Siheyuan: He Yuzhu, It’s Not Too Late to Start Over

Siheyuan: 1950, Starting with a Shovelful of Dirt

He Yuzhu is reborn on the eve of his father He Daqing eloping with White Widow.

Faced with a brother who, in the original story, only knows how to grovel after women, and a little sister, He Yushui, who is just six years old,

He Yuzhu decides that in this life he won't be Silly Zhu from Love in the Courtyard. First, he'll make sure he and He Daqing get their hands on the house and money.

Then he'll take his sister and make an honest living in the capital in the early 1950s.

As for the beasts who'll try to take advantage of them in the future, he'll make sure they know the He siblings aren't easy targets.

When He Yuzhu opened his eyes, he stared at the blackened beam above him for a full three minutes.

The dim, yellow glow of the kerosene lamp cast a small patch of warmth on the paper-covered window. Rustling came from next door, along with a man's deliberately lowered voice.

“...I'm still thinking it over. Your Aunt Bai wants me to go to Baicheng. She's got two children there, and we can't all keep living in this courtyard...”

He Yuzhu abruptly sat up.

Aunt Bai? Baicheng?

He turned to look at the shabby square table in the room. On it sat a rough porcelain bowl that hadn't been cleared away, with half a steamed cornbread bun left at the bottom, hard enough to knock someone out.

Outside the window, a small, thin figure was curled up, as if eavesdropping.

He Yushui.

Memories surged into his mind like water bursting through a dam: Love in the Courtyard, Silly Zhu, Qin Huairu, Jia Zhangshi, Yi Zhonghai... all the curses he'd hurled while watching the show over the years,