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Siheyuan: From Apprentice Fitter to Skill-Gathering Bookworm 四合院：从钳工学徒开读书攒技能
After transmigrating to 1959, Lin Yuan became an apprentice fitter at the Red Star Steel Mill. That’s right, the very same courtyard full of villains. More than a dozen households lived there, and every petty squabble was tangled up in human schemes. Fortunately, he brought along a reading System. Finish a book, and he could gain the corresponding skill. Starting with Basic Fitting, he advanced through levels one, two, and three... all the way to level eight, and even beyond. The Jia family thro
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Siheyuan: I Take Yi Zhonghai to Task and Demand 6,000 Yuan 四合院：手撕易中海，逼赔六千块
Chen Wangshan is a transmigrator. He has transmigrated into a notorious courtyard house from across the myriad heavens, full of beasts. No endless bickering back and forth. He'll teach those beasts how to behave by using the law. A new author with a new work. Please go easy on me, dear readers! A fist salute! Thank you! (The rating just came out and will rise later, so please read with confidence.)
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Siheyuan: I Saved Qin Huairu from the Start 四合院，开局救下秦淮茹
Cao Mengde, a modern mechanical and electrical engineer, unexpectedly transmigrates into the body of a nineteen-year-old namesake in 1951. At the train station, he saves Qin Huairu from being robbed by thugs, activates a space, and ends up marrying her by a strange twist of fate. Thus begins his comedic life in the Number 95 Courtyard. He helps Qin Huairu escape the mire of the Jia family, preserving her innocence and goodness and giving her a happy life. He builds a luxurious east courtyard and
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Siheyuan: He Daqing's Greatest Life 四合院之何大清的最强人生
[Heaven rewards diligence] [Multiple female companions] [Do as he pleases + neither wholly good nor evil + mercurial] After getting drunk, he wakes up in 1951 as He Daqing, just as he’s plotting to run away. The White Widow and Yi Zhonghai are scheming to send me off to Baoding? He turns around and reports them, cuts off a disastrous relationship, and shatters the moral paragon’s invincible facade! [Heaven rewards diligence, one proof lasts forever] With talent on his side, he masters countless
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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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- 6 Siheyuan: I Do Whatever I Want! 四合院，我为所欲为！ Multiple heroines + self-interest + no troublemaking in the courtyard + officialdom + slow-burn development Timeline: The Courtyard + The Wreath at the Foot of the Mountain + In the Name of the People Promoted in the 1960s, offered protection and sent to work as an editor in Shanghai in the 1970s. Dismissed in the late 1970s, he moves to Hong Kong, then returns to China in the 1990s. This book doesn’t punish the vile characters in the courtyard. The difference in status is too great, and the pro 8.6kReads—Score27114d adds
- 7 Siheyuan: My Fishing System Is Anything but Proper 四合院，我的钓鱼系统不正经 I wake up to find I've arrived in the 1950s, in Love in the Courtyard. As a man with a golden finger, is it too much to expect to be good at everything? Copying machine tools and building tanks are child's play. More importantly, under my leadership, the Dragon Kingdom will enter the age of standardized industrialization thirty years early and achieve its great goal of becoming the world's factory fifty years ahead of schedule. When the Indians cross the border, they won't be greeted by a three- 15.8kReads7.3Score52614d adds
- 8 Siheyuan: What I Say Goes in This Canteen 四合院，这个食堂我说了算 Zhang Renkang inexplicably finds himself in the world of Love in the Courtyard. He works his way up from a lowly kitchen helper to become the cafeteria director. What? Silly Zhu wants to cause trouble? Give him a beating and kick him out of the cafeteria. What? Qin Huairu wants a free ride? Ha, I won't do it unless I get something out of it. What? Yi Zhonghai wants me to take care of him in his old age? Dream on. I throw in my lot with Li Weimin and thrive. Watch Zhang Renkang take on the whole 9.2kReads7.6Score29514d adds
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Siheyuan: After Being Reborn, I Can Open a Blind Box Every Day 四合院：重生后我能天天开盲盒
Protagonist: Zhao Lei; Role: An unemployed street loafer, a marginal member of the Zhao family, unloved by both parents Golden finger: Blind Box System Goal: Lie flat every day, with food and drink aplenty and no need to work Synopsis: Zhao Lei grew up as a left-behind child in his previous life. By an unexpected twist of fate, he is reborn in 1959 while staying at a hotel. It is the first year of the natural disasters, and as a modern young man used to having plenty to eat and drink, he absolut
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Siheyuan: A Family of Loyal Martyrs, Surrounded by Greedy Vultures 四合院：满门忠烈，众禽想吃绝户
Right after transmigrating, I became the only surviving man in the Cao family of the courtyard compound! My father and two brothers all died protecting the steel mill. Their family was full of loyal heroes, and their bodies were barely cold! Yi Zhonghai immediately called a compound-wide meeting, joining forces with the Jia family and Silly Zhu. Under the pretense of “neighbors helping one another,” they tried to force my mother to hand over the two thousand yuan in compensation, seize our famil
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Siheyuan: A Life Lived Again 四合院之重来的人生
Half a lifetime lost in confusion, half a lifetime spent in hardship. Now I’ve returned to the road I once walked! In 1958, in Nanluoguxiang, the capital, a five-year-old boy hoisted a plaque bigger than himself and began the life that was his alone! This story is all about everyday family life: no bodily functions, little angst, no severed hands or feet, just scheming!
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- 12 Siheyuan: You Abandoned Your Father? I’ll Send Him Straight to the Military Administration Committee 四合院：弃养？反手送父上军管会 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? 34.9kReads7.4Score1.1k14d adds
- 13 From the Start, a Mute Files a Petition to the Emperor, His Fists Subdue the Beasts of the Courtyard 开局哑巴告御状，拳压四合众禽伏 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 15.8kReads6.4Score55614d adds
- 14 Siheyuan: Returning from a Mass Grave, I Slaughter the Entire Courtyard 四合院：从乱葬岗归来，血洗全院 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 14.9kReads6.4Score43214d adds
- 15 Siheyuan: Round Them All Up and Take Them to the Security Office 四合院：全都抓进保卫科 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 30kReads6.2Score1.3k14d adds
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Siheyuan: Everyone, Stand Up and Welcome the Courtyard Lord 四合院：全体起立，恭迎院主
[Feel-good story] [Comedy] [Low on hostility] [Putting the courtyard's beasts in their place] [System] [Multiple heroines] Gu Weiyang is a modern man who gets sent to the world of Love in the Courtyard by a construction truck out to meet its quota. Follow the protagonist step by step as he rises to the pinnacle of life and drives the beasts in the courtyard over the edge. Given a second life, he intends to live boldly and freely. Whoever dares to cross him won't get away. What are you waiting fo
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- 17 Siheyuan: Sister-in-Law, Don't Move. I Don't Want People Getting the Wrong Idea 四合院：嫂子别动，我怕人误会 [Multiple Heroines] [No Soap-Opera Drama] [Clear About Gratitude and Grudges] [Lighthearted and Funny] Gu Weiyang is reborn in a courtyard in 1951 and awakens the People-Poking Lottery System. But, familiar with the story, he prefers to call it The Courtyard Full of Scoundrels. On his very first day, he runs into Jia Dongxu on a blind date, and Gu Weiyang decisively steals the girl from him. Join the protagonist as he shows everyone the ins and outs of life in that era! 4.1kReads6.4Score17314d adds
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Siheyuan: I'm Doctor Lin, and I Specialize in Treating the Courtyard's Pests 四合院，我林医生专治众禽
The traditional Chinese medicine genius Lin Shaowen transmigrates into the world of "Full Courtyard of Fowl" and gets the Fishing Across the Heavens System from the start. Faced with a parasitic widow, a thieving brat, and a hypocritical big shot, he knows exactly how to deal with anyone who refuses to behave! Trying to guilt-trip him with morality? He’ll look up the relevant laws for you. Trying to freeload? He has a fishing rod and won’t hesitate to hook you. Here, he specializes in dealing wi
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Siheyuan: The Jerk Hoped I’d Die Childless, So I Married Zheng Juan Instead 四合院：极品盼我绝后反手娶郑娟
[Siheyuan + Zheng Juan + Abortion Queen + Bigshot System + Chaos and Mayhem + Rumors Everywhere] Being born poor is no disgrace. Knowing when to bend and when to stand firm is what makes a man. Even if fate grinds you into the mud, you must bloom there into the most magnificent flower. If you weren't born lucky enough to coast through life, then get up and run with all your might. Never look down on a young man for being poor. One day, he'll soar like a dragon and a phoenix. Don't laugh at
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The Fiery Years: Starting with a Career Change 火红年代：从转业开始
This book is low on hostility. If that is not your thing, please do not read. Chen Tianming, a naive college student born in the 2000s, gives his precious life to save a child from drowning. His soul, carrying a pendant, transmigrates into the body of a wounded soldier of the Chinese People's Volunteers who shares his name. After his injuries improve, Chen Tianming chooses to leave the military and take up civilian work. Born under the red flag and raised in the spring breeze, will Chen Tianming
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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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- 22 Siheyuan: First I Take Out the White Lotus, Then I Leave No One Standing 四合院：先杀白莲花，一个不留 {Siheyuan + Dark Revenge} On the night of the fire, his entire family perished in the flames. Chen Feng was the only one to survive, having been framed by everyone in the courtyard and sent to a labor camp. The day after Chen Feng arrived at the camp, his home caught fire. His parents died, and his younger sister disappeared. It took the camp authorities a whole month to tell him what had happened. When Chen Feng learned the news, he applied for permission to go home, but was denied. So he chose 461Reads7.1Score13814d adds
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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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- 24 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 20Reads—Score—14d adds
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The 1980s Courtyard: The Tough Guy Spoils Me Rotten 八零四合院：硬汉他超宠我
The day a veteran moved into the courtyard compound, a cleaver nearly took his ear off. He didn't even blink. He practices boxing at four in the morning. The scars covering his body make people uneasy, and though he's missing part of a finger, he can repair the most intricate machine in the entire printing plant. When he says nothing, he's like a block of ice. But on the night Su Wantang is followed, he silently appears at the mouth of the alley. Four women, four different intentions. One of
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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
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The Art of the Deal: You Dumped Me for Being Poor? Why Are You Crying Now? 商猎：嫌我穷？分手后你哭什么？
[Urban] [Slice of Life] [Miracle Doctor] [Tycoon] [No System] [Hacker] [Big Shot] Eight years of devotion earned him only the words, “Let’s break up.” Eight years of giving meant nothing next to a whisper from her new love. He was the “Wolf King,” yet on a late night in 2013, the woman he loved most stabbed him in the back. Seven billionaires are fighting to marry off their daughters? A mysterious old man cries out, “You look so much like him”? Mu Feng couldn’t care less. All he knew was that th
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- 28 No Good Ending in the Courtyard 禽满四合院不得善终 Xu Weiguo has a deadly weapon, and with it comes the urge to kill, bringing disaster upon his family! Xu Weidong obeys the law and lies flat, just enjoying the show. So what does Xu Weidong have to do with the trouble Xu Weiguo gets into? A new writer and a new book! 81Reads8.3Score—14d adds
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