Crab-Stuffed Orange [Gourmet]

Coming soon: A Gourmet novel with a similar theme, Appetite [Gourmet]. Please add it to your favorites!

Gentle, a little oblivious Gourmet blogger × Tsundere, sharp-tongued, easily flustered minor celebrity

[Gourmet | Everyday life | Sweet romance | Close neighbors]

In short: She went over to mooch a meal and ended up in her neighbor's bed.

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Ming Fuyu is a well-known Gourmet blogger on a certain platform. Every day, she racks her brains to cook delicious food and film videos, enjoying the bliss of living alone and cooking for herself.

To make better videos, she moves into a new apartment, where she meets a neighbor with a bit of a temper.

Their first meeting is an utter disaster. The other woman emerges from the elevator bundled up from head to toe: mask, hat, sunglasses, and a pair of sky-high heels. She crushes one of Ming Fuyu's plump, three-tael female crabs underfoot.

And her heels are limited edition!

That evening, Ming Fuyu nervously carries a freshly made crab-stuffed orange over to apologize.

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Xie Congbi is left with an eating disorder after filming a drama. She has grown so thin she barely looks like herself, and even a table full of delicious food can't whet her appetite.

Then she moves back to her apartment in the city center and discovers that the place next door has been sold. Her new neighbor is a woman about her age.

--She seems to be a good cook.

Sometimes the smell of food drifts into the hallway, and it makes Xie Congbi feel sick.

Then one day, she happens to try the woman's cooking.

To her surprise, Xie Congbi doesn't feel sick after a bite, so she pretends to be reluctant and accepts it.

After that, Xie Congbi starts making excuses to drop by for meals. Before long, she gets bolder and starts ordering specific dishes.

As they eat, Ming Fuyu suddenly asks, "Would you like to keep eating my cooking from now on?"

Xie Congbi is overjoyed, thinking she's about to get a personal chef.

Wait... No! You don't need a bedroom to cook! Why are you taking me into yours?

[Reading Guide]

1. Very slice-of-life. The author is simply hungry, so expect lots of food.

2. Both leads are each other's only partners. Happy ending.

3. The story begins at 9 p.m. on September 12, 2026. Hope you enjoy reading!

4. Feel free to suggest any food you'd like to see.

------Coming Soon------

Appetite [Gourmet]

Down-on-her-luck, unemployed restaurant chef × injured, retired dancer

Gloomy, cold-faced, and minding her own business × tsundere, short-tempered, and quick to flare up

[Gourmet | Road trip | Tense push and pull | A little adversarial]

On New Year's Eve, Nan Xuejin finishes cooking the final banquet reservation and clocks out, drenched in sweat. She gets a call from her boss, firing her, along with a stack of discounted "bonuses."

"Don't come in tomorrow."

"Fine. Just pay me everything you promised for my year-end bonus."

"If you know what's good for you, beg me a little. I might leave you a sous-chef position in the kitchen. Head chef is out of the question."

"Sure. I don't care who you give it to. I'm done."

After hanging up, Nan Xuejin calmly packs her bags, hops on a green train heading south to Dali, and opens a guesthouse there, fulfilling her long-held wish to lie flat. She has the heartless restaurant owner to thank for it.

The guesthouse has barely been open for long when a long-term guest arrives.

Yu He hops out of a shady local car on crutches, while the driver hounds her for money. They argue in front of Nan Xuejin's guesthouse for ages, until Nan Xuejin comes out to break it up.

But the woman rolls her eyes at her. "Mind your own business."

Nan Xuejin: "..." Right, she should've left her alone and let her argue on one leg!

The long-term guest goes inside and pays for a whole year upfront.

Looking at the five-figure balance in her account, even Nan Xuejin's icy expression melts. She leads the limping Yu He to the suite next door.

This woman is incredibly bold. She plays music loudly late at night, knocks on Nan Xuejin's door to ask for liquor, wanders around outside her room in a bathrobe, drags her out to see the endlessly dull and overfamiliar Erhai Lake, and even insists on eating her cooking.

After eating and drinking her fill, she wants to kiss Nan Xuejin, too?

What kind of person is this? She wants everything without paying, and she's rotten to the core. Unforgivable!

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Yu He breaks her leg in a stage accident, bringing her promising dance career to an abrupt end.

She heads south with her not-quite-healed leg, determined to find somewhere picturesque to stay for a while, then catch a random train and leave once she gets bored.

But once she reaches Dali, she can't bring herself to go anywhere. She never gets tired of that woman's cooking, that woman's beautiful face, or those soft lips.

Yu He doesn't want to leave. And if she does, she'll have to take this woman with her.

Theme: The only cure for sorrow is good food.