Siheyuan: The Legendary Supply-and-Marketing Cooperative Buyer

Cao Jianshe's transmigration journey takes him to the extraordinary era of 1984. He becomes a purchasing agent for a supply and marketing cooperative in the capital and moves into Red Star Courtyard, a place with complicated relationships that people describe as crawling with beasts. In a time of widespread scarcity, he bears responsibility for the livelihoods of millions. Every purchasing decision affects the quality of life of countless ordinary people, so it's easy to imagine how difficult it is to do this job well.

Fortunately, fate grants him a unique opportunity: he activates a space-time coordinate, allowing him to trade with people a thousand years in the future. The world of that distant era is overflowing with goods, and advanced technologies keep emerging in a picture of prosperity and abundance. What Cao Jianshe never expects is that people of that age are fascinated by antiques and old objects. From the common 28-inch roadster bicycle to everyday pots, bowls, and pans, even moldy chopsticks: these things, which seem ordinary or even worthless in his own time, are enough to stir up intense curiosity and a desire to collect them a thousand years later.