Novels like My Beloved Ghost Wife
Books Chinese readers most often put in the same booklists as My Beloved Ghost Wife, best match first.
- 1 The Ghost Bride of a Cursed Fate 阴命鬼妻 On the fifteenth day of the seventh lunar month, the gates of the underworld open. Cursed by yin forces, I won’t live past that day. To save my life, Grandpa placed a marriage contract in a graveyard. From then on, my fate was tugged along like a puppet on strings, and there was no escape. 19Reads—Score—Shelves
- 2 Haunted House Sleep Tester: I Brought a Ghost Wife Home 凶宅试睡：带了个女鬼老婆回家 With nowhere else to turn, I found a part-time job. All I wanted was to make money, but the female ghost had her eye on my body! She even said I'd die if I didn't marry her! The bones I dug up with my own hands turned out to be my mom? The one who wiped out my whole family was actually my dad? The underling who followed me around was really my big brother? Forget it. I didn't believe it at first either. If you don't believe me, come and see... 4Reads—Score—Shelves
- 3 Spiritual Qi Revival: From the Start, I Seduce the Finest Female Ghosts 灵气复苏：开局狂撩极品女鬼 This is a world undergoing spiritual qi revival. Terrifying, unknown creatures have appeared across the land: Slit-Mouthed Women, elves, Sadako, demons... Some people are scared out of their wits, but to me, it's paradise! As long as you've got the guts, even female ghosts get maternity leave! 4Reads—Score—Shelves
- 4 My Beautiful Ghost Wife 我的绝美冥妻 I was born in a village and grew up depending on my grandfather, who was the village teacher and greatly respected. Most of the villagers were superstitious, and certain rules handed down from their ancestors could never be broken. Of the three forms of unfilial conduct, having no descendants is the worst. The village was poor back then, and many men couldn't find wives. Some started thinking about kidnapping a woman and bringing her back to be their wife… 101Reads—Score—Shelves
- 5 From the Start, I Get a Female Ghost Pregnant and Awaken the Power of Ghosts and Gods 开局让女鬼怀孕，觉醒鬼神之力 My ex-girlfriend, the one who broke up with me, has turned into a ghost? What a lucky break! When we were dating, we never even held hands. But now that my ex has become a ghost, things are no longer up to her… —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 6 Tales of the Uncanny: The Uncanny Chronicler 异闻录：异闻记录者 [Nearly Invincible] [Ghost Bride] [Multiple Female Leads] [Seven Deadly Sins] Li Mingxuan, a college student fascinated by mystical arts, transmigrated to a parallel world after an accident. In this world, technology and cultivators existed side by side, while mystery and danger were intertwined. More astonishing still, during his transmigration, a mysterious treasure called Records of Strange Tales was drawn to his soul and became his "golden finger." By recording the supernatural events he ex —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 7 Pressured to Marry, I Wed a Ghost Bride 被催婚，娶了鬼新娘 [Cultivation] [Ghosts and Monsters] [Yin-Yang] A frail young man, pressured into blind dates and constantly nagged by his family to get married, unexpectedly activates the ancient jade pendant his grandfather left behind. A thousand-year-old ghost bride suddenly appears. She turns out to be the child bride promised to him, and he learns that her life has been full of hardship, with only three years of yang lifespan remaining... A mysterious token appears, and the gates of the underworld swing op 5Reads—Score—Shelves
- 8 Book Seven: A Hundred Ghosts Walk by Day 第七本书，百鬼昼行 On a rain-soaked evening, a mysterious umbrella appeared and tore through the boundary of reality, bringing me face-to-face with Her: Xu Shuang, a pure-white soul, a wandering ghost, who became the one and only love of my life. I'm just an ordinary coffee shop owner. I grind beans and make lattes every day, never imagining I'd be caught up in a whirlpool of the uncanny. But when Her pale fingers brush my palm, when Her whispers seep into my dreams, mingling with the sound of rain, I finally unde 3Reads—Score—Shelves
- 9 I Told You to Confess, So Why Did You Go After a Female Ghost? 让你表白，你找上女鬼？ [Horror + laugh-out-loud comedy + ghost stories + multiple heroines] Qin Feng awakens a System by accident while taking part in a paranormal TV show. [Host, you have thirty seconds to confess your feelings to a woman. Fail the mission and you will die immediately!] At that moment, the only one inside the legendary haunted house is a red-clad female ghost. With no other choice, he confesses to the ghost in front of the cameras. Qin Feng: “I like you. Will you go out with me?” The female ghost: “H 40Reads—Score—Shelves
- 10 Lu Ban's Secret Art 鲁班秘术 While carrying out a mission, Li Xian’s life took a major turn when he sought revenge for a German Shepherd named Huzi. Years later, he unexpectedly came into possession of an ancient book… 382Reads6.9Score100Shelves
- 11 My Ghostly Wife Rules the Roost 阴妻当道 On the seventh day after Grandma’s death, she came back, and even arranged a new bride for me... 157Reads5.4Score—Shelves
- 12 Horror Revival: I Marry the Female Ghost Emperor from the Start 恐怖复苏：开局和女鬼帝成亲 [Transmigration + comedy + System] The supernatural is back, and ghosts roam the night. They say female ghosts often lure men to their deaths, so what’s it like to marry a ghost empress from the very start? My name is Roger. There’s a female ghost empress one meter in front of me, eyeing me hungrily. Please tell me how to escape her clutches... 3Reads—Score—Shelves
- 13 Sleep Paralysis? I Confessed to a Female Ghost and Asked Her to Marry Me 鬼压床？我表白女鬼做老婆 A year ago, Su Cheng was haunted by a female ghost. A year later, after enduring endless torment, Su Cheng made a decision that went against everything his ancestors stood for. He confessed his love to her! Su Cheng: “Actually, I've liked you for a very long time.” The next day, the female ghost smiled and poked him. “Love you, hubby.” 35Reads7.4Score—Shelves
- 14 I Married a Ghost Bride, but They Told Me It Wasn’t a Script 和鬼新娘成婚，却告诉我不是剧本 Chu Fangyuan is a livestream script actor in a parallel world on Blue Star. The day before the supernatural energy returned, his assistant wrote him a livestream script about spending his wedding night with a ghost bride. Just as Chu Fangyuan headed to the agreed location the following evening and started the livestream, a world-changing upheaval quietly began. The blood moon rose, and countless ghosts returned. The once-normal world was instantly overrun by monsters. As people panicked, unsure 60Reads6.6Score—Shelves
- 15 My Nine Ghostly Sisters 我的九个女鬼姐姐 The Yellow River Trading House has guarded items for people on both sides of the divide in fulfillment of an ancient promise. After my grandfather passed away, I was left to watch the shop alone. Every night at midnight, gorgeous female ghosts in red, blue, and green would pester me to sit and talk... 61Reads—Score—Shelves
- 16 My Girlfriend Is Actually a Ghost 我的女友竟是女鬼 [Campus Writing Contest] Su Chen was reborn in a world much like Blue Star, living in a declining family of Celestial Masters. One summer, after getting into university, Su Chen planned to meet his online girlfriend in person. When they met, he discovered that she had no shadow. … [Sweet Romance + Love Story + Monsters and Demons Resurge] (The blurb doesn’t do it justice. Read the story instead.) 52Reads—Score—Shelves
- 17 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 53Reads6.4Score—Shelves
- 18 The Four Symbols Order: A Spirit Medium's Marriage Contract 四象令：渡灵师的婚书 [Fantasy + Supernatural + Multiple Heroines + A Touch of Angst + Romance] My grandfather disappeared, leaving me four marriage contracts and a crumbling ferry pavilion battered by wind and rain. He said they were my means of staying alive, and the karmic debt I could never escape. I thought I would spend the rest of my life guarding this little patch of land, ferrying souls between yin and yang until my days were done. Until, on the night of the Qingming Festival, a beautiful woman in a red d 336Reads—Score—Shelves
- 19 After Satisfying a Female Ghost, I Became the Hardest Worker in the Supernatural World 让女鬼满足后我成了灵异界劳模 My name is Shen Zhuo. I'm 27 and I run a feng shui shop. Other people drive out ghosts with talismans and sutras. I rely on... Well, female ghosts are haunted by a lack of love and warmth, and I'm here to provide both. Once it's done, they leave with a smile, and I collect my fee. The trade calls it “Soul Ferrying.” I'm the only one in all of China who does it. I lured Chi Wan, a college student, into becoming my assistant with a monthly salary of 30,000 yuan. She's a once-in-a-century spirit ma —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 20 Kissing the Ghost Bride Passionately from the Start Until She Questions Her Unlife 开局猛亲鬼新娘，吻到她怀疑鬼生 Ding! I awakened a Ghost Qi System in another world. After successfully forcing a hundred kisses on female ghosts, my Ghost Qi surged by 100 points, and my Nine Suns Divine Skill shot up to Level 99. I chose to pursue the Dao through martial arts, whose levels have no limit, and sweep aside every obstacle with invincible might. But ideals are lofty while reality is harsh. I’d barely transmigrated when a Shoulder-Groping Ghost latched onto me, leaving me on the brink of death! Luckily, my ghost b 1Reads—Score—Shelves
- 21 The Haunted Clinic: I Use My Snake Wife to Subdue a Hundred Ghosts 恐怖医馆：我以蛇妻镇百鬼 I grew up in a gloomy, ruined temple, where I unexpectedly met a white snake. When I turned eighteen, the white snake became the love of my life. For its sake, I also became a rising star in the underworld of occult practitioners... 413Reads6.6Score—Shelves
- 22 I Have a Fox Immortal Wife 我有一个狐仙老婆 As the old saying goes, when a fox comes asking for your hand, it’s either deeply in love or out to harm you. When Gu Ning was five, a white fox with magical powers tricked him into a wedding ceremony, making him take the heavenly tribulation in her place. To stay alive, Gu Ning opens a café that only operates after midnight and caters exclusively to wandering spirits... 2Reads6.1Score—Shelves
- 23 Fox Girl 狐娘 In the 1980s, our village was redeveloped, and my family's ancestral grave was dug up. The coffins they unearthed held no human remains, only foxes that bled… The author's previous three-million-character novel is complete. Give it a read while waiting for updates: The Difficult Love of a Ghostly Marriage Link: http://w.heiyan.com/book/62824 247Reads7.0Score—Shelves
- 24 On Our Wedding Night, the Goddess Took Off Her Painted Skin and I Froze 新婚当夜，女神脱下画皮，我麻了 [Urban fantasy + Invincible + Everyday life + Mythology + Mystery + From the start] A goddess married him, and Ye Haotian thought he had reached the pinnacle of life. But! On their wedding night, just as he was about to open the door, he saw his stunning wife removing the skin from her face and applying makeup. Was this... a painted-skin ghost?! “Ding! Host has discovered a painted-skin ghost. Choose your course of action!” “Run without a word and never get involved with the supernatural again. 959Reads5.5Score101Shelves
- 25 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
- 26 The Doctor of the Underworld, Chosen by Fate 天命冥医 Birth, aging, illness, and death are laws of heaven and earth, binding all living beings in the six realms of reincarnation, even the souls of the dead. When people fall ill, they can go to a hospital for treatment. But what happens when a soul gets sick or injured? I specialize in healing souls. Once you set foot on the path of a netherworld physician, you can never treat the living again. That is what makes my profession so unusual: I rarely interact with the living. In the eyes of ordinary pe 2Reads—Score—Shelves
- 27 I'm a Professional Mage: Isn't Marrying a Demon Wife the Perfect Protection? 我职业法师：娶妖妻辟邪很正常吧 (One devoted male lead and one heroine + ensemble cast + passionate, funny, with a touch of angst) While other twenty-year-olds are partying and binge-watching shows, Shen Mobai is pretending to be a fortune-teller to scam people out of big money. He digs up a grave in the middle of the night for a 300,000-yuan ghost-marriage fee, only to wake the vengeful ghost buried inside! “Hey, lady! I was just following orders. I didn’t mean to dig up your grave!” “Take it up with the King of Hell.” “Help 16Reads—Score—Shelves
- 28 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 315Reads7.2Score—Shelves
- 29 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 436Reads7.3Score—Shelves
- 30 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... 2.4kReads8.3Score184Shelves
- 31 The Ghost Realm Descended, and I Made Contracts with Hundreds of Millions of Beautiful Female Ghosts 鬼界降临，我契约了亿万美女鬼灵 The seal on the Ghost Realm is on the verge of breaking, and tens of millions of evil ghosts are about to invade the human world. At this moment, humanity's ghost tamers are already sweating bullets... Ye Yi, an ordinary college student, unexpectedly awakens a Contract System that lets him form contracts with countless spirits. A petite, adorable vampire girl with silver hair and crimson eyes? A gentle, caring fox sister with animal ears and a bushy tail? Sorry, I want them all! Ye Yi builds an 113Reads7.0Score—Shelves
- 32 The Bride in the Red Coffin 红棺里的新娘 The first book: horror, terror, and the uncanny. The sequel: comedy and humor! Two stories: The Bride in the Red Coffin + its sequel, also known as My Ghost Wife Keeps Trying to Scare Me to Tears. When crimson ripples spread across the deep pool, I finally saw the bone comb in the hands of the bride in the sunken coffin. Carved into it were my birth details, even though I had been missing for three years. Xu Xiaomo was drawn home by tales of the Sunk 182Reads—Score—Shelves
- 33 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
- 34 School Beauty, Spare Me! I Become a Musclebound Beast and Smash Everything 校花求放过！我化身肌霸锤爆一切 [Decisive and ruthless] [Smash everything to bits] [Lighthearted] [Occasionally not human] [Straight to the dungeon] [Loves wiping out entire clans whenever he gets the chance] Ji Bai transmigrates into an era where monsters run rampant, eerie phenomena are everywhere, and demon slayers are rising to prominence. From the start, he is ambushed and abducted to a dark research institute to serve as an experimental subject, facing a human-demon transformation surgery with a death rate of over 99.999 —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 35 After Killing Me Hundreds of Times, the Red-Clad Female Ghost Fell in Love 杀我千百次后，红衣女鬼恋爱了 Lin Chen looked at the invitation to enter the terrifying world and opened the beginner’s gift pack given by the System without hesitation. [Congratulations! You have received ten quadrillion chances to die!] Lin Chen froze in shock! Looking at the red-clad female ghost smiling at him, Lin Chen couldn’t help asking, “You’ve already killed me 999 times. How about killing me once more to make it an even number?” In the Ghost Street Tavern, a burly man pointed at Lin Chen and roared, “I treated you 18Reads7.0Score—Shelves
- 36 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—Shelves
- 37 My Wife Is a Dragon Maiden 我的老婆是龙女 When my mother was giving birth to me, she had a difficult labor. In a dream, she found herself in the Dragon Palace, where a fairy handed her a cup of tea. She drank it without thinking, then miraculously survived. Little did she know, that was the tea a bride serves her mother-in-law at the wedding. And somehow, I ended up with a Dragon Princess for a wife... 597Reads8.9Score112Shelves
- 38 The Dragon Raises the Coffin 龙抬棺 There is an ancient stone stele in Qinglong Mountain. Its inscription reads: “The living must not enter; the dead must not be buried.” The local county records state that during the Hongwu era of the Great Ming, a coffin pulled by nine dragons descended from the heavens and landed on Qinglong Mountain. And I am the child of the person in that coffin. 408Reads9.0Score—Shelves
- 39 Mo Chi Y 墨池Y The inspiration for this novel came from a real supernatural incident involving a residential compound security guard. As cities expand, they inevitably encroach on the homes of the dead. The Dingyuan Estate, where Yao Yan worked as a security guard, had been built on a mass grave abandoned for a thousand years. One late-spring night, deep in the darkness, all was silent beneath a fine drizzle. Suddenly, a girl’s spine-chilling cry for help came from outside the guard booth: “It hurts so much. C 10Reads—Score—Shelves
- 40 White Terror 白色恐怖 [Wildly Imaginative Twists] + [Extensive Foreshadowing] + [Social Unrest] + [Mystery and the Supernatural] The campus, bustling by day, is eerily quiet at night... A group of girls playing with a spirit board in their dormitory happen upon the body of a woman who fell to her death. Rumors spread that a ghost is responsible. Then another girl is pushed down the stairs by an evil spirit in the teaching building! Panic grips the campus. Before long, a female teacher is killed by a ghost on camera a —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 41 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—Shelves
- 42 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... 3kReads8.4Score300Shelves
- 43 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 525Reads5.8Score101Shelves
- 44 Sleep Paralysis from the Start? I Confessed to the Female Ghost and Made Her My Wife! 开局鬼压床？表白女鬼当老婆！ What? Sleeping paralysis can’t be cured with medicine? Is there an easier way to treat it? Lin Cheng: There is, bro! There is! I’ll just kiss her and confess! Won’t the ghost girl explode? 22Reads6.9Score—Shelves
- 45 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
- 46 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.” 29Reads8.5Score—Shelves
- 47 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 43Reads—Score—Shelves
- 48 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
- 49 Raising a Fox Brings Disaster 养狐为祸 He went hunting in the mountains and found a white fox, which he brought home. That night, he met a breathtakingly beautiful woman… She was gorgeous and gentle, and said she wanted to marry him and bear his children. He thought it was a stroke of luck, but then came corpse poison, grinning dolls, and women in red, one after another!! 119Reads6.6Score—Shelves
- 50 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 43Reads8.2Score—Shelves
