Siheyuan: I Snatched Qin Huairu from the Start, and the Whole Courtyard...

My name is Chen Yang. When I opened my eyes, I'd become Chen Jianjun, the sickly character from Love in the Courtyard.

The whole courtyard was full of beasts.

Qin Huairu was coming to the city for a matchmaking date, while Jia Dongxu and his mother looked down their noses at everyone.

The System gave me a choice: A. Be a doormat, or B. Steal Qin Huairu away.

I chose B without hesitation. From the start, I won myself a beautiful wife and became the enemy of the entire courtyard.

Yi Zhonghai called a meeting to guilt-trip everyone with talk of morality. I exposed his fear of dying without an heir in front of them all;

Silly Zhu tried to get physical, so I dislocated his arm;

Jia Zhangshi went around “calling spirits” in the middle of the night, so I called the police and had her arrested;

Liu Haizhong put on airs like an official, so I slapped him with policy documents.

Then the political winds shifted, and Liu Haizhong put on a red armband and led the raid on my home.

He searched every inch of the place and found nothing but a stack of technical blueprints.

The military representative slammed the table and roared, “This is what it means to contribute to the country!”

Just when everyone thought I was doomed, I was the first to take unpaid leave and head south to make my fortune.

From trading in electronic watches to opening restaurants, starting a clothing factory, and buying courtyard houses...

Yi Zhonghai, who once cursed me as a man doomed to die without heirs, begged me to buy his house so he could have someone to care for him in his old age;

Liu Haizhong, who used to throw his weight around, survived on the job I arranged for him;

Yan Bugui, the penny-pincher, came to my company every day to mooch off the heating;

Even Xu Damao became a sales manager under me.

Years later, I bought the entire courtyard and sat beneath the old locust tree, drinking tea.

Jia Zhangshi grew old, cursing all the while. Banggeng repented in prison, and Qin Huairu gave me a second child.

This courtyard had once been the stage for their schemes against me. Now it was my family's backyard.