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- 51 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... 1.4kReads9.1Score143Shelves
- 52 Bound by the Snake Husband 蛇夫缠 My life belongs to a snake. From the day I was born, Grandma sold me to a snake. I grew up sleeping in a coffin with snake skin, living as a freak. For the sake of that snake, Grandma taught me to be a shaman healer and save others, though I could never save myself. It wasn’t until I received my first patient on the day I came of age that I finally learned what Grandma and the snake had traded… 645Reads8.5Score102Shelves
- 53 The Fated Demon Bride 天命妖妻 I was born under an unusual fate, and people predicted I wouldn’t live past the age of ten. To save my life, my parents arranged an extraordinary marriage for me. On the wedding night, my family laid out a grand feast, but no one came. I was left alone in the bridal chamber until a pair of cold hands led me inside. Only when the groom lifted my veil did I finally understand: I had married a demon... 62Reads6.7Score—Shelves
- 54 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. 64Reads8.2Score—Shelves
- 55 Walking with the Fox 遇狐行 I was born with a fate blessed by the heavens, but one of my seven souls was stolen at birth. Countless lonely ghosts coveted my destiny. When I was nine, I unexpectedly gained a pair of eyes that could see through ghosts and gods. But those coveted eyes plunged me into an endless hell. Someone told me that if I wanted to survive, I had to go to Qingyun Mountain and seek divine protection. If I succeeded, I would be safe for the rest of my life. If I failed, misfortune would follow me wherever I 224Reads8.2Score—Shelves
- 56 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 332Reads—Score100Shelves
- 57 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 257Reads8.6Score102Shelves
- 58 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. 89Reads8.2Score—Shelves
- 59 Help! I'm the King of the Underworld's One True Love 救命！我竟是冥王的白月光 [Supernatural mystery, lighthearted comedy] On the night of the Ghost Festival “Y-You... who are you, exactly? Are you human? Or a ghost? Y-You saved me, so you... you must be a good ghost, right?” Xi Zhuo replied in a ghostly voice, “Madam, don’t you remember me?” Chen Nianqiao screamed in terror. “Who’s your wife?! You still haven’t answered my question! Where’s my best friend, Hu Xiaoqian? Did you eat her or something?” Xi Zhuo ignored Nianqiao’s questions. He simply declared, “I am your husb 1Reads—Score—Shelves
- 60 A Snake's Many Pregnancies 蛇孕连连 My ancestors killed countless snakes, and generations of my family have had snake blood on their hands. A passing Taoist priest said we would have to pay for those blood debts. A fire burned my father to death. As I was collecting his remains, a snake on his body bit me. The village chief said it was a subterranean dragon snake from Hell, come to claim my life, and that I had less than three months to live. I refused to believe it, until one day a handsome young man came and insisted on marrying 80Reads8.7Score—Shelves
- 61 The Eerie Coffin in Deep Waters 深水诡棺 When I was ten, I fell into a well. Deep in the water was a coffin. After I saw it, I was plagued by nightmares and fell ill. My grandfather gave me a piece of deadwood to protect my life, and I miraculously recovered! From then on, strange and supernatural events followed one after another, and all kinds of mythical beasts from the Classic of Mountains and Seas came after me! Even stranger, a mysterious neighbor moved in next door. He was fair-skinned, beautiful, and long-legged, with a mastery 192Reads8.8Score—Shelves
- 62 The Serpent’s Curse 蛇咒 The day I was born, my grandparents were skinned alive. Every branch around us was crawling with writhing, jubilant snakes. They said I would be next. To stay alive, I had no choice but to give myself to him. The secrets of the blood-stained garment and the snake curse became the things I most wanted to uncover. I thought I existed only to help him forge the blood garment, but when life and death hung in the balance, he held me tight. “Song Youyou, you will always be mine!” 134Reads8.6Score—Shelves
- 63 My Fiancé, Lord White Fox 我的未婚夫白狐大人 I went back to my hometown for the Mid-Autumn Festival and felt that my family was acting strangely. In the middle of the night, I caught them secretly burning a paper sedan chair, saying they were going to marry me off. Curious, I followed them. I never expected to end up trapped and get married in a daze. Huh? Handsome husband in white, what’s that behind you? Could it be a white fox’s tail? 315Reads7.3Score—Shelves
- 64 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 577Reads8.1Score—Shelves
- 65 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.” 562Reads8.8Score104Shelves
- 66 A Serpent’s Unrequited Love 蛇不了情 I was born a malformed conjoined twin, with the underdeveloped fetal corpse of a baby girl, covered in python-like markings, fused to my back. Worse still, twenty years later, I met Di Xiuyin, and the fetal corpse on my back began to come back to life... Everyone knows that Di Xiuyin is a ghostly python, steeped in sin and living by the blade. He rips out snake gallbladders, cuts out their glands, and refines their venom, running rampant wherever he goes and leaving devastation in his wake. Ever 21Reads6.9Score—Shelves
- 67 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... 210Reads8.9Score—Shelves
- 68 Snake Demoness 蛇姬 [Ensemble Cast + Feng Shui + Fortune-Telling + Metaphysics + Strange Folk Tales] Romance: A dignified, devoted, ruthless Snake Lord vs. a pampered, cunning diviner I was born on the night of the Ghost Festival, when the gates of the underworld swing wide open. Everyone in the village said my mother conceived me after being entwined by a snake, so they called me Little Snake. When I was thirteen, I spoke carelessly and offended the “Snake Lord” in a painting. From then on, I was bedridden, and st 1.9kReads9.0Score275Shelves
- 69 On My Wedding Day, the Fox King and Snake Lord Both Forced Me to Marry Them 我出嫁当天，狐王蛇君齐逼嫁 When I was fifteen, I went to the river to bathe and encountered a huge white snake. That very night, I came down with a strange illness. My fever wouldn’t break, I was paralyzed from head to toe, and my belly swelled as if I were ten months pregnant. After three years of paralysis, I became a cripple everyone despised. Just as my parents were worrying every day that I’d never find a husband, a man as beautiful as a celestial being volunteered to marry me. He was willing not only to wed me but a 1.7kReads8.8Score253Shelves
- 70 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 239Reads8.7Score—Shelves
- 71 Fox Mountain Ritual 狐山祭 I was a child brought home by a wildcat. Little did I know that my arrival would bring my family an inescapable run of bad luck. Later, by a strange twist of fate, I was taken in by a fox immortal as graceful as jade and brought to his immortal mountain. From then on, I became the temple maiden who guarded his shrine. “Lingcai, Lingcai. It means lively and brilliant, full of spirit; it also means all living things, flourishing in their splendor. In the broadest sense or the narrowest, it is all 276Reads8.7Score—Shelves
- 72 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... 269Reads8.2Score—Shelves
- 73 My Eerie Husband Has Arrived, and He Gives Me a Hundred Million Every Day 诡夫降临，阴老公每天给我一个亿 [Male lead is chaste, possessive, obsessive and domineering, and utterly devoted to protecting his wife] On Qingming Festival, I went up the mountain to visit a grave and met an extremely strange man dressed in ancient black-and-gold robes. The first thing he asked me was, “Miss, would you do me the honor of marrying me?” My name is Xu Mengling. My grandmother chose it, hoping that even my dreams and wishes would come true. I was born on the fifteenth day of the seventh lunar month. I’m twenty-f 4.5kReads8.6Score365Shelves
- 74 The Demon Lord’s Moonlight, Bright Through Every Year 魔尊心上月，岁岁皆昭昭 In ancient times, the gods, demons, and monsters waged war. The Heavenly Emperor wiped out the entire Asura clan, and the clan’s sole surviving heir, Mu Canglan, stormed heaven to take revenge. To end the fighting across the Three Realms, Luo Zhaozhao, the Heavenly Emperor’s adopted daughter, volunteered to marry Mu Canglan. Yet even on their wedding day, she could not stop him from seeking vengeance. Grief-stricken, Luo Zhaozhao sacrificed her glass heart, and she and Mu Canglan fell into the m 14Reads—Score—Shelves
- 75 The Bewitching Snake Husband Is So Hard to Handle 妖孽蛇夫太难缠 Of all people, why do I have to bear a snake’s child...? 270Reads8.4Score100Shelves
- 76 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! 617Reads8.4Score101Shelves
- 77 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… 2kReads7.5Score252Shelves
- 78 Bound for Life by a Snake 蛇定终身 Bound to a Snake for Life 4.7kReads—Score132Shelves
- 79 The Snake’s Delight 蛇欢 My life belongs to a snake. From the day I was born, Grandma sold me to a snake. I grew up sleeping in a dead person's coffin and shedding snake skin, living as a freak. For the snake's sake, Grandma taught me to be a shamanic healer and save others, though I could never save myself. It wasn't until I received my first patient on the day I came of age that I finally learned what Grandma and the snake had agreed upon... 155Reads9.3Score101Shelves
- 80 The Fox Seeks a Wife 狐讨妻 When I was born, I fell gravely ill. To save my life, my father sold me to a white-haired fox. Fifteen years later, the fox came to collect its debt and demanded I repay it by becoming its disciple. From then on, I began encountering all kinds of bizarre things I could never have imagined. I thought the fox and I had nothing more than a simple debt to settle, but later I discovered a shocking secret hidden beneath it all. 400Reads9.0Score100Shelves
- 81 The Fox King's Wife 狐王妻 ❤️ My name is Lu Qingyang. On the day of Jingzhe, my mother secretly gave birth to me in an abandoned Fox Immortal temple. The villagers bullied me and called me a fox demon that ate people's eyes. They dug out my left eye, then summoned a Taoist priest to call down lightning and kill me. When I grew up, a bizarre blood-red image of a fox worshipping the Big Dipper appeared on my waist. From then on, misfortune followed me everywhere. To find the mysterious man who stole my eye, I met the Fox Ki 65Reads6.6Score—Shelves
- 82 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, 1.8kReads9.1Score139Shelves
- 83 My Wife, the King of the Underworld: My Husband Is a Little Crazy 冥王妻：我家夫君有点疯 (Mystery + Supernatural + Sweet romance + Mysterious love story) I’m an actor in a folk performance at a scenic attraction. Every night, my partner and I take part in a parade called “The Underworld King Takes a Bride.” But on one fateful night, the person I married turned out to be the real Underworld King... He’s cold, domineering, and unpredictable. My once peaceful life has been thrown into turmoil ever since he came into it... 485Reads6.8Score100Shelves
- 84 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. 1kReads7.7Score104Shelves
- 85 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 1.5kReads8.9Score219Shelves
- 86 Married to a Snake 蛇嫁 My mother died in difficult labor while giving birth to me. As they were lowering her coffin into the grave, a white snake coiled around it. The pallbearers fled in terror, and when the coffin hit the ground, I crawled out of my mother’s corpse. Ever since, the great white snake has pursued me relentlessly, insisting I bear him a whole brood of little white snakes. What am I supposed to do? 94Reads8.4Score—Shelves
- 87 My Snake Immortal Husband Comes in the Dead of Night 蛇仙老公，深夜来 When I was ten, I came down with a fatal illness. To save me, Grandpa went to Changbai Mountain and brought back a snake pill. I recovered, but Grandpa and my parents all died. That dragon came for revenge… It didn’t kill me. It demanded offerings and wanted the snake pill back. From then on, Changbai Mountain had a new Pool Immortal Maiden. A pig spirit bewitches people, a little ghost steals unborn babies, and at midnight, who is it holding a bone umbrella and carrying a human-skin lantern to 314Reads9.1Score108Shelves
- 88 Hail the Corpse Ancestor: My Wife Has Married into the Underworld 尸祖在上：娇妻亿嫁冥界 [Yandere corpse ancestor × teasing little troublemaker] They say Boyou, the corpse ancestor of the Netherworld, is cruel and heartless, but no one knows about the pathological possessiveness hidden beneath his outward appearance. He spies on her, schemes against her, and even hurts himself to play the victim, all to make her fall for him. She keeps causing trouble to make him hate her, only to bring disaster down on herself. On an utterly ordinary night in the Netherworld, a certain corpse ances 286Reads8.6Score—Shelves
- 89 The Snake King Has His Eyes on Me 蛇王惹上身 I was pushed off a cliff. The good news was that I didn't fall to my death, and my boyfriend and best friend hadn't killed me. The bad news was that although I was still alive, I had landed in something even more terrifying than death: a nest of snakes... 259Reads8.2Score102Shelves
- 90 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 599Reads8.9Score102Shelves
- 91 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 338Reads8.8Score102Shelves
- 92 The White Snake in Bed 白蛇在榻 In an ancient, mysterious town, a terrifying legend has been passed down: any woman born with a yin constitution must marry the Snake God, make offerings to him, and establish a shrine for him, or she will be consumed by yin energy and lose her life. Many women have died this way over the years, and the legend has become a shadow that haunts the townspeople. Lin Mei was born with a yin constitution. Frail and often plagued by yin energy, she has suffered greatly. Strong-willed and kind, she is c 1Reads—Score—Shelves
- 93 The Dragon-Locking Well and the Snake Immortal in the Painting 锁龙井，画蛇仙 My name is Su Luoqing. I was born in the ancient village of Dragon Guardians, where our people have guarded a well for generations. Legend says an evil dragon that has cultivated for thousands of years is sealed beneath it. Every year on the second day of the second lunar month, a special ritual must be performed to appease the dragon. On the second day of the second lunar month, when the dragon raises its head, rain poured for a whole month, nearly submerging Dragon Guardians Village. Then, dur 560Reads8.8Score109Shelves
- 94 Dragon Scales Covering the Bed [Mystery] 龙鳞满床「悬疑」 [Female-oriented novel] My name is Ning Xi. I was an abandoned baby my mother found by a creek. The centenarian old shamaness who lives on Toukan Mountain read my bones and declared that I was the Dragon King's daughter. I thought it was just superstition. Dragons and Dragon Kings don't exist. I'm a firm materialist, after all. But on the day of my college entrance exams, I saw a red carp turn into a dragon right before my eyes… 1.9kReads9.1Score272Shelves
- 95 The Female Spirit Medium 女出马仙 We read the fortunes of the dead and the living, settle debts with aggrieved spirits, and handle lost souls, hysteria, and demonic possession! If it’s anything out of the ordinary, there’s nothing our shamanic spirit medium, Wu Mei, can’t handle! Jealous colleagues come by to challenge us? No problem. We have powerful connections up above... Lord Tu Tanyue, emperor of the Qingqiu Nine-Tailed Fox Clan and so handsome he has no rivals, spoils his wife without limit. His half-fox spirit medium brid 844Reads8.8Score100Shelves
- 96 Married to a Fox 嫁狐 The sins of my ancestors came back to haunt me. To save my life, Great-Auntie invited a fox spirit to protect me. But who knew this fox spirit wasn’t here to protect me at all, but to kill me... 411Reads8.9Score100Shelves
- 97 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… 451Reads8.8Score104Shelves
- 98 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! 328Reads7.1Score—Shelves
- 99 Oh No! I Married a Sweet Wife, and Now I Can’t Hide My Serpent Tail 糟糕！娶了娇甜妻后蛇尾藏不住了 Sweet romance, both virgins, obsessive love, metaphysics: “Adorable, sweet little wife × cold, aloof, obsessive snake CEO” Jiang Mitian was thrown out of her home by her scumbag father. Homeless and hunted, she was saved at the brink of death by a handsome stranger. With nowhere else to go, she had to follow him home. Who knew he’d feed her and help her with her card during the day, then rub her legs and cling to her for kisses at night! A clever little woman appeared by the side of the aloof, h 107Reads7.4Score—Shelves
- 100 My Fated Snake King Husband Is So Hard to Handle 奇缘蛇王老公太难缠 Lin Qingqing rescued a little black snake. She clearly saw it slither into the bushes, but after evening study hall, there it was on her bed. She put it in her schoolbag, and the next day it was wrapped around her hand. She left it in the bushes behind the school. Thinking the little black snake was so cute, she named him Qiu Han and couldn’t resist giving him a kiss. Who knew that within a day, the black snake would turn into a black python? To be with Lin Qingqing, Qiu Han took human form and 27Reads8.8Score—Shelves
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