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- 1 Siheyuan: A Bright Official Career 四合院:官运亨通 (Includes a System, slice-of-life focus, low on hostility) Xuanyu, an ordinary young man from the modern era, transmigrates for no apparent reason into the world of the Siheyuan courtyards. Armed with a useless golden finger, he becomes a scheming adviser. Watch as he sets sail amid the tides and makes his way to the pinnacle of life. 14.4kReads8.6Score436Shelves
- 2 Yi Zhonghai Divorces and Makes a Comeback, and the Other Courtyard Elders Follow Suit 易中海离婚逆袭,大爷们纷纷效仿 [No Goody-Two-Shoes] [Decisive and ruthless] [Pure wish fulfillment] [Grindset System] Yi Zhonghai, a rich and handsome bachelor in his prime, transmigrated to the world of the Courtyard after an unexpected encounter on a business trip. He had even become the notorious scoundrel Yi Zhonghai. On his first day after transmigrating, he activated the Grindset System, divorced his wife, cut ties with the Jia family and Sha Zhu, resigned from his position as the head of the courtyard, and married a be 615Reads8.1Score—Shelves
- 3 Siheyuan: I Really Don't Want to Transmigrate 四合院:我真不想穿越啊 Chen Dajun, a lowly workhorse in the new society, dies suddenly after working overtime nonstop. By a twist of fate, he transmigrates to the world of "The Full Courtyard", becoming one of the nameless passersby, a proud member of the proletariat. He wants to cry but has no tears. He really never wanted to transmigrate! He still has savings he hasn’t spent, he hasn’t met up in person with the cute Douyin girl he just met, and the zombie girl he adores is still waiting for him to send her gifts~ Si 14.3kReads7.3Score629Shelves
- 4 Siheyuan: I Sold Silly Zhu from the Start 四合院:我,开局卖了傻柱 [Decisive and Ruthless] [No Saintly Hero] [Transmigration] [Scheming] [Feel-Good Power Fantasy] Gu Fei was cuckolded by Liu Ruyan, who turned him into a green-haired tortoise. In a fit of rage, he took her down with him. On his first day reborn in the courtyard world, Gu Fei accidentally sold Silly Zhu. On his second day reborn, he forcefully took Deaf Granny's house. On his third day reborn, he started working at the steel mill. Having lived a second life, I, Gu Fei, have made up my mind: I'd r 8.6kReads7.2Score356Shelves
- 5 Siheyuan: I Get Rid of Silly Zhu from the Start 四合院之开局把傻柱搞没了 [New book: Siheyuan Warehouse Manager is now out. “Due to the Host’s actions, you killed the protagonist of this world, Silly Zhu. The world’s backlash is imminent. The System has started running away, and can only give the Host a small living allowance each day.” “Crisis is approaching. Make good use of your beginner’s gift pack.” “One last reminder, Host: watch out for the courtyard birds. Goodbye forever.” “What?!” Xie Xiao’an’s eyes widened. He was nearly driven to 3.6kReads6.4Score105Shelves
- 6 Siheyuan: I Returned from Hell 四合院:我从地狱归来 Reborn + Assassin + Pocket Dimension + Decisive and Ruthless (I've read lots of siheyuan novels and felt like there weren't any left worth reading, so I thought I'd try writing one myself.) Zhao Feng, who died beneath a missile, was reborn in a siheyuan, only to be buried alive. After clawing his way out of a mass grave, Zhao Feng decided to have some fun with the beasts. He just hoped they wouldn't die too quickly. 2.2kReads6.6Score103Shelves
- 7 Siheyuan: Li Xiuyu's Era 四合院:李修禹的年代史 One heroine + everyday life + security department + cozy courtyard + no angst A courtyard house, carved windows, drooping green willows, and red begonias. Inside the imperial city, grand mansions with flying dragons carved in stone and phoenixes winding around pillars, jade-green tiles adorned with auspicious beasts gazing up at the sky. The story begins in a courtyard house in 1959. 21.5kReads8.2Score566Shelves
- 8 Siheyuan: The Ordinary Life of an Angler 四合院:钓鱼佬的平凡人生 [No System]+ [Fishing]+ [Earning foreign currency]+ [Becoming a factory director]+ [Period setting]+ [Siheyuan] An angler never comes home empty-handed! Chen Chang'an transmigrated thanks to fishing, then rose to prominence thanks to fishing. Amid the tides of a great era, he changed many people’s fates. 21.8kReads7.9Score1.3kShelves
- 9 Siheyuan: From the Start, I Turn Yi Zhonghai Into Tian Boguang 四合院:开局让易中海变成田伯光 157Reads6.8Score—Shelves
- 10 A Journey Through Film and TV, Starting at Under the Zhengyang Gate 综影视从正阳门下开始 He wakes up to find himself the sixth son of the Han family in the world of Under the Scorching Sun, the younger brother of Han Xiaowu, that shameless doormat. He thought it was just the world of Under the Scorching Sun, but he went to the countryside with Zhong Yuemin, and the place they were sent had a legendary hammer-wielding king from the northwest. After finally getting into university and returning to the city, he figured he’d be happy with a minor leadership position. Then, out of nowher 56Reads7.1Score—Shelves
- 11 War of Resistance: Transferred to Lead a Regiment with Li Yunlong Under My Command! 抗战:调任团长,手下李云龙! After transmigrating into a world at war with Japan, Lu Chuan is reassigned as commander of the New Second Regiment and gains upgradeable traits: [Tactical Master] (Gold), [Deadeye] (Gold), [Master Inventor] (Gold), [Morale Boost] (Gold), and more... From then on, he wins every battle, fighting from northwest Shanxi all the way to the Battle of Chosin Reservoir. Lu Chuan is either earning merit or on his way to earning more. When they crossed the grasslands, he was just a junior Red Army squad l 56.1kReads8.1Score3.8kShelves
- 12 From the Siheyuan to Hong Kong Island, Doing as I Please 四合院到港岛随心所欲 [The protagonist establishes a country overseas.] Everyone in the courtyard feels like a real person, with their own little schemes and plans. Jiang Yuan leaves the courtyard for Hong Kong Island, determined not to let that little Japanese punk live too long. 11.2kReads7.5Score387Shelves
- 13 Siheyuan: The Good Life 四合院之美好人生 After transmigrating to the 1960s, Zhang Zhifei becomes an ordinary resident of a Beijing courtyard compound. At first, all he wants is to shut the door, live a quiet life with his younger siblings, and leave his mark on the era. Unfortunately, a small temple attracts big demons, and a shallow pond is full of turtles! In this little three-courtyard compound, there’s Yi Zhonghai, the “Virtue Venerable” known as the “perfect man”; Liu Haizhong, a power-hungry “official wannabe” and domestic abuser 27kReads8.4Score834Shelves
- 14 Siheyuan: I'm the Hand Behind It All 四合院:我是一切的推手 [This book is mainly about taking down scumbags. The protagonist will strike back on his own, so move along if that’s not your thing] A chance accident sent Li Luo transmigrating to the 1960s. But things weren’t so simple. From the original owner’s memories, he learned that in the compound where he lived, the First Master was Yi Zhonghai, the Second Master was Liu Haizhong, and the Third Master was Yan Bugui... 5.1kReads7.7Score122Shelves
- 15 Siheyuan: They Framed Me and Sent Me Away for Reform! Just Wait Until I Get Out 四合院:诬陷我去改造!等我出来 Gao Zhenhua was an utterly ordinary food delivery rider in the 21st century. One day, while making a delivery, he struck it lucky and won a chance to transmigrate. In 1954, twenty years after transmigrating and being reborn, Gao Zhenhua awakened the memories of his past life. But instead of feeling happy, Gao Zhenhua felt as if the sky had fallen. A group of supposedly “loving neighbors” had framed him, and now he was being sent away for reform. 14.5kReads7.0Score405Shelves
- 16 Siheyuan: The Brat Torments the Beasts 四合院:熊孩子祸害禽兽 [Courtyard antics + comedy + putting the beasts in their place + mild hostility + sent to the countryside + one heroine] Wang Xiaoliu is hit and sent flying by a big truck, then transmigrates into the body of a baby who was abandoned at just a few months old. Fortunately, a family fleeing disaster rescues him. In 1958, he moves into the beast-filled courtyard. If they're beasts, then I won't hold back. Yi Zhonghai wants a child to look after him in his old age? Then let's make sure he has a chil 2.7kReads6.6Score117Shelves
- 17 Siheyuan: A Big Shot 四合院之大人物 After being reborn, Liu Guangqi is the mysterious, unfilial son of the fat Liu from the back courtyard. Run off with a bucket? No way! Stop Liu Haizhong from beating his son? Also impossible. How could you not beat a mischievous brat? After moving into the Siheyuan courtyard, he starts changing the Liu family from the ground up! 2kReads6.9Score107Shelves
- 18 Siheyuan: From the Start, I Was a Chump, the Capitalist's Son-in-Law 四合院,开局爱篓子,资本家女婿 [Everyday minutiae + slice of life + relationship tension + more than one person fighting alone + the many sides of life] A country boy from a family of poor peasants for three generations catches the eye of the Lou family, and Lou Xiaoe marries Lin Xiaoguang. He connects with the people and puts down roots among them, unites the residents of Mao'er Hutong, and drives the beasts to madness. Years later, on the day Lin Xiaoguang becomes a Level Nine Engineer, the petty-minded Jia Dongxu gets in 3.5kReads6.1Score126Shelves
- 19 Siheyuan: Enjoying Life in the Revolutionary Era 四合院:火红年代享受生活 The male lead, Liu Ping'an, somehow finds himself transported to a world full of different realms, back before Liberation. With both parents alive, he works hard at farming, plunders foreign countries, and builds his fortune. The early chapters mainly focus on his comical life teasing the neighborhood busybodies. In the middle, he ventures out to expand his horizons. This book will be at least a million words long. Xu Damao: Women are devils! My greatest joys in life are eating, sleeping, and be 14.7kReads7.8Score481Shelves
- 20 Siheyuan: I Was Born a Villain 四合院:我本恶人 Siheyuan + people Our predecessors once said that when people don’t have enough to eat, they have only one worry: getting enough to eat. All other worries arise only after they’ve eaten their fill. I want to see whether that’s really true. 15.7kReads6.6Score682Shelves
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Siheyuan: The Mad Tree Demon Transmigrates Again and Again 四合院:疯癫树妖穿越不息
[Quick transmigration, can inhabit male or female bodies, comes with a spatial dimension, unhinged personality] Having lived for several hundred years as a tree demon, it nearly wiped out humanity in the apocalypse. The Heavenly Dao of the main world kicked it into a small world to serve its sentence. As the saying goes, only a villain can deal with another villain. A mutant pomegranate tree demon with no sense of right or wrong thrives in a courtyard full of villains. Along the way, it also hel
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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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- 23 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 25.4kReads7.4Score1.1kShelves
- 24 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 16.1kReads7.3Score737Shelves
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Siheyuan: Mess with Me and I'll Kill You All 四合院:惹我就把你们豆沙了
Li Lei, summoned by the Great Transporter while he was on the ninth floor, opens his eyes in a Beijing courtyard in 1951. He’s in luck: as soon as he arrives, the Old Deaf Lady picks him to be her live-in caregiver, and he grows close to the First Master’s family. Now that the First Master has someone to care for him in his old age, will he still favor the Jia family? Without the First Master’s protection, will the Jia family still throw its weight around in the courtyard? What changes will Li L
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- 26 I Transmigrated to 1960, and My Dad Is Yi Zhonghai's Disciple 穿越1960,老爸是易中海徒弟 Chen Chaoyang transmigrates back to Beijing in the 1960s, only to discover that his father is the senior disciple of Yi Zhonghai, the respected neighborhood elder. See how the ordinary citizen Chen Chaoyang struggles to survive in those difficult times and put food on the table for his whole family. 15.7kReads8.1Score954Shelves
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Siheyuan: I Only Want to Live a Quiet Life 四合院:只想平淡过一生
This book is dedicated to my younger self, to the chaos of those days and the loneliness buried deep inside, and to everyone who can't help looking back on the past. It's also dedicated to you, if you'd like to learn about life in Beijing's crowded courtyard compounds. This place was once a little world of its own: the gray walls were mottled, the doorways stood side by side, and life was noisy and real. Neighbors schemed and quarreled, clashing over every inch of land and wall, and getting red
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Siheyuan: Medicine and Martial Arts Are Inseparable 四合院之医武不分家
[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.
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- 29 Transmigrated to 1960, I Start with Eight Calabash Brothers 穿越60的我开局带八个葫芦娃 [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 5.3kReads7.9Score255Shelves
- 30 In the Courtyard: I, Qin Huairu, Won’t Marry Jia Dongxu 四合院我秦淮茹不嫁贾东旭 When Qin Huairu learns the plot and finds out what people online have to say about her, will she still marry Jia Dongxu? Qin Huairu says she'd rather marry a dog. No matter how good Jia Dongxu is, he's still a mama's boy. She'll never be the Jia family's workhorse again. Qin Huairu says she'll wait for Silly Zhu to grow up. If she's going to marry, she'll marry Silly Zhu, whose eyes are filled with nothing but her. She'll spend the rest of her life by his side. 924Reads6.5Score—Shelves
- 31 After Silly Zhu Is Gone from the Siheyuan 四合院傻柱没了以后 After an unexpected transmigration into a TV-series version of the Siheyuan, he becomes He Yuzhu. To avoid trouble, he decides that whether it's the rewritten version or the TV version, all he wants is to live quietly and lie low until the country opens up. He Yuzhu leaves, and Zhou Qiming arrives in his place. This time, though, the newcomer is a ruthless man, and the courtyard begins to fall into decline. 2.8kReads5.3Score103Shelves
- 32 Carpenter Life of Yan Jiecheng in Siheyuan 四合院阎解成的木匠生活 A modern young man transmigrates into Yan Jiefang in the siheyuan courtyard. His soul fuses with the computer from his previous life, creating a System panel that also comes with a pocket dimension. The System can record the knowledge he learns and share it with him. Starting out as a humble carpenter, Yan Jiefang begins a simple yet colorful life in this era. 1.9kReads6.2Score153Shelves
- 33 I Became He Yushui's Golden Finger in the Siheyuan 4合院我成了何雨水的金手指 A soul from the future comes to share the body of a pitiful He Yushui. What sparks will fly in the courtyard? There are no fights or killings here, just the everyday ups and downs of family life! 1.3kReads6.6Score100Shelves
- 34 No Idlers Allowed in the Siheyuan 四合院里不养闲人 Even after transmigrating, I won't forget the nation's grudge. Though young, I can still drive out the enemy. I distinguished myself in the War of Resistance and the Liberation War, and made the American invaders tremble during the Korean War. In peacetime, I fight enemy agents; in hard times, I help family and friends. The economy takes off at an unstoppable pace, and I ride the tide of business. The Siheyuan is full of remarkable people, a place where hidden talents abound. One act ends and an 6.3kReads7.6Score251Shelves
- 35 Siheyuan: Old Liu Is a Daughter-Obsessed Dad 四合院:老刘是个女儿奴 [Transmigration] + [System] + [Period] + [Space] + [Other Transmigrators] + [Long-Term Laborer] After Hong Yue dies unexpectedly, she is supposed to take her System to the world of cultivation and become a pretty little immortal maiden. But while traveling through the turbulence of time and space with her System, she collides with another System in an encounter that happens once in a thousand years. The collision sends her off course. Her soul is too weak, so the System drops her into the neares 3.3kReads7.2Score128Shelves
- 36 I Can Hear People's Thoughts, and the Siheyuan Plot Is Ruined 偷听心声,四合院剧情崩了 In the second story, Yi Zhonghai makes up a tale that Deaf Granny is a martyr’s family member, then schemes to get Wang Jianshe to show her filial respect. Wang Jianshe decides he really ought to make Deaf Granny and Yi Zhonghai famous, so he takes a group of fifth- and sixth-grade students deep into the courtyard to have Deaf Granny tell them how she smashed Japanese soldiers’ heads with her cane. Deaf Granny is stunned. Yi Zhonghai falls to his knees. 7.9kReads8.1Score273Shelves
- 37 Siheyuan: He Shen Becomes Silly Zhu 四合院之和珅变傻柱 After He Shen took his own life, he was cast into a story set in the Siheyuan. In the underworld, he had amassed a fortune by bribing his way onto the Yellow Springs Road for his wife. The story begins just before He Daqing is about to leave with Widow Bai! It's 1950, and he's returned to the age of fifteen. How will Lord He handle a new life in this new instance? 9.9kReads8.7Score780Shelves
- 38 Siheyuan: He Yushui’s Soul Travels Back to 1959 四合院:何雨水魂穿1959 He Tianjiao was a heaven-blessed prodigy from a powerful martial arts family in a future era. After an unexpected incident during a martial arts match, she transmigrates to the world of a Siheyuan in 1959, where her soul merges with He Yushui, who has fainted from the cold and hunger. Save He Yuzhu, and watch how I, He Yushui, defeat every scheming beast without fail! 2.5kReads6.7Score—Shelves
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Quick Transmigration: The Supporting Male Lead Grabs His Bucket and Runs 快穿:男配他提桶跑路了
Told from the male protagonist's perspective. Each small world may or may not have a romance. This isn't a conventional wish-fulfillment story: in every world, he simply lives his own life. The novel is complete, and unfortunately, the typos can no longer be fixed. (ToT) Also, I'm not a studio. No studio updates this slowly. Since readers keep mixing up the protagonist's name with the names in the small worlds, from now on the protagonist's name in each world will match the name used there, with
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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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Siheyuan: Silly Zhu's Age of Empires 四合院:傻柱的帝国时代
In the 1950s, life in the capital was hard, and the winds of change stirred beneath the surface. A modern soul found himself in the body of a young man known as Silly Zhu. His father had run off, leaving only his little sister behind. The courtyard was rife with trouble, and hidden currents swirled through the streets. Fortunately, he had a world of his own: the Age of Empires game world. Starting in the primitive Stone Age, he reclaimed land, developed production, and smelted metal, steadily l
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Siheyuan: He Yuzhu Reborn in One Body, Returning to 1949 四合院何雨柱三合一魂穿1949
A rookie writer's commentary, set in a slow-burning, realistic period drama! A chef, a practitioner of traditional martial arts, and a skilled slingshot shooter, with no System and no accelerated time in the pocket dimension. It may look like a story about everyday family life, but the food, antiques, and hunting are all portrayed with absolute realism. The words are imbued with love for the country and its people, and readers only need to uncover the foreshadowing that's worth savoring. Feel fr
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- 43 Whatever You Want, I’ve Got It 要啥有傻 When other people transmigrate, they get talismans, pills, farms, pastures, spirit springs, new faces, stronger bodies, and improved abilities. They make a dazzling entrance, taking the world by storm and basking in glory. But our man isn’t so lucky. He gets stuck in Silly Zhu’s body and even loses the original owner’s cooking skills, leaving him no choice but to start as an apprentice machinist on the factory floor. Luckily, he’s an optimist with a quirky streak. When faced with slander, coerci 5.2kReads6.4Score125Shelves
- 44 Siheyuan: Silly Zhu and His Sister Are Reborn and Transmigrate 四合院:傻柱兄妹重生穿越 A frail, useless old man, He Yuzhu, was driven out of his home by his stepson. He froze to death beneath a bridge, and wild dogs tore his body apart. He died full of resentment: after devoting his whole life to his family, this was how it had ended. Wang Xiaoyu, a woman from the twenty-first century, worked herself to death from overtime. Her soul transmigrated into the body of a six-year-old girl in the early 1950s. 18.5kReads8.3Score637Shelves
- 45 Siheyuan: They Want to Suck Me Dry, So I Flip the Table 四合院:想吸我血,我直接掀桌子 He clearly remembered lounging comfortably on his apartment sofa, chugging ice-cold cola while staying up all night reading a fanfic called From the Start: Beating the Whole Pack in the Courtyard. The story had reached the part where the protagonist was crushing everyone in his path. It had him so fired up that he nearly jumped off the sofa. Then the tablet screen flashed, everything went black, and when he opened his eyes again, he was in this strange place that filled him with dread. 1.2kReads5.3Score105Shelves
- 46 Siheyuan: Benevolence, Righteousness, and Morality 四合院之仁义道德 I've heard this is a model courtyard house, where everyone speaks so nicely and is unfailingly virtuous and righteous. So, could you sell me a few pounds of virtue and righteousness? You can't? Then it's a courtyard full of beasts after all. 13.2kReads7.8Score356Shelves
- 47 Siheyuan: A Happy Life 四合院之美满人生 [Siheyuan] [He Yuzhu] [One female lead] [Transmigration] The protagonist hits back decisively when trouble comes his way. The story has a light touch and punishes the courtyard's pests. A chef from the 21st century transmigrates into Silly Zhu. See how he can turn the terrible hand Silly Zhu was dealt into a winning one. 500Reads6.0Score—Shelves
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I Became Silly Zhu's Uncle 我成了傻柱他叔了
Before I began writing this story, I hesitated for a long time. My previous story, Dreams Pursued in the Courtyard, still left me with many regrets. It was my first time writing, and I wanted to include too much, which made the story feel scattered later on. My portrayal of the courtyard’s characters also left room for debate. Ever since this period drama aired, opinions have been divided. More than anything, people today find it hard to imagine what life was like back then. Set in the heart of
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- 49 Siheyuan: Chasing Dreams in Zhengyang 四合院之正阳逐梦 The novel opens in Beijing in the 1950s and 1960s, with a story centered on a traditional courtyard home. It is more than the author's own reminiscences of days gone by: through this work, the author also seeks to portray the distinctive spirit of that era. When material resources were extremely limited, how did people find joy in life with so little? How did they preserve their dignity and hope in difficult times? Was Silly Zhu really foolish? Rather than saying the widow had Silly Zhu under he 1.1kReads6.7Score—Shelves
- 50 I Am Li Huaide's Bodyguard 我是李怀德的警卫员 Li Dahu, a soldier, served as Li Huaide's bodyguard. After leaving the military, he was assigned to the Hongxing Steelworks. This is the story of how he struggled through years of famine while supporting his three younger brothers and three younger sisters, and gradually built a better life for himself at the Hongxing Steelworks. 49kReads7.2Score3.2kShelves
















































