One soul, two bodies.
Reborn into Zhuang Tunan, he can travel through his family’s cabinet to Nanluoguxiang, becoming one of the residents of the courtyard compound.
When Zhuang Tunan is three, his younger sister, Zhuang Xiaoting, is born.
The old lady of the Zhuang family only stays to help with the baby for four days before rushing off. On her way out, she demands a huge sum of living expenses from Zhuang Chaoying.
Furious, Zhuang Tunan catches a toad in the wild and slips it into Grandma Zhuang’s bundle. When she discovers it, she’s so frightened she bursts into tears.
After that, Zhuang Tunan often dreams that the cabinet in his home connects to Nanluoguxiang in the 1950s and 60s.
In that vivid “dream,” Zhuang Tunan becomes Wang Jianguo, the son of Widow Liu in the courtyard compound.
The people in the compound constantly scheme against him, and make his life difficult in every way. Wang Jianguo tries to change things, but there’s nothing he can do.
In the end, Widow Liu dies of illness, leaving Wang Jianguo with a lifelong regret.
Then one day, he discovers that he really can travel between the two timelines through the cabinet, and a darkly cunning idea takes shape.
First, he tricks all the courtyard’s troublemakers into the timeline of Stories of an Alley Family. Then he sets the old house ablaze, and the troublemakers are reported and branded as enemy agents!
With his vengeance complete, Zhuang Tunan relies on extraordinary courage and intelligence to surge ahead, vigorously developing private enterprise and ultimately becoming a legend.
