Period-Era Novels About Chefs and Food, Anything but Siheyuan 年代文，厨师，美食的，不要四合院其他都行
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- 101 Reborn in the 1950s: I Nearly Drowned Right After Birth 胎穿五零：刚出生的我差点被溺毙 [Reincarnated in the womb + 1950s setting + pocket dimension + cozy everyday life + a slow and steady life] Also known as: Reborn in the 1950s: I Nearly Drowned Right After I Was Born She was reincarnated in the womb, and her story began with a near-fatal drowning... Luckily, her useless father had a rare moment of conscience and barely managed to save her life. She’d just had her first decent meal, and then she was abandoned!!! Õ_Õ: Hey, little one, do you have a lot of questions??? Scene One: 3kReads7.9Score21614d adds
- 102 Reborn in 1970: Becoming an Educated Youth 重生70：成为女知青 I woke up and looked around at the empty room, with nothing but bare walls. Have I transmigrated? Reborn in the 1970s, into the Su family, where my father doesn’t care for me and my mother doesn’t love me... With a pocket dimension at my disposal, I’ll teach those awful relatives a lesson. Let’s see how Su Xiao makes a wonderful life for herself! 1.5kReads8.2Score10814d adds
- 103 The Transmigrated Cannon Fodder's Life as an Educated Youth 穿书炮灰的知青日常 [Transmigrate into a book + no black-market trips + devoted couple + pocket dimension + special abilities] Ling Yunyue wakes up as a minor character, a young educated youth about to be sent to the countryside. She snaps to her senses and quickly starts stockpiling supplies, determined to keep her distance from the male and female leads. But she accidentally runs into another minor character. Huh? Why is this one so different from the book's description? Zou Sikang never imagined that after blowi 14.6kReads9.0Score1.3k14d adds
- 104 Sign-In in the 1970s: The Female Supporting Character and Educated Youth Is Doted on by a Powerful Man 签到七零：女配知青被大佬娇宠了 (Complete) [Sign-in System + Educated Youth Sent to the Countryside + Past and Present Lives + Supporting Female Character Enjoys the Gossip + Highly Educated Couple + Clear-Headed, Independent Heroine + No Character Assassination of the Original Heroine] Yi Qingqing died young. When she arrived in the underworld, she was told she had earned great merit and should have enjoyed a life of wealth and a destined marriage in one of her lifetimes, but illness had robbed her of that. As compensation, s 57.7kReads9.4Score6.3k14d adds
- 105 The Seventies Spatial Farm: The Educated Youth’s Wife Kicks People Again 七零空间，知青媳妇又踹人了 Keeping her distance from troublemakers, Han Qingci has a pocket dimension at her disposal. In the 1970s, she makes a few good friends, chooses someone to spend her life with, and enjoys a quiet, steady life. Those people and events gradually become her life. 11.3kReads9.1Score90514d adds
- 106 Transmigrated to the 1970s: The Easygoing Young Educated Woman Is Forced to Get to Work 穿越七零：佛系娇知青被迫营业 Completed [Period setting + transmigration + spatial dimension + sweet romance] Mu Jinnian slips and falls, never expecting to land in the 1970s. Someone steals her spot in the countryside assignment? No problem, she has a spatial dimension. At first, she plans to take things easy. With the money her mother left her and the supplies in her spatial dimension, raising a younger brother in this era will be no trouble at all. Being content with what she has sounds pretty nice. But who could have gue 2.8kReads8.8Score25014d adds
- 107 The 1970s: A Sent-Down Youth Marries a Soldier and Builds a Fortune as a Middleman 七零嫁军汉，知青女配当倒爷起家 [A promise kept for a lifetime, giving her life to her country] Fraile from birth, Song Youxiang was abandoned by her family as a child and forced to go to the countryside. Even so, she never received a shred of kindness. Her parents despised her, her older sister resented her for life, and the second sister who had been given away as a child concealed her identity to get close to her. One false accusation after another followed, and they even stole her fiancé… In the end, Song Youxiang died al 7.2kReads9.2Score85314d adds
- 108 Transmigrated into a Book: In the 1970s, My Cannon-Fodder Husband Is a Master of All Trades 穿书七零：我的炮灰丈夫十项全能 [The animated adaptation is now online] [Full-cast audio drama available] [Period setting + educated youth + transmigrate into a book + pocket dimension + inspirational] Lu Xia transmigrated into the body of an educated youth in the 1970s, a girl whose parents didn’t care for her and who had been sent to the countryside in her elder sister’s place. Remembering how the original owner had always been mistreated, Lu Xia couldn’t stand for it. She sold the job, gave her family a hefty financial hit, 37.6kReads9.0Score3.6k14d adds
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Siheyuan: I'm He Yushui's Older Brother 四合院：我是何雨水哥哥
[Courtyard setting + Silly Zhu + He Yuzhu + He Yuzhu’s older brother + no System + one female lead + period setting + a little hot-tempered, but not too much + won’t take a loss or let others push him around] My name is He Gaoheng. I’ve never trained in martial arts and couldn’t even hurt a chicken with my bare hands!!! One day, I transmigrated and became He Gaoheng, the older brother of Silly Zhu from the courtyard at No. 95 Nanluoguxiang! He Daqing, the He family’s pillar, ran off, leaving the
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- 110 Siheyuan: Zhuzi Marries Li Xiuzhi, a Girl from Sichuan and Chongqing 四合院：柱子娶川渝妹子李秀芝 [Reborn + revenge + feel-good fiction + settling scores + courtyard compound + period feel-good fiction + one heroine + devoted husband + fiercely protective husband] P.S. A Sichuan girl's gentleness is at 100%. Li Xiuzhi took 97% of it with her when she fled the famine. All that's left is: “I'll count to three.” I, He Yuzhu, have crawled back from hell! In my previous life, Yi Zhonghai schemed to make me support him in old age, Liu Haizhong abused his authority to bully me, Yan Bugui nickeled a 5.1kReads5.4Score18614d adds
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The Little Chef of the Seventies: The Iron-Blooded Battalion Commander Dotes on Me 七零小厨娘：铁血营长偏宠我
Food blogger Su Nianwei opened her eyes to find herself in the body of a poor woman in the 1970s who had been forced to jump into a river. At a crossroads, she saved Gu Huaizheng, a tough battalion commander suffering from low blood sugar. His simple words, “I'll marry you,” changed her life forever. With a food-filled pocket dimension in one hand and tender devotion in the other, she tore apart the scumbag and the fake innocent, filling the military compound with mouthwatering aromas. She went
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From Michelin to Street Stall: It Took Me Only Three Days 从米其林到摆摊，我只用了三天
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- 113 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 8.9kReads8.5Score80214d adds
- 114 A Roaming Food Stall: The Whole Internet Both Loves and Hates Me! 流动美食摊，全网对我又爱又恨！ [Gourmet] + [Everyday life] + [Comedy] + [Lighthearted] After unexpectedly getting a Gourmet System, Su Chenyang decides to set up a food stall outside a university. His amazing cooking goes viral online. Before the foodies who flock there have had their fill, they discover the next day that Su Chenyang has moved his stall outside a different university. At the new location, a customer asks, “Boss, why did you move?” Su Chenyang: “There weren't any pretty girls at the last university.” The 13.2kReads7.8Score1.3k14d adds
- 115 Growth-Type Chef God: My Proficiency Rises Every Day 成长系厨神：我的熟练度每日上涨 [Food] [System] [Everyday Life] [Leveling Up] [No Female Lead] [Lighthearted] (The animated series is now out, and the print edition has been signed. Feel free to dive in!) Song Yan was tricked into coming home by his father to inherit the breakfast shop, but unexpectedly activated the God of Cooking System. [Host]: Song Yan Seasoning (Beginner): 165/1000 (Not enough to kill anyone) …Collapsed… Knife Skills (Beginner): 0/1000 (You should worry more about cutting your hand than cutting vegetables 150.6kReads8.7Score15.1k14d adds
- 116 Global: Nuclear Blast Chef, The Nation Helps Me Level Up 全民：核爆厨神，国家带我升级 [Everyone Changes Classes + Dark Cuisine + Lighthearted Comedy + Serving the Nation + One-Man Army] After transmigrating to a world where everyone changes classes, Li Yang becomes a chef. He only wants to work hard, earn money, and make a living. But who could have guessed that the dishes he made would be just a tiny bit unusual? [Explosive Stink Eggs: They burst into a splatter of egg and stink to high heaven, but can dissolve equipment of any quality!] [Indestructible Giant Bread: Impossible t 671Reads8.7Score10114d adds
- 117 I Traveled to the 1970s With a Dedicated Worker System 带着敬业系统穿七零 Xu Taotao, a descendant of imperial chefs, keeps her culinary skills hidden while living among ordinary people. Then she dies suddenly from overwork and gets bound to a workaholic System, which sends her to the 1970s. She becomes the famously ugly daughter of a butcher at a meat-processing plant. Determined to become beautiful, she has no choice but to keep working hard. With her superb cooking skills, she climbs the career ladder, gets a raise, and marries Professor Gu... No, wait! “Ding-dong! 16.8kReads9.1Score2.6k14d adds
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Siheyuan: I'm a Scumbag? Yeah, Yeah, Sure 四合院：我是人渣？啊对对对
After transmigrating into the world of "The Birds Are Full in the Courtyard", Xu Damao finds himself inhabiting the body of a man who shares his name. Bound to a God-Tier Mission System, he earns god-tier rewards whenever he completes a mission he chooses. The Nine Yin Manual, Eighteen Culinary Arts, the Legacy of Traditional Chinese Medicine... Duplicators, projectors, televisions... With an era of sweeping change just around the corner, Xu Damao is ready. A wife and children at home, a warm
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- 119 Siheyuan: Without Morals, There's No One to Blackmail 四合院：没有道德，就绑架不了 Li Qingshan transmigrates into the world of Love in the Courtyard. He gains the All-Profession Master System, which lets him absorb other people's skill experience. Yi Zhonghai, the moral paragon: I'm a Level 8 fitter, and I earn 99 yuan a month. Li Qingshan: Sorry, you won't be one for much longer. Silly Zhu, the courtyard's top fighter: I'm the head chef at the steelworks. My dishes look, smell, and taste amazing. Everyone who's tried them says they're delicious. Li Qingshan: Sorry, but your c 2Reads5.9Score—14d adds
- 120 The Pinnacle of Life in the Siheyuan 四合院之人生巅峰 A modern-day overworked employee, a 007 who never stops working, is reborn in a parallel world. By chance, he gains a golden finger. This is the story of how, starting with nothing but a middle-school education, he gradually leads his whole family out of poverty and into prosperity. It all begins in a courtyard house. 4.1kReads8.3Score16114d adds
- 121 Siheyuan: A Procurement Officer's Treasure Hunt 四合院：采购员的寻宝之旅 [Procurement Officer] + [Antiques] + [Bird Training] + [Treasure Hunting] What can a procurement officer procure? Zhao Jianshe transmigrates to the 1960s and becomes a procurement officer at a steel mill. First he buys ingredients, then he travels on business to purchase coal, iron ore, equipment, and every other supply the mill needs. As he roams far and wide, Zhao Jianshe takes advantage of his job's convenience to embark on a treasure-hunting journey, saving countless antiques, paintings, and 3.5kReads7.0Score27514d adds
- 122 Back to 1987 重回1987 Feng Yisheng, the lone wolf of finance, spent his entire life striving for the top. Just as he reached the summit of the financial world, someone threw him off a rooftop, sending him back to 1987, a year when his parents and older sister had disappeared, his younger sister had been kidnapped, and the girl who had waited ten years for him had given up. It was a time when beauty and harsh reality coexisted. As spring breezes and gentle rain swept across China and all things came back to life, he m 16.6kReads9.3Score2k14d adds
- 123 Siheyuan: You Rejected My Confession, So I Left. Why Are You Crying? 四合院：表白你不接受我走你哭啥 [System + period setting + farming + everyday life + sweet romance] This book is also known as Love in the Courtyard: Refusing to Be a Doormat, Qin Huairu Panics, Reborn Without Becoming Someone's Fall Guy, Qin Huairu Is Panicking, and Reborn: Returning to the Sixties to Become a Tycoon. After transmigrating into the world of Love in the Courtyard, Han Jianguo becomes an ordinary resident. That year, Qin Huairu is still unmarried. Having been poisoned by novels, Han Jianguo promptly decides to g 120Reads5.4Score—14d adds
- 124 Siheyuan: Sign-In Surprises, Caution Every Day 四合院之签到有意外，每日需谨慎 Picking up the story from Four-Sided Courtyard: Taking a Loss Is a Blessing, also known as Four-Sided Courtyard: The Story of He Yuzhu’s Childhood, this continues the tale as Wang Ming enters the courtyard, claiming to be a descendant of Zhen Xiaoxiao’s benefactor. No holier-than-thou saint, a miracle doctor, decisive and ruthless, full of surprises, twists, and laughs 206Reads—Score—14d adds
- 125 Siheyuan: I'm Serious About Dealing with All Those Vile Neighbors 四合院：整治众禽，我是认真的 Li Jun accidentally transmigrated into the world of "The Man in the Courtyard", becoming a grade-two lathe worker at a steel mill. Faced with the courtyard full of animals, Li Jun declared: “Don’t mess with me. I just want to live my own quiet little life. Otherwise, I’ll show you that I specialize in dealing with pests, and I mean business.” The Thief Saint, Bang Geng, broke in to steal, so Li Jun sent him straight off to work a sewing machine in prison. Jia Zhangshi tried to avenge her grandso 1kReads5.4Score—14d adds
- 126 The Bigwigs Go Wild Fighting over a Bite to Eat 为了一口吃的，大佬们抢疯了 [Gourmet] + [laid-back daily life] + [no System] + [comedy] Li Heng is a chef who accidentally transmigrates to a cultivation world where culinary skills have fallen into decline. He discovers that his dishes are not only delicious, but can also improve cultivation and strengthen the body. One day, while Li Heng is cooking, a passing sect’s saintess spirits him away to work as their chef. As Li Heng serves up dish after delicious dish, the entire sect goes wild. The disciples go crazy competing 2.1kReads8.8Score16114d adds
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God Chef System: Starting with Egg Fried Rice 厨神系统：从蛋炒饭开始
On the legendary Eastern Continent, dawn has barely broken, yet a long line already fills an alley. Look closely and you’ll see countless famous big shots among them! The world’s richest people and Gourmet tycoons are everywhere! But at the end of the line is an unremarkable little shop. None of the dishes inside are expensive, and even the most ordinary ingredients shine in the owner’s hands! Countless people have gone absolutely wild over his cooking! Watch Qin Yang rise to the very top of the
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- 128 The God of Cooking and the Demon Beasts: Oh No, We're the Ingredients! 厨神，妖兽：不好，我们成食材了 A chef transmigrates to a fantasy world and awakens the strongest Chef God System. Whenever someone praises a dish he makes, his talent, physique, and insight improve. Well, this is an instant takeoff. What's more, his dishes have special effects: they can strengthen the body, nourish one's health, and clear away hidden injuries… The entire sect goes wild. From the Ancestor, Supreme Elders, and Sect Master to the servant disciples, everyone goes crazy for a taste. The Sect Master say 66.7kReads9.1Score4.6k14d adds
- 129 Reborn in 1975: From the Start, I Tore Up the Order to Return to the City 重生1975：开局撕毁回城调令 Zhou Yang, an unrivaled patriot who devoted his whole life to his country, was reborn and returned to the remote mountain village where he had been sent down to work in 1975! Looking at the transfer order in his hand, this time he didn't hesitate. He tore it to shreds! In his previous life, he'd been blinded by greed and abandoned his wife and daughter to return to the city, watching helplessly as Li Youwei and her daughter met tragic deaths. Reborn, all Zhou Yang wanted was a warm home with his 163.2kReads9.5Score18.2k14d adds
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A 1960s Supporting Actress Joins Her Husband’s Army on a Coastal Island 六零年代女配海岛随军日常
Island life with the military + Sweet romance + No toxic characters + Everyday life Ye Xi accidentally transmigrated to the 1960s. Before she could even process what had happened, the man who had saved her life proposed to her. Lu Zhou brought home a sweet, delicate wife, and the young woman was an incredible cook. Crab roe noodles, fish roe wontons, soybean cakes… Lu Zhou could only think how lucky he was to have found a treasure.
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Back to the Sixties: Becoming a Chef at a Big Factory 六十年代之回到大厂当厨子
(Period Drama + Rebirth + Siheyuan Courtyard + Farming + No Golden Finger) Wang Jianguo spent his whole life meekly working in the back kitchen of a machinery factory. He had no wife or children, and even the factory took care of his funeral. Perhaps his obsession ran too deep, because time turned back and returned him to the moment before it all began... There’s no golden finger at any point. The protagonist won’t reach the pinnacle of life or slaughter his way through the world. If that’s not
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After an Arranged Marriage, I Moved My Modern Apartment Onto an Ancient Battlefield 替嫁后，我把现代公寓搬进古战场
Yan Jingyao, a modern weapons designer, accidentally transmigrated to the Great Jing Dynasty when her laboratory exploded. Through a twist of fate, she became a substitute bride and married Wei Yanheng, a renowned God of War prince who had been gravely wounded. She carried a fully equipped modern apartment space with her, stocked with medicine, equipment, and all kinds of modern technical materials. When she first arrived at the prince's residence, she used modern medicine to save her badly inju
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- 133 After Five Years of Love, I Finally Let Go of the Quagmire 耗尽五年情深，终是放过泥沼 After five years of pouring my heart into love, I finally walked away from the mire. 72Reads—Score214d adds
- 134 If I Turn Away, We May Never Meet Again 若我转身，再会无期 A new work is out! You're welcome to read my stories on Tomato Novel. I hope you'll enjoy them. Your support motivates me to write, and I'll do my best to tell every story well! 162Reads—Score—14d adds
- 135 Drowning in a Whirlpool of Tenderness 溺于温柔漩涡 Yan Shumei: A freelance illustrator and a textbook drama queen. It's not that she's bad, she's just afraid. Afraid of being abandoned, she starts fights first, pushes people away first, and covers herself in thorns. Qi Yanxu: Three years younger, and a doctoral student. He seems gentle and easy to handle, but beneath that he's stubborn and passionate. When he's jealous, he goes quiet. When he's tired, he'll say so. But he has never once thought of letting go. They've weathered a smashed glass on 59Reads—Score—14d adds
- 136 Caged Gardenia Beneath the Ashen Moon 烬月囚栀 Caged Gardenia Beneath the Ember Moon 34Reads—Score—14d adds
- 137 Drowning in Deep Blue, I Met You 溺于深蓝遇见你 Lost in the Deep Blue, I Found You 17Reads—Score214d adds
- 138 I Just Bought a New Car, and the Traffic Cop Is My Ex 新车刚提，交警是我前男友 I Just Got a New Car, and the Traffic Cop Is My Ex-Boyfriend 28Reads—Score—14d adds
- 139 He Can't Stop Spoiling the Green Tea Girl, So I Turn Around and Reclaim My Place at Home 他宠绿茶上瘾，我转身家门归位 He can't stop doting on his scheming sweetheart, so I turn around and reclaim my place in the family. 40Reads—Score214d adds
- 140 After I Transmigrated, My Best Friend and I Became the Richest Women in the Capital 穿越后，我和闺蜜卷成了京城首富 After I transmigrated, my best friend and I hustled our way to becoming the richest people in the capital. 11Reads—Score—14d adds
- 141 The Top Student Favors Me, as I Chase the Wind to the Summit 学神偏爱，等我追风登顶 The Top Student Favors Me, So Watch Me Chase the Wind and Reach the Summit 18Reads—Score—14d adds
- 142 Fragrance from a Cold Hearth: The Abandoned Daughter Crowns the Capital with Her Beans 枯灶生香：弃女凭豆冠京华 Fragrance from a Cold Stove: The Cast-Off Daughter Claims the Capital with Her Beans 8Reads—Score—14d adds
- 143 Wrongfully Married to a Mama's Boy: The Years My In-Laws Tormented Me 错嫁妈宝男，被婆家磋磨的那些年 Wrongly Married to a Mama's Boy: The Years My In-Laws Made My Life Miserable 8Reads—Score—14d adds
- 144 At Yunqi Mountain, I Happened to Meet You 云栖山野，恰逢君至 In the Wilds of Yunqi Mountain, I Happened to Meet You 9Reads—Score—14d adds
- 145 Do We Really Hate Each Other? We're Secretly in Love 相看两厌？我们背地里双向暗恋 Can't Stand the Sight of Each Other? We're Secretly in Love 14Reads—Score—14d adds
- 146 The Orphan Girl Bullied by the Whole Village, Yet Cherished by Every Court Official 全村欺辱的孤女，竟得朝臣满心偏爱 The orphan girl bullied by the whole village unexpectedly wins the wholehearted affection of the court officials. 6Reads—Score—14d adds
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War of Resistance: I Help Li Yunlong of Bright Sword Defend Nanjing to the Death 抗战：我带亮剑李云龙死守南京城
War of Resistance + fighting the Japanese invaders + defending home and country + patriotism + Bright Sword + Li Yunlong + Chu Yunfei + Nanjing + Ding Wei + Kong Jie Li Xiaoyao was a border guard in the 21st century. During a joint international aid operation, he was tragically killed after stepping on a land mine while covering his allies’ retreat. When he opened his eyes again, he found himself a young soldier in the Red Fourth Front Army in 1935. The unfamiliar surroundings and body made him
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- 148 War of Resistance: A Bloody Fight for Our Homeland 抗战：血战山河 (War of Resistance, fighting Japan, defending home and country, patriotism, killing invading Japanese troops, killing Japanese soldiers, Bright Sword, Li Yunlong, Chu Yunfei, Kong Jie, Ding Wei, defending Nanjing, Nanjing, Unit 731 base, Unit 731) Lei Zhenshan, a 21st-century Special Forces instructor, transmigrates into 1938, a year of relentless Japanese attacks and endless artillery fire, and finds himself a battalion commander on the brink of disaster. The unfamiliar surroundings and body ma 1.8kReads7.2Score10614d adds
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Growing Strong with the Help of Beautiful Women 成长之红颜助我
Beauty helped me succeed, and I repaid her with ten thousand taels of gold…
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- 150 Dark Zone: Survival 暗区突围之生 I’ve just started a new story, and I hope you’ll enjoy it. Your support motivates me, and I’ll do my best to write every story well. Please follow for updates, leave a good review, and send gifts (free ones are great too). 7Reads—Score—14d adds
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