Novels like A Family in a Little Village
Books Chinese readers most often put in the same booklists as A Family in a Little Village, best match first.
- 151 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
- 152 I Transmigrate into a Book and Open a Restaurant That Makes the Whole City Smell Amazing 穿书后我靠开食肆香遍全城 The heroine transmigrates into a book and opens a restaurant. The story focuses on the day-to-day business of running a food shop, with no awful relatives or angst. It's warm and comforting, so enjoy without worry~ The male lead appears later and doesn't have much page time. He's a puppy-like guy who follows our little Hua around everywhere (the male lead of the transmigration novel), and he's blessed with a protagonist's halo: getting close to him brings good luck. (Hugging the big shot's leg.j 3.7kReads8.1Score32414d adds
- 153 The Capital’s First Female Tycoon Built Her Fortune with Food 京城第一女首富她靠美食发家了 Complete. Farming + mobile shop + food + beloved by the whole family + strong female lead Song Anning, a 21st-century chef who cooked at state banquets, died suddenly while researching food late at night. She woke up in ancient times and saw that her family had nothing but the clothes on their backs. Well, she’d have to start from scratch. Watch how this village girl makes a home and builds a life with snail rice noodles, hamburgers, barbecue, hot pot, malatang, and more. She only hoped to becom 17Reads—Score—14d adds
- 154 Transmigrated as a Spoiled Brat, the Farm Girl Wins Her Husband Over and Clears Her Name 穿成作精，农门娇妻抱紧夫君洗白 Jia Xixi, a devoted foodie, transmigrated into an audiobook she had been listening to after a minor accident. When she woke up, she saw a drafty thatched hut and red decorations covering the room. She learned she’d transmigrated to ancient times and was already married. The problem was that her bargain-bin husband’s family was dirt poor. And that wasn’t all. Worst of all, she discovered that she was the story’s most disliked minor character, doomed to a particularly tragic end. Highly adaptable 9Reads—Score—14d adds
- 155 Reborn as a Little Chef: I Lured a Prince Into Farming 重生小厨娘：拐个王爷来种田 [One-on-One Romance + Devoted Couple + Sweet Romance + Mutual Pining + Foodie Story] An Ran, a modern chef at a five-star Michelin restaurant, transmigrates as a pitiful village girl whose parents are dead and who has a little brother to care for. Her relatives have even driven them out of their ancestral home. Her grandmother is cruel, her aunt is vicious, and her extended family is full of awful people... She looks up and starts cursing the heavens. A bolt of lightning strikes, and who would h 7Reads—Score—14d adds
- 156 The Divorced Woman Stays Busy Making Money While Her Ex Cries in the Slums 和离妇挣钱忙，前夫哭死在贫民窟 [Farming + everyday family life + tough woman + slow and steady progress + no romance + no System + no saintly heroine + a small storage space] Just so you know, this isn't a fast-paced story. The pacing is a little slow. If this style isn't for you, please spare me, or I'll keel over Some people choke to death while drinking water, and others get hit by cars. Li Xiangli died when her pressure cooker exploded as she was making corn and pork rib soup. She transmigrates into the body of a villa 179Reads8.7Score—14d adds
- 157 Transmigrating to a Farmhouse, She Is Spoiled by Her Villainous Older Brothers 穿越农家，她被反派哥哥们宠哭了 [Street vending + farming + family’s treasured darling + medical skills + adorable pets + pocket dimension + childhood sweethearts] After transmigrating unexpectedly, An Nuannuan became an adorable six-year-old with five older brothers. She thought she’d landed the role of the family’s beloved little darling. But after reading the story’s spoilers, she discovered she’d actually gotten the unlucky role of a cannon-fodder supporting female character, and all five of her brothers were doomed to die 63Reads8.1Score—14d adds
- 158 With Two Pocket Dimensions, I Farm and Stockpile Grain in the Seventies 双空间在手，七零种田囤粮忙 [Space + no romance + farming + a touch of ensemble cast] Good news: Jiang Nan has transmigrated from the apocalypse. Bad news: She’s landed in the 1970s, an era of scarce food and clothing. But it’s fine. She has a double space. This is a farming novel in the most literal sense: the heroine’s true love is farming. Her career takes a back seat, though it also has to do with farming. A slow-paced slice-of-life story about family and everyday life, with no romance, a growing heroine, and a healing 111Reads6.2Score10414d adds
- 159 Opening Up New Farmland, I Lead the Whole Village to Prosperity 开荒种田，我带全村过上红火日子 [Farming + System + everyone’s favorite + straightforward wish fulfillment + historical romance] Driven from her home, Shen Qinghe fled to a desolate village with nothing but a broken basket. She activated the Farming Guardian Spirit System and grew glowing golden sweet potatoes that were twice as plentiful and so sweet they practically melted in her mouth! She improved the soil, brewed liquor to sell, and turned the villagers from skeptics into people begging for seedlings. The Shen family sent 5Reads—Score—14d adds
- 160 Bound to a Sign-In System, the Little Chef Devours a Huge Bowl 绑定签到系统，小厨娘狂炫一大碗 [Historical Romance + Transmigration + Food + Business + Rags to Riches + One-on-One Romance] “She died from eating too much!” “She was choked to death, not stuffed to death!” “What do you mean, choked to death? Didn’t she eat too much?” “Don’t be ridiculous. She choked to death, she didn’t eat too much!” Floating in the air, she cried out to the heavens, “Neither! She choked on her food and died!” She transmigrated! To a godforsaken village? What! She’s married! The good news: her husband is ha 28Reads—Score—14d adds
- 161 The Clever Country Doctor's Wife: He Farms and Studies, I Weave Brocade 农门巧医妻：夫君耕读我织锦 [Transmigrated woman and native man, ancient-era farming, imperial exams, medicine, court politics, with children] Su Yanzhou had been clever from a young age, and his teacher saw him as a promising candidate for the imperial exams. His father died when he was fifteen. Then he broke his leg in an accident and became lame. Just before their wedding, his fiancée's family came to break off the engagement, and she married his cousin instead. Su Yanzhou went from being everyone's favorite and a sour 5.3kReads7.7Score57214d adds
- 162 Transmigrate: Watch Her Make the Most of Life in the Deep Mountains 穿越，看她玩转深山 A 21st-century wage worker transmigrates to a farm deep in the mountains of Southwest China. See how the young farmer girl Lin Maisui leads her family up the mountains and down to the rivers to work the land. It turns out that life in the mountains is the idyllic rural dream Lin Maisui longed for in her previous life but could never attain. 122Reads—Score—14d adds
- 163 Guizhou Cuisine, Making Him Lose His Cool 黔味厨娘，勾他破防 "Craving Her: The Cold-Faced Imperial Guard Wants Cuddles" Transmigrate into a book with a Guizhou cuisine space. Good news: Bai Tingyu, the family's savior, has happened to contract the "food-aversion Gu," and Guizhou cuisine is its natural enemy. Bad news: The space is a "money pit." Every time someone infected with the Gu eats food from her space, half her family's money vanishes. The urgent task: repay the favor, run away, and get rich. But after tasting her spicy, crispy potato cakes, he tu 6Reads—Score—14d adds
- 164 I Have Space. What Do You Have? 我有空间，你有啥？ Pocket dimension, transmigration, rebirth, spirit spring, ancient times, satisfying revenge, sweet romance, and a touch of possessiveness! She died suddenly from overwork, then woke up as a farm girl whose stepmother had drugged her with a sleeping potion and was about to sell her to a sickly man as a good-luck bride. Luckily, her pocket dimension had come with her. A spirit spring, supplies, and fertile black soil: it had everything she needed. As for her sickly husband? They said he wouldn’t l 2.5kReads8.5Score36714d adds
- 165 A Match Made for Wealth 富贵璧人 A PhD in agricultural science transmigrates into another world overnight, only to find herself dirt poor, with nothing but three earthen houses and one hen. How is she supposed to live like this?! A Luo surveys the dilapidated house and broken tiles, then calmly rolls up her sleeves. “I have a doctorate. What could I possibly be afraid of?” With hands, feet, and brains, there are treasures to be found in every field. Later... The auntie next door: “You have to budget carefully to get by.” A Luo 149Reads8.5Score—14d adds
- 166 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
- 167 Selling Liangfen on the Street, I Make the Whole City Crave It 摆摊卖凉粉，全城百姓被馋哭了 [Food + farming + love at first sight + doting romance + slow-burn sweetness] Xu Yingchun transmigrates into a book and becomes its wicked villainess, doomed to a miserable ending. She’s going to escape the villainess’s fate and become the heroine of her own story! After buying her freedom from the Jiang household, she sets up a street stall, opens a restaurant, and buys land. Her life gets better and better. Milk tea, barbecue, crawfish, hot pot, and big-plate chicken: she’ll serve it all! The 314Reads8.0Score12114d adds
- 168 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 2.1kReads6.4Score19414d adds
- 169 The General's Delicious Wife 将军的美味娘子 She transmigrates into a farming family, where there's never enough to eat or warm clothes to wear, and she also gets a paralyzed husband and a whole crowd of awful relatives thrown in for free. Xia Yuechu counts it all up on her fingers. By any reckoning, she's the one getting the raw deal! But she's got her cooking skills to rely on, and with her clever hands she can whip up countless delicious dishes and make a fortune in no time, rising straight to the top! The better life gets, though, the 238Reads8.6Score10414d adds
- 170 First, Split the Family! Then Cut Ties! Feast on Meat and Fish Every Day 先分家！后断亲！每天大鱼大肉 (Alternate world + lighthearted + pocket dimension + farming + country girl + taking down scoundrels) For no apparent reason, Leng Qingyun opens her eyes and transmigrates! She finds herself in a remote mountain village in ancient times, in the body of an eight-year-old little brat. Her grandparents play favorites, and her uncle’s family schemes against hers. Her parents do all the fieldwork and housework. That would be bad enough, but her parents are also hopelessly obedient to their elders! Le 4.6kReads7.8Score25114d adds
- 171 After I Transmigrated, I Had Twins and Got a Farmer Husband for Free 穿越后我喜提龙凤胎，白捡庄稼汉 A modern country girl transmigrates to ancient times and puts her farming skills to work again: laboring from sunrise to sunset, digging wells for water, and tilling fields for food. With her beloved by her side and her children close, they share warm, happy days through all four seasons, and remain devoted to each other for a hundred years, no matter how far they travel. 95Reads6.7Score—14d adds
- 172 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
- 173 I Became the Eldest Sister-in-Law of a Farm Family and Led Them to Prosperity 穿成农家长嫂，我带领全家致富了 Transmigration + Farming + No Golden Finger + No Harem Intrigue + No Princes, Emperors, or Concubines There are no golden fingers in this story. The male and female leads are ordinary people with no special identities, and their journey to prosperity unfolds at a steady pace. Li Zhenzhen, who was unloved by her parents in her previous life, transmigrates to an ancient farming household and unexpectedly gains a wonderfully loving mother-in-law, a rough-looking but thoughtful husband, and several 568Reads8.6Score10114d adds
- 174 Transmigrated to the Early Tang, I Want Wealth, Not Romance 穿在初唐，不想恋爱只想发家 (Farming + food + transmigration to the early Tang dynasty + infrastructure + making a fortune) After transmigrating to the world under Li Shimin’s rule, who could resist making a little difference? Knit sweaters and sew padded coats to keep Li Shimin, who already has a heated brick bed, even warmer and help him live a little longer. Reinforce the city walls with cement and add vermicelli to the army’s rations, making the eastern campaign against Goguryeo a little easier. A soap business can 116Reads—Score—14d adds
- 175 Yu Gui’s Little Everyday Life 于归的小日子 Yu Gui entered a blind marriage and was wed to a hunter. She thought she was in for a hard life, separated from her family, but unexpectedly, her husband doted on her like she was the most precious thing in the world. This is a sweet, gentle story about the ordinary rhythms of life in ancient times. Life is already hard, so let's not make it heartbreaking too. 2.3kReads8.2Score26614d adds
- 176 My Parents, Brother, and I: From the Deep Mountains to Fertile Land 爹娘弟和我，从深山到沃土 Lin Youyou woke up to find herself transmigrated to a remote mountain region. Looking at the bare walls of her home, she could hardly imagine anyone poorer. To make ends meet, she had no choice but to learn how to forage for wild vegetables. Scene one: Lin Youyou bends over, gathering wild vegetables. Scene two: Lin Youyou squats down to gather wild vegetables. Scene three: Lin Youyou stoops to gather wild vegetables. As she found herself going further and further down the path of foraging, 504Reads6.8Score—14d adds
- 177 Transmigrated to Ancient Times to Farm, Raise a Sweet Child, and Woo a Rugged Man 穿越古代种田，养乖娃撩糙汉 Transmigration + farming + rugged hero + raising children Shen Huan unexpectedly transmigrates to ancient times. With no System, she makes money by cooking, clears land, farms, and raises children. All she wants is to raise the children well, but who could have guessed their father would turn out to be a handsome man? Well, he’s tall and broad-shouldered, with a handsome face. This man is exactly her type. She makes the first move and goes after her husband!!! But her husband is fierce and cold. 83Reads6.0Score—14d adds
- 178 Spring Mountains After the Rain 雨后春山 The rating has only just been posted, so it will go up later. In spring, they forage for wild greens; in summer, they harvest sweet potatoes; in autumn, they gather chestnuts; and in winter, they hunker down at home. In a simple little village, a simple family lives its quiet life, counting out one copper coin at a time. 2.5kReads7.3Score26514d adds
- 179 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
- 180 The Eldest Sister of the Farming Family and Her Three Siblings 农门长姐一拖三 A Man transmigrated. While other people transmigrated into princesses or officials’ daughters, she ended up in a home so poor it had nothing but four bare walls. Her parents were both dead, leaving her three baby brothers to feed. A Man sighed at the heavens and, for good measure, cursed the ancestors of that wretched old sky for eighteen generations... Her three brothers all looked up at their eldest sister and gulped. “Why does Big Sis seem even fiercer now? We’d better never get on her bad si 444Reads6.7Score—14d adds
- 181 A Prosperous Farmstead: The Scholar’s Young Wife Is Busy Making Money 锦绣农门：秀才家的小娘子挣钱忙 Bright and warmhearted Mingmei has had one romantic setback after another. Her loving parents are determined to find her a husband with the title of scholar. Under pressure from his family, scholar Lu Zongqi marries Mingmei, but his heart already belongs to someone else. What is she supposed to do? Maybe she should divorce him. Then she can focus on building her own career. What? Lu Zongqi swears to heaven that Mingmei is the one he loves, and wants to work alongside her to make money. 202Reads8.2Score—14d adds
- 182 I Marry a Good-for-Nothing from the Start, Then Change My Fate with Food 开局嫁给纨绔，我靠美食逆天改命 Xu Si transmigrates one day. The bad news: she's married. The worse news: she's married to a wastrel. The worst news: his whole family has been exiled along with her! It's hard mode from the start, but she doesn't panic. She's got superhuman strength. She uses it to tame her wastrel husband, teach her mother-in-law about women's rights, become best friends with her sister-in-law, turn her younger sister-in-law into a devoted fan, get her little nephew to wave her banner with all his might, and w 18Reads6.5Score—14d adds
- 183 Lucky to Meet You in This Life: The Wind Stirs the Flower Shadows 今生有幸遇见你之风吹花影动 Everyone says a talented man and a beautiful woman make the perfect match. I ask only for a peaceful life. A story about a poor scholar and a village girl walking hand in hand, never leaving each other. No transmigration, no rebirth, and no golden finger. Everyday family life, a gentle and steady romance, and a lifetime spent together amid the ordinary joys of life. 589Reads8.9Score—14d adds
- 184 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 327Reads6.5Score—14d adds
- 185 The Chief Minister's Money-Grubbing Young Wife 首辅家的贪财小娘子 [Transmigration + Pocket Dimension + Food + Handsome Men + Spirit Spring] After the God of Cooking Jiang Ying dies, she transmigrates to ancient times, into the body of a poor farm girl with the same name. A home stripped bare, a weak mother, and cruel relatives who take advantage of them? No problem. She has a spirit-spring pocket dimension. Split from the family, improve their circumstances, open a restaurant, then a grand restaurant: easy as pie! But she never expected that the handsome man s 14Reads—Score—14d adds
- 186 A Chili Sauce Stall from the Start 开局一个辣酱摊 A pot of hot oil and a handful of scallions and ginger: she transmigrates into the body of a poor girl whose engagement has been broken off, with nothing but a shabby account book and half a sack of brown rice. No one knows how the girl, who used to do nothing but bury herself in bookkeeping, suddenly acquired such nimble hands. The neighbors say a deity visited her in a dream. She just smiles and says nothing. The little shop on the back street opens, and its enticing aroma fills Yunyang County 1.2kReads—Score19114d adds
- 187 Reborn in Ancient Times: I Lead My Family to Wealth 重生古代：我带领一家发家致富 [Reborn and transmigrated + devoted husband + faithful couple + farming + getting rich + everyday life without awful relatives] Gu Jiangyu was reborn in ancient times as a notorious ne'er-do-well. The man who had been alone in his previous life now had parents and siblings, as well as a young wife. Gu Jiangyu had never been in love before, and his wife was such a tiny thing. Gu Jiangyu: … No divorce, then. I'll make do. I wasn't planning on getting married anyway. But then he started protec 165Reads7.2Score—14d adds
- 188 So, I Transmigrated Into a Boy and Started Farming 关于我穿成男娃种田这事儿 Li Shaoshan is a woman who becomes a man. He doesn’t do business, take the imperial exams, or get married... He tends to his family and grows a little food. As always, there’s no romance: he lives his best life alone. No matter who suffers, it won’t be him, so dive in without worry. The story is complete. 1.7kReads8.6Score15314d adds
- 189 Settling Down in the Greater Khingan Mountains 大兴安岭安家记 [The simple pleasures of eating and drinking with my young husband in ancient times] Transmigration + farming + no golden finger + no special abilities + no pocket dimension She transmigrates to ancient times and opens her eyes to find herself married to a young hunter who hasn’t grown into his full height yet. There are no parents-in-law above them, and no uncles, aunts, or younger sisters-in-law below. They have not a single strip of farmland, and their only room is deep in the mountains. Well 16Reads7.2Score—14d adds
- 190 Reborn as a Villainous Wife, I Spoil My Lame Husband 穿成恶妇，我娇养了瘸腿夫君 [Transmigration + farming + gourmet food + lame husband + sweet romance] [Obedient puppy-like male lead, beautiful and capable heroine who isn't an overbearing type, one-on-one, both leads' first time, happy ending] Ding Ling transmigrates into the wife Gu Ming bought for two taels of silver. The moment she opens her eyes, she sees a scrawny man dragging her beloved husband outside. Scrawny man: “Come help me! Do you still want the money or not?” Ding Ling: ... Am I really this bold? Lookin 5.7kReads8.6Score38514d adds
- 191 She Married the Toughest Roughneck, and Her Whole Family Became Powerhouses Under Her Care 嫁最猛糙汉，合家被娇娇养成大佬 [No golden finger + no pocket dimension + good fortune + mountain foraging and getting rich + married life + family squabbles + troublesome characters + putting scumbags in their place] Yin Yuanyuan is delicate and soft-waisted. After an accident transmigrates her into a poor farming family, she wonders: how is she supposed to get by without a golden finger? Spending all day bent over the fields, facing the earth with her backside in the air, is hard on the back and doesn’t pay much. No problem. —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 192 After the Frail Girl Awakens, Her Whole Family Rides on Her Coattails? 病弱女开悟后，全家带我躺赢？ (Fast-paced, no dragging) [Farming] + [System] + [Imperial Examinations] + [Infrastructure] + [Strong Female Lead] + [Family Bonds] + [A Touch of Political Intrigue] The day Lin Wan was reborn in the body of a sickly girl, her family was holding her funeral. In the pouring rain, Lin Wan shoved open her coffin lid, terrifying the entire village out of their wits. After recovering, Lin Wan’s temperament changed completely. She often pestered her older brothers with talk of “ingenious inventions.” 7Reads7.3Score214d adds
- 193 Back in Ancient Times to Farm: My Best Friend and I Become Mother-in-Law and Daughter-in-Law! 穿回古代种田，我和闺蜜变婆媳！ [Hunting in the Mountains] [Farming] [Pocket Dimension] [Romance] [Comedy] [Ensemble Cast] One day, after working herself to death from overtime, 26-year-old Zhao Yueshuang transmigrates and becomes a farmer in an ancient village. The good news: no more unpaid overtime. The bad news: she's become a twice-married village woman. Her husband and stepson have gone off to war, leaving her and her frail daughter-in-law to scrape by in the village. Looking at the dilapidated house before her, Zhao Yues 287Reads—Score—14d adds
- 194 The Miserable Days of a Transmigrant in Ancient Times 穿越古代的悲催日子 When Lin Yiyi wakes up, she discovers to her dismay that she's transmigrated from the prime of her life at twenty-three to the age of forty-two. In ancient times, she's become a bona fide old woman. Not only is she an old woman, she's also an elderly maid in someone else's household. That would be bad enough, but can you imagine having to endure snow disasters, droughts, and fleeing famine in ancient times, too? At first, she plans to finish her mission and return to the modern world, where she 98Reads8.2Score—14d adds
- 195 Another World: I Carry a Pocket Dimension, Gather a Team, and Build a Farm 异世界，揣空间拉队伍搞种田 Volume One: Laying the Foundations in a Troubled Age She transmigrates into a turbulent world, adrift amid chaos. Ye Wanlan arrives in another realm with a mysterious pocket dimension. Faced with demons lurking in the shadows and war breaking out everywhere, she chooses to conceal her chance at immortality and establish herself among ordinary people. Starting with a patch of barren land, she uses the pocket dimension’s spirit spring and her knowledge far ahead of its time to improve crops, gathe —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 196 The Hunter's Clever Wife 猎户的巧娘子 Sometimes, knowing how to do something doesn't mean you have to show it off. Only those who lack confidence pile on external trappings. No matter how much you flaunt, it's just adding legs to a snake! People who come here aren't trying to pass the imperial exams and become scholars. They just want to find a woman who understands them. If all you chase is the romance between a talented scholar and a beautiful woman, you may find that you can't get it even when you're old and past your prime. Just 728Reads8.8Score—14d adds
- 197 Transmigrate into a Book with My Kitchen, and the Scheming Grand Secretary Is Both Sweet and Flirtatious 带着厨房穿书后，腹黑首辅苏又撩 [Both Leads Are Each Other's Only One + Sweet Romance + Chasing His Wife] Food streamer Lin Chuchu transmigrates into a book as the tragic ex-wife of a scheming big shot. Her home is bare, her relatives are awful, and countless pampered young ladies are eyeing her husband, eager to take her place. Chuchu rolls up her sleeves and puts her kitchen skills to work, conjuring something from nothing. After helping the Gu family build a prosperous life, she makes a run for it. After all, the big shot i 168Reads8.6Score—14d adds
- 198 I Make a Fortune and Find a Husband in Another World with My Cooking 我靠厨艺在异世发家致富娶夫郎 [Two Male Leads + Food + Farming + Sweet Romance (the imperial examinations and court politics come into play later)] Lin Man was born into a family of chefs and has an extraordinary talent for cooking. He never expected to transmigrate to a remote mountain village in another world, where he becomes a penniless, homeless hooligan with both parents dead. No money, no food, and no one to rely on but himself. Isn’t this the worst possible start? With his excellent cooking, he just barely manages to 43Reads8.4Score—14d adds
- 199 Gourmet Delights of the Northern Song: I Made a Fortune Through Food 北宋珍馐录，我靠美食发家赚万金 [No romance + alternate Northern Song setting + native-born heroine + food + ensemble cast and everyday life + gradual, steady pacing + building a fortune] A new eatery has opened in Daming Prefecture. Its proprietor is a young woman of fourteen or fifteen, always greeting everyone with a smile. People all say she’s kind. But Chen Heniang doesn’t think she’s a good person. Growing up in a family that favored boys over girls, she stole eggs from the neighbors at seven, learned to cry and lie at e 21kReads8.6Score3.2k14d adds
- 200 I Became an Abusive Husband, So I Healed My Cold, Aloof Husband With Food 穿成家暴男我用美食治愈清冷夫郎 [Food-themed story, two male leads, cozy family life, dependable and steady gong with youthful spirit ✖ cool, well-behaved beauty shou] One day, Lin Yan transmigrates into the body of a scholar in Linjia Village. The original owner cared only about having fun, ignored every household responsibility, and even beat his husband. Putting his cooking skills to use, Lin Yan sets up a street stall and opens a shop, spoils his adorable little husband, and gradually leads him and his family toward a happ 411Reads8.2Score10214d adds
