Looking for Stories Where an Onlooker Finds Happiness in a Siheyuan Courtyard 求四合院旁观者幸福的小说
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Siheyuan: I'm Director Wang's Direct Superior 四合院：我是王主任的顶头上司
(Two heroines, no romantic indecision, ensemble cast. Readers who might object, proceed with caution.) Liu Aiguo began making plans before Liberation. When he grew up, he moved into a courtyard with his parents. As the neighborhood committee secretary, he doesn't need to hit anyone. He can settle everything by the rules. He can keep the neighborhood office in line above him and sweep every scoundrel in the courtyard aside below. His game is all about open strategy and sly tricks! Original charac
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Reborn in the 1960s with a Magical Space 重生60年代，我有魔法空间
In 2025, laid-off office worker Lin Xiaotian opens his eyes and finds himself reborn as Gu Huaijin, a fifteen-year-old boy living in a Beijing courtyard house in 1961. He thought he would have to go hungry, deal with awful people, and struggle through twenty hard years. But after a bout of fever, he awakens a legacy of magic! A book called The Book of Inheritance lies hidden in his sea of consciousness, and his mental power surges. He also has a personal space where time flows a hundred times fa
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- 53 From the Start, I Inherited a Wizard's Legacy, Leaving the Siheyuan Bigwigs Dumbfounded 开局巫师传承四合院大佬全懵了 Reborn in a 1960s courtyard compound. While everyone else struggles to survive, I awaken a wizard’s legacy. The fishing nets I cast into Shichahai bring up more than fish: beneath the water lie dozens of chests of gold, sealed away for decades. When I’m sent to the countryside for manual labor, it’s not to some bitterly cold wasteland, but to a natural training ground and medicinal herb storehouse. I quietly farm and secretly cultivate my powers, casually helping Silly Zhu see Qin Huairu for who 4.6kReads5.9Score25314d adds
- 54 Back to the Fifties: Quietly Cultivating Immortality in the Siheyuan 重回五零：我在四合院低调修仙 In 2025, workaholic Lin Xiuyuan died from overwork and was reborn in 1950 as a ten-year-old boy everyone hated in a courtyard house on Nanluoguxiang. A whole courtyard of predators watched him hungrily, while the storms of a new era gathered behind him. But no one knew that hidden in his Five Elements Banner was a blessed paradise belonging to Patriarch Heshe of Mount Shu, along with the Extraordinary Book of Heshe, a cultivation manual pointing straight to the Great Dao. On the surface, he was 7.7kReads5.4Score28014d adds
- 55 A Life of Unbridled Freedom, Beginning with the Pot-Heaven Divine Power 年代，从壶天神通开启肆意人生 [Period] [Supernatural Powers] [Adorable Kids] [Farming] [Pocket Dimension] [Longma] [Fuzhu] The protagonist, Zhang Mingxuan, transmigrates to the 1960s. A hard life? No big deal! A family that can't get along? No big deal! With a System at my side, I'm going to live life on my own terms. “Player, please open your inventory.” “…” This brain-dead System actually froze. He… Actually… Got stuck on the tutorial… I… What the… Luckily, I'm a modern successor, so I resolutely 1.3kReads5.4Score—14d adds
- 56 Transmigrated to 1966, I Live in a Cowshed from the Start 穿越六六年，开局住牛棚 Space + Hong Kong + Courtyard Houses + Period Drama + Business and Entrepreneurship + Stocks Having just transmigrated to 1966, he faces denunciation and a life in a cowshed, so he makes an important decision. 18.8kReads6.6Score78014d adds
- 57 In the 1950s, My Spirit-Suppressing Coffin Can Refine Anything 五零年代，我的镇灵棺能炼万物 In 1956, the fool Chen Luo was thrown into a sinister pool inhabited by water ghosts. He survived against all odds and crawled out of an ancient bronze coffin at the bottom of the pool. After his brush with death, Chen Luo's mind cleared, and the villagers said Heaven had blessed him. Only Chen Luo knew the truth: he had become the master of the Spirit-Suppressing Coffin, and refining souls and seizing spirits was only the beginning! When Third Aunt struggled through a difficult childbirth and a 2.9kReads8.0Score21914d adds
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Siheyuan: I Control the Whole Game, So Don't Mess with Me 四合院：掌控全局，谁也别惹我
Fang Che wakes up from a nap and discovers that he has transmigrated into the world of Birds Fill the Courtyard. Silly Zhu lets Qin Huairu bleed him dry, loving every minute of it because he lusts after a widow. He's destined to die without heirs! First Master Yi acts upright on the surface, but is actually a hypocrite who is all appearances and no virtue! Second Master Liu is ambitious but incompetent, obsessed with becoming an official. He's an unkind father, and his children are unfilial! Thi
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- 59 Siheyuan: Seeing the Scheme Through to the End 四合院之将截胡进行到底 [Multiple female leads, not for everyone] [Protagonists from various TV dramas collide, each with their own protagonist aura] [Disinfecting with iodine while whipping] Siheyuan, Zhengyang Gate, People Are Like Iron, Glorious Times, The Great New Era, Golden Wedding, Hutong, The Qiao Family Children... In the Name of the People, Ordinary Years, The War Between Two Women] [System for stealing female leads, self-interest, do-gooders, stay away] [No original female leads, characters from other stori 199.3kReads9.0Score13.5k14d adds
- 60 Siheyuan: This Time, It's Finally My Turn, Right?! 四合院之这次终于轮到我了吧！ [If you dislike Qin Huairu, don't read] [Multiple heroines] [System] Yi Zhonghai, Liu Haizhong, Yan Bugui, He Yuzhu, Xu Damao, Jia Zhangshi, and Deaf Granny. With these seven people all in one place, there'll never be a shortage of stories... 45.8kReads8.6Score2.2k14d adds
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Siheyuan: I Married Qin Huairu, and Now I Can't Keep Her in Check 四合院：娶了秦淮如，压不住了
Among the 186 versions of the courtyard stories in my collection, Qin Huairu is the best-written character!, Northeast Wanderer. The protagonist is Qin Huairu's System, that boy from back then. The most badass Qin Huairu across the heavens: please enter your ID number. I'll spare you the rest of my thoughts! It's rare to find a courtyard story that I can stick with to the end. Long live the heroes who fought Japan and America! This one without a System is more badass than the ones with one., Dao
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Siheyuan: I'm an Accountant at the Supply and Marketing Cooperative 四合院：我在供销社当会计
[Period setting + spatial powers + one heroine + a touch of edge + career advancement] Li Yi transmigrates into the world of Love in the Courtyard. In 1960, the country is in the second year of natural disasters. After graduating from a technical secondary school, he is assigned to work as an accountant at the Supply and Marketing Cooperative serving the Nanluoguxiang neighborhood. At a courtyard-wide meeting, Yi Zhonghai seizes the chance to pick a fight. “Li Yi, I may not be much, but I’m stil
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- 63 Siheyuan: Quietly Munching on Melon Seeds 四合院之默默吃瓜 I never thought I’d catch the transmigration wave one day, let alone end up in that famously colorful courtyard. Faced with all kinds of dramas, let’s see how I quietly sit back and watch the show 3.6kReads5.4Score10914d adds
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Siheyuan: Tenfold Returns, Too Many Supplies to Use Up 四合院：十倍返还物资太多用不完
[A Guaranteed Quality Read from a Siheyuan Specialist] Chen Zizai, a modern lifestyle blogger who creates his own content, transmigrates to 1959 and has his house seized from the start. With no other choice, he sets fire to it, determined to go down with it: if no one can play fair, then he’ll flip the table! His resolve to go down with the house activates the “Self-Reliance, Tenfold Returns” System. Make one serving of pork braised with vermicelli, and the System gives him ten. What’s he suppos
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- 65 Siheyuan: After I Transmigrated, I Married My Wife's Grandmother 四合院：穿越后娶了媳妇她外婆 Sang Biao got drunk and transmigrated. His big reveal exposed the entire compound, and he went all-in with his cards face up from the start, leaving no room to play! Then the System ran off, so he basically has no cheats! And his father is a fake Daoist, a remnant of "feudal superstition"... Will that affect my chances, as the compound's third-generation leader, of riding a Phoenix 28-inch bicycle one-handed and hitting on women during the Great Leap Forward's tenth year? Help me figure this out 25.4kReads7.4Score1.1k14d adds
- 66 Siheyuan: Dad Joined Chiang Kai-shek’s Side, Making Us Rich Peasants. How Am I Supposed to Live? 四合院：老爹投蒋成分富农我咋活 My family is classified as rich peasants. Dad backed Chiang Kai-shek in 1949, and my maternal grandfather's family fled to Hong Kong. I have cerebral palsy and keep waving my hands around. Now I've transmigrated to a courtyard house in 1960, right in the middle of the natural disaster years… How am I supposed to survive this disastrous start? The pocket dimension is useless, and the System only cares about settling old scores. It's got no ambition at all… Fang Ping'an, a rural resident with no r 16.1kReads7.3Score74214d adds
- 67 Siheyuan: I'm Yushui's Cousin 四合院：我是雨水表哥 A modern owner of a rural guesthouse transmigrates to the 1950s, hoping to get by in modest comfort. To his surprise, he discovers he’s in the Cursed Courtyard, and that he’s He Yushui’s cousin. See how the three siblings survive in this era... 11.9kReads6.5Score44214d adds
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Siheyuan: I Take Over Courtyard No. 95 and Fill It with My Ex-Wives 四合院：我独占95号院住满前妻
Multiple female leads, no System, relying entirely on brains and memories. A top-level career path, with little angst and a realistic tone. In 2026, at the Dialogue studio. Host: Elder Jing, were you afraid when you swam back to the mainland? Jing Daqiang pondered for a moment. He thought, Back then, I'd only just transmigrated, and they were pointing a gun at me. I was terrified. His expression stayed composed. "No. I was driven by a powerful conviction." Host: What made you think of applying
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Siheyuan: Stop Pretending! Your System Is Mine 四合院：别装咯！你的系统是我的
[System] [All Skills Learned by Hand] [Some Dark Edges] [Pure Plunder-Based Growth] A spy System! A grievance-collecting System! A two-world transmigration System! A sign-in System! A beauty-collecting System! Lin Yuan had originally wanted to laze around. But after accidentally plundering a spy System and discovering it came with all sorts of benefits, as well as the need for energy, he had no choice but to keep plundering! Afterward, he used the various skills rewarded by the System to make en
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Siheyuan: He Daqing's Greatest Life 四合院之何大清的最强人生
[Heaven rewards diligence] [Multiple female companions] [Do as he pleases + neither wholly good nor evil + mercurial] After getting drunk, he wakes up in 1951 as He Daqing, just as he’s plotting to run away. The White Widow and Yi Zhonghai are scheming to send me off to Baoding? He turns around and reports them, cuts off a disastrous relationship, and shatters the moral paragon’s invincible facade! [Heaven rewards diligence, one proof lasts forever] With talent on his side, he masters countless
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- 71 A Carefree Life in the Siheyuan 四合院逍遥生活 Zheng Jianshe transmigrates to the 1950s, bringing with him the status of a martyr's family member, memories and life experience from two lifetimes, top-tier cooking skills, supporting skills in traditional Chinese medicine, and a pocket dimension cheat. Watch him tame the beasts, then embark on a free and carefree life, starting in 1957 and continuing through 2008, living through three years of hardship, a decade of turmoil, and more... 37.7kReads6.5Score1.8k14d adds
- 72 Siheyuan: Trading Scoundrels for Rewards! 四合院：我用禽兽换奖励！ After endless overtime and being exploited by a heartless company, Qin Po dies from holding in his pee and transmigrates to a siheyuan courtyard in the 1960s. He awakens the Emotion Fragment System. By taking down the villains in the courtyard, he can collect fragments and exchange them for supplies, cutting-edge technology, black tech, and the Cloud-Piercing Hand! Yi Zhonghai puts on a benevolent act while planning for his old age, the entire Jia family leeches off others, and the old lady bli 124Reads—Score—14d adds
- 73 Professor X: Silly Zhu! Accept My Gift! X教授：傻柱！接受我的馈赠吧！ Professor X senses the Dark Phoenix taking over Jean Grey’s body and goes alone to reason with her, but the berserk Phoenix Force shatters his physical form. At death’s door, his mind rides a rift in space and time torn open by the Phoenix Force and plunges into the world of Love in the Courtyard. His consciousness enters He Yuzhu’s mindscape, only to run into the embodiment of fate entrenched within: “A Simp Gets No House.” Moved by He Yuzhu’s fate of hardship and mistreatment, the professor 1.9kReads7.3Score10514d adds
- 74 Siheyuan: The Jie Sect's Fortune! Seizing the Fortune of All Things! 四合院：截教气运！截取万物！ In the Battle of the Investiture of the Gods, the Jie Sect suffered a crushing defeat, and Tongtian was forced to swallow the Saint-Falling Pill. Enraged, Tongtian stripped away the remnants of the Jie Sect's fortune and sent them into the endless void, hoping that one day someone destined to inherit it could lead the Jie Sect to greatness again. Hongjun learned of this. The Creation Jade Disc nurtured among his three flowers shot out a beam of golden light, intent on scattering the Jie Sect's 9.1kReads8.1Score48614d adds
- 75 1940: I Have the Thousand-Blade Demon Saber for Killing the Japanese! 1940：杀鬼子我有魔刀千刃！ A modern college student transmigrates to 1940 and takes over the body of a child named Wu Liuqi, who was killed by the Japanese. He awakens the Enemy-Slaying, Nation-Strengthening System! With the template of the assassin Wu Liuqi and the Thousand Blades Demon Sword in hand, he throws his head back and shouts, “You Japanese devils, your grandpa is here!” 2kReads7.4Score10714d adds
- 76 I, He Daqing! Mount Fuji: A Mountain God? 我，何大清！富士山：山神？ He Daqing, an archaeologist, pricks his finger on a bronze ring while cleaning a tomb. He transmigrates into the world of the courtyard house and activates the Mountain God Inheritance System, becoming the Mountain God of Mount Fuji! Determined to escape the fate laid out for him, He Daqing makes arrangements for his children, then resolutely joins the Volunteer Army and heads to the Korean War front, where he writes a legendary tale! 3.4kReads6.8Score14614d adds
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Siheyuan: Becoming a Rogue Everyone Loves 四合院：做一个人见人爱的流氓
[System] [Multiple Heroines] [Low on Grimness] [Historical Fantasy] Lin Muzhi, a down-and-out writer from the 21st century, wakes up as Lin Weidong, a backward young man in a 1965 courtyard. His neighbors are rubbing their hands together, ready to crush this “troublemaker” and take everything from him. But... The whole courtyard soon realizes that this time, the newcomer isn't prey. Armed with the perspective of a modern civilization, he's come to rule this world of tangled relationships like it
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- 78 Siheyuan: My Revenge Begins at the Mass Grave 四合院：从乱葬岗开始复仇 Reborn on a mass grave, Zhang Aiguo returns with a System. The scoundrels stole my family’s property, sold my younger sister, and left me for dead. This time, they’ll pay for every drop of blood! The hypocritical patriarch, the venomous old woman, every last one of them: none will get away! Watch as this young man delivers the ultimate judgment and gets his revenge in this man-eating courtyard! 373Reads8.8Score14514d adds
- 79 In the Siheyuan, Silly Zhu Stops Being a Doormat 四合院傻柱不在做冤大头 Snow blanketed the world. As he lay dying beneath a bridge, He Yuzhu watched his archrival, Xu Damao, summon the last of his strength to carry him back to the courtyard, and regret tore at his heart. Reborn as a young man, he awakens a mysterious pocket dimension and gains the skills of a culinary god. He immediately cuts ties with the Jia family. He will repay the deaf old lady's kindness, ease his younger sister's suffering, and rekindle his bond with Lou Xiao'e. As for those bloodsucking para 918Reads8.6Score10114d adds
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Siheyuan: I Crush the Courtyard's Troublemakers 四合院：我对众禽降维打击
This is my first attempt at writing a novel. I've always loved fanfiction set in traditional courtyard homes, and I had a few ideas of my own, so I decided to write this story. I know my writing is still immature and has plenty of shortcomings, so I hope readers will be patient with me. I'm also grateful to everyone willing to give a newcomer a chance.
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Siheyuan: The Orphan Girl Takes on the Retirement Home 四合院，孤女勇闯养老院
[Transmigration] + [Siheyuan] + [Period] + [Orphaned Girl] + [Strong Female Lead] + [Character Growth] Lin Tianxue transmigrates to early 1961 and finds herself in the infamous Siheyuan, the courtyard full of scoundrels. She had hoped to make her mark there, only to discover that she was a poor girl with a disastrous start from the start. She wakes up covered in blood. Her parents are dead, and two groups of people are already waiting outside, eyeing her family's home and ready to divide it up.
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- 82 Siheyuan: Round Them All Up and Take Them to the Security Office 四合院：全都抓进保卫科 After taking off his military uniform, Zhou Zhenhua returns to civilian life and settles in an ordinary Beijing courtyard house. He wants neither great wealth nor fame, only a peaceful life. Unfortunately, everyone around him is calculating and insatiably greedy, repeatedly showing up to bully him and demand favors. But when enough is enough, enough is enough. This tough-as-nails veteran stops taking things in stride and strikes back at every scheme with thunderous force. He takes on one opponen 30kReads6.2Score1.3k14d adds
- 83 Siheyuan: You Abandoned Your Father? I’ll Send Him Straight to the Military Administration Committee 四合院：弃养？反手送父上军管会 The moment He Yuze transmigrated into He Yuzhu, he had no time to experience life as the whole courtyard's punching bag. He took the proof of abandonment and hauled He Daqing straight to the Military Control Commission. His own father wanted to shirk responsibility? Not a chance! Then the System dropped a learning buff on him, and his cooking, appraisal, medical, and other skills skyrocketed. Now look at the courtyard's scheming residents: Yi Zhonghai tried to guilt-trip him with moral lectures? 34.9kReads7.4Score1.1k14d adds
- 84 From the Start, a Mute Files a Petition to the Emperor, His Fists Subdue the Beasts of the Courtyard 开局哑巴告御状，拳压四合众禽伏 The silent are the loudest of all. Modern young man Zhou Jin transmigrates into a mute in a Siheyuan. From the start, he puts up a big-character poster and takes his grievance straight to the top! He cannot speak, but his pen is as sharp as a blade. On his very first day, he sends “Virtue Incarnate” Yi Zhonghai, “Necromancer” Jia Zhangshi, “Siheyuan War God” Silly Zhu, “White Lotus” Qin Huairu, “Power-Hungry Fathead Fish” Liu Haizhong, and “Human Abacus” Yan Bugui to prison, leaving the whol 15.8kReads6.4Score55614d adds
- 85 Siheyuan: Returning from a Mass Grave, I Slaughter the Entire Courtyard 四合院：从乱葬岗归来，血洗全院 A truck sends Zhou Han into the animal-infested courtyard house. The moment he opens his eyes, Silly Zhu frames him for stealing a chicken. The courtyard’s beasts beat him up and dump him in a mass grave to fend for himself. At death’s door, the System activates and forcibly keeps him alive, bringing him back from the brink. From then on, Zhou Han is no more. In his place is a vengeful ghost who crawled back from the underworld to claim lives. Granny Deaf, Silly Zhu, the Qin Huairu family, Jia Z 14.9kReads6.4Score43214d adds
- 86 Siheyuan: From the Start, I Sent Jia's Mother and Son to Prison 四合院：开局送贾家母子入狱 After Zhao Genshuo is beaten and has his home stolen from him, he awakens a Spirit Spring Space. He turns the tables on Yi Zhonghai, extorts 700 yuan in compensation, and sends Jia Zhangshi and her son Jia Dongxu to prison. He keeps a record of every scheme pulled by the vicious people in the courtyard, who would devour you without even spitting out the bones. Relying on the Spirit Spring, he steadily builds up his wealth and proceeds one careful step at a time, settling every old score as he li 8.4kReads—Score47114d adds
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Siheyuan: Cao Mengde of Nanluoguxiang 四合院：南锣鼓巷之【曹孟德】
[System] [Leads from period dramas set in the same era] [Multiple heroines, don’t read if you dislike that] Qi Yuan brings his memories from his previous life and transmigrates into this war-torn era as a newborn. From the time he can remember, he follows his old revolutionary grandmother as she travels from place to place. Only when he grows up and meets someone familiar does he realize that he has transmigrated into a parallel world set in that era. The war is over, and his grandmother is assi
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