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The Stepmother Is Unkind 继母不慈
Yin Mingyu worked herself bald at her 24/7 job and still couldn't afford even a ten-square-meter apartment in a major city. After dying suddenly, she transmigrates as a daughter born to a concubine of the Yin family, a prominent Jiangnan clan in the Ye dynasty. Finally free, all she wants is to do nothing, eat her fill, and wait for death. Household intrigue? Nothing to do with her. Isn't it better to lie flat? Competing for favor? Nothing to do with her. Isn't it better to lie flat? Making a ca
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The Little Noodle Shop in Bianjing 汴京小面馆
The print edition is under contract. My new novel, South Street Bakery, starts in March. Please add it to your reading list! Shen Miao transmigrates into the body of a discarded wife, thrown out by her wicked mother-in-law. Her birth parents died young, leaving behind a burned-down, bankrupt noodle shop. She also has two younger siblings who nearly starved to death. Everyone says she has a miserable lot in life. Her former husband’s family can’t wait to see her make a fool of herself. But Shen M
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A Feast for Every Taste 食全食美
[Negative reviews from jealous haters. Comments are closed.] Shi Yanxing, queen of the food service industry, transmigrated. A leaky, dilapidated house. Broken windows letting in the wind. Old folks and little kids. Their entire fortune amounted to eighteen copper coins. What to do? Go back to her old line of work! From the Great Lu dynasty's first boxed lunch to her hundredth chain restaurant, Shi Yanxing created another food-service legend! A career-minded straight woman who has no interest i
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I Make a Spectacle with My Big Pot in the Cultivation World 我在修仙界用大锅整活
[The serialized story in this column, *Fellow Daoist, Let Me Copy Your Spirit Root*, is now open for reading!] Su Yu, a descendant of imperial chefs, suddenly transmigrates into a cultivation novel and becomes the doomed second senior sister, left in charge of a mountain full of injured and disabled junior disciples after their eldest senior brother goes missing. According to the original plot, her third junior brother's Golden Core will shatter, her fourth will suffer cultivation deviation, and
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A Great Nation, A Humble Scholar (Imperial Exams) 大国小鲜（科举）
From having nothing to standing above everyone. (Power struggles, officialdom, and the civil service examinations) (The story of an official's rise, not a guide to essay writing) Qin Fanghe, who fought his way through the national civil service exam in a province known for its brutal college entrance exams, had spent years earning his superiors' esteem and his colleagues' envy. Everyone thought his future was limitless, until his life ended in an overwork-induced death. At the same time, Qin Fan
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Kaifeng Prefecture's Culinary Casebook 开封府美食探案录
A female doctor skilled in food therapy has arrived at Kaifeng Prefecture. Whether it’s frying, sautéing, deep-frying, steaming, boiling, or hotpot, whether you’re dealing with bruises, injuries, illness, or paralysis, her food cures what ails you! Everyone cheers: “Now our families never have to worry about our health again!” But she can identify people by scent and distinguish clues... Doctor, just how many more surprises are you hiding from us? Newly appointed doctor Ma Bing says, “It’s all f
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The Book of Fine Dining 上膳书
Blurb One: "Hey, dinner's ready. Come and eat." All falls silent. The Heavenly Way descends. Song Wanzi is an utterly ordinary food cultivator who can summon the Heavenly Way just by making something to eat. (How about a Nine-Origin Dao Body, innate spiritual sense, a body infused with spiritual energy, dual cultivation of body and technique, and a star array worn as a cloak?) Hobbies: eating, eating, and more eating. Daily life: causing trouble. Blurb Two: "From now on, you take your road to im
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Cooking a Heavenly Tribulation in an Iron Pot 铁锅炖天劫
Blurb, Version One: A Cantonese cuisine apprentice, not yet trained, dies of illness first. I open my eyes and become a wild fox, with three tails and four legs. Dad doesn't care, Mom doesn't love me. I grow up to be an ugly freak. I find a pot, set it over the fire, learn to cook, and become the toughest fox on the road to cultivation. Immortal-sect disciples arrive on a mission to exterminate demons: Look, look! There's an ugly fox cooking stew over there. Blurb, Version Two: I tra
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