Novels like He Yuzhu: I Can’t Believe I Got a System
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- 1 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—14d adds
- 2 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—14d adds
- 3 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—14d adds
- 4 A Remixed Siheyuan: A Different He Yuzhu 魔改四合院，不一样的何雨柱 The story takes place in a Beijing courtyard in the 1960s. He Yuzhu is a factory cook, a kind and upright man whose straightforward nature often makes him a target for other people's schemes, leaving him to struggle through one hardship after another. After experiencing a series of setbacks and tribulations, He Yuzhu unexpectedly becomes reborn and returns to the past, giving him the chance to change his fate. —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 5 Three Thousand Years of Lost Cooking Skills, Then I Become the God of Cooking in the Siheyuan 厨艺倒退三千年，四合院里当厨神 Li Hao unexpectedly transmigrates to the world of Love in the Courtyard. He becomes Qin Huairu’s fiancé, only to find her carrying on with Jia Dongxu. Furious, he beats up the adulterous pair and decides to make his own future. He hears that the Lou Family is holding a cooking competition, and the winner will get to marry Lou Bancheng’s daughter, Lou Xiao'e. Li Hao thinks he has no chance, but then he sees that Silly Zhu, an eighth-level chef, considers boiled potatoes his signature dish. He und —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 6 Siheyuan: I Decide Your Life 四合院：你的人生我做主 Wang Yuan transmigrates, and even though he has landed in a courtyard full of vicious schemers, he thinks he can live just fine. Who could have guessed that before he even gets to eat and drink his fill, the System demands money from him? No money, no moving! Living under someone else's roof means bowing your head, but at least he's got an outlet for his frustration. The hypocritical First Master runs whenever he sees him. The official-obsessed Second Master greets everyone with, "Hello, Section —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 7 Siheyuan: Reborn in 1960, Leaving the Neighbors Envious 四合院：重生1960，众禽慕了 Lin Zhengguo accidentally transmigrates to China in 1960 and moves into a typical courtyard compound. It is the middle of a famine, and everyone is going hungry, but he works at the Grain Bureau and has a steady supply of food. With the advantages of his System and his job, Lin Zhengguo thrives in the compound and enjoys the good life everyone envies. Not only does he help the residents of the courtyard, he gradually earns their respect and trust. —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 8 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—14d adds
- 9 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—14d adds
- 10 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—14d adds
- 11 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—14d adds
- 12 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—14d adds
- 13 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—14d adds
- 14 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—14d adds
- 15 Siheyuan: One Move from the Start, and the Old Man Spends Money on Me 四合院：开局一招让老头为我花钱 [Siheyuan] [Film and TV Crossover] [Travel Between Worlds] [System] [Tycoon] [Multiple Heroines] The protagonist, Wang Feng, is a rather frail college student who accidentally transmigrates to the world of Siheyuan. The problem is, Wang Feng didn't die unexpectedly, and both his parents are still alive in the real world. Luckily, the System arrived in time. At first, Wang Feng thought he'd only gotten a System that could read people's minds. But as it slowly leveled up, he discovered it was much 43Reads—Score—14d adds
- 16 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—14d adds
- 17 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—14d adds
- 18 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—14d adds
- 19 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—14d adds
- 20 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—14d adds
- 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—14d adds
- 22 Siheyuan: Silly Zhu Reborn, Striking Fear into the Whole Compound! 四合院：傻柱重生，威慑全院！ His few words settled gently in her heart, like a warm current flowing through it. She looked up and met his concerned gaze. A hint of gratitude seemed to well up in her eyes, but she didn't say a word. A warm understanding passed between them in the kitchen. They didn't speak again, instead each lowering their head to focus on the task at hand. 3Reads—Score—14d adds
- 23 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—14d adds
- 24 Reborn: I'm Silly Zhu's Second Uncle 重生归来之我是傻柱他二叔 Who is He Daquan? In the past, he lived a carefree life, with two houses in the capital, a virtuous wife, filial children, and several young and beautiful companions. But then, he fell asleep and transmigrated. He had watched the show Love in the Courtyard before. The more he watched, the higher his blood pressure climbed. 45Reads—Score—14d adds
- 25 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—14d adds
- 26 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—14d adds
- 27 Siheyuan: Yi Zhonghai Tries to Guilt-Trip Me? I’ll Knock Him Flying 四合院：易中海道德绑架我？打飞 [Siheyuan + feel-good power fantasy + leveling up + myriad worlds + crossover with film and TV + System] Shen Jianshe transmigrates into a siheyuan and binds himself to a sign-in System. Grain, cooking oil, rice, flour, and money: he can get whatever he wants. Jia Zhangshi comes to extort him? Send her flying! Yi Zhonghai tries to guilt-trip him with morality? Send him flying! Silly Zhu picks a fight? Send him flying! No matter who it is, if you cross me, I won't waste words on you. I'll send yo 1Reads—Score—14d adds
- 28 Siheyuan: With a System, What Have I Got to Fear? 四合院：我有系统我怕谁 Shen Baiwan transmigrates into the body of a good-for-nothing in the Beast-Filled Siheyuan in 1954. Using his memories of how to make a fortune, he changes the course of the future, snatches the future wives of the courtyard's troublemakers, and becomes a billionaire ahead of time. With the System he brought along, he helps China step onto the world stage and dominate the globe. Science marches forward without end. 7Reads—Score—14d adds
- 29 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—14d adds
- 30 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—14d adds
- 31 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—14d adds
- 32 Siheyuan: Ma Ning's Sign-In Life 四合院之马宁的签到人生 This book has a bit of a mean streak, but not too much. Ma Ning was an ordinary young man in modern society until an accident transmigrated him into the TV series Love in the Courtyard. In this courtyard full of schemes and strife, Ma Ning has a daily sign-in System and lives life on his own terms. 70Reads—Score—14d adds
- 33 Transmigrate Through the Siheyuan: Dragon’s Rise 穿越四合院之龙腾 Wang Defa never imagined he would transmigrate. If he had to transmigrate, couldn’t they at least have sent him to a world of immortal cultivation? He had no idea what came after 196. All right! This was an opportunity, too. He might as well take advantage of it and make his mark! 8Reads—Score—14d adds
- 34 Siheyuan: What? You're a Household Registration Officer Who Solves Cases? 四合院：什么？你这户籍警要破案 Zhou Xing unexpectedly finds himself in the world of the courtyard houses. As a household registration police officer, Zhou Xing is already busy dealing with all the neighbors’ petty squabbles in the compound. But he has bigger things to take care of, like solving cases! “What? You’re a household registration officer, and you want to solve cases?” —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 35 Siheyuan: With an Emotion-Point System, I Torment All the Vermin! 四合院，带着情绪值系统虐众禽！ One night, He Yuzhu was scrolling through short videos when he came across the TV drama Love in the Courtyard. The protagonist had exactly the same name as him. Intrigued, he kept watching. The more he watched, the angrier he got, until his anger somehow made him transmigrate. He arrived in a courtyard full of beasts. He was bound to a Negative Emotion Collection System. By provoking other people's negative emotions, he could collect negative emotion points. He could use those points to shop and —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 36 Siheyuan: Silly Zhu, Listen, It's Not Your Fault 四合院：傻柱唉听我说不怪你 "Country mutts have one traditional virtue: they never die at home. Just like Silly Zhu, who is nicknamed an 'advanced, high-level simp.' Silly Zhu is very self-aware..." Silly Zhu is the sort who needs to be beaten into submission before he'll willingly reform, while Banggeng is the type who needs to be taught a lesson and sent to the firing squad. The protagonist, A Liang, is recommended from a small mountain village to work at a steel mill. He gets along with people on all sides at the factor 9Reads—Score—14d adds
- 37 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. 121Reads5.3Score—14d adds
- 38 Siheyuan: He Yuzhu Gets a Shopping App 四合院：何雨柱有了个购物app After He Daqing runs off with a young widow, He Yuzhu has to go hungry one day and eat his fill the next. Then he unexpectedly gets a shopping app that lets him buy items from all sorts of planes and sell things, too. It isn't until he buys a novel called The Courtyard Full of Scheming Fools that he realizes he's a character in a book. So, all you uncles and aunties, could you please stop putting on an act in front of me? 49Reads—Score—14d adds
- 39 Siheyuan: From the Start, I Slapped Huairu and Beat Zhonghai! 四合院：开局扇淮如，打忠海！ [Courtyard House + transmigration + System + comedy + lighthearted] After someone takes over He Yuzhu’s body, the first thing he sees when he opens his eyes is someone stealing. The thief looks familiar and is so practiced at it that he moves through the place like he owns it. He tries to stop him, only to find that he can’t move. After the thief leaves, a woman enters the room. He thinks she’s come to offer some warmth, but instead she says, “Zhuzi, I came to do your laundry. I’m taking the por 929Reads5.8Score—14d adds
- 40 The Long Song of Time: Starting in the Siheyuan 从四合院开始的：岁月长歌 What a hellish start. All I got was a pocket dimension, no System, no golden finger. So far, I've confirmed these TV worlds: Love in the Courtyard All Is Well The protagonist's defining trait is that he just likes watching the drama unfold. He never gets involved in the plot of his own accord, always participating passively as an observer. New readers, please go easy on me... Any illogical plot points are the protagonist's fault. All names in this book are fictional; any resemblance to real peo 5Reads5.4Score—14d adds
- 41 Siheyuan: When the Road’s Blocked, Break Through 四合院之走不通的路就来打开 [Transmigration + System + A touch of edge] Li Manyuan, who transmigrated into the body of a country boy, arrived in Love in the Courtyard. He originally thought this place would be his hell, but it turned out to be paradise. Watch as he becomes the big shot of the courtyard, borrowing money and never paying it back. 159Reads5.5Score—14d adds
- 42 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—14d adds
- 43 From Temp Worker to Tycoon in the Siheyuan 四合院从临时工到首富 A supermarket owner is sent to the 1960s by a System error. He arrives in Qin Family Village, the capital’s outskirts, and becomes Qin Jingru’s fiancé, only to be cuckolded by Xu Damao. See how he escapes poverty step by step and becomes the richest man alive. 35Reads5.2Score—14d adds
- 44 Siheyuan: I Steal Qin Huairu Away, Leaving Dongxu a Bachelor 四合院：我截秦淮如，东旭光棍了 Courtyard, System, wish fulfillment, power-ups, martial arts techniques, putting the beasts in their place. Lin Fan transmigrates into a courtyard and binds himself to an invincible System. From the start, he swoops in and steals Qin Huairu away. Let’s see who ends up without an heir, me or the Jia family! Xu Damao keeps looking for trouble with me. Fine! I’ll ruin your blind date with Lou Xiaoe and make sure you never get married! Ideally, everyone in the courtyard will be a bachelor, while I’l 46Reads—Score—14d adds
- 45 Siheyuan: My Wife, Lou Xiao’e 四合院我的媳妇娄晓娥 [Siheyuan + Fated Worker System + One Heroine] After an accident, Xia Tian arrived in the world of Love in the Courtyard with the Fated Worker System... More than a century passed, and the world changed beyond recognition. After the residents of the courtyard had lived out their lives, and his beloved wife, Lou Xiao'e, had finally passed away, the lonely Xia Tian secluded himself in Shennongjia, only to be whisked away by a highway survival game. A new journey was slowly beginning... 93Reads5.0Score—14d adds
- 46 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—14d adds
- 47 Siheyuan: Listen Up, No One’s Allowed to Argue 四合院之我说都听着，不许反驳 In this story, the protagonist, Zhang Tianhao, is a young man who has lived in the United States for eight years. He suddenly discovers that he has transmigrated to a parallel world much like our own. This world is full of elements both familiar and strange, and Zhang Tianhao must adapt to his new surroundings. He discovers that he possesses a mysterious space where he can store all kinds of items, making him quite unlike anyone else in this era. Zhang Tianhao's family lives in a courtyard house —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 48 Siheyuan: Qin Huairu Is Spoiled by Me Alone 四合院：秦淮茹被我独宠了 One heroine, and that heroine is Qin Huairu! A new graduate from an interstellar university comes to a courtyard house to complete a mission. At first, he just wanted to watch the drama unfold while earning points. But by the time he came to his senses, he was already pampering Qin Huairu. Wait, how did I steal the heroine and make her my wife?! —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 49 Siheyuan: I Transmigrated as Silly Zhu, and the System Turned My Life Around 四合院，穿越傻柱，系统人生逆袭 After transmigrating, nobody dares call him Silly Zhu anymore. If he hears the word “silly,” Silly Zhu really will throw a punch. He's changed, no longer putting up with the beasts in the courtyard. Now they're all shaking in their boots. 366Reads—Score—14d adds
- 50 I Became Silly Zhu in the Siheyuan 四合院之我成为了傻柱 This story takes place in a courtyard house full of everyday warmth and complicated relationships, beginning in the 1960s. The protagonist, He Yuzhu, is a modern urban professional who accidentally transmigrates into the world of Love in the Courtyard and becomes He Yuzhu, a man with the same name. 13Reads—Score—14d adds
