Book Recommendations, Please! Something Like The Xie Family's Short-Lived Ghost, with a Clever and Pure-hearted Female Lead! 求推书！类似《谢家的短命鬼》女主聪明且清！

1. 201 妖 A Record of Eating Demons 妖食记 Cai Wangwang菜汪汪Ancient Romance632k WordsCompleted The Wuwei Inn flourishes because people in this world always have so many wishes. Birth, aging, sickness, death; resentment, hatred, love, and feuds; love and separation; life and death. The demons at the Wuwei Inn love to feast on these human joys and sorrows. Long Sanniang is stunningly beautiful. She's a shop owner, a fine cook, and a guide. Her life is long and dull, so she opens a restaurant to hear people's stories and, along the way, take in a handsome young general. Open the most distinc 3.8kReads9.4Score728Shelves

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   You can read it when you are short of books. It's really good.

2. 202 重 Reborn as a Mad Princess: The Moon Shines Over the Western Tower 重生狂妃之明月罩西楼 Mei Guo梅果Ancient Romance2.1M WordsCompleted In her previous life, Jiang Mingyue, daughter of a great general, took blows and shed blood for the Great Yin dynasty. She lived a passionate life and died a passionate death. So when she got another chance at life, she decided to stop making waves. She chose the rich, titled Zhao Xilou, a veteran slacker, as her husband, intending to while away her days with Lord Zhao, eating and waiting to die. But after becoming a Zhao, Jiang Mingyue discovered that her slacker husband might have no ambition 13.9kReads9.4Score2.1kShelves

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3. 203 光 All Beings Beneath the Light 光遇众生 The Quiet Duke静谧的公爵Anime Fanfiction974k WordsOngoing Adventure + high-IQ showdowns + suspicious, scheming characters + no female lead + ensemble cast + slow pace + revelations about the world’s truth, layer by layer (A Sky: Children of the Light fanfiction) After transmigrating into the world of Sky: Children of the Light, the Duke becomes a Light Child manipulated by the ancestors. “Go make an offering,” they say. “It is your supreme glory.” He believes them and fights his way forward with his companions, only to discover the horrifying truth aft 112Reads—Score—Shelves

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   An old bookworm who has read for tens of thousands of hours comes to speak out! Everyone in the protagonist group, especially the male protagonist, is so smart that every move is like playing an invisible game of chess. You think they are fighting side by side, but in fact everyone is looking at the world and each other in their own way. The plot progresses layer by layer, and the reversals are all within logic, but the emotional impact is unexpected.

4. 204 舌 A Hilarious Chronicle of Northern Song Cuisine 舌尖上的北宋爆笑录 The Storm Petrel in a Floral Shirt穿花衣的海燕Ancient Romance1.0M WordsCompleted "My name is Su Xiaotuan, the most miserable butcher's heir in Bianliang. Ever since I discovered I could hear ingredients talk, I've suffered mental torment every day. Yesterday, the carp on my chopping board sobbed that some literati had stuffed love letters into its gills, making it taste unbearably salty with ink. Today, moldy tofu cursed me out and begged me to give it a dignified death. The craziest thing is our family heirloom cleaver. Ever since Dad disappeared, it has been manifesting re 20Reads—Score—Shelves

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   The heroine can understand food and is a little cook who saves the world by developing funny dark dishes. One chapter per unit story, funny and wonderful, not at all cliché [laughs]

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