Liu Haizhu, a bicycle repairman, accidentally transmigrated into the world of Love in the Courtyard, becoming a pathetic repairman whose parents were dead and whom everyone in the courtyard ostracized.
“Ding! Sign-in System activated!”
As Liu Haizhu set up a battered bicycle repair stall at the entrance to the courtyard, a mechanical voice suddenly rang in his mind.
His first-day sign-in reward was bicycle repair skills. He restored a rust-covered bicycle with his deft hands, drawing crowds of workers from the Hongxing Steel Plant.
[Day 7 sign-in reward: Mechanical X-ray Vision] The sewing machine Qin Huairu brought in for repairs appeared to him as a transparent schematic. His delicate adjustments added ten years to its lifespan, and from then on, the women of the courtyard lined up to bring him food and ask for help;
[Day 30 sign-in reward: Lease on an abandoned factory building] He turned a rundown warehouse into the capital’s first “bicycle customization club.” The women’s bikes with sloping top tubes that Liu Haizhu designed even attracted an order worth tens of thousands of yuan from an overseas Chinese businessman…
[Day 100 sign-in reward: Dongfeng truck repair manual] In the dead of night, when the Hongxing Steel Plant’s imported equipment ground to a halt, Liu Haizhu stormed into the factory director’s office with a wrench. “Give me two hours!”
He went from being mocked by Jia Zhangshi as “a destitute nobody who rides backward,” to having Third Uncle beg to learn his trade while clutching a pack of Peony cigarettes; from sleeping on the floor of a storage room in the courtyard, to buying an entire neighboring courtyard and opening an auto repair shop.
When Liu Haizhu drove his customized Santana into the alley, the daughter of a Hong Kong tycoon beamed from the back seat. Beside the courtyard meeting’s Eight Immortals table, someone finally called out in a trembling voice, “Chief Engineer Liu...”
