In 1951, during the bitter cold of the Ninth Nine Days of winter, snow and wind swept through the capital.
He Yuzhu suddenly opened his eyes. Before him, his little sister He Yushui was shivering, while their father, He Daqing, was furtively stuffing money into a worn canvas bag.
Silly Zhu had awakened!
Memories flooded his mind: in his previous life, Qin Huairu had bled him dry, Yi Zhonghai had schemed to leave him without a family, and in the end he had frozen to death beneath a bridge.
This time, with a System at his side, he would never again be anyone's punching bag!
He Daqing wanted to run off with White Widow?
Fine! Leave behind your job at the steel mill, the house deed, and every last bit of cash and ration coupons! Refuse? He'd plant a cleaver in the doorframe. Nobody was leaving this courtyard today!
Jia Zhangshi wanted to take advantage of the chaos and seize the main house?
He'd slap the teeth right out of her mouth, then report her to the neighborhood committee and send her to a labor camp in the northwest to break rocks!
Yi Zhonghai wanted to use moral pressure to groom a free caretaker?
He'd put up big-character posters across the courtyard, tear off that hypocrite's mask, and ruin the prestige of this eighth-grade technician!
In this life, He Yuzhu's heart was hard as iron, and his methods were ruthless.
He wouldn't revolve around widows or listen to the old schemer's nonsense. With the [Heaven Rewards Diligence] System, he would start in the steel mill kitchen, charge ahead, and climb the ranks to an official position.
He'd marry a good wife, protect his adorable little sister, feast through the famine years, and remain steady as a mountain when the political winds shifted.
As for the courtyard's pack of beasts? Whoever dared reach out would lose a hand!
I'll give myself five stars 🤦
Not bad. Even if you don't accept He Daqing's work, at least give it a 5-star review.
A wonderful fanfiction about a courtyard house: a tragic past life followed by a powerful comeback in this life, without any overly sentimental or self-destructive elements, where life gets better and better even during a famine.
Although it's a heavily modified version, it's still quite enjoyable. Despite Yan Laosan's family provoking the protagonist several times and the neighbors gossiping indiscriminately, nothing has actually happened.
It's actually quite pretty.
With the "Heaven Rewards Diligence" system providing support, the male protagonist is intelligent, and the plot moves at a fast pace.
Breaking away from the original series' "good guy" trope, the protagonist is ruthless yet principled, achieving success in both his career and family life, making for a thrilling watch.
Good good good good good good good
It's good, but there's too little.
The courtyard, teeming with scoundrels, finally welcomed the clever, simple-minded Zhu, who finally stopped being a sycophant.