The Cook Who Raised a Sect on Bone Broth

Xu Lingsu is scraping broth from a black pot when another clan elder comes to laugh at her gate. Forty years of being the first to spot a lie have left her with a cliff hut, old scars, and no one to share her tea with. She knows why people keep asking her to come back. They want the woman who always gets it right to fix what they broke, then stay silent. Instead, she takes in a young cultivator named Lin, teaches by bruises and plain meals, and starts building a clan from the people everyone else dismisses. The lonely part hurts. The work hurts more. Still, Xu keeps going, because she is tired of being useful only to people who never listen, and Lin is the first person who sits beside her wi...