Siheyuan: I'm a Local, and I'm Invincible

{Courtyard life + period piece + comedy + lighthearted + wish fulfillment + multiple transmigrations + reborn + System + face-slapping + daily life + ensemble cast + play the pig to eat the tiger}

Lin Jianjun was born and raised in Courtyard No. 3 on Hongxing Alley. Since childhood, he had been an ordinary worker’s son, the sort of person you could lose in a crowd.

Then, the year he turned eighteen, everyone in the courtyard began to change.

Third Uncle Yan Bugui, once so miserly he’d split a single coin in half, suddenly started giving money away and constantly talked about “investment,” “market trends,” and “strategic planning.” He even secretly read Das Kapital in the middle of the night.

Silly Zhu, He Yuzhu, once a simple, honest man who thought of nothing but cooking, suddenly had a deep, weathered look in his eyes and would smirk at thin air, saying things like, “In this life, I’m going to take back everything that belongs to me.”

Qin Huairu, once gentle and virtuous, smiling at everyone she met, suddenly had a gaze sharp as a knife and calculated faster than an accountant. All she ever talked about was “women’s independence” and “making money comes first.”

Even the most inconspicuous person in the courtyard, the deaf old lady who spent every day sunbathing, started secretly practicing some kind of “health cultivation technique” at home, saying, “In this life, I’ll live to be a hundred and twenty and see the golden age with my own eyes.”

More absurd still, Xu Damao had stopped scheming and studied English at home every day; Jia Zhangshi had stopped throwing tantrums and smiled at everyone she met; even Banggeng had stopped stealing chickens and dogs and spent every day in a corner reciting Three Hundred Tang Poems…

Lin Jianjun was at a loss.

So I’m the only real native in this whole courtyard?

You transmigrators, the reborn, and the people with Systems, could you stop putting on an act in front of me?

I just want to be a decent worker, marry a wife, and live a peaceful life. Why is that so hard?