The Oracle Eater

A struggling youth opens a spicy hot pot shop near campus and stumbles upon an uncanny gift: by analyzing the ingredients customers choose, he can predict their fates. What begins as harmless fortune-telling to help students and neighbors soon spirals into a lucrative scam operation for the wealthy elite. Over ten years, he rides the intoxicating highs of fame and crashes through devastating lows of betrayal. In the end, amid bubbling bone broth and broken trust, he learns the hardest lesson: you can calculate destiny's formula, but never the variables of the human heart.