In the Year of Famine, I Fed a Million Ancients with One Bowl

[Exiled, Disgraced Crown Prince vs. Glamorous Fake Heiress] [Crossing Between Worlds + Stockpiling for Famine + Infrastructure and Farming + Her Family’s Desperate Regret] After Jiang Zhenyu is kicked out by her adoptive parents, she discovers by chance that her cat’s food bowl can connect to another world. Through it, she befriends a disgraced crown prince from ancient times. Three years of drought have left the rivers dry, and famine has swept the land, with the dead lying everywhere. Framed by treacherous men, the crown prince and his maternal family are exiled to the northern frontier. There’s no water, food, or medicine on the way. They’re short of everything! The crown prince sends gold ingots through the bowl to buy supplies from her. Jiang Zhenyu waves a hand. Leave it to me! Bread, dried meat, fruit, canned seafood, bottled water… While everyone else is chewing dirt and starving, the crown prince and his companions feast on meat and wine, delighted.

Drought? Famine? Plague? Earthquakes? Build irrigation works and divert water from south to north. Put up greenhouses, buy farm tools, develop animal husbandry. Special medicines, post-disaster reconstruction: she’ll take care of it all! Neighboring countries are eyeing them hungrily, and war could break out at any moment. Stockpile grain, build high walls, and make sure they have all the weapons and supplies they need! Short on troops? Make up for it with machinery, and send the invaders fleeing! Bring the powerful clans to heel, pacify the seven kingdoms, and watch civil and military officials vie to pledge their allegiance.

She brings the real heiress to justice for her crimes, leaves her former fiancé regretting everything, and has her adoptive parents’ family kneel and beg for forgiveness. She becomes the richest woman in the land thanks to antiques, uses the conveniences of the ancient world to restore antique artifacts, and carries on her master’s legacy! One day, the crown prince buries his face against her shoulder, his voice hoarse. “Show me some tenderness again.”