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Siheyuan: From the Start, I Took My Little Sister in and Made a Life for Us 四合院：开局带妹妹过日子
[Siheyuan] [Period] [Technology to Strengthen the Nation] [One Heroine] [Putting the Yard's Troublemakers in Their Place] What? I've been reborn in a Siheyuan in 1950, and I'm a student at a top university, a genius in the top three of my year. As he recalls the fragmentary memories in his mind, Li Xiao breaks down completely. “I studied the humanities in my past life. What is this supposed to be? Is this some kind of joke?” From gas-cylinder cannons to Type 63 rocket launchers. From motorcycles
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Siheyuan: Everyone on Your Feet, Salute Your Godfather 四合院：全体起立，给干爹敬礼
As the train of time sped along, Lu Yao arrived in a Beijing courtyard in the 1960s. He activated the Strongest Godfather System. Anyone who acknowledged him as their dad would earn him huge rewards. Facing a courtyard full of scoundrels, Lu Yao was always one step ahead. Yi Zhonghai: “Lu Yao, you shouldn't be so selfish.” Lu Yao: “I give meat to twelve courtyard residents who have no family to support them every week, and I help six struggling households here. You call that selfish?” Yi Zhongha
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Siheyuan: From the Start, I Swindled Silly Zhu Out of Three Rooms 四合院：开局我先讹傻柱三间房
Zhang Chaoyang transmigrated to early 1962 and arrived at the familiar setting of The Turbulent Households of the Courtyard. From the start, he swindled Silly Zhu out of his three rooms. If the Jia family were going to bleed him dry, he might as well get there first.
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Raging Through 1952: Taming the Birds of Siheyuan 狂飙1952：我在四合院除众禽
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?
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The Silent Code: One Punch to Rule the Four Directions 无声法典：一拳镇四合
**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
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Siheyuan: The Immortal Who Slays Every Beast 四合院：不死之人，斩尽禽兽
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
11.9kReads6.4Score376Shelves
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Siheyuan: I May Take Off My Uniform, but I'm Still King 四合院：脱下军装，我照样是王
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
21kReads5.6Score1.1kShelves
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Reborn in the Siheyuan: I’m the Tough Auntie 重生四合院之我是彪悍大妈
Li Chunhua was reborn. She had witnessed the changing times and experienced the development of society. Reborn with the face-slapping System for dealing with scoundrels, she would seize the opportunities of the era and work hard, determined to lead her whole family to glory. As for the scoundrels in the courtyard, they were no big deal. She, Li Chunhua, was a famous neighborhood auntie in Nanluoguxiang. Even someone like Jia Zhangshi could only end up a loser. When Jia Zhangshi tried to summon t
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Siheyuan: I Use the Law to Crush All Defiance 四合院：我用国法镇压一切不服
One heroine + smart protagonist + real-life cases + industrial powerhouse + grand vision By chance, Song Yuan arrives at that famous courtyard. Armed with a copy of the "Public Security Administration Punishments Regulations", he easily puts the courtyard's vermin in their place! Having lived another life, of course he wants to contribute to his country. He'll make sure to have a presence at the Canton Fair! A story about a modern person using the rule of law to navigate life in a courtyard. He
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Siheyuan: From the Start, a Widow Almost Swindled Me Out of My Money and Virtue 四合院：开局寡妇差点被骗财骗色
[Scheming + decisive and ruthless + female protagonist + putting the freeloaders in their place + satisfying revenge + gourmet food + business wars + investment + System missions + period setting] Zhang Yulan arrives in the Courtyard of Birds and nearly falls for Qin Huairu and Yi Zhong's scheme to swindle her out of her money and virtue. While putting the freeloaders in their place, Zhang Yulan gradually begins building a future of her own.
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Siheyuan: A Wrong Turn into Nanluoguxiang 四合院：误闯南锣鼓巷
(Not brainless, not overpowered, no System, has a pocket dimension, one female lead, gentler in tone. Read with caution if that isn't your thing.) Due to a laboratory accident in the future, Liu Youqing unexpectedly arrives in 1959. The bad news: he has just one bowl from the start, and his circumstances rival those of Zhu Yuanzhang, the founding emperor of the Ming dynasty. The good news: he has more than one bowl!
54kReads7.2Score2.7kShelves
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Siheyuan: Tenfold Returns, Too Many Supplies to Use Up 四合院：十倍返还物资太多用不完
[A Guaranteed Quality Read from a Siheyuan Specialist] Chen Zizai, a modern lifestyle blogger who creates his own content, transmigrates to 1959 and has his house seized from the start. With no other choice, he sets fire to it, determined to go down with it: if no one can play fair, then he’ll flip the table! His resolve to go down with the house activates the “Self-Reliance, Tenfold Returns” System. Make one serving of pork braised with vermicelli, and the System gives him ten. What’s he suppos
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Siheyuan: Dad Joined Chiang Kai-shek’s Side, Making Us Rich Peasants. How Am I Supposed to Live? 四合院：老爹投蒋成分富农我咋活
My family is classified as rich peasants. Dad backed Chiang Kai-shek in 1949, and my maternal grandfather's family fled to Hong Kong. I have cerebral palsy and keep waving my hands around. Now I've transmigrated to a courtyard house in 1960, right in the middle of the natural disaster years… How am I supposed to survive this disastrous start? The pocket dimension is useless, and the System only cares about settling old scores. It's got no ambition at all… Fang Ping'an, a rural resident with no r
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Siheyuan: After I Transmigrated, I Married My Wife's Grandmother 四合院：穿越后娶了媳妇她外婆
Sang Biao got drunk and transmigrated. His big reveal exposed the entire compound, and he went all-in with his cards face up from the start, leaving no room to play! Then the System ran off, so he basically has no cheats! And his father is a fake Daoist, a remnant of "feudal superstition"... Will that affect my chances, as the compound's third-generation leader, of riding a Phoenix 28-inch bicycle one-handed and hitting on women during the Great Leap Forward's tenth year? Help me figure this out
29.1kReads7.4Score1.2kShelves
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A Veteran Driver Reincarnates in Siheyuan, and the Bullies Tremble 老司机魂穿四合院，众禽瑟瑟发抖
Also known as: No morals? No problem. I'm enjoying my shameless life. [Film and TV Crossover] [Scheming Opportunist] How do you deal with the beasts in the courtyard? Simple: be even beastlier than they are! An unconventional period drama and feel-good courtyard-compound story. The protagonist is cynical, devious, and utterly shameless. Goody-goodies and moral guardians, stay away. Are you tired of protagonists who are always righteous and noble, who only fight back after someone else picks on t
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Siheyuan: From the Start, I Make Yi Zhonghai Donate to Me 四合院：开局让易中海给我捐款
A medical PhD from the 21st century arrives in the 1950s. His mother has just passed away, and his father has started a new family in the Northeast. He studies hard, gets into a technical secondary school, and is assigned to the Hongxing Steel Rolling Mill. He moves into the compound at No. 95 Hongxing Street. Just as he enters, he runs into a general meeting of the residents. Will he let them have their way?
37kReads8.5Score1.3kShelves
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Siheyuan: I’m the Big Bad from the Start, and I’ll Set These Beasts Straight 四合院：开局大魔王，整治众禽兽
[Daily Life + Comedy + Lighthearted + Spatial Powers + Multiple Worlds Merged] Liu Jianshe transmigrates into a Siheyuan in 1952. After arriving in the capital, he is taken in by the courtyard's residents. First Bai Ling calls off their engagement, then Qin Huairu does the same. After awakening the Star Map System, all the courtyard's nuisances become tools for generating Emotional Value. He outsmarts them at every turn, and life is cheerful and harmonious.
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After Three Years Guarding the Border, I Received a Distress Text from My Daughter! 戍边三年，我收到了女儿的求救短信！
As he fights desperately on the border, he suddenly receives a text from his daughter: “Dad, it’s Sisi. Mom is going to marry someone else...” The girl he once met by chance has already had his child. Four years have passed. He is no longer the destitute son-in-law he once was, but a Demon God who commands the world’s most powerful force! I’ll protect you for the rest of your lives! When a million men in blood-red robes converge on Liyang and fury engulfs the entire city, he descends like a god
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Siheyuan: I’m the Party Secretary at an Agricultural Machinery Factory 四合院，我在农机厂当书记
A slow-paced story set in a bygone era! Multiple love interests, a crafty protagonist, no suffering in silence, and only a little edge. No mass-killing rampages. If that's not your thing, please move along! Zhang Xingguo's soul transmigrates into an alternate world, where he discovers that it's actually the famous Four-Sided Courtyard world. Since he's here, he might as well have some fun! He can't have come all this way for nothing. One little tip a day, and he'll rule the Four-Sided Courtyard
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The Ninefold Transformation True Spirit Dragon Legend: Born with a Sacred Spirit Root 九转全灵真龙传之天生圣灵根
The protagonist was once the heir to the Immortal Court. After being murdered, he reincarnates as a wisp of spirit and grows rapidly right under the demons' noses! By chance, the clay monkey toy he carries with him, stained with a trace of his blood essence, ultimately becomes his greatest enemy thousands of years into the future! Danger lurks everywhere along the way. Watch how he overcomes it! Of course, none of that is important. Not even taking revenge on his uncle is the main thing! What ma
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Siheyuan: I Trained Every Heroine into a Big Shot 四合院：我把女主都培养成了大佬
By chance, I transmigrated into Liu Duidui in a courtyard-house setting. Since he had a grudge against Silly Zhu, Liu Duidui was determined to ruin his life. He swore to marry his sister and take Qin Huairu away from him... Who could have guessed that he would end up raising all the heroines into powerful figures...
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Siheyuan: I Was Forced to Do Good Deeds 【四合院】我被迫助人为乐
(Multiple female leads. If that's not your thing, don't come in.) Why transmigrate to the Siheyuan? What could await you there? Is it a love that runs deep, or the everyday troubles of life? …,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,
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Siheyuan: My Everyday Life of Protecting My Wife 四合院：护妻日常
1978, Liuxu Alley, Beijing. On the eve of his fifth attempt at the postgraduate entrance exam, factory doctor Lu Yiming rescued a feverish, convulsing girl on a rainy night. The girl’s mother was a widow, known throughout the compound as “Widow Lin.” Her husband was dead, she had a sickly child to raise, and there was barely enough food to get through the day. Lu Yiming treated her, protected her from her former in-laws when they tried to take the child, and stood up for her when the whole compo
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Cultivating the Dao in a Beijing Courtyard: Are None of My Roommates Human? 四合院修道：我的室友都不是人？
Lin Chen has a master's degree in cultural relic restoration. He was chased by urban management officers while running a stall at the antiques market, and his restoration videos on Douyin had only 50 likes, all from classmates showing their support. He'd hoped to make some extra money drawing talismans and quietly lie flat. Instead, he rented a courtyard house and ended up with roommates, each more outrageous than the last: The girl who plays the zither can hear people's heartbeats. The first
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Siheyuan: I Crush the Courtyard's Troublemakers 四合院：我对众禽降维打击
This is my first attempt at writing a novel. I've always loved fanfiction set in traditional courtyard homes, and I had a few ideas of my own, so I decided to write this story. I know my writing is still immature and has plenty of shortcomings, so I hope readers will be patient with me. I'm also grateful to everyone willing to give a newcomer a chance.
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Siheyuan: Reborn in He Yuzhu's Body, I Quit to Become a Hoodlum 四合院：魂穿何雨柱，辞职做流氓
I transmigrate to 1963 and become He Yuzhu, a resident of Courtyard No. 95 on Nanluoguxiang. I activate the Scoundrel System. The less human I act, the more rewards the System gives me. I, He Yuzhu, break every shackle, refuse to be pushed around ever again, and live life on my own terms. A fake scoundrel, a true gentleman.
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The Immortal Divine Lord 不灭神主
Also known as: I Only Learned I Was an Emperor After She Broke Off Our Engagement. What's the Use of Crying Your Eyes Out? Zhou Qingyu gave up his Eight-Cycle Divine Art and started over from the beginning as an ordinary mortal, pursuing the Ninth Cycle. By chance, he discovered that just a fraction of the divine art he'd scattered had helped his ex-fiancée, Zhao Yanyun, comprehend the world's greatest sword intent; turned an exiled demon prince into a peerlessly gifted young Demon Sovereign; an
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Siheyuan: Wield the Moral High Ground and Enjoy a Carefree Life 四合院：举道德大棒，享自在人生
1958, Back to that fiery red era, into the courtyard house everyone loved to talk about, where the neighbors showed the best and worst of human nature, goodness and ugliness, in all their glory, Li Weiguo, a wage slave from the 21st century, began his legendary life! Note: There is no farm for growing crops, only the static space that comes with the Emotion Collection System. If that bothers you, read at your own risk!
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1960: Transmigrating to Nanluoguxiang 年代1960：穿越南锣鼓巷，
New novel: Reborn in 1980: The Life I’ve Always Dreamed Of Also known as Li Laifu’s Happy Life in 1960s China. (No angst, comedy, farming, and everyday family life.) A short drama, comedy animations, and AI short dramas are now available.
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The Urban All-Purpose Lottery System 都市全能抽奖系统
By a twist of fate, Chen Feng, a young man from the city, obtained a sign-in lottery System. He discovered that he could win all kinds of skills, cultivation techniques, and items through the System's sign-in lottery... He could even use the System's power to transmigrate at any time into different film, TV, and novel worlds. Love in the Courtyard, Ode to Joy, Love Apartment, Drawing Sword, The Legend of the Condor Heroes, Demi-Gods and Semi-Devils, Uncle Nine, Journey to the West, the Primordia
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Siheyuan: The Joyful Life of the Mastermind Behind the Scenes 四合院之背后推手的快乐人生
Lin Yuan unexpectedly arrives in the world of Love in the Courtyard. Already invincible from the start, he begins his life as a master schemer. In public, he appears to be a frail, retired soldier. Behind the scenes, he makes everything happen. Many years later, Lin Yuan is still carefree and at ease, watching life unfold with a smile.
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Siheyuan: Silly Zhu's Happy Life 四合院：傻柱子的幸福生活
Yi Zhonghai will never become a paragon of virtue. Liu Haizhong is still the same power-hungry official, convinced that spare the rod and spoil the child. Yan Fugui is still the same penny-pincher. Qin Huairu is still a white lotus, unchanged in all her white-lotus ways. Bang Geng was never raised right, and in the end he met a miserable fate. Jia Zhangshi went mad in the end, while Kuihua and Xiaodang both found good families.
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No Retirement Schemes Allowed in Siheyuan Number 95 95号四合院不允许养老集团存在
In his previous life, he was swindled out of his marriage and money. After personally killing the people who had deceived him, he transmigrated as He Yuzhu. This time, all he wants is to lie flat. Since the retirement group is scheming against him, he'll just send them all away. That should let him lie flat, right??? (This book really will write Yizhong, Jia Zhangshi, and Deaf Granny out of the story. If that bothers you, don't read it. Otherwise, you'll be unhappy and curse me out, and I'll be
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Easygoing Days in the Siheyuan 四合院里的悠哉日子
Back in 1955, he begins a carefree life amid all the chaos of that legendary courtyard. See how a modern man gets by and lives his own modest life in that era! (A low on hostility, high on everyday life, and all about watching the drama kind of story.)
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Siheyuan: A New Skill Every Month 四合院之每月换技能
Also known as: A New Skill Every Month Chen Ping'an transmigrates to a courtyard house in 1965, gaining a new skill every month. In the first month, he gets the Return skill, solving his food and clothing problems and landing a job in the steel mill's logistics department along the way; In the second month, he gets the Inner Voice skill, helping him navigate relationships with ease and even catch a spy; In the third month, he gets the Portable Spirit Field skill, builds greenhouses, grows mushro
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From Siheyuan to Homeland Hero 从四合院，进化成祖国人
After one drinking binge, I ended up in the world of the Siheyuan. Looking at the courtyard full of scumbags, I figured I was doomed. Luckily, my cheat arrived just in time. One bag of rice, carried up several flights of stairs, would make the whole courtyard feel the pain.
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Siheyuan: Transferred from the Military, Promoted to Department Chief on Day One 四合院：部队转业，入职即科长
Zhang Weiguo transmigrates to an era of shortages and deprivation. A decorated veteran, he is reassigned as a procurement chief at a steel mill and moves into a courtyard compound. With a golden finger in the form of a portable space, he changes the fate of everyone in the compound. When Heaven is unjust and fate is cruel, meet it head-on with all your strength. Watch Zhang Weiguo write his own legend in this turbulent era!
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Siheyuan: A Different Kind of Life 四合院之别样人生
Old Zhou was tricked by a transmigrator and sent to 1938. Since he's already here, the reborn Zhou Huchen can only pull himself together, train hard, and study at his leisure, hoping to become a sturdy little screw in the great work of building the motherland during those fiery years. While visiting relatives in a neighboring village, Zhou Huchen looks at the dark, skinny young woman named Qin Huairu before him. Her familiar face gradually comes to resemble the heroine of a TV drama from his pre
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I Came to the Siheyuan, and I’m Living My Own Life 来到四合院，我自顾自的生活
Gao Xiaowai's way of life is to keep his head down. He does it until it becomes a habit, until it becomes second nature. Just when Gao Xiaowai sees no hope of keeping his head down forever, fate plays a joke on him. Maybe he dreamed too sweetly, because when he wakes up, he's been thrown seventy years into the past. Gao Xiaowai's heart sinks. How is he supposed to survive now!
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Siheyuan: The Grassroots Hero's Rise 四合院之草根的逆袭
Red brick, green tiles, the cooing of pigeons; fried dough rings, fermented mung bean drink, savory pastries with decorative studs. Li Tianyi is reborn in an era of scarce supplies but soaring spirits. Watch how this ordinary man turns his life around in a traditional courtyard and changes his family's humble lot.
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