1983: This Security Officer Knows Feng Shui

Shen Yunting wakes up to find himself back in 1983, a year when fortunes were there for the taking.

This time around, he does not want to get caught up in the rat race. He just wants to sit in the security office of a state-owned liquor factory with an enamel mug in hand and quietly work as a gatekeeper.

Who knew he would unexpectedly awaken the [Twin Eyes of Qi Sight], which can read the omens of feng shui and discern the aura of treasures through the ages?

While others fight tooth and nail for a chance at permanent employment, Shen Yunting spends two mao at a salvage yard and picks up a Xuande incense burner from the Ming dynasty, only to bring it back to the guardhouse and tap his ashes into it.

The factory’s new liquor turns sour, and the director is so worried he is ready to throw himself into the river. Shen Yunting casually shifts the artificial rockery in the director’s office while sipping tea, and the liquor mash springs back to life. The director immediately hails him as the factory’s “pillar of stability”!

Gradually, the security office starts to feel like a very different place.

The richest man in the special economic zone offers a fortune just to have Master Shen visit his company for tea and advice on his luck.

The leading expert at the cultural relics bureau camps outside the security office every day, begging him to appraise national treasures.

Powerful tycoons from every walk of life crowd the entrance, but can only queue up in the guardhouse alongside the factory aunties.

Faced with a flood of influential visitors, Shen Yunting helplessly checks his watch. “Stop crowding me. We’ll talk after I get off work. I’m just the gatekeeper.”