Novels like Siheyuan: I Put Ma Hua to Work from the Start, and Silly Zhu Was Furious
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- 1 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
- 2 Siheyuan: Heavenly Master Yan Jiekuang 四合院：天师闫解矿 A modern young man, carrying memories of his past life, inherits a celestial master’s legacy and gains access to the space of his former life’s farmyard, his golden finger. His soul enters the body of Xie Kuang, the Yan family’s third son. He turns his life around in the courtyard compound and changes the fate of being sent to the countryside that awaited him in his previous life... 3Reads—Score—14d adds
- 3 Siheyuan: I'm Lin Tian Cai 四合院：我是林天才 Left behind in my previous life, blessed with a cheat in this one! Lin Tian's soul travels back to the 1950s, and he somehow becomes a sixth-grade pupil in a courtyard house? At least his family loves him, so there's no need to panic! Knowing how the story goes, he occasionally tests his skills. [Goal: Master both medicine and martial arts!] He studies under Wu, a master of Xingyi boxing and a renowned traditional Chinese doctor, and throws himself into combining Chinese and Western medicine! Th 24.1kReads7.7Score1.1k14d adds
- 4 Siheyuan: I Want Both Worlds 四合院：两界我全都要 Jiang Chen transmigrates into the world of the courtyard complex, becoming an unemployed street loafer with no parents. Fortunately, a System is never absent for someone who has transmigrated, and he gets a livestreaming System that lets him choose to go live every day. Each day, completing a livestream challenge earns him a treasure chest. Opening one can grant all sorts of rewards, and from then on his life becomes wonderfully eventful. 6.2kReads8.5Score26214d adds
- 5 Siheyuan: I'm Just a Player 四合院：我就是一个玩家 He suddenly arrives in the 1950s, in the world of Full Courtyard House, where he’ll receive the courtyard residents’ “kindness” and “care.” Watch how Yang Jun deals with this bunch of “good people” and lives a life of his own. 9.1kReads8.2Score17214d adds
- 6 Siheyuan: He Daqing Plans to Run Away from the Start 四合院：开局何大清要跑路 Transmigrating to 1952, He Yuzhu is left to care for his little sister, He Yushui, after He Daqing runs off. He gains a Spirit Spring Space. See how he makes his way in the world of Love in the Courtyard. 1.1kReads8.0Score11214d adds
- 7 Siheyuan: Traveling Between Two Worlds 四合院：游走两界 [Two worlds develop in parallel, a feel-good story about a wealthy man's daily life] [No romance with Qin Huairu. If you want to read about Qin Huairu, please move along.] [The protagonist starts out as an ordinary person and grows over time. The beginning is a little slow, so if you want him to be invincible from the start, this book isn't for you.] Jiang Yang, the owner of a small supermarket, accidentally obtained a ring that could let him transmigrate to the world of Love in the Courtyard. I 11.3kReads8.0Score53714d adds
- 8 Siheyuan: Five Tiger Sons at Home, Keeping the Vermin in Check 四合院：家有五虎，镇压众禽 The Lin family's five tough guys moved into the courtyard house, and everyone had better behave, or the five Lin brothers wouldn't hold back. With the five Lin brothers around, Jia Zhangshi no longer dared to summon spirits, Yi Zhonghai no longer dared to control the courtyard, and Silly Zhu finally behaved himself. 8.5kReads5.6Score30914d adds
- 9 Siheyuan: From the Start, I Have a Spell That Turns People into Sheep, Oh Yeah 四合院，开局就有变羊术，噢耶 [No toxicity, no angst, and definitely no cheating!] Yi Zhonghai actually killed White Widow! Liu Haizhong actually became a squad leader! Granny Jia ran away with Jia Banggeng! Lin Daniu transmigrated to a Beijing courtyard in 1958 and got the ability to turn people into sheep from the start. But something is off about this courtyard! [Has a pocket dimension + System + no saintly protagonist + multiple women!] 4.6kReads5.5Score15914d adds
- 10 Seventy Years of Laying Low in the Siheyuan 四合院苟生七十年 Gao Xiaowai's way of life is to keep his head down. He does it until it becomes a habit, until it becomes second nature. Just when Gao Xiaowai sees no hope of keeping his head down forever, fate plays a joke on him. Maybe he dreamed too sweetly, because when he wakes up, he's been thrown seventy years into the past. Gao Xiaowai's heart sinks. How is he supposed to survive now! 9kReads8.6Score28814d adds
- 11 Siheyuan: Head of the Household at Eight 四合院：8岁的我顶门立户 After Qin Shuli is discharged from the army, he dies saving someone on his way to university. He transmigrates into the body of an eight-year-old boy in Beiping in 1943. The boy’s father has been taken by the Japanese. His mother has been ill for years. He also has three-year-old twin siblings. With such a disastrous start, Qin Shuli decides to lie flat. Luckily, his golden finger arrives. He can take care of his family and kill Japanese soldiers at the same time. Every now and then, he also has 152Reads9.0Score—14d adds
- 12 Easygoing Days in the Siheyuan 四合院里的悠哉日子 Back in 1955, he begins a carefree life amid all the chaos of that legendary courtyard. See how a modern man gets by and lives his own modest life in that era! (A low on hostility, high on everyday life, and all about watching the drama kind of story.) 38.6kReads7.7Score1.9k14d adds
- 13 I Have a Universe That Starts in the Siheyuan 我有一个宇宙从四合院开始 One male protagonist (no female leads) + expanding across the universe + all kinds of transmigration After leaving his job, Hu Da, a programmer with a respectable career, plans to pass the time with some mental nourishment. On the way, he comes across a secondhand bookstall and buys the Four Great Classical Novels along with more than a dozen popular novels from years past. When Hu Da rereads Stellar Transformation, he idly imagines himself as the protagonist and starts cultivating by following 4.1kReads8.7Score15114d adds
- 14 Siheyuan: I Have a Little World of My Own 四合院：我有一个小世界 After exploring a glowing cave entrance on a sinkhole's cliff face, outdoor enthusiast Wang Yu transmigrates to the world of the Siheyuan, where he discovers that the glowing entrance is a portal to other worlds. Wang Yu leads a leisurely life in the Siheyuan world while exploring other worlds and selling weapons. Traveling back and forth between the two realms, he practices martial arts and cultivates immortality, living a carefree life. 22.7kReads8.2Score1.3k14d adds
- 15 Siheyuan: I, Jia Dongxu, Want to Be Reborn Too! 四合院：我贾东旭也要重生！ [Love in the Courtyard; wish-fulfillment!!!; comedy; transmigration; one female lead (Qin Huairu); pocket dimension] Silly Zhu next door has been working himself to the bone around the clock. It's about time I, Jia Dongxu, got to be the main character!!! Reincarnated as a man doomed to die young? This time, I'll hold this family together! You won't teach me properly? I'll cut ties with Yi Zhonghai and find myself a new master! Yi Zhonghai: “Dongxu, I was wrong!” Caught Jia Zhangshi sneaking 29.7kReads8.6Score1.7k14d adds
- 16 Siheyuan: I'll Live My Own Life, So Don't Bother Me! 四合院：我过我的日子，别烦我！ 49.5kReads7.2Score2k14d adds
- 17 Siheyuan: Reborn as Yi Zhonghai's Only Son 四合院：穿成易中海的亲儿子 [Period novel + witty and humorous + chosen-by-heaven System + no saintly heroine + face-slapping + slice of life] Yi Tianci is reborn as Yi Zhonghai's biological son in Love in the Courtyard, making him a bona fide rich second-generation heir. With the System at his side, Silly Zhu can no longer rely on protection, and Old Deaf Granny is no longer the revered matriarch. No one can escape. While dealing with the courtyard's troublemakers, he also catches the tide of the times and writes a remark 34kReads8.1Score2.6k14d adds
- 18 Siheyuan: In Less Than Six Months, I Gathered Enough for a Mahjong Table 四合院：不到半年，凑齐一桌麻将 2.2kReads5.9Score10514d adds
- 19 My Happy Life in the Siheyuan, You Wouldn’t Understand 四合院我的快乐，你不懂 Her soul transmigrates into a dying man in the Siheyuan. There’s no such thing as reasoning with people. With a System, he doesn’t have to care what anyone thinks. There’s only one thing to do: act. Multiple heroines, a slice-of-life focus, no angst, and no misery. 26kReads6.9Score1.4k14d adds
- 20 Siheyuan: One Smile from Him Leaves the Whole Courtyard Stunned 四合院：他一笑全院惊 Entirely handmade, no AI. Transmigration, lighthearted, multiple heroines, a warehouse, no hostility. When supplies are scarce, I have a supermarket. Enjoy a Cao thief’s life and live a different kind of existence. There’s no nightlife of glittering lights and bustling clubs, just the era’s shared activities. 17.5kReads6.8Score89514d adds
- 21 The Old Sixth Doctor in the Siheyuan 四合院里的老六医生 A medical PhD from the 21st century arrives in the 1950s. His mother has just passed away, and his father has started a new family in the Northeast. He studies hard, gets into a technical secondary school, and is assigned to the Hongxing Steel Rolling Mill. He moves into the compound at No. 95 Hongxing Street. Just as he enters, he runs into a general meeting of the residents. Will he let them have their way? 42.7kReads8.5Score1.6k14d adds
- 22 Siheyuan: From the Start, I'm Silly Zhu's Uncle, Taking Him into the Army 四合院，开局傻柱他叔，带他从军 Military story + no holier-than-thou protagonist After transmigrating as He Daqing's younger brother, He Daming, he sets out to change the future for himself and his nephew, He Yuzhu. As a regimental commander, He Daming resolutely takes him into the army, embarking on a moving and heroic journey together. 12.2kReads8.2Score47514d adds
- 23 Siheyuan: He Daqing Steals Qin Huairu Away, More Children, More Blessings 四合院何大清截胡秦淮茹多子多福 No poison, a pocket dimension, and a fast pace! He transmigrates into a Siheyuan, where Qin Huairu is still unmarried, so he’d better marry her before anyone else does! With a pocket dimension at his disposal and his combat power maxed out from the start, I’m not going to hold back! No self-righteous saint, no sneaky schemer, and no waiting until tomorrow. If there’s nothing going on, I’ll find an excuse to slap a few people around! 3.5kReads5.5Score10014d adds
- 24 Starting in the 1950s: Hunting, Raising Kids, Wooing Women, and Fighting the Beastly Neighbors 五十年代开局：打猎养娃撩妹斗禽 Check out my profile for my new book. Thanks! Courtyard setting + fan fiction + transmigration + male-oriented spin-off Zhao Shisan helped his female friend fix her drain. As he climbed out the window to escape, his foot slipped and he wound up in the world of Love in the Courtyard. His previous life had been too ordinary. This time, he wanted to live gloriously, wielding power over the world by day and sleeping in the arms of beautiful women by night. First, he set himself a modest goal: own te 2.9kReads6.9Score10114d adds
- 25 I’m Really Not a Scumbag Pillar 我真不是渣柱 Zhang Baoshi, a young man from the modern world, unexpectedly finds his soul transported into the body of Silly Zhu, a sixteen-year-old character from Love in the Courtyard. Having read plenty of fanfiction, he immediately swoops in on Qin Huairu and activates a pocket-dimension System, hoping to live a quiet life. But fate has other plans: Qin Huairu ends up marrying Jia Dongxu, leaving him utterly disheartened. Remembering how the Jia family drained him dry in the original story, until he froz 25Reads6.1Score514d adds
- 26 War of Resistance: A Bloody Fight for Our Homeland 抗战：血战山河 (War of Resistance, fighting Japan, defending home and country, patriotism, killing invading Japanese troops, killing Japanese soldiers, Bright Sword, Li Yunlong, Chu Yunfei, Kong Jie, Ding Wei, defending Nanjing, Nanjing, Unit 731 base, Unit 731) Lei Zhenshan, a 21st-century Special Forces instructor, transmigrates into 1938, a year of relentless Japanese attacks and endless artillery fire, and finds himself a battalion commander on the brink of disaster. The unfamiliar surroundings and body ma 1.8kReads7.2Score10614d adds
- 27 War of Resistance: I Help Li Yunlong of Bright Sword Defend Nanjing to the Death 抗战：我带亮剑李云龙死守南京城 War of Resistance + fighting the Japanese invaders + defending home and country + patriotism + Bright Sword + Li Yunlong + Chu Yunfei + Nanjing + Ding Wei + Kong Jie Li Xiaoyao was a border guard in the 21st century. During a joint international aid operation, he was tragically killed after stepping on a land mine while covering his allies’ retreat. When he opened his eyes again, he found himself a young soldier in the Red Fourth Front Army in 1935. The unfamiliar surroundings and body made him 6.3kReads6.4Score24314d adds
- 28 Siheyuan: Zhuzi Marries Li Xiuzhi, a Girl from Sichuan and Chongqing 四合院：柱子娶川渝妹子李秀芝 [Reborn + revenge + feel-good fiction + settling scores + courtyard compound + period feel-good fiction + one heroine + devoted husband + fiercely protective husband] P.S. A Sichuan girl's gentleness is at 100%. Li Xiuzhi took 97% of it with her when she fled the famine. All that's left is: “I'll count to three.” I, He Yuzhu, have crawled back from hell! In my previous life, Yi Zhonghai schemed to make me support him in old age, Liu Haizhong abused his authority to bully me, Yan Bugui nickeled a 5.1kReads5.4Score18614d adds
- 29 Siheyuan: I'm He Yushui's Older Brother 四合院：我是何雨水哥哥 [Courtyard setting + Silly Zhu + He Yuzhu + He Yuzhu’s older brother + no System + one female lead + period setting + a little hot-tempered, but not too much + won’t take a loss or let others push him around] My name is He Gaoheng. I’ve never trained in martial arts and couldn’t even hurt a chicken with my bare hands!!! One day, I transmigrated and became He Gaoheng, the older brother of Silly Zhu from the courtyard at No. 95 Nanluoguxiang! He Daqing, the He family’s pillar, ran off, leaving the 6.4kReads5.4Score18314d adds
- 30 Reborn as He Yushui: Little Cop, Hurry Up and Wash My Feet 魂穿何雨水小警察快来给本宫洗脚 He Xiaoyu, a mechanical engineer, suddenly died after working late night after night to finish technical drawings. When she opened her eyes again, she had become an eight-year-old girl named He Yushui, a pitiful little character with barely any presence, swept along by fate in the story of Love in the Courtyard, which she'd stayed up late reading. Looking at the small, thin figure in the mirror, He Xiaoyu took a deep breath. Since heaven had given her another chance at life, she would never let 12Reads5.8Score—14d adds
- 31 Xu Damao, the First-Blood Champion 一血达人许大茂 Crossing Between Worlds: Xu Damao's Modern Comeback Xu Damao, a top literature student, couldn't find a job after graduation and became obsessed with the TV drama Love in the Courtyard. He especially envied the womanizing, cunning “Xu Damao,” jokingly calling him a master of getting women into bed. Then one day, he transmigrated and became the very Xu Damao he “admired,” just as he was about to marry the wealthy Lou Xiao'e! Faced with a courtyard full of beastly neighbors, including the calc 2.3kReads5.7Score13314d adds
- 32 Reincarnated as He Daqing, I Marry Huairu and Change My Foolish Son's Fate 魂穿何大清娶淮茹为傻儿子改命 “Seven-character Regulated Verse: Reflections on Transmigrating into He Daqing” Within the courtyard, schemes bring both warmth and woe; Reborn, one hand can turn grief to joy. With clever plans, grain and meat nourish a thousand heirs; Careful mending brings two phoenixes together beneath love’s sky. Hidden talents flourish amid the bustle of the streets; A home rich in virtue opens a new path. Looking back at the lights and kitchen smoke, The He family’s branches thrive, leaning on the railing 3.2kReads6.6Score10814d adds
- 33 Siheyuan: Seeing the Scheme Through to the End 四合院之将截胡进行到底 [Multiple female leads, not for everyone] [Protagonists from various TV dramas collide, each with their own protagonist aura] [Disinfecting with iodine while whipping] Siheyuan, Zhengyang Gate, People Are Like Iron, Glorious Times, The Great New Era, Golden Wedding, Hutong, The Qiao Family Children... In the Name of the People, Ordinary Years, The War Between Two Women] [System for stealing female leads, self-interest, do-gooders, stay away] [No original female leads, characters from other stori 199.3kReads9.0Score13.5k14d adds
- 34 1960: Transmigrating to Nanluoguxiang 年代1960：穿越南锣鼓巷， New novel: Reborn in 1980: The Life I’ve Always Dreamed Of Also known as Li Laifu’s Happy Life in 1960s China. (No angst, comedy, farming, and everyday family life.) A short drama, comedy animations, and AI short dramas are now available. 201.2kReads9.4Score13.5k14d adds
