Siheyuan: From the Start, I Refuse to Donate and Steal Lou Xiaoe Away

After transmigrating to a Beijing courtyard compound in 1960, Li Cheng is left without parents from the start, and the whole courtyard pressures him to donate money to the Jia family. Uncle Yi slams the table to intimidate him, Jia Zhangshi blocks the door and curses, and Silly Zhu rolls up his sleeves, ready to throw punches. Li Cheng puts the dollar he just took out back into his pocket, locks the door, and announces to everyone: "I'm done living in this dump."

At the neighboring machine-repair compound, Uncle Wang and Auntie Wang welcome him with chicken stewed with mushrooms, while Auntie Luo, whose own family can barely put food on the table, brings him a basket of vegetables. Neighbors, yet worlds apart.

At the steel mill, drawing on the insight and poise he gained in his previous life, he beats everyone to the punch and wins over Lou Xiao'e before her family can force her into a blind date. While Xu Damao is still asking around to find out how to get his foot in the Lou family's door, Li Cheng is already boating with Lou Xiao'e in Beihai Park.

The day he activates the Synthesis System, he turns workshop scrap into his first piece of alloy steel. Yi Zhonghai corners him at the factory, and Li Cheng waves the technician's appointment letter in his hand. "Uncle Yi, times have changed." Meanwhile, back at the old courtyard compound, Jia Zhangshi is smashing his door lock, hoping to steal his furniture to cover the donation. He cleared everything out long ago, and the call to the police is already being made.

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