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- 101 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. 58Reads8.2Score—14d adds
- 102 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... 488Reads6.8Score10014d adds
- 103 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.” 578Reads8.8Score10414d adds
- 104 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… 97Reads8.6Score—14d adds
- 105 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 243Reads6.9Score—14d adds
- 106 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
- 107 Lord Yama, I Didn't Mean to Fall Into Your Arms 阎君大人，我不是故意掉你怀里的 [Mystery romance + love that grows over time + team exploration + a touch of ensemble cast] [Not a wish-fulfillment story, no horror, and the plot avoids clichés.] [Delicate writing + rich content + a little spice] Yan Yichen: You share my name, so I'll call you A Li. Yan Yichen: So Lord Yan is actually this tsundere. Bai Manjun: Tu Shanze, you showy peacock, strutting your stuff everywhere! Tu Shanze: How about I repay you for saving my life by marrying you? Song Bao: Can I eat this? What abou 37Reads—Score—14d adds
- 108 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
- 109 The Transmigrated Bride of the King of Hell 阎王的穿越新娘 Ye Nanchu died, but the King of Hell inexplicably let her be reborn. Fine. He was handsome, and she was a sucker for good looks. She’d accept it. He declared, “I love eating little girls like you, all soft and fair. But if you enter the underworld and become my wife, I’ll let you eat the legs first. I’ll just have the internal organs.” But everyone across the Three Realms knew he had guarded her through nine cycles of reincarnation, and spent his days enduring the punishment of having molten cop 13Reads—Score—14d adds
- 110 An Unbroken Serpent Marriage: The Snake Lord Is Too Fierce 阴缘不断：蛇夫太凶猛 When I was ten, I hurt a snake. More than a decade later, it came back for revenge, and strange things began happening around me… It all began that night when I caught a ride with the guy of my dreams… 68Reads6.4Score—14d adds
- 111 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 551Reads8.8Score10614d adds
- 112 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 1.5kReads8.9Score21014d adds
- 113 The River God's Bride 河神新娘 A sacrificial rite brings the young girl Chu Xiyan together with the River God, setting in motion a deeply moving love story. They save one another and help each other become whole, enduring the tangled joys and sorrows of love and hate... 177Reads8.8Score—14d adds
- 114 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… 1.9kReads7.5Score24114d adds
- 115 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 622Reads8.9Score10214d adds
- 116 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, 1.8kReads9.1Score13614d adds
- 117 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... 31Reads6.5Score—14d adds
- 118 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 69Reads6.6Score—14d adds
- 119 Lost in the Beast World, the Brooding Snake King Drops His Mask and Stops Pretending 误入兽世，阴湿蛇王掉马摊牌不演 [Obsessive, deranged snake king + Secret identity revealed + Beast form is prettier and longer-lived] Lin Xi thought she was going to die in the deep forest, but to her surprise, she was rescued by an obsessive, deranged snake king. The snake king asked Lin Xi for a reward, and she agreed without hesitation. Later, when the master of snake-like seduction coiled his tail around Lin Xi and flicked his forked tongue at her with a hiss, she panicked. When he rescued her, he hadn’t said that the rew 729Reads8.1Score10014d adds
- 120 My Ghost Wife Is Pregnant, and Now I Have a Ghost Husband 冥妻有喜，鬼夫我有了 [King of the Underworld + ghost child + Taoist college student + supernatural tales] Li Feiling was an ordinary college student. It all began with that pregnancy test report. The man who haunted her dreams each night had such a vivid face that just thinking of him made her cheeks flush and her legs tremble. She also felt sick and repulsed. His touch felt real, yet cold... “If only I hadn’t gone to the back mountain!” Then none of those bizarre and terrifying things would have happened, and s 296Reads6.2Score—14d adds
- 121 My Ghost Marriage Husband Is the King of Hell 冥婚老公是阎王 Yin Qing, an ordinary college student, was worried about finding a job after graduation. But after an uncanny trip back to her hometown, she found herself bound in a ghost marriage to the King of the Underworld! From then on, strange events came one after another. To uncover the secret behind the curse that had plagued the Yin family for generations, Yin Qing resolutely joined the Special Abilities Divisio 804Reads8.8Score—14d adds
- 122 Snake Scales 蛇纹 When I was six, I came down with a strange illness. Dark red snake scales covered my body. They looked horrifying and revolting, and whenever it rained, they became unbearably itchy and painful. Everyone said it was payback for my father catching and killing snakes, and that he deserved to have a snake girl for a daughter. My family paid no mind to the gossip, but that night, a white snake suddenly coiled around me and demanded that I repay my blood debt… 102Reads7.0Score—14d adds
- 123 Married to a Ghost on My Wedding Night: My Ghost Husband's Beloved 冥婚夜嫁，鬼夫心尖宠 My name is Liu Yueli. I was born in a remote mountain village. When I was little, my grandmother would often sit in front of our house, staring blankly toward the place where I was born and murmuring... “On a night when a hundred ghosts roam, red candles will light the way. Paper figures will carry the coffin, and a hundred ghosts will serve as matchmakers. The worlds of yin and yang shall not be divided; the paths of humans and ghosts shall not be separate. With heaven and earth as witnesses, o 1.2kReads8.7Score16314d adds
- 124 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 185Reads9.0Score—14d adds
- 125 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. 1kReads7.7Score10214d adds
- 126 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 291Reads8.6Score—14d adds
- 127 My Husband Comes Knocking at Midnight 老公夜半来敲门 Out of curiosity, I picked up a banknote in a cemetery where people were paying respects to their ancestors. From then on, strange things began to happen... 53Reads6.4Score—14d adds
- 128 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. 30Reads8.7Score—14d adds
- 129 A Fated Reunion: My Husband, the King of the Underworld 再生缘：我的冥王夫君 Chen Xue had been frail and sickly since childhood. Just when she had finally grown up, her breathtaking beauty aroused the jealousy of her legitimate elder sister. She thought she was doomed to die, until she met a man. He leaned close to her ear and said, “Be my woman, and I'll protect you.” From then on, everyone who bullied Zhu Chenxue either died or was left crippled. Every night, ambiguous sounds came from Zhu Chenxue's bedroom. “Don't do this...” 131Reads8.7Score—14d adds
- 130 The Celestial Maiden Went Undercover in the Underworld, Then Was Kidnapped into Becoming the Underworld King 天女卧底冥界，被拐去当冥王后 [No System + No Transmigration + Pure Ancient Fantasy] When chaos first emerged, the Celestial Worthy of Primordial Beginning took out the King of the Underworld's heart and refined it into the Tianxuan Pearl to seal off the Underworld. Thousands of years later, the Tianxuan Pearl transformed into the Celestial Maiden Yuanxin. The Celestial Worthy decided to return the heart to the King of the Underworld because she was the last remnant of his conscience. 1Reads—Score114d adds
- 131 Ghost King: His Spoiling Hurts a Little 鬼王大人：宠的有点疼 (Romance + Scheming Male Lead + School Life + Mutual Devotion + Not a Horror Story) Every night, a man pins Shen Youyou beneath him. He whispers, “Have my child!” Shen Youyou: “Sir, what do you want? I'll do anything, just please leave me alone.” The man: “I want you.” “There are countless women in the world. Why fixate on me?” “Don't talk!” You're the only one who can do this. Shen Youyou was speechless. What exactly did he want from her? Note: There's no misunderstanding in this story. And if 245Reads8.2Score—14d adds
- 132 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... 155Reads9.3Score10114d adds
- 133 On the Seventh Day of the Seventh Month, I Marry the Mountain God 七月七，嫁山神 [Strong Female Lead + Devoted Husband + Mysticism + Mountain God] My mother-in-law said I was born with one black eye and one white eye, known as Yin-Yang Eyes. I was destined to see the supernatural, and my presence would bring misfortune to ordinary people around me. So my birth parents abandoned me outside the Mountain God Temple on Wutong Mountain. The mountain god took pity on me, rescued me from the monsters, and made a marriage pact with me. From then on, I became the mountain god’s bride 310Reads—Score—14d adds
- 134 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 324Reads9.1Score11214d adds
- 135 A Life-and-Death Pact Between the King of Hell and Me 我和冥王的生死契约 "Half mystery + half comedy + the worlds of yin and yang + a male lead who is a cunning, devoted deity of the underworld + a kind, steadfast, brave mortal heroine + every character is clever" One lottery ticket, one contract, and from that moment on, my three souls and seven spirits belonged to him. I took something that was never mine, so I have to do good deeds, travel between the worlds of yin and yang, give away all my money, risk my life to repay him, and even give myself to him… He laid on 552Reads8.9Score—14d adds
- 136 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... 104Reads8.9Score—14d adds
- 137 The King of Hell's Third Bride 三嫁阎君 When I turned twenty, my father forced me into a marriage everyone dreaded. The wedding was set for the fifteenth day of the seventh lunar month, the Ghost Festival, and the man I was to marry... Wasn't human either. I was born without a heartbeat. My father used a secret art to keep me alive, and marrying this mysterious husband was my only chance of survival. On our wedding night, paper money swirled through the sky as eerie paper figures descended from above, carrying an eight-bearer phoenix 96.4kReads9.1Score15.5k14d adds
- 138 Ensnared by a Snake: My Husband Dotes on Me and Won’t Let Go 遇蛇：夫君他又宠又撩 [Romantic suspense + mild supernatural elements + both leads are chaste + sweet romance + mutual devotion + 1v1 + episodic short stories] Synopsis: On the fourteenth day of the seventh month, I was born under an ill omen. My grandmother bared her teeth and glared at me, calling me a curse who had killed one of her loved ones. In her rage, she tried to kill me by smashing me to the ground, but my maternal grandmother, a temple priestess, risked her life to save me. Eighteen years later, my grandm 79Reads8.9Score—14d adds
- 139 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 364Reads8.8Score10214d adds
- 140 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 196Reads8.8Score—14d adds
- 141 Ghost King Husband, Don't Be Like This 鬼王老公别这样 A livestream takes a turn when a ghost starts haunting me! To escape alive, I prayed to Buddhas and immortals until I obtained a secret art for exorcising ghosts. Tonight, I hold a seal-breaking dagger and wait for the monsters to come to their deaths. Sure enough, one appears, and I brandish the dagger. But... “Why isn't it working?!” “Heh, darling, you're so charming when you're scared and angry.” 46Reads8.4Score—14d adds
- 142 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 113Reads7.4Score—14d adds
- 143 Snake Sacrifice 蛇祭 Two virgins + Sweet romance + Strong female lead leveling up The Snake Lord is fearsome. A promise made a thousand years ago, a meeting in dreams, a bracelet carved from nine dragons’ bones, protection for his wife, a Soul-Devouring Demon Blade, souls scattered to the winds, old grudges brought to an end... On the night of the Ghost Festival, the fifteenth day of the seventh lunar month, Old Song carried me back from the village’s Spirit Snake Mountain. Strange changes swept across the sky: ligh 360Reads9.1Score11614d adds
- 144 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… 438Reads8.8Score10414d adds
- 145 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—14d adds
- 146 A Yin Wedding, a Cursed Wife with the Phoenix Fate 阴嫁，凤命诡妻 ◇ Fated Phoenix Maiden × Supreme Ruler of the Underworld ◇ I was born with the fate of a phoenix, yet from the moment I came into the world, I was already half dead. The night I was born, rosy clouds filled the sky and all the ghosts came to pay their respects. The seventy-two celestial clans gathered to celebrate my reincarnation... Everyone considered me ill-omened, but a passing enlightened monk said I was the reincarnation of the Lady of the Underworld. The sins of my past life had not yet b 5.2kReads8.8Score1.1k14d adds
- 147 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... 1.5kReads9.1Score13814d adds
- 148 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… 660Reads8.5Score10214d adds
- 149 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 2kReads9.0Score28614d adds
- 150 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! 342Reads7.1Score—14d adds
