Reborn in the Siheyuan: From the Start, I Join the Neighborhood Office

Main character: scheming, slow-burn, no female lead but multiple women Lin Chen, a modern factory worker who spent his days tightening screws, transmigrates to a courtyard compound in the 1960s and becomes the nephew of Director Wang of the neighborhood office. His aunt and uncle, whom he lived with from childhood, are the district police chief and his wife. After Lin Chen graduates, his uncle plans to arrange an apprenticeship for him at a steel mill, but Lin Chen has no intention of going back to being a factory drone. He spent his previous life tightening screws, and if he has to keep doing that after transmigrating, what was the point of transmigrating at all? He immediately volunteers to work on the front lines and serve the people, joining the neighborhood office and beginning a life of slacking off on the job. Along the way, he gets a glimpse of the residents of the legendary “Courtyard Full of Beasts.”