Siheyuan Stories With No System, No Pocket Dimension, and No Golden Finger! No Random Recommendations or Insults! 四合院没有系统没有空间没有金手指的！乱推骂人！
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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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- 2 Siheyuan: You Abandoned Your Father? I’ll Send Him Straight to the Military Administration Committee 四合院：弃养？反手送父上军管会 The moment He Yuze transmigrated into He Yuzhu, he had no time to experience life as the whole courtyard's punching bag. He took the proof of abandonment and hauled He Daqing straight to the Military Control Commission. His own father wanted to shirk responsibility? Not a chance! Then the System dropped a learning buff on him, and his cooking, appraisal, medical, and other skills skyrocketed. Now look at the courtyard's scheming residents: Yi Zhonghai tried to guilt-trip him with moral lectures? 35kReads7.4Score1.1kShelves
- 3 From the Start, a Mute Files a Petition to the Emperor, His Fists Subdue the Beasts of the Courtyard 开局哑巴告御状，拳压四合众禽伏 The silent are the loudest of all. Modern young man Zhou Jin transmigrates into a mute in a Siheyuan. From the start, he puts up a big-character poster and takes his grievance straight to the top! He cannot speak, but his pen is as sharp as a blade. On his very first day, he sends “Virtue Incarnate” Yi Zhonghai, “Necromancer” Jia Zhangshi, “Siheyuan War God” Silly Zhu, “White Lotus” Qin Huairu, “Power-Hungry Fathead Fish” Liu Haizhong, and “Human Abacus” Yan Bugui to prison, leaving the whol 15.4kReads6.4Score546Shelves
- 4 Siheyuan: Returning from a Mass Grave, I Slaughter the Entire Courtyard 四合院：从乱葬岗归来，血洗全院 A truck sends Zhou Han into the animal-infested courtyard house. The moment he opens his eyes, Silly Zhu frames him for stealing a chicken. The courtyard’s beasts beat him up and dump him in a mass grave to fend for himself. At death’s door, the System activates and forcibly keeps him alive, bringing him back from the brink. From then on, Zhou Han is no more. In his place is a vengeful ghost who crawled back from the underworld to claim lives. Granny Deaf, Silly Zhu, the Qin Huairu family, Jia Z 14.6kReads6.4Score424Shelves
- 5 Siheyuan: Round Them All Up and Take Them to the Security Office 四合院：全都抓进保卫科 After taking off his military uniform, Zhou Zhenhua returns to civilian life and settles in an ordinary Beijing courtyard house. He wants neither great wealth nor fame, only a peaceful life. Unfortunately, everyone around him is calculating and insatiably greedy, repeatedly showing up to bully him and demand favors. But when enough is enough, enough is enough. This tough-as-nails veteran stops taking things in stride and strikes back at every scheme with thunderous force. He takes on one opponen 31.3kReads6.2Score1.4kShelves
- 6 Siheyuan: From the Start, I Sent Jia's Mother and Son to Prison 四合院：开局送贾家母子入狱 After Zhao Genshuo is beaten and has his home stolen from him, he awakens a Spirit Spring Space. He turns the tables on Yi Zhonghai, extorts 700 yuan in compensation, and sends Jia Zhangshi and her son Jia Dongxu to prison. He keeps a record of every scheme pulled by the vicious people in the courtyard, who would devour you without even spitting out the bones. Relying on the Spirit Spring, he steadily builds up his wealth and proceeds one careful step at a time, settling every old score as he li 8.3kReads—Score451Shelves
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Starting as a Deputy Section Chief in Siheyuan 四合院从副科长开始
[Security Department Deputy Chief from the Start] [Sign-In Rewards] [Well-Connected] [All I Want Is to Be a Lazy Fish] After transmigrating into the chaotic world of the Four-Nine City courtyard compound, he starts out as the deputy chief of the steel mill's security department! Zhang Jianjun arrives in the central courtyard with his own pocket space, where he witnesses Jia Zhangshi whining about being poor and leeching off others, Silly Zhu using moral blackmail, and Yi Zhonghai plotting behi
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Survival in the Siheyuan Courtyard 四合院求生记
“Everyone thinks it, including Yi Zhonghai: that I'm scheming this and that to secure my retirement. But who among them knows that you all died at the hands of your own people? That's why I'm going to take revenge on everyone.”
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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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Siheyuan: I Take Over Courtyard No. 95 and Fill It with My Ex-Wives 四合院：我独占95号院住满前妻
Multiple female leads, no System, relying entirely on brains and memories. A top-level career path, with little angst and a realistic tone. In 2026, at the Dialogue studio. Host: Elder Jing, were you afraid when you swam back to the mainland? Jing Daqiang pondered for a moment. He thought, Back then, I'd only just transmigrated, and they were pointing a gun at me. I was terrified. His expression stayed composed. "No. I was driven by a powerful conviction." Host: What made you think of applying
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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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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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- 13 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
- 14 Siheyuan: I Beat Three Generations of One Family on My First Day Home 四合院：回家第一天揍了祖孙三代 The courtyard scoundrels: Xu Changqing, let go of Silly Zhu! Xu Changqing: How can I stop halfway through beating someone? [Ding~ The Host refuses everyone’s demand to stop, triggering a tenfold critical bonus!] [Reward: Mastery of Bajiquan, ten Forever-brand bicycles, one hundred jin of cooking oil, one hundred jin of chicken, and one hundred jin of vegetables.] Qin Huairu: Xu Changqing, how about you help me raise my child? Xu Changqing: An old ox still wants to eat tender grass? Get lost! [Di 3.5kReads6.0Score—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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- 16 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: He Xiao Is Reborn as Silly Zhu 四合院之何晓重生成为傻柱
(No harem, no formulaic plot, no invincibility, no System, no pocket dimension, no wish fulfillment, no brainless characters. A story about the people around us, one that readers can relate to. Read with caution if that’s not your thing!) This is a new book, so it’s normal that it has no rating yet. The story is set in a courtyard house in the 1950s. The protagonist is still growing in the early chapters, so it’s normal for him to be weak at first. He’ll hit his stride later, and the story deepe
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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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- 19 Siheyuan: The Cousin Is Here 四合院之老表来了 After the Korean War ended in victory in 1953, Lü Xiangyang followed his father’s arrangements and transferred back to the capital. But at the end of the year, when his father, senior officer Lü Yunzhou, came home, he casually let slip that Lü Xiangyang had an aunt named Lü Bingxin, and that his uncle by marriage was none other than He Daqing. 2kReads7.2Score101Shelves
- 20 Wang Jianjun's Happy Life in Siheyuan 四合院之王建军的幸福人生 New book: The Courtyard: Saving My Mother from the Start. If you're interested, check it out. (No System, no golden finger.) A young man from northern Shaanxi arrives in the capital with his childhood sweetheart from the start. Silly Zhu: “I'm not afraid of anyone in this courtyard, except that kid Wang Jianjun. That guy's a real bastard.” Xu Damao: “Wang Jianjun acts like we're sworn brothers during the day, then sneaks up and clubs me over the head at night. What a piece of work.” Yi Zhonghai: 585Reads5.8Score—Shelves
- 21 Siheyuan: The Road of Life 四合院之人生之路 This book has no System and no angst. The first volume mainly follows the protagonist as he quietly watches the drama unfold in the courtyard, sticking to the original plot. If that’s not your cup of tea, don’t read it. The second volume tells the story of going to the countryside in Shuangshui Village, from A Ordinary World. If you don’t want to read the first volume, you can start with the second. It also reveals what happens to the protagonist and the other residents of the courtyard. Startin 408Reads5.0Score—Shelves
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The Siheyuan Detective Who Started by Preparing Silly Zhu's Body for Burial 四合院从给傻柱收尸开始的刑警
Period drama + Farming Through Famine + Mystery and Investigation + Intriguing Mysteries + Courtyard House [No harem, no formula, no invincibility, no System, no brainless plot, satisfying read] On New Year's Eve in 2012, a frozen male corpse is found beneath Yong'an Bridge in Beihai Park. Was it murder, or was the body dumped there? The victim is Sha Zhu, and the person who collects his body is Xu Damao. What kind of bond ties their lives together? At the scene is a Shanghai-brand watch that ca
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- 23 Siheyuan: Getting Rich Quietly 四合院：闷声发大财 Courtyard Life #Period Fiction #Comedy #Feel-Good Fiction #Old Fox #Harem #Farming Fiction He transmigrated to 1952 and became Chen Yuanshan, an apprentice at Fengzeyuan. His father was a martyr and left him 13 million in old currency and two main rooms. He thought he could lie flat, but the courtyard was full of beasts. Jia Zhangshi sat on the ground every day, wailing, “Old Jia! Someone’s bullying me!” Silly Zhu called every woman “Sister Qin” and beat up Xu Damao whenever he saw him. Xu Damao 14.8kReads5.3Score442Shelves
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Reborn in the 1960s: Off to Hong Kong in 1963 重生年代文，63年前往港岛
During the 2024 New Year celebrations, Chen Hao, an internet user, was sitting at home reading the news online, looking for something to amuse himself. Little did he know disaster was about to strike. The gas he’d used to cook breakfast had not been fully turned off, and fireworks were still bursting in the sky outside. A stray spark sent him into the world of Love in the Courtyard. Let’s see how he thrives in those days of hardship.
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- 25 Love in the Courtyard: The Years Slip Away 情满四合院之流年逝水 (Transmigration + Multiple Heroines + Multiple Eras + No System + Some Ensemble Cast!) This is a slice-of-life story, with little fighting and killing. It focuses on everyday family matters, and there are no cheats. If you like decisive, ruthless protagonists, I'm sorry, but this book can't give you what you want. The author bows in apology! The protagonist may seem a little timid from the start. He won't pick a fight with several neighbors over every little thing. Since he has no System, the pr 3.7kReads6.9Score169Shelves
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Siheyuan: I Wield My Brush and Stir Up the Storm 四合院：执笔搅风云
Reborn in 1952, Wang Ping'an transmigrates to Courtyard No. 95 on Nanluoguxiang. Alone in the world, he seems like a timid, easily bullied orphan to his neighbors. He makes a living writing articles and stories, often drawing on the people and events in the courtyard for inspiration. Anyone who deliberately gives him a hard time or schemes against him ends up as a villain in one of his stories, and the rumors soon spread throughout the entire compound. Everyone assumes he is a helpless writer,
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Growing Up in a Bygone Era 年代中的成长
A period drama, a piece of history! Step into that era and witness it together! Different lives, different stories! Ordinary days unfold with all kinds of joys and sorrows! Here I come, here I look! Growing alongside the times!
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The Useless Disciple of the Hehuan Sect 合欢宗废材
[Absurd comedy + traditional fantasy + multiple heroines + espionage + battles of wits] Ye Huan is a disciple so disappointing that even the Hehuan Sect wants nothing to do with him. By chance, he obtains an inheritance, and from then on becomes a man who can hold up the heavens. One way for men to survive in the Hehuan Sect is to become spies. As it happens, Ye Huan is an espionage enthusiast, and with his exceptional powers of logical deduction, he matches wits with all sides on the covert fro
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- 29 The Sun and Moon Dual Cultivation Art 日月双修功 At the pinnacle of the Immortal Realm, the Immortal Emperor Jing Chengxuan was killed by the Nine Profound Female Immortal Emperor. His soul was reborn in the body of the mortal Jing Chengxuan, who had his dantian destroyed by his bride on their wedding night. Jing Chengxuan cultivates supreme immortal arts, defies fate, and takes revenge on his enemies, making Yun Yiran regret her actions for the rest of her life. He rises step by step, fights his way back to the Immortal Realm, and takes his r 2.8kReads6.2Score336Shelves
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He Yuzhu’s Life in the Siheyuan: No System, Still Living Well 四合院何雨柱没有系统也要好好活
After being reborn in the winter of 1965, He Yuzhu refused to take the blame for the chicken thief, turning the courtyard compound upside down. As everyone scrambled to get ahead in those days, he launched a bread business and used his connections to secure supplies, eventually becoming the head of a bread factory. He rekindled his relationship with Lou Xiao'e, helped the Lou family leave, then married Ran Qiuyue. Ran's parents went to France, and He Yuzhu followed them there, opening a restaura
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- 31 Siheyuan: A Carpenter Moves into the Courtyard 四合院：院里来了个木匠 He transmigrates into Love in the Courtyard and becomes a level-two carpenter, one of the Eight Great Tradesmen. Faced with the whole courtyard full of scheming neighbors, Jiang Chen just wants to live in peace. You can plot your schemes, and I'll live my life. When Qin Huairu comes over to borrow something, he makes her write an IOU. When Jia Zhangshi throws a tantrum and refuses to take no for an answer, he reports her to the authorities. When Xu Damao tries to sow discord, Jiang Chen shuts 6Reads—Score—Shelves
