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- 1 You're Stuck with Me 摊上你啦 An unfounded accusation costs nurse Mu Xiaoxia her job, but unexpectedly unlocks a food-stall System. From then on, a mobile castle of delicious food quietly appears in every corner of the city, bringing comfort to lonely souls through the night. 4Reads—Score—Shelves
- 2 The Heiress Has No Ambition, She Just Wants to Farm 豪门养女不思进取，只想种田 Perhaps to make up for He Xi's first twenty years of loneliness and helplessness, in her second life, Huai Xi has a warm family. Her father is stern but not rigid, and dotes on her; her mother is gentle and loving, indulging her in everything; her eldest brother is refined but secretly sentimental; her second brother is flamboyant and haughty; and there's the one who's always quietly watching over her! 163Reads6.8Score—Shelves
- 3 I Transmigrated to Ancient Times, Met a Scumbag, and Opened a School with My Cooking 穿越古代遇渣男，我靠美食开学院 [Transmigration + Ancient Times + Food + Pocket Dimension + System] A lighthearted summer treat, perfect for enjoying with a meal, featuring detailed descriptions of all kinds of delicious food. Su Ning, a young woman from the interstellar era, transmigrates one day and becomes the daughter of a deceased scholar in ancient times. Her scholar father had raised a young husband for her, but who knew he would turn out to be a scumbag? He used her money to pass the imperial exams and become the top c 12Reads6.5Score—Shelves
- 4 From the Start, I Had a Spatula, and the Big Shots Kept Chasing Me for a Meal 开局一把锅铲，大佬追着我干饭 [System + quick transmigration + food and business + reborn + pocket dimension + feel-good power fantasy] Bai Yuxi was an ordinary office worker in the imperial capital. Desperate to achieve financial freedom and buy a home in her hometown as soon as possible, she worked herself to the bone, only to die suddenly from overwork. Then, against all odds, she was reborn? This time, she decided to live life on her own terms! After giving her exploitative boss a piece of her mind and securing severance 1Reads—Score—Shelves
- 5 The Fat Woman Fights Back and Makes a Fortune, Just You Wait! 肥婆翻身把钱赚，要你好看！ What?! A beauty who just slimmed down to 88 jin has transmigrated into a huge 160-jin woman?! Her fiancé looks down on her for being fat and ugly, humiliates her, and breaks off their engagement. No matter. This chubby girl can shine all on her own! She can lose weight and make money at the same time, trading life as an illustrator for work in ancient times. She transforms in style, leaving scumbags and fake sweethearts in the dust. Come one, come all, noble ladies and young misses! My slimming 3Reads—Score—Shelves
- 6 Getting Rich Selling Glutinous Rice Balls in Another World 在异世界卖糯米饭暴富 [Business + food + transmigration + Western fantasy + low magic + ensemble cast + nonhumans + 1v1] Lin Wenyi inherits her grandmother’s breakfast shop and unexpectedly gains the ability to travel between the real world and another world. She decides to open a shop and do business there. A devoted admirer of good looks, she hires one gorgeous employee after another: a handsome fish-man who can sing, a cat beastman who’s a great cook and fighter with the nurturing instincts of a househusband, and 146Reads—Score101Shelves
- 7 Clay Pot Chicken Cured My Lodger’s Loss of Appetite 地锅鸡治好了房客的厌食症 An anorexic big shot from the capital and a homestay owner, 1v1, sweet romance with no nasty supporting characters, both virgins, and lighthearted everyday life Lin Ji never imagined that her “luxury homestay,” listed at 28,888 yuan a month, would actually attract a tenant as spectacularly unlucky as Zhou Zhixu, who was set to rent it for exactly three months! The anorexic CEO from the capital spends a fortune just to lie flat at her place, and even insists that she be his “personal tour guide.” 55Reads—Score—Shelves
- 8 The Little Chang'an Eatery 长安小食肆 [Food Business Comeback + Clear-Headed Heroine + Everyday Food and Drink + No Romance, but Plenty of Suitors] In her previous life, Jiang Yuan was a chef in the Imperial Kitchen, bound to a mission. For ten years, she treated Crown Prince Zhao Heng's food aversion, prepared soups for him, and soothed his mind, giving him everything he asked for. The day he ascended the throne, he rewarded her with poisoned wine. She drank it with a smile. Mission complete. The System unbound, and at last she was 270Reads6.8Score108Shelves
- 9 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 15Reads7.5Score—Shelves
- 10 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 3.7kReads8.1Score324Shelves
- 11 The Taste of Life, All These Years (Complete in 2 Volumes) 世味余年（全两册） Bi Luo rushes back to China when her grandfather falls gravely ill, and suddenly finds herself shouldering the burden of revitalizing the family’s century-old restaurant, Four Seasons Spring. She reunites with Shen Linfeng, the man she had a crush on while studying in Country F, only to discover that the seemingly gentle and refined Shen has ulterior motives involving the restaurant. She also unexpectedly meets Tang Lu, who is determined to buy Four Seasons Spring. The two go from constantly cla 154Reads9.7Score—Shelves
- 12 Gourmet: Starting with Selling Braised Dishes in the Countryside! 美食：从下乡卖卤味开始！ [System Golden Finger + Gourmet + Everyday Business + Farming] Ji Yanming quits his job and returns to his village to care for his elderly grandfather and start a business, never expecting to bind to a Gourmet System. The god-tier braised-food recipe he gets in the beginner’s gift pack sends him soaring right from the start. So Ji Yanming begins selling braised food in the countryside, traveling from village to village and becoming a favorite with adults and children alike. Before long, his fame 789Reads5.8Score—Shelves
- 13 My Breakfast Shop Took Off After I Bound a Food System 绑定美食系统后，我的早餐店火了 Su Ti was fed empty promises and manipulated by her company, so she decisively took the money and walked away. On her second day unemployed, she unexpectedly binds to the mysterious [Myriad Feasts Record] System From then on, every dish she makes gets a score: “Plain noodles: 8.9 points, just barely excellent.” “Crispy pastry: 9.8 points, astonishingly good!” Her best friend takes one bite of her noodles and slaps the table: “Quit! Open a restaurant! I’ll invest!” A neighbor tries the pastries s 2.6kReads7.2Score312Shelves
- 14 I Sell Grilled Cold Noodles, and the Gourmet Association Has Its Eye on Me 摆摊烤冷面，我被美食协会盯上了 (Food + Northeastern Chinese snacks + all kinds of other snacks + System + no romance + laid-back daily life + livestreaming, entrepreneurship, and opening a shop + steady rise to success) Yu Duoduo quit her job in the prime of her life, at just twenty-two. Working for someone else is hard. It’s enough to drive you into a funk. Yu Duoduo: Entrepreneurship! I have to start a business! When she looked at the terrible grilled cold noodles in front of her, tears of excitement welled up in her eyes! 54Reads8.2Score—Shelves
- 15 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—Shelves
- 16 Transmigrated into a Tragic Novel as Cannon Fodder, I Turned the Tables with Food 穿成虐文炮灰，我靠美食逆风翻盘 [Food + System + business + healing each other + obsessive, scheming male lead] Yun Shu, a descendant of imperial chefs, opens her eyes to find she has become a doomed cannon-fodder character in an old-fashioned tragic romance. Not only did she spend her life giving the heroine resources and taking the blame for her, but even after her death, she became part of their PLAY. They really used her to the very end. Why should the whole world’s lives be sacrificed just so their love story can be passi 31Reads8.1Score—Shelves
- 17 Gourmet: The Easy Life of a Little Restaurant at a Highway Service Area 美食：服务区小饭馆的躺赢人生 [Gourmet] [Shopkeeping] [No Male Lead] [System] [Cozy] [Everyday Life] [Affordable Prices] Jiang Banxia unexpectedly inherits a fast-food shop at a highway service area. She thinks the location seems pretty good, but it turns out the highway is remote and sees very little traffic. Just as Jiang Banxia is at a loss about how to keep the business going, she learns that there's a traffic jam on the highway not far away! So Jiang Banxia heads out onto the highway carrying boxed meals to sell. H —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 18 Good Food and Sweet Dreams with You 与君美食复甘眠 [Transmigration + Ancient Times + Farming + Food + Woman Chef + Romance] The meat is so tender it seems carved from beauty, and the fragrant aroma never stops rising from the pot. As a humble office worker in the twenty-first century, Su Yu had few interests, and food was the only one she loved. Her one and only wish was to stop being exploited by every capitalist under the sun and become a capitalist herself. So the gods heard her prayer and granted it. She closed her eyes and woke up as a poor 331Reads8.3Score—Shelves
- 19 The Beloved of the Family in the 1980s: I Open a Shop with My Family and Make Everyone Drool 八零团宠：带全家开店馋哭天下人 (Period setting + System + gourmet food + rich beauty + transmigrate) The original owner was the youngest daughter, adored by her entire family. After transmigrating, Song Mengying gets the God of Cooking System. Though she has never cooked in her life, this complete novice starts by steaming buns. Then she and her family sell food from a handcart, steadily making their way toward prosperity, one step at a time. Huh? How did I get so strong? Huh? Why do I have so much more energy? Good heavens, 128Reads6.7Score—Shelves
- 20 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
- 21 Reborn as an Elementary Schooler, I Take the Internet by Storm with My Cooking 重生小学生，我靠做饭火爆全网 Rebirth + elementary school student + heartwarming + family life + a touch of ensemble cast + romance [The score is rather low since it just started, but it'll rise later.] In a single moment, Fang Xuan is reborn as an elementary school student. With elderly grandparents, unreliable parents, and a little sister still crying for milk, she has no choice but to shoulder the burden of supporting the family at such a young age and become an internet influencer. But how did she accidentally end up wit 91Reads6.3Score—Shelves
- 22 The Imperial Kitchen Maid Comes to the Modern World: A Small Shop's Rise 御膳厨娘闯现代：小店逆袭记 [Gourmet business + cozy everyday life + ancient times to modern day] Please note: This is a fictional setting and includes many original worldbuilding details. In a single twist of fate, Su Tang goes from being the star chef of the Imperial Kitchen to a woman with nothing: her father is dead, her mother is gone, her boyfriend has cheated, and she’s lost her job! Even worse, her two younger siblings have been tormented by cruel relatives until they’re skin and bones! Everyone is waiting to see 411Reads8.2Score—Shelves
- 23 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—Shelves
- 24 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
- 25 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—Shelves
- 26 A Happy Family 合家欢 After being reborn, I excel at both studying and making money, and retire at thirty Synopsis: [Farming + Food + Business + Slow-Burn Slice of Life + No System] A farming story with no System The focus is on a gentle, steady pace No ridiculous relatives How did the Lin family's youngest daughter, once a bit slow on the uptake, suddenly become a business tycoon? Lin Wanwan: Who do you think you're looking down on? I can hold my own in the parlor and in the kitchen. I can cook, run a business, grow 14Reads—Score—Shelves
- 27 From Selling Chive Pies at a Street Stall to Becoming Everyone’s Favorite 从摆摊卖韭菜馅饼开始受万人追捧 [Female-oriented food story + perfect with a meal + lighthearted and healing + doted on by everyone + business] A few notes before reading: Don’t take it too seriously! This is a completely fictional setting, not a mindless story! Before you start, remember that this is a lighthearted food story, so you’ll have a much better time. After being reborn eight times, Su Nuannuan arrives in this fictional ancient world. Moved by her family’s love, she finds the will to keep living and successfully act 247Reads7.6Score472Shelves
- 28 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! 6.6kReads8.2Score661Shelves
- 29 Can You Have Both Dragons and Good Food? 龙与美食可以兼得吗 [Western fantasy + food + another world + business management + light adventure] When Tu Yiyi transmigrated into a Western fantasy world, she thought she’d landed the role of the Chosen One: flying through the sky on a broomstick, casually conjuring fireballs to hurl at the Demon King, and reaching the pinnacle of life from then on. Instead, her broom wouldn’t fly, she couldn’t conjure fireballs, and she was just a helpless ordinary person. Even more absurdly, she was somehow bound to a food bus 93Reads—Score—Shelves
- 30 Gourmet in Another World: I Started by Conquering the Elves' Appetites 异世界美食：从征服精灵胃开始 [Healing + Gourmet + Business Management + Everyday Life] When I inherited my grandmother's shabby old shop, my best friend and I had planned to lie flat. Who knew that a newly installed wooden door would become a gateway to another world! The front door opens onto a fantasy continent of swords and magic; the back door leads to a bustling modern city. Elves lose all composure at the aroma of spicy hot pot, while dwarves go wild for barbecue skewers and beer. Could a picky old dragon really be mo 390Reads—Score—Shelves
- 31 The Fake Heiress Returns to the Village to Farm? Stockpiling Food and Raising Kids to Become the Richest 假千金回村种田？屯粮养崽成首富 The animated series The Fake Heiress Builds a Fortune with Her Kids is now streaming~ [Farming]+ [Gourmet]+ [Building wealth]+ [Everyday business]+ [Real and fake heiresses] Qi Miaoyi accidentally enters a novel and becomes the fake heiress who was switched at birth with the Song family's daughter. When the real heiress returns, the first thing she does is demand that Qi Miao leave the home she supposedly stole. Remembering how the fake heiress in the novel dies with her eyes open, Qi Miao grabs 21.3kReads8.2Score1.9kShelves
- 32 I Set Up a Food Stall in the 1980s and Became a Sensation 我在八零摆摊卖美食，火出圈了 Tang Xi dies and returns to the age of fifteen, carrying the wordless book her master gave her years ago: All the Food Under Heaven. That year, the Tang family’s biological daughter is finally found, and Tang Xi is left behind by her adoptive parents. Feeling guilty toward their real daughter, Tang Xi gives in to her at every turn, only to earn her adoptive parents’ resentment and the disdain of her childhood sweetheart and fiancé... On top of that, she falls ill and misses the college entrance 156Reads—Score—Shelves
- 33 All-Star Cast: I Open a B&B Next to Mushroom House 全明星：我在蘑菇屋旁开民宿 The everyday life of a girl with war trauma as she runs a guesthouse. A slice-of-life story! Warm and heartwarming. 2.6kReads—Score105Shelves
- 34 The Ancient Apocalypse: My Hotel Saved Ten Thousand People 古代末世，我的酒店拯救了万民 [Alternate world + no romance + System + invincible protagonist + feel-good story + infrastructure building] Shi Qi transmigrated!! As soon as she arrived, she was bound to a business management System... What??!! The apocalypse is coming in ancient times, and you want me to open a hotel there? Does that make any sense??!! Well, whether it makes sense doesn't matter. She's transmigrated, which is already absurd. As long as the System can guarantee her safety, she'd open a hotel in ancient times, 812Reads8.2Score104Shelves
- 35 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—Shelves
- 36 The University President Can Cook, and Faculty and Students Work Themselves to the Bone 大学校长会做饭，师生全往死里干 [Gourmet] [No heroine] At a very young age, Xu Ji becomes a university president. He assumes the organization has entrusted him with an important responsibility, only to discover that the university is already slated to close. It can't even qualify for a ranking, and is worse than a diploma mill. It turns out he's only there to hold the fort until the bitter end. Just when Xu Ji is despairing, he binds himself to a Gourmet System. The stronger the school becomes, the more plentiful its rewards. 77Reads8.5Score—Shelves
- 37 Yi Wan Fried Rice 伊碗炒饭 From ancient times to the present day In ancient times, Yi Wan was heir to a royal chef’s legacy. In the modern era, Yi Wan’er had lost her parents in a car accident just as she finished her college entrance exams. In a single day, Yi Wan transmigrated and became Yi Wan’er. Watch as this heir to an ancient royal culinary tradition works wonders with ingredients in the modern world, cooking up a life rich in every flavor. 12Reads6.7Score—Shelves
- 38 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 287Reads5.7Score—Shelves
- 39 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
- 40 The Little Chef of Judge Shen's Household 沈提刑家的小厨娘 Fresh crucian carp sliced thin, celery soup from the emerald stream. A breeze brushes the willows, and a beauty... can lift a mountain with a mighty roar! Everyone knows that Miss Meng of the inn is as beautiful as a flower and a wonderful cook, but no one knows she can lift a giant vat with one hand or bend down and pull up a willow tree. Passing by, Judge Shen: Excuse me! * I love you, my lord. Do you know? The audacious Meng Sujin pounced on Shen Shinian, the judicial commissioner of the Cour 686Reads7.2Score124Shelves
- 41 A Chang’an Food Entrepreneur’s Diary 长安美食创业记 The spring breeze stirs the willows, and apricot blossoms glisten in the misty rain. Behind the counter at the Wonderflavor Restaurant in Chongdefang, the proprietress stands poised, eyes lowered. One hand moves the abacus while the other writes and sketches on a sheet of paper. Lin Yuxi: Buy a house and land, settle in Chang’an, and live a wealthy, carefree life with fine food and wine for company. Qin Yue: I’ve established my career. It’s time to start a family. (A transmigration story in an i 198Reads6.9Score—Shelves
- 42 Stacking Every Buff at My Food Stall Across the Ten Thousand Worlds 万界美食摊buff叠满 What’s it like to become unemployed and immediately get a System? In just one month, Yue Yue goes from jobless to a millionaire worth tens of millions. Her family goes from poverty to living in a villa with all their needs taken care of, becoming a newly risen elite family in everyone’s eyes. The one thing she never expected was to draw a chance to set up a stall in other worlds. And later on, the food even comes with buffs!!! Selling stinky tofu that boosts cultivation in a world of immortal cu 11Reads7.2Score—Shelves
- 43 Transmigrating to the Northern Song: A Wet Nurse’s Daughter’s Life in the Kitchen 穿越北宋：奶娘女儿的厨娘日常 [Farming and Food] [Everyday Street Life] [Slice of Life] A modern girl woke one day in the Northern Song dynasty as the daughter of a wet nurse in an official's household. She watched the scheming around the county magistrate's legitimate daughter, the girl her mother had nursed, the tenth daughter of the Li family. Now called Tan Yawen, with the childhood nickname Wenjie'er, the little girl thought it over and over. Become the tenth young lady's personal maid, as her mother wanted? No, no. Ser 1.3kReads8.1Score124Shelves
- 44 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 174Reads8.1Score—Shelves
- 45 After Leaving the Entertainment Industry, This Has-Been Opens a Restaurant and Takes the Internet by Storm 糊咖退圈后，开饭馆爆红全网 As a good-for-nothing in the cultivation world, Ming Tang idly watched someone else's lightning tribulation. As luck would have it, she took a direct hit and died a miserable, ridiculously unlucky death. When she opened her eyes again, she was a little-known actress in the modern entertainment industry. After turning down her unscrupulous agent's dinner-party demand, Ming Tang took the agent's advice to go home and sell roasted sweet potatoes, and promptly returned home to open a small restauran 473Reads7.1Score—Shelves
- 46 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 253Reads9.3Score—Shelves
- 47 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 414Reads8.7Score106Shelves
- 48 So Addictive! I’m Getting Caught Up in the Cutthroat Competition of Ancient China’s Restaurant Business 香懵了！我在古代餐饮业搞内卷 [Farming + food + business + raising children] One day, Jiang Yan, a mature single food blogger, transmigrated and got her wish of becoming a mother without the pain of childbirth. She became a widowed mother of three. Not having a man around was fine, but what was with all this debt, huh? And she was supposed to sell her daughter, too? Jiang Yan hugged her sweet, soft, adorable daughter close. This was the dream child she’d always wanted. Selling her was out of the question! So how was she goin 467Reads8.5Score100Shelves
- 49 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 207Reads8.2Score104Shelves
- 50 Every Day Is a Fine Day at the Tea Garden 茶园日日是好时 Su Nian is already 30. After struggling her way to a sales representative position at a major company, she earns a million yuan a year and appears to outsiders to be a glamorous city woman. In the sweltering summer heat of Shanghai, the greater pressure that comes with her promotion leads to a conflict with headquarters. She resigns, swiftly completes the paperwork and handover, then returns to Chayuan Village with her two cats. Her hometown is a place she remembers from when she was very litt 1kReads8.4Score129Shelves
