Siheyuan: I Rebuild the Courtyard of Scoundrels

Chen Jingming, a veteran heavy-industry engineer, transmigrates into 1958 Beijing and becomes a new outsider living in a courtyard compound. He lands a job at the Red Star Steel Rolling Mill!

With no System, he relies solely on fifteen years of hard-earned industrial expertise to overcome the technical limitations of the 1950s!

As soon as he joins the factory, he unlocks a talent for technical upgrades. He improves aging equipment, refines forging and bench-fitting techniques, cuts costs, boosts production, and repeatedly wins special bonuses. Rising from an entry-level technician to workshop management through exceptional promotions, he secures one of the factory's coveted staff apartments!

Faced with the compound's petty greed, scheming, rivalries, and power struggles, he neither picks fights nor throws his weight around!

He helps people through his technical skills, guiding fellow workers in the compound toward promotions and raises. He wins people over with tangible benefits, organizing contract work for the neighborhood committee to boost everyone's income. And he brings order to the compound by establishing new rules for self-governance.

Little by little, he wins over stubborn residents like Jia Zhangshi, opens the eyes of Silly Zhu, who has been manipulated by appeals to morality, and turns around the compound's unhealthy atmosphere.

From an outsider tenant shunned by his neighbors, he becomes the trusted backbone of the entire compound. With his own hands, he transforms this chaotic courtyard full of trouble into a model community where neighbors help one another!

He contributes to the nation's rise through technical innovation at work, builds a stable home and marries, and unlocks the ultimate satisfaction of a grounded, steady comeback in a bygone era!

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