1959: Back to the Courtyard House on Luogu Lane

[A slow-paced period drama about family life, with no System or pocket dimension. The protagonist’s memories from before being reborn are his golden finger] On his deathbed at the age of eighty-four, Zhang Anping was reborn in 1959, in a courtyard house in Nanluoguxiang. With no System or pocket dimension, and as the eldest son in the family, he was seventeen that year. How could he turn things around and keep his younger siblings from starving to death as they had in his previous life?

After being reborn, his outlook changed. He could no longer follow the path of studying as he had in his previous life. He had to earn money and find work. Changing his own life would bring change to his whole family, and even the fates of the other households in the courtyard would turn out differently from before.

New circumstances brought new conflicts. Knowing how the country would develop over the next half century, he did his utmost to guide his family in the right direction. But reality often slapped him in the face, leaving him stinging and making him realize that the gap between ideals and reality could not be bridged so easily.