Novels like The Ghost Chef: Cooking for Gluttonous Ghosts in Ancient Times
Books Chinese readers most often put in the same booklists as The Ghost Chef: Cooking for Gluttonous Ghosts in Ancient Times, best match first.
- 1 After I Transmigrated, I Became the County’s Richest by Raising Chickens and Ducks 穿越后，靠养鸡养鸭当上县城首富 [Transmigration + everyone’s favorite + farming + no System + making a fortune + food] “Ow, ow, ow...” What? I actually transmigrated? Well, in that case, I’ll make a fortune raising chickens and ducks, making the most of every part of them, and building a complete business from the ground up. I’ll become the richest person in Zheng’an County and claim the top spot on its wealth rankings. Since I’ve transmigrated all this way, shouldn’t I at least fall in love with a prince or heir to the throne —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 2 My Cooking Is Delicious 我的饭菜很美味 [Farming + ancient times + food + adorable child] Lin Tiantian stayed up late one night, and when she opened her eyes, she had become the village’s beautiful widow. She also had a three-year-old daughter, crying and calling her Mom with tearful eyes. Raising a daughter is hard enough. Then there are the village men who covet her beauty, the rice jar at home that’s nearly empty, and her hungry little girl. Luckily, Lin Tiantian is a wonderful cook. She’s determined to give her daughter a colorful 1Reads—Score—Shelves
- 3 The Peerless Female Chef 绝世女厨 [Unparalleled Chef Xie Siyao × Capital City’s Little Tyrant, Third Prince Yu Hua] [Historical Romance + Alternate History + Food + Everyone’s Darling + One-on-One Romance + Happy Ending + Palace Intrigue + Chance Encounter + Beloved of Heaven] In the busiest part of the capital, Tianxiang Restaurant welcomes guests every day, and its patrons are all people of wealth and status. Everyone wants to get inside Tianxiang Restaurant and see what it’s like. Xie Siyao is no exception. But while the rest 42Reads8.3Score—Shelves
- 4 A Nun’s Delicious Comeback 穿成尼姑后的逆袭美食生活 Strong heroine + No romance + Food-themed story Foodie Xun Xiao transmigrates into a nunnery and becomes Abbess Jingci. The nuns lead a meager life, with barely enough to eat or wear. Fortunately, she has a cheat and is a skilled cook. She leads her disciples in clearing land and farming, then uses her culinary skills to help everyone prosper through hard work. Starting with the vegetarian meals of their dilapidated little convent, she gradually spreads the joy of good food. Along the way, she e 6Reads—Score—Shelves
- 5 Rejecting the Rough-Hewn Man, I Struck It Rich After Splitting from My Selfish In-Laws 拒嫁糙汉，和极品哥嫂分家后暴富 Transmigration, Farming, and a Cookbook of Delicious Food The food-loving daily life of a sharp-tongued but warmhearted fake scholar and a strong, carefree fake widow As the saying goes: If you pass through Sanchakou Village without stopping at Su’s, you may as well not have made the trip to Liangcheng. Su’s teahouse serves the best food around, with all kinds of mountain delicacies and game on the menu. Wang Shiping, Imperial Tutor to the emperor, strokes 80Reads8.7Score—Shelves
- 6 The Farmer's Little Lucky Carp: I Fell in Love with a Fool 农门小锦鲤：我和傻子谈恋爱了 [Pure farming + food] In her previous life, Lin Yue died young without even getting the chance to fall in love. In this life, she was given a handsome husband from the start. He was a little dim-witted... but! She was a beauty fanatic, after all. Why turn down a good thing? In her previous life, she was terribly unlucky. In this one, she’s a lucky little koi fish. She thrives in business, earns more and more money, and enjoys a better life every day. Her sisters-in-law become her best friends, h 10Reads6.4Score—Shelves
- 7 The Little Farmhouse Chef 农门小厨娘 [Transmigration + Gourmet Food + Getting Rich + Everyday Life] The transmigrated heroine, Su Xihe, sets up a food stall. From fine dining to milk tea, cold noodles, grilled fish, flaky pastries, and hot pot, she can make it all. She's cheerful and clever. The male lead, Lu Changfeng, is quiet and skilled at hunting. Pheasants, wild rabbits, muntjac... He's cool and aloof, but dependable. They go up the mountain together to gather chestnuts and pick bayberries... They wade into the water togeth 84Reads—Score—Shelves
- 8 A Food Lover’s Diary 美食的日记 With her taste buds as her pen and her diary as her paper, Li Yue records the secrets of the city’s food. From street snacks to fine dining, every dish is a bond of emotion, and every taste stirs the heart. This is more than a culinary adventure: it is an expression of love and longing for life. Open the diary and let your taste buds and soul travel together, roaming the world through its pages… 9Reads—Score—Shelves
- 9 Sold as Soon as I Transmigrated: Rough Military-Household Husband, Don't You Dare Fall for Me 穿越就被卖，军户糙汉你别真香啊 [Transmigration + Body Transmigration + Farming + Marriage Before Love + Food + Cold-Faced Male Lead Who Does the Laundry] Lin Zhuohua woke up one day to find that her life as a modern corporate wage slave was gone. She had transmigrated. She had become a poor soul in the Ningxi Dynasty who had just slit her own throat. The original body's life had been tragic, and Lin Zhuohua arrived right after she cut her throat. Now Lin Zhuohua had something even more miserable to deal with. She had been sol 1Reads—Score120Shelves
- 10 The Stars Won’t Sleep, So Neither Will I; I’ll Wait with the Moon for Daybreak 星星不睡我不睡，陪着月亮等天亮 [I’m just making this up as I go!! This story is toxic! Some parts might be brutal on your eyes, so don’t click! Do me a favor!] The heroine can cook all kinds of delicious food. [Everyday life] [Lots of food] [Mouthwatering] A friendly warning: I’m making this up as I go, so don’t yell at me. I never expected the story to go this way.] —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 11 I Transmigrated and Got Rich Through Cooking 穿越后我靠美食富甲一方 Food blogger Jiang Qingli transmigrates to an unknown dynasty. Her parents are gone, and all she has is a younger brother who’s still growing and needs to be fed. Looking at their bare-bones home and her frail little brother, Jiang Qingli vows to turn their lives around, so she returns to her old profession. The first step is setting up a food stall. Before long, the capital has a new street-food stand selling all kinds of novel snacks its customers have never seen before. With the cooking skill 2Reads—Score—Shelves
- 12 Jilted from the Start, I’ll Make That Scumbag Regret It 开局被退婚，我让渣男后悔莫及 Farming + business System + transmigration + feel-good story + marriage first and love later + face-slapping and punishing scumbags + both untouched Cheng Mianmian transmigrates, and the moment she wakes up, a middle-aged woman is pointing at her nose. “An ugly thing like you wants to marry my son, the reincarnation of the God of Literature? This marriage is over.” It turns out that after the scumbag passed the scholar exam with the help of her family, he wants to break off their engagement. Che 11Reads—Score—Shelves
- 13 The Supporting Actress Got Rich Through Food 女配靠美食暴富了 Song Yi, an ordinary college graduate. One day, she wakes up to find herself living inside an old-fashioned, melodramatic romance novel, as the cannon-fodder supporting female character who brings the leads together. The male lead, who was still Song Yi's boyfriend at the time, is kissing the female lead with wild abandon. The scene is downright brutal. Song Yi: “That's one impressive green hat. Let me take a picture first.” After decisively dumping the scumbag, Song Yi binds herself to a restau —Reads7.1Score—Shelves
- 14 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 57Reads6.5Score—Shelves
- 15 Transmigrated to a Farmhouse: Big Sister’s Delicious Cooking 穿越农家：长姐美食嘎嘎香 To everyone who keeps reading, you’re all treasures. May you strike it rich, rich, rich! I made that up! Transmigration + food + business + romance One day, Gu Qingqing, an overworked office drone, caught the transmigration trend and woke up as the eldest daughter of a farming family. Her parents had died young, her younger siblings were still children, and no matter how much she cried for help, no one answered. To make matters worse, the family owned nothing but four bare walls. What was she su 3Reads—Score—Shelves
- 16 Quick Transmigration: My Cooking Is Absolutely Delicious 快穿：我做饭嘎嘎香 [Quick Transmigration System + Pure 1v1 Romance + Gourmet] After the genius chef Zuo Fan dies unexpectedly, she binds herself to a Chef System and travels through different worlds for one purpose: to save the second male lead, who’s destined to die of stomach trouble because he never eats properly. A half-vampire in a magical world, a hotheaded village official in the 1990s, an idle prince in a prosperous age, a superpowered team captain in the apocalypse, a company president in the future, a ri 3Reads—Score—Shelves
- 17 The Prime Minister's Legitimate Daughter Takes Up Farming 相府嫡女在种田 Shangguan Mingyue had just achieved financial freedom in the twenty-first century when a diving accident sent her into the body of thirteen-year-old Su Xiaojiu, who had been pushed into a river. Aside from her rough skin, the girl looked exactly like her. The family was poor but had enough to eat. Her father had been injured saving someone, her mother was frail and took medicine year-round, and her younger brother was still little. Su Xiaojiu had to farm, support the family, and care for the you 1Reads—Score—Shelves
- 18 A Taste of Brocade and Jade 锦玉食记 [Farming + food + medicine + everyday life + transmigration + endless trials + outlook on life] [No romance + no angst] An everyday-life story about a Western medicine novice who transmigrates and explores food and medicine. A medical master’s graduate transmigrates into the body of a little girl with a limp. Facing a difficult start, she relies on knowledge from thousands of years in the future to reinvent the food of another world, studies medicine diligently, and makes medicinal dishes as she —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 19 The Farmer’s Daughter Who Brewed Wine 农家酒娘子 After transmigrating, A Jiu finds herself with a few thatched huts, an honest father, and two scrawny younger brothers. Just see how she turns things around... In another world, A Jiu uses her brewing skills to help her family work toward a modest but comfortable life. Along the way, she'll find herself a good man and have a whole brood of little ones... 58Reads7.4Score—Shelves
- 20 With a Street Stall, I Turned a Remote Mountain Forest into a 5A Scenic Area 靠摆摊，我把深山老林变5A景区 The rating has only just opened, so it’ll go up later. Yun Jin died, then came back to life. She had transmigrated into the fake heiress of a marquis’s household, a girl who had taken another girl’s place! The original owner couldn’t accept going from a pampered young lady to a hunter’s daughter. On the way back to the mountains, she jumped from the carriage and killed herself. But Yun Jin, a modern cancer patient, just smiled: Being alive is what matters. Who cares about being poor? I’ve got a 26Reads8.0Score—Shelves
- 21 After I Transmigrated, I Ran a Street Stall and Got My Whole Family into the Imperial Capital 穿越后，靠摆摊带全家卷到皇城 The comic adaptation is now online! Spiritual spring cuisine + street vending + healing + feel-good爽文 + beloved by the whole family + imperial examinations A workhorse never gets a day off. A workhorse just keeps going! Go! Go! Go! On the first day after transmigrating into the body of a sickly girl, she opens her eyes and gets straight to work! Her two younger brothers are still children, and her eldest brother was nearly forced into becoming a live-in son-in-law. The family has nothing but fou 1.3kReads6.7Score148Shelves
- 22 The Wicked Mother-in-Law of the Farmhouse from the Start, with Every Child a Big Shot 开局农门恶婆婆，子女个个是大佬 [Feel-good power fantasy + making a fortune + everyone’s favorite + online shopping] Overnight, Ji Yun transmigrates into a beautiful “widow” with a whole family in tow. But she’s not worried: she can shop through a certain online store. She builds up a business, puts the scoundrels in their place, makes a fortune, and leads her whole family toward a better life. Wait, why are her children turning out so differently from expected? Her eldest son becomes head of the Mo family’s mechanical arts. H 27Reads—Score—Shelves
- 23 Reborn in 1990: After Splitting from the Family, I Sold Braised Meat and Became a Rich Woman 重生九零分家后，我卖卤肉成富婆 Synopsis: [Period setting + sweet romance + revenge + face-slapping + making money] [Sweet, independent, strong-willed heroine x aloof on the outside, flirtatious inside, devoted hero] After a three-day fever, Shu Man wakes up and realizes she's reborn, back at age sixteen in 1992. Her grandmother is in good health, but her scummy uncle and aunt are in charge. They force her to work while sick and even want to sell her to an old man as his wife for just 2,000 yuan. Don't mistake a tiger for a ki 57Reads8.2Score—Shelves
- 24 Transmigrate to a Famine Year: A Max-Level Executive Assistant's Guide to Getting Rich and Stockpiling Supplies 穿越荒年：满级董助致富囤货攻略 One moment, top executive assistant Su Tang is at the world’s most prestigious auction house, bidding on a precious piece of mutton-fat jade for the Big Boss. The next, she opens her eyes and has transmigrated to an unheard-of dynasty, where she’s become an ugly good-for-nothing woman? The whole village is full of troublemakers, drought has struck out of nowhere, food prices are soaring, disasters and human calamities abound, and bandits are everywhere? No problem! I have a pocket dimension! Far 2Reads—Score—Shelves
- 25 Transmigrated as a Trouble-Making Sister-in-Law, I Feast on Meat While the Whole Village Starves 穿成作精长嫂，全村吃土我啃肉 [Farming + food + spatial dimension + cozy warmth + peaceful days] Liu Momo was a thoroughly upright young woman, but after transmigrating, she becomes a despised widow whom everyone in the village wants to chase away. It’s no problem! She can forage for mushrooms and catch fish, hunt and gather herbs, open workshops and build schools… She helps the villagers get rich, handing out money until they’re won over. One by one, they weep and call her their benefactor! Liu Momo’s life flourishes, and s 2Reads—Score—Shelves
- 26 Madam Wan's Everyday Life Raising Children 万娘子的养娃日常 [No palace intrigue, a little domestic intrigue, but none involving the heroine] After Liao Wenwen worked herself to death, she was reborn. Not as a noblewoman, a royal relative, or someone blessed with a golden finger. Instead, she was reborn as a fat, unattractive widow whose husband had died. She also discovered that the woman who had owned this body had adopted the three children of her late husband's older brother. At first, she wanted to run away and spend the rest of her life living freel 2Reads—Score—Shelves
- 27 With Space in Hand: I Transmigrate to the Yuan Dynasty and Master the Farm 空间在手：穿越元朝玩转农场 She transmigrates into a farming family, only for her bizarre relatives to beat her family so badly they’re all seriously injured. They have nothing but a thatched hut and a patch of wasteland, with not a penny to their name. But that’s all right: she has a pocket dimension and a spiritual spring, loving parents, and kind neighbors. Farming, gathering medicinal herbs, raising animals, doing business, and building a fortune until they can live comfortably are all well within her reach. When her b —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 28 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 238Reads8.6Score104Shelves
- 29 The Spicy Little Chef 麻辣小厨娘 Gu Mucheng wakes on a wooden plank bed so hard it makes her bones ache and realizes she must have transmigrated. The original owner has the same name as her: a poor little girl, the second daughter of a farming family in Wangu Village of the Great Xin Dynasty. Let's see how she uses her strengths to change her tragic fate. In this world, nothing is more deserving of our devotion than good food and love. Eating and drinking, men and women: these are among humanity's greatest desires! 112Reads7.1Score—Shelves
- 30 The Clever Country Kitchen Maid: Her Dandy Husband Comes Looking for Trouble 农门俏厨娘：纨绔夫君来碰瓷 Ye Qing transmigrates into an ordinary farming family’s daughter. The moment she opens her eyes, she faces the grim reality that her family can barely afford to eat. Her uncle’s family abuses and bullies them, while her grandmother shows no affection and her grandfather couldn’t care less. The only thing Ye Qing can rely on to turn their lives around is her excellent cooking. She takes on the family’s worst troublemakers, protects her loved ones, makes delicious food, and leads her mother and si 30Reads8.2Score—Shelves
- 31 The Divorced Woman’s Guide to Winning Over the Emperor: Wild Grass, Stay Back 和离妇的自我攻略皇上野草靠边站 “Chunsheng! If you don’t divorce that jinx, I’ll kill myself!” “Mother, Suxin is still the wife I married properly. I’ve only just passed the county-level scholar exam. Divorcing her now would be rather heartless.” “My foolish son, you’re far too softhearted! She’s been part of the Liu family for five years. She’s eaten our food and drunk our water. Even a pig should have given us a piglet by now to repay us! But she’s just a hen that eats without laying eggs! We’re doing the Bai family a favor 1Reads—Score—Shelves
- 32 Transmigrated into a Book as a Cannon-Fodder Villainess: I Leave the Palace, Open a Restaurant, and Become a Tycoon 穿书炮灰女配，出宫开酒楼成首富 [Fake palace intrigue + Wish fulfillment + Food + Cozy + Farming + Light ensemble cast + A touch of a golden finger] Other people rely on schemes to survive palace intrigue. I rely on the wok hei! When she opens her eyes, Qiu Qiu is stunned The unscrupulous System really did toss her into an old-fashioned, melodramatic novel! The original owner is a disposable pawn the emperor uses to please his true love. Her ending is miserable: stripped of her title, sent to the Cold Palace, and left to die o 11Reads—Score—Shelves
- 33 Street Food Stalls: Customers Pack the Street and Chase Me to Buy More 美食街头摆摊：食客爆满追着买 [Food + street stalls + System + cooking tips + everyday life + no romance + heartwarming + perfect dinner-time reading] After Wang Zhen dies from overwork at his 996 job, he unexpectedly transmigrates to another world and obtains a Food System. His random street-stall location changes every half month. Unable to find Wang Zhen, his customers create hundreds of food-lover group chats. As soon as he sets up his stall, they rush over to wait for him. “I queued for an hour, and you’re telling me yo 145Reads—Score—Shelves
- 34 I Just Want a Quiet Vacation, but Good Food Keeps Winning Hearts 只想低调休假，奈何美食抚人心 [Farming + food + business + a little political scheming] Qian He thought she could enjoy a comfortable vacation in an ancient world. Who knew she'd find herself in a house with nothing but four bare walls, having to earn money to support the family? On top of that, she had a System that was constantly clamoring to be fed. And she even had to help people solve their relationship problems? The more she did, the more she wondered: How did I get so good at this? —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 35 Reborn as a Chef: Mastering My Little Transmigration 重生为厨娘之小小穿越拿捏 Historical romance + food + female chef + sweet romance + System After transmigrating into an era where food is scarce, she finds herself a mother raising her frail younger brother and child alone, while she herself longs for rice. She hopes to open a restaurant of her own and use her skills to give her family a better life, but then her father, a general, suddenly appears. What? She should become an imperial chef? She's not interested. Marry a young general? She can't stand him. She'd rather ma 8Reads—Score—Shelves
- 36 After Returning from the Dead, the Gu Family's Young Miss Thrives in Ancient Times 回魂后，顾大小姐在古代风生水起 [System + entrepreneurship + strong female lead + nontraditional transmigration + warm and lighthearted] Gu Xiyue, heiress to Z Country’s largest conglomerate, created immense wealth and gave generously throughout her life. When she died of old age, she transmigrated to ancient times and became the eldest daughter of the prime minister’s household, renowned for both her intelligence and beauty. She thought she would spend her life scheming and fighting, like so many transmigrated heroines in nov 2Reads—Score—Shelves
- 37 Little Peach's Foodie Travelogue 小桃子的美食寻味日记 Food + sweet romance + mutual devotion. A healing foodie story Targeted by a food critic Xu Xiaotao is a young blogger who loves food. She runs an account called “Xiaotao’s Food Trail,” attracting plenty of followers with her lively, adorable style and sincere descriptions of what she tastes... —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 38 I Became a Farmer's Daughter, and My Frail Husband Pulled Up a Willow Tree in an Instant 穿成农女，病弱夫君转眼倒拔杨柳 [The World's Greatest Assassin, Retired in Seclusion X Food Blogger Who Transmigrated] [Farming + Food + Raising Kids + Building a Fortune + Male Lead Is a Blackhearted Gentleman + One-on-One Romance, Neither Lead Has Previous Romantic Experience + The Stepson Is the Male Lead's Adopted Son] [Note: The imperial court will not be involved later on, either! Primarily a cozy farming story! The heroine is not a strong female lead!] What do you do when you transmigrate into the body of a farm girl? N —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 39 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
- 40 The Little Chef's Rise to Wealth 小厨娘的富贵逆袭 After transmigrating, Jiang Qianxia becomes the owner of a shop in a plane-spanning merchant guild. What should she do when a military camp cook secretly sleeps with the general, gets pregnant, and her husband's family refuses to let her through the door? Throw money at them! She throws enough money at her brother-in-law to make him willingly become her manager, leaves her wicked mother-in-law wailing and stripped of her authority, and gets the entire household to raise her to the position of ma 13Reads7.2Score—Shelves
- 41 After Becoming His Wife, I Switched Careers to the Wok 穿成他老婆后我改行颠勺 I woke up as the wife of the person I'd had a crush on in school, a cool, aloof beauty who could play the guzheng but couldn't do anything else. My husband was cold, my daughter kept her distance, and the whole family treated me like a pretty ornament. Hah, so what if he was my crush? Nothing beats wielding a wok. As I won over hundreds of thousands of viewers in my livestream with one delicious dish after another, the husband who used to stay out all night sobbed in the chat: “Come home, honey! 20Reads—Score—Shelves
- 42 I Transmigrated to a Farmhouse and Found a Life of Leisure Through Farming 穿越农家，靠种田过上悠闲小日子 A warm, comforting farming story, with a heroine focused on building a business and making a fortune. After transmigrating, she finds that her family is so poor they have nothing but a few thatched huts, and they're deeply in debt. Their food is about to run out. But that's all right: when a family pulls together, they can move mountains! What's there to fear about being poor? Make a living from the mountains if you live by mountains, and from the water if you live by water. She farms, sets up s 13Reads7.3Score—Shelves
- 43 A Hug to Sleep 一抱安眠 Food + mind reading + two strong leads + one-on-one, mutually faithful romance + light and sweet pampering + a touch of political intrigue Su Tiantian, a top modern pastry chef, unexpectedly transmigrates into the body of a mistreated concubine-born daughter. To protect herself, she is forced to sign a “sleeping companion” contract with Xiao Jue, the cold-faced Prince of Jing and a legendary general who suffers from a strange affliction: he can only sleep after touching certain people. With her 20Reads—Score—Shelves
- 44 Reborn: Returning to the Village with My Kids to Farm 重生之带娃回村种田 [Farming + feel-good wish fulfillment + food + transmigration + pocket dimension + adorable kids] My name is Lin Yaoyao. My parents named me Yaoyao because I was a girl, and they hoped I would die young. Under the weight of my parents’ vile hopes, I grew up, got married, and had a daughter. Before marriage, everyone praised my husband as a good man. Afterward, he cheated, drank, and beat me. I fell asleep holding my child and woke up in an ancient village, in the body of a peasant woman from Xia 3Reads—Score—Shelves
- 45 The Farmer's Son 农家女公子 [Brilliant, charming female top scholar & cool, gentle male third-place scholar] Farming × Food × Imperial Examinations Luo Ling was born and raised in a farming family, yet she is not only exceptionally clever but blessed with extraordinary luck. She was born into an enlightened household, with reasonable, loving parents and an older brother, and a family that stands united. First, a venerable monk recognized her destiny and declared that she was destined for greatness. Then a modern-day genius 7Reads—Score—Shelves
- 46 Transmigrate to the Mountains: Farming Life 穿越之山居种田即事 [No pocket dimension, no System. Escaping the chaos by hiding deep in the mountains, buying a mountain, farming, and raising children.] Lin Wan, a farm owner, transmigrates into the body of a young village bride whose family is forced to split up on the very day she gets married. Rumor has it that her husband went missing on the battlefield. Her husband’s younger brother and sister have been foisted on her to raise by their scheming stepmother. Lin Wan looks around the dilapidated, empty hut. Th 1Reads6.5Score—Shelves
- 47 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. 16Reads—Score—Shelves
- 48 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. 39Reads—Score—Shelves
- 49 Hooray! I'm Working Hard to Sell Buns and Feed My Family Again Today! 呜呼！今天也有努力卖包子养家！ [Historical food-business series, starts with selling buns at a stall, no romance, farming, saves up to open a restaurant later, former-life food blogger, warm and comforting, just wants a life with cats and dogs, no awful distant relatives, little scheming] Using the culinary skills she honed in her previous life, the heroine settles into a peaceful life of her own, getting along with her neighbors and growing at her own pace. This is not a story about a strong, domineering heroine. Xu Qingruo 6Reads—Score—Shelves
- 50 The Wealthy Little Cook 富贵小厨娘 Lu Azhuo, a superb cook, transmigrated into an imperial-examination novel, where she was destined to become the male lead's short-lived first wife. Her husband's family and her own would be ruined because of her. Another title for this story: Death Comes Calling. When she woke up, she could uproot a willow with one hand and wield a kitchen knife with the other. No one within ten miles dared provoke her. They said she could silence a crying baby just by showing up. She was making a fortune with h 299Reads7.1Score101Shelves
