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- 1 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
- 2 Siheyuan: Beating Banggeng from the Start 四合院：开局暴打棒梗 Chen Ergou, a successful man in the new era, unexpectedly transmigrates into the world of a period drama set in a courtyard. From the start, he beats Bang Geng until he runs away in terror. With the System’s golden finger and knowledge far ahead of his time, he makes a name for himself and shakes the world. 20Reads—Score—Shelves
- 3 Transmigrate to the Siheyuan: How a Villain Is Made! 穿越四合院：坏蛋是怎样炼成的！ Just because Banggeng objected, Silly Zhu waited eight years for Qin Huairu without marrying her. Yet when Banggeng got married, Silly Zhu eagerly handed over a house for him to use as his wedding home! Silly Zhu, Silly Zhu... was he really stupid? Why had Jia Zhangshi, despite her family’s straitened circumstances, become addicted to painkillers? Had Granny Deaf really been kind to First Master just so he would look after her in her old age? Jia Dongxu died unexpectedly in a “workplace acci 23Reads—Score—Shelves
- 4 Siheyuan: Reborn as Silly Zhu, I Train the Whole Pack of Beasts 四合院：重生傻柱调教众禽兽 He Yuzhu, one of the so-called "four-nothings youth" of the future, dies suddenly and is reborn in the 1960s as Silly Zhu from a TV drama. Facing all the scoundrels surrounding him, He Yuzhu clenches his fist of "justice" and launches a fierce counterattack. 193Reads5.8Score—Shelves
- 5 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
- 6 Siheyuan: A Reborn Academician Starts Out as a Translator 四合院：院士重生，从翻译员开始 In her previous life, Chen Guohua was a nationally renowned scholar, always stepping forward whenever the country faced trouble. He thought that once he had more time to spare, he could give his wife and daughter a happy life. But who could have imagined it? When Chen Guohua returned to look for the wife and daughter he had abandoned, he learned that the residents of the courtyard had driven them back to the countryside. In the end, they had even starved to death! Chen Guohua was consumed with r —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 7 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
- 8 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! 57Reads—Score—Shelves
- 9 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
- 10 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
- 11 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]. 48Reads—Score—Shelves
- 12 A Carefree Life for a Nobody in the Siheyuan 四合院之废物的惬意人生 With the help of the Useless Aid System, an even more useless man than Sha Zhu makes his way through life in the Siheyuan. After settling in, this newcomer gradually blossoms over time. The pace of this book is a little slow. 1Reads—Score—Shelves
- 13 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
- 14 Living in a Siheyuan: I Turned Out to Be He Yuzhu 人在四合院：我居然是何雨柱 He woke up one morning and found he had transmigrated into He Yuzhu in a Siheyuan. Standing at the entrance to the infamous courtyard, He Yuzhu wore a cold smile. With He Yuzhu’s arrival, the train of the times began picking up speed. The courtyard full of beasts would no longer be ruled by beasts. A warm, simple, everyday story... Come along and step into that era... 21Reads—Score—Shelves
- 15 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
- 16 A Screwed-Up Life That Begins in the Siheyuan 从四合院开始的操蛋人生 Lin Ping'an wakes up to discover that he has transmigrated into the TV drama world of Love in the Courtyard. To his shock, he has the identity of a remnant of the Qing dynasty. In an era obsessed with class background, won't he be dragged off to face a firing squad in no time? But that's all right: the System gives him a tiny chaos world from the start. Inside this little world, Lin Ping'an is the very will of Heaven. Given enough materials, he can theoretically produce anything. Looks like thin 38Reads5.7Score—Shelves
- 17 Siheyuan: Arresting the Whole Courtyard from the Start, Driving the Ne'er-Do-Wells Crazy 四合院：开局逮捕全院，逼疯众禽 Cao Hongbo never expected that he would transmigrate, let alone into the legendary world of Love in the Courtyard. When faced with all the foul, outrageous nonsense in the courtyard, why bother being polite? He simply turns around and reports them. Bang Geng is implicated in a murder and executed by firing squad, Jia Zhangshi deliberately covers it up, Qin Huairu seizes someone else’s property, and the deaf old lady has faked her identity... Cao Hongbo sends this whole bunch of beasts to prison 150Reads—Score—Shelves
- 18 Siheyuan: A Wonderful Life Reborn 四合院：重活一世的精彩人生 Lin Guodong, a young office drone, drowns after heroically rescuing a child who fell into the water. When he opens his eyes again, he finds himself reborn in the world of a TV series he once watched, Love in the Courtyard. He has become an orphan about to starve to death in the courtyard. Let’s see what kind of stir Lin Guodong, who has worked hard all his life, can cause in an era this plain and simple... Watch how a young office drone in this new society carves out a future for himself and str —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 19 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. 33Reads—Score—Shelves
- 20 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 113Reads5.9Score—Shelves
- 21 Siheyuan: Inherit Jigong's Legacy and Avenge My Father 四合院：获得济公传承，为父报仇 Geng Mingshan transmigrates into an era of shortages, only to see his adoptive father, who raised him for eleven years, die in prison after the entire courtyard conspires to report him. Geng Mingshan inherits Jigong's legacy, learning all kinds of magic and gaining Jigong's magic fan. Every wave of the fan increases his cultivation. His father raised him, but now that he wants to repay that kindness, his father is gone. The vengeance for his father's murder can never be shared. He dares not forg 274Reads5.4Score—Shelves
- 22 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
- 23 A Happy Siheyuan Life Beginning in the 1950s 四合院幸福生活从五十年代开始 [Siheyuan + transmigrate + Qin Huairu + golden finger] Not a brainless power fantasy, and not too much hostility After transmigrating into a siheyuan, he becomes the hapless fool Sha Zhu. Fortunately, it’s the 1950s, and nothing has started yet. Why keep chasing after a widow? Wouldn’t it be better to have Qin Huairu all to yourself? Life may be hard in the 1950s, but I have a System. See how the protagonist makes a happy life for himself in this era. 125Reads6.2Score—Shelves
- 24 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. 294Reads—Score—Shelves
- 25 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
- 26 Siheyuan: From the Start, I Married Zhao Pan’er and Won at Life! 四合院：开局娶赵盼儿，躺赢！ Li Dong has just transmigrated and gets lucky by winning Zhao Pan'er! With a pocket dimension, he has no worries about food or drink. He has no ambitions and just wants to lie flat and enjoy the show! Come on, as a man who has Zhao Pan'er, he's already reached the pinnacle of life! What's better than a wife, kids, and a warm home? Why wear yourself out working for a few measly coins? What? You want me to become a cadre? Go to university? Be groomed for promotion? No way... I just want to keep my —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 27 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... 87Reads—Score—Shelves
- 28 Siheyuan: Silly Zhu's Father-in-Law Has Returned 四合院：赘婿傻柱他爸回来了 [Courtyard life + plot twists + comedy] Ever since Silly Zhu's father, He Daqing, returned to the courtyard, one secret after another has come to light! Silly Zhu takes charge and angrily calls him a kept son-in-law. The Third Master wants to be the one calling the shots, so he makes fools of all three masters! Bang Geng challenges him, and he puts him down with one hand! Xiao Dang and Huai Hua try to wheedle him, but he calls them bloodsuckers. Qin Huairu schemes against him, but he turns her o 43Reads—Score—Shelves
- 29 Siheyuan: The Rise of the Pocket Dimension 四合院之空间崛起 One day, Hou Xiaotian transmigrates into Love in the Courtyard. He was so annoyed that he never finished watching the show and only got through a little over twenty episodes, so he only has a vague grasp of the plot. Fortunately, he brings a pocket dimension with him when he transmigrates. It starts out only as big as a fist. Now watch him use it to truly rise to prominence. 253Reads5.8Score—Shelves
- 30 Siheyuan: A Hodgepodge of Period Dramas 四合院：年代剧大杂烩 Transmigration + Food + Everyday Life + Showing Off + Changing the Plot + One Female Lead + Mutual Devotion I transmigrated into He Yuzhu, and there’s a bug: a System has grown right on top of him. It’s not great, but it’ll do. Get married, settle down, soak up the spirit of the times, grow alongside the country, and witness an era of change. This novel isn’t full of hostility. The main framework follows the TV series, but some events will be changed. The main goal is to capture all aspects of l 65Reads—Score—Shelves
- 31 Siheyuan: He Yuzhu's New Beginning 四合院之何雨柱的新生 He transmigrates into Love in the Courtyard and even becomes He Yuzhu. He stays away from all the ridiculous messes. Don’t try to guilt-trip me with morality. If you have something to say, just say it. He sticks to his own values and way of life. There is a System, but it isn’t all that overpowered. 1.9kReads7.9Score—Shelves
- 32 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
- 33 Siheyuan: I Shed My Loser Label from the Start 四合院：开局摆脱败家子头衔 The moment Lin Qiufeng opens his eyes, he discovers he’s transmigrated into a siheyuan full of beasts, and he’s currently a good-for-nothing wastrel! Plenty of vermin are scheming against him and sucking up to him! Lin Qiufeng just laughs. In response to their contempt and schemes, he turns every trick right back on them! Got a problem with that? Go eat shit! Looking for trouble? Watch your step on those dark roads, or you might break a leg! While he’s at it, he’ll become a Level Eight fitter 2.4kReads5.6Score105Shelves
- 34 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
- 35 Siheyuan: I Just Want to Live My Own Life 四合院：我只想过好自己的日子 (Courtyard life + no System + slice of life + changing the plot + renovating the courtyard + many courtyard residents as antagonists + one female lead, He Yushui) (A new author, so mistakes are inevitable. If you spot one, please leave a comment. I read almost all of them and will fix what I can. If I can’t, I’ll explain separately.) After transmigrating to a courtyard, Du Ruo has no golden finger. But after putting certain residents surnamed Yi and Jia in their place and making it clear he isn’ —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 36 Siheyuan: Life Beginning in the 1950s 四合院：五零年代开始的生活 I don’t need gifts or positive reviews, but please don’t be abusive either. Everyone has their own views on how to live, work, and treat others. My writing is pretty average. If you can put up with it, feel free to keep reading; if not, just leave. 45Reads6.5Score—Shelves
- 37 Siheyuan: A Different Silly Zhu 四合院：不一样的傻柱 A new story is here! Come read my work on Tomato Novel. I hope you enjoy it. Your support inspires me to write, and I’ll do my best to tell every story well! 335Reads6.7Score—Shelves
- 38 Siheyuan: Reborn with a Vengeful Heart 四合院之逆血重生 Silly Zhu’s life was a tragedy. Few people know how miserable his old age was. Once he was no longer useful, he was thrown out of his own home and eventually died a wretched death on the street... But Heaven has given him a chance to be reborn. Watch as he turns the tide... 312Reads5.1Score—Shelves
- 39 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. 6Reads—Score—Shelves
- 40 Siheyuan: A Hundred Chapters of Slaughter 四合院：百章开杀 Qin Zhaoyang is struck by lightning while fishing in a thunderstorm and unexpectedly transmigrates into the world of a courtyard-house drama, becoming the younger brother of Qin Huairu's family. To make a living, he takes up fishing again, only to unexpectedly acquire a fishing interface. After four years of building himself up, he opens the Little Fish Shop. It comes with the ability to exchange for supplies. 9Reads—Score—Shelves
- 41 Siheyuan: Adopted by Qin from the Start 四合院：开局被秦收养 Cao Meng transmigrated into the adopted son of Qin Huairu, only to be thrown out from the start. From the start, he gained a sign-in System, along with a spatial spring. Then Jia Dongxu unexpectedly died, leaving behind his wife and daughter. He signed in to get top-tier medical skills and brought Yu Li on as his assistant! He signed in to get appraisal skills, found a priceless treasure, and made all the busybodies green with envy! The greater his abilities grew, the more responsibilities he ha 10Reads6.7Score—Shelves
- 42 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. 57Reads—Score—Shelves
- 43 Siheyuan: Blasting the Vampires from the Start 四合院，开局炮轰吸血鬼 A real man never messes around! One word: guts. Transmigrated to the capital, he blows the bloodsuckers away right from the start. Then he gets down to business and builds a better life. From then on, happiness is his for the taking. —Reads5.2Score—Shelves
- 44 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
- 45 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
- 46 Siheyuan: Silly Zhu’s Red Packet Group 四合院：傻柱的红包群 He Yuzhu, a construction worker in his thirties with no car, no house, no education, and no wife, discovers that after falling asleep, he has transmigrated into the courtyard and become Silly Zhu, a man with a house and a job. Before he can even celebrate, a planar red packet group arrives. This! This! This! This is practically like owning the whole world! 1.9kReads5.9Score102Shelves
- 47 Siheyuan: Please Don’t Lecture Me on How to Be a Person 四合院：请不要教我做人 Siheyuan + soldier king + tycoon + urban life + System Gu Fan is 24 years old. Orphaned by a fallen soldier at 15, he was taken by his parents' comrades into the military, a fiery crucible where he spent nine years tempered and tested on the southwestern border of his country. Two months ago, while leading his troops in a fierce battle against the Indian army, Gu Fan was struck in the head by a rock blasted loose by an enemy shell in the trenches. He was gravely wounded and lost consciousness on 41Reads5.0Score—Shelves
- 48 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! 51Reads5.5Score—Shelves
- 49 Siheyuan: From the Start, Kicking Jia Zhangshi Into the Outhouse 四合院：开局将贾张氏踢进厕所 Li Wei, a library administrator, gets drunk and accidentally falls into a black vortex. His soul transmigrates into a siheyuan, where he becomes Li Wei, the cultural center administrator at a steel mill. As he wonders what is going on, a voice suddenly rings in his mind: “Congratulations, Host, you have become the director of the Universal Library...” 1.2kReads—Score—Shelves
- 50 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
