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- 1 I Am the One Who Goes Against the Current 我就是逆行者 Zhang Xinhuo, a lunchbox vendor, headed against the tide to Jiangcheng, providing free meals for tens of thousands of medical workers and collecting protective medical supplies from across the country. Ordinary people like delivery riders waged one battle after another to protect lives, using their hard work and sweat to write extraordinary stories of everyday heroes. 19Reads7.0Score—Shelves
- 2 I'd Brave Fire and Water for You 愿为你赴汤蹈火 Three years ago, he was a celebrated hero who rushed into fires to save lives. Three years later, he was a disheveled, down-and-out street musician. He once thought his life had fallen into darkness for good, and that he would never find his way out. Then she appeared, rekindling his hope. Determined to protect the one he loved, he resolutely embarked on a legendary path. His life, now blessed with a cheat, was about to begin anew! 18Reads6.0Score—Shelves
- 3 The Divine Chef Dad 神厨奶爸 Qin Feng, a world-class chef in the twenty-first century, is a four-time champion of the world’s top culinary competitions: the Culinary Olympics, the Bocuse d’Or, the China Culinary World Championship, and the Oriental International Gourmet Competition. He suddenly transmigrates to a planet parallel to Earth. “What? You don’t have Kung Pao chicken? No problem, I’ll invent it.” “You don’t have minced pork with eggplant either? No problem, I’ll set the trend.” “You’ve never even heard of cola chi 16Reads6.9Score—Shelves
- 4 Go for It! Blazing Youth 冲吧！烈火少年 Tong Yan grew up in the fire brigade’s family compound, and dreamed of becoming an everyday hero like his father. After his father died in an accident, his mother did everything she could to stop him from pursuing a career in firefighting. But his love for the profession never let him give up. Through countless hardships and trials, his natural firefighting talent and the lessons his father taught him in his memories only strengthened his resolve. To his teammates, he increasingly resembles the 57Reads8.0Score—Shelves
- 5 I Close My Eyes and Wake Up in the 1980s, Ready to Open a Cafeteria 双眼一闭到八零，食堂开店全都行 [Short and binge-worthy × foodie vibes × nostalgic era setting × plot-packed × the official couple makes occasional appearances] Zhang Jinliu worked tirelessly for half her life to become the Imperial Kitchen’s top chef, despite being a woman. Then, just as she was getting somewhere, she slipped and died. When she opened her eyes again, she had become an eighteen-year-old orphan with nowhere else to go, living under someone else’s roof and enduring insults from her cheating aunt alongside her un 20Reads6.3Score—Shelves
- 6 The Campus Cafeteria: My Brother-in-Law Exposes My Identity as a Culinary God 校外食堂：厨神身份被小舅子曝光 [Gourmet Romance + Everyday Life + A System Gets Turned on Its Head] Chef God Lin Chen transmigrates to a parallel world and becomes the owner of a small restaurant. In this little shop, ordinary ingredients always become extraordinary dishes! The braised pork is tender and sweet, and the soy-braised pork bones smell delicious from blocks away. The spicy chicken is crisp and fragrant, while the stuffed tofu is tender and juicy... And the campus belle is working her way through college by serving 43Reads7.9Score—Shelves
- 7 The Strongest Profession: I'm a Firefighter 最强职业：我是消防员 [Firefighter + System + national destiny] I'm a firefighter. During a fire, I acquired the strongest firefighter System, built three thousand years in the future with the combined efforts of the entire world. To spare humanity a few disasters; To ensure every firefighter who serves the people can return home safe and sound; I will become a great firefighter who serves both the people and the country! 19Reads—Score—Shelves
- 8 In the Cultivation World, I Set Up a Stall Selling Barbecue from the Start 人在修仙界，开局摆摊卖烧烤 [Gourmet cultivation, running a business and farming, no female lead, slow burn, hilarious power progression] I'm just a chef. Surely it's only fitting for me to have a sect of my own~ …Divider… [Cultivation Realms] Human race: Body Tempering, Qi Refining, Foundation Establishment, Golden Core, Nascent Soul, Spirit Transformation, Void Refining, Body Integration, Mahayana, Tribulation Transcendence, Ascension, Human Immortal, Earth Immortal, Heavenly Immortal… Demon race: (Ranks 60Reads6.3Score—Shelves
- 9 A Hundred Days After the Divorce, My Daughter Exposes My Chef's Certificate 离婚百日，厨师证竟被女儿曝光 Lin Chen has been divorced from his wife of eight years for just a hundred days when his daughter suddenly shows up at his door. “Daddy, Mommy found a new daddy. It makes me so sad.” Hearing this, Lin Chen is instantly furious. After eight years together, he walked away with nothing. And in the end, his wife had already found a rich man and had even stopped caring about their daughter. “Daddy will definitely give you a future!” Lin Chen vows. Just as he makes up his mind, he obtains the Life Win 769Reads8.0Score102Shelves
- 10 I Went Back to the Village for a Feast and Became the Head Chef 回村吃席，竟成了掌勺大厨 When his cousin gets married, Chen Chen has just transmigrated and hasn’t even had time to adjust before his third uncle drags him back to the countryside for the wedding feast... The chef in charge of the banquet suddenly suffers a heart attack and is rushed to the hospital. In a desperate bid to save the day, his uncle’s family can only pin their hopes on Chen Chen, who spent three years studying cooking at New Oriental. Chen Chen: “Help! I really can’t cook!” System: “Yes, you can.” And so... 1.3kReads9.1Score102Shelves
- 11 He Returned from the Flames 他从烈焰中归来 [One true pairing, both chaste + love at first sight + sweet romance + mutual devotion + cozy everyday life] Rugged, straightforward firefighter & gentle, charming teacher You protect the lights of a thousand homes; I teach and nurture the next generation. Three years ago, during a fire, the man appeared like he’d descended from the heavens, dressed in the blue uniform of a firefighter and walking toward her through the blazing flames. His strong arms wrapped around her slender waist, and his ho 360Reads9.0Score—Shelves
- 12 High-Altitude Rescue Livestream from the Start: The Entire Internet Was in Tears! 开局直播高空救援，全网泪崩了！ “I swear, as a proud firefighter, I will fulfill my duties, fear no sacrifice, protect the lives and safety of the people, and never retreat.” Zhao Feng, an active-duty member of the Yunhai City Fire Brigade, has activated the Rescue System. He scales skyscrapers and pushes himself to the limit to survive. He saves countless people from the rubble of collapsed buildings. Chemical plant explosions, raging forest fires, earthquakes, merciless hurricanes. Firefighters are there at every disaster sc 437Reads6.1Score—Shelves
- 13 The Bigwigs Go Wild Fighting over a Bite to Eat 为了一口吃的，大佬们抢疯了 [Gourmet] + [laid-back daily life] + [no System] + [comedy] Li Heng is a chef who accidentally transmigrates to a cultivation world where culinary skills have fallen into decline. He discovers that his dishes are not only delicious, but can also improve cultivation and strengthen the body. One day, while Li Heng is cooking, a passing sect’s saintess spirits him away to work as their chef. As Li Heng serves up dish after delicious dish, the entire sect goes wild. The disciples go crazy competing 2.2kReads8.8Score162Shelves
- 14 Running a Street Stall with My Daughter, I Have the Whole World Drooling! 带女儿摆地摊，全球被我馋哭了！ (Food + comfort reads + devoted dad + urban slice of life + heartwarming comedy + System + no female lead) Su Chen binds himself to a food System and takes his daughter to set up a stall at a random location each week. He sells cold noodles outside a gym, leaving the trainers and their students drooling as they lament how hard it is to lose weight! He sells extra-spicy crayfish outside a hospital, where patients with hemorrhoids endure the agony just to take one more bite! He sells lemon chicken 1.6kReads8.6Score169Shelves
- 15 I Climbed Eighteen Floors to Save Someone, and the Spring Festival Gala Put Me on Blast 爬十八楼救人的我，被春晚曝光了 Chen Fan: I’m a firefighter. Today, I have to climb to the eighteenth floor to rescue someone trapped inside! Even though I have a System, I’m still scared out of my wits. But as a firefighter, this is my duty. Even if I know my life is in danger, I have to go! Famous host Bingbing: I’m a presenter, filming a preview program for the Spring Festival Gala. Today, I filmed a firefighter climbing to the eighteenth floor to rescue someone trapped inside. I was deeply shocked. Later, I ran into him se 589Reads8.1Score—Shelves
- 16 Gourmet: My Cooking Makes the Myriad Worlds Drool 美食，我的美食馋哭诸天万界 Fantasy, food, illustrations, comedy, scheming, farming. The starry-sky yanggeng, the undisputed beauty queen of desserts. The upgraded version of Stargazing Pie: Eyes Shut Forever. Boiled cabbage so beautiful it takes your breath away. Spicy crayfish that'll make anyone gain a few pounds before they leave. A chopped chili Kun head big enough to feed dozens. Red-braised lamb, fish-fragrant shredded pork, crystal shrimp dumplings, chicken broth soup dumplings, squirrel-shaped mandarin fish... Hel 953Reads8.9Score101Shelves
- 17 The Feast Records: The Simple Joys of a Flavorful Life 食案录：人间有味是清欢 [Transmigration + everyday cooking + running a neighborhood business + female chef] After becoming the cook at a small shop in ancient times, Lin Zhiwei doesn’t rely on reclaiming wasteland to survive. Instead, she runs a humble neighborhood shop with her skill at preparing all kinds of delicious dishes. Starting with a bowl of bone broth that costs four coins, she serves rice with lard, braised pork bones, and glutinous rice cakes, warming an entire street with one homestyle dish after another. 172Reads—Score—Shelves
- 18 I Opened a Restaurant, Then Got Called Up to Cook at the State Banquet 开餐饮店，被叫去担任国宴主厨 Synopsis: Food + System + doting dad + everyday life Shen Yi divorces Jiang Ruoyun, the CEO of a publicly listed company, and leaves with nothing but the custody of their daughter. To his surprise, he awakens the most powerful food System! Earn money, and you get to draw prizes! From then on, a Shen's Restaurant opens at No. 14 Fuhua Road. He wins god-tier bun-making skills in a prize draw! Soft and springy, bursting with savory flavor with every bite! A passing schoolgirl is so tempted that tea 2.5kReads8.7Score222Shelves
- 19 It Started at a Stinky Tofu Stall, and Now the Owner's Acting Strange 从臭豆腐摊开始，这老板变奇怪了 [Urban rebirth + one heroine + sweet romance + career success and wealth + food] Top-notch stinky tofu, unbeatable river-snail rice noodles, super fresh fertilized duck eggs, secret-recipe braised intestines… On the street behind the university sits a little food shop famous for its stink. The owner loves flaunting his romance, and everything he sells reeks to high heaven. Yet somehow, it still sells out every day. Ning Yao: “You’re sweating buckets. Take a break first!” Ye Fei: “No need. Give m 579Reads8.9Score101Shelves
- 20 The Number One Academy in the Cultivation World 修真界第一学院 Ling Yan'er loves playing city-building games, so she never expected to bring her phone with her when she transmigrated to the cultivation world. From the start, she has nothing but a thatched hut. If she doesn’t want to be alone in this dump, she has to recruit students and get construction underway. Ling Yan'er has no choice but to play a real-life city-building game in the cultivation world alongside the game System. A disgraced former disciple of the Qiantian Sect? Recruit him as a teacher! 1.1kReads8.4Score131Shelves
- 21 Firefighter: Braving the Flames and Moving the Whole Internet 消防员：烈火中逆行，感动全网 On the show Infinite Career Challenge, Jiang Lin resolutely chooses to take on the challenge of being a firefighter! At that moment, he awakens the Infinite Career System. From then on, whether in blazing infernos or beneath collapsing mountainsides, he becomes the bravest one rushing toward danger. The billowing smoke cannot swallow his orange-red figure, and the raging flames cannot burn away his iron will. As long as his body has not been completely consumed by fire, he will not flinch, even 705Reads8.8Score102Shelves
- 22 Opening a Shop in Another World, and You Call This Household Goods? 异界开店，你管这叫日用杂货 [Shop + Lighthearted + Slice of Life] Yi Fan inherited a general store, only to be transported to another world by it. How can he cultivate into a master in this strange world? It all starts with opening a shop. The strange and quirky goods in the store are defined by Yi Fan. Chopsticks aren't for eating, but for catching flies and training your speed... 2.3kReads8.5Score155Shelves
- 23 The Ice and Fire Chef 冰火魔厨 The dawn that spans heaven and earth: the Sacred Radiance Saber The curse of eternal hell: the Demon-Eater Saber These are seven divine blades, and seven magic staffs wielding the powers of ice, fire, wind, earth, space, light, and darkness. Most importantly, they are the protagonist’s kitchen knives. 475Reads9.2Score114Shelves
- 24 Sign-In Across the Myriad Worlds, Starting with Food 从美食开始万界签到 Sitting at home, he got bombed from the sky. Qin Hao transmigrated into a world of gourmet food. He thought that with the System’s help, he could finally turn his life around and become the protagonist. Instead, from the start, he was chased by a herd of roast pigs… (If you’re only here for Toriko, we recommend starting from chapter 100.) 1.4kReads8.3Score115Shelves
- 25 The God of Cooking in Another World 异世厨神 In this fantasy world, where cultivators can split mountains with a raised hand and sever great rivers with a kick, he begins his path to godhood with a tiny restaurant! The most beautiful woman in the capital, the saintess of the Ice Spirit Palace, the enchanting demoness of the demonic cult, and the emperor who travels ten thousand miles a day all become his devoted foodies! Faced with the flood of customers, Qi Xiu declares, “Each person can order only one serving of each dish per day!” What? 1.5kReads8.0Score177Shelves
- 26 The Otherworld's Gourmet King 异界的美食天王 [Food + System] An ordinary chef is brought to the Continent of Gods and Demons, where he runs a restaurant that’s anything but ordinary. The food here can’t be found anywhere else, yet people from every corner of the continent can make their way to this restaurant. This world has magic, battle qi, cultivators, and charlatans. I, Chen Mo, just want to be an ordinary chef, winning every customer’s heart with the Chinese cuisine they can’t get in this other world. [Some characters in this book may 112Reads8.7Score—Shelves
- 27 Gentle Inferno 温柔烈火 [Complete] [Chaste couple] [Stoic, pure-hearted firefighter brigade captain x slender, soft, sweet and flirtatious superstar heroine] [Super sweet and swoon-worthy + she pursues him at first + he pursues her later + mutually doting and flirting] Eight years after they last met, Wei Huaiyuan rescues Xu Ran from a fire. After that, she keeps showing up in front of him, claiming she just wants to “catch up.” She does everything from finding a way to add him on WeChat and asking him to see a movie, 1.2kReads9.2Score127Shelves
- 28 From the Start, a Firefighter Rescues People from a Blaze on Livestream 开局火场救人，消防员的我被直播 After transmigrating to a parallel world, he gains the strongest firefighter System. At first, all Li Xiao wants is to earn enough kindness points to return to his original world, but each rescue draws him deeper into love for the job. “I swear to obey orders, fulfill my duties, and fear no sacrifice! I will devote everything I have to protecting the lives and property of the people and preserving social stability!” High-rise rescues, factory fires, forest fires, saving children from drowning... 2.3kReads8.8Score251Shelves
- 29 Delicious Country Cooking: The Little Chef Is Beautiful and Adorable 农门佳肴：小厨娘她美又娇 [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 4.7kReads9.0Score557Shelves
- 30 System: I Grind My Way into an All-Round Cultivator 系统：肝出个全能修仙者 [System + Farming + Beast Taming + Slow-Burn + Everyday Life + Leveling Up] In an ordinary village, an ordinary baby boy is born. A loud cry rings out. “Ding! [Learning] skill activated!” And just like that, Jiang Lan transmigrates, bringing a Skill System along with him. As long as he does something that fits a skill's description, he can keep gaining experience. Once he has enough, he can level up and gain branch abilities. [Learning] grants insight. [Teaching] lets him pass on skills. [Farmin 2kReads7.9Score139Shelves
- 31 Master Chef: From the Start, My Junior Sister Stole My Chicken 厨神，开局被小师妹偷吃了鸡 Hardcore food fiction + laid-back daily life + steamrolling the myriad races with food The executive chef of a six-star restaurant transmigrates to the Yaochi Holy Land and becomes the greatest chef in the world of culinary cultivation. There, he discovers that the pigs are bigger than elephants and the chickens have six legs! From then on, Beast-Taming Peak gets a large-scale, professional livestock farm, while fields of vegetables flourish year-round on Spirit Herb Peak. “These evil dragons an 6.6kReads9.2Score486Shelves
- 32 Dangerous Rescue: Trust Me, I'll Get You Out 危险救援：请相信我，我带你出去 [Plot-Focused Story] Firefighters are the profession with the highest number of deaths in peacetime. Li Yang transmigrates to another world and becomes a proud firefighter. I will obey orders without hesitation, fulfill my duties, and fear no sacrifice. Whenever and wherever I am, even when facing mountains of blades and seas of fire, I will never retreat. Chemical plant explosions, building fires, dam collapses, mine cave-ins... When danger strikes, he is always the first to rush in, saving peo 72Reads9.1Score—Shelves
- 33 I Turn the Tide in the Cultivation World with My Cooking 我靠美食在修仙界逆风翻盘 [Food + cultivation + slow-burn growth + lighthearted, witty style] [The heroine is clever and a bit of a goofball. The hero is obsessive and crazy, with a sharp tongue, a soft heart, and a haughty streak.] Living in the apocalypse, Yu Guiwan had imagined all kinds of ways she might die, but never that she, a celebrated chef, would be poisoned to death by a pot of mushroom soup! Humiliated, she realized she had transmigrated. Even more humiliatingly, the moment she came back to life, her husband 2.7kReads8.9Score350Shelves
- 34 Murong Wan Transmigrates into a Cultivation World 慕容婉穿书修仙界 Murong Wan Transmigrates into a Book and Enters the Cultivation Realm 2Reads—Score—Shelves
- 35 This Beautiful Doctor Has Superpowers 这个美女医生有异能 This Beautiful Doctor Has Special Powers 1Reads—Score—Shelves
- 36 A Great War in the Cultivation World, All for a Bite to Eat?! 修仙界大战，只为抢口饭？！ [Gourmet cooking + immortal cultivation + scheming sect disciple + lighthearted comedy + goofy daily life + no female lead or harem] Zhu Fan transmigrated to the cultivation world and became a disciple of a sect. Just as he was about to receive his golden finger, something unexpected happened Zhu Fan: Anyone else know this feeling? I was about to become a tycoon in the immortal realm! Once my divine pill was ready, I’d ascend to immortality! But someone suddenly cut in and bound me to the wrong 15kReads9.2Score1.7kShelves
- 37 Oh No! The Empress Is Pregnant Again! 夭寿啦！女帝又又又怀孕啦！ [One Female Lead, Laid-Back Cultivation] Qin Fan transmigrates into a book and is immediately abducted by the poisoned villainess, Empress Su Longyue, who sleeps with him. At this point, the empress is still inexperienced and hasn’t turned evil. She’s only the Holy Maiden of the Moon Embracing Sect. Qin Fan never expected that their encounter would leave Su Longyue pregnant with quintuplets! The two begin living together. A year later, Su Longyue gets pregnant again, this time with sextuplets! Q 11.4kReads9.0Score1.3kShelves
- 38 Kissing Her in the Flames 火光中吻她 [Second Chances After a Breakup, Cool and Elegant Surgeon x Childhood-Friend Fire Captain] There is nothing more beautiful in this world than reuniting after a long separation. Six years later, Su Yun met Qi Zheng again in the hospital emergency department. The carefree young man she remembered had become a fire-service hero, safeguarding the peace of the people in his district. The regrets of their school days would eventually be put to rest, and even after years apart, they would still make ea —Reads—Score9.2kShelves
- 39 A Miracle Doctor Transmigrates into a Young Hospital Doctor 神医穿越住院小医生 The Transmigrated Miracle Doctor Becomes a Hospitalized Junior Doctor 13Reads—Score—Shelves
- 40 You're a Police Officer! Do You Even Know What That Means? You're Not a Criminal! 你是警察，警察懂吗！不是罪犯！ My new work is out! You can read my stories on Tomato Novel. I hope you'll enjoy them. Your support motivates me to write, and I'll do my best to tell every story well! 10.8kReads8.0Score725Shelves
- 41 Chaos Beast Tamer: From Good-for-Nothing to World Lord 混沌御兽：从废柴到界主 Chaos Beast Taming: From Good-for-Nothing to World Lord 17Reads—Score—Shelves
- 42 The Immortal Orchard in My Dantian Helps Me Enter the Immortal Sect 丹田仙圃助我入仙门 The Immortal Garden in My Dantian Helps Me Enter the Immortal Sect 20Reads—Score—Shelves
- 43 This Beauty Has a Mysterious Aura 这个美女有玄光 This Beauty Has a Mysterious Aura 6Reads—Score—Shelves
- 44 The Heavenly Eye Feng Shui Grandmaster 天眼风水大宗师 The Grandmaster of Feng Shui with the Heavenly Eye 16Reads—Score—Shelves
- 45 Beast Taming: I Really Just Want to Run a Peaceful Restaurant 御兽：我真的只想安稳的开饭店 [Food + opening a shop + everyday life + lighthearted fun + beast taming + System] Also known as: “The Stories I Couldn't Tell About Me and the System,” “A Leisurely Life with Three Little Ones,” “I'm Unbeatable in My Restaurant, So Do Whatever You Like,” and “Shocking! My Three Pet Beasts Are All Big Shots” Foodie Jiang Ming drinks a century-old, top-quality Daughter Red and unexpectedly transmigrates to a parallel world called Blue Star, where he gains a Spirit Chef System. At first, Jiang Min 16.1kReads8.8Score2.5kShelves
- 46 Lin Feng's Post-Apocalyptic Home 林枫的末世家园 Lin Feng's Doomsday Home 10Reads—Score—Shelves
- 47 There's a Tree in My Dantian 丹田里面有棵树 There’s a Tree in My Dantian 24Reads—Score—Shelves
- 48 Even the Apocalypse Can't Stop Us From Having Kids 末世也能生猴子 Even the apocalypse can't stop me from having kids 6Reads—Score—Shelves
- 49 Reborn into a Life of Jade 重生之翡翠人生 A Reborn Life in Jade 18Reads—Score—Shelves
- 50 The Nation-Guarding Feng Shui Master 镇国风水师 The Nation-Guarding Feng Shui Master 8Reads—Score—Shelves
