Su Bei woke up one day to discover that he had become an orphan in the 1960s, taken in by a farming family.
The family didn't treat him like a human being. They made him do all the housework and forced him to sleep in the cowshed, while their own son regularly beat him up.
Then they discussed selling Su Bei to an ugly young woman from a wealthy family, squeezing every last bit of value out of him.
Su Bei soon realized that his neighbors didn't seem any better: the First Master, the Second Master, the Third Master, Qin Huairu, and Silly Zhu.
Just as Su Bei was planning to keep his head down and wait for the difficult times to pass, the System appeared. All he had to do was sign in every day to receive a reward. When he first arrived at the landowner's home and saw the breathtaking beauty beneath the red birthmarks on the ugly young woman's face, he realized that becoming a live-in son-in-law might not be so bad after all...