A Marquis's Concubine Flees Famine: While Others Eat Grass, I Feast on Meat

[Modern woman in an ancient world + exile + medicine + food + everyone goes mad + face-slapping green tea antagonists + scheming male lead + hiding one’s strength]

Shen Zhinian, a renowned modern general practitioner and Michelin-starred chef, transmigrates into the body of a concubine-born daughter of a marquis. From the start, she’s in hell mode:

Her stepmother cuts her open to take her baby, then has her exiled to Lingnan.

Fury surges through her. Using a hairpin as a needle, she sews up her own belly, smashes her stepmother’s dentures, and takes her child back!

On the road to exile, her legitimate elder sister frames her and the guards make things difficult. Shen Zhinian fights poison with poisonous herbs in one hand and cooks wild boar with poisonous mushrooms in the other, using Buddha Jumps Over the Wall to make a crowd of villains drool.

Her medical skills are astounding. She works miracles in a remote leper village and even picks up a disfigured, lame “hunter uncle.” Little does she know he is Xiao Jiuyuan, a supposedly dead crown prince who’s hiding his strength!

From then on, the wastelands of Lingnan become her clinic and vegetable garden.

With her maxed-out medical skills and incredible cooking, she grows herbs, prepares medicinal dishes, and opens restaurants, going from penniless to fabulously wealthy.

One eccentric, fake-sweet green tea schemer after another shows up, but she tears them down with her sharp tongue and turns the tables in spectacular fashion.

Xiao Jiuyuan may look like a rough country fellow, but in truth he’s a master strategist, hiding his strength all along.

Step by step, he helps Shen Zhinian build her food empire and medical sanctuary.

When her awful ex-husband regrets everything and the emperor marvels at Lingnan’s prosperity, Shen Zhinian only wants to enjoy her quiet life with her child and her calculating crown prince husband, farming, cooking, and living peacefully in this little paradise of Lingnan.