Siheyuan: Model Worker at the Steel Mill, Driving the Beasts Crazy

Li Jianguo transmigrated into the 1960s, becoming an orphaned welding apprentice at a steel mill. He waited eight years, but the System never came. Yet Jia Zhangshi's vicious insults, Qin Huairu's schemes, Yi Zhonghai's self-interest, and Jia Dongxu cutting in on his romantic prospects were all still there. If he couldn't count on a System, he would rely on himself. While others gossiped, he buried himself in technical studies. While others schemed to steal his dates, he passed trade exams and raised his wages. In eight years, he worked his way from apprentice to the youngest Level Six welder in the entire factory. Just as the Jia family was wailing over Jia Dongxu's paralysis and the whole courtyard was waiting to laugh at Li, a voice that was eight years late finally rang out in his mind: [Ding! God-Tier Lottery System fully activated!] 880 yuan in cash, 20 jin of rice, 10 jin of pork, a Level Seven welding skills card... While everyone in the courtyard was still coveting a single jin of fatty pork, Li Jianguo was already riding a Phoenix-brand bicycle, carrying Ran Qiuye, a well-educated woman from a scholarly family, past all their resentment and envy. Jia Zhangshi pointed at him and cursed him to die without descendants? Li Jianguo slapped her back, leaving her to pay compensation until she was bankrupt. Silly Zhu wanted to stand up for Qin Huairu? With one move from his martial arts training, Li taught him what it meant to have a life that left you in the splits. When a late-arriving golden finger met eight years of hard-earned preparation, Li Jianguo showed everyone in the Siheyuan through his actions that the truly wretched are not those without children, but those without virtue or character. And the life he intended to live was one that would leave everyone else far behind: a life at the very top.