Looking for Cozy Shopkeeping Novels with No Brain-Dead Characters. Shopkeeping, Shopkeeping, Shopkeeping! 求开店舒适生活书，没有无脑降智的开店开店开店！
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- 51 Gourmet: I Inherit a Little Shop and Take the Whole Country by Storm! 美食：继承小店的我火爆全国！ [No female lead romance + laid-back daily life + opening and upgrading a restaurant + lovingly detailed food descriptions and steady growth!] Su Baihang took over a restaurant from his parents. It was located inside a tourist attraction and was on the verge of closing. Luckily, the Strongest Culinary God System activated! Who says the food at tourist attractions can’t be delicious? Homestyle cabbage stir-fried with vinegar: sweet and sour, and even helps you lose weight! Red-braised pork: tender 1.1kReads8.7Score102Shelves
- 52 I'm a Chef, So Isn't It Only Natural to Carry a Cleaver? 身为厨师，身上带把菜刀很合理吧 Jiang Han spent eleven years cooking in prison. There, he received a mysterious inheritance and learned 108 lost recipes. After his release, he searched high and low for work to make a living, only to be turned away at every turn. If the world wouldn’t give him a way to survive, he’d make one for himself. One long-lost, legendary dish after another returned to the world under his hands. When Jiang Han went deep into the mountains to capture a dragon and into the depths of the sea to hunt a whale 637Reads8.8Score101Shelves
- 53 The Day the Chef Left, the Diners Wept Until Their Tears Ran Dry 厨子跑的那一天，食客老泪都流干 Xu Yuan never expected that, as a recent college graduate, he would one day get bound to a System. The System said, “As a chef, your job is to let diners experience delicious food.” Then it added, “But as the creator of delicious food, how can you let work tie you down?” And so... “Ding! This month’s mission: Apply for a job as a restaurant chef, then quit after working for half a month to claim your System reward...” Xu Yuan: “You little schemer!” And so it went. Restaurant owner: “I’m not brag 8.8kReads8.5Score802Shelves
- 54 I Sell Lunch Boxes, So Isn't It Only Natural for the School Cafeteria to Go Under? 我卖盒饭，学校食堂倒闭很正常吧 [Food + comedy + one heroine + transmigration + System] Lu Rong rents a small stall on a college campus to sell boxed meals, but business is so poor that he's on the verge of closing down. Luckily, at the crucial moment, he awakens a Super Gourmet System and instantly becomes a top chef. A simple plate of egg fried rice is enough to draw countless students and teachers to his stall. Then Lu Rong starts offering even more top-quality dishes, and the whole campus goes wild. Everyone joins the rank 1.3kReads8.6Score100Shelves
- 55 After Becoming a Master of State Banquets, I Started Running a Street Stall 成为国宴大师后开始摆摊 The warmth of everyday life is what comforts the human heart most. [Food + street stalls + lighthearted + plenty of cooking knowledge + street-stall guide + slow-paced everyday life + detailed recipes + no harem + the author genuinely wants to teach readers to cook] Chen Feng has studied cooking for years and mastered the four major regional cuisines of Sichuan, Shandong, Guangdong, and Huaiyang. He became the youngest person in the Dragon Kingdom to earn the title of National Banquet Master. Af 4.2kReads8.9Score277Shelves
- 56 Tang Dynasty Supermarket: From the Start, Spicy Latiao Makes Li Shimin Cry 大唐超市：开局辣条辣哭李世民 In the seventh year of the Zhenguan era, there was a shop in Chang'an called the Great Tang Supermarket. It was packed with people, and its doors were always busy with countless nobles and officials coming and going. There was Li Shimin, who burst into tears after eating a spicy snack; Cheng Yaojin, who cracked his head open trying to get a packet of hot pot base; and Princess Changle, who couldn’t sleep all night over a face mask. Every new product brought out a fresh craze, and the shopkeeper 17.9kReads8.4Score1.4kShelves
- 57 I Became a Grain Tycoon, Sending Endless Supplies to the Red Army 我成粮食大亨，无限给红军送粮 [Future System + Modern Host + Missions in the Past] Fang Jin is on the verge of bankruptcy when he unexpectedly binds himself to the “Space-Time Provisions System” from the future. System missions: deliver unlimited food to the arduous years of history, when people went hungry and cold: the Red Army on the Long March, the volunteer soldiers in the frozen wilderness, and the base areas cut off from food and supplies... The rewards are generous, but the penalty is even harsher: fail a mission, an 780Reads—Score—Shelves
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I Transmigrated into a Pendant, and My Wife Handed Me Over to the Nation 穿越成吊坠，妻子把我上交国家
[Urban high-martial world + transmigration + handing everything over to the state + passionate ensemble cast + protecting his wife from behind the scenes] This is another world where Chinese history has been lost to a gap in the record and exotic beasts run rampant. The original host dies in the opening. I’ve only just transmigrated and haven’t even figured out what’s going on when my soul is sucked into a broken pendant, a keepsake the original host gave his wife. Sealed inside the pendant is f
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- 59 You Thought I Was Too Weak, So My Cultivation Technique Went Dark Overnight 嫌我太弱，我的功法连夜黑化了 [Lighthearted + Misunderstandings + Chat Group + Fully Automated Training + Overpowered Power Fantasy] Yang Tian transmigrates into a high-martial-arts world. With mediocre talent, he only wants to lie flat. But who could have guessed that the cultivation techniques inside him would think he was too weak and turn sentient overnight! And that’s not all. His techniques even set up a chat group: [Iron Shirt] left the group and wrote: “The Host is too fragile. I went for a soak at the nuclear power 730Reads—Score102Shelves
- 60 Team Up to Go Home for the New Year: Why Are All My Teammates Goddesses? 组队回家过年：队友竟然全是女神 [Urban + System + multiple women + lighthearted + feel-good power fantasy + mostly everyday life] “Yang Tian, if you don’t bring home a girlfriend this New Year, you’re sleeping in the pigsty!” Faced with his mother’s ultimatum, penniless Yang Tian suddenly obtains the [Instance Party System]. As long as he posts a mission, all kinds of goddesses will accept it and “team up” with him to go home and conquer every obstacle. New Year’s Eve, family reunion dinner. Uncle: “I heard Yang Tian lost his 2.3kReads6.0Score258Shelves
- 61 I Used the Myriad Worlds Exchange System to Redeem Myself 我用万界兑换系统兑换我自己 [System + mastermind behind the scenes + multiple worlds + apocalypse + no saintly hero] Yang Tian acquired a strange System. The items in its shop turned out to be attributes he had "lost" himself? [Looks +10]? I lost that! [Intelligence +20]? I lost that too! [Protective Astral Energy]? That's my passive skill! Yang Tian: "Hey, System bro, aren't you just making me pay to buy myself back?!" The world changed. The Gray Realm descended, and reality merged with the mysterious and uncanny. Wit 157Reads—Score—Shelves
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I Quit My Job and Opened a Restaurant in Another World 辞职后开了家异世界餐厅
[Complete. Multiple female leads + a little System + a little invincibility + travel between another world and the real world] [Western fantasy, portals, noble lords, dragon battles, elven ruins, the endless sea] After a bitter falling-out and quitting his job on the spot, Qi Gedeng became unemployed in Modu. With a little cooking know-how, he got the idea to open a restaurant. "If other people can open one, why can't I?" If all else fails, he can hop on a stream with Yong-ge! Once he made up hi
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Eerie Tales of the Year of the Horse: My Blind Date Is a Paper Effigy 马年诡事：我的相亲对象是纸扎人
A modern paranormal novel blending folk taboos, suspenseful horror, and heartfelt redemption. Set in the Year of the Fire Horse, the story follows Lin Wanqing, whose bizarre blind date draws her into a curse born of sixty years of resentment and a fate bound to her family.
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- 64 I Run a Canteen in an Infinite-Turn Survival Game 我在无限流开食堂 My name is Lin Zhou, and I'm a chef who couldn't make it in the real world. The moment I open my eyes, I'm thrown into an infinite game called "Abyss of Gluttony." Other people start with knives and guns, but all I have is a kitchen knife I brought from the real world. The System tells me my starting class is... [Cafeteria Chef]. In dungeons crawling with ghosts and monsters, everyone else is trying to escape while I'm tossing food in the kitchen. Sadako, big sis, care to try my freshly made Sou —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 65 A Mortal's Fury 凡人的愤怒 I slipped the money through the window and said, “Here's fifty thousand. Take care of what's owed first, then put the rest on my card.” The chubby nurse froze. She looked up at the stack of bills, then at my tattered work clothes, stained with black soot. Suspicion filled her small eyes. She was probably wondering how someone like me, doing manual labor, had gotten so much money. —Reads—Score—Shelves
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The Three Realms Supermarket 三界超市
The Three Realms Supermarket: I Sell Goods and Become Invincible! A young man with only three months left to live inherits a supermarket. It can connect the Three Realms, but that makes him a thorn in Heaven’s side. He improves Granny Meng’s soup recipe, recommends dog food to Erlang Shen’s dog, and discusses red-thread business with the Matchmaker. As gods and ghosts become hooked on shopping, his daily routine is to earn merit to extend his life while matching wits with the Jade Emperor. He
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The Golden Phoenix Isn't a Chicken 金凤不是鸡
An age when lovers were everywhere, an era dominated by online loans, and the emotional high of a night at a karaoke club… Wealth became the sole measure of success, affection turned into a bargaining chip, and labels of status rose above personal character. Amid the drunken, glittering world, he and she were drawn into a chain of scams woven from money, power, and desire. Each tried to stake a lifetime of innocence on finding an answer to the question, “I’m not a prostitute.” They were willing
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Qingshui Village Farmstay 清水村农家乐
When you've reached a dead end, go home, back to the vast fields and farmland. Help your parents sell peaches, grow vegetables in greenhouses, and run a farmstay. Then lead the villagers of Qingshui Village to prosperity and forge your own path as a new-generation farmer!
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A Second New Beginning 二次新生
[No System] [Not Reborn] [Realistic Urban Life] [Restaurant Startup] [Slice of Life] It wasn’t until the day I got divorced that I understood: closing the noodle shop wasn’t the hardest part. The hardest part was watching my ex-wife get into someone else’s car, then having to smile as I served the last pot of bone broth to my summer customers. Later, I won a bet to take over a restaurant. I thought my life was finally turning around. Until I realized that every step I took was a square on someon
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An Assistant System? My Cooking Skills Come From Grinding It Out Myself 辅助系统？我的厨艺全靠自己熬
Chang'an people, Chang'an flavors. The System offers support but no cheats. I build a life full of warmth with my own hands. The best redemption in life has never been a cheat-powered life, but a simple meal of rice and vegetables. When you feel you can't keep going, come have a taste of home. I'm a new author. Please give me some pointers!
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A Popular Streamer Transmigrates With a Supermarket and Slacks Off Every Day 人气主播带超市穿越我天天摆烂
[Space + Business-Building + Sweet Romance + Building Wealth + Wish Fulfillment + System] Liang Tian'er is a popular food streamer on a certain video platform, with tens of millions of followers. One day, while livestreaming, she accidentally transmigrates to ancient times. Her ancient-era husband despises her. What is she supposed to do? To her surprise, the System's reward is to transmigrate along with her family's supermarket, stocked with all the delicacies she usually features in her stream
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We Stewed the World into One Big Family 我们把世界炖成了一家
(Ongoing) Ensemble cast + System + food + restaurant management. Three canon couples, one each in BL, GL, and BG. Romance, friendship, and family bonds all feature. After inheriting my grandfather's little restaurant, I recruit chefs from around the world and turn it into a world-class establishment. The story is told mainly through dialogue. The plot is divided into three strands: the main storyline, personal stories, and events, interwoven in chronological order. I often visited my grandfathe
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A Mountain Village Shop That Connects Past and Present: Trading Resources Is a Blast 山村开店通古今，资源置换很痛快
(Also known as "The Mountain Village That Connects to the Past and Present" and "I Got Rich Selling Bread in Another World") When Jiang YeJun wakes up one morning, she finds someone sneaking into her backyard to steal the bread she uses to feed her chickens. The child she catches in the act is dressed in rags. He even says he wants to become her child-bridegroom and promises to care for her in her old age. Jiang YeJun is so exasperated she laughs! Later, she figures out that, somehow, her backya
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Transmigrated as a Kitchen Maid, I Win Over the Devil Prince with Viral Dishes 穿成厨丫，网红美食拿捏魔鬼殿下
A food blogger transmigrates and becomes an obscure kitchen maid in the Third Prince’s household! Her immediate superior is the notoriously fussy and difficult Third Prince, a devil who beats and berates the staff whenever a dish fails to please him. No problem! This modern food blogger’s skills are the real deal! Milk tea, cream-filled pastries, and creative snacks make their way to the table one after another, and before long she has the icy Third Prince completely wrapped around her finger. H
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The Savings System Summoned Me to Another World to Become a Rich Woman 我被存钱系统召唤到异世界当富婆
[Travel Between Two Worlds] + [Modern-Day Fantasy] + [System] + [Farming] + [No Romance] + [Food Business] + [Livestream] + [Building Wealth] + [Infrastructure] + [Redemption] Other people's Systems shower their Hosts with money and perks. Mine is all about being broke, forcing me to make money through street vending and hand over every last cent. I make a million a day Livestreaming skewers made with handsome men from the mall, only for the System to order me to turn off tips. I have to build
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My Relatives Maliciously Hiked the Rent. My RV Nail Salon Took Off, and Now He's Regretting It 亲戚恶意抬高房租，房车美甲爆火他悔疯了
His relatives spitefully jacked up the rent. He regretted it like crazy when her RV nail salon went viral.
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Switching Careers from IT to Chef IT转行做厨师
After a traffic accident, a family of three transmigrates to ancient times. They only want to survive while searching for a way back to the modern world, but they accidentally get caught up in court intrigue. In the end, they resolve the crisis and find their way home.
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