Novels like The Dragon-Taming Bride
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- 1 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
- 2 Fated by the Yin Dragon, Married to the Fox King 阴龙命，狐王妻 I was born in a graveyard on the second day of the second month of the Year of the Dragon. The village spirit medium said I was born under the fate of a yin dragon, destined for misfortune and hardship. When I was eighteen, after a nightmare, a deep bite mark inexplicably appeared on my waist. It festered and oozed pus, and I had no choice but to offer sacrifices to the Fox Immortal. The spirit medium gave me a special warning: Don’t trust the Fox Immortal, don’t live with the Fox Immortal, and 34Reads—Score—14d adds
- 3 Lord Snake: So Adorable 蛇君大人：萌萌哒 My name is Luo Qiqi. When I was little, a black snake in the fields bit me, and my father killed it. Later, the black snake came looking for me, saying it wanted revenge. Grandpa told me I’d been born with the bloodline of a spirit snake, and that I had no choice but to marry the Black Snake Lord and become his wife. A few months later, Grandpa was murdered. His death made me realize that a huge conspiracy was hidden behind it all... 47Reads6.4Score—14d adds
- 4 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
- 5 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
- 6 A Wedding Invitation Made of Human Skin 人皮婚笺 To escape a violent man, I hid inside a coffin in a mass grave, only to unexpectedly sign a marriage contract with a ghost. From that day on, he appeared in my dreams every night. The birthmark that had suddenly appeared on my neck burned day after day, and I could see the deathly aura surrounding everyone around me. No one can escape the cause and effect that governs life and death, just like that bone-chilling encounter on that night. A lonely girl weeping in the night, nightmares in the women 86Reads8.1Score10014d adds
- 7 Snake Gu 蛇蛊 I was destined to face a calamity. I tried every way I could to escape, but they still found me. Ghosts cleared the way as eerie music rang out, and a bewitching man in red hunted me down from a thousand miles away. A dying message written in blood, a demon arriving at my door in the dead of night. On the verge of death, I had no choice but to accept the snake demon's terms: enter a ghost marriage and become his spirit medium. The demon snake was ferocious. He promised me eternal life, but life 68Reads—Score—14d adds
- 8 I Picked Up a Hamster for a Husband 捡只仓鼠当老公 (Gentle big sister & adorable giant hamster) Who gets it?! Su Li just picked up a dusty, black Polibear beside a garbage can after work one day. She got him used to her and fed him freeze-dried tofu every day, but then one day the little guy vanished without a trace. The next time she saw him, he'd become an entertainer at her father's company. “Li, I missed you.” She was utterly stunned. So the hamster she'd picked up had turned into a man?! Su Li froze in place, with just one thought in her he —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 9 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
- 10 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
- 11 Come Into Big Sis's Arms, and the Cold-Faced Dragon Turns Into a Little Baby Dragon 到姐姐怀里，冷面龙秒变小奶龙 (Transmigration + marriage first, love later + wild imagination + ancient times + modern times) After falling into the sea and being swept away by the waves, Shen Yanfei unexpectedly transmigrates to an underwater world and becomes the side consort brought in to bring good fortune to the unconscious prince of the Dragon Palace, Long Chengze. Refusing to give up, Shen Yanfei finds her way through a fantastical underwater world filled with strange and supernatural phenomena. She leads everyone in 1Reads—Score—14d adds
- 12 I’m the Dragon King’s Heartbreak 我是龙王的心上坎 Grandma passed down to me the deity our family had worshipped for generations. But disaster kept striking, and terrifying scales began covering my body. When I asked why, Grandma merely said, “It’s fate. There’s no escaping it.” 5Reads—Score—14d adds
- 13 The Demon Husband and His Princess Consort 妖夫墨王妻 I began dealing with ghosts and spirits when I was twenty-one. No one knows how my grandfather died. One person after another has tried to harm me. The grudges of the immortals, a rival’s jealousy, and the protection of the one I love: all sorts of baffling events have befallen an ordinary girl like me. Let the ghosts handle matters of the underworld, and the living handle matters of the mortal world. Just remember: Do good, and don’t worry about what lies ahead. 236Reads6.7Score—14d adds
- 14 Immortal Who Chases the Yin 逐阴仙 At seven, I encountered an evil spirit, and yin energy came knocking. My dead great-uncle beckoned me, but he appeared out of nowhere and gently stopped me from taking one fatal step. His name was Xie Changli, an unknown wandering spirit who stayed by my side as I grew up and protected me for years. At seventeen, I lost my protective talisman. We met again in a desperate situation, a red thread winding around my finger as the bell rang to drive away evil. He had always been cool and distant, u 28Reads8.0Score—14d adds
- 15 The Fox Immortal Descends: A Cursed Fox's Fate 狐仙降世：诡命狐缘 On the day she was born, a blind old fortune-teller declared that Bai Xiao was destined to a life of extreme yin: “This girl won’t live past eight. At eighteen, she’ll be beset by a hundred ghosts and meet certain death.” She refused to believe him and stubbornly made it to eighteen. But the year she turned eighteen, she watched with her own eyes as her grandmother climbed out of her coffin, intending to bury her alive and take her along as a funeral offering… “Xiao Xiao, come with Grandma…” As 9Reads—Score—14d adds
- 16 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
- 17 Born Under the Yin Sign, Wed to the King of the Underworld 阴女命，嫁冥王 A revised edition of Unending Ghostly Bonds, ten years in the making! After three years together, her boyfriend actually handed her over to the neighbor next door! From then on, she was haunted by sleep paralysis every night. In the darkness, a pair of icy hands roamed over her, and the Ghost King took her completely for himself. She tried to escape, only to realize she'd sunk deep into the mire of fate. In fear and despair, she gradually uncovered the shocking secrets hidden behind the underwor 215Reads—Score—14d adds
- 18 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
- 19 My Fox Immortal 我的狐仙大人 One rainy night, a little fox suddenly crawled under my skirt to take shelter. Feeling sorry for it, I brought it home and gave it a good wash. Who knew he'd turn into a stunningly handsome man and refuse to leave? From then on, we lived happily... Wait, no, our life together was downright bizarre. My peaceful inn suddenly became full of strange mysteries: an unknown purple bug appeared on a male director's bed, a hand covered in black scales stretched down from the ceiling, and a woman's hair s 37Reads8.2Score—14d adds
- 20 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
- 21 The Snake Lord Is Above 蛇君在上 Yun Qianhan gave her boyfriend a pendant with a white snake design, but the snake crawled out of it and bit him to death. Then it abducted her and insisted she become its wife, claiming it wanted to have a whole nest of little snakes with her. What was she supposed to do? 207Reads7.2Score—14d adds
- 22 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
- 23 The Dragon King’s Embryo 龙王胎 In 1934, my grandmother witnessed a strange dragon-fall incident with her own eyes... Many years later, scales began to grow on my body. Worse still, I somehow became pregnant with a monster! I lead troops, run an incense hall, and carry out the rituals. I'm a female shaman, and my husband is the Dragon King! 344Reads7.1Score—14d adds
- 24 Foxbound 狐缘 [Fox King + paranormal + funny + sweet romance] After my boyfriend and I made things official, thick black fur suddenly sprouted all over my face. A fox appeared in my dreams and warned me that until I'd paid off my debt, I could forget about dating anyone and getting away from him! To repay what I owed, I became his spirit medium, opened a ritual altar, and helped him attain enlightenment. But he only got more demanding, and even wanted to marry me. “Third Master, I'm cursed and destined to bri 160Reads7.6Score—14d adds
- 25 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
- 26 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
- 27 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
- 28 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
- 29 The Snake Wife 阴蛇妻 My name is Su Xue. I was slow to develop as a child, and I’m not very smart. My grandpa was a Yin-Yang Master. Out of a moment of kindness, he saved someone, but a snake spirit tricked him, leading to my grandma’s tragic death. In his fury, he burned every snake on the entire back mountain. To avoid revenge from the Snake Venerable of the serpent clan, he sent me straight to a psychiatric hospital, then vanished with my parents. They say that before the mentally ill, all evil spirits are nothing 217Reads—Score—14d adds
- 30 My Dragon King 我的龙王大人 Every night, I have that kind of dream. Not with a person. That thing presses tightly against me, its long, serpentine tail coiling around me and sliding over every inch of my body! Wherever its scales pass, it feels like an ice blade cutting into my flesh. It hurts, and I can't even scream. All I can do is endure the stabbing pain and shiver in the cold, until at last its icy tail tightens around me and suffocates me to death! Until that day… 81Reads7.0Score—14d adds
- 31 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
- 32 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
- 33 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
- 34 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
- 35 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
- 36 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
- 37 The Dragon King's Beloved Wife 龙王娇妻 On my eighteenth birthday, my great-grandfather called me back to the old family home and told me to stay the night. I woke in the middle of the night to find myself wearing a red wedding dress. The terrifying part was that there was a monster beside me. It looked like an immortal, but it was obviously not human... 216Reads8.9Score—14d adds
- 38 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
- 39 The Snake’s Bride 蛇缠女 [Mystery] [Sweet and bittersweet] [Strong heroine] [Supernatural] Ever since I was born, I’ve been cursed as a snake’s daughter and a bringer of misfortune. Eighteen years ago, a great white snake killed my family. Eighteen years later, the snake came to collect its debt and made me its spirit medium to pay it back. From then on, I began encountering all kinds of strange events. Why had the bones in the coffin vanished? And what did the snake totem on the coffin lid mean? When the Seven Fiends A 337Reads8.8Score10214d adds
- 40 Meeting You at the Yin Hour 阴时逢君 Beneath the hazy moon, ghostly shadows sway as a bright red bridal sedan chair rocks its way into the mountains. Just because a feng shui master said I was a cursed, ill-fated loner, I was forced to marry the Mountain God as a sacrificial offering. To escape the fate others had wrongly assigned me and break off my engagement to the Mountain God, I went to great lengths. “Who are you, really?” “Our marriage pact is already sealed. Naturally, I’m your husband.” Alone in the world, I nonetheles 111Reads—Score—14d adds
- 41 The Fox Takes a Wife 狐娶妻 A sunshower in the mountains, a fox wedding in the woods. The living must keep away. They say that if someone catches sight of a fox wedding, the marriage is ruined, and the couple may never be able to marry. The witness will be relentlessly hunted down until their family is destroyed. But when Gu Hanshuang encounters one, things don't go as the rumors say. Hu Xueyin, the groom of the fox wedding, sticks by her day after day, backs her into a corner, and softly asks, “Between him and me, who's m 240Reads8.7Score—14d adds
- 42 The Wicked Husband’s Seduction 邪夫撩人 I was born on the night of the Hungry Ghost Festival. From that day on, strange things kept happening in my village, and the people around me died one after another. To stay alive, I fled into the Dragon King Temple. When I came out, I found myself haunted by an invisible man... (Traditional supernatural horror + mind-bending mystery + realism) 164Reads7.4Score—14d adds
- 43 The Snake King’s Child 蛇王胎 142Reads7.0Score—14d adds
- 44 Snake Enchantment 蛇媚 When I was born, countless snakes came to propose, while wildcats carried the sedan chair. The arrangement was set for twenty years. My father and grandfather took me on the run for twenty years. Just when we were close to despair, I met Ming Cang. He came toward me against the light, carrying an erhu on his back. Its music drove away the snakes, and he was like a god. I thought he was my savior, and trusted him with all my heart and soul. I never imagined that everything had been planned from t 184Reads9.0Score—14d adds
- 45 Snake Burial 蛇葬 When I was nine, my grandmother sealed me alive inside the hollow of a thousand-year-old willow tree to keep me safe from disaster. She never expected a black snake to wrap itself around me. It coiled over my collarbone and slowly devoured my heart. 9.5kReads8.2Score27214d adds
- 46 The Dragon King’s Wife, Life After Life 生生世世龙王妻 A terrible drought struck the village, so the village chief invited an old Taoist priest to perform a rainmaking ritual. The priest brought a marriage contract, and I was chosen to be offered as a sacrifice to the Divine Dragon Lord. On the night of the full moon, the villagers tied me up, stuffed me into a bridal sedan chair, and sent me to the Dragon King Temple behind the village. From then on, I became the wife of an ancient divine dragon. 61Reads8.2Score—14d adds
- 47 The Fox's Seduction 狐诱 Twenty years ago, my father brought home a mute woman. From then on, men in the village began dying in mysterious ways… They said my mother was a wicked fox spirit who brought harm to others. No, my mother was the Great Fox King, chosen by Heaven. The Fox King bore a daughter, and the new king ascended the throne. Beneath all of Heaven, our king rules. The harem matters just as much as the people! An angsty romance dressed up as a wish-fulfillment blurb. Come on in, everyone! 635Reads8.4Score10114d adds
- 48 The Coffin Bride 棺材娘子 I spent summer vacation helping Grandpa look after his paper effigy shop. But then an unexpected visitor showed up and asked me to paint eyes and eyebrows on a paper figure. I never imagined that painting its eyes could give it a soul. That very night, the person in the painting appeared in my dreams and demanded my life... 278Reads8.2Score—14d adds
- 49 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
- 50 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
