Siheyuan: I Own the Entire Ancient World!

His soul transmigrated into the body of a man with the same name who had starved to death not long before. After absorbing the original owner’s memories, he was instantly consumed by rage. The original owner’s life had truly been a portrait of misery. His parents had arranged a wife for him before they died, but then his father passed away. Since it was considered inauspicious to marry within a year, the wedding had to be delayed. The following year, just as he was hoping to start a family and enjoy a warm home, his mother died too. The marriage was put off for another year. In the third year, he thought he could finally get married, but someone beat him to it and stole his bride. Her family returned the ten yuan bride price, called off the engagement, and promptly married her off to the Jia family, their neighbors in the same courtyard. Furious, Wang Jun went to her family’s home to demand an explanation, but they beat him and threw him out. He was left with a lasting illness, and because he couldn’t afford treatment, Yi Zhonghai, the courtyard’s First Master, talked him into selling the job his father had left him for a paltry hundred yuan. Even then, he received only twenty yuan. Unable to pay for treatment, Wang Jun could only drag his sickly body along and watch his fiancée marry into the Jia family. What’s more, since he had been frail and ill for years, Yi Zhonghai persuaded the Jia family to move into his two rooms, using their large household as an excuse. With no source of income left, the original owner finally starved to death that very night, allowing Wang Jun’s soul to take up residence in his body...