Siheyuan: Daily Sign-Ins and the Blissful Life of a Happy-Go-Lucky Slacker

In 1962, the year of famine, Su Chen is reborn as a poor electrician at a steel mill. With his little sister in tow, he's so hungry he has to fill his stomach with cold water.

Jia Dongxu beats his pregnant wife, while Jia Zhangshi takes the opportunity to extort thirty yuan from him. Silly Zhu enjoys the spectacle, First Uncle Yi Zhonghai turns a deaf ear, and Second Uncle Liu Haizhong puts on airs and tries to smooth things over.

The whole courtyard thinks he's still the same pushover they can all take advantage of.

But they don't know he has a sign-in System.

Day one: egg fried rice. Day two: ten kilos of flour, five kilos of cooking oil, one and a half kilos of pork, and five kilos of baijiu!

Jia Dongxu wants to get physical? Su Chen uses his momentum to send him sprawling. Jia Zhangshi wants to extort money? Let the security office deal with her. Does she still want to be considered for a professional title?

From now on, anyone who lays a finger on my sister will make sure their whole family goes hungry. Anyone who tries to throw their weight around will get pelted with ration coupons until they kneel and call me Dad.

With supplies in hand, the world is mine. It's time to change the rules of this courtyard.

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