Siheyuan: Rising to the Top, Starting with a Job at Beijing Cotton Mill No. 1

Chen Jianghe transmigrates to a Siheyuan in 1954. Just as he boards the train to study at a textile factory, he awakens the [Comparison System]! [Congratulations, Host. Comparison target activated: all trainees in this session.] [Comparison task: Defeat everyone and earn the title of “Outstanding Textile Trainee.”] [Comparison rewards: advanced textile technology from the 1960s, manual dexterity, keen eyesight…] … Three months later, Chen Jianghe returns from Qingdao, having completed his studies! As soon as he gets back to the Siheyuan, everyone mocks the Chen family as they always have. They sneer that Chen Jianghe is “a good-for-nothing who’ll never amount to anything” and “a hooligan who wandered into a kingdom of women.” They say he’ll end up arrested by the security department sooner or later! But the face-slapping comes quickly. After returning to the factory, Chen Jianghe gets hired without a hitch and becomes a textile worker! At this point, everyone mocks him again, saying that after a lifetime of hard work, all he’ll ever be is a weaver! Who could have guessed? Chen Jianghe rises from textile worker to team leader, deputy workshop director, deputy section chief, full section chief of technology, and deputy factory director. He climbs all the way to success on the strength of his abilities, giving the entire Chen family a prosperous life that leaves all the courtyard’s beasts green with envy. …