Siheyuan: I'm the Villain, So Why Are the Beasts Crying?

A twenty-first-century office worker opens his eyes and finds himself a low-ranking steel mill worker in Nanluoguxiang, Beijing, in 1991. His name is particularly old-fashioned, too: Qin Weidong.

The name may be old-fashioned, but he has something outrageously powerful: a Cut-In-Line System. The System tells him in advance who is about to get a benefit, who's on a lucky streak, and who's plotting against whom. He swoops in and snatches the prize first, getting richer with every score.

This is the story of how he goes from being the most despised worker in the entire courtyard to turning all the scheming scoundrels inside and outside it into a backdrop for their own meltdowns, while making the most of the opportunities of the 1990s and building a life others wouldn't even dare dream of.

He's no good person, and he can't be bothered to pretend otherwise. He's shameless, roguish, and quietly wicked, but he has a clear sense of right and wrong: he gives his whole heart to genuinely kind people, and makes anyone who schemes against him pay back every last bit, with interest.

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