Courtyard Chronicles: 1950s Cook with a System

Overworked to death in his past life, Chen Jun awakens in 1954 Beijing with nothing but problems: a dead father, a dying mother, a starving sister, and zero prospects. But when a mysterious system grants him culinary skills and street-smart cunning, he transforms from nobody to neighborhood force. In the cutthroat world of Nanluoguxiang's courtyard politics, Chen Jun plays by one rule: petty schemes get ignored, serious offenses get prison time. He sends the scheming Jia matriarch behind bars, dismantles the First Master's moral tyranny, and makes the hot-headed Sha Zhu think twice before thro…