Siheyuan Stories: Let Silly Zhu Rise to Success, Stop Letting Him Be Guilt-Tripped, and Give Him a Happy Life 四合院，想看傻柱起飞，不再被道德绑架，得幸福
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I’m Here to Set the Chaotic Siheyuan Straight 朕来整顿禽满四合院
After Zhu Yuanzhang died, he transmigrated into the body of a junior official. When he got home, he found that His wife was Empress Ma, doing laundry for someone else. His son was Zhu Biao, with a broken leg. His grandson was Zhu Xiongying, skin and bones. The so-called “good neighbors” in the compound stole from his family, insulted his wife, and schemed against his son. The whole place was full of beasts. Then the System arrived, bringing him master-level Chinese medicine, a farm he could c
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- 52 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 10.7kReads6.4Score28214d adds
- 53 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.” 491Reads7.1Score16114d adds
- 54 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! 14.1kReads8.0Score42414d adds
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Siheyuan: From the Start, I Went to Korea to Fight. I'm the Nemesis of Evil 四合院：开局援朝，我是罪恶克星
[System] [Small Worlds] [Crushing the Japanese] [One Female Lead] [Hunting Enemy Spies] [Cultivation Meets the Real World] This story follows a transmigrator who seeks to grow stronger by continually capturing criminals. It depicts events in Courtyard No. 95 from the perspective of an ordinary passerby. From the start, he captures Old Mrs. Deaf, Director Wang, Director Yang, and others. He has a cheat, encounters special cultivators, and eventually ascends after eliminating enough criminals. The
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Sect Master from the Start: I Level Up with Blue Star to Become a God 开局宗主，我靠蓝星加点成神尊
[Myriad Realms] [Invincible] [Transmigrating Across the Myriad Worlds] [Cultivation] [Honghuang] [One Female Lead] [Blue Star] [Spiritual Qi Revival] [Myriad Realms Fusion] A transmigrator from Blue Star obtains a point-allocation System and binds himself to Blue Star, taking its inhabitants, primarily the people of Longguo, to other worlds. They cultivate the Dao, face invasions from other worlds, and witness the fusion of the Myriad Realms and the Spiritual Qi Revival on Blue Star. By steadily
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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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- 58 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—14d adds
- 59 Silly Zhu Is Reborn and Takes Down the Whole Flock of Beasts 傻住重生虐众禽 Reborn Silly Zhu: No Longer a Parasite, He Turns the Courtyard Upside Down Silly Zhu gave the Qin Huairu family his whole heart and everything he had, only to meet a miserable end. Once age and frailty left him with nothing more to offer, Qin Huairu's three children ruthlessly abandoned him, leaving him beneath a bridge to die of cold and hunger. As he lay dying, consumed by despair and hatred, he made a solemn vow: if he ever got another life, he would never again be a parasite for others to e 3.7kReads—Score13914d adds
- 60 Damn, How Did a Couple of Complaints Turn Me into Silly Zhu? 靠，吐槽两句怎就成傻柱了 Modern chef Wu Mingfu had merely grumbled before bed about his “awful” neighbors in the courtyard, lamenting that Silly Zhu had superb cooking skills but lived such a miserable life. He mused that if he transmigrated there, he would marry the virtuous Yu Li, have a bunch of chubby kids, and build a prosperous, peaceful life. Who would have thought that when he woke up, he really had transmigrated into the Red Star Steelworks of 1958, becoming the famous “older brother of He Yushui,” who was alwa 106Reads5.5Score10014d adds
- 61 Reborn in Silly Zhu’s Body: A Good Life Is What Really Matters 魂穿傻柱之过好日子才是真 He Yuzhu, a modern man who never married, devoted his life to raising his stepson, He Xiao. Wanting him to “be a real man for once,” He Xiao dragged him to a nightclub. Amid the glittering lights and revelry, a hostess who looked just like Qin Huairu in her youth sat down beside him... When he awoke, He Yuzhu was shocked to discover that he had transmigrated into Silly Zhu in 1965! And the woman beneath him, whom he had mistaken for a nightclub hostess, was none other than twenty-three-year-old 4.4kReads—Score15414d adds
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The Fool Next Door 隔壁傻柱
My new work is out! You can 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!
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Reincarnated as He Daqing, I Marry Huairu and Change My Foolish Son's Fate 魂穿何大清娶淮茹为傻儿子改命
“Seven-character Regulated Verse: Reflections on Transmigrating into He Daqing” Within the courtyard, schemes bring both warmth and woe; Reborn, one hand can turn grief to joy. With clever plans, grain and meat nourish a thousand heirs; Careful mending brings two phoenixes together beneath love’s sky. Hidden talents flourish amid the bustle of the streets; A home rich in virtue opens a new path. Looking back at the lights and kitchen smoke, The He family’s branches thrive, leaning on the railing
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- 64 Xu Damao, the First-Blood Champion 一血达人许大茂 Crossing Between Worlds: Xu Damao's Modern Comeback Xu Damao, a top literature student, couldn't find a job after graduation and became obsessed with the TV drama Love in the Courtyard. He especially envied the womanizing, cunning “Xu Damao,” jokingly calling him a master of getting women into bed. Then one day, he transmigrated and became the very Xu Damao he “admired,” just as he was about to marry the wealthy Lou Xiao'e! Faced with a courtyard full of beastly neighbors, including the calc 2.3kReads5.7Score13314d adds
- 65 Reborn as Qin Huairu: A Woman Must Stand on Her Own 魂穿秦淮茹之女人当自强 After waking up, Qin Ru, a business queen worth billions, found herself turned into Qin Huairu, the timid, tragic heroine of Love in the Courtyard! Fresh from tearing into a cheating jerk and his mistress, she faced the whole courtyard full of shameless parasites and sneered, “Let's see how you like playing with me.” In the technical workshop, she modernized the production process and quickly rose to become a senior-grade worker. In management, she led sweeping reforms with an iron fist, stampin 720Reads—Score—14d adds
- 66 Half-Courtyard Pine Moon's Second Book 半庭松月的第2本书 Li Lingxiao's soul transmigrated into the body of the most useless Seventh Prince. The moment he opened his eyes, he found himself cuckolded. His fiancée, Liu Ruyan, had secretly been carrying on with Chu Huaiyu, grandson of Chancellor Chu. The former owner of the body had been pushed into a lake and drowned because of it. Even worse, palace eunuchs dared to come to his door and bully his personal maid. Li Lingxiao sneered. In his previous life, as a top secret agent, he had killed more people t 2Reads—Score—14d adds
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Lord of Reincarnation in the Nine Domains 九域轮回之主
Synopsis Good-for-nothing Lin Feng is betrayed by his beloved and his clan brother, stripped of all his cultivation, and thrown into the Blood Prison of the Nine Netherworlds. In his despair, he awakens the Nine Hells Reincarnation Seal, which can devour baleful energy, souls, and even the myriad laws of the heavens! From then on, the Blood Prison becomes his hunting ground, baleful energy his nourishment, and ferocious beasts his watchdogs. When he shatters the Nine Hells and returns to the Ni
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Siheyuan: The Supply and Marketing Cooperative Director 四合院之供销社主任
A new story is here: Four Rounds. Chen Ping'an has read tens of thousands of courtyard-house novels on Yang Tomato, and not a single one satisfied him. Every time he read one, he either cursed the author in his head or left comments criticizing the story. Well, now the Yang Tomato moderators have sent him straight into a courtyard house. Let’s see how our protagonist, Chen Ping'an, opens the courtyard in his heart.
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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;
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- 70 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 279Reads—Score—14d adds
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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
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- 72 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—14d adds
- 73 Professor X: Silly Zhu! Accept My Gift! X教授：傻柱！接受我的馈赠吧！ Professor X senses the Dark Phoenix taking over Jean Grey’s body and goes alone to reason with her, but the berserk Phoenix Force shatters his physical form. At death’s door, his mind rides a rift in space and time torn open by the Phoenix Force and plunges into the world of Love in the Courtyard. His consciousness enters He Yuzhu’s mindscape, only to run into the embodiment of fate entrenched within: “A Simp Gets No House.” Moved by He Yuzhu’s fate of hardship and mistreatment, the professor 1.9kReads7.3Score10514d adds
- 74 Siheyuan: The Jie Sect's Fortune! Seizing the Fortune of All Things! 四合院：截教气运！截取万物！ In the Battle of the Investiture of the Gods, the Jie Sect suffered a crushing defeat, and Tongtian was forced to swallow the Saint-Falling Pill. Enraged, Tongtian stripped away the remnants of the Jie Sect's fortune and sent them into the endless void, hoping that one day someone destined to inherit it could lead the Jie Sect to greatness again. Hongjun learned of this. The Creation Jade Disc nurtured among his three flowers shot out a beam of golden light, intent on scattering the Jie Sect's 9.1kReads8.1Score48614d adds
- 75 1940: I Have the Thousand-Blade Demon Saber for Killing the Japanese! 1940：杀鬼子我有魔刀千刃！ A modern college student transmigrates to 1940 and takes over the body of a child named Wu Liuqi, who was killed by the Japanese. He awakens the Enemy-Slaying, Nation-Strengthening System! With the template of the assassin Wu Liuqi and the Thousand Blades Demon Sword in hand, he throws his head back and shouts, “You Japanese devils, your grandpa is here!” 2kReads7.4Score10714d adds
- 76 I, He Daqing! Mount Fuji: A Mountain God? 我，何大清！富士山：山神？ He Daqing, an archaeologist, pricks his finger on a bronze ring while cleaning a tomb. He transmigrates into the world of the courtyard house and activates the Mountain God Inheritance System, becoming the Mountain God of Mount Fuji! Determined to escape the fate laid out for him, He Daqing makes arrangements for his children, then resolutely joins the Volunteer Army and heads to the Korean War front, where he writes a legendary tale! 3.4kReads6.8Score14614d adds
- 77 Siheyuan: I Can Issue Quests! 四合院：我能发布任务！ Yu Xiaotian, from the twenty-first century, accidentally transmigrates to a courtyard house in 1960 and becomes the youngest son of Yu Zheng, a level-seven fitter at the steel mill. It’s a time of famine. His family isn’t well-off, but they get by. One older brother is a fitter at the steel mill, and the other works as a postal carrier. Yet Yi Zhonghai, who lives in the courtyard, is always trying to guilt the Yu family into helping the impoverished Jia family and Deaf Granny’s household. Just t 452Reads5.5Score—14d adds
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Sha Zhu Reborn: The System’s Space Loots the Entire Courtyard 傻柱重生：系统空间偷空全院
As He Yuzhu lay dying in a cold bridge underpass, he looked back on his life, filled with regret. He had spent his whole life being a sucker, constantly giving his wages and meal coupons to the Jia family. Yi Zhonghai had guilt-tripped him with morality, while everyone in the compound schemed against him and took advantage of him. He gave everything, only to end up with nothing and freeze to death on the street. When he opened his eyes again, he was reborn in 1961, before the tragedy had begun.
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- 79 Breaking the Siheyuan: Starting as a Remnant of Manchukuo 破防四合院：从伪满余孽开始 33Reads—Score—14d adds
- 80 Siheyuan: If You Want Trouble, You Got It 四合院：不服就干 32Reads—Score—14d adds
- 81 Siheyuan: Divorced from the Start, I Sign In to Torment the Vermin 四合院：开局被离婚，签到虐禽 Siheyuan: Divorced from the Start, Sign-In and Face-Slapping the Villains Yu Daye transmigrates into the world of Beast-Filled Siheyuan and is immediately forced by his wicked wife, Wang Cuihua, to leave with nothing. Even his ungrateful son jumps out to claim another man as his father. Yu Daye responds with a resounding slap, divorcing his wife and abandoning his son on the spot, then activates the Divine Sign-In System. He steps out for a bowl of zhajiangmian and ends up being confessed to in 38Reads—Score—14d adds
- 82 I Reincarnated as Sha Zhu, and From the Start It Was a Night of Passion with Lou Xiaoe 魂穿傻柱开局是与娄晓娥的销魂夜 Haiwang Tong Yajun's soul transmigrates into Silly Zhu in the Siheyuan. From the start, it is the very night Lou Xiao'e is about to flee to Hong Kong with her parents and gives herself to He Yuzhu! Lou Xiao'e leaves without a word, and the jade bangle she leaves behind for Silly Zhu is accidentally stained with blood, turning into a portable pocket dimension that helps him grow and make progress in the Siheyuan... The former Haiwang now has Qin Shuiru, Yu Li, Qin Jingru, Ran Qiuye, Yu Haitang, a 275Reads5.8Score—14d adds
- 83 A Writer's Soul Reincarnates as Silly Zhu, Living However He Pleases 写手魂穿傻柱之随心所欲 He Yuzhu woke up in the body of Silly Zhu from the Siheyuan, determined not to repeat his past mistakes. But when Qin Huairu came over looking pitiful to borrow some food, he lost his head for a moment and pulled her inside. As he was feeling refreshed and getting his memories straight, he suddenly realized it was 1958. Jia Dongxu was still alive, and Qin Huairu wasn’t a widow yet! Just then, Jia Dongxu’s anxious shouts came from outside the door: “Huairu! Huairu, where are you?” 31Reads6.1Score—14d adds
- 84 Transmigrated to the Siheyuan, Where I Married Huaihua 穿越四合院之我娶了槐花 Modern young man Tian Xuyang is betrayed by his girlfriend and humiliated by his rival, but in his darkest hour he fights back and makes his enemies pay dearly. Just as he is sinking into a luxurious life supported by a rich woman, he suddenly discovers that his "sugar mommy" is actually Yu Li, the restaurant owner from Love in the Courtyard. He has accidentally transmigrated into a book and landed in a Beijing courtyard in the early 1980s! Among the gray tiles and brick walls, the sounds of Sil 3.7kReads—Score12914d adds
- 85 Unnecessary Desire 非必要情动 Four women: Shen Jun, Yun Mei, Yang Lanlan, and Bai Jie. Faced with the ambiguities of the internet age, the complexities of the real world, betrayal in marriage, and unspoken rules in the workplace, they are all trapped in a vast web… 2Reads—Score—14d adds
- 86 Reborn as He Yushui: Little Cop, Hurry Up and Wash My Feet 魂穿何雨水小警察快来给本宫洗脚 He Xiaoyu, a mechanical engineer, suddenly died after working late night after night to finish technical drawings. When she opened her eyes again, she had become an eight-year-old girl named He Yushui, a pitiful little character with barely any presence, swept along by fate in the story of Love in the Courtyard, which she'd stayed up late reading. Looking at the small, thin figure in the mirror, He Xiaoyu took a deep breath. Since heaven had given her another chance at life, she would never let 12Reads5.8Score—14d adds
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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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- 88 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. 26kReads6.9Score1.4k14d adds
- 89 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. 17.5kReads6.8Score89514d adds
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Half a Life on the Wrong Road 半生歧途
Beneath the bustle of everyday life, undercurrents stir, as human relationships and rules become entangled. Hidden webs of self-interest and illicit dealings quietly erode the foundations of order. When ideals are tested by reality, and temptation besieges people’s original convictions, some lose their way and sink, while others step forward. A long, arduous campaign against corruption tears away layers of disguise and restores justice to the world.
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- 91 Siheyuan: He Daqing Stays Put, and the Japanese Suffer 四合院：何大清不跑，鬼子倒大霉 After transmigrating nine times and dying every time, the System delivered its final warning: die once more on the tenth try, and your soul will be scattered forever. Fortunately, this time's starter pack was fully loaded: combat skills, a bulletproof vest, a portable storage space, and even a modern mansion with every amenity. He Daqing thought he could finally lie low and stay alive. But when he opened his eyes, it was the thirty-first year of the Republic of China, and Beiping had fallen. 351Reads—Score—14d adds
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Marching Out of the Ten Thousand Mountains to Reclaim Our Homeland and Expand Our Borders 兵出十万大山，复故土拓新疆
Liu Yongfu went up the mountain to gather firewood. In a dream, an old man told him that he was a mighty general who should defend his home and protect his people. When he woke, he also had a new set of memories from the future. Liu Yongfu decided that, besides defending his homeland, he should find the Han people a place to settle, help them survive more than a decade of war and natural disasters, and fight against imperialism... [Some parts of this story take liberties with history, or happen
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- 93 After the College Entrance Exam, I Used My Foresight to Become a Tycoon 回到高考后，利用先知成富豪 By a twist of fate, Chen Feiyu returns to the day after his class reunion, held after the college entrance exam. Using his information advantage, he makes up for past regrets. From the start, he sets his sights on the Brazil World Cup to earn his first fortune, then uses his expertise and memories to grow his money in the stock market. He also keeps in touch with his high school crush and his senior from university, wins the hearts of both beauties, and becomes a winner in life! 2.8kReads—Score11014d adds
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I’m Reborn, So Why Would I Worry About Finding a Wife? 重生还怕娶不到老婆？
Yu Mingyi was reborn at his grandmother's funeral. He swore that this time he'd make something of his life: earn money early, marry and have children, build a home and a career, and stop running around on blind dates. He'd lead his family and friends to a happy life!
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