Looking for a Story Set in a Traditional Courtyard House, with One Female Lead, No Romance with Anyone from the Neighborhood, and a Well-researched Period Setting 求四合院，单女主，不要院里的人，年代文还是严谨

1. 1 四 The Siheyuan: Life of a Live-In Son-in-Law 四合院之赘婿人生 Xin Chujiu5 2新初酒五2Male-Channel Fanfiction1.6M WordsCompleted Siheyuan + one heroine + no grimdark angst + comedy + lighthearted People transmigrate every day, and today it's finally my turn. Others get a System that takes them to the top from the start, but Yang Dalin's whole family is sacrificed from the start, and he's taken in by a widow. Now he has two choices: become her live-in son-in-law or her adopted son. In this famine-stricken era, he needs to survive. After taking one look at the young woman who looks just like Sister Yanyan, Yang Dalin decisi 29kReads7.0Score1.7k14d adds

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   The first book is a period novel set in a traditional courtyard house; the second and third books are all high-quality period novels not set in traditional courtyard houses.

2. 2 穿 Transmigrated to 1960, I Start with Eight Calabash Brothers 穿越60的我开局带八个葫芦娃 Xin Chujiu5 2新初酒五2Urban554k WordsCompleted [Period Setting] + [Spatial Storage] + [Lighthearted] + [Single Heroine] + [Decisive and Ruthless] He transmigrates to the 1960s. While other transmigrators arrive with both parents, grandparents, and siblings around, Yang Zhiyuan finds himself fleeing famine. And he has eight kids to look after. From the start, he nearly starves to death. Other people start with a bowl and end up with a noose. He starts with a jar and ends up with eight Calabash Brothers and a noose. See how Yang Zhiyuan manage 5.2kReads7.9Score25614d adds
3. 3 四 Siheyuan: Medicine and Martial Arts Are Inseparable 四合院之医武不分家 Xin Chujiu5 2新初酒五2Male-Channel Fanfiction463k WordsCompleted [Period][Lighthearted][Low on Hostility][Laid-Back][One Female Lead] Transmigration doesn't seem all that difficult anymore. An obscure writer woke up one morning and found himself in 1947, without so much as a fuss. From the start, he was an eight-year-old child. Life was going to be tough. Fortunately, he had a golden finger. Yang Sanjin decided to live differently this time and make a good life for himself in this era. 6.6kReads7.2Score20614d adds
4. 4 四 Starting as a Deputy Section Chief in Siheyuan 四合院从副科长开始 Plantain Weed Traveling in Dongguan车前草在东莞旅游Male-Channel Fanfiction2.1M WordsCompleted [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 56.8kReads6.4Score3.3k14d adds

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   A courtyard house, a security department, a slight sense of unease, an antique collector, a mundane, everyday life.

5. 5 穿 Transmigrate to the 1960s and Keep Busy Growing Vegetables on the Island 穿越六零，海岛种菜忙 Shui Bo1984水波1984Modern Romance1.3M WordsCompleted [Period]+ [military marriage]+ [Transmigration]+ [no storage space]+ [superhuman strength]+ [building a career] In 2023, swimmer Jiang Jiaojiao and her teammates are on a team-building trip at the seaside. While trying to save a child who has fallen into the water, she is swept away by a huge wave. In 1964, Lin Baoni jumps into the sea to save a People’s Liberation Army soldier in distress. A huge wave carries her away, and she eventually dies of exhaustion. Reborn in Lin Baoni’s body, Jiang Jia 13.1kReads9.3Score1.2k14d adds
6. 6 四 Siheyuan: Yan Jiekuang's Life 四合院之阎解旷的人生 Ren Huahua任花花Male-Channel Fanfiction256k WordsCompleted Yan Jiekang had just graduated from college in the 21st century. After spending several years trying to make it in a big city, he had no house, no car, no wife, and no savings. He planned to return to his hometown and find an easy job, but then he came across two old women arguing. In the scuffle, someone shoved him, and through no fault of his own, he ended up transmigrating into Love in the Courtyard as the youngest son of Third Master Yan. (This is an alternate version of the past, so please 3kReads8.2Score11314d adds

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   This person is from the same courtyard, but is really good-looking.

7. 7 梦 Dreaming of My Past Life: I Bring My Space and Dote on the War God 梦回前世，带着空间宠兵王 Five Little Cats五只小猫Modern Romance237k WordsCompleted For the past month, Shen Zhiyao has been having the same dream on and off. She dreams of her past life, in an era when people barely had enough to eat or wear. Sent to work in a small village, she was caught in a sudden rainstorm that triggered a mudslide. Too weak to escape, she was swept into the mud. Just as she thought she was certain to die, a man in a green military uniform rescued her. The soldier was struck in the leg by a tree trunk and never stood again. He remained unmarried for the r 9.2kReads9.1Score1.2k14d adds

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   "She... She's the child I had with someone else when I was sent to the countryside, she's my daughter..." Everyone's expression changed upon hearing this, all smiles vanished. "I can explain. I didn't know the child existed, Ah Hui. The children are watching. Come upstairs with me, I'll explain." Qin Hui glanced at the suddenly appearing illegitimate daughter, then at her two children, and glared coldly at Lu Xiangcheng as she stormed upstairs. Lu Xiangcheng gave Lu Buhui a reassuring look before hurriedly following to explain. With a bang, the study door slammed shut, and Qin Hui could no longer contain her anger, pointing at him and yelling. "Lu Xiangcheng, you bastard! When we first met, I asked you if you had been with other girls while you were in the countryside, just in case someone came to bother us later. Do you remember what you said then? You swore you didn't." "I…I didn't know I had a child…just once." "Don't give me that nonsense. How could you have a child if you didn't sleep with her? You slept with her in the countryside, and then immediately went on a blind date with me after returning to the city, and we got married in less than six months. You bastard…" The intense reaction irritated Lu Xiangcheng.

8. 8 九 The Gray Heiress of the Nineties 九零灰千金 Chubby Childhood Sweetheart胖青梅Modern Romance375k WordsCompleted [The ailing Mu heir + the Lu family’s illegitimate daughter] [Both reborn + a kind stepmother and stepsister + everyone is a good person] Lu Buhui was reborn, and from the start, a father appeared and took her to the capital. Knowing she was an illegitimate daughter, she had never coveted anything from the Lu family. But... Lu An’an: She’s so pitiful. I’ll let her have a little of Dad’s attention. Qin Hui: She may be my husband’s illegitimate daughter, but she’s so sweet. Lu Shao: She’s too plai 2.2kReads9.0Score22414d adds
9. 9 五 The Fifties: Taking My Landlord Father to Make It in Hong Kong 五零，带着地主老爹闯香江 With the Mountain Foothills与山麓Modern Romance138k WordsOngoing Ming Zhaozhao wakes up as a pampered young landowner's daughter in the 1950s. Her family owns a thousand mu of fertile land, and she is her landlord father's only child. In stories of the era, she's the perfect scapegoat: a wealthy only child whose assets are ripe for the taking, and the daughter of a big landowner. With death flags piling up, she decides to take all the family wealth and flee with her father to Hong Kong. 1.9kReads7.3Score13114d adds
10. 10 穿 Transmigrating Through the Famine Years: My Ties to Sidaogou 穿越荒年之情系四道沟 I Was Once the Village Belle我也曾是村花Modern Romance758k WordsOngoing What on earth is going on? She looked up at the yellowed, old-fashioned mosquito net overhead. A roar filled her head, and as images flashed through her mind one by one, she realized she had transmigrated! She had transmigrated into the body of a seven-year-old girl in the capital in 1957, whose mother had just died in the line of duty and whose father had gone missing... Transmigrated into a turbulent era, she had no desire to get rich. All she wanted was to stand on her own two feet, work with 772Reads8.8Score10014d adds
11. 11 四 Siheyuan: The Third Aunt's Colorful Life 四合院：三大妈的精彩生活 Wonderful Money Tree奇妙的发财树Female-Channel Fanfiction508k WordsCompleted After getting paid, Li Yujuan planned to go to the supermarket and buy a durian to make life a little better. But as she was choosing one, a chubby little boy nearby rammed her with a shopping cart. She lost her balance, plunged her head straight into the durian spikes, and passed out. When she woke up, she had become a gaunt, sallow-faced, thirty-five-year-old housewife. Her husband was so stingy he was practically an iron rooster: even walking past his door would scrape off two ounces of rust. 729Reads7.3Score10214d adds

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    Although she lived an ordinary life as the third aunt, she changed the fate of the third uncle's family.

12. 12 百 The Century-Old House 百年老宅 User36859979用户36859979Modern Romance161k WordsCompleted An old family home, four generations, a century of upheaval, and an extraordinary love affair. How did a penniless tenant farmer win the hearts of two beautiful daughters of an enlightened landlord? How did an honest, simple peasant seize control of the village Party secretary's post as if it were a throne, then cling to it? How did a devoted lover go from kind and innocent to cynical and world-weary? Read on to discover his tangled, unbreakable ties with four women. Through the nearly century-l 34Reads—Score10214d adds

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    A lengthy historical novel, classic rural literature. A romantic love story, with a poignant and moving plot. An old rural house, a century of vicissitudes. Beginning in the first year of the Republic of China, ending only after the pandemic. The loves and hates of the older generation, the emotional entanglements of the younger generation. A cynical and irresponsible man, a self-indulgent and resentful woman. A thrilling palace intrigue drama, full of suspense and twists. An extremely, extremely, extremely good romance novel!

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