Siheyuan: A Chronicle of Life from the Start

A 21st-century overworked wage slave dies suddenly after pulling overtime, then transmigrates into 1965 as a low-ranking, lone office clerk in a Beijing courtyard compound. Armed with the Records of the Years, he can earn Marks of the Years by personally witnessing the defining events of the era! In a courtyard teeming with scheming neighbors, he takes every step carefully, slaps faces and makes a name for himself, climbs the ranks and wins people over, rising from a helpless “easy mark” everyone wants to exploit all the way to the top. The Jia family draining him dry? Moral blackmail? Sorry, he won’t play the self-sacrificing saint.