Novels like A Screwed-Up Life That Begins in the Siheyuan
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- 1 Siheyuan: I Steal Qin Huairu Away and Make a Fortune 四合院：截胡秦淮茹，我赚翻了 Wang Fugui transmigrates into the world of Love in the Courtyard and activates a redemption System! On Jia Dongxu's wedding day, Wang Fugui decisively steals the bride and gets a taste of Qin Huairu. [Ding! Congratulations, Host. You successfully stole Qin Huairu and completed your first mission. Reward: 1,000 redemption coins.] When Jia Zhangshi comes to his door, pretending to be possessed, Wang Fugui gives her a taste of her own medicine! [Ding! Congratulations, Host. You successfully scared 49Reads—Score—Shelves
- 2 Siheyuan: From the Start, I Put Laxatives in the Chicken Soup 四合院：开局鸡汤放泻药 Feng Qi is a third-rate audiobook narrator. He had just clicked on “Beasts All Over the Courtyard” and heard the opening music when he was sent to the world of the courtyard-house compound. With his all-purpose System, what path will Feng Qi choose? Help Silly Zhu, or side with the villains? It all comes down to a single thought. 51Reads5.0Score—Shelves
- 3 Siheyuan: I Have a Hundred Empress Sisters 四合院：我有一百个女帝妹妹 Pang Hu, the food supermarket instructor: “Congratulations, Host! You’ve received ingredients from your younger sister. Within 24 hours, prepare one million lunch boxes with meat and vegetable options.” He Xiaohu: “Hey, Pang Hu! What are the prices for the lunch boxes?” Pang Hu: “Host! One meat lunch box costs just ten one-jin grain coupons. Coupons from any province are accepted. One vegetable lunch box costs just two jin of grain coupons.” “As long as a million people can eat their fill, who c —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 4 Siheyuan: The Women's Star 四合院：妇女之星 [An Old Setup + Fresh Gags + Everyday Life + A Little of Everything + Light Humor + A Touch of Cunning + Steady Pacing] Chen Qing swore that in his next life he would never be a simp again. Then he transmigrated into the world of the courtyard house and acquired the Simp God System. Damn it! One day, as Chen Qing helped the old ladies and young wives in the courtyard make handicrafts for foreign currency and dance in the square, he became the envy of all the men, young and old, and a woman-hated 1.7kReads—Score—Shelves
- 5 A Banquet at the Jia Family’s Siheyuan, and I’m Seated with Qin Huairu 四合院贾家吃席，我跟秦淮茹一桌 Su Han wakes up one morning to find himself in "Love in the Courtyard". From the start, he has the identity of a Grade Nine Engineer, perfectly suited to his expertise. But there’s a bug: he hasn’t awakened a golden finger. Faced with the beasts filling the courtyard, all he can do is keep a low profile. Fortunately, after lying low for a hundred days, his Self-Healing System activates. As long as he can heal himself, he’ll receive a reward. “How am I supposed to heal myself?” Su Han is baffled. 295Reads—Score—Shelves
- 6 Siheyuan: I Transmigrated as Silly Zhu and Became Everyone’s Favorite 四合院：穿越成傻柱，我成香饽饽 Chen Yu was a nobody among online novelists. When the pandemic left him unemployed at home, he started writing web novels. One stormy night, as thunder rumbled and lightning flashed and the magnetic field went haywire, Chen Yu was writing by candlelight when he transmigrated to the era of "Love in the Courtyard". He suddenly became He Yuzhu, the very man he had looked down on most. What Chen Yu hadn't expected was for a plague of rats to break out in the courtyard. The N95 mask he had brought wi —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 7 Siheyuan: I Just Want to Live My Own Life Well 四合院之我只想过好自己的日子 Jiang Feng accidentally transmigrates to the 1950s and discovers that he's landed in Love in the Courtyard, the fanfiction he often reads on Tomato. Since he hasn't read the original novel or watched the TV series, all he knows from reading the fanfiction is that there isn't a single good person in the entire courtyard. The authors also write transmigrators as if they're idiots, so he decides to show everyone in the courtyard just what a transmigrator can do. 10Reads—Score—Shelves
- 8 Siheyuan: Lou Xiao’e, My Godmother 四合院：干娘娄小娥 My name is Li Tianfang, my courtesy name is Huoran, and my nickname is Li the Cleft-Lip. I transmigrated into the world of Love in the Courtyard. [My parents died young after being sick, leaving me all alone. I’m lame in the leg and have a cleft lip. My godmother is Lou Xiao'e.] 43Reads—Score—Shelves
- 9 Siheyuan: The Sea King's Pinduoduo System 四合院，海王的拼夕夕系统 A simp in his past life, a womanizer in this one Plus an endlessly nagging System He never backs down when stirring up trouble, but readily admits defeat when playing the victim A petty crook, a freeloader, a hoodlum, a thug This is how you do a siheyuan story right —Reads6.3Score—Shelves
- 10 Siheyuan: Finding Bargains as a Community Police Officer 四合院：捡漏做片警 [Siheyuan courtyard + period setting + farming + no System] Chen Qiqiang transmigrates to the 1960s, when life is desperately poor. Fortunately, his father is a procurement officer, so he doesn’t have to go hungry every day. From the start, an unexpected lucky break lands him a job as a neighborhood police officer. To make his work easier, Chen Qiqiang moves into a courtyard full of scoundrels. From then on, the courtyard’s troublemakers are in for a rough time. Jia Zhangshi tries to seize someo 3Reads5.1Score—Shelves
- 11 Siheyuan: What a Mess! Playing Matchmaker for the Troublemakers? 四合院：乱套了！帮禽兽做媒？ Lin Weidong accidentally transmigrates into a courtyard. The moment he opens his eyes, he finds himself “flying” through the sky, and awakens a bizarre Matchmaker System. He thinks it's the most useless System there is. But who could have imagined... First Uncle: “Become a live-in son-in-law. Start by changing your name to Jia Zhonghai.” Second Uncle: “Marry a woman three years older and you'll strike gold; marry one thirty years older and she'll give you an empire.” Jia Zhangshi: “Fro —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 12 A Different Kind of Life in the Siheyuan 四合院不一样的烟火 Multiple heroines + changing the plot After transmigrating into He Yuzhu in the courtyard-house world, he rises to a high position from the start, attracting women left and right. He changes the global order and makes the whole world submit to our great China. —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 13 Siheyuan: More Children, More Blessings, While the Troublemakers Suffer 四合院：多子多福，禽兽叫苦 Chen Deming transmigrates into Love in the Courtyard and, of all things, finds himself a beautiful wife. Over the next few years, they have seven children in a row. Each of his seven sons has a special talent. Some are highly skilled in martial arts, some are exceptionally intelligent, and others have extraordinary abilities… Then one day, Bang Geng tries to teach Chen Deming's seven sons a lesson. Chen Deming's sons break his ribs on the spot. Jia Zhangshi: “You dare hit my grandson? I'll kill —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 14 Siheyuan: From the Start, I Made the Goddess Crawl Through a Dog Door 四合院：开局就让女神钻狗洞 (Courtyard setting + possibly one heroine + no System + making money) All he wants in this life is to make money. In 1995, instead of going to high school, he went to vocational school. In 1998, he learned how to repair big brother phones. At the end of 2003, he used every last bit of his own and his family's savings to open a pager shop. By 2012, he'd saved up quite a bit more. Thinking he couldn't open a store, he got into secondhand phones and bought up a lot of Nokias. In 2019, he opened a r 121Reads5.9Score—Shelves
- 15 It All Began When Liang Ladi Knocked Me Down in the Siheyuan 四合院从被梁拉娣撞倒开始 Xu Damao transmigrates and discovers he has landed in a parallel world that combines stories from various eras. So why wait? Some villains have been itching to get at him for a long time. It's time to let them feel the fist of justice. Please ignore minor timeline inconsistencies~ 66Reads—Score—Shelves
- 16 Siheyuan: Reader, Sir, I Was Wrong! 四合院：读者大爷，我错了！ Watching the computer keys tap away like raindrops, typing on their own, clatter-clatter-clatter, Lu Ren clutched his heart, his hair standing on end. He was genuinely terrified! Right now, he wanted to say just one thing to his readers: Dear readers! I was wrong, I really was! —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 17 Siheyuan: I Have a Million, but Pretend to Be Broke from the Start 四合院：开局百万我装穷光蛋 Love on Jiudao Bay: one family of bloodsuckers. Watching the show will send your blood pressure through the roof, as fortunes shift unpredictably. One day, he transmigrates as Yang Shumao, with a million supplies in hand from the start and an infinite storage space. Watch him drive away the beasts and bloodsuckers infesting the place! 54Reads—Score—Shelves
- 18 Siheyuan: I Really Am Just Helping People 四合院：我真的在助人为乐 A young man from the modern era transmigrates into Silly Zhu in 1965. Luckily, he brings along a “Do Good Deeds” System. The first thing he has to face is Xu Damao accusing him of stealing a chicken! —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 19 Siheyuan: I’m a Lunatic, and I’ll Drive All Those Fools Crazy 四合院：我神经病，逼疯众禽 Li Weimin transmigrates into the world of "The Birds Are Full in the Courtyard". He finds himself in the body of a mentally ill man named Li Weimin, who has little time left to live and is on the verge of death. Fortunately, there is always a way out. He awakens the golden finger every transmigrator needs. "Ding! Emotional Value System successfully bound. Host can exchange emotional values collected from the people in the courtyard for anything." Looking at all the food, medicine, and other item —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 20 Siheyuan: Life After Transmigrating Is Wonderful 四合院：穿越生活很美好 The moment Li Shengli opens his eyes, he discovers that he has transmigrated to the resource-scarce 1960s. And not just anywhere, but into that courtyard compound full of scoundrels. He himself is a lovesick fool who has practically let Qin Huairu bleed him dry. He has just finished stewing pork with vermicelli when Qin Huairu shows up at his door asking for some. 5Reads—Score—Shelves
- 21 Siheyuan: I’ve Turned into Silly Zhu 四合院：我变成了傻住 One late night, modern-day He Yuzhu unexpectedly transmigrates into the world of "Love in the Courtyard", taking over the body of another man named He Yuzhu. At the same time, He Yuzhu gains a gene-copying System. With this golden finger System, Silly Zhu not only gives the courtyard’s “snakes, rats, oxen, and sheep,” along with everyone else who bullied him, a thorough beating, but also becomes a legendary figure in the courtyard. 40Reads—Score—Shelves
- 22 Siheyuan: Starting Out by Working Hard for Two Stars 四合院：从为两颗星努力奋斗开始 A modern martial arts enthusiast loses consciousness in a car accident, then transmigrates through space into the Dragon and Snake world, carrying with him the methods of traditional Chinese martial arts. He arrives a hundred years in the past and becomes Qin Huairu's older brother. Unwilling to live an unremarkable life, he resolves to make something of himself. After declaring, “A true man should wield a three-foot sword and achieve deeds without equal. How can he toil in the fields as a mere 3Reads8.2Score—Shelves
- 23 Siheyuan: I Handed the Technology to the Nation, and the Ne'er-Do-Wells Panicked 四合院：技术交给国家，禽兽慌了 Xu Guoqiang transmigrates to the 1960s world of Love in the Courtyard. His notebook, computer, and phone all come along with him, and he suddenly discovers that his computer and phone can connect to Wi-Fi. From then on, he begins a cheat-powered life in the capital. 35Reads—Score—Shelves
- 24 I Transmigrated as Jia Zhangshi's Nephew and Hit the Jackpot 穿越成贾张氏的侄子，赢麻了 Zhang Xiaobei, a young man from the modern day, was in a car accident on his way to a blind date. He died on the spot. But by chance, his soul transmigrated into the body of another Zhang Xiaobei, who was out catching fish in a river. To make matters worse, he had no house, no parents, and no job. Just when he had given up all hope, he suddenly remembered his distant aunt in the capital. So he packed his bags on the spot and set off to find his family. 168Reads—Score—Shelves
- 25 Siheyuan: Little Fish Swims Across the Sea 四合院：小鱼儿之鱼游大海 The story of a lucky soul who transmigrates into a parallel world. He starts out living freely in the mountains and forests, then ends up in the Red Star Courtyard by accident, where he begins putting the courtyard’s cutthroats in their place, silencing them and making them disappear. The Host begins to roam freely through a world of his own choosing... (Note: The protagonist won’t spend too long in this nest of cutthroats. He’ll live life his own way, and the story won’t dwell too much on the e 46Reads—Score—Shelves
- 26 Siheyuan: I’ll Never Take Jia the Parasite Off Anyone’s Hands 四合院：我誓不接盘贾蛀虫 By sheer chance, he returned to the 1950s and took the place of a young Silly Zhu. From the very start, he got the beautiful woman first, leaving no chance for Xu Damao and his gang of bastards to lay a finger on her. He changed Silly Zhu’s original fate, made his way across the land, ventured through Zhengyang Gate, and seized the opportunities brought by the changing times. He became rich overnight. —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 27 Siheyuan: Which One of Us Is the Beast? 四合院：咱俩谁禽兽？ Yi Bu was about to go to bed when he transmigrated into the TV series Love in the Courtyard and became bound to the Beast System. At first, he was pretty put off by the System’s name. But after arriving in the courtyard, he realized it suited him perfectly. After all, the people in that courtyard were worse than beasts! —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 28 Siheyuan: The Contented Life of a Purchasing Agent 四合院：采购员的惬意生活 Chen Xinnian transmigrates to an era of shortages, becoming a procurement officer responsible for buying supplies for the steel mill's small canteen. Living in a courtyard full of scoundrels, how can he make a good life for himself? First Uncle: “Xinnian's a good kid. He'd be perfect to support me in my old age, but he's too clever by half. Hard to keep under control.” Second Uncle: “That kid got another radio coupon. How come the leaders like him so much?” Third Uncle: “Kids, Lou Xiao'e invited —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 29 Siheyuan: If I’m Not a Beast, Then Who Is? 四合院：我不做禽兽谁做禽兽 [Courtyard Drama + Slice of Life + Wild Ideas + Plot Changes + Period Fiction] Chen Dagou used to waste his days at a screw factory in his previous life. After transmigrating into Love in the Courtyard, he realized that his arrival was slowly stripping Qin Huairu of her leading-lady aura and tying her to Xu Damao. The storylines of everyone around him also changed beyond recognition. They’re beasts, but Chen Dagou is an even bigger beast. Just you wait. —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 30 Siheyuan: Yi Zhonghai Is Executed by Firing Squad, and the Neighbors Tremble 四合院：易中海被枪决，众禽发抖 Lin Yang accidentally transmigrated to the 1950s and unexpectedly bound himself to the Decisive Action System. As long as he deals decisively with the scoundrels in the courtyard and doesn’t play the saint, he’ll earn generous rewards! To avenge his parents, he first reported everyone in the entire courtyard, stirring up a huge storm. Yi Zhonghai was executed by firing squad for intentional murder! Auntie Yi was sentenced to a year of reform through labor for encouraging someone else to commit s —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 31 I Make a Fortune in the Siheyuan 我在四合院疯狂揽财 Liu Kai, a ruthless 21st-century supervisor, accidentally transmigrates into the world of the Siheyuan drama, where he suffers one hardship after another. His new identity is the hapless Silly Zhu! A widow is leeching off him, Xu Damao is causing trouble, and there's office politics and family drama. Liu Kai just wants to get away as soon as possible, but the rules say he has to save up 10,000 before he can return to where he came from??!!! He checks his wallet, and would you believe it, he has —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 32 Siheyuan: Silly Zhu's Unconventional Life 四合院之傻柱的另类人生 Zhuzi transmigrates into the courtyard of The Birds of the Courtyard. Knowing how the story goes, he is determined not to be a doormat. He face-slaps Xu Damao, outsmarts Yan Laoxi, rejects Qin Huairu, and uses all sorts of outrageous tricks to climb step by step to the pinnacle of life... 71Reads—Score—Shelves
- 33 Love in the Courtyard: I Am Silly Zhu 情满四合院之我是傻柱 The train of time thunders forward, bound for an unknown destination, and He Yuzhu furrows his brow. Having transmigrate into the body of a man with the same name, he silently vows never to meet the fate of the original story and never to live a miserable life. First things first: he will keep his distance from the widow. [Courtyard House: currently serialized] Next world: [An Ordinary Life]. 63Reads—Score—Shelves
- 34 Siheyuan: Tender Feelings Set My Heart Soaring 四合院：柔情之我心飞扬 A lucky nobody dies in an accidental collision and transmigrates to a world much like the one in Birds Fill the Courtyard. With powerful help constantly coming his way, he enjoys life in this world of Birds Fill the Courtyard... 4Reads—Score—Shelves
- 35 Siheyuan: Rising Against the Wind 四合院之迎风而起 If you returned to an era of scarcity, what would you most want to do? Li Mingtang transmigrates into Love in the Courtyard. And begins a life of cheats and good fortune. The blurb doesn’t do it justice. I’m a new author, so please be kind. 21Reads—Score—Shelves
- 36 Siheyuan: Silly Zhu Is No Fool 四合院，傻柱不傻 After transmigrating into the Siheyuan as Sha Zhu, the pretty widow still wants to borrow money from him? Not a chance. Not only will he refuse to lend her any, he'll make her pay back everything she owes from before. What do you mean, you don't have it? Then tell me how you plan to repay me. Xu Damao wants to steal his girl? I'll make sure you can't even get a bite of my leftovers. Any other shameless jerks have a problem with that? I'll tame them one by one... —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 37 Siheyuan: I'm the Little Prince of Late Nights 四合院：我是熬夜小王子 Ma Yue, who loves staying up late, transmigrates into the story of the courtyard. At the unreliable System’s urging, he has to turn Forty-Nine City into a city that never sleeps. There’s none of the usual stuff from other fanfics: fighting over family property, competing for houses, and getting beaten up. Ma Yue is sorely disappointed! “How am I supposed to get revenge like this?” “If you won’t let me have my fun, then nobody gets to sleep! Get up and party!” —Reads6.1Score—Shelves
- 38 Siheyuan: I Eloped with Lou Xiao'e on My Wedding Day 四合院：结婚时，我带娄晓娥逃跑 Just after Li Jianhua transmigrated, he faced a difficult choice: his lifesaver, Lou Xiao'e, was about to be forced into marrying Xu Damao. She was unwilling and asked him for help. So here's the question: should he help her or not? If he helps her, how can he get her out of the heavily guarded Lou family home? Li Jianhua racked his brains but still couldn't think of a way out, until he saw Xu Damao passing nearby. A flawless plan immediately sprang to mind. Heh, Brother Damao, sorry about this~ —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 39 Siheyuan: I’m a Hidden Big Shot 四合院：我是隐藏大佬 Qin Huairu: “Stop messing with Silly Zhu. Come after me!” Jia Zhangshi: “Go sit somewhere cool, old man!” Silly Zhu: “You pick a fight with me, and you deserve to spend your whole life without a wife!” Xu Damao: “I just love watching you hate me and still be powerless to do anything about it.” Wu Zhibai accidentally eats Longyuan and transmigrates into the world of Love in the Courtyard. He invests in technology companies, buys the rights to manga from Japan, and builds up a fortune in mines. He 77Reads5.4Score—Shelves
- 40 Siheyuan: First Things First, I’ll Build a Wall 四合院，开始我先砌道墙 I'm still in the beginner stage and figuring out how to write! Here's the premise of my new story: Wang Zhuo is unwillingly transported to a newly created world, to a courtyard house. Should he live quietly, or do something different? That depends on how powerful his cheat is! With his laid-back personality, he'll just take things as they come. Life is an adventure, full of surprises! A messy life feels all the more real! 47Reads5.5Score—Shelves
- 41 From the Siheyuan to the Worlds Beyond: A Transmigration Novel 从四合院到诸天穿越书 While hiking alone one day, Chen Feng was looking at his phone and failed to watch where he was going. He tripped over a rock and stumbled a few steps toward a nearby cliff before falling off. Somehow, he transmigrated into a TV series he had just been watching, Love in the Courtyard. 991Reads5.8Score104Shelves
- 42 Siheyuan: Raising Two Pigs from the Start 四合院：开局先养两只猪 Reborn in the past, he becomes Xu Damao, a movie projectionist. He gains a portable space. Living in a courtyard house, Xu Damao has to tread carefully around all the troublemakers inside. He decides to do his job as a projectionist well, make good use of his portable space, and build himself up. No matter what, this courtyard must never again be ruled by birds! 14Reads—Score—Shelves
- 43 Siheyuan: Beating Up Silly Zhu, I Call the Shots in This Courtyard 四合院：暴打傻柱，这院我说了算 Zeng Zhenguo transmigrates into a courtyard house at the very start of the TV series. Bang Geng has just stolen a chicken, and Zeng Zhenguo, who hasn’t had meat in days, steals one too. He was planning to frame Silly Zhu, but unexpectedly, this gives him the chance to activate the System. When the First Grandpa twists the truth, Zeng Zhenguo, as a transmigrator, naturally steps forward and exposes him for what he is. Yi Zhonghai is instantly enraged and sends his top enforcer, Silly Zhu, into th 28Reads—Score—Shelves
- 44 Siheyuan: Becoming an Engineer 四合院之成为工程师 Gao Deliang transmigrates to the year 1953 by accident and takes over the body of a university student with the same name. After passing the junior engineer qualification exam, he graduates and is assigned to work as an engineer at the Hongxing Steel Rolling Mill, beginning his life in the Hongxing courtyard. See how he deals with the whole bunch of scoundrels and, with a vision far beyond his time, contributes through his hard work to the great rejuvenation of Huaguo. 100Reads—Score—Shelves
- 45 Siheyuan: King of the Beasts 四合院：众禽之王 A work of pure villainy. People say the residents of the courtyard are all beasts. Wang Pili refuses to believe it. As far as he’s concerned, who could possibly be more beastly than him? After all, he’s the king of beasts!! —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 46 Love in the Courtyard: I Am Qin Jingru 情满四合院之我是秦京茹 Qin Jingru, a modern, dazzling and vivacious beauty, was a dedicated career woman. After working herself to exhaustion, she died at her desk and transmigrated into a world based on the television drama Love in the Courtyard, where she became Xu Damao's future wife, Qin Jingru. Bound to a strategy System, she had to stop the villain Xu Damao from turning evil. From then on, she stirred up a storm in this unfamiliar era. Like an enchanting woman who could steal anyone's heart, she embarked on a jo 20Reads—Score—Shelves
- 47 Siheyuan: Xu Damao Is My Brother 四合院之许大茂是我哥 An ordinary girl gets so furious watching Love in the Courtyard that, when she wakes up one morning, she finds herself in the TV series as Xu Damao’s younger sister… A story about how she has to fight to save herself so she won’t be turned into an idiot like him. 8Reads—Score—Shelves
- 48 The Doctor of the Siheyuan 四合院的医生 In his previous life, the protagonist was a master physician who collapsed on the operating table after exhausting himself during surgery. After transmigrating into the world of Love in the Courtyard, he became He Yuzhu’s biological older brother. Watch him teach those villains a lesson. —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 49 Siheyuan: So What If I’m a Scumbag? 四合院：人渣咋滴了 [There is a System, but it only appears once. It won't appear again later in the story. The author's only reason for including the System is to give the protagonist a better explanation for how he obtains certain things.] Fang Yu, from the 21st century, accidentally falls into the water. By the time he wakes up, he's arrived in the 1960s. And the kicker is that he lives in a place known as the Beast-Filled Courtyard. This… Wait, thank goodness, he even has the standard-issue 24Reads5.3Score—Shelves
- 50 My Carefree Life in the Siheyuan 四合院我的遐逸生活 Liu Bin accidentally transmigrates into the world of Birds Fill the Courtyard. From then on, he and Qin Jingru begin a carefree life, teaching those awful people a lesson whenever the mood strikes and showing them the right values in life, as well as the good and evil in human nature. —Reads6.1Score—Shelves
