Are There Really No Good Courtyard House Stories? 真就没有好的四合院？
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The Red-Haired Writer of the Siheyuan 四合院里的红色作家
Zhang Dacheng of the 1950s was so overcome with grief after his mother died that he was replaced by a doctor from the future, also named Zhang Dacheng, who was terminally ill and had perished taking a con man down with him. The moment he arrived in this world, he heard someone cursing him. Zhang Dacheng wasn't about to let that slide: he beat Jia Dongxu and Jia Zhangshi with a stick, then hacked at Yi Zhonghai and He Yuzhu with a blade, first beating the retirement gang into submission...
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Siheyuan: Three Days Until My Execution 四合院：距离枪毙还有三天
[Crime Solving] [Comedy] [Nanluoguxiang] [My Dad Is a Hidden Big Shot] In 1960, with the enemy still lurking among the people and not yet fully eliminated, Xu Huai nearly got shot. Only after joining the Public Security Bureau did he discover that his father was a hidden big shot.
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My Siheyuan Has an Enormous Space 四合院，我的空间超级大
Li Qinghe accidentally transmigrates into a television drama world set in 1955. In this composite world, where many period dramas have been brought together, Li Qinghe uses a video game cheat and works hard alongside his family to build a better life. Moving into a siheyuan, watching the drama, enjoying the gossip: a laid-back slice of life. No angst, no angst, no angst. If that's not your thing, don't come in!
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The 1950s: Making a Happy, Prosperous Life 年代五零：红红火火过日子
Reborn in the 1950s. What? Worried about starving to death? Don’t panic, don’t panic. We’ve got a pocket dimension. What? This is the notorious Courtyard of Beasts, where everyone’s supposedly a scumbag? What am I supposed to do? Luckily, my dad became the First Master, and my mom is the director of the women’s federation at the steel mill. Who still dares mess with me? Sun Zhengguo says: Go wild all you want, just don’t drag me into it. I only want to spend this happy life with my family. Both
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Siheyuan: Working in the Technical Department Is Dangerous 四合院：技术科是个危险的工作
Fighting the courtyard beasts + System + siding with Xu Damao + no troublemaking After transmigrating to the capital in the 1950s, Jiang Fan realized he had ended up in a courtyard full of awful people. “Oh no! I've become one of the beasts!” Three years later, the System came online, and Jiang Fan began a life of stirring up trouble and turning everything upside down!
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Siheyuan: From the Start, I Uncover a Shocking Secret 四合院：开局发现惊天秘密
Zhang Xiaopi was reborn, and an unexpected job in the capital brought him there. For no apparent reason, he ended up living in the Beast-Filled Courtyard. See how Zhang Xiaopi makes his own way in this vibrant, tumultuous era. See how he puts the courtyard’s pests in their place. This is a slow-burn story, but it has plenty of bite and a satisfying ending. Feel free to add it to your collection.
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Siheyuan: From the Start, I Send the Villains to the Detention Center 四合院：开局送禽兽去拘留所
Zhang Fan transmigrated to the capital in the 1960s, only to discover that this was the world of the Siheyuan novels. He was one of its residents, an eight-year-old child of a martyr, and he awakened a powerful sign-in System. He had hoped to live a wonderful life in this red era. Unfortunately, the beasts in the courtyard never gave anyone a moment's peace. Well, there was no helping it. If he wanted to sleep in as long as he liked and count money until his hands cramped, he'd have to deal with
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Siheyuan: How Did You Go from Being a Fitter to a Research Superstar? 四合院：你个钳工咋成科研大佬了
[Siheyuan + moderate hostility + scheming protagonist + slice of life + patriotic science and technology + changing history] Li Jianguo transmigrated by accident to the 1950s and became an inconspicuous resident in the world of the Siheyuan. The courtyard's schemers wanted to leave my family without an heir and take everything. I taught them a lesson instead. The Jia family wanted my house, so I served Jia Zhangshi a three-part recipe for despair. My brothers and I are of one heart, but I make s
5kReads7.9Score216Shelves
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Siheyuan: I Transmigrated as Silly Zhu's Uncle 四合院：穿越成傻柱舅舅
In 1958, Li Jianjun transmigrated into the body of a demobilized soldier. This man turned out to be He Yuzhu's uncle, who was also named Li Jianjun. After leaving the military, he took a job as the chief of security at the Steel Mill and officially moved into the courtyard. Silly Zhu and He Yushui finally experienced the care of an elder. With no way out, Yi Zhonghai was left dumbfounded.
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Siheyuan: I’m Silly Zhu’s Uncle, and I Married Yu Li 四合院：我傻柱小舅，娶妻于莉
He transmigrated to the autumn of 1958. He Yuzhu and He Yushui’s uncle, Bai Jiefang, has arrived. Since he has returned from military service, he has been appointed head of the Juvenile Offender Reform Brigade in the capital, a deputy section-level official. The home he’s been assigned turns out to be the west wing of the central courtyard at No. 95 Nanluoguxiang. Yi Zhonghai, who had been scheming all along, spends every day seething and doesn’t dare raise his voice. With all her pent-up resent
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As a War God, I Can Just Summon Players If I Can't Win 作为战神，打不过直接召唤玩家
What would happen if video game players transmigrated to another world and still treated it like a game? Would they start farming, developing their territory, and climbing the tech tree, until a flood of steel crushed everything in its path? Or would they plunder everything, attack everyone they met, and become a terrifying presence to the natives? It sounds scary, but it doesn’t matter. I, the God of War, need people like that right now.
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The Age of Global Civilization: Flesh Is Weak, Machines Ascend 全球文明时代：血肉苦弱机械飞升
[Tags: the Myriad Worlds, civilization-spanning conflict, a little bit of farming (?),] From the first spark of life beneath the water... to the constructed colossi of the Steam Age... and then the cybernetic modifications and cognitive protocols of the Leap Age, you have been through a great deal. Now, usher in your greatest age! Since the dawn of civilization, we have known all too well the limits of flesh and blood: suspicion, sentimentality, and countless unnecessary desires and emotions. Th
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Online Game: Everyone, I Just Want to Be a Good Person 网游：诸位，我只想当个好人
[Wuxia] + [Imperial Court Factions] + [No System] + [Comedy] + [Ridiculous Antics] + [Online Game] + [Lone Wolf] This is not a mindless power fantasy. Readers who are picky should proceed with caution. “I'm not a hypocrite. I'm a real villain!” The world of Jianghu bursts onto the scene. Bai Di, born with the seed of a demon, starts out as Xiao Mimi's male lover. That puts him in a real bind: should he go at it half-heartedly, or go all in? The choice is his... When the Jianghu sects refuse to t
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Survival World: From the Start, I Inherit a Haunted Cabin in the Woods 求生世界：开局继承林间鬼屋
[Everyone Struggles to Survive + Lordly Rivalry + Farming and Development + Another World] As the world teeters on the brink of collapse, will you choose to be a laid-back nobody, content to stay in your own corner? Or become a Demon King who rules the world? Or perhaps... risk everything to save it? The protagonist transmigrates to another world and inherits a haunted house in the woods from the start! He gains three ghostly companions! Ghost Maid: Master, your coffee is ready. Undead Kn
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Eternal Dawn 曦日永恒
The author's new novel, My Immortal Self, Wiping Out a Cult from the Start!, is now available! [Invincible protagonist + ensemble cast (sort of) + an entire clan creating a world + giant gods + wholly original] Over 7,000 words updated daily! Jump in with confidence! You've seen people transmigrate with their bodies or souls, men transmigrating as women and women as men, but have you ever seen an entire clan transmigrate? On the day Yang Sheng took over as clan leader, the ancestral stone underw
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The Dark Abyss World 暗渊世界
Xie Chenyuan acquired a legacy that brought him halfway to transcendence. It granted him the ability to travel between worlds, giving him the chance to plunder abundant resources and achieve transcendence. Xie Chenyuan knew that to survive in this cruel world and reach transcendence, he would have to keep growing stronger. So he used the power of his legacy to begin his plundering journey. He traveled between different worlds, each with its own unique resources and challenges. In some, he face
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Strange Creatures: I Transmigrated Into a Paper Effigy Maker 诡怪：我穿越成了纸扎匠
[Supernatural horrors + an uncanny family + play the pig to eat the tiger + behind-the-scenes scheming + an army of paper effigies] Su Yu wakes up to find he has transmigrated into a semi-industrialized world where supernatural horrors are part of everyday life. (It's roughly equivalent to the Republican era: big cities are bright and bustling, while villages are still stuck in ancient times.) Lost and alone, he is taken in by Uncle Seven, the owner of a paper effigy shop. During a supernatural
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I Became a Rebel in Another World 我在异界当反贼
A slow-burn Western fantasy about knights and lords, with no female lead! The golden finger is minor and appears late! Henwell became a commoner from the start and planned to work his way up to nobility, but as a young child, he was swept into a war. To stay alive, he threw in his lot with the enemy and became a junior strategist, forging the strongest army in the world. Just when he thought he could enjoy a good life after the war, he was sold into slavery. He was trained as a gladiator, but be
30.1kReads8.9Score3.1kShelves
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The Black-Tech Mage 黑科技魔法师
[Guns and mechs + spatial magic + genius + nobility + multiple heroines] (No System, not a power fantasy, slow-paced) Murray Green transmigrated as the second son of an earl and awakened a powerful talent for spatial magic. He'd hoped to live quietly as a refined young noble and enjoy campus life as a gifted student. Instead, his family sent him to pursue the aloof, beautiful heiress to a dukedom, who took a liking to him. To protect himself and escape the fate of marrying into her family, he re
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Spirit Cards Descend 灵卡降临
An obscure scholar of historical literature unexpectedly transmigrates to a new world. This world is home to all kinds of wondrous spirit cards. By venturing into different card realms, battling characters from all sorts of worlds, and collecting a wide variety of spirit cards, he can build his collection. [Sky-Piercing Halberd] Card, [Move Mountains and Overturn Seas] Card, [Divide into Thousands] Card... What dazzling brilliance will emerge when countless wondrous spirit cards collide?
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Lord of the Netherworld 幽主
This isn’t a power fantasy, so readers looking for a brainless leveling story should steer clear. It’s a slow burn, and you’ll need some patience to keep reading. [The pig’s trotter, the fragrant ash, the moonlight in my heart, all divided into three chambers by this path. Those outside cannot see through them; those within are each consumed by worry. Heaven and earth have their order, the sages die, and chaos reigns as gods and demons thrive. What reason is there to drink this cup of wine? Sayi
15.1kReads7.8Score1.8kShelves