Siheyuan: Want to Leave Me with Nothing? Strike First

Li Jianye transmigrates to a courtyard in 1958. Just as he gets his health back, the uncle who raised him dies in a workplace accident.

Before the mourning hall has even been cleared, the beasts in the courtyard bare their fangs:

Yi Zhonghai tries to pocket the compensation money, Jia Zhangshi spreads rumors that Li Jianye is a jinx, and Silly Zhu even curses him on the day of the funeral, hoping to drive his thirteen-year-old cousin to her death!

Li Jianye gives a cold laugh. “Trying to guilt-trip me? I don't play that game!”

He whips out Quotations from the Great Leader, immediately making Old Deaf Zhang faint right there in front of the mourning hall!

He storms the neighborhood office to protect his property, then sneaks out at night, throws a sack over Silly Zhu, and kicks him into a latrine for a swim. Every beast in the courtyard gets clubbed, stripped, and dumped in an alley to shiver in the cold. Without proof, what can you do to me?

Yi Zhonghai uses his authority to try to ruin him in the workshop?

Li Jianye turns around and kicks open the machine shop door, transferring to a government office everyone despises: the scrap collection station!

The people in the courtyard laugh at him for becoming a scrap dealer, but they don't know that Li Jianye, with a portable space where time stands still, is thriving at the scrap yard.

In an era when people can barely afford to eat, Li Jianye not only makes sure his little sister eats meat every day and grows strong, but also fills his space with antiques, paintings, calligraphy, gold bars, and jade treasures worth a fortune in later generations.

By the time the turbulent decade has passed and the beasts are starving, emaciated, and left with no one to care for them in their old age, Li Jianye is already worth billions, looking on with a smile at the monsters in the courtyard!