Novels like Siheyuan: Silly Zhu's Unrestrained Life
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- 1 Siheyuan: Become a Master Chef in the Red-Hot Years 四合院：在火红年代当厨神 He, who was watching TV, unexpectedly transmigrates into a courtyard compound and becomes He Yuzhu, the courtyard's pillar. “Where's my golden finger?” He has no golden finger, but He Yuzhu believes he can still make a wonderful life for himself in this era! 1Reads—Score—Shelves
- 2 Siheyuan: Assassin King System 四合院：刺客之王系统 Fang Yuan transmigrates to 1960 and takes up residence in a courtyard house, where he awakens the King of Assassins System and gains the art of stealth. After Jia Dongxu fails his skills assessment, Fang Yuan urges the people in the courtyard to ostracize his former self, which leads to Jia Dongxu's suicide. Fang Yuan swears revenge and goes on a killing spree, eventually wiping out all the vile residents of the courtyard. Each time he kills one, he receives a skill as a reward. 74Reads—Score—Shelves
- 3 Siheyuan: I Take Over a Little Tavern from the Start 四合院：开局接手小酒肆 He Yongnian transmigrates to the year 1952. He takes over a little tavern from the start and settles into a leisurely life. He becomes a carefree shopkeeper, outwitting deeply undercover agents and solving a bombing case that shakes the entire nation. Then, in the blink of an eye, he becomes a special agent. No need to clock in or punch a time card: he strolls along with a birdcage in hand. He hunts for antiques in Rouge Alley, striking bargain after bargain and making a fortune. Anyone who dare —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 4 Siheyuan: My System Is a Bit of a Coward 四合院：我的系统有点苟 A programmer transmigrates into the 1960s, into Love in the Courtyard. See how he gets along with all the different residents of the courtyard and what he makes of life's many ups and downs. Is this courtyard full of nasty people, or full of love? This book mainly covers events before 1965. There's no angst or hostility. My new work is out now, so 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! —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 5 Siheyuan: I Have a World of My Own 四合院：我有一个世界 First Master (Yi Zhonghai, the God of Moral Blackmail) Second Master (Liu Haizhong, an official-obsessed father who dotes on his sons and is repaid with filial devotion) Third Master (a meticulous, thrifty schoolteacher) Qin Huairu (a charming widow, a pure white lotus in an age of plenty) He Yuzhu (the Foolish God of War) Xu Damao (a despicable hypocrite, Team Leader Xu) Lou Xiao'e (a novice at the ways of the world) Love in the Courtyard tells the story of a small rural society in the old-era 42Reads—Score—Shelves
- 6 Siheyuan: A Wonderful Life with Ding Qiunan 四合院：与丁秋楠的美好生活 In a large courtyard house on Nanluoguxiang in the capital, a young woman shows up with a marriage contract. To her surprise, the man she is looking for is from the 21st century... —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 7 Reborn in 1978: Tie Niu Leads the Whole Village to Wealth 重生78：铁牛带领全村发家致富 “Woo... woo...” Lying on the railroad tracks, He Yuzhu heard the whistle of a train in the distance. He closed his eyes. He thought back over his life. He raised Qin Huairu's three children, only to be driven out of their home. —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 8 Siheyuan: The God of War Hall 四合院之战神殿 [A new work is out! You’re welcome to read my novel on Tomato Novel. I hope you enjoy it. Your support inspires me to write!] In his previous life, Zhao Hu was an orphan. After leaving the orphanage, he became a street punk. He died from blood loss after injuring his head in a fight. Unexpectedly, he transmigrates into a parallel-universe setting where the courtyard worlds have merged. The Dragon Kingdom is in its early years, and he also receives a sign-in summon System. Before he can celebrate 1Reads—Score—Shelves
- 9 Siheyuan: The Happy Life of a Procurement Officer 四合院：从采购员开始的快乐生活 After getting drunk, I was in a car accident and ended up in the courtyard. Seeing what the scoundrels there were up to, Li Pingan figured he was done for. Luckily, a transmigrator's golden finger arrived: take from the scoundrels and use it against the scoundrels. Li Pingan is determined to make these scoundrels find out how many floors you have to carry a sack of rice up, and let them feel the pain. 3.2kReads—Score130Shelves
- 10 Siheyuan: Mess With Me, and I’ll Make You Regret It 四合院：招惹我，谁惹坑哭你 After transmigrating to a courtyard compound full of awful people, Li Chengguo is delighted to find himself with two well-behaved four-year-old children. With the Get-Rich System at his fingertips, he can make friends with anyone. Widow Qin tries to seduce me into helping raise her child. Shameless! I’m terribly allergic to chicken, so count me out! Silly Zhu is willing to spend his wages and property supporting Qin Huairu’s family of bloodsuckers. That’s his choice. What does it have to do w —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 11 Siheyuan: Bled Dry by the Jia Family, I Starved to Death and Was Reborn 四合院：被贾家榨干，饿死后重生 Lu Junsheng transmigrates and, with Yi Zhonghai playing matchmaker, marries into the Jia family! Reborn for another life, is he really going to eat pig slop, live in a woodshed, become a castrated servant and work for free? Will he be exploited to death again? After awakening an emotion-collecting System, he gains a wealth of skills! Is Jia Dongxu paralyzed on one side? Damn it, he’ll make him paralyzed all over! Does Yi Zhonghai like to play the moral arbiter? Then he’ll ruin his reputation 1Reads—Score—Shelves
- 12 Siheyuan: I Became Yi Zhonghai's Nephew From the Start 四合院：开局成了易中海的侄子 Li Weiguo arrives in a courtyard house neighborhood. More importantly, he turns out to be Yi Zhonghai's nephew. As soon as Li Weiguo steps into the courtyard, a commotion breaks out. Yi Zhonghai gives him a bicycle. Li Weiguo even asks the government for two courtyards. He also gets Li Weiguo's job sorted out. First Aunt cooks and does the laundry for Li Weiguo every day. —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 13 Siheyuan: The Ace Reporter and My Magical Camera 四合院：金牌记者，我有魔幻相机 I Transmigrated into Love in the Courtyard. Zhang Rui'an became a factory reporter at the Red Star Steel Mill. He also acquired a magical camera. As long as he used its magical film to photograph technical procedures, Zhang Rui'an could instantly master top-tier skills. In these difficult times, Zhang Rui'an had no interest in squabbling with the courtyard busybodies. He only wanted to use his System to help the nation achieve its great rejuvenation, one step at a time. —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 14 Siheyuan: From the Start, I’m Treating Qin Huairu’s Hemorrhoids 四合院：开局给秦淮茹割痔疮 Also known as: The Courtyard: I Get the Peerless Medical Immortal System from the Start Li Luoping, a second-year medical student, transmigrates into the beast-filled courtyard and gets the Peerless Medical Immortal System. To his surprise, his very first patient is Qin Huairu, who has hemorrhoids... —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 15 Siheyuan: I Slap Deaf Granny in the Face from the Start 四合院：开局怒扇聋老太太 Yang Jianguo transmigrated into the world of Love in the Courtyard, becoming an idle street loafer whom everyone despised. From the start, he discovered that Old Deaf Lady had locked his wife up with Silly Zhu, hoping to persuade her to divorce him and marry Silly Zhu instead. What kind of man would put up with that? So Yang Jianguo didn't hesitate for a second. He turned around and slapped Old Deaf Lady hard across the face. From then on, Old Deaf Lady really was deaf. Because of this, Yang Jia —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 16 Siheyuan: Brother Biao Runs This Town, Tough as Nails and Never Short of Words 四合院，社会我彪哥，人狠话又多 The 1960s, courtyard life, a System, a pocket dimension, city life, and farming. Sun Biao transmigrated into the world of the courtyard and gained a Hatred Points System. Having already lost all hope in life, Sun Biao found a way to bring his daughter back to life through the System. Once he learned how to earn Hatred Points, he went all out to collect them, all for the sake of resurrecting his daughter. In the end, though, he still couldn't escape the law. By the time he got out of prison, his —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 17 Siheyuan: I'm Xu Damao, More Children, More Blessings 四合院：我许大茂，多子多福 Xu Damao transmigrated. The good news was that transmigrators got a System. The bad news was that he’d activated the more children, more blessings System! And he’d transmigrated as the Xu Damao from the Siheyuan, who had no children… System: I gave you a golden finger. If you don’t use it, don’t blame me for wiping you out! Xu Damao: Come on, don’t be like that. I’ll figure something out, okay? After successfully activating the System, Xu Damao discovered that things weren’t so simple after all… —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 18 Siheyuan: Sent to the Great Northern Wilderness from the Start! 四合院：开局就被派往北大荒！ Chen Xi transmigrates into a courtyard house and is sent to the Great Northern Wilderness right from the start! He had planned to spend a few years in the countryside as an educated youth, but instead he awakens the Everything Enhancement System. A humble thatched hut, a beautiful brick house, a luxurious mansion, another luxurious mansion... Barren wasteland, fertile soil, black earth, a primeval spirit field... Meanwhile, Chen Xi enjoys a comfortable life with the Little Dragon Maiden in his a —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 19 Siheyuan: From the Start, Beating Silly Zhu and Stealing Yu Li 四合院：开局拳打傻柱，截胡于莉 After transmigrating into the world of the courtyard house, Zhang Weiguo is schemed against by the bloodsucking Qin Huairu, who conspires with the so-called moral paragon Yi Zhonghai. His wife and children are torn from him, and his family is destroyed! Zhang Weiguo swears to wipe every beast in the courtyard clean off the face of the earth! Jia Zhangshi: “Little ancestor, please stop hitting me! I was wrong!” Qin Huairu: “Brother Weiguo, you’re so domineering! I’ll never dare do it again!” Yan 45Reads5.2Score—Shelves
- 20 Siheyuan: The Tumultuous 1960s 四合院：1960峥嵘年代 [Siheyuan Courtyard + Mild Antagonism + Everyday Life + A New Technological Nation] Li Chongwen is run over by a truck while saving someone. When he comes to, he discovers that he has transmigrated into the world of Love in the Courtyard in the 1960s and become Li Chongwen, a veteran who has returned to civilian life. Just as he thinks he can enjoy a warm life in the courtyard, with both parents alive and siblings on good terms, he gains a Survival in Desperate Situations System. All he has to d —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 21 Siheyuan: I Never Let Anyone Off When I'm in the Right 四合院：得理就不饶人 Siheyuan + System + scheming + comedy + a carefree life A person from the future transmigrates into a siheyuan and begins a hilarious new life. The residents of the courtyard have their ups and downs, but Zhang Jian's life just keeps going up, while the beasts' lives keep sinking lower and lower. He starts with a single bowl and becomes Zhang Bancheng after reform and opening up. The city of Beijing holds too many memories of Zhang Jian. If you've got a trick, use it. If you've got a plan, try i 30Reads5.9Score—Shelves
- 22 Siheyuan: I, Xu Damao, Am a Player in Life's Arena 四合院：在下许大茂，人生赛场的 After transmigrating to a courtyard in the 1960s, Xu Mao becomes the notorious, lecherous, selfish Xu Damao. But as a modern wage slave with the right values, he refuses to follow the same old path. There's nothing wrong with being a man, but he will never abandon his wife or act without conscience. Determined to reshape his life, Xu Mao begins planning a new path. However, he faces one major problem: he absolutely refuses to be known as a man who can't have children. Fortunately, Xu Mao activat 7Reads—Score—Shelves
- 23 Siheyuan: My Father Was an Underground Party Member, and the Whole Courtyard Is Shaken! 四合院：家父地下党，全院破防！ Zheng Zhi transmigrated to 1956. In his previous life, he had been a taxi driver, and he never expected to become a cart driver in this one, too. Since his father had died in prison after being wrongly accused, Zheng Zhi’s bad class background left him with no choice but to make a living pedaling a tricycle. Worst of all, his neighbors were a pack of beasts. With his wife and children in tow, Zheng Zhi lived a very humble life in the courtyard. Luckily, Zheng Zhi unlocked a golden finger, and hi —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 24 Siheyuan: Born to Be the Boss, So What If I’m Arrogant? 四合院：生而为爷，嚣张点怎么了 Chen Dongfeng transmigrates to a parallel world’s courtyard compound and becomes the universally admired Fourth Uncle. But he can’t bring himself to be happy. There’s only one reason: people keep trying to kill me… —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 25 Siheyuan: Qin Huairu Is So Cute 四合院：秦淮茹真可爱 Cao Fugui discovers that he has transmigrated into the world of the film and TV drama Beast-Filled Courtyard. His first order of business there is to teach Bang Geng a lesson. Faced with the sweet and lovely Qin Huairu, he decides to protect her, and teach those beasts a lesson while he's at it. —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 26 Siheyuan: They All Say I'm a Good Person 四合院：她们都说我是好人 My new work is out! You can read it 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! —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 27 Siheyuan: You Ruined My Marriage, and Now You Want Me to Support You? 四合院：毁我婚事，还想得我接济 Zhou Wenbing accidentally transmigrates into the story of Birds Fill the Courtyard in the 1960s, only to discover that his prospective bride, with whom he was about to walk down the aisle, has called off their engagement after Jia Zhangshi drove a wedge between them. Perhaps evil really does get what’s coming to it: Jia Dongxu has a workplace accident and ends up in the hospital. Yi Zhonghai calls a meeting of the entire courtyard to discuss helping the Jia family, now in dire straits. “Zhou Wen —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 28 Siheyuan: I Married Chen Xueru, and Everyone's Green with Envy! 四合院：娶陈雪茹，众禽酸了！ Zhou Fan transmigrates into the world of the courtyard in 1954, when he is just eighteen years old. His previous self was bullied by a gang of thugs, while the Jia family had their eyes fixed on his property. Fortunately, he activates a unique beekeeping System and starts out with a swarm of bees by his side. Mutant bees occasionally appear among this magical swarm. Ordinary bees diligently gather nectar, while the mutant bees can actually absorb other people’s skills! One day, a mutant bee coll 1Reads—Score—Shelves
- 29 Siheyuan: I'll Just Stand Here and Watch You All Perform 四合院：我就在旁边看你们表演 My new work is here! You can 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! 5Reads5.2Score—Shelves
- 30 Siheyuan: Silly Zhu and the Runaway Bride from Tokyo 四合院：傻柱与东京逃婚女神太太 [Conquering the Siheyuan and the Red Star Factory is nothing. We’ve got to keep pushing farther out!] He Yuzhu transmigrates to 1979. He has just broken Banggeng’s hand and sent him away, then refuses to give Qin Huairu anything despite her desperate plea on his behalf. After angering Jia Zhangshi to death, he swiftly cracks down on the courtyard’s beasts, with remarkable results. Meanwhile, Fujiwara Yoshika, the number-one goddess of Sakura Country in the 1990s, travels a great distance to ask 3Reads—Score—Shelves
- 31 Siheyuan: A Flourishing Life 四合院：繁花似锦 Siheyuan + System + Wei Wu Style + Multiple Storylines In life, anyone can become a pawn on someone else’s chessboard. After Cao Yuan realized he was in the world of Siheyuan, he decided to become the one moving the pieces. In his eyes, the courtyard’s collection of scoundrels would all be useful tools. He was going to make sure his future life was “full of flowers and splendor”! 7Reads7.1Score—Shelves
- 32 Siheyuan: I'm He Yuzhu, and I Don't Have to Sleep Under a Bridge Anymore 四合院之我何雨柱不用睡天桥了 He transmigrates and unexpectedly becomes He Yuzhu. He vows never to be anyone’s simp, but then awakens a Simp System, leaving him no choice but to deliver the classic line: “Keep simping to the end, and you’ll get everything you want.” 595Reads6.0Score101Shelves
- 33 Siheyuan: Level Seven Engineer from the Start 四合院：开局七级工程师 After transmigrating into a courtyard home full of loyal martyrs, Ye Haoran became one of its residents. By his side was a younger sister, unrelated by blood, who had grown up with him and was as close as a real sister. While studying at Northwestern Polytechnical University, he learned that ill-intentioned people were eyeing his family home and daring to bully the childhood friend who had grown up alongside him. It was 1960, and although he had originally resolved to devote his youth to buildin 10Reads—Score—Shelves
- 34 Siheyuan: I Called Off Bai Ling's Engagement from the Start 四合院：开局退婚白玲 [Slice of life + currency from 55 years in the future + career in government before going into business] Just after transmigrating, Zhao Weiguo was visited by the beautiful Bai Ling, who came to break off their engagement. He readily agreed. And then the good luck just kept coming... He'd barely been working at the steel mill for a few days when he rescued a child from drowning. Then the child's aunt threw herself into his arms... After they married, his father-in-law helped his career take off. 1.3kReads—Score—Shelves
- 35 Siheyuan: My Name Is He Yuzhu 四合院：我叫何雨柱 When a naturally cruel beast of a rich man transmigrates into the body of Silly Zhu, the ultimate simp who is still evolving, what awaits the saintly white lotus Qin Huairu? And what awaits Yi Zhonghai, the exalted paragon of morality? —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 36 Siheyuan: Off to the Mountains to Dig for Treasure, While the Birds Drool with Envy 四合院：忙着去赶山，挖宝馋死禽 When Su Qingshan woke up, he found himself in a siheyuan, and he was a mountain forager, too. What’s more, he had gained the abilities of an exorcist. “Ding! Today, I went up the mountain and gathered a lingzhi crab. I received] “Ding! Today, I went up the mountain to gather herbs and found a thousand-year-old wild ginseng. I received] “Ding! Today, I went up the mountain to gather herbs and found a ten-thousand-year-old lingzhi. I received —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 37 Siheyuan: Qin Jingru Gets Pregnant with Multiples from the Start 四合院：开局让秦京茹怀多胎 Chen Jianguo transmigrates into the world of "The Courtyard of Feasting Beasts", becoming a lowly errand boy in the clinic at the steel mill. Luckily, he awakens the golden finger called the "Emotion Collection System." There's plenty of potential here. When Qin Jingru comes asking for a pregnancy certificate, his "compassion" suddenly stirs. "Jingru, I can guarantee you'll have multiples..." Qin Huairu wants Chen Jianguo to help her out? That can be arranged. "Sis, how about you come clean my r —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 38 Siheyuan: I Have a Devil Fruit Tree 四合院，我有一棵恶魔果树 [Courtyard house! No cultivation! The System doesn't pop up constantly! The main plot moves forward through the story!] [This book has absolutely nothing to do with One Piece. Don't pick it up by mistake!] A professional soldier arrives at a courtyard house and discovers that his comrade's little girl is being bullied... He doesn't waste words and gets straight to work. From then on, the beasts become fertilizer. What kind of fertilizer? Devil Fruit fertilizer, of course! I'll sacrifice you all. —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 39 Siheyuan: My Pocket Farm Can Crush Anything 四合院：随身农场，镇压一切 He transmigrates into the world of the courtyard houses and gains a portable farm and heaven-defying comprehension. It's a hard time from the start. While everyone else is still scraping by on husks and wild greens, Wu Guofeng is already feasting on meat and fish. Learning a skill? He can master it just by taking a look. With only a little study, he's already at the peak. As his abilities improve, so does his farm. The farm can produce all kinds of top-quality goods and holds limitless possibili —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 40 Siheyuan: From Kitchen Helper to Master Chef of State Banquets 四合院：从小帮厨到国宴大师 Zhou Pengfei wakes up one day and transmigrates to the world of the Siheyuan courtyard, where he binds himself to a God of Cooking System. Surrounded by the squabbling vermin of the courtyard, Zhou Pengfei just wants to sit to one side, enjoy the show, and quietly live his own life. But people keep trying to take advantage of him. Zhou Pengfei can only sneer, set aside his desire to watch from the sidelines, and teach the lot of them a proper lesson! 176Reads—Score—Shelves
- 41 Siheyuan: I Transmigrated to 1951 and Fled to Beijing 四合院：穿越五一年，逃荒京城 Li Tianming transmigrates through time and arrives in the courtyard-house world of 1951. By chance, he helps the Military Control Commission foil an enemy spy operation and earns the right to live in the courtyard. But after moving in, he is shocked to discover that this is none other than the notorious courtyard at No. 95 Nanluoguxiang, known as a den of beasts. At this point in time, though, Qin Huairu has yet to set foot in the courtyard, the subdistrict office has not yet been established, a 66Reads5.1Score—Shelves
- 42 Siheyuan: Reborn as Yi Zhonghai, Surrounded by Grandchildren 四合院：重生易中海，子孙满地跑 After being reborn as Yi Zhonghai, he divorces First Auntie from the start and awakens an Investment System. A little guidance for Jia Dongxu earns him advanced fitter skills; teaching Silly Zhu one dish earns him god-tier cooking skills; treating Yan Bugui to a meal gets him the knowledge database of Wenquxing; and befriending Liu Haizhong earns him advanced forging skills... From then on, Yi Zhonghai takes a very different path in the courtyard, becoming a First Master praised and admired by e 1Reads—Score—Shelves
- 43 Siheyuan: Huairu Hasn’t Gone to Bed Either 四合院之淮茹亦未寝 After transmigrating into a courtyard house, Qin Huairu is the first person he meets, coming to his door to beg for food. It’s bitterly cold, supplies are scarce, and every resident in the courtyard is a villain. Luckily, Ji Boda isn’t a good person either, so when Qin Huairu comes knocking, of course he’ll give her what she wants. (Villains get what they deserve. Every resident in the courtyard is a villain, and Ji Boda is the villain who gives them a taste of their own medicine.) 19Reads—Score—Shelves
- 44 Siheyuan: The Jia Family Stole My House and Called Me a Thief 四合院：贾家抢我房子还骂我小偷 Tang Xiangyang returned to the 1960s and became the security chief at a steel-rolling workshop. But as soon as he arrived at the courtyard compound, he encountered the Jia family. That was his home. And when they brought up the thief in front of everyone, Tang Xiangyang couldn't let them get away with it, so he roused himself to take on these birds. He would never show mercy when dealing with these vermin. What do you mean, that's enough? No way! You want a fight? Then beat him hard! You even da —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 45 Siheyuan: Three Years of Famine, Unlimited Coarse Grain from the Start 四合院：三年饥荒，开局无限粗粮 Cao Yang transmigrates and becomes an ordinary resident of the Beast-Filled Courtyard. It’s the three-year famine, and food supplies in the capital are running out. Just as the courtyard’s beasts gang up on Cao Yang, he activates the System and gets an unlimited supply of cornmeal buns right from the start. As long as there are resentment points, the supplies will keep coming! While everyone else is eating bran and wild greens, Cao Yang uses the resentment points provided by the courtyard reside —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 46 Siheyuan: No One's Going to Disturb My Little Life 四合院：谁都别想打扰我的小生活 In his previous life, Fang Wei died after a lifetime of suffering from a terminal illness. With his dying breath, he wished that in his next life he could have a healthy body. When he opened his eyes again, for a moment he couldn't tell whether he was Fang Wei or Fang Weiguo. As it turned out, he was both Fang Wei and Fang Weiguo, now living in a courtyard house full of beastly neighbors. Given a second life, he asks for neither riches nor status. With the help of his goofball System, he only wa —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 47 Reborn in the Siheyuan: Carefree Days 重生四合院，无忧无虑的日子 [Spatial powers] [Multiple heroines] Cao Yifan, an office worker in the city, transmigrates to a siheyuan courtyard in the 1960s and gains a golden finger. He wants to return to the past and start his life over, living a second lifetime: young and successful, with no reason to feel inferior, and able to make his dreams come true. He passes the time taking on the courtyard's troublemakers and keeps the company of five, six, or even seven confidantes. Together, they live carefree lives full of war —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 48 Siheyuan: The Happy Life of a Couch Potato 四合院：咸鱼的幸福生活 Lin Mo unexpectedly transmigrates into the world of the Siheyuan. Having lost his parents, all he wants is to live peacefully with his younger brother and sister. But will the courtyard’s scheming neighbors let him have his way? 39Reads—Score—Shelves
- 49 Period: Starting in the Siheyuan on the Road to Dominance 年代：从四合院开始制霸之路 Qian Guoqiang transmigrates to the world of the Siheyuan, only to hear heart-rending wails from the courtyard as soon as he arrives. Jia Dongxu is dead, and his mother, Jia Zhangshi, is mourning him. At the same time, Qian Guoqiang discovers his unique golden finger. Disassembly and synthesis! Disassembly lets him break down anything he touches directly into its smallest constituent particles. It might be quarks, or something even smaller. The catch is that he can only disassemble the outermost 92Reads6.2Score—Shelves
- 50 My Soul Transmigrated into Silly Zhu: Making My Mark in the Golden Age 魂穿傻柱，皇金年代大展宏图 After reading around twenty courtyard-house novels, curiosity got the better of me and I watched this drama. Given the courtyard-house plot as it is now, my family ended up with one fewer computer monitor... Silly Zhu is so infuriating. In the later episodes, I kept watching for the original ending, where Bang Geng kicks Silly Zhu out of the house, leaving him to freeze to death in the street without even enough money to call his son. That plotline kept me watching until the end. After I finishe 28Reads—Score—Shelves
