Novels like Siheyuan: Running for Courtyard Chief from the Start, the Whole Courtyard Is Stunned
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- 1 Reborn in 1979: The Old Man’s Rise to the Top 重生79：极品老汉风生水起 [Reborn] [Period] [Silver Hair] [Feel-Good Revenge] [Family Life] Chen Guanghan, a seventy-year-old man, is reborn in the days when his children are still leeching off him. In his previous life, he and his wife played favorites, leaving them destitute in their old age. This time, history won’t repeat itself! Chen Guanghan decides to kick out his unfilial children, beat some respect into his disrespectful daughters-in-law, deal with his wicked neighbors, report his corrupt superiors, and punish t 390Reads5.8Score—Shelves
- 2 Beware This Old Man 当心这个老头 A young soul from another world merges with the body of a dead man over eighty years old. Their memories intertwine, bringing together two very different lives. What kind of personality will emerge? One is kindhearted, timid, and a little lecherous; the other is decisive and selfless. Is he one or the other, neither, or somehow both? Come see how an old man takes the city by storm and crushes every foe. 22Reads—Score—Shelves
- 3 Siheyuan: I Invited Qin Huairu for Fried Chicken from the Storeroom on Day One 四合院：库房开局请秦淮茹吃炸鸡 [Siheyuan + System + scheming + Cao Cao] Liu Mang ate a piece of returned fried chicken and, carrying the Sell-Your-Crotch Prison System, transmigrated into the world of the TV series The Courtyard Full of Birds. When he opened his eyes, Qin Huairu was standing right in front of him. This is a heartwarming story set in a traditional courtyard house. —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 4 Siheyuan: I Married Bai Ling, but She Won't Share My Bed 四合院：娶妻白玲，她却不圆房 Ye Yuning still hadn't received any word from the rescue workers, and it was making him very unhappy. In this world, there was only one way to survive: rely on yourself! That was what he thought when the zombie horde attacked a week ago. Then Yuning hid inside the house and waited for someone to come save him. —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 5 Siheyuan: From Having Nothing to Becoming the World’s Richest 四合院，从一无所有，到世界首富 From a street food stall to the owner of a food factory… From repairing cars to running an automobile factory… From having nothing to becoming the richest person in the world… All you need is a System. I’m Chen Ping'an, and I’m my own spokesperson. 318Reads5.4Score—Shelves
- 6 Siheyuan: He Yuzhu's Ordinary Life 四合院，何雨柱的平凡生活 Their father ran off with a widow, leaving the brother and sister to depend on each other. Everyone minds their own doorstep and leaves others to deal with the frost on their roof. Low on hostility, low on violence, and a little saintly: just an ordinary person living an ordinary life. The blurb doesn't do it justice, so please read the novel. —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 7 Siheyuan: From the Start, I’m a Patrol Officer, and the Whole Courtyard Gets Arrested on the Spot 四合院：开局巡捕，全院就地正法 When Zhang Weijun woke up, he had already become a fallen soldier. After returning from the Northeast, he was reassigned to the courtyard compound and became a police officer. Who could have guessed those brutes would actually seize Jia Zhangshi and throw him in prison? Jia Dongxu? Execute him on the spot! Yi Zhonghai is a profiteering merchant who traffics in state-owned assets. He deserves to be executed! That deaf old lady is actually an enemy spy? Shoot her on the spot! 789Reads—Score—Shelves
- 8 My Unfilial Descendants Dug Me Up 我被不肖子孙挖出来了 My cultivation reached the heavens and earth, my fame shook the universe, I trampled countless geniuses underfoot and plucked the sun, moon, and stars from the sky. I was invincible for thousands of years! But somehow, a bunch of unworthy descendants dug me up! They used my coffin lid as a divine artifact for setting up formations, and pried the spirit ring from my hand to auction off... Worse still, these unworthy descendants even tried to strip off my underclothes! Their ancestor is furious! I 3Reads5.8Score—Shelves
- 9 Siheyuan: Reporting Yi Zhonghai and Sending Him to Prison from the Start 四合院：开局举报易中海蹲大牢 In his old age, He Yuzhu was thrown out of the Jia family's home by those ungrateful wretches. Looking back on his life, all he could feel was helplessness. On a snowy, rainy morning, He Yuzhu couldn't hold on any longer and froze to death beneath a bridge. As he died, He Yuzhu never expected that Xu Damao, his lifelong enemy, would come to collect his body. “Silly Zhu... We've both been played. We've both been played!” Hearing Xu Damao's lament, He Yuzhu thought back on the past. With the last 98Reads5.4Score—Shelves
- 10 Sir, You're 80 Years Old, and You Still Get Around! 大爷，你都80岁了，玩的真花！ [Urban][Showbiz][Shenanigans][Daily Life][Lighthearted][Multiple Female Leads] After transmigrating to a parallel world, Zhuang Bilin was devastated. From the start, he’d become a decrepit eighty-year-old man, lying on his bed on the verge of death while everyone in the village waited for the funeral banquet. What? He’d gone straight from thirty to eighty? He’d skipped nearly fifty years of detours! But after astonishing everyone just before he died, Zhuang Bilin successfully unlocked the Old Ma 1Reads—Score—Shelves
- 11 I Transmigrated into a Man Over Sixty 我穿越成六十多岁老大爷 Wu Yu transmigrated from being a security guard and food deliveryman into the body of a 65-year-old man. The old man had received two homes and a substantial amount of cash in compensation for a demolition years ago, but had squandered it all. Now he weighed 200 jin and suffered from high blood pressure, heart disease, and fatty liver disease. Afterward, Wu Yu activated a System. As long as he completed the tasks it assigned, he could keep losing weight, earn cash rewards, and eventually gain su 136Reads—Score—Shelves
- 12 Siheyuan: My Soul Transmigrates into Silly Zhu in 1966, and I Defy Fate 四合院：魂穿六六傻柱，逆天改命 [Courtyard + System + Comedy] Xu Qi'an has normal intelligence but an appallingly low emotional quotient, provoking the wrath of Heaven. He was supposed to transmigrate into Cao Aman, but by a twist of fate, he ends up in He Yuzhu's body in the courtyard of 1966. With no other choice, he keeps his head down in the courtyard's cesspit, playing the sly operator as he quietly grows stronger, improves his people skills, and defies fate. Using the advanced knowledge he gained before transmigrating, —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 13 Siheyuan: From the Start, Set Up a Match with Ding Qiunan 四合院：开局相亲丁秋楠 Year 1952. Wu Dongxi arrives at the courtyard and, from the start, teams up with Jia Dongxu to arrange a matchmaking date. One gets Ding Qiunan, the other Qin Huairu... Then the System suddenly arrives. Only children have to choose! —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 14 Transmigration: Starting by Burying Yi Zhonghai Alive in the Siheyuan 穿越：从四合院活埋易中海开始 [Not saintly + always repays a grudge + selfish + supreme self-regard + utterly ruthless + highly vengeful + lecherous + doesn't care about logic, as long as it's satisfying] Zhao Dagen, a food delivery guy, suddenly dies while making a delivery. His soul transmigrates into the body of a man in the 1960s who has the same name and was just beaten to death. After absorbing the body's original owner's memories, Zhao Dagen discovers that the man was killed by Sha Zhu and Jia Dongxu. The former owner —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 15 My Four Strange Godfathers in the Siheyuan 四合院之我的四位奇怪干爹 My new story is out! You can read my work 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—Shelves
- 16 A Book by You Lu Xi 有鹿兮的一本书 A new work is now available! You can read my stories on Fanqie Novel. I hope you’ll enjoy them. Your support is what keeps me writing, and I’ll do my best to tell every story well! 4Reads—Score—Shelves
- 17 Siheyuan: Even the Number One Grandpa Goes Wild 四合院：一大爷也疯狂 Same old setup, a different story. A scumbag young man from the 21st century dies during a date after going all the way, only to wake up in a courtyard full of beasts. After shamelessly begging everyone from his grandpa on down, he finally gets an unreliable Choice System. What, you're older and have higher seniority? So what? He's taking you all down. 2Reads—Score—Shelves
- 18 In the 1970s, the Old Man Who Was Raised as a Child Bridegroom Rises to Power! 七十年代，童养夫老头崛起了！ Yang Shiba’s soul traveled back in time to the 1970s and entered the body of an old child-bride’s husband. Though he was only in his forties, he looked sixty or seventy. As soon as Yang Shiba arrived, he found himself facing the original owner’s wife, who wanted a divorce. Faced with her and her former husband, Yang Shiba decisively said goodbye. After forcefully divorcing her and splitting up the household, Yang Shiba turned around and discovered an entire family of children and grandchildren f 21Reads6.8Score—Shelves
- 19 Siheyuan: I Went to Get Revenge on Silly Zhu, and the Whole Courtyard Panicked 四合院：我找傻柱报仇，全院慌了 [Siheyuan, System, Portable Space, High Hostility] Ning Chen transmigrates into the Siheyuan, only to become someone the whole courtyard can bully at will? No way! Silly Zhu picks a fight with me? I'll take him down and get my revenge! Jia Dongxu covets my stuff? I'll report you for stealing public property, no questions asked. Go sit in jail first! Yi Zhonghai wants to scheme into making me support him in his old age? Get lost! If you don't want to be the head of this Siheyuan, I can take over! 15Reads—Score—Shelves
- 20 Siheyuan: From the Start, I Forced the Bullies to Move Out, Leaving the Whole Courtyard Stunned 四合院：开局逼禽兽腾房全院麻了 Li Cheng arrived in a courtyard house and became an ordinary man. He lived a happy life, and Qin Huairu and Yu Li often asked matchmakers to find them husbands, making many of the courtyard's scoundrels jealous. But after his parents passed away, Qin Huairu was egged on by Deaf Granny and Yi Zhonghai to marry Jia Dongxu. Yu Li, meanwhile, was introduced to Yan Jie by Yan Bugui's deaf old mother and got together with him. They even set their sights on one of the houses in Li Cheng's home, hoping 19Reads—Score—Shelves
- 21 I'm 80, and I've Got a Romance System! 80岁，来了个恋爱系统！ Lu Yu died in a car accident, and his soul transferred into the body of an eighty-year-old man with no family to support him, who was on the brink of death... He even awakened a System... But... This System... seems... a little... unsavory... 123Reads5.8Score—Shelves
- 22 Yin He Sha's 8th Book 银河沙的第8本书 Wei Jianguo, a great scientist who studied time and space, was reborn in the 1960s in a courtyard compound, bringing along the portable space he had created before an accident in the lab. Knowing nothing about the vicious residents of the courtyard, he used a scientist's intelligence and instincts to enjoy a good life in the compound and at the steel mill. From the start, he sent Deputy Factory Director Yang Huaide to prison. Qin Huairu, Qin Jingru, Liang Zhaodi, and Lou Xiaoe all had something 8Reads6.1Score—Shelves
- 23 Reborn in 1970: The Bastard Old Man's Road to Redemption 重生七零，混蛋老头的救赎之路 The lonely old man Su Dagang died, and his sister-in-law Liu Juan took care of his funeral. Su Dagang was reborn in the prime of his life. In his previous life, Su Dagang drove his little granddaughter and daughter-in-law to their deaths. His younger son, overcome with grief, died on the battlefield while carrying out a mission. His younger daughter married and never returned, cutting off all contact. His eldest son’s family, whom he had always favored, saw no benefit in keeping him around and f 30.5kReads8.2Score2.4kShelves
- 24 Siheyuan: I’m Old Xu, and I Want It All! 四合院：我老许，要，什么都要！ Transmigrating into Love in the Courtyard. Becoming Xu Damao, complete with a built-in buff. By coincidence, Jia Dongxu has just had an accident, and Qin Huairu has just started working at the factory. As a generous man among the factory workers, how could he possibly not help Qin Huairu? Sister Qin, the family's short on money and you want steamed buns? Will this be enough, Sister Qin? Enough? —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 25 Siheyuan: Silly Zhu Changes His Fate for a Cheat-Code Life 四合院：傻柱改命，开挂人生 Zhang Hao transmigrates into Love in the Courtyard and, by a stroke of bad luck, becomes He Yuzhu, the most pathetic and unlucky character in the show, at least in Zhang's opinion. But with the System's help, He Yuzhu is no longer the foolish chef everyone knew. He's now a man of substance, heart, and backbone. Relying on his knowledge of the plot and the System's support, he turns every scheme in the courtyard into a complete failure. Yi Zhonghai feels as if he's fallen into a pit. When his sch 354Reads5.4Score—Shelves
- 26 Siheyuan: From the Start, I Ate a Hamburger and Made the Whole Courtyard Drool 四合院：开局吃汉堡，全院馋哭了 He transmigrates into the Siheyuan as Zhou Baoguo, a dim-witted little fool whose parents died young. Everyone in the courtyard bullies him, seeing that he has no one to rely on. Banggeng shoves him, and he hits his head, develops a high fever, and falls into a coma. Instead of saving his life, these people want to let him die on his own and scheme to take his house. His overwhelming instinct to survive awakens the System. Whenever he triggers someone else's emotions, he can earn treasure chests 2Reads—Score—Shelves
- 27 A Wacky Life Begins in the Siheyuan 鬼马人生从四合院开始 The beginning of the three-year period of hardship in 1959! An unlucky otaku transmigrates into the world of the Siheyuan and uses his superpowers to right some of the injustices around him... There's not too much hostility at the beginning. The story follows how some of the Siheyuan residents' personalities change... It also includes a few supernatural mystery chapters... Watch as the protagonist changes the fates of the residents of Siheyuan No. 95 on Nanluoguxiang... —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 28 Siheyuan: I Want the Money and the Girl, You Do Whatever You Like! 四合院之我人财全要，你们随意！ If it's good fortune, you can't avoid it; if it's misfortune, you can't escape it. Sure enough, Chen Da had just finished watching Love in the Courtyard when he transmigrated into the very same courtyard. Looking at himself, all alone, and then at the courtyard full of scoundrels, Chen Da cried out in despair, “Heavens, send down a bolt of lightning and strike me dead!” Rumble! A loud crash rang out. But it wasn't lightning. It was the System arriving. Chen Da: “I'm doomed...” —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 29 Siheyuan: Starting Out as an Ordinary Resident 四合院：从普通住户开始 “Yongming, where did your younger brother go? Did he finish that shovel he mentioned? A single shovel lasts over a month. I’ve never seen anything like it in my entire life!” Yongming held back his laughter and continued, “Big Brother has just grasped a new martial art. He wants to train for three more days. Once his strength has greatly increased, he’ll be able to serve the nation.” —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 30 Siheyuan: After They Took My Advice, the Beasts Ended Up in Prison 四合院：听劝后，众禽牢狱之灾 Lin Chenghua transmigrates into the world of a TV-and-film fanfiction set in a courtyard. Listen to good advice, and you'll never go hungry. Whenever he follows someone else's advice and acts on it, he receives all kinds of rewards. Auntie Number One: “I only tricked that fool into going out to dig for wild vegetables with me. How did he end up digging up a whole box of gold bars? My heart...” Uncle Number One: “You offended me and still think you can get a job at the Red Star Steel Mill? I'll m 1.8kReads5.1Score—Shelves
- 31 Siheyuan: I Took Advice from the Start, and the Troublemakers Lost Their Minds 四合院：开局听劝，禽兽们气疯了 My new work is out! Come 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—Shelves
- 32 So What If I'm Old? Old Men Can Be Immortals Too! 老头怎么了？老头也是神仙！ Chen Daozhi is the mountain god of Panmo Mountain, an old man who has lived for more than three hundred years. His territory is remote and sparsely populated, so he receives few offerings of incense. His colleagues have all worked their way up to seventh-rank officials over the past three centuries, while he is still a lowly ninth-rank functionary. 27Reads8.4Score—Shelves
- 33 Siheyuan: From the Start, I Report the Deaf Old Lady as an Enemy Spy 四合院：开局我举报聋老太是敌特 [Siheyuan Courtyard + System + Feel-Good Story] Lin Feng transmigrates into a siheyuan courtyard and gets a System that makes life a breeze. Right from the start, he reports Granny Deaf as an enemy spy, showing all those courtyard bullies just how much trouble he can be! 42Reads—Score—Shelves
- 34 From the Start, I Deliver a Face-Slapping Blow to Yi Zhonghai, Shocking the Whole Courtyard 开局打脸易中海，全院震惊 Chen Feng wakes up one night and finds himself back in the courtyard. This time, he doesn't give his gift to Yi Zhonghai, who kicks him out instead. But Chen Feng is incredibly lucky: he actually manages to awaken his System. He steadily climbs the ranks, becoming a senior engineer, while Yi Zhonghai is left disgraced and filled with regret. “If only I'd known, I should have driven Chen Feng out of the courtyard!” “Wait! Master Chen, please take me on as your disciple!” 18Reads—Score—Shelves
- 35 A Simple Life in the Siheyuan 四合院之平淡人生 After transmigrating into Love in the Courtyard, Wang Yue becomes the First Aunt from the TV series. With her golden finger, she changes the fates of most of the people around her and lives happily with the First Uncle. 5Reads—Score—Shelves
- 36 Siheyuan: I Report the Deaf Old Lady for Speculation from the Start 四合院：开局举报聋老太太投机 Lin Zhen finds himself in Love in the Courtyard. After leaving the military, he becomes a Level 9 engineer. Then he awakens the Emotion Value System. Is it hard for technicians to get promoted? I, Lin Zhen, can level up in just ten minutes! Jia Zhangshi stole my house? I might as well have her sent to a labor camp! Is Qin Huairu playing me? I'll make you mine! I, Lin Zhen, am the master here. —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 37 The Siheyuan Playboy 四合院海王 He transmigrates into the world of the courtyard and obtains a womanizer sign-in System. And so, a romantic rake is born. From then on, the courtyard fills with the scent of love, its air ripples with the sweet troubles of happiness, and its residents struggle through tales of unbridled caprice. —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 38 Siheyuan: Acquiring the Sharingan from the Start 四合院：开局获得写轮眼 Wang Yuzhi accidentally transmigrated to the 1960s, into a beast-filled courtyard, and gained the utterly unrelated Mangekyo Sharingan, which he uses to put these beasts in their place. Morally blackmail the First Uncle, put the Second Uncle in his place, scheme to get benefits from the Third Uncle, deal with the thieving little saint Banggeng, take advantage of bloodsucking Qin Huairu, and summon the dead right in front of Jia Zhangshi. 380Reads—Score—Shelves
- 39 I, a Max-Level Old Man, Go All Out and Shock the Entire Internet! 我，满级大爷，为命疯狂震全网！ [Wild imagination + lighthearted + seventy-year-old man + System] Zhang Wenliang transmigrates into the body of an old man with a diseased liver, a heart bypass, a cyst on his spleen, completely blackened lungs, and only one kidney left... From the start, the System's assessment is: “It's a miracle the Host isn't dead yet.” After the System tells him he needs to earn Shock Points to redeem items, Zhang Wenliang opens the System and his eyes light up! Kidneys (the foundation of innate vitality, m 49Reads5.9Score—Shelves
- 40 Siheyuan: A Blizzard Rages, So I Head to the City to Find Old Yi 四合院：大雪漫天，进城找老易 After three straight days of heavy snow, darkness closes in and icy winds roar across the land. Yi Feng, who has transmigrated here, sits on his bed, shivering. It is the harsh natural-disaster period of the three difficult years, and many people in the village have frozen to death. Even his own elderly mother can barely withstand the cold. Getting back on their feet will be no easy feat. They have only one way out: find his uncle, Yi Zhonghai, in the capital. Without hesitation, Yi Feng takes h —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 41 Siheyuan: Qin Huairu Uses Her Beauty to Teach the Beasts a Lesson 四合院：秦淮茹施美人计虐禽 "It's not fair to let Qin Huairu ruin Silly Zhu's life all by himself!" "If this is a courtyard full of beasts, then shouldn't we torment them one by one?" In 2023, the lovesick Qin Datou transmigrated into Qin Huairu's body in 1965. His assigned System was Lin Jingjing, a beautiful older woman who had been tormented to death by beasts. Hate: 999,999,994 Vitality: 000,000,006 A beautiful System whose vitality had been severely suppressed by hatred, A man who had died for love, If they wanted to —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 42 My Quiet Little Life in the Siheyuan 我在四合院的小日子 Li Jie inexplicably transmigrates to the 1950s and moves into No. 95 Nanluoguxiang, where he gets a sign-in System. From then on, he no longer has to worry about making ends meet. How will things unfold? 736Reads5.4Score—Shelves
- 43 Siheyuan: From the Start, I Give Yi Zhonghai a Son 四合院：开局就送了易中海一个儿 In 1953, a weighty page of history turned. The story of the siheyuan courtyard was far from over, and Wang Baoguo unexpectedly found himself in Love in the Courtyard, where he began a legendary life! —Reads5.6Score—Shelves
- 44 A Different Path Through the Siheyuan 四合院别样人生路 Welcome, everyone, and thank you for reading my work. This book isn't filled with so much hostility. The protagonist's parents and siblings are all alive and well, so he won't have to endure the misery of living under someone else's roof or being pushed around. He only needs to keep a low profile and build up his strength early on. In the middle, he'll make a name for himself, and in the end, he'll rise to prominence and become unstoppable. I hope you'll follow along! 11Reads—Score—Shelves
- 45 Jia Zhangshi of the Siheyuan: While Others Fight for the Household, I Farm 四合院之贾张氏，别人宅斗我种田 After transmigrating into the drama Love in the Courtyard as Jia Zhangshi, a character disliked both on and off screen, Zhang Jiajia can only shake her head and sigh. Her good-for-nothing son Jia Dongxu is already dead, and Qin Huairu, who spent more than a decade mourning him in the show, is actually planning to remarry?! Zhang Jiajia says: Respect other people's choices, and stop trying to save them! She'll just grow crops, raise the kids, and enjoy her own little life! 4Reads—Score—Shelves
- 46 Siheyuan: Silly Zhu's Extraordinary Life 四合院：傻柱的妖孽人生 Petty, trivial matters were the most genuine reflection of how neighbors interacted in that era. He Yu accidentally transmigrates to the Red Star Courtyard in the 1960s and awakens a simp System! From the eighty-year-old deaf Granny to little Huaihua, who's only three or four, every single one is a target! This is utterly depraved, worse than an animal! —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 47 Siheyuan: With Skills Like Mine, How Could I Just Sit Back and Do Nothing? 四合院：我这实力怎么允许当老六 I returned to an era full of hope. I wouldn’t let those beasts trap me; I’d treat them as a little spice in life. Also, even though I want to be the sneaky one, my strength just won’t let me! —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 48 Siheyuan: I'm Taking the College Entrance Exam, Studying to Rise 四合院：我要高考，为崛起而读书 Reborn into a new life, He Yuzhu refuses to work in a factory and spend his whole life as a cook. From the start, he comes clean to He Daqing: he wants to study, to pursue knowledge for the sake of making the nation rise. He Daqing smacks him on the forehead with a spoon and says a steady job is the way to go. But He Yuzhu calmly replies, “Of all things, studying is the noblest!” I, He Yuzhu, have decided: in this new life, I will dedicate myself to science and technology! —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 49 Siheyuan: Silly Zhu Turns Foolish and Torments the Whole Lot 四合院之变傻柱虐众禽 After reading so many stories about the courtyard, I decided to write one myself. My writing isn’t great, so please don’t flame me in the comments. If you like it, keep reading. If not, feel free to leave. Thank you, everyone! 3.2kReads8.1Score113Shelves
- 50 Siheyuan: I'm a Good Person 四合院之我是好人 Li Qianjin transmigrated into the world of the courtyard compound and became an ordinary resident. From the start, he activated the sign-in System and married Lou Xiao'e. And so began his incredible journey of crushing all the vultures in the courtyard. —Reads—Score—Shelves
