Good news: I’ve just become one of the 21st century’s top engineers!
Bad news: I’ve transmigrated into the courtyard as the biggest pushover around, and from the start, everyone’s trying to take advantage of me!
Even worse news: the System only grants skills for repairs and inventions, but I just want to keep a low profile!
Jia Zhangshi shows up to make a scene: “We’re neighbors! What’s the harm in borrowing a few things from you?”
I just want to earn some points, so I whip out an abacus and rattle through the calculations. “Auntie Jia, principal and interest come to seven yuan and thirty-two cents. That’s what you still owe me.”
Jia Zhangshi: (eyes wide with shock) “You... you can do bookkeeping?”
Silly Zhu comes over to show off his cooking: “Dawei, watch me show you what I can do!”
I casually modify the coal stove. Silly Zhu stares at the blue flame, lost in thought.
Silly Zhu: (looking at me with adoration) “Bro, is that stove burning coal or immortal qi from the Heavenly Court?”
Later, the only place the beasts could see news about me was in the papers.
They were consumed by regret.
“Warm congratulations to Comrade Li Dawei, chief designer of our nation’s first-generation nuclear submarine...”
The beasts: “We told you to be a pushover, not a pillar of the nation!”
