Siheyuan: Tales from the Cellar

Name: Siheyuan: Tales from the Cellar
Author: Jialing Cat

四合院：地窖往事

by Jialing Cat (嘉陵猫)

Status: Ongoing
Length: 459k Words
Genre: Unknown
Subgenre: Unknown
Updated: 2y ago
Source: Fanqie

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Chen Guoliang transmigrated. He arrived in a Beijing courtyard house in 1954, becoming a high school student not yet fifteen. In an ordinary courtyard house, a very unusual cellar becomes the setting for the tangled, unspoken neighborly relationships between two generations. The courtyard’s chaos was enough to make even Chen Guoliang, a newcomer whose soul had seen plenty of the wider world, exclaim, “What the hell?” The father you call Dad might not actually be your father? The wife you think is yours might not actually be your wife? Even Qin Huairu doesn’t know who Bang Geng’s real father is? Jia Dongxu isn’t Old Jia’s son? Yi Zhonghai isn’t childless? Silly Zhu has a whole pile of kids? Granny Deaf isn’t deaf or old? She can even still have children? And what’s with the way these people address each other? One name during the day, another at night? Do they have daytime and nighttime versions? Wait, there’s even a shared-use version! Chen Guoliang shook his head and couldn’t help remarking, “What a tangled mess.”

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