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- 1 Siheyuan, Thank You, System 四合院，感激系统 In the turbulent year of 1965, our country has just detonated a nuclear bomb, greatly raising its standing on the world stage. In this era, our protagonist, Lin Yang, inexplicably transmigrates into the body of someone with the same name. He also acquires a special System. 28Reads—Score—14d adds
- 2 Siheyuan: Qin Huairu and I Were Betrothed as Children 四合院：我和秦淮茹订过娃娃亲 Xue Tong transmigrates to the 1960s and arrives in a courtyard full of scoundrels. The ridiculous part is that he's a ten-year-old runt who can't even hurt a fly. Fortunately, he's the child of a soldier. Though both his parents are gone, that background lets him get by just fine. And once he's bound to a backstage cache System... he starts submitting artwork and creating! Hailed as a genius from a young age, he soon attracts plenty of attention! Qin Huairu: “Come eat! Where have you run off to —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 3 Siheyuan: A Life of Freedom After Saving a Beauty 四合院从英雄救美后的逍遥 Liu Aiguo, from 2023, travels back to the 1960s and a courtyard compound. After saving Lou Xiao'e and her daughter, he unlocks the golden finger he brought with him and enjoys a carefree life from then on. This book has multiple female leads, so don't read it if that's not your thing. He doesn't trade advanced technology or supplies for status, and there won't be any trips to Hong Kong. The focus is on a carefree, easygoing life, though he'll deal with anyone who makes his life unpleasant... All —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 4 Siheyuan: The Beasts Are Sickos, but I'm Even Worse 四合院：禽兽变态，我更变态 Liu Junlin transmigrates into the world of Love in the Courtyard and activates the Ghost-Control System from the start. If those scoundrels come looking for trouble, they’re just asking for trouble. Starting with Jia Dongxu, they’ll all come knocking just to get themselves killed! —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 5 Siheyuan: With the Heavenly Lord of Morality on My Side, I Can Do Whatever I Want 四合院：靠道德天尊，我为所欲为 Zhang Jianjun transmigrated into Love in the Courtyard. Soon afterward, he activated a System of his own. At first, he thought he’d be perfectly content just using the System to deal with the neighborhood troublemakers. But he never expected Yi Zhonghai to see him as someone who would care for him in his old age. And so, the whole courtyard changed. Zhang Jianjun focused on putting the troublemakers in their place, while Yi Zhonghai stood behind him as his protector. —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 6 Siheyuan: As the Head Elder, I Can Simplify Anything 四合院：我一大爷，能简化一切 After transmigrating into the world of a Beijing courtyard compound, he becomes Yi Zhonghai, the First Master. A 20-year-old soul in a 50-year-old body, but he activates a Simplification System that can simplify anything, including ways to stay healthy... As long as he drinks tea every day, he can grow young again and return to the physical condition of a 20-year-old. By then, the First Madam has already died ahead of time. It’s time to show everyone how an old bull can feast on young grass. Wit —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 7 Siheyuan: I Chop Bricks with My Bare Hands and Drive the Beasts Insane 四合院：我空手劈砖，禽兽吓疯癫 [Period setting + farming + courtyard life + reborn + System + from the start] Li Tiancai, the ruthless heartbreaker, has arrived! A pig-slaughtering street thug, he’s tough and doesn’t waste words. If you cross him, he’ll throw down in an instant and beat those scoundrels into the ground. Qin Huairu, you want to take advantage of me? Fine. Let’s see if you live long enough to enjoy what you get! Bang Geng, you little brat, you want to steal the meat I’m saving to go with my liquor? Fine. I’ll t —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 8 Siheyuan: It Starts with Tearing into Jia Zhangshi 四合院：从怒怼贾张氏开始 In one courtyard house, this group of neighbors, who may be good or bad, lays bare greed, anger, delusion, hatred, love, evil, and desire. Wang Gang, who unexpectedly transmigrates there, doesn't care about any of that. His happy life begins when he helps Qin Huairu deliver her baby. 23Reads—Score—14d adds
- 9 Siheyuan: My Luck with Women Is Impossible to Resist 四合院：我的桃花运挡都挡不住 A new work is out! You can read my story 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! —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 10 Siheyuan: I'm Done Being a Doormat 四合院之我不再当冤种 Reborn as Liu Hongchang, one of the three biggest suckers alongside Silly Zhu, he is framed as a hooligan by his sister-in-law from the start! What? Married for a year and still haven't shared a bed? A whole family of ungrateful leeches is sucking him dry? His own elderly mother is bedridden, with no one to care for her? Sorry, I'm done putting up with this. I'm getting a divorce! —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 11 Across Time and Space 跨越时空 Li Jun: Should I take Qin Huairu in? Should I stand up to Yi Zhonghai? Should I beat up Sha Zhu? Should I help Jia Zhangshi meet a man? What should I do about Bang Geng, Xiao Dang, and Huai Hua? Li Jun: Should I be Changle's big brother, or her man? Li Jun: My dad and big brother went from ordinary people to leading Huaxia to prosperity. My brothers-in-law are powerful regional officials, and my sisters-in-law are the richest women in the world. What should I do? Li Jun: Should I save Zeng Moyi? —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 12 Siheyuan: I Caught Qin Huairu and Yi Zhonghai Kissing 四合院：碰见秦淮茹易中海在亲亲 Yi Erju is terribly unlucky: He tries to drown his sorrows over being cheated on, then pees on a power strip. The electric shock transmigrates him to a strange world. He happens to witness someone else's intimate encounter. After an awkward moment, someone knocks him out from behind. Fortunately, he has a System golden finger with him. He can still live for a few more decades. But the whole courtyard is full of beasts. How is he supposed to live with such a huge headache? 10Reads—Score—14d adds
- 13 Siheyuan: I Have Infinite Supplies, and It Drives the Beasts Crazy 四合院：我有无限物资，气死众禽 Su Wuwei transmigrates into the world of the Beast-Filled Siheyuan. From the start, he falls victim to Qin Huairu’s honey trap? Watch how Su Wuwei turns the tables and leaves Qin Huairu humiliated and disgraced. Silly Zhu wants to fight you? Watch how Su Wuwei tricks Silly Zhu into losing everything and being abandoned by everyone. Yi Zhonghai tries to hold you down? See how Su Wuwei wrecks Yi Zhonghai’s plans for a comfortable old age. Before long, Su Wuwei has dealt with every beast in 195Reads8.0Score—14d adds
- 14 Siheyuan: Silly Zhu's Unusual Life 四合院：傻柱的别样人生 He Yuzhu went to sleep and woke up as He Yuzhu. What the hell, this is such a raw deal! And to make matters worse, that little brat Bang Geng is rummaging through his house looking for something. What kind of nonsense is this? 9.6kReads6.9Score48914d adds
- 15 He Yuzhu’s Revenge 何雨柱的复仇 He Yuzhu is dead! He worked hard all his life, neglecting his own son and raising the three ungrateful kids of Qin Huairu to adulthood. He sold everything he owned, and with moral righteousness as their banner and all kinds of schemes, the three uncles kept him firmly by their sides until he could care for them in old age and see them to their graves. After Qin Huairu died, Banggeng and the others finally kicked him out. He eventually froze and starved to death in a rundown rented room, meeting 30Reads6.0Score—14d adds
- 16 Reborn as Silly Zhu of Siheyuan 重生之我是四合院傻柱 A college student battered by society in the 21st century is reborn in the world of "The Birds of the Courtyard", as Silly Zhu, a man whom a widow has wrapped around her little finger? Qin Huairu: “Zhuzi, you’ve changed.” Xu Damao: “Brother, you’re so good to me.” Yi Zhonghai: “My precious son, whatever you want, your dad will buy it for you.” See how I manage to build an enviable life without a System, achieving success in both family and career. 2Reads—Score—14d adds
- 17 Siheyuan: I’m Silly Zhu, What Should I Do? 四合院之我是傻柱，咋办？ Mi Lu runs a package pickup station, and spends every day dealing with parcels. She once heard people talking about the TV series The Story of the Courtyard, but she doesn't like family dramas and has never watched it. Then an accident somehow turns her into the young Yuzhu. What now? Just go with the flow! Do whatever feels right! Handle it however she likes! 5Reads—Score—14d adds
- 18 Siheyuan: Forging My Fortune With the System 四合院：靠系统打铁发家致富 My new work is out! You’re welcome to read it on Tomato Novel. I hope you’ll enjoy it. Your support is what motivates me to write, and I’ll do my best to tell every story well! —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 19 Siheyuan: In the Famine Years, I Was Rolling in Wealth! 四合院：饥荒年代，我富的流油！ After transmigrating to the 1960s, Li Jianguo binds himself to a System Space. It can store anything. It’s the famine years, and the beasts can’t sit still anymore. Li Jianguo, why won’t you donate grain to us? We’ll only take one spoonful, just one! But all they get in response is a single word! That is: Get lost! —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 20 Siheyuan: The Head Elder Apologizes, So I Put the Courtyard Vermin in Their Place 四合院：一大爷道歉，我整治众禽 [Siheyuan Fanfiction + System + Face-Slapping Wish Fulfillment] Qin Zhen transmigrates into Siheyuan. With the System's help, he quickly becomes a rich man in the turbulent 1960s! The scheming neighbors are green with envy and come over to provoke me. Just watch me deal with every last one of them! Qin Huairu dumps Silly Zhu and tries to hit on me? Sorry, I only have eyes for Teacher Ran Qiuye! —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 21 Siheyuan: I Became a Master Fortune-Teller 四合院：我成了算命大师 [Courtyard + Fan Fiction + Feel-Good Story] Transmigrating into the courtyard, you think you can make me the sucker who takes the blame? Not a chance! Watch as I use the fortune-telling System to shatter the beasts' assumptions and expose them all. 12Reads—Score—14d adds
- 22 Siheyuan: Reborn After Activating the System 四合院：激活系统重生 My new work is here! Come read it on Tomato Novel. I hope you enjoy it. Your support motivates me to write, and I'll do my best to tell every story well! 2Reads—Score—14d adds
- 23 Unbelievable! I Spent My Entire Fortune Buying a Siheyuan 离谱！我竟然倾家荡产拍了四合院 A wildly reworked courtyard drama, snark, and a director of cringeworthy shows A failed web novelist transmigrates into the body of a third-rate director of cringeworthy dramas! And this guy has sold his house and car and taken out a loan to make a show, and the show is Season Two of Love in the Courtyard! To avoid going bankrupt, Su Cheng has no choice but to revamp the show on set. Nobody wants to watch melodramas, but surely people will love a cringeworthy drama about someone reborn in that e —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 24 Siheyuan: Reborn as Silly Zhu, I Become the Richest Man in the Capital 四合院：重生成傻柱到四九城首富 His soul transmigrates into the courtyard, where he becomes Silly Zhu. He obtains a Grudge Points System: every point of resentment can be exchanged for one yuan, and all kinds of skills are available too. By angering the courtyard's troublemakers and racking up Grudge Points, He Yuzhu amasses a vast fortune. With his clever mind, he becomes the director of the steel mill, buys land, trades stocks, and starts companies, rising step by step to become the richest man in the capital. —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 25 Siheyuan: From the Start, I Save the Lou Family's Daughter 四合院：开局救下娄家千金 He Yupeng accidentally transmigrated and became an honorably discharged military doctor. He was bound to a good-deeds System. As long as he did good deeds, he would earn System points. The points could be exchanged for anything from any world. From then on, the capital gained a warmhearted, upright benefactor. He Yupeng: “Qin, you’re washing Silly Zhu’s underwear. You’re only doing it to stop him from dating, so you can leech off him for the rest of his life, aren’t you?” He Yupeng: “Yi Zhonghai —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 26 Siheyuan: A Furious Slap for the Old Man with No Heirs 四合院：怒扇老绝户 Liu Ming wakes up one morning to discover that he has transmigrated into the TV drama set in the courtyard. What? The three courtyard officials are forcing his mother to remarry? And they keep saying they’re doing what’s best for his family. Yeah, right. What a joke. Those shameless beasts saw his father die in the line of duty and figured they could gang up on his family. But Liu Ming, a man from the 21st century, has arrived, and he’s brought a golden finger with him. The Beast-Bullying System 1.5kReads5.4Score—14d adds
- 27 Siheyuan: If I Don’t Slack Off, I’ll Fight You All 四合院：我不摆烂就跟你们对着干 The residents of the Siheyuan are all devious schemers, each more cunning than the last? Then I’ll outscheme every one of you! You’re all petty villains, so let’s see who has the sharper tricks! Li Qiang has a golden finger, and he’s not the cautious type. As long as things are going his way, he’s going to show off and dish out some face-slapping! Otherwise, how could he live up to the name of someone who transmigrated? 197Reads5.9Score—14d adds
- 28 Siheyuan: A Bronze Treasure Chest from the Start! 四合院：开局获得青铜宝箱！ Zheng Fan accidentally transmigrates into a Siheyuan and activates a God-Tier System that gives him a Bronze Treasure Chest from the start. How could he pass that up? The courtyard's vile residents keep giving him a hard time, but he's no pushover! 196Reads—Score—14d adds
- 29 Transmigrated into a Siheyuan: Silly Zhu Starts Out Using PUA on Qin Huairu 穿越四合院傻柱开局pua秦淮茹 After He Yuzhu, a Hunan cuisine chef with the same name, dies in a car accident, he transmigrates to the world of the Siheyuan. Knowing the truth about the courtyard's schemers, he sets out on a very different path from Silly Zhu. Qin Huairu, who spent a lifetime manipulating Silly Zhu, finds herself manipulated in turn. Yi Zhonghai and the deaf old lady, who had plotted to make him support them, are outmaneuvered by him instead. If you're planning to scheme your way into having me support you i —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 30 Siheyuan: My Gourmet Supermarket in 1952 四合院：1952年我有美食超市 He Tianbao transmigrates into the world of Love in the Courtyard and successfully unlocks a gourmet supermarket. It is now 1952, and the Flower Planter is taking on seventeen gangs all by itself. [Ding! Congratulations, Host! You have successfully produced one million servings of medicinal cuisine to treat frostbite. Eat it, and frostbite will be cured.] [Ding! Congratulations, Host! You have successfully produced Strength Medicinal Cuisine, Agility Medicinal Cuisine…] ] ] ] 1Reads—Score—14d adds
- 31 Siheyuan: My Golden Finger Is the Everyman 四合院：我的金手指是路人甲 Liu Hao transmigrates into Love in the Courtyard, activates the System, and receives ten thousand background characters as a reward from the start. At first, he goes looking for his own underlings. Only later does he realize that everyone living nearby, not just in the Red Star Courtyard, is one of his people. Yi Zhonghai tries to guilt-trip him at a meeting, but the neighbors drown him in spit. Silly Zhu challenges him to a spar, only to have the crowd beat him until his arms and legs are broke —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 32 Siheyuan: I Hit Whoever I Want! 四合院我想打谁就打谁！ After waking up, he finds himself transmigrated into He Yuzhu, who froze to death. Once he understands how he got there, he decides to do something about it. He gradually changes his personality, cleverly takes care of Xu Damao, stops the Jia family from leeching off him, and breaks away from Yi Zhonghai to live his own quiet life. 400Reads5.6Score—14d adds
- 33 Siheyuan: Back to an Era of Passion 四合院：重回激情时代 Back to that era of hunger, how will our protagonist, Fang Dali, use his ability to control the land to make sure he and the people close to him have enough to eat and warm clothes to wear? A new writer with a new book. Thanks for reading! —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 34 I Was Reborn as Silly Zhu in the Siheyuan 我重生成了四合院里的傻柱 Winter, 1950. Winter. On a railway in the Forty-Nine City. He Yuzhu was no longer the He Yuzhu he used to be. He was none other than He Yuzhu, who had come back to life. —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 35 Siheyuan: I Have a House of Gold and a Beauty Like Jade 四合院：我有黄金屋，也有颜如玉 The demonic path's great overlord He Yuzhu transmigrated into the body of He Yuzhu from the Siheyuan. The hundreds or even thousands of acres of blessed aperture land that should have exploded into existence upon his ascension had shrunk to a mere three acres. He Yuzhu used those three acres to build a never-ending treasure trove of resources. Standing at the entrance to the Siheyuan, He Yuzhu gave a cold laugh. The tide of the era was coming, sweeping everything before it. All your schemes will 83Reads—Score—14d adds
- 36 Siheyuan: I Don’t Understand My Own System Either 四合院：我的系统我也不懂 He transmigrates into a courtyard, and what does it mean that the System is still loading? This tsundere girl of a System won’t even let me hurry her along. The System has changed the courtyard beyond recognition. Where’s my Bang Geng? When did Qin Huairu become about the same age as Lou Xiaoe? What’s the point if everyone’s the same age? Come see a different courtyard and different people, with no hostility, violence, or gore, only an abundance of human kindness. 28Reads—Score—14d adds
- 37 Siheyuan: Everyone Becomes a Slave, and I Just Laugh 四合院：众禽当奴隶，反而笑嘻嘻 My new work is out! You can head over to Tomato Novel to read it. I hope you'll enjoy it. Your support is what keeps me writing, and I'll do my best to tell every story well! —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 38 Siheyuan: Cursing Out Yi Zhonghai 四合院：怒骂易中海 After transmigrating as a minor character in a courtyard, he was only nineteen when he was literally angered to death. Then, to his surprise, he gained an emotion System. As long as he could influence other people’s emotions, he would earn rewards. Reborn with a System at his side, he was determined never to live such a miserable life again. —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 39 Siheyuan: I Refuse to Be Silly Zhu! 四合院：我，拒绝当傻柱！ When Silly Zhu transmigrates and activates a System, gaining a mysterious space, he unexpectedly goes into business in this era. With the System at his feet and a space at his command, getting rich is no dream. 197Reads5.6Score—14d adds
- 40 Siheyuan: The Bystander Life of an Extra 四合院：路人甲的围观生活 [System + growing male lead + lots of inner monologue + adorable kids and young men] He transmigrates to the 1960s, into a courtyard-house world headed for an unknown future. As an ordinary passerby, all he wants is to live quietly in the capital, enjoying an easy life beneath a roof with a fish tank and pomegranate tree, alongside a boy, a fat dog, and a chubby girl. Every now and then, he can enjoy a bit of gossip and watch the colorful lives of the characters unfold (in glorious chaos). But t —Reads5.8Score—14d adds
- 41 Siheyuan: Starting Out as a Photographer in the Publicity Department 四合院：从宣传科摄影师开始 Everyday life, low on conflict, so read without worry. The courtyard isn’t about fighting and killing, it’s about navigating human relationships. Lin Xiang transmigrates to the 1960s and becomes a photographer in the propaganda department of a steel mill. Life seems peaceful, but under the surface, currents are running strong. —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 42 Siheyuan: I Became He Yuzhu 四合院之我成了何雨柱 He Yuzhu, a young man from the 21st century, complained about Silly Zhu, the character in Love in the Courtyard who shares his name. The System forcibly pulled him into the world of the courtyard houses. See how Silly Zhu, with a new soul, outsmarts everyone in the courtyard, changes the plot, and creates a very different life for himself. 407Reads6.4Score—14d adds
- 43 Reborn in the Siheyuan with a Prank System 带着恶作剧系统重生四合院 [Transmigration] [Siheyuan] [Period] [No Simping] [Scheming]. This story has multiple female leads, so readers who dislike that should proceed with caution! Yi Liang can only sigh at his bad luck: he has transmigrated to the Red Star Siheyuan, a place crawling with scoundrels where there isn’t a decent person in sight. Fortunately, he awakens a System and, from the start, throws Xu Damao into a cesspit… Thus begins his campaign to punish the Siheyuan’s scoundrels! In this passionate, fie 541Reads—Score—14d adds
- 44 Siheyuan: Making Banggeng Incapable of Having Children from the Start 四合院：开局先让棒梗绝后 [Siheyuan + System + Period Novel + Brutally Punishing the Vermin] Note: This story is full of rage. If that's not your thing, don't read it, and don't come looking for a fight. Ren Jianping was browsing the internet when he meant to take a quick nap, but unexpectedly transmigrated to 1962, into a world of a Siheyuan packed with vermin. From the start, he finds himself at a whole-courtyard meeting. They took the compensation money for his father's death, and now they want to divide up his father —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 45 A Man in the Siheyuan Becomes the Strongest Silly Zhu! 人在四合院，成为最强傻柱！ He transmigrates into the world of Love in the Courtyard, expecting to become Silly Zhu, who’s hopelessly entangled with a widow! But instead, he transmigrates into Silly Zhu’s body when he’s not quite eighteen. That night, He Daqing sneaks away, planning to leave without saying goodbye! He Yuzhu chases him all the way to the bus station, hoping to squeeze one more handout out of him! There, he unexpectedly runs into nineteen-year-old Chen Xueru?! But this year, he’s no longer He Yuzhu, the famo 191Reads—Score—14d adds
- 46 Siheyuan: He Yuzhu's Ordinary Life 四合院之何雨柱普通人生 Reborn as He Yuzhu, he uses his foresight to make money, buy antiques and houses, trade stocks, exchange yuan for dollars, and snap up the assets of Little Ukraine and Russia. He makes a small contribution to his country and people, then lives an ordinary life. 5Reads5.4Score—14d adds
- 47 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—14d adds
- 48 Siheyuan: I’m Silly Zhu, and I Marry Ran Qiuyie from the Start 四合院：我傻柱，开局迎娶冉秋叶 [Ding! Mission triggered!] As someone who had transmigrated, He Yuzhu loved hearing that sound more than anything. In an era of shortages, a System was absolutely unbeatable! 158Reads6.3Score—14d adds
- 49 Siheyuan: The System Makes Me Complete Missions 四合院：系统要我完成任务 Wang Jian was on his way to work when he was suddenly in a car accident. After waking up, he found himself inside Love in the Courtyard, and the System had designated him as its Host. From that moment on, his life took a different path... 11Reads—Score—14d adds
- 50 Beasts in the Siheyuan: I'm a Beast Tamer! 禽满四合院：我是训禽师！ Li Guang transmigrates into the world of "Four-Courtyard Shadows", where sign-in rewards make life a joy. Uncle One earns a high salary. Li Guang says he’s only a tiny bit behind him. How much is a tiny bit? About as much as Mount Everest. Uncle Two is obsessed with becoming an official? Consider it done. You’re now the director of the steel mill toilets! Uncle Three is stingy. Great. I’ll make sure you don’t even have a door to skimp on. Silly Zhu? Hold on. What did you just call me? Your godfa 3Reads—Score—14d adds
