Novels like Making a Living in Chang'an
Books Chinese readers most often put in the same booklists as Making a Living in Chang'an, best match first.
- 101 Transmigrate and Get Everyone to Love Their Food 穿越之让大家爱上干饭 [Gourmet] [Alternate Setting] [Sweet Romance] [Marriage Before Love] [Relaxed and Easygoing] [Alien Planet] [Everyday Life] Luo Yao never imagined that one day she would transmigrate to a planet much like Earth and inherit an estate. She planned to grow vegetables and cook, settling into a quiet retirement on her own. But to inherit the place, she also had to marry Mu Chen, the heir to the richest family. Mu Chen once happened to see Luo Yao squatting beside a car, eating glutinous rice ball 83Reads—Score—Shelves
- 102 The Soft and Beautiful Woman Reborn in the 1980s 娇软美人重生八零 [Slice of life + slow burn + reborn + sweet romance + rugged man + farming + period setting + 1980s + prosperity + raising children + small restaurant] Overnight, Su Tiantian is reborn in the 1980s. With fair skin, exquisite looks, a slim waist, and long legs, she’s the prettiest soft-spoken beauty for miles around. Yet at her in-laws’ home, she’s bullied mercilessly, and she and her two children barely have enough to eat. Su Tiantian thinks she can’t go on living like this! She packs her things 285Reads5.7Score—Shelves
- 103 Little Chef of China: The Path of the Culinary Dao 中华小当家：厨道食途 [Gourmet] [The perfect dish to eat with rice] [Ancient-style setting] [Chinese Culinary Master] [Feel-good novel] The imperial kitchen inspector kicked over his stall. “You run a roadside stall, and you dare call yourself a chef?” With the few ingredients he had left, Cheng Xiaocai made a bowl of scallion oil noodles. An old Taoist watching the crowd finished a bite and immediately declared, “I'll take care of the authorities for you!” It turned out Cheng Xiaocai was descended from a famous chef 45Reads—Score—Shelves
- 104 Du Guo'er and Han Laojiu 杜果儿和韩老九 I’m Du Guo’er, one of the many people who were involuntarily transmigrated. Sorry to disappoint everyone, but I didn’t get a golden finger or snag a pocket dimension. I can only grit my teeth and do whatever it takes to keep myself fed. Gold shines wherever it goes, and even glass can reflect light. So surely I, Du Guo’er, can manage to... get by. Sob, I’m so poor! 3.9kReads8.4Score401Shelves
- 105 Why Not Add Another Bowl of Rice? 不如添碗饭 [Farming + Food + Healing + Growth + Cozy + Lighthearted Comedy] [Cheerful, lively little cook × Arrogant, childish young lord Pei Qun of the marquis’s household: a bickering couple] A young woman who sells wontons in Jingzhou City finds an arrogant, childish man at her doorstep. She takes him home and stuffs him full of food, but the next day he sneaks away. The young woman saves up to open a restaurant and takes a job as a cook in the marquis’s household. Then one day, she discovers that the a 132Reads8.1Score—Shelves
- 106 A Chinese Cuisine Chef Takes on a Handsome Mixed-Race Pastry Chef 中餐女厨师对上混血美男甜点师 In 2060, Li Ke'er, the eldest daughter of the head of Yunhelou, the leading inheritor of Sichuan cuisine in Huaxia, is sent abroad! All the way to France, thousands of miles away! The tabloids write, “Heiress of a listed restaurant group driven out in a power struggle.” Nono! The truth is that the girl is too fiery and too talented. She's mastered all eight great culinary traditions. Today she'll trade eighty-year-old Maotai for an heirloom recipe; tomorrow she'll challenge someone to a cooking 71Reads6.3Score—Shelves
- 107 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
- 108 I Opened a Food Shop in Bianjing 我在汴京开食铺 Su Tang opens an eatery on Majia Street in Bianjing. Every day, she's either experimenting with new dishes or going out to visit friends. In autumn, there's tea brewed over a brazier, osmanthus sweet-bean paste dumplings, and roasted milk tea with osmanthus honey dumplings. In winter, there's plum-blossom soup noodles, plum-blossom honey, boiled meat and vegetables, and candied hawthorn skewers. In spring, there's osmanthus cake, spring platters, wontons with bamboo shoots and bracken, green ric 736Reads—Score101Shelves
- 109 The Little Tailor's Leisurely Life in Ancient Times 小裁缝的古代悠闲生活 She has an incredibly handsome father, a gentle mother, and a sweet little brother. Shen An'an thinks her life after transmigrating is truly wonderful. She never has to worry about food or clothes, and when she has time to spare, she can lead the way in setting new trends. Catching butterflies on the eastern hill, riding a cow on the western hill, she accidentally catches the eye of a hungry wolf of a man. What is she supposed to do? 34Reads5.6Score121Shelves
- 110 Gourmet: Fragrant Dishes That Have the Sect's Disciples Fighting Over Them 美食：爆香菜肴，宗门弟子疯抢 [Scoundrel + Food + Sect + Hilarious + Cutthroat Competition] Shi Hao transmigrates into a fantasy world and awakens the Chef God System. As one dish after another is served, the entire sect is thrown into an uproar. Not only are the dishes delicious, they even have special effects: increasing cultivation, healing hidden injuries, enhancing beauty... The disciples fight tooth and nail for every bite. Each one swears to train harder so they can grab two more bowls of rice. Shi Hao gives a crooked 15Reads7.5Score—Shelves
- 111 An Eighties Military Marriage: From Socially Anxious to Social Butterfly 八零军婚，社恐爆改社牛的日常 Chang Xin, a modern-day overworked wage slave, wakes up in the 1980s as Chang Xin, a shy bookworm. She’s got herself a child and becomes a mom without the pain... The System requires her to talk in order to earn points. She chats about gossip and daily life, rediscovering her long-buried desire to share. Before she knows it, the people around her have grown more and more fond of her. After she takes her child back to the countryside, her inner anxiety finally fades away. Work from sunrise to sun 28Reads—Score—Shelves
- 112 Spring Plowing, Autumn Harvest 春耕秋收 Xiang Guo comes from the modern world. She has no magic spring and no cheat abilities. Relying only on memories of her past life, she works steadily to make a living. She researches earthworm farming and chicken raising, makes soap by hand, and starts in a small courtyard, gradually building a warm and thriving life. At last, she fulfills the promise she made to herself long ago: turning barren hills into orchards and poor villages into prosperous ones, with chickens roaming in flocks, fruit wei 918Reads6.5Score110Shelves
- 113 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—Shelves
- 114 A World of Flavor 风味人间 Food is the main storyline, travel the side plot. This is not a wish-fulfillment story, there’s no face-slapping, and the tone is laid-back and slice-of-life. (He starts out alone and picks up friends along the way.) Xu Jinhuan is a skilled chef, with questionable manners, and the number-one slacker in the country. After accidentally transmigrating to a parallel world and unlocking the Food System, Xu Jinhuan goes from a newly graduated aspiring chef to a creator of flavorful cuisine. His schedu 12Reads7.8Score—Shelves
- 115 The Rising Foodie 进击的美食达人 [Secret Crush Turns Real + Sweet Romance + Workplace + Everyday Life + Inspirational] Her classmates mocked her as “petty and hopeless,” saying she was only fit to scrape by at a small company. But through her own efforts, she created the hugely popular food channel “Feast on Fire.” One day, she accidentally let her true identity slip, leaving everyone stunned! Fans: “I always thought you were a huge fatty. I never imagined you’d be such a beauty! You love eating so much, yet you’re still that s 265Reads8.9Score—Shelves
- 116 Small-Town Life After Retiring from Maid Service 当丫鬟退休后的小县城生活 (Completed) [Food-stall heroine + storybook-writing hero + fictional setting + no golden finger + gentle, everyday life] Fifteen years after leaving the He household in the capital, Jiang Yu, a retired maid, returns to Daliu Town with her daughter. She buys a small courtyard and sets up a food stall at the mouth of an alley. In Sweetwater Alley lives a successful candidate who writes storybooks instead of doing anything respectable. Cheng keeps odd hours, sleeping by day and staying up at night. 3.6kReads8.9Score349Shelves
- 117 The True Heiress, Cast Aside as Cannon Fodder, Makes a Fortune Selling Snacks to Raise Her Child 炮灰真千金，摆摊养崽赚千金 [Gourmet] [Raising Kids] [Making Money] The very moment Xia An'an is basking in the joy of having transmigrated, her wealthy family kicks her out. With no choice but to make a living, she starts a street food stall. Scallion pancakes, cold noodles, and grilled skewers: delicious and filling! 295Reads6.6Score—Shelves
- 118 I Sell Bento Boxes in the Cultivation World 我在修真界卖盒饭 (One-on-one romance + absurd comedy + System + food + trash-talk champion) Zhang Jiuqiu accidentally transmigrated into the role of a vicious female antagonist and got bound to a diss System that let her diss anyone she couldn’t stand. From then on, Zhang Jiuqiu’s name spread far and wide, and she became the foulest-mouthed person in the cultivation world. After eating the meal her senior brother cooked, Zhang Jiuqiu’s cultivation level dropped. Zhang Jiuqiu: “What the hell is this? Even my dog 179Reads8.1Score—Shelves
- 119 Transmigrate to the Countryside: A Tough Farmer’s Daughter and Her Adoring Scholar Husband 穿越之农门悍妻，秀才夫君他超爱 (One-on-One Romance + Mutual First Love + Transmigration + Historical Farming + Food + Sweet Romance + No Golden Finger) Shen Ning transmigrates to ancient times as a strong but timid, insecure farm girl whose mother and father are both dead. With her seventeenth birthday approaching, she bravely blocks a scholar on the road and picks herself a handsome husband, hoping to avoid being forcibly matched by the authorities. The scholar is said to bring misfortune to his relatives, so the villagers 1.7kReads8.8Score192Shelves
- 120 Island Management Simulator 海岛模拟经营 [No romance + food + world-building + game apocalypse + pet spirits, slice of life] [Player Monet detected. Island Management System bound!] When Monet, who can’t swim, wakes up, she finds herself adrift on a raft in the middle of a vast ocean. There’s no one around, only a System that has forcibly bound itself to her. [...Please select a business type.] Food is essential to life, so she chooses a restaurant. [Congratulations, player! You’ve received one Mini Cozy Restaurant.] Th 58Reads—Score—Shelves
- 121 My Whole Family Cooks in a Giant Pot and Goes Viral in the Western Han 我全家炒大锅饭，爆红西汉 [The whole family transmigrates + ordinary people + food and business + everyday family life + an alternate Western Han dynasty] The rating was just posted, so it’s a little low right now~ No contrived drama, and there’s a romantic pairing (the male lead barely appears, so feel free to ignore him; the heroine and her family are focused on building their business). A slice-of-life tale about ordinary people in a frontier town. The three members of the Lin family, village-feast chefs, transmigrate 2kReads8.4Score268Shelves
- 122 First, a Bowl of Lychee Cream 先来一碗荔枝膏 [Transmigrate + build wealth + imperial exams + everyday life + career-focused] [A slow, steady story. There are bad people now and then, but no cartoonishly awful villains.] Lin Qishu, founder of a modern Chinese tea-drink brand, transmigrated to the Great Liang dynasty after being targeted by online harassment. The moment she opened her eyes, she found herself orphaned and responsible for raising her younger brother. To make matters worse, unscrupulous competitors were watching her, ready to f 2.6kReads8.2Score405Shelves
- 123 After I Transmigrate into a Book, I Make a Comeback by Selling Lunch Boxes 穿书后我靠卖盒饭逆袭 [Gourmet] [A Love That Goes Both Ways] [Sweet Romance] Su Tian transmigrates into a book, becoming the vicious older sister who meets a tragic end. She immediately decides to treasure her life and stay out of trouble. Why not sell boxed meals and enjoy her own little life? Except... Why does the original male lead’s uncle keep hanging around her? One day, Uncle Huo gives Su Tian a handbag, only to discover it listed on a secondhand marketplace app moments later. Uncle Huo: Care to explain? S 338Reads7.5Score103Shelves
- 124 This Is Ridiculous! I Transmigrated to Ancient Times and Ran into My Late Mom? 离谱！穿越古代遇上过世的老妈？ No pocket dimension, no System, no wealthy-family power struggles, no princes or nobles! A cozy, everyday story + farming and business, all about a peaceful life and being content with modest prosperity. Lin Xi, a wage slave working late into the night, unexpectedly transmigrates to an impoverished farming family in ancient times. The biggest surprise is that she reunites there with her mother, who passed away long ago. No golden finger, no lucky breaks or shortcuts. She relies on the little cle 210Reads—Score—Shelves
- 125 The Restaurant Survival Guide: Cooking and Gossiping, All in a Day’s Work 食肆生存法则，做饭吃瓜两不误 [Shopkeeping + food + mystery-solving + farming] Overnight, food lover An Qiao transmigrates into the imperial palace as a cook. After leaving the palace, all she wants is to build a career: create the first chain of restaurants and bring delicious food to every corner of the country. Who could have guessed?! The eatery she buys at the start is right next to the Court of Judicial Review. Qi Ning'an gets dragged into one case after another, and the restaurant becomes the place to go for all the l 615Reads6.8Score—Shelves
- 126 A Bountiful Farm: A Country Girl Becomes a Landowner 锦绣桑田：农女当家做地主 [Ancient Farming] [Alternate Dynasty] [Neither Lead Is Reborn, Transmigrated, or Has a Pocket Space or Golden Finger] [Rural Life in Ancient Times, Slow and Steady] [Marriage Before Love] The initial rating has just come in. Let's see if it can climb from here. Please leave lots of comments! This story has no lords and ministers, no courtly intrigue. It is about the everyday lives of ordinary people, not a face-slapping power fantasy. The main story follows a farming couple as they work the la 2.1kReads6.4Score188Shelves
- 127 A Handbook for Raising Kids in Chaotic Times 乱世养崽手札 Ji Xiang transmigrates into the body of Ji Wanxiang, a wicked mother. The original owner's two little ones, both her biological children, are always trying to knock her out and sell her to a child trafficker for money to buy stuffed flatbreads, the kind with meat filling. · She intends to devote herself to raising the children and serving her mother-in-law. But after four years on the run, her good-for-nothing husband returns home to escape the war, bringing the original owner's younger sister a —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 128 Reborn as a Poor Girl in Lingnan, I Lead My Family to Prosperity 穿成岭南贫户女，我带全家走富路 When Zhou Ling opened her eyes, the coarse texture of a dry, hard corn bun still lingered in her mouth. The thatched hut was drafty. Her younger siblings were so hungry they were chewing on their fingers, her mother wept endlessly, and her father had fainted in bed after giving the family his share of the food. This was an obscure village somewhere in Lingnan. She was the eldest daughter of a poor family, so destitute that even the mice had moved out. But Zhou Ling’s mind held the world of more 19Reads—Score—Shelves
- 129 After a Scholar Broke Off Our Engagement, I Married a Rogue and Made a Fortune 被秀才退婚后，我嫁痞子发家致富 [Historical romance + farming + devoted couple + building a fortune + family life + broken engagement and face-slapping + rough-around-the-edges husband dotes on his beloved wife] A heartwarming slice-of-life story that unfolds at an easy pace, with love flowing both ways and no awful characters. Come on in with confidence. Lin Sang was famous throughout the surrounding villages for being capable. After getting engaged to a scholar, she thought she would settle down as his wife, but he ended up 15.5kReads8.1Score1kShelves
- 130 The Little Chef Returns to Ancient Times to Raise Kids 小厨娘穿回古代养崽子 [Cooking delicious food, raising an adorable child, and finding a husband] Shen Ruan grew up in an orphanage and has been single all her life. Then one day, she gets into a car accident and catches the transmigration trend, gaining an adorable little brother in the process. Looking at her scrawny little brother, Shen Ruan returns to her old trade as a chef. She works diligently, starting with a street stall, cooking delicious food to make a fortune and raise him! Later, she meets a “heaven-sen 152Reads6.2Score—Shelves
- 131 After Giving Up the Rat Race, I Took Up Leisurely Farming, and I Love It 放弃卷之后，悠闲种田，真香 To land a good job after graduation, Yan Xia pushed herself to outdo everyone else. Whenever she didn't know how to do something, she learned it, until she became the kind of child other parents wished they had. But while job hunting, she missed her interview because she was saving someone. Fortunately, she unexpectedly gained a golden finger. Yan Xia decides to return to her hometown and be with her parents, grow vegetables and fruit, and live a carefree life. Whoever wants to work a 996 schedu 228Reads6.9Score—Shelves
- 132 Gourmet: You Hired Me as a Security Guard, So Why Am I Making the Residents Drool? 美食：让你当保安，你馋哭业主？ [Gourmet + System + no romance + cooking competitions + lighthearted daily life] In his previous life, Liu Ran was a programmer who worked around the clock. He died suddenly on his twenty-fifth birthday and was reborn just as he was graduating and looking for a job. This time, he decides to skip thirty years of struggle: he’ll become a security guard right after graduation and laze around! But the Gourmet System intervenes and changes the life he had planned for himself. From the triple-combo ri 189Reads—Score—Shelves
- 133 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: 117Reads8.0Score—Shelves
- 134 The Good-for-Nothing Junior Sister Conquers the Cultivation World with Food 废柴小师妹靠美食征服修仙界 (Beloved by All + Gourmet Food + Farming + Fantasy + Relaxed) Lin Shiman, a famous food blogger, accidentally transmigrates into a cultivation world and becomes the good-for-nothing junior sister of Yun Tian Academy. Why is the cultivation world so desolate? Evil creatures run rampant, malevolent plants spread everywhere, and the land is barren. Everyone takes fasting pills. Ugh, why do they taste so awful? Which genius came up with these? They eat spirit fruit raw. Wait, is it illegal to cook i 6Reads—Score—Shelves
- 135 Shocking! The Prime Minister’s Legitimate Daughter Wins Over the Entire Capital with Her Cooking 惊！丞相嫡女靠美食征服整个京城 Modern chef Su Yuwan transmigrates and nearly gets taken out by ancient “cuisine” the moment she opens her eyes! Overly sweet pastries? Greasy meat? What kind of awful place doesn’t even have potato chips or spicy strips?! “This dump isn’t fit for pigs!” When she realizes that life among the nobility is truly dull... “Heh. Time to show you what a whole different level of competition looks like!” She fries golden potato chips from potatoes meant for pigs, and the emperor secretly tucks them int 2Reads—Score—Shelves
- 136 After Transmigrating, My Little Tavern Goes Viral in Another World 穿越后，我的小酒馆在异世爆红了 [Healing + Food + Golden Finger + Western Fantasy Otherworld + Farming + Game Mashup] Ye Linna transmigrates and takes over a tavern on the verge of closing. She plans to keep her head down, cook for a living, and wait for the end. But then... She brews a batch of liquor and hatches the Lord of Water. She roasts some meat and attracts the Lord of Fire. “Vodka... One more glass...” The Lord of Water leans drunkenly on the bar, tracing melancholy poetry on the glass with frost gathering at his fin 16Reads7.5Score—Shelves
- 137 The Wicked Farm Girl Is Kind of Sweet 农门恶女有点甜 [Food] [Sweet Romance] [Adorable Kids] [Street Stalls] [Farming] [Troublesome Relatives] Su Wan, a modern-day female special forces soldier, transmigrates one day into the body of a pitiful farm girl. Her father is missing, her mother is gone, and she has two burdensome little kids to care for. She even nearly gets sold to a brothel! Su Wan says: This plot is all wrong. Give me a do-over! She whips up a fortune with her wok, drives off her awful relatives with her fists, and even brings home a h 23Reads—Score—Shelves
- 138 The Ruyi Gallery 如意馆 [Beautiful Innkeeper vs. Bookish Accountant] [Historical Romance + Food + A Touch of Angst + Xianxia and Strange Tales + Deep Devotion] In an alley by Taiping Bridge in the south of the city stands a restaurant called Ruyi House. Its dishes are novel and delicious. The proprietress, Yaoniang, was once the Fate Keeper of the Ninth Heaven, in charge of the Book of Destinies. One day, she caused a grave disaster, earning the wrath of the Jade Emperor. As punishment, she was sent down to the mortal 266Reads9.3Score—Shelves
- 139 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
- 140 The Little Restaurant in the Capital 京城小饭馆 Tender green bamboo shoots, fresh crucian carp sashimi, and Xindu mugwort Glossy green oil, fragrant scallions, refreshing wine, and slender, jade-white hands A little eatery has opened on East Street in the capital, where every inch of land is worth its weight in gold. And the owner is a girl of only fifteen or sixteen? Everyone who hears about it shakes their head and calls it foolishness. Isn't she just throwing her money away? The proprietress, Gu Nianxi, insists she doesn't care about makin 1kReads8.1Score147Shelves
- 141 After Quitting My Job, I Inherited Grandma's Little Restaurant 辞职后，我继承了奶奶的小饭馆 [Healing + food + a touch of farming + slow-paced + everyday life] Wen Nian's new life began with a resignation letter. A well-paid job in the big city, endless overtime, cold convenience-store rice balls... She suddenly realized it had been a long time since she'd tasted anything like happiness. Steaming hot soup dumplings in the morning mist, soft and chewy cloud cakes with Pu'er tea in the afternoon, little river shrimp roasted crisp and red by Grandpa... It all felt like a distant, different 3.1kReads8.8Score429Shelves
- 142 A Farmer's Mother: Raising Seven Kids and Getting Rich Through the Imperial Exams 农门娘亲：养七娃，考科举发大财 After dying horribly in a plane crash, Gu Qinghe opens her eyes to find herself in ancient times, inhabiting the body of a lonely, destitute sixteen-year-old girl. Just as she's getting used to her new identity, her family drags her into a desperate mass flight amid the chaos of war. She gnaws on tree bark, dodges marauding soldiers, and crosses fields of corpses in search of a way to survive. With her modern knowledge, she struggles through a year until a new dynasty is finally established and 4.5kReads7.9Score327Shelves
- 143 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 2.1kReads8.5Score146Shelves
- 144 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
- 145 Food App: The Adorable Mom's Shop Goes Viral 美食app，萌娃亲妈开店火了 [Food + adorable kids + sweet romance] After getting drunk, Yu Fanfan wakes up to discover she’s somehow arrived four years in the future. She’s skipped straight past marriage and childbirth and become a mom overnight. After hitting a wall in her job search, she discovers a food-god app has suddenly appeared on her phone. By opening a shop and completing everyday cooking tasks, Yu Fanfan unlocks one delicious food picture after another. Diners discover a super-tasty little shop tucked away in an 214Reads8.2Score104Shelves
- 146 The Snow-Hidden Road Home 雪隐归途 In the winter of Yongchang’s seventeenth year, an accusation of treason reduced the illustrious General Zhenyuan’s household to ashes in an instant. Zhao Xuening, the general’s only child, became the center of her family’s swirling intrigues on the eve of disaster. She watched with her own eyes as her grandmother, who usually spent her days praying and abstaining from meat, contorted her face and clutched her mother by the throat, demanding some “thing” Zhao Xuening knew nothing about. She also 21Reads—Score—Shelves
- 147 From Kang Bed to Kitchen Stove: My Clever Wife Makes Her Way as a Farmer 炕上灶下：娘子妙手跃农门 A chef accidentally gets reborn as a farm girl? Her house is drafty on all sides, and they’re so poor they can barely afford to eat! Food is a problem, her reputation is in tatters, and she has to support her mother and younger siblings! Food is life, and she’ll use her incredible cooking skills to win everyone’s palate over and lead her whole family out of poverty! Little does she know that just as her purse starts to fill, someone sets their sights on her... 118Reads8.1Score—Shelves
- 148 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 160Reads8.6Score—Shelves
- 149 Transmigrating to a Mountain Village: The Farm Girl Spends Every Day Spoiling Her Husband 穿越山村，农女每日忙宠夫 [Transmigration + fictional setting + System + one-on-one romance, both leads are each other's first and only] The government is handing out husbands. You can claim one for free. The moment Lin Xiyue opened her eyes, she saw a handsome young man kneeling by her bed. She had transmigrated into a dynasty where anyone who remained unmarried past the age of twenty was assigned a husband by the government. Lin Xiyue was delighted. Getting someone this handsome without spending a single copper coin wa 539Reads8.2Score—Shelves
- 150 Farming on the Run from Famine, and My Neighbor Seems to Have a System 逃荒种田，我的邻居好像有系统 Liu Ruoshuang was just an ordinary small-town exam taker, studying for a civil service job. She passed one hurdle after another. At last, just as a wonderful life seemed within reach... "Huh?!" She had transmigrated, and into a once-in-a-century famine so severe that even tree bark was hard to come by. No matter. If she could pass the civil service exam, what couldn't she overcome? She'd get herself sorted out and set off again. Maybe she'd even get a System or some kind of reward, hehe (~^∇^)~. 5Reads—Score—Shelves
