The Ultimate Four-Sided Courtyard Rankings (I'm Out of Books to Read, Thanks!) 四合院的巅峰榜（书荒了，谢谢）
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Doomsday: The Rampant Plant Catastrophe 末日：狂植天灾
[No Harem Protagonist + Ruthless, Cunning Protagonist + Somewhat Overpowered + Plant Apocalypse + No Goody-Two-Shoes] What is the apocalypse? There is no kindness in the apocalypse, and there are no protagonists. There are only people doing their best to survive and see the sun rise tomorrow. As long as you outlive everyone else, you’re the protagonist. He thought he’d only complained a little and asked for some time off. Before he could even figure out what was going on, disas
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- 502 Siheyuan: After Being Reborn, I Can Open a Blind Box Every Day 四合院：重生后我能天天开盲盒 Protagonist: Zhao Lei; Role: An unemployed street loafer, a marginal member of the Zhao family, unloved by both parents Golden finger: Blind Box System Goal: Lie flat every day, with food and drink aplenty and no need to work Synopsis: Zhao Lei grew up as a left-behind child in his previous life. By an unexpected twist of fate, he is reborn in 1959 while staying at a hotel. It is the first year of the natural disasters, and as a modern young man used to having plenty to eat and drink, he absolut 39.1kReads6.4Score1.9kShelves
- 503 I'm an Honest, Plainspoken Man 我是正直淳朴的老实人 Hello, everyone. I'm Zhu Zhengchun, an honest, upright, and down-to-earth man. My surname isn't Duan, it's Zhu. I'm not the least bit envious of Duan Zhengchun, and I have no desire to become him. Ladies, I really am an honest, upright, and down-to-earth man. Thank you for loving me. 1Reads—Score—Shelves
- 504 Siheyuan, Deputy Director of Harbin Military Engineering, with Li Yunlong Under His Command 四合院，哈军工副院，部下李云龙 He was only ten when he left home. Twenty years later, he returned as a pillar of the nation. When he finally saw his eldest brother again, he found him living in Love in the Courtyard... 9.6kReads8.2Score156Shelves
- 505 A Siheyuan Chef's Rise Through the Ranks 四合院之厨子的升职记 A head chef transmigrates to the years before the founding of the nation and becomes a refugee fleeing disaster. See how he uses his culinary skills to turn life in a courtyard house upside down. This isn't a brainless story. It's all about keeping things simple, lighthearted, and fun! And there won't be a harem either. This is a story about devotion! 107.8kReads8.0Score6.8kShelves
- 506 Transmigrating to 1960: The Siheyuan's Young Policeman 穿越1960：四合院小警察 A laid-back young man transmigrates with a pocket dimension and settles down in Siheyuan No. 95 in 1960. He seeks neither wealth nor status, only his family's safety and a peaceful life. By a twist of fate, he becomes a local police officer, giving him the means to stand his ground. He looks after his little family, takes life one day at a time, and quietly waits for the tides of change. When the 1980s arrive, he will begin the retirement life he has always dreamed of. 88.5kReads7.9Score7.6kShelves
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Siheyuan: From the Start at 48, Selling My Art on the Overpass 四合院：开局48，天桥卖艺开始
Wang Minghao is a top-tier star in the cosplay world. He has just finished attending a convention in Shanghai when he gets into a car accident on his way out. The thing is, he wasn’t the one hit by the truck, so why is he the one who transmigrated? Is it because he shares a name with the person who got hit? Did the rookie System, fresh out of college and newly on the job, grab the wrong person? And once he transmigrates, there’s no going back? Damn it, pay up! With tears in his eyes, he accepts
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I’m Really Not a Scumbag Pillar 我真不是渣柱
Zhang Baoshi, a young man from the modern world, unexpectedly finds his soul transported into the body of Silly Zhu, a sixteen-year-old character from Love in the Courtyard. Having read plenty of fanfiction, he immediately swoops in on Qin Huairu and activates a pocket-dimension System, hoping to live a quiet life. But fate has other plans: Qin Huairu ends up marrying Jia Dongxu, leaving him utterly disheartened. Remembering how the Jia family drained him dry in the original story, until he froz
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My Father Is Lu Zheng, and This Is My Handong 家父陆峥，我的汉东
A crossover of multiple hit dramas: Love in a Siheyuan, The Story of Zhengyang Gate, Xiaoerbulake, and In the Name of the People. Multiple heroines, family development, feel-good wish fulfillment, the Korean War, making a name for himself, and climbing all the way to the top! Transmigrate into a low-ranking Nationalist soldier? Battalion commander at eighteen! Old Fu? Beiping? Sell it all, sell everything! From the Beiping Uprising to becoming a division commander at nineteen! The Yangtze Crossi
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- 510 Siheyuan: From the Start in the Security Office, Hai Zhong Calls Me Uncle 四合院：开局保卫处，海中叫我叔 The rating is out, and it should go up. I hope my friends at the studio won't all focus on me. Thanks! [Siheyuan] [Strongly dislikes cruelty; don't read if that's not your thing] [Family life] [A mix of stories from the era] [Taking on the bullies] [Two female leads] After transmigrating back to 1950, Qin Feng resolutely joined the army. At just sixteen, he charged into battle and fought bravely, earning one Special Merit, three First-Class Merits, and eight Second-Class Merits. He rose from a l 1.8kReads7.3Score219Shelves
- 511 Siheyuan: My Readers Assign Me Quests 四合院，读者给我安排任务 A Tomato platform writer's novel was so terrible that a group of readers pooled their money to send him into the very book he'd written. Every day, he has to complete a task chosen by reader vote, and so a series of stories begins. 583Reads6.8Score103Shelves
- 512 Courtyard Drama: While Others Stir Up Trouble, I Cultivate Immortality 四合院年代剧，别人搞事我修仙 [The protagonist loves a good time; multiple women, no single heroine. This isn't pure cultivation, it just happens to have cultivation in it. The main story is still about the era.] [The idea is simple: don't let a good girl get away, and don't waste a bad girl either. It all depends on whether she's worth a taste.] A modern man transmigrates into a world that blends several period dramas. It has not only the Siheyuan, but also Blood Romance, Under the Zhengyang Gate, A Bite of China, Steel Is 43kReads6.6Score3.9kShelves
- 513 In This Life, I Won't Be Sha Zhu, the Human Punching Bag 这一世我傻柱不在当血牛 The night he froze to death under a bridge, Sha Zhu finally saw the truth. His whole life, it turned out, he’d been a stupid donkey, beaten down and milked dry, with nothing to show for it. When he opened his eyes again, he was squatting by the back entrance to the steel mill canteen in 1965, a cigarette dangling from his lips. A voice rang in his head: “Task: Make sure Qin Huairu doesn’t get a single drop of cooking oil at lunch today.” “Reward: Twenty jin of pork lard, fifty yuan, and three na 172Reads5.5Score—Shelves
- 514 Siheyuan: My Uncle Is Yi Zhonghai, Time to Enjoy the Good Life 四合院：舅舅易中海，我来享福啦 [Lighthearted] [Low on Hostility] [Pure Love] [Gourmet] Cui Tianyang transmigrates to the end of 1949. He thinks he must be the most unfortunate transmigrator ever, doomed to starve to death in this era. He can barely remember anything from the original owner’s life, and his belongings have been stolen. Then you’re telling me I have a golden finger? Well, that changes everything. Watch me work. Daily intelligence, daily sign-ins. Unfortunately, Cui Tianyang has no grand ambitions. He only wants 30.7kReads6.1Score2.1kShelves
- 515 The Battlefield Healer Ding Ding Returns to Set Yi Zhonghai Straight 战地圣手丁丁归来整治易中海 Ding Ding, a decorated hero, was transferred to a courtyard house and planned to settle down as a factory doctor. Who knew the troublemakers would insist on digging their own graves? Jia Dong Xu stole his allowance? He sent him straight to the police station. Yi Zhong Hai tried to guilt-trip him? He exposed his hypocrisy on the spot. Xu Da Mao spread rumors and stirred up trouble? He diagnosed him as infertile. And Ran Qiu Ye, Yu Li, Lou Xiao E... each of them needed his protection. Ding Ding gr —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 516 Siheyuan: From the Start, I Report the Steel Mill 四合院：开局举报轧钢厂 When Zhong Guosheng opens his eyes, he finds himself in 1965, an orphaned child of a martyr in Courtyard No. 95 on Nanluoguxiang, who has been left to starve to death. His father, Zhong Dashan, died defending the steel mill and was posthumously recognized as a martyr. His mother, gravely ill and unable to afford treatment, passed away. The whereabouts of the compensation money are unknown, and someone else has taken over his father's job. Under the banner of “helping one another,” the entire c 1.5kReads6.8Score239Shelves
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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
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Siheyuan: From the Start, the Whole Family Gathered Around to Cry 四合院：开局全家人围着哭
(Period Setting + Siheyuan Courtyard + Pocket Dimension + Mild Antagonism + Carefree + Multiple Heroines?) Li Zifeng was an utterly ordinary poor young man from a later era. After accidentally getting swept up in the transmigration craze, he was dropped straight into 1943, in Kaoshan Village. By chance, he became the apprentice of an eccentric master who spent all day drinking fake liquor and lived a carefree, easygoing life. He learned a unique set of unorthodox skills that were down-to-earth a
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Siheyuan: The Journey to the West Quiz System Drives Me Crazy 四合院：西游竞猜系统把我逼疯了
Tang Sanzhang, a miserable nobody, somehow had his soul transported into the story of Love in the Courtyard, where he was bound to a Journey to the West Quiz System. To survive, he had no choice but to bow to the System’s tyranny, finding all sorts of ways to complete the bizarre, death-seeking tasks it assigned him…
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Siheyuan's Dual Sign-In System 四合院之双签系统
[Courtyard setting + golden finger + dual transmigration + marriage before love + time travel] If you can handle a lot, start from the beginning and get the complete story. If you can’t stand being wronged, I suggest jumping ahead to Chapter 60! By a twist of fate, two strangers transmigrate together into the world of Love in the Courtyard. Bound tightly together by the System, they have no choice but to do their best to play the part of a loving couple in order to survive in their new surroundi
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- 521 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 1.2kReads5.5Score—Shelves
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Siheyuan: What's Wrong with My Sleight of Hand? 四合院：我妙手空空怎么了？
Ever since the Silly Zhu, whom everyone in the courtyard used to push around, got the Sleight-of-Hand System, everything changed. Framed for stealing meat, shunned by the whole courtyard, and humiliated by Xu Damao rubbing his face in the dirt? He can spot corruption, exploitation, and scheming at a glance! Deputy Director Li's dirty money and betrothal gifts? I'll take them! Jia Zhangshi's secret stash? Mine! Xu Damao's betrothal gifts? I'll take those too! Silly Zhu is Silly no more! He deals
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Siheyuan: Split from Silly Zhu and Steal Qin Huairu Away 四合院：分家傻柱，截胡秦淮茹
[Tormenting Bullies] + [Stealing Qin Huairu Away] + [Patrol Officer] + [Rapid Advancement] + [A Prosperous Life] He Yuchen transmigrated into a courtyard compound and became Silly Zhu's older brother. From the start, Silly Zhu looked down on him and suggested they split up the family. Fine, then! Yushui chose to stay with He Yuchen, and the siblings left Silly Zhu behind to depend on each other. Silly Zhu thought the two of them would have an even harder time without him. Then He Yuchen awakened
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Siheyuan: From the Start, I Uncover a Shocking Secret 四合院：开局发现惊天秘密
Zhang Xiaopi was reborn, and an unexpected job in the capital brought him there. For no apparent reason, he ended up living in the Beast-Filled Courtyard. See how Zhang Xiaopi makes his own way in this vibrant, tumultuous era. See how he puts the courtyard’s pests in their place. This is a slow-burn story, but it has plenty of bite and a satisfying ending.
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- 525 Siheyuan: Sha Zhu, Hurry Up and Beg Your Grandpa to Stop Beating You 四合院，傻柱快求你爷爷别再打了 [Righteous fury] [Reforming the younger generation] [Restoring family values] [Clan life] He transmigrates as Silly Zhu's paternal granduncle. After leaving the army, where he served as a medical assistant, he returns to the He family. Seeing He Yuzhu drained by the entire courtyard and strung along like a dog, He Jianghai decides that cultivating oneself and putting one's family in order must go hand in hand. Beat him! Beat him hard! Give him a thorough thrashing! With the sensible He Yushui 21Reads7.0Score—Shelves
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Siheyuan: It's Haunted, and the Yard's Villains Want to Move Out 四合院：闹鬼了，众禽要搬离
When Su Hongyang first arrives in the capital, he suddenly realizes that he has landed in the world of Love in the Courtyard. Even more remarkably, he gets an Emotion Value System. The only thing is… this System is downright creepy. What? Yi Zhonghai is trying to guilt-trip me with morality? No problem. I’ll hit him with a soul-purifying critical strike. What? Jia Zhangshi wants to summon Old Jia? Well, we can’t have that. Hurry up and let Old Jia come up here. What? Old Deaf wants to throw rock
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- 527 Siheyuan: Silly Zhu Is Reborn After Jia Dongxu's Death 四合院：傻柱从贾东旭死开始重生 Reborn in a Siheyuan setting, with one female lead. The story isn't too heavy or full of hostility. He changes He Yuzhu's life, doesn't suck up to Deaf Granny or Director Yang, and lives life on his own terms. 7.8kReads8.5Score323Shelves
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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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- 529 Siheyuan: A Little Chef's Happy Life 四合院：小厨师的幸福生活 Silly Zhu: Why is his cooking so much better than mine? The gap is ridiculous. Yi Zhonghai: There’s no room in this courtyard compound for someone this amazing. Qin Huairu: He really is a good man, but unfortunately, I’m a widow. (The story isn’t too intense, focuses on everyday life, has a touch of the devoted-dad genre, and features one female lead.) 10.3kReads8.1Score301Shelves
- 530 Siheyuan: I See the Warmth and Coldness of Human Nature 四合院：我在四合院看人情冷暖 A courtyard story without all the hostility: Old Yi has a son, the Jia family has a hardworking and self-reliant daughter-in-law, and Da Mao will have a son someday. Yushui no longer lacks love. So what will happen to the other families? Follow Wang Weimin, an ordinary man, as he climbs step by step to the top and makes his way onto the world stage. 4.3kReads6.1Score100Shelves
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Siheyuan: I Master Divine Arts, and You Call Me Superstitious? 四合院：道法通神，你说我迷信？
[Period Setting] [Pocket Dimension] [Daoist Arts] [Miracle Doctor] [No Goody-Two-Shoes] [Everyday Life] [Family Matters] [Unique Powers] Zhang Daoxuan arrives in a Beijing courtyard in the 1960s and awakens a Merit System. With a single hand, he saves countless lives using talisman water and earns the title “Living Immortal.” But Jia Zhangshi turns around and reports him for feudal superstition and murder for profit! The police station refuses to hear him out and forces him to return the money a
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Siheyuan: Starting Out as a Veteran 四合院，退役开始
After transmigrating into Love in the Courtyard, Chen Chen, a 21-year-old demobilized veteran who fought in the War to Resist U.S. Aggression and Aid Korea, returns alone after his entire family goes to the battlefield. He is an orphan of martyrs and a war hero, repeatedly honored for his contributions to military industry. He has received one Special Class Merit, three First Class Merits, five Second Class Merits, and countless Third Class Merits. His father, Chen Jianguo, distinguished himself
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- 533 Transmigrating into the Siheyuan: From Engineer to Pillar of the Nation 穿越四合院：从工程师到国之重器 (One heroine + family life + heartwarming + pocket dimension) Liu Guangqi, a young man from the 21st century, transmigrates to 1951, into the world of the TV drama Love in the Courtyard, and becomes the courtyard’s second ungrateful son, Liu Guangqi. Having been an orphan in his previous life, he vows to cherish his family this time around. A simple, heartwarming life begins in a courtyard unlike any other. 4.3kReads8.2Score103Shelves
- 534 Lao Liu from the Courtyard's Propaganda Office 四合院宣传科的宋老六 Song Xiaofeng transmigrates and wakes up as a junior high school student who drowned in Songjia Village, a rural village on the outskirts of the capital. To get a decent meal as soon as possible, he studies hard and earns a place at a technical secondary school. He also becomes a publicity officer at a steel mill and ends up living next door to Xu Damao and Silly Zhu. 18.8kReads6.1Score685Shelves
- 535 Xu Damao's Story Begins in the Siheyuan 许大茂从四合院开始 The courtyard is just where Xu Damao's story begins. How could an era of dramatic change and burning passion go by without me, in the prime of my youth? See how Xu Damao, once a genuine hypocrite and villain, and his two little companions build lives unlike any other. With an unreliable little System, we're not counting on him. The missions are yours, so what do they have to do with me? We'll make our own decisions and live our own lives! (A note: this is a slow-burn story that spans a long peri 2.3kReads5.8Score—Shelves
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Conquering the Realm, Part Six: The Xuzhou Tripod 问鼎天下第六部之徐州鼎
Conquering the World, Part Six: The Xuzhou Tripod
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- 537 Siheyuan: Benevolence, Righteousness, and Morality 四合院之仁义道德 I've heard this is a model courtyard house, where everyone speaks so nicely and is unfailingly virtuous and righteous. So, could you sell me a few pounds of virtue and righteousness? You can't? Then it's a courtyard full of beasts after all. 13kReads7.8Score360Shelves
- 538 Conquering the Realm, Part Five: The Yanzhou Tripod 问鼎天下第五部之兖州鼎 Conquering the World, Part Five: The Yanzhou Tripod 18Reads—Score—Shelves
- 539 Siheyuan: Waking From a Grand Dream 四合院：大梦苏醒 A Siheyuan story about Silly Zhu being reborn, with a pocket dimension where he can farm. Follow him and his younger sister as they go through those bygone years all over again. The author is new, so please give this story your support... 664Reads6.7Score—Shelves
- 540 Conquering the Realm, Part Four: In Search of the Tripods 问鼎天下第四部之寻鼎记 Conquering the World, Part Four: The Quest for the Tripod 31Reads—Score—Shelves
- 541 Siheyuan: Turning the Tables on the Simp Zhu and Making a Comeback 四合院：从撂翻舔狗柱开始逆袭 [No System] + [Everyday Family Life] + [One Female Lead] + [Reforming Courtyard Culture] + [Period] Ma Zhong, an ambitious young man from the 21st century, enlisted during college. After leaving the army, he had plenty of theories about getting rich and turning his life around, but no connections or backing. He spent all his military discharge pay on a failed business venture and had no choice but to buy an eighth-hand electric scooter and start delivering food. But fate had other plans. While m 12.3kReads8.1Score477Shelves
- 542 Conquering the Realm, Part Three: The Yongzhou Tripod 问鼎天下第三部之雍州鼎 Conquering the World, Part Three: The Yongzhou Tripod 12Reads—Score—Shelves
- 543 Siheyuan: I'm Yi Zhonghai's Biological Son 四合院：我是易中海的亲儿子 A modern mechanical engineer transmigrates into the world of the courtyard and becomes Yi Zhonghai's biological son. With a son of his own, will Yi Zhonghai still scheme against others? Will Silly Zhu still become their meal ticket? Will Love in the Courtyard still turn into a courtyard full of beasts? Ordinary people just want enough to eat and warm clothes. There's no need for so much resentment or sinister scheming, just everyday family squabbles. In this backward era, do your best to help de 37.3kReads9.2Score1.6kShelves
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Siheyuan: One Smile from Him Leaves the Whole Courtyard Stunned 四合院：他一笑全院惊
Entirely handmade, no AI. Transmigration, lighthearted, multiple heroines, a warehouse, no hostility. When supplies are scarce, I have a supermarket. Enjoy a Cao thief’s life and live a different kind of existence. There’s no nightlife of glittering lights and bustling clubs, just the era’s shared activities.
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- 545 Conquering the Realm, Part Two: The Yuzhou Tripod 问鼎天下第二部之豫州鼎 Conquering the World, Part Two: The Yuzhou Tripod 32Reads—Score—Shelves
- 546 My Happy Life in the Siheyuan, You Wouldn’t Understand 四合院我的快乐，你不懂 Her soul transmigrates into a dying man in the Siheyuan. There’s no such thing as reasoning with people. With a System, he doesn’t have to care what anyone thinks. There’s only one thing to do: act. Multiple heroines, a slice-of-life focus, no angst, and no misery. 24.1kReads6.9Score1.3kShelves
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Siheyuan: Enjoying Life in the Revolutionary Era 四合院：火红年代享受生活
The male lead, Liu Ping'an, somehow finds himself transported to a world full of different realms, back before Liberation. With both parents alive, he works hard at farming, plunders foreign countries, and builds his fortune. The early chapters mainly focus on his comical life teasing the neighborhood busybodies. In the middle, he ventures out to expand his horizons. This book will be at least a million words long. Xu Damao: Women are devils! My greatest joys in life are eating, sleeping, and be
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- 548 Conquering the Realm, Part One: The Jizhou Tripod 问鼎天下第一部之冀州鼎 Conquering the World, Part One: The Jizhou Tripod 261Reads—Score—Shelves
- 549 Siheyuan: I Brought a Baggage from the Start 四合院：开局带了个拖油瓶 After transmigrating into a Beijing courtyard, he finds himself with a little burden from the start. His comrade sacrificed himself on the battlefield to protect him. Then his wife abandoned their three- or four-year-old daughter and ran off. Yang Shen steps up without hesitation and becomes Yaya's dad. Luckily, he has the System, so he never has to worry about food or drink, and he manages to thrive in this era. What? The scoundrels in the courtyard want trouble? Don't come looking for a beatin 15.8kReads7.3Score744Shelves
- 550 After Meeting Qi Tongwei, Things Took One Wild Turn After Another 遇到祁同伟后，那真是跌宕起伏啊 After meeting Qi Tongwei, things took one wild turn after another. 148Reads—Score—Shelves
