Novels like Siheyuan: With a Demon-Refining Gourd, I Remake China
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- 1 Siheyuan: Cao Cao Is Reborn as Silly Zhu, and the Door Gets Knocked to Pieces 四合院：曹操重生傻柱，门被敲烂 Cao Cao is dumbfounded: he's been reborn, and what's more, he's become Silly Zhu in a Siheyuan a thousand years in the future. But after meeting Qin Huairu, Lou Xiao'e, Qin Jingru, Ran Qiuyue, Yu Haitang, and the others, he puts aside thoughts of building an empire for the ages and decides to talk about life first. In his spare time, he has endless fun messing with the beasts in the compound. Before long, the Siheyuan is in an uproar. Bang Geng: “Uncle Zhu, please stop hitting me! I'll do whatev 61Reads—Score—Shelves
- 2 Siheyuan: This Guy Never Lets Himself Lose Out 四合院：这人不吃一点亏啊 As Zhao Yuanming munches on sunflower seeds, everything suddenly goes black, and he transmigrates into the world of film and television! He becomes a resident of Love in the Courtyard. He has a wife, Zhou Li, and an adorable daughter, Zhao Xiaoyou. The original owner drank all day and beat his wife and daughter, but Zhao Yuanming, who has transmigrated into his body, won’t act that way. After activating the System, he enjoys a happy life with his wife and child by his side! —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 3 Siheyuan: My Little Crew Is a Billion Strong 四合院：我的小弟有亿点多 After transmigrating into the world of Love in the Courtyard, he gets bound to a System that lets him recruit underlings! In this courtyard crawling with scoundrels, Zhao Cheng begins a very different life. What’s the point of merely dealing with the scoundrels? You have to make them submit to you completely! (A fresh take on life in the courtyard. Everyone’s welcome!) —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 4 Siheyuan: Selling Meals by the Roadside to Make the Whole Family Rich 四合院：路边卖饭，带全家致富 Wang Hao transmigrated to the 1960s. He had no money and no skills. The original owner couldn't even measure up to Silly Zhu. Other people who transmigrate at least get some kind of golden finger. How come I got nothing?! Just then, a notification suddenly rang in his mind. [Congratulations, Host. You have successfully activated the System.] [The System will now issue your starting bonus pack as a reward for transmigrating here.] [Cooking Space unlocked. Cooking skill level: 3.] [Physical Fitnes —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 5 Siheyuan: Reborn as Silly Zhu, I Take Jia Zhangshi to Task 四合院：重生傻柱，怒怼贾张氏 After transmigrating to the 1960s, he becomes Silly Zhu, the fool everyone schemes against. He had thought that simply ignoring Widow Qin’s family would be enough. But when he came home with his lunchbox, Jia Zhangshi grabbed him of her own accord. Her eyes were fixed on his lunchbox. “Ding! Random quest triggered. Jia Zhangshi wants the Host’s lunchbox. The Host should show her that you’re not who you used to be, and that you’re no longer the old Silly Zhu. Give Jia Zhangshi a sharp tongue-lash —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 6 Siheyuan: I'm He Yuzhu, and I Just Want to Be the Richest Man 四合院：我何雨柱，只想当首富 [Courtyard Life] [Everyday Life] [No System] [Business] [Not Too Grim] While charging his phone, He Yuzhu's phone exploded. He Yuzhu, from 2023, transmigrated to 1965 and into Love in the Courtyard. Knowing how the story went, he was determined not to be a sucker. He rode the tide of the times, seized every opportunity, and built his own business empire one step at a time, becoming the richest man in the world! 3Reads—Score—Shelves
- 7 Siheyuan: Turning Trash into Treasure and Taking Over the Capital 四合院：变废为宝，玩转四九城 He Ping transmigrates into the world of Love in the Courtyard. From the start, he binds himself to a Turn Trash Into Treasure System! Can he grow stronger by collecting scrap? Can the scrap-collecting System turn it into cash? Hahaha, does this mean I’m going to take off? Before long, while putting the courtyard’s troublemakers in their place, He Ping is already living a comfortable life… —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 8 Siheyuan: Xu Damao's Happy Life 四合院：许大茂的幸福生活 Xu Damao arrives in Love in the Courtyard with the Peak System. In this perfect era, he plans to change everything and build a business empire of his own, making everyone see him in a whole new light… —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 9 The Eleventh Book by Huan Hua 换花第11本书 After informing Red Wolf, it went to its research lab and began modifying "War Wolf". "The Legend of War Wolf", which had originally been one person against many, now had a team of five, along with several new features. After all, this was his first group operation, and there could be no mistakes. So he brought along many of his new inventions, determined to complete the mission perfectly. 5Reads—Score—Shelves
- 10 Transmigrating Through TV Dramas, Starting in the Siheyuan 从四合院开始的影视穿越 Liu Kai transmigrates with a Reader Wish System. He has to fulfill the readers' wish lists before he can move on to the next world. The early worlds mainly feature urban TV dramas, including Siheyuan, Thirty Only, Let's Get Married, Ode to Joy, The Golden Years, and more. —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 11 Siheyuan: Filling Workers' Stomachs to the Brim 四合院，让工人的胃满满登登 (This novel focuses on everyday life and realistic details, mainly depicting local customs and the historical traces of that extraordinary era.) Liu Dong, furious after being bullied by fifteen-year-old Silly Zhu, heads back to his hometown. He arrives just as his village is fighting with neighboring Qin Family Village over water. Rushing in to help, Liu Dong is unlucky enough to be beaten to death with a stick by Qin Gang, Qin Huairu's younger brother. A twenty-first-century man named Liu Don 3Reads—Score—Shelves
- 12 Siheyuan: Qin Huairu Calls Off the Wedding, So I Marry Chen Xueru 四合院：秦淮如悔婚，我娶陈雪茹 Zhu Ping transmigrates into the world of Love in the Courtyard. Qin Huairu won’t marry me? Then I’ll marry Chen Xueru, the silk shop owner. What do you have to regret? My life gets better with each passing day, so why are you jealous, you bunch of scoundrels? I, Zhu Ping, will make this clear: don’t go looking for trouble. Anyone who messes with me will get it back a hundredfold! —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 13 Siheyuan: My Girlfriend Started Playing Cards with Someone Else from the Start 四合院开局女朋友跟人打牌 I transmigrate into a courtyard house, the place He Yuzhu could never escape for the rest of his life. The First Master schemes to make him provide for him in old age, Qin Huairu schemes to make him raise her children, Xu Damao schemes to steal his blind date, and Banggeng steals his things. Now I’m here, and everything is going to change! —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 14 Siheyuan: Bang Geng's Tragic Life 四合院：棒梗的悲惨人生 He wakes up one day to find that he has transmigrated into the courtyard as Xu Damao. The story is just starting, and Banggeng has stolen a chicken. Well, well! Banggeng is really going places: he stole two chickens in one go. How could anyone put up with that? The System is stirring up trouble, openly and behind the scenes. Silly Zhu even wants to take the blame for Banggeng's chicken theft. Fine, the two of them can go inside together! Jia Zhangshi refuses to accept it, so she can go inside to 374Reads5.3Score—Shelves
- 15 Siheyuan: A Good Life, All Thanks to the Netizens 四合院：美好生活，全靠网友 [Reader Interaction] + [Serving the Motherland] + [Building the Nation Through Science and Technology] + [One Female Lead] Zhang Fan transmigrated into a courtyard compound, bringing with him the online shopping System from his previous life. Qin Huairu wants to mooch off me? I’ll kick her out! Yi Zhonghai wants to guilt-trip me? Go ahead, try it on me! He Yuzhu is a big idiot? What’s that got to do with me! Zhang Fan stands above the fray, ignoring all the squabbling in the courtyard. In this l 2Reads6.5Score—Shelves
- 16 Films and TV Across the Heavens: Starting in Siheyuan, I Play a Loving Father 诸天影视：从四合院开始扮演慈父 Fu Ci transmigrates into the Courtyard and activates the All-Heavens Loving Father System. From then on, he travels through the worlds, embarking on a journey of playing loving fathers everywhere. First world: The Courtyard Second world: All Is Well Third world: If There Is No Tomorrow Fourth world: The Qiao Family Children Fifth world: A Little Reunion … 34Reads—Score—Shelves
- 17 Siheyuan: Starting on June 1, I Immediately Began Buying Scrap 四合院：人在六一开局直接收废品 Liu Yue thought he’d run into disaster, but his allotted lifespan wasn’t over yet. That was why he was reborn more than sixty years in the past, in an era when no one went hungry. Bound to an overpowered System, he starts out by collecting scrap and gradually climbs to the pinnacle of life! —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 18 Siheyuan: My Uncle Is Yi Zhonghai 四合院：我大伯是易中海 He grew up in a major heavy-industry city in Northeast China. Only then did he learn that he also had an uncle in the Forty-Nine City, named Yi Zhonghai. What the hell, how could there be such a coincidence? Could it be that they just had the same name? By then, he was already a seventh-level engineer and had been assigned to a steel mill in the Forty-Nine City. There was no choice but to seek out his uncle, his own uncle, that is. When he entered the courtyard house, he saw that everyone there —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 19 After the Qin Sisters Turned Against Each Other, I Decided to Lie Flat 秦家姐妹反目后，我躺平了 Courtyard loafer He Yuzhu missed a step while going downstairs. With one stride, he transmigrated into the world of the courtyard house. He also successfully replaced He Yuzhu. Now he would live in this world. Since that's how things are, let me take the original owner's place and break free from this lovesick fool's life! 12Reads—Score—Shelves
- 20 Siheyuan: I Can Simplify Technology 四合院：我能简化技术 “Xu Yang” [Occupation: Repair Technician] [Skills: Clamp Work (Beginner), Table Tennis (Beginner), Cooking (Beginner)] [Special Ability: Simplified Version] Using this ability requires a certain amount of energy.] [Energy: 1] This System automatically replenishes one stamina point each day. The System updates once every day at midnight.] “Tailoring skills.” “Beginning basic operation.” —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 21 Siheyuan: A Ruthless One Arrives, Sending Everyone Straight to Prison 四合院：狠人降临，统统送监狱 From the start, his younger sister is bullied by Bangeng. She goes to Jia Zhangshi to demand an explanation, only for Silly Zhu to beat her unconscious on the spot? That’s a grudge worth killing over. A gentleman does not leave a debt of vengeance unpaid! Silly Zhu, just wait until you’re behind bars! Yi Zhonghai comes to plead for him, but you won’t get away either. Lock him up! Granny Deaf comes to plead for him. Do you think you’re any better than Yi Zhonghai? Lock her up! Qin Huairu doesn’t 3Reads5.2Score—Shelves
- 22 Siheyuan: I Returned from the Peninsula to Find My Family Stripped of Everything 四合院：半岛回来，发现被吃绝户 Wang Xing returned from the Korean Peninsula only to find that someone else had taken over his home. Both his parents were dead, and the courtyard’s vultures had divided up all his belongings. When Director Wang took sides against him, he went to the military leaders to demand justice. That night, he happened to overhear the manager Yi Zhonghai discussing something in secret and learned the truth about the conspiracy. Before he could investigate further, Yi Zhonghai set him up and sent him to pr 3.6kReads—Score150Shelves
- 23 Love in the Courtyard: Taking Down the Jia Family from the Start 情满四合院开局先整贾家 Dark story + bizarre ideas + heavily altered setting Wu Lai is beaten to death by Silly Zhu. Wu Lai from the 21st century transmigrates into the past, inhabiting the Wu Lai of the courtyard compound and embarking on a life of conflict within the compound. —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 24 Siheyuan: I'm He Yuzhu's Older Brother 四合院：我是何雨柱大哥 An accident brings the soul of a 33-year-old from 2023 to an unfamiliar courtyard in the capital in 1949. In a strange environment, with a soul from the future and foreknowledge of the plot, should he follow the story and let events unfold, or make up for its regrets? A new story begins with our protagonist… —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 25 Across the Myriad Worlds: From the Start in Siheyuan, I Beat Qin Huairu to a Pulp 诸天开局四合院，我暴打秦淮如 Lin Xiaoqiang transmigrates into the world of "The Birds Fill the Courtyard". He awakens the Face-Slapping System. Face-Slapping System: Slap someone in the face to earn rewards. “Smack! Yi Zhonghai’s face swells up, and he gets ten jin of grain coupons as a reward.” “Smack! Xu Damao loses a tooth, and he gets a green hat as a reward.” “Smack! Jia Zhangshi gets a black eye, and she gets ten bills of Great Unity as a reward.” “Smack, smack, smack! Qin Huairu’s face turns red, and the reward is... 17Reads—Score—Shelves
- 26 Siheyuan: From the Start, Taking Qin Huairu to a Motel 四合院：开局带秦淮茹去小旅馆 Xia Yang transmigrated into the world of the Siheyuan stories. He became a deliveryman for Hulu Commune. With no parents and still a virgin at twenty-three, he had no one to rely on. To get a Beijing household registration, he tricked Qin Huairu into marrying him from the start. He also married into Jia Zhangshi's family and immediately started living off them. The already struggling Jia family found themselves in even worse straits. From then on, a powerful newcomer arrived in the Siheyuan. The 330Reads6.2Score—Shelves
- 27 I Make a Wish and Become a God in the Siheyuan 我在四合院许愿成神 Welcome to my story. This is a tale about a modern person living peacefully in a courtyard full of beasts. It's also a story about someone who dreams of becoming a god. Life in a courtyard can take a thousand different forms. I simply want to tell the story of courtyard life as I imagine it. 1Reads—Score—Shelves
- 28 Siheyuan: Don't Try to Manipulate Me 四合院：不要算计我 6kReads6.6Score127Shelves
- 29 Siheyuan: Fleeing Famine to the Forty-Nine City 四合院：逃荒来到四九城 Wu Guoqing grew up in a famine-stricken village. After his parents died, he had no choice but to flee with his younger sister. On the way back, he fell gravely ill and his memories awakened. Protecting his sister every step of the way, he eventually ended up at a street relief center in Sijiu City. Through his own efforts, he got a job at a steel mill and a home of his own. He realized he was doing quite well, and he and his sister went on to live happily together. —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 30 The Old Fox of the Siheyuan 四合院里的老六 As a transmigrator from the 21st century, Wang Mingluo joins the countless others swept into another world. His sly, troublemaking nature plays out again and again in the courtyard compound. Guided by the principle of doing nothing when there’s trouble, since doing more means making more mistakes, doing less means making fewer mistakes, and doing nothing means making none, the protagonist keeps trying and trying. —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 31 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
- 32 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
- 33 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
- 34 Returning Home After Mastering My Craft in the Siheyuan 四合院之学成归来 Li Qingfeng transmigrates to Siheyuan, gets into university, and becomes an engineer. See how Li Qingfeng takes the Siheyuan world by storm, toys with all those troublemakers, and uses knowledge from his previous life to change the future. —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 35 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
- 36 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
- 37 Siheyuan: Just an Ordinary Nobody 四合院：平凡的小透明 Pan Weizhong, a young man from the modern era, was visiting the capital when he joined a retro tour themed around returning to the 1960s. While visiting a farm in the northern suburbs, he drank too much milk tea and had to run to the restroom. When he came out and tried to catch up with the rest of the tour group, he realized that he had somehow transmigrated. Well, transmigration was one thing. But damn it, the protagonist had transmigrated to the capital of the 1960s, into Love in the Courtyar 387Reads5.7Score—Shelves
- 38 Siheyuan: Global Free Shopping from the Start 四合院开局全球零元购 After accidentally hitting his head, college graduate He Dazhu binds to a System and receives three divine treasures: the Yin-Yang Realm Command, the Banner of Ten Thousand Souls, and the Heavenly Eye. He also unlocks the Lingshu Grotto-Heaven and an infinite storage space, and can strengthen himself in every way with giant spirit golden apples. The System tells him he will transmigrate to the world of Love in the Courtyard in ten days. His mission is to punish the “beasts,” and he needs to stoc 8.2kReads6.3Score590Shelves
- 39 Rising to Power After Transmigrating into Siheyuan 从穿越四合院开始崛起 Zhao Gang binge-watches TV dramas all night, then wakes up to discover that he has not only transmigrated into the Siheyuan, but has also bound himself to a System called Divine Draw. From that moment on, an ordinary college graduate begins his rise to success… 13Reads—Score—Shelves
- 40 Siheyuan: I Can Hear Other People's Thoughts 四合院：我能听到别人心声 Meng Fan wrote a Siheyuan fanfic on a certain tomato-novel platform and got flamed to the heavens by readers. Calling himself the Keyboard Immortal of the universe, he picked up his keyboard and smiled faintly. Bring it on! After getting banned seven or eight times, he finally came to his senses. There was no point in one person taking on an entire crowd, so he promptly abandoned the story and started a new book. A golden finger? Coming right up! An unbelievably powerful background? Coming right 9Reads—Score—Shelves
- 41 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
- 42 Siheyuan: I Take On Qin Huairu, Then Yi Zhonghai! 四合院：怼完秦淮茹怼易中海！ In 1965, Lin Weiguo unexpectedly transmigrates into a courtyard compound in the Red Star Steel Mill. After awakening the Home-Guarding and Prosperity System, he can earn ration coupons, supplies, and technical qualifications by protecting his own interests and refusing to let others take advantage of him. Qin Huairu comes over with a sob story to ask for grain coupons? He sees right through her and gives her nothing! The First Uncle uses his status as an elder to guilt-trip him into helping the —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 43 Siheyuan: Huairu, Put on a Maid Outfit! 四合院：淮茹，请穿女仆装！ My new work is out! You can read it on Tomato Novel. I hope you'll enjoy it. Your support motivates me to write, and I'll do my best to tell every story well! 17Reads—Score—Shelves
- 44 Siheyuan: The Truck Driver with a Pocket-Space Portal 四合院之带空间通道的卡车司机 After pulling all-nighters to work overtime, Ye Lin gets a transmigration plot as a bonus. He wakes up as a truck driver at the Jianguo Steel Mill, with a pocket dimension at his disposal. As he feels his way forward through uncertainty, he finds success in both his career and family life. 30Reads—Score—Shelves
- 45 Siheyuan: The System Blesses My Path to Ascension 四合院：系统祝我飞升路 If you transmigrated into the world of Love in the Courtyard, what would you do? Liu Chongfeng chooses to strengthen the nation while taking down scumbags. The scoundrels regret ever being born, while the protagonist ascends on the spot. 95Reads5.8Score—Shelves
- 46 Siheyuan: Qin Huairu as My Reward from the Start 四合院：开局奖励秦淮茹 (Courtyard House + System!) Chen Liang was playing a game when, in the middle of it, he transmigrated into a courtyard house and returned to the 1960s. Faced with the beasts filling the courtyard, he was rewarded with Qin Huairu from the start. With a farming System of his own, he accidentally cultivated a wondrous world unlike any other! What? You can even grow planes and cannons through farming? 23Reads—Score—Shelves
- 47 Siheyuan: I'm the Young Master, and Qin Huairu Is Mine 四合院：我是少东家，截胡秦淮茹 Siheyuan, period drama, urban farming, transmigration, System, and changing the story! Li Wude transmigrates to a siheyuan in the early days after Liberation and becomes the young master of a wealthy family. He happens upon his neighbor Jia Dongxu on a matchmaking date, then uses his youth and wealth to outshine the Jia family and snatch Qin Huairu away... Facing the beasts of the siheyuan, Li Wude counters every move, dishes out face-slapping, takes down the First, Second, and Third Masters, an 1Reads—Score—Shelves
- 48 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
- 49 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
- 50 The Big Trouble-Maker of Siheyuan 四合院之大顽主 In old Beijing slang, a “wan zhu” is someone who doesn’t do proper work. For a wan zhu, the most important thing is to treat having fun as a serious business and find all kinds of ways to enjoy it, while applying themselves wholeheartedly. In the past, children from relatively well-off families often fit the description: they didn’t do proper work. Looking around, Qi Mingfei’s heart sank! It was already November, yet he and his younger sister were still living in a dilapidated woodshed with no w 179Reads—Score—Shelves
