Novels like Siheyuan: The Happy Life of a Bunch of Scoundrels
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- 151 Doomsday: The Rampant Plant Catastrophe 末日：狂植天灾 [No Harem Protagonist + Ruthless, Cunning Protagonist + Somewhat Overpowered + Plant Apocalypse + No Goody-Two-Shoes] What is the apocalypse? There is no kindness in the apocalypse, and there are no protagonists. There are only people doing their best to survive and see the sun rise tomorrow. As long as you outlive everyone else, you’re the protagonist. He thought he’d only complained a little and asked for some time off. Before he could even figure out what was going on, disas 221Reads—Score—14d adds
- 152 Siheyuan: My Hunting Life 四合院：我的狩猎生涯 A hero who fought floods and rescued disaster victims returns to the world of Siheyuan. To survive, he takes up hunting and feeds his whole family through these turbulent times. Come see a different Siheyuan: no mindless characters, no hostility. The author pours care into every page, even staying up late to write! Thank you all for your support! 10.5kReads8.0Score35814d adds
- 153 Siheyuan: The Security Office with Abundant Martial Virtue 四合院：武德充沛保卫处 Bai Wanli transmigrates into the world of the courtyard house complex, starting out as a division chief. His entire family is made up of loyal patriots, and he has powerful backing. It should have been a perfect start, but the System assigns him an epic-difficulty mission: destroy Lighthouse Country. With no other choice, Bai Wanli sets out on a legendary life of slacking off and putting the courtyard’s troublemakers in their place, all while rewriting the course of history. 5kReads7.2Score16314d adds
- 154 Siheyuan: From the Start, I Refused to Bring a Lunchbox 四合院之开局从拒绝带饭盒开始 After transmigrating, He Yuzhu is asked by Yi Zhonghai to bring a lunchbox to a widow. He Yuzhu immediately refuses! One heroine, an original character. See how He Yuzhu rewrites Silly Zhu’s life and lives the life he always wanted. [Not a revenge story] [Everyday life] [No violence] 21.6kReads8.5Score92514d adds
- 155 Siheyuan: I Crossed the Grasslands and Climbed the Snowy Mountains 四合院，我走过草地翻雪山 Special forces soldier Zhao Yu is reborn in the body of a nine-year-old child. They are now crossing the grasslands. Fortunately, he brought along a pocket dimension. He crosses the grasslands and climbs the snowy mountains alongside the troops, fighting for several years. After being wounded, he recuperates in a courtyard house. 161Reads9.1Score—14d adds
- 156 Siheyuan: Beating Xu Damao to a Pulp from the Start and Bringing the Whole Courtyard to Heel 四合院：开局暴打许大茂镇压全院 Siheyuan + Fan fiction + Male-oriented spin-off + Transmigration The System accidentally brought Wang Fugui into the fan-fiction world of Love in the Courtyard. He had two choices. Return to his original world and keep working as a security guard, unable to afford a wife. Or stay in this world, where he would get two rooms in a Beijing Siheyuan, along with compensation from the System. Even a fool would know what to choose! The System was pretty generous, and the compensation was quite good. He 307Reads—Score—14d adds
- 157 Hunting, Hosting Feasts, Raising Kids, and a Ten-Mile Bridal Procession: The Siheyuan System 四合院打猎做席养娃十里红妆系统 My new book, Love in the Courtyard: From the Start, I Beat Xu Damao to a Pulp and Put the Whole Courtyard in Its Place, already has over a hundred thousand words. Give it a read, it’s better than this one. Click my profile to find it. Courtyard setting + fan fiction + transmigrate + male-oriented spin-off + System Zhao Zilong arrives in a merged world centered on Love in the Courtyard, with other film and TV worlds playing a supporting role. The worlds have merged, bringing even more colorful ch 259Reads5.9Score—14d adds
- 158 Reborn in the Siheyuan: Fleeing Famine in 1942 重生四合院：从42年逃荒开始 Li Qingfeng, an orphan from the twenty-first century, was delivering food during his junior-year summer break when he died in a traffic accident. The jade pendant around his neck carried his soul into Love in the Courtyard, a parallel world. Now, let's see how a young man from the modern era builds a new family during a time of war. (If you dislike Qin Huairu, don't read this.) 33.4kReads8.2Score1.1k14d adds
- 159 Siheyuan: He Daqing Plans to Run Away from the Start 四合院：开局何大清要跑路 Transmigrating to 1952, He Yuzhu is left to care for his little sister, He Yushui, after He Daqing runs off. He gains a Spirit Spring Space. See how he makes his way in the world of Love in the Courtyard. 1.1kReads8.0Score11214d adds
- 160 Siheyuan: Good Grief, My Brother Is Li Huaide 四合院：夭寿，我哥竟是李怀德 From the start, Li Ershan transmigrates to Beiping in 1949. A militia member helping the front, he brings food to the troops, only to be assigned to meet someone in the city who turns out to be a character from a TV drama. Later, that character marries a woman named Qin Huairu. Only then does Li Ershan realize he has transmigrated into a mash-up of stories set across different eras. Siheyuan, Zhengyang Gate, Family Portrait... The more characters from those stories appear, the more entangled Li 25.1kReads7.6Score93814d adds
- 161 The Blind Man in the Siheyuan Has Superpowers 四合院这个瞎子有异能 Good news: I transmigrated into a book. Bad news: it’s the famous courtyard drama. Good news: the space and psychic abilities I awakened in the apocalypse came with me. Bad news: I transmigrated into a blind man... 9.4kReads7.7Score40014d adds
- 162 Siheyuan: Helping Lou Xiao'e from the Start 四合院：开局援助娄晓娥 He transmigrates into the world of the Siheyuan series as He Yuzhu and awakens a System. From the start, Xu Damao wants to make trouble for him? Then He Yuzhu will have to sit him down for a serious discussion about who Lou Xiao'e belongs to! Qin Huairu comes asking for a lunchbox? Please, he's no sucker. Why would he let himself become a free meal ticket for the Jia family? Emotional blackmail? Sorry, I play the double-standard game better than anyone! 8.7kReads8.4Score31114d adds
- 163 Siheyuan: More Children, More Blessings, Starting with Widow Qin 四合院：多子多福，从秦寡妇开始 [Courtyard Drama + More Children, More Blessings System] Multiple heroines, crossover with multiple TV dramas Lu Chen transmigrates into the apocalypse with the More Children, More Blessings System. When he opens his eyes, he finds himself in Love in the Courtyard. Since he's here, he might as well make the best of it. Having children makes him stronger. Just how strong can he become? Starting with the widow Qin, he earns rewards... In the end, Lu Chen achieves the status of a tycoon, a philanth 4.4kReads5.5Score16514d adds
- 164 Siheyuan: The Unsung Hero Builds the Ultimate Life 四合院：老六加持，打造最强人生 [Siheyuan Courtyard + Shameless Old Sixth System + Strengthening the Nation Through Science and Technology + Putting the Courtyard's Vermin in Their Place] Li Jianxun arrives in the 1950s or 60s. From the start, he not only becomes the heir to a revolutionary family, but also gets the Shameless Old Sixth System, the strongest sign-in system. The catch? It can only be activated in a siheyuan courtyard overrun with pests. “Ding! Daily sign-in reward: ten big black ten-yuan notes.” “Ding! Monthly s 25kReads7.9Score1.2k14d adds
- 165 Siheyuan: My Wife Was Snatched Away After I Returned from the Battlefield 四合院：战场归来媳妇被截胡 Lin Ping transmigrates into the world of the Siheyuan. After Yi Zhonghai schemes against him, Lin Ping has no choice but to join the army and head to the battlefield. When he returns to the capital, he never expects Jia Dongxu to steal the woman who was supposed to be his wife. But not marrying Qin Huairu suits him just fine. Using the golden finger he brought from his previous life, he goes on to live a happy life that everyone envies. 37kReads7.2Score1.7k14d adds
- 166 Siheyuan: Making My Own Way to Success 四合院：风生水起靠自己 [No harem + fierce, scheming protagonist + a touch of invincibility + lighthearted slice of life + space-based farming + building a family + no saintly do-gooder] In the real world, there was a passionate young man with an unbending sense of justice. His name was Zheng Yi. By a twist of fate, he stumbled upon an extraordinary opportunity that took him to the year 1955. What left Zheng Yi most dumbfounded was that this was the world of Love in the Courtyard. That’s right, the world of Love in the 15.3kReads6.9Score61014d adds
- 167 Siheyuan: I’m Banggeng’s Seventh Great-Uncle 四合院：我是棒梗的七舅姥爷 In December 2023, Zhang Dabiao suddenly acquired a golden finger: a pocket dimension. He stole everything from his unscrupulous boss’s supermarket and warehouse, making preparations to transmigrate. After being hit by a car, he found himself in December 1959 as an injured officer. He was reassigned to the capital and given a house in Courtyard No. 95, where he discovered that Jia Dongxu was the son of his older female cousin Zhang Cuihua, making him Bang Geng’s great-uncle, seven times removed. 25.7kReads8.7Score1.1k14d adds
- 168 The 1950s: Making a Happy, Prosperous Life 年代五零：红红火火过日子 Reborn in the 1950s. What? Worried about starving to death? Don’t panic, don’t panic. We’ve got a pocket dimension. What? This is the notorious Courtyard of Beasts, where everyone’s supposedly a scumbag? What am I supposed to do? Luckily, my dad became the First Master, and my mom is the director of the women’s federation at the steel mill. Who still dares mess with me? Sun Zhengguo says: Go wild all you want, just don’t drag me into it. I only want to spend this happy life with my family. Both 38.3kReads8.2Score1.3k14d adds
- 169 An Ordinary Life in the Siheyuan 四合院的普通人生 A story about a courtyard house, seen through the eyes of an ordinary person. It's full of negativity, but there's positivity too. No invincible heroes, no toilet humor. Thank you for your support! 53.9kReads8.3Score1.7k14d adds
- 170 Siheyuan: I'm Yi Zhonghai's Biological Son 四合院：我是易中海的亲儿子 A modern mechanical engineer transmigrates into the world of the courtyard and becomes Yi Zhonghai's biological son. With a son of his own, will Yi Zhonghai still scheme against others? Will Silly Zhu still become their meal ticket? Will Love in the Courtyard still turn into a courtyard full of beasts? Ordinary people just want enough to eat and warm clothes. There's no need for so much resentment or sinister scheming, just everyday family squabbles. In this backward era, do your best to help de 36kReads9.2Score1.5k14d adds
- 171 My Daily Cultivation Life in the Siheyuan 四合院之我的日常修炼生涯 Shen Congyun, a modern-day layabout, transmigrates to a courtyard compound with a System he obtained for no apparent reason. There are no sign-in rewards of supplies and no System shop, only four bodyguard robots and a book of cultivation techniques. But he transmigrates unusually early, arriving at the end of 1957. What comes next is going to be quite a headache. See how Shen Congyun puts the compound’s villains in their place and helps the motherland make just a tiny bit of rapid progress. 184Reads8.3Score3814d adds
- 172 Siheyuan: The Carefree Life of a Villain 四合院：恶棍的潇洒生活 [No harem, prickly and cunning male lead, somewhat overpowered, laid-back everyday life, stockpiling supplies, decisive and ruthless, no bleeding-heart heroine] After waking up in a Beijing courtyard home in 1960, Shen He decides he'll never be a pushover again. I have a staff that can sweep away every injustice in the world. I have a staff that can make every scoundrel and spy tremble. I have a staff that can let the light of justice shine everywhere. Look... this is the Staff of Justi 24.7kReads8.2Score1k14d adds
- 173 Siheyuan: The Old Man Who Collects Scrap 四合院：收废品的老汉 "No pointless romantic subplots + Feiji has never been a saintly do-gooder + easygoing everyday life" Li Shizhen has a very medical-sounding name. A disillusioned and unrestrained man born in the 1980s, he has seen all walks of life and become a scrap collector who grabs junk for a living. He has a change of heart and saves a boy who was supposed to transmigrate, only to unexpectedly transmigrate himself. Well, if he has to transmigrate, so be it. He never started a family in his previous lif 16.9kReads8.9Score65914d adds
- 174 Siheyuan: Reborn as Yi Zhonghai's Only Son 四合院：穿成易中海的亲儿子 [Period novel + witty and humorous + chosen-by-heaven System + no saintly heroine + face-slapping + slice of life] Yi Tianci is reborn as Yi Zhonghai's biological son in Love in the Courtyard, making him a bona fide rich second-generation heir. With the System at his side, Silly Zhu can no longer rely on protection, and Old Deaf Granny is no longer the revered matriarch. No one can escape. While dealing with the courtyard's troublemakers, he also catches the tide of the times and writes a remark 34.4kReads8.1Score2.5k14d adds
- 175 Starting in the 1950s: Hunting, Raising Kids, Wooing Women, and Fighting the Beastly Neighbors 五十年代开局：打猎养娃撩妹斗禽 Check out my profile for my new book. Thanks! Courtyard setting + fan fiction + transmigration + male-oriented spin-off Zhao Shisan helped his female friend fix her drain. As he climbed out the window to escape, his foot slipped and he wound up in the world of Love in the Courtyard. His previous life had been too ordinary. This time, he wanted to live gloriously, wielding power over the world by day and sleeping in the arms of beautiful women by night. First, he set himself a modest goal: own te 2.9kReads6.9Score10114d adds
- 176 Siheyuan: I Can Absorb Life 四合院：我可以吸收生命 [A Little Playboy + A Little Sly + A Little Invincible + A Little Easygoing + Everyday Life] Ma Teng, a Level 3 electrician at a steel mill, risked his life to save state property by pulling the power switch. He died in the process, and his body was taken over by a modern man from a later era, also named Ma Teng, who had spent most of his life trudging along, honest and unassuming. What kind of waves will this honest modern man stir up in that era? 29.3kReads8.0Score1.4k14d adds
- 177 Siheyuan: Qin Huairu Won't Leave Me Alone 四合院：秦淮茹赖上我 Zhao Xiyan was an ordinary small-town exam grinder. He had little ambition, but his family's comfortable means let him live a pretty decent life. But just as a speeding dump truck was about to hit one of his students, he rushed forward on instinct. He saved the student, but also had an intimate and decidedly unpleasant encounter with the truck. When he woke again, he was already riding in a donkey cart. Across from him, a young woman with bright eyes, pearly teeth, and two long braids was watchi 188.1kReads8.1Score9.1k14d adds
- 178 Siheyuan: The Greatest Livestock Breeder 四合院：最牛牲畜养殖人 [No harem protagonist + fierce and ruthless + a little devious + somewhat invincible + easygoing daily life + early-stage growth + decisive and merciless + no saintly do-gooder] My name is Bai Baoshan. I’m 45 years old. I’m a good person. All I know how to do is raise livestock. Don’t believe me? I’ll raise some and show you. And so... Every black pig weighed over 400 jin... The cattle and sheep were all plump and healthy, with delicious meat... Even the dairy cows and goats sprayed milk 11.1kReads8.6Score38714d adds
- 179 A Siheyuan Story Beginning on the Eve of Liberation 从解放前夕开始的四合院 A modern chef’s soul travels back to 1948, on the eve of Liberation. He moves into a courtyard residence with no System, no talismans, and no superpowers. All he has is a family heirloom storage ring, and he lives a leisurely life in a harsh era. He goes to work, cooks, and occasionally teases the misfits in the courtyard. The story isn’t too angsty: no toilet humor, and no wishing people would hurry up and die. A tranquil life in a bygone age, 60.6kReads7.7Score2.3k14d adds
- 180 Siheyuan: This Time, It's Finally My Turn, Right?! 四合院之这次终于轮到我了吧！ [If you dislike Qin Huairu, don't read] [Multiple heroines] [System] Yi Zhonghai, Liu Haizhong, Yan Bugui, He Yuzhu, Xu Damao, Jia Zhangshi, and Deaf Granny. With these seven people all in one place, there'll never be a shortage of stories... 45.8kReads8.6Score2.2k14d adds
- 181 Siheyuan: From the Start, I Control the Life and Death System 四合院：开局掌控生死系统 From the start, he gets a Life and Death System and hypnosis abilities, sending him straight to the top. The Life and Death System can extract life force from anything alive, including animals, plants, fish, and humans. It can also pour life force into any living thing, though the effect is halved. Extracting life force from a century-old tree yields fifty years' worth, which can be poured into a sapling to instantly make it grow to the size of a fifty-year-old tree. Animals work the same way: e 14.3kReads8.1Score78814d adds
- 182 Madness in 1960: The Street Punk Leads the Courtyard Astray 疯癫1960：街溜子带偏四合院 [Crime Solving] [Comedy] [Nanluoguxiang] [My Dad Is a Hidden Big Shot] In 1960, with the enemy still lurking among the people and not yet fully eliminated, Xu Huai nearly got shot. Only after joining the Public Security Bureau did he discover that his father was a hidden big shot. 61.3kReads9.0Score5.7k14d adds
- 183 Siheyuan: Seeing the Scheme Through to the End 四合院之将截胡进行到底 [Multiple female leads, not for everyone] [Protagonists from various TV dramas collide, each with their own protagonist aura] [Disinfecting with iodine while whipping] Siheyuan, Zhengyang Gate, People Are Like Iron, Glorious Times, The Great New Era, Golden Wedding, Hutong, The Qiao Family Children... In the Name of the People, Ordinary Years, The War Between Two Women] [System for stealing female leads, self-interest, do-gooders, stay away] [No original female leads, characters from other stori 199.5kReads9.0Score13.3k14d adds
- 184 I Solve Cases to Put Food on the Table 我靠破案养家糊口 Reborn in 1958, I moved into Courtyard No. 95 on Nanluoguxiang. Did I transmigrate into a TV drama or transmigrate into a book? Good thing I have so many buffs stacked that I don't have to spend all day playing family power games in one little courtyard! 5.2kReads9.3Score57114d adds
- 185 Siheyuan: Fishing for All Things Under Heaven 四合院：垂钓诸天万物 Lin Shaowen got drunk at a class reunion. After sleeping and waking up, he inexplicably arrived in the world of Love in the Courtyard, becoming Lin Shaowen, an outstanding graduate of Beijing College of Chinese Medicine. He had just graduated from university and now faced a choice: should he become a promising full-time doctor at Union Hospital, or an obscure factory doctor at a steel mill? Without a second thought, Lin Shaowen chose to become a factory doctor. There was no helping it. Sending a 78.9kReads8.5Score1.7k14d adds
- 186 1960: Transmigrating to Nanluoguxiang 年代1960：穿越南锣鼓巷， New novel: Reborn in 1980: The Life I’ve Always Dreamed Of Also known as Li Laifu’s Happy Life in 1960s China. (No angst, comedy, farming, and everyday family life.) A short drama, comedy animations, and AI short dramas are now available. 199.2kReads9.4Score13.3k14d adds
