When Lin Yue wakes up, he has transmigrated to the resource-scarce 1950s. He has become a junior clerk in the General Affairs Department of the Dongfang Heavy Industries plant and moved into Courtyard No. 9 on Tongluogu Alley, a place full of scheming. The courtyard's hypocritical Uncle Zhao wants him to donate his home, the hot-tempered chef He Tieniu plans to beat him into submission, and the bloodsucking widow Chen Xiangxue keeps an eye on his lunchbox every day. Faced with these neighbors, all rotten to the core, Lin Yue makes a decisive choice: forget about personal standards and enjoy a shameless life! He awakens the Cause-and-Effect Snatching System. As long as he snatches someone else's opportunity or makes a troublemaker suffer a loss without being able to complain, he can earn rich rewards and scarce supplies. Chen Xiangxue wants a steady meal ticket? He snatches the man she was set up with! Uncle Zhao wants to throw his weight around at the factory? Lin Yue uses his authority in General Affairs to withhold his bath ticket and ration book! In public, Lin Yue is a rising workplace star with control over vital supplies. In private, he's the ruthless schemer who makes every troublemaker in the courtyard suffer. See how Lin Yue quietly builds a fortune in the ration-card era and lives the good life, eating meat at every meal!
This novel and its characters are entirely fictional. Any resemblance to actual people or events is purely coincidental. Do not imitate.
