Please! I Want to Read a Story About Someone Who Transmigrates into a Book Set in the Past and Turns Her Life Around Through Cooking! 《求求！想看穿书年代文靠厨艺翻身的故事！

1. 51 美 A Culinary Void: I Take Chinese Cuisine by Storm Around the World 美食断层：我携华夏美食席卷全球 Nie Shisan聂十三Urban454k WordsCompleted [No female lead!!] Mu Yunfei transmigrates to a world with a shallow food culture, where he has to eat vegetarian dishes every day. He's about ready to throw up! Thankfully, he awakens a Divine Chef System! Jianbing guozi is soft, chewy, and fragrant; preserved-egg and pork congee makes foreigners fall in love with preserved eggs! Hot-and-sour noodles are impossible to resist, and beef brisket rice noodles are snapped up in an instant! Food critic: “I can die without regrets now!” Food blogger: 306Reads7.2Score10014d adds

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   A very good plot

2. 52 美 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！ Lucky Carp Fairy锦鲤小仙Urban632k WordsCompleted [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 1.1kReads8.7Score10214d adds
3. 53 全 The Snack Shop Alone Turned This Scenic Spot into a 5A Attraction? 全靠小吃店，景区升5A了？ Brocade-Clad Cat锦衣猫Urban326k WordsCompleted [Gourmet] [System] [Everyday Life] [Perfect with Rice] [Food and Medicine Share the Same Roots] Zhuang Ming has just graduated from a traditional Chinese medicine college when he unexpectedly gets a system. He binds himself to it before he can even read the name. When he finally sees it, the name is “The World’s Greatest, Miracle-Working, Cure-All, Heals with a Touch... Chef System!” His heart, which had been hanging in suspense, finally gives up completely. The prices are steep, the shop is sha 805Reads8.2Score10614d adds
4. 54 美 Gourmet Food: Serving Customers from My RV, I Had My Secret Identity Exposed 美食：房车摆摊，顾客扒我马甲 Second Miss Wang旺家二小姐Modern Romance1.1M WordsCompleted The animated series is now live: [System] + [Gourmet] + [Warm and Healing] + [Main Character Has No Romance] + [A Few Secret Identities] + [Riches and Rewards] Original title: Gourmet: Food Truck Stalls, Customers Uncover My Secret Identity (Making friends through food and seeing the world with kindness. The main character sets up stalls at random all over the country, and loves to travel once a task is complete.) Wan Yi, a model from a minor agency, nearly starves to death at home while trying 3.4kReads8.8Score44814d adds
5. 55 美 Food App: The Adorable Mom's Shop Goes Viral 美食app，萌娃亲妈开店火了 Fresh Orange Cat清清橘猫Modern Romance153k WordsCompleted [Food + adorable kids + sweet romance] After getting drunk, Yu Fanfan wakes up to discover she’s somehow arrived four years in the future. She’s skipped straight past marriage and childbirth and become a mom overnight. After hitting a wall in her job search, she discovers a food-god app has suddenly appeared on her phone. By opening a shop and completing everyday cooking tasks, Yu Fanfan unlocks one delicious food picture after another. Diners discover a super-tasty little shop tucked away in an 207Reads8.2Score10414d adds
6. 56 我 I’m a Head Chef at Hengdian 我在横店当大厨 Cakehead Y蛋糕脑袋YModern Romance197k WordsCompleted The heroine, Wei Shengyu, has a System space, which she uses to chase after celebrities in Hengdian. In Hengdian, Wei Shengyu gets to see many of the stars she likes. It would have been very difficult to make this happen otherwise, but with the System, it becomes easy. (The author is sensitive, and welcomes feedback, but please don't insult me. If you don't like it, feel free to leave. Thank you!) 702Reads6.5Score—14d adds
7. 57 七 The 1970s: My Son and His Dad Both Have Off-the-Charts IQs 七零：崽和崽他爹智商双爆表 Li Jia Qiqi黎家七七Modern Romance1.2M WordsCompleted {The short drama is now streaming ♥ Title: The Best Mom in a Period Novel} [Alternate-history period setting + transmigrating into a book + adorable child + cozy everyday life] After transmigrating into a book set in the 1970s, Su Taotao faced two choices: 1. Follow the original plot, abandon her husband and child, return to the city, and rekindle her romance with her childhood sweetheart; 2. Do nothing and wait for her husband of convenience to show up six months later and take her back to the 22.4kReads9.3Score2.3k14d adds

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   These are all books where the female lead is an exceptionally skilled cook (1 & 3). The female lead wins over the male lead's heart with her culinary skills, but doesn't pursue a career in the field. (4) The male and female leads build their fortunes through their culinary abilities.

8. 58 改 Reforming My Good-for-Nothing Husband, Starting at Age 20 改造废物老公，从20岁开始养老 Teletubby Without an Antenna没有天线的天线宝宝Modern Romance1.1M WordsCompleted [Period story x making money x family and village life x a touch of ensemble cast x raising kids] Lin Hui has a dream. In it, she turns fifty after spending twenty-seven years as a widow, struggling to raise her children, only to develop cancer and die before she can enjoy life. When she wakes, she finds herself back in 1980, the year she just married Xu Dongsheng, the “lazy bum” of the surrounding villages. She grits her teeth. She absolutely cannot let her life follow the path in her dream. Fr 34.1kReads9.1Score4.1k14d adds
9. 59 穿 Transmigrated to an Alternate World, the Prince's Daughter Is a Brilliant Cook 穿越架空，王府千金她厨艺绝佳 Saucy Pork Bun酱汁肉包Ancient Romance364k WordsCompleted [Food + System + Business Management + A Little Court Intrigue + One True Pair, Both Pure] An illustrator and foodie unexpectedly binds to a food System and transmigrates into an alternate dynasty. She never expected that, despite having no close family ties, she would become a cherished young lady of the prince’s household. She thought that if she simply followed the System’s instructions, practiced her cooking, and sold food, she could live out her days in peace. But life does not go as she ho 252Reads—Score—14d adds
10. 60 随 A Portable Dimension: The Chancellor's Daughter Is a Master Chef 随身空间，相府千金是厨神 Forty-Nine四十九Ancient Romance974k WordsCompleted [Billions in Supplies + Personal Supermarket + Best Friends Transmigrate Together + Male Lead's Redemption] Newly crowned culinary master Liu Sisi transmigrates one day and is delighted to discover that she's brought along a personal supermarket. In an ancient era where supplies are far from abundant, Liu Sisi's ambition to build a career blazes to life. She builds connections, opens a restaurant, and uses her culinary skills to reach the pinnacle of success! To help the original owner get reven 126Reads—Score—14d adds
11. 61 八 The Frail, Delicate Darling of the 1980s Factory Director 八零厂长的病弱娇气包 A Chestnut一颗板栗Modern Romance360k WordsCompleted [Transmigration] [Sweet Romance] [Age Gap] [Top-Quality Male Lead] [Playing the Fool to Catch the Tiger] In the 21st century, Jiang Wanwan is sickly, delicate, and so frail that a gust of wind could knock her over. After an accident, she arrives in the 1980s. She takes a liking to a man, and it seems he has taken a liking to her too. Who’s the fish, and who’s the prey? Jiang Wanwan raises the thing in her hand and smiles sweetly. “Factory Director Huo, do you like it?” “Like what?” In his 28 4kReads7.4Score44114d adds
12. 62 玄 The Young Master of the Mystic Sect Wins Hearts in a Period Novel 玄门少主在年代文里蛊惑人心 Eating Beans and Staying Awake吃豆豆不睡觉Modern Romance1.1M WordsCompleted [Book transmigration + space + farming + satisfying wish fulfillment + sweet romance] The young leader of a mystic sect from the twenty-first century accidentally transmigrates into a period novel, becoming a minor character who gets bitten to death by a wild boar right from the start. As for the heroine, whose white-lotus act practically radiates from her, Hua Jiaojiao refuses to accept it. Since she has to live through this era anyway, why not put her little hands, skilled at drawing talismans 5.4kReads8.9Score43914d adds
13. 63 八 The 1980s: The Darling Chef Has the Big Shot Craving Her Cooking Again 八零：娇娇厨娘又把大佬馋哭了 Saturn the Bento Seller卖盒饭的土星Modern Romance129k WordsCompleted My new story is out! You can read my work on Tomato Novels. I hope you'll enjoy it. Your support motivates me to write, and I'll do my best to tell every story well! 50Reads8.4Score—14d adds
14. 64 报 Report, Commander! Your Grandson's Wife Has Taken Down the Entire Military Region Again 报告首长！您孙媳妇又打趴全军区 Yan Xiaoxi炎小熙Modern Romance514k WordsCompleted [Ancient-Era Heroine in the Modern Age + Military Marriage in the 1980s + Double-Clean Face-Slapping + One-on-One] Jiang Nan, the number-one assassin, had just died alongside her sworn enemy during her final assassination mission. When she opened her eyes, she’d traveled to the 1980s and become a pitiful young woman who had been kidnapped on her way to Beijing to find her husband. The bad news: all her inner power was gone, and she hadn’t yet gotten used to her new, delicate body. The good n 1.4kReads7.4Score22414d adds
15. 65 八 The Little Chef of the 1980s: Sweet Military Romance 八零年代小厨娘：军婚甜蜜蜜 A De阿德Modern Romance16k WordsCompleted A Little Kitchen Maiden in the 1980s: Sweet Military Romance —Reads—Score—14d adds
16. 66 军 The Army Wife Has Triplets and Wins Over the Soldiers with Her Cooking 军嫂一胎三宝，美食征服兵哥哥 Ink Falling in Clear Times落墨清时Modern Romance1.0M WordsCompleted After Meng Qinghuan was caught in an explosion, her soul transmigrated into a novel set in the 1980s and 1990s. Not only had she become a pitiable cannon-fodder girl whose father had died, whose mother didn’t love her, and who was sold to an old man as his wife, she had also unexpectedly bound herself to a God of Cooking System and gained a top-tier kitchen with unlimited supplies! Meng Qinghuan promptly came up with a plan to escape her wretched family and make her mark on the food scene of the 700Reads7.6Score10514d adds
17. 67 八 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 Siyuan嗣源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 520Reads7.1Score—14d adds
18. 68 我 Making Gourmet Food in the 1970s 我在七零年代做美食 The Towel Sheds毛巾会掉毛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 36Reads—Score—14d adds
19. 69 八 The 1980s: The Gu Family's Beloved Daughter 八零年代，霸宠顾家女 Yun Yun H芸芸HModern Romance290k WordsCompleted After surviving for over a decade in the apocalypse, Gu Xiaoxiao transmigrates to the 1980s and becomes a country girl in a tiny village. The village girl is pretty, strong, and well-behaved. Her skill at farming puts even the toughest rural men to shame. But she's far too meek. What will happen if someone bullies her? Grandma Gu: Anyone who spreads rumors again can explain it to the police! Her best friend, the ultimate comeback queen: Don't be scared, Xiaoxiao. I'll cuss her out for you! Her a 126Reads—Score—14d adds
20. 70 美 A Food Blogger Transmigrates to the 1970s 美食博主穿越七零年代 The Lazy Melon of a Fool呆瓜的懒瓜Modern Romance223k WordsCompleted Food blogger Su Niannian dies suddenly after staying up all night, then transmigrates to the 1970s. Fortunately, she has a pocket dimension stocked with an inexhaustible supply of goods! Fortunately, both her parents are alive and well, so she can enjoy the warmth of family! And fortunately, she marries a man who cherishes and spoils her, a harbor she can turn to when she is tired! The whole family stays together, happy and harmonious, and works toward a prosperous life! 189Reads—Score—14d adds
21. 71 年 The Wicked Female Supporting Character in a Period Novel Awakens? The Commander Dotes on Her Like Crazy 年代恶毒女配觉醒了？首长宠疯了 Chu Ningqi楚凝七Modern Romance1.0M WordsCompleted [Period Setting + Military Marriage + System Space + Sweet Daily Life + Plot Awakening + Completing Tasks and Stockpiling Supplies] After having nightmares for three nights straight, Lei Jiaojiao discovers that she's the vicious supporting character in a period novel. In the story, she torments her twin sister, does countless wicked things, and dies a miserable death. Worse still, she's bound to a Vicious Supporting Character Reform System, which orders her to be kind and work hard to change her 23kReads8.6Score2.8k14d adds

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    I recommend it to you, it's good.

22. 72 北 Fireflies of the Great Northern Wilderness 北大荒的流萤 Luotang Pear Blossom Dream洛棠梨梦Modern Romance102k WordsCompleted **Her forbidden power to foresee disasters and reverse life and death is also the fate that condemns her to disappear.** **His mountain-solid vow, sealed in blood and kept in silent devotion, is also his eternal vigil across time and space.** —Reads—Score—14d adds

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