Siheyuan: Silly Zhu's Turbulent Years

Li Ang, a top modern chef, transmigrates into 1956 Beijing after an accident and becomes He Yuzhu, a cook at the Red Star Steel Mill nicknamed Silly Zhu.

From the start, it’s hell mode: his father has run off with the family’s money, his younger sister is bedridden with a high fever, snow is falling outside, and the courtyard’s “beasts,” led by the Jia family, are blocking the door and demanding payment, trying to snatch the last of his family’s food. Just as all hope seems lost, his golden finger, the “Eternal Storage” portable space, activates: a modern megastore warehouse with an endless supply of goods.

From then on, Silly Zhu is no longer “silly.”

His culinary skills, far beyond their time, stun everyone. Starting with the steel mill’s private dining room, he moves on to the Beijing Hotel and then the Kremlin’s state banquets, rising step by step from an ordinary cook to a national culinary consultant and earning fame, status, and boundless glory.

With his portable space as a shield, he commands wealth like an apocalyptic fortress in an era of scarcity. At a crucial moment, he even uses his seemingly miraculous abilities to make his capitalist father-in-law’s immense fortune disappear into thin air, staging a grand act of “giving up everything for the country” to help him slip away from the storm of the times.

He tears off the hypocritical mask of the white lotus who tries to guilt-trip him, exposes the schemes of self-righteous frauds, and strikes back like thunder at petty villains consumed by jealousy, ruining their reputations.

This is the legendary story of an ordinary man who, in a turbulent era, uses his wits and golden finger to right wrongs, protect his family, and ultimately move the tides of history, living a life that shines with boundless brilliance.