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- 51 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 2.1kReads8.4Score26214d adds
- 52 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 334Reads7.5Score10314d adds
- 53 I Set Up a Snack Stall in the Eighties and Became a Sensation 我在八零摆摊卖小吃，火出圈了 Reborn at fifteen, Tang Xi makes sure she returns to her biological parents. She also sets up a stall to sell snacks, and before long, it takes off beyond all expectations. 954Reads5.3Score10414d adds
- 54 The Gourmet Blind Box Is Wild: The Host Draws, Then the Customers Do 美食盲盒有点疯，宿主抽完顾客抽 [Gourmet + No CP + Perfect With a Meal + Cozy + Street Stalls + Comedy + Career-Focused] After being reborn in a parallel world, Qin Yi arrives in Rainbow City. She binds to a Gourmet blind-box street-stall System. At first, the location, time, and tasks are all randomly drawn. Later, even the food comes in blind boxes. From bowls of late-night rice noodles for 50 yuan to floral cake rolls for 200 yuan. From all kinds of little meatballs to a blind-box lunchbox truck with a thousand different di 524Reads7.4Score—14d adds
- 55 The Fake Heiress Falls on Hard Times? The Powerful Flock to Her Restaurant 假千金落魄？权贵挤满她酒楼 [Food + 1v1, mutually devoted, System missions, building a career, ensemble cast] (A quick heads-up: There are many couples in this story, so please steer clear if that's not your thing. It mixes romance with BL, so please steer clear if you dislike that. This is a light, wholesome food-themed romance with multiple pairings, and its overall tone is warm and cozy. It is not a strong-female-lead story, so please steer clear if that's not your thing.) Synopsis: ↓ Yun Zhiyue, the president of a ca 1.9kReads8.8Score19514d adds
- 56 Selling Egg Fried Rice at a Street Stall, Wielding My Spatula Until the Wok Smokes! 摆摊卖蛋炒饭，抡得锅铲都冒烟！ Food + Games + Challenges + Comfort Food + Heartwarming + Showbiz + No Romance After her contract expires, Shi Yi chooses to leave showbiz. By chance, she is selected by a food game, which requires her to take a little three-wheeled cart out to sell food every day. Level One: Sell ten-yuan boxed meals and throw in a bottle of water! The customers can’t believe what a bargain it is! “Boss Shi, I’ll have an order of braised ribs!” “Oh my gosh, you’ve even got king crab?!” “Boss Shi must be running 3.8kReads7.5Score38614d adds
- 57 God-Tier Food Truck: Foodies Around the World Beg Me to Set Up Shop 神级餐车：全球吃货求我出摊 System, Food, Street Stalls, Slow Pace, No Romance, Widowed The book’s new-release rating may be low at first, but 95% of reviews are five stars. Enjoy with confidence! Ye Wanting unexpectedly gets a magical mobile food cart System. Flatbread + pork floss + seaweed = seaweed-and-pork-floss turkey noodles Crab + flour = crab roe soup dumplings Lamb offal + garlic + pepper = peppery lamb offal soup Quality ingredients + premium recipes + perfect cooking = food adored by thousands Three-wheeled car 632Reads8.8Score10114d adds
- 58 Transmigrating to a Picturesque Countryside Home of Fine Cuisine 穿越田园美食人家 When chef Xia Dong wakes up, she finds herself transformed into Xia Dong'er, a pitiful little bean sprout of a girl. Her gambling-addicted father wants to sell her, her greedy mother wants a divorce, and she has an adorable little brother. She lands straight in survival mode on the highest difficulty. Xia Dong'er says, “Wait, let me eat some meat first and catch my breath!” Sweet osmanthus fills the walnut-stuffed pastries, while pearl-like glutinous rice is rinsed in well water. A lifetime of f 983Reads8.6Score14614d adds
- 59 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
- 60 After the System Woke Up, I Started Selling Snacks at My Stall! 系统苏醒后，我摆摊卖上小吃了！ [System + local specialties from all over + easygoing comfort read + no heroine] The System wakes up after nearly a year of slumber. The good news: a galactic undocumented immigrant has become a street-food cook and now has an identity. The bad news: after the System spent the Host’s money and went through a whole series of operations, Lin Su is now over 280,000 yuan in debt. Fortunately, the System delivers. It knows exactly what our ancestors would choose, and serves up hulutou, fish-shaped do 8.1kReads8.7Score1.1k14d adds
- 61 Gourmet: My Restaurant Is Anything but Normal 美食：我家餐馆不正常 When Lin Zhixin was thirteen, she received the legacy of the Old Ancestor of the God of Cookery and began learning to cook in her dreams. On the day she graduated from college, the Old Ancestor told her there was an inheritance waiting for her. But there was one condition: she had to open a restaurant! She opened one, but Lin Zhixin felt there was something off about it. The prep cook was a koi spirit on the verge of ascending through a tribulation. The food runner was a Taotie who was never ful 160Reads8.1Score2114d adds
- 62 A Villainess from the Start? I'll Turn the Tables With Gourmet Food 开局恶毒女配？我靠美食逆风翻盘 [Transmigration + rebirth + food + sweet romance + wish fulfillment + nation building] Shen Tianjiao wakes up one morning and gets slapped. What? She's the youngest daughter of a general's household, doted on since childhood. Why is she being hit? What? Her fiancé, Crown Prince Qi Chenyu, has just broken off their engagement in front of everyone? Fine, fine! So that's how you want to play it! From that day on, the mood in the capital changes. Shen Tianjiao gives up her lovesick-puppy act: Breaki 10kReads7.3Score79414d adds
- 63 Joining Her Husband's Army on the Island: Mountain Delicacies and Seafood with Chicken and Duck 随军婆婆上岛：山珍海味配鸡鸭 The short drama adaptation is now available (no space, no romance, island military life, everyday life, family matters, raising kids, delicious food, capitalist daughter-in-law) In her previous life, Chen Guilan looked down on her daughter-in-law for being a capitalist's daughter and hated the hardships of island life. She refused to join her son at his post and care for his pregnant wife, choosing instead to stay nearby and look after her pregnant daughter. But her daughter, son-in-law, and gra 10.3kReads8.4Score89014d adds
- 64 The Top Chef in a Culinary Wasteland 我在美食荒漠当第一厨娘 Bai Qingwan, the owner of a private kitchen, was hit by a car while saving someone and transmigrated into the body of a farm girl with the same name in a fictional dynasty, whose surname was Yong. To her surprise, this place was a culinary wasteland that didn't even have soy sauce. Her family lived by the mountains and near the sea, yet what they ate was the sort of stuff even pigs wouldn't touch. Then she found herself bound to the Huaxia Cuisine System. To help her fulfill her mission of sprea 772Reads8.8Score10914d adds
- 65 One Dish a Day: Building a Culinary Empire 一天只卖一道菜，我打造美食帝国 (The rating has just come out, but it will rise later) [Gourmet] + [System] + [One heroine] + [Dad raising a child] + [Everyday life] Chen Qiu's business venture fails, leaving him a million yuan in debt, and he's forced to take over the little restaurant his parents left behind. Just when he has nowhere else to turn, he awakens the [God-Tier Gourmet Sign-In System]! His first sign-in rewards him with “God-Tier Pork Stir-Fried with Chili Peppers”! When he puts up a sign advertising it at “88 yua 42.9kReads7.8Score2.7k14d adds
- 66 Reborn in the 1970s: After Divorcing, I Cleared Out My In-Laws’ Home and Went to the Countryside 重生七零：离婚搬空婆家去下乡 [1970s Setting, Rebirth Power Fantasy, Spirit Spring Space, Making a Fortune, Miracle Doctor, Revenge] Synopsis: On the sixteenth day of her marriage, Xiao Mandong grabbed a thermos full of boiling water and smashed it over her cheating husband and widowed sister-in-law on the bed! In her previous life, she had given everything to support the Lu family, only to have her child switched, her loved ones die tragically, and herself left to die alone with terminal lung cancer. Reborn, she refused to 5.4kReads6.5Score60214d adds
- 67 I Have a Divine Cauldron: Slay Demons, Cook, and Cultivate Immortality 我有神鼎，斩妖烹饪修仙 [The new book has just received its rating, so it'll gradually rise.] [Slow-paced + food + healing + ensemble cast + daily life + medicinal cuisine] I have a divine cauldron. I slay the fiercest demons and cook the most delicious dishes! The sect's fortune has been secretly stolen by a schemer, and my fellow disciples are all at rock bottom! Don't worry. If you've been poisoned, come have a bowl of soothing medicinal soup. If you've suffered broken bones and serious injuries, take a bite of brai 7.2kReads8.6Score71914d adds
- 68 After Quitting My Job, I Inherited Grandma's Little Restaurant 辞职后，我继承了奶奶的小饭馆 [Healing + food + a touch of farming + slow-paced + everyday life] Wen Nian's new life began with a resignation letter. A well-paid job in the big city, endless overtime, cold convenience-store rice balls... She suddenly realized it had been a long time since she'd tasted anything like happiness. Steaming hot soup dumplings in the morning mist, soft and chewy cloud cakes with Pu'er tea in the afternoon, little river shrimp roasted crisp and red by Grandpa... It all felt like a distant, different 3kReads8.8Score41414d adds
- 69 Listening to a Donkey's Thoughts: Daily Life Running a Restaurant in Bianjing 听驴心声：汴京美食经营日常 (The low rating is only because the book was just listed.) · Transmigration + Everyday food and life among ordinary townsfolk + Mind reading (the little donkey is called Xiao Ba, with “Ba” meaning gossip) + A gentle, leisurely pace + A large ensemble cast later on · A modern chef transmigrates to the Song Dynasty. In this paradise of food, she doesn’t just eat: she develops new dishes and brings ancient and modern cuisines together in a grand feast. The Shen Tinghe family moves from the outskirt 4.2kReads8.5Score52314d adds
- 70 The State Banquet Chef of the 1980s 国宴大厨在八零 [Imperial banquet chef + unbeatable cuisine + satisfying wish fulfillment] Tang Xi died, then returned to age fifteen with the wordless book of secrets her master had given her: The World’s Finest Cuisine. That year, the Tang family’s biological daughter was finally found, and Tang Xi was left behind by her adoptive parents. Out of guilt toward the true daughter, Tang Xi gave in to her at every turn, but all she got in return was her adoptive parents’ dislike and her childhood sweetheart fiancé’ 944Reads8.2Score12514d adds
- 71 What Should I Do? After Our Divorce, the Cold and Aloof Villain Won't Leave Me Alone 怎么办！离婚后高冷反派总缠着我 [Completed + Food + Livestreaming + Transmigrate into a Book + So Good It Changes Your Mind] Sheng Xia transmigrated into an entertainment-industry novel as its vicious supporting villainess. The original owner had caused endless trouble, earning herself a barrage of online hate. Her wealthy husband, destined to cheat on her: “Divorce. The Huo family can’t afford to be humiliated like this!” Indignant gossip-loving netizens: “Get that vicious attention-seeker out of show business!” Sheng Xia rol 871Reads8.9Score10114d adds
- 72 The Great Famine of the 1960s? I'll Feed My Whole Family Meat! 六零大饥荒？我带全家酷酷吃肉！ [Military marriage + period setting + no saintly heroine + unapologetically self-serving + space + violent, unhinged female lead + feel-good story + a thousand schemes + ruthless heart and ruthless hands] A menace? A slacker who cuts corners? Useless at everything? Eats everything in sight? Who could that be? Why, the heroine, Ji Anran, of course~ Her violent mother planted her hands on her hips and roared like a shrew: “You lazybones! You little brat! You, you, you…” The laziest of them all, Ji 9.4kReads6.6Score89514d adds
- 73 Shocking! The Entire Court Is Drooling Over My Cooking 震惊！满朝文武都被我馋哭了 [Food + feel-good wish fulfillment + System + business + farming] Overnight, Shen Qing transmigrated into the only daughter of a restaurant owner. She thought she’d have a comfortable life, but the moment she opened her eyes, she found herself in hard mode. Her father had died in an accident, and with no sons in the family, her cousin had seized their vast estate. She and her mother were forced to live in a dilapidated house, while her scumbag fiancé broke his promise and went off to enjoy roman 34kReads7.9Score3.3k14d adds
- 74 Gourmet: Mr. Ye, Where Do You Think You'll Run This Time? 美食：叶先生，看你这次往哪跑 [Everyday Life] [No Romance] [Comedy] [Heartwarming] [A Good Read Over Meals] In his previous life, Ye Fan had an accident and was dragged to the underworld by Ox-Head and Horse-Face. With a wave of his hand, King Yama changed Ye Fan's fate. He is given a brand-new identity as a master chef. Watch him complete his missions while enjoying life. Random dishes, random street-stall locations, one thing always stays the same: everything tastes amazing! Selling buns beside a restroom, lobster outs 892Reads6.6Score10014d adds
- 75 Su Jixiang, the Frontier Cook 边疆厨娘苏吉祥 Food blogger Su Jixiang transmigrates into the body of a palace maid in the Cold Palace. What does palace intrigue have to do with a mere maid like her? She thought she could keep her head down and quietly survive until she turned twenty-five, when she'd be released from the palace to live like a wealthy woman. Little did she know the emperor would flee! As a remnant of the fallen emperor's court, Su Jixiang was bestowed upon a general guarding the border. The palace had one fewer Aunt Jixiang, 116Reads6.6Score—14d adds
- 76 Farming in a Fishing Village: The Lucky Carp's Sweet, Tender Bride 渔村种田，锦鲤甜妻软又娇 Food blogger Li Ying opened and closed her eyes, and found herself in ancient times, suddenly a mother... Her mother-in-law was unkind, her brother-in-law overbearing, and her husband indifferent... With a pocket dimension and one hundred thousand coconuts, Li Ying flipped the table. She was done with this! She was taking the kids and running away! After ending up in a small fishing village, Li Ying’s eyes widened. Those seafood products being sold for next to nothing could all be turned into de 56Reads—Score—14d adds
- 77 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
- 78 Transmigrated as a Kitchen Maid, I Win Over the Devil Prince with Viral Dishes 穿成厨丫，网红美食拿捏魔鬼殿下 A food blogger transmigrates and becomes an obscure kitchen maid in the Third Prince’s household! Her immediate superior is the notoriously fussy and difficult Third Prince, a devil who beats and berates the staff whenever a dish fails to please him. No problem! This modern food blogger’s skills are the real deal! Milk tea, cream-filled pastries, and creative snacks make their way to the table one after another, and before long she has the icy Third Prince completely wrapped around her finger. H 14Reads—Score114d adds
- 79 Reborn as the Villain's Stepmother, Win Hearts with Good Food! 穿成反派后娘，攻心就用美食吧！ [Marriage First, Love Later + Adorable Baby + Food + Family Life + Humble Households] [Constable + Little Chef] Pu Jiaojiao discovers that she has transmigrated into a book she once read, becoming the villainous stepmother. The stepmother in the story abuses the children in every way imaginable and is utterly inhuman. Remembering the stepmother’s tragic ending, Pu Jiaojiao can’t help swallowing nervously. If she wins them over with delicious food, can she keep herself alive in the future? Watch 2.7kReads8.5Score22014d adds
- 80 I Set Up a Snack Stall in Ancient Times and Went Viral 我在古代摆摊卖小吃，火出圈了 [Transmigration + Fictional Setting + System + Cuisine + Daily Life + Wholesome Romance + Love Grows Over Time + One-on-One Romance + Beloved by All] Mu Wan transmigrates to ancient times and becomes a “dark-skinned, fat girl.” That’s not even the worst of it: she has a sickly husband who could die at any moment. No problem. She’s the head chef of the Imperial Kitchen and knows a little about medicine. If it has anything to do with food, she can handle it. Mu Wan rolls up her sleeves, ready to g 466Reads6.1Score10514d adds
- 81 My Stepmother Has Delicious Food, So Surrender, Prince Daddy! 后娘手中有美食，王爷爹爹快投降 [Food + devoted one-on-one romance + adorable child + imperial palace + princess consort] Lin Youyou's greatest passions in life are gossip, food, face-slapping, and making money. Little Doudou has a wish: to find a beautiful wife for her exceptionally handsome prince father, someone who will dote on her, love her father, and be gentle and kind. But this young lady can cook delicious food! Really, really delicious food, including all kinds she has never even tried before. Little Doudou is torn. 1.4kReads8.5Score10214d adds
- 82 The 1960s: I Follow the Army with My Child and Make the Whole Camp Drool 六零年，带娃随军我馋哭全军营 [Food + military life + adorable kids + Culinary God System + everyday child-rearing] Only after awakening does Song Qinghuan realize that the world she lives in grew out of a wicked stepmother novel, and that she is the original wife, a cannon-fodder character destined to die young. When she falls into a river, her children are abducted by human traffickers. Her children become villains who stand in the way of the heroine's children! In the end, some die and others are left crippled! All becaus 12.2kReads8.6Score1.2k14d adds
- 83 My Blind Date Was Stolen? The Gruff Army Officer Calls Me His Darling Every Night 相亲被截胡？糙汉军官夜夜喊她宝 [Period setting + military marriage + sweet romance + marriage before love + family life; rugged older military officer and sweet young wife, eight-year age gap, he’s been plotting this for ages, one-on-one and both leads are each other’s only ones] Complete. Read with confidence! _ Su Ruan went on a blind date. The bad news: Her nemesis swooped in and stole her date. The good news: A stranger suddenly appeared and pretended to be her boyfriend, saving her face. The bad news: The man who saved h 18.4kReads8.4Score2k14d adds
- 84 Country Chef at the Wok, Villagers Want a Feast Every Day! 农村掌大勺，村民天天想吃席！ Gu Ze transmigrates to a parallel world and binds himself to the top chef System. Other people who transmigrate get a food System that appears and disappears without a trace, and customers chase it down the street. But his System has just one task: cater banquets and earn ten thousand yuan a month. After Gu Ze caters a harvest feast for an entire village, his name spreads through the little town. The villagers spend every day plotting how to get a seat at a banquet. “You say you don’t know me? F 4.4kReads8.8Score37014d adds
- 85 Gourmet: Selling Meals at School Sends Students and Teachers into a Frenzy 美食：学校卖饭，师生抢疯了 [Gourmet | Everyday Life | Lighthearted | Relaxing | Slow-Paced | Comforting] Jiang Fan got a Gourmet System and rented a small food stall in his school cafeteria. “There aren’t any students eating here. You should close up.” “The food’s terrible. You’ll be out of business in a few days.” “Here comes another idiot, selling food in this place.” Everyone mocked him. Jiang Fan ignored them and checked his mission. He had to sell a hundred shaomai in one day. Could he pull that off? “Wow, these shao 2.6kReads7.1Score19214d adds
- 86 Food Stall Diaries: Call Me Boss Su 美食摆摊：请叫我苏老板 A gas explosion kills Su Mo. Then Su Mo successfully transmigrates, and it turns out she’s transmigrated into a book, too. The good news: she isn’t the heroine or a supporting character, just an inconspicuous background character. The bad news: the background character’s mother is “crazy,” and the original owner has been emotionally manipulated all along. As transmigration stories go, Su Mo gets a Food System. And so begins her life running a food stall. Outside elementary schools, at hospital e 5.5kReads8.1Score71114d adds
- 87 I Just Set Up a Stall, but My Customers Beg Me in Tears to Feed Them 我就摆个摊，那些食客哭着求投喂 The novel is complete! Dive in with confidence. Gourmet, doting dad, one heroine, heartwarming, slice of life, food to enjoy with your meal, and catching criminals. In his previous life, Yan Qingzhou married the village chief's daughter so he could escape the mountains. Relying on his good looks, he charmed a rich heiress, only to end up abandoned by everyone. Then he was reborn on the night before he eloped! He had not yet made a terrible mistake. His daughter had not been kidnapped, and his 2.7kReads8.3Score25714d adds
- 88 I Opened a Restaurant in Ancient Times 我在古代开饭馆 Ye Xiaowei inexplicably transmigrates into the body of a farm girl in ancient times. Her family is struggling, so she uses her own hands to build a fortune, one step at a time. She starts out selling scallion pancakes at a street stall, then opens a little diner, and eventually builds a chain of grand restaurants. Her life gets better and better. What? The little beggar she took in has a truly impressive background? And the handsome young man she found, who had lost his memory, leaves without a 1.4kReads8.2Score12014d adds
- 89 The Struggles of the Baozi Beauty 包子西施奋斗史 [Transmigration + Food + Building a fortune + Cozy everyday life + Life among ordinary people] Shen Yu transmigrates, but her start couldn’t be worse: she’s unlucky enough to have broken off an engagement and become a jinx, and she’s poor and miserable. Give up now? No way! She takes odd jobs, sets up a stall, and opens a little eatery. The whole family works together to build a fortune, and life gets sweeter by the day! But whose son, with a county magistrate for a father, can’t even get meat a 3.4kReads8.8Score35214d adds
- 90 As Long as the System Pays, I'll Work 996 to the End 只要系统出得起，996也干到底 [Food-focused (not purely a food story) + a touch of interstellar flavor + no romance + extremely laid-back and ambition-free] Lu Wei graduated from a mediocre university and found a nine-to-nine, six-days-a-week job. After working overtime for far too long, she eventually died suddenly from exhaustion. When she opened her eyes again, she had arrived in a strange world and become bound to a peculiar thing called the Food System. “Starting today, Host must go to the area beside Hope Elementary Sc 1.1kReads8.7Score10214d adds
- 91 Transmigrated to Ancient Times to Sell Bento: The Wicked Sister-in-Law’s Road to Riches 穿到古代卖盒饭：恶毒寡嫂致富路 [Transmigrate into a book + food + business + building wealth + slow-burn development] Food blogger Meng Zhao woke up one day to find herself transmigrated into a novel aimed at male readers, as the vicious sister-in-law. Faced with the future “Dragon-Proud-Heaven” male lead, destined to wield power over the world, Meng Zhao had to choose between eliminating him while she had the chance and currying favor with him early. Instead, she chose to become the one worth currying favor with. Starting 3.4kReads8.6Score34314d adds
- 92 I'm Just a Chef, Director, Stop Adding Drama! 我只是个厨子啊，导演别加戏了吧 [Food + film sets + everyday life + comfort food + warmth + healing + comedy + fun] Lin Zhou joins a casting call for extras and unexpectedly gets bound to a Gourmet System. From then on, he only ever plays cooks. He can be a five-star chef in a domineering CEO drama, or the head cook at a country banquet in a rural drama. He can whip up roadside restaurant dishes so fragrant they fill the air for miles, or make stall food so delicious you'll savor every bite. Whatever the role calls for, he'll 1.9kReads7.5Score14014d adds
- 93 A Taste of Jiangnan 江南小食记 Jiangnan water-town setting + laid-back daily life + gourmet business + no romance + adorable little sister After transmigrating into a family in a Jiangnan water town, Jiang Yun decides to lie flat and make the most of eating and having fun! She runs a little shop by the river and enjoys the slow, easygoing rhythm of life in Jiangnan. At home, she makes soft, chewy osmanthus rice cakes, pork belly braised with bamboo shoots, and fragrant beggar's chicken that draws people from every corner of 1.8kReads—Score13014d adds
- 94 Military Wife in the 1970s: Island Life Is the Sweetest 七零随军：海岛日常美滋滋 The new novel, The Scholar and the Joyful Life in the Mountains, is now underway. It's a historical farming story, so head to the author's page to read it~ . [Cozy daily life, family and neighborhood affairs, simple and peaceful ☞ beachcombing + food, mainly Cantonese cuisine + farming + adorable kids. Includes educational tidbits and lots of pictures. Complete.] [Content warnings: This is not a power fantasy, and the heroine isn't strong ☞ no transmigration, no rebirth, no golden finger, no fac 636Reads8.8Score—14d adds
- 95 The Spicy Girl of the 1980s: I Made My Fortune with Food 八零小辣媳：我靠美食发家致富 [Period Drama + Rebirth + Food + Feel-Good + Fiery Wife + Love After Marriage] A spirited food blogger who transmigrates into the past VS a calculating, loyal-dog hero who was once a technical whiz and later becomes a powerful tycoon Su Ning transmigrated to the 1980s and became a young wife with a terrible reputation. Her husband treated her with indifference, the neighbors gossiped about her, and her birth family kept finding ways to bleed her dry. Make a fortune, take down scumbags, deal with 524Reads7.1Score—14d adds
- 96 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 160Reads8.4Score—14d adds
- 97 Forced to Leave Showbiz, I Inherited a Food System 被迫退圈后，我继承了美食系统 [Food-focused, no melodrama, lighthearted, one-on-one romance] As a little-known actress, Jiang Ran has always worked diligently and conscientiously. But then disaster struck. She was disfigured and blacklisted across the internet, leaving her no choice but to slink home and inherit her grandfather’s estate. A desolate courtyard and a crumbling apartment building nearly made Jiang Ran’s eyes roll back. Luckily, she got bound to a Food System and began her climb to the top. She started with a str 1.5kReads8.4Score19014d adds
- 98 Lotus Shadows over the Capital 莲影京华 Village beauty Shi Cailian has had a life bitter enough to pickle vegetables, but she's blessed with a face of unparalleled beauty. Educated youth Wan Changce falls for her at first sight and takes the college entrance exam four times. When the results come out, Shi Cailian has just fallen out with her biased family, so she packs her bags and goes with him to make it in the capital. He studies hard and becomes a top student, while she uses her beauty to land a secure job at the Friendship Store. 7Reads—Score—14d adds
- 99 My Takeout Shop Somehow Became a Hit Across the Internet 我的外卖店竟然火爆全网 [Food + Golden Finger + Career + System] [System Introduction] After transmigrating back, Lin Xiazhi smacks her sleazy boss and quits to open a restaurant, then unexpectedly binds herself to a food System. When a rookie System meets a true food expert, life after the binding is nothing but chaos. The System exclaims, “I really am a lucky charm! No need to worry about tasks, I’ll be the boss in no time.” Lin Xiazhi is crestfallen. “I’m the unlucky one. I’m staring at heaps of gold and silver, but 1.6kReads9.0Score15314d adds
- 100 After My Jerk Boyfriend Dumped Me, I Got Rich Through Cooking 被渣男分手后，我靠美食暴富了 [Food + System + Everyday Life + Male Lead] Su Manning was laid off, dumped, and told her landlord was reclaiming the apartment all on the same day. Just like that, she became single and unemployed, with nowhere to live and the streets looming over her. She was at a loss for tears. Why did heaven have to be so cruel? But the very next moment, she was bound to a Food System. As long as she completed the tasks it issued, she would receive generous rewards. [System Task: Host, please cook yourself 1.5kReads9.0Score16714d adds
