Siheyuan: Secretly Building Wealth, Starting as a Chef

I became He Yuzhu in a Beijing courtyard house.

In an era when three yuan could support a family of four, I knew all too well what the future held.

Everyone thought I was an idiot, a lunatic...

But no one knew that, determined to keep up with the times, I was secretly laying the groundwork for a major venture into business in the 1980s.

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