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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Siheyuan: Snow Disaster, Qin Huairu Weeps in Regret 四合院：雪灾，秦淮茹悔恨痛哭
[Apocalyptic blizzard + courtyard drama + a touch of violence]. History buffs, read at your own risk. Chen Ping'an transmigrates into a courtyard in the 1950s and becomes a resident in the rear courtyard. The System tells him that in ten days, a thousand-year blizzard will arrive. He only has two things to do: 1. Marry the only truly loving and devoted woman in the courtyard, Lou Xiao'e, and claim the space awarded by the System. 2. Stockpile supplies like crazy and turn his basement into a
2kReads6.5Score118Shelves
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Siheyuan: I Have Seven Fairies at Home, and I'm Really Busy 四合院：家有七仙女，我真忙
"A Family with Seven Daughters" + "Everyday Family Life" + "Heartwarming" + "System" + "Pocket Dimension" + "Stockpiling Supplies" The story is plausible and true to its premise, with plenty of conflict, no demonization, and no saintly heroics. There are no grand ambitions. The goal is simply to live a good, quiet life. My new work is out! Come read it on Tomato Novel. I hope you enjoy it. Your support inspires me to write, and I’ll do my best to tell every story well!
5kReads7.0Score166Shelves
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In the Siheyuan, I Am Qin Huairu 四合院我是秦淮茹
In 2022, Qin Huairu, an engineering PhD at a research institute in the western suburbs of the Forty-Nine City, dies suddenly after working overtime on experiments for days. She transmigrates to 1962, arriving at Jia Dongxu’s funeral. After taking over his job at the steel mill, she embarks on a colorful working life, helping the Red Star Steel Mill develop the ability to research special steel and manufacture heavy machinery, and helping China’s industry reach new heights...
1.6kReads8.7Score108Shelves
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Siheyuan: Silly Zhu Strikes It Rich After Rebirth 四合院：穿成傻柱赚翻了
He transmigrated into Love in the Courtyard and became He Yuzhu, keeping his distance from all the ridiculous messes. Given another chance at life, he wanted to live however he pleased! If anyone didn’t like it, they could fight him! [Pocket dimension + stockpiling supplies + treasure hunting + 1970s setting + marriage before love + following the army + doting dad]
2.7kReads7.8Score104Shelves
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I Transmigrated into Qin Huairu 穿越成了秦淮茹
A modern master of traditional Chinese martial arts transmigrates into the body of Qin Huairu. In this courtyard, supposedly called Full of Love but really Full of Vermin, the protagonist will live on in Qin Huairu's place. When Jia Zhangshi starts making unreasonable demands, the protagonist won't indulge her anymore. Don't expect me to put up with your abuse. Straight to jail with you. Yi Zhonghai schemes to get the protagonist to have a child, but never expects it to be the deaf old lady inst
188Reads—Score—Shelves
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Siheyuan: I Transmigrated as He Daqing and Was Blackmailed from the Start 四合院：穿越何大清，开局被要挟
Main character: He Daqing [Feel-good story + no saintly self-sacrifice + spiritual spring space + taking the initiative] A mercenary from the future transmigrates into He Daqing, Silly Zhu’s biological father! From the start, he faces a deadly trap laid for him by Deaf Granny, Yi Zhonghai, and White Widow working together... A honey trap? You all want to force me to leave the capital? Sorry, buddy. In my previous life, I was willing to risk my life on the battlefield for money. Do you really thi
12.2kReads6.4Score350Shelves
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Siheyuan: My Wife, Qin Huairu 四合院：我的媳妇秦淮茹
After transmigrating into the world of "The Birds Fill the Courtyard", Yang Shu inherited a courtyard house from the start, though it wasn't the one at No. 95 Luogu Alley. But now he lived in the back courtyard, surrounded by beasts, and even had the Old Deaf Lady for a neighbor? [Ding! Congratulations, Host. You have successfully activated the Super Master Thief System.] [The so-called Master Thief System lets the Host steal people's hearts. Each successful attempt earns a corresponding reward.
83Reads—Score—Shelves
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Siheyuan: The Cruelest He Yuzhu in History! 四合院：史上最狠何雨柱！
His soul transmigrates to 1952, where he rewrites the story of the animal-infested courtyard. He Yuzhu, who has come from another world, combines a pocket dimension with ruthless decisiveness and a calculating nature... The courtyard beasts: “Zhuzi, how can you hit an old person?” He Yuzhu: “You must be seeing things. Where’s the old person? Lord Zhu is clearly hitting a beast.”
491Reads7.1Score161Shelves
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Siheyuan: I Transmigrate into Qin Huairu from the Start 四合院开局反穿成秦淮茹
Qin Feng accidentally fell to the bottom of a ravine, only to transmigrate into a woman’s body. And not just any woman: Qin Huairu. Marry into the Jia family? Dream on... You want to scheme your way into making me support you in your old age? In your dreams...
407Reads7.9Score—Shelves
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I Thought It Was the Apocalypse, but You Dropped Me into a Siheyuan 以为是末世，你给我干四合院来啦
A hundred thousand words have been deleted, and the book is still being revised. Some chapters don’t quite follow from what came before, and I’m truly sorry. I thought the apocalypse had arrived. Who knew I’d be sent to the world of the courtyard houses? Is this the apocalypse? Perhaps it really is for some people. But I have a pocket dimension and plenty of food. This place is paradise.
21kReads6.4Score1kShelves
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Siheyuan: I Became the Patriarch from 1951! 四合院：从1951年开始当爷！
[Feel-good power fantasy + No humiliation + The whole courtyard is full of villains + Pocket-space golden finger + Founding a country overseas] After transmigrating as He Yuzhu, he immediately finds himself facing his father, He Daqing, who plans to run off with the family’s assets! Awakening an [Extreme Physique + Stasis Space], Silly Zhu turns on him at once: Leave the house deed! Leave the recipes! Split the money in half! Want to abandon your family and children? Not a chance!
13.8kReads8.0Score413Shelves
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Siheyuan: Silly Zhu Rewrites His Life 四合院：傻柱改写新人生
Mercenary Yu Qian transmigrates into He Yuzhu from Love in the Courtyard, bringing with him a pocket world of his own, so he never has to worry about food or clothing. In his spare time, he has fun tormenting the courtyard’s beasts. Later, he sets up a conglomerate and forms a private army, helping his long-suffering homeland in the hope that it will prosper…
325Reads—Score119Shelves
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Siheyuan: From the Start in 1962, I Have Heaven-Defying Comprehension 四合院：开局62年，悟性逆天
[Siheyuan courtyard + System + period setting + technological powerhouse + putting bullies in their place + advancing science and technology + one heroine + developing the nation] Beat the bullies. If they wrong you, get even. A five-strike combo twists Jia Zhangshi’s mouth out of shape. Beat Yi Zhonghai and Jia Zhangshi until they’re singing love songs together. Use a parry, grab, and throw to break He Yuzhu’s hand. Teach Xu Damao a groin kick that smashes He Yuzhu’s balls. After scanning a QR
118Reads7.9Score125Shelves
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Siheyuan: Awakening the System, I Won't Let the Whole Courtyard Suck Me Dry 四合院：觉醒系统，不惯全院吸血
After transmigrating back to the 1960s and the beastly courtyard compound, the protagonist awakens a heaven-defying comeback System and sees through the evil intentions of everyone living there! There are no warm, friendly neighbors here, just a pack of bloodsuckers plotting against one another: the First Master, who abuses his position and uses moral pressure to get others to provide for his retirement; the Second Master, who dreams of becoming an official and loves throwing his weight around;
21Reads7.1Score—Shelves
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He Daqing Left Home from the Start to Help Someone Raise Their Child 开局何大清离家，去帮人养孩子
A top killer from the 21st century dies unexpectedly and transmigrates to 1957, becoming Silly Zhu... He also awakens a sign-in System. Sign in each day, and the supplies are yours... What? He Daqing is leaving with the White Widow to raise another man's son? Then hurry up and go...
21.3kReads7.5Score907Shelves
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Siheyuan: With a Zombie-Slaying Daoist Master Around, No One Dares Cause Trouble 四合院：僵尸道长在，没人敢作怪
After fighting evil spirits, Mao Xiaofang, his two apprentices, Black Rose, and Shrimp were planning to return to Gantian Town. But a temporal rift swept them away, and they crash-landed in a Beijing courtyard house in the 1960s. The moment they arrived, the entire courtyard was in chaos. Looking at the disorderly place, Mao Xiaofang sighed. “Never mind. We’ll stay here for now.” He had hoped to keep a low profile, but evil spirits kept causing trouble. So the three brothers, including Silly
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I Became Silly Zhu's Uncle 我成了傻柱他叔了
Before I began writing this story, I hesitated for a long time. My previous story, Dreams Pursued in the Courtyard, still left me with many regrets. It was my first time writing, and I wanted to include too much, which made the story feel scattered later on. My portrayal of the courtyard’s characters also left room for debate. Ever since this period drama aired, opinions have been divided. More than anything, people today find it hard to imagine what life was like back then. Set in the heart of
6.2kReads7.1Score217Shelves
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Siheyuan: Whoever Wants to Live Here Can Have It 四合院之这院子谁爱住谁住
After racking his brains to cobble together a load of nonsense, a nobody web novelist finally hit 100,000 words. Fortunately, he was no longer writing to an audience of zero. Unfortunately, everything went black, and when he woke up, he found that his dream had actually come true! In the courtyard fanfiction he wrote, he was always bragging, “If I transmigrated as Silly Zhu, what would I do? Could that bunch of scoundrels in the courtyard really beat me?” They say you get smacked for running you
3.4kReads5.6Score142Shelves
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Siheyuan: As a Procurement Officer, I Have a Pocket Dimension 四合院：身为采购员的我有空间
[Siheyuan courtyard + pocket dimension + farming + low angst + smart protagonist + satisfying read + one heroine] An accident brings the protagonist, Zhao Dongsheng, to Love in the Courtyard. He also gains a Blessed Land Space System. He becomes a procurement officer. In an era of scarce supplies, his job makes him incredibly popular. Wheat, rice, and corn: plant them all. And of course, make room for fruit, too. Raise chickens, ducks, fish, geese, and cows. All of them. As for the noi
35.2kReads7.6Score2.3kShelves
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Reborn in 1959: Little Everyday Moments in Nanluoguxiang 重生59南锣鼓巷之小日常
He transmigrates to the capital and settles on Nanluoguxiang. He fishes and farms, living a carefree life, learning to cook, appraising antiques, occasionally trading barbs with Zhang Haixing, and picking on the courtyard busybodies now and then.
67kReads8.2Score2.8kShelves
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Siheyuan: The Worst Silly Zhu in History 四合院：这是有史以来最坏的傻柱
Silly Zhu is reborn a few months before the great famine of 1958. He builds walls around the courtyard and digs a cellar to stockpile food. This time, he's going to turn the tables on everyone who set him up in his previous life. When He Daqing carries on with a widow, Silly Zhu breaks his legs with a single blow, then wipes out the entire Bai Widow family. He is reborn, marries Lou Xiao'e, raises his younger sister, and has a pocket dimension. This is pure wish fulfillment, so just sit back and
16.3kReads8.0Score725Shelves
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Silly Zhu's Siheyuan 傻柱子的四合院
The protagonist is a little confused. I only went out for a budget trip, so how did I inexplicably become Silly Zhu? Well, when in Rome, do as the Romans do. At least I won't have to worry every day about scraping together a bite to eat. Sure, material goods are scarce in this era, but the people are honest and kind! Life is good! Well... except for this cannibalistic courtyard and the birds who live in it.
12.4kReads8.8Score498Shelves
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Reborn in 1962: Slapping Qin Huairu in the Face from the Start 重生1962之开局怒扇禽淮茹
Siheyuan + rebirth in a bygone era + spatial dimension (the spatial dimension plays a minor role) Beneath a snow-swept bridge, He Yuzhu came to his senses. By a stroke of luck, he returned to the end of 1962 with his memories of his previous life! Looking at the familiar events unfolding before him after being reborn, He Yuzhu decided that since he’d been given another chance at life, he would live for himself this time, instead of throwing away his future for an old bachelor and a widowed leech
18.7kReads8.4Score925Shelves
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Siheyuan: Guo Dapao’s Happy Life 四合院，郭大炮的幸福生活
(Courtyard compound + pure feel-good read + slice of life + golden finger) Guo Dapao gains the ability to transmigrate between two worlds. He acquires goods in the courtyard-compound world and brings them to the modern world to sell, going from penniless to wealthy. From then on, Guo Dapao enjoys a happy life.
12kReads8.9Score464Shelves
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Siheyuan: Silly Zhu’s Quest for Progress 四合院从傻柱追求进步开始
[Smart characters + authentic period atmosphere + no viciousness + no vulgar bodily humor + no System + no brainless decisions + no violence for violence's sake] On the train to Baicheng to look for He Daqing, He Yuzhu dreamed of how his trip to Baicheng would end. This time, instead of searching on his own, he sought the government's help, and his life took a different turn from then on. With the Military Control Commission's help, He Yuzhu grew from an uninformed boy into a thoughtful young ma
2.5kReads8.2Score—Shelves
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Siheyuan: The Daily Lives of Scoundrels 四合院，禽兽的日常
He Yuzhu lived a whole life only to find that his kindness had gone to waste. When he gets the chance to be reborn, everything will change. Things won’t go the way they did before. Yi Zhonghai, you want to scheme against me and guilt-trip me with morality? Then we’ll see whose morals are stronger. Qin Huairu, you were the one who hurt me the most. This life, I’ll take pleasure in tormenting you. Otherwise, I’ll never be able to rest easy. Liu Haizhong, you should be focusing on raising your two
254Reads7.3Score—Shelves
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Have a Baby with the Yi Surname and Make Uncle Number One Blush 生个孩子姓易，把一大爷钓成翘嘴
[Moderate-to-low angst + Li Xiuzhi as the sole heroine + Turning Uncle Yi into a lovesick fool + Giving Deaf Granny a warm home + The eldest son is named Wei Xiaobao + The second son is named Yi Xiaochuan (already born)] Wei Dongyi arrives at the Beijing courtyard with a family letter in hand, only to discover that he has transmigrated into Birds Crowded in the Courtyard. Even more shocking, he's Deaf Granny's long-lost biological grandson! The peaceful courtyard is thrown into an uproar: Yi Zho
2.1kReads6.8Score105Shelves
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Siheyuan: After Transmigrating into He Yuzhu, I Snatched Tang Yanling 四合院：穿越何雨柱截胡唐艳玲
He Yuzhu transmigrates into the world of the courtyard house. How could he be so unlucky? He's middle-aged He Yuzhu, and to make matters worse, he's already married Qin Huairu. How's he supposed to turn his life around now? Qin Huairu: “Once Banggeng gets married, we'll just sit back and enjoy the good life.” He Yuzhu: “You're a useless old hen who can't lay eggs.” Qin Huairu: “Divorce!” He Yuzhu: “I'll be damned if I don't!” After the divorce... He sabotages Banggeng's job and takes bac
9.5kReads8.3Score409Shelves
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Siheyuan: Why Did You Bring Qin Huairu to Me? 四合院：你把秦淮如送我这来干嘛
[Everyday Life in a Siheyuan] [No Hostility] [No System] [Multiple Heroines] Jia Yifei transmigrates into the world of a siheyuan and discovers that he's become Jia Zhangshi's youngest son... A hypocritical sister-in-law? A mother who's a necromancer? A nephew who's a master thief? No way! He'll help the Jia family turn their fate around. Poverty breeds schemes, while wealth breeds kindness. If life went smoothly, who would want to make a scene and stir up trouble? A new work is here! Come read
37.6kReads8.1Score2kShelves
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Siheyuan: I'm Not the He Yuzhu You Know 四合院之我是不一样的何雨柱
Yang Chenguang, a young loser from the modern world, gets drunk at home and transmigrates by accident into Silly Zhu's childhood in the Siheyuan. Watch as he changes his fate and writes a different legend for his life.
14.8kReads8.1Score646Shelves
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Siheyuan: From the Start, I Kicked Out Louzi, and Silly Zhu Came to Take Over 四合院：开局踹娄子，傻柱来接盘
Reborn as Xu Damao in a Siheyuan, he is saddled with two ultimate scumbag missions: [Eight Divorces] and [Seven Sons Under Seven Stars]. Starting in the 1960s, he has to get divorced eight times and have seven sons. And if he wants to avoid being executed... what kind of hellish start is this? Damao spends his whole life either getting married or on the way to getting divorced. Grudges? Not a chance. Really, every family will leave someone alive. I swear on the sun!
79Reads8.7Score—Shelves
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Siheyuan: The Mosaic 四合院之马赛克
Armed with the most useless-getting-beaten System imaginable, he arrives in a courtyard house everyone has traveled through. To make a good life in those hard times, you need a few skills.
26Reads8.2Score—Shelves
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Siheyuan: Xu Damao's Life 四合院：许大茂过日子
There are many things in life we are powerless to change, and tragedies are often the ones that endure. Xu Damao's journey through life is about striving to do things he won't regret. Highlights: smashing antiques. If you're impatient, you can start at Chapter 10.
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Back to the Sixties to Do Scientific Research 回到六十年代搞科研
Transmigrated into that innocent era, why am I still getting caught up in the endless Siheyuan dramas across the myriad worlds? A great man once said, “There’s plenty to do in this vast world.” No more pointless infighting; there’s no time to waste...
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Siheyuan: Starting in 1951 四合院：从51年开始
A courtyard home in 1951. He Daqing never ran away, and Qin Huairu never married into the Jia family... A giant dragon is stirring. The curtain is rising on a great new age... A goofy young man, starting out as a nobody: Lin Zhiyuan has just arrived. Where will life take him? He grows through confusion and defiance, becoming more cautious along the way. Even a laid-back person can have dreams. There’s great promise in this vast world. Watch Lin Zhiyuan step into this great age, witness it, and c
65Reads8.1Score—Shelves
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Siheyuan: Why Is Everyone Coming to Me? 四合院：都来找我干嘛，
A divorced man from the future has a bamboo stalk of spiritual energy inside him. It can absorb the earth's spiritual energy and control rocks, water, and soil. He lives in a siheyuan courtyard and eats meat every day, making all the busybodies around him green with envy. From then on, people are always coming to ask him for help,
11Reads7.2Score—Shelves
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Siheyuan: Back to 1950, I Take Silly Zhu into the Army 四合院：重回50，带傻柱从军
Wang Yongqiang had spent half his life accomplishing nothing. Then he transmigrates back to the 1950s, in the midst of the War to Resist America and Aid Korea. To his surprise, he finds himself in a den of beasts. Yi Zhonghai, the moral paragon; Jia Zhangshi, the necromancer; Yan Bugui, the penny-pinching schemer. How can he fight them? Forget it! Given a new lease on life, Wang Yongqiang wants to make the most of it and live with his head held high. Why should a man not take up his sword and re
20Reads9.2Score—Shelves
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Siheyuan: Silly Zhu Is Reborn and Leaves the Whole Yard of Vermin in Ruins 四合院：傻柱重生，坑惨众禽
In his first life, He Yuzhu devoted himself wholeheartedly to the Jia family. He not only helped Qin Huairu, but also supported the First, Second, and Third Masters in their old age. Yet, as he lay dying, Jia Geng abandoned him. Just as he was on the brink of death, he never expected to get another chance at life. After being reborn, He Yuzhu finally came to his senses. He would no longer let people take advantage of him, and instead would give the courtyard's schemers a piece of his mind. The F
8.5kReads7.6Score351Shelves
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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
1.2kReads5.4Score—Shelves
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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
1.4kReads5.4Score—Shelves
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