Liu Haizhong Is My Brother in the Siheyuan

Liu Yuan, a food delivery rider who rescued a cat on a stormy night, transmigrates into the body of Liu Huaiyuan, a young soldier with the same name, on the smoke-filled Korean battlefield of 1951. At death’s door, he not only merges with the original owner’s memories, but also unexpectedly binds himself to a mysterious thousand-square-meter space containing the Basic Body Tempering Art and Qi Refining Pills. After recovering from his injuries, he returns home and moves into a courtyard house in Nanluoguxiang, a neighborhood known for its “simple, honest ways.”

Faced with the scheming of Yi Zhonghai, the courtyard’s self-righteous moral paragon, the provocations of Silly Zhu, its violent battle god, and the extortion of all manner of foul creatures, Liu Huaiyuan simply smiles. His fists and feet can make the courtyard’s “battle god” question his life choices; his methods can turn the whole courtyard’s meetings into a joke. His ambitions extend far beyond this tiny patch of land: he has already set his sights on the crest of the era’s surging tides.

From anonymously submitting ideas for key technologies to using his space to save cultural treasures on the verge of being lost; from building up capital through trade in the south to moving markets and commanding the winds on the international financial stage of the future. Liu Huaiyuan has never aspired merely to become a “big shot” in his courtyard. And at the very beginning of it all, Lin Xiaoyue, the daughter of a doctor who has returned from abroad, watches him with a calm, resolute gaze, becoming his warmest companion through the long years ahead.

This is a story about living freely, protecting what matters, and rising to greatness. See how Liu Huaiyuan, in this turbulent age, gives his family a comfortable, carefree life in the courtyard while working behind the scenes to build up the nation’s strength, before ultimately shaking up the world.