Siheyuan: I Am Xu Damao

Modern office drone Xu Mao is struck by a mysterious River-and-Mountains Pearl and transmigrates to 1957, becoming Xu Damao, who has just graduated from high school in Love in the Courtyard.

From the start, he’s in hard mode: his pockets are empty, the scheming neighbors are circling, Jia Dongxu is still alive, and Liu Guangqi hasn’t run away yet.

Looking at the “old acquaintances” eager to see him make a fool of himself, Xu Damao, with his modern soul, smiles.

Trying to guilt-trip me? I’ll hit you with performance reviews until you question your whole life.

Playing the social game? I’ll use project management to show you what efficiency means.

He only meant to quietly watch from the sidelines and make money, but with the River-and-Mountains Pearl in his possession, the tides of the era come crashing toward him.

In that case, he has no choice but to:

Save Jia Dongxu, who was supposed to die, and completely upend the compound’s power balance;

Help Silly Zhu become a catering magnate instead of spending his life as a lovesick doormat;

Help Qin Huairu live for herself instead of leeching off others;

And, in this turbulent age, use his ahead-of-the-times insight to write a legend of his own.

When the winds of reform sweep across the land, people look back and realize that the little courtyard compound had long since become the legendary starting point of an era.