Novels like The Dragon-Locking Well and the Snake Immortal in the Painting
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- 101 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 71Reads6.8Score—14d adds
- 102 The Snake King’s Child 蛇王胎 142Reads7.0Score—14d adds
- 103 A Snake Immortal for a Husband, Subduing a Hundred Ghosts 蛇仙为夫，镇百鬼 Our village had an unwritten rule: girls born in the Year of the Snake with a purely yin fate were chosen as brides by the Snake Immortal. On the seventh day of the seventh lunar month in the Year of the Snake, they had to be married off at the Snake Immortal Temple on the back mountain. Otherwise, disaster would befall the entire village. My elder sister was born with the rare Yin Snake fate, unseen in a century. Ever since she was born, Grandma had warned her never to have contact with men. Sh 1.2kReads7.5Score17814d adds
- 104 A Fox-Born Daughter, the Snake King’s Wife 狐生女，蛇王妻 [First-Person Supernatural Fiction + Snake Husband + Marriage First, Love Later] Eighteen years ago, my father set a fire in the fields and accidentally burned a litter of fox cubs to death. On my parents’ wedding day, the cubs’ father came for revenge. It broke into the bridal chamber and violated my mother. Just six months later, I was born. I’m that fox’s daughter, and I’ve been fair-skinned and beautiful since childhood. When I turned eighteen, my body fully matured and began giving off a st 326Reads8.6Score—14d adds
- 105 A Snake Bride, a Ghostly Bridal Sedan 蛇娶妻，鬼抬棺 The year I was born, my mother died in childbirth, while my father and grandfather were killed when a swarm of snakes attacked them. When I turned eighteen, my protective talisman shattered. From that night on, I had a husband who came and went like a ghost. My grandmother looked grave as she told me this was the Su family’s retribution, and that I had to be loyal to Lord Jin or disaster would befall me! Ever since that night, Lord Jin has come to see me every evening. After a night of torment, 104Reads—Score—14d adds
- 106 An Epic Love Between a Man and a Snake 旷世蛇恋 When I was eighteen, my grandmother sacrificed her life to beg a huge white snake to heal my eyes. To bring her back to life, I made a pact with that snake. As fragments of my memories gradually come together, I discover that my bond with the great white snake is no coincidence. Grudges from a past life and unfinished love: everything has been guiding me toward the whirlpool of fate all along. 126Reads—Score—14d adds
- 107 Luring Her into Sweet Surrender: The CEO's Snake-Husband Bride 诱她沉欢，霸总蛇夫的冲喜新娘 He Huan encountered a spirit snake transforming into a dragon, and that very night, it wrapped itself around her. It took full advantage of her, then shamelessly claimed it was repaying a debt of gratitude. He Huan suffered in silence as the snake clung to her. After her fiancé cheated on her with her despicable stepsister, she married Long Tingye, the notorious playboy of the capital, in a fit of anger. She had heard that Long Tingye had accidentally fallen into the water three years ago and be 46Reads6.2Score—14d adds
- 108 Snake Calamity 蛇劫 The day I was born, two snakes, one female and one male, fell in unison from the eaves above our front door. My grandfather, who had spent his whole life catching snakes, actually dropped to his knees before them right then and there. Everyone was terrified by what my grandfather had done. I was three days old, yet I still wouldn’t eat or drink, cry or fuss. I just stared with my wide-open eyes. My family panicked, thinking I was possessed, and went out of their way to invite the village shaman 259Reads8.6Score10214d adds
- 109 The Snake's Seduction 蛇欲撩情 I went back to the countryside to move a grave, and ended up attracting a huge black snake. He went to great lengths to get close to me, following me from the countryside all the way to my company. “Shen Ning, you have to take responsibility for me,” he whispered softly in her ear. 1kReads7.7Score10414d adds
- 110 My Fox Immortal 我的狐仙大人 I was frail and sickly from childhood. When I was three, someone put a white jade bangle on my wrist. The fortune-teller at the village entrance said that the day it came off would be the day I died. On my twentieth birthday, my mother suddenly called me back to our hometown for some kind of coming-of-age ceremony. At midnight, paper money began drifting outside. A strange man gripped my wrist and said, “It’s time for you to repay your debt.” 572Reads8.8Score10414d adds
- 111 Snake Scales All Over the Bed 蛇鳞满床 (A heroine who grows over time + a villainous male lead + love and hate intertwined + not for naive readers + not a sweet romance + open ending + don't read if you don't like thinking things through + anyone who leaves a malicious rating without reading the blurb and setting will lose all their good luck!!!) The day I was born, my mother stepped on a black snake and killed it, and its snake spirit took revenge on her relentlessly. To save my life, my grandfather went to beg the Snake Immortal fo 204Reads8.3Score—14d adds
- 112 Pushed into the Snake Pit, I Became the Dragon Lord’s Bride 被推进蛇窟，我却成了龙君的新娘 My name is Zhou Yao, and I’m a woman. Before I was even born, people said I was cursed and destined to bring misfortune, all because one of my ancestors once misspoke and caused a river dragon to die. 80Reads7.1Score—14d adds
- 113 The Yin-Born Girl: The Dragon King's Little Wife 阴生女：龙王的小娇妻 I was born with an unusually yin nature, and I’ve had yin-yang eyes since childhood. I can see every demon and evil spirit in the world, and they’re always haunting me. My mother suffered a difficult labor when she gave birth to me. After three days and three nights, I still hadn’t been born. My grandmother was a fortune-telling medium, and she predicted that I was destined for wealth and would become the Dragon King’s wife. She said that the only way to save my life was to betroth me to the Dra 70Reads—Score—14d adds
- 114 The Yin Bride Brings Misfortune, So Marry the Dragon King 阴女不祥，请嫁龙王 When my mother was six months pregnant with me, she went to a fortune-teller to find out whether I was a boy or a girl. Instead, the fortune-teller gave her a bizarre answer: I was a cursed child carrying a thousand and eight death trials. There was no need to wait for me to be born. Once I reached six months in the womb, demons and monsters would flock to me, vengeful spirits would haunt me, and anyone who came into contact with me would die. That night, thunder roared and lightning flashed. Th 4Reads—Score—14d adds
- 115 Come One, Come All! The Dragon-Taming Bride Is Taking Students 快来人啊，驯龙小娘子开班啦 At first, Ye Liangyu thought: “I've heard Western dragons love to plunder beautiful women and treasures. Our own dragons surely aren't that vulgar, right? Hmm... yes!” “Who says I don't like those things?” Su Qing said with a knowing smile. Boom! Ye Liangyu's face turned red all the way to her ears. She stamped her foot in anger. “Boss Su! If you use your mind-reading powers on me again, I'm going on strike! Strike!” Later, standing in Su Qing's vast, smoke-like treasure vault, she had to admit 2Reads—Score—14d adds
- 116 The Serpent Mark Around Me 蛇印缠身 The Su family has an unwritten rule: for generations, they have worshipped the Snake Immortal. I was born with a snake-shaped birthmark, which everyone says was placed there by the Snake Immortal himself. He chose me to serve him. But I refused to believe in fate and fled the village. Still, he found me and came to collect his debt. “Su Li, didn’t your great-aunt tell you?” “Tell me what?” “When you turn eighteen, you’ll be my sacrifice!” I had no way to refuse, so I submitted to him. But this w 251Reads6.9Score—14d adds
- 117 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 20Reads—Score—14d adds
- 118 The Teng Snake Takes a Bride, and a Hundred Ghosts See Her Off 腾蛇娶妻百鬼送行 [Strong Female Lead] [Metaphysics] [Devoted Husband] [Ensemble Cast] [Pure Romance] [Mystery and Comedy] My name is Su Xiaowan. I was born in a small village in the south. I was born on the fifteenth day of the seventh lunar month, the Ghost Festival, commonly known as the “Ghost Day.” Legend has it that on this day, the gates of the underworld swing wide open and ghosts roam everywhere. So after paying respects to their ancestors during the day, everyone stays indoors, afraid of attracting a 1.5kReads8.9Score21914d adds
- 119 The Snake King's Sacrifice 蛇王祭 After three years of severe drought, not a single grain was harvested, and corpses littered the land. Then, following a deafening crash, a black snake dozens of meters long and as thick as a barrel fell into Minshang Village. The villagers swarmed toward it like starving wolves and devoured it. From that day on, Minshang Village was cursed... 101Reads8.9Score—14d adds
- 120 The Dragon King’s Debt: A Ghost Marriage 龙王债，娶阴亲 During the Qingming Festival, I paid respects at the wrong grave. A high fever left me blind. My grandmother had always favored boys. To make my mother give birth to a son, she threw me into the back hills to be devoured by wild beasts. By sheer luck, I saved a white dragon from the mountains and survived. Grateful for saving his life, the white dragon gave me one of his eyes. He told me he would return to take it back once I came of age. But before I even reached adulthood, my life changed d 57Reads6.9Score—14d adds
- 121 The Dragon-Taming Bride 镇龙妻 [From home feng shui to esoteric arts, from attracting wealth and changing your fortune to reading faces and understanding people, improve your luck through the lens of metaphysics.] Fifty years ago, my grandfather forcibly pierced an underground dragon vein to find a feng shui treasure site, changing the fortunes and fate of our Zhou family. Fifty years later, a blood-soaked man showed up at our door, saying he wanted to marry into the Zhou family! The Nine Purple Li Fire cycle, the Witch’s Sun 301Reads8.4Score—14d adds
- 122 What?! My Fox Immortal Husband Is Wagging His Tail at Me 惊！狐仙老公对我摇尾巴 [Hilarious horror + suspenseful thrills + a strong female lead who isn’t saintly + a male lead who only pretends to be aloof] Qingqiu Village occupies a sacred site, and the Fox Immortal flies into a rage and sends a woman marked by yin energy. Li Xiaxia is forced into a fox’s cave by shameless villagers, who hope to beg the Fox Immortal’s forgiveness. As a materialist, she doesn’t believe in Fox Immortals at all. That is, until she sees a white fox turn into a cold, handsome man with her own ey 62Reads6.4Score—14d adds
- 123 My Fox Immortal Lord Keeps Blowing His Cover 我家狐仙大人总掉马 One rainy night, office worker Shen Yuyu rescues a badly injured little white fox, unaware that it's actually Jun Linyi, a fox immortal who has cultivated for a thousand years. To repay her kindness, Jun Linyi stays by Shen Yu's side, but mishaps abound as he repeatedly blows his cover. Their peaceful life is shattered by dark forces, and Shen Yu unexpectedly awakens a mysterious power. Together, they delve into the secrets of their past lives, with laughs and danger at every turn... 1Reads—Score—14d adds
- 124 The Dragon Takes a Wife 龙娶妻 [Supernatural + Both Leads Are Faithful + Goofy Heroine + Sweet Romance + Plot-Focused + Cunning] My name is Lin Shuang. When I was born, relentless rain caused a flood that drowned many people. I am a true woman of extreme yin, but... 116Reads5.5Score—14d adds
- 125 I Married the Werewolf Chief. Well, at Least I’m Still Alive 嫁给狼人首领，嗯，很好，还活着 [Sweet romance + interspecies love + both leads are chaste + healing + wolf cubs + neither a badass heroine nor a secret identity] [Beautiful, clearheaded antique painting restorer × gloomy, aloof, utterly devoted young clan leader / scheming CEO] A pair of soft, adorable little dumplings walked into a police station, crying that their dad didn’t love them and their mom didn’t care for them. The people they identified were Hua Guo’s richest man, Ye Beiyu, and an ordinary woman, Jiang Wu. These t 53Reads5.8Score—14d adds
- 126 On the Day I Was Born, Ten Thousand Snakes Paid Homage 我出生当天，万蛇朝拜 I was born with a demon’s fetus. On the day I was born, countless snakes bowed before me, and the village was struck by a once-in-a-century downpour. Everyone was terrified and wanted nothing to do with me... 30Reads5.0Score—14d adds
- 127 An Ordinary Responsibility 平凡的责任 The ordinary lives of ordinary people. My motivation for writing is the hope that readers might find a little insight into life in my stories. I’ll do my best to tell each one well! Accepting and embracing an ordinary life is a strength. This is true of the characters in my stories, as it is of readers everywhere and people in real life. Chasing things that are impossible to grasp only keeps us from enjoying life’s beauty. An ordinary life filled with ordinary responsibilities can still be a hap 1Reads—Score—14d adds
- 128 I Was Sent Off for a Political Marriage, but the Other Party Turned Out to Be a Python 我被送去和亲，对方竟是蟒蛇 [Sweet romance] [Scheming] [Marriage Before Love] [Secret crush] The enemy nation's envoy came to negotiate peace and asked for a princess's hand in marriage. They chose the fifth princess. Everyone said she'd be fed to a giant python if she married into the enemy nation. Being a princess was miserable anyway, so I might as well go feed a snake. Who could have guessed the one marrying me would be that jerk who came to escort me? He's so fake. I'd be better off being thrown to the snake. What? My 148Reads—Score—14d adds
- 129 Worked to Death, Reborn as a Snake Demon: Can I Just Take It Easy? 劳累猝死变蛇妖，不卷摆烂好不好 Bai Yingying worked herself to death after a long stretch of overtime. When she opened her eyes again, she found herself inside an egg. At last, she could get some proper rest, so she was determined to slack off and refused to hatch at all costs. Her parents and brothers all transformed from snakes into dragons, until only her eighth brother remained. She finally hatched and spent five hundred years in his devoted care, only for an accident to happen because of a baby just a few months old... 71Reads6.4Score—14d adds
- 130 The Snake Husband Is Hard to Tame 蛇夫难驭 Ever since I can remember, my family has worshipped a snake immortal. My mother said that snake saved my life! The year I was born, a flood struck our village. The plague that followed took many lives. If the snake hadn't shed its own skin and wrapped me in it, I wouldn't have survived. When I came of age, he came to claim his reward. The only problem was that the reward he wanted was for me to become his wife... His love was fierce and overwhelming, laid bare in an all-out assault. In the e 244Reads—Score10214d adds
- 131 My Best Friend and I Transmigrate to the Beast World, Where We’re Both Wrapped Around Their Fingers 和闺蜜穿越兽世，双双被拿捏了 [Best Friends Transmigrate Together × Beast World × Obsessive Love × Tsundere] During a trip to a deserted island, Bai Qingqing and Su Mian unexpectedly transmigrated into a fictional continent ruled by beastfolk. Sui Lin was a young snake beastman Bai Qingqing had brought home. He was obedient and well-behaved, and an amazing cook. Every time he called her “big sister,” her heart skipped a beat. She thought he was innocent and harmless, until she watched him devour a gray rabbit beastman who h 19Reads—Score—14d adds
- 132 Fox-Demon Blood, Corpse Fragrance, and Ghosts Around My Waist 狐妖血，阴尸香，百鬼缠腰 My name is Jiang Li. I’m twenty years old, and I’ve been dead for twenty years. The day I was born, my mother died in childbirth, and after her death, she gave birth to me in a mass grave. The spirit medium said, “A stillborn child of extreme yin, carrying the scent of corpses and drawing every ghost to feed.” Twenty years later, a fox spirit came to take a bride, and the door to the uncanny world swung wide open for me. Fox spirit Luo Baichen: “Be good, my bride. Call me your husband.” Green sn 16Reads—Score—14d adds
- 133 You've Kept Me Waiting, My Lord of the Underworld 久等了我的冥王大人 As long as you want it, As long as I have it... In this life and the next, I will keep you safe... Knowing you are there means the night is no longer dark, the evenings are no longer lonely, and the road home is no longer uncertain... 1.6kReads—Score—14d adds
- 134 My Top-Tier Star Brother Is a Ferocious Great Demon 顶流哥哥是大妖怪，超凶猛哒 [Sweet romance] [Entertainment industry] [Fur lover] [Devoted to each other] [Healing] A “white dog” suddenly appears at home, and fur lover Lin Lingxi can’t resist. One second she’s petting the “white dog,” and the next, a handsome man in ancient robes has her pinned down and is kissing her by force! He says, “Give me back my inner core.” Dumbfounded, Lin Lingxi finds herself saddled with an ancient silver-wolf demon. He moves into her place, and on top of that, he eats way too much. Lin Lingxi 16Reads8.0Score314d adds
- 135 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 278Reads8.7Score—14d adds
- 136 Doted on Too Much by My Nonhuman Husband 被非人老公过分宠爱 [Satisfying romance + sweet doting love + supernatural + scheming] Because of my unusual constitution and fate, my grandfather arranged a marriage for me before he died. He only appears at night, and loves kissing, cuddling, and lifting me up in his arms! And wherever he appears, all sorts of bizarre events follow! It wasn’t until the very end that I discovered he had been with me because... 114Reads8.5Score—14d adds
- 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—14d adds
- 138 Born of a Corpse, Bound to the Snake King 尸生女，蛇王契 [The male lead is an utterly controlling Snake Immortal Lord. The female lead grows over time, and is neither a doormat nor stupid. They fall head over heels for each other in a super-sweet romance!] This story has a few mildly scary scenes, but nothing too frightening. And it really is sweet, sweet, sweet, tooth-achingly sweet!! Manual divider When my mother gave birth to me, it took three days and three nights. The doctor took one look and froze in shock. My mother had already died. It was he 3.7kReads8.6Score71614d adds
- 139 Tales of the Snake Immortal 蛇仙鬼话 Kui Kui was born with the fate of a Snake Immortal. She had a heavenly eye from birth and could see both the living and the dead. Yet her immortal nature was borrowed from her father, and she was never meant to exist in this world. Her birth chart was too weak to hold on to that borrowed gift. On the Ghost Festival when she was eighteen, a horde of ghosts attacked. To save her life, her father hid her inside a cursed, ten-thousand-year-old snake coffin. From then on, she became the fated one of 902Reads9.0Score14714d adds
- 140 The Serpent King's Decree 蛇王令 I was born with a black scale on my body. As I grew older, the scale kept spreading. When I was sixteen, I dreamed that the black scales came to life and turned into a black snake that coiled tightly around me… 40Reads8.8Score—14d adds
- 141 Serpent Fetus 蛇胎 My parents died when I was three, and I grew up with my elderly grandmother. So I learned early on that I could never be as carefree as other children, because I had no one to back me up. Perhaps because I wasn't good at hiding it, the air of timidity about me was always sniffed out by wicked people like wolves. Every step of my life, I had to tread carefully. To survive in safety, I could endure anything ordinary people couldn't bear. I thought enduring was my fate, until one year I suddenly be 442Reads—Score—14d adds
- 142 The Otherworldly Hotel 彼岸酒店 (Transmigration + ghosts and monsters + scheming and possessive romance + sweet pampering + fantasy and the supernatural) Su Xingluo, the greatest cultivation genius in the immortal realm, spends ten thousand years in arduous training, only to be blasted to pieces by heavenly tribulation just as she is about to ascend. A remnant of her soul travels through time and space to a parallel world beyond the Three Realms: a beautiful blue planet called Earth. Here, humans, ghosts, demons, and monsters 56Reads—Score—14d adds
- 143 My Husband Is a Snake, and He Wraps Around Me Every Night to Make Snake Babies 夫君是条蛇，每晚缠着我生蛇宝宝 My Husband Is a Snake, and Every Night He Coils Around Me to Make Snake Babies 22Reads—Score—14d adds
- 144 Demons of the Northern Mountain 北山有妖 When I was twenty, someone killed me. My killer dumped my body at Beishan, a thousand miles away… 2kReads7.5Score24314d adds
- 145 The Cold-Blooded Snake Lord Won’t Let Go, Coaxing His Sweetheart into a Life of Passion 冷血蛇尊太缠人，哄诱娇娇入红尘 The rating just came out, so it's a little low. I promise the story is good! [One-on-one, happy ending, both leads are pure, sweet romance, comedy, love-hate relationship, proud and spirited demon princess × crazy, cunning, cold-blooded Demon Lord, possessive. It gets very sweet and very doting later, so it's well worth reading.] * The little demon Xingmi, with her meager spiritual power, is targeted by a cold-blooded Snake Lord. He possesses her fiercely in her dreams. Xingmi has always been te 584Reads8.1Score—14d adds
- 146 The Snake-Skin Wedding Dress 蛇皮嫁衣 When I was three, burns covered my body and my life hung by a thread. My grandmother saved me by peeling off a snake’s skin. From then on, I had an invisible ghost husband by my side... He said he had given me my life, and that since I had worn his snakeskin wedding dress, I belonged to him. If I dared so much as interact with another man, he would punish me harshly and kill my entire family. I carefully made it to the age of twenty, but still broke the taboo! An old Taoist priest came to the vi 606Reads8.9Score10214d adds
- 147 Raising Great Demons at the Museum 我在博物馆养大妖 Restore the most dilapidated paintings, and keep the wildest man. Pressed by financial difficulties, Le Ying took up her family's traditional craft and became a calligraphy and painting restorer at a museum. While restoring paintings, she also took in several spirits and raised a one-legged great demon. Somehow, she ended up on a path to success in both her career and love life. A cross-species romance between a spiritual-energy flatterer and a proud, obsessive divine bird. 32Reads8.7Score—14d adds
- 148 After Coming of Age, I Became the Snake Lord’s Most Beloved 成年后，我成了蛇君大人的心头肉 People from Northeast China don’t eat wild animals. The big ones are too strong to beat, and the little ones are all spirits! But my great-great-grandfather refused to believe it and caught a giant snake. From then on, strange things kept happening to the Shen family for generations. Then, when I turned eighteen, I learned firsthand what it meant to pay for his actions… 440Reads8.8Score10414d adds
- 149 May All Go as You Wish, Generation After Generation 巳巳如意，世世如怡 [Snake Immortal + Supernatural + Mystery Solving + Twists + Romantic Tension] When Lu Mingshen, a snake immortal, loses his younger brother to humans who eat him, the tragedy sparks a hatred that sets Lu Mingshen’s fury ablaze. A tale of love and vengeance between humans and snake immortals unfolds. —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 150 The Snake Immortal's Bride 蛇仙娶亲 My grandfather was a snake catcher. After taking too many lives, he angered a great serpent cultivating in the mountains. On the day I was born, both my grandfather and my father died in the jaws of a snake. On my nineteenth birthday, the great serpent appeared again to make me pay the blood debt. It was the immortal spirit worshipped by my great-aunt who saved me from the serpent's jaws. I thought his arrival was my salvation, but instead he swept me into another whirlpool of fate. “Gu An Nian, 1.8kReads9.1Score13714d adds
