Siheyuan: I Told You to Steal Her Away, Not Make the Whole Courtyard Drool

[Love in the Courtyard Fan Fiction] [System-Based] [Cunning and Self-Interested] [Wits and Guts] Overworked office drone Chen Jiang transmigrates into the 1960s and becomes an orphan in Love in the Courtyard. Faced with a courtyard full of beasts: the conniving Qin Huairu wants to mooch off him? Silly Zhu, who loves to guilt-trip people, wants to take advantage of him? The career-obsessed Third Master wants to scheme against him? And what about Jia Zhangshi’s son Banggeng, who’s always stealing things? Chen Jiang sneers. Fortunately, the “God-Tier Opportunity Snatching System” has come online just in time! Snatch someone else’s opportunity, and earn a hundredfold reward! Silly Zhu’s “doormat lunchbox”? Snatched, and rewarded with [God-Tier Cooking Skills]! Xu Damao’s cushy projectionist job? He schemes to take it, and gets [Silver Tongue] and [+20 Favor with the Boss] as rewards! With intelligence beyond his time and a cunning streak, Chen Jiang carefully plots each move in this resource-poor, socially complicated Siheyuan, always looking out for his own interests. He keeps a low profile and appears aloof, but behind the scenes he has the courtyard’s beasts eating out of his hand: A bowl of braised pork wins him the Deaf Old Lady’s strongest protection with ease; An anonymous letter brings the swaggering Xu Damao crashing down; A few polite words earn him the factory director’s favor. See how clear-eyed Chen Jiang shuts the door and lives a good, quiet life in the “Beasts-Filled Courtyard,” while putting every beast who tries to take advantage of him firmly in their place, until he becomes the “young master” no one in the courtyard dares to provoke! But just when he thinks he can finally enjoy some peace after snatching Xu Damao’s cushy projectionist job, Yi Zhonghai, the First Master, joins forces with the whole courtyard to hold a “struggle session” against him... How will Chen Jiang turn the tables?