Novels like Transmigrating to a Bygone Era: Building a Fortune and Raising the Kids
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- 1 I Set Up a Little Stall Outside the University 我在大学门口摆小摊 [System + demolition windfall + food + travel] Su Xi has been a little busy lately. She has just been hit with a double blow: her cheating boyfriend dumped her, and her company fired her. Then the huge payout from the demolition of her childhood home arrives. She was hoping to live the carefree life of a rich slacker, but instead she's forced to bind herself to a Gourmet System! System: [Ding! Congratulations, Host! You've acquired the “God-Tier Tomato and Egg Stir-Fry” skill! Mission: Set up 34Reads—Score—Shelves
- 2 I Transmigrated into a Book and Became the Male Lead's Son's Mom 穿书后我给男主儿子当妈 Fang Ningshu transmigrates into a book. Fine, she can handle that, but why does she inexplicably have a son now? Since she’s here, she may as well make the best of it. All she wants is to protect herself, so Fang Ningshu battles her way past green tea schemers and fake sweethearts. Just as she and her son are about to build a fortune and settle into a comfortable life, the man claiming to be the boy’s father suddenly appears. Can someone explain what’s going on? … Lu Shi corners her against the 19Reads5.3Score—Shelves
- 3 Cultivating Immortality? Isn’t It Just About Eating Whatever You Can? 修仙？那不是能吃就行吗 [Cultivation + Food + No Romance + Lighthearted Comedy + Slow-Burn Pacing] Welcome to the foodie's cultivation world~ Cultivating too slowly? Eat more rice. Not enough spiritual energy? Have another helping. Shi Yu has just transmigrated. She wants to join a powerful food sect and eat her fill for free, but instead she faces the hardest entrance trial in a hundred years. Ten minutes into the exam “What? Everyone taking the trial ran off?” “Why?” “Don't they like houttuynia, stinky tofu, and du 7Reads—Score—Shelves
- 4 Transmigrated to the Seventies: The Adorable Baby Goes on a Rampage 穿越七零：萌宝在线行凶 [Adorable baby + sweet romance + period setting + pocket dimension] After Wang Jiaojiao transmigrated, she settled into a village life of earning work points and raising two little ones. One night, after Wang Jiaojiao finished telling them a bedtime story, “Mommy, Xiaobao is fierce and strong. I'll protect you!” Xiaobao showed off her two little tiger teeth and tried to look ferocious. Dabao played along, doting on her. “Little sister is amazing.” Xiaobao shot her a few glances. Wang Jiaojiao fe 21Reads5.7Score—Shelves
- 5 After Xiangchao Went Viral, I Made It Big with Yongzhou Cuisine 湘超爆火后，我靠永州美食出圈 (An unconventional food story + urban fantasy + women's growth. A slow-burn, steady-paced story with simple writing. If you only want pure food descriptions, this may not be for you.) At thirty, an age when even dogs find you annoying, Zhao Min lost her job! She was already frustrated about being unemployed, and the thought that she might also face even more intense pressure to get married only made things worse! When she was feeling utterly dejected, her best friend called: "Minmin, come bac 2Reads—Score—Shelves
- 6 After the Villainess Started Cooking, Everyone Spoiled Her! 恶女做美食后，被团宠了！ [Not a wish-fulfillment story + slow burn + food + everyday life + heartwarming] After a car accident, Shang Shixu transmigrated to the Great Xia dynasty. The good news: Her father was an official, and a fairly high-ranking one! The bad news: She was a notorious villainess in the capital. She not only seduced unmarried young men, but also went after married men. Everyone in the city despised her, and her family suffered for it too. She would ask people for favors to their faces, then call them i 336Reads6.5Score—Shelves
- 7 Reborn in the 1980s as a Little Chef: Cherished After Divorce 重生八零小厨娘：离婚后被宠上天 This novel is absolutely perfect for reading over a meal. Slurp~ A Michelin-starred chef travels back to the 1980s. Freshly divorced, she turns her life around with her cooking! She revamps a traditional stove, sells noodles at a street stall, and recreates a hundred classic dishes from Recipes from the Garden of Contentment: crab-stuffed oranges bursting with flavor, milky-white mutton soup, and Wensi tofu sliced into strands as fine as silver thread. The little stall at the town entrance draws 4Reads—Score—Shelves
- 8 The Private Kitchen of a Little Farm Girl 私厨小农女 [No romance; the heroine loves only money and just wants to earn enough to laze around. There is a secondary couple.] Ji Shu was a sought-after private chef and small-business owner in the modern world, but after being born into this era, she had to eat boiled vegetables for thirteen years?? Ji Shu can't take it anymore!! She'll use delicious food to reach a comfortable life: set up a street stall, then buy a shop, buy a house, and make money. What is love? It's just an optional seasoning in lif 168Reads8.0Score—Shelves
- 9 The 1970s Cannon-Fodder Foolish Wife: She Takes on the Villain with Billions in Supplies 七零炮灰傻妻：带千亿物资抢反派 [Transmigrate into a book + pocket dimension + sweet romance and intense flirting + rugged man and doting wife + satisfying revenge + secret identities] Ye Jia transmigrates into a book set in the 1970s, where from the start she’s a minor character destined to be killed by the reborn heroine. The reborn heroine boasts about charming an educated youth, snatching opportunities, and becoming a rich beauty. Ha! Ye Jia uses the countless supplies at her disposal to dish out face-slapping revenge and 399Reads8.4Score—Shelves
- 10 After I Transmigrated into a Book, I Became the Mother of Five Powerful Men 穿书后我成了五个大佬的妈 Yun Yue transmigrates into a book, only to discover she’s become a young wife saddled with several burdensome stepchildren! Yun Yue refuses to become the short-lived, vicious villainess. She’s determined to raise her five little future villains right, and send her evil mother-in-law and her family packing! From then on, she farms, raises children, and runs a business, living respectably enough to make her awful relatives green with envy. Her eldest son becomes the mighty general who protects the 4Reads—Score—Shelves
- 11 From the Start of a Famine, I Feed My Whole Family Like Kings 开局荒年，我带全家吃香喝辣 [Farming + fleeing famine + pocket dimension + slow and steady + family life + one-on-one romance] The moment Xia Yunxi opens her eyes, she finds herself transmigrated to another world. But isn't this taking things a little too far? From the start, she's fleeing famine, with people trading children for food? All right, all right. So that's how we're playing it? [Master, there's a transmigration starter pack waiting for you!] Guided by her useless pocket dimension, Xia Yunxi takes her adopted fam 16Reads—Score—Shelves
- 12 A Max-Level Social Butterfly Gets Rich in a Period Novel 满级社牛，在年代文里暴富 [Transmigrate into a Book + Food + Everyone's Favorite + Farming + Business] Oh no! Tian Cheng went to sleep and woke up as the vicious supporting female character in a period novel. She has a sweet face but a bad-tempered, unpleasant personality, and she has a crush on the male lead. Jealous of the heroine, she targets her at every turn and eventually dies a miserable death, leaving everyone sighing over her fate. But Tian Cheng is a food lover, and she has no plans to repeat the same mistakes. 7Reads—Score—Shelves
- 13 The Pastry Queen’s Journey 糕点皇后养成记 The biggest challenge of transmigrating to ancient times: no oven, no stand mixer. How can a modern baker survive? Jiang You calmly says, “No problem.” The earthen stove is too crude, so she builds a brick kiln and makes her own oven. With no proper tools, she ties bamboo strips together to make a whisk. She uses lard to create layer upon layer of flaky pastry, and cleverly packages her goods in bamboo baskets lined with oiled paper. Her Valentine's Day sushi amazes the townsfolk, her autumn-onl 27Reads—Score—Shelves
- 14 Reborn in the 1980s: The Little Chef 重生八零小厨娘 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 220Reads8.8Score—Shelves
- 15 My Cat Turned Into a Person! 我家猫变成人啦！ Gu Yi, who had loved reading Strange Tales from a Chinese Studio since childhood, brought home a little cat. Who could have guessed that overnight, the cat would turn into a person? She decided to go into business with the little cat spirit and opened a pet lifestyle shop. Her tiny shop in the human world became her very own modern-day Strange Tales from a Chinese Studio. All sorts of customers came and went, each one a member of a different demon clan hiding in the city. One old tale after anot 5Reads—Score—Shelves
- 16 Transmigrated into a Book as a Cannon-Fodder Villainess: I Leave the Palace, Open a Restaurant, and Become a Tycoon 穿书炮灰女配，出宫开酒楼成首富 [Fake palace intrigue + Wish fulfillment + Food + Cozy + Farming + Light ensemble cast + A touch of a golden finger] Other people rely on schemes to survive palace intrigue. I rely on the wok hei! When she opens her eyes, Qiu Qiu is stunned The unscrupulous System really did toss her into an old-fashioned, melodramatic novel! The original owner is a disposable pawn the emperor uses to please his true love. Her ending is miserable: stripped of her title, sent to the Cold Palace, and left to die o 11Reads—Score—Shelves
- 17 Reborn: Selling Luosifen in Ancient Times 重生之我在古代卖螺蛳粉 [Transmigration + Alternate Universe + Food + Shopkeeping + Farming] A food story! No palace intrigues or household scheming, and the heroine doesn't marry into the imperial family. The whole story is lighthearted, with few nasty characters. There's no romance at first, but it comes later. This is an alternate-era setting, so don't take things too seriously. When Chu Mengning wakes up and sees her family's bare walls, she sighs and decides to rely on herself to lead her family to prosperity and 4Reads6.7Score—Shelves
- 18 The Little Chang'an Eatery 长安小食肆 [Food Business Comeback + Clear-Headed Heroine + Everyday Food and Drink + No Romance, but Plenty of Suitors] In her previous life, Jiang Yuan was a chef in the Imperial Kitchen, bound to a mission. For ten years, she treated Crown Prince Zhao Heng's food aversion, prepared soups for him, and soothed his mind, giving him everything he asked for. The day he ascended the throne, he rewarded her with poisoned wine. She drank it with a smile. Mission complete. The System unbound, and at last she was 270Reads6.8Score108Shelves
- 19 I Set Up a Stall Before the New Year and Left Customers Drooling 过年前摆一波摊，馋坏食客 My new work is here! You’re welcome to read it on Tomato Novel. I hope you enjoy it. Your follows motivate me to write, and I’ll do my best to tell every story well! Wang Xu, the “King of Street Stalls,” quit his job right before the New Year and encountered a Gourmet System. Unlike a tycoon System, this one had a simple, no-nonsense way of taking its cut: a 70/30 or 60/40 split. Under this arrangement, Wang Xu had to meet the System’s KPIs while also working hard to increase his own earnings. 646Reads—Score102Shelves
- 20 I Won't Panic Through the Famine Years: My Space Is Packed with Meat 穿越荒年心不慌，我有空间肉满仓 Everyday life’s simple comforts are what soothe the heart most~ [Food + Farming + Building a fortune + Family squabbles + Raising a child + Sweet romance + Pocket dimension] [Important: The father is out of the picture, but the child stays! The heroine transmigrates into the past and already has a baby. Pure farming story, no rebellion, no saving princes or generals.] Yun Shu transmigrated into the body of a country woman in ancient times. Just as she got pregnant, her husband cheated on her an 24Reads—Score—Shelves
- 21 Happily Back to Country Life 乐归田园 Li Qingyue: “I want to grow our little family shop into a major business and turn our village into the next Huaxi Village.” Everyone else: “We don't know what village Huaxi is, but we'll roll up our sleeves and work with you.” Qi Yi: “Wife, what can I do?” Li Qingyue: “Just study hard and let me become the wife of an official. After all, money is good, but power matters too.” Qi Yi obediently nods. Tuantuan: “Then what should I do, Mother?” His eyes sparkle. Li Qingyue: “You? Your job is to eat 141Reads8.4Score—Shelves
- 22 The Little Chef: Daily Life Running a Shop in Ancient Times 厨神小娘子：古代开店日常 After transmigrating to the Southern Song Dynasty, Ji Zhitang just wanted to lie flat in peace. But with her family dirt poor and creditors knocking at the door, what could she do? No big deal! Braised meat wraps, spicy shredded chicken frames, deep-fried baby crabs, stone-pot bibimbap, seafood feasts... Modern dishes were just what it took to win over ancient palates! From a roadside stall to a wildly popular fast-food shop, from Taoyuan Town to Lin'an's top-tier star, her food business flouris 5.9kReads8.4Score628Shelves
- 23 Gourmet: A Street Stall Owner Tours the Nation 美食：地摊老板，全国巡摆 Zhang Feng is a model young man who transmigrates to Blue Star in a parallel world and binds himself to a Gourmet System. From then on, a man as legendary as a myth begins appearing all across the country. Cumin lamb skewers, late-night egg fried rice, fragrant braised beef, crispy fried chicken frames... From big cities to small towns, a legend begins to spread: On some street, you may come across a man in a chef’s uniform. If you meet him, you’ll get to taste the most delicious food in the wor 70Reads5.6Score—Shelves
- 24 Gourmet: You Asked Me to Teach, but I Ran Off With the Parents 美食：让你当老师，你把家长拐跑 (Don't leave! The rating just came out and will go up. A heartwarming story.) Chen Chu is unemployed and living off his sister's family when he unexpectedly awakens a Gourmet System. Just as it happens, his niece's kindergarten is short a food teacher, so Chen Chu proudly takes the job. Day One: An eighty-year-old grandpa comes to pick up a child, then cries and makes a scene, demanding to enroll. Day Two: A naughty kid who hates school says that going to school is the happiest thing in the worl 860Reads6.6Score100Shelves
- 25 I Returned to Ancient Times and Reached the Top with My Cooking 穿回古代靠厨艺走上人生巅峰 [Food + Everyday Life + Business Management + Farming] He wakes up in ancient times. Watch a master chef show off his skills! What surprises will come from the collision of culinary cultures from different eras? After being hit by a car, chef Cheng Yu travels back a thousand years. From the start, all he has is a thatched hut. How can he use his skills to improve his life? Selling wraps, making braised meat, cooking noodles in an iron pot and clay-pot rice, mooncakes and spicy crab for the M 221Reads—Score—Shelves
- 26 Our Three Meals and Four Seasons 我和你的三餐四季 Chen Baomian was considered an oddball by outsiders. She gave up her job at a research institute in Hong Kong and returned to live in seclusion on a run-down island. But to Jiang Jinglin, Chen Baomian was a map of local delicacies: red peach cakes, beef balls, duck-egg dumplings, and braised goose. Whatever he could think of, she could make. He thought she had merely won his stomach, never realizing she had captured his heart long ago. Chen Baomian thought Jiang Jinglin was a genius designer wh 1.6kReads8.9Score153Shelves
- 27 Taking a Shopping Mall to the 1970s to Raise Kids and Build Wealth 带着商场去七十年代养娃致富 After transmigrating to the 1970s, Ye Qin puts up with the lack of food and clothing. The original owner, Zhao Cuicui, was timid and useless, pale and scrawny, and bullied all the time. She puts up with that, too. But can someone tell her who this handsome guy in front of her is? And who is this adorable little one? She’s a young office worker who’s never even been in a relationship. How did she end up married and suddenly a mother? Worst of all, the original owner abused the child? As an orphan 346Reads8.6Score—Shelves
- 28 Transmigrating to the 1970s: I Raise Kids With My Pocket Space 穿越七零：我靠空间养崽崽 Synopsis: Just because the supermarket lights flashed in her eyes, Wen Xia somehow transmigrates to the 1970s and becomes a skinny little orphan from the countryside, with a newborn baby brother in tow! What kind of cruel twist of fate is this? Luckily, Heaven lets her bring a supermarket with her. From then on, Wen Xia begins her leisurely everyday life raising a child... 37Reads8.4Score—Shelves
- 29 Wedding Night in the 1970s: The Wealthy Beauty and Her Rough-Hewn Husband 七零新婚夜：白富美的糙汉子 (Rebirth, period setting, space, devoted husband, raising children, everyday life) Just a moment ago, August Jiao was swimming in her villa, feeling pleased with herself for finally standing up to her fake best friend. Then she transmigrated into a book. She wasn't the heroine. Like countless cannon-fodder supporting women in novels, she was someone who had been dealt a great hand in life and played it terribly, ending up with a fate too tragic to bear. Thanks to her fake best friend, the two ha 2.9kReads8.6Score183Shelves
- 30 What?! Curing His Eating Disorder Means I Have to Cure His Lovesickness Too?! 啥！治好厌食症还要负责相思病！ [Transmigrated Foodie vs. Aloof Marquis with an Eating Disorder] [Sweet Romance + Mutual Firsts] Ji Chutang caught the transmigration wave, but she wasn't as lucky as everyone else. Other people transmigrated as princesses or young ladies from wealthy families, while she was just a poor girl with no parents! Luckily, she was a wonderful cook, and even on her own she could make a good life for herself. By chance, Ji Chutang rescued a gaunt man with an eating disorder who was on the brink of death 199Reads7.3Score—Shelves
- 31 Shocking! The Wealthy Family's Fat Wife Is a Max-Level Spirit Chef 惊！豪门肥妻竟是满级灵厨 (The rating was just posted and will rise later.) [Transmigration + healing through food + sweet childcare romance + cozy daily life + one-on-one romance + love that grows over time] The moment she opened her eyes, Shen Zhigeng, a renowned culinary cultivator from the cultivation world, had become a wealthy man’s fat wife, mocked by the entire internet. Her parents favored her sibling, her younger sister was a poisonous flower, her CEO husband looked at her with disgust, and everyone online was 6.4kReads8.0Score651Shelves
- 32 I Sold Dog Food at My Stall, and It Sold Out. I Never Said People Couldn’t Eat It! 摆摊卖狗饭被抢爆没说人不能吃吧 Shen Yi transmigrates to a parallel world and binds himself to a rather unreliable Food System. Every week, the System assigns him a random street-stall mission: Sell boxed meals inside a haunted house that's about to close, sell milk tea in a nursing home that's going under, sell hamburgers at a weight-loss camp that can't attract any customers... Worst of all, it even tells him to sell homemade pet food at a pet shop that can't make a profit. Every dish leaves customers drooling, and once they 63Reads—Score103Shelves
- 33 Back to the 1980s with a Warehouse, Working Hard to Get Rich 带着仓库重回八十年代忙致富 In her previous life, Jiang He was tricked by her father and stepmother into marrying an old man. Later, her half-sister sold her to a mining district overseas. Reborn into the 1980s, Jiang He returns with the warehouse from the mining district! The warehouse is full of all kinds of supplies, as well as every sort of fruit tree! And once she uses something up, it automatically replenishes! In this life, she vows never to believe another word from that heartless family. She’ll get away from her a 26Reads8.3Score—Shelves
- 34 A Surprise Stepmother: Winning Over My Husband and Raising the Kids 喜当后娘，撩夫养崽 [Super-Sweet Feel-Good Story + Ugly, Fat, Poor Woman's Rise + Making a Fortune + Strong Female Lead + Adorable Kids] What's worse than being ugly? Being fat! What's worse than being fat? Being poor! Ugly, fat, poor... When all three fatal flaws descend upon Mingxi, she knows she's in trouble, big trouble! Bring on the beauty treatments, bring on the weight loss, bring on the fortune-making! She's just as formidable in ancient times, running a little restaurant and making money hand over fist, wh 73Reads8.4Score—Shelves
- 35 Gourmet: I Keep Myself Alive by Eating on a Dating Show 美食：我在恋综靠干饭续命 [Food first, with a goofy dating show on the side. The heroine is all about her career; men only slow down my eating.] After transmigrating into the body of a bit-part actress who won't survive three days, Ning Meng is packed off to a dating show as the universally disliked foil. Just when she's about to despair, the [Food Keeps You Alive System] binds to her! [Host, you have to eat to stay alive!] While everyone else is flirting and chasing butterflies, she calculates how many minutes a dish wi 72Reads6.7Score—Shelves
- 36 Transmigrated into a Book: The 1970s Sweetheart Gets the Beloved-by-All Plot 穿书七零，娇软女配拿了团宠剧本 [Period Setting + Military Marriage + Transmigrate into a Book + Pocket Dimension + No Black Market] Luo Shiyi transmigrates to the 1970s, going from a rich heiress with billions in assets to a pitiful girl everyone despises. On her very first night, she takes her original self’s ex-husband by force, and they’re caught in bed. She discovers that her ex-husband is handsome and kind-hearted... and that he died on the battlefield early because the original owner treated him poorly. Thankfully, ther 1Reads—Score—Shelves
- 37 The Little Mermaid Chef: Spring Drunkenness, Begonias Bloom, and Dawn Goes Unnoticed 人鱼小厨娘【春酲海棠不觉晓】 Mermaid landlady x a young marshal who says one thing but means another | Food entrepreneurship | A love story that begins in a coffin and makes you cry When Shen Haitang woke up inside a coffin, she had forgotten everything. She remembered only two things: First, she wasn’t human. Second, she was hungry. The man beside her, who was said to have been dead for three days, woke to the sound of her gobbling up the offerings. When he opened his eyes, she was holding up a huge chicken leg, crumbs 2Reads—Score—Shelves
- 38 Transmigrated into a Tragic Novel as Cannon Fodder, I Turned the Tables with Food 穿成虐文炮灰，我靠美食逆风翻盘 [Food + System + business + healing each other + obsessive, scheming male lead] Yun Shu, a descendant of imperial chefs, opens her eyes to find she has become a doomed cannon-fodder character in an old-fashioned tragic romance. Not only did she spend her life giving the heroine resources and taking the blame for her, but even after her death, she became part of their PLAY. They really used her to the very end. Why should the whole world’s lives be sacrificed just so their love story can be passi 28Reads8.1Score—Shelves
- 39 The Little Chef of Judge Shen's Household 沈提刑家的小厨娘 Fresh crucian carp sliced thin, celery soup from the emerald stream. A breeze brushes the willows, and a beauty... can lift a mountain with a mighty roar! Everyone knows that Miss Meng of the inn is as beautiful as a flower and a wonderful cook, but no one knows she can lift a giant vat with one hand or bend down and pull up a willow tree. Passing by, Judge Shen: Excuse me! * I love you, my lord. Do you know? The audacious Meng Sujin pounced on Shen Shinian, the judicial commissioner of the Cour 682Reads7.2Score128Shelves
- 40 Kicked Out of Her Home, She Was Taken In and Treasured by Mr. Shi 赶出家门后，她被时总捡走当宝贝 "A Sweet Wife at Home" is also streaming on Kuaishou! “Boss! Qiu Lingyu ruined the finest Longjing tea! She said she was going to make Longjing shrimp with it!” Assistant Lin rushed into the boss’s office. “What?! Longjing shrimp!” Just as Assistant Lin expected, Big Boss Shi was aghast. Half an hour later, tea plantation owner Lu Bozhou boarded a helicopter bound straight for Fengcheng, clutching the last two liang of his finest Longjing tea. Two hours later, two men were fighting over the last 159Reads8.9Score—Shelves
- 41 The Chief Minister's Darling Wife: I Run a Country Feast in the Ancient Countryside 首辅娇娘：我在古代农村烧大席 [Banquet Cooking + Farming + Business + Everyday Life + Sweet Romance] Tang Yuanyuan, from a family of master chefs, wakes up in the body of a farm girl in Great Zhou, only to have her engagement broken off from the start! Her father is sickly, her family is poor, and when they run out of grain, they eat bran. The whole family scrimps and saves, going hungry one day and eating their fill the next, just to pay their taxes. How are they supposed to get through these hard times? They’ll get through 52Reads—Score—Shelves
- 42 Gourmet: The Dining Spot Changes at Random, and Diners Go Wild Looking for It 美食：随机地点，食客们找疯了 [Gourmet]+ [Lighthearted]+ [Funny]+ [Everyday Life]+ [Heartwarming] In her previous life, Su Qing owned shops and was content to lie flat. Then she woke up in a parallel world and found herself bound to a [Random Street Food System]. “I just want to lie flat!” Su Qing wailed. In the CBD late at night, the aroma was irresistible! Zhang Wei, an overworked office worker, exclaimed, “Holy crap! This oden broth is so delicious my tongue is practically melting! Boss, give me three more!” Designer Li L 364Reads6.6Score—Shelves
- 43 Reborn in the 1960s: The Whole Family Dotes on Me as I Raise the Kids and Strike It Rich 重生六零：团宠暴富养崽崽 [Alternate 1960s] [Female lead’s perspective] [Copying space] [Former title: Copying Space: The Sixties Bride Comes from the Future] [Mystery-focused, full of twists and foreshadowing] Gu Niannian transmigrates and becomes another Gu Niannian. 22Reads7.9Score—Shelves
- 44 After Transmigrating to the Modern World, the Shadow Guard Kicks Back and Cooks 穿越现代后，暗卫开始摆烂做美食 No CP, just the everyday life of an ordinary female covert guard who loves food and gossip. Winter melon, watermelon, Hami melon, nobody’s going to stop me from getting the scoop. Juice-filled buns, dumpling juice, you little brat, get out of my way! Smash the plates, toss the chopsticks, and slap the scoundrels right across the face. I’ve got a temper and the skills to back it up. Nobody gets to push me around. Polished-up blurb A feast of fresh wine and sturgeon, a hotpot of clams. Given a sec 37Reads—Score—Shelves
- 45 Our State Banquet Master Sets Up a Stall to Sell Roujiamo to Foreigners 我国宴大师，摆摊卖肉夹馍给老外 [Food + light System + overseas business + comfort-food read + no romance + lighthearted + plenty of cooking knowledge + detailed recipes] Lu Chuan, a seventy-two-year-old master chef of state banquets, is reborn as an undocumented laborer overseas. He gets bound to a Chinese cuisine promotion System, and each mission is more outrageous than the last. Get people who have eaten sweet-and-sour chicken for decades to try real Kung Pao chicken instead. Get people who only have coffee and bread for b 88Reads—Score103Shelves
- 46 Reborn and Doted on by All: Building Wealth and Becoming a Princess in Ancient Times 重生团宠：在古代发家致富当王妃 [Historical romance + everyone's favorite + food + wish fulfillment + strong female lead + dimension] In an instant, An Li transmigrates to ancient times with a supermarket. This time, she's determined to live well, expose her vicious cousin's false face, and dump her scumbag fiancé. Instead, she opens a restaurant, becomes a sensation, and keeps opening more branches, making a fortune and attaining a comfortable life in ancient times. She was planning to enjoy her wealth and retire in comfort, 11Reads8.1Score—Shelves
- 47 Getting Rich by Setting Up a Stall in a Psychiatric Hospital! 在精神病院摆摊，暴富！ One heroine + food + no romance Li Xier is an orphan. To pay her rent and electricity bills, she sets up a food stall on the street outside a psychiatric hospital. Her dazzling variety of delicious dishes draws every diner nearby, and passersby stop to join the queue. Tourists and influencers from across the country and abroad flock to her stall. As her business grows bigger and better, Li Xier uses her culinary skills to launch a chain of restaurants and become a successful business owner, r 123Reads—Score—Shelves
- 48 So Addictive! I’m Getting Caught Up in the Cutthroat Competition of Ancient China’s Restaurant Business 香懵了！我在古代餐饮业搞内卷 [Farming + food + business + raising children] One day, Jiang Yan, a mature single food blogger, transmigrated and got her wish of becoming a mother without the pain of childbirth. She became a widowed mother of three. Not having a man around was fine, but what was with all this debt, huh? And she was supposed to sell her daughter, too? Jiang Yan hugged her sweet, soft, adorable daughter close. This was the dream child she’d always wanted. Selling her was out of the question! So how was she goin 484Reads8.5Score100Shelves
- 49 After Exile, I Become a Rich Woman Through Good Food! 流放后我靠美食成为大富婆！ [Food + farming + business + building a fortune] She’s exiled right after transmigrating? And she gets a tall, strapping husband who’s only hers on paper? No problem! She’ll start by selling marinated snacks. Braised pig trotters, chicken feet, duck necks, duck heads, all kinds of marinated food. It’s so delicious you can’t stop eating! Even the county magistrate says it’s great! From street stalls to shops and grand restaurants, then chain stores, Qi Nian uses her excellent cooking skills to op 216Reads8.2Score—Shelves
- 50 The Riverside Little Chef 临水小厨娘 [Farming and Food + Lighthearted + Daily Life + Romance + A Fictional Jiangnan Water Town] Su Mo, a modern culinary prodigy, transmigrates into the daughter of a small eatery owner in Linshui County. When she opens her eyes, the restaurant is on the verge of closing, and her parents are weighed down with worry. Watching her father ruin the ingredients with his cooking, Su Mo silently picks up the family's heirloom iron ladle. Just wait and see: she'll make this eatery bigger and better! 6.6kReads8.2Score654Shelves
