Novels like Siheyuan: If I Don’t Slack Off, I’ll Fight You All
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- 101 A Master Plan for the Siheyuan: Everyone Is in the Palm of My Hand 计定四合院：所有人在我股掌之间 Silly Zhu died and transmigrated back to 1976. In his previous life, once he was old and useless, the whole Bang Geng family drove him out of the courtyard compound, and he froze to death beneath a bridge. In this new life, Silly Zhu awakened the Prank System. The crueler his pranks, and the closer he pushed people to death, the richer his rewards! Qin Huairu, wasn’t everything you did for Bang Geng? Weren’t you afraid the Jia family would have no heirs? Fine, then I’ll castrate Bang Geng first! 102Reads5.3Score—14d adds
- 102 Siheyuan: An Engineer from the Start, Defying Fate 四合院：开局工程师，逆天改命 After transmigrating into the world of Love in the Courtyard, Li Yang becomes an engineering student. After graduating, he is assigned to work at the Hongxing Steel Plant. With his own intelligence and the System's incredible abilities, Li Yang thrives at the factory. The beasts want to make things difficult for him? He won't go easy on them! Lou Zhenhua wants to marry his daughter to him? He'll think about it! 17Reads—Score—14d adds
- 103 A Journey That Begins in the Siheyuan 从四合院开始的旅程 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! 2Reads—Score—14d adds
- 104 Siheyuan: I'll Show My Strength, Not Be Anyone's Punching Bag 四合院：我要展雄风，不做出气包 Xu Damao transmigrates from the modern era to the 1960s. And, as luck would have it, he transmigrates into Xu Damao from Love in the Courtyard. Such is fate. Now that I’m in this world, I’m going to live life on my own terms. I’ll show what I’m made of, and I’ll never be anyone’s punching bag!!! —Reads5.4Score—14d adds
- 105 Siheyuan: Driving Everyone Mad at the Compound Meeting 四合院：从全院大会逼疯众人 When Lin Hai arrived at the courtyard compound, he looked at all the familiar faces and gave them a benevolent smile. What, you want me to support you? What, you want me to give you money? Get lost, all of you. A story about a post-2000s youngster whipping the courtyard compound into shape. —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 106 Love in the Courtyard: He Yuzhu, Changing His Fate One Point at a Time 情满四合院：加点改命的何雨柱 [Courtyard House + Everyday Life + System + Scheming + He Yuzhu] He Yuzhu, who transmigrated here, is dark-hearted and wicked. After arriving at the courtyard house, he’s like a mouse that’s fallen into a rice jar. Moral blackmail and clever schemes are nothing to him. With an all-seeing perspective, he plans every move in advance. He not only wins over all the women in the show, but also makes a fortune in that era and reaches the pinnacle of life. 279Reads—Score—14d adds
- 107 Siheyuan: Am I Qin Huairu? 四合院之我是秦淮茹？ Because she shared a name with Qin Huairu, people mocked her as a hypocritical saint. In a fit of anger, she wrote a ten-thousand-word rant. When she opened her eyes again, she discovered she had transmigrated into a courtyard house and become the hypocritical saint Qin Huairu. She's a modern woman. Why should she bow down and beg others? She won't let people take advantage of her, pretend to be pitiful, or ruin someone else's romance. Refusing to accept ill-gotten gains is her bottom line. Just 506Reads8.0Score—14d adds
- 108 Siheyuan: I’m a Tycoon from the Start, and the Greedy Neighbors Are Jealous 四合院：我开局大富豪，众禽馋了 [Siheyuan + System + Humiliating the Whole Menagerie] Lu Yang transmigrates into a siheyuan and gets a System. In this resource-scarce decade of the 1960s, he eats meat at every meal and drinks himself silly. Want a Phoenix-brand bicycle? He can buy one whenever he likes. He’s definitely one of the richest people in the courtyard! Qin Huairu tries to flirt with Lu Yang and get herself a permanent meal ticket? Get lost! My blind date blows you away, Qin Huairu, by a mile. Xu Damao wants to borrow 907Reads5.2Score—14d adds
- 109 Siheyuan: He Yuzhu from the Future 四合院：来自未来的何雨柱 A small machine-shop owner from the twenty-first century has his soul transported into Silly Zhu's body in the TV series Love in the Courtyard. From then on, he begins his rags-to-riches reversal and rewrites the life of this foolish simp. 2Reads8.0Score—14d adds
- 110 Siheyuan: I Ruined Your Reputation from the Start. Are You Asking to Die? 四合院：开局毁我名声，找死是吗 From the start, Lin Fan is accused by the Jia family of being a quack. They claim he botched an emergency treatment, ruin his reputation, then demand compensation and that he give up his home! Lin Fan flips the table. “I’m done with this!” He reports them and moves out, gets Yi Zhonghai stripped of his position as the courtyard’s head, then moves into a private courtyard right across the way! With a god-tier sign-in System, he can sign in from time to time and receive max-level medical skills, a —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 111 Siheyuan: The Truth Is Out, I Am the Supreme Instigator 四合院：摊牌了，我就是拱火天尊 I transmigrated into the world of The Beast-Filled Siheyuan in the 1960s, into the body of a stupid drunk who grovels at a woman's feet. Everyone around me is a beast. Sorry, but I'm worse than all of you. When I deal with these beasts, I start by laying into them with a couple of punches. Bang Geng stole a chicken? He's just a kid, no need to punish him. Let's have Qin Huairu pay for it instead. Stole food from the public canteen? Silly Zhu, you wouldn't want everyone to hear about this, would 991Reads8.0Score10314d adds
- 112 Siheyuan: The Quiet Life of an Angler 四合院之钓鱼佬的平淡生活 [Low on hostility, focused on everyday life] A fisherman's a fishing soul. A modern-day angler accidentally transmigrates to the 1960s, and ends up in a courtyard once dubbed by netizens the “Courtyard of a Hundred Beasts.” Watch as this humble fishing enthusiast makes his way through the beastly courtyard and lives a peaceful life. 9Reads—Score—14d adds
- 113 Reborn in the Siheyuan: I Refuse to Be Anyone's Fool 重生四合院：打死不做冤大头 He Yuzhu transmigrates into the body of He Yuzhu. He becomes Ma Guobao's disciple! Knowing the original story's plot, he sets out on a different path of his own. Learn to cook? No way! I'm going to study hard and serve my country! 2Reads5.3Score—14d adds
- 114 Siheyuan: Silly Zhu's Carefree Life 四合院：傻柱的逍遥人生 [One Heroine + Period Setting + Farming] In his previous life, He Yuzhu spent his whole life simping for Qin Huairu, only to be kicked out of her home by Bang Geng and freeze to death beneath a bridge. Reborn, he finally came to his senses. He would never simp for a widow again, especially one with a son. He only wanted to use his knowledge of the future to avoid the traps in the courtyard and live a leisurely life with Lou Xiao'e. A warm home with his wife and children would make up for the reg 3.9kReads7.8Score12014d adds
- 115 A Journey to Godhood Starting from Siheyuan 从四合院开始的超神之旅 After finally passing the civil service exam upon graduating in 2022, Xu Weiguo learns that his assigned workplace is in the Forty-Ninth City in 1958! After a chime, a gentle but unmistakably synthetic voice rings in his ear: “The Employee Service System of Huaxia No. 3 Import and Export Trading Co., Ltd. is now online. Please follow the instructions to learn how to use it and familiarize yourself with the employee regulations...” 283Reads6.5Score—14d adds
- 116 Siheyuan: I Have Powerful Connections, So Who Should I Fear? 四合院：我有后台我怕谁 [Courtyard, System, skills, face-slapping, putting the courtyard’s pests in their place] Unemployed and at home, Lin Weipeng just wanted to relax and watch some TV, but Love in the Courtyard disgusted him. The show featured the “foolish” He Yuzhu, the pitiful yet hateful Qin Huairu, the selfish and fiery Qin Jingru, the womanizing villain Xu Damao, the self-righteous Yi Zhonghai, the pompous Liu Haizhong, the calculating Yan Bugui, and the meddlesome Jia Zhangshi, a master at summoning spirits.. 19Reads—Score—14d adds
- 117 Siheyuan: Wiping Out the Beasts 四合院之灭杀众禽 An accident sends Ye Guan transmigrating to the early 1960s! A former soldier reassigned to civilian life, he returns to the courtyard compound from the start, only to find that Yi Zhonghai and the others have been bullying and exploiting his daughter! In a fit of rage, he sends Yi Zhonghai straight to the executioner's block! With the protagonist's arrival, all the courtyard's vermin tremble in fear! As their numbers dwindle, the courtyard compound begins to change! This story is entirely ficti 444Reads5.9Score—14d adds
- 118 Siheyuan: You Want to Morally Blackmail Me from the Start? 四合院，开局就想道德绑架我？ Courtyard, Space, System, Face-Slapping, Taming the Courtyard's Trouble-Makers Liu Tao accidentally transmigrates into the TV drama Love in the Courtyard. Seeing the courtyard full of scoundrels, he wants to escape, but then he gets bound to a sign-in System and a pocket dimension. He can only sign in while inside the courtyard. With no other choice, Liu Tao has to make his home there. Just look at the courtyard's crowd of scoundrels: The grandmaster of moral blackmail, eighth-grade worker and F 1kReads5.7Score—14d adds
- 119 Siheyuan: He Yuzhu Takes Out Jia Dongxu from the Start 四合院：何雨柱开局搞死贾东旭 [He Yuzhu’s revenge-fueled rise to power is incredibly satisfying!] He Yuzhu supported the other residents of the courtyard in their old age, only to have them break his legs and drive him from his home when he grew old. He froze to death beneath a bridge. Now he has lived a new life, and he’ll avenge what happened to him in his previous one! Reborn, He Yuzhu “kills” Jia Dongxu first and frames Qin Huairu, determined to turn the Jia family upside down! For his “second kill,” he takes out Deaf Gr 2kReads6.2Score10514d adds
- 120 Siheyuan: From the Start, Swapping the Beams and Pillars During an Earthquake 四合院：开局地震之偷梁换柱 System + Slice of Life During an earthquake in the late 1970s, Xia Feng accidentally transmigrates into the story of Love in the Courtyard and becomes Silly Zhu. In the end, he marries the Queen of the Daughters’ Kingdom... All his life, the shameless Jia family has leeched off him, while Yi Zhonghai has held him hostage with moral pressure. Now the protagonist has changed. Let’s see how he handles things... 5kReads8.4Score19014d adds
- 121 Siheyuan: I Am the Mastermind Who Turns the World Upside Down 四合院之我是颠覆世界的黑手 My new work is out! You can find 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! 384Reads6.2Score—14d adds
- 122 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 188Reads—Score—14d adds
- 123 The Doctor of the Siheyuan 四合院的医生 In his previous life, the protagonist was a master physician who collapsed on the operating table after exhausting himself during surgery. After transmigrating into the world of Love in the Courtyard, he became He Yuzhu’s biological older brother. Watch him teach those villains a lesson. —Reads—Score114d adds
- 124 Siheyuan: Laying Low and Growing Strong 四合院：苟着猥琐发育 Zhang Jianjun especially loves TV dramas that depict the customs and daily life of the 1950s and 60s. Recently, he came across a show called Love in the Courtyard, and watching it left him absolutely furious. Unexpectedly, after staying up all night watching the show and getting so worked up, he died and entered the world of Love in the Courtyard he had long dreamed of visiting. Watch as he keeps his head down among a courtyard full of scoundrels, quietly building his strength while occasionally 650Reads5.5Score10714d adds
- 125 Siheyuan: I'm Done Being a Doormat 四合院：再不当老实人 By accident, Zhang Xiaofan transmigrates into a courtyard compound and becomes the hapless He Yuzhu. Zhang Xiaofan is so furious he wants to curse. Fortunately, He Yuzhu is only in his teens when Zhang Xiaofan transmigrates, and the beasts in the courtyard haven't started leeching off him yet. This time, he's going to live a different kind of life. 839Reads5.5Score10214d adds
- 126 Siheyuan: I'm a Layabout, and the Whole Courtyard Wants Me to Get a Divorce 四合院：我街溜子，全院劝离婚 The wealthy Song He is reborn as a resident of a courtyard compound, the sole survivor of a family of fallen heroes, and becomes a notorious layabout in the surrounding villages. Looking at his hungry daughter and beautiful wife, Song He decides to change everything. —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 127 Siheyuan: Taking Yi Zhonghai Down First from the Start 四合院：开局先搞垮易中海 Wang Kaixuan transmigrates to the 1960s and gains a sign-in System, enjoying a carefree and happy life. His older sister marries into the capital, only to be viciously bullied by the Siheyuan's packed house of beasts. Wang Kaixuan rushes to the Siheyuan in the capital to help her, beating the courtyard's brutes and vowing to give his sister a fair and peaceful world! 514Reads5.4Score—14d adds
- 128 I Became He Daqing in the Siheyuan 四合院我成何大清 With the System, he transmigrates and becomes He Daqing, the father of He Yuzhu. Though he is getting on in years, the System helps him thrive all the same, making him the one person in the courtyard no one dares to mess with. 595Reads—Score—14d adds
- 129 Siheyuan: Conquer Lou Xiao'e from the Start! 四合院：开局征服娄晓娥！ He transmigrates to a courtyard house and becomes a character who never existed. After inheriting his uncle's estate, he becomes a thorn in the side of all the scheming tenants. They are always cooking up schemes to drive him out of the courtyard house. But he is a transmigrator with a System space. Those scheming tenants? He doesn't even take them seriously. —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 130 My Father Ran Away from the Start 开局父亲跑路 My new work is here! You’re welcome to 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! 30Reads7.9Score—14d adds
- 131 Siheyuan: Wang Dali's Happy Life 四合院：王大力的快乐生活 The author has revised some of the plot and the cringe-worthy parts. Readers who are interested can go back and take another look. No book in the world can suit everyone. This is the author's first book, so there are bound to be some parts that aren't entirely rigorous. Wang Dali accidentally transmigrates to 1962 and arrives in the world of "Full Courtyard of Birds." He also becomes a resident of the back courtyard. But because his parents left him three rooms, the Jia family sets its sights on 359Reads5.1Score—14d adds
- 132 Love in the Courtyard: A Carefree Bystander 情满四合院：悠闲路人甲 After unexpectedly arriving in Love in the Courtyard, Lu Xu faced Yi Zhonghai, the sanctimonious hypocrite known as First Master; Jia Zhangshi, the shameless, quarrelsome necromancer; the courtyard’s so-called “war god,” the protagonist nicknamed Silly Zhu, whose real name was He Yuzhu, who inherited his father’s noble habit of loving widows; Qin Huairu, a beautiful but insincere widow raising three children; Liu Haizhong, the Second Master, who craved official status, loved throwing his weight 226Reads—Score—14d adds
- 133 Is This a Joke? 岂非儿戏 [Supernatural powers + transmigrate] [Comedic transmigration into a book] ^O^ Please don't read if this bothers you~ The invincible young Chen Long gains supernatural powers after stumbling upon an ancient magical artifact. He can summon wind and rain, and travel through countless lands. Using the Twin Fish Jade Pendant, he enters parallel worlds, visits Journey to the West, takes on Water Margin, and ventures into Dream of the Red Chamber, unraveling the unsolved mysteries of the myriad worlds. 1Reads—Score—14d adds
- 134 Siheyuan: Silly Zhu Changes His Fate After Being Reborn 四合院：傻柱重生后逆天改命 He Yuzhu, who was driven out of the courtyard and froze to death beneath a bridge, is reborn at the age of sixteen. In 1951, He Daqing abandons He Yuzhu and his younger sister, who is only six years old. That year, He Yuzhu is still an apprentice at Jinfeng Garden, and he’ll be able to take the college entrance exam in 1952. With the help of his Slightly Overpowered Life System, he gets stronger by working himself to the bone. He becomes not only the top chef in the capital, but also the city’s 1.6kReads5.4Score10014d adds
- 135 Siheyuan: I Just Want to Be a Bystander 四合院：我只想当，看客 In his thirties and from Qing City, Wancheng, Wang Xiaowu was riding his electric scooter along a country road when a box truck knocked him into the nearby river. He fought to swim upstream, but the scooter shorted out and electrocuted him. The current swept him to the riverbed, where, as he lay dying, a black hole sucked him in. When he opened his eyes again, he was in Beijing in the 1960s. He had landed in the world of a TV drama. Fortunately, transmigration always comes with cheats that are b 4.5kReads7.1Score12114d adds
- 136 Siheyuan: I Beat the Crap Out of the Birds, Then Turned Around and Married Yu Li 四合院：虐爆众禽，我反手娶于莉 [A Love in the Courtyard fan fiction with a System, satisfying face-slapping, and ruthless comeuppance for scumbags] Song Yu transmigrates into Love in the Courtyard, equipped with a god-tier System to make the courtyard’s vermin cry. He catches Qin Huairu cheating, beats Jia Dongxu to a pulp, and takes the place and prestige of the courtyard’s three elders. Then he casually chats up Yu Li. Life couldn’t be sweeter! 3.6kReads5.2Score22014d adds
- 137 Siheyuan: A Bludgeon Is the Only Way to Go 四合院：闷棍才是硬道理 He took the bamboo basket and strode briskly toward the shop's back courtyard. His heart was still racing, but this was a different rhythm from nervousness, the giddy excitement of finally drawing close to his destination. 1.6kReads5.1Score—14d adds
- 138 Siheyuan: The Yan Family’s Qilin Son 四合院之阎家的麒麟儿 Yan Jiecheng, the eldest son of the Yan family. A touch of antagonism, with both clever schemes and bold confrontations. He gets along with the Jia family by “fighting them tooth and nail.” In an era when the whole nation was caught up in a great drive to build the country, an overlooked nobody in a siheyuan is inhabited by the soul of a middle-aged engineer from 2023. Reborn, Du Baojun (Yan Jiecheng) works hard to live a serious life in a courtyard full of scoundrels. He watches them, takes the 3kReads6.6Score10414d adds
- 139 Siheyuan: Taking Silly Zhu’s Place from the Start 四合院开局替代傻柱 9.2kReads7.5Score22614d adds
- 140 Siheyuan: I, He Yuzhu, Am the Biggest Street Loafer 四合院：我，何雨柱，第一街溜子 An utterly ordinary college student transmigrated into a courtyard compound and became He Yuzhu, a mere fourteen years old. From the start, he obtained a sign-in System. Using his invisibility skill, he sent his deadbeat father to prison before the man could run off with a widow and all the family’s money. With the money his father had saved over the years, He Yuzhu and his younger sister began living a spicy life. - He had thought he was here to take on the scoundrels of the courtyard, but He Y 3.5kReads7.7Score10614d adds
- 141 Siheyuan: He Yuzhu Is Reborn with Mastery of Every Profession 四合院：重生何雨柱，全职业精通 One day, he transmigrates to the 1950s and becomes He Yuzhu. His father ran off? Good riddance. His little sister is still young? All the better. He'll raise her properly so she doesn't grow up to be an ungrateful brat. What would it be like to gain a new skill every day? With the help of his System, He Yuzhu's life gets better and better. There's no end to family drama and petty squabbles. The lives of ordinary people unfold, one scene at a time. 25Reads8.0Score—14d adds
- 142 Siheyuan: Silly Zhu's Little Everyday Life 四合院之傻柱的小日子 Reborn before He Daqing runs away, he has no desire to be bled dry this time around, nor does he expect to become rich and powerful. All he wants is a peaceful life and a wife to share an ordinary existence with. But... 17.5kReads7.6Score63614d adds
- 143 I'm He Yuzhu, the God of Cooking in the Siheyuan 四合院我何雨柱是厨神 A modern man transmigrates into He Yuzhu. He refuses to be a doormat, and he certainly won’t support a bunch of people who have nothing to do with him in their old age. He Yuzhu is not only the king of the courtyard, but also a master chef. Dongpo pork, kung pao chicken, twice-cooked pork, mapo tofu, Dongpo pork knuckle, husband-and-wife lung slices... It smells so good, enough to make every beast in the courtyard drool with envy. 11.6kReads7.5Score44914d adds
- 144 Siheyuan: Jiang Hantou Lets Loose 四合院：放飞自我蒋憨子 [If you've got a lot of hostility, don't come in. Don't come in if you've got a lot of hostility. Don't come in if you've got a lot of hostility. There are plenty of other courtyard novels that start with killing, killing, killing. This one isn't for you. Seriously. It's extremely toxic and could kill you.] [Lighthearted and funny. The protagonist is a scheming jokester who gets his revenge by striking at people's hearts from behind the scenes. The revenge unfolds slowly. He only likes to provok 12Reads8.4Score—14d adds
- 145 Siheyuan: Reborn as a Martyr's Family Member, Brimming with Positive Energy 四合院：魂穿成烈属，浑身正能量 (Not too dark) Lu Chunsheng accidentally transmigrates into the world of Love in the Courtyard. From the start, he swindles Jia Zhangshi out of two jin of cornmeal. Later, everyone realizes that anyone who crosses him is bound to meet a bad end... 3.2kReads7.2Score12314d adds
- 146 A Nobody in the Siheyuan 四合院一边缘人 A fine young man from the 21st century transmigrates into the world of the Siheyuan. With a System, Li Miao only wants to live a good life with his mother. But in this courtyard full of people who resent others’ good fortune, laugh at their misfortune, despise you for being poor and fear you’ll become rich, staying out of trouble is impossible. So Li Miao has no choice but to outwit the courtyard’s bullies! A story about giving them a run for their money and turning the place upside down! 34Reads7.1Score—14d adds
- 147 Siheyuan: Starting with Bicycle Repairs 四合院：从修自行车开始 This book isn't too intense. It's a peaceful story set in an era of everyday life. The protagonist transmigrates to 1962 and lives across the hall from Third Uncle. He isn't a character from the original show. An utterly ordinary slice-of-life novel, about as exciting as a primary school essay. I try to keep things close to what life was really like back then, and to reflect the customs and social norms of ordinary people. I try not to be a homewrecker or collect junk, not to make everything ab 118Reads5.1Score—14d adds
- 148 Siheyuan: Steal Luck to Make Delicious Food 四合院：夺人气运做美食 Lin Hai became an orphan at twelve. One night, drunk, he crashed into a TV and transmigrated into a siheyuan. After activating the Big Boss System, Lin Hai set out to steal other people's fortunes and trade them for gourmet skills. At the factory, he keeps a low profile as the cafeteria director. At home, he enjoys the company of beautiful women and delicious food. One day, his soul arrives in the courtyard, and all the scheming neighbors gather. If you ask how to deal with them, Lin Hai cries o 5kReads8.1Score25014d adds
- 149 Transmigrating Through TV Shows, Starting with the Siheyuan 穿越影视从四合院开始 Starting in a Beijing courtyard, this story spans a long period and brings together several film and TV universes, including The Courtyard, Hutong, and Glorious Times. But it is not solely a courtyard drama. Spanning many years, it features war, family bonds, and love, as well as one person doing what they can to help build a new world! Complete at one million words, so read with confidence. 42Reads9.1Score—14d adds
- 150 Siheyuan: The Little School 四合院之小学堂 Niu Xiaoman unexpectedly arrived in the world of the courtyard as an ordinary passerby. Looking at the courtyard full of beasts, each with a whole host of masters in their own right, he felt a chill all over. When the beasts turned to look at him, Niu Xiaoman tucked his face into his trouser pocket, pulled out a dime, and said: “Whoever helps me find the neighborhood office director and file a police report can have this dime.” The beasts were speechless. And so the law-enforcement pioneer Niu X 75Reads8.7Score—14d adds
