Siheyuan: In the Famine Years, I Can Synthesize Supplies

Eighteen-year-old He Li transmigrates to a courtyard in 1960 and becomes He Yuzhu. Luckily, he has a shopkeeping mini-game with him. Once he completes the game and helps the young women in it open their shops, he can return to the modern era. The game is simple, something anyone can do: just use your nimble fingers to drag low-level goods around the grid and combine them into higher-level goods to fill orders. The only catch is that dragging items requires Mind Points. So helping single mothers with children in exchange for Mind Point cards becomes He Li’s daily routine. He expects nothing in return, wants nothing else, and is only after those Mind Point card packs. But he can’t shake his natural “killer” instincts. In just one year, He Li manages to build a genuinely harmonious courtyard and leave behind a seed station stocked with advanced materials. No CP, little angst, basically no villains, and the protagonist isn’t a do-gooder. The timeline covers just one year. Qin Huairu, Liang Ladi, and others appear, but they have no romantic relationship with the male lead. Content warning: The elderly deaf woman, the First Master, and the Lou family are not secretly villains. They remain true to their original characterizations, with no strange new identities added.