Xie Ming woke up to discover that he had transmigrated to the capital in 1962 and become an ordinary young man living in a crowded courtyard on Nanluoguxiang. What made his scalp tingle was that this world combined the plots of Love in the Courtyard, Man Is Iron, Food Is Steel, and Under the Zhengyang Gate. The courtyard was home to the calculating "Three Masters," the shrewish and selfish Qin Huairu and her family, and the sanctimonious Xu Damao. At the factory, there was also a stubborn director and a scheming Director Li. A transmigrator with neither money nor influence, Xie Ming was also facing the threat of being laid off in an upcoming round of "optimization." He was utterly despairing.
