Siheyuan: Outsmarting Heaven by Half a Step

Name: Siheyuan: Outsmarting Heaven by Half a Step
Author: Dragon Roars Across the Sky

四合院之胜天半子

by Dragon Roars Across the Sky (龙啸长空)

Status: Completed
Length: 287k Words
Genre: Urban
Subgenre: Urban Everyday
Updated: 1y ago
Source: Fanqie

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Qi Tongwei spent his whole life determined to “win half a move against Heaven,” only to lose everything. When he opened his eyes again, he had become He Yuzhu, the foolish cook in a Siheyuan on Nanluoguxiang in the 1960s!

His status had been turned upside down, from a powerful figure to an ordinary man at the bottom of society. Before him stood a cramped courtyard, and around him were the calculating “yard beasts.” But the defiance against fate buried deep in Qi Tongwei's bones had never gone out.

Armed with the cunning and ruthlessness he had learned through the ups and downs of his previous life in officialdom, he awakened inside Shazhu's body. This time, the chessboard of fate was this tiny courtyard. Social relations were the paths of the game, and people's hearts were its pieces.

Would he sink into petty everyday squabbles, or use a department chief's wits to lay out a world-shaking game in this world of ordinary people? Watch a political powerhouse transform into a cook and turn the Siheyuan into a battlefield, staking everything once again to prove, amid the bustle of everyday life, that indomitable way of “winning half a move against Heaven”!

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