Novels like Siheyuan: From the Start, the System Ran Away
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- 151 He Daqing Left Home from the Start to Help Someone Raise Their Child 开局何大清离家，去帮人养孩子 A top killer from the 21st century dies unexpectedly and transmigrates to 1957, becoming Silly Zhu... He also awakens a sign-in System. Sign in each day, and the supplies are yours... What? He Daqing is leaving with the White Widow to raise another man's son? Then hurry up and go... 17.2kReads7.5Score1kShelves
- 152 Siheyuan: From the Start, I Run for Village Chief and Build the Greatest Village in the World 四合院：开局竞选村长，打造天下第一村 Siheyuan: Running for Village Chief from the Start and Building the Greatest Village in the World 131Reads—Score—Shelves
- 153 Siheyuan: I Woke Up One Day and Had Transmigrated 四合院：一觉醒来，穿越了 I woke up and found myself in such a miserable situation: fleeing famine... What a terrible era... Can’t you just let me live in peace... The Capital... I’m coming... How is this going to end...? 3.5kReads6.4Score116Shelves
- 154 Siheyuan: Keep Your Distance, All of You 四合院：全都莫挨老子 [No System] [An Ordinary Person] [Not Too Much Bloodshed] [Somewhat Logical?] This is a courtyard-house fanfic told mainly from He Yuzhu's perspective. It strives to keep the characters' behavior close to that of the original show. With no cheat abilities and only his original brains, he can only change things gradually, not all at once. After returning from the dead, Silly Zhu saw the true faces of the whole pack of scoundrels and resolved to escape his miserable life. He put his not particular 1.9kReads6.4Score102Shelves
- 155 Siheyuan: Silly Zhu's Triumphant Return 四合院之傻柱强势归来 A young man from the modern era accidentally transmigrates into He Yuzhu's body. With a System at his side, he rises to become the cafeteria director and marries a stunning beauty. As for the assorted nuisances in the courtyard, they can go cool their heels somewhere else. 5.9kReads6.3Score200Shelves
- 156 Siheyuan: Sent to the Countryside, Starting Out in the Great Northern Wilderness 四合院：上山下乡，开局北大荒 [Daily Life + Sent Down to the Countryside + Subverting Expectations + One Heroine + Siheyuan] From the start, he arrives in a siheyuan courtyard in the 1970s, with both parents alive and a happy family. He has no worries holding him back. Full of anticipation, Li Yi prepares to join the wave of young people heading to the countryside. But before he can leave, the courtyard's rotten lot try to force him to donate money and support the Jia family! Faced with the resentful ingrate Banggeng, the vi 3.2kReads7.5Score101Shelves
- 157 Siheyuan: Finding Happiness as a Repairman 四合院：从维修工开始幸福 Zhao Zhongyi transmigrates to the world of Love in the Courtyard and becomes a maintenance worker at the Hongxing Steel Mill. What do the squabbles in the courtyard have to do with him? He just wants to live a quiet, comfortable life of his own. Be a dutiful son to his mother and take good care of his wife and children. And have a happy life. 8.7kReads7.1Score188Shelves
- 158 Siheyuan: I Can't Believe I'm Silly Zhu 四合院，我居然是傻柱 A retired soldier transmigrates into the world of a courtyard-house drama. When he wakes up, he discovers he is Silly Zhu at the age of twelve. After sorting out his thoughts, he decides to live a different kind of life. With a pocket dimension to help him, he will rise above the rest and stop being a drudge. 23.4kReads8.4Score1.1kShelves
- 159 Siheyuan: Xu Damao's Carnival 四合院，许大茂的嘉年华 Xu Huimao learned to cook at Lanhai Technical School. After months of tossing a wok, he learned to make quite a few dishes. Seeing others repair machine tools and drive excavators, he thought learning machinery repair sounded good too... In the end, he went through every course at Lanhai Technical School. With a smattering of eighteen different skills and mastery of none, Xu Huimao somehow carved out a place for himself, building a real estate business that became the second-largest in the provi 2kReads8.1Score105Shelves
- 160 Siheyuan: He Yuzhu Is Reborn with Mastery of Every Profession 四合院：重生何雨柱，全职业精通 One day, he transmigrates to the 1950s and becomes He Yuzhu. His father ran off? Good riddance. His little sister is still young? All the better. He'll raise her properly so she doesn't grow up to be an ungrateful brat. What would it be like to gain a new skill every day? With the help of his System, He Yuzhu's life gets better and better. There's no end to family drama and petty squabbles. The lives of ordinary people unfold, one scene at a time. 25Reads8.0Score—Shelves
- 161 Siheyuan: A Family of Loyal Heroes 四合院：满门忠烈 After transmigrating into 1950, Cheng Haoyi awakens the War God System and resolutely brings his childhood friend He Yuzhu to the recruitment office to enlist. Together, they fight the enemy, defend their country, and earn distinction. A worthy man is born between heaven and earth. He should strive courageously to rise above the rest. How could he stoop to petty scheming and fall in with the crowd? From now on, every household in the courtyard will be a family of heroes! 9.1kReads6.5Score284Shelves
- 162 Siheyuan: I'm Liu Guangtian 四合院：我是刘光天 A Love in the Courtyard fan fiction. After transmigrating into Liu Guangtian, the second son of the Second Uncle’s family, he has no standing at home and gets bullied whenever he steps outside. Luckily, his Academic Prodigy System activates. As long as he studies, he can keep getting stronger. He beats up the school bully, gets into a technical secondary school, becomes childhood sweethearts with Yushui, and contributes what little he can to the country’s technological development! Through tirel 2.3kReads7.6Score102Shelves
- 163 Siheyuan: I Have Seven Brothers, and We Beat Banggeng to a Pulp 四合院：我有七个哥哥，暴打棒梗 I transmigrated into the world of the TV series Love in the Courtyard. He Tong became a six-year-old boy. He had seven older brothers, all of them department heads. Bang Geng: He Tong, stay back! If you come any closer, I’ll jump! Jia Shi: He Tong, please, spare me! I’ll never do it again! Xu Damao: Little ancestor, could you please let me off? Qin Huairu: Damn He Tong! I already had that lovesick fool He Yuzhu wrapped around my finger... 1.1kReads6.9Score—Shelves
- 164 Siheyuan: I Carry a Supermarket System 四合院之随身带着超市系统 Wang San, a corporate drone from the 21st century, transmigrates into another world for the third time. He opens his eyes to find a home with nothing but four bare walls. He overhears his parents talking: the Japanese haven't left yet? But he looks at his little body and realizes there's nothing he can do. He studies hard for years, finally graduating from high school at sixteen and preparing to start work, when the supermarket System arrives. Wang San breaks down in tears. “System, why did you 18.6kReads6.9Score867Shelves
- 165 Siheyuan: I Picked Up a Wife Right After I Transmigrated 四合院：刚穿越就捡了个媳妇儿 I’d just transmigrated into a courtyard house when I found myself a wife. The beastly neighbors want to bully her? I’ll teach you how to behave in no time! Look down on me because I haul heavy loads? It’s just a steel mill. I can get in whenever I want. And I’ll get management-level treatment from day one. Forget the steel mill. I know exactly how to work this whole city of Beijing. 8.6kReads7.8Score382Shelves
- 166 Siheyuan: Joining the Long Live Army from the Start 四合院：开局加入万岁军 No System Li Yi, a modern military academy student, is born into the Republican era in the twentieth year of the Republic, in an ordinary household in a Beijing courtyard. Over the following decades, he rises from a nobody scraping by to a major power broker. There are family squabbles, struggles in officialdom, and bloody wars. As a child, he witnesses his homeland fall. Though helpless, he keeps striving. During his childhood, he joins the Communist Youth League and passes intelligence to comr 25.3kReads9.1Score935Shelves
- 167 Siheyuan in 1953 四合院之1953年 He transmigrated to 1953 and became the sixteen-year-old Silly Zhu. He Daqing had just run off to Baoding with Widow Bai, abandoning him and his six-year-old sister, He Yushui. Yi Zhonghai had ulterior motives and wanted him to take his sister to find He Daqing... 3.2kReads6.8Score108Shelves
- 168 Sign-In at the Siheyuan: Starting in 1953 签到四合院从一九五三开始 A flop author on the Tomato platform transmigrates to 1953 Beijing and becomes a resident of a large courtyard, with a transmigrator's perk: a Sign-In System. 294Reads8.1Score—Shelves
- 169 The Happy Era of the Siheyuan 四合院之幸福时代 It’s the 1950s. Even though everyone is poor, they’re happy. He Wei arrives in this era by accident and becomes He Daqing, Silly Zhu’s father. Having learned how things play out in the courtyard, all he wants is to take his son and daughter far away from its conflicts. 15.2kReads8.6Score309Shelves
- 170 Siheyuan: He Daqing’s Long-Lost Eldest Son 四合院：何大清走失的长子 (This isn't a traditional Siheyuan story. It takes plenty of liberties, so don't read it if that bothers you!) That year, the capital was in chaos. That year, He Yuzhu was chased while selling buns. That year, He Daqing's eldest son, who had never existed, went missing... On New Year's Eve in 1959, Siheyuan welcomed He Yubang, who had been missing for many years. He flipped the table in Siheyuan, then set out to flip the table on the entire world of Siheyuan... 680Reads7.6Score—Shelves
- 171 I'm He Yuzhu, the God of Cooking in the Siheyuan 四合院我何雨柱是厨神 A modern man transmigrates into He Yuzhu. He refuses to be a doormat, and he certainly won’t support a bunch of people who have nothing to do with him in their old age. He Yuzhu is not only the king of the courtyard, but also a master chef. Dongpo pork, kung pao chicken, twice-cooked pork, mapo tofu, Dongpo pork knuckle, husband-and-wife lung slices... It smells so good, enough to make every beast in the courtyard drool with envy. 12kReads7.5Score472Shelves
- 172 I Live in the Siheyuan's Side Courtyard, Free and at Ease 四合院，我住跨院自逍遥 For a thousand years, Nanluoguxiang has stood, its courtyard homes as solid as iron, while transmigrators have come without end. The protagonist, Lin Yang, inexplicably transmigrates to the 1950s, bringing the blazing post-liberation era to life. He experiences the everyday lives of ordinary people at the time and feels the pulse of history moving forward. With an indomitable spirit, he writes an even more colorful life story. Watch as he fights fire with fire and uses violence to stamp out evil 10.9kReads7.3Score417Shelves
- 173 Siheyuan: I'm Not the He Yuzhu You Know 四合院之我是不一样的何雨柱 Yang Chenguang, a young loser from the modern world, gets drunk at home and transmigrates by accident into Silly Zhu's childhood in the Siheyuan. Watch as he changes his fate and writes a different legend for his life. 13.4kReads8.1Score603Shelves
- 174 Siheyuan: How Did I End Up Here? 四合院我怎么来了 I became “Silly Zhu.” What the heck! I’m not even surnamed He! My name doesn’t sound anything like his, either! And I can’t cook! Just a couple ounces of liquor and I transmigrated! No truck, no speeding car. The story hasn’t even begun, and I’m already flipping the table and smashing the pot. Who has time to put up with you people? I’ll follow the course of history and, every now and then, toss a pebble into the river. 19kReads8.4Score628Shelves
- 175 Siheyuan: I'm Dongxu's Younger Cousin, with the Spirit of Jian'an 四合院：我东旭堂弟，建安风骨 [Moderate angst] [Moderate pacing] [Everyday life and punishing scoundrels] A master of traditional Chinese medicine transmigrates into the world of a Beijing courtyard in 1951, becoming Jia Mingde, Jia Dongxu's cousin. He flees famine with his younger sister and comes to the capital to seek refuge with his aunt. But Jia Dongxu needs money for a marital home, so he plans to sell Jia Mingde off to work as a sailor and his sister to the countryside as a child bride. Luckily, Jia Mingde awakens the 80Reads7.5Score—Shelves
- 176 Siheyuan: From the Start, I Use My Son to Fool Silly Zhu 四合院：开局拿儿子忽悠傻柱 “Second Young Master Tang, you think you can set your sights on Xiaodang? Take a good look at yourself first!” “Second Young Master Tang, you think you can write? With your junior high school education?” Decades later, Tang Ping becomes a literary giant of his generation. “All right, I guess we were blind back then!” 609Reads6.6Score—Shelves
- 177 Siheyuan: I Inherit a Little Tavern, and Xu Huizhen Is My Sister-in-Law 四合院：继承小酒馆，嫂子徐慧真 After transmigrating into the world of Love in the Courtyard, he becomes Xu Huizhen's brother-in-law. He returns from studying abroad on a government scholarship and activates a System. Just as the whole country is working hard to build up the motherland, Su Zhengping leisurely chats about ideals with a host of female leads, casually bringing out one piece of cutting-edge technology after another. What? He Daqing, you're planning to run away? Sure, go ahead! But don't you want to think about wha 153Reads7.9Score—Shelves
- 178 Siheyuan: From the Start, I Have a Travel Frog 四合院开局旅行青蛙 1960, Beijing: Love in the Courtyard Zhang Kai isn't an orphan. He has a loving family: his father is a Grade Eight welder at a steel mill, his mother is a deputy director at the neighborhood office, and he has a younger sister, a younger brother, and a Frog. In the 1960s, he develops computers, creates Chinese-language programming, and builds artificial intelligence... 4.6kReads8.0Score126Shelves
- 179 Siheyuan: The Little Factory Doctor's Comeback 四合院：小厂医的逆袭人生 [Courtyard + countryside + miracle doctor + multiple film and TV worlds + System] Zhang Jianjun was a rural doctor. He transmigrates into the body of Zhang Jianjun, a village doctor with the same name in Love in the Courtyard. He activates two Systems and begins a life with cheats... 108Reads5.8Score107Shelves
- 180 Siheyuan: I'm Nothing Like Xu Damao 四合院：我可不是许大茂 Xu Damao transmigrates into Xu Damao. Fortunately, he gets a quest-based System to give him something to look forward to. He completes missions, earns rewards, and heads to Xiangjiang with Ezi. While Xu Damao is in Xiangjiang, the Courtyard is still in chaos. When An Jiahe, a twisted and violent man, barges into the courtyard, a new story begins to unfold. In short, he becomes a big shot in the 1960s, gets into real estate in the 1970s, makes it in entertainment in the 1980s, and gives back to s 4.7kReads8.1Score135Shelves
- 181 Siheyuan: Everyone in the Courtyard Helps Me Get Promoted 四合院之院里众人助我升职 No toxic drama / Transmigration / System / Traditional Beijing Courtyard / One Heroine / Police / Crime Solving Zhang Lin transmigrates into the body of a top-ranking family's son. To escape trouble and take it easy, he moves into the courtyard at No. 95 Nanluoguxiang. When you're so powerful that nobody dares cross you, even the scoundrels turn into good people. Yi Zhonghai: The new guy in the courtyard isn't easy to handle. We have to get him kicked out! Liu Haizhong: He's a police officer, an 4.9kReads6.7Score179Shelves
- 182 Siheyuan: Putting the Beasts in Their Place and Making a Fortune 四合院：整治禽兽，发家致富 (Period setting + drama + mystery-solving) After I transmigrated into the Siheyuan, I, Liu Jianguo, was determined to uncover all the mysteries hidden in the courtyard! This story begins in 1955! Volume One fills in the missing clues from the original story, letting readers learn the full story behind the courtyard's scoundrels. Volume Two begins the cleanup of those scoundrels. 4.2kReads7.3Score123Shelves
- 183 Siheyuan: I'm the Male Women's Director of Nanluoguxiang 四合院：南锣鼓巷我是男妇女主任 (Starting in 1953) + (Farming and animal husbandry) + (No harem) + (Everyday family life) A 21st-century double major in agriculture and animal husbandry, a well-rounded talent and an exemplary young person, somehow ends up as the women's director of Nanluoguxiang. She leads the neighborhood in developing farms and livestock breeding, and all sorts of hilarious mishaps ensue. This blurb doesn't do it justice, so please read the story for yourself... 8Reads—Score—Shelves
- 184 Transmigrating to 1959: A Procurement Officer on Nanluoguxiang 穿越59年，南锣鼓巷采购员 (Daily life + transmigration + pocket dimension + supplies) A modern-day office worker unexpectedly transmigrates to Nanluoguxiang in 1959. How will life in that era turn out with a ring containing a pocket dimension? 299Reads7.8Score182Shelves
- 185 Siheyuan: The Whole Family Moves to the City to Crush the Troublemakers 四合院：全家进城，镇压众禽 [The Courtyard, Passionate Years, The Wreath, In the Name of the People] After Xiao Mingli's uncle dies in the line of duty, the entire Xiao family moves into Courtyard No. 95 to help care for the children. No matter how bizarre the people in the courtyard are, the Xiao family can always find someone to deal with them. The “Courtyard's Old Ancestress” meets the Xiao family's patriarch, the real deal! The “Supreme Paragon of Morality” meets the Xiao family's old master, the true “Supreme Paragon 38.6kReads7.8Score2.5kShelves
- 186 Siheyuan: Ordinary People and Everyday Affairs 四合院之俗人俗事 A postmodern hedonist and born wage slave transmigrates to a courtyard house. As the saying goes, transmigrating without a cheat is just going through hardship all over again! Luckily, he awakens a tiny world for growing crops. Just as he’s ready to lie flat and enjoy a cozy life with a wife and children, the tides of the times push him forward, step by step! 7.8kReads8.0Score347Shelves
- 187 Siheyuan: I Just Returned from a Construction Mission, and My Home Is Gone? 四合院：刚援建归来，我家没了？ Wang Jianshe transmigrates into the world of Love in the Courtyard, becoming the descendant of a glorious builder. Unexpectedly, his father dies in an accident while helping build up the motherland. Wang Jianshe has no choice but to return to the capital to handle his father’s affairs. Before the seventh day after his father’s death has even passed, the shameless neighbors come demanding money. Jia Dongxu: “Wang Jianshe, your dad said he’d give me money for my medical bills. He’s gone now, so yo 3.9kReads7.0Score124Shelves
- 188 Siheyuan: My Uncle Is Yi Zhonghai 四合院：我大舅是易中海 He transmigrates to a small mountain village in the 1950s. In an era of shortages and hunger, he plans to live comfortably by hunting. Then Ning Yi’s maternal uncle comes to the village. This uncle, whom Ning Yi has never met, turns out to be Yi Zhonghai. Only then does he realize that this world is far more complicated than he thought. 3.9kReads6.1Score155Shelves
- 189 Siheyuan: He Yuzhu Starts Anew After Joining the Power Bureau 四合院：何雨柱从去电业局新开始 [Transmigration + period setting + everyday life + one heroine + striving to build a better life + no angst] If you’re looking for lots of conflict, this isn’t the book for you. There aren’t many fights here, just the everyday lives of ordinary people. “Street stalls are everywhere, and the cooks may or may not be the real deal. Hello, everyone, I’m Lao Tan. This year, we’re going to…” Lao Tan was a master Sichuan chef in the modern twenty-first century. He owned his own restaurant and was among 26.6kReads7.4Score1.1kShelves
- 190 Siheyuan: Defying Fate and Taking Revenge on All the Courtyard’s Vermin 四合院：逆天改命，报复众禽 [Beijing Courtyard Compound + Pocket Dimension + Transmigration] Heroine: Lou Xiao'e (The story begins in 1951.) He Yuzhu, who had been scraping by in the post-apocalyptic world, died a horrible death. When he opened his eyes again, he found himself in the Beast-Filled Courtyard, as Silly Zhu, the cannon fodder who had sacrificed himself for the beasts. This time, without a script to follow, He Yuzhu sets out to defy fate with his pocket dimension. When the beasts try to take advantage of him, h 477Reads—Score—Shelves
- 191 Siheyuan: Reborn, I Won't Be Anyone's Pack Mule 四合院：重生不当牛马 Top-tier overworked office drone Li Fei dies suddenly from working overtime, then transmigrates into the TV drama Love in the Courtyard. Taking He Yuzhu's place, he gets a second chance at life. Before the reforms and opening-up, he works diligently at the steel mill and spends his spare time messing with the vermin in the courtyard. After the reforms begin, he rides the winds of change to success. 3kReads8.0Score100Shelves
- 192 Siheyuan: Yan Jiecheng's Fishing Rod 四合院：阎解成的钓鱼竿 In a rental apartment in the capital, Yan Chen was watching Love in the Courtyard, at the scene where Third Uncle divides peanuts among his family for the New Year. He had just remarked, "You have to hand it to Third Uncle, he really knows how to make ends meet." Munching on sugar mandarins, he kept up his commentary. "Ding! The plot of Love in the Courtyard has been detected as suitable for transmigration. Transmigration will now begin. Countdown: one minute. 59, 58, 57..." 4.1kReads8.2Score181Shelves
- 193 Siheyuan: Xu Damao Has a Son and a Daughter 四合院，许大茂儿女双全 [Siheyuan Courtyard] [Everyday Life] [No needless hostility] When Xu Damao finds himself in a Siheyuan courtyard, the first thing he does is check on his little buddy. Looks good. With the lamest cheat in history, Xu Damao lives in this era, experiences it, becomes part of it, and makes a life of his own, free from the plot's interference. 4.4kReads7.9Score121Shelves
- 194 Siheyuan: Teacher He 四合院之何老师 When He Daqin wakes up, he’s completely bewildered. What, this is a courtyard where birds and beasts roam? It’s the 1960s? And I have a foolish son named He Yuzhu and a daughter named He Yushui? Faced with the whole courtyard’s snickering and the Jia family’s scheming, I, He Daqin, have to rise up. I’ll put an end to the courtyard’s crooked ways, and protect all the flowers and grass here, too. 1.2kReads8.6Score—Shelves
- 195 Siheyuan: The Eighth-Level Electrician 四合院之八级电工 [Courtyard house + space + no hostility + one heroine] (No getting into trouble + no flirting around + no stealing or breaking the law) Reborn in the 1960s, Zhang Jianguo relies on his own hard work and skill panels, climbing one step at a time and moving up a level each year (one skill point per year), steadily and surely making his way to the peak of life... 10Reads6.3Score—Shelves
- 196 Siheyuan: I Control the Whole Game, So Don't Mess with Me 四合院：掌控全局，谁也别惹我 Fang Che wakes up from a nap and discovers that he has transmigrated into the world of Birds Fill the Courtyard. Silly Zhu lets Qin Huairu bleed him dry, loving every minute of it because he lusts after a widow. He's destined to die without heirs! First Master Yi acts upright on the surface, but is actually a hypocrite who is all appearances and no virtue! Second Master Liu is ambitious but incompetent, obsessed with becoming an official. He's an unkind father, and his children are unfilial! Thi —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 197 Siheyuan: He Daqing's Greatest Life 四合院之何大清的最强人生 [Heaven rewards diligence] [Multiple female companions] [Do as he pleases + neither wholly good nor evil + mercurial] After getting drunk, he wakes up in 1951 as He Daqing, just as he’s plotting to run away. The White Widow and Yi Zhonghai are scheming to send me off to Baoding? He turns around and reports them, cuts off a disastrous relationship, and shatters the moral paragon’s invincible facade! [Heaven rewards diligence, one proof lasts forever] With talent on his side, he masters countless 11.1kReads6.6Score516Shelves
- 198 Siheyuan: My Son Is Silly Zhu 四合院：我的儿子是傻柱 He transmigrates as He Daqing, the biological father of Silly Zhu. Faced with the troublemakers of the Courtyard, He Daqing has the Positive Energy System. His first move is to marry Qin Huairu, leaving the Jia family without an heir! Only magic can defeat magic! 1.9kReads8.9Score102Shelves
- 199 Siheyuan: The Fool Who Loves Watching the Fun 四合院，傻子爱看热闹 Lin Sheng was reborn in the world of the siheyuan as the courtyard’s resident fool. Lou Xiao’e cared about him, He Yushui protected him, and Qin Huairu wanted to take advantage of him. Yi Zhonghai and Deaf Granny wouldn’t dare go near him. Yan Bugui wouldn’t dare provoke him. Jia Zhangshi’s schemes were no use against him, no matter what she tried. Banggeng wouldn’t dare go near him either. 12.3kReads8.7Score501Shelves
- 200 Life in the Siheyuan: Taking Silly Zhu Along for the Ride 活在四合院：带着傻柱一起飞 No angst, just everyday life, with one heroine. Yan Ming isn't someone who advocates violence. Silly Zhu has a thing for widows. The two generations of men in the He family have suffered greatly because of their obsession with widows. Believing that kindness should be rewarded, Yan Ming helps Silly Zhu change the course of his life. Of course, Silly Zhu also helps Yan Ming out in many other ways. 11.7kReads8.3Score384Shelves
