From the Start in a TV Drama's Siheyuan: Old Pal, How Have You Been?

A slice-of-life story with little melodrama and no overwhelming hostility. Usually, if someone has a grudge, they settle it on the spot.

Liu Bo, an ordinary modern office drone, gets incredibly lucky and returns to the 1950s.

After being reborn, he works as a maintenance mechanic at a large machinery factory in Northeast China.

But he’s not happy at all. He’s transmigrated, but he doesn’t have a System.

Then one day, the factory announces that a maintenance mechanic will be sent to the Hongxing Steel Rolling Mill in the capital to help with its development.

Liu Bo seizes the opportunity and heads to the Hongxing Steel Rolling Mill. Sure enough, he meets Silly Zhu, Yi Zhonghai, and the others.

Just as expected, the System appears, rewarding him with mechanical mastery, a strength-enhancing pill, and a pocket dimension.

With his cheat abilities, promotions, raises, an apartment, and a wife all fall neatly into place.

He also happens to discover that his family and Xu Damao’s family are related. That puts him naturally at odds with the Courtyard’s old-age support clique.

Liu Bo’s attitude toward the courtyard’s scoundrels is simple: “Best not to mess with me. If some fool does, this Northeastern man isn’t here to spoil anyone like a nanny.”

And so Liu Bo becomes the factory’s top technician, respected by the workers and courted by the bosses.

At home, he has a loving wife and children, and lives a happy, fulfilling life.

When he’s on his deathbed, Liu Bo still marvels that he’s lived a life well worth living. Then the System appears again, ready to take him to the next fictional world to find more relatives…