Siheyuan: These Miserable Days Finally Have Hope

Zhou Xingshui is so furious watching a TV drama that his liver aches. When he opens his eyes, he finds himself in the 1960s, in a courtyard teeming with scheming tenants. His parents are gone, leaving him three rooms, and he works as a film projectionist at a steel mill. He is worrying that the economic reforms are still more than a decade away when a voice suddenly explodes in his mind: his portable Jurassic mini-world has opened. Dense fog shrouds most of the land, and a dinosaur half his height is chasing a beetle. At last, there’s something to look forward to in this miserable life.