Feast in the Famine: Hotpot Riches

Modern special agent Serena Brook wakes up in the Great Cian dynasty as Serena Yale, a village woman who has become stepmother to three children. Their father left to sit the imperial examinations and has not come back. Using her Emotional Resonance System, Serena transforms hardship into abundance, serving daily meat feasts and hotpot dinners that draw in the entire village, while a candied hawthorn trade takes off. Yet her new household's calm is fragile, and unseen dangers begin gathering around the family she has chosen to protect.