[Transmigration + cunning + self-interest + System + face-slapping + light Cao thief story + power fantasy + period setting]
After transmigrating into the body of someone in 1958, he arrives in the world of Love in the Courtyard as Sun Xiangyang, an inconspicuous young man whose parents died early and who is nearly starving to death.
At the height of his despair, the [Emotion and Gossip System] activates!
As long as he watches people tear into each other and stirs up trouble, making the courtyard's beasts experience intense emotional swings, he can earn “gossip points” and exchange them for anything in the world!
And so, a cunning troublemaker is born.
Silly Zhu and Xu Damao get into a fight? Sun Xiangyang munches on sunflower seeds and stokes the flames from the sidelines: “Xu Damao, he said you can't have kids. Are you just going to take that?”
[Ding! Gained 50 anger points from Xu Damao and 30 smugness points from Silly Zhu!]
Jia Zhangshi and Qin Huairu wage a mother-in-law and daughter-in-law war?
Sun Xiangyang pretends to comfort Qin Huairu: “Sister-in-law, Auntie Jia said you're a jinx to your husband. The whole courtyard heard her!”
[Ding! Gained 200 grievance points from Qin Huairu and 150 panic points from Jia Zhangshi!]
He exchanges his points for Level Eight fitter skills and gets hired as a technician at the factory!
The First Master tries to manipulate people with moral blackmail?
The Second Master is obsessed with becoming an official?
The Third Master calculates every last detail?
Sun Xiangyang smiles faintly and fans the flames behind the scenes.
He lets them fight to the death while he enjoys the juiciest gossip, collects the most gossip points, lives in the biggest house, and marries the most beautiful woman.
Before anyone knows it, the young man who was nearly starving to death has become an influential figure at the Steel Mill and throughout the capital!