[Period setting + courtyard life + top student + System + overwhelming intellectual advantage + law-obsessed crusader + scheming bait-and-switch]
College student Su Bai transmigrates into a courtyard compound and becomes the manager of a junkyard at the mouth of a hutong.
In Yi Zhonghai’s eyes, Su Bai is an educated, uncontrollable thorn in his side, a threat to his authority as the man who has the final say. So he joins forces with Liu Haizhong to relentlessly put Su Bai down and use the opportunity to elevate his own apprentice.
Faced with the whole courtyard’s petty scheming, Su Bai is delighted by the “relics of the age” he finds in the junkyard. He awakens the “Read to Grow Stronger System,” brushes the dust off ancient books from the late Qing, and pores over mechanical manuscripts by great engineers from the Republican era. Reading books earns him attribute points and blueprints!
After finishing a tattered copy of Mechanical Fundamentals, he immediately gains [God-Tier Machinist Experience] and the passive skill [Eye for Weaknesses]!
Su Bai casually cobbles together a high-end radio from junk parts and deliberately leaves it somewhere conspicuous on the windowsill to “fish” for a culprit. Sure enough, Jia Zhangshi gets jealous and sends Bang Geng to steal it in the middle of the night.
The moment Bang Geng touches the casing, Su Bai’s carefully laid trap, using [Eye for Weaknesses], shocks him with static electricity and coats him in fluorescent powder. Bang Geng rolls around on the floor, caught red-handed!
At the courtyard meeting, Jia Zhangshi makes a scene and begs for mercy, while Yi Zhonghai tries to guilt-trip everyone into smoothing things over. Su Bai just gives a cold laugh over his tea mug and turns into a merciless law-quoting machine.
No fistfights, no shouting matches. He cites the law, every word hitting home, and legally sends Bang Geng straight to juvenile detention!
Watching her precious grandson get led away in handcuffs, Jia Zhangshi is so overcome with anger that she collapses in a fit!
Want to mess with me? I’ll show you lot what it means to be crushed by an educated person’s superior knowledge!
Wouldn't this type of talent be sent to build nuclear bombs? The country had so many talents that it was inexhaustible at that time 😂
The author should read it from beginning to end and feel it for himself