Novels like The Dragon-Locking Well and the Snake Immortal in the Painting
Books Chinese readers most often put in the same booklists as The Dragon-Locking Well and the Snake Immortal in the Painting, best match first.
- 51 Love of the Serpent 蛇恋 One devoted couple, in a past life and this one. He waited a thousand years to be reincarnated, all so he could meet me again. The first day of the Lunar New Year is my eighteenth birthday. This year, it was unlike any other. I dreamed of a white snake as tall as a three-story building, with wings growing from its back. It asked me, “Would you be willing to become my wife?” 22Reads—Score114d adds
- 52 The Yin Phoenix’s Calamity, the Dragon-Boned Wife 阴凤劫，龙骨妻 ◇Cold Snake God x Girl Forced to Take the Blame◇ My grandfather stole the Snake God’s dragon bones to keep me alive. Eighteen years later, the snake came to my door and demanded repayment, with interest. As a hundred snakes coil around me and red candles blaze, he bends close to my ear, his voice bewitching and cruel: “I’ll make you live in hell, my one and only captive pet. For all eternity, you’ll never be free.” He returned carrying a thousand years of hatred, yet found himself savoring the 20.7kReads8.9Score2k14d adds
- 53 The Serpent's Curse 蛇咒 When I was little, my grandfather once beat a snake to death... After that, strange things kept happening to our family. A fortune-teller said I wouldn't live to see twenty. To save me, my father made a pact with a snake spirit. On my eighteenth birthday, it left a snake curse on my wrist. Ever since then, every night I dream of a giant golden python, its jaws gaping wide, its tongue flicking as it bares its fangs. It tells me I belong to it, and that in this life, the next, and every life after 2.5kReads—Score—14d adds
- 54 The Flood Dragon’s Beloved 蛟宠 On the night of the full moon, I wore a red paper dress and black paper shoes, and the Five Great Immortal Clans and countless ghosts all fought over me. It was because my nails grew backward, and I was born with a pair of ghost hands that attracted evil and brought harm to others. That night, everyone thought I would die, but I survived. A powerful man even proposed to me and gave me a Buddha’s Hand talisman to suppress my power. From then on, my left hand commanded ghosts to take lives, while 192Reads—Score—14d adds
- 55 The Serpent Lord Has Arrived: Master, Don’t Crave Me 蛇君驾到：爷，别馋我 This novel features the supernatural, an arrogant and calculating male lead, a devoted couple with no other partners, and emotional torment for both leads. I was born beneath a sky filled with rosy clouds, ablaze with every color, and blessed with auspicious signs. My grandmother was a shaman, so she read my fate and cast the divination. The result was astonishing: I was destined to become an empress. When I was seven, I fell seriously ill. A wise master advised that I form a bond with the Snake 204Reads6.8Score—14d adds
- 56 A Woman with an Ill-Fated Destiny Marries the Snake Lord 阴命女，嫁蛇君 I was born with bluish-purple skin, barely alive. My grandmother tossed me onto a mass grave like a piece of trash, but a black snake protected me, saving me from being eaten by wild animals. I was frail from birth, plagued by illness and misfortune. My grandfather, a Yin-Yang master, calculated that I was a girl with an ill-fated Yin destiny and an incomplete soul. Unless I found someone powerful to protect me, I wouldn’t survive. When I was six, I came down with a serious illness. My grandfath 233Reads6.4Score—14d adds
- 57 Republic-Era Mountain God: The Nine-Headed Serpent Lord 民国山神：九头蛇君 When I was born, a thousand snakes carried a coffin. Grandpa said the Snake God wanted a bride, and if we refused, both Mom and I would die. When I was five, a high fever left me able to see spirits. I often saw a snake with nine heads. He and I grew up together, and whenever I was in danger, he always came to my rescue. As an adult, I became a spirit medium. The mountain god’s temple was destroyed, my eldest brother was murdered, and my aunt, who had been dead for twenty-eight years, suddenly r 649Reads8.8Score10214d adds
- 58 Marry the Phoenix, You! Go Cook Me a Couple of Dishes 嫁凤，你，去给我炒两个菜 [The heroine is clever, neither a saint nor an idiot. The hero isn’t aloof or short-tempered. Lots of jokes, a mutually faithful couple, happy endings for everyone, causes revealed after effects, no substitute trope, a little angst for the hero but none for the heroine, with a touch of past and present lives.] Warnings: The heroine is a strong woman with a feminist outlook, and there are lots of jokes. The romance between the leads has little to do with their past and present lives, but those li 210Reads8.7Score—14d adds
- 59 Goddess Reborn, Snake Immortal Wife 神女转世，蛇仙妻 An early work, an experiment. A girl born under an ill-starred fate, destined to be a goddess, with two immortals, a snake and a fox, circling around her, while the Ghost King of Kunlun fights to protect her to the death. I was born with a snake-shaped tattoo. It brought me plenty of benefits, but also some unpleasant consequences. My parents never let me get too close to boys, but when I hit puberty, I still broke that rule. Ever since then, a man has appeared in my dreams every single night... 5Reads8.0Score314d adds
- 60 Snake Bones 蛇骨 My name is Shen Qingxiang. My great-grandfather once burned a nest of horned spirit snakes to death in the hills behind our village. The older generation all said they were about to survive a heavenly tribulation and transform into dragons. On the night I was born, snakes swarmed through the village. My grandfather went to the Spirit Snake Temple in the hills and knelt there for an entire day and night before my mother finally gave birth to me. I was born with a snake-shaped birthmark on my lef 69Reads—Score10114d adds
- 61 Walking the Yin Road, Led by a Snake Spirit 走阴路，蛇魂引 There’s a black snake locked in my basement. Whenever I got sick, the elders in my family would go whip it. Grandpa told me it was my stand-in for death. Later, Grandpa died a violent death, my family was ruined, and a man appeared before me. He grabbed me by the throat and forced me to repay my debt... 248Reads8.9Score—14d adds
- 62 Nine Serpents Carry the Coffin 九蛇抬棺 When I was born, my father cut off several snakes with a knife. Ever since then, I’ve often dreamed at night of a huge black snake coiling around me, squeezing the breath from my lungs as if it were taking revenge. On my eighteenth birthday, the villagers tied me up and sent me to the mountain behind the village… 86Reads7.1Score—14d adds
- 63 The Fox Demon's Allure 狐妖魅 Have you ever seen a baby born with a head of white hair? Tao Yuling, a white-haired girl abandoned by her parents, is always dreaming that someone is chasing her. Then one day, her grandmother suddenly dies, leaving behind a mysterious last message: “He’s here!” In the pouring rain, a fox demon approaches slowly. His thin lips part, his alluring eyes cold: “From now on, I can kill you whenever I feel like it!” Years later, Yuling is baffled. “I’ve made you angry so many times. Why haven’t you k 79Reads6.5Score414d adds
- 64 The Dragon King’s Most Yin Bride 龙王大人的至阴新娘 I was born with an extremely yin nature, and the village shaman found me in a graveyard. I was frail and sickly from childhood. To keep me safe, my grandmother, the shaman, made a blood pact with a fox spirit, but the pact backfired and left her gravely injured because of me. Just as I was at a loss for what to do, a man who could transform into a Azure Dragon appeared. He claimed we had been bound by fate for a long time, and he protected me from disaster, calling me his “little bride,” yet he 69Reads—Score—14d adds
- 65 The Proud Snake Lord Is Hard to Handle 傲娇蛇君不好惹 My name is Ming Yue. Ever since a classmate confessed their feelings for me, a snake has been clinging to me. He arrogantly declared that I belonged to him... His arrival shattered my peaceful life, and from then on, my world was turned upside down... Both leads are devoted only to each other. A super-sweet story with no angst. 82Reads8.2Score—14d adds
- 66 The Snake Bridegroom 蛇婿 I was cut from the belly of a corpse, a child born of the dead, a jinx everyone despised. Misfortune followed me from childhood, yet Grandma said I had a noble destiny and limitless prospects. Then I was kidnapped and taken into the mountains, where a golden serpent coiled around me. From that moment on, strange events never stopped, and I began to challenge fate itself… 91Reads8.6Score—14d adds
- 67 I Mistook My Blind Date and Ended Up Marrying a Snake 相亲认错人，我闪婚了一条蛇 Eighteen years ago, the villagers tore down the archway carved with a giant snake for money and burned the coffin beneath it. Afterward, a snake calamity struck the village. My grandfather threw newborn me into the snake-burning pit, saving the whole village from disaster. The summer I turned eighteen, the village party secretary tricked me into coming back. Because another snake calamity had struck the village. The party secretary said that throwing me into the snake-burning pit once more would 155Reads7.0Score—14d adds
- 68 A Dragon’s Life with You 龙生有你 The snake immortal insists on becoming my patron immortal and wants me to love him deeply, but in my dreams, fragments of a strange memory keep resurfacing. It seems closely tied to both his origins and mine, where love intertwines with mystery… 102Reads—Score—14d adds
- 69 I Am a Young Master of the Tang Dynasty 我乃大唐公子 A remote ancient town seals away a thousand-year-old ghost. When I set foot in this land, the seal breaks, and a tragic love spanning a thousand years begins. “Hello, young master.” “Goodbye, young master.” 156Reads8.2Score10414d adds
- 70 The Dragon King's Fated Wife 命中注定龙王妻 I’ve suffered from a strange illness since childhood. Dark patches spread across my body, and I grew increasingly frail. We went to the hospital countless times, but no one could cure me. With no other options, my mother turned to superstition and took me to a so-called spirit medium. The medium told her my illness was caused by the “Dragon King’s Curse”! With a basin of chicken’s blood and a stick of incense, the medium sent me to the “Dragon King’s Palace in the Eastern Sea.” She said there mi 80Reads6.2Score—14d adds
- 71 The Underworld King’s Marriage Pact 冥王婚契 He took her home and raised her, doting on her all the while. As she grew up, he gradually fell for her. In her previous life, she saved his life with the blood from her heart. But on their wedding night, she died in his arms. Afterward, he used the blood from his own heart to sustain her body for thirty thousand years. Once he had made all the arrangements, he went to the mortal world and peacefully stayed by her side until the end of her life. This time, she truly forgot him. - The earlie 3.6kReads8.4Score27414d adds
- 72 A Fated Bond from a Past Life: Lord Yan's Sweet Little Wife Is Soft and Fragrant 前世宿缘，阎爷的小娇妻又香又软 A touch of the supernatural, true love, sweet romance, one-on-one. The male lead is the King of Hell, and the female lead's identity is a secret. Nangong Liuli accidentally had her three life-kindling flames extinguished by her best friend. The next day, as expected, she started seeing ghosts. Her grandfather, a member of the Taoist Association, gave her a dragon-patterned jade pendant, and then she began dreaming of a mysterious man. She couldn't make out his face, but she heard his domineering 38Reads6.5Score—14d adds
- 73 The Spirit Snake Pact 灵蛇契约 [Both leads are each other's first, sweet romance, one-on-one, secret identities, revenge, happy ending] Grandpa once did a snake a kindness, and in return, the snake became the Snake Immortal enshrined by my family. To evade his enemies, Grandpa used me as a bargaining chip and forced me to sign a contract selling myself to the Snake Immortal. I thought this was the beginning of a nightmare, but it turned out to be the first step toward a new life. And so my fate became bound to his. He took me 25Reads6.8Score414d adds
- 74 Fox Bone 狐骨 My name is Gu Yu. The day I was born, red rain fell from the sky, and every fox on the mountain behind our village howled through the night. Every household in the village kept its doors tightly shut. Liu the Blind, the village fortune-teller, told my grandmother that from the moment I was born, I had taken the fox immortal’s bewitching bones. Ten thousand foxes had bowed before me. I was born with an alluring nature, and he told my grandmother to strangle me. On my twentieth birthday, the fox p 350Reads6.5Score—14d adds
- 75 The Spirit-Boned Snake Immortal 灵骨蛇仙 [Domineering, ruthless Snake-Bone Immortal x unlucky, resilient, clever young bride] (Mystery + supernatural deduction + doting romance + sweet and angsty moments + little demon-hunting adventures + more or less a marriage-first, love-later story) I was born in an ancient village steeped in mysterious legends. In a cave there lay a huge coiled snake skeleton, worshipped like a god by the people after a century of offerings. When I was barely a teenager, my greedy father sold me to the Snake-Bone 54Reads6.4Score—14d adds
- 76 Easy There, My Lord of the Underworld 轻点宠，我的冥王大人 [Fateful cycles + Devoted couple + Proud, stubborn King of the Underworld + Funny yet earnest college student + The heroine was actually a fickle flirt in her past life, falling for everyone she met, not just the hero] Born a yin maiden, destined to become the King of the Underworld’s wife. He said my fate was yin, and I could only marry him. Otherwise, I wouldn’t live past twenty-eight. I said I didn’t believe in fate. He replied, “Then find out for yourself.” I did. I nearly died in his wo 21Reads—Score—14d adds
- 77 I Was Abducted to the World of Little Dragon, but I Still Have to Live Well 我被掳到小龙人世界也要好好生活 One True Pairing × Transmigration × Sweet Romance Bad news: Lin Wen wakes up to find the world has ended, and she’s been kidnapped by a monster! Good news: The monster has brought her to another world and wants her as his wife, not his food. At least she won’t starve to death now. 15Reads—Score—14d adds
- 78 The Dragon's Wife Is Hard to Handle 蛟夫难缠 [First-person paranormal | Flood Dragon husband | Horror | Cathartic comedy] My name is Shen Yuezhao. I was born a freak after my mother emerged from the Dragon-Locking Well. I was born with an ill-fated yin destiny, and a single talisman kept me alive until I was fourteen. When I was eighteen, an incredibly handsome man came looking for me. His moods were unpredictable, yet he was utterly devoted to me. He kept me on the brink of death while giving me everything he had... In a dream, I saw him 1Reads—Score—14d adds
- 79 Wielding the Imperial Seal to Subdue Ghosts and Monsters 执帝印，镇鬼妖 PS: Past and present lives + crime solving + ghost hunting and demon slaying + devoted romance + coming-of-age I was born into the royal family, the youngest legitimate princess of the Liang emperor. A once-in-a-thousand-years South Sea pearl was discovered in the royal pearl beds just as I was born, so Father bestowed upon me the name Baozhu, meaning “precious pearl.” But I was unlike ordinary people. From birth, I could see things no one else could. The palace maids who served me said it was c 82Reads—Score—14d adds
- 80 Feng Qiukui 凤秋葵 Grandmother had been gone for days and still hadn't come home. When she went into the village to look for her, a crowd of vicious villagers threw her into the river as an offering. Days later, the villagers rescued her. Along with her, they pulled out the body of a man dressed in a wedding robe... The Feng family has a daughter in every generation who can communicate with the dead. The living keep their distance; the dead come to meet her. 26Reads8.6Score—14d adds
- 81 The Eerie Groom 诡异新郎官 My family kept a fox immortal spirit on its altar. Then one day, I received a gift from my grandfather, and finally succeeded in summoning a fox spirit to be my husband! A thousand years of karma, one servant and one master. As long as you're here, I will follow you forever. 57Reads—Score—14d adds
- 82 I Crawled Out of a Mass Grave: The Snake King Claims Me as His Egg-Brooding Wife 乱葬岗爬出：蛇王锁我当孵蛋妻 [Revenge and trash-taking-down + commanding ten thousand snakes + nonhuman husband] The night I was reborn in the mass grave, ten thousand snakes carried me to their king. His golden eyes ensnared my soul, and his serpent tail coiled around my waist. “Be my wife, and I’ll spare your life.” For ten years in the snake pit, I was nothing but his incubator. Until the day I... Led ten thousand snakes out of the abyss. My own father knelt and pleaded, “Daughter, save the Lin family!” I smiled, strokin 59Reads—Score—14d adds
- 83 Absolutely No Abandoning the Little Snake! 绝对不能弃养小蛇！ [Nonhuman love interest, light one-on-one sweet romance, no rivalry between women, beloved by all, snake demon x Daoist priest, happy ending] [An emotionally dense Daoist who plays the pig to eat the tiger, and a shameless little green-tea snake who wins himself over] Though Wen Xiu is the daughter of a family of Daoist practitioners, she possesses a Qi-less constitution that appears once in ten thousand years. She was born carefree and thick-skinned, and her boyfriend of two years is at his w 78Reads8.1Score10014d adds
- 84 A Ghostly Marriage 冥媒正娶 I was born under an extremely yin fate, a star of calamity destined to live and die alone. When I was sixteen, I had a nightmare that changed my life. In the dream, a headless female corpse came for my life. Its crimson, pointed fingernail slashed across my neck, and I woke with a sharp sting at four in the morning. After that, a red mark resembling a birthmark mysteriously appeared on my neck. Then, on the night of my nineteenth birthday, a man whose face I couldn't make out took that mark from 55Reads—Score—14d adds
- 85 The Snake's Allure 蛇媚我心 When I was born, I had a tail. It scared the midwife out of her mind, and she told everyone that I must have committed countless heinous sins in my past life and was now suffering the consequences! An old monk passing by took pity on me and gave me a snake-shaped jade pendant. He said it would let me live like a normal child until I turned eighteen. Less than a month after I put it on, my tail fell off on its own, leaving behind only a tiny mark. After my eighteenth birthday, I should have quiet 99Reads—Score—14d adds
- 86 The Snake King's Wedding: One Mountain Ghost Coin, a Lifetime of Security 蛇王婚：一枚山鬼钱，聘我万周全 The fortune says I’m blessed by good luck and destined for romance, and that one day I’ll marry the Snake King. But I’ve always believed my origins were anything but auspicious. Twenty years ago, on the night my father gave birth to my younger sister and me, a blood moon hung high in the sky and dark forces stirred across the land. My father died in a difficult labor… Then, twenty years later, my grandfather’s corpse inexplicably rose, and several “mountain ghost coins” passed down through our f 10Reads—Score—14d adds
- 87 The Snake Bride's Rite on the Fifteenth of July 七月十五，蛇妻礼 I was frail and sickly as a child. A fortune-teller predicted I wouldn’t live past twenty. My childhood friend couldn’t bear to see me quit school and stay home, so she gave me her family’s heirloom jade snake necklace... She died on her way home. The jade snake she gave me came to life and coiled around me. Before I could uncover the truth behind my friend’s death, one strange event after another began to unfold. 5Reads—Score—14d adds
- 88 Marry a Snake? No Way, I Can’t Handle That! 嫁蛇？不行，我遭不住！ “A black coffin for the bride, two families bound by a pact. When the auspicious day arrives, a thousand ghosts will carry the coffin.” After my mother gave birth to me, she was swept away by a flood. Everyone saw me as an ill omen. I grew up sleeping in a coffin. Then, when I turned eighteen, I began having shamefully vivid dreams. Later, the man in black from my dreams really appeared. He said that long ago, my Bai ancestors had dug out his snake gall, and now he would make me repay the debt. 223Reads—Score—14d adds
- 89 The Ghostly Husband Has Arrived, and My Sinister Hubby Kissed My Lips Swollen 诡夫来临，阴老公把我嘴都亲肿了 My name is Chen Anyi. I’m 24 years old, and I’ve had a hard life. But after I met an ancient man, my life changed beyond recognition. Read the main story to find out more. 4Reads6.5Score—14d adds
- 90 The Snake Clan's High Priestess Pummels Her Ex-Husband into the Ground 蛇族大祭司把前夫按在地上锤 The Serpent Clan High Priestess Pins Her Ex-Husband Down and Beats Him to a Pulp 4Reads—Score—14d adds
- 91 Little Brother Yama! Please, I'm Begging You! 阎王小哥哥！求求你了！ [An innocent, timid girl who hides her talents meets a scheming, lovesick King of Hell] [A push and pull between sweetness and heartbreak | The King of Hell’s obsessive mortal fixation] The day her uncle-in-law passed away, Song Ci’s world completely fell apart. The words lodged in her throat became a torment she could never escape. When she returned from the funeral and saw her aunt’s haggard face, her heart went hollow. It was then that she quietly entered into a pact with the Underworld. —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 92 My Fierce Ghost Husband 猛鬼夫君 A mistake my grandfather made forty years ago brought a thousand-year-old zombie after me! Even now, I can’t believe I actually slept with the old zombie! His hand roamed over my lower belly, his fingernails extending a full inch! “Song Yao, I want the child’s heart.” When I threw caution to the wind, I never imagined that everything he did was to awaken the woman who had slept beside him for a thousand years! As I gradually develop the traits of a third kind, could it be that the beginning of t 7Reads6.2Score—14d adds
- 93 Transmigrating, I Can't Resist the Sweet Talk of the Imprisoning Dragon 穿越之抵不过囚龙的甜言蜜语 [One-on-one, both leads are pure. The nineteen-year-old female lead lives on a high-tech planet. For a generous reward, she volunteers as a test subject. Her transmigration brings her to him, where the redemption of love is worth more than every victory in his past. Her arrival is his good fortune.] Hey, you broke loser, I'm warning you: don't sleep too close to me tonight! Lingling, do you really mean that? Don't you remember how you frolic in my warm embrace every night? That night, a shameles 6Reads—Score114d adds
- 94 My Husband Is a Monster 夫君是个妖怪 [Fantasy] [Wild Imagination] [Overpowered Protagonist] [Human-Demon Duo] [Pure Romance] [Farming] An unusual fantasy farming story. Yao Qing, a woman transmigrated from modern society, is forced by the villagers to become the wife of a river demon. From that day on, everything becomes strange. It turns out this world is full of demons. How can an ordinary human like her coexist with demons? Then one day, she realizes she is no longer ordinary. 17Reads—Score114d adds
- 95 My Senior Brother Is the Ancient Dragon Lord 上古龙君我师兄 I’m the best in the world "Tengjiao" Xi Beibei × My junior sister is always right "Azure Dragon" Ao Cang First came her senior brother, Lord of the Northern Darkness; then her master, Supreme High God. Xi Beibei, doted on by everyone, once lived as she pleased. Then, somehow, everything suddenly changed. Her master stripped her of her divine status. Her senior brother sealed her away for fifty thousand years. The Human Emperor drew near with ult 4Reads—Score—14d adds
- 96 The Snake-Eyed Girl with a Dark Fate 蛇瞳阴命女 [Mysticism + marriage before love + groveling pursuit + sweet romance + lighthearted comedy] My name is Xu Yao. When I was six, my father beat a giant black python to death. From that day on, disaster struck, and my family was destroyed. I lost sight in one eye as a result. My grandmother prayed to the gods for me through the night, then sent me to Qingfeng Temple on Jinding Peak. She said the temple could protect me as I grew up, and gave me a silver bracelet, warning me never to take it off, n 361Reads—Score10014d adds
- 97 The Snake Bride 蛇娶妻 [Supernatural + Devoted Husband + Pure Romance + Sweet Love + Wild Imagination] She was betrothed to the Snake King at birth, branded as his snake bride. Before she turned twenty-four, the Snake King would force her to marry him. Her grandfather said the Shen family owed the Snake King a debt, and that only marrying him could save her life... 1.5kReads9.1Score14414d adds
- 98 The Snake Immortal in Chains 锁蛇仙 When I was five, I accidentally awakened the Snake Immortal that my family had imprisoned for a thousand years. My family said I was cursed, that the Snake Immortal would take revenge on me and bring misfortune to the whole clan. But I had never even seen the Snake Immortal, and I had never brought any disaster upon my family. Before Grandma died, she gave me our family's heirloom bracelet. Strange things began happening soon after: my cousin suddenly went mad, Grandma's body vanished, and a hug 430Reads9.0Score10114d adds
- 99 The White Dragon Takes a Wife, the Blind Girl Walks by Night 白龙娶妻，盲女夜行 [A quirky, mystical young woman vs. a scheming, black-hearted White Dragon of the East Sea] Ghost hunting and fortune-telling | Supernatural | Suspense | Twists | Fresh premise | Happy ending People said my birth was an ill omen. I couldn't see during the day, but at night I could see things ordinary people couldn't. So when I was three, I left home to live in a temple. Fifteen years later, my family brought me back, and the first thing they told me was that they were going to marry me off. That 39Reads8.5Score—14d adds
- 100 The Snake King's Beloved Wife: The Hilarious Little Queen 蛇王宠妻：爆笑小王后 Her name was Su Beibei, and it already sounded like she was destined for bad luck. Sure enough, her life was just as unlucky as her name! Good grief, all she did was enjoy the exhilaration of flying downhill at full speed from a snowy mountaintop. Did she really have to fly all the way into some ancient kingdom from an unknown era? “Ah! Help!” Su Beibei screamed as she fell. 203Reads7.1Score—14d adds
