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- 1 Siheyuan: Making Qin Huairu Call Me Dad from the Start 四合院：开局让秦淮茹叫爸爸 Jiang Beiran transmigrates into a courtyard compound and gains ownership of Qin Family Village from the start. Effective immediately! Everyone in the village, whether born there, unmarried, married off, buried, or visiting from elsewhere, must abandon their own will and treat Jiang Beiran's wishes as their highest command! Under his leadership, The village's wheat yields ten thousand jin per mu. The fast-growing chickens are as big as ostriches, and their eggs weigh six or seven jin apiece. A si 6Reads—Score—Shelves
- 2 Siheyuan: The Jia Family's Wedding Feast, I'm Coming with a Blade! 四合院：贾家婚宴，我提刀上门！ I open my eyes and find myself lying in a dilapidated house, with a younger brother named Gao Qisheng and a younger sister named Gao Qilan beside me. And this is Love in the Courtyard? And I seem to be a small-time fishmonger named Gao Qiqiang. Yi Zhonghai: “Are you saying you don't respect the neighborhood committee's appointed courtyard head?!” Gao Qiqiang: “It's not that I don't respect the courtyard head appointed by the neighborhood committee. I just don't respect you!” Liu Haizhong: “D 498Reads5.4Score—Shelves
- 3 Siheyuan: My System Is Simple 四合院：我的系统很简单 After transmigrating to the last century, Wang Yu becomes a car mechanic. By chance, he binds himself to a System. Talent activated! What takes others three years to learn, Wang Yu can master in three days. Whether it’s cooking or driving, it all comes naturally to him. With status, money, and connections, what else is there to enjoy if not a little mischief? Let’s roll! —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 4 Siheyuan: Send the Villains to Heaven, and Their Power Is Boundless 四合院：禽兽祭天，法力无边 Yang Sheng transmigrated! He found himself in Love in the Courtyard of Beasts. In the animal-filled courtyard, Yang Sheng activated the Beast-Bullying Sacrifice System. And so began his campaign of tormenting the courtyard's fools. First, he went after Deaf Granny. Blood sprayed everywhere, and the old geezer ended up with a broken leg and crippled for life. Next, he went after Silly Zhu, making him swallow an egg and ensuring the He family line would end with him. Then he gave the so-called par —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 5 In a Siheyuan, From the Start I Called a Beast My Father 人在四合院，开局认禽作父 [Cunning protagonist] + [Doesn't grovel to the old lady] + [Puts the courtyard's fools in their place] The best is yet to come. Please give it a chance, dear readers! When Cao Jian'an opened his eyes, he discovered he had transmigrated into the world of Love in the Courtyard, becoming an orphaned tenant in the compound. To establish himself there, Cao Jian'an immediately asked Yi Zhonghai, the First Master, to become his adoptive father. He set the courtyard's residents against one another and c —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 6 Siheyuan: An Ordinary Life Beginning in 1958 四合院：平凡从58年开始 Zhang Pingfan transmigrates to Love in the Courtyard in the late 1950s. At this point, Qin Huairu isn't a widow yet, and she hasn't awakened her dark talent for leeching off others. The courtyard isn't full of villains, either. Everyone is struggling to survive through this famine, and the neighbors still share the warmth of everyday life. They're not all heartless. Of course, there are a few people who make life difficult. The First Master, who's skilled at using morality to pressure others. Th 46Reads5.4Score—Shelves
- 7 Siheyuan: Black-Market Trader, Where Night Is Dawn 四合院：黑市商人，黑夜就是黎明 I transmigrated to the 1960s and became a black-market peddler. Up before dawn and home after dark. Then I unexpectedly bonded with a System, and my supernatural powers awakened. That Deaf Granny making trouble? Yi Zhonghai trying to guilt-trip me with morality? I’ll take them on headfirst! (The blurb doesn’t do it justice. Read the story!) —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 8 Siheyuan: I'm Going to Suck the Blood of Those Beasts 四合院：我要吸血众禽兽 Qin Yang transmigrates into the body of an ordinary courtyard resident in the 1960s. Once he sorts through the memories, he discovers that the courtyard’s troublemakers have already sucked their former owner dry. The next second, he binds himself to a System! Time to suck them dry in return! Fight fire with fire, and give those beasts a taste of their own medicine! —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 9 Siheyuan: From the Start, I'm Worth Ten Thousand Yuan 四合院之开局万元户 The rich kid Lin Sen accidentally transmigrates back to 1960. What if there's no System? No problem. We'll make it on our own. What if the three years of famine leave us with nothing to eat? No problem. We'll provide for ourselves. What if there's no entertainment? No problem. The whole courtyard is full of clowns to keep us amused. —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 10 Siheyuan: Silly Zhu Is Reborn, and the Doormat Is Turning Dark 四合院：傻柱重生，冤大头要黑化 [Siheyuan + Reborn + System + Period Drama + Feel-Good Story] In his old age, He Yuzhu was driven out of the Qin family home and died a miserable death. But he was given the chance to be reborn! He returned to the 1960s and even activated the “All Gain, No Loss” Favorability System! After being reborn, He Yuzhu learned the hard way that a lovesick loner who lets himself be used ends up with nothing. He was determined to stop being “Silly Zhu” and become “Scumbag Zhu” instead! The story begins wh 123Reads—Score—Shelves
- 11 Siheyuan: Transmigrate as Silly Zhu and Live an Amazing Life 四合院：穿越傻柱，活出精彩人生 He transmigrates into the world of a fanfiction based on The Poultry-Filled Siheyuan. He becomes the young He Yuzhu. Here, there are ungrateful parasites, bloodsuckers, self-righteous moralizers, and even the chosen one, Li Weihua. He faces a tragic fate: Qin Huairu is about to leech off him, Li Weihua will brutally crush him, and in the end, Banggeng will kick him out of his home, leaving him to freeze to death beneath a bridge. He Yuzhu's Proficiency System comes online. He fights the birds an 11Reads—Score—Shelves
- 12 Siheyuan: The Third Uncle Knows How to Read 四合院：三大爷会读书 A new story is here! Come read my work on Tomato Novel. I hope you enjoy it. Your support is what keeps me writing, and I’ll do my best to tell every story well! 1Reads—Score—Shelves
- 13 Siheyuan: I Became Xu Damao 四合院：我成为了许大茂 Reborn as Xu Damao in the Love in the Courtyard world, he receives a God-Tier Choice System. With not a single worthy opponent in his courtyard, Xu Damao feels utterly helpless!!! And with Xu Damao's arrival, the times slowly begin to take an unknown turn. 6Reads—Score—Shelves
- 14 Siheyuan: From the Start, I Take Out Yi Zhonghai 四合院：开局先噶易中海 After a viewer recommended it, film commentator Zhang Xiaobai watched Love in the Courtyard from beginning to end three times. The first time, he thought it was an ordinary period drama about everyday family life in old Beijing and the lives of ordinary people. The second time, he found it horrifying the more he thought about it. Everyone looked like a villain, and he wanted to smash the screen. The third time, he watched it alongside his audience, cursing the plot’s many absurdities as he we 277Reads8.5Score—Shelves
- 15 Keeping a Low Profile in the Siheyuan, Watching the Neighbors Fight Among Themselves 苟在四合院看众禽内斗 If you accidentally transmigrated into a courtyard, and happened to arrive just as Banggeng stole a chicken, what would you do? Slap all those awful people? Or work hard to build your own career? Following the principle, “If you don't mess with me, I won't mess with you. If you do, I'll hit back,” Zhang Cheng makes his way through the courtyard and thrives at the steel mill. Of course, he hasn't forgotten his goal: to build his own career in this era of surging change. And his goal is to reach f 61Reads—Score—Shelves
- 16 Siheyuan: Opening Treasure Chests at the Security Office 四合院：在保卫科开宝箱 At first, given his background and abilities, he thought he could treat the beasts in the compound as targets to fleece, so everyone could get along and be happy. But Chen Youli soon realized it was all too easy. There was a reason the place was known as the Beast-Filled Courtyard. Chen Youli decided to bring the axe down on some of those beasts. 17Reads6.2Score—Shelves
- 17 Siheyuan: The Street Loafer Silly Zhu Wants Me to Be His Godfather 四合院：街溜子，傻柱认我当干爹 [Transmigration + face-slapping + period piece + from the start + fan fiction] After transmigrating to a Beijing courtyard compound in the 1950s, Li Jianjun finds himself a street loafer despised by everyone. He's at a loss. Luckily, he has a golden finger: the Godfather Recognition System. Whenever someone calls him their godfather, he gets a hundredfold return in goods, money, and skills. He Daqing runs off, so Li Jianjun lends a helping hand, and Silly Zhu calls him Dad on the spot. Xu Damao, —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 18 Siheyuan: I Send Jia Zhangshi to Prison from the Start 四合院：开局送贾张氏进牢房 Siheyuan: Taming the Beasts, Building Wealth, and Using Black Technology to Change the Nation [Taming the Beasts] + [A Rising Superpower] + [Collecting Beautiful Women] He Yufeng, a cargo van driver, transmigrates to the 1960s and discovers he is Silly Zhu’s younger brother! Bound to the [Beast-Taming System], he earns 10,086 Enlightenment Points whenever his beastly neighbors stir up trouble! What? Enlightenment Points can buy black technology in the System Shop! Black tech crushes all opp —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 19 Life in the Siheyuan, Starting at Age Eight 八岁开始的四合院生活 A System and an invention-focused story. There's nothing too intense here, so just relax and read. A soul from the 22nd century transmigrates into the body of an eight-year-old child. In this passionate era, how will he shape the course of his life? —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 20 Siheyuan: I'm He Yuzhu, Livestreaming Ran Qiuye 四合院：我是何雨柱，直播冉秋叶 After transmigrating into a courtyard compound, He Yuzhu obtains the Myriad Worlds Livestream System! He can earn every reward through livestreaming! This time, He Yuzhu decides he won't be a pushover for others to exploit anymore! He starts livestreaming his everyday romance with Ran Qiuye! —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 21 A Leisurely Life in the Siheyuan 四合院之悠闲小日子 The early chapters focus on family and everyday life, with the story developing later on. Now that he’s returned to this era, he’ll simply take the time to experience life as it was. No angst, just Cao Cao’s laid-back life as he enjoys the little things. There’s a System in the early part of the story, but it leaves around the middle. —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 22 A Successful Life in the Siheyuan 四合院之成功人生 A civil servant dies suddenly from working overtime and wakes up back in that special era. But why does this place feel so much like The Vermin of the Courtyard? The three old masters, the necromancer, the white-lotus widow, the Thief Saint, the God of War: nobody’s missing. His father is a former soldier turned cadre, and his mother is the women’s director at a steel mill. There are three children in the family, including two older sisters. As the only boy, Wang Yajun grows up cherished by the 13Reads—Score—Shelves
- 23 Reborn to Fill the Siheyuan 重生之噙满四合院 Reborn as He Yuzhu in Love in the Courtyard, he thought, if you want to bleed me dry, just see if I don't knock your teeth out. Qin Huairu, Xu Damao, just watch me beat you all down. And you so-called uncles? You're nothing in front of me. 946Reads—Score—Shelves
- 24 Siheyuan: Qin Huairu, Why Does Your Family Eat Meat Every Day? 四合院：秦淮茹你家怎么天天吃肉 [Pocket dimension + farming + mild angst + changing the family’s fate + making money] Jia Siwen, a modern-day corporate drone, merely called Banggeng from Love in the Courtyard a “heartless ingrate.” Then, after a sudden stab of pain, he transmigrated into a six-year-old boy in City 49 in 1958. When he opened his eyes, he found himself in Courtyard No. 95 on Nanluogu Lane, inhabiting the body of Banggeng, a six-year-old “heartless ingrate.” Faced with a family in dire poverty, a father, Jia D 2.5kReads7.4Score194Shelves
- 25 Siheyuan: After Jia Dongxu Split Qin Huairu and Me Apart 四合院：贾东旭拆散我和秦淮茹后 Xu Qianfan transmigrates into the world of Full Courtyard of Beasts. He and Qin Huairu are childhood sweethearts, deeply in love. Jia Dongxu lusts after Qin Huairu and teams up with his master, Yi Zhonghai, to frame Xu Qianfan and send him to prison, hoping to force Qin Huairu to marry him. But Qin Huairu would rather die than marry anyone but Xu Qianfan! Xu Qianfan awakens a System in prison and earns a major merit, securing his release. “I'm marrying Qin Huairu, no matter what! Nobody can stop 21Reads5.4Score—Shelves
- 26 Siheyuan: I'm Really Not Silly Zhu 四合院之真不是傻柱 This is a book about living a quiet, ordinary life, with a wife and children at home and a warm bed to return to. It is not the kind of story where people are constantly fighting and killing. On the surface, he seems indifferent to everything, but in secret he is building up his first fortune. Antique furniture, houses, shops, and more. 4Reads—Score—Shelves
- 27 Siheyuan: Mouthwatering Braised Meat That Has Adults and Kids Drooling 四合院：美味卤肉，馋哭大人小孩 Li Yue transmigrates into a courtyard compound and becomes the crazy man who's been raving mad for two years. Everyone in the compound witnesses Li Yue suddenly regain his senses and can't believe their eyes. Unable to find a job, Li Yue puts the skills he learned in his previous life to use and sets up a stall selling braised dishes. The residents of the compound expect to see him make a fool of himself. They never imagined his braised dishes would taste so good. They're a huge hit, and busines —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 28 Siheyuan: Gao Qiqiang's Unstoppable Rise 四合院：高启强的狂飙人生 [Siheyuan + The Knockout + high martial arts + original story + martial arts world in a modern era] Gao Qiqiang is reborn in the Siheyuan! His high-flying life begins anew! What? My Gao family is a Wing Chun lineage? Is First Master Yi Zhonghai a successor to the Gentleman Sword style? Does Second Master Liu Haizhong beat his sons every day to practice the Golden Bell Shield? Is Jia Zhangshi's street-corner cursing actually shamanic magic? Is Qin Huairu the Holy Mother of the White Lotus Sect? C —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 29 My Cultivation Life in the Siheyuan 四合院我的修仙生活 This book has no angst. It’s all about taking it easy, enjoying life, and having fun~ Multiple heroines Song Cheng transmigrates into the world of the courtyard houses. As the only cultivator, watch how he lives his life. Relaxed, happy, carefree, and at ease 1Reads7.1Score—Shelves
- 30 Siheyuan: The System Won’t Let Me Be a Slacker 四合院：系统不允许我做咸鱼 In the capital’s old city, in a traditional courtyard house. Li Aiguo woke from a drunken stupor and reached for the water by his bedside, but his hand found nothing. He touched only empty air, which struck him as strange. He reached around several more times, but still came up empty-handed. Only then did he realize this was no joke. He opened his eyes and saw an old, spacious house. The room was bare, everything in its most untouched state. He was utterly astonished… —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 31 Siheyuan: A Carefree Life Since Childhood 四合院：从小开始的悠闲生活 Chen Jianye wakes up to discover that he has transmigrated to the 1960s and become an orphan with no parents!! Most importantly, he's only twelve, and he's stuck in a Siheyuan full of scoundrels!!! This is a recipe for disaster. What should he do? Accept his fate or fight back? To be or not to be?? Well, if you can't beat them, join them. As long as he becomes the strongest scoundrel of them all, everyone in the courtyard will be a good person! 1.1kReads6.5Score—Shelves
- 32 Siheyuan: Silly Zhu Sets the Fowl Straight 四合院之傻柱调理众禽 Wang Chengcheng transmigrates into Love in the Courtyard and becomes Silly Zhu. He takes on everyone and specializes in putting Xu Damao in his place. This time, he will make Silly Zhu live for himself, turning the whole courtyard upside down while quietly reaping the rewards. 27Reads—Score—Shelves
- 33 Siheyuan: From the Start, I Train Qin Huairu 四合院：开局调教秦淮茹 There are too many beasts in this courtyard? Qin Huairu is leading the way in bleeding me, Silly Zhu, dry? I used to think that being a good person would pay off, but all I got was misery. Fine, I'll come clean: I, He Yuzhu, am the biggest bloodsucker of them all. Not one of you is getting away! With the System on my side, I'll teach them all a lesson. In this courtyard, I call the shots! 151Reads—Score—Shelves
- 34 Siheyuan: Black Lotus Bang Geng Gets a Golden Finger from the Start 四合院：黑莲花棒梗开局金手指 Chen Shun, a literature graduate, transmigrates into Birds Fill the Courtyard and becomes eight-year-old Banggeng? He turns into a black-hearted Banggeng, and his golden finger arrives from the start! His path of making fun of the courtyard’s beasts begins. Xu Damao refuses to accept it? Beat him up! Yi Zhonghai wants to be his godfather? Ruin him! Jia Zhangshi gets on his nerves? Off to the nursing home! Banggeng is a versatile prodigy with a cheat. One day, he makes a name for himself thro 8Reads—Score—Shelves
- 35 Siheyuan: I Tricked Silly Zhu into Ruining His Life 四合院：把傻柱忽悠瘸了 [Courtyard setting + no System + altered plot + everyday life] Lin Chen, a modern-day overworked office worker, transmigrates into the TV drama Love in the Courtyard. He reforms the people in the courtyard and gets them to turn over a new leaf! 3Reads—Score—Shelves
- 36 Siheyuan: The Foolish Zhu Turns Dark 四合院，傻柱黑化 In 1997, during a bitter winter, Shazhu died beneath a bridge. Only at the moment of his death did he finally see the truth. Heaven took pity on him and gave him a chance to be reborn, sending him back to that day in 1965. He refuses to be a widow’s pack mule ever again, or to raise three ungrateful ingrates. He’ll deal with Qin the Widow and tear Jia Zhangshi to pieces. He’s taking back everything that belongs to him! 112Reads—Score—Shelves
- 37 Siheyuan: Bang Geng Is Disabled, Send Him to Prison to Recuperate! 四合院：棒梗残疾，送监狱休养！ After transmigrating to the 1960s, Xie Huaiqing becomes the breadwinner of a family in decline. His grandparents pass away, and his father disappears. His home is bleak, and he's bullied by the local scoundrels! By chance, he binds to a god-tier lottery System with endless space inside! Holy crap! Xie Huaiqing is stunned when he sees the rewards! —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 38 Siheyuan: Starting Out as a Descendant of the Japanese Army 四合院：从日军后代开始 Chen Shengjie transmigrates into this world, and at first thinks it is the world of Taking Tiger Mountain by Strategy. But only after settling in the capital and meeting a boy about his own age named He Yuzhu does he realize that he has transmigrated into a world that combines multiple television dramas and films... —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 39 Siheyuan: King of the Beasts 四合院：禽兽之王 In this menagerie of a courtyard, Lou Xiao'e is the one who leaves the deepest regret. From the start, I became Xu Damao, fleeced Yi Zhonghai and Silly Zhu until they were completely broke, submitted Miss Qiu's design blueprints, and became a deputy factory director. So after working hard for so long, can't I finally enjoy myself? 12Reads8.7Score—Shelves
- 40 Transmigrated into Siheyuan: I’ve Got Cheats 穿越四合院：开挂了 Lin Le transmigrates to a courtyard house. In his previous life, he was an orphan. Now, all at once, he has a wife and son. He binds to a sign-in System. “Divine-level medical skills, divine-level cooking, divine-level restoration.” He makes a thriving life for himself in the courtyard. Teasing the troublemakers is pure bliss. 8Reads—Score—Shelves
- 41 Siheyuan: Don't Try to Manipulate Me 四合院：不要算计我 6kReads6.6Score127Shelves
- 42 Transmigrating as the Liu Family's Prodigy 穿越刘家麒麟儿 Liu Guangqi, a young man from the modern era, dies suddenly in the street. After arriving in the underworld, he looks into his past and present lives and discovers that he is destined to be alone for thirteen lifetimes. If he is alone for yet another life after reincarnation, he will grow to hate the heavens and become a demon, unleashing a storm of bloodshed. The Great Luo Golden Immortals have no choice but to make an exception and defy fate to change his destiny. —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 43 Siheyuan: I, He Yuzhu, Have Descended from the Heavens! 四合院：我何雨柱就是天神下凡！ The Jade Emperor obtained a scroll depicting an extremely masculine man named He Yuzhu, then sent his soul into the River of Time. But unexpectedly, just as the River of Time was about to head for its intended world, a flash of light suddenly appeared from nowhere and smashed into it, knocking it toward a different point in space. That chosen one, He Yuzhu, was struck by the flash and sent straight into the year 1950, five years before the founding of Xia Country. When did I become a pillar? Wha —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 44 The Egg-and-Meat Lover's Second Book 爱吃鸡蛋肉的第2本书 When I was little, I was always hearing my parents talk about the 1960s: how honest people were and how wonderful life was. I came to long for that era too. Never in a million years did I expect to end up there, in a courtyard house, awakened to an unreliable System, and start... 3Reads—Score—Shelves
- 45 Siheyuan: Reborn as Silly Zhu, with Lou Xiao'e as My Wife 四合院：重生傻柱，老婆娄小娥 For the Jia family, for Qin Huairu, and for Banggen, He Yuzhu gave it everything he had! When he grew old and could no longer earn a living, he was thrown out of the courtyard and froze to death beneath an overpass! Worse still, as he lay dying, wild dogs gnawed at his flesh! But his archenemy, Xu Damao, snatched his body away from a stray dog, leaving him with an intact corpse. He opens his eyes and is reborn at eighteen. With extraordinary talent and an incredible knack for mastering the culin 5Reads5.3Score—Shelves
- 46 Livestreaming from the Siheyuan: Pranking Every Beast 直播四合院：整蛊所有禽兽 [Livestreaming + period story set in a Beijing courtyard, with a fun, humorous tone] Zhang Sanfeng wakes up one day to find that he has transmigrated into the world of Birds Filling the Courtyard and activated a Livestreaming System. The more viewers his livestream attracts, the more points he earns. He can redeem his points for all kinds of items in the System's shop. To build a better life, Zhang Sanfeng sets out to drive the courtyard's troublemakers crazy with one prank after another. —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 47 Siheyuan: Qin Jingru Regrets It and Wants to Throw Herself at Me? No Chance 四合院：秦京茹后悔想倒贴？没门 After transmigrating into the world of Love in the Courtyard, Qin Hao is humiliated and rejected by Qin Jingru from the start. Qin Hao refuses to indulge her. He exposes her ugly true colors on the spot! He inherits the old man’s house and moves into the courtyard. When Bang Geng steals from him, Qin Hao sets a trap that leaves him with a broken leg! Qin Huairu wants to use her charms to bleed him dry, and Qin Jingru regrets turning him down and tries to throw herself at him? No way! The First M 1Reads—Score—Shelves
- 48 Siheyuan: Silly Zhu Reborn 四合院之傻柱重生 If He Yuzhu returned to the past with a divine-artifact System space, what kinds of trials would he face? Let's wait and see, actually, this synopsis is nonsense. This story is meant to be satirical. 4.3kReads8.6Score168Shelves
- 49 Siheyuan: Stealing Qin Huairu Away and Driving Jia Dongxu Mad 四合院：截胡秦淮茹，气疯贾东旭 Li Xiangdong transmigrates into the world of the courtyard and awakens a snatching System. He hears Jia Dongxu is going on a blind date, so of course he has to swoop in. Isn’t Qin Huairu, fresh off the market, just perfect? With a little guidance, she can still be set straight. “Ding! Congratulations, Host, you successfully snatched her! You’ve been rewarded with a ten-mu pocket dimension, three thousand yuan in cash, and various supplies!” “Ding! Reward...” What? Jia Dongxu is furious? What’s t 309Reads5.3Score—Shelves
- 50 Siheyuan: Brother Zhu Is Invincible 四合院之柱哥无敌 Li Tianxia, the green-hat hero, got drunk and cursed the heavens. A bolt of lightning struck him down and sent him to Love in the Courtyard, where he became He Yuzhu. After being reborn, Li Tianxia retained all of He Yuzhu's memories from his previous life. He was determined to draw a clear line between himself and the beasts, and never sink to their level. His best future was a quiet life with a wife and a houseful of children. As for Qin Huairu, a modern woman, He Yuzhu would do everything he 191Reads—Score—Shelves
