Transmigrating and Starting Out in a Siheyuan

To make a joke, the protagonist of this book is a college graduate from 1965 who can't find a job and has to take over He Daqing's job, only to be harassed by others.

Graduating from university in 1965, they were directly assigned jobs by the state, all in ministerial positions, as important personnel. It's clear the author doesn't understand that era. The newly founded People's Republic of China was severely lacking in talent, especially university graduates, who were highly valued. They were all given cadre-level positions. This is utter nonsense.

The protagonist, He Yu, is only one character different from He Yuzhu. What an awful name! Was the author out of their mind when naming the protagonist?

Nine out of ten people who read about courtyard houses are just looking to vent their anger; the more miserable those people are, the more readers will watch. If you're writing about courtyard houses, don't try to impose your own values ​​on your readers.

There were no college graduates among the educated youth sent to the countryside; they were all educated youth with less than a college degree. Therefore, it's impossible that college graduates were unemployed.

My liver aches just looking at this! Flour infested with worms, throw it away! Good heavens, what an extravagant way to live! Goodbye, I'm leaving.

I couldn't finish the second chapter; a college student wants to be a cook. Either your writing is less educated—back then, even vocational school graduates had jobs vying for them. Are you a Gen Z? Your writing is all based on imagination...

It's so frustrating that a college student would call the protagonist a good-for-nothing and an insult to those two words.

Do you even know what 1965 was like? Back then, a college graduate was worth more than a PhD or Master's degree is today. Having a college degree practically guaranteed you an official position. How could you possibly become a cook? It's like a top scholar becoming Bao Zheng (a notorious corrupt official in Chinese history). Besides, even if you wanted to be a cook, the government wouldn't let you.

After graduating from university, I became a cook's apprentice at a steel rolling mill, apprenticing under a simpleton named Sha Zhu. My monthly salary was twice that of Sha Zhu. My job opportunity was snatched away by my second uncle. The old man took my money but didn't do anything, and then falsely accused me of investing money. What was the author thinking? The protagonist is even worse than a silly pig.