Life in a Little Courtyard
小院儿生活
- Status
- Ongoing
- Length
- 623k Words
- Genre
- Modern Romance
- Subgenre
- Period Fiction
- Updated
- 2mo ago
- Source
- Fanqie
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The Pinnacle of Period Stories
An incredibly good novel set in a bygone era.
I'm Hooked on Stories Set in a Bygone Era Lately!!! No Storage Spaces!! No Golden Fingers!
Preferably complete, well-written rather than amateurish, and fast-paced.
Period Novels Where the Female Lead Doesn’t Bail Out Her Family, Have Lots of Children, Go to the Black Market, or Take Over Someone Else’s Mess
The male and female leads should come from well-matched families. The heroine shouldn't get married as soon as she transmigrates. She should have a harmonious family, but not be the family's darling. Her grandparents, uncles, and aunts shouldn't be awful people. The heroine can go to the countryside, but don't force her to. Some stories make the heroine go to the countryside even when there's no need for her to.
Looking for Normal Period Pieces!
Looking for realistic stories set in a particular era! No contrived drama, no exaggeration, no love-brained characters, and no naive, sugary-sweet heroines!
Everyday Life Among Ordinary People, No Politics
Absolutely Stunning, High-Quality Stories Set in a Bygone Era!!
This Is the Only Story Set in a Bygone Era for Me!!!
Your Number-One Era Novel
Are There Any Novels About Real Rural Life?
Period-Era Stories Without Pocket Dimensions or a System
A Calm, Ordinary Slice of Life
Just an ordinary, peaceful life in a warm little home.
Historical-Era Story: The Female Lead Comes from a Good Family and Doesn’t Go to the Countryside!!
The female lead builds her life in the city. She’s not an educated youth and doesn’t go to the countryside!
Can We Stop Cramming So Many Golden Fingers into Period Dramas? It Feels So Fake
Any Understated, Sensible Period Novels? Not the Kind Where They Eat Lavish Meals Every Day
Looking for books like Making Others Happy? I'd Rather Make Myself Happy. Historical-era story with a female lead. It doesn't matter whether she transmigrates or has a golden finger, but it shouldn't be brainless or too showy. I hate those stories where she has a pocket dimension people can enter but insists on cooking outside, and is always...
Looking for Down-to-Earth Stories Set in a Past Era, Nothing Too Over-the-Top
I'm in a reading slump.
Looking for Period-Era Stories, No Rebirth or Pocket Dimension
To be precise, I'm looking for something more unusual, not the same old, tired story. Ideally, it should be a romance between the male and female leads. 😊😊
No-Romance Farming Stories (If You Don’t Understand What “No Romance” Means, Don’t Recommend Anything)
I want books similar to Owe the System Six Hundred Million, Get Rich Through Farming. The protagonist can be male or female. No ambiguous relationships, no saintly protagonists, no annoying top-tier relatives, no transmigration into an old woman, and no raising children. A System or spatial storage is fine, as are mountain and coastal foraging.
Period-Era Fiction! Really Good Ones! No Pocket Spaces, They’re Too Unrealistic!
I don't know why, but lately I've been really into stories set in a bygone era, especially ones about transmigration. Transmigrating into a book is fine too. I read one about a soft-hearted freeloader and a green-tea schemer and really loved it. It felt so real, but it's still being updated. Ladies, any more recommendations? No stories where they get a pocket dimension and supplies like a supermarket, though.
Looking for Historical-Era Novels Worth Rereading
Set in the 1960s or 1970s. No pocket dimension, no golden finger, and the female lead didn't go to university.
Business, Shopkeeping, or Infrastructure-Building With a System. No Apocalypse or Ancient Settings. Female-Oriented
Looking for stories about running a business with a System, opening a shop with a System, or infrastructure-building with a System. No post-apocalyptic or ancient settings. Female-oriented fiction, and it has to be good. Please don't recommend bad stories. I said no post-apocalyptic or ancient settings, so why do people keep recommending them? Can you not read plain English?
Pure Slice-of-Life Stories
Are slice-of-life stories even slice-of-life anymore? It’s all showing off and face-slapping, and it’s really annoying to read. Give me something light, fresh, and genuinely slice-of-life.
Period Novels with Only Natives, No Transmigration, Rebirth, or System
Are There Any Period Novels Set in the 1960s or 1970s About Simply Living a Steady Life?
A Marriage of Convenience, With a Baby
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It's very interesting. After reading many books, I wanted to read something dull. It's just that now the male and female protagonists only have one daughter. It's best not to have twin sons in the future. The old routine is boring to watch. It's also very beautiful to watch an only daughter with the pampering of her grandmother and her grandparents in the end and make others envy her. You can write about a domineering female CEO or something. Keep up the good work, author!
There are no weirdos, they are all positive ordinary people who work together and work hard to live a good life! It looks very comfortable, and I want to work hard! Come on, madam! So well written
A very, very good article. I just hope that it will be published faster and faster, but it is very contradictory. After all, slow work brings out fine work! I don't know how to choose~
It has a strong flavor of life. As a man, I can read it with gusto. It's really good. I hope there will be more of it every day 😄
I like it so much, no cheating, no nonsense, plain and warm
It's a cozy little courtyard with no clutter, and it's quite cute with a little bit of planning. The whole family is focused on one thing, working hard to make money, come on
The content is true, not exaggerated, warm and natural
People in ordinary farm families can get by, the men work without hesitation, the women are ingenious and can get by without making money or grabbing, the older generation has a bowl of water, brothers and sisters work together to pull each other, honor the elders at the top, take care of the younger brothers and sisters at the bottom, and the mother's family helps each other, how can such a family live a prosperous life and not be rich.
It's rare to see a novel of this era. The author's writing style is smooth and the context is clear. I like it.
Such a good novel has such a low rating? The author's writing style is excellent, and the life picture of an ordinary family slowly unfolds under the author's pen. Hundreds of people, hundreds of people, lively and lively, just like him or her living next to you and me, ordinary but not ordinary, hard-working, kind, positive, and striving to make life better. I hope more people can read this novel and love it.