Siheyuan: Starting as an Electrician, Qin Huairu Is Beside Herself with Regret

When Li Weiguo woke up, he had transmigrated into Love in the Courtyard, becoming the unluckiest man in the whole compound.

His parents were dead, and he had nothing to his name. Qin Huairu, the woman he had once been matched with, had turned around and married Jia Dongxu, who lived across the hall. Meanwhile, everyone else laughed at him as a hopeless failure.

But the wheels of fate began to turn.

The [Sign-in System] that came with him gave him a daily surprise. Armed with knowledge far ahead of its time and the System's help, he started out as an apprentice electrician whom everyone looked down on. In just one year, he climbed several ranks and became the factory's youngest Level Six electrician, earning far more than the "romantic hero" Silly Zhu. He was also the first in the courtyard to buy a gleaming new bicycle.

When the smell of meat wafted out of his home and his brand-new bicycle stood by the entrance, the neighbors who had once watched him with cold indifference could no longer sit still.

Yi Zhonghai, the moral sage, wanted him to "show generosity." The Third Grandpa, master of schemes, wanted to freeload off his meals. The parasitic white lotus Qin Huairu regretted her choice, while the overbearing mother-in-law Jia Zhangshi cursed nonstop. And Silly Zhu, the bootlicking champion, was even more indignant...

Faced with a whole crowd of "beasts" trying to bind him with moral obligations and schemes born of envy, Li Weiguo only sneered.

Give them money? Lend them a hand?

When my mother was gravely ill and my family had no rice to eat, where were you?

Now that I've made a good life for myself through my own hard work, you want to come and take a share?

Watch as Li Weiguo makes his way through an era of material scarcity and complicated human relationships. With the help of the System and his own wits, he plans each step carefully, focuses on his career, and keeps a low profile, living his life well and giving all those "beasts" a taste of face-slapping. In the end, he will find his own happiness and a life of contentment.