Siheyuan: My Cousin Is a Fortune-Telling Genius, So I Lie Flat from the Start

Shen Ji accidentally transmigrates to a Beijing courtyard home in the 1970s, becoming a blind fortune-teller. He possesses the ability to read minds and can hear other people's thoughts three times a day, using it to survive in the cracks. The shrewish Jia Zhangshi sees him as a thorn in her side, reports him for engaging in feudal superstition, and brings the subdistrict office over to question him. Shen Ji acts pitiful and uses his mind-reading ability to see through the officials' thoughts, easily resolving the crisis. Unwilling to accept defeat, Jia Zhangshi then frames her neighbor Liu Haizhong for stealing a chicken. Shen Ji exposes her staged farce in front of everyone, leaving her humiliated. With his intelligence and cunning, he establishes himself in the courtyard, earns Liu Haizhong's gratitude and everyone's respect, and gets leverage over Xu Damao, carving out a way to survive. But Jia Zhangshi won't let it go, and an even greater storm is brewing.

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