Novels like I Returned to Ancient Times and Reached the Top with My Cooking
Books Chinese readers most often put in the same booklists as I Returned to Ancient Times and Reached the Top with My Cooking, best match first.
- 101 You Sell Fried Rice Every Night? Is This KTV Even Legit?! 夜夜卖炒饭？你这KTV正经吗！ [Gourmet] [Entrepreneurship] [Wild Imagination] [Slice of Life] [Humor] After going bankrupt and being reborn, how does a respectable restaurant owner end up taking over an incredibly upscale business karaoke lounge? Just as Chen Nian thinks his luck is finally turning around, he learns the karaoke lounge is about to go under! Well, can he start over? As he’s at his wit’s end, a Gourmet Business System appears! Chen Nian: “What gives? You didn’t show up when I ran a restaurant, but now you pop u 1.1kReads6.5Score10014d adds
- 102 After Becoming a Master of Chinese Cuisine 变成国厨大师后 [Gourmet + System + no romance + cozy + funny + perfect with a meal] On the twenty-fourth day of the twelfth lunar month, the Kitchen God ascends to heaven, and fragrant aromas fill every home. Lin Fan, working overtime on New Year’s Eve, unexpectedly binds to a System. And that’s only the beginning. Dumpling feasts, egg cakes, grilled chicken wings, crayfish, roasted pig trotters, spicy chicken skewers, stinky tofu, river-snail rice noodles, red-braised beef stew with potatoes, vinegar-fried ca 346Reads8.1Score10414d adds
- 103 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 2kReads8.5Score14714d adds
- 104 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 198Reads8.2Score—14d adds
- 105 I’m Not a God of Cooking 我不是煮神 Also known as My Daily Prison-Bound Food Stall, He Really Knows How to Eat, and Don't Call Me a Cook [Food + System + No Female Lead + Daily Life + Perfect Reading Companion + Comedy] How much money can you really make from running a food stall? Jiang Yun refused to believe it, until he accidentally bonded with a food-stall System. Either he follows its tasks and runs a stall to earn generous rewards, or the System forcibly deletes his account. What? You want me to sell barbecue outside a cremat 4Reads—Score—14d adds
- 106 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! 6.5kReads8.2Score64314d adds
- 107 Lucky Little Cutie: Helping the Whole Village Get Rich 锦鲤小萌宝：带着全村发家致富 Song Xiaoxiao, a 21st-century wage slave, is hit by a car and transmigrates into the body of a three-year-old girl in Dawang Village, Great Jin. Her parents adore her, her grandparents dote on her, and her uncle and older brothers cherish her. The whole family loves Song Xiaoxiao to the depths of their hearts. Born with the luck of a koi, she finds something good every time she leaves the house. Pheasants and hares practically deliver themselves to her door. Finding ginseng in the mountains is n 327Reads8.7Score—14d adds
- 108 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 39Reads8.4Score—14d adds
- 109 A Fallen Lady Marries a Rugged Farmer 官家小姐被贬后嫁糙野庄家汉 Zhong Lingxiu is the daughter of Zhong Huairen, the Grand Secretary of the capital, and the most favored candidate to become Crown Princess. But just three days before the selection, her father’s political enemies accuse him of secretly minting coins. That very day, her father denounces the emperor as incompetent and kills himself before the throne. When her mother hears the news, she takes her own life as well, leaving Zhong Lingxiu utterly alone. Having lost her parents and her chance to bec 483Reads6.4Score—14d adds
- 110 After Raising the Obsessive Male Lead, He Won't Let Me Leave 把偏执男主养大后，他不让我走了 Please give this a five-star rating, dear readers (❁´ω`❁) [Farming + rebirth + business + everyday life + hardworking, sunny heroine + extremely possessive hero + both pure + happy ending] After Song Guining stayed up all night reading a novel and dropped dead, the System brought her into a revenge romance novel. Her mission was to find the male lead, Duan Yu, a little beggar, raise him, and make him the prime minister of the Great Zhou Dynasty. But after the lousy System pointed out the child f 367Reads8.1Score—14d adds
- 111 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—14d adds
- 112 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 467Reads7.1Score—14d adds
- 113 Quick Transmigration: Selling Gourmet Food in Ancient Times to Build My Fortune 快穿：我在古代卖美食发家致富 Synopsis: [Foodie fiction + transmigration + ancient farming + alternate setting + comeback] Song Qingge is a popular food blogger who unexpectedly transmigrates to ancient times and into the poor Song family. Her fiancé breaks off their engagement, and she struggles to get by in a leaky thatched hut. Though the Song family is poor, her parents dote on her, her eldest brother looks out for her, and her younger siblings are sweet and well-behaved. After transmigrating here, she discovers she has 161Reads8.4Score—14d adds
- 114 A General Store Transformed Into an Ancient-Style Snack Shop 杂货铺爆改古代零食小店 [Just started getting ratings. Read it, and maybe the score will go up!] “A laid-back shopkeeping story focused on snacks. The pace is slow, so skip it if that bothers you.” Jiang Yun transmigrates into ancient times and inherits a grocery store on the verge of bankruptcy. Faced with a difficult situation, she relies on a System in her mind containing recipes for modern delicacies, gradually turning the little shop into a famous establishment. Her secret-recipe spicy strips bring the county magi 770Reads8.2Score11014d adds
- 115 Canceled After Becoming a Villainess, I Set Up a Food Stall and Make the Whole Internet Drool 穿成恶女被封杀，摆摊馋疯全网 [Food System + Lighthearted Comedy + Cozy + Heartwarming + Transmigration into a Food Story + Functional Ingredients + Comfort Food + Beautifully Plated Dishes + Romance] The male lead is more of a background character, just one part of our heroine’s play~~ (*^3^) /~☆ Transmigrated into a disgraced, scandal-ridden nobody, with her role stolen, her contract locking her in, and the entire internet telling her to get lost? Jiang Li tears up her contract and makes a run for it on the spot: “Let the 285Reads5.6Score10014d adds
- 116 I'm Just a Cook, So How Did I Become the Rebel Leader? 我一个做饭的，咋成反贼头子了？ [Not a brainless power fantasy + Food + Farming + System + Lighthearted Comedy + No Angst + Invincible Protagonist] Modern culinary god Qi Sheng opens his eyes and finds himself transmigrated into a “vegetable person” during a famine in the cultivation world. One moment later, and he would have ended up on someone’s dinner table! At his moment of greatest peril, he binds himself to the [God of Cooking System]. Earn praise points for his cooking, and he can exchange them for experience cards feat —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 117 Reborn: Farming in the Deep Mountains and Selling Mushrooms 重生之深山老林种田上山卖菌子 P.S. [Food Story]+ [No Golden Finger]+ [No Space]+ [No System]+ [No Awful Relatives] A Heartwarming Family's Everyday Life, Building a Life from Nothing At first, she works hard selling snacks. Later, she opens a hot pot restaurant and a cake shop! A heartwarming food story with no awful relatives. Best enjoyed with takeout at night! Setting up a street stall to sell braised pork intestines, tiger-skin chicken feet, spicy crayfish, spicy boiled fish, poached pork slices, mixed vegetables and ed 145Reads—Score—14d adds
- 118 Random Food Stall: My Customers Keep Making Group Chats to Track Me Down 随机美食摆摊，顾客纷纷建群堵我 Tang Chen, from a parallel world, unexpectedly gets a food-stall System. Each month, the System randomly chooses a location and a type of food. Successfully setting up shop earns Food Points, which can be used for lucky draws. To his surprise, the stall wins over wave after wave of customers. They even set up hundreds of group chats to track down Boss Tang. The moment he opens his stall, they want to be first in line. 783Reads6.4Score10114d adds
- 119 How Did I, Heir to a Legendary Chef, End Up as a Suffering International Student? 我堂堂神厨后人竟沦为命苦留子？ [Don’t make me cook!! → Cooking is so satisfying] [Gourmet fiction + System + farming pocket dimension + hilarious and heartwarming] Ning Tangtang comes from a family of master chefs, but she has no desire to inherit the family business. Her lifelong dream is to escape the kitchen. What good is a perfect knife technique when milk tea smells so good? No matter how brilliant your cooking is, nothing beats lying flat! Her family thinks she’s “neglecting her proper duties,” so they pack her off abro 22Reads—Score—14d adds
- 120 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 22.4kReads8.2Score2.1k14d adds
- 121 The Farm Girl’s Little Kitchen 农门美食小厨娘 Scallions tossed with tofu, garlic-fried pork liver, red-braised pork tenderloin, and sweet-and-sour ribs. The moment He Jingjing transmigrated, the kitchen sprang to life with a constant clatter, and delicious aromas drifted across the whole village. The family is so poor they can barely afford to eat? There are only a few grains of rice left to cook? No problem. There’s nothing that can’t be eaten. With her incredible cooking skills, she opens a restaurant and makes money, setting herself on t 196Reads5.6Score—14d adds
- 122 Setting Up a Stall Outside the Elementary School, Mom and Dad, Save Some for Me 小学门口摆摊，爸爸妈妈给我留点 This book is also known as "After I Grabbed My Bucket and Ran, I Awakened the Gourmet God System". [Comedy] [Comfort Food] [System] [Gourmet] [Goofball] As a civil engineering graduate, Zhang Yang followed his seniors’ advice on starting a business and became a proud freelancer: selling snacks outside an elementary school as a street vendor. Egg fried rice, pan-fried buns, and all kinds of other delicious food took the school gate by storm. The elementary school students and their parents lined 434Reads5.7Score—14d adds
- 123 Setting Up Stalls Across the Multiverse: Every Race Deserves a Good Meal 万界随机摆摊，无论种族好好吃饭 [Gourmet] [No Romance] [Everyday Life] [Comedy] [Cozy] [Healing] [Perfect with a Meal] Cheng Ran passed away peacefully at the end of a fulfilling life, with no regrets. Suddenly, a System popped up, wailing: “Master, could you work a little overtime? It’s urgent!!” Cheng Ran hesitated, so the System randomly picked a spot for a food stall. After the first customer showed up... What was there to think about? The customer is king, and eating comes first! A bowl of wontons in a narrow alley, h 826Reads8.1Score10614d adds
- 124 Bound to a Gourmet System, I Become the God of Food by Opening a Restaurant 绑定美食系统，我靠开店成食神 The rating just came out! Feel free to start reading~ (Food + no romance + System + lighthearted comedy + everyday healing) Boss Xie will never get a partner!! Your System and my System don’t seem to be the same~ Other people’s food Systems: max level with one click, instant culinary godhood, become the God of Food without lifting a finger! Xie Yan’s food System: start from scratch and unlock things one step at a time. Xie Yan spread his hands. It’s fine, it’s fine. Having one is better than hav 24.4kReads8.1Score2.3k14d adds
- 125 Cosmic Invasion: I Rebuild Blue Star Through Food and Business 宇宙入侵：我靠美食经营重振蓝星 [Food] [Business Simulation] [Wasteland] [Infinite Worlds] [Rules-Based Horror] [System] One food cart from the start, and customers chase me for eight whole blocks! Jiang Yao transmigrates to Blue Star in the year 4026. People here survive entirely on nutritional soil, but she awakens a food business System! With premium ingredients from the shop and recipes for cuisines from the twenty-first century, she will rescue the wasteland Blue Star from its culinary desert! An invasion from the whole u 30Reads—Score10314d adds
- 126 Selling Bento on the Roadside, Causing a Massive Traffic Jam 摆摊卖盒饭，公路堵疯了 Shen Li has just transmigrated to a parallel world when he learns that his father is buried in debt. As his son, he has to take responsibility. The family can no longer afford the rent on their restaurant, so they have no choice but to set up a street stall. Then some little potatoes from the south come to visit, and they can’t tear themselves away from Shen Li’s stall. Overnight, the humble stall becomes a sensation, drawing more and more little potatoes from far and wide. “Is this the braised 518Reads8.3Score10414d adds
- 127 Eat, Eat, Eat! Come and Eat! 吃吃吃，都来吃 [Unconventional Food Story + Improving the Nation’s Health + Ensemble Cast + No Romance + System Pocket Dimension. Chasing Dreams, and the Heroine Means Business!] Wu Shuang, who grew up in an orphanage, had just graduated from college when a speeding car sent her flying. The good news: she was in great shape and wasn’t hurt. Even better news: she got a food System and a pocket dimension! Wu Shuang sighed: at last, the thread of her fate had grown thicker!!! From then on, Wu Shuang’s hot pot res 247Reads—Score10614d adds
- 128 After I Transmigrated, I Used Food to Save a Kindergarten 穿越后，我用美食拯救幼儿园 After transmigrating as the principal of a bankrupt kindergarten, Lin Xiaoxia takes one look at the rundown courtyard and nearly blacks out. She’s a Michelin-level backup chef, and now she has to look after kids, clean, and sing nursery rhymes? Then she hears, “Ding! You have been bound to the Chinese Little Chef Pro Max System.” Three months later “Mommy, I used the molecular gastronomy machine to make rainbow cloud marshmallows today!” The adorable four-year-old pulls out a piping bag. “The p 63Reads6.4Score—14d adds
- 129 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 2kReads8.4Score26414d adds
- 130 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 2.6kReads8.2Score40214d adds
- 131 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 322Reads7.5Score10314d adds
- 132 Gourmet: Stop Stewing It, Even the Village Dogs Are Drooling! 美食：别炖了，村里狗都馋哭了！ Kuang Rui refuses to get caught up in the rat race and chooses to lie flat back in his hometown. He inherits his father’s braised meat shop and, after rejecting the rat race, gains a Food System. Together, they breathe new life into the shop. The humble home-cooked dishes that once went unnoticed are transformed into viral hits that customers flock to check in and try. Take steamed stinky tofu with minced meat, for example. It smells awful but tastes delicious, and one bite is enough to leave y 2.4kReads6.4Score16014d adds
- 133 Milk Tea in One Hand, Fried Chicken in the Other: The Princess Travels Between Past and Present 左奶茶右炸鸡公主她穿古今 [Food + master chef + System + lighthearted everyday life + comedy + perfect mealtime reading + pocket dimension + traveling back and forth] Lin You, the most outstanding master chef of the twenty-first century, accidentally transmigrated into an ancient era and became a useless princess mocked by the entire court. Lin You turned and smiled. “Bring me everything: luosifen, fried chicken, milk tea, and all eight great cuisines!” Her casual braised pork filled the entire palace with its aroma. The 132Reads—Score—14d adds
- 134 Reborn in the 1970s: Extra-Spicy Hot Pot and a Henpecked Male Lead 重生七零：火锅变态辣男主耙耳朵 [Transmigrate into a book + Period setting + Gourmet + System + Adorable kids + Military marriage + Sweet romance + Get rich] Wu Fengjuan is reborn in the body of a cannon-fodder military wife in the 1970s. From the start, the male lead has “died in action,” her in-laws despise her, and she has three hungry little babies to feed. Life is hard? Luckily, the [Good Fortune Gourmet System] drops right into her lap! Get pregnant and have babies to level up! From pearl milk tea and golden pumpkin cake 187Reads—Score—14d adds
- 135 My Husband Loves Stinky Tofu 郎君爱吃臭豆腐 [Cheerful, sunny, optimistic and kind-hearted street vendor V. refined, loyal young beauty who loves stinky tofu] Qin Mo is plain-looking and fated to have no luck in love. So her father raised her from childhood to be an unconventional young woman, earning her plenty of gossip from the neighbors. She pays no heed to the rumors and starts selling her own secret-recipe stinky tofu on the street. At a tender age, she's already found her path to prosperity! One day, a handsome young man comes runni 27Reads6.0Score—14d adds
- 136 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—14d adds
- 137 The Pothole on Our Road 我们的路里坑 Set in a small village in western Zhejiang, this novel opens with warmth and healing. Its people and events paint a portrait of rural life, making it a story about rural revitalization. The road to Lulikeng that summer, the village Party secretary Liu, who was skilled at wood carving, Sister Hua’s fragrant oil-pressing workshop, and Grandma Li’s pomelo jam: these unsung locals were the ones who built Lulikeng. As city life grew faster and faster, young people like Sheng Huaixu gradually returned 4Reads—Score—14d adds
- 138 Gourmet System: A Street Food Stall from the Start 美食系统：开局一个路边摊 [You have activated the Gourmet System. Would you like to bind it? Yes; No] During graduation season, Jiang Tiantian, an ordinary university student, hadn’t received a single suitable job offer and had only her last 500 yuan left. As she wondered what to do, she activated the [Gourmet Business System]. -New User Starter Pack-: Congratulations, Host! You’ve received a shop and unlocked your starting dish, sweet-and-sour cold noodles. Sell 10 portions to unlock the next dish. -Special Rewards-: Ev 3.2kReads—Score37514d adds
- 139 The Divine Chef Dad: Starting with a Street Food Stall 神厨奶爸，从摆摊卖小吃开始 When Chen Fei opened his eyes, he was stunned to discover that he had been reborn at the age of twenty! In his youth, he'd been a terrible person. Especially to Jiang Yuexi, the goddess of his past. He'd treated her abominably. Chen Fei rushed straight to the hospital to get prenatal checkups for their three babies... Now, with the Dad's Gourmet System, Chen Fei decided to turn over a new leaf, starting with selling snacks from a street stall. He'd earn money, raise the kids, and tease his wife. 1.4kReads7.2Score12014d adds
- 140 After I Bound Myself to a Gourmet Game, Diners Started Chasing Me Down 绑定美食游戏后食客狂狂追 [Food System] + [Pop-Up Stalls in Random Locations] + [No Romance] + [Heartwarming] Xu Youyou had just graduated from college and was unemployed from day one. After striking out with company after company, she was at her wit's end and decided to post online looking for work. She wasn't expecting much. But to her surprise, she actually found a job. The other person said, “Type 1 and I'll give you a job that pays a million a month.” At first, she didn't believe it. She thought some elementary scho 364Reads—Score13514d adds
- 141 Random Food Stalls: Boss, Don’t Run! 美食随机摆摊，老板不要跑！ [Gourmet] [Great with a meal] [System] [Street vending] [Feel-good power fantasy] [Romance] Gu Muxi finally completes the System's ten-lifetime mission and earns the chance to return to the modern world. But the System unexpectedly malfunctions, trapping her in a black hole with no one to talk to. Then one day, she hears a voice calling her. It turns out to be the Main System. To make it up to her, the Main System binds her to a new System and gives her the chance to return to the modern world. 1.2kReads—Score10014d adds
- 142 My Kindergarten Went Bankrupt, So Instead of Giving Up, I Started a Street Stall 幼儿园破产，我不摆烂选择摆摊 [Comfort Food] [Master Chef System] [Adorable Kids and Their Dad] [Unlucky Diners] [No Romance] Eight years after transmigrating to a parallel world, Li Qilin already has a three-year-old kid, and the “Master Chef cheat” that had been overdue for years has finally arrived. The good news: the struggling daycare can stay afloat. The bad news: starting a daycare inevitably leads to “commando-style street vending.” … Whether they’re little rascals or young villains, they’re all adorable food lovers 1.4kReads8.4Score15014d adds
- 143 A Food Blogger Transmigrates Into a Book Set in the Republic of China and Just Wants to Make Money 美食博主穿书民国只想搞钱 Food + Baking + Transmigrate into a Book + Pocket Dimension + No Romance Food blogger Jiang Hongyao transmigrates into a book, becoming Jiang Hongyao, a minor character who serves as a casualty in the romance between the leads in the novel A Lady of the Republic. She's not the second female lead or the third. She doesn't even qualify as the fourth. She's just a passerby with barely any lines, the kind who doesn't even get an ending. Since she's here, there's no going back. At least the spacious 1.7kReads8.6Score19014d adds
- 144 Week One of My Random Street Stall: Selling Beer Duck at a Driving School 随机摆摊第一周：驾校卖啤酒鸭 [Gourmet] + [Random Street Stalls] + [Perfect with Rice] + [Healing] + [No Romance] The warmth of everyday life is what soothes the human heart most. Lin Chuan, an overworked office worker who died suddenly from exhaustion, unexpectedly awakens the Gourmet Healing System. Every week, he sets up a stall at a random location and serves random dishes. Completing tasks earns him amazing rewards. But the System's very first weekly task leaves Lin Chuan completely dumbfounded (⊙_⊙) Selling beer-braise 1.7kReads6.0Score19114d adds
- 145 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 33Reads8.1Score—14d adds
- 146 I'm Just a Cook! I Can't Heal the Sick and Save the Nation! 我就是个厨子啊，不会治病救国！ Zhang Weiguo, a chef at a five-star hotel, gets fired. Before he can catch his breath, he finds himself in the prosperous Tang Dynasty. When you have a skill to fall back on, there’s nothing to be afraid of. The little beggar he saved turns out to be the young son who went missing from the Grand Tutor’s family two years ago? So I’m the one who saved both siblings? What, you’re saying the emperor came by yesterday to eat pork trotter rice? Zhang Weiguo promptly faints. Ever since he tried my cook 45Reads6.4Score—14d adds
- 147 I Returned to College and Used a Gourmet System to Make the Whole Campus Drool 重回大学靠美食系统馋哭全校学生 [System] [Food] [Rebirth] [Business] [Comedy] [Slice of Life] Reborn in her freshman year of college and bound to a Food System, Shi Sui uses her secret seasonings to make delicious, aromatic healthy meals in her dorm, driving her dieting roommates wild with hunger. The aroma wafts everywhere, and the whole campus comes rushing over. The calorie-conscious eaters are thrilled, students studying for exams feel fully recharged, and one bite soothes the heartbreak of a lovesick upperclasswoman. Even 891Reads—Score11114d adds
- 148 After Losing My Job, I Got a Barbecue System and Now Earn Millions a Year 失业后获得烧烤系统，我年入百万 [Late-Night Gourmet] [Mouthwatering] [Easygoing Daily Life] On the eve of his barbecue shop’s closure, Su Yan binds himself to the [Barbecue King System]. Top-tier Ningxia Yanchi Tan sheep plus spices supplied by the System: the aroma of the skewers drives the whole street wild... Lamb skewers for 18 yuan each draw a line so long the traffic police have to close the road, and the owner of the neighboring barbecue shop comes over in tears to steal his secrets! A loan shark comes to collect and 748Reads—Score10914d adds
- 149 The Pocket-Dimension Farmer Girl: I Become the Beloved Darling of Ancient Times 空间农女，我在古代混成团宠 «Completed» (Ancient setting + farming + building wealth + family darling) Jiang Channing was an ordinary office worker in the 21st century, and she couldn't understand how something as trendy as transmigration could happen to her. Faced with a bare-walled house and family members who never got enough to eat, Jiang Channing could only sigh: “Since I'm here, I might as well make the best of it!” By chance, she activated an invincible System. Now that's a proper cheat! She picked up a fairly hands 745Reads8.8Score10014d adds
- 150 Gourmet: From Country-Style Banquets to a Better Life! 美食：从农村烧大席开始奔小康！ Illustrations throughout [System, food, reborn, farming, warm everyday life] Wang Cheng suddenly returns to the 1980s and binds to a Chef God Training System. In his previous life, he aimed too high and ended up dying suddenly at his factory job, tightening screws. This time, he returns to the countryside. With a few plates and bowls, eight cold dishes and eight hot ones, chicken, fish, pork knuckles, and meat dishes that disappear as soon as they hit the table, he’ll rule the world with nothing 465Reads7.3Score—14d adds
