Siheyuan: I’m He Yuzhu, Defying Fate to Rewrite My Life

By a strange twist of fate, I arrived in the world of a story set in a traditional courtyard, taking on the role of He Yuzhu, the family’s human ATM.

But I never expected to transmigrate so far back in time. I arrived in the bitter winter of 1950.

That was the year He Daqing abandoned He Yuzhu and his younger sister.

He Yuzhu was fifteen that year, while his sister, He Yushui, was only five.

Although I still appeared as an apprentice at Hongbin Restaurant, I was no longer the future top chef He Yuzhu.

Instead, I took the 1952 National College Entrance Examination in a completely different capacity.

I became a student pursuing higher education and forged a new path in life.

This change also rendered every plan in the courtyard meaningless.

In the story behind it all, Yi Zhonghai had nowhere to vent his frustration, the Deaf Old Lady was always privately lamenting, and Qin Huairu regretted marrying too early...