 109 The Last Wild Maoshan Master 最后一个野茅山 During the Republican era, my great-grandfather brought a bowl of executioner's rice to a death-row inmate who was about to be beheaded. On a rainy night in late autumn, the beheaded convict knocked on the courtyard gate... [Traditional supernatural horror + Maoshan magic + no System] 19.9kReads8.4Score1.8kShelves
- 110 Lady Fox Immortal, You Haven’t Hidden Your Tail Properly 狐仙大人，你的尾巴没藏好 That year, I was twenty. Fine white hair inexplicably sprouted all over my body. The village’s spirit medium, Granny Hui, laughed and said, “When white fur appears, romance is near.” That night, under a moonless sky, I was forced into a red wedding dress and married off to a man I had never met. On our wedding night, he raised his voice and snarled, “Su Jinhe, you made me lose a tail, and you still have the nerve to cling to me and marry me? You’re asking to die!” Me: ???!!! (Completely bewilder 76Reads6.8Score—Shelves
- 111 Reincarnated as a Ginseng Fruit: Devoured by a Fox Demon from the Start 转生人参果:开局就被狐妖吞掉 [Sweet Romance] [Daily Life] [Witty Complaints] [Mystery] A terminal chuuni transmigrates to a fantasy world! A mysterious Season Codex descends, and a plot hatched by transmigrators slowly unfolds... Wait, why did I turn into a ginseng fruit?! And I got eaten right from the start! As dynasties fall and immortals clash, see how Mu Xiaoguo leads a band of adorable little cuties to rebuild order in a world on the verge of collapse. (Not a mindless power-leveling wish-fulfillment story) (A logical, 640Reads7.7Score110Shelves
- 112 I'm Just a Delivery Guy, So Why Are You Saying I'm Going to Destroy the World? 我就是个送货的，你们说我要灭世 A monthly salary of 30,000 yuan, with 10,000 deducted for every bad review. To earn money for my little sister's medical bills, I took a delivery job specializing in "nonhuman cargo." I thought I'd just be delivering weird stuff, but... For the first job, the client made me the groom in a ghost marriage. The bride in the coffin asked me, "Shall we consummate the marriage?" For the second, a female ghost from a temple knocked on my door in the middle of the night. "Hey, handsome, my chest feels t —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 113 A Lavish Ghost Marriage: My Husband Is Actually the Great Emperor of Fengdu 冥婚厚爱：我的老公竟是酆都大帝 [Mutual First Love + Sweet Romance + Supernatural] Qiao Nuan was born in a coffin, with pure yin in all four pillars of her birth chart. On the night of her twentieth birthday, a path was cleared by a hundred ghosts, and a bridal sedan chair stopped outside her door. Only then did she learn that the ghost-marriage husband her grandfather had chosen for her at birth, the man in white who had kept her company in her dreams for twenty years and taught her everything she knew, was none other than Fe 2.3kReads6.5Score237Shelves
- 114 Blood Pact of the Corpse House 尸宅血契 The Corpse House Blood Pact 1Reads—Score—Shelves
- 115 Yonghui Corpse Coins 永徽尸钱 Yonghui Corpse Coins —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 116 The Walking Corpse Lunatic 走尸颠佬 The Walking Corpse Madman 2Reads—Score—Shelves
- 117 Chengwen Master's 11th Book 成稳大师第11本书 375Reads8.0Score—Shelves
- 118 Life with a Woman in Red Who's a Ghost 与红衣女鬼同居的日子 My name is Wang Chongyang, and I'm a struggling horror writer who gets by on attendance bonuses. One night, after falling behind on rent, I was kicked out by my landlord. I accidentally wandered into a haunted house and ran into a red-clad vengeful ghost. And that's how a whole series of events began. What the heck? I take Zhong Kui as my master, my wife is a red-clad vengeful ghost who dares to beat up even the Black and White Impermanence, and even the dog I picked up on a whim is the ancient 458Reads7.3Score—Shelves
- 119 The Fragrance of Serpent’s Desire 蛇色生香 Everyone considered me an ill omen, but my grandmother said I was born noble: I must never kneel to anyone in this life. Others should kneel to me, and everyone I helped must enshrine my spirit tablet at home and address me as Her Ladyship. Yet I spread blessings far and wide, driving away evil and averting disasters for the people, only to end up infamous as the reincarnation of a snake woman who brought misery to all. In this life, I’ve slain ghosts, vanquished demons, raised monuments, an 272Reads8.7Score—Shelves
- 120 Cherry-Colored Lies 樱桃色的谎言 Cherry-Colored Lies —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 121 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! 13.2kReads7.4Score1.1kShelves
- 122 Walking Between Yin and Yang: Evil-Breaker 行走阴阳：破邪 There is a group of extraordinary people who walk between yin and yang, slaying demons and breaking evil curses to maintain the balance between the two worlds! Devoted to the Dao, they battle evil men, seal away vengeful ghosts, and uphold the path of righteousness. They are all nobodies, with just one mysterious connection: the Dragon Group! 181Reads7.2Score—Shelves
- 123 My Fox-Wife Protects Me on the Yin-Yang Road 狐妻护我阴阳路 My father once saved a nine-tailed fox immortal who was undergoing tribulation. She would later become my wife. The night I was born, the heavens showed strange signs, and seven-colored auspicious clouds appeared over my home! From childhood, I was raised to be a “child bridegroom”! Because of my unusual fate, by the age of ten I had caused everyone around me in the prince's residence to die. That's because I'm the “Black Qilin,” a once-in-a-thousand-years omen! The embodiment of evil, I could f 335Reads6.0Score—Shelves
- 124 My Wife Is a Nine-Tailed Fox 我的老婆是九尾狐 Qin Tianyu never imagined that his wife was actually the legendary Nine-Tailed Fox, and a mighty demon king of the demon realm, no less. Even more astonishing, the little black cat he happened to pick up turned out to be a stunning beauty with a bewitching figure. 28Reads6.5Score—Shelves
- 125 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 22Reads—Score—Shelves
- 126 Eerie Descent: My Wife Is an SSS-Rank Lord 诡异降临，我老婆是SSS级领主 The age of the bizarre has arrived! Anyone selected for a dungeon is forced to take part in its game! Those who clear it can not only save their city, but also gain all kinds of abilities! If they fail, their city will fall and become a playground for the bizarre! As city after city falls, humanity is utterly consumed by fear! One day, Chen Siwen, a mentally ill boy, enters a dungeon. “Dad! Mom! I’m home!!” The SS-rank bizarre Bloodshadow Butcher: “What did you just call me?” The S-rank Shattere 50Reads6.2Score—Shelves
- 127 The Suona's Song Beneath the Coffin Lid 棺材板下的唢呐声 Suona Music Beneath the Coffin Lid —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 128 I Only Take on the Most Ominous Cases 我只收大凶之物 [Supernatural] + [Traditional Folk Customs] + [First-Person Narration] + [Chinese-Style Horror] + [Decisive and Ruthless] + [Not a Do-Gooder] + [One Female Lead] I was born in a rural village in the mountains of Southwest China. I'm a third-year university student, and I'm also a yin-yang master. Calling myself a yin-yang master is really just to make myself sound impressive. Back in my hometown, people in the countryside call someone like me a Daoist ritual master. Most people probably know a l 53Reads8.2Score—Shelves
- 129 Borrowing a Path Through the Yin Coffin 阴棺借道 In our area, strange tales of “the white coffin that carries people off” and “the rolling corpse bridge” have been passed down for generations. The elders say that a water ghost claims its victims at the rolling corpse bridge, while the white coffin that carries people off is even more eerie and sinister… 24Reads—Score—Shelves
- 130 A Book by the Speed-Loving Snail 爱飙车的蜗牛的一本书 My new work is out! You can read it on Tomato Novel. I hope you’ll enjoy it. Your support motivates me to write, and I’ll do my best to tell every story well! 873Reads7.9Score103Shelves
- 131 Underworld: My Ghost Bride and I, Bound Forever by Yin Fate 冥域：我和鬼媳，阴缘永合 [Paranormal + Ghost Wife + Horror + Superpowers + Reincarnation] Li Xiaoshi is the reincarnation of a judge from the underworld. He was born nearly transparent, with his internal organs clearly visible. Later, he meets a female ghost named Gu Pannan, and the two become husband and wife in a union of yin and yang. His life is beset by misfortune. He eventually learns that his ghost wife came from the Nether Realm, but their pact between human and ghost has bound their minds together, making separ 54Reads—Score—Shelves
- 132 Maoshan Ghostcraft 茅山鬼道 Among China's many Daoist schools, none is more renowned for catching ghosts and subduing demons than the Maoshan Celestial Masters. The title of Ghost-Hunting Celestial Master is known to all. With sword, talismans, incantations, and a Bagua compass, all four treasures brought to bear, even spirits and demons flee. See how a true disciple of Maoshan drives out ghosts and vanquishes demons. Zombies, strange spirits, vengeful ghosts, sorcery, and evil Daoists wreak havoc across the land, only to 1.6kReads—Score153Shelves
- 133 A Collection of Folk Tales and Strange Accounts 民间怪谈异闻录 Also known as: Spirit Hunt Begins Here, Keep Quiet and Stay Back [Supernatural + Video Filming + Small-Scale Infinite Horror + Folk Horror Tales + Taoist Magic] Have you heard of the Death Omen and the Hanging Guest coming to claim lives, the sound of meat being chopped at midnight, a blood-red singing doll, eerie sobbing from a mass grave, the startling secrets of a baozi shop, or the mystery behind a school of death? Do you know that there may be many things in this world that you cannot see? 85Reads8.4Score—Shelves
- 134 I Transmigrated to a Supernatural World and Made a Pact with a Female Ghost 穿越灵异世界，我与女鬼缔结契约 [Transported in Person] [Ghost Wife] [Multiple Female Ghosts] [No Horror or Mystery] [Daily Life + Leveling Up] Ling Yun dies suddenly after staying up all night in his previous life, only to transmigrate unexpectedly to a bizarre world. In this age of ghost tamers, the ghosts Ling Yun contracts are all stunning female ghosts. What can you do with one female ghost? What can you do with two female ghosts? What can you do with three female ghosts? Surrounded by beautiful women and faced with t 1.1kReads7.0Score123Shelves
- 135 The Strange World: Building a Powerful Family from Scratch 诡异世界：从零开始强盛家族 [Eerie] [Rules] [Horror] [Beautiful Companions] Lu Jiu transmigrates into the eerie world of haunted domains and gets married from the start. As he learns more, he realizes that he and his family can establish rules for their home: the larger the family, the stronger its rules. So Lu Jiu sets out to find beautiful companions: the Red Umbrella Woman, who shelters passersby on rainy days; the Red Wedding Dress, who plays a honey trap at the bottom of a well; the Frost Maiden sleeping in an iceboun 121Reads6.4Score—Shelves
- 136 Back on Earth, but No Longer Human 重回地球：但我不再是人 [No harem + not a power fantasy + everyday life + relaxing + slice of life + comedy + raising a child + no villains] My name is Xing Chuan. After an accident, I transmigrated to another world, where I married a fox spirit named Yue Jiu'er. But another accident separated me from my beloved, and I returned to Earth. To my surprise, hundreds of years had passed there, while only five years had gone by on Earth. My father had passed away, leaving only my mother and younger brother. I wanted to spen 2.2kReads8.1Score152Shelves
- 137 The Dragon King's Wife 龙王妻 My name is Fu Ling. Everyone in the village calls me a ghost child because my mother is a corpse. On the fifteenth day of the seventh lunar month, when the gates of the underworld opened, I began dreaming of the Black and White Impermanence coming to fetch me in a bridal sedan. I also encountered all kinds of supernatural events: paper effigies that ate people, a cat-faced woman, and a fox demon. I even met a powerful male demon. He said I would only survive if I married him... 20Reads6.5Score—Shelves
- 138 The Nine-Tailed Fox of Hehuan, Bewitching All Beings with Her Charms 合欢九尾狐，以媚术迷惑众生 [Transmigration + Demon Beasts + Strong Heroine] Bai Binglan, a college student, was always imagining transmigrating because nothing in her life ever went right. After an accident, her wish finally came true. But none of it was anything like she'd imagined. Why did I transmigrate into the cultivation world? And why did I turn into a fox? I'm not even human anymore! By chance, Bai Binglan received the legacy of a senior fox and officially embarked on the path of cultivation. But why did they give 36Reads—Score—Shelves
- 139 I Am a Daoist Nun and a Nine-Tailed Fox 我乃道姑九尾狐 [Three Lifetimes] + [Hilarious Comedy] + [Heroine’s Rise] Funny everyday life with her senior brother, a Taoist priest. By a twist of fate, the heroine transmigrates to ancient times and becomes a weak nine-tailed fox, half human and half beast, who can revert to her true form. Hoping to become an immortal and return to the modern world, she heads to Xuanqing Temple, disguises herself as a Taoist nun, and studies under a master. The pills she makes bring bad luck to her martial uncle; learning f 20Reads—Score—Shelves
- 140 Echoes from the Thirty-Six Steps 三十六级台阶的回响 Echoes from Thirty-Six Steps —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 141 Mint Blossoms at the Tip of a Shoe 鞋尖开出的薄荷花 Mint Blossoms at the Tip of a Shoe —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 142 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 262Reads—Score—Shelves
- 143 The Yin-Duiner 度阴人 [One heroine] [No harem] [No System] [Fantasy world] Do you know what yin entities are? In this world, there are four kinds of yin entities: ghosts, monsters, demons, and fiends. The woman in white drifting through an unfinished building, the bloodthirsty zombie in an ancient mountain tomb, the man-eating beast in a scenic lake... When these yin entities appear in the world of the living, a yin guide must step in to deal with them. And I’m the current yin guide. 673Reads8.1Score105Shelves
- 144 From the Start, I Was a Ghost King, Forced to Become Bai Wuchang 开局鬼王，被迫成为白无常 Xie Yan transmigrates into the body of a Ghost King, expecting to throw his weight around. Instead, on his very first day on the job, he is surrounded by the Underworld's special task force for “cracking down on organized crime and evil.” Faced with the “kind invitation” of a hundred ghost-captain-level underworld enforcers, he signs a contract of servitude through tears and becomes the Underworld's number-one wage slave. From then on, he has KPIs in one hand and the Book of Life and Death in th 67Reads—Score—Shelves
- 145 A Living Person's Ghost Marriage 活人冥婚 A ghost marriage is traditionally a union between two people who are already dead. But I was supposed to die at the age of three. By defying fate and holding a ghost wedding while still alive, I secured a future for myself… 425Reads—Score—Shelves
- 146 The Fox Wife Chosen by Fate 天命狐妻 Born with a frail fate that draws evil spirits, I married a fox under the terms of a written betrothal. She unfurled her nine tails and protected me, granting me a lifetime of peace. I cultivated the Dao and cut down every wicked ghost in the world. Together, human and fox, we roamed between yin and yang. Blessed with a fox wife, I alone stand guard against a hundred ghosts! 5.5kReads7.4Score286Shelves
- 147 My Tsundere Fox Wife 傲娇狐妻 My uncle told me that if I raised a fox well, I'd have no trouble finding a good wife. But before I could even make my fortune, a long-tailed bride came knocking at my door... 216Reads8.3Score—Shelves
- 148 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 233Reads7.6Score100Shelves
- 149 The Deadly Yin-Yang Master 绝命阴阳师 I was born extraordinary. To stop me from being born, Heaven and Earth battled across the void. Half the masters of the feng shui world perished, dying with resentment in the northwest. In the end, only my father could restrain the Nine Dragons Taiji Diagram on my body by giving up his practice. To change my fate, my father arranged several betrothals for me within the feng shui world. Who knew this would only mark the beginning of calamity for the feng shui world... 436Reads8.5Score101Shelves
- 150 From the Start, I Married a Ghost Immortal 开局娶鬼仙做老婆 This work is being kept on the list despite its low rating. [Traditional Supernatural Fiction, Metaphysics, Multiple Female Leads, Folk Horror Stories, Half Power Fantasy, Alternate World, Folk Legends] My name is Lin Hao. I haven’t seen my parents since I was seven. The authorities said they were dead. But my grandfather said someone had scattered their three souls and seven spirits. After that, I lived with him in a small county in southern China. Then, after an accident, I somehow performed a 3kReads6.2Score219Shelves
