After a car accident, modern-day Zhou Xiaoyang transmigrates to a Beijing courtyard compound in 1965 and binds himself to the “Family Bond System”: repairing family relationships earns material rewards. When he first sees Yi Zhonghai at a courtyard meeting, the System suddenly sounds an alarm: this stern-faced man is actually his biological father, who abandoned him!
To find his family, Zhou Xiaoyang uses rewards from the System to resolve conflicts between Jia family in-laws and stop Xu Damao from framing people, all while keeping a close eye on Yi Zhonghai. The old man seems stern, but secretly returns the canned meat Zhou dropped and vouches for a household registration for him, even though he has no legal status. As the investigation deepens, the truth about the 1960 steelworks fire comes to light: Yi Zhonghai’s wife and child were taken by Liu Haizhong of the Revolutionary Committee, who staged their deaths. Zhou Xiaoyang is the very “Yangyang” who was sent away!
Xu Damao starts investigating Zhou’s background, and Liu Haizhong’s schemes begin anew as the storms of a turbulent era sweep through the courtyard compound. Zhou Xiaoyang is no longer content with System rewards. He wants to protect this “tough on the outside, soft on the inside” father, uncover the blood-soaked past, and make sure Yi Zhonghai knows: the son he fought so hard to protect has come home!
Family bonds become a blade that cuts through the fog. Amid the everyday bustle of the courtyard compound lies a reunion across time, with both sides reaching for each other.
