Novels like The Trials and Tribulations of Siheyuan
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- 151 Siheyuan: Banggeng Bullies a Martyr's Family, and the General Is Enraged 四合院：棒梗欺压烈属，首长暴怒 Ten-year-old Qin Ze transmigrates into the world of "The Courtyard Filled with Birds", where he and his mother depend on each other for survival. Unexpectedly, he is bullied and beaten by twelve-year-old Bang Geng. When his mother comes to protect him, Silly Zhu and Qin Huairu join forces and badly injure him without bothering to learn the truth. They have no idea that Qin Ze's father was a hero awarded a First-Class Merit. With nowhere else to turn, Qin Ze's mother takes him to the gates of the —Reads5.4Score414d adds
- 152 Siheyuan: Building Pang Dong Lai in the Red-Hot Era 四合院：我在火红年代打造胖东来 In 1952, at a courtyard complex, he snatches Qin Huairu from the start. With one female lead, he gives the birds what they deserve, beating them when they need beating and punishing them when they need punishing. When he has time, he takes it easy; when there's work, he gets busy; and whenever he can, he makes time to deal with the whole flock. He's just living the good life, so how did he end up becoming the richest man in the country? —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 153 Siheyuan: The Orphan of a Fallen Hero’s Family Strikes Back 四合院：我，烈属遗孤的逆袭 The protagonist transmigrates into the world of a period drama and arrives from the start as a baby. The neighborhood office sends him to a courtyard compound to be adopted, but everyone there rejects him, leaving the poorest family to take him in. Everyone waits to see him become a laughingstock, never suspecting that the baby is the descendant of a martyr. The state will pay him a pension until he turns eighteen, and the neighbors are so regretful they could chew their own guts out. But that’s —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 154 Siheyuan: What's Wrong with Living Off Several Families? 四合院：我多吃几家软饭怎么了？ He transmigrates to 1975. His mother is a cultivator. He goes to the countryside, attends university, becomes an official, and goes into business. In just a decade or two, Zhu Dafu becomes one of the nation’s Ten Outstanding Figures. Of course, besides Zhu Dafu’s own hard work, he also has a certain young lady to thank for her help. 35Reads—Score—14d adds
- 155 Life in Siheyuan: Punishing the Wicked 四合院的惩治恶人生活 A modern soul is struck dead by heavenly punishment and sent to a parallel world in a courtyard compound. The heavenly punishment within his soul turns him into a fool, and he grows up to the age of eighteen. By then, the heavenly punishment has completely melted away, becoming his golden finger: a heavenly-punishment pocket dimension. This is the story of his life in the courtyard compound. 17Reads—Score—14d adds
- 156 Siheyuan: From the Start, a Brigade Leader and He Yuzhu’s Maternal Uncle 四合院：开局大队长，何雨柱小舅 He transmigrated to the autumn of 1958. He Yuzhu and He Yushui’s uncle, Bai Jiefang, has arrived. Since he has returned from military service, he has been appointed head of the Juvenile Offender Reform Brigade in the capital, a deputy section-level official. The home he’s been assigned turns out to be the west wing of the central courtyard at No. 95 Nanluoguxiang. Yi Zhonghai, who had been scheming all along, spends every day seething and doesn’t dare raise his voice. With all her pent-up resent 5.7kReads6.1Score18214d adds
- 157 Siheyuan: Moral Blackmail? I Can Play That Game Too 四合院：道德绑架？跟谁不会一样 After freezing to death beneath a bridge, Silly Zhu was reborn at the very beginning of the story. Before he died, he had come to understand many things. Having lived through two lifetimes, he was determined to repay every grudge and settle every score. What he never expected was that the Siheyuan was hiding a huge conspiracy. 664Reads6.4Score10614d adds
- 158 Siheyuan: One Family, Three Martyrs. What's Wrong With Going All Out? 四合院之一门三烈士，狂点怎么了 Lin Dong inexplicably transmigrates into the world of the courtyard. With no System, he panics, until he discovers that three members of his family died as martyrs. Being part of a family of heroes gives Lin Dong the right to act as boldly as he pleases. From the start, he has every scoundrel in the courtyard hauled off to the police station, forcing them to turn on one another and choose someone to take the blame. Watching them fight among themselves is a real treat. See how Lin Dong plays arou 887Reads5.3Score—14d adds
- 159 Head of Security from the Start: Expose the Old Lady's Invincible Aura 开局保卫科科长，破聋老太金身 The protagonist, Lin Dong, transmigrates into the world of the courtyard. He comes from an incredibly powerful family with three martyrs, so no one dares to mess with him. But the System he awakens is the Trickster System. From the start, its mission randomly selects a beast from the courtyard: send one person to the police station and get them sentenced, and the System will awaken and unlock his pocket dimension. Since he’s already doing it, he might as well go all the way. At the first courtya 225Reads5.3Score—14d adds
- 160 Siheyuan: Starting with Garbage Recycling 四合院：从垃圾回收开始 After a fantastical transmigration, the protagonist arrives in a vast world blending television dramas from the 1970s. Things go badly from the start: the troublemakers in the courtyard set their sights on him, threatening to take his home and job. At the critical moment, the “Myriad Worlds Recycling Station” System awakens, setting him on an entirely different path. Seeing the situation clearly, the protagonist sells his home without hesitation, gives up his job assignment, and heads to the cou 996Reads5.7Score—14d adds
- 161 Siheyuan: The Nine-to-Five Life 四合院，朝九晚五的日子 Zhang Hongxing is lucky enough to join the great ranks of transmigrators. He returns to the “Beast-Filled” courtyard and becomes a proud member of the working class. Looking at the “beasts” in the courtyard: White Lotus and Holy Mother Qin Huairu. Righteous and virtuous Yi Zhonghai. Spirit-summoning envoy Jia Zhangshi. Abacus fanatic Yan Bugui. Thief Saint Jia Banggeng. … Zhang Hongxing quietly closes the door to his own home and settles down to live his own life. 101Reads5.1Score10214d adds
- 162 Siheyuan: Getting Xu Damao to Help Raise the Kids 四合院：让许大茂帮忙养孩子 No System, no space, and no cheat abilities. He transmigrated into a courtyard house and became a young man whose father had run off and whose little sister was still a child. Apart from two rooms in the back courtyard, totaling about forty square meters, he had practically nothing... By comparison, He Yuzhu was already quite satisfied. At least he had a home, and now he worked as a chef at the steel mill, earning 37.8 yuan a month. He could just about get by raising his thirteen-year-old sister 398Reads5.4Score—14d adds
- 163 Are They All Beasts in the Siheyuan? They're Clearly Good People 四合院里都是禽兽？明明都是好人 He lived on modern-day Blue Star, but transmigrates into the world of the courtyard and becomes He Yuzhu’s father, He Daqing! A doomsday survival System? System, are you sure you’ve got this right? Who’s this eighteen-year-old girl? Qin Huairu, of course. He has a son and a daughter, as well as this big house. Who’s the Widow Bai? No idea. 236Reads5.9Score—14d adds
- 164 Siheyuan: Jia Dongxu's Life as a Section Chief 四合院：贾东旭的科长生活 [Courtyard house + System + Everyday family life + Low on hostility + Multiple heroines] Jia Dongxu, a modern-day overworked young man, transmigrates into the world of Love in the Courtyard, taking the place of the Jia Dongxu who never got a chance to appear. With such a hardworking wife, Jia Dongxu gets a second chance at life and a sign-in System. He decides to lie flat. Work...? “Huairu, my back’s acting up. Why don’t you go instead?” Bang Geng, stealing Silly Zhu’s peanuts again...? “Put the 353Reads5.4Score—14d adds
- 165 Siheyuan: Is the Yan Family's Third Son Really a Genius? 四合院：阎家老三难道真是天才？ (No talismans + Staying on Earth + No pills + No heroine?) Yan Jekuang transmigrates and gets lucky enough to inherit the legacy of an ancient pre-Qin cultivator. (No talismans, no pills.) He hopes to make a name for himself, but reality is cruel. It takes him only ten years to go from child prodigy to fallen genius. Feeling the pocket dimension in his mind and the Wood Spirit Art cultivation method, Yan Jekuang falls silent. Cultivation is so difficult in this age of spiritual decline. Yet 3.3kReads7.1Score10114d adds
- 166 Siheyuan: He Yuzhu's Happy Life 四合院：何雨柱的幸福人生 [Courtyard compound + everyday life + one female lead + mild conflict] One day, he transmigrated into a courtyard compound and became He Yuzhu. From the start, good fortune came knocking: “Zhuzi, do you want a wife?” How could no one want such a kind and gentle woman? He'd better hurry up and marry her so he could dote on her himself... 1.1kReads6.4Score—14d adds
- 167 After Becoming Silly Zhu, Who in Their Right Mind Would Still Be a Cook? 穿成傻柱后，正经人谁还当厨子 Liu Changsheng discovers that he’s become Silly Zhu. Since he’s here, he might as well live it up. Doing business in this era is no good, and he doesn’t have what it takes to get promoted. Looking at all the petty nonsense happening in the courtyard, he figures he might as well live in a way that makes everyone else jealous. After all, Silly Zhu is genuinely silly, while he’s only pretending. Having money and meat and muddling through until the reforms sounds pretty good. But then he finds out t 539Reads6.0Score—14d adds
- 168 Siheyuan: I Was Dragged Off to Be Shot Right After I Transmigrated 四合院：刚穿越就被拉去枪毙 In 1952, enemy agents had yet to be completely eliminated, and some were still hiding among the people. Chen Jianguo thought it was bad enough that he had just transmigrated onto a battlefield and been blinded by an explosion. He never expected enemy agents to frame him for stealing classified documents, too. In the interrogation room, Chen Jianguo retorted: “I'd like to ask: how does a blind man steal classified documents?” 19Reads—Score—14d adds
- 169 The Little Courtyard in the Siheyuan 四合院的小院 Persuade Silly Zhu to get married, put an end to Yi Zhonghai’s enforcer in the courtyard, a transmigrator with no grand ambitions, who just wants a wife, kids, and a warm bed, 723Reads6.4Score—14d adds
- 170 In the Siheyuan, I Start With a God-Tier Farm 人在四合院，开局神级农场 After transmigrating into the world of the Siheyuan, Ye Fei is an ordinary resident. He knows what these “harmonious and friendly” neighbors are really like, so Ye Fei decides he should be even friendlier to them, all in the name of helping the courtyard win recognition for being exemplary. The First Master is worried that no one will look after him in his old age? That’s easy. If you die young, you won’t need anyone to look after you, will you? Jia Dongxu isn’t in good health? Then he shouldn’t 301Reads5.5Score—14d adds
- 171 An Extraordinary Siheyuan 不一般的四合院 Zhou Guoan arrives at an overcrowded Siheyuan. As a model young man of the new era, how could he stand by and watch everyone in the courtyard meet the ending they did?! There's no way he could allow that!! 1.1kReads6.2Score10314d adds
- 172 Siheyuan: I'm Xu Damao, and Beating Up the Fools Makes Me Stronger 四合院：我许大茂，虐禽就变强 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! 13Reads—Score—14d adds
- 173 Siheyuan: My Brother-in-Law Is Xu Damao 四合院：我大舅哥是许大茂 After transmigrating to the rural outskirts of the city in the 1960s, Su Jinmin discovers that his fiancée's surname is Xu, she lives in Courtyard No. 95 on Nanluogu Lane, and her brother is Xu Damao. So Su Jinmin decides to head into the city and get married. 9Reads5.9Score—14d adds
- 174 Siheyuan: The Upright Young Gentleman 四合院：正直小郎君 Ye Jiutian gets an improper golden finger: every hug earns him experience. His wife hugs him and won’t let go, but she looks down on him, so he can only turn his attention to the other heroines. The golden finger can take the blame for my lecherous behavior. What does any of this have to do with me, Ye Jiutian? Ladies, I’m only giving you a hug. Why are you all taking this so seriously? Courtyard No. 95: All the heroines have been poached, and the men in the courtyard can’t find wives. They’re a 109Reads5.6Score214d adds
- 175 Siheyuan: Is This My Home? 四合院：我家的？ Wang He was playing Call of Duty Mobile on the terrace, racking up more than thirty knife kills in a single match. Overcome with excitement, he was struck by a bolt of lightning out of nowhere and somehow ended up in a courtyard house in 1937. To top it off, his grandmother was none other than the Deaf Old Lady! —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 176 Siheyuan: Even the King of Hell Is Furious from the Start 四合院【开局就连阎王也怒了】 Silly Zhu once had a glorious reputation in the courtyard, but as his life drew to a close, he was overcome by endless desolation. Banggeng, Qin Huairu, Yi Zhonghai, Deaf Granny, Jia Zhangshi, Liu Haizhong, Xu Damao, and He Yushui had all schemed against him his entire life. The ghost officer reported to King Yama in a panic: “This ghost is consumed by resentment. Even the underworld can barely keep him under control.” Silly Zhu cried out, “I, He Yuzhu, have never done anything wicked in my life 696Reads8.2Score10214d adds
- 177 Siheyuan: I Can Do Whatever I Want in My Dreams 四合院：我在梦里为所欲为 I stopped updating for a long time because something came up. The previous story is now finished, and I've started a new one. This time, I'll keep updating until it's complete. [Multiple heroines + self-interest + multiple TV and film worlds + lighter everyday life after revenge + tormenting the courtyard's pests] My name is Cao Wei. My mother is dead, my younger sister has been driven out of the house, and I was working at a mine when I got the news. I rushed home overnight, but someone ambushe 3.2kReads—Score15414d adds
- 178 Reborn in 1956: I'm Hao Ren, the Factory Doctor 重生1956，我是厂医郝仁 Hao Ren transmigrates into the body of another Hao Ren in 1956. From the start, he faces a classic scene: his fiancée calls off their engagement and hands him a “Nice Guy” card for good measure. Those who shoulder the burden for others must not be left to freeze in the snow. The Good Deeds, Good Fortune Lottery System activates. Every Nice Guy card Hao Ren receives earns him one chance to draw a prize. And so... 11Reads8.5Score614d adds
- 179 Siheyuan: Starting Out as the Adopted Son of an Industry Ministry Leader 四合院：从工业部领导养子开始 4.3kReads5.1Score19114d adds
- 180 Siheyuan: The System Caused a Hit-and-Run 四合院：系统肇事逃逸了 Lu Tian is an ordinary middle-aged man who has drifted through half his life without accomplishing anything. He figures he might as well keep muddling along, but accidentally gets physically sent to the afterlife by a scatterbrained System. To avoid responsibility, the System sends him to the world of Love in the Courtyard, on May 13, 1956. His soul enters the body of a sixteen-year-old boy with the same name, and the System leaves after compensating him with an inheritance of immortal cultivati 229Reads5.4Score—14d adds
- 181 Those Years Watching Lovers Flirt and Quarrel in the Siheyuan 在四合院看人打情骂俏的那些年 The heroine is Yi Zhonghai’s daughter. That’s all there is to it. Life is unpredictable, and the intestines wrap around themselves. The heroine is definitely Yi Zhonghai’s biological daughter. She’s also the First Aunt’s child. Read it and you’ll understand. 13Reads—Score—14d adds
- 182 A Different Life in the Siheyuan 四合院的别样人生 Lin Yu is an ordinary office worker in modern society. He is kind and upright, but his career is going nowhere, and his love life has also hit a rough patch. On his way home from work, he happens upon a mysterious old alley. There, he sees a door radiating a strange light. Curiosity gets the better of him, and he opens it. Instantly enveloped in light, he transmigrates into Love in the Courtyard, where he becomes a young man also named Lin Yu, who has just moved into the courtyard. After transmi 22Reads—Score—14d adds
- 183 Siheyuan: Starting with Jia Zhangshi 四合院：从绑定贾张氏开始 Emotion Value Sign-In System + Mature Content... Collect emotions to check in and sign in. Zhang Cuihua: Old Jia! Changlin is a dependable man. Jia Dongxu: My mom’s right! First Aunt: Yi Zhonghai, look carefully. This is my child with Changlin! Third Aunt: Yan Bugui! That “Old Yan” is the real one! Liu Lan: Zhao Changlin, you’re amazing! Zhao Changlin looks at Old Jia floating before him. “Old Jia, let me explain...” To be honest, he was against it from the very beginning. Really! A love story a 11Reads8.9Score—14d adds
- 184 Transmigrating to One Month Before Jia Dongxu's Death 穿越到贾东旭死前一个月 A new plot, a new story. A middle-aged man from the twenty-first century transmigrates into a courtyard house. See how he survives among a bunch of rotten people, then goes on to make a good life for himself. 28.3kReads6.2Score1.5k14d adds
- 185 Siheyuan: From the Start, I Take on the First Uncle 四合院开局硬怼一大爷 My latest work is here! Please head over to Tomato Novel to read it. I hope you enjoy it. Your support inspires me to write, and I'll do my best to tell every story well! 283Reads—Score—14d adds
- 186 Siheyuan: Silly Zhu Breaks the Script 四合院：傻柱不走剧情了 In 1962, in the capital, early winter had brought a bitter chill that made people shiver, but everyone looked lively and full of spirit. The three years of natural disasters were finally coming to an end. At last, everyone would have enough to eat and a good New Year. It was the weekend, in the courtyard at No. 95 Nanluoguxiang. “Knock, knock, knock...” The knocking woke He Yuzhu from his dream. —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 187 Siheyuan: Xu Damao's Happy Life 四合院：许大茂的美满人生 ^^ You can transmigrate and be reborn after blowing yourself up? Sheng Hao, a post-apocalyptic ability user, transmigrates into the middle of a courtroom scene in a courtyard? Heh. You’d all better watch this Silly Zhu, if you want to fawn over a widow, that’s your business. But if you mess with me, Xu Damao, I’ll send you away for good! ~~Lou Xiao'e, you want a divorce? Fine, I’ll give you one. Let’s see how well you fare, daughter of a capitalist. Doesn’t the old-age support clique all say 447Reads6.0Score11314d adds
- 188 Siheyuan: I Snatched Qin Huairu, and Anyone Who Crosses Me Gets Played 四合院：截胡秦淮茹，谁惹我坑谁 Liang An transmigrates into the world of Siheyuan and learns that Qin Huairu is going on a blind date with Jia Dongxu. To keep such a beauty from slipping away, he decisively cuts in and marries Qin Huairu himself. Just then, the System activates. Qin Huairu is a little anxious at first, but when she sees Liang An bringing home all sorts of fresh new things every day, she’s glad she married the right man and wears a smile every day. But Silly Zhu, who covets Qin Huairu, Jia Dongxu, seething with 166Reads5.4Score—14d adds
- 189 Siheyuan: Wang Daxi's Colorful Life 四合院：王大喜的精彩生活 No System + not mindless wish fulfillment A grand crossover of TV dramas: Love in a Siheyuan, Zhengyang Gate, Steel Is Tempered, and more. Not too much bitterness, with a slow-burn plot. Multiple female leads, who will appear one after another as the story unfolds. 400Reads5.1Score—14d adds
- 190 Siheyuan: Living It Up in a Town Full of Beauties 四合院：我在美人乡里享福 My new work is out! You can read it on Tomato Novel. I hope you’ll enjoy it. Your support motivates me to write, and I’ll do my best to tell every story well! 42Reads5.3Score—14d adds
- 191 Siheyuan: He Yuzhu, the Billionaire 四合院：大富豪何雨柱 After transmigrating as He Yuzhu, he finds himself in a time when He Daqing hasn’t yet run off with the White Widow, Jia Dongxu isn’t married, Yi Zhonghai isn’t yet a level-eight fitter, Xu Damao hasn’t married Lou Xiao'e, and Yan Jiecheng and Liu Guangqi are still bachelors... Watch He Yuzhu take over the courtyard and live life exactly as he pleases! 1.1kReads—Score—14d adds
- 192 Transmigrating to the Siheyuan: He Yuzhu’s New Beginning 穿越四合院何雨柱的新生 Hu Yuzhu woke up to find himself inexplicably turned into He Yuzhu. Seeing the year 1951 on the calendar, then He Yushui sobbing with her head against him, he felt a headache coming on. Fortunately, he had He Yuzhu's memories in his mind. Before Hu Yuzhu could even figure out what was going on, a ding sounded in his head: his golden finger had arrived. Hu Yuzhu vaguely remembered a friend mentioning someone named He Yuzhu. He knew he must have transmigrated into a TV series called Love in the Co 270Reads5.5Score—14d adds
- 193 Siheyuan: He Yuzhu the Tough Guy Flips the Table from the Start 四合院：狠人何雨柱上来就掀桌 After his soul transmigrates to a siheyuan courtyard in 1976, He Yuzhu has already spent eight years being drained dry by the Jia family. This time, He Yuzhu refuses to be their lackey and binds himself to the Table-Flipping System. As long as he flips a table, he gets a reward from the System. Why wait around? He charges into the Jia family’s home while they’re eating meat and flips their table. 97Reads—Score—14d adds
- 194 Siheyuan: I Get Rich by Making My Neighbors Cry 四合院：我靠坑哭邻居，发家致富 After an accident sends Lin Yang transmigrating into the world of Love in the Courtyard, he gains the strongest grudge System from the start. As long as he collects resentment, he gets a chance to draw a prize. Jia Zhangshi falsely accuses Lin Yang of stealing a chicken from the factory, then makes a scene and calls the security department to arrest him. Sorry, I bought the chicken. The one who stole it was your grandson Banggeng. As Banggeng is hauled off to the police station, Jia Zhangshi wee 2Reads—Score—14d adds
- 195 Period Drama Crossover: My Vicious Stepmother 年代综影：我那恶毒的后妈 42Reads—Score—14d adds
- 196 Reborn Amid the Siheyuan 四合院之重生风云 A hapless modern person is reborn in the 1950s or 60s, and ends up living in the same courtyard as Silly Zhu. Well, since I’m here, I might as well make the best of it. Low aggression, one female lead, more children, more blessings. —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 197 Siheyuan: I Get God-Tier Cooking Skills from the Start! 四合院：我，开局获得神级厨艺！ He transmigrates into the world of Love in the Courtyard and becomes He Yuzhu. From the start, Xu Damao mocks him for failing at a matchmaking date, while Qin Huairu even takes Xu Damao’s side. How is he supposed to put up with that? But then, just as He Yuzhu is feeling down, a brick falls from the sky and hits him on the head! He thinks he’s done for, but instead he unexpectedly gains a mysterious space. It has a thatched cottage, a spring with miraculous water, and even a patch of land where —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 198 Siheyuan: At Ninety, I Keep the Whole Flock of Pests in Line 四合院：九十岁的我，拿捏众禽 Shen Fei transmigrates into the body of a 90-year-old man on the verge of death in the world of the Siheyuan courtyards. His life immediately begins counting down. The original owner was also named Shen Fei. He had two rooms in the courtyard and an adopted little girl named Shen Ruoxi. The courtyard scoundrels have long been hoping Shen Fei will die. Then they can openly seize his rooms and drive Shen Ruoxi out of the courtyard. Shen Fei transmigrates and binds himself to the Myriad Worlds Fishi —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 199 Siheyuan: I'm Silly Zhu's Brother-in-Law, Drinking Milk from the Start! 四合院：我傻柱妹夫，开局吃奶！ [Siheyuan] [System] [Mild Tension + Comedic Fun] [Cozy Daily Life] [Farming and Growth] Jiang Chen has just transmigrated into a Siheyuan in 1962 when he awakens the Baby Comeback System. As long as he completes its tasks, he can unlock all kinds of rewards and make a comeback starting from infancy! The only problem is, the System's tasks are a little messed up... [Ding! Host has just been born. Please complete the task: Drink milk. Reward: Farm...] Jiang Chen looks at his eighteen-year-old body 152Reads5.2Score—14d adds
- 200 Transmigrating to 1950: A Different Life in the Siheyuan 穿越1950：四合院的别样人生 A young man from modern times returns to 1950. He and Qin Huairu were betrothed as children, and the day after he returns home from the army, they get engaged. There's no denying it: Qin Huairu in her prime is irresistible! 170Reads5.8Score—14d adds
