Are There Really No Ancient-Era Food and Business Novels with No Romance? 古代美食文经营文就没有无CP的吗

1. 1 您 You Have a New Thirst-Quenching Drink Order 您有新的渴了么订单 Braised Wings of the Great Peng大鹏炖翅Ancient Romance507k WordsCompleted [Character development + business simulation + infrastructure building + healing + no romance + a touch of court intrigue] They say the emperor was corrupt and incompetent, and Heaven sent down divine punishment. Not a drop of rain had fallen on this land for nearly twenty years, and countless people had died of thirst. Then, all of a sudden, a milk tea shop opened in the desert. In spring, there were all kinds of ice-cold fruit juices, along with seasonal drinks like cherry blossom and lychee b 13.4kReads9.4Score1.9kShelves

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   It's really good! There's not much scheming or mindless plotting. Highly recommended, I plan to watch it a second time!

2. 2 北 Gourmet Delights of the Northern Song: I Made a Fortune Through Food 北宋珍馐录，我靠美食发家赚万金 I've Met the Cat King见过猫猫大王Ancient Romance837k WordsOngoing [No romance + alternate Northern Song setting + native-born heroine + food + ensemble cast and everyday life + gradual, steady pacing + building a fortune] A new eatery has opened in Daming Prefecture. Its proprietor is a young woman of fourteen or fifteen, always greeting everyone with a smile. People all say she’s kind. But Chen Heniang doesn’t think she’s a good person. Growing up in a family that favored boys over girls, she stole eggs from the neighbors at seven, learned to cry and lie at e 21.1kReads8.6Score3.2kShelves

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   This is so beautiful!

3. 3 我 I Opened a Restaurant in the Warring States Period 我在战国开食肆 A Little Meow Seed, Meow Meow Meow一只喵苗喵喵喵Ancient Romance296k WordsOngoing [Female-oriented + no romance + farming + business management + food + history] Bound to a System while playing a business management game? Jiang Fu stares at the dilapidated house and the System interface in front of her, completely dumbfounded. But the System says that if she opens eateries and builds a reputation, she'll get a ten-billion-yuan cash prize and a time-travel ticket home once she completes the achievements. Wow! At this time, Qin Shi Huang is still a hostage in Zhao, the smoke of 6.7kReads8.2Score871Shelves

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   [Female-oriented + No romance + Farming + Management + Food + History] Bound to a system while playing a management game? Jiang Fu stared dumbfounded at the dilapidated house and system interface before her. But the system said that opening a restaurant and gaining fame would reward her with a billion-dollar prize and a time-travel ticket home once she achieved certain goals. At that time, Qin Shi Huang was still a hostage in Zhao, the smoke of the Battle of Changping had not yet cleared, and the six states were in constant turmoil. Jiang Fu rolled up her sleeves and got to work. First, she set up a small stall in Handan, where a bowl of tofu pudding amazed Lian Po; then, in Xinzheng, Han, a bowl of braised noodles won over the young Han Fei; in Yingdu, Chu, a plate of steamed yellow croaker prompted Lord Chunshen to compose a poem; finally, she entered Xianyang, where her restaurant became a favorite haunt of Lü Buwei and Meng Ao. During this time, Jiang Fu constantly completed system tasks, accumulating a fortune in favorability with celebrities. However, as her restaurant remained open longer, Jiang Fu suddenly panicked. When would she finally be able to go home with the billion-dollar prize? Wait a minute! The "world-renowned" in "famous throughout the world" could mean... The whole world?! I was wondering why my reputation points weren't full after all this time; they were waiting for her. In other words, my charming ancestor is still in her prime, at the age where she should be striving; perhaps she should consider developing her career a bit more.

4. 4 位 Quick Transmigration Across Planes: I Own a Little General Store 位面快穿，我有一间小杂货店 Pipi Loves Tangerines爱吃橘子的皮皮Modern Romance4.1M WordsOngoing [No romance + no male lead + general store + ensemble cast + doing business in various novel worlds, including storylines where the heroine gets help] [Main characters: Su Ling + a calico cat] After waking up one day, Su Ling finds that her general store has bonded with a planar trade System, and she transmigrates into a book. First book world: a lucky heroine in a story set during the era of rationing. A general store suddenly appears on the hill behind Dawang Village. It has more goods tha 52.7kReads9.3Score4.7kShelves

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   The female protagonist runs a general store in various dimensions, helping people in each dimension survive disasters and gain energy through the items she finds, while also collecting unique items from each dimension to earn money. Her system isn't a conventional entity existing only in her mind; instead, it manifests as an adorable calico cat. The author maintains a consistent update frequency, has excellent writing skills, and avoids melodramatic or villainous characters, focusing instead on ordinary people struggling to survive.

5. 5 开 A Bag of Flour from the Start, and a Seven-Year-Old Opens a Pancake Shop 开局一袋面粉，七岁萌娃开饼店 White Tree on the Cliff白树栖崖Ancient Romance210k WordsCompleted [Modern to Ancient + Alternate Universe + Gourmet + No Romance + Everyday Life] Food blogger Xu Ningyue transmigrates, but into the body of a seven-year-old child, and one who was mistakenly switched at birth and raised as a fake heiress. She hasn't enjoyed a good life for long before her adoptive parents, who come from a family of pastry makers, give her a bag of flour and send her back to her birth parents. Her birth parents run a flatbread shop and can only make ends meet. Looking at the shop 8Reads5.8Score—Shelves

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   This book tells the story of a female protagonist who transmigrates into the body of a fake heiress (who is actually a real heiress). She starts by delivering a bag of flour to the family that owns a pancake shop, thus beginning her culinary entrepreneurial journey...

6. 6 胎 Reincarnated in the Womb? With a Food System, the World Is Mine 胎穿？美食系统在手，天下我有 Jiajia's Beibei加加家的贝贝Ancient Romance430k WordsCompleted [System + group transmigration + humorous and lighthearted + career-building + no romance] After modern office worker Li Jiajia lets loose at work and talks herself into trouble, she gets knocked into the water on her way home late at night, tipsy, and transmigrates to the fictional ancient kingdom of Daling. At birth, she gets what seems to be a chatty System. She thinks she's about to lie flat for the rest of her life, but just after her third-day celebration, she's pulled into a group chat ca 2Reads—Score—Shelves

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   This one, well, the main character is still young, so let's just make him the darling of the group 😊

7. 7 姜 Granny Jiang's Survival Log in Ancient Times 姜老太古代生存日志 Summer Salt Soda夏日盐汽水Ancient Romance260k WordsCompleted After transmigrating, Jiang Ruyi loses the restaurant she had just opened after paying hundreds of thousands in franchise fees. Her resentment is practically on par with Evil Sword Immortal’s. Anger level: up, up! Fortunately, the pickled garlic she had just pounded with one hand and the grinder in the other came along when she transmigrated. Well, there’s no going back now, is there? Jiang Ruyi lets out a long sigh and resolves to do her best to survive in ancient times. 402Reads8.6Score101Shelves

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   Is this story about a woman who transmigrates into the body of an old lady? No romantic pairing. She sells boxed lunches in ancient times.

8. 8 富 The Wealthy Little Cook 富贵小厨娘 Xin Chen辛尘Ancient Romance1.1M WordsCompleted Lu Azhuo, a superb cook, transmigrated into an imperial-examination novel, where she was destined to become the male lead's short-lived first wife. Her husband's family and her own would be ruined because of her. Another title for this story: Death Comes Calling. When she woke up, she could uproot a willow with one hand and wield a kitchen knife with the other. No one within ten miles dared provoke her. They said she could silence a crying baby just by showing up. She was making a fortune with h 299Reads7.1Score101Shelves

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   I love food articles; they make me hungry and stimulate my appetite 💕

9. 9 我 How Did a Cultivation Big Shot Like Me End Up Cooking? 我一个修真大佬怎么开始搞美食了 Beef Ball Soup with Rice牛肉丸汤饭Modern Romance135k WordsCompleted Cultivation-world powerhouse + portable convenience store + no romance + food After inexplicably being kicked out of the cultivation world following her ascension, Tao Yu unexpectedly returns to Earth. She spends a few days eating and drinking to her heart’s content, only to be kicked out again by the world’s consciousness! At last, she realizes there’s nowhere that will accept her! Every time she arrives in a new world, she’s greeted by that world’s consciousness. Each time, Tao Yu thinks she c 4Reads—Score—Shelves
10. 10 只 All I Can Do Is Grow Vegetables and Cook, Yet I Became Cultivation World's Top-Tier Star 只会种菜做饭，却成了修真界顶流 Mr. Impenetrable不透君Modern Romance637k WordsCompleted [Hilarious and Heartwarming + Food + Farming + A Touch of Modern Cultivation] She inherited a cultivation legacy, and her innate talents were cooking and growing vegetables. She became the leader of a sect, but living in poverty was the norm. From the start, all she had was a ramshackle building, a patch of wasteland, and half a mountain forest. A leader with no great ambitions and four idle disciples. Sect leader Jiang Tingyun said, “In modern society, spiritual energy has dried up. Cul 23.6kReads9.5Score3.3kShelves

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