Siheyuan: My Cousin Shows Up, So Why Are You Shaking, Silly Zhu?

[Low on hostility, Imperial Banquet Chef, Famine Era, Spatial Storage, Slice of Life]

In 1959, the first of three difficult years.

After transmigrating three years earlier and maxing out his cooking proficiency, He Chunhua became the youngest Imperial Banquet chef in the capital. But after someone stabbed him in the back, he was forced to resign and return to civilian life.

Through his great-uncle He Daqing, a transfer order took him straight to Courtyard No. 95 on Nanluogu Lane.

The subdistrict director personally saw him off. He had spatial storage and an all-purpose proficiency System, connections among the city's elite, and top-tier martial arts skills to boot.

As soon as he entered the compound, he ran into the shrew Jia Zhangshi, the clueless Qin Huairu, his cousin He Yuzhu, whom everyone took for a fool, as well as the calculating Third Uncle, the morally manipulative Yi Zhonghai, and the status-obsessed Second Uncle.

Jia Zhangshi wants to steal a room? He takes her straight to the subdistrict office, where they know how to handle shameless troublemakers!

Qin Huairu wants to freeload off Silly Zhu? One reminder that all the men in her family are dead is enough to expose her little scheme!

Yi Zhonghai wants to manipulate him with moral blackmail and make him support him in his old age? Has he ever seen an Imperial Banquet big shot play nice?

Silly Zhu still wants to stand up for Qin Huairu? Facing his powerful cousin, he gets kicked into a daze and trembles, not daring to say a word!

The whole courtyard overrun with leeches?

Sorry, the retired Imperial Banquet culinary god has arrived.

With food and clothes aplenty and powerful connections, he punches back at ungrateful wolves, stomps out parasites, and tears apart fake sweethearts.

Starting by whipping the courtyard into shape, he eats well in a special era, stays one step ahead, and lives a peak life unlike any other!