Name: Siheyuan: I Strip the Whole Courtyard Bare, and the Jia Family Sells Their Son for Glory
Author: Yue Handong, Who Loves Salt-and-Pepper Prawns

Synopsis

[System + won’t kill scoundrels, but will make them pay + the male lead never takes a loss]

After transmigrating into a courtyard house as an orphan living in the front yard, Lin An learns that his late father sacrificed his life to save a valuable machine. The compensation money, job, and house his father left behind are now coveted by every scoundrel in the courtyard. The First Master joins forces with Jia Zhangshi, using a Taoist scripture as bait to frame Lin An for “feudal superstition.” They call in the Red Armbands, intent on destroying him. The Red Armbands burst in and find Taoist books under his bed. He is about to be taken away when, at this critical moment, the System activates. His beginner’s gift is the [Five Ghosts’ Transporting Art]. Thinking fast, Lin An has the five ghosts cast an illusion, turning the Taoist books into copybooks and saving himself from disaster.

Afterward, Lin An discovers the truly astonishing power of the System: the Taoist book treated as evidence is actually the key to opening a personal “paradise.” Inside, spiritual qi is abundant, the soil is fertile, and time flows differently from the outside world. The [Five Ghosts’ Transporting Art] can do more than cast illusions: it can also move anything from the outside world into the paradise without anyone noticing. In this age of extreme food shortages, while the courtyard residents scheme over a single steamed bun and Bang Geng rolls around on the ground with hunger, Lin An is eating vegetables infused with spiritual qi and drinking sweet mountain spring water in his paradise. Using the five ghosts, he quietly spirits away the Jia family’s hidden savings, the local specialties Xu Damao swindles from the countryside, and the fish caught by the Third Master.

(The male lead never takes a loss. In the first few chapters, it may look as if he’s getting the short end of the stick, but he’ll soon get even. His golden finger is so powerful that he can’t simply kill the scoundrels outright, or there wouldn’t be a story to tell.)

Stats

377Chapters

3.7kReads · 30 days

317.3kReads · all time

149Shelves

5.7Score

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