In the Famine, My Sister-in-Law and I Hide in the Kitchen

After transmigrating to the chaotic Great Yan dynasty, he watches bandits slaughter his family on his elder brother’s wedding night. Everyone is killed, leaving only him and his beautiful sister-in-law, Chen Yuner, to depend on each other.

Penniless, starving, and freezing, he awakens the [Friend of Women] System in the depths of despair: every encounter gives him a chance to survive!

He scavenges, hunts, borrows grain, does business, and enters government service, winning people over at every turn. Step by step, he rises from village headman to “Tiger-Slaying Hero.”

But at the height of his fame, he is accused of the moral crime of taking his widowed sister-in-law for himself. With a blade at his throat in the county magistrate’s court, everyone thinks he’s finished.

Zhang Bai only sneers, tears apart the conspiracy, and produces bloody evidence in a counterattack:

“Who says all I know is farming? I’m bringing charges against the town magistrate for colluding with bandits, the local tyrants for murder, and the entire county government for corruption!”

When he lays the bloodstained account book before them, the whole official establishment comes crashing down.

Highlights:

❖ An impossible situation from the start, turned around with help from the Friend of Women System

❖ A close, emotionally charged bond between a man and his sister-in-law, with tenderness beneath the moral crisis

❖ Intricate political schemes, from village feuds to nerve-racking battles in official circles

❖ Opens a path through political intrigue amid waves of refugees, and ultimately becomes a regional overlord