Siheyuan: Ten Years Early, I Put the Whole Yard of Beasts in Their Place

Lin Yuan, a modern executive chef, wakes up in 1948 as a poor young man on the outskirts of the capital. No System, no golden finger, just an ancestral storage ring, piled with two tons of gold, a thousand jin of grain and cotton, and the Marrow-Cleansing Pills left behind by his ancestors.

This isn't an ordinary period novel. More than a decade ahead of schedule, he moves into the courtyard that will later become famous. At this point, Qin Huairu is still unmarried, Silly Zhu is still a clueless young man, Xu Damao has only just learned to be devious, and the courtyard's vermin are all still wearing human skins.

Faced with neighbors who will one day bleed him dry, Lin Yuan doesn't resort to dirty tricks or crude jokes. He relies only on his peerless cooking skills and knowledge decades ahead of its time to make his plans without anyone noticing:

The whole courtyard wants to gang up on him? He slaps a discharge certificate on the table. Who'd dare say another word?

He doesn't fight for anything, and never rushes. In this age of scarcity, Lin Yuan makes life poetic: going to work, cooking, teasing the vermin, and casually building up a fortune that makes the whole courtyard green with envy.

When the story officially begins more than a decade later, the neighbors who were supposed to throw their weight around have already been brought completely to heel by him.

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