Under the icy moonlight of a famine-stricken year, an old woman overheard her eldest son's cold whisper beside the heavily loaded cart: "Leave her behind. One less mouth to feed, and we might actually survive."She had given him everythingfood, money, trust, and a lifetime of sacrifice. Yet when drought devoured the fields and the roads swelled with desperate refugees, he repaid her with abandonment... and death.Her blood spilled onto an ancient wooden hairpin. In that final moment, everything changed.When she opened her eyes again, she had returned to the time before the tragedy began. This time, she remembered it all: the coming famine, the betrayal, and the smiling faces that hid knives. She now knew exactly who was truly loyal, who deserved protection, and who was waiting to push her into the grave.But rebirth was only the beginning.Hidden within the hairpin lay a mysterious space one door leading to the chaotic ancient world, the other opening into a modern marketplace centuries in the future. Rice, salt, medicine, tools, weapons, cloth, and knowledge... everything impossible in this era of chaos became her most powerful weapons.The old woman who once begged for her life would never beg again.This time, she would save her pregnant daughter-in-law who was fated to die, protect the neglected granddaughter the family scorned, expose the greedy, punish the ungrateful, and forge a new path for her family before famine, war, bandits, and the merciless wheel of history destroyed them all.In a collapsing dynasty where a single bowl of porridge could mean life or death, she now held secrets powerful enough to rewrite her family's fate.Yet every miracle has its price.
Once the doors between eras swing open, the line between salvation and disaster begins to blur. What should be saved? What must be changed? And what should remain buried forever in the past?
