Siheyuan: Beating Up the Matchmaker from the Start

It has advantages and disadvantages. And they are quite distinct. The advantage is its excellent entry point: beating up the matchmaker. Then, the character's personality changes smoothly based on this incident. Using this event as an anchor point, the relationship is completely severed. Perfectly logical. The downside is that the author is a completely different Yi Zhonghai.

Five beans, it has to be five beans! The author is awesome! (Voice cracks~~~) This is absolutely a masterpiece in the courtyard house! This silly Zhu is unique, intelligent, and has a sense of propriety. Most importantly, he also has normal human thinking. That's rare! Author, hurry up and write! Don't mess it up! It's so damn hard to find a decent courtyard house novel these days. 🤦🤦🤦

Holy crap, it's gone just when I thought it was getting interesting.

It's not an AI-generated story, so I'm adding one star. The beginning was alright, with a fairly high density of satisfying moments. However, without addressing He Daqing's living expenses, sending Lao Yi to the Northwest to eat sand, or having his family pay for bullets, the satisfaction was reduced by 90%. He Daqing likes widows, so he could come back and take over Qin's relationship, beat her child, and give Bang Geng a lesson in love.

I'm so glad you're so smart. Have you forgotten about He Daqing's child support issue, or are you planning something big?

Well written! The plot is reasonable, and everyone who could be dealt with was taken care of right from the start—satisfying!!! The takedowns are also very realistic and not exaggerated. Not bad at all! Keep up the good work, looking forward to the exciting sequel! 👍

Overall, it's not bad. It's one of the few courtyard house novels that I've managed to finish; I didn't even finish Lai Fu's and Chang Wei's. The advantage is that it's not too violent; it's more like a normal cycle of good and evil being rewarded. Several of the more despicable characters don't have good endings, whether they're related to the protagonist or not.

A 7.9 Rating seems reasonable for online novels, but on Taobao, it feels a bit low. After all, we're the kind of people who read free novels on Taobao but complain about their low quality. This particular novel, well, is a relatively logical and satisfying read among courtyard-themed novels. Each conflict is well-founded and not just for the sake of conflict.

Overall, it's well-written, with one story after another that draws you in. While there are some minor flaws, such as events that happened earlier being forgotten later (perhaps the author forgot about them), each main character in the courtyard has a proper beginning and end – yay! Also, among all the courtyard novels I've read, the deaf old woman in this book is the only one portrayed as truly kind.

I finished reading it in one go. It has a single female lead, which is quite interesting. Every time I finish a book about love in a courtyard house, I'm struck by how the biggest culprit is actually Qin Huairu. If she had married Sha Zhu after Xiao Jia's affair and had been willing to have his child, then "Love in a Courtyard House" would have truly been a happy ending.