Siheyuan: From the Start, I Bring Home Three Stunning Ex-Wives

A Siheyuan fanfic + period drama + multiple heroines + three ex-wives show up at his door from the start

1.1 One-sentence synopsis

In 1960, Chen Ming, a master physician of traditional Chinese medicine, transmigrates into the body of a scoundrel from a Siheyuan courtyard. When his three stunning ex-wives arrive with their children, he makes a living through his medical skills and shelters his family through years of famine and turmoil. He forges a bond with Lou Xiao'e through shared hardship and ultimately builds a family legacy that is ahead of its time.

1.2 Time span

October 1960 to New Year's Eve 1985 (25 years)

1.3 Core conflicts

• Surface: Modern medicine and survival skills versus the courtyard's social maneuvering and the tides of the times

• Middle: Building emotional bonds within a nontraditional family versus the pressures of conventional morality and social rules

• Deep: Protecting the faint light of humanity versus being crushed by the irresistible force of history

1.4 Core themes

• Protection: True strength means enabling the people you love to live with dignity in any era

• Survival: Wisdom and compassion are the highest principles of survival

• Selflessness: Love is not possession, but building a stage where each other can shine

• Contradiction: To hold on to some things, you have to lose others