Siheyuan: He Xiao Is Reborn as Silly Zhu

Name: Siheyuan: He Xiao Is Reborn as Silly Zhu
Author: Splendid Mortal Life

四合院之何晓重生成为傻柱

by Splendid Mortal Life (浮生而华)

Status: Completed
Length: 219k Words
Genre: Male-Channel Fanfiction
Updated: 9mo ago
English: Request a translation

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Synopsis

(No harem, no formulaic plot, no invincibility, no System, no pocket dimension, no wish fulfillment, no brainless characters. A story about the people around us, one that readers can relate to. Read with caution if that’s not your thing!)

This is a new book, so it’s normal that it has no rating yet. The story is set in a courtyard house in the 1950s. The protagonist is still growing in the early chapters, so it’s normal for him to be weak at first. He’ll hit his stride later, and the story deepens as it goes on, becoming more compelling with every chapter.

I am He Xiao. I never knew the warmth of a father’s love as a child. When I finally met the father I had longed for day and night, it wasn’t the reunion I had hoped for, but the start of a long nightmare. From then on, I became a source of flesh and blood for my father and the Jia family mother and son to exploit without mercy. The irony is that in his old age, he too was drained of every last bit of value by that mother and son, driven out of his home, and eventually froze to death one bitterly cold night beneath a bridge.

As I was arranging his funeral, my soul unexpectedly left my body in a dream, and I transmigrated into the body of He Yuzhu, the man I had called my “scumbag dad.” At first, I thought that with my knowledge from a more advanced era, I could live a hundred times more brilliantly than he had. But as I stepped into the mud and snow he had once walked through and faced the cold, hard truths of his life, I finally understood what those things I had been unable to understand and unwilling to sympathize with truly meant…

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110Chapters

314Reads · 30 days

11.5kReads · all time

80Listens

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