Novels like Siheyuan: Getting by in Society With a Broken System
Books Chinese readers most often put in the same booklists as Siheyuan: Getting by in Society With a Broken System, best match first.
- 51 Siheyuan: I Annoyed Jia Zhangshi from the Start 四合院：开局气坏贾张氏 One day, he wakes up to find that he's been transported into the world of Birds in the Courtyard, where the whole neighborhood gangs up on him from the start. How could he possibly put up with that? He slaps “Yi Buqun,” drives Jia Zhangshi into a faint, punches “War God” Silly Zhu, and kicks Jia Dongxu... 14Reads—Score—14d adds
- 52 I Want for Nothing in the Siheyuan 我在四合院衣食无忧 1Reads—Score—14d adds
- 53 Reborn in Officialdom: I Rise Straight to the Top from the Siheyuan 重生官场：我在四合院青云直上 Back from military service to the Siheyuan, he can punish the birds and climb the ranks at the same time! Chen Dong starts out as a low-ranking clerk. Watch him grow step by step amid the tides of the times, advance smoothly through the ranks, and ultimately rise to the top! (This novel combines period drama and officialdom. The early chapters feature everyday antics and bird-punishing, mostly set in the steel mill. The middle section takes place in the capital, and later he is transferred to an 5Reads—Score—14d adds
- 54 Reborn in Siheyuan as a Western Cuisine Chef 重生四合院之西餐大厨 This is the author's first book. The author is a professional French chef, and hopes readers will enjoy the story and learn how to prepare the dishes along the way. The dishes featured in the book are based on those served at restaurants in Shanghai and the capital where the author has worked. 14Reads—Score—14d adds
- 55 Siheyuan: Saving the Queen of the Daughters' Kingdom from the Start 四合院：79开局救下女儿国国王 Li Dong transmigrates to a courtyard compound in 1979 and gets bound to a Garbage Dump of Ten Thousand Worlds. It's the era of reform and opening up, full of both opportunities and challenges. Publishing works, making adaptations, collecting antiques, starting companies... With his own hard work and the things from the Garbage Dump of Ten Thousand Worlds, Li Dong sets out on a legendary path. Years later. Zhu Lin: “Dongdong, I heard you're making a drama. How about letting me play the female lea —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 56 The Wimp in the Siheyuan 四合院里的窝囊人 He's a transmigrator. He's a soldier king. Yet he has to pretend to be a good-for-nothing. At night, he becomes a demon, all to stand up for his little sister. The compound is about to get a lot less peaceful. Tremble, you beasts. None of you are getting away unscathed. 192Reads6.1Score—14d adds
- 57 Siheyuan: Beating Up Beasts Is Everyone's Responsibility 四合院：暴打禽兽，人人有责 After transmigrating to 1954, internet-addicted young man He Hong falls asleep and wakes up in Love in the Courtyard, where he becomes He Yuzhu. When it comes to putting those scoundrels in their place, you need He Yuzhu! The God of War, He Yuzhu, is here. You scoundrels, prepare to face judgment! 2.4kReads—Score—14d adds
- 58 Siheyuan: Spring Winds Blow Again 四合院之春风吹又生 Hao Lei returned from the battlefield and was assigned a job at the Hongxing Steel Mill and a home in the Hongxing Courtyard. Why bother with all that scheming? He’s just an ordinary man, and the deputy head of security is more than enough to keep the petty troublemakers in line. 30Reads5.5Score—14d adds
- 59 Siheyuan: I'm a War Hero, Taking Over the Security Department 四合院：我战斗英雄，上任保卫科 [Courtyard houses + period setting + daily life + no grimdark drama] Lu Qingshan transmigrated to a courtyard house in the 1960s, leaving the military to become head of security at the Red Star Steel Mill. As luck would have it, he moved into a courtyard house and became one of its residents. Faced with all the petty scheming in the compound, Lu Qingshan decided that simply living his own life was best. After awakening the Space Farming System, he could stroll through the fields each day and com —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 60 Siheyuan: A Life of Romance 四合院之风流人生 Yang Xingguo transmigrates into the world of the courtyard. After an accident brings him into a relationship with Qin Huairu, he somehow obtains a damaged magical treasure and begins an entirely different, flirtatious life. Family squabbles + Qin Huairu + multiple female leads + a place to park your brain… 6Reads6.3Score—14d adds
- 61 A Multiverse of Film and TV, Beginning in Siheyuan 从四合院开始的诸天影视 Li Qingshan, an orphan from the 21st century, is a web novelist whose books barely get noticed. To keep his web novel from going on hiatus, he stays up writing for a whole week, but eventually he can't hold on any longer and collapses asleep on his keyboard. By chance, he obtains the Myriad Realms Film and TV System. The System tells him that he died from staying up too late, his body has been cremated, and only a wisp of his consciousness remains in the System's space. If he wants to be reborn, 388Reads6.4Score—14d adds
- 62 1960: I Have a Super Mall 1960，我有超级商城 Back in that fiery, passionate era, how could a modern man not make a fortune and thrive? Make money, and make it fast! Chase girls, and chase them hard! With a life on easy mode, he races ahead all the way!! 2Reads—Score—14d adds
- 63 Siheyuan: Reborn in 1952, Fleeing Famine to Beijing 四合院：重生52年，逃荒北京城 Just as Lu Weimin transmigrates, the Yellow River floods and swallows the village where he lives. To survive, he promptly climbs aboard a train, escapes his home, and makes his way to the capital. It is a time of military administration, when people with special skills are especially valuable. Thanks to a recommendation from Mr. Wang at the relief station, Lu Weimin, a man with exceptional abilities, gets a job at a factory. This gives him a job, an urban household registration, and a place to l 6Reads—Score114d adds
- 64 Transmigrating into a Siheyuan with a Pigeon Market System 穿越四合院获得鸽子市系统 The protagonist transmigrates into the world of the courtyard compound and gains a market System where anything can be sold. As long as you pay, the protagonist can sell you anything. The protagonist isn't a good person in the traditional sense. Everything he does is driven, at least in part, by his own interests. Want a better life? Fine, he'll give you what you want, but only if you're useful to him or can offer him something he's interested in. The protagonist is willing to use any means nece 1Reads—Score—14d adds
- 65 He Yuzhu's Transmigrated Life 何雨柱的穿越生活 Silly Zhu was abandoned by Banggeng beneath an overpass. On the brink of death, he prayed to the heavens that if he ever got the chance to be reborn, he would never again let himself be taken advantage of. Heaven played a cruel joke on him. He Yuzhu, a modern-day security guard, became an innocent victim and transmigrated into Silly Zhu, inheriting everything he had, including his soul. What should have been an easy task became complicated: he had to deal not only with the beasts in the courtyar 357Reads5.4Score—14d adds
- 66 Siheyuan: Bringing Warmth to a Period Drama 四合院：我在年代剧里送温暖 A blend of period dramas: The Courtyard, Little Woman, Man of Iron, and other feel-good period dramas A food-delivery guy travels between two worlds, completing orders and solving problems for people in period dramas as he helps them find happiness. One System mission after another brings romantic encounters and period-drama love stories. (Collecting cards of the Qin women + drinking rainwater + nibbling pears + a big white goose + helping Ladi...) 93Reads6.2Score—14d adds
- 67 The Brute: Starting in the Siheyuan, I Sweep Across the Myriad Worlds 莽子：从四合院开始，平推诸天 A tough guy standing 190 centimeters tall and weighing 190 kilograms! Broad-backed and burly, he specializes in bulldozing straight through! But, unexpectedly, those muscles are merely there to protect the brilliant mind of a quick-witted genius! Tu Man is a master of the Thirty-Six Stratagems, roaming through worlds of movies and TV dramas and crushing every hypocrite! Right now, he’s in the courtyard-compound world: Tu the young master, born and bred in the right tradition, fearsomely strong a 79Reads—Score—14d adds
- 68 Siheyuan: This Silly Zhu Is a Brute 四合院：这个傻柱是莽夫 I transmigrated into He Yuzhu's body. Watch me take on the whole bunch of troublemakers and climb the ranks one step at a time... 132Reads—Score—14d adds
- 69 Siheyuan: I Take Silly Zhu to the Battlefield 四合院：我带傻柱上战场 [Military Service + Medicine + Fast-Paced + Plot-Driven + No Saintly Hero] After returning from the battlefield, Zhang Mingshuo studies medicine and rises through the ranks. After the country opens up, he goes on to establish pharmaceutical companies, real estate firms, schools, supermarkets, and more. Back then, every wage earner had just one dream: to join the Zhang Group. Zhang Mingshuo himself had just one hobby: standing outside the group headquarters and handing out money~ 1Reads—Score—14d adds
- 70 A Siheyuan Full of Beasts? Good Thing I’m No Saint Either 禽满四合院？正好我也不是啥好人 [Mostly everyday life, not too much angst, a schemer's way of doing things, a fun-loving rascal who could use a little more virtue, one heroine, no harem] In his previous life, Wang Dachui was a man who had it all. Now he has transmigrated to 1960s Beijing. Faced with a courtyard full of vicious troublemakers, he can't change his surroundings, so he'll just fit right in! I, Wang Dachui, am done being a decent person! Short on cash? No problem, I'll borrow a little from Yi Zhonghai. Then I'll cas 963Reads5.1Score—14d adds
- 71 Transmigrated into the Siheyuan! What Do I Do Without a System? 魂穿四合院！没有系统怎么办？ Starting in the Siheyuan and moving on to Hong Kong, he rises all the way to become the richest man… 754Reads—Score—14d adds
- 72 Siheyuan: A Famous Séance from the Start, So I Call the Police 四合院：开局招魂名场面，我报警 In a courtyard, he transmigrates into Zhao Jingsheng in 1967, after the Korean War. He returns home after leaving the army, only to find his father dead and his little sister bullied by Jia Zhangshi and Bang Geng! They won't give her food, and they've even kicked her out to live in a shed! An uncle might put up with that, but an aunt sure won't! He kicks Jia Zhangshi to the ground. Jia Zhangshi tries to perform her spirit-summoning ritual. Like hell he'll let her! Officer, I'd like to report som 64Reads—Score—14d adds
- 73 In Siheyuan, More Children Mean Greater Blessings 四合院之娃多爹贵 How do you make yourself heard in a siheyuan? Probably by having lots of sons. Then no one dares to pick a fight with you. Li Ronghua got it. He took them all in. From then on, every new member of the family meant one more room and three more mu of land in his pocket dimension. Many years later, Li Ronghua stood at the edge of his land in the pocket dimension and roared at the sky, “There's no way we can eat all this!” He raised chickens and pigs, and life grew better and better. Every now a —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 74 Siheyuan: Da Mao's Life of Unrestrained Pleasure 四合院之大茂快意人生 By some inexplicable twist of fate, he transmigrates to Courtyard No. 95 on Nanluoguxiang and becomes Xu Damao, a recent middle-school graduate learning to operate film projectors. With the wisdom of an outstanding young man who knows the next 500 years and the previous 50, Xu Damao doesn’t want to become a laughingstock again. All he wants is a warm home with a wife and children, but unfortunately, he doesn’t have the means for that! 312Reads5.8Score—14d adds
- 75 A Countryman in the Siheyuan 四合院之农村人 (Slow burn, no System, one female lead, lots of characters without heirs.) In early 1945, what could an eight-year-old kid from the mountains do? What could a poor student do for the country? In the early days of the People's Republic, it was easiest for rural people to become city residents. But why must you become a city resident to move to the city? Migrant workers can also help build the nation. 201Reads5.3Score—14d adds
- 76 Siheyuan: The Honest Man Fights Back, and the Troublemakers Are Stunned 四合院：老实人反抗，众禽麻了 Wang Jianhua, a passionate young man with a System, transmigrates into the world of Love in the Courtyard and takes over the body of a young man named Wang Jian. Wang Jian is honest and timid, while Wang Jianhua is arrogant and refuses to let anyone take advantage of him. As soon as Wang Jianhua arrives at the courtyard, he catches a bunch of lowlifes trying to leave Wang Jian with nothing. How could he put up with that? Wang Jianhua: “First Master, you’re highly respected. You’re practically a 2.9kReads—Score10714d adds
- 77 Transmigrating into a Second Life in the Siheyuan 穿越之四合院人生重来 There is no System and no cheat. The protagonist relies on his own abilities to defy fate and change his life. On a rainy day, a 21st-century wage earner accidentally transmigrates into the hit TV series about a courtyard. Shock, pessimism, speechlessness, determination, composure,… 158Reads—Score—14d adds
- 78 Siheyuan: I Want to Become the Ancestor of All the Beasts 四合院：我要当众禽祖宗 Li Yi suddenly finds himself in the world of the Siheyuan and becomes a man in his seventies. Taking full advantage of his age, he throws his weight around and strikes hard, becoming a patriarchal figure in the courtyard. When he gives an order, no one dares disobey. [There's a bit of hostility early on, but after Li Yi reforms everyone's character through lessons in military discipline, cultural education, and other methods, life in the courtyard settles into a daily routine ୧꒰•̀ᴗ•́꒱୨] 1Reads—Score—14d adds
- 79 Siheyuan: Silly Zhu Is a Warmhearted Man 四合院：傻柱是个暖男 A nobody named He Yuzhu transmigrates and becomes the biggest simp in the courtyard, Silly Zhu. The courtyard seems peaceful on the surface, but beneath it, schemes and undercurrents run rampant. One careless move, and you could get played. The seemingly honest First Master, the deeply calculating Second Master, the ever-strategic Third Master, the venomous Qin Huairu, and Jia Zhangshi, the biggest shrew in the capital... Transmigration itself isn’t scary. What’s scary is transmigrating and stil 145Reads—Score—14d adds
- 80 Siheyuan: How Should I Live? 四合院：我应该怎么活 {Multiple Heroines Transmigration Gaming Through Life Pocket Dimension Farming Ignoring the Original Plot Starts in the 1950s} After Chu Yuan transmigrates into the world of Siheyuan, he enjoys life in an era where multiple TV and film settings merge, meeting beautiful heroines from various stories and embarking on a happy life. He lives carefree as an ordinary person in an era when people struggled to get enough to eat. He observes the ways of human relationships from a higher vantage point. 24Reads—Score—14d adds
- 81 Siheyuan: Golden Scissors from the Start, Bang Geng Sent to Meet the King of Hell 四合院：开局金蛟剪，棒梗见阎王 [Multiple heroines + farming space + low hostility + Investiture of the Gods treasures] Career-focused in the early story, with multiple heroines joining later. Lin Weiguo transmigrates into the courtyard and awakens a sign-in System, which grants him the true Taiji Diagram. Bang Geng accidentally enters the world inside the Taiji Diagram and is brutally suppressed by all kinds of magical treasures, including the Golden Scissors, the Heaven-Flipping Seal, and the Immortal-Slaying Sword. As Bang 13Reads—Score—14d adds
- 82 Siheyuan: I Was Too Late for Ezi from the Start 四合院开局娥子我来迟了 Waaah! I came one step too late! Ezi, how can I go on without you? Xu Damao, you ruined my cushy job, and I'll never forgive you, Cao Youde! The story starts in Love in the Courtyard and will also sensibly bring in characters from other works of the same era. —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 83 Siheyuan: Reborn, I Made Peace with Xu Damao 四合院：重生和许大茂和解后 (Reborn + no System + no pocket dimension + one heroine, a straightforward rebirth story) In his old age, Silly Zhu was kicked out by the Jia family and froze to death beneath a bridge. Heaven took pity on him and let him be reborn in his youth. Having learned his lesson in his previous life, he refuses to be a doormat this time. After making peace with Xu Damao, Bang Geng is sent to juvenile detention, Jia Zhangshi is arrested, Yi Zhonghai goes to prison, and Qin the Widow goes down a path of n 2.3kReads6.5Score10514d adds
- 84 Everyone in the Siheyuan Has a System, So Why Would I Work at the Steel Mill? 四合院都有系统了谁还进轧钢厂啊 [Courtyard + Sign-In System + Enlists in the Army] Jia Xugang opens his eyes to find a beautiful woman holding a basin of water, insisting on washing his feet. “Thirteen, Thirteenth Aunt?” Things must be looking up. Now even his dreams have a Thirteenth Aunt. Only after pinching himself does he realize he has transmigrated into the world of Love in the Courtyard, becoming the short-lived Jia Dongxu. Today is his wedding day with Qin Huairu. He has also bound himself to a sign-in System. All he h 3.5kReads6.0Score14114d adds
- 85 Siheyuan: Beating Up Yi Zhonghai and Jia Dongxu from the Start 四合院：开局暴揍易中海贾东旭 I’m a decorated combat hero from the Korean Peninsula, a professional police station chief who has killed countless enemies and earned numerous military honors. When Jia Zhangshi took over my home, I didn’t retaliate. I don’t hit women. When Jia Dongxu tried to hit me, I taught him a lesson. He was charged with attempted murder and spent two and a half years eating cornmeal buns. Yi Zhonghai tried to help, so I planted a kick right in his chest and sent him against the wall. The First Master did 11Reads6.5Score—14d adds
- 86 Siheyuan: A Technician’s Leisurely Life 四合院，技术员的悠闲人生 [One Heroine + Alternate Historical Setting + Everyday Life] Qi Jian’an, a landlord with more than twenty properties in the 21st century, dies in a car accident. After being reincarnated, he regains the memories of his past life as a teenager and discovers that he’s in the TV series he once watched, The Birds of the Courtyard? Qin Huairu… Silly Zhu, Damao, Yi Zhonghai… Liu Haizhong… They’re all familiar faces! When the scoundrels scheme against him, Qi Jian’an easily foils their plans. With all 1Reads—Score214d adds
- 87 Siheyuan: Becoming a Security Office Clerk from the Start 四合院：开局成为保卫科干事！ [The rating just came out, so don't pay it any mind. It'll gradually go up.] [Courtyard + pocket space + farming + low angst] He transmigrates into the world of the courtyard. From the start, his parents are both dead, and he's stuck with a little sister who's a burden! Wait, no, it seems like I'm the burden here!!! Faced with the courtyard full of beasts, Hao Jianshe isn't the least bit afraid! I've got a super-sized supermarket. What have I got to fear? Qin Huairu, the pure-hearted white lotus 125Reads5.5Score—14d adds
- 88 Siheyuan: Back to 1960, Starting in the Security Division 四合院：回到六零，从保卫科开始 A new work is out! You can read my story on Tomato Novel. I hope you enjoy it. Your support keeps me writing, and I’ll do my best to tell every story well! 800Reads6.5Score—14d adds
- 89 Cutting In Across the Myriad Worlds, Starting with Siheyuan 诸天从四合院开始截胡 My new work is out! 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! 116Reads5.6Score—14d adds
- 90 Siheyuan: Xueru and Huizhen, the Beauties, Make the Fools Green with Envy 四合院：红颜雪茹慧真，众禽酸了 [Siheyuan + System + face-slapping + power-ups + satisfying read + Under the Zhengyang Gate + crossover drama] Yang Ming transmigrates into the Siheyuan world and binds himself to an invincible System. Jia Zhangshi sees me getting rich and comes over to extort me? You must be itching for a beating! Yi Zhonghai wants to scheme his way into making me support him in his old age? You must be asking for a good thrashing! Chen Xueru and Xu Huizhen become my confidantes, and every beast in the courtyar 13Reads—Score114d adds
- 91 Siheyuan: My Name Is Cao Meng 四合院：我叫曹孟 [Siheyuan] [Feel-good power fantasy] [System] [Putting the vile neighbors in their place] Cao Meng transmigrates into the world of Love in the Courtyard, becoming an ordinary resident of a Siheyuan. From the start, facing Qin Huairu as she kneels before him and begs desperately, Cao Meng firmly says, “No!” He absolutely refuses to become anyone's live-in son-in-law! He's already transmigrated. Why would he become a live-in son-in-law? All he wants is to find a woman of his own and enjoy a quiet, —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 92 Siheyuan: I Crush the Beasts, and They Treat Me Like the Supreme One 四合院：暴虐禽兽，见我当如太上 Just complete the tasks assigned by the System, and you can earn all kinds of supplies, reunion meals, and ration coupons! In this resource-starved 1960s, that makes you a bona fide tycoon! The beasts in the whole courtyard watch, green with envy! When Jia Zhangshi tries to extort you, you beat her up without hesitation! Beasts, when you see me, you should treat me like the Supreme One! When Qin Huairu tries to seduce you, sorry, I'm not interested in bloodsuckers! 3Reads5.5Score—14d adds
- 93 Siheyuan: What If I Haven't Seen It? 四合院之没看过怎么办 This book has multiple heroines, and the protagonist is pretty laid-back. The pacing isn't very fast, so I hope you'll bear with me. Thank you! The story follows Yan Xiaoyao, who wakes up one day to find that he has transmigrated into a TV drama he has never watched. Although he has a System, things won't get too over-the-top at first. It'll gradually come into its own later on. I'm not very good at writing blurbs, so please give the book a try. Thank you!!! 509Reads6.3Score—14d adds
- 94 Siheyuan: Bound to the Sweeper Monk System from the Start 四合院：开局绑定扫地僧系统 [Moderate punishment, scheming, play the pig to eat the tiger, slow burn, an ordinary life with a little excitement] Xie Qiang transmigrates. It’s the first time in his life, after all, everyone has a first time. He wakes up with impeccable credentials and is bound to a Sweeping Monk System, then settles into a quiet life beginning in 1957... 194Reads—Score—14d adds
- 95 Your Little Friend's Fifth Book 你家小朋友的第5本书 My new work is out! You can read it on Tomato Novel. I hope you’ll enjoy it. Your support inspires me to write, and I’ll do my best to tell every story well! 1Reads—Score—14d adds
- 96 Siheyuan: Silly Zhu Reborn in 1953 with a System 四合院：53年傻柱子重生有系统 Old Silly Zhu huddles beneath a bridge, looking back on his life and realizing he'd been a complete fool. The heavens can't bear to see it, so they give him another chance. Reborn for a second time, he plans to watch everyone who wronged him bring about their own downfall. The bloodsucking white lotus Qin Huairu The moralizing Yi Zhonghai The selfish, deaf old lady The office-obsessed Liu Haizhong Jia Zhangshi, summoner of the dead... And so on. Just wait. With his System and his own hard work, 1.1kReads6.2Score10314d adds
- 97 I Picked a Fight with the Siheyuan 和四合院杠上了 I'm just writing for fun, and only writing about the courtyard. I want to make it a bit more detailed, though I'm not sure my writing skills are up to it. I'll write, read, and learn as I go. After all, this is just something I'm doing for fun to pass the time. The story is set in that era, but for convenience, I'll change some of its historical details. For example, ration coupons originally had expiration dates, but they don't here... And so on and so forth. 76Reads5.2Score—14d adds
- 98 Siheyuan: I Transmigrated as Silly Zhu, and My Scumbag Father Fled from the Start 四合院：穿越傻柱，开局渣父跑路 He transmigrated and became the young He Yuzhu. “Zhuzi!” “Dad? What is it?” “I want to transfer our house into your name.” “What? Why do you suddenly want to transfer it to me?” “Dad… Dad has let you and your sister down. I want to leave here and go away with the widow Bai.” “What? You’re abandoning us?” “Zhuzi, don’t blame me. I have no choice.” “Fine! So you’d already planned this! You bastard!” “Zhuzi, don’t talk to your father like that. I don’t want this either, but I really love her.” “Wha —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 99 The Upright Gentleman of the Siheyuan: Xu Damao 四合院正人君子之许大茂 Scumbag: Xu Damao. Simp: Silly Zhu (He Yuzhu). White lotus: Qin Huairu. Hypocrite: Yi Zhonghai. Necromancer: Jia Zhangshi. Officialdom fanatic: Liu Haizhong. Scheming director: Yan Bugui. Old-timer who pulls rank… Deaf Granny… —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 100 He Yuzhu After Waking from a Dream 梦醒后的何雨柱 I’ve read too many fan novels based on Love in the Courtyard. A lot of them don’t seem to have anything to say, and feel like they’re just a way for their authors to vent their inner darkness. So I wanted to write a story of my own. There’s no System, and no womanizing protagonist. It’s mostly about an ordinary life. I thought about this book for a long time before deciding to write it. I hope those who enjoy it will show their support, 2.9kReads6.8Score10114d adds
