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  1. 1 The Sweet Military Wife Is on Top, and Her Officer Husband Can't Take It 娇娇军嫂在上,军官老公顶不住 Modern Romance381k WordsCompleted The short drama adaptation, Sweet Years, is now streaming~ The second short drama adaptation, Let Me Dwell in Your Heart, is now streaming~ [Military marriage + food + supermarket space + devoted couple + everyday life + love after marriage] Ye Muqi had just become a seven-star chef when a car accident transported her to the 1980s. From the start, she was married, and her husband was a soldier with a slim waist and long legs. For Ye Muqi, who had been single for 29 years, that was a huge plus! T 11.3kReads9.1Score995Shelves
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  2. 2 Reborn in the 1980s: Building a Fortune and Raising My Kids 重生八零之发家致富养崽崽 Modern Romance996k WordsCompleted [Sweet romance + no awful characters + food + adorable kids + period setting] In her previous life, after Li Heng accidentally fell off a cliff and was left disabled, Qiao Xi abandoned her husband and child, ultimately bringing the Li family to ruin. Given another life, she looks at her gentle, doting husband, then at her adorable, lively son, and swears to make it up to them and never let the tragedy happen again. With food and clothing businesses, Qiao Xi takes things one step at a time, gradu 5.5kReads9.1Score398Shelves
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  3. 3 Reborn as the Abusive Novel’s Male Lead’s Mother 穿成虐文男主他妈 Modern Romance159k WordsCompleted [Short story contest] [Foodie fiction] [A sweet little treat] Overnight, she transmigrates into a book with a baby in her belly whose father is unknown. On closer inspection, the baby turns out to be the male lead from the tragic novel she read before. He's a poor little thing whose father doesn't care for him and whose mother doesn't love him. Penniless, Ding Sha relies on her excellent cooking skills to become the food goddess of a construction site. Spicy diced chicken, cured pork with garlic 32.1kReads9.6Score3.3kShelves
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  4. 4 The Little Lucky Star of the Farming Family: We Turned Our Fortune Around with Food 农门小福星:全家靠做美食逆袭了 Ancient Romance534k WordsCompleted Su Xiaojin, a modern-day foodie, transmigrates into the body of a poor peasant girl in ancient times and becomes the Su family’s beloved lucky charm. What? The family sold their land, her eldest brother’s engagement was called off, and her second brother even sold himself? The Su family has become the laughingstock of the village. No problem! I’ll make delicious food to earn silver, buy land and fields, build a house, and open a shop. The Su family will rise again and have the last laugh. And al 3.4kReads8.3Score304Shelves
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  5. 5 The State Banquet Chef of the 1980s 国宴大厨在八零 Modern Romance3.2M WordsCompleted [Imperial banquet chef + unbeatable cuisine + satisfying wish fulfillment] Tang Xi died, then returned to age fifteen with the wordless book of secrets her master had given her: The World’s Finest Cuisine. That year, the Tang family’s biological daughter was finally found, and Tang Xi was left behind by her adoptive parents. Out of guilt toward the true daughter, Tang Xi gave in to her at every turn, but all she got in return was her adoptive parents’ dislike and her childhood sweetheart fiancé’ 1.1kReads8.2Score127Shelves
  6. 6 Delicious Country Cooking: The Little Chef Is Beautiful and Adorable 农门佳肴:小厨娘她美又娇 Ancient Romance1.4M WordsCompleted [Sweet Romance + Farming + Food + Mutual Devotion] Shen Jiayao, a young chef in her previous life, didn't let her skills go to waste after she transmigrated to a small mountain village. Life in the village was hard, but her father doted on her, her mother loved her, and her older brother protected her. Most importantly, she had a childhood sweetheart who'd grown up alongside her. When he became an official one day and planned to marry a noblewoman, Shen Jiayao wielded her big ladle and knocked h 3.8kReads9.0Score483Shelves
  7. 7 The 1970s: The Culinary Goddess 七零厨神美人 Modern Romance583k WordsCompleted [A cooking god, military-industrial research, patriotism, delicious food, positive energy, and an exhilarating era: don’t miss this period novel!] Cooking god Zhao Wan Feng transmigrates. She lands in a third-line military factory and even scores a perfect scientist husband. In that case, she’ll work hard and aim to become the cafeteria’s head cook, then settle down and enjoy life… No, she’ll become the cafeteria’s star, put down roots at the military factory, have children with her husband, and 3.5kReads9.2Score428Shelves
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  8. 8 After Rejecting the Match in the 1980s, I Opened a Canteen at a State-Owned Factory 八零拒婚后,我在国营厂开饭馆 Modern Romance500k WordsCompleted [Reborn] + [The 1980s] + [Gourmet] + [Building a business] Shen Qingyue returned to the 1980s. In her previous life, her family drained her dry, and all three sisters were cheated by their grandparents. Reborn, she refuses to be a sucker again. She takes on the unreasonable troublemakers, and whoever picks a fight with her gets crushed underfoot. After splitting from the family, she starts a business with her sisters, opening a restaurant at a state-owned factory. The troublemakers fail to get t 4.3kReads9.0Score352Shelves
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  9. 9 The Beautiful Stepmother Makes a Comeback: Raising Kids in the 1970s 漂亮后妈要翻身,我在七零养崽崽 Modern Romance4.7M WordsOngoing Su Can was raised by her own mother to be fat, ugly, and not too bright. Her mother forced her to marry her younger sister's husband, a man with two paralyzed legs. When Su Can refused, she was starved for half a month, then sent to the village where he lived, barely clinging to life. She died of a serious illness. Su Can, a bodyguard, unexpectedly transmigrates into a book and inherits this mess. Their home is bare, with no money and not even enough food. With a disabled soldier for a husband a 97.3kReads9.2Score3.1kShelves
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  10. 10 The 1970s: A Sweet Island Life for a Cannon-Fodder Supporting Female Character 七零之炮灰女配的海岛甜宠日常 Modern Romance1.1M WordsCompleted [Period setting + marriage first, love later + cozy life raising children + entrepreneurship] Lin Xia gets into a car accident on her way to a matchmaking date and unexpectedly transmigrates into a period romance novel full of angst, becoming the foolish cannon-fodder woman who brings about her own doom. The original Lin Xia sabotages the male and female leads at every turn, so the male lead takes revenge by sending her to the countryside, where she eventually meets a tragic end. After reading a 16.7kReads9.1Score1.5kShelves
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  11. 11 Cooking in the 1970s 七零年代做美食 Modern Romance1.3M WordsCompleted Meng Xi never imagined she would transmigrate into a book and become a lazy, gluttonous young wife with the same name as herself, useless at everything she tried. Then she received word that her husband had died in the line of duty. First, she would split from her awful mother-in-law! Then she would raise three children, build a new house, help spread the word, and earn the respect and approval of everyone in the village through her own hard work. But not long afterward, her supposedly dead husb 687Reads8.8Score103Shelves
  12. 12 Making Gourmet Food in the 1970s 我在七零年代做美食 Modern Romance124k WordsCompleted When she woke up, she took in the drab surroundings and the memories in her mind that weren't her own, and Xiang Xiaowei realized she'd transmigrated. The bracelet she'd worn for years had come with her, too. Inside it was a space measuring ten square meters. Who would've thought she'd become a mother of two? Who understands the joy of becoming a mom without the pain of childbirth! As a food blogger, she was ready to show off her skills in this era, raising the kids and building a career, and do 42Reads—Score—Shelves
  13. 13 A Portable Space: Everyday Delicacies in the 1980s 空间之八零美食日常 Modern Romance454k WordsCompleted [Period drama + space + food + male lead + dual rebirth + light fantasy + light sci-fi] Chen Manman is reborn, and now she knows that she was the spiteful, vain, doomed supporting character in a period drama about a stepmother, set up as a foil to the heroine. Now reborn, with a space and a golden finger, as well as excellent cooking skills, Chen Manman refuses to become anyone’s foil. Later... While the heroine tries to win over her husband, Chen Manman sets up a stall selling steamed buns and 1.2kReads8.6Score102Shelves
  14. 14 This Is Crazy! The Little Chef of the 1970s Eats Well, Lives in Luxury, and Comes Out on Top 疯了!七零小厨娘吃香喝辣躺赢了 Modern Romance459k WordsCompleted (Strong leads on both sides, one-on-one romance, no love-brained characters, career comes first in the early chapters) Shen Xiaotang, a celebrity chef worth tens of millions, transmigrates to the resource-scarce 1970s. No tradeable pocket dimension, no miracle pills or medicines, and no lucky star fate. Other heroines are the darlings of their families. Her? Sorry, she’s an orphan with no one to rely on. To make matters worse, her wicked aunt is forcing her to marry. Shen Xiaotang never accepts 256Reads8.6Score—Shelves
  15. 15 The Cannon-Fodder Villainess Uses Her Cooking Skills to Shine in a Period Novel 炮灰女配用厨艺在年代文鲨疯了 Modern Romance573k WordsCompleted Su Wanyi discovers she’s transmigrated into a female-led novel set in a bygone era. She’s useless at everything, but number one at being cannon fodder. Every time her cousin rises to power, Su Wanyi becomes the perfect stepping stone. Every time her cousin meets a promising backup suitor, Su Wanyi is the perfect comparison. Once every last drop of her value has been squeezed out, she dies a miserable death. Everyone says that’s simply her fate! Su Wanyi scoffs! You want to make a state-banquet c 150Reads—Score—Shelves
  16. 16 Back to 1970 to Become a Chef 回到七零当厨娘 Modern Romance630k WordsCompleted A top female chef transmigrates back to the 1970s, where her mother is dead, her younger brother is frail, her father is dim-witted, and her older brother is stubborn. Lin Xiaowan lets out a long sigh and brandishes the cleaver in her hand. What’s there to fear? A chef will never be the one to starve to death. Ji Yuming bounces around beside her. “Wife! Wife! Look at me! When do I get to make my entrance?” A piece of braised pork seals his lips. “Quiet! This is a proper food novel!” Lin Xia 2Reads8.2Score—Shelves
  17. 17 The Spicy Girl of the 1980s: I Made My Fortune with Food 八零小辣媳:我靠美食发家致富 Modern Romance1.1M WordsCompleted [Period Drama + Rebirth + Food + Feel-Good + Fiery Wife + Love After Marriage] A spirited food blogger who transmigrates into the past VS a calculating, loyal-dog hero who was once a technical whiz and later becomes a powerful tycoon Su Ning transmigrated to the 1980s and became a young wife with a terrible reputation. Her husband treated her with indifference, the neighbors gossiped about her, and her birth family kept finding ways to bleed her dry. Make a fortune, take down scumbags, deal with 619Reads7.1Score—Shelves
  18. 18 The 1970s: The State-Run Restaurant's Head Chef Supports the Whole Family 七零,国营大厨带飞全家 Modern Romance1.0M WordsCompleted [Transmigrate into a book + period drama + food + System + whole-family transmigration + 1V1] Su Wanwan transmigrates into a book and even brings along a Light of Cuisine System... As a minor female character who didn’t make it past chapter three in the original novel, Su Wanwan expected life as a disposable side character to be tough. But who could have guessed... With a mother who dotes on her, a loving father, a fiercely protective second sister, and an honest older brother, Su Wanwan suddenl 3.9kReads8.5Score286Shelves
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  19. 19 Back in the Eighties: My Family's Demolition Compensation Bought Half a Street 重回八零:我家拆迁分了半条街 Modern Romance954k WordsCompleted [Rebirth + Period Setting + Farming + Strong Male and Female Leads + A Feel-Good Rags-to-Riches Story] After spending ten years selling boxed lunches at construction sites, Jiang Tian was reborn in the year she dropped out of school. That year, her younger brother hadn't yet been tricked into a backstreet brick kiln and worked to death, and her mother hadn't yet fallen gravely ill. Picking up the boxed-lunch skills she'd honed over the years, the first thing the “Lunchbox Queen” did after being 12.2kReads9.1Score1.4kShelves
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  20. 20 You Want Me to Get Married Just So You Can Eat at the Wedding Banquet? 为了吃席,你竟然催我结婚? Urban2.6M WordsCompleted Worn out both mentally and physically by the cutthroat rat race in his industry, Chen Yuan returns to his hometown. He had planned to lie flat and live as a slacker, but the System forcibly binds itself to him. The System scans for available careers: village banquet chef, rural content creator, expert farmer, and rural Taobao partner. Before Chen Yuan can react, the System automatically selects village banquet chef, sending him off to cook up feasts in the countryside. Master Chen accidentally f 7.4kReads8.1Score582Shelves
  21. 21 Gourmet: My Little Shop Is Famous Around the World 美食:我的小店,名震全球 Urban1.3M WordsCompleted [Gourmet] [Opening a Restaurant] [No Female Lead] [System] [Perfect with a Meal] [Heartwarming] [Everyday Life] [A Different Menu Every Day] [Affordable Prices] [Ensemble Cast] Lou Yuanzhou has eaten so many ready-made meal packs that he actually gains a Chef God Gourmet System! As long as he opens a restaurant and completes all kinds of bizarre missions, he can earn rewards! Steaming hot wontons, springy zhajiang noodles, and the legendary lamb stew... all made by Lou Yuanzhou himself! Once his 10.3kReads9.0Score982Shelves
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  22. 22 This Boss Is So Sneaky, He Takes His Street Stall Everywhere 这老板真苟,摆个地摊还到处走 Urban1.2M WordsCompleted [The print edition of Random Gourmet Stall is now available on major platforms] [Gourmet] [No romance] [Everyday life] [Comedy] [Comfort food] [Cozy] [Healing] After transmigrating to a parallel world, Lin Zhou unexpectedly binds himself to a Random Gourmet System. Every week brings a random location, random food, and different customers. He sells buns at the park entrance, century egg and lean pork congee on a mountaintop, and candied hawthorns outside a school. Every dish is mouthwatering and 88.1kReads9.5Score8.8kShelves
  23. 23 Transmigrated to Ancient Times: A Food Blogger Builds a Fortune 穿越之美食博主在古代发家致富 Ancient Romance1.2M WordsCompleted Food blogger Jiang Yue transmigrates into the Jiang family, a household of farmers. The Jiangs are dirt poor, with barely enough to eat or wear, and life is truly hard. Fortunately, the family is warm and easygoing, sincere and kind to others. Jiang Yue decides to rely on her own skills to help the whole family prosper, starting with a little shop, moving on to a small restaurant, and eventually opening a grand restaurant, until they achieve financial freedom. P.S. A pure food-focused story, set 52.5kReads8.7Score3kShelves
  24. 24 Gourmet: I Take My Little Sister to Kindergarten and Make the Teachers Drool 美食:带妹妹去幼儿园,馋哭老师 Urban401k WordsCompleted [Gourmet]+ [Everyday Life]+ [Comedy]+ [Comfort Food]+ [Dad]+ [Adorable Kids]+ [Heartwarming]+ [Healing] Zhou Lin took his little sister to apply for a chef position at a kindergarten, only to face a challenge from a five-star chef. He won the cooking contest and became the head chef at Shuitian Kindergarten. From then on, teachers at kindergartens all over town tried everything they could to get a taste of Zhou Lin’s cooking. Parents did everything they could to transfer their children to Shuiti 1.8kReads7.1Score101Shelves
  25. 25 I Sent You to Kindergarten, and You Say You Can Cook Six Dishes? 让你上幼儿园,你说能炒六个菜? Modern Romance1.4M WordsCompleted Su Wan transmigrated in the most bizarre way imaginable. In her previous life, she was a chef. Now she's the director of a kindergarten on the verge of closing down. She also received a Food System, and from then on, the whole kindergarten's atmosphere changed completely. Mom: Son, what did you learn at kindergarten today? Son: I don't want to talk about work after I get home. Dad: Sweetie, did you have fun with your friends at school? Daughter: How should I put it? They don't know how to pitch 20.3kReads9.1Score2.1kShelves
  26. 26 Transmigrated to the 1980s: Every Dish at My Restaurant Is in High Demand! 穿越八零:我的饭馆一菜难求! Modern Romance257k WordsCompleted When Tang Ruanyuan woke up, she discovered she had transmigrated to the 1980s. At the time, Danchuan Village had just implemented the household land contract system. Her family consisted of a father with a bad leg and a seven-year-old younger brother. Looking at their dirt-poor tile-roofed house and the nearly empty rice jar, Tang Ruanyuan rolled up her sleeves and started doing what she knew best, selling food, with her little brother at her side. In the gold-rush decade of the 1980s, Tang Ruan 94Reads6.2Score—Shelves
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  27. 27 Reborn in the 1980s: Cooking Delicious Food With a Spirit Spring in My Space 重生八零:空间灵泉做美食 Modern Romance1.1M WordsCompleted Business tycoon Ye Qiu is reborn into the body of a second-year rural college student born in 1984 with the same name. She also has a pocket dimension with a spirit spring. To improve life for herself and her family, Ye Qiu tutors students to save up her first capital, then starts selling delicious food at a street barbecue stall and gradually builds her fortune. She thought he was just the guardian of one of her students, but he became a sweet source of support as she grew. 32Reads7.6Score—Shelves
  28. 28 Back to the Eighties: A Mother and Daughter Astonish the World with Their Cooking 重回八零,娘俩用美食震惊世界 Modern Romance571k WordsCompleted In her previous life, her daughter died tragically, her son was taken away, and she herself met a violent end. There was no word for it but tragic. Reborn, Ruan Mingzhu was determined to change her fate, starting by kicking her no-good ex to the curb. She returned to her hometown with her daughter, who had also been reborn, and the son still in her belly. She would raise her children with her own hard work and build a comfortable life. Ruan Mingzhu swore that was truly all she wanted. Who could 18Reads8.4Score—Shelves
  29. 29 Unwavering Love: A Food Blogger in the 1970s 深情不渝:美食博主在七零 Modern Romance368k WordsCompleted Gu Yu is a nighttime food blogger. All she did was try out a popcorn machine, and it sent her to the 1970s, a place where everything is in short supply! Luckily, her giant supermarket came along too, complete with a spring of spirit water. Gu Yu can’t tell if this is heaven’s way of making it up to her. From then on, the Gu family’s table, where they used to be so poor they could only eat coarse rice porridge, is laden with delicious dishes: braised wild rabbit, fish with pickled cabbage, garlic 1.7kReads7.2Score134Shelves
  30. 30 Food Blogger Transmigrates to the Seventies: Becoming a Mom Without the Labor Pains 美食博主穿七零:无痛当妈来养崽 Modern Romance1.0M WordsCompleted Period setting + Food + Adorable kids + Pocket dimension + Marriage before love From the start, she's saddled with a disabled soldier for a husband and two future villains for sons. A food blogger transmigrates into a book set in the 1970s, bringing her spacious apartment with her, and becomes the contrast-group sister-in-law to the female lead of a period novel. The female lead raises plump, healthy kids while hers are scrawny as monkeys. The female lead keeps her kids spotless while hers are a 3.4kReads8.5Score430Shelves
  31. 31 Reborn in the 1980s: The Little Chef 重生八零小厨娘 Modern Romance473k WordsCompleted Song Ran was reborn! She returned to the 1980s, a time of shortages, to a home with bare walls. Her sister-in-law even wanted her to marry a widower and become his children's stepmother! Song Ran was speechless. In her previous life, she'd been a renowned master chef and a top student who graduated from Tsinghua University with a degree in fashion design. There was no way she would accept this fate! A girl with a face covered in pimples? No need to worry. She had a remedy, and once she was cured 411Reads8.8Score—Shelves
  32. 32 Reborn: The Winds of Change in 1994 重生:风起1994 Urban2.0M WordsCompleted Su Changqing, paralyzed for over twenty years, was reborn in 1994 with a heart full of pain and regret! In his previous life, his paralysis destroyed his family, leaving them broken and ruined! This time, he would turn his fate around! He would sell delicious food, open factories, build businesses, and take his products across the country and around the world, becoming a food industry tycoon! He would lead his whole family to a prosperous, peaceful, and happy life! 7.4kReads8.7Score491Shelves
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  33. 33 Gourmet: Starting with Selling Braised Dishes in the Countryside! 美食:从下乡卖卤味开始! Urban173k WordsCompleted [System Golden Finger + Gourmet + Everyday Business + Farming] Ji Yanming quits his job and returns to his village to care for his elderly grandfather and start a business, never expecting to bind to a Gourmet System. The god-tier braised-food recipe he gets in the beginner’s gift pack sends him soaring right from the start. So Ji Yanming begins selling braised food in the countryside, traveling from village to village and becoming a favorite with adults and children alike. Before long, his fame 2.1kReads5.8Score—Shelves
  34. 34 I Became a Little Fisher Girl and Made My Fortune by Gathering Seafood 穿成农家小渔女,我靠赶海发家了 Ancient Romance591k WordsCompleted [One-on-one romance + Coastal foraging + Farming + Food + Pocket dimension + Building wealth] Shen Xuan transmigrates into the body of a poor, penniless fisher girl from a farming family! Her father is dead, her mother died in childbirth, and her grandmother is no help. Luckily, she has excellent cooking skills. She catches fish and shrimp, forages along the coast, and leads her whole family to prosperity! Only, she accidentally brings home a little husband for herself. On his first day at her h 442Reads7.2Score119Shelves
  35. 35 Marrying a Rugged Disabled Man in the 1970s, I Bring a Warehouse and Make My Husband and Son Thrive 七零嫁残疾糙汉,带仓库旺夫旺仔 Modern Romance1.0M WordsCompleted The short drama adaptation, The 1970s’ Lucky Little Bride, is now streaming on Hongguo. [Complete] [Rugged Hero + Sweet Wife + Gourmet Food + Transmigrate into a Book + Pocket Dimension + Secret Identity + Feel-Good Story] Top banquet chef Jiang Congyu was suddenly killed when a crystal chandelier fell on her while she was cooking. When she opened her eyes, she had transmigrated into a book she had read before. And not just that: it was her wedding night, and a handsome man was pinned beneath he 22.5kReads9.3Score2.8kShelves
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  36. 36 So Satisfying! I Stole the Luck of the Perfect Female Lead 爆爽!我夺走了极品女主的气运 Modern Romance567k WordsCompleted Lu Xiang became the doomed female supporting character in an 1980s novel. In the story, her greedy grandmother tried to make her marry in the heroine’s place to claim the bride price. When the truth came out, the grandmother slandered her as a loose woman, and the supporting character died heartbroken amid the whole village’s jeers. This time, Lu Xiang fought back against her rotten grandmother and awful relatives, crushing everyone who crossed her. With her skills in farming, cooking, and more, 4.5kReads9.0Score502Shelves

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