Novels like I Became a Little Farm Girl in Ancient Times and Built a Fortune with Food
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- 1 The Dragon Cub Everyone Loves: The Fierce Little Sister Brings Good Fortune 团宠龙崽：奶凶妹妹福运爆满 The little princess of the Azure Dragon Clan is reborn and becomes the youngest daughter of the poor Lu family of farmers. The little princess lets out a dragon’s roar, and at last, rain falls on the town after a long drought. Then she shows off her dragon might, and game from the mountains and fish and shrimp from the river all end up in the Lu family’s cooking pot. The Lu family has always been plagued by bad luck, but seeing all this, they’re overjoyed and treasure her like the apple of their 41Reads7.4Score—14d adds
- 2 Gourmet: Running a Nursing Home Kitchen, While the Whole World Begs Me to Open a Restaurant 美食：掌勺养老院，全世界跪求我开店 [Food + cozy daily life + healing and relaxing + building a fortune] Lin Momo, a nursing home caregiver, unexpectedly acquires a gourmet pocket dimension. Every time she earns praise through her cooking, she can claim even better rewards! Crispy river shrimp, stir-fried to bring out their fresh, savory flavor; Silk-baby vegetable wraps in rich broth, full of texture and good for your health; Steamed soup dumplings with thin skins, generous fillings, and plenty of juice; Rich, delicious coconut m 10Reads—Score—14d adds
- 3 After I Transmigrated, Gourmet Food Made Me a Top Rich Lady 穿越后我靠美食成了顶级富婆 Yun Shu had just passed her postgraduate entrance exams when she slipped and became a country girl. No food? No problem! The hills behind the village are a treasure trove waiting for me to dig in! No money? No problem! I grew up watching shows about getting rich, so this will be a piece of cake. So copper coins really can attract flies! A pack of greedy wolves had their eyes fixed on her stash of gold and silver. She pulled out her dog-beating stick. If one came, she’d beat one; if two came, she 54Reads6.5Score—14d adds
- 4 Healing Food for Other Worlds: Su He’s Traveling Kitchen 食愈位面：苏禾的移动小厨 [Quick transmigration + No Romance + Gourmet Buff Heals the Whole World + Savior] Su He accidentally binds herself to a World-Healing Gourmet System, taking her life in a whole new direction. Pushing a little food cart, she travels through worlds on the verge of collapse, using her cooking skills to slowly fix one mess after another. Whether it’s a lawless wasteland, a star realm filled with chaotic energy, or an ancient world where spiritual energy is nearly depleted… No matter how broken the 39Reads—Score—14d adds
- 5 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 213Reads—Score—14d adds
- 6 The Hunter's Little Sweetheart Is Beautiful and Adorable 猎户家的小甜妻又美又娇 [This novel is complete. A new book is underway.] Surgeon Jiang Yuanyuan transmigrates into a book and becomes the cannon-fodder aunt of the tragic male lead. She’s the standard ugly, dark-skinned, overweight woman, and she can’t do a thing. Yet somehow, her whole family dotes on her without limit. “My girl can do whatever she wants!” “My little sister is always right!” “Auntie, we’ll do whatever you say!” Jiang Yuanyuan tears into scheming women, kicks scumbags to the curb, and uses her lottery 222Reads9.0Score—14d adds
- 7 The Lucky Farm Girl Makes Her Mark in Ancient Times with Her Cooking 锦鲤农女，靠美食厨艺在古代逆袭 [Transmigration + Gourmet + farming + slow-paced + pocket dimension + building wealth + sweet romance and family doting + business-focused + mutual devotion + a touch of ensemble cast] Ling Wutong, a second-generation chef from a private restaurant, unexpectedly transmigrates to an impoverished farming family in ancient times. The harsh conditions are no problem: with the Heavenly Dao’s favorite leading the way, her honest and kind grandfather’s family makes a fortune through good food. From a h 790Reads—Score—14d adds
- 8 The Cook Takes Charge: I Use Food to Crush Villains and Become a Legend 厨娘当家：我靠美食虐渣封神 After transmigrating, Su Qiaoqiao, a twenty-first-century chef, wakes up in the body of a girl from a poor farming family in ancient times. From the start, she's in an “epic” mess: her parents want to sell her sister to pay for her brother's education. Faced with her self-important brother's disdain and her parents' obsessive devotion to their son, she lets out a cold laugh and goes berserk on the spot. “Sell my sister? Think bigger! Why not sell off you, the tender-skinned scholar, to become a 42Reads—Score—14d adds
- 9 After I Transmigrated, I Conquered the Capital with My Cooking 穿越后我靠厨艺称霸全京城 A royal chef from the 21st century transmigrates and becomes the notorious, useless, spoiled young lady of Beiyuan Kingdom. Her husband doesn't love her, her mother-in-law can't stand her, and the people laugh at her. The noble princess of Beiyuan has turned herself into a laughingstock. She arrives in this world and makes a pot her weapon and the kitchen her battlefield, stirring up a storm in Beiyuan. The aroma of her dishes wafts for miles, drawing palace chefs to seek her advice. But what's 57Reads8.2Score—14d adds
- 10 The Beloved Little Lucky Carp: Becoming the Villain's Darling from the Start 团宠小锦鲤：开局做反派大佬掌心娇 After transmigrating into a book as a villainess, Shen Yu, the human embodiment of a lucky koi, vowed to follow the villain's rules: take the green tea route and leave the green tea heroine with nowhere to go! When the heroine's research project won first prize nationwide, Shen Yu responded by showing off her certificate for the global grand prize in research. While the hero carefully worked his way toward wealth, Shen Yu became the adored, pampered heiress of the world's richest family, the Nan 10Reads8.6Score—14d adds
- 11 The Five-Flavored Miss 五味小娘子 After transmigrating into an ancient farming household with nothing but bare walls, Wanqing takes it all in stride. She brings modern internet-famous seasonings to the past, and even at a young age, she makes a name for herself far and wide with her cooking, builds a fortune, and sees her business flourish. By chance, she picks up a darling husband along the way, a possessive man with a deep love for her. Together, they return home, and their leisurely country life begins. 502Reads8.7Score10214d adds
- 12 After Transmigrating, I Pick Up Three Good-for-Nothing Sons 穿越后白捡三个不成器的儿子 Su Tan had it rough! She had somehow transmigrated into the role of stepmother to three children. Her unreliable husband spent all his time in the army and never came home more than once a year. Her mother-in-law spent her days mooching off others and waiting for someone else to take charge. The three half-grown boys were so thin and pale from hunger that they practically drooled two pounds at the sight of white rice. “What kind of transmigration leaves you this malnourished!” Su Tan was too exh —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 13 A Picturesque Life in a Country Village 锦绣田园农家小生活 She transmigrates into a farming family, and now she's both mother and father to them. Luckily, she comes with a portable space. An orphan in her previous life, she now has several sweet, sensible younger siblings who love one another. She's determined to raise the family's five little dumplings to be plump and rosy-cheeked. She grows sweet potatoes, opens an embroidery shop, makes secret recipes, raises cows and chickens, and starts a farm. Hahaha! Her dream of becoming a rich landowner is with 225Reads8.7Score10514d adds
- 14 Reborn as a Foolish Girl with a System: The Villains Weep and Beg to Split the Family 重生傻女有系统，极品痛哭求分家 [Farming + Crushing Scumbags + Dealing with Awful Relatives + Everyday Family Life + Golden Finger] Yuan Xi was accidentally sent to the wrong place by a rookie underworld guide. To make it up to her, the King of Hell struck a deal with her, letting her reincarnate with a golden finger. But as soon as she opened her eyes, she found herself a pitiful girl who had been foolish for thirteen years in an ancient farming family. The youngest daughter of the eldest branch, she and her family had been o 35.4kReads8.3Score2.3k14d adds
- 15 Interstellar Cuisine: Food Is the Most Important Thing in Life 星际美食，民以食为天 After an accident, Shen Chuxia transmigrates to the other side of the galaxy, where technology is advanced, flying cars and spaceships are everywhere, and the environment is wonderful. She even gets two adorable kids and fulfills her dream of becoming a rich woman, instantly turning into a winner in life. She has everything she could want, except food. What’s a food lover to do? She can only develop delicious dishes one step at a time, until food blossoms everywhere. 178Reads7.5Score—14d adds
- 16 Qingzhou Beauty Parlor: The Eldest Sister's Business Diary 青州丽人坊：长姐的经营日记 Farming, nurturing, entrepreneurship and wealth, independent women, everyday life in ancient times Chu Li, a top modern beauty therapist, transmigrates into the past and becomes a destitute young woman running a rouge shop in Qingzhou City of the Great Zhou Dynasty. She has just been jilted, recently lost her mother, and has a six-year-old younger sister to care for. With a dilapidated shop ahead of her, an adorable little sister to look after, and only a few dozen taels of silver to her name, C 207Reads—Score—14d adds
- 17 Gourmet: This Culinary God Makes Food So Good It's Unfair 美食：这个厨神做饭过分好吃 [Gourmet] [No Female Lead] [System] [Comfort Food] [Cozy] [Slice of Life] [Ensemble Cast] Ye Mingyu was a master chef in the celestial realm, but after dozing off during a meeting, he was sent down to the mortal world. The good news was that he still had his cooking skills. The bad news was that he had to complete the “Craving It?” System's tasks to return to the celestial realm. But for the food lovers of the mortal world, every day felt like New Year's. Braised pork, hand-pulled noodles in chi 102Reads—Score—14d adds
- 18 A Brain-Cell-Killing Sweet Romance 降智小甜饼 A modern college graduate writing her thesis transmigrates into the body of an unloved princess consort! Armed with a business System as her golden finger, she can return to her original world as soon as her sales reach the System’s target. Together, she and the System set out to build a fortune. With her superb cooking skills and modern know-how, she thrives in the ancient world. She even manages to lead the aloof prince astray. The System’s most frequent line is: “Could you two stop showing of 4Reads8.1Score—14d adds
- 19 Pure Bliss: Jinbao's Farm Space Is Beyond Heaven 爽歪歪：锦宝手持农场空间太逆天 [A genuinely adorable little girl + lucky star + whole-family darling + farming + farm space + beast taming] The Shen family’s little girl was gone for ten years, and they missed her every one of them. Who could have known that when they finally met again after ten years, they would be separated by life and death? The entire Shen family broke down in tears. Old Man Shen: No matter how poor or hard up we are, she is still the apple of our old Shen family’s eye. Granny Shen: My poor granddaughter 65Reads8.7Score—14d adds
- 20 Eating and Cat-Wrangling in the Tang Dynasty 我在大唐吃饭撸猫 [Historical romance + transmigration + food + sweet romance + devoted 1v1] You Xiu transmigrates into the body of the second daughter of the wealthy You family in the Tang dynasty. She has money and free time, is young and beautiful, and has both parents in a happy family. As long as she doesn’t do anything stupid, she’s guaranteed an easy life. On top of that, she gets bound to a System during her transmigration. It’s incredibly powerful: any recipe, seed, or cooking utensil from anywhere in th 98Reads8.1Score—14d adds
- 21 I Sell Grilled Cold Noodles, and the Gourmet Association Has Its Eye on Me 摆摊烤冷面，我被美食协会盯上了 (Food + Northeastern Chinese snacks + all kinds of other snacks + System + no romance + laid-back daily life + livestreaming, entrepreneurship, and opening a shop + steady rise to success) Yu Duoduo quit her job in the prime of her life, at just twenty-two. Working for someone else is hard. It’s enough to drive you into a funk. Yu Duoduo: Entrepreneurship! I have to start a business! When she looked at the terrible grilled cold noodles in front of her, tears of excitement welled up in her eyes! 54Reads8.2Score—14d adds
- 22 I Set Up a Snack Stall and Made the Whole Town Drool 摆摊卖小吃，全镇馋哭了 [Farming + shop + food + street vending + opening a restaurant + slice of life + making a fortune] Lin Yuan wakes to the sound of an argument and realizes he has transmigrated! He's landed in a mountain village, in the body of a poor, scrawny young man. The thatched hut has mud walls and floors, and his entire family is painfully thin. Lin Yuan is close to tears, but luckily, heaven has gifted him a shop in this new life. Looking at the food and goods displayed in the shop, Lin Yuan immediately 57Reads—Score10214d adds
- 23 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 [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
- 24 After Calling Off the Engagement, I Got Rich Selling Sweet Drinks 退婚后我靠糖水暴富了 [System + Dessert Queen + dessert lover + other delicious foods included] [This isn't purely a career-focused story. The male lead appears later, and romance develops in the second half.] Renowned pastry chef Shen Chuhe had just been crowned the "Queen of Sweet Soups" when she got into a car accident. She woke up in the body of a woman notorious for being a menace across the surrounding villages: She was the one who stole her little brother's school fees and kept him from attending school. She w 323Reads8.5Score—14d adds
- 25 I'm Just a Cook! I Can't Heal the Sick and Save the Nation! 我就是个厨子啊，不会治病救国！ Zhang Weiguo, a chef at a five-star hotel, gets fired. Before he can catch his breath, he finds himself in the prosperous Tang Dynasty. When you have a skill to fall back on, there’s nothing to be afraid of. The little beggar he saved turns out to be the young son who went missing from the Grand Tutor’s family two years ago? So I’m the one who saved both siblings? What, you’re saying the emperor came by yesterday to eat pork trotter rice? Zhang Weiguo promptly faints. Ever since he tried my cook 45Reads6.4Score—14d adds
- 26 Quick Transmigration: Selling Gourmet Food in Ancient Times to Build My Fortune 快穿：我在古代卖美食发家致富 Synopsis: [Foodie fiction + transmigration + ancient farming + alternate setting + comeback] Song Qingge is a popular food blogger who unexpectedly transmigrates to ancient times and into the poor Song family. Her fiancé breaks off their engagement, and she struggles to get by in a leaky thatched hut. Though the Song family is poor, her parents dote on her, her eldest brother looks out for her, and her younger siblings are sweet and well-behaved. After transmigrating here, she discovers she has 159Reads8.4Score—14d adds
- 27 The Chef Runs the House 厨娘当家 Transmigrate, with no awful relatives and a close-knit village. Go clamming, tend the fields, buy land, open a hotpot restaurant, earn silver, and maybe even win over a cold, aloof husband along the way. “Ow, eating this much chili sure is rough on the backside!” Chili peppers are great, but don’t overdo it. They didn’t have proctologists in ancient times. 38Reads—Score—14d adds
- 28 After I Was Divorced in the Book, I Led My Whole Family to a Better Life! 穿书被和离，我带全家过好日子！ [Transmigrate into a Book + Farming + Devoted Couple + Raising Kids + Pocket Dimension (Barely Used) + Building a Fortune from Scratch] Li Yulian opened her eyes on the very day the original owner was cast out by her husband. After receiving the original owner's memories, Li Yulian was stunned. How could anyone be so shameless? The original owner had worked herself to the bone to support her husband until he became a scholar, only for him to catch the eye of a wealthy landowner's daughter as soo 37Reads6.3Score—14d adds
- 29 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 686Reads7.2Score12414d adds
- 30 Thriving Through Famine with My Whole Family 荒年带着全家安稳致富 The heroine transmigrates to a poor little mountain village. Though they have little, her family is close-knit: her parents are fair-minded, her grandparents are loving, and her two younger brothers are adorable. First come drought, refugees, and bandits, then locusts… Disaster after disaster strikes. With a storage space full of grain, the heroine works hard to lead her family and the whole village to prosperity. Tired of stories where the transmigrated heroine always picks up a prince as her 34Reads8.0Score—14d adds
- 31 I Became a Farm Girl, but No Fear: I Get Rich by Roasting People 穿成农女不怕，我靠吐槽打脸暴富 [Farming + putting scumbags in their place + building wealth + devoted, sweet romance] The moment overworked office worker Shen Suisui opens her eyes, her childhood sweetheart shows up to break off their engagement. She’s baffled. What makes this pretty boy think he can do that? After all, the original owner was so beautiful and so eager to throw herself at him that anyone would call it unbelievable. Her childhood sweetheart liked pretty things, so she sold all the rice and flour at home to buy 27Reads—Score—14d adds
- 32 Farm Girl Tian Sangui Builds a Fortune with Her Space 农家有女田三贵揣着空间发家致富 [Farming]+ [Pocket dimension]+ [Making money]+ [Heartwarming] A modern woman transmigrates to an imaginary ancient world, decisively cuts ties with her awful relatives, and leads her family into business, working hard to build a prosperous life. The story focuses on making money and farming, with a light and heartwarming tone. Hope you enjoy! 30Reads6.5Score—14d adds
- 33 Transmigrate to Ancient Times: Farming with My Boyfriend 穿越古代：和男朋友一起种田 Food + farming + daily life + raising children + fictional dynasty Lin Xi and her boyfriend Pei Jingxing transmigrate to ancient times, but their new identities are a major upgrade: they’re suddenly a married couple with children. What’s that like? They begin a warm, cozy farming life with elders to care for and little ones to raise... 71Reads6.8Score—14d adds
- 34 Gourmet: Starting with Randomly Setting Up a Stall to Sell Liangpi 美食：从随机摆摊卖凉皮开始 No heroine, food, street vending, healing, daily life, and a relaxing tone. The protagonist sets up a stall at random spots on the street, selling all kinds of snacks, changing locations every week. The food on offer varies, including cold noodles, grilled gluten skewers, tofu pudding, spicy beef noodles, handmade spicy strips, congee, steamed buns, and more. 156Reads5.9Score—14d adds
- 35 The Youngest Daughter Falls from the Sky: An Ancestral Jade Pendant Helps Me Carry My Ancestor to Victory 天降幺女之祖传玉佩让我带飞老祖 Food enthusiast Jiang Xiaoman is in a car accident on her way to an event in the 21st century. Her family’s ancestral jade pendant takes her back to the time of her Jiang ancestors. There, she uses modern cuisine to help her whole family thrive and save the impoverished noble Murong Yu. A humorous, laugh-out-loud story. 21Reads—Score114d adds
- 36 With My Superb Cooking, I Blaze a Trail Through Ancient Times with Delicious Food 厨艺超高的我在古代用美食开道 [Transmigration + alternate world + food + business + opening a shop + farming + golden finger] Food is the focus, with no awful family members and few unpleasant characters overall. * The heroine is neither foolish nor naive, and she's no lovesick fool. She's kind but not a pushover, and she keeps a clear head. The hero won't appear until the later chapters set in the capital. No palace or household intrigues, just plenty of delicious food! * An alternate-world setting! Some systems are based o 186Reads8.9Score—14d adds
- 37 I Ran Away from My Wedding to Sell Wontons, and Made the Emperor Drool 逃婚卖馄饨，居然把陛下馋哭了 [Farming + Food + Chef + Transmigrate + Heartwarming, Beloved by All] Food blogger Yun Shu unexpectedly transmigrates into the body of a cannon-fodder concubine-born daughter! She can’t get her hands on a happy life, and one headache after another comes her way... They try to force her into marriage? She plays the obedient fool, then really runs away from the wedding, teaching the Duke of Zhenguo a hard lesson. Life is tough? She sets up a food stall, and her competitors can only cry, “There are 77Reads—Score—14d adds
- 38 Gourmet in Another World: I Started by Conquering the Elves' Appetites 异世界美食：从征服精灵胃开始 [Healing + Gourmet + Business Management + Everyday Life] When I inherited my grandmother's shabby old shop, my best friend and I had planned to lie flat. Who knew that a newly installed wooden door would become a gateway to another world! The front door opens onto a fantasy continent of swords and magic; the back door leads to a bustling modern city. Elves lose all composure at the aroma of spicy hot pot, while dwarves go wild for barbecue skewers and beer. Could a picky old dragon really be mo 390Reads—Score—14d adds
- 39 I'm Just a Cook, So How Did I Become the Rebel Leader? 我一个做饭的，咋成反贼头子了？ [Not a brainless power fantasy + Food + Farming + System + Lighthearted Comedy + No Angst + Invincible Protagonist] Modern culinary god Qi Sheng opens his eyes and finds himself transmigrated into a “vegetable person” during a famine in the cultivation world. One moment later, and he would have ended up on someone’s dinner table! At his moment of greatest peril, he binds himself to the [God of Cooking System]. Earn praise points for his cooking, and he can exchange them for experience cards feat —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 40 Good Food and Sweet Dreams with You 与君美食复甘眠 [Transmigration + Ancient Times + Farming + Food + Woman Chef + Romance] The meat is so tender it seems carved from beauty, and the fragrant aroma never stops rising from the pot. As a humble office worker in the twenty-first century, Su Yu had few interests, and food was the only one she loved. Her one and only wish was to stop being exploited by every capitalist under the sun and become a capitalist herself. So the gods heard her prayer and granted it. She closed her eyes and woke up as a poor 331Reads8.3Score—14d adds
- 41 The Borderlands' Little Cook: General, Care for a Hot Bowl of Soup? 边关小厨娘：将军来碗热汤？ [Happy ending + exile + food + business management + guarding the border with a young general + devoted to each other] Modern food blogger Lin Weiwei travels into the body of a woman in ancient times and becomes the daughter of a disgraced official, exiled to the frontier. The frontier is cold and harsh? No problem, her cooking will help. Fragrant, steaming lamb offal soup, scallion pancakes, braised snacks, and grilled lamb skewers... She’ll use modern food to cheer on the frontier soldiers! Wh 715Reads7.1Score10014d adds
- 42 She Conquers the Entire Capital with Her Cooking 她靠美食征服全京城 After she accidentally transmigrates to ancient times, Chu Yunxiang wins over the stomachs of everyone in the capital with modern-day skewers, zhajiangmian, hot pot, and more. Even the current emperor is no exception. Someone recognizes the emperor in disguise, sneaking out late at night to eat skewers at Yunlai Restaurant. The emperor, pretending to be calm: “You’ve got the wrong person.” Someone else recognizes the Ghost Doctor of the martial world. “Look at these ragged clothes. How do I look 371Reads6.9Score10014d adds
- 43 Random Food Stall: My Customers Keep Making Group Chats to Track Me Down 随机美食摆摊，顾客纷纷建群堵我 Tang Chen, from a parallel world, unexpectedly gets a food-stall System. Each month, the System randomly chooses a location and a type of food. Successfully setting up shop earns Food Points, which can be used for lucky draws. To his surprise, the stall wins over wave after wave of customers. They even set up hundreds of group chats to track down Boss Tang. The moment he opens his stall, they want to be first in line. 800Reads6.4Score10114d adds
- 44 The Prince Has a Princess Consort Who Knows How to Make Money 王爷有个会捞钱的小王妃 Leng Ruobing is a popular livestreamer. Invited to promote a brand's new gourmet products in H City, she made the campaign such a success that the brand arranged for a group of marketing department executives to take her to a local seven-A scenic attraction as a reward. What a VIP treatment! But good fortune and bad luck go hand in hand. On the boardwalk, she came across a man trying to end his life by jumping off a cliff. He decided to take someone with him, and, as luck would have it, grabbed 757Reads8.8Score10114d adds
- 45 The Clever Little Chef: Running a Canteen in Ancient Times 锦心小厨娘：我在古代承包食堂 The dining hall at the Imperial College was a complete mess. Then one day, a new cook arrived, and an endless array of delicious dishes followed. The dining hall became not only a place the students flocked to, but also the dream destination of countless food lovers. “Son, go buy your father two meat-stuffed flatbreads from your dining hall today. Otherwise, I won’t have the strength to attend court.” Even the emperor was getting restless. “I hear the food at the Imperial College is delicious, b 284Reads5.2Score—14d adds
- 46 The Plump Concubine Turns Her Life Around and Takes a Son-in-Law 肥妾翻身招上门女婿 Farming + famine years + street vending + mineral wealth + marketplace + getting rich Overworked office worker Jiang Yu’er transmigrated and became a concubine bought for twenty taels of silver by Master Zhang to bring his son good luck. A job is a job wherever you do it. Being a concubine sounds fine too: no work, and food on the table. She could treat it like any other job. But the original owner was too fat, and the eldest son wasn’t interested in her at all. She didn’t even get the chance to 71Reads8.1Score—14d adds
- 47 The Jiang Family Restaurant: A Day-to-Day Story 江家食肆经营日常 Jiang Zi opened her eyes and found herself a village girl in ancient times. Her family had nothing; her mother was bedridden and frail, her older brother worked himself to the bone to earn money, and her youngest brother was only five, thin and weak. At least they had no awful relatives, and the whole family was doing their best to get by. What was there to fear about being poor? A person with a skill could make a good life anywhere. They earned money, built a house, bought farmland and shops, a 1.1kReads6.5Score15114d adds
- 48 Making a Fortune with Good Food, Backed by the Mountain 背靠大山，靠美食发家致富 [Farming and Food + Making Money + No Romance + No Villainous Relatives + Everyday Life + Healing + Building a Fortune] In the modern world, Chu Wanning worked as an assistant to a food blogger. One night, she died suddenly from overwork and transmigrated into the body of a farm girl in a fictional dynasty who shared her name. In this resource-poor village in the middle of nowhere, many people can barely get enough to eat, let alone stay warm. With only the family’s tiny plot of land to rely on, 327Reads8.0Score—14d adds
- 49 My Ancestor Is a Pot 我的祖宗是口锅 Xu Jingqing accidentally awakened the spirit of an ancestor who had been sleeping inside the family heirloom, an iron wok. Under the old ancestor's “loving” tutelage, Xu Jingqing honed extraordinary cooking skills and opened a humble little eatery. At first, people were skeptical of a restaurant run by a college girl who had never lifted a finger around the house. Then came the verdict: “It's so good!” “Mom, I want to eat big sister's cooking every day.” “What smells so good in the middle of the 396Reads8.7Score10614d adds
- 50 From Selling Chive Pies at a Street Stall to Becoming Everyone’s Favorite 从摆摊卖韭菜馅饼开始受万人追捧 [Female-oriented food story + perfect with a meal + lighthearted and healing + doted on by everyone + business] A few notes before reading: Don’t take it too seriously! This is a completely fictional setting, not a mindless story! Before you start, remember that this is a lighthearted food story, so you’ll have a much better time. After being reborn eight times, Su Nuannuan arrives in this fictional ancient world. Moved by her family’s love, she finds the will to keep living and successfully act 247Reads7.6Score47214d adds
