Siheyuan: Building a Happy Life After Fleeing the Famine

Lin Ping'an accidentally transmigrates to a Beijing courtyard in the 1950s. Just as he's at the end of his rope, sticking out one leg unexpectedly activates the Universal Growth System.

Thanks to twenty years of car-repair experience at his family's auto shop in his previous life, he impresses the leaders of the Military Control Commission and secures a job, a home, and a household registration.

Only when he arrives at his new place does he realize that this is the notorious Birds-Fill-the-Courtyard compound!

He Yuzhu: Brother Ping'an, from now on, I'll be your right-hand man!

Lin Ping'an: Good! Then I'll change your fate against the heavens!

Yi Zhonghai: Lin Ping'an! Do you still want a job at the steel mill?

Lin Ping'an: What the hell is the steel mill to me? I'll send every last one of you to prison!

Jia Zhangshi: Shameless bastard! You dare try to take my house?

Lin Ping'an: The heavens' justice comes full circle. Who can escape their fate? This time, I'll let you and Banggeng freeze to death under the bridge!

Xu Damao: ...

This novel and its characters are entirely fictional. Any resemblance to real people or events is purely coincidental. Do not imitate.