Can’t You Write a Siheyuan Story Without a System, Pocket Dimension, or Golden Finger? 四合院没有系统，空间，金手指就不会写书吗？
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Siheyuan: Living 四合院：活着
Li Changjiang was scrolling through videos with his head down. When he looked up, he saw a child playing in the middle of the road as a car sped wildly toward them. Acting on instinct, he shoved the child out of the way, but was killed himself. His soul traveled to 1957, where he struggled to survive while raising the two younger brothers and one younger sister of the body he had taken over. (No System, no pocket dimension, and an effort to recreate the conditions of the time as accurately as po
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- 2 Siheyuan: Upholding Justice 四合院之主持公道 [1] [No Hostility] He arrives in 1951 and lives in Courtyard No. 95 on Nanluoguxiang. His parents sacrifice their lives for the country, leaving him an orphan. Reborn, Yang Jianguo works as an apprentice fitter at a steel mill. Knowing what lies ahead, Yang Jianguo seizes an opportunity during the steel mill’s reforms. Gradually, his wages rise higher and higher. With a high salary and a full stomach, of course he starts making things happen. He meddles here and there, only to discover that he h 26.2kReads6.7Score805Shelves
- 3 Siheyuan Survival Journal 四合院生存记录 Can't swallow cornbread buns? Is it really so hard when your throat feels like it's full of razor blades? Can't live without a flush toilet? Once you feel the urge, can you just make it go away? Can't get by without a System? Hundreds of millions of people have managed. Why can't you? A wage slave arrives in a Siheyuan with nothing to his name. Can he survive the tides of the times? 1.1kReads7.8Score108Shelves
- 4 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! 10.8kReads9.1Score367Shelves
- 5 Siheyuan: Silly Zhu 四合院之傻柱 On the day He Daqing runs off, Silly Zhu inherits memories from the future. There is no System. Although goods are scarce in this era, it has its own unique wonders. Watch the protagonist strive to build an extraordinary life of his own. 14kReads8.8Score390Shelves
- 6 Siheyuan: Helping Lou Xiao'e from the Start 四合院：开局援助娄晓娥 He transmigrates into the world of the Siheyuan series as He Yuzhu and awakens a System. From the start, Xu Damao wants to make trouble for him? Then He Yuzhu will have to sit him down for a serious discussion about who Lou Xiao'e belongs to! Qin Huairu comes asking for a lunchbox? Please, he's no sucker. Why would he let himself become a free meal ticket for the Jia family? Emotional blackmail? Sorry, I play the double-standard game better than anyone! 8.8kReads8.4Score314Shelves
- 7 Siheyuan: Transmigrating Without Knowing the Plot 四合院：不知道剧情的穿越 Disclaimer: This is not a wish-fulfillment novel! Not a wish-fulfillment novel! Read at your own risk! As a transmigrator, you’ve never even seen Love in the Courtyard. You transmigrate as He Yuzhu, yet you don’t even know who the charming widow is. If you know nothing, then what are you doing in the courtyard? He Yuzhu scratched his head. “Is any of that important?” “Bring on whoever you want. I’ll answer words with words and fists with fists. I’ve never lost an argument or feared a fight. Come 9kReads8.5Score315Shelves
- 8 Siheyuan: This Procurement Officer Is Winning Hearts 四合院之这采购员采的是心 (Multiple Heroines) (Qin Joins the Harem) In 1960, during a special era of severe shortages, Chen Jian'an found himself thriving after becoming a procurement officer with access to supplies. Yi Zhonghai, Yan Bugui, and Jia Zhangshi were walking stories all on their own. Yi Zhonghai: Jian'an, I wish you could look after me in my old age. Liu Haizhong: Jian'an, do you think Second Uncle has what it takes to become an official? Qin Huairu: Jian'an, I really do like you. Qin Jingru: A wife follows h 32.2kReads7.5Score1.9kShelves
- 9 Siheyuan: He Yuzhu’s New Beginning 四合院：何雨柱的新生 Reborn in Love in the Courtyard, with less hostility. See the everyday family squabbles in the courtyard from different perspectives. When faced with moral blackmail and scheming green tea, he firmly says no. Now that he's transmigrated, he intends to live life on his own terms. Change the plot, and change the people and events in the courtyard. Write a different story about the courtyard and experience the spirit of the era. In short, I'll be the one to decide how I live! Reborn, He Yuzhu will 22.3kReads8.7Score680Shelves
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Siheyuan: From the Start, Silly Zhu's Uncle Leads Him into Politics 四合院开局傻柱娘舅带他步入仕途
[Siheyuan] + [A Lifelong Journey] + [In the Name of the People] A mash-up of several dramas, telling the story of what happened before the Siheyuan. Chu Yun's soul traveled back to 1938, where he became the uncle of He Yuzhu, a man who shared his name. From the start, he was a company commander in the Eighth Route Army. To stand up for his sister and his poor, wronged nephew, Chu Yun immediately taught He Daqing a lesson and gave the courtyard's troublemakers a dressing-down. Determined to give
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- 11 Siheyuan: From the Start, I'm Silly Zhu's Uncle, Taking Him into the Army 四合院，开局傻柱他叔，带他从军 Military story + no holier-than-thou protagonist After transmigrating as He Daqing's younger brother, He Daming, he sets out to change the future for himself and his nephew, He Yuzhu. As a regimental commander, He Daming resolutely takes him into the army, embarking on a moving and heroic journey together. 12.4kReads8.2Score479Shelves
- 12 Siheyuan Prequel: My Foolish Zhu's Grandpa Flees Famine from the Start 四合院前传我傻柱他爷开局逃荒 No System + Not a Saint + A Prequel to the Courtyard Saga He Yingyuan has just won the Nobel Prize. On his flight back to China, a plane crash sends his soul back to 1942, where he becomes the grandfather of He Yuzhu. A famine that comes once in a century has struck. To flee the famine and stay alive, the family sets out together for the city of Beiping. To ensure the He family line continues, He Yingyuan has no choice but to make some difficult decisions. 13Reads6.5Score—Shelves
- 13 Siheyuan: Back to 1950, Silly Zhu Enlists in the Army 四合院：重回50年，傻柱从军 [Military + business warfare + politics + no self-sacrificing saint] From the start, he transmigrates as He Yuzhu, who has just been cruelly abandoned by his father, He Daqing. Knowing the plot inside out, He Yuzhu refuses to become someone else's pawn or sucker. Determined to live with his head held high, he grits his teeth and enlists in the War to Resist US Aggression and Aid Korea at the age of fifteen, beginning to write a legendary life of his own. 12.8kReads7.5Score479Shelves
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Siheyuan: I’m the Party Secretary at an Agricultural Machinery Factory 四合院，我在农机厂当书记
A slow-paced story set in a bygone era! Multiple love interests, a crafty protagonist, no suffering in silence, and only a little edge. No mass-killing rampages. If that's not your thing, please move along! Zhang Xingguo's soul transmigrates into an alternate world, where he discovers that it's actually the famous Four-Sided Courtyard world. Since he's here, he might as well have some fun! He can't have come all this way for nothing. One little tip a day, and he'll rule the Four-Sided Courtyard
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- 15 Siheyuan: My Fishing System Is Anything but Proper 四合院，我的钓鱼系统不正经 I wake up to find I've arrived in the 1950s, in Love in the Courtyard. As a man with a golden finger, is it too much to expect to be good at everything? Copying machine tools and building tanks are child's play. More importantly, under my leadership, the Dragon Kingdom will enter the age of standardized industrialization thirty years early and achieve its great goal of becoming the world's factory fifty years ahead of schedule. When the Indians cross the border, they won't be greeted by a three- 15.8kReads7.3Score526Shelves
- 16 Siheyuan: What I Say Goes in This Canteen 四合院，这个食堂我说了算 Zhang Renkang inexplicably finds himself in the world of Love in the Courtyard. He works his way up from a lowly kitchen helper to become the cafeteria director. What? Silly Zhu wants to cause trouble? Give him a beating and kick him out of the cafeteria. What? Qin Huairu wants a free ride? Ha, I won't do it unless I get something out of it. What? Yi Zhonghai wants me to take care of him in his old age? Dream on. I throw in my lot with Li Weimin and thrive. Watch Zhang Renkang take on the whole 16.1kReads7.6Score580Shelves
- 17 Siheyuan: The Ordinary Life of an Angler 四合院：钓鱼佬的平凡人生 [No System]+ [Fishing]+ [Earning foreign currency]+ [Becoming a factory director]+ [Period setting]+ [Siheyuan] An angler never comes home empty-handed! Chen Chang'an transmigrated thanks to fishing, then rose to prominence thanks to fishing. Amid the tides of a great era, he changed many people’s fates. 21.8kReads7.9Score1.3kShelves
- 18 Siheyuan: I’m Yushui’s Uncle 四合院之我是雨水舅父 [Set in 1951 from the start.] [Based on popular TV dramas, this is unlike 99% of fan fiction set in the Courtyard Siheyuan universe.] [System novel, feel-good novel.] [Overpowered in the later stages, with a more slice-of-life feel early on.] [One female lead] [Featuring stories from A Little Woman at Zhengyang Gate and Men Are Iron, Rice Is Steel.] The day He Daqing left for Baoding with a widow, Qi An arrived at Courtyard No. 95 on Nanluoguxiang. A warm, peaceful life began to unfold... 33.3kReads7.3Score1.8kShelves
- 19 1955: From the Start, I Was Sent to Bring Warmth 1955开局送温暖 A new story is here. No System, but there is a pocket dimension, and the protagonist isn't a bleeding heart. No powerful connections to lean on. From the start, he's just a young hunter with martial arts training, hoping to keep his head down and live quietly in the village. But life is unpredictable, and...! 7.6kReads7.9Score226Shelves
- 20 The Real Love in the Courtyard 正的情满四合院 I've read a lot of novels about the courtyard. Nine out of ten are brainless wish-fulfillment stories, some even turning the characters into outright monsters. They're all churned out like products on an assembly line. I've written one where everyone gets along, so feel free to share your thoughts. The protagonist transmigrates early and starts at the top. By that, I mean he is at the top among the people in the courtyard. He has a pocket dimension but no System. He does what he can for the coun 3.4kReads6.5Score106Shelves
- 21 Siheyuan: Cao Yi, a Good Man 四合院之曹义好人 Reborn in a parallel world of courtyard houses, with the resort from his previous life in tow. He may not have a System, but his pocket dimension is powerful, bringing cutting-edge technology from 2024 to this world. The protagonist can be a little too kind, yet he is also decisive and ruthless, making him a complicated character. In short, he's an ordinary person who lives as he pleases in any given situation. There's one female lead, and later on he'll flee to Hong Kong. 385Reads6.7Score—Shelves
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Reborn in the Siheyuan: He Yuzhu Stops Fawning Over Widows 四合院重生何雨柱不再舔寡妇
Stay away from the retirement gang and live your own quiet life. [Reborn, not transmigrated] [Everyday life] [Watching from the sidelines] [Staying out of it] [Smart protagonist] [No golden finger] [No System] Silly Zhu is reborn, with none of that exhausting scheming. This is an everyday-life story about living happily and keeping away from the retirement gang. [I'm not a great writer, so please go easy on me. A bow of thanks!] At the end of 2008, snowflakes drifted from the sky, and the song
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- 23 Siheyuan: Xu Damao's Village Screening Stories 四合院：许大茂村里放映那些事儿 [Transmigrate, not reborn] + [wild imagination] + [plot changes] + [not brainless] + [low on hostility], a slow-burn power fantasy. A transmigration story, not a rebirth story. The protagonist has a different personality from Xu Damao in the show and won't inherit Xu Damao's grudges. I know the writing isn't great, so please go easy on me, dear readers. "Bows!" Xu Damao, a man of loyalty and honor! Well, sort of. A little flirtatious, a little flirtatious, a little flirtatious... The womanizing 1.1kReads5.4Score—Shelves
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Siheyuan: The Whole Courtyard Is Asking for Trouble, So I Wipe Them All Out 四合院：全院作死，我直接杀光
After his Nascent Soul perishes, he returns to the courtyard in 1953 as a security chief, carrying on the legacy of a Celestial Master. But he discovers that his elder sister is dead and his nephew is on the brink of death. Those who seized the He family home and bullied the orphan will face karmic justice through a series of “accidents.”
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- 25 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 918Reads8.6Score101Shelves
- 26 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! 373Reads8.8Score145Shelves
- 27 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 38.5kReads8.7Score1.8kShelves
- 28 The Urban Supreme: Starting by Tearing Up the Marriage Contract 都市至尊，从撕毁婚书开始 A mysterious marriage contract was drawn up twenty years ago. Twenty years later, Lin Jiuxiao descended from the mountains with the contract, only for his wealthy fiancée to tear it up in front of everyone. “A country bumpkin from the mountains thinks he’s worthy of marrying me?” Amid the laughter, Lin Jiuxiao calmly gathered the scraps. “The contract can be destroyed. But the Su family has enjoyed three generations of wealth thanks to my master’s sect. Today, it’s time to pay it back.” The mome 778Reads7.0Score—Shelves
- 29 Legend of Mir: The Dragon Era 热血传奇：天龙纪元 Lin Xiao was an ordinary person from an ordinary world. After an accident, he transmigrated into a thrilling, legendary world full of danger. Unknown threats and challenges lurked everywhere. New to this strange world, Lin Xiao struggled to find his footing. But fate can turn in an instant. He met like-minded companions, including Su Li and Nuoxue. Fighting side by side and growing stronger together, they gradually conceived a bold idea: to establish the Longyuan Star Alliance. Through everyon 236Reads9.5Score—Shelves
- 30 The Path to Taming Demons in the Zuma Continent 热血传奇：祖玛大陆的训魔之路 Lin Xiao is the quintessential rich second-generation heir, usually idle and carefree, with a passion for immersing himself in Legend of Mir. His father chairs a publicly listed conglomerate, and his mother is also a successful businesswoman. But the powerful Wang family of the capital sets its sights on the Lin family's business. Old Master Wang holds a high-ranking national post, and the family's heir apparent, Wang Jingyu, colludes with local officials to maliciously undermine the Lins so he 14Reads7.6Score—Shelves
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Siheyuan: I Was Reborn During the Founding Ceremony 四合院，我重生在建国大典
There's something unusual about this courtyard. Yi Zhonghai, the Virtuous Heavenly Venerable? Liu Haizhong, the belt-wielding loving father? Yan Bugui, the master schemer? Granny Jia, kind to everyone? So you're the one they call Silly Zhu? You say that as if anyone else's head works any better. Around here, everyone knows my big brother is a peerless doctor. Three needles to take a life, ah, no, three needles and you're gone, Du Jiang?
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Siheyuan: My Wife Is He Yushui, Xu Damao's Sister-in-Law 四合院：老婆何雨水，妻嫂许大茂
[Siheyuan Fanfiction] [Female Lead: He Yushui] [No System, No Cheats] Transmigrated from the prosperous twenty-first century to the difficult years shortly after the founding of the country, with no System and no pocket dimension, how is Wuma supposed to get by? In an era defined by the spirit of collectivism, living in a Siheyuan full of the worst people imaginable, is blending in with the crowd the only way to survive? From the moment he transmigrated, Wuma knew he had to keep a low profile.
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Siheyuan: From the Start, I Became a Secret Agent 四合院之开局成了特务
[Original, One Female Lead] [No System] [No Pocket Dimension] [A Story of Hard Work] I transmigrated and immediately received an appointment as a secret agent? My own father was a counterrevolutionary? And he was executed by firing squad? My own brother was a secret agent too? See how Ren Sheng escapes these heavy shackles and lives a wonderful life of his own. As for the courtyard house? I dealt with the secret agents. You think I can't handle you lot? I've got work to do, and I have to date my
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Diary of Life in Siheyuan No. 95 95号四合院生活日记
Zhang Lin's soul transmigrated into the body of a rootless village rascal from Zhangjia Village in 1953. No pocket dimension, no System, no special abilities. His only advantage was having read all kinds of stories about life in a Beijing courtyard, so he had a rough idea of China's history after its founding. As for the systematic education he'd received over a decade later, he couldn't see how it would help him just yet. Follow our protagonist as he enjoys an authentic life in the 1950s.
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Siheyuan: I'm Xu Damao, but I Won't Be Xu Damao 四合院：我许大茂，不做许大茂
This book has no System, golden finger, or cheat. This is an all-new Xu Damao, transported to another world and made into an entirely new person. It tells a different story about Xu Damao! A man in his thirties from a later era, Xu Damao, gets hit by a truck. In that instant, the primordial power of heaven and earth causes him and the Xu Damao from the courtyard compound to collide, and he passively transmigrates. The courtyard’s Xu Damao is whisked away by a Dongfeng truck. See how the Xu Damao
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- 36 Siheyuan: The Civil Engineering Big Shot Has Arrived! 四合院：土木大佬驾到！ [No System] [Has a Spatial Dimension] [Low on Violence] Liu Bo: an utterly ordinary name. But if you have an arrogant subordinate named Long Aotian, then Liu Bo must be someone extraordinary. The quintessential big-shot protagonist, no doubt about it. But he's not the protagonist of this story. Liu Bo is a construction worker in 2025, working as a site manager at a construction site in a tiny county town ranked somewhere around the eighteenth tier. It happens to be a night shift pouring concrete 1.6kReads5.9Score107Shelves
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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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Struggling to Survive in a Siheyuan During the Red-Hot Years 四合院挣扎求活在火红年代
One moment of enlightenment reveals the true self. Only today do I finally know who I am. This book follows an ordinary person trying to make a living in the years after the founding of the People's Republic of China. It's all about witty, funny, lighthearted humor, with no System, no pocket dimension, and no golden finger. It's a three-no product. If that's not your thing, you've been warned.
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- 39 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... 11.7kReads6.5Score434Shelves
