Siheyuan: The Yan Family's Third Son Chooses to Leave Home from the Start

Period drama | Courtyard compound | Crossover with film and TV worlds | Personal pocket dimension | Overpowered protagonist | Returning to the city for the college entrance exam | Building wealth | Face-slapping and taking down villains

In 1974, he transmigrates into Yan Jiekang, the third son of the Yan family, known as “Third Uncle” in the courtyard.

Faced with elders who scheme endlessly and a courtyard full of petty, grasping neighbors and ungrateful wretches, Yan Jiekang gives a cold laugh. “I'm done serving you!” He volunteers to join the youth sent down to the countryside, leaving the scoundrels behind. With a pocket dimension comparable to a small world, he launches into a life of effortless domination.

He thought it would just be an ordinary slice-of-life story set in a bygone era. But on the train to the countryside, Zhong Yuemin and Han Chunming are on board, while Hu Bayi and Wang Pangzi are in the next berth. When he returns to the city to buy a house, he runs into Seventh Master Bai and even gets to drop by the Crescent Hotel. He also adopts a war hero's orphan from an orphanage, a child named Liu Peiqiang... The waters here are unfathomably deep!

While others in the countryside scrape by on bran and wild vegetables, Yan Jiekang grows spirit herbs in his pocket dimension and feasts on meat.

While others hunt for old clothes at junkyards, Yan Jiekang rummages through the ruins, scooping up antiques, gold bricks, and courtyard houses.

While others fight tooth and nail for a certificate allowing them to return to the city, Yan Jiekang already has his high school textbooks. When the college entrance exam is reinstated in 1977, he returns to the capital in glory with a perfect score in the national science track and an admission letter from Imperial University!

Seeing Yan Jiekang riding a homemade bicycle, carrying a fortune in his pocket, and living in a mansion, the courtyard's scoundrels are consumed with envy.

Jia Zhangshi wants to throw a tantrum and steal his things? Silly Zhu wants to guilt-trip him? Yi Zhonghai still wants to throw his weight around as First Uncle?

Yan Jiekang boldly flips the table. “The times have changed, old man! Our Yan family doesn't owe you a thing. Come yap at my doorstep again, and I'll send you straight to a reform-through-labor farm to work the sewing machines!”