🐉 The Freshest and Most Explosive Courtyard Novels of May! 🐉五月份最新鲜且最炸裂的四合院！
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Reborn in the Siheyuan: Fleeing Famine in 1942 重生四合院：从42年逃荒开始
Li Qingfeng, an orphan from the twenty-first century, was delivering food during his junior-year summer break when he died in a traffic accident. The jade pendant around his neck carried his soul into Love in the Courtyard, a parallel world. Now, let's see how a young man from the modern era builds a new family during a time of war. (If you dislike Qin Huairu, don't read this.)
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- 2 Siheyuan: The Soviet-Educated Doctor’s Dimensional Crush 四合院：留苏博士的降维打击 An aerospace engineer from the 21st century transmigrates back to the 1940s or 1950s with a technology system for all the worlds. He becomes an air force hero and a doctorate trained in the Soviet Union. After returning to China, he joins the Red Star Steel Mill and moves into Courtyard No. 95 on Nanluoguxiang. There, he takes on all the troublemakers while helping the country advance its industrial capabilities and claim one jewel after another in the crown of industry. System: Morally pressure 9Reads7.6Score—Shelves
- 3 Siheyuan: Never Surrender 四合院：永不屈服 A demobilized soldier is reborn in a Siheyuan. In a courtyard crawling with scoundrels, a fifteen-year-old boy protects his older sister and takes care of his younger one. With his golden finger, he builds a good life, beats the scoundrels to a pulp, kicks the witch to the curb, and regularly looks after the neighbors. 6Reads7.5Score—Shelves
- 4 Siheyuan: Grinding My Skills Like Crazy Since the 1950s 四合院：50年代开始怒刷熟练度 After transmigrating into the world of Love in the Courtyard, Wang Qiang gained heaven-defying comprehension. No matter the skill or knowledge, the moment he tried it or glanced at it, proficiency began piling up rapidly in his mind. It was still the early 1950s. Jia Dongxu was alive, and He Daqing had yet to leave the courtyard. The beastly nature of the courtyard's various residents was ready to burst forth... All right, all right. Just watch how I, Wang Qiang, handle things! Until one day, a 97Reads5.2Score—Shelves
- 5 Siheyuan: I Became Extra Baggage 四合院：我成了拖油瓶 {Slice of life + no demonization + one heroine + System + no making characters stupid} Lin Qingfang transmigrates into the world of the Siheyuan with a family consisting of his birth mother, a stepfather, a younger half-brother, and a younger sister who is also a burden to the family... 141Reads—Score—Shelves
- 6 A Journey Through Myriad Worlds, Starting in the Siheyuan 从四合院开始的诸天之旅 Infinite-world novels inevitably include some fantastical elements. If that's not your thing, feel free to read something else. The Siheyuan is just the starting point. After two or three worlds, the story will move on to a fantasy world. 20Reads—Score—Shelves
- 7 Siheyuan: I Cut Off Yi Zhonghai’s Hope of Being Cared for in His Old Age 四合院，我断了易中海养老的后路 Li Wenxue has returned, back to the courtyard house. From now on... Yushui, I'm back. Just focus on your studies, and you won't have to suffer. Xiaoe, marry me. I'll protect you. Sister Qin, stand up for yourself. I'll find you a job. Auntie Yi, I'll take care of you in your old age. He Yuzhu, you idiot. If you don't listen to me, things will never turn out well for you. 9.1kReads7.9Score291Shelves
- 8 Siheyuan: I'm the Mastermind Behind the Scenes 四合院：我在背后当老六 Liu Minghui returns to 1957, an era when material life is far from abundant. Using the plentiful supplies in his pocket dimension, he successfully becomes a worker at a steel mill and moves into a traditional courtyard home. The story mainly follows Liu Minghui's everyday life at the steel mill and in the courtyard, with little tension or hostility. 18.7kReads6.7Score774Shelves
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Siheyuan: Merging All Things and Making a Life in the Capital 四合院，融合万物，耕耘四九城
Qiwu Sheng, his family was a typical family of top students. His father was an economics professor, and his mother was a renowned mathematician. The bookshelves at home were filled with all kinds of academic books, from calculus to quantum physics, from world history to literary classics. At any moment, the family could launch into a discussion about academics. Growing up surrounded by all this, he naturally embarked on a path of academic excellence.
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- 10 Siheyuan: I Transmigrated as He Yuzhu and Married Ran Qiuye 四合院：穿越何雨柱，娶妻冉秋叶 “Huh, this TV series is pretty good. The main character even has the same name as me, though he has this unlucky nickname: Silly Zhu...” On April 15, 2024, bored college student He Yuzhu was scrolling on his phone when he came across a TV series. The main character had the same name as him, so he decided to watch it. After finishing it, he was furious! “TV He Yuzhu, just hurry up and die! You wasted your whole life. Let me change your pathetic, doormat life!” [Ding! The Host has been detected ex 43Reads—Score—Shelves
- 11 Siheyuan: The Bane of Evil 四合院之罪恶克星 "Siheyuan" + "Under the Zhengyang Gate" + "Northbound" A thunderous boom rings through the sky, and six-year-old Zhou Wu makes a dazzling entrance. You lot in the siheyuan, back up, back up, back up! Born into that tough era, Zhou Wu had planned to use his foresight to become a wealthy man in the capital. But after a move, he unexpectedly ends up in the “Beasts Fill the Siheyuan,” a place where every resident is a villain. Then the awakening of the Crime-Busting System gives him another path in 5.3kReads5.6Score151Shelves
- 12 Siheyuan: I Want to Be a Good Person 四合院：我想做一个好人 Yang Jianjun transmigrates to the world of the courtyard houses and gains a System of his own. As long as he can stir up other people's emotions, whether positive or negative, he earns Emotion Points. He can use those points to exchange for all kinds of items in the System Shop. From then on, Yang Jianjun lives by his own principles: he will be a good person, and he begins a lifetime of good deeds in the courtyard. —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 13 Siheyuan: Serving the People 四合院：为人民服务 Reborn in a courtyard house, he only wants to take good care of his widowed mother and manage his own little life. Along the way, he’ll also improve the supply of goods for the people, so they can live a little more comfortably. Making money is secondary. The main thing is serving the people! 66Reads5.5Score—Shelves
- 14 Siheyuan: Xia Yuchen's Tale of Tormenting the Beasts 四合院夏雨辰虐禽记 A famous male cross-player in the modern cosplay scene accidentally transmigrates into the body of a man with the same name in the world of Siheyuan. Only after the System explains the situation does she realize that the TV drama was far too tame: the real world is much darker than what it showed. Since she’s here, sitting around waiting to be devoured by the courtyard’s beasts is out of the question. It’s not in her nature. Watch her fight back from the brink. 17Reads—Score—Shelves
- 15 Siheyuan: Silly Zhu's Road to the Factory Director's Office 四合院：傻柱的厂长之路 In his previous life, He Yuzhu let Qin Huairu bleed him dry for decades. After he lost the ability to work, Bang Geng drove him out, and he starved to death beneath an overpass. In this life, back in 1959, He Yuzhu decides he won't be a simp anymore. He'll make Qin Huairu kneel, cut down Yi Zhonghai, bury Bang Geng alive, deep-fry Jia Zhangshi, and castrate the entire courtyard. This time, he'll take good care of his younger sister, He Yushui, and help her see the neighbors for the beasts they r 782Reads6.0Score105Shelves
- 16 Siheyuan: Qin Huairu Breaks Off the Engagement, So I Put the Neighborhood’s Vermin in Their Place 四合院：秦淮茹悔婚，我镇压众禽 [Courtyard house + personal space + putting the beastly neighbors in their place + bitter regret] Ye Ming transmigrates to a courtyard house in 1953 and is adopted by the Ye family, a widowed mother and her orphaned daughter. He is also engaged to Qin Huairu. But Yi Zhonghai interferes, teaching Jia Dongxu to steal Qin Huairu away! He even wants to team up with the neighbors to seize Ye Min's property! That's when Ye Min arrives, with the System in tow! The System opens up a pocket dimension wit 219Reads—Score101Shelves
- 17 Raising Hell in the Siheyuan 在四合院里炸街 (No angst, no doormat protagonist, no saintly do-gooder, sole heroine. This is the author’s first novel, so please be kind.) The protagonist focuses on building himself up early on and gets along very well with Silly Zhu and Xu Damao. He helps them develop too, then later builds his own economic empire and ultimately retires to the countryside. 448Reads—Score—Shelves
- 18 Siheyuan: My Name Is Cao Aman 四合院：我叫曹阿瞒 Reborn in the 1960s, he is named Cao Aman. Aman’s ambitions are boundless. Since his name is Cao Aman, he must live up to it. And so, he makes his way in this world… —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 19 Siheyuan: The System Punishes Scumbags, and Qin Huairu Regrets It in Tears 四合院：系统虐渣，秦淮茹悔哭了 [System] + [Face-Slapping] + [Transmigration] + [Putting Scumbags in Their Place] = Pure Wish Fulfillment Gu Xiaobin, a police academy graduate, dies and comes back to life. Looking at the Siheyuan he lives in, he’s a little baffled. Love in the Courtyard? More like Animals in the Courtyard! Everyone in the neighborhood is waiting for him to die so they can take over his home, but Gu Xiaobin comes back to life instead. Qin Huairu takes the initiative to seduce Jia Dongxu and break off their enga 1Reads—Score—Shelves
- 20 Playing Life in a Courtyard Full of Beasts 禽满四合院之玩转人生 The martial world isn't about fighting and killing. It's about human relationships and social savvy. No System, multiple heroines. See how a man with foresight uses his modern perspective to outclass everyone and make his way in the Siheyuan. He gets to Lou Xiao'e first, runs into Yu Li, and meets Qin Huairu... This story isn't overly grim. Instead, it focuses on using a modern person's perspective to navigate the Siheyuan, with the benefit of seeing things from an all-knowing viewpoint. The Fir —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 21 The People, Gods, Demons, and Ghosts of Siheyuan 四合院之人，神，妖，鬼 [Bound to a System + cultivation + a happy life + lovers end up together!] Xu Damao, Lou Xiaoe, Qin Huairu, Silly Zhu, First Master, Second Master, Third Master, Qin Weiguo, and many others all live in the same courtyard. There are master thieves and war gods, as well as humans, gods, demons, and ghosts, all from four different worlds. Watch how Lou Xiaoe becomes a god and finds love. —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 22 Siheyuan: Reborn in 1962, with Qin Huairu as My Sister-in-Law 四合院：重生六二年，嫂子秦淮茹 [Farm + mild hostility + taking on the courtyard bullies + collecting + raising] Jia Aiguo is reborn in a parallel world's courtyard house, starting in 1962. He's Jia Dongxu's cousin. His parents are both dead, and he and his six-year-old sister have only each other. Fortunately, the farming game he played in his previous life has become real. He can grow all kinds of crops and raise all kinds of livestock and poultry. His carefree life begins, with the occasional run-in against the courtyard bu 2Reads6.9Score—Shelves
- 23 Silly Zhu’s Livestream 傻柱的直播间 Silly Zhu inexplicably started streaming live. Listening to all the strange comments, he thought at first that he was hallucinating. But when the gifts people sent actually appeared in front of him, he finally believed it. So Qin Huairu really was that kind of woman! After staying away from Qin Huairu, Silly Zhu went on to reach the pinnacle of life! 1kReads8.0Score—Shelves
- 24 Siheyuan: The System Made Me Do It 四合院：都是系统逼我的 Zhao Dezhu woke up reborn in a parallel world of Full of Love. In his previous life, he graduated from college and got an ordinary job. His meager salary couldn't afford him a comfortable life. After years of struggling, he earned the title of a “three-nothing” man: no money, no car, no house. The brutal 996 work schedule killed him at his desk. The more miserable the situation, the more excited he got, and three Systems took a liking to him at once... Farm System: I can give you more food than 1Reads5.4Score—Shelves
- 25 Siheyuan: Everyone in the Courtyard Is Stunned After Taking My Advice 四合院：听劝后，全院人惊了 Li Xiaohu unexpectedly arrived in the Siheyuan in 1952 and awakened a mysterious ability to take advice. Whenever he follows someone's suggestion, he gets an unexpected reward. And if someone gives him advice with malicious intent, his reward is even more astonishing. Third Grandpa: “I just suggested he go up the mountain and gather some herbs. Who knew he'd find rare medicinal herbs and sell them for a fortune? His luck is incredible.” Second Grandpa: “I was teasing him when I said the old furn —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 26 Siheyuan: Fishing for Treasures Across the Heavens, Starting with Marrying Lou Xiao'e 四合院：从娶娄子开始垂钓诸天 Li Jianguo was hit and killed by a truck after crossing the road without checking the traffic lights. After his death, he suddenly found himself in the world of Love in the Courtyard. He had somehow become a doctor at the steel mill workers' hospital, but he didn't know how to treat patients! Even if the knowledge was in his head, his hands didn't know what to do! He was thirsty and took a sip of water when a "Ding!" suddenly rang in his mind. The Fishing the Heavens System had activated. Li Jia 826Reads5.6Score—Shelves
- 27 Siheyuan: The Classic Siheyuan 四合院：经典四合院 1950. Nanshan Village, Yanjiao. Chu Rongguang was getting ready to leave. He was going to Nanluoguxiang in Beijing to look for the family he had once known... His parents had already gone to another place... 15Reads—Score—Shelves
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My Life in the Siheyuan 我与四合院的那些事儿
This is a quiet story about life in a courtyard house. But communal living always comes with its share of scheming and infighting. Everyone hustles and schemes just to get enough to eat. Life is like that, with everyone harboring different thoughts.
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- 29 Siheyuan: I Put Every Troublemaker in Their Place 四合院：专治不服 After transmigrating to a courtyard house, he encounters a bunch of heartless beasts. His specialty is teaching the insufferable a lesson. Teaching Qin Huairu a lesson: I remain unmoved by her charms. Teaching Jia Zhangshi a lesson: She sells her daughter-in-law, while I stand tall and righteous. 4Reads—Score—Shelves
- 30 Siheyuan: He Yuzhu Picks a Fight with Me from the Start! 四合院：开局被何雨柱找茬！ The original owner was bullied at every turn. Having transmigrated from a later era and knowing the plot inside out, he easily keeps everyone in line by using the secrets they dare not let become public. The courtyard's beasts hate him? He's not worried at all! —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 31 Revenge and Redemption in Siheyuan 快意恩仇四合院 Lighthearted, joyful, simple, and full of warmth and gratitude, Love in the Courtyard is a straightforward, fast-paced transmigrate-into-a-book story, just a few tens of thousands of words, with no dragging and clear-cut likes and dislikes. It’s just for fun! 6Reads—Score—Shelves
- 32 Siheyuan: A General's Path, the Son of He Daqing 四合院之何大清之子的将军之路 In the war-torn year of 1943, amid a crowd of beggars, a dazed fool knows only that his father is He Daqing, his mother is Zhang Guilan, and he has a younger brother named He Yuzhu. He knows nothing else. With neither his father nor his younger brother by his side, the Japanese have already begun their sweep through the area... 1.6kReads5.7Score101Shelves
- 33 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
- 34 I, Xu Damao, Swear to Heaven, This Is Absolutely True 我许大茂对天发誓，这绝对是真的 Zhang Qing was busy in his vegetable garden, single and unemployed, enjoying his freedom. Today, he transmigrates into Xu Damao. Making a little trouble won't hurt. What a disaster! Zhang Qing had grown tired of city work and was enjoying a peaceful country life back home. But while picking vegetables in his garden, he was struck by an object falling from the sky, turning his life upside down... 141Reads—Score—Shelves
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Siheyuan: Defying Fate and Taking Revenge on All the Courtyard’s Vermin 四合院：逆天改命，报复众禽
[Beijing Courtyard Compound + Pocket Dimension + Transmigration] Heroine: Lou Xiao'e (The story begins in 1951.) He Yuzhu, who had been scraping by in the post-apocalyptic world, died a horrible death. When he opened his eyes again, he found himself in the Beast-Filled Courtyard, as Silly Zhu, the cannon fodder who had sacrificed himself for the beasts. This time, without a script to follow, He Yuzhu sets out to defy fate with his pocket dimension. When the beasts try to take advantage of him, h
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- 36 Transmigrated into a Siheyuan, I Just Want to Quietly Draw Prizes 穿越四合院，我只想安静的抽奖 [Courtyard + System + Lottery + Plot Reimagining + Slice of Life + One-on-One Romance] [No bullying or pent-up anger, mild conflict, read with confidence] After pulling five consecutive overnight shifts, Xu Hao, a resident doctor at a top-tier provincial hospital, worked himself to death and transmigrated into the world of Love in the Courtyard as an educated youth about to return to his hometown. Knowing the story, Xu Hao had no intention of getting mixed up in the courtyard’s mess. It wasn’t a —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 37 Siheyuan: Living My Own Good Life 四合院之过自己的好日子 Come see what happens when a country boy arrives at a siheyuan. He's not one for scheming: if there's a problem, he tackles it head-on. His heart is set on the heroines, and he tries to stay out of the siheyuan's affairs. Multiple heroines. If that's not your thing, don't read. No excessive angst! 162Reads—Score—Shelves
- 38 Siheyuan: Who’s Picking a Fight with Him Now? 四合院：谁又招惹他了？ [A Fun, Comedic, Scheming, Lighthearted Story with Little Angst...] “Walk someone else’s road and leave them nowhere to go.” Gu Ping’an transmigrates into the world of Love Is Full, thinking he only needs to live his own life in peace. That’s all he asks for. But there are too many “beasts” in the courtyard, and they’re always stirring up trouble. All right! Gu Ping’an accepts his fate and starts fighting back. It’s just that his methods are rather unusual... 714Reads6.2Score107Shelves
- 39 Siheyuan: From the Start, I Demote Yi Zhonghai's Rank 四合院：开局降易忠海工级 In an era of highly advanced technology, an explosion occurred at a wormhole near the Solar System, in a region of the Milky Way. It was said that a Huaxia Federation starship had fought an invading alien starship. The details remain classified to this day, and no one knows what really happened. However, some amateur astronomers reported that when the wormhole near the Solar System exploded, a meteor streaked across the sky, no one knew where it was headed... At the same time as the explosion n 10Reads—Score—Shelves
- 40 Starting Out as Head of Security in the Siheyuan 四合院从保卫科长开始 Transmigrated into The Age of Blood Romance as Zhou Xiaojun, the second son of General Zhou Zhennan, he gets bound to Xu Damao because of a System anchor. Watch how Zhou Xiaojun uses memories of his previous life to make waves in this new world. 25Reads—Score—Shelves
- 41 Siheyuan: I Use Confucius' Words to Make Yi Zhonghai Cry 四合院：我用抡语教哭易中海 A modern man, Hu Bu'e, deeply dissatisfied with Love in the Courtyard, unexpectedly transmigrates into a parallel world of the Siheyuan. Here, he becomes a respected supervisor in the repair department of a steel mill. Thanks to his skills, he earns the respect of the entire factory, marries a beautiful, wealthy woman, and reaches the pinnacle of life. But whenever someone is doing well, there will always be those who envy him. How will he deal with the scheming troublemakers filling the courtya —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 42 Siheyuan: Living Off Elder Master Yi with My Wife, Qin Huairu 四合院：与媳妇秦淮茹啃老一大爷 Yi Weiguo transmigrates to the late 1950s. From the start, his parents are dead, his home is gone, and he has no money, so he can only seek help from relatives in the capital. Would you believe it? His relative is First Uncle! And along the way, he even gets Qin Huairu as his wife for free! Now this is the good life! Fend for yourself and you’ll go hungry nine times in three days. Stick with Qin Huairu and First Uncle, and you can chow down nine times a day. Sleep until you wake naturally, watch 1.3kReads—Score—Shelves
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Siheyuan: Heaven-Defying God of Slaughter, Leaving Ruin in His Wake 四合院：逆天杀神，生灵涂炭
[Ding! The Host's anger is surging. Sign-In System binding initiated.] [System binding successful.] [Ding! Newbie gift pack successfully issued.] [Quest hint: Punish Banggeng. The harsher the punishment, the better the reward. Killing Banggeng grants the ultimate reward: a complete set of Level Eight lathe operator skills.] Han Xiaodong transmigrated into the era of the courtyard houses and was bound to a System right away. He is ruthless and says little. Whoever stands in his way will be killed
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- 44 Siheyuan: The Late-Blooming Golden Finger 四合院：迟到的金手指 Liu You, a doctoral student in pharmacy at Peking University, accidentally transmigrates into Liu Tieniu, who suffered carbon monoxide poisoning in 1951. After waiting in vain for the System to arrive, Liu You vents all his frustration on the scoundrels in the courtyard, until the day that person appears. 3Reads—Score—Shelves
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Siheyuan: Everyone Says I’m a Good Person 四合院：大家都说我是个好人
Qin Xiaochuan transmigrated into the world of Love in the Courtyard, only to find that his golden finger required him to earn other people's favor. At a time like this, wouldn't that mean volunteering to let everyone suck him dry? Luckily, he had a pocket-space farm to provide the resources he needed. For his own benefit, he could let them take what they wanted, but he wasn't about to make it easy for them. And once their favorability reached its peak, it would be time to show those “bloodsucker
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- 46 Siheyuan: Starting With One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest 四合院：从飞跃疯人院开始 [Humorous + moderately ruthless + face-to-face clashes + occasional dirty tricks + winning through strength] In 1960, Cao Zhengshuang transmigrates into the courtyard as an orphaned NPC resident. After the courtyard’s beasts torment him until he loses his mind, he’s sent to a psychiatric hospital. Fortunately, he gains a pair of magical eyes that let him enlarge or shrink himself at will, and even... From then on, strange things keep happening in the courtyard. Jia Zhangshi, don’t you love summo 3.7kReads6.7Score158Shelves
- 47 Siheyuan: Does Marriage Make Me Stronger? Snatching Qin Huairu! 四合院：娶妻变强？截胡秦淮茹！ My new work is out! You can read it 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! 13.7kReads7.0Score750Shelves
- 48 Siheyuan: More Children, More Blessings, From the Start I Steal Lou Xiao'e Away 四合院：多子多福开局截胡娄晓娥 Liu Jianbin transmigrates to the capital, Beijing, in the early 1960s. He activates and binds the More Children, More Blessings System. From the start, he gets ahead of Lou Xiao'e, gains a portable space, a spiritual spring he can summon with a glance, seeds, animal-raising cards, and more... He earns generous System rewards simply by marrying and doting on his children. Qin Huairu: “Jia Xudong, we have no food at home. I only went to Jianbin to borrow some grain. Why are you hitting me?” Jia Xu 2.9kReads5.9Score168Shelves
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Siheyuan: I Don't Know the Plot, but I Have a Subsidy 四合院之不知剧情但我有补贴
A young man transmigrates into a Siheyuan. He doesn't know the plot, but he has a hundred billion in subsidies. From then on, he begins a wonderful life that leaves everyone envious. He builds a career, marries a good wife, and masters new skills, achieving a happy life.
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- 50 Siheyuan: It All Began When They Called Me Silly Zhu 四合院之从被叫傻柱开始 No System, no pocket dimension. Just an ordinary person from northeastern China in a later era, who transmigrates into He Yuzhu. It's simply a collection of things he experiences over the years, through all the ups and downs. The story is basically free of angst! Note: An original story with a single heroine. It doesn't follow the plot very closely, and some things will be labeled with their sources. You can basically think of it as a Siheyuan story in disguise. Also: The author has already comp 1.3kReads6.9Score—Shelves
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