She Cooked Her Way to the Top

Lila transmigrates into a novel as a nameless side character fated to be sold to a brothel and die. Refusing that ending, she gets herself bought by a poor carpenter for one pound and joins his struggling family. Armed with modern culinary knowledge, she bakes sourdough bread, simmers rich fish stock, and invents meat-jelly scones that sell out on her first day at the market. With every coin, she feeds the family that saved her, sends her little sister to school, and rewrites a fate that was supposed to end in tragedy.