Siheyuan: Starting from the 1960s, I Rose to Power by Mastering Martial Arts

Su Chen, an orphan of a fallen hero, has just graduated from university and been assigned to a steel mill when he volunteers to take over the haunted courtyard in the residential compound.

Director Wang from the neighborhood committee clutches the keys, hesitating. Jia Zhangshi jumps up to stop him. The deaf old lady leans on her cane and offers a hushed warning. Everyone in the courtyard hangs back to watch the show.

Su Chen calmly pushes open the door.

To everyone else, it's a haunted house. Su Chen, though, is thrilled: the moment he opens the door, his System activates.

He hunts in the mountains, catches fish in the river, and gives his whole family a better life.

Why wouldn't he make the most of his golden finger and stay out of the storm? That's the smart choice, isn't it?

But first, he's going to settle the score with everyone who took advantage of his family and bullied a helpless widow and her children!

From then on, by day Su Chen works as a technician at the steel mill, tending the courtyard while watching the vermin in the compound carry on.

By night, he ponders what the System can turn the wasteland into.

As for those waiting to laugh at him, Jia Zhangshi, Yan Bugui, and the deaf old lady hiding in the shadows, their tears will come sooner or later.

This novel and its characters are entirely fictional. Any resemblance is purely coincidental. Do not imitate.