Siheyuan Stories With Less Malice, No Constant Killing or Crippling 四合院:戾气小一点的，别一整弄死弄残的。
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Siheyuan: I Refused to Pay Back My Debts and Made Jia Zhangshi Cry 四合院：我欠钱不还，气哭贾张氏
Lin Yuan transmigrated to a courtyard compound, where everyone was said to be a villain and the whole place was full of beasts. But Yi Zhonghai offered to lend him money. Jia Zhangshi brought him shoes. Liu Haizhong gave him eggs. Even Yan Laokou went out of his way to bring him a hen. Something’s not right. Why isn’t there a single beast in this courtyard?
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- 2 Siheyuan: Young Silly Zhu's Comeback 四合院：青年傻柱的逆袭人生 At twenty-five, he transmigrates into the world of the courtyard house and becomes He Yuzhu! What? His father, He Daqing, ran off! Good riddance. Isn’t this a perfect start? His father’s gone and left behind a big house. The old man may not care about his foolish son, but plenty of other people do. Leech off the old man? Absolutely. Might as well get the money back early, since he’s going to be taking it anyway. Yi Zhonghai: “Zhuzi, here’s 200 yuan. Go buy yourself a bicycle.” He Yushui: “Brothe 15.7kReads8.8Score607Shelves
- 3 I Solve Cases to Put Food on the Table 我靠破案养家糊口 Reborn in 1958, I moved into Courtyard No. 95 on Nanluoguxiang. Did I transmigrate into a TV drama or transmigrate into a book? Good thing I have so many buffs stacked that I don't have to spend all day playing family power games in one little courtyard! 5.2kReads9.3Score571Shelves
- 4 1960: Transmigrating to Nanluoguxiang 年代1960：穿越南锣鼓巷， New novel: Reborn in 1980: The Life I’ve Always Dreamed Of Also known as Li Laifu’s Happy Life in 1960s China. (No angst, comedy, farming, and everyday family life.) A short drama, comedy animations, and AI short dramas are now available. 202kReads9.4Score13.6kShelves
- 5 Siheyuan: I’m Banggeng’s Seventh Great-Uncle 四合院：我是棒梗的七舅姥爷 In December 2023, Zhang Dabiao suddenly acquired a golden finger: a pocket dimension. He stole everything from his unscrupulous boss’s supermarket and warehouse, making preparations to transmigrate. After being hit by a car, he found himself in December 1959 as an injured officer. He was reassigned to the capital and given a house in Courtyard No. 95, where he discovered that Jia Dongxu was the son of his older female cousin Zhang Cuihua, making him Bang Geng’s great-uncle, seven times removed. 25.8kReads8.7Score1.1kShelves
- 6 The Old Sixth Doctor in the Siheyuan 四合院里的老六医生 A medical PhD from the 21st century arrives in the 1950s. His mother has just passed away, and his father has started a new family in the Northeast. He studies hard, gets into a technical secondary school, and is assigned to the Hongxing Steel Rolling Mill. He moves into the compound at No. 95 Hongxing Street. Just as he enters, he runs into a general meeting of the residents. Will he let them have their way? 42.6kReads8.5Score1.6kShelves
- 7 Siheyuan: Everyone on Your Feet, Salute Your Godfather 四合院：全体起立，给干爹敬礼 As the train of time sped along, Lu Yao arrived in a Beijing courtyard in the 1960s. He activated the Strongest Godfather System. Anyone who acknowledged him as their dad would earn him huge rewards. Facing a courtyard full of scoundrels, Lu Yao was always one step ahead. Yi Zhonghai: “Lu Yao, you shouldn't be so selfish.” Lu Yao: “I give meat to twelve courtyard residents who have no family to support them every week, and I help six struggling households here. You call that selfish?” Yi Zhongha 13.1kReads9.1Score510Shelves
- 8 Easygoing Days in the Siheyuan 四合院里的悠哉日子 Back in 1955, he begins a carefree life amid all the chaos of that legendary courtyard. See how a modern man gets by and lives his own modest life in that era! (A low on hostility, high on everyday life, and all about watching the drama kind of story.) 38.6kReads7.7Score1.9kShelves
- 9 Siheyuan: I, Wang, Specialize in Stabbing People in the Back! 四合院：王某人独善背刺！ [System] [Street Office from the Start] [Both Parents Alive] [All About Being Sweet-Talking and Smooth!] Transmigrate to a Beijing courtyard in the 1950s, join the street office, and make your mark in both culture and sports as you deal with the troublemakers! 24.3kReads8.0Score793Shelves
- 10 Siheyuan: The Old Man Who Collects Scrap 四合院：收废品的老汉 "No pointless romantic subplots + Feiji has never been a saintly do-gooder + easygoing everyday life" Li Shizhen has a very medical-sounding name. A disillusioned and unrestrained man born in the 1980s, he has seen all walks of life and become a scrap collector who grabs junk for a living. He has a change of heart and saves a boy who was supposed to transmigrate, only to unexpectedly transmigrate himself. Well, if he has to transmigrate, so be it. He never started a family in his previous lif 16.5kReads8.9Score641Shelves
- 11 Siheyuan: I'll Live My Own Life, So Don't Bother Me! 四合院：我过我的日子，别烦我！ 49.2kReads7.2Score2kShelves
- 12 Siheyuan: Is There Any Future in Being a Factory Doctor? 四合院：当厂医有搞头吗？ While delivering food, delivery rider Li Huaishui is sent back to 1944 by a truck, into the womb of a family in Shandong. As he slowly grows up, he learns that his brother, who is more than twenty years older and rarely comes home, is named Li Huaide. Then he discovers that his eldest brother works at the Red Star Steel Mill in the capital… 16.7kReads5.5Score858Shelves
- 13 Siheyuan: From the Start, I Ruined the White Lotus's Face 四合院：开局毁了白莲花脸 [Mindless wish-fulfillment + intense hostility + tormenting the vermin + scheming + everyone is evil + not one gets away] In 1961, Sun Dazhuang transmigrates into a new resident of a Beijing courtyard, a man beaten to death by the neighborhood’s old-age-care clique. He hits back by beating Silly Zhu into having no heirs and disfiguring Qin’s face, and that’s just the beginning! Watch him take revenge to the extreme, strip the vermin of what they care about most, and then slaughter them! 3.7kReads5.8Score102Shelves
- 14 Siheyuan: From the Start, I Castrate Jia Dongxu 四合院：开局阉了贾东旭 Zhang Feng, an outstanding young man of the twenty-first century, is sent to the 1950s by more than a dozen tractor-trailers. He doesn't realize that this is the legendary world of Birds Fill the Courtyard until he arrives in the capital in 1959. On his very first day after moving in, he castrates Jia Dongxu. At the residents' meeting, he even publicly calls on everyone to leave Yi Zhonghai without an heir. 43kReads6.6Score2.3kShelves
- 15 Siheyuan: I Built My Fortune by Breaking People’s Legs 四合院：我靠打断别人腿发家致富 Zhang Yifan transmigrates into the original host, whose legs were broken by Silly Zhu for refusing to lend Qin Huairu some meat, and merges with the host's soul. Zhang Yifan becomes a leg-breaking maniac, repeatedly staging leg-breaking incidents in the courtyard compound. From then on, everyone there lives in fear. Zhang Yifan not only avenges the original host, but also acquires supplies and skills, making his life more and more comfortable. 9.3kReads6.4Score466Shelves
- 16 Siheyuan: Silly Zhu's Age of Empires 四合院：傻柱的帝国时代 In the 1950s, life in the capital was hard, and the winds of change stirred beneath the surface. A modern soul found himself in the body of a young man known as Silly Zhu. His father had run off, leaving only his little sister behind. The courtyard was rife with trouble, and hidden currents swirled through the streets. Fortunately, he had a world of his own: the Age of Empires game world. Starting in the primitive Stone Age, he reclaimed land, developed production, and smelted metal, steadily l 42kReads7.3Score3.8kShelves
- 17 Siheyuan: The Short-Tempered Big Brother Slaughters the Entire Courtyard 四合院：暴躁老哥，杀穿全院 The courtyard isn't big, but it's packed with ruthless people. To punish these scoundrels, the System specifically selects short-tempered, sinister guys and sends them to be reborn in the courtyard. Not one of them understands reason, but they all know how to throw a punch. First story, reborn as Silly Zhu: Throw a punch first, then ask all the questions afterward. Second story, an ordinary guy framed and sent to prison: Now that I've got a cheat, why clear my name with words? Wouldn't a knife b 14.4kReads8.2Score458Shelves
- 18 Siheyuan: A Tough Guy Moves In 四合院：狠人进院 Old Wang, who lived in a Beijing courtyard house, died suddenly of a heart attack. When the steel mill looked into his affairs, they discovered he had a nephew, Wang Tiezheng, living in the Northeast. And so, completely bewildered, Wang Tiezheng crossed through time and space, then somehow blundered into life in a courtyard full of vile characters! 44.7kReads8.3Score1.9kShelves
- 19 Homelander in Siheyuan 祖国人在四合院 The ratings have only just come in. They'll slowly go up, everyone says so, and so do I... The cover was slapped together by AI. This is my first time writing a book, so I have no experience. After transmigrating to the capital in 1962, Huang Jinbu falls into the notorious Courtyard of Beasts. Yi Zhonghai, Liu Haizhong, Yan Bugui, Qin Huairu, Jia Zhangshi, Silly Zhu, and a whole host of other top-tier troublemakers are all gathered there. Just as he thinks he'll have to scrape by, the Motherland 13.8kReads8.0Score1kShelves
- 20 Siheyuan: Lock Down Yi Zhonghai and the Jia Family from the Start 四合院：开局锁死易中海和贾家 Take the initiative and put those courtyard pests in their place; Drop all pretense of personal virtue and enjoy a shameless life; Refuse to waste energy worrying, and go absolutely wild when trouble comes; Rather than make yourself suffer, make things difficult for others; When faced with a courtyard full of pests, the only answer is to strike first... 22.4kReads6.6Score991Shelves
- 21 Transmigrate as He Yushui: From the Start, I'm in Baocheng 穿越何雨水，开局竟然在保城 In early May 1951, six-year-old He Yushui is possessed by the soul of a modern person. The transmigrator, who has read all kinds of fan fiction and hundreds of transmigration novels, is instantly dumbfounded. “Wait, why is He Yushui in Baocheng? Shouldn't she be in the courtyard house on Nanluoguxiang?” After absorbing the original owner's memories, they discover that Silly Zhu brought her here. No need to ask: Silly Zhu has either been reborn or transmigrated too. Anyone who understands the law 27.6kReads7.5Score1.4kShelves
- 22 I'm Seven and Raising a Child, and Everyone in Siheyuan Has Gone Crazy 七岁带娃的我，四合院全疯了 Only when I stepped through the courtyard gate did I realize I’d arrived in the world of the beastly residents of a Beijing courtyard. And you expect a seven-year-old kid like me to look after children? System, are you messing with me? You even ran off! At least my parents are both alive and well. Well, since I’m here, your great demon king has arrived! You beasts! Heh heh heh! Yi Zhonghai wants to make the rules? I’ll rant you into the ground. The old deaf lady is throwing her weight around? I’ 32.7kReads6.5Score1.8kShelves
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Siheyuan: Good Fortune Brings Me a New Life 四合院：大运送我新生
A long-haul truck driver transmigrates into the world of a Beijing courtyard compound in 1949, where he experiences the everyday ups and downs of family life in that era. This is a story about trying to fit into the times and witnessing them firsthand.
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Wang Dachui's Happy Life 王大锤的快乐生活
Wang Dachui, who sacrificed himself to save someone, was mistakenly tossed by Ox-Head and Horse-Face into the world of the Beijing courtyard homes. See how this little man from another world survives among a courtyard full of vultures, matching wits and trading blows with them. The author has completed several Beijing courtyard novels, all written by hand from beginning to end. The plot twists and turns, so come and savor it!
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- 25 The Wonderful Life of Silly Zhu 傻柱的精彩人生 “A sick mother, a gambling-addict father, a younger brother still in school, and a divorced woman.” Who wouldn’t feel sympathy for a young woman like that? I was just feeling a little sympathetic and trying to help her out of a difficult situation. Why did I have to transmigrate into this courtyard full of beasts? And into the body of one of the beasts, Silly Zhu, no less! Heaven is so unfair! 23.6kReads7.5Score923Shelves
- 26 Siheyuan: The Qing Dynasty Is Back 四合院：大清回来了 A powerful survivor from the apocalypse is reborn as He Daqing. He first deals with his two ungrateful stepsons, then makes a triumphant return to the courtyard house, marries a lovely wife, and takes on his wicked neighbors, changing Silly Zhu’s life along the way. Read on to discover all the exciting details! 17.1kReads8.5Score535Shelves
- 27 A Dragon Hidden in the Deep Mountains: Reborn as the Landlord's Foolish Son in the 1960s 深山藏龙：重生六零地主家傻儿子 Reborn as the foolish son of a landlord, with a pocket dimension, one heroine, and a pet. This richly plotted period novel combines family-wide revenge, solitary living deep in the mountains, hunting and trading, life as an educated youth, returning to the city to build a career, and much more. Meticulously crafted, with vivid plots, lifelike characters, exquisite details, and plenty of emotional payoff, it is absolutely worth savoring! 8.1kReads7.5Score794Shelves
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Whether the Siheyuan Is in Chaos Is Up to Me, Xu Damao! 四合院乱不乱，我许大茂说了算！
Whose family doesn’t have a few famous ancestors? Would the ancestors of my Xu family really stand by and let their descendants die out? Blessed by my ancestor’s favor, Xu Damao gets to live again. Give back what you took from me, and spit out what you ate! I’m going to make sure this whole Siheyuan doesn’t know a moment’s peace! If you want strength, I’ve got brains; if you want brains, I’ll play dirty! So, are you convinced or not?
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- 29 Siheyuan: My Hunting Life 四合院：我的狩猎生涯 A hero who fought floods and rescued disaster victims returns to the world of Siheyuan. To survive, he takes up hunting and feeds his whole family through these turbulent times. Come see a different Siheyuan: no mindless characters, no hostility. The author pours care into every page, even staying up late to write! Thank you all for your support! 10.9kReads8.0Score364Shelves
- 30 Life in the Siheyuan 在四合院里过日子 After reading lots of stories about courtyard life, I decided to try writing my own take on it. This is a practice piece, so please be kind if it's not to your taste! My second carefully crafted novel, The Courtyard: The Qing Dynasty Is Back, has just launched. I hope you'll give it a read! Li Ping'an was an obscure older bachelor in modern society. He died after doing a good deed for once, presumably because good deeds bring good fortune. He transmigrated to a courtyard in the late 1950s, where 16.6kReads7.8Score535Shelves
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Siheyuan: I'm Liu Guangqi 四合院：我是刘光奇
A Love in the Courtyard fanfic. I transmigrated into the world of Love in the Courtyard and became Liu Guangqi. Emmmm, not a bad identity. Unlike other transmigrators who start out as orphans, at least the courtyard's scoundrels can't bully me. As for everything else, I'll just sit back and watch!
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Siheyuan: A Happy Life in the Red Era 四合院：火红年代的幸福生活
Pei Guang transmigrates into the world of Love in the Courtyard in the late 1950s, and everything begins to change quietly. Qin Huairu: Where did this Liang the Widow come from? She actually stole my Silly Zhu away. Yi Zhonghai: Sigh! With Liang the Widow around, there's no counting on Silly Zhu anymore. Bang Geng: Sigh! My life is ruined! Golden finger: Hard work pays off + a pocket dimension (no farming)
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- 33 Siheyuan: Li Xiuyu's Era 四合院：李修禹的年代史 One heroine + everyday life + security department + cozy courtyard + no angst A courtyard house, carved windows, drooping green willows, and red begonias. Inside the imperial city, grand mansions with flying dragons carved in stone and phoenixes winding around pillars, jade-green tiles adorned with auspicious beasts gazing up at the sky. The story begins in a courtyard house in 1959. 21.5kReads8.2Score566Shelves
- 34 Siheyuan: Happiness Begins with a One-Cent Instant Kill 四合院：从一分钱秒杀开始幸福 [Courtyard Drama + System + Everyday Life + Changing the Plot] Zhou Jianjun transmigrated into Love in the Courtyard, only to discover that his arrival had changed some of the plot. This world was great: not only did he have a house, but also a beautiful wife and an adorable daughter. He even had a System that let him buy anything for a penny. Not enough food or supplies? Not a problem. Zhou Jianjun just wanted to live happily with his wife and daughter for the rest of his life, so nobody had be 44.7kReads9.2Score2.3kShelves
- 35 Siheyuan: Old Man Jia Dapao 四合院之老汉贾大炮 Multiple female leads, no self-righteous do-gooder, and the little details of everyday life: the happy life of young wife Qin Huairu and Old Jia. As the times change, turmoil returns to the courtyard house. 35kReads7.6Score2.2kShelves
- 36 Siheyuan: Qin Huairu and Yu Li Are Both My Tenants 四合院之秦淮茹，于丽都是我房客 Qin Huairu is a total pushover! Liang Ladi turns a wedding into a riot! Multiple female leads, no saintly do-gooding, just a carefree life. The ultimate male lead takes on all the courtyard's troublemakers, uses PUA tactics on Qin Huairu, and turns her into an obsessed woman. He moves among the various tenants, enjoying every moment! 2.4kReads6.0Score100Shelves
- 37 Siheyuan: I Have the Original Novel in Hand 四合院之我有原著在手 The strongest male lead takes on the miscreants of the courtyard! He uses PUA tactics on Qin Huairu, turning her into an obsessed woman! He teases Yu Li and keeps her wrapped around his finger. He meets the love of his life, and the lovers finally get their happy ending. 4.6kReads5.8Score153Shelves
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Siheyuan: Starting with a Game World 四合院：从获得游戏世界开始
[Siheyuan] + [Invincible] + [No Anger or Resentment] + [One Heroine] + [Comedy] + [A Show-Off in Public, a Bird-Tamer Behind the Scenes] + [Passionate] Wu Yaozu transmigrates into the world of Siheyuan, bringing along a special World of Warcraft game System. After cutting a bloody swath through the battlefield, he is forced to join a secret unit. Several years later, he leaves the military and joins the Hongxing Steel Plant. He moves into the biggest house in the Siheyuan and finds himself a sup
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Siheyuan: The Happy Life of an Eighth-Grade Worker 四合院之八级工的幸福生活
This novel has no System and no over-the-top melodrama, and things are relatively harmonious. Synopsis: Lin Yu transmigrates into a courtyard in the 1950s and gets a terrible start. Through his own hard work, he gradually becomes an eighth-grade worker and gives his family a happy life.
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- 40 Siheyuan: A Cheat-Fueled Life in a Fiery Era After Transmigrating 四合院：穿越火热年代的开挂人生 [Transmigration + fighting the courtyard scoundrels + light System elements + feel-good story + chief designer of the Nantianmen project (the story still needs to make sense. The Nantianmen project can't get underway right from the start. If you expect everything to happen all at once, don't click in; consider yourself warned) + using technology to change the nation's destiny] In 1958, Zhang Jianhua transmigrates and awakens to the mysteries of his time in the womb, discovering that he is in the 5.2kReads8.2Score175Shelves
- 41 Siheyuan: Wealth Beyond the Entire Courtyard, and Beauties with Affection in Their Eyes 四合院：财倾全院红颜含情 A new work is out! You can read my story on Tomato Novel. I hope you’ll enjoy it. Your support motivates me to write, and I’ll do my best to tell every story well! 6kReads7.1Score354Shelves
- 42 Siheyuan: The Chef's Peaceful Life 四合院：厨神的安逸生活 A chef's soul finds itself in the world of the courtyard. In an era of hardship and austerity, he uses his seasoning warehouse and culinary skills to make a life of his own. The story is light on hostility and focuses on everyday life: the struggles of an ordinary man. 2.9kReads5.7Score107Shelves
- 43 Yan Jiecheng's Cheat-Code Life in the Siheyuan 四合院阎解成的开挂人生 I woke up as Yan Jiecheng from Love in the Courtyard, the shrewd eldest son of Third Uncle Yan Bugui. It was 1958. The courtyard seemed calm on the surface, but beneath it, currents were already stirring. The shadow of famine had yet to fall over this capital, and I planned to use my foreknowledge to change everyone's fate: save Jia Dongxu, give Silly Zhu some guidance, and talk sense into Xu Damao... Yet I soon discovered that this world seemed to have a stubborn power that corrected itself. G 479Reads—Score—Shelves
- 44 I, He Daqing, Sell Silly Zhu to Yi Zhonghai 我，何大清，把傻柱卖给易中海 [A Myriad Worlds story. The Four-Sided Courtyard arc is complete, and the story is now in the Hong Kong TV world!] After He Daqing transmigrates to the Four-Sided Courtyard, he discovers that the Bai family has beaten him badly enough to land him in the hospital. Then he remembers the scene from the original story where he was driven out and left to wander the streets. He resolutely decides to divorce and return to the capital! He had planned to save his “bargain” son, Silly Zhu. Who could have 8.5kReads7.7Score333Shelves
- 45 Siheyuan: I’m Your Second Uncle 四合院，我是你二大爷 [Siheyuan + Hong Kong entertainment + Chinese entertainment + Japanese entertainment + American entertainment] A security guard from Pengcheng, worked to the bone, is struck and killed by lightning during his night shift. A half-eaten assembled meal sits on his desk. —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 46 Siheyuan: Plenty of Funny Antics 四合院：趣事不少 Lin Feng, a 21st-century man, transmigrates into the body of an orphan named Lin Feng in the 1950s, during three years of famine. This is a feel-good power fantasy, and characters from other films and TV shows will appear. Follow Lin Feng as he makes the most of life in the courtyard. Multiple heroines, low on hostility. 173Reads—Score—Shelves
- 47 Siheyuan: What Kind of Standards Are Those? You Dare Compare Morality with Me! 四合院：什么档次？跟我比道德！ Zhao Sihai is a modern man who gets sent by a mud truck trying to meet its quota to the world of Love in the Courtyard. At first, he's pretty panicked. After all, the whole courtyard is full of beasts! Just then, the System arrives, right on time. From then on, Zhao Sihai morally crushes Yi Zhonghai and beats Silly Zhu in a fight, living a happy and fulfilling life. As for everyone else, who cares what happens to them? PS: No heavy angst, just ordinary life with a tiny, tiny, tiny bit of comedy. 16.2kReads7.9Score569Shelves
- 48 Siheyuan: Living a Long Life by Slacking Off 四合院，从摸鱼开始长命百岁 Others transmigrate and fight the beasts, invent things, or become the richest man in the world. Li Xiangdong's goal is simply to “live as the ultimate winner in the courtyard.” He stays out of disputes, makes no enemies, trades his work points for a little liquor every day, and enjoys a warm bed with his wife. “I've worked like a beast half my life. Can't I, Li Xiangdong, enjoy myself for once?” The currency system follows the second series of Renminbi! Qin Huairu is the female lead in this 2.4kReads5.9Score100Shelves
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Going with the Flow in a Fiery Era 火红年代之随波逐流
Zhong Shan transmigrates into the world of Love in the Courtyard. Let’s see how Zhong Shan gallops through this era. Zhong Shan is a fine young man, handsome and wealthy. Quite something, quite something, Zhong Shan is a fine young man! (Sorry, wrong song.) No angst, mostly everyday life. An outsider in the retirement community.
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Siheyuan: I Take Yi Zhonghai to Task and Demand 6,000 Yuan 四合院：手撕易中海，逼赔六千块
Chen Wangshan is a transmigrator. He has transmigrated into a notorious courtyard house from across the myriad heavens, full of beasts. No endless bickering back and forth. He'll teach those beasts how to behave by using the law. A new author with a new work. Please go easy on me, dear readers! A fist salute! Thank you! (The rating just came out and will rise later, so please read with confidence.)
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