After dying suddenly, Lin Xiangbei transmigrated into the world of Love in the Courtyard, where he became Ersha, a fool anyone could bully. With both parents dead, living in a shabby shack, and stuck with the dirtiest jobs in the courtyard, he now had Xu Damao, the shrewdest man there, eyeing his house and arranging to ship him off to a bitterly cold forestry station.
But Xu Damao didn’t know that the fool had gotten a new mind.
When Lin Xiangbei came to, he was bound to the “Super Son-in-Law Development System.” His first mission was to get the better of Xu Damao. He discovered that Xu Damao worked as a laborer on the surface but secretly traded industrial coupons, and that he kept a secret ledger at home. Lin Xiangbei sneaked in under cover of night, copied the evidence, and delivered it anonymously. With one move, he used someone else to do his dirty work, sending a copy of the ledger to the neighborhood office.
Xu Damao panicked and began frantically searching the whole courtyard. Worse still, a third party had its eye on the matter, and the plot began to stray from the original. Having lost his advantage of knowing what was coming, Lin Xiangbei could only keep pretending to be a fool while secretly making plans: earning the trust of the widow Qin Huairu, reaching an understanding with Yi Zhonghai, the First Master, and even turning the tables on the thugs Xu Damao sent after him.
Starting with the ledger, he proceeded carefully, undermining Xu Damao’s influence, exposing a corruption scandal, and building his own network. When the System flashed a warning that the “plot had deviated by 100%,” Lin Xiangbei finally realized that the real challenge had only just begun.
A fool would use the intelligence and courage of a modern man to become the true master of the courtyard.
