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- 1 I Conquer the Elders of the Era with Gourmet Food 我靠美食征服年代大佬 Su Miao, a Shandong cuisine chef, is at the peak of her career when a stray cat falls from the sky and kills her. When she opens her eyes again, she has transmigrated to the resource-starved 1970s. Su Miao: ...Tears streaming down her face. Even worse, the stray cat turns out to be her golden finger. Stray cat (System): “Work hard to get rich and build a wonderful life.” What Su Miao hears: “Work like a beast and start a life as a sucker.” After the youngest daughter of the Su family is rescued 21Reads—Score—14d adds
- 2 Transmigrating to the 1980s: I'm the One and Only Banquet Chef in the Countryside 穿越八零，农村吃席大厨非我莫属 Food + Countryside + System + Rural Banquet Cooking Wu Hao transmigrates to the 1980s. A banquet is being held in his village, and he gets drunk and boasts, “There’s no one within fifty li who can cook a banquet as delicious as mine.” After a couple more drinks, he makes an even bigger claim: “There’s no one in the whole country who can match my cooking.” Luckily, he gets a System to help him win a beautiful wife and become a master chef, letting him rule the 1980s. Everyone who once looked down 45Reads—Score—14d adds
- 3 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—14d adds
- 4 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—14d adds
- 5 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—14d adds
- 6 My Restaurant Connects Two Worlds 我的饭店通两界 A new story is here. I hope you'll enjoy it! Shen Yanshu was specially admitted and promoted to Saint Delan Noble Academy because of her excellent grades. Who could have guessed that people at the school would take a dislike to her and bully her? But she wasn't one to take it lying down. After slapping a bully, she resolutely dropped out. She returned to the house her grandparents had left her, only to unexpectedly awaken a System and start a restaurant in ancient times. Even more surprising, s —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 7 Running a Plane-Space Restaurant, I Rise to the Top 经营位面餐厅，走向人生巅峰 [Cuisine x business x card draws x interdimensional travel x ensemble cast x growth x lighthearted] Chu Tian, a pampered young lady who had never lifted a finger around the house, had just graduated and was dragging her suitcase out of her dorm when an unknown System pulled her into the universe, making her the first person to venture beyond the solar system into an unknown star system. [Run an interdimensional restaurant successfully and complete all your missions, and you'll be able to return 12Reads—Score—14d adds
- 8 After Binding a System, I Opened a Dessert Shop in Ancient Times 绑定系统后，我在古代开甜品店 [Food + Alternate World + Transmigrate + System + Mutual Devotion + Not a Power Fantasy] Gu Qiyue, a top pastry chef, transmigrates into the body of a penniless orphan in ancient times. She opens her eyes to a bare-walled home with a leaky roof and finds her only family, her younger brother, emaciated. Just as she's worrying that life is bitter as wormwood, a “ding” sounds in her mind... She has bound the [Food Business System]. What are household schemes, palace intrigues, backbreaking farming, 174Reads—Score10214d adds
- 9 The Chef God System: Opening a Martial World Tavern in Ancient Times 厨神系统：在古代开一家江湖酒楼 [Gourmet + Sichuan and Chongqing hotpot and home-style dishes + street snacks + System + travel and adventure + perfect with a meal] While gaming one stormy night, Jiang Ran transmigrates to Yuelan City in Beiling and unexpectedly obtains the Culinary God System. Cooking dishes earns him all kinds of rewards. Buy modern ingredients from the Culinary God Shop and win over the taste buds of everyone in ancient times! [Who in ancient times could resist the temptation of modern food? He starts off w 6Reads—Score—14d adds
- 10 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—14d adds
- 11 Forget the Golden House, I Want a Cozy Home 不要金屋要娇房 [Ancient-to-Modern + Entertainment Industry] In Changan Palace, the deposed empress Chen Ajiao slowly closed her eyes... She was the granddaughter of Emperor Wen of Han, the niece of Emperor Jing, and the empress of Emperor Wu, the most noble woman in all of Changan! Yet that heartless man banished her to Changmen Palace with a single decree, turning his promise to “build a golden house to hide her away” into a cruel joke! After more than twenty years, she could finally leave this cold, lonely g 8Reads—Score—14d adds
- 12 A Taste of Memories 寻味记 The warmth of everyday life is what comforts ordinary hearts most. To Lin Xi, that warmth means wild grape wine, osmanthus wine, candied hawthorns, chicken wings braised in a three-sauce hotpot, old hen soup with astragalus and red dates, sweet soup made with white flour, tofu with bear’s paw mushrooms, sweet-and-sour yam balls, braised pork knuckle, crystal pork knuckle, shiitake mushrooms stuffed with meat, and daikon and egg soup... Savor the colors and flavors of everyday life, And watch the 148Reads—Score—14d adds
- 13 A Foodie's Daily Life After Becoming a Cannon-Fodder Character 穿成炮灰后吃货日常 A few things to know: one-on-one romance, both leads are each other’s first and only, and a warm, everyday-life feel. Most importantly, this is a food novel! Everything in the plot serves the food! Gu San, the most dazzling young man in Bianjing, is getting married. His bride is Xie Yuechan, the legitimate daughter of the Marquis of Heyang. The news sends the capital into an uproar. The young ladies tear their handkerchiefs to shreds, while the handsome young gentlemen with even a little charm a —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 14 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 13Reads6.5Score—14d adds
- 15 Heaven's Favorite: She Conquers the Ancient World with Food 天道团宠她在古代靠美食鲨疯了 [Historical Romance + Transmigration + Food + The Whole Family Dotes on Her + Farming + Getting Rich + Lucky Charm + Sweet Romance + Food Pocket Dimension + No Nasty Characters] All about delicious food and getting rich! That’s right, Li Li has transmigrated again. As if that weren’t enough, this time she discovers a huge secret: she isn’t the biological daughter of her heartless parents. They stole her! Her real family is even poorer, their home so bare that “four empty walls” hardly does it ju 30Reads6.9Score—14d adds
- 16 Desert Island Survival: I Got Recruited for My Cooking 荒岛求生：因为做饭好吃被组队 A new book is here! No romance; the female lead is just an ordinary person. Mysteriously pulled into a survival game, Ye Yalan must find a way to survive on a deserted island. In the end, her delicious cooking brings a team together. 93Reads6.4Score—14d adds
- 17 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 4Reads—Score—14d adds
- 18 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—14d adds
- 19 The Empress Became a Sensation in Showbiz 皇后她在娱乐圈爆红了 Shen Yunqing, the legitimate daughter of the prime minister and empress of the Great Wei, excelled at everything from music, chess, calligraphy, and painting to palace intrigue and political maneuvering. At long last, Emperor Wei died, the young emperor ascended the throne, and she became a dowager empress who could finally rest easy. But when she woke up, she had somehow become Shen Yunqing, a little star in the 21st century whose scandals were all over the internet. From the moment she arrived 109Reads—Score—14d adds
- 20 Luo Yuxin, the Folk Cooking Sage 民间厨圣洛雨馨 [Food + cooking + business + household intrigue + ancient setting + romance] “Madam, the young miss has escaped the city!” “Go after her! Bring her back! I want to tear her skin off!” Wealthy heiress Luo Yuxin flees under cover of night to save her life, with her vicious stepmother's men in hot pursuit. Luo Yuxin escapes to the countryside and builds a fortune with her cooking, quietly making a comeback to become the richest person in the Great Chang Kingdom. Her husband is Feng Ruxiao, an idl —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 21 A Little Restaurant in Bianjing 汴京小饭馆 White jade lotus root slices, fresh sea bass sashimi, delicacies served on jade plates. A cozy restaurant, sweet wine, and a beauty as lovely as a painting. Lord Shen of the Kaifeng Prefecture has always been stern and reserved. Why does he treat a young woman who cooks for a living so differently? The sixteen- or seventeen-year-old young woman has left her former household with her mother. All day long, she thinks about setting up a stall to make money and cooking, while still finding time to a —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 22 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 270Reads6.8Score10814d adds
- 23 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—14d adds
- 24 Gourmet: Selling Breakfast at a Night Market Stall 美食：我在夜市摆摊卖早餐 [Gourmet] [No Female Lead] [Everyday Life] [Comfort Food] [Business] What, you’re selling breakfast at a night market stall? And it’s actually this delicious? You’re selling breakfast? This is my dinner! Shen Yan was fired for entering the office with his left foot first. By chance, he unlocked the Gourmet System and started running a food stall, working his way toward becoming a master chef through the dishes he made. Add sea cucumber to fried rice, and abalone to instant noodles. The finer the 39Reads—Score—14d adds
- 25 I Set Up a Stall in the Cultivation World, and Customers Came Back Around Three Times 我在修真界摆摊，回头客绕了三圈 [Transmigration + cultivation + food + street stalls + delicate, charming chef + no CP] Jiang Weier transmigrates to an ancient cultivation world and becomes a young lady of the Duke's household, living under someone else's roof. She unexpectedly acquires the God of Cooking's street-stall System and sets up her own home with her frail mother and four-year-old younger brother. Spicy tofu buns, three-delicacy vegetable pot stickers, milk tea, deluxe fried rice, extra-spicy grilled sausages, Orlean 148Reads—Score11314d adds
- 26 The Little Farmhouse Chef: Prince, Dinner Is Ready! 农家小厨娘：王爷，开饭啦 Overworked corporate drone Lin Zhizhi worked diligently every day, only to exhaust herself to death and transmigrate to an alternate dynasty, where she even picked up a man. Lin Zhizhi had only wanted to put her food-blogger skills to good use, build a career, make money, become a rich beauty, and reach the top. She never expected so many people to make trouble for her! The man she found in the woods is useless apart from his good looks. He’s not only sharp-tongued, but only knows how to eat. He 74Reads6.4Score—14d adds
- 27 Gourmet: I Only Set Up a Food Stall, I Never Meant to Become Emperor 美食：我就摆个摊，没想当皇帝啊 [Food] [Street Vending] [No Female Lead] [System] [Some Infrastructure Building] [Farming] A former imperial banquet chef transmigrates into a down-and-out prince and gets bound to a food System. Random locations, random food, just push the cart and go! Grilled sausages, cold skin noodles, soup dumplings, chicken wing burgers, stinky tofu... Mandarin fish, steak, Buddha Jumps Over the Wall, braised lion's head with crab meat... Instant noodles, dried noodles, frozen dumplings, self-heating hot p 75Reads—Score—14d adds
- 28 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 144Reads—Score10114d adds
- 29 A Foodie's Diary in Bianjing 汴京城美食日志 The rating has just opened, so it’s a bit low. Dear readers, please don’t pay it any mind. [Gourmet System + Transmigration + Historical Romance + Golden Finger + Pocket Dimension + Semi-Alternate History] A slow-burn story focused on working hard and making a life. A heroine who grows over time. After transmigrating, Jiang Yue Bai had planned to quietly run her little food shop and live out her days. But fate had other plans (not really). A System appeared out of nowhere and pulled out all the 23Reads6.3Score—14d adds
- 30 I Started Out as a Side Consort and Won the Crown Prince Over with My Cooking 开局穿侧妃，我靠美食馋哭太子 Ye An'an transmigrated and became the Crown Prince’s concubine, but the Crown Prince was famous for being both a picky eater and a germaphobe. He ran away on their wedding night, becoming the laughingstock of the entire capital. The good news: she brought all her modern cooking skills with her, so she was living the good life! While everyone else was fighting for favor in the palace, scheming against one another, Ye An'an was making jianbing in the little kitchen, the delicious aroma carrying fo 9kReads7.3Score39714d adds
- 31 The Laid-Back College Student Is Open for Business 摆烂女大学生，在线营业 [A hilarious food story + slice-of-life diary + friendship + healing + farming, no romance, no pocket dimension, no System, no golden finger] A group of friends having a good time together What do you do when you don't want to go to work? Head back to the countryside and lie flat! After graduating from college, Xia Wan briskly packed her bags and returned home to take over the restaurant her grandfather had left her. This city is all takeout and rat-race grinders. She’s not staying here! After 106Reads6.4Score—14d adds
- 32 I Just Made Some Food, So Why Are You All Going Crazy? 我就做个美食，怎么你们都疯了？ Peng Huahua, who can transmigrate just by walking, is speechless when she gets bound to a Food System as well. In this parallel world, where food is scarce, she has to complete the System's missions if she wants to go home. Faced with the System's endless variety of missions, Peng Huahua can only say she's gotten herself aboard a pirate ship! The diners of the little worlds: “What is this? It's unbelievably delicious!” (Also known as: What Do I Do When My Food Is Too Delicious?) (For now, t 265Reads—Score—14d adds
- 33 Hooked on Cases 案上瘾 [Transmigration + marriage first, love later + devoted to each other + gourmet food + sweet romance + entrepreneurship] A sunny, charming chef-princess versus a seemingly aloof, seemingly impartial prince who is actually cunning Nan Yu was a highly sought-after head chef for state banquets in the 21st century. Little did she know that after one meal, she would transmigrate into the body of a notorious foreign princess. On the journey to her political marriage, “she” mysteriously disappeared. R 3Reads—Score—14d adds
- 34 Sweet Romance: The Divine Lord Wins the Delicate Flower with His Good Looks 甜宠：神君他靠美貌拿下小白花 [The story went off the rails. Don't read.] Everyone praises Fu Yanning as a man of impeccable character and striking appearance. He's like a celestial being high above the world in the Three Pure Realms, free of desire and ambition. Only Jiang Zhao knows that Fu Yanning has no heart. She treated him so well in her past life! And yet he was always picking on her. In the end, she died on the city wall, killed by his arrow. After being reborn, her greatest wish is to stay away from him. But it's a 18Reads—Score—14d adds
- 35 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—14d adds
- 36 Transmigrating to Farm: I Became the Talk of the Village 穿越种田：我竟成了农门显眼包 [Alternate world | farming | food | business | System | male lead with a minor role] In a nutshell: After transmigrating into ancient times as a village girl, she planned to enjoy a peaceful country life, but unexpectedly became the center of attention. In her previous life, Yun Lan closed her eyes after suffering from ALS and yearning desperately for a healthy body. When she opened them again, she had become a humble village girl in Yushu Village, Chun'an County, in the Great Wei dynasty. Breat 2Reads6.4Score—14d adds
- 37 Reborn: Selling Luosifen in Ancient Times 重生之我在古代卖螺蛳粉 [Transmigration + Alternate Universe + Food + Shopkeeping + Farming] A food story! No palace intrigues or household scheming, and the heroine doesn't marry into the imperial family. The whole story is lighthearted, with few nasty characters. There's no romance at first, but it comes later. This is an alternate-era setting, so don't take things too seriously. When Chu Mengning wakes up and sees her family's bare walls, she sighs and decides to rely on herself to lead her family to prosperity and 4Reads6.7Score—14d adds
- 38 Gourmet: I Keep Myself Alive by Eating on a Dating Show 美食：我在恋综靠干饭续命 [Food first, with a goofy dating show on the side. The heroine is all about her career; men only slow down my eating.] After transmigrating into the body of a bit-part actress who won't survive three days, Ning Meng is packed off to a dating show as the universally disliked foil. Just when she's about to despair, the [Food Keeps You Alive System] binds to her! [Host, you have to eat to stay alive!] While everyone else is flirting and chasing butterflies, she calculates how many minutes a dish wi 69Reads6.7Score—14d adds
- 39 The Cook Takes Charge: I Use Food to Crush Villains and Become a Legend 厨娘当家：我靠美食虐渣封神 After transmigrating, Su Qiaoqiao, a twenty-first-century chef, wakes up in the body of a girl from a poor farming family in ancient times. From the start, she's in an “epic” mess: her parents want to sell her sister to pay for her brother's education. Faced with her self-important brother's disdain and her parents' obsessive devotion to their son, she lets out a cold laugh and goes berserk on the spot. “Sell my sister? Think bigger! Why not sell off you, the tender-skinned scholar, to become a 42Reads—Score—14d adds
- 40 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—14d adds
- 41 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—14d adds
- 42 I Open a Canteen in the Embroidered Uniform Guard 我在锦衣卫开食堂 “I’m a famous food blogger! There’s no way I can’t handle you lot!” Food blogger Song Zhaozhao accidentally transmigrated into the body of a vicious female supporting character. She ended up in a poor little mountain village, but her father doted on her, her mother loved her, and her older brother protected her. With a wave of her expert hand, Song Zhaozhao gave up on her childhood sweetheart and opened a canteen for the Embroidered Uniform Guard. “From today on, I’m in charge of your meals!” 1.6kReads—Score17814d adds
- 43 Prison Cuisine: Criminals Around the World Want Longer Sentences! 监狱美食：全球罪犯都想加刑！ [Food + Everyday Life + No Female Lead + Comfort Food + Making Criminals Turn Over a New Leaf] Lu Ran acquired a Food System and became the chef at Devil’s Island Prison. The prison housed criminals from all over the world. As soon as he arrived, the whole atmosphere on Devil’s Island changed. The prisoners used to brag about their crimes. Now, they took pride in getting to eat Lu Ran’s cooking, and to stay in prison, they started confessing to every crime they’d committed, sending the island’s 361Reads6.6Score—14d adds
- 44 The Entire Interstellar Community Is Waiting for Me to Feed Them 全星际在等我投喂 [Sweet romance + personal growth + interstellar cuisine] Su Su, a young culinary goddess, wakes up in the interstellar age to find that her constitution and mental strength are completely useless, yet she’s matched with the strongest combatant in the stars! Humanity has already ventured into the interstellar world and spread its culture far and wide, but how can it do without good food? She grows a little farm, and everyone treats the crops like treasures. She cooks a meal, and everyone treats t 18Reads6.2Score—14d adds
- 45 Hengdian Foodie 横店美食家 (One-on-one romance ~ Celebrity ~ Entertainment Industry ~ Food ~ Fan Fiction ~ CP: Tian Jiarui) In a parallel world, Chen Xiaotao, a food-loving fan girl, unexpectedly comes into possession of a pocket dimension. She decides to open a shop in Hengdian, and while cooking delicious food and casually following her favorite stars, she finds friendship and love. (I'm a brand-new author, and the story will feature some celebrities and their works. I'll carefully research and refer to relevant sources 288Reads6.3Score—14d adds
- 46 From Breakfast Stall Owner to the Richest Woman in the Empire: Customers Fight to Throw Money at Me 从早食摊娘子到当朝首富，古人送钱抢破头 [Food + Business + A Little Scientific Farming (the male lead promotes farming)] In her previous life, Xu Sangrou was a food blogger. She transmigrated to a small county town in an unknown dynasty. Her father was a poorly paid county constable, her mother managed the household, and she had a younger brother and sister. The only thing of value they owned was their little courtyard. But the family was so hard up they could barely afford her younger brother's school fees. Looking at the last few gr 341Reads6.2Score10014d adds
- 47 A Food Blogger Transmigrates and Sets Up a Stall, Making the Whole City Drool 美食博主穿越后，摆摊馋哭全城人 [Everyday food + transmigration + lighthearted wish fulfillment + historical romance + farming + building wealth] Su Weiyang, crowned the King of Chefs at a modern food competition, wakes up to find she’s transmigrated back to ancient times! She’s become the notorious, same-name-and-surname villainess of the Su family, who has just been jilted. On her very first day after transmigrating, a strikingly handsome stranger rescues her, causing a sensation throughout the village. Su Weiyang takes a lo 273Reads—Score10014d adds
- 48 I’m Not Afraid of a Top-Tier Star Exposing Me, I’m Afraid of Going Hungry 不怕顶流开盒，就怕我一饭难求 [Dual male leads, both reborn + Food System + revenge in the entertainment industry + livestreaming] A broad-shouldered chef and actor as the pursuer vs. a scheming, lovesick male opera performer (not human) In his previous life, Bai Shu agreed to help a top-tier star clear up a rumor, only to be doxxed and hounded online by the star’s fans until he died. Reborn in this life, he bonds with a Food System and storms back into the entertainment industry. To his surprise, Hua Xiao, his business part 9Reads—Score—14d adds
- 49 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—14d adds
- 50 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 467Reads8.5Score10014d adds
