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- 101 Running a Plane-Space Restaurant, I Rise to the Top 经营位面餐厅，走向人生巅峰 [Cuisine x business x card draws x interdimensional travel x ensemble cast x growth x lighthearted] Chu Tian, a pampered young lady who had never lifted a finger around the house, had just graduated and was dragging her suitcase out of her dorm when an unknown System pulled her into the universe, making her the first person to venture beyond the solar system into an unknown star system. [Run an interdimensional restaurant successfully and complete all your missions, and you'll be able to return 12Reads—Score—14d adds
- 102 The Gourmet System: I Quit My Job and Became an Online Sensation Through Food 美食系统：辞职后靠美食火遍全网 [No romance + food System + food check-ins] After collapsing from working overtime all night, Cheng Xiaoxiao unexpectedly obtained a food System. Workplace bullying? Working all night to earn a few bucks? Toxic coworkers? To hell with all of it! With a food System, all she wanted was to quietly open a little eatery, earn some pocket money, and sample delicacies from all over. But... System: Host, your cooking tastes like pig slop. System: Host, you’re as weak as a chicken. System: Host, maybe yo 9Reads—Score—14d adds
- 103 From the Start, I Set Up a Food Stall, and My Customers Go Wild with Cravings 开局美食摆摊，顾客都馋疯啦 [Food Business] [Everyday Life] [Competitions] [System] After transmigrating to a parallel world, Lin Yue unexpectedly gets bound to a food System. Not only does he inherit the original owner’s tricycle food stall, he also inherits a whole pile of problems. Then he takes a look at the original owner’s circumstances: born into debt, a family fallen on hard times, parents gone before he could repay their care... Great, so that’s how we’re playing it? Fortunately, the System thoughtfully gives him 12Reads—Score—14d adds
- 104 Transmigrating with a System to Farm, I Make Gourmet Food in Ancient Times 带系统穿越种田，我在古代做美食 [Gourmet Food + Farming + Countryside + Transmigration + System Space] On her way home from a late-night shift, a modern young woman transmigrates into the body of Liu Shuxi, a peasant girl in ancient Pear Blossom Town. She gains a portable space and a shop that rewards her with upgraded cooking skills. She starts out selling food at a stall and builds her fortune through cooking. She thinks she’ll be able to enjoy a leisurely life in ancient times just by selling luosifen and grilled meat skewe 20Reads—Score—14d adds
- 105 Chu Flavor Bistro Has New Dishes Again 楚味小馆又上新啦 [Ancient farming novel + transmigration + no System + no golden finger + no romance + Hubei cuisine + fictional setting] Other people transmigrate with a System and a pocket dimension. She transmigrated with nothing but a "Hubei palate." She has just one rule for surviving in ancient times: make money and cook delicious food! Every day, she wakes up and gets to work creating new dishes. From street-food stalls to a chain of restaurants, she wins everyone over with flavor at every step. Hot dry n 169Reads—Score10014d adds
- 106 The Chubby Princess's Little Chef: Miserly Crown Prince, Don't Run! 肥妃小厨娘，抠门太子你别逃！ [1v1, lighthearted writing, no nasty characters, multiple transmigrators, a chaotic gathering of transmigrators] Three-Michelin-starred chef Lin Manyue opened her eyes and found the world turned upside down! Yesterday she had been preparing foie gras at Paris's Tour d'Argent. Today she'd been dropped into a greasy, bloody ancient-era butcher shop. Her new life as a fierce, 200-jin butcher's wife came with no time to adjust! Neighbors slapped the chopping block and shouted, "Fatso, chop that mea 37Reads6.9Score614d adds
- 107 Granny Tian's Rebirth: Late-Night Cafeteria Livestream 田老太重生记深夜食堂直播间 The feisty, capable 95-year-old Tian Caigu is reborn in 1987. At 55, she quits her job and opens a late-night diner that becomes a refuge for countless migrant workers. She spends her days bustling amid the smoke and steam, serving customers warmth and comfort. She also has a livestream that connects to the future. 5Reads—Score—14d adds
- 108 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
- 109 The Cousin Miss Is Climbing the Social Ladder Again Today 表小姐今天又在攀高枝 [The rating is low because the novel was just listed...] A young lady from the extended family has arrived at the Duke of the State's manor, and none of the three young masters there can stand her. One would rather become a monk, another claims to prefer men. The third would rather die in the arms of a courtesan from overindulging. Everyone in the manor says the young lady is shameless and always trying to climb the social ladder! But no one expected that the young lady despised by the Xie famil 858Reads7.0Score10514d adds
- 110 Transmigrated to a Food Desert, I Make the Interstellar Crowd Drool with My Cooking 穿进美食荒漠，我用厨艺馋哭星际 After successfully ascending to immortality, the little cat spirit Miao Miao grew tired of the bland food in the Celestial Realm and picked a star-bound world among the ten realms ruled by the Celestial Emperor. It looked like it would have plenty of delicious food. But after she transmigrated there, she discovered that "delicious food" meant nutritional supplements, and "a variety of delicious food" meant supplements in different flavors. Even every meal eaten by the people of the interstellar 574Reads8.4Score10314d adds
- 111 On Her Wedding Night, the Prime Minister’s Wife Pulls Delicious Food from Her Bosom 新婚夜，丞相夫人从怀里掏出美食 Shen Tiantian is a food blogger who transmigrates to ancient times and becomes the prime minister's wife. She thinks she can stop working hard and coast through life...but why is reality nothing like she imagined? This prime minister is so unreliable... “Madam, what are we eating today?” “Madam, I want ice cream.” “Madam, can we have hot pot today?” ...Wait a minute. Outside, the prime minister is as cold as ice and avoids women like the plague, so why is he like this at home? Is it really okay 315Reads8.2Score—14d adds
- 112 Transmigrated as a Kitchen Maid, I Win Over the Devil Prince with Viral Dishes 穿成厨丫，网红美食拿捏魔鬼殿下 A food blogger transmigrates and becomes an obscure kitchen maid in the Third Prince’s household! Her immediate superior is the notoriously fussy and difficult Third Prince, a devil who beats and berates the staff whenever a dish fails to please him. No problem! This modern food blogger’s skills are the real deal! Milk tea, cream-filled pastries, and creative snacks make their way to the table one after another, and before long she has the icy Third Prince completely wrapped around her finger. H 20Reads—Score18214d adds
- 113 Setting Up a Stall Outside the Elementary School, Mom and Dad, Save Some for Me 小学门口摆摊，爸爸妈妈给我留点 This book is also known as "After I Grabbed My Bucket and Ran, I Awakened the Gourmet God System". [Comedy] [Comfort Food] [System] [Gourmet] [Goofball] As a civil engineering graduate, Zhang Yang followed his seniors’ advice on starting a business and became a proud freelancer: selling snacks outside an elementary school as a street vendor. Egg fried rice, pan-fried buns, and all kinds of other delicious food took the school gate by storm. The elementary school students and their parents lined 430Reads5.7Score—14d adds
- 114 Transmigrated to the 1980s: Every Dish at My Restaurant Is in High Demand! 穿越八零：我的饭馆一菜难求！ When Tang Ruanyuan woke up, she discovered she had transmigrated to the 1980s. At the time, Danchuan Village had just implemented the household land contract system. Her family consisted of a father with a bad leg and a seven-year-old younger brother. Looking at their dirt-poor tile-roofed house and the nearly empty rice jar, Tang Ruanyuan rolled up her sleeves and started doing what she knew best, selling food, with her little brother at her side. In the gold-rush decade of the 1980s, Tang Ruan 53Reads6.2Score—14d adds
- 115 Opening a B&B! My Food Has the Ancient Kids Drooling 开民宿！我靠美食馋哭古代小孩 [Business + food + farming with a System and pocket dimension + light fantasy + alternate world + easygoing] A few things to know: There is a romance! It's a shopkeeping story focused on running a food business. The female lead doesn't hide her pocket dimension, and she uses modern goods in the ancient world. This isn't pure farming, but a light fantasy story with a big imagination! If you can't accept these elements, read with caution!!! [Pocket dimension activated. Time until transmigration: 116Reads8.0Score—14d adds
- 116 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 29Reads—Score—14d adds
- 117 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—14d adds
- 118 Gourmet: Selling Meals at a Highway Rest Stop During Lunar New Year, I Bring Traffic to a Standstill 美食：春节服务区卖饭，高速堵疯 [Food + Power Fantasy + No Female Lead] Gu Rui transmigrates to a parallel world and binds himself to a Food System. At the start, he draws a location for his business, only to get a tiny highway service area! And the ridiculous task is to sell three hundred boxed meals in a single day? Just as Gu Rui is at his wits’ end, a male streamer shows up at the highway service area by chance. After one meal of dumplings, the streamer hugs him and keeps calling him “Mom”! Travel surges during the Spring 171Reads8.2Score2214d adds
- 119 The Prince's Personal Little Chef 王爷专属小厨娘 On the first day after her soul transmigrated to ancient times, someone spread lies about her. An Piaopiao gave them a taste of their own medicine! She easily brought their whole family to ruin! Everyone in the book has a destined match of their own. 13Reads—Score—14d adds
- 120 Amazing! I Made a Fortune in Ancient Times with Modern Cuisine 惊！我靠现代美食在古代发家致富 (Transmigration + alternate world + farm space + devoted couple + food + farming and business + making a fortune + cozy, peaceful daily life) Lin Qiyue was punished with transmigration for wasting half a steamed bun. She arrived in an ancient village, in the poorest household around. Her eldest brother was disabled, her younger siblings were little, and the family had neither enough to eat nor clothes to keep warm. Lin Qiyue was close to tears, but luckily there was always a way out. She bound h 179Reads—Score—14d adds
- 121 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
- 122 A Noblewoman's Fit and Delicious Life in Ancient Times 古代贵女的健美食光 Mu Nanjia was a moderately well-known fitness blogger. One day, after eating a huge amount of crawfish before a livestream, she pushed herself through an exhausting workout stream and transmigrated to the Great Ying Dynasty, where she became the fourth young lady of the Duke of Dingguo’s household. She adapted quickly, then noticed that people’s standards of beauty seemed a little twisted. Young women wanted to be as thin as sticks, while men wore makeup and flowers in their hair, looking neithe 385Reads8.0Score—14d adds
- 123 My Cooking Can Cure Any Discontent 我的美食专治各种不服 Xu Riyue transmigrates into a parallel world, where he becomes a 996 office worker driven to bankruptcy by his boss's workplace abuse. At his lowest point, the Everyday Life System binds itself to him, refreshing one street-stall task each week. Other people's golden fingers can destroy the world, but his System only wants him to suffer social death. His stall is a legend that exists in the city for just one week: It appears on Monday, using an irresistible aroma and flavor to break down everyon 3Reads—Score—14d adds
- 124 The Xu Family Girl’s Pinduoduo Eatery 徐家小娘的拼夕夕食铺 Xu Qingqing transmigrates to ancient times and becomes a penniless orphan girl in a village near Qingshan Town. She looks at the empty rice jar, and before she can squeeze out a tear, she's struck by the "Pinduoduo Ready-Made Meal System"! Can picking wild vegetables earn points? Ready-made meal packs? High-tech seasonings? From then on, a remarkable little food stall appears in Qingshan Town. Fragrant braised pork rice, pan-fried dumplings with thin wrappers and generous fillings... Delicious a 20Reads6.0Score914d adds
- 125 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
- 126 I Went to Ancient Times to Become a Master Chef, and My Husband Spoils Me Rotten 跑去古代当神厨，相公将我宠上天 A transmigrated God of Cooking + sweet romance + devoted to each other + authentic recipes The heroine has a personal space for storing ingredients. Starting as an ordinary village woman, she competes in culinary arts and becomes the greatest chef in the capital! All the recipes in this story are real and effective. Reading them has the miraculous effect of improving your cooking skills. Also, the hero is exceptionally gentle and a model of virtue as a husband, showing you the ultimate in devoti 29Reads6.5Score—14d adds
- 127 A Foodie Transmigrates and Wins Over Ancient-Era Powerhouses With Her Cooking 穿越吃货靠厨艺征服古代大佬 Xia Mianmian died young, in the most humiliating, frustrating way imaginable: she fell headfirst into a cesspit and drowned. Who could have a more miserable end? When she wakes again, she's transmigrated into the body of a lowly little girl in ancient times. The one bright spot is that her parents dote on her and her younger siblings are close to her. But her family is so poor they eat coarse food and watery soup every day. How can a foodie stand having no meat in her bowl? She wants hot, juicy 17Reads6.1Score—14d adds
- 128 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 164Reads8.0Score—14d adds
- 129 The Restaurant Is Packed to the Rafters, So Why Are You Off Working? 餐厅抖爆满了，你跑去打工做什么 [Gourmet] [Funny and lighthearted] [Reborn in another world] [Livestream food delivery] [Pets] [System] [No female lead] [Daily life] In his previous life, Gao Wenfeng was tricked by his girlfriend into paying off her gambling debts. She disappeared, and he was eventually hounded to death by debt collectors. Reborn in another world, he decides to take things easy, live well, and enjoy good food and freedom. At last, he gets to enjoy a carefree life of lying flat in this new world, and only then 8Reads6.5Score—14d adds
- 130 Gourmet: This Is Crazy! People Queued for Three Blocks Just to Eat 美食：疯了！为口吃的排了三条街 [Gourmet] [No Female Lead] [Everyday Life] [Comfort Food] [Lighthearted] Xia Ning unexpectedly awakens a random Gourmet Shop System. Each time, he opens a shop in a completely random location, serving randomly selected delicacies to all kinds of customers. He sells sweet and spicy duck neck on Gourmet Street, and Tongguan roujiamo on the pedestrian street... While countless customers are still fretting over being unable to buy his food, Boss Xia has opened yet another shop... “Boss, could you op 58Reads—Score—14d adds
- 131 Random Street Stall: Customers Search the Whole City for Me 随机摆摊：顾客对我全城搜索 [Gourmet] [No female lead] [Everyday life] [Heartwarming] [Healing] [Comedy] After transmigrating, Luo Bo unexpectedly awakens an Unlimited Gourmet System, which randomly grants him a god-tier culinary skill every week. “Ding! Wraps at one hundred percent! Sell wraps at a bus stop at midnight.” “Ding! The ultimate temptation of instant noodles! Go to an internet cafe at nine at night and treat the gamers' taste buds.” “Ding! The culinary wisdom of an eighty-year barbecue chef has been bestowed u —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 132 Gourmet: You Dumped Me for Being Poor, Now You Beg to Get Back Together at My Food Stall 美食：嫌我穷分手，摆摊你求复合 [Food, random street stalls, one female lead, sweet everyday romance, ex-girlfriend regrets the breakup, crafty stall owner + hapless customers.] After Jiang Wanzhou breaks up with his girlfriend, he binds himself to a random street-stall System. Every week, the System randomly refreshes his recipes and selling locations. He sells barbecue at a gym, chicken at a private club, boxed meals at a highway service area, and braised snacks outside a university at two in the morning. Each new stall loca —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 133 Reborn in the Tang Dynasty With a Gourmet System 重生唐朝美食系统 Top modern chef Lin Xuan opens his eyes and finds himself dumped from the kitchen of an international culinary competition into a dilapidated hut outside Chang'an, the capital of the Tang Dynasty. With nothing but four bare walls around him, he is starving and freezing, with only a broken knife, half a bowl of cold rice, and a life hanging by a thread. Just as he thinks he is about to starve to death, the Chinese Cuisine System quietly binds itself to him. Cooking earns points, selling meals rai 1Reads—Score114d adds
- 134 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
- 135 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
- 136 The Little Chef Takes on the World 小厨娘闯天下 Female lead: Shen Cao (her name has a special meaning). Male lead: Ji Lingfeng [Transmigration + food + business + making a fortune + slow-burn development + sweet romance] After becoming a master chef, Shen Cao falls off a cliff while gathering mushrooms and transmigrates into the body of a village girl who shares her name. Her parents love each other, her brothers are on good terms, and even her younger sister looks up to her. The only problem is that her family is so poor they can barely affo 1.4kReads7.7Score15714d adds
- 137 This Restaurant Gets Nothing but Bad Reviews, Yet the Owner Makes a Fortune Every Day 这饭馆全是差评，老板却日进斗金 Qin Shuyang is bound to a food-promotion System. As long as he promotes food, he can earn rewards. To boost his fame, Qin Shuyang made a video documenting two snakeheads as they met, got to know each other, and fell in love. The camera work and filters made viewers feel moved and envy their romance. Some even found themselves reminiscing about their own past relationships. But in the very next moment, the camera cut to one of the snakeheads being turned into fish stew with pickled cabbage by Qin 2.1kReads8.5Score14614d adds
- 138 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
- 139 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! 6.6kReads8.2Score66114d adds
- 140 Transmigrated as a Farm Girl Selling Fern Cakes 穿成农女卖蕨饼 After transmigrating into a farming family, she finds a courtyard lined with two rows of thatched cottages that leak whenever it rains. Her father was taken away by conscription three years ago, leaving her mother alone to raise two children. The family has only their last mu of land and the money their mother occasionally earns from embroidery, with almost no savings. They're so poor they can barely eat their fill each day. Luckily, Yun Hua knows how to earn money and support the family. She se 148Reads8.6Score—14d adds
- 141 Gourmet: The Chef’s Food Stall Goes Viral on a Variety Show 美食：厨娘在综艺摆摊爆火 Gu Liuyan, a former imperial chef, opens her eyes to find she has transmigrated into the role of a cannon-fodder actress on the variety show Celebrity Kitchen. She can’t cook, has a bad temper, and has been saddled with a mountain of bad press. With an astronomical breach-of-contract fee threatening to end her career, Gu Liuyan slaps the table. “Who says I can’t cook?” And then the entire show discovers what it means to cook like a culinary god... An actress on the show wails, “I’ve already gain 115Reads6.3Score—14d adds
- 142 A Farming Girl Transmigrates to the Countryside 农家小妹穿越来种田 After her parents pass away, grieving He An’an goes downstairs to take out the trash, misses a step, and falls. She wakes up in the ancient Great Yue Dynasty, where she finds parents who look exactly like the ones she had in modern times. Wanting to escape poverty and enjoy a good, full life, He An’an sets out to farm, raise chickens and fish, revitalize the rural economy, and lead her neighbors to prosperity. 382Reads7.4Score10314d adds
- 143 Gourmet: The Restaurant’s Relocation Sends Prison Crime Rates Soaring 美食：饭店换址监狱犯罪率飙升 After Jiang Xia gets the Chef God System, he goes to prison and becomes the head chef. There’s braised pork, sweet-and-sour ribs, poached chicken, Dongpo pork, and every other delicacy imaginable. Jiang Xia’s cooking turns the whole prison upside down. Prisoner: “My sentence is over, but I don’t think I’ve learned my lesson. Could you give me another ten years?” Guard: “Treat you to a meal at a five-star hotel? Jiang Xia’s food is a hundred times better!” New prisoner: “I pulled strings to get i 19Reads5.1Score—14d adds
- 144 The Gourmet Princess: The Prince Is Delicious 美食王妃：王爷很好吃 Shen Yinan never dreamed she would transmigrate into the body of a foolish princess consort who was bullied by everyone. Fortunately, she was a food blogger, and her greatest talent was using delicious food to take care of her own appetite. To survive in the prince's manor, she had to roll up her sleeves and provide for herself. Every now and then, she also had to deal with concubines and fend off scheming women. Who could have guessed that her food would be so delicious it would win over the ap 64Reads6.3Score—14d adds
- 145 A Beautiful Chef Wins Hearts with Her Cooking Alone 貌美厨娘，纯靠美食俘获人心 [Farming + gourmet food + making a fortune + alternate setting, no transmigration] The Wen family is confiscated, and on the way to seek refuge with relatives, they run into bandits. The matriarch, Madam Wang, pushes Wen Li forward to offer her to the bandits in exchange for her own safety. Wen Li is furious. Damn this matriarch, she has her own mother! The whole family are leeches. She’s done serving them, so she decisively takes her mother back to their old home in Jiangzhou. No money? What to 32Reads6.6Score—14d adds
- 146 The Laid-Back College Student Is Open for Business 摆烂女大学生，在线营业 [A hilarious food story + slice-of-life diary + friendship + healing + farming, no romance, no pocket dimension, no System, no golden finger] A group of friends having a good time together What do you do when you don't want to go to work? Head back to the countryside and lie flat! After graduating from college, Xia Wan briskly packed her bags and returned home to take over the restaurant her grandfather had left her. This city is all takeout and rat-race grinders. She’s not staying here! After 106Reads6.4Score—14d adds
- 147 What Should I Cook Today? 今天准备做什么菜好呢 When Xia Annuo was sixteen, her parents died in a car accident. Just after graduating from college, she unexpectedly encountered the System, nicknamed Laoliu. The System's rewards were too good to pass up, so to earn it points, Xia Annuo went from watching food videos to learning how to cook. In short, it's the everyday food-filled life of a restaurant. 11Reads—Score—14d adds
- 148 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—14d adds
- 149 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—14d adds
- 150 A Hearthful of Warmth, Year After Year 一灶烟火岁岁安 (The rating just opened, so I hope readers will give this a chance and take a look.) She spent nine years in the imperial kitchen. She could fold pastry into twelve delicate layers and simmer the finest red bean paste, yet one plate of pastries got her beaten to death in front of Shoukang Palace. When she opened her eyes again, she was Wen Ning, a farm girl who had just died on the road fleeing famine. The handcart jostled along. Her chest was bruised purple from the fall, and her stomach burn 46.6kReads7.2Score7.3k14d adds
