Novels like The Beautiful Ghost Wife
Books Chinese readers most often put in the same booklists as The Beautiful Ghost Wife, best match first.
- 101 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
- 102 The Drought Demon's Bone 旱魃骨 My name is Yin Jian. I crawled out of my mother’s corpse three days after she died. I was born bearing the bones of Hanba, foremost among evil bones... Where Hanba appears, a thousand miles of land turn barren... But this barren land isn’t dry earth. It’s a blood-soaked wasteland... I inherited the legacy of the Shenxiao Sect, becoming its last disciple and the final disciple of the sect... 466Reads7.0Score—Shelves
- 103 The Haunted Son of Heaven 诡天子 I can hear the dead speak and tell yin from yang. A serious illness in childhood gave me the ability to hear the last words of the dead and see the shackles on the living! My name is Zhao Changsheng. I was born among piles of corpses, and my life is fated to be bound to death. I won’t live past eighteen. To keep me alive, my adoptive father revealed the secrets of fate before he died, divining thirteen corpses that could defy heaven and change destiny… 215Reads6.6Score—Shelves
- 104 The Crimson Flower Cup 血色花盏 Blood-Red Flower Cup —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 105 The Night Shift Clerk's Countdown 《夜班店员的倒计时》 The Night-Shift Clerk's Countdown 4Reads—Score—Shelves
- 106 The Clammy Echoes of the Basement 地下室的黏腻回响 The Sticky Echoes of the Basement 1Reads—Score—Shelves
- 107 Lucid Darkness 清醒的黑暗 Clear-Eyed Darkness 2Reads—Score—Shelves
- 108 Night Shift Security Guard Wanted: Must Be Able to Find the Extra Building That Appears at Dawn 招聘夜班保安，要求能找到凌晨多出的那栋楼 Night-shift security guard wanted. Must be able to find the extra building that appears at midnight. 2Reads—Score—Shelves
- 109 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... 41Reads6.5Score—Shelves
- 110 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
- 111 Dr. Forensic Investigator, a Ghost Is Looking for You 法医先生，有鬼找你 Shen Zhiyue died. At nineteen, she was a key player on the provincial badminton team and had just secured a spot in an overseas tournament. Then she was poisoned. The day her body arrived at the forensic center, Lin Che lifted the white sheet, took one look, and knew this wasn't an illness. Arsenic. Thallium. After completing the autopsy, he heard someone crying outside the morgue at four in the morning. It wasn't a family member. It was the deceased herself. Shen Zhiyue hadn't moved on. She 9Reads—Score101Shelves
- 112 The Hospital's Unsolved Loop 医院的循环未解之谜 The Unsolved Mystery of the Hospital's Endless Loop 1Reads—Score—Shelves
- 113 A Collection of Folk Supernatural Tales, Part One 民间灵异事件合集（上） Collection of Strange Supernatural Tales from the Countryside, Part One 3Reads—Score—Shelves
- 114 You Expect a High Schooler Like Me to Marry a Thousand-Year-Old Female Ghost? 你让我一个高中生娶千年女鬼？ The white cat my classmate casually picked up during evening study turned out to be a Huang Xian spirit that had cultivated its way to enlightenment. After I so much as glanced at it, it wanted to take my internal organs. To stay alive, I had no choice but to enter a ghost marriage and wed a ghost bride... 22Reads—Score—Shelves
- 115 My Husband Sacrificed Me to a Freezer, Saying It Was the Night-Shift Rule 丈夫把我献祭给冰柜，说这是夜班规则 My Husband Sacrificed Me to the Freezer, Saying It Was the Night Shift Rules 3Reads—Score—Shelves
- 116 I Was Putting Makeup on an Unknown Female Corpse When She Revealed the Cause of My Sister's Death 我给无名女尸化妆，她却说出我妹妹的死因 I Put Makeup on an Unidentified Woman's Corpse, and She Told Me How My Sister Died 4Reads—Score—Shelves
- 117 Welcome to the Nightmare Livestream!!! 欢迎来到噩梦直播间！！！ My new work is out! Everyone is welcome to read it on Tomato Novel. I hope you enjoy it. Your support is what motivates me to write, and I'll do my best to tell every story well! 3Reads—Score—Shelves
- 118 My Mom Suddenly Became a Different Person 我妈突然变了个人 My Mom Suddenly Became a Different Person —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 119 Demon Wife, Ghost Concubine 妖妻鬼妾 [Third-Person Narration | Traditional Supernatural | Taoist Arts | Spirit Mediums] My name is Zuo Li. I was different from the moment I was born, carrying the fate of a ghost. To make sure I could grow up safely, my grandfather had me live off two women at once. As it turned out, I could only stay alive by living off women... 259Reads6.9Score—Shelves
- 120 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
- 121 I’m Going to Lure 100 Lost Souls 我要勾满100个亡魂 Sequel to I Guide Souls at Wangxiang Terrace Lin Jiaojiao, 24, an overworked office worker, suddenly dies on the Nth night in a row of staying up all night revising proposals. When she opens her eyes again, she has already completed every step of the underworld’s procedures. But just as she reaches Wangxiang Terrace, the guide Zhou Yi stops her. “Your attachment remains unresolved. You can’t be reincarnated.” Judge Li Muzi offers her a way forward: work as a soul reaper under him, and she can be 9.7kReads—Score3kShelves
- 122 The Immortal Hall Beyond the Pass: A Yin-Yang Master Guards Changbai Mountain 关外仙堂：阴阳先生守长白 Have you ever witnessed a weasel asking to be granted a title? What causes people to get trapped in a ghostly maze while walking mountain trails, or suffer from strange ailments that leave them feeling awful but can’t be diagnosed at a hospital? Trained in ancient shamanic arts, versed in the theories of yin-yang masters, and accompanied by an immortal serpent cultivating beneath the streams of Changbai Mountain, become a spirit medium who roams the White Mountains. The rules of Northeast China’ 14Reads—Score—Shelves
- 123 My Cute and Fierce Undead Bride Protects Me as She Slaughters Her Way Through! 我的女尸老婆萌凶甜，护我杀疯！ [A Taoist priest becomes a demon king, protected by his corpse bride][Ghost hunting, traditional supernatural fiction] [By the command of the heavens, I’ll take your life!][Strange tales from the folk tradition] I slept in a pigsty and drank sow’s milk. Later, I shared a bed with a female corpse. After our wedding ceremony, she awoke. I rely on her to keep me alive, while she relies on me to grow stronger. Our fates are intertwined. My fate is unusual. An old man’s guidance helped me survive, an 1.7kReads7.6Score126Shelves
- 124 The Enchantress Is Alluring, and the Ghost Girl Knows How to Flirt 妖女很妩媚，女鬼太会撩 It's not that a wife is too expensive to marry. It's that female ghosts and demons offer better value. No house, no car required. And they'll even help you make a comeback! It's not that my Daoist heart is unsteady. It's just that demonesses are bewitching, and female ghosts know exactly how to flirt. My name is Chen Zhou. I'm a highly educated shut-in. My main job is gone, and my side hustle is matchmaking. It all began when I helped my beautiful landlady rent out a building that was warm in wi 1.2kReads8.5Score119Shelves
- 125 Horror: From the Start, I Married a Demon God 恐怖：开局娶个魔神当老婆 [Horror Revival + Transmigration + System + No Saintly Heroics + Monster-Slaying and Leveling Up + the Myriad Worlds] Zhang Ling transmigrated to a world where horror had returned and became a doctor at a small clinic. Every night, monsters came to his door seeking treatment. After a friendly chat with them, he slaughtered every last one. To grow stronger, Zhang Ling became a monster-slaying fiend. “Doctor, don't take my kidney! Ah! Why are you taking my heart too?” Watching the monsters tremble 299Reads8.9Score102Shelves
- 126 The Bride from the Underworld 来自阴间的新娘 On the night my neighbor got married, the bride died because of me… 1.2kReads6.8Score106Shelves
- 127 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—Shelves
- 128 My Wife Is Actually a Zombie 我的老婆竟是僵尸 The legends speak of eight kinds of Jiangshi: Purple Jiangshi: slow-moving, wreathed in purple energy. White Jiangshi: entirely white, afraid of light and fire. Green Jiangshi: unafraid of livestock, but afraid of sunlight. Hairy Jiangshi: covered in hair, unafraid of sunlight. Flying Jiangshi: skilled in magic, able to fly through the sky and burrow underground. Wandering Corpse: travels between the worlds of yin and yang, gathering the resentment of heaven and earth. Buried Corpse: imperishabl 48Reads—Score—Shelves
- 129 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
- 130 Midnight Terror: Tales of the Supernatural 午夜惊魂：民间鬼事录 [Folk Taboos + Rural Ghost Stories + Episodic Tales + Chilling on Second Thought] The village elders say that some things are better believed than dismissed. Liu Er, a bachelor, picked up a red wedding dress. That very night, he heard the sound of a suona, and a faceless bride knocked on his door and said, “Liu Er, I’ve come to marry you.” Before a dead person is buried, the guiding candle at the head of the coffin must never go out. Old Liu Guang died, the candle went out, and a crack appeared 4kReads—Score174Shelves
- 131 A Life Borrowed from the Yin Realm 借阴命 To keep me alive, my grandfather borrowed someone else’s life for me. Years later, that person’s descendants came seeking revenge... 190Reads7.2Score—Shelves
- 132 Soul Collection, Volume Two 集魂录二 A pair of golden eyes, a whip, and a book. Bearing a new mission, Yao Yinsheng sets out to find a secret realm, a place that inspires longing yet no one has ever explored. The Soul-Gathering Record has returned to her hands, more mysterious than ever. Greater challenges and darker sides of human nature begin to emerge. Where, exactly, does hell lie? 24Reads—Score—Shelves
- 133 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 920Reads8.5Score268Shelves
- 134 The Year I Was Born, Ghosts Came Looking for a Groom 我出生那年，鬼招婿 The year I was born, ghosts came seeking a bride. To stay alive, I slept in a haunted coffin. When I was twelve, I was forced to marry a ghost bride, bringing disaster upon us all. My grandfather had me take an unclaimed grave as my master. I thought things would finally be peaceful from then on. But the good times didn't last. I discovered by chance that my ghost wife had been by my side all along... 12.1kReads8.2Score1.1kShelves
- 135 Case Files of Unusual Investigations 异案调查录 Throughout the vast world, from ancient times to the present, there have always been mysterious events that humans cannot explain. And there is a group of people who endure countless hardships in their pursuit of the truth. The cases they investigate are all considered paranormal… 522Reads7.4Score—Shelves
- 136 Underworld Gambling Tiles, Thirteen Orphans: Win a Fox Spirit Wife 冥赌牌，十三幺，赢个狐妖当老婆 [The rating just came in!] [Lighthearted Comedy] [Feng Shui and Folk Customs] [Invoking the Gods] [Cultivating as a Taoist Master] Chen Yao runs a shop called Hall of the Immortals, where all kinds of gods are worshipped! Because he promised his grandfather on his deathbed to hold back, Chen Yao can't show what he can really do, leaving him dead broke. To make ends meet, Chen Yao and his best friend Yang Wei join what seems like an ordinary mahjong game. Once they sit down, Chen Yao realizes the 280Reads7.4Score112Shelves
- 137 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 214Reads8.8Score—Shelves
- 138 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
- 139 The Yin-Yang Master of the Living World 阳间阴阳先生 I was an ordinary first-year college student. Then one incident gave me a whole new understanding of the world. From that day onward, I walked between the realms of yin and yang. 3.6kReads—Score110Shelves
- 140 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
- 141 Red Lanterns Beneath the Pagoda Tree 槐阴下的红灯笼 Red Lanterns Beneath the Pagoda Trees 1Reads—Score—Shelves
- 142 Reading Yin Fate: The Female Ghost Is So Gorgeous, I Can't Help Myself 算阴命：女鬼太正，真的忍不住啊 Lin Qishan stayed up past midnight and brought a ghost home. She was a beautiful female ghost, too. As the saying goes, if you’re bold enough, even a female ghost will take maternity leave. After all, the law doesn’t protect female ghosts. The female ghost bit her lip, eyes burning with shame and anger. She didn’t dare make a sound and could only endure it in silence. After experiencing how wonderful the female ghost was, Lin Qishan finally let himself go... —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 143 With the Book of Life and Death in Hand, the King of Hell Makes Me a Judge 手拿生死簿，阎王让我当判官 Two names lie before Zhao Ming: Zhang Min and Wang Fuqiang. One of them will die in seven days! Who dies is up to Zhao Ming! Zhao Ming has inherited Old Man Leng’s legacy: a Judge’s Brush, a Book of Life and Death, and a volume called The Judge’s Notes. He has become a Judge personally appointed by the King of Hell. In the world of the living, he passes judgment on people’s fates on the King of Hell’s behalf! A correct judgment earns him an extra month of life. A wrong one costs him a year. Befo —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 144 I Burned the Wrong Incense and Worshipped the Wrong Spirit, and Now a Powerful Female Ghost Won’t Leave Me Alone 烧错香，供错魂，女鬼大佬赖上门 “Everyone else transmigrates and gets a golden finger that goes ding, ding, ding. I transmigrated, and a female ghost has me screaming my head off!” Lin Mo was one of the countless people who had transmigrated. Aside from a paper effigy shop his grandfather left him, he had no golden finger at all. Pressed by the need to make a living, he went to burn paper offerings at someone's grave on the Ghost Festival, but through a twist of fate, he paid his respects at the wrong grave and disturbed a pow 5.4kReads7.5Score530Shelves
- 145 You Were Supposed to Stream Ghost Hunting, So Why Are You Dating Her? 让你直播抓鬼，你跟她谈恋爱？ (Supernatural livestream + romantic comedy + a female ghost who throws herself at him + no blades, no angst) Su Li gets bound to a terrible System: he can only grow stronger by livestreaming ghost hunts! Other streamers sell products, while he sells talismans. Other streamers get paid in money, while his tips cost lives! For his first mission, he barges into a supposedly haunted school, planning to put on a half-hearted livestream and collect the rewards. Instead, he meets her. Bai Tan, the most 1.6kReads7.8Score227Shelves
- 146 The Yin-Yang Ghost Master 阴阳鬼师 The young Maoshan Celestial Master Zhao Ziyang ventures into the city. Half a bowl of clear water reveals the workings of heaven and earth; one spirit talisman commands ghosts and gods. He walks the Eight Trigrams steps of Maoshan and wields a divine sword to slay evil spirits. From the underworld’s ghostly canals and the six-eyed evil child to the great demon of Black Mountain and the thousand-year-old Blood Corpse King, he takes them all on along the way. There is a female lead. Pure supernatu 24.2kReads6.3Score2kShelves
- 147 The Ghost-Catching Taoist Master 捉鬼天师 To build a road, the village assigned me and a few others to demolish a grave. Everyone died, but I survived. I’m the only one who knows why... 56Reads—Score—Shelves
- 148 One Chilling Story Every Night 每晚一个惊魂故事 [One story per chapter] [Chinese-style horror] [Folk tales] [Urban vengeful spirits] [Haunted houses] [No main plot] Collected and adapted fictional tales of terror from all over, one story per chapter, each one different. No grand lectures, just bone-chilling tales rooted in everyday life. All adapted from strange folk tales passed down for years. They sound true, and the more you think about them, the more unsettling they get. Great for unwinding, but don't try to “unwind” alone in the dead of 1.1kReads—Score103Shelves
- 149 Chronicles of Strange Events 异事簿 When I was eight, I accidentally drowned. The village's mad Taoist came to my house and told my parents to give me a grand seven-day funeral with gongs and drums. After seven days, I would return to life. During the funeral, lightning flashed every day and the rain poured without stopping. Everyone in the village said it was a bad omen. On the seventh day, strange phenomena suddenly appeared in the sky. The mad Taoist returned to my house, told me to take the moon in the sky as my godmother, and 32Reads—Score—Shelves
- 150 You Hired Me at a Funeral Home, and I Brought My Wife 让你入职殡仪馆，你把媳妇带来了 I am Xu Ziye, born with a body that is “like Tang Monk’s flesh” to evil spirits: born in a yin year, yin month, and yin hour, with a pure-yin Water destiny. Grandpa said I wouldn’t live past the age of three. To keep my fate in check, he gave me the most yin name of all, “Ziye.” He even arranged an unbelievable “marriage” for me while I was still in swaddling clothes: a ghost marriage to someone in the underworld. Thanks to the protection of this “ghost wife,” I survived into adulthood. But no o 153Reads6.6Score—Shelves
