Novels like Siheyuan: Starting in 1962
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- 151 Siheyuan: Whoever Messes with Me Gets What’s Coming 四合院：众禽谁惹我，我搞谁 Silly Zhu, the God of War of the Courtyard? The ultimate simp! He only has himself to blame, since he was willing! Qin Huairu, the master of the art of seduction? A maxed-out vampire talent! Bang Geng, the Courtyard’s Thieving Saint? Off to juvenile detention! Jia Zhangshi is a widow too, so let’s set her up! Xu Damao, the sharp-tongued king with a belly full of schemes, deserves to be impotent! You sanctimonious First Uncle, sneaking out at night to spread warmth? Let’s expose you! The Second U 1Reads—Score—Shelves
- 152 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
- 153 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
- 154 Siheyuan: Returning Home to Take Charge of the Steel Mill! 四合院：归国，执掌钢铁厂大权！ After accidentally transmigrating into the world of the courtyard, Li Qiuyi becomes the orphan of a fallen martyr. During a turbulent era, when the schemers try to send him to the countryside, Li Qiuyi applies to study abroad in the United States instead. By the 1980s, after finishing his studies and returning home, he takes over a steel mill on the brink of bankruptcy and launches a sweeping transformation. Thanks to the connections he built during his years abroad, he sells gas canisters to th —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 155 In the Siheyuan, Fight Magic with Magic 四合院魔法才打败魔法 [Siheyuan + System + various eras and worlds (submissions welcome.)] Protagonist: Lu Yuan. Female lead: Qin Huairu. After staying up all night cultivating immortality, he never expected to wake up and transmigrate into a Siheyuan. He awakened a magic System, but this magic was nothing like Western magic. Any character from the story targeted by Lu Yuan would earn him a reward. This is a crossover world. There are no high-level martial arts, no martial arts, no immortal cultivation, and no magic. 1.1kReads5.9Score100Shelves
- 156 Fortune-Telling in the Siheyuan: From Procurement Clerk to Jack of All Trades 四合院算卦：从采购员开始全能 No System, no golden finger, a traditional period piece In the capital, in a courtyard, people come and go, each with their own path. They scheme and squabble, and the place is full of noisy chatter. Natural disasters rage, drought strikes everywhere, crops are hard to harvest, and wild greens are boiled into porridge. Life is miserable, and every meal is a worry. Fortunately, he has something to rely on, allowing him to thrive. With three copper coins, he can divine the secrets of fate, seek go 193Reads6.6Score—Shelves
- 157 Siheyuan: Day After Day 四合院：日复一日 Zhao Wenle, a young man from the twenty-first century, transmigrated by chance to a courtyard house in the late 1950s and even got into college. On graduation day, he got drunk at Yi Zhonghai's home. An unexpected encounter with Lou Xiao'e activated the Tenfold Return System. From then on, his life took off without a hitch. The women at the factory said Zhao Wenle was a great factory director. The male leaders said Zhao Wenle was a great comrade. Zhao Wenle said, “Life is a dream, the land is a 1Reads—Score—Shelves
- 158 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
- 159 Siheyuan: You Ruined My Promotion, and Now You Expect Me to Support You in Your Old Age? 四合院：坏我晋升，还想我养老？ [Pure Romance] + [Comedy] + [No Do-Gooder] + [Plenty of Anger] + [Lots of Pranks] Su Ze transmigrates to the 1960s and discovers he’s in the world of Love in the Courtyard. A disastrous start: both parents are gone, and all he has is a five-year-old sister! He binds to a Daily Sign-In System, which lets him open a blind box every day. Money, little prank gadgets, and even pills that grant eternal life? It’s all in there! Well, things have suddenly gotten a lot better! What? Yi Zhonghai helps his 16Reads—Score—Shelves
- 160 Siheyuan: From the Start, I Defy Fate and Change My Life 四合院开局逆天改命 He Yuzhu's modern-day self transmigrates into his character Silly Zhu from the drama. Amid the courtyard's family squabbles and the sweeping tides of the times, He Yuzhu reshapes his worldview and changes not only his own fate but also that of his country, leaving a shining mark on the road to national rejuvenation! PS: This is a faithful-to-the-plot tale about the beasts of the siheyuan. There is no System and no aggression. After teaching the courtyard's beasts a lesson, he lives a good life, 58Reads—Score—Shelves
- 161 Zhang Xiaohua Is Reborn 四合院之张小花重生 Zhang Xiaohua discovers that her kind and dutiful daughter-in-law is the one who killed her, and that her beloved grandchildren are not her son's biological children. Even more heartbreaking, her son was killed by Qin Huairu and Silly Zhu working together. Zhang Xiaohua dies with her eyes wide open. Her spirit wanders around Qin Huairu and the First Aunt, waiting for a chance to take revenge. But even after she is vilified in a television series, that chance never comes. A flash of golden ligh 132Reads—Score—Shelves
- 162 Siheyuan: Li Ergou, You're Such a Dog 四合院之李二狗你真狗 Li Ergou is ostracized in Qin Family Village and has no choice but to leave. As luck would have it, he becomes neighbors with his sworn enemy, Qin Huairu! The Jia family’s troubles begin right away. Yi Zhonghai, Deaf Granny, and Xu Damao all hate Li Ergou so much their teeth ache, cursing him in their hearts as a real scoundrel! After living in the courtyard for a long time, Li Ergou realizes something is seriously wrong with the place. Deaf Granny is actually Yi Zhonghai’s biological mother? An 47Reads—Score—Shelves
- 163 Siheyuan: My Father Ran Away from the Start 四合院：我何雨水开局亲爹要跑路 He Yu, a thirty-year-old single nerd who has been a wizard all his life, suddenly transmigrates into the body of a young girl named He Yushui. Is this the world of Love in the Courtyard? Huh? Talk He Daqing out of running away with a widow? “She doesn’t want your money or your house? Then what does she want? Your age? The fact that you never bathe?” He Daqing falls deep into thought. To keep Silly Zhu from getting dazzled by a widow, his little sister decides to find him a good match! Who should 1Reads—Score—Shelves
- 164 Siheyuan: Simple Days of Coarse Grains and Bitter Greens 四合院：吃糠咽菜的平淡日子 [Period setting. No groveling after anyone, no getting involved with widows, no causing trouble. No grand, tumultuous life. If that's not your thing, don't read.] The Courtyard House storyline begins after Chapter 27. They say a pheasant can't be matched with a phoenix! The dutiful son Qin Shouye volunteers to work in the countryside and becomes a barefoot veterinarian. With his System for punishing evil and promoting good, he eventually leaves the village and returns to the capital, where he ev 192Reads5.7Score—Shelves
- 165 Siheyuan: Xu Damao Reborn in 1955 四合院：许大茂重生1955年 After Silly Zhu froze to death, Xu Damao was also driven out of the courtyard and died beneath an overpass alongside him. But Xu Damao had lived from the age of eighteen all the way to the present. What’s more, he had acquired an incredible skill that could raise any profession to master level. This time, Xu Damao told himself, he wouldn’t make the same mistakes again. He would become the strongest person in the world, the strongest of them all! 2Reads—Score—Shelves
- 166 Siheyuan: I Am Qi Tongwei, Half a Step Ahead of the Beasts 四合院：我祁同伟，胜禽半子 This book is also known as "Courtyard: I Step on Silly Zhu and Point a Gun at Yi Zhonghai." After a gunshot, he transmigrates into Love in the Courtyard and becomes the head of the neighborhood office. Qi Tongwei resolves to dominate all the vermin in the courtyard. First Master Yi Zhonghai: “Director Qi, just tell me what you want me to do, and I’ll do it.” Second Master Liu Haizhong: “Tongwei, look how hard I’m working. I want to get ahead!” Qi Tongwei: “Liu Haizhong, you should address me by 9Reads—Score—Shelves
- 167 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
- 168 Siheyuan: Beginning in the War Years 四合院之从战争年代开始 This is a different kind of courtyard story. The first twenty or so chapters cover various historical events from the war years, so they may be a little slow. Later on, scenes from other TV dramas will be woven in. Readers, please proceed with caution. 71Reads6.1Score—Shelves
- 169 Siheyuan: I Won Qin Huairu Over from the Start! 四合院，开局拿下秦淮茹！ [Urban farming, period setting, urban life, farming, System, pocket dimension, transmigration] Wang Dongqiang transmigrates to a Beijing courtyard compound in 1951, and from the start, Qin Huairu cracks him over the head. He ends up with a choice-based System: each choice he makes earns him a corresponding reward. 1. Agree to Jia Tairan’s request and marry Qin Huairu: no reward. 2. Refuse to marry Qin Huairu: 50 jin of rice. 1. Help He Yuzhu find a date by introducing him to a girl who’s sturd 5.6kReads6.0Score393Shelves
- 170 Siheyuan: Did I Cut Off the Jia Family's Lifeline from the Start? 四合院：开局断了贾家命脉？ Chen Feng transmigrated into the world of Love in the Courtyard. From the start, he was bound to the Assassin System. After feeling the mistreatment his predecessor had suffered, he decided to teach that pack of beasts a proper lesson on his predecessor’s behalf. 20Reads5.1Score—Shelves
- 171 Reborn in the Siheyuan: I’m Surrounded by Beautiful Women 重生四合院：我没美女包围了 Nineteen-year-old Wu De takes a job at a steel mill to find out what happened to his father. Starting in the mill's security department, he gradually rises through government offices, growing from an ordinary worker into a leading official and ultimately becoming a regional overlord. —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 172 Siheyuan: Qin Huairu Comes Knocking from the Start 四合院：开局秦淮如送上门 Lu Heng came out of a courtyard. There was only one young woman in his family. Fortunately, after awakening his System, he was promoted to head a factory, becoming the direct superior of a top-ranking figure. You ruined my wedding back then. This time, don't blame me for showing no mercy. Master, are you setting a trap for yourself? Fine. I'm short on technical staff right now, so I can retire there later. Jia Dongxu, you'd better not die. I want you spending the rest of your life in a hospital 16Reads5.4Score—Shelves
- 173 I Transmigrated into a Siheyuan and Got a Sign-In System 穿到四合院我有签到系统 Li Chenyu transmigrates into Love in the Courtyard with a golden finger of his own: he awakens a sign-in System, picks up a few bargains along the way, and buys several courtyard houses. From then on, his life becomes a total cheat code. —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 174 Siheyuan: From the Start, I Activated the Mission System 四合院开局激活任务系统 In the courtyard compound, he awakens a quest System. He has to complete each task to earn a reward. Jia Zhangshi, Yi Zhonghai, where are you? Come help me grind out some tasks! And you, courtyard compound battle god, just you wait. Tonight, I’ll have a little chat with you about which of us is the real battle god. 199Reads5.5Score—Shelves
- 175 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
- 176 Siheyuan: A Hundredfold Payback for Revenge 四合院：复仇的百倍偿还 Yi Zhonghai is blocking my path to success. I have every right to ruin your reputation and make you a laughingstock on the street! Jia Dongxu is plotting behind my back. I'll make sure you lose your position and suffer unbearably. —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 177 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
- 178 Siheyuan: A New Life, Starting as an Engineer 四合院：重启人生，从工程师开始 Transmigrating into the world of Love in the Courtyard, he becomes an ordinary resident of the courtyard. His life was harmonious, and he was even once on the verge of marrying Qin Huairu, with whom he shared deep feelings. But after his parents passed away, Qin Huairu gave in to material temptations and married Jia Dongxu. She then slandered him for no reason and coveted the two ancestral homes his family owned. Unable to bear it any longer, Xu Weiyang fought back. With a flurry of sharp retort 3Reads—Score—Shelves
- 179 Siheyuan: My Wife Is Yang Mi, Making He Yuzhu Green with Envy 四合院：老婆杨蜜，馋哭何雨柱 My new work is out! You can head over to Tomato Novel to read it. I hope you enjoy it. Your support motivates me to write, and I'll do my best to tell every story well! 220Reads—Score—Shelves
- 180 Siheyuan: From the Start, I Slaughter Banggeng, Leaving No One Alive! 四合院：开局坑杀棒梗，杀光了！ Lu Ning transmigrates into the Siheyuan courtyard and awakens a fortune System. He discovers that the original owner’s home was robbed by the “Thief Saint.” When he goes to demand an explanation, the Jia family joins forces with the other courtyard scoundrels and beats him half to death. He struggles in his hospital bed for three whole days, with no one offering help, and dies in misery. And so begins a bloody journey of revenge!!! 1Reads—Score—Shelves
- 181 I Transmigrate to the 1980s, Build a Fortune, and Marry a Beautiful Rich Girl 穿越八零年代发家致富迎娶白富美 [Urban Farming] + [Urban] + [Farming] + [One Female Lead] + [Transmigration] + [No Harem] + [One-on-One Romance] + [Countryside] + [Reborn] + [Period] + [Building Wealth] Lin Feiyu unexpectedly transmigrates to 1980 and sets out to build a fortune. This is an original story, and the pacing may be a little slow. I hope readers will understand. —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 182 Siheyuan: Brothers United, Pursuing a Happy Life 四合院：兄弟同心，奔赴幸福生活 An unexpected accident turns Chu Feifan's life upside down. When he wakes again, he has “regressed” from a promising young man of the 21st century into He Chunsheng, a “fool” living in a courtyard compound in the 1960s! And He Chunsheng is the younger brother of Silly Zhu (He Yuzhu), despite having no blood relation to him! Faced with this upheaval, Chu Feifan is inexplicably excited. From now on, he is He Chunsheng! He is determined to change Silly Zhu's bleak life. The two brothers will work t —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 183 Siheyuan: Starting in 1952 四合院：从五二年开始 Lu Juemin transmigrated to 1952 and became a refugee fleeing famine. Relying on the System he had activated, he managed to stay in the capital, known as the City of Forty-Nine. Only then did he realize this was the world of the Siheyuan series. At this point in time, He Yuzhu's father had yet to run off with a widow, Qin Huairu had not yet married Jia Dongxu, Yi Zhonghai was not yet a Level Eight fitter, and the courtyard was not yet run by its three neighborhood leaders. Every era has people wh 1.5kReads6.2Score101Shelves
- 184 Siheyuan: You Hit Me and Think You'll Get Away with It? Dream On 四合院：打了我还想好过，做梦 Thanks to all our friends for your support and kindness! With the Spring Festival approaching, the editor would like to wish you a happy New Year, success in everything, and happiness for your whole family! We hope you’ll continue to support us in the new year! Our writing skills are limited, so please be kind if it’s not to your taste! Thank you, everyone!!! 19Reads—Score—Shelves
- 185 Siheyuan: He Daqing of the Tan Family Cuisine Takes Down Yi Zhonghai 四合院：谭家菜何大清，灭易中海 He wore a somewhat outdated gray-blue homespun jacket, and mud spattered his boots. Yet in his eyes was a quiet longing: he wanted to apprentice as a pastry chef. Standing outside a cake shop filled with sweet, soft aromas, he held close the hope of a new beginning. —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 186 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
- 187 Siheyuan: The Worst Villain, Silly Zhu, Gave Yushui Away 四合院：首恶傻柱把雨水送人啦 Silly Zhu is reborn. Who knows whether the legendary womanizer merged with Silly Zhu, or Silly Zhu merged with the legendary womanizer. Either way, neither of them is any good. Put the two together, and heh heh heh. 900Reads6.0Score—Shelves
- 188 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
- 189 Siheyuan: Qin Huairu Breaks Off the Engagement, So I Put the Neighborhood’s Vermin in Their Place 四合院：秦淮茹悔婚，我镇压众禽 [Courtyard house + personal space + putting the beastly neighbors in their place + bitter regret] Ye Ming transmigrates to a courtyard house in 1953 and is adopted by the Ye family, a widowed mother and her orphaned daughter. He is also engaged to Qin Huairu. But Yi Zhonghai interferes, teaching Jia Dongxu to steal Qin Huairu away! He even wants to team up with the neighbors to seize Ye Min's property! That's when Ye Min arrives, with the System in tow! The System opens up a pocket dimension wit 219Reads—Score101Shelves
- 190 Siheyuan: Entering the Troublemakers' Dreams 四合院：入梦众禽 In his dreams, Li Yang can do anything. “Ding! Dream scenario: Yu Li. Lure Yu Li into a cave and defeat her to obtain a golden treasure!” 11Reads—Score—Shelves
- 191 Siheyuan: He Yuzhu Rules the Roost in the Courtyard 四合院：何雨柱禽院横着走 Gold and other supplies. While everyone else in the courtyard struggles to get by, He Yuzhu lives a comfortable, prosperous life. Even as he enjoys himself, he makes sure to teach the badly behaved residents a lesson. He decisively sends Banggeng, an ungrateful brat, to juvenile detention; he bluntly calls out Qin Huairu for her childish schemes; and when Xu Damao provokes him, he ruthlessly ruins his future. In this courtyard full of misbehavior, He Yuzhu does whatever he pleases. —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 192 The People, Gods, Demons, and Ghosts of Siheyuan 四合院之人，神，妖，鬼 [Bound to a System + cultivation + a happy life + lovers end up together!] Xu Damao, Lou Xiaoe, Qin Huairu, Silly Zhu, First Master, Second Master, Third Master, Qin Weiguo, and many others all live in the same courtyard. There are master thieves and war gods, as well as humans, gods, demons, and ghosts, all from four different worlds. Watch how Lou Xiaoe becomes a god and finds love. —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 193 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
- 194 Siheyuan: Finding Happiness as a Procurement Officer 四合院：从采购员开始幸福 This novel is also known as: “I Have a Swap System” “Courtyard: I Become a Dad from the Start” “The Things I Had to Say About the Women in the Courtyard” “Trading Millet for a Rifle? No, Trading Worn-Out Shoes for a Lithography Machine!” “...” The synopsis doesn’t do it justice. Please head to the story itself! 3.1kReads5.9Score144Shelves
- 195 Siheyuan: Yu Haitang Is My Sister-in-Law 四合院：于海棠是我小姨子 135Reads5.5Score—Shelves
- 196 Siheyuan: Getting Rich Starts with Taking a Wife! 四合院：致富，从娶妻开始！ Li Henian woke up one morning and found himself transmigrated to 1960. He lived at No. 95, Nanluoguxiang, and his identity was... an employee at the Red Star Steel Rolling Mill. Staring at the hard-to-swallow cornmeal porridge in his bowl and the meager greens on his plate, Li Henian decided to live a different kind of life. But in an era that prized the idea that “the more you suffer, the more glorious you are,” changing your life was no easy matter. Fortunately, with the neighborhood commit 399Reads6.2Score—Shelves
- 197 Conqueror of the Cinematic Universe 影视世界的征服者 Live freely in worlds from film and television, learn new skills, and take revenge to your heart’s content. The planned settings include Courtyard Siheyuan, Blossoms, Nothing But Thirty, and other screen worlds, each offering a taste of a different era. 30Reads—Score—Shelves
- 198 Siheyuan: I Snatched Jia Dongxu’s Bride from the Start 四合院：开局抢了贾东旭的新娘子 When I woke up, a Jia Dongxu identical to me was standing in front of me, disappearing. My newlywed wife, Qin Huairu, and I hadn’t even had a chance to consummate the marriage. Just then, the more children, more blessings family System activated. Not wanting to become an undocumented person and be cut up for research, I got myself a beautiful bride for free! “Qin Huairu added as a family member.” Ability 1 unlocked: Other People’s Wives. Ability 2 unlocked: A Capable Wife at Your Side. 1.6kReads—Score119Shelves
- 199 Siheyuan: Li Changhai’s Happy Life 四合院：李长海的幸福生活 A slice-of-life story set in the past + mild edge + scheming + sly tricks + comedy + more than one female lead (This book is a little slow-paced at the beginning. Proceed with caution if that's not for you!) Li Changhai transmigrated into the world of the Siheyuan stories. He had planned to keep his head down and live in peace until the reforms and opening-up! Unfortunately, he got a troublemaking System that collects the negative emotions of characters from the story and exchanges them for supp 329Reads8.1Score—Shelves
- 200 Silly Zhu’s Livestream 傻柱的直播间 Silly Zhu inexplicably started streaming live. Listening to all the strange comments, he thought at first that he was hallucinating. But when the gifts people sent actually appeared in front of him, he finally believed it. So Qin Huairu really was that kind of woman! After staying away from Qin Huairu, Silly Zhu went on to reach the pinnacle of life! 1kReads8.0Score—Shelves
