Novels like Silly Zhu's Unconventional Life in the Siheyuan
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- 1 Siheyuan: My New Life in a Bygone Era 四合院：我的年代新生 He Yu bound himself to a System and transmigrated into the world of Love in the Courtyard, replacing the protagonist Silly Zhu and becoming the new He Yuzhu. In this familiar yet strange era, he faced Yi Zhonghai, the supreme moral authority, Jia Zhangshi, the summoning sorceress, Qin Huairu, the vampiric white lotus, Xu Damao, the lecherous rascal, Liu Haizhong, the ambitious official seeker, and Yan Bugui, the god of scheming. He Yuzhu chose a different path. You want to scheme against me and —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 2 Siheyuan: I'm Sending Every Beast to Work the Assembly Line 四合院众禽全部给我打螺丝 Zhonghai feigns virtue, posing as kind and generous, while scheming to secure his retirement in secret. Zhonghai’s club beats his son into shape, but his harsh discipline only drives affection away. Old Yan plays the gracious host while hiding his selfish motives, and his crafty scheming makes him detestable. Silly Zhu is kind and a wonderful cook, yet he’s been fooled until his heart is heavy with worry. Damao is as vicious as a rabid dog, spreading rumors and causing trouble wherever he goes. —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 3 Siheyuan: I Nearly Became a Vegetable 四合院差点植物人 I arrived at the courtyard house and woke up to find myself there, receiving the memories. Hey, it's only 1957. I'll move out of the courtyard house and begin the wonderful life of Li Nianyi and his wife's family. —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 4 Siheyuan: A Tale of Putting the Birds in Their Place 四合院：虐禽记 A clueless young man arrives in the 1950s and faces a hellish start, but gains a pocket world within a spirit pearl. He overcomes one obstacle after another, and enjoys more children, more blessings... The battles against the courtyard's beasts get even more exciting later on. 1Reads—Score—Shelves
- 5 Siheyuan: The Street Hustler Who Goes Barefoot! 四合院：第一赤脚街溜子！ Somehow, Ye Zhongguo ended up inside the TV drama Love in the Courtyard, transformed into an ordinary resident of the siheyuan. Fortunately, Heaven took pity on him and gave him a portable pocket dimension. He knows medicine and is highly skilled, able to pull people back from the brink of illness with the miraculous skill of Hua Tuo returned to the world. In these times, all he wants is to marry a pretty wife and live a quiet, peaceful life. But the people in this siheyuan just won't give him a —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 6 The Big Shot of the Siheyuan 四合院里的狗大户 Don’t drink when you’re heartbroken! Drinking will only break your heart more! After getting blackout drunk, Gou Daf Fu opened his eyes again to find himself lying in a frozen wasteland. Memories that weren’t his came flooding in. Woe is me! “What kind of world is this?” The biting wind was cold, and Gou Daf Fu’s heart was colder still. He trudged through the snow to the courtyard at Number 56, Nanluoguxiang. “Dafu, you can’t keep those two young wives of yours!” “What? I have two young wives? W 52Reads—Score—Shelves
- 7 Siheyuan: Driving the Yard's Beasts Crazy, I Reign Supreme 四合院：逼疯众禽兽，我为王 [Siheyuan, feel-good power fantasy, leveling up, putting scumbags in their place] Zhang Dong transmigrates into a siheyuan and takes Yi Zhonghai down from the start! In this siheyuan full of scoundrels, so what if he’s the First Master? Anyone who crosses Zhang Dong is finished! 4Reads—Score—Shelves
- 8 Siheyuan: Zhang Dabiao's Eventful Life 四合院：张大彪的精彩生活 By a twist of fate, Zhang Dabiao transmigrated into the world of Love in the Courtyard and gained a System space. He became a procurement officer. In an era of severe shortages, he planted wheat, rice, and corn, and raised chickens, ducks, fish, pigs, cattle, and horses. As for the conflicts outside, Zhang Dabiao quietly shut the door and lived his own peaceful life. —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 9 Siheyuan: Fleeing Famine to Forty-Nine City 四合院：逃荒到四九城 In the autumn of 1951, floods struck one village after another, submerging entire settlements. Lu Demin, who had transmigrated into this world, resolutely decided to flee the famine and head for the capital, Jiu Si City (Beijing). Thanks to a skill passed down through his family, he earned the admiration of the Military Control Commission's leadership and secured a job, a household registration, and a home. But as he happily moved into his new house, he realized he had arrived in the world of Lo —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 10 Siheyuan: I Cut Off the Jia Family Line, and It Feels Great! 四合院：让贾家断后，我爽翻！ 123 has written a new book. I’m not sure how the stats are doing, zmy, but feel free to check it out. I hope you’ll show your support by giving it a like. Thank you, everyone. 1Reads—Score—Shelves
- 11 Siheyuan: Playing Tielin, I Busted Xu Damao's Head 四合院：扮演铁林，开瓢许大茂 When Ye Fan wakes up, he has transmigrated to a courtyard home in 1962. Things are a disaster from the start. Grandma Ye has passed away; he never knew his parents; his former self was a timid, cowardly security guard at the steel mill; and he has a little sister who is only seven. On top of that, the courtyard busybodies have long been eyeing the Ye family's possessions, including their home. Just then, Ye Fan awakens the Role-Playing System. He gets three choices from the start and immediat 24Reads—Score—Shelves
- 12 Siheyuan: Reborn Amid the Flowers and Willow Lanes 四合院：我在烟花柳巷涅槃重生 Yang Haoran is reborn into the story of Love in the Courtyard in 1961. He lives in Rouge Lane, one of the famous Eight Great Alleys in the capital, where he becomes neighbors with three-and-a-half open-for-business young women. By chance, Yang Haoran awakens a brainwave-control System. From then on, he rises from the ashes and writes a dazzling new chapter in his life. —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 13 Siheyuan: Reborn as He Yuzhu, I Save My Mother from the Start 四合院：重生何雨柱，开局救娘亲 [System Space + Red Alert Base] + [Building a faction from scratch] [Ruler of the Universe] He Yuzhu was driven out of his home by those scum from the Jia family! Left paralyzed and freezing beneath a bridge, he was mauled by wild dogs and died in Xu Damao's arms! Then the System brought him back to when he was nine! None of it had happened yet. From the start, he would save his mother! After that, with his knowledge of the future and the System's support, he would keep moving forward, repaying 1Reads—Score—Shelves
- 14 Siheyuan: I Arrived Early 四合院：来早了 The young heir of a powerful family in modern-day Yangcheng was stabbed through the heart from behind. As he stared at the tip of the knife protruding from his chest, Jin Wuming felt a profound malice. The golden lock pendant on his chest flashed with rainbow-colored light. Light? As the glow drew Jin Wuming into a spacetime tunnel, a great leap through time and space began. 1Reads6.4Score—Shelves
- 15 Siheyuan: Infinite Upgrades and Inventions, Taking Off at Last 四合院：无限改装搞发明，起飞了 [Courtyard, feel-good fiction, System, leveling up, inventions, period] Li Dong transmigrates into the courtyard with Yu Li as his wife from the start. He also gets bound to an invincible System! It is a new era of progress. He is focused on inventing things. Why waste time fighting back and forth with the beasts in the courtyard? His goal is to become the richest man in the country! 28Reads—Score—Shelves
- 16 Siheyuan: Reborn as Xu Damao, I’ll Wipe Out Those Birds 四合院，穿成许大茂，整死众禽 After becoming Xu Damao, he must keep up the good work in a courtyard surrounded by beasts! To deal with beasts, you have to be crueler and more beastly than they are! There is no such thing as too beastly, only beastlier. The king of beasts, the black-hearted scoundrel: each one is a match for the next... —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 17 Siheyuan: I Don't Know Li Yunlong 四合院我不认识李云龙 Li Dao was playing a battle royale game when he, the game, and the residential compound where he lived transmigrated to the year 38. From then on, Li Yunlong curries favor with him, he gets engaged to Qin Huairu as a child, and Silly Zhu follows him around like a shadow. 3Reads8.1Score—Shelves
- 18 Siheyuan: Striving for a Better Life 四合院之努力奋斗 A new story is here! Come read my work 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! 33Reads—Score—Shelves
- 19 Siheyuan: Trying to Outwit Me? Let's See Who Outwits Whom! 四合院：想算计我？看谁算计谁！ [Love in the Courtyard + no saintly protagonist + daily life + pocket dimension + one female lead] Li Mu woke up one day to find he had transmigrated to the 1960s, and into the TV drama Love in the Courtyard, no less. Right from the start, Yi Zhonghai took a liking to him and wanted him to become a candidate to support him in his old age. Li Mu: Everyone wants to scheme against me? Let’s see who gets the better of whom! Stop going out of your way to help people, and respect their fate! Let go of —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 20 Siheyuan: Somehow, Everyone in the Courtyard Is an Enemy Agent Except Me 四合院：院里除了我竟都是敌特 My new work is out! You’re welcome to 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! —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 21 My Leisurely Life in the Siheyuan 四合院之我的悠闲生活 Written for my own amusement, so please don’t flame me if it’s not your thing. It’s an everyday story with a realistic feel, a light touch, and a bit of scheming. One female lead, no romantic ambiguity. There’s a small System, and the protagonist is a highly accomplished modern law student who handles everything by the book. 6Reads—Score—Shelves
- 22 Transmigrating Across the Ten Thousand Worlds, Starting from the Siheyuan 万界穿越从四合院启航 This is the story of a young man who accidentally transmigrates through various worlds of film and television. The early chapters begin in a Beijing courtyard compound, and the author will try to keep things realistic. Later, the story may venture into Hong Kong dramas, comic-book worlds, and more... 2Reads—Score—Shelves
- 23 Siheyuan: Learning from a Master Chef, He Yuzhu Changes His Fate 四合院：拜师神厨，何雨柱改命 He kept walking, his pace quickening as he silently recited his work tasks, trying to focus on the everyday details. But for some reason, that feeling of unease clung to his back, reminding him of its presence every moment. 113Reads5.3Score—Shelves
- 24 Siheyuan: I Marry with the Three Big Ticket Items, and the Vermin Turn Green with Envy 四合院：三转一响娶妻，禽兽酸了 [Courtyard, feel-good power fantasy, leveling up, System, beauties, Hong Kong] Lin Dong transmigrates into the courtyard and binds himself to an Invincible System. From the start, he gets a three-transistor radio, a bicycle, a sewing machine, and a beautiful wife. A loving wife and children at home, steady promotions at work, and more than enough money and grain. Let all the beasts in the courtyard stew with envy. 46Reads—Score—Shelves
- 25 Reborn in the Siheyuan as a Traveling Peddler 重生四合院我是走街串巷的货郎 A new story is out! You're welcome to read my work on Tomato Novels. I hope you'll enjoy it. Your support inspires me to write, and I'll do my best to tell every story well! 140Reads—Score—Shelves
- 26 Siheyuan: It All Began When I Married Qin Huairu 四合院：从娶妻秦淮茹开始 This is a lighthearted story without malice. The author believes people naturally seek benefits and avoid harm, and won’t go out of their way to provoke someone stronger than themselves. Chen Yu had been hoping to work hard and get ahead when he unexpectedly awakened a System. Every time he snatches a female lead away from someone, he receives a corresponding reward. For a better life, Chen Yu starts by stealing Qin Huairu away, and then things spiral out of control… —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 27 Siheyuan: A Legendary Era 四合院：传奇的时代 With a pocket dimension and a vast stockpile of supplies, he transmigrates to Xia Country on a different world's Blue Star, only to discover that this is a world with the same history of development as Huaxia. It is also a world where the plots of many dramas converge. He feels he needs to do something: change the old regrets that once weighed on him and make amends for some of the pain of the past. 2Reads6.1Score—Shelves
- 28 Siheyuan: Xu Damao's Next-Door Neighbor, Up Close and Personal 四合院：许大茂的对门，贴脸输出 —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 29 Siheyuan: A Nightmare from the Start, I Nearly Ended Up at a Funeral Feast! 四合院，噩梦开局，差点吃席！ Lin Dong was out on the street promoting their latest sanitary napkins when a beautiful woman mistook him for a pervert and shoved him. He hit his head on a utility pole and died on the spot. By sheer luck, he transmigrated into a courtyard house, taking over the body of a man who shared his name and suffered from ALS. He also acquired a mission-based lucky draw System. Cautious by nature, he had planned to lie low and coast through life, but the System wouldn’t let him. Now, watch as he stirs u —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 30 Life Beginning in 1942 从1942开始的生活 1Reads6.7Score—Shelves
- 31 Siheyuan: Few Words, No Mercy 四合院：人狠话不多 Xu Weiguo, born into a military family, wakes up in the early days of the new nation. He’s a rough sort, not much for talk, and besides, this is an age when people have plenty of fighting spirit. Who’s going to prattle on like some delicate woman? Just get on with it. 24Reads8.4Score—Shelves
- 32 Siheyuan: More Children, More Blessings, Starting with Qin Huairu 四合院：多子多福从秦淮茹开始 Tomato Original | Male-Oriented Fanfiction | Transmigration | System Deng Cheng, a twenty-first-century young man who somehow slipped through the net of nine years of compulsory education and is also a model citizen, transmigrates to Nanluoguxiang in 1965. His parents, both soldiers, died in the War to Resist U.S. Aggression and Aid Korea, leaving Deng Cheng all alone. Fortunately, Auntie Wang is there to look after him. He thinks he's going to settle into this life, but then the plot begins and 15Reads—Score—Shelves
- 33 Siheyuan: From the Start, I'm the Villain, and the Whole Yard Is Furious! 四合院：开局反派，全院都破防！ Lin Feiyang transmigrates into the courtyard and gets bound to the Courtyard Menace System. And it’s an era of extreme material scarcity! Faced with the whole courtyard full of scoundrels, Lin Feiyang just smiles. He reports Yi Zhonghai and ruins his reputation! Bang Geng steals? He sends him straight to jail! Jia Zhangshi won’t stop shouting? He makes her shut up for good! And then there are Qin Huairu, Silly Zhu… The whole courtyard is left completely rattled! 5Reads—Score—Shelves
- 34 Siheyuan: Driven to Desperation, I Take the Point of No Return 四合院：被逼的我，走上不归路 Xu Fei had spent twenty years being worked like a beast. At long last, with some free time, he threw a pool party. Halfway through, he transmigrated without warning. The moment he opened his eyes, he saw an old woman rummaging through his things. Her face looked kind and gentle, and he realized he had transmigrated into the world of Birds of a Feather in the Courtyard. He hadn't been on the verge of a breakdown before, but now he was completely losing it! [Ding! Intense emotions detected. The Ul —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 35 Siheyuan: I Transmigrated with a Treasure Bowl and Can Do Whatever I Want 四合院：穿越送聚宝盆，为所欲为 Manyuyan, born into a family of traditional Chinese medicine practitioners in his previous life, inexplicably transmigrates into the world of a period drama set in a Beijing courtyard complex. His consciousness attaches itself to a beggar. By a twist of fate, the director of the Jiaodaokou Subdistrict Office takes him under his wing and arranges for him to move into the courtyard, where he stays in the side room of Deaf Granny's home. As soon as he arrives, he awakens the Treasure Bowl System, w —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 36 A Siheyuan? Seriously? Why Is It So Different? 四合院？假的吧，怎么不太一样！ A Not-So-Serious Beijing Courtyard Compound--------------------------------------------------------- —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 37 I Have a Pocket Dimension in the Siheyuan 四合院我有空间 The protagonist, Lin Yu, is reborn in the 1950s and has a pocket dimension from the start. He works as a procurement officer in a siheyuan. He collects antiques, goes into business later on, helps the country develop its technology, and searches for treasure overseas, among other things. —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 38 He Yuzhu Reborn 何雨柱重生 He Yuzhu was thrown out of his home on New Year’s Eve and later froze to death under a bridge. Xu Damao took care of his body. Reborn, He Yuzhu used his memories and the help of a System to take ruthless revenge. He would make everyone who had bullied him pay for it. 1Reads—Score—Shelves
- 39 Siheyuan: I'm the Real Silly Zhu! 四合院：我傻柱本柱！ When I woke up, I found I had become He Yuzhu, the man from the courtyard house. I also had a magical vegetable garden, with black soil that made fruits and vegetables grow at incredible speed, and a miraculous spring that never ran dry, no matter how much I used. Standing before the courtyard gate, crowded with chickens and ducks, He Yuzhu curled his lips into a cold smile. It was as if the wheels of history had suddenly begun rolling forward at a faster pace because He Yuzhu had appeared. —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 40 Siheyuan: Starting with Beating Silly Zhu, I Shop Across the Myriad Worlds 四合院：从暴揍傻柱开始万界购物 Swept along by the relentless tide of the times, Qin Wenjing transmigrated into the world of Love in the Courtyard. In this era when everyone went short on food and clothing, he had the honor of becoming a procurement officer. No supplies? No problem, my Myriad Worlds Store has everything. You’re trying to pull rank with your seniority? No problem. As a modern man, I have plenty of ways to deal with you. You’re using morality to pressure me? No problem. As a modern man, I threw that whole morali 694Reads—Score—Shelves
- 41 Siheyuan: You Tried to Set Me Up? I'll Save Jia Dongxu Instead 四合院：算计我？反手救下贾东旭 Lin Weiguo transmigrates into the world of a story set in a courtyard compound! He wakes up to find that his whole world has fallen apart... With Yi Zhonghai and Grandma Deaf conspiring together, someone has their eye on his wife, others are plotting to take his house, and even his child isn't his! What a disastrous start! What can he do? Just stay alive for now! Faced with all kinds of monstrous behavior, the residents, each with their own schemes, choose to turn a blind eye... He can't stand i 14Reads—Score—Shelves
- 42 Siheyuan: I Am Your Comeuppance 四合院：你的报应就是我 Transmigration + Love in the Courtyard + life-choice System Lin Fan is rewarded with a chance to be reborn after doing good deeds. Who would have thought he'd be reborn in the world of Love in the Courtyard? With a second chance at life, Lin Fan is determined to live differently. Watch how he uses the System to build a fortune. 206Reads5.3Score—Shelves
- 43 Siheyuan: The Cooking God Starts Out by Telling Yi Zhonghai He's Finished 四合院：厨神开局易中海你完了 A new book, set in a completely alternate version of the original story, with a different plot... The protagonist gains god-tier cooking skills and becomes the best in the industry. He's also Li Huaide's biological nephew! After arriving at the courtyard house, he wins Liu Haizhong over and takes Silly Zhu, Xu Damao, and the other younger generation as apprentices. He'll take complete control of the courtyard house. Yi Zhonghai will be executed by firing squad, and the deaf old lady will be take 307Reads—Score—Shelves
- 44 Liu Liu Hong Xi Gua's Eighth Book 六六红西瓜的第8本书 A new work is out! You can read my stories on Tomato Novel. I hope you’ll enjoy them. Your support motivates me to write, and I’ll do my best to tell every story well! 6Reads—Score—Shelves
- 45 Siheyuan: I Have a Farm Space 四合院：我有一个农场空间 Xue Chengyuan woke up to find that he had transmigrated into the world of a 1970s Beijing courtyard house, with a farm space at his side. When Liu Haizhong, Banggeng, Jia Zhangshi, and others provoked him, he tested out his farm space and taught them a lesson. He was then assigned to join a rural production team in the forests of Changbai Mountain, where he became a forest ranger. Surrounded by wild animals and precious medicinal herbs in thousands of miles of unbroken wilderness, Xue Chengyuan —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 46 Siheyuan: Rising to the Top with Shared Traits 四合院：从共享词条开始崛起 Xia Chen, an office drone from the twenty-first century, transmigrates to 1955 and the world of Love in the Courtyard, where he awakens the [Tianxing: Shared Traits] System. He comes with a pocket dimension, the [Tianxing Farm], and can instantly copy other people’s traits. As long as he gets within five meters of someone, he can acquire their traits. Daily sign-ins let him keep growing stronger and bring in plenty of rewards. But in this three-courtyard house, there’s Yi Zhonghai, the hypocriti 76Reads—Score—Shelves
- 47 Siheyuan: Feasting and Living It Up Every Day 四合院：每天都在吃香喝辣 [Spatial Storage] [Multiple Heroines: Not for You if You Dislike That] [A Normal Protagonist] [Ensemble Cast] [The Protagonist Never Takes a Loss] [Low on Hostility] After transmigrating into Love in the Courtyard, Zhang Weiguo thrives in this era of scarce supplies thanks to the spatial storage he had in his previous life, leaving the courtyard's scheming residents fuming. Jia Zhangshi: “We eat meat every day! How are we supposed to keep living like this?” Yi Zhonghai: “That kid is as slippery —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 48 Siheyuan: I Marry a Marshal's Daughter, Leaving the Whole Courtyard Speechless 四合院：娶妻元帅之女，全院破防 [One heroine | Sweet romance | Fluff | Healing | Low on angst] Lu Yan transmigrates into the world of Love in the Courtyard. His parents are both dead from the start, he nearly gets fleeced out of his inheritance, and Qin Huairu breaks off their engagement when he is still young. He turns around and marries Qiu Yun, his childhood sweetheart, whom everyone sees as a burden, and starts building a quiet life of his own. Unexpectedly, Qiu Yun turns out to be the long-lost younger daughter of Qiu Yua 153Reads—Score—Shelves
- 49 Period Piece: I Hunt Spies in the Siheyuan 年代：我在四合院抓特务 What? Li Tie Zhu transmigrates to Xia Kingdom in 1960 and moves into No. 95 Nanluoguxiang. Just as he's getting ready to live a carefree, lazy life, he gets caught up in a massive conspiracy. 59Reads—Score—Shelves
- 50 Siheyuan: I Publish the Beasts’ Scandals in the Newspaper 四合院：我把禽兽新闻，刊登报纸 A miserable wage slave in the 21st century, known by netizens as a 007 worker. After working long hours, he lost focus, missed a step on the stairs, and fell. When he woke up again, everything around him had changed. Mud-brick walls, a wooden ceiling, a creaking bed, and old furniture. Everything told him that he had transmigrated. These beasts think they can bully people? As an all-knowing, all-powerful transmigrator, he'll expose everything that's going on here! Before long, every secret about 80Reads—Score—Shelves
