Siheyuan: Stealing the Heroine Away

Lin Chen, a modern-day office drone, was accidentally taken to the underworld by a soul-reaping messenger. He watched helplessly as his body turned to ash. Furious, he argued his case with the King of Hell, eventually striking a deal: he would be reborn in the world of Love in the Courtyard, with a portable space capable of storing anything.

In this life, he was the orphan of a senior engineer who had returned from overseas. His parents had been killed in a secret-agent assassination, leaving him a vast inheritance while he was far away in a foreign country. The original owner had died of heartbreak, unable to bear the blow, giving Lin Chen the chance to take over his body. In 1962, America was overflowing with supplies. Armed with memories from the future and an infinite storage space, Lin Chen went on a shopping spree: mountains of rice and flour, every corner crammed with canned food and medicine, engineering blueprints and technical books neatly sorted, and even machine-tool parts weren’t spared.?

With a space full of wealth and knowledge, he began his journey back to China. The courtyard hadn’t yet been plagued by all the chaos to come. Qin Huairu was still young and unmarried, Silly Zhu was still busy working at the factory, and Xu Damao was still riding high. Facing neighbors who eyed him with ill intentions