Siheyuan: Ghostwriting White Deer Plain, Qin Huairu Regrets It

In the 1960s, in a courtyard house on Nanluoguxiang, Qin Hao has neither a System nor any other cheat. Orphaned and doomed to a lonely life, he still manages through sheer ability to work his way up from a Level Three fitter to becoming an author capable of writing White Deer Plain. He earns more than eight yuan per thousand characters, and his life gets better and better, with meat on the table every meal and its aroma filling the courtyard.

But Qin Hao knows exactly what the people in this courtyard are like: they're all beasts. Jia Zhangshi sits cross-legged on the kang, cursing everyone out. Jia Dongxu lies bedridden, suspicious that he's been cuckolded. Qin Huairu regrets everything so deeply it makes her sick, even though she was the one who looked down on him in the first place. Only after Banggeng is kidnapped for several days and nights does the family finally remember to cry and wail, and they still blame everyone else for not keeping a better eye on the child.

Now the editor-in-chief of a newspaper in the capital personally comes to his door to urge him to submit his work. Even Director Yang of the steel mill and the renowned Jin Yong from Hong Kong are keeping an eye on his updates. Qin Hao is busy revising his adaptation, while the pack of hungry wolves in the courtyard fixates on the smell of his meat and the money he earns from writing. Their eyes are practically turning green.

But Qin Hao can't be bothered with them. He's busy figuring out how to adjust the heat on his braised meat, while also considering how to make Qin Huairu regret things a little more in the next chapter. Life is certainly lively around here.

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