A Carefree Ultimate Soldier in a Courtyard Compound

[Selfish Protagonist · Animal Informants · Portable Space · Youngest Deputy Section Chief]

In 1960 Beijing, Nanluoguxiang.

A brick knocked special forces soldier Chen Yan into the body of a seventeen-year-old street tough.

The original owner was a troublemaker who fought and brawled, his family dirt poor. His mother had no job, his second sister studied at Peking University, and they did not even have a proper set of clothes. His younger sister was so hungry she looked like a little dog.

Looking at that rickety house where the walls were bare and the family had nothing, Chen Yan made a decision:

In this life, no one was going to make him be a hero again.

He only wanted to do three things: make sure the whole family was fed, make sure the whole family was warm, and make sure nobody bothered him.

Then he discovered he could understand what animals were saying.

Sparrows worked as his informants, rats as his scouts, and there was no information anywhere in the whole city that he could not find out.

With a portable space full of special-forces survival gear, he stocked up nonperishable supplies and changed his fate against the odds.

He casually reported a few enemy spies and was exceptionally recruited into the public security bureau.

He also saved an old commander, and at seventeen became the youngest deputy section chief in the system.

Someone asked him: "Comrade Chen, you’re so young and already an official. What’s the secret?"

Chen Yan lifted his eyes calmly.

"The secret is: don’t ask me. I only care about what’s for dinner tonight."